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Ghost of Whelan Rains Hall isn’t the only on-campus student dorm to have supernatural occurences. Strange apparitions come with the territory in Whelan 372. According to senior European studies major Katey Campbell, there was something strange in her freshman dorm room with her and her roommate many times. “[My roommate] Sonja [Bistranin] and I saw a man behind us in the mirror multiple times and saw him at night just standing there,” said Campbell. Apparently, there might be a third roommate – of the supernatural kind – that comes with the room.

The Haunting of Rains Junior sociology major Nicole Giambone moved into her new home on the second floor of Rains Hall two weeks early and saw something strange one night.

“The first time I saw her, it was 7 p.m. and I was about to walk out of my room. I looked back to make sure my blinds were closed and the ghost was standing right there,” said Giambone. “She was translucent, average height, with wild brown hair and red eyes.”

The ghost has dark origins, relating to rumors of a possible student death in 1998. “Legend has it that this girl was anorexic and one night in her sleep she slipped between her lofted bed and the wall, got stuck and suffocated,” said Giambone. “This happened during finals week and the body stayed in Rains over winter break. The girl didn't come back to school in January, and they started looking for her.” It is rumored that they found her dead.

Strub theatre It turns out the theatre arts program is always performing for an audience, even during rehearsals.

According to Blogging Los Angeles’ Oct. 30, 2006 article, performers claimed to have seen an old woman sitting in the back of the Strub Theatre during rehearsals. The woman has also been seen by stagehands as they locked up the theater at the end of the night.

Whatever the explanation may be, it seems it’s the theatre arts program who redefines the phrase “lifelong patron.”

Hank Gathers’ ghost Almost everyone at LMU knows the story of basketball player Hank Gathers, who fell victim to his heart condition during a fateful 1990 game. The nickname for Gersten Pavilion, “Hank’s House,” seems to be more apt than originally intended. Gathers has reportedly still been seen around the premises at odd hours of the day and night. According to Dec. 25, 2004, Los Angeles Times article, “A Spirited Presence,” student athletes, student managers and janitors have all experienced strange occurrences, such as seeing Gathers or hearing the dribbling of basketballs after the arena is closed.

Information compiled by Christopher James, Life+Arts editor; Graphic: Mercedes Pericas | Loyolan

Students celebrate Día De Los Muertos Notice something spooky as you walk in the study? An altar dedicated to Día de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, is on display this weekend in the lobby of the Wiliam H. Hannon Li-

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Espérer hosts awareness week Modern Slavery Awareness Week aims to encourage more than just awareness.

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William H. Hannon Library captures Halloween spirit with performance Theatre arts students haunted the stacks of Hannon Library Sunday, Oct. 27, by performing various scenes from horror novels. Ghostly guides escorted tours of students and visitors from scene to scene. Attendees of this event started their Halloween week off with a little literary trick-or-treating. For more information on the event, check out Page H3 of the Halloween special section.

Slavery still exists. That’s the fact service organization Espérer hopes to share with the LMU community this week.

Espérer’s Modern Slavery Awareness Week began this past Monday. This is the first awareness week that the 21-person organization has held.

“We were unsure of what to expect,” junior humanities major Alex Vogl said.

“But as the week goes by, we have been increasingly more motivated and we’re excited to finish strong.”

The awareness week will end this Saturday with the “Benefit for Hope” concert, but president of Espérer and junior political science major Dani Corona said that Espérer’s efforts to spread awareness about modern slavery will not stop just because the week is over.

“We want to focus on following up on what we can actually do and not only learning about it,” said Corona. “We are giving out bookmarks with ten concrete ways people can help fight modern slavery, and in January we are going to have a workshop about how people can get involved with volunteering and legislative action and not just knowing about it.”

Junior management major Liliana Cacique agreed with Corona, saying that action following awareness is a goal for the organization, and a challenge they have See Espérer | Page 3

Student media groups take home award The Loyolan and Tower yearbook staffs win the coveted Pacemaker award.

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The Los Angeles Loyolan and Tower Yearbook both won Pacemaker Awards this past weekend in New Orleans at a conference put on by the Associated Collegiate Press in conjunction with the College Media Association. The Pacemaker Award, which is often referred to as the Pulitzer of college journalism, is a nationally respected award that honors student media publications that have demonstrated high achievement and quality standards.

LMU is the only university to win both a yearbook and a newspaper Pacemaker. This marks the third time that the Loyolan has won the Pacemaker, most recently in 2011, and the first Pacemaker for the Tower Yearbook.

Professional journalists judge the publications in the running for Pacemaker awards based on “coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, leadership on the opinion page, evidence of in-depth reporting, layout and design, and photography, art and

graphics,” according to a press release by LMU Director of Student Media Tom Nelson.

The Pacemaker is a huge accomplishment for both the Loyolan and the Tower, and it prompted much excitement among those involved in the student media outlets.

