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Emergency drill to take place today LMU’s Active Shooter Training Drill aims to prepare community for potential emergencies.

By Kenzie O’Keefe Editor in Chief

HEAL Africa

$1 million winner revealed on Opus Prize website

Lyn Lusi (above center), co-founder and program director of HEAL Africa, was listed on the Opus Prize website yesterday afternoon as this year’s $1 million winner. LMU will host the official award ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 2. Read more about the Opus Prize on Page 4.

Panel discussions focus on workers’ experiences Panel discussions focus on building relationships between students and LMU workers.

By Monika Kim News Intern

In honor of Workers Appreciation Week, ASLMU and the Students for Labor and Economic Justice (SLEJ) paired up to host two panels and a banquet this week. The panels informed LMU students about sustainability and workers’ rights, as well as employees’ experiences working in various LMU facilities.

These events focused on recognizing and ac-

How would the LMU community react if it was confronted by a gunman on campus?

Today, LMU attempts to answer this question with its first Active Shooter Training Drill, intended to “empower” LMU community members “so that they can protect themselves,” according to LMU Director of Emergency Management and Administration Devra Schwartz.

“We want people to have already thought through what they could do in the moment. …

It’s like a sixth sense,” she said in an 11 Burning Questions feature that ran in the Loyolan on Oct. 24.

According to Schwartz, there are “four major components” to today’s drill. First there is a campus-wide shelter-in-place drill, which will take place from 9 to 9:15 a.m. “We’re not asking [the community] to actually shelter in place,” Schwartz reminded, saying that the 15 minutes should be used for discussion about what the community would do if there was an active shooter on campus, applying the personal safety tips that the Department of Public Safety (DPS) has publicized.

Connor Hartley, an undeclared freshman, will be in a theological studies class in U-Hall during the drill. “It’s a good thing to do, just in

case,” he said.

Candy Janiam, a junior humanities major, has class in the William H. Hannon Library at 9:25 a.m. and thinks she’ll probably be in Jazzman’s Café picking up her morning coffee when the drill commences. “It makes me nervous that I’ll be out and about, not in the comfort of my own home and around people that I know,” she said.

Like Hartley, she sees the merit in having the drill. “It has to be useful,” she added. “Having practice [is always useful]. If something did happen I’d subconsciously be like ‘I know what to do. We had that drill.’”

The rest of the day’s activities are targeted towards a smaller subset of the LMU population. Campus officials will be doing a walkthrough of Pereira Hall with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) in order to learn more about the organizations’ tactics related to emergency situations.

“They’ll [show] us a demonstration of what happens when they get that first 9-1-1 call all the way through to the treatment triage in transport of victims. … It’s understanding what they do so that we can support them, and also let them know how they can support the LMU community through their regular tactics,” Schwartz explained.

After the walk-through, a table-top discussion among “the LMU cabinet and people who would normally be involved if there was a real active shooter situation on campus” will take place, said Schwartz.

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knowledging the hard work of LMU’s numerous employees.

“Our goals and expectations for [Workers Appreciation Week] were having the workers feel appreciated for the work they’ve done,” said SLEJ Treasurer and senior business and Spanish double major Roger Dávila. “[SLEJ and ASLMU] knew that [they] had to celebrate this part of the community that is often overlooked.”

In an effort to promote this goal of worker recognition and better educate the LMU community about the workers’ role on campus, SLEJ and ASLMU hosted a panel on sustainability, which was held on Monday, Oct. 24 in

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Documentary educates students about Darfur Club members hope “Invisible Children” will inspire activism.

By Liz Peters Staff Writer

Genocide is a current issue that many children around the world are unable to escape.

Every day more children are kidnapped and made into child soldiers. Save Darfur LMU, a group committed to eradicating genocide in Sudan, and Invisible Children, an organization that focuses on raising awareness for

Paying to use your own money Opinion Intern Amanda Kotch argues that the new fees proposed on debit cards break the college bank.

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child soldiers, want to help put an end to this and plan to raise awareness through their upcoming film screening.

“All too often conflicts make the headlines for a few weeks, then go off the air and are forgotten. The fact of the matter is, while coverage may stop, the wars don’t,” said Save Darfur member and senior political science major Ryan Burbank.

Save Darfur, an LMU organization, was founded in 2009 and is committed to helping not only the genocide victims in Darfur, but world-wide genocide victims.

With over 100 student members, the club

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World Music Ensemble class honors ancient Bali

Taught by Professor Paul Humphreys (left), the world music course celebrates Gamelan music from the Indonesian island of Bali. Students in the class have formed their own Gamelan music troupe and regularly practice their music on campus.

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Panel discussion attendance ‘exceeds expectations’ Workers from Page 1 in the William H. Hannon Library.

The panel was led by SLEJ President and senior political science and urban studies double major Fátima Murrieta. It focused on the connections between the current state of workers’ rights and the ever-growing sustainability movement. Three featured guests were present at the panel to speak to the audience, including LMU employees Ismael Nicolas and Victor Alvarez, as well as Florida-based farm worker Wilson Perez. The individuals described working conditions and experiences both on the LMU campus and in Florida.

“One of my biggest goals [with Workers Appreciation Week] was to really inform the audience about how essential workers are to our community,” said Murrieta. “We really wanted this week to be about honoring [the workers].”

According to ASLMU Director of Social Justice Lani Luo, a junior political science and Asian Pacific studies double major, the demand for sustainable food is a fast-growing movement that has spread to college campuses worldwide. Despite its increasing popularity, individuals often overlook important aspects of the sustainable food movement, especially the labor that goes into providing such foods. The panel served as a way

to inform LMU students about improving work conditions and workers’ rights.

“Right now there’s a lot of emphasis on the environment, good food, organic, free range and things like that, which is great, but oftentimes the labor [that goes into producing sustainable food] is left out,” said Luo. Issues of workers’ rights were also a topic of discussion the next day at the event ‘Conversation with Workers at LMU: An Open Forum’ on Tuesday, Oct. 25. The panel was also led by Murrieta and Dávila, who served as translators for LMU workers Efrain “Chico” Silva, Jesus Santana, José Carranza and Miguel Castillo. The four LMU employees spoke about their experiences, as well as recent and previous changes that have occurred at LMU in the past 30 years.

The workers revealed that they had seen many changes at the institution, from the construction of U-Hall to an increase in the school’s popularity. Additionally, they disclosed that LMU’s kitchens had previously been located in the basement of Malone Student Center.

“We’re moving on up now [...] from our basement,” said LMU employee Miguel Castillo through an interpreter.

According to Luo, the two panels were successful, with over 50

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people in attendance at each event.

“The turnout for both of these panels has exceeded all of our expectations,” said Luo. “Usually, social justice events don’t get the same [attention] as dances or social events, but obviously a lot of students care about this. It’s just that no one talked about it till now.”

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Honorary doctorate

Elisabeth Henderson, a Marymount student, was elected the first female editor of the Los Angeles Loyolan in March 1972, the penultimate year of co-instruction.

The first female recipient of an honorary doctorate from LMU came in April of 1943 and was awarded to Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the former first lady of the Republic of China. Madame Chiang received an honorary doctor of law degree in recognition of the closer alliance between the U.S.A. and China, as well as the enduring connection between China and the Society of Jesus.

One of the first female speakers, Marymount Student Body President Irma Brown-Dillon, was also the first commencement speaker during the dawning period of coeducation in 1970. Brown would go on to become a notable superior court judge.

Women’s Dormitory The first women’s dormitory was built on the site of what had been Loyola College’s student nine-hole golf course. It was a four-story, L-shaped building composed of student suites as well as offices and common facilities. On the third Monday evening of October 1968, it was also the site of an attempted 1950s-style panty raid by the young men of Loyola, which was quickly dispersed by three Jesuits who took up positions in front of the dorm.

conversation and appreciation.

