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Wednesday, September 28

Thursday, September 29

University Passage: Woody Morwood

Women and Mens Soccer

Lead campus pastor Woody Morwood will speak on this years university passage at 10:30
a.m. in the Felix Event Center on West Campus.

The mens team will play against Dominican University from 5 to 8 p.m. and the
womens team will play Dominican University from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Friday, September 30

Wednesday, September 28

APU Jazz Big Bands

Gospel Choir: Gospel Music Heritage Concert

The APU Jazz bands are having their kickoff concert in Munson Chapel at 7:30
p.m.

The School of Music is hosting the first Gospel Music Heritage Concert of the year in Munson Chapel at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, October 4

Wednesday, September 28

Vice Presidential Debate

Womens Volleyball

31 BITS APU COURTESY

Three APU students sit in front of a mod while wearing coordinating 31 Bits Jewelry.

REMEMBER
1. If you see something, say
something.
2. Safety is everyones business.
3. Dial 911 for life-threatening emergencies.
4. Non-emergencies: Call
Campus Saftety at (626) 8153898.
5. Lock all doors and windows to your dorm, apartment and vehicle.
6. Keep all valuables secured
and out of plain view.
7. At night, keep to well-lit
areas.
8. Always be aware of your
surroundings.
9. Utilize the trolleys, safety
escorts or walk groups.
10. Avoid places where you
are vulnerable and there are
no exits.
11. Avoid texting or talking
on the phone while walking
as you may be distracted.
12. Avoid walking and jogging alone.
13. Secure your bike with a
recommended Kryptonite
U-lock.

Cougars Den closed through fall semester

RENOVATION, P. 1

Many students at APU have felt

the impact of the renovations at the
Cougars Den.
Im pretty bummed out that
the Den is closed, to be honest,
said Blake Huxell, a sophomore
commercial music major on the
business track. I used to get pizza
there a couple times a week. Im really
looking forward to it opening back
up soon.
The Cougars Den isnt the only
dining place on East Campus that
is experiencing some change. A few
doors down, Mexicali Grill has also
undergone some development. Since
the Den has closed, those employees
have relocated to Mexicali and are
primarily working during the newly
added late shifts.
We are quite overloaded

with staff, Sam Lanteigne, junior

theology and economics major and
second year Mexicali employee said.
That has had the effect of putting
many of us veterans into managerial
positions, mentoring the new Den
staff and training each one.
Mexicali is now open until 12 a.m.
from Sunday through Thursday, and
until 7 p.m. on Fridays. In previous
semesters, Mexicali closed at 8 p.m
Monday through Thursday, 7.p.m.
on Friday and 6 p.m. on Saturday.
I love that its open late,
freshman Christian ministries major
Garrett Davis said. I can go get
a quesadilla or burrito whenever I
want now. The other night, I went
after 11 p.m. and got nachos.
Mexicalis official hours are
Monday to Thursday, 8 a.m to 12
a.m., Fridays, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and
Sundays, 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. It is closed
on Saturdays.

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NEWS STAFF
editor-in-chief gina ender
news editor erika hunter
lifestyle editor jamie roebuck-joseph
opinion editor hankyul sharon lee
sports editor brandon rodriguez
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copy editors meghan hui, tyler wilborn
business manager lorraine tan
staff writers alyssa burlingame, walter
cortez, nathan foster, shepherd newcomb,
tyler smith
faculty advisers jessica sherer, kent walls

The entrance into the Cougars Den Caf is currently not

accessible to students due to construction.

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campus
safety

A discipleship group smiles during their weekly meeting.

OFFICE FOR DISCIPLESHIP MINISTRIES COURTESY

Ethan Schrum, Ph.D. and Daniel Palm, Ph.D. will lead a discussion about the
vice presidential debate in the Cougar Dome from 6 to 8 p.m.

The womens volleyball team will play against Chaminade University of Honolulu in the
Felix Event Center at 7 p.m.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 2016

APU community works towards unity and diversity

Faculty, staff
and students
pursue growth in
an increasingly
diverse campus
Alyssa Burlingame

APUs Office of Institutional

Research and Assessment provides
information showing diverse growth
in the student body. This is partially
due to administrative efforts to recruit
and maintain students from diverse
communities and backgrounds.
However, some students in the APU
community wonder if the diverse
population of students is actively
receiving the support that individual
students need.
They tell us we are more diverse
by numbers; however, the support
for these types of students are not as
encouraged or as broadcasted, said
Taylor Allen, a senior graphic design
student and creative director for
Black Student Association (BSA).
Diversity has always been strength
in differences.
A fact sheet from the Office
of Institutional Research and
Assessment shows that in the 201415
school year, APU had a 38.4 percent
female population and a 20.9 percent
male population in undergraduate
programs. In undergraduate and
graduate
programs
combined,
27.3 percent of students offered
no response to their religious
preferences, and 23.9 percent
identified as Christians.The majority
of students are in the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, coming

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staff writer

in at 39.4 percent of undergraduates.

