October 21, 2016

Loyola University • New Orleans • Volume 95 • Issue 7 • October 21, 2016

THE MAROON FOR A GREATER LOYOLA

Grad student forms New Jim Crow Ministry

BAGEL BOY: UPTOWN DELIVERY SENSATION

By Leah Banks lmbanks@loyno.edu @elle_banks12

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By Caleb Beck cmbeck@loyno.edu @CalebBeck_IRL

Loyola alumnus Brendan Dodd, A'16, has built a reputation in Loyola and Tulane's communities, delivering free bagels to friends and strangers alike.

Bike deliveries are not an unusual sight in bustling New Orleans, but one former Loyola student saw an opportunity to make a name for himself as a delivery man for the people.

An employee of Freret Street's Humble Bagel during the day and a Jimmy John's delivery driver at night, Dodd has become revered in the last two years for delivering the day's surplus of bagels from Humble Bagel to hungry denizens of Loyola, Tulane and beyond.

Dodd explained he couldn't believe the bagels not sold throughout the day were set to be thrown in the trash.

"We might make 400 to 500 bagels in-house every day over the summer, and sometimes they will completely sell out, but the owners let me take the remainder home with me in trash bags, so I thought: Why not share some with my friends?"

Dodd said.

Taking to the Tulane Classifieds Facebook page, identifying himself as "Bagel Boy," Dodd announced a delivery run through town, heeding the call of hungry commenters and gladly accepting tips, but never expecting them.

Dodd noted it's a great way to stay active and energized in his downtime, a much-needed energy boost in a week consisting of two to three double shifts. He mentioned that he

has not turned down a challenge to deliver outside of Uptown.

"I've biked all the way down to Esplanade Avenue to deliver a bag of bagels a few times, which is exhausting, but really satisfying," Dodd said.

Loyola students have voiced their appreciation for Bagel Boy's patronage, saying he's welcome presence in their lives.

Avery Bell, music junior, found his deliveries always come at the right time.

"He's just a really generous, kind guy all around; he seems to deliver right as I'm the hungriest or the most pressed for cash. I can absolutely see why people react to his deliveries so positively," Bell said.

Mari Nerbovig, music therapy and psychology junior, explained why she found Dodd's efforts to be so unique and refreshing.

"Brendan has been offering not only bagels, but his own time and energy by delivering it to strangers he may never see again and may never pay him. I think the community has recognized that, and people are truly appreciative that this kind service is ongoing," Nerbovig said.

When asked if his employers were upset at all by the service, Dodd laughed and said the owners of Humble Bagel, Tara and Casey Mackintosh, were more than happy to see a proactive use for the bagels that didn't sell.

"A lot of times I'll leave work in my Humble Bagel shirt, so riding around and letting people sample the product works really well in their favor as free advertising," Dodd explained.

The shop's hand-rolled, kettle-boiled bagels are available in a limited amount of different vari-

eties throughout the day, ranging from the usual suspects of poppy and garlic, to more surprising additions like chocolate chip and king cake flavors.

Dodd maintains that his favorite bagel is the salt bagel, with enough fresh sauteed vegetables to make for a filling lunch sandwich.

Bagel Boy Brendan Dodd enjoys filming a series of vlogs when he's not biking from one location to the next. He encourages people to subscribe to his Youtube channel and to keep up with him on the Tulane Classifieds Facebook page, where he continues to announce his deliveries.

CALEB BECK/ The Maroon Brendan Dodd, also known as Bagel Boy, is seen here performing his usual bagel deliveries across Uptown New Orleans. Dodd delivers leftover bagels from Humble Bagel to people who request them on Tulane Classifieds.

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A Loyola Institute of Ministry student has initiated a ministry opposed to mass incarceration and the oppression that black males face in today’s prison systems.

Grant Tregre, graduate senior, has developed the New Jim Crow ministry at St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in New Orleans to increase awareness of the negative impacts of the prison industrial complex explained in the book “The New Jim Crow.”

After taking a course with Tom Ryan, director of the Loyola Institute for Ministry, Tregre said he and other students were challenged in practical theology assignments to grapple with real-world issues that students could impact in their local parishes and communities.

“I must have written a few papers that focused on mass incarceration, but even more so, with a specific focus on New Orleans and Louisiana.

Dr. Ryan’s challenges combined with interest from parishioners and the support of the Social Justice Ministry at St. Gabriel, is how the concept came about,” Tregre said.

In an article he wrote for “The Second Line,” the archdiocese’s Office of Black Catholic Ministry’s newsletter, Tregre said that within Louisiana’s system of mass incarceration, there exists a pervasive racism that undergirds many of the laws, legal policies and court hearings.

In response, the ministry’s purpose includes encouraging harmony with those who are most affected by the system and implementing Christian-based action toward eradicating systematic exploitation within the criminal justice system.

“The system of mass incarceration takes advantage of lower income and destitute communities by implementing inequitable laws and exploiting prison labor for the financial gain of the wealthy” rather than rehabilitating prisoners for reentry into society, Tregre said.

Tregre’s strong interest in pursing issues associated with mass incarceration and how it impacts the black community is another thing that led him to begin the ministry.

“Mass incarceration in the black community is one of the most important issues of our time,” Tregre said. “It is a system that has replaced slavery in many regards and continues to keep black folk in an oppressed under-caste, which negatively impacts families and communities for generations.”

Thus far, the ministry has supported Jerome Morgan, who was recently exonerated after spending 20 years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, at several of his court hearings. The ministry also participated in the Micah Project Legislative Restorative Justice Practices Forum as well as the Black Lives Matter Symposium at Xavier University.

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News briefs Loyola to host multibillion viewer TV show

ALLICIYIA GEORGE/Photo Illustration A student fills out an absentee ballot for the November elections. 55 percent of Loyola students can vote absentee this year.

Absentee voters stress civic engagement

By India Yarborough iayarbor@loyno.edu @iayarbor Loyola University students Abigail Justice, Marisa Mosher and Richard de Schweinitz have three things in common: They are firsttime voters in a national election; they will all vote absentee this November; and each agrees that citizens’ votes are their voices.

According to Loyola’s website, 60 percent of all undergraduate students are from out-of-state. 5 percent of that majority are international students, but theoretically, the other 55 percent of the student body should be voting via absentee ballot this year.

Mosher, political science freshman from Rhode Island, and Schweinitz, economics sophomore from Texas, each recently mailed their applications to their home towns to request absentee ballots.

Some states, like Rhode Island and Texas, require residents voting outof-state to complete this two-legged process of requesting a ballot by mail and then later casting a vote by mail, while other states only require potential absentee voters to call their local circuit clerks’ offices or fill out online applications asking

to be sent an absentee ballot.

“It could be a lot easier,” Mosher said. “Especially the way we do it from Rhode Island because it’s two separate processes.”

She said having to mail in two separate documents leaves the fate of her application and ballot to other factors like the efficiency of the postal service.

“It’s stressful not knowing when the application would get there,” Mosher added.

Schweinitz, however, said his application and voting process have been easy and said he has not encountered difficulties.

“I thought it was pretty easy,” he said. “Any questions that I did have I could get answered pretty fast, and the form was pretty simple.”

Schweinitz said he thinks the information needed to maneuver the voting process is accessible, and he said students, especially on Loyola’s campus, tend to stay engaged.

“The information is definitely out there,” Schweinitz said. “The system is easy, the people are there, but that’s of course relating to my experiences with my own county.

Other counties might find it more difficult.”

Justice, public relations junior from Nebraska, has already cast her

vote, and she did not work through her hometown or home-state offices. Justice said she visited vote.org, which, for her, streamlined the absentee voting process.

