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26, 2011 April 11,September 2011 Volume Volume 89, Issue90, 41 Issue 7

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Plagiarism: a rising concern at universities

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NEWS ANALYSIS

Technology is cited as a big influence on college plagiarism.

By Monika Kim Contributor

According to two recent studies conducted by the Pew Research Center, students are cheating more than ever as a result of new and emerging technologies. Pew Research Center’s statistics show that 55 percent of college presidents have seen plagiarism escalate in students’ papers in the past 10 years, while a mere 2 percent declared it was on the decline. “[Technology] definitely makes information more available and accessible,” said sophomore English major Marissa Morgan.

“You can find ideas and, sometimes, even an entire essay with just a click of a button. It just shows that we don’t really have to think for ourselves anymore, even if it’s just for something as simple as a thesis.”

The Pew Research Center, which supervised this study in early 2011, is an independent research organization that works to provide information to the public. The group also found from the same study that 89 percent of individuals credited the rise of plagiarism to the widespread use of computers and the Internet.

With portable technology such as smart phones and iPads on the rise, cheating has become an elementary process for pupils in universities worldwide. LMU Associate Professor of English K.J. Peters affirmed that students have been known to take pictures of exams, as well as search for answers on their Blackberrys and iPhones.

“For those intending to cheat on a test or a quiz, technology makes it really easy to cheat. It’s really kind of amazing,” said Peters. “[Smart phones] are the perfect devices for cheating. They’re ubiquitous. ... Most of the time, professors aren’t even fully aware of all their capabilities.”

Although plagiarism is often intentional, a large number of students unfamiliar with the MLA or APA formats inadvertently plagiarize by mislabeling or forgetting to cite sources.

More serious offenders, however, copy and paste directly from a document and present the text as their own.

“Our point of view here [at the Academic Resource Center] is to educate students on how to paraphrase and summarize information correctly,” said Academic Resource Center Writing Programs Coordinator Ann Stenglein.

“I think that’s the stance we should take, [rather than] pointing fingers at students.”

While technology has made cheating almost effortless for pupils, it has also provided professors and educators with methods of combating plagiarism both inside and outside the classroom. A myriad of plagiarismdetecting websites has appeared all over the Internet, giving instructors the opportunity to see whether a student’s paper has been plagiarized or not. These websites, such as turnitin.com and plagiarismchecker.com,

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University welcomes alumni for weekend of reunion festivities Chair of the Board of Trustees Kathleen Aikenhead (left) joined President David W. Burcham (right) and his wife Chris (center) in cutting into an LMU birthday cake at the 58th annual Alumni Barbecue yesterday afternoon.

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The Voices of Justice class partners with community organizations to share stories.

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The mission statement encourages it, service organizations strive to achieve it and the Center for Service and Action was founded to promote it.

Social justice is a common phrase at LMU. Many students and staff alike consider it to be an integral aspect to the community on the bluff, but Sister Judith Royer, C.S.J., saw a need to incorporate social justice ideals into more LMU classrooms. This year, Sr. Royer spearheaded the creation of a new class, Voices of Justice, which integrates service, learning and site-specific education with traditional research and arts training.

The Voices of Justice class is comprised of about 20 students who work closely with the

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KXLU, LMU’s student-run radio station, was named Rolling Stone Magazine’s “greatest college radio station in the nation,” in 1984. LA Weekly voted KXLU the best radio station in Los Angeles in 1987 and 1988, and in 2001 The Princeton Review named it the fourth-best college station in the country.

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Information taken from Kevin Starr’s LMU History Book, Photos from Netpix

LMU creates Faculty Hall of Fame The University plans to honor 400 former professors to celebrate the centennial year.

By Taryn Mira Staff Writer

As LMU celebrates its 100th birthday, yet another way to commemorate the history of the

Democrats vs.Republicans Opinion writer Tess Wafelbakker explains why both parties aren't providing the answers.

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By Tierney Finster

How big is University Hall? U-Hall is a 1 million square foot concrete building that contains over half a million square feet of floor space, 1,000 parking spots and 70,000 square feet of atrium space.

University is in the works. The centennial celebration has brought with it the creation of the first-ever Faculty Hall of Fame at LMU. The creation of the Faculty Hall of Fame was intended to highlight LMU’s academics and honor the men and women who have made meaningful contributions to the University through teaching, service or scholarship work.

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Honorees will be selected from all faculty dating back to 1911, including Marymount College, Loyola University and Loyola Marymount University. All alumni from LMU and its predecessors will be solicited for their nominations. The Faculty Hall of Fame Committee is hoping to reach around 400 alumni. Current faculty,

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What will your college degree get you?

The Loyolan's new Business and Technology section offers tips and suggestions on how to best invest in your future.

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Various LMU alumni and their families joined current students,faculty and staff in celebration of LMU’s 100th birthday at the 58th Annual Alumni Barbeque in Sunken Garden yesterday. The weekend also recognized the 90th anniversary of the Loyolan, the 80th anniversary of the Del Rey Players and the 25th anniversary of the De Colores program.

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Cheating evolves as technology advances Plagiarism from page 1 have students upload entire papers to compare similarities found in previously written and submitted texts. These “fraud-detectors” typically include articles sold from essay mills along with studies conducted in years prior.

Other, more straightforward methods of unearthing plagiarism include simply typing in a string of words into a search engine and analyzing the results. “[Technology] has made it easier for students [to plagiarize], but it’s also made it easier for faculty to find [plagiarism],” said history professor Lawrence Tritle.

Although Tritle acknowledges that he and his colleagues use Google occasionally to verify the originality of students’ papers, turnitin.com and various other plagiarism exposing websites are not commonly used on LMU’s campus. Peters asserts that

“[turnitin.com] is motivated by the worst instincts – treating students as criminals – [an attitude] which has no place at a university like [LMU].”

According to Peters, LMU students caught plagiarizing receive punishments that range from severe to moderate.

The most serious offenders are expelled from the University, while others are let off with a warning. Those attending the institution on scholarships or grants can potentially jeopardize their endowments with a single infraction. Despite the large amount of plagiarism present in institutions today, students and professors alike are working to prevent plagiarism, one paper at a time.

Philosophy professor James Hanink said, “I think that [in order to combat plagiarism] people need to develop a real love for the truth in respect to intellectual work and property.”

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Equivocation, a play by Bill Cain, S.J. Performed by the Del Rey Players September 29, 30 & October 1, 6, 7, 8 8:00PM, Del Rey Theatre Free admission; contact Central Ticket Agency to reserve tickets 310-338-7588

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1st Annual Conference on Jesuit Higher Education: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Theology With John C. Haughey, S.J. and John W. O’Malley, S.J. Tuesday, October 11 — Wednesday, October 12 Von der Ahe Family Suite, William H. Hannon Library

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University honors past faculty Fame from page 1 retired faculty and staff members are also encouraged to nominate colleagues who exemplified unparalleled talent and skill.

All eligible nominees can be living or deceased. However, they are required to have taught at LMU full-time for at least 10 years, and they must have retired or left the University over five years ago. According to the article in LMU Magazine titled “Nominate Your Mentor to the Faculty Hall of Fame,” published Sept. 15, English professor Frank Carothers and theological studies professor Father Herbert Ryan S.J., are two of nearly 150 nominations that have already been received.

Other eligible nominations will be accepted until Saturday, Oct. 15. Inductees to the Faculty Hall of Fame will be selected for how they embodied the University mission, showed a strong commitment to teaching or had a long-term impact on student learning.

The seven-person Faculty Hall of Fame Committee, made up of committee chair Father Albert Koppes O. Carm,

Del Rey North - On Friday, Sept. 16, DPS received a report of student use of marijuana.

The case has been referred to Judicial Affairs.

three senior faculty members and three alumni.

This committee will meet after the submission deadline and make recommendations to President David W. Burcham by the end of the Fall 2011 semester. There will be between 12 and 15 inductees.

However, some are hoping the eligibility requirements will change to accept current professors still teaching at LMU. Sophomore business major Caitlyn Myed said, “There are so many great professors in the business school and at LMU in general, I don’t see why the Hall of Fame is only looking to honor those who’ve left or are no longer teaching here.”

In response, Fr. Koppes explained, “This is primarily targeted at alumni involvement.

This is meant to emphasize alumni relations.” For the same reasons, Fr. Koppes also explained why current LMU students may not participate in the nomination process.