“There are still some changes to be done, but now we can work a little at ease. We can deliver better quality of customer service, which is something that everyone on campus deserves,” said Lair employee José Carranza through an interpreter.

Roger Dávila (left), a senior business and Spanish double major, and Fátima Murrieta (center), a senior political science and urban studies double major, facilitated a panel discussion with LMU workers Efrain “Chico” Silva, Jesus Santana, José Carranza and Miguel Castillo in U-Hall 1000 on Tuesday. The panel was part of LMU’s Workers Appreciation Week.

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To end Workers Appreciation Week, SLEJ and ASLMU held a banquet last night on Wednesday, Oct. 27. The event, which was catered by C & O Cucina, gave students, faculty and LMU employees an opportunity to form relationships and an understanding of each other through an evening of

ROTC Commission While several Marymount freshmen signed up for the ROTC program immediately following affiliation, it was in 1975 that Maria Magali Leal became the first female graduate to win a commission.

Magazine honor In 1969, senior Patsy Hughes was selected by Glamour magazine for an honorable mention as one of the best-dressed college girls in the nation.

Graphic by Dol-Anne Asiru | Loyolan Information from Loyola Marymount University 1911-2011: A Centennial History by Kevin Starr.

Drill intended to heighten awareness Drill from Page 1 The group will be “talking through a mock scenario of an active shooter on campus, starting from that campus, starting from that 9-1-1 call and going through to the initial mental health recovery component and it will also include LAPD and LAFD,” Schwartz added.

The final component of today’s events will be a mock press conference at which “[President David W.] Burcham, [Senior Vice President for Student Affairs] Lane Bove and [Department of Public Safety] Chief [Hampton] Cantrell will be addressing a fictitious media audience. It’s to practice,” said Schwartz.

The only intended result for today’s events is that LMU will gain an increased awareness of what to do in an emergency situation related to an active shooter.

Schwartz added, “We celebrate successes in drills, but we focus more on the gaps. We don’t take too much time to pat ourselves on the back after a drill. We look right into how we could have done it better.

There’s always a way to improve.”

Vice President of Business Administration Lynne Scarboro agreed. “It’s all about practicing and learning,” she said.

The learning component of the drill will extend beyond today’s events.

According to Schwartz, LMU has hired a “third-party evaluator” to listen and take notes throughout the day in order to help the University “paint a picture of [its] capabilities from a very objective standpoint,” Schwartz said.

She added that she will be working with this evaluator following this whole exercise series “to develop what’s called an after-action report and corrective-action plan that’s … consistent with Department of Homeland Security standards.”

When asked how LMU compared to other organizations in terms of emergency preparedness, Schwartz stated that LMU’s commitment to safety and preparedness is something “we should celebrate. It’s very atypical.”

According to Schwartz, LMU is likely to see more active shooter drills in the future. However, no specific dates have been set.

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In the Oct. 24 issue of the Loyolan, the article “Off-Campus Student Life hosts forum” stated that the next Neighborhood Advisory Committee (NAC) meeting would take place on Nov. 10, 2011. However, the next NAC meeting that is open to the public is not until Jan. 19, 2012. In the same article, it was also stated that the Off-Campus Student Life (OCSL) office is located on the first floor of Malone. The OCSL office is located in Suite 120 of the Von Der Ahe building.

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Hon. David Walker spoke on the federal budget this past Tues. in Hilton 100 as part of the College of Business Administration’s Distinguished Speaker Series.

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with CEO of the Comeback America Initiative and former Comptroller General This issue, Centennial Intern Zaneta Pereira talks with the Hon. David Walker about the need for fiscal responsiblity and the “I.O.U.S.A” documentary.

1. You’ve worked in the field of government accounts and fiscal responsibility for quite some time. What initially attracted you to this area?

Well I’m a CPA by training and I know that numbers are how you keep score, and how you keep score matters. When I became comptroller general of the United States, I saw how the country was losing its way and I felt an obligation to speak out in order to make sure that we changed course.

2. You founded the Comeback America Initiative a year ago. What exactly does it do, and why did you think there was a need for it?

The Comeback America Initiative is a nonprofit entity that focuses on promoting fiscal responsibility and sustainability at the federal, state and local level. It engages in a range of public education ... and provides nonpartisan advice to key policy makers to help accelerate action on known and growing problems.

3. Where did the idea for the “I.O.U.S.A.” documentary come from?

The director and producer is a gentleman by the name of Patrick Creadon who lives in the L.A. area. He saw the “60 Minutes” piece that was done on me in March 2007, and then became aware of “The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour,” which then gave him the idea of possibly doing a documentary on the issue.

4. The documentary paints a pretty bleak picture for the future awaiting current college students 40 years down the line. Is there really no hope for us?

Well the truth is, the numbers are much worse now than [they] are in the documentary – but there’s always hope. America has a history of ultimately addressing its challenges, and if other countries can do it, we can do it too.

It’s just important that we do it sooner rather than later.

5. What role do you think college students can play in working towards a solution to rapidly growing national debt?

College students have a great stake in making sure that our elected officials solve these problems because it will have a major impact on their future opportunities and standard of living. Unfortunately, young people have not been as involved in this area as they need to be and, until they get more informed and involved, we’re probably not going to see the kind of tough choices that needs to be made. So it’s critically important that you fight the dual afflictions of ignorance and apathy, because they’re a toxic mix.

6. You make the point in “I.O.U.S.A.” that the deficit is a problem that is America’s alone. What lessons, if any, do you think we can learn from the present economic crisis in Europe?

Many European countries have grown too big, promised too much and waited too long to restructure – and so has the United States. While we have more time, we don’t have unlimited time. We’re not exempt from the laws of prudent finance.

7. You got your undergraduate degree from Jacksonville University. What was the highlight of your time there?

I got married at the end of my sophomore year. ... I was 19 years old. I guess another highlight from the standpoint of the school was that we were No. 2 in the country in college basketball.

8. Do you have any big plans for while you’re here in L.A.?

I don’t have time to have big plans. I’ve got one event right after another. ... I’m probably doing 10 speeches in three days. I have a number of other meetings packed in behind those and then I’m taking the red-eye back because I’ve got a speech to [give to] White House fellows in D.C. 9. You’re a busy person. How do you stay on top of everything?

I learned a long time ago that you have to set priorities. You can’t do everything and you need to allocate your time based on where you think you can make the biggest difference, where you can add the most value and where you can mitigate the most risk.

10. What are some things you like to do outside of the work world?

I like recreational reading, I like traveling and I like downhill skiing.

Those would probably be the top things.

11. What’s the most interesting place you’ve ever visited?

Well I’ve been to about 90 countries. The two places that have been the most interesting, though, have been where East meets West on two key points of the globe. The first would be Hong Kong, and on the other side of the globe would be Istanbul. Those were two fascinating places.

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Site discloses Opus winner Lyn Lusi wins $1 million Opus Prize, according to official website.

By Laura Riparbelli Managing Editor

Lyn Lusi, the co-founder and program director of HEAL Africa, was listed on the Opus Prize website yesterday as the winner of the $1 million prize, an award that will be granted during the Opus Prize Foundation’s Humanitarian Award festivities held on Nov. 2 and 3 at LMU. The winner was not expected to be announced until Nov. 2.

The information announcing the winner appeared on the Opus Prize website yesterday afternoon, but was removed later in the day.

Each year, the foundation partners with one Catholic university in awarding and presenting the prize.

LMU was chosen as this year’s host.

The three 2011 finalists were Lyn Lusi of HEAL Africa located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Father Greg Boyle, S.J. of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles and Sister

Rita Pessoa, R.S.H.M. of the Association of Small Rural Producers of Jacare in Filadelfia, Brazil.

