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Loyola University • New Orleans • Volume 97 • Issue 11 • November 12, 2018

THE MAROON FOR A GREATER LOYOLA

SPECIAL EDITION Welcome, Madam President

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President Tania Tetlow poses for a photo with students at the Battle of Feret on Oct. 30, 2018. The Univerity Programming Board will host a festival for students to celebrate Tetlow’s inaguartion. RO’SHAE GIBSON/The Maroon.

UPB to host festival for Loyola students

By Emma Ruby eeruby@my.loyno.edu Maroon, gold and Tetlow all over is the idea for the impending celebration that has been organized in honor of President Tania Tetlow’s impending inauguration.

The festival, organized by the University Programming Board, has been dubbed “Tetlow Fest,” and will spread across the Peace Quad and in front of the Danna Center immediately following Tetlow’s celebration mass on the morning of Nov. 15.

“There is going to be student performers, which Tania Tetlow requested,” Director of Programming for UPB, Sophia Rataj, said. “There’s

going to be all kinds of maroon and gold food and decorations.”

Also included in the festivities will be a table piled with all of the President’s favorite things labelled “Tania’s favorites,” and a photo booth with Loyola-themed props for students to pose with. The event will also promote the Jesuit values of Loyola, and the university in general, as the date aligns with Loyola Week.

Planning the celebration has been a collaborative effort across campus, Rataj said.

“We’ve had a bigger conversation with Loyola’s faculty and staff to really make this celebration inclusive to the entire campus,” Rataj said.

“Not just necessarily the students, but also all of the faculty, staff, undergraduate, law school and nursing school. We’ve all been meeting for the past couple months to discuss what we can all do to celebrate this super special time for her.”

Tetlow’s status as Loyola’s first female president has also played a role in the excitement surrounding her inauguration.

“We definitely are taking into account that she is the first female president, and that’s all the more reason for celebration,” Rataj said. “I think a lot of the celebrations happening around her inauguration are geared towards that.”

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Tania Tetlow invited her Jesuit uncle to preach at the missioning Mass Thursday, Nov. 15. At the Mass, she will promise the Jesuit mission while she serves as lay president. Courtesy of Loyola University New Orleans.

Tetlow invites Jesuit uncle to preach at Mass

By India Yarborough iayarbor@my.loyno.edu Jesuits tend to begin every major event with a Mass, according to the Rev. Joseph Tetlow, and this week’s inauguration festivities are no exception.

“When did Jesuits start this? I don’t know,” Tetlow said, “But I do know that we’ve begun school years by celebrating the Eucharist since our first college in Messina, Sicily [opened in 1548].”

Tetlow was invited by his niece, Loyola President Tania Tetlow, to preach at Thursday’s missioning Mass — the inaugural event in a

two-day celebration of President Tetlow’s swearing in as the first female, lay president of Loyola University New Orleans.

“My Uncle Joe is an amazing man and renowned Jesuit scholar,” Tania Tetlow said. “And so it was a natural request for me to ask him to speak.

I love him dearly and am excited to share his wisdom with our entire community.”

Tetlow said he’s “very happy” his niece asked him to preach.

“I think it’s probably part of Tania’s sense of how our family’s history has been braided into Loyola’s twentieth-century story, starting with my father, her grandfather’s ca-

reer here,” he said.

Tetlow will give his homily after a Gospel reading of the “Great Commission,” a lesson from Jesus Christ to his followers to “go and teach all nations,” he said.

“Within the hearts of the Jesuits, we really are happy to be able to share a 500-year history of witnessing to Christ through both faith and reason with our lay colleagues,” he added. “And we are especially awed that it should be a woman who is now Madam President.”

Joseph Tetlow’s homily will come directly before his niece’s missioning.

The Rev. Ted Dziak, head of the

committee in charge of organizing the events surrounding the president’s inauguration, said, apart from the missioning, the Mass’ proceedings follow those of a typical Catholic Mass.

During the missioning, Tania Tetlow will be asked by the Rev. Ronald Mercier, leader of the United States’ central and southern province of Jesuits, to accept the Jesuit’s educational mission of caring for the whole person.

“As a layperson and a woman, but also as someone who has been raised within the Jesuit community, I know that I will feel the significance and importance of that moment more

than any other,” President Tetlow said. “It is such a humbling honor to be entrusted with carrying forward the Jesuit educational mission.”

That mission is one Joseph Tetlow has been sharing for nearly 60 years, but his familial connection to this week’s historic inauguration makes his role in the ceremonies that much more special.

“I’ve known President Tetlow all her life,” he said. “I held her as an infant. I used to tell her and her two sisters scary stories when we were all in Berkeley — I was head of the Jesuit School of Theology — and she was delighted to be scared. You couldn’t scare her now with anything.”

Tania Tetlow to be inaugurated at ceremony on Nov. 16

By Rose Wagner rmwagner@my.loyno.edu After months of planning, delegates from 11 Jesuit colleges and universities, alumni, faculty, Mayor Latoya Cantrell, Tulane president Michael Fitts and the Archbishop of New Orleans will gather on Nov. 16 at Holy Name of Jesus Church to inaugurate Tania Tetlow as Loyola University New Orleans’ first non-Jesuit president.

The event will be defined by pomp and circumstance, according to the Rev. Ted Dziak, S.J., beginning with a procession of student leaders, alumni chapters and important community members dressed in academic regalia.

“It is a very unique ceremony,” Dziak said. “It is really to gather together the staff, the faculty, the students, the board of trustees and honored guests to celebrate with the president.”

One of the early highlights of the ceremony will be a speech regarding higher education from Norman Francis, former president of Xavier University and Michael Fitts, president of Tu-

lane University. Fitts worked with Tetlow during her time at Tulane and he said she is a compassionate and tenacious leader.

“Working with Tania was an incredibly rewarding professional and personal experience,” Fitts said. “I am honored to have been invited to speak at President Tetlow’s inauguration. I know how special this event is in the life of a university and am proud I can play a small role in the ushering in this new era at Loyola.”

The ceremony will also feature speeches from broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts and Mayor Cantrell as well as the presentation of the medallion of office, an amulet with the names of all former Loyola presidents inscribed on its face, to Tetlow by Robert Savoie, chairman of the board of trustees.

Tetlow herself will also give an inaugural address to formally articulate her vision for the future of Loyola. A future, which Dziak said is bright and exciting.

“It almost signals a new era in our university. When you look at the university’s history, when it was founded over 100 years

ago, it was founded by a group of Jesuit men,” Dziak said. “It has grown. It is no longer purely Catholic. It is no longer for Cath-

olics alone, even though it is still a Jesuit Catholic school. In some ways, it really signifies this new era in which a Jesuit university

is not dependent upon Jesuits.

It depends upon the individuals leading the institution to further the mission.”

Tania Tetlow will be inaugurated as the first female and non-Jesuit president of Loyola University New Orleans Friday, Nov. 16. Courtesy of Loyola University New Orleans.

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