Loyola Phoenix, Vol. 46, Issue 28

NEWS | Finals 101 | PAGE 3 OPINION | On divestment, a call for real dialogue | PAGE 4 A&E | Restaurant review: Fig & Olive | PAGE 17

CLOSER LOOK The story behind the storytellers

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The hefty price tag of Loyola athletics

BY NADER ISSA nissa1@luc.edu

After Loyola’s men’s basketball team participated in the 2015 College Basketball Invitational (CBI), questions were raised about how the Athletic Department spends its money.

The team’s CBI championship gave the Ramblers national exposure, and it’s expected to be a stepping stone toward making Loyola sports nationally recognized, at least in the men’s basketball scene. But that exposure and future recognition

came with a hefty price tag.

Universities pay The Gazelle Group, the sports consulting firm that runs the CBI, $35,000 to host a first-round game in the tournament, $50,000 for a second-round game and $75,000 for home games in the semifinals and finals, according to Crain’s Chicago Business, a business and financial news and analysis publication.

Since Loyola hosted a game in all four rounds, the Athletic Department’s bill would have added up to $235,000. University officials didn’t clarify if The Gazelle Group

gave the school a discount on any of the games.

Although the CBI’s financial hit was big, Loyola’s new Athletic Director Steve Watson said it was an easy decision to spend the extra money on the tournament.

“We made the commitment right from the beginning. We felt like it was a good investment,” said Watson.

“It was a significant commitment for us financially to compete in that tournament, so while we reap the benefits short term, I think long term is where you’ll see the benefits of a tournament like that. We feel real

good about the outcome.”

Watson said the department is hoping the CBI championship will give the men’s basketball program the momentum it needs to make the leap to more important tournaments such as the National Invitation Tournament or the NCAA tournament. But what if the team doesn’t reach that goal next year and has to play in a “stepping stone” tournament once again? Would Watson let finances be the deciding factor in choosing to participate in future tournaments?

“It wouldn’t hold us back, but it

would be something to consider,” Watson said. “We’re looking to fund that basketball program to compete for championships and to be successful on a national level. And in order for us to do that, there are some financial things that we need to do, and we’re willing and able to make that type of commitment.”

Spending big money on athletics — specifically men’s basketball — isn’t something that stops with occasional tournaments, though, even with an athletic department of Loyola’s size.

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Professor wins law education award

BY SAMANTHA SARTORI ssartori@luc.edu Michael Walsh is a man of many hats. He practices law as a compliance manager and assistant general counsel. He’s been an adjunct professor at Loyola since 1994, where he’s taught most law-related courses, mainly focused on constitutional law and judicial practices. He is secretary of the board of American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) and serves on many of the organization’s committees. Walsh is also the coach of Loyola’s mock trial team.

Over the weekend, Walsh received recognition for one of his many roles: He was presented with the Neal Smith Award for his work as mock trial coach. Every year, the AMTA recognizes a person’s contribution to law-related education.

Without Walsh’s help, Loyola may never have had a mock trial team.

Back in 2002, a couple of students approached Walsh hoping to form a team. He said the team was slow to start, but they quickly picked up momentum and now compete on a national level.

“It’s wonderful having a chance to work with students that are really dedicated, hardworking and smart,” said Walsh.

During each mock trial year, students compete in invitational regional and national tournaments, and Walsh credits winning the award to his students’ perseverance.

“Anybody that gets into higher education to be a teacher looks forward to [working with dedicated students], and [the mock trial team] has just been above and beyond. It has really been my pleasure to do the

last 13 years.”

Since Walsh has coached the team since its start, he has built strong relationships with the students. Devon Holstad, who graduated in 2011, was part of the team during all four years of his time at Loyola, and is now one of the assistant coaches for the team.

Holstad said Walsh is an inspiring mentor, and no matter how much he has on his plate, he always supports his current and former students.

“He always finds time to make room for the people he cares about, and that’s how I try to model my coaching style,” Holstad said.

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Goodman Theatre puts on a play about the ups and downs of working as a hotel concierge. The result is a quirky plot, mix of talent and overall corny performance.

The Phoenix’s Layne Hillesland reviews the theater’s latest play.

SEE GOODMAN | PAGE 18

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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK where our editors, writers and contributors could learn not just the ins and outs of journalism and production, but also the importance of having a committed team striving for excellence. We’ve made mistakes, but we’ve owned up to them. We’ve done good things, and we’ve built from them.

This week’s issue is a thank-you note to all our reporters, contributors, readers and staff members that have made this year possible. This issue is, in many ways, a love note to Loyola and the people who make up this university. These pages are about both the Loyola we have and the Loyola we want to have.

The idea for this issue represents what we stand for, what we believe is our role: shedding light where questions abound. We asked our followers to pitch us questions through social media. Out of the dozens of questions we got, we selected the most common ones and answered them.

This is a special issue in many senses, not just because it is inherently subject-driven, but also because we got to discover more about Loyola and explore our roots as a publication. We’ve come to see that we stand for the same values now that The Phoenix stood for back when it was called The Loyola News.

This year, we’ve fought to slash the veil of misinformation and secrecy at this university –– we’ve done this at all levels.

Transparency. Transparency. Transparency –– that’s our primordial need, the value we championed and defended.

This is the life we chose –– to shed light on officials, to hold everyone accountable and let this university community know that we can do better, that we can be better.

It’s been an honor to write this column every week. I hope you continue to rise with The Phoenix in years to come.

ESTHER D. CASTILLEJO Editor-in-Chief

I have a tendency to think about things from the end to the beginning. I think about the outcomes before I plan out how to get there. So, naturally, I’ve been thinking about this column since last summer, months before I took over this college newspaper.

Back then I thought of straight-up journalism, of glory and reform. No more late nights, no more clashes with administration. “We will be the newspaper everyone wants to read,” I said to myself countless times. At the beginning of the year, I came with an agenda of how I wanted to change The Phoenix. Little did I know that the publication would change me.

This issue is the last one I get to put out as editor-in-chief, and now I find myself with the need to look back and rewrite the column I had planned for this issue. I had this column ready the first week of classes in the fall. I was reflecting on a year that had not started. Now I have to reflect on what has really happened, and this reality is better –– although harder –– than what I had anticipated.

The Phoenix has made strides this year and many of them have been recognized.

We put out the number one non-daily student newspaper in Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, according to the Society of Professional Journalists.

We have an up-and-coming website that has changed dramatically both in appearance and content. We’ve made small but firm steps toward becoming a multimedia publication.

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SECURITY NOTEBOOK Compiled from Campus Safety Reports

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Times represent when incidents were reported, not necessarily when they occurred.

Monday, April 13, 6:35 p.m.

A student reported receiving harassing messages. The Chicago Police Department is handling the case.

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Tuesday, April 14, 3:59 p.m.

Campus Safety responded to a report of a student causing a disturbance in the Damen Student Center.

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Tuesday, April 14, 4:45 p.m.

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Wednesday, April 15, 11:00 a.m.

Campus Safety was called to help the Information Commons staff to retrieve a laptop that was lent to a student who refused to return it. The student and laptop were found and the laptop was recovered.

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Wednesday, April 15, 3:24 p.m.

IT Services staff reported that the Help Desk had received a suspicious call in which a person appeared to be attempting to reset a professor’s password.

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Thursday, April 16, 4:18 p.m.

Two minors not affiliated with Loyola were found smoking marijuana on the roof of the Flats at Loyola Station. They were turned over to their parents.

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Thursday, April 16, 8:48 p.m.

A student reported the theft of her shoes from her unsecured room in the International House.

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Thursday, April 16, 11:27 p.m.

A loud noise complaint was filed against 6423 N. Magnolia Ave. Officers responded and peace was restored. This was the sixth complaint for this address this year.

A student’s bicycle wheel was reported as stolen near Maguire Hall.

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NEWS | APRIL 22, 2015

PHOENIX 101

Studying 101

Whether you’ve been studying for weeks or are just starting to cram, everyone’s memory can use a boost. Here are some tips to help improve memory as finals get closer.

Stay active Whether it’s biking on the Lakeshore Path or taking a walk around campus, get moving.

Physical activity — specifically exercises that increase heart rate — boosts brain activity by stimulating chemicals that encourage cell and blood vessel growth in the brain, according to a 2014 study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. A better night’s sleep, reduced stressed and improved longterm mental health are other perks of exercise, according to the study.

Eat better Although a chocolate chip muffin from Connections Café is tempting during those late nights in the library, sugar and grain carbohydrates are two of the worst foods for improving memory. Instead, grab a veggie cup with broccoli or trail mix with walnuts and sunflower seeds — both choices promote better memory, according to a study from Harvard Medical School and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

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Need a break from the library?

Head down Devon Avenue and grab some curry. The main spice in curry — turmeric — contains the antioxidant curcumin, which is another ingredient that boosts brain cell growth.

Sleep more Start rethinking those all-nighters. German researchers at the University of Lubeck found that sleep helps move information from shortterm memory to long-term memory — making a good night’s sleep after studying critical. However, sleep before studying is important, too. Sleep deprivation inhibits the brain’s ability to process new information, according to another study

by Harvard Medical School.

Chew gum Simply chewing on a piece of gum during a test can improve memory by 35 percent, according to research from the University of Northumbria. How does it work?

Chewing increases the average number of heartbeats per minute by three, which is just enough to improve blood flow in the brain.

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Thursday April 30

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OPINION

To move on, we must dialogue after divestment

BY SAMUEL ISRAEL sisrael1@luc.edu If one looked at the way students played out the Israeli divestment issue at Loyola, it was a slapdash effort at best.

An issue that thousands of academics have studied was suddenly transformed into something black and white. But furthermore, we pitted ourselves against each other. We cheered for students who voiced opinions we shared and snickered at those who had opinions and stories that threatened our own narratives. And in the end, the resolution was put under the rug, and both parties felt hurt.

Hamas and Netanyahu are enemies, but we shouldn’t be.

To begin, I was against the divestment resolution because of its hopes to isolate our university from the Iron Dome. One of the organizations the resolution was trying to divest from was a company called Raytheon, due to its partnership with Israel in creating the Iron Dome defense system. The Iron Dome doesn’t target human beings, but rather creates a mortar system that intercepts incoming rockets before they make their impact on cities.

If Israel did not have a defense system to protect its citizens from Gazan rockets, would that make us feel like we are making the world a better place? Urging Israel to end its occupation in the West Bank and its siege on Gaza is one thing,

but trying to “even the odds” of this conflict is abhorrent. That is not social justice but flat out vengeance. I am saddened that some of my fellow students cannot see the difference, and I am concerned that there are people on both sides who try to blend social justice with vengeance into some weird activist cocktail.

As I have said time and time again, though, Israel needs to end its occupation in the West Bank and its settlement construction in order to maintain the democratic values that its original founders intended. But I’m concerned the divestment resolution illustrated that Loyola’s student body wanted to bring justice across the world by denying Israel’s right to exist. That kind of campaign is something that I, and many others, cannot condone.

But I want to be proven otherwise.

A dear friend of mine named Hank Stillwell is for the divestment resolution, and after he wrote in The Phoenix against Fr. Garanzini’s statement, I reached out and asked if we could talk. Our conversation lasted three hours, as we talked about every issue from the student body, to the violence of Operation Protective Edge, to the first and second intifada and the future of the Middle East. At the end of it all, there were general agreements on the situation. We may still argue on some things, but a mutual respect emerged from our debate. That one conversation was the first time I felt the discussion about Israel and Palestine had improved on this campus.