As the host for the prize, LMU was also responsible for sending representatives, consisting of LMU faculty and students, to the various finalists’ sites. One of those students, senior urban studies major Britta Engstrom, was one of the representatives that traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for one week over the summer to observe HEAL Africa.

“The Democratic Republic of [the] Congo is one of the most dangerous countries for women. [HEAL Africa] is really amazing because they’re doing a lot for women,” she said, adding that the 750 programs operated by the organization are run by the Congolese people as a grassroots effort.

Based in Goma, DRC, “HEAL Africa’s hospital and community development work address the root causes of illness and poverty for the people of eastern Democratic Republic of [the] Congo,” according to the organization’s official website.

Lusi founded HEAL Africa with her husband, creating the HEAL

Africa Hospital “as a pioneer in holistic care for the Congolese people, addressing the physical, social and spiritual needs of its patients,” according to opusprize.org, which also states the organization has orchestrated more than “1,500 fistula repair surgeries, provided primary care and post-rape counseling to over 30,000 women, established 31 Safe Houses, trained 90,000 community activists in HIV/AIDS prevention and care and funded over 1,500 micro grants for families.”

Engstrom echoed the positivity of the work HEAL Africa has accomplished, saying “Lyn Lusi is the epitome of a servant leader. She is extremely humble and has a fiery passion about her, and I think for someone to do this for so many years, it takes a lot of strength to not get worn down. She works behind the scenes, she isn’t the face or the glam,” said Engstrom.

The Opus Prize ceremony will take place Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in Burns Back Court. There will also be a panel discussion at the same location with the finalists on Thursday, Nov. 3 during Convo.

- Additional reporting by Tierney Finster

Students hope to see change in Darfur Darfur from Page 1 continues to grow as an organization and works to spread awareness about current genocides.

“I believe in giving a voice to the voiceless,” said President of Save Darfur and junior communication studies major Lauren Devereux.

To further promote its mission, Save Darfur LMU is screening the documentary “Invisible Children” on Thursday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. in

Pereira Hall, Room 207.

The 2003 film details the struggle that thousands of Ugandan children undergo in their commute each night to a safe haven to avoid being captured and turned into child soldiers by the Lord’s Resistance Army.

Representatives from the Invisible Children organization will also be present to speak about the conflict and what LMU can do to raise awareness.

“Partnering up with Invisible

Children is the perfect opportunity for us to ... actively stand up to other human rights violations going on in the world,” said Devereux.

When asked how he got involved, Burbank said that after visiting Tanzania and Kenya for a month, he wanted to raise people’s awareness about what is going on in that part of the world. “Save Darfur fit the bill perfectly,” he said.

For more information visit the Save Darfur LMU Facebook page.

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On Campus LMU ICE HOCKEY CENTENNIAL GAME (LMU at 100) on October 27 @ 8:15 p.m. versus USC! FREE BUS! The Lions also look to defend the 2nd annual Centennial CUP (a best of 3 series against USC). Admission is free to all LMU faculty, staff, and students. Games are played in Harbor City. http:// www. lmuicehockey.com. LMU ICE HOCKEY : the fastest game on campus.

Pumpkin Smash Get ready for Lambda Chi Alpha’s new and improved Pumpkin Smash on Saturday November 5th! This year we are really getting down and dirty with the smashing in an all new Pumpkin Smash game format. Learn more about the event and purchase tickets at Convo on 10/25, 10/27, 11/1, and 11/3.

Services Westchester Psychotherapist Dr. Terry Binkovitz specializes in working with college students to discover who they are and what do with their lives. Assistance with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, relationship problems and career guidance. 310 826-9100 tbinkphd@hotmail.com

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Americans show trust issues with government

Angelica Cadiente Public Editor

A New York Times/CBS Poll has shown that “Americans’ distrust of government is higher than ever.” When asked if they approve of the way Congress is handling its job, only 9 percent of Americans said they approved. When asked how much of the time they think they can trust the government in Washington to “do what is right”, only 10 percent of participants selected “always or most of the time.” Eighty-nine percent selected “some of the time or never.” This lack of faith in the government’s leaders is terrifying, especially in economic times as tumultuous as these. It’s especially disheartening that Americans have such little faith in their leaders despite having elected them. The poll was conducted by telephone interviews with 1,650 randomly selected adults in the United States and took place Oct. 19 - 24.

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Deficit causes educational compromise

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tudents should be fairly familiar with issues that come with the everincreasing cost of tuition. The fact that the government is facing a large deficit certainly doesn’t improve these matters, especially when it comes to federal funding for education.

In an email sent out to all students yesterday, President David W. Burcham expressed concern over the fact that The Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction (a committee of the United States Congress) plans to reduce the maximum amount that students can receive as a Pell Grant. The maximum is currently set at $5,500, so a reduction in that amount may not seem too sizeable at first glance. However, any decrease in aid for a student facing tens of thousands of dollars in tuition costs is extremely significant.

The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities as well as the Student Aid Alliance and various other higher education institutions have developed a petition, which is in need of signatures before it gets sent to Capitol Hill. The email President Burcham sent out provides a link to a website that allows supporters of federal student aid to electronically sign the petition, which had over 11,700 signatures as of 8:30 p.m. last night.

Though it is easy to dismiss petitions

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and brush them off as if the repercussions won’t be felt, student aid – and in particular, the Pell Grant – is something that is extremely relevant to students at LMU, many of whom are recipients of the grant.

Consider the notion that a reduction in the maximum amount of the Pell Grant could cause a reduction in aid for over 1,300 LMU students, and then try to brush this off as a non-issue.

Assistant Opinion Editor Joseph Demes expressed the lack of political awareness that comes with busy lifestyles in the Oct. 24 issue of the Loyolan [“Political ignorance: a college byproduct,” Page 5] and Opinion Intern Amanda Kotch mentions a noticeable lack of political activism on campus in the Oct. 10 issue [“Doing wrong to correct worse wrongs,” Page 5]. But with a petition such as this, students are given the opportunity to voice their opinions in a very tangible way.

Students all over the country rely on government aid to make tuition more affordable, and the Loyolan appreciates the fact that President Burcham is cognizant of this and that he made the effort to get students involved in this issue. It is understandable that with a deficit as large as the one the U.S. is in, budget cuts will need to be made.

However, education shouldn’t be compromised as a result of that.

Halloween City scares up costumes nearby No Halloween costume? No worries! Halloween City has popped open in between Kohl’s and Panera Bread on the corner of Manchester and Sepulveda. Costume offerings are a little cliché (slutty referee or nurse anyone?), but as long as you’re into throwing down $40 for a costume, it’s nice to have a one-stop Halloween shop just a short bike ride away from campus.

Barack O’Baby: next hot Chistmas list The Loyolan staff is not sure how to feel about the “Barack O’Baby.” CNN reports that Ashton-Drake Galleries has created a doll depicting President Barack Obama as a baby. Made of “collector-quality vinyl” and dressed in “blue shorts, white booties and a tee-shirt that reads ‘the birth of hope,’” the doll is sold on Amazon for a little over $150.

Debit card fees: breaking the college bank

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ollege students aren’t exactly a group known for stellar financial stability.

Dealing with the realities of college life, including student loans and part-time jobs, doesn’t leave us with a large disposable income to blow on shopping sprees or spring break getaways.

For a college student, $5 goes a long Over a Glass way: It could

By Amanda mean your next lateKotch night meal, Opinion Intern cheap bottle of wine or, beginning in early 2012, your monthly debit card fee.

Portrayed as a counter policy to the recently-implemented restrictions on interchange fees, banks are now proposing varying monthly charges for debit card use. What was once a free and easy way to stay on top of finances and maintain control over spending could prove to be an additional source of stress, particularly for college students.

