Maroon Sept. 12 2014

Loyola University • New Orleans • Volume 93 • Issue 4

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SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT Loyola’s volleyball team is working together to overcome early season challenges

By Nick Ducote naducote@loyno.edu @naducote89

In their first home games of the season, Loyola’s volleyball team faced a series of losses at the hands of Bethel University, Martin Methodist and Spring Hill University.

The games, which were played on Sept. 5, 6 and 9 at the Den, followed on the heels of the St. Thomas Tournament in Houston, which saw the women winning one game and losing another. This leaves the team with a 2-8 record going into their away game tonight, Sept. 12, against the College of Coastal Georgia.

The team is young, with eight of their 15 members enrolled as freshmen and sophomores. Many of them are still adapting to the world of college athletics, but the team is

determined to keep their focus on winning. Upperclassmen are helping their younger team members to stay on track, according to Eva Allen, advertising junior.

“We are a young team and some of us are still getting acclimated to the tempo and pace of the game, but we’re battling back,” Allen said.

The team stands at 0-2 in their conference for the 2014 season, but despite the slow start, Head Coach Angela Franke is staying positive.

“We are looking for that surge of momentum in games to get us out of this slump. We need this to happen to start moving forward,” Franke said.

The women are rallying together as a team to begin to gather the momentum Franke is looking for. Elizabeth Scioneaux, accounting freshmen, added that the team is ready and looking for a win.

“We’re slowly making improvements, and we’re pushing for more wins. We can do this,” Scioneaux said.

VOLLEYBALL

SEPTEMBER 2014 SCHEDULE

SEPT. 12* At College of Coastal Georgia SEPT. 13* At Brewton-Parker College SEPT. 16* University of Mobile SEPT. 18 Fisk University SEPT. 19* Dalton State University SEPT. 20* Brenau University SEPT. 25 Southern University of New Orleans SEPT. 26 Xavier University

ZACH BRIEN / Photo Editor

The Loyola volleyball team, including (left to right) Lauren Brand, psychology senior, Eva Allen, mass communication junior and Daniela Leal, mass communication sophomore, breaks a huddle during their match against Bethel University on Friday, Sept. 5, in the Den. The team is looking to improve their current 0-2 conference record in their conference game against College of Coastal Georgia tonight, Sept. 12.

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NEWS

September 12, 2014 THE MAROON

New service learning classes announced

By Colleen Dulle

Slice serves up pizza, football and beer on Loyola’s campus

mcdulle@loyno.edu @Colleen_Maroon

The service learning program at Loyola has been updated this semester with the appointment of a new director and five new service learning courses.

Jennifer Jeanfreau is the new director of the Office of Community Engaged Learning, Teaching and Scholarship. Taking over after the departure of the office’s former director, Kelly Brotzman, Jeanfreau said she hopes to improve the service-learning program by increasing the number of courses being offered.

“I plan to continue to build on the successes that OCELTS had under Kelly Brotzman and, I hope, increase the number of service learning courses being offered and the number of faculty participating in community engaged scholarship,” Jeanfreau said.

Five of the 22 service learning courses being offered this semester are new.

These courses include “Fundamentals of Criminology,” “Violence and Democracy,” “Islam, Spain and New Orleans,” “Survey of Spanish Literature II: Technology and Literature” and a criminology course called “Program Planning and Evaluation,” Jeanfreau said.

Jeanfreau said that the partner organizations for these courses range from the 22nd Judicial District Court to Puentes New Orleans, an advocacy program for Latino families.

Artemis Preeshl, associate professor of theatre, incorporates service learning in her “Voice and Movement II” course.

Preeshl’s students work with their service learning clients to help them communicate effectively. The students’ work celebrates the clients’ diverse accents, while helping them to articulate their words more clearly.

“They hear and see New Orleans accents and action firsthand,” Preeshl said.

She explained that students identify clients’ needs and then plan and implement a coaching program to improve clients’ oral communication skills.

For Rachel Comeaux, sociology junior, the experience she gained from service learning her freshman year was invaluable. She said she is now taking courses in Loyola’s teaching certification program to prepare her for a job in elementary education.

“Not only did I have the opportunity to give my time and energy to a well-deserving cause, but in return, I made great friends, learned from the people I worked with and discovered my passion for teaching,” Comeaux said.

NEWS BRIEFS SGA approves new budget SGA’s new budget for this upcoming semester will be $175,000, which is less than last year’s budget of $185,000 a semester.

This budget received each of the three present senators’ approvals.

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By Faelynn Carroll and Nick Ducote fecarroll@loyno.edu and naducote@loyno.edu @Faelynnember and @naducote89

Slice Pizza has officially opened its doors to the Loyola community.

Since opening on Aug. 29, Slice has served a diverse menu including creative pizzas, calzones and salads. Alcoholic beverages could potentially be added to the menu, pending approval by the university, Richard Pinney, general manager at Slice, said.

“We will be selling beer, but only if you’re over 21,” Pinney said. “Tell the freshmen I’m sorry.”

Students have welcomed the new addition of the pizzeria to the campus dining options.

“I’m pretty excited because slice is one of my favorite restaurants and I wasn’t the fondest of La Divina.

The pizza is definitely the best in the city,” Katie Carey, mass communication junior, said.

Slice’s student-oriented accommodations will include on and

off-campus delivery, open business hours until 2 a.m. and staying open on Sundays, Pinney said.

The pizzeria is currently gearing up for football season as well.

“The store is adding another television set, which will be great for rivalry games,” Pinney said. “Saints and Falcons, Redskins and Cowboys — we want all those guys to come pay us a visit on Sunday or Monday nights.”

The new Slice is one of the many recent changes to Loyola dining options. Although popularity is mixed between individual food vendors, students seem to be in favor of the changes overall.

