Loyola University • New Orleans • Volume 97 • Issue 2 • August 24, 2018
THE MAROON FOR A GREATER LOYOLA
Organizations rally together to host Ignation Teach-In By Andres Fuentes aafuente@my.loyno.edu
A freshman lounges in a triple room in Biever Hall on August 22, 2018. Due to the increased enrollment and retention, Residential Life accommodated the freshman with about 75 triple rooms facing the residential quad in Biever. EMMA RUBY/ Courtesy.
Res Life triples up in Biever Hall By India Yarborough iayarbor@my.loyno.edu
In response to an increase in students living on campus this year, Loyola’s Office of Residential Life has placed more than 200 freshmen in three-person dorm rooms in Biever Hall. Residential Life director Amy Boyle said that in 2000 the university updated all Biever rooms facing the residential quad. Each of those rooms was expanded to accommodate a third person and additional furniture. “We have only placed triple occupancy assignments to those expanded rooms,” Boyle added. About 75 rooms in Biever Hall now house three students. Biever — Loyola’s only all-freshmen dorm — has the capacity to hold 410 students total, according to residential life’s webpage. For accounting freshman Kallan Trombino, the three-person setup hasn’t been bad.
“It’s a little bigger than the doubles, I’ve noticed,” Trombino said. “For the most part, my roommates and I are pretty low maintenance, so we don’t have too many belongings.” However, she said she does expect the limited space to be “challenging.” “I think we’ll end up merging into each others’ spaces,” she added. “It’s cramped, but it’s doable.” Trombino received notification in July she had been assigned to a three-person room. “I talked to (my roommates) before school started so we got to know each other pretty well,” she said. Biever rooms with three occupants have three desks, two closets, a wardrobe, a bunk bed and a lofted bed with a dresser below it. Trombino and her roommates agreed the two students occupying the bunk bed would use the closets, while the person in the lofted bed would use the dresser and wardrobe. Students assigned to three-per-
son rooms pay a “triple rate,” Boyle said — about $560 less than students in two-person dorms. The residential life director said she has not received many complaints about the triple spaces since freshman move-in day Aug. 16. “With the concerns we have, we are following up and will do our best to de-triple spaces when we can,” Boyle said. “(Resident assistants) will also work hard to complete those roommate agreements first and will be available to support students’ concerns (as they) arise.” According Boyle, around 1,400 of the university’s more than 2,600 undergraduate students are living on campus this semester. She said that’s a 7 percent increase from last year’s numbers. Loyola requires its first and second-year students to live on campus. Juniors and seniors may live on or off campus. Students with more credit hours under their belts and higher GPAs are able to request rooms first, according to residential
life policy. “To accommodate our incoming class and returning students, we had a choice,” Boyle said. “Either reduce the number of upper class bed spaces or add spaces to our existing footprint.” Residential life has assigned three people to rooms in Biever before, Boyle added, most recently during the 2012/13 school year. In addition to tripling rooms in Biever this year, the university opted to renovate a building on Loyola’s Broadway Campus. The updated building, Founders Hall, can accommodate 43 students. Founders Hall houses sophomores, juniors and seniors. No other long-term construction plans are in place to account for larger incoming classes in the future according to Boyle. “We will continue to assess space to thoughtfully consider what is best for our student experience,” she said.
Greek life member advises on Panhellenic recruitment By Tess Rowland tmrowlan@my.loyno.edu
For women looking to join a sorority, recruitment can be the most wonderful time of the year, or the most nerve-racking three days of your life. Yet, all the pain is quickly erased when you run home to your new sisters on bid day. Greek Life gets a bad reputation at most state schools. I myself was hesitant to become a member of a Greek organization, but I’m proud to say at Loyola we pride ourselves on having a completely different recruitment experience. Our recruitment isn’t about what you wear or who you know; instead,
it’s about who you are and what you want to become over the next four years. Going through recruitment may be scary, but it is so worth it to take that leap of faith. Being in a sorority teaches you to learn about financial responsibility and time management. Your sisters will push you to keep your grades up and be the best possible version of yourself. You will always have someone to sit with at dinner, and there will be dozens of late night runs to Cane's or Boot Pizza. Here are some tips to ease your stress during the hectic and exciting time that is Panhellenic recruitment.
