The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 71, Issue 15 - February 2, 1994

L o s • A n g e 1 e s LOYOLAN VOL, 7 1 1 NO. 15 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY February 2, 1 994 Groundbreaking Celebrates New Beginnings Limon Presides at Book Signing : Department wtU sign her in the following weeks. See pageWtifok'tm-schkMUeftfklLin^K's'^ppearmces. Conrad N. Hilton Business Center Projected to Open Fall 1 995 By Lynn Segas News Editor S' his time there was no rain. The groundbreaking for the Conrad N. Hilton Business Center took place at 3 p.m. on January 26. The College of Business Admin¬ istration, under the direction of Dean John Wholihan, offers undergradu¬ ate and graduate degrees, and is one of the four colleges at the uni¬ versity. Currently i ,01 0 undergradu¬ ate students are enrolled in the busi¬ ness college and 31 8 graduate stu¬ dents are enrolled in the Master’s of Business Administration program. The University’s Chair of the Board of Trustees, J, Terrence Lanni, president hnd chief operat¬ ing Officer of Caesars World, pre¬ sided over the ceremonies which included remarks by PresidentTho- P. O’Malley, S.J., Monsignor Royate Vadikin, pastor, St. Anastasia Parish, and a university regent, who offered the blessing. O'Malley commented, “It is the first time that (the Business school) will have been together in one build¬ ing. Other faculty members will oc¬ cupy space that will be renovated for them. - “Students will have the most at¬ tractive, bright classrooms, and gathering places, the most techno¬ logically advanced learning places on the enti re campus,!’ he explained, ‘This is a major classroom build¬ ing,” The three-sfory andf ujl basement business center will be built on the existing campus and will include the classrooms; meeting rooms, fac¬ ulty offices and a 350-seat lecture hall. Square footage will be 88,000 feet and cost of the total project is $21 million. O’Malley continued, ‘The Hilton Center for Business is the first build¬ ing of a vast program that will make this campus even more handsome than it presently is. While techni- Residence Hall Telephone Service Investigated By James Keane Assistant News Editor Д survey of local universities, # \ both public and private, has shown Loyola Marymojunt to have sharply higher rates for resident phone service than other institu¬ tions in the area. For a student living in an on-campus residence hall or apartment, monthly phone bills show an extreme service charge for relatively the same services as those provided by o|her much cheaper phone services at other universities. Universities compared to Loyola Marymount were UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, and the Univer¬ sity of San Diego. To receive the mandatory phone service package provided by the AT&T ACUS system, on-campus residents are required to pay a monthly service charge of $12 per resident per month as well as all city, state, and federal taxes, and any long-distance charges incurred by the residents. In return, the stu¬ dents receive one phone per room which includes personalized voice malt, call-forwarding, call-waiting, and other options. Students are required to accept the package if they live in on-campus housing. Thus, a room occupied by two residents has one phone line at the cost of $24 per month, as well &s all fax and long-distance charges. Each resident is given a personal¬ ized access .code which allows him/ her to make long-distance ceils which are charged individually. In comparison, on-campus resi¬ dents at the similarly-sized, simi- larly^priced University of San Diegq pay no monthly service charge yet receive a similar package of ser¬ vices, including voicemail, call-wait¬ ing, call-forwarding, and a person¬ alized access code for long dis¬ tance calls. Residents are respon¬ sible only for their personal long distance charges and all city, state, and federal taxes. Each room is provided with a University tele¬ phone, and students receive a monthly bill. At the University of Southern California, on-campus residents also pay no service charge. The university furnishes each room with a phone. Students are charged for all long-distahce^harges ^nd tax through their tuition statement rather than through a separate phone bill The university phone system does not provide voice mail. Students can get a second phone line in¬ stalled in a room for an additional $75. The university switched from charging residents a monthly per room service charge in August of 1993. At Pepperdine University, ..on- campus residents also pay no monthly service charge. Students do not automatically receive voice mail, but can purchase it from the university for $5 per month per room. Each two-person room is equipped withone line; Students must provide their own phones. Students are billed for their long-distance charges as well as all tax on a monthly basis. At the University of California at %оц Angeles, on-campus residents pay a $1 4 per room monthly service charge, which additionally covers continued on page two cally on the old cam¬ pus, the old original campus, it visibly sig¬ nals the development of the Leavey campus. “A new road has been completed, ex¬ cavation for a parking garage has begun,” O’Malley stressed, as he explained the progress made on Leavey Campus. “A residential campus, a third village of student housing will begin in the mid-Nineties.” The building also will house the dean’s and the assistant deahs’ of¬ fices, the International Business Center, the Business Ethics Cen¬ ter and the Charles SL Casassa,SJ., Execu¬ tive EducatioaCenter. 4 O’Malley a^ded, “The Business School, of Loyola Marymount University, Its deans, faculty and students want to think interna¬ tionally. The Dean has colleagues known to him by rtame in Jesuit Business schools in Mexico and Central and Latin America, Spain, India, the Far East and elsewhere.” He continued, “The faculty go to Russia, Poland, China, to ? ^tpach, to consult and to learn. “We have a student body which coaxes us to think of the world our parish, and to listen to diverse voices, and to learn from them/’ He went on to explain the type of learning that will take place in the new building: “Learn. In this build¬ ing, faculty will be lecturing, demon¬ strating, using inter-active technol¬ ogy/but they will not simply be dis¬ tributing knowledge as. if it were a farmer feeding chickens. Rather it is for the faculty member to catch the gleam, to awaken that desire to learn, and to do, to learn on one’s own, jn concert with others, to rest on no laurel of assumption, or of the things learned in the past.” Father O’Malley observed, “This is a new beginning on an old foun¬ dation. The foundation that was here, was an earlier power plant, the foundation that is here, goes .continued on page two New Law Stiffens Penalty for Those Under 21 Who Drink & Drive By Dave Saavedra Contributor Beginning this year, underage motorists who have had any measurable amount of alcohol td drink will have their licenses sus¬ pends d for one year. The new law (SB 689), effective January 1, 1994, allows law en¬ forcement officers to seize the driver's license of any person under 21 with a blood alcohol content (ВАС) of at least .01 percent or higher. Even one half of a beer will put a person over that limit. Prior to the new law being passed, state law provided no penalty for drivers 1 6-18 unless caught with a ВАС of at least .05 or higher. Cali¬ fornia law still prohibits the pur¬ chase of alcohol by minors. The law states that a driver under the age of 21 must submit to a Passive Alcohol Sensor (PAS) test administered by a law enforcement officer. Failureor refusal to do so, or failure to complete the test, will re¬ sult in a one-year license suspen¬ sion regarless of the minor's blood- alcohol level. Also, that person will be required to pay an addition $1 00 along with other licensing fees for reinstatement or first-time license issuance. If the offender does not possess a license/they will be dis¬ qualified from having or applying for a driver's license for one year. When a young driver is stopped by an officer and determined to have а ВАС of .01 percent or more, the officer will confiscate the person's driver's license "on-the- spot" and issue a 30-day permit. The officer will transport the of¬ fender to a safe location so they can cdll someone to come get the driver ^&nd the vehicle. If there is a passenger in the vehicle with a license who hasn't been drinking, the officer will allow that person to drive the vehicle homei