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Loyola University • New Orleans • Volume 96 • Issue 20 • April 6, 2018

THE MAROON FOR A GREATER LOYOLA

Climate survey results released

By Rose Wagner rmwagner@my.loyno.edu Nearly two-thirds of the professionals at Loyola have thought about leaving, as have about a third of undergraduates, but that doesn't mean the school is unwelcoming, according to a study unveiled this week. The study, called the Campus Climate Assessment, showed that the majority of respondents feel valued and "comfortable" with the current climate at Loyola despite having their concerns. Rankin and Associates researcher Emil Cunningham presented the results of Loyola's communitywide Campus Climate Assessment during a town hall on Tuesday, April 3. The 111 question survey collected data on the current perspectives, standards and behaviors of students, staff and faculty at Loyola, and 29 percent of the Loyola community submitted responses, falling one percentage point below Rankin and Associate's goal for data generalization. In addition, the consulting agency did not release anecdotes or answers given by groups of five or fewer people in order to maintain the anonymity of respondents. The survey revealed that 72 percent of respondents felt "comfortable" or "very comfortable" with the overall climate of Loyola. The majority of faculty also reported feeling

valued by their respective departments and the majority of students noted feeling valued by faculty. But the survey revealed more than the positive aspects of life at Loyola. “Did you answer the way Loyola was hoping you would answer?" Cunningham said. "Yeah, that didn’t happen. Y’all were honest." Of undergraduate respondents, 37 percent said they have considered leaving Loyola. This statistic is about 7 percent higher than average, according to Cunningham, and the majority of these students reported lacking a sense of belonging as their main concern. On the same note, 64 percent of faculty and 65 percent of staff said they have considered leaving Loyola. The number one reason for this consideration among faculty was not their salaries, as Cunningham expected, but institutional instability or "what many respondents called the ‘sinking ship’ nature of Loyola," according to the official survey summary. When asked about this finding, David Borofsky, interim provost and chief operating officer, said that retention, both of students and of professional staff, is a critical issue. "The responses you note reflect what the university has gone through over the past five years – and while they are revealing, they are not entirely a surprise," Borofsky

said. "We all know the challenges we have faced, and as a university, we have been both transparent and open about those challenges." The survey offers an opportunity to reflect on and change the aspects of Loyola that isolate community members, according to Cunningham. Across all demographics, 23 percent of respondents reported having experienced hostile conduct or harassment at Loyola. For undergraduate students, this was reported to mainly take the form of exclusion by other students within the classroom. Of those who reported experiencing forms of harassment or victimization, 21 percent noted feeling somewhat responsible and only 18 percent contacted a Loyola resource. Celeste Lavelle, sociology junior, attended the town hall and emphasized that these results contradict Loyola's mission. "If we’re going to be a school that boasts diversity and inclusion then we need to make sure our students, faculty and staff actually feel included and cared for,” Lavelle said. Black and African-American undergraduate students also reported less perceived academic success than their white counterparts, and undergraduate students with multiple disabilities reported less perceived academic success than their peers with no disabilities.

Cunningham noted that awareness of harassment and institutional inequalities is key. “If you don’t call it what it is, ageism, sexism, racism, homophobia,” Cunningham said, "then we are not doing justice to those who are pouring their hearts out in surveys like this.” The survey also revealed that 16 percent of all respondents had experienced some form of unwanted sexual conduct, with 6 percent having experienced "unwanted sexual contact," defined as rape or sexual assault. Cunningham referred to Loyola as an outlier in this regard, as the average Rankin and Associates survey finds reports of unwanted sexual contact — rape or sexual assault — ranging between 3 and 4 percent, according to Cunningham. The majority of students surveyed who had experienced sexual assault while at Loyola experienced it during the first semester of their first year, with Cunningham stating that anecdotes about Biever Hall "came up multiple times during the survey as an area of concern" with regards to this and other topics. Additionally, only 19 percent of these students contacted a university resource after the unwanted contact, while 71 percent told a friend. "The primary rationale cited for not reporting these incidents was that respondents expected a poor response from Loyola," according to

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the official survey summary. Peer education about sexual assault and support is critical according to Cunningham, as friends are the main resource these students are turning to. "If we hide behind this notion that 'it’s happening outside' and 'we’re okay because we’re a bubble here,' then we’re not doing justice for folks who need to identify a resource,” Cunningham said. “Things that happen outside happen here.” In response to the release of the results, the university held listening sessions for faculty and staff on April 4 and one on April 5 for students. For those that missed the presentation, the survey summary is available online for all Loyola community members to access. The university held these sessions and has made the data available in order to develop plans of action in response to the survey results. “We’re committed to developing and initiating at least three actions in the next year,” Chief Diversity Officer Sybol Anderson said. "We have purposefully not begun to identify next steps until now because we want to do this together as a community.” The survey results in conjunction with the university's pledge to action indicate that Loyola is headed towards an era of climate change.