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In an effort to shed light on an ever-pressing subject matter, the Jesuit Social Research Institution, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Office of Languages and Cultures, Women’s Resource Center, Center for International Education, Honors Program and Café con Ingles are teaming up to host an Ignatian Teach-In to showcase the negative realities that immigrant families face. The campus organizations will host the event on September 20 in the Audubon Room from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The event will showcase the Mujeres Luchadoras, a group of local immigrant women who help support families who have lost husbands or fathers to deportation. Leslie Galvez, environmental biology senior, is volunteering to help with the event and has high hopes for the Loyola community. "It's really important for the Loyola community to attend because being on campus sometimes we live in our own bubble of diversity and inclusivity, but that kind environment isn't reality for migrants in our country," Galvez said. "This event will hopefully open dialogue within our the Loyola community about what we can do as a community and learn about migrant issues in our backyard from people that have experienced it first-hand rather then listening to a news reporter and hopefully take what they learned back home to educate others." Galvez hopes that Loyola students show up to learn about the issues, but also to help with the event itself. "These events are huge for immigrants in our country. With all the policy changes and the Trump Administration making it more difficult for people to immigrate to the US, there's a lot of anxiety and worries about the future. Having these types of events that create a positive dialogue, educate the community, and give a face to the issues makes our community a safer place for them," Galvez said, "Outreaching to the community like this also increases the number of people advocating for just migrant policies at the state and federal level." The Jesuit Social Research Institution is also reaching out to find student volunteers to help act as translators for the event. Galvez was passionate about the opportunity. "Both of my parents immigrated from Mexico," she said. "I know what it feels like to live in fear of deportation and the uncertainties that come with that." Galvez said the organization needs bilingual students to help provide instructions to families and ask questions throughout the event. "It would be great if students feel the call to advocate for migrant issues in our community, but just starting a dialogue with others that aren't aware or don't completely understand is huge," she said.
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news The POM aims to enhance student safety on campus
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By Rose Wagner rmwagner@my.loyno.edu
As a new round of freshmen ran around Monroe Library for a scavenger hunt, ate free sno-balls and eagerly met their classmates, Peace of Mind Company tabled in the Danna Center selling the POM, a security device for the scarier side of campus life. The POM is a key fob device that can act as an emergency response locator, sending an individual’s GPS location, photograph and personalized medical information to the on-campus police or the closest emergency responders, depending on the individual’s location. AJ Leahy, president and co-founder of Peace of Mind Company, said that the POM was created four years ago after his friend, a student at Temple University in Pennsylvania, was robbed and killed one night while walking home with his girlfriend. “A physical fight broke out and he was knocked unconscious and passed away. Sadly, he was probably 500 feet from a blue light pole,” Leahy said. “It was an eye-opening experience.” Leahy said that this incident forced him, a graduate student at the time, to confront the reality of safety on college campuses and create a product that would be an “evolution of the blue light pole.”
A student holds the POM at Peace of Mind Company’s table in the Danna Center during Wolf Pack Welcome. The POM is a key fob security device designed to put students in touch with emergency responders. CRISTIAN ORELLANA/The Maroon.
Rather than having to run to the closest blue light, the POM allows for users to call for help with three taps on the device’s center button. Doing so immediately alerts emergency responders and provides them with the information that users provide on their POM mobile app profiles. “We thought it would be a better, smarter, more effective way of connecting with emergency help,” Leahy said. Studies on sexual assault and the
rise of mass shootings also motivated Leahy and his co-founder to create the device and bring it to college campuses. Loyola’s 2017-2018 Campus Climate Assessment revealed that 16 percent of all respondents had experienced “unwanted sexual conduct,” with six percent having experienced “unwanted sexual contact,” defined as rape or sexual assault. The introduction of the POM to Loyola’s campus aims to lower these numbers.
Students to continue coursework during severe weather By India Yarborough iayarbor@my.loyno.edu Loyola professors are expected to continue academic instruction when campus operations are suspended, according to an email sent to university faculty. Maria Calzada, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs, informed teachers August 17 of the expectation, one of many addressed in the school’s 2018 Continuity of Operations Plan. Students are expected to pack textbooks and any other materials needed for each course if instructed to leave campus. “As we enter peak hurricane season, now is an important time to review the (plan) and ensure that you have made adequate provisions to continue your course remotely in the event of an evacuation or other emergency,” Calzada said. The Continuity of Operations plan, updated August 10, requires teachers continue instruction remotely during emergency situations. For an evacuation lasting less than one week, professors should collect online and written work assigned prior to the evacuation as originally intended. Evacuations lasting one to two weeks warrant teachers conduct at least one classroom lesson via Blackboard. For evacuations lasting more than two weeks, professors must continue all courses via Blackboard unless circumstances prevent them from doing so. “Our accreditation and ability to accept federal financial aid depends on our ability to document that we have preserved the integrity of instructional minutes and the credit hour,” Calzada said in the email.
Delia Kobel, music industries freshman, bought the device during her first week of college and said she hopes it will give her an enhanced sense of security. “Although I do feel safe on campus and surrounding areas, you just never know what could happen. I’d rather be safe than sorry and be able to call help immediately by the press of a button if need be,” Kobel said. The latest version of the POM, generation two, also functions as a
New health insurance options become available to students By Andres Fuentes aafuente@my.loyno.edu
Loyola has implemented a severe weather policy requiring students and professors to continue coursework during campus evacuations and severe weather days ANDRES FUENTES/The Maroon.
