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Loyola University • New Orleans • Volume 96 • Issue 17 • March 2, 2018

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Loyola put students on administrative withdrawal after many of them left their tuition bills

By Katelyn Fecteau kifectea@my.loyno.edu The university began enforcing a financial policy for students with unpaid tuition balances in January by adding over 100 students to an "administrative withdrawal" list and deactivating campuswide IDs These enforcements were taken to counter the university’s deficit and continue operations such as financial aid, according to Laura Frerichs, vice president of marketing and communications.

Student Financial Services began enforcing this tuition responsibility policy in the fall of 2017. First and second-year students without a payment plan were unable to check in to their residence halls or obtain their room keys. However, those who defaulted on their plans in January were placed on an administrative withdrawal list that included restricted access to their campuswide IDs until a payment plan was reached with Student Financial Services.

Frerichs emphasized the effort that Student Financial Services took to contact and work with students with outstanding balances.

“Nobody likes to do this —at all.

Extraordinary efforts are made to make payment plans between parents and students, but when we have exhausted those attempts—six to 12 emails or phone calls on average—measures have to be taken,” Frerichs said.

Despite emails that warned the balance “must be paid in full,” Frerichs said that Student Financial Services was intent on finding a plan that worked with the students and their families rather than the immediate full balance.

“This is all a means to an end to

create conversation,” Frerichs said.

“When people have defaulted, or are ducking calls, we have no other resource than to force some kind of engagement.”

For students who had unpaid balances after Jan. 7, their campuswide IDs were deactivated during this time and unable to be used for dining or entering any residential halls.

These students were notified of this in emails sent on Dec. 29 and Jan. 5

by Amy Boyle, director of Residential Life regarding the possible eviction.

"In order to return to the residence halls, you need to pay your balance to Student Finance before your returned date on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018. Until your account is cleared, your card building access and meal plan will be disabled," Boyle said in the email. The email encouraged students to reach out to the Financial Resource Center.

According to Boyle, phone calls were made to select students or their parents starting Jan. 5, followed by hard-copy letters delivered to those who remained on the list on Jan. 8. A later Residential Life email to those on the administrative withdrawal list warned, “if you are currently living in a Residence Hall, please make arrangements to move out by the end of business on Friday, Jan. 26.”

“It’s unfortunate,” said Frerichs, “but keep in mind your Wolf Bucks or ID swiping are the same as not having funds on a debit card or maxing out your credit card. If the funds are not there, they don't work.

It’s unfortunate, and it’s challenging.

We’re willing to work with you and your parents to figure out a payment plan."

Frerichs said that the students whose IDs were deactivated still had access to their dorm rooms.

"They weren’t locked out of their rooms. Their room keys still worked," Frerichs said.

According to Frerichs, over 100 students with outstanding tuition balances were initially contacted, which narrowed to 41 students on the final administrative withdrawal list. One student was administratively withdrawn by the end of the warning period on Jan. 26 due to an outstanding tuition balance. They were evicted from the residence halls and not allowed to attend class.

Some students were upset at the seemingly abrupt nature of the emails and the strict ramifications involved, especially since this enforcement is new to the 2017-2018 school year—even if the policy is not.

“We can do better in terms of communication, and we will do better so that students and parents’ expectations can be managed. We recognize these issues are highly personal and quite sensitive, and we try to be respectful of that. We want to avoid this as much as possible. We don’t want your student experience to be jeopardized," Frerichs said.

The initiative was driven in part

by Project Magis, a universitywide plan that focuses on issues such as student retention and cost management.

“We are absolutely liable to deliver a balance to the Board of Trustees,” Frerichs said, which is something that Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs David Borofsky acknowledged.

"I think in some ways we have some policies at the university that we have kind of slipped back under the carpet and forgotten about. We

have n o t been as good at administering them," Borofsky said. "I think what's happened is that Project Magis has brought to the forefront that we have a few policies that we need to be more consistent about administering."

He also added that Carrie Glass, director of financial services, had trouble implementing the policy in the past.

"She has not had support when she has said to students, 'I'm sorry, you either have to pay or we have to administratively withdraw you.'

She has been overruled. And what I said to her last summer was, 'That won't happen while I'm here, because we have a policy and we have to administer it fairly—with empathy—but fairly'," Borofsky said.

Borofsky also added that the university is working towards a steadier enforcement of university policies.

"We have to manage our university both from a finance perspective and from a consistency perspective better than we have been," he said.

For the over 100 students on the preliminary administrative withdrawal list, all but one have reactivated IDs and financial plans in place for the spring 2018 semester.

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news Bateman competition team goes for the gold March 2, 2018 The Maroon

By Madison McLoughlin mmmcloug@my.loyno.edu

Loyola’s Bateman competition team is encouraging the Loyola community to Geaux for Gold and support their With Purpose campaign, emphasizing childhood cancer awareness.

The Bateman Case Study Competition is Public Relations Student Society of America’s premier national case study competition for public relation students, where a team of five develops a full-scale campaign for a different client each year.

Loyola’s Bateman team is competing against other Bateman teams in the national competition by designing and running a campaign for With Purpose, a non-profit attempting to improve healthcare conditions for children diagnosed with cancer through community involvement and treatment advancements.

The Bateman’s team goal is to increase awareness of the problems with the treatment of childhood cancer in the United States, while also giving the members of the team experience that will benefit them in the future, according to Camille Didelot, mass communication senior and member of the Bateman team.

“The significance of it is that it allows students to give a voice to those children going through cancer treatments and advocate for better conditions for them,” Didelot said.

The team is petitioning to the New Orleans City Council to declare March 14 a day dedicated to helping children diagnosed with cancer and bringing awareness to the issue, which will be known as A Day With Purpose.

“While we are doing this through Bateman, this competition has nothing to do with us. It’s about With Purpose, and it’s about making a difference for these children, and we are all dedicated to the cause,” Didelot said. “It’s not just business; it’s personal. When you are diagnosed with childhood cancer, the odds are against you.”

