Loyola
Marymount
University
September 27, 1982
Volume 60
Issue 1
Changes find Sullivan Hall
housing female students
by Carrie McDermott
Over the summer there have
been a number of changes on the
Loyola Marymount campus.
“When I first came to Loyola
29 years ago,” stated Dr. Alex
Aloia, whose office as Director
of Continuing Education is in
Sullivan Hall, “I could
remember how Sacred Heart
Chapel, Xavier residence, St.
Robert’s building and Sullivan
Hall stood out as the most pro¬
minent buildings on campus.”
Twenty-nine years have come
and gone, finding the services
these building provide relatively
unchanged. However, Sullivan
Hall has now been transformed
from the former Jesuit House of
Studies into the new, forty-
occupant, female dormitory.
As the original purpose,
Sullivan was constructed as a
student dormitory in the late
1940s. It served its purpose well
up until the construction of
Whelan, RoseCrans, and Des¬
mond got under way. Upon
completion of these other
dorms, the importance of
Sullivan for student housing fad¬
ed.
It was then decided to convert
Sullivan into a Jesuit House of
Studies. This new conversion
would serve for the residence of
the Jesuit seminarians after they
completed two years at their
Novitiate in Santa Barbara.
After this period of time, the
men took their first vows and
commenced an academic course
of study. This first phase for
these students was offered here
at LMU, and the course was
referred to as the juniorate pro¬
gram.
Once the scholastics entered
into the juniorate program, they
iised the Jesuit House of Studies
as their home. Having their own
dean, they followed a particular
curriculum with emphasis upon
liberal arts and the humanities.
In the early days of the
Sullivan juniorate program, if a
Jesuit scholastic had not yet
finished his basic college studies,
he would come to LMU to begin
or continue his Work. However,
as the years progressed, the
average age of the men entering
the program tended to bfe
somewhat older than in previous
years, meaning that the majority
of these men had already finish¬
announce 'No
boycott' of coming Games
by Igor Sapozhnikov
“The Soviet Union will not
boycott the Summer Olympic
Games of 1984 in Los Angeles,
though we have great doubts
that the organizers of the next
Olympics have done everything
possible to stage the Games pro¬
perly,” Sergei Pavlov, a leader
of the Soviet sports movement
and chairman of USSR’s Na¬
tional Olympic Committee,
stated at a press conference held
for Soviet and foreign jour¬
nalists.
. As the chairman of the Soviet
NOC stressed, the organizers of
the 1984 Olympics have not yet
given explanations and
safeguards on quite a number of
crucial questions, "first of all, on
the question of the athlete’s
security during the Games.
Pavlov recalled that the Soviet
Union had officially guaranteed
the security of the athletes to the
International Olympic Commit¬
tee six years before the beginning
of the Games of the 22nd Olym¬
piad in Moscow.
“We are interested in the suc¬
cess of the Olympic Games in
Los Angeles. The Soviet team
plans to participate in all the
events of the Games’ program.”
Speaking about the prepara¬
tions of Soviet athletes for the
Summer and Winter ‘ Olympics
(the latter will be held at the
Yugoslav city of Sarajevo),
Pavlov noted that they are in full
swing.
Games, scheduled to he held in
Moscow exactly one year before
the beginning the of the Los
Angeles Games, will be the last
test of the readiness of the Soviet
Olympic athletes.
During the press conference
Pavlov also dealt with the ques¬
tion of organizing the subse¬
quent Olympic Games. “The
Soviet Union would like Olym¬
pic competitions to be staged on
African soil, too. Some coun¬
tries of that continent are quite
capable of coping with the
organization of a sports com¬
petition of such high caliber. In
my view, one of these states is
Algeria, which has fine sport s
facilities.”
On the possibility of holding
the Winter Olympics in the
Soviet Union in 1992 or 1996,
the chairman stressed that
several Soviet cities have the
necessary facilities for staging
such an event. Among the cities
named were: Alma-Ata, capital
of Soviet Kazakhstan, which
boasts the Medeo Skating Rink
—- setting for a number of world
records in speed skating; Len¬
ingrad, which is famed for its
skiing complex in Kavgolovo;
and Moscow, where a skiing
stadium will soon be built in
Krylatskoye — site to the cycl¬
ing, rowing, canoeing and ar¬
chery competitions of the 1980
Summer Olympics.
ed their undergraduate work
before deciding to become a
Jesuit. This reality led to the
closure of Sullivan Hall as hous¬
ing for the juniorate Jesuits.
