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Jesuit accused of sexual molestation spent 15 years working at LMU The presidents of the schools where the alleged abuse occurred have called the claims “credible.”

By Zaneta Pereira News Editor

The latest alleged sexual abuse scandal committed by a member of the Roman Catholic clergy hits close to home for LMU as the accused Jesuit, Brother William Farrington, S.J., spent 15 years on the University’s campus from 1987 until his retirement in 2002.

The allegations a g a i n s t Farrington were brought to light last Tuesday, Jesuit High School Sept. 11, via a Brother William Farrington,S.J. letter sent out to hundreds of graduates of San Jose’s Bellarmine College Preparatory, where Farrington worked as a dormitory supervisor and a coach for the swim and dive teams. In the letter, a man who attended the Catholic high school in the 1960s came forward with the accusation that he had been sexually molested on campus by Farrington, according to the Sept. 13 Mercury News article, “Bellarmine abuse controversy still has plenty of questions remaining.”

The man also urged anyone who “might have been victimized by Farrington in the mid-1960s to 1970s to come forward,” according to the same article.

The accuser’s letter was supported by an email sent from Bellarmine Prep’s president, Fr. Paul G. Sheridan, S.J, who

called the claims of abuse “credible.”

The same day, Fr. David Suwalsky, S.J., president of Jesuit High School in Carmichael, Calif. where Farrington taught and coached swimming and diving after leaving Bellarmine Prep in 1974, also sent out an email to Jesuit High alumni informing them of the allegations and calling anyone who may have been abused by Farrington to contact law enforcement authorities. Farrington was moved from Jesuit High in 1987, the same year that school officials revealed that two students came forward with allegations of “improprieties” against Farrington, according to the Sept. 12 Sacramento Bee article, “Ex-Jesuit High teacher accused of inappropriate conduct with student.”

According to the Sept. 12 Mercury News article “San Jose: Bellarmine says accusation of abuse by Jesuit in late 1960s is ‘credible,’” Farrington’s removal from Bellarmine Prep was in response to a different allegation, but the school has not disclosed further details as of Loyolan deadline.

The Sept. 12 Bee article further reports that, according to Jordan Blair, Jesuit High’s spokesman, 1987 was also the year in which Farrington was “barred from working with minors.”

Farrington was then moved to LMU, an assignment which the article reports was criticized by family members of the Jesuit High victims, according to Patrick Walsh, spokesman for the Jesuits of the California Province.

Walsh told the Mercury News that the allegation was made public at this point because the Bellarmine Prep victim “reached a point where he wanted to come forward and wanted other people to know, just in case they had a similar experience and also wanted to come

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ASLMU kicked of the year with food trucks and DJs for the annual After Sunset event in Gersten Pavilion on Friday, Sept. 14. For a photo gallery of the event, check out the Loyolan’s Facebook page.

Guest lecturer leads debate on hate crimes Speaker provides in-depth definition of hate crimes and discusses real-world examples.

By Allison Croley Staff Writer

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Sigma Chi fraternity makes a splash

Members of the Sigma Chi fraternity perform a synchronized swimming routine at Delta Gamma sorority’s philanthropy, Anchor Splash, last Saturday.

All proceeds from the event went to the Blind Children’s Center. For a photo gallery of the event, check out the Loyolan’s Facebook page.

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As the finale of Zero Tolerance Week, Ethnic and Intercultural Services (EIS) held a lecture and discussion session with Ariella Schusterman, the associate regional director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). This was the first empowerment session of a series supported by EIS that will happen this year titled “Not on Our Campus.”

On Wednesday, Sept. 12 in Hilton 300, Schusterman spoke about the technicalities of hate crime laws and informed listeners about how to probe discussion about hate.

“For me, she definitely cleared up the definition of a hate crime,” lecture attendee and freshman theology major Matt Campos said.

Schusterman began her presentation by explaining how ADL was founded.

Originally, ADL was formed in 1913 by a group of businessmen in

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an attempt to stand against antiSemitism. The goal was to “stop the defamation of Jewish people” Schusterman explained. However, it has formed into an organization aimed at “secur[ing] justice and fair treatment for all.”

“We are at the forefront of pushing for hate crime laws,” Schusterman said.

To better explain effects of hate crimes, Schusterman showed pictures of the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001 and asked listeners to take note of their emotions. She pointed out that most Americans are deeply hurt by this terrorist attack.

“We use [9/11] as an example of the worst hate crime committed on American soil,” Schusterman said.

“You see, the impact of a hate crime is different.”

Schusterman continued defining what a hate crime is. According to California state law, a hate crime is a criminal act against a person or property because of a victim’s race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender or sexual orientation. The victim’s association

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Schusterman explained that hate crimes are geared toward “immutable characteristics,” or traits that people cannot change about themselves.

Schusterman emphasized that hate crime laws do not infringe upon free speech. Although there are certain types of speech that are not protected by the U.S. Constitution – fighting words, obscenity, defamation, invasion of privacy, threats, incitement to illegal activity, harassment – hate crime laws are not related to speech. They are in place strictly to convict those who commit criminal acts, according to Schusterman “We are not punishing speech.

We are punishing actions,” Schusterman said.

To finish, Schusterman presented statistics regarding hate crimes. According to ADL’s research, there were 6,628

reported hate crimes across the U.S. in 2010. Of those crimes, 47 percent were because of race, 20 percent because of religion, 19 percent because of sexual orientation, 13 percent because of ethnicity or nationality and 0.6 percent because of disability.

However, Schusterman explained that most hate crimes remain unreported because of humiliation and confusion, among other reasons.

As a closing statement, Schusterman argued that “everyone is biased” and people need to “be aware of biases and act on them.” With this, discussion opened and both students and faculty engaged in dialogue about specific hate crime cases.

“The presentation went very well,” said Hillel Rabbi and Coordinator for Jewish Student Services Ilana Schachter after the discussion closed.

“The speaker really engaged participants. The students here seemed very engaged.”

Schachter went on to share her

thoughts about the importance of events like these on LMU’s campus.

“Learning how to identify bias-related incidents and hate crimes in communities is really important. It not only inspires us to be better human beings, but also advocates for others,” she said.

Schachter continued by saying that even though many students were not able to attend this empowerment session, there are many other sessions to attend this year. She also encouraged students to take part in Professor Henry Ward’s class, Interculturalism Practicum.