Childhood cancer affects many individual children and their families. Graphic design junior Ariel Landry was diagnosed with stage II Hodgkin’s lymphoma when she was

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No more wasting food in the Orleans Room. Sodexo workers and Loyola student volunteers will be repackaging and shipping leftovers to the homeless.

Loyola has partnered up with Sodexo and initiated a food recovery program to stop the food waste in the Orleans Room.

“It’s largely been a Loyola initiative,” sociology sophomore Sasha Solano-Mcdaniel said. “The students here have seen the amount of food waste that goes on within the OR and we want to address that.

We kind of went to Sodexo and said ‘Hey, would you guys be willing to help us out with this?’ And they agreed to be our partners.”

Around 30 to 40 percent of the United States food supply goes

Loyola offers awards for student research

By Rose Wagner rmwagner@my.loyno.edu @rosemwagner

Avery Bell, music education senior, left, and Bryan Maassen, music composition junior, lead a second line during the opening ceremony of the Bateman team’s Geaux for the Gold With Purpose campaign Feb. 22, 2018, in the Peace Quad. The Geaux for Gold With Purpose campaign aims to create an official day for the fight against childhood cancer. JULES LYDON/Courtesy.

nine. Like most children diagnosed with cancer, adjusting was difficult for Landry because she felt extremely isolated - not many people knew how to react to her diagnosis, or how they could help her.

“I think the petition for A Day With Purpose is really great. There are days and months set aside for cancer awareness that tends to affect adults more often,” said Landry.

“It would be nice to have a day specifically focused on childhood cancer.”

Tala Maalouli, biology and computer information system senior, was diagnosed with a juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma brain tumor when she was six.

“I have always lived by the motto ‘never give up,’” Maalouli said. “It is

important to never give up fighting cancer because we need to bring more awareness into the world to childhood cancer to promote more research studies, which will ultimately result in cures to cancer.”

Both Maalouli and Landry are hopeful and excited about the campaign.

“An organization like With Purpose could educate the community.

People could learn that children do get cancer and how they can best support those kids,” Landry said.

The team’s campaign will run from the middle of February to the middle of March. To support the Bateman team and With Purpose, the petition for A Day With Purpose can be signed at goo.gl/YxBKPN.

Camille Didelot, Bateman team member, left, smiles at Hank, the Instagram personality, during the opening ceremony of the Bateman team’s Geaux for the Gold With Purpose campaign Feb. 22, 2018, in the Peace Quad. JULES LYDON/ Courtesy.

The OR plans to donates leftover food to the homeless

By Payton Whittaker

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to waste, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

“That is such a huge environmental impact,” food studies sophomore Julia Gollobit said.

Tulane University has the same food recovery program and has also partnered with Sodexo to repackage food and send it to homeless shelters.

“It’s something that a lot of college campuses have done,” Solano-Mcdaniel said. “Seeing how widespread this is made me think, ‘Why isn’t Loyola doing this?’”

Sodexo is a large food provider that provides food for college campuses, prisons and hospitals.

“There’s a national organization called the Food Recovery Network which is for college campuses,” Gollobit said. “Our chapter would start with Sodexo.”

Students and faculty are trying to start this program at Loyola which

would consist of a group of volunteers coming together to weigh and package the food to be picked up by the people from the homeless shelters. The volunteers would meet a few times a week in the evenings after the OR has finished serving dinner.

“It’s a nationwide initiative, so a lot of campus dining halls are partnering up with their students to effectively package the food that would normally be wasted and donate that to local food shelters,” Solano-Mcdaniel said.

This program will give students the opportunity to work on sustainability issues in the dining hall at Loyola. Solano-Mcdaniel said she is excited for the program because it is an easy way to find a productive and effective purpose for the leftover food from the OR that would normally be thrown away.

“I’m just really looking forward

to finding an effective use for this food,” Solano-Mcdaniel said. “I know there’s a lot of need for (this food). Just being able to provide for that need and reduce the food waste is better than throwing it away.”

Gollobit agrees that the program will address sustainability issues and is excited to see the impact the program will have on the New Orleans community.

“By seeing all this food that would have just been thrown away, I hope it would make it a more sustainable dining program in general. It’s a great way to help feed people and it addresses so many important issues,” Gollobit said.

The food recycling program is still seeking out volunteers. If anybody is interested in helping out, they should email Edward Wroten at edward.wroten@sodexo.com for further information.

Monroe Library has opened applications for its annual competition, which encourages students to participate in research projects that utilize library resources.

The Monroe Library Student Research Competition is offering students a prize of $200 for research projects in each of the following categories: freshman/sophomore research, junior/senior research, senior capstone/thesis project and graduate research.

“We started the competition to honor both our students’ innovative research processes and their engagement with library resources. By doing so, we hope to highlight how research is as much about process and interactions as it is about the final product that distills all the prior work,” Jason Ezell, instruction and research coordinator for Monroe Library, said.

Applications for the competitions must include an explanation of the project, an explanation of how the project used library resources, the project itself and a properly formatted bibliography.

In order to be eligible for the competition, students must be enrolled at Loyola, have completed the project for a credit course at Loyola during the current academic year and agree to be publicly associated with the award.

“We encourage research projects in traditional formats like essays, but we also welcome creative or innovative research work in any format or discipline. Last year, for example, our winners included a podcast series and annotated visual art,” Ezell said.

The competition also encourages the submission of collaborative and group projects. The main goal of the competition is to emphasize the collaboration between students, professors and library resources that goes into the creation of research projects, according to Ezell.

“Monroe Library faculty and staff work with students on a regular basis to complete their research goals.

As a result, we see the creative, intellectual processes that go into your final projects. We also see how you work with our library resources -whether that be our collections or people,” Ezell said. “One of the main goals of the competition is to shine a light on how research is integral to most of the ways we produce and communicate knowledge.”

Each project will be scored by a panel of Monroe Library faculty on the project’s use of library resources, the creator’s ability to use researched information in the project, evidence of reflection throughout the research process and whether the project’s level of achievement corresponds to the creator’s class year, according to the Monroe Library website.

Last year’s research competition winners included graduate student Kathryn Domyan, English writing Molly Mulroy, Asian studies Adam Stagg, English Marley Duet and English Elizabeth Barbour.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, April 16.

