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VARSITY FOOTBALL CUBS kicked off their preseason with a promisng 48-6 win over the Harvard-Westlake Wolverines last Friday. The Cubs hope to main-tain their positive momentum in the game tonight against Lakewood High School at L.A. Valley College. SPORTS, 12

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By STEPHEN REILLY

Nearly four years ago, a committee tasked with planning a series of events to celebrate Loyola’s 150th anniversary in 2015 began soliciting ideas from the Loyola community. Hosting a varsity football game on campus eventually emerged as one of the most popular ideas, and next Friday’s 7 p.m. contest on Smith Field against the visiting St. Augustine High School Saints from San Diego represents the culmination of an intensive planning effort towards that end.

Mr. Jack Girardi, Class of ’65 and chair of Loyola’s 150th anniversary committee, described the game as a preview event for the 150th celebration. “The game and all the events over the next 15 months are designed to showcase Loyola—its history, traditions and growth, the development of young men as leaders and men for others,

By JOHN BRUNNER

The Hannon Information Commons at the Fritz B. Burns Library was opened to students this past Tuesday.

After about a year and a half of designing, planning and

fundraising, construction on the library proceeded throughout the summer. Renovations include five new conference rooms, each equipped with flat screen monitors that allow students to connect to their laptops. Each room will be able to accommodate four to six

people. “In these rooms the students

will be able to do whatever projects they are assigned,” said Library Director Mrs. April Hannah. “Whether it is something like a video project or PowerPoint, they can all work together and see it at the same time.”

New technology in the library’s computer lab includes a large screen with a projector and new PCs. Eighteen private study carrels are now available, twelve of which have power outlets for laptops. More outlets have also been installed in the columns inside the library, allowing students to charge their cell phones.

New tables that can be combined to form larger tables have replaced the old tables that sat six people. These tables, located in front of the computer lab, allow teachers to gather pupils during library visits as well as provide students with a communal seating area.

In addition to the physical

changes, the new library staff includes Mrs. Hannah, Mr. Stewart Hayes and Mr. Andres Mendez. “We are making big renovations to the physical facility, so it seemed to be the right time to add staff in order to stretch the hours of operation,” said Mrs. Hannah.

Consequently, the additional staff will extend the library’s closing hour to 7 p.m. from the previous 4 p.m.

Overall, the addition of more conference rooms and the new seating arrangements are all part of the plan to encourage more collaborative work among students.

Mrs. Hannah said, “We have studied a lot of things in education and much of what teachers are doing in the classroom, and we have learned that a lot of collaborative work is being used. We want to be here to support students working together, and that is what the library is supposed to be.”

SOPHOMORE DARRELL GOSS studied yesterday in the newly updated space. The library was renovated over the summer and opened on Tuesday.

PHOTO BY WILL MARCUSSEN

Renovated library opened to students TuesdayIn development for over a year, the space promises to better serve students and faculty.

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Canvas replaces Cubview

By ALEX FLORES

For the past four years, Cubview was used as a tool to enhance communication between students and teachers outside of the classroom. However, following numerous problems with the program last school year, Cubview has been replaced by Canvas, “a more professional and advanced system that all and all is a much richer product,” according to Mrs. Bren Wells, Loyola’s application analyst.

“Cubview was our first attempt at a learning management system,” said Mrs. Wells. A learning management system is much different from a student information system such as Q, which provides students with grades, transcripts, attendance and other information about the

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By PABLO MUÑOZ

Fifteen students returned this July from the sixth annual Intercambio service trip to Ar-gentina and Uruguay, the last to be led by Community Ser-vice Director Mr. Thomas Zeko.

Mr. Zeko, accompanied by art teacher Mrs. Cristina Faulkner and Spanish teacher Mr. Blake Wells, led the five-week trip, which departed Friday, June 12, and returned the morning of Fri-day, July 18. The goal of the annual trip is to provide cultural and lan-guage immersion for students as well as a unique service oppor-tunity abroad.

Mr. Zeko said he plans to take a personal vaca-tion to Europe next summer and hopes a foreign language teacher will assume respon-sibility for the trip from 2016 forward, since there will not be an Intercambio trip in 2015.

As for this trip, Mr. Zeko said, “I think people came to-gether. They were a diverse set of personalities, but they all got along. Ms. Faulkner, Mr. Wells and I work well togeth-er, and I think that was great.”

The trip began the last night of spring finals and arrived in Buenos Aires the following night, where students at Colegio del Salvador. Students were host-ed by families in Buenos Aires and Montevideo and by a Loyola family, the Kilroys, living in Pun-ta del Este, before moving on to hotel accommodations in Iguazu.

While in South America, stu-dents completed their sopho-more and junior community service requirements while im-

mersing themselves in a unique Spanish-speaking culture.

In Buenos Aires, students at-tended classes at Colegio del Sal-vador with their host brothers, toured city landmarks, partook in many games of soccer and en-joyed World Cup games, and even had the opportunity to go horse-back riding with traditional Ar-gentine cowboys, or “Gauchos.”

Junior Tommy Vossler said, “I noticed my-self grow a lot over the trip. I consider it to be an instrumental part of my Loyola High School e d u c a t i o n . ”

While in Bue-nos Aires, Cubs volunteered at the Hogar San Jose, a home-less center that provides warm meals and voca-tional skills class-es. Cubs served

breakfast and visited with the shelter’s beneficiaries.

The majority of the service component of the trip was ful-filled through the Pachacutí, a week-long service camp and re-ligious retreat where students lived and worked in small com-munities in the Uruguayan coun-tryside alongside teenagers from Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.

“I was very impressed by the comradery in the Pachacutí in an uncommon environ-ment. We were able to form friendships around our inter-ests and our faith,” said Vossler.

Junior Max Neblina thought the highlight of the trip was the Pachacutí. He said, “I liked it be-cause it gave us the opportunity to sink or swim with our Spanish since we were the only English speakers in a group of 18 or so.”

Senior Joe Crowley reiter-ated Neblina’s thoughts, add-

ing that he was at first nervous about spending a week im-mersed in Spanish. “It was a pretty frightening experience. A week with no English was defi-nitely daunting. It ended up be-ing really nice though. My Span-ish improved tenfold,” he said.

Following the Pachacutí, stu-dents spent three nights at the Punta del Este, Uruguay, home of the Kilroy family, members of whom have attended Loyola. Time spent at the vacation home

allowed the group to bond, espe-cially through soccer and empa-nada-making, something Mr. Zeko said he was proud to share.

“I think they all valued each other as people, respected each other, helped each other out. It was Cub brotherhood in the best sense, and they lived it for five weeks,” Zeko said.

The trip ended in Iguazu, Ar-gentina, where the group spent the week touring Iguazu National Park, home to Iguazu Falls, Jesuit

mission ruins and the town itself.Neblina reflected that the

people he encountered on the trip were all very cordial. “In Argentina the guys were just like here at Loyola. They were just like family,” he said.

After six years of lead-ing groups to South America, Mr. Zeko said he is ready for a change. He said, “It’s my sincere hope that we continue to do this.”

By TAYLOR MARTINEZ

On Thursday, Aug. 14, Mr. James Zucker’s script entitled “How Do You Know You Exist?” was published along-side a video animation by Ted-Ed, an online venue in which teachers can sub-mit articles on a topic of their choice. Since its publication, the video short has accumulated over 400,000 hits.