Editor in Chief of the Loyolan Kevin O’Keeffe had high hopes for the Pacemaker, but no expectations. “I thought we had a better chance next year because of our redesign, but Adrien [Jarvis], the former editor in chief, bolstered the writing quality of the paper and the quality of the content we were putting out,” said O’Keeffe. “Plus, we were gifted to get a couple huge stories that also helped us out a lot.”

A group of Loyolan staffers attended conference sessions in New Orleans, in addition to the awards ceremony. There were a variety of post-graduation sessions, and others filled with information for the Loyolan members to bring back and share with the rest of the staff.

The Pacemaker win was definitely something that the traveling group was eager to share with the rest of the staff.

“It’s about staff pride. For the most part, this is the group of people who won this award,” said O’Keeffe about the win. “One of the first things that I said when we won was that we needed a picture so that I could post it and show the staff.

It just felt like a staff pride moment.”

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From left to right, Managing Editor Dan Raffety, Design Director Tyler Barnett, Web Editor Kailey Strachan, Editor in Chief Kevin O’Keeffe, Sports Editor Kevin Cacabelos and Opinion Editor Chelsea Chenelle accepted the Loyolan’s Pacemaker award this last weekend in New Orleans. shared some of the same feelings of pride at this victory for student media saying, “I have witnessed both the Loyolan and Tower grow exponentially over the years. Each year we improve the structure of staff as well as the

content and design processes. Although we are mutually exclusive publications and we serve distinct purposes we both facilitate a common goal of representing the LMU community and providing a lasting memory for students.”

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Bellarmine Forum explores restorative justice

The event addresses issues of human trafficking and sexual violence.

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How does a woman heal from a brutal sexual assault?

What are the consequences for undocumented migrant workers who have been trafficked? These are the types of questions that were addressed in the Bellarmine Forum event “Restorative Justice, Sexual Violence, and Human Trafficking” on Wednesday, Oct. 30, in Ahmanson Auditorium.

According to the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts website, the Bellarmine Forum is a platform to reflect on “the theories and practices of justice in our contemporary society, with a focus on the promise of restorative justice as a mechanism for addressing harm, teaching conflict prevention in schools and other institutions, rebuilding relationships and communities and reintegrating offenders into society.” This panel focused primarily on addressing harm and rebuilding relationships.

Moderated by Sr. Linda Buck, panelists Janine Geske, a former state supreme court judge and

professor at Marquette University Law School, and Kathleen Kim, a human trafficking lawyer and professor of law at Loyola Law School, spoke about the challenges surrounding the criminal justice system in regards to sexual assault and human trafficking.

Restorative justice is defined by three questions, according to Geske, an expert in restorative justice in crimes like sexual assault and homicide. When examining restorative justice, one must ask who was harmed, how the victim was harmed and what is needed to repair the harm.

Continuing, Geske spoke about the difference between harm defined by legislation and the type of harm victims actually experience. She explained that, many times, the focus of the trial is the physical harm done to a victim when physical harm may not be what ultimately hurts the victim.

“It’s the psychological harm that is life-altering,” she said.

Kim, an expert in human trafficking law and advocacy, spoke similarly about the discrepancy between the legal definition of harm and the real application of harm. She explained the challenges when advocating for trafficking clients who are undocumented.

“Law in theory is really great,

but law how it is implied can be really problematic,” Kim said.

She continued, claiming that, many times, federal trafficking raids result in deportation of the victims rather than incarceration of the offenders. She explained that this is the result of many factors, one being the interpretation of coercion in antihuman trafficking laws. Often, coercion is confirmed by evidence of physical force when it can also be emotional or psychological.

Both Geske and Kim talked about the importance of empowerment when working with victims of violent crimes.

Geske described a type of restorative justice meeting she facilitates where both victims and victimizers sit in the same circle and speak about how crime has affected them. She explained that this empowers the victims by giving them a voice, while allowing the assailants to process and understand the long-term effects of their crimes.

Similarly, Kim talked about giving voice to her clients who are victims of human trafficking. She said that giving them the opportunity to share their struggles and advocate for themselves in court gives them a tremendous sense of empowerment.

After both Geske and Kim finished speaking, Buck opened

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the forum for questions. Audience members asked questions regarding the philosophy of forgiveness surrounding restorative justice practices and the application of deportation quotas when working with human trafficking cases. The forum ran 30 minutes longer than scheduled, but audience members seemed to stay engaged,

with very few leaving before it finished.

Junior women’s studies major Shannon O’Brien was one audience member who seemed interested in the forum, saying, “It was interesting to hear about the legal side of trafficking issues from someone who is actually doing the work because trafficking is such a sensitive topic.”

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This issue, Interim News Editor Casey Kidwell sits down with Giovanni Douresseau, cultural chair of Black Student Union, to talk about his role in the organization.

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What does your role in Black Student Union (BSU) entail?

I am the cultural chair, so I incorporate aspects that bring people together around cultural African sentiments or traditions. … This ties into [a recent] event we did, since that was helping out inner-city youth.

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As an organization, what is BSU’s goal on campus?

To embrace and celebrate African American culture and to get not just black students, but all students on campus more informed about what the culture is.

