September 30, 2016

Loyola University • New Orleans • Volume 95 • Issue 6 • September 30, 2016

THE MAROON FOR A GREATER LOYOLA

Loyola student crowdfunds entire Loyola education

By Dannielle Garcia dcgarcia@loyno.edu @Dannielle_Garci

Many students would agree the start of college is one of the most exciting yet difficult times in their lives. For Jasmine Harris Smith, accounting freshman, the beginning of college was tougher than expected.

Harris Smith came from a single parent home. Her mother worked long hours as a nurse practitioner in Miami, Florida. Through scholarships and a mentoring program called Honey Shine, Smith was able to attend Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, an International Baccalaureate private high school.

“I am just so blessed,” Harris Smith said, reflecting on her opportunity to attend Carrollton.

Harris Smith hoped for a similar experience in college. She said the sense of community, diversity and acceptance is what drew her to Loyola University New Orleans because it mirrored her small, private high school.

When summer was coming to a close, Harris Smith packed up all she could bring and flew to New Orleans. However, after moving into her dorm and settling into her classes, she received some terrible news.

Loyola had given her an eviction notice. She had 24 hours to pack up and move out because she had failed to pay a balance on her semester tuition before school started.

“I thought I was okay and I would be able to come here and work off my loans during the semester,” Harris Smith said. “But it was a misunderstanding on my part. I guess I didn’t ask enough questions, and that was my fault.”

She took on the responsibility of financing her college career at age 17, and despite efforts by the university and her family to help her stay, no one in her family had the money or the credit to co-sign on the $4,883 loan.

Trying to be strong, Harris Smith packed her belongings one more time and booked a one-way ticket home, financed by Honey Shine.

“I have a very good support system, so going home, I was okay with that. I told myself going home wasn’t that bad of an option because I could go to the community college for two years and save up to come back to Loyola,” Harris Smith said.

Harris Smith said when her mother picked her up from the airport, she could not stop crying and apologizing for not being able to provide the means to keep her daughter at Loyola.

That night, Harris Smith wrote on her class Facebook page what had happened and received an outpouring of love and support. Anne Marie Estevez, whose daughter graduated from Carrollton with Harris Smith, was devastated by the news.

“She’s that girl who made it against all odds. She worked so hard, and when I heard what happened, I honestly pulled my car over and started crying,” Estevez said.

“All of this could have been avoided if she had additional guidance and expertise that has to be available.”

Immediately, Estevez started calling around, trying to get in contact with Harris Smith to hear the full story. After talking with “Jazzy,” as her classmates call her, Estevez begged her to tell her story. Harris Smith was reluctant at first but came around because of the difference she might be able to make.

“I was more willing to tell my story not because of me, but because of the people that come after me, the girls that are in my same situation, that have no way of going to a good college that they deserve to be in because of their financial issues,” Harris Smith said.

“Everything she did was so much more impactful because it was not expected,” Estevez said. “She never had a silver spoon in her mouth.”

Estevez created a fundraising page on YouCaring.com, a crowdsourcing website, and sent the link to 25 mothers of Harris Smith's Carrollton graduating class. She said she did not expect much and set a fundraising goal of $19,532–enough to get Harris Smith through at least two years of school.

“And from there it spiraled. Ev-

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Jasmine Harris Smith, accounting freshman, stands in her Biever Hall dorm room explaining how her high school community crowdfunded her Loyola education.

erything was fixed in a matter of 24 hours,” Estevez said.

Within those 24 hours, the page was shared over 2,300 times and raised $41,741, nearly double the original goal. With that, Harris Smith was able to fly back to New Orleans in time for the second week of classes and had enough money to pay for four years of college.

Cristy Arazoza, A’13, who graduated from both Carrollton and Loyola, met Harris Smith when she hosted a Loyola admitted student cocktail party at her house in Miami.

“When I met Jasmine, she was so sweet and excited to go to Loyola.

I remember thinking it was like a

breath of fresh air,” Arazoza said. “I got on Facebook one day and I saw that a bunch of people were sharing this story, and when I made the connection that it was her, I was just floored.”

Estevez said exceeding the fundraising goal wasn’t even the best part. She said the comment wall was flooded with well wishes from friends, strangers and Carrollton alumni.

“The most beautiful part was to read the hundreds of comments about their love and support for Jasmine,” she said.

“Of course I am so proud of my daughter, but in many respects I

am more proud of Jasmine, because Jasmine, she climbed a mountain,” Estevez said.

Harris Smith said the Carrollton community and her faith provided her the opportunity to attend and even graduate from Loyola, making her the first in her family to do so.

