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Act still leaving its mark 50 years later LMU faculty reflect on their personal connections to the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Amanda Lopez Asst. News Editor @laloyolan
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Junior theological studies and political science double major Alyssa Perez officially took office as ASLMU president at yesterday’s Crimson and Blue Awards. During her inaugural address, Perez reflected on her road to the presidency, stating “These past three years at LMU have been incredible and I couldn’t imagine spending next year doing anything else than serving as ASLMU president.” The event also recognized various student organizations and leaders. For a full list of these winners, see Page 3.
Late popes to be canonized as saints Upcoming canonization of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII sparks controversy. Julia Sacco
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The canonization of Blessed Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII will mark a historic day for the Catholic Church. As the two late popes are named saints this Sunday, April 27, the true meanings of these modern-day spiritual leaders will be celebrated. John XXIII and John Paul II will be celebrated as holy men, and their canonization ceremony is a time to praise their work as spiritual leaders not only for the Catholic Church, but also for the world. However, while they are both seen by the church as leaders who embody the Catholic faith, some question whether John Paul II’s canonization should have been delayed. Professor Thomas Rausch, S.J., of the theological studies department agrees with
the canonization of John XXIII. “Pope John XXIII clearly was a saint. He renewed the Catholic Church, bringing it into the 20th century and preparing it for the 21st century. He was a wonderful pope and truly, in my judgment, a holy man,” Rausch said. However he, among others, believes that Pope John Paul II’s canonization seems rushed. “It was a surprise that it was so quick,” said Rausch.“I think [his canonization was rushed] because of his popularity. There was this enormous outcry when he died, and Rome was absolutely packed with people who went to his funeral.” In fact, as Rausch points out, at John Paul II’s funeral in 2005, the people were shouting a phrase in Italian,“Santo Subito,” meaning “Sainthood Now.” However, even though the pope was very popular with the people, Rausch does not feel this justifies a rushed canonization process. “I am a little embarrassed that we have to canonize all of our former popes, as Pope Francis has just joked, ‘one good way to See Canonization | Page 3
The 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights movement, a social movement in which African-Americans fought for racial equality, led LMU economics professor Robert Singleton to reflect on his experiences and involvement with the Civil Rights movement. The Civil Rights Movement took place from 1954 to 1968. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was “the most [significant] civil rights legislation since Reconstruction,” according to the U.S. Government’s Our Documents Initiative, was signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964. It prohibited discrimination by eliminating segregation in public places and providing constitutional rights that AfricanAmericans had not previously held. In 1960, Singleton was president of the University of California at Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP. “My wife, Helen, and I organized student picket lines at Santa Monica and Hollywood Woolworth Store branches in sympathy with the students who were the first to ‘sit-in’ at segregated lunch counters in the South,” he said. The picket lines were just the beginning See Civil RIghts Act | Page 3
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Mane Entertainment hosted a concert featuring country star Eric Paslay in Burns Back Court Tuesday night. Hundreds of students flocked to experience the artist’s ‘Friday Night’ charm mid-week. Paslay will be performing at Stagecoach Music Festival this weekend.
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This issue, News Editor Ali Swenson sits down with LMU Alumna Angelica Nwandu to talk about foster care and her upcoming performance today at 7:15 p.m. in Malone 112.
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One of Gryphon Circle’s placements, and one of the main focuses of your spoken word performance this evening on campus, is Peace 4 Kids (P4K). Can you explain what P4K is?
Peace 4 Kids is a non profit organization that is dedicated to creating a community for foster youths and probation youths and anybody who is living the life of a foster youth. Their mission is to provide a community for those kids where they have resources and where they learn different skills. Every Saturday they have a program at the Boys and Girls Club that teaches them different skills: self-esteem, cooking, dancing, music. It gives them resources for college, resources for jobs and other things of that nature.
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Yes I am. I joined Peace 4 Kids when I was 13 years old. I was in foster care at the time, and I was a very troubled youth at the time. I was getting kicked out of school, moving from one foster home to the next. The moment that I went to Peace 4 Kids, that literally changed the rest of my life. I joined their poetry team. I had all this anger built inside of me, and I would lash out at school and that’s why I was such a bad child. But when I found that therapy to really express my emotions, I was really able to channel all my anger, all my sadness, into my poetry.
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You were in foster care for 12 years. For you, what was the hardest thing about being in the system for so long?
The number one hardest part about being in foster care for me was that I never felt like anybody was obligated to take care of me. A regular child, when they get bad grades or when they get in a fight at school, they get reprimanded, but their security and stability in that home is never threatened. When I was a child, when I was misbehaving, my security in the home was threatened because nobody had to keep me.
