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The "You've Got This" wellness initiative hosted its first weekly "Wellness Wednesday" on Oct. 2 to provide relaxation and wellness information for students. The program hosted vendors selling produce and other goods. Multiple groups on campus are participating in the initiative including SPS, FitWell Personal Training, EMS, the Food Pantry and more.

Speaker defends pro-life views at YAF event Pro-life activist Lila Rose calls abortion a "human rights issue."

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The Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) club hosted speaker Lila Rose, a pro-life activist, in Roski’s Dining Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The event, titled “Planned Parenthood Exposed,” centered around abortion.

“This is the greatest human rights issue facing our country today,” said Rose in the introduction of her speech. Following a thank you to YAF and to LMU for hosting her, Rose went into arguments against abortion.

Rose said that when she was 18, she went undercover as an underage sexual assault victim to Planned Parenthood to see how they would react. Since then, she has amassed a large following as founder and president of Live Action, a media outlet that reports on stories surrounding abortion that “the mainstream media often refuses to cover,” according to their website.

During her speech, Rose addressed some of the opposing views in favor of abortion — like in cases of rape that lead to pregnancy.

Rose responded to this argument asking whether “the child deserve[s] the death penalty for the crimes of their father.”

Rose stated that she agrees with the prochoice argument of "my body my choice" to a certain extent.

“This is my body and I can make decisions about my body, but I can’t use my body to harm someone else’s body,” said Rose.

According to the Live Action website, in addition to abortion, Rose’s activism

centers around “inspiring a culture that respects all human life.” When asked if she considered her activism feminist work, Rose answered that by modern feminist standards, it is not. She stated that the original feminists were “almost all prolife,” and that they argued that abortion is violence against women and children.

“Today’s feminism is in some ways totally detached from original feminism because it’s arguing for the very thing that some of the original feminists fought against. It's arguing for abortion as somehow empowerment, it’s arguing for the killing of our children,” said Rose. “I’m really disgusted by modern feminism and what it's done to distort the original feminist vision.”

The audience consisted of students on both sides of the issue. Mikaela Adams, a freshman management major, said that she attended because every living being has a dignity of life that needs to be upheld.

“Imagine if you were on the other end of something horrible, like abortion,” said Adams. “It’s really hard to stand up for people who don’t have a voice.”

After Rose concluded her talk, she opened the floor to questions from the audience. The pro-life speaker encouraged the pro-choice members of the audience to come forward and engage in dialogue.

One such member of the audience, Brion Dennis, a sophomore finance major, took the floor to ask Rose how the two sides, both prolife and pro-choice, were to find common ground when both were misrepresenting facts to support their own argument.

Rose stated that the two could attempt to find common ground right then. She began by asking Dennis if they could agree

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Lila Rose spoke at LMU on Oct. 1. Rose is a pro-life activist, founder of Live Action and host of the podcast "The Lila Rose Show." that all humans deserve human rights, to which Dennis agreed. As the conversation continued, Dennis argued that the embryo in the womb, though it would eventually become human, was not yet human and instead a “clump of cells.”

“Are they human cells? Do they have human parents? So you’re saying that in the womb there is a clump of cells with human parents but they are not human,” said Rose.

“So are they cat [cells]?”

Dennis stated that the dialogue had “eventually ... turned into this back and forth of her asking me questions that ... I can’t answer because I am not a scientist.”

Rose and Dennis moved on from the logistics of pregnancy to disputing a quote Rose had used in her speech from Margaret Sanger — the birth control activist who founded Planned Parenthood.

During this discussion, another member of the audience in the front row turned and shouted at the pro-choice sophomore.

“A girl who was in the audience decided to scream at me about a point that I was correct on about ... how there is a quote from Margaret Sanger that was misquoted [in Rose’s speech] and she yelled at me about how it’s actually real [that] Sanger wanted to kill black children,” said Dennis.

When asked to verify if the person who engaged with Rose and Dennis was an LMU student, YAF offered no comment.

“Even though I had a bad experience with a person who was there and I didn’t feel like my question was answered, I think it is still important to go to these events,” said Dennis.

“At the end of the day, we need to try to understand each other as much as possible.”

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n light of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, let’s take this opportunity to hone our understanding of the disease and its impact on patients.

