February 10, 2017

Loyola University • New Orleans • Volume 95 • Issue 17 • February 10, 2017

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OSAMA AYYAD / The Maroon

A tornado-damaged structure is illuminated by passing New Orleans Police Department vehicles on Chef Menteur Highway Feb. 7, 2017. Residents evacuated injured community members and disconnected propane lines as a precautionary measure.

Tornadoes wreak havoc in New Orleans

By Osama Ayyad and Marisabel Rodriguez oaayyad@loyno.edu and mrodrigu@loyno.edu @ was7eed_mu3tazil and @mar_rodzz

Tuesday morning, Jordan Clayton, an equipment operator for Hayward Baker Construction Company, was building drainage infrastructures on Florida Avenue in the 9th Ward. He said he and most of his coworkers received a tornado warning and promptly ignored it.

Not much later, the owner of Parc D’Orleans, a trailer park on Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans East, called him and told him the park was hit.

“He said ‘your trailer was upside down,’” Clayton said. “I asked him about my truck, but he said it was alright, and luckily, there isn’t a scratch on it.”

Clayton had lived in his trailer for less than two weeks upon returning to the city. He travels to New Orleans for work.

On their way to the park from Florida Avenue, one of Clayton’s

co-workers, Christian Nibert, called his wife in Columbia, Mississippi, to let her know he was OK. Once they arrived, they got back to work.

“Every time there is some kind of disaster, everybody instinctively comes together,” Nibert said. “We helped everybody get to the front.

We helped one lady who thought she broke a rib to the EMTs. The EMTs got here quick. Their response time was immediate.”

Governor John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency in multiple Southeast Louisiana parishes after several tornadoes injured 33 and destroyed around 300 properties Feb. 7.

Within hours, members of the New Orleans East community again exemplified their resilience in the face of a natural disaster.

Clayton said he and others helped neighbors get to their medications.

After helping others, John, another of Clayton’s co-workers, realized Benjamin, his boxer, was missing.

“We didn’t find the dog,” Nibert said. “That’s when I noticed that my

trailer wasn’t where it was supposed to be, and I saw my propane tank.”

Nibert, Clayton and others then went around the park to make sure all the propane tanks were disconnected.

Few at the trailer park said they were lucky enough to salvage some kind of shelter.

Shayne Briney, a crane operator at a nearby refinery, had help from a neighbor to re-lift his trailer and install a new footing.

“We’re alive,” Briney said.

Briney said he was thankful that his and the adjacent trailers were spared much of the 136-165 mph wind damage, due to their proximity to the only fixed structure in the park.

“The building took most of the damage,” Briney said as he pointed to the severely damaged two-story structure.

Down the highway from the park, the tornado left nothing behind but the destruction of five businesses that had been there eariler.

Raymond Steven, a barber at Hot

Spot Barber Shop and Salon II, said he came to see if he could salvage the Chef Menteur location.

“There was a Metro PCS store, a cash and loan shop, and a Mexican restaurant here,” Steven said. “Its all gone now. The back wall is completely blown off.”

Members from the store's other location on Simon Bolivar Avenue gathered what they could take in their cars.

“It came up and blew it all away,” Steven said. “It’s over with.”

Less than 50 yards away, members of the Pentecostal Christian Church of New Orleans gathered near their place of worship. One of the followers, Alberto Hernandez said he felt that he had to be there.

“We are here to see what we can do for the church,” Hernandez said.

“We want to begin fixing the damage.”

Pastor Windsor Semexant, the church’s minister, spoke about what he thought the church needed.

“It doesn’t matter that we don’t have water,” Semexant said. “What

matters is your presence. We want to embrace you, give you our love and let you know that we are here for you.”

Mario Martinez, a student at Knowledge Is Power Program Renaissance High School, lives down the street from Parc D’Orleans and was in class when the tornado hit his neighborhood.

Shortly before noon, Martinez said KIPP Renaissance teachers moved students to a designated shelter area and allowed them to use their cell phones to contact family members and arrange for transportation.

“The school buses dropped us off at the Lowe’s on Chef Menteur,” Martinez said. “My mom picked me up there.”

Martinez said he won’t have power at home until Sunday. Approximately, 10,400 properties lost power Tuesday night, a New Orleans City Hall press release said.

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Senate dicusses upcoming changes

By Akilah Morris ammorri2@my.loyno.edu

BARBARA BROWN/ The Maroon

Wind and rain take over Loyola’s campus Nov. 7, 2016, similar to the recent tornado weather on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. Many students took shelter in the basement of Monroe Hall and the Danna Center.

Classes continue despite storm

By Jessica Molina jgmolina@loyno.edu @jmolina217

Mimi Bui, biology sophomore, was one of several students confused on Tuesday when the tornado warning was issued.

Bui and a few of her friends gathered in the basement of Monroe instead of going to their 11 a.m. class.

“I felt like I would be safer there because I knew there wasn’t any windows,” Bui said.

Bui made it to class 20 minutes late.

Stephen Murphy, director of emergency management, wants students to understand that safety is a priority, regardless of if Loyola officially cancels class.

According to Murphy, the first priority when there is any type of safety threat is to get a message out. With the tornado warnings on Tuesday,

the first priority was to alert Loyola students of the possible threat.

“Understand your personal risk as it relates to all emergencies and associated notifications,” Murphy said. “If your commute to campus potentially takes you into an area under a ‘tornado warning,’ it would not be advisable to travel to campus at that time. Use good judgment and remain informed of the threat, we will alert you as much as possible.”

“Generally, campus officials won’t suspend campus operations and classes unless there is a clear, prolonged threat. The tornado situation Tuesday did not present a prolonged threat to our campus, as evidenced by clear skies shortly following the mid-day warning,” Murphy said.

Officials remained watchful of the situation, and all predictions of the tornado spared the University area.

A tornado warning means that

one has been spotted in the area whereas a tornado watch means that a tornado could form in the area, but it has not yet happened. As needed, Loyola sent out two separate warning alerts to students.

“Acute crises are challenging and tornadoes are no different. There is no checklist procedure for suspending campus operations. It’s a very fluid process,” Murphy said Some professors canceled class, while others continued as scheduled.

According to Murphy, with hurricanes and bad storms, we generally know the threat level ahead of time and can plan whether or not campus activities should be suspended.

With tornadoes, the threat is not always for an extended period of time.

Tornado warnings are usually shortlived.

In order to keep students safe, Loyola sent out an alert along with

the city-wide tornado watch. When the storm was no longer a threat, Loyola sent out that information as well.

According to the National Weather Service, a tornado watch means to be prepared while a tornado warning means to take action.

For a tornado watch, “Be ready to act quickly if a warning is issued or you suspect a tornado is approaching.” For a tornado warning, “A tornado has been sighted or indicated by weather radar. There is imminent danger to life and property. Move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows.

If in a mobile home, a vehicle, or outdoors, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris,” said the National Weather Service.

Lily Cummings contributed to this report.

SGA funding available to organizations and students

By Nicholas Boulet nicholasboulet@gmail.com

Cole Gautereaux, sophomore rugby player, said they would have had an uncomfortable trip without the help of SGA funding.

“The funding has allowed us to travel more comfortably as a unit,” Gautereaux said. “We went to a tournament in Alabama and were able to stay at a hotel, which was crucial because otherwise we would have been sleeping in our vans.”

The Student Government Association sets funds aside to allocate to students and organizations until funds run out.