An AP World History and AP US His-tory teacher at Loyola, Mr. Zucker fo-cused his article on philosopher Réne Descartes’ argument on proving human’s existence through rationality. “What the video says is that our very iden-tity can only be proven by the fact that we can ask rational questions. In fact, if we did not exist, it would be impos-sible to ask questions,” said Mr. Zucker.

Although Mr. Zucker does not have a background in philosophy, he has always had keen interest in the subject matter. “For me, everything we do and study is about significance because eventually it leads to questions about ourselves like ‘Who are we?’ and ‘What is our pur-pose?’ and that’s why I love philosophy.

It clumps all that stuff together and asks these big questions,” said Mr. Zucker.

Mr. Zucker was first informed of Ted-Ed three years ago by fellow faculty mem-ber Mr. Craig Bouma, an AP Environmen-tal Science and Physics teacher, who gave him the idea to write an article. Striving to make teacher-friendly videos, Ted-Ed takes difficult issues and creates very short animated narrations. “I thought it would be a great venue for me to take a really complex idea that I like, submit it to them, and have them turn it into something that will engage students and teachers.”

Around two years ago, Mr. Zuck-er submitted to Ted-Ed the original copy of his article, which took nearly a month for him to write and focused on a much broader subset of philoso-phy. At Ted-Ed, articles are reviewed, and if selected, assigned script writers, an editor, an animator, and a narrator.

“They got to mine at some point and, to be quite honest, they said, ‘No, we don’t want to go in this direction, but there’s an element that you did hear that we do want to go with,’” said Mr. Zucker.

In an attempt to create the most ac-

cessible and understandable video shorts possible, Ted-Ed has a strict revision process. “They took my idea which was very broad and narrowed it down to the idea that I eventually did, which was on Descartes and his philosophy, and then I had to submit another article, and they even refined and edited that one in order to do what they thought would reach the best amount of people.”

In April of this year, Mr. Zucker was notified by Ted-Ed that his article, after

the revisions had taken place, would be published on the website. “It’s awesome having my video up there because I think a lot of students are very visual, and so having something that’s animated and narrated in a cool way and put into a lan-guage that’s much more accessible makes it much more engaging for the students.”

The talk can be viewed at http://e d . t e d . c o m / l e s s o n s / h o w - d o - y o u -k n o w - y o u - e x i s t - j a m e s - z u c k e r .

LOYOLA HISTORY TEACHER MR. JAMES ZUCKER was published over the summer by Ted-Ed. His article on philosophy and human existence is available now for viewing online.

Mr. Zucker garners over 400,000 views on Ted-Ed

Sixth, possibly last, Intercambio trip returns from South America

THE INTERCAMBIO GROUP, pictured at the Jesuit mission ruins in Iguazu, explored Argentina and Uruguay for five weeks. Fifteen students were immersed in local culture and language as part of the trip.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MR. THOMAS ZEKO

PHOTO COURTESY OF TED-ED

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"It was Cub brotherhood in the best sense, and they lived it for five weeks."

—Mr.Thomas Zeko

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By ANDREW WORKMAN

Cubs headed back to the bayou this summer on two separate week-long New Orleans community service immersions led by math teachers Mr. P.J. Pascale and Mr. Matthew Baham.

The first trip, consisting of 21 students, departed the last day of semester exams, Friday, June 13; and the second trip, comprised of 19 students, departed Friday, July 25. According to Mr. Baham, the itinerary remained nearly identical for both trips.

He said, “We decided to do two trips because of the number of students that wanted to go. We didn't want to deny someone an opportunity to do good for a vast number of people who genuinely need it.”

For the entirety of the trip, Cubs slept in bunk beds and ate meals at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, the home quarters of the organization Camp Restore. Senior Frank Esparros called it “humble but with a certain charm.”

A week consisting of service, sight-seeing, two college visits and world-renowned cuisine ensued. Because both trips arrived in New Orleans on a Friday, the groups kick-started their weekends with culture galore.

According to Mr. Baham, on Saturday the groups visited a World War II history museum, perambulated the Magazine street shopping district, and dined at critically acclaimed Mother’s Restaurant. Mr. Baham extolled the museum as one of his highlights: “The entire visit as well as the 4-d movie had such an impact that I will have that tour in every trip I lead.”

On the topic of food, students gave two big thumbs up. Esparros said, “Growing up in New Orleans, every meal seemed to be a nostalgic and culinary delight. My personal favorite was the Fried Oyster Po’ Boy which I’ve been eating since I was a kid.”

The following Sunday, Cubs dressed in collared shirts for a mass at Saint Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter and completed their morning with warm beignets at Café du Monde. Students then dispersed to explore the rest of the French Quarter. Esparros said, “There’s just a certain energy there that you won’t find anywhere else in America. I personally loved all the tacky occult shops that we visited.”

Junior Patrick Coughlin said his experience in the French Quarter could best be described as spicy. “We went to the Pepper Palace and tried the world’s hottest hot sauce. Afterwards, people were crying and someone vomited. We bought a gallon of milk, but the burning sensation in our mouths didn’t leave for thirty minutes.”

Later that day Cubs toured the A Laura Creole Plantation. Mr. Baham said the experience helped the boys understand the effects of slavery in the South. For Mr.

Pascale, the visit gave him a surprise: “The woman who owned the plantation had an ancestor from the 1800s who turned out to be a distant cousin of my wife’s family going all the way back to plantation ownership in Northern Louisiana.”

The conclusion of Sunday meant the beginning of community service. On Monday, Cubs spent time with the elderly at the Lower Ninth Ward Senior Center.

Junior Brady Clark said, “My favorite site was probably the senior center. The people there were all so friendly and fun, and it was even more powerful knowing they lived in the area where Hurricane Katrina hit the hardest.”

On Tuesday, the group worked on refurbishing the building for the Community Commitment youth center. Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Baham rewarded students with a visit to the shaded campuses of Tulane and Loyola in Uptown, New Orleans.

The following day Cubs returned to the Gloria Dei Lutheran Church to play games with inner-city youth and also spent time doing manual labor at the Akili Academy of New Orleans.

That night, members of the first trip experienced New Orleans’ pastime in full swing at a jazz concert in Preservation Hall. Coughlin said, “I'm not a big jazz fan, but the concert was really fun.”

After the concert tour, Mr. Pascale and Mr. Baham let the boys get a quick glimpse of Bourbon Street. Clark said, “You always hear about Bourbon Street. Now I know why.”

On Thursday, their last day of service,

Cubs worked in the mud at the Rescue Ranch of New Orleans. Esparros said, “I especially enjoyed taking care of the runaway horses that live there. It was a great experience.”

On their last evening, Mr. Baham and Mr. Pascale drove their two vans filled with sophomores, juniors and seniors to an area known for being one of the poorest in the city and one of the most flooded during the hurricane: the ninth ward. According to Mr. Baham, while many families have returned, many housing lots remain abandoned remnants from the storm.

Clark said that seeing the ninth ward made him “feel blessed to live in a place like Los Angeles.”

