February 11, 2013

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Students organize Valentine’s dance strike One Billion Rising, a global activist movement, will host the dance strike Thursday during Convo.

By Jenna Abdou News Intern

“Who doesn’t want to go to a global dance strike on Valentine’s Day?” said Victoria Brown, senior sociology major and member of the One Billion Rising team at LMU. This Valentine’s Day, people from 189 countries around the world will unite to dance to raise awareness about violence against women and girls.

One Billion Rising is a global activist movement that is “demanding change and expressing outrage” about rape culture around the world, stated Brown.

According to a United Nations statistic on the One Billion Rising website, “One in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.” This adds up to “one billion women being violated,” according to the same website.

This statistic inspired Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues,” to create One Billion Rising and the worldwide Valentine’s Day campaign.

During their Alternative Breaks trip to the Philippines, Brown and Denise Villanueva, junior biology

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Annual volleyball competition raises money to promote literacy Students competed in Pi Beta Phi sorority’s annual Arrowspike event,which raises money to promote literacy through the sorority’s philanthropy, First Book,on Feb.9 at Sunken Garden.Students formed teams of six to play volleyball,with a team from the Sigma Chi fraternity winning the men’s division, while a team from the women’s club volleyball team won the women’s. For more photos, check out the Loyolan’s Facebook page.

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Love is in the air at Sacred Heart Chapel While LMU currently hosts numerous weddings, marriage in the Chapel wasn’t always allowed.

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FAW closes with panel on religion and politics University President David W. Burcham (far left) moderated a panel made up of (second left to right) author and philosophy professor Dr. Christopher Kaczor, Director for Jewish Student Services and Hillel Rabbi Ilana Schachter and Islam expert and theology professor Dr. Amir Hussain on Feb. 7 in Ahmanson Auditorium.The panel discussed issues of religious bias on the part of politicians, and then took questions from the approximately 60 audience members.

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Picture this: The air is warm, the sun is out, there is a light breeze.

People are gathered inside Sacred Heart Chapel. Most of them know each other, all of them smiling. A priest stands at the altar with a man dressed in a tux. A beautiful woman dressed in white appears at the Chapel doors and starts walking slowly down the isle. People are crying and laughing at the same time. The man at the altar has never seen anyone so beautiful. Sound like a fairytale?

According to Fr. John Galvan, S.J. who oversees infant baptisms, marriages and confirmations at LMU, Sacred Heart Chapel is where wedding “dreams come true.”

Maybe it is true that some students dream of standing at the altar in

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Maybe some students realize after they graduate that getting married in Sacred Heart Chapel is best for them.

With 20 to 30 weddings held in Sacred Heart Chapel per year – according to Director of Campus Ministry Fr. James Erps, S.J. – it seems that LMU weddings are a natural tradition.

However, weddings in the chapel were not always allowed.

“Originally, [from the building of the Chapel in 1953] the diocese did not allow any marriages in Sacred Heart,” Erps stated in an email to the Loyolan.

Erps explained that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles sets the rules for marriages in parishes, and because Sacred heart isn’t a chapel there are special sets of rules. Since the 1950s, those rules have changed. According to Erps, people were allowed to have weddings in Sacred Heart Chapel by the 1970s.

Only full-time LMU students and faculty are eligible to get married in Sacred Heart Chapel, according to

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Housing selection season is upon LMU The housing portal will remain open throughout the month of February.

By Casey Kidwell Asst. News Editor

“Keep calm and live on.”

These words have been plastered around campus and slid under students’ doors on notecards, reminding the LMU population that the housing selection process is before us.

The housing application portal officially opened on Feb. 5 and will remain open for students to apply and submit their $400 processing fee through the month of February, according to Nan Miller, associate director of Resident Services.

About halfway through the application process on Feb. 19, students will be able to attend the open house and building tours from 6-8 p.m., in addition to the roommate pairing social from 8-9 p.m.

“It is a great opportunity to see inside the rooms of each building. We are also giving away prizes, so it should be a lot of fun,” Miller said of the open house and building tours day.

While students can expect the same housing process to greet them each year in February, some changes have been made this year to guaranteed housing.

“This year, all students who are currently within their first year at LMU are guaranteed housing on

campus for their second year.” This includes students who are transfer students as well as off-campus students, Miller said.

Miller showed great excitement for this change, since it means students who may not normally get oncampus housing are given the opportunity to stay on campus and “make more connections.”

During her time as an LMU student and resident adviser (RA), senior history major Kerrie Franey has had the opportunity to make those connections Miller was talking about while living on campus. She offered some advice to freshmen going through the housing selection process for the first time this spring, saying, “Even if you get a really low number and want an apartment, choose to live in traditional sophomore suites, because it is a wonderful experience.”

Franey added that students can still get the bluff view from McCarthy Hall, even with a low number.

The night of truth when students will be given the task of picking their numbers from what has been commonly referred to by students as the “housing minesweeper game” is March 11-12.

Miller expects that this year, the number of students who are interested in living on campus will increase.

While it’s still early to be able to compare statistics to last year, Miller said, “We have a good number of first-year

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transfer students who are now guaranteed housing. I hope they take the opportunity to stay on campus to strengthen their connection to LMU and make it easier for them to get involved.”

He does understand that cost is a big factor students consider when deciding between living on or off campus. However, Miller said, “Those that live off campus shouldn’t underestimate the cost for gas, parking permits, groceries, TV, Internet and basic utilities.” He talked about the fact that there are more costs associated with living off campus than students realize, adding that “dealing with landlords can be a pain.”

For those reasons, as well as the other benefits to living on campus, Miller would recommend students live on campus, even if he agrees he may be a bit biased. LMU accommodates for 3,200 living in 19 residence halls and apartments on campus, according to the Student Affairs Division’s website.

“We provide programs and services that bring students together within a community that honors human diversity and accepts students as individuals, each with rights and responsibilities,” according to the same site.

RAs are tasked with helping to create that community.

Junior psychology major and Rosecrans RA Andrew Acosta said that his goal as an RA is not to make his residents

feel like “he’s after them,” but rather that they feel like they’re “at home.”

In light of all this, the campus now moves into that

Program combines time at LMU and traveling around different places in Italy.

from pre-Christianity, to the time that they lived in Italy under Christianity, through the Holocaust, to the time after Nostra Aetate and [the Second Vatican Council],” said Soomekh.

During the two weeks, students will be living in apartments. There are also pre-planned trips included in the program that will take students to other parts of Italy.

“We’ll be in Rome, then a couple of days in Florence and a couple of days in Venice. Most of the learning will be based on field trips. We’ll go to museums, synagogues, [the] Jewish ghetto and we’re going to the Vatican, where we have exclusive meetings with priests,” Soomekh said. “Students will also have time to explore on their own.”

That exploration is what stuck out most to Halladay-Glynn about studying abroad in Rome. He said that his program, through Loyola University Chicago, gave him the

period of time where students must make the decision about whether LMU on-campus living will be their home for the 2013-2014 school year.

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New Italy study abroad program focuses on religion

By Jen Pastore Contributor

LMU students are getting another option to go abroad this summer, as the Jewish Studies program is offering a new study abroad opportunity in Rome, Italy. Theology professor Dr. Saba Soomekh is fronting the program, scheduled during Summer Session I, where students will have the opportunity to travel around Italy.

Returning study abroad student Ted Mosley, a senior business major, believes going abroad is an opportunity you don’t want to miss.

“Going to Italy last summer changed my college experience, as I was able to take a hands-on class where I learned the art and culture beyond a typical classroom setting,” said Mosley. “While living in Rome, I not only ate the best Italian food, but had the chance to interact with local Italians.”

A student who studied abroad in Rome with a different program is Kevin Halladay-Glynn, a junior film production major. He called the experience “worlds different from anything [else],” and recommended it to everyone.

“As a city, Rome is an incredible place,” Halladay-Glynn said. “It’s really incredible, after your freshman year, to meet a whole new group of people.”

In this new program, students will be living in Trastevere, Rome after attending a four-week class at LMU focusing on the Jewish-Catholic relations, dialogue and interfaith aspect. Then, the students will travel to and around Italy, with two weeks of classes being taught in Rome.

