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TOP TEN STORIES
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"Arrests made at off-campus party"
At an off-campus party near LMU during Labor Day weekend, approximately 32 LMU students were issued citations, while at least three were arrested, according to DPS reports.
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"Students lose laptops in library theft"
Men's basketball upsets thrice over The men's basketball team pulled off three upset victories over Top-25 opponents during the 2011-12 season, including the Lions' first game against UCLA.
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The first semester of the 2011-12 school year came with multiple incidences of laptop thefts due to faulty programming of locks.
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"LMU community hit with increased costs" LMU students react to the University's implementation of parking fees in addition to a hike in tuition.
"Freshman begins LMU career after serving 20 years in prison"
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Wrongfully convicted of murder, Francisco Carrillo begins his first year of college at LMU in 2011.
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"High winds cause campus-wide power outage" Powerful winds late in the evening on Wednesday, Nov. 30 caused glass windows in Pereira Hall to shatter.
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Due to government warnings against travel to Mexico, LMU decides to put its De Colores program on hiatus.
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"University cancels STRFKR" Deemed "inappropriate for a Catholic Institution," University administrators shut down a scheduled appearance by the band STRFKR.
"Unauthorized solicitors present a concern for LMU's 'open campus'" A male was apprehended by the Department of Public Safety on Wednesday Dec. 7 for selling magazine subscriptions on campus.
"University suspends De Colores trips"
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"Hellige named as University provost"
President David W. Burcham selects Dr. Joseph Hellige as its next executive vice president and provost.
TOP ARTICLES BY SECTION NEWS "Sophomore reflects on 9/11"
OPINION "Problematic exclusivity at blood drive"
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"Alumni reflect on finding love at LMU"
"Imitation neither sincere nor flattering"
Brigette Scobas Feb. 16, 2012, Page 1
"Addiction: Roads to recovery" Adrien Jarvis March 29, 2012, Page 11
"Kappa Sigma aims to overcome bad blood"
Kevin O'Keeffe April 26, 2012, Page 1
Joseph Demes Nov. 7, 2011, Page 5
A&E "Del Rey Players bring Shakespeare to life" Emily Rome Sept. 26, 2011, Page 9
"News of the Fire unites old friends through rock music" Luisa Barron Oct. 24, 2011, Page 12
"What is the limit?"
"ROAR Network's 'Film Studies' parodies varying cinema genres"
"Sodexo: All you have to eat"
"Imago art show exhibits 'conceptually cogent' work"
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Kim Tran March 8, 2012, Page 8
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SPORTS "Wear your Lion pride upon your sleeve" Michael Goldsholl Sept. 1, 2011, Page 24
"Senior leader positive through it all" John Wilkinson Jan. 30, 2012, Page 16
"Junior transfer finds home at LMU" Dan Raffety March 29, 2012, Page 16
"True greatness deserves recognition" Nathan Dines April 16, 2012, Page 15
For the best of the web as well as online versions of all these stories, visit laloyolan.com.
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What: International Graduate Brunch and Celebration Where: Bird Nest When: Friday, May 4, 2012 10:30 a.m.
What: Kente Graduation Where: Bell Tower Garden When: Friday, May 4, 2012 3:00 p.m.
What: Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony Where: Sunken Garden When: Saturday, May 5, 2012 9:00 a.m.
What: Graduate Commencement Ceremony Where: Sunken Garden When: Sunday, May 6, 2012 10:00 a.m.
What: Commencement Mass Where: Gersten Pavilion When: Friday, May 4, 2012 7:30 p.m.
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Snapshots from LMU’s centennial year
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Members of Beta Theta Pi pose after completing their routine at Greek Council’s annual Lip Sync. The event, which was held on Oct. 8, concluded a week of service and competition for members of the University’s Greek community.
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LMU celebrated its centennial year on Sept. 25 by hosting the 58th annual Alumni Barbeque. Attendees, like the young girl pictured above, were showered in confetti at the event’s culmination.
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From left: Freshmen Amanda Montez, McCall Richards, Desiree Delesdernier and Eisha Perry enjoy Charity Ball, hosted by Crimson Circle and Belles service organizations. The annual event, which was held in the U-Hall Atrium on Jan. 27, celebrated its 14th anniversary.
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Junior sociology and African American studies double major Michelle Brown (left) participated in the University’s Centennial National Day of Service, serving lunches to residents of Skid Row at the Midnight Mission in downtown L.A.
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Sophomore point guard Anthony Ireland completes a drive to the basket in a game against CSU Fullerton. The young Lion was named to the all-Jesuit team, the all-conference first team and was honored as the WCC’s player of the week twice.
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Students filled Gersten Pavilion for ASLMU’s annual Collegefest, held March 25. This year’s concert featured The Hush Sound and Gym Class Heroes and was held indoors (as opposed to in Sunken Garden) due to inclement weather.
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Commencing Conversation The Loyolan talks with this year’s undergraduate and graduate commencement speakers.
Ken Burns
John Deasy
superintendent of LAUSD
award-winning documentarian
1. Do you have a particular connection to LMU? “Not in a direct sense, but you have a new professor of film, [Dean of LMU’s School of Film and Television] Stephen Uljaki, who I’ve known for many years at San Francisco State. And I’ve always admired the University and its culture and its reputation.”
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“My connections to LMU are several. I am a father of a graduate, my son. I am a very proud father of an alum. The school is a major partner in leadership developmment of principals in [Los Angeles Unified School District] LAUSD, and LMU is a major leader in helping our charter partners.”
What will you be speaking about? “History … I think in the way the past informs our present and our future.”
“I will be speaking about the power of service to others for the rest of your life, especially given the country and world economic picture.”
3. What’s one thing about you that the average person wouldn’t know? “I’m way older than I look. [Laughs] … I live in a tiny little village in New Hampshire where any tiny amount of celebrity or notoriety plus 50 cents gets you a cup of coffee.”
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“The average person would not know I am a rabid sports fan – especially [the] Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics.”
What’s something that you are most proud of in your life so far? “My four daughters, ages 29, 25, 7 and a year and a half. And I guess by extention, my granddaughter, who’s 15 months old.”
“I am most proud of my children and their developing legacy of serving others while developing a career.”
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LMU’s faculty gives graduates advice
“To be patient as you search for your passion.” - David W. Burcham, University president “Three thoughts come immediately to mind: Make the practice of yoga a regular part of your life; keep a journal; stay open and available to life’s possibilities. You graduates have a long and interesting life and a brilliant career ahead of you. You are going to meet fascinating people, have exciting experiences, engage in wonderfully complex relationships and see wonders that you can’t even begin to imagine today. Keeping a journal will allow you to chronicle that journey, your particular journey. And, with a little discipline on your part, it will provide you the opportunity for self-reflection and a greater understanding of the mysteries of life. I guess, in short, journaling is my response to Socrates’ exhortation that ‘an unexamined life is not worth living.’”- Dr. Lane Bove, senior vice president for Student Affairs “Don’t be afraid to fail. … Rarely will you ever find that somebody exceeds a bar that they set for themselves, so you want to set the bar high. And sometimes, I think, the thing that gets in the way of being bold about what you do is the fear that you are not going to succeed.” - Dr. Joseph Hellige, incoming executive vice president and University provost “Life is a journey so it’s important to look ahead, but be sure not to miss the life moments as they happen. Living with an attitude of gratitude will make all the difference in the easy and difficult times.” - Pam Rector, director of the Center for Service and Action “As you leave LMU, always remember why you came to LMU.” - Kathleen Aikenhead, chair of the LMU Board of Trustees
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Clarification
In the April 26 Bellarmine Forum advertisement (Page 9), Sr. MaryAnne Huepper, C.S.J. was incorrectly listed as a Sister of St. Joseph of Orange. “The organizers of the Bellarmine Forum regret the error and extend our apologies to Sr. MaryAnne Huepper, C.S.J,”English Professor K.J. Peters told the Loyolan.