Esparros added, “It was eye-opening, especially after seeing the poverty in L.A. after doing an urban plunge. It was just interesting to see the differences and, more importantly, the similarities between poverty in LA and poverty in New Orleans. It really is a national problem, but I’m glad I go to a school like Loyola that tries to solve it.”

For a final reflection, Cubs gathered on the banks of the Mississippi River and thought

about the work they completed. Coughlin noted that the service helped others positively: “A couple of hours with some elderly women at the senior home made their day. It feels good to make someone’s day.”

Esparros said, “We did everything from painting a school to weeding a garden. The work was hard, especially in 90-degree, humid weather. Hard, yet fulfilling.”

Mr. Baham concluded, “The young men of Loyola came to do service, and they were amazing in stepping up to the tasks presented to them.”

Cubview bows out for Canvas

NINETEEN CUBS paid a visit to the National World War II museum in New Orleans. On top of their community service, they also visited a plantation, the French Quarter, and Tulane University.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MATTHEW BAHAM

student. Cubview and Canvas are tailored to improve, as Mrs. Wells continued, “communication with students and teachers.”

A major problem with Cubview was its support system. Programmers were paid to maintain it, and over time, the program could not accommodate and serve the school as originally planned. Canvas was an easy product to transition to because it has been vetted by various middle schools, high schools and universities across the country.

Troubleshooting program issues also became an irksome process with Cubview, but Canvas simplifies that process as well. Mrs. Wells said, “If teachers experience problems, they can notify us; and if it can't be fixed, we can escalate it up to Canvas directly.”

Some notable differences with Canvas, technologically speaking, pertain to its features available to students and teachers. “Cubview rolled assignments, information dissemination and potential discussion into one option,” Ms. Katherine Cullen, technology services coordinator said, “but Canvas allows you to do everything separately as it has about a half-dozen different features to allow teachers to customize how they teach their classes and have their Canvas experience.”

Another innovative Canvas feature is its ability to host live discussions. “The teacher can be online with the students firing questions at the teacher, which can be great for review,” Mrs. Wells said. “Mr. Jordan and Mr. Wood are taking a class for their Ph.D.’s, and everything they do is through Canvas.”

Although most interactions with students and teachers are face-to-face, Mrs. Wells said the live chats could be a useful tool for seniors and their teachers during the Senior Service Project month. “Instead of having physically to come to school, students could have a live interaction with their teachers entirely through Canvas,” said Mrs. Wells.

Teachers such as Mr. Andrew Uy are delighted by the switch to Canvas. Mr. Uy was particularly affected by Cubview’s problems last year because his electronically geared class relied on Cubview to turn in assignments and conduct class discussions. Therefore, he said he is excited to have “a robust platform” like Canvas at his disposal.

He said he is particularly impressed by the new interface and various plug-ins. He said, “The way you take in work is a lot more efficient, and the ability to nest assignments from different periods is especially helpful in a science class with a lot of group work.”

While most students seem ambivalent about the change, senior Alfonso Gamboa said, “So far my experience with the new Canvas has been very good, and it looks promising.”

Although the change to Canvas may take some time to get used to, Mr. Uy said, “Everyone needs to try it out, depending upon their comfort level, and you’ll find that there will be a lot of self-discovery along the way that will add to your arsenal of how to deliver and acquire content.”

"[Poverty] really is a national problem, but I'm glad I go to a school like Loyola that tries to solve it."

—Frank Esparros

Cubs take the Big Easy

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BY NICOLAUS JAKOWEC

Today is a scary time to be alive. With conflicts and suffer-ing prevalent in the world, we are forced to take a step back and examine the human condition. Among these conflicts is one that diverges from the rest and recalls an ancient yet immortal theme, man vs. nature. The Ebola out-break, a disease that has liter-ally plagued western Africa, con-tinues to confound the world’s health professionals, cripple the region’s hospitals, and slay the lives of the most innocent. But what has been equally threaten-ing about this outbreak has been the infectious and perplexing rants that have led the perception of Ebola astray. By allowing ce-lebrity comments and the media to enter our minds unfiltered, we allowed ignorance to displace ra-tionality and fear, our humanity.

Early August, American busi-ness magnate Donald Trump tweeted comments so incendi-ary towards the health programs controlling the Ebola outbreak and so devoid of an informed intellect that they infected the social media site with backlashes and verbal battles. Trump de-manded the U.S. “stop all flights from EBOLA infected coun-tries or the plague will start and spread inside our ‘borders.’” The efficacy of such a blatantly igno-rant comment was measured in a study published by the Harvard School of Public Health and the SSRS, an independent research company: 39% of U.S. adults are concerned that there will be

a large Ebola outbreak here. Since it was first discov-

ered in 1976, Ebola has terri-fied and enthralled virologists and health professionals alike as an elusive yet brutal virus. The symptoms induced by the virus evoke the eerie feeling of living in a horror film; the terrifying virus causes people to “bleed from their orifices, including the eyes,” according to Carl Zimmer in his book A Plan-et of Viruses. The virus, which is transmitted through bodily fluids, ravages the human body. Ebola terrorizes the population with a fatality rate of 64%, as re-ported by WHO over the course of the outbreak. Moreover, while vaccines are being tested, no cure currently exists to pro-tect humanity from this micro-scopic predator, limiting health workers to experimental treat-ments and basic patient care.

Thankfully, however, Ebola’s gory affliction becomes its own demise. “The virus is just too good at making people sick,” Zimmer wrote, “and so it kills its victims faster than it can make new ones.” In the wake of the pathogen’s massacre, little chance remains for the disease to leap over an ocean and breach the built safety protocols of WHO and the CDC. While the Ebola outbreak is the largest one on record, it is unlikely to esca-late into the next Black Plague.

Viruses maintain a profound platform in the scientific com-munity. Neither dead nor alive, a virus is essentially an envelope of genes with a simple but none-

theless alarming agenda: infect, multiply and spread. Since the 1980s, we have transformed vi-ruses from weapons into tools of biology. Scientists can now cut and paste specific genes, the four-letter alphabet of life, into a virus’ genome, or the collection of genes. Since viruses can al-ready supply their own genes to the genome of a cell, the job of delivering the biological payload is done for us. Once the genes are delivered, the cell will begin to incorporate this new information into its biological function. This technique, while controversial for its use to manipulate life, has saved millions of lives from out-right starvation through geneti-cally modified crops. Moreover, these viruses display promise as a cure to neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and ALS.

As an intriguing subject in science, viruses have resonated in popular culture as an engross-ing symbol of horror and thrill. In this case, however, the virus takes a more exhilarating form: the zombie. Now the emblem of the apocalypse and an overarch-ing motif of the horror genre, the zombie has infiltrated just about every cultural outlet. In movies, plays, TV shows, books, video

games and theme-park exhibits, zombies entice their audiences, or victims, with their ferocious behaviors, cannibalistic appe-tites and grotesque complexions.

Unfortunately, our obses-sion with the living dead has engrossed more than just our wallets. Superstitiously and ob-stinately, we project these fanta-sies onto reality and mesh togeth-er films and the real world. This July, a 48-year old man plowed through the Zombie Walkers during Comic Con. He reported-ly grew frightened by the playful acting of the crowd. Yes, we fear the cinematic undead. We pay to feel the excitement of such apocalyptic films as Contagion or World War Z. There is no dan-ger in having fun when we are chased by zombies at Universal Studios. But there is danger when we stop recognizing what sci-ence fiction is--just that, fiction.