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House Republican leader Lance Harris, center, speaks with Rep. Mark Abraham, R-Lake Charles, left, and Patrick Goldsmith, director of the House Fiscal Division, on the House floor on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte).

By Rich Simmerman & Associated Press rwsimmer@my.loyno.edu @rwsimmermanla

With the financial future of Louisiana in question due to the expiration of massive tax credits, Louisiana legislators have been called to work early, discussing ways, at a special session over the past week, to rapidly fix the state’s most press-

ing problems.

In the opening of the session, a Republican tax plan introduced by state Rep. Stephen Dwight, a Republican from St. Charles Parish, took the ears of the members, as supporters advocated for its fast consideration.

The bill was pre-filed on Feb. 16, with the hopes that lawmakers would consider it early on. However, it wasn’t until Feb. 25 that the

House Ways and Means Committee deemed it vital to give to the full House of Representatives for consideration. After passing to its third reading on Feb. 27, Dwight’s bill has been set for floor debate on Feb. 28.

But the question that remains is why the process has been so slow and the special session so quiet.

In an effort to close a $1 billion budget gap and for the state to not have to consider reductions to state

services, Republican House Speaker Taylor Barras issued strict ultimatums to Gov. John Bel Edwards and Democratic lawmakers before the session began, demanding that the packages of items labeled “budget reforms” would have to be passed in exchange for tax votes to be garnered.

Considering the fact that both chambers of the state legislature are heavily controlled by Republicans, it would seem as if the GOP’s demands will almost certainly get met in the end.

The first of the fall-throughs began with Medicaid. Efforts to require cost-sharing among some patients have been shelved after backlash from both Democrats and some members of the GOP. Gov. Edwards still supports the efforts, but key Democrats, such as Rep. Helena Moreno from New Orleans, have not shown enough support in this session to keep it alive today.

Aside from Medicaid, reworking Louisiana’s annual cap (which would require a constitutional change) has also caused controversy, once again bringing concerns from both parties. The demands

by Republicans have not been able to hold fully firm, considering the amount of backlash on proposals such as those mentioned above from members of their own party.

The special session has brought about discussions about healthcare, budget amendments and transparency, but education has been off the radar. The future of the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students, known as TOPS, is a major concern, and will likely be a top point of work for the legislature when the 2018 scheduled session begins in the coming weeks.

A lack of bipartisan negotiation and little actual legislation has defined this session so far. With the state facing these drastic financial issues, the legislature has until March 7, when the special session ends, to agree on budgetary reform.

New Orleans adds crime cameras to keep an eye on the city

By Anna Knapp acknapp@my.loyno.edu

Flashing blue and red crime cameras have recently popped up on various corners of New Orleans streets.

The city is in the process of installing 250 of these cameras, adding to the already thousands of cameras across the city. The cameras tie to the police’s real-time monitoring system.

Madeline Reed, Crêpes à La Cart worker, walks home from work everyday. With a closing time past midnight, safety is her main concern.

Reed said that she has taken precautionary measures when commuting.

“I would carry a knife with me just in case something happened so now I feel a little more guarded,” Reed said.

However, Ronal Serpas, professor of criminology and justice, says that research indicates that cameras do not stop all crimes.

“Violent crime is usually a very personal event that is driven by emotion and heat of the moment and the cameras just really don’t have any impact on that at all,” he said.

Serpas said that the cameras can impact some low-level drug dealing and quality-of-life crimes as well as auto-theft.

Resident Zoey Cebulash is someone who benefits from the installation.

“The camera is directly on my house, which definitely makes me feel safer that there’s a safety net just in case something did happen,” said Cebulash.

The New Orleans City Council has delayed voting on the security plan ordinance. It includes an ordinance that would require business owners who sell alcohol to install a camera outside their business.

These cameras would link into the police monitoring systems.

The security cameras are estimated to cost the city $8.5 million as apart of their $40 million security plan to deter crime.

A crime camera flashes at the corner of Broadway and Freret on Feb. 27, 2018. An estimated 250 new cameras will be installed in the city this year. ANNA KNAPP/The Maroon.

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Judge orders halting of Louisiana pipeline construction

By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge who halted construction of a crude oil pipeline through a Louisiana swamp concluded that the project’s irreversible environmental damage outweighs the economic harm that a delay brings to the company building it.

U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick issued a 61-page ruling Tuesday to explain her decision last week to stop construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline in environmentally fragile Atchafalaya Basin.

The judge said the project potentially threatens the hydrology of the basin and “poses the threat of destruction of already diminishing wetlands.” She also agreed with environmental groups that centuries-old “legacy” trees can’t be replaced once they’re cut down.

Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC on Monday asked Dick to suspend her order while it appeals, but the judge refused. The company is asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review Dick’s decision.

Dick clarified that the preliminary injunction she issued last Friday only applies to the basin. The order doesn’t prevent the company from working elsewhere along the pipeline’s 162-mile-long (261-kilometer) path from Lake Charles to St. James Parish.

Sierra Club and other environmental groups sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last month, saying it violated the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws when it approved a permit for the project.

If Dick’s order stands, all construction work in the basin must stop until the lawsuit is resolved.

The company said the construction halt could cost it close to $1 million a day or $25 million a month, forcing contractors to lay off or furlough workers and hurting the local economy. But the judge said the company’s estimated losses aren’t supported by the “underlying data.”

“The Court finds the temporary delay in reaping economic benefits does not outweigh the permanent harm to the environment that has been established as a result of the pipeline construction,” she wrote.

Company spokeswoman Alexis Daniel said in statement Wednesday that Bayou Bridge Pipeline “respectfully disagrees” with the judge’s ruling that the Corps did not properly consider the “limited impacts” of construction in the basin.

Construction in the basin began last month. The basin is the nation’s largest river swamp and includes roughly 880,000 acres (356,000 hectares) of forested wetlands, according to the groups’ lawsuit.

The Bayou Bridge pipeline is the last link in a pipeline network connecting the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota with Louisiana refineries and export terminals. The 24-inch-wide (60-centimeter-wide) pipeline in south Louisiana is designed to have a maximum capacity of 480,000 barrels, or roughly 20 million gallons (75 million liters), of crude a day.

