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2 months ago | 
loyolamaroon.com | Eloise Pickering |Mark Michel
It was made legal for Louisiana residents over the age of 18 to conceal and carry a weapon without a permit. At the same time it was made that 17 year olds can be tried and sentenced as adults. Since October 2024, there have been changes in Louisiana law that have introduced harsher sentencing requirements for minors and previously in July, relaxed certain regulations making it easier for people to carry firearms without a license.
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2 months ago | 
loyolamaroon.com | Eloise Pickering |Mark Michel
The St. Charles Room has undergone renovations and has been closed since the start of the spring semester. As construction finishes in certain areas on campus, like the new residence hall on Calhoun Street and the recent addition of food businesses in the Danna Center, including Smoothie King and Jimmy John’s, the Loyola community has seen the construction crew transferred to other parts of the Danna Center, including the St. Charles Room.
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2 months ago | 
loyolamaroon.com | Eloise Pickering |Mark Michel
In the Catholic faith, which is supposedly the guiding doctrine of our school, it is said that when Jesus saw the temple being used as a marketplace for things that had nothing to do with the worship of God, He destroyed it. Is our school the same? We deserve to know if the money is going towards things that don’t advance social justice, charity, and the mission statement of the school.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
loyolamaroon.com | Francisco Esteves |Mark Michel
On Nov. 1, the Loyola Maroon turned 101. Old, but as far as college newspapers go, still on the younger side. The oldest in the United States, belonging to Dartmouth, was founded in 1799, turning 225 this year. It’s not a new take, that the last bastion of ethical, honest, not for profit journalism, is student journalism.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
loyolamaroon.com | Francisco Esteves |Eloise Pickering |Mark Michel
While the class of 2024 took their class photo, protesters chanted from the sidewalk: “Xavier Cole, you can’t hide. You’re supporting genocide.” The next month, the protesters marched to Loyola President Xavier Cole’s house. These series of protests called for administrative transparency and university divestment from corporations with ties to Israel. Since the May encampment, Cole remains a target of criticism.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
keypennews.org | Mark Michel
It has been over a year since I retired from a 35-year career. I feel very fortunate and am thankful to have had a job I enjoyed. It’s a cliché, especially since I was a pilot, but all those years flew by. One unique facet of my job was a mandatory retirement age. It was interesting to see how people felt as they got closer to retirement. Almost everybody said, “I can’t believe I’m almost there. I can’t wait.” In reality, many were terrified to take that next step.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
loyolamaroon.com | Mark Michel
February 2, 2024 The contents of this review on each vending machine at Loyola was taken directly from my Notes app where I copied down my thoughts, as I wandered around campus. For accuracy’s sake, I kept it stream-of-consciousness style, so don’t view it as strange if you see random interjections. Buddig Hall: What happened to the vending machines on the 12th floor? Seriously, where did they go?
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
loyolamaroon.com | Mark Michel
December 1, 2023 Responsibility and culpability. Who a society holds accountable, who a society holds at fault, and how a society treats those it sees as fault. For most of human society, this has always been part of the main struggle. History gives us example after example of a time where a society made a scapegoat of someone, and people stood idly by as a miscarriage of justice occurred. This is for several reasons.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
loyolamaroon.com | Mark Michel
While supposedly never before advocating for the destruction of another newspaper, The Maroon’s creation was born out of the death of another paper. Upon the Maroon’s founding a century ago, Loyola’s freshman law class found themselves threatened by the paper’s founder Harold A. Dempsey’s new paper which was dedicated to a greater Loyola.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
loyolamaroon.com | Mark Michel
Dear President Xavier A. Cole,The day has finally come when you will officially be inaugurated as Loyola University New Orleans’ 18th president. We at The Maroon have been celebrating what you have done here during your past 5 months and as you go on to officially begin this role with the inauguration ceremony, we continue with great excitement and anticipation to see the changes you will make here.
