Sometimes, we know people who do stupid things. It happens. Sometimes, we’re associated with a place that the makes the news for stupid reasons. My Alma Mater, Loyola University New Orleans, has prompted a few eye-rolling moments from me over the past couple of years, but this really takes the taco.
Professor Call Cops on Cop-Student, for being a Cop.
No, for real! A current student, Sgt. Josh Collins of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, didn’t have time to change out of his uniform and safely secure his sidearm one day, so went to class wearing both. Another student, presumably named Speshall Snoflayk, whined to a professor, who then called the cops– that’s right, more dudes with uniforms and sidearms– about the student in a uniform with a sidearm.
St. Ignatius and All Companions, pray for my patience! I’m not able to donate much money to many causes at the moment, but if I ever sell a story for a lucrative movie deal, Loyola New Orleans is currently OFF the “To Donate” list. I hope that this is a smack in the face to the administration that has allowed this stupidity to grow and fester. It was bad enough when I was there back at the turn of the century, but what I’ve seen over the past 12-24 months is a campus culture going off the rails. Because this line, while damning, is pretty reflective of what I’ve been seeing:
At the end of the day, Loyola University is little more than a daycare for young “adults.” $52,000 a year is a bit much to spend for daycare, even if you’re living on campus.
This is embarrassing as an alum! Hey, Society of Jesus: For years I’ve been trying to defend my beloved “Jebbies” from blanket accusations of Marxism and Heresy, but if you guys don’t get your shit straightened out, get some Catholic back into your Catholic University, some Academics into your School, and some Actual, Biblical Jesus back into your Society, I’m gonna give up! I know there are some younger members of the order with a firmer grasp on Orthodoxy and Doctrine, and I pray you don’t run them out and or ruin them before their formation is complete. But in the meantime, it’s like you’re trying your damnedest to prove all the worst accusations and conspiracy theories correct!
Get your shit together, Jebbies, and straighten out your institutions before it’s too late, if it isn’t already!
American Slytherin 
Many moons ago, like before Y2K, I wrote a letter to a columnist in our diocesan newspaper about the reality of demons, something he had pooh-poohed in his column. The man wrote me a personal letter, sent to my home, informing me that, because I believed demons are real and that I had personally encountered more than one, then I must be mentally ill. Sadly, that man was a Jesuit and head of the Theology Dept at Notre Dame.
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*Deep Sigh* A Jesuit should know better! ARG!!! 😦
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We’re watching Numb3rs (again) and I just realized “krav maga” is maybe what the Diane Farr character, Megan Reeves, studies. Yes?
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I’ve not watched much Numb3rs. Krav Maga is Israeli self-defense/ hand to hand combat. very intense, but the IDF has survived all this time with it.
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