So here is what I suggest. If the divestment coalition wants to prove its mission is for the sake of human rights and not for the sake of denying Jews a state, then it must explain its reasoning to the Jewish community. Therefore, I challenge

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The Israeli flag flies over a vista in Israel. The recent divestment measure asked the university to remove its holdings in companies that do business in Israel.

advocates for and against the divestment measure to actually talk to one another.

Grab lunch, have some coffee — just talk in an environment where you don’t need to impress anyone. Challenge each other when you disagree, and acknowledge when the other person has good points.

Your discussion may not get any “upvotes” on Yik-Yak or “likes” on Facebook, but I guarantee it will result in a better resolution and campus environment.

Loyola’s student body is passionate and seeks social justice. That is a wonderful thing, and I am so proud of it. However, social justice does not come out of feelings of spite or revenge. I hope that next year, if the Middle East becomes a

focal point of student government, some students will have the courage to talk in casual environments where ideas are challenged but individuals are valued.

The choice is yours, students of Loyola. If you want to sit in enclaves calling those who disagree with you uninformed, racist zio-nazi terrorists, be my guest. If you want to celebrate diversity without acknowledging that others may have different, and dare I say, valid arguments, go for it.

But I hope you prove me wrong.

Samuel Israel is a contributing columnist

A heartfelt goodbye from your favorite conservative

BY DOMINIC LYNCH dlynch1@luc.edu I am conservative, and I’m unapologetic about it. In a weird way, it’s nice to be the odd one out on campus — “that guy” who everyone knows will disagree with them all the time.

I say that it’s nice because I feel that it allows me to be a leader on campus.

In my own small, conservative way I feel like I can contribute to the “campus discussion” of the day, on whatever topic may be in vogue. Somehow I get liberals shaken up, even though I’ve lost every policy battle I’ve engaged in.

My start as a loud-mouthed campus conservative was four years ago. I was a freshman senator in the Unified Student Government Association (USGA), now known as the Student Government of Loyola Chicago. Loyola was going through the throes of banning bottled water — something I vehemently opposed (I still do. Students are old enough to vote and join the military, but we can’t

buy bottled water on campus? That’s social justice, I guess. But I digress.)

At one point or another in the USGA debate on the bill, I was moved enough to take my opposition to the pages of The Phoenix. From there I was hooked, and I’ve been a regular contributor to the paper ever since.

I think a lot of people wonder why (or maybe how), in this university environment, I can be such a staunch conservative. Don’t I care about the poor?

The disadvantaged? The environment?

The capitalist? I answer “yes” to all those questions (even the capitalist, even though I once said otherwise).

Yes, of course I care about those people and about the environment. It can be difficult to believe it, but you should. I may disagree with 99 percent of the student body sometimes, but oftentimes I care about the very issues I disagree with them on. In the end, it’s not that I don’t care. It’s that I have different policy solutions to address those issues.

I know I’ve made a good number of people upset with some of my articles.

That’s what happens when you say the exact opposite of what everyone on campus is thinking. I don’t make any apologies for my past articles (except maybe that one where I said I was liberal. On second thought, I won’t) because I always try to write respectfully and find the common ground.

Indeed, I can use colorful adjectives sometimes, or use some action-packed verbs to convey my feelings, but when I get down to it, I try to be thoughtful with my criticism (and my rare endorsement of an initiative. Does anyone remember when Loyola ditched plastic bags? I endorsed that).

That’s the funny thing about being conservative in a liberal environment — there’s always a way to step on someone’s toes, whether you mean to or not. If I had a dime for every person I upset in my four years here, I wouldn’t be rich, but I would be upper-middle class. Yes, I am aware of the Facebook posts, the Tweets, the Yaks and the looks people give me after my articles go up. At this point there are probably some students who recognize my face better than I do.

Those kinds of things used to bother me, as they would bother anyone. Being called a racist, bigot, white and male (in a bad way) used to really get to me. Having people say they are “afraid” of my articles was depressing. But that (for the most part) is in the past. Since then, I’ve realized a few things.

One, people are mean. People have a great capacity to be mean, especially in the age of the Internet when we can sit behind our screens and not see the emotional reaction our words cause in someone else. People can be mean, and they can be mean more often than we like to think.

Two, not everyone is mean. For everyone I’ve upset, I’ve gotten a compliment on my writing, my argument or just the fact that I have guts to stick up for my beliefs. Just yesterday, I received a compliment on my satirical article from The Kleenix issue, and I guarantee it was not the only compliment I got for that piece.

Third, it’s fulfilling to stand up for my beliefs. Many a liberal can’t understand how I’m conservative, or perhaps how I haven’t quieted down in the face of so much opposition. No matter. I’m not in it — I’ve never been in it — for others.

I’m in the fight for myself, to stand up for what I believe in and to give a voice to those who agree with me but can’t or won’t say anything.

Ultimately, though, I’m going to miss it.

I’ll miss the fray that only Loyola offers, and I’ll miss the outlet The Phoenix provides. I know a good number of students will be happy to see me go (at least for a while — you never know where I’ll pop up next) but I’ll miss the back-and-forth, the bickering and the slow-motion smackdowns that happen in the Opinion section.

I may miss it, although it may not miss me, but no departure is complete without saying goodbye. So goodbye Loyola, goodbye Phoenix, and thank you for the memories. I’m a better person — and a better conservative — because of it.

Dominic Lynch is the Opinion editor

PEOPLE’S ISSUE | APRIL 22, 2015

The Phoenix presents:

The Phoenix presents

THE PEOPLE’S ISSUE A special issue dedicated to answering the questions our social media followers had about Loyola, Chicago and more .

People are fascinating. Everyone has a story — and Ramblers are no exception.

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Why has Loyola’s acceptance rate gone up in recent years?

BY ASHLEY IANNANTONE aiannantone@luc.edu The short answer: It hasn’t.

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Sister Jean has lived all over campus, including Coffey Hall and Mundelein, but currently calls the seventh floor of Regis Hall home.

Where does Sister Jean live?

BY GRACE RUNKEL grunkel@luc.edu Sister Jean starts every interview the same way.

“I am Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our mother house is in Dubuque, Iowa. Today is April 20 and I’m being interviewed for The Phoenix. I’m 95 years old.”

Most people on campus know that, but some have been wondering where she lives.

The answer? Regis Hall.

However, Regis is just the latest of many moves for Sister Jean. She lived in Mundelein — when it was still a women’s college — for 13 years before moving to Coffey Hall in 1974.

Though the building now houses offices, 205 students once lived there and Sister Jean served as their residence director.

Four years later, she moved to the Northland — which stood in the current location of the Quinlan Science Building. After Loyola University merged with Mundelein College in 1991, she moved to BVM Hall — then called Wright Hall.

After that she lived in Creighton Hall until it was torn down in 2012.

Since then, she’s been living in Regis, where her door on the seventh floor of the building is decked out in every Regis resident assistants’ door decoration from this year. She doesn’t have a favorite — they’re all so creative, she said.

Inside, Sister Jean has her own kitchen, sitting area, bedroom and bathroom. She said the small space comes alive on Tuesday nights when her prayer group meets there.

Community is important to

Sister Jean, but so is the solitude her room provides.

“It’s great to live in community — but still have your private space — because I think all of us need to take time for reflection every day,” she said. “We need the quiet time. Our society is too bustling all the time so we need the quiet time, just to reflect on God’s gifts to us and on our relationships with other people.”

While she’s lived with other sisters and among students throughout the years, Sister Jean said her experience in Regis has been “life giving.”

“You’re young,” she said.

“You have the latest ideas. I find that you’re very mature.

I find that every class is like a new generation, instead of having a new generation every four years.”

Back in January, The Phoenix was going to do an in-depth editorial on this subject, inspired by the fact that when you simply Google “Loyola University Chicago acceptance rate,” a big box comes up displaying the figure “91.4 percent.”

Some upperclassmen on staff recalled worrying about getting into Loyola when they first applied because the acceptance rate hovered at or below 60 percent from fall 2010 to fall 2012.

The Phoenix too was curious about what happened, so we set out to find the answer.

Google, Wikipedia and most other websites that showcase colleges using “quick facts” tend to only show data for the previous school year, which is pulled from the school’s common data set. So if you Google “Loyola University Chicago acceptance rate” today, you see a statistic from the 20132014 school year.

While the previous year’s data is generally a good indicator of the present day university, in Loyola’s case, it’s not. As it turns out, the 20132014 school year was just a freak year for Loyola admissions.

According to Associate Provost for Enrollment Management Paul Roberts, there was an error in reporting data to the common data set that year.

“Once the numbers are out, they are picked up by various news organizations, publications, etc. and we don’t have the ability to correct them,” said Roberts in an email.

According to the common data set, Loyola received only

14,355 completed applications that year — 5,302 less than the year before.

The same data set shows that, out of those applications, 13,121 students were admitted.

But while this figure is only slightly higher than the number of admitted students from 2012 and 2014 (11,395 and 12,931, respectively), the low number of reported applications that year meant a sharp increase in the acceptance rate.

In reality, Loyola received 15,438 completed applications (1,083 more than the common data set reports, but still 4,219 less than 2012-2013 admissions cycle) and admitted 13,128 students, yielding an acceptance rate of 85 percent, not 91.4.

The corrected 85 percent figure is still 27 percent higher than the previous year, though.

Roberts added that the university made the decision to admit more students for the 2013-2014 school year than the year prior in order to enroll a larger freshman class (2,500 in 2013 versus 2,003 in 2012).

But the drop in the number of applications was also an odd phenomenon, which, in addition to the increased number of admitted students, added to the high acceptance rate. This decrease may have been due to a change in the application requirements, Roberts said.

Loyola received a record 20,414 completed applications for the 2014-2015 school year, so it appears this drop in applications was short-lived.

Overall, 2013 was just a freak year. But regardless of the reason, you can rest assured that next year Google will display Loyola’s acceptance rate as 63.3 percent.

Meet Suhair Jasevicius

PEOPLE’S ISSUE | APRIL 22, 2015

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Ever wonder why the squirrels on campus are so friendly? For Suhair Jasevicius, they even come up to her and eat right out of her hand. The Phoenix sat down with her to hear her story and find out what makes her one of the most interesting people around campus.

BY SAMANTHA SARTORI ssartori@luc.edu We go to sites such as Humans of New York to read about interesting people and their stories, but just walking around Loyola’s campus you will come across some fascinating people.

When I first met Suhair Jasevicius, I assumed she was a professor. A petite woman, she asked me to take a photo of her with the Rev. Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., after his State of the University address.

But until I started talking to her, I never would have guessed that although she turns 66 in two months, Jasevicius is a Loyola student.

A Palestinian Jordanian, she was born in Jerusalem and came to Chicago to visit her sister in 1972. Her situation at home had been difficult after the SixDay War in 1967, so she decided to stay.

She’s worked a number of jobs, including public relations for the Mid-America Arab Chamber of Commerce, and even did a little modeling, where she met her husband Manfred.

They live just two blocks from Loyola’s campus, and every day Jasevicius and her husband would walk by Loyola. Although they never had any children of their own, she said she always wished to be among the students.

“I love the young people around me, from when they start as freshmen [to] when they graduate, they are blossoming,” said Jasevicius.

In 1995, she spoke to a friend who used to work at Loyola, and this friend encouraged Jasevicius to enroll and take classes.