“This is a really good class to learn more from each other,” Ward said. “It provides a safe environment for uncomfortable conversation.”

Many of the coordinators of the “Not on Our Campus” empowerment series agreed that this lecture and discussion was a great way to begin the series and encourage others to attend other sessions.

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LMU sees ‘no reason’ to inform community

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forward,” a sentiment that was echoed in the emails sent out

by Bellarmine Prep and Jesuit High. The article added that the individual does not have a lawsuit pending.

Despite Farrington’s 15 years at LMU, the University has yet to publicly comment on the scandal surrounding him. When asked whether the University would be sending out emails similar to those from Bellarmine Prep and Jesuit High, Kathleen Flanagan, LMU’s vice president for communications and government relations, stated, “As far as I know, there was nothing that happened at LMU, so there would be no reason to do it. We’re not aware of any accusation while he was at LMU.” University President David W. Burcham is currently traveling and, as of Loyolan deadline, could not be reached for comment.

It is not known whether LMU was made aware of the allegations of abuse against Farrington when they hired him as, according to Flanagan, “the Jesuits keep the personnel files on him.” According to Flanagan, all LMU’s records indicate is that “he was a staff member and he was employed in the area that is now called enrollment management.”

Flanagan was also unable to confirm whether Farrington lived on campus in the Jesuit Community. Acting Superior of the LMU Jesuit community Fr. Allan Deck, S.J., declined to comment, instead referring the Loyolan to Walsh. As of Loyolan deadline, Walsh was unavailable for comment.

It remains unclear how, after

prior allegations against him and being barred from working with minors, Farrington was allowed to continue working on the same campus as college students, some of whom could have been under the age of 18.

Thomas Plante, a psychology professor at Santa Clara University and a member of the religious order’s California review board, is quoted in the Sept. 13 Mercury News article saying that, “The thinking then probably was, ‘We’ve got to keep this person away from kids, so put him in a college environment.’ … Looking at it from the 2012 perspective, we can see that they never should have wanted him on a campus around young adults because that still was a problem.”

According to Patrick Wall, a former Benedictine monk, priest and canon lawyer who has assisted prosecutors and civil lawyers on Roman Catholic sexual abuse cases around the country and has been involved in litigation with the Jesuits of the California Province since 2002, this move is representative of the Jesuits’ “policy of a geographic solution.

When they have a problem, they move him to an area where he’s not known.”

This strategy, however, is one that “happened in every institution, whether it’s school districts, churches or sports organizations.

This was particularly a problem in the 1960s, ‘70s and well into the ‘80s, and it’s tragic,” according to Plante’s comments in the Sept. 13 Mercury News article.

Wall, who defended clerical sexual abuse cases from 1991 to 1998 before leaving the monastery and priesthood to

get married, is also unconvinced by the lack of reported abuse during Farrington’s time at LMU. According to him, the accepted view of people like Fr. Gerald Fitzgerald, C.S.C., founder of the Servants of the Paraclete, an order established to deal with problem priests, and Fr. James Gill, S.J., a Jesuit priest and psychiatrist who was a recognized expert on psychosexual issues, is that clergy who are sexual offenders “can’t stop themselves.” Wall told the Loyolan that those familiar with cases of priests accused of sexual abuse have found that “these are not periodic instances or periodic episodes. It’s not like all of a sudden you can change.”

Farrington currently resides in the Sacred Heart Jesuit Center, a facility for elderly Jesuits in Los Gatos, Calif. according to a separate Sept.

12 Mercury News article titled, “Jesuit in Bellarmine abuse case also accused of misconduct at Sacramento school.” The same article states that Farrington’s “restrictions are reviewed annually by a lay advisory board that includes local medical professionals, law enforcement and business leaders.” The article also reports that, according to Walsh, “Farrington is now 71 years old and has not left Sacred Heart without an escort since 2002. He lives in an infirmary designed for elderly priests and does clerical work there.”

Farrington has declined to comment publicly.

For the Loyolan’s opinion on this story, check out the Board Editorial on page 4.

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11BURNING QUESTIONS

with a new Canadian professor

This issue, News Editor Zaneta Pereira sits down with LMU communications studies professor Christopher J. Finlay to talk about being international and new.

1. Why LMU? I was actually really excited to come here because one of the things that I was most interested in growing up was the liberal arts model. In Canada there aren’t very many liberal arts schools. Consequently, there’s no sort-of smaller schools that are very community-oriented and what have you. Also, the communication studies department is doing some really innovative things so I thought [this would] be a good place to come to.

2. What in particular are you excited to get involved in?

I’m excited that they’ve given me some liberty to start developing new courses on social media. I’m particularly excited by their emphasis on culture-critical approaches to communication and also to global issues.

3. In terms of political discourse, especially in light of the upcoming election, where do you think the rise of social media is heading?

The optimistic version is that global discourse in the public sphere is richer because of the ability of everyone to go around and comment and contribute. But the pessimistic side of me says, “What’s the role of the editor in the future?” Particularly with things like the New York Times, where you can go and see the ‘Most Emailed Stories’ but that may not have anything to do with what’s actually important. It’ll be the cute cat story, and that worries me.

4. What’s been your favorite thing about L.A. so far?

I suppose I just get a kick out of all the movie stuff – which is sort of a goofy thing to say, but it’s true.

5. What is your favorite movie?

It’s probably one you haven’t heard of, or maybe you have. It did win the Oscar for best foreign picture and it’s called “The Barbarian Invasions.”

6. Where in Canada did you go to school?

I grew up in Ottawa but my family is originally from Vancouver so I went to Simon Fraser University. It’s like a more extreme version of LMU, because you know how you’re on the bluff here? They’re on a mountain.

7. How did you get interested in communications, did you study it in a university?

[I studied] political science and U.S. history, which was weird for me because no one did that in Canada. By the time I did my first Master’s degree in political science, I was getting frustrated that they didn’t explore the space of media as much as they could and so I switched into political communication.

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There are two places and two answers. You could go to Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and you could do them all in the space of a week. And do it in the winter. Now, if you want to go have a vacation in terms of just physical beauty, go to Vancouver – it’s the most spectacular place on earth. Go there between about June 15 and Sept. 5. The rest of the year it’s raining, but those months it’s like nowhere else on earth.

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10. Where’s your favorite place you’ve travelled to?