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news All Loyola fraternities to follow same rules April 6, 2018 The Maroon

By Emma Gilheany eagilhea@my.loyno.edu

The Department of Student Involvement decided to merge professional fraternities with Fraternity and Sorority Life. The change was put into effect for the spring semester. Many students were surprised and confused about the change due to the lack of a transitional period. “The change was basically just out of the blue. We weren’t given any heads up about this. I just kind of got the email at the end of last semester ‘Oh, by the way, you are going to be a part of Greek life,’” said Cecelia Tran, finance senior and president of Alpha Kappa Psi, one of the professional fraternities that was recently joined with Greek life. According to the Loyola Greek life website, professional fraternities are focused on promoting interest in a certain profession, while social fraternities and sororities are more focused in fostering individual character traits. Professional fraternities hold professional events, fundraising events, retreats, service events, social events and much more. Often confused as honor societies, professional fraternities hold rush events, like their social counterparts, in which candidates must go through a pledge process, which includes interviews and sometimes testing. “It’s not just professionalism, it is a brotherhood,” Tran said. Because these organizations have a pledge process, the decision was made to join them with Fraternity and Sorority Life, according to Chris McQueen, assistant director of Fraternity and Sorority Life and New Student Programs. “It is a national trend to have such organizations report through FSL (Fraternity and Sorority Life) as they have a recruitment, new member process and host programming.

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For the first time in more than a century, a non-Jesuit may lead Loyola University New Orleans. The Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J., announced his retirement earlier this year, sparking a nationwide search for his replacement. But, because of several factors, including an international shortage of qualified Jesuit priests, Loyola’s Board of Trustees opened that search to any qualified candidate. Previously, the university’s charter required that the president be a Jesuit. But the Board revised the charter to remove that requirement. Interim Provost and Chief Operating Officer David Borofsky said that including non-Jesuits into the pool of candidates means that the university can widen its search to include people with the very specific talents required to successfully and sustainably lead the university. “They want somebody who is energetic, someone who is visible, who can build relationships,” Borofsky said. That said, Loyola’s Board of Trustees is not ruling out a Jesuit — if the right one applies. John Head, Loyola’s director of

Ambrose and Cassama have plans for campus By Tyler Wann wtwann@my.loyno.edu

Gamma Phi Beta members pose in the Audubon Room after winning Loyola’s Greek Week competition March 22, 2018. The Greek Week teams participated in a series of games and events earning points throughout the week, in a spirited competition . LOYOLA GREEK LIFE/Courtesy.

This is a result of incidences of hazing and risky behavior,” McQueen said. Professional fraternities now have to follow the rules and guidelines that all Greek life organizations must follow. That was not the case prior to this semester. These changes will, among other things, require professional fraternities’ presidents to have monthly meetings with all the Greek life presidents. The professional fraternities now follow the Standards of Excellence which previously only applied to social Greek life organizations. The Standards of Excellence focus on

academics, chapter management, member development and community involvement for these organizations. “It was just a lot of things that were pushed on us that we didn’t know about before,” Tran said. McQueen focused on the potential benefits of this change. “These changes will provide additional support for them (professional fraternities) and their new members with different trainings and professional developments so that they will be able to operate and run their chapters,” McQueen said. Tran emphasized the lack of a

transitional period professional fraternities were given regarding these changes. “Could we get a little grace period, or transitioning period? Because this is all completely new to us. We have no idea what we are doing whatsoever,” Tran said. Despite the confusion the changes have caused for student leaders, McQueen is confident that the changes will have positive effects. “This is a growing community, and as we bring on new organizations they will understand the office is here to develop the holistic student,” McQueen said.

Possible big changes with presidential search underway By Tia Teamer

enrollment management, said that by saying it would only hire a Jesuit president, Loyola would be cutting out a lot of qualified people. “This gives the search committee a lot of flexibility for the right fit and the right person for this very crucial time for Loyola University New Orleans.” In the search for a new leader, the Board of Trustees will require a fundraising and data-driven background which they had not in the past. The Rev. James Carter, S.J., served as Loyola’s longest serving president in the 1980s and ‘90s. He said the shortage of Jesuits has its roots going back decades. “We knew in the ‘70s that we were going to be short Jesuits 20 or 30 years out because the number of Jesuits were going down,” Carter said. And Loyola isn’t alone in its struggle to find a Jesuit president. According to the association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, there are currently 15 lay people serving as presidents of Jesuit institutions out of the 28 Jesuit colleges and university across the country. The Rev. Ted Dziak, S.J., Loyola’s chaplain and vice president of Mission and Ministry, said that even without a Jesuit at the helm, Loyola

isn’t in danger of losing its unique character. He added that in general, Jesuits have become less interested in administrative work and would rather be professors and leaders in university mission and ministry. “We’re now at a point where Jesuits are helping lay people run schools rather than being co-partners,” Dziak said. Whoever is chosen as the next president will be charged with setting Loyola on a long-term sustainable path. That’s because in 2013, the university enrolled 200 fewer students than administrators expected, sparking a years-long budget crisis, layoffs and university restructuring. Sam Reich, a Loyola student ambassador, said she looks forward to the change in leadership. “Having someone different would be like, wow, and have students see themselves like they could be president, not just a white male Catholic,” Reich said. If the next president does end up being a lay man or woman, the Association of Jesuit Universities and Colleges has created an accreditation process designed to ensure the lay person is well versed in the Jesuit mission. Borofsky said working within the

Jesuit tradition has helped him form his worldview. “It requires you to understand things a little different in terms of why Mass is so important and why we take a day and have a Holy Mass and close the university,” Borofsky said. But in the end, Borofsky is confident that the university’s future will include strong Jesuit ties. “It doesn’t matter how many men in black shirts are here. What really matters is what we do to help foster it for everyone, and I think whether it’s a lay person or a Jesuit at the top that would be the ultimate decision on whether it remains a Jesuit University for everyone,” Borofskys said. For his part, Carter said that having a qualified Jesuit president might be the best-case scenario, but he is fine with whatever outcome the search committee decides. “Deep down inside I would like to live in a world where there are enough Jesuit candidates, but that is not the world we live in, and it may not be very comfortable,” Carter said. The university expects to have a president chosen by May 2018.

