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Last Monday, Loyola students, faculty and staff gathered for a brief luncheon held in preparation for a new year of Loyola-sponsored service with Viva House. Started in 1968 by Willa Bickham and Brendan Walsh - both of whom were present at the luncheon - Viva House operates as a meal program and food pantry in southwest Baltimore.

Bailout plan version 2.0 passed in both the House and the Senate. But did we really need the bailout? What are the positives and negatives of this plan? And how much of the plan was revised for political means rather than practical and economic means? Real free market economists would say, "No bailout plan is needed," and give the reason that what's happening to the financials is just a way of the market self-correcting.

Loyola doesn't mess around when it comes to being environmentally conscious. When the East Residence Hall - since re-dubbed Flannery O'Connor Hall - first opened, Loyola eagerly touted it as the school's first green building. Complete with a geothermal heating and cooling system and energy-saving appliances, the relatively new residence hall is tough on environmental waste and oh-so-soft on the ozone.

Global poverty continues to be an unsolved malady that perplexes even the most knowledgeable economists. One of the few convincing approaches to combating global poverty was developed by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist, Muhammad Yunus. Yunus invented Microcredit, a brilliant system that allows the poor to take out loans for small projects without the need of collateral (a security for the repayment of a loan).

Thumbs Up Absentee Craigsfest Congrats to all those who ended up being far too busy to go to Craigsfest over the weekend. Not only was money saved ($30 to be precise), but certainly those special few do not need to worry about the drunken pictures being uploaded to Facebook as you read this sentence.