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A couple weeks ago you held an event with the Foundation for Second Chances and Brothers of Consciousness (BOC). Can you tell me more about this event?

It helps students become more professional students and leaders of tomorrow. Foundation for Second Chances is doing leadership workshops all fall for the inner-city youth. The day [of the event], you would see members of BOC coming over to have lunch with the students and to talk to them about what being a college student is like and offering them advice. They were able to see someone they could relate to in this environment where they could grow, in what can be seen as an unfamiliar environment. … We wanted to make it more familiar to them.

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faced is motivating the LMU community to take action.

“The challenges of the week lie in moving from awareness and education to how people can get involved,” said Cacique. “It’s not only a matter of reading flyers and coming to events but also taking a look at the tools we have to spring into action.”

Even though Espérer hopes action will follow awareness, educating the LMU community about modern slavery was still the focus of the week.

“The biggest push of the week is just to get awareness out,” said junior women’s studies major Shannon O’Brien, Espérer’s vice president of service. “Slavery is illegal in every country in the world, yet it exists in every country.”

To spread awareness, Espérer has held events throughout the week, including a bake sale and a demonstration at Convo that involved the members emulating situations that slaves may face, such as being tied up and blindfolded.

Corona emphasized that because many people are uninformed about the issue, spreading awareness needed to be the main goal of the week.

“Even though this is the worst time to do an awareness week because Devin [Feldman’s] article came out in the Loyolan last week about how ineffective awareness weeks are, I said, challenge accepted,” said Corona. “Because people still don’t know about modern slavery.

Especially in L.A., where there’s so much human trafficking, and there’s a lot people can do to prevent it.”

EspÉrer- Modern Slavery Awareness Week

LMU’s Espérer service organization hosts Modern Slavery Awareness Week this week in order to shed light on human trafficking. “Our week aims to bring to light the fact that all people in the world still aren’t free, and intends to make people more conscious about where their food, clothes and other consumer goods and services come from,” said junior women’s studies major and vice president of service in Espérer Shannon O’Brien.

Monday, Oct. 28: Bake sale from noon to 3 p.m. at Lawton Plaza. This event aims to educate and engage individuals about the awareness week with tasty treats and sweets.

Tuesday, Oct. 29: Silent protest at Convo aimed to illuminate the modern faces of slavery.

Wednesday, Oct. 30: Movie screening of “Girl Rising” from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Hannon Library’s Von der Ahe Family Suite.

Thursday, Oct. 31: Political Science Professor Jodi Finkel will host a seminar on modern slavery titled ‘What is Modern Slavery?’

Saturday, Nov. 2: Benefit for Hope Concert at 6:30 p.m. at Lawton Plaza. This concert is free and is hosted by Cellar Door Dance Company and Esperer to raise funds for the non-profit organization, MuJER. Information compiled by Julia Sacco, News Intern; Graphic: Mercedes Pericas | Loyolan

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What other events do you host throughout the year? ation got together to create this [event], which was a coalition ness. It won best student event of the 2012-2013 academic year. Another event for us is Karamu. It’s like a formal, but African-culturally themed. BOC hosts African American women appreciation night, which celebrates the legacy of African American women. Also, BOC does a lot of community service in the inner city, which sparks a lot of awareness discussions.

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Personally, to be comfortable not being comfortable, challenging yourself. Helping them see that people like them who come from poor backgrounds where most of society labels them as criminals or people who aren’t going to be successful that higher education is a possibility.

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Thanks to a National Science Foundation grant at LMU, students now have the opportunity to explore their interest in teaching in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields through internship or scholarship.

The grant, part of the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program, is a five-year award that was offered to LMU on Sept. 1 of last year, according to associate professor of biology Carolyn Viviano. Since then, LMU leaders of the program, including Viviano and associate professor of biology Catharine McElwain, have planned out how to distribute the money in order to achieve the grant’s ultimate goal to “raise the profile of teaching as a career for students on our campus,” according to Viviano.

The grant has been distributed into two different outlets, both of which directly subsidize the work of LMU students and specifically highlight teaching. The first of the two is the Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, which recruits students who are serious about teaching STEM subjects in a K-12 setting after graduation. All STEM majors can apply for the scholarship, as long as they will be juniors or seniors at LMU in the upcoming school year and have a 3.0 GPA in their major.

Selected scholars must pledge to get a teaching credential and spend two years teaching in a high-need school after they graduate for each year of receiving the scholarship.

In return, they are offered $20,000 a year toward their remaining undergraduate education, according to Viviano.

While three Noyce scholars were selected earlier this year, the first of the program at LMU, the plan is to offer perhaps five or six scholarships this year, said Viviano.

The applications will be available before the end of the semester.

The other program the grant funds is a freshman internship program. In the summer following their freshman year, students selected as interns live on campus for seven to eight weeks while they work full-time as interns in various informal educational setting, including aquariums and day camps.

In addition to this work, interns take part in a colloquium meeting weekly to discuss their experience.

They receive a $3,000 stipend for the summer.