On Oct. 1, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was implemented. It places restrictions on fees charged to merchants each time a customer uses a debit card, also known as “interchange” fees. According to the National Retail Federation, the cap on fees, previously at 44 cents per transaction, is now at 21 cents, plus 0.05 percent of the transaction total and, depending on the merchant, one penny for fraud control measures. These retailer groups argued the importance of putting a cap on fees to keep

prices low for shoppers, when in reality, the fees had very little effect on customers in the first place. “Shoppers don’t pay the fees directly; banks collect them from merchants on behalf of payment networks like MasterCard and Visa, which set the rates.

The rates vary depending on the type of merchant,” reported

ing its customers for debit card use. Beginning in early 2012, a charge of $5 per month will be incurred each month a debit card is used to make a purchase, even if that means a single cup of coffee over the span of 30 days.

Shortly after Bank of America announced the new fees, other large banks soon followed suit.

charged to those who will have the most difficult time affording it, and a significant portion of that group is made up of college students. Even Trish Wexler, senior vice president at VOX Global, has said, “One of the unintended consequences is that this would disproportionately harm lower-income individuals,”

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The act, as a whole, was intended to help consumers, but now the banks are angry and trying to replace the lost fee income in other ways. So where do they turn? Their customers.

Bank of America, our nation’s largest bank and biggest issuer of debit cards, was the first to announce its plan to start charg-

Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are currently testing out $3 monthly debit card fees, and Regions Financial Corporation and SunTrust plan to charge $4 and $5, respectively.

Wondering if there is any way to waive the fees? Sure, if you’re a “premium” customer. At Bank of America, this requires that your combined accounts hold a minimum balance of $20,000 at all times. $20,000? I’m lucky if I have $20. So the fee will be

as reported by Hugh Son on Bloomberg.com.

Sen. Dick Durbin, who was involved with the bill and pioneered the limitations on interchange fees, felt the charges were becoming too costly for retailers.

Even he is now voicing his anger over banks’ retaliation with new fees for customers. Durbin criticized banks for trying to find “new ways to pad their profits by sticking it to its customers.”

He added, “It’s overt, unfair and

I hope their customers have the final say,” as reported on Sept.

30, 2011 by Mark Memmott in the Los Angeles Times article “Bank of America is ‘sticking it’ to customers, senator says.”

There have been a few proposed alternatives to using a debit card, but these seem to be inadequate solutions to a much larger problem.

You could try shopping for a better deal at another bank, but bank companies often make it difficult to do so. After hearing about the debit card fees, Congressman Brad Miller decided it was time to introduce his Freedom and Mobility in Consumer Banking Act, which would make it easier for customers to close an account and switch banks. Miller has stated, “The difficulty of moving accounts is deliberate and unnecessary,” as reported on Oct. 15, by the New York Times article “Online banking keeps customers on hook for fees” by Nelson Schwartz.

You could revert to the ancient method of using a checkbook, but this is inconvenient, as checks are no longer accepted by many merchants who have, in recent years, favored the ease of customers paying with plastic.

You could even choose to only pay with cash, as the use of a bank ATM has no fees attached.

But it can be worrisome to carry a wad of cash around in your pocket, which could easily be lost or stolen.

So what will it be? Our only options seem to be: Suck it up and pay the few extra bucks or take a stand against the big banks.

This is the opinion of Amanda Kotch, a sophomore art history major from Huntington Beach, Calif. Please send comments to akotch@theloyolan.com.

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Easing growing pains

ear Freshmen, Still not loving LMU even though everyone else around you seems to think it’s so great? There is still hope! You don’t have to consider transferring or moving back home.

I strongly disliked LMU the first semester of my freshman year, and I seriously considered transferring.

I tried everyBy Kimberly thing: I went to Tomicich events, joined Contributor clubs, talked to my R.A. – you get the idea. I stepped outside of my comfort zone so many times that it grew at least 10 sizes that semester. I still didn’t feel the love for LMU. Many upperclassmen admit that they felt the same way during their freshman year. Since some of you may be feeling similarly, I want to encourage you to keep trying. Don’t be so hard on yourself, and recognize that you are in an extreme adjustment period. The context of your life has changed completely, and it is natural to feel unsettled.

From my experience and what my peers have told me, there are five reasons why the transition is so difficult. Here are some ideas to alleviate these problems.

1. Difficulty finding the right friends: In high school, it was easier to make friends because it’s likely that your friendships stemmed from other relationships. Now you have a blank slate, so branch out – don’t limit yourself to people who look like you, or who seem like friends you had in high school. You

are lucky that at LMU pretty much everyone is friendly, kind and happy to meet you.

2. Not having a car: If you don’t have a car on campus and you’re feeling stranded, there are several options available to you. Among these are Zipcar, Lion Express and three nearby bus stops. Rent a Zipcar and take some new friends out for a late night Diddy Riese run.

Take a trip on the Lion Express and make friends with a fellow rider.

Find the bus schedule online and take a friend with you; the ride down to Third Street Promenade is easy! Bicycling and walking are also great options that can get you to your destination while also reducing your carbon footprint and your risk of the freshman 15.

3. Pressure to party: You don’t have to party every weekend to have a good time. If you aren’t linked to the party scene, or simply aren’t interested in partying, don’t feel “uncool” and definitely don’t feel like you are missing anything. There are so many other ways to have fun on a Friday night, even on campus.

Mane Entertainment, ASLMU, and RHA, among other organizations, aim to create and promote a vibrant campus life through their numerous events throughout the year. You can find their calendars on lmu.edu under the Student Life tab.

4. Lack of food variety: When you feel like you need some variety in your diet, order delivery from a nearby restaurant. Or, take advantage of the LMU Farmers Market, which accepts Flexi and comes to Alumni Mall twice a month. The Playa Vista Farmers Market and the Westchester Farmers Market are also conveniently nearby.

5. Feeling isolated: Ask your R.A. for advice. R.A.s really are

some of the most compassionate, understanding individuals. They were hired for these qualities.

They’re there for you, whether you want to have a long talk about your life or if you just want the phone number for Thai food delivery. If you are still having a rough time and you feel lost amidst the transition, make an appointment at SPS; the folks at Student Psychological Services are known to work wonders.

Change is hard, but trust that you made the right decision. LMU is a place that will truly care for your mind, heart and spirit. You will be challenged to consider what type of person you are and who you want to become. You will have opportunities thrown at you, and I promise you will grow more than you ever imagined. You will meet people who inspire you to be your best self, and yes, you will be given several free T-shirts.

So, keep trying. Join all of the clubs that interest you, attend events, apply for jobs on campus and keep trying to find your niche.

Keep giving LMU chances. You will be glad you did. Take it from me – I hated my first semester at LMU. Since then, however, I have fallen so in love with LMU, and the LMU Mission Statement is something that I have truly taken to heart.

This is a special place that you will feel proud to call your home. I hope you’ll keep trying through second semester, and don’t feel so discouraged if the adjustment takes a little longer. Branch out, try new things, be friendly and utilize all of the resources available to you.

This is the opinion of Kimberly Tomicich, a senior environmental studies major from San Diego, Calif. Please send comments to ktran@ theloyolan.com.

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Musical spotlights overlooked workers Theater Preview

By Luisa Barron Asst. A&E Editor

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onsidering our current unemployment rates and the state of the economy in general, it seems there is no more relevant time for a musical production centered on those workers whose value we take for granted every day. “Working,” a musical on that very subject, written by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso and based on the 1974 book by Studs Terkel, is the next musical production being put on by the theatre arts department.

The book, “Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do” consists of a series of interviews with people in all kinds of occupations, exploring their feelings on what they do and why they do it. Schwartz and Faso adapted this work into a musical that was produced on Broadway in 1978.

