The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 91, Issue 29 - February 11, 2013

со uu U-l о z < on о LOYO LAN ESTABLISHED V February 11, 2013 Volume 91, Issue 29 www.laloyolan.com YOUR HOME. YOUR VOICE. YOUR NEWS. LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY Students organize Valentine’s dance strike One Billion Rising, a global activist movement, will host die dance strike Thursday during Convo. By Jenna Abdou News Intern “Who doesn’t want to go to a global dance strike on Valentine’s Day?” said Victoria Brown, senior sociology major and member of the One Billion Rising team at LMU. This Valentine’s Day, people from 189 countries around the world will unite to dance to raise awareness about violence against women and girls. One BillionRisingis aglobal activist movement that is “demanding change and expressing outrage” about rape culture around the world, stated Brown. According to a United Nations statistic on the One Billion Rising website, “One in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.” This adds up to “one billion women being violated,” according to the same website. This statistic inspired Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues,” to create One Billion Rising and the worldwide Valentine’s Day campaign. During their Alternative Breaks trip to the Philippines, Brown and Denise Villanueva, junior biology See Dance | Page 4 Leslie Irwin | Loyolan Annual volleyball competition raises money to promote literacy Students competed in Pi Beta Phi sorority's annual Arrowspike event, which raises money to promote literacy through the sorority's philanthropy, First Book,on Feb.9 at Sunken Garden.Students formed teams of sixto play volleyball, with a team from the Sigma Chi fraternity winning the men's division, while a team from the women's dub volleyball team won the women's. For more photos, check out the Loyolan's Facebook page. Leslie Irwin | Loyolan FAW closes with panel on religion and politics University President David W. Burcham (far left) moderated a panel made up of (second left to right) author and philosophy professor Dr. Christopher Kaczor, Director for Jewish Student Services and Hillel Rabbi liana Schachter and Islam expert and theology professor Dr. Amir Hussain on Feb. 7 in Ahmanson Auditorium.The panel discussed issues of religious bias on the part of politicians, and then took questions from the approximately 60 audience members. Love is in the air at Sacred Heart Chapel While LMU currently hosts numerous weddings, marriage in die Chapel wasn’t always allowed. By Allison Croley Asst. News Editor Picture this: The air is warm, the sun is out, there is a light breeze. People are gathered inside Sacred Heart Chapel. Most of them know each other, all of them smiling. A priest stands at the altar with a man dressed in a tux. A beautiful woman dressed in white appears at the Chapel doors and starts walking slowly down the isle. People are crying and laughing at the same time. The man at the altar has never seen anyone so beautiful. Sound like a fairytale? According to Fr. John Galvan, S.J. who oversees infant baptisms, marriages and confirmations at LMU, Sacred Heart Chapel is where wedding “dreams come true.” Maybe it is true that some students dream of standing at the altar in Sacred Heart Chapel on their big day. Maybe some students realize after they graduate that getting married in Sacred Heart Chapel is best for them. With 20 to 30 weddings held in Sacred Heart Chapel per year - according to Director of Campus Ministry Fr. James Erps, S.J. — it seems that LMU weddings are a natural tradition. However, weddings in the chapel were not always allowed. “Originally, [from the building of the Chapel in 1953] the diocese did not allow any marriages in Sacred Heart,” Erps stated in an email to the Loyolan. Erps explained that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles sets the rules for marriages in parishes, and because Sacred heart isn’t a chapel there are special sets of rules. Since the 1950s, those rules have changed. According to Erps, people were allowed to have weddings in Sacred Heart Chapel by the 1970s. Only full-time LMU students and faculty are eligible to get married in Sacred Heart Chapel, according to See Weddings | Page 5 Senior snowboarder Kaylee Taylor rides a hill of success towards the regional and national competitions. Sports, Page 1 6 QUEST FOR FAME Freshman singer-songwriter Hailey Rowe debuts the video for her song, у Boyfriend is Gay." A&E, Page 1 1 Index THURS FRi Classifieds . 5 ^""4 Opinion . 6 V— ✓ 4^/ Cartoon . 9 61'-45“ 63“-47' A&E . 11 SAT SUN Sports . 1 6 64" - 50 ‘ 67"- 53" Tlir next Issue of the loyolan will be printed on Feb. 1 4, 201 3. QUEEN OF THE SLOPES