“The class will be looking at Jews

experience to learn a lot about himself “and meet some great new people.”

Soomekh is a well-traveled professor and has various connections throughout Europe. She hopes to help students get the most out of their time in Italy.

“I have lots of friends that live there. I know all the best restaurants, boutiques and best gelato places,” said Soomekh. “I love LMU students.

To me, it’s so fun to take all these young adults to Italy.”

Although the program is only two weeks, Soomekh hopes the students take advantage of already being in Europe.

“I set it up in a way that after those two weeks they don’t have to come back. They can go off to Europe and they have the rest of the summer,” Soomekh said.

Students interested in the program can contact Soomekh at Saba.

Soomekh@lmu.edu.

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While the program is centered in Rome (above),students will travel throughout Italy. “Most of the learning will be based on field trips,” Soomekh said.

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While Robinson knew she wanted to act since she was little, she shied away from acting at LMU, saying that college was an experience she“wanted to have.”

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This issue, Staff Writer Sonja Bistranin sits down with Angelique Robinson,LMU and Loyolan alumna and actress in a Super Bowl commercial this year.

1. What brought you to LMU? Well, essentially I did a year of film school in Santa Fe, N.M. my freshman year of college, and I wanted to be in L.A. because I knew I wanted to be an actress eventually.

2. Did you always know you wanted to act?

Since I was a little girl, that was the plan. But I kind of ran away from it in college.

major, learned of the V-Day campaign and felt it was “important to bring back to campus,” said Villanueva.

She added, “Colleges are known to have sexual assault cases on campus. The V-Day campaign is a good way to promote awareness and inspire people to look into this issue.”

One Billion Rising LMU will take place during Convo on Thursday, Feb. 14 in Lawton Plaza. In addition to dancing, members of the LMU community are invited to share their stories, as well as sign the petition to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. Brown explained that the ultimate goal of the event is to “bring all women together collectively and to give girls on campus the courage to share their stories and take ownership of their bodies.”

Additionally, Brown and Villanueva said the hope is that One Billion Rising LMU will inspire other groups on campus to be aware of rape culture.

Students are encouraged to RSVP to the event on Facebook and to learn the “Break the Chain” dance on

One Billion Rising’s website, Onebillionrising.org.

By attending the event, dancing and supporting the One Billion Rising initiative, students and faculty will be able to “recognize the rape culture and stop the perpetuation of it,” said Brown.

While dance may seem to be simply a fun and unique way to bring individuals together, Ensler explained that the meaning behind the “Break the Chain” dance is much deeper when she said, “Dancing insists we take up space. It’s dangerous, joyous, holy, disruptive. It breaks the rules. It’s free. No corporation can control it. It’s of the body.

It’s transcendent.”

Brown further expanded on this notion when she explained that the LMU community coming together and dancing on Thursday “perfectly fits our generation.”

She added, “Being in solidarity with each other and connecting across cultures to collectively raise the consciousness about issues that are happening around the world” will be a global celebration of women’s empowerment.

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3. So you started acting when you were really young?

I had done over 25 plays by the time I was 18. I had been acting a lot.

It was everything from children’s theatre to children’s roles in adult theatre. I remember my mom took us to plays all the time when I was a kid. Then I auditioned for a play when I was in third grade and I didn’t get it. For some reason, I think that made me super motivated and after that, every play that I auditioned for I got a role in.

4. Were you involved in the theatre program at LMU? Not really. I was in some student films and I tried a couple auditions when I was in school, but essentially it came down to this: If I was going to try to full-fledged do an acting career with college, I would be kind of half-assing both. And that’s what it was. I would have to sacrifice a lot. I wouldn’t be fully giving myself to college, which is an experience I really wanted to have.

5. What were you involved in at LMU? My big thing was probably the Loyolan. That’s what I put all my time into. I love the Loyolan.

6. How did you get into the Super Bowl commercial?

I signed with this agency called Lemon Lime. They’re a boutique agency. They’re known for repping hipsters; they’re called “talent with a twist.” And because I’m a redhead with pale skin, that automatically makes me a hipster [laughs].

7. In a creative career, do you think sometimes it’s hard to know where to start?

Yeah, I mean, that’s the thing. You have to do something every day. I really believe it’s a matter of work ethic. I’ve experienced it. I get myself auditions still, even though I have agents and managers. … I really believe that just working and picking a few brief goals to hit and being organized in a completely unorganized field with no right or wrong path to take makes all the difference.

8. How was the Super Bowl commercial set?

It was awesome. So cool. I got a trailer! I was like, oh my God. I walked on set, and I was like, OK, my first big commercial shoot! It was also super secretive because it was a Super Bowl commercial and they are quiet about things, which is why I straight up didn’t celebrate until the day the commercial went on air.

9. What was the day like?

It was terrifying. … And they hand me a magazine and say, “Hold it like this.” And there’s this huge camera right in front of my face on a dolly so we can run. And everybody is watching me! It was really intimidating because I’m not like a name or anything, and I was like, “don’t mess this up” to myself.

10. What was that feeling like, seeing yourself on screen and knowing the country was watching?

It was amazing. Instantaneously, my phone blew up, my Facebook blew up. I feel like something like that happening again is so slim. It was super exciting.

11. So, other than your own ad, was there another commercial that stuck out to you?

I got kind of teary for the Budweiser one about the horse. I was just like, “Ah. He found the horse.” I’m extremely empathetic in general, so it’s hard not to make me cry.

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Larceny Theft U-Hall On Feb. 2, a student reported a missing MacBook Pro. The case is now closed.

Drug Violation Sacred Heart Chapel Bluff On Feb. 2, there was student use of marijuana at Sacred Heart Chapel.

The case was referred to Judicial Affairs.

Drug Violation Del Rey South On Feb. 1, there was student possession of marijuana in Del Rey South. The case was

referred to Judicial Affairs.

Weapons Violation 80th Street On Jan. 31, DPS received a report of a male with a weapon in a parked vehicle. The investigation determined the weapon did not exist. The case was declared unfounded.

Criminal Mischief Loyola Information Booth On Jan. 31, DPS T-3 was intentionally damaged while parked. The case is now closed.

Drug Violation U-Hall On Jan. 30, an LMU employee discovered marijuana plants growing on LMU property. The case is now closed.

Drug Violation LMU Drive On Jan. 29, a visitor was referred to Judicial Affairs after being refused entry due to marijuana odor in their vehicle.

Drug Violation Huesman Hall On Jan. 28, a student was referred to Judicial Affairs for marijuana use.

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Getting married in chapel is ‘special and beautiful’ that this was always the case.

In fact, in the late ‘70s, couples had to be married within two years of graduation. It wasn’t until recently that rule was changed, according to Erps.

“Sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s, that rule was extended to five years,” Erps stated in his email. “The rationale is that after five years a couple should really be involved in their local parish. Thus, the appropriate place for their wedding would be their local parish church.”

The five-year rule isn’t the only requirement for marriage in Sacred Heart Chapel.

The LMU website provides a checklist for couples hoping to have their wedding in the chapel. According to the checklist, couples must have a letter of permission from Bishop Edward Clark, original baptism, first communion and confirmation certificates, along with other legal agreements. Couples also must attend a marriage preparation meeting with Galvan.

When asked about the reasoning behind the religious requirements and preparation meeting, Erps explained that Sacred Heart Chapel is a Catholic church and thus

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Therefore, the same rules and regulations apply to Sacred Heart Chapel weddings as at other Catholic churches.

“Preparation for the sacrament of marriage is required so that the couple enters their marriage having reflected upon the personal and spiritual aspects of their lives and their new life together,” Erps stated in his email.

However, according to Erps, only one party needs to be Catholic, and only one party needs to be an alum or faculty member of LMU. Erps and Galvan agreed

that getting married in Sacred Heart Chapel is special and beautiful and both enjoy being involved in the process.

“I have done many weddings for alumni in the Chapel,” Erps stated in his email. “It is a real joy to witness the marriage of students who I have known.”

Galvan said he advises students to relax and not rush engagement. He said that

getting to know each other and spending a significant amount of time with each other is an important part of a relationship that could turn into an engagement.

