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VOLUME 96
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I ISSUE 8
Reports of peeping Toms resurface
Recent reports of a peeping
Tom have raised concerns in the
off-campus student community.
Matt Gaydos
Managing Editor
@LALoyolan
LMU students living off campus in the
Westchester area are again reporting peeping
Tom incidents, as recent as last Wednesday
at 10 :3 0 p.m, according to a post in the newly
founded LMU Student Watch Facebook
Group. Students living off campus have
formed the Facebook group, in response
to an increase in peeping Tom reports this
semester, according to the first post.
The last incident reported in the Facebook
group on October 11 included a photo of
the alleged assailant — who has matched
previous descriptions of a middle aged
man with dark hair and facial hair — from a
security camera.
“The first incident was last winter, but the
cameras caught him walking around our yard
and peering into peoples windows. Since
then, we have installed even more cameras,”
Nikki Rathbone, a senior marketing and
women in gender studies double major, said.
Rathbone and her roommates believe the
alleged peeping Tom turned cameras around
to face the wall, showing he knew' where their
cameras w'ere located.
Kasey Sobierajski, a senior communications
studies major w'ho also lives in the Westchester
area, camefaceto face withthe alleged assailant
when she and her roommate were coming
home from dinner. According to Sobierajski,
they saw him lurking in their backyard and
quickly called LAPD. Sobierajski said the man
wasgonebythetime LAPD arrived.
OFF-CAMPUS SAFETY
ADVICE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
^ *
• Notify LAPD of any suspicious
activity at or near their homes
• Provide DPS or Off-Campus
Student Life with a courtesy
notification about what occurred,
include the LAPD report number.
• Focus on reporting behavior:
suspicious person looking in
windows or cars, trespasser,
shaking of door knobs, etc.
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Oct 11, were posted to the group.
LMU students in houses in Weschester have been reporting sightings of a peepingTom and have provided pictures of a suspect.
Students have also contacted the
Department of Public Safety (DPS ) in regards
to the peepingTom incidents, who said there
was not much they could do besides taking a
report on the incident.
At their meeting with DPS, Sobierajski
said they were told that “[DPS] can’t tend to
things like that off campus for a few reasons .”
The reasons DPS gave were not wanting
to interfere w'ith law' enforcement, not
having enough officers to patrol off campus
and officers not being armed to deal with
any life threatening situations, according
to Sobierajski.
“LMU Public Safety does not have
enforcement jurisdiction in the
neighborhood, so we cannot respond to in-
progress calls or provide safety patrols off-
campus,” Chief of Public Safety Hampton
Cantrell told the Loyolan in an email.
According to Chief Cantrell, DPS responds
to off campus complaints of any student
parties or disruptive behavior for purely
administrative reasons — not to enforce any
ordinances. He says that these responses are
based off of an agreement with the city and
neighborhood surrounding LMU’s campus.
Chief Cantrell and DPS advise that LMU
students living off campus report any
suspicious behavior to the LAPD if they
want enforcement action and after give DPS
a notification of the incident. According to
Chief Cantrell, this is so the University “can
then follow-up with LAPD about trends and
safety recommendations.”
Rathbone believes the problem is that
LAPD has not been fast enough in responding
to their reports of the peeping Tom.
“Because the guy has never tried to
break in, it essentially isn’t a priority for
them,” Rathbone said. “They have been
cooperative in listening to us and obtaining
details, but our frustration lies in them not
sending out cars or officers to us when we
call shortly after seeing the peeping Tom.”
ASLMU President Hayden Tanabe told
the Loyolan that he has met with Senior
Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Lane
Bove and Dean of Students Dr. feannie
Ortiz this w'eek and is planning to meet
with Chief Cantrell soon. Tanabe plans
to comment about what he and the LMU
community would like to happen after
that meeting.
Jose Aguila | Loyolan
“Collaborators in Creation”
praises LMU’s global progress
LMU's 16th president Timothy Law Snyder presented his second convocation
address titled “Collaborators in Creation" on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 11:30 a.m. in
Sacred Heart Chapel. In his address, Snyder praised LMU's recent achievements,
including the Playa Vista campus, increased diversity in tenured faculty, a newly
restructured market and communications organization and record breaking
number of applicants. Snyder also stressed inclusivity and openness to creativity
and imagination, instead of only the logical and the observable to increase
interdiciplinary thought and problem-solving collaborative creativity. "Together, let
us resolve to create with purpose and with boundless energy and copious joy on
this bluff and beyond the definitive center for global imagination as collaborations
in creation," Snyder said.
J. Royer honored
with theatre award
The ATHE play writing award
will be named after LMU
professor Judith Royer.
Kayan Tara
Asst. News Editor
@LALoyolan
After over 35 years as a Theater
Arts professor at LMU, Judith Royer,
is receiving the honor of having a
playwriting award re-named after her.
The Association for Theatre in Higher
Education (ATHE) wdll now annually
give out the Judith Royer Excellence in
Playw'riting Award. Royer has previously
been honored by ATHE, in 2008, with
the Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in
Higher Education Award and is currently
the Director for LMU’s Center for CSJ
Reconciliation and Justice and the
director/producer for the Playwrights
Center Stage new play series.
ATHE, a nonprofit organization
founded in 1986, serves to support
and develop theatre education at
colleges and universities, working with
administrators, educators, graduate
students and theatre practitioners. As
a founding member of the organization,
Royer was a part of the team that founded
the excellence in playwriting award,
originally called the ATHE Award for
Excellence in Playwriting.
“I didn’t know they were thinking of
putting somebody’s name on the award,
which they do once in a while, so it did
come as a complete surprise,” said Royer.
“I’m really proud of being part of the
award because [it supports] playwrights.
Without new plays, we begin to be
historians or a library of past plays all of
which is wonderful but we’re not adding
to the field.”
According to Royer, simply studying
works of the past is not enough. She
hopes this award will help break the
cycle of focusing solely on old plays by
supporting playwrights and helping them
develop and promote their new plays.
Actively supporting new playwrights and
their plays has always been extremely
important to Royer, because “in this day
and age, productions and publication of
new plays is so difficult. This award is
really significant in that it gets new plays
out there.”
Along with the recognition, the
recipient of the award in playwriting
receives a staged reading of their play at
the conference where the awards are given
out. The conference holds producers and
theatre educators who could potentially
produce the annual recipient’s new work
of art, according to Royer.
Playwrights and Creative Teams Focus
Group (PACT) representative Rodger
D. Sorenson proposed that the ATHE
Award for Excellence in Playwriting be
named after Royer. The letter proposed
that through this act ATHE would be
recognizing Royer for the significant
impact she has had upon educational and
professional theatre in America.
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