“They help you fill out a bunch of information and request a document,” Justice said. “They sent me a big envelope in the mail including Nebraska elections, and I just got a stamp and mailed that in.”

Vote.org also allows citizens to register to vote and breaks down the voting process by state.

Roger White, political science professor and adviser for the Loyola Society for Civic Engagement, said the society and Loyola have helped students register to vote but have not offered guidance through the absentee voting process.

“Not only Civic Engagement, but Student Involvement has had voter registration drives,” White said. “We had to make sure we were registering people properly. We’re a 501(3) here at Loyola, so we have to be careful about doing anything that might be considered partisan.”

White said he has never voted absentee, so he doesn’t know much about that process, but he believes in the importance of voting in general and spreads that message to students in part through events the

Society of Civic Engagement holds.

“Getting people together and having the open sharing of ideas [like during the debate watch parties] is a way to inform people and educate them on the issues,” White said.

Justice, Mosher and Schweinitz believe voting is essential in this year’s presidential election and beyond.

“It was such a simple process that it doesn’t make sense that someone wouldn’t exercise their right to vote,” Justice said.

Mosher added that students should vote up and down the ballot.

“It’s really important even if you hate both of the presidential candidates to vote all the way down the ballot because that affects local decisions,” she said.

Schweinitz thinks the upcoming presidential election is a tipping point in the United States’ democracy because he said it represents an upset populace.

“I want to show my civic engagement and how much I care about politics in this country,” Schweinitz said. “If we want the system to change, we’re really going to have to fight for it.”

The Young Turks, a YouTube based political talk-show series aimed at young voters, will broadcast live from Satchmo’s lounge in Loyola’s Danna Student Center Oct. 31 at 7 p.m. CST for the eighth episode of a national, 12-campus tour focusing on this year’s presidential election. The show will air on The Young Turks YouTube channel and FUSION’s cable TV channel.

“From in-depth discussions on education reform and international terrorism, to man-on-the-street Q and As and game show segments, The Young Turks on FUSION is engaging college students and viewers nationwide leading up to the presidential election,” said Patricia Murret, Loyola’s associate director of public affairs.

According to Murret, The Young Turks political talk show is the most watched series on their YouTube channel with 4 billion viewers and 6 million subscribers.

“Loyola University New Orleans is pleased to be reaching such an important audience during one of the nation’s most critical and historic presidential elections,” Murret said. “We are also pleased to have been selected as a stop on The Young Turks’ 12-stop nationwide tour, and are in good company alongside universities ranging from USC to Harvard University.”

Loyola students may participate in the show’s live studio audience by registering through Eventbrite which can be accessed on the homepage of Loyola’s website.

Participating in the event is free but limited audience spots are available.

Registration advising begins soon

Loyola enacts first Quality Enhancement Plan stage

Registration advising for spring and summer 2017 courses begins Monday, Oct. 24. All undergraduate students must meet with their major adviser prior to class registration, which begins Monday, Nov. 7. Students may find the name of their major adviser through Loyola’s Online Records Access. Students are encouraged to research course offerings and degree requirements before scheduling an advising session.

More information about advising and preparation for advising may be found at Loyola’s website under the advising section of the Academic Affairs tab.

By Tasja Demel tdemel@loyno.edu @tehdeme

Deadline to apply for graduation approaches

Loyola began acting on its new five-year Quality Enhancement Plan this semester, and according to school administration, the plan is on track with its progress outline.

The Quality Enhancement Plan Leadership Team said the first few courses, internships and exchange programs are adapting to the new plan this semester.

The first step of the implementation was a three-day faculty academy in early August, to be repeated yearly. Through the academy, an education expert from Tufts University in Massachusetts trained 22 Loyola faculty and staff members to use experiential learning in their classes. The plan’s leadership team invited the 22 faculty members because of their interest in new teaching methods and their willingness to

improve, said Leslie Culver, Quality Enhancement Plan assessment coordinator, and Brad Petitfils, senior director of student success.

The overall goal of the enhancement plan is to help students apply their classroom experiences to other aspects of their academic and professional lives, said Cathy Rogers, Quality Enhancement Plan faculty director. “[Students] should connect the dots,” Rogers said.

Loyola’s enhancement plan is split into four workgroups, or target areas, for improvement: research, scholarship and creative arts; internships; service learning and study abroad. Each of these workgroups features five course steps that will be implemented over the plan’s five years.

Rogers said the courses “Diversity in Society” and “Style and Practice of Popular Music 1” are among the first classes with a Quality Enhance-

ment Plan implementation, and new classes will take on the plan each year.

Over the next five years, the Quality Enhancement Plan team plans to reach roughly one-third of Loyola’s students with classes that exist in one of the established workgroups.

According to Rogers, the most important development in course outlines are students’ reflections at the end of each semester. Those reflections allow students to analyze the effectiveness of their experiential learning.

However, instructors will determine how they want their students to reflect on classwork. Rogers said reflections may be essays, papers or final projects. Instructors will submit reflections to the Quality Enhancement Plan team, which will evaluate and use them to plan for the following year.

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A Quality Enhancement Plan banner hangs from a light post in the Peace Quad early this semester. The plan is already being implemented in some classes, with more to come.

The deadline to apply for spring, summer or fall 2017 graduation is Friday, Oct. 28.

Potential graduates may complete the online application under the commencement section of the Academic Affairs homepage.

All students eligible for graduation will be automatically registered for participation in commencement ceremonies based on their graduation application responses. Student degree candidates for spring and summer 2017 are allowed to participate in the spring 2017 commencement ceremony, and degree candidates for fall 2017 may participate in the spring commencement ceremony prior to or after their final term.

WORLDVIEW New Orleans accent is rarely portrayed well More traffic

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By Caleb Beck cmbeck@loyno.edu @CalebBeck_IRL

New Orleanians do not speak with a stereotypical southern drawl. This is a common misconception that might just draw the ire of local natives. However, this is a characteristic that is continually played up in shows and movies set in New Orleans.

New Orleans is a city that undeniably pays tribute to the diverse ethnic roots and cross-cultural heritages it was founded on, from the Franco-Spanish Creole architecture of the French Quarter to the Afro-Carribean voodoo culture that originated from the plantation slave trade. Similarly mottled and unique are the distinctive accents heard in the language of the Ninth Ward and other New Orleans neighborhoods.

Mark Fernandez, a New Orleans local and professor of American Folk Culture and Southern History at Loyola, weighed in on how these accents represent the ethnic background of the locales they are heard in.

“There are actually about seven distinct New Orleans accents.

They generally relate to various neighborhoods and sections of the city. A person from the Garden District may surely have a ‘New Orleans accent,’ so might their neighbor from the nearby Irish Channel or across town from the Seventh Ward. They are all distinctively ‘New Orleans’, but not quite the same. Basically, they reflect a variety of influences, such as ethnicity and class,” Fernandez said.

The strongest of these dialects, the “yat” accent (derived from the phrase “where y’at?”), more closely resembles the speech of a working-class Brooklyn accent than the country twang of a closer state like Mississippi. Certain words and

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phrases found in the yat intonation carry a similar inflection to those heard in Brooklyn such as: “dese,” “dem,” “doze” for “these,” “them,” “those”; “berl,” “earl,” and “ersters” for “boil,” “oil,” and “oysters”; and “mudder” for “mother.”

Meg Harvey, Tulane linguistics studies student, explained how these two locations’ speech patterns contain many similar elements, even while separated by thousands of miles.

“When European settlers came westward to America, they had the option of purchasing either a New York or New Orleans ticket from the seller. The settlers were from the same countries, namely France, Germany, Ireland and Italy. Their European accents mixed with the preexisting accents in the area, giving New Orleans and New York a similar inflection.”

