November 15, 2012

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Student actors portray oppression SAE focus of Senate debate Greek Council visits ASLMU Senate to participate in offcampus fraternity SAE discussion.

By Kevin O’Keeffe Managing Editor

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LMU students took on various roles to present diverse forms of oppression, including negative body image (left), homophobia (top right) and school shootings (bottom right). The event was intended to demonstrate the realities of such situations and prompt reflection.

FIRST-PERSON FEATURE Students take interactive journey through Malone to learn about various forms of oppression.

By Jenna Abdou News Intern

After waiting nearly an hour to walk through the “Tunnel of Oppression” on Tuesday night, I felt like I was ready for whatever oppression issues were coming my way.

As I walked into the first scene with my seven other group members, leaving behind a large crowd in the Living Room still waiting their turns, I quickly realized that this would

be a much deeper experience than I had expected.

All I knew about the event was that each level of Malone would have LMU students acting out scenes of oppression to expose community members walking through to important social issues and hopefully encourage them to take action.

“What’s your password? Why did you change it? What are you hiding from me?” said the LMU student in the first scene as he questioned his girlfriend about who she was texting.

The first scene my group and I walked through was designed to demonstrate the harsh realities of domestic violence. As the girl attempted to get her phone from her boyfriend’s hands, he violently pulled her back and slapped her across the face.

When she fell to the ground sobbing, my group members and I stared wide-eyed at the events unfolding before us and felt deeply impacted.

The “Tunnel of Oppression” event addressed issues that are prominent in society and made them tangible by having students act out scenes ranging from a classroom shooting to body image awareness.

Another scene featured an LMU student talking on the phone with her friend as she thanked her for letting her stay at her home.

The girl, who was in between homes, told her friend that she hasn’t figured out what she’s going to do yet since her dad is unable to find a job, and she has nowhere to go.

The girl quickly dialed another friend to asking to stay with them while she sorted

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LMU commemorates anniversary of deaths Crosses erected on campus and Foley Pond dyed red in honor of six Jesuit martyrs.

By Casey Kidwell Asst. News Editor

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White crosses draped in fabric are displayed across campus at various locations, including near the U-Hall bridge (above) in memory of the six Jesuit martyrs. For photos of the candlelight vigil held in honor of the martyrs last night, visit the Loyolan’s Facebook page.

WORLDLY TRAVELS The Loyolan staff suggests hot spots across the world for your next vacation.

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The off-campus colonization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), first reported in the Nov. 12 Loyolan article “Unofficial fraternity colonizes off campus,” was a big topic at yesterday’s ASLMU Senate meeting. Introduced by Speaker of the Senate Ceci Rangel-Garcia, a sophomore psychology major, the Senate debated whether it was a student concern.

Two of the most vocal senators were sophomore political science major Alex Petosa and sophomore accounting major Roy Dilekoglu. In accordance with Section 6 of the ASLMU Bylaws, both declared their conflicts of interest (Petosa is a member of Alpha Phi, while Dilekoglu is in SAE), then argued the issue’s potential significance to students.

Petosa said that it was the Senate’s job to stand by the administration, and that the Greek community’s response to SAE’s colonization, signed by all 16 fraternity and sorority presidents, was a clear indication of the University’s decision. Dilekoglu disagreed, comparing this situation to the debate over the LGBT Student Services Office in Fall 2010. In that situation, he said, the University wasn’t entirely supportive of the office’s formation, yet the Senate stood behind it.

Greek Council President Joe Dzida, a senior marketing major, was in attendance and stated that in the expansion process last spring, when asked if they would continue colonization off campus if denied, SAE indicated that they would not.

ASLMU President and senior managemnt major Bryan Ruiz, who is also the president of SAE, was also present. When asked by senator and junior political science and sociology double major EJ de Lara to comment, Ruiz said, “I’m just here to answer any and all student concerns on behalf of ASLMU.” Ultimately, no vote was held or decision made regarding SAE.

Six lives were brutally taken and the memory of the blood spilled runs in the LMU fountain this week. Last Monday, Nov. 12, Foley Pond was dyed blood red to commemorate the lives of the six Jesuits who were murdered at their residence at the Jesuit university, the University of Central America (UCA), in El Salvador.

In addition to the annual color change of Foley Pond, this year there are six white crosses placed across campus, four of which feature a red priest stole.

It was Nov. 16, 1989, when the U.S.trained commanders of the Salvadorian army entered the UCA campus and brutally murdered the six Jesuits living

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there in addition to a Salvadorian cook and her 16-year-old daughter, according to resident minister of McCarthy Hall, Laura Martin. Taking place in the middle of El Salvador’s civil war, Martin says that the Jesuit community was outspoken about the violence and injustice that was occurring every day in the community around them. Receiving a significant amount of aid and training from the U.S., the army “tried to silence the Jesuits and then blame the murder on the guerrillas,” Martin said.

The Jesuits were attempting to “work toward the end of violence, oppression and injustice,” and for that reason Martin believes that even though they were silenced for these attempts, they would want to be remembered as “catalysts for the many who have continued their work.”

Junior civil engineering major Britney Calucag visited the site of the murder

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GO PLAY A VIDEO GAME A&E Editor Chris James reports on a class that trades in pencils for Wiimotes.

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DE COLORES OFFICIALLY BACK IN ACTION

“University officials have given Campus Ministry permission to resume our De Colores program effective immediately,” according to a letter from Fr. James Erps, S.J., director of Campus Ministry, posted on Campus Ministry’s website on Monday, Nov. 12.

In a post on the De Colores Facebook group, an account which appears to belong to senior business management major and De Colores President Amaan Kerawala clarified that De Colores trips will officially resume the first weekend for December. Sign ups to go on the trip begin Monday, Nov. 19th at 8 a.m. For those interested, more information will be revealed through the Facebook page, according to Kerawala’s post.

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Business professor Alan Hogenauer has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for visiting the entire U.S. National Park System. His talk will take place today from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Living Room.

11BURNING QUESTIONS with an LMU business professor

This issue, News Editor Zaneta Pereira talks to business professor Alan Hogenauer about systematic travel and his traveling advice.

1. You’re giving a talk [today] as part of World Fest about the benefits of systematic travel – could you briefly explain exactly what this is?

Systematic travel is basically understanding the categories or sites that a place or location fits into, and then attempting to reach all of the points in that category at some point.

2. In one sentence, what is the benefit of systematic travel?

The benefit is really one of completion, that you haven’t left anything out, and an understanding of the various categories that things fit into.

Quite honestly, none of these projects would have been as much fun as the act of getting there because you see so much along the way.

3. How did you come up with the idea to approach travel in this way?

It really was a family event. In the ‘60s, my mother took my brother, sister and me on a trip across the country, and I became aware of the different categories. You might say, well it doesn’t take a genius to figure that out, but when you experience them in a sequence or in context, you realize that there’s a lot out there.

4. Is there a category you’re currently working toward?

I don’t want to say, out of superstition I generally don’t talk about the incomplete ones, but I will mention a few examples. By the way, many of these have evolved in retrospect, so for example you can take the list from OISS [Office of International Students and Scholars] of the countries the students [at LMU] come from. And I would look at that list and see how many I still have to go.

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5. How long do you usually spend in the places you visit?

It varies widely. Fortunately, I have a good ability to see things quickly so I don’t have to stay a long time to appreciate the things I want to appreciate.

6. Do you prefer surface or air travel?

Surface travel is just preferable, because although I do like looking out the window, I’m not the kind of person that likes to sit and use a laptop in first class or whatever and not even know where I’m going.

