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The SUV driver, a still-unnamed Tulane graduate, “was just saying ‘I’m sorry,’ and he was crying a lot, and I was just trying to keep him calm,” one witness told our reporting partners at WWL-TV.
Loyola University is planning a major renovation to one of its classroom buildings early next year, and the neighborhood is invited to a town-hall meeting Monday night to learn about the project. From email:
Loyola University New Orleans President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., recently announced plans to move forward with Phase II of the university’s facilities master plan, including a major renovation to the Monroe Hall Science Building. The university will host a meeting on Monday, July 18 at 7 p.m. in Monroe Hall’s Nunemaker Auditorium to unveil plans for the renovation project which is slated to begin in early 2012. University leadership and architects from the firm Holly & Smith will discuss details of the project and take questions from the audience.
Rudy Carter was found in a hotel room in Ocean Springs, Miss., by a private investigator, according to our reporting partners at WWL.
“The first thing you notice about Rudy is her beauty,” begins a moving and eloquent essay for Nola Vie by Renee Peck, mother of a close high-school friend of Loyola student Ruth Carter, who has been missing since Saturday.
Ruth “Rudy” Carter’s family say her cell phone was last used at 5:49 p.m. Saturday, after she was seen at a crawfish boil earlier in the afternoon and her student ID was swiped at a Loyola dorm about 5 p.m., according to our reporting partners at WWL-TV.com.
Police are seeking the public’s help finding a woman missing since a party Saturday afternoon who is in need of medication. Ruth Carter, 21, is described as a 5-foot-2, 120-pound, fair-skinned black woman with black hair, brown eyes and wearing a pink T-shirt and black shorts. She was last seen about 2 p.m. Saturday at a party at an unspecified location on Freret Street, police said. Anyone who may have seen her is asked to call the NOPD non-emergency number, 821-2222. UPDATE, 2:48 p.m. Monday: Carter is a senior in marketing at Loyola University, according to the website of the university newspaper, The Maroon.
Two Uptown restaurants seeking liquor licenses – and a modified ban on new alcohol permits in the Carrollton area – will come before the New Orleans City Council at its 3 p.m. meeting today, as will the proposed Gabrielle restaurant. Cowbell on Oak Street and Ignatius on Magazine Street both have the recommendation of the City Planning Commission for permission to sell alcohol, while the Gabrielle was denied its recommendation to convert the Uptowner banquet hall on Henry Clay Avenue into a full-time restaurant. Meanwhile, the city council is also considering modifying its general ban on new liquor licenses in the neighborhoods around Riverbend area. The ban is not absolute – Cowbell falls within the existing moratorium’s boundaries – but it requires businesses to go through the city council for a moratorium waiver even when their zoning would ordinarily allow it. The law prohibits these bans from being renewed, however, so their boundaries are changed whenever they near expiration.
The New Orleans Police Department’s effort to reconnect with individual communities will bring it to two different Uptown neighborhoods Wednesday night, with anti-crime marches planned for both the university area and the Irish Channel. The NOPD Second District will coincide with a march sponsored by Loyola and Tulane to “Take Back the Night” from sexual violence. From the Loyola University news service:
On Wednesday, Oct. 27, students, faculty, staff, friends and neighbors will gather in the horseshoe outside of Marquette Hall on Loyola’s main campus at 6 p.m. Here, participants will listen to the powerful story of a survivor of sexual violence and a tribute to Kimberly Kelly, a Tulane graduate student who was fatally shot last May in a suspected domestic violence incident. The evening will continue with a candle-lit, chant-filled march from Loyola’s campus, down St.
“God in America: The 400-year struggle for the soul of our nation,” a PBS documentary, will premier at Loyola University’s Roussel Hall at 7 p.m. Wednesday. “The series covers 400 years of American religious history ranging from the story of the Europeans who brought their religious traditions to the New World to the modern struggle between secular and religious cultures,” according to Loyola’s website. “The quest for religious liberty created a vibrant spiritual marketplace that made the country the most religiously diverse nation on earth.” A discussion will follow the screening. The documentary will begin airing on WYES-TV on Oct.