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People, when they look at foster care, think, “Oh they need money or something like that.” They don’t realize that one of the biggest things that a foster child needs throughout their journey in foster care is a friend, a mentor. They need support. They need someone to talk to. They need someone to cry with and laugh with. They need someone who is like a family member to them. Someone who will stay.
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Spoken word poetry is all about the emotion and connecting emotionally with the audience. It’s less about the words and more about the way that you perform the words, so that the audience can really understand the place that you came from when you wrote it.
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of Singleton’s involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. “In July 1960, I helped Michael Harrington organize students for the March on the Democratic Convention for Civil Rights called by A. Phillip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. In 1961, we organized 17 UCLA student Freedom Riders to spend 40 days in Parchman [Mississippi State] Penitentiary to protest the KKK burning of buses in Alabama,” he said. Singleton noted how it is important to remember and celebrate the passage of the Civil Rights Act: “If we forget the blood that was shed during the marches,
sit-ins and Freedom Rides, we risk reverting back to the injustices that characterized that era,” said Singleton. While the Civil Rights Act was a monumental piece of legislation, many feel that racism still remains an issue to this day, even 50 years later. Though the Civil Rights Act has brought about significant change, Chair of LMU’s Department of African American Studies Brad Stone believes that true equality has yet to be achieved. “It is important that we remember that the act passed. Whether we have actually reached the goals of that act is
still disputable. In a certain sense, the integration was always one way. The Civil Rights Act was not merely about blacks being allowed into white spaces. What we do not have in America still is whites moving into the black spaces. True equality will happen not just when everyone has access to what whites have, but when everybody is comfortable being everywhere,” said Stone. In regards to LMU, Stone believes the passage of the Civil Rights Act led to an increase in diversity on campus. However, he feels that not enough people know what the act actually entails, diminishing its current impact
at LMU. Stone still thinks that the act has the potential to be a major influence. He believes true integration will be reached when there is no such thing as white culture or black culture, but rather American culture. Michael Genovese, the Loyola Chair of Leadership and Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies at LMU, was recently interviewed by CBS/KCAL news about the 50th anniversary as a part of a monthly interview series he has done for the past three years with the station. Genovese shares similar beliefs regarding the continuing significance of the Civil Rights Act.
“It is important to commemorate and highlight this event because it has such a profound impact on our country,” Genovese said. “Before the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a form of apartheid existed in the United States. We were a divided nation, and segregation was the norm. I can remember, as a small boy, driving with my father through the South, and having him stop the car along the roadside and point to a sign asking, ‘What does that say?’ to which I responded, ‘Whites Only’ or another sign that read ‘No Coloreds’. That was a mere 50 years ago. Today, while we have not ended racism, it is clear that we’ve come a very long way.”
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become a saint is to be elected Pope,’” Rausch said. Fr. Marc Reeves, S.J. similarly agrees about John Paul II’s popularity and image as a “people’s pope.” “He was popular with the people and in many different cultures. His church was the world and he respected and valued culture and the various peoples, and I think he left his mark everywhere,” Reeves said. He also believes that it is important for the church to wait to canonize until it is certain that the candidate is an outstanding
example of the Catholic faith, but he does not discredit John Paul II’s sainthood. “I think that it is always wise ... to probably wait, but there are individuals, such as Mother Teresa, who were canonized much earlier than Pope John Paul II where all the criteria have clearly been met,” Reeves said. However, even though he believes it is important to not rush canonization, Reeves was not surprised by the news celebrating John Paul II’s sainthood. “It did not come as a surprise to me at all because I think this is a canonization coming out of
[popularity],” Reeves said. While some feel that John Paul II’s canonization could have been postponed for further review, it is clear both he and John XXIII are holy figures that contributed greatly to the Catholic Church. John XXIII was seen by many as a visionary and a leader that prepared the Catholic Church for modern times. “Visionaries are the gifted people who have insight of the sign of the times and where an organization needs to go, and I certainly think that was John XXIII who recognized the church needed updating at that particular time,” Reeves said.
Similarly, John Paul II was seen as a leader who projected a positive light for the Catholic Church and was recognized and respected by many cultures. “He did a lot of great things. He was very involved in the collapse of communism across all of Eastern Europe and certainly in the Soviet Union; he brought pride back to the people of Poland who were under communist rule since the Second World War and the Iron Curtain fell partly because of his influence,” Rausch said. Despite some of the criticism surrounding John Paul II’s quick canonization, all can come together
to recognize and praise his work for the world and for the Catholic Church. Both of the late popes’ dedication to the Catholic faith will be remembered forever as they are canonized as saints. “I think it’s really cool how we have a saint that we could remember because it allows the saints to be like actual people,” said junior civil engineering major Michael Manalili. “I think the difficult thing in the Catholic faith sometimes is that saints are these super holy people and are distant. Here we have a saint that we can identity with, and I think that is really important.”