The internship, which had eight student participants in its first summer, aims to give freshmen a chance to see if a teaching career is right for them early in their college career.

“In our experience, what happens is you have math and science majors … and even some engineers. They go through school, they get their degree and afterwards they decide maybe they want to teach. They don’t really start thinking about it until after they’ve actually graduated,” Viviano said. With the internship program, Viviano added, “they get some experience and at least they start thinking about whether teaching makes sense for them at a much earlier time.”

Sophomore biology major Erich Eberts, one of the eight interns this summer, was placed at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro, Calif. He worked in a nursery helping to raise fish, and in the education department, teaching camp classes and creating activities to engage drop-in visitors.

“One of the reasons I looked into the internship at first was to consider how a STEM teaching career might suit me,” Eberts said.

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“The internship gave me lots of good insight into what career path I might want to take. It exposed me to marine biology, a field I am now really interested in, and confirmed my interest in teaching.”

Junior civil engineering major Mackenzie Domann also participated in the internship and was placed at Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, which is run by a nonprofit environmental group called Heal the Bay. “During most weeks, Monday was ‘micro’ bio, which was an education program for three, four, and fiveyear-olds, and the rest of the week was regular education programs for kids ranging from first grade through middle school,” Domann said. “There were three weeks of camp. These weeks were fun because not only did we get to teach the kids lessons about the ocean, but we also got a chance to bond with the kids.”

The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach was a third intern placement. There, interns learned to put on shows, ran exploration stations for kids and even taught lessons. Outreach supervisor of the aquarium, Milena Acosta, stressed that the interns not only were able to try a lot of different teaching styles and opportunities, but they were also extremely vital to the aquarium’s success during the summer season.

“They were a very crucial part of being in the classrooms with the students and helping the education staff run the programming,” Acosta said. “We tried to give them opportunities to really focus on learning everything that we do.”

Viviano plans to use feedback from supervisors and student interns this year to make next summer’s intern program even more dynamic, adding a T.A. to guide the interns and working on accommodating of all the different majors applying for the program, especially engineers.

Student interns from last summer will be hosting a poster session on Oct. 31 on Alumni Mall outside of

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Sophomore mechanical engineering major Laura Calcara (top) takes part in a recycling toss challenge over the summer at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium.

Activities such as ‘Who’s my mommy’ were part of the education process.

Seaver Hall in order to present some of the things they learned during the internship and things they discussed during the weekly colloquium. This is open to the public and Viviano encourages students who are interested in the program to stop by to gain more insight into what the program entails.

Domann urged freshmen who

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hen I looked up what day of the week Halloween fell on, I was pleased to find out it was a Thursday. LMU culture tells me that Thursdays are the beginning of the weekend, and that there are plenty of people who go out on Thursday nights. Whether it’s a Venice bar or a house party, I know Halloween night will be a great night before either the Department of Public Safety or LAPD tells us all to go home.

So Halloween night should be really fun, filled with candy, costumes and predominantly pumpkin beer. But one of the problems with collegiate Halloween festivities, at least for me as a senior at LMU, is that the fright night is not limited to just one evening.

When I was a kid, the only thing that remained after Halloween night was the amount of candy my mom told me to “save for next time.” But here at LMU, Halloween goes for multiple days before and after the actual event.

This poses the question: Am I required, if I go out multiple nights this weekend, to obtain multiple costumes?

I was in New Orleans for a journalism conference this past weekend with some of the Loyolan staff, and the Big Easy celebrates Halloween the weekend before. One night, I was a farmer, and the other, I was Josh from “Clueless.” It was adorable – check my Facebook for photos. But before the actual holiday even took place, I had already worn two costumes.

So if I go out Oct. 31 and once more this weekend, I will be up to four costumes for one holiday event. I think that’s a little much.

Though this might sound a little diva of me, I’d feel pretty scrutinized if I repeated my costume at multiple events.

I can tell you exactly what my Halloween costumes were when I was growing up because there was just one per year to remember. I was Davey Crockett in kindergarten, the former Olympian and WWF wrestler Kurt Angle in third grade, Elvis in fifth grade and a fat referee in seventh grade. Nowadays, when I’m putting something together to fulfill my multiple costumes per Halloween season, none end up as meaningful as they once were.

A culture has emerged that deems it unacceptable to repeat a costume, especially because LMU is so small and I’d probably see most of the same people the next night anyway. Do I go, but not dress up? That seems pretty party-pooper-ish. Do I show up in my cowboy hat and plaid shirt a few more times this season? Pretty unoriginal. No. I feel obligated to figure out a way to squeeze in a few more ideas just to fit the mold of a different-attire-every-night mentality.

Don’t get me wrong – dressing up is a lot of fun, and that is one of the tenets that makes Halloween such a special event. I get to be someone who I’m not for a night, or four. Frankly, this unwritten multiple costume rule is a little overwhelming – and transfers the energy from one great night to an exhausting weekend affair.

