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In the standard history of Silicon Valley, Mission Santa Clara and Santa Clara University barely rate more than a footnote as yet another institution of higher education that served the Valley’s insatiable need for ever-more numbers of trained engineers and managers. In that oft-recounted story, Silicon Valley begins in the early 1930s in Frederick Terman’s laboratory at Stanford—where, in the first elec-trical engineering program west of the Mississippi, Terman instilled the love of innovation in the young Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard, and Russ Varian. And they in turn, upon graduation, started companies in and around Palo Alto and kicked off the electronics age.

As the story continues, the development of the technology and the region got a further boost in 1956, when William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, came home to Palo Alto, gathered the best and brightest young engineers and physicists in the USA, and founded Shockley Labs. Then, because Shockley was a terrible boss, this now-disaffected group of employees—the “Traitorous Eight”—walked out and founded the mother company of modern Silicon Valley, Fairchild Semiconductor. A decade later, Fairchild itself blew up and scattered dozens of chip companies all over the area—the birth of modern Silicon Valley.

That’s the story told and retold in books, museum exhibits, documentaries, and feature films. We like it because it is so simple: from Terman to the Packard garage to Fairchild; from Intel to Apple to Netscape; then from Google to Face-book and beyond. Part of this story’s appeal is that it is so neat—not to mention that it reinforces our desire for the trajectory of this tale to be ever upward, from success to even bigger success.

But the truth is that this accepted version is full of holes. For one thing, it ignores the reality that thousands of companies in the Valley were born, made important con-tributions, then died—often leaving little trace. Industry veterans know that the real story of Silicon Valley is even more about failure than success. That is the cost of entre-preneurship and living at the bleeding edge of innovation.

But even more important, for our purposes: This story also has no prelude. No story before the story; no roots. It is as if Terman’s Lab and Packard’s garage spontaneously spring up amid a sea of fruit trees in the Valley of Heart’s Delight … and were not, in fact, the end product of what was already 150 years of regional development—a century and a half in which Santa Clara’s mission, college, then university played an absolutely central role. And it was during this long interval, stretching across three different centuries, that there first appeared many of the practices, attitudes, and institutions that we think of as being relatively new and unique to Silicon Valley.

RINGS A BELLConsider the question of when Silicon Valley actually began: When Don Hoefler named it in his series on the area in the trade paper Electronic News in 1971? But there were hundreds of Silicon Valley companies by then. The Packard garage in 1939? But HP depended upon a technology infrastructure—almost unique in the world—that already existed in the region. Philo Farnsworth had been working on television in San Francisco, and Cy Elwell and Federal Telegraph were work-ing with vacuum tubes and early radio. Even those largely forgotten pioneers depended, in turn, upon the invention of

Silicon Valley Story

The hidden history behind the heart of ingenuity

BY MICHAEL S. MALONE ’75, MBA ’77

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Time trans-formed: a tempo that came to beat at millions, now billions, of beats per second, setting a staggering pace that only grows more frenetic year by year.

the triode vacuum tube by Lee de Forest at the beginning of the century. De Forest, who constructed his invention in Palo Alto while on the run from the law, then moved to Hollywood. He claimed credit for the entire movie, radio, and television revolution—thus becoming the prototype for many of the more outrageous Silicon Valley tycoons to follow.

Indeed, the more you study the history of the Valley, the more it appears a continuum of one invention or technol-ogy or industry after another; and the more difficult it be-comes to point at a single date on the timeline and say, “This is where Silicon Valley begins.” In fact, there is only one true moment—further back than you’d ever imagine—where there is a historical discontinuity, a break in the narrative so complete that everything before and after it is utterly dis-tinct and different. Incredibly, we can even name the date and hour of this moment: The long march to modern Silicon Valley begins at 7:25 in the morning on January 12, 1777.

Why then? Because that was the official day of the found-ing of Mission Santa Clara de Thamien (later de Asís) on a now lost site on the Guadalupe River. Father Junipero Serra with his missionary party had founded Mission Dolores at the site of modern San Francisco the previous summer. Es-tablished there, the party had traveled south to bring the Word of God to the Ohlone natives—also known as Costano-ans—of the South Bay. On that January morning, the first Mass at this new mission was held—likely in the open air. To establish the traditional schedule of Catholic missions and monasteries everywhere, a bell was rung at dawn to awaken the participants to begin their historic day. That first bell was likely small and portable. It was soon replaced by of-ficial bells donated by Spain’s King Charles III to be rung in his memory each evening—as they do to this day. But that morning, with its first toll, that bell changed everything.

Until that first peal, Santa Clara Valley had never experi-enced time as we know it today. For the Ohlone, time had been cyclical for thousands of years: births and deaths, the seasons, periods of conflict and peace. Food, with acorns as a staple, was so plentiful that historians estimate that the native people worked no more than twenty hours per week. But tranquility was punctuated by violence as neighboring family groups regularly raided one another for possessions and potential wives. Because of this, while life was largely easy, it was also severely circumscribed: A family group that lived at the site of, say, today’s Santana Row, would likely have never visited the Bay or the Pacific Ocean or Stevens Creek—or perhaps even the Guadalupe River.

And so it would have remained, perhaps for another cen-tury or more, had that bell not rung that winter morning in 1777. But it did ring. And from that moment on, the Valley was on a clock … a clock that went faster by the year, as time was divided into ever shorter and more precise inter-vals by stagecoach and steamboat and train schedules.

That bell did something else as well, something even more magical: It erased geographic barriers. That process began with the local natives. The presence of the Mission— with its order, discipline, and wealth—accomplished what millennia had failed to do: make the local Indian family groups forget their differences and act like a single people.

But that was just the beginning, because the Mission for which the bell tolled was itself a symbol of 18th-century globalism: altars of Philippine mahogany, vestments of Chinese silk, Communion vessels of South American gold, Bibles published in Spain … the California Missions were easily the most international institutions of western North America. One irony is that, in some ways, the Santa Clara Valley of the Mission era looked more like the modern

Silicon Valley—multiethnic, entrepreneurial, relatively lawless, filled with small start-up enterprises, regularly transformed by technological revolutions, and paced by the clock—than it would during the century that followed.

Mission Santa Clara made that all possible. For the first time, the Valley had a center of attention, a nexus of human activity, that gathered together the critical mass of people and talent to spark the creation of a true community. San Jose emerged as the commercial antipode to the Mission, the profane to the Church’s sacred—linked together by the great artery of The Alameda. This was Mexican Valley: of great herds of cattle grazing under giant oaks on the grass-lands of even greater ranchos, of Spanish Catholics giving allegiance to the Roman Church.

FARMING, FLYING, FINANCE, FILINGSThis is the world that the Americans from points east came to in the 1840s, first for land and then for gold. One of the ini-tial groups of immigrants to arrive—just in time to fight in the Mexican War and to rescue the Donner Party that followed them—was the Murphy-Stephens-Townsend party. The leader, Martin Murphy Jr., was Catholic, of the Irish variety. Within a couple decades his ambition led him to own the Pastoria de las Borregas rancho that covered today’s Sunnyvale and Mountain View, much of downtown San Jose, miles of the Diablo Range south of Mt. Hamilton, as well as vast regions of Argentina.

Murphy was yet another prototype of the Valley to come—in his case, the fearless empire builder and vision-ary tycoon. When his sons came of age, he didn’t hesitate to turn to his church, Mission Santa Clara, and help estab-lish a college for their education. (He did the same for his daughters with the College of Notre Dame up the road.) And when, thanks to that education, those newly sophisti-cated sons and daughters wanted to move uptown from life on the farm, he built them the great Victorian homes that helped turn San Jose into a burgeoning city.

It was to this community, and to the blossoming wealth of the great ranchers like the Murphys, and to a grow-ing professional class emerging out of Santa Clara College that another Catholic entrepreneur—this one Italian—was drawn: A.P. Giannini. When most histories discuss the Bank of Italy (in time, the Bank of America), first in San Jose and then San Francisco, they speak in terms of a bank for working-class people who deposited their nickels and dimes, and who obtained small loans to start their stores and businesses. But with a longer perspective—and from the vantage of the Sili-con Valley to come—the early B of A becomes the template for the angel investors and venture capitalists who emerge in the second half of the 20th century.

Another piece fell into place at the end of the 19th century, when the first artesian wells were dug to the region’s under-lying aquifer—and the Valley of Ranches saw the planting of 10 million fruit trees, which transformed the place into the Valley of Heart’s Delight. When we look back on this sec-ond Valley—with its orchards and canneries, and with boat rides on the Guadalupe River past the Victorian edifices of downtown San Jose—it seems like another world: on the one hand graceful and pleasantly paced but on the other pa-rochial, limited in opportunity, and largely isolated from the events of the larger world. But the truth is that the Valley of Heart’s Delight, now all but buried under asphalt and ce-ment, was not so different from the world we live in today.