Earthjustice attorneys filed the suit on behalf of Sierra Club, Waterkeeper Alliance, Gulf Restoration Network, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper and the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West.

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Film • Arts • Food • Music • Leisure • Nightlife

Student work featured in showcase

By Calvin Ramsay cbramsay@my.loyno.edu

Loyola provides many opportunities for students interested in art to grow and showcase their work. Last week, the Scully scholarship and Grote award art show opened up for the public to view.

On Feb. 22, Loyola art students Patrick Burtchaell, Mercedes Alvarez and Zoё Blair-Schlagenhauf showcased their art in the show.

The art show featured creative visual arts such as sculptures, sketches and even mathematically formulated art.

Blair-Schlagenhauf, a visual artssenior at Loyola, worked with casted sculptures for the Grote Award, a medium she was not familiar with.

“Primarily I’m an illustrator and book binder,” Blair-Schlagenhauf said.

Named after Mark Grote, a retired Loyola professor, this is its sixth year of being a Loyola art award.

Any art form is considered for the award, ranging from painting to sculpture and pottery. Students who are chosen for the award win $1000 to produce their art for the show.

“It’s a really great opportunity because you’re forced to learn how to write a proposal like you would have to in the real world when applying for residency, funding, or grants,” Blair-Schlagenhauf said.

Because of her education at Loyola, Blair-Schlagenhauf considers herself to be a “jack of all trades.”

“A lot of undergrad programs will make you pick a medium to work with after your first year or first semester. Loyola doesn’t do that. Eventually most people end up picking a

By Emma Gilheany eagilhea@my.loyno.edu

Patrons mill and examine art pieces during the Scully Scholarship & Grote Award Show in the Danna Center Feb. 22, 2018. Every year, three students from the Art and Design Departments are selected to exhibit their work in the show. JACOB SCHMITT/THE MAROON.

focus, but you’re not forced to pick a focus. That’s something that I’ve really enjoyed because I work in so many mediums,” Blair-Schlagenhauf said.

After her graduation, she plans to move out to Omaha, Nebraska where she will meet up with a friend she works with for her literary magazine, “Tenderness, yea”, which focuses on poetry and books.

Once in Omaha, Blair-Schlagenhauf and her friend have plans to host their own literary festival where people can come to learn about book binding, designing their own books and even self-publishing them.

“I want to create a nationally-based writing collective where we self-publish all our own books.

I self-published my first book last

year and it was a good experience to not have to work with a publishing house that didn’t necessarily have my best interest,” Blair-Schlagenhauf said.

Art pieces for the Scully scholarship and Grote award will continue to be on display until March 22 in the Danna Center art gallery.

Pop-up restaurant serves messages about wealth inequality

By Sidney Holmes sidneyholmes11@gmai.com @sidneymajee

Writer and chef Tunde Wey wants you to imagine if the price of your food depended on your income.

That’s what inspired him to open a pop-up restaurant called Saartj, which sells box lunches for $12 to people of color and suggests that those identifying as white pay $30 for the same food.

Wey said the restaurant, which opened Feb. 6 and will close on Sunday, March 4, should serve as a social experiment.

The price difference between what white people and people of color pay comes from the income disparity between those groups in New Orleans. The median income for a black family is about $25,000, and the median income for a white family is about $64,000 — about two-and-a half-times more, according to Wey. “My work is around food and social politics. I’m using food as this public intervention and as platform to discuss certain things that aren’t usually talked about,” Wey said.

He added that the difference between the regular price and the suggested price would be redistributed to the people of color who purchased food from the pop-up.

Wey said that the experiment is aiming to do two things: raise awareness of the culpability of individuals and begin a conversation

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about resource redistribution as a solution to wealth disparity.

“The power to ameliorate racial wealth disparity exists in the person and through the choices that we make,” he said.

Wey was able to start the restaurant with the help of the Loyola food studies program and Propeller, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs with projects dealing with social and environmental disparities.

Danny Mintz, director of the food studies program, said that he knew of Wey through his previous food-related social events. Wey consulted with Mintz on the pop-up project to get more ideas.

“One of the things that I think is so interesting about this project in particular is that it uses something that people do every day, which is getting lunch, as a way to raise conversations about issues that people spend a lot of their time avoiding,” Mintz said.

Students from both Loyola and Tulane volunteered and conducted interviews.

Tulane graduate student and Propellor intern Anjali Prasertong is working as the lead data researcher for Saartj. Prasertong and Wey worked together to create a survey and a questionnaire for participants.

Wey said the survey is used to collect information about demographics. The survey is followed by a 10-minute interview.

“For the interview questions, we just wanted to dig a little bit deep-

Writer and chef Tunde Wey explains his experimental pop-up restaurant to customer Jonie Bretin on Feb. 23, 2018. Saartj is a restaurant that teaches people about wealth disparity through the price of meals. SIDNEY HOLMES/THE MAROON

er into people’s decisions and also maybe kind of spark some thoughts in their own minds about how the racial wealth disparity helps them or harms them in their own lives,” Prasertong said.

According to Prasertong, 78 percent of white people chose to pay the $30, and 81 percent of people of color chose not to get money back.

Participant Jonie Bertin, who identifies as white, said that she chose to pay $30 for her meal, because of the money that would go back to people who need it.

“Hearing about that much disparity and that much price difference, it makes that $17 sound so in-

significant,” she said. “It sounds like something right to do, like something fair.”

Mintz said that he was surprised by the large number of white people who chose to pay the higher price knowing that more than half of the money would go to someone else.

Mintz said that is why the restaurant was successful in conveying Wey’s message in an understandable way.

“It takes something that often we think as a potentially painful experience that is redistributing wealth, and it reframes it more clearly as a virtuous response to social inequity,” Mintz said.

Students interested in marketing and advertising have an opportunity to engage in real-world creative planning and management with the Loyola Ad Team.

Sponsored by the American Advertising Federation, the Ad Team competes every spring in the National Student Advertising Competition.

