The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 65, Issue 5 - October 7, 1987

Los Angeles Lovolan Loyola Marymount University J Volume 65 Issue 5 ^ October 7 Volume 65 October 7, 1987 Hilyar's Goal; Awareness By WILLIAM SALVINI Senior Writer ШЬе Department of Public Safety recently released a potpourri of information about what the department is doing in order to increase campus awareness of policies regarding parking, transportation, and harassment of any kind. Captain Raymond Hilyar first made a plea to skateboarders to toliow tne skateboard policy, which can be found in the office of Public Safety (located in Alumni Gym). Hilyar stated that his depart¬ ment has not yet given any cita¬ tions or fines ($25) to offenders of the skateboard policy or general safety rules of Loyola Marymount University. However, for the past two weeks skateboarders have been stopped by a public saftey of¬ ficer and handed a copy of the one-page policy. Hilyar foresees giving a “ go ahead” to his officers to give citations in the near future because, he explains, the univer¬ sity employs him to enforce rules as well as make the rules known. Other Department of Public Safety concerns are with park¬ ing. Hilyar accepted that there is a parking problem at Loyola Marymount, although he stated that other campuses such as UCLA have a much worse park¬ ing situation. He is curently working on alleviating the park¬ ing with a specially appointed ASLMU Parking Commission. According to Hilyar, if a car does not have a decal, then it ( continued on page 2) Saturday, October 3 was the gathering of the ,eGolden Lions ” in the Lair . The “ Golden Lions ” are 50 year alumni graduates of Loyola University . The afternoon was a reunion and social all in one. Since Loyola University and Marymout College combined in 1973, the graduates of both institu¬ tions prior to the merger are also considered alumni of Loyola Marymount University. Clinic Releases Student Stress LMU Alumni Association to By TOM LYNCH News Writer Stress is a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension. People encounter stressful events daily, some more severe than others. A traffic ticket, a pimple, an examination, homesickness, and job hassles are some examples of stress causing events in our daily lives. Some people handle these events well, while others allow them to build up, risking possi¬ ble physical ailments as well as mental anxiety and other pro¬ blems. But regardless of your ability to cope with everyday stress, none of us is immune to it, and understanding stress is important if we are to deal with it successfully. The Counseling Center at Loyola Marymount University offers a clinic from 12: 15pm- 1:00pm every Thurs¬ day in Malone 306, to educate the students about stress management. Coordinated by Terry Gates and Cande Munoz, the clinic covers stress reduction techniques ranging from coping skills to meditation. There is no sign up necessary and students are free to drop-in on one or more sessions. The sessions are broken down into three parts, each designed to help participants in a dif¬ ferent way. The first part is a general discussion of stressful events that may have occurred in the past week or so. Along with this discussion is a techni¬ que called ‘group process,’ which involves the constructive advice of other participants who may have experienced similar events. The second part involves education of stress reducing techniques. The fifteen to twen¬ ty minute lectures are often given by guest speakers from the psychology field. Topics in¬ clude coping skills training, guided imagery, progressive relaxation, time management, biofeedback, burn-out, thought stopping, and meditation. The third and final part of each session is physical par¬ ticipation, primarily in the topic discussed. Through participa¬ tion in the exercise, students can become familiar with it and per¬ form it outside of the clinic. Last year was the first year for the stress clinic. This year’s clinic has expanded to include a wider variety of topics and techniques. A tape library of stress reducing media may soon be available, and the bio¬ feedback machine should be in use shortly. The point emphasized, by both Terry Gates and Cande Munoz, is that the clinic is available throughout the semester, and should be used as a preventative measure to avoid crisis situations. ■ Honor Ricardo Montalban Students Push Towards Sullivan Principles By CPS a nationwide series of planned anti-apartheid protests approaches in October, activists expect the pressure on campuses to sell their shares in firms that do business in segregationist South Africa will be more intense than ever. This, the activists note, is the first protest since the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan called for U.S. businesses to withdraw from South Africa. In 1977, Sullivan authored the Sullivan Principles, a list of civil rights that companies agreed to respect among their South African employees, regardless of color. Scores of colleges, unwilling to take the financial losses of selling their shares in the firms, adopted policies requiring the companies to comply with the principles. Yet in June the Philadelphia minister and civil rights leader, frustrated bv the South African government’s unwillingness to' dismantle apartheid and its mounting violence, called on firms to stop trying to make the best of a bad situation, and to pull out of the country altogether. The announcement effective¬ ly left campuses that endorsed the principles without an invest¬ ment policy. Fifty-nine of the nation’s big¬ gest campuses had adopted the Sullivan Principles, the Investor Responsiblity Center in Washington, D.C., says. “It’s hard to say what will happen,” said Dartmouth Col¬ lege spokesman Alex Huppe, adding Sullivan’s call “has escalated the (Dartmouth Board of) trustees’ concern, in terms of direction. It does add fuel to the discussion.” “Sullivan’s comments definitely will put pressure on schools to divest,” said Josh Nessen, the student coordinator of the American Committee on Africa. Anti-apartheid efforts on American campuses began in 1963, but were never much of a force until this decade. As recently as 1984, Nessen’s group would piggyback anti¬ apartheid rallies with more popular causes like disarma¬ ment in order to draw crowds. But in January, 1985, without much prodding from Nessen’s group, anti-apartheid sit-ins and demonstrations suddenly exploded on dozens of cam¬ puses, and the momentum built to involve as many a 100,000 students in April demonstra¬ tions. Since then, however, the crowds and intensity of the campus movement gradually have dwindled as trustees began to sell their school’s shares and confrontations with conser¬ vative student groups, who regularly began to vandalize protest shanties at Utah, Texas, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, ( continued on page 2) By JEAN MARIE AYALA News Writer She Mexican American Alumni Association of Loyola Marymount University will honor actor Ricardo Mon¬ talban at their annual MAAA Banquet to be held Saturday, October 24th at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton. Henry Alfaro of KABC-TV News will serve as master of ceremonies. ‘‘There are many purposes for the existence of the Mexican Alumni Association at Loyola Marymount University,” states MAAA president Jackie Ayala- LMU graduate of 1982; “One of the most obvious is to serve as a link between Latino and Latina graduates who were once active members of the LMU community and are now work¬ ing on careers, families, and achieving numerous goals. One of the goals of the organization is to raise and disperse funds to provide scholarships for undergraduate students of LMU. Our two big fundraising events are the Annual Spring Phone-A-Thon and the Annual Dinner Dance, which this year will be held on Saturday, Oc¬ tober 29th.” Montalban, who has been ac¬ tive in film, television, and theatre since the 1940’s, is best known as the star of TV’s ‘Fan¬ tasy Island’ and as a spokesman for Chrysler. Through his many contributions to the arts, Mon¬ talban has always been dedicated to bettering the image of Hispanics in entertainment. With this goal in mind, he helped to found “NOSOTROS,” an organiza¬ tion dedicated to removing negative Hispanic stereotypes in film and television and en¬ couraging young Hispanic ac¬ tors and writers. “I commend our Dinner Committee, headed by alumnus Lou Meza, on their excellent selection of Ricardo Mon¬ talban. He is truly an ac¬ complished professional in his field and a role model for anyone hoping to achieve ex¬ cellence,” Ayala comments, “At a time when many celebrities were changing their names to disguise their ethnicities, Mr. Montalban made a courageous decision not to compromise. I admire his (continued on page 3) Inside This Issue Features— Introducing the 1987-88 New Faculty ...page 5 Arts and Entertainment — The Shack — The cure for the post¬ earthquake blues ...page 10 Sports- Rosecrans wipes out Whelan in annual football game. ...page 14