The genuine yat accent is rarely heard when New Orleans is depicted in television and movies; instead, an exaggerated, Cajun-Southern accent is employed. In both HBO’s “Treme” series and Werner Herzog’s “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” local actors are used to give the characters a more authentic feel. The characters speak in yat and some of its variations.

Fernandez offered his opinion as to why Hollywood embellishes the New Orleans accent so dramatically, giving a skewed depiction of the culture to American audiences.

“Hollywood doesn’t care about authenticity, it cares about perception. If you look at films like ‘The Big Easy’, they often have characters with Cajun names like Remy and sporting fake Cajun accents. How often do you hear a Cajun accent in New Orleans? It’s just the perception that the rest of the world has of us. I think most people think we sit around eating po-boys with a side of red beans and rice everyday, drinking Barq’s or Dixie, and every once in awhile we let out a rousing ‘Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!’ But as a native, I can say that I’ve never witnessed such a thing.”

Court battle stalls removal of Confederate monuments

By Sidney Holmes smholmes@loyno.edu @sidneymajee

On July 9, 2015, Mayor Mitch Landrieu put in a formal request for the City Council to relocate four confederate monuments around New Orleans.

It has now been over a year since the mayor requested the removal of the Robert E. Lee monument, the General P.G.T. Beauregard statue, the Jefferson Davis monument and the Battle of Liberty Place monument, but they are still in the same place today.

After months of deliberation, Landrieu signed an ordinance on Dec. 15 that declared the Confederate statues nuisances and called for their removal. The City Council voted six to one in favor of the ordinance.

According to officials, private dollars would fund the cost of the removal, which was estimated at about $170,000. Officials said they

planned to hire local contractors to remove the statues and place them in a city-owned warehouse until they could find “a park or museum site where the monuments can be put in a fuller context.”

During the special meeting of the New Orleans City Council for the monuments, Landrieu said that the statues needed to be removed because they don’t portray New Orleans’ culture.

“Symbols matter and should reflect who we are as a people. These monuments do not now nor have they ever reflected the history, the strength, the richness, the diversity or the soul of who we are as a people and a city,” Landrieu said.

Keevy Narcisse, A‘16, history graduate, agreed that the monuments put New Orleans in a bad light.

“Monuments show who a society holds in high regard; so in my opinion, the city of New Orleans needs to do some soul searching and determine if those men who are immortalized throughout the city are really

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The removal of the Gen. Beauregard statue is held up by the courts.

the type of people we should look up to,” Narcisse said.

The legal process for the removal of the statues was set to go into effect days after the mayor made the ordinance, but it was quickly halted by opposing forces.

Charles W. Cannon, Loyola English professor, said that the government of New Orleans is trying, but

nothing is happening because there are so many people in other parts of Louisiana that have emotional ties to the monuments.

“There’s no lack of political will in New Orleans, but forces outside of New Orleans are trying to stop it,” Cannon said.

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cameras coming to New Orleans

By Nick Reimann nsreimanl@loyno.edu @nicksreimann

As part of the $614 million proposed budget for 2017, announced

by New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Monday, Oct. 17, $3 million is going toward adding 55 new traffic cameras in the city. There are 66 currently operating.

The city expects to make $5 million in revenue from the new traffic cameras, which it hopes to use to increase public safety, a major focus of the 2017 budget.

As part of this focus, funding for the New Orleans Police Department is set to rise by $8 million in 2017, which is intended to be used to hire around 150 new police officers, according to the official budget press release. This increase is part of a much larger increase over the past several years for the department, which has seen its budget rise by around $30 million since 2010.

The budget, which is a $14 million increase from the $600 million seen in 2016, will also dedicate $4.5 million to new overtime funding for police officers and increase funding for Orleans Parish Prison. The district attorney, public defender, coroner and city courts’ budgets will remain at 2016 levels.

Also covered by the budget is $51 million for the New Orleans Firefighters’ Pension Fund. The fund, which has been the subject of lawsuits by New Orleans firefighters, will be fully funded for 2017.

The budget, which was formally proposed by Mayor Landrieu at a special city council meeting, now stands before the council to tweak over the coming weeks before it is formally approved.

The official budget proposal by the mayor comes after several open community meetings this summer, where around 1,200 citizens came together to provide their input, according to the city’s press release.

In any case, Mayor Landrieu believes that this budget hits all of the top priorities and is part of modernizing the city and making it more livable for its residents.

“We have had a very clear strategy: cut smart, reorganize, invest in our residents’ priorities, grow and then repeat,” Landrieu said in his official press release.

“In the 2017 budget, we will have a laser focus on your priorities: public safety, job creation, recreation, streets, housing and quality of life.

While substantial liabilities remain, we are working hard to address these issues. I remain optimistic because of our remarkable progress in turning the city’s fiscal ship around in the last six and a half years.

This is not only a budget, this is our roadmap to the future. Next year has great potential for us to continue this progress forward as we approach our city’s 300th anniversary in 2018.”

In addition to the cameras, the city also hopes to bring in revenue in 2017 from renovation of the World Trade Center and enforcement of a 40-cent per gallon hard liquor tax.

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Community gathers to show pagan pride

By Grant Dufrene gmdufren@loyno.edu

Pagans and non-pagans alike gathered together for a festival held in Washington Square Park on Saturday, Oct. 8 to celebrate the fourth annual Greater New Orleans Pagan Pride Day. Paganism in its modern form, also referred to as Neopaganism, is a group of religious movements influenced by or derived from various historic Pagan beliefs of pre-modern society. Adherents rely on pre-Christian, folkloric and ethnographic sources to varying degrees.

Since the spread of Christianity, Pagans have been a marginalized group. From witch-hunts to the caricatures of their beliefs in popular culture, Pagans have often been negatively represented.

“Pagan Pride Day was created to dispel [this] negative propaganda and show outsiders that Pagans are just ordinary people,” said Emily Snyder, president of New Orleans’ Pagan Pride Project and a coordinator of the festival.

Snyder says that the festival serves as a place where people of all paths can come together to celebrate and discuss their beliefs without fear. It is also a way for the group to establish a new, more accurate image within their city.

Like many other religious followers, Pagans are advocates of charity work. This year they accepted donations for The Desmond Project, a New Orleans-based charity aimed to end hunger across the city. Donations for the Love a Pit Foundation, an animal rescue dedicated to finding homes for pitbulls in need, were also collected. Both charities are non-profit and have no religious affiliation.

As most celebratory festivals do, Pagan Pride featured guest speakers,

GRANT DUFRENE / The Maroon A festival attendee adds his own yarn to the faith web, Pagan Pride Festival’s first ever art installation. The festival gave people an opportunity to gather and discuss their beliefs.

musical performances, merchants, food and activities for children. It also featured unique events, such as divinations and rituals. Festival-goers could have their cards read and receive blessings.

The Lamplight Circle, a Pagan social, discussion and activism forum, held Pagan Pride’s first ever art installation, which was called a faith web.

Festival attendees could take a string, orange for those who identify with Paganism and black for non-Pagans, and string it around wooden pillars that held signs representing their beliefs. All strings started in the center with the “I believe” post and could be wrapped around others.

Some included, “I believe in reincarnation,” “I believe in multiple deities” and “I believe in a single deity.”

This year’s feature guest speaker was Rev. Bill Duvendack, astrologer, author and president of the Astrological Association in St. Louis.

After Duvendack concluded his lecture about spirits and spirit contact, he spoke about Paganism and its future.

“We are moving into an era of a society of variety,” Duvendack said.

“Today, people are much more willing to listen and accept people and their beliefs. When I was growing up, it wasn’t like that.”

“People still have these crazy ideas that Pagans are devil worshipers, but through community events

and outreach like Pagan Pride they discover that Paganism is just like any other religion,” Duvendack said.