The continuity plan states procedures for remote instruction are “basically the same” for suspension of campus operations and complete evacuation. “Evacuation may occur as a result of an imminent hurricane calling for a complete evacuation or from a more local, area-specific emergency,” the plan states. “During hurricane evacuation forcing the relocation of the student body, all campus buildings will be locked and access strictly prohibited until the threat passes and safety has been confirmed by the Emergency Manager, Physical Plant, Loyola Police and the President.” Additionally, the new continuity plan requires classes be made up on Blackboard in the case of two threeday-a-week classes being cancelled
due to hazardous weather or one two-day-a-week class being cancelled. Professors are also expected to hold classes and conduct quizzes and tests online until the campus is safe for students and faculty to return. However, this policy’s implementation has been greeted with some criticism from students. “I think that make-up classes on Blackboard are useless because the time is still lost and it ends up just being an assignment where nothing is learned,” Grace Quisenberry, political science sophomore, said. Students will also recieve updates via their school emails in the case of inclement weather, according to the email.
key finder, it can be used to text a loved one, and it can allow the user to receive a fake phone call to get out of an awkward or uncomfortable situation, according to Leahy. Users set up in the app what function they want the “long hold” on the button to serve and can customize who the POM will call or message. Leahy said that the POM’s newest functions have increased student interest in the device and he hopes it will keep growing.
To kick off the new school year, Loyola is showing its commitment to student wellness by offering health insurance to students. The university is partnering with Student Educational Benefit Trust to offer three health insurance plans and a supplemental option for all eligible enrolled students. In an email sent to students, Interim Director of Counseling and Health Services Asia Wong said, “The Student Health Insurance plan is a great way to ensure access to adequate healthcare to pay for costs associated with services such as lab work and treatment in the local area.” According to Shannon Lambert, a representative of the insurance company, “The initiative is university-wide, and our Loyola team is an interdisciplinary committee made up of faculty, staff, administrators and students.” The four health care options are he WolfPackCare supplemental plan, the bronze plan, the silver plan and the gold plan. Each plan was designed to offer a variety of accessible coverage to Loyola students. According to the official brochure, the WolfPackCare supplemental plan is intended for students with other coverage, such as a students with a high deductible with a preferred provider organization, out-of-state health maintenance organization or Medicaid Plan. The bronze plan, “is built on a three-tier PPO with services at the SHC (student health clinic) and PCP (primary care physician) Services at
a local area clinic paid for at 100%. Deductibles are waived within the first tier, but apply to services rendered within the second and third tier.” The bronze plan has lower rates but the out-of-pocket services are higher for students. The silver and gold also offer increased rates and decreasing out of pocket costs. Coverage is not limited to just the students as plans are available for a child and student, children and student, spouse and student and a family plan if the student wants the coverage. In addition to the health insurance, enrolled students can take advantage of vision and dental plans for their selves and family members The deadline for applying for insurance through the university is September 15 for the fall semester, January 31 for spring and summer coverage and July 1 for only summer coverage. All students regardless of insurance also have access to the options already available to them on campus, such as counseling and psychiatric services at the University Counseling Center and the primary care at the Student Health Services at the Danna Center. “Costs for appointments at the University Counseling Center and Student Health Services will continue to be included in tuition,” Wong said. Students can find more info on healthcare options by calling the Student Health Benefit Plan at (887) 233-5159, option 5 or Cigna Global Health via the organization’s mobile app.
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Louisiana among top disaster relief spenders in U.S. By John Casey jecasey@my.loyno.edu The state of Louisiana has seen its fair share of devastating natural disasters and, according to a recent study by MOVE.org, it’s costing the state billions of dollars. In fact, the $11 billion that the state spent on property damage as a result of natural disasters over the past decade ranks second only to Texas, which spent a whopping $53 billion. The study analyzed data collected from 2008 until 2018, focusing on eight disasters that cause the most damage to property: flash floods, floods, hurricanes, heavy rain, heavy snow, tornadoes, tsunamis and wildfires. According to the data compiled by MOVE.org, Louisiana’s disaster spending in terms of property damage can be attributed to primarily flooding and flash flooding which accounts for almost $10 billion. Hurricane damage adds on another $935 million and tornado damage costs sit at about $168 million. The remaining four disasters calculated in the study had little to no impact in Louisiana. The tremendous spending by Texas could be almost exclusively attributed to hurricanes and flash flooding, accounting for $50 billion. The author of the study, Darina Murashev, pointed to Hurricane Harvey as the single greatest impact on the state’s disaster spending. “Between January and December of 2017, Texas lost $43,544,000,000 on flash floods, which was the most the state had spent on any natural disaster in the past ten years, so yes, Hurricane Harvey cost the most spending on property damage,” Mu-
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Loyola law grad confirmed as Secretary of Veterans Affairs By: Christopher Gilyard Christion0313@gmail.com
Graph of how much each state lost to natural disasters. Louisiana spent $11 billion on natural disasters from 2008-2018. MOVE.ORG/Courtesy.
rashev said. The National Hurricane Center estimates the total damage from Harvey at $125 billion, the second costliest hurricane since 1900 behind Hurricane Katrina. The states of Tennessee, Alabama and Missouri sit at third, fourth and fifth in terms of property damage spending, respectively. Tennessee, like Louisiana, can point to flooding as the most costly disaster, accounting for nearly 90 percent of its $5 billion in disaster-related property damage spending. For Alabama and Missouri, however, tornado damage accounts for
over 98 percent of Alabama’s $4.5 billion in spending and 80 percent of Missouri’s nearly $4.3 billion in spending. Murashev believes that the human footprint on the environment is a direct contributor to the extent of damage caused by natural disasters. “Even though this was not mentioned in our coverage of which states lost the most money to natural disasters, I do think every state, including Louisiana, is spending more money on natural disasters than 50 years ago, and that may be due to climate change and the way
we treat the Earth,” Murashev said. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Delaware and Hawaii spent the least on property damage over the past decade Delaware spent only $1.3 million over the ten year span. Hawaii spent only $15 million, however, the study does not include numbers from the recent Kilauea volcanic eruptions in 2018 according to Murashev. The US southeast and midwestern regions spent the most as a whole, while the majority of the western United States and New England ranked in the bottom fifteen.