If the clock was still ticking much more slowly than it would in the decades to come, the pace still felt blindingly fast to those who lived it—compared with the decades be-fore. The toll of the Mission’s bell was lost in the whistles

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C H A N G E THE GAME

Pope Francis speaks about our common home. Here is what a theologian, an engineer, and an environmentalist hear.

BY JOHN S. FARNSWORTH

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Not only was it a wild idea, it was someone else’s wild idea.Having spent the three previous summers working feverishly on a book, I’d

decided that I was due for a more restful interlude between spring and fall quarters. My summer was to be heavy on contemplation as I scratched togeth-er a prospectus for a new book. There was to be ample time for grant writing. In my spare time I would work on a sabbatical proposal. There was the pile of books I was eager to get to, heavy on obscure nature writers.

Then came an email from Santa Clara President Michael Engh, S.J., in early June announcing that a papal encyclical on the environment was on its way. He was inviting me to serve on a committee to host an academic confer-ence in early November about this encyclical. Fr. Engh wanted to invite the cardinal who’d consulted closely with the pope during the encyclical’s compo-sition. One of my colleagues, David DeCosse, came up with the wild idea that three of us from the new committee should awaken early in the morning on Thursday, June 18—the date scheduled for the encyclical’s release—download it from the Vatican website, read it carefully but quickly, and then collaborate on an op-ed that we’d publish that afternoon.

David is a theologian and directs campus ethics programs for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Our third collaborator, Ed Maurer, is a professor of civil engineering with expertise in water issues. Together we could do this. The encyclical was scheduled to be released at noon in Rome, which would be 3 a.m. Santa Clara time. I figured I’d be able to sleep in until 5 a.m. After all, how long can an encyclical be?

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As it turned out, I woke up earlier than I’d intended. I’d spent the night on my sailboat in Sausalito and, since we were only three days away from the summer solstice, the dawn’s first rays snuck through our deck hatches early. I arose, feeling like a worthy druid, and then put on the kettle before accessing papalencyclicals.net.

Downloading the document to my tablet took a while. I assumed that the Vatican’s encyclical server must be slow. It wasn’t. The encyclical’s English translation was 184 pages long. There had been a great deal, apparently, on the Holy Father’s mind.

NO SUCH RIGHTOur deadline was to have a finished article to the editor by 3 p.m., although 2 p.m. would be better if we wanted to make the Sunday print edition. So there we were, three colleagues—the theologian, the engineer, the environ-mental studies guy—sweating away in separate venues on what should have been a cool Thursday morning in June.

For me, such mornings usually entail a placid, 6-to-8-mile paddle in my sapphire-blue sea kayak. But David had come up with a more productive way for us to spend the day. The thought flashed through my mind that one should always be wary about befriending a theologian. The kettle whistled, and while I brewed a steaming cup of oolong, I banished any theological negativity from my head. After taking a cautious first sip, I sat down at the navigation station to read.

Chapter one, paragraph two, is when I first realized: He’s talking to me. The pope used the term “rapidifica-tion,” which describes my life (and too many of our lives) perfectly. He wrote about the acceleration of changes af-fecting humanity. He wrote about the intensified pace of life. He wrote, “Change is something desirable, yet it becomes a source of anxiety when it causes harm to the world and to the quality of life of much of humanity.” Had I not been reading on an iPad I would have penciled a quiet “Amen” into the margins.

A couple more turns of the electronic page, and I knew that this wasn’t the old stuff that I’d been listening to since my days as an altar boy. This guy Francis was inviting me to take a critical approach toward progress itself, and he seemed to be joining me, like a fellow environmentalist, in questioning our throwaway culture. This was an encycli-cal about lifestyle—written by a man who’d decided not to reside in the luxurious papal apartments of his prede-cessors—to a man who lives as an advisor in Swig Hall, a dormitory he shares with 400+ Ruff Riders.

My colleagues, working at home in the South Bay and on the Santa Cruz coast, experienced a similar sense of papal solidarity. As a data-driven engineer, Ed Maurer was excited to read such a clear summary of climate sci-ence coupled with a profound call to personal and societal transformation. When the pope wrote about the phenom-enon of “water poverty,” he was describing a major issue that Ed has devoted his career to, trying to resolve human-ity’s water crisis drip by drip. When the Bishop of Rome described access to safe drinkable water as a universal hu-man right, he was gazing directly into Dr. Maurer’s eyes.

David DeCosse was making similar discoveries as he read the text. He called the encyclical “a game changer.” He found that in addition to offering a comprehensive critique of the climate crisis, Pope Francis had provided a compelling vision of how to move ahead. He also noted the challenges that the pope had laid out for his followers,

especially in terms of working toward a framework that links economic prosperity with both social inclusion and protection of the natural world.

There we were, reading through the viewpoints of three distinct disciplinary lenses, all amazed at the radical lines that had been laid down by the papal pen.

Despite our looming deadline, I had to put the encyclical down for a moment when I got to paragraph 33. Now the pope was talking about extinction, a topic dear to me ever since I started spending time with California condors. He wrote, “Because of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God by their very existence, nor convey their message to us. We have no such right.”

No such right. I’ve had a long flirtation with Deep Ecol-ogy, an environmental philosophy that advocates for bio-diversity out of a deep respect for the inherent worth of all life. Was it possible, I found myself asking, that the Holy Father was one of us?

In the fourth chapter, about integral ecology, the pontiff wrote,

“It cannot be emphasized enough how everything is interconnected. Time and space are not independent of one another, and not even atoms or subatomic par-ticles can be considered in isolation. Just as the dif-ferent aspects of the planet—physical, chemical, and biological—are interrelated, so too living species are part of a network which we will never fully explore and understand.”

I already felt like writing, since I often do my thinking with my pen. But I didn’t want to start forming a scholarly opinion about this encyclical until I’d read the whole thing. Though the morning was no longer young, the only sensi-ble solution was to take a short walk. Before I did that, I re-read a section that had struck me as particularly poignant: “We have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” (emphasis original).

I grabbed my binoculars, which are always close at hand on the sailboat, and climbed the companionway into the cockpit. The breeze was already up but still just a hint of what was to come in the afternoon. One of my neighbors was swabbing his deck, and he greeted me with the grum-bled observation, “The starlings are back.” This was old news to me, but I waved cheerfully anyway and made my way up to the boardwalk, reminding myself that I could only spare 15 minutes before heading back to the boat to finish Laudato Si.

The pope’s words buzzed in my head. The cry of the earth.I stopped walking and listened. Within moments I

could hear the wheezy chatter of a pair of oystercatch-ers—they sound like squeeze toys on the wing. These are among my favorite shorebirds, as students in my Baja class quickly learn. Whenever you see oystercatchers they will be close to where the land and the sea come together, and they seldom move along the water’s edge without their characteristic chatter. They are loudest during the morning hours, and they’re inevitably the first birds my students learn to identify by sound.

SOME FRESH AIRI had done well to head outside, following my instincts. Something was bothering me about the text I’d been read-ing all morning. Out in the breeze, I realized that what I was experiencing while reading Laudato Si was my own

When the Bishop of Rome described access to safe drink-able water as a universal human right, he was gazing directly into Dr. Maurer’s eyes.

Student CHRIS HADIONO developed a better way

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04 A POLITICAL EDUCATIONCovering the Republican convention for a national newspaper chain.

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64 CLEVELAND ARTISANSRescuing lumber destined for landfills, alumni give the wood new life.

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From the Desk of Charles Higgins, Professor, College of Business AdministrationThe papers and files

are, from top shelf to bottom, my notes for courses 325, 426, 608, 614 and 620.

I’ve posted about 40 custom-made tutorials on finance and investing under the name Drcinvests on Youtube. Last year, they received about 250,000 hits.

This stack is what I’m working on now.

My cat, whose name is: “In a world of ups and downs, and ins and outs, and homes in America with dogs, guinea pigs, and fish ... comes THE KITTY. Now playing neighborhood-wide, this cat has not yet been rated.”

I worked on the Los Angeles voter registra-tion drive for the LBJ campaign. That’s my invitation to President Johnson’s January 1965 inauguration.

I’ve received two faculty-member-of-the-year awards. That’s for 1994-95.

That’s a list of slang terms for money in many foreign languages.

When I was grow-ing up, I could see a train yard every day near Elysian park. That’s a photo of it. The train yard isn’t there anymore.