Student organizations can also find ways to make money from the funds that they have gotten from the SGA. For example, the rugby team took the $300 they received from SGA and doubled their profits by selling “Loyola Rugby” t-shirts.

“This is great because it allows us to get our name out there and grow

as a club,” Gautereaux said.

The SGA doesn’t just support student organizations, it also gives individual students funds for independent research and tests to get into grad schools.

The SGA gives up to $100 reimbursement to any student who took a grad test. They also fund any student or group of students that want to do research in their field.

The first step in receiving allocations is filling out a form on OrgSync to create a budget.

Justin Callais, SGA treasurer, is part of the financial committee responsible for allocations.

“Pretty much anyone on campus is eligible to receive funding,” Callais said.

Loyola’s student financial committee, which includes Justin and six other students, reviews the budget and detailed price quotes to see if the requests are within the budget.

The University Senate’s first meeting back in session announced new deans, mentioned that some colleges and departments are still searching to fill positions and an update on the Equilibrium plan.

After four decades as Dean of the Music and Fine Arts department at Loyola University New Orleans, Anthony Decuir retired and was replaced by Kern Maas on Feb. 1.

Lorraine Chotin, assistant to the provost, said that candidates are being interviewed for the dean of law position.

The College of Graduate and Professional Studies has an interim dean, Patricia Pearce. They will begin the search for a new dean following the selection of the new law dean.

The Equilibrium Update, a plan for the University to recover money from various programs, has a set goal of $25 million. Loyola University is a nonprofit, therefore in order to keep functioning properly, there needs to be money coming in. The Equilibrium plan is set to help the University break even in upcoming years.

According to Manganaro, Loyola plans to see the adjustments of the $25 million by 2020-2021. There has been $5 million recovered in program reductions so far and $20.5 million plans to be achieved by the summer of 2018.

According to Manganaro’s presentation, some factors that affect reaching this goal is the drop in undergraduate enrollment, TOPS funding and the University endowment.

Over 200 programs were assessed by boards to determine if cuts could be made to recover money on both academic and non-academic programs. Out of the many programs, only 11 were discontinued. 85 programs received a large reduction in funding and 20 were seen as deserving of investments. 106 programs were seen as useful and contributing in some way to Loyola, and will continue to receive funding.

Some additional areas that will be looked at are various student worker positions, reducing staff hours, stipends and also finding ways to eliminate unfilled teacher positions.

NEWS briefs Free transportation to the Spring 2017 Career Expo Local and national employers will be at one of New Orleans’ largest career fairs. Formerly known as the Mardi Gras Career Fair, the expo will take place at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday Feb. 10.

Job and internship seekers from all majors and backgrounds are welcome.

A complete list of employers registered to attend will be published on Employola.

Free shuttle service to and from the Superdome will be available for students at Freret Street and McCallister in front of Tulane’s ROTC building. Scheduled pick up times are 11:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1p.m., can be found online.

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February 10, 2017 The Maroon

The Vagina Dialogue With conflicting narratives circling social media after the funding for “The Vagina Monologues” was rerouted from Planned Parenthood to a sexual assault prevention group, The Maroon met with those involved to set the record straight

By Erin Snodgrass eesnodgr@loyno.edu @erinsnod

Loyola students performed “The Vagina Monologues,” a play featuring short feminist monologues, Feb. 3–5 to sold out crowds. The student-run production received support from the Women’s Resource Center, and the $865 it raised were donated to the Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response group. Originally, however, the proceeds were to be donated to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Inc. Ciara Rizzo, theater senior and director of “The Vagina Monologues,” originally chose to donate to Planned Parenthood because of the recent contentious debate regarding the organization.

Rizzo said she knew that Planned Parenthood $ in New Orleans does not currently perform abortions.

“It had to go to a charity, so I chose Planned Parenthood because of everything going on. They’re about to be defunded,” Rizzo said.

The Loyola Students for Life, a club that was re-founded this year, had plans to attend the show as a group. According to Brian Yell, music freshman and Sophie Trist, English sophomore, both of whom are part of Loyola Students for Life, members of the organization were upset when they found out their money would be donated to an institution that supports abortions.

“Although the Planned Parenthood in New Orleans does not currently provide abortions, they have applied for their abortion license. We just could not believe that a pro-abortion organization should receive funding from a Catholic institution, since this was an official university sponsored production,” Trist said.

Alex Lucas, vocal performance freshman and co-president of Loyola Students for Life, wrote a letter to the Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J., university president, and showed the letter to Kurt Bindewald, director of university ministry.

The letter asked that the money be donated elsewhere.

“Alex’s letter never demanded that funds be rerouted. He asked.

The letter was very respectful, he never demanded or shouted or was negative in any way,” Yell said.

The Students for Life group said Lucas was not available to comment for this story.

Once the Planned Parenthood connection was brought to Bindewald’s attention, he and John Sebastian, vice president for Mission and Ministry, felt it necessary to

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meet with Patricia Boyett, director of the Women’s Resource Center.

“Dr. Boyett heard our concerns about Loyola being directly involved with fundraising for Planned Parenthood and then talked to the students involved with the play. We were told by Dr. Boyett that the students understood our concerns and quickly decided to instead support S.T.A.R. with the proceeds from the performance,” Bindewald said.

Boyett said she spoke with Wildes and Mission and Ministry about the funding and discussed their concerns with Rizzo.

On Monday night, The Maroon published an opinion written by Wildes about the controversy. In it, he urged community members to show respect for differing opinions.

“Last week, when I became aware that proceeds from this year’s production of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ were to be donated to Planned Parenthood, I approached the Women’s Resource Center adviser and requested that the group consider redirecting these funds to a different charity — one that provides the women’s health services they seek to support and does so in a way that is consistent with the university’s mission and Catholic beliefs in the sanctity of life,” Wildes wrote.

Rizzo said she learned about the fundraising problems from an email Boyett sent to her. The email said that the production could not go forward if the money was donated to Planned Parenthood.

“My initial reaction? I was mad. I was hurt. It came out of completely nowhere for me,” Rizzo said.

After the Students for Life discovered the proceeds would no longer be going to Planned Parenthood, Lucas sent an email to the coordinator of Students for Life of America, a national organization.

The coordinator asked Lucas if Students for Life of America could write an article detailing the events on Loyola’s campus and Lucas agreed.

The article, which was not written

by Loyola students, quickly began circling social media after it was posted on Loyola Students for Life’s Facebook page. The article referred to “The Vagina Monologues” as a “vulgar” show which had no place on a Catholic campus. The Loyola Students for Life said they did not agree with this evaluation of the show.

“They took what we were doing, they used it to their advantage, manipulated us and put their own opinion in the article,” Yell said.

Trist, the secretary for Loyola Students for Life, said she edited the article to better reflect the views of the club and sent her edits to the national coordinator. The unedited version was published, however, and the club has not heard back from the national organization despite attempts to reach them.

“Loyola Students for Life fully supported the production. I personally think it’s an empowering piece of feminist art. It brings awareness to sexual abuse and domestic violence,” Trist said.

Rizzo, who was anti-abortion until two years ago, also believes the show is an important and timely production. This was her second time directing and third time involved with the show. She credits the production’s success to Loyola students’ support.

Trist posted edits and clarifications about the initial article in a Facebook post on Loyola Students for Life’s page. The original article, written by the national organization, still remains on the club’s page.