Duvendack said that if he had one thing he wished to convey to non-Pagans, it is that “Paganism has the same fundamental teaching that all religions share: treat others as you would like to be treated.”

The future for both Paganism and religious acceptance looks bright but will require effort.

Jose Campos, Loyola English junior and a member of the New Orleans School for Esoteric Arts, expressed a similar concern for religious acceptance that Pagans share.

She says that Loyola needs more exposure to Paganism as a religion.

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Cont.: Student starts new ministry David Bocage, a member of the ministry and a fellow advocate, says that he enjoys the aspect of tying together the past oppressions of the black community with the current problems that affect each citizen.

“That’s what I enjoy most, connecting the puzzle pieces and the effects of this. If this happens over here, then what’s going on over there? And it affects all of us, not just the ones in jail. It has a lasting generational affect, and even on a small scale, it makes an impact,” Bocage said.

While the New Jim Crow Ministry is still in its infancy, it plans to incorporate some key movements as it continues to grow. It also plans to continue to become more diverse as far as membership, reaching to all racial and cultural groups.

“We felt that building a solid foundation is critical for any work that we do. At all of our planning meetings, we typically provided an education component where we focus on related topics, such as activities that the Equal Justice Initiative is doing or maybe the latest efforts of what the Innocence Project is working towards,” Tregre said, naming a few organizations with similar missions.

Bocage said he also enjoys the scholarly aspect of the ministry.

“I like the discussions that we’re having, how we are taking the viewpoint of being practical and how we can take what we have learned and lectured about and turn that into a movement,” Bocage said.

Chasity Pugh contributed to this report.

NOLA Wesley holds fall retreat to help students find their voice

By Yuichiro Oguma yoguma@loyno.edu @YuriOguma

Local students in the Uptown area gathered to bond on a religious journey during NOLA Wesley’s fall retreat in Biloxi, Mississippi.

The retreat was held from Sept.

30 to Oct. 2, and the group of twelve visited Seashore Assembly, a space that offers food and living accommodations for religious groups visiting the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

NOLA Wesley is a LGBT-affirming Christian fellowship that helps students relieve stress and find themselves through religious experiences. Located on Freret and Broadway streets, they serve the communities of Loyola and Tulane University as well as Newcomb College. Each year they hold a fall retreat.

The theme of the retreat this year was “Finding Your Voice,” which gave participants time to connect spiritually and down time to use freely.

Students were given a peaceful and relaxed environment and were encouraged to bring homework along with them if they pleased.

Alice Lee, psychology senior, was

one of the students who attended the trip. When asked to describe the retreat in one word, she took a moment to think and said, “contemplative.”

“This retreat has down time. This allows students to do homework, take a nap or do something else.

It is more flexible and relaxing,” Lee said.

Cheryl Guyton, minister of NOLA Wesley, said that setting free time aside for students to do whatever they wished on the retreat was important.

“We wanted [this retreat] to feel like a time set apart,” Guyton said.

The trip began on Friday evening with an icebreaker. Afterwards, the first activity was to learn about the life of Moses. The group read several stories including him in the book of Exodus in the Bible.

“We talked about Moses a lot and the time when he got called by God,” Lee said.

In the next activity, students were separated into small groups and wrote a timeline of their life to find out what God is calling them to do.

They then shared it with each other.

“It was interesting to see how people look at their life. We believe

that God has given every human being important things to share in the world,” Guyton said.

On Saturday night, the group set a bonfire on the beach and surrounded it, roasting marshmallows, playing games and having fun.

Guyton works alongside her husband Morgan Guyton, minister and director of NOLA Wesley. She has been a minister for two years and says she felt like God was calling her to do so.

“I had been a teacher, learned database administration, and through my volunteer work and daytime work, I found that I wanted to explore ministry,” Guyton said.

Although NOLA Wesley is a Christian organization, Guyton said that everybody is welcome.

Fall retreat is not the only thing NOLA Wesley does. They have regular fellowship lunch every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Tulane’s LBC as well as a weekly meal and worship every Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Freret Street campus center.

Those interested in learning more about the ministry can visit www.tulane.edu/~wesley/.

Courtesy of CHERYL GUYTON Two students gather to read and discuss scriptures at NOLA Wesley’s Fall Retreat at Seashore United Methodist, Biloxi, Mississippi.

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Trump refuses to accept that the election is not rigged

By Nick Reimann nsreiman@loyno.edu @nicksreimann

Emerging Leaders Program relaunches

By Lily Cummings lrcummin@loyno.edu

With just a few weeks remaining until the election, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met for one final debate in Las Vegas, Monday, Oct. 20.

Moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, the third debate was no different than the first two in terms of the fierce rhetoric the candidates attacked each other with.

Perhaps the most compelling moment of the debate occurred on the segment discussing fitness to be president. Wallace pressed Trump as to whether he would accept a potential Hillary Clinton victory over him as part of a “tradition of peaceful transition of power,” a subject which Trump said he refused to entertain unless he loses.

“I will tell you at the time. I will keep the suspense,” Trump said.

Clinton had her vulnerable moments, as well, specifically when asked about a possible conflict of interest regarding her involvement with the Clinton Foundation.

When Wallace brought up that high-paying donors to the foundation were awarded government contracts by Clinton during her time as secretary of state, Clinton skirted around the question, instead using her time to discuss how the Clinton foundation has helped 11 million people receive AIDS treatment.

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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump debate during the third presidential debate in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (Mark Ralston/Pool via AP)

While issues discussed in other debates, such as immigration, Trump’s treatment of women and trade policies once again were brought up, issues such as gun control and abortion were more of a focus than in previous debates.

The debate’s conclusion was also

different, as the candidates ended the debate with a one minute, unscripted closing statement.

Clinton used the time to explain her view for the future, with a focus on inequality and economic opportunity, while Trump spent his minute discussing his “law and order”

policies.

Trump also continued his tough rhetoric in his closing, claiming “you get shot going to the store,” and ending by saying: “We don’t want four more years of Barack Obama, and that’s what you get if you get her.”

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The Confederate statues seen around New Orleans still stand until the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issues a ruling as to whether the city can remove them.

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Cont.: Monument update Preservationists and a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans filed a lawsuit two days after the ordinance was passed, and U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier said that the city could not take action on the monuments until after the federal court hearing on Jan.14.

Later that month, Judge Barbier ruled in favor of the city’s plans to remove the statues.

In his ruling, Barbier said the court’s decision was not based on emotions or motivations, but whether or not the ordinance violated constitutional rights.

“The court is well aware of the emotion and passions that are involved in this case,” Barbier continued. “The court does not judge the wisdom, or lack thereof, of the actions taken by the mayor or the city.”

This victory for the City of New Orleans was met with another block, when the Monumental Task Force took the case to the U.S. 5th

Circuit Court of Appeal. On March 25, the appellate court issued an order that prevented city officials from taking down the monuments until a court decision was made.

During the hearing held on Sept.

28, the Monument Task Committee and the City of New Orleans argued over who owns the property and whether or not the city council has the right to take them down. Adam Swensek, a lawyer for New Orleans, said the case is a simple one.

“This case is a simple case of whether the city has the power to remove its property,” Swensek continued. “If the city council can put it up, we can take it down.”

The court of appeals has not made a decision for or against the removal of the statues yet, but the judges are reviewing the arguments made by both sides during the hearing. Until an official decision is made, the City of New Orleans can do nothing but wait.

Loyola’s Department of Student Involvement allowed first and second year students to gain an Emerging Leaders Certification this year through its Emerging Leaders Program, a three-month long program offering elective leadership workshops and three core leadership sessions.