“Because eligible nominees have to have retired or left LMU for at least five years, it’s difficult for current students because they may not know faculty that

Leavey Field - On Saturday, Sept. 17, DPS received a report of an intoxicated student in need of medical attention. The case has been referred to Judicial Affairs.

Burns Fine Arts - On Friday, Sept. 16, DPS received a report Burns Booth - On Saturday, of cash stolen from a student’s Sept. 17, DPS received a report wallet. The case is closed. of intoxicated students in need of medical attention. The case Alumni Mall - On Friday, Sept. has been referred to Judicial 16, DPS received a report of Affairs. an intoxicated student in need of medical attention. The case Foley Annex - On Saturday, has been referred to Judicial Sept. 17, DPS received a report Affairs. of an intoxicated student in need of medical attention. The Parking Lot A - On Saturday, case has been referred to JudiSept. 17, DPS received a report cial Affairs. of hit-and-run damage to a vehicle while parked. The case is University Hall - On Tuesday, closed.

Sept. 20, DPS received a report of the theft of two displayed Bluff - On Saturday, Sept. 17, flags. The case is closed.

DPS received a report of an intoxicated student in need of Leavey 4 - On Wednesday, medical attention. The case has Sept. 21, DPS received a report been referred to Judicial Afof student marijuana use. The fairs. case has been referred to Judicial Affairs.

Whelan Hall - On Saturday, Sept. 17, DPS received a report William H. Hannon Library of an intoxicated student in On Wednesday, Sept. 21, DPS need of medical attention. The received a report of a stolen case has been referred to Judi- laptop from the library on cial Affairs. the second floor. The case is closed.

Burns Booth - On Saturday, Sept. 17, DPS received a report Whelan Hall - On Thursday, of an intoxicated student in Sept. 22, DPS received a report need of medical attention. The of underage possession of alcocase has been referred to Judi- hol. The case has been referred cial Affairs. to Judicial Affairs.

retired five years ago.”

Senior liberal studies major Brittney Nagawa understands why the process is restricted to alumni and alumni relations, saying, “I think it’s great that for once, alumni will be asked for something other than money.

Getting them to think about professors who taught them many years ago is a great way for them to stay in contact with LMU.” There will be a reception in the spring once the 12 to 15 inductees have been chosen. Fr. Koppes is already envisioning a way to celebrate the Hall of Famers. “I want to have a picture of them, along with some sort of short biography. We’re hoping to put it in the new Von der Ahe Building, where the Alumni Center is.”

Though this is the firstever Faculty Hall of Fame at LMU, it will not be the last time exceptional faculty will be honored. “We may, every two or three years, add another five to 10 people into the Hall of Fame,” Fr. Koppes said.

To nominate faculty, and for a sample list of eligible nominees, visit www.lmu.edu/resources/ halloffame.htm.

Parking Lot A - On Friday, Sept. 23, DPS received a report of hit-and-run damage to a vehicle while parked. The case is closed.

William H. Hannon LibraryOn Friday, Sept. 23, DPS received a report of defaced University property. The case is closed.

Rosecrans Hall - On Saturday, Sept. 24, DPS received a report of an intoxicated student in need of medical attention. The case has been referred to Judicial Affairs.

McKay Hall -- On Saturday, Sept. 24, DPS received a report of a theft of student’s laptop.

The case is closed.

Founder’s Pavilion - On Saturday, Sept. 24, DPS received a report of an intoxicated nonstudent in need of medical attention. The case is closed.

Rosecrans Hall - On Saturday, Sept. 24, DPS received a report of an intoxicated student in need of medical attention. The case has been referred to Judicial Affairs.

Del Rey South - On Sunday, Sept. 25, DPS received a report of an intoxicated student in need of medical attention. The case has been referred to Judicial Affairs.

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This year, Anthony Garrison-Engbrecht and LGBTSS have paired with the CSA House to make LGBT issues their social issue of the year.

11 Burning Questions with Anthony Garrison-Engbrecht

This issue, News Editor Tierney Finster talks with Anthony Garrison-Engbrecht, the director for both Off-Campus Student Life and Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Student Services [LGBTSS] about leading the two departments.

1. How do you balance leading two distinct offices at LMU? I have a really good support team. I have William Sisk, Jade [Smith], Jennifer Ellspermann and a great student staff. ... Because the offices are distinct, there isn’t a lot of crossover between the two. I can go to offcampus meetings and focus on off-campus issues, then switch gears in an LGBT meeting. Working in both is fun and keeps my day interesting.

2. The Office of LGBT Student Services was met with a large amount of criticism upon opening on campus. How did this animosity, in some respects, fuel your work?

It all boils down to support. We are here to be a service and a resource.

Our goal is to educate men and women, and I think part of the education of the whole person is to allow students to develop spiritually and emotionally. People need to be able to really find their own identity, and be comfortable and confident.

3. LGBTSS [is celebrating] its one-year anniversary [this month].

What are you most proud of from this pilot year?

I’m proud of opening the office and laying down strong foundational resources. In terms of [event] programming, we have had large events with great attendance – and not just from LGBT students.

4. How would you like to see the Office of LGBTSS grow?

Now that we have the LGBTSS office, the Gender and Sexuality Alliance and the [Faculty and Staff Gay/Straight Network], I really see each of the offices growing to become more distinct. I would like to see the LGBTSS office grow in education, providing each constituent group with more specific information and meeting each of its needs.

5. What’s the hardest part of your job?

This is definitely a double-edged sword. I’m in a lot of meetings. This is great because the University works extremely collaboratively. ... But I do love meeting with students ... and being in so many meetings makes that difficult sometimes.

6. What can your offices offer students?

The Off-Campus Student Life office is an off-campus student advocacy office. We provide off-campus programming, help finding rental properties, tips for how to work with neighbors or landlords and a community.

As far as LGBTSS, we offer one-on-one counseling and support, and social programming that includes signature events like OUTSpoken and the Sunday movie sing-alongs. Tomorrow at Convo there is an LGBT picnic that all students are invited to on [St. Robs Grass]. We also do educational events and small-group discussions. Students are welcome in the office.

7. Walk us through a typical day of yours.

Let’s do a Wednesday. On Wednesdays, Sister Joanne Connolly SSL [and I] have breakfast at 7:30 a.m and then attend Mass together. I usually roll into the office between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. and get working on business stuff. Then around 10 a.m., I’ll begin with some off-campus and LGBT meetings. I keep the LGBT office open until 7 p.m. on Wednesdays, and after 5 p.m. that begins time where I really just hang out with students and hear about what’s going on, on campus. I’m also in my last year of my master’s program in theological studies. So I’ll do homework for that.

8. How did you discover your passion for student affairs?

When I was a student at Loyola New Orleans, I got hired ... in the office of new student orientation. ... [I got] my master’s in educational psychology [and] I love working in a dynamic setting that is always changing and always presents new challenges.

9. What would you change about the current college experience at LMU? We are all experiencing this with technology, but I’d love to see students talking more. I’m guilty of it too because I love email and Facebook, but I’d love to see more students sharing stories and experiences with each other.

10. What’s the best risk you’ve ever taken?

I’m from Wichita, Kansas – that isn’t a big city. Going to New Orleans was a transformative experience. I was totally out of my element and got to experience a really different culture. I got to see some really great things, and also some terrible things like the disparities in the social justice system and experiencing Hurricane Katrina.

11. What’s your favorite song to listen to after an exhausting day?

Right now I’m really into Joshua Radin. He’s kind of mellow and has this one song called “One Leap” that’s very calming. It’s nice to be at home and decompress to his music.

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New class focuses on social justice

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following community organizations: Homeboy Industries, the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST) and the Bethany Ministries, a program that transitions women out of homeless shelters and into self-sufficient living facilities.

Sr. Royer emphasized the studentdriven nature of the class, saying, “It’s a pilot course that hasn’t been taught before. We are really discovering based on the interests that the students identified through a survey. The students themselves indicated their curiosity about organizations like the ones we are working with on this project.”

Senior urban studies major Britta Engstrom also focused on the unusual nature of the class.

“I think it’s a really unique type of class, an experience that forces you to apply what you’re learning to social justice issues – which is always a great thing. It’s a great opportunity for students all across campus, from different majors and departments, to collaborate and learn about different ways of learning,” Engstrom said.

Sr. Royer believes that the wide array of students in the class speaks to the importance of its work.

“The experience is consciousness raising. It’s getting the stories told that wouldn’t necessarily be told otherwise, and it’s showing people how they can get involved in solving the world’s problems. This is a cross-listed course within six departments. That means that six different chairs agreed to support this class and to give credit to their students for taking it,” said Sr. Royer.