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iving in Southern California, where the undertaken in over 192 countries across the sun always shines and the surf never stops, world. LMU has been making similar Earth Day it’s sometimes hard to see the damage we efforts. are doing to our planet, or why there is even a As detailed in an interview with the campus need for Earth Day, which we celebrated just sustainability officer Ian McKeown, there will this past Tuesday. But then there are those days, be many different events at Convo and over the the days where the smog lies so thick on the course of today in honor of Earth Day, including horizon that you can’t make out the skyline of “Healthy Body, Healthy Planet,” which is aiding downtown Santa Monica, let alone take a deep in the effort to make our campus more bikebreath. The days where you simply can’t ignore friendly. the fact that we are all playing some part in the But beyond each annual Earth Day on April pollution and degradation of the land that we, 22, and even beyond the delayed events taking at least currently, call home. place today, LMU has been Standing out on the Bluff making consistent efforts to From eroding coastal can definitely serve as a reality make our campus green – lands to filled-in check: watching the cars some more publicized than zoom by, the lights flick on estuaries transformed others. In Allie Heck’s Feb. 10 and off in buildings across the article “LMU landscapes for a into concrete, the city – if it’s clear enough to see greener future,” she discusses them, of course – and sitting evidence is hard to miss. the reasons behind many of still as your fellow classmates the landscaping changes hustle to class. But with our great vantage point, across campus, that many students don’t know we can literally see the transformations that Los about. Cutting down on water use and labor are Angeles has undergone. From eroding coastal the main focuses currently, and while droughtlands to filled-in estuaries transformed into resistant, native plants don’t always have that concrete, the evidence is hard to miss. lush, lay-in-me look as does, say, grass, they Now, we here at the Loyolan are not suggesting require less water and are more environmentally we rip up all of the concrete in Marina del Rey friendly. and let the birds fly free; let’s be real, we would LMU has been making big strides, from be mourning the loss of Mendocino Farms for our top-of-the-line recycling center to our years to come. What we are saying, though, is many LEED-certified buildings, and it’s our that awareness and realism are key. job to both support those efforts and urge the Every Earth Day serves as a reminder for University onwards and upwards. While we are how we, as university students, can serve our making much headway, there is still more to be community in a plethora of ways. The idea done. So get out there – celebrate your belated was first publicized in 1969 at a UNESCO Earth Day today, tomorrow and three weeks Conference in San Francisco, and since then, from now. After all, as Opinion Editor Devin the movement has really taken hold. This year, Feldman explained in his column on Page 6, more than one billion “acts of green” were every day is Earth Day.
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n a sunny Sunday, I was stuck in traffic with a disgruntled friend of mine, so I attempted to cheer him up with good vibes. An interesting conversation followed. He suggested it’s better to be pessimistic and recognize problems than to be optimistic and delusional. I argued that being realistic or delusional has nothing to do with being optimistic or pessimistic. More specifically, being optimistic doesn’t equal being out of touch with reality. Are pessimists more realistic than optimists? Not necessarily. There are positive and negative views on everything. Sometimes we walk looking at the floor, and other times we walk looking at the trees. Realistic optimism is looking at the trees without tripping on the floor. When it comes down to it, we are ultimately in control of where we look. Still in traffic, my friend was distressed by our slow speed. This pessimistic mindset could have benefited us if somehow being impatient and leaving the freeway meant a faster trip. Otherwise, what else would feeling bad about our circumstances accomplish? Dwelling on the downsides would unnecessarily stress us out and ruin the moment. By accepting the traffic – or most anything for that matter – for what it is, we avoid unnecessary anxiety over things out of our control. Ultimately, only we have the power to brighten our outlook. I’m not saying I like traffic, but we can look at freeways as crowded pollution machines, or we can see them as roads that expedite travel for millions everyday. The same thing goes for any computer. Some view it as a tool to start a successful non-profit, others as a tool to, say, cyberbully or create malware. Are either of these views wrong? No, but seeing
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LOYOLAN EDITORIAL POLICY a computer more as a tool for good than bad isn’t delusional – it’s simply optimistic. Why would we strive for progress if we’re already happy with what we’ve got? Because optimists are likely to see the benefits of embarking on a new project. Furthermore, the thoughts of optimists determine how they feel – positive thoughts encourage positive emotions. Natural highs are the best highs, and they make good decisions easier to make. I’m not saying to force optimism, but sometimes we need to remind ourselves how fortunate we really are. Next time we feel bad about something we don’t have, let’s be thankful for what we do have. Next time we get mad, let’s laugh it off with a ridiculous joke. The more we do, the easier it becomes. We can fight reality, or get with it. Anyone can see pros and cons in life, but it takes a wise person to focus on what they can change. Focusing on perceived problems exaggerates those problems and perception influences
reality. My chances of being a famous actor are slim to none. However, if I set my mind on becoming the next Morgan Freeman, my goals would influence my actions, which would increase the odds I’ll be successful. Do you think Martin Luther King Jr. would have accomplished what he did if he dwelled on all the reasons to give up? The man was sent to jail 29 times, had his phones tapped by the FBI, put his family in danger for what he believed in and faced overwhelming odds of failure. King was probably realistic about the difficulty of his task, while simultaneously remaining optimistic about his work. If he anticipated failure, he would have been a failure. So is optimism based in delusion? No way. But dwelling in pessimism certainly might be.