1.What is the Senior Class Gift? The Senior Class Gift this year will not be in physical form, but rather, “a campaign led by seniors who want to raise money for LMU and give back in support of their whole person education,” according to the LMU website. The class of 2012 will have the opportunity to donate to over 350 monetary funds involving the betterment of LMU.
2.Who has spoken at commencement in the past? LMU has hosted its fair share of notable commencement speakers, including a Nobel laureate, a state governor, a former president of Mexico, a president of the Carnegie Institute and the director of “The Exorcist.” 3. Are there any plans for special recognition in the Centennial year commencement? LMU’s class of 1962 will be honored at this year’s commencement as Golden Lions for their 50th reunion and will be sitting among the faculty and distinguished guests. 4. Any Golden Lions of particular note? Attorney Johnnie Cochran, who represented O.J. Simpson and graduated from Loyola Law School in ‘62, would have been celebrating his 50th anniversary as well. 5. Oprah at LMU? A campaign was launched this year to commission Oprah Winfrey as this year’s commencement speaker through a website brandishing “LMU’s Turning 100, Let’s Get Oprah to Celebrate with Us!” on the homepage. 6. But… Unfortunately,
Oprah
couldn’t
make it this year. 7. What does this commencement mark? This commencement marks the end of the “LMU at 100” campaign. 8. Has there ever been a speaker who almost could not come? When former President of Mexico Vicente Fox came to speak in 2009, the outbreak of swine flu lead to a quarantine in Mexico, almost preventing him from making it. 9.Are there any crazy commencement speaker circumstances? When Mel Gibson gave the commencement speech in 2003, the film “The Passion of the Christ”
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had recently come out and heavy security had to be arranged. 10. Does anything else stand out? A fly-by was held at commencement when the thenundersecretary of the Air Force, Rudy de Leon, came to speak in 1995. 11. Why is commencement held in Sunken Garden? The decision to have the students and audience face the Sacred Heart Chapel was in order to let the graduating seniors walk down Alumni Mall, signifying their transformation from students to alumni.
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The almost-perfect graduation playlist 1.“School Spirit,” Kanye West Filled with Greek life references and critiques of his peers, Kanye’s farewell to college is perfect for your own. 2.“California Love,” Tupac Whether or not you’re staying in California after graduation, this song celebrates LMU’s Golden State. Be sure to represent the 90045 by showing love to his “up to no good” Inglewood reference. 3.“Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog,” Creedence Clearwater Revival This triumphant classic’s celebration of joyful relationships is perfect for your festive day. 4.“Hang On to Yourself,” David Bowie Hang on to Bowie’s words of wisdom when you enter the working world. 5.“I’m Coming Out,” Diana Ross This song screams, “Hello world, I’m ready to conquer.” Put extra pep in your commencement step with Ross’ diva anthem. 6.“Time After Time,” Cyndi Lauper Cyndi Lauper in general evokes nostalgic images of young couples in the ‘80s, dancing in polyester and crying to their friends on house phones. For all of you worried about parting from a special LMU someone this week, have a listen to this Lauper signature.
7. “Ray Charles,” Chiddy Bang A soulful summer hip-hop jam from Chiddy Bang off of their recent sophomore album “Breakfast” mixes light-hearted lyrics with samples from the song’s namesake legend. 8. “Defying Gravity,” Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth Menzel and Chenoweth’s performances wow in this fairly cheesy track from the Broadway musical “Wicked.” This song really makes you think you can do anything, from conquering the world to simply surviving your own family’s graduation party. 9. “Home Again, Alone Again,” Griever Out of San Diego, Calif., Griever contains members from the now defunct hardcore punk band, Lewd Acts. Combining slow, growling vocals over melodic, churning guitar, Griever is certainly not a band to be overlooked. 10. “Graduation (Friends Forever),” by Vitamin C Some of you might want to have a sentimental moment with this song. Others might want to laugh at the people that are. Either way, this track is worth a listen as commencement nears. After all, what else keeps Vitamin C relevant? – Tierney Finster and Jackson Souza, Loyolan staff
Seniors!! Share your Hidden Gems with the next generation of Lions! We’re building a photo collection of LMU’s “Hidden Gems” and would love your help. Are there places on campus only you seemed to appreciate? Where did you find solace during your LMU career? What quiet corner or out of the way place will you remember after graduation? No one knows LMU better than you do, so submit your ideas for the places and things which are our true Hidden Gems. Your suggestions will be photographed, credited to you, and shared with future students. Scan to see Hidden Gems
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Ups and downs characterize historic season The men’s basketball team has first 20-win season since 1990. By John Wilkinson Senior Editor
For the last 20 years, each season’s LMU men’s basketball team has been judged against the 1989-90 squad that ran its way to the Elite Eight and rewrote NCAA record books along the way. The 2011-12 season produced a team that finally stood tall in the face of some of those expectations. The Lions’ resurgent season was highlighted by 21 wins, three victories over top-25 ranked teams and two postseason wins in the Collegeinsider.com Postseason Tournament. It was the first time since 1989-90 that LMU recorded more than 20 wins or tallied a postseason victory. In addition to team benchmarks, LMU had two First Team All-West Coast Conference (WCC) performers in sophomore Anthony Ireland and redshirt senior Drew Viney. Head Coach Max Good was tabbed as the WCC Coach of the Year for his role in LMU winning its third most conference games ever for the program. It began with a statement victory over local rival UCLA. On Nov. 11, 2011, the Lions refused to be a typical opening-game partner and beat the No. 17 ranked UCLA team, 69-58. LMU players knew they could beat the Bruins with how prepared they were, and they came in “expecting” to win. Those comments, while they may have seemed surprising coming from a team that finished 10 games
under .500 and tied for last in the WCC a season before, wound up being a sign of things to come for the Lions. Up-and-down play marked the rest of the conference schedule. The Lions dropped their next two games after the opener, but then knocked off No. 23 Saint Louis University, 7568, on Nov. 29 in Gersten Pavilion. LMU hit a low point just before Christmas when they followed with a 77-61 nationally televised loss to Florida State University. The Lions started the WCC season on New Year’s Eve when they pulled out a last-second 77-76 victory against the University of San Francisco. Taking on the moniker of “Road Warriors,” the Lions won seven of their eight WCC road games. The biggest win of the season came on Feb. 15 when LMU traveled to Moraga, Calif. and handed the No. 16 St. Mary College’s Gaels their first and only home loss of the season, walking away with a 75-60 win. After finishing fourth in the WCC and earning a bye into the Zappos.com WCC Championships quarterfinals, LMU’s expectations were high for the postseason. The Lions had their sights set as high, saying that they went into the Las Vegas tournament with one goal in mind: winning the WCC’s bid to the NCAA Tournament. Instead, the Lions fell short. Stumbling out of the gates and losing 67-60 to the lowerseeded University of San Francisco in the Lions first game. The bitter ending was eased a little by LMU’s play in the thirdtier Collegeinsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). LMU knocked off CSU Fullerton and Weber State University at home before falling
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MEN’S BASKETBALL SEASON IN NUMBERS 23 WINS AVERAGED 70.6 POINTS PER GAME SOPHOMORE GUARD ANTHONY IRELAND LED THE TEAM WITH 16.1 POINTS PER GAME; HE ALSO LED IN GAMES PLAYED WITH 34 AND MINUTES PLAYED WITH 36.5 A GAME REDSHIRT JUNIOR FORWARD ASHLEY HAMILTON LED IN REBOUNDS (5.6) REDSHIRT SENIOR FORWARD DREW VINEY WAS SECOND IN POINTS (15.2 ON AVERAGE PER GAME) AND REBOUNDS (5.5 ON AVERAGE PER GAME) SOPHOMORE FORWARD GODWIN OKONJI LED IN BLOCKS (30)
