The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 95, Issue 17 - January 25, 2017

J ■л0ОАШаёШ> LOYOLAN www.LALOYOLAN.com EST. 1921 Inauguration Teach-In engages LMU community The Inauguration Teach-In allowed people to discuss issues related to Trumps election. Bri Ortiz Asst. News Editor @LALoyolan In response to Donald Trump's Inauguration as the 45th President of the United States, many events were held nationwide, city-wide and campus-wide. LMU held the Inauguration Day Teach-In, where students, faculty and staff were able to view the inauguration and engage in different breakout sessions across the campus. “Now, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America [...] do hereby proclaim Jan. 20, 2017, as National Day of Patriotic Devotion, in order to strengthen our bonds to each other and to our country — and to renew the duties of government to the people.” After a live-stream of the inauguration, where this excerpt was played in the Life Science Building's auditorium and The Hilton Center for Business, students, faculty and staff were able to choose a designated breakout session that the teach-in offered. The breakout sessions that were offered ranged in topics from sanctuaries in Los Angeles to environmental crises; all sessions had some type of correlation to the past, present and future of American democracy. These sessions were about an hour and a half long. According to the LMU website, this teach-in was formed to help invite dialogue between the different communities at LMU depending on the topic that each person chose to attend. Here is a bit of an insight on five sessions that were covered: See Teach-In | Page 2 Lauren Holmes | Loyolan Students who attended one of the teach-in breakout sessions were able to discuss topics with others depending on the session they attended. Should we re-evaluate our standards for what constitutes as a role model? Rind out why the Raiders and Chargers are relocating. Page 18 Page 9 VOLUME 95 I ISSUE 17 Harris joins coalition in fight against Trump Kamala Harris and fellow California legislators to voice their disapproval of Trump. Jaqueline McCool News Intern @LALoyolan The Former Attorney General of California, Kamala Harris, will start her time in the United States Senate this January, and she has already been vocal about her opposition to the new administration. Harris is the second African American woman and the first Indian American woman to be elected to the Senate. Her platform of criminal justice reform has drawn attention, and the media, as well as other elected officials, have drawn comparisons between Harris and Barack Obama. Harris has put out a variety of press releases since her election in November, many of which publicly denounce President Trump and his cabinet’s platforms. Social Media Director for the LMU College Democrats, A.J. Smith, believes Harris has already made a name for herself by doing this. See Kamala | Page 5 Lincoln fountain returns from two year hiatus The geyser fountain on LMU Drive is turned back on after two years of drought. Sami Leung Asst. News Editor @LALoyolan LMU’s signature Lincoln Fountain located at the University’s main entrance is up and running once again. The fountain was first turned off in July 2014 to perform maintenance and upgrades. This was also in response to Gov. Jerry Brown’s emergency state rule requiring outdoor water constrictions and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) commercial and residential water conservation programs. “I think it’s cool they have it on right now, especially since it’s been off for so long,” Kaitlyn McGloin, a sophomore math major, said. “It’s really pretty to see while driving down Lincoln.” According to John Kiralla, vice president of Marketing and Communications for LMU, the University had periodically received negative feedback from visitors and on-campus community members in response to the shut-off of LMU’s iconic fountain. “Lincoln fountain has become our most visible landmark, and it symbolically represents our shift from a small neighborhood campus to a University engaged with the world on one of the most heavily traveled arteries on the West Coast,” Kiralla said. Kiralla said that the fountain recycles its water, while losing 3 percent of its water volume annually to spills and evaporation. LMU has also implemented other water conservation efforts since the shut off of the fountain, including the installation of low flow faucets and shower heads and replacing plants with heavy water requirements with drought -tolerant plants. Water is being collected from the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems on the roof of the Life Science Building to water the gardens and the grass on Drollinger Field has been replaced with with artificial turf. “Since the fountain was turned off, the University completed comprehensive water conservation efforts that save about two million gallons annually,” Kiralla said in an email to the Loyolan. “Those water savings offset Lincoln Fountain’s annual refill rate of 1,350 gallons by many orders of magnitude.” The fountain uses a recirculation pump, which is permissible under LADWP’s water conservation guidelines. See Fountain | Page 4 Riis IrvingrPeterson | Loyolan The fountain on LMU Drive can be seen while driving near LMU's campus on Lincoln.