This is the opinion of Dan Raffety, a senior communication major from Eagle Rock, Calif. Tweet comments to @LoyolanOpinion, or email draffety@theloyolan.com.

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OPINION In the Bluff piece, “University to host inaugural Burning Lion,” which appeared in the Thursday, Oct. 24, issue, Bruce Willis was incorrectly credited as starring in “Waterworld.” Kevin Costner actually starred in the film.

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y entire life, I firmly believed in the cliché “money can’t buy happiness.” However, after surviving a zombie apocalypse, I can’t say this is 100 percent true.

Budgeting in college is paramount. Spending it on the necessities such as sustenance, shelter and clothing is a given.

But in terms of treating yourself, I suggest spending your hardearned cash on experiences, not material objects. Use your money to go places and do things you would never have the opportunity to do otherwise.

A month ago, I signed up for my first 5k. Although it was a split-second decision I made just a couple of days before the run took place, the friend who urged me to sign up promised to not leave me behind. After deliberating for a few days, we threw down 80 bucks each and registered for the Sept. 28 Run For Your Lives Zombie 5k night run.

The zombie-themed obstacle course race challenges runners with natural and manmade hurdles such as a blood pit, electric shocks, mazes and, of course, zombies. You’re given a belt of flags, which the zombie volunteers gleefully rip off at any opportunity they find as you try to panic your way across the course.

To be honest, I’m a baby when it comes to horror. I steer clear of theaters featuring the latest thriller because gore makes me nauseous, and I avoid fear as much as possible. Spending $80 on a zombie-infested night race was a risk for me – I originally wanted to do The Color Run, but this opportunity reared its undead head earlier.

Despite being unsure of whether or not I’d actually have fun, I committed myself and my money in the name of a once-ina-lifetime experience. And I regret nothing. Not one cent.

The race was challenging. I

found myself army-crawling through mud to avoid barbed wire or electric shocks, clambering over hulking mud obstructions and fending off over-zealous zombies at every turn. I did all of this while coated in grime, dirty water tainted with other people’s sweat, dried mud and the dirt that covered the dusty course of Glen Helen Raceway.

It was disgusting and glorious all at once.

As I pulled myself out of the blood pit and cautiously peered across the hilly landscape littered with flag-thirsty zombies, I realized that surviving this mock-pocalypse was completely possible. I began that final sprint to the finish line. The zombies were practically feral in their excitement to steal the two flags I had left, but I was just as aggressive — I was insistent on surviving.

After crawling underneath an electric shock fence, but not before getting shocked, I made it past the finish line with a single flag. In a sea of 5,034 unfortunately infected individuals, I was a survivor. And my friend survived too. We ran around the after party in unrelenting joy, flashing our medals and taking unashamed selfies. I will always smile when I remember that celebration.

So, I guess that money can buy you happiness—you just have to spend it right.

While some may say $80 was an expensive pricetag for a race, it was nothing compared to the experience I got out of it.

Throughout the race, I found myself working together with strangers to conquer obstacles and saw people, zombies included, assisting others out of simple human kindness. I had been physically tested, but more importantly, I was placed in a situation far beyond my comfort zone and challenged as an individual. I grew from my experience — and you can’t put a price on that.

This is the opinion of Kellyn Kawaguchi, a senior English major from Irvine, Calif.

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s you can see from this issue, we at community who will be trick-or-treatthe Loyolan have gone a little crazy ing. Although your night may not start until over Halloween this year. But who 11 p.m., these families will be out in full could blame us? It’s the holiday with every- force much earlier. If you live on campus, go thing: Costumes. Candy. Scares. It is, in around room to room and exchange candy many ways, the most innocent holiday, best and make some new friends.

During the day, participate in Creare known for children trick-or-treating and service organization’s Fright Night, believing in the supernatural.

Yet in college, with multiple costumes which begins at 3 p.m. in Sunken Garden. needed and plenty of opportunities to black Substitute the good ol’ afternoon siesta for some quality time with chilout, that innocence is somedren in the community, who times lost at the bottom of a The Loyolan urges you have a sense of innocence and red cup. to go all in and really vulnerability that really crysIn the past, including last year, the Loyolan has used the celebrate Halloween. tallizes the Halloween spirit.

Show up to class in your Halloween board editorial to But we want you to do Halloween costume. Who urge caution when going out it the right way. cares if you’re the minority? on Oct. 31. That’s still very This holiday is all about being important – especially considering the Department of Public Safety’s something that you’re not for a single day. email on Monday saying they were going Plus, those in your class who aren’t dressed to increase security off campus beginning up will feel pretty normal by comparison – and on Halloween, normal is the last thing tonight.

That said, the Loyolan urges you to go all you want to be.

Once school and work are over, there are in and really celebrate Halloween. But we want you to do it the right way. After all, multiple haunted houses in Los Angeles that what makes Halloween unique aren’t the can make your holiday worthwhile. This day two-for-one drink specials at the local bar isn’t simply about going to a house party in or the costume party at a house off of 80th a funny costume – between theme parties Street – it’s about the communal experi- and Greek exchanges, that’s not uncommon in college. This Halloween, spend some time ence.

