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VOLUME 96 I ISSUE 22
LAPD, LAFD and DPS
hold active shooter drill
The main methods of
action suggested by DPS are
Run, Hide and Fight.
Zhi Jiao Danielle Goh
News Intern
@LALoyolan
As part of LMU’s Active Shooter
Preparedness Month, an annual Active
Shooter and Shelter in place Drill was held
on Feb. 26 at 10:05 a.m. and again at 6:15
p.m. The demonstration works to increase
awareness among students about the
potential dangers of an active shooter.
At 10:05 a.m., a public announcement
and an LMU Alert were sent out via phone
call, text and email to alert members of
the community about the drill.
The Department of Public Safety
(DPS) partnered with the Los Angeles
Police Department (LAPD) and the Los
Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) to
lead a demonstration on active shooter
response in Roski Dining Flail from 11 a.m.
to noon. The demonstration was meant
to showcase how LAPD would respond to
an active shooter situation within their
jurisdiction.
Run, Hide and Fight were the main
suggested methods of action taught
during the demonstration. Identifying
an escape route to a secure location with
closed windows and locked doors is
crucial, those in danger should evacuate
only if it is safe to do so, according to DPS.
If found in such a situation, members of
the community should turn the lights off
and silence their cell phones. Fight only
as a last resort and plan and prepare your
next step. When you’re safe, call 911 first;
then call DPS.
After the demonstration, LAFD took
over to demonstrate how they treat
victims in different safe zones and how
they are transported to hospitals.
“I came into this thinking I was prepared,
but there was a lot I did not know,” said
Jacqueline Dilanchyan, a junior political
science major. “I wished more [students]
would attend and [make] the drill
mandatory for all schools nationwide.”
There was a brief discussion after the
drill where audience members were
invited to share their thoughts.
“The Department of Public Safety is
always actively engaged with the dangers
both occurring and potential,” Jarryd
Tanedo, a sophomore accounting and
applied information management systems
DPS, said. “Whenever a catastrophe ...
occurs, there is always an urgent meeting
with all officers and personnel led by the
chief, Hampton Cantrell. In the main
meeting room, all the news channels
are on the big screen [as we watch] the
aftermath of the attack.”
Cantrell personally addressed the
question of what students can do to help
increase awareness.
“LMU has always been constantly active
in communicating with the students
through text, calls and emails,” said
Cantrell. “We have also been coordinating
with the LAPD and LAFD for annual drills.
Journalism
major and PR
minor added
Due to continued student
interest, LMU has added
two new degree programs.
Kayla Brogan
Asst. News Editor
@LALoyolan
LMU recently announced that they are
adding new majors and minors to the LMU
curriculum. Starting in the Fall of 2018,
students will be able to declare a journalism
major through the English department
underthe Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts.
Aditionally, the College of Communication
and Fine Arts will be introducing a public
relations (PR) minor.
“I think the timing is also strangely
fortuitous because there is so much
attention placed on journalism right now, so
it is also ironically good timing,” said Evelyn
McDonnell, director of the journalism
program and English professor. She added
that student interest was the driving force
behind the creation of this major.
“Journalism at LMU connects the
educational values of the Jesuit and
Marymount traditions and the core
creative and critical practices of the English
Department to the rapidly changing future
of global communication” and is designed
to be hands-on as well as theoretical toe
reate professional journalists, according to
the Journalism program page.
“New academic programs are developed
to meet student demands for subject-
area study, to manifest faculty passions
and to create avenues for in-depth study
of emergent fields,” said Robbin Crabtree,
dean of Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts.
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DPS partnered with LAPD and LAFD to lead a demonstration on active shooter response in
on Tuesday to increase awareness amoung students about the dangers of active shooters.
Hannon Library hosts second annual Edit-a-thon
Students were invited and
“empowered” to create
Wikipedia pages.
Sami Leung
Managing Editor
@LALoyolan
The William Hannon Library’s second
annual Edit-a-thon, with its theme of Art
and Feminism, is working to reverse the
trend that estimated that 90 percent of
Wikipedia editors are male, according to
a survey conducted by Wikipedia in 2011.
Hosted on the third floor of the library on
Feb. 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., students
were invited to create Wikipedia accounts
to contribute to underdeveloped pages
relating to those topics.
The majority of those editors are Western
males, marking a discrepancy in the
source of Wikipedia edits, even in articles
discussing issues like pregnancy and
abortion, according to Aljazeera America.
“We want to empower students to
become creators of information, rather
than just consumers,” Jack Johnson, head
of outreach and communications outreach
department at the library and an organizer
of the event, said. “We’re trying to
encourage people who have different life
experiences and who come from different
backgrounds to add their perspectives
to Wikipedia so that it becomes the true
universal source of human knowledge.”
All Wikipedia editors are volunteers,
coming from a variety of backgrounds.
The English Wikipedia currently has
over 33 million users with a registered
username, with 250,0 0 0 accounts being
created every month, according to
Wikipedia. By having students create an
account, Johnson hopes to get them one
step closer to being able to edit Wikipedia
and “contribute their voices.”
“I think it's important to know how to
cite your work because everyone’s specific
work is really important, so you want to
give them their full representation when
you’re using their work,” Erica Moy, a
senior communication studies major, said.
Some professors in the women and gender
studies department had their classes come
to the event to educate students on the
discrepancy of information and have them
contribute to underdeveloped articles.
Dr. Jennifer Moorman had students
in her Gender, Race, and Sexuality in
Contemporary Society sections previously
complete a project to fix entries related to
those topics.
“It allows students to come to better
understand Wikipedia as a source of
knowledge production, its limitations and
what is useful about it,” said Moorman.
“Most assignments, like papers, they’re
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Students Kristen Corbett (left) and Jessica Swift (right) talk with women and gender studies professor Theresa Yugar at the Edit-a-thon.