“The changes that have been made with our dining options this year just goes to show how valued the student opinion is to our dining services department,” Kayla Mitchell, criminal justice senior, said.

“They have really listened to what we want and have tried to accommodate us to the best of their ability.”

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Former NOPD Superintendent returns to Loyola

By Alex Kennon agkennon@loyno.edu @AlexandraKennon

Ronal Serpas, former superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, stepped down from his position policing the streets of New Orleans and into a tenured professorship in Loyola’s criminal justice department.

“I never dreamed that fate would return me to Loyola,” Serpas said.

Serpas previously taught at Loyola as an extraordinary and adjunct professor from 1993 until 2001. Mayor Mitch Landrieu appointed him superintendent of the NOPD in 2010, where he served until his retirement last month.

Now he has been offered a tenured position at Loyola, which he has accepted.

“Dr. Serpas has both the academic credentials as well as incredible prior experience as superintendent of the NOPD,” William Thornton, chair of the criminal justice department, said.

Prior to his retirement, Serpas said he had been a police officer for 34 years. While he said it will take time to become accustomed to the change of pace, Serpas believes the career shift will be a rewarding one.

“It will take a little time to get used to not getting those phone calls all night, but it is always right to usher in the next generation of leaders,” Serpas said.

Though Serpas was hired after the fall class schedule was developed, he will be teaching an online course called “Criminal Justice Ethics” and a course called “Policing in the 21st Century” during the second eight-week term.

Thornton said he anticipates that Serpas will help the criminal justice department develop new courses to reflect elements of the new paradigm of policing.

“Ron’s knowledge and expertise in criminal justice management and administration will be invaluable,” Thornton said.

Thornton also said that Serpas will be assisting the department in developing new courses designed to update both undergrads and seasoned criminal justice professionals on the ever-changing field of law enforcement.

While some criminal justice majors indicated that they did not yet know enough about the addition to comment, others said they are looking forward to the opportunity of learning from someone with Serpas’ level of experience.

“The whole reason I chose Loyola three years ago was for the unique mixture of experience and knowledge offered in a personalized learning environment,” Adam Dupuis, criminal justice senior, said.

“Serpas definitely has high expectations to meet, but there is no doubt in my mind he will bring something unique to the table.”

Diego Gisclair, another criminal justice senior, also indicated excitement at the prospect of learning from Serpas’ experience.

“Right now I’m kind of excited for it just because, you know, professors obviously have to be educated in their field, but when they have that kind of real-world experience, that’s helpful for us so we know exactly how what we’re learning applies to the real world,” Gisclair said.

His excitement is tempered with some uncertainty about Serpas’

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Former Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, Ronal Serpas, announced that he would be leaving his job after four years on Aug. 18. He has accepted a position in Loyola’s criminal justice department.

ability to transition back into the classroom, however.

“I’m kind of worried about how he’ll be able to transmit that experience to students because we’re not people employed under him,” Gidclair said. “We’re here to learn, and I’m not sure how he’ll be able to communicate that experience. But I’m sure it’ll be good.”

As for Serpas, he said he looks forward to his future in the criminal justice program.

“I am very excited about the future of the Loyola criminal justice programs and being a part of that future,” Serpas said. “Returning to Loyola is something that I am very grateful for.”

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WORLDVIEW

September 12, 2014 THE MAROON

City approves car-service apps

By Tiffany Kudiwu tmkudiwu@loyno.edu @tiffanyminu To get around any major city, tourists have the options of walking, taking public transportation, or hailing a taxi. This summer, Ghahzal Magharehabed, psychology junior, used a different method to get around — an app on her phone.

Uber is an app that allows its users to request a driver at the push of a button, based on his or her GPS location. Riders can request the nearest driver and can confirm payment via credit card.

Magharehabed said she frequently used Uber while in Washington, D.C. for a psychology convention.

She said she was surprised to find it unavailable in New Orleans, until now.

The City of New Orleans approved Uber and other app-based car services to operate in the city at a council meeting held Sept. 4 after originally being denied.

In October 2013, before the company intended on operating in New Orleans, Former Taxi Bureau Chief Malachi Hull brought Uber’s operations to the attention of city council and sent the company a cease and desist letter.

Workers in the taxi industry said they believe Uber will cause unfair competition because hail-a-cab apps do not meet regulated standards that taxicabs drivers do.

Syed Kazmi, president of United Cab, said the app would hurt the limousine and taxi industry.

“Uber doesn’t have the same regulations or any meters or cameras.

They don’t have the same standards as taxis. Taxi drivers have background checks, drugs tests and our cabs go through inspections,” Kazmi said.

In response, Uber launched a social media campaign called #NOLAneedsUber, encouraging New Orleanians to reach out to city council.

Uber has recently found success operating in Baton Rouge, where there appeared to be a lack of taxi services.

Since the San Francisco-based company started in 2009, Uber has begun operating in over 70 cities and 45 countries. Taylor Bennet, a spokesman for Uber, said the company receives various reactions.

“Every city is different and in how they operate — we received an incredible response from Baton Rouge. City officials, drivers, residents wanted us. So it was a fairly quick process that the whole city wanted us there,” Bennett said.

Associated Press

MOAPA, Nev. (AP) — The Southwest was mopping up Tuesday after pouring rains and flash flooding washed out part of a major rail line between Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.

The cleanup began after seasonal monsoon moisture combined with the remnants of Tropical Storm Norbert created heavy rain throughout the Southwest and set a single-day rainfall record in Phoenix.

At least 30 homes in Overton, Ne-

Cee Lo Green removed from festival due to controversial tweets GRETNA, La. (AP) — The Gretna Heritage Festival is saying “Forget You” to CeeLo Green after comments the performer made about rape.

