April 7, 2017

Loyola University • New Orleans • Volume 95 • Issue 23 • April 7, 2017

the Maroon For a greater Loyola

Ben takes the win!

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Ben Weil and Blane Mader celebrate when their names are called as SGA’s new president and vice president duo. The announcement was made following one of the most interactive elections in Loyola’s recent history.

Election results: Meet your 2017-2018 SGA SAM REICH Business

By Haley Pegg hapegg@my.loyno.edu @haleypegg

Ben Weil, music industry junior, was elected SGA president, with Blane Mader, philosophy pre-law junior, as vice president.

Weil credits his win to his active campaign and partnership with Mader.

“I had the best running mate and I had the best campaign staff.

I’m super excited for this next step and to make a difference at Loyola; I think that’s what this is all about,”

ALLICIA GRANT Arts and sciences

Weil said, minutes after being elected.

At the beginning of the school year, Weil became the first music and fine arts senator. His and Mader’s campaign featured a six-initiative plan, from promoting diversity at Loyola to supporting university sports teams.

Mader has worked as a member of the University Programming Board within SGA for the past year and said he would like to thank SGA and everyone who participated in the election.

“I couldn’t be more excited. I feel like Ben and I prepared so long and

MARISSA FRIDUSS Arts and sciences

LIZA WHITFIELD Arts and sciences

hard for this that it’s really gratifying for this to happen,” Mader said. “It’s great to see such an active student body and that’s what Ben and I did this for — to show the students that they can do things that they might not feel are possible through SGA.” With over 740 votes submitted, this year’s election was one of the most prominent in terms of student involvement.

Elisa Diaz, current SGA president, will officially step down from office and hand over her position to Weil when students return after spring break.

“Ben’s been tremendously in-

CLAUDIA MASCARI Arts and sciences

volved in SGA this year and he’s seen a lot of how SGA functions. That makes me hopeful because when I ran for president, I had zero experience being in SGA,” Diaz said.

“I think hopefully that’s a tradition that will continue, where people who are passionate and involved will run for president.”

The results were announced the evening of Wednesday, April 5, in the SGA office. In addition to the president and vice president positions, 16 new senators were elected.

Of these 16, only six were present for the announcement of the results.

BRIANNA HARKINS Arts and sciences

Senators not pictured: Senators at Large Mimi Bui and Kaylen Lee College of Arts and Sciences Senators Victoria Cinnater, Rana Thabata and Kristen Williams College of Business Senators Daniel Vijil and Brette Baughman College of Music and Fine Arts Senators Jana Sanders, Justin stone and Rebekah

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April 7, 2017 The Maroon

Four motions passed to thank Manganaro

By Akilah Morris ammorri2@my.loyno.edu

Several faculty and staff members have joined together to thank Marc Manganaro for his years of leadership as provost at Loyola.

Early in the semester, former provost Marc Manganaro resigned from his position. Shortly after, many faculty members voted to show their gratitude and continued support for Manganaro for his “energetic and dedicated leadership” in addressing the university’s financial crisis.

“We appreciate the courage, integrity and openness he has shown in his efforts to make Loyola a better place,” they wrote in the motion.

The motions passed by the university library and University Senate added to the motions by the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Music and Fine Arts and comment on the demonstration of the Jesuit value of being a person for and with others, “exemplified in his commitment to academic excellence, and in his consistent support of our students and faculty.”

Alice Clark, director of medieval studies and member of the University Senate, said she wants people to know that the faculty still supports Manganaro after his resignation.

“The faculty as a whole feels a special kind of gratitude to him, enough to take what is, as far as I know, an unprecedented step in expressing that gratitude corporately and publicly through a senate resolution,” Clark said.

These motions show that Manganaro still has the fundamental confidence of the faculty.

“It will not be easy for an outsider to do that work effectively, and I hope the person who is selected will rely on the deans and the faculty as a whole for help,” Clark said.

news brief New interim provost announced David Borofsky has been selected as interim provost and vice president for Academic Affairs.

According to a campus wide email sent by the Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J., university president, the faculty, staff and administrators who met with Borofsky have confidence in his ability and believe he will benefit the Loyola community.

Borofsky will join Loyola after serving as interim president of Hodges University. In his tenure, Borofsky led an enrollment turnaround effort, assisted in increasing student retention and helped re-institute a culture of pride. He also managed a budget of $40 million and helped to develop a first-of-its-kind university diversity and inclusion program.

“Loyola University of New Orleans has a wonderful mission and cares deeply about the success of their students. I am excited to be joining its family and look forward to listening to and working with all faculty, staff and students. As a team, we will achieve even greater success,” Borofsky said.

Borofsky will begin his new position on April 10.

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CNN to Loyola: Jones to speak at graduation

By Starlight Williams slwillia@my.loyno.edu @star_lightw

Loyola University announced that Van Jones, American activist, social justice expert and CNN contributor, will be the class of 2017 graduation commencement speaker.

In a press release sent out on April 3, the Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J., university president, said that he respects Van Jones career and that he has had a tremendous impact on issues that affect everyone.

“At Loyola University New Orleans, we teach our students — and encourage our graduates — to be civic-minded. We ask them to ‘seek what matters most,’ to seek justice for others and to deploy their skills and talents to help better the world around them,” Wildes said.

“Throughout his lifetime and from the heart, Van Jones has worked to advance and fulfill these values.”

Jones received his bachelor’s degree at University of Tennessee at Martin before attending Yale Law School.

He has led several organizations in social and environmental projects, including Color of Change and Green for All. He also worked under President Barack Obama as a special advisor and primary advocate for the Green Jobs Act. Despite having to wait longer than usual for the commencement speaker announcement, which is usually given out between February and early March, students gave a generally positive reaction to Jones being their speaker.

Rachel Dufour, chemistry senior, said she is thrilled to have a fellow

Courtesy of Loyola University

Van Jones, American activist and CNN contributor was recently announced as the 2017 commencement speaker. The reactions from students have been varied.

Tennessean for the speaker.

“While his academic achievements as a Yale Law School grad are noteworthy, his dedication to social justice makes him the perfect person to address Loyola,” Dufour said.

“Having worked as an advocate for the marginalized and a voice against injustices, he embodies what Loyola

students stand for and with. I have no doubt that he will provide us with words to carry past our years here.”

Tyren Leonard, psychology senior, said he is proud of Loyola’s choice in commencement speaker and looks forward to what Jones has to say.

“Van Jones is someone who I

aspire to be like one day. He has a voice and he isn’t scared to use it,” Leonard said. “We need more of that in the world and to have him as our commencement speaker is truly an honor.”