Sierra Ambrose and Joann Cassama were recently elected to the positions of President and Vice President of the Student Government Association for next year and are ready to embark on their SGA journey to better Loyola’s campus. The pair ran on a platform of transparency and diversity, promising to cater to all corners of campus in the most open and honest way possible. Ambrose said she plans on upholding those values, with her initiatives being focused on the health and wellness of the student body as a whole. Cassama said that they were welcomed into SGA with the attitude of “no days off,” and that they have been working vigorously to learn the ropes of student government since their election. Ambrose also said that they have been busy putting the budget together and meeting with administrators to prepare for the coming year. “Right now, we’re getting our feet in the water early so that when the next school year does come around, we’ll be able to just row forward. We’re getting our schedules filled out so that we’re ready to be on the ball,” Ambrose said. The plans for next year include setting up an international festival for students. Ambrose said that she was inspired by a similar festival from her hometown of Lafayette and would like to see the same sort of event take place on campus to show off different cultures that exist in and around New Orleans. “It’s a great way to help diversify a community and show a lot of history, and it would be a great fund raiser as well,” Ambrose said. The pair said that they want the Loyola community to feel comfortable approaching them, and plan on serving with an open door policy. “We are always open. You can shoot me emails or anything. I won’t hesitate to text back,” Cassama said. “I want students to be able to take advantage of that so we can push more for what they want.” They said they encourage students to come to the weekly senate meetings in the SGA office in the basement of the Dana Center. “Don’t feel scared to come down the stairs and talk to us. This is the chance for students to tell their senate what they want to see going on around campus. I feel like students should be aware and take advantage of that so we can push more for what they want as well,” Ambrose said. Cassama doesn’t see their enthusiasm for the job fading out any time soon. “I can see this excitement going through the full term,” she said. “ A lot of people were behind us with our initiatives and it’s exciting to be in this position where I know I can fulfil these promises.” Ambrose echoed this sentiment. “I’m looking forward to a lot of change,” she said. “It’s meeting the requirements of fulfilling everything we’re promising, but doing it one step at a time. And doing it right.”

WORLDVIEW

April 6, 2018 The Maroon

Loyola remembers Tom Benson’s legacy

Low-barrier homeless shelter to open

By Miles Rouen & Sofia Samayoa

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The death of prominent New Orleans figure Tom Benson has left a vacancy in the Loyola community where his name was a dominant presence. Benson, 90, was regarded as a key figure at Loyola for his donations to the school over the years. He was best known by others as the beloved owner of the Saints and Pelicans. Benson, a billionaire, acquired his wealth as the owner of automobile dealerships. He became a household name when he purchased the Saints in 1985. Benson graduated from Loyola in 1948 and went on to became one of Loyola’s top donors in history. An honorary doctorate was awarded to him by the university in 1987, and he received the Integritas Vitae Award, Loyola’s highest honor, in 2010. The Rev. Ted Dziak, S.J., who serves as University Chaplain, said that Benson’s passing is especially felt at the university. “It is a great loss to us,” he said. “Not only was he a major benefactor in supporting the school, he gave a $5 million grant for students to receive scholarships.” Dziak said Benson personified the Jesuit mission of being a man for others. “He came from very humble beginnings, and he tried to help those who helped him,” he said. “All of the educational institutions who supported him when he was just another student, he remembered and he helped in his outreach to various communities by sharing his wealth.” With Benson’s passing, campus interest about the development of the Tom Benson Jesuit Center has been renewed. The Center, dedicated to Benson, has been in development since 2010 when he made an $8 million pledge to the school. It was originally planned to house Mission and Ministry offices and a chapel in the location of the former university library that was torn down. Dziak said that with Benson’s death and the fact that there will soon be a lay president at Loyola, the building is now a “higher priority.” However, he revealed that details are still pending. “As the university changed, needs changed from the original plan for the Jesuit Center,” he said. “The fu-

New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson walking on the field before the NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in New Orleans on Dec. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

ture is to figure out how to downsize it to embody what he wanted in his memory and to figure out our particular needs in what we want for the building. ” According to Dziak, they are now looking at making it primarily a chapel that will improve upon the current student chapel in Bobet Hall. He also says that the location is still not set in stone. Dziak said that plans for the center will be decided in the coming weeks and months. He assures that no matter what the final details of the Center will be, Benson’s legacy will be fully represented in this institution. “Benson wanted to help the university in moving towards developing a central location that embodied the Jesuit Catholic presence here, and that is what the Center will be,”

he said. Benson’s legacy is entrenched in both the university and the city. The statue at the Saints and Pelicans Performing Center in Metairie is still filled with flowers, beads and messages to Tom Benson and his family. Many who worked for him released statements of gratitude. Fans and tourists reacted to his death and left messages like “rest in peace Mr. Benson, Saints 4 EVER…” along with flowers. A funeral mass was held for him at St. Louis Cathedral and was followed by a second line. “Mr. Benson was the turning point for the New Orleans NFL and NBA teams, and these teams bring happiness to those of us who enjoy sports and love this city,” fan Eduardo Lopez said.