I’ve actually spent large parts of three summers in a row in China and I’ve started to be really fascinated by the culture. It’s not an easy place to travel to in terms of all the poverty you encounter and just some of the strange things that you see in the big cities – the pollution is extraordinary – but it’s a really different culture and a fascinating space to learn about.

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8. What are the things you’ve noticed are most different here?

The role of race is a lot bigger down here, there’s no going around that.

You’ve probably seen Michael Moore’s, “Bowling for Columbine,” where he goes up to Canada and then Detroit and talks about the differences.

He overdoes it, but it’s true. There’s more of an emphasis on difference as opposed to celebrating diversity, which I find troubling. And one of the things that appealed to me [down here] was choice. Just the idea that abundance matters because you should be able to select your own collection of ideas. That’s something that’s quite uniquely American.

11. What do you think is the benefit of bringing more international faculty to LMU? The easiest answer is perspective, but that’s broad. What it is, is that as Americans there is a sense of inward looking more than outward looking.

Whereas, if you’re a middle power or a smaller power, you’re always looking to other countries as well. So I think that the importance of having international faculty and students is to get their perspectives not just on their own cultures, but also their perspectives on the United States. I think that’s essential.

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BOARD EDITORIAL

Board Editorials represent the voice of the Loyolan. They are written in collaboration by the Executive Editorial Board: Editor in Chief Adrien Jarvis, Managing Editor Kevin O’Keeffe, Human Resources and Photo Editor Brigette Scobas, Asst. Opinion Editor Joseph Demes and Asst. Sports Editor Dan Raffety.

Enough with evading the issue, LMU

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ransparency. It’s a common theme in Loyolan board editorials about the University’s actions. But the current Loyolan staff has never been more serious in its call for transparency than now.

News broke last Tuesday, Sept. 11, that Brother William Farrington, S.J. – who worked at LMU for 15 years, from 1987 to 2002 – has been accused of sexually molesting a former student at San Jose’s Bellarmine College Preparatory and of “improprieties” involving two former students at Jesuit High School near Sacramento – both schools that Farrington worked at prior to arriving at LMU (See “Jesuit accused of sexual molestation spent 15 years working at LMU,” Page 1). Although no lawsuit has been or is currently filed against Farrington, both Bellarmine Prep and Jesuit High’s presidents have called the accusations “credible.”

Both schools made sure to inform hundreds of alumni who attended during Farrington’s tenure, urging anyone who may have been abused

by Farrington to come forward. Both presidents wrote letters about the situation, apologizing for the potential harm done. Spokesman for Jesuit High School Jordan Blair is quoted in the Sept. 12 Sacramento Bee article “Ex-Jesuit High teacher accused of inappropriate conduct with student” as saying, “We are acting with full transparency. …

We wanted to make sure this information was out there.”

When the Loyolan asked LMU’s Vice President for Communications and Government Relations Kathleen Flanagan whether the University would follow suit, she said, “As far as I know, there was nothing that happened at LMU, so there would be no reason to do it.”

That’s just about the worst reasoning.

As Flanagan said, no accusations of abuse by Farrington during his time at LMU have been reported yet. However, the University’s response to these serious allegations is more than troubling. No one likes to deal with upsetting and delicate situations like this, but that does not warrant inaction.

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It sounds as though LMU could stand to learn from Bellarmine Prep and Jesuit High School, both of which responded proactively to the situation.

What’s more, if Farrington abused students at former schools, “it’s rationally impossible that he was celibate while he was [at LMU],” according to Patrick Wall, a former Benedictine monk, priest and canon lawyer who has assisted prosecutors and civil lawyers on Roman Catholic sexual abuse cases around the country and been involved in litigation with the Jesuits of the California Province since 2002. Wall added that expert testimony indicates that sexual abuse offenders “can’t stop themselves.”

The University has a responsibility to alert its alumni to the situation and open lines of communication in case anyone has something to report. No accusations now does not mean there will definitely be no allegations in the future.

The case gets more troubling. Blair said in the same Sacramento Bee article that when Farrington was removed from Jesuit High School in 1987, he was also barred from working with minors. As Wall told the Loyolan, “We all know that there are freshmen on campus who are 17 years old, we all know that there are students coming to campus for camps and activities that are under 18 years old and we all know that there are a lot of kids who are on accelerated programs taking college courses.

There are opportunities to get to minors [at universities like LMU].”

But whether the University even knew about these allegations and the restrictions placed on Farrington when he came to campus in 1987 remains a mystery.

So here’s what the Loyolan has to say: Enough with evading the issue, LMU. Be transparent. Tell us the facts. Hopefully, even with this information, no one at LMU during Farrington’s time at the University will come forward. But, with the unfortunate chance that that is not the case, give them the opportunity to tell their story. Reporting abuse takes innumerable levels of strength. Show that you care. Extend your hand.

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ow would you feel if some of your taxes went toward a $50,000 sexual reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate?

This is what the state of Massachusetts is debating.

R o b e r t Kosilek was incarcerated in 1990 for murdering his Kosilek BanAnnaGram cwife. h a n g e d

By Anna Escher his name to Asst. Opinion Editor Michelle and has been imprisoned for life in a Massachusetts all-male prison and lives as a transgendered person receiving hormone treatment. Although born a man, Kosilek identifies as female and is experiencing what the Free Medical Dictionary calls gender dysphoria, or: “A persistent unease with having the physical characteristics of one’s gender, accompanied by strong identification with the opposite gender and a desire to live as or to become a member of the opposite gender.” Kosilek is battling against the state to get a sexual reassignment surgery.

The conflict is that this surgery could cost nearly $50,000 in taxpayer money. U.S. Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts is in fervent opposition to District Court Judge Mark Wolf’s ruling that Kosilek should receive a sexual reassignment surgery. Brown calls the surgery “an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars,” and states that “[w]e have many big challenges facing us as a nation, but nowhere among those issues would I include providing sex change surgery to convicted murderers. I look forward to common sense prevailing and the ruling

being overturned,” as reported in The Frisky’s Sept. 13 article “Debate This: Should Taxpayers Be Funding Sex Reassignment Surgery For Transgender People In Prison?” by Lesley Kinzel.

Kosilek has become a danger to herself and serves as an example of how spiritually damaging living with gender dysphoria is to a human being. The Boston Herald published a report from the Associate Press on Sept. 6 saying that, “Michelle Kosilek’s gender-identity disorder has caused her such anguish that she has tried to castrate herself and twice tried to commit suicide.”