A Friday statement from festival Chairman Ricky Templet says Green was dropped from October’s festival lineup because his comments break with the festival’s family environment.

Green pleaded no contest last week to one felony count of furnishing ecstasy to a woman during a 2012 dinner in Los Angeles.

Green was replaced with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts at the festival.

Former mayor goes to federal prison and gets public defender

Photo illustration by DJ SEVERAN

In July 2014, a city council ordinance was issued that proposed a series of changes to the transportation code and included fare requirements. The proposal counteracts Uber letting the consumers choose how much their fare will cost. The City of New Orleans initially proposed a minimum $25 charge for sedan rides, a minimum $35 charge for SUV rides, a flat $75 for airport trips using a sedan and $90 using a SUV. The New Orleans minimum of $15 is the highest fare in the country for Uber users, compared to New York’s $8 minimum fare.

In an email response, Uber said the minimum fare restricts consumers’ ability to get a ride at an affordable rate.

“This is a step forward, but such high minimum fares ignores the need for more affordable options,” the email said. “These mandates still limit choice and put New Orleans on par with the most expensive markets in the US.” Magharehabed said the app was a more affordable option to using a taxi service.

“I used it because taxis are way more expensive. I’ve never had to pay more than $10 for a ride,” Magharehabed said.

“Cabs are so expensive, but the great thing about Uber is the affordability and accessibility to get a ride from the touch of your finger.”

—Ghahzal Magharehabed psychology junior

Of all of Uber car services, Uber Black is the luxury car line that will operate in New Orleans. While in D.C, Magharehabed used Uber X, the low-cost ride-sharing feature, more often.

Magharehabed said there is a noted difference between the two.

“Uber Black is a little fancier and professional. One night in D.C. we used it to get to a dinner and our driver was in a suit. It was very formal,” Magharehabed said. “Whereas Uber X drivers can pick you on the spot when requested.”

Adam Albaari, English writing sophomore, used a similar ride-sharing app called Lyft during his summer internship in Detroit.

He said the app provided convenience and a sense of security.

“It was actually cool to see that since everything was automated through the app, you got to see a

Facebook page of the driver through the app. It told you what kind of car they drove, the picture of the car and of the driver. It will tell you where they are in the city and it’s already mapped your location,” Albaari said.

Albaari said app-based car service can be of great convenience in the city, especially when large groups of tourists visit.

“The taxi service in New Orleans can either range from very accommodating and helpful, to very, very poor with long waits,” he said. “This isn’t all the time, but there are times when there are big conventions, festivals, anything that causes a huge influx of people in the city.”

Magharehabed said she could see Uber gaining popularity in the city.

“Cabs are so expensive, but the great thing about Uber is the affordability and accessibility to get a ride from the touch of your finger. I think it will start off with slow catch since people in New Orleans tend to be traditional. But once people will see how convenient it is, then people will be more willing to use it,” Magharehabed said.

Uber has not announced when they will officially begin operating in New Orleans.

Tropical storm and monsoon cause flooding in southwest

By Ken Ritter and Michelle Rindels

WORLDVIEW BRIEFS

vada were flooded, and Clark County firefighters counted 18 rescues in the area, many involving submerged cars.

“I’ve been in this area since 1978.

We’ve never had water like that before,” said David Muns, a resident of Moapa, Nevada, where more than four inches of rain fell in two hours.

Transportation officials said a stretch of I-15 near Moapa could be closed for three to four days while they repair pavement that crumbled into slabs. One shattered section stretched for half a mile.

Freeways in Phoenix became small lakes on Monday, and rescuers scrambled to get drivers out of inundated cars after more than three inches of rain fell.

42 people were evacuated from a middle school and high school in Moapa and spent Monday night in a building at Clark County fairgrounds. Churches provided blankets, and a store and restaurant donated food before police escorted the people over the damaged I-15, according to Clark County spokeswoman Stacey Welling.

About 190 people were evacuated from the Moapa Band of Paiutes reservation after tribal officials warned that waters were close to breaching a Muddy River dam. Officials were assessing damage to properties with leaky roofs and wet floors where water breached flood control channels.

National Weather Service meteorologist Charlotte Dewey warned that any additional precipitation in the Southwest could quickly cause new flooding because the ground is saturated.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has reported to a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas to begin serving a 10-year sentence Monday.

A public defender in New Orleans is pursuing an appeal of Nagin’s February conviction on charges including bribery and money laundering. The charges stemmed from the Democrat’s two terms as mayor from 2002-2010.

Mayor announces strategy to help job seekers find employers NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced a new comprehensive strategy to connect disadvantaged job seekers and businesses.

A City Hall press release said The Economic Opportunity Strategy being announced Tuesday will partner with local training providers, social service agencies and community advocates, as well as anchor institutions across New Orleans.

Those institutions include Louisiana Children’s Medical Center Health, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, among others.

Baton Rouge police interested in acquiring body worn cameras BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Baton Rouge Metro Councilwoman says she wants city police to join the ranks of New Orleans, Thibodaux and other police departments across the country that are using body cameras to increase officer accountability.

Councilwoman C. Denise Marcelle said she grew concerned watching the brutal confrontation between protesters and police in Ferguson, Missouri following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old man, by a police officer last month.

Corporal Don Coppola Jr., a Baton Rouge police spokesman, said the agency would be interested in reviewing the possibility of acquiring body cameras if the opportunity arose.

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BEATLES FANS “COME TOGETHER”

50 YEARS LATER

By Emily Branan

embranan@loyno.edu @Embranan

50 years can change a lot of things, but Beatlemania is a constant in New Orleans.