“I’m still standing, and I’m still proud, and I still have so much hope and optimism in my heart. And having a family that supports me every single day, no matter what I do, you can’t substitute anything with that kind of love that people show you,” Harris Smith said.

Gasa Gasa debuts juice and sno-ball bar in courtyard

By Haley Pegg hapegg@loyno.edu @HaleyPegg

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Customers relax at Sonic Juice, the new juice bar in the courtyard of Gasa Gasa. The bar opened the weekend of Sept. 24.

Gasa Gasa teamed up with Beaucoup Juice to launch its newest attraction this weekend with the opening of Sonic Juice.

Gasa Gasa, Freret Street’s music and arts venue, opened the juice bar in its courtyard with drinks from Beaucoup Juice.

The new courtyard juice bar is called Sonic Juice and offers alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverage including sno-balls, daiquiris made from fresh fruit and other frozen and non-frozen options.

“We want people to have a place to come and have the highest quality frozen and fresh fruit drinks, like

you would have if you were sitting at a tiki bar on the beach,” said Dylan Williams who owns Beaucoup Juice and now works as the daytime manager of Sonic Juice.

Williams said he began making juices almost 10 years ago, and is excited to bring his favorite recipes to a new project. According to Williams, Gasa Gasa and Beaucoup Juice have been developing the idea of a partnership for about three months.

Matt Love, Gasa Gasa co-owner and bar manager, said he hopes Sonic Juice will be a popular attraction for people attending live music shows.

“It’s a good strategic partnership.

[Beaucoup Juice] gives us a great product and we provide the space and the staff,” Love said.

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Beaucoup Juice, local juice bar and smoothie shop, recently closed its storefront on Freret Street. The company stays in business by catering private events and festivals.

Sonic Juice will be open Friday through Sunday from noon until later in the night. Hours will vary depending on concert times and may be closed during private shows.

Matt Rota is a musician and the banjo player in Williams’ band, who plays at Gasa Gasa. He is looking forward to playing regular gigs at the new space.

“It’s really cool. There aren’t a lot of places that have the good juice to go along with the liquor. It’s kind of a different atmosphere than your fancier juice bar,” Rota said.

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Greeks reflect on recruitment divide

By India Yarborough iayarbor@loyno.edu @iayarbor

Despite shared values and similar community efforts, recruitment processes among Loyola’s Interfraternity Council, National Pan-Hellenic Council and Panhellenic Association differ, with the Panhellenic Association adhering to more structured recruitment guidelines than their male and National Pan-Hellenic Council counterparts.

According to Caitlin Dobson, Loyola’s assistant director of student involvement and fraternity and sorority life, Panhellenic Association rules allow sororities under that umbrella to hold a more or less structured recruitment based on a sorority’s needs. Many Panhellenic Association sororities, however, including those at Loyola, have traditionally opted for a fully structured recruitment with timed rounds during which potential new members interact with members of each sorority.

Laura Huber, Panhellenic Association president, said through the structured recruitment, women have the opportunity to meet with each of the four Panhellenic sororities over four days and are paired with a chapter based on a mutual selection process.

Unlike Loyola’s Panhellenic Association sororities, Interfraternity Council fraternities have a less structured recruitment, with each fraternity holding separate events for interested students to meet current members and learn more about what membership entails.

“It affords our potential new members the opportunity to interact with and get to know members in a relaxed, comfortable environment,” Dobson said.

Similar to Interfraternity Council recruitment, the historically black National Pan-Hellenic Council fraternities and sororities offer engagement opportunities for potential new members through small meetand-greets and other events that are unique to each chapter. Raven Evans, council president, said each chapter has a unique member intake process, but that there are not

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Gamma Phi Beta sisters welcome new members on this year’s Bid Day. As a Panhellenic Association sorority, Gamma Phi Beta has a strict recruitment structure.

significant differences between the fraternities and sororities.

Colin Mausler, Interfraternity Council vice president for recruitment and marketing, said the Department of Student Involvement was completely removed from the fraternity recruitment process this year.

“This was the first semester where the Interfraternity Council has run an informal recruitment process, so we will be looking for ways to improve in the coming semesters,” Mausler said.

Despite the freedom granted to these chapters, some fraternity members feel they would benefit from formality.

“I think sorority recruitment at Loyola mimics typical recruitment, so the sororities get a lot more out

of the process because [potential new members] get to see all the sororities. The fraternities don’t put emphasis on visiting all fraternities,” said Ethan Wallace, popular and commercial music junior and recruitment chair for Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. “I think the rules and the layout we are given by IFC, we make it work, but I think the structure in the future could be a bit more layed out and a bit more formal.”