Jim Holmes, theatre arts professor and director of the production, said he took the musical mostly as it was, but placed it in the present

time with some minor modifications. “I wouldn’t say we adapted it, except to try and make it clear that it’s as relevant today as it was in the period it was [originally] performed in,” Holmes said.

In the same way that Terkel did his research, Holmes asked the cast to do research into the roles they would be playing by “finding someone on the LMU campus that was an employee in order to interview them about their work, and their hopes and aspirations. . to understand what Terkel was doing and also to give some recognition to employees on the campus and how important they are,” Holmes said.

Sophomore theatre arts major Michael Chiaverini found the assignment challenging but insightful. “We all had to challenge ourselves to drop our classical musical theater backgrounds and really get real,” Chiaverini said.

“Portraying these characters on the stage is very difficult because it’s something a lot of us can’t directly relate to. … I think that’s one of the main reasons Jim had us interview workers on campus.

He wanted us to get a firsthand ac-

count of what it’s really like, especially somewhere that we all think we know so well,” he said.

Another cast member, sophomore theatre arts major Julian Garcia, interviewed the technical director in the theatre arts department. “It was interesting to understand his background a little more. … It’s all very helpful and also amazing seeing how so many people from such different backgrounds end up at the same place,” Garcia said.

Holmes said that the theatre arts department also made a point to include the dance department in the production. Four dance majors will be “doing a lot of dancing incorporated into the staging to try and keep the show entertaining and visually interesting,” Holmes said.

One of the dancers in the show, freshman dance major Chloe Lafleur, chose to interview one of her dance teachers for the assignment because “many people assume [being] a choreographer or dance instructor are not real jobs, but they, like everyone else, got to where they are now somehow,” she said.

Holmes encourages people to in-

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Senior theatre arts major MacKenzie Campbell plays, among other characters, a housewife who resents the judgment of society. terpret the musical for themselves.

“I think people will find it to be an entertaining evening in the theater,” he said, “as well as one that should be thought-provoking, but not mind-bending.”

“Working” opens tonight and will run at Strub Theatre from Oct. 27-29 and Nov. 2-5 at 8 p.m. with an additional show Oct. 30 at 4 p.m. To request tickets, contact LMU’s Central Ticket Agency.

Poetry Lounge provides alternative to Open Mic

What are your plans for Halloween Weekend?

Event Preview Angeline Nassif freshman, Communication Studies major “On Friday I’m planning on staying on campus and going to the Hallow’s Eve dance. On Saturday I’m going to ‘Escape from Wonderland’ as Jasmine from ‘Aladdin’ and on Sunday I am either going to Santa Barbara or coming back to LMU and trick-or-treating.”

Markus Kimura

sophomore, Business Management major “I think I am going to dress up as Russell from the movie ‘Up’ and go off campus with some friends. On Friday, I’m probably going to the dance on campus, but everything is still up in the air.”

Hannah Linnemeyer freshman, Mathematics major “One night I’m going dressed up as Kate Middleton with my boyfriend dressed up as Prince William and another night I am going out with some girls dressed up in cat costumes.”

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ost LMU students are familiar with Mane Entertainment’s (ME) Monday night staple, Open Mic Night. But next Wednesday, the student-run organization is trying a new twist on its old classic. Partnering with the Office of Black Student Services, ME is hosting a Poetry Lounge in The Living Room, swapping the normal music of Open Mic Night with spoken word.

Tiffany Hunter, ME’s signature events manager and a senior communications studies major, explained that the Poetry Lounge works the same way as a typical Open Mic Night would: There are about six spots for students to perform their own spoken word and sign-ups occur 15 minutes before the event starts. David Romero, a professional spoken word artist and activist from the L.A. area, will be hosting the event and performing some of his own work as well.

“After doing some research online looking for someone to host the event, we stumbled upon David Romero’s website,” Hunter explained. “Looking at his credits, his social activism stood out, because we hoped that he could possibly enlighten the students who attend Poetry Lounge with his material.”

A USC graduate, Romero has written two poetry collections and performed at numerous colleges and schools. Additionally, he is an artist affiliate of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign and the Revolutionary Poets Brigade. As an activist for these groups, Romero’s work is intended to spread a message of living responsibly in a cooperative community.

“I enjoy performing funny poems, but I hope that after the laughs, people can stay and listen to the messages that I am spreading with my poetry against racism, against prejudice, against imperialism, against labor exploitation and against economic injustice. I believe in a world free from

hunger or any other kind of scarcity,” Romero said.

Romero first became interested in using spoken word to spread this message after he was exposed to underground hip-hop and became obsessed with the rhythm and movement of words.

“I immediately became engaged with the politics of spoken word. I loved that spoken word was about something,” Romero said. “[People are] using their poetry as a platform for personal expression in a time when so many other cultural forms of expression seem devoid of meaning.”

Besides his broader political work, he also describes his material as dealing with “identity politics.”

“Everyone at a certain point in his or her life has felt like they either wanted to embrace or run away from a certain identity,” Romero said. He

hopes that students will be able to relate to this message in his poetry and explore a different artistic medium with which to make a change and express their own issues.

Hunter ultimately felt that exposing students to this idea and artistic method would be a good way to give LMU students a taste of something different.

“At Open Mic, there is usually a focus on the music and not as much on other mediums. Bringing David [Romero] in will hopefully shed light on issues we don’t normally focus on at our events. I hope students feel that there is a place on campus where they can not only express themselves and showcase work that they created, but specifically showcase spoken word as well,” Hunter said.

The Living Room doors open at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2.

Admission is free.

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For the Record

In the Oct. 24 issue of the Loyolan, Kimberly Caldwell informed A&E Intern Jackie Fischer that the premiere of Oxygen’s upcoming television series “Best Ink” was scheduled for Dec. 5, 2011 [“Kimberly Caldwell booked to perform in The Living Room,” Page 11]. However, Oxygen has not yet announced a premiere date.

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The death of watercooler TV Kids invited to campus for a fun The era of gathering around the TV with and safe Halloween experience family and friends has come to an end, which is an American tragedy.

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uring the late 1990s and into the early 2000s, a phenomenon known as the “watercooler show” was in its peak.

The trend was so named because of a TV show’s tendency to cause people to discuss the previous night’s episode. Perhaps the show was full of twists and turns that just begged to be discussed. Perhaps it was a cultural touchstone that couldn’t be missed for fear of being out of the loop. Perhaps it was just a really good sitcom that everyone enjoyed. Regardless of why it was a watercooler show, these programs were event television – something not to be missed under any circumstances.

Fast-forward to the second decade of the millennium: The watercooler show is all but dead.

Social media has rendered the concept obsolete, and the increasingly large diversity of programming across hundreds of cable channels has divided the country into several smaller audiences for all shows rather than one larger audience for fewer shows.

With the death of the watercooler show comes the end of event television; there is no reason to get everyone together for consistent viewing of a show every week.

Sources like Hulu and TiVo have made it far too easy to access programs missed during their live airings, so why stop your own life to watch something you can just catch up with later?

The fade of event television is really disappointing for someone who wants to work in the entertainment industry because it indicates a growing disinterest in seeing television as a cornerstone of American culture. What happened to shows like “Seinfeld” and “Friends” that got audiences so thoroughly invested in the lives of the characters that they consistently drew giant audiences for every episode up to and including the series finale? These days, we have shows like “30 Rock” and “Community,” which are designed to be joke dispensers, not impactful stories about characters. The

former series found humor in the strangeness of life while the newer shows are more about making life strange.

Even former cultural touchstones have become passive experiences. In 2003, the battle between Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard for the title on “American Idol” was considered a climactic point in the year of not only reality TV, but of the year overall. These days, while “Idol” still draws sizable audiences, no one seems particularly invested in the outcome. That is, unless you were a Haley Reinhart fan last season like I was. I still say she was robbed.