Students in Voices of Justice can take it as an upper division American cultures, English, theatre arts, Catholic studies, communication studies or Honors course.

During the first class meetings, representatives from different organizations came to LMU to discuss their work with the Voices of Justice students. Through this introduction to each cause, students were able to gain a better understanding of what group they would like to commit themselves to working with for the remainder of the project.

However, more than one student admitted that they couldn’t narrow their choice down to just one organization. Junior psychology major Veronica Coe will be working with both Homeboy Industries and Bethany Ministries as part of the class, and she commented on the unique work that the Voices of Justice students will be doing with participants in the various programs.

“During classes, we have been able to listen to the program coordinators speak, and this weekend we are going to talk to the actual participants in the programs.

We will be sharing life experiences through group story circles. Then, each LMU student will be matched up with a specific individual from the organization to have a more personal conversation with. …

We will continue to meet with our partner throughout the semester,

so we should be able to get more comfortable and open with each other after each visit,” Coe said.

Coe also explained what students will do with these stories as the class progresses, saying, “The students will record their individual’s story and then dramatize them in some way. I am turning my stories into plays, making the real stories ready for the stage,” she said.

Storytelling is an integral part of the class. Engstrom shared how happy she was to have this tradition included in her college curriculum.

“Storytelling has always been important in my family. Through generations, it has been a way of retelling history and sharing parts of yourself with others. In some ways, storytelling is a lost art, and it has not been a skill or method that I have been able to use previously in my studies. Having a class that facilitates storytelling is a great way to inspire students to use it in other classes as well, as a great and more human method of research,” said Engstrom.

Sr. Royer also offered her feelings about storytelling, saying, “Storytelling is healing. ... Once we hear each other’s stories, we see how we are alike rather than how we are different. I think we understand what’s it like to walk in another’s shoes when we hear their stories.”

Senior English major Amanda Zeitler appreciates the way Voices of Justice gives students who are not already involved with service a way to give back to the community.

“We go to a school that is always talking about social justice and being ‘a man or woman for others’, but I never really found a way to combine the two. I’m not in a service [organization] or anything like that, but this class has shown me how to bridge my passion for playwriting and service work,” she said.

The Voices of Justice class was introduced this year with LMU’s centennial and the 100th Jubilee of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange in mind, as the class highlights issues that both the University and the religious group have focused on for the last 100 years. Royer’s students will present their story dramatizations, also referred to as oral histories, at the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Orange forum at LMU in March and at the 2011-12 Bellarmine Forum.

Sr. Royer hopes this class demonstrates the type of work the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Orange could do if they were given a permanent institute on campus, a goal they one day wish to achieve.

“If we were able to have an institute, we would explore issues of reconciliation, justice, social action and collaboration. In a sense, we founded this class because it’s easier to begin movements with students,” Royer said.

According to junior political science major Sahar Mansoor, this class empowers students just as the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Orange hope to do. She contended that the most electrifying element of the class is something that all LMU students can do on their own.

“Put yourself in an uncomfortable situation. We are all vulnerable at the end of the day,” she said.

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Students participate in a discussion in the new “Voices of Justice” class.

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Courses that live out the mission

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e’re all familiar with the ideals put forth in the LMU mission statement: “the encouragement of learning,” “education of the whole person” and “the service of faith and the promotion of justice.” Though slightly vague, these three tenets of the LMU mission are moral standards undoubtedly worth pursuing. Beyond rhetoric, however, how does one go about actively seeking to personally achieve the lofty ideals spelled out in LMU’s mission statement?

Many students take the mission to heart outside of the classroom. Service organizations provide students with an opportunity to live out the mission through service in action throughout Los Angeles and beyond.

Other extracurricular opportunities like the De Colores program, which takes students to Tijuana, Mexico for service projects and the Alternative Breaks program, which takes students all over the world for service, allow students grow through real world experience.

Though there are many classes that seek to educate students with service beyond the bluff, the Loyolan feels that there should be more classroom time spent exploring the LMU mission statement.

Sister Judith Royer C.S.J. has an answer for those looking to develop the mission statement inside of LMU’s walls. Her Voices

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of Justice class [see News Editor Tierney Finster’s “Justice class underway” Page 1, News] “integrates service, learning and sitespecific education with traditional research and arts training,” by creating an environment in which the roughly 20 enrolled students work directly with community organizations, such as Homeboy Industries, that promote social justice. By semester’s end, each student will produce a dramatic work constructed from and inspired by conversations that take place.

Sr. Royer believes the class reifies “consciousness raising,” and explains that it gets students “involved in solving the world’s problems.” These are both curriculum elements that the Loyolan thinks all students should be required to explore during their time at LMU. In addition, the class is wisely cross-listed across six different departments. Classes that address topics related to the mission statement offer the unique opportunity for students across majors and class years to come together to explore their common ground and learn from one another.

The Loyolan hopes that more classes like Voices of Justice, which gives students tangible ways of exploring and discussing LMU’s mission statement, will soon be integrated into the University’s curriculum.

This week the Center for Asian Business and the LMU Leadership Institute are coming together in the DejaView Movie Lounge to put on a screening of “Raspberry Magic,” an independent dramatic film by filmmaker and School of Film and Television professor Leena Pendharker. In addition to having shown many exciting films this year, the Loyolan loves that the relatively young theater is also a place where many organizations can come together collaboratively to bring information to the greater community. With ticket prices that are impossible to beat and a pun-ny name that is just plain fun to say, you really can’t go wrong with DejaView. “Raspberry Magic” will be screened on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m.

New Facebook: just suck it up and get over it Unless your entire affiliation with social media can be summed up in 140 characters or less, you’ve probably noticed that Facebook.com has experienced a few changes recently. It’s understandable that considerable changes to a site that regularly consumes hours upon hours of students’ lives will result in some level of discussion. However, regardless of whether or not you particularly favor Facebook’s recent redesign, is it really necessary to act (and by act, we mean make an outraged Facebook status) as if you just discovered that your significant other has been cheating on you with your best friend for the past five years? If you are truly that outraged by Facebook’s decision, stop using it – Mark Zuckerberg still has 500 million other friends on Facebook.

Justice Kennedy pays a visit to Loyola Law Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court will speak at Loyola Law School for the dedication of the Alarcón Advocacy Center on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 10 a.m. Kennedy is one of nine premier authorities on Constitutional law in this country, and is known for being the swing vote in many contentious court decisions. For Loyola Law School to secure a speaker of Kennedy’s prominence displays the law school’s position as a valuable participant in the U.S. legal system.

Why both parties are getting it wrong O

n the political horizon appears to be one of the most monumental and controversial presidential elections in our nation’s history.

In 2008, President Obama, through a brilliantly executed campaign, championed the ideals of hope and change, both of which resonated with Americans – especially American youth – after a turbulent financial breakdown under Bush.

Bakk it Up Obama was able

By Tess to secure the historical position Wafelbakker as America’s first Staff Writer African-American president.

After almost four years as commander in chief, Obama’s purported messianic power has failed to cultivate economic prosperity, as it has become increasingly clear that the recession has been exacerbated under his leadership. Unemployment rates remain steadily high, with consistent figures hovering around nine percent, according to White House reports.

The Census Bureau reported that 46.2 million Americans are currently living below the official poverty line, which is the highest number in the 52 years that the bureau has been publishing this figure. President Obama’s approval ratings have sunk to its lowest level since he took office.

According to a recently conducted Gallup poll, 52 percent of Americans disapprove of the president, while 40 percent approve of the job he is doing.

There is a litany of obstacles that our nation faces, both domestically and abroad, and Americans are becoming more and more concerned with the direction that our country is headed in – a direction that appears overwhelmingly negative.

However, perhaps even more problematic than the issues at hand is

the prospect for the future, which is currently bleak. Both of the major political parties in America foster fundamental philosophical contradictions in their current platforms. Unless a movement emerges that can reconcile these central dichotomies, the policies that are adopted will never be truly

most basic level and in action, these dogmas actually detriment the full exercise of our rights Democrats advocate for many important rights, including the right of a woman to make decisions about her body and the right of homosexual individuals to enter into marriage.

members of the party tirelessly vie for the protection of individual liberties. However, they also maintain that women should not be given the option of having an abortion and that homosexuals should be denied the right to marry. Republicans support fiscal liberty while infringing upon some personal social rights.

Democrats do the exact opposite.