If you live off campus, don’t hesitate to thinking beyond yourself. It’s a holiday not open your doors for the children in the for the individual, but for the community.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing everything I can to help this team win games,â&#x20AC;? said Wilenius. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The coaches give me a lot of confidence.â&#x20AC;?

Mikuzis, who is now the only current senior on the active roster, has been sidelined for two weeks with a concussion, and it is unclear whether he will return this season. Mikuzis says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely, but Loughran isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so sure. Mikuzisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; two-meter backup, Vuk Cvetkovic, is also out with a torn labrum, but is expected to return in time for the conference championships, according to Loughran. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we have some of the two best two-meter players in the conference, and they are both out with injuries,â&#x20AC;? said Loughran. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can either make excuses, and give

up, or we can respond and finish the season strong.â&#x20AC;?

The Lions are playing a â&#x20AC;&#x153;twometer by committeeâ&#x20AC;? tactic right now, promoting freshman Corey McGee to the role of the offenseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focal point.

This team is definitely young.

Of the 23 active players, 20 of them are redshirt sophomores or younger, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to be critical of this teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance.

They simply havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had the playing time and cohesiveness of other John Loughran-coached teams.

The team is currently one game back to UC San Diego after the 1613 win over Air Force last Saturday.

The new offense without Mikuzis and Cvetkovic plays with more speed, according to Loughran.

The top two teams in the Western Water Polo Association

(WWPA) receive a bye in the endof-the-year tournament. This would put the Lions in the semifinal round of the tournament. If the Lions could muster two victories, they would find themselves in the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2010.

If LMU loses to the Aggies on Friday, the Santa Clara University

Broncos on Sunday or games against California Baptist on Nov. 9, they will likely play in the first round of the WWPA Championships.

This is not a team that will throw in the figurative white towel and give up on the year. Loughran is known for his teams peaking at the right time. This team may

just be too young and too hurt.

But Loughran will have his team fighting in every remaining game. every play and every practice.

This is the opinion of Dan Raffety, a senior communication studies major from Eagle Rock, Calif. Tweet comments to @LoyolanSports, or email draffety@theloyolan.com.

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Redshirt freshman Kirk Wilenius, from Nipomo, Calif., steps up to the role of first choice goalkeeper now that former goalie Gavyn Wild has left the team.

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cool, but at the end of the day it’s about the team.”

Beyond her skill set, Metter is a humble player who puts the team’s needs in front of her own – she isn’t the type of athlete to boast about her accomplishments.

“It’s funny because none of us knew she was going to break the record until during the game,” senior outside hitter Felicia Arriola said.

Usually, athletes who score the points in sports are the most recognized – the wide receiver in football, the hitter in baseball or in this case, the outside hitters in volleyball, who collect the most kills by the end of the season.

Defensive players in volleyball – liberos and defensive specialists – have the daunting task of keeping the ball alive in the first place before it ever touches the hitter’s hands. Despite this responsibility, Metter makes it

look easy.

“She can pass, she can dig, she can set, she can serve and she can lead. That’s probably what separates her most is her ability to do all those things really well.

Most liberos can do three or four of those things. She has the whole package,” Black said.

Although this is Metter’s last year playing indoor volleyball for the Lions, she has another year of eligibility to play sand volleyball. Even though she can

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Senior Besti Metter huddles with her teammates during a game this season. Metter, who holds the LMU career aces and digs records, was named West Coast Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 2011 and 2012.

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“I was about four minutes behind the accident and I arrived just a minute after the paramedics did and they were starting to attend to the boys,” Scholl said. “Godwin’s face was all bloody from four or five different abrasions. The air bags were deployed, and the car was totaled. I was just glad everyone was alright.”

Head Coach Max Good said that when practice began and the two were not there, he knew something was wrong. “Deji and Godwin are never late, never,” said Good. He then received a call about five after eight that morning informing him of the accident.

“My first concern one through nine was about them. I’m worried about them,” Good said. “And then they told me and Coach Scholl was over there and it was close to my house so my wife was over there. We thought they were going to be perfectly all right, and as it turned out, Deji is practicing.

But Godwin may be out for the season. We just don’t know.”

Good reached out to the two that night and expressed his concern for them as people, rather than just players. “I just said, ‘Thank God you two are alright,’” Good said. “My heart

was trembling, and I didn’t know what to do. It could have been a different outcome.”

The impact on the 20132014 season may be great or minimal, depending on the status of Okonji. If he is out for a significant period of time or if the team’s coaches decide to give him a medical redshirt, forwards Ben Dickinson and Alex Osbourne will have to carry to load in the paint.

“Half the coaches said [Okonji] is the best defensive center in the league,” said Good. “Ben Dickinson did a good job in our scrimmage and Alex Osbourne was great in practice today.”

Regardless of Okonji’s status, the Lions will put an emphasis on pressure basketball due to the Lions’ depth at the guard position. Senior point guard Anthony Ireland returns for his senior season and is widely regarded as one of conference’s best players.

