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September 1,2011
Volume 90, Issue 1
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Students pose for celebratory photo during LR/llLs birthday party
Students clad in crimson, navy and white formed a "human 100"on Tuesday at Convo to celebrate LMU's centennial birthday. An
estimated 1,200 students participated in the event. Learn more about LMU's centennial plans online atwww.laloyolan.com.
LMU mourns loss of Brandon Farmer
Tracey Lincoln
Farmer was an active member of the Black
Student Union (BSU) and took part in the
special Kente graduation ceremony in June.
2011 graduates lose
classmate due to cardiac
complications.
By Margo Jasukaitis
Asst. News Editor
Brandon Fanner, a graduate of the class of
2011, passed away on the morning of June 17
as a result of heart complications, according to
a statement issued by Senior Vice President of
Student Affairs Lane Bove. He was 21 years
old.
“[He was] a gentle giant,” said Katleen
Satume, Campus Business Services OneCard
supervisor and Farmer’s boss during the
two year’s he worked in the OneCard office.
Satume remembers Farmer as a ‘Very...
giving, veiy understanding spirit.”
“I’ve never seen Brandon angry,” Saturne
continued. “Even when things were going
wrong, when there was frustration, there was
a constant smile on his face. [He was] always
trying to make people jovial. I don’t know
what it was about him but no matter what
you were going through, [if] you saw him it
was like nothing was going wrong.”
Everyone who knew Farmer recalls his
constant smile and deep sense of caring for
others.
“He just had a very warm heart. You got
the impression when you first spoke with
him [that] he was caring of all the people
he came into contact with and had a very
good relationship with everyone,” said Alicia
Amerson, who was Farmer’s supervisor
between May of 2008 and the summer of 2009
See Farmer | page 2
Free parking
will be
discontinued
University decides to implement
parking fee beginning next fell.
By Laura Riparbelli
Managing Editor
Free parking on campus will be discontin¬
ued beginning in the fall of 2012, according to
University officials, citing the lack of spots on
campus and the need to combat the problem.
Senior Vice President for Administration
Lynne Scarboro said in a University-wide
email on Aug. 31 that the decision to charge
students, faculty, staff and visitors for parking
is “directly related to the need for more park¬
ing on campus.”
According to Mike Wong, the associate vice
president for Administration Services, over
90 percent of the revenue incurred from the
parking permits will go towards paying for
more parking on campus. The first of such
projects is planned to be the reconstruction of
the Seaver lot, which will maintain the cur¬
rent 84 spots and wifi add an additional 190.
There are also plans to funnel revenue toward
expanding Lion Express routes and making
public transportation more accessible to stu¬
dents.
“We’ve got a parking issue, we’ve had a
parking issue on campus for as long as I’ve
been here,” Scarboro told the Loyolan, who
has been an employee for nine year’s.
Approximately eighty parking spots in
Drollinger were lost this summer due to the
construction of the Recycling Center within
the lot. Those 80 spots were relocated to a
newly constructed lot behind the Facilities
Management Building where the old recy¬
cling center used to stand. Students, however,
are not permitted to park there, but Wong said
they plan to make much of the employee park¬
ing behind Daum Hall and within the Del Rey
lot open to eveiyone by this weekend or the
one following.
‘There’s no net loss in student parking,” said
Wong.
Senior business major Elle McDonald, who
commutes to class from her house in West¬
chester, is still concerned. She said she’s made
a habit out of arriving to campus at least 45
minutes before class.
‘That’s how long it wifi usually take me to
get parking,” said McDonald. “It doesn’t make
sense.”
Now that McDonald lives close enough to
See Parking | page 2
Recycling Center moves to Drollinger Parking Plaza
University completes first
Master Plan commitment
with the relocation.
By Kayla Begg
Copy Editor
After nearly five years of noise complaints
and negotiations with the Westchester
community, the Recycling Center has been
relocated from upper campus to Drollinger
Parking Plaza
The Recycling Center’s relocation to
Drollinger also heralds the first steps of the
Master Plan being put into action, which was
approved by the Los Angeles City Council on
Feb. 25. According to Mike Lotito, director of
Plant Operations at Facilities Management,
the mandate within the plan to move the
Recycling Center reflects LMU’s efforts to find
a solution to the community conflict over its
original location.
The Recycling Center has slowly been
movingfrom its previous location, only officially
settling into Drollinger approximately two
weeks ago.
In addition to reducing both noise for
Westchester neighbors and what Lotito
described as “roll-off truck traffic” in upper
campus, the Recycling Center has purchased
new equipment to maximize efficiency, he
stated.
“The neighbors here are really happy that
we moved. I think the community’s happy
because we delivered on our first commitment
of the Master Plan. ... So I think that shows
a strong commitment [from] LMU,” Lotito
added.
Will Shaffer, a junior civil engineering
major who resides in Leavey 6, stated that his
living room faces the new Recycling Center in
Drollinger.
“ [the Recycling Center traffic] hasn’t woken
me up in the morning yet, but it is a little
noisy My main concern is the lack of parking
in Drollinger already. ... It was already an
See Recycling | page 4
Kenzie O'Keefe | Loyolan
The new Recycling Center is located
where the Drollinger exit was previously.
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