Los Angeles Loyolan
Loyola Marymount University Volume 65 Issue 21 Circulation 3,000 March 23, 1988
Photo by Glenn Seki
Mike Yoest_ andMark Armstrong embrace^ at the conclusion of_ the final basketball game.
LMU Hosts
By LISA MAHABIR
News Writer
■ orkers of the General
Motors plant in Van
Nuys have been waging a new
and innovative labor struggle
for the past five years which
has prevented their plant from
closing. Ten years ago Califor¬
nia had six major U.S. -owned
auto assembly plants. Today
in California GM is the only
plant turning out cars. The
employees took an active role
in company management. This
new kind of labor-
management relations involves
community interest groups,
networking, and public
pressure.
A central figure in the battle
with GM and author of Turn¬
ing Back GM: New Strategies
Labor Studies
for Organized Labor Eric
Mann will be one of the
speakers in a two-day Labor
Studies Conference which will
be held at Loyola Marymount
University April 29 and 30.
Community and religious
activists will join some seventy
labor scholars and organizers
who will be making presenta¬
tions in this fourteenth annual
conference. Conference coor¬
dinator Bill Doyle said,
“Recently there has been a
tremendous exodus of big
companies from this
country.”
The issue of plant closings
will be analyzed in a
workshop. Other workshops
will analyze topics such as
minorities in labor struggles,
gender equality, minumum
wage, labor representation on
Conference
film, Asian rights, and
teaching labor in the schools.
State union leader John
Henning and Harry Bernstein
of the Los Angeles Times will
participate. Many activists
with experience in past and
current struggles will also ad¬
dress various issues at the con¬
ference. Speakers from
Hawaii, New York, Min¬
nesota, and Southern Califor¬
nia campuses will feature
reports and commentaries.
The conference meets all
day Friday and Saturday,
April 29 and 30. Registration
fees are $10.00 for the two-day
program. Students, seniors,
and unemployed pay a $5.00
fee. Add $7.50 for the lun¬
cheon on Friday. For reserva¬
tions call conference coor¬
dinator Bill Doyle at (213)
751-7108. ■
Casassa Conference Examines Locke
By LORENA VINING
Staff Writer
Я
he university’s sports
programs are not the on¬
ly things bringing the school
national recognition this year.
The Casassa Conference, the
heir to the Cassasa Lecture
series and the Casassa Social
Values Chair, will coincide
this year with the three hun¬
dredth anniversary of the
Glorious Revolution. The
name of the conference is
“The Legacy of John Locke:
1688-1988” and will be held
Thursday and Friday, March
24 and 25.
X>r. Blake, the conference
chair, stated because of the
quality and character of the
conference, it is gaining
recognition nationally. Col-
legiies at UCLA and USC are
suprised that LMU has put on
a conference v of such high
academic merit. “LMU
students demand such high
quality,’’ said Blake. He feels
the conference may turn out to
be the most prestigious
academic conference this year
in Southern California and
that LMU students should
take advantage of the fact that
it is being
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on their cam¬
pus.
According to Blake, the
tricentennial is an occasion to
celebrate Locke’s role in the
tradition of Liberalism and in
western political thought. “In
doing a conference on Locke
what in effect we are doing is a
conference on one of the in¬
dividuals who might be con¬
sidered a kind of theorist for
our own republic and system
of government.” Blake aded,
“In an election year it might
not be a bad idea to spend
some time to reflect on an in¬
dividual like Locke arid what
he represented.”
The second annual Casassa
Conference, is held in honor
of Rev. Charles Casassa,
S.J., former President and pre-
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Lions End Banner
Season With Style
By ERIC L. JOHNSTON
Sports Writer
■ fter the Loyola
Marymount Lions’
123-97 loss to the North
Carolina Tar Heels on Satur¬
day afternoon in Salt Lake Ci¬
ty, Utah, during the second-
round of the National Col¬
legiate Athletic Association
West Regional, one was
reminded of the story of the
Trojan horse. During pre¬
game Interviews, twenty-
seven-year Tar Heel coach
Dean Smith, regarded by his
peers as the consummate col¬
lege basketball coach, had
nothing but praise for the
Lions and their high-scoring
run-n-gun offense. Smith not
only said that he hoped North
Carolina didn’t get “blown-
out” by the Lions, but he even
went as far as to say that he
believed LMU “could win the
national championship.”
In addition to these ac¬
colades, the Tar Heels came
out at the beginning of the
game determined to run with
the highest-scoring team in the
nation, the Loyola Mary¬
mount Lions, as opposed to
many experts’ predictions that
Coach Smith would try to slow
the Lions’ game down. At this
point, many LMU fans
breathed a sigh of relief, for it
seemed assured that Smith and
his Tar Heels would soon fall
into the same trap that Wyom¬
ing was caught in two nights
before, resulting in the Lions’
win over the Cowboys,
119-115.
But, as always, “Beware of
Greeks bearing gifts.” The
Tar Heels not only ran with
the mighty Lions, but they
also ended up outlasting
Loyola Marymount due to
Dean Smith’s deep bench that
he kept rotating in and out of
the game in order to give all of
his players a much needed rest.
What’s worse, the Lions just
couldn’t find the basket Satur¬
day afternoon. At halftime,
the Lions had hit only 13 of 51
shots (25.5%), and they shot
only 32% in the game. North
Carolina took advantage of
the Lions’ poor shooting by
jumping to a 65-40 lead at
halftime and finishing with a
resounding 123-97 victory over
the proud Lions.
By now, all of the sports
critics in the media have com¬
mented > on the LMU-North
Carolina game and on Lions’
coach Paul Westhead’s
basketball philosophy, but one
thing was left unsaid in all of
their remarks. The 1987-1988
Loyola Marymount men’s
basketball team etched their
mark in basketball history this
season with their relentless,
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Lion Debaters
Compete Nationally
By J. and B. BUSSE
Contributors
Professor Charles
Kaufman of Nor¬
thwestern University, Chair of
the National Debate Tourna¬
ment has notified Loyola
Marymount University that its
top policy debate team has
been seeded among the top six¬
teen in the nation for the Na¬
tional Debate Tournament.
The team, Madison Laird,
sophomore from Tennessee,
and Todd Flaming, a senior
out of Colorado, will debate
both sides of the following
resolution: That the U.S.
should significantly decrease it
military commitments to
NATO member states.
The National Debate Tour¬
nament is the oldest and many
believe the most prestigious of
the national championships in
intercollegiate debate. In three
of the last four years, LMU
has reached the quarterfinals
of the National Debate Tour¬
nament. At this year’s tourna¬
ment, the team will be accom¬
panied by Coach Jay Busse,
who also serves as District I
Chair of the NDT National
Committee. Barbara Busse has
been invited to serve as a critic
at the tournament.
While the precise ranking of
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Inside This Issue
McKay Lounge converted into
Big Dipper Ice Cream.”
See Page 4
Arts and Entertainment
Theater Arts and Dance Dept.
Musical Reviewed.
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Sports
Lions end season on down note
with loss to North
Carolina. See Page 17