Why do we enthrall ourselves with the fantasy of a save-your-self zombie apocalypse? Why do we terrify ourselves by stepping into a maze at Universal Studios, knowing full well that an actor donning Hollywood makeup will scare our socks off once we take a turn at the corner? The answer is that we are born to survive in the

wild, eat the paleo diet and rely solely on our instincts. Thanks to the pre-supposed zombie vi-rus, the complete destruction of our society becomes our ab-solute freedom as a species.

As we continue to buy in to the romance of a post-apoca-lyptic epidemic as portrayed by popular media, we will continue to be flabbergasted by the ill-informed, empty-headed axioms of Donald Trump and other ce-lebrities such as Ann Coulter. We will submit ourselves to our fears and timidity, detesting the unknown and embracing the fa-miliar. Or we can step into the unknown, discover the beauty of viruses, explore the uncharted lands we have been convinced are savage and feel the thrill of being chased by a zombie.

If science, viruses and zom-bies are connected in any way, it is that to the timid observer they all present a fear, a fear of the unknown. The intrepid sci-entists of our history and the courageous survivors of The Walking Dead share a com-mon thread that should be shared with all of us: “I don’t want to be afraid of being alive.”

How zombies saved the world

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CARTOON BY DUVIT KAKUNEGODA

FRESHMAN AIDAN FONG said, “I spent my summer traveling all over Italy, and I specifically visited Venice, Florence and Rome where I enjoyed the delicious Italian cuisine and viewed famous historical monu-ments and ancient paintings.”

JUNIOR ADAM LEE said, “I played lots of volleyball at the jun-ior olympics, based in Houston, Texas, and at `a USA beach volleyball program in Hermosa Beach. I suffered a crucial eye injury while playing volleyball, but I’m ready to bounce back for the upcoming season.”

SENIOR JOSEF TOPETE said, "I spent time with friends and prac-ticed constantly on the football field to prepare for the upcoming football season. I also enjoyed going to LA's various beaches such as Venice and Santa Monica.”

SOPHOMORE BRIAN KIM said, "I swam constantly during the summer to prepare for the upcoming swim season. I vacationed in Palm Spring where I hiked up some of the mountains, swam and relaxed with my friends. I also went airsofting.”

PHOTOS BY WILL MARCUSSEN

Man on the Street: What did you

do over the summer?

5OPINIONSEPTEMBER 5, 2014

This Tuesday, Sept. 2, Fritz B. Burns Library opened the new Hannon Information Commons, a center aimed at fostering collaborative learning among students and encouraging teachers to promote group work.

This move by the administration creates the opportunity to promote a type of learning that has been widely deemed to improve academic performance and build better relationships between students, according to research by Anuradha A. Gokhale, associate professor of industrial education and technology at Western Illinois University.

Gokhale writes that “the active exchange of ideas within small groups not only increases interest among the participants but also promotes critical thinking.”

Citing a Johnson and Johnson study from 1986, she finds that cooperative teams achieve more and retain information longer than individuals studying alone. “The shared learning gives students an opportunity to engage in discussion, take responsibility for their own learning, and thus become critical thinkers,” she writes in the Journal of Technology Education.

Many Loyola teachers have already integrated this social aspect of learning into their curricula.

“Stronger students who participate in collaborative learning strengthen what they know by having to explain

material to students they work with. For students who are weaker in a certain subject, this type of learning really helps by making material more manageable,” said Mrs. Teresa Kawamata, one of the teachers who implements collaborative learning in her classroom.

Currently, Mrs. Kawamata breaks her Honors and AP classes into small groups to discuss readings and translate passages. For more creative projects, she often divides her classes into groups to film video presentations or to act out scenes from the texts her classes read and analyze.

But the benefits do not stop at making students into better scholars. Studies indicate that collaborative learning can help to ease social tensions among students, can foster closer relationships and can decrease the incidents of bullying in a learning community.

According to the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, “Cooperative experiences promote the development of the personality trait of cooperativeness,” meaning students who participate in more cooperative learning exercises are more likely to enjoy working with their peers. The Journal’s report indicates that frequent cooperative learners reported performing “pro-social” behavior towards other students, reducing incidents of bullying and aggressive behavior.

With the new Information Commons, both students and teachers should take advantage of the possibility for more collaboration, group work and social connecting. With extended hours until 7 p.m., the library should no longer simply be a center to crowd during finals week or on rainy days. A new tool has been added to the toolbox of the average Cub. Why not use it?

Renovated library promotes collaborative learning

STAFF EDITORIAL

As Loyola enters its 150th year of existence, The Loyalist launches its 89th edition with an aim to give what school president the Rev. Greg Goethals, S.J., proclaims is “the best damn high school in Southern California” the best damn student newspaper.

Our focus this year centers around providing accurate and reliable coverage of school news and activities, including the sesquicentennial festivities, beginning with next Friday’s home football game, the first of its kind in 65 years.

Live streaming of the 7 p.m. game will be available on our newly redesigned website, loyalistnews.org. Our technology staff, led by senior Cesar Tesen, has worked all summer to rebuild from scratch our online home, and the visually pleasing result will help us better serve alumni, parents, students, faculty and the surrounding community, who can visit the website to sign up for our monthly newsletter. We also will continue boosting our social media presence through our Facebook page, The Loyalist and Twitter account, @loyalistnews.

The section editors seek to improve the consistency of our coverage by establishing beat reporters and columnists and more closely following Associated Press style guidelines. As opposed to MLA style that Loyola adheres to, section editors use a slightly modified AP style to suit the needs

of our private school. The Feature and Arts & Entertainment sections will continue producing a separate pull-out section for future editions, and in an effort to expand athletics coverage, the Sports section hopes to follow suit with a pull-out section of their own. We will strive to produce the investigative reporting that makes journalism so important by pursuing stories similar to last year’s “Cheating at Loyola” feature, thus fulfilling the responsibility of the free press as watchdogs. Minor graphic design changes to the print layout’s front page include a revamped masthead and “look inside.”

The Loyalist strives to serve the entire Loyola community, so any feedback is welcomed to improve the quality of our newspaper. Readers can leave comments on our website’s articles, interact with our social media platforms or submit letters-to-the-editor by email to contact@loyalistnews.org or by dropping them off in L204.

We are always looking for new staff writers, photographers, business managers and graphic designers. Any student interested in joining The Loyalist is invited to stop by L204 to get involved.

David Karamardian & Christian PazCo-Editors-in-Chief

A letter from the Editors-in-Chief: a promise to the community

CARTOON BY DUVIT KAKUNEGODA

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PHOTOGRAPHYRYDER SCHEIFELEWILL MARCUSSEN

EDITOREDITOR

NEWS

SPECER REEDCHARLIE TREPANY

EDITOREDITOR

FEATURE

PABLO MUÑOZANDREW WORKMAN

EDITOREDITOR

MRS. MARY ARNEYMR. FRANK KOZAKOWSKI

REV. GREGORY GOETHALS, S.J.

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FEATURE6

Day 1: Welcome to OrientationMeet the new teachers and staff!