Kate Pickert, an assistant professor of English and journalism at LMU, wrote about the popular misconceptions of breast cancer as well as her personal experience with the disease in her recently published book “Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America.”

Pickert illustrates how many common misunderstandings of breast cancer in the U.S. come from decades-long conflicts between doctors, interest groups and government officials in order to provide information useful for their specific concerns rather than providing evidence-based information.

Take mammograms, for instance.

While the current guidelines from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommend women between 50 and 74 years old get screened every two years, past proposals, as explained by Pickert in “Radical,” were closer to annual screenings for women starting in their 40s.

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Pickert goes on to explain in her book that radiologists with a vested interest in screenings, along with politicians like President Bill Clinton and later Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), argued against looser guidelines to ensure early cancer detection would be possible.

But mammograms aren’t perfect, nor does having them in your 30s or 40s mean your odds of catching a tumor are any lower. The chance of getting a false positive mammogram in the United States (around 9.5%) is higher than the chance of a 30-year-old woman in the United States developing breast cancer (0.5%), according to Pickert.

Outside of the health care problems associated with breast cancer, there’s also the issue of how breast cancer gets capitalized on without serious attention as to how this can hurt breast cancer patients.

Pinkwashing, as defined by The Washington Post, is the practice of a company decking out a product in pink colors or pink ribbons while also selling other breast cancer-causing products.

Some examples of pinkwashing in the past, according to Bust, Breast Cancer Action (BCA) and the Huffington Post, respectively, have included a pink Delta Airlines plane, 5-Hour Energy pink lemonade drinks and even pink firearms (although, contrary to popular belief, that last product was not endorsed by the organization Susan G. Komen).

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The myths and misconceptions surrounding breast cancer can cause real harm to the disease’s victims. Many educational resources can help combat this misinformation.

This year, BCA, the group that originally named the concept of pinkwashing, launched a campaign against 3M marketing pink Post-it notes that BCA argues contain chemicals that may increase the chance of breast cancer.

I have argued in a previous article for the Loyolan that so-called woke capitalism isn’t as bad as some people suggest, but that’s only true if the consumer actually learns more about important issues from these products.

However, pinkwashing isn’t educational in the slightest, and it shouldn’t be controversial to call out companies for

peddling carcinogens under the name of a social justice cause.

The greatest resource that people can utilize this Breast Cancer Awareness Month doesn’t need to be painted pink to inform them about the disease’s complicated politics. Direct education, whether it be through reading “Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America,” looking up trusted sources online or talking to your doctor about what best suits your individual health needs, is better than any pink ribbon Post-it.

Pickert mentioned in her book how the Women Informed to Screen Depending on Measures of Risk (WISDOM) study led by Dr. Laura J. Esserman was initially funded with a $14.1 million federal grant through the Affordable Care Act. As the U.S. rolls into its next election season, the conversation around health care policy will also be important, as future screening guidelines and funding for studies relating to breast cancer will be partially determined by whoever wins the election in 2020.

The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) asked all the presidential candidates to endorse their policy platform, which includes Medicaid expansion in conjunction with other federal research programs to cover treatment for more low-income women diagnosed with breast cancer.

All the Democratic candidates, barring Wayne Messam, Mayor of Miramar, Florida, and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), have endorsed the platform, while all four Republican candidates have yet to do the same, according to the NBCC. Whatever the future holds, there is certainly a lot that we have to learn and share with others if we want to truly understand breast cancer.

This is the opinion of Cristobal Spielmann, a sophomore environmental science major from Brentwood, Tennessee. Tweet comments @LALoyolan, or email editor@theloyolan.com.

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Students work on the thesis of senior film and television production major Leilani Reyes. All around campus, seniors from the School of Film and Television are beginning production for what will be their last films in the program. Aspiring filmmakers often use these theses to pitch feature-length films to producers after they graduate.

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Young Patriots for Freedom’s Hypocrite of the Year award presented to Rila Loades

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Rila Loades was such an amazing HY award winner the organization was enraged that they couldn’t live up to her standards.

Rila Loades, pro-lifer, caught receiving services from Planned Parenthood.

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Last week, Rila Loades, an anti-abortion activist, was awarded Hypocrite of the Year (HY) by LMU’s Young Patriots for Freedom (YPF) after coming

to campus to proclaim how “murderous” it is to prioritize living women and children over sperm and eggs.

