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Loyola University • New Orleans • Volume 95 • Issue 9

Protest rocks Senate debate By Nick Reimann nsreiman@loyno.edu @nicksreimann

Protests boiled over into confrontations with police during the Louisiana Senate debate Wednesday night, November 22, at Dillard University in New Orleans. Demonstrators were upset about the university allowing former Ku

Klux Klan leader David Duke to speak at the university, as well as the decision not to allow the public to view the debate. Police had to disrupt multiple attempts by protesters to force their way into the building at different entrances, sometimes using mace and shoving protesters to keep them out. Tracy Riley, U.S. Army Ret., who clashed with police, believes the au-

thorities went too far. “I think it was an overuse of force to pepper spray the students, not just of Dillard University but students of other universities who came here to support Dillard,” Riley said. “I think the appropriate thing to do would be to allow the students to observe and participate. They are citizens and voters, after all.”

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NICK REIMANN / The Maroon Protesters throughout the debate attempted to force their way into the debate hall, resulting in clashes with police who responded by spraying with pepper spray.

Why is Louisiana red? By Nick Reimann nsreiman@loyno.edu @nicksreimann

With only days to go until the presidential election, polls show that the race has already been decided in Louisiana. All signs point to Donald Trump winning Louisiana, likely by one of the widest margins of any state. According to FiveThirtyEight’s election forecast, Louisiana is now one of the reddest (most Republican) states in the country, showing Donald Trump with a greater than 99 percent chance of winning the state’s eight electoral votes. Louisiana’s position as a red state is a recent phenomenon, though. In fact, up until about a decade ago, nearly every election held in the state of Louisiana resulted in a Democrat winning, and this was true at every level of government.

At the presidential level, Louisiana, like much of the Deep South, voted solidly Democratic from about the end of the Reconstruction until around the time of the Civil Rights era. From 1880 to 1960, Louisiana went for the Democratic nominee every election except for 1948, when Strom Thurmond of the States’ Rights Party carried the state, and in 1956, when the popular Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower won reelection. Sean Cain, Loyola associate professor of political science, attributes this Democratic dominance to the fact that it was the largest party in the South prior to the Civil War. This, combined with black voter suppression, allowed for the party to take over. It was during this period that blacks accounted for nearly all Republican support in the South, in stark contrast to 2016, where most polls show less than 5 percent support for Donald Trump among this demographic. The short-lived suffrage for blacks during Reconstruction allowed for Republicans to win many elected offices in Louisiana. It would be a long time until that happened again. At the state level, Louisiana did not elect a single Republican to the state House

of Representatives from 1920 until 1964. Republicans would not be the majority in the house delegation to Washington until Dec. 1, 1995, and a Republican U.S. Senator would not take a seat from Louisiana until David Vitter in 2005. Only a year after the Republican breakthrough in the U.S. House, though, Democrat Bill Clinton won the state in the 1996 presidential election. Louisiana still supported a Democrat for president at that time, with Republican nominee Bob Dole picking up less than 40 percent of the vote. Again in 2016, a Clinton will appear on the ballot as the Democratic presidential nominee in Louisiana. This time, though, the results on election day will likely be very different. Cain believes that Bill Clinton’s victory in 1996 and Hillary Clinton’s likely loss in 2016 is a prime case of how southerners’ views of the Democratic Party have changed recently. “In 1996, Bill Clinton was able to appeal to the rural, small town voter,” Cain said. “After leaving office, the Clintons moved to New York and became more involved with ‘big city’ politics.” Cain believes the Democratic party over the last couple of decades has moved away from trying to appeal to rural voters, instead focusing on their core of liberal “big city” supporters, not a group one would find a large number of in the South. Cain says this move is primarily because the Democratic Party doesn’t really need to compete in the South to win anymore, since energizing the liberal urban base has proven to be enough recently. Barack Obama was able to win both of his elections in 2008 and 2012 without carrying a state in the Deep South (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina). Still, Louisiana State University journalism professor and former Democratic strategist Robert Mann believes that, even with their current liberal message, Democrats would still stand a chance in the South if they actively campaigned there. “Obama is not speaking to white southerners. Carrying southern

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states was not something that he needed to do. I’m not saying he doesn’t care about Louisiana, but he never really needed to pay any attention [politically],” Mann said. “When Bill Clinton was president, he was down here all the time. I mean, he was here all the time. He felt very comfortable here.” Mann refers to the 1990s, when Clinton served as president, as Louisiana’s swing state period, where both parties actively tried to win the state. This continued on the national level as late as 2000, when Al Gore held rallies in the state. Since then, though, Louisiana has gone Republican in every presidential election and hasn’t been a focus for Democrats, according to Mann. On the state and local level, though, Republicans were finding it much harder to win at the time. In fact, many parishes which voted solidly Republican on the national level still had Democrats representing them at the state level. For example, Richland Parish in northern Louisiana, which has gone to the Republican candidate for president in 10 out of the last 11 elections, only had their first Republican representative to the Louisiana state house in February of 2011. Also, Jackson Parish, which has gone at least 60 percent Republican in the last four presidential elections, just sent their first Republican representative to the Louisiana house in January of 2016. In fact, at the time Bobby Jindal took office as Louisiana governor in 2008, six of the eight statewide elected offices were held by Democrats. Since this time, Robert Mann said that Democrats in the state have fallen “very fast.”