Louisiana teachers won’t be allowed to carry guns at schools, lawmakers decided Wednesday as they rejected a proposal opposed by law enforcement, educators and the governor. After about two hours of debate on how best to protect schoolchildren in the wake of deadly school shootings, the House criminal justice committee killed the bill by a vote of 9-7. Rep. Raymond Garofalo, the Chalmette Republican who sponsored the bill, said that laws barring guns on school grounds invite at-

tacks. But if teachers who have concealed carry permits and have gone through active shooter training were allowed to bring guns to school, shooters would stay away, he said. “We have gun-free zones, and it’s basically a welcome mat for criminals and crazies,” he told the panel of lawmakers. “To me, this is all about taking up that welcome mat that says ‘hey, come here and slaughter our students like sheep,’ which we’ve had up for a long time.” Opponents said the policy is bound to result in unintended shootings and would create confusion in the event of a school shooting. They also said teachers didn’t become educators to police schools.

“When I think about my granddaughter, and my grandchildren, who are attending school, and I think about their teacher has a gun in one hand and has a book in the other hand, we’re turning that school into the wild, wild west,” said Rep. Barbara Norton, a Shreveport Democrat. Garofalo said Louisiana State Police opposed his bill. The 20,000-member Louisiana Association of Educators also was opposed; its president, Deborah Meaux, called the bill a “knee-jerk” reaction to the problem of mass shootings at schools. Separately, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has said he doesn’t like

Homelessness remains a major problem in New Orleans, and a new homeless shelter seeks to answer the problem. Located downtown at the site of the old Veterans Affairs Hospital, the shelter broke ground in January. It cost the city $2.5 million. The shelter is called a “low-barrier” shelter because it provides easy access and offers a place to temporarily house the city’s homeless. The facility will offer 100 beds for use. Some have concerns that the shelter will not do enough to combat the problem of homelessness in the city. Steve Scaffidi, a New Orleans documentary filmmaker and author of the report “Changing the Face of Homelessness,” has reservations about how effective the facility will be in serving long-term needs of the homeless. “On a freeze night the shelter will be very valuable, but the opportunity for growth is slim,” he said. “It gets them off the street and gets them a bed but will not rehabilitate or educate anybody, which is what the city needs.” Scaffidi said that he hopes the city will eventually begin to expand the shelter’s services and offer rehabilitation to the homeless. It is yet to be seen what Mayor-Elect Cantrell will do in her policies on homelessness when she takes office in May. The city hopes to open the shelter by this Spring.

Increase in car burglaries plagues 2nd district By Andrew Lang awlang@my.loyno.edu @langand87

The sign for the future site of the Tom Benson Jesuit Center stands between Monroe Hall and the sculpture garden April 4, 2018. CHRISTIAN ORELLANA/The Maroon.

Louisiana lawmakers spurn idea to arm teachers for safety By Anthony Izaguirre, Associated Press

By Miles Rouen

the idea of arming teachers and instead favors having more trained officers in schools. State lawmakers have filed roughly two dozen bills involving guns this year, most of which stem from the massacre at a Florida high school in February where 17 people were killed by a former student. Several Republicans have proposed measures adding more firearms on school grounds, though legislators have so far been hesitant to take that step. Last week, a Senate committee voted down a proposal to let armed civilians act as school security guards but approved a bill allowing for bulletproof backpacks at schools.

Overall crime in New Orleans is down so far this year by a sizable 10 percent. This information is according to a Management Analytics for eXcellence report on the 2nd District of New Orleans. However, the report shows that a recent uptick in crime in the New Orleans Police Department’s 2nd District has brought trends much closer to the numbers from last year. The increase is due partly to a drastic increase in car burglaries over the last four weeks. After only having 19 reported cases from Feb. 4 to March 3, the number more than doubled with 42 reported cases from March 4 to March 31. According to the police, the cause of many of the cases of auto burglary involved people leaving their cars unlocked. Other crimes have seen considerable recent rises. Shoplifting has seen a major increase of 72 percent this year, and reports of all assaults have nearly doubled. Conversely, there are some crimes that have decreased in the same time frame. Residential burglaries and armed robberies are down significantly in the district.

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JC does sports: Boxing

April 6, 2018 The Maroon

Wolf Pack baseball break losing streak By Andres Fuentes aafuente@my.loyno.edu @af_nola

Snapping a 16-game losing streak against a longtime rival is always sweet. The Loyola baseball team got to experience such a win versus Spring Hill College in a double-header. The Wolf Pack won Game 1, 8-6, marking their first victory since March 5 versus Dakota State University. The Badgers got ahead of Loyola in Game 2, taking down the visiting team 4-13. In the first game, Loyola came swinging early hitting two runs in just the first inning and then three more in the second inning while leaving Spring Hill scoreless. The Badgers tried their best to rally, but to no avail as, biology freshman, Payton Alexander helped Loyola slipped through with a late “nail in the coffin” home run in the

