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October 6, 2011
Volume 90, Issue 9
Your Home. Your Voice. Your Newspaper.
Loyola Marymount University
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Future of
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Dol-Anne Asiru | Loyolan
The 201 0 Annual Security Report recently released by the Department of Public Safety (DPS)
displays data that show an increase in seven categories. To account for these increases, DPS
Chief Hampton Cantrell said that over the past three years, the department has"increased our
reporting of these incidents on campus in terms of actually making sure that our public safety
officers take a report." DPS Assistant Chief Patricia Coffelt added that there seems to be an
increased willingness for Student Housing to call DPS following these incidents.
Class connects LMU and Middle East
Upcoming class will be offered
to students at United Arab
Emirates University via video.
Monika Kim
News Intern
LMU is not just a 17-hour plane
flight away from the A1 Ain campus of
the United Arab Emirates University
- it is also worlds away from the
remote, Arab-Islamic school. Despite
the 11-hour time difference and the
tremendous dissimilarity between
students attending the universities,
LMU will be introducing a course
in the upcoming spring semester
which will bring the two contrasting
campuses together.
“It’s the first time ever where,
instead of civilizations clashing,
civilizations are cooperating in
an educational mode,” said LMU
Lecturer and Asian Pacific Studies
Scholar Thomas Plate.
Plate will teach the class, “Media
and Politics of Asia,” to two groups
of students who will be in classrooms
more than 7,000 miles apart. These
students, who will be connected
via Internet, will be able to easily
communicate and interact with each
other during each session.
“We’re breaking new ground,” said
LMU senior Asian Pacific studies
See Class | page 5
NEWS ANALYSIS
A recent Pew study indicates
that many people don’t feel
connected to their local paper.
By Tierney Finster
News Editor
Youthiul boys and girls toss tightly-rolled
papers onto green front lawns while riding
their bikes, information-hungry parents
pour over the morning paper at breakfast,
and sentimental mothers clip out interesting
articles to show to their children or friends
later.
Although these idealizations are veiy
familiar to many Americans, recent studies
and reports indicate that individuals
today feel extremely disconnected to print
newspapers, possibly due to a strong presence
of online news outlets and aggregating sites.
The Pew Research Center’s Project for
Excellence in Journalism recently conducted
a news consumption survey which revealed
that 69 percent of the Americans questioned
asserted they would have no problem keeping
up with local news if their community’s
newspaper no longer existed.
“I think it’s sad but not surprising given
the trend of the last decade or more," said
LMU English professor and award-winning
journalist Lynell George in reaction to this
statistic.
Director of Student Media and former
journalist Tom Nelson pointed out that a
reliance on non-traditional sources for news is
just one aspect of a larger cultural shift.
“The way you buy plane tickets, order pizza
and watch a movie - that has all changed in
the last 20 years. It’s even changed in the last
two years. Those services are based on how
people send and receive information, which
in today’s society changes quickly. . . . There is
this informational agnosticism that is going
See Newspaper | page 2
Apple co-founder and former CEO passes away
Students react to inventor and
entrepreneur Steve Jobs’ death.
By Kasey Eggert and Monika Kim
Loyolan Staff
Apple Inc. announced the death
of its previous CEO, Steve Jobs on
Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. He was 56
years old. According to the Associated
Press, his death has been attributed
to pancreatic cancer, a disease he
had been afflicted with since 2003.
Jobs was the creative and innovative
force behind Apple for several years,
having founded the company in his
family’s garage in 1976 with his
longtime friend, Steve Wozniak.
“The way Steve Jobs implemented
technology really made the company
what it is today,” said junior theater
and history double major Lindsey
Scanlon.
Although Jobs was the initial
founder of Apple Computers, he
departed from the company in
1985 after a number of executives
pressured him into leaving his
position. However, he returned
as CEO in 1997, and reinvented
the corporation’s image as well as
restored its popularity around the
globe. He resigned again in August
2011 due to health concerns related
to his ongoing battle with pancreatic
cancer.
Immediately following Jobs’
passing, Apple Inc. honored his
contributions to the corporation with
a full-page spread on its homepage.
“People will naturally lose trust
in Apple [because of Steve Jobs’s
death], but I don’t think the quality
[of Apple products] will drop,” said
junior business major Lisa Nicchi.
See Jobs | page 2
AP Images
Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976. He helped to create the Macintosh computer.
Flashback: '90s edition
Arls ond Entertainment Editor Kevin
O’Keeffe reflects on the Nickelodeon
shows ond '90s phenomena that raised
and defined a generation.
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