Loyola Chicago
Students create award-winning video
Juniors Chris Davis and Jamie McArthur of Loyola University Chicago won first prize and a spot in the Chicago 2016 campaign to host the Olympics for their video answering the question, ‘Why Chicago?’
This contest-winning video was featured on area NBC stations and is currently on the Chicago 2016 Web site. Awarded for their creativity, originality, and relevance, as outlined by the Chicago 2016 Web site, these lucky students won a trip to Vancouver to get a behind the scenes look at preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
This winning video was only made in two days despite having months to film it before deadline. Davis said, ‘We started shooting on a Thursday and the video had to be online by that Saturday night, we set up the interviews all in one day and were on the phone all night trying to get people to vote. It was a stressful weekend.’
Source: The Phoenix
San Francisco
Students fund raise to benefit fire victims
On Friday, Feb. 13, the University of San Francisco community gathered at their Poleng Lounge on campus to raise money for 10 students whose apartment building burned down.
Money was raised from the suggested donation of $5-$10 from guests as well as bar sales. This fund-raising event brought together many friends of the victims as well as alumni. The amount raised was not released; however, the homeless students plan to use the profits to buy couches and a table. The Baker Street apartment tenants have since relocated to a new apartment. Guests at the event were quoted as saying that although they did not personally know the affected students, they had been at parties at the apartment before and, therefore, felt obliged to pitch in.
Source: The Foghorn
Fordham
Pro-life signs around campus torn down
‘Choose life’ signs were torn down and have been stirring up controversy on the Fordham Lincoln Center campus. These posters were put up by Campus Ministry and promote the Catholic ‘consistent ethic of life.’ The signs are also in association with the Respect for Life March in Washington, D.C. The signs were not only about abortion but also against unjust war, economic injustice, poverty, capital punishment and euthanasia. In defense of the posters, faculty and students argue that because the university is Jesuit these beliefs should be allowed to be posted on campus. Those who are against hanging these signs have been urged to voice their concerns in another way. The policy has always been to address concerns with those who posted the flyers in the first place. Fordham’s Dean of Students Keith Eldredge, said, ‘Although there might be policies and procedures [at Fordham] that might be in line with the Catholic Church teaching, certainly there’s an element of academic freedom in the classroom, and so topics and ideas and issues can be raised and discussed and argued from any perspective.’
Source: The Fordham Observer
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