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news Loyola to volunteer at Wolves on the Prowl November 4, 2016 The Maroon

By Lily Cummings lrcummin@loyno.edu @lilyrain6

Loyola will host its 17th annual Wolves on the Prowl day of service Nov. 12 at Good Shepherd School and Immaculate Conception Church on Baronne Street. Loyola alumni, students and faculty will volunteer to repaint areas of the campus, clean classrooms, renovate church chairs, clean up the church area and organize a workshop. Laurie Leiva, director of alumni engagement, expects 25-35 alumni to volunteer in the New Orleans area. She said Loyola’s Wolves on the Prowl event is the largest and longest service event put on by any Jesuit university. According to Leiva, it is the Office of Alumni Engagement’s responsibility to organize and publicize the event with help from the Office of Mission and Ministry and Loyola’s Student Government Association. “The Wolves on the Prowl tradition of alumni and students gathering together to serve their communities is a tradition that we are proud of,” Leiva said. According to Deanna Howes, director of communications for the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, Loyola New Orleans is one of 13 Jesuit alumni chapters across the nation that

will be working to impact their communities Nov. 12 for the Jesuits’ national day of service. Leiva estimates more than 300 people nationwide will participate in the service day this year. With an average of three and a half hours per project, she expects Jesuit universities across the country to complete more than 1,000 hours of community service. Howes said national Jesuit service days have been sponsored by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities for five years, and she believes the program is important in upholding the shared Jesuit value of engaging in community service and forming “men and women for and with others” at all Jesuit institutions. “These projects are meant to bring Jesuit alumni together from all walks of life and all different institutions,” Howes said. “In D.C., for example, we had over six schools represented at our service site last year. While it takes some work to plan, the end result makes it worth it when we see people making connections with each other and really enjoying giving back to their local communities.” Michelle Clarke Payne, A’06, has served with Wolves on the Prowl since her freshman year at Loyola in 2002. After 14 years, she thinks the event is a great way to stay connected with the uni-

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Students plant a garden for the New Orleans Food and Farm Network as part of Wolves on the Prowl 2012. Wolves on the Prowl is an annual service day aiming to bring together students, alumni and faculty of Jesuit universities at service sites across the nation.

versity and give back to the New Orleans community by putting her faith into action. “There is something special about gathering here in our own city to provide service to the community we live

in while other alumni chapters across the country are doing the exact same thing,” Payne said. “It’s a great way for the Loyola community near and far to come together and make a difference.”

“The Young Turks” co-host Ana Kasparian (center) is joined by FUSION’s Dodai Stewart (left) and comedian Chris Cubas as the show airs live from the Audubon Room on Loyola’s campus Monday, Oct. 31. The group discussed racial injustice and climate change on this week’s episode of the multi-billion viewer YouTube and TV series.

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The Young Turks brought their critical, progressive take on the state of American politics to Loyola when they broadcasted their live show from here Monday, Oct. 31. The stop at Loyola was the eighth of a 12-part series at universities across the country, with the normally online-focused political network also airing their tour on FUSION, a television network which, like The Young Turks, targets a millennial audience. Taking place in front of a capacity crowd in the Audubon Room, hosts Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola and their guests, comedian Chris Cubas and Fusion editor-in-chief Dodai Stewart, spent the show discussing and debating issues traditionally important to progressives, such as climate change,

police violence and income inequality. With now less than a week until election day, their discussions led to talk of the presidential race. The mood in the room was dissatisfied when discussing the presidential candidates. At one point, the hosts asked audience members to cheer for the candidate for whom they were voting. Republican Donald Trump and Libertarian Gary Johnson garnered no applause, while Green Party nominee Jill Stein received a few claps. The largest applause for any candidate came when hosts asked who was “reluctantly” voting for Hillary Clinton, but even then the response was unenthusiastic. The Young Turks asked who was a fan of Bernie Sanders, and the crowd gave a booming cheer, demonstrating the large following of Bernie Sanders supporters and their dissatisfaction with their options on the presidential ballot. Host John Iadarola has similar views,

New Orleans jazz musicians perform rare piano duet By Sabelo Jupiter

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as he wore a Bernie Sanders t-shirt under his Dr. House Halloween costume. In contrast to the crowd, though, he still has hopes of a positive outcome for progressives come election day. “The ideal election would be that something happens that so clearly throws into chaos the results that they decide to just do the primaries over,” Iadarola said, jokingly. He then took a more realistic approach. “My strategies, or my desires, for election day are very close to what Bernie Sanders has, where it’s, ‘We are going to do the best we can with the options that are presented to us,’” Iadarola said. “He believes that Hillary Clinton is the best chance we have for not only progressive laws being passed, but also more progressive Supreme Court justices being placed on the court.” One of the cornerstone issues of Sanders’ presidential run was income

inequality, a topic discussed at length throughout Monday’s show, especially during a segment which featured Cubas’ recent experiment of living in the top 1 percent and having to spend $30,000 per day for a month. “There’s a privilege that comes with being rich, that you get to enter the world on your own terms,” Cubas said. “You’re separated from the rest of the world, and then you start to lose perspective. I stopped watching the news because I was like, ‘Man, they ain’t getting past my gate. The news ain’t making it to my pool.’” The next stop on The Young Turks’ college tour will be the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Nov. 7, one day before the election. The Young Turks will broadcast 30 consecutive hours of election coverage following their next stop.

Modern jazz pianists Ellis Marsalis and David Torkanowsky met on stage in Loyola’s Nunemaker Hall the evening of Thursday, Oct. 27 to entertain audience members with an hour and a half long show of piano interchange — a rarity in the piano world according to Anthony Dagradi, professor of music. At age 81, Marsalis, regarded as a premier modern jazz pianist in New Orleans, played the piano with ease, and Torkanowsky held his own as the pair performed duets and took turns dominating the stage. They played original songs and some popular ballads, ending the show with Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.” “Jazz is just such a true creation of America; it just could not happen any place else,” Dagradi, who coordinated the event, said. “All of the social circumstances in the U.S., bad and good, brought jazz into existence. Add that to all of the cultures that influenced the creation of jazz — Latin American, African American, European, the list goes on. I’m just glad I can bring that to this university.” The show’s audience included Loyola students and members of the New Orleans community. “Honestly, as a jazz musician, it was just nice to see such masters of the craft performing together,” Julian Josiah, saxophonist and jazz studies freshman, said. “The level of skill was incredible, and the way that both of them were able to command attention and energy from the crowd truly shows the level of experience these guys have,” he added. “It was definitely a priceless experience because it was both one I will remember for a while, and I got to go for free.” Last week’s concert took place as part of the College of Music and Fine Arts’ Jazz Underground Performance Series, a program aimed at garnering a stronger interest in jazz from the Loyola student body. According to Dagradi, the Jazz Underground series previously held performances in Satchmo’s Lounge but has moved its events to Nunemaker Hall following the completion of the hall’s recent renovation. Dagradi hopes more people have experiences like Josiah’s. There are more Jazz Underground events planned this semester and next. The jazz faculty will host a Duke Ellington tribute Nov. 17 and the second annual Jazz All Star Jam Feb. 9. The Jazz All Star Jam is scheduled to include the same seven jazz musicians featured in last year’s performance. Admission to all Jazz Underground events is free to students, and more information about upcoming events may be found on Loyola’s website under the College of Music and Fine Arts.