A lot of people misunderstand – not to mention ridicule and show hateful, unwarranted prejudice – against the transgender community, and that is one of the reasons this case is under fire. Not only is Kosilek literally incarcerated, she is imprisoned in her own body. This is why she should receive the surgery.

Massachusetts taxpayers’ outrage at having to pay for a killer’s surgery is understandable; however, there are both federal and state laws that guarantee inmates medical care. If Kosilek was pregnant and had to give birth, it would be covered. If her appendix were about to burst, the state would pay for her appendectomy. The court has ruled that her gender dysphoria is an ailment that deserves medical care, and I agree.

Opposition to the surgery only shows prejudice, misunderstanding and fear of transgender people. For those who disagree and argue that while they may be in support of transgender surgeries in general, criminals should not receive the health care that so many non-criminals struggle to receive, what happens when an inmate has appendicitis or needs to give birth?

Taxpayer money goes to those medical treatments. The question is whether or not people believe

that a sexual reassignment surgery (which should not be confused with a cosmetic surgery) can help Kosilek’s quality of life, which it can and surely will, if Brown’s attempt at overturning the ruling is denied.

Ultimately, this situation is a tough one to debate. Many factors such as criminal health care, allocation of taxes, the understanding of what it means to be transgender and how gender dysphoria should be treated are present in this conversation. These factors

play into the decision of whether or not Kosilek should receive surgery. Gender dysphoria is a real, spiritually damaging disorder and a traumatic way to live life. These factors aside, the bottom line is that transgender people deserve medical care just like anyone else.

It is a progressive step in itself that gender identity disorder was recognized by a court as a medical issue deserving of surgical treatment. But it is unfortunate that the transgender community must be

represented by a frightening murderer like Kosilek. Although it’s hard to do, people need to show unconditional positive regard for Kosilek.

What sets us above murderers is our compassion. Even if it is a large sum of money that must be collected to pay for her surgery, we must demonstrate our value of human life despite Kosilek’s inability to do so.

This is the opinion of Anna Escher, a senior communication studies major from Stanford, Calif.

Please send comments to aescher@theloyolan.com.

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onfused” seems to be an apt description for the events regarding protests surrounding the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. The poorly timed politicizing of the attack upon a U.S. diplomatic site in Benghazi, Libya by both the Democratic and Republican parties doesn’t help either.

Unfortunately, it seems no one – not even the A Short Story U.S. Embassy

By Joseph Demes in Cairo – has Asst.Opinion Editor properly reacted to any aspect of the conflict.

The whole controversy surrounds a 13-minute trailer for “Innocence of Muslims,” an independently funded film created by YouTube user Sam Bacile, who, according to a Sept. 13 Gawker report, is a Coptic Christian named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. The producer, according to a Sept. 14 Gawker article, is a softcore porn director named Alan Roberts. It’s horribly amateurish, and I can easily see why it would offend Muslims. It repeatedly refers to Muhammad as a “bastard” and claims a donkey to be “the first Muslim animal,” among other things. Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa (a scholar dealing primarily in Islamic scriptural law) put it correctly and succinctly when he stated that “the attack on religious sanctities does not fall under [the freedom of speech]” according to an article and timeline compiled by the Atlantic on Sept. 12, “Here’s a Timeline of the Confusing Statements on Libya and Egypt.”

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Egyptian protestors face off against police squads in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Backlash from an Internet video trailer for the film “Innocence of Muslims” prompted the insurgency.

The idiocy of this continues to astound me – why, if this will clearly incite a nation with a recent history of violence to riot and protest, continue to behave in such inflammatory ways? I doubt it matters much though, since the individuals involved in financially supporting the movie are, according to “Origins of Provocative Video Are Shrouded,” a Sept. 12 New York Times article, “a network of right-wing Christians” including Steve Klein, a Vietnam veteran and insurance salesman in Hemet, Calif. It’s fire fighting fire.

The protests in Cairo prompted members of the U.S. Embassy to release a statement earlier in the morning of Sept. 11, titled “U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement.” Though the statement has been removed from the Embassy’s 2012 Press Releases and Transcripts page, the aforementioned Atlantic timeline was

able to post an excerpt from it: “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. ... Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.”

The statement was neither released nor backed by President Barack Obama’s cabinet, and they attempted to put distance between themselves and the message.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney unwittingly sprung on the statement and lampooned the Obama administration’s supposed “[sympathizing] with those who waged the attacks,” according to the Atlantic timeline, as “disgraceful.”

I don’t know that sympathizing is necessarily a bad thing. These attacks were made by radical Islamists – just the same way the movie was made by radical Christians. Neither party paints a pretty picture of their denomination, and it’s not fair that the average Muslim will be judged by a blanket standard because of these events – not that this hasn’t already happened within the last decade since 9/11, but the fact that it is perpetuated is probably frustrating for the Everyman Muslim.

The lack of circumstantial consideration applies to both faith groups and the members of the embassy who sent out the message.

In a “60 Minutes” interview excerpt from the Sept. 12 Cable article “Inside the public relations disaster at the Cairo embassy,” President Obama noted that “[his] tendency is to cut folks a little bit of slack when they’re in that

circumstance, rather than question their judgment from the comfort of a campaign office.” He did, however, take a dig at Romney in the same interview, according to a Sept. 13 New York Times article, “A Challenger’s Criticism Is Furiously Returned,” remarking that “Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later.”

Part of what comes with the liberty of free speech is saying what you want in a way that promotes discourse, not antagonism.

The blatant misuse of that right is what’s disgraceful here. And it would have been much better for the president to not politicize this instance and to take the high road by not taking a personal swipe at Romney because of his remarks.

The embassy shouldn’t be lambasted for their thoughts. The U.S. shouldn’t apologize for the First Amendment. And these types of events shouldn’t be so politicized by both sides; it’s just inappropriate. We shouldn’t, however, abuse the First Amendment to create more enemies in already tense global situations. While there is no reason for such violence, there is a reason to use one’s better judgment and hold off from saying things that might lead to unnecessary conflict.

Note: This article is on the controversy and uprise surrounding the “Innocence of Muslims,” not the murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and others in Libya. Al Qaeda has since claimed that attack, according to Reuters.

