The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 65, Issue 10 - November 18, 1987

Los Angeles Lovolan [ Loyola Marymount University * Volume 65 Issue 10 ^ November 18, 1987 Student Lifesavers Honored Good Samaritans, Students Patrick Fardley, Jorge Envara and Michael Vigil after receiving their Marina del Rey Good Samaritan awards. (ph<,l(, ь, мапш мм», «гагь» «t Aigonw» LMU; Seriously Affected By Crash? By LISA MAHABIR News Writer ■ hree LMU Crew Members were awarded the Marina del Rey Good Samaritan of the Month Award on November 10th for saving a woman from committing suicide by drowning herself. The students saved the fifty- three year old black woman, whose name has not been releas¬ ed, on October 2nd at approx- By NOELLE RICHARD Contributor Do you know that your chances of winning the housing lottery are better than your chances of getting a park¬ ing place on campus? If you don’t believe this, then you might be interested in some facts. Approximately 5300 students vie everyday for a total of 1720 spaces. This makes parking available to less than one fourth of the student body, including graduate students. Faculty and Staff members, By ERIC L. JOHNSTON News Writer ■ he ASLMU Reserve Board has recently come under fire by members of the service organizations Presidents Counr oil, including Greg Crawford of Ignatians, Cathy Leclair of LMU Belles, Steve Peters of Crimson Circle, and Kathleen Ruddy of Gryphon Circle, due to their concerns over the Board’s allocation process of student taxes. Because ASLMU has yet to publicly release the results of the Budget Ballot and the Reserve Board, the four organizations have been unable to discover what happened to $50,633 of the student taxes. Consequently, ASLMU President Juan Mejia has in¬ formed the Loyolan of the com¬ plete allocation process, and he explains that the unaccountable money is actually sitting in the student government’s fund. imately 6:30 a.m. Michael Vigil. Jorge Envara and Pat Farley were doing a “land workout” while other members of the crew team were practicing on the water when they noticed the woman. Vigil left the LMU Boat House to take a breather from exercising when he noticed the woman was looking in her 1984 four door Chrysler for a tool. Her car was parked close to the Loyola Boat House Parking Lot. about 800 in number, hold ap¬ proximately 534 spaces. This ratio of faculty and staff to spaces is much smaller than that which the students must deal with. Lisa Eavers, Chairman of the ASLMU Senate Parking Com¬ mission, has passed the past few months studying ways to alleviate on campus parking problems. After work with Ray Hilyar, Director of Public Safe¬ ty, several alternatives were discussed. These alternatives were formulated into a resolu¬ tion that the Senate reviewed and unanimously accepted. The The Service Organizations Presidents Council was per¬ suaded to make their inquiry after finding the following results: There are 3,723 undergraduates at LMU, and they all have to pay $35 in an¬ nual student taxes. This allows for $130,305 for Budget Ballot Allocation. Since ASLMU takes $10 from each individual tax, amounting to $37,230, $93,075 is left to be distributed by the Budget Ballot process, which allows the students to give the remaining $25 to the clubs of their choice* Considering that only 700 students filled out the Budget Ballot forms, the Reserve Board should have allocated $75,575. Contrasting¬ ly, ASLMU stated that $24,942 was allocated. This led the organizations to ask the in¬ evitable question: What hap¬ pened to the other $50,633? Mejia explains that although the organizations’ explanation Not finding a tool, the woman walked to the fence separating the parking lot from the water and started unlinking the fence by hand. At this point, all three crew members were observing the woman’s actions. The woman then returned to her car. Vigil said, “She got up behind it with her back against the rear bumper and started jacking it up and down until it went over the side.” The car rolled through the fencing and (continued on page 2) By TOM LYNCH News Writer Hn October 19, “Black Monday”, stock markets around the world collapsed leaving people in every country uncertain as to the future of the world economy. It is predicted that every individual, every in¬ stitution, every industry has been or will be affected, and Loyola Marymount University is no exception. LMU is an institution that is primarily supported by en¬ dowments, which are in turn in¬ vested to yield a fund that pro¬ vides scholarships, educational programs, and other activity important to a university. LMU’s endowment currently stands at approximately eighty