“Emerging Leaders Program is an important component of supporting our Jesuit Catholic mission, as it promotes leadership for social change,” said Moria Phippen, assistant director of leadership and social justice.

According to Phippen, a student must attend all three of the program’s core sessions and at least three elective workshops to earn a leadership certificate, which the assistant director said may be added to resumes and used as a networking tool.

Students enrolled in the leadership certification program may be invited to become leadership specialists or may pursue social justice advocate certificates by completing further training and workshops.

Leadership specialists and social justice advocates help suggest new campus programming and help facilitate discussions surrounding social justice topics.

Certificate-holders will also be recognized at Loyola’s Magis Student Leaders Awards ceremony at the end of the school year.

Five students are currently seeking a leadership certificate, and an additional 15 students not affiliated with the certificate program attend elective workshops, the Brave Spaces discussion series or the Q-Advocates training program.

Phippen says students who are currently participating in electives, Brave Spaces or Q-Advocates will have the opportunity to earn their emerging leaders certificates next semester at Loyola’s first ever Student Leadership Conference.

Marisa Jurczyk, psychology freshman, applied to the certificate program and was especially drawn to the Social Justice Advocate track.

“I think leadership is a skill that’s always in demand, and it can be applied to a wide range of jobs as well as day-to-day life,” Jurczyk said.

She said she would go through the program again without hesitation.

Jurczyk said her leadership skills have been tested through handson workshops, and she has learned what her strengths are and how she can use them in school and prospective career fields. The freshman also said her perspective of leadership has changed, and she realized leadership doesn’t always mean a designated role or position in charge.

Phippen has received positive feedback from the emerging leaders elective sessions and said the program is meeting Student Involvement’s attendance and learning outcome goals. She hopes the program will grow, as the department is excited to reach more students next school year and offer more tracks once the program expands.

There are two more Emerging Leaders Program elective sessions open to all students this fall, including “Advocating for Yourself and Others” Thursday, Oct. 20, and “Beyond a Single Story of Leadership: Leaders of Color” Thursday, Nov. 3.

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Lauren Saunders (left) and Shane Shanks (right) of the Zehno design firm showed their presentation “Divine Inspiration” to Loyola Design students on Oct.12 in Nunemaker Hall, as part of the design department’s Speak Up lecture series that takes place the second Wednesday of each month. Saunders and Shanks covered the topics of photography, editorial design, format and graphic packages.

Zehno designers share editorial, creative inspiration

By Tyler Wann wtann@loyno.edu

Professional designers Shane Shanks and Lauren Sanders visited from the marketing agency Zehno to show Loyola design students how to be inspired.

On Oct. 12, Nunemaker Hall played host to the second Speak Up guest lecture forum for aspiring design majors. The forum featured guest speakers with backgrounds in design, who shared their stories working in the field and giving ad-

vice to future designers.

Shanks and Sanders’ forum’s focus was to teach designers how to present topics through compelling editorial and creative design. Sanders has a background in book design, product development, branding and packaging. She provides the creative side of the design team, while Shanks’ skills are on the editorial side.

Shanks is another designer working with the New Orleans based company Zehno Cross Commnications. He talked of his long and

storied past in the field of design in hopes that the forum would further help students spot inspiration.

“The best creative work starts with a good idea,” Shanks said.

He also spoke of how rewarding the job was, especially working with his current employer.

“At Zehno, we specialize in branding and marketing for universities—and we know that the college experience is life-changing for so many people. If we’re ever having a bad day at the office, we can take a break and remind ourselves that we

are doing something worthwhile.”

Shanks notes that though the field is changing, especially in terms of the technical skills needed, a “problem solving-mindset” will always be heavily in demand.

“And a sense of humor is a valuable job skill,” Shanks said.

Zehno’s interaction with Loyola is especially relevant given that Josslyn Littles, design sophomore, recently made the cover of one of the admissions pieces that the company made for the school.

When asked about what she took

away from the forum, Littles said that the biggest thing was that it’s OK to use other’s work for one’s inspiration.

“I think a lot of what art is, is drawing from other’s work and building off of it to make it your own,” Littles said.

The next lecture for design students in the Speak Up lecture series will take place in Nunemaker Hall from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Nov. 2 and will feature guests from Good Wood, a custom design and fabrication firm.

Local regional theatre company finds new home at Loyola

By Davis Walden jdwalden@loyno.edu @DavisWald

Southern Rep Theatre has partnered with Loyola University’s theatre department for a two year long program that will offer students internships and workshops.

The decision came as a collaboration between several Loyola officials, including Laura Hope, theatre department chair, and Southern Rep members like Aimée Hayes, producing artistic director.

After the loss of their location on Canal Place in 2012, where the theatre stayed for 19 years, Southern Rep presented plays around New Orleans until Hope extended an invitation.

“I’ve done a number of projects with them in the past and I’ve been a real admirer of their work,” Hope

said. “It seemed to me like it was such a stressor on a major regional theatre company not to have a home, and I’ve been thinking for a while that they should be here.”

Hayes and Hope collaborated with each other through a seven month long process to finalize a partnership that will benefit both organizations. Not only does it provide a permanent space for Southern Rep Theatre to work out of; it will also provide students with internship opportunities, workshops and masterclasses over the next couple of years. Students at Loyola will have the chance to watch plays performed by Southern Rep that will be shown on campus.

“Our internship company started five years ago with just Loyola students,” Hayes said. “I really want to be able to give people an education and an experience. Theatre looks

like a lot of fun from outside, but it takes a lot of work and a lot of hours and a lot of people to make it happen.”

Katy Maddox, a theatre junior and intern at Southern Rep, started working for the theatre company when she applied to work at their summer camp before beginning to work for the theatre’s box office.

“I liked the satisfaction of proving everyone who said ‘you won’t get a job with a theatre degree’ wrong,” Maddox said. “I think it’s a good fit, too. Our theatre program and Southern Rep have similar values and missions.”

The Loyola University Theatre Arts department and Southern Rep, according to Maddox, believe in theatre with a message. Loyola will be showing “The House That Will Not Stand” by Marcus Gardley, a play about free women of color in

1813. Southern Rep’s season is beginning with “Airline Highway” by Lisa D’Amour, a play that celebrates New Orleans night life as various people attend the funeral of a beloved burlesque performer.

“Both are speaking to marginalized groups, and that’s always something I can get behind,” Maddox said.

“I think it’s a dream come true for both organizations,” Hope said, “I think one of the best ways to learn about theatre is to go see live theatre. It gives our students [an opportunity] to go and see some shows by some of the most important writers in the country.”

After performing “Airline Highway” at University of New Orleans, the rest of the season will be housed at Loyola University. Southern Rep Theatre will be staying with Loyola until 2018, when they move into a

new location.

“It feels like we’re back at school in some ways,” Hayes said. “It feels good to be back Uptown and back on this campus.”

The Southern Rep Theatre season will also feature “Grounded,” a play by George Brant about an Air Force pilot whose career ends due to an unplanned pregnancy; “Sweet Bird of Youth,” a Tennessee Williams play; and “Father Comes Home from the Wars” by Suzan Lori-Parks, a play that follows a man’s route to freedom from slavery by fighting on the Confederate side of the American Civil War. “Grounded” will show from Nov. 2 to Nov. 20 this year. “Sweet Bird of Youth” will premiere March 15, 2017 and “Father Comes Home from the Wars”premieres May 31, 2017.

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Courtesy of Julie Morel

Morel (left) submitted her typography creation (right) using conductive ink on paper, an LED and a circuit system in 2013 to two art centers. Morel joined Loyola’s faculty this year.

French Fulbright scholar joins design department

By Davis Walden jdwalden@loyno.edu @DavisWald

Julie Morel, Fulbright scholar, is teaching students at Loyola to embrace experimentation and their own style while completing tasks in her print design and interactive design classes.