Ms. Beatrice Collins joins Loyola High School as an Apple Support Technician. Ms. Collins is not only in charge of the computer lab but also able to troubleshoot and fix any faculty, staff or student Apple computer.

A graduate of California State Uni-versity, Los Angeles, Ms. Collins earned a degree in Theater Arts. Upon gradu-ation, she accepted a position at Apple, and with her knowledge of both Apple technology and theatre technology, she was able to rise to the status of “Genius” and troubleshoot customers’ technology issues at the Genius Bar.

Drawn to Loyola because of her desire to educate, Ms. Collins said, “I love the fact that [Loyola] is not a big school; I’m excited to have one-on-one time with people, learn faces, learn names and be able to build relationships with people. I’m here every day, so I’ll get to see people, build relationships and watch people grow.”

One of her goals is to further integrate technology into daily life at Loyola. “I would love to help the ball roll as far as technology and get us up to the par of other schools that are centered on tech-nology,” Ms. Collins said.

Mr. Rick Flores returns to Loyola as both the copy room manager and sophomore football coach.

After graduating from St. Bernard High School in Westchester, Mr. Flores completed his schooling at California State University, Dominguez Hills. From 1973 to 1979 and 1982 to 1987, he coached both the sophomore and varsity football teams at Loyola. During those years, Mr. Flores was a general man-ager and executive chef for restaurants, including Marie Callenders, El Torito, TGI Fridays, Romano's Macaroni Grill and Longhorn Steakhouse. In 2012, Mr. Flores returned to Loyola to coach on the

freshman football team. He planned both to coach and to substitute here last year, but he was unable to when he contracted an illness and was hospitalized for two months.

“I hope for the Loyola community to excel beyond what normal people would expect from them. I think they’re overachievers not only in business and in sports but also in life. You look around and there are great Loyola graduates everywhere,” said Mr. Flores. “I’m just honored to be on this campus and a part of this family and community. I try to have a positive impact on every student, whether they are an athlete or not.”

After working temporarily in the library

last year, Mr. Andres Mendez joins the Information Resource Center as an assistant clerk.

Born in Colombia, Mr. Mendez moved to the U.S. when he was in sixth grade. He said his passion for the movies contin-ued through college, and he earned a film degree at the University of Southern California. He said he also owns a small production company.

Now that Mr. Mendez will be here regu-larly, he said he hopes to interact more

with students. “I want to get to know more of the students because I didn’t do that last year. I was more focused on get-ting to know the school and how things here worked.”

Mr. Mendez said he hopes to be a friend and adviser to students. “I’m pretty young; I’m only 25, so I think I can relate to the students. I do want to teach at some point later on in my life, so Loyola is the perfect setting for me.”

New to the theology department, Dr. Jesse Rodriguez teaches Theology 1 and Moral Theology.

Dr. Rodriguez earned his Bachelor’s degree from St. John’s Seminary College. At Loyola Marymount University, he earned a Master’s degree in Theology with an empha-sis in Systematic Theology. Dr. Rodriguez earned both a Master’s degree in English with an emphasis on American Literature and a Doctorate in Educational Leader-ship from California State University, Long Beach. He worked as an adjunct instructor at California State University, Long Beach in the College of Education for two years before working as an administrator at Saint John Bosco High School in Bellflower for twelve years.

“I’ve always know about Loyola High School and it’s mission. Having gone to a Jesuit university, I’ve always been in awe with Loyola: the combination of learning and teaching and the mission of social justice is what I’ve been seeking,” said Dr. Rodriguez. His relationship with fellow theology teacher Mr. Crofut also influenced his decision to come to Loyola.

“My main goal is to bring my sense of service and commitment, not only to the stu-dents but also the surrounding community. I hope to bring that sense of service, that sense of commitment, and that sense of social justice; but at the same time, I hope to gain a deeper understanding of Jesuit spirituality in education.”

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Day 1: Welcome to OrientationMeet the new teachers and staff!

A two-year varsity soccer coach, Mr. Trevor Mutch, Class of 1998, is also taking on teaching one period of Acceler-ated Algebra 1 and four periods of Algebra 2.

After graduating with a degree in Eco-nomics and Government from Claremont McKenna College, Mr. Mutch attended Santa Clara University’s law and business schools, earning a Juris Doctorate and a Masters in Business Administration. For six or seven years afterwards, he worked as an economics consultant. For the past three years, he has helped coach the women’s soccer team at USC; and for the

last two years, he has helped out with Cub varsity soccer. Last academic quarter, Mr. Mutch filled in as a math instructor during Mrs. Emily Villa Del Rey’s maternity leave.

Looking ahead at the school year, Mr. Mutch said, “I’m looking forward to being here full time and working with a good bunch of kids. I get excited to coach cer-tainly, but I just love being here each day. It’s fun to get to know more of the faculty and students.”

Mr. Mutch’s hiring allows other math teachers more time for collaboration on next year’s schedule changes.

Mr. Peter Nguyen is teaching Honors Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus.

Having completed a bachelor’s degree in education at the University of Cali-fornia, Irvine, Mr. Nguyen earned his Master’s Degree in mathematics from California State University, Fullerton. He taught at Pinewood School in Los Altos, California for four years.

Mr. Nguyen said he begins each class with a minute of silence to calm stu-dents and set them in the right mood for learning. His hope is to slow them down and help them relax as opposed to multi-tasking all the time.

Drawn to Loyola’s Ignatian spirituality and Catholic education, Mr. Nguyen said he looks forward to the strong commu-nity and spiritual aspects of the Loyola environment.

“I’m looking forward to daily Mass, the supportive staff and the spirituality of the school. I hope to introduce my spirituality to my students, not directly but by osmosis. This is a very amazing ecosystem here, and I’m glad to join.”

Mr. Nguyen is filling in Mrs. Judy Del’Amico’s job while she is on sabbati-cal.

Mr. Michael Shawver is a new member of the Campus Ministry team.

A native of Ohio, Mr. Shawver earned his undergraduate degree in business from Ohio University. Al-though he joined the Jesuits from 2001 to 2004 in Chicago, he decided to marry and have a family. Still drawn towards ministry, he earned his Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry from the University of Chicago.

From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Shawver worked in Campus Ministry at a Chica-go all-girls’ high school. He then worked in campus ministry at Xavier Univer-sity in Chicago, leading many retreats. Upon meeting his wife on a ministry trip to Peru and Bolivia, he moved to New Mexico with her and worked at the

Immaculate Conception Jesuit Parish in Albuquerque for four years, focusing on young adult and social justice minis-try. Once his daughter was born, Mr. Shawver moved to Southern California and came to Loyola High School.

“I’ve been at Jesuit high schools, Je-suit universities and in the Jesuit Order, so I think my own understanding of Ig-natian spirituality, Jesuit traditions and Jesuit history can help improve Loyola. I have a lot to learn from what Loyola does, but I also can bring other ideas from other Jesuit schools that might help improve things here, too,” said Mr. Shawver.

Mr. Shawver takes over for Mr. Tan-ner in Campus Ministry, but he will not be teaching classes this year.

Mr. David Smith, Jr. is the new Junior Network Administrator in the Information Technology Services office.