Ever since, Jasevicius has taken it one class at a time, completing her undergraduate degree in theology in 2007.

Now she is working on her master’s degree in spirituality.

“Usually an older person, when they start school, they come to the class and they leave. I try to live the collegian life,” Jasevicius said. “When I am by the computer and I don’t have enough knowledge, whoever is sitting next to me, I will ask questions and will start a conversation. That’s the way I know them.

They help me and I help them.”

Jasevicius initially struggled and even failed one of her courses. But through it all, she kept a positive outlook.

“If I do my best today, I’m sure tomorrow will be OK,” she said.

Perhaps one of the most interesting things about Jasevicius is her love for animals and the outdoors. She said she knows every dog in the neighborhood, and knows the names of the dogs better than their owners. If you are ever looking for Jasevicius, you can find her sitting on campus, basking in the sun and watching the waves on Lake Michigan.

“When [my husband and I] walk, we sit over by Crown Center. For years, I call it my office or my sanctuary, so before whoever used to come or want to see me they meet me at my office. That’s my place,” she said.

But she doesn’t just look out for herself. Jasevicius always carries a bag of

peanuts or almonds in her purse so she can stop to feed the squirrels.

“With time, they start knowing me, especially one squirrel. He’s getting old and he’s very smart. He comes to your feet and you sit there and you feed him. He’ll eat one and then the second one he will go and hide it. He keeps hiding them everywhere,” Jasevicius said. “I tell my husband, ‘Gosh, he is so greedy, like [Warren] Buffett.’

So we call him Buffett.”

Among Jasevicius’ other squirrel friends are Brownie and Blackie, but she cares for all of the animals. Last year, she said she would buy a bagel every day to feed a goose that would sit out by the quad. She is also not one to waste her meals, and will take what’s left from a restaurant and bring it to feed the birds.

But of all the animals, Buffett holds a special place in her heart.

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If you ask me what I

would like to tell the young people, [I would say] of course to study, that’s the main thing. Study hard. But when they are walking, try to enjoy the beauty...Look around and be more mindful of their surroundings.

Suhair Jasevicius

“Last year I saw [Buffett] and he wasn’t in very good shape. I think he cannot see out of one eye. And he’s lost some teeth,” Jasevicius said. “So whenever I see him I give him the gourmet meal. I always have pecans for him. I try to nourish him. And I know it’s Buffett because he’ll eat from my hand.”

Even though she’ll eventually complete her degree, her time on campus will not be over. Jasevicius knows she can go to her sanctuary by the lake and will always have a special spot on campus.

“Loyola means a lot to me. It’s not only for education — it’s part of my [way of] living,” she said. “And if you ask me what I would like to tell the young people, [I would say] of course to study, that’s the main thing. Study hard. But when they are walking, try to enjoy the beauty. Not to be on the phone 24 hours, not to block their ears.

The sound of the waves is so beautiful.

Try to enjoy nature, and look at the trees. Look around and be more mindful of their surroundings.”

Samantha Sartori // The Phoenix Suhair Jasevicius sits outside of the Crown Center in what she calls her “office” and “sanctuary.” This is her favorite spot on campus to sit and feed the squirrels, such as one she’s named Brownie, pictured above.

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Can you give a history of the union movement that happened on campus about six years ago? I’d love to hear about that moment of student activism.

BY BRIAN BENNETT bbennett2@luc.edu “It was the greatest moment of my life,” said Janet Irving, who’s worked in food services at Loyola for 30 years and is a shop stewardess for the Aramark employee’s union.

After several unsuccessful attempts to unionize over the years due to employees’ fear of losing their jobs for joining the unionization effort, Aramark employees successfully unionized in September 2011. The year-long process saw contributions from students and community members.

“I think that’s the reason why we got it, because the students and the priest [were] with us,” said Irving, referring to the support given by the Rev. Dominic Grassi, S.J., of nearby St. Gertrude’s Parish. “[Before the union was formed], management didn’t acknowledge us as real workers. We were nobody. Now we have a job that we’re proud of and we’re happy to be coming to. And we’re making a little

more money,” Irving said.

Irving said greater respect from the managers and the establishment of a pension were important for workers like her who have been working at Loyola for decades.

In October 2010, a group of 20 Aramark workers, along with Loyola students and coordinators from Unite Here, a national union organizer, presented a petition to Aramark management. It was signed by about 70 percent of the 200 Aramark employees. The petition asked the company to not interfere while union organizers sought signatures from workers who wanted to join the union.

Unite Here is a labor union with 270,000 members in the hospitality, food service, manufacturing and airport industries. Loyola’s Aramark employees are members of Unite Here’s Local 1, which represents Chicago. Aramark has had contracts with other Unite Here chapters in the past.

Students also presented a letter of support for the movement with more than 1000

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signatures. Irving said she and others talked to classes and received a lot of support.

A week later, Aramark agreed to remain neutral during the signing process.

Management didn’t acknowledge us as real workers.

We were nobody.

Now we have a job that we’re proud of and we’re happy to be coming to.

Janet Irving Aramark employee and shop stewardess

An Oct. 20 rally in 2010 for the unionization effort gathered students from Loyola, DePaul and Northwestern with workers and community members, such as Grassi.

On Nov. 2, Aramark agreed

to stay out of the voting process and recognize a union if a majority of employees voted to form one. The vote occurred in May and the necessary majority was successfully achieved.

Over the next year, negotiations took place between Aramark and Unite Here. Participants in the negotiations included Loyola students who worked for Aramark or supported the unionization effort.

In September of 2011, a four-year contract recognized the worker’s unionization as a chapter of Unite Here.

Today, Aramark’s Loyola operations employ about 300 people; numbers have increased because of the new Damen Student Center, according to Aramark’s Resident District Manager Amy Trujillo.

Trujillo was not manager at the time of the unionization, but said she’s seen its effects. She cited recognition of employee seniority when it comes to scheduling work hours, more specific classifications of positions and pay rates for each position as the

biggest changes.

“Other than that, managing, training and on-board discipline have all been consistent,” said Trujillo.

The union contract expires this September, so negotiations between Aramark, the union and workers will take place this summer.

Irving, who is considering being a part of the negotiations, said important issues will be the clarification of the attendance policy and position descriptions.

Looking forward, Student Government of Loyola Chicago (SGLC) members Melinda Bunnage, Kelsey Cheng and Michael Fasullo are forming an organization called Students for Worker Justice. Bunnage said they will be working to bridge relations between students and workers.

Bunnage says their ultimate goal is to implement the Jesuit Just Employment Policy, asking for higher wage standards.

“We’re a Catholic school, so everyone here should be making a living wage,” said Irving.

What really happens when you mix pop rocks and coke?

BY WILLIAM TOLAN wtolan@luc.edu

Takashi Hososhima // Flickr We’re not sure how the avian rumor started, but we couldn’t find any connections.

Is it true that Loyola is named after four birds?

BY SAMANTHA SARTORI ssartori@luc.edu This question was asked 10 times, so even though we have no clue where this idea came from, we at The PHOENIX aim to please and are going to answer it.

Since we hadn’t heard anything about birds, we asked around to see if anyone else had an idea.

“I have never heard anything about that story, but I can say that it’s hilarious,” said junior Tom Dyke, a previous tour guide and orientation leader.

Everyone we asked seemed to have a similar reaction to Tom. So to answr the question: no, Loyola is not named after four birds.

The university was originally founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College in honor of St. Ignatius

of Loyola. In 1909, the name was changed to Loyola University.

Loyola takes its name from Iñigo Lopez de Oñaz y Loyola, or St. Ignatius, the founder of the Society of Jesus, according to A Biography of St. Ignatius Loyola: The Founder of the Jesuits by the Rev. George Traub, S.J., and Debra Mooney. Ignatius was born in the Castle Loyola, located in the Basque Country of northeastern Spain.

The name “Loyola” is believed to be derived from the Spanish “Lobo-y-olla,” which means “wolf and kettle.” There is an image of the wolf and kettle carved in stone on the castle, which, as legend goes, represents the story of the Loyola family who prepared enough food for themselves and for the wolves.

So no birds.

Rumors about the combination began in 1979, when it was widely believed that a child known as Little Mikey, whose real name is John Gilchrist, exploded after combining the two. The urban legend caused Pop Rocks to be temporarily discontinued during the mid-1980s, according to its website.

The FDA created a separate hotline to assure parents that the candy was harmless, even when combined with Coca-Cola. However, rumors continue to exist about the combination to this day.

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of the television show MythBusters tested the legend in 2003 and determined it was false. In the episode, they poured six cans of soda and six pouches of Pop Rocks into a pig’s stomach. While the stomach grew to three times its original size, it did not explode, and the myth was considered busted.

Students such as junior communication studies major Hillary Anthony said that if there is any truth to the legend, people would know by now.

“I’m sure someone has tried

it by now and if was true, there’d be a report on it,” said Anthony, 25. “There’d be a warning label on the package.”

Loyola chemistry professor Daniel Graham said Pop Rocks are comprised of carbon dioxide.

“The candy processors of Pop Rocks figured out a way to trap extra amounts of carbon dioxide inside sugar,” said Graham. “Consumers of the candy can very well sense the carbon dioxide released when [it] dissolves in one’s mouth. The released gas is no big deal — it just causes a sensation in common with drinking soda, sparkling wine or beer.”

“The released gas causes a rapid volume expansion, which pushes hard against whatever is nearby,” Graham said. “Certain chemical reactions are capable of this, but the carbon dioxide released by Pop Rocks is not the product of a chemical reaction, and it is released in such tiny amounts.”

Graham explained that explosives are specifically defined as materials that release large quantities of gas.

A package of Pop Rocks contains less carbonation than half a can of soda. When the candy comes in contact with moisture, whether it be saliva, milk or Coca-Cola, the candy

dissolves. The gas inside the carbon dioxide bubbles is released, which causes the fizzling sounds the candy is often associated with.

For those who still believe the rumors, junior Ad/PR major Brittany Carter said that, based on her own experience, there is no reason to fear.

“It has been a myth for years.

My cousins dared me and I wasn’t scared,” said Carter, 23.

“It pretty much just popped in my mouth with the soda. It didn’t explode. My stomach is still intact.”

Carter said the sensation was not as extreme as the urban legend makes it out to be.

“If you were to try it right now, you would just be like, ‘Oh, it’s popping,’” Carter said. “It was kind of like popcorn.”

Junior English major Anthony Skillen also said he tested out the myth because of a dare.

“Nothing really happened except that the [Coca-Cola] was really fizzing up when I had the Pop Rocks,” said Skillen, 21. “My stomach hurt for about less than an hour.”

Ingesting both Pop Rocks and soda leads to nothing more than a “hearty, non-life-threatening belch,” according to its website.

“Kids and parents should feel safe,” Graham said.

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WhAt do YOU think?

The P

hoeni x

asked st udents what issues they are most passionate about.

Ella Tracy / Marketing and Economics / Junior

Zach Edgerton / Biology / Junior

“Unequal pay of women and men in the workplace. Women in the workplace have been making great gains but more needs to be done to create equal treatment and opportunity in the workplace.”

“The NHL needs to change their point system. There should be no “loser point” just for making it to overtime. Two points for a win, zero points when you lose. Get it together, Bettman.”

Kaitlyn Peters / Psychology and Criminal Justice / Sophomore

Stuart Hicar / Film and Digital Media Production / Freshman

“Men and women deserve equal pay in the work field. Gender does not determine the quality of one’s work ethic or how much money they should be paid.”