“It wasn’t a retraction,” Rizzo said.

“If they wanted to retract it, they could have deleted it. If they really were against it, as they say to be, the post wouldn’t have happened in the first place.”

Rizzo said she is not angry about what happened. Instead, she hopes to mend relationships so “The Vagina Monologues” can continue on Loyola’s campus. She is grateful for the support from the Loyola community for the show and for Planned Parenthood.

“Everyone is coming together and supporting us.

People that don’t even know me who heard about the production are behind us 100 percent,” Rizzo said.

Both Students for Life members and Rizzo expressed a desire for continued conversation and understanding.

“Have an open dialogue with whoever you disagree with. Don’t just go above their head, because that doesn’t create change.

Conversation creates change,” Rizzo said.

Loyola Students for Life are also eager for communication after the backlash they received, including Facebook users saying they would donate to Planned Parenthood in the club’s name, which Trist called “disheartening.”

“Another thing we would like to make clear is that we are open to a dialogue. $ We are open to people who disagree with us, but we would appreciate it if it would be a respectful discourse,” Trist said.

Yell echoed Trist’s sentiments.

“We are all about dialogue.

We want to get involved with pro-choice people. We want to see each other’s views. There is never going to be progress within this school, within this nation, within any of our movements, if we don’t start talking instead of attacking,” Yell added.

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Junior studies abroad at ‘Buddha boot camp’

By Natalie Hatton njhatton@loyno.edu @nataliehatton

Courtesy of Cyprien Bullock

(Top) Statues sit in a Buddhist temple. (Bottom) Cyprien Bullock, English junior (second from right) meditates alongside other students during his study abroad program in India. Bullock said his three months at a Buddhist temple made him a more compassionate person.

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As a Buddhist, learning how to meditate had been a lifelong dream for Cyprien Bullock. That dream became a reality last year when the English junior traveled to India to live in a monastery alongside Buddhist monks.

“I kept that dream in my head, and then when the opportunity to study abroad came along, I said, that’s a great chance to try and go to India,” Bullock said.

Traditional study abroad destinations did not interest him, so Bullock took matters into his own hands to find the right one. He found a Buddhist Studies program running out of Antioch University in Minnesota, which allowed him to live, study and meditate in Bodh Gaya in India.

“Bodh Gaya is kind of like Mecca for Muslims or Jerusalem for Christians. It’s the holy site, so Buddhists across the world go there to pay their respects. It’s a very special place for Buddhists,” Bullock said.

The program had a very strict schedule, with the day starting with a 6 a.m. meditation and ending at 5:30 p.m. with another.

“Monastic life is very regimented, it’s like the army. A lot of people call this Buddha bootcamp,” Bullock said.

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Democrat or Republican, this or that, yes or no,” Bullock said.

“If you listen to Trump’s rhetoric, he oversimplifies these very complicated issues into the forces of evil and the good guys, and ‘America first’ and the others. It’s really dangerous for the mind. But I love how in Buddhism there’s no binary, there’s no this or that, there’s no me or you. We are the same energy, we’re the same elements. Buddhism collapses the barriers between right and wrong, between yes and no,” Bullock said.

Bullock said the program was a transformative experience, and he believes he has returned to the United States a different person. He hopes to use his experience to make the Loyola community a more compassionate place.

“A big part of the program for me was trying to get back in touch with my emotions and be more sensitive.

The whole program is supposed to develop your compassion, for others and for yourself,” Bullock said.

Still, Bullock said he doesn’t want to force his Buddhism on anyone.

“I’m trying not to shove it down people’s throats; I’m just trying to be a nice person, to be compassionate to other people and to be a kind presence on campus, because a big part of Buddhism, or any spiritual practice or religious order, is community,” Bullock said.

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perience several different types of meditation over the course of three months: Burmese vipassana, Japanese zen and a combination of two types of Tibetan meditation.

“They are three very different kinds of meditation, three very different cultures, three very different practices, so there was a huge variety,” Bullock said.

Removing himself from the American way of life and adjusting to life in the monastery was initially difficult for Bullock.

“You don’t realize it, but when you remove yourself from the mainstream culture of the States and you go to this no alcohol, no smoking, clean, rigid environment just to meditate, you feel like an addict. It was like rehab for a lot of people. Being away from all that, it really forces you to face yourself, face your emotions and face your negative thinking patterns,” Bullock said.

Being away from home during the 2016 presidential election was trying for Bullock and the other Americans in the program, he said.

“It was weird being there during the election. We all meditated more during the election process, because it was a very stressful time,” Bullock said.

There are elements of Buddhism that Bullock believes could help with the difficulties of America’s current political climate.

“Buddhists believe in non-dualism. This is a huge thing in the States, this binary of red or blue,

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February 10, 2017 The Maroon

Executive order to defund abortion clinic

By John Casey jecasey@my.loyno.edu @J_E+CASEY

Over the next few months, the current form of Planned Parenthood will lose 40 percent of its budget.

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst introduced a bill on Jan. 31 that called for eliminating federal funding for Planned Parenthood and also removing an Obama administration rule that did not allow states to defund Planned Parenthood. The government funding from Planned Parenthood could be rerouted to approved health centers that do not perform abortions.

Planned Parenthood started receiving federal funding in 1970 and has been barred from using public money for abortions since 1976. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group focused on reproductive health, the United States appropriates $610 million each year aimed at providing family services across the globe.

Kyra Woods, physics junior, is concerned about the future condition of Planned Parenthood services.

“To strip even more funding for Planned Parenthood, not only will it hit contraceptives and birth control, it’s also going to affect cancer screenings and treatments that Planned Parenthood provides as well,” Woods said. “It’s specifically cutting healthcare for women.”

Republicans are at the helm of the executive and legislative branches, and House Speaker Paul Ryan said congress will pull all federal funding for Planned Parenthood in a bill that will also repeal the Affordable Care Act. As politicians confront the issue, new statistics regarding abortion have emerged. The Guttmacher Institute, released an in-depth study from 2014 regarding “Abortion Incidence and Service Availability in the United States.”

According to the study, from 1990 until 2008 the abortion rate was steadily declining about two percent each year. Over the next three years until 2011, the rate drastically dropped 13 percent.

From 2008 until 2011, the same

By Natalie Hatton njhatton@my.loyno.edu

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Kyra Woods, physics junior, walks into the new Planned Parenthood location built in 2016 on 4636 South Claiborne Ave. Woods said she appreciated the larger space of the site and was glad the organization received a renovation from their previous location in a shotgun double on 4018 Magazine St.

period in which abortions drastically declined, so did the number of unintended pregnancies. The rate of unintended pregnancies dropped from 54 to 45 per 1000 women.

By 2014, the abortion rate was sitting at 14.6 abortions per 1000 wom-

en, the lowest rate since the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case of 1973, which established a fundamental right for women to an abortion.

Caroline Pratt, psychology sophomore, said she did not know about

the national decline in abortion, but she did know about the constantly decreasing number of clinics around the country.

The study said that from 2011 to 2014, the number of clinics offering

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Activists to host ‘Black liberation in the Time of Trump’ panel

By Osama Ayyad oaayyad@my.loyno.edu

European Dissent, people of European ancestry organizing to end racism, will gather for discussion of movements like Black Lives Matter.

European Dissent is part of a multi-racial movement, and they meet once a month and hold regular public events on social equality.