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New Orleans jazz pianists Ellis Marsalis (left) and David Torkanowsky perform together on stage in Nunemaker Hall Thursday, Oct. 27. The concert took place as part of the College of Music and Fine Arts’ Jazz Underground Performance Series.

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November 4, 2016

Film • Arts • Food • Music • Leisure • Nightlife

Film spotlights black man’s reaction to gentrification By Jamal Melancon jmmelanc@loyno.edu @Jam_M_Mel

“Babylon Jones Pt. II” features protagonist Babylon Jones escaping from the basement of the Loyola Danna Student Center before confronting the businessman Mr. White, who takes joy in trapping Jones and tormenting him with the reality that his neighborhood has been gentrified. Digital film junior Dylan Mininger directed “Babylon Jones Pt. II,” a short film inspired by black exploitation works. It stars both Mininger and marketing sophomore Daniel Garrison. Garrison cowrote the script, as he said Mininger acknowledged himself as a white male, and therefore an outsider, who was unable to tell the story of a black man suddenly witnessing that his neighborhood has become gentrified without him. As a New Orleans native, Garrison called the film timely because he thinks gentrification is one of the most important issues in the city right now, yet also one of the easiest problems to solve through physical community action, such as cleaning up properties and informing citizens of what bills to vote on. “This is one of the last great African-American cities left, and they want it back bad,” Garrison said. The character Babylon Jones has been away from his neighborhood for five years, and the film sees him realize and take action against the changes orchestrated by Mininger’s Mr. White. Jones awakes inside his old corner store set inside of the basement of the Danna Center. “I remember when Dylan first told me that the entire movie starts off with me face down in concrete waking up,” Garrison said. “And I was like, ‘that’s kind of how I feel about the current generation of black men is that we’re kind of wak-

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Daniel Garrison, starring as Babylon Jones, drops to his knees when he realizes that his old neighborhood has developed without him and become gentrified in the five years that he was away. Mininger shot the scene on a street in the Uptown campus area. ing up from this deficit.’” Garrison compares Babylon Jones’ absence from his neighborhood to the absence of black men he sees in activism, education and the black community as a whole. “I think that Babylon Jones represents this duality of black men

being extremely strong, but at the same time a lot of us being very absent from the forefront of black society,” Garrison said. No prequel exists for “Babylon Jones Pt. II,” but Mininger said the first part could have taken place in the civil rights movement.

“We’ve hit a new need for a civil rights movement, and that’s where the ‘Pt. II’ comes in; that’s where the waking up on the concrete comes in.” “The concrete has been the ending for a lot of black men and black women around this nation,” Gar-

The Willow Bar hosts LGBT young adult costume party By Davis Walden jdwalden@loyno.edu @DavisWald

The Willow, a local college bar, threw a queer-friendly costume party catering to college students. Begun after years of noticing New Orleans’ lack of available events for younger members of the LGBT community, Kayla Alexis, psychology senior, and Marisa Clogher, English writing junior, created “Cool Queer Kids Being Cool,” a Facebook group reaching out to young members of the LGBT community wanting to coordinate events with one another. “Everyone’s finding themselves. If you’re some flavor of queer, there’s no way to escape that without outing yourself,” Alexis said. “It’s so hard to find a space. I just want to be a college student and be queer at the same time.” Jared Mintz, production manager and programing director at The Willow and friend of Alexis, saw the creation of their Facebook group and wondered if there were any LGBT-friendly events for college students. He decided to offer The Willow as a location for that to happen. “We did a couple (LGBT events)

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Angelika Robertson, sociology sophomore, dressed as Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad at The Willow Bar’s “Spectrum LGBT Costume Party” that took place on Oct. 27.

in the spring and then relaunched the concept this fall after deciding that we wanted the event to be regular every Thursday,” Mintz said. “We have been seeing increasing attendance and enthusiasm for the event in the last few weeks since we have officially made it regular.” The LGBT night takes place every Thursday. “I feel that it’s great that the LGBT community has someplace to go. We

don’t have anything else like this in Uptown,” Kentro Mason, a music senior who works at the bar, said. “I love that it’s a safe place to be.” The aspect of “safety” is one that Alexis and Clogher, who said they have had their share of bad experiences at LGBT bars, found attractive for college students, particularly ones that are questioning, women or gender non-binary. “A lot of them are geared towards

old white men who are very comfortable in their sexuality,” Clogher said. “It’s great that they’ve gotten to that point, but some people aren’t quite there yet.” Clogher and Alexis discussed how Southern Decadence’s popularity among gay men led to the creation of “Dykeadence,” an event created by and for women, trans people, people of color and allies to the LGBT community. “Not only do we want to make it for younger people, but we want to make it a lot more diverse,” Alexis said. “We want to make sure that people know that you don’t even have to be sure in any part of your sexuality.” A mission of The Willow events is to promote a comfortable space where a community of young members of the LGBT community can form relationships with one another and the staff at the bar. The team behind the events extends invitations to people who are still in the process of discovering their own sexuality. “Compared to Oz, personally I would say that this is a lot better experience if you don’t like the high intensity, shoulder to shoulder thing,” Mason said. “You feel a lot of community here.”

rison said. “It’s almost like a phoenix complex, the idea that rather than tell another story where the concrete is the ending point; the concrete is the starting point of a redemption story. “Babylon Jones Pt. II” can be viewed on Dailymotion.com.