It’s increasingly rare that any new show can successfully capture the zeitgeist, which leads to an increasing dearth of collective TV conversation anywhere except the Internet. “Glee” managed to become a watercooler show before flaming out in fantastic fashion last season. “The X Factor” has failed to replicate the success of “American Idol” so far. Even highly-rated new shows like “Once Upon a Time” and “2 Broke Girls” don’t seem to be catching much fire for those who prefer their “Friends” reruns on Nick at Nite.

As absurd as it sounds, Americans need watercooler shows because they’re a unifying experience in a time where we are growing increasingly disparate from one another. Television has long been one of the greatest uniting factors in our country – historic moments from the moon landing, to the Academy Awards, to many a Super Bowl triumph have all drawn giant audiences and brought the country together, if only for a few hours. The absence of event television is yet another factor that causes Americans to drift apart.

With the advent of the Internet, it may be impossible to ever revive the watercooler show. Even when a show manages it, the show seems to fizzle out in popularity a short time later. The era of television as a uniting factor in our country appears to have come to an end. We can all simply keep up with our shows on our personal computer screens, headphones on, away from the rest of the world.

This is the opinion of Kevin O’Keeffe, a sophomore screenwriting major from Austin, Texas. Please send comments to kokeeffe@theloyolan.com.

Event Preview

By Amy Lee Asst. A&E Editor

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s Halloween is rolling around the corner, children from Boyle Heights, Westchester, downtown and everywhere in between will have the chance to celebrate Halloween today on LMU’s campus during Fright Night.

The Campus Ministry-sponsored event provides an environment where children can experience Halloween in a safe and fun way. LMU student volunteers will act as tour guides, taking groups of children to different activities.

Events include a haunted house, sack races, making trick-or-treat bags, a dunk tank and a mummy-decorating contest. Campus Ministry expects to have approximately 150 volunteers participate, including students from Resident Housing Association, athletics, Christian Life Community, Greek Life and student tour guides among other groups.

The event first started in 1982 when a Catholic worker with LMU informed the students that she received a suspicious letter threatening the children if they went trick-ortreating.

LMU brought the kids to campus and used residence halls for trick-or-treating and a haunted house tour. From then on, Fright Night has given children, who are typically from low-income areas of the city, a great time in a secure atmosphere while bonding with LMU students.

“I think the great thing about Fright Night is it’s just about having fun, for both sides,” said Jordan Hoover, junior history major and Fright Night student coordinator. “Usually service is seen as something that’s hard for the volunteer to do, or that the volunteer is going into a bad situation. Fright Night, however, is just about creating joy for kids. It doesn’t have to be tough and it doesn’t have to focus on going to a bad part of town. It creates solidarity with the volunteers and the kids before they even realize it.”

Hoover further explained that the event helps students

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Local elementary schoolers participate in a sack race in the Sunken Garden during last year’s Fright Night, an annual Halloween event held by Campus Ministry. realize that service is “not some big ordeal.” It gives them the opportunity to experience Halloween like any other kid in America.

“I’m most excited to see that vitality come to campus and to see college kids dressed up in full Halloween gear, listening to these kids [and] asking them who they’re supposed to be and then telling them about [their] own costume in return.

Basically, I’m excited just to see everyone having fun,” said Hoover.

Fright Night Today 3:30 - 6:30 p.m.

In Sunken Garden, the Cave (basement of Sacred Heart Chapel) and Malone

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Corporate culture, personal finance and technological innovation

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Balancing business and ethics

In the business world, it can be easy to overlook ethics in the interest of profits.

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he jury’s out on business ethics. During Convo on Tuesday, Oct. 18, a conference on ethics in business and finance was held in William H. Hannon Library. According to LMU’s website, this Bellarmine Forum dealt with the “challenges set out in this year’s LMU Freshman Book, ‘Heroic Living,’ and [featured] speakers Paul Viviano, Dr. Thomas White and Randy A Minute with Roche, S.J.” Morgan According to the Bellarmine

By Ryan Morgan Forum, one of Opinion Intern the main problems that stands in the way of ethical business is selfishness. However, Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world, gave counterd this standard selfishness when he wrote an article this summer complaining that he did not pay enough taxes. It would be a miracle if others followed in his footsteps.

Most probably won’t follow his example and, because of this, regulation is needed in the business world.

While it can seem like inconvenience to balance ethics and profits, it is still crucial to do so. Business leaders must be men and women who have strict moral codes. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. When this becomes a problem, an outside source, the government, needs to intervene.

If ethical leadership can reform business, how do we train ethical leaders? The Bellarmine Forum speakers had several thoughtful responses. One such response was that potential leaders should receive a balanced education, one that includes both business education and ethical training At LMU, students are taught ethics in combination with business.

I think leaders need to be more carefully chosen. All too often, a company focuses on a person’s results instead of the path they took to get there. With more thoughtful choices in leaders, we can avoid unethical business practices.

The speakers went on to say that these leaders need to be taught that their own personal goals and desires must be balanced with the community’s needs. For a well-rounded leader, codes of conduct are not the main concern; instead, a leader should look to the way he or she treats others.

An ethical leader is someone who does not lose sight of the larger community. Although a strong business leader focuses on the business side of his job, a well-rounded business leader won’t neglect the ethical side.

The Forum ended with an idea that an ethical approach to business requires a triple bottom line: profit, social impact and environmental impact. In life, we should balance our various goals. A great business leader is someone who can find a way to balance his own goals.

Realistically, we have to consider that most leaders won’t do this.

While we can all discuss how amazing it would be if leaders decided to place ethics above profit, this, sadly, probably won’t happen as long as there is money to be made through unethical practice.

This is the opinion of Ryan Morgan.

Please send comments to rmorgan@theloyolan.com.

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Executive order allows for easier options for students in debt

President Obama publicly announced the reduction of student loan debt payments by executive order in an appearance yesterday at the University of Colorado, Denver. Obama’s plan aims to accelerate measures passed by Congress last year, which are not currently set to go into effect until July 2014. These measures include reducing the maximum required payments on student loans from 15 percent to 10 percent and allowing loan forgiveness in 20 years instead of 25. According to the New York Daily News, it is estimated these measures will affect 7.4 million borrowers without increasing the national deficit.

College: the reality of dropping out A recent New York Times article is criticized for dropout suggestions.

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ne cannot simply follow a road map to revolutionary success.

That trail is as unique as the minds of the individuals who create it for themselves. And although some of the modern era’s most prominent visionaries bottled success without a college degree to their name, the innovative triumphs of such figures do not make the term “college dropout” synonymous with “success.”

The present is greatly shaped by Pot of Gold the technological

By Michael Goldsholl creations of degreeless billionaires Asst. Managing Editor | Bill Gates and the Sports Editor late Steve Jobs, as well as the social media boom pioneered by fellow college dropouts Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook) or Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone (Twitter) who created thousands of new jobs and a great deal of notoriety for themselves. Those individuals are what best-selling author Nassim Taleb would call “black swans.”

In his Oct. 22 New York Times article “Will Dropouts Save America?” Michael Ellsberg used the accomplishments of the aforementioned individuals as the foundation for his claim that those who cut their college careers short in favor of fostering creativity and ingenuity will be responsible for saving America. However, while there will always be the “black swans” who still triumph despite diverging from the beaten path, such journeys will never become a replacement for doing things “the old-fashioned way.”

Throughout his article, Ellsberg addresses numerous notions that carry a great deal of validity. College can hinder creativity, success at business stems from experience in the workplace (not time in the classroom) and there are consequences for playing it safe. While each claim is certainly significant, Ellsberg fails to address the gaping hole in the decision to drop out of college: how individuals choose to utilize the time that would have instead been spent on obtaining a degree.