WYES, a local television station, is hosting a tribute concert at Tad Gormley Stadium in City Park to commemorate the Beatles’ trip to New Orleans in 1964. The concert will take place on Sept. 16th at 7 p.m., 50 years to the day after the original concert.

The concert will feature the tribute band The Fab Four, an Ed Sullivan impersonator and will have a ‘60s theme, according to the event’s press release.

Sharon Snowdy, WYES Events Coordinator, is hosting the event.

WYES created the tribute concert to appeal to many people and to celebrate an event that was historic in many ways for New Orleans.

“It will be fabulous! It will be a time for everyone to ‘Come Together’ remembering a happy time in their lives or introduce the Beatles to a new generation who may not be familiar with their music,” Snowdy said.

Snowdy, who attended the concert 50 years ago as a fourth grader, said having a Beatles concert

in New Orleans was a great honor.

The Beatles played only 25 shows during their 1964 tour The Mayor of New Orleans in 1964, Victor Shiro, signed a proclamation and declared Sept.

16, 1964 to be “Beatles Day in New Orleans” and gave the band a key to the city.

Snowdy said the Beatles only held concerts in integrated venues, and their show in New Orleans happened just two months after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. “The concert took place on Sept.

16th, so this was possibly the first time a large music performance was completely integrated in the city of New Orleans,” Snowdy said.

The Beatles also met with local musicians Fats Domino and Frogman Henry, and had Henry as one of their opening acts. Snowdy said this showed that the Beatles recognized the impact New Orleans and its musicians had on them.

The New Orleans Beatlemania held significance that set the show apart from the other shows on the tour. This was the only time during the U.S. tour that fans broke through both barricades and police lines in attempt to get closer to the stage, WYES Production Associate

Kelsi Schreiber said.

Snowdy promises the audience will be able to both see and hear the band better at the tribute.

“When the Beatles performed, you could not hear them play with all the fans screaming,” Snowdy said.

She said the tribute will be longer than the original concert. The Fab Four will begin with the Beatles’ 1964 discography and work their way through the band’s different eras, with corresponding songs and costumes.

Schreiber agrees that the Beatles’ concert and their coming to New Orleans is an important event to commemorate.

“The whole country was taken over by Beatlemania, and many people, in New Orleans have very fond memories of going to the concert at City Park 50 years ago,” she said.

Oliver Marston, history senior, is planning on attending the tribute concert. He said he is a big Beatles fan.

“I’ve grown up listening to the Beatles. Abbey Road was also the first album I owned that my sister gave me for my birthday,” Marston said. “They’ve always been a childhood favorite of mine.”

Graphic by EMILY ANDRAS

Inspired by hardship, student creates natural hair remedies

By Rachel Falls rmfalls@loyno.edu @RFeiticeira

After being diagnosed with Lupus, theatre arts senior Gabby Landry started to lose her hair. In order to take charge of her life and her hair, Landry has began building her own hair-care line.

“When I was first diagnosed with Lupus, I would go into the shower and clumps of my hair would fall down my body when I washed my hair,” Landry said.

Landry was diagnosed with Lupus at the age of 18. She has two types: Chronic Cutaneous Lupus, which makes lesions form on the skin, and Lupus Nephritis, which affects the kidneys.

“My kidneys function at about 20 percent, compared to a person who has fully-functioning kidneys,” Landry said. “That’s only a fifth of the level they should be at. If they fall below 12 percent, then a person goes on dialysis. Eventually, in five years, I will need new kidneys. It’s so scary because it kind of puts a time frame on living life fully.”

After never being completely

happy with the level of breakage protection that other hair care products offered, Landry said she decided it was time try her hand at making products.

“I was tired of spending so much money on so many products while trying to find the right balance and nothing was working,” Landry said.

“My hair was still dry and it was breaking off, so I decided to make my own products.”

As of right now, Landry has been undergoing three years of steroid treatments to manage the Lupus.

These treatments, she said, cause irritation that her hair care products have eased.

“Steroid treatments involve a series of shots in the affected areas, mostly my scalp and lower back, that last 3-5 hours,” Landry said.

“My products have helped my regrowth. I even have deep conditioners that help with inflammation of the scalp.”

Landry leads an ayurvedic lifestyle, a system of Hindu traditional medicine which translates into her products, as they are 100 percent all natural.

“It’s food for hair,” Landry said.

“I’m also very much about healing the body through what the earth gives you, so I incorporated that into my hair care line.”

Landry said her family background and how different generations used to care for their hair naturally also influence her product line, Papeli & Maedorá.

“What I think is beautiful about my family is it’s so mixed and diverse,” Landry said. “We have literally every different type of person in my family. All different types and colors of hair and it’s so beautiful.

On top of things, my grandparents and great-grandparents would use natural products in their hair to keep it nice, healthy and strong.”

The name Papeli is Farci for “butterfly” and Maedorá is the name of her great-grandmother from Brazil.

“The name comes from my heritage, which I’m extremely proud of and connected to,” Landry said.

Since the product is still in its beginning phases, Landry has been sending samples to different friends and family members, asking for their opinions.

Landry’s roommate and Loyola alumna, Rebecca Moore, A’13, said she acts as a guinea pig for testing Landry’s new products.

“I have pretty dry hair and I shed a lot, so the products make my hair feel softer and healthier,” Moore said.

“Gabby has been giving it out to her friends and family and has had them take pictures of their hair during the process of using the product,” Enjoli Gilbert, Landry’s partner in building her business, said.

As of right now, Gilbert and Landry are building the brand, designing logos and creating websites.

“Gabby is going back to [Washington D.C.] when she graduates, so we are working on it all while we are together,” Gilbert said. “I’m going to be the graphic designer, doing the logos and the branding.”

Landry said that one of the hurdles has been deciding on a company to package the product, since she wants an all-natural theme throughout the line.