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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Student art show captures spirit of Guadalupe Art Feature

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he first exhibition of the student art shows of this semester kicked off with “Reflect: An exhibition inspired

by Our Lady of Guadalupe.” The shows give the opportunity to LMU students, including those who are not majoring or minoring in art, to showcase their works along with community artists and LMU alumni. It was selected by the gallery co-op class who chose from submitted proposals at the end of last semester.

“The Student Art Gallery is a hidden gem on campus,” said Elizabeth Graham McRae, a junior English major and co-director of the Student Art Gallery. “Only no one involved with the gallery wants it hidden. We want everyone to know it’s here.”

She explained, “[It’s a] special [place] in that it gives [all] students an opportunity to show their art and have a show of their own.

And, generally most students have never had their own art show or had the opportunity to reveal their work to an entire community, so in that sense it’s an exciting and unique space.”

Graham McRae explained that the student gallery exists to allow young artists to grasp the experience of presenting their own pieces in a show and “to be involved in the whole process: from conception to manifestation.”

“Reflect” celebrates Our Lady of Guadalupe, who has influenced each of the artists showcased in some way in their lives, interlacing themes of art, spirituality

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In a collaboration of student, alumni and community artists,“Reflect”celebrates Our Lady of Guadalupe.Presented in various mediums and personal artistic voices,the exhibits show how Our Lady of Guadalupe has influenced the artists. and anthropology. It is expressed through various mediums such as photography, paint and mixed media pieces of wood, machinery and collage elements.

This show was proposed by Maria Ruiz, a senior studio arts major. She wanted to create art by engaging with others from her community of Highland Park and was inspired by the relationships these people have with Our Lady of Guadalupe, ultimately revealing their life stories and personal voices. Her interest with Guadalupe stemmed from various expe-

riences during her years at LMU that encouraged her to solidify a personal connection, such as the interdisciplinary course Voices of Justice, Campus Ministry’s Ignacio Companions trip to East L.A. and Mexico and a class called Guadalupe: Queen of the Americas.

“All these experiences led me to thirst to learn more about what she means to people on an individual basis, which led to the project and exhibition proposals,” said Ruiz. “In working with the artists, we realized that in different ways, our own art is a form of reflection

for each of us.”

As the project progressed, Ruiz, with the help of her mentor and LMU studio arts professor Jane Brucker, got in contact with student, alumni and community artists whose works had coincidental links to the Guadalupe theme.

Nineteen retablos – wooden folded boxes painted and collaged – are featured in the show. They were created by community members at their homes or at the summer workshops at St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish in Highland Park.

“This project was not solely

about the end product, but the process was central,” said Ruiz. It functioned as a creative reflection where they were invited to reflect on who Our Lady of Guadalupe is for them, their family, their community and how they can represent that symbolically through art.”

She added, “I served as the facilitator of the workshops where I learned about my community’s stories and about art as a tool of communication and human interaction.”

Ruiz collaborated with fellow LMU student artist Auberi Zwickel, a junior studio arts major, for one of her pieces for which they examined their own relationships with Our Lady of Guadalupe. The large ink drawing on eight cardboard panels is the central image of the altar space, which all of the artists contributed to. Embracing the relationship’s constant process, the piece is an unfinished one that continues to be created during the exhibition to reflect its progression.

Ruiz’s other piece “Reflection of Worthiness” is a compilation of different images of Our Lady of Guadalupe collected from her home, “reminiscent of how one might see her at someone’s home, to saturate inspiration in the viewer’s mind.”

Recycled paper flowers found at LMU and Highland Park are scattered throughout the space, which viewers are welcome to take and exchange for something else.

The exhibition will continue through Sept. 21 at the Thomas P. Kelly Student Art Gallery from Monday through Friday, 12 to 5 p.m. The closing reception will take place on Sept. 20, from 5 to 7 p.m.

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he book that you hold in your hands is revolutionary.” So begins the forward to Canadian minister Brian Arthur Brown’s new book “Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, and Quran.”

Amir Hussain, professor of theological studies at LMU and editor of the “Journal of the American Academy of Religion,” contributes theological expertise and distinction in his forward for this new book. At the event, he introduced the LMU community to the editor of the work, Brian Arthur Brown. Students, faculty and staff gathered at the Ahmanson Auditorium in U-Hall on Friday, Sept. 14 to be a part of the book launch and hear Brown speak about his project.

What makes this book revolutionary? “Three Testaments” presents together the texts of the Torah of the Jewish tradition, the New Testament of the Christian tradition and the Quran of the Islamic tradition. It is compiled of about 70 percent scripture, 15 percent commentary by a number of significant scholars from each perspective and 15 percent commentary by Brown himself.

Brown is an ordained minster of the United Church of Canada, the largest Protestant Christian denomination in Canada. He has written several books, such as “Noah’s Other Son” and “Forensic Scriptures,” both acting as a trajectory into

this new work. His goals in creating “Three Testaments,” according to the lecture, are to “help us move into a new era of mutual respect,” and through this, “trigger a sense of personal growth.” This does not mean trying to convince or convert one another; rather, it is a roadmap for mutual respect and appreciation of each other’s and one’s own religion.

In reading the Torah and the Quran on top of the New Testament, “I become a better Christian,” Brown expressed at the event.

With such a book, there are bound to be controversies and mixed reactions to the compilation and translations of these texts. For example, Brown noted that some members of the Jewish community were upset that only the first five books of the Torah were included.

Rabbi Ilana Schachter, coordinator of Jewish Student Services, weighed in by saying, “On one hand, it is always important to know that the Torah, writings and prophets [make up] our cohesive text, but I completely agreed ... the Torah is the center of our text.

It always comes first. Everything we have is commentary on the Torah itself.”

As for the New Testament section, Brown chose to use a “radically inclusive Bible” that he exclaimed is “fabulous.

It’s the only one that I read in Church.” His view is not universally agreed upon. Father Thomas P. Rausch, professor of theological studies at LMU, supported the understanding

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of each other’s sacred texts but “had some hesitations ... [the inclusive Bible] is a translation, a paraphrase and you have to be careful when you paraphrase sacred texts because the church or religious community sees it as God’s word, and when you start paraphrasing it, you’re moving away from that.”

Overall, there was much positive review of “Three Testaments.” It is a work that allows for the different faith traditions to “be in conversation together,” as Rabbi Schachter said. It is one that challenges its readers to improve upon their own faith through the ex-

ploration of all three texts.