Loyola law grad Robert Wilkie A’88 continues his military service as the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Wilkie was confirmed on July 23. Under his new title as “Secretary of Veterans Affairs,” Wilkie will provide services to the U.S veterans. This includes health care services, and benefits programs. Wilkie has a storied past with the military. Today, Wilkie is an officer in the United States Air Force Reserve assigned to the Office of the Chief of Staff. Before that, however, Wilkie served in the United States Navy Reserve with the Joint Forces Intelligence Command, Naval Special Warfare Group Two, and the Office of Naval Intelligence. Wicker was not the only one to approve of President Trump’s nominee. “Acting secretary Wilkie has performed beyond expectations, embracing the monumental task of assuming control of the nation’s largest bureaucracy.” Member of the Veteran’s Affair Committee, Clay Higgins, said. In a ceremony in the Oval Office, President Trump praised Wilkie’s abilities to lead Veterans Affairs. “These American heroes deserve only the best and they will have it under Robert Wilkie. I have no doubt about it.”
Pope Francis pledges reform amid clergy sex abuse scandal By Jeremy Roebuck Associated Press Pope Francis on Monday condemned the decades of child sex abuse perpetrated by Catholic priests in Pennsylvania and efforts to cover it up as “atrocities,” and vowed to better respond to such crimes in the future. But he offered no indication — in a nearly 2,000-word letter translated into seven languages and released by the Vatican — of any concrete measures he would take to identify or punish complicit bishops. Instead, Francis begged forgiveness for victims’ suffering, and called for prayer and penitence to atone for the “sins” of the wider church. The pope blamed the traditional Catholic adherence to hierarchical decision-making for its failure to sufficiently address past clergy abuse and insisted that lay Catholics worldwide must be a part of reforming its approach. “We acknowledge as an ecclesiastical community that we were not where we should have been, that we did not act in a timely manner realizing the magnitude and gravity of the damage done to so many lives,” he wrote. “We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them.” The message – released just days before a scheduled papal visit to
Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018. ANDREW MEDICHINI/Associated Press.
Ireland, a country marred by clergy sex abuse – constituted Francis’ most frank comments to date on the latest wave of abuse allegations that have eroded trust in Catholic congregations worldwide, and prompted calls both from inside and outside the church for greater accountability. Pennsylvania Attorney Gener-
al Josh Shapiro praised the pope’s message Monday, and called on church leaders statewide to “cease their denials and deflections” and support meaningful reform. Last week, Shapiro’s office unveiled a blistering grand jury report accusing 301 priests in the state of sexual misconduct involving more than 1,000 victims and condemn-
ing several within Pennsylvania’s church hierarchy – including some bishops – of protecting predators over seven decades. Responding to that report Monday, Francis wrote: “The heart-wrenching pain of these victims, which cries out to heaven, was long ignored, kept quiet or silenced. But their outcry was more powerful than all the measures meant to silence it, or sought even to resolve it by decisions that increased its gravity by falling into complicity.” His words echoed messages delivered from pulpits across the state. At weekend Masses, Catholic leaders in the six dioceses spotlighted in the grand jury’s findings – Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Allentown, Scranton, Greensburg, and Erie – sought to denounce the behavior detailed in the report while assuaging feelings of anger, mistrust and confusion within their congregations. In Pittsburgh, where grand jurors accused 99 priests of sexual misconduct, Bishop David Zubik sought to refocus attention on the reforms his diocese has made since the worldwide abuse scandal began in Boston 16 years ago. “I, too, feel that rage,” he said in a Sunday interview on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. But “the church of Pittsburgh today is not the church that’s described in
the grand jury report.” Parishes in the Scranton Diocese played a video message from Bishop Joseph Bambera, who apologized for “misguided and inappropriate decisions by church leaders” in dealing with the 59 priests the grand jury accused there. “It is my hope that, following the Holy Father’s words and teachings, church leaders in Pennsylvania will cease their denials and deflections, and now fully support the grand jury’s recommendations so that survivors have the opportunity to obtain justice and ensure this type of widespread abuse and cover-up never happens again,” Shapiro said. Francis obliquely acknowledged similar reform efforts – from both within and outside the church – in his letter Monday. “We have delayed in applying these actions and sanctions that are so necessary,” he wrote, “yet I am confident that they will help to guarantee a greater culture of care in the present and future.” A statement the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued in response to the grand jury report last week referred to them simply as “sins and omissions.”
