The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 65, Issue 9 - November 11, 1987

Los Angeles Lovolan Loyola Marymount University * Volume 65 Issue 9 ^ November 11, 1987 Zuluspear, a band that professes to play “Umbhaganda" music is shown here at their performance on Regents Terrace last Tuesday. For more information, see Features, page 6. A Subject Of Controversy By Andrew McPherson News Writer Rarely do arguments in semantics reach newsprint because they are usually resolv¬ ed rather quickly. Often the argument does not really exist, except in the choice of terms of either or both sides. Not so at Loyola Marymount. A change in the name of some grants at the Financial Aid Office has caused concern in the Chicano community at this school. Loyola Marymount distributed its own grants to needy students, and will con¬ tinue, These grants come from a common fund, but the grants used to have different names, depending on the individual*® ethnicity. For example, it you were Afro-American you would receive an ‘Afro-American Grant.’ If you were of Asian- Pacific heritage, you would receive, an ‘ Asian-Patific Grant.’ The money was always distributed according to need, not by ethnic bias. And the money always came from LMU. Because of problems with particular ethnic names, the names of the grants were recent¬ ly changed to ‘LMU Grants.’ For example, the Negro Grants of the past were changed to ‘Black Grants’ several years ago. The name was changed again to Afro-Amdrican Grants, with sensitivity to the Afro-American population of the campus. Members of other ethnic groups have also com¬ plained about their particular ethnic designation on their grants, according to Donna Palmer, director of Financial Aid. Because of these com¬ plaints, all ethnic names have now been dropped, and all are now simply called ‘LMU Grants/ The name changes but the money doesn ’ t . The grants are still indiscriminately distributed without regard for ethnicity. And needy students still receive the grants according to their need. The problem that arises with the Chicano community is not whether the needy of their com¬ munity are getting financial aid, but that their particular grants, called ‘Chicano Leadership Grants,’ are no longer available as such to recognize leaders in their community. In the past, Mesa, an organization compris¬ ed of representatives of all Chicano services on campus, would recommend leaders of the Chicano community to Chicano Student Services, who would in turn recommend these students to the Financial Aid Office. If the students who were named were eligible for an LMl) Grant, the grant that they received would be called a ‘Chicano Leadership Grant’. The needy student got the aid to attend LMU, and the Chicanos got to recognize one of their own. With the abolition of ethnic names on grants, however, Chicanos feel that they have lost an important symbol . They no longer are able to recognize Chicano leaders in the com¬ munity, and without that recognition it is felt that they cannot as effectively promote leadership among Chicano students. Changing the name also deprives them of a useful leverage tool to get financial assistance from companies out¬ side the school. According to Roberto Andrade, Assistant Dean of Student Development and Director of Chicano Stu¬ dent Services, companies and individuals outside Loyola Marymount who offer aid often (continued on page 3) Dorn Helder Camara, retired archbishop of Olincta ana Recife, Brazil, spoke to the LMU community last Thursday, November 5 at Sacred Heart Chapel. рною ьу вену Huggins Plans for 42 Million Dollar Endowment Announced By SUSAN DE RUYTER Editor-in-Chief Шуыо years after being notified that LMU was be¬ queathed over 40 million dollars from Mrs. Liliore Green Rains, President Loughran described plans for the money in a speech to the faculty. “It shall remain as an endowr rnent,” he said. This means that the money will stay in the Endowment Fund, earning in¬ terest. A portion of the interest will then be used in our annual payout policy for needs based on recommendations from Loughran, These recommenda¬ tions then must be approved by the Board of Trustees. Loughran has proposed that the fund be used for the academic advancement of the Law School; undergraduate financial aid, both need-based and merit awards; as well as funding the recruitment of more minority students. He plans to spend some of the income on special projects such as the library, research funds, sab¬ batical programs, and faculty housing. The Board of Trustees has approved these ideas. The total amount of income that will be spent from the En¬ dowment m any given year is determined on December 31, when the University calculates the market value of the total en¬ dowment fund and averages it with the two preceding years. 5% of that average is then used for the current fiscal year. This allows for a safe gradual in¬ crease in our income instead of spending all of the income from the endowment in one year. Besides the obvious benefit of receiving 40 million dollars, John Pfaffinger, the Vice Presi¬ dent of Finances, noted that the Liliore G. Rains Academic En¬ dowment Fund will give LMU more credit worthiness. This in¬ dividual endowment has doubl¬ ed our total Endowment Fund. This will be beneficial to future borrowings for building of the Leavey Campus. Banks and lending institutions will be more willing to loan money because they see that we are a financially sound institution. Rains was a personal friend of Donald P. Merrifield S.J. the former President and present Chancellor of the University. Other charities which received Rains money included Pomona College, Stanford University, California Technical Institute, Good Samaritan Hospital, and Menninger Institute. ■ AFROTC To Host _ POW/ MIA Day By LISA MAHABIR News Writer Я о commemorate Veteran’s Day on November 11, ROTC will have a Retreat Ceremony which will be held at 5:00 p.m. at the flagpole. Ac¬ tivities included in this ceremony will be lowering the flag, playing bugle calls and having the cadets in formation. LMU’s AFROTC will then hold a flag vigil. The AFROTC Color Guard will also par¬ ticipate in celebrations at the Westchester Elks Club Lodge at 8025 W. Manchester in Playa del Rey from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. Professor of Aerospace Studies Colonel Glenn M. Perry II said, “The cadets have taken Prisoner’s of War (POW’s) and persons Missing in Action (MIA’s) as a special cause. The people unaccounted for in Viet¬ nam will not be forgotten and that includes some 2,400 people who are still missing or unac¬ counted for in that war.” He added that Veteran’s Day “is not only in commemoration of those that have gone on but also for our living veterans. We do owe a debt of gratitude not only to those who served in Vietnam, but certainly in World War II and Korea.” Col. Perry said, “I am cer¬ tainly glad of late that we are recognizing those gentlemen who did their bit in Vietnam be it good or be it bad. If there are any people, however few, still alive in Vietnam, I think we owe it to them and to their families to at least find out what hap¬ pened to them.” In a report completed this year by the Armed Forces News Service, the Department of Defense said, “Although the pace has been slow, ‘the United States is pursuing every available avenue to resolve the issue in the shortest time.’” The Department of Defense noted that the United States also has made progress in developing “a sustained pattern of cooperation” with the Lao¬ tian government on POW and MIA issues. The report also found that “to date, 591 American prisoners have been returned to the United States from Vietnam and the remains of 170 others have been identified.” (continued on page 2) Inside This Issue Features — Zulu Spear performs for Political Arts andaEntertainment— -page 6 Less Than Zero insubstantial cinema outing tied in a naught Sports— -pag'7 Lions’ Basketball picked to finished first. _ _ _ _ ...page 11