Wallace said the Interfraternity Council should emphasize the collective Greek community more by offering mandatory information sessions about fraternity life leading up to recruitment.

Dani Leal, digital film senior and recruitment chair for Theta Phi Alpha, suggests the opposite for Panhellenic Association sororities.

“I think sorority recruitment makes sense in a lot of ways because it gives an equal opportunity between each of the chapters here at Loyola,” Leal said. “But I also think it is an extremely strange and rather superficial practice in itself.”

Leal thinks time-limited rounds make it difficult to assess whether a woman could benefit a chapter and whether the chapter would benefit her.

She said the Panhellenic Association should implement more casual rounds prior to formal recruitment, so chapter members have a better sense of where and how potential new members would fit.

According to Dobson, recruitment practices for each group of Greek organizations adhere to guidelines set forth by their national

councils, “all of which have different needs, rules and regulations.”

“This is not unique to Loyola, as colleges and universities with multiple governing councils provide different recruitment and membership intake structures, as well,” Dobson said.

Loyola has three governing bodies for Greek organizations. The Interfraternity Council includes two local organizations, Beggars and Sigma Alpha Kappa, and two North-American Interfraternity Conference organizations, Pi Kappa Phi and Phi Kappa Psi. The National Pan-Hellenic Council encompasses the five historically black fraternities and sororities on Loyola’s campus: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. The Panhellenic Association governs Loyola’s four National Panhellenic Conference sororities: Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta and Theta Phi Alpha.

“Ultimately, the structure of recruitment is up to the chapters who make up the council,” Dobson said.

Dobson said council recruitment rules are not permanent. The rules are reviewed by each council every year and may change to comply with new national council rules or based on local council opinion.

“An example of a change that was made this year [to the Panhellenic Association] is the reduction of the recruitment budgets,” Huber said.

“This was done in order to ensure recruitment focuses more on values based conversation rather than budgeting more money for decorations or outfits, which is a practice that was presented by the National Panhellenic Conference to collegiate councils.”

“We are able to learn from previous new members about what they enjoyed and what they thought could have been done better throughout each process,” Dobson said.

With student backing, Leal and Wallace’s suggestions may be possible, but it is unclear how much local opinion influences panhellenic policies.

Festival of Contemporary Song combines literature and music

By Ellen McCusker emccusk@loyno.edu

Imagine a living, breathing, immortal entity that has the ability to influence the life of anyone it encounters. This is how a student involved in last weekend’s Festival of Contemporary Song described two art forms: literature and music.

William Horne, professor of music and coordinator of theory and composition at Loyola, organized Loyola’s first Festival of Contemporary Song, which took place Friday, Sept. 16 through Sunday, Sept. 18 on campus. Horne, a composer and prominent contributor in the music scholarship field, said the festival aimed to demonstrate the connection between poetry and contemporary music and showcase talent at Loyola.

“There’s a conversation that goes on between literature and music and always has,” said John Biguen-

et, chair of Loyola’s English Department.

Horne invited Biguenet to participate in a discussion of the relationship between literature and music Sunday, Sept. 18 at the festival before Horne debuted his song “Something Like a Sigh”—an interpretation of Biguenet’s poem “Scrimshaw.” Horne attributed the success of his performance to his friends and colleagues.

“John was so supportive in many ways,” Horne said. “Feeling that support was, I think, the most gratifying part of it.”

Appreciation of and collaboration among participants during the event was evident during a performance by pianist Logan Skelton, A’84. Skelton studied under Biguenet and Horne during his time at Loyola and has gone on to receive international critical acclaim for his music.

Established artists, however, were not the only performers at the festi-

val. Horne extended the invitation to perform to current Loyola composition students. Dylan Tran, senior composition major, was among them.

“It was super nerve wracking,” Tran said. “I actually screwed up.”

Despite this, Horne said he chose the artists featured in the festival for a reason.

“He really is just starting in composition, and he has a great talent for writing for the voice,” Horne said of Tran. “He’s written some wonderful choral pieces, which have not been performed yet, for the most part.”

In addition to performing, each featured musician taught a master class to music students of various disciplines, but Horne said master classes were not the only way to learn at the festival.

“There is the further, less direct teaching for students who simply attend the programs and hear the music and observe that high level of

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Dylan Tran, music senior, and Rachel Looney, voice graduate student, perform at the Festival of Contemporary Song. The festival, held Sept. 16-18 at Loyola, showcased Loyola talents in music and literature and overlap between the two art forms.

performance skill that guest artists have and pick things up from that experience,” he said.