That’s my under-graduate diploma from USC. My Ph.D., in business, is from the Claremont Graduate University, 1985. I’m proud of that.

Charles Higgins teaches in the Department of Finance and Computer Information Systems.

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Map Silicon BeachLIFE’S A BEACH Silicon is the second most common ele-ment by weight in the Earth’s crust at 28 percent, more com-mon than carbon, which isn’t even in the top 10. But silicon accounts for only 0.8 percent of the Earth’s crust by volume. Dis-appointing, perhaps. After Silicon Val-ley’s economic boon, leaders nationwide wished their region would become the country’s second tech incubator. Many hoped and were dis-appointed. Nonethe-less, dreaming is an essential element in entrepreneurialism. L.A.’s Silicon Beach has recently spread to Playa Vista with the arrival of powerhouse corporations such as Microsoft, Google, YouTube and Yahoo. If the entrepre-neurialism molecule works by bonding dreams with capital, then the third crucial component must be opportunity. Oppor-tunity isn’t being overlooked at LMU. “The growing number of companies in Silicon Beach will provide rich intern-ship and employment opportunities for our students. Our new industry partnerships team in the Office of Career and Profes-sional Development, in collaboration with deans and faculty, is developing strategies to strengthen con-nections with these employers to position LMU as the preferred and convenient campus from which to recruit talent,” says Maureen Weatherall, vice provost for Enroll-ment Management.

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Milligan Lecture Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I., delivers the annual Mary Milligan, R.S.H.M. Lecture in Spirituality on “Spiritual Maturity: Blessing Others as the Ultimate Mark and Fruit of Maturity.”

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Health Care EthicsLMU’s Bioethics Institute hosts a lecture on the ethics of health care professionals participating in torture, featuring an address by Jose Quiroga, M.D.

China’s FutureJames Leckie, a Stanford professor, discusses the stresses on China due to pollution of water sources and overexploitation of re-sources in a Center for Asian Business Lecture.

Music ManQuincy Jones — conductor, composer, director, musician, producer — visits The Hollywood Masters Series for a look back at his remarkable career in the entertainment business.

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InternmentRuth Tamaki Miyano Beadles, whose World War II internment began at the Santa Anita Racetrack Assembly Center, speaks to history students about the war.

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St. John’s BibleThe Catholic Studies Pro-gram hosts “The St. John’s Bible in Word, Art and Music,” a one-day forum on the St. John’s Bible, the university’s full-size reproduction of the text.

CommencementLMU’s undergraduate and graduate students who are members of the Class of 2014 receive their diplomas and prepare for their new journeys after LMU. Stay in touch!

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LLS CommencementLoyola Law School celebrates its 93rd commencement featuring Commencement, speaker David W. Burcham, president of Loyola Mary-mount University and former dean of the law school.

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Rowers Top ZagsWomen’s rowing beats WCC favorite Gonzaga in the Varsity 8+ head-to-head race at Ballona Creek; it’s the first time since LMU took the WCC title in 2006.

LMU RecordRedshirt freshman Michael Vorgitch’s 9:18:45 sets an LMU 3,000m steeplechase record at the Occidental Distance Festival, besting the time of teammate senior Mi-chael Carlone set last spring.

No HitterSenior Matt Florer pitches a no-hitter, LMU’s sec-ond, in a 5-0 win over Cal State Northridge at Page Stadium. Bob Seus threw the first in 1980 vs. Long Beach State.

Tennis Ranked Women’s tennis team earns its first national ranking since 2007, tak-ing the No. 72 position after a stand-out win over then-No. 39 Long Beach State in February.

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All-Time RecordSenior Alex Cowling’s free throw with 59 sec-onds to play against BYU gives her 2,166 career points to become the WCC’s all-time women’s scoring record holder.

MPSF Swimmers Three swimmers — senior Camille Hopp, junior Rachel Dekar and sophomore Kjirsten Magnuson — are named to the All-MPSF sec-ond team in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

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Ireland’s HonorJunior Anthony Ireland is named first-team All-West Coast Conference for the second time, leading the Lions at 20.6 ppg, second in the WCC and 12th nationally.

LMU(sports)Throwing the runner out is not a guessing game,

it’s a preparation game. It starts with a runner on first and knowing his speed. Most likely he’ll run when he expects us to throw a strike to the batter or a slower off-speed pitch. The biggest thing for me is anticipation with every pitch, not with counts or particular pitches. You know he’s going to go at some point and you want to be ready at every single pitch in case he does. I can see with my peripheral vision when he breaks.

From then on, it’s just a question of all the practice you’ve put in — the footwork, the transfer of the ball from glove to throwing hand, the body’s throw-ing motion. Once the pitch is delivered, everything happens in the blink of an eye. It’s one fluid motion from catching, to transferring, to throwing.

When the play starts, I’m in a ready stance, very balanced. Once I see the runner moving, my feet are moving, I’m leaving my catcher’s crouch. I’m not waiting for the ball to get to me. I usually have my throwing hand right behind my glove. When I catch the ball, I turn my glove away from the pitcher toward my body. It’s not even a catch, really. I can’t waste time. It’s more like deflecting the ball to my free hand.

Realistically, if I could catch the ball with my bare hand, that would be ideal. You have to find the seam almost instantaneously. I practice getting a good grip on the ball by doing drills: tossing a ball, catching it and trying to find the seams. I’ve practiced enough to get a four-seam grip almost every time, which helps the throw stay straight. Now my feet and shoulders are perpendicular to second base. I start the throw with the ball about where my ear is. I throw right-handed, so I bend my left arm in front of me. I pull my body downward with that elbow and throw through with my other arm. I pull downward to help my throw go in a downward direction toward second base. I try to throw straight through, so there’s no unnecessary energy moving me in a different direction.

When I release the ball, I flick my wrist the way a basketball player flicks his wrist when shooting. The better I flick it, the more rotations I can put on the ball. The more rotations you can put on the ball, the faster and farther the ball will carry. I’m looking at second base, not my teammate. I’m trying to throw straight over second base about three feet off the ground. If I put it there and my teammate is there for the catch, the runner is going to be out. When I throw a guy out, it’s the best feeling in the world. It’s better than hitting a home run. Everybody hits homeruns. Not everybody can throw people out. I like throwing guys out.

Colton Plaia Throws People Out

COLTON PLAIA’11, of Tucson, Ariz., is the most accom-plished female track athlete in LMU his-tory. This past June, she competed in two events at the NCAA National Champion-ships, the 10,000-meter race, in which she finished 21st, and the 5,000-meter race, in which she finished 12th. She has been named an All-American runner five times, earning the honors in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. This past spring, she ran the fastest 10,000 in Division 1 athletics, and she holds the LMU record in the 5,000. Erdmann graduated in May 2011, but she was a redshirt athlete in cross country for a season and will compete this coming fall on the LMU cross country team.

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TREVOR MEGILL Class: JuniorHometown: Huntington Beach, CaliforniaHeight: 6'8"Weight: 245 lbs.Position: RHP

Earl Weaver, the great Baltimore Orioles baseball manager, once said, “Nobody likes to hear it, because it’s dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same — pitching.” What is the key to effective pitching — speed, control, trickery, fear, chutzpah? Or is it sim-ply perfecting a single pitch that’s almost unhittable? One reason the 2015 Lions baseball team has been tabbed as a power in the West Coast Conference is its pitching strength. Two starters, for example, were drafted by Major League Baseball teams in 2014 — Colin Welmon (Pittsburgh Pirates) and Trevor Megill (St. Louis Cardi-nals). In all three sea-sons of Dan Ricabal’s tenure as LMU pitching coach, the combined staff ERA has finished in the top 10 in Lion baseball history. We asked six LMU throwers to tell us about their strongest pitches. It’s anything but dull.

COLIN WELMON CutterMy cutter is like a modi-fied slider: It breaks a little bit to the left, and it isn’t quite as fast as my fastball. I worked on it with Coach Jason Gill and Ricky Romero, of the Toronto Blue Jays.

J.D. BUSFIELDSlider My slider looks like a fastball coming out of my hand, but it breaks late and ends up out of the strike zone. Depending on how I throw it, the pitch is loopy and breaks more, or it breaks hard.

TYLER COHENCurveball My curveball is my out pitch, and it’s more effec-tive against right-handers because it breaks late away from them. If my curveball could resemble anyone else’s, I’d want it to break like Clayton Kershaw’s.

MICHAEL SILVAFour-seam fastball I think my fastball is successful because of our pitching philoso-phy: rhythm, balance, direction, distance and with conviction. I follow those principles, and it ultimately leads to success. I have to thank my pitching coach, Dan Ricabal, for that.