Even though people have expressed joy about Jones on Facebook, students like Michael Rees, philosophy senior, aren’t quite happy that Jones was selected to speak.

“His activism is worthwhile, but he contributes to CNN, an unsound news organization that pollutes journalistic integrity,” Rees said. “I don’t mean to completely disregard his other work, but I would be surprised if [his speech] isn’t politically charged.”

While Loyola has not had a female undergraduate commencement speaker since 2008, Hon. Madeleine Landrieu will be the commencement speaker for Loyola’s College of Law ceremony.

Landrieu was hired as the new dean of the College of Law in February after stepping down from her position as a judge on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeal.

Earning her juris doctor degree in 1987 from Loyola, she maintained strong ties with the law school by being on the Thomas More Inn of Courts executive board, teaching a summer abroad program in Spetses, Greece and receiving an honorary doctorate in 2005.

The undergraduate students’ graduation ceremony will take place at 9:45 a.m. on Sat., May 13 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, and the law school ceremony will take place later in the evening at 5:45 p.m. in the superdome.

Larry Lorenz, you will be missed

By Dannielle Garcia danniellegarcia007@gmail.com

The New Orleans community is mourning the loss of Larry Lorenz, a dedicated journalism professor and former host of the WYES show “Informed Sources.” He died at the age of 79 at Touro Infirmary, just one day shy of his 80th birthday.

The retired Loyola professor was best known for his high expectations of his students and utmost respect of the proper use of the English language. Friends and colleagues at Loyola remember him by his stern but caring critiques.

Bob Thomas, the chairman of the Loyola Center for Environmental Communication, is one of the many friends and colleagues at Loyola who Lorenz mentored.

“I was lucky to know Larry for 25 years and work with him for 21. He wanted his students to excel, he left a legacy of rigor in being a professor and we still talk about that a lot, and I think we always will,” Thomas said.

Leslie Parr, A. Louis Read distinguished professor in communication, was hired by Lorenz and knew him for 34 years.

“I think that he made an indelible legacy and impression on this school and in the entire university to say the least,” said Parr.

Cathy Rogers, another professor who was brought to Loyola by Lo-

renz, knew him for 30 years.

“He was very warm and funny. He was also very smart, witty and intelligent. He supported me through my promotion process and I have always been grateful for that,” said Rogers.

In 1962, Lorenz took his first job in the field of journalism at the United Press International. He reported on the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights movement and, most notably, was among the team that first released a flash news bulletin that President Kennedy was assassinated.

From 1987 to 2013, Lorenz was the host of “Informed Sources,” a panel that discussed local media coverage and the news. He was a teacher, a father, a researcher and a textbook author.

Lorenz was also a pioneer and partial founder of Loyola’s College of Social Sciences, where he served as dean until 1994, when he stepped down to teach full time.

Parr called him a “role model to all of us” for his dedication to teaching and improving his students. It is that dedication that led him to be the recipient of the Dux Academicus award, the highest honor that a Loyola professor can receive, in 2009 as well as retiring as A. Louis Read Distinguished Professor Emeritus status in 2011.

Crystal Forte, ’03, the web content strategist in the Office of Marketing

and Communications, took Lorenz’s class her senior year at Loyola.

“He cared about [the students’] success and used his role as their teacher to really push them to be the best that he could be, but also his praise meant everything to those who received it because you knew that you had done good journalism,” Forte said.

Lorenz’s caring attitude towards his work is one of the many things that made a lasting impression during his time at Loyola.

“That’s one of the endearing things about him was that he did it because he cared. He expected them to be perfect because that’s what you have to be in journalism. You can’t be lax and you can’t not pay attention to detail,” Thomas said.

One of the biggest takeaways that Forte remembers is that he stressed the importance of the human side of journalism.

“You’re not just doing a job, there are people behind those stories and you really need to connect with those people in order to tell the best story possible,” Forte said.

Lorenz deeply enjoyed his time at Loyola and the beauty of New Orleans.

“There’s really nothing quite as satisfying as walking across the campus at end of day, with the sun going down and students sitting on those benches, and saying to yourself, ‘This is a pretty damn good

life,’” Lorenz said in an interview with the Maroon in 2002.

The funeral mass will be held at Holy Name at 12 p.m.

Courtesy of Loyola University

Larry Lorenz began his Loyola career in 1981 as chair of the Department of Communications. In 2009, he received Loyola’s Dux Academicus award and retired in 2011.

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Chief judge honors late federal judge, Loyola law alumnus

By Caleb Beck cmbeck@loyno.edu @CalebBeckIRL

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Kierra Thompson (right), psychology sophomore, and Patricia Boyett (left), director of the Women’s Resource Center, type letters to their senators during “Write Your Senators.” “I work with community partners like STAR (Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response) and Family Justice Center wouldn’t be able to offer their services that they offer that are so important for people to get out of violence situations, to get legal representation, to get access to psychiatry, all kind of things,” Boyett said.

LUCAP hosts ‘Write Your Senators’ event

By Alliciyia George atgeorge@loyno.edu @alliciyiag

The Loyola University Community Action Program gave students and faculty an outlet to write their senators about the issues they found most important.

Organizers said the event was successful and that they hope to have an annual event to equip students with the resources and opportunities necessary to voice their opinion and get civically engaged.

The writing session provided both laptops to send emails and materials to send letters to senators.

LUCAP paid for postage on the letters.

Annie Farley, psychology senior and LUCAP associate chair, helped

prepare materials for students before they arrived.

“Our LUCAP Executive Board decided as a team that a Write to Your Senators Event would be a great opportunity to provide Loyola students with.” Farley said.

Ilyes Benslimane, physics prehealth senior, came to the event to get civically-engaged on behalf of the sciences.

“I wrote about cuts to the sciences because those personally affected me in my job, National Institute of Health and the Advanced Research Projects agency, which is getting cut completely 100 percent,” Benslimane said.

Kierra Thompson, psychology and criminology sophomore, and Students Against Hyper-Incarceration project leader, came to the event because she thought the event

was a good start to a better future.

“It’s important for college students to be civically engaged because we are the next generation that is going to be being a part of the government,” Thompson said.

“We’re going to be the next people that make all the policies. We are going to be the next people that become judges that are going to decide on police brutality cases.”

Patricia Boyett, director of the Women’s Resource Center, attended to engage in civil discourse with her senators.

“I wrote about funding the Office of Violence Against Women because that’s something I work on all the time and without the funding from the government organizations I work with, community partners like Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response and Family Justice Cen-

ter wouldn’t be able to offer their services that they offer that are so important for people to get out of violence situations, to get legal representation, to get access to psychiatry, all kind of things,” Boyett said.