Biguenet, who refers to himself as a layman when it comes to music composition, was impressed with the performances he experienced.

“To see the mixture of mature composers like Logan and Bill and young composers at the very start of their career and young singers, that was really very striking, just how

much talent there is at this university,” Biguenet said.

Tran also appreciated the performances and noted his love for contemporary song.

“Music is a living, breathing, arguably conscious being, and it’s just as important to take action in the present as it is to reflect on the past,” Tran said.

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Construction update: Jefferson nears completion

By Maya Pescatore mapescat@loyno.edu

Drivers and pedestrians will soon be able to access major streets uptown as the drainage projects are nearing completion.

The federal government has contributed $1.5 billion to the Southeast Louisiana Drainage program. In addition, the New Orleans Sewage and Water Board has paid $306 million for the project, which is meant to protect New Orleans and the surrounding parishes from flood damage. In order to achieve this goal, the Southeastern Louisiana Drainage program has constructed new pumping stations and improved drainage canals.

Altogether, Southeastern Louisiana Drainage program has seven projects. The first was the Algiers Area Drainage Improvements, where restrictive canals were replaced along General DeGaulle Blvd. It began in February 2010 and ended in June 2012.

The Jefferson Avenue canal project began its first phase in July 2013 and will end in November 2017.

The second phase began in January 2013 and will end November 2016. The plan for this project is to add two new canals; one from Constance Street to South Liberty Street and the other from South Liberty Street to South Claiborne Avenue.

The project also plans to construct

another canal from Nashville Avenue to Jefferson Avenue along Prytania Street.

The Louisiana Avenue canal project began in July 2014 and will end November 2018. The project will construct a concrete box canal along Constance Street to Claiborne Avenue. It will also connect to the South Claiborne Avenue Manifold canal. Modifications to existing drainage will also be made.

The Napoleon Avenue canal project consists of three phases. The first began in September 1999 and ended in March 2003. The second phase began in September 2011 and will end this month. The final phase began in October 2013 and will end July 2017. This project aims to build a larger concrete box canal next to the one that is already there.

The final project on the agenda so far is the South Claiborne Avenue canal, which consists of two phases.

The first phase began October 2011 and will end this December. The second phase began June 2012 and will end this November. The project will add a canal from Lowerline Street to Leonidas Street and an additional canal from Leonidas Street to Monticello Avenue. It will provide additional passage for storm water flow.

Though Southeastern Louisiana Drainage program attests the project is well-intentioned and much needed in order to ensure citizen’s safety, many have found the con-

struction inconvenient.

“At a time like now, where time management and punctuality is not only crucial, but imperative, it’s minor discrepancies in the daily grind that really take a toll on people like myself,” Ayotemi Adediwura, music industry sophomore, said. “On numerous occasions, the detours necessary to bypass the construction have caused either delays in my schedule or adjustments to it …

I’m glad it happened, but I’m glad its over.”

McKenna Lindell-Wright, Loyola jazz studies sophomore, felt very positive about the construction. “I think the roadwork going on in New Orleans is good because the city has had a lot of renovations that have needed to be done for a long time.

It’ll be good for the city and the people. Now that it’s ending, there will be less traffic.”

Even with its goal to ultimately improve drainage in New Orleans, the Southeastern Louisiana Drainage program acknowledges the inconveniences caused by the work.

They address it on their website, swbnosela.com, where they recognize that noise, traffic and parking limitations caused by their work may cause issues for commuters and those living in the area.

For more information about the Southeastern Louisiana Drainage program and their projects, call 504585-2450.

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Jefferson Avenue at Freret Street sits closed to traffic in September. The Jefferson drainage project is nearing completion and should be finished by November 2017, according to the Southeastern Louisiana Drainage Program, which is managing the project.

Caribbean Mass celebrates culture, promotes Ignacio Volunteers

By Erin Snodgrass eesnodgr@loyno.edu

In celebration of both the Eucharist and Caribbean culture, Loyola community members praised the work of the Ignacio Volunteers at the annual Caribbean Mass.

Loyola University Ministry and Ignacio Volunteers gathered for the 8th annual Caribbean Mass in Ignatius Chapel on Sept. 25.

Ken Weber, university minister for liturgy and music, said the Mass was started in response to some Ignacio Volunteers wanting to share their experience in the Caribbean

around the Loyola campus.

“We in New Orleans have a special connection to our Caribbean and Latin American neighbors.

