The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 97, Issue 3 - September 12, 2018

ф СП I www.LALOYOLAN.com LOYOLAN - EST. 1921 - A new арр takes the hanger out of the morning commute. Two freshman soccer players arrive at LMU from Iceland. Page 6 Page 12 VOLUME 97 I ISSUE 3 SCOTUS nominee ends Senate hearing Kavanaugh is likely to be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice by the end of the month. Sami Leung Managing Editor @LALoyolan at Student Psychological Services, and people can go in and see him and talk to him,” said Siebert. He mentioned that until it is formalized, individuals interested in meeting with Father Siebert and Buster can come to his office or Leavey 5, room 407 for “a visit and hello.” Follow Buster at @lmubuster for updates. New top dog on campus hopes to help students SPS and residential life introduce Buster, an in residence therapy dog. Kayla Brogan News Editor @LALoyolan A three -and -a-half- month -old golden doodle puppy that goes by the name of Buster is LMU’s newest Lion. Buster resides with Leavey 5’s Resident Minister Edward Siebert, who is Buster's primary caregiver. He will soon attend training to become LMU’s first full-time on- campus therapy dog. Buster was adopted a week before school started, and he cannot be trained until he is at least four months old. The training program is an intensive four to five week program where he will be away from campus. He will be trained by a company called IWorkDogs, who will be sending regular updates on his progress back to Siebert, which he hopes to share on Buster’s progress on his Instagram (@lmubuster.) Once his training is finished, he will return to campus where he will apply the skills he learned. Siebert will be trained to work with Buster and learn about the process of his training. Buster’s integration on -campus is expected to begin in the spring of 2019. Full integration will begin in the fall of 2019. Siebert hopes that Buster will also act as a school mascot. “I am a big fan, he reminds me of my dog who I had to say goodbye to after the summer,” said junior theatre major Sam Bribyl. After his interaction with Buster, Bribyl predicted that the rest of his day was going to be even better. Buster’s disposition is even-tempered and consistently mellow, and as puppies do, he jumps and barks occasionally, but for the most part his demeanor is calm. His mother was a golden doodle and his father was a golden retriever, so he is expected to be a large dog, according to Siebert. “Coming from a stressful class and seeing a dog relieves any stress I had,” senior political science and French double major Anita Marks said. “Reactions are enthusiastically positive,” Director of Student Psychological Services Kristen Linden said. Siebert agreed that the campus reaction has been largely positive. Siebert explained how the dog’s training will also help to socialize Buster to ensure he is acclimated to various types of people, situations and noises that may occur on a college campus. Siebert wants people to know that if they are afraid of dogs, Buster is not going to run up to people and jump on them. He encourages students to get to know the gentle demeanor of Buster. “This was my first experience with Buster, and I think we are definitely going to need more puppies on campus,” senior animation major, Federica Cue said. She mentioned that the puppies that come during finals are a big help, but there needs to be some walking around — so accessibility is increased. Father Siebert hopes that Buster will help make students’ transition from home to campus life more manageable. “It is hard enough to leave your family, let alone your pet. It will be nice to have a connection for a lot of students who love dogs,” said Siebert. “Once he is trained, he will be available Brett Kavanaugh, a DC Circuit Court of Appeals judge and conservative, has been announced as President Donald Trump’s choice to replace retiring Justice, Anthony Kennedy. This will be Trump’s second Supreme Court nomination, with Justice Neil Gorsuch replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia in April 2017. Kavanaugh was questionedby the Senate in a series of public and controversial hearings starting on Tuesday, Sept. 4 until Friday, Sept. 7, according to NPR — his confirmation vote will most likely take place on Sept. 20. One of the main goals of these hearings is to determine how the nominee interprets the Constitution and the consequences of that philosophy on certain issues, according to Kimberly West-Faulcon, the James P. Bradley chair in Constitutional Law and a law professor at Loyola Law School. “One aspect of those hearings that has changed over the last several decades is that they’ve been increasingly less useful in learning what a particular nominee political philosophy is,” West-Faulcon said. “That can include their approach to how they would interpret provisions in the Constitution. Many decades ago, it was much more common for nominees to be more open about that.” Kavanaugh is identified as an “originalist” or “textualist” which is the belief that the Constitutional text should be interpreted by its original meaning. A more liberal judge, a “non-originalist,” beheves in a "living Constitution," where the Constitution should be interpreted in reflection to the context around it. “A judge shouldbe vettedon the perspective See Kavanaugh | Page 2 Lauren Holmes | Loyolan LMU's newest Lion is training to become a therapy dog for SPS. He will recieve formal training and is getting to know the campus community. V\ ■i 1 ' r J , *- - '- 7 » 7 . /' ' г.-аЛКа- • -.'■sw-rr- ■ Emily Sullivan I Loyola Victims of 9/11 rememberei with Memorial on Lawton Plaza Seventeen years after the events of 9/11, LMU joined the nation in celebratingthe lives lost duringthe attack with a display on Lawton Plaza. The Young Americans for Freedom club coordinated the display and assembled 2997 flags to represent the victims and to remember those who were lost. Adarr Duarte, president of the club said the display was to, "honor all those who died in the devastating terrorist attacks that shocked our nation."