BRENTON ARRIAGAChange-up The change-up is one of the hardest pitches to hit because batters can’t replicate it in a practice setting with a machine or even a coach throwing from 40 feet away. The key is to not try to do too much with it.

TREVOR MEGILLTwo-seam fastball Because of my height, the angle of the pitch coming down at batters is unusual — it’s one more thing the batter has to worry about. Whether the fastball is my out pitch depends on its accuracy that day.

TYLER COHENClass: SophomoreHometown: Wood-land Hills, CaliforniaHeight: 6'1"Weight: 195 lbs.Position: RHP

MICHAEL SILVAClass: JuniorHometown: Valen-cia, CaliforniaHeight: 6'1"Weight: 210 lbs.Position: RHP

J.D. BUSFIELD Class: SophomoreHometown: Valen-cia, CaliforniaHeight: 6'7"Weight: 215 lbs.Position: RHP

COLIN WELMON Class: SeniorHometown: Tustin, CaliforniaHeight: 6'3" Weight: 195 lbs.Position: RHP

Brenton Arriaga Class: SophomoreHometown: Rancho Cucamonga, CaliforniaHeight: 6'5"Weight: 210 lbs.Position: LHP

ONLINE Play our interactive game and call the balls and strikes from behind home plate at Page Stadium. Go to magazine.lmu.edu.

Welmon Watch Senior pitcher Colin Wel-mon is one of 50 players named to the USA Base-ball Golden Spikes Award watch list. The award will go to the top amateur U.S. baseball player.

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Sponcil TopsSand volleyball standout player Sarah Sponcil, a freshman, is tabbed the Best Offensive Player at the 2015 Rainbow Wahine Invi-tational in Hawaii. The Lions team is ranked No. 9.

Double UpJunior Cristobal Rivera and sophomore Charles Boyce earn WCC Doubles Team of the Week after finishing 2-0 vs. No. 61 Cal Poly and No. 71 Utah State.

Rowing Leaders Sophomore Toni Boteva and senior Jessica Kegel are named Preseason All-West Coast Conference in an annual coaches poll. Both were all-conference selec-tions in the 2013–14 season.

Brown at the Corner Freshman third baseman Alicia Brown receives her first West Coast Conference Softball Player of the Week honors, hitting .556 (10-for-18) with three homers, three doubles and eight RBIs.

Champions, Again Women’s water polo wins its second confer-ence title in a row and the 11th since 2001. Mackenzie Beck, Ivana Castro and Jordan White win tournament honors.

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“It is remarkable. The only single change you are making in these

animals is asking them to be active.

I think that is a huge crossover

when you look at the human popu-lation. Exercise is

medicine.”BEN YASPELKIS,

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Rat RaceBiology, Kinesiology Profs Show Benefits of Exercise through Rat Studies.

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Kinesiology professor Ben Yaspelkis and biology pro-fessor Randy Cohen examined how exercise affects two different areas when it comes to the health of mammals as a whole — including humans. In 2015, Yaspelkis’ rat study, which has been ongoing for more than 15 years, focused on the impact of exercise on in-sulin resistance, also known as diabetes development and determent. He discovered that no matter what exercise the rats performed — be it lifting weights or running on a treadmill — both were equally effective in improving insulin function in the rats.

Cohen, who has been conducting research for more than 25 years, studied the neurological effects of exercise in rats with ataxia — the destruction of brain or spinal cord cells in the back of the brain, the cerebellum, which causes an inability to walk — to understand how it could benefit human ataxic pa-tients. He found that if a rat was fed a high-fat diet and still exercised, certain factors in the brain did not change in ataxic patients — leaving cells to fur-ther deteriorate. Cohen highlighted the benefits of exercise in an article he released with CSUN biology graduate student Brooke Van Kummer in 2014.

SUBJECTSIn Cohen’s study, he placed the animals on treadmills for 30 minutes, five times a week and monitored the growth of brain-derived neuro-trophic factor (BDNF), which protect Purkinje cells. Purkinje cells are responsible for proper motor function in the cerebellum.

POWERSwitches on top of the treadmill stop and start the individual lanes.

RESULTSCohen and Yaspelkis’ rodent studies yield revealing results for

humans as they consider the benefits of exercise. The graph above illustrates the effects of exercise in relation to mortality rate.

Rodent subjects that ran, regardless of their ataxic or non-ataxic state, had a longer life span than their non-running counterpar ts.

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In PaPerwasP colonies, the queen of the hive is a homebody who mostly

stays in the dark. The work-er wasps, on the other hand, fl y outside to seek food and building materials. And the difference in how much they see and experience of the world around them is written on their brains.

A new study in Behav-ioral Ecology and Sociobiology indicates the brain regions involved in sensory percep-tion develop differently among the wasp castes that rely more on their senses.

“The wasps in different castes within a colony don’t differ much genetically,” says Sean O’Donnell, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences' Depart-ment of Biology who led the study. “The differences we see show the signature of the environment on brain development.”

O’Donnell’s team found that the queen wasps had smaller brain regions for processing visual informa-tion than the workers in their own colonies. The pattern held across most of the 12 species of paperwasps they studied.

“The strong behavioral and ecological differences between individuals within insect colonies make them powerful tools for studying how individual brain differ-ences come about, and their functional signifi cance,” O’Donnell says.

O’Donnell noted that sampling juvenile wasps at multiple stages of brain development would help confi rm the fi nding sug-gested by his study.

S T U D Y _ S U B J EC T SA colony of paperwasps, Apoica pallens. O'Donnell and his team compared brain sizes of worker and queen wasps in this and 11 other species to determine the relationship between behavioral sensory environment and sensory brain structures.

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_LAKE LAB _ BUILDING ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR_FISH 'N' HIPS

_ T E D D A E S C H L E RDaeschler is an as-sociate professor in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science and associate curator of vertebrate zoology, vice president for sys-tematic biology and the library at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

Langevin says architects and building engineers strive to incorporate design tactics (better insulation, natural lighting, etc.) to maintain the “target tem-perature” of their buildings with minimal additional energy use. But he says that existing modeling software is missing an important element, says Langevin. Human factors.

“If some people are using heaters in the summer be-cause they are so cold from the air-conditioning, might it be more effi cient to use less air conditioning and provide desk fans, which use very little energy, for those who tend to be warm-er, to ensure they are still

comfortable? These are the sorts of basic questions that our model will help build-ing managers and designers answer,” Langevin says.

When Your offi ce’s air conditioning or heat-ing becomes uncom-

fortable, what measures do you take to adjust? Do you play with the thermo-stat, add or remove layers of clothing, or maybe use a fan or space heater? A Drexel engineer is looking at how these behaviors affect individuals' thermal comfort and an offi ce’s en-ergy usage with the hope of informing design practices.

Jared Langevin, a doctoral student in the De-partment of Civil, Architec-tural and Environmental Engineering, is develop-ing a computer model for architects, engineers and building managers that accurately refl ects how people adjust to their ther-mal environment at work.

He’s building the model based on fi ndings from a yearlong, National Sci-ence Foundation–funded study he conducted at an offi ce building in Center City Philadelphia. The four-story, 58,000-square-foot building was recently renovated to give it the top rating for green design from the U.S. Green Build-ing Council.

For two weeks in each season, Langevin surveyed 24 people who work in the building to learn how they adapted to the thermal envi-ronment of their offi ce.

He also tracked tem-perature, humidity and air velocity from multiple sensors installed in each of the offi ces, as well as the current states of fans or heaters (on or off) and nearby windows (open or closed).

hind legs were developed only after vertebrates transitioned to land. Their fi ndings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Tiktaalik fossil was discovered in 2004 in northern Canada by a team that included Drex-el's Ted Daeschler. Other team members were Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago, and the late Farish A. Jenkins Jr. of Harvard University.

A lobe-fi nned fi sh with a broad, fl at head and sharp teeth, Tiktaalik looked like a cross between a fi sh and a crocodile.

Until recently, only material from the front portion of Tiktaalik had been described. The rear portion was retrieved when researchers investigated additional blocks recovered from the dig site.

The scientists speculate that it’s possible the fi sh could walk with its hind fi ns. African lungfi sh living today have similarly large pelves and walk underwa-ter on the bottom.

Imagine a Pristine, glacial lake serving as a unique living laboratory for

studying water quality and climate change. Research-ers at Drexel and its Acad-emy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will have access to such a 13,000-year-old lake and more thanks to a recent agreement with the Lacawac Sanctuary

Foundation to form an en-vironmental research and education consortium at Lacawac Sanctuary in the Pocono Mountains.