“It feels like people have no problem with mixing things which, for me, might not work, but it works (for them),” Morel said. “I’m sometimes

surprised by what students come up with.”

An interdisciplinary graphic designer and artist, Morel has been teaching for 17 years.

“I like how she puts it on us to get out of it what we put into it,” Christian Saucier, music industries senior, said. “Process is so important with her, which is definitely how you (do) better in anything you want to do.”

According to Morel, the basis for her teachings is taking the potential

in a student’s graphic design work and cultivating it so that the student can better understand how to be as creative as they can, while also being able to get rid of what doesn’t work. Students work on a variety of projects throughout the course and have worked on book covers and ebooks.

“You’re more prepared for trying to explore every possibility you can come up [with],” Saucier said. “The only way you can find out what works best is by trying every possi-

ble combination.”

Created by J. William Fulbright in 1946, the Fulbright Program awards approximately 8,000 grants annually, distilling them to students and scholars alike internationally. Fulbright focuses on sponsoring programs that incite creativity, innovation and the increase of knowledge.

“You come with all your knowledge,” Morel said. “For the students, it’s just a different point of view on graphic design, the way they use different designs for different things.

It gives them a more international perspective in design.”

Morel’s own works explore the textuality of graphic design. Her work includes typography, books, drawings, installations and an online project that experiments with how people think about language.

“At Loyola, the design team is a great experience,” Morel said. “Everything here is more playful, more experimental.”

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Music professor honors the craft of songwriting with students

By Davis Walden jdwalden@loyno.edu @DavisWald

Jim McCormick was five years old when he started to write songs, and now he has multiple number one hits on Billboard Country charts and songs on Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan albums that were released last month.

“Country music favors narrative and imagery and a sort of literalness to the lyric, where something is being said directly and clearly,” McCormick, a part-time instructor for music industry studies, said. “It’s a tradition. It goes back to honoring the craft of great songwriting.”

McCormick teaches songwriting at Loyola. The workshop styled class has students write 15 songs over a 15 week period, collaborating with each other to write and record a song within one week.

“It’s a place where people can take risks and really strive for excellence and benefit from the critique and feedback of their peers,” McCormick said. “Hopefully we can get a sense of what that writer is trying

to do and maybe we can help them get there easier, faster, better.”

Alexes Aiken, music industries junior, was enthusiastic to have the opportunity to talk about songs with McCormick when she took the songwriting class last semester.

“It was insanely cool to work with Jim,” Aiken said. “Getting handson advice from someone who is currently successful in an industry and specifically the genre you want to work in was really helpful and opened my mind creatively to different ways of writing.”

McCormick wants his students to be the best workers that they can possibly be, having the ability to hone their skills by supporting one another along the way. The process works by giving the class a song and then discussing the song’s strengths and weaknesses. From there, the class discusses if the techniques of the song succeed in what the song is trying to do.

“That all sounds very craftsmanlike for what is supposed to be an artistic pursuit,” McCormick said, “but it doesn’t snuff out the art, it enhances it. Some nights we have a song brought in by somebody that

just makes everyone take a breath, and we kind of put the shop talk aside, and we might listen to it again because it’s just a beautiful work of art.”

McCormick said young writers need to keep writing and to carry around a “hook book,” a notebook to jot down inspirations and spur of the moment ideas.

“It doesn’t matter how many [songs] you write in the end; it matters how good the great ones are that you write,” McCormick said.

“You don’t get to the great ones until you’ve scores of bad ones. I don’t want to hear anything you’ve done until you’ve written 100 songs. Bring me your 101st song.”

McCormick shares his own experiences with the music industry and with songwriting to help students better understand how it works.

“We would talk about how well his song would be doing on country radio since I work for iHeartRadio,” Aiken said. “I’d get to hear his songs played on our nationally recognized country station which is a huge win for Louisiana songwriters.”

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Music Industry professor Jim McCormick looks over students’ work and listens to their commentary during his class The Business and Craft of Songwriting. McCormick cowrote the first song that plays on Luke Brayan’s (top) new 2016 EP “Farm Tour...Here’s to the Farmer.” Bryan’s EP debuted as number one on Billboard’s Top Country Albums.

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A’16 Tyler Steele, exhange student Carolin Tigges and music industry junior Peter De Armas toss a ball during quidditch practice. The Quidditch team hosted a tournament on Oct. 1 and beat the University of Southern Mississippi and Tulane.

Quidditch team sets bar high for upcoming season

By Jc Canicosa jccanico@loyno.edu @_JCcanicosa

Many millennials once dreamed about living in Harry Potter’s magical universe, but Loyola’s Quidditch team stopped dreaming, picked up their broomsticks and made that dream a reality.

“I loved Harry Potter and the Quidditch scenes especially, so joining Loyola’s Quidditch team was a fun way to get involved in the community and meet new people,” English freshman Shannon Garrety, said.

Loyola’s Quidditch team is entering its sixth season since its formation and is looking to build off of last year’s success. Coming into the season, the team has set high, yet achievable, goals for this year.

“Our number one goal for this season is to make a bid for World Cup, which is an annual national Quidditch tournament for colleges around the country. We’re a young

team, but if we work hard enough and stay dedicated, I’m sure we’ll make it,” Oliver Blackstone, captain of the Quidditch team, said.

The Quidditch season starts on Oct. 29, when Loyola will be hosting a tournament called the “Wolf Pack Classic” for schools in the Southwest division.

“This year I’m personally looking forward to our match against Baylor University most. They’re a team I love to play because I know we can beat them, and their tournament in Waco, Texas, is always a lot of fun,” Blackstone said.

The fun of the sport is also an important aspect of the game, especially for Loyola’s Quidditch team.

Beyond the competition, members of the team say that the sport builds a sense of camaraderie among teammates.

“I knew coming out of high school I wanted to play Quiddith,” Alex Pucciarelli, theatre junior, said.

“When I got to Loyola, I didn’t expect to make the best friends I have because of it.”

Since the club sport has come to Loyola, the Quidditch community has only grown on campus, which team members attribute to the camaraderie of the players.

“I don’t think there’s anything better about our club than how close we all are with each other, and I don’t think I’d continue to play Quidditch if I wasn’t best friends with most of the team; so it’s always a lot of fun, but it’s also a great way to stay in shape and meet new people,” Blackstone said.

Loyola’s Quidditch team had their first day of scrimmages on Oct 1.

The Wolf Pack lost their first match against a team named “Gumbo.”

Gumbo is the New Orleans community Quidditch team made up of Quidditch players who are students or alumni of Loyola, Tulane, Louisiana State University, University of Southern Mississippi and University of New Orleans.

“We held our own [against Gumbo] for a team in their rebuilding stage. We’re in that rebuilding stage right now where we have good

players, but don’t know the game that well yet. We have more people that do know it than don’t know it,” said Pucciarelli.

Loyola’s second match of that day was against the University of Southern Mississippi, and the Wolf Pack escaped with a 170-50 victory over the Golden Eagles.

“We played really well against USM. We just had better communication and chemistry and we rocked them,” Pucciarelli said.

The Wolf Pack defeated Tulane 190-50 and ended up winning their final match of the day after catching the snitch and sealing the victory.

“We like to use Tulane as our measuring stick because they’re at the same level we are, and we ended up pulling away and catching the snitch,” said Pucciarelli.

Loyola’s quidditch team will be hosting a 16 team tournament called the Wolf Pack Classic in LaSalle Park on Oct. 29. The tournament will feature teams from the South and Southwest regions. The tournament will kick off at 9 a.m.

Prather ready to make big changes within athletic department

By Sidney Holmes smholmes@loyno.edu @sidneymajee

On July 15, Loyola’s Athletic Director Brett Simpson appointed Courtnie Prather as the assistant athletic director.