7. What’s the craziest situation you’ve gotten into during your travels?

Back in the ‘60s, when I was basically the age of your readers, my first wife and I drove a Land Rover completely around the world. A lot of this is just good luck and good timing because we literally drove from Bombay to Edinburgh.

8. How do you plan a trip like this? Do you just decide to go and set off?

Well, I did tie it in. Almost all of these travels have been associated with a legitimate purpose or intent. In other words, a job or a traineeship.

9. What are the best and worst airlines in the world, and why?

There are really only two aircraft manufacturers left in the world, and their aircrafts are quite similar.

10. What are the top three things you always pack when you travel?

Well, I don’t want to sound ordinary, but I’d say a toothbrush, a comb and a clean towel. I think at one point I was quoted as saying “just enough so that I could legitimately sit next to somebody and not have them get up and leave.”

11. What would your advice be for someone who is looking to travel, who maybe hasn’t ever left the country before?

I think the most important thing I would say, especially to an upperscale population like the LMU student body, is have a good reason to go.

I hate to say it, but don’t just go teach English in Japan because that’s the only thing you can find. Do something that you’re really interested in doing and you’ll probably have better chances of getting connected.

To read the extended version of 11 Burning Questions, and find out what other travel tips Hogenauer has, visit the News section of laloyolan.com.

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last Thanksgiving with a Campus Ministry program called Contemplatives in Action.

In addition to learning about the violence going on in El Salvador, Calucag said they also learned about the Jesuit massacre.

“It seemed unreal to think that it actually happened,” Calucag said, reflecting back on how she felt upon arrival at the site. “I could really feel for the people. It was a great experience and made me really grateful for everything that I have in my life,” she said.

Calucag added that the timing of going during the Thanksgiving season helped her realize what it truly meant to be grateful as she stood where the murdered Jesuits stood just over 20 years ago.

While it has been over two decades since the murders took place and many students on campus were not even alive when it happened, Martin said that “it doesn’t mean that the urgency behind what the six Jesuits were fighting for is

gone.”

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary three years ago, the Human Rights Coalition (HRC) held a candlelight vigil similar to the one that took place last night. All together, the crosses, the fountain and the vigil urge people to “stop and reflect upon what happened and why it happened,” Martin said.

Senior film production major and one of the coordinators of HRC on campus Gabriela Dematteis remembers her first experience of the candlelight vigil as a freshman. She said that since that first time, it hasn’t been done in quite the same way. As a senior, she made it her goal to bring it back to campus this year and hopefully renew the feelings of that first vigil.

“It’s an example of students honoring our Jesuit tradition and honoring those people who were examples of being men and women for and with others,” Dematteis said.

She emphasized that the candlelight vigil acts as a time

not only to learn more about and remember the lives of the Jesuits, but to “take a stance against violence that occurs all over the world.” Attending the candlelight vigil is also “a statement that we as leaders of a new world will do everything we can to not let this happen,” Dematteis said.

For students who were unable to attend the vigil that happened in front of Foley Pond, Dematteis encouraged taking a moment throughout the week to stop and look at the crosses and read the biographies of the Jesuits posted on them. In doing so, she hopes that the community will realize that they are not just “people to be idolized and honored, but also people that we can relate to and draw examples from in how to live our lives for others.”

With the week of commemoration for the six murdered Jesuits coming to a close, Martin said that she hopes the crosses, the vigil and the fountain, “push students to think about ways they are standing for justice and peace.”

Tunnel from Page 1 out her family issues. She was forced to wait outside her friend’s house with two bags containing all her belongings for three hours, just to have a place to sleep.

Throughout the event, viewers were targeted by oppressive messages from every direction.

The two scenes above and all others featured LMU students as actors, demonstrating issues of race, religion and sexuality, and reflected the many ways that these are part of college campuses around the nation – including ours.

The scenes on body image awareness portrayed how deeply the media’s definition of beauty has infiltrated our minds. Posters cluttered the walls of the rooms in these two scenes, and magazines littered the floor as the students looked at photos of celebrities like Megan Fox and Channing Tatum.

My group and I were shocked to hear the girl’s mother scold her about gaining the freshman 15 in the next room.

“No Thanksgiving dinner for you! You’re never going to get a boyfriend or be successful if you’re fat, sweetheart,” admonished the mother.

As the girl turned to violently throw up in a nearby trash can, the audience noticed the marks drawn all over her body, showing the places that her mother believed she needed to lose weight. While her body shook

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above the trash can, her mother didn’t tell her to stop or comfort her.

She simply turned away.

The next scene showed a college student lifting weights at 2 a.m. as his roommate begged him to go to sleep and encouraged him to stop setting unrealistic goals for himself.

The sweaty boy responded by asking, “How is this unrealistic? No one will like me if I look like this.”

“Work out until you pass out – that’s my motto,” added the boy.

“I don’t care if I pass out. If I do, it shows that I’m trying hard.”

As my group sat in our debriefing session, we reflected on the events that particularly affected us. For me, it was the student without a place to call home. For one of my group members, it was the classroom shooting scene where a student was brutally shot in the head and crumbled before us.

Ethnic and Intercultural Services, ASLMU, Student Housing and Student Engagement, Retention and Transition represented the many ways that individuals struggle with oppression and accomplished their goal of bringing these issues to light on campus, challenging students to think about them.

As we walked out of the group discussions we were greeted by balloons, posters and excited students welcoming us to the “Tunnel of Hope,” which wrapped up the event by encouraging students to “Be The Change.”

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Adrien Jarvis Editor in Chief

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Succeed, not secede

o much for national unity.

Only two issues ago, the Loyolan welcomed the end of this year ’s presidential election with hope for a future with two united parties (see the Nov. 8 Board Editorial “What’s needed now: the first 100 days and the next four years”). One week later, American citizens from all 50 states have petitioned to secede, or withdraw, their state from the United States, according to the L.A. Times.

What started with one petition from Louisiana on the White House’s website quickly ballooned. Although not all 50 petitions have the requisite 25,000 signatures to be reviewed by the White House, several do, including Texas, Florida and Louisiana. The White House announced they will review these petitions, according to ABC News, but hopefully the answer will be a resounding “get real.”

If states threatened to secede every time Americans get upset about the result of an election, there would be a wave of secessions every four years. Not once in modern American history has every citizen been happy with the result of an election. To talk about secession now is nothing but an exaggerated form of whining.

We talked about the economic and civil rights issues facing our country in last week’s Board Editorial, and as junior recording arts major Brandon Cudequest wrote in his letter to the editor on Nov. 8, we only scratched the surface of what needs to be done. The fiscal cliff is looming, threatening the economic situation in this country. Our foreign policy is still in need of change. And yet here we are, bickering over a possible secession.

Now is not the time to become divided and embittered. The election is over – there’s no use lamenting or even celebrating President Barack Obama’s re-election any further. Instead, we must take what Obama said in his victory speech on election night to heart.

“We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states,” Obama said. “We are, and forever will be, the United States of America.”

Over 600,000 Americans died during the fight for national unity in the Civil War. Let’s not take that unity for granted now. Instead, let’s embrace it and move forward, to paraphrase our president, as the United States of America.

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Running wild: the First Amendment and Westboro W hen do First Amendment rights go too far?

As American citizens, we have the right to say what we want and assemble where we want if we have a cause that’s worth fighting for. Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), a fundamental religious group, takes this right we have and runs wild with it.

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By Dan Raffety members of Asst. Managing Editor the group picketed outside my alma mater, Loyola High School, in protest of supposed allegations in the past five years of students being molested by priests.