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LMU students need to mind their manners Maureen Machine Mo Haley Designer
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ately, I’ve noticed something weird about this campus: Some students don’t have basic manners. Now, I know not all of us were forced into cotillion growing up, but manners are something any thoughtful, kind adult should have programmed into their head. I’ll give these students the benefit of the doubt, and hope I’ve only caught them on a bad day or when a robot has taken over their body. Maybe it’s time for a little refresher on how to be polite around campus. To start, always say thank you. It’s nice to say thanks to the people who do things for you. Say thank you to Sodexo workers who serve you food. Say thank you to everyone who holds the door open for you. Say thank you to the crossing guards for helping you cross the street safely. Say thank you to your professors for giving a good lecture. And while we’re on this topic, say please whenever you ask for something. Say please when you ask for your pasta, when you order your coffee, and when you get a new OneCard. These are phrases you can never use enough. If you appreciate the people around you, then you should start appreciating the place around you, and if you smile while doing it, a study by the University of Kansas says it could reduce stress. Also, according to a study by professor Ruth Campbell at University College London, your body’s automatic response to
seeing a smile is smiling back. By turning that frown upside down, you’ll reduce your stress and the stress of everyone around you. But your common courtesy shouldn’t stop with smiles. We also need to be respectful to our campus and the people who work here. That means throwing away your garbage in a trashcan. It disgusts me when I walk through the Lair Marketplace and onto the patio and see bowls, napkins, chip bags and utensils are sprawled across the tables and ground. What are we, animals? It’s not even like you have to walk far out of your way. Our school makes recycling and throwing things away so easy. Sodexo workers are not your maids, so clean up after yourself. These people work very hard to get us food, and keep everything running nicely, all while putting forth the effort to be friendly, so make an effort to be friendly back. Ask about their day, what they think of the weather, anything but just stand there on your phone watching them make your food. They’re people too, make them feel appreciated. But it doesn’t stop with Sodexo workers. You should make everyone feel appreciated. If you see someone you know on campus, say hi. If you think you met someone at orientation or standing in line at the Lair, or you know them from that party last semester, give them a wave or a hello. Everyone likes being remembered. Even if you make a mistake and the person you’ve waved at is a stranger – everyone (well, a lot of people) loves a friendly hello. I know it’s easy to stick on your sunglasses, put in your earphones and walk with your head down on your way across campus, but you’re
going to see someone you know, we both know this campus is too small not to. So pay attention to the people you pass, smile at those you make eye contact with and be friendly. Let this positivity seep into all aspects of your life. Commit random acts of kindness, a little something that would improve
someone’s day. I’ve been really enjoying the positive sticky notes around campus. The people who made them took the time to write out each note, and post them around campus just to brighten the days of strangers. It’s these small acts of love that can snowball and create a super force of positivity and ultimately
improve and strengthen the LMU community. Let’s start being polite, being appreciative and spreading the love – please and thank you! This is the opinion of Mo Haley, a freshman communication studies major from Salt Lake City, Utah. Tweet comments to @LoyolanOpinion, or email mhaley@ theloyolan.com.
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hat do leg day, the best day of your life and Earth Day all have in common? Easy, they are every day. Not once a year or month or week. Every day. This truth is especially valid for Earth Day. In an attempt to avoid any confusion, let us all agree that we all live on Earth. And that we should do what we can to take care of our gracious Mother Earth, for she is our everything. She’s even more important than Niall, Zayn and the other boys of One Direction. I know they think you’re beautiful, but do you know who’s the most beautiful? Earth. Therefore, it’s only fair we treat our home like we would anything else we spend all day in/ on. I’m pretty sure many of us clean our living areas regularly and don’t fog up the place with pollutants with a shrug and a, “Eh, I’m sure the people living here next can take care of that.” No, you don’t. Or maybe you do; if that’s the case, this argument will be completely lost on you. Also, you probably suck. Now, you may or may not have known Tuesday was Earth Day. But don’t worry, your Earth Day selfworth isn’t based on how many watermelon seeds you planted,
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whether you used your Nalgene water bottle all day or how many beer cans you recycled (to buy more beer, duh). Your Earth Day selfworth is measured by your yearround contribution to keeping this planet healthy. Just ask junior biochemistry major and future Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intern Lauren Carlson, who, when questioned about Earth Day, responded, “Oh, is that today?” If a future EPA intern isn’t certain when Earth Day is, it’s all right if you didn’t know or participate either.