The contradictions that exist within each respective party are not sound. How is a political party to truly succeed and claim supremacy, let alone legitimacy, if its foundations are inconsistent? I feel, that as voters, we must choose between social and Financial fiscal matters when selectFreedom! ing which political candidate to support. We must choose which group of freedoms is more important to us. But why should we be forced to Women’s choose? As an American citizen, I believe that we should Right to be provided with social and Choose! fiscal freedoms with corresponding underpinnings, the basis of which being the protection of individual rights.

The left accuses the right of maintaining a selfish and individualistic outlook, but some of the rights that the Greg Smith | Loyolan left upholds champion the significance of the individual coupled with reason, and the root prob- The party values individual rights, as well. The right accuses the left of lems we face will not be appropriately but only in some instances. Individual repudiating individual rights, while or effectively addressed. rights pertaining to property are often actually doing just that through its Both political parties claim that undercut and violated by liberal ide- rejection of certain proposals. their principles and ideologies best ology. For example, individuals are In order for legitimate policies to protect our rights, which are intrinsi- not entitled to the capital that they be formed, which in turn will foster cally protected in the foundations of acquire. Rather, that capital is con- a truly free nation, Democrats and the American legal system. Rights and sidered shared property and becomes Republicans must reevaluate their freedom are boasted as the entities such through taxation, better known to respective ideologies and must resolve that separate us from our interna- the left as “redistribution of wealth.” the contradictions that hinder the ultitional counterparts; the protection of Simultaneously, Republicans are simi- mate freedom that the American peowhich allows our nation to be recog- larly guilty of this inconsistency – in ple deserve. nized as the “land of the free, home of reverse.

This is the opinion of Tess Wafelbakker, a senior political the brave.” However, the ideologies of Republicans promote individual science major from Morgan Hill, Calif. Please send the left and the right are flawed at the rights, especially property rights, and comments to ktran@theloyolan.com.

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Lay off the meds, and get a grip

haven’t slept in two weeks. Now this may be alarming for most people, but if you know me at all, this is blasphemy. I am the queen of sleeping.

It’s true, though. Since moving in, I haven’t been able to sleep through the night.

I’ve even tried taking Benadryl and Tylenol PM. My mom will probably reprimand me for this after reading this story. The lady is averse to any type of medication and even hides regular Tylenol from me in of my overdose. In Run ‘n Tell Dat fear spite of my efforts, I lie

By Kim Tran awake throughout the Opinion Editor wee hours of the night, and my frustration only makes it worse.

I’ve tried tons of relaxation techniques.

If you look at my browsing history, all you will see is “how to fall asleep,” “how to fight insomnia” and Facebook sprinkled in between. Nothing has worked. I’ve never not been able to sleep before, so what is happening now? Stress.

It’s not like I’ve never been stressed before, but I honestly didn’t believe stress that could rob you of sleep even existed.

I’m just not a stressful person. I roll with the punches and am always convinced that everything will be OK, so I never understood those that were perpetually stressed.

I just assumed they unnecessarily stressed themselves out. I still hold that conviction, but I now have sympathy as I lay awake in bed plagued by column ideas and article headlines.

After extensively researching the topic of stress with concern for my health, I’ve compiled a list of the best tips I believe there are to deal with it. Many of you may say it’s too early in the year for stress, but prevention is the key to winning this sleep-depriving battle.

1. Manage your time effectively. Yes,

there is such a thing as taking on too large of a load, but half the problem is procrastination when it’s time to tackle it. It’s true that our generation is constantly in motion and overachieving, but it is also true that we are a generation born into technology and obsessed with Facebook and television. Get the important things done first, and you’ll save yourself from pulling all-nighters. If

in between constant activity allows you to come back more energized. Personally, my roommate and I like to take dancing breaks, but to each his own.

4. Set your priorities straight. While I am an advocate of getting involved in your community and doing as much as you are capable of, when you feel you can’t handle

or the Academic Resource Center. If you feel like your workload is too much, ask a co-worker to help you. As an unhealthilyproud person, I of all people know that it doesn’t always feel good to have to ask for help. However, sometimes it is necessary, and you shouldn’t feel weak for it. A lot of the time you’ll learn so much from other people that could help you deal with things more effectively.

6. Have fun. Though this is the evercliché final piece of advice in practically every set of tips or rules, it really does apply here. If you don’t take time to spend with your friends or to engage in your hobbies, you will feel run-down, out of breath and depressed. It’s important to enjoy yourself in life because not everything revolves around school or work (sorry parents). If you don’t get everything done, sometimes that’s okay.

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Facebook and Pottermore didn’t exist, I’d probably be in bed by 10 every night.

2. Fall into routine. If you have problems managing your time, create a routine for yourself. A week of practice will turn productivity into habit as you set up specific times for all of your activities and eliminate unnecessary distractions.

3. Give yourself a break. It’s OK to take some time to breathe. Taking breaks

everything, it’s time to take a step back and reevaluate what it is you want to dedicate most of your time to. This way, the quality of your work won’t suffer, and you won’t be stretched too thin.

5. Get help. When you feel stressed, it’s OK to ask for help. There are so many resources on and off campus that can help lighten your load. If you don’t understand something in a class, go to office hours

As you might have realized, my set of guidelines didn’t really include lightening your load. Personally, I still think stress is a man-made product. I concede to the existence of those who are bigger go-getters than I am who try to tackle everything, and I admire them. However, for most, I think we underestimate ourselves. People often claim that they are stressed without realizing the immense amount of energy and ability that they possess. Stress is caused by poor time-management skills and inefficiency. If we were all to attack all of our work without succumbing to distractions, I think we could accomplish anything we want to.

I don’t really know how to get away from the nightmares I have of misprints and grammar mistakes, but I know that I will sleep better if I get my work done, because if I get my work done, I can’t be stressed.

Then I’ll have time for Facebook lurking and Pottermore.

This is the opinion of Kim Tran, a sophomore marketing and communication studies double major from San Jose, Calif. Please send comments to ktran@theloyolan. com.

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When one door closes, open your own

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his is my third year living on campus, and there’s really not much I can complain about. It’s very convenient and the apartments have all the amenities that I can ask for. At times, though, I do wish I lived in a house in the surrounding neighborhood.

With the on-campus apartments, it’s a bit inconvenient to walk down the hall to the laundry room just to find that there are no available washing machines. (Though, Don’t Quote Me if I were smart, I

By Joseph Demes would remember to look online at Asst.Opinion Editor Student Housing Online Services.) It can also be a hassle to walk all the way to U-Hall’s underground parking to get to my car, especially if it’s important. Other than that, I have no complaints about the apartments themselves. However, there is always something about apartment living that makes me wish I was still in my freshman year, packed tightly in Whelan’s cramped dorms.

Back then, there was rarely a time when any of the doors in my hall were closed (except when we were trying to avoid the R.A.s on the weekends).

That fact alone made my freshman year great. It helped everyone in the hall to become good friends – better than I think any of us imagined we would be. But when sophomore year rolled around, my suitemates and I were the only ones in Tenderich who constantly kept our door bolted open. When I say constantly, I’m not being hyperbolic – we would drive to the In-N-Out by L.A.X. and keep that door unlocked. There were times when I woke up in the middle of the night for some water, and I would find the door still

bolted. While I realize our valuables could have easily been stolen, and no one would be the wiser, it

do make an effort to get people to meet each other, and I think everyone realizes and appreciates this, but it’s wasting their effort

didn’t matter much to us in the moment. I just wished that more people had done the same.

Even in Leavey 4 where I live now still has the same feeling of solitude, though it is open to the outdoors – it’s all because everyone’s door stays shut, 24/7. The R.A.s

if you just go back to your dorm after an event and shut your door.

Now, I realize that everyone needs their privacy, and I totally respect that. If that means closing your door, go for it. But just because you leave your door open doesn’t mean that there’s going to be a constant

stream of unwanted visitors. If you really do need constant privacy, then you might be better off living off campus in a house or an apartment where it’s going to be just you and your roommates. Residence halls and apartments can be more than just the place where you eat, sleep and do homework. It just takes a little effort to make things more sociable. Otherwise, why call it a residence hall? They would be better off being called “living quarters” or something equally bland and lifeless.

I understand that one of the reasons people keep their doors open during freshman year is because they don’t really know anyone, and it’s a quick way to meet people.

It works very well, and you end up having tons of fun and meeting plenty of good people. The thing is, who you meet during freshman year is not necessarily who you will spend the rest of your college career hanging out with. If you do keep those people in your core circle of friends, that shouldn’t be an excuse to not branch out and meet new people. Even if you don’t become good friends with the new people living around you, it’s better than always awkwardly smiling at them as they pass you in the hall and maybe exchanging only one or two words.