Farley feels like it is important for students to utilize the power that they have to be involved with their government.

“It’s really important with these younger generations to get more involved and kind of make change,” Farley said. “Get out there and be active,” Farley said.

The next LUCAP event will be a LUCAP Fair after Spring Break.

For more information on how to get in touch with your senator, please contact senate.gov/senators/ contact.

New Orleans fights with immigration enforcement policy

By Alliciyia George atgeorge@loyno.edu @alliciyiag

New Orleans joined with 36 other cities and counties to fight against Trump’s executive order to withhold federal funding to places that do not comply with his administration’s immigration enforcement policies, New Orleans immigration policy came about as a result of a Federal consent decree. The city, the New Orleans Police Department and the Department of Justice entered into the consent decree on July 24, 2012, according to the city of New Orleans website.

Susan Weishar, assistant professor and research fellow at the Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University New Orleans, said that this policy came about due to the treatment of immigrants in the jail system by police.

“I think that it is extremely unfortunate that President Trump and his

Department of Homeland Security have released a list of about 200 cities that they believe are ‘sanctuary cities,’ and that they want to target these cities for the policies they have, basically to ensure bias-free policing and to keep community policing in place and effective,” Weishar said.

However, Mayor Landrieu remains adamant that New Orleans is in compliance with the law.

Loyola’s Law Clinic offers a “Know Your Rights” presentation for immigrants where they go out into the community to learn what to do and what not do. Hiroko Kusuda, assistant law professor at Loyola, said that the clinic conducts these community outings for any organization that requests their assistance.

“Any organization that wants our presence, we would be happy to work with them,” Kusuda said.

Some believe the tone of the administration’s policies is intimidating.

“The official word from the

Trump Administration is that we are going after bad people, but they are scaring a lot of good people including our clients,” Kusuda said. “We have many women and children who came here after being persecuted, and they are already traumatized. Now, they are traumatized again.”

The cities and counties are often called “sanctuary cities” for their public policies that show some level of acceptance of illegal immigration. Some cities like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago have embraced the label.

Bill Quigley, director of the Loyola Law Clinic, explained how the city of New Orleans operates as a “sanctuary city.”

“New Orleans has never formally declared itself a sanctuary city,” Quigley said. “It is under court orders not to racially profile anyone so it does not stop people based on race nor does it take the time and energy to check into people’s immigration status for traffic or non-vi-

olent misdemeanors. The federal court order makes it clear the NOPD cannot do that.”

Quigley explained that the city of New Orleans is not allowed by federal civil charges to take part in President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies.

Attorney General Jeff Landry believes that New Orleans is actually a sanctuary city.

Although immigration law is a federal law, some officials under the Trump administration believe it is the local government’s job to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcements.

“My very first case out of law school was a Japanese internment case,” Kusuda said. “Through that casework I learned what happened to Japanese Americans. I learned the hardship that they had to go through under the pretext of wartime emergencies. Sometimes we don’t learn from history. It seems like certain populations are labeled as suspicious because of hysteria.”

Loyola’s College of Law invited Hon. Carl Stewart, chief judge of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, as the distinguished speaker for their annual lecture series that commemorates the life and accomplishments of the late Hon. Robert Ainsworth Jr. Stewart led the discussion of Ainsworth’s life, speaking to the judge’s commitment to objective truth as well as his long-standing impact in the federal legislature.

Stewart graduated from Dillard University in 1971 and the Loyola College of Law in 1974.

President Bill Clinton appointed Stewart to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1994, and in 2012 Stewart became the chief judge on the 5th Circuit.

“I did not have the privilege of knowing Ainsworth, but I’m honored to have known his influence and his work,” Stewart said.

Stewart chronicled Ainsworth’s rise from graduating Loyola’s law school in 1932 to his work in Louisiana’s State Senate, to serving on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals up until his death in 1981. Ainsworth was nominated by President Lyndon Johnson for his last position.

“Ainsworth was a state senator who rejected blatant segregation bills and was a fair senator who kept the 5th Circuit balanced,” Stewart said. “He was a man dedicated through and through to judicious efficiency.”

Stewart discussed Ainsworth’s achievements in upholding diversity jurisdiction, a form of subject-matter jurisdiction where diversity of citizenship in cases is dealt with on a federal level, rather than dealing with the potential bias from state senators.

“In 1974, Ainsworth wrote Mas v. Perry, which became a landmark case in diversity jurisdiction,” Stewart said. “He possessed the range of experience and outlook to keep himself fair and just.”

Stewart discussed that while the Founding Fathers saw diversity jurisdiction as a necessary civil procedure to negate bias in the state legislature, the subject matter of the operation has been controversial in centuries since and has been severely contested.

“This kind of jurisdiction legislation has changed much since 1789, in addressing corporations instead of the original person versus person legislature,” Stewart said. “Our Founding Fathers couldn’t have anticipated that these cases today make up 32 percent of the federal docket.”

In his career, Ainsworth wrote 19 opinions and resided on the court for 67 cases. In 1986, he received the Herbert Holly Award for his accomplishments in judicial oversight.

Stewart finished his memorial speech by highlighting Ainsworth’s commitment to justice throughout his career.

“Judge Ainsworth Jr. was just very good at asking the right questions,” Stewart concluded.

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SPORTS Golf teams aim for a shot at conference title

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The men’s and women’s golf teams are working on different aspects of their game in preparation for the conference championships

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

The golf teams have stepped up their game and improved their teamwork at the midway point of the spring season.

Daria Delfino, management sophomore, feels the team is headed in the right direction.

“Everything is starting to come together and clicking at the right time. We’re moving quickly up the ranks under Coach Goff,” Delfino said.

Even though the team feels that they can improve, they’ve already accomplished more this season than in recent history. Both teams broke the school records earlier this March with the two lowest rounds in program history. However, Hunter Crotchet, business junior, said the men’s team needs to continue its progress.

“Right now, I’m really excited about where the team is at. We are breaking school records while still not reaching our max potential. We are definitely on the right track, and I think we could surprise some people at conference,” Crochet said.

Team members attribute their improvement to head coach DrewGoff’s emphasis on different aspects of the game.

“Course management sounds simple: you put in on the green, then you put it in the fairway, then you tap it in, but there’s much more

to it than that. I really think that if we continue to work on closing rounds well and improving our short game, then no other team can touch us,” Delfino said.

Delfino also said that the camaraderie on both teams is what separates them from other schools.

“We all love each other and I really think that gives us a leg up, because when we all cheer each other on and buy into individual success equating to team success, we all do better,” Delfino said.

With a few weeks left in the season, Crochet said the goal is to keep improving and place as well as they can in the remaining tournaments.