Because a life of servitude to Mother Earth is much more important than one day a year of recycling, picking up litter and wearing that shirt you got for free with “EARTH DAY” written across the chest. The EPA estimates Americans scrounged together a rather impressive 250 million tons of trash in 2010 (252 million tons if you includethe cast of “Honey Boo Boo”), which is equal to roughly 41.7 million Tyrannosaurus rexes or nearly 1.5 billion Shaquille O’Neals. Talk about Shaqrazy. Following a confirmation that
Earth Day was, in fact, this Tuesday and upon hearing the above statistic, Carlson – who I totally didn’t tell the exact topic of my article to beforehand – continued, “The reality is that the U.S. is running out of landfill space. The majority of those 250 million tons of trash is paper, so in the spirit of Earth Day, which is technically every day, please recycle paper.” Are we out of touch, or is our generation already well aware of what we must do to prevent the Earth’s atmosphere from fizzling away and allowing the sun to turn
us into human roast chickens like in that episode of “Seinfeld” where Kramer uses butter as tanning oil? Junior communication studies major Hailey Chisholm thinks we’re doing just fine, and said, “I feel like our generation has a decent amount of awareness when it comes to recycling … so I feel like we are learning to treat it.” Chisholm went on to explain how a toddler who she babysat already knew how to efficiently recycle. Which is more than I can say about many adults I know. Together we can help reduce climate change, bring our accumulated trash down a bit (maybe just one billion Shaquille O’Neals a year?) and increase our recycling rate. According to the EPA, we recycle almost six times as much now as we did in 1980. Why not bring that number up even more? If every day is Earth Day, maybe we won’t end up like the people in “Wall-E.” I mean, unless you’re into that sort of thing. So walk or ride your bike to school if you only live a few blocks away, plant some trees just because, recycle your paper, metal and plastic, reuse your water bottle, let the yellow mellow and turn off the lights when you leave a room. Today is Earth Day, after all, and so is tomorrow. This is the opinion of Devin Feldman a junior communication studies major from Aurora, Ore. Tweet comments to @LoyolanOpinion, or email dfeldman@theloyolan.com.
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Faculty Pub Night gets hacked by KXLU for a heavy dose of women who rock
What happens when the seemingly dichotomous KXLU collaborates with the William H. Hannon Library to really bring the noise for Faculty Pub Night? On Tuesday, April 22 the worlds of academia and punk rock collided for the Pub Night featuring Journalism professor Evelyn McDonnell and her new book, “Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways.” McDonnell said, “‘Queens of Noise’ began as a master’s thesis about Sandy West. Once that was done, I realized there was an important larger story that had been told in biased
segments but not in its entirety, from an objective point of view. I thought it was important to document and honor this important piece of musical history, and tell these women’s stories.” The night featured KXLU DJs, McDonnell’s presentation and finished off with a performance by Upset, the three-piece super group featuring Patty Schemel from Hole, Ali Koehler from Vivian Girls and Jenn Price from La Sera. - Chelsea Chenelle, Life+Arts Editor
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Senior theatre arts major Julian Garcia, junior theatre arts major Danny Sachais and senior theatre arts major Scott Bosley form the web group JayDiuS, providing self-created viral laughs.