in the tournament’s quarterfinal to the Utah State University Aggies, 77-66. The two CIT victories were the program’s first postseason wins since 1989-90. LMU finished the season with a 2113 overall record, 11-5 in conference. Ireland led the team in scoring with 16.1 points per game while appearing in all 34 games, starting 33 of them. Ireland also led the team in assists (4.6 per game), minutes (1,241) and minutes per game (36.5). Viney was second on the team in both scoring and rebounding, pouring in 15.2 points per game while grabbing 5.5 rebounds per game. Other Lions averaging more than 10 points per game (ppg) were redshirt juniors Ashley Hamilton (11 ppg, 5.6 rebound per game) and Jarred DuBois (10.1 ppg, 2 assists per game). As a freshman, forward C.J. Blackwell made an early impact, averaging 6.2 points and three rebounds per game. The huge leap forward was put into perspective by the program’s seniors. The class arrived in a season where LMU went 3-28, one of the worst records in the nation, and left with a 20-win season, postseason wins and a new level of respect. “We can look back and know that we [turned] this whole program around. [Four years ago] people were making fun of us, people were laughing at us,” Viney said. “Knowing that we changed this whole thing around and that people respect what we have done here, you can’t walk away but with your head up high.” LMU has six players departing the program in the offseason: guards DuBois, LaRon Armstead, Kelsey Chine and Daniel Latimer, as well as forwards Viney and Tim
Diederichs. Another departure from the program, redshirt sophomore center Edgar Garibay asked for his release in the middle of the season. Diederichs defined the role of hustle player, his tattoos and long blonde hair flying around the court and providing energy off the bench when the Lions needed a lift. Armstead had the best year of his career (averaging eight points per game) and emerged as the heart of the resurgent team. After the season, DuBois announced he would graduate and transfer. During his time at LMU, DuBois was a leader and steady hand. Chine and Latimer both rarely played, but worked their way from walk-on positions
to scholarship athletes and quality teammates. Viney finished his career with an All-WCC honor in a season that was shortened by an early injury. In only three seasons on the court, Viney left his mark, leaving the program as one of 13 players to score more than 1,000 points and grab 500 or more rebounds. Armstead was pleased overall with the senior season and the Lions’ character. “We were a family from start to end,” Armstead said. “We had our bumps and bruises during the season, but we overcame a lot of stuff. Just as a senior, we had a really good season. I’m walking out of here with my head up.”
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Redshirt senior Drew Viney (above) threw down a dunk at the end of the Feb. 15 upset of No. 16 St. Mary’s, leading the Lions to its first 10 wins in WCC play since 1990.
Congratulations
Dol-Anne!!!
As you prepare for a bright new future, continue to seek God's Wisdom at all times. Wisdom will help you turn every weakness into strength and just like the tide turning in, you'll always be unstoppable. 2
Life is more than E = MC, so never focus on your shortcomings. Instead, remain strong and confident, knowing that with God, all things are possible. We are very proud of you Dol-Anne and once again, a hearty Congratulations!!! With love and every blessing, Mom & Dad
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Campus layout embodies mission statement LMU’s campus design reflects the values of mind, body and spirit. By Brigette Scobas and Kasey Eggert Loyolan Staff
As undergraduate and graduate students process down Alumni Mall to receive their diplomas in Sunken Garden this upcoming weekend, they will be walking down what was designed to be
the main body of a cross in LMU’s original layout plan. John Flaherty, the associate director of campus ministry and director of liturgy, said, “The upper campus is laid out in a Cruciform. … From Loyola Boulevard, beginning at Manchester Boulevard, all the way to Sacred Heart Chapel, you have the main body of the cross. From William H. Hannon Library to the fountain in [East] Quad, you have the arm of the cross. So,
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if you stand near Regents Terrace in the walkway lined by the palm trees, you’ll find yourself standing in the middle of the cross.” “Sometimes meanings and patterns are even more powerful when they’re discovered in hindsight,” said Daniel Conti, a sophomore biochemistry and theology double major and a head student sacristan in the office of Campus Ministry. According to University Athletic Director Dr. William Husak, when the athletics department recruits student-athletes, they talk about LMU being a place of mind, body and spirit. Husak recalled being asked to speak at an event a few years ago in which he described how LMU’s shape represents the total person. Husak told the few hundred attendees at that past event, “At the top, Sacred Heart Chapel really epitomizes the spirit. And [the then] Von Der Ahe Library where the cross meets, [that] really signifies and is emblematic of the mind. And as you continue down the cross, you are at the athletic or campus recreation part of campus, which epitomizes the body.” Moving from classes to the gym to church or to the library while at LMU, students may not have been aware that they were walking on what was originally laid out to be a cross and something that defines the mission of their school. After Conti was aware of the layout he said, “As a student, it’s a clear reminder as to how deep and, all-encompassing this university is, and by extension, we as students can build and implement our sense of purpose and mission.”
Husak believes it is what makes LMU unique in comparison to other universities and that LMU’s spirit, complementing mind and body, is the most important component out of the three that LMU exhibits. Husak said, “In my experience, [other] institutions, regardless of whether they’re educational or not, that have a spirit to them, are the ones who are the most alive and seem to achieve the most. They’re the ones who reach their potential. … You can have some real good heads and brains and you can have some real good bodies and physically be in shape, but if you don’t have the will,
then I don’t think you’re going to achieve very much. That’s an element that many universities … have overlooked or undervalued.” While LMU’s mission may have been embedded into the minds and actions of the graduating class of 2012, they can now remember the physical campus itself as a place that stands for the Jesuit tradition and its values. “It’s my hope that all of the graduating seniors will, over the next few years and throughout their lives, slowly realize how ordered, purposeful and missiondriven their LMU experience has been,” said Conti.
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University selects Bird as 2012 valedictorian Bird “humbled” by being chosen out of six finalists by this year’s selection committee. By Margo Jasukaitis Senior Editor
Chris Bird found out he had been selected as the class of 2012’s valedictorian mere days before the University was slated to publicly announce its selection at the annual Academic Awards Convocation. “They meant to tell us earlier,” said Bird, a senior economics and political science double major. “But none of [the finalists] got the message, so I called and asked when we were going to find out. They
replied, ‘Oh, you haven’t heard?’” Bird was one of six finalists in this year’s valedictorian s e l e c t i o n Chris Bird Chris Bird process. Eligible candidates were invited to submit a speech to the selection committee for review. From that group, six finalists were invited to deliver their speeches before the selection committee. After hearing all the candidates’ presentations, the committee selected Bird to
represent this year’s graduating class at commencement. “I definitely feel very humbled,” Bird said. “I came into it [giving the speech] hoping to capture everyone’s experience. There’s that pressure to make sure you deliver something that’s meaningful to everyone.” The speech centers on the class of 2012’s motto, “Sit in humility, rise in responsibility,” according to Bird.
“I just applied [the motto] to my thoughts, observations of what we’ve done here and what we will hopefully do when we leave,” Bird said. Having attended the annual graduation ceremonies for the past couple years, Bird has heard previous valedictorians’ speeches and decided to apply in hopes of earning the opportunity to share his reflections on the LMU experience.