The event’s Facebook page, also hosted by European Dissent, currently declares a necessity to be aware of movements like Black Lives Matter, as a part of a commitment to ending anti-Black racism.

Speakers from Stand with Dignity, a social justice group, BreakOUT, a LGBT youth advocacy group, and Junebug Productions, a racial justice art creator and proliferator, are scheduled to appear during the Black Liberation in the Time of Trump: Panel Discussion.

Hannah Pepper-Cunningham, a member of the political education

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working group at European Dissent, said events have taken place at a greater rate since the election.

“The event is intended to both educate and help attendees to get involved and make long-term commitments to racial justice work,” Pepper-Cunningham said.

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, a group leader in the coalition, said European Dissent meeting attendees have doubled over the last year. European Dissent meets every month’s first Wednesday at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans at 6 p.m. Ash Wednesday pushes back the March gathering to March 8, according to Pelot-Hobbs.

Crystal Gross, Loyola alumnus, said she found the meeting in search of ways to do her part to end racism.

“Here, I learned whiteness isn’t real,” Gross said.

The local chapter of European Dissent is hosting the event at the Rogers Memorial Chapel on Feb. 9 at 6 p.m.

OSAMA AYYAD / The Maroon

Members of the European Dissent gather and discuss social issues Feb. 1, 2017, at the First Unitarian Universalist Church Of New Orleans, Louisiana. The group’s monthly meetings serve to offer networking and collaborating in the pursuit of racial justice, according to Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, a member of one of the group’s leadership teams.

The Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Josh Fox will host a screening of his work focusing on environmental and social justice.

Fox said he recognizes New Orleans as a site of environmental injustice, because the city is in danger of a drastic change in the coming years, as a result of climate change.

“If anyone knows what it’s like to experience extreme weather, it’s New Orleans,” Fox said. “It is the most vulnerable place in the United States. Future generations will look back at this moment and realize that this was the moment we lost our coastal cities.”

Fox believes New Orleans should be at the forefront of the country’s climate fight.

Craig Hood, director of the environment program said that having Fox at Loyola opens up discussion about the environment on several levels.

“Bringing him here in part is because environmental issues that exist from the local to the national to the global scale are really interdisciplinary issues.”

Hood said that the interdisciplinary nature of Fox’s films will appeal to non-science majors too.

“His coming here is not just for the benefit of environmental studies and environmental science students, but really for just about anybody,” Hood said. “We have a big mass comm program, we have a developing video filmmaking program, and so there’s a lot of students and faculty and staff from those programs who benefit too.”

Hood described how the pertinence of this event’s focus on environmental and social justice increased through the country’s current political climate.

“We started talking to him before the election about coming here. He cares a great deal about environmental and social justice movements and so especially now in these troubled times we’re living in, it takes on new urgency now.”

Hood also wants students to know that the subjects of Fox’s films uphold some of the main tenets of Loyola’s Jesuit values and hopes that this event will help universalize environmental justice outside of an academic environment.

“He is not an academic; this is not bringing an academic to campus. This is trying to do something broader, a little out of the ordinary.”

Fox hopes that this event will spark a change, not just at Loyola, but in the greater New Orleans community.

“We need to get a protest movement going in the city of New Orleans,” Fox said. “It’s the citizens of New Orleans, especially the young people, who have to speak up right now. The most important thing that needs to be said now is that silence will not protect you.”

The presentation by Fox will take place in Nunemaker Auditorium from 7-9 p.m. on Feb. 10. He will present on his films as well as his involvement to improve environmental policy in the United States and globally.

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CONT’D: Several tornadoes wreak havoc in New Orleans East TORNADO, continued from page 1

Most of which are in New Orleans East.

Approximately, 250 Entergy crewmembers and contractors are working in the effected areas.

They restored power to some 4,000 Louisianans by midnight. By noon Wednesday, the responders restored power to approximately 2,700 more, Entergy said.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu said no fatalities were reported, and 31 of the 33 injured have been discharged after treatment.

The National Weather Service classified the tornado that hit New Orleans as an EF3, which measures winds as fast as 165 mph.

The gusts of wind left Clayton and most of the Hayward Baker employees at Parc D’Orleans with nowhere to go, he said. The construction company chose to shelter them.

“They’re going to put us in hotel rooms until we can get situated,” Clayton said.

As of Tuesday, Benjamin the boxer was still missing.

Other Parc D’Orleans residents weren’t as fortunate.

Thomas Janusz, who left Chicago to join the culinary calling in New Orleans, left the park shortly before the tornado struck his home, he said.

“I was on my way to get propane,” Janusz. “I got the tornado warning when I was on Judge Perez highway, and by the time I got back it was over.”

Janusz lost his home, and after searching for a position as a pastry chef for two months, he said the tor-

nado took away what little hope he had left of staying in New Orleans.

“I have nothing here,” he said. “I have no where to go. I’ll probably pitch a tent [where the trailer was] to ward off looters, [Tuesday night], but I’m going back to Chicago.”

As of press night, Loyola’s Mission and Ministry said that they are reaching out to relief organizations particularly Catholic Charities and the St. Bernard Project to see how Loyola can assist. They are also accepting monetary donations, bottle water, canned food, unused toiletry and personal hygiene item, baby diapers and formula and cleaning supplies.

The Rho Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., hosted a prayer service in front of the Danna Center on Thursday during the window to pray for those affected and plan ways to assist with the clean up.

On Saturday, Loyola’s National Pan-Hellenic Council sororities and fraternities are leading the Greek Community in a day of service in New Orleans East from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. to help with the clean up.

Second Harvest Food Bank and The Food Pantry of New Orleans are accepting non-perishable food items. Second Harvest Food Bank is also accepting toiletries and cleaning supplies.

Samaritans may donate to the New Orleans Foundation’s Helping Our Neighbors: Tornado Relief at unitedwaysela.org/tornadorelief and to United Way of Southeast Louisiana, which is also accepting volunteers.

OSAMA AYYAD and MARISABEL RODRIGUEZ / The Maroon

(Clockwise) Christian Nibert, Hayward Baker equipment operator, stands where his trailer, now behind him due to an EF3 tornado, once stood at Parc D’ Orleans in New Orleans. People view the destruction of a gas station in New Orleans East. Residents of Parc D’Orleans assess the aftermath of an EF3 tornado in New Orleans. After several tornadoes stuck through New Orleans East Feb. 7 2017, members have started relief efforts.

Cont.: Executive order to defund Planned Parenthood clinics CLINICS, continued from page 6 the Midwest (22 percent) and the South (13 percent).

“I would assume that the creation of these new contraceptive technologies like IUDs have a lot to do with it,” Pratt said.

An intrauterine device, commonly known as an IUD, is one of many new forms of long-acting reversible contraceptives which have become available over the past decade. The bulk of long-acting reversible contraceptives are provided by clinics such as Planned Parenthood.

Roughly 2.5 million men and women visit Planned Parenthood clinics each year.

The Guttmacher Institute points to a rise in contraceptive use as a primary reason for the decline.

According to the data, the use of long-acting reversible contraceptives increased 130 percent from

2007 until 2009, and continued at a slightly slower rate through 2012.

Woods said she assumed the record low abortion rate came from both better access to forms of birth control and more sex education at school.

Students at Loyola University performing the play “The Vagina Monologues” elected to donate proceeds for the play to Planned Parenthood, in wake of talks to defund the organization. Members of the Students for Life club, however, didn’t approve, and their co-president wrote a letter to the Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J., university president, asking that the proceeds go somewhere else.