“Ad Team is probably the best thing to happen to me in mass comm,” said mass communication junior Kathryn Kimery, account executive of Loyola’s Ad Team.

Ad Team has around 17 to 18 student members, and it is mostly student-run with the guidance of faculty advisors Michelle Clarke Payne and Edward Schneider.

“Everything we create, produce and research is based off of students’ efforts,” Kimery said.

Each year the team is given a client by the American Advertising Federation. They create a marketing campaign plan for the client centered around a specific given objective. Past clients include Toyota, Visa and Pizza Hut among others.

They then present their campaign at a regional competition. This year, the team will be going to Jackson, Mississippi in April to compete.

The Ad Team’s client this year is Ocean Spray, and the goal is to market Ocean Spray’s products to millennials.

“We build the campaign around those objectives,” Kimery said.

The first semester of the year, the Ad Team researches their client.

“We do everything we can to get enough information to make a fully informed creative decision,” said Kimery.

This semester, they will make a plans book which will include their plan for the entire campaign. They also put together a 20-minute presentation. The campaign will be presented at the competition and the judges will decide the winner by considering both their plans book and presentation.

Last year, the Ad Team won second place in the regional competition for their campaign for Tai Pei Frozen Foods.

“This year we are hoping to win.

I think everything is going pretty well,” Kimery said.

Though the Ad Team consists of mostly mass communication students, it is open to all majors.

“It’s not just open to advertising majors because there’s so much you can do,” said mass communication sophomore Ryan Satre, who is a second-year Ad Team member.

“It’s crazy how much I learned,” Satre said.

To join the Ad Team, potential members must submit a resume and cover letter. They must also be interviewed by the team.

The Ad Team meets three or four times a week. However, being on the Ad Team counts as a three-credit class and, for juniors and seniors, it can count as a capstone class according to Satre.

“It’s really a comprehensive learning experience because it’s not just about facts. It’s about personal and professional growth,” Kimery said.

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Twin brothers help golf team to best season yet

By Brian Wollitz & Seán Brennan bawollit@my.loyno.edu, shbrenna@my.loyno.edu

@brian_wollitz, @SheaunBrennan

Philip and Mark Nijoka came to Loyola from St. John’s XXIII College Prep in Houston three years ago wanting two things: to attend college together and to push each other on the golf course.

Since then — after dozens of tournaments, an unexpected coaching switch and countless hours spent at the links — the twins and their team have gone from being ranked 140 in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics rankings to within the top 30 this season.

Business junior Philip and finance junior Mark are prepared to bring the heat during the spring season and fulfill their competitive nature.

“We’re hungry. We’re looking to perform better. We’re looking to get another win — that’s the next thing on the belt. We’re trying to get that national ranking up and perform better in tournaments,” Philip said.

“When we get to tournaments we want other teams to say — ‘Oh God, Loyola’s here. We better step it up this week.’”

Philip has become a leader for his team and the golf program as a whole.

At the SCAD-Atlanta Fall Invitational in September, Philip Nijoka broke three program records in just two days, topping the final individu-

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al leader board.

After shooting a program-best 135 (-7), he became the first medalist in Loyola men’s golf history.

He also beat the previous program record that he set for lowest round score by four strokes in the process.

As a result of his early season play, Philip was recognized as the Southern States Athletic Conference Golfer of the Month in September.

Next, he helped the Wolf Pack win their first tournament as a program at the 2017 Red Hawk Fall Classic in October, finishing 141 (-3) and claiming first place individually and his second medal of the season.

Philip’s standout performance has been at the center of Loyola’s 2017 year — the best to date. From pre-season goal setting to execution on the green, no one can appreciate his play like his brother.

“Having a family member, nonetheless a twin, to say, ‘Alright, I don’t care how I play versus all these other guys,’ –– especially with him beating my butt around –– it’s like ‘Okay, I want to beat him.’ So he’s been helping me out ever since high school,” Mark said.

The brothers are focused in their sport, always trying to beat their opponents, but their favorite form of competition is trying to get ahead of one another.

“Philip’s been kicking my butt since the day we got out,” Mark, the elder by only two minutes, said . “It’s always a rivalry, especially with the

Baseball earns second series sweep in a row

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

Philip Nijoka, business junior and Mark Nijoka, finance junior, are responsible for most of the 2017 season wins. The twins look to build off of their historic success and pave the way for future Loyola golfers. CRISTIAN ORELLANA/The Maroon.

team. Mainly between he and I, it’s like, ‘How good can I be?’”

The brothers love competing against each other just as much as their rivals.

“It’s constant trash talk,” Philip

said.

“It’s brotherly love,” Mark said.

Despite being so close to one another, the twins adopt different ideologies on the golf course.

“You know, I like to laugh. I like

The Loyola baseball team secured their second consecutive series sweep with their dominant showing at home versus Dallas Christian College.

The team faced off on Friday and Saturday, playing two games each day.

Friday featured 0-2 and 2-4 victories, with Game 1 featuring a one-hit complete game shutout by marketing senior Joseph Kuchler. His efforts kept the Crusaders scoreless and won him the Southern States Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week award, On Saturday, the Wolf Pack had a season-high in runs with their 2-24 win in Game 1 and finished off Dallas Christian with a 3-6 victory.

Their series sweep comes off of their previous sweep versus the College of Saint Joseph and marks the third time this season the Wolf Pack has left an opponent winless.

The Wolf Pack now holds an 11-4 overall record and a 10-3 record when playing at home.

Up next, Loyola will take on rival Martin Methodist in a double-header at home on March 3.

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Di’Mond Jackson shines on the basketball team

By Ryan Micklin rwmickli@my.loyno.edu @RyanMicklin61

For Di’Mond Jackson, college basketball has thrown its fair share of obstacles her way. However, her resilience has driven her to success as a leader for the Wolf Pack team.

The biology senior played ball in a couple of places before being a part of the Wolf Pack.

Jackson graduated from University Lab High School in Baton Rouge and left her home state when she committed to play basketball at Arkansas Little Rock University in 2014.

Jackson’s time playing on the D-1 level came to a halt after she suffered an ACL injury midway through her sophomore season.