Mass is a wonderful way to celebrate both our commonalities and our differences,” Weber said.

The Mass is unique in its particularly festive atmosphere, which includes reggae music and Jamaican patties as refreshments afterward.

These Jamaican traditions help create a joyous and musical celebration.

Patricia Suarez, psychology senior, traveled to Jamaica with Ignacio Volunteers in the summer of 2015. She felt the Mass was a per-

fect place to incorporate her strong faith with her enriching experience abroad.

“After my trip to Jamaica, I brought back with me the fact that my faith has no limits. In the Mass, I share that positive Jamaican energy beside my faith, which I carry with me at all times,” Suarez said.

The Iggy Vols experience has allowed the volunteers to introduce the Loyola community both to Caribbean culture and traditions as well as the idea of serving with love.

The Caribbean Mass combines both of these values.

“Serving with love means treating every encounter I have with people

from the Loyola community, and those who are not, with as much love as possible,” Suarez said.

Josie Gautier, musical theatre freshman, attended the Mass and found it to be upbeat and welcoming.

As someone who regularly attends Sunday evening Mass, Gautier welcomed the unique approach to the Caribbean Mass.

“It’s nice to have a different kind of music to appreciate a different form of worship and praise,” Gautier said.

“You can feel the spirit of Christ right away as you enter the church,” Suarez added.

The scripture readings for the Mass revolved around the idea of wealth, both physical and spiritual.

“We discussed poverty in material things but the wealth you can find through others and through the love of God,” Gautier said.

Suarez was thankful for the opportunities the Caribbean Mass provided her to look back on her enriching Iggy Vols experience.

“Celebrating a Caribbean Mass is a great way in which the Loyola community can have a small taste of what Jamaica is all about,” Suarez said.

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Def Jam artist Earl St. Clair seeks to spark positivity

By Jamal Melancon jmmelanc@loyno.edu @Jam_M_Mel

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Ashley Daily brews kratom tea before it was outlawed on Sept. 30. The Drug Enforcement Administration announced last month it would move kratom to be an illegal Schedule I substance.

Listeners feeling emotion, particularly positive ones, are at the core of Def Jam artist Earl St. Clair’s musical intent. He wants to put a smile on audiences’ faces by presenting his life story through his music.

The singer and songwriter has been a producer for 10 years, and he’s accumulated credits writing for artists like Rick Ross and Machine Gun Kelly. His television debut came through a performance with fellow Def Jam artist Bibi Bourelly when they performed “Perfect” on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” this June.

The deep voiced St. Clair calls Alabama and Cleveland, Ohio, home, and his sound harkens back to old soul greats like Al Green and Sam Cooke. St. Clair’s lyrics are com-

posed of compact reflection, as he says his creativity comes from being in touch with his own personal story.

“Nowadays, a lot of people don’t know who they are in order to tell their life story in their music,” St. Clair told The Maroon in a phone interview.

When asked what new artists he had been listening to lately, St. Clair could not name any. He explained that his lifestyle doesn’t consist of frequent going out or indulgence, so he favors the content of life experiences that older artists spoke of in their music, compared to the life stories he hears in recent times.

“It’s hard for me to relate,” St. Clair said.

Listeners can check out St. Clair’s “Man on Fire” single on VEVO and watch the video, which was released on Sept. 28. St. Clair’s debut album “Songs About a Girl I Used to Know” will be released on a yet to be determined date.

Kratom leaves are illegal after DEA ban After kratom’s recent growth in popularity, the DEA is putting a ban into effect

By Caleb Beck cmbeck@loyno.edu @CalebBeckIRL

“In less than a week, this drink will accrue six felonies,” said Ashley Daily, owner of the Euphorbia Kava Bar on Oak Street.

Daily gave a sad smile as she lamented the legal status of the brew she’d just concocted: kratom tea.

Kratom leaves, indigenous to Southeast Asia, are derived to make an herbal drug that has been used for centuries in folk medicine to treat alcohol withdrawal, chronic pain and gastrointestinal problems.

On Aug. 25, 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced its decision to list kratom as a Schedule I controlled substance. Once the law goes into effect on Sept. 30, 2016, it will be illegal to distribute, possess or grow the supplement in the United States.

The decision has been met with significant criticism from advocates of the drug, who report that kratom’s pain-relieving sedative effects were key to alleviating opioid addiction and anxiety, as well as being a safe, natural alternative to pharmaceutical pain medication.

On Sept. 13, a march was organized in Washington, D.C., to campaign for kratom legality.