“We are excited to welcome Courtnie Prather to Loyola. As a former student athlete and head coach, she understands the importance of developing students to lead lives with and for others. The enthusiasm and energy that she brings to her work will be a tremendous asset to our department as she leads the day to day operations of Wolf Pack Athletics and the University Sports Complex,” said Simpson.

Prior to accepting the job here at Loyola, Prather enjoyed a four year stint at Southern University, where she was the head soccer coach and led the Jaguars to their first ever Southwestern Athletic Conference championship in 2013 according to Wolf Pack athletics.

Prather said that the most important thing that she looked for in a college was its value system, and Loyola’s stood out among the rest.

“This is an incredible opportunity and I am privileged to join the Wolf Pack family. I look forward to making the city of New Orleans my home and would like to thank Wolf Pack Athletic Director Brett Simpson, support staff, coaches and university administrators for trusting me as the next assistant athletic director of the Pack,” said Prather.

Prather said that she came to Loyola two days before her interview. On her first day she posed as a student, and the next day she posed as a parent with a prospective student to get a feel for Loyola.

“I talked to faculty, staff, students, everybody from professors down to the cleaning crew, and I wanted to know what their feelings were about working for Loyola and their experience, and everything seemed to match up with the system that Loyola presents itself on,” Prather said.

Prather wants to experience the growth of Loyola’s athletic department firsthand.

“There has definitely been more investment into student athletes and all of our particular programs, and I wanted to be Courtnie Prather apart of that Assistant Athletic coming in on Director the ground floor,” Prather said.

Prather has many goals for her time at Loyola, but she said her main goal is to be a great asset and resource for everyone that she works with. With this in mind, Prather said she really just wants to make Loyola a better place.

“If I can do anything here, I hope that whenever my time is done here, I can look back and say I left it in a better position than when I first got

here,” Prather said.

During her time at Loyola so far, Prather has already made some changes to the athletic program.

Starting with their work study recruitment efforts, Prather said she wants students to expand their futures here at Loyola.

Prather also implemented a “culture of the complex,” as she believes that the sports complex was in need of a brand. After surveying the complex for a few months now, Prather said that her “culture of the complex” involves customer service, care for the complex and consistency.

“We need an identity to say ‘this is what we are and this is what we do,’” Prather said.

Prather hopes that the Loyola community will notice the changes that are occurring within the sports complex.

“We’re taking on the aspect of running a professional gym as well as a professional intercollegiate athletic program,” Prather said.

The Loyola swim team traveled to the University of West Florida on Friday, Oct. 14, where the women’s swim team scored their first win in program history.

In a double-dual meet, the men’s team took on Keiser University while the women’s team faced off with both Keiser University and the University of West Florida.

The women recorded a score of 93-81 against Keiser University propelling them to their first-ever win as a program. Then they battled the University of West Florida and eventually lost by a score of 119-55.

On the women’s side, freshman Paige Carter placed first in the 500 freestyle, second in the 200 freestyle and fourth in the 100 breaststroke, according to Loyola Athletics.

The men’s team took on Keiser University, falling to the Seahawks 178-65.

Freshman Warren Massimini led the men’s team as he claimed three second place finishes on Friday.

The Wolf Pack will travel to Birmingham, Ala. this Friday Oct. 22 at noon to take on Birmingham Southern College.

Cross Country traveled to Georgia to take part in Berry Invitational The Loyola cross country team traveled to Rome, Georgia, on Saturday, Oct. 15, to take part in the Berry Invitational, hosted by Berry College.

The Wolf Pack men’s team scored 445 points en route to a 15th place finish out of 19 teams, while the women’s team did not record a score, according to Loyola Athletics.

In the 8K race, sophomore Anthony Rizzi set a personal record as he led the Wolf Pack, placing 53rd out of 189 runners, with a time of 27:39.13.

Standout freshman Tristin Sanders highlighted the women’s team as she led the team, placing 80th out of 177 runners in the 6K. The cross country team has their sights set on the Southern States Athletic Conference Championships on Nov. 5 in Dalton, Georgia.

Volleyball lose at home to University of Mobile On Saturday, Oct. 15, the volleyball team took on the (19-6) University of Mobile Rams, who currently rank second in the Southern States Athletic Conference standings.

After taking the first set, the Wolf Pack surrendered three straight sets to the Rams, giving them a 12-16 record on the season and a 6-6 record in SSAC play.

Freshman Malea Howie’s play was a bright spot for the Wolf Pack as she led the team with 10 kills in the match, according to dakstats.com.

Despite this loss, the Wolf Pack remain in fifth place in the SSAC, and the final eight games remaining on the schedule are against conference opponents.

The Wolf Pack will look to bounce back as they go on the road to Faulkner University this Friday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m.

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Out-of-state students have an obligation to vote in the election For the vast majority of students on Loyola’s campus, this is our first time to exercise our right to vote, yet we barely feel as though this is some milestone to celebrate. We’ve gotten through the years of seeing our parents glued to their television sets, so attentive to the news of a politician’s latest discretion. We may be deciding who to vote against or whether we should vote at all. We may even view this new privilege not as a “constitutional right,” but more or less as a chore.

We may feel that any one of our presidential candidates won’t affect us personally, but we should not allow ourselves to be swept into this frame of mind.

While not voting is a right of choice, it is also a surrender of your precious right and a shrug at our presidential candidates’ political influence, governance or relevance in this country. This matters. This does affect you, if not now, than in the years to come.

You as a voter need to be mindful of the many other offices and referendums being voted for within your home state that could have a much greater impact on you. You may be deciding your next U.S. Sen-

ator Representative. You may also be asked to vote on amendments that will affect schools and taxes in your home state.

According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, nearly 49 million young people — defined between ages 18 and 29 — are eligible to vote. Nearly one-third of those voters are now eligible to vote for the first time, making 16.9 million potential new voters. For our out-ofstate students, who comprise nearly 60% of our campus — based on last year’s enrollment — the problem may lie not in a distaste of voting, but possibly in the uncertainty regarding their home state’s rules in casting an absentee vote.

Please check the criteria of your state’s absentee voting regulations, as every state differs. While some states require voters to provide an excuse for absentee voting, other states offer a “no-excuse” system.

Educating yourself on this voting process takes about as much time as waiting for one of the elevators in your dorms or standing in line for the vegetarian option in the OR. It’s really simple — just do it.

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OPINION Drone use calls for ethical considerations

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Leonard Kahn Assistant professor of philosophy lakahn@loyno.edu

On Oct. 7, 2001, the U.S. attacked the government of Afghanistan and, in the process, began the longest war in our history. But this date is likely to be remembered by future historians for something that, at the time, went almost unnoticed. For it was on this date that the U.S. government first used a remotely piloted aerial vehicle – a.k.a. a drone – as a weapon of war.

Since the beginning of the conflict in Afghanistan, the U.S. government has initiated hundreds of drone attacks in Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. During the last eight years, U.S. drone strikes have killed between 2,372 and 2,581 of what the Office of the Director of National Intelligence refers to as “combatants.” Furthermore, some credible sources estimate that more than 800 non-combatants have been killed by these same drone attacks. In total, U.S. drone strikes have ended roughly as many lives as the 9/11 attacks did.

The main reason that the U.S. government has used drones with increasing frequency is that the perceived benefits greatly outweigh the apparent costs. While drones are less expensive than conventional weapons, this is not just a matter of dollars and cents. Since the late 1960s, the U.S. public has shown limited patience for military operations that risk the lives of American combatants. However, drone pilots are thousands of miles from their

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A Predator drone; sometimes used in targeted killings, flies over the desert. Leonard Kahn, philosophy professor, has called for an ethical reevaluation of drone use in war.

theaters of operation, and they experience no risk of harm in battle.