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Record-breaking volleyball coach joins team By Andrew Lang and Rosha’e Gibson rlgibson@my.loyno.edu awlang@my.loyno.edu Assistant Volleyball Coach Robert Pitre enters his first season with the Wolf Pack after being hired in the spring. Pitre did not participate in volleyball much until several years ago however. “Frankly, I didn’t really know much about volleyball about six years ago, and then I met my wife who was a (Division I) player at Washington State,” Pitre said. “I learned a lot from her.” Pitre credits much of his knowledge to her and said he runs a beach volleyball club with his wife. Pitre said much of his life is ingrained in volleyball. “When you marry a D-I volleyball player, a lot of our time is spent playing volleyball. Either way we are coaching or playing it,” Pitre said. Pitre’s most recent experience was coaching the Mississippi Gulf Coast Volleyball Club to a 16-10 record. Pitre previously worked as an assistant coach at Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Oregon. During the 2017 season, Pitre helped coach the team to the most conference wins in school history as well as an upset of the school ranked number 15 in the whole Division I of the National Association for InterCollegiate Athletics. Head Coach Jessie Zabal was complimentary of his previous experience in the NAIA. “He coached at the collegiate level previously in the highly competitive Cascade Collegiate Conference within the NAIA,” Zabal said. “He knows and understands the values that we hold here as a competitive, NAIA program and Jesuit University as a whole.” Pitre explained the value he can
Assistant Coach Robert Pitre joins the volleyball team for the first season. Pitre has previous experience at both 16-year-old-club volleyball and at Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Oregon, where he worked as an assistant coach for a team that the school record for conference wins. ROSHA’E GIBSON/The Maroon
bring as an assistant to Coach Zabal. “With Coach Zabal not having an assistant last year with 20 girls on her roster, there wasn’t much time to break the game down into technical aspects,” Pitre said. Zabal cited Pitre’s focus on the details of the game as very valuable. “His intensity and attention to detail have allowed us to focus on position-specific aspects of the game, which has already proven
beneficial to the growth of our program,” Zabal said. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Pitre is a native of Waveland, Mississippi. He said he and his wife and young child moved back home to be closer to family. Pitre valued his different level of coaching as valuable knowledge. “I think being at two different types of levels that I’ve coached at NAIA and then 16-year-old-club
ball, I’ve gained a lot of experience in multiple types of the game,” Pitre said. Pitre noticed the team’s ball control in particular stood out. “That’s something that I truly like about coach Zabal’s theory is that everyone is touching the ball at some point in time and it’s very important that we do it mindfully and I think this team does that,” Pitre said.
Golf team adds three international players to roster By Rosha’e Gibson rlgibson@my.loyno.edu @RoRodagreat1
The Loyola men’s golf team has added three international students to their roster. Business managment freshman Kerem Tanpolat, finance freshman Chong Li Lee and international business freshman Joaquin Perez are different nationalities, joined the Wolf Pack and are expected to make an impact this season. Head coach Drew Goff stated that the players were brought in as part of the recruitment process. According to Goff, they all had their own unique ways of recruitment. Chong Li Lee is from Johor, Malaysia and is someone that Goff has been impressed with for sometime. “Chong Li reached out to me sometime in the fall of last year,” Goff said. “He sent me his recruiting profile, some swing videos, and his results. I was really impressed with his mechanics of his swing and the quality of the tournaments he has placed well in.” Kerem Tanpolat is a rising young player from Istanbul, Turkey that Goff said he is also looking forward to working with.
“Kerem was contacted through an agency that connects international players with universities in the United States,” Goff said. “He has an outstanding resume. He has played for the Turkish national team and is really one of the best young players from their country.” Lastly, Joaquin Perez is a young player from Quito, Ecuador. He is the brother of Jose Perez, part of Loyola’s golf team. Goff said he was told of Joaquin’s talent by Jose Perez. “It was Jose who brought Joaquin to my attention,” Goff said. “For a long time, he said that his younger brother may have been better than him. He played a lot of junior golf and very successful in Ecuador so it was through those conversations that lead us to get him.” Philip Nijoka, business senior, said he sees huge upsides to all three players and said he believes they can make a difference this season. “From what I’ve seen, I think they’re going to improve us quite a bit,” Nijoka said. “They have a lot of talent and potential. With everything that I’ve seen them do and heard them say, they want to be some of the best players that have ever walked through Loyola.”
Pitre felt the team has potential this upcoming year to make noise and even mentioned the possibility of a national tournament bid. “As long as we continue to make good choices off the court, we work together as one unit, I think this team has enough talent and effort and focus to do some great things not only in the regular season, but in the end of the year tournament as well,” Pitre said.
Loyola ranks middle of the pack By Andrew Lang awlang@my.loyno.edu @jlangand87
Finance freshman Chong Li Lee tees off at Bayou Oaks City Park. Li is from Johor, Malaysia, but chose Loyola and joined the golf team. DREW GOFFf/courtesy
Nijoka cited the benefit the new additions can create to the intra-team competition. “It will motivate all the other players to play well because they know they would have to compete with the younger guys to make it to tournaments,” Nijoka said. Nijoka said all three are already on the right track for success. “All of them have their heads on straight, they are focused on what is going on, and they are all willing
to learn and gain insight on what it takes to win and how they could better themselves on and off the golf course.” Goff said he’s hoping the talent added along with returning talent can lead to a successful season. “I feel like the players we have returning along with the talent of the freshmen coming should be enough to push us to one of our goals which is to win the conference championship in April,” Goff said.