Here’s the issue: There have been no allegations at or in connection with Loyola High School and no reports of foul play on the part of anyone from the Loyola High School community.

There are a few reasons why they might have chosen Loyola High as their place of protest: One, they are misinformed and picked an allmale Catholic high school in Southern California at random; or two, they chose the venue because it’s a prominent secondary high school – the oldest continuously run educational institution in Southern California, according to the Loyola High School website.

Loyola High School is a well-known institution and,

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Members of the Westboro Baptist Church protest outside of Gonzaga University. The Church has a history of making demonstrations at major events, such as the funerals of military veterans. like any smart group might think, it makes sense to speak on a stage where attention will be spotlighted, a stage where people will listen. As soon as the news broke that WBC planned to speak at the gates of the school, my Facebook news feed blew up with alums and current students voicing their confusion as to why such a fundamentalist group would choose our high school as a target when no allegations have been filed.

We as alumni understand the culture of Loyola and the Jesuit values it instills in the 1,200 plus young men on campus. Like LMU, it’s an

inclusive environment, where community is valued at the highest level. The relationship between the faculty and staff is a special one, one of mature discussion and interaction that is fostered not only within the classroom, but seeks to share the Jesuit ideals within a larger community, nation and world.

I’m not saying that an unfortunate event like a molestation could never happen at Loyola High School, because you can never really know. I’m not that ignorant.

But it hasn’t happened as far as we know, and it doesn’t make sense to myself – or anyone I’ve talked to – that a

group would protest a school that has had no history of involvement in the issue the group is protesting.

The First Amendment is one of the highest valued privileges in my life because I believe that everyone should have the right to speak what’s on their mind, as long as they conduct themselves in a mature fashion.

But the Westboro Baptist Church protest at Loyola High School, although constitutionally sound, is pointless. They are speaking just to speak, to gain attention, to cause a ruckus without any evidence.

In my eyes, they have no

credibility – no ethos, as my rhetoric professor would call it. They are attention mongerers who want people to care about their presence without backing it up with factual information.

So, Westboro, I’m talking to you: When you spew nonsense, there is no way to even bear a resemblance to a credible source of information. The selection of my high school not only bothers but offends me. Your group taints the diverse aura of the school with your narrow and fundamental beliefs in a desperate grab for attention.

How did the school respond?

Exactly how I hoped they would. They didn’t give the group the attention they so desperately sought. Classes went on, no extra security was called in. The school accepted the rights of the group because they were outside campus jurisdiction and went about a typical day. The thing that gives groups like this pride is the media attention to promote their fundamentalist values.

Does anyone deserve the right to congregate and assemble and say what’s on their mind? Absolutely.

But unless your claims come with rational evidence to back it up, it doesn’t follow in the spirit of the First Amendment. It makes you look like a bitter fool.

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

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Battle of the majors: differing tuition rates

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ot all majors are created equal. You can usually distinguish mechanical engineers from communication studies majors via the bags under their eyes, the coffee stains on their collars and the systematic non-existence of their social lives. Still, it’d be unfair for a university to treat students with those two majors differently. Right?

Florida

By Brian Leigh might not Contributor think so. The Sunshine State is working on a proposal that, if passed, would allow public universities to offer students different tuition rates depending on their major. More specifically, undergrads enrolled in majors related to science, technology and math – the ones ‘traditionally’ thought to lead to steadier employment – would get to pay less for an education than students of philosophy, English and other more ‘abstract’ fields.

Let me start by saying this: Even as a liberal arts major, I do understand the logic behind this proposal.

The job market is weak, and tax dollars aren’t exactly growing on trees. Public universities are funded by taxpayers, and those taxpayers deserve assurance that their money is going toward the long-term welfare of the economy. They deserve graduates who are prepared to get, and succeed at, jobs in the current economic state. Ostensibly, those spearheads behind this proposal are trying to ensure the best return on Florida’s academic investment.

In principle, the proposed legislation is viable – noble, even. But, in practice, it’s a harrowing mistake.

Dale Brill, chairman of the task

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force responsible for the proposal as well as president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation, argues that young people are too myopic when choosing their college major. He thinks starry-eyed romanticism leads some freshmen down paths of career suicide.

“The tuition differential,” he posits in a Nov. 5 Atlantic article, “will increase the probability that there will be some introspection about careers and livelihoods.”

What Brill fails to acknowledge is that in Florida, according to a 2009 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report, high school seniors finish on the lower end of the National Assessment of Educational Progress mathematics tests and, according to a 2011 NCES report of bachelor degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, the majority of students nationwide are already investing

themselves in the so-called practical majors. According to the College of Business Administration’s online fact sheet, here at LMU, 1,300 out of the total reported 5,962 students are enrolled in the College of Business Administration – which adds up to roughly 22 percent of the student body.

Clearly, there doesn’t seem to be much need for such incentives; but if passed, what about the kid whose introspection turns into paranoia?

What of the brilliant writer, the potential voice of a generation, who spends his college years mixing compounds instead of studying Tolstoy? What of the math-impaired artistic visionary who this proposal consigns to a life mismanaging spreadsheets when he could have been studying graphic design?

Close your eyes and try to imagine a school devoid of liberal arts.

Every registering student competes

to avoid an 8 a.m. AIMS lecture.

LMU’s mission statement articulates the goal of inviting “men and women diverse in talents, interests and cultural backgrounds to enrich our educational community.”

Which reminds me: Is this even fiscal pragmatism? How, exactly, can we ensure that math and science majors are more likely to succeed in the current job market?

What predictive metrics are we using? What answer do we have once fiscal pragmatism deprives the world of once-in-a-lifetime artistry?

Certainly not the unemployment metric utilized by the Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce. Its January report found, rather surprisingly, that the unemployment rate for 22-26 year old journalism majors (7.7 percent) and communications majors (7.4 percent) is lower than that of young mechanical engineers (8.6 percent)

and computer scientists (7.8 percent).

Why reduce tuition for majors that, upon further review, don’t even offer the employment advantages they purport? This proposal, if brought up in California, would certainly fly in the face of the Jesuit values that are the basis of LMU. I already fear for the future of American culture. High schoolers are speed-reading SparkNotes instead of digesting novels; their brains are decaying from “Jersey Shore” instead of thriving through “Breaking Bad.” College is the time and place where I evolved from an undeveloped juvenile into a free-thinking adult. As an English major, I was exposed to enlightening literature that shaped me into my current cognitive form. But had there been incentive for me to eschew English, who knows what major I would’ve undertaken? Who knows if I’d be the same person I am today?

Universities are microcosms of societies: In both cases, diversity – especially in celebrating a wide range of trades for a wide range of people – helps distinguish the best ones from the worst. We should all be given equal opportunities for self-actualization. We should all embrace our diversity and reject incentive-driven conformity.

We should all choose our desired majors, tackle our desired classes and pursue our desired vocations without having to pay more than our peers.

So, no: not all majors are created equal. But as Florida could soon be apprised, that’s a blessing – not a curse.

This is the opinion of Brian Leigh, a senior screenwriting major from Glen Head, New York . Please send comments to jdemes@theloyolan.com.

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK Majestic mountains, glistening glaciers, pristine lakes – this place isn’t heaven, but it sure comes close. Glacier National Park in northern Montana is the most beautiful place I have ever been. Whether outdoor activities are your forte or you prefer the peace and quiet, this destination is a must-see for people of all ages.

Located deep in the mountains, Glacier National Park is a reminder of the beauty of the old United States and acts as a nice change-of-pace from the hustle and bustle of city life.There are two options to stay within the park: Lake McDonald and Swiftcurrent Lake.