os Angeles is full of artists and performers. You can toss a boomerang and hit both an actor and actress before it returns. Many of these actors are in the same boat, spending hard-earned money from some type of service job on headshots, reels and acting classes, hoping to nail that audition, land the role and throw in the Cheesecake Factory towel for good. But senior theatre arts major Julian Garcia, junior theatre arts major Danny Sachais and senior theatre arts major Scott Bosely have decided to sail their own boat entirely. These three non-native L.A. performers have banded together to start JayDiuS Productions – a comedic webseries of epic proportions – which they improvise, shoot, edit and distribute by themselves, creating content every day for over one month. Although, artist to artist is supposed to be a one-on-one interview, this week I sat down with these three artists who, despite being three separate creators, function as one. JayDiuS is a unit, finishing each other’s sentences. Cameron Tagge (CT): What is JayDiuS? Where does the name come from and what do you do? JayDiuS: There’s a short proverb hidden away in the Bible many aren’t aware of. Josefus, a simple man, told of three youthful and handsome men who would one day ignite a revolution, bringing joy and cheer, in laughs and tears, to the masses. J for Julian, D for Danny, and S for Scott form JayDiuS pretty effortlessly. All we had to do was fill in some vowels. It’s that simple. CT: How did you first start? What are some of your influences and inspirations? JayDiuS: In early April, we had to start filming for our Career Development Class. We got together and set out to make a short video … as was foretold by Josefus. After the first video got over 15 views, Danny
started losing it. The fame went to his head. We invested in a 7D camera, bought a microphone and we’re slowly taking it more and more seriously. CT: What’s the development and production process like? JayDiuS: Basically we just sit down and throw spaghetti on the wall. We use whatever sticks. Anything that makes two of the three of us laugh, we do. We go over it a couple times, then just shoot. Comedy can work well with a low budget. You can focus more on characters, relationships and dialogue than anything else. We just shoot until we’re bored or it’s not funny anymore. CT: Where do you want to go with JayDiuS? What is it doing for you? JayDiuS: It’s very therapeutic. We all hung out beforehand; now we get to do what we love and hang out with the guys. If I’m having a bad day, I look forward to filming. It’s become something that I’m kind of addicted to now. I’d rather film than go to class. It turned from a hobby to an obsession. There’s no telling where it could go, but we are having a great time and, as long as we get positive feedback, we are going to keep going. It’s great having something under our belts coming out of college. We think we’re funny so we’ll let the audience decide. Take a break from finals anxiety and chedck out some JayDiuS content on YouTube, Facebook and their upcoming JayDiuS website. Whether the prophet Josefus was lying or not, let alone whether he’s real, Julian, Danny and Scott, under JayDiuS Productions, are creating simple yet special content day in and day out, setting themselves apart as unique artists in Los Angeles. Editor’s note: The three members of JayDiuS were interviewed together and all answers reflect their collective opinion. This is the opinion of Cameron Tagge, a junior theatre arts and screenwriting double major from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Tweet comments to @LoyolanArts, or email cchenelle@theloyolan.com.
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semifinal games on Tuesday and Wednesday in Madrid, Spain. Tuesday introduced the first leg of the first semifinal game between Chelsea F.C. and Atlético Madrid. The game took place at the Vincente Calderón stadium in Madrid, where Atlético had the opportunity to take the lead with the help of home supporters. However, Chelsea did exactly what Head Coach José Mourinho has done in the past against many other teams, which was basically have all the Blues “park the bus” in front of the goal to prevent Atlético from using its dangerous counter-attacking plays. Because of this tactic, the game was not a pretty one to watch. In fact, it was very boring. The draw of 0-0 saw few shots on goal from either side. Atlético’s star forward Diego Costa, who has scored more goals this season than both of Chelsea’s forwards Fernando Torres and Samuel Eto’o combined, saw little time with the ball. It was smart of Mourinho to go with this tactic since the Blues are now able to go into the second leg game with a home advantage, but this may backfire for the Blues if they don’t develop a strong offense soon. Atlético Madrid is definitely rueing its lost opportunity of scoring at home, but now that Chelsea will be without defender John Terry and goalie Peter Cech, they might have a slight chance to win the semifinals. Wednesday’s semifinal game
between Real Madrid F.C. and defending Champions League winners FC Bayern Munich was what Madrid fans wanted to see in the final game rather than just the first-leg semifinal game. Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema netted the ball in the 19th minute after receiving defender Fabio Coentrao’s cross to give Real Madrid a 1-0 win against Bayern in the first leg of the semifinal. Following the early goal, Bayern did its best to retaliate, and had 21 shots on goal by the end of the match, but it had trouble finding any openings due to the strong Madrid midfield and defense led by center midfielder Xabi Alonso and defender Sergio Ramos. Perhaps Bayern’s best opportunity was in the 84th minute, when Bayern forward Mario Götze’s half volley shot was on target; however, Madrid’s captain and goalie Iker Casillas was able to save the shot, as well as many others on the day. The results are good for Real Madrid, who is clearly going to look to seal the deal next week when it plays again at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany. However, the results of this game also fuel the fire of criticism for Bayern. This was the first ever defeat at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid for Bayern Munich Head Coach Pep Guardiola, who previously coached Madrid’s rivals F.C. Barcelona. Although Bayern has already clinched the Bundesliga title, Guardiola has recently been under the media’s
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scrutiny due to Bayern’s recent slump in performance. The media is criticizing Guardiola’s “tiki taka” style of play from his time with F.C. Barcelona by saying that this style, which emphasizes possession of the ball with short passes, doesn’t fit the Bavarian style. The criticism grew stronger following the game on Wednesday after the statistics showed that Bayern had 72 percent of the possession in the game but still could not find the win. Despite the criticism surrounding Guardiola, there isn’t much to complain about. Bayern Munich still has the potential to win a treble, while Madrid still sits in third place in La Liga. Of course, Bayern will need to rethink its tactics next week, since it’s expected that both Madrid forwards Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo will be back in full form. Can the Bavarians keep a hold on its Champions League title, or will Real Madrid be one step closer to winning a record 10th Champions League title? Will we see Mourinho strategically carry the Blues past Atlético Madrid, or will Atlético return to the League final for the first time since 1973? Bayern Munich hosts Real Madrid on April 29 and Chelsea hosts Atlético Madrid the following day. Both games will start at 11:45 a.m. Pacific time. This is the opinion of Karen Ruiz, a freshman political science major from Long Beach, Calif. Tweet comments to @LoyolanSports, or email kruiz@theloyolan.com.