“I believe in freedom, bald eagles, and the red, white and blue. As consenting adults I think we should make decisions on our own. That’s why I firmly support the legalization of crystal meth.”

Chris Hoffman / International Studies and Business Administration / Sophomore

Frank Walsh / Art History and Anthropology / Senior

Erin Olszewski / Psychology / Sophomore

“I believe that it is not right for the university to take a stance on the Israel/ Divestment movement at this time. While I don’t necessarily agree with what Israel is doing, I think that it is very insensitive of our student government to take such a harsh stance on a controversial and especially polarizing issue for our student body. No matter what they choose to do, their actions will upset many students. “

“I don’t think of myself as being a very political person. Regardless of the issue, I think it’s important to keep an open mind and try to understand where people on both sides of the aisle are coming from. So I guess the issue I’m most passionate about is partisanship and my stance is one of consideration.”

“Feminism — I feel like the word “feminist” has developed into a really negative connotation. What feminists really strive for is gender equality and I don’t understand why it hasn’t been accepted. Let’s all be friends.”

Jacob Bedenian / History and Education / Senior “The state of Chicago Public Schools is atrocious. The achievement gap is astounding. I think CPS needs better funding and an elected school board.”

Michael Palarz / Accounting / Junior “Education. It’s important that schools do not let up on standards for students. We need to make sure the quality of education in schools remains high.”

Ashley Iannantone // The Phoenix

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BACK TO THE ASHES HOW THE PHOENIX HAS RISEN

BY ERIN KELLY ekelly4@luc.edu “Loyola News belongs to the students, Loyola News represents the students, and by their efforts the paper will go over the top.”

The first edition of the Loyola News displayed this mission in a short introduction.

After 100 years, Loyola’s student newspaper has undergone a name change and has been passed through the hands of hundreds of students, but the values outlined on that Nov. 2, 1918 issue haven’t changed.

WHAT WAS LOYOLA NEWS?

The introduction the first staff wrote is tucked beneath the masthead on page four of the edition. The 23 men on staff said Loyola News was meant to supplement the Loyola University Magazine, and would be published biweekly with no more than eight pages each issue in an effort to conserve resources just after World War I. A few weeks ago, our editor-in-chief told me she wanted to publish a history of The Phoenix for our last issue. At first I was hesitant: Isn’t this a little self-serving? I felt as though it would be like writing a story about my entire history.

This feeling hung over me until I looked at some of the paper’s first issues.

The first edition of the paper, printed as The Loyola News, features a photo of a som-

ber-looking soldier printed next to a headline “Fr. Furay and Geo. Mulligan Address Unit.”

The paper’s introduction stated the paper would publish activities, local and sporting news, short stories, verse and letters and notes from former students who were overseas.

“As long as the Huns are unbeaten, so long do we feel duty bound to do our bit, hence, so long will Loyola News — the wartime paper — be published,” the 1918 introduction said.

The university archives have two copies of the Loyola News from 1918 and then nothing until 1924.

Loyola News was published until 1970, when its name changed to The Loyola Phoenix.

“The Phoenix is the Loyola News — they just changed the name,” said Kathy Young, Loyola’s archivist. “It’s always been the same student newspaper.”

This contradicts the different stories that circulate about the origins of Loyola’s only student newspaper.

Young said the 1969 staff members incorporated the name “Loyola News” because they were upset about the student the administration picked to be the editor.

Now a selection committee formed by the editor leaving, the paper’s advisors and faculty members picks the editor-in-chief.

After incorporating Loyola News, the students formed The Loyola Phoenix in 1970 with the same structure and coverage as the old newspaper.

RISE OF THE PHOENIX

John Slania, one of The Phoenix’s advisors and a police, crime and feature writer for the Phoenix from 1975 to 1979, said he wasn’t sure how or why the paper’s name changed in 1970.

“Somebody told me it was some controversial story and the administration killed the Loyola News and then another group of students started The Phoenix rising from the ashes, but I don’t know if that’s true,” said Slania.

Brian McIntyre, the sports editor for the 1969 Loyola News and then for the 1970 Loyola Phoenix, said he doesn’t remember the politics of why the switch occurred. He said it may have had to do with the students who started The Phoenix wanting to focus more on advocating social reform.

“I know there were politics back and forth. I think that the people that broke away wanted to be more active politically,” said McIntyre. “I don’t think the people on the Loyola News were quite as radical as the people that started The Phoenix.”

WRITING THEN AND NOW

The issues and content the paper publishes remain largely the same. In 2009, former Editor-in-Chief Katie Drews created a special anniversary issue of The Phoenix.

She said they looked through several issues and republished some old stories

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THE PHOENIX TODAY

Both McIntyre and Slania said The Phoenix is more community focused now than it was when they were writing for it in the late 1960s and ‘70s.

“It’s much more disciplined now,” said Slania. “It’s focused on news that really affects Loyola and the students on campus, and the stories are definitely more tightly written, more newsy and shorter.

It’s a much better newspaper than it was when I wrote for it.”

While Slania was writing for The Phoenix, he said it was popular to publish 3,000-word stories, which is about 10-pages double-spaced. He thinks the current, more concise paper is helping students more.

“One of the things I really like about The Phoenix is it is an independent student voice that does have the ability to be a watchdog,” Slania said. “Nobody else on campus can do that but this independent student newspaper, and so you got to continue doing that. You serve an important role on campus for freedom of speech and the administration places great value in that. They read this paper; they want to know what you’re covering.

They really do respect you.”

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The archives are missing several issues from 1963, however. Young said she suspects someone stole all the issues covering the 1963 NCAA men’s basketball championship because they have all the issues leading up to basketball season and all the issues after the season, but none from during it.

The library has other gaps in its collection, partially because it did not begin to collect Loyola’s history until the University Archives were founded in 1938, when the Rev. John Mortell, S.J., saw that the university’s history, especially that of the Jesuits, was being lost.

Young has begun to digitize the old copies of Loyola News and The Phoenix, which can be found on the library’s website.

Young’s office and the website aren’t the only places students can find copies of the newspaper, though.

History Department Chair and professor Robert Bucholz started his own collection in the fall of 1989, a year after he started teaching at Loyola.

“All historians are packrats in one way or another,” said Bucholz. “We tend to see everything as future evidence about the past, at least I do, and that’s how I have always felt about those Phoenixes.

If, in 2020, I want to recall what the big issues were on campus in 2015, where else would I look?”

The historian has about 650 different copies of The Phoenix, which have overflowed into a second cabinet drawer in his Lake Shore office.

Bucholz said little has changed with the types of stories The Phoenix covers

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HOLDING ONTO HISTORY

since he came to Loyola. The issues he collected discussed a mix of international, national, local and Loyola news as the paper does today.

STAYING AFLOAT

In 2008 and 2009, The Phoenix began to experience financial issues.

“There was a period where we didn’t know if we would be able to publish anymore,” said Drews, who worked for The Phoenix in 2008 and 2009.

The paper then had to meet a weekly revenue requirement from advertisements, otherwise it would not get printed.

“It was kind of a wake-up call, because no one had really been paying attention to the finances to the extent that we should have been,” Drews said. “From that point going forward it was much more of a reality.”

The paper has never skipped a publication, though.

All of the former writers agreed writing for The Phoenix was a ton of fun. But it has never been about the students on staff. Investigating the roots of The Phoenix seems contradictory in a way, but part of working with any organization means understanding the values of that organization. And since this paper belongs to the students and represent students, it’s important for Loyola to understand what we represent.

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in the paper, and were surprised by how many of the issues students wrote about in the old issues related to problems the university was facing while she attended Loyola.

“It was really interesting in how you could see some of the same issues we were experiencing at the time, and these were issues they were debating like 40 years earlier,” said Drews. “It’s like you’re in a time warp.”

Tuition, athletics and university governance are all recurring topics throughout the publication of Loyola News and The Phoenix, Young said, but she added there is a noticeable change in coverage in 1963, when the newspaper becomes more outward focused.

“It’s like you can read one issue in ‘62 and it’s still all the dances, and then you read an issue in ‘63 and it’s like, ‘Oh, they’re boycotting the Illinois Catholic Women’s Association down at Lewis [University],’” Young said. “It reflects a change in the national consciousness.”

1-3) The Phoenix newsroom in 2013 before it was moved from Centennial Forum Student Union to the School of Communication downtown. 4) The current newsroom with the Phoenix staff producing this issue.

LOYOLA NEWS BELONGS TO THE STUDENTS, LOYOLA NEWS REPRESENTS THE STUDENTS, AND BY THEIR EFFORTS THE PAPER WILL GO OVER THE TOP.

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OPINION

If we want change, we have to do it ourselves STAFF EDITORIAL

The past year has seen upheaval, setbacks and frustration, but also progress, growth and positive changes. The year has been a mixed bag for students, and despite the progress that’s been made, there is still more to do.

The successes the students have achieved this year were big. We passed the Magis Scholarship fund that gives undocumented students better access to a Loyola education. We also voted to bring Metropolis Coffee Company back on campus, and hopefully Aramark will follow through. We protested police killings and crime in our neighborhood, and rallied for a better commitment to sustainability and higher salaries for adjunct professors.

But in many ways, this year has not been kind to students. From the start of the year, The P hoenix Editorial Board has written that students do not have enough of a voice in the uni-

versity’s decisions. Students are consistently blocked out of the meetings that matter with the people who matter.

The university has given students a few avenues to advocate for themselves. There are student representatives on the Board of Trustees, the University Senate and, of course, there is the Student Government of Loyola Chicago (SGLC). But when it matters — when doors are closed and administrators come to the table — students are quietly asked to leave the room.

This trend is not new. Every year, The Phoenix Editorial Board has written about how students are viewed within the administration — ­ every year we advocate for change, and every year we are disappointed.

For almost every issue we publish, we run into problems. Sometimes the administration gives us the runaround; sometimes administrators lead us on, only to pull out a roadblock of red tape; and sometimes they won’t even answer our emails. We have a job

THE PHOENIX EDITORIAL BOARD

Esther Castillejo Ariahna Black

to do — report on the university and hold it accountable — but if we never have access to our own administration, this job gets very difficult very fast.

This year in particular has caused a rift between students and the administration. In almost every big decision, student input was nowhere to be found. To demonstrate this point, think of the big decisions over the past years: divestment, tuition, meal plans, changes in the finals schedule, changes in Greek life recruitment, changes in the shuttle system, just to name a few.

To improve the situation, we believe it is of the utmost important for students to get involved. If students want to be heard, they must organize.

If they want to be respected, they have to find opportunities and take them.

If they want to be taken seriously, they need to leverage their position as the largest stakeholder in the university and use it to argue for more substantial representation — not the smoke and mirrors the university currently

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offers us.

Students also need strong leadership. The P hoenix Editorial Board wrote about this two weeks ago after the SGLC spring elections. The student body has been fortunate to have a good, representative student government in the past, and we hope SGLC President Michael Fasullo continues that legacy.

But ultimately the change we want to see — more transparency and more input from students — can only occur when the university permits it. That’s not to say we’re fighting a hopeless fight — just an uphill one. We the students are focused, persistent and maybe sometimes a little pushy.

Sometimes, if you want something done you just have to do it yourself. If we want change, we’re going to have to get it ourselves.

We better get started.

Grace Runkel Marissa Boulanger

College journalism is still important

BY ESTHER CASTILLEJO ecastillejo@luc.edu There’s a question that, surprisingly, I get asked often.