Hypocrite of the Year is one of YPF’s most prestigious awards.

In 2018, the award went to Shen Bapiro, who used hate speech to call out Democrats promoting divisiveness. The year before, Tronald Dump

received the honor for telling others that Orack Bobama wasn’t born in the U.S. — while Dump himself was not even born on planet Earth.

Rila Loades became a finalist for the award by preaching a message against abortion while at the same time voting against government support for kids and mothers on the grounds that she doesn’t “want her taxes going to the idiots who decided to have children.” But once YPF found out about her secret ties with Planned Parenthood, it became clear she would push past the finalists and become this year’s winner.

During the talk, Loades made a (somewhat) decent argument for pro-lifers, if you ignore the fact that quotes were used out of context, stats were twisted and she (proudly) told the crowd that she pretends to be a sexual assault victim in front of doctors and authorities to try and trick them into offering her an abortion.

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What is the deal with Wazé these days?

Wazé was once everyone’s choice navigation app. Now it purposefully makes you late.

Andrew Dazé Loves Traffic

Most of us are familiar with the Doogle-powered navigation application Wazé. It has helped many metropolitan inhabitants find the fastest route to their destination in record time by showing users the path less traveled. Or so they would have you believe.

Wazé has suffered a major public relations hit as their algorithm has recently been outed for doing the opposite of what it’s advertised to do. Countless accounts of what is referred to as “Wazér vision” have been reported by users. Wazér vision is when one goes against the recommended route given by Wazé and arrives at their destinations before the estimated time of arrival stated by the app.

Taylor Gating, a Wazér, explains his situation, saying, “Wazé used to be the best way to get around and avoid traffic.

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that, she pretends to be a sexual assault victim. Which is maybe, just slightly, problematic.

Much of the talk focused around Planned Parenthood’s fraudulent practices, including how they offer contraception, help couples with fertilization, conduct cancer screenings and support patients through reproductive health education.

Loades “simply cannot believe healthcare is available to women in such a capacity.” She went on to say that “women should never be able to get affordable healthcare. It’s a disgrace to society.”

Ironically, directly after the talk in which she proclaimed that the “modern-day feminist movement disgusts [her],” she was caught on tape calling herself a “feminist” while on a phone call. That call, along with everything else, won her the HY award.

She was speaking with Planned Parenthood to order her refill for birth control and ask if she could come schedule an appointment

for a mammogram. In addition, she was caught inquiring about how her “gal pal” Paula Health, the desk receptionist, was doing.

The two seemed to have a tight bond.

YPF has never had an easier time declaring a HY winner. It became obvious within the first six minutes of the conversation between Loades and Health that Loades has been utilizing Planned Parenthood’s services for years. It turns out she only speaks out against the nonprofit so that she can have them all to herself.

“Planned Parenthood is just so great that I don’t want to share,” she whined to Health.

“I want you all to myself.

Where else am I going to find affordable healthcare in today’s political climate?”

Loades says she feels “honored” to have received the award. She plans on being eligible again next year by getting an abortion herself or by donating to the border camps.

if I can beat the ETA.” Why would Doogle want us to be in traffic more? These claims could leave them subject to false advertising lawsuits that may eventually force the app off the market. Wes L. Blower, an ex-employee at Wazé, says controlling transportation is controlling the people. “Imagine knowing where everyone in the city is going at any given moment. I don’t agree with it, but Doogle aims to centralize traffic. Even worse, Wazé shows you where the police are. Imagine what Wazé is showing the police,” says Blower.

Perhaps the answer to all of this is advertising. Los Angeles Infrastructure professor Angie Lino gives her insight.

“Wazé shows advertisements when the driver is stopped, so it would make sense from a business standpoint to have drivers go slower to show more ads.” The app that is supposed to help you avoid traffic causes and traps its users in traffic.

Halloween isn’t here yet but Doogle controlling our traffic patterns is downright scary.

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Wazé changed its cute little face to one more devilish. Don’t be surprised if it stops telling you where the police are and shows ads while you get a ticket. It might even laugh.

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Self-made chef and entrepreneur makes his mark on soul food.