“Team goals are constantly changing as each tournament passes, so moving forward we would love to keep the scores coming down and shoot for the first ever top three finish in this year’s conference tournament,” Crochet said.

Goff said his main goal for the men’s and women’s teams this season is to win it all.

“We have the Conference Championships coming up next. Both teams need to improve their preparation and focus to have their best finish possible. Everyone’s individual games have shown improvement in some shape or form so we now need to capitalize on that improvement,” Goff said.

“Both teams have shown the ability to make that happen, we just need to prepare and then go execute.”

By Taylor Ford tcford@my.loyno.edu @TaylorCFord

OSAMA AYAAD/The Maroon

Golf team freshman Ignacio Fernndez eyes the shot Jan. 24, 2017 at Audubon Park in New Orleans for practice. Drew Goff, golf head coach, said he had a talented team to work with and looks forward to helping them fulfill their potential.

Quidditch sweeps out the old for fresh start

By Brian Wollitz bawollit@my.loyno.edu @brian_wollitz

The quidditch team is looking for some magic to help rebuild their program to return to their past success.

Sebastian Gomez, biology sophomore and team captain, said their main priority is to get numbers out to practice so they can compete in tournaments.

“Our number one goal right now is to build our roster. We don’t have as many players as we’d like, and it’s hard to go to tournaments with so few players,” Gomez said. “It wears you out real quick.”

Currently, the quidditch team collaborates with Tulane’s team and scrimmages with them to help accommodate the low turnout of players. Although the team is not actively participating in games or tournaments, they said they continue to train weekly and are recruiting new members for next season.

While the team acknowledges their priority to get numbers out to practice and build their roster, Shannon Garrety, English and business freshman, and her team members hope to break down the stereotypes that come with the sport.

“It’s a co-ed, full contact sport without size restrictions. You’re allowed to play against anybody, and no one is going to treat you differ-

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The quidditch team practices passing drills on the quad on March 13, 2017. The quidditch team is currently training and recruiting to prepare for next season.

ently because you’re small or you’re a girl,” Garrety said.

This group combines their love of the Harry Potter series with their passion for the game.

“We’re really athletic nerds,” Garrety said.

However, the sport isn’t a breeze as one might imagine.

Jeremy Gretzer, theater sophomore and team captain, said that quidditch isn’t all fun and games, and it challenges you physically.

“I’m breaking a sweat right now.

My legs are shot from running constantly and doing all these types of drills,” Gretzer said. “You’re gonna be sore when you first try it. You’re gonna work out muscles you’ve never worked out before. You’re gonna be using all your body.”

Griffin Parr, music industry freshman, attributes the low turnout and lack of interest due to some people’s preconceived notions, but the team is continuing to recruit new members.

“Recruitment hasn’t been at its

Leah Banks makes a run at history

best. We haven’t had huge numbers come out. But I think that’s part of the ‘oh it’s just a nerd sport’ mentality,” Parr said.

While the team is trying to break down the barriers that hold them back from getting more members, they urge students to give it a chance.

“All you have to do is just show up to one practice and try it out,” Parr said. “It’s really hectic, yet so fun, and you kind of get addicted to it.

It’s really cool.”

One young track and field athlete is tearing up the field at a historic rate.

Leah Banks, mass communication sophomore runner, has separated herself from her teammates throughout this year’s track season and is on her way to becoming one of the most accomplished athletes in the program’s history.

Banks is coming off an impressive performance at the Falcon Track Classic, where she was not only able to finish in first place in the heptathlon, but also broke several records defeating the defending Peach Belt Conference Champion in the event.

The heptathlon is a track and field event in which athletes compete in the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meter dash, long jump, javelin and 800-meter run and a champion is determined based off of scores from the seven events.

Breaking three school records along the way in the 100 meter hurdles, high jump and long jump, Banks holds the Loyola track and field heptathlon record after recording 4,520 points at her last meet.

The sophomore athlete described the moment she discovered she had broken these records as a shocking experience.

“I was excited, I was ecstatic, but it was almost unbelievable because it was like ‘I didn’t think I ran that fast’ or ‘I didn’t think I jumped that far’ It was mind blowing,” Banks said.

Nick Dodson, track and field head coach, set high goals for Banks, but she was able to go above and beyond her coach’s expectations.

“My goal was to score about 4,300 points and she exceeded that with 4,520 points. I knew that if she were to get at least over 4,400 we could take down the young lady from (the University of ) Montevallo, (Hunter Chavarry),” Dodson said.

Before Dodson got the job at Loyola, he said he was able to see the potential in Banks’ multi-talented skill set.

“She’s so good in so many different events that the heptathlon is really her home. She didn’t do it last year and when I watched her last year at the conference championships I said ‘man, this girl is really versatile’,” Dodson said.

While reflecting back on her impressive performance, Banks cited her inability to compete in the heptathlon last season as a huge motivation behind her preparation for the Falcon Track Classic.

“I went into it wanting to do the best that I could because I wasn’t able to compete in it last year. So going into it this meet was exciting because I get to do what I’m recruited for,” Banks said.

Banks said that performance in her last meet lifted a weight off of her shoulders as far as meeting expectations for herself going into each event.

Banks will next compete for the Wolf Pack at the South Alabama Invitational track meet in Mobile, Alabama on April 13.

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In West Virginia, greyhound racing’s days are numbered NITRO, W.Va. (AP) — At one of the last remaining greyhound tracks in the U.S., dogs with names such as Terracuda and Flyin Jawbreaker outnumber the people watching in the stands.

The race bettors and spectators at the Mardi Gras Casino and Resort in West Virginia stopped showing up long ago. Soon, the greyhounds could be gone, too.

That’s because the Legislature passed a bill to end $14 million in subsidies that benefit dog racing breeders and handlers at the state’s two racetracks. Lawmakers want that money to address a state budget shortfall expected to reach as much as $500 million next fiscal year.

Racing officials believe that if the governor signs the legislation, it will kill the industry and force hundreds to go elsewhere to find work.

“It’s hard to want to stay in the state when they don’t want you, and that’s how it feels,” said Heather Lomax, a trainer for Cavender Kennels.

Her family has been in the dog racing business for four decades.

During dog racing’s heyday, there were about 60 greyhound tracks in the U.S. But the rise in slot machines and table games has led to racing’s decline. Over the last decade, dog tracks were eliminated in Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

There are about 20 tracks in six states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa and Texas. Florida has the most tracks with 12.

Like other states, West Virginia started the subsidies for the racing industry when slot machines and table games arrived. Money for the West Virginia Racing Commission’s Greyhound Breeding Development Fund comes from a portion of those games at the greyhound tracks. The fund in turn provides much of the purse money kennel operators earn when they win or finish well in the races.