Once we graduate from college and are forced to find new living situations, it’s not going to be like freshman year. While that might be good in many respects, it ultimately means that we will be more isolated.

There will be no one organizing events trying to get everyone in the building to meet each other, and not everyone is going to be in the same age and life situation as you.

But, it will probably be less solitary if we make an effort to get to know our neighbors.

So why keep to ourselves now? If nothing else, think of it as practice for living in the adult world.

Graphic by Greg Smith This is the opinion of Joseph Demes, a junior English and philosophy double major from Clayton, Calif. Please send comments to jdemes@theloyolan.com.

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Del Rey Players bring Shakespeare to life Theater Feature

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By Emily Rome A&E Editor

illiam Shakespeare wrote 39 plays, but he didn’t leave behind much to reveal the details of the parts he played before his exit from the world’s stage.

The mystery that is Shakespeare leaves open vast possibilities for writers to imagine his life, from Oscar-winner “Shakespeare in Love,” to children’s books like “The Shakespeare Stealer” and “King of Shadows.”

Now Del Rey Players, LMU’s student-run theater group, are taking on one of those recent interpretations that not only brings its audience into the Globe Theatre but also reaches into the early history of the Jesuits at a dangerous time for Catholics in England – 1605. Their production of “Equivocation,” written by Fr. Bill Cain, S.J., opens on Thursday as part of this year’s Bellarmine Forum.

The Del Rey Players will be the first nonprofessional theater group to perform the play, which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in 2009.

“Equivocation” takes place in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, a failed assassination of King James I many will know of from its part in “V for Vendetta” (“Remember, remember the fifth of November…”). A Jesuit priest was accused of being one of the plotters.

Cain imagines what would have happened if King James’ right-hand man, Robert Cecil, had commissioned Shakespeare to write a propaganda-infused play about the plot. It’s a play that touches on topics just as hot today as they were 400 years ago – politics, religion and more.

“We got very excited about Shakespeare meeting a Jesuit in a prison. That alone is a great plot,” said English professor and Bellarmine Forum co-organizer KJ Peters, who approached the Del Rey Players this summer about doing a production for the symposium.

Peters told the Players about “Equivocation” after learning of it from rector of LMU Jesuits Fr. Robert Scholla, S.J., who saw the play in its first run at OSF, and from theatre arts professor Kevin Wetmore. Peters was immediately interested in the script but was doubtful that LMU could get the rights to perform such a new and successful play.

“That was a complete prayer because Bill Cain had no reason to help us,” Peters said.

“We got a fee for the rights we could afford [from Cain’s representatives], and we were stunned.”

A Jesuit university has become the first non-professional host to a critically-acclaimed play written by a Jesuit about a Jesuit priest.

And more milestones are stacked on as the expanded Bellarmine Forum – which this year looks to the future of education, faith and justice – celebrates LMU’s 100th anniversary and the Players celebrate its 80th.

Needless to say, the pressure was on.

“We were told by the higher-ups … ‘You need to knock this out of the park,’” said “Equivocation” assistant director Caitlin Bryson, a senior theatre arts major and the artistic director of Del Rey Players.

“But once we stepped back from the original stress from it, we knew that even if we had not been the first non-professional group and had not done it with Bellarmine Forum, we still would have given everything we had to it.

In that sense, it’s sort of business as usual – but with the knowledge it’s bigger,” said the play’s director, Thomas Wickboldt, a junior theatre arts major.

The play features Cain’s take on historical figures such as Shakespeare – named Shag in “Equivocation” from the alternate spelling “Shagspeare” – Cecil, King James, Shakespeare’s daughter Judith, star actor Richard Burbage and Henry Garnet, the jailed Jesuit. Playing all of these characters is a young cast of freshmen and sophomores. Many upperclassmen were already involved in the theatre arts program’s current plays, but it also just so happened that the best auditions came from those newer to LMU. It’s proven to be just what the production needed.

“The thing I’m enjoying about having an underclassman cast is that they’re so enthusiastic, and they’re so excited,” Bryson said.

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Del Rey Players’“Equivocation” opens Thursday. Pictured above in a rehearsal are (from top left) Patrick Buchanan, Gabriel Gonzalvez, Rechard Francois, Patrick Sullivan and Erik Reedy.

“There’s a certain level of complacency that occasionally happens when it’s ‘OK, it’s just another show.’”

The cast’s devotion to the project displayed itself during a build day on Sept. 18, as the cast and crew worked on the set in North Hall.

Throughout the Sunday break from the Monday through Saturday, 7 to 11 p.m. rehearsals, the cast members were running their lines.

“I had never seen [Del Rey Players actors do] this before in my life,” Wickboldt said.

Del Rey Players board member Joe Hospodor, a junior theatre arts major, walked into the theater and said to Wickboldt and Bryson, “You guys are making them run lines on their day off?” Bryson told him, “No, they’re doing it on their own!”

The production presented challenges not uncommon to actors, like speaking in foreign accents and believably playing the antagonist as something more than simple evil. Tackling the latter task, sophomore theatre arts and political science double major Patrick Buchanan took on the Cecil character in a way Bryson hadn’t expected before the auditions.

“I’d been picturing him as very pompous and Sir Ian McKellen-y, and Patrick came in and read, and I was ‘That’s totally Cecil.’ What I was thinking was totally wrong,” Bryson said. “He looks at Shag and you can tell that he’s manipulating, and he knows every move Shag is about to make. He’s in control of everything. I don’t know how Patrick does it.”

The script is written in modern English, and the actors perform it with their own American accents, except for freshman undeclared major Erik Reedy, who had to learn a Scottish

“Equivocation. Don’t answer the question they’re asking... Answer the question beneath the question. The equivalent question. Answer the question really asked. And answer it with your life.”

– Garnet,“Equivocation” Act 2, Scene 4

accent for King James. Having done screen acting for small-budget and student projects in high school, he had used an accent in every project he’d done, but never a Scottish one.

“I thought [a Scottish accent] would be easy, but it was actually the hardest accent I’ve done,” said Reedy, who worked with dialect coach Andrea Fuller, a theatre arts professor, for the part.

“Equivocation” also presented a less common challenge to its young cast: Playing not just a few characters, but lots of characters in the scope of one play. There are 38 characters played by six actors – 36 of them by four actors, as freshman theatre arts major Gabriel Gonzalvez plays only Shag and sophomore theatre arts and history double major Emily Ludlow plays only Judith.

Wickboldt said that the small actors to characters ratio could make switching between roles difficult at times, but Cain’s intricate script actually helped make it less of a challenge.

“It’s written in such a way that [in] the scenes where we see the plotters, you’re seeing a flashback, but you’re also seeing a rehearsal [of the Globe actors]. There is a blurring between actor and character. That in a way helps when they’re switching because it’s not a 100 percent transformation,” Wickboldt said.

But the often warp-speed nature of the play also demanded creativity for the costume changes strategy. At one point during a rehearsal last week, freshman English major Patrick Sullivan stopped and said, “Oh, I have to be a lawyer – I shouldn’t have a priest outfit on, should I?” Costume designer Ashley Donnert, a senior theatre arts major, put together a base attire for each actor, using items rented from Make Believe Inc. Costumes. To switch from character to character, actors change out pieces like hats, pins, doublets and sashes.

The production is period referential, alluding to the 17th century with minimal costumes and set pieces, but the Del Rey Players made sure that the production’s story was true to the period and that they understood its history, with the help of Wetmore and Scholla. Wetmore consulted with Bryson and Wickboldt about the historical background of the play’s story and also choreographed the fight scenes. In a short presentation, Scholla spoke to the cast and crew about the history of the Jesuits in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

“He was very a genial guy, very open. He sat with us, talked with us, allowed us to ask any questions we wanted to,” Gonzalvez said.

For the special occasion, Scholla arrived in North Hall wearing jeans and a T-shirt bearing a picture of Shakespeare in sunglasses and the words “Rebel with applause.”

“I intentionally wore a T-shirt that I have that is only worn usually in the quiet of the Jesuit Community,” Scholla said.

Scholla also assisted the cast with the pronunciation of the play’s Latin lines and taught sophomore theatre arts major Rechard Francois, who plays Garnet, about the gestures and the mannerisms 17th century Jesuits used in such practices as blessing food.

“The fact that the Del Rey Players are going to do this is really heroic. It’s a tough play,” Scholla said.

