Loyola University • New Orleans • Volume 93 • Issue 13 • Dec. 5, 2014
THE MAROON FOR A GREATER LOYOLA
Man of many photographs Twenty-five years and thousands of pictures later, university photographer Harold Baquet announces his retirement By Colleen Dulle mcdulle@loyno.edu @colleen_maroon
University Photographer Harold Baquet is retiring from Loyola after 25 years of capturing images of students from their Wolfpack Welcomes to their graduations. Baquet said that he hopes to enter private practice, do commercial and fine art photography, show exhibitions of his documentary photography from the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s and write. He also said he looks forward to finally having time to go fishing. Baquet said his time at Loyola was an extremely positive experience. “I had an opportunity to participate and contribute to an extraordinary community. It’s the community I’m going to miss the most,” Baquet said. Baquet said that Loyola has been an amazing place to work. “Everyday, someone will come up to you and thank you, or tell you they’re praying for you, tell you they love you in exactly those terms,” Baquet said. Baquet touched the lives of many members of the Loyola community, including university president, the Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J. “Harold’s photographic eye can see things that many of us miss as we rush through our lives,” Wildes said. “Harold’s photographs, a conversation with Harold, always makes you see the world in a new way.” James Shields, communications
director, said that the university is planning a celebration to honor Baquet next year and will announce the plans as soon as they are finalized. Zach Brien, mass communication sophomore and photo editor of The Maroon, said Baquet has inspired him as both a photographer and a person. Brien said the most important thing Baquet taught him about photography was to just “keep shooting.” This philosophy of perseverance is something Baquet has exemplified in his battle with cancer, which he has faced with a positive attitude. “His attitude has inspired me,” Brien said. “Even before I knew that he was sick, he was just always so excited to see you. That makes me want to be a nicer person to be around, because you say, ‘I talked to Mr. Baquet; my day’s better,’” Brien said. Brien said that he wants to be able to have the same effect that Baquet has on people. Leslie Parr, mass communication professor, said that she has been friends with Baquet during his time at Loyola. Parr said that after the death of French photographer Eugene Atget, one journalist wrote that without him, nobody could really see Paris. “Without Harold Baquet, will we still be able to see Loyola?” Parr asked. “Who else will be able to capture the moments, the personalities, the feel of this place? It’s hard to see Loyola without him.”
Loyola professors organize “Silent March for 1,111” By Alex Kennon agkennon@loyno.edu @alexandrakennon
Two Loyola professors travelled to City Hall the morning before Thanksgiving to apply for a permit to hold a demonstration of protest on the streets of New Orleans. Theatre Arts Professor Laura Hope and Psychology Professor Erin Dupuis, outraged by the inspector general’s recent reports describing NOPD’s lack of proper investigation into sex crime and child abuse cases, are organizing a citywide protest called the “Silent
March for the 1,111”. According to Hope, the number 1,111 represents the total number of cases outlined in the report that went without proper investigation. “In a three-year period, 840 rapes were basically ignored, and 271 were not properly investigated. Add those two numbers together and you realized that 1,111 victims went without justice,” Hope said. “Basic humanity and decency requires the citizens of our city to stand up and say that this is unacceptable and to demand change.” The march will begin on Dec. 13 at 10 a.m. at the First District
police station and travel to City Hall, where a rally in support of the survivors and demanding change will be held. One survivor who has joined forces with Hope and Dupuis to make the demonstration as effective as possible is Maria Treme, the woman who awoke with a stolen car and an unfamiliar bottle of lubricant near her bed the morning after she believes she was drugged and raped at The Country Club restaurant in the Marigny. “I was very happy when Laura contacted me with their rally details. I feel like I can get plenty
of warm bodies out there, but have never organized anything like this before, and have learned to ask when I need help,” Treme said. Treme said that NOPD did not take her to the hospital to get a rape kit until late the following night, and that she and her lawyer have still not heard back about DNA results or whether video from the parking lot where her car was taken was found. “They just seem to have had a sloppy free for all investigation policy and at this point don’t know how to even use common sense,” Treme said.
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While Treme says she is heartened to hear that NOPD is finally working to develop a protocol to handle sex crime cases, Hope said that this is only one of the many steps NOPD needs to take to remedy their behavior and restore the community’s faith. “This is not just a case of a few rogue officers not doing their job. This is a systemic cancer within the NOPD and it needs to be dealt with as such,” Hope said. The primary goal of the march, according to Hope and Dupuis, is a full-fledged external investigation of how NOPD handles sex crimes
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