In the 201415 school year, the APU
undergraduate population was
47.1 percent white and 52.8 percent
students of color.
Its one thing to have a diverse
community, which we already have,
[but] its a whole other thing to do
diversity well, said Cole Mizel,
a senior business management
major and Student Government
Association (SGA) president.
Diversity at APU is something
that many faculty and staff have
invested in lately.
Imago Dei, for example, is a
program for student leaders, faculty
and staff to come together and
participate in difficult conversations

with each other about diversity.

These conversations allow the
participants to engage in situations
that they may not have otherwise
been accustomed to, and it gives
them room to learn and grow in
the role they play by demonstrating
diversity on campus.
Training like Imago Dei, and
ethnic organizations like BSA, the
Asian Pacific American Student
Organization (APASO), Pacific
Islander Organization (PIO) and the
Latin American Student Association
(LASA), allow the student body to
come together and participate in
life together. Imago Dei is required
training for various student positions
on campus. Participants are split

up into various groups to engage

in difficult conversations and listen
to various speakers to gain multiple
perspectives on what diversity is and
how it affects the APU community as
a whole. Ethnic groups on campus
strive to help the student body come
together by introducing students to
cultures different from their own.
You can have diversity without
unity, but you cant have unity
without diversity, said Aaron
Hinojosa, executive director for the
Student Center for Reconciliation
and Diversity (SCRD).
The SCRDs mission is to
unite and build community by
fostering an environment that
cultivates awareness, understanding,

reconciliation and appreciation in

order for cultural exchange to be
embraced and celebrated.
With the help of many diversity
resources such as the SCRD and
the Center for Diversity, Equity
and Inclusive Excellence, as well
as the investment from both ethnic
organizations and the student
body, APU is actively cultivating
a student body able to grow in its
understanding of diversity.
Some staff members believe that
APU is steadily improving in the area
of student inclusiveness.
Weve been on a trajectory
of cultivating diversity at APU,
said Richard Martinez, executive
director of the Center for Diversity,
Equity and Inclusive Excellence.
Were becoming more aware of how
diversity is to be celebrated at APU;
were becoming more intentional
about policies and practice.
APU is working toward
changing the perception that
diversity equals division.
Its about raising our awareness
and becoming more sensitive as we
look at our environments, Martinez
said.
Allen sees it as different points of
view coming together, creating one
greater view rather than diversity as
a source of division.
As the numbers of diverse
students grow, faculty and staff
hope to see the same growth in
conversation on campus.
If we can begin to have
relationships with people that look
different than us, we become closer
to understanding each others story,
Hinojosa said
BSA took me in and helped
me understand this part of my racial
identity, Allen said. Through better
understanding myself, Im able to
better understand others.

New semester, new Zuventurez competition

Pitches are
the talk of
the semester
for aspiring
entrepreneurs
Tyler Smith
In the past two years, APU
has dedicated 10 weeks of each
semester to teach, coach and mentor
students interested in becoming
entrepreneurs through a Shark Tank
like competition called Zuventurez.
Zuventurez is designed to give
students the opportunity to create,
plan and execute a vision through the
professional help of those in the field.
In the process, students are to gain a
kingdom focused compass. It is the
time to dream, build and launch.
This semesters Zuventurez
kicked off on Tuesday, Sept. 13.
Now in full swing, participants meet
regularly every Tuesday night at 7:30
p.m. in Wilden Halls lecture hall.
The meetings start with
the Director of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, Jay Sherer, who is
responsible for growing and directing
the program alongside project
manager and alumna Yuli Nagata
Perez. Together they are supervised
by Vocation, Innovation and Alumni
vice president Annie Tsai, Ph.D., as
well as Janice Orlando, a professor
and chairman on the board of
Innovation.
Sherer
typically
leads
a
discussion that occasionally features

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staff writer

Two students who participated in previous Zuventurez competitions talk to students about their pitches
and suggest how they can be successful in sharing their ideas.
guest speakers and alumni. Sherer
and the judges look for great ideas
and solutions to real problems,
which eventually culminate in a pitch
competition.
Zuventurez helps students by
offering a stage to generate, test and
pitch their ideas for a professional
business model, with the opportunity
to win $15,000 to develop their idea.
The second place winner will
get $3,000 and the third will win
$2,000. The top three teams also
get assigned mentors for six months
after the competition to receive help
developing their ideas.
Zuventurez provides a way
of connecting with students and

[Zuventurez shows]
you how to make a
business plan and
how to pitch your
idea.

networking is a very important

thing, said Christian Kama, a senior
business management major.
APUs desire for this competition
is to create a diversity of teams with
the involvement of business students
to then begin the execution of their
ideas.