“I know I would regret it if I didn’t [apply],” he said. “I thought it would be nice to offer my thoughts at graduation.” After graduation, Bird will begin working as a consultant for Deloitte in the company’s tax division transfer pricing group, which deals with international tax transactions. Ultimately, Bird plans to attend law school after gaining a few years of work experience.
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SENIORS PURSUE BOLD POST-GRAD PLANS FOUR SENIORS SHARE THEIR PLANS FOR ONCE THEY LEAVE THE BLUFF Dani Bath
Lindsay Bunker
English major
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Dani Bath, an English major, plans on sailing away after graduation, but not on a cruise. Bath is traveling with the Semester at Sea program with a curriculum based on the United Nation Millennium Development Goals, focusing on international poverty. The countries she is visiting include Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, Panama and Belize, and in each county she is working with “a field program on one of the U.N’s initiative sites there,” said Bath. She is leaving May 21 and finishing the trip on June 15. After she finishes the Semester at Sea, Bath plans on going to Africa for the month of July. “Through the International Volunteer HQ program, my best friend and I are volunteering in an orphanage in Arusha, Tanzania, [and] most of my work will focus on teaching and caring for the children,” said Bath.
After writing her senior thesis on Senegal, history major Lindsay Bunker became interested in the country. Her professor suggested she live with a host family in Senegal and Bunker took that to heart. She is participating in an independent study program that will allow her to live with a host family, take French classes, teach English at schools and help out at orphanages. “I’m doing whatever I can do while I’m there,” said Bunker, who will also be living with another international student while in Senegal. She will be there from May 22 through June 22.
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Communication studies major Analise Gammariello, a communication studies major, plans on participating in post-grad service after she graduates from LMU. After sending out 15 essays during the application process, she is moving to Chicago, Ill. to serve with the Catholic young adult volunteer program Amate House. She will find out her placement after graduation but is planning on helping children after school and hopes to participate in a campus ministry program at a high school. Other placements include working with non-profits, relief aid, immigrant services and gang prevention, to name a few. There are three houses in Chicago and Gammariello is living with 12-15 other young adults in one of the houses. She is moving to Chicago at the end of July and staying there until June of next year. “I’m finally going to practice what I preach … and I’m excited to take time off of school … [because] I feel like I learn the most when I’m not in class,” said Gammariello.
Finance and marketing major Financing and marketing double major Greg Kamradt plans to hike 1,089 miles of the 2,600-mile Pacific Crest Trial that runs from Mexico to Canada. Kamradt wants to stop hiking in South Lake Tahoe, around June 10, where he plans to knock on his grandfather’s cabin door. Kamradt said, “It will be cool to go up to his cabin after walking 1,000 miles and knock on his door and say, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’” His hike should take 60 to 66 days, with an average of 17 to 18 miles per day. He set up a schedule where his father can mail him food packages at supply points and he also plans on buying food along the way. He will be surrounded by other hikers. According to Kamradt, “Other people will give you a trail name … [and] you can’t introduce yourself on the trail. It’s cool because there’s a whole culture around it.” Kamradt will start working in finance in August and wanted to do “something cool” and remove himself from the “hectic life” before he starts working. “I’m looking for something but I don’t know what it is yet,” said Kamradt. Information compiled by Brigette Scobas | Loyolan; Graphic: Joanie Payne | Loyolan
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Layered denim and how to wisely invest love
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ome of the best advice I’ve received in the last four years came from a priest. It is a fairly amusing fact, given that I’ve been inside a church just a handful of times during my college career. The advice was passed on to me secondhand by a friend who heard it from a priest in his O’Keefe’s hometown O’Pinion of Oxford, By Kenzie O’Keefe E n g l a n d . As we drove Senior Editor from Big Sur to L.A. last summer, watching the golden evening sun dip low in the ocean whizzing by outside our windows, he shared the simple insight with me; “Invest your love, and do it wisely.” I’ve thought of the advice often since hearing it a year ago, and it speaks to me now, in this time of graduation and real-world transition, more than ever. Where do I go from here? Who do I want to be? What do I want to do? We all have some monumental decisions ahead of us. I’ve always struggled with these types of choices. I think of myself as an optimistic opportunist tethered to a realistic anchor. I would gladly live forever in order to do and see
everything, but life’s brevity constantly brings me back down to earth. In a beautiful and tragic flurry, time will continue to progress whether or not I figure out a way to make the most of it. LMU has taught me a lot about applying intention and passion to the choices I inevitably must make. In addition to going to class, I spent the last four years investing love in many things. I ran marathons, one of which was through the streets of L.A. in the pouring rain. I wrote a seemingly endless number of board editorials and made many frantic midnight calls to Director of Student Media Tom Nelson while serving as editor in chief of the Loyolan. I hung framed art on the streets of L.A. (check out Displayedframes.blogspot. com) and participated in two shows in the student art gallery. I made my first small fortune on YouTube. I ate a life-changing quiche in kitschy Kingman, Ariz. (the “heart of Route 66”). I slept under the stars in Arches National Park. I walked from Asia to Europe in Istanbul. I spent the last two years living in a tin-walled box, tacked on to the back of a crumbling bungalow on Stewart Avenue, building a home away from home and a second family of people who know how to fix everything with Vegas, cheesy chips and layered denim. I have been loved and benefited immeasurably from it.
My next life investment is another unknown that should keep me busy for a while. Starting in June, I’m going to attempt a fivemonth thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail with my current roommate and soonto-be fellow LMU gradute, Erin Mallea. We hope to traverse the 2,100-mile trail that stretches from Maine to Georgia on foot by early December. We’ll trade books and beds for bears and backpacks, trekking through a side of the country we know next to nothing about. The unknown of the Appalachian Trail reminds me of a time four years ago when I stood outside Whelan Hall as a freshman, watching my parents walk towards their airport-bound cab. Overcome with anxiety, I felt like I was drowning in a vast and terrifying pool of unknowns. I was terrified that I might have made the wrong decision. This time around, there is no high school college counselor with a futurebound road map for me, but I’m a lot less scared of the path. If my experiences during my four years at LMU have taught me one thing, it’s that the unknown offers all of us infinite potential. It just takes a little bit of navigation, choice and love in order to realize it. This is the opinion of Kenzie O’Keefe a senior English major from St. Paul, Minn. Please send comments to kokeefe@theloyolan.com.
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Kenzie O’Keefe defines multifaceted. In just four years at LMU, she has run three marathons, been Editor in Chief at the Loyolan, traveled through Europe, made a small fortune with a viral YouTube video, began a budding international phenomenon blog called “disPLAY!” and learned how to make a mean quiche in a tiny Arizona town. Her transition into the real world will include a five-month hike of the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail.
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The free mind: union, confusion, illusion T
he thing I’ve been struggling with most recently is the thought of being able to think through someone else’s mind. We’ll call this a “graduation” feeling. One of those sensations where the surrounding dissolves, and I’m left floating. It’s all a matter of interpretation from this point on. There’s the thought that you are the only creator Downtime in this reality, each stimulus By Weston Finfer before your eye Web Editor a product of that moment uniquely experienced. Counting years by heartbeats and minutes by sunshine to label an ethereal product of consciousness. Does time exist if there is no one to count it? Is time my own, or does time own me? There are two parts to the equation: The outside existence is influencing me or I’m influencing everything. They both become irrelevant with the fact that I cannot prove or disprove either from the confines of my own mind. It is a reasonable leap of faith to believe everyone else exists in their own right, as that becomes necessary to stay sane these days, though the matter can never be solved in person. I imagine you’re out there going to the market, riding your bicycle, sleeping every night, but those are still just thoughts. If you say, ‘Of course you’re really you and living this life,’ sure, but I’m still in need of proof you just can’t provide. Personal views are what they are. I am the only one shaping my life. Each moment carries an endless possibility, an open canvas for my discretion of direction. I must hold all the paints, only letting you doodle in the corners. Is it a paint-bynumbers? Or art walk ad infinitum? This is a buildup of the ego, though. And my mind, at its fullest, let that anchor go.