More than 100,000 people signed a petition entreating President Obama to stop the Food and Drug Administration from taking kratom off the market.

Lauren Hall, psychology junior, is someone who has seen the benefits of kratom while caring for patients at the Visions Adolescent Treatment Center for Youths in Malibu, California.

“I worked with kids who were recovering heroin addicts, and methadone made them drowsy and zombie-like; it was so detrimental to their health, and it wasn’t safe.

Kratom has only given these patients minor stomach discomfort.

This simple drink is such a better alternative,” Hall said.

DEA spokeswoman Barbara Car-

reno maintains that the ban was not nine, have already been synthesized born out of a lack of sympathy for by pharmaceutical companies and are ready for mass production,” Daiformer opioid addicts.

It is the lack of “legitimate medi- ly said.

“Everyone can grow a plant and cal use and quality control” with the substance that led to it being listed make this tea or powder, so nobody can monopolize it. After the ban, as a drug of concern for the agency.

“We’ve seen the use of kratom natural kratom is going to be illegal while its artificial skyrocket in the derivative will be last few years, “We’ve seen the use of krasold over countand the lack of ers nationwide,” regulation was tom skyrocket in the last Daily said. troubling to us. few years, and the lack of Daily hosted People don’t one last celebraknow what they regulation was troubling to tion of kratom are consuming us.” at Euphorbia from one dose — Barbara Carreno Kava Bar Sept. 23 to another, and DEA spokeswoman before disconfifteen deaths tinuing its sale have been linked to the substance. The science and entirely before the ban. On Sept. 26, lack of substantial approval from a bipartisan contingent of 45 memthe FDA compelled us to step in,” bers of Congress sent two letters to Chuck Rosenberg, acting adminisCarreno said.

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Commuters ‘Pokemon Go’ out

By Davis Walden jdwalden@loyno.edu @daviswald

Even with Pokemon Go’s decline in users since late July, students went out to a Pokemon Go Excursion held by the Commuter Student Association on Sept. 9 to catch the variety of Pokemon Audubon Park had to offer.

“The excursion went well for CSA,” Malik Thompson, English sophomore, said, “We had a decent number of people that went on it.

People were friendly and talkative throughout so I hope some friendships were formed.”

Pokemon Go, a game created by Niantic, has rapidly grown since its launch July 6 this year. With over a million locations to stop and visit, Pokemon Go popularizes local landmarks, transforming them into pokestops, locations where players called trainers can collect supplies, and gyms, where trainers can battle.

“The game brings people together in an effort to catch them all,” Thompson said. “We actually found someone who was already playing the game at the park and they decided to tag along with us. It’s a very

social game since it gets the player to go out and travel.”

The game’s premise is to explore locations in order to find and catch Pokemon. Though the non-mobile Pokemon games include over 700 Pokemon, Pokemon Go only has the first 151 Pokemon.

Brianna McMorris, criminal justice junior and president of the Commuter Student Association, and Liz Johnston, psychology senior and social media and event planning chair, organized the event.

“In addition to hunting for some Pokemon, we were able to take in the sites that Audubon Park had to offer,” McMorris, whose favorite Pokemon is Jigglypuff, said, “for example, the ducks, and not just the Psyducks we were looking for.”

“All in all, the event was great and if the game regains its popularity, I would hope to do it again sometime.”

The Niantic app continues to add features to improve gameplay such as the “buddy system” that would allow trainers to “walk” with their Pokemon.

“I think that the game is interesting,” Liz Johnston said, “Pokemon games were always like this sitdown and shut up kind of thing.

Sports briefs Volleyball celebrates undefeated weekend This weekend Loyola’s volleyball team swept both Brenau State and Dalton State propelling them to 9-12 overall and 4-4 in the Southern States Athletic Conference play.

With these victories, the Wolf Pack went 2-1 on a three game home stand at First NBC Court.

On Friday, Loyola secured a commanding victory over Brenau University in three sets.

On Saturday, the Wolf Pack continued their success and used their momentum from Friday’s win to sweep Dalton State Roadrunners.

Tylar Beckham, mass communication sophomore, was a standout player over the weekend as she achieved a career-high of 17 kills in the Wolf Pack’s victory over Dalton State.

Loyola goes on the road to Mobile, Alabama this Wednesday, Sept. 26 to take on NCAA D-II Spring Hill College at 6 p.m.

Drew Goff named head golf coach

Nick Parker, business junior, steals the ball from former student Ryan Smith during a practice. The men’s team is returning nearly all of its starters from a season ago.