Del Rey Players adviser Lydia Ammossow also pointed out how challenging the play is, saying, “It is an artistic endeavor. The students’ passion is unwavering, and they’ve taken it on with full gusto.”

Several involved in the production noted that it is a witty, intelligent play that also challenges its audience. Just as much a window into the past as a mirror to the present, “Equivocation” speaks to such modern issues as treatment of prisoners of war and how the Western world characterizes Muslims, as Cain subtly reveals how similar the Gunpowder Plot’s aftermath is to that of 9/11. It is a play that the Del Rey Players hopes gets the audience thinking.

“What I’d like people to walk away with is Shag’s search for truth and defining truth and not just taking what you’re given as truth,” Wickboldt said. “You have to search it out for yourself.”

“Equivocation” runs Sept.

26 - Oct. 1, Oct. 6 - 9 at 8 p.m.

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In the Del Rey Players’ production of “Equivocation,” performed as part of Bellarmine Forum, Gonzalvez (left) plays the Shakespeare character and Francois plays Henry Garnet.

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variety of live performances will be on display in The Living Room this Wednesday for Mane Entertainment’s (ME) Showcase L.A., a free event which will start at 8 p.m. The event is being co-sponsored by the Chicano/a Latino Student Services (CLSS). This will be ME and CLSS’s second year collaborating as a team to make this event possible.

Showcase L.A. is celebrating Latino Heritage Month, which started Sept. 16 and goes on until Oct. 16. Thus, CLSS has put together a slide show pre-

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senting the top 100 Latinos in L.A. and have invited many Latino-influenced performers to share their work with LMU students.

The main event that night will be a performance by upand-coming California band Salt Petal. The band is comprised of musicians from a variety of different countries.

Autumn Harrison is lead vocals and plays the keyboard and accordion. Rodrigo Gonzalez serves as guitarist. Jesse Herrera plays the bass and backup vocals. Eduardo Sandoval plays the drums and Dayna Richards accompanies Sean McFerran on the trumpet and backup vocals. Their music is a concoction of tropical punk, folk rhythms and

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Latino influences.

The showcase will also exhibit work from the Spanish Club. The Spanish Club will be reading poems, essays and different works submitted to La Voz (The Voice), the undergraduate journal published by the group. Pieces submitted to La Voz are written in either all Spanish or a mixture of English and Spanish. Topics covered in the journal range from social justice issues to love poems. Nancy Flores, junior political science and Spanish double major and a member of the Spanish Club, will be reading excerpts from La Voz. “I am really excited to present work from La Voz to all LMU students because we have only done readings from this journal at the unveiling of La Voz and Spanish Club meetings, but we have never done readings outside of this main event,” Flores said.

There will also be strolling performances, similar to a stepping routine, from Sigma Lambda Beta and Sigma Lambda Gamma.

Tiffany Hunter, senior communication studies major and ME’s signature events manager, encourages students to come and celebrate LMU’s mission statement and promote social justice through this event. She said, “I am excited to educate myself about this culture. I know this event was successful last year, and I am looking forward to seeing how the event will turn out this year.”

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What’s happening on campus Showcase L.A. The Living Room Wednesday, Sept. 28, 8 p.m.

Free Del Rey Players

The Del Rey Players’ theater in North Hall was renovated during the summer. Above it is pictured in June.

Del Rey Players’ theater renovated Theater Update

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The Del Rey Players’ production of “Equivocation� (see page 9) will be the group’s first performance in its newly renovated theater in North Hall. Following the discovery of technical problems in the theater a year ago, the Players did the majority of its performances last year at Westchester High School, where they do community

service with the school’s drama classes.

From late May to late August, the black box theater was “gutted and built from the ground up again,� said Del Rey Players adviser Lydia Ammossow. The University-funded renovation brought new flooring, new plumbing and a new control booth to the space.

The most notable improvement is the new lighting grid in the theater with LED lights. “We now have gorgeous, exceptional lighting,� Ammossow said.

“It’s truly state-of-the-art.�

Del Rey Players artistic director and senior theatre arts major Caitlin Bryson said the new space has been a motivator in making “Equivocation� a strong production. “We’re lucky that the University supported us enough to give us this,� she said. “It’s one of the nicest student theaters that anyone knows of at a university now that it’s been renovated. We wanted to give back to the University [with “Equivocation�] since they gave us so much.�

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International education may be increasing competition among graduates.

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ou need to go to college” is a common phrase that many parents repeat to their children. Many of us have been told by our family, friends or society that having a college degree will increase our earnings and give us financial security in the future. Unfortunately, we live in a rapidly evolving world where what was true yesterday may not be true today. According

By Ryan Morgan to the Washington Opinion Intern Post, the average annual tuition for a public university (for state residents) was $7,020 in 2009. Tuition at private universities, such as this one, can be much higher.

For example, LMU’s tuition was $35,740 for the 2010-11 school year.

Yes, that money is an investment in your future, but the question is: Will

it pay out?

Earlier studies clearly show that a college degree has greatly boosted earnings. According to College Board, in 2003, those with four-year degrees typically earned 62 percent more than those with only high school diplomas.

Those numbers seem fairly convincing, especially since you’re only trading four years of your life in return for much higher earnings for the rest of it. But with today’s economy, do these studies still hold water?

These optimistic studies of past markets tend to neglect a few key factors in today’s markets. Such factors include technological improvements, emerging economies and increased availability in education. Improvements in technology have allowed us to replace certain jobs with machines, enable employees to communicate with each other across continents and increase productivity. Throughout the world, poorer economies are beginning to boom, increasing competition in the workforce. Finally, as more and more people are receiving college or advanced degrees, the level of competition is rising in higher-education jobs.

The problem is where the competition lies and how it’s handled. When competition among workers increases, corporations can take advantage of this by paying employees less and

having them work harder. Corporations often outsource to poorer countries where citizens are willing to work harder, and for much less pay than Americans. Oddly enough, outsourcing mostly affects the higher educated. While many blue-collar jobs need to be done in-house, a large percentage of white-collar jobs can be done overseas for a fraction of the cost. By receiving a degree, you are putting yourself in a more competitive environment than you would have without one. In other words, it could potentially be much harder to find a college-graduate-level job in the near future, than a high schoolgraduate-level job.

However, certain jobs with barriers to entry remain safe. Professions in medicine and law are still secure and well-paying, but even these jobs are subject to an increasingly competitive workforce. The best way to prepare yourself for such a competitive atmosphere is to make yourself into a stand-out applicant. Whether it be through an even higher education, unique work experience or certain valuable skills that others may not have, you can remain a competitor in today’s job market.

This is the opinion of Ryan Morgan. Please send comments to rmorgan@theloyolan. com.

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Loyola Business of Entertainment Society The Loyola Business of Entertainment Society (LBES) is having its first meeting of the year tomorrow during Convo hour in Pereira 140.

Senior English major and LBES Executive Board member Kelsey Herman explains, “Loyola Business of Entertainment Society connects students with professionals in the entertainment industry. We aim to help our members make connections beyond the bluff – providing prestigious guest speakers throughout the school year as well as assisting with internship opportunities.”

All interested students are encouraged to attend this first meeting where there will be guest speakers and an opportunity to sign up for membership.

The club has been active at LMU for three years.

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Angelica Cadiente takes a look at investing in the stock market on a tight budget.

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nvesting. It’s not exactly a subject that’s on the forefront of most college students’ minds, and this is understandably so.

We are young, we are fairly carefree and we are not suit-wearing, ticker-tape watching business people. Then there’s also the issue that for the most part, we are flat broke, our cars are in a perpetual state of out-of-gas, and we don’t have much money to invest even if we want.

The general topic of the stock market

By Angelica Cadiente hasn’t been a happy discussion lately, Public Editor and bringing it up at a party while your friends are off playing beer pong will most likely earn you strange looks, so I don’t suggest doing that. But does this mean that we shouldn’t think about it? That we should just leave it to the grown-ups to deal with?

Um, no.

First of all, the grown-ups are the ones that got us into this financial rut that we’re in (but I’m not bitter, really), and we’re the ones that have to learn how to deal. So why not start now? Sure, it can be daunting, especially with people throwing phrases like “portfolio diversification” and “Roth IRA” around. And it’s hard to go into something knowing that money is at stake, but think of it this way: Trying out the stock market is like gambling in Vegas. Except you don’t have to be 21 to do it, and you probably won’t wake up with a strange tattoo and/or teeth missing.