In a preseason poll, Southern States Athletic Conference coaches ranked Loyola volleyball fifth, women’s golf fourth, men’s golf sixth, and both men’s and women’s cross-country fourth in the conference. The golf results for the poll match with the teams’ totals last year as the women’s and men’s teams finished fourth and fifth respectively. Volleyball hopes to improve off last year where they finished with 18 wins, the most victories since 2012. Volleyball starts off the year at the Dillard Classic, Aug. 24 against Talladega College. Loyola competes in four games the event, hosted at Dillard University in New Orleans. Cross-country starts the year Sept. 1 in Thibodaux at the Nicholls Cross Country at Nicholls Farm. Women’s golf will begin their season Sept. 24 at the Carey Collegiate Classic in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, while the men begin competitive play at the SCAD Invitational on Sept. 4 hosted at the Savannah College of Arts and Design in Georgia.
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Greek life advice from an insider Recruitment, continued from page 1 1. Keep an open mind
“Going through recruitment was so eye opening! It was so great to see and experience what each sorority does and what each Greek woman feels so passionately about, whether it is sisterhood, philanthropy, or their preference ceremony ritual.” - Amy Ngo, Mass Communication Junior, Gamma Phi Beta. You may think from day one you know exactly who you’ll be running home to on bid day, but remember, recruitment allows you to really get to know the women in each organization on a deeper level so you may be quite surprised. Since Loyola is a tight-knit, small campus even if the girls you are talking to aren’t your future sorority sisters they may be great friends to know on campus. 2. Understand that we’re nervous too
“The thing that I realized going through recruitment on the other side is that these women were just as nervous as I was.” - Becca Driever, Business Analytics Senior, Delta Gamma. Yes, they’ve been in your exact same position, too. Walking into a room and talking to a group of women you’ve never met could be an intimidating exercise, but please believe me when I say- they’re just as nervous as you are. Sororities want you to like them just as much as you want them to like you. As you are trying to convince them you are a great addition to their sorority, they are also trying to prove why you should join their sorority. So keep in mind it really does go both ways. 3. Not getting an invite back doesn’t mean a sorority hates you
“Going through recruitment was so exciting for me. It was a great way to meet new people, even girls who aren’t in my sorority now. But I also struggled when only one sorority asked me back for day 2, but I put my faith in the system and now I couldn’t be happier with my sisters in Gamma Phi Beta.”-Sidney Ovrom, Digital Filmmaking Sophomore, Gamma Phi Beta. From day one of recruitment, you’re most likely going to have your heart set on at least one of the sororities. But please know, that if you don’t get extended an invitation to come back, it doesn’t mean they hated you as a person. The point of a sorority is to find women who they believe carry the same values and interests as they do. So if they believe that you’re a better fit for a different sorority, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong with you. 4. Don’t listen to what you hear
“Going through recruitment I was really quick to doubt the entire process. I never saw myself being in a sorority and it was something I decided to go through on a whim. If I could tell my “Potential New Member” self going through recruitment anything, it would definitely be to ignore all stigmas and stereotypes that come to mind when we think of sorority women. In reality, we are groups of strong women that work towards the most amazing philanthropic efforts, we empower women to be the best they can be and even make our communities a better place.” - Abigail Perez, Biology Junior, Theta Phi Alpha. Leading up to recruitment you may be subject to hear negative comments surrounding a particular organization or women within them. Often times, these rumors aren’t true or over exaggerated, so
Girls of Gamma Phi Beta pose for a picture during Theta Phi Alpha’s grass volleyball tournament. Loyola sorority members emphasized the importance of female empowerment. SIDNEY OVROM/The Maroon.
don’t let what you hear affect your decision. 5. Wear something comfortable, but fashionable
“Panhellenic Recruitment at Loyola does not have all the pressure of a state school. It is very relaxed and really just about getting to know the girls. Everyone that you meet is really sweet and you get the opportunity to build lifelong friendships from that experience.” - Olivia Dadoun, Political Science Sophomore, Alpha Chi Omega. Loyola sororities want to see your true self, so make sure your clothing is an extension of that. Often times at state schools, women feel obligated to dress a certain to impress a particular sorority, at Loyola we embrace panhellenic women from all backgrounds. People who you will one day call your sisters are not going to judge you and want to be-
friend you for who you are. During recruitment you want to look like your best self, but remember that comfort is key. Comfortable shoes and dresses that allow you to move and breathe are the best options as you are going to be doing a lot of walking and moving. When you are comfortable, you tend to feel and act your best. Plus, you want to make sure when you walk into a room of women you are able to be confident and command the room, you don’t want to risk wobbling in new high heels, or even twisting your ankle. 6. Stay positive and don’t forget self-care
“Recruitment can be very emotionally exhausting since you have to have your personality essentially turned on for three days straight. The biggest thing that helped me was staying positive. You will be tired at the end of the day and if you use your remaining energy to
lift yourself up and focus on the good, it will keep you sharp, happy and ready for the next round.” -Jana Sanders, Music Industry Junior, Alpha Chi Omega Your sisters want to make sure you’re happy and healthy, and often times that means being well-fed and well-rested. Recruitment rounds are long… Make sure that you are well rested, fed, and feeling your best as you don’t want to risk becoming hangry and grouchy. Go to bed early! This may be hard as you might be riddled with nerves, but sleep easy dreaming about bid day! If there is one thing to take away from this - don’t sweat recruitment. Take a deep breath before you enter the room and present your best, true self. As cliche as it seems, the process has a way of working out, and more times than not, it happens to be a good fit. Happy Recruitment!
