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Loyola Marymount University Volume 63 Issue 20 March 24, 1986
Tyne fights
By RACHEL SHELTON,
Staff Writer
»ife and Peace Week 1986 addressed
the nuclear arms race last Wednes¬
day when Rev. Patrick (Rick) J. Tyne
spoke on the topic “Breaking the Cycle
of Violence: The People of Faith and the
Arms Race.”
A member of the board of directors of
the Interfaith Center to Reverse the
Arms Race, Tyne, a Presbyterian
minister, addressed the nuclear arms
race from the perspective of a person
with religious convictions.
Tyne sees the Interfaith Center as hav¬
ing three major purposes:
First, it strives to educate the public,
as it “wants people to be experts on the
arms race.”
DPS captures vandals
Department of Public Safety of¬
ficers caught a number of students
in acts of vandalism and confiscated
spray paint and other materials during
the early hours of the morning Mar. 17,
DPS said Saturday.
Third-shift officer Lafaid Johnson
said that items confiscated from St.
Patrick’s Day vandals included 76 rolls
of green toilet paper, paint in both spray
and gallon cans, and papier mache
materials.
Several students were caught as well,
but DPS would not release their names.
Gn St. Patrick’s Day, which begins
LMU’s annual Engineering Week,
engineering students traditionally rear¬
range professors’ offices in Pereira. In
recent years, however, St. Patrick’s Day
vandalism has spread across campus and
has included painting the Lion green,
painting shamrocks on sidewalks and
buildings, and other more serious
damage.
This year, one or more students
entered the Computer
Science/Mathematics study lounge on
the second floor of the Pereira annex
and vandalized a table. The
Mathematics Dept, responded by order¬
ing a lock for the lounge door and
restricting student access to the room to
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Previously,
students could study in the lounge until
night lockup— around 10 p.m.
In a written statement posted on the
lounge door, mathematics department
officials said that the study lounge
would not be locked if the students
responsible for the damage admitted the
crime.
Students caught in the act of vandaliz¬
ing university property face suspension
according to Sections 18 and 21 of the
Student Conduct Code. If the student
demonstrates in an appeal that
mitigating circumstances are present, the
Conduct Code says, various lesser
penalties may apply, such as disciplinary
probation, disciplinary warning, requir¬
ing payment for property damaged, or
banishment from university housing. ■
ASLMU election deadline nears
Students interested in running for any dent of Activities Programming Com-
1986-87 ASLMU office must file for mission, Vice President and Senate
candidacy before 4 p.m. March 26, Chair, Student Senator, and Activities
ASLMU said on Friday. Programming Commissioner.
At that time, a mandatory meeting for Candidacy filing packets are available
candidates and/or their campaign in the ASLMU office; there is a $10 fil-
managers will be held in the ASLMU of- ing fee for each application,
fice, ASLMU spokesperson Erin Braeg- Candidate forums will take place dur-
ger said. ing the week of April 7; the exact time
An information meeting will be held and location will be announced. The
Mon. Mar. 24 at 8 p.m. in the ASLMU forums will be open to the public and
office for all interested in running for will include candidates’ statements on
office. Attendence for candidates is not the issues.
mandatory, but the meeting provides an Elections will be held April 14, 15,
opportunity to speak with current of- and 16, Braegger said, with a polling
fices, ask questions, and find out what place set up outside the Lair from 10
offices are available. a.m. to 2 p.m. those days. All
Students may run for President, Vice undergraduates with validated I.D. may
President of Student Affairs, Vice Presi- vote. ■
arms race with faith
Second, members concern themselves
with nuclear arms through continual
confrontation using “indirect political
lobbying” and other means.
Third, the Center stresses cooperation
between faiths. “Not concerned with
where people from,” the Center has
members from a variety of different
religious faiths, and maintains “a
"to talk" is to be
morally effective"
cooperative spirit with other faiths, non-
faiths, and peace organizations.”