million dollars, as roughly estimated by LMU’s Vice Presi¬ dent for Finance and Planning, John Pfaffinger. Indirectly, the university will suffer along with the country as the economy fluctuates and more so should the collapse of the market lead By DONNA R. THOMPSON News Editor Saturday November 14, proved to be a night of adventure for many LMU students, as Whelan 4th floor caught on fire. The Whelan RAs were on their staff get-away. Tenderich first floor RA, Shari Younkin and Rosecrans second floor RA, Rob Orininon had taken over duty for the Whelan RAs when they heard the fire alarm go off between 11 p.m.and 11:30p.m. Younkin relayed that her first instinct was that it was a prank. The RAs went into the hall and heard someone yell that it was a “ real fire.” Younkin called Security. Younkin and Orininon then proceeded to knock on all doors in the at¬ tempt to evacuate the building. The fire department arrived in about 15 minuites. RAs were posted at the ends of the wings so that people would not try to enter the building until it was safe. Mary Diggins of Residence Life and Orininon then keyed to a recession. Directly, LMU’s endowment has been affected by the crash. Pfaffinger estimates that had the crash not taken place, the fund would stand at approximately eighty- seven million dollars. However, Pfaffinger states, “I don’t see the [collapse of the market] at this point as having any major impact on LMU. Our endow¬ ment was well positioned at the time [of the collapse].” In rela¬ tion to other institutions, in¬ dustries, and individuals, LMU suffered a lesser blow primarily because, claims Pfaffinger, “We were fortunate in our en¬ dowment being more heavily in cash equivalent investments and lighter in equities and this cushioned our decline.” The issues of tuition and financial aid at LMU have been a major concern following the collapse of the market. Pfaff¬ inger inferred that tuition would not be affected because of the market’s collapse. However, tuition had already been (continued on page 5) into all the rooms to make sure that everyone was out. A few people, it was found, had not evacuated. This was rather serious because there could be harmful fumes and a danger of smoke inhalation in the building as a result of the fire and also because there are fines for not leaving your room after an alarm has sounded. The fire department brought out fans and blew out the whole building to get rid of a large amount of smoke. According to the Fire Department the blaze was started by a smoldering cigarette that reportedly ignited a mattress in the Rec room. The pool table burned, and all the light fixtures melted. According to Orininon “the fourth floor is black”. There was a student who was in his fourth floor con¬ verted study room that was listening to his Walkman when he smelled smoke. He then opened his door and saw the hall filled with smoke. He then closed his door, and climbed out his window. There are three student rooms and the rec room on the fourth (continued on page 5) Increased Student Parking Created 50 Thousand Dollar Dispute Resolved resolution then went to David Trump, Vice President for Faculties Management. He also accepted the resolution. The plans, which will go in to effect at the end of November, call for the allotment of 40 spaces in the Alumni Gym lot. These will be transferred from faculty /staff painted spaces to student spaces and will take nearly one half of the 103 spaces in the area. According to Eavers, this is a “major step in the right direction. From here, we are working towards getting the entire Alumni Gym Lot.” (continued on page 3) of the Reserve Board’s process may be correct, they left out one important step in the procedure. The ASLMU student govern- ment automatically takes seventy- five percent of all allocated funds in the Reserve Board, leaving only twenty- five percent in the fund for petition¬ ing clubs requesting money. Mejia says that the money ASLMU government takes out is put toward school activities such as dance formats and ASLMU movies* Thus, the missing money is actually put into the ASLMU government, along with the $10 tax that every undergraduate must pay. In an attempt to end the con¬ troversy, the ASLMU Senate has now passed a law that re¬ quires the Reserve Board to release their financial results of the student tax. As a result, the Loyolan will publish the infor¬ mation as soon as the figures are released. ■ Inside This Issue Features — The Writers Conference Profiled ...page 11 Arts and Entertainment— Death, Sex and rainbows on the streets of L. A. ...page 6 SportS- Lions’ Tennis Team hits off the season ...page 7 Whelan Rec Area _ Gutted By fire