Mr. Smith majored in Asian Stud-ies and minored in Chinese Religious Studies and Political Science at Utah State University. After college, Mr. Smith worked in Information Technology in Salt Lake City, Utah. He accepted his position at Loyola in order to live in Southern California.

“As the youngest guy in the depart-ment, I want to bring youthful energy and new ways of looking at technology,” said Smith. “I’m excited to be here, and I look forward to working here and meet-ing everyone.”

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9ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTSEPTEMBER 5, 2014

By JACK RAINERI Members of Loyola’s student

improvisational comedy team, ComedySportz, have begun preparations for this year’s matches.

While tryouts took place last

May, additional tryouts will be in Hayden Circle during lunch on Tuesday, Sept. 23, and Wednesday, Sept. 24.

Team co-captains, seniors Fletcher Wolfe, Charlie Trepany and William Antonopolis, said they

hope to use this year to generate more interest for the team and attract new members.

Wolfe said, “Our main goals are to get a larger audience and more school-wide recognition.”

According to Wolfe,

ComedySportz is a competitive, interscholastic league of high-school teams that compete nationwide in events that revolve around improvisational comedy. Matches between school teams consist of “games” played by opposing members, testing how funny they can be in varied comedic situations.

According to Antonopolis, the games “give different performers a chance to act and to express themselves in different situations.” These games can include team members responding to questions from the audience in a comedic way or having to act out a scenario while pretending to be a cowboy or police officer.

Wolfe said they plan to bolster the team by drawing in new students to join. “Hopefully, we'll have some new people on the team just to spice things up and to make games and scenes more interesting,” he said. “We like physical performers, so people who play sports and want to do ComedySportz are more than welcome.”

ComedySportz newcomer Carl Edward Mongan, a junior, said he was first interested in joining the team because of its connection to members of the Hannon Theatre Company.

“A lot of my friends in the HTC are members of the team, so I thought it might be interesting to try joining,” Mongan said. “I also really enjoy comedy. I think

making people laugh is one of the most fun things you can do.”

The team also has a large number of returning members. Senior Tyler Wincott, a three-year member, said he was first attracted to the team because of his interest in acting.

“I have a huge passion for acting, and one of the ways I’m able to use that is through comedy and improv,” he said. “I keep coming back because of the friends I’ve made and the stress-free environment that is made in this club.”

The team plans to compete in its first league match on Friday, Sept. 19, which, according to Wolfe, will be the first of many this year.

“We’re going to have a lot more games this year,” he said, “and after our first match, we hope to have another match against Loyola faculty.”

The co-captains also said they hope to organize a trip to “GameCon,” a ComedySportz convention hosted by San Marino High school on Saturday, Sept. 27. The convention features interactive workshops and professional demonstrations.

Wolfe said he hopes that making the trip as a team will help show newer members what to expect and provide veteran members with more practice before the season begins.

Cub comedy team makes preparations for upcoming year of competition

SENIORS ANTHONY REALE, WILL ANTONOPOLIS, TYLER WINCOTT, CHARLIE TREPANY AND FLETCHER WOLFE rehearse the games played during ComedySportz league matches in the Hayden Circle.

PHOTO BY JUSTIN WANG

150When: Saturday, September 27, 2014, 7:30-10:30 P.M.

Where: Loyola High School

Loyola High School Presents

LEGACY

By JACK DIXON

According to Maxpreps, every year over 7.7 million people participate in a high school sport, while just over 440,000 students play an NCAA sport. With na-tional signing day still over five months away, eight Loyola seniors have commit-ted early. Christian Rector, Matt Douglas and Henry Stellwagen have committed to USC, Robert Brandt and Adam Eaton are going to Cal-Berkeley, Elan Koenig committed to Wisconsin, Awari Muoneke committed to College of the Holy Cross, and Spencer Rouse is going to Lafayette in Pennsylvania.

Rector will be playing college football; Rouse, Muoneke and Stellwagen, baseball; Eaton and Koenig, soccer; Douglas, vol-leyball; and Brandt, long distance run-ning.

The recruiting process can be a stress-ful and consuming part of an athlete’s life, even with schools competing for the same athletes. Two examples of dream-like sit-uations are Rector’s and Eaton’s.

Rector commented on the beginning of his experience, “I was excited to get my first offer from Colorado and to know that I would be able to play football at the D1 level; from there, the offers started rolling in from other Pac-12 schools and sprinkled in from other conferences.”

Eaton said, “The recruiting process was very simple and stress free for me. I have

always wanted to go to Cal, so when the time came and the offer was on the table, I accepted it. There were other schools that I was looking at, but Cal seemed like the right school for me.”

Muoneke experienced a more stress-ful and much more common process. He received an offer from Holy Cross on the condition that he accept it in five days or forfeit the position. He commented, “It was pretty stressful, actually; sometimes you talk to coaches, and you won’t hear back from them for a while. Then you get deadlines set on you, so, I mean, it was a

pretty stressful process, and I’m glad its over.”

A huge aspect in recruiting can be the high school coach. Rector said, “Coach Sanders was a huge help in the process and helped me evaluate all aspects of uni-versities, including athletics, academics and alumni network.”

Cross-country Coach Lalo Diaz has strong connections to people at Cal. Brandt said, “I first made initial contact with all these coaches. I emailed them and did a lot of that, and then Coach Diaz, once I made contact, called all the coaches

for me. He already has a really good con-nection with all the coaches at Cal so it was pretty easy for him to convince them to recruit his best runner. With his help and my love for the school, Cal was an easy choice.”

Within the next five months, and espe-cially now after Sept. 1, the first day col-lege coaches are allowed to communicate electronically with athletes, there will be an increase in commitments before Na-tional Signing Day on Wednesday, Feb 4.

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and the accomplishments of the alumni, administration, faculty and, particularly, the students—academically, athletically and in the community.”

Staging the historic game has required a huge collaborative ef-fort involving all quarters of the Loyola community, including the administration, athletic depart-ment, advancement office, busi-ness affairs office, events office and facilities management. Ath-letic Director Chris O’Donnell said that a 150th anniversary football committee has been meeting regularly since early spring to tackle the logistical is-sues, ranging from the need for temporary lighting and portable bleachers to the staffing neces-sary to accommodate a crowd that is expected to number great-er than 4,000 people.

“For the concessions,” Mr. O’Donnell said, “there will be Pie ‘n Burger, a Zlicious Eatz taco truck and carved sandwiches and Farmer John hot dogs. Basical-ly, we are going to sell one food ticket for a set price. We want it to be quick so people don’t have to exchange money.”

Director of Events Ms. Karin Chamberlain said that because parking will be limited, carpool-ing and transportation services such as Uber or Lyft are encour-aged. Parking plans have been developed to make access to the campus as efficient as possible, and after Loyola worked with the cemetery across the street from campus, the city granted permis-sion to close Venice Boulevard.

Ms. Chamberlain also said that Loyola, wanting to be a good neighbor, has reached out to the neighborhood about the game in order to let residents know what to expect.

According to Ms. Chamber-lain, security personnel will in-clude at least 65 “yellow jacket” event staff security as well as 25 security guards to help with parking. Anticipation for the game has generated considerable excitement across the Loyola community, as evidenced by the online sell-out of 1,000 tickets allotted for the general public in 54 minutes, and student ticket re-quests were also strong. Sponsor-ship packages with reserved seating and park-ing have also been successfully sold to help un-derwrite costs associated with hosting the event. As a reminder, tickets will not be sold at the game.