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“JC does sports” is a series where sports columnist JC Canicosa engages in different club and varsity sports around campus and describes his experiences as a reporter attempting to be athletic.” Weighing in at 140 pounds, majoring in journalism, with an official record of 0 KO’s and 0 losses, the 2016 Olympic gold-viewing boxing amateur of the world, I, JC “John Christian” Canicosa was ready to take on mixed martial arts instructor Jose Taveras. We skipped the punching carcasses in a meat locker part of training and jumped straight into boxing. Taveras went over the meticulous fundamentals of boxing: stance, positioning, technique, how to punch. But all of this was seemingly forgotten as soon as we started the sparring. As experience definitely proved to be the best teacher in boxing, I quickly learned to never take your eyes off of your opponent or you will get punched in the face. Don’t get lured in to throwing punches complacently or you will get punched in the face. And don’t jab and miss or you will get punched in the face. After the fifth or so time taking a shot to the head, my prefacing statement, “No, Jose, I’m good. We don’t have to start off with head gear. I’ll be fine,” regrettably replayed in my mind, as I felt a potential nosebleed coming on. But as the adrenaline started to

While taking on boxing in Loyola’s University Sports Complex, sports columnist JC Canicosa did not exactly “float like a butterfly,” on March 22, 2018. However, he found a “hidden gem” where students can spend an afternoon. JOSE TAVERAS/The Maroon.

kick in, and Survivor’s iconic “Eye of the Tiger” began to play in my head, I was able to get more of a rhythm down. I ducked and jabbed when I needed to duck and jab. I blocked punches with my forearm and sidestepped when punches were thrown at my face. And I felt just about ready to start counter-punching back. Which is when I learned the next important lesson in sparring: don’t let the adrenaline make you make mistakes or you will get punched in the face. So even though I wasn’t exactly Floyd “Money” Mayweather in the ring (or Loyola’s University Sports

Complex), I did have a lot of fun training with Loyola’s Mixed Martial Arts club and genuinely learned a lot about boxing as a sport. The MMA club teaches a variety of different fighting styles like grappling, stick fighting, and kick boxing. All of which are different aspects of this sport that I would love to explore more. Led by instructors Jose Taveras and Jason Augusta, Loyola’s MMA Club is definitely one of the university’s hidden gems. Rating: 4/5 “Rocky” sequels Verdict: My left stroke probably isn’t going viral any time soon...

final inning. In the next game, the Badgers bit back hard, scoring 13 runs throughout the first five innings of the game. Loyola tried to answer back but could only manage four runs through the same stretch. With the split series on the road, the baseball team had some notable stat lines. Business freshman, Zachary Cook went 5-6, with four runs, two doubles and a stolen base against Spring Hill. He now leads the team in runs this season with 19 and is a perfect 8-8 in stolen bases this year. Alexander went 4-6 with two runs, two RBI a double and one stolen base to go along with his home run. Loyola now has a record of 16-24 and a conference record of 1-14. The single win of the series marks the third road win this year. The team will hit the road again for a three-game series versus Brewton-Parker starting on April 6.

SGA to sponsor buses for athletic events By Andres Fuentes aafuente@my.loyno.edu @af_nola

The Loyola Student Government Association aims to bring Wolf Pack fans closer to the action. The student-run organization will sponsor bus rides for Loyola students to attend three different sporting events this month. Loyola students have the opportunity to attend a tennis match and two baseball games in New Orleans. The tennis match will be held at City Park on April 6 versus the University of Mobile. Both tennis teams will face off against their conference rivals.

The first baseball game will be against No. 11 William Carey University on April 14. The game will feature the Wolf Pack team in their final game of the series versus their conference opponent at Segnette Field. The second baseball game will be on Senior Day, April 21. The Loyola seniors will be honored for their time on the diamond while the team faces off versus the University of Mobile. The buses will be parked at Mercy Lot and will depart at 12:15 p.m. each day before the game and will bring the students back to campus afterward.

Water polo student-athletes become student-coaches By Andrew Lang awlang@my.loyno.edu @langand87

Typically student-athletes perform on the field, ball out on the court or run their hearts out on the track while the coaches lead and guide them from afar. However, for two water polo athletes, their team roles are both in the water and on the sidelines. Biology sophomore, Dhalia Martinez and business management senior Aubrey Palhegyi stepped up to become coaches in the club sport’s second year. “It’s a very odd dynamic because you expect a coach or one sole adult figure, but then it’s kind of like a ragtag group of athletes kind of just working together. But I think it really just builds our bonds together as a team because we depend on each other and everyone kind of contributes a little bit to every practice,” Martinez said. Martinez and Palhegyi took on their roles after former head coach Sean Creedon could no longer fill the role due to scheduling conflicts, according to Martinez. Palhegyi discovered the difference between playing and coach-

ing early on. “I came in already knowing how to play the game, but I quickly realized that just because you know how to play doesn’t mean that you can immediately transfer that knowledge magically to the team,” Palhegyi said. Martinez and Palhegyi research water polo coaching methods to develop the plans for practice, preparing athletes for new tricks and skill sets. “I know we watch a lot of tutorial videos about new tricks and new skill sets,” Martinez said. “ I go online because there are some online coaching books for water polo and they just talk through drills and stuff and I try to replicate the drills at practice or I just think about stuff I’ve done in old practices and then I try to replicate that in our practices as well.” Palhegyi also assigns the team research to do. “I gave them spring break homework,” Palhegyi said. “‘Hey, here’s a 50-minute women’s Olympic game. Watch it and tell me what you learn when we get back from break.’” Even during games, Martinez and Palhegyi both coach, but Martinez said there’s a downside to not hav-

ing a leader always providing a perspective from outside the pool. “Obviously, being in the water, we can’t see everything and then Aubrey’s not always out of the water either so he can’t see everything so I think it would be more beneficial to have a coach out of the water who can always tell us what’s going on and have an overview of the game,” Martinez said. However, Martinez did not feel that this downside has been too significant a hurdle. “I think it’s only slightly hurting us because other than that, our players are used to me and Aubrey yelling from the water so it’s not that they’re having drawbacks in the game because it’s what they’re used to,” Martinez said. Avery Hill, chemistry freshman, joined the team this year and noticed that each coach has a different function. “(Palhegyi) will be talking about the theory of the game and he’ll have a lot of techniques he’ll teach,” Hill said. “(Martinez) kind of takes more of the organization. She organizes the stuff and she knows a good deal of water polo as well.” The different roles of the student-athletes balance the team, ac-