Ellsberg affirms that America lacks job creators and supplements that notion by writing, “The people who create

jobs aren’t traditional professionals, but start-up entrepreneurs.” Other than making the reader feel as if Ellsberg has just tried to tell an English professor that Geoffrey Chaucer authored “The Canterbury Tales,” this should make the reader ask him or herself, “OK, but how many start-ups that were created by college dropouts actually become successful?” Or, on an even broader scale, “What percentage of founders have graduated college?”

Considering the fact that businesses which have been around longer than the past three years were formed by those who, according to Ellsberg, maintained “outmoded mentalities about education,” it’s just as likely that many of the people who have been creating jobs for the past 60 years have done so while boasting at least one college degree in their back pocket.

But the answers to such questions are never answered. Why? Because who wants to read about someone who dropped out of college to start a company and failed miserably due to a lack of basic business knowledge? I’d say that number pales in comparison to the amount of individuals who’d rather read a feature on a company that was started in a Silicon Valley garage by a couple of degreeless masterminds. And why is that?

Because it doesn’t happen as the sun rises and sets! If it were so easy to start a company with minimal knowledge and make it profitable, college education would become obsolete.

And after a while, the road not taken would quickly become the one-way lane to corporate prosperity.

There is no statistic that explicitly states, “If you drop out of college, you’re going to fail.” It simply doesn’t exist.

One would be better off finding a statistic that says, “If you don’t wear a seat belt in a moving automobile, you will die.” Individuals are unique in their own right. Some will discover that they are better off searching for success without having to survive four-plus years of bureaucracy to obtain a piece of paper that says they learned something in the process. However, others are not so “lucky” and must spend a few years learning how to do something before they can

actually do it (sounds absurd, I know).

For those simply thirsting for an example of a college graduate who created jobs in a revolutionary way, one doesn’t have to search further than the most visited website on the Internet: Google. Founded by Stanford University master’s degree holders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company currently employs over 31,000 people and has a market cap of just over $188 billion.

What about Amazon.com? The world’s largest online-retail company has a current market cap of over $100 billion, employs over 33,000 individuals across the world and was founded by Princeton University graduate Jeff Bezos.

Such examples are as irrelevant as the ones that “support” dropping out of college to start a company. That argument can be made from both sides and ultimately ends in favor of whoever can Wikipedia (also started by a pair of college graduates, Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales, who have five degrees between each of them) more companies than the other until someone gets bored and decides to use the programming languages they learned in their University-taught computer science classes to construct an algorithm that completes the lists for them in a matter of seconds.

This isn’t a public service announcement crafted to keep students in school.

Plenty of times I’ve felt that spending four years in college is a waste of my time and that it ultimately prevents me from becoming a revolutionary innovator (without a University-earned degree of course).

College dropouts aren’t going to save America – people who obtain knowledge and take advantage of their innate creativity will do that. And doing so is not dependent on which foundation they use to build off. So unlike Ellsberg, who chooses to put “[his] money on the kids who are dropping out of college to start new businesses,” I’ll place my bets on those who understand how to transform their creativity into ingenuity.

“If it were so easy to start a company with minimal knowledge and make it profitable, college education would become obsolete.”

This is the opinion of Michael Goldsholl.

Please send comments to mgoldsholl@theloyolan.com.

Sports

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Men’s soccer back in action Conference wins crucial for Lions M. Soccer from Page 12

half sent the game into a wideopen second half, but it took an overtime goal from LMU freshman John McFarlin to separate the teams on the scoreboard.

The Broncos currently sit last in the WCC standings after finishing the first half of the conference slate with a 2-4-0 record. The Broncos have struggled to find goals thus far in conference play, scoring only three in their last six games, the fewest of any team in WCC play.

Sunday’s clash will pit the conference’s third and fourth-place teams against each other as USF leads LMU by just one point in the standings.

USF is led by 6-foot-6-inch junior goal keeper Brendan Roslund whose large presence in goal earned him conference Player of the Week recognition in two consecutive weeks on Oct. 3 and Oct. 10.

LMU however, boasts the most recent conference Player of the Week as senior Artur Jozkowicz took the award away from Roslund on Oct. 17 after assisting on the game-winner against Santa Clara and scoring the game-winner against Roslund and the Dons.

Jozkowicz leads the team with four goals and has also contributed three assists. He is the only Lion to start all 14 of LMU’s games.

With six games left in the season, LMU sits four points behind conference-leading University of San Diego.

“What we want to do … is we want to continue to get better, continue to try to play good [soc-

cer] and if you do those things and get your attitude and commitment and enthusiasm and work rate right, it’s such a cliché, but at the end of the day those wins tend to find you,” Mennell said.

Despite being picked to finish first in the preseason coaches’ poll and sitting at .500 heading into the home stretch of the season, Mennell and the coaching staff refuse to worry too much about results.

“We’re not going to talk about

wins and losses,” Mennell said.

“We’re going to talk about the first half and say ‘You’ve put yourself in a position, if we continue to get better we can make this a special season.’ I think we were picked first in the WCC for a reason. I think the last three games we have started to show a lot of why we were picked first. But now we have six games to go and we have to continue to prove that, not only to ourselves but to the rest of the conference.”

Standings

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West Coast Conference Team San Diego Saint Mary’s San Francisco LMU Portland Gonzaga Santa Clara

WCC 4-1-1 3-1-2 3-2-1 3-3-0 2-4-1 2-4-1 2-4-0

Overall 7-5-1 4-4-5 5-6-2 5-9-0 7-6-2 4-8-2 6-5-3

Raff’s Rap from Page 12 they held the one-man advantage.

They extended their losing streak against No. 15 United States Naval Academy, allowing a roaring second half comeback to the Midshipmen.

They fought hard against No. 2 UCLA but ultimately could not pull off the upset and were embarrassed later by No. 4 USC in a 10-goal loss on Oct. 8.

Is this really the makeup of a championship team?

Despite not looking pretty or pulling off any historic wins, the Lions find themselves right in the thick of things. Although their non-conference record pales in comparison to years past, they have won when it matters, going 8-1 in conference play.

The Lions have five remaining regular season games left on their schedule.

Today’s matchup against No. 18 California Baptist University should be a nice warmup for what’s to come on Saturday, when conferenceleader UC Davis comes to the Burns Aquatic Center for a showdown of one-versus-two WWPA teams.

Saying this game is crucial and a must-win is an understatement for the Lions. If they win Saturday and on Nov. 5 against Santa Clara

University, they will not only control their destiny, but will end up with the number one conference seed.

If the Lions cannot defeat the Aggies on Saturday, they will be two games back in the conference standings, and may even drop to third place, depending on how UC San Diego plays this weekend.

In a season where the Lions have not been dominant, a number-one seed in the conference tournament would give the Lions a considerably easier road to win the WWPA tournament, which takes place Nov. 17-20.

As a number-one seed, the Lions would most likely only have to play the winner of UC San Diego and UC Davis, as opposed to playing both of them in the conference semifinal and championship games, respectively.

Watching the team’s practice this week, I noticed a constant theme shouted by Coach John Loughran to his players: “Effort and energy wins championships.”

Despite a roller-coaster season, the Lions have a chance to right the ship, to right their wrongs and to write another chapter in LMU water polo history, by winning the WWPA conference.

This is the opinion of Dan Raffety.

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Spinning away calories to top tunes RECREATION REVIEW Hailey Hannan takes the Burns Recreation Center’s cycling class for a spin.

By Hailey Hannan Copy Editor While most LMU students don’t particularly need an excuse to listen to “Moves Like Jagger” at any given moment, if one was looking for some justification, LMU’s cycling classes (commonly referred to as “spinning classes”) are a great way to listen to the best of Top 40 while burning some calories.