Why do you work at The Phoenix?

Honestly, seven months ago I wouldn’t have been able to answer. I would have given a half explanation that mentions the importance of journalism and how we’re the voice of the university community without, deep down, believing it.

I have been editor-in-chief of this publication for close to a year now. I honchoed the paper for the first time for our issue last summer. I spent months dreading Facebook posts or seeing the racks around both of Loyola’s campuses.

I couldn’t handle the fact that, in many ways, it’s fashionable at Loyola to hate on The Phoenix.

Why aren’t people picking up the paper? Why is that paper abandoned there?

Why don’t we get people to write for the Opinion section? What am I doing wrong?

I kept asking myself these questions.

Then Mutahir Rauf was killed. Then the administration made lack of transparency systematic. Then Loyola voices were ignored and I realized that, regardless of how many times we stumbled, we had the privilege, the honor and the responsibility of keeping the Loyola community informed and being its voice and advocate.

That’s the thing with journalism.

Everyone loves to hate it, but it’s one of the most important professions in democratic systems. Having information to judge and make decisions is at the core of freedom. We don’t dictate what’s right and wrong, but we sure work hard to leave our readers knowing more about the world they live in, about this university.

It took a few weeks, but I realized that, regardless of the criticism, The Phoenix has the unparalleled power of reaching at least 3,500 students, faculty and staff members in print and tens of thousands online.

And this is a powerful thing, because whether many like us or not, The Phoenix is still cruising through the buildings, halls and offices of this university.

We’re holding everyone accountable –– including ourselves –– with a staff that’s dedicated to excellence, to giving our readers the news that they want and, most importantly, that they need –– or at least giving their best try at it.

We’ve pushed back this year. Administrators at this university can attest to the number of emails from Phoenix reporters and editors –– including me –– that they received and many times ignored.

We’ve pushed hard because we see the dangers of a community that goes about its life in complete apathy. We see the dangers of not caring, of not knowing.

And I’m not naive. I know exactly where our value and power lie and that’s in our readers, in their willingness to challenge this institution and hold it up to standards higher than the complacency we live in. I’m not calling for a revolution, but I for sure am calling you to be masters of your life, and your life, for four years at least, is within Loyola’s walls. Seize this, and don’t let administration push you around.

In these pages, a well-known Loyola

professor says he keeps copies of The Phoenix because he wants to be able to know, in 2020, what happened in 2015.

Why do I work at The Phoenix? So that he has another copy to keep, so that what happens this year is not ignored.

I remember another professor who told me to study this university, to look at it and analyze, to be critical and make, as anthropologists say, “the familiar strange and the strange familiar.” Why do I work at The Phoenix? To at least strive to spread that way of thinking, of being critical and analytical of what we see here. And there’s so much to be critical of at this university.

All I can say is that college media matters now more than ever. The Phoenix, beyond its staff members, editorial line and content, matters because of its independence. We try to be the watchdogs as much as possible. We do not relent.

Last week, a famed Chicago city hall reporter celebrated 30 years in the industry and several of her colleagues shared anecdotes of their interactions with her.

One of them remembered an interview in which she had said “I’m not here to be wiped. I’m here to be treated with respect and be fair, fast and accurate.”

This is my last issue as editor-in-chief of this paper. I’ve made decisions I’m proud of and others I wish I didn’t have to make. I’ve carried papers, made phone calls and pushed back. I have the privilege to say that, this year, the notnearly-enough times I’ve gone to bed, I’ve slept well. We’ve made the corrections we had to make; we’ve been receptive. I’ve slept well.

I’ve seen this paper excel and tumble, but most of all, I’ve seen it rise. I have the privilege to say, as editor-in-chief of this paper, that this publication is not wiped.

That we’re here to be treated with respect and to be fair fast and accurate.

Esther Castillejo is the 2014-2015 editor-in-chief of The Phoenix.

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Where did all of the sculptures come from?

BY BETH NEWHART enewhart@luc.edu Campus decoration has changed over the years, with some art pieces popping up as Loyola finished new buildings — several from world-renowned British sculptor Emily Young.

One of these sculptures is a moon-like structure named “Lunar Disc I.” Although the statue is not widely known and bears no plaque of identification, it’s not new to Loyola. It came here in 2011 and had been sitting between the Klarchek Information Commons and Cudahy Library until the beginning of the 20142015 school year.

“The disc is synonymous in my mind with both the oneness of the universe, of our planet and all who inhabit it, and the unutterable wonder of nature and creation,” Young said of “Lunar Disc I” on her website.

Her stone creations are displayed all over the world, a fact noted by British art collector Christopher O’Hare. He discovered Young’s work early in her career and purchased several pieces. It was from O’Hare that Loyola received several sculptures that are now on campus today.

O’Hare was originally reluctant to part with the statues, but the Rev. Michael Garanzini, S.J., convinced him to donate the pieces (which had been previously housed in Europe) to Loyola because he wanted to bring a bit of art and culture to Loyola’s main campuses in Chicago.

“Father Garanzini wanted there to be beauty on the campus … I was persuaded because they would never have a better home. They would be enjoyed by many more than just by a few,” said O’Hare in a phone interview last November.

After the completion of Damen Student Center and Halas Recreation Center last semester, some of the art on the Lake Shore Campus was also moved around.

The most notable of these changes was the move of the “Los Lobos de Loyola” statue from between Dumbach and Cudahy halls to outside the south doors of Damen.

The statue is a physical representation of the wolf and kettle image on Loyola’s official crest. It was unveiled in March 2012 at the first annual Wolf and Kettle Day, which marks the point in the academic year when the university runs sole-

ly on donated funds until the term ends.

When the wolves were moved, “Lunar Disc I” took its place.

“Wounded Angel” is one of the other Young statues at Loyola. It is a large stone rendering of an angel’s face that sits just outside Madonna della Strada Chapel near the East Quad.

Garanzini chose that spot as a memorial to the Jesuit martyrs in the war of El Salvador. According to the January 2011 edition of Inside Loyola, the digital newsletter for faculty and students, the school “felt that it was important to have the statue near the chapel, and more importantly, on a path that most students take each day.”

After the addition of the two Young pieces, Garanzini was eager for more. In February 2013, he told The Phoenix about his plans.

“We actually already own two more Emily Young sculptures that are currently being shipped over from England,” said Garanzini at the time.

The new pieces have since made the trip from the United Kingdom, and Kana Wibbenmeyer, the assistant vice president for Facilities at Loyola, confirmed their locations

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around campus.

In addition to “Lunar Disc I” and “Wounded Angel,” Wibbenmeyer revealed that “Jade Torso” is in front of the main entrance hall on the first floor of Cuneo Hall, “Green Onyx Disc” is on the first floor of Sullivan Center, and “Wounded Angel II” resides in Rome at the John Felice Rome Center.

Young hails from London, but is now based in Italy. She has grown in popularity and

recognition throughout Europe in the last few years, which makes Loyola’s ownership of her work even more impressive.

British newspaper The Financial Times praised her talent: “Emily Young is remarkable in that she now stands quite alone in her field, not just as the pre-eminent stone-carver of her generation, but as virtually the only sculptor of her kind at all, a true carver working with figurative imagery, of any real and sustained distinction.”

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Folkin’ with the Jesuits

Courtesy of Alexandra Jonker

BY ALEXANDRA JONKER ajonker@luc.edu Jesuits, members of the Society of Jesus, are sometimes called “God’s Soldiers” or “God’s Marines,” but what about “God’s Musicians”? Many Jesuits at Loyola and beyond love making music, especially in the folk-acoustic variety. The Folkin’ Jesuits, a band made up of Jesuit scholastics –– priests in training here at Loyola’s First Studies program –– are no exception. Band members include Garrett Gundlach, S.J., Marcos Gonzales, S.J., Eric Immel, S.J., and Steve Nicholson, S.J. — four men who love Jesus and music, and have a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor.

“We like to think of our group as less of a ‘band,’ and more a ‘collective,’” said Immel. “We love Jesus, the Society of Jesus and playing fun music mediocrely.”

Mediocre or not, the music is more than just a stress-relieving pastime for the four men.

“Music, as with any art form, is a way to dig deep, to share, to celebrate, to tell stories and to listen,” said Gundlach. “Playing music isn’t just about doing something cool or fun, but about doing something together and doing something wholeheartedly.”

The group formed in Denver in 2013 during one of many summer

meetups of Jesuit novices — the first stage of Jesuit formation. One of the popular social events at the meetup is a talent show, which was the moment when a group consisting of Immel, Gonzales, Nicholson and two other Jesuits combined their talents to perform a mashup of songs.

“As we were all novices and were all inspired by folk music, we called ourselves the ‘Folkin’ Novices,’” said Gonzales.

With their novice days behind them, the three musicians reunited at Loyola and continued to make music, finding an additional band member, Gundlach, to join in on the harmonica. By this point, they were all officially Jesuits, so it was only fitting to change the group’s name to the Folkin’ Jesuits.

The members continued on to become performers in small community settings — playing on porches, around campfires, in backyards and at Mass — and they still make it a priority to continue that tradition. They have played events for human rights organization Amnesty International, Loyola Coalition for the Homeless and Ignite LUC over the years. “[These are] places where music is more than music,” Gundlach said. “It is celebration, it is community, it is prayer, and it is wrestling with the stuff of injustice in

our hearts and our minds.”

Issues relating to faith and justice are core to Jesuit beliefs, and the group tries to incorporate these ideals into its own mission.

“Whenever we play, we hope to, one, write and cover songs that are relevant to issues of faith and justice and speak to our beliefs,” said Nicholson. “And two, create an environment that is inclusive and that brings people together.”

Whether this turns out as a passionate performance of a protest song or a cover of the latest Taylor Swift single, the band members hope their music will reflect the Jesuit mission.

“Covers are nice because someone else already wrote them,” Immel said. “We make them our own in some way with the instruments and voices we have.”

The band makes its covers unique by using the strengths of its multi-talented members. Gundlach, for example, plays the harmonica.

“I’m always learning new licks, always learning to play better alongside other instruments,” Gundlach said. “And here’s to hoping that I play less poorly than I did when I drove my community crazy starting to learn in 2010.”

Immel sings and plays drums, but he also has a special talent that he has utilized at a few performances — rapping.

“While I don’t claim to be the

‘rapper’ of the group, I suppose also that I’ve done most of our rapping,” Immel said.

Gonzales and Nicholson both perform using a variety of different string instruments. This versatility allows the quartet to switch things up when playing, something the easy-going group enjoys.

“That’s one of the most fun parts of what we’ve been able to do: All four of us take turns in the forefront and in the background, playing and singing different things at different times,” said Nicholson. “There’s not a lot of ego involved when we’re at our best, so we can just celebrate playing together and have fun.”

But that doesn’t mean the members haven’t found an appropriate way for their music to be included into worship and praise.

“Each of us take turns leading the worship music for our community liturgies,” Gonzales said.

“Music can help bring a liturgy to life if done well, and the focus is not on the musicians –– it’s all for the greater glory of God.” The reaction to the band’s many musical talents has been all positive so far — mixed in with a little surprise.

“I think it has something to do with what people expect vowed Jesuits to do,” Nicholson said. “Playing folk music and

covering pop tunes tend not to be in people’s expectations.”

Although the band members are losing Gundlach, who is moving from Chicago next year, they plan to stay active musically.