LIFE AND TIMES BRIEFS Loyola Theatre debuts ‘The House That Will Not Stand’ play set in the city Loyola Theatre will be hosting a production of “The House That Will Not Stand,” a play by Marcus Gardley set in 1836 New Orleans. The play follows the story of a free woman of color’s family that has prospered through French colonial rule’s relative racial acceptance. Beatrice, the mother of three unwed daughters, entered a plaçage, an unofficial, interracial union, with a white French man. This union allowed the family opportunities that increasingly became unavailable, as more restrictions on freeing slaves came into place leading up to the Civil War. When Beatrice’s husband mysteriously dies, she pushes a state of mourning onto the household, but characters have different ideas on how to continue spending their freedom. “The House That Will Not Stand” will be debuting in Marquette Theater on Friday, Nov. 11. General admission is $12 and costs $8 for students with their ID, senior citizens and Loyola faculty or staff.

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WORLDVIEW brief Student dies on Tulane Campus On Sunday, Oct. 30, a Tulane student was found dead in her dorm in the Aron Residence Hall. A Representative of Tulane’s Office of Student Affairs confirmed the student to be Erin Peters, a liberal arts sophomore, according to the Tulane Hullabaloo.

States to vote on marijuana legalization By JC Canicosa jccanico@loyno.edu @_JCcanicosa

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With Lasers trained on a protester who tried to break through the police line, officials struggle to maintain order outside the debate hall at Dillard University Wednesday night. The protesters gathered to speak out against former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke who was participating in the U.S. Senate debate.

Cont.: Chaos erupts as David Duke debates at Dillard DEBATE, continued from page 1 The debate itself saw the candidates overwhelmed by Duke’s antics, with the former Klansman often screaming at the top of his lungs, leaving the other candidates flustered. Duke’s attacks weren’t limited to the other candidates, either. In what was perhaps the most heated exchange, Duke screamed at debate moderator John Snell: “Could you not interrupt me and give me my

time? Let me rebut! You’re a typical media hack! You’re trying to silence me!” Each candidate took their chance to take a shot at Duke, with Caroline Fayard taking it immediately in her opening statement and State Treasurer John Kennedy telling Duke, “It must be terrible to wake up in the morning with that much hate in your heart.” In the few moments when David Duke wasn’t stealing the show, the debate focused on issues such as social security, corruption in Wash-

ington and who the candidates are supporting in the presidential race. Duke didn’t hesitate to announce who he’s supporting. “I will be Donald Trump’s most loyal advocate,” Duke said. During the debate, protesters continued trying to enter the building, with a continuous theme for the protesters being anger at Dillard president Walter Kimbrough for allowing the debate to take place without communicating with the students. These disruptions continued

afterwards, as protesters blocked roadways exiting the university, resulting in multiple demonstrators being detained. Duke addressed the protests during the debate, and in a final move, he used his closing statement to condemn them. “There are demonstrations by Black Lives Matter radicals against me. Why? Because I stand up for you,” said Duke. “Black Lives Matter says ‘Kill police.’ I defend you from radicals that want to destroy America! I stand up for you!”

Cont.: Louisiana rapidly transformed into a Republican State REPUBLICAN, continued from page 1 In 2011, when Bobby Jindal was re-elected, Republicans won every executive office in the state, none even requiring a runoff. This left U.S. senator Mary Landrieu as the only Democrat left holding statewide office. Republicans gained control of every Louisiana statewide elected office following Landrieu’s defeat to Bill Cassidy in 2014. According to Robert Mann, the sudden collapse of the Democratic Party could have been avoided if Democrats had taken the Republican rise more seriously, with the first signs appearing in the 1960s. “I think it started in the 1960s with the Civil Rights movement,” Mann said. Cain also believes that the Civil Rights movement was the beginning of a change in party structure in Louisiana, as well as nationally. “Democrats, who had always not taken a position on Civil Rights, became the party of them,” Cain said, which then forced the Republicans to change their stance on the issue.

“Republicans focused on, not so much segregation policies, but anti-integration, such as opposing affirmative action.” While the change at the national level took time, the change at the state level happened even slower, due to the long-standing power of the Democratic Party in Louisiana, Cain and Mann say. Mann also believes that this power caused the Democrats to underestimate the rising Republicans. “Senator Breaux and I would meet with the Democratic caucus at the Capitol and say, ‘Hey, look, you better organize here. The Republicans are coming after you and if they get a majority, they’re gonna slit your throats,’” Mann said. “They had a substantial majority, and when you’re sitting on a substantial majority when you’ve always had power, when that other party has never had that power, it’s hard to imagine your own extinction.” Even with the Democrats’ “extinction” and loss of power at every level of government in Louisiana, the actual registration statistics tell a different story, with the Democrat-

ic Party still holding the largest party membership among registered voters, according to the Secretary of State. Also going in Louisiana Democrats' favor is the 2015 election of John Bel Edwards as governor, after beating out his opponent, Republican senator David Vitter. Even with this win, Cain feels that it shouldn’t be taken as a sign of a larger Democratic comeback. “John Bel Edwards is probably an anomaly,” Cain said. “Although some parts of the South might become more Democratic with higher educated whites, things are unlikely to change in Louisiana.” Cain also believes that the unusual circumstances regarding Vitter’s prostitution scandal overwhelmed other issues in the race. In any case, following his loss, Vitter decided not to seek re-election in 2016. Democrat Foster Campbell, who polls show will likely make the December runoff for senate, sees the open seat as an opportunity for Democrats to win again in Louisiana. “I don’t think it will be difficult to

win,” Campbell said. “I think I can win because I have a lot of Republican friends that’ll vote for me. I have a lot of people that think I have the courage to do the right thing.” Though experts still see a Campbell victory as a longshot, with FiveThirtyEight giving Louisiana a greater than 85 percent chance of seeing a Republican win the open senate seat, Robert Mann shares some of Campbell’s optimism for the party. “I don’t think that this is a permanent thing and I think it could change. I don’t think the Republican party should count on it always being like this,” Mann said. “When it comes to social issues, for sure, the Republican Party cannot remain where it is and it has been." Despite the fact that Donald Trump is likely to win the state, Mann also doesn’t think that Trump’s ideals will last much longer in Louisiana. “All those voters 65 and older who are going to be voting for Donald Trump in a couple of days, you know, a lot of them are going to be dead in 10 or 15 years,” said Mann.