The products, which will be named after different goddesses,

will be personalized for each individual customer based on their hair type and problems.

“I wanted people to know that this isn’t just a line that caters to people with hair like me, which is thick and curly; each product is specialized for different types of hair,” Landry said.

Each customer also has the choice to pick out one of 30 different essential oils to be infused into their product.

Right now, there are a handful of finalized products: three shampoos, three daily conditioners, six deep conditioners and an array of styling creams. At this moment, the launch date goal is Spring 2015.

Hair care won’t be the last stop for Landry, despite her illness. Right now, she is working on lotions, body butters, face washes and masks.

“I don’t want to sound melodramatic, but Lupus is my reality and every day, I try to make the best of it,” Landry said. “That is what this hair care line is — me making the best of it. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. This is my lemonade.”

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Dr. Wright senses Sam’s hesitation

PART FOUR

By Adam Albaari akalbaar@loyno.edu

There wasn’t any use in pretending to look comfortable. I tried to wipe the sweat off my face and straighten up, but I could tell that my efforts to appear normal were the exact thing that was making me look so crazy.

“Describe your depression to me.

Also, try to put it into a timeline,” Dr. Wright said. “You know, provide context that places it into a certain point in your life.”

I took a second to form my words carefully. “I guess I started feeling different after I lost my job,” I said. I stop, knowing what she was going to ask next.

“What did you do?”

“I was an in-house accountant for Pace Financial. I handled the company’s internal management of finances.

I was basically an accountant for other

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accountants.”

“Did you like your job?”

I stopped and thought about how to answer. “Not particularly. But I mean, who likes their job?” I try to force out a laugh. Dr. Wright simply jotted down more things in her notebook.

“Is it possible that your issues started sometime before you were let go from your job?”

Before I can respond, she stops me.

“Before you answer that, let me just say,” she scooted in closer to the edge of her chair. “A lot of times in life, we’re forced to self-censor, meaning we either say things we don’t mean to avoid criticism, or we change our language to be less direct. This is not one of those times. In here, you will do yourself a disservice by censoring any of your feelings. You need to be 100 percent honest.” Her tone was much more serious than it had been up until this point.

I straightened up in my chair for some reason before I started speaking again.

“I’ve been losing a lot of sleep over stress,” I said, trying to make it sound reasonable. “I haven’t had any luck finding a new job recently, so I’m just in a transitional...” I do some gesticulating with my hands to try to describe my near homelessness, “you know... period.”

“Ok, here’s what I need you to do,” Dr. Wright closed her notebook and stood up. “Go home; think about it.”

Parastoo Miyoshi Umekie

“A lot of times in life we’re forced to self-censor, meaning we either say things we don’t mean to avoid criticism, or we change our language to be less direct.”

I stand up, confused. “What do you mean?”

“I think it’s for the best.” She smiled again, but it was a closing smile. “I will not charge your brother for this session if you come back at a later date with a better understanding of your condition.”

She extended a hand and I shook it.

Next thing I knew, I was outside.

A part of me actually thought that I was so beyond help that even therapists wouldn’t waste their time with me. What if Dr. Wright could tell I was already too far gone?

I didn’t know if that was even a real thing, but it didn’t seem likely that they’d turn someone away who was too insane to treat. At least that’s what the rational side of my mind tried to sell me.

I didn’t know what to make of the Wright Treatment Clinic, and I certainly didn’t know what to do with my peculiar observations about Dr. Wright.

In the end, I decided to meet with Michael and tell him about Dr. Wright’s new arrangement and then go back for more answers.

“Parastoo Miyoshi Umekie” Gabby Landry, theater senior / August 2012

RELIGION

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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Discouraged in Catholic Schools

By Rebecca Trejo retrejo@loyno.edu The Ice Bucket Challenge is a popular social media trend that has recently become controversial. The challenge, which has raised millions of dollars for research for ALS, involves either donating to the ALS foundation or dumping a bucket of ice water on one’s head to raise awareness. But, as the popularity of the challenge increases, controversy is coming to light.

Some Catholics are raising alarm about participating and making donations to the initiative because the ALS organization is currently funding a program that involves embryonic stem cell research.

This is a problem for some Catholics because the research requires the use of fertilized human eggs, which are ultimately destroyed in the process. Many consider this type

of research to be a form of abortion.

Last week, The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati asked their school principals to discourage students from raising money for ALS disease research.

The Archdiocese of New Orleans Archbishop, Gregory Aymond, released an email to city priests, parishes, offices and ministries encouraging them to contribute to the cause in a “morally acceptable” way.

One of the ways, Aymond said, is to donate to Team Gleason, led by former Saints player Steve Gleason, which restricts funding to organizations that do not use stem cells in their research.

“There has been quite a stir regarding the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge,” Aymond said. “The research is done with embryonic stem cells, which is against our Pro-Life stance.”

Before learning of the church’s

objection, Kurt Bindewald, director of the Loyola University ministry, participated in the ice bucket challenge.

“We do not believe in harvesting embryonic stem cells just for research because it goes against our Catholic beliefs,” Bindewald said.

“It’s okay to participate in the challenge to raise awareness.”

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord, which results in complete paralysis of the body.

The ALS organization has witnessed an increased amount of support during the past months. The association collected $106 million compared to the $2.6 million collected last year over the same time period. In addition, the organization has recruited 453,210 new donors.

Photo courtesy of Associated Press

Students experience the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge when their peers dump buckets of ice water on their heads. Hundreds of thousands of individuals have participated in this challenge nation-wide since it first surfaced in July of this year.

