The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 92, Issue 34 - March 13, 2014

www.LALOYOLAN.com ■л0ОАШаёШ> LOYOLAN EST. 1921 Page 4 Need some new outfit ideas? Check out this weeks Lbn Street Style. Page 9 VOLUME 92 I ISSUE 34 Arrested student pleads not guilty James Cogley’s arrest highlights the role mental illness can play in reckless behavior. Allie Heck Managing Editor @allieheck1 “There are a few nightmares that every parent has with their children,” said Karen Cogley, mother of junior sociology major James Cogley. “This is on the list.” James was arrested on the afternoon of Feb. 18. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers took him in on charges of grand theft auto and felony vandalism related to events that took place the night of Feb. 16 at the Southern California Gas Storage FaciUty in Playa del Rey, mere blocks from LMU. After the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) contained a gas leak at the facilities, “it was determined that an unknown suspect entered the location, damaged property and stole a vehicle belonging to the Southern California Gas Company,” according to a news release published on Thursday, Feb. 20 by LAPD. The stolen vehicle was driven into See Cogley | Page 3 Hello Dunlap, goodbye Good LMU announced the hiring of Mike Dunlap as the school's men’s basketball head coach just a day after announcing six-year Head Coach Max Good's contract would not be renewed. Dunlap, a 1980 LMU alumnus, was head coach for the Charlotte Bobcats in the 2012-13 season. To read the full story, see page 12. Adjunct unionization halted for six months Pilot program just first step Kevin Halladay-GIvnn | Loyolan Women and Place, a pilot program that discusses women's issues and the possibility of bringing a women's resource center on campus in the future, meets Thursday nights at 6:15. Women and Place meets every week to work toward building a space for women at LMU. AN Swenson News Editor @aliswenson On LMU’s campus in the 1980s, awomen's resource center existed as a space for women to obtain women’s health information, education about women’s issues and general support from an institutional structure. It was shut down thirty years ago. Today, the desire for a women’s resource center has returned, living and breathing on Thursday evenings in the Women’s Studies department of U-Hall through the members of the recently established Women and Place program. Led by visiting assistant professor of women’s studies Linh Hua and professor of psychology Sara Lederer, Women and Place is a five -week pilot program intended for members of the LMU community to discuss women’s issues. An exploratory program, it aims to stimulate conversation about the possibility of rebuilding a permanent space for women on campus. “The name of the group is Women and Place because we wanted to see what it would be like to make a concerted effort at meeting regularly every week with a group of women students,” Hua said. “[We wanted] to see what See Women | Page 2 Due to SEIU’s withdrawal, adjunct faculty must wait to refile for a unionization vote. Kevin O’Keeffe Senior Editor @kevinpokeeffe “I don’t wanna take it as a defeat "professor of classics and archeology Chiara Sulprizio said in an interview with the Loyolan. “It’s just a sort of resetting of the clock.” “I would characterize it as a strategic retreat,” theological studies professor Arik Greenberg told the Loyolan. “This is not the whole picture, nor is it the end of our movement,” professor of political science Emily Hallock said in a letter. These three faculty members, all leading voices in the campaign for an adjunct faculty union at LMU, framed their evaluations of the most recent development in their battle for unionization in a mostly positive light. But upon receiving that news - that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) withdrew its petition for election, halting unionization efforts on campus for the time being - there were most certainly mixed feelings among those who put major effort into this campaign. “The administration made a free and fair election impossible, creating a climate hostile to organizing, which is antithetical to Catholic values,” Hallock charged in her letter. “I think everything just happened so fast, for better or for worse,” Sulprizio said, in a more melancholic summary. “I think in this case, it did end up being for worse.” On Friday, March 7, Executive Vice President and Provost Joseph Hellige sent a letter to adjunct faculty reporting that the petition for election, as well as a previously filed allegation of unfair labor practices on LMU's part, had been withdrawn. He also noted that, because of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)’s rules, it would be another six months until SEIU could file another petition. So why withdraw now? Why halt a process that had been moving at a rapid pace since last semester? In short: SEIU was worried about the votes. Both Greenberg and Sulprizio attributed the weakened voting bloc to meetings with the University’s deans hosted with faculty during the run-up to the election’s initial date, with Sulprizio even referring to them as creating “a chill” effect. “I will be candid that the deans meetings did some damage,” Greenberg said. Having to withdraw both their complaint and the petition for election is an unfortunate combination for a movement about to take a forced six-month hiatus. However, adjunct faculty are planning to continue organizing efforts during the waiting period. One big change this will bring will be in pacing. As Sulprizio noted, the new development will call for a bit of downshifting. “We always knew it was gonna be hard work. But the shifting of the timetable has really changed our perspective,” she said. “There’s no clear sense of the timetable.” ^ To read the full version of this analysis, visit laloyolan.com.