A 2015 study found that the dog racing industry’s economic impact barely outgained the subsidies and suggested eliminating them. A track at Wheeling Island, sandwiched in the state’s Northern Panhandle between Ohio and Pennsylvania, has also felt the pinch of competition from new casinos in Pennsylvania.

After years of tinkering, the Legislature finally went along with what other states already viewed as no longer a good bet.

“West Virginia’s future is not in subsidizing losing ventures like these,” Republican Sen. Mike Azinger said during debate last week.

The industry’s last hope rests with Democratic Gov. Jim Justice. It’s not clear if he will sign the measure. He must make a decision by the end of the week.

By the look of the empty stands in Nitro, public interest has waned.

Most patrons were at the table games and video lottery machines on the main level. Downstairs at the track annex, a half dozen people quietly watched the dogs run. A few

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In this Aug. 8, 2014 photo, greyhounds compete at Wheeling Island Racetrack in Wheeling, W.Va. The races could soon end if West Virginia’s governor signs a bill doing away with state subsidies that benefit breeders and handlers at racetracks. The state’s Legislature passed a bill to end $14 million in subsidies that benefit dog racing breeders and handlers at the state’s two racetracks. Racing officials believe that if the governor signs the legislation, it will kill the industry and force hundreds to go elsewhere to find work.

others huddled near televisions and bet on races elsewhere.

Retiree Nathan Clay was there to celebrate his 73rd birthday with his younger brother and his sister-inlaw. They go three to four times a month and don’t expect to get rich.

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enjoyment,” Clay said as he placed a $6 wager. “You can’t sit at home all the time.”

Those in the industry say they’ll probably move out of state if the bill becomes law, and they wonder if restaurants, grocery stores and other businesses that benefit from the

workers will be forced to close.

Rhea LaCuesta has worked at Steubenville Kennel for seven years.

She makes $20,000 a year.

“If it wasn’t for racing, I wouldn’t stay here,” LaCuesta said.

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Film • Arts • Food • Music • Leisure • Nightlife

Life and Times briefs French Quarter Fest celebrates 34th year of free music The free celebration will return to New Orleans from April 6-9 with over 23 stages and dozens of local food vendors to compliment the crowds. The festival highlights jazz, funk, zydeco and other traditional Louisiana music styles.

Last year, French Quarter Fest attendance totaled 760,000 people over the four days, providing work for over 2,000 volunteers. This year’s festival will see the likes of artists like Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Ellis Marsalis, Aaron Neville and many more.

Ladies in the Arts Happy Hour returns to Hi-Ho Lounge The Ladies in Arts NOLA community organziation will be celebrating their second Saturday happy hour at Hi-Ho Lounge on St. Claude Ave on Sat., April 8. The group will offer refreshments and an extensive art exchange to their women and women-identifying members in attendance.

Threadhead Cultural Foundation begins 2017 raffle The Threadhead Cultural Foundation is a non-profit that promotes New Orleans cultural heritage through grants given to local musicians and artists. Their online auction function has begun, and interested parties can enter until Sun. April 16.

Prizes offered in the online raffle include Jazz Fest afterparty tickets, VIP Bonnaroo tickets and Paul Sanchez’s touring acoustic guitar among other items.

The raffle has been held every year since Hurricane Katrina and proceeds will be shared between the Threadhead Cultural Foundation, the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic and a number of free youth music clinics. The Foundation will promote the raffle leading up to their scheduled Jazz Fest season events.

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Music industry alumnus Austin Rapbaum (left) sits down with former student Mike Duckworth (right) in Rapbaum’s home studio Soul Sonix to talk about the two’s latest project.

Before departing Loyola in 2016, the duo retreated to Rapbaum’s studio to create Duckworth’s project “IUSEDTOSPEAKTOGOD”.

Loyola alumni rap duo finish new project

By Jamal Melancon jmmelanc@my.loyno.edu @Jam_M_Mel

Before departing Loyola in 2016, both music industry alumni Austin Rapbaum and Michael Duckworth retreated to Rapbaum’s studio to create Duckworth’s project “IUSEDTOSPEAKTOGOD”.

Using his rapper name Mike Hazel, “IUSEDTOSPEAKTOGOD” follows Duckworth’s life with a theme of spiritual homesickness, in which he relearned to trust God throughchance encounters with others.

“I used to be in that realm where I really knew things were going to be OK no matter what. I used to look at life as a test, but I stopped thinking like that once I left my environment,” Duckworth said.

For an extended time, music was

often one of the only things that could make Duckworth feel better. Rapbaum, who started his own studio, Soul Sonix, in Uptown New Orleans with former student Joshua Gotoy, asked Duckworth if he would like his next recorded project to be with his studio. Rapbaum said his skills working in a recording studio developed during his time at Loyola, where he was able to hone his passion.

“If I hadn’t gotten my hands on that gear and everything, I don’t think I would’ve been able to make the leap that I ended up making,” Rapbaum said.

Rapbaum became involved as a freshman with the Vital Sounds Recording Studio at Loyola, and through booking sessions there, he met Duckworth, who he immediately became interested in due to

Duckworth’s rhyming style.

“I’ve grown and listened to him more and more, and his metaphors and his internal conversations within his songs, certain songs especially, really stick out to me,” Rapbaum said.

Rapbaum said Duckworth has become one of his favorite artists he listens to and that he sees a bright future in music for both Duckworth and himself.

Rapbaum thought Loyola as well as New Orleans contained many of the right people for him to meet and work with musically, like Gotoy, who he thought was the most talented student engineer during his time at school and who he would later start a recording studio with.

“I had probably worked with Josh for like four or five thousand hours at this point, for over four years, al-

most every single day. Although he’s very unique in his style, my style began to mirror his in ways. Because not only was I spending so much time with him, but I was learning so much from him, as well,” Rapbaum said.

In Rapbaum’s final semester at Loyola, Duckworth said that they reminded themselves that they have the potential to be professionals.

The two found themselves at the edge of school and wanting to record ambitious music.

“When it got to the point that I was finishing up school and trying to take Soul Sonix more seriously, I knew that I wanted to extend some time to somebody who would not only would make the most use of it and make something really amazing with it,” Rapbaum said.

Design class creates poster book project for young local students

By Davis Walden jdwalden@my.loyno.edu @DavisWald

Loyola’s design department wrapped up a collaboration with the International School of Louisiana students by producing a poster book series.

Fifth graders at ISL wrote a series of essays about “Fever 1793,” a novel that follows an outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia in the 18th century. Loyola’s design students took these essays and adapted them into posters, creating four separate looks for their young clients.