Last Wednesday Sept. 21, Loyola’s Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Brett Simpson announced Drew Goff as the new head coach of the golf team.

Goff joins Loyola after spending the last four years as an assistant professional at the New Orleans Country Club, according to Loyola Athletics.

Goff replaces Jeff Lorio who accepted the head coaching job at the University of New Orleans earlier this year.

He first played collegiately at Mississippi Gulf Coast College, earning all-region and all-state honors.

He then transferred to William Carey University earning a degree in business administration while playing golf from 2007-2009, serving as team captain his senior season.

According to Loyola Athletics, Goff is a Class A PGA professional and has most recently won the 2016 Gulf Coast States Antigua/Haas-Jordan Pro-Pro Championship at the University Club of Baton Rouge.

Goff will join Loyola’s golf team on Oct. 2 prior to the men’s and women’s Spring Hill Tournament Oct. 3-4.

Men’s basketball program set to take next step

LSU football program parts ways with Les Miles

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A commuter student plays Pokemon Go at the excursion hosted by the Commuter Student Association. Students explored Audubon Park to catch wild Pokemon on Sept. 9.

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By Kameron Hay kahay@loyno.edu @Kameron_Hay

The Loyola men’s basketball team has high expectations and a newfound sense of optimism going into this season.

After finishing last season with a record of 19-14 and showing marked improvement each of the past two seasons, the Wolf Pack is expected to break out this upcoming season. In his third year as the head of the program, Stacy Hollowell, head coach, believes the team is poised to take a leap.

“We will have good chemistry, which will be to our benefit,” Hollowell said, pointing out that all of last year’s major players are returning to the team this year.

Though Hollowell believes he has a strong team, he does believe there are areas the team needs to be better at—specifically, decision making in

the open court.

“We can run when the opportunity is there, but we aren’t trying to be UNLV and score 130 points a game.

We will have to make better decisions in transition,” Hollowell said.

Jalen Gray, finance senior and guard on the basketball team, echoed Hollowell’s sentiments and said he believes that the Wolf Pack will be a balanced and versatile team; one that can adapt and play any style of basketball.

“I think we will play a mix of up-tempo and half court basketball.

We will push it when we can, but our half court offense will be stronger this year. We should execute better,” Gray said.

Because all of the team’s major contributors are back this year, the Wolf Pack will have the chemistry needed for an increased level of play.

“I think everybody is going to be a step up from last year. There won’t

be any slow starts. We know what to expect this year. The familiarity is going to help us immensely,” Gray said.

Even with the bright outlook on the season, there is still adversity that has already hit the team. Senior guard Derek Graves, a finance student, and junior forward Ben Fields, an accounting major, will both be sidelined for the second year in a row due to injuries. Though they were expected to contribute on the court, it’s their leadership that impresses Hollowell the most.

“Ben Fields will miss the season, but he will be a strong contributor and leader for the team; he’s a good and special kid. The same goes for Derek Graves,” Hollowell said.

Even though Graves will miss the season, he remains positive and upbeat, and he is excited about the growth of the program under Hollowell’s guidance.

“It has been amazing seeing the

growth of the program. It was rough my freshman year, but since Coach Stacy has taken over, everything has become a lot more competitive.

The team now goes into every game believing we can get a win,” Graves said.

This type of competitive attitude has the team believing they can accomplish certain goals that the program hasn’t been able to achieve in years.

“We believe we can win the conference this year and make it to the national tournament, which would be big because it hasn’t happened in a long time for the men’s program.

We have been practicing and going hard. It’s time to show people,” Gray said.

The Wolf Pack will open the season at home on Oct. 24 against Carver Bible College.

Longtime LSU football coach Les Miles was fired Sunday after spending 12 seasons with the Tigers since 2005.

LSU athletics announced Miles’ firing the day after LSU lost to Auburn giving them a 2-2 record. LSU is 2-2 for the first time since 2001.

Miles has been on the hot seat since last season as fans and the athletic department expressed concerns with the success of the program.

Miles was the second winningest coach in LSU history recording 114 wins and 34 losses. He lead the Tigers to two SECc championships and a 2007 BCS National Championship.

Former defensive line coach, Ed Orgeron will take over as the interim head coach until LSU finds a long-term replacement.

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Let’s talk about double standards HOWLS & GROWLS HOWL to the Beyoncé concert GROWL to the weather still being so hot EHH... to Pumpkin Spice Lattes GROWL to 2016 HOWL to the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture GROWL to midterms HOWL to Fall Break coming up

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Greek life on all college campuses is governed by rules. Those rules shape Greek organizations’ official and unofficial social practices, their community engagement and their recruitment methods. When we further break down Greek life rules, specifically recruitment rules, we direct our attention to two separate, distinct categories: fraternity recruitment rules and sorority recruitment rules.