Sherer believes that the best way

to succeed is by thinking differently,
gaining real experience and just
getting out there and trying it. He
hopes to give students the necessary
tools to become the next business
leaders.
Most of the times businesses fail
because people arent testing them
nearly enough, not thinking in the
context of What do my customers
really care about, or they just dont
have the business acumen to resource
their idea, Sherer said.
Christian Sanchez, a senior
psychology major and last years
finalist and founder of Urban
Vinyl Headphones, believes that

Zuventurez is a good way to prepare

students who desire to take their idea
out into the real world.
[Zuventurez shows] you how
to make a business plan and how to
pitch your idea, Sanchez said.
As an entrepreneur who started
off struggling with an idea but later
turned it into reality, Sanchez and his
partner Seth Fontaine are returning
from last years competition prepared.
Although they joined late last year,
they came with a prototype and
business plan that became successful.
Through their unique and
innovative success, the duo not only
made a return on investment but
also gave back to the community
by partnering with The Childrens
Music Fund and fundraising over
$12,000 last year.
Last years winner and previous
nursing student, Maritza Grissom,
formulated a team to create the
mobile application PreceptMe,
which was intended to link health
care students to preceptors.
Compared to last year, students
and teams are now made aware of
the judging criteria at the beginning
of the competition. That criteria
is having a solution that matches a
problem, correct financial documents
to showcase what theyre doing, a
business model with the ability to
scale, having kingdom impact and
good design with a great pitch.
Zuventurez is composed of
undergraduate and graduate teams.
This year, there are also alumni
teams that are given the opportunity
to participate as well.
Zuventurez meets on Tuesday
nights from 7:30-9:00pm in Wilden
Halls lecture room.

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Bill waits for governors approval Azusa construction

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believes Christians need to be comfortable having disagreements with

people who challenge them and with
people whose opinions are different
from their own. Ramirez said she
feels Christian colleges are in a good
position to facilitate these conversations and be an example for the rest
of the Church.
At the end of the day, we have
the same common goals: the well-being of the students and the dignity of
each individual, Ramirez said.
Board of trustees Chair Peggy
Campbell said the board is committed to its tradition of thoughtful consideration and critical thinking in all
regards, including that of their views
on SB 1146.
As APU plays an important role
in the higher education landscape in
California, particularly in our ability
to serve underrepresented groups,
theres no doubt one of the results
of SB 1146 will be an opportunity to
grow relationships in Sacramento
and beyond, giving forums to more
broadly share the powerful stories of
how we produce difference-makers
for all sectors of our culture, Campbell said.

Months after the APU/Citrus College metro goldline launched, the

construction on the stoplight on Citrus Avenue is complete.

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said she anticipates this issue will be

revisited in the future because the
decision to exclude it was rushed toward the end of the bills finalization.
APU alumna Margarita Ramirez
gave her testimony about her experience as a student who received Cal
Grant funding. Ramirez graduated
with a political science degree in 2012,
and said she was eager to speak about
her time at the university, explaining
that she would not have been able to
attend if it were not for state funding.
She said she chose to take part in the
conversation because she saw it as
critical, and she encourages others to
do likewise.
Things are happening around
you, and you need to engage and you
need to respond, Ramirez said. If
this is going to workif this is going
to be a lasting agreement and a lasting solution that honors the dignity of
all people involved, then its going to
have to come from within the Church
and within the Christian colleges and
within the LGBT community.
Ramirez said this is not an us
versus them conversation, but one
that requires grace and understanding from both sides. She said she

After Burger King was knocked down last semester, construction

workers have broken ground on the new Starbucks Coffee on Citrus
and Alosta Avenues.

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The bill also requires colleges

with a Title IX waiver to disclose information specific to their institution,
which does not affect APU.
Alongside President Jon Wallace
and Executive Director of Strategic
Communication Maureen Taylor,
Walsh went to Sacramento in June
to have this discussion with lawmakers about their concerns in hopes of
achieving reconciliation and maintaining the institutions religious
identity. Walsh said that just as APU
faculty and staff were motivated by
the protection of APUs students,
Lara was motivated by compassion
for students who identify as LGBT.
We, too, care very much about
the experience of all of our students,
including LGBT students, and are
committed to making sure their experience on campus is safe and supportive, and we are eager to demonstrate
that going forward, Walsh said.
Another concern of religious
universities in regards to the bill
was the effect it would have on Cal
Grant recipients, as one version stated it would take this funding away at
private institutions if the bill passed
and the colleges did not comply. This
part of the bill was taken out prior
to its final version after faith-based
schools rallied together to maintain
this funding before the bill was sent
to Gov. Brown.
As of now, funding for Cal Grant
recipients is unaffected, but Walsh

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SENATE BILL, P. 1

The McDonalds on Alosta Avenue is undergoing a remodel in hopes of

modernizing its lounge area to appeal to students.