By Dan Raffety Lake McDonald is better for a longer stay because it offers more activiAsst. Managing Editor ties to participate in: kayaking, river rafting, boat cruises, ziplining, horseback riding – the list goes on and on.

Swiftcurrent Lake is a quieter destination, perfect for hiking on well-maintained trails or reading a great book on a balcony overlooking snow-capped mountains reflecting off the clearest blue lake. It’s paradise.

No matter where you decide to stay within Glacier National Park, one thing is a must: the Red Bus Tour. This daily activity can range from a half-day to a full-day trip that takes you all around the park, giving history and interesting information about the beautiful scenery and its relationship to the people who used to inhabit the land.

Because of its remote location, getting to Glacier National Park is not a non-stop flight from LAX. The easiest way to get there is to stop over in Salt Lake City or Denver and take a connecting flight to Kalispell, Mont., which is right outside the park. If you want a little more adventure, there is an Amtrak station outside the park. If road trips are your thing, like they are mine, log onto Google Maps and enjoy. It will realistically take you two to three days driving to get there from Los Angeles.

The park is only open during the summer months because during the rest of the year, roads within the park are closed due to too much snow.

Glacier National Park is the perfect place for a “wanna get away” moment. It will provide a relaxing environment that you will be sure never to forget.

One of the beauties of adulthood is the ability to travel. Here are some recommendations by Loyolan staffers both domestically and internationally.

MASSACHUSETTS I’ve been to 38 of the 50 states in this country, driven across the nation three times and visited 11 countries, including the USA. But the place I recommend LMU students visit is the place I call home: Massachusetts.

One thing that’s become clear to me during my four years in Los Angeles is the many ways in which the two coasts are about as different as foreign countries.

Unlike the steady temperatures of Southern California, Massachusetts experiences extreme highs and

By Adrien Jarvis lows – from unbelievably hot summer days to frostbite, Editor in Chief with everything in between. I find that the hardest time to be away from home is during the fall, when I know the leaves are changing color, my friends are going apple picking (yes, for fun – I’ve been asked before) and the temperature is below the high 70s L.A has to offer.

There’s also something to be said for seeing where a lot of what’s covered in U.S. history books actually happened – the start of the Revolutionary War, the Salem Witch Trials and the Boston Tea Party all took place in the Bay State, commemorated by various museums and tourist attractions. I am originally from Bedford – a small town between Concord and Lexington – which is the area where the U.S. militia first fired on British troops. Let me tell you, those towns love to amp up being the locale of “the shot heard ‘round the world,” and it’s entertaining to see people in colonial garb walking around every weekend.

For those not inclined toward history, Boston is a great sports city. The Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins all play there, with the Patriots located 40 minutes outside of Boston in Foxboro. Plus, Boston is a college city – over 30 colleges are located in the city alone, and plenty of others are throughout the rest of Massachusetts – meaning there are countless college teams to see.

All these colleges also make Boston a young city that offers a lot for the LMU age demographic. There’s good nightlife, and its public transportation system, called the“T”, makes it simple and cheap to get around the city.

Traveling within the country is often much cheaper than crossing oceans,but that doesn’t mean that the experience won’t be as interesting or different from what you are used to in L.A.

To read Asst. Managing Editor Brigette Scobas’ perspective on Kalamata, Greece, visit laloyolan.com.

AUSTIN, TEXAS

CANARY ISLANDS

A shimmering liberal oasis in the middle of a conservative desert, Austin, Texas is committed to keeping itself weird. I had the distinct pleasure of growing up in Austin, and by far my favorite part of living there was the local hot spots.

More than anything else, I’d recommend a trip to South Congress, which is a strip of boutiques and restaurants for everyone from hipster to hippie. Highlights include Big

By Kevin O’Keeffe Top, the candy shop kids can only dream of, and Home Slice, which has the best pizza in town.

Managing Editor Beyond South Congress, I love going to Barton Springs in Zilker Park, a pool known for its bracingly cold water. Just down the street from the Springs is Chuy’s, a Tex-Mex restaurant which offers a creamy jalapeño dip – you haven’t lived until you’ve tasted it. In the summer, the Sno Beach truck sells the best shaved ice in Texas to help you beat the heat.

After the sun goes down, the bars of Sixth Street fill up with rowdy crowds and great local music. If you’re looking for something a little less mainstream (you hipster), you can go across town to East Austin, where an indie art scene has cropped up, or to the University of Texas campus to Spiderhouse, the best coffee shop/bar hybrid I’ve had the pleasure of visiting.

More than anything else, Austin is full of character and proud of its quirks. It’s impossible to describe all the best things about it so briefly, but with the sights and sounds of this sampling, you can get a taste for what makes my hometown so great.

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When I traveled to the Canary Islands of Spain for my spring break sophomore year,I didn’t know what to expect.

Honestly, I just hoped for a dry visit to the islands off the coast of Africa.Let me say that my visit was 93 percent dry – and an unbelievable experience.

While I only stayed on the island of Tenerife, there was plenty to do in the town of Puerto de la Cruz.Visit the beautiful black sand beaches, but don’t forget to apply (and reapply) your sunscreen! Take a walk around the picturesque

By Nathan Dines downtown and your memory card will be full in minutes.

Sports Editor There is also a zoo and a casino, but only go if you feel like spending a few extra bucks.

An insider tip, though, is to rent a car and traverse the island. A full day would lead to a healthy amount of exploration and could include a trip to the more touristy, southern side of the island or impressive views of the island from the mountains located at the center.

In Puerto,there are also local water polo and soccer teams,if you want a taste of the local culture. And make your time count there, because I can guarantee your time will fly by, though not on the backs of canaries – there aren’t any. Please don’t get your hopes up.

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BUDAPEST, HUNGARY When I studied abroad last semester in Florence, Prague was constantly hailed as the Eastern European hotspot. While Prague is a fantastic city in its own right, the underrated gem of Eastern Europe is Budapest, Hungary.

Like many cities in Eastern Europe, a strange, dichotomous feeling pervades the city: the identity struggle between its communist past and the adjustment to democracy. Yet Budapest has a distinctive past that separates it from many of these other cities. Up until 1873, the city

By Katherine Douhit was divided into two towns, Buda and Pest.

Copy Editor Standing on a bridge on the Danube River that divides these onceseparate towns, the physical difference between the two is astonishingly obvious. Luscious hills and greenery fill the postcard-esque Buda, while Pest highlights the industrialization and urbanization that speaks to the Communist era and the modern era.

Besides these historical fascinations and the vibrant nightlife (I recommend Sziget Klub on Margaret Island in the middle of the Danube River), the best part of Budapest is the bathhouse scene – especially if you visit when the weather is nice and can frequent one that has both indoor and outdoor pools. At first, I pictured a bunch of creepy, old Hungarian men at an indoor pool. In reality, Széchenyi Uszoda, the bathhouse we frequented two days in a row, was more like a spa resort, with hot spring minerals filling the water instead of chlorine. There were numerous pools in varying sizes and temperatures, giving plenty of options to explore, not to mention the sauna and massages available. My friend and I got an hour-long couple’s massage – it was cheaper than two separate massages – all for the low price of $40 each.

If you want a destination that is not as touristy as most big European cities, boasts a unique and intriguing history, does not include a hefty price tag – Hungary is on the forint and not the Euro (one forint equals .0035 euro; 1 euro equals approximately .285 forint) – and offers both fun and relaxation, Budapest is your hotspot.