The agreement includes plans to construct a new research laboratory at Lake Lacawac.

The sanctuary is a 545-acre nature preserve, ecological fi eld research station and public en-vironmental education facility in Wayne County that boasts over a mile of undisturbed shoreline on Lake Wallenpaupack, eastern Pennsylvania's largest recreational lake. Preservation and research within Lake Lacawac and its surrounding watershed is critical because the upper Delaware River wa-tershed serves more than 15 million people in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware.

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Scientists studYing the fossil of an ancient fi sh species discov-

ered 10 years ago have determined that the fi sh represents a key link in the evolution of hind legs, not just the front legs.

The team who discovered Tiktaalik roseae, a 375-million-year-old transition-al species between fi sh and the fi rst legged animals, suggest that the evolution of hind legs actually began as enhanced hind fi ns. This challenges the existing theory that large, mobile

B A LL _ A N D _ S O C K ET ' H I P 'The pelvis bone has a prominent ball-and-socket hip joint, capable of operating like the joint of a limb.

Newly described pelvic bone fossils from an ancient fish species challenge the existing theory of the evolution of walking in vertebrates.

“Human factors” — how people individually adapt to office temperatures — play into the design and operation of sustainable architecture.

L A Y E R E DPart of Langevin’s survey instructed subjects to explain how they had modified their clothing that day to make themselves more comfort-able with the temperature of their office.

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_A CUP THAT COUNTSAn interdisciplinary team of health care researchers at Drexel have invented a new way of monitoring patients' consumption of liquid supplements in the hospital .

MaLnutrition, or undernutri-tion, commonly affects old-er adults across the geriatric

care continuum and can increase the risks of illness and death for vulnerable patients. Oral liquid nutrition supplements are used to help patients gain weight, but the research and information on how much is consumed is usually incorrectly reported or not even reported at all by busy nurses.

Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili, an associate professor in the Doctoral Nursing Department and Nutri-tion Sciences Department in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, saw a need for a digital device that automates the recording and monitoring of liq-uid intake, including oral liquid nutrition supplements, to keep better track of intake and free up nurses’ time for other activities.

Together with co-inventor Kam-biz Pourrezaei, a professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, she leads a team of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary researchers de-veloping a patent-pending "Smart Cup" for monitoring nutritional intake in the hospitalized.

So far, the Smart Cup tested well in 20 drinking tests with college students and 49 drinking tests with ambulatory cardiology clinic patients. All of the partici-pants agreed the cup was easy to use and drink from, and 90 percent said the weight and the design of the cup made it com-fortable to hold. The prototype has met the proof of feasibility for measuring drinking time and volume. Future research and development will focus on enhancing the human-factor for design and usability and testing the device in a hospital setting.

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P R E C I S E _ P O U RThe sensors accu-rately measure key data like time, vol-ume, amount and any spillage of the liquid. The liquid was measured with accuracy better than 5cc, or about one teaspoon. N U R S E _ A L E R T

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Anneclaire De Roos is studying potential risk factors, including expo-sure to solvents on the job, for multiple myeloma , an aggressive cancer.

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_GETTING TEENS TO TALK_RISKY BIZ

Getting teenagers to open up about personal problems can be diffi -

cult, but new requirements from the American Acad-emy of Pediatrics ask health care providers to screen adolescents for depression and suicide risk annually.

One Drexel professor has developed a tool that can help providers obtain relevant information from their patients — minus long silences and monosyl-labic replies.

Guy Diamond's Behav-ioral Health Works tool consists of an online health screening questionnaire that measures multiple fac-tors that can affect a teen’s risk: depression, suicidal-

ity, trauma, substance use, sexuality, gun access, bully-ing, violence exposure and other risk behaviors.

It’s important to ask about these multiple factors because, as Diamond says, with teens’ suicide risk “things are more compli-cated than just depression. Adolescents can be experi-encing problems that put them at risk, even if they are not depressed.”

During a medical visit, patients take about seven minutes to complete the questionnaire. Results are

MuLtiPLe mYeLoma is one of the most fatal cancers, with a fi ve-

year relative survival rate of about 36 percent in the United States. Studies have shown that exposure to certain chemicals on the job may put people at a greater risk, but more data is needed to make public health recommendations.

Earlier this year, School of Public Health Associate Professor Anneclaire De Roos received a National Institutes of Health grant to conduct a large, consortium-based evaluation of the subject. Her team will assess exposure to fi ve specifi c solvents: trichloroethylene, perchloroethylene, ben-zene, toluene and xylene.

De Roos and her team will pool data from case-control studies par-ticipating in the Interna-tional Multiple Myeloma Consortium — there are more than 3,600 cases and 12,000 controls with ques-

tionnaire data on occupa-tion. The study will also investigate family history of lymphomas/leukemias to evaluate its impact on the susceptibility to de-velop multiple myeloma.

automatically scored and condensed into a report for the doctor. The private set-ting and method of answer-ing questions in the survey can help ease the anxiety teens might have about

answering deeply personal questions and prepare them to discuss their feelings.

The tool is now used in 40 sites in Pennsylvania and screens over 1,000 patients each month.

G U Y D I A M O N DDiamond is an associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions. He directs the doctoral program in Couple and Family Therapy as well as his own Center for Family Intervention Science.

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_NO MORE PAPER TRAIL

Trauma resuscitations are chaotic, and for good reason: A lot needs to

happen to bring someone back to life, all by a team of people pulling in the same direction.

But information can be lost in that chaos. It’s a problem Aleksandra Sarcev-ic is working to solve.

Sarcevic, an assistant

professor in the College of Computing & Informat-ics, along with her PhD students Diana Kusunoki and Zhan Zhang, has cre-ated an information display prototype that is now being evaluated for use in pedi-atric trauma resuscitations in the Children’s National Medical Center in Washing-ton, D.C. Their information display contains all crucial data needed in a trauma situation and makes it readily accessible to anyone on the team working to save that child’s life.

“These are very fast, dynamic, high-tempo, high-pressure, unpredictable environments where a team of doctors, nurses and phy-sicians are treating severely

injured patients,” Sarcevic says. “The big problem they’re facing is access to information, which is often missing or incomplete.”

Sarcevic conferred with physicians and research-ers at Children’s National Medical Center, University of California San Diego and Rutgers University to come up with a display

that shows heart rate, a pa-tient’s weight and age, how the patient was injured, what interventions were used in the ambulance and in the hospital, and what tests have been ordered.

The information is specif-ic, too. For a child injured in a car accident, for exam-ple, the display doesn’t just say “car accident” but “rear passenger / hip belt only / air bag” because that’s the kind of information that will most help doctors treat the patient.

The team's project was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Their displays began be-ing tested in January.

A centrally accessible display of a patient’s medical information promises to br ing order to the chaos of treat ing severely in jured patients.

P A R T I C I P AT O R Y _ D E S I G NSarcevic's team designed the display by asking researchers involved in pediatric trauma reuscitations what they needed and by having physicians test early prototypes.

R I S K _ A S S E S S M E N TIn just a few quick steps, a patient can complete a depression screening, discuss results with a health care provider, and have the report added to the patient’s file through the use of the Behavioral Health Works system and tools.

One Drexel professor developed an online questionnaire to get teens to open up with their doctors about risk factors for suicide.

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PRO?NO? Perhaps you’ve noticed, it can be hard to reason with a passionate sports fan. Still, fan fervor and seductive faulty logics and economics should not cloud our decision making about bringing pro football back to Los Angeles. We risk being hijacked by boosters who seek to advance their own economic or political interests over ours. Here are a dozen reasons to “Just Say No” to bringing pro football back to Los Angeles. Just say no to special monopoly status and antitrust breaches. Most people don’t like monopolies. They’re unfair. Yet, that’s what the NFL is. Courtesy of expanded Con-gressional anti-trust legislation and tweaks to the Internal Revenue Code, the NFL operates as a cartel with nonprofit status. Just say no to public subsidies for bil-lionaire owners. Doling out welfare trou-bles many people. Yet, economists agree that in bringing professional sports to a city, we provide welfare for billionaires. This comes in the form of preferential tax rates, sweetheart deals to avoid property taxes and capital gains tax rates that enable prob-lematic owners, such as Donald Sterling, to walk away richer still. Just say no to the mirage of private money building a stadium. Having been duped by faulty economics about the ben-efits of putting public monies into building new sports stadia, many municipalities have said no to public funding. But have they re-ally? Public monies still get dumped into public utilities, transportation and other municipal services for new stadiums. And

Lawrence A. Wenner is Von der Ahe Professor of Communication and Ethics in the College of Communication and Fine Arts and the School of Film and Television. He is editor-in-chief of the International Review for the Soci-ology of Sport and has studied sport and society for more than 30 years.