At the basic level, I don’t understand what should make me special. Born and raised in San Diego, member of a loving family, able to attend college, haphazard arrangement of the trillions of cells that I am. My mind can’t grasp what happened in that formative moment leading to this existence I call my own, and why not be born
a female in Argentina? Maybe once I was, and that becomes the deciding factor for the reality of a comprehensive existence. If there is no answer for why I was born into the situation I now find myself, what difference can exist from the beginning, discounting all the societal buildup that makes us unique by the time we can reflect
on our given name, to signify we are not one and the same? I have to rely on previous moments to what I am right now. If I lose that accumulated activity, I’m still in this moment as the same being, yet my experience of it is completely different. Starting from birth until now, the way I have grown up is significantly influencing
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the life I perceive. My own actions are my own actions only for me; your filters demand a different perspective. It’s tied in with free will. How much choice do I have? I can make any number of decisions, try to take a left but fake right, go right anyways. Or did I take three lefts to get right? The outcome is the same because it is the path I took and may have been the only option. But that’s irrelevant since the one choice is all I can make at that moment and cannot judge whether it was correct or not and besides there is no correct or not. It just is. For now. All the lessons from history start to turn against you; are the roles you follow predetermined as “right” or do you make that choice for yourself? The philosophies accepted, music appreciated, friends accumulated – were they waiting to be uncovered somewhere within, or did they cross your path and demand attention? My experience thus far believes this life is somewhere in between real and imagined. Life while awake captures an ever expanding outside world filled with potential connections and experience, through which you consciously dictate your path. Dreams portray the unlimited limits of your mind, forever changing possibilities devoid of your physical presence. Memories blur between the two, the moment now stored in your mental cave, subject to reinterpretation and forgetting, the sensation lingering. A difference between waking and sleeping life ultimately ceases, as the root of experience is still within the same mind. A solution to all these questions lies in the simple instruction to enjoy the present moment. I’ve been trying to evade it – dug in the past, yearn for the future – and still I’m suspended in this moment. And I’m pretty sure it lasts forever. These are some thoughts I’ve been thinking recently, and I believe that now you are too.
This is the opinion of Weston Finfer, a senior English and psychology double major from San Diego, Calif. Please send comments to wfinfer@theloyolan.com.
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Little things aren’t worth worrying about T
here’s nothing quite like watching a mistake you’ve made be duplicated, thousands and thousands of times. Right in front of you. Knowing t h e r e ’ s absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. And that’s exactly how it happened – a couple The Aura members of the Loyolan of Laura By Laura Riparbelli staff drove out to Sylmar at Senior Editor 11 p.m. on a We d n e s d a y to watch the Loyolan be printed in real time. This meant we’d get to meet Frank, the mysterious member of the Valley Printers staff who’s usually the one managing the Loyolan’s print job. We only know him by voice because he’ll let us know by phone when we’ve made deadline and he’s received our files. He’ll also let us know when we’ve missed deadlines, sometimes by 15 minutes, sometimes by two hours. But what’s the difference? We walked into the building, said ‘what’s up’ to Frank, and walked onto the ground floor where huge machines spit out the newspapers. And that was when my heart sank. I didn’t expect for that to be the moment when I realized that I’d made a factual mistake in a photo caption right in the middle of the front page. I was the News Editor at the
time and had written the caption, signed off on it, the whole nine yards. It was a little mistake, sure, but to me it was huge. How could I have let that happen? How did that slip by me? I don’t remember
again? That feeling’s difficult to describe. The result? First of all, it turned out I had flipped out for nothing – what I had thought was a mistake turned out to be factually
stop even if it feels like it might. Life doesn’t stop when you bomb a test. The world doesn’t stop turning when you don’t get into your dream sorority. It doesn’t stop when you sleep through class and
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Senior Editor Laura Riparbelli (right) and Managing Editor Michael Goldsholl look on with utter sadness as they watch thousands of Loyolan print while believing they had both made mistakes in photo captions on the front and back pages. sleeping that night, but I do remember feeling like I had done something unforgivable. Oh, and watching the printer duplicate that mistake over and over and over (and over)
correct after all. But even if it had been wrong, we’d have run a correction and life would have continued. That’s exactly what I learned from that, that life doesn’t
miss a midterm (sure, that might have happened to me once; sorry, World Politics). So next time LMU tells you they’re swapping out C-SPAN2 for OWN Network,
try to relax. Letting yourself be completely consumed by disappointments and mistakes isn’t just unwise, it’s also debilitating (except losing C-SPAN2 – that was big). Learning to not sweat the small stuff is the biggest piece of advice I can give anyone. Not that you’re asking for it. But that’s what I’ve learned over the course of the last four years up here on the bluff. That doesn’t mean that you skate around, resting on your laurels when things don’t work out. It means that you make mistakes – because you’re going to, it’s inevitable, sorry – you put those mistakes into perspective and then you move on, because you don’t have time to sit around. You don’t have time to sit around because one day you’re driving up 1 LMU Drive with your parents in a car packed with everything you own, and the next, you’re getting ready to walk across the stage and plunge yourself into a whole new unknown. It goes by so quickly – with all the ups and downs and everything in between – that you can’t afford to waste much time worrying about the mistakes and disappointments. If I’d realized all this before the night we went to Valley Printers, I might have gotten to say more than ‘what’s up’ to Frank. This is the opinion of Laura Riparbelli, a senior political science major from San José, Calif. Please send comments to lriparbelli@theloyolan.com.
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A soulful education courtesy of the bluff
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t seems almost trite to comment on the speed with which the last four years have passed. It feels almost more ridiculous to use this column as an opportunity to expound upon how indebted I am to the University and this community f o r contributing to my development Margs on as a student, the Rocks citizen and By Margo Jasukaitis woman. I Senior Editor say ‘almost’ b e c a u s e in reality, such statements can’t be condemned as too cliché, given they are honest summations of my reflections on my time as a Lion. It’s not my fault everyone else who has ever graduated from college has expressed the exact same sentiments after ruminating on their own impending commencements. The time I have spent on the bluff has been transformative. It has been thrilling and it has been enlightening. It has been filled with epiphanies, inquiries, mistakes, allnighters, sorority events, service organization meetings, late nights at the Loyolan office and Mendocino Farms sandwiches. It has been exactly what I never knew I wanted my college experience to be. It has been exactly what I needed my college experience to be.
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Margo Jasukaitis’ (bottom) four years as a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority at LMU was instrumental in transforming her into the person she is today. Here, she carries LMU alumna Anna Branch (‘11) during last year’s Greek Week football event. In two days, I will walk across a stage in Sunken Garden and officially – if not yet emotionally – transition out of my identity as an undergraduate student and into my role as a citizen. I approach this transition with a degree of tentativeness that can only be attributed to the cowardice I feel at the prospect of being not so gingerly thrust into an unfamiliar world; that is, the real world.
