The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 90, Issue 14 - October 27, 2011

THUR FRI SAT SUN 70'- 54" 67'- 55" 68'- 56' 76"- 56" ESTABLISHED 1921 October 27,2011 Volume 90, Issue 14 Your Home. Your Voice. Your Newspaper. Loyola Marymount University www.laloyolan.com $1 million winner revealed on Opus Prize website Lyn Lusi (above center), co-founder and program director of HEAL Africa, was listed on the Opus Prize website yesterday afternoon as this year's $ 1 mil lion winner. LMU will host the of¬ ficial award ceremony on Wednesday, Nov.2. Read more about the Opus Prize on Page 4. Emergency drill to take place today LMU’s Active Shooter Training Drill aims to prepare community for potential emergencies. By Kenzie O'Keefe Editor in Chief How would the LMU community react if it was confronted by a gunman on campus? Today, LMU attempts to answer this question with its first Active Shooter Train¬ ing Drill, intended to “empower” LMU com¬ munity members “so that they can protect themselves,” according to LMU Director of Emergency Management and Administration Devra Schwartz. “We want people to have already thought through what they could do in the moment. . . . Its like a sixth sense,” she said in an 11 Burn¬ ing Questions feature that ran in the Loyolan on Oct. 24. According to Schwartz, there are “four ma¬ jor components" to today’s drill. First there is a campus-wide shelter-in-place drill, which will take place from 9 to 9:15 a.m. ‘We’re not asking [the community] to actually shelter in place,” Schwartz reminded, saying that the 15 minutes should be used for discussion about what the community would do if there was an active shooter on campus, applying the per¬ sonal safety tips that the Department of Pub¬ lic Safety (DPS) has publicized. Connor Hartley, an undeclared freshman, will be in a theological studies class in U-Hall during the drill. “It’s a good thing to do, just in case,” he said. Candy Janiam, a junior humanities major, has class in the William H. Hannon Library at 9:25 a.m. and thinks shell probably be in Jazzman’s Cafe picking up her morning cof¬ fee when the drill commences. “It makes me nervous that Ill be out and about, not in the comfort of my own home and around people that I know,” she said. like Hartley, she sees the merit in having the drill. “It has to be useful,” she added. “Hav¬ ing practice [is always useful]. If something did happen I’d subconsciously be like ‘I know what to do. We had that drill.”’ The rest of the day’s activities are targeted towards a smaller subset of the LMU popula¬ tion Campus officials will be doing a walk¬ through of Pereira Hall with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Ange¬ les Fire Department (LAFD) in order to learn more about the organizations’ tactics related to emergency situations. ‘They’ll [show] us a demonstration of what happens when they get that first 9-1-1 call all the way through to the treatment triage in transport of victims. . . . Its understanding what they do so that we can support them, and also let them know how they can support the LMU community through their- regular tactics,” Schwartz explained. After the walk-through, a table-top discus¬ sion among “the LMU cabinet and people who would normally be involved if there was a real active shooter situation on campus" will take place, said Schwartz. See Drill | Page 2 Panel discussions focus on workers’ experiences Panel discussions focus on building relationships between students and LMU workers. By Monika Kim News Intern In honor of Workers Appreciation Week, ASLMU and the Students for Labor and Eco¬ nomic Justice (SLEJ ) paired up to host two panels and a banquet this week. The panels informed LMU students about sustainability and workers’ rights, as well as employees’ ex¬ periences working in various LMU facilities. These events focused on recognizing and ac¬ knowledging the hai’d work of LMU’s numer¬ ous employees. “Our goals and expectations for [Workers Appreciation Week] were having the workers feel appreciated for the work they’ve done,” said SLEJ Treasurer and senior business and Spanish double major Roger Davila “[SLEJ and ASLMU] knew that [they] had to cel¬ ebrate this part of the community that is often overlooked.” In an effort to promote this goal of worker recognition and better educate the LMU com¬ munity about the workers’ role on campus, SLEJ and ASLMU hosted a panel on sustain¬ ability, which was held on Monday, Oct. 24 in See Workers | Page 3 Documentary educates students about Darfur Club members hope “Invisible Children” will inspire activism. By Liz Peters Staff Writer Genocide is a current issue that many chil¬ dren around the world are unable to escape. Eveiy day more children are kidnapped and made into child soldiers. Save Darfur LMU, a group committed to eradicating genocide in Sudan, and Invisible Children, an organi¬ zation that focuses on raising awareness for child soldier’s, want to help put an end to this and plan to raise awareness through their up¬ coming film screening. “All too often conflicts make the headlines for a few weeks, then go off the air and are forgotten The fact of the matter is, while cov¬ erage may stop, the wars don’t,” said Save Darfur member and senior political science major Ryan Burbank. Save Darfur, an LMU organization, was founded in 2009 and is committed to helping not only the genocide victims in Darfur, but world-wide genocide victims. With over 100 student member’s, the club See Darfur | Page 2 Devin Sixt| Loyolan World Music Ensemble class honors ancient Bali Taught by Professor Paul Humphreys (left), the world music course celebrates Gamelan music from the Indonesian island of Bali. Students in the class have formed their own Gamelan music troupe and regularly practice their music on campus. Paying to use your own money Opinion Intern Amanda Kotch argues that the new fees proposed on debit cards break the college bank. Opinion, Page 5 Index Classifieds . 4 Opinion . 5 A&E . 7 Business and Technology. . 9 Sports . 1 2 The next issue of the Loyolan will lx* printed on Novemlx-r !i, 201 1 Is there a fast-track to success? Being a college drop out might work for some, but not most according to Asst. Managing Editor and Sports Editor Michael Goldsholl. ? * Business, Page 9