When the last few Jesuit
Scholastics left by August 1 of
this year, Sullivan Hall was then
reorganized into a student dor¬
mitory in less than a month.
Sullivan is now happily occupied
by forty women resident LMU
students. The small community
of these undergraduates seems
to be developing into a unified
and friendly group.
Lynn Del Carpini, an active
member of Christian Women in
Action, claimed how fond she
was of Sullivan: “It is so nice to
be able to know most everyone
in your residence. Sullivan has a
warm atmosphere about it.”
Many students seemed to par¬
ticularly like the idea of Sullivan
being one floor, thus enhancing
the possibility of closer friend¬
ships. Andy Orellana- Aranda
feels “blessed to be there”
because the sense of community
is so great.
Hearth programs
To boldly sleep where no woman has slept before: Sullivan
(Loyolan photo by Paul Bernal)
Enriching the Health Center
by Sheri Kee
The Student Health Center is
in the process of making changes
to ensure quality health care for
LMU students. In addition to a
staff expansion, there are plans
to start health education pro¬
grams for students. The staff
now includes one full-time
physician, an x-ray technician, a
nurse practitioner and clerical
staff.
Liz Purtell, Director of
Health Services, stresses the
reason for the change. “Our
goal is quality care... you can
give adequate care, good care or
quality care. Keeping in mind
the amount of staff we have,
In addition to the vision
screening, two weight awareness
-groups — one for loosing twenty
pounds or less and the other for
loosing twenty pounds or more
— will also be organized. The
third outreach program is a
hypertension (high blood
pressure) workshop. Finally, a
CPR class will be taught, em¬
phasizing heart-saving techni¬
ques. These services are schedul¬
ed to begin around October 1.
To help ease the patient load,
two EPIC interns will assist in
taking temperature, blood
pressure and pulse. The interns
will be responsible for coming up
with additional programs. The
‘Ош
goal is quality care’
budget and space, our goal is
quality care.
One of our other goals is to
give students health education.
Because they should understand
what’s wrong with them, why
we’re giving them the medica¬
tion they’re receiving and what
side effects to look for and just
to know we care about them.”
The Health Center plans to set
up outreach programs where
students may come in for ser¬
vices especially for their par¬
ticular needs. A vision screening
machine will be avilable for
testing students for color blind¬
ness, near and far vision, muscle
balance and depth perception.
student government is also in the
process of forming a Health Ad¬
visory board, which will serve as
a mediator between students and
the Health Center to gain ideas
from students of what type of
services should be provided.
Mrs. Purtell explained that
she saw students as being
somewhat apathetic about their
health, until they get ill.
“There’S' nothing . wrong with
that, but when you get a sore
throat, it’s important to know
how to take care of it so that it
doesn’t develop into something
cise. This is where we think
health education
ж
important.”
Purtell stressed that students
also have a misconception of the
Health Center in general. It is
widely believed that the health
service is only provided for
students that have University in¬
surance. All undergraduate
students taking seven (7) units or
more may use the Health Service
free of charge.
“We see students by appoint¬
ment only and all they have to
do is call us and make one. We
do require all students to have
health insurance, but it has
nothing, to do with the health
service, it only means that when
we are closed, or a student has to
be referred, they have coverage,
and there’s no charge except if
we prescribe something and that
is charged to the student’s ac¬
count in the Business Office.”
The Health Center has a refer¬
ral service to Centinela Valley
Hospital this year, instead of last
year’s referral — Daniel
Freeman Hospital (formerly
Marina Mercy). Mrs. Purtell
commented that Centinela’s
facilties offered the best care for
LMU students. To further en¬
sure the care of LMU students,
the Health Center’s referral
physician and attending physi¬
cian are located across the street
from the Hospital. The Health
Center is open during the school
year from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
Students who wish to have their
insurance waived, should turn in
the waiver card to the Business
Office before October 1.