Patricia Boyett, director of the Women’s Resource Center, explainted that after the cast selected Planned Parenthood for the proceeds, John Sebastian, vice president for mission and ministry, and Kurt Bindewald, director of university ministry, reached out to her to

discuss their concerns with Loyola, as a Catholic university directly fundraising for Planned Parenthood.

“Then I met with the director of ‘Vagina Monologues,’ Ciara Rizzo, to share their concerns,” Boyett said.

“Ms. Rizzo was extremely gracious and agreed to donate the proceeds to STAR (Sexual Trauma Awareness Response).”

Boyett said the students frequently rehearsed in the WRC and are passionate about women’s rights.

“If reproductive rights are taken away from women, it’s just going to lead to more women hurting themselves or dying from performing their own abortions,” Woods said.

National protest rallies calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood will be taking place at the site of each state’s clinic on Feb. 11.

The protest at the Planned Parenthood clinic on 4636 South Claiborne Ave. will be held from 9:00 a.m. to

JAMAL MELANCON / The Maroon

Kyra Woods, physics junior, reads a pamphlet from Planned Parenthood outside the new site that opened in 2016, located on 4636 South Claiborne Avenue. Planned Parenthood clinics provide a variety of services ranging from testing for sexually transmitted infections to breast exams.

10:30 a.m.

A support rally for defending Planned Parenthood will be taking

place beforehand on Feb. 10 at City Hall from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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Sports briefs Men’s tennis wins, women’s falls to Southeastern University The Loyola tennis team headed to Mobile, Alabama to face off against Southeastern University.

The men’s team took a 5-4 win, while the women’s team took an 8-1 loss.

For the men’s team, the duo of Steven Le, senior, and Ernesto de Diego, junior, took the doubles win 9-8. Sophomores Sean Presti and Maxime Rumeau followed the duo with an 8-2 doubles win of their own.

In singles, Galileo Cabrales, freshman, and Alexander DePascual, sophomore, took home wins and de Diego also grabbed a singles win.

For the women’s team, Koral Martinez, sophomore, recorded the only win. Martinez took down No. 1 ranked Kelsi Black in singles play.

The Wolf Pack will next face off across town at the University of New Orleans on Feb. 10.

Baseball drops two to LSU-Alexandria

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Meghan Temple, guard and mass communication senior, looks for an open teammate during practice on Feb. 7, 2017. The Wolf Pack take on Faulkner University on Feb. 11 at First NBC Court.

Women’s basketball stays strong at mid-season

By Andres Fuentes aafuente@my.loyno.edu @af_nola

The women’s basketball team has dominated in the first half of the season and improved in national rankings.

At the half way point, Loyola leads all schools in the conference in points per game with an average of 77.7. Loyola also houses the second best defense in the conference, holding their opponents to just 58.9 points a game.

The Wolf Pack is also ranked first in the conference in field goal percentage in both offense and defense, rebounding and falls in second in assists.

In her senior year, Meghan Temple, center and mass communication major, leads the team in field goal percentage, shooting 52.2 per-

cent, rebounds per game with 9.2 and blocks with 1.3.

“I feel as if I am playing well, but not great. There is always room for improvement; no one is perfect. I know that I am giving my team everything I have every night I step on the court with them and I know that is all I can do and as long as I, as well as everyone else, continue to do that we will do just fine,” Temple said.

With the season at the midpoint, Temple sees a bright and successful season as long as the team remains determined.

“I think the team needs to remember that we have a target on our back and have always been the team that our opponents want to beat. I want the girls to stay hungry as we end regular conference season play. As long as we continue to fight, and step out on the court every day for practice and nights that we have

games, and give it our all, our season will end exactly how we want it to,” Temple said.

In order to compete for the conference championship and even in the national tournament, Loyola has to rely on its weapons.

Kellie Kennedy, head coach, believes she has an all-around squad this year.

“The depth on this team is probably the best I have seen at my time at Loyola. I can easily go to the bench and not lose a thing,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy also said that the team brings a consistent energy every game.

“They have picked up their intensity. They have learned to make offense out of defense. They stay super aggressive on defense, which leads to offense. They share the ball more, [have] better pacing and spacing leads to more efficiency,”

Kennedy said.

Kylah Jones, guard and business management senior also sees her squad as something great.

“Not only if we win the conference, it’ll be the fourth one in a row. I feel like that is something that hasn’t been done here. It’ll be big for all the seniors to be proud of,” Jones said.

With the remaining half of the season left, Jones believes the team has to stay focused and the wins will come.

“We all have to have the same mindset. Everyone should want to win as bad as the next person. Every team we play is out to get us because we are one of the top teams. That always brings the best out of them,” Jones said.

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Golf team’s preparation for the spring season is in full swing

By JC Canicosa jccanico@my.loyno.edu @JCcanico

With the Southern States Athletic Conference Championship in mind, the golf team has set lofty but attainable goals for this upcoming season.

Daria Delfino, business sophomore, said the team strives to improve in their rankings to qualify for the conference championships.

“We want move up in ranks and make the conference championship this season. Our positioning is really good going into this season despite being in one of the toughest conferences in the country,” Delfino said.

Drew Goff, head coach, hopes the team can build off of their pro-

ductive fall season and carry it to this spring.

“Both the men’s and women’s teams climbed the ranking as both really played better and better with each event. I think it just took a while for most everyone to get in tournament mode,” Goff said.

The team had gone through a coaching change before this season, and players are still adjusting to a different coaching style under Goff.

Goff has emphasized an improvement to the team’s short game and tough areas in practices and making sure the team stays focused.

Anne Carrie Swoope, music industry studies freshman, appreciates Goff’s attention to details in his coaching.

“Coach Goff has brought in new aspects to how we look at the game.

He’s teaching us how we can improve every time we come out and has brought a focus into practices that we didn’t have before,” said Swoope.

Goff has also been a reliable mentor for the team, according to Jack Dickson, business management freshman.

“Coach Goff helps us out whenever we need it, whether it’s school or golf or life. You can talk to him whenever you need to. He’s always there to help,” Dickson said.

With winning the conference championships as the ultimate goal for the season, Goff feels the team has a great shot and it’s all about

putting in the work between now and April.

“We’ve played the conference championships course before, so we know what kind of course it is and how to attack it. Now it’s just about practicing with purpose, each player working on their weaknesses and just sharpening their short games as much as they can between now and then,” Goff said.

Though the team feels they’re in a great position to win now, they also feel that the sky’s the limit for the team’s future.

“This team is just the start of what we can do. We’re a great team and really looking to put ourselves in a great position for the future,” Delfino said.

The Loyola baseball team finished their first series of the season with a sweep over Rust College on Feb. 3-4.

In the first game of the series, the Wolf Pack left Rust scoreless while scoring 18 runs at home.

Loyola kept their momentum going in the second and third games , winning 8-3 and 4-3, respectively.

The Wolf Pack then traveled to Alexandria on Tuesday to take on the Generals, dropping both games in the double-header.

Loyola got ahead early on the Generals, but a six score fifth inning propelled LSU-Alexandria to an 8-2 win.

The Wolf Pack led early on in the second game, getting up by five runs in the fifth inning. However, they could not hold on as the Generals stormed back, scoring six runs in the last two innings to take the victory 6-5.

The Wolf Pack take on Tougaloo College at Segnette Field on Feb. 10-11.

