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Hearing addresses LAPD-cited students

City Attorney hearing aims to improve relationships between students and neighbors.

By Tierney Finster News Editor

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Students sleep outside as part of Homeless Awareness Week Magis, the Black Student Union and Delta Zeta are hosting Homeless Awareness Week, during which students sleep outside as a sign of solidarity with the homeless population. To hear students reflect on the event, listen to a collection of sound bites at laloyolan.com.

LMU ranks third in educational value NEWS ANALYSIS

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine lists LMU as the private college with the third best value in the state.

By Margo Jasukaitis Asst. News Editor

According to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s annual list of Best Values in Private Colleges, LMU students are getting the third best value in the state. The list, which was released last Tuesday, Oct. 25, evaluated colleges based on a variety of factors perceived to affect the overall value of an education. Four-year graduation rate, student debt at graduation and class size

were among the factors Kiplinger included in its assessment. In an economic climate that necessitates an increased level of fiscal caution, the cost of higher education continues to rise. The number of institutions charging more than $50,000 a year has increased to 123 in the past year (up from 100), according to an Oct. 26 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled, “Institutions Charging More Than $50K for Tuition, Fees, Room, and Board.”

According to Dr. Jennifer Pate, chair of the economics department and a member of the University’s Strategic Planning Committee, LMU is fairly unique relative to the other colleges named on Kiplinger’s list, in that a majority of its funding comes from student tuition. “We are a tuition-dependent university,” she said. “I think it speaks to just

how much value LMU students are getting from [the University] that [LMU] is able to have that high caliber of education while being tuition-dependent,” Pate said. “I think we’re an even better value than [is] reflected on the list because of that,” she said.

Pate continued to say that other schools lauded by Kiplinger rely heavily on large endowments, but pointed out the equally high caliber of education LMU provides without such an endowment. Pate said she sees this as a “testament to the University’s commitment to its students.”

According to Pate, one of the objectives of the Strategic Planning Committee is to maximize the value students receive from an LMU education. “It’s nice to hear [LMU] is

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Tony Alonso aims to ‘inspire participation’ NEWS FEATURE

Director of Music for Campus Ministry Tony Alonso discusses his passion for liturgical music.

By Emily Rome Copy Editor

Sacred Heart Chapel is a place most members of the LMU community are accustomed to seeing filled with people and music. Outside of Mass, however, the chapel is a quiet, serene place. This is how Tony Alonso, whose office is in the back of the chapel, is accustomed to seeing the church.

Alonso, LMU’s director of music for Campus Ministry, is responsible for filling Sacred Heart Chapel with song on certain Sundays and Holy Days.

When he moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in 2006, Alonso began directing the LMU Ensemble, the choir that sings during Mass. The move to LMU was not only a major shift from the windy city to sunny Southern California but was also a transition to working with an age-specific group.

“I was very nervous to work with college-age students just because I had not worked with an age-specific group before,” Alonso said.

But any apprehension Alonso felt only further encouraged him to accept the invitation from John Flaherty, director of liturgy and music, to work at LMU. “I think it was that little bit of nervousness that made me want to be a part of this. … I figured if you’re not doing something that makes you a little nervous once and a while, you’re never going to grow,” Alonso said.

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Dear President Burcham, An opinion columnist responds to President Burcham's request to save Federal Pell Grants.

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Progress has been made in the cases of over 30 LMU students who were cited at an offcampus party in September.

As reported in a Sept. 12 Loyolan article titled “Arrests made at off-campus party,” approximately 32 students were issued misdemeanor citations at a Labor Day Weekend party on West 79th Street in Westchester. Of these 32 individuals, three were arrested for disturbing the peace and one for public intoxication. According to the Department of Public Safety’s report, over 200 people were at the party when the arrests were made.

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Captain Gary Walters explained at the time of the previous article that the students facing misdemeanor charges could potentially face fines, community service requirements or jail sentences of one year or less. However, Deputy City Attorney Claudia Martin told the Loyolan that the Office of the City Attorney decided to host a hearing only for the renters of the home in which the party took place.

“We focused our efforts on the people who were renting the house where the party took place and were cited. … Since we determined that we were focusing our efforts on the people that rent the house, in the interest of justice we figured that declining to file charges against them was the appropriate thing to do. These cases weren’t set up for hearing or prosecution,” Martin said.

At the hearing, the homeowner, the student renters and LAPD were present. Also in attendance was a hearing officer and Martin herself. The benefit of these hearings, as Martin explained, is to give all parties involved a chance to communicate with each other.

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Delta Zeta hosts annual Turtle Tug philanthropy

Last Saturday’s Turtle Tug event in Sunken Garden consisted of a tug-of-war competition over pools of green Jell-o. According to Amanda Pesqueira, senior communication studies major and Delta Zeta president, the 2011 competition had 639 participants and raised approximately $13,000. Turn to Page 2 for more photos from the event.

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Delta Zeta hosts annual philanthropy event

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Delta Zeta’s annual philanthropic event Turtle Tug took place in Sunken Garden last Saturday, Oct. 29. The event featured a tug of war tournament over pools full of green Jell-o and raised money for Delta Zeta’s philanthropy, The Painted Turtle camp. The Painted Turtle camp, which is located in Lake Hughes, Calif., provides children with serious illnesses ages 7-16 with the opportunity to enjoy traditional camp activities.

Shelter-in-place drill raises awareness about personal safety

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Both the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) were on campus for LMU’s first Active Shooter Training Drill last Thursday, Oct. 27. A majority of the campus community participated in a 15-minute shelter-in-place drill that morning and campus officials participated in other drill activities throughout the day, such as the Pereira Hall walk-through (pictured above) where LAPD and LAFD demonstrated tactics they would utilize in potential emergency situations. Director of Emergency Management and Administration Devra Schwartz explained that the “overarching goal of the shelter-inplace drill was to raise awareness about active shooter personal safety measures, and from initial feedback, it is clear that the drill was successful.” She encourages community members to provide their feedback about the drill in a short survey at www.lmu.edu/emergency.

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Alonso called ‘best liturgical composer of his age’ Composer from Page 1 Flaherty had worked with Alonso for a few years at the Los Angeles Religion Education Congress in Anaheim, Calif., where Flaherty serves as the director of music.

“LMU has a long history of good liturgical music,” Flaherty said. “I thought someone like Tony could take it to another level altogether.”

Alonso’s first day conducting the LMU Ensemble in Mass at the Sacred Heart Chapel was the Feast of St. Ignatius five years ago. Then, the choir had about 12 people.

Now it’s grown to about 40.

Having a larger group has enabled Alonso to expand the ensemble’s repertoire and have more parts for harmony and instrumentals.

However, Alonso doesn’t consider growing in size to be his primary focus or achievement.

He emphasizes the difference between liturgical music and performance music. The choir ’s purpose isn’t to put on a show but to inspire participation in the congregation. While that was an aspect of the LMU Ensemble before Alonso came to LMU, he has been working to make it the primary focus.

“It’s easy [to lose that focus] in an entertainment-driven culture where you just put in your ear buds and listen, or you go to a concert. It’s kind of countercultural to ask people to sing these days.

They don’t even sing the national anthem anymore – someone does it for them,” Alonso explained.

The songs Alonso selects and the way the cantor interacts with the assembly are just a couple of ways the choir works to create a participatory

“The Greater Glory of God,” written by Tony Alonso for LMU’s centennial year, encapsulates the beliefs of the University’s founding organizations.

Here are the words of its refrain and its origins.

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Tony Alonso, director of Music for Campus Ministry, is currently teaching the music for the Third Edition of the Roman Missal to the LMU community. At one Mass last month, when the music for the new Missal was first sung at LMU, Alonso had the choir sit among the congregation to inspire participation as the assembly tried out the new music. experience. Alonso sees the presentation of songs in Mass as a conversation between the music ministers in the choir and the assembly.

“It’s very unique to liturgical music. … I think it’s humbling and amazing that someone’s able to say, ‘Yes, I have a talent, but I’m not just going to use that talent to show you what I can do.

I’m going to use it in a way that enables your prayer,’” Alonso said. “It’s a whole other level [that] I think is much more challenging than performing,” he added.

Alonso has been teaching the music for the Third Edition of the Roman Missal, the liturgical book guiding the celebration of the Mass,

to the congregation at the conclusion of each service for several weeks. The Catholic Church will formally implement the new Missal starting Nov. 27, but Alonso is giving LMU some time to become accustomed to the new texts before then. He has set the text to new music he’s written.

In addition to writing melodies for parts of the liturgy like the Gloria and the Sanctus, Alonso has a large body of compositional work.

His songs have been recorded on ten albums and published for other music ministers for use by GIA Publications, a major publisher of sacred choral music and sacred music recordings.

Alonso also does a few commissions a year, writing hymns for people and parishes across the country. One of his recent commissions hit much closer to home, as the LMU Centennial Committee asked Alonso to write a hymn in honor of LMU’s 100th year.

After writing about 15 pages of words, he pared it down to a one-page hymn called “The Greater Glory of God,” which was sung for the first time at the Mass of the Holy Spirit in September.