In some states in 2016, voters will decide on more than just emails and building walls. Voters in five states—Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada—will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana for adults, while medical marijuana is on the ballot in four other states: Arkansas, Florida, Montana and North Dakota. This will not be an option in Louisiana. “Marijuana is illegal to possess, distribute or manufacture in Louisiana and under federal law. Some states have legalized marijuana, but vary on what they allow. These state laws are at variance with the federal law, but federal law enforcement has elected not to interfere with the process, for the moment,” R. Judson Mitchell, Loyola law professor, said. Technically, federal law declares that marijuana is still illegal across the whole United States, but the federal government has allowed states that have legalized marijuana to allow adult citizens of those states to possess marijuana without federal law enforcement interference. “If all nine states vote to legalize marijuana use by adults, 62 percent of the U.S. population would be living in a state where some form of cannabis access is legal. This could potentially open the floodgates for more states to follow their lead and put legal marijuana use on their upcoming ballots, pressuring Congress to address whether marijuana should be legalized federally,” Mitchell said. “Even though the feds create the schedules which define which drugs are illegal, the state actually adopts those schedules into state law. So, the federal government could remove marijuana from its Schedule I, but that would not change Louisiana law. It is theoretically possible that Congress could pass a law legalizing the possession and distribution of marijuana which would preempt state law. This is extremely unlikely,” Mitchell said. So while the United States as a whole is taking significant steps toward legalizing marijuana, Louisiana citizens may be a long way from possessing marijuana legally here. “I would imagine that Louisiana will likely be one of the last states to legalize marijuana. However, considering this State’s budget crises and desperate need for new revenue streams, anything is possible,” Mitchell said. Marijuana legalization will share the same ballot as the presidential race and senate races in some states and will take place on Nov. 8.

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November 4, 2016

Design student shares face time with Facebook By Caleb Beck

cmbeck@loyno.edu @CalebBeck_IRL

One Loyola student set his goals high in the last year, and was awarded an internship at social media giant Facebook. Patrick Burtchaell, a graphic design junior, applied in August 2015 to Facebook’s call for product design interns for summer 2016. After a lengthy interview process, Burtchaell was selected as one of only six hundred applicants from thousands, and relocated to Mountain View, California in May 2016 to work at Facebook’s Bay Area headquarters. Burtchaell gave a Design Forum presentation in Nunemaker Hall on Oct. 26 and emphasized how key visual design is to Facebook’s sleek, ever-evolving appearance, an element that facilitates the site’s staggering 1.7 billion monthly active users. “Product design is meant to tell, not show, and should be objective. Without standards, Facebook would look pretty wacky,” Burtchaell said. Burtchaell and his team worked upwards of 40 hours a week to streamline aspects of Facebook’s visual design, working in a cluster of pods within the largest open office in the world. “My team was responsible for designing holiday celebration banners and friend anniversary designs. The question we had to ask ourselves at every step was: “How can we make

users understand that we care about them?” Burtchaell explained he grew a lot as a designer, a programmer and a person over the course of the summer. “When I got there, I was anxious to share my work with professionals, but I learned to show what I was capable of and came to realize that Facebook selected me for a reason. I had to show beyond my skills that I cared about the company and the culture,” Burtchaell said. The success of this high-profile internship came as no surprise to Daniela Marx, design department chairwoman. “Patrick is an ambitious student and a very strong designer. He applied for this internship after only his second year. I encourage all design students to set high standards and apply for an internship at their dream job, and he did just that,” Marx said. Sierra Lyman, graphic design senior, explained that Loyola’s design program sets a strong conceptual foundation for achieving job opportunities like these. “The design department encourages students to seek internships like these by giving students confidence in their design skills. They do this by focusing on critiques, project execution and having a concept behind a project before even starting it,” Lyman said. Burtchaell aims to continue interning with the company for summer of 2017, after gaining valuable

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Patrick Burtchaell speaks at Loyola’s Design Forum about his Facebook internship on Oct. 26. He discussed his application process, Facebook’s design dynamics, and gave advice to fellow students.

insight from his summer experience with the website. “I now have more knowledge of

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Students for Life club forms By Jessamyn Reichmann jjyoung2@loyno.edu @jessamynreich

Students for Life, once a thriving anti-abortion club on Loyola’s campus, is currently on the rise again. It is an organization being resurrected this fall by Alex Lucas, freshman vocal performance and history double major. Walking onto Loyola’s campus and admiring the accessible resources, Lucas realized that something was missing. He saw clubs focused on life issues such as clean water and sex trafficking, but not one that encompassed it all. “I wanted a club that would address abortion, but not just focus on that, but address the entire array of issues like suicide and euthanasia. I wanted an overarching organization that addresses all of these things,” Lucas said. So he started it. Another of Lucas’ goals in the upcoming school year is to remove the stigma around anti-abortion groups. Lucas said that students sometimes take it personally when the topic comes up. “We don’t look at it as a personal attack; we look at it as trying to protect life at all stages, from womb to tomb,” Lucas said. To be an anti-abortion supporter doesn’t always mean that club members fall on the conservative side of politics. In cases where life ethics conflict with government policy, such as on gun control, the

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Loyola Students for Life Club pose in front of the newly opened Planned Parenthood on South Claiborne Ave after protesting there. Students for Life is dedicated to practicing anti-abortion and educating the community on anti-abortion issues.

death penalty and war, the majority of club members say they are more liberal. No matter their political views, Students for Life say their overall goal is to show love, not just a feeling of deep affection, but an act of reaching out a hand and educating the community around them. “We approach life in a loving perspective because that’s the only way you will get to people. It’s very important to not divide people and yourself and to be completely understanding,” Lucas said.