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Witt, with a record of 96-38 and .716, leads the team with similar preparation to the last five years he’s been head coach. “At the end of the year, you have more energy due to easing up on the training. So the team has been focusing on using that energy to communicate in the pool and focus on fundamentals.” Graduating seniors Alexandra Honny, Kiara Cerda, Erin Manke and Kassandra Smith hope to make their first and last GCC a memorable one. All eyes will be on Honny to bring the heat in these next games, entering the GCC Championships with leading goals (74) and steals (79) this season. Just this past Tuesday, she was awarded GCC Player of the Year. Sophomores Claire Wright and Ivana Castro have also received recognition for their successes in the pool. Castro was awarded first-team all-GCC with Honny, with 43 goals, 32 steals and 24 assists. Second-year goalie Wright was given second-team all-GCC, having 247 saves and letting up 210 goals in the 101 quarters played this season. Both players plan to focus on their mentality going into today’s game. “Personally, I need to stay in the moment and not let negative situations affect
me,” Castro said. “I tune out everything and focus on what is important.” Similarly, Wright plans to focus on the first game and not look ahead. “Making every practice count and treating every practice like it’s a game is how I plan to prepare for this tournament.” Wright, arguably the player under the most pressure in the goal, still maintains a positive attitude. “I try not to think of it as pressure. I think of it as the excitement and thrill of the game,” she said. The consensus among the team seems to be to not think too far ahead and live each game in the moment. “Our expectations for this tournament are to take it one game at a time and to focus on our defensive side of the ball. Our offense will take care of itself, but stopping the other team from doing what they want to do is our top priority.”
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elitist. Amateurism came about in 19th century England to prevent athletes from being paid for their sport. This law ensured that only the wealthy could participate in these sports, whereas the poor could not afford to work without pay. It is funny that we use an originally prejudiced ideal to justify not paying these athletes. However, even without amateurism, there would still be no need to pay these athletes. They are not considered workers for the university. Instead, they are there to participate in an extra-curricular activity. It does not matter that it is athletics or that it brings in money for the school. I certainly do not expect Loyola Marymount to pay me for my services as Secretary of LMU’s ultimate frisbee club. Though they are not considered workers for the university, some athletes consider themselves far less. Houston Texans running back Arian Foster has come out saying that college athletes are essentially “indentured servants” to the universities that they play for. And with a strictly definitional argument, it is hard to disagree. An indentured servant is a person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for services rendered. A college athlete is a person under scholarship to work for a university for four years without pay, but for tuition, room and board. The similarities are shockingly similar
and could bring a whole new element to the debate. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act both prohibit the use of indentured servitude. If college athletes can argue that they were being treated like servants, they could have a strong case. Another pressing issue is the current trial over using the likeness of current and former studentathletes in video games. In Ed O’Bannon v. the NCAA, players are suing over the use of seemingly identical players in games such as EA Sports’ NCAA Football and Basketball. It is yet another example of the NCAA using these athletes to make more and more money. Although it seems as though these athletes are being taken advantage of, the universities are mostly not making a profit off of them. Only 25 universities made a profit off of their athletics programs. This is due to the fact that for the most part, only football and men’s basketball make money for schools. The university then has to pay for all of the other sports that don’t bring in any income. It seems as though the real money-makers are the NCAA, which has a revenue of nearly $10 billion per year. Though this is not their bottom-line profit, the organization still makes a lot of money off of 18-23 year old athletes. Whichever side of the debate you may fall on, it is undeniable that steps are being taken now by athletes and the NCAA. Some college athletes are not waiting for
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Former University of Connecticut basketball player Shabazz Napier (left) celebrates after winning his second national championship. Napier also celebrated the NCAA’s passing of the “Shabazz rule” this month. The rule will allow all student-athletes to eat unlimited snacks and meals om campus, ending the NCAA “Hunger Games.” the NCAA or the universities to decide what will happen to them. The Northwestern University football players have moved to unionize. In a ruling earlier this month, the National Labor Relations Board recognized the players as university employees and granted them the right to unionize. The decision is currently being appealed, but it does open the door to a lot of other potential unions forming. The NCAA is implementing its own measures to try and stop the
bleeding. Almost immediately after former University of Connecticut basketball player Shabazz Napier said that he would occasionally “go to bed starving,” the NCAA ruled that college athletes will now have the right to unlimited snacks and meals. The schools can feed their athletes as they see fit. The rule has been moving through the channels for years, but the timing works out perfectly for student athletes. Though I am still not sure how I feel about student athletes receiving pay for their work, I am much more
open to the idea. Imagine a player like Anthony Ireland receiving pay for what he accomplished here at LMU. Ireland helped revive what was a pretty dormant basketball program and helped get the word out. Does he not deserve some compensation for the work he has done? Only time will tell what will happen with this debate. This is the opinion of Jack Sullivan, a sophomore communication studies major from Las Vegas, Nev. Tweet comments to @LoyolanSports, or email jsullivan@theloyolan.com.
