The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 92, Issue 39 - April 7, 2014

www.LALOYOLAN.com LOYOLAN EST. 1921 Are you “whipped"? Kelly n Kawaguchi breaks down Worried about what to wear this oft-heard term. to Coachella? Check out our Page 5 five fashion must-haves. Page 7 VOLUME 92 I ISSUE 39 LAPD called to campus Saturday Three unrelated psychological incidents prompted police attention Saturday night. Zaneta Pereira Editor in Chief @zanyzaneta Three Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) squad cars were present outside McCarthy Hall as a helicopter circled above on the night of Saturday, April 5. “LAPD was called to campus on three different occasions for students who needed assistance due to psychological distress,” as confirmed by Chief of Public Safety Hampton Cantrell. According to Cantrell, the three issues were separate and unrelated to each other, none of them involved a threat to campus and all have been resolved completely. Cantrell confirmed that the three separate calls were made at approximately 9:07 p.m., 9:35 p.m. and 10:20 p.m., and that LAPD responded all three times. LAPD made the decision to send the helicopter for tactical reasons and the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is hoping to get more information from See LAPD | Page 3 Students keep philanthropy afloat at Greek events Josh Kuroda | Loyolan Students paddled at Burns Aquatic Center Saturday to raise money for People Being Just, Beta Theta Pi's philanthropy. Several Greek organizations hosted philanthropy events on campus this week. Delta Desserts on Wednesday, Beta Boat Races Sigma Lambda Gamma Panther Crawl on Saturday and Pi Beta Phi Arrowspike on Sunday raised money for four different charities. For more photos of these events, see Page 2. "1 'I 3 if < *7 Д Jj *7 :.l [/■ fii « • J f ; r/M a. A Ш A* ' П A _ 1 Josh Kuroda | Loyolan Freshman undeclared major Shaianye-Victoria Natividad and freshman political science major Heather Domingo (left to right) danced a Wahine 'Auana at Na Kolea's 40th Annual Lu'au Saturday night in Gersten Pavilion. The band CRSB also performed at the event. Dean Plumb to move on after nine years Richard Plumb led Seaver College of Science and Engineering through several upgrades. AN Swenson News Editor @aliswenson Richard Plumb and his wife Mary agreed that they would never move to California. As New Yorkers, they never pictured themselves living on the West Coast. But when Richard was invited to LMU in 2005 to interview to be dean of Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering, the visit changed his mind. When Richard, who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Syracuse University and served as professor and department chair of electrical engineering at Binghamton University (SUNY), was exploring his options for taking on a dean position elsewhere in 2005, he knew he would not have much say in where he would move. Texas and California, however, were out of the question. “I was somewhat hesitant about coming out to Los Angeles ,” Plumb said. “And then within 15 minutes of meeting the people on the search committee, I absolutely fell in love with the place. It was the people that drew me. And then meeting the faculty, meeting the staff, meeting the students here, I was sold just on the people.” After his initial visit, Richard was hired as dean, aposition which he has held for thepast nine years. During his time as dean, he has implemented several updates to the college including the complete remodeling of Pereira South, the hiring of over one -fourth of the current faculty and nearly half of the current staff, the earning of a $2 million federal fund for state-of-the-art lab equipment and the approval, fundraising and construction of the new Life Sciences Building on campus, scheduled to openinthe summer of 2015. But as Executive Vice President and Provost Joseph Hellige announced in an email to LMU faculty and staff last Wednesday, Richard will be moving on in three short months, leaving his position July 14 to become executive vice president and provost at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. His wife Mary, who holds the position of Parent Program Coordinator at LMU and has worked at the Universityfor eight years, wall move with him. Hellige wrote, “Richard has provided outstanding leadership within Seaver College and across the University during a time of extraordinary challenge, opportunity and change.” In building his leadership throughout his nine years at LMU, Plumb’s first step was listening to the community to discern what was needed. “What you really want to try to do is meet as many people as you can as quickly as you can and ask them what they think the possibilities are for the college or for the university,” Plumb said. “You listen very intently and then you try to consolidate, ‘what are the major themes that I’m hearing?’ And then you present that back and you start moving forward.” In making changes, Richard frequently referred to the metaphor of a three-legged See Plumb | Page 3