By showing love, Lucas plans to incorporate Loyola’s Jesuit ideals, such as development of personal potential and appreciation of things both great and small, to give people a purpose to live and a life to love. Even though Students for Life has their goals and ideals set in place, they still have a long road ahead. The organization has yet to solidify their constitution as well as schedule their weekly meetings and time. Kris Bradley, biology pre-med freshman, has played a major role into shaping Loyola’s Students for

Life Club in it’s own, unique way. “In the beginning, Alex and I did a lot of collaborating with Tulane’s Students for Life club by attending their meetings and pointing out things that worked and that didn’t,” Bradley explains. “One thing for sure is, instead of having one president and one vice president, we plan on having it be a (joint) position, preferably one male and one female,” Bradley said. The club also showcases that men are not always the advocates when it comes to anti-abortion issues. Among anti-abortion organizations, their major ideology is that life begins at conception, which shares the responsibility between both parties, Bradley and Lucas entailed. While they’re still in their transitional stage of making the club a vital aspect of Loyola’s community, they’re always open to accepting new members. For students who are hesitant on joining because of their stances on abortion, Lucas suggests viewing the mutual aspects that anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights organizations have to offer. Taking abortion out of the equation, all one has left is a group of individuals with a passion for change, whether it’s supplying clean water, limiting gun violence or aiding in the war against slavery. “Our plans as an organization are simply to provide support in all stages of life,” Bradley said.

India glitters ahead of Diwali By Ashok Sharma Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians stocked up on firecrackers, handed out sweets and adorned their homes with glowing lanterns and sparklers ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, on Sunday. The most important festival of the year in India, Diwali celebrates the triumph of good over evil. The biggest — and loudest — celebrations come Sunday, when people set off a near-constant stream of firecrackers that light up the sky before leaving a dark, smoggy cloud that lingers for days. This year, mindful of the pollution and the dangers of the deafening displays, authorities have made a push to cut down on the number of firecrackers, and some schools sent notices home urging parents not to buy any fireworks. The country’s grim financial straits also may affect this year’s celebrations. At a wholesale market in New Delhi, shopkeeper Mahesh Chand Sagar said the financial downturn is affecting sales. “Fulfilling one’s basic needs has become a problem nowadays,” said Sagar, 40, who has been selling candles, garlands and other decorations for the past 10 years. “If people can’t afford basic necessities, how will they buy decorative items?” Typically, people buy gold during Diwali, including jewelry, coins and small statues of the elephant-headed Ganesh. But the government has imposed a steep new tax on gold im-

Loyola Week displays the Jesuit Ideals By Chasity Pugh cmpugh@loyno.edu @chasitypugh_

Magis, inclusivity and care for the environment are three of the values that will be expressed during the Loyola Week Opening Mass. Held Nov. 6-11, Loyola Week allows the community to celebrate the Jesuit and Catholic values that the university holds. The opening Mass will occur on Nov. 6 at 9 p.m in Ignatius Chapel. According to Ken Weber, university minister for liturgy and music, the theme of the opening Mass will focus on how everything we do at Loyola comes from living these values. “The theme of the Loyola Week opening Mass explores how each of us ‘Lives Loyola,’ meaning how does what we all do at Loyola— whether as a student, teacher, staff member, administrator, alumnus or friend—express the Jesuit, Catholic values on which we’re founded,” Weber said. Participants in Loyola Week can look forward to learning more about Jesuit ideals, such as finding God in all things and “Ad majorem Dei gloriam,” doing everything “for the greater glory of God.” In addition, Catholic values such as inclusivity and mercy will be practiced throughout the weeklong events. Weber said that Loyola Week, including the opening Mass, is the time of the year during which a spotlight shines on how everything we do comes from living these values. “From learning about how a cell works to working toward more ethically responsible investments, to celebrating life with our friends, to performing music, to just going to work every day and trying our hardest, every activity and every relationship we have at Loyola is grounded in our Jesuit, Catholic values, which form the heart of our Jesuit identity,” Weber said. Weber said that the goal of Loyola Week is to help all realize the connection between what we do and why we do it, in terms of living our values. In addition to the opening week Mass, Loyola Week will hold an “Ice Cream with the Jesuits” event, have free Loyola Week t-shirts and the opportunity for all to share how they “Live Loyola” in the One Loyola Room. Students are also encouraged to “shout out” someone via social media whenever they see them demonstrating a Jesuit, Catholic value using the hashtags #CuraPersonalis, #AMDG, #Magis and #GodInAllThings.

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Indian street children play with firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Allahabad, India, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Diwali serves as the most important festival in India, and locals celebrate with fireworks and sweet treats.

ports, making the already-high prices far out of reach for many Indians. Still, it seems unlikely the concerns about pollution and finances will dampen enthusiasm for Diwali too much. In the run-up to the festival, people hand out sweets, give their homes a vigorous cleaning and offer prayers to Ganesh and to the

Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. Shops have been packed with customers buying new clothes, gifts for friends and co-workers and brightly lit decorations for their homes. Potters ramp up production of popular earthen lamps, known as diyas. On the night of Diwali, which is a shortened form of the word Dee-

pavali, meaning ‘a row of lamps,’ families gather for the spectacular fireworks displays held all over the country. Diwali also is celebrated by Hindus in other parts of the world, including Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal and Malaysia.

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Cross Country team ends season By Caroline Gonzalez cbgonzal@loyno.edu @carolinegonzo34

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International business sophomore Malcolm Pitchford and psychology sophomore Melvin Bergeron jog together at Harrell Stadium in New Orleans during a team practice. The cross country team will be competing in the conference championship meet in Dalton, Georgia, on Nov. 5.

Loyola University’s cross country team competed in its fifth and final season competition on Oct. 15. The team traveled to Berry College for the Berry Invitational in Rome, Georgia, and had several runners finish with notable performances. Throughout the entire season, each runner has achieved a personal or lifetime best in at least one competition. At the Berry Invitational, sophomores Anthony Rizzi and Brian Davis were among the elite on the men’s side. Leading the women’s team, music freshman Tristan Sanders placed 80th overall with a time of 26:19. Rizzi recorded a personal best of 27:39 in the 8K, and finished 53rd individually among runners from 25 teams. Nick Dodson, head coach, said Rizzi is becoming more confident in his training and has been a leader on the team all year. “He’s been our top performer, and he has put himself in the position to qualify for the national championships if he plays his cards right,” Dodson said. The conference championship, set for Nov. 5, determines who will have the opportunity to compete in the national tournament in Elsah, Illinois. If Rizzi places in the top four in the conference championship, he will advance to the national championship. Rizzi, a Chicago native, said that he’s looking forward to the opportunity of competing close to home. Davis also ranked among the top performers with a time of 29:18, which put him in 100th place. Davis, who was out for the majority of his freshman year due to inju-