“We’re all interested in becoming better musicians and performers,” Immel said. “We’re also interested in continuing to craft a message with our music that celebrates the things we believe in: a loving God who works with us, a world of peace and justice, a world filled with opportunities for play and fun and a world of radical inclusion.”

In that spirit, the Folkin’ Jesuits desire to become more involved in the Loyola community and beyond — particularly with more performances that allow for the inclusions of faith, opportunities for activism and protest and occasions to take more musical risks, which they hope will include more original music.

“Ultimately, there’s a desire to write more music, but we don’t have enough time,” Immel said. “Someday, and hopefully sooner than later, there might be a full set of original tunes. Alas, it is not this day.”

Until then, the band members are willing to entertain any requests to play their tunes, original or otherwise.

“Don’t be afraid to ask,” Immel added. “We love to play, and always try to make it work.”

Why can’t students use sidewalk chalk on campus?

BY KRISTEN TORRES ktorres1@luc.edu Way back when — actually, only about three years ago — Loyola kept silent about student organizations advertising their events and movements on campus with sidewalk chalk.

But the days of colorful concrete paths are over (and have been over) since the office of Student Activities and Greek Affairs (SAGA) sent an email out to all Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) in September of 2012 via OrgSync.

The email described the use of sidewalk chalk by student organizations as “a violation of the university’s Communi-

ty Standards,” and told RSOs that continued use of chalk on campus is prohibited.

Although student organizations used sidewalk chalk in previous years, the rules against it have been in place for at least 10 years.

There seems to be no set date for exactly when the policy was written into the Community Standards. Mary Rinaldi of the Office of Student Conflict and Conduct Resolution (OSCCR) remembers the policy already being in place when she started working at the university in 2002.

Some students don’t agree with the policy, saying that the use of sidewalk chalk on

campus would be a fun way to introduce new marketing techniques for RSOs. “I have seen chalk used really well at other universities, and I can envision its potential to really impact students, student organizations and student activism at Loyola,” said Maura Rocks, a previous Student Government of Loyola Chicago member and junior political science and theology double major.

Other students, especially those who enrolled in Loyola after the sidewalk chalk ban enforcement gained momentum in 2012, weren’t even aware such a policy existed.

“I had no idea using chalk was prohibited, and it’s re-

ally disappointing to hear. It would be cool to use chalk to advertise [sorority] events; it’s a way more fun and creative way to let people know what’s happening on campus,” said sophomore biology major Gabie Georgieva.

Consequences for using chalk on university sidewalks range based on the extent of the chalking. Punishments can include an educational sanction, where the students involved would have to create a presentation detailing the university’s posting policy, or the club losing all advertising privileges on campus.

However, the only mention of sidewalk chalk in the Com-

munity Standards states that “The use of sidewalk chalk is prohibited on the University premises without the express permission of SAGA.” The restriction does not elaborate on a sanction for punishment of the activity. While the language in the Community Standards leaves some loopholes, any use of sidewalk chalk on campus is seen as destruction of property and is not allowed.

Last Friday, a group of students were caught using sidewalk chalk on campus to advertise for an event on university property. According to OSCCR, their only punishment was to wash it off.

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When was Loyola’s football team cut?

The above photo as well as the two on either side are of members of the club football team in 1976. Instead of playing other universities, the members divided into intramural teams and played each other.

BY MADELINE KENNEY AND JOAQUIN CARRIG mkenney1@luc.edu, jcarrig1@luc.edu Loyola has long boasted about having an undefeated football team. This, however, is largely due to the fact that it doesn’t currently have a varsity football team –– it was cut in 1929.

However, football was one of Loyola’s popular varsity sports in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The school played its first intercollegiate football game in 1892.

At the time, Loyola was still named St. Ignatius College, and the school’s athletic teams were referred to as the Maroon and Gold.

Today, Loyola’s nickname is one of a kind in NCAA Division I athletics. Loyola is the only school to be referred to as the “Ramblers.” This nickname stems from Loyola’s old football team.

The football coach and student newspaper held a contest in 1925 to name the mascot for the football team, according to Loyola’s athletic website. The winning entry, the “Grandees,” was a title for Spanish nobility and had ties to the Spanish origins of St. Ignatius of Loyola. However, this name failed to gain popularity with the students and surrounding community.

A year later, Loyola became known for “rambling from state to state” in the me-

dia because the football team had to travel great lengths across the United States to play opponents. Because of this, Loyola was dubbed the “Ramblers.”

The nickname has stuck with Loyola athletics ever since.

The Ramblers seemed to have a knack for nicknames. Several members of the 1925 team had interesting monikers, according to an article from the April 29, 1925 edition of The Phoenix. Two such names were “Mary” Adams and “Witey” Cronin.

However, Witey, Mary and the rest of the varsity football team didn’t get to play long.

After the stock market crash of 1929, Loyola President the Rev. Robert M. Kelley, S.J., dropped football as an intercollegiate sport.

Kelley said football was becoming too much of an entertainment industry, with its players being viewed as celebrities. Because it had lost its roots in amateur sport, the president disbanded the team.

Though Loyola never again fielded a varsity squad, intramural and club football continued on campus. In fact, in 1971, the club football team won the national championship. That year also happened to be the last time Loyola would have a club football team until the fall of 2012.

The current program, now in its third year, won its first game since the ‘71 season against none other than crosstown rival DePaul University.

The 1929-30 Loyola varsity football team practiced on what is now the Lake Shore campus. This was the final year of the program before Loyola’s President, the Rev. Robert M. Kelley, S.J., disbanded the team.

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BY ADDIE MARTANOVIC amartanovic@luc.edu If you are downtown and head toward Lake Michigan, beyond the retail shops, you will find Fig & Olive (104 E. Oak St.) — a Mediterranean cuisine-inspired restaurant with an open lounge and bar.

A seafood-heavy menu, welllit dining room and seasonal garden terrace attracted me to the Mediterranean joint. I’ve come to find that if a restaurant has a vibrant décor, natural light and large windows, the food will most likely be delicious. There are two dining rooms at Fig & Olive: one on the second level with more couches and a main bar and one on the third level that offers more tables and a smaller bar.

Right near the large open windows and flowing white curtains, we sat down on a large chair and couch filled with enormous pillows. Although I was not initially pleased to be sitting on a couch, the lighting made up for the overly relaxed environment and the couch ended up being extremely cozy.

The menu at Fig & Olive focuses on executive chef Pascal Lorange’s love for high quali-

ty olive oil and its incorporation into shareable dishes and larger plates. During brunch on weekends, soup, carpaccio, crostini and an assortment of cheeses and olives are available as small plates to share. There are also organic egg options, French-inspired cuisine, even Italian items such as bruschetta. Because I’m more of an eggsfor-any-meal-kind of girl, the menu’s egg selection worked for me, and the overload of shrimp, lobster and crab dishes fulfilled my dad’s passion for seafood.

It was love at first glance when my eyes noticed the trio appetizer crostini ($12). Out of the 11 different crostini options –– ranging from a burrata and tomato to a manchego and fig –– I went with the heirloom carrot, charmoula (a Moroccan marinade) and carrot tapenade; the crab, heirloom tomato, avocado and apple aioli; and the shrimp, avocado, cilantro and tomato. The three arrived to the table beautifully arranged and full of colorful ingredients.

Each crostini was too big to eat without cutting into two, which surprised me since most crostinis I’ve had tend to be bite-size. Each piece of bread was slightly softer than brus-

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City chetta would be, making them easy to bite into. Picking a favorite was extremely difficult, but the crab was probably the tastiest. The apple aioli was solely apple-based, not mayonnaise-based like I would have imagined it to be.

For our entrées, I chose the south of France poached eggs with salmon ($16) and my dad ordered the Maine lobster roll ($16). I decided to do without the cream cheese ricotta and pimentón spread that the poached eggs came with (I am not a fan of creamy sauces), but when the dish arrived at the table, it had both on the side. The poached eggs were laid on a bed of smoked salmon and crostone bread with a sliver of avocado, mesclun salad and thick potato fries on the side. The eggs were thicker than I imagined them to be, but still were as runny as I’d hoped for, just the right amount that didn’t completely drench the bread and make it soggy. I ended up dipping my roasted potatoes into the cream cheese spread and couldn’t get enough of its thick texture and light flavor.

It surprisingly did not taste like cream cheese at all.

As I savored every bite of

Fig & Olive my smoked salmon and eggs, my dad quickly ate his lobster roll. He asked the waiter to hold the olive oil mayonnaise, so when his meal was delivered, it came with just tomato, apple, celery root scallions, harissa and baby arugula. A ramekin of skinny matchstick fries with ketchup came separately. Instead of being on a long horizontal bun as most lobster rolls are, this dish was on a shallot thyme brioche bun similar in size and shape to a hamburger bun.

My dad raved about the flavor of the large pieces of lobster, but when I took a bite, I was disappointed at the bun-to-lobster ratio. Maybe it was just a poor bite, but all I could taste was the sliced celery root pieces and bread. Even though I disapproved of the dish, my dad was thoroughly pleased with it.

The olive oil-infused menu will leave you feeling light and satisfied when you walk out of this clean space. Even if it’s not advertised as a healthy restaurant, all of the menu items have fresh, high-quality and healthy ingredients,

loaded with large amounts of protein and vegetables.

When choosing from sides to order, you can decide from an array of vegetables ($8) ranging from caramelized Brussels sprouts and onions to a mixture of sautéed spinach, fig, garlic and almond. Burgers, paninis and salads are more simple entrées to choose from. There is also a raw bar featuring a seafood tower ($75-$125) with chilled shellfish and fresh seafood on ice. You’re guaranteed to find it all at Fig & Olive.

For hours of operation, go to www. figandolive.com/menu/chicago

Franks ‘n

’ Dawgs

BY REGINA MERRILL rmerrill@luc.edu It may be difficult to think of a hot dog as a gourmet item instead of something relegated to street stands and ballparks. But in a city with a fierce commitment to its own style of the American classic, there are bound to be some pretty ingenious takes on it.

At Franks ‘n’ Dawgs (1863 N. Clybourn Ave.), about a 10-minute walk from the North and Clybourn Red Line stop, you won’t find the traditional Chicago-style hot dog. In fact, there is a sign saying none are allowed.

I went with a friend for lunch and we were both slightly overwhelmed by the number of hot dog concoctions. The shop itself isn’t fancy, but the menu has some pretty upscale features (including the prices). The restaurant is a narrow space, but it has ample seating with booths and tables lining the walls. You place your order at the counter in the back, and the kitchen is right in front so you can see the chefs at work.

The menu is divided into several sections. “Haute Dawgs” lists more gourmet creations,

such as the “Brunch Dog” with bacon, fried egg and maple mayo.“Dawgs Gone Wild” has crazier spin-offs, such as a “Bacon Mac ‘n’ Cheese Dog”, and there is even a “Puppy Dawgs” section for kids. The menu also has a selection of sides such as cheese curds ($4.95), truffle mac and cheese ($4.95) or a Brussels sprout salad with orange dressing and toasted pistachios ($4.50).

The names of dogs are just as creative as their toppings, from the “Julia’s Love Child,” which offers a French spin with steak, asparagus and a Dijon cognac crème fraiche, to the “Lamb-orghini,” which features a lamb barese sausage.

Another aspect of the menu I particularly appreciated was the use of different types of sausage, such as a turkey and date sausage or even a tofu version, to fit the character of each dog.