Investing doesn’t have to be this foreign concept that is too lofty or sophisticated for us to comprehend. By no means am I trying to oversimplify the matter, because I’m sure there are those who’ll claim that there’s an art and a science to the method of investing.

But at the same time, there are ways to get into it without making it too complicated.

There is a reasonable way for college students to get a head start on investing.

Buying and selling shares are easier than ever now that you can handle everything online. You don’t even have to start big.

ShareBuilder by ING Direct Investing is an example of a brokerage that allows investors to buy stock for about the price of a latte, and there isn’t a minimum amount you have to purchase. Translation: That 20 bucks you just spent on a fedora you’ll never wear, no matter how much you want to turn yourself into a hat person, could have gotten you some stake in a company.

Even if you just put aside a bit of money every month to put toward your portfolio, these small sacrifices could end up paying off in the end (pun intended). So start small, pick a company you like (something you actually want to have some stake in) and just focus on buying stock in that one company for now. They tell us not to put all our eggs in one basket, but if you’re just starting out and you don’t have too many eggs, it’s a lot easier to just have one basket to look after.

You don’t have to spend much time into tracking the stock prices every day. Check up on it every once in a while, but if the price drops by a couple of cents one day, don’t just give up and call it a loss. If things go really badly, then reevaluate your options and figure out whether pulling out or investing in something else is right for you.

But over time, stock prices trend upward, so try to be patient and stick with it.

Don’t dismiss the idea of investing. Your 30-year-old self will thank you for it. Sure, there’s some risk to it, but that just makes it even sexier. Besides, how cool will you be when you get to legitimately throw around words like “prospectus” every once in a while?

This is the opinion of Angelica Cadiente. Please send comments to acadiente@theloyolan.com.

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September 26, 2011 Page 13

Lions finish fifth at Stanford Invitational The Lions set school records for their times in the 8K race.

By Dan Raffety Asst. Sports Editor Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams set 8K school records at the Stanford Invitational over the weekend, finishing fifth overall.

Junior Tyre Johnson finished 15th overall for the men with a time of 24:25 and redshirt senior Tara Erdmann and junior Sheree Shea ended with top-10 finishes on the women’s side, helping both

teams to finish fifth overall out of 28 schools.

The men’s cross country team finished the day with a time of 24:55, an LMU school record for the 8K race at Stanford.

Junior Sterling Lockert finished 11 seconds behind Johnson to finish 25th overall with a time of 24:36. Sophomores Weston Strum and Drew Dalton finished 37th and 52nd, respectively. Freshman Michael Vorgitch posted a personal best time of 25:36, nearly six seconds ahead of his previous time. The Lions finished ahead of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Davis and UC Berkeley, all of which are nationally ranked teams.

The No. 11 women’s team followed suit as Erdmann and Shea finished third and ninth, respectively. Sophomore Veronica Wallington, senior Brieanna Delaney and junior Caroline Draper finished in 38th, 54th and 79th place, respectively.

The Lions’ fifth place overall finish of 21:30 was good enough to surpass No. 5 UC Berkeley and No. 10 UCLA. The Lions will participate in the Vanguard Invitational in Costa Mesa, Calif. for their next meet on October 8th.

After the Costa Mesa meet, the Lions will participate in The NCAA Pre-National Tournament located in Terre Haute, Ind. on Oct.16.

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Sophomore Weston Strum finished 37th overall in the 8k race at the Stanford Invitational with a finishing time of 24:48.

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Skid continues with WCC on horizon

Two road losses drop men to 2-6-0. WCC play begins Wednesday.

By John Wilkinson Asst. Sports Editor

Hoping to salvage something in the last two games of what has been a disappointing non-conference season, the LMU men’s soccer team took to the road over the weekend, traveling to New Mexico and Wisconsin.

The Lions, however, came up with more of the same results, dropping road contests to the No. 11 University of New Mexico Lobos and the

University of Wisconsin Badgers. The Lions fell to 2-6-0 on the season and will begin West Coast Conference (WCC) play this Wednesday in San Diego.

In Friday night’s matchup, the Lions stood toe-to-toe with the nationally-ranked Lobos for more than an hour, but New Mexico broke through in the 62nd minute. Junior Devon Sandoval sent in a cross from the left wing that found redshirt freshman Giovanni Rollie, who finished it past LMU redshirt senior goalkeeper Jack McCormack.

Despite coming close on a couple of scoring opportunities, LMU could not find an equalizer, and in the 75th min-

ute, things got worse for the Lions. Sandoval, last week’s Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player of the Week, continued his goal-scoring form as he struck from the top of the box for his fifth goal of the season.

New Mexico goalkeeper Victor Rodriguez thwarted the Lions all night, registering six saves in the 2-0 win to record the Lobos’ fourth shutout of the season. The Lobos remain undefeated on the season.

Less than 48 hours later, on the other side of the country, the Lions fell to the Wisconsin Badgers in familiarly heartbreaking fashion, as a late goal gave Wisconsin a 2-1 victory.

After LMU gave up the opening goal to Wisconsin junior Tomislav Zadro in the 22nd minute, the Lions fought back to tie the game before halftime.

Senior Artur Jozkowicz got the Lions on the board in the 41st minute when his own blocked shot came back to him, and he capitalized, burying the second-chance shot.

It was his team-leading third goal of the season, all three coming in the Lions’ last four games.

Still tied late into the second half, the game looked destined for overtime. With less than four minutes remaining in regulation, however, Wisconsin freshman David Caban notched the game-winning goal to ensure that no extra period would be necessary.

LMU pressed forward in hopes of finding a late equalizer, but the Badgers’ defense held LMU off for the final four minutes and sealed the 2-1 result. The physical match saw

six yellow cards handed out, five to Wisconsin and one to LMU. Sunday’s loss was the fourth one-goal defeat for the Lions, with two of those losses coming in golden goal overtime to Sacramento State and San José State.

The Badgers are now undefeated in their last three games, while LMU has not recorded a victory since Sept. 9.

LMU stays on the road to finish up the three-game trip as it begins conference play this Wednesday with a 7 p.m. game against the University of San Diego. The Toreros went 3-4-0 in non-conference play, but they have been tougher at home, with all three wins being recorded in San Diego.

Before going 2-6-0 in nonconference, the Lions were picked by the WCC coaches as the preseason favorite to win the conference title. LMU will return home on Sunday for a 3 p.m. contest with St. Mary’s College on Sullivan Field.

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Senior Artur Jozkowicz (pictured in a game earlier this season) has scored a goal in three of LMU’s last four games.

He scored the game-tying goal yesterday before Wisconsin scored with four minutes left to steal a 2-1 win.

Women struggle in final match before conference W. Soccer from page 16 “We just have to put it behind us, move forward from here and work on what we didn’t do well in this game and hopefully come out stronger in our next game,” said junior midfielder Cori

McGovern. Only two goals had been surrendered by the Lions’ defense leading into last weekend’s game against UCLA. In the two games since then, the Lions have given up six goals.

Next weekend, the Lions will try to get back on the

winning track and finish the non-conference portion of their schedule before starting West Coast Conference play. LMU will travel to Las Vegas to face the UNLV Rebels on Sunday, Oct. 2 at 4 p.m. at the Peter Johann Soccer Field.

Women’s Soccer Leaders Goals:

Assists:

Points:

• Tawni Martino - 3

• Tawni Martino - 2

• Tawni Martino - 8

• Brittney Sanford - 3

• Linda Bakker - 2

• Brittney Sanford - 7

• Linda Bakker - 2

• Darien Pyka - 2

• Linda Bakker - 6

• Brianne Medved - 2

•Brittney Sanford, Etajha Gilmer, and Marrissa Zamora-1

• Brianne Medved and Darien Pyka - 4

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Volleyball off to hot start in WCC play Volleyball from page 16 a battle for both teams, going the full five sets, the Lions prevailed with a 3-2 victory. Senior Jasmine Rankins racked up 17 kills on 45 attacks, while fellow team captain, junior Olivia Bailey, had 40 assists and nine digs in the victory over the Pilots.

Freshman Caitlin DeWitt recorded 10 kills on 23 attacks. “Caitlin did really well in the match,” said Black. “She played two positions and did well in both of them.”

“We fought really hard in tough situations. ... The teams were all over us. ... The girls were comfort-

able being uncomfortable,” said Black.

The Lions were very happy with their performance this weekend, having focused on out-of-system plays and staying composed during last week’s practices.

“Yeah, I really do [think we accomplished our goals],” said Black.