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f you love food, you understand the frustration of not being able to find that comforting homemade food after weeks of dining on campus. Thomas Mulzac, a junior communication studies major, is tackling this problem in his own way.

Mulzac’s catering service serves soul and comfort food that he personally makes every day. His company, Mealzac, primarily appears at large-scale and private events and serves a range of clientele, from students to friends to celebrities.

Mulzac first found the inspiration for the idea in freshman year when he was asked to consider alternative income sources at a talent agency he visited.

After considering, he said, “cooking is one of my biggest passions — my first passion and first love. I wanted to do TV and film because I saw a lot of cooking shows on TV … and I associated cooking with TV since I was told that cooking wasn’t a smart career path.”

After setting up a business plan freshman year, he began his food journey by catering for friends. Since then, he has served an array of clients for approximately two years.

His wildest experience was when he was catering for Lil Uzi, PnB Rock, A Boogie wit da Hoodie and various other artists while working on two New Year’s Eve events simultaneously, due to a mix-up on where the event he was supposed to cater for was being hosted.

His personal favorites on the Mealzac menu are the “Zal Mac” (his signature mac ‘n’ cheese), lamb chops and an assortment of Miami seafoods.

Sometimes, he will serve tuna and lamb chops with fried rice as his Surf ‘n’ Turf option.

Next time you’re craving something other than campus food, consider ordering from Mealzac, coming straight from Mulzac’s home kitchen.

He serves a variety of food that is affordable to students, starting at $10 for a hefty serving of rich Mac n’ Cheese.

To put in an order with his catering service, contact him at mealzac@gmail.com (347)-709-4355 or follow his Instagram, @mealzactv to (virtually) join in on his food adventures.

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“Zac Mac,” (top left), lavender cake (top right), red velvet brownies (bottom left) and roasted lamb chops and mashed potatoes (bottom right). Mulzac likes to experiment with his cooking style, often crossing between different cuisines.

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A ‘Radical’ new outlook Professor discusses breast cancer awareness in her new book.

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ast week, LMU assistant professor of journalism and English Kate Pickert released her non-fiction book “Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America,” which details breast cancer from a journalistic and personal perspective. Breast cancer is one of the top killers and most prominent diseases in the U.S, according to Pickert.

After being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35, Pickert, who was a health writer at Time magazine, began her journey of self-discovery, researching more about breast cancer.

Her research shows that approximately one in eight women are affected by breast cancer in America.

According to Pickert, “40,000 women die of breast cancer every year in the U.S., and almost 300,000 are diagnosed each year. The raw number of people who die of this disease has not changed [in years].” Therefore, “the rate has gone down as the U.S. population gets larger, so the share has gone down, but we are nowhere near close to curing it,” said Pickert.

With over 100 interviews in the book from doctors, researchers, patients and advocates, Pickert hopes to create a thorough record of what breast cancer is and how the pink ribbon movement has developed over time.

Pickert also mentioned the underrepresentation of males and women with stage IV cancer in the breast cancer movement. “These people are really not a part of the pink ribbon and survivor culture, so they feel very left behind, so I wrote about them to give them

more attention,” said Pickert.

Breast cancer used to be a stigmatized disease and patients were too afraid to speak of it if they were diagnosed with it.

According to Pickert, “that began to change when famous people started going public with their breast cancer stories, like Shirley Temple … and Betty Ford, who was the First Lady.

They went public with their stories in the 1970s, and [with] the pink ribbon movement, the disease [has been brought] out of the shadows.”

She documented some of these changes in her book, and conducted interviews with advocates on how they are tackling the issue of raising awareness for the pink ribbon movement.

Pickert urged people to not only to be aware of the dangers of breast cancer, but also consider moving past awareness to action.

Two things she recommends for her female audience, especially, are to “check your breasts. Check your breasts and pay attention to your health.”

As for the general audience, she recommends that “people [should] try to read the labels and look to see where their money is going. Ask yourself, ‘If I buy this pink product, does any money reach either breast cancer research or patients?’”

Pickert warned us to be wary of companies selling pink products during breast cancer awareness month.

She reminded us to take an extra step to check if any capital is going to research or patients, if we would like to join the pink ribbon movement and support the cause.

If you want to learn more about this topic, Pickert’s new book is now available for purchase on Amazon.