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ALTHOUGH IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 20 YEARS SINCE THE LOS ANGELES SAID GOOD -BYE to two professional football teams — the Rams, who moved to St. Louis, and the Raiders, who returned to Oakland — talk of the game’s return persists. Today there are at least three possible sites for a stadium, and three existing teams that could leave their home to come to Los Angeles. Indeed, L.A., some say, could reenter the NFL with not one but two teams. We asked two experts on the subjects of sports ethics and sports business the question “Would the return of professional football to Los Angeles be good for the Los Angeles area?”

Patrick Rishe is visit-ing assistant profes-sor of economics at LMU and is profes-sor of economics at Webster University in St. Louis. He is the founder and director of Sportsimpacts, a national sports consulting firm, and a contributing sports business writer for Forbes. His specialty is sports economics, and he has conducted economic impact studies for more than 80 events including two Super Bowls, three Final Fours, and two Ryder Cups.

P R O P a t r i c k R i s h e

‘If you build it, they will come … and Los Angelinos will benefit.’

Though there is academic research consis-tent with the notion that public investments in new sports facilities seldom yield net eco-nomic benefits when the majority of funding comes from the public sector, the question of whether modern grandiose multipurpose sports facilities yield net economic benefits is truly subjective because it depends upon the specific parameters surrounding each host city, each new facility, and each lease.

That said, I strongly believe a return of professional football to the greater Los Ange-les area will produce long-term net economic and societal benefits to the city if (a) the pub-lic outlay to finance a new facility is below 40 percent of the likely $1 billion-plus price tag, and (b) if the facility is built in downtown Los Angeles at the site associated with the Farmers Field proposal (www.farmersfield.com).

Locating the facility downtown — rather than the City of Industry proposal floated by Ed Roski (www.losangelesfootballstadium.com) — is crucial. An agglomeration of ame-nities surrounding L.A. Live (www.lalive.com) has slowly sprawled since its inception in late 2008. Locating a new facility near L.A. Live will enhance the urban synergy already afoot in this reawakened district of downtown Los Angeles. Although NFL games themselves create minimal economic impact per game from attending fans — since many of the fans reside within what the NFL defines as the local metropolitan

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this doesn’t count routine tax exemptions and interest rate reduc-tions on building loans that cost taxpayers millions each year. Just say no to the culture of athlete privilege. Sport sociolo-gists sometimes joke, “We know that sport builds character, we’re just not sure what kind.” Indeed, sport can facilitate fair play and cooperation. Yet, in breeding elite athletes, they often end up wor-shipped, made to feel “special,” and privileged. Professional foot-ball, a violent sporting endeavor, disproportionately attracts prob-lem-prone athletes. Recent events suggest that NFL might better stand for National Felony League. Just say no to public monies for a men’s cultural center. Sport sociologist Bruce Kidd once observed that elite sport stadiums, as the largest and most expensive buildings in town, were publicly supported “secular cathedrals” that function as “men’s cultural centers.” In football stadiums, we exclusively worship what I have called “vestigial hypermasculinity” on the main stage with women cheerleading on the sidelines. Just say no to tickets only the rich can afford. Why do we build an expensive stadium where the price of admission is exorbitant except for the rich and privileged or those doing tax-deductible business “entertaining”? Yes, poorer fans may buy tickets once in a while, but would routine allocation of limited resources to football tickets be deemed prudent home economics? Just say no to a poor economic engine. Economists have looked carefully at this. Apart from the athletes, new jobs created by pro sports are largely low-paying, part-time ones without benefits. Economists wryly note that opening a new Walmart would yield more revenue. A new technology park, even more. Further, evidence shows that leisure and tourism dollars don’t grow; rather, they’re fi-nite, transferring to football from other recreational options. Just say no to funding pro football over other more important community needs. Given the economic realities associated with bringing pro football to Los Angeles, a wiser use of public monies would address issues — from potholes to transportation, crime, and education — with broader benefit. Just say no to the myth that “we” are all fans. Fans sometimes think “everyone” is a fan. Yet, a Pew poll shows that only 26 percent of men and 10 percent of women follow sports closely. Further, there are rising sentiments against a gladiatorial NFL football culture that institutionalizes brain trauma as well as insensitivity to men’s vio-lence, waged on and off the field against both men and women. Just say no to the myth of that this will be “your team.” It’s not “your team” or “our team,” it’s the owners’, who play their cards for them, not us. Owners often make demands and threats and pack their bags and move. Further, players are highly paid hired hands who typically live and spend their money outside of our zip codes. Just say no to the myth of “they win, we win.” Some fans feel better about themselves when their team wins. Psychologists have tried to untangle why some fans merge their identities with “their” team. Yet, when fans join what political economists call an “imag-ined community,” they become a commodity of the team. Further, “winning it all” is elusive. At season’s end, one team wins, and all others lose. More common, psychologists say, is the difficulty de-spondent fans have in recovering after a loss. Just say no to television pro football game broadcast blackouts. Because tickets have become so expensive, pro football teams often have a hard time selling out. When a team fails to sell out, game broad-casts are subject to NFL blackout rules. So, you may get the team but lose seeing home games on TV. In Los Angeles, with its many compet-ing attractions and terrible traffic, the likelihood of this is consider-able. It may be better to have “your team” be an out-of-town team.

statistical area — one must think about the events the region would attract with a new multipurpose facility located within walking distance of an increasingly vibrant L.A. Live district.

Consider, for example, AT&T Stadium in North Texas, Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, or the San Francisco 49ers new home at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Extravagant multipurpose stadiums allow organizations to bid on numerous events that do attract considerable non-local visitors to the region. Both AT&T and Lucas Oil hosted recent Super Bowls, NCAA Final Fours and numerous concerts, conventions and other events. Additionally, AT&T Stadium has hosted the NBA All-Star Game and will host the 2014–15 inaugural College Football Playoff championship game in January 2015. Levi Stadium will host the Super Bowl in 2016.

A new facility would automatically make Los Angeles a Super Bowl host every five years (more than 20 years have passed since the last Super Bowl was held in greater L.A., in 1993, due to the outdated nature of the Rose Bowl and L.A. Coliseum). Los Angeles would also be a serious candidate to host NCAA Final Fours and regionals championships, the College Football championships, and any other major mobile sporting event or convention looking for splash and pizzazz for incoming media, fans, event administrators

and corporate sponsors. And if the United States Olympic Commit-tee ever makes peace with the International Olympic Committee over the split of Olympic television and sponsorship revenues, a new multipurpose facility would vault Los Angeles as the top U.S. candidate to host a future Summer Olympic Games.

Regarding the all-important financing element, there have been media reports as recently as summer 2014 that the NFL is consider-ing financing a large portion of a new facility which could potentially house two teams (similar to MetLife Stadium’s arrangement with the New York Giant and the New York Jets). For a league generat-ing $10 billion annually in revenues and $40 billion over the next nine years in shared national media revenues, it appears the NFL could afford it.

Of course, this act wouldn’t be entirely altruistic. The new media deals have escalators that allow the NFL to secure more money if teams such as the Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams, or San Diego Chargers (the likely suspects for relocation due to bad stadium deals in their own cities, combined with geographic and/or historic factors) relocate to Los Angeles.

Ultimately, any investment of public funds should be viewed through the prism of both cost-benefit analysis as well as highest-and-best use. Thus, if the public outlay does not exceed 40 per-cent of facility construction costs, and if the facility is located in downtown Los Angeles where its proximity to L.A. Live’s ameni-ties will enhance the facility’s attractiveness with sporting and convention event owners and site-selection committees, then there is a high likelihood that the facility will produce net economic benefits over its lifetime — and in the process, creating a lifetime of intangible benefits (i.e., fan experiences and memories) from a wide array of events that could enrich the lives, spirits and pas-sions of local citizens.

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LOS ANGELES WOULD ALSO BE A SERIOUS CANDIDATE TO HOST NCAA FINAL FOURS AND REGIONALS CHAMPIONSHIPS, THE COL-LEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS, AND ANY OTHER MAJOR MOBILE SPORTING EVENT OR CONVENTION LOOKING FOR SPLASH.

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Right after Theodore Maiman

(EngrPhys’49) successfully developed

the laser in 1960, newspapers reported

that a Los Angeles scientist had invented

a death ray. Later, actress Bette Davis

allegedly cornered Maiman at a cocktail

party and asked him if he felt guilty for

creating the device, according to a Los

Angeles Times article.

