By: Editorial Board

On Jan. 10, a 21-year-old Loyola student, along with two men from Evanston beat a 33-year-old man on a Red Line train, according to authorities and published reports. The three men allegedly called out anti-gay slurs and left the man with a bloody nose an...

By: by Caitlin Wilson

We live in an age when the constantly running news cycle can keep us informed around the clock of obscure events taking place in remote locations on the other side of the world. The Internet, social media and cable news contribute to this, giving audience...

By: by LeeAnn Maton

No matter where I go — from my current city of Chicago where handguns are banned, to my home state of Colorado where a casual get-together with friends over break ended in a demonstration of how to properly engage a slide-lock — rarely have I ...

By: by Sean Patrick Vera

In your last column for the Phoenix, you criticized Glenn Beck for comparing  progressivism to a cancer eating away at the Constitution. While it is your right to be personally offended, the facts do not match up with your views....

By: by Andy Dorsey

You people are all a bunch of lightweights. Everybody I talk to is always going on and on about how terrible the Twilight series is. It’s the “greatest comedy” they’ve ever seen.  They couldn’t stop laughing in the theat...

By: by Sarah Watts

Last Wednesday, the Illinois House voted in favor of a bill that would end the free ride CTA service for middle-income senior citizens. The vote was one of the many efforts the state of Illinois is taking to revitalize the heavily indebted CTA. Decreased ...

By: Quintin Slovek

I have a few lingering thoughts I would like to throw out there, in regards to the recent Film Queue on full length documentaries. Mainly, I just wanted to use these fancy interwebs as a way to drum up some interest in Jonathan Cauotte’s Tarnation, ...

By: Editorial Board

Let’s take a look at two apartments: Both are within a five-minute walk of Loyola’s Lake Shore campus, and both have heat, electricity and water included. For security, each apartment has a 24-hour doorman and a lighted, secured lobby. Both ap...

By: LeeAnn Maton

I know, I know. Criticizing Glenn Beck for making outlandish, ill-conceived statements is kinda like kicking a puppy — it’s just too easy, and not super-satisfying.  ...

By: Sarah Watts

If you’ve ever had any kind of withdrawal symptoms, you know how painful it is to give something up for Lent. In past Lenten seasons I’ve always known which friends of mine have given something up because the look in their eyes is universal &m...

By: Kaitlin McMurry

We are all taught to care for the poor, the hungry, the needy, the homeless. So what is it about “these people” we see on the streets that cause us to feel bothered by them?...

By: Monica Burciaga

To Whomever is Holding the Clipboard:        I think you had better sit down; it’s time we had a little talk. The time we have spent together has been brief, yet very annoying. You stand outside the Red Line and sometim...

By: Editorial Board

Death is always tragic. When that death is broadcast to thousands of viewers, however, it becomes an ethical minefield....

By: Moncef Gridda

The past three years of pursuing a Loyola education had resulted in my clawing, clutching and caressing every financial opportunity to continue it. However, my strife often resulted in considering if the cost of the college was worth to the cognition that...

By: LeeAnn Maton

No matter how much some may protest to the contrary, Olympic games by their very nature will always involve more than just sport. They’re about politics....

By: Sarah Watts

I’ll ignore the fact that Palin’s attack of Emmanuel and her support of Limbaugh is a ridiculous double standard. I’ll even ignore the fact that what Rush Limbaugh said was not, in fact, satire, as Palin indicated. What I can’t ign...

By: Andy Dorsey

History gets a bad rap. When I tell people that I’ve decided to be a history major, they always tell me that they can never really get into it because it’s all just names and dates. History happened a long time ago and far away, and therefore ...

By: Editorial Board

If you headed out to the polls for the primaries earlier this month, you might have felt a bit lonely. That’s because only 32 percent of registered Chicago voters voted in this year’s primary election on Feb. 2, and the numbers were even lower...

By: Sarah Watts

Let me just preface this column by saying that I watched the movie Julie&Julia last weekend and, with the exception of the Meryl Streep scenes, it was so awful it took me a bottle of wine and every fiber of willpower I possessed to make it all the way...

By: James Hepplewhite

I feel compelled to respond to last week’s Letter to the Editor from Michael Coyne....