Jackson decided to transfer after her injury, paving a path for her to reunite with a familiar face, Loyola’s women’s basketball head coach, Kellie Kennedy.

“Coach Kennedy had recruited me when I was in high school,” Jackson said.

Having that familiarity with Kennedy was a draw for Jackson, but the success that Loyola’s basketball program is known for sealed the deal.

“It helped knowing that Loyola’s a championship program,” Jackson said. “My decision was based on ‘I want to go somewhere and help a team that wins’. I just wanted to actually be someone that’s valued and Loyola provided me that opportunity.”

Jackson was looking for something different than her out-of-state university and decided to be a member of the Wolf Pack.

“She wanted to be closer to home, and I had a relationship with her before,” Kennedy said.

“She was leaving and we were fortunate enough to be the place that she chose to spend three more years.”

Jackson’s transition from playing at the D-1 level to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics level was hardly a transition at all, and despite what many think, the two fields of play might be more level than meets the eye.

“Coming from that situation (Arkansas Little Rock University), I thought that it would be easier, but the crazy part is there are a lot of people in the NAIA that could easily be division one. But the thing is it’s almost the same,” Jackson said.

“There is no real difference. The athletes are the same.”

During her first year under Kennedy, she finally had the chance to see Jackson in a Loyola jersey as she averaged 5.8 points per game, four rebounds a game, 2.1 assists in the 28 games she played in the 2015 season.

“She’s just really talented. She can do so many things on the floor. We’re a transition team, and she forces us to be better at that. She really has a great way to push the tempo, and she does that from multiple positions,” Kennedy said.

During that same season, the Wolf Pack won the Southern States Athletic Conference outright and clinched a spot in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics National Tournament, with Jackson being a contributor to the success.

As a junior, Jackson blossomed in Kennedy’s up-tempo system.

In 2016, Jackson started in 23 games and upped her numbers in almost every statistical category with 9.4 points per game, 6.1 rebounds per game and a team-high of four assists per game.

However, the best was yet to come for Jackson.

On Jan 19, 2017, Jackson’s 10-point, 10-rebound and 10-assist performance against William Carey solidified her as the first player in the conference to record a triple-double since the 2011-12 season.

Biology senior Di’Mond Jackson (3) dribbles down the court at a home basketball game against Blue Mountain College Feb. 24, 2018 in The Den. The game honored the team’s seniors: Jackson and Zoie Miller (10), mass communication senior. JULIA SANTOS/ The Maroon.

Jackson was also the first female Loyola basketball player to record the stat line since 2008.

To top it all off, Jackson’s stellar season as a junior landed her on the First-Team All-Southern States Athletics Conference shortlist, and she was not done showcasing her prowess as a gifted all-around player.

On Jan. 4, 2018, Jackson recorded yet another triple-double with an 18-point, 12-assist and 11-rebound performance that fueled the Wolf Pack to a crushing 117-55 victory

over Brewton-Parker.

“She manages to get double-doubles and triple-doubles a game and at one point she was the only NAIA player in the country to get a triple-double. That’s incredibly hard to do,” Kennedy said. “You’ve got to be doing a lot of things really well to do that, and you have to have people around you doing things well too, which helps.”

Jackson’s numbers have increased in every statistical category every season she’s been at Loyola.

Pelicans flying high without All-Star Cousins

By Andrew Lang awlang@my.loyno.edu @lagand87

The Pelicans hosted the Houston Rockets on Friday, Jan. 28, with their two All-Stars, Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins, ready to take on one of the top powers in the NBA. However, as the Pelicans walked off the court with a narrow 115-113 victory, their center Cousins ruptured his left Achilles tendon and hobbled off to the locker room with the help of teammates.

Without their second star, the rest of the team has to undergo dramatic changes to keep their season alive.

Cousins brought consistency to the organization. He took 2.8 shots out of the post per game this year, which landed him in the twelfth spot in the league. He also sat in second place for “and-one” opportunities which is a free-throw after a foul on a made shot.

Cousins not only converted on “and-one” opportunities, he had a fondness for getting to the line this season. He ranked third in the NBA in free throw attempts per game with 9.1 attempts.

In his absence, several team

members helped to fill in those attempts with the team only shooting 2.4 less free throw attempts per game in the month of February than in January.

However, it has been his counterpart, Davis, who has held the team together towards success.

Davis has been the leading man as the Pelicans ride a seven-game win streak since the All-Star break, including a 53-point game versus the Phoenix Suns on Feb. 26.

During the streak, he has averaged 41.5 points and 14.8 rebounds and averages a league-high 35.9 points per game, 12.8 rebounds, 2.6 steals and 2.4 blocks through the month of February.

The Pelicans traded for talent to help keep the team’s momentum strong. The team received Chicago Bulls forward Nikola Mirotić and signed center Emeka Okafor to two ten-day contracts.

In his brief New Orleans stint, Miroticć scored 15.5 points per game. He has not been as successful behind the line, only making 30.2 percent from the three-point line in those six games as opposed to the 42.9 percent he made for the Bulls this season.

This year, Jackson is averaging 11.6 points, 5.3 assists and 7.5 rebounds, all career highs for the senior guard.

“I wouldn’t want to deal with her on someone else’s team. So I’m just really glad she’s on our team,” Kennedy said.

With all of her success, Jackson said she has no one else to thank but her coach. “(Kennedy) gave me a chance when I really needed one. She’s the one that made me realize that I can do whatever I wanted.”

Sports briefs Dance team earns bid for National competition The Loyola dance team won an at-large bid to compete in the 2018 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Competitive Cheer and Dance National Championships. The team will compete on March 9 in Oklahoma City. The team also finished fourth in the Regional championship.

Kulcher named Pitcher of the Week

The New Orleans Pelicans warm up before facing off the Miami Heat at the Smoothie King Center Feb. 23 2018. The Pelicans are riding a seven game win streak and are now sitting as the fifth seed in the Western Conference. ALBERT DUPONT/The Maroon.

Okafor, meanwhile, has made solid but unspectacular contributions.

His main value is as a rebounder averaging 6.3 rebounds per game.