He didn’t, as the laser quickly revealed

itself to be an indispensable tool for

everything from surgery and supermarket

check-out scanners to satellite tracking

and lab research. At least 10 Nobel Prize

winners’ work since has been made

possible because of lasers, according to

Charles H. Townes, the 1964 Nobel Prize

winner in Physics.

Maiman, who repaired electronics while

at CU-Boulder and for a time aspired to be a

comedian, was just 32 when he created the

first laser. A junior scientist at Hughes Re-

search Laboratories, he was given $50,000,

an assistant and nine months to build a

laser. His assistant, Charles Asawa, came

up with a novel idea that proved key to their

success — using a photographic flash rather

than a movie projector lamp to illuminate a

ruby rod with silver-coated surfaces.

Anxious to explore the laser’s possi-

bilities, Maiman left Hughes and started

several laser-oriented companies.

While he was nominated two times

for the Nobel Prize, he never won. In

1984 Maiman was inducted into the

National Inventors Hall of Fame, joining

Thomas Edison and the Wright broth-

ers. He died May 5, 2007, in Vancouver,

British Columbia.

Amid its positive contributions to so-

ciety, the laser’s reputation as a death

ray lodged itself firmly in pop culture. A

Death Star laser blew up Princess Leia’s

home planet in Star Wars and Dr. Evil

cooked up elaborate laser plots in the

film Austin Powers: International Man

of Mystery. One plan was to demand a

hefty ransom from the world by threat-

ening to use his laser to punch a hole in

the ozone layer, leaving all humans more

susceptible to skin cancer.

“That already has happened,” Dr.

Evil’s adviser tells him.

While the laser played no role in the

ozone’s destruction, perhaps it can

help fix it.

By Tori Peglar (MJour’00)

Illustration by John Cuneo

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The BOOK of ShakespeareWITHOUT THE FIRST FOLIO OF 1623, THE WORLD MIGHT LACK HALF OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS. A RARE ORIGINAL COPY OF THE BOOK COMES TO CU-BOULDER IN AUGUST, THE ONLY COLORADO STOP ON A NATIONAL TOUR.

By Eric Gershon

Illustration by Anita Kunz

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jan piter renuth is the Raja (King) of Loorlobay, one of the three kings of Kei Besar, a small island in Indonesia’s Eastern Maluku Regency. At 86 years old, the Raja is deaf in both ears. As he greets us, he jokes that having lost both his hearing and his teeth, his eyes will be the next to go. He passes around a brass prayer box containing a coconut kernel, some tea leaves, a small bowl of water, and 17,000 rupiah (the equivalent of about US$1.25). He asks that everyone gathered stare into the prayer box for long enough to reveal his or her soul. He nods in approval as the box is passed from person to person. Behind him, a saltwater crocodile as long as a man is tall lies asleep in a cage; its presence is never explained.

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FOCUS AREA Advising key stakeholders on issues related to forestry and climate change

Tiger numbers throughout Southeast Asian countries are dwin-dling due to poaching and habitat loss; farther north, Tshering Tempa has dedicated his life to saving the big cats in Bhutan. As the top tiger expert in the country, he recently led Bhutan’s first-ever National Tiger Survey—a critical project because one of the most effective steps toward ensuring a species’ long-term survival is understanding how many there are and where they live. Tempa, along with his colleagues from the Department of Forests and Park Services, collected and analyzed tiger data over the course of a year and a half. They now officially estimate there are 103 wild tigers in Bhutan.

With fewer than 3,900 wild tigers left in the entire world, that estimate marks Bhutan as a critical tiger country. And the new baseline data makes Bhutan better prepared to monitor and pro-tect its current tiger population, and to strategize ways to help tiger numbers grow.

With support from WWF, Tempa will earn his PhD in wildlife biology from the University of Montana. He will then combine existing research on tiger populations in Bhutan with new re-search into how Bhutan’s tigers are connected to other members of the species throughout the Himalayan region. Eventually, Tempa’s research and fieldwork will prove critical to tiger con-servation efforts not only in Bhutan and the Himalayas, but also throughout Southeast Asia.

COUNTRYBhutan

GRANTRussell E. Train

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FOCUS AREASaving tigers in

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Surge ControlIn late November 1860, 10 years after state-hood and the Gold Rush, botanist William Brewer, an Easterner, arrived in Los Angeles with the California Geological Survey to travel the state of California and study its natural resources. On Dec. 7, in one of his first journal entries, Brewer was awestruck by the beauty of the L.A. basin, which seemed to lack one resource only: “Here is a great plain, or rather a gentle slope, from the Pacific to the mountains. We are on the plain about twenty miles from the sea and fifteen from the mountains, a most lovely locality; all that is wanted naturally to make it a paradise is water, more water (sic). … The weather is soft and balmy — no winter, but a perpetual spring and summer. Such is Los Angeles, a place where ‘every prospect pleases and only man is vile.’ ” Brewer soon encounters L.A.’s natural water: He had arrived in rainy season, the rainiest in 11 years. In the next two months, Brewer’s team is pummeled by sudden deluges, surging streams and rising rivers. Supplies are washed away; nearby, men die. Today, Brewer’s journal is a record of the power of California’s greatest and most unpredictable resource: water. Joe Haworth ’66 says L.A.’s water is still something of a mixed blessing. A water engi-neering specialist, Haworth worked for three decades in California’s water industry. L.A. water comes naturally in floods, Haworth says. “Floods are good because land gets re-plenished, but they’re bad because the floods are dangerous, sudden and unpredictable.” Control, therefore, Haworth says, sums up most of the region’s water-use history: “get-ting water out of the basin — channelizing it — to make sure it didn’t harm development plans.” Corralling L.A.’s wild, sporadic waters in concretized rivers helped make economic development predictable, thus possible. The greatest example? The L.A. Aqueduct — “223 miles of canals, conduits, tunnels, flumes, penstocks, tailraces and siphons,” as his-torian Kevin Starr describes it. A century ago, on Nov. 5, 1913, the aqueduct first de-livered water to the San Fernando Valley, and its builder may be the most influential person in Southern California history: William Mulholland, a water engineer. If you ask Haworth the single most important thing to understand about water in Southern California, he answers, “Think of it as being as valuable as oil, except it’s a staple of life.”PH

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Campus art galleries host Marvel Comics legendThe exhibition Comic Book Apocalypse: The Graphic World of Jack Kirby featured the works of comic book artist Jack Kirby, the co-creator, designer and original artist for famous charac-ters such as Captain America, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and the Black Panther. In the largest exhibit of its kind in the nation, about 100 pieces of Kirby’s work were displayed and organizers compiled a roughly 200-page, full-color catalog. English professor Charles Hat-field, curator of the exhibition, said he wanted to show Kirby’s works because of their graphic power and great historical impact on American popular culture. When it comes to Kirby, you ei-ther “go big or don’t bother at all,” Hatfield said. The exhibition also kicked off Comics@CSUN, a collaborative and interdisciplinary initiative to increase campus interest and involvement in the study of comics. The exhibition ran from Aug. 24–Oct. 10 and was supported by the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication and the College of Humanities.


Bed of RosesUnveiled in 2011, the Matador statue — standing tall next to Cleary Walk, between the Oviatt Library and the University Stu-dent Union — quickly became home to a beloved CSUN tradition. Students place red roses at the matador’s feet for good luck during finals week, or to celebrate major accomplishments and milestones such as birthdays, engagements and grad-uations. Dressed in white, sorority pledges pile red roses at the statue to celebrate sis-terhood, and student-athletes leave roses to mark successful seasons. After Com-mencement each May, a host of red roses serves as a memento of graduating students’ first steps into the future. —O.H.