“I spent a lot of time in quiet contemplating what’s meaningful about this place to people and trying to imagine how that connects with the founding religious communities whose visions inspire our mission,” Alonso said. “The challenge was boiling it [down] into one song,” he added.

The refrain highlights the mottos and constitutions of LMU’s founding organizations (see sidebar) and also includes a line

with the words “your sacred heart.”

Alonso hopes to record the hymn in time for members of the community to be able to purchase it on iTunes during the centennial year. It has not been published yet, but he expects it will be with GIA Publications, like his other songs.

“That’s the kind of song that parishes and schools will sing all over the country,” Flaherty said. “When it gets published, lots of people will sing that music, but for us, it has another depth of meaning that’s hidden within the poetry.”

Writing music is, of course, not the only way Alonso has made his mark on the LMU community – many students in the choir have been inspired or impacted by him.

“Not only is he incredibly gifted and talented, he also knows how to connect with each individual student and makes us feel like we are an essential component and voice to the ensemble,” said junior business major Linda Nguyen, who’s been in the LMU Ensemble since she was 14. “Without Tony, I honestly do not think I would be where I am today musically.”

Students who call Alonso a mentor have high praise for him, but so do the people he calls mentors.

Fellow composer Haugen summarizes the admiration many peers have for Alonso saying, “He’s the best liturgical composer of his age.”

From the mission of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary.

“That all may be one” From the mission of the Sisters of St. Joseph.

“That all we believe and

all we become may be for the greater glory of God.” From “Ad maiorem Dei gloriam,” the Latin motto of the Society of Jesus.

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Loyolan awarded college media’s highest honor For only the second time in its 90-year history,The Los Angeles Loyolan was honored with a Newspaper Pacemaker award at the National College Media Conference in Orlando, Fla., which was held from Oct. 27-30, 2011.

The Loyolan was awarded a Pacemaker in the four-year non-daily category by a judging panel of professional journalists in the Washington D.C. area. The award recognizes general excellence and outstanding achievement by a college newspaper.

The Los Angeles Loyolan editors in chief during the award period were José Martinez (fall 2010) and Kenzie O’Keefe (Spring 2011).

“To win something like this is incredible. The Loyolan has its incredible staff to thank for that, in addition to a second-to-none staff adviser [Tom Nelson] and unusually supportive administration,” said Martinez.

“The Pacemaker is a symbol of excellence,”said Senior Vice President of Student Affairs Lane Bove. “I couldn’t be more proud of the Loyolan [for] being recognized for its work and the student staff for their dedication, hard work and creative energy,” she said.

There were 23 winners nationwide in the various 2011 Newspaper Pacemaker categories. Other winners included the Daily Bruin (UCLA) and The Heights (Boston College).

The award was presented by the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation which have co-sponsored the competition since 1971. ACP began the awards in 1927.

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Student and faculty see value in LMU’s uniqueness Value from Page 1 already ranked so high,” she said. “But we’re obviously hoping to climb even more.”

The notion of value, however, is something that LMU’s Director of Undergraduate Admissions Matthew Fissinger sees as being deeply personal. “Students are going to ultimately make that assessment [of] value for themselves,” he said.

“Not to say Kiplinger won’t be an interesting piece of information for them, but ultimately they’ll decide for themselves [from the] institutions they’ve been admitted to, what kind of value they’re looking for and who will be able to provide that,” Fissinger said.

Pate cited the fact LMU has reported some of the University’s smallest increases in tuition in recent years.

While tuition still rises, Pate said LMU has made a conscious effort to control such increases and continues to strive to increase its endowment so the University can, in turn, give more money back to students in the form of financial aid.

This commitment to both regulating tuition costs as well as LMU’s efforts to provide high-caliber education helped earn LMU the title of third-best value in

California and 60th best value nationally among private institutions. Among colleges and universities in California, Occidental College tied with LMU for third, Chapman University and Harvey Mudd College tied for second, and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena tied with Claremont McKenna College for the best value of any private institutions in the state. Princeton University was named the best value in the country.

“I’m very much of the belief that what [a student] gets out of LMU is up to them – what you put in is what you get out,” said Robyn Littleworth, a senior theatre arts major.

“That’s the value of an LMU education to me – I am able to do all the extracurricular things I want [to do], and I’m able to be in a good department with so many high-quality professors and develop great connections [in the working world],” she said.

It is this level of satisfaction among students that lends legitimacy to Kiplinger ’s ranking.

“Most private schools are very expensive,” said Littleworth. “[But] even though I know LMU is just as expensive if not more, compared to other private schools I’ve visited, LMU is really great,” she said.

Such satisfaction with an

LMU education is just the type of student experience that Pate and the other members of the Strategic Planning Committee are striving to promote.

Pate mentioned this sense of value in one’s education is something that can be measured for a particular student even after they graduate.

“Once you graduate, the value of your degree is still dependent on the quality of education that people receive at any point in time,” she said.

With this in mind, the University continues to strive to increase the perceived value of an LMU education, Pate said.

“The stronger LMU becomes, the better your degree looks even once you’re done. As [LMU] continues to improve, your degree will look better. [LMU is] looking out for what’s best for you [in terms of] the value of your education,” Pate said.

Fissinger echoed Pate’s sentiments, saying, “Value is of tremendous importance.

Certainly Kiplinger is one reflection of how that idea looks and takes shape at LMU, but ultimately it’s up to the students,” he said.

Littleworth also agrees. “To me, value is what you make it – you can instill as much value, or as little, in your college experience as you want,” she said.

Tyler Townsend

Lewis Ireland has been working at the Lair for six years and enjoys meeting and becoming friends with students while he prepares their food.

11 Burning Questions with a Lair employee This issue, contributor Tyler Townsend talks with Lewis Ireland, a Lair employee, about working at the Lair, his hobbies and his past modeling career.

1. How did you end up working for Sodexo?

I worked at a warehouse, then I realized I’m getting too old for this stuff.

So, on one of the days I had off I looked in the newspaper and I found the ad for Loyola Marymount University. And I said to myself, ‘There’s no way they’re going to hire me because I have no experience in cooking.’ But I came down here anyway and I applied, … I dropped off my application and when I got home they called me up. They hired me right there. They hired me as a dishwasher, and I worked my way up.

2. Do you ever eat at The Lair? What’s your favorite thing to get?

All the time, every day that I work here. I like chicken nuggets [and] chicken tenders. Sometimes I have the grilled cheese, that’s pretty good.

3. If you could have any job, what would it be?

Well I was a model when I was younger, when I was about 21 or 22. [I worked] in Hollywood, for Sears and Broadway, … in the catalogues. And I did the runways. My last job was at 30, and I realized I need to find something else. And I did “Playgirl” three times. How that happened was I had an 8” by 10”, so I thought I’ll just send it and see what happens. They called me up and my interview was, ‘Would you mind posing nude?’ and I said ‘No,’ so I got the job. If I minded posing nude, why would I have sent the picture?

They used me in the regular magazine and then six months later they put me in “The Best of Playgirl.” I guess they really liked my picture so they used it again. If someone offered me the job, I’d do it right now.

4. Where are you from originally?

I was born in Inglewood, [Calif.], [and] raised in Manhattan Beach, [Calif.]. For 17 years I lived in Lake Tahoe. I came back six years ago. I just got tired of the cold and the snow, so I came back. I missed the beach, I missed everybody. The weather, I just couldn’t take that anymore. I don’t mind going up there, but living there is another thing.

5. Is there anything about how The Lair operates which you’d like to change?

I have to work weekends - some people don’t work weekends, any weekend at all. So I’d like to have maybe some weekends off, some weekends on.

I talked to my supervisor about that, but I just don’t think it’s fair that way.

If they could change it to even just one weekend a month [off of work] that would be fine.

6. What’s the most ridiculous request or special order a student has made for his or her food?

Maybe grilled cheese with a hamburger in it. … We get a lot of weird requests. Patty melt with bacon in it too.

7. Do the students at LMU generally treat you pretty well, or are they rude?

The students seem to be nice to me. When I’m cooking for them and they’re waiting for their meal I talk to them, see how their classes are going, what they’re doing this weekend. They talk to me too. Within like the third time I see them, we become friends and then when they graduate I don’t see them anymore, but that’s part of life.

8. What are your opinions on the quality of the food in The Lair?

It’s not the best, but it is a school. But I think it’s pretty good. It’s healthy, that’s the main thing.

9. Outside of work, what are some of your hobbies?

I go down to the beach and hang out, go hiking and camp out. I had two dogs, I liked to take my dogs to the dog park but I don’t have any dogs anymore, they passed away. [I had a] yellow lab and a golden lab. I like to just go for walks.

10. It’s Halloween week. What has been your favorite costume and how do you normally celebrate?

Well lately I’ve been going to bars or parties. But when I was going trickor-treating, I used to be a bum. I liked doing that. I haven’t [dressed-up] in about three years. [I was the] green monster, the Hulk.

11. If you could be a chef at any restaurant, for what restaurants would you want to cook?

If I had the money, I’d buy my own but since I don’t, either here or at Sizzler. That would be pretty good.

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LAPD stresses mutual respect Party from Page 1 “A lot of the time, owners do not have a clue what is going on at their properties. However, when both the home owner and renters attend the hearing, the problems are usually solved,” Martin said.