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MUSANDAM, OMAN Fjords. They’re probably not the first things that come to mind when you think of the Middle East.

Take a trip to Musandam Peninsula in Oman, however, and you will be enthralled by the breathtaking vistas and the untouched serenity of the “Fjords of the Middle East.”

Oman as a whole is one of the betBy Zaneta Pereira News Editor ter kept secrets of the Middle East, often overshadowed by its flashy neighbor Dubai, but Musandam is where those in the know head for their weekends off.

The beauty of the area lies in the dramatic contrast between the rugged, imposing Hajar mountains and the glassy turquoise water and is best experienced from the decks of one of the numerous traditional fishing vessels, called dhows. Book an early morning cruise and even the most traveled of you will be awestruck as you speed alongside cavorting dolphins in the shadow of the cliffs.

While the dolphins are not guaranteed to come out and play, the waters around the peninsula are virtually teeming with them and in all my trips out there, they’ve never failed to dart alongside the boats and put on an acrobatic display of flips and twirls.

Musandam is only a little over two hours by car away from Dubai or six hours by car from Oman’s capital Muscat, both of which have major international airports.

A far cry from the typical notion of the deserts and wealth of the Middle East, Musandam is a safe place of quiet beauty where you can discover a side to the region that few outsiders experience.

NEW ZEALAND

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The beauty and majesty of New Zealand is incomparable. While cities like Auckland and Wellington are nice, one truly has to escape everything and roam the wide open green hills of the countryside to feel like a true Kiwi. The Bay of Islands is a small coastal town nestled amongst a large collection of islands. Sailing through the maze of islands, one can take in the clear blue ocean water and swim with the dolphins native to the region. Despite the cold water in winter, the area is great for snorkeling year round. The collection of undersea life is extraordinary and is a great way to hop from island to island.

However, taking short hikes to the tops of any of the great islands in the region will provide you with a breathtaking view. Upon walking to the top, I was standing in knee-high green grass overlooking the far reaches of the Pacific

By Christopher James Ocean, the coast of New Zealand and the most majestic collection of remote islands that looked like a beach paradise. If only I had an early typewriter, I could have been a marooned writer lost at sea from an old movie.

A&E Editor The quaint town is also great, with nooks and crannies nestling great waterfalls and a variety of sundry shops that sell remnants of animals important to the indigenous Maori culture such as whale bones.

While studying abroad, I found this to be the most rewarding venture in my time. The chance to do sailing in such a stunning location and be as far removed from the world I knew was an exhilarating experience. For someone who considers their cell phone almost an appendage and gets anxiety over not receiving email, I was suprised to feel I could not have been more at ease away from the world, nestled amongst the greenery of the Bay of Islands.

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The Tour de Force of French musicians in America E

ver since I witnessed the divine greatness of Justice’s live set for the first time at Coachella 2012, I vowed that nothing would ever stop me from seeing the group perform at least one more time over the course of its tour. I fulfilled this promise precisely two Saturdays ago, at the HARD Day of the Dead music festival at L.A. State Historic Park.

There I was, waiting for Justice to come on, questioning the strength of my dedication to the French duo as I stood amongst a Sound Check dense crowd of sweaty, drugged-out ravers.

By Mary Grace As I slowly struggled Cerni to wiggle my way toA&E Intern wards a spot with a perfect view of the stage, one of the gentlemen I squeezed by struck up a conversation with me. He told me it was his first time seeing Justice, and I told him his face was going to melt. As we were on the topic of face-melting DJs, a few names were thrown around, including Daft Punk, Madeon and SebastiAn. As we discussed the old and new school leg-

ends of electronic dance music (EDM), we came to an unforeseen realization that most of the DJs we talked about, including Justice, came out of France.

Anyone who considers themselves to be a music enthusiast/sleuth/aficionado should come to realize that French musicians are awesome. When considering Europe’s music contributions as a whole, however, it is so easy to be distracted by the profound influence of England. England’s campaign of domination over the rock music scene began with the formation of The Beatles and has not stopped since. In fact, Brit folk phenomenon Mumford & Sons last year held the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 Albums list. England has and will continue to produce tons of noteworthy rock talent for years to come, but that is to be expected (after all, they don’t have to deal with any language barrier issues). More power to the Brits, but it should be known that just across the English Channel, true innovation is at work.

Over the course of the past 15 years, France has produced a variety of unique and influential EDM and rock artists that have reached superstardom in the states. Any survey of French music icons should start with the DJ; without a doubt, the French know

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Anthony Gonzalez, a member of the band M83, is a part of the French revolution sweeping the music industry.Their hit single,“Midnight City,”was No. 5 on the Billboard Alternative chart.

Senior goes to new heights in thesis film Student Spotlight

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enior film production major Jes Bickhart is taking on a tall order for his senior thesis, “Top of the Rock.”

Set in 1932 Manhattan, the story centers around the “rivet gangs” of New York City who worked tirelessly to build the now famous skyline. Eight hundred feet above cement, these men faced many dangers on the job that they could not turn away for fear of being replaced by the hordes of unemployed workers, and the breadlines that would await them. Contributor Hannah Stone sat down with Bickhart to discuss the inspiration for his film, along with its themes, cast and the success he believes the production will generate.

Hannah Stone (HS): Where did you get the inspiration for your film?

Jes Bickhart (JB): The Great Depression has fascinated me since I was a young child.

There aren’t many people alive today who lived through the Depression, but there is so much history with it, and I believe there is a way to tell a new side to the immigration story. The plot and set is based specifically off a picture that photographer Charles Ebbets took in 1932 of 11 iron workers enjoying their lunch break atop a girder on the 69th floor of the then-rising Rockefeller Center.

HS: How do you plan to capture the effect of being so far above ground? Will there be a lot of special effects involved?

JB: There will be some use of the green screen, but we have an amazing man working during production and in post. His name is Richard Taylor, and he’s actually the guy that worked on the original “Tron” movie, so we’re really lucky to have him. Thanks to a generous Panavision New Film Maker Grant, we will be shooting the film on the highest caliber digital camera around, the RED EPIC, with 5K resolution and the best lenses available. To get the feel for the height and epic scale of the building we want to portray, we plan to shoot in a 2.4 aspect ratio.

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The 1932 photo “Lunch atop a Skyscraper”

by Charles Ebbets served as inspiration for Bickhart’s thesis film and this sculpture.

HS: What is the most important thing to you as a director?

JB: The number one thing you, as the director, have control over is the acting. It’s the only thing I feel you can fully control. Thankfully, we have a great cast and crew made up of leaders, friends and industry professionals.

Playing one of the iron workers, we’ve got Todd Duffrey who was the “flair” guy in “Office Space.” We’re still trying to find our male lead to play Des Friel. We’ve actually been in talks with Sean Astin (“Lord of the Rings”), who is very interested in the project, but nothing is official.

HS: What do you see in the future for the project?

JB: We plan on going through the film festival process, and we’ve got to win in any “Best of…” category before Oct. 31 of next year to be considered for the Oscar longlist. Beyond that, agents are going to start seeing this film and what my work is like. This project has got to be representative of the kind of movies that I plan to make in the future, and I think it does that well with its themes of trust, brotherhood and forgiveness that resonate with a universal audience and embody the filmmaker that I am.

For more information about Bickhart’s film, visit his website: topoftherockmovie.com.

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Music from French bands is taking over our iPods. Bands such as Daft Punk, Phoenix and Justice are French bands finding popularity in American culture. electronic music. In the late ‘90s, French DJs Daft Punk changed the EDM game when they released their first album, “Homework.” They were arguably the pioneers of the fusion of funk and hip hop into electronic music. Daft Punk’s revolutionary style has defined the musical direction of many EDM artists like MSTRKRFT, Skrillex and Diplo.