When asked about his favorite part of his marriage ministry, Galvan smiled. He said that it is great to hear the couple’s story and see their dream of having a wedding at LMU unfold.

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Sacred Heart Chapel hosts 20 to 30 weddings per year, according to Fr. James Erps, S.J. LMU makes an ideal wedding venue for alumni because of the nice weather year-round and the memories made on the campus.

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Keep the public out of the crossfire

n times of panic, keeping calm may seem obvious. We’ve all been taught to not overreact, contact help and be safe in such situations.

Ex-Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer Christopher Jordan Dorner, 33, was fired from the Los Angeles Police Department on Jan. 2, 2009 after he was found guilty of making false statements regarding police brutality by his training officer, according to an LA Times blog. Four years and one month later, a massive manhunt for Dorner has taken over Southern California and exemplified the fallibility of the LAPD. On Feb. 3, 2013, Dorner was suspected of killing retired L.A. police captain Randy Quan’s daughter and fiancé in Irvine. This event started a series of frenzied incidents this past week which have sparked unrest in the communities from Nevada to Mexico, as well as police officers and the friends and families of those in the force.

According to the ongoing Feb. 8 LA Times online timeline “Manhunt underway for ex-LAPD officer suspected of multiple shootings,” Dorner posted a manifesto on his Facebook page threatening “‘unconventional and asymmetrical warfare’ against police.” He attempted to steal a boat in San Diego on Feb. 6, and an LAPD officer was shot in Corona who was providing “protection for a person in [Dorner’s] online manifesto.” The next day, two Riverside police officers were “ambushed” by a shooter, suspected to be Dorner. LAPD Chief Charles L. Beck has labeled Dorner as a “trained assassin” – he served in the Navy and received honors for rifle marksmanship.

Dorner’s skillfulness with a gun is certainly nerving wracking, but it feels much scarier when even

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the police are the target.

On the morning of Feb. 7, two women – 47 and 71 years old – were shot and wounded when their blue Toyota Tacoma was mistaken for Dorner’s gray Nissan Titan. Two days later, a second case of mistaken identity occurred when a man’s pickup truck was slammed into by a police cruiser and officers opened fire. He was luckier than the women, since none of the bullets hit him. Again, however, his truck was a different make and color than Dorner’s, according to the Feb. 9 LA Times online article “Police seeking Dorner opened fire in a second case of mistaken identity.” Both instances happened in Torrance, just 20 minutes from LMU. Multiple members of the LAPD who were quoted in the Feb. 9 CNN article “Mood ‘tense’ among Los Angeles officers as ex-cop vows to hunt them” said they are “on the edge. … [Dorner’s] a scary guy.”

Even so, that does not mean innocent members of the public should be caught in the crossfire of panic-charged activity. The LAPD should remain calculated in their measures and should not let instantaneous emotion get in the way of their search. These three innocent people were in the wrong place at the wrong time, in the midst of a dangerous hunt for a man clearly out for revenge, and could have easily become casualties of pure overreaction and passion to stop Dorner. Dorner’s rampage is taking enough of a toll in and of itself.

The public does not need to fear the possibility that owning a pickup truck could put them at risk.

Hopefully this tragic episode of vigilantism will end soon and that no more lives are lost. Until then, we hope the police searching for him remain alert, but careful, for citizens in the crossfire.

Re: “A fumble for feminism in the Super Bowl,” Feb. 4 Dear Executive Editorial Board, In her article about women in football, Asst. Opinion Editor Anna Escher claimed that two women’s career futures relied solely on their appearances. Katherine Webb was hired for more than just her looks. On-camera positions are casting positions.

I have casted some student films and small projects, and even on that small scale, looks are not the only factor in the decision.

They are a part of it, of course, but there are many more factors: talent, how well they work with writers, diction, etc. That is not to be overlooked. Courtney Lenz, on the other hand, was prevented from the Super Bowl for other reasons. My cousin is a cheerleader for the Minnesota Vikings, and she has to keep her weight down as well. She is an athlete like Lenz and too much weight can be dangerous in an activity that requires limber movement and agility. It also reflects a work ethic, just like in other sports. If a linebacker was benched for weight, would we be calling it as crying sexism? No, that’s part of the job. On top of that, she was missing off-field performances, which is a major factor in a cheerleader’s job. She wasn’t doing her job, and that’s why she did not cheer in the Super Bowl, not simply because of “attractiveness.” In both of these cases, professional football is a business, as are the media and cheerleading. Attractiveness is a factor in the “performance-based” jobs, just like acting and modeling. But there is so much more that goes into these decisions. Hiring or suspension decisions are not made solely based on attractiveness. To assume otherwise is just as sexist as the issue itself, both towards these women and to those that hired them.

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alph Waldo Emerson, in his celebrated essay “Self-Reliance,” warns against the tendency of leaning too heavily upon the dogma of an ideology, proclaiming, “If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument.”

A generalization, sure, but not entirely untrue, as I found A Short Story out when attended

By Joseph Demes I the panel on Opinion Editor religion and politics last Thursday in U-Hall 1000, as part of the Loyolan’s First Amendment Week. Moderated

by President David W. Burcham, the panel consisted of three prominent figures within the LMU faculty and staff, all of whom are openly religious individuals.

It did not surprise me in the least that the entire panel found it difficult to explicitly answer the question of whether it is constitutionally and/or morally just for politicians to allow religion to affect their decisions. While their reasons were worded intelligently, the collective did not do enough to really probe the problematic contradictions that often confront us when the two spheres of politics and religion mingle. (However, they were under time constraints, so I probably would have been more satisfied had they been given more time.)

Far before the Q&A segment began to veer towards a debate on abortion, which I can imagine it often does for him since he’s written a book on the subject, Dr. Christopher Kaczor, a professor of philosophy as well as an outspoken Catholic, brought up the notion of duplicity, saying that for us to expect politicians to betray their personal religious views in the political realm is tantamount to asking them to not display personal integrity.

I think few people would disagree with that, because of course we want our politicians to stay true to what they say and promise to the general public. My qualm with this – one that panelist Rabbi Ilana Schachter also voiced, albeit with different phrasing – is that it’s easy for personal convictions to get in the way of what may be best for the general public. If an issue, such as gay marriage, is being denied legitimacy by politicians for religious reasons, either stated or implied, then that individual is letting a personal dogma stand in the way of civil rights.

It’s an extreme example, but that’s essentially my point: If politicians are coming to the table with an ideology that may delineate all issues into hard yes’s and no’s, then it’s a neglect of the inherent plurality of politics. We can know their sect and anticipate their argument, but because they are in the position of author-

ity, it becomes difficult to convince them of an argument otherwise.

A democracy is a multiplicity, and not everyone can be satisfied with all the decisions our government makes.

Those decisions, however, have to be in the best interest of the general welfare, and not religious or party ideologies. Compromising the former for the latter shows a massive deficit in leadership ability because it narrows the

of politicians can never be known (in, say, an empirical sense). So, he concluded, the motive for certain political decisions isn’t relevant to the law, insofar as getting to the capital motivation would be impossible and take up too much time.

Kaczor’s point assumes that it’s not worth the effort of trying to deduce motive since it can’t be fully known, and I’m not so sure that throwing in the metaphorical towel is the right conclusion.

Religion attempts to answer a lot of questions that aren’t empirically provable, and millions of people still subscribe to some sort of faith system despite that fact.

I think it’s safe to say that we can reasonably posit an answer to the problem of motive.

Nevertheless, while the motive of an individual can be hazy to onlookers, Schachter made the important distinction that the motive of a law is not as murky, and that as a consequence, it often becomes difficult to reconcile cases that seem to privilege one tradition with the clause that government decisions must have a secular purpose. To take her point further: When we attach a religious motivation to a law, it misrepresents the legal value of the law in general, because then we are not dealing with an imperative, but a command. The law is good in and of itself because it does not (or should not) distinguish between persons: Those enacting the law are

“[Political decisions] have to be in the best interest of the general welfare, and not religious or party ideologies. ” scope of individuals that a figure can lead properly. It demonstrates a lack of empathy because assuming one’s personal ideologies can apply univocally to all possible scenarios and peoples is too easy a route to take when making decisions that affect a massive populace.