The signifi-cance of the game has not been lost on the Varsity Football coaches and players. Head Coach Marvin Sanders said, “I think it will be an exciting opportuni-ty for both our players and our Loyola family. I think it gives them an opportunity to have ownership of something that is theirs. This is our house, and it gives us an opportunity to show-case how special a place Loyola is.”

Coach Sanders continued, saying he expects playing on campus to present not only an opportunity but a challenge. “I hope the game brings energy,” he said. “We don’t have a home field advantage since we play every-thing at L.A. Valley College, and it is a great venue. But to have a chance to play a real home foot-ball game, will the players be dis-tracted? Well, maybe a little more because it is the first home game and the routine for us is a little different in part, but kids are re-silient; they’ll be pretty good.”

Varsity Cub players echoed

Coach Sanders’ enthusiasm. Ju-nior quarterback Tre Polamalu said the Varsity squad will rise to the challenge.

“We are really excited about the home game,” said Polamalu. “It will be a lot more fun to play here finally, and I think that the energy will be up since we’re at our school and so many people are coming to this game. It’s a great opportunity because we are the first ones in so long to be able

to play. I think everyone will be fine with the huge crowd that is coming; we are not too nervous.”

Senior defensive end Chris-tian Rector said playing in the game is a privilege. “We believe it's an honor to play in this game. A lot of people worked hard to make this thing happen, and I believe it's a great way to cel-ebrate the 150th anniversary of Loyola.”

Rector also pointed to the benefit of playing at home: “I think it's a huge advantage for us because our home games aren't played on the same field that

we practice on. Playing on cam-pus will give us a big upper hand against a good St. Augustine team.”

The possibil-ity of hosting ad-ditional on-cam-pus home games depends largely on the degree to which this “dress rehearsal,” as Mr. O’Donnell said, is deemed a suc-cess. “The foot-

ball committee decided that if you want to host a home game in 2015, you had better get it right in 2014 to make sure we can ac-tually do it. We haven’t done it in 65 years, and we are going to make some mistakes, but we’ll try to do our best and learn from them.”

For his part, Coach Sanders said he would be thrilled to play more games at Loyola. “Hope-fully, this will make people re-

ally hungry for more football on campus because it gives an op-portunity for faculty, staff and students to all be involved,” he said. “A teacher can come and be part of something, and that is what is exciting to me. Granted, we have a football game to play, but just the thought of seeing teachers walk over and all the students able to say this is ‘our place’ is great.”

Loyola alumni, including many former varsity football players, will also attend the game. Ms. Chamberlain said that a couple of alumni from the Class of ’49 contacted Loyola for tickets and happily recounted the details surrounding the school’s last on-campus varsity football game versus Saint Monica High School.

Mr. Girardi, who served as a student manager for the ’62, ’63, and ’64 seasons, summed up his own enthusiasm by referencing a Loyola football program ad that describes the games as “the best 48 minutes of the week.” He said, “For literally thousands of young men, I think that experience is true today, was true in the ‘60s and even in the ‘20s when foot-ball started at Loyola High. To those former players, this game will serve as a reminder—those best 48 minutes will now be at Loyola’s doorstep.”

Loyola to host on-campus football game

Senior athletes commit to colleges

SENIOR CHRISTIAN RECTOR prepares for an upcoming play last season. After receiving offers from multiple schools, he has committed to play at USC, a Pac-12 division one school. He is one of eight seniors already committed to play a sport in college.

PHOTO BY THE REV. JOHN QUINN, S.J.

10 SPORTS SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

“Hopefully, this will make peo-ple really hungry for more foot-ball on campus because it gives an opportunity for faculty, staff and students to all be involved.”

—Coach Marvin Sanders

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By BRANDON POSIVAK The Varsity Cross Country team

is poised to begin its 2014-2015 season tomorrow, Sept. 6, in the Cerritos Invitational, competing against 43 teams, including Los Alamitos, Long Beach Poly, Fountain Valley and Redondo Union, at the redesigned Cerritos Regional Park.

Coach Lalo Diaz said the runners are mentally set for the season. “We realize that nothing that happens in September affects the CIF championship,” he said, “but we prepare for every tournament as it comes. The Cerritos Invitational and each tournament we participate in is a building block to ultimately get to that CIF championship.”

Junior Tommy Atlee elaborated on the Cubs’ offseason work. “The team has been having workouts all summer. We’ve been training in Griffith and Elysian parks. The top 25 also made the annual ten-day trip up to Mammoth Lakes where

we ran twice a day.”Commenting on the team’s

bonding and chemistry, Coach Diaz said, “Our mantra is ‘running in the gaps,’ which is the spacing between the first man and second man and the third man and fourth man. Every day at practice the players are literally pulling one another to get a guy running up front where he belongs. During the summer at Mammoth Lakes, the team was able to get away from electronic distractions and run together at a high altitude.”

Although the team has many new varsity runners this year, Atlee said, “We are a young team, but four of the varsity runners from last year are still on the team, so we have some experience.”

The team is led by recent University of California, Berkeley, commit Robert Brandt, and team captain Will Antonopolis, both seniors.

Brandt elaborated on the point of the expectations of the season:

“This season I am most excited to prove other teams wrong. I think a lot of other competitors are writing us off this year because we lost a lot of our varsity runners from last year’s team due to graduation, but I am confident that we have a lot of

young talent, and I think this year’s team is determined to work hard in order to reach success.”

In the season ahead, the Cubs will compete in the first Mission League Cluster Meet of the season on Wednesday, Sept 10, as well

as the Rosemead Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 13. Coming off a strong season last year, the Cubs looks not only to duplicate their success but to surpass it this upcoming season.

11SPORTSSEPTEMBER 5, 2014

By BRADLEY HUBSCH Beginning this year, Loyola has required

all students take a baseline concussion test, regardless of whether or not a student is involved in athletics.

Loyola has implemented this program to formalize the readmission process for students who have suffered concussions, especially those who received concussions outside of school.

Loyola’s Athletic Trainer Tim Moscicki has administered many of the new baseline concussion tests. Mr. Moscicki said, “There were people coming to school who had received concussions, in other locations outside of school, that needed academic adjustments to their schedule because of the concussion. There was no base to know they were getting better or how they were doing, versus an athlete who we had baseline tests on to see how they were progressing.”

Assistant Principal for Student Life Paul

Jordan also commented on what inspired Loyola to begin testing all students. “There is a clear baseline test for all the athletes. We know what their normal brain function is versus their ‘altered state,’ I’ll say,” Mr. Jordan stated. “We didn’t necessarily know that for a kid who skateboards on the sidewalk on a Saturday and shows up having sustained a concussion. “We are focused on determining whether or not students are ready to resume activities at Loyola.”

A baseline concussion test for an entire student body is something new to Southern California high schools. According to Mr. Jordan, depending on the success of the potentially revolutionary program, other schools may follow suit.