Sophomore communication studies major Riley Mostrom attended the event and expressed her reaction to the book by saying, “People tend to be focused on our differences, but this book is a nice reminder there are many similarities between Christianity, Judaism and Islam.”

The union of these three texts has never been examined before, even in this day of supposed tolerance and religious diversity, according to Brian Arthur Brown’s personal website.

“Beginning at 9/11, there were many attempts to gain a

greater understanding of one another,” Brown said. According to Brown’s speech at the event, these attempts included trying to understand each other’s history, culture and religion, but all of these are in conflict with one another. Thus, Brown concluded, the only way to better understand each other is through the scriptures, each of which “speak not of what we are or what we have done, but what we aspire to.”

And what do we aspire to?

The book and talk showcased how we all share the same essential hope for peace and unity among people despite our different backgrounds.

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Music hologram emphasizes trend of nostalgia

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et’s just make a hologram of the 90s. All of the 90s. The epidemic in the entertainment industry, music and otherwise, has been to revive everything we thought was cool 15 years ago.

Movie remakes, posthumous albums and holograms abound– it seems we’ve run out of ideas.

Particularly seeing as the biggest performance at

By Dwayne Logan Coachella this past Contributor year was by a digitally-constructed hologram, we also seem to have run out of talent. We are so attached to what was once the epitome of quality that we can’t evolve in this field the way we have in others. While other fields of American culture have taken significant steps toward the ever-distant point of perfection, music and entertainment in general have been backtracking to get ahead.

Case in point: the Tupac hologram. Hologram ‘Pac cost between $100,000 and $400,000 and was supposed to be an introduction to a whole league of hologram performers to be brought alive by director James Cameron’s special effects company, Digital Domain Media Group, according to the Radio Big Boy article entitled, “How much did the Tupac hologram cost? The

company president speaks.” While Tupac Shakur was a great performer, may he rest in peace, it is unsettling to have such an artist brought to life by a corporation and puppeted around for profit. The plan was to bring to life several hologram headliners to perform beyond the grave at major venues across the country, with executives taking profit by placing apparently less talented acts under headliners who have passed on. In the past week, Digital Domain has declared bankruptcy. At around $9 million in debt, Digital Domain had to sell its Venice headquarters and cancel both a proposed Hologram ‘Pac tour and its plans to create a virtual Elvis, according to an MTV News article titled, “Tupac Hologram Company Files for Bankruptcy.”

Concert posters shouldn’t read like an epitaph. My bone to pick with this (no skeleton jokes intended) is that there are plenty of raw, independent talents that don’t get their chance because no one wants to take that chance. Dead artists who made money 15 years ago are a sure-fire way to make money now, especially here in a culture so fixated on the glamour of the past.

With media and the Internet allowing us to often see concerts for free without attending, it’s hard for the top guns to get paid like they used to. With the FBI removing links to albums and mixtapes released by new artists, even the free ones, it is increasingly difficult for us to even be exposed to new music not played on the radio. In ad-

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try was built on. However, with another election coming up, we see time and time again how the two intermingle as party lines and ways of thinking and voting stem from religious beliefs.

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Digital Domain,the production company behind the surpriseTupac hologram that performed at this past Coachella,recently declared bankrupcy. The company was hoping to have holograms go on tour after the positive reception at the festival. dition, the radio maintains airplay for older songs that solicit a popular, lucrative response, leaving less space for novelty and originality.

What about our culture is so attached to nostalgia? Is it the short lifespan of all the fads we’ve seen or our short attention span? It’s easy to fall in love with “older” things when everything gets old so fast. Yes, it’s possible to run out

of ideas, but are we there already?

There are a few interesting questions I want to ask everyone reading this. Why do we love the past to the point where we don’t appreciate the present or future? Why will we create holograms of dead artists to generate thunderous applause when we have plenty of talent lying around waiting for their name to be called? When was the last

This is the opinion of Dwayne Logan, a sophomore business management major from Fullerton, Calif. Please send comments to cjames@theloyolan.com.

our political system works is chronicled in sociology Assistant Professor Rebecca Sager’s book “Faith, Politics and Power.” Said book is the subject of this semester’s first Faculty Pub Night on tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Von der Ahe Family

Suite located on the third floor of the William H. Hannon Library.

In the midst of a heated election year, the series is highlighting a professor’s work that deals with how faith and politics intermingle with one another. According to Outreach Librarian Jamie Hazlitt, “Dr. Sager’s work came out in 2010, but we’ve had it on our list and we thought we need to have this particular talk take place in 2012 with the election year, especially with this contentious political climate we are all embroiled in whether we like it or not.”

Some students of Sager feel that this is a great way to discuss this hot and pertinent topic.

“Her book has always been on my mind during the elections, and I never forget that it’s not the faith of the candidate that makes him valuable for me, but [the] potential of his hard work and dedication to our democratic values that would bring a peace, justice and a common good to all American people,” said Marine Injigulyan, a senior sociology major and former student of Dr. Sager.

“Unfortunately, I see so many people being manipulated by candidates and their appeals to people’s personal feelings,” she continued.

Being at a Jesuit university, the interplay between being active in one’s faith and also making an informed and unbiased judgment in steering our country’s leadership is something that is a popular topic on the bluff.

“I think the message can direct the LMU community to deeply understand how religion and faith can play a great role in politics and be aware that any possible candidate for office can ‘impose’ his [or] her own values on the diverse population of the United States,” said Injigulyan. “[The] book clearly identifies how state faith-based practices work to reshape the relationship between church

and state in the United States.”

In chronicling the role of religion within the bounds of politics, Sager uncovers logic and practices that are debatable to some students.

“I was shocked to learn from the book that some policy makers and proponents of faithbased initiatives got so far to suggest ‘church-state separation creates discrimination,’” said Injigulyan. “[The] Constitution is a fundamental of American democracy, and advocating against [it] is disastrous to our democratic values.”

This is the kickoff for the third year of Faculty Pub Nights. “It’s a great informal opportunity to hear about the faculty work, ask questions and create a pub night sort of vibe,” said Hazlitt.

“If you are over 21, we’ve got good beer and wine, and if your under 21, we’ve got great food.”

Faculty members do a significant amount of research work, some of which students may not be aware of. “Our students see our faculty on a day-to-day basis talking about the subjects of the classes they teach in, but faculty application, research and creative output is 20 percent of the basis in which our faculty are evaluated and rewarded here at LMU,” said Hazlitt. “So they spend a substantial amount of time doing research and creative works.”