The joint has a sense of humor both in its menu and general atmosphere. After we placed our order and paid at the counter, we were asked to select a picture of a celebrity from the restaurant’s wall of shame to denote our table. Passing over a tragic photo of Lindsay Lohan, we opted for one

of Donald Trump.

I chose the “Muscles from Brussels,” which is a bratwurst sausage topped with crispy Brussels sprout leaves, pancetta, pickled carrots, onions, fennel, horseradish, black pepper mayo, a white balsamic reduction and pretzel crumbs ($9.75). My friend chose the “Pork of July,” which is a pork loin and caramelized onion sausage topped with housesmoked pulled pork, cherry bourbon barbecue sauce and coleslaw ($8.95).

Each topping was artfully enclosed within a brioche bun, with just the right amount of everything. Franks ‘n Dawgs uses specially cut brioche bread, which is a flaky, higher-quality type of bread than a typical hot dog bun, for all of their dogs.

I loved the smoky pancetta pieces, and the Brussels sprout leaves were crispy and added a nice bitterness to balance out the tangy mayo. The brat was wellcooked and provided a nice canvas for the other ingredients.

For a side, I got triple truffle fries ($5.95). They earn the name by undergoing a treatment of truffle oil, truffle butter and a finish of truffle salt. Despite the name, the

truffle flavor was still subtle, which I appreciated because it was not too overwhelming.

My friend said the combination of pulled pork and coleslaw on her dog tasted “exactly like the Fourth of July” and immediately made her think of a backyard barbecue. The coleslaw on top was a bright purple and made for a pretty accent, and she said the vinegar flavor added a nice contrast to the sweet barbecue sauce on the pulled pork.

There are a few drawbacks to dining at Franks ‘n’ Dawgs, though. It is fairly expensive. I could justify the total price of my meal (around $17) because of

the creative and high-quality ingredients used, but, just the idea of paying about $9 for a hot dog would be enough to drive some people away.

On the website, hours are advertised as 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday, and 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. However, when I tried to go on a Saturday night, it had closed by the time I arrived at 6 p.m. I would suggest going for lunch or calling ahead to check the hours. That being said, Franks ‘n’ Dawgs is definitely worth a try for a new take on a classic, especially if you’re tired of the same old Chicago-style hot dog.

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Hit the books with great movie scores

BY PHIL DAVIS idavis1@luc.edu Once again, the dreaded part of the semester is upon us. Just saying the words “final exams” aloud is enough to make any student cringe. Luckily, there’s a way to reduce the stress and anxiety of finals: by studying.

Certain kinds of music can help students stay focused while having an intense study session.

Unfortunately, some genres of music are a little too distracting. Sorry Beyoncé, but you are indeed too bootylicious to help us get any work done.

Instead, I recommend listening to movie soundtracks. Note: I am referring to original film scores (which are usually orchestral but don’t have to be), not compilations of normal songs found on the radio like some movies use (i.e. Guardians of the Galaxy using “I Want You Back” by Jackson 5 or 50 Shades of Grey with “Love Me Like You Do” by Ellie Goulding). Each of the following soundtracks are subtle enough to study to without getting distracted but interesting enough to keep you entertained.

The Social Network – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (aka Nine Inch Nails) From industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails’ lead singer Trent Reznor and graphic designer Atticus Ross comes

the Academy Award-winning soundtrack for The Social Network. This untraditional soundtrack uses almost no instruments. Most of the score was composed electronically, with instruments thrown in only occasionally.

There is a theme that is reprised at pivotal moments throughout the soundtrack that corresponds to key events in the film. This gives a nice continuation throughout the soundtrack even though most of the tracks are fairly different from one another. Another advantage is that most of the tracks are upbeat.

This will help keep your mind awake while spending those countless hours studying.

However, it is Interstellar’s Academy Award-nominated soundtrack that sticks out the most because of its departure from Zimmer’s typical sound.

While most of Zimmer’s soundtracks have an epic and grand sound from brass and string instruments. In Interstellar, the pipe organ plays a central role. Therefore, much of the score is actually on the quiet side with some ambience thrown in. But there are still some notable tracks that are loud and epic — specifically “Mountains” and “No Time for Caution.” The recurring theme throughout the soundtrack nicely ties together both the quiet and loud parts to create a well-balanced score.

Cloud Atlas – Tom Tykwer, Hans Zimmer has made nu- Johnny Klimek and Reinmerous iconic soundtracks in his hold Heil Interstellar – Hans Zimmer

roughly 30-year career including The Lion King (1994), Gladiator (2001), The Pirates of the Caribbean “quadrilogy” (2003, 2006, 2007 and 2011) and The Dark Knight trilogy (2005, 2008 and 2012) to list a few.

Cloud Atlas’ phenomenal soundtrack presents many different sounds, but they all tie together fairly well. There is much variety because the film follows six separate storylines, each with

a different genre. There is romance, science fiction, comedy and drama, so the score is naturally diverse.

Most of the score is comprised of traditional sounds from an orchestra, but some tracks are more electronic in nature, such as “Papa Song.” This allows for a good variety of music, and the score never becomes dull or repetitive.

In order to account for this, the composers created a singular theme that is reprised throughout the movie. This theme is the driving force that ties everything together, both in the music and in the film. Not only is the theme beautiful, but it is also very infectious, making the soundtrack good to study to. The catchy theme will get stuck in your head and keep you focused as you continue working.

Her – William Butler and Owen Pallett (with input from Karen O) From director Spike Jonze (Lost in Translation, Being John Malkovich) Her’s Academy Award-nominated

score is one of the most romantic aspects of the film. The soundtrack was composed by indie-rock band Arcade Fire member William Butler and Canadian composer Owen Pallett with additional input by Karen O (lead singer of the indie-rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs).

Filled with beautiful-sounding guitars and synthesizers, this soundtrack is not only calming, but also emotionally uplifting.

Beautiful solo piano music winds in and out throughout the score, breaking up the more upbeat guitar parts with slower music. The music is not quite as flashy, but instead gently fills the background, making it the perfect music to study to.

These are only a few of countless soundtracks that deserve special attention. I always feel that soundtracks are more enjoyable if you also like the movie. So one way to find good soundtracks is to start with your favorite movies. But be careful — it’s also easy to just start daydreaming about the movie instead of studying for finals.

Goodman Theatre puts on overbearingly cheesy play

BY LAYNE HILLESLAND lhillesland@luc.edu

I’ve never been to a swanky hotel where my every need was at the beck and call of a hotel concierge. But if I ever did visit such a hotel, I don’t think the experience would be anything like Goodman Theatre’s newest play, The Upstairs Concierge.

Goodman (170 N. Dearborn St.) delivers a play that is nothing like any it has put on before.

The comedy has an odd sense of humor, merging corny and slapstick. The result is a play worth seeing once for a few laughs, but not worth seeing multiple times. And it’s also not a big deal if you find other plans for your Saturday night (e.g. mini golf, because mini golf is always worth it).

The Upstairs Concierge depicts a day in the life of Ella (Tawny Newsome), a new concierge at an upscale Chicago hotel. With three rooms, the hotel only books the most famous of celebrities — all of whom have several odd and demanding requests.

The aim of the production is clearly to keep audience members laughing the whole time, which the cast was semi-successful at doing. The fastpaced storyline kept audience members looking around the elaborate set to keep track of all the subplots.

Photo courtesy of goodmantheatre.org

The Upstairs Concierge plays on Goodman Theatre’s Owen Stage until April 26 with tickets ranging from $10-20.

The set had two floors, which gave an interesting view for the audience members because they could easily see the lobby and the upstairs hallway.

There is a staircase on each side of the stage for the characters to frantically run up and down (which they did often).

But even though the play had constant plot development and elaborate chase scenes, most of the humor missed the mark.

The whole performance is pretty much an adult version of the Disney Channel show The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, ex-

cept that airheaded celebrities staying at the hotel are the ones wreaking havoc instead of twin boys (and Ella is the female version of Mr. Moseby). The Disney show and Goodman’s play share a very similar comedy style — cheesy. The acting is overstretched and the characters are extremely unrealistic.

These characters include Shivery (Sandra Delgado), a novelist who uses “method acting” (as in she acts out her book’s characters to gain inspiration) to write her latest book, and Rebecca (Alejandra

Escalante), a new Internet sensation after her bunting video goes viral. That’s right, bunting as in baseball.

Every character in the play has a distinct personality and unrealistic qualities. Some of them were more entertaining than others, but when every character has the same cheesy, childlike sense of humor, the comedy continually gets lost.

Escalante was the standout actress, pulling off the quirky yet cute and loveable bunting sensation. Her small figure bounced around the stage with

exuberance and the scenes she was in were the funniest. Walking in the hotel lobby wearing a hot dog costume (just because she felt like it) warranted a great deal of laughter.

Another actress who deserves recognition is Theo Allyn, who plays Mark Merriman, a New York Yankees recruiter looking for Rebecca to join the team. The small redheaded actress flawlessly pulled off her male character with a thick New York accent and personality. The fact that this tiny actress played a tough New Yorker was in itself hilarious. This casting choice allowed for each of her lines to be twice as funny.

All in all, The Upstairs Concierge had a few standout characters and scenes that had the whole audience laughing, but the play didn’t succeed in keeping up the humor. Scenes that didn’t have a lot of laughs were cheesy and the dialogue appeared rehearsed. I simply couldn’t help feeling as if I were 10 years old again and watching a Disney Channel show, except with more references to orgies.

The Upstairs Concierge runs through April 26 at Goodman Theatre (170 N. Dearborn St.). Tickets range from $10-20 and are available for purchase at goodmantheatre.org.

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Expenses: Loyola athletics spends big money continued from page 1

In 2012-13, Loyola’s last year in the Horizon League, the Athletic Department spent $2,364,370 on its men’s basketball team alone, according to Forbes. That figure is more than half of the estimated $4.3 million spent on men’s sports, and almost a fifth of the department’s $12,508,656 in expenses.

That was before Loyola made an increased effort to have its men’s basketball program become a nationally known mid-major team by moving the program to the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). The move to the MVC put an even larger financial burden on the department, since it costs more to be part of a bigger conference.

On top of that, men’s basketball Head Coach Porter Moser earns a healthy compensation from the university. Moser was the second-highest paid employee at the university in 2013, behind only School of Law Dean David Yellen, according to a Guide Star report on Loyola’s finances.

The university paid professors an average salary of $124,083 in 2012-13. Associate professors were paid an average of $87,057 that year, assistant professors received an average of $74,610, and instructors earned an average of $62,442.

In comparison, the average salary of a men’s team’s head coach at Loyola was $137,129, while the average salary of a women’s team’s head coach was $72,198. This means the average men’s team’s head coach is paid more than the average professor, and double the average instructor. Loyola spent a total of $881,000 on head coaches’ salaries in 2012-13, according to Forbes.

Those figures were before

the program made the shift to the more prestigious MVC and before the department hired big-name athlete Sheryl Swoopes as its women’s basketball head coach.

Loyola isn’t the only school to hand out large parts of its budget to coaches, though. The three highest-paid employees on the United States Defense Department’s payroll are the head football coaches at the Army, Navy and Air Force, according to Red Alert Politics.

Mike Krzyzewski, the head basketball coach at Duke University, earns almost $10 million a year, making him the highest-paid men’s college basketball coach in the nation; Nick Saban, the head football coach at the University of Alabama, earns more than $7 million a year, making him the highest-paid men’s college football coach in the nation.