One important facet of the problem that Dr. Amir Hussein, a Muslim professor of theological studies, mentioned is that although the freedom of religion has to uphold secular purposes, it has the potential of being misused to privilege a particular tradition under the guise of wrongly exercising a constitutional right. In supplement, Kaczor added that the intent

also subject to it, whereas command law assumes an authority that does not owe reciprocity to whomever it commands.

At a certain point in the debate, a more implicit aspect of the issue was brought to light: that the freedom of religion ought not to disfavor the non-religious. This, of course, is difficult since, as all three panel members agreed, America is a notably religious nation. It’s not unlikely that we trend towards a sectarian application rather than secular: In answering the final question of the session, Burcham explained that certain seemingly contradictory promotions of religion – like the “one nation under God” line, or “In God We Trust” – have been exempted from court scrutiny by previous legislation for the sake of historicity.

If anything, the debate reinforced just how complex a topic the freedom of religion in America is. But after a certain point, it begs another question: What do we do when the freedom being protected creates more trouble and division between the sects it is supposed to unite? When a freedom stops creating dialogue and starts becoming a roadblock to the plurality it aspires to, either it’s the sects themselves that stop needing to be so anticipatory, or the law itself that has to be refashioned.

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

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Girl-on-girl crime: guilty as charged

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’m not like other girls. At least that’s what I’ve been conditioned to think, told a few times and often believed myself.

From an early age, girls are told to be different, because as girls, that’s the only way we’ll ever be noticed, let alone chosen for a job or by a spouse.

Now, I’m not What the Heck saying that

By Allie Heck boys don’t feel Asst.Opinion Editor an inordinate amount of testosterone-fueled competition to be the best of the best, but it’s a little different. As girls, we are pitted against each other from the get-go, forced to prove ourselves worthy of everyone’s approval, often at the expense of our fellow females.

That’s why single-sex education allowed me to thrive, at least in certain ways. As I stood on my graduation terrace, surrounded by 120 female peers, many of them my close friends, I fully recognized how awesome women are. I went through my mental list of where each of my classmates were going to school as they walked in front of me, honestly and legitimately happy for every one of them. In short, I was lucky enough to have an unbreakable and irreplaceable link to 120 girls – a “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” kind of situation, for sure.

Here at LMU, I feel like I am definitely missing that aspect of my life. The obvious solution would be to join a sorority,

but surprisingly, I chose not to rush.

I realize that these are fighting words, but from my perspective on the outside, I believe that the process of recruitment and the relationships between different sororities breed girl-on-girl hate. To be fair, though, it appears that LMU sororities are not nearly as hurtful or critical as sororities at other universities, and that is something to be proud of. That being said, I personally couldn’t bring myself to forget all of the horror stories I’ve heard from other people at different schools.

I think that the idea of sororities is fantastic. I love having close female friends that share common interests, as I’m sure most girls do. But as I see it, the process of rush relies on judgment and competition between girls, and God knows we have enough of that.

The process of recruitment for sororities in and of itself is completely different than that of fraternities, and I think that the importance of strictly adhering to the guidelines for appearance throughout rush weekend perfectly exhibits the kind of judgment that the girls undergo.

The rush process was where I had my biggest issue: I don’t think that the clothes I would wear for the weekend or the short conversations I would have with girls in different sororities would give them an accurate enough picture of who I am to then judge whether or not I would fit into and belong in their respective sororities.

To me, this process appears to give room for girl hate.

While I think that within

sororities there is a lot of potential for legitimate sisterhood, the interactions between separate sororities have the opposite effect, pitting girls against other girls. Mean nicknames and reputations for sororities inevitably arise, but girls are more than willing to ascribe to and repeat these identities, which is a little off-putting.

I wish it were as easy as condemning sororities, though, but it just isn’t. The role that sororities play in girl hate is a direct result of our society and how we value females.

In then-Opinion Editor Kim Tran’s October 8, 2012 Loyolan article, “Who should run the world? Girls.,” she points out the ways in which women fail to demand the same respect and compensation as men in a work environment. While women often won’t assert their personal aspirations in a male-dominated environment, they’re more than willing to sabatoge their female peers.

There lies a huge problem.

I am personally responsible for girl hate. While I am quick to call out my guy friends when they use words like “slut” or “bitch,” I can’t walk away scotfree. I have judged girls on their sexuality before, used misnomers like those aforementioned and generally badmouthed other women for my own benefit. It scares me. How can we expect men to view us as equals when we ourselves are sexist?

And that’s exactly what those actions denote: sexism.

It’s not just gossip (which is bad enough). No, putting other girls down for reasons that solely depend on their being a girl is sexist.

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While I sat on stage the day of my graduation, it was easy for me to only feel the utmost respect and love for the girls around me, but my school was no haven free from the patriarchal inclination to produce and promote girl-on-girl crime.

Girls hating on other girls has been a part of my life since I can remember. All that has changed is the subject matter and the words of choice.

Sometimes I wonder if my incessant need to be outspoken, and at times a downright pain in the ass, is a result of this girl-on-girl hate. A way for me to stand out, to be different. But what it boils down to is that I am like other girls, and I’m proud of it.

This is the opinion of Allie Heck, a freshman business major from Dallas,Texas.Please send comments to aheck@theloyolan.com.

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‘Lobby Hero’ production is mundane at best Theatre Review

By Hannah Stone Contributor

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obby Hero,” the most recent production put on by our own Del Rey Players, is anything but heroic. Lame pun, I know, but I thought I would go with something unoriginal because that’s what I experienced last Thursday for two hours in Del Rey Theatre.

Normally, opening nights are exciting for me, a girl who digs somewhat of an experimental, avantgarde scene. I was intrigued by the four-person cast, the nondescript title and the general anonymity that surrounded the production. I took my seat at 8 p.m. and prepared myself for a mental schooling, but by the end of the first act, I was more interested in the elevator set piece than any of the characters.

This was probably because there wasn’t too much action at all. The entirety of the play occurs in one ho-

tel lobby as the audience follows Jeff (played by sophomore communications studies major Mark Ashla), the security guard, in his relationship with his boss, William, and two police officers, Dawn and Bill.

Similar to a doctor-patient scenario, the audience learns about Jeff’s past as he talks with each character individually about their lives and the troubles. Eventually, Jeff’s big mouth gets him involved in a murder case and from there he attempts to do the right thing because then he will at least be doing something.

In the interim, we see the unfolding of Bill’s extramarital exploits, William’s struggle to live honestly and Dawn’s desire to be more than a “piece of ass.” What I thought was going to be a mind-boggling play turned out to be one big group therapy session.

In the play, the dialogue is vastly more important than any “action” that occurs. I typically have no objection to a talk-heavy play – unless the dialogue is tedious and repetitive, as in this production. This was,

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Sophomore communication studies major Mark Ashla (right) stars as Jeff, a security guard whose big mouth lands him in the middle of a murder case.

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Senior theatre arts major Trevor Scott (left) and junior theatre arts major Rechard Francois perform a scene from“Lobby Hero,”the latest production from the Del Rey Players.The play is directed by senior theatre arts major Alex Ford. however, not the fault of the director, senior theatre arts major Alex Ford, who submitted the play as his thesis. It is more appropriate to blame the author, Kenneth Lonergan, for his poor writing. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much for Ford to do with the bad writing, as it left each character undeveloped and the audience uninterested.

From the ashes, there are a few gems to be mentioned. Senior theatre arts major Trevor Scott was perfectly cast as Bill. Unlike all of the other characters, his seemed to have multiple dimensions. Hats off to the only actor who didn’t at some point get into a screaming match with Jeff.

There were quite a few laughs for Ashla, as his comedic side took hold of Jeff’s role and ran with it when

he could. Indeed, his funny witticisms gave a little hope to Act 1, but into the depths of Act 2, even he couldn’t stay afloat as all the characters are determined to make the show as dramatic as possible with a stereotypical plot that only Hitchcock could make fascinating.