Just how many calories exactly? According to Samantha Beach, an LMU fitness instructor, a typical 60-minute ride will burn between 700800 calories. Beach said this is because, “cycling is a mix between building strength and getting your heart rate up. With that comes the heavy hills and the fast sprints.”

The class is a mix of endurance-building rides, where resistance is set very highly on the bike, and lower resistance sprints. Instructors also typically have participants in three main positions. Being “in the saddle” means the participant in sitting in his or her seat and pedaling normally on the bike. Positions two and three ask cyclists to hover over their seat while pedaling to work different muscles and different areas of the body.

However, as there is a knob to lessen or strengthen the resistance on each individual bike,

you are in control of what kind of workout you want that day.

Slower-tempo songs such as Cali Swag District’s “Teach Me How To Dougie,” for example, are mixed in for the high-resistance portion, whereas cardio is elevated during sprints that are paired with LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know It.” Whether you’re a seasoned cyclist or someone who is just trying to work off latenight tasty treats, cycling is great for everyone. Junior psychology major Zoe

instructor does not first introduce him or herself and offer to h e l p anyone who is new to set up their bike. “I would invite anyone to

Langdon attends spin classes because, “They motivate me, and I get bored when I do my own workout.”

In my four years at LMU, I have yet to attend a cycling class at Burns Recreation Center where the

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come and give it a try. A lot of people have a hard time with the fact that the bike doesn’t go anywhere, but I like to stress the group mentality is inspiring and motivational,” said Beach. While each instructor has his or her own style of approaching the 40 to 60-minute ride, it isn’t frowned upon when you choose your own level of intensity.

Another aspect unique to cycling at LMU is that it is often paired with another exercise within the same class.

Examples of these include: CORE Cycle Plus (which includes abdominal work and upper-body strength for a total of 75 minutes of exercise), 30/30 Burn (which is divided into 30 minutes of cycling and 30 minutes of strength training) and 30/30 Flow (30 minutes of cycling and 30 minutes of yoga).

Gentlemen, these classes are open to you as well. What better way to meet healthconcious young women than at a cycling class? Challenge yourself and change the usual demographic of these classes.

With the 1911 Centennial Ball on the horizon, it wouldn’t hurt some of us to tone up before stepping into our ball gowns or tuxes.

With classes offered at multiple times of the day, seven days a week, there’s hardly an excuse not to get out of The Lair and onto a bike. Maybe then, we’ll not only have moves like Jagger, but glutes like him too.

Cycling

Classes take place Monday-Saturday.

A full schedule is available at www.LMU.edu/ studentaffairs

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LMU SPORTS UPDATE Golf

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Cross Country

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Torano uses 41 pars to capture share of individual title at Bill Cullum Invitational.

Lions struggle at Pepperdine Southwest Regional Championship, head to UCLA Nov. 2.

Men and women prepare for WCC championships this weekend in Belmost, Calif.

Lions look ahead to Jack Kramer Tennis Club Fall Invitational after sophomore’s strong weekend.

Sophomore Tyler Torano shot a 69 to finish eight under par on his final round to win a share of the individual title at the Bill Cullum Invitational on Tuesday in Simi Valley, Calif.

Sophomore Alex Wilton defeated a pair of opponents this past weekend at Pepperdine University’s Southwest Regional Championship before falling in the round of 32.

LMU cross-country will participate in the WCC men and women’s cross-country championships at Crystal Springs Course in Belmont, Calif. on Oct. 29. The event will be streamed online both on lmulions.com and the WCC official website, WCCsports.com

Sophomore Miya Jin headlined the women’s tennis team last weekend reaching the quarterfinals of the ITA Regionals in San Diego, Calif.

Torano matched Arizona State’s Spencer Fletcher for the individual title. Arizona State also tied for first place overall.

After defeating 17-seed Jenson Turner from Pepperdine, Wilton lost in a three-set match to University of San Diego’s top player Nikola Bubnic, despite winning the opening set.

Torano’s round helped the Lions to tie for fourth place overall with Sacramento State and UC Santa Barbara.

The Lions did not fare much better in doubles, as no tandem moved past the second round.

The Lions’ next tournament will come this weekend in Baja California Sur, Mexico for the Cabo Collegiate.

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The men’s tennis team’s next match will be on Nov. 2 for UCLA’s Southern California Intercollegiate Championships.

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Portland University’s men’s team is attempting to win their 33rd conference championship in a row while the Univeristy of San Francisco is attempting to win their third in a row on the women’s side.

WebStream Productions will broadcast the event and will show the start and finish of each race as well as checkpoints throughout.

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After the defeat, Jin defeated CSU Fullerton’s junior Malorie Dela Cruz in three sets as well as San Diego State’s junior Alicia Aguilar after Aguilar had to withdraw from the match due to injury.

Jin fell in the quarterfinals to six-seed UCLA senior Carling Seguso in three sets.

Women’s tennis returns to action tomorrow when they compete at the Jack Kramer Tennis Club Fall Invitational.

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Lion Sports

Saturday showdown for top seed

Streaking Lions start second half Sitting in fourth place with six games remaining, the men’s soccer team travels north this weekend.

By John Wilkinson Asst. Sports Editor

UC Davis comes to Burns Aquatic Center for a conference playoff preview matchup.

W

hat a roller coaster this season has been for the 2011 men’s water polo team.

They began the season with expectations of being conference champions for the fifth time in as many seasons and hoped they could finally defeat a perennial powerhouse in the NCAA Semifinals after three straight defeats by a single goal. Not to mention that this is in addition to losing three seniors that Raff’s Rap carried the Lions to water polo glory.

By Dan Raffety The season Asst. Sports Editor started out rocky and many did not believe, myself included, that this year’s team could compete with teams from recent years. The experience was just missing: two freshmen played crucial minutes, a new goalie was in the cage replacing an All-American Andy Stevens ‘11 and the schedule looked tough facing off against and UCLA and USC, both nationally ranked in the top five.

Conference rivals also wanted nothing more than to see the mighty Lions fall from their Western Water Polo Association (WWPA) glory.

No doubt the Lions have had their bumps and bruises so far. They fell to No. 7 Pepperdine University in their home opener in an embarrassing showing. The offense looked lackadaisical and confused often, even when

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Senior Artur Jozkowicz (pictured above) is the Lions’ leading goal scorer this season. The midfielder/forward has scored four goals through 14 games.

Returning to play tomorrow after an off week, the LMU men’s soccer team hopes the conference’s midseason break didn’t come at exactly the wrong time.

Less than three weeks ago, the Lions looked like they were in danger of falling out of contention for a West Coast Conference (WCC) title after losing their first three conference games. After the 0-3 start, the Lions bounced back to win three straight games before the midway break in the conference schedule.

“If you had asked me six games ago, I don’t think any of us would have expected to be where we are in terms of our overall record,” Associate Head Coach Mathes Mennell said after the Lions’ 2-1 victory over the University of San Francisco (USF) on Oct. 16. “But I think the thing we continue to say is … we’ve been telling these guys that they’re a good [soccer] team, and they have good quality, and they do. But it’s hard as losses mount up to continue to believe that.”

Currently holding the longest winning streak in the conference, the Lions begin the second half of conference play this weekend as they travel to Northern California for rematches with the last two teams they beat, the Santa Clara University Broncos and USF. “It’s great for these guys, and we’re on a roll and we’re a good team,” Mennell said. “So we’ve made the turn at three and three … but we’ll see how it goes.”

Tomorrow’s 7:30 p.m. game against the Broncos is a rematch of the ugly, six yellow-card, two-ejection, overtime match that took place on Sullivan Field two weeks ago. Two straight red cards just before the

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