sports LIONBITES BASEBALL The National Collegiate Baseball Writer’s Association announced on Wednesday that senior right handed pitcher Bret LMU Athletics Dahlson was named to the midseason NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List. The Yorba Linda, Calif. native has a 0-0 record with a 1.93 ERA and is the current LMU career saves leader, taking the spot previously held by LMU alum Darryl Scott. Dahlson has pitched to seven saves over 24 and 28 innings of work. TENNIS Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams dropped their first round matches 4-1 of the WCC Championships against the University of San Francisco and the University of San Diego, respectively. The men’s team lost to USF for the third year in a row. The women’s match against USD was the last collegiate game for seniors Miya Jin and Reka Rohonyi. W. SOCCER Head Coach Michelle Myers announced on Wednesday that the women’s soccer program has hired a new member to its coaching staff. Matt Kagan, previously an assistant at Providence College and the University of Miami, will join the Lions as Assistant Coach for the next season.
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The Golden Coast Conference (GCC) Championship kicks off today as the LMU women’s water polo team hosts the inaugural tournament.
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The first match will begin at 1:30 p.m. against No. 7 Fresno Pacific University. Before their game, Santa Clara University plays Azusa Pacific University at 12:00 p.m. The winners of these two matches will proceed onto the semifinal game Friday at 1:00 p.m. The losers will play each other earlier that day at 11:30 a.m. No. 1 San Diego State University enters the tournament with a bye to Friday’s semifinal game at 2:30 due to their perfect 6-0 record in the conference play and 2211 overall stance this season.
5-1 in conference and 19-12 overall this season, LMU goes into the GCC tournament ranked at No. 2. Although they are at the top of the pack in standings, all teams in the league promise to bring challenging opposition, according to Head Coach Kyle Witt. “Our conference has been very even this year,” Witt said. “Several one and two-goal games between the one to six seeds. With that kind of parity, anything can happen.” See W. Water Polo | Page 10
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he European football world has seen some shocking things happen to some of its biggest teams this season. Spanish team F.C. Barcelona failed to reach the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League for the first time since 1997 and has lost its chance to win any trophies this season after losing the Copa del Rey against Real Madrid. English powerhouse Manchester United recently fired David Moyes, the successor to Sir Alex Ferguson’s reign, after the club lost 11 games. This consequently disqualified the team from being in the Champions League next season, making it the worst season ever for the club. Given what has happened to a lot of the European powerhouse teams, it’s safe to say that this may be one of the strangest seasons yet for European football. Because of this, the media has been heavily scrutinizing the Champions League tournament, especially after only one goal was scored in the first two
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Junior utility player Mackenzie Beck and crew will host the rest of the Golden Coast Conference as the conference tournament gets underway today at the Burns Aquatics Center. The Lions are the second seed in the tournament and will face Fresno Pacific University.
thletes are some of the highest paid professionals in the country. These players make tens of millions of dollars to entertain the masses and bring money to their respective organizations. Collegiate athletes do the exact same work, just without the pay. For decades, it has been a commonly held belief that college athletes do not deserve a salary for their work. Many already earn a scholarship that pays for their education, and they really should be playing for the love of the game, anyway. However, in the last few years, more and more former and current student athletes are pushing for some form of compensation for the work they put in. Student athletes have filed lawsuits and attempted to form unions so that they can begin to earn wages. But is it a good idea to start paying the student athletes? One of the main arguments against paying student athletes is the idea of amateurism. The student athletes must remain amateurs in order to compete. It keeps the spirit of the game strong and attempts to circumvent the corruption that was running rampant during the years prior to the NCAA. The Olympics had a similar philosophy up until the late 20th century. However, amateurism is an outdated idea in the NCAA. “I believe that amateurism is a myth,” National College Players Association President Ramogi Huma told CNN. “Amateurism at this point is being used as a tool to strip the players of their fair market value.” Even former NCAA workers have come out and said that amateurism was instituted to protect the NCAA from lawsuits about not paying their players. Even the idea of amateurism is flawed and
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Former Northwestern University (NU) football quarterback Kain Colter (right), Ramogi Huma, founder and President of the National College Players Association (left) and Tim Waters, Political Director of the US Workers present their case to allow NU football players to unionize.