The two highlights from the show didn’t involve characters, but rather the set. At one point halfway through the drudgery of Act 2, William (played by junior theatre arts major Rechard Francois) aimed to leave the lobby and inadvertently took off one of the door handles on his way. Props to him for literally and metaphorically keeping his calm and letting the show go on.

The other setting phenomenon that piqued my interest was the elevator. It was the only intriguing thing

to look at due to its pleasant “ding” to keep me awake and help move the story forward.

When the actors finally took their bows, I clapped because I was grateful for their hard work, but also because I was glad it was over. Despite valiant efforts on both the director’s and actors’ parts, there just isn’t enough in the script to keep the audience concerned, especially for two hours.

This is the opinion of Hannah Stone, a sophomore film studies major from Overland Park, Kan. Please send comments to cjames@theloyolan.com.

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LMU student finds success on YouTube Student Spotlight

By Chelsea Chenelle Asst. A&E Editor

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ou’re going steady with a great guy. He only has eyes for you, never complains about your shopping trips and loves dancing – maybe too much. On a whim, you go out with your girl friends to your favorite gay club and are shocked to find your man sipping a Chocotini and bobbing his head to “Born This Way.” Such is the world of Hailey Rowe, freshman entrepreneurship major in her music video, “My Boyfriend is Gay.” The Chicago native struck YouTube gold on Feb. 1, when her video received nearly 23,000 views overnight. A week later, the video boasts nearly 70,000 views and some passionate comments. Asst.

A&E Editor Chelsea Chenelle sat down with Rowe to get the story straight.

Chelsea Chenelle (CC): What gave you the idea to do the song?

Hailey Rowe (HR): Well, I thought it would be an interesting scenario, and it’s not meant to be offensive in any way or anything. But I have a few gay friends, and I thought obviously they make the perfect boyfriends because they’re just perfect. And so I thought it would be funny to find out if your boyfriend was

gay, and actually after I wrote this song a bunch of girls have been able to relate to it, so that was cool.

CC: How did the video happen?

HR: My voice teacher recommended a director, because we’ve been talking to music companies and they’ve said we needed a video to go with the song because they need a visual to go with the song.

We talked to director Kevin Boston, and we loved him. We got a whole team, and one of the people was on “The Real World,” so she got some of her reality star friends to be in the video, which helped with the views. It just kind of took off from there. I had a bunch of friends from LMU in it as backup dancers and it was really fun to have my friends be in it.

CC: Who from LMU is in it?

HR: My freshman friends. I put out notices to the theatre [arts] and dance [department] because I wanted to use their talent.

CC: Have people noticed you from the video?

HR: A few people have asked about it, but we’re trying to get it to spread more to college campuses.

CC: How did you get funding for the video? Was it all out of pocket?

HR: Yes, we lucked out getting the lady from “The Real World.” Her friends did it for free, my friends who I got

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Some viewers online have criticized the video for its perceived reductive portrayal of the gay community, but Rowe said that she got the “gay stamp” of approval from her friends.

from LMU did it for free. Really, it didn’t cost that much to begin with. It was low-budget.

CC: For people who have said it’s offensive, what would you say to that?

HR: I can’t please everybody, but I got the gay stamp from some of my friends. I asked if they thought it was offensive.

It’s not meant to be. It’s meant to be like a specific situation and certain things that a certain person does, not the whole gay population. I think that they have a right to their own opinion and that’s OK. CC: How long have you been doing music?

HR: I started singing when I was five and started writing songs in middle school and high school. I also started recording around that time, and one person we met led to another person, and we’d record with new people. I went to a convention for acting and singing, so basically I just keep myself out there. I perform in a band at home.

CC: What is your band’s name?

HR: Quinn Rowe. We do cover songs of rock and country, a lot of classic rock. I’m trying to keep myself active.

CC: What are your musical inspirations?

HR: I love strong female artists with big voices. I love Celine Dion. I love Madonna; she doesn’t have a big voice but she’s a great performer.

CC: Were you scared putting out the video knowing it may have controversy attached to it?

HR: I feel like I have become immune to all that stuff over time, because I’ve taken a lot of criticism and it doesn’t really matter. I’m really pleasantly surprised how it turned out because the majority of what people are saying is positive and we’ve gotten a lot of hype.

CC: Do you think the controversy around it has given it the hype?

HR: I definitely do. I think if it was another relationship song it wouldn’t have been as big.

CC: To people who would say it was exploitive of gay culture in order to get attention, what would you say?

HR: It was not my intention, not at all. I’m accepting towards gay culture. I have a bunch of gay friends. I think

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Freshman Hailey Rowe has achieved Internet fame with her video, “My Boyfriend is Gay.” While the comments on the video range from anger to “LOL,” Rowe insists she never meant any harm. gay marriage and equal rights should be what the world is.

To people who think it’s me taking advantage of their culture, or whatever, it’s not my intention and I’m sorry.

It’s just lighthearted and fun, and I think a lot of people are overanalyzing it, but I understand.

CC: What has been the general LMU response to it?

HR: It’s been very positive. A lot of my friends have told me they liked it. Or, they’ll tell me, “I saw it,” and nothing else. I’m grateful that people like it and are watching it and sharing it with their friends.

CC: What made you decide to come to LMU? HR: I love California, and I’ve always wanted to come out here. I sing and act and I want to start going on auditions eventually. It’s so fun.

I’ve always come out here for spring break because we have friends out here.

CC: Do you have anyone looking at your work yet?

HR: We have a manager from L.A., who is Ann-Margret’s manager, looking at it. We’ve been sharing it with people in the industry and we’re working on sending it out to more record labels.

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Exhibit examines ‘Urban’ culture in L.A. Art Spotlight

By Chelsea Chenelle Asst. A&E Editor

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he Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. Student Art Gallery gives students some measure of creative freedom in a professional gallery setting. From exhibit conception to opening reception, all choices are made by LMU students who work in the gallery cooperative.

The student gallery’s most recent exhibit, “Urban,” relies on this creative freedom to tell a story that is rarely put in a gallery setting.

In “Urban,” artist and senior studio arts major Chanel Mitchell explores inner-city Los Angeles and questions the definitions and connotations that surround the word “urban.”

According to the artist’s statement, which is featured on the back wall, “Taking a postmodern approach, this solo exhibition explores the urban noun as it addresses issues in the community, … and tells untold stories while celebrating the dynamics of ethnic culture.”

The multimedia show throws together high and low art featuring unconventional sculpting materials such as Arizona Iced Tea cans as well as arresting photography and painted panels of wood. Mitchell said she found out that her exhibit would be featured on the

last day of the fall 2012 semester, which left her with three short weeks to develop the show. Despite her time constraint, “Urban” showcases several different photo series alone.

“Having limited resources and a great time constraint, I had to be efficient while still upholding the values of creating good work,” Mitchell said.

While much of her work celebrates the vivacious culture accredited to urban communities such as fashion and hip-hop music, Mitchell also chose to showcase the crime, poverty and injustices these communities face. For example, her favorite piece is one she made in memory of Trayvon Martin, which includes Arizona Iced Tea cans tied together to make a cross with one bullet in the middle. “[Martin’s murder] was a violent result of racial profiling and injustice. I wanted to do a piece dedicated to his life, his family and all of the young people who have lost their lives to injustice,” Mitchell said.

The show’s opening reception was held Monday, Feb. 4 and boasted a large audience. Since then, according to the gallery cooperative, the show has been well received, evident in the high traffic within the gallery’s operating hours.

The uniqueness and draw of the show comes from Mitchell’s traditionally ignored perspective.

Shown after an exhibit on contem-

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The show features multimedia works in order to encapsulate the many different influences urban society has had on American culture.

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This piece, “Black L.A.,” showcases various sites around L.A. associated with the urban culture of the city.

This is just one of many art pieces featured in senior studio arts major Chanel Mitchell’s gallery, “Urban.” porary crafting, the political edge of Mitchell’s work resonates even louder. As senior entrepreneurship major Alexis Joi Lester said after seeing the show, “All her pieces have a story behind them. Everyone should come see it because it describes what we go through as people and it’s not often put up or seen. It’s usually taken to the back, hush, silence. But this is bringing it out and showing people, ‘Hey, this is urban.’”