ESPN ranked the Lions to finish fifth in the West Coast Conference (WCC), and the coaches picked them to finish sixth.

“I will be disappointed if we don’t finish higher than that,” said Good. “If we have everyone healthy, including Godwin, I think we can make a run at the top three.”

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still contribute to LMU volleyball on the beach, senior night for the indoor team is just around the corner, and Metter said that she thinks it will be an emotional day for the four graduating Lions.

“Everyone says your senior year goes by so fast, and it’s true. It really does,” Metter said.

“My mom’s a crier too, so I’m definitely going to cry. All the seniors have a huge emotional tie to Tom because he’s been here and helped us grow so much, and

it makes me emotional just to think about it.”

After this year, Metter plans to get her master’s degree in education from LMU while being a graduate assistant for a volleyball program and eventually becoming a registered dietician.

But for now, she’s looking forward to the upcoming competition in conference, living out every moment of her senior year and continuing to set the bar high for the LMU volleyball program.

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M. BASKETBALL Senior Anthony Ireland was named a candidate for the 2013-2014 Senior CLASS Award. Ireland, who is one of 30

14th nationally and second in the WCC with 22.2 points per game last season. Ireland has also been nominated for other awards, including the Cousy Award and

MEN’S ROWING LMU rowing competed at the Head of the American Regatta last weekend. The event featured some of the best rowing programs in the country. Senior LMU Athletics Brendan Henderson (right) helped lead the Lions to a fourth

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Wild time for LMU water polo Raff’s Rap Dan Raffety

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he LMU men’s water polo team is on the verge of losing control of the 2013 season.

The only two seniors coming into the season, goalkeeper Gavyn Wild and twometer John Mikuzis, are both out of the pool. Wild informed Head Coach John Loughran that he was stepping down from the program last week, in part as a reaction to the coaching staff benching him after the first game of the Nor Cal Tournament, a loss to Cal State Long Beach.

After he officially made the decision, he told the Loyolan, “No one ever called me.

No one ever reached out to me. I was not happy, and it seemed like no one cared. I love water polo, but it was just time.”

Wild came back for a fifth year this season, redshirting last year when Kyle Testman won the starting job. Loughran made it clear that he did not pressure Wild to come redshirt his senior season and that it was completely his decision.

Redshirt freshman Kirk Wilenius took over for Wild and has been just that: a freshman. Although Wilenius has struggled some in the goal for the club, allowing 143 goals in 13 games, Loughran said, “He is improving every day at practice, working with Marty [Matthies] on specific things in the goal and helping us win games.”

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Metter reaches new heights Senior defensive specialist Betsi Metter is having a record-breaking season.

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When LMU volleyball Head Coach Tom Black first arrived on campus and began recruiting players in 2010, he did not foresee that the first athlete he would ever recruit for the Lions would become a vital leader for his program. He didn’t know she would end up becoming a defensive backbone, or that she would end up breaking two all-time school records for the university in passes and digs.

Senior defensive specialist Betsi Metter has been a pleasant surprise for both Black and LMU. Metter was recruited late in the process, and had decent hopes to play volleyball in college. Thinking she had an average swing as an outside hitter, Black offered her only three years to play at LMU. But things changed once she stepped on the court at LMU. “When I first called her, it was the worst recruiting phone call I’ve ever had – I was like, ‘There’s no way I want to coach this kid,’” Black said. “And then you get her, and she’s like the greatest person ever. It was amazing.

She’s everything you want on and off the court.”

Metter is a natural in the back row, with the numbers to prove it. In September, she topped the all-time LMU career record for digs with the 1,441st dig of her career, and in early October, she set the LMU program record for aces with her 159th service ace. Since then, she has continued to set the bar, and currently has a total of 1,600 digs and 164 aces.

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Senior defensive specialist Betsi Metter set LMU’s record for aces in a road match against the Saint Mary’s College Gaels in early October. Metter currently has 164 carrer aces.

Okonji injured in car accident Senior forward Godwin Okonji’s return is in question after injuries in a car accidents.

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LMU senior guard Ayodeji Egbeyemi returned to practice on Monday, while senior forward Godwin Okonji is still out indefinitely following a car accident Sunday, Oct. 20. Both players were transported to Marina Del Rey Hospital, but were released after about five to six hours.

Egbeyemi’s injuries were mostly minor, straining his chest, left wrist and neck, while Okonji may not return this season for the Lions following a leg injury. He is no longer on crutches, but Okonji is not sure if he will play at all the rest of this season.

“Doctors will say six to eight weeks, but you never know with these things.

I have my fingers crossed. I want to play basketball,” said Okonji. “I’m trying to do the rehab and go from there. I’m not sure if I want to redshirt or not, but I just want to see how the rehab goes,” said Okonji.

The pair of Nigerian seniors were on their way to practice around 7 a.m.

Sunday when a woman driving eastbound on Manchester Blvd. made a U-turn and hit Egbeyemi’s car, who was coming westbound toward LMU. Egbeyemi’s vehicle was totaled after it slammed into the side of the road.