Wolf Pack Welcome gives students ‘a taste’ of Loyola By Alexandria Whitten abwhitte@my.loyno.edu
From August 16-19, first-year students arrived on campus before classes for Wolf Pack Welcome to learn more about Loyola, listen to keynote speakers and bond with classmates. Josslyn Littles, a Krewe leader and senior design major, believes that this year’s Wolf Pack Welcome focused on creating activities that encouraged more participation from the first-year students. Instead of the traditional hypnotist and movie night, the late-night activities this year, including “90s Cartoons & Breakfast,” “Twerk N Tone,” the Silent Disco and game nights in Satchmo’s, helped first-year students bond and connect with their classmates, according to Littles. Wolf Pack Welcome invited three new speakers to motivate and inspire the first-year students. Littles believed that the younger speakers, Bonny Shade and James Robilotta, connected well with the new students. Shade spoke to students about sexual assault on college campuses and Robilotta geared his keynote presen-
tation towards leadership and becoming involved on campus. Krewe leader coordinators, Brianna Daniel-Harkins a pre-law history senior and Danielle Bella, a music therapy senior, agreed that the young speakers’ energetic personalities kept the attention of the first-year student. One of the new activities added to Wolf Pack Welcome was the library scavenger hunt. “We wanted to be proactive about letting students know what we offer,” said Jason Ezell, instruction and research coordinator at Monroe Library. By participating in the scavenger hunt, first year students learned how to log into their accounts on the library computers and how to make reservations for books and study rooms. Victoria Elmwood, the user experience and instruction librarian, believed that the scavenger hunt was a fun way to introduce new students to campus and its resources, without the traditional boring talks. She saw that the students were motivated to participate because they wanted to learn about the resources available
to them. Welcome Back Week is also offering new programming for students to start the 2018 year off right. First-year students had the opportunity to ask Krewe leaders last minute questions during their first week of classes at the “Just Ask Me Table” stationed in the Peace Quad. Sophomore Kick Off cook-out began the new Sophomore Year Experience program on August 21. The program will provide ways to build deeper connections and relationships within the Loyola community. The events will include a new academic support series and “Food For Thought” program where students can dine with a faculty member in the Orleans Room for free, according to an email to the Class of 2021. Littles was excited to see how the new program will strengthen the sophomore class. After Welcome Week, Daniel-Harkins and Bella encouraged new and returning students to learn more ways to get involved on campus at the Student Organization Fair on August 28.
During sophomore kick-off, a student enjoys a sno-ball from a stand sponsored by Lyft. Sophomore Kick Off was a new event at this year’s Welcome Back Week. CATIE SANDERS/The Maroon.
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The Monroe Library has reduced its operating hours this fall semester. It will be closed for the all day on Saturdays. CRISTIAN ORELLANA/ The Maroon.
Cutting library hours affects the “Student Experience” We knew the budget cuts were coming. We knew that staff, faculty and students were being laid off from campus jobs. But we were told that, despite these cuts, the “student experience” would remain unchanged. However, the recent budget cuts have not only left the library staff with fewer hours to work, but the students as well. Coming from someone who used to sleep in the library while working on heftier projects, it’s safe to say that the reduced library hours on the weekend will directly affect the students. Pragmatically speaking, students are losing more than just a place to study or do work. Research and project materials are going to have to be checked out ahead of time and students without access to a printer are going to be straight out of luck. You could argue that students should be proactive and
take care of things ahead of time, but this is both unrealistic and impractical. Many students spend their free time either in work-study or working a job off campus during the week. Weekends are the biggest source of free time for many students and those resources are going to be largely unavailable during that time. But students aren’t just losing the resources the library provides. The library is more than just the sum of its parts. It’s not just books and research materials. It’s a place to be, a place to do work. It’s a place to go to concentrate when your neighbors are having a jam session or when the quidditch team is practicing on the quad. Not every student has a car and not every student wants to drag a backpack full of books and laptops all the way to a coffee shop just to find a quiet spot with free Wi-Fi. I
think it’s safe to say that the library is an integral part of the Loyola student experience, and by taking away those hours from students when they need them most, the experience will be changed for the worse. We get it. Money is tight. Not everyone is going to be able to keep their jobs on campus. And when it comes down to it, what ends up getting cut and what doesn’t is not our decision to make. But whether the people making those decisions realize it or not, the areas of Loyola that have seen budget cuts so far are areas that are very important to students and their experience here at Loyola, be that the Iggy Vols program or, of course, the library. We can’t say for sure what the right budget cut might be. But, it’s disheartening to think that we won’t be able to experience Loyola to the extent that we have in the past.
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Jake enjoys putting his own twist on a patty melt for lunch on August 21, 2018. Instead of spending his time in the Orleans Room, Jake would much rather make his own meals. JACOB MEYER/ The Maroon.