Dhalia Martinez, biology sophomore, takes a shot at a water polo goal during practice on April 4, 2018. Martinez and Aubrey Palhegyi, buisness management senior, both took the reigns of the club sport when their coach could no longer attend practice. CRISTIAN ORELLANA/The Maroon.

cording to Palhegyi “We make the joke that Dhalia is our spiritual leader and I’m our physical leader, but she’s great at getting everybody to practice, at being there and organizing us,” Palhegyi said. The bond between the two coaching styles has led to positive results for the team as they reflect on this year compared to last year.

“I feel like it’s built a stronger team this year than last year because people came when they wanted to but this year people feel more obligated to come because we all work together,” Martinez said. The team will compete this Saturday, April 7, against their crossstreet rival Tulane University at 11:30 a.m. at the Riley Center.

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Local literary festival returns for 32nd year By Catie Sanders casande2@my.loyno.edu

The iconic cry of “Stella!” echoed through Jackson Square on Sunday, March 25 in a fitting homage to Tennessee Williams on the final day of the 2018 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. All were welcome to express their admiration for the “A Streetcar Named Desire” playwright at the festival, which ran from March 21 to March 25. For over 30 years, the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival has given attendees a sense of why Williams deemed New Orleans his spiritual home through nearly 100 events, including the Stella shouting contest. John Biguenet, chairman of Loyola’s English department, participated in numerous panels at the festival in past years, including one on playwriting. “Young writers have the chance to make that kind of connections that allow them to begin to have their work in front of audiences,” Biguenet said. “Another aspect to the event is making professional contact that leads to publication, so meeting writers and agents, or a producer.” Loyola’s English department provided free tickets to students who wished to attend the festival. Festival sites were all within walking distance from each other in the French Quarter. Events took place at historic sites such as Jackson Square and Le Petit Théâtre Du Vieux Carré. A traveler by nature, Tennessee Williams always found his way back to New Orleans and had at least eight known residences in French Quarter neighborhoods. One of these residences was also a festival site, the Hotel Monteleone. For those with a love for the author or an interest in the unique architecture of New Orleans, the Tennessee Williams Literary Walking Tour took guests through every hotel, home and apartment in which Williams was known to have stayed. In addition to these events at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival has accompa-

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Judges and contest officials overlook the Stella and Stanley shouting contest March 25, 2018 in the French Quarter. The festival pays homage to the iconic playwright Tennessee Williams, whose play “A Streetcar Named Desire” is set in New Orleans. CATIE SANDERS/ The Maroon.

nied Williams’ festival since 2003. Originally formed as a way to provide the New Orleans community with information about HIV/AIDS, the focus of Saints and Sinners now is to bring together creators and fans of LGBTQ literature. Emerging authors or anyone interested in writing attended festival workshops that gave advice on everything from the makings of a great memoir to how to become a self-publisher. Attendees were able to stop in to reading sessions which gave authors a platform to share a taste of their favorite works. For those who enjoyed what they heard, almost all books featured in the readings as well as books on the life of Tennessee Williams and the city of New Orleans could be found in a pop-up bookstore stationed at the festival’s headquarters, the Hotel Monteleone. The Saints and Sinners offered a wide range of panels at the festival.

The Human Rights: The Struggle Continues panel brought together authors and activists for a discussion on how they view advancements in the struggle for human rights. One panel speaker was Uriel Quesada, associate dean and professor for the College of Arts and Sciences. As an editor and the author of eight works of fiction, Quesada fit in among the other panelists and talents at the Saints and Sinners Festival. “We are living in a world where human and civil rights are constantly questioned,” Quesada said. “The panel offered different approaches to activism, from Latinx LGBTQ organizations to reflections on race and ethnic tensions in America.” By paying homage to the artists of the past and emphasizing the diversity of the present, both festivals celebrated the unique culture of New Orleans literature.

Contestants in the “A Streetcar Named Desire” themed shouting contest let out their best “Stella!” cries March 25, 2018. The contest was one of many events that took place during the 2018 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. CATIE SANDERS/The Maroon.

Ear protection rings true for Loyola musicians By Anna Knapp annaknapp6612@gmail.com @sidneymajee

Researchers have known for years that loud music can damage your hearing, and a Loyola student is taking her health into her own hands. Music senior Allison Hasson has been playing the flute for years, but hearing the sweet sounds are getting more difficult. She is sensitive to sound and can barely hear low voices. For Hasson, further sensitivity to sound and hearing loss would mean the loss of her passion. “My whole sound life flashed before my eyes, and I realized I could possibly have permanent hearing loss,” Hasson said. While rehearsing, Hasson uses an app to measure the sound decibels of her instrument. Recently, the app maxed out for more than five min-

Professor teaches adult dance classes

utes, meaning potential permanent hearing loss. A study by German researchers found that working musicians topped the charts for hearing loss. Yielding similar results, a study at the University of Bremen said that musicians are four times more likely to suffer from noise induced hearing loss than non-musicians. Serena Weren, professor of music, urges students like Hasson to protect their ears and wear earplugs. “When you consider that sound protection and your ears are one of your most valuable senses and are required to be a musician, that’s something that’s worth protecting,” Weren said. Hasson and many other students now wear earplugs every rehearsal. “I want to be able to hear music,” said Hasson. Allison Hasson plays the flute during her rehearsal at Loyola on March 8, 2018. Hasson plays with earplugs at each rehearsal. ANNA KNAPP/The Maroon.