French electronic outfit Justice has also broken ground with its unique, funky anthem-rock style. Since the release of its debut album “Cross,” Justice has been nominated for four GRAMMYs, made it to several “best albums” lists in the music blogosphere and even headlined Coachella. If you ever get the privilege to see Justice live – an experience I highly recommend – you will see why the group has achieved such high acclaim.

Justice knows how to captivate an audience; unlike most DJs, they actually put on a show and engage the crowd instead of allowing their listeners to get lost in a mindlessly repetitive 4/4 tempo. Some other excellent French electronic artists that have quickly risen to popularity in the U.S. are producer Breakbot and the 18-year-old dance music prodigy Madeon, who was only 17 when he played Coachella with the likes of Kaskade and Calvin Harris.

The French are not shy to the alternative

rock scene. The ambient synth rock group M83, headed by Frenchmen Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau, blew up in 2011 with its single “Midnight City.” The catchy hit was played everywhere from the radio to Victoria’s Secret commercials, and it never seemed to get old. In 2011, the song made it to the top of several alternative rock charts and undoubtedly to the top of countless college party playlists.

In my analysis, I have concluded that at least 40 percent of my favorite artists are French, and the anchor of that group would have to be the band Phoenix. The GRAMMYaward winners have created their own, truly original genre of alternative rock, and they are simply incredible.

Simply put, French rock rocks. They have contributed some of the most influential and original artists that these past two decades of modern music have seen. Go ahead, scan your playlists. You may be jamming to more French music than you think.

This is the opinion of Mary Grace Cerni, a sophomore communication studies major from West Covina, Calif.

Please send comments to mcerni@theloyolan.com.

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Video game class examines the ethics of gaming Course Spotlight

discussions about the ethics and production of the video games.

The theme of the week was ethics, as Scheibler took the lecture period of class to address questions such as: How do games function as ethical systems?

Can games be used to teach ethics? Do the ethical and moral constructs of games change between single player, multiplayers or in large gaming networks?

Students examined how each video game has an ethical construct within its world. Scheibler made a point to examine how post-apocalyptic zombie games, such as “Borderlands,” have their own version of an ethical world.

“When everything collapses you have to create new things. [Apoca-

By Christopher James A&E Editor

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ow many teachers have you had that pulled out an Xbox, PS3 and Wii from their bags rather than a hefty stack of literature?

Such is the case for students in School of Film and Television Associate Professor Susan Scheibler’s course, Analysis of Video Games (FTVS 518).

I walked down to the lower level of Von der Ahe Building to attend the class, where Scheibler’s class examines the different worlds and storytelling aspects of video games while also creating

lyptic games] work because there used to be an ethical world, but it was destroyed and there isn’t one anymore,” said Scheibler.

Some students said they see the class as a chance to learn about one of their favorite pastimes in a deeper way.

“I love video games and I wanted to know more about other video games I hadn’t played,” said senior screenwriting major Monica Farrell. “I am enthusiastic, but my knowledge was limited [about video games].”

Scheibler stressed the evolving role of a story in video games rather than just the focus on shooting and killing.

“Game developers are moving more towards story. For example, ‘Halo 4’ is doing much more things in the story of Master Chief and Katana,” said Scheibler. “As each game comes out, they do much more with the story in each one.”

Some students say they are considering a new career path after taking this class and seeing how storytelling is being built into more and more games.

“The most valuable thing I learned from this class is how games are now being created with more complicated stories and characters, so that means that game companies are now in more need of screenwriters,” said junior screenwriting major Renee Fazekas. “I’ve never thought about it before this class, but now I might be interested in writing for video games and not just film or television.”

Students were told to bring video games for this particular class so they could examine both the positive and negative ethical implications of the game. Games such as “Squeeballs Party,” which involved cooking, splatting

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In Scheibler’s classroom, pens are traded in for Wiimotes as students, such as senior political science major Collin Chersi (above), analyze video games. and killing animated creatures in various ways, were examined as the discussion turned to games in which the player is asked to do things that may go against [his or her] own ethical beliefs.

In the case of “Squeeballs Party,” Fazekas remarked that she had some friends who were so appalled by it that they were forced to leave the room when it was turned on.

Just as video games can shock and appall, they have also been doing many new things in the form of reflecting global issues and shedding light on important issues.

“It’s a new form of media that can be used in a multitude of different ways. I think there is a lot of potential in games for social awareness and education that we can explore,” said Far-

rell. “We’ve talked in class about people who design games about third world countries [with the] goal of the world [of the game] to be fun while raising awareness.”

However, while playing video games in class may sound like a blast to some, for others, the class is more than just that.

“This class is great because not only do you get to play video games at school, you also learn about the different aspects of video games, like the characters, the game world and story,” said Fazekas. “And you learn about how video games have an impact on players and culture in positive and negative ways.”

This is the opinion of Chris James, a junior screenwriting and marketing double major from Lodi, Calif. Please send comments to cjames@theloyolan.com.

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Lakers fans have reason to rejoice After a 1-4 start to their season, the L.A. Lakers are headed in a new direction.

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poiled, entitled, champagne taste and an abhorrence for the word “no.” To many, this may sound like a description of “Daddy’s little girl,” but my mind immediately thinks: Lakers fans. Now, this isn’t entirely the fans’ fault.

The purple and gold faithful (myself included) have grown accustomed to the very best – Hall of Two Plus the Foul Fame names, high winning

By Michael Goldsholl percentages, Staff Writer resident celebrity fans and most importantly, a rich championship tradition.

The team’s management has set up the expectation that they will always be the best – no matter the cost, or how implausible the trade.

There is nothing wrong with this, because that’s what great ownership does. They put a team on the court every single year that fans are going to care about – an especially hard gig to maintain in the fickle city of Los Angeles, where if there is any indication that something is no longer chic or “in,” it’ll go out of style quicker than a Cee Lo Green tracksuit.

It is this atmosphere that recently exiled Lakers coach Mike Brown failed to comprehend during his 72 regular-season games with the team. He was hired to replace Phil Jackson – the master of Zen, who

coached Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal to a combined 11 NBA titles.

Essentially, Brown was hired with the mob already lighting their torches and ready to chase him out of the city at a moment’s notice.

Brown is and was not a Los Angeles Lakers coach. He smiled too much, he had no rings of his own to boast (essentially, he wasn’t Phil Jackson.) He tried to sell the fans and media on the concept of patience.

That final note was his death card. “Patience” is a foreign word in the city of Los Angeles. People here want instant gratification.

Mike Brown wanted time. Eventually, someone was going to lose that battle. The chances weren’t in favor of the guy trying to teach Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol and Steve Nash an offense meant for teams without superstars.

Personally, I still believe Brown could have worked if he had been given the time he so desperately requested. Maybe not right now with this team, but if history proves anything, defense – the main focus of Mike Brown’s coaching philosophy – does win championships. However, Father Time is not on the Lakers’ side: At 38, 34 and 32 years of age, Nash, Bryant and Gasol aren’t getting any younger and Dwight Howard, who is expected to take the keys to the franchise during the post-Kobe era, is going to be a free agent in about seven months. This roster’s championship window has a lifespan of two years, barring catastrophic injury.