The show carries a personal weight for Mitchell: “Growing up in the urban areas of Los Angeles, I have been exposed to a brilliant environment of uniqueness, the urban lifestyle. … Associated with negative titles like ghetto, slum and hood, urban has evolved into stereotypical descriptions of a person, place or thing correlated with ethnic races. I became interested in addressing this topic and I chose to do that through visual arts.”

“Urban” will be up in the student gallery until Feb. 15. The Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. Student Art Gallery’s hours are Monday through Friday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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Water polo finishes strong in Triton Invite The Lions go 3-1 at the UCSD Triton Invitational over the weekend.

By Kevin Cacabelos Asst. Sports Editor

LMU women’s water polo placed ninth out of sixteen teams in the UCSD Triton Invitational in La Jolla, Calif. this past weekend, collecting victories over Marist College, CSU Bakersfield and No. 10 University of Michigan after dropping their opening game to host school UC San Diego (UCSD).

“We collectively came together to pull back and come away with three wins,” said junior two-meter defender Kiara Cerda.

LMU junior driver Alexandra Honny scored two of the Lions’ three goals in the fourth period, leading LMU (6-4) to their ninth place victory over the Michigan Wolverines on Sunday evening.

“I’m very happy on how we finished the tournament out. We got big minutes from everyone on the team,” said LMU Head Coach Kyle Witt.

The Lions benefited from contributions from everyone on the team, with five different players scoring in the team’s win over Michigan.

“We definitely felt a little more comfortable playing with each other,” Cerda said.

Honny tallied a team-high 10 goals in the team’s four games over the weekend.

The junior leads the team

with 16 goals through nine games. “[Honny] had big goals.

She’s taking advantage of what the defense is giving her. She’s learning what it takes to be a player that plays a lot of minutes,” said Witt.

“She’s definitely looking good and stepping into a leadership role,” Cerda added.

Tied at 7-7 against Michigan with less than four minutes left, sophomore utility Mackenzie Beck scored the go-ahead goal to give the Lions the 8-7 advantage.

“I think national rankings right now are a crapshoot, but Michigan is a solid team that we should’ve beat and we did beat,” Witt said.

The Lions did not get off on the right foot in this past weekend’s action, losing their opening match to host school, No. 19 UC San Diego (UCSD), 8-7 on Saturday morning.

“It definitely was a tough loss to a conference rival,” Cerda said.

The No. 15-ranked Lions held a 7-6 lead after three quarters before the Tritons rallied and scored a gamewinner by UCSD junior Sarah L izottte with two seconds left.

“We had a lot of mental errors,” Witt said. “We’d get a big stop and then turn the ball right over. Or we’d have a good offensive possession but then allow a goal because our defense was not set.”

Four different Lions scored in the third quarter with sophomore Laura Lopez, freshman Bridgette Alvarez,

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Junior driver Alexandra Honny led the Lions with 10 goals scored in their four games at the UC San Diego Triton Invitational. sophomore Mackenzie Beck and freshman utility Ivana Castro all finding the back of the net for LMU. Castro finished with seven goals on the weekend, giving her 14 on the season.

The Lions bounced back with a 13-5 victory over Marist in their second game

on Saturday. Honny scored three first-half goals, helping the Lions jump out to a 7-2 lead at the half. LMU outscored Marist 6-3 the rest of the game, with Honny adding another goal in the third period.

LMU’s defense shut down the Marist Red Foxes,

holding them scoreless for 18 minutes of game time from the beginning of the second quarter all the way to the six minute mark in the fourth quarter.

On day two, LMU squeaked

by CSU Bakersfield, scoring three goals in the final quarter to outlast the Roadrunners by a score of 9-8.

The Lions trailed 8-6 with just under six minutes to play, but then scored three goals in two minutes, securing the victory.

Castro scored the first of LMU’s fourth-quarter goals at the 5:58 mark and then 20 seconds later, LMU sophomore driver Savannah Fletcher scored to tie the game at 8-8. Finally, Beck scored the go-ahead goal at the 4:03 mark to give the Lions the 9-8 lead and the eventual victory.

Castro scored a game-high three goals that all came in the second half of Sunday morning’s match.

Despite the team’s three victories over the weekend, Witt remained cautious in evaluating his team’s performance.

“We had a lot of high highs and a lot of low lows this past weekend.

Anytime you lose the first game of a tournament, it puts you into a tough situation,” said Witt.

“We’re still going through some growing pains.”

LMU has two weeks off before returning to the pool in two weeks to play in their third straight tournament at the UC Irvine Invitational beginning on Saturday, Feb. 23.

S ports Taylor approaching Sun Valley Nationals

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Ski & Snowboard from Page 16 fifth year on campus, meaning she joined soon after it became an official club sport. Competitionwise, the team members face off in the Southern California College Sports Conference (SCCSC) of the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA), taking on nine other schools in a typical weekend of races.

Despite her success, there is no reason to believe her dominance on the mountain has gone to her head.

“There’s not a ton of competition in [the] SoCal female league, I guess,” Taylor said. “I wasn’t expecting it, I guess, but a lot of the other girls who I raced against graduated.”

Her approach is not lost on her teammates, either.

“She gets really embarrassed when I talk about her and her skills,” Borders said. “I was introducing her to all of my friends on Saturday night, and I kept saying how amazing she is and she was like, ‘No, no, stop!’”

Surprisingly, there are only four members who have been competing regularly for the team this season (with the inclusion of freshman skier Jordan Cain last weekend, who placed second in

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her first race ever). In addition to Taylor, Dea and Borders, freshman James Reaves rounds out the core of the team.

“It’s pretty small, the actual racing team this year,” Taylor said. “The club is mostly club members who just go up to Mammoth.”

Like Cain last weekend, Borders placed for the first time. She spoke of the “great experience” she has had in just her first season with the team, and Taylor helped make her fifth-place finish even more memorable.

“In the finals, [Taylor’s] heat went first and she got first, so she was waiting at the bottom for me to come through. And I got first [in the second heat], and it was so exciting because she was right there, cheering me on.”

Standing between Taylor and the possibility of a season sweep are three competitions: this weekend’s final regularseason race; Regionals in Sugar Bowl, Calif. (Feb. 23-24) and the USCSA Nationals in Sun Valley, Idaho from March 4-9.

Even though Taylor does not show it, her teammates make up for her lack of overconfidence. In one race earlier this season, Dea said that Taylor won a giant slalom race by 20 seconds – a number which Borders confirms as

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Taylor (left) is pictured above preparing for the boarder cross race two years ago at Nationals, where she placed fourth overall in the competition. one of her regular stats.

“I was telling her that if I had her skill, I would definitely put off anything after college just

to find sponsors so I can snowboard,” Borders said.

But Taylor will be done with competitive snowboarding come

graduation in May. She is a member of ROTC and will go into the United States Air Force after leaving LMU. “I wish the Air Force had a team, but I don’t think they do, so [I’ll] probably just [continue after] recreationally,” Taylor said.

Talk to her about the feeling on top of the mountain, though, and it is clear that nothing will stop her from continuing to hit the slopes.

“I’m kind of anxious, [and] my heart starts going really fast – I notice because every time I get to the bottom, I’m kind of shaky,” Taylor said. “I’m just looking ahead at the course just thinking about what I’ll do, then it goes really fast by the time you’re actually racing.”

National champion or not, Taylor and the team will have one last weekend of races before the end of the season: the alumni event in April. Despite her firstyear status on the team, Borders is already excited for the competition.

“The alumni come back and compete with the students, and it’s more fun than anything,” Borders said. “I’ve heard that there are costumes, bikini runs – it’s just like a big party on the mountain.”

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talented players like all Division I teams do. Especially this time of year, everyone has to go, everyone is beat up, and it’s really tough to get yourself through these games.”

“Anthony Ireland is an old school player,” said Head Coach Max Good. “You don’t see him putting up fingers or pounding his chest when he scores. He’s a tough little guy. He gets beat up. He never cries, he never whines, he just gets back up. He’s a great human being.”

Even more unexpectedly was the ovation Ireland received from the Gonzaga crowd in the final minute of the game.

“That definitely surprised me coming off the court,” said Ireland.