Returning to the NBA from the Delaware 87ers, Okafor was brought on to help fill Cousins’ 20.2 rebound percentage.

With small attempts at rebuilding, the Pelicans now stand at the

fifth place in the Western Conference, a bump from their eighth place standing before the All-Star game.

The streak and new additions have left the Pelicans in a good position with the postseason looming.

They are on track to playing in the playoffs since the 2014-2015 season.

Marketing senior Joseph Kulcher was named Southern States Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week after his one-hit complete game shutout versus Dallas Christian College. Kulcher helped gain four wins against the Crusaders.

Women’s golf finishes third in Badger Invitational The women’s golf team placed third in the Badger Invitational with a total score of 954. Freshman Madison Bates finished third on the individual leader board.

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OUR EDITORIAL

The majority opinion of our editorial board

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EDITORIAL BOARD Sidney Holmes

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EDITORIAL POLICY The editorial on this page represents the majority opinions of The Maroon’s editorial board and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Loyola University.

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Loyola poorly executed its unpaid tuition policy While most of campus waited for classes to be canceled during a cold spell in January, dozens of us, including some Maroon staff members, had to make sure they had a place to stay.

That’s because the university decided to begin enforcing a policy that had been ignored: if you didn’t know how you were paying tuition by the time you came back, you had a week to figure it out.

If not, you were on administrative withdrawal.

The university applied that by deactivating your student ID, so no Wolf Bucks, no swiping into the dorms.

No access to the OR, no going home to the dorms.

Now we understand it’s reasonable for an institution to expect pay in exchange for its services, however we shouldn’t do that at the expense of our values.

We can do that while embodying our values by making sure students with an outstanding tuition have access to food and shelter in freezing temperatures, instead of turning our backs.

A Jesuit university shouldn’t be using mob tactics.

It’s a policy Loyola hadn’t previously enforced, and while it’s rea-

sonable for an institution to expect pay for the services it renders, it is possible and appropriate for it to do so in ways that reflect its values — especially at an institution that prides itself on the well-being of its students and “special concern for the poor and oppressed.”

But that didn’t seem to cross administrators’ minds when they made this decision. Nor did the fact that they should have communicated that this change was happening earlier. Instead, it appeared to be all about the bottom line. Administrators should implement policy in a Loyola fashion, showing everyone that it is not only feasible to be both fiscally and morally responsible, but it’s the right thing to do. It is being men and women for others.

It was heartless for administrators to continue to enforce a policy that they knew could have possibly denied students a place to sleep and food to eat less than a month after Christmas.

But enforcing the policy was not without its merits, according to university spokeswoman Laura Frerichs.

“Keep in mind your Wolf Bucks or ID swiping are the same as not having funds on a debit card or maxing out your credit card,” she said.

Yes — the university’s genuine argument here is that this should be taken as a life lesson.

This is a university that thinks cutting off meal plans for those of us who don’t have jobs, rely on public transportation and probably aren’t too familiar with getting around New Orleans is akin to a lesson on future credit card usage.

These students weren’t going to be able to find housing and come up with the money themselves. Not during the timeframe the university gave, especially during that freezing weather.

Yes, it’s fair to ask people to pay their tuition, but if this is the new policy going forward, it might be better to just tell students who owe not to come back to campus at all, to make students put enough down upfront to put them through the semester, or to make sure they can get home.

That’s especially true for those who live on campus and relied on its services to live.

The policy should never have been enforced the way it was, and we need to make sure what happened to dozens of students in January never happens again.

This is a Jesuit university. It ought to act like one.

OPINION Short-term service isn’t “short term” at all March 2, 2018 The Maroon

adriana smith World religions senior

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aasmith@my.loyno. edu

nicole richard Digital filmmaking sophomore nrrichar@my.loyno. edu

carrie fenton English literature senior crfenton@my.loyno. edu

Part of being a man or woman for and with others is service. People engage in service with their communities, with religious groups, with families or as individuals.

Loyola provides many service opportunities both on and off campus, through coursework in the form of service learning, as extracurriculars (like LUCAP or the Knowledge Extension for Youth program), and the immersive service program Ignacio Volunteers.

Ignacio Volunteers is a staff-led and student facilitated program in which students can engage in either domestic or international service.

Students apply for the program and teams are constructed based on the needs of both the applicants and the communities they will be entering into. In each Ignacio Volunteer program there are two main goals, to learn and to serve. These goals are deeply integrated into the preparation and trips. At all points in the process of becoming an Iggy Volunteer, the focus and primary attention is centered on the communities they will be serving. Ignacio Volunteers and similar programs have been the subject of criticism in the past for their “short term” nature.

The Ignacio Volunteers program at Loyola disrupts the stereotyp-

“I wish I could buy Cane’s with my Wolf Bucks!”

danielle bass Psychology prehealth sophomore dhbass@my.loyno. edu

“Blaze Pizza!”

Calvin Tran, music therapy senior, plays ukulele for a patient at St. Teresa’s Home for the Destitute and Dying in Kingston, Jamaica during the Ignacio Volunteer trip, December 2017. LILY CUMMINGS/ Courtesy.

ical image of short-term service.

Students in the program prepare for months through research and discussion under the guidance of trained staff in order to best prepare themselves to accompany the marginalized. During and following the period of immersion, teams meet for further discussion and processing. Though the immersion experience itself lasts only six to 14 days, the effects are designed to be long lasting. The actual acts of service students perform while on immersion are done with groups or organizations that are already a part of or serving the focus community. These acts are typically additional help

for the community, not necessarily grandiose, but still necessary for assisting those in long-term positions to sustain the dignity of those being served.

Through Ignacio Volunteers, education becomes bound to service.

The program conducts immersive service experiences in New Orleans, Jamaica and South Africa every year.

Through rigorous education and training, students work to build and sustain a sense of solidarity with those experiencing marginalization on both a local and global level.

Short-term service, when conducted intentionally and with respect for all its members, is not short term at

all. The “short term” of the service dissipates as volunteers enter into a new way of encountering the world following the immersion, one that constantly calls into question systems and how they operate, seeks continued knowledge and deeper opportunities to serve.