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Pickert launched her book internationally on Oct. 1. As a breast cancer survivor, she is vocal about raising awareness about the disease.

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MU’s newest a cappella group, the Opportunes, was created last year by two freshmen and is working toward success in L.A. competitions.

Talia Wexler, a sophomore theatre arts major, and Rylee Rosenquist, a sophomore film and television production major, formed the group their freshman year as a way to create further opportunity for aspiring singers.

The Opportunes is one of two all-female a cappella groups on campus whose core value lies in sisterhood. “We like the idea of sisterhood and female empowerment,” said Rosenquist, who is the group’s current vice president. “We’re more focused on the group first and the girls, themselves.”

The Opportunes had a “rocky” start, according to Rosenquist. She believed the idea of starting an entirely new a cappella group as freshmen with no previous a cappella experience was “ambitious,” and that the group’s success is rooted in its “underdog story.”

However, the Opportunes now have 14 members and have already performed at Open Mic Nights and the LMU A Cappella Showcase, both of which they will be participating in again soon. In addition, they are scheduled to perform at LMU’s Women’s Fair in March 2020.

While they are currently using online musical arrangements, once they have 16 members they will begin creating their own arrangements and entering competitions. Wexler, Opportunes’ current president, said she is “a little scared” to make arrangements, but she knows she can do it once she puts in the time.

While neither Wexler or Rosenquist have prior a cappella experience, Wexler had been in choir and Rosenquist was wellversed in musical theater. Both transitioned those skills into the realm of a cappella.

Required skills for a cappella include more than just singing: one must also be able to hold a pitch, match harmony, keep a rhythm and listen intently to those around them to not overpower others’ voices, according to Rosenquist. For the Opportunes, members must also attend weekly practice meetings and be willing to learn.

In the meantime, they are considering hosting a beatboxing

workshop for their current members. “Maybe we’ll find a little [beatboxing] gem in there,” said Rosenquist.

While their fall semester auditions are already over, beatboxers are still welcome to audition this season via their Instagram @lmu.opportunes, and singers may audition in Spring 2020.

Currently, the Opportunes are practicing Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking out Loud” and a new mash-up, which Rosenquist assures us is “really hype.” They are planning on learning the entire mash-up in five weeks and performing it during one of Mane Entertainment’s Open Mic Night in mid-to-late October.

This year, all three of LMU’s a cappella groups—the Opportunes, Notetorious and On Another Note—have been working more closely together than in years past in an effort to reconcile “a-ca-drama,” according to Rosenquist. They now have an e-board consisting of all the presidents. Additionally, they will be holding a showcase instead of holding a competition to determine who will perform at the Christmas Tree Lighting.

For those interested in joining the Opportunes, keep an eye out for auditions in Spring 2020, or tune up your beatboxing skills and join now.

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alifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill two weeks ago that has the potential to completely shake up the landscape of college sports.

The law, titled the Fair Pay to Play Act, would allow college student-athletes to profit off their image and likeness and hire agents for representation.

The premise of this bill is in complete and direct opposition to the NCAA’s policies regarding college athlete amateurism.

The NCAA holds that, in order to compete in the association, one must fit the definition of an “amateur athlete.” If you are an amateur athlete, you are not entitled to any form of compensation in any way. The NCAA’s policy states that, “The NCAA does allow athletes to receive some compensation as an amateur athlete, as long as the amounts do not exceed what are deemed actual and necessary expenses.”

Furthermore, athletes cannot benefit from any sort of sponsorship. The NCAA prevents this, stating that “If the athlete is being paid in any way to wear a specific brand or

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California Senate Bill 206, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, will allow college athletes to profit off of their name, image and likeness. This violates NCAA policy and has led to intense debate among college sports fans.

promote a product, it would be considered a violation.”

The NCAA has gotten away with this stance for too long.

Two years ago, the association reported an annual revenue of over $1 billion, according to USA Today. They are absolutely making a killing, while the athletes who actually generate their revenue are walking away empty-handed.

The NCAA will argue that fullride scholarships and admission to America’s best universities are

compensation enough for their star competitors. Athletes also benefit from their university’s facilities and some have the opportunity to receive a worldclass education free of charge.