Hindu Temple Society accepts all kinds of people MARC GOUDEAU Sociology senior

cmgoudea@loyno.edu

I arrived at the front door of the Hindu Temple Society of Greater New Orleans to meet priest Dr. Bharat Joshi. At the door, I was asked to remove my shoes, where I was greeted by the priest who asked me to have a seat in a room adjacent to the impressive altar, which lines the entire back wall of the temple with various deities.

I quickly realized that being accepted into this temple is not a question, but a given, and that the aim of the Hindu Temple is not to convert members but to include them.

“The question should not arise whether I am Hindu, you are Christian, anyone is from Islam,” Joshi said. “We Hindu, we’ve never believed in converting anyone. In whichever community we are born, we should follow the rules and regulations and we must have faith in our own god, our own prophet, whoever.”

This belief struck me as both profoundly obvious and unique.

Joshi offered a metaphor to illustrate why the individual gods worshipped in all of the different religions are compatible with one

another.

“You know that each and every river, no matter from where it starts, at last will end or it will meet the ocean, anywhere,” Joshi said. “This is the universal rule. In the same way, whichever religion you are believing — whichever god or prophet or whoever you are worshipping — we Hindu believe that the Almighty God in the form of all these different gods and prophets. After all, they are coming from the only single and common power, which you may call a White Light, or Supernatural Power.”

He said he believes that all prayers, like a river, flow into the ocean that is the true God, or Brahma, a belief that seemingly renders which god you worship unimportant, as long as you have genuine faith in the one you that you do.

This open and all-inclusive view may offend followers of Christianity, Islam and Judaism, as it seems to undermine an individual God, Allah or Yahweh. However, the idea is that they are all a part of and feed into the same higher power, so there is no conflict between them and the three main Hindu deities.

Anyone who is interested in Hinduism should attend a service or simply converse with Dr. Joshi. As Joshi said, “The main principle for each and every human being must be that you leave and come quietly and happily, with health, wealth and peace, and live in a way that allows the same for others.”

MARC GOUDEAU/ The Maroon The altar at the Hindu Temple Society of Greater New Orleans displays various portraits of Krishna. The temple , which is located at 3804 Transcontinental Boulevard in Metairie, is open to residents regardless of their religion.

SPORTS

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LINDA HEXTER / Senior Staff Photographer

(Left to right) Lester Duhé, journalism sophomore, Mason Briant and Gio Bloodworth, both of whom are new recruits, begin a play with a full-force push in an effort to gain ball control. The team suffered a tough loss last year, losing by one point to Mount St. Mary, knocking them out of the Final Four. This year, that is their number one motivator.

Rugby prepares for a hard-hitting season

By Sarah Szigeti sisziget@loyno.edu @szigeti_maroon

Loyola’s rugby team is undergoing many transitions — a promotion not only for the head coach, but for the team as well.

The athletics department recently announced that Sam Brock will be joining the Pack as a fulltime coach as the team moves from club sport to an official Southern States Athletic Conference team.

This is not only good news for the men, but there are now hopes to add a women’s rugby team to the ranks as well.

Brock joined Loyola four years ago to coach the intramural rugby team and has completely turned the program around, according to some of the older members.

SPORTS BRIEFS

Cross country finishes first meet of the season Loyola’s men and women’s cross country team ran their first meet of the 2014 season and held their own against their competition.

Both teams ran the 5k in their 6th Annual Wolf Pack Invitational in Metarie on Sept. 6. The four men that ran on behalf of Loyola not only beat personal records, but were added to the Loyola record book for their running times.

Toren Arnold, biological sciences sophomore, led his team and came in tenth overall with a time that is the second best in Loyola history.

For proof, one needs to look no further than the score board. Four years ago, the team lost to Tulane 27-3. This past spring, they beat Tulane 54-8.

Corey Lesassier, business sophomore, said that Brock has helped them grow, not only as athletes, but as a program as well.

“The more we grow, both school-wise and sports-wise, and the more games we win, the farther we’ll get and that will only bring us more attention, which is our ultimate goal,” Lesassier said.

Brock said that the most important key to success for their team is actively recruiting high school players.

Brock said he has been going to high school games in the area, bringing his players to those games and bringing the high school athletes to his practices. He said this is all part

of an effort to make young athletes want to play rugby at Loyola, just as they might come to play basketball.

“I want to find them while they’re still mastering their skill. It’s easier to train them as rugby players that way. I look for athletic kids who maybe wanted to play ball in college, but for whatever reason their original sport didn’t work out, and that’s when I introduce them to rugby and show them that they can still play college ball,” Brock said.

Brock said recruitment has proven very successful in the past year alone. He welcomed six freshmen to the team, all of which he informally recruited.

Vincent Duhé, freshman history major, is one of those recruits.

He says Brock started coming to his games last year, often bringing his own players and inviting Duhé,

]to their practices. Now, he gets to wear the maroon and gold uniform.

“It feels good to be wanted like that, at least in some aspect of life. It’s cool to know someone wanted you to do something you already love,” Duhé said.

This is something Brock said he has been doing since he came to Loyola and that it is likely one of the biggest reasons he was brought into the department full-time.

Brock, while excited about what their winning record means for his team, said the change hasn’t affected him.

“My day-to-day hasn’t really changed much. I’m still coaching the guys like I did before. The only thing that’s really different now is there’s more paperwork,” Brock said.

Last year the team went all the way to the final game in the

Sweet 16 round against Mount St. Mary College and lost by one point. Brock says that that is their biggest driving factor this year.

“There isn’t a practice or a game that goes by when we don’t think of that moment. Every day we’re running faster, throwing longer and blocking harder to make sure we go all the way this year,” Brock said.

Lesassier said that moment is one that every member on the team carries with them.

“The game kind of ended with the ball in my hands, so it was rough, but it’s just extra motivation. We haven’t stopped working since,” Lesassier said. “Even the guys that weren’t there for that Elite 8 loss, they still want us to get back there so we can avenge ourselves.”