“My first thought is ‘I gotta get out of this car.’ Godwin got out, but I wanted

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Senior forward Godwin Okonji will miss a significant amount of time following a car accident last week on his way to practice with senior guard Ayodeji Egbeyemi. to get out of the car before it exploded,” Egbeyemi said. “It was a near-death experience. I never have been that scared before.”

“The other driver came out and she had no shoes on. I didn’t know what was going on with her, but she came out and we had a witness came out that said, ‘Hey are you

OK? Are you alright? You trying to kill these boys?’”

The pair immediately called Assistant Coach Myke Scholl, who arrived on scene minutes after it happened and took the pair to the emergency room.

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Hannon Library turns into haunted house Theatre arts majors put on spooky performances for kids and students in the library.

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It was a cloudy Sunday afternoon, and William H. Hannon Library had been turned into a haunting ground for the characters from some of literature’s scariest stories.

Students studying in the stacks were interrupted every 10 minutes by screams echoing from the third floor — the Haunting of Hannon Library had begun.

This was the third and final installment of the Sight Specific Horror Stories, jointly put on by LMU’s theatre arts and dance department, and also part of the Spaces Between series, presented by LMU and Otis College of Art and Design, that explores the supernatural. The interactive performance started on the third floor, where tours took off every 10 minutes and wove their way through the haunted stacks.

Sophomore theatre arts major Ramona Ekpe, began the tour as Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo priestess from New Orleans. She told the tourgoers of Voodoo tricks to remember, such as how sweeping trash out of your house after dark causes bad luck, and burning a lock of someone’s hair and then throwing it away will cause harm to that person. She concluded her speech with an ominous “you have been warned,” then tours were led into a dimly

lit room with a woman in white, a woman in black and a creepily smiling clown staring at us, waiting to tell their tales.

Scenes from “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” “Bunnicula” and “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” appeared in the 3 – 4:30 p.m. tours, deemed appropriate for children.

However, at the children’s portion of the event, organizers found that their target market wasn’t out in droves.

“We haven’t seen too many kids today,” said senior communication studies and theatre arts double major Esther Kim, one of the tour leaders.

The costume designer, Bridget Farmer, a senior theatre arts major, has spent the last month going through costumes recycled from other shows, and was happy with the end results.

“We saw the full run-through today for the first time,” said Farmer. She divulged that her favorite costume was definitely Marie Laveau’s, consisting of a long knit skirt, dangling beaded belt and headdress.

The consensus among the cast members and production crew was that the clown, played by Teresa Nowatzki, who told the story of a roaming killer-burglar dressed as a clown who preyed on families with children, was the scariest story, but “Bunnicula,” the story of a vampire bunny, was the favorite.

A 17-and-up performance was held later that night at 8 p.m., with the scare factor turned up.

“Hopefully we can have some college kids screaming and running out,” Ekpe laughed as she waited with the performers for the

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Participants of “Literary Trick or Treat” were led around the Hannon Library, encountering theatre arts students performing stories, such as Teresa Nowatzki as a killer clown (above).

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The LMU community can anticipate many on-campus festivities in the upcoming holiday-filled months. KLMU, LMU’s only online radio station, hosted a Halloween Spooktacular event this past Thursday in the Living Room, featuring L.A.-based artists Daewoo and The Tragic Thrills. Loyolan photographer and junior entreprenurship major Shaina Julian and sophomore screenwriting major Erin Walsh, who are KLMU’s student directors, decided that hosting a Halloween-themed rock concert would be the perfect addition to holiday-centered campus festivities.

“In the past, there weren’t many events on campus to get people involved and in the know about KLMU, so we decided that we wanted to change that this year,” Julian said.

“This was our first big event. I’ve known the guys from The Tragic Thrills since my sophomore year of high school and thought they would be perfect for the show, alongside Daewoo, who opened To read more for them.” about the KLMU “It was so great to see people come together for Halloween concert, our first event of the year, dancing and singing the night away. This is what makes us look forward to visit laloyolan.com. hosting many more events like this,” Julian said.

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Who, as a kid, didn’t anticipate the variety of animated Halloween shorts that came on TV come October? The Mayer Theater hosted the first ever Horror Animation Festival on Friday, Oct. 25 as part of “Spaces Between,” an initiative of the William H. Hannon Library, the Laband Art Gallery and the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, which strives to explore the dimensions of the supernatural through a series of performances, discussions and exhibitions. This exhibition celebrated the best of macabre animated shorts, ranging from humorous and well-known pieces, such as Disney’s “The Skeleton Dance,” to truly grim vignettes such as United Productions of America’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

Though it took place close to Halloween, none of the films in the festival were directly related to To read more the holiday. In fact, not all of them even addressed about the Horror an element of the supernatural. “I liked that it depicted different kinds of horror, like ‘Angry Man.’ It Animation Festival, wasn’t what I was expecting, but I really enjoyed visit laloyolan.com. it,” said freshman animation major Emily Noriega.

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