Sager is not the only faculty member that will have their work spotlighted through a Faculty Pub Night this semester.

“When we are putting together the lineup for pub night we try and balance,” said Hazlitt. “We try and have work by men and women [and] work representing all of the different colleges.”

Also coming up is Professor Christopher Kaczor presenting his book “The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice” on Oct. 16 and Professor Ruben Martinez presenting his book “Desert America” on Nov. 13. The event is free for the public and will include book purchases and signings.

time your heart was beating too fast at a concert? The last time you lost your voice at a show? When will that happen again? Hopefully not when your favorite artist is a hologram in a decade.

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W. Soccer from Page 12 were also present in last week’s game against Idaho State. The Lions allowed the weaker Bengals squad to stay in the game, until LMU managed to score again and shut them out 2-0.

When asked if there were any common factors between the two games, Myers responded that it was possible.

“We have to get back to focus-

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ing on that, because that’s a sign of things. We got to really break it down for them. Maybe it’s my not being clear enough,” Myers said. “So some of that goes back to being able to train more on it.”

Making adjustments and training have been difficult, as the Lions have been pressed for time on the weekends lately. This weekend is a perfect example, as LMU had to travel in order to play two teams in the same

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Redshirt junior goalkeeper Brittany Jagger (pictured above) almost reached her career high in saves (13) with 12 saves against Arizona State University.

weekend. Every week has been relatively the same since the Lions have had two games every weekend since the season’s start.

Myers said about the weekend grind, “We’ve basically had a very heavy schedule. But now we’re going to have a weekend off, and then we’ll have more time now between games to get an extra day of training and break stuff down. That will help, but we got to go back to being on

the same page offensively. We’ve done a good job against recent teams about being on the same page defensively, but now we have to switch gears and try to get ourselves offensively on the same page.”

After Sunday’s Arizona game, the Lions will have some time off to refocus and rest. They won’t have a game until Sept. 30 against Utah Valley University, and will only have one game a

week for the next two weeks after that. This will give them time to prepare for each team as well as work on more general concerns such as their offensive rhythm.

The Lions also played yesterday, Sept. 16, against the University of Arizona to finish off the Loews Ventana Canyon Cats Classic. The Lions tied against the Wildcats 0-0 after going into two overtimes, bringing their record to 5-3-2.

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Men’s record falls to 1-4-1 to begin season M. Soccer from Page 12 With just over 18 minutes to play in the first half, UCLA freshman midfielder Grady Howe took a shot on goal from the corner and Blanchette made a bobbling save. He let the ball trickle behind him, but the ball did not cross the line and LMU freshman defender Leon Prikhodovskiy cleared the ball to keep the score at zero apiece.

UCLA controlled the ball for much of the first half.

The Bruins topped the Lions in corner kicks 13-0.

Blanchette recorded three saves, however, keeping the score tied at zero heading into the second half.

LMU’s best chance to score came with 17 minutes to play in the half, when sophomore forward Dylan Seedman crossed a ball to Prikhodovskiy, who had an open shot to the goal but could not put the ball in the net. UCLA goalie Earl Edwards made the save, one of two in the first half.

LMU junior forward Trent Clifton received a yellow card with 3 minutes to go in the first half, after a colli-

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Defender Craig Nitti (left) battles UCLA’s Ryan Hollingshead for the ball. Hollingshead recieved a yellow card later in the game on a controversial play.

sion with UCLA midfielder Victor Munoz. That physical play carried over to the second half, in which LMU freshman forward Pedro Velazquez and UCLA senior forward Ryan Hollingshead got into a shoving match after Velazquez allegedly pushed UCLA senior defender Chris Cummings in the chest. After the two were separated and returned to play, Hollingshead collided with LMU senior medfielder Sean Sears a few minutes later to earn a yellow card.

“This is a physical game,” said Velazquez. “They were hitting us a lot and we didn’t think it was fair so we matched their physicality.”

LMU’s coaches agreed.

“That’s just college soccer,” said Assistant Coach Mathes Mennell. “I thought that hit on [Sean} Sears could have been more than a yellow, but it’s part of the physicality of the game.”

With 2:07 left in the game, LMU sophomore forward Dylan Seedman slide tackled a UCLA forward, causing even more tension as the UCLA coaching staff called for a yellow card. The referee did not grant their request. Hollingshead was in the middle of yet another collision with under a minute to play – this one initiated by LMU’s Prikhodovskiy.

As the clock ran out, the Lions were on the wrong end of a 1-0 score, ending the day with a 1-4-1 record.

“I thought we did enough to get a result,” said Mennell. “We were in the match until the end and I thought we played well. We can definitely take positives out of this game moving forward.”

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Midfielder John McFarlin had two of the Lions four shots Sunday against No. 7 UCLA, with one of them on goal. He played 74 minutes in the Lions’loss.

The Lions’ next game will be on Friday, Sept. 21 against Pac-12 opponent Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.

“You don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water,” said Mennell. “If you look at our record, you see

1-4-1, but if you look closely, every game we lost was against a quality team that has a chance to play in the postseason. A play here or there, and we could be on the right side of the victory.

That gives us confidence moving forward.”

Indoor volleyball

Women take second at Notre Dame University’s Golden Dome Invitational Tournament.

The women’s indoor volleyball team has finished 2-1 in all four tournaments this season.Conference play begins Thursday at Saint Mary’s College.

The LMU women’s indoor volleyball team grinded out a win against Xavier University this past Saturday, Sept. 15, to place second in the Golden Dome Invitational. The Lions started slow, but then swept the Musketeers in a match that went four sets, with scores of 20-25, 25-16, 25-23 and 25-23.

Redshirt junior outside hitter Kathleen Luft dominated the match, hitting .474 percent with 19 kills. Redshirt junior outside hitter Felicia Arriola also came up big for the Lions, adding 15 kills and an ace. LMU’s setters, freshman Hannah Tedrow and sophomore Ashley Maxfeldt, contributed with a combined 42 assists – 21 each – to help the Lions win.

The Lions started out the tournament with a tough loss against eventual tournament champions Kansas University. They jumped-started themselves afterwards, however, with a sound win against tournament host University of Notre Dame. After the Notre Dame win came the game against Xavier. Though they finished the game with the same record as Kansas (2-1), the Lions came in second due to the tournament tiebreaker rule. Both Arriola and Luft earned spots on the all-tournament team, making it Luft’s fourth tournament selection in four tournaments, and Arriola’s first of the year.

