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VOLUME 96 I ISSUE 1 1
Campus celebrates life of Bianca Red Arrow
Sophomore Bianca Red Arrow
was found dead Monday; her
death is still being investigated.
Kellie Chudzinski
Edjtor-in-Chief
@LALoyolan
LMU student Bianca Red Arrow,
sophomore political science major and
member of Kappa Alpha Theta, was
found dead at a Redondo Beach hotel on
Monday, according Redondo Beach Police
Department (RBPD). Red Arrow was from
Mooresvffle, N.C ., and was 19 years old.
The cause of
Red Arrow’s
death is stillunder
investigation by
the RBPD and
the L.A. County
Coroner’s
Department ,
according to
Sgt. Michael
Martinez of
RBPD.
Students, faculty
and staff gathered
Tuesday night for a vigil on the steps of
Sacred Heart Chapel. Fr. Jim Erps, director
of campus ministry, led the ceremony. In his
opening remarks, Erps called for the vigil to
be a celebration of Red Arrow’s life - a life he
described to be filed with light and love.
“The vigil ... is a tangible way for us to
remember and celebrate her life,” Dean of
Students Jeanne Ortiz said.
Candles and choir sheet music were
passed out to the crowd gathered around
the stairs of the chapel. The ceremony
started with multiple rings of the tower
bell. A group of students, led by Red
Arrow’s Kappa Alpha Theta sisters,
gathered closer to the steps, holding
sunflowers to be placed within the chapel.
“When someone young is unexpectedly
taken from us, we recall the the people we
take for granted in our lives,” Erps said, as
he asked the gathered crowd to think of the
last time they told their parents, friends
and family that they loved them.
News of Red Arrow’s death has had a
significant impact on her sorority sisters
and those close to her.
“The women of Kappa Alpha Theta
are deahng with a tremendous loss right
now, and I think it is fair to say that their
hearts are broken,” Director of Sorority &
Fraternity Life Briana Maturi said in an
email to the Loyolan.
Senior, dance major and Theta member
Abby Miller was close with Red Arrow
and remembers the excitement she felt
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ILL SEE HER
IN EVERY
SUNNY
-ABBY MILLER
Senior dance major
Kevin Chan | Loyolan
Mourners gathered around the Sacred Heart Chapel to pay their respects to Bianca Red Arrow during a vigil on Tuesday night.
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Annual Study Abroad Fair exposes
students to opportunities abroad
LMU's annual study abroad fair took place on Nov. 7 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
at Alumni Mall. Students came to the event to learn more about study abroad
opportunities. Depending on a student's major, LMU offers various study abroad
options. This fair is meant to peak interest, and help students decide what
program is their best fit. There are over 50 different programs students can
choose from.
New engineering design
building opens for students
New technology provides
possibilities for LMU’s
creative engineering minds.
Megan Loreto
News Intern
@LALoyolan
The Engineering Design Center at
LMU has been newly renovated. The new
building offers engineering students an
opportunity to see their designs come
to life and brings LMU’s engineering
technology to the cutting edge. The
building is located behind the existing
Pereira Hall.
“The most exciting part of the
renovated building is that it will provide
a modernized space for LMU engineering
students to collaborate and work together,”
the chair of mechanical engineering,
professor Matthew Siniawski, said. “Our
students will be working on some pretty
exciting projects in this facility and will
help position LMU to be at the center of
technological innovation.”
The building was dedicated to Robert
Gross, an alumnus from 1977, and his wife
Cheryl Gross by President Snyder on Nov.
2. It will now be called the Robert Gross
Engineering Design Center. It was donated
by Cheryl Gross for her late husband who
received a B.S. in mechanical engineering,
according to LMU This Week.
“I think the budding is super beautiful
and looks like a productive place to work
on projects. It will really be a design
center that will make all the students feel
proud to work in,” said Hashim El Halees,
a junior mechanical engineering major.
“Seniors will most likely use it a lot for
their capstones and it will be used a lot for
AS ME (American Society of Engineers) for
their projects.”
Robert Gross had a career in gas
pipeline engineering
со
-owning Gas
Transmission Systems. Pacific Gas and
Electric company employed Gross for
almost 27 years. “He was a former chair
of the American Gas Association’s Best
Practices/ Benchmarking Program, and
he developed and implemented a cross¬
utility emergency response plan and
training program as the gas engineer
for the California Utility Emergency
Association,” according to LMU This
Week. California Utility Emergency
Association is a part of the California
Office of Emergency Services.
Jose Garcia, a freshman mechanical
engineering major, said, “the EDC has
brand new machines as well as new staff
so if we ever have projects as engineers, or
just any student. . .who want to do research
or build a project, all they have to do is
submit their design to someone who’s
working and they will machine all the parts
for them.” Garcia also said that students
can take advantage of this opportunity
with the permission of a professor.
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