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They say that in order to do anything worth doing, you can’t stand back in hesitation, thinking about the potential dangers that lie ahead, but you must dive in and do the best you can despite your fears and limitations. In this instance, I believe the proverbial ‘they’ is, in fact, the author Robert Cushing, and I think he might be onto something. It is exasperatingly easy to slip into a comfortable,
sad nostalgia every time I think about this weekend’s commencement ceremony and my exit from LMU’s student body. But it is surprisngly just as easy to approach the whole notion of graduating with a bold sense of joy. In fact, the only thing that rivals how sad I feel about being forced to leave LMU and the past four years behind is how excited I am to translate everything LMU has taught me into the
world beyond the bluff. My experiences at this school will inform what I do (and how I do it) during the next phase of my life. While I cannot say with any degree of certainty what exactly it is I will do for the remainder of my life, I can say, with great confidence, who I will be. I will be someone who is able to see the big picture, someone who is able to remain calm when confronted with a seemingly impossible problem. I will be someone who can accurately convey her thoughts to others, and I will be someone who knows when it is my turn not to talk, but to listen. I know this is who I will be, because LMU has taught me to be this person. That, perhaps, is the biggest reward from my undergraduate career. I have become, and intend to continue to grow as, a woman that I respect, admire and am proud of. I’ve made more mistakes in the past four years than I had in the previous 18, but I have also learned more, tried more, felt more and accomplished more. Who knows, in the next year alone I might learn more than I did in four years here at LMU. Seems hard to imagine, though. After all, when it comes to providing an education that cultivates not only a person’s mind, but also their soul, LMU has set the bar pretty high. This is the opinion of Margo Jasukaitis, a senior communication studies major fromSeattle,Wash.Pleasesendcomments to mjasukaitis@theloyolan.com.
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Not the ‘perfect 800-word column,’ but pretty close T his column really was supposed to be deep and powerful and meaningful. This was supposed to live on in the lore of LMU forever. People were going to be so touched by my profound graduating thoughts that they would clip this page and keep it until the paper turned yellow, looking back at it whenever Wilks World times got By John Wilkinson tough. And then I actually Senior Editor tried to write it. Turns out I had no idea how to say the things that I wanted to in the ways I wanted. What was meant to be my beautiful farewell to LMU ended up reading like some kind of awful acceptance speech for an LMU Lifetime Achievement Award – however, if they ever make one of those, I want my name on the list; I’ve got just the speech. I slowly realized that, of course I can’t write the perfect 800-word column on what these years, this place and these people have meant to me because I don’t fully understand it yet. I know it has all meant a lot to me and that it has changed me into a better, more whole, balanced person. But I am not yet nearly talented or wise enough to put those feelings and that transformation into the kind of elegant words I would want. I will try to get the point across as best as I can, but know that my words will fall short of how much you have all meant to me and how much I loved this place. It’s the thought that counts, right? As much as I love it now, I have no idea how I ended up at LMU. That’s how I always answer the question. “Why’d you
choose LMU?” After four years, my When I came to LMU, “I want home away from home (even if the answer has become like a humorous to be a sports writer” was my kind Loyolan’s adviser Tom Nelson hated crutch to avoid the conversation. It of statement that “I want to be an when I slept on the office couch). My also probably makes me the worst astronaut” is to a child. Four years work at the Loyolan was, on a bigger spokesman ever; it’s also true. later, I feel closer to making a career scale, a lesson in finding what you My tour at LMU was abysmal. of writing than ever before. To do are passionate about and chasing it I hated it. Once again, worst that at a school without a journalism with all your might. spokesman right here. Maybe I major or minor (yet), is 100 percent My other most used funny-butshould explain a little more. The credited to my time at the Loyolan true joke response is that during scheduled guide didn’t show so a and some fantastic teachers. For my time at the Loyolan, “I had the random administrator was pulled a school just trying to start a best job of my life at 20.” It has been from his desk to lead the tour. journalism program, there are some a gift to be able to spend these years Instead of feeding us interesting great professors and mentors here. doing what I love and doing it with facts, he rambled about which of his Thank you to those who have helped great people. I hope it turns out to be siblings had lived or studied in which make me a better writer and made funnier than it is true, but for now at buildings. My memory has probably me realize that I might be OK at least I have peaked too soon. made this seem worse in retrospect, this. Perhaps the most influential part but I remember leaving not of my LMU experience has too enthused about LMU. been the Sigma Phi Epsilon Yet somehow, as my choices Fraternity. Coming to LMU “I leave LMU knowing narrowed, LMU became one from an all-male high school of the final options. I came left a strange emptiness that that I threw myself into it from a Jesuit high school, and I didn’t quite understand, the wholeheartedly and have I had friends here, so it felt absence of that tight bond fairly comfortable, but it didn’t gotten so much back in return.” shared with teammates and have a football team, and that friends as close as brothers. Sig was legitimately a big deal to Ep filled that void. If I tried to me. The decision came down name everyone that has made to staying in the comfort of familiar Joining the Loyolan during my an impact on my life, the list would Arizona or stepping out of my freshman year made me feel like I run a couple hundred long, but just comfort zone to come to L.A. My dad actually knew what I was doing. I know that I have been extremely reminded me that I could always will never forget my first assignment, blessed to know each of you and call come back home if I didn’t like it, a women’s soccer victory, and how you my brothers. From Rosecrans but I would never have the chance to I was simultaneously terrified and to the Greenhouse, we have had take that leap again. That reasoning having the time of my life. Thank some amazing times together. To the made the decision seem clear and you to the people who gave me a boys of the Greenhouse, I will never off I was to LMU, not knowing why chance to write and those who gave forget the last two years. No matter other than that I was going to try. me a chance to write about them. how many times the neighbors call Things were not going so well the Thank you to anyone who has us animals or accuse us of doing first semester into that experiment. taken some of their time to read the terrible things to their lawns, we are I missed home and was waking up words I have put in these pages. fantastic men going fantastic places, to the realization that I had ended Thank you even more to those and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. up at a school that didn’t even offer a who have ever offered me feedback Sig Ep has challenged me to be a minor in journalism (which I wanted or said one of my articles meant better man every day and that is to study). My dad’s idea of coming something to you. That is what we something I am eternally thankful home was creeping into the back of as journalists strive for every time, it for. I am honored to have been a part my mind until two things changed doesn’t always work but feels great of such an outstanding tradition. that: The Loyolan and Sigma Phi when it does. The two people who I cannot Epsilon. By anchoring myself to two The Loyolan has been more than thank enough are my parents. I great groups of people, I figured out a job for me: It has been a classroom, don’t really know what I can say how to make the most of LMU. a great group of friends and a other than I love you so much and
I truly appreciate everything you have allowed for me. If you couldn’t tell over the years, those phone calls turned from keeping in touch because it was the right thing to do into something I had to do because I loved talking to you. Mom, you have been the influence that allowed me to be the kind, accepting and openminded person that was able to take advantage of the LMU experience. Dad, you always reminded me that if I’m going to do something, never to do it half-assed. I remember coming to LMU feeling like I hadn’t done nearly enough in high school. I leave LMU knowing that I threw myself into it wholeheartedly and have gotten so much back in return. I disagree with those who say you shouldn’t regret anything as long as you learned from the experience. I regret plenty. I think back and wonder what could have been different or how much less I could have screwed things up on occasion. Luckily for me, those memories are far outweighed by times I would not trade for anything; hopefully I am a little smarter for the other times. So what if this column doesn’t change the world. It forced me to realize how fortunate I have been in my time here at LMU. Of all my jokes, my parents least favorite is that I wish I could stick around for a couple more years. Even if I didn’t know why I chose it, I’m glad I realized LMU was perfect for me. So screw crafting the perfectly eloquent farewell column – I’m not there yet, but I’m a whole lot closer than I would have been without LMU. And my parents will clip this out and keep it forever anyway, so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice. This is the opinion of John Wilkinson, a senior screenwriting major from Phoenix, Ariz. Please send comments to jwilkinson@theloyolan.com.
