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Volume 90, Issue 39
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This 20-year-old sophomore business
major used to drink, smoke marijuana
and use ecstasy. After being expelled
from LMU - but readmitted in Fall 201 1
he sticks to alcohol and marijuana.
Editor in Chief
Story One:The possibility of two paths
It was just over two years ago, but he can
still tell you the exact date. For one male
sophomore business major, the spring semester
of 2010 was life changing.
“I got kicked out [of LMU] a night when I
was . . . drinking and smoking [marijuana] and
took E [ecstasy] and was veiy belligerent with
P-Safe [the Department of Public Safety], It
was not really the straw that broke the camel’s
back, but it was the boulder that did,” the
20-year-old said.
He added, “I had a lot of things already not
going too well, a lot of trouble with P-Safe. It
was not normal. ... The morning came, and
I didn’t really remember why I was there or
what exactly I had done.”
This altercation prompted the University
to expel him, and he returned home to the
Midwest. He stayed with his grandparents
for a few months and then moved into a sober
living house.
“It was like living in a ffat house, but
everybody's sober. Well, for the most part,” he
said of the experience.
He stayed dean for a year and a half, not
drinking any alcohol and not smoking or using
any drugs. Now, he drinks about once a week
and typically smokes marijuana every day, but
ecstasy is a thing of the past
“I guess at the point I was most disconnected,
I drank every other week, smoked weed every
day and did ecstasy about four times a week,”
he said.
He began drinking and smoking at 16 and
cannot say how. “I don’t know. The day before I
was very anti -drug, and the next day I dedded
to experiment,” he said. Since then, he’s been
to rehab three times - all in-patient programs —
30 days the first time, 20 days the next and six
days the last. He was allowed back at LMU in
Fall 2011, after he “worked hard, stayed sober
the whole time and . . . showed them that [he]
was doing things that [he] wasn’t doing before.”
Getting back into LMU meant a lot to him.
LMU had been his first choice while in high
school, even though attending originally
seemed like a ‘long shot’ to him. And although
his time in sober living impacted his drug and
See Addiction | Page 4
Students must register
for emergency alerts
It was during this period of heaviest use
that he could really see the negative impacts
of his addiction. It ruined the relationship
he had with his father. “Pretty much all my
relationships were in pretty bad standing in
one way or another. I really couldn't do college
in that state. ... On a deeper level, I really
couldn't live life; I couldn’t function properly,”
he said, adding that he has since rebuilt his
relationship with his father.
Still, he’s tom about his current substance
usage.
“Not really. No, that’s a lie. Yeah, I feel lazier
... and maybe a little forgetful sometimes.
Not a little. Forgetful,” he said about how his
alcohol and marijuana use plays into his life
now.
NG AFFIRMATI
Opinion Intern Amanda
Kotch calls for a modernized
affirmative action policy that
still embraces diversity
without racial discrimination.
Opinion, Page 6
Index
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NAILING THE RECESSION
Senior Editor Kenzie O'Keefe
takes a look at how nail polish is
an outlet for glamor during
tough economic times.
A&E, Page 8
Ensuring all students receive
alerts is “imperative” for
officials behind the change.
By Kevin O'Keeffe
Managing Editor
Registration for LMU’s Alert System
(LMU Alert) will now be required for
all students enrolled at the University
in the Fall 2012 semester, according
to a letter sent out Tuesday morning
by Chief of Public Safety Hampton
Cantrell.
The recently mandated system,
which was first discussed late in
the 2010-11 school year, will require
students to sign up before registering
for classes in the Fall 2012 semester.
According to the message students
received, the compulsory registration
is designed “to promote safety and
security.”
LMU Alert, according to Cantrell’s
email, “is a system that allows
the University to send important
information and instructions during
a campus or area-wide incident or
emergency.” A system like LMU
Alert for sending messages (through
texts and emails) to students in
case of emergency is required of all
universities due to the Jeanne Clery
Disclosure of Campus Security Policy
and Campus Crime Statistics Act
(Clery Act), which was passed in
1989.
Officials behind the change consider
the greater reach of the system to
be imperative. “We believe students
being aware of an immediate crisis to
campus is helpful to them in order to
protect themselves and to keep them
out of harm’s way,” said Cantrell in
an interview with the Loyolan. “We
have about 50 percent that are signed
See Alerts | Page 3
Devin Sixt | Loyolan
DPSdiscoversvandalizedcarsin Droll inger
Twenty-three cars in Drollinger Parking Plaza were vandalized with large graffiti markers,
according to Department of Public Safety (DPS) Chief Hampton Cantrell.The vandalism
induded profane language and was discovered by DPS around 1 0 a.m. last Sunday morning.
NEWS FEATURE
Today kicks off the Division of Student Affairs' first ever "Take the Challenge," a weekend-long event that offers alternatives
to drinking and encourages students, faculty and staff members to engage in a sober or binge-free weekend. Because of this,
the Loyolan spoke with two students, both of whom have struggled with drug and alcohol addictions, and both of whom have
asked to remain anonymous. One, a male sophomore business major, continues to drink and smoke marijuana in modera¬
tion. The other, a female sophomore business major, is approaching a year of sobriety. These are their stories.
Sunday marks a year of sobriety for this
sophomore business major. The
19-year-old used to drink alcohol,
smoke marijuana and use other drugs
recreationally before becoming sober.
Graphic: Dol-Anne Asiru | Loyolan Photos: Parker Stateman and Devin Sixt | Loyolan
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