Julia Morel, visiting design professor, approached ISL to bring the project to life.

“I got in touch with their English teacher, who told me her class was reading the book ‘Fever 1793’ and

mentioned the students were doing an opinion piece comparing a character in the book to someone in the student’s life,” Morel said. “The difficulty was finding the balance between doing something the ISL student would recognize as their own ideas while still making a professional, clean design.”

Morel said uniting the visual ideas with one product made the most sense.

“We came up with the idea of doing a poster book to visualize the essays. Each student got assigned to two different ISL kids, and they designed something around the text, along with drawings the kids had made,” Morel said.

Students in Morel’s Print and Design Narrative class said that the turnaround was quick and they loved the unique challenges that

came with working with younger students.

“We usually have strict parameters for our work, but because we were designing for kids, we were allowed to do pretty much whatever we wanted,” Collins said. “It was a bit challenging; however, watching the kids’ reactions made the project worth it.”

The project required the design students to create 12 variations for each of their four designs before presenting them to fifth-grade students for approval.

“We had to be realistic with our project and know what we could bring to life in our three week turnaround,” Morel said.

Design students were given the creative liberty to explore the essays written by the fifth-grade students.

Morel noted that children tend to

have a more descriptive style of writing, which the design students needed to take account of.

“It was interesting seeing the characteristics of each student, what they focus on, what their point of interest is and who they chose in their lives to view the story in their own context,” Morel said.

The poster book, “Fever 1793 Posters + Essays,” includes stylized transcripts of the essays next to the poster designs.

“Having an object like this book completed at the end of the project is so rewarding,” Morel said. “When there are so many different stories and many different drawings, you get afraid it’s going to be a big mess, but the completed posters are so different that, united under one idea and bound together, it just makes sense.”

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Morel’s Print and Design Narrative class displays the finished product of their collaboration with the International School of Louisiana’s fifth grade students.

RELIGION

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LIM launches dual degree program

By Colleen Dulle mcdulle@loyno.edu @ColleenDulle

Loyola has a brand new dual degree program for students interested in ministry.

Beginning next academic year, undergraduate seniors majoring in religious studies will be able to take graduate courses in the Loyola Institute for Ministry that will count toward a master’s degree. After they graduate, these students can finish their master’s in a year and a half.

Diane Blair, director of admissions and on-campus student services for the institute for ministry, said that some requirements will be waived in both the undergraduate and graduate programs so that dual degree students can graduate earlier.

“If people are interested in ministry studies and they know they want to pursue that path, it’s a great way to just kind of plod through and finish the degrees in a year’s time,” Blair said.

Students need to be religious studies majors to enroll in the program, but, Blair said, the program can be flexible.

“If a Loyola student from another major wants to come talk to us, we’ll work with them for sure,” Blair said.

Blair said that students will also be able to take up to six credits in the institute for ministry as undergraduates even if they don’t want to commit to the full graduate program.

Students in the dual degree program will pay their regular undergraduate tuition until they graduate, and then when they are full-time graduate students, they will pay the $405 per course rate that is standard in the Loyola Institute for Ministry.

Blair has had an information table in the Danna Center for a few weeks and has been visiting religious studies courses to tell students about the program. For more information, interested students can email dblair@ loyno.edu or visit 111 Stallings Hall.

New Orleans Iggy Vols immerse in community

By Jessamyn Reichmann jjyoung2@loyno.edu @jessamynreich

As spring break begins, the 7-month wait will finally end for Loyola’s New Orleans Ignacio Volunteers.

The Ignacio Volunteer program, nicknamed Iggy Vols, is an international and domestic service immersion opportunity that serves the communities of South Africa, Jamaica and our own backyard, the state of Louisiana.

Each year, the three trips recruit students to travel, serve and experience these places in an authentic way. The volunteers base their experience on the Ignatian idea of finding God in all things and immerse themselves in new cultures through service.

The first group to embark on their experience is the New Orleans Urban Immersion. Over the 10-day spring break, 12 students will spend their time examining the inequalities that lay underneath New Orleans’ tourism-driven culture.

The participants will be exposed to the gradation of privilege and oppression in the Crescent City in the areas of race, gender, class and location.

Jonathan LeBeau, sociology pre-

med sophomore, will be one of the two group leaders on the New Orleans trip.

“New Orleans is extremely socially complex, and the benefit of this trip is that you escape this Uptown bubble. You go beyond just Uptown and the French Quarter and experience the true essence of New Orleans. It’s great exposure,” LeBeau said.

LeBeau believes that a community also emerges on the Urban Immersion trip. During their 10-day excursion, the Ignacio Volunteers give up their cell phones and learn to bond with their team members through shared activities like service, cooking meals together and playing card games.

Nydia Araya, psychology senior, will be the other group leader for the trip. Having experienced the program before, Araya said she is excited to lead this time around.

“I felt that, as a New Orleans native and a woman of color, it was important that I educate myself on these issues so that I could be an active advocate [leader] in my community,” Araya said.

Despite the Urban Immersion week taking on a more academic and informational tone, the trip will emphasize the personal growth of each participant.

Heather Malveaux, Ignacio Vol-

Courtesy of Heather Malveaux

Last year’s New Orleans Urban Immersion service group poses in Congo Square in spring 2016. The Urban Immersion trip is a branch of Ignacio Volunteers that focuses on local community service and learning about social issues in New Orleans.

unteers coordinator, described how students are transformed by what they learn.

“Entering into the program, people don’t see what’s right in front of their face, especially racism,” Malveax said. “Not only do we examine racism through the lens of the criminal justice system and the history of

pre- and post-Katrina, we internalize the experience.”

Recruitment for next academic year’s New Orleans Urban Immersion service trip will begin in September 2017.

Students reflect on Easter

By Erin Snodgrass eesnodgr@loyno.edu @erinsnod

RELIGION BRIEF More births expected for Muslims than Christians worldwide NEW YORK (AP) — In recent years, Christians have had more babies than any other religious group worldwide. But by 2035, Muslims are projected to experience the higher birth rate, putting the world’s two largest religions on track to have a near equal share of the global population by 2060, according to a demographic analysis released Wednesday.

The new report builds on a Pew Research Center study two years ago that found Islam is the world’s fastest-growing major faith and, if current demographic trends continue, Muslims could outnumber Christians by the end of the century. The analyses are based on 2,500 censuses, surveys and population registers from around the world.

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Caroline Fenton, English junior, and her brother celebrate Easter as children. Fenton said family plays an important role in her Easter traditions.

With Lent nearing its end, Loyola students are gearing up for Easter, with different denominations of Christianity celebrating in varied ways.