If you are interested in engaging with the programs offered through Ignacio Volunteers, there will be an information night hosted in the Audubon Room on March 4 at 6 p.m. Applications are currently open, with a due date of March 18, and can be found at mm.loyno.edu/ ignacio.

You and Trump supporters want the same thing JC CANCINOSA Mass communication sophomore jccanico@my.loyno. edu

On March 6, 2016, Donald J. Trump doubled down on his proposed “total and complete” Muslim ban by stating that there is an inherent “tremendous hatred” of the United States in the Islamic religion.

Then, on Oct. 7, 2016, a tape was released of Trump explaining how his stardom gives him permission to do anything that he wants to women, including grabbing their privates because “they just let you do it. You can do anything.”

And most recently, on Jan. 12, 2018, Trump, in an effort to convince lawmakers to be more stringent on immigration, dismissed Haiti and some African countries as “s**thole countries.”

And this all just seems like the

tip of the iceberg of offensive and controversial things that President Trump has said and done since announcing his bid for the 2016 presidency.

So surely anybody who could support a man who has said such ignorant, hateful things about immigrants, people of color and women must be just as ignorant and hateful as he is, right?

Well, no. Hostility is not the answer here.

Hear me out.

The end goal of what we’re all trying to do here is make the country a better place. Whether you’re a liberal, a conservative, a snowflake, a Trump supporter, a libertarian, etc., we all want the same thing. And it’s counterproductive and divisive to think any other way about your opponents on the political spectrum.

You and Trump supporters and snowflakes all want this country to be better than what it is now.

Which takes me to my next, and probably most important, point: perpetuating hate towards Trump supporters is just as bad as fear mongering. I repeat: perpetuating

hatred towards Trump supporters is just as bad as fear mongering.

I understand it seems easy to just write off every Donald Trump voter as an uneducated, gun-loving white supremacist, and any person who could support such a pro-establishment (insert your own adjectives and/or insults here) man wouldn’t understand the kind of America that the rest of us sane moral people are trying to build.

But the thing is, 45 million people voted for the guy, most of whom do not fit the uneducated white supremacist stereotype that I described. Many of these voters are struggling working-class citizens just trying to make ends meet, according to an article in the Washington Post on demographics of Donald Trump voters.

Voters who hoped that this brash “politician” would keep his word and work to help them out when they’ve felt like every other lying politician until now has just let them down.

And in that way, they too just want this country to be better than what it is now, like the rest of us.

So we can’t dismiss or hate Donald Trump voters. It’s counterproductive to everything that making the country better is all about. And if you’re just exuding all of the resentment and hostility that you feel back out at your political opposition, what are you really doing?

Because your anger and hatred of a man and his base isn’t getting Flint, Michigan clean water any sooner. Your hate and anger aren’t going to help sick poor people suddenly afford their extravagant medical bills. And your hate and anger aren’t making public schools any safer for our children.

The point I’m making here is that we should turn away from any kind of anger and frustration against our political opposition and towards an end bigger than any one of us, to make the country that our children and grandchildren grow up in better than the one that we did.

Things have to change, and it all starts with what you want to put into the world. Cooperation or divisiveness? Hope or fear? Love or hate?

nico chopivsky Mass communication sophomore nkchopiv@my.loyno.edu

“I wish I could spend my Wolf Bucks at the Boot Store.”

sophie whitehead Music industries sophomore slwhiteh@my.loyno.edu

“I’d want to buy stuff from Rite Aid because I live in Cabra, and it’s right there and I go there a lot.”

cameron kelley

Business sophomore

cskelley@my.loyno.edu

“I wish I could buy Humble Bagel with my Wolf Bucks.”

kathy schopter Loyola shuttle driver

“I wish I could use my Wolf Bucks in the bookstore to buy shirts!”

For suggestions on next week’s question, email letter@loyno.edu.

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Cont’d: Twin golfers show success on the field

TWIN GOLF, continued from page 8 to have fun,” Mark said. “Yeah, I’m like that on and off the course. I feel like, especially on the course, when you’re laughing and having fun, it just makes the game a lot better and a lot easier.”

Philip, on the other hand, has a different approach.

“One thing that I’ve always thought of is if I’m going to come here and I’m not going to try to win, why am I here?” Philip said. “When it’s time to hit the shot, I’m only focused on that.”

The work ethic that the brothers bring serves as an example for the younger golfers on the team, and the brothers are happy to fill that role.

“Both of them are huge assets to the team, and without one or the other, the team wouldn’t function the same. They obviously have very different swings and mindsets when it comes to playing the sport, but both love it with their whole heart and would sacrifice a lot for the game,” freshman golfer Madison Bates said.

The Nijokas are focused on continuing to grow the newly energized golf program and acting as models for first-year players.

“It’s really just trying to help the underclassmen,” Mark said. “We want them to excel. We want them to be able to do what we’ve been able to do. Especially when we leave, we want the program to keep going up, keep going in the right direction.”

The brothers have steered Loyola

golf on a successful path, as they contributed to the coach search when their former coach left for a position at the University of New Orleans last season.

Philip and Mark both attribute their individual and team success to head coach Drew Goff, who arrived during the fall semester of their sophomore season after their former coach left to work at the University of New Orleans.

“It was tough. You want to spend the four years with the guy that recruited you. Only spending a year with him and not really getting much accomplished in that year, it wasn’t very satisfying,” Philip said.

In the interview process, the twins and their teammates were involved to find a coach that can steer them on the right path.

“He (Goff) asked us, ‘What do y’all want,’” Mark said. “We want a winning program. We need a coach, not a babysitter.”

Goff may not have recruited the Nijoka brothers, but he sees them as an asset to the program.

“The team’s success this season is a result of talent and hard work.

Philip and Mark are no exception,” Goff said, “They work extremely hard on their games year round. My goal for the program is to help each player maximize their potential. I feel strongly if they continue to work hard, this team will contend for a national championship.”

Philip Nijoka, business junior and Mark Nijoka, finance junior, are responsible for most of the 2017 season Loyola golf team wins. The twins look to build off of their historic success and pave the way for future Loyola golfers. CRISTIAN ORELLANA/The Maroon.