Swim teams place in the top five at Mid-South Conference Championship The Loyola swim teams won top five finishes at the Mid-South Conference Championship at the University of Cumberlands.

The men’s team finished in fourth place with a score of 258 and the women’s team finished with 153 points to claim the fifth place spot.

Timothy Buisson, junior, had the best time on the men’s team with his fourth place finish in the 200 breaststroke recording 2:10:17.

Jon Tarpey, freshman, came in fifth in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:57:39 Mallory Adair, freshman, claimed a third place finish for the women’s squad in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:14:38. Nina Mantich, freshman, also claimed third in her event. She recorded 2:10:81 in the 200 backstroke.

Paige Carter, freshman, finished sixth and Cameryn Simon, freshman, came in eigth in the 100 freestyle.

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Film • Arts • Food • Music • Leisure • Nightlife

A Family of Muses

LIFE AND TIMES BRIEFS New Orleans Opera Association to perform Sweeney Todd

Amanda Alch, theater arts senior, is joining her family in Krewe de Muses for the first time

By Davis Walden

designs together.

“I like to do Barbie shoes. I have a shoe with the new Barbie stuck inside,” Jo Alch said. “And I decorate them with a dress and put an ‘M’ on the Barbie dress.”

The Alchs take shoes, clean them up, and start turning them into the Muses shoes that will be thrown in the parade.

“I did a black widow spider shoe,” Amanda Alch said. “So the outside is glittered purple. I’ve got two big eyes that I put on the front and on the inside is a black boa and then I’ve got legs that come out the sides.”

More is more for Amanda Alch, who loves to make theatrical shoes with vibrant colors. Jo Alch makes Mardi Gras and New Orleans themed shoes. Hope keeps them flamboyant.

“The higher the heel, the sexier the shoe,” Jo Alch said.

jdwalden@my.loyno.edu @daviswald

It was Amanda Alch’s first Mardi Gras in 2010 when she started hearing crowds chant for Muses shoes.

“Across the way, there was this woman who caught the shoe and you can see the glitter and the boa and I thought, ‘Oh my God, that’s the coolest thing I have ever seen,’” Amanda Alch, theater arts senior, said.

Amanda Alch has spent hours designing and crafting shoes to use as parade throws during her Muses debut this coming Mardi Gras.

“The reason I think the throws for the shoes are so popular is because it’s got the insole, so you can put things in it. You can do feathers out the back and can do multiple colors,” Amanda Alch said. “You can do any color, any glitter. You can make it your own.”

Amanda Alch isn’t the only Alch on her float. She’ll be joining her mother, Jo Alch, and aunt, Hope Self, on a two-part float that was added to accommodate women who were still on the waitlist. Amanda Alch and Hope Self have become riders thanks to the accommodation. It took them seven years to secure a riding position. The 2017 season will be their first time riding with Jo Alch.

Amanda Alch explained that the demand for a position is fierce enough for Krewe of Muses to expand their reach.

“Surprisingly, right after we had sent in our applications, they closed down the waitlist because they just couldn’t take anymore, that’s how long the waitlist was. This is where Nyx came along. Nyx is a spinoff of Muses. It’s actually all of the women that were on the waitlist. They did their own parade.”

Jo Alch grew up in New Orleans, watching Mardi Gras parades go by with her sister Hope Self.

“We didn’t grow up with a lot of money,” Self said. “I think it felt like you needed money to be in a krewe.”

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cmbeck@my.loyno.edu @CalebBeckIRL

Loyola’s Fools of April music festival is set to undergo its biggest installment this year, replete with a new date, more stages and a new name: Fool’s Fest Loyola Family Fair.

Since its inception in 2014, the event has been curated to reflect the diversity of Loyola’s campus, artists and culture. For this year, organizers within the music industry studies program are promising an all-out community event with a few surprises in store.

Claire McLaughlin, director of marketing, said the event will have higher production values and community outreach than ever before.

“We’re looking to get the entire college involved. Students, faculty and staff are all going to play a

role, as are Sodexo workers, WWF workers and local non-profits. For whatever reason, we’ve never had a truly inclusive event on campus in the past, so we’re looking to fill that gap,” McLaughlin said.

Braden Young, administrative coordinator, explained that all of the collegiate departments have been enlisted to contribute their talents to the fair. She noted increasing the scope to the rest of campus and beyond is a key focus for this year’s Fools.

“All of the colleges are coming together. Loyola’s One Room will be screening the film department students’ movies, the science department will be making liquid nitrogen ice cream, the college of music will feature a Jazz Quartet playing in the fish bowl, it’s all really exciting,” Young said.

Roger Siver, production manager, explained that the change of name

da Alch logged onto eBay and waited to bid. Jo Alch secured her spot.

Self, who also lives in Texas, knows several other Muses in the area. Together they throw shoe parties, w h e r e guests build shoe

Catherine Lysinger to perform and teach masterclass

Courtesy of Jo Alch

This shoe is inspired by a Mardi Gras necklace and uses the beads from it. The Muses Mardi Gras shoe is historically a satirical joke poking fun at the fact that women just like shoes.

and date was intended to revamp the Fools brand as well as strategically place it on a weekend free from the New Orleans spring festival onslaught.

“This new weekend in March gives us space to breathe before French Quarter Fest, Tulane’s Crawfest and two weekends of Jazz Fest all in April. Even if it moves up our schedule, it’s a weekend we’re all really excited for,” Siver said.

Siver and his team also teased a surprise artist that will make an appearance for this year’s Fools, an ensemble featuring several Loyola alumni set to headline on the main stage.

“Although this artist is not a current student musician or anything, I can’t wait to see how everyone will react when those posters come out.

It’s been really difficult to keep it secret so far,” Siver said.

The Loyola Symphony Orchestra is collaborating with Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band for a perfomrance Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m.

The concert will be in Roussel Performance Hall.

Tickets will be $40 for preferred seating, $25 for general admission, $10 for students and seniors, and Loyola students are able to enter the event for free.

Miss Mojo and $pare Change will be playing at Tipitina’s Uptown Bar Feb. 12.

Tickets will be $7 to $10 and is open to guests 18 and up.

Fools festival set to return, with surprise artist

By Caleb Beck

Loyola Orchestra plays with Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band

Miss Mojo and $pare Change to perform at Tipitina’s

(Left to right) Amanda Alch, theater arts senior sitting with her mother for Jo Alch, the owner of Acapella in Home Care. Amanda Alch is riding in the Muses parade with her mother for the first time in the 2017 Mardi Gras season.

It would take 20 years for Jo Alch to go back to Mardi Gras after a bad experience watching a man being pushed over in a porta-potty by 10 other men.

“It was horrible. With the door down. It traumatized me. My heart broke for the poor guy,” Jo Alch said.

Jo Alch moved to Texas, where she began raising her family and started her own business, Acapella in Home Care. The Brookhaven College nursing clinical program alum knew she wanted nothing more than to be a Muses rider.

“I mailed in when we got back to Dallas to be on the waitlist,” Jo Alch said. “There were 800 on the waitlist, but the following year they had an auction to ride on a Muses float. I wanted to win that for my birthday.”

For Jo Alch’s 50th birthday, she, her husband Matt Alch, and Aman-

The New Orleans Opera Association will perform Stephen Sondheim’s Tony award winning musical “Sweeney Todd.”

The performances are to be on Feb. 10 and 12.

It is to be held at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre.