So, five games into the season, the Lakers found themselves 1-4, when everyone expected them to be 5-0, and Mike Brown quickly found himself out of a job. One game into Brown’s firing and the Lakers’ search for a new head coach, Lakers

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New Los Angeles Lakers Head Coach Mike D’Antoni (above) was brought on after the Lakers fired Head Coach Mike Brown for leading the team to a 1-4 start. fans wasted no time making their demands heard. “We want Phil!” was chanted loudly throughout STAPLES Center during the Lakers home game last Friday against the Golden State Warriors. By Saturday, meetings had been held, Jackson had been spotted at the Lakers’ practice facility and it appeared that everything was soon going to be back to normal in Tinseltown once again. But come late Sunday night and it was former Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks Head Coach Mike D’Antoni whose name was in the headlines, not Jackson’s.

Mike D’Antoni? The same guy who amassed a 101-167 record in three and a half years at the helm of the New York Knicks? The same guy who led the Phoenix Suns to four straight years of 54 wins, but couldn’t get to the NBA Finals?

While everyone complains that he’s not Phil Jackson and foresee Mike Brown all over again, there re-

mains one argument I’m surprised I haven’t heard.

Not only did the Lakers not hire the guy who has helped lead them to their last five titles, but they didn’t hire him in favor of the man who is documented in Jack McCallum’s book, “:07 Seconds or Less,” to be mocking Jackson at numerous points throughout the Phoenix Suns’ two consecutive playoff series wins over the Lakers in the mid-2000s.

It’s arguable that the D’Antonicoached Phoenix Suns have been more of a rival to the Lakers over the past 10 years than their longtime nemesis, Boston Celtics. And in less than six months, the Lakers have brought on not one (Nash), but two (Nash and D’Antoni) key components of that rival to their team.

Maybe this is more of a testament to short-term memory loss or just a superiority complex to the Suns who have no championships in their history.

Amid all of this, and despite my partiality to Jackson, I endorse the hiring of D’Antoni. And if it also means they bring in former head coach Nate McMillan as a defensive assistant coach, the deal becomes even sweeter. In addition to giving the Lakers four key cogs of the 2008 Team USA men’s basketball team (Bryant, Howard, D’Antoni and McMillan), it would create the first viable offensive and defensive coordinator coaching pairing in the NBA. A lot of D’Antoni’s success with this specific Lakers team will hinge on how Nash recovers from the stress fracture he suffered in his leg during the second game of the season. If he comes back and quickly regains form, he’ll be running an offense that gives him the option of pushing the ball up the court and having the decision of dishing to Bryant, Howard or Gasol. Because of Nash’s injury, the starting five has only been on the court together for a whopping 42:52 this season.

This is going to be a situation that Lakers fans are going to have to learn to love. If they are like me, they are going to have to learn to love the man who mocked Phil and sent us packing two straight years in the postseason. But most likely, they are just going to have to learn to love something that isn’t the triangle. They couldn’t do it in 2005, it almost worked in 2011-12 and now they’re giving it another shot five games into 2012-13.

Hopefully for the Lakers and their fans, that the third time is the charm because if not, the next 74 games are going to drag along very slowly, and Daddy knows his little girl doesn’t have time to wait.

This is the opinion of Michael Goldsholl, a senior English major from Santa Barbara, CA. Please email all comments to ndines@theloyolan.com.

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LMU Ice Hockey ‘is a team to be respected’ Ice Hockey from Page 12 other years,” said Zoeller. “For example against Long Beach, we had seven of our eight goals from different players, as opposed to a couple of years ago when we had a couple of guys who did all the scoring.”

This success isn’t just due to the greater roster depth; the Lions have also become much closer as teammates. Both McDonald and Spesak noted the difference in the Lions’ camaraderie and how that has positively affected the team.

“The chemistry we have, we all work really together. You can put any two defensemen out there, and they feed off each other,” said Spesak. “They work so well together.

Other teams I’ve ever played on, one line change and things go south, so [LMU’s players] are all just very hardworking and very in touch with

the game.”

“I think this year, the team has really gelled together well. In the past we’ve always had slow starts,” said McDonald. “This year we had a lot of guys get into it and we started out strong. And there’s a lot of chemistry out there, as you can see in the stats.”

The Lions have had a few losses, but those losses have brought up important issues they must address before moving forward. Zoeller thought that the team’s one tie – against CSU Northridge (CSUN) – should not have happened, considering they had a lead late in the game. McDonald also thought that the team’s intensity could sometimes be its own downfall.

“One problem our team has had so far is we get frustrated, especially in games where we play really well. We feel pressured if we can’t score or if things just don’t go in our favor,” said McDonald. “That leads to us taking

stupid penalties. ... I think as long as we keep our heads, don’t get frustrated with the way we’re playing and stick to our game, we should be able to close out against a lot of teams this year.”

The Lions have faced and beaten a lot of highly skilled teams this year.

With a game coming up against CSUN again, the Lions will have a chance to move up in the rankings with a win.

For McDonald, the wins are just as much about respect as they are about getting to the playoffs.

“Right now I think the ultimate goal at this point, because of our great start, is to win and show everyone that LMU is a team to be respected,” McDonald said.

The Lions’ next game is at The Skating Edge Ice Arena in Harbor City, Calif., against CSU Northridge, Saturday, Nov. 17, at 5:45 p.m.

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Sophomore transfer goalie Taylor Spesak came to LMU after a championship run with College of the Canyons last year.

‘Shooting for Home’ brings Bradshaw’s story to life Bradshaw from Page 12 by a love for the game that will forever define his life.

“I started out playing for the love of it, then it got twisted and turned – so in Israel, that’s when it came back to actually loving the game and just playing for the love of the game,” Bradshaw said.

But what is the connection: I assume you are wondering.

Why did Kappy contact me?

For Bradshaw, his defining collegiate moment will forever be linked to our campus. In Hank’s House, a year removed from Gathers’ shocking death and our historic run to the Elite Eight, Bradshaw broke what some saw as the unbreakable record – that of “Pistol” Pete

Maravich and his 69 points in one NCAA Division I game.

Although the record came in a losing effort for his United States International University (USIU) team, he will always have a connection to LMU. “We didn’t get a chance to put it in the film, but the year before, we had the opportunity to play against Hank Gathers and Bo Kimble, and we played up in San Diego that year,” Bradshaw said. “After that game they had very positive things to say to me, and so we were kind of tied to LMU – they were like our big brother, they were the guys that got all the pub[licity], the better team but they supported us, being the small school that they were. So coming into that arena the next year after Hank

had passed, it was just a special night for me.”

But Bradshaw’s name in the record books came with heavy criticism. Playing at a small school that, to add to the story, had just declared bankruptcy, Bradshaw never got the credit he deserved. Slighted by the NBA as well, his life path makes for an incredible story.

As for the meat of the documentary, I don’t want to give anything away. I just want everyone to get a taste of this wellmade look into the life of one of the NCAA’s unknown greats.

His transformation has taken many twists and turns, from a troubled childhood in Gainesville through Bethune-Cookman University, taking a pit stop on the USS McKee for a break from

the game he loved and hated before returning to the court at USIU. Playing alongside the likes of future NBA players Vernon Maxwell and David Robinson and unknown professionals in the Israeli professional leagues, Bradshaw’s road through life will never lose its connection to basketball.

And the NBA that snubbed him all those years ago? It may be time to move on from that as well.

“Being older now and seeing how life has come together for me full circle, I truly believe had I been accepted into the NBA, I wouldn’t be the person I am right now,” Bradshaw said.

The NBA of Bradshaw’s life today consists of teaching physical education, counseling and

running his “Be the Best Basketball” Clinic.

“Within the clinic, the concept is to also teach life lessons.