“I heard a few people clapping, then I heard a big ovation from everyone else, and that was such a good feeling.”

“That shows they have knowledgeable fans up here,” said Good.

“I’ve got a lot of respect for Gonzaga.”

Gonzaga was led by redshirt junior forward Kelly Olynyk, who converted on seven of his eight field goal attempts for 20 points, grabbed six rebounds and dished out four assists.

“Olynyk is amazing,” said Good.

“He doesn’t look like he has great foot speed, but he’s got long strides.

They’re good.”

Aside from Olynyk, the Bulldogs saw two other players, senior forward Elias Harris and sophomore guard Kevin Pangos, register double-digit scoring numbers, posting 16 and 20 points, respectively.

The Lions kept it close early on, taking an early 8-7 lead over the Bulldogs, but a 3-pointer from Pangos returned the advantage to Gonzaga for good.

“They are a well-oiled machine,” said Ireland. “They had great offense, so many threats out there.

They are well-coached. Their basketball IQ is very high.”

The Lions’ front court was hit with fouls early, as redshirt junior Alex Osborne and junior Godwin Okonji picked up two and three fouls, respectively, in the first half, causing Good to search deep into his bench. Three freshmen (forwards Adam Drexler, Marin Mornar and Nick Stover) all saw at least 10 minutes of action on Saturday night. Drexler and redshirt senior guard Taylor Walker, who played 17 minutes, are also both walk-ons.

“Definitely satisfied with the effort,” said Ireland. “Both of our bigs fouled out. We’re on the road.

Everybody out there gave it their all, and that’s all you want.”

The loss capped another goose egg weekend for the Lions, who also lost to the University of Portland on Thursday evening, 69-60.

It was the Pilots’ second win of the season, both of which have come against LMU. Led by 21 points from junior forward Ryan Nicholas, Portland rebounded from a three-point, 3128 halftime deficit and scored 41 second-half points en route to the 69-60 win.

Nicholas and junior guard Tanner Riley sank a combined nine of 10 3-pointers for the Pilots, who shot 68.6 percent as a team from

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Junior point guard Anthony Ireland (3) is shown above during the buzzer-beater loss to USD last Monday. Since the game, the Lions have dropped two more despite Ireland’s 51 combined points. beyond the arc and 56.1 percent from the field.

The Lions shot the ball well, hitting 55.6 percent of their 3-pointers and 46.8 percent of their field goals, but grabbed just 22 rebounds.

A 3-pointer by Nicholas at the 8:30 mark of the second half gave Portland a 52-50 advantage, and the lead for good.

“We didn’t play very smart, especially late,” said Ireland, who scored 21 points in the loss. “It was disappointing because we had an opportunity to close them out, but gave them a second chance. Give them credit – they knocked the shots down.”

The Lions have dug themselves into a 1-10 hole, and the loss to the Pilots, who hold the head-to-head

tiebreaker, will make it difficult for LMU to get out of last place when the WCC Championships roll around.

They’ll have a chance to end their eight-game skid on Thursday, Feb. 14 when they travel up the Pacific Coast Highway for a rivalry matchup against Pepperdine University (11-13, 3-8) at 7 p.m.

Golf heads to Farms Collegiate Invitational Golf from Page 16 Anteater Invite. To finish the season, on April 15-17 they will head to the three-day West Coast Conference Championships in Bremerton, WA. The Lions will compete at the Farms course tomorrow, which has a par-72. Senior Eduardo Chavez said that the Lions’ focus will not be on other teams, but their own game.

“In golf, you don’t really play against the other team – you just play against the course,” Chavez said.

LMU has competed in this tournament in previous years, but not recently.

“This is our first time in two years going back to this tournament, so we’ll see how everything plays out,” junior Tyler Torano said.

Torano said that he expects stand-out senior Boris Stantchev to play a big role in the tournament this week. Stantchev has been playing on the team since his freshman year. According to LMU Athletics, he has played 81 rounds of golf in 28 career events while shooting 14 rounds under par.

“He’s been playing really well lately,” Torano said. “We’re expecting good things from him, and really low scores. Hopefully he comes through this week and helps us out.”

Torano is a Chula Vista, Calif. native and is familiar with the course at the Farms Invite.

“It’ll be nice going home and playing somewhere locally where my parents can watch and all that stuff, so it’s pretty cool,” Torano said.

“I grew up around the course.”

Based off their play from the fall season, Chavez said that he thinks

the Lions have some areas that they can work on.

“I think as a team, we can really improve on our small game,” Chavez said. “Small game is the short game around the green, so like chipping and putting. I think that’s where we can really improve.”

Chavez also said that the Lions’ biggest competition tomorrow and Tuesday will be St. Mary’s College.

“In the past, they’ve beat us quite a bit so this year, we have a team that can really compete with them and we can give them a run,” Chavez said. “They’re the favored

team in the conference, so if we can beat them then I think we can do really well.”

The Farms Invite tournament begins today with 36 holes starting at 8:15 a.m. On Tuesday, the last 18 holes will be played. The Lions’ next tournament will take place on Feb. 17-19 at the Folino Invite in Industry Hills, Calif.

“I’m looking forward to the great courses we’re going to play this semester,” Chavez said. “We’re playing some really nice courses this semester, starting at the Farm’s Invite.”

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Lions need urgency in final weeks of season The women’s basketball team split its last two games to Santa Clara and Gonzaga.

W

e hear it all the time in sports: teams need a sense of urgency. But what does that mean?

After Thursday night’s big win against conference rival Santa Clara University, a game in which the Lions not only scored the first 16 points, but dominated the Broncos in virtually Raff’s Rap all aspects,

By Dan Raffety Head Coach Charity ElAsst. Managing Editor liott told me that they needed to play with this sense of urgency, to come out hot, and that they had to keep that same mentality in their next game against the conference’s best team, Gonzaga University.

Easier said than done?

The Lions came out flatter than bad club soda against the Bulldogs on Saturday afternoon, getting a taste of their own medicine as the Zags scored the game’s first 15 points and dominated LMU at halftime 39-16. Ouch.

This was one of the worst halves of basketball I had seen, and one of the lowest first half point totals of the season for the Lions. LMU just couldn’t make a shot or get anything going offensively. They couldn’t stop the opponents front line players or

three-point shooters. It was pretty obvious who the better team was.

To give credit, the Lions did come out in the second half and play much better, nearly cutting the lead to single digits. But this is a 40-minute game, and you need two halves of good basketball to pull off an upset.

So then the question becomes: Where do we go from here? Do we cut our losses, consider this a lost season and try better next year?

Hell, no. Not with this coach leading the way. There is no quit in her or this team. But talk is cheap. They need to play with an urgency that is contagious, similar to their play Thursday night.

I know that this is Elliott’s first year at the helm. She has imposed her aggressive philosophy on her team, and their play demonstrates that. However, at the end of the day, this team has nine wins, only one more than last season. She has used phrases like “on the cusp” and “almost there” to describe how close her girls are to translating the effort on the floor to numbers in the win column.

Elliott will tell you that this team takes it one day at a time and that the effort is there, but execution and inconsistency has been the kryptonite for this squad.

The time is now. No more inconsistency. The effort is consistent, but execution needs to happen. This team needs to win away games. As it currently stands, they are consistently defeated on the road (0-10). They can’t rely on friendly confines in order to win a game, but rather need to take that aggressive style Elliott has preached and dominate away

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LMU women’s basketball Head Coach Charity Elliott talks to her team during a home game versus Colorado State University on Nov. 28, in which LMU won 69-52. This is Elliott’s first year coaching at LMU. from Gersten Pavilion.

While I believe this team will have success down the line, they need to win now for their star player’s sake. Redshirt senior Alex Cowling does not have any more years of eligibility after the season’s done. She is the school’s all-time rebounding leader and the go-to player when the team needs a bucket.

For her sake, the team needs to make these last three weeks the

best three weeks of basketball because there would be nothing sadder, in my opinion, than if this great player finished her LMU basketball career on a losing note.

Give Elliott something to build upon for next season. Win the next five games, go into the WCC tournament being the team that no one wants to play. It all starts with this sense of urgency.

