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Reports of peeping Toms resurface Recent reports of a peeping Tom have raised concerns in the off-campus student community. Matt Gaydos Managing Editor @LALoyolan
LMU students living off campus in the Westchester area are again reporting peeping Tom incidents, as recent as last Wednesday at 10:30 p.m, according to a post in the newly founded LMU Student Watch Facebook Group. Students living off campus have formed the Facebook group, in response to an increase in peeping Tom reports this semester, according to the first post. The last incident reported in the Facebook group on October 11 included a photo of the alleged assailant — who has matched previous descriptions of a middle aged man with dark hair and facial hair — from a security camera. “The first incident was last winter, but the cameras caught him walking around our yard and peering into peoples windows. Since then, we have installed even more cameras,” Nikki Rathbone, a senior marketing and women in gender studies double major, said. Rathbone and her roommates believe the alleged peeping Tom turned cameras around to face the wall, showing he knew where their cameras were located. Kasey Sobierajski, a senior communications studies major who also lives in the Westchester area, came face to face with the alleged assailant when she and her roommate were coming home from dinner. According to Sobierajski, they saw him lurking in their backyard and quickly called LAPD. Sobierajski said the man was gone by the time LAPD arrived.
LMU students in houses in Weschester have been reporting sightings of a peeping Tom and have provided pictures of a suspect. Students have also contacted the Department of Public Safety (DPS) in regards to the peeping Tom incidents, who said there was not much they could do besides taking a report on the incident. At their meeting with DPS, Sobierajski said they were told that “[DPS] can’t tend to things like that off campus for a few reasons.” The reasons DPS gave were not wanting to interfere with law enforcement, not having enough officers to patrol off campus and officers not being armed to deal with any life threatening situations, according to Sobierajski. “LMU Public Safety does not have enforcement jurisdiction in the neighborhood, so we cannot respond to inprogress calls or provide safety patrols off-
campus,” Chief of Public Safety Hampton Cantrell told the Loyolan in an email. According to Chief Cantrell, DPS responds to off campus complaints of any student parties or disruptive behavior for purely administrative reasons — not to enforce any ordinances. He says that these responses are based off of an agreement with the city and neighborhood surrounding LMU’s campus. Chief Cantrell and DPS advise that LMU students living off campus report any suspicious behavior to the LAPD if they want enforcement action and after give DPS a notification of the incident. According to Chief Cantrell, this is so the University “can then follow-up with LAPD about trends and safety recommendations.” Rathbone believes the problem is that
LAPD has not been fast enough in responding to their reports of the peeping Tom. “Because the guy has never tried to break in, it essentially isn’t a priority for them,” Rathbone said. “They have been cooperative in listening to us and obtaining details, but our frustration lies in them not sending out cars or officers to us when we call shortly after seeing the peeping Tom.” ASLMU President Hayden Tanabe told the Loyolan that he has met with Senior Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Lane Bove and Dean of Students Dr. Jeannie Ortiz this week and is planning to meet with Chief Cantrell soon. Tanabe plans to comment about what he and the LMU community would like to happen after that meeting.
J. Royer honored with theatre award The ATHE playwriting award will be named after LMU professor Judith Royer. Kayan Tara
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“Collaborators in Creation” praises LMU’s global progress LMU’s 16th president Timothy Law Snyder presented his second convocation address titled “Collaborators in Creation” on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 11:30 a.m. in Sacred Heart Chapel. In his address, Snyder praised LMU’s recent achievements, including the Playa Vista campus, increased diversity in tenured faculty, a newly restructured market and communications organization and record breaking number of applicants. Snyder also stressed inclusivity and openness to creativity and imagination, instead of only the logical and the observable to increase interdiciplinary thought and problem—solving collaborative creativity. “Together, let us resolve to create with purpose and with boundless energy and copious joy on this bluff and beyond the definitive center for global imagination as collaborations in creation,” Snyder said.
After over 35 years as a Theater Arts professor at LMU, Judith Royer, is receiving the honor of having a playwriting award re-named after her. The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) will now annually give out the Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award. Royer has previously been honored by ATHE, in 2008, with the Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education Award and is currently the Director for LMU’s Center for CSJ Reconciliation and Justice and the director/producer for the Playwrights Center Stage new play series. ATHE, a nonprofit organization founded in 1986, serves to support and develop theatre education at colleges and universities, working with administrators, educators, graduate students and theatre practitioners. As a founding member of the organization, Royer was a part of the team that founded the excellence in playwriting award, originally called the ATHE Award for Excellence in Playwriting. “I didn’t know they were thinking of putting somebody’s name on the award, which they do once in a while, so it did
come as a complete surprise,” said Royer. “I’m really proud of being part of the award because [it supports] playwrights. Without new plays, we begin to be historians or a library of past plays all of which is wonderful but we’re not adding to the field.” According to Royer, simply studying works of the past is not enough. She hopes this award will help break the cycle of focusing solely on old plays by supporting playwrights and helping them develop and promote their new plays. Actively supporting new playwrights and their plays has always been extremely important to Royer, because “in this day and age, productions and publication of new plays is so difficult. This award is really significant in that it gets new plays out there.” Along with the recognition, the recipient of the award in playwriting receives a staged reading of their play at the conference where the awards are given out. The conference holds producers and theatre educators who could potentially produce the annual recipient’s new work of art, according to Royer. Playwrights and Creative Teams Focus Group (PACT) representative Rodger D. Sorenson proposed that the ATHE Award for Excellence in Playwriting be named after Royer. The letter proposed that through this act ATHE would be recognizing Royer for the significant impact she has had upon educational and professional theatre in America. See Playwriting | Page 3