Not only about basketball, but it’s connecting basketball to life, taking responsibility of yourself and for your decisions,” Bradshaw said.

So pick up the phone, ESPN; everyone needs to be reminded.

We want you to take on “Shooting for Home.” Kevin Bradshaw may have stopped asking for the respect he should have received long ago, but that’s no reason to snub his story one last time. He deserves it.

This is the opinion of Nathan Dines, a senior communication studies major from Medford, Ore. Please send comments to ndines@theloyolan.com.

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Hockey chases rankings LMU Ice Hockey’s 7-3-1 record is the best start in team history, and the team looks to a top-10 ranking.

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Women face Long Beach State tonight

Junior guard Hazel Ramirez (4) and the Lions (0-2) are in search of their first win as they take on Long Beach State at home at 7 p.m. LMU has won the last 11 meetings against the 49ers. Visit laloyolan.com to read Asst. Managing Editor Dan Raffety’s recap after tonight’s game.

LMU Ice Hockey is on the cusp of great things.

After going 7-3-1, as of last Friday, and beating some of the top-ranked teams in the West, LMU’s ice hockey team is on the verge of making regional playoffs.

“At this point, this has been the best start we’ve ever had,” said senior forward and team captain Jim McDonald. “So, we have to take it to the top 10.”

General Manager Tyler Zoeller put it in a more dramatic historical perspective, saying, “We have the chance to be ranked in the top 10 for the first time ever.”

For the Lions, the top-10 teams in their region are chosen to compete in the postseason.

When the first rankings were announced, LMU was ranked No. 12 in the Western conference. However, since those rankings were announced, the Lions have taken on and beaten the No. 11 ranked team Long Beach State University (LBSU) twice.

“We’re ranked 12th in the first ranking period. Second ranking comes out right after this weekend, so this next game is real important,” said Zoeller. “Long Beach is ranked 11th, right ahead of us, but we’ve beaten them twice so we should jump over them into 11th or maybe even 10th. We’ve beaten [San Jose State University, and San Diego State Univeristy] and

those are top-10 teams. So it bodes well for us going forward.”

LMU has definitely made a case for being a top-10 team the last two weeks, after beating No. 8 San Jose State, winning 4-2, and overcoming then-ranked No. 11 Long Beach State 8-1. According to Achahockey.org, the Lions have not budged from the No. 12 spot yet, but LBSU has since dropped to No. 13.

Sophomore transfer goalie Taylor Spesak said of the team’s chances, “I feel very confident that we can jump up into the 10th spot. We have a lot of hardworking guys, a lot of talent and we seem very motivated this year, which is very good to see. So I think jumping up into the 10th spot is very possible.”

Spesak knows what he’s talking about when it comes to the postseason. The goalie went to the national championships last year with College of the Canyons. Though he had great success at the community college, Spesak decided to transfer to LMU and has since been a great asset to the team.

“Having him here has been a real boost,” said Zoeller. “Thanks to him and [junior goalie Vittorio Banez], we can really trust those two to shut it down. Taylor has done a great job helping win some big games, and he has some big wins under his belt.”

The solid defensive play from Spesak and the rest of the team has helped the team pour on the offense. McDonald is leading the team with 22 overall points, but plenty of other Lions have been able to find the net, leading to a more balanced offense.

“The team is certainly the most talented throughout the ranks. It’s much deeper than

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Basketball’s greatest unknown talent

“Shooting for Home” tells the story of one of NCAA basketball’s most prolific, yet unheard-of, players.

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SPN, there’s a call on line one. Don’t leave Kevin Bradshaw hanging.

What would you say to the man who could shoot a basketball with ease, setting the NCAA Division I scoring record in a single game with 72 points in 1991 against LMU and an ungodly 101 points with an Israeli professional team in 1993? If you even knew who he was, that is. Because for Bradshaw, his life has come full circle. A life heavy with fame and notoriety as a young prodigy has transformed into a humble life free of Droppin’ Dines regret today.

“You hear people say,

By Nathan Dines ‘I wouldn’t be the perSports Editor son I am if I hadn’t went through that,’ so knowing where I’ve come from and the things I’ve been through, and knowing some of my friends and people that I surround myself with in the past, … I’m happy where I am,” Bradshaw said.

And that happiness is oh so clear.

Last Saturday, I was invited to the All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival’s screening of “Shooting for Home.” Greg Kappy, a teammate of Bradshaw’s in Gainesville, Fla. at Buchholz High, made this documentary about his life.

Kappy was like most, falling out of touch with Bradshaw since their high school basketball days, but he took a shot in the dark – and ended up with a story worth telling to the world.

“Thirty years later, I was one of those people that thought, ... ‘That guy’s got to be dead,’ so when he called me on the phone, it was almost like a ghost was calling,” Kappy said.

Kappy spent six months talking to Bradshaw about his story, all the while trying to absorb his tantalizing life. He had a good idea of the flow of the documentary, no matter how some interviews may have changed the narrative, but the trouble came down to the “so what.” What’s the hook? The answer came from Bradshaw’s time in Israel.

“What it came down to was it was about Kevin’s love for his wife and how meeting this woman changed him forever,” Kappy said.

“And it was funny, the story was right in front of us the whole time, but it just took us all getting together to figure it out.”

It was this time in Israel that helped complete Bradshaw’s life transformation, with a little help from basketball, love, newborn life and the threat of suicide – all brought together

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During one of the high points in Kevin Bradshaw’s (bottom left) basketball career,he played on the All-Navy team, joined by NBA great David Robinson (15) before Robinson played with the Spurs.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL UPDATE LONG BEACH STATE VS. LMU

The women’s basketball team (0-2) returns home to face the Long Beach State 49ers tonight at 7 p.m. in Gersten Pavilion. This is the first home game this season for the Lions.

The team is coming off a winless road trip in El Paso, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico against the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and New Mexico State University, respectively. Despite losing both contests, the Lions played much better in their second game than their first of the season. The Lions got blown out by the UTEP Miners 79-51, never getting close to leading in their season opener, but drastically improved in the second contest despite dropping a heartbreaking overtime game 77-76 to the Aggies of New Mexico State, in which they led by four points with under two minutes to play.

“I liked our intensity in the second half [of the UTEP

game],” said Head Coach Charity Elliott. “In the first half, we played too much one-on-one basketball, and that’s not going to work against a well-experienced team.”

The Lions forced 18 turnovers in the game versus the Aggies with Elliott’s aggressive defense strategy.

Junior guard Hazel Ramirez (pictured above) led the club with 20 points and five assists; redshirt senior forward Alex Cowling recorded a double-double, scoring 15 points, and pulling down 10 rebounds.

“I was really impressed with our effort, and I feel bad for our kids because they laid it all out of the floor,” said Elliott. “We will be alright and we will learn from this loss.”

Lions other than Cowling and Ramirez have contributed to the stat sheet so far this season as well.

Junior forward/center Mackenzie Kerins is averaging nine points and 7.5 rebounds for the first two games,

and junior center Alexis Love is averaging nine points with five rebounds. Sophomore guard Taylor Anderson forced four of the team’s 18 steals in Monday’s contest.

LMU looks to continue the momentum into their home opener against the 49ers (1-1), who are coming off a 60-58 loss against Iona University on Monday, Nov. 12. The Lions dominated the last meeting against Long Beach State on Nov. 15, 2010, defeating the nonconference rivals 74-43, in which the Lions scored the first 26 points of the game.

“This is a journey,” said Elliott. “We need to get better every single day, and I reminded the team that things are not going to get better right away. But if we give the proper effort, we will be on the right side of a lot of games.”

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