The holiday is celebrated 40 days after Lent begins, not including Sundays, and commemorates Jesus’ resurrection after he was crucified.

It is the culmination of “Holy Week,” which includes Palm Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Holy Thursday and Good Friday.

Caroline Fenton, English junior and Roman Catholic, considers Easter to be an exciting time of the church year. Many of her Easter memories revolve around attending Church services, though her family has their own traditions too.

“On Holy Thursday, we attend evening Mass together and then watch Jesus Christ Superstar, which is a bit of a silly tradition. We also attend Good Friday Mass, which is an interesting one because there’s no Eucharist, and then on Easter Sunday, we exchange candy and small gifts, attend Mass and go out for brunch. We also make a big show of indulging in whatever it is we gave up for Lent,” Fenton said.

Fenton said her family also observes three hours of silence on Good Friday and gives up technology, in order to pray and reflect on Jesus’ suffering. Good Friday is traditionally remembered as the day Jesus died.

Fenton, who has celebrated Easter at the same church since she was born, is breaking tradition this year, as her family is coming down to New Orleans to be with her.

“Easter was always exciting when I was younger because I got to get dressed up and wear a bonnet. As I got older, I came to understand the significance of the holiday within my religion,” Fenton said.

In 2013, Fenton had the opportunity to hear Pope Francis speak in Rio de Janeiro about Jesus’ suffering on the cross and how it relates to all of human suffering.

“I took that very personally, seeing Christ as being with me when I felt most alone. More than anything, Easter has become for me a sign of hope for the future, a promise of joy to follow suffering. It is a time that reminds me of my place in creating that joy,” Fenton added.

Nicole Miller, theater freshman, is a non-denominational Christian who said she sees her spirituality as a way to have a relationship with Christ, as opposed to participating in any organized religion.

“To me, a lot of Catholic Mass, or really any super structured religious service, becomes too much about routine, and eventually you don’t even think about what you’re doing or why. I prefer discussion like, ‘Why are we celebrating Easter and why should it still matter?’ Last year, I attended a service more like that at an Evangelical Free church, and I liked it a lot more,” Miller said.

Miller, who didn’t grow up in a religious home, said she never felt like she was able to delve into the deeper questions surrounding Christ and the meaning of Easter. It was about two years ago that she began to come into her faith, and she said she is still on a path of exploration.

“Easter for me is just another day to be reminded of how Jesus died for my sins and how loved I am by him,” Miller said.

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Graduation is coming up soon, but for the class of 2017, it doesn’t feel like much of a celebration.

Over the last four years, the senior class traditions have been quietly phased out. The words “100th Night” and “Loup Garou” are foreign to underclassmen and are quickly fading memories for the rest of us.

Even this year’s senior gift hardly lives up to its name.

For those needing some context, 100th Night was a seniors-only blowout party that took place on the 100th day of school. In 2015, after “alcohol-related issues,” the Office of Co-Curricular Programs (now called Student Involvement) turned 100th Night into “100th Day,” which featured cupcake decorating in the

One Loyola room and a discounted Orleans Room lunch, because nothing says “Congratulations!” like a coupon for Catfish Friday.

To ease the blow, secret society 1540 (which has also been eerily silent this year) hosted a “92nd Night” event where they covered $500 worth of beer at Bruno’s for the seniors.

Loup Garou, while not a senior tradition, used to be an annual concert where the university brought in a big-name performer for Loyola students to see at a discounted price. It was canceled in 2014 and then reinstated as a biennial event in 2015. The seniors couldn’t wait to see who would play this year for one of our final feats at Loyola, but when

April arrived, we realized that like 100th Night/Day, it just wasn’t happening, and no one had bothered to tell us.

Up until Monday, it seemed like we might not even have a graduation speaker, because the announcement is usually made in February or early March.

Even the senior gift, which is branded as when the senior class comes together to give back to Loyola in a unique way, doesn’t include togetherness at all. This year, it’s a “you choose” gift. Each senior will choose where in the university their money should go. Whereas alumni from past years could return to campus to see the mark their class made, the class of 2017 will

fade from memory just like the traditions of recent years.

So, Loyola Administration, Office of Student Involvement and even 1540, we know you don’t owe us anything. We came here to get an education, and we’ve gotten it. But we’re still disappointed that you’ve phased out so many of the events that were going to make our senior year special.

We hope that as the school rebuilds its finances, you’ll be able to reinstate some of these traditions — and if more cuts have to be made, we hope Maroon and Gold isn’t the next to go.

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In a couple of weeks, the School of Mass Communication will honor members of the Alfred Lawrence Lorenz chapter of Kappa Tau Alpha, the journalism and mass communication honor society. I don’t think any of these students knew Dr. Lorenz, who retired from teaching before they arrived on campus, but whether they realize it or not, they are all beneficiaries of his indelible influence on the school and the university.

Larry certainly had a tremendous influence on my own life. He hired me in 1983, despite his doubts that I would stay very long. Thirty-four years later, I am still here and still grateful to him for helping me find my academic home and my way as a

novice professor.

Larry was a true academic. He never stopped learning or lost his passion for teaching, writing and language. I miss our conversations that ranged from books, to politics, to his beloved New Yorker. OK, and a little gossip. And puns, lots of puns.

Larry could never resist them. The worse they were, the better.

We have lost two wonderful journalism professors since I came to Loyola: Tom Bell and now Larry Lorenz. I think of them both every day and know that while they can’t be replaced, they will never be forgotten by anyone they taught or anyone they befriended. I am proud to be in that number.

Leslie Parr A. Louis Read Distinguished Professor of Communication

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Alfred Lawrence Lorenz, the A. Louis Read Distinguished Professor of Mass Communication, taught at Loyola for 30 years. He passed away this Sunday, April 2 at age 79.

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Join the March for Science Armin kargol Department Chairman, Loyola Department of Physics akargol@loyno.edu

I grew up under a totalitarian communist regime in Poland. This is where I learned that if you are not interested in politics, politics will eventually find a way to get to you.

Back then, it was sometimes extreme. Decisions made by politicians affected our daily lives. I remember the food shortages when decisions were made to “export” food to the Soviet Union.

With that kind of experience, I see clearly how privileged we are in the U.S. We believe we do not have to bother with politics because it does not directly affect us.

Think about the political life cycle of a typical American. We wake up from hibernation a couple of months before a presidential election, gripe about the incompetent and corrupt politicians ruining everything, look around for a candidate making the best promises, cast our vote and go back into hibernation.

We wake up again four years later and repeat this process — and you know what? It usually works. The country chugs along, nothing gets really damaged and there is some progress in areas that are important to us.

