The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 96, Issue 9 - October 25, 2017

, 15^2 о ;> «sfe®- www.LALOYOLAN.coi л ‘Зр&ШпёШ LOYOLAN n .J EST. 1921 Bluff Investigates: LMU volleyball is Where is your donated growing, even if the bbod really going? stats don't show it. Page 16 Page 17 VOLUME 96 I ISSUE 9 New sexual assault reporting system made available to students Halloween, the end of the semester, spring break and graduation are when schools’ Callisto websites have their highest traffic, suggesting higher rates of sexual assault during that time. • _ /W .x Apr May Aug Sept "[Callisto] is not just another tool to report, it’s a way to give people choices about what they want to do with their information and to protect their information." Sara Trivedi, Title IX coordinator. , . Visit LMU.CallistoCampus.org Less than 10% of survivors will ever report their assault 11 Months Survivors wait an average of 11 months to report their assuit to authorities, during which valuable details may be forgotten Sara Trivedi, LMU's Title IX coordinator, hopes Project Callisto will provide victims with a safe place to report sexual assaults. Title IX office launches Project Callisto, an online program for reporting sexual assaults. Sami Leung Asst. News Editor @LALoyolan Project Callisto, a survivor- centered program for reporting sexual assault, has come to LMU. The program officially launchedlastThursday, Oct. 19, andis now live and available for all students. Project Callisto, founded byThe University of San Francisco, features three key components: Record, Report and Match. Record allows survivors to write down details of the incident in the comfort of their rooms and in the company of someone they can choose. The details of the incident are password protected and can only be accessed by the survivor. According to Project Callisto ’s website, survivors wait an average of 11 months to report their assault to authorities, during which valuable details may be forgotten. Sara Trivedi, the Title IX coordinator at LMU, said she appreciates that the new program will allow students to record at their own pace in an environment they are comfortable in and with the ability to stop the report if they get overwhelmed. “After I gave my report [to Public Safety], I said I did not want to go any further at that time,” Monica De Jesu, a junior communications studies major, said. “However, for the next three weeks I was continuously called and emailed by my SARA and Public Safety, which I understand is necessary, but the calls and emails were a daily reminder of what had happened. Overall, I was not impressed with how my situation was handled.” The next feature, Report, gives survivors the option to send that report to Public Safety. Students still have a choice on whether or not they want to pursue judicial action. According to Callisto, less than 10 percent of survivors will ever report their assault. “I want to keep the student in control as long as we can, until the student makes that choice,” Trivedi said. “If you are experiencing or have experienced any kind of sexual misconduct, you’ve already been in a situation where you are, by definition, out of control. The more we can give people those choices and empower them, that’s always my preference to do that for the students.” See Sexual Assault | page 3 Registrar initiates program The registrar office made the transition from CAPP reports to DegreeWorks this semester. Olivia Round interim News Editor @LALoyolan This semester, students were introduced to the registrar’s new degree audit system, DegreeWorks, which will replace the CAPP Report. All students who enrolled during or after fall 2014 are now in this new program. For those students, from here on out, adjustments to students’ degree audit will take place in DegreeWorks only; their CAPP reports have been frozen. Students enrolled prior to fall 2014 — about two percent of LMU’s student population — will still be using CAPP, according to University Registrar Kathy Reed. The change took place mainly for reasons of efficiency, according to Reed. “CAPP Report was created in 2001, and obviously in 16 years a lot of things change,” Reed said. Elucian, the company that owns the system that LMU uses for student records, went through a major overhaul and no longer fully supports CAPP, according to Reed. The office saw this as an opportunity to move to a new system that created greater clarity for advisors and students alike. See Registrar | page 4 BTLS4SAM honors student Matt Goddard | Loyolan In the 9th annual BTLS4SAM event, the LMU community honored former student Sam Wasson, who died in a car accident in 2007. Wasson was a theatre student and the money raised goes to a work study student every year. This past year's recipient was Maren English, a junior theatre arts major. 'The LMU theatre community is filled with more love than I have ever been surrounded by and acts as a constant reminder to make Sam and his family proud," English said.