Jessica Williams, psychology senior, led the womens team, finishing tenth overall.

Both the men and women’s teams finished third overall. Their next meet will be the Louisiana State University Invitational in Baton Rouge on Sept. 20.

Mann and Assistant Coach Frances Bonnin can be contacted for more information.

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from their online roster, so players will no longer be able to draft him in their games.

Even more so, President Obama has taken a stand on an issue.

According to AP, Obama is speaking out against domestic violence as a whole.

White House Spokesman Josh Earnest said he spoke to the president about Ray Rice. The president was quoted saying that “real men don’t hit women” and that his actions were “contemptible and unacceptable.” Obama said that it is all Americans’ responsibility to permanently put a stop to domestic violence.

Men’s and women’s tennis teams hold tryouts Tennis Head Coach Chad Mann announced that the team will soon be holding tryouts for the 2015 season.

Registration will be held on Sept.

11 and 12 in the Danna Center, but the tryout dates have yet to be scheduled.

Saints fall to the Atlanta Falcons at home The New Orleans Saints played their National Football Conference South rivals on Sunday, the Atlanta Falcons, but fell 37-34. This is only the fourth victory over the Saints in their last 17 meetings; however, it was a sigificant one for the Falcons, reeling from their 4-12 season last year. The teams collectively scored 17 points in the last three minutes of the game, forcing them into overtime where Matt Bryant kicked a 51-yard field goal, giving the Fal-

Ravens release Ray Rice after domestic dispute A video was recently released of Ray Rice knocking his wife unconscious in an elevator. He has now been released by the Baltimore Ravens, as well as indefinitely suspended by the NFL. But the NFL isn’t the only organization taking a stand. The brand that makes their jerseys have offered that any customers with a Rice jersey can bring it back for a full refund or an exchange.

The popular video game, Madden, has also released a statement saying they are pulling Rice’s name

AP contributed to this report.

OPINION

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ON THE RECORD The column by the experts

DON BARLETTI / MCT Campus

An Honduran special agent talks to two children at a checkpoint on a highway near the Guatemala border. In an attempt to slow the surge of Central-American minors going to the U.S., special police units have been commissioned to interrogate children suspected of fleeing their native country.

Compassion is the key to understanding the child refugee crisis SUSAN WEISHAR Weishar is a migrant specialist and fellow at the Jesuit Social Research Institute. sweishar@loyno.edu

Though the number of unaccompanied children and families fleeing widespread violence in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala has been steadily growing since 2012, this summer has seen those numbers reach critical proportions before dropping sharply in half.

While the reasons for this drop in the flow of migrants coming into the country are unclear, perhaps stories of recently deported families and children widely reported in Central American and U.S. Hispanic media

have discouraged others from fleeing to the U.S. Although no one knows at the time of writing this piece if the crisis has truly passed, it is important to understand why so many Central Americans have fled their homes for an uncertain future in the U.S. and the principles at stake in our nation’s response to the crisis.

A delegation from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which traveled to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador in November 2013, found that a series of interrelated factors have contributed to increasing numbers of children making the treacherous journey north.

Their report concluded that although widespread poverty, lack of educational opportunities and the desire to reunite with family members were factors, the overwhelming reason that children are fleeing is because of pervasive violence and

a corresponding collapse of the rule of law in their native countries have created a “culture of fear and hopelessness.”

A 2013 study by Kids in Need of Defense found that 30 percent of the unaccompanied child migrants referred to their services migrated to escape gang violence and intimidation.

On Aug. 5, the Jesuit Social Research held a Catholic Teach-In on the border crisis where over 150 participants heard from recently arrived children and parents from Central America of the horrifying tactics gang members had employed to force adolescents to join their gangs.

Such tactics included spraying their schools with bullets, ransacking their homes and murdering children who resisted. Many Central Americans at the Teach-In also told of having been intimidated through

violent assaults to make regular payments to gangs.

Whereas children from Mexico and Canada are almost always immediately deported upon apprehension by Border Patrol, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, ensures that when unaccompanied children arrive at the U.S. border from non-contiguous countries, they have an opportunity to plead their case for protection in U.S. immigration court.

The TVPRA was signed into law in 2008 by President George Bush with strong bipartisan support, and it ensures that such children have an opportunity to plead their case for protection. The Refugee Act of 1980 also received the strong bipartisan support so rarely seen in these hyperpartisan times. That law sets the standard for refugee protection for the rest of the world.

How can we expect other coun-

tries to accept refugees at their borders escaping violence and persecution if we start deporting children at our borders with no due process protection? U.S. political leaders must resist any efforts to weaken the TVPRA or due process protections for asylum seekers.

Above all else as the debate on how to address the border crisis ensues, let us not forget that we are talking about children. How we respond to this crisis will indicate the values and principles that currently define ourselves as a nation.

I hope they will be the values and principals Americans have long cherished: tolerance, fairness, a beacon of hope for those fleeing persecution, special concern for the weak and vulnerable and, above all, compassion.

IN MY OPINION Students sharing their opinions on various topics

Louisiana ruling on same-sex marriage is a testament to ignorance TONY CHERAMIE Tony is a political science senior. tjcheram@loyno.edu

In Cut Off, Louisiana, where I grew up, people are generally disinterested in politics and don’t understand its procedures. Most want to be left alone.

So, it’s no wonder that a majority of the people in Cut Off won’t have a developed understanding of the impact of Judge Martin Feldman’s decision last week in Robicheaux v.

Caldwell to uphold Louisiana’s gay marriage ban.

As you might guess, Cut Off is not what you would call “gay friendly.”

My own high school principal had to be pressured by an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit to allow a group of students to form a GayStraight Alliance club.