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Athlete reflects on many facets of campus life D riving onto LMU’s campus for the first time my freshman year, I had one thing on my mind: soccer. It was the main reason I decided to go to the University and although I had been raised to put school first, competing as a Division I athlete was my biggest focus. I loved the campus and I loved the team. At the time I didn’t know much about the school and its Jesuit mission, but Player Perspective I was excitBy Jaide Timm-Garcia ed to be part of a larger Staff Writer community that would provide me with a great college experience. I grew up with a spiritual foundation that embedded service into my being at a young age. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” was a constant motto in my house growing up, along with “Do everything to the best of your abilities.” I separated these sayings in my mind and applied them to two separate aspects of life. Treating others as I wanted to be treated translated into service and a passion for helping people. Doing everything to my fullest potential pushed me to leave the soccer field exhausted after every practice or game. Upon entering college, I hadn’t learned how to balance the two mindsets and was focused on fully developing the athletic aspect of life at LMU. Throughout my freshman and sophomore years, I spent the majority of my time in the athletic facilities. Whether it was during practice on Sullivan Field, weights
in Gersten Pavilion or at my job as a Burns Recreation Frontline worker, I was surrounded by members of one world, one focus and one energy. It didn’t matter who performed well in the academic or social environments, because once we put on the LMU jersey, all athletes were connected by the fact that we had made it this far in our careers. There is an advantage to being in an environment where everybody has common fears, frustrations, goals and dreams. The only problem is that after a while, you start to lose your sense of identity and self-evaluation. Eventually, I lost sight of what was important to me outside of sports and was consumed with the concept of success at a team level. I am incredibly thankful for everything I learned as an athlete and the tools it provided me with to push myself beyond my limits, manage my time, keep myself and 25 others accountable and learn to work with others towards a common goal. However, I wish that my priorities as an athlete could have correlated with the priorities of the rest of the LMU community sooner than they did. It wasn’t until my junior year that I was introduced to the multiple service opportunities on campus and the true meaning of the LMU Mission. I took Professor Paul Harris’ class “The Paradoxes of Faith and the Promotion of Justice” where we talked about how we could better implement the Jesuit ideals into the curriculum and communicate the importance of service to the students. I realized at that point the kind of bubble I had been living in the past two years. Not only is our school considered a “bubble on the bluff,” but we are made up of dozens of bubbles within a larger one. We have athletics, Greek life, service organizations, ASLMU, student workers, work study, Chris-
Jaide Timm-Garcia
Senior English major Jaide Timm-Garcia came to LMU focused on her soccer career. However, by junior year she began to broaden her horizons on the many things campus and the rest of the world offers. tian Life Community, cultural communities and many other clubs on campus. Like most schools, there is a huge disconnect between those programs and a distinct stigma placed on all of them. At a university of our size, disconnect is to be expected, but it doesn’t excuse it. The difference between our school and others is the mission we strive to embody. We set ourselves apart from others in our academic reputation and in the character expected of each and every student when they first enroll. It wasn’t until I stepped out of my athletic leadership role and applied it to campus leadership that I realized everything I had always wanted in a school was right there.
I had already been a part of Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, but I quickly spread my involvement to a couple clubs on campus. Participating and serving on the E-board of clubs such as Revolution Bible Study, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, Jumpstart, Global Exchange and Rotaract, I was able to meet a handful of amazing leaders who are bound to make a difference in the world. I had the opportunity to travel all over the country with the soccer team, go to the Democratic Republic of Congo with the Opus Prize, serve in Cambodia with Global Exchange and spend a weekend in Mexico with De Colores. I have taken away experiences from col-
lege greater than I could have ever dreamed and realized that college experiences are better learned off campus and out in the community making a difference. LMU provides us with the tools we need to make something of ourselves in and out of the classroom, on and off of the field and in the national and international communities. I am thankful to be graduating with the ability to combine my worlds by serving others with the intensity of an athlete while doing it to the best of my abilities. This is the opinion of Jaide Timm-Garcia, a senior English major from Lancaster, Calif. Please send comments to kokeeffe@lion.lmu.edu.
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In Memoriam The Loyolan remembers: 2011-12
Brandon Farmer Alumnus (‘11), Psychology and AfricanAmerican Studies Double Major 21 years old June 17, 2011 Richard Royce Facilities Management Employee 60 years old Jan. 11, 2012
Fredrick “Fred” White Sr. Mechanic in Facilities Management 69 years old March 18, 2012
Michael D. Grady Professor and Former Chair of Mathematics 65 years old April 4, 2012
Lyn Lusi Opus Prize Winner & HEAL Africa Co-Founder 62 years old March 17, 2012
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The University unveiled “Ad Astra Per Aspera” last Saturday, April 28. It serves as a student memorial sculpture, honoring students who passed during their time at LMU. The sculpture is in Bell Tower Garden, adjacent to Sacred Heart Chapel.
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‘I wrote, I thought, I listened, I taught’ A
lot of the time, I feel lost. In my groping for answers, for myself, for my purpose, a lot of movement happens. Here are some past movements. I have my original OneCard. I still don’t like the picture. I met one of my closest friends at Hailey’s Freshman Comments Orientation. I voted for By Hailey Hannan B a r a c k Copy Editor Obama, and I don’t regret that decision. I cannot forget, no matter how hard I try, IggyLion1. Capital I. Capital L. I tried not to end sentences with prepositions. I ate way too much froyo. I wrote, I thought, I listened, I taught. I developed opinions that were rooted in knowledge. I changed my mind often. I fell out of love. I mastered the simple sentence. I got my nose pierced. My mother hated it. I memorized the first 18 lines of “The Canterbury Tales.” I lived with an “actress.” I did not always wait for my Ramen noodles to fully cook before I ate them. I may or may not believe they taste better this way. I fell in love. I learned about Paul Robeson. I did my own taxes. Twice. I touched one of the first folios printed. I played on a playground in honor of physics. I went to London. Many a time, I laid in the sun and felt comfortable, happy and young. I paid my way through school. I worked three jobs. I feel proud
of myself. I smiled, I studied, I laughed. I ran a half marathon. I camped in the desert with my classmates and slept under a blanket of stars, awestruck and inspired by my own smallness. I completed four year’s worth of Heads UP surveys. I answered honestly. I’m afraid of what they think of me. I learned about the Harlem Children’s Zone. I was denied a spot with Teach for America. I learned that although Prufrock measured his life in coffee spoons, that it’s really no way to live. I watched way too much Bravo. I started to develop a better relationship with my father. I engaged in meaningful conversation. I took deep, deliberate breaths. All my roommates went to Las Vegas. On the drive home, I may or may not have scraped my roommate’s car into a center divider. I may or may not have cried about it. I made everyone wear a wig to my 21st birthday. I gave many five-dollar bills to gain admission to a bus that drove me to Sharkeez. Every once in a while, I remember how incredibly beautiful my life is. I wish I did this more. I absorbed. I searched. I talked to professors during office hours, professors who cared more about my happiness as a person than any paper I would ever write. I thank them for that. I drank coffee and complained about eTime. I attended the 1911 Centennial Ball in a dress my grandmother made. I hiked to hidden waterfalls in Malibu. I cried when I watched Whitney Houston’s funeral.