Martin noted that neighbors who complain will often attend hearings as well, but none attended last week’s hearing. Regardless, Martin was confident in the effectiveness of the process.

“The reason this system is in place is because [the] LAPD and the city attorney’s office have received so many complaints ... from neighbors in the LMU area regarding parties.

When someone is cited, like in this case, it normally takes care of the problem,” Martin explained.

Although the hearing is over, the cited students could face potential punishment if they get into more legal trouble in the next year.

“The city attorney has a oneyear statute of limitations. After we receive a report, we have one year to press charges. During that year, if people who have had a city attorney hearing have any contact with law enforcement, even for different charges, we will review both that new report and the report from the city attorney hearing.

Then we can file criminal charges.

We didn’t decline to prosecute, so this case is still active,” Martin noted.

LAPD Captain John Peters stressed the importance of students learning from this incident in order to avoid a repeat offense.

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“When students are off campus, they’re in a neighborhood that they must respect. Some party locations impact the entire community. What [LAPD] want[s] to do is to help students understand that if they are living off campus and having these parties, that they must throw them in a responsible manner,” Peters commented.

Director of Off-Campus Student Life and LGBT Student Services Anthony Garrison-Engbrecht echoed this idea.

“The events that have occurred over the Labor Day Weekend can serve as a learning opportunity.

Although students have rights and privileges living off campus, they are also Los Angeles residents, which falls under the jurisdiction of LAPD,” Garrison said.

Martin suggested that small gestures, like warning neighbors about upcoming parties, can go a long way. Furthermore, Martin highlighted that students must realize that some neighbors have faced this same issue for years, resulting in increased frustration.

However, Martin also emphasized that students do have the right, to some extent, to throw parties, “I’ve been in hearings where neighbors say, ‘We don’t want them to have any parties whatsoever.’ Both my office and LAPD tell these neighbors that that also isn’t fair. ... As much as it isn’t fair [to the neighbors] when it’s 2 a.m. and there are 200 students in a house ... it is also not fair for students to be unable to throw a party or enjoy themselves,” she said.

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On Campus Pumpkin Smash Get ready for Lambda Chi Alpha’s new and improved Pumpkin Smash on Saturday November 5th! This year we are really getting down and dirty with the smashing in an all new Pumpkin Smash game format. Learn more about the event and purchase tickets at Convo on 10/25, 10/27, 11/1, and 11/3.

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Board Editorial

Board Editorials represent the voice of the Loyolan. They are written in collaboration by the Executive Editorial Board.

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Identifying safety “gaps”

here is no question the LMU community should be commended for organizing and participating in its first Active Shooter Training Drill last Thursday. Drills like this offer people the chance to practice emergency responses so damage is minimized if an emergency situation actually occurs. After the Virginia Tech massacre and the Columbine High School rampage, it would be irresponsible not to conduct drills for this type of emergency.

According to LMU’s Director of Emergency Management and Administration Devra Schwartz, the drill on Oct. 27 was intended “to raise awareness about active shooter personal safety measures.” Citing initial feedback, Schwartz determined that the drill successfully achieved this goal.

If a real emergency were to take place, University officials are expected to be better prepared in confronting it after this drill. They took part in a walk-through of Pereira Hall where members of the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Fire Department demonstrated tactics they use in emergency situations. They took part in a table-top exercise in which they problem-solved a made-up

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emergency situation, and they took part in a mock press conference.

But how would the rest of the community fare? Students and faculty were asked to spend the 15-minute shelter-in-place drill from 9 to 9:15 a.m. discussing what they would do if confronted with an active-shooter situation. But many classes remained uninterrupted. A lot of students slept through the alerts or continued with business as usual. Though some did take the drill extremely seriously, the whole thing felt slightly underwhelming after weeks of buildup. The majority of people on campus were able to ignore the drill if they wanted to, and that is problematic when the drill could make the difference between life and death in an emergency situation.

As Schwartz said in a Loyolan article, “Emergency drill to take place today” [Oct. 27, News, Page 2], “we celebrate successes in drills, but we focus on the gaps.” The Loyolan encourages the community to join the discussion taking place in the aftermath of the drill to identify the “gaps” so that should a real active shooter situation materialize, the community will be prepared. Surveys to provide feedback can be completed at www.lmu.edu/ emergency.

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Rule of Thumb

The Loyolan’s Executive Editorial Board weighs in on current topics of discussion.

LMU steps up to defend student aid The Student Aid Alliance issued a nationwide petition to get signatures in support of continuing federal student loan programs. Upon President David W. Burcham’s notification of this in a mass email to students last week, LMU supplied the most signatures from a university, providing 1,958 of the over 25,000 collected. Recent budget deals have jeopardized the continuation of federal student loan programs, such as Pell Grants and student loan benefits.

Faulty back gate technology The back gate entrance to LMU’s campus now has license plate recognition technology. While the concept of this ends the arduous task of searching for your OneCard and hoping that you pulled up close enough to swipe it without having to shamefully get out of your vehicle, the system is not without glitches. Rather than working at all hours of the day, it has been reported by students (with and without registered cars) that the software is faulty in its operation.

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.

B of A backtracks: a small victory for consumers Three hundred thousand signatures and one Loyolan article later (see Opinion Intern Amanda Kotch’s Oct. 27 article, “Debit card fees: breaking the college bank,” Opinion, Page 5), Bank of America has opted to drop its recent $5 monthly charge for debit card users. Following the bank’s decision to implement the fee, more than 21,000 people pledged to close their Bank of America checking accounts as a result, according to the Washington Post (Nov. 1, “Bank of America backs off debit card fee after consumer backlash,” by Ylan Q. Mui). In a time where financial frugality is of much importance, it’s good to see one of the major banks responding to consumer criticism in a positive way.

Removing the mask of homelessness

hess, chocolate and children. What do these three things have in common? It is from my interactions with Kenny and Ingrid, who are both homeless, that I have come to know more about these three Cs. One Thursday morning

By Justin Aquino earlier this Contributor semester, I was serving the homeless at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Hollywood, Calif. I regularly help with a range of services from preparing and serving food from the kitchen, to handing out towels and soap bars for showers, and – what I know to be most important – sitting down to converse with the homeless.

I met Kenny when fellow Magis brothers Isaiah Arocho and Armando Lopez were looking for someone to play chess with. Kenny readily took the challenge, calling himself a chess master. We soon found out just how accurate his claim was when he called checkmate, beating me in three moves. Kenny and I then

talked about how he travels to Venice, Calif. to play chess with other masters.

If I had never taken the chance to converse with him, I would have never known him to be such a chess whiz.

Ingrid is a lovely and cheerful woman in her 50s.

Our conversation began with the overcast morning weather but soon veered towards her culture.

She is from Belgium, and we found ourselves talking about European chocolate. I asked her if American chocolate comes close and she politely smiled and said “no.” She then told me about her son and how he loved to play with Legos as he was growing up. Perfect. I don’t know much about European chocolate, but I do know my fair share about Legos!

My conversations with homeless people are always interesting and never the

same. These conversations allow me to tear down the walls of stereotypes given to the homeless, brick by brick. From talking with Kenny and Ingrid, I was able to listen and relate to their experiences. With each new story I was able to remove the mask of homelessness and put a face and a name to the issue. The image of a homeless person should not be defined by one person harassing you for money or one person sleeping in the alleys of Westchester.

but even go so far as to dehumanize them. Mother Teresa, an advocate, crusader and laborer for the poor, once said, “In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.” Not only are we called in our Catholic faith and identity here at Loyola Marymount to help the poor, but we are also called in our shared humanity with the homeless.

Homelessness matters because it is not only a national issue, but also a local issue. There are hundreds of homeless people near our LMU campus in the community of Westchester who sleep in their vehicles along Manchester Ave. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), there are 51,340 homeless people in Los Angeles County.

Of that, 63 percent are between the ages of 25-54.

This year, Magis collaborated with Greg Smith | Loyolan the Delta Zeta sorority and the men and Common misconceptions women of the Black Student and stereotypes not only Union to bring awareness portray the underprivileged of this issue to our camto be humans in disguise, pus. This past week, we

also embraced sleeping outside as opposed to sleeping inside our comfy dorms. We sleep outside because they sleep outside. It is on a daily basis that we take for granted some of the simplest of things, such as the opportunities to shower, eat complete meals, wear clean underwear and socks or to sleep in a bed.

It is not only important that we acknowledge what we have so that we may be grateful for our blessings, but also so we realize the unfortunate circumstances others are in due to systems of oppression, bad luck and a lack of support, to name just a few reasons for homelessness. We hope our week of awareness brings a better understanding of the issue of those on the margins of our society and that our opportunities for action bring about real, intentional and effective change.

For more information about Homeless Awareness Week, please contact magismen@gmail.com

This is the opinion of Justin Aquino, a senior environmental science major from San Diego, Calif. Please send comments to ktran@theloyolan.com.