Tyne emphasized the importance of
action as means to achieve his
“dream”: to “stop, reverse, and even¬
tually end the development and deploy¬
ment of nuclear weapons.”
, “SUence ijri the face of this moral
situation is an abandonment of any kind
of moral character,” he commented.
Tyne sees conversation as instrumen¬
tal in achieving his goal, saying, “not lb
take part is conversation is to be morally
bankrupt, especially as a religious per¬
son. ..[but] the good news is that to talk
is to be morally effective in generating
some kind of witness.”
“What goes on in the world today in
terms of nuclear weapons is rooted in
anachronism... pretending that [what
worked in] the then/there still works in
today’s society,” he added.
The central question “isn’t who’s go¬
ing to win, the question is ‘how are we
going to live together?’. ..our role is to
be a culture in which dissent is part of
the mix, [since dissent is] part of our
heritage.”
Gorbachev’s nuclear test ban, he said,
makes the real issue “how do they [the
Soviets] get us [Americans] to go
along,” not the other way around.
Tyne sees stopping testing as the “key
issue... you can’t continue the arms race
if you can’t test the technology.”
Tyne characterized the American
government as “a great barrier to
change,” because it has opposed a test
ban. [In fact, the most recent American
atomic test was last Saturday.]
Aware of the economic consequences
of a test ban, Tyne acknowledged that a
ban would take away many jobs, and
that displaced, workers would have dif¬
ficulty finding npw jobs, “but it’s not
nearly the complex and impossible issue
it’s thought to be. It’s easier than other
things we’ve already accomplished.”
Tyne attended UCLA, Princeton
Theological Seminary, and Antioch
University. He practices family counsel¬
ing in Pasadena.
Other Life and Peace Week events in¬
cluded lectures on the problems in Cen¬
tral America and the plight of the
homeless in Los Angeles, the showing of
several films with social justice themes,
and a sale of “Justice Bread” last Fri¬
day. U
Students visit Nicaragua
By MOSES RIOS,
News Writer
Recently, a small group of students
and faculty from LMU and the
University of San Francisco went to
Washington, D.C., to talk to Congres¬
sional leaders about the Reagan ad¬
ministration policy toward Nicaragua.
The group who made this trip had also
visited Central America during the
Christmas break. LMU faculty represen¬
tatives were Robert Andrade, Sr.
Margaret Mary (“Peg”) Dolan, RSHM,
and Fernando Moreno. The students
who accompanied them on both trips
were Patti Dugan, Juan Mejia, and
Gloria Martinez.
After having spoken to a number of
individuals representing the different
political groups in Nicaragua, the LMU
representatives left that country with a
better understanding of why the elected
Sandinista government does not want
the Reagan administration supporting
the “contra” rebels who are trying to
overthrow it.
With this information, the group went
to Washington, hoping to persuade
California representatives, members of
the House Foreign Relations Commit¬
tee, and other Congressional leaders
with “swing votes” to vote against the
Reagan administration’s proposed Con¬
tra aid bill.
[The bill was narrowly defeated in a
House vote last Thursday.]
“The purpose of the trip was to share
with Congressional representatives the
impressions, opinions, and observations
that we developed in the two-week trip
to Nicaragua,” said Robert Andrade of
Chicano Supportive Services.
Sessions with the members of Con¬
gress focused on how-to approach the
problem in Nicaragua, and how to come
to the negotiation table.
Members of the group came from
Nicaragua convinced that the Contra
rebels have very little support from their
countrymen, and that by working with
them to overthrow the Sandinista
government, “The Reagan administra¬
tion simply wants to prevent the will of
the Nicaraguan people... to prevent their
self-determination,” said Andrade.
“This was proof that constituents and
average Americans do have a voice in
the development of [the] policies of our
country. Our presence in Washington
and our opinions were considered im¬
portant, not only by those who agreed
with us, but also [by] those who were in¬
terested in us for new information,”
Moreno commented. ■
