colleges

Women’s-rights journalist speaks at Loyola tonight

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Sheryl WuDunn, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for reporting on the Tiananmen Square for The New York Times, will discuss her new book, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” at 7 p.m. tonight at Loyola University in Monroe Hall’s Nunemaker Auditorium. Co-written with her husband, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof (with whom she also won the Pulitzer), “Half the Sky” is described as call to arms against the oppression of women worldwide. Following the event, Loyola is launching a read-a-thon to raise money for institutions that WuDunn and Kristof praise in the book.

crime

University-area rapes, Magazine burglaries receive NOPD attention

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A handful of rapes around the University district and a string of possibly-related break-ins around the Magazine Street corridor drew the attention of New Orleans Police Department officials Friday morning a department-wide meeting. While reviewing last week’s major cases in the NOPD Second District, Capt. Darryl Albert was asked to describe his strategies for dealing with a handful of rape cases recently in the university area. Officers said they were having a difficult time following up with one victim because she had given a false name to both them and the hospital where she was treated, while a second involved an intoxicated man who apparently ended up in the wrong house, climbed into bed with the sleeping occupant, began trying to have sex with her and then fled when he recognized his error, Albert said. To combat the rapes, Albert said the second district is staying in close contact with Tulane and Loyola police, “passing the word around” about the cases. Tulane already has a dedicated patrol in the neighborhood, and one of Albert’s senior officers patrolled the area himself Thursday night and saw “nothing but students walking.”