Ticket prices for the event vary on seat preference.

Catherine Lysinger, professor of practice, piano pedagogy, and applied piano at Southern Methodist University, will be featured in a piano recital and masterclass Feb. 12.

The piano recital will be at 3 p.m. and the masterclass will be at 5 p.m. at Roussel Performance Hall.

Music students to be featured in Satchmo performance series The Satchmo Series will be featuring students from the popular and commercial music program.

The performance will take place Feb. 16 at Satchmo’s.

It is free and open to the public.

The Magnolia Reed Trio plays at Roussel The Magnolia Reed Trio, faculty ensemble from the University of Southern Mississippi, is to perform in Roussel Performance Hall.

The concert will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 16.

Nadja SalernoSonnenberg performs with Loyola Faculty

TAYLOR GALMICHE / The Maroon

Griffin Dean, guitarist of Stoop Kids, performing at Loyola’s 2016 Fools of April music festival.

The performance is to be at Nunemaker Auditorium on Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets will be $25 for adults, $10 for seniors and Loyola faculty and staff, and free for Loyola students.

EDITORIAL

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OUR EDITORIAL`

The majority opinion of our editorial board

HOWLS & GROWLS HOWL to Krewe du Vieux

GIRLS

GROWL to Betsy DeVos HOWL to victory at the Battle of Freret GROWL to tornadoes HOWL to community resilience

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End Loyola’s Mardi Gras gender rule In a few weeks, hundreds of first year students at Loyola will experience their first Mardi Gras, that wondrous time of year when the city goes into full Carnival mode and an all-too-welcome feeling for locals and returning students.

And like clockwork, it’s another year of Loyola’s outdated, pointless rule that bars students from having guests of the opposite sex stay in the dormitories during the holiday.

This is the only seven days of the year that such a rule is enforced.

Last week, students living on campus received the annual informational email from Loyola’s Office of Residential Life, detailing the application process for any off-campus guests visiting for the Mardi Gras break.

And as always, a prevailing rule is that “all guests must be of the same sex as their host.”

Why, exactly?

The blanket explanations will most likely be that Loyola is a Catho-

lic institution, and that this rule has always, and will always, just sort of be there.

But procedurally, logistically, financially, morally — basically however it’s broken down — this restriction serves no real purpose other than that “it’s just like that.”

Loyola enforces several temporary policies for Mardi Gras break, from extensive guest registration to restricting regular visiting hours.

This is for student security and for the parents’ peace of mind, so “le bon temps” can “rouler” in a safe and controlled environment.

This gender-based rule, however, — “All overnight guests must be same-gender; no opposite-gender registrations will be accepted,” on the Office of Student Affair’s “Mardi Gras Break” webpage — does not boost student safety. It jeopardizes it.

For every student who’s lived on campus and has tried to host a partner or friend of the opposite sex, this

rule has been an inconvenience at worst and a joking matter at best.

Students still find ways to have their visitors of an opposite sex in Biever, Buddig, Carrolton and Cabra residence halls. It’s not difficult, and Loyola’s Residential Life employees and students alike are aware of this.

If a student wants their girlfriend or boyfriend to stay with them for these wonderful festivities, they are going to make it happen. They are forced to go around this rule to make it happen.

Having an opposite-sex guest for Mardi Gras should not be an issue because it is not an issue. But because of this antiquated policy, students who do so are breaking the rules.

So, while The Maroon editorial board does not want to nitpick or in any way take away from this joyous time of the year, the question begs to be asked: Why not do away with this rule?

The university already charges a

$100, non-refundable fee for a week in the dorms, despite the already substantial fee to live on campus.

According to the Office of Student Affairs webpage, this helps defray the cost of the extra security on campus for the week.

That fee is doubled on the Thursday afternoon before Mardi Gras, and overnight guests can no longer be registered after noon on that Monday.

Besides fees, other rules include a temporary building ID for all overnight guests, a maximum dorm room occupancy of three people and restricting all non-registered guests’ visiting hours from 10:00 a.m. to midnight.

University Police also worked increased shifts, and will be at the front desks of residence halls late at night and in the early mornings.

These rules are security measures. A gender-based guest restriction is not.

Professor Wiseman has faith in the future, do you?

DR. CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Vice President of Institutional Advancement cwiseman @loyno.edu

”The Maroon” recently ran a front-page article on Faith in the Future, the first comprehensive fundraising campaign for Loyola University New Orleans since Bill Clinton was the U.S. president. (Yes, it’s been a while.) As Loyola’s vice president for institutional advancement, I appreciated the prominent coverage — Oscar Wilde was right when he said being talked about beats the alternative. And yet, I want to share some updated and additional information about the campaign.

I ask Maroon readers to think back: Where were you in 2011, and what have you been up to since then? I can tell you what Loyola alumni and other generous donors have been doing: they have been supporting your work during that

time with the greatest outpouring of generosity in Loyola’s history. Over the past five years, Loyola donors have committed $65.3 million in gifts and pledges to the Faith in the Future campaign, ensuring that this campaign is the most successful one in Loyola history.

For some context, please consider Loyola’s most recent campaign, Thresholds, which ended as a great success in 1999 and helped to build our wonderful J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library. With gifts coming in at almost double the pace of the earlier campaign, Faith in the Future’s private gift total thus far already exceeds Thresholds’ completed campaign total by $31 million.

Those dollars are already enhancing what we do at Loyola. Loyola’s Environment Program received a gift of $1 million to fund its ongoing work across several disciplines and departments. Many departments in the College of Arts and Sciences have new endowment income dollars they can depend on year in and year out.

Using Faith in the Future dollars, the College of Business’s Center for

Entrepreneurship and Community Development is changing the way New Orleans does business innovation. With private gift support, Loyola law students are assisting law clinic clients, training in the skills they need for future law practice and receiving financial assistance to prepare for the bar exam.

Monroe Hall’s renovated studios, classrooms and laboratories are also partly funded by Faith in the Future donors. Loyola’s star resident artist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, joined Loyola only because generous donors shared our vision. The University Sports Complex’s weight room is being renovated, and our new First NBC Court will begin taking shape this summer — thanks to gifts from donors.

Hundreds of students on campus enjoy scholarships funded by private donors, making their current lives less stressful and their future lives less burdened by debt. The campaign’s stated goal for scholarship gifts was $20 million; we will pass that goal in the coming days, long before the end of the campaign.

We continue to receive new cam-

paign gifts — most notably, two recent $1 million gifts to the Tom Benson Jesuit Center, as well as another $1 million gift for the new Pan-American Life Student Success Center.

On many days, I am encouraged most of all, not by the impact of donor gifts, but by this: almost 300 volunteers are working weekly to seek new gifts and help us exceed the $100 million goal. On Loyola’s Board of Trustees, visiting committees, alumni boards and campaign committees, people who care about Loyola are doing the challenging, and sometimes uncomfortable, work of finding new friends to support Loyola’s mission and soliciting gifts for Faith in the Future.

In the end, I hope you can remember all this on a difficult night in the library or the lab, on the court, in the studio or in front of a computer. Loyola volunteers, alumni, family and friends strive every day to support what you do through the Faith in the Future campaign. And through your successes on campus and out in the community, you give us all true faith in the future.

OPINION

February 10, 2017 The Maroon

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Protesting is our civic duty Michael Doyle Community Organizer, Class of 2016 michael.doyle421 @gmail.com

As citizens living in this country, we ascribe to a social contract, taking on not only all of its benefits but its responsibilities, as well.

