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VOL. 7 1 g NO. 1 9 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY March 2, 1994
Julian Bond to Give Casassa Lecture
Former Vice Presidential
Nominee Speaks on 1954
Brown v. Board Decision
By James Keane
Assistant News Editor
Bivil rights activist and politician
Julian Bond will give the 1 994
Casassa Lecture on the historic
Brown v. Board of Education Su¬
preme Court decision at 7:30 p.m.
on March 18 in St. Robert’s Audito¬
rium. The 40th anniversary of the
1954 decision will be May 17. The
lecture is free and open to the pub¬
lic.
“Forty years after the Supreme
Court’s opinion in Brown v. Board of
Education, the United States still
faces questions of racism, discrimi¬
nation, inequality and segregation,”
said Dr. Philip Klinkner, assistant
professor of Political Science at
Loyola Marymount.
“This anniversary provides us
with the opportunity to look back at
our struggle for racial equality, to
determine what have been our suc¬
cesses and our failures, to assess
what has and has not worked, and
to suggest options for the future.”
Bond attended Morehouse Col¬
lege in Atlanta, but dropped out
one semester short of graduation in
order to join The Atlanta Inquirer, a
local protest paper.
He won a seat in the Georgia
House of Representatives in 1 965,
but was prevented by the other
members of the House from taking
his seat because of his involvement
in Vietnam war protests. Bond’s
case eventually went before the
United States Supreme Court, which
ruled in 1966 that bis constitutional
rights had been violated when he
was denied his elected seat.
Bond was a member of the Geor¬
gia House of Representatives from
1 965 to 1 975 and the Georgia Sen¬
ate from 1975 to 1987. He co¬
founded the Committee on Appeal
for Human Rights and the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Commit¬
tee and was the president of the
Atlanta NAACP from 1 978 to 1 989.
At age 28, he was the first black
nominated to the vice presidency of
the United States as a leader of the
Georgia Loyal National Delegation.
Statue Controversy To Be
Debated in Open Forum
By Lynn Segas
News Editor
*SLMU is sponsoring an open forum discussion regarding the contro¬
versy over the statue of Father Junipero Serra displayed outside the
library. On Thursday, March 3, the forum will take place at Convocation
Hour in ASLMU.
Last semester the statue was defaced with red paint during the mid¬
semester break. This spurred many students from different racial back¬
grounds to express their opposition to the presence of the statue on this
campus.
As Chester Hinds, Executive Vice President and Chair of the Student
Senate, stated in a letter to the University community, "The controversy
stems from the historical significance it has to many Native-American and
Latino students, who see the statue as being insensitive and offensive to
past generations who died at the hands of Serra as well as being contrary
to the university’s own commitment to diversity and multiculturalism at
LMU.
"We are particularly interested in the decision-making process by which
the statue was brought to LMU, and specifically, whether any students
were involved in the process. With the controversy surrounding the statue
currently at hand, we feel that the LMU Administration should take the lead
in addressing the issue. "
Leticia Vidal, Director of Chicano/Latino Student Services, stated, "I
think one of the benefits of events like these is that they shed light on the
whole mission system, not just on the statue of Serra, and how this system
impacted the indigenous communities,
“Many people don’t understand the history behind the whole mission
system,” continued Vidal. "With events like these, they can decide for
themselves based upon the correct information what the proper way to
view the issue is.”
Photo courtesy of Public kclations
LeVay Addresses the Origin of
Sexual Orientation
He and his group were successful in
unseating handpicked delegates at
the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Bond withdrew his name from nomi¬
nation because he was seven years
too young for the job.
During his years of service, Bond
was sponsor of more than sixty bills
which became law, including bills
mandating tow-interest home loans
to the poor and majority-black con¬
gressional districts in Georgia.
Bond holds honorary degrees
from 14 institutions and has taught
history and politics at Harvard Uni¬
versity and Williams College. He is
currently a Distinguished Scholar in
Residence at American University
in Washington, D.C., and a faculty
member in the history department
at the University of Virginia. Bond
was alfso the narrator of the critically
acclaimed PBS series “Eyes on the
Prize.”
In addition, Bond served as host
of an episode of Saturday Night
Live in 1977.
Bond’s father, Dr. Horace Mann
Bond, a college professor and ad¬
ministrator, helped prepare the brief
in the landmark Brown case in which
the Supreme Court, mandated de¬
segregation of public schools.
The lecture was coordinated by
Klinkner, 1993-94 Rev. Charles S.
Casassa, S.J., Chair of Social Val¬
ues. The Casassa Chair is a rotat¬
ing yearly position which includes a
$5,000 stipend for summer research
as well as $5,000 to attrapt a speaker
of national recognition. Klinkner
was awarded the 1 993-94 position
after an extensive application pro¬
cess. In addition to his recruitment
of Bond as a speaker, Klinkner has
conducted extensive research on
the Supreme Court, Congress, and
Julian Bond , an internationally known civil rights pioneer, legislator ,
and writer will speak on March 18 on the historic 1954 Brown v.
Board of Education Supreme Court Decision.
the American Constitution.
The Casassa Chair and Lecturer
position are named forformer Loyola
University president Rev. Charles
S. Casassa, S.J., who served from
1 949 to 1 969. They are intended to
“focus the university’s attention and
resources toward interdisciplinary
study and teaching, research and
active participation in community
affairs.” The mission includes a
desire to discover “how best to heal
the divisiveness and misunder¬
standings that exist in our society.”
By Lynn Segas
News Editor
No one really thinks of the brain
as a sex organ. But then, some
people think the heart resembles
the figure on a deck of cards.
Dr. Simon LeVay, a world re¬
nowned scientist, author, and edu¬
cator spoke at Hannon Loft on
Thursday, February 24. LeVay is
known for his theory which indi¬
cates that sexual orientation is a
biological trait much like the color of
a person’s hair.
LeVay was educated at Cam¬
bridge University and at the Univer¬
sity of Goettingen, Germany; where
he obtained his doctorate in Zool¬
ogy in 1970.
From 1971 to 1984, LeVay was
on the faculty of the Department of
Neurobiology at Harvard Medical
School, where he conducted re¬
search on the structure, function,
and development of the visual sys¬
tem. This work helped clarify how
the signals reaching the brain from
the left and right eyes are integrated
into a single, three-dimensional view
of the world.
In 1 984, LeVay moved to the Salk
Institute for Biological Studies in
San Diego, where he continued his
research on the visual system. In
1989, he began a new line of re¬
search aimed at understanding the
biological basis of sexual orienta*
tion. The research led to the discov¬
ery ior which he is best known, the
finding of the structural differences
between the brains of homosexual
and heterosexual men.
This finding was reported in the
journal Science in 1991 and re¬
ceived world-wide attention. It has
been followed by a number of stud¬
ies from other laboratories that sup¬
port the notion of a biological basis
for sexual orientation.
In 1 992, LeVay left the Salk Insti¬
tute to help found the Institute of
Gay and Lesbian Education in West
Hollywood. He is currently serving
as Chairof the Board. The Institute’s
aim is to promote the intellectual
development and visibility of the
gay and lesbian communities in
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