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Occupy Wall Street

Spurred by jealousy

he Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party is head and shoulders above the hollow Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. The comparisons made between the two not only give credence to the value and impact of the Tea Party, but it also shows the desperation among the left to find a movement as important as the Tea Party. The OWS movement is a perfect example of the best the left has to offer: a movement with a weak political core, heavy union contribution, a vague message and an overThe Other Side whelmingly disrespectful and dangerous folBy Kenneth lowing. Furthermore, Vlahos the OWS movement Staff Writer does what the left does best: assigning blame without offering solutions. They aren’t true Marxists, but rather Groucho Marxists: I don’t know what they have to say, it makes no difference anyway.

Whatever it is, I’m against it. No matter what it is or who commenced it, I’m against it.

Conversely, the Tea Party powerfully voices its opinions in political and social forums (remember the town hall meetings?) and offers true alternatives, both in candidates and in policy. Clearly, the OWS movement is at best the Tea Party’s embarrassing cousin.

The OWS demonstrators themselves are complete hypocrites. According to a poll

by Fordham University, over 60 percent of OWS demonstrators voted for President Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

But how can this make sense when, during the 2008 election, Obama’s top donors included Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054)?

Where were the protests when President Obama’s election campaign took well over $200,000 from oil and gas companies?

Where were all the angry protesters when President Obama appointed former Freddie Mac board member and investment banker Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff?

Where were the chanting crowds when William Daly of JPMorgan Chase took Emanuel’s place? Where were the picket signs when President Obama appointed Goldman Sachs’s Gene Sperling as National Economic Council chair?

Nowhere! The protesters (and mainstream media) turned a blind eye to the corporate crony Obama of 2008, so why are they up in arms now? Why would they sup-

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port a presidential nominee when he promised to bail out Wall Street?

Furthermore, the OWS movement has no hero. If Obama is in bed with Wall Street, to whom can the OWS demonstrators turn?

Bernie Sanders? Dennis Kucinich? Hugo Chavez? What an awful feeling it must be to be a protester and have no hope for change!

The Tea Party, on the other hand, is wholly different. The Tea Party was also very angry over the Wall Street bailouts and did not want to see Washington picking winners and losers. But instead of trashing a public park, defecating on cop cars and having exhibitionist sex, they decided to take their complaints to town halls. In fact, much to the chagrin of liberals and media hawks alike, there was not a single case of racism. They voiced their complaints, mounted a true grass-roots movement and showed up en masse at the polling stations at election time. They “threw the bums out” and led a historical “shellacking” of Obama’s Democrats.

And they are keeping the pressure on.

The Tea Party drew up pledges for many candidates to sign that promised voters everything from no new taxes to no debt ceiling raise to a repeal of ObamaCare.

And Tea Party darling Herman Cain, despite myths of the Tea Party being imbued with racists, is currently the frontrunner in the Republican primaries.

So why all the comparisons? Why does the left claim to have found its “Tea Party” in OWS? The simple answer: jealousy. The left is intensely jealous of the Tea Party. A true grass-roots movement that historically changed American politics is a narrative the left would love to own. Consequently, when OWS came along, the left threw its media weight behind it and tried desperately to invoke a great leftist awakening.

They are so desperate for anything that resembles the Tea Party that they are willing to embrace a bunch of public propertydestroying, dirty, professional anarchists.

The only reason OWS demonstrators aren’t written off any more than a solicitor outside of a grocery store is because the left is trying to steal the organic, grass-roots narrative of the Tea Party.

Clearly, there is no real comparison between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. The Tea Party is a respectable group of hyper-focused, concerned Americans who have proven their ability and willingness to advocate and carry out true political change. OWS is a hollow movement whose followers are hypocritical degenerates. The comparisons should stop there.

This is the opinion of Kenneth Vlahos, a senior political science major from El Segundo, Calif. Please send comments to ktran@theloyolan.com.

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Passion without direction O

nce again, capitalism has backfired on America. This week will be the seventh week that Occupy Wall Street, a nationwide protest movement that is also known as “the 99 percent” movement, will be assembling across America.

Passionate, creative and rebellious groups of individuals who claim to represent the 99 percent of America are snowballing together to create a political movement in opposition to the colossally uneven distribution of wealth in our country.

Till the AM It is common knowlBy Anna-Michelle ed ge t h at t he U. S . economy is in shamEscher bles and that there is Asst. Opinion Editor not one person in the United States who is not affected by our broken financial state, whether it be in terms of unemployment, student loan debt or homelessness. According to the Occupy Los Angeles website, “between 1 million and 3 million [people] globally are standing in solidarity with this same single pointed message ‘ENOUGH’ of the financial abuse perpetrated by a banking system owned by less than 1 percent of the wealthiest people in the world.” Over the past seven weeks, this sentiment has translated into college-aged women sobbing on the pavement of New York City trying to flush their eyes of pepper spray and tear gas released on a particularly large Oakland protest.

The protests have turned violent. At an Occupy Oakland protest on Tuesday, Oct. 26. police officers released tear gas on a crowd of 1,000 protesters who had gotten out of hand, allegedly pelting rocks and bottles at the law enforcement. The LA Times reported that 100 arrests occurred that day. “We were in a position where we had to deploy gas in order to stop the crowd and people from pelting us with bottles and rocks,” justified Police Chief Howard Jordan in an interview with the LA Times.

At the heart of these controversial protests, the demands of Occupy Wall Street consist of a multitude of public Internet blog discussion forums. However there is one proposed list of demands on the Occupy Wall Street website submitted by an anonymous Internet user. Prefacing this list of demands, the administrative note on this Sept. 25 post reads “This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the New York City General Assembly.

There is NO official list of demands.” This principle in itself shows that the Occupy

Wall Street movement has heart. There is no doubting that the protest is well-advertised and is well-intentioned, but its chaotic nature is deterring any concrete progress it may hope to achieve.

Occupy Wall Street is reminiscent of the anti-war protests that occurred in the ‘70s.

The movement contains the same “people working for the people,” flowers-in-hair sentiment of a collective community enduring police brutality for the greater message, but with an economy-related spin (and 24/7 online streaming video). Slogans include “People over profit” and “Corporations aren’t people.” It is inspiring to see the public sphere protesting together throughout financial districts and to read the discourse that is taking place over the Internet.

However, rallying and blogging are not sufficient means of reform. Many cannot propose a viable solution to this imbalanced control of wealth, let alone express what exactly they are protesting in the first place.

As heartwarming as it is to see hundreds of thousands of Americans who are ardent about the economic well-being of the nation, a protest with no plan for reform, let alone any focus or cohesion (along with an alarming amount of spelling and grammatical errors littering its websites) will not be effective in the long run. It seems as though Occupy Wall Street is more about common people banding together with a common purpose rather than initiating political change, seeing that our own Occupy Los Angeles sect is in conjunction with a farmer’s market and a yoga/wellness program.

Classic L.A. The best that will come out of Occupy Wall Street is the compassion witnessed in protestors’ well-meaning yet misguided efforts to combat this vastly unequal distribution of wealth in America.

The passionate efforts of those involved with the Occupy Wall Street protests must not be undermined. Peaceful as well as violent protestors have suffered brutal abuse, as seen in the pepper spray and tear gas incidents in New York and Oakland. Occupy Wall Street’s ambitious wishes to punish Wall Street criminals and limit corporate funding of political elections are valid and in accordance with the well-being of American citizens. That is something no one can argue against. People standing up for political change is a beautiful thing, but what brings change is action, and relief for the financial suffering in America will not be facilitated merely by “sticking it to the man” or Internet chaos. It would be a shame if all that energy was so poorly channeled that, in the end, nothing actually changes.

This is the opinion of Anna-Michelle Escher, a junior communication studies major from Stanford,Calif. Please send comments to aescher@theloyolan.com.

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resident Burcham, On Wednesday, Oct. 26, I received your email urging me to join you in signing a petition that asks the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to resist cutting Pell Grants and other federal student aid. You suggest that Congress is “balancing the budget on the backs of our students” and you speak of “critiBy Christopher Irr cal times” in which students Contributor of the United States are at risk of remaining “globally competitive.” In reality, your rhetoric instills fear and perpetuates a great myth of higher education.

You attempt to distract your students, pointing to government officials who threaten to take away our academic nourishment. But it is your access to the cookie jar that the committee threatens to take away. You have crumbs of culpability all over

your face and you choose to put responsibility in the hands of an inept government. If the congressional committee cuts Pell Grants and funding for student aid, you lose a substantial guaranteed revenue stream. You lose the secured base of cash that has allowed you to pump up the cost of tuition once again this past year. And all this despite our “critical times.”

I recall the line of an email you sent this March: “Careful stewardship of our resources allows me to announce that next year’s tuition for graduate students in the School of Education will increase 3.5 percent and for all other graduate students by 3.28 percent.” You nearly had me believing I should thank you!

What clever language. You are a clumsy wolf attempting to be a sheepdog. Your herding is erratic, and we see the hunger in your eyes.

It is no surprise that you share the morality of the politicians and self-interested businessmen of this country. When everyone is hurting, you protect your own interests. Your eagerness

to add another “knowing” voice to the madness reveals a lack of patience and a lack of understanding. Do you not believe students can decide for themselves?

We come to this school for its magis, which transcends any cost. Your well-advertised façade of diversity and justice may have a market-based value, but the true magis is within the hearts of a faculty that teaches, a student body that pursues knowledge and a community that worships together. It would still remain if your shiny monuments to excess disappeared tomorrow. Yes, your secondary amenities warrant a generous rate. But I find it abhorrent that you continue to camouflage your business interests in the color of justice.