Tucked away to the side of the Communications and Music Complex, preparatory arts professor Alyssa Stover teaches a ballet class for adults. Stover, a Texas native, has been a professor at Loyola since the fall semester of 2015. She began as a ballet teacher for Loyola’s Preparatory Arts Program working with children ages seven to 12. Stover has taught jazz and ballet classes for the theatre arts and dance department, became the dance coordinator for the Preparatory Arts Program and even teaches ballet for the New Orleans Academy of Dance. However, the presence of ballet at Loyola has slowly faded away. Loyola cut the ballet minor in 2016, taking away a program that had been in existence for nearly 50 years. Without the ballet program, Stover is more than happy to fill the void with her adult ballet classes. “I wanted to make sure there were still opportunities for adult ballet students to take classes at Loyola,” Stover said. The class is a 10-week course on Thursdays that began in mid-February and ends in early May. It is open to the entire Loyola community and welcomes students of any experience level. The entire course costs $150 and allows for a $17 drop in rate for those who can’t fully commit. Stover believes the class is beneficial due to its openness to all. “We still have university dance classes, but there are a lot of students who can’t take them because it doesn’t fit their schedules and, of course, university classes aren’t open to the community,” Stover said. These classes, according to Stover, also provide a stress-free environment for participants. “There’s no pressure of grades or performances to prepare for,” Stover said. “It’s just time for the students to come dance, get a good workout and have fun.” One of Stover’s students is Anne Allen, a special education teacher for Crescent City Schools. She has a few years of ballet experience but considers herself a beginner at adult ballet. Allen first found out about the class due to her friendship with Stover. “She advertised the class as one for beginners and has been very welcoming and kind to those of us with less experience,” Allen said. Stover’s class has about seven to eight students mixing Loyola alumni, current students and members of the community who range in experience levels from beginner to advanced. “I know that ballet can seem a little intimidating because there are so many ideas around it that just aren’t true, like you ‘have to be’ skinny or super flexible just to take a class,” Stover said. “My hope is that the class provides a welcoming atmosphere for anyone who wants to take a good, challenging class.” Along with Stover’s class, an adult tap class is taught by Renee Gaubert through the Preparatory Arts Program on Saturdays.

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If the results of Loyola’s Campus Climate Assessment are taken as the true pulse of campus, as organizers claim they should be, then the job of Loyola’s next president will be even more demanding than once thought. That’s because in addition to well-publicized problems like budget troubles and workforce buyouts, the survey results showed another, more complicated issue. Professors are ready to jump off the “sinking ship.” That’s the way faculty responded in the campus climate survey, with 64 percent responding they’d considered leaving in the past year, along with 65 percent of staff responding the same. Survey consultants said four themes emerged when members of faculty and staff elaborated: “low salary, overwhelming workload, lack of support from the administration and what many respondents called the ‘sinking ship’ nature of Loyola due to institutional instability.” And while these results may seem troubling, Interim Provost David Borofsky said they aren’t a big surprise. “The responses you note reflect what the university has gone through over the past five years,” Borofsky said in an email inquiry from The Maroon. “The past five years have called on us to make difficult choices and to swiftly implement change, including reductions,

so that we are on solid ground with a sustainable financial approach which invests in programs, resources and facilities that will best prepare Loyola for the future.” Through measures like these, Borofsky said the university is on track to meet its goal of having a solid and sustainable future by 2019. That’s something the interim provost should be applauded for. He has put us on the right track financially in his first year here after failures by previous administrators — failures that put the university in the situation it’s in now. But, as the stats clearly show, these moves have taken a toll on how faculty feel about being at Loyola. And, like Borofsky said, that shouldn’t be that big of a surprise. What might be more discouraging is that professors actually like it here, but that’s not enough to make them want to stay. Survey results show that over 80 percent of faculty feel both valued by their department heads and others in their departments, and 84 percent of faculty and students feel either “comfortable” or “very comfortable” in classes. Those are fantastic numbers, but juxtaposed with the results showing faculty are looking to leave, it reveals a deeper problem. Professors like it here, but they don’t think working here is sustainable for their livelihoods. It seems the years of seeing col-

leagues take buyouts and receptionists being taken away from department offices have taken their toll. Many of the decisions Loyola’s made haven’t had room for much heart. The basic sustainability of the university had to be ensured and seen through at all costs. Administration did that, and now Loyola is on the right track. But with a new president coming in, a time will soon come when the approach can change. When that happens, the one in charge of that new approach will have a much tougher job than the one Borofsky has now. In a sense, he’s had the luxury of having an interim tag, meaning he can make needed cuts without having to worry about whether people like them. He’s not going to have to deal with this faculty forever, after all. Our new president’s approach must be different, though. He or she must keep the university sound financially while also taking the feelings of faculty and students into even more serious consideration. Sixty-four percent of faculty looking to leave just won’t do for a university president. Nor will a budget deficit. The job will be tough, in many ways, but fixing a statistic like that has to be a top priority. Our professors like it here. Job No. 1 has to be making sure they want to stay.