I’m glad I don’t have a meal plan JAKE MEYER Digital filmmaking junior
jwmeyer@ my.loyno.edu
Freshmen beware; eat healthy or not at your own risk. Moving off-campus isn’t just a new-found freedom from dorm rules, or a sense you’ve regained your long-lost privacy for having flatmates but not literal roommates; it’s also a culinary awakening.
I won’t lie, the poor eating habits I kept when living on-campus were my own fault. I was way too-content to swipe-in to the Orleans Room and head straight for the grill in the back to pick up a cheeseburger and a soda. Too many times I overlooked the salad bar or the fruit bowls out of laziness or the ‘inconvenience’ of having to get a second plate, even if I might not have eaten my fill – ‘I’ll just go to the vending machine later’ I’d think to myself. To be perfectly honest, I was a bit hedonistic for those two years I lived on-campus, given that I was just a few steps from the dining hall at any time and wasn’t in-charge of preparing the food I was going to eat. Then I stayed in New Orleans this
past-summer. I had been cognizant of my inexperience in the kitchen, but I promptly decided I would change that – if not for my health, then for my survival at least. After graduating from cold-cuts on white bread and grilled-cheese sandwiches twice daily, I made the call – that’s right – I learned to cook over the phone with my mother giving me the sage wisdom I’d taken for-granted for much of my youth. Bratwursts, grilled-chicken, New-York strip steaks – all deliciously arranged on a plate or on an expertly-toasted bun. Part of learning to cook is learning to choose the correct ingredients, and that is a responsibility you owe yourself if you want to cook well. I’ll
go to Walmart and buy six pounds of Fuji apples not just because I want to include fruit in my diet, but that I’ve included honey, cinnamon, and vanilla extract in a recipe for sweet-sautéed apples for any time of day. For meats, I have a set of five-basic-seasonings for great flavor – salt, pepper, granulated garlic and onion, and paprika. Restocking your food is an equally-important responsibility, and it became part of my growth as a cook to make return trips for different types of cheese, ground-beef, or breakfast meats. The act itself is a perfect storm of factors scientific, technical, and therapeutic. Whether it’s hacking-apart a pineapple with your shiny santoku knife, taking an hour
in the morning to fry sausages and bacon, improving your grilledcheese game, or paying penance for your sins while you juice the lemons and limes for a homemade margarita mix, you will benefit from the self- care that cooking your own food entails. Cooking has also made me more-creative, as I’ve experimented on a whim with fascinating results. Chop and sauté the aforementioned Fujis, then bake them on some biscuits for an improvised kolache-style pastry, or take the leftover zest from your margarita mix and fry it with a chicken-breast for a sweet meat that goes well on a grilled sandwich with swiss-cheese.
Letter: Don’t take voting for granted INDIA YARBOROUGH Mass communication senior
iayarbor@my.loyno. edu
You might get annoyed, but I’m gonna ask…are you voting in your state’s upcoming midterm election? If not, why? Weeks ago, I asked a childhood friend of mine the same questions. She proceeded to iterate the too-often issued sentiment “I try to stay out of politics.”
When I hear my peers say they prefer to avoid politics – because “you just can’t trust anybody these days” or “the news media twists everything” – it breaks my heart. According to a November 2016 report from the Public Broadcasting Service, more than 58 percent of eligible voters in the United States cast their ballots in the most recent presidential election. However, the United States Elections Project revealed less than 45 percent of voters ages 18 to 29 exercised their rights to vote. That was the lowest percentage turnout of any age group. It frustrates me when capable, educated young adults consider political discussions irrelevant or voting in elections an afterthought. I was raised to believe a vote is a
voice. I was raised to believe access to information is not something that should be taken for granted. I was raised to believe thinking critically about ideas; engaging in thoughtful, fact-driven discussion with people who might not always think like you; and questioning the status-quo are desirable traits of individuals and citizens unified under a democratic political system. Until I took the time to talk about voting with my friend, I thought she had been raised to believe in these traits, too. I guess that was naïve thinking. I’m sure many of you have heard the phrase “assume makes an ass out of u and me.” Well, assuming your friends hold certain values will do just that.
I’m not writing this opinion piece to criticize or belittle that friend. I’m telling this story to illustrate how critical one-on-one conversations about news and politics, both local and national, can be. Ultimately, I hope every single registered voter casts a ballot in this year’s midterm elections – either in person or via absentee – but I know that’s not realistic. Instead, I challenge people of all ages to take a far simpler first step: start a conversation. It is through face-to-face interaction we begin to break down barriers with people who think differently from us. Tweets, Instagram stories and Facebook comments, though useful, may never prompt the same sort of understanding.
Journalism and politics overlap so unapologetically, and adults of all ages should be conscious consumers of both. However, consuming such media should not be the end of our political engagement. When coverage ends, conversations should begin. Talk about candidates’ platforms. Let others know what issues are important to you. Share personal stories that provide context to ideas. And don’t forget to listen. Those conversations hold so much potential. I may be an optimistic journalist (that’s an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one), but I truly believe the right words have the power to open minds and influence hearts. Speak up. Be heard.
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