ESTABLISHED 1921 September 5, 2013
Volume 92, Issue 02
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Neighbors leave angry notes on parked cars LMU administration continues to host community relations meetings to work on parking solutions. By Allison Croley News Editor
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As students, faculty and staff continue to park outside the Loyola Blvd. entrance to avoid the new parking permit fees, LMU neighbors are getting increasingly angry. During the last week, the Loyolan received several photos of notes neighbors left on cars. For more on parking and neighbors’ reactions, read the Board Editorial on Page 6.
While walking to class after parking outside the back gate, senior English major Galen Gomez was stopped by a woman handing out fliers. When Gomez declined to take the flier, the woman called her a foul name, according to Gomez. The next day, Gomez found the phrase “NO LMU” written on her car parked on Gonzaga Ave. on Wednesday, Aug. 28. Every car parked along the street was also vandalized. “I understand that the neighbors are upset that their usual spots are being taken by us students,” Gomez told the Loyolan in an email. “But as far as I know these streets are public parking, so I don’t feel like I should be harassed for not breaking any rules.” This is one example of a seemingly increasing number of confrontations that involve the LMU community and surrounding Westchester neighborhood. Over the past week, the Loyolan has received several photos of notes left on the cars of LMU students, staff and faculty, as well as several other tips about disgruntled neighbors, including messages written directly onto cars and houses. After the University instituted the parking permit fee last semester, students, faculty and staff started parking outside the Loyola Blvd. entrance in order to escape the fee. As a result, some of the surrounding community is upset with the numerous cars parked in front of their houses. However, the notes make clear that this unsettled dispute has escalated. “The community is getting fed up with LMU’s parking problems, the new lights on the soccer field, the ongoing disturbances of peace by students and LMU’s lack of effort to stop the problems,” wrote Andre Ingistov, an LMU neighbor, in an email to the Loyolan. “We are rallying our troops in the community and we are prepared to take action.” In addition to notes on cars and banners on houses, this action includes a Neighborhood
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New Core includes First Year Seminars
Instead of taking English 110, freshmen students now from a variety of seminar-style courses. By Ali Swenson Asst. News Editor
With the onset of classes this year comes the introduction of the First Year Seminar, a new mandatory course for freshmen as part of the recently reconfigured undergraduate Core curriculum. Danelle Dyckhoff Stelzriede, administrative coordinator of the University Core Curriculum, outlined the goal of the new, three-unit seminar, which replaces the college writing course that was previously required for freshmen. “The course is designed to introduce entering freshmen to the academic culture of the university by providing them the opportunity to work in seminar-style classes
with a disciplinary faculty, a writing instructor, and members of the library staff,” she said in an email to the Loyolan. Focusing on information literacy, each new seminar uses library sessions and online modules to familiarize students with college-level research, according to Dyckhoff Stelzriede. Each class also requires a minimum volume of pages written by each student, according to Dermot Ryan, English professor of “Passing and Slumming: Crossing Lines in Literature and Film,” one of the seminars offered. In order to guide students through this, writing instructors and faculty members co-teach the students and work collaboratively to support them through drafting and revision.
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Glow once again kicks off fall semester with a bang Students filled Burns Back Court last Friday to start the semester with Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity’s annual Glow dance. This event is traditionally the first time freshmen can get acquainted with Greek Life. For more photos, check out our Facebook page.
Index Classifieds.............................4 Opinion.........................6 A&E................................8 Sports..............................12 The next issue of the Loyolan will be printed on Sept. 9, 2013.
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