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Letter: Making the world a better place is not a matter of opinion Dear Editor, If there’s one thing I agree with regarding last week’s opinion article, it’s that hostility is not the answer to the current bipartisan atmosphere. I’m well-aware of how divided our country is, but I am not here to pretend like I want the same thing as a Trump supporter. Not even close. In fact, it’s privileged to make such a bold claim. I understand that many who voted for Trump are citizens trying to make ends meet, and I don’t think everyone who voted for Trump is consciously racist. However, to state that Trump supporters want to make the world a better place condones xenophobia, sexism and bigotry - and that’s just the obvious. Anyone who can back a man, and I pull from the examples the writer used, who brags about sexually assaulting women and blatantly endorses Islamophobia makes them an enabler of those things. In most states, defined as aiding and abetting, if you witness a crime and decide to stay silent there’s a reason that you are prosecuted nonetheless. If you can choose not to confront the racism and misogyny that oozes from the Trump administration, it is because you are privileged enough to ignore it. You say it’s counterproductive to think any other way about opponents on the political spectrum. I say that it’s counterproductive to pretend that the solution to our country’s internal opposition is to hold hands and sing “Kumbayah.” Do you really think it’s a coincidence that the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, the wave of neo-Nazis who proudly sported swastikas, adore Donald Trump? Maybe you think that reversing climate change policy, enforcing travel bans, undoing waterway regulations, weakening Obamacare or other Trump administration decisions won’t affect you. But what about those that it does affect? Is making the world a better place a matter of opinion? Not to me. It’s working for equity, it’s working for

Protester hold up signs during the New Orleans Women’s March in January 2017. Didelot argues that working and protesting for a better society is more than an opinion but is a matter of necessity. CAMILLE DIDELOT / Courtesy.

intersectional feminism, it’s working to stop climate change. It’s taking a stand for things that may not impact you directly. It’s being a humanitarian, it’s fighting for social justice. As a white woman, I am a part of one of the most privileged demographics in our country, which makes it my duty to resist almost everything that this administration stands for.

Because this isn’t just a difference of opinion. This isn’t just a matter of Democrat versus Republican. This is a question of standing up for human rights. Constructive anger is a catalyst for change. And if there’s one thing I do know, it’s that change is coming. Our anger will help Flint, Michigan get clean water sooner. Our anger will help sick, poor people afford medical bills. Our anger will make

public schools safer for our children. According to NPR, more women are running for office than ever before. Seeing youth-led advocacy for gun control that ignited in Parkland, Florida has given me something that I don’t often feel since Trump was elected - hope. I choose to put cooperation, hope and love into the world. I will not perpetuate hate - but I will march, vote, donate and speak out for what

I believe in every chance that I get. The Trump era will be looked at as one of the most defining moments in the history of the United States. Will you choose ignorance or will you choose to take a stand? ‑ Camille Didelot, Mass communication and French language senior cgdidelo@my.loyno.edu

Smoothie King has green smoothies, not green practices shannon garrety Marketing junior sbgarret@my.loyno.edu

I think everyone wants to go green. Or at least isn’t opposed to the idea if it is just as easy as the alternative. I recently came across a BuzzFeed video that showed me how easy it would be to be more ecologically kind in one aspect of my life. In the video, the Los Angeles BuzzFeed office goes a month without using straws. At first, I thought this was stupid, but then I realized there were eight smoothie king cups in my trash can and at least two in my car (yes, I have a problem; no I don’t want help.) The point being, I drink a lot of smoothies out of plas-

tic foam cups that take centuries to biodegrade, and each time I get a different plastic straw that also takes centuries to break down, if it does at all. Depending on environmental factors such as humidity and access to air, the plastic foam may not break down at all. In BuzzFeed’s video, they showcase a company that makes glass straws, but I am not gonna spend money on that when some of my textbooks are $235. Also, there is no way I am not going to feel like an idiot carrying around a glass straw. I was gifted a 32-ounce Yeti cup with a reusable straw and a Smoothie King medium drink is, get this, 32 ounces. Perfect right? I literally already own the solution to my problem. I was about to be so green. But I wasn’t according to the Smoothie King on campus. “They don’t want us to do that,” I was told Tuesday morning. It wasn’t their fault, and I wasn’t angry with the ladies who work at our Smoothie

King. But damn was I disappointed as I poured my smoothie from the plastic foam cup into my Yeti cup and then threw the plastic foam one away. The Starbucks on campus allows students to use reusable mugs for their coffee, why can’t Smoothie King allow a more eco-friendly option? They are doing a good thing by creating a cost-effective and green option, which is something Loyola acts like it wants. We have recycling bins all around campus. We have an environmental studies program, and we are supposed to be a university with and for others. This would be such an easy and cost-efficient way to be green, and for a reason that totally eludes me, we don’t do it. In my opinion, if our university wants to live out its Jesuit values and better our community in real ways, the easiest question to ask is: “Do you have a cup you would like us to put that in for you?” Because yes, I do.

A student throws away a non-recyclable Smoothie King cup in the Communications and Music Complex April 4, 2018. Shannon Garrety says she’s frustrated with Smoothie King’s plastic foam. Photo Illustration by CRISTIAN ORELLANA / The Maroon.

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