Mr. Jordan, who is writing his doctoral dissertation on this program of baseline concussion testing, said, “In my initial research, I have not found a school that does

this--that baseline tests everybody.” When asked if he thought the program would catch on, he said, “I do, and that’s part of my dissertation. When I told this to my advisor, she said her husband is a principal of a school in Omaha, and she said he wants this. She said, ‘You better be ready to tour the nation to talk about this.’”

Many of the school’s students took their baseline

concussion tests over the summer, and those who were not tested were told they would be tested during orientation. However, many of these students have not been tested.

The task of testing all of Loyola’s student body has been more complicated than originally thought; however, the administration insists that all students will be tested. Most likely, students who have not been tested will complete their tests during homeroom or after school within the next month or two.

The test itself lasts about 45 minutes. Students spend this time completing various activities. Mr. Moscicki described the use of computers in the test: “The Impact Test determines your reaction time, your memory and all kinds of different things.” Along with computers, the test involves physical activities, such as balancing with closed eyes.

If a student is found to have symptoms of a concussion, he would have to be cleared by a panel of five doctors, assembled by Loyola, in order to resume studying in the classroom and playing on the field.

Baseline concussion test required for all students

MEMBERS OF THE VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY TEAM run in one of their many morning practices on Smith Field. The team practiced hard over the summer, including their annual trip to Mammoth Lakes.

PHOTO BY JUSTIN WANG

“We are focused on determining wheth-er or not students are ready to resume activities at Loyola.”

—Mr. Paul Jordan

Loyola has pioneered a program that ignores whether or not a student is involved in athletics in order to estab-lish a protocal for returning all concussed students to academic and athletic activities.

Cross Country ready to begin new season

Calling All Journalists!The Loyalist is looking for staff writers,

photographers, graphic designers and business managers. Stop by one of our meetings next week in L211 at 7:30 a.m.

if you are interested in working on our October 3 issue.

Tuesday, September 9: Brainstorming Meeting

Wednesday, September 10: Story Assignment Meeting

Thursday, September 11: Photo Assignment Meeting

By RYAN TAHMASSEBI

Looking to improve upon last season’s 4-6 record, the 2014-15 Loyola Varsity football season kicked off last Friday, Aug. 29, as the Cubs defeated rival Harvard-Westlake 48-6.

Seeking revenge after last year’s disappointing 21-27 loss to the Wolverines, the Cubs asserted themselves from the opening whistle.

On the first drive of the game, the team marched down the field thanks to great blocking, and Loyola was able to score on a run by junior running back Daniel Tolbert.

After Loyola’s defense forced Harvard-Westlake to punt on the following drive, the Cubs scored again thanks to a 63-yard Tolbert run.

Junior Quarterback Tre Polamalu scored a touchdown later in the quarter on a designed run play and then linked up with wide receiver Myles Bryant, a junior, for a touchdown.

The Cubs found themselves without defensive end Christian Rector, a senior, and receiver David Tolbert, a junior, both of whom were ejected early for a skirmish with a Wolverine.

The Cubs continued to dominate the rest of the game, holding Harvard-Westlake scoreless until the fourth quarter, ending the game at 48-6.

After the game, junior lineman Anthony Valdez said, “Dominating Harvard-Westlake

was a great way to kick off our 2014 season. As a team we played pretty well. We were aggressive on the field, and we executed. Now we have to keep it rolling and work to perfect our game during practice.”

The team hopes to continue this level of play for the remainder of the season. Rector said, “I predict a second or third seed finish in league, and I think we can make a run into the playoffs. I’m anxious to see how we compete against the new teams in our league, and I think we can go far with our returners and our senior leadership.”

Head Coach Marvin Sanders said he likes to take it one game at a time. “I hope to improve off of last year,” he said. “To see us getting better every week is our goal, not necessarily a number in the win or loss column.”

The team has been preparing for the season since the beginning of January, doing both weight lifting and team practices. Senior cornerback Jason Baker said, “Our whole team worked hard all summer, doing everything from Navy Seal training to watching film on both our future opponents and ourselves to correct mistakes. Myself along with many of my teammates also worked out outside of Loyola trying to become the best possible players we could be going into the upcoming season.”

The Cubs have been practicing slightly differently now, moreover, due to new CIF practice rules. Teams are now limited to

a total of 4 practice hours p e r day and a total of 1 8 practice hours per week.

The team has made its morning lifting into a separate class to ensure that they get the practice they need to ready themselves for game time. Changes were made, according to the CIF bylaws “for the benefit of the physical and mental health of our student-athletes.”

When asked about the changes, offensive lineman Kevin Quisumbing, a junior, said, “The restrictions on back-to-back two-a-days really took most of the stress off hell week. Overall, we are still putting in the same amount of work as we would have put in with the old CIF rules. The breaks allow us to recover and get the most out of our workouts.”

Demonstrating the respect the team has for Coach Sanders, senior running back David Cooper said players must “do what we’re told to do” to continue winning.

When asked how he views this year’s team differently from last year’s, Coach Sanders said, “We’ve all been together for a year now,

the coaching staff as well as the players. We are really starting to get used to each other, and things aren’t surprising me or the other coaches as much as they did last year.”

The Cubs play Lakewood tonight at 7 p.m. at L.A. Valley College.

Volume LXXXIX, Issue 1 | loyalistnews.org |September 5, 2014

SportSVarsity Football trumps Wolverines in blowoutThe Cubs' next game is tonight at 7 p.m. at L.A. Valley College.

By WILL MINCK

Having recently won the annual Alumni Game, 19-13, the Varsity Water Polo team officially begins its season with a match at Peninsula High School on Tuesday, Sept. 9.

Last year’s team finished the regular season with a 15-15 record. In the CIF playoffs, the team made it all the way to the CIF Semi-Finals, losing to Mater Dei, 7-3.

This year’s team looks different from last year’s, however. With nine seniors on last year’s team, this year’s has three. Returning seniors include Ryan Wilson, driver; Duncan Rowland, driver; and Sean Thomas, utility.

Junior Armen Deirmenjian, a returning varsity driver, said, “We need to work on team chemistry because there are many new additions to the team this year. We are still discovering everyone’s strengths and weaknesses as we continue to practice in preparation for the upcoming season.”

Those who tried out last year and were named to the

summer program got to play in tournaments and practice with each other all summer. While there is some familiarity among players from the summer program, they still have some work to do to have a successful season and run in the playoffs, according to Deirmenjian.

“Our goal as a team this year is to win CIF,” said Wilson, team captain.

Players will have to overcome many obstacles to reach their goal. The team will need to build chemistry and work together as the season progresses so that they will be ready to face more challenging opponents in the CIF Playoffs. According to Wilson, the players need to make every practice count and trust the coaching staff to be playing their best in the playoffs.

Head Coach Erik Healy said, “Our toughest opponent will be ourselves. We will need to stay hungry. We will have to push ourselves if we want to be the best.” Mr. Healy said he wants to make sure that his players don’t lose sight of the main goal, winning the CIF title, at any point in the season.

THE VARSITY WATER POLO TEAM has practiced over the summer in preparation for their upcoming season. The team will play their first game at Peninsula High School on Tuesday, Sept. 9.

Varsity Water Polo prepares for upcoming season

WIDE RECEIVERJUNIOR MYLES BRYANT

PHOTO BY ETHAN AYSON