Finally, drones are more effective than alternative means of projecting power without risking personnel since drones are far more accurate and more lethal than, for example, long-range cruise missiles.

The technology that makes drones both possible and cost-effective is here to stay. The question for us, then, is this: what norms for the use of drones should we demand of our government? Let me make three points that, I hope, will help to focus discussion of this im-

portant question.

To begin with, the U.S. is, or at least aspires to be, a democracy.

Hence, strategic choices about the use of military assets should be under the control of the people and their representatives. And such control is possible only to the extent that we are not in the dark about their use. Yet, the use of drones has little effective congressional oversight and is obscure to citizens outside the military. Both of these things must change if we are to live up to our own democratic ideals.

Moreover, the U.S. is part of the

international community, a community bound both by the rule of law and by the norms of just war. But the development of drone technology has raced ahead of the development of international law and just war theory. As a result, our government has been able to act without some of the constraints that law and morality rightly impose on the use of deadly force. We cannot allow this situation to continue. To take but one example, our government currently undertakes drone operations in countries such as Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan that we are not at war with. Doing so is inconsistent with the principles of international law, just war and the community of nations.

Finally, we must rethink our government’s professed need to use drones. As we’ve seen, the first drone strike, which took place only a few weeks after 9/11, and the use of drones have played an increasingly central role in what has come to be called “the global war on terror.”

This fact should not surprise us. The vast majority of combat operations associated with the global war on terror have taken place far from U.S. soil under conditions where the cost-effectiveness of drones is most in evidence. By reconsidering the actions that have led us into the global war on terror – including the support of tyrannical regimes abroad – we might find that we need drones less than we had thought.

“War,” Military Theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously remarked, “is the continuation of politics by other means.” So, while we must not fail to ask whether our political goals are just, we should also ask whether – and under what conditions – drone warfare is the right means to try to attain them.

Opiates have been around for a long time J. Christopher Brown Loyola community member jcbrown@loyno.edu

It is prominently mentioned in the Odyssey: Odyseus and his men are blown off course by a huge storm, and arrive in the “Land of the Lotus Eaters.” Odysseus sends two sailors to scout out the territory, and when they fail to return he goes looking for them. He finds them happily partying with the locals and enjoying the fruit of the “Lotus,” which is probably opium, which fits the description of the effects described by Homer. The sailors are having such a good time that they don’t wish to continue their voyage home; they long to remain in the happy “Land of the Lotus Eaters” and keep eating lotus and reveling with their hosts.

Odysseus has to drag them back to the boat and tie them up until they are all well out to sea, continuing their voyage home.

Opium is a plant product, collected from the sap of the ripe fruits of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. The Latin name means “bringer of sleep.” The chemistry of opium is complex. Numerous dif-

ferent alkaloid drugs are extracted from it, among which are morphine, codeine and heroin. In recent years various powerful semi-synthetic drugs have been invented, all based on the basic opioid structure and pharmacology. Fentanyl is one example recently in the news.

Serfentanyl is yet a more powerful semi-synthetic opioid drug; it is used for tranquilizing elephants and other large animals. Heroin is 10 times more powerful than morphine; Fentanyl is 100 times more powerful than heroin, and Serfentanyl is 100 times more powerful than Fentanyl.

The human body produces its own painkillers internally. This is why people suffering horrific injuries sometimes appear stunned and almost oblivious to their pain.

These internal painkillers are called endorphins, and the brain contains endorphin receptors. When the endorphins bind to the receptors the sensation of pain is reduced. Opium also binds to these same receptors and also blocks the sensation of pain as endorphins do. In a medical setting, the administration of opioid drugs enables medical personnel to monitor and control the pain of patients more precisely, rather than relying on the endorphin effect alone.

Unfortunately, when opium binds to the endorphin receptors, the production of natural endor-

phins is greatly reduced. When the narcotics are withdrawn the pain can return with a vengeance. This is the mechanism of addiction and withdrawal symptoms. During the American Civil War, the most common treatment for most arm and leg wounds was amputation, and morphine was beginning to become a part of standard medical practice.

The morphine was effective in controlling pain. Many thousands of veterans were discharged suffering chronic pain, resulting in a chronic addiction and constant search for more morphine. These men were the first modern medically created morphine “junkies.”

The pain relieving qualities of opium and its derivatives are inextricably bound to its capacity to cause addiction. Over the course of treatment, the human metabolism develops a tolerance to opioids, necessitating larger doses to achieve the same level of pain relief. When first administered, an intense euphoria or “high” often accompanies the relief of pain. Subsequent doses do not produce the same level of euphoria, another factor pushing people toward abuse and larger doses of opioids (morphine, heroin, Fentanyl, etc.).

Another effect of opioid drugs is suppression of respiration. Large doses of narcotics can completely suppress the ability to breathe un-

assisted. This does not present a problem in surgery or the Intensive Care Unit because machines can breathe for the unconscious patient.

Outside of the hospital, these large doses of narcotics can lead to death from asphyxiation.

A major source of accidental death from overdose is the illegal nature of the underground narcotics market, because standard dosing cannot be relied upon as it is in medical settings. Therefore, the person buying black market narcotics has no way of knowing what the actual dosage is. The usual situation is that the percentage of actual narcotics in the illegal dose is reduced by the addition of inert substances, to make the product bulkier and more profitable. However, since there is no real quality control in the illicit market, sometimes the dosage is much larger than anticipated, leading to death by overdose.

Very recently illegal drug sellers have started adding Fentanyl to a mixture sold as “heroin,” but because Fentanyl is much more powerful than heroin alone, the likelihood of death from overdose increases. Serfentanyl is even more dangerous, because it so powerful in small quantities. These synthetic narcotics can now be easily made by illegal traffickers, who do not have the same knowledge or care for patients as nurses and doctors.

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Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson speaks during a rally late Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, in Parker, Colo.

Vote for Gary Johnson Richard Fast A’16 rfast@loyno.edu

The majority of registered voters in the U.S. do not belong to a political party. Read that again: The majority of registered voters do not belong to a political party. There are several ways we can look at this. We can say, perhaps, they have investigated both of the old parties and have come to the conclusion that both do not represent them ideologically. We can also speculate that a fair amount of these independents are either apathetic or not knowledgeable enough at the time of registering to choose a party, or perhaps they simply choose not to be pinned in a corner with a label.

Within the context of the 2016 presidential election, we can start to see why this makes sense. Not only are the majority of registered American voters independent, but they disapprove of both the old party candidates in record numbers. Enter Gary Johnson: presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, the third-largest political party in the country, and the candidate most in a position to pose a credible threat to the establishment parties.

But who is he? Gary Johnson was a successful handyman entrepreneur in college who started his own business and eventually sold it, a two-term governor of New Mexico — a Republican in a two-thirds Democratic state — and a triathlete who has climbed Mt. Everest. Intent on scaling back the intrusions of big government, Johnson makes a good candidate for these independent voters, amongst whose chief concerns include the egregious national debt and ending the failed drug war, starting by reclassifying marijuana off Schedule I. Watch any interview of him and he exudes a down-toearth, personable demeanor with sincere conviction to get this country onto a more libertarian direction, commonly described as “fiscally responsible, socially tolerant.”

A common concern among those otherwise sympathetic is “yeah, but he’s never going to win.” Johnson is polling at above 15 percent in over ten states. Strategically, he need only win his home state, New Mexico, and the electoral college vote be split between the old party candidates for the election to be thrown to the House of Representatives where, in a vote of no confidence of the other two, could swing in Johnson’s favor. Gary Johnson is the best chance independents have of toppling the old party candidates.

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