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1 Alex, Shaleta, James and Adrianne Chivers ’072 Hassel Villalta ’123 Andi Edgett 11 and Byron Galindo ’114 Ashley, Felicity, Sean II and Erika Reed ’045 Art Perez ’08 and Natasha D’Costa ’076 Carmen Castañeda Montes ’127 Beate ’08 and Melanie Nguyen ’138 Aviana, Analicia and Maria Elena Amaya ’009 Catrina Cardona10 Jessie Makohon ’09 and Paul Ricker11 Chris ’99, Yvette (Nino) ’00 and Sophia Douglas 12 Daisy Rodriguez ’1213 Theresa La ’16 and Lucia La ’1714 Lina and Jeffrey Butler M.A. ’8915 Elizabeth (Chavira) Maddy ’9916 Laura Robbs and Mariah Freeman17 Emily Berry ’12 and Will Mack ’1118 Gary Bolton ’98 and children19 Alyssia Ferrari ’10 and Kelli Swett ’1020 Ismael and Esmeralda (Nisperos) Mendoza ’97 and family 21 Izzie Galanti22 Jack Kane23 Jacqueline Martinez ’07 and friend24 Juliana, Ryan, Ron Ron, Arleen De Los Santos-Aquino ’90, Law ’98 and Rhonel Aquino ’90, Law ’9525 Kevin and Itzel Sanchez ’1426 Jose, Armando and Arturo Amaya ’0027 Freddy Cupen-Ames ’1128 Jesse Brownstein ’10 and friend29 Katarina, Sofia, Nadia, Steffan and Nina Neumann ’94 30 Margarita and Adrian Cardona ’8731 Matthew Petrusek and family32 Marisela Canela ’11 and friend33 Michele Prenovost Ruegg ’77 and family34 Terpsichore Tan M.B.A. ’1135 Michelle Pajka ’11 and Raf Hasendonckx36 Catherine Galanti37 Noe Castillo ’04 and friend38 Paloma, Philip and Marianna Villa ’00 39 Joe August ’13 and Callie Child ’1340 Shane Rivera

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WHAT A CHARACTERRecognize any of these faces? They were all drawn at the 60th Annual LMU Alumni BBQ this past September. We hired Ian Dellota and Chris-tian Zamorano, professional caricature artists, to draw portraits of alumni, family and friends who stopped by the LMU Magazine booth. To those who waited patiently (some for an hour) for a rendering of their visage, we gave an LMU Magazine T-shirt. And so many BBQ-ers liked the concept that Ian and Christian drew nonstop for four hours. Finally, we scanned each drawing as it came off the easel to make a slideshow. Take a look at our website (magazine.lmu.edu) to see if yours is among them. If you’d like to receive one of the T-shirts we gave away at the BBQ, go to Page 5 to see how. Sizes run from small to extra large (no children’s sizes).

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Kerricia Wilson ’05, Melissa Lizardo ’05 & Carlee Qualls Javier Mora ’95 & family

Jasmine Burch with Valentina & Eric Enriquez ’89 Catherine Brutyan ’15 & Christopher Khasho

Christina Mariscal-Pasten ’04 (second from right) & familyFrancisco Raigoza ’97 & family Suzanne Olaerts-Hui ’88 ’95 & Andy Hui ’86, MA ’89

Madison Wright ’18 & LMU CheerTaShanique Elzie-Calhoun ’03 Megan Kinsella ’11 (second from right) and friends

Britta Engatrom ’12 & Henry Kaplan ’11Robyn, Chase & Jeremy Coltin ’99 Rozalyn Lucero ’00 with daughter Samantha

Wyatt (son of Frank Kane ’00) & Cecilia Brown Lauren (daughter of Chris Matson ’90) Steven ’18, Samantha & Armando Sosa ’88

Jennifer Lewis-Pham ’05, David Pham & son John Paul Camille & Stella (daughters of Jan ’99 & Carlos Vega ’99) Daniel Malignaggi ’08 & Venessa Lizarde ’08Daniel Malignaggi ’08 & Venessa Lizarde ’08

Bryson Wallace ’10 (back row, right) and friends Asher (son of Christina [Thongkham] Komenkul ’06) Laurel Turner ’13 (right) & friends

David Humphries ’15 & Marin Mornar ’15 Valerie (Basulto) ’98, Jeffrey Hackbarth ’97 & family Jackie Berryhill ’75

Summer Jimpson ’15 with son Christian Detroit Flanagan, Jr. ’64 Stephanie Zamora ’14 (center) & friends

SLIDESHOW These and more photos from the LMU Magazine booth at the Alumni BBQ can be found at magazine.lmu.edu.

THE FAMILY HOLIDAY PHOTO When the LMU Magazine staff pondered what to do at our booth at the 62nd Annual LMU alumni BBQ in September, the thought of celebrating Christ-mas and holiday photos naturally came to mind. So we created a large backdrop of the Sacred Heart Chapel with its seasonal wreath. And we invited Iggy, who came dressed for the occasion. Since Pope Francis was visiting the United States during Alumni Reunion Weekend, we thought, “Why not invite him to the BBQ?” Although the pope passed up a visit to L.A. for a scenic tour of Amtrak Alley (New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.), we managed to find a way to bring his spiritual presence to Sunken Garden, with a life-size cut out photo. Since Los Angeles is often accused of being a city built on illusions, you may say that was the most appropriate way of bringing Francis to the city of hopes and dreams, the City of Angels, in the first place. If some were disappointed, they didn’t show it at the BBQ: Take a look at our holiday photos. And, Merry Christmas!

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DURING THE CURRENT U.S. ELECTION PROCESS, FEAR OF MUSLIMS HAS BECOME a thread used to tie terrorists and extremists to suspicion of Muslim Americans. Here at LMU, Muslims have been participating in and contributing to the university’s culture for some time. We have asked some to describe their faith, lives and experi-ence in the United States. If we fear what we do not know, let this be an introduction.

On The Bluff To be Muslim at LMU

When I came to LMU in 2005, we had relatively few Muslim students. Last year, 125 students self-identified as Muslim. Many of them are American, but a growing number are international students, who come to America because this nation provides the best education in the world. They are, both domestic and foreign, amazing students, and it is a joy to work with them. Unfortunately, we live in an age that John Esposito, the founding director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, has called “the normaliza-tion of Islamophobia.” This hatred — for it is really a hatred of Muslims, not a fear of us — is, sadly, nothing new in this country. Two hundred years ago, it was Catholics who were as the “Other,” with a religion linked to violence overseas. Bishop Robert W. McElroy, of

the Diocese of San Diego, spoke this past Febru-ary about the “new nativism, which the American Catholic community must reject and label for the religious bigotry which it is.” In April, Pope Francis yet again did the astonishing: He quietly and simply brought three Syrian refugee families to settle in the Vatican. At LMU, a group of freshmen students have re-vived the Muslim Students Association. They began with a very simple request: to be able to pray the obligatory Friday afternoon prayer on campus. That has led to regular Friday worship in the chapel of the Marymount Institute for Faith Culture and the Arts. Theirs is a small group, sometimes a dozen, sometimes as many as 20 students, taking turns leading each other in prayer. They fill me with hope. Yet again, grace abounds in our broken world.

by Amir Hussain

AMIR HUSSAINwas born in Pakistan and grew up in Can-ada. He is professor of theological studies in the Bellarmine Col-lege of Liberal Arts. He is the author or editor of five books, including “Oil & Water: Two Faiths, One God.” He was the first Muslim to be editor of the Jour-nal of the American Academy of Religion, the premier scholarly journal for the study of religion, and LMU was the first Catholic university to host the journal.

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Major: Political ScienceBirthplace: TorranceFamily Roots: Syria

WHAT IS THE BIG-GEST MISCON-CEPTION ABOUT MUSLIMS THAT YOU DEAL WITH?“The biggest miscon-ception specifically about Muslim women is that we wear the hijab not because of our free will, not because we want to, but because we are forced to wear it. This contradicts Islam because wearing the hijab should be a sincere action in which Muslim women choose to wear the hijab because they want to. People think wearing the hijab may be a struggle. For me, it’s not. I wear the hijab because I choose to, and it’s one of the best choices I’ve ever made in my life because it has made me a much a stronger person.”

KIENAN TAWELL

Major: Political ScienceBirthplace: Los AngelesFamily Roots: Syria And Hungary

DO YOU EVER FEEL AS IF YOU ARE STEREO-TYPED AS BEING FOREIGN SIMPLY BY BEING A MUSLIM, DESPITE THE FACT THAT YOU WERE BORN AND RAISED IN THE UNITED STATES?“Because people do not expect me to be a Muslim based on my physical appearance, they have been pleasantly surprised when I do tell them that I am Muslim. If I had visible traits of my faith, like girls who wear the hijab, it would be a more difficult scenario. Despite the nega-tivity that I see in the media, I do not want to engage in the belief that Islam is incompatible with America. I believe Islam has a place in this country, and I consider myself a patriot who is proud to be an American Muslim.”

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ALI AKBAR

Birthplace: Indonesia

HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED IN THE UNITED STATES?“I have lived in the United States since 1995. In my country, I saw on TV and in the news that America is a good country. I came here to try to make a good life, a better life, especially for the next genera-tion, my four children. I live a simple life: I come to work, go home and spend time with my family. There are other Indonesians in Los Angeles, who live near Wilshire and Normandie, but there are not as many Indonesians as other people. There is a Koreatown, and a Vietnam town, but here there is no Indo-nesia town.”

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