The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 91, Issue 31 - February 21, 2013

IT'S GAME TIME. LAN YOUR HOME. YOUR VOICE. YOUR NEWS. LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHED 1921 February 21, 2013 Volume 91, Issue 31 www.laloyolan.com ASLMTJ president faces impeachment hearing The Greek community filed a complaint against Bryan Ruiz lor reasons including SAE involvement. By Kevin O'Keeffe Editor in Chief ASLMU Senate has accepted an impeachment complaint against ASLMU president and senior management major Bryan Ruiz submitted by Greek Council president and junior entrepreneurship major Lauren Coons on behalf of the Greek community. The Senate will move forward with a formal impeachment hearing next week. During the regularly scheduled weekly Senate meeting, more than 100 students filled The Hill on the fourth floor of Malone Student Center to listen as Coons read the complaint. Coons detailed the multiple reasons why the Greek community felt Ruiz had violated his position, broken up into three separate grounds for impeachment. The crux of the complaint concerned Ruiz’s attendance at an alleged Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) recruitment event held on campus. SAE is an unrecognized fraternity based off campus, as first reported in the Nov. 12 Loyolan article “Unofficial fraternity colonizes off campus.” Ruiz’s presidency of the organization became a point of contention last fall, though no action was taken beyond a Senate meeting discussion. According to the complaint, an anonymous statement from a new member of one of LMU’s registered fraternities claimed that those participating in recruitment for SAE were taken to a Foley Annex classroom for an alumni night - and that Ruiz was in attendance. During that meeting, according to Coons’ statement, Ruiz See Impeachment | Page 3 Liana Bandziulis | Loyolan Junior entrepreneurship major Lauren Coons (right), the Greek Council president, read a complaint filed by the Greek community to impeach ASLMU President Bryan Ruiz in front of more than 100 students at The Hill on the fourth floor of Malone Student Center Wednesday, Feb.20.The complaint outlined three separate arguments, which provided the foundation of the impeachment effort. Obama’s new gun policy sparks on-campus debate ASLMU and die LMU debate team hosted a debate that represented bodi sides of die issue. By Tilly Rudolph StaffWriter Events like the shootings at Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Colo, and Sandy Hook Elementary School have increasingly drawn citizens of the United States to discuss the gun policies of our nation. In light of the national gun debate, ASLMU organized an on-campus gun policy debate in collaboration with the LMU debate team. About 50 people attended the debate, which was held in Seaver 100 on Wednesday, Feb. 13. Members of the debate team presented opposing sides of the issue, though it is important to note that the views they represented did not necessarily reflect their personal opinions. “Part of the job of ASLMU is to increase [the] intellectual climate of the student body,” said senior sociology major and ASLMU Director of Social Justice Megan Attore. “Seeing as gun violence is such an issue at this time, we want to provide the opportunity for the student body to participate in the national conversation of gun violence,” she said. President Barack Obama addressed this issue in last week’s State of the Union address. According to a Jan. 16 report released by the White House, there are four main components of Obama’s gun policy: closing background check loopholes, banning miUtaiy-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, making schools safe and increasing access to mental health services. These changes would include a required background check for all gun sales, giving schools more resources and counselors and ensuring the coverage of mental health treatment. LMU debaters touched on many of Obama’s proposed policy changes. 'The first issue discussed was the question of banning assault weapons. Sophomore sociology major Brittany McKinley teamed up with senior political science and communications double major Alexis Pierce against debate coach James Kilcup. McKinley and Pierce advocated the banning of assault weapons and explained See Debate | Page 4 Service organizations select new members Around 450 students discovered wliether they were accepted, waitlisted or rejected from service orgs. By Ali Swenson Asst. News Editor After nearly 450 students submitted applications to the nine service organizations on campus earlier this semester, the results were disclosed Tuesday when applicants received one of three email messages. The messages were sent on Tuesday at about noon to let students know that “either they’ve been accepted and/or waitlisted, just waitlistedor not accepted,” said Tom King, assistant director of campus service. The students were instructed to come into the Center for Service and Action (CSA) to accept, deny or rank any invitations they received. “So if somebody didn’t get into a service org, that person knows and doesn’t have to come in.” The invitations were given after an application, interview and deliberation process within each service organization that occurred over the past several weeks. While each organization looked for different qualities in applicants and conducted different interviews, they all went through deliberations last weekend. The new president of Gryphon Circle, junior English and psychology double major Kristen Trudo, explained this part of the process by saying, “We basically were locked in a room until we figured out who we were offering positions to," Trudo said. According to King, almost 50 percent of last year’s applicants got into service organizations or were waitlisted. Although the figures for this year have not yet been tabulated, King expressed that last year was relatively typical, yet every year is subject to change. “It varies by how many spots each org has. Some years, some orgs have larger classes than others. But with See Service | Page 5 OFF TO THE OSCARS A&E, Pages 8-9 (Loyolan staff offer their insights and predictions for this Sunday’s Academy Awards. Index THURS FRi Classifieds . 5 /^N Opinion . 6 A&E . 8 60"~4!r 6r'49° ri n ii SAT SUN Sports . i6 62“ - 50' 66’ - 49" llir next issue of the Loyolan will be printed on Fell. 25, 2013. CALLING OUR BLUFF The Loyolan’s satire page is back with an invasive version _ ■ of "1 1 Burning Questions” and reports of the U.S. Army ~ responding to a house party. Bluff, Page 1 1