ry, said he was humbled by placing at the invitational. “I had the opportunity to run against some of the best runners in the country and I’m grateful for that,” Davis said. On the women’s side, Sanders has led the team for the entire year according to Dodson. “She’s done outstanding this year. She’s learned what it takes to perform at the collegiate level. With that being said, I think she’s put herself in a good position to make the all freshman team,” Dodson said. All of the runners are competing under coach Dodson and assistant coach Livia Mahaffie for the first time. Dodson came from conference rival Brewton Parker, where he was the director of track and field. In 2016, Brewton Parker had five All-Conference selections and a 400m conference championship under Dodson. Mahaffie spent the last year in Seattle, Washington, where she coached cross country and track and field at Holy Name Academy. “They expect excellence from all of their athletes, and they took care of us like we were their own,” Davis said. With the season coming to an end, Dodson looks forward to the individual achievements obtainable in the conference and national tournament this year. For next year, Dodson said he is confident that the team will reach a new level of success. “We have several recruits coming in, a couple of state champions. It’s going to put us in a position to be really good,” Dodson said. The conference championships on Nov. 5 will decide whether or not the men’s team will send their first athlete to a national meet in Loyola’s program history.

SPORTS BRIEFS Saints upset Seahawks in the Dome The Saints overcame a late push from the Seahawks and secured the 25-20 upset over the Seahawks in the Superdome. With only 1:50 remaining and down by five, Russell Wilson drove his offense down the field from his own 32 yard-line to the Saints 10 yard-line. With one final play left in the game, Wilson passed to the back of the end-zone but his throw was just out of reach as Jermaine Kearse couldn’t get both of his feet down. Drew Brees threw for 265 yards, connecting with Brandin Cooks for a touchdown and scored his first rushing touchdown in nearly a year. Running back Tim Hightower added 102 yards on 26 carries after Mark Ingram was benched for fumbling in his second straight game. Saints kicker Will Lutz nailed all four of his field goal attempts, helping the Saints to their victory. At a record of 3-4, the Saints are in third place in the NFC South and are 2-2 in the Superdome this season. The Saints travel to Santa Clara, California next Sunday, Nov. 6 to

take on the 49ers.

Volleyball completes three game home stand

The Wolf Pack volleyball team went 2-1 between Oct. 28-30 in a three-game home stand against Southern States Athletic Conference opponents. On Friday night, Loyola celebrated their Senior Night ceremonies with a big victory. Loyola took on SSAC last-place ranked Brewton-Parker College, dominating them in three sets. Coming off their sweep of Brewton-Parker College the previous night, the Wolf Pack took to the court to battle with Coastal Georgia on Saturday, Oct. 29. The Mariners came out on top, sweeping the Wolf Pack in three sets. Loyola bounced back from Saturday’s loss to close out their home stand with a win over Middle Georgia State on Sunday morning. Sophomore Maddie Huekels continued her impressive season as she led the Wolf Pack over the weekend with 56 assists, according to Loyola Athletics. Loyola boasts an overall record of 14-19 and are currently ranked sixth

in the SSAC. The Wolf Pack travel next to Pulaski, Tennessee this Friday, Nov. 4 to take on Martin Methodist College.

Men’s basketball falls to LSU-Alexandria at home The Loyola men’s basketball team took on National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics number five ranked Louisiana State University-Alexandria this past Saturday at First NBC Court, losing to the Generals 80-66. The game was close early on as both teams traded scores and the first half ended 38-36 in favor of the Generals. After a strong ending to the first half, the Wolf Pack looked to keep the game tight. LSU pulled away going on multiple runs while capitalizing on Loyola’s turnovers and fouls, giving them the lead late in the fourth, and eventually secured the 80-66 victory. Wolf Pack standout senior Johnny Griffin Jr. secured his second straight double-double after recording 17 points and 14 rebounds, according to Loyola

Athletics. Junior guard Nick Parker was second in scoring for Loyola as he added 16 points, five boards and four assists. The Wolf Pack were expected to play in their annual matchup with rival Tulane University in the Battle of Freret on Thursday, Nov. 3 at Devlin Fieldhouse.

we need to do it fast,” said Davis. The Pelicans seek their first win of the season when they travel to Phoenix to take on the Phoenix Suns on Friday, Nov. 4.

Anthony Davis led Pelicans are still winless

The Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in game seven of the 2016 World Series and ended their 108 year long championship drought. The Cleveland Indians, who trailed for much of the game, managed to tie the game in the bottom of the 8th thanks to a two run homer from Rajai Davis and the game went to extra innings. At the top of the 10th inning, Cleveland elected to walk two Cubs hitters with just one out which allowed the bases to be loaded. The Cubs capitalized and scored two runs, giving them an 8-6 lead heading into the bottom of the 10th. The Cubs safely shut down the Indians in the final inning after giving up one run, winning their first World Series since 1908.

Anthony Davis’s play has been the lone bright spot for the Pelicans thus far as they remain winless through five games. Davis opened the season with a 50 point, 17 rebound masterpiece in a loss against the Nuggets. He followed that performance with a 45 point, 17 rebound game in a loss to the Golden State Warriors. Despite Davis’s play, the Pelicans still find themselves winless after five games. In a post game interview with NOLA.com, Davis expressed his frustration on the disappointing start to the 2016-2017 season. “It’s defintely frustrating. We can’t get a win. Whatever we need to do,

Cubs end World Series drought with game seven victory

EDITORIAL

November 4, 2016 THE MAROON

OUR EDITORIAL

The majority opinion of our editorial board

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On Oct. 31, Tulane University published an admission video that immediately drew attention for its lack of diversity. The video features an almost entirely white cast, fronted by the Green Envy a cappella group. The video amassed more than 1,000 Facebook shares within two days and garnered critical comments such as “Come to Tulane... the whitest place on earth” by Christopher Stoudt and “Clearly Tulane’s dedication to increasing diversity only extends to what shade of kahki (sic) pants students are wearing” by Aimee Frank. Yet, infamous as the video has gotten in such a short span of time, students are all too familiar with “whitewashed” admissions videos when considering universities. The video has brought attention to the racial makeup of Tulane’s campus. The student body is 65 percent white, 10 percent students from other countries and 8 percent black, according to the most recent data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