I will begin to take your political suggestions seriously when you begin to take responsibility for your part in maintaining the high cost of education at this institution.

This is the opinion of Christopher Irr, a theological studies master’s candidate from Los Angeles, Calif. Please send comments to ktran@theloyolan.com.

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Mellow ‘Working’ suffers from weak material Theater Review

By Kevin O’Keeffe A&E Editor

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urrently in the middle of a two-week stint at the Strub Theatre, the LMU theatre arts and dance department’s run of “Working,” the musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book of the same name, is about the occupations of everyday people.

The goal, it would seem, would be to take these ordinary jobs and make them extraordinary through performance, but

the lack of strong narrative in the show keeps the songs from being anything other than standalone musical performances punctuating small vignettes.

Professor Jim Holmes’s direction is solid considering his source material. He has taken several liberties, including rap verses of some songs, but ultimately the original musical just isn’t strong enough to keep an audience invested. Actors change characters quickly with no real introduction, and the songs, while well performed, aren’t wholly memorable.

The ensemble talent is good,

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Senior theatre arts and political science double major Michelle Ortiz sings her solo, “I’m Just Movin’,” while dancing in a shopping cart.

with some standouts, but on opening night there was an overwhelming sense of apathy permeating the show. The actors almost universally looked disconnected from their performances, putting on good faces for the sake of the theater, but never seeming to enjoy themselves.

It’s a shame that the energy level of the cast Kevin Halladay-Glynn | Loyolan seemed so low Playing blue-collar workers in dozens of different occupations, the actors in the enbecause there were seriously semble cast of “Working” sing the main theme of the musical,“All the Livelong Day.” strong highlights among them. Senior theatre a song that, while lovely, isn’t about their work. The set dearts major MacKenzie Campbell quite noteworthy enough. Even sign is intriguing, using vertical gets a few solid numbers, but worse is “Cleanin’ Women,” a movement well, and the lighther brightest moment is also song performed by the clearly ing design is really fascinating the entire show’s shining show- talented sophomore theatre arts at several different points, both stopper: “Just a Housewife.” In major Imani Hayes as charac- musical and non-musical. But it, Campbell’s character, Kate ter Maggie Holmes. The tune even great visuals can’t boost Rushton, laments the judg- is significantly weaker than it the energy of the show too much.

Despite Holmes’s strength ments of society and how she’s could have been — it’s more of a seen as “just someone’s mother.” trifle than a powerful statement as a director, it must be quesThe song is the best composed of about working in housekeep- tioned why “Working” was choany in the show, and Campbell ing so that the future genera- sen in the first place. Musicals tions wouldn’t have to suffer the are meant to be a kick, a blast knocks it out of the park.

Neither the character of Ro- same fate. Not only that, but the of surrealism that exaggerate berto Nuñez nor that of Anthony song is simply unmemorable. A life and are punctuated with a Coehlo gets a strong song to call strong performer like Hayes de- giant exclamation point. Sadly, his own. That’s disappointing serves a song that shakes the “Working” ends not with an because sophomore theatre arts rafters, not one so thoroughly exclamation point, but with a period. It just never fulfills its major Julian Garcia, who plays bland.

The word “bland” is, in fact, mission and leaves the audiboth characters, has the best energy and investment among the a pretty good way to sum up ence wondering what could have ensemble. With a strong song, the show. The music, while per- been. he could have used his dulcet formed with aplomb by the live This is the opinion of Kevin O’Keeffe, a singing voice and high energy to band, is just too basic and stansophomore screenwriting major from dard to be unforgettable.

The steal the show. Instead, he’s left Austin, Texas. Please send comments to with “Un Mejor Dia Vendra,” acting talent, while at a high caliber, never really gets excited kokeeffe@theloyolan.com.

LMU film festival crowns animated film as Best Picture Event Coverage

By Brandon Cudequest Staff Writer

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nyone who follows film award ceremonies would be shocked to know that last Saturday, Oct. 29, a documentary and animated short received a majority of the attention and applause at the School of Film and Television’s (SFTV) annual Film Outside the Frame festival. The event showcases the best student projects from the past year as voted on by a board of faculty and industry professionals. This year, the voters proved that documentaries and animated shorts are just as powerful of mediums as dramatic shorts, when “Sounds like a Story” and “Photographs” took home three awards each. The two films fought tough competition from other student works about soldiers, sleazy motels and CGI shadows.

“I was a deer in headlights.

There were so many people to thank. The film has been rewarding since day one of shooting, and it continues to be,” film production graduate Molly McVie said of her win. McVie’s documentary “Sounds Like A Story” was about the lives of Fleetwood Mac’s sound technicians. The film won awards in the Sound Design, Editing and Documentary categories.

The highest honors of the night – recognition in the Animation, Best Director and Best Picture categories – were split between Christina Manrique, ‘11, and Brendan Clogher’s, ‘10, “Photographs.” “We are [grateful] that an animation film won Best Picture. We worked really hard for this and are happy to be here,” Manrique said. Clogher summed up the night by saying, “Film school is a community. Whether you win, receive a nomination or

come to support, you are rooting for your own team.”

Though the night was extremely competitive, the environment was anything but hostile. “I just want people to see my film because a lot of people put effort into making it what it is. Surround yourself with the best to get the best,” senior production major Nicolas Litonjua said. His film “Call to Arms” received the Student Choice Award. Junior recording arts major Claire Morison reflected similar sentiments: “Everyone who is here tonight is super talented. It was just an honor to the nominee.”

Film Outside the Frame placed a large emphasis on community by honoring past alumni’s accomplishments alongside current students’ work. “What you will see tonight is a calling card for when students go out into the

field. The strength of our program is reflected in our alumni,” SFTV Dean Steve Ujlaki said in his opening remarks.

Alumnus Francie Calfo, ‘89, received the Outstanding Achievement in Television Award. After graduating from LMU with a degree in communication studies, Calfo has helped bring shows like “Lost,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Ugly Betty” to television sets.

Francis Lawrence, ‘91, who has shot music videos for many pop stars and directed “Water for Elephants,” “I Am Legend” and “Constantine,” received the Distinguished Alumni Award. “After 20 years, I can see the school is overflowing with opportunity.

The tools that are available allow students to start their careers now. Write as much as you can, film every day and build a reel,” Lawrence encouraged.

Selected Winners from Film Outside the Frame 2011 Cub Award Arden Tse, “Soup” Silver Lion Adam Lee, “Mirror Motel” Golden Lion Ryan Latchmansingh, “Where the Sun Sets” Cinematography Jacob Braafladt, “Shadowplay” Animation Christina Manrique & Brendan Clogher, “Photographs” Student Choice Award Nicolas Litonjua, “Call to Arms” Documentary Molly McVie, “Sounds Like A Story” Production Design Kate Rhamey, “The Mirror Motel” Screenplay or Teleplay Colleen Marshall, “Peace of Glass” Director Christina Manrique & Brendan Clogher, “Photographs”

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LMU alumni Brendan Clogher ‘10 (left) and Christina Manrique ‘11 (right) accept one of three awards their animated film “Photographs” won at this past weekend’s Film Outside the Frame festival.

Best Picture Christina Manrique & Brendan Clogher, “Photographs”

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Oakley, Inc. founder and inventor of RED camera Jim Jannard visits LMU Q&A Spotlight

By Luisa Barron Asst. A&E Editor

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ot many things can get business majors and film kids to gather in large numbers in the same room. But Jim Jannard, the founder of Oakley, Inc. and inventor of the famed RED camera, brought students of both types to Hilton 100 last Wednesday, Oct. 26 for a Q&A session.

Jannard famously started Oakley, Inc. with just $300. He began in 1975 by selling handlebar grips for motorcycles and BMX bikes, and over 30 years later, he sold the company for $2.2 billion. He then moved on to another passion: cameras. Jannard’s RED ONE, released in 2007, has created a legion of devotees in directors like Peter Jackson, Steven Soderbergh and David Fincher. And today there comes a big announcement from the RED Digital Cinema Camera Company concerning their newest camera, the SCARLET. A lot was discussed at the Q&A, from Jannard’s success in business, his trade secrets and why the announcement for the new SCARLET camera was made today on the heels of Canon’s own announcement. (Hint: According to Jannard, his announcement is “going to make some really unhappy competitors.”) These are a few of the questions attendees asked Jannard.

Q: When you started Oakley, what was the initial $300 spent on?

Jim Jannard (JJ): First $300,

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Jim Jannard, who started Oakley, Inc. in 1975 with a mere $300, answered questions concerning business and film on Oct. 26.

I went to a supplier that I knew of.

I got a bunch of little stuff, put the Oakley logo on it, which was stupid but it was cool, went and sold it all, got some money. Put gas in car, got some food. Said hi to my family, got up and did it again the next day.

Q: Looking back at your career, has there been a risk you’ve chosen not to take?

JJ: I can’t think of any. … Where I’ve gone wrong is in trying to support someone else’s vision. That has never worked out very well for me. But the things that I’ve targeted out to do, because it comes from a really good place ... and I want to make the best thing times 10 and won’t stop till that happens – the results of that always seem to have been good so far. It’s a really good recipe. … Do good work, and it’s hard to fail.

