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Bob Marshall, reporter and columnist for the Times-Picayune and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, delivered the lecture "Going Local in the Age of Global Communications" to inform the Loyola community of the effects the recession has had on the newspaper industry and his newspaper specifically.

Students packed the Quad on Sunday for Loyolapalooza, the school's annual end-of-year festival that features an afternoon filled with free food, games and entertainment, as well as some of the biggest names in music. Armed with water bottles and dressed in shorts and flip-flops, spectators withstood the sweltering spring sun to catch headlining acts Augustana and Citizen Cope.

As the 2008-2009 school year comes to a close, the Student Government Association is beginning its transition. Members are graduating or taking on new positions within SGA, creating a fresh group of student leaders to represent the Loyola Evergreen Campus.

Agonizing over what to eat for dinner will not be a problem for Loyola students as they settle into their new schedules this fall semester. After signing a 10-year contract with Loyola last year, Sodexo has made it a top priority to change the dining halls and venues across campus in an attempt to accommodate students' ever-changing appetites.

Early this summer, Loyola students received an e-mail informing all students and faculty about an up-and-coming transition to a new e-mail system called Live@edu. Opinions among students were mixed, with some students viewing the transition as an inconvenience and a confusing new change that comes with being a university, while others saw Live@edu as a safer and better e-mail system than GroupWise.

Ron Hansen, distinguished author and Santa Clara University professor, has been chosen to give the commencement address at Loyola's 157th commencement exercises on Saturday, May 16, to be held at Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena. Mr. Hansen went to a Jesuit high school and holds a bachelor's degree from Creighton University, also a Jesuit institution, which is in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska.

After months of impressive proposals and carful deliberations, Loyola has finally announced that Sodexo contracts will be renewed as the dining service on campus for the next 10 years. The process was competitive between two proposals presented by Sodexo and another company called Chartwells, but the college decided to continue its relationship with Sodexo, which has provided dining services for Loyola students since July 1973.

On April 15, an email was sent out to the 41 work-study students employed at University of New Hampshire Audiovisual Services. The message was not one of well wishes for academic studies or updates on new technologies. Instead, Dan DeVaughn, equipment room supervisor, wrote, "If you decide to work for Audiovisual Services next fall, you will all take a pay cut.

It's late morning on Saturday, Aug. 23, in the Inner Harbor and the upstairs deck of the Rusty Scupper is bustling with more than the average Baltimoreans coming for lunch. Teams of journalists sit in rows, waiting patiently in the muggy morning heat while television producers, camera men, and photographers scamper around making final adjustments to lighting, wires and an ABC logo backdrop.

A bench sits in the garden of St. Mary's Church in Annapolis, Maryland, though it is more than just a bench. Sitting on it is a life-sized bronze statue of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, a nineteenth-century missionary and former pastor at St. Mary's who is a candidate for sainthood.

President Obama's administration recently announced that it would not require Iran to cease uranium enrichment as a prerequisite for talks. This reflects a welcome change in policy from the Bush administration. Decades of sanctions-and a refusal to engage with Iran unless it met stringent preconditions-failed to stop its nuclear enrichment program.