I love this country to the deepest core of my being. That being said, it is the ultimate responsibility regarding citizenship that we hold our government accountable. We have a responsibility, bestowed onto us by our Founding Fathers, to use the tools they gave us to maintain a government for and by the people.

This fundamental idea can be traced back to Plato, who said that “one of the best penalties for refusing to participate in politics is to be governed by one’s inferiors.”

Never has it been more imperative to the state of our union that we heed this advice. We must stand —black, white, liberal, conservative­ — as Americans. We are citizens of these United States, who must recognize our history and the importance of intersectionality while loving this country and its unparalleled potential.

It would be treasonous to disrespect the wisdom imparted during the farewell address of George Washington, who knew that “...interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.”

To quote him once more, “...it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate that the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness,

Richard Fast Founder of Loyola Libertarians, Economics senior rfast@loyno.edu

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Members of the FightForFifteen activist group march to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. Many of the Founding Fathers of the United States wrote extensively about the need for a politically engaged populace.

that you should cherish cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it.”

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to vote. It is our duty to protest and contact our representatives and through all of this, we must realize that a government by the people and for the people requires that people show up.

We must each see our individual responsibility in making change.

It may be time to choose resistance over perceived responsibility, to stand up against the status quo.

There is nothing more worthwhile than fighting for liberty and the rights that follow.

Our country began with a group of people standing against those who would impose tyranny on them, and now we must make our voices heard. Make our voices heard.

The power of the government resides in its people, and it is our constitutional duty to never forget this.

What we have here is an opportunity. An opportunity to show the world that we are not complacent, that action will follow outcry, which we are the pillar of freedom we claim to be, that we stand proud with open arms, ready to overcome any differences to protect the fabric of this nation.

We stand in the proudest defiance

and the utmost solidarity against those enemies that would chop at the pillar of freedom that our country has always been and meant to be. We can be better. We can do this.

Every lesson I have learned from my Christian upbringing, my love for reading and my exquisite public and Jesuit education — all delivered to me by the strong-willed, hard-working, excellent examples of humanity I had as parents — has led me to an important conclusion: if we do not come together, we will all fall.

With all the sincerity one mortal man can summon, I believe in us.

Disagreements should be civil but robust As a university — indeed as a Catholic, Jesuit university founded on humanist principles — Loyola University New Orleans has a responsibility to explore complicated social issues and dialogue with the culture in which it exists. This dialogue can sometimes be uncomfortable. And yet, we engage in such discussions with confidence in our community and the university’s Jesuit and Catholic mission.

At Loyola University New Orleans, we provide an outstanding academic education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences. We aim to provide our students with a strong moral and ethical framework with an emphasis on Catholic social teaching. We also help them to advance their critical thinking skills so that they approach issues of the day with discernment. In the classroom, in the residence halls, in student activities and in athletic efforts, we foster an environment of care and respect for others.

This is also true when it comes to artistic endeavors. For thousands of years, arts and literature have explored issues of the day and examined the human condition, exploring societal values and drawing

Ditch the two major parties — register Libertarian

special attention to human suffering. Performances of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ are not new to university settings; in fact, there were nine such performances at Catholic universities in 2016. While the performances held at Loyola University New Orleans are not part of our university’s theater program, they are produced, directed and performed by a group consisting entirely of Loyola students and held in the Women’s Resource Center.

The Women’s Resource Center at Loyola University New Orleans strives to create a supportive and inclusive campus environment through programming, services and advocacy. It is the intention of the Loyola students who are performing in this production to shed light on the important issue of violence against women and to foster dialogue regarding women’s issues.

Last week, when I became aware that proceeds from this year’s production of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ were to be donated to Planned Parenthood, I approached the Women’s Resource Center adviser and requested that the group consider redirecting these funds to a different charity — one that provides the

women’s health services they seek to support and does so in a way that is consistent with the university’s mission and Catholic beliefs in the sanctity of life.

I recognized that this request would undoubtedly create some debate — as dialogue over important issues that we all face as faith-filled human beings is rarely ever easy.

However, any social media attacks in regards to this issue by student groups, supporters and others must be addressed and immediately discontinued. At Loyola University New Orleans, we encourage our students to raise important questions about difficult issues within the context of our Catholic, Jesuit values. This performance of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ is not meant to be a celebration of its content but rather a starting point in the discussion of serious issues facing women and larger issues of morality.

In today’s internet culture, it is easy to engage with others and the world while forgetting the real human beings affected by our statements. We all face a constant risk of cyber-bullying. We must, as a community, demonstrate mutual respect for disparate beliefs and

ideas. We must work hard to foster tolerance, create understanding and maintain good relationships and respectful communication. I am asking that the leaders of both student groups and their advisers meet to discuss and create some rules of engagement regarding how to interact when confronted with such issues going forward. We trust in the maturity, knowledge and good faith of our faculty, staff and students to engage in this discussion.

A quotation from the John Paul II document on Catholic universities, “Ex Corde Ecclesia,” serves to remind us of the need for mutual respect and conversation when confronting our differences: “A Catholic University pursues its objectives through its formation of an authentic human community animated by the spirit of Christ. …

As a result of this inspiration, the community is animated by a spirit of freedom and charity; it is characterized by mutual respect, sincere dialogue and protection of the rights of individuals.” [“Ex Corde Ecclesia 2:21” / August 15, 1990]

The Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J. University President

Back in October, I wrote an editorial urging the Loyola community to check out Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson. The successful entrepreneur turned twoterm governor of New Mexico garnered nearly 10 percent of the vote in his home state and 3.3 percent nationally, the most a third party presidential candidate has received since independent Ross Perot 20 years earlier.

OK, Johnson still didn’t win and never had a chance—what’s your point, Ricardo?

I’m so glad you asked.

In 2008, the Libertarian candidate got 523,715 votes or 0.40 percent of the popular vote. In 2012, Gary Johnson’s first run for the presidency saw 1,275,971 votes or one percent of the popular vote. And this past election cycle, 4,488,931 American voters thought a Libertarian was a better choice than the Democrat under F.B.I. investigation and the Republican who was a reality TV star Cheeto.

One of the main reasons Johnson didn’t have a fair chance was because he, along with Green Party candidate Jill Stein, was excluded from the nationally televised presidential debates. The official reason is that he and Stein didn’t have the polling numbers to be admitted.

But the bar gets raised higher and higher. Third party candidates are virtually always excluded.

The debate commission calls itself non-partisan and yet the way it operates benefits the two major parties to the detriment of the American people who deserve to hear another voice—one that might actually reflect what they think and feel.

Many voters are afraid to vote for a third party candidate because of what’s called “the spoiler effect.” They fear that by voting for a less popular candidate who actually represents a majority of their views, they are taking away votes from a more popular candidate who doesn’t represent a lot of what they want but is better than another major party candidate who is the polar opposite.

Ralph Nader, who ran as a Green in 2000, is often criticized as stealing the election from Al Gore and enabling George H.W. Bush to win, despite evidence to the contrary.

The takeaway message: research the philosophy of libertarianism, see if you agree and when you’re ready to fight the two-party system and promote policies of freedom, register to vote as a Libertarian.

Our national platform states that Libertarians stand for the political freedom of everyone, including our ideological opponents.

For more information, visit the College Libertarians at Loyola University New Orleans Facebook page.

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