I learned how to think. I was once asked by a professor to publicly declare, in the middle of class, that I felt lonely to see how my peers would react. When I questioned him, asking, “What do I do if someone tries to ask me what’s the matter?” he responded, “No one will say anything to you.” He, sadly, was correct. I realized that I am not perfect. Slowly, I am beginning to be OK with that. I texted. I tweeted. And no, Facebook, I do not want to transition to Timeline. One time, I hit someone who called me ugly. With my behavior, I proved she was right. I tried to domesticate a feral cat. It didn’t work. I bought blue books that were actually green, go figure. I analyzed. I transcribed. I read. I had a 45-minute conversation with the owner of Pinkkels about her parking war with Public Safety. I’m still not sure who won. I forget to sign into myTime. I meditated with classmates in the Jesuit residency. I rode my bike to school. I ate Chipotle. I completed Teaching Performance Assessment I, II, III and IV. Sometimes, I felt confused. Presently, from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, I spend my days with freshmen in high school. We read “Romeo and Juliet” and prepare for standardized testing. They are insightful and funny and energetic. I try to teach them things. In reality, they teach me much more. But if I learned one thing, it’s that I don’t ever want to stop learning.
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Senior Hailey Hannan “made everyone wear a wig to [her] 21st birthday,” one of many tales in her four years of adventures on the campus of LMU. And in two days, I will me, my eyes gazing steadily graduate. It is interesting and on something unknown, but scary. I am, in some ways, on beautiful nonetheless. an edge, toes dangling over a cliff. I am, in other ways, This is the opinion of Hailey Hannan, a standing in the threshold to senior English major from El Segundo, an open field, my feet balanced Calif. Please send comments to by the firm ground beneath hhannan@theloyolan.com.
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Actor and LMU alum reflects on his career
Alumnus Spotlight By Zaneta Pereira News Editor
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MU alumnus Charley Koontz’s (’09) face lights up as he leans out of his seat to shake the hand of a student who’s just recognized him as “the guy from ‘Awake.’” As the boy leaves, excitement is still evident on Koontz’s face as he reveals this is the first time he’s been recognized for his appearance on the NBC crime drama. That’s not to say Koontz is rarely recognized. His recurring role as Fat Neil on the massively popular NBC sitcom “Community” ensures that he’s stopped by fans of the show everywhere from Disneyland to Alumni Mall. Koontz is never far from LMU, returning to grab coffee with friends at the Lion’s Den, offering his insight to graduating seniors in the theatre department and reconnecting with the professors he credits for inspiring his passion for acting. A theatre arts major who’s doing exceptionally well after just three years in the entertainment business, Koontz is an example for the graduating class of where hard work and talent can get you. Zaneta Pereira (ZP): I know it was a while back,but what made you choose LMU? Charley Koontz (CK): LMU really just kind of fell into my lap. … They sent me back an acceptance into theology because the call letters for theatre [arts] and theology were so close. It was like this clerical error and they’d accepted me into theology so I was here on a complete mistake, but I’m glad that it worked out the way it did. ZP: What would you say was the highlight of your time at LMU?
CK: I really loved just being in the theatre department as a whole. One of my favorite things about it was that we’d work on these plays for like seven hours and then we’d all go out after and we’d just sit around and talk about the plays, about acting and about what we think acting is. So that’s what I really loved about LMU, being able to find the group that you really connect with and just go through all these events together. That’s what I really loved, all the people. ZP: Did you always want to go into a career in acting? CK: It was initially just a hobby, I did it in high school because there was a girl I liked who did it, and I thought it would be an easy credit. I actually didn’t like it that much because I didn’t feel like anybody took it that seriously. … Then my sophomore year, this Del Rey Players show had a stack of fliers for auditions in the McKay game room and I stole an entire stack of them just impulsively. So I got back to my room and thought, “That was really weird, why did I do that?” So I guess I must have had some interest in wanting to act. ZP: So when did you begin to consider it seriously as a profession? CK: I was a film major for two years and then I went and did the show with the Del Rey Players, which I loved, and then right after that I did [LMU theatre professor] Ron [Marasco]’s production of “This Place on Third Avenue.” That was where I really started to consider acting. Working with [Marasco], I came to see it as such hard work, but really, really rewarding work. And he was really patient with me too, to get out a lot of things that I didn’t really know were there, and it became rewarding really quickly. ZP: Do you have any advice
specifically for those who are looking to get into acting? CK: The thing that I would say getting into it is [to] get comfortable with yourself. You’re going to be meeting a lot of people and a lot of people are going to be making decisions that sort of affect your life and ... they really respond to someone genuine. And that’s the thing about acting, too. You’ve got to get comfortable enough in your own skin to be able to be somebody else. ZP: How did you hear about “Community”? Were you a fan at all before going on the show? CK: I started watching it about mid-way through the first season and loved it. So when my agent called me and said I had an audition, even though it was just for one or two lines, I was super stoked and I just didn’t want to ruin it. ZP: So how exactly did that happen? How did you get bumped up from the part you initially auditioned for to your central role as Fat Neil in the“Advanced Dungeons and Dragons”episode? CK: I did one episode and just got really, really lucky that I happened to be around when they were writing the “Dungeons and Dragons” episode. They have a video feed that runs from the set to the writers’ room so while they were writing it, they were trying to figure out who they were going to get for the role, and I just happened to be standing in the right place. It was a huge, huge chance they took on me because, who was I? It was kind of a joke initially, they mentioned my name once, I did one or two lines, and then, third shot out of the gate, it was this heavy episode. ZP: What was that like, to suddenly have your role change like that? CK: The best thing about this show is that they all care about it so much. They do so many awesome things
with their episodes and spend the time to work it out and say, “This is the tone. This is what we want to say.” It was also really awesome that they were like, “It’s OK not to be the funniest person in the scene because you’re serving a different role right now.” ZP:Were you nervous at all? CK: Oh my God, yes. I went to the table read and was convinced that I was going to throw up immediately, and I was really worried I couldn’t do it. I was just starting out, I did it in Nov. 2010 and I’d just graduated May 2009 so it wasn’t supposed to be that fast, and I thought I would have five, six years to figure out if I was any good. So I was just really, really nervous about whether or not I could do it. I didn’t want to ruin my favorite show. ZP: Do you have a favorite character on the show? CK: Britta might be one of them, I love Britta. I think it might be a tossup between Britta and the Dean. ZP: So you did “Awake,” and you have your recurring role as Fat Neil on “Community,” what else have you worked on? CK: Well, I was in a film called “Wrong,” which premiered at Sundance, and it was actually the second film I’d done with Quentin Dupieux, who’s also a big French DJ called Mr. Oizo. The first one was “Rubber,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. That was actually my first job – so I got my SAG card and six months later I was in the south of France. It was insane. Then of course I came back and nobody knew who I was so I was like, “OK, you don’t just make it in one step.” ZP: With all the different things you’ve been involved in, do you have a preference at all between film, TV and theatre?
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Charley Koontz (left) poses for a portrait with his“Wrong”co-star Jared Ward at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. CK: I don’t. I wish I was doing more theatre, but they’re all just different, which is what I like.It’s fun to put the challenges of doing a bunch of different things in your way, because then you have to figure out a way around them. ZP: Since this is for our commencement issue, is there any advice you wish you’d been given at your own commencement? CK: I wish the advice that we’d gotten is that it’s a process. You don’t graduate and then just become your 50-year-old self. You don’t graduate and jump into a job you’ll be in 40 years. So it’s about allowing yourself to take time and experience the things you want to experience. It doesn’t always swing your way, but it doesn’t always end there either. You just work around it, you navigate. For the extended interview, including Koontz’s view on his“Community” co-stars, visit laloyolan.com.
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Commencement “I will be hiking the Pacific Coast Trail and taking part in an archaeological dig in Israel.”
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“I will be moving to London and interning at Warp Records.” Kelsey Herman
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“I am opening a pop-up shop in downtown L.A. and selling student artwork.” Melissa Sweet
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“I will be traveling for the summer and then getting a job in the entertainment industry.”
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“I will be working on campus for the summer and then hoping to get a job in local politics.”
“I will be traveling around India in the summer and starting grad school in the fall.”
Art history major
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