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Lions stay physical with Bruins Despite tough defensive play, the men’s soccer team loses 1-0 to No. 7 UCLA on Sunday.

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The Lions’ men’s soccer team lost 1-0 against the No. 7 UCLA Bruins yesterday at Sullivan Field in a physical, non-conference match despite a strong defensive effort.

The team tied the crosstown rival at zero to close the first half, but surrendered a goal – and ultimately the game – with 35 minutes to play.

UCLA senior forward Evan Raynr chipped the ball from the right end line into the center for senior midfielder Ryan Hollingshead to put the ball in the back of the net. The Bruins outshot the Lions 15-4 on the day, with much congestion close to LMU’s goal all game.

The Bruins had two shot attempts within the first two minutes of play to set the tone for the match, but could not find the back of the net until the 53rd minute.

“They were pressing us a lot,” said freshman goalie Paul Blanchette.

“Our defense held them pretty good, but they were constantly pressuring us.”

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Women’s volleyball finishes 2-1 in fourth straight tournament For the fourth consecutive tournament, the LMU indoor volleyball team finished its preseason tournament with a record of 2-1.

This past weekend at the University of Golden Dome Invitational, the Lions lost on Friday before taking two on Saturday. Redshirt junior outside hitter Kathleen Luft (21) led the team with 43 kills in the three games. Turn to Page 11 for more information.

Women’s soccer burned by Sun Devils

Lions lose 3-0 after being outshot by Arizona State University in Tucson, Ariz.

By Cruz Quinonez Asst. Sports Editor

Life on the road was hard this weekend for the LMU women’s soccer team. After traveling to Tucson on Friday to face Arizona State University in the Loews Ventana Canyon Cats Classic, hosted by the University of Arizona, LMU lost 3-0 and dropped to 5-3-1 overall. Though the Lions entered hot off a great performance against UCLA and a shutout against Idaho State University, the Sun Devils came out on the attack.

After the game, Head Coach Michelle Myers said, “We knew they were going to be a physical team, a very high-pressuring, high-pressing type of team. And as much as you give your players a scouting report and you warn them about it, the bottom line is you have to come out ready to perform.”

The game started out as a defensive battle with neither team shooting until the seventh minute, when freshman midfielder Jocelyn Blankenship managed to get a shot off that went wide of the goal.

After that Arizona State went on the offensive, taking three shots of their own before scoring on a fourth attempt late in the 19th minute.

Myers elaborated on the first half, saying, “They scored a very nice first goal, one of their best players put in a goal that

[redshirt junior Brittany] Jagger didn’t really have a chance at saving.”

That Jagger couldn’t stop the first goal – or the two which subsequently followed – was no surprise due to the massive amount of shots ASU took. The Sun Devils took an incredible 27 shots to the Lions eight, and Jagger nearly tied her record number of saves (13) with a 12-save performance that kept the Lions from falling further behind.

Although Jagger had great saves, Arizona State’s constant attacking eventually wore the Lions down throughout the second half. The Sun Devils scored in the 69th minute off of a penalty kick and then proceeded to score two minutes later after an LMU misclear. The rest of the second half played out like the first, with Arizona State shooting more and LMU struggling

to keep the offense going.

The Lions’ lack of offense was the most glaring problem, but their defense still played well. LMU’s defense, and in last night’s case specifically, Jagger’s goalkeeping gives promise that this loss is not a product of being outclassed.

“I felt disappointed because I don’t think that team was that much better than us.

But they outworked us, they put together a game plan that threw us off ours. So a lot of credit to them,” Myers said. “For the most part, it was a game that went back and forth and neither team was dominating. Then it got a little more physical and we couldn’t find any rhythm on the offensive side of things.”

The Lion’s offensive rhythm troubles

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MEN’S WATER POLO UPDATE NorCal Invitational

The No. 10 LMU men’s water polo team won two of four games at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. for the NorCal Invitational, defeating No. 18 Concordia University as well as Western Water Polo Association (WWPA) rival No. 11 UC San Diego 10-6. The Lions did, however, drop their first and final contest of the tournament, losing a close match to No. 7 University of the Pacific and No. 9 Long Beach State University. Both scores were 9-7 in favor of the oppostion.

LMU and Long Beach State each scored four goals in the first quarter and the 49ers outscored the Lions by one in the second quarter and fourth quarter to take the two-goal lead and win. The Lions and 49ers will face again later in the season in

Long Beach, Calif. on Oct. 18.

The Lions outscored UCSD 6-1 in the second half to take charge of the match, after a halftime score of five apiece. This is not the only time the Lions and Tritons will line up, as the two teams play in La Jolla, Calif. on Sept. 26, and will likely matchup in the conference tournament at the end of the season. The Tritons won the conference last season after the Lions failed to reach the conference championship game for the first time in over 10 years.

LMU was picked as the preseason favorite to win the conference this year, with rival UCSD picked number two in the preseason coaches’ poll.

Sophomore utility man Joe Ferretti, junior 2-meter John Mikuzis,

redshirt sophomore attacker Matt Stipanovich and redshirt freshman attacker Jake Villarreal all led the Lions with two goals each. Redshirt senior Jon Colton and freshman Milutin Mitrovic each added a goal on the day. Senior goalie Kyle Testman had 11 saves to keep the Lions within reach of a much-needed victory.

Prior to the conference win, the Lions took their frustration out on No. 18 Concordia University, defeating the club 18-6 in the second game of the Northern California tournament. The Lions led 13-1 at halftime and kept the momentum going to end the game with a 1-1 record on the tournament. Redshirt freshman attacker Seth Coldren led the team with four goals.

The Lions first game of the

much-anticipated tournament was against No. 7 University of the Pacific. The Lions trailed 3-1 after the first quarter and were still down by two at halftime. They could not get ahead in the second half, as the Tigers outscored the Lions by one in the third quarter and hung on in the fourth despite the Lions outscoring them by one in the fourth. When all the dust settled, the Tigers faced the No. 2 Bruins and the Lions were sent into the loser ’s bracket.

The Lions will get the chance to face the No. 2 Bruins on Friday night at UCLA’s Spieker Aquatics Center at 7 p.m. The Lions have never beaten UCLA. – Dan Raffety, Asst. Sports Editor Graphic: Joanie Payne | Loyolan