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Special Games Celebrates Anniversary
Photo by Greg Reeves
Over three hundred athletes from Southern California participated in this year's Special Games.
AIDS Quilt Coming To
Gersten Pavilion Next Week
Reminder of Those Who Died From AIDS
to Be On Display Monday and Tuesday
By Nina Nagy
Staff Writer
Я
he Names Project AIDS Me¬
morial Quilt is coming to
Loyola Marymount. The showing
of the Quilt will be one of the events
taking place during this week’s AIDS
Awareness Week.
The Quilt is “A memorial to com¬
memorate the lives of people who
have died from AIDS,” stated Joelle
Johnson, senior and Co-chair of
the Committee to bring the Quilt to
LMU. The Quilt was originally cre¬
ated by Cleve Jones, who had lost
a close friend to AIDS.
Jones and six other people de¬
cided to create a memorial to all of
their friends and family who had
died of the disease.
The week’s activities will begin
with an AIDS awareness Mass on
Sunday, March 22, at 8:00 p.m.
After Mass, the movie Common
Threads : Stories From The Quilt,
which won an Academy Award for
Best Feature Documentary in 1 989,
will be shown in the Rec Center at
9:00 p.m. Red ribbons will be
handed out and worn all week to
symbolize AIDS awareness. The
Quilt will be displayed Monday,
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AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT
• Gersten Pavilion |
Loyola Marymount University
Monday, March 23rd
10am -9pm
Tuesday, March 24th
8am - 8pm
March 23 from 10:00 a m. to 9:00
p.m. and on Tuesday from 8:00
a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
The showing of the Quilt will be¬
gin with an opening ceremony and
the reading of the names of those
who are immortalized in the panels
of the Quilt. The opening ceremo¬
nies will take place on Monday at
1 0:00 a.m. The Loyola Marymount
University Choruses will perform at
the Opening Ceremonies. Many
people will be on hand to read
names of people who have died
from the disease. Some of the
readers are celebrities, some are
members of the LMU community,
and others are just people who
care.
Some members of the cast of
‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” are
scheduled to read. Lane Bove,
Vice President of Student Affairs,
Greg Miller, ASLMU President and
Fr. Merrifield, ChancelloroftheLaw
School, are among those from LMU
who will read names. People within
the community such as the City
AIDS Coordinator, the Director of
Disease Control Programs, Moth¬
ers of AIDS Patients and principals
of local schools, are expected to
read names as well.
In the spring of 1 987, in an empty
storefront in San Francisco, Jones
and his friends started sewing and
creating theirtribute. This endeavor
turned from a few scraps of mate¬
rial sewn together into the shape of
a quilt. The Quilt continued to grow
as word of the project began to
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Fifteenth Year of Festivities
Brings Together Students
and Disabled Athletes
By Ray Watts
News Editor
Smid waves of yellow, orange
and red, Special Games took
over Sunken Gardens for the fif¬
teenth year last Saturday, March
14.
Special Games brings together
mentally and physically disabled
children and adultsfrom alloverthe
Southern California area. Over five
hundred LMU students and faculty
took part in the day-long festivities
as athlete's coaches, team leaders,
volunteers, clowns and campus
decorators.
Andrew Shlosser, Director of this
year’s program said, "We were very
happy with the way thatthings went.
Everyone worked very well to¬
gether.”
"All of the events went well: The
parade was very smooth and safe,
and Public Safety helped us out a
lot with that part of it,” said Shlosser.
“All of the committee knew what
was going on. I am very proud of all
their work.”
Rev. Thomas P. O’Malley, S.J.,
President of the University, gave
the Benediction to open the activi¬
ties. He commented, “I was very
impressed with all of the students
involved. I was amazed to see how
joyful the athletes were, although
they are faced with so many ob¬
stacles.”
Athletes at the games were able
to choose from many different
activities throughout the day. In
addition to the traditional events
such as bowling, relay races and
frisbee throw, this year’s program
included a live band, a disk jockey,
food stands and dancing.
In preparation for the "Big Day,"
athletes and their coaches attended
practice sessions which were held
on two Saturdays in February and
one Monday in March.
The day was concluded by a
medal ceremony, in which each
athlete received a Special Games
medal and certificate, and a sing-
off to complete the day.
Shlossersaid, "The]beople whom
I have talked to mentioned that they
feltthe day was much more relaxed
than years previous. There seemed
to be the feeling of a carnival, rather
than a regimented day of events.
The athletes really liked The
Grovers, the student band that
played, and there were so many
people dancing at some points, I
thought it looked like one big club.”
"We didn’t really push the ath¬
letes around from rotation to rota¬
tion. If someone was happy where
they were, we let them stay where
they were,” Shlosser said.
Shlosser commented that the
participation of students was a bit
smaller than the Planning Commit¬
tee expected, "We were lacking
about 60 coaches, compared to
what our original number was. It
seemed that this year it has been
tough getting students to come out
for activities.”
Shlosser commented that it would
be his recommendation for next
year's planning committee to make
the Games a little smaller, "so that
it would be a little more intimate.
This year, we saw long lines for
some events, and with a little fewer
athletes, and the same number of
coaches as this year, the personal
touch would be there again."
"Day At College" Gives
Local Kids Chance To
See University Life
By Ray Watts
News Editor
Hne hundred and fifty fourth
graders from George Wash¬
ington Carver Elementary and 107
St. School in Los Angeles were on
i campus on Friday, March 13, in a
program called "I’m Going to Col¬
lege.”
The project is sponsored state¬
wide by the Early Awareness
Committee of the California Asso¬
ciation of Student Financial Aid
Administrators, and only four el¬
ementary schools in the state were
selected to take part.
Maureen Hessler, Associate Di¬
rector of Financial Aid for LMU, and
Chair of the committee planning the
event, said, "Everything went very
well. We had some problems with
one of the buses, but Fr. O’Malley,
who gave a welcome to the stu¬
dents, was very courteous in doing
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? For color photos of Special |
parries, see the center spread,
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