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Students Meet
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Del Rey Players
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New Advisor
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Student Media.
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Flag Football
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Los Angeles Lqyolan
Loyola MarymounU University Volume 63 Issue 5 September 30, 1985
Hotels and Offices To Be Built Below the Bluff
By PATRICK O’HANNIGAN,
News Editor
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“American dream” comes in at
least two versions. Some citizens
pledge allegiance to free enterprise, and
sing the praises of big corporations and
the office buildings they bring with
them. Other citizens are content to
dream of modest homes with white
picket fences.
Westside residents and Summa Cor¬
poration developers are currently fin¬
ding that these two perspectives on suc¬
cess in America are often difficult to
reconcile. The outcome of their struggle
over tentative zoning plans for 803 acres
of land near Marina del Rey have not
determined yet, but it has important
ramifications for this university.
As a news story by David Ferrell in the
September 22nd edition of the Los
Angeles Times noted, the city plans to
annex the land from the county, and to
develop it over a course of fifteen years.
Summa Corporation has a contract for
the project, named “Playa Vista.” It
wants to bring 18,000 new residents, 3
million square feet of office space, and
2,400 new hotel rooms to the area.
City planners back Summa corpora¬
tion, and say that annexation will in¬
crease tax revenues, provide leverage for
requiring traffic improvements under
Barcelona Crime Wave Told
By ROSEMARY ASMUSy
News Writer
Barcelona Apartments residents have
crime on their minds. Students are
exercising more caution after reports of
crimes in the immediate vicinity ranging
from assault to auto theft, and their anx¬
ieties have been fueled by a wave of
prank phone calls.
“People are getting worried that we’re
here all by ourselves,” said Resident Ad¬
visor, Tim Vaughn. “We’re going to
have to take matters into our own
hands, and start something like a com¬
munity alert program.”
LMU employs Tandem Security com¬
pany to patrol Barcelona complex five
nights a week from 9:00 p.m. to 2:00
a.m., since Campus Public Safety only
has enough time and personnel to drive
by the complex once a night.
Sgt. Charles Boyd, acting director of
Public Safety, suggested that the recent
body of reports and rumors “is pro¬
bably just old news that’s coming out
about last year.” Admitting that car
burglaries are common in the Barcelona
area, Boyd added that “It’s standard
procedure for Barcelona to inform us of
any crime, and there hasn’t been a report
of a car stolen in four or five months.”
Barcelona residents met last Thursday
night to discuss safety measures they
might take. Efforts are being made to
identify and record students’ valuables,
and the “buddy system” is being ad¬
vocated for people leaving or returning
to the complex at night. Dave Bunker,
Barcelona complex director, says
students are being encouraged to watch
for and report strangers in the area. ■
the Coastal Corridor Transportation
Plan, create jobs, and give the city the
ability to modify individual projects
before they are built.
Many homeowners disagree, and say
that whatever the advantages of annexa¬
tion, development under the proposed
zoning plans would create more pro¬
blems than it solves. They had a chance
to testify before the Los Angeles City
Planning Commission on September
19th, and to submit written testimony
through September 27th.
Jackie Dewar, chair of the
mathematics department, is one of the
homeowners opposed to the zoning
plan. She detailed her concerns in a let¬
ter to the City Planning Commission,
and was able to provide the Loyolan
with a copy of it.
The letter itemizes what many
homeowners say are faults in the Draft
Environmental Impact Report
(DEIR) for the Playa Vista project; in¬
adequate definitions of terms such as
“bluff” and “building height”; op¬
timistic predictions about increased traf¬
fic congestion; failure to consider the
problem of ambulance service to the
area; obstruction of homeowners’ sight
lines by skyscrapers; lack of provisions
for animals displaced by construction,
and disregard for the impact of con-
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Loyolan photo by Betty Huggins
On a typical weekday afternoon, Hannon parking lot is jam-packed with cars.
Parking Commission Hears Student Ticket Appeals
By TERI MCQUILLAN,
News Editor
Finding a parking place at LMU is
not always an easy task. During
heavily attended class hours, commuters
who arrive late may find themselves
madly searching for a convenient spot
and may even park illegally to avoid be¬
ing late for class. This action leaves
Public Safety no other option except
ticketing. Consequently, the ASLMU
student Senate has created an organizat¬
ion to deal with the student body’s
parking woes.
The Parking Commission has existed
in past years, but is becoming more
popularly utilized as the parking pro¬
blem grows. The commission, consisting
of several student senators and the chair,
Pam Chris topherson, holds two half
hour hearings per week to evaluate ticket
appeals.
The hearings take place on Mondays
from 7:30-8:00 p.m. and on Thursdays
from 11:30-12:00 p.m.
Students can appeal tickets by filling
out an LMU Parking Commission Ap¬
peals Form available in the ASLMU of¬
fice. Students must then sign up for a
time when they can explain their case to
the commission for no more than ten
minutes.
If students do not wish to appear
before the commission, they can sign a
waiver form and present their case in
writing. This procedure is called a mail-
in case.
Regarding mail-in cases, Ileen
Keenan, the Vice President in charge of
the Student Senate said, “All decisions
made by the commission are final. No
student has the right to present his case
orally once he has signed the waiver just
because he does not agree with the com¬
mission’s decision. This rule applies to
cases that are presented orally as well.”
In effect, no case may be presented
twice. -
The members of the Parking Commis¬
sion serve as a sort of check to Public
Safety. They base their decisions strictly
on the rules set by Public Safety, but
evaluate appeals with “compassionate
ears” and allow for “extenuating cir¬
cumstances,” said Keenan.
What constitutes an extenuating cir¬
cumstance? In the past, one student
went out to her car after several days
without driving it to discover two tickets
on her windshield. Both tickets were
given because she had not yet obtained a
parking decal. The parking commission
repealed one of the two tickets, reason¬
ing that it was unfair of Public Safety to
ticket her a second time for an offense
she had not discovered for the first time.
Other students have tried to appeal
tickets given for illegal parking because
they could not find a legal place in time
for them to get to class. Such appeals
have been turned down by the commis¬
sion.
To address this problem, the Student
Senate has initiated a Parking Commit¬
tee to be headed by Jen French. She will
meet with the acting Director of Public
Safety, Charles Boyd, to discuss pro¬
spective aids and solutions to the overall
parking problem.
Some of French’s ideas include
reorganization of the existing Hannon
lot, designating specific areas for motor¬
cycle parking so that bikes will not take
up entire car-size spaces, legalizing street
parking during prime time class hours,
promoting more car-pooling, and open¬
ing up the Leavey Campus for added
parking space. This latter proposal, said
Keenan, “will not be feasible... unless
the Leavey campus is (properly) rezon¬
ed.”
French has encouraged anyone in¬
terested in helping wlith the Parking
Committee to contact her through the
ASLMU office. Recently, Ileen Keenan,
Pam Chris topherson, and Kathleen
Ruddy (Senate speaker) drove around
campus with Sergeant Boyd during
prime time parking hours and
discovered “that there is definately a
parking problem, but that there are
spaces out there if students will look,”
reported Keenan. ■