As scientists, we also have been enormously privileged. We are able to work in our ivory towers, concerned only with our experiments

and models and theorems, and we unintentionally helped perpetuate the stereotype of a mad scientist, completely disconnected from the external world.

Well, all of that is changing. It used to be that the sides differed in policy matters, but everyone played by the same set of rules. These included putting the good of the country before tribal politics and adhering to certain norms of behavior and procedures.

There was an understanding that whatever we do in power will be done to us when we lose power.

More fundamentally, though, we used facts as a basis for political decisions.

It used to be that facts mattered and anyone caught not adhering to them would apologize and correct his or her statements. Apparently, we are entering a different era, an era where facts do not matter.

When those in power are caught lying, these are not “alternative facts.” These are lies. But now, instead of correcting themselves, they double down and conjure crazy conspiracy theories.

You may think that the truth will ultimately prevail and there is nothing to worry about, but I wouldn’t be so sure. We are entering an era when facts that the politicians in power find inconvenient are being suppressed. This is seen directly in the funding for research in controversial areas being cut.

We are entering an era when, if you go into a political hibernation until the next election, you may not recognize where you wake up. And I am not sure the changes will be for the better.

This is why I will march in the

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March for Science on April 22. In addition to the main march in Washington D.C., there will be satellite marches, including one in New Orleans.

The march is intended as a non-partisan event, supported by many professional organizations, among them the American Physical Society and the Biophysical Society, of which I am a member.

I will march to defend the factbased decision-making process,

one of the cornerstones of the scientific method. I will march to defend funding for science that the current administration threatens to cut in a way that would be catastrophic to biomedical and environmental research.

I encourage my students to march, not simply for one day, but because their future is at stake. Only when we realize this can we create a sustained effort to combat this danger.

Horror movies represent real social fear, progress Thomas Cleary Digital Filmmaking junior tcleary@loyno.edu

If you look through the history of horror movies, you will see each generation has unique, different films that clearly represent them.

From the fears of the Cold War to the introduction of torture films, the horror genre has been a means for progressive commentary on trending fears, and while scary movies have had their fair share of setbacks — such as “the black guy always dies first” archetype — 2017 has marked a great step forward in the industry.

If you start with what many people agree is the first horror movie ever made, “Nosferatu” in 1922, you can see influences following World War I within the plot. You see the monster in the movie portrayed as an outsider to society and someone who should be ridiculed, a very common line of thought that continued to grow as World War II approached.

During the 1930s and 1940s, horror films were primarily used as a means of escapism in America and Europe. As both were dealing with real life horrors like the Great Depression and World War II, there was

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an increase in what are now called “B movies” — cheesy flicks that, today, would make you laugh more than actually scare you.

This evolved into the 1950s horror scene, in which B movies like “The Thing from Black Lagoon” and “Godzilla” continued with seemingly similar cheesiness. However, these movies manifested real fears attached to the Cold War threat of atomic warfare.

Later, the counterculture movement of late 1960s and 1970s naturally spread to film, lead by great directors such as Jean-Luc Godard.

This movement, however, did not intersect with horror films; the only thing they did was become a lot bloodier.

At this time, serial killers were be-

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coming bigger stories, so films like “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Halloween” gained huge traction.

The idea of serial killers had always been terrifying, but with people like the Zodiac Killer and Jeffery Dahmer, the idea that anybody could be a monster drove people toward these new slasher movies.

Besides the Italian 1977 film “Supiria,” the first — and still one of the few — horror films with a plot that features a woman in power, the genre still had not been utilized as a progressive platform.

Instead, in the 1980s and 1990s, “Jaws,” another massive franchise like “Halloween,” proved to be the moneymaker and became the dominant movie format for years.

2000s horror is mostly represent-

ed by torture films. There are many theories on why this is, but whatever the case, an unfortunate amount of depraved gore flicks controlled the decade.

The 2010’s, thankfully, seem to be fighting against the 2000s by putting women in the lead and hopefully ending an era of male-dominated torture flicks.

“It Follows” is a perfect metaphor for how women have been treated in horror films, as we see a woman have sex and be stalked by a creature for the rest of the film as a result.

In horror films, there is a cliché that when someone, specifically a woman, has sex on screen, they will die shortly afterwards. “It Follows” addresses this idea, and the main character fights back against the monster instead of being punished through misogynistic overtones in the plot.

Similarly, films like “Get Out” call out the paradigm of people of color as the victims in horror movies and flips it on its head.

A combination of these two issues, “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” is a film about a Muslim woman who kills men, representing a positive change. This simply would not have made it to production until now.

Society, as in the late 1960s, is at a pivotal point, and unlike back then, it seems as if horror films are taking an active step toward progress.

For long-time patrons and students of Loyola remodeling Loyola’s weight room on the 5th floor of the Sports Complex had been a long pondered pipe-dream Always very homey, if not roomy, our weight room had an old school charm like something out of a Rocky movie. No glam — just sweat and self-determination. But could it be better? Most definitely.

Better, it turns out, meant remodeling the weight room with an emphasis on the student athletes.

No doubt a noble cause, but not a practical one.

Instead of knocking down walls and making the weight room bigger and better for all students, the much-used free weights were siphoned off from the larger area to the smaller one that has less equipment, in far less space and no rubber matting to protect the floors from dumbbell drops.

Additionally, weight machines that once occupied this same area and supplemented many between-set, free weight workouts are now totally out of the way on the 6th floor of the complex and hidden where the free movement/calisthenics area used to be (may the open carpet calisthenics room rest in peace).

My dear personal friend the heavy bag has also disappeared, one might suspect into the same hole as Billy Batts from Goodfellas.

It would have been a much better idea to find a location on the 6th floor or maybe convert one of the seldom occupied 5th floor racquetball rooms and create an exclusive training area for our athletes instead of a poorly remodeled timeshare weight room.

Now the majority of space in the bigger section of the weight room is occupied by a CrossFit-like amalgamation of squat racks, resistance bands and turf flooring for training that seems to have been designed to the parameters of a “Total Body Sculpt with Gilad” scene.

What should have been a vast improvement for everyone who uses the Sports Complex instead became something that certainly benefits athletes and inconveniences most others.

Our weight room is no longer filled with the feverish hustle and bustle of people scurrying around trying to get fit, nor the grunting associated with dumbbell lifts that would set off the alarm in Planet Fitness.

Many students, alumni and patrons have reacted to these changes by either joining other gyms or avoiding our weight room entirely.

I have heard too much from too many to not offer this perspective.

All students are charged tuition and already pay to use the weight room, but the renovations make this problematic. Athletes, students and all patrons would benefit from examining the new layout and making it less problematic than it has become.

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