Q: Didn’t you say that after the SCARLET you’re going to stop announcing your products ahead of time?

JJ: Yes, sort of. We’re not going to be as transparent about current development. … We’re not going to clam up completely because our customers appreciate being able to communicate with us. We can’t just keep saying, “Nope, can’t tell you that, sorry.” So we will communicate; we’re going to be a lot more careful about what we say.

Q: I think ... anyone who’s following RED and has an interest in Apple sees the similarities – you’re sort of like the carnivorous Steve Jobs, so to speak. [Steve Jobs had a long-term vision] and what I’m trying to ask is, where do you see yourself in 2021?

JJ: I knew Steve, and he was

a closet carnivore. So there’s two dogs sitting in an English pub, and one says to the other, “You know, it’s not enough just to beat them, the cats must lose.” We share that mentality, I think. … I have a really clear vision of a radical departure that’s only three or four years from now. Complete departure. Everything different, turn your world upside down on how pictures are captured. Trust me, I’m not making this one up.

Q: How do you deal with handing over control to other people?

JJ: I never did give it up. I fall under the Steve Jobs school of thought, which is a benevolent dictatorship. At some point you have to give some things up … such as accounting and litigation. I just learned that I was responsible, and I should take more of the burden than someone else who perhaps doesn’t have as much experience as I did.

Q: Why should I trust my stories with RED over film?

JJ: In the last six months, John Schwartzman, who was the cinematographer on “Spider-Man,” said it was the best footage he’s

ever shot, the best images he’s ever seen, looks like 65 mm film without the grain. Ridley Scott came in [and said the same thing]. Peter Jackson’s shooting “The Hobbit” [on it]. … There really isn’t any reason to shoot film anymore, except if you love the process. If you want to load the film in, send it to the lab, get it transferred – it just has a look. But with RED you don’t have to sharpen your footage. … Having said that, I love film. That’s why I built this camera. We wanted to make a respectful replacement for film [so] when it hit the retirement home, it would sit back and say, “Job well done. I’m sure glad it wasn’t 1080p that sent us over here.”

Q: What’s your opinion on staying in college versus dropping out like so many visionaries of our time have done?

JJ: I don’t think the problem for me was school, but it was just the wrong place for me. It was the pharmacy school, and I wasn’t destined to be a pharmacist. USC was not the problem, college is not the problem. I was just in the wrong part of that school.

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Think Pink to unite LMU and community Event Preview

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ervice and community are two of the most emphasized principles in LMU’s mission statement.

However, the semester has come to a drowsy midpoint and students have become wrapped up in the stresses of midterms.

Now, with Halloween excitement coming to a close, there’s another productive way for students to break away from stress and start diving back into a unique passion LMU students share: service.

On Saturday, Nov. 5, both LMU students and the Westchester community are coming together to work off some Halloween candy and raise breast cancer awareness at the fifth annual Think Pink 5K Run/ Walk hosted by Campus Recreation and ASLMU. Starting at 10 a.m. at the Burns parking lot and ending around 1 p.m., the race wraps around the entire campus twice, allowing racers to fully take in the beauty of the campus. The race is open to all LMU students and members of the community, including the 12 schools involved with LMU’s Family of Schools.

“This race brings the University and community together for a fun and healthy weekend event,” said senior English major and FitWell Center’s Public Relations and Event Manager Kiley Lyons. “It’s a way for the community to see

that LMU kids really care.”

In the past, this race has mainly been focused on the students of LMU, but this year, Mane Entertainment and the FitWell Center are working to incorporate more of the community and LMU’s Family of Schools, according to Lyons.

To do this, many fun aspects have been added. One highlight of this year’s race will be a separate ages 8-and-under fun run where students from LMU’s Family of Schools can race without being intimidated by college students and adults. Another highlight of this year’s race will be a topsecret prize to the first-place male winner and female winner of the 5k. There will also be various giveaways including a free Think Pink T-shirt for every finisher.

“Regardless of the prizes, the process itself is really rewarding,” said sophomore business management and communications studies double major and Mane Entertainment’s Manager of Showcase Events Evanne Drucker. “You may not think so, but the $10 registration fee makes a huge difference.”

Whether or not students want to race for the prize, walk with friends or run in solidarity for someone they love, the Think Pink 5K Run/Walk is a way to snap out of the midsemester blues and selflessly give a little time for a worthy cause.

To register, go to the Burns Recreation Center or show up to the race at 8 a.m. The registration fee is $10.

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Street Style

Melanie Legge

Sophomore French & sociology double major

Where do you like to shop?

“I mostly shop online. I like Revolve Clothing, Shopbop, Singer22 and Gilt Groupe.”

How would you describe your style?

“I mostly wear neutral colors like white, gray and black, but I like colored accessories.”

Dress: Blue Life Boots: Jeffrey Campbell Bag: Pour La Victoire Sunglasses: Michael Kors Bracelets (bottom to top): J. Crew, Nordstrom, Gilt Groupe

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RECREATION REVIEW

Boot Camp Blast class challenges many muscles and blends in cardio.

By Jenny Bruner Contributor

With a name like Boot Camp Blast, the endurance test that ensues should be expected. And if that isn’t warning enough, the instructor began the class with a succinct introduction saying, “This will not be easy. It is designed to be challenging. It’s also designed to be fun. It is different every week to keep it new and exciting.”

Boot Camp Blast targets key muscles and aims to strengthen and tone them.

Thus, it contains a number of plyometric exercises and muscle-specific repetitions in combination with cardio activity.

The class began by gathering the necessary equipment, which included a mat, weight bar, two gliding pads and a BOSU ball. A BOSU ball is the equivalent of half a medicine ball, with a flat side that allows it to remain in one place on the ground.

I recommend using the pink weight bar, which is only nine pounds and the lightest of the bars, the reason being that

the next 15 minutes are dedicated to arm repetitions and nine pounds gets heavy very quickly. If you are unable to lift the nine-pound weight bar, you can modify the activity by using two three-pound hand weights.

When the arm segment ended, the class transitioned right into threeperson rotations that included

squats, jumping jacks, toe touches on top the BOSU ball and running in place. The cardio element is the least challenging part of the class because the exercises are simple and require endurance rather than strength.

The next set of exercises brought the gliding pads into play. The two pads go underneath each of your feet and allow them to move easily across the gym floor. This segment consisted of repetitions of three different movements.

The first required participants to continuously move from plank position to downward dog position. The second started with downward

dog position (where the participant gets on their hands and knees while arching and flattening their back at the same time) and then required participants to spread their legs and bring them back to center. The third and final move of the series was sliding mountain climbers. A second run-through of the three moves ended the set.

Subsequently, the class moved to the concluding segment that consisted of push-ups and a variety of sit-ups and ab-

dominal exercises before ending with stretching.

Needless to say, the completion of a Boot Camp Blast class warrants the exhaustion of a complete and thorough workout. Freshman Lugene El-Harazi agreed and said she tries to make it to boot camp every Monday. Lugene said of the class, “[The instructor] switches it up every week, so it’s never the same. It’s always a good workout.”

Potential participants

should understand that the class is demanding. If you are prepared to work hard and endure the soreness that follows you around like a shadow for the next day or two, then by all means give Boot Camp Blast a try – it is definitely worth an hour out of your day.

Boot

Camp Blast When: Mondays 4:30-5:30p.m.

Where: Studio I in Burns Recreation Center

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Volleyball heads to Utah for WCC rematch Lions prepare for altitude adjustment on return trip to Brigham Young University.

By Emily Wallace Copy Editor

LMU volleyball will travel to Provo, Utah to play Brigham Young University (BYU) tonight. The match will be a heated battle, as LMU and BYU went to five sets last match until BYU escaped with the victory. The teams are also fairly close in the West Coast Conference (WCC) standings with BYU sitting at 7-4 and LMU at 6-5.

Having already played the team, the Lions know what to look out for this time to try and avoid another loss.

“They have really good systems that are similar to ours,” said Head Coach Tom Black. “They also have really powerful hitters, especially their opposite. They are just a physically good, welltrained team.”

In practice, the team has been working on “speed kills, keeping the energy high and winning the serving and

passing game,” said sophomore opposite hitter Alyse Hensley. Team Co-Captain junior Olivia Bailey added, “It will be a fight, and [we have to] be ready for a tough game and apply a lot of pressure.”

Sophomore outside hitter Betsi Metter was named the WCC Player of the Week on Monday. Metter leads the conference in digs, picking up 56 more in the Lions’ last two matches. Metter is the first Lion to take home the accolade this season.

In the team’s past games, Black has been impressed with the team and can see the hard work that the girls are doing. “I think we work at a really high level. We serve and pass well, and that gives us an advantage. We [also] win a lot of rallies by reading the plays and throwing our bodies around,” he said.

Despite their previous loss to BYU on their home court, the Lions are confident that they can come out with a win. “This is definitely a beatable team, we just need to play smart. Last time, we didn’t get our serves in,” said Bailey.

Senior Co-Captain Jasmine Rankins added, “If we are in system, we are unstop-

pable.”