The University of San Diego is the next challenge, as they

currently sit in fourth place in the WCC. As of now, the Lions haven’t defeated any of the top five teams. Here is their chance.

This team needs to play hard, play smart and play these next three weeks of basketball with an incredible sense of urgency.

This is the opinion of Dan Raffety, a junior communication studies from Eagle Rock, Calif. Please send comments to draffety@theloyolan.com.

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February 11, 2013 Page 16

Taylor boarding towards Nationals Golf kicks off spring season

LMU starts its spring season with a two-day tournament hosted by the University of San Diego.

By Sam Borsos Asst. Sports Editor

LMU Ski & Snowboard

The LMU ski and snowboard club is in its fifth season on LMU’s campus. Senior snowboarder Kaylee Taylor (top right) is leading the team this year, placing first in all eight of her races to date.Taylor looks to continue her momentum,including the possibility of taking home a national title in March.

Senior LMU snowboarder Kaylee Taylor pushes toward national title with perfect record in tow.

By Nathan Dines Sports Editor

Eight races down, eight first-place finishes. Senior snowboarder and biology major Kaylee Taylor is shredding the competition this year on the LMU ski and snowboard team. In her teammates’ minds, she is a heavy favorite to be this year ’s national

champion.

“She rips, she is so good,” senior accounting major and first-year club member Daytona Borders said.

Taylor has proven just that in Mammoth, Calif. this season. Returning to her hometown to race, Taylor is again competing for the team a year removed from studying abroad in Germany – and two years after placing fourth overall in nationals.

“She is killing the competition,” senior applied mathematics major and team president Eric Dea said. “She’s the first woman [for LMU] who’s been really good.”

Growing up in Mammoth, Taylor started skiing when she was three years old, switching to her preferred board in middle school. Yet it wasn’t until joining her high school race team that Taylor realized her passion for the sport.

“Racing in high school was really fun,” Taylor said. “It was cool because we got to miss full days on Fridays just to go up and snowboard all day.”

Taylor was given the chance to continue competing once she came to LMU. The team is in the middle of its

The groundhog didn’t see his shadow on Feb. 2, which means that spring is coming early this year. In fortuitous timing, the men’s golf team will kick off its spring season tomorrow at the Farms Collegiate Invitational hosted by the University of San Diego (USD) in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The two-day tournament will feature schools including UC Santa Barbara, Santa Clara University, Western Illinois University, Fresno State University and UC Riverside.

“I’d say our season is going OK,” senior Bryan Bergna said. “The fall was just average; we’re hoping to have a better spring. We’ve been practicing really hard and just getting ready for the next few tournaments coming up.”

The Lions wrapped up their fall season at the Bill Cullum Invitational on Oct. 22 and 23 at the Wood Ranch Golf Club in Simi Valley, Calif., finishing ninth out of 20. They closed with a total score of 891, which put them only two strokes behind Boise State University and four behind Southern Utah University. USD, the hosts of the Farms Invite, won the tournament with a low score of 850.

This semester, LMU will compete in five tournaments in California including the Farms Invite, Folino Inviational Golf Tournament, Del Walker Invite, Sac. St. Intercollegiate Cup and

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Ireland unable to halt eight-game skid The men’s basketball team drops to 1-10 in the WCC as the Lions lose another weekend of play.

By Michael Goldsholl Staff Writer

Thirty points from junior point guard Anthony Ireland wasn’t enough to halt the Lions’ losing streak Saturday evening.

The men’s basketball team dropped its

eighth-consecutive game and fell to 1-10 in West Coast Conference (WCC) play, losing against No. 6 Gonzaga University (23-2, 100), 74-55.

Less than two weeks removed from being on the tail end of a 45-point whopping at the hands of the Bulldogs, the Lions traveled to Spokane, Wash. to complete a two-game road trip in the Pacific Northwest.

Unfortunately for the Lions, the Gonzaga team they were playing against has won 117 of its 125 home games since its opening in 2004.

Ireland put up 15 points in each half, eclipsing the 30-point mark for just the second time this season. He went to the line a season-high of 14 times and converted 12 of them, but shot just eight of 20 from the floor in the loss.

“That’s a competitive team,” said Gonzaga Head Coach Mark Few. “When you have a guy like Ireland who is a tough, tough guy, he is not going to quit. They came in here ready to fight. They have some very

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SOFTBALL WEEKEND UPDATE LMU OPENS SEASON IN UTAH

STEADY SHUSTER

LMU softball opened its season, going 3-2 at the Red Desert giving LMU a 5-0 advantage after hitting a two-out three-RBI triple in Classic in St. George, Utah this past weekend. The Lions earned the bottom of the third. victories over mid-major opponents Colorado State University, Weber Utah halted LMU’s winning streak on Saturday afternoon, spotting State University and Utah State University, but dropped games to LMU senior Dana Waldusky for five runs in four innings pitched. LMU Bowl Championship Series conference schoolsbegan Utah and Arkansas.

3-0 after first inning,College, but Utah scored nine unanswered runs, Rivera lost in a tieThe LMU women’s tennis team season lastled Friday atthe Westmont Jakub Eisner, while Freshmen Crist and Sydney Gouveia shined but in theirsaw their their 2013Stephanie campaign with a 7-0 sweep comingmatch away with a 9-3 victory. postponed due to breaker in the second set. over Concordia at complete the LMU poor weather. struggled LMU debuts.

GouveiaUniversity pitched a two-hit game shutout while On their last day of play, the Lions silencedLMU Utah State 3-0 for again on Sunday, losTennis Center this past Saturday.

The Lions host Long Beach State Uni- ing 5-2 to host university, Iowa. Senior CristInhit atwodominating home runs in LMU’s openingthe 9-0 Lions victory overversity Utah thistheir third shutout of thestart weekend,Nicholas before losing 8-3 toand Rivera recorded the fashion, Friday at a and 1:30winp.m.

Bjerke won every singles match in straight sets. time at the LMU Tennis Center.

Lions’ sole victories against the HawkState on Friday. The two teams were locked in a scoreless tie until Arkansas in their final game of the weekend. Waldusky bounced Junior Miya Jin and freshman Kristine On the men’s side, LMU struggled on eyes. Bjerke defeated Iowa sophomore Crist’s two-run homerun in the fifth inning gave LMU the the lead. The back againstboth Utah State, surrendering three hits and striking out Kouyoumjian highlighted Saturday’s road, dropping matches to Il-onlyMatt Hagan in straight sets, while RiLions thenJin exploded for seven runs in thefreshman top of the seventh inningStateeight Aggies in a and complete-game Arkansas,back LMU for two straight wins play. defeated Concordia linois University Iowa at shutout. the Against vera battled Ellie Johnson of Iowa Il- forafter dropping the to secure the win. 6-1 and 6-0, while Kouy- University Head Coachover Garythe Ferrinweekend. started Gouveia her third appearance in first set to freshman oumjian defeated freshman Caitlyn Uzzi linois State swept LMU. Dominic Patrick. pitching continued throughmatch. their second game on three days. a complete but gave up 12 hits continues next Sun6-0LMU’s andstellar 6-1 in her first collegiate Sophomore FelixGouveia Vanpitched Kann and game,The Lions’ season Jin also shined freshman Rivera both started day, Feb. 3 for a 10:00 a.m. match on the Saturday morning, helpinginthedoubles Lions beatplay Weberwith State 6-0.

Senior Cristobal and four walks in the loss. teammate, junior Claudia Razzeto, beat- strong, winning their first sets, but both road against University of Southern CaliMolly Medeiros pitched 4.1 innings of scoreless baseball and then LMU continues its season at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in ing freshman Elizaveta Ignatova and were unable to finish with victories. Van fornia.

Gouveia finished off the game, out Weber State Kann for 2.2 dropped two weeks Palm Springs, Calif.sets freshman Mona Piller 8-1shutting in doubles play. his in following three The teamSenior wasthird supposed begin their – Compiled by Kevin Cacabelos, asst. Sports editor more innings. basemantoSkylar Segura broke to the Illinois game, State freshman

Junior second baseman Sterling Shuster leads LMU with a .429 average. She reached base in all but one game over the weekend.

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