But spending on Loyola athletics doesn’t end with the CBI and coaches’ salaries. The Athletic Department used donations to open the $26 million Norville Center for Intercollegiate Athletics in 2011. The three-story center includes a student-athlete academic center, a sports medicine facility, modern locker rooms and state-of-the-art strength and conditioning equipment.

Some students took notice of Loyola’s spending in athletics, but they gave the school overwhelming approval.

“I don’t mind it at all, because, one, we won [the CBI], two, it gives us something to be proud about as students,” said freshman Gianni Cook.

Kelsie Mazur, a senior cheerleader, agreed.

“That was a smart decision on [the Athletic Department’s] part, considering that we do have great athletic teams here, and we need to bring more awareness to that,”

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Loyola’s new Athletic Director Steve Watson said he believes spending extra money will pay off now and in the future.

said Mazur. “Our school has the potential to be a sports-renowned school, and kids here don’t know that yet.”

Student Government of Loyola Chicago Vice President Mariana Chavez said the Athletic Department’s spending is justified because it’s what Loyola students want.

“It’s great because students want us to have a stronger presence in the athletic field, and investing and winning is the best way to get that attention,” said Chavez.

Despite all the spending, as a mid-major program, Loyola faces financial constraints that big sports schools in the Power Five conferences — the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Pacific 12 Conference and Southeastern Conference — don’t face.

Athletic departments at universities in those conferences generally receive millions of dollars in funding, meaning they have the resources to spend big

money on their teams. That can include paying for promoting and marketing the teams, the construction of new sports facilities, new team equipment or added costs to play in tournaments with national exposure.

Loyola is not in a Power Five conference, so it has to use its available resources as best as it can to create its vision of a powerful sports program.

“As far as those Big Ten-type schools, no, we don’t have the financial resources that they have.

But we continue to strive to … better position ourselves in our conference,” Watson said. “But we feel good about where we are and where we’re going in the Missouri Valley [Conference].

We’re going to focus a lot in the coming years on generating more revenue.”

Even as a smaller-sized mid-major athletic university, having the type of money to spend on athletics is one issue, but having an administration willing to devote a large chunk

of money to the athletic department’s budget is another.

“We have a lot of support from the administration,” Watson said. “There’s some improvements that we need to make, but as far as our finances and our budgets, there’s been a strong commitment from the university to really put us in a position to be competitive in the Missouri Valley Conference.”

The university’s president, the Rev. Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., wrote a letter to the university community in the summer of 2013 detailing what he wanted Loyola’s athletic program to grow into in the near future.

“Loyola athletics is on the move,” wrote Garanzini. “As we move forward with the development of an increasingly robust and competitive athletic program at Loyola … our athletes are ready to compete on the national stage, and together we will build on Loyola’s legacy of excellence, both on and off the court.”

The 2014 NCAA national champions are on track for a repeat of last year’s success and are looking to become the second team since 2013 (University of California-Irvine) to win back-to-back men’s volleyball championships. Before then, no team had won backto-back titles since UCLA did it in 1995 and 1996.

Both freshman libero Jake Selsky and Head Coach Shane Davis are looking forward to playing the Lewis University Flyers at some point in the postseason. Lewis is the only team that has beat Loyola this season, and has done so in both Gentile and on its own home court in Romeoville, Illinois.

“I think that’s the one [postseason game] I’m pretty excited about, just given our record this year against them,” said Davis.

Six members on Loyola’s team are new to the program, so they don’t have the experience of playing in the postseason tournament like some of their teammates. Three of those players are freshmen starters Jeff Jendryk, Ben Plaisted and Selsky.

“I know we’re all definitely really excited. We’ve had a long season, a successful season, so I think we’re ready to just kick it up a notch and kick butt in the tournament,” said Selsky.

Getting the new guys ready for the big tournament has more to do with ensuring the players are mentally prepared, rather than having them practice on the court, Davis said. He added that skills-wise, they’re ready to compete with the best of them.

“We’re not necessarily harping on the skill stuff anymore,” Davis said. “It’s more of a how

can you continue to build their confidence and make sure that they’re keeping their minds busy out there on what’s going on, versus looking at the bright lights of the playoffs?”

The veterans, such as junior outside hitter Thomas Jaeschke, don’t give advice to the freshmen before the tournament, though.

Instead, they step up and help their young teammates during the games if they need it.

“You can just be like, ‘Lean on me, I got you, I’ll take your seam don’t worry about it,’” said Jaeschke. “You can just … help them out more on the court when you know they’re a little nervous.”

By the end of last year’s tournament, the experienced Ramblers were national champions.

Davis sees this year’s young team earning a similar result.

“National champions, right?”

Champs set to begin postseason title defense

BY ALISON KRAKOWIAK akrakowiak@luc.edu Loyola’s men’s volleyball team is set to start its postseason title defense after wrapping up

its regular season on April 19.

The Ramblers earned a threeset sweep of No. 10 ranked The Ohio State University to close out the regular season as the No. 5 ranked team in the nation.

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The men’s volleyball team is looking to repeat as NCAA national champion.

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Young golf teams wrap up spring Lackluster finish to women’s season Men look to salvage poor season

BY MADELINE KENNEY AND JOAQUIN CARRIG mkenney1@luc.edu, jcarrig1@luc.edu Loyola’s women’s golf team finished in seventh place out of 10 teams at the Missouri Valley Conference championship tournament that wrapped up April 21 in Burlington, Iowa.

The Ramblers finished with a final score of 965 (304-329-332). Freshman Jessie Staed led Loyola, tying for 15th overall and finishing with a score of 239 (73-85-81). She also posted a oneover-par 73 on the first day of the tournament, which tied her for second to that point.

Fellow freshman Summer Moser finished two strokes behind Staed in 18th place with a score of 241 (79-82-80).

Wichita State won the championship, led by first-place finisher Alejandra Arellano.

Going into the spring season, Loyola’s Director of Golf Kyle Stefan understood that the women’s golf team was packed with young talent. Because of the players’ inexperience, Stefan tapered his expectations.

“We knew we were going to be young,” said Stefan. “The expectation at the beginning of the year was to be competitive with the Missouri Valley teams and to compete and try to win some tournaments outside of that to make us ready for what we’ll face at the end of the year.”

Despite their youth, the Ramblers still found success through the season. Loyola finished in the top half of every tournament it participated in except for the Ki-

awah Island Intercollegiate. The South Carolina tournament in March was the Ramblers’ first of the spring season.

That poor result mostly had to do with cold weather. Being a northern golf school, the Ramblers do not have a consistent opportunity to practice on a grass course from October to March.

Although Staed is a Green Bay, Wisconsin native who is used to keeping her clubs in storage, it still took her some time to get back into the swing of things at the beginning of March.

“I know I struggled with my swing a little bit coming back,” the Ad/PR major said. “It was difficult, but as the season progressed everyone was getting their games back.”

Staed said the team chemistry and young talent made it possible for the Ramblers to quickly improve their play.

“We work well together. We work hard on and off the golf course,” she said.

Although the team is sure to be disappointed with its seventh place finish after a strong spring season, Stefan is satisfied with the Ramblers’ performance.

“I’m proud of this team for getting us in a position that we have never been in during our time in this conference,” Stefan said to the Athletic Department. “We played in the final group for the last two days and ultimately can take a lot away from the week.

I’m also proud of Alex [Meyers] and her career and contributions that she has made to our golf program.”

Meyers is the only golfer graduating this year.

BY MADELINE KENNEY mkenney1@luc.edu Loyola’s men’s golf team is looking forward to redeeming themselves at the Missouri Valley Conference championship tournament April 27-28.

Loyola will take only two veterans, junior PJ Riner and senior Nick Dennis, along with three newbies: freshman Garret Buckley and sophomores Ben Holm and Michael Valletti.

The team goes into the tournament at the bottom of the MVC rankings because of a roster decimated by injuries. This left Director of Golf Kyle Stefan with an unideal and inconsistent lineup throughout the spring season.

Riner, who statistically is having his best season yet with an average of 77.4 strokes, said that although the results are not what they have hoped for, the Ramblers are still looking to fulfill their original plans.

“We always have expectations to succeed, and we made team goals to win conference and to win tournaments, and we’ve stuck with those expectations,” the Johns Creek, Georgia, native said. “Even though our results haven’t been what we liked, we are still aiming toward those expectations.”

The men’s team has struggled with consistency in its lineup this season, but also in its performance. Riner said the team has the talent and ability to put together good scores, but needs to be more consistent so it doesn’t have to rely on certain people every time.

Courtesy of Steve Woltmann

Junior PJ Riner is averaging 77 strokes per round.

Stefan stressed the importance of his team peaking at the conference tournament this weekend.

“We want to play our best golf of the season. We have tried to use every tournament as a learning opportunity to kind of take away what we are going to face at conference,” Stefan said. “Our constant message all year is just a little bit better each day, each practice, each tournament, each month and really trying to peak at the end of April and getting our games where they need to be to be competitive at this tournament.”

Riner called on his team to focus on what is in front of them.

“We need to stay determined and not give up,” the information systems major said. “One bad round won’t put us out of it.

There [are] always ways to bounce back.”

Loyola’s men’s golf team currently sits at the ninth seed in the Valley and will travel to Sunrise Beach, Missouri for the MVC championship tournament April 27.

Joaq walks his final walk

BY JOAQUIN CARRIG jcarrig1@luc.edu I hate goodbyes.

I’m not good with them. Never have been.

Never will be. I don’t like the finality. I hate to think there is a last time for anything.

So I tend to act as if it’s just any other day. My way of thinking is that my life is not divided into chapters; instead, it is just one long run-on sentence that periodically shifts from one subject to another.

Don’t worry, I won’t model my last column after that way of thinking. And even if I tried, my superior editors would burn me at the proverbial stake. Actually, they might burn me on a literal stake. God knows I’ve pissed them off enough times.

But I would like to say I’ve had an unbelievable time being a sports editor this past year.

It was not something I originally planned on doing, as I am more focused on a career in broadcast. But, I don’t regret my decision to join The Phoenix staff one bit.

I have had an absolutely splendid time working with everyone in the newsroom (“working with everyone” really means my fellow phoenixes have tolerated my inane

comments and childish behavior around the newsroom).

What’s more, I believe we have produced an extremely high-quality paper for you guys this year. At least I hope you guys think so. Either way, I’m really proud of the staff and all they’ve accomplished.

Except for Nader, my “assistant” sports editor.

His psychological issues really took a toll on me mentally. Being forced to endure countless hours on the computer next to a person with such sheer incompetence and, quite frankly, stupidity tends to lower the IQ. And the constant tapping of his foot on my chair. Dear God. His existence is one thing I won’t miss.

Perhaps the most enjoyable part of being sports editor, however, is having the freedom to write about whatever topic I choose.

I would like to thank you for putting up with my rants as well as my sense of humor, which I consider to be iconic but most consider to be atrocious.

More importantly, I hope you have enjoyed our coverage of Loyola sports.

These are exciting times in Rambler athletics. We’ve seen growth across all sports, and the men’s basketball CBI championship season was particularly enjoyable to cover.

All right, well, I’ve run up my word count, so I have to wrap up my final column. While my run at The Phoenix may be over, I won’t say goodbye.

I’m sure I’ll see y’all later.

Disclaimer: Nader is actually the cosports editor (for some reason many people believed me to be his superior) and a pleasure to work with. I consider him a good friend and am very excited to see where he will take the section next year.