The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 65, Issue 20 - March 16, 1988

Los Angeles Lovolan Loyola Marymount University Volume 65 Issue 20 Circulation 3,000 March 16, 1988 University to Host Kennedy Conference By CHRIS DOHERTY Contributor (ф . F . К . JRl Remembered,” an all-day conference marking the 20th anniversary of the presidential campaign of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, will be held at Loyola .Mary- mount University on Saturday April 23 in Gersten Pavilion. The conference will be spon¬ sored by Kennedy’s friends and the LMU Center for Politics, Ethics and Public Policy, directed by Dr. Bill Fitzgergald and Paul Shrade, a former regional director of the United Auto Workers, who was wounded in the assassina¬ tion of Kennedy at the Am¬ bassador Hotel on June 5, 1968. The twenty years since Ken¬ nedy’s death have been mark¬ ed bv the lowering of American expectations of politicians, and compromises in our goals of social justice and world peace-areas in which R.F.K. took strong stands. The conference will be dedicated to re-examining Kennedy’s political legacy. Historian and Kennedy biographer Arthur M. Schles- inger, Jr., will keynote the conference. Speakers will in¬ clude Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers; Ford Founda¬ tion President Franklin Thomas, who headed the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restora¬ tion Project; Congressman John Lewis; campaign strategist Frank Maniewicz; key aide Peter Edelman; authors Jack Newfield and David Halberstam; former Justice Department official John Seigenthaler; jounalists Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin; and Kennedy’s daughter, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. An essay contest is being planned for students who at¬ tend the conference, to ex¬ amine the definition and scope of R.F.K. ’s political legacy. A $200 prize is being offered and more information will be available soon. The conference will be a boost for the new LMU Center for Politics, Ethics and Public Policy, and an opportunity of a lifetime for interested students. There is no doubt of a sell-out. Students interested in attending should notify the planning committee as soon as possible, since only a limited number of student tickets will be available. Those interested in a possible student discount should notify the “R.F.K. Remembered” Committee at campus box 1017. ■ Student Attacked by. Knife-Wielding Assailant By SUSAN DERUYTER Editor-in-Chief On Saturday, March 12, at 11pm, an off-campus woman was assualted in McKay parking lot. The woman, an off-campus student, was approached and forced to the ground by a man with a knife. After a struggle, she managed to flee from the attacker by burning him with the cigarette she was carrying. She then returned to her car and immediately sought help at Public Safety, whereupon the Police and Paramedics were called. The woman escaped with no physical in¬ jury. As a result of Saturday’s in¬ cident, Public Safety has in¬ creased the patrol of all the remote areas on campus. Despite the added security measure, Vice President of Facilities, David Trump, en¬ courages all students to make use of the Escort Service pro¬ vided by Public Safety and avoid the remote areas on campus. Saturday’s assault was the second incident of this nature to occur on campus this semester. The last assault was also on a late Saturday night behind McKay, but there’s no evidence of any relation bet¬ ween the two incidents. W Talent Show to Benefit St. Joseph Center By LAURA GOMEZ Contributor She Coffeehouse Talent Show is coming April 14. The show is a fundraiser for the St. Joseph’s Center in Venice. Each semester a show is held. Last semester’s show was held in the Bird Nest. This semester it will be in St. Robert’s Auditorium. Preparation for the show is underway. What is needed now is talent. If you sing, dance, play an instrument, recite monologues, or anything else, sign your act in Campus Ministry. The deadline is March 28.* Come share your talent, help raise тофу for the homeless, and become famous all at the same time. ■ Photo by Derek Seelig Hank Gathers emcees at pep rally held to congratulate the team in winning the WCAC Pep Rally Unites Lions Pans By DONNA R. THOMPSON News Editor So celebrate the WCAC Championship, and to bring the members of the LMU community closer together, Thursday, March 10 the first 1988 all university pep rally was held on Regents ’ Ter¬ race during convocation hour. The pep rally featured the LMU Pep Squad, the Lion Basketball Team and Coach Westhead. The event was emceed by Hank Gathers who introduced the team members. Music was provided by Fr. George Wanser, S.J. on syn¬ thesizer and Fr. Richard Rolfs, S.J. on drums. Fr. Tom Higgins, S. J., team chaplain, sang “That’s My Baby” while the “Red Garter Girls” performed a soft shoe number. Higgins then led the crowd in a prayer of the faithful in praying for inten¬ tions such as ‘That the teachers have compassion for students tliat miss class to at¬ tend the games’, ‘That the ad¬ ministration have compassion for teachers that miss class to attend the games’ and that we may develop a “healthy rivalry” with other schools and teams. The audience answered with a hearty “Lord hear our prayer.” Higgins also read a basketball poem that he had composed and suggested some new chants and cheers. Improved cheers such as “...is a yuppie,” “...has a dull per¬ sonality” and “Boring is less interesting.” Pep Squad member and ral¬ ly organizer, Amie Losi was “really happy with the results , it’s about time that something happened that includes the team, administration and fans. It wasn’t just for the team, it was for everyone in the whole school. That’s why we invited Vice presidents and a lot of the administration, everyone in the school is united through the basketball team.” “I was especially happy,” said Losi, “that Lane Bove, Jack Alexander, Brian Quinn and Coach Westhead came and spoke so eloquently.” Losi also adds that “without Mike Yoest and Mark Arm¬ strong’s cooperation it wouldn’t have gone off as well.” Ш ASLMU Opens Student Elections By RACHEL SHELTON Senior Writer Do you have something to say? Then the Associated Students of Loyola Marymount University (ASLMU) suggests that you voice your opinion by becom¬ ing a part of ASLMU, the stu¬ dent government at LMU. Election packets are available in the ASLMU office (ground floor Malone) through Friday, March 25 for the positions of President, Executive Vice President and Chair of the Student Senate, Vice President and Director of Student Af¬ fairs, Vice President of the Ac¬ tivities Programming Comis¬ sion (APC), seven student senators and three APC members. Involvement in ASLMU provides a variety of learning experiences. Juan Mejia, this year’s president, sees ASLMU as “an education- Jmt at the same time you get to serve your community. What you’re doing is working with a mini¬ corporation, you learn about budgets, working with people and delegation of authority .” Thom Brennan, current Vice President of Student Services, encourages involvement because “It’s the only voice the students have in saying anything about the school. It’s also a really good opportunity to learn how to work with peo¬ ple.” Mejia and Brennan both serve as members of the Ex¬ ecutive Board, that the main function of is to make policies for ASLMU. Student Senate, consisting of sixteen members, serves as the representative body for students and as a forum for all student concerns to be ad¬ dressed. According to Senator Heather Pope, “Student Senate is a good opportunity to represent students in stu¬ dent government and to the administration and to make sure the students viewpoint is taken into consideration.” (continued on page 2) I Can't make it to Utah for the Game Come watch your team wreck Wyoming via ESPN Thursday in *Gersten Pavilion at 1:15 p.m Come early and get a good seat. (Sponsored by Marriott Education Food Services and ASLMU)