The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 97, Issue 15 - January 16, 2019

VOLUME 97 ISSUE 15 WWW.LALOYOLAN.COM LOYOLAN JANUARY 16, 2019 The Laband Art Gallery is opening an exhibit focusing on molestation in the Catholic Church. For the full story, see page 12. EST. 1921 When women came to Loyola How one sister's vision influenced the creation of LMU as we know it today. Sofia Acosta News Intern @LALoyolan Part two of a two-part series. The women were welcomed onto the Loyola campus with male students waiting at the entrance, making enough noise to echo throughout the neighborhood. “Most of them were really excited the day we arrived here at 2 a.m.,” said Sister Raymunde, the president of Marymount College at the time. “They had chimes.” Upon the arrival of the Marymount women, a lot of construction was needed to make the merge possible, including the construction of the Foley building, made possible by the donation of Edward Foley. However, he would often instigate arguments regarding the merger, according to Sister Raymunde. The first year of the affiliation led to a great deal of shenanigans by the two rivaling sides — the Marymount girls and the Loyola boys, who referred to themselves as such. Loyola Marymount's "A Centennial History" described a particular late night trick in October of 1968. After a false fire alarm went off in the boys' dorm at 11 p.m., the Loyola boys hosted a “1950s-style panty raid." They yelled “merger” throughout the chaos as the women looked down from their own dorm room windows. See Merger | Page 3 via University Archives, William H. Hannon Library 2018 marked the 15th anniversary of Loyola University and Marymount College merging into a coeducational institution, a coming together of two rivaling sides - the Marymount girls and the Loyola boys, as they named themselves. Email migration to Outlook has been completed Over the break, email servers for students switched from Gmail to Outlook. Isabella Murillo Asst. News Editor @LALoyolan For over six months, Information and Technology Services (ITS) worked on a migration from Gmail to Outlook email servers, completing the transition over the students' winter break. ITS has cited security and ease of access as reasons for the switch. On Jan. 4, 2019, ITS sent emails to the 15,000 undergraduate students, graduate school students, law school students and alumni with Lion emails about the transition and what to expect. The department predicted that the email migration would begin the evening of Jan. 6 and end by the evening of Jan. 7. Students were given helpful tips to make the transition as smooth as possible, as well as contact information if students needed help. From Jan. 12 to 18, ITS will set up help desks on campus to help students with their questions and concerns. From Jan. 16 to 18, the drop-in location will be on the second floor of the library at Tech on 2 from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. "There's nothing that's been broken when it comes to student support. I think we communicated as best we could," said Michael Carty, the manager of the Help Desk and student technical support, who has been helping students with their emails in person, over the phone and by email. Carty said by far the biggest issues he's seen have been minimal, which he believes is a good sign that such a large transition did not have significant issues, such as missing emails or calendars. "There are the students who either didn't read [the email] or forgot about the transition and are trying to get into Gmail," said Carty. He said that was an easy fix that involved reassuring students to log in on Outlook instead. Another issue a lot of students have been sharing is the inability to add their new student email address to their iPhone mailbox, however, students with Androids do not have the same issue. "There's a couple different options and a lot of people just naturally choose Outlook.com [to log in], which is not the correct one," said Carty. "The correct one [to select] is [Microsoft] Exchange. And so, once you do that, everything's fine. It's minor things like that. " In a previous article on the migration, ITS discussed how the student email switch was a decision made with GSLMU and ASLMU. Furthermore, it acts as the third phase of the larger Outlook transition. Originally, LMU faculty and staff had their email accounts switched in May 2018, followed by a second phase See Email | Page 2 Over 30,000 L.A. teachers on strike Several months of unsuccessful negotiation resulted in the first teachers' strike in 30 years. Kayan Tara Asst. News Editor @LALoyolan On a rainy Monday morning, over 30,000 Los Angeles public school teachers walked out in protest . For the first time in 30 years, L.A. teachers are on strike, protesting for smaller class sizes, better pay and more support staff at schools, according to The New York Times. While roughly 500,000 students are enrolled in the L.A. school district, only about 141,631 students attended school on Monday, as reported by the L.A. Times. Since 90 percent of the district’s funding comes from the state of California, the district has lost about $25 million in attendance and saved $10 million in unpaid wages, according to Los Angeles Daily News. The strike became inevitable when negotiations came to a standstill on Friday afternoon, Jan. 11, between United See Strike! Page 2