Take the rise of college basketball’s “one and dones” as an example. These are top-level talents who attend university for a one-year minimum before ideally moving on to play professionally. Studentathletes like these often have little intention of ever fulfilling

the student portion of their title. There are people like Zion Williamson, who go into college with basketball as their sole intention and generate a profit for their university through basketball, but are then excluded from making any profit themselves.

Former USC head football coach Pete Carroll chimed into the debate, standing firmly on the side of the NCAA. Carroll believes student-athletes should not be compensated for

their services. “I don’t know the real depth to [the law]. I’ve never been the guy that feels players needed to be paid to play. I’ve felt like their scholarship and all the advantages that the guys [have] was always a pretty darn good deal ... I don’t know that that’s ... good for the kids.”

Carroll’s take sums up the flawed mentality that the higher-ups of the NCAA have regarding the issue. To the NCAA, its athletes are simply kids who should be more grateful for what they have already been afforded. In reality, however, the vast majority of these students are over 18 and are grown adults in the eyes of the government.

They are people who often work just as hard as professionals and who can garner just as much fame as professionals, but are denied any sort of comparable financial compensation.

This new California law represents a step in the right direction for America’s collegiate athletes to receive the benefits they deserve. Ideally, more states will follow California in passing similar legislation which would hopefully lead to policy change on the federal level.

This is the opinion of Nick Rossi, a junior AIMS major from Orange, California. Tweet comments to @LALoyolan or email comments to mthomas@theloyolan.com.

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Men's basketball open practice kicks off season Players hope to develop chemistry together and prepare for the upcoming season.

the bottom line is forcing them to communicate,” Dunlap said.

Communication will be necessary as the team prepares for its first game on Nov. 5.

“We're going to be a good team, we know that,” said Johansson. “[We need to] just focus on being in the moment and taking it one day at a time.”

And despite the team’s ranking at seventh in the conference in the annual Preseason Head Coaches poll, Quintana has faith that the team will perform well in the 2019-20 season.

“We have a lot of haters,” said Quintana. “Everyone doubts us— that’s every year—so that’s one of the biggest things that we’re trying to prove to everyone. We know what we have to do and we’re about to just shock everybody.”

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The men’s basketball team hosted an open practice at Gersten Pavilion on Friday, Oct. 4 for fans, supporters and members of the media to catch their first glimpse of the 2019-2020 squad.

The practice showed a largely new Lions team, which has just six returning players.

Junior forward Eli Scott, a major returner for the Lions, brings length and size as he looks to step into an increased role this year. While the 6-foot-6-inch, 245-pound Scott has spent the majority of his two years at LMU as a forward, sixth-year head coach Mike Dunlap plans to play him at point guard for multiple stretches this season, which he did during the scrimmage.

“We can play Eli at the one—Eli is a facilitator and a mismatch at the one for everybody in our league,” Dunlap said.

“He is a mismatch waiting to happen at the four and the one position. He’s a very special player.”

Alongside Scott, the team returns five other players — sophomore guard/ forward Dameane Douglas, sophomore forward Ivan Alipiev, junior guard Joe Quintana, junior forward Jordan Bell, and guard Erik Johansson, the lone senior on the squad. Center Mattias Markusson, a junior last season, is redshirting this season, according to

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Men's basketball head coach Mike Dunlap addresses players during an open practice on Oct. 4. The Lions earned 22 wins last season and are dealing with major roster changes this year.

Dunlap. The returning players know that they have to step up off the court as well.

“We’ve got a lot of skill in our freshman class, but the main void is leadership,” Douglas said. “That’s where me, [guard] Joe [Quintana], Eli [and] Erik have to step up.”

The Lions will feature an incoming class of eight new players, composed of seven freshmen and one junior college transfer, forward Parker Dortch.

Dunlap expressed optimism about the abilities of the new players to help fill the holes left by departed players.

“We’re pretty athletic, whether it’s

Jonathan [Dos Anjos] or Parker Dortch,” he said. “And then we can shoot the three better. So I think it’s with our recruits—that’s how we make it up.”

Because many of the players on the roster have never played together before, the team placed a strong emphasis on developing chemistry in the offseason. They took part in a variety of non-basketball activities that helped them become better teammates to one another.

“Whether it’s an escape room exercise where they have to communicate with each other or a two-day hike or whatever it is …