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VOLUME 98 I ISSUE 18
GENDER AND INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITIES
LIVING LEARNING COMMUNITY
Information compiled by Haley LaHa, news intern
LMU is introducing this new Living Learning Community (LLC)
for the fall 2020 semester.
Students in the LLC will be given service opportunities with
Queer, Transgender and Intersex People of Color
(QTI POQ-focused nonprofits in L.A., according to Lalo Moreno,
director of LGBT Student Services and Intercultural Initiatives.
In partnership with the Ignatian Leadership Institute, students
in the program will take two courses together during the year,
focusing on the psychology of gender and queer leadership
group methodologies.
The new LLC will be in one of the new pod-style residence
halls currently being constructed in East Quad.
Graphic: Kate Leahy | Loyolan
New LGBTQ
Living Learning
Community to
come to campus
The new group will allow
students to grow in the context
of gender and sexual identity.
Haley LaHa
News Intern
@LALoyolan
The Gender and Interseetional
Identities Living Learning Community
(LLC) will be located in one of
the new pod- style residence halls
currently being constructed on East
Quad. The particular building has
not been selected yet, but will begin
in fall of 2020.
The LLC aims to give students a
greater understanding of gender
and sexuality in their developing
role as leaders through community
building, discussions, reflection
and experiences in the greater Los
Angeles area.
See LLC | Page 2
Iowa Democratic caucuses
After a long-anticipated caucus, the Democratic Party
delayed Iowa results after they observed widespread
reporting issues going on between the Iowa Democratic
Party and Iowa precincts, according to CNN,
At press time, 71% of the Iowa precincts are
reporting,* according to The New York Times.
*Pie chart shows percentage of votes per candidate, number of pledged
delegates mentioned in data.
Others 1.5%
0 pledged delegates
Information compiled by
Isabella Murillo, news editor
Graphic: Alena Copeland | Loyolan
Clubs and orgs host first
annual 'hackalhon'
Students get creative in a
computer programming
competition.
Kennedi Hewitt
News Intern
@LALoyolan
LMU hosted its first annual
'hackathon' on Saturday, Feb. 1 in
an effort to encourage students to
apply their knowledge to computer
programming. The event, which was
open to all majors, was hosted by the
following LMU chapters: Society of
Women Engineers (SWE), Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) and the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM).
“A hackathon is an event where a
group of people (or 'hackers') form
small teams and collaborate to build
a minimum -viable product within a
limited period of time," according to
the LMUHacks website. Additionally,
the hackathon welcomed sponsors
from Tech Empower and Mozilla.
The day began at 10 a.m. with an
opening ceremony, followed by team
building activities. Soon after, a series
of workshops commenced which taught
the student participants a variety of new
skills. Throughout the day, the different
teams created projects in the form of
applications, websites and more.
The final projects were judged in five
categories: Best Ffeshman/Transfer Student
Hack, Most Creative Hack, Best Hack for
Good, TechEmpower’s Best Overall Hack and
Mozilla’s Stateof the Internet Hack. The judges
included professors BJ Johnson, Andrew
Forney, Jordan Freitas and the chair of the
computer science department, Ray Toal,
sponsor Bijan Marashi, alumni Jay Patel and
Ryan Taus, and Tfeddy Chu and Kevin Metelus,
both of whom are sponsors and alumni.
One team, consisting of sophomore
entrepreneurship major Briana King,
sophomore electrical engineering major
Alek Yegazarian and freshman civil
engineer major Alghalia Abulhasan,
focused their project on Spotify streams
and using streams as a means of donating
to charity.
“The brainstorming was fun because
we started out with a completely
different idea, and then it went from one
idea to another to the end product. It
was also very interesting to learn how to
create a website,” said Abulhasan.
In one workshop, called the Basic Web
Development Workshop, participants
learned about web design. Yegazarian said,
“I came here not really knowing HTML or
knowing that it’s really like a language.
But I got to work with it and that’s how we
were building our web pages ... It’s really
cool - - 1 want to learn more.”
See Hackathon | Page 2