The team has to prepare for the game in a unique way. “We need to adjust to the high altitude,” said Bailey. “The balls float more and they float out, so we need to take a lot of power off of it.”

While LMU’s chances at the NCAA tournament are at a disadvantage due to its record, the Lions still have a chance to go to the big dance.

“We would have to win all of our games, but we can win. … If we win the games we should, we’ll have a good chance of going to the NCAA tournament,” said Bailey.

As for the rest of the season, Black still has the same goals as the beginning. “Advance the program. … Our goal is how we play, and we grade that every day. This program was at a really low point two years ago, and that team did a good job to take a step forward every year. We already have as many wins as last year, and the conference is much better this year.”

Black thinks the Lions have made some major improvements since the beginning of the season. “I think we have become a lot more consistent, and we have been good about keeping the en-

ergy high the whole game,” said Bailey.

Hensley also added that the team has been doing a good job of “staying up, especially when we are down.”

The team has worked ev-

ery day to better themselves as a whole. “Our inspiration for working hard is knowing that we have a good team and knowing that we can do damages in a tough conference,” said Bailey.

Standings

Volleyball

West Coast Conference Team No. 14 Pepperdine No. 21 San Diego BYU LMU San Francisco St. Mary’s Santa Clara Portland Gonzaga

WCC 11-0 8-3 7-4 6-5 5-6 5-6 4-6 2-9 1-10

Overall 17-5 23-3 18-7 13-11 13-11 11-12 9-12 8-16 7-15

Lions coming to life for stretch run Three key home games on the horizon for surging men’s soccer team.

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n celebration of Día de los Muertos, the LMU men’s soccer team will be making two special appearances at Sullivan Field this weekend as the team back from the grave.

A miserable start to the season almost buried the Lions’ hopes for a second Wilks World consecutive West Coast

By John Wilkinson Conference Asst. Sports Editor (WCC) title, but a recent five-game unbeaten streak has given the Lions a shock

of life.

If you will indulge me one last late Halloween pun, this team tricked us for half of the season and all of a sudden has been a treat to watch. Let’s hope for no massive sugar crash anytime soon. I’m immediately sorry for that paragraph.

On Oct. 8, the Lions were 2-9-0, entrenched in a sevengame losing streak and on the wrong end of three overtime results. At that point, it would have been easy to declare LMU’s 2011 season dead, but the coaching staff and players kept preaching the same positive message all year. They knew they had the talent on the squad to be successful, but it was not showing up in the bounces and results on the field.

Then, all of a sudden

something happened: a win.

Exactly a month since their last win, the Lions grabbed three points in a road win at the University of Portland.

Two one-goal wins at home the next weekend kept the momentum building at the midway break in conference play. The Lions were 3-3-0 and, after the terrible start to the season, miraculously not out of contention for the WCC crown.

Last weekend, the Lions started the second half of the conference season with four huge points on the road.

The defense held brilliantly over 200 minutes of soccer to record shutouts in both of the overtime contests.

Goalkeepers redshirt junior Max Young and redshirt senior Jack McCormack each put in heroic efforts, allowing the Lions to absorb the

opponents’ pressure and look forward for the winning goal.

So now, the once seemingly dead Lions return home for three consecutive home games, just one point out of first place in the WCC. It is only the second time this season the Lions have played consecutive games at home and will be the longest homestand of the season.

It is time for the Lions and their fans to make Sullivan Field a hallowed ground where opponents should not expect to steal points away over the next 10 days.

Both of the teams coming to town this weekend, University of Portland tomorrow and Gonzaga University on Sunday, sit below LMU in the conference table, but not by much in the ever-tightly packed WCC. LMU’s first meeting with each team ended in a 3-2 result, with the Lions being on the short end in Spokane before turning things around in Portland.

After closing the homestand with a contest against University of San Diego a week from today, the Lions will go on the road for one last game: a season finale against current conference leader St. Mary’s College.

That is too far ahead to think about, since the top four teams are separated by a single point and the entire seven-team conference is separated by a mere seven points from top to bottom.

A season ago, the LMU men’s soccer team did nothing the easy way. A share of its first ever conference title took four overtime contests,

all of which resulted in points for LMU. As much as all the heartstopping moments seemed to work in the Lions’ favor last season, this year was shaping up to be a disaster of equal and opposite proportion – until a few weeks ago, at least. Now it is nice to see the field-mobbing, excitement-erupting moments going the Lions’ way again.

Last Sunday, when I looked down at the beginning of overtime to Tweet about their seeming inability to make any game easy on the fans’ nerves, I almost missed redshirt freshman defender Craig Nitti’s game-winning header. It took LMU just 36 seconds of OT to steal the three points and shoot up the table. That is just how quickly things can change in this game and especially in this conference.

The team that once looked to have a snowball’s chance in hell now has momentum on its side and is snowballing towards a conference title.

Come one, come all, come loud, to see this suddenly spectacular team continue to fight for its life. The Lions have managed to come back from the brink of irrelevance to make this season the exciting one that fans expected.

The next three home games could determine whether the Lions can make it the titlewinning season that they expected from themselves.

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Leukemia survivor maintains sense of self Davis from page 16 Davis began chemotherapy that night and spent the next seven days in the hospital; however, it was only the beginning stage of a long road to recovery.

Although such circumstances might bring most people to the depths of their darkest place, it did the polar opposite for Davis. His teenage cockiness and innate confidence were there from the start, and he maintained those qualities throughout the struggle.

But the ride wasn’t a straight shot through chemotherapy. Along the way, he encountered obstacles that, again, might have dragged a normal person down – but for Davis, they continued to fuel his confidence.

He had appendicitis, which the doctors believed was a consequence of the blood thinners prescribed for a blood clot experienced during chemo. With an already weakened immune system, the chances of his appendix bursting did not just mean another trip to the hospital; it could have potentially cost him his life.

However, the doctors were unable to open him up that night, as six months of blood thinners had made it so that if they were to perform surgery, he would have bled out and died. Stuck in what seemed to be a possibly fatal Catch-22, Davis and his doctors were left with few options. They placed him on an intravenous drug that would thicken his blood. In the morning, they decided to perform an appendectomy.

“Regularly, [the surgery is] an hour, hour-and-a-half procedure at most,” said Davis.

“Mine was eight-and-a-half hours because I bled out on the table numerous times.

They went through eight liters of blood on me. … They said it was the longest ap-

pendectomy performed at the hospital. But they never told me for a long time that the complications were that bad.

I had no idea.”

Davis’s path continued to deviate from normalcy as he has found himself in yet another unique situation during his time at LMU. Coincidentally, there is another member of LMU’s campus who is from Greenwich, Conn., that also happened to play water polo for the same coach at the same high school as Davis. The story “was one of those things that you couldn’t make up,” Davis said, as the person also battled leukemia as well. This person is John Loughran, the head coach of the LMU’s men’s water polo team.

“I have a unique relationship with Brad in that we have something in common that not many people do,” said Loughran. “It’s something that’s hard to explain and only the people who truly understand it are people who have gone through it, or family members that watched someone go through it.”

“I kind of look at Brad as a little brother,” Loughran continued. “We have those things in common, and I keep an eye out for him. He and I have something in common that we can relate to that is different from others.”

Although Davis has yet to suit up and spend last season working as the team’s manager, he is continuing to train and get his body back to playing shape.

Davis survived the obstacle nonetheless, and after four years of chemotherapy, was finally taken off treatment on St. Patrick’s Day 2010. Aside from the help of his family and his girlfriend of five years, he credits the men’s water polo team and the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity for their support and help during his time at LMU. His experience also led him

to create the BRAD (Benefit Research Achieving Dreams) Fund. The nonprofit organization is a charity aiming to “support research that creates safer, more effective methods and treatments for fighting childhood cancer,” according to the organization’s website. The charity also works to spread awareness of the importance of creating funding for pediatric cancer research.

“When you’re growing up, especially if you have a healthy life and hopefully your loved ones do too, you know about all the stuff that’s out there, but you don’t really know to what extent because you don’t see it … firsthand” Davis explained. “And I finally got to see it firsthand, and I was like holy crap, this is really real, and it’s affecting all of these kids and families, and that’s why I started the BRAD Fund. That’s exactly why I started it.”

“These kids don’t know what the hell they are doing,” Davis continued. “Some of the kids I met had been in the hospital for pretty much their entire lives. As weird as it sounds, I kind of had to be grateful that I had what I had, and that I’m old enough to kind of get it. I then focused on helping those kids and being their big brother, that kind of thing.”

Although the doctors have yet to tell him he has beaten the disease (he expects to hear those words sometime between Christmas of this year and St. Patrick’s Day of 2012), he remains as confident as ever.

“I kind of feel that it’s good to have in my back pocket because whatever the next situation is, it’s coming,” said Davis. “It doesn’t have to be health-related, but something is coming. And when it does, I’ll be able to take that out and use it once again.

And take the punches as they come and just roll with it.”

McCourt finally gone Raff’s Rap from page 16 club due to fears that the team was not being managed properly.

