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Bonin
requests
back gate
restriction
The councilman has asked
LMU to limit pedestrian
access from Loyola Boulevard.
Zaneta Pereira
Incoming Editor in Chief
@zanyzaneta
LMU received a letter from L.A.
City Councilman Mike Bonin last fall
that requested the University restrict
pedestrian access to the gated entrance on
Loyola Boulevard.
According to Associate Vice President
of Administration Services Mike
Wong, LMU has “agreed to evaluate
the request and look at some physical
designs as well as the effect on the LMU
community.” The request is currently
being reviewed by a team led by Wong and
including representatives from Facilities
Management, the Department of Public
Safety and Community Relations.
Feedback on the request will be solicited
from students, faculty and staff “over the
next several weeks,” Wong said.
An important aspect of the request that
Bonin stressed in an email to the Loyolan
is that it does not call for the closure of the
gate. “I have not asked LMU to consider
closing the gate or eliminating pedestrian
access to the gate; I have asked them to
consider restricting it,” he said. “It is a
significant difference. I have specifically
requested they implement a key card
system so employees and students who
live nearby would have the opportunity to
access the gate as pedestrians. That has
been a consistent, repeated and integral
part of my request to the University.”
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VOLUME 92 I ISSUE 23
Hannon fire chars apartment
via Student Housing
The Department of Student Housing gave 11 students the opportunity to relocate after an electrical fire broke out in a second-story unit in
Hannon Apartments on Dec. 7. While the room was heavily burnt and showed both smoke and water damage, most furniture remained intact.
Public Safety implements
additional safety measures
following on-campus fire.
Allie Heck
Managing Editor
@allieheck1
This week ushered in another new
semester. Throughout the weekend many
students trickled back onto campus,
unpacking their winter break necessities,
settling back into their already comfortable
rooms and hugging their loved ones goodbye
for another few months.
But for a handful of Hannon apartment
residents whose rooms suffered smoke and
water damage, the fire that broke out in a
second -story apartment on Dec. 7 at 8:40
p.m. meant adjusting to a new home on
campus this week.
“Eleven residents were offered relocation
from three apartments, including the
apartment where the fire took place and the
apartments directly above and below,” said
Director of Student Housing Steven Nygaard.
According to sophomore communication
studies major Caroline Moran, a Hannon
resident in an apartment directly below
the fire that suffered both smoke and water
damage, she was able to move back in on the
Thursday of finals week.
“LMU was a bit disorganized at first, but
we were offered living accommodations
in the Del Rey study rooms and were given
money on our OneCards for food since we all
don’t have meal plans,” said Moran.
Two of LMU’s own Department of Public
Safety (DPS) officers were the first on the
scene of the fire in the apartment, helping
with evacuation and containment after an
anonymous female caller tipped them off
regarding the stench of smoke coming from
the area, according to DPS Chief Hampton
Cantrell. Both of these officers had to be
treated on scene for smoke inhalation, their
involvement reminding the community
about DPS’s dedication and purpose here on
campus.
With the new semester and the new year
well underway, DPS is continuing with its
ongoing “Safety First” campaign, which was
instituted to help engender an understanding
between DPS and the student body regarding
the goals and reasons for its presence on
campus, according to Cantrell.
“It is our effort to educate students and
others in the LMU community about what
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out on the winter TV show "The Sing-Off." Parker's high school a cappella group,
Vocal Rush, finished third in the competition. Turn to Page 7 to check out
Asst. Life+Arts Editor Mary Grace Cerni’s feature article on Parker.
SEIU files for election
Adjunct faculty on campus
are taking their fight for a
union to the national stage.
Kevin O’Keeffe
Editor in Chief
@kevinpokeeffe
The Service Employees International
Union (SEIU) has filed for an election that
many are calling the first big step towards
adjunct faculty at LMU forming a union. In
fact , S EIU filed for the election twice .
In a quirk of the unionization process
that the Loyolan first reported on last
November, SEIU submitted a petition for
a vote of LMU’s adjunct faculty on two
separate occasions. Should the vote pass, a
union would be established on campus for
part-time faculty. But the double filing has
caused some confusion.
According to Dr. Arik Greenberg, a part-
time theological studies professor at LMU,
the purpose of second filing was to allow
time to amass more support among adjunct
faculty. SEIU’s second filing comes from “a
place of strength, not weakness,” Greenberg
said. However, Greenberg alleged, “Whether
it was an accidental misunderstanding or
a deliberate tactic ... some members of the
administration put out the word that SEIU
hadto refile” - a markedly different position
than what Greenberg reported.
Terrence Long, a representative for SEIU,
couldn’t explain the need to refile when
he spoke with the Loyolan. A request for
clarification was not responded to by print
deadline.
The double filing confusion represents a
greater shift in tone the unionization battle
has taken since November, starting with the
negative reception for Vice President and
Provost Joseph Hellige’s letter to part-time
faculty in November and coming to a head as
the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
prepares to set the terms for the vote.
Hellige’s letter offered information
about SEIU’s movements on campus at the
time, including clarifying that the LMU
Contingent Faculty Network (CFN), a group
of adjuncts passionate about improving
conditions for non-tenure track faculty on
campus, were responsible for bringing SEIU
to campus, not LMU administrators.
Greenberg described some faculty who felt
“immediately galvanized” after receiving
Hellige’s letter. “There were some people
who did perceive it as a tacit, undercurrent
threat,” he added.
Greenberg also took issue with Hellige’s
representation of signing a union support
card as an authorization for “the union to
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