“It was a nightmare last week, but from playing San José State I feel like we are mentally stronger and fighting harder. ... It is great to see that growth.”

Despite going two-for-two to begin conference play, Black doesn’t see the competition getting any easier.

“It is a dogfight this year, and it means a lot going into the [WCC] tournament,” said Black.

After an 11-match road trip, the team is finally heading home.

LMU will host Brigham Young University on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. and St. Mary’s College on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 1 p.m.

The team is excited to be playing at home and hopes that students will come out to support them.

“The teams we played this weekend provided a great environment. ... Home environment is the best, and hopefully we can produce the same environment,” said Black.

Upcoming Volleyball Schedule LMU vs. Brigham Young University Thursday, Sept. 29 - 7 p.m. - Gersten Pavilion LMU vs. St. Mary’s College Saturday, Oct. 1 - 1 p.m. - Gersten Pavilion LMU vs. Pepperdine University Wednesday, Oct. 5 - 6 p.m. - Gersten Pavilion LMU vs. UC Santa Barbara Friday, Oct. 7 - 7 p.m. - Gersten Pavilion LMU Athletics

Junior Team Captain Olivia Bailey (pictured above in a game earlier this season) had 40 assists and nine digs in LMU’s victory over Portland.

Third quarter haunts Lions late

M. Polo from page 16

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Senior Edgaras Asajavicius (pictured above in a game earlier this season) scored three times in the Lions’ 11-7 loss to No. 2 UCLA on Saturday afternoon.

while junior Gavyn Wild hits the water for the second and fourth periods), allowed the Bruins to go on a 3-0 run, taking a 5-4 lead to close out the half.

“We started on Thursday with that, and I think it’s working for us,” said LMU Head Coach John Loughran of the new defensive plan. “We like it, they are alternating quarters, and it seems to be keeping them fresh and keeping them focused.”

The Lions’ lone goal of the third quarter came from Asajavicius, who scored with less than two minutes into the half to bring the Lions within one, 6-5. Unfortunately for the Lions, UCLA’s momentum carried into the second half as the Lions continued to let in goal after goal, resulting in a 10-5 lead for the Bruins after three quarters of play.

“I think they had runs that hurt us in the second and hurt us in the third, and we just didn’t play very good coun-

ter defense, and that was one of our big weaknesses,” said Loughran. “I thought our attack was pretty good, and our six-man advantage was good, but we could have done better.

We had some good looks at the cage, and we could have finished some of those plays.”

UCLA junior Josh Samuels scored a goal at the onset of the fourth period, giving the Bruins a six-score lead – their largest of the night. Still looking to make one last stab at a comeback, Asajavicius and redshirt senior Albert Samuels each scored to bring the Lions within four, but time ran out on the Lions, and they fell to the Bruins, 11-7.

“I think across the board they are faster than us,” said Loughran. “And I think they did a better job of playing counter defense on a few of those we were even, they just got shots off.”

The Lions will return to the pool Thursday, Sept. 29, as they host No. 13 Princeton University at 3 p.m. at Burns Aquatic Center.

Stat leaders from the Lions’ game against UCLA Goals:

Attempts:

Saves:

• Edgaras Asajavicius - 3 • Joe Ferritti - 2 • Albert Samuels - 1 • Jonathan Colton - 1

• Edgaras Asajavicius -11 • Joe Ferritti - 5 • Albert Samuels - 3

• Gavyn Wild - 4 • Kyle Testman - 3

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September 26, 2011 Page 16

Polo can’t come back vs. Bruins

Zags, Pilots no match for Lions

No. 2 UCLA comes back from an early deficit to knock off the Lions 11-7 on Saturday afternoon.

Volleyball begins WCC play victorious, defeating Gonzaga and Portland this past weekend.

By Emily Wallace

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Asst. Managing Editor | Sports Editor The men’s water polo team was unable to find the silver lining in a cloudy sky on Saturday afternoon.

Despite holding a 4-2 lead over No. 2 UCLA (7-1) midway through the second period, the No. 11 Lions (5-3) were outscored 5-1 in the third quarter, ultimately falling to the Bruins, 11-7.

Less than two minutes into action, redshirt junior Jonathan Colton found the back of the net first, giving LMU an early 1-0 lead.

However, UCLA went on to strike twice, as junior Griffin White tossed in a score that evened the game at one; and freshman Paul Reynolds scored the first of his game-high four goals to give the Bruins a 2-1 advantage. With less than three minutes remaining in the quarter, Lion freshman Joe Ferretti leveled the scoreboard at two with a goal of his own.

The Lions captured the lead early on in the second quarter on a score by junior attacker Edgaras Asajavicius, putting the Lions ahead, 3-2.

Ferretti then threw in his second goal of the game to give the Lions a two-goal lead with 2:49 remaining in the half.

However, the Lions, who decided to implement a new defensive scheme by rotating their goalkeepers throughout the game (with junior Kyle Testman guarding the net during the first and third quarters,

See M. Polo | page 15

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Cross country finishes in top five at Stanford Invitational Junior Sheree Shea (pictured above) finished ninth overall for the 8K race at the Stanford Invitational this past weekend, helping the Lions finish in fifth place. To read the full story, turn to Page 13.

After a long weekend in the Pacific Northwest, LMU volleyball headed back to campus with two wins under its belt. These matches were the first set of West Coast Conference (WCC) matchups for the Lions.

LMU played Gonzaga University (6-6, 0-2) on Thursday, Sept. 22, and won the contest 3-1. During the fourth set, the team was down 24-18, but came back to win.

“This kind of comeback is unheard of. We came back and won, and it showed that we won’t stop fighting,” Head Coach Tom Black said.

Sophomore Alyse Hensley had a match-high with 15 kills on 38 swings against the Bulldogs, while senior Emily Cheek contributed 12 kills and sophomore Betsi Metter posted a match-best and career-high 32 digs.

Though these three women contributed greatly to the win, Black believedsit was a team effort. “I can’t isolate one player. They all helped us get the win,” he said.

Black was confident that his team would be able to take the win from Gonzaga prior to the victory.

“They are a good team, but we knew that we could [win]. It’s mostly about how we play and how we battle that is important,” he said.

On Saturday, the team traveled to Portland, Ore., where they squared off against the University of Portland (6-9, 0-2). While the match was

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Women’s soccer drops second consecutive game The Lions fall short against CSU Northridge, pushing their losing streak to two games.

By Kevin Cacabelos Staff Writer The Lions dropped their second game in a row as LMU lost 3-0 to CSU Northridge in front of 281 fans at Sullivan Field on Friday afternoon.

For the first time this season, the Lions (6-3-1) are on a losing streak.

“We started the game well, and we played well but we didn’t maintain it. ... I think today Northridge just wanted it more than we did,” said LMU Head Coach Joe Mallia.

After an even back-and-forth game for much of the first half, the Matadors struck first behind a goal by junior forward Melissa Fernandez that went past diving redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Brittany Jagger in the 26th minute.

CSU Northridge (2-5-1) added another goal in the first half, courtesy of redshirt junior midfielder Nicole Cruz, in the 39th minute. Cruz poked the ball into the goal after a series of deflections by several players on both teams inside the box. “[The] first goal [was] a counter attack off of our own goal kick.

There’s a sense of not being focused and things breaking down. The second goal again, it was a set piece. We

try to pride ourselves on set pieces but right now in our last two games we have given up three goals in each game, and three of the goals have been off of set pieces, free kicks, corner kicks, [etc.] It’s a lack of focus,” said Mallia.

Offensively, the Lions struggled for the second straight game, failing to convert on several chances. Despite 10 shots on goal and five corner kicks, the Lions were never able to break through the Matador defense.

Nothing got past Matador junior goalie Cynthia Jacobo, who recorded two saves, as the main offensive Lions weapons were silenced in Friday’s effort. Sophomore forward Tawni Martino recorded three total shots and one shot on goal, while freshman forward Linda Bakker recorded two shots and one shot on goal. The Lions’ offense has been outscored 6-1 in its past two games.

“We had chances to score goals, and we didn’t. Then after that, when the game settled down and we weren’t in front, and it was time to really see who was going to lead us at the point, we weren’t ready and willing to do the work we needed to do,” said Mallia.

The Matadors effectively put the game away midway through the second half in the 64th minute after junior defender Katie Russ scored off of a deflected free kick. This was CSU Northridge’s first road win of the season.

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Sophomore forward Tawni Martino (pictured above) had three total shots and one on goal in the Lions’ 3-0 loss to CSU Northridge on Friday afternoon.