Two months later, McCourt filed for bankruptcy because he could not finalize a television deal with FOX nor keep the team financially stable after MLB blocked the $3 billion transaction. McCourt’s inability to complete this television deal, which was his only concrete form of income for the team, spelled doom for the Dodgers. All hell broke loose, and the Dodgers became the laughing stock of baseball.

Talk radio jokes were made about the financial situation, players became annoyed that reporters only cared about ownership issues rather than the actual season and fans became irritated by all of it and simply stopped showing up to Chavez Ravine.

In what was a horrid start to the 2011 season with all of the problems continuing, the fans deserve a change. Living in Los Angeles and being a Dodgers fan my entire life, I cannot tell you one person who wanted McCourt to stay in office. It was time for a change.

Yes, his ownership did lead the Dodgers to two straight

National League Championship Series appearances, marking the first time that happened since the Dodgers were actually a threat in the ‘70s and ‘80s. However, when it was discovered he did not have money to pay for the operations of the team because he was too busy buying beach houses on the Mexican Riviera, Dodger fans were livid at the ownership.

When owners sell teams, it usually spells chaos for the franchise because there is an air of uncertainty. In this case, however, a better solution could not have taken place. From a Dodgers fan’s mindset, the poison is now gone, and the Dodgers can finally start fresh after seven and a half years.

How long will all this selling take to complete? ESPN reported that a new owner could be in place by Opening Day of 2012, but typically these things take several months, according to Jackson.

The most popular candidate to replace McCourt is current Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. The young, vibrant Cuban has wanted to branch into baseball ownership for some time, dabbling in ownership with the Cubs and Rangers. In

both cases, the situations just haven’t been right.

Third time’s the charm?

No matter who the new owner is or when he takes over, there is an expectation from Dodger fans to be bold, not conservative, because we were left with McCourt for so long.

But all of this future talk is a conversation for another day. Let us celebrate the moment that is the removal of the McCourt regime. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Brad Davis

Brad Davis (above) maintained a confident attitude throughout his extensive battle with leukemia.

Lions look strong in exhibition win M. Bball from page 16 The Lions took a 23-point lead into halftime after completely dominating the Leopards, holding them to just 19 points in the opening half.

LMU’s biggest lead of the first half came just a few moments before the break when sophomore Godwin Okonji went up with a layup under the basket. The hoop, fed by Lawson, gave the Lions a 4217 lead. La Verne sank two free throws before the half to secure the 42-19 intermission score.

Senior Trevor Woodland was the only Leopard in double figures, with 20 of his team’s 49 points. Woodland was the focal point of the La Verne offense, taking over a third of the team’s shots. The Lions’ defense slowed him down in the second half, holding him to seven points after halftime.

According to sophomore Anthony Ireland, the Lions’ goal in the exhibition was “just to not be complacent, to play hard and take it as any normal game. Don’t come to

the game acting nonchalantly, just play every game like it’s your last,” he said after the win.

Aside from DuBois, LMU’s other double-digit scorers were Hamilton (17), Ireland (15) and freshman C.J. Blackwell (11). Senior LaRon Armstead had nine points, and Egbeyemi contributed seven.

Hamilton also led all players with seven rebounds.

LMU shot 55.9 percent from the field compared to La Verne who shot just 27 percent. Where LMU truly dominated the game was in paint scoring and on the fast break.

LMU held a 50-8 advantage on points in the paint and scored 31 points off La Verne turnovers.

For the Lions, they now have nine days to learn from the exhibition and prepare for the true opening of the season against UCLA. LMU will travel downtown to the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena for a 7:30 p.m. televised contest against the Bruins a week from tomorrow. The game will be shown on FOX Sports West.

This is the opinion of Dan Raffety. Please send comments to draffety@theloyolan.com

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Lions level Leopards in exhibition Dodgers’

owner will sell team

Four players score in double digits in the men’s basketball team’s 94-49 victory on Tuesday.

By John Wikinson Asst. Sports Editor An exhibition victory against a lower-division team like the University of La Verne is never something on which to hedge too much optimism. In their first game action Tuesday night, however, the Lions looked like a muchimproved team from the one that finished second to last in the West Coast Coast Conference (WCC) last season.

Four LMU players scored in double digits, with redshirt junior Jarred DuBois leading the way with 19 as the Lions cruised to a 94-49 win in their first and only exhibition game of the season.

“I feel like everyone was really excited for the game, so we kind of came out with some jitters. [DuBois] led us in the beginning … everyone kind of picked it up,” redshirt junior Ashley Hamilton said after the game. “It was just nice to be out there as a team, playing against someone else.”

The home team opened the game with a 6-0 run that included a 3-pointer from Hamilton and a slashing layup from DuBois. From there, the Lions never looked back.

LMU put the game securely out of reach with a 15-6 run less than midway through the second half. The breakaway sequence involved two driving buckets from Hamilton on which he was fouled, a pair of lay-ins for redshirt sophomore Quincy Lawson cutting to the basket and an elbow 3-pointer from sophomore Ayodeji Egbeyemi.

A series of strong defensive stops allowed the Lions to open up the lead to more than 30 points, a margin they would not forfeit for the rest of the contest.

“We wanted to make sure that we played defense consistently,” Hamilton said. “That’s going to be a big

Frank McCourt plans to sell the Dodgers after a controversial seven-and-a-half year tenure.

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Redshirt junior guard Jarred DuBois (above) paced the Lions with 19 points in LMU’s 94-49 victory over the University of La Verne during Tuesday’s exhibition game. emphasis for us. We’re very athletic, we’re a very deep team this year, we have a lot of talent, so we can get out and pressure people, get some turnovers and get fast breaks, show our talent and our athleticism.”

The Lions’ largest lead of the game

was 46 points with just under two minutes left in the contest when redshirt senior Tim Diederichs got the ball in the low post and made a nice spin move to go up for the bucket.

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ree at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last.

Frank McCourt, the soon-to-be former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, will end his heated battle with Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Bud Selig and sell the historic franchise much to the excitement of the Dodger faithful, according to ESPN Los Angeles’s Tony Jackson.

The move comes after months of court cases, divorce controversies and Raff’s Rap angered fans callBy Dan Raffety ing for the demise Asst. Sports Editor of the McCourt regime after a sevenand-half-year reign that just never felt right.

He started off shaky, buying the team with money he didn’t have and using loans he promised he would pay back.

Tensions hit the surface during Frank and his wife Jamie’s divorce settlement. The court hearings received more media attention than the Dodgers’ poor play on the field, and that’s saying something. Conflict continued to escalate in April when the MLB, under the orders of Selig, took over day-to-day operations of the

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Battle with cancer produces heart of a Lion Sophomore and men’s water polo player Brad Davis overcomes trying times.

By Michael Goldsholl Asst. Managing Editor | Sports Editor Confidence or cockiness, it hardly matters. Four years of chemotherapy, two complications and one battle against leukemia later, Brad Davis remains as fearless as ever.

“As a 14-year-old, arrogant kid, you think nothing can stop you,” said Davis.

A sophomore sociology major and Division I student-athlete from Greenwich, Conn., Davis’s biggest concerns at the moment are midterms and getting his body back into swimming shape. However, such worries pale in comparison to the days when he was forced to fight for his life. Regardless of the situation, doubt is not an emotion easily found in the mind of Davis.

In the best physical shape of his life and coming off his first season of high school water polo, even a clairvoyant couldn’t have predicted what was in store for Davis.

Having slept for approximately 20 hours a day for four to five consecutive days leading up to the diagnosis, Davis and his family knew that something was wrong.

“I literally thought, whatever it was, I was gonna go to the hospital and they were gonna say, ‘You know what, you’re fine. Take some pills, take a shot, whatever. This is all just a big work-up to nothing.’ And obviously it wasn’t. But being 14, that’s kind of what you think about,” said Davis.

Their fears weren’t eased either when doctors sent him in for not one, but three

blood tests – claiming that there had to have been a mistake made on each of the three trials.

On Thanksgiving Eve of 2006, Davis found himself in the hospital once again, but instead of another blood test, the doctors opted to do a bone marrow biopsy, which would provide them with instantaneous results.

The doctors found the answer before Davis even awoke from surgery.

“I remember waking up with about 10 to 15 doctors and nurses huddled around me. I was like, ‘What the hell is this?’”

“Then, my actual doctor came in, introduced himself and said, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Davis, can I please speak to you?’ so he could tell them the news. They came back with tears in their eyes. And I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ But then again, I never thought cancer. I never thought any of that,” said Davis.

That very night, Davis was hit with news that altered his and his family’s lives forever. He was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) – or cancer of the white blood cells.

Overcome with shock at the news, Davis recalled being “kind of like a deer in headlights because he said the ‘C’ word. I didn’t say anything probably for the next 12 to 24 hours. I didn’t say a word. I was just kind of stuck in that moment,” said Davis.

However, prior to entering his shortlived period of silence, Davis did remember the three words that came out of his mouth, revealing a still-standing aura of arrogance that only the mind of a 14-yearold boy could understand.

“Well, this sucks,” Davis said to the doctor. Echoing Davis’s retort to the devastating news, the doctor resp onded, “Yeah it does, but you’re going to be OK.”

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Brad Davis

Sophomore sociology major and men’s water polo player Brad Davis went through nearly four years of chemotherapy treatment and is now working his way back into the pool.