This building houses the College of Music on its first and second floors and the Department of Communications on its third and fourth floors. Loyola University New Orleans is the only Jesuit school in North America to have a college, not a department, of music. The music and communications complex also houses the Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, the largest auditorium on campus and the Lower Depths Theatre, a smaller venue for many of the drama department's productions, which are open to participation by all students.
Communications is the university's largest major because it contains multiple fields of study.
This department operates a writing lab, the Shawn M. Donnelly Center for Nonprofit Communications, and both the student newspaper and the yearbook offices. The Donnelly Center is run by students and creates publications for nonprofit client organizations. Both the Maroon and the Wolf are award winning university publications written by students of all majors.