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LAPD, LAFD and DPS Journalism hold active shooter drill major and PR
The main methods of action suggested by DPS are Run, Hide and Fight. Zhi Jiao Danielle Goh News Intern @LALoyolan
As part of LMU’s Active Shooter Preparedness Month, an annual Active Shooter and Shelter in place Drill was held on Feb. 26 at 10:05 a.m. and again at 6:15 p.m. The demonstration works to increase awareness among students about the potential dangers of an active shooter. At 10:05 a.m., a public announcement and an LMU Alert were sent out via phone call, text and email to alert members of the community about the drill. The Department of Public Safety (DPS) partnered with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) to lead a demonstration on active shooter response in Roski Dining Hall from 11 a.m. to noon. The demonstration was meant to showcase how LAPD would respond to an active shooter situation within their jurisdiction. Run, Hide and Fight were the main suggested methods of action taught during the demonstration. Identifying an escape route to a secure location with closed windows and locked doors is crucial, those in danger should evacuate only if it is safe to do so, according to DPS. If found in such a situation, members of the community should turn the lights off and silence their cell phones. Fight only as a last resort and plan and prepare your next step. When you’re safe, call 911 first; then call DPS. After the demonstration, LAFD took over to demonstrate how they treat victims in different safe zones and how
they are transported to hospitals. “I came into this thinking I was prepared, but there was a lot I did not know,” said Jacqueline Dilanchyan, a junior political science major. “I wished more [students] would attend and [make] the drill mandatory for all schools nationwide.” There was a brief discussion after the drill where audience members were invited to share their thoughts. “The Department of Public Safety is always actively engaged with the dangers both occurring and potential,” Jarryd Tanedo, a sophomore accounting and applied information management systems double major and a student worker for
DPS, said. “Whenever a catastrophe ... occurs, there is always an urgent meeting with all officers and personnel led by the chief, Hampton Cantrell. In the main meeting room, all the news channels are on the big screen [as we watch] the aftermath of the attack.” Cantrell personally addressed the question of what students can do to help increase awareness. “LMU has always been constantly active in communicating with the students through text, calls and emails,” said Cantrell. “We have also been coordinating with the LAPD and LAFD for annual drills. See Demo | Page 3
Alex Farrell | Loyolan
DPS partnered with LAPD and LAFD to lead a demonstration on active shooter response in on Tuesday to increase awareness amoung students about the dangers of active shooters.
minor added Due to continued student interest, LMU has added two new degree programs. Kayla Brogan
Asst. News Editor @LALoyolan
LMU recently announced that they are adding new majors and minors to the LMU curriculum. Starting in the Fall of 2018, students will be able to declare a journalism major through the English department under the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. Aditionally, the College of Communication and Fine Arts will be introducing a public relations (PR) minor. “I think the timing is also strangely fortuitous because there is so much attention placed on journalism right now, so it is also ironically good timing,” said Evelyn McDonnell, director of the journalism program and English professor. She added that student interest was the driving force behind the creation of this major. “Journalism at LMU connects the educational values of the Jesuit and Marymount traditions and the core creative and critical practices of the English Department to the rapidly changing future of global communication” and is designed to be hands-on as well as theoretical toc reate professional journalists, according to the Journalism program page. “New academic programs are developed to meet student demands for subjectarea study, to manifest faculty passions and to create avenues for in-depth study of emergent fields,” said Robbin Crabtree, dean of Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. See New programs | Page 3
Hannon Library hosts second annual Edit-a-thon Students were invited and “empowered” to create Wikipedia pages. Sami Leung
Managing Editor @LALoyolan
The William Hannon Library’s second annual Edit-a-thon, with its theme of Art and Feminism, is working to reverse the trend that estimated that 90 percent of Wikipedia editors are male, according to a survey conducted by Wikipedia in 2011. Hosted on the third floor of the library on Feb. 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., students were invited to create Wikipedia accounts to contribute to underdeveloped pages relating to those topics. The majority of those editors are Western males, marking a discrepancy in the source of Wikipedia edits, even in articles discussing issues like pregnancy and abortion, according to Aljazeera America. “We want to empower students to become creators of information, rather than just consumers,” Jack Johnson, head of outreach and communications outreach department at the library and an organizer of the event, said. “We’re trying to encourage people who have different life experiences and who come from different backgrounds to add their perspectives to Wikipedia so that it becomes the true universal source of human knowledge.” All Wikipedia editors are volunteers, coming from a variety of backgrounds.
The English Wikipedia currently has over 33 million users with a registered username, with 250,000 accounts being created every month, according to Wikipedia. By having students create an account, Johnson hopes to get them one step closer to being able to edit Wikipedia and “contribute their voices.” “I think it’s important to know how to cite your work because everyone’s specific
work is really important, so you want to give them their full representation when you’re using their work,” Erica Moy, a senior communication studies major, said. Some professors in the women and gender studies department had their classes come to the event to educate students on the discrepancy of information and have them contribute to underdeveloped articles. Dr. Jennifer Moorman had students
in her Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Contemporary Society sections previously complete a project to fix entries related to those topics. “It allows students to come to better understand Wikipedia as a source of knowledge production, its limitations and what is useful about it,” said Moorman. “Most assignments, like papers, they’re See Edit-a-thon | Page 3
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Students Kristen Corbett (left) and Jessica Swift (right) talk with women and gender studies professor Theresa Yugar at the Edit-a-thon.