Historically, sorority recruitment has been a much stricter process than fraternity recruitment. During the weekend-long (or week-long depending on the school) sorority recruitment experience, all potential new sorority members must visit each campus sorority during a designated time slot on a certain day, usually designated to discussion of a specific sorority theme—sisterhood, philanthropy, etc. The women are encouraged not to talk about alcohol, drugs or boys, and through as short as a 30 minute conversation, they hope to connect with and be memorable to the sorority member across the table. Plus, prior to recruitment, sorority members shouldn’t interact with potential new members, or they might be accused of “dirty rushing.” It sounds superficial, because on the fundamental level, it is. How well can you honestly get to know someone by sitting nervously across the table from them for a

half hour?

Fraternity recruitment looks a little different. While the potential new members are still nervous, and men are trying to get to know each other during a short time period, fraternity recruitment’s casual atmosphere, where members host barbecues or throw parties, allows members to connect with their future brothers in a more authentic way.

Loyola’s Greek community may not blatantly demonstrate the social double standards present in Greek life at numerous schools across the country, but its recruitment rules echo the unfairly applied restrictions historically placed on organizations based on gender.

National Greek councils are beginning to recognize the negative aspects of promoting such different recruitment methods. For example, the National Panhellenic Conference supported a “no frills” recruitment policy this year, aiming to concentrate sorority members’ time and efforts on conversation instead of decoration. However, the basis of how recruitment is conducted differs by what gender dominates the house. We’ve stripped the elephant of frills, but it’s still in the room.

We must continue to combat gender-specific biases which result in unequal practices by being open to new methods of operating the organizations of which we are members. Within Greek life, the solution

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Wally Cowan, a Beggars brother, misses a right hand swipe at a fallen Curt Sins of Alpha Delta Gamma in the 1964 intramural boxing tournament between fraternities.

The sororities at the time did no such thing.

shouldn’t be to place more rules on fraternity recruitment but to grant more autonomy to sororities during their recruitment processes.

Each chapter knows best how they

function. Members of Greek life are adults brought together by shared values and a sense of community and commitment, so they should be treated as such.

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KATIE ATKINS History senior kgatkins@loyno.edu

The summer before my senior year of high school, I took a trip to England with my dad. We spent a day at the Imperial War Museum in London, a gorgeous museum housed inside the imposing rotunda of a defunct insane asylum, with two massive naval cannons mounted in the front garden. The collection kept there is extensive and unique, with exhibits from all across Europe dating as far back as the First World War up until the present day. Towards the end of our visit, as I stood in front of one of many glass cases sprawled out on the upper floors, my eyes rather aimlessly wandering over the exhibits; I got the unmistakable feeling of being watched. I glanced downward and realized that there was a face behind the glass – a ghostly white, grimacing visage made of plaster. I peered at the grotesque form a moment. It was a death mask. But whose was it?

I looked over to the label next to the mask. That’s when I instantly felt my stomach drop to the floor, and I’m certain I went a little pale.

It was Heinrich Himmler.

Heinrich Himmler, as you may or may not know, was the architect of the Holocaust. He headed the

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A PT-350 sits inside the John E. Kushner Restoration Pavilion, which features glass exterior walls that allow the public a permanent, behind-the-scenes view of the restoration and preservation of priceless World War II artifacts.

Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany, meticulously planning and carrying out the Final Solution with terrifying efficiency. It is not uncommon to find historians who consider him to be more diabolical and bloodthirsty than Hitler himself. After the war, he managed to evade capture under an alias for several weeks before his identity was discovered. He bit into a cyanide capsule before the Nuremberg Trials, choosing death over the judgment of the world. Two plaster molds were made of his face shortly after he died.

And one of them was before me.

I could not believe that only a thin pane of glass separated me from such a personal object belonging to one of the most evil men to walk the planet. It felt almost as though I were looking at the man himself, face to face. It was positively chilling. I almost felt like looking at the mask with my own eyes gave me some connection to the atrocities that this villain had committed.

The image of who I had seen haunted me for quite a while after leaving the museum.

Museums are just about the closest thing we have to experiencing the past for ourselves.

In New Orleans, we can experience the past in many different ways. We are lucky to live in a city with numerous museums: the National World World II Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, the New Orleans African American Museum and many more. As students, we should take the opportunity in this city to experience the past for ourselves.

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