Coincidently, that same year, I came out to my family, and what my grandparents said will stay with me always. They said, “Tony, we’ve always known, and we’ve always loved you.”

It was an incredibly powerful moment, which showed me that, even in Cut Off, people are capable of compassion and understanding, and that inspires me still to extend others the same courtesy.

Unfortunately, Cut Off is not much different from Baton Rouge and certain judges on the federal district court, where Robicheaux v.

Caldwell was decided.

Feldman — appointed by the illustrious former-President Reagan

to the federal district court in Baton Rouge — was quoted by the New York Times with a tripartite defense of his ruling in Robicheaux v. Caldwell.

He argues with recycled logic that Louisiana has a compelling interest “in linking children to an intact family formed by their biological parents.” This is an interesting take, but is so full of holes it can’t be taken seriously.

This ruling cannot possibly be about the traditional parent-child marriage arrangement, because Feldman doesn’t address men and women who can’t have children, the elderly, and he makes no mention of adoption.

But this first point is based on the broader idea that states have the constitutional authority to regulate marriage, not the federal government or the courts — a

classic state’s rights argument.

However, this dilemma was rightly decided in US v. Windsor and is not the issue at hand. The primary concern now is whether state governments are bound by the 14th amendment and its equal protection guarantees that are meant to protect LGBTQ couples from state-sponsored discrimination in marriage laws.

These state’s rights advocates, who believe that states have the authority to ignore federal law, are of the same ideological bent as segregationists were during the era of civil rights legislation and conveniently leave out certain parts of the Constitution that discredit their tired opinions. In America, this same Constitution orders the hierarchy of authority, not ignorant judicial activists.

Feldman went even further in

his intellectual misadventures. He questioned whether states should be required to recognize a marriage between aunts and nephews.

What Feldman is arguing is both intellectually obtuse and absolutely insulting. To compare a crime, and near-universal taboo, with tangible genetic consequences to a lifestyle that has been widely accepted in various points in history is cowardly and represents a lack of understanding of the LGBTQ community.

All-in-all, 19 states have ended legal discrimination against LGBTQ couples and another 13 more have had their bans struck down, but have pending appeals.

Thanks, in no small part, to the socio-political maturation of millennial voters and their unprecedented acceptance of people different from themselves.

EDITORIAL

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OUR EDITORIAL

The majority opinion of our editorial board

HOWLS & GROWLS HOWL to Ray Rice finally getting suspended from the NFL. GROWL to the House of Shock closing down.

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HOWL to pumpkin spice lattes.

GROWL to the end of Free Fridays a Tipitina’s.

HOWL to Uber coming to New Orleans.

GROWL to inconsiderate roommates.

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We must not dehumanize our immigrant community

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ast week, President Obama announced that he would delay taking action on the issue of immigration until after the November elections.

The vast majority of us probably reacted to this very mildly — if at all. Even if we grant that immigration reform is an important political problem, we are too often willing to ignore it rather than to confront it head on.

The reality is that we as Americans tend to distance ourselves from the issue of immigration because we probably don’t think it affects us directly.

We write this because we think it is imperative that we not only educate ourselves on the subject of immigration, but that we also emphasize the value of undocumented persons as human beings.

As a community, we must lead a trend of acceptance and solidarity with our immigrant population. We must be totally aware of the human faces behind the issue of immigration.

Undocumented persons don’t exist apart from us. They are neither foreign to us nor different from us in any meaningful way.

Instead of focusing on where undocumented persons come from, we should care about what they do and who they are.

Here in New Orleans, undocumented persons make up about 25 percent of the workforce, according

to a joint study between Tulane University and the University of California at Berkeley.

That same study also shows that the post-Katrina rebuilding effort owes much of its success to undocumented workers — who were over half of the reconstruction force.

Economic prosperity, however, isn’t the primary reason why we must advocate for and with our undocumented population. We must do so because they are much a part of our community as we “Americans” are.

The issue of immigration reform isn’t something we can shrug off because we think it only applies to beings that exist in isolation.

As we discussed this week’s topic in the editorial board, we questioned whether referring to undocumented persons as “illegal aliens” was appropriate. This brought to our attention the problematic nature of the labels we use when referring to this group of people.

The individuals to whom we casually refer as illegal aliens are often times our coworkers, classmates and friends. How often in our daily interactions do we actually think of them as “illegal aliens?” It’s quite likely that we don’t. That’s because there is nothing innately illegal or alien about the persons with whom we have built a community.

By referring to undocumented persons as “illegal aliens,” we reinforce the idea that they are different

— and therefore, less human — than us.

There are real effects to this systematic dehumanization. In New Orleans, undocumented workers regularly face wage theft and threats of deportation from their employers. In Louisiana, access to public higher education is denied to undocumented people regardless of their academic qualifications.

We are situated in a great place for bringing awareness and effecting change to immigration. Loyola alone has several organizations that interact with the city’s immigrant population.

The Jesuit Social Research Institute actively works to bring about change in the Gulf South on the issue of migration. The Loyola Wage Claim Clinic seeks to empower its workers, regardless of status, through litigation and education.

The Loyola Immigration Advocacy Organization seeks to bring people together in order to push for immigration reform.

As always, these are but a few of the opportunities available to us.

The important thing to remember is that we are advocating for our immigrant community not simply because we are acting upon some sort of savior complex.

We are advocating with them because our dignity as human being is bound with theirs.

EMILY ANDRAS / The Maroon

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n Monday, Sept. 8, Loyola’s sororities celebrated their Bid Day for 2014. Theta Phi Alpha (top left), Delta Gamma (top right), Alpha Chi Omega (bottom left) and Gamma Phi Beta (bottom right) are pictured welcoming new women into their organizations.

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