To that end, Tulane’s video reflects the truth of its campus’ racial makeup. The question is, why isn’t Tulane doing more to stress inclusivity? If you were a potential Tulane student of color, would you feel welcome or discouraged from applying because of this video? The admissions ad not only emphasizes how white Tulane is, but whitewashes New Orleans, a city that is 60 percent black, with glamor shots of white Tulane students dancing in all the city’s tourist spots. We understand that the video is marketed to out-of-state students, but it is important not to whitewash a city where gentrification is already a problem, simply to make it more appealing to wealthy white students. What little diversity is actually displayed in the video falls prey to stereotyping minority students. The featured black students are almost all athletes, save for one who is wearing a Straight Outta Tulane tee shirt. The one Asian student in Green Envy first appears in a lab

coat. These stereotypes can further isolate minorities on an overwhelmingly white campus. These concerns, of course, aren’t limited to Tulane. They extend to all of higher education, where colleges and universities are still working to eliminate racial disparities not only in enrollment but in their campus cultures. This conversation even extends across West Road to our own 45 percent minority campus. We’ve taken steps toward making Loyola more hospitable to minorities and are in the process of hiring a permanent Chief Diversity Officer, but we have much more work to do. Even The Maroon has only had one black editor-in-chief. No campus is perfect, and neither is our country, but videos like Tulane’s do more harm than good in terms of the struggle for racial equality. Let’s celebrate our diversity and strive to do more, rather than being contented with racial homogeneity.

OPINION

November 2, 2016 The Maroon

Study abroad will make you mindful Gina Salacki A’16 gsalacki@gmail.com

One early morning in Dharamsala, India, I woke up just as the sun was rising. I looked out my window and saw the foothills of the Himalayas, cows mooing and roaming the streets and taxi drivers getting ready for their day. I was thousands of miles from home and had never felt such a grand sense of wonder. Making the decision to go on Loyola’s one-month summer program in India was less of a decision and more of a calling. I wanted to learn about Buddhism and Hinduism, be outdoors and go hiking, and I wanted to drink chai all day, every day. I got all of these and more. Studying in India made me a better person and student. Spending

time in a country with extreme poverty and very little sanitation control awakened my sense of mindfulness for the earth and for myself. Seeing these under-resourced communities of Northern India firsthand led me to appreciate where I come from and the privileges I have each and every day. I was told by a local man in India that my name means “to be alive.” And that’s just it. The experiences one will have while abroad will make you feel alive, open to new experiences and ready to learn more. In a way, my time abroad was an escape from everyday life, a chance to focus on a culture and location completely different from what I was used to. Every college student should find a way to gain international experience, not only to see the world but to have precious insight into the lives of people with values unlike your own. No matter where you go in the world, remember to keep an open mind and an open heart. Oh, and drink lots of chai.

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A herder (upper left) stands atop a rural valley in Dharamsala, India. A mother and her two children walk through the dirt roads of a village (lower left). Tsering, guide for the Loyola Himalaya Adventure Program in India, leads the way through prayer flags (lower right).

Mandatory attendence is a weak excuse for points Gage counts Management junior & Managing Editor for Electronic Properties rgcounts@loyno.edu

Universities are often criticized for sacrificing the quality of their education due to coddling millennials, making them incapable of functioning in the world outside of their ivory towers. While trigger warnings and safe spaces have received much more negative attention in the past year than they ever have, one common policy in higher education that the critics forget to mention is mandatory attendance policies. Here are several reasons why it’s a mistake to leave those out. Attendance policies inflate student grades. Professors will often make attendance a graded portion of the class,

equaling up to an entire letter grade or more. Several professors I’ve taken classes with value attendance as much as they do an exam. Attendance can even be the sole determinant of whether a student passes a class. Grading exists to gauge student mastery of the content in their classes. If attendance—which can’t make students pay attention in class, much less ensure they’re absorbing the material—takes up 15 to 20 percent of someone’s score, that skews the measure of whether they actually mastered the content.In other words, graded attendance policies are to college degrees what margins of errors are to polls or surveys. We don’t accept a 15 percent margin of error for polls measuring an election, so we shouldn’t accept a 15 percent margin of error measuring the value of a degree. Some classes might actually not be worth attending. Every student will at some point

in their college education be required to take a course that has no relevance to their degree of choice because of (inflated) common curriculum requirements or because the class is poorly taught. In microeconomic theory, there’s a term called opportunity cost, which explains that by making one decision, you miss out on the benefits you could have gotten if you made a different decision. So, the opportunity cost of attending a class because there’s a mandatory attendance policy in place outweighs making the final edits on a paper due in another class or attending another professor’s office hours. College is supposed to teach critical decision making, so why do we penalize students for making a decision to spend their time wisely? Professors don’t know that they need to improve their classes if students don’t have the choice of skipping them. If the only way professors can get

students to attend their classes is by deducting points from their grades as a threat, that’s a sign that those professors don’t know how to make classes interesting or relevant to students. Loyola does require students to submit course evaluations at the end of each semester, but they don’t always give the professors their uncensored opinion about their class. So, to solve this problem, professors should want to know whether students really think attending their class is important. Academic literature shows that attendance policies don’t make students more successful. Some of my professors might read this and think I’m just trying to excuse my poor attendance in their classes, but this point is substantiated by numerous academic studies. One study showed the real quality that makes students successful is their level of motivation, but since mandatory attendance policies

don’t make them more motivated, they don’t help students perform better in the class. Others have shown similar findings: attendance policies are a band-aid, not an actual solution to poor attendance. If the landscape of American higher education is changing and universities as we know them are on their way out, attendance policies should be looked at as one of the many nails in that coffin. They’re a symptom of Millennials being a “participation trophy generation,” where we feel entitled to an easy letter grade or having our professors hold our hands as we complete their courses. It’s no wonder our professors feel like mandatory attendance policies are the only way we’ll actually come to class. If universities want to actually form the minds of students instead of having student attitudes form the policies of the classes, it’s time we start doing away with graded attendance policies.

THE MAROON

November 4, 2016

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