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LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
October 20, 1993
LMU Bluff Scene of Attempted Sexual Assault
Suspect Attempts Escape;
LAPD File Charges On One,
Release Another; DPS Will
Continue to Investigate
By Damon Garcia
Assistant News Editor
an Friday, October 8, a female
guest of a Loyola Marymount
student was allegedly sexually as¬
saulted on the area of the bluff
behind the Sacred Heart Chapel.
According to Felix Hernandez,
the Resident Advisor in Rosecrans
who was the first to respond to the
incident, theallegedvictimandher
female friend, an LMU student, were
on a double date with the two men
involved.
The two men were friends of the
LMU student. Both men are in the
U.S. Navy.
Hernandez explained that ha had
just completed his duties asRA.
for the evening wf)eh a girt came to
his room.
"She looked pretty beat up," he
began. "Her pants had been stained
with grass and her blouse looked
as though it had been pushed down
a lot.
“She looked really flustered and
really scared. She told me that she
had been attacked Out near the
bluff and that one of her friends was
still out there and that the two men
were also out there."
Only one of the two men- was the
alleged attacker. The other was a
companion who did nothing to halt
the alleged assault.
"I grabbed one of the residents
from the hall and we went out there.
When we got to the bluff, we en¬
countered [the alleged victim's
friend].
"One of the males was standing
up, the other was passed out on the
ground. When I saw the girl, I said,
'let's go-let's get out of here.' The
guy who was standing next to her
asked, 'who are you?"'
Hernandez escorted the two girls
from the scene. As they passed in
front of the chapel, the alleged vic¬
tim suddenly became very hysteri¬
cal.
"She began screaming, 'I told
him no, I told him no,1" Hernandez
recounted. "As I tried to calm her
down, she told me that the guy had
tried to rape her.
Hernandez left the girls in #te
custody of another male and ran to
Whelan Hall to notify Public Safety
of the situation. •
While he was there, some pf the
R.A.‘s of Whelan emerged to offer
assistance.
i As Public Safety was en route,
Hernandez returned to monitor the
two men in order to ensure
theycould be found.
Both women were in the protec¬
tive custody of some of Whelan's
R.A.'s “As we walked there, we
saw Public Safety coming, and ob¬
viously they did too. One of the
guys came walking toward us wh: le
the other took off running.
"By tht time, one of the residents
and I began chasing the guy, and
we subdued him on the east side of
the chapel neartheBird Nest where
PUbHc Safety took him into cus¬
tody?'
The twogirls, the allegedattacker,
his companion, and Hernandez
were all escorted to Public Safety to
give statements.
The LAPD was notified of the
situation and they dispatched a
vehicle to LlftU.
Of the four people involved in the
case, only one was a student of
Loyola Marymount. The oth£r three
were guests of that student.
The four were drinking alcohol on
the bluff immediately before the in¬
cident.
According to Ray Hilyar, chief of
Public Safety, the male suspect was
charged with sexual assault by the
LAPD, while his companion was
released and removed from the
campus.
The investigation by Public Safety
is still pending, but the assailant will
not be made available for question¬
ing by LMU authorities since he
was taken in by the LAPD.
“When something like this hap¬
pens, I do beef up patrols on cam¬
pus,” Hilyar said.
This is not as though it was a
stranger-rape case where I would
immediately inform the public and
take a lot of different precautions.
"A lot of times, these kinds of
things begin innocently, and then
the drinking starts and things get
out of control.
“People have to be careful. This
is a situatiog^vhere one has to taka
some personal security measures.
I am notable to watch every person
on campus.
"If people chose to drink with
strangers, alone, in a secluded
place, they are placing themselves
in a high-risk situation.
"These are alt high-risk security
actions. I think people need to be
more aware about what is going on.
Chief Hilyar emphasized the
safety of the LMU campus.
“In my opinion, we are one of the
safest, if not the safest campus in
Southern California,”
Jim Johnson, Assistant to the Vice
President for Student Affairs re¬
flected on the official position of the
University.
"The administration is outraged
when anyone on this campus is
sexually assaulted.
I believe this situation is unique
when we are dealing with two non-
students. We've taken the appro¬
priate steps and turned the entire
situation over to the LAPD."
After discussing the situation with
the other R.A.'s, Hernandez ex¬
pressed that the situation had given
him and the others involved further
insight into the issue of sexual as¬
sault.
"There are a lot of people who
don't know what date rape is. A girl
might be intoxicated and might not
want to guy further."
"In [the alleged victim's] case, I
think it was really admirable of her
to press charges and to be persis¬
tent.
"She didn't want to get anyone
into trouble, and that has nothing to
do with making the right decision.
Frances Young, president of
ASLMU has consistently spear¬
headed education and awareness
of sexual crimes.
"I thought the whole thing was
disgusting," she admitted.
"i was more than outraged. After
my initial anger, I realized that I was
more concerned with the hope that
whoever she is that she is OK.
"It is a situation like this that re¬
minds you that even on the bluff, a
place where so many of us have
been that something like this could
happen.
"I hope that people won't just
read this story and ignore the fact
that it could easily have been you.
"The problem is that we are oblivi¬
ous to what goes on here on cam¬
pus. It is only a technicality that she
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Former Governor Jerry Brown Speaks
To Crowd at Murphy Hall on Politics
By Damon A. Garda
Assistant News Editor
Frontier California Governor
Jerry Brown addressed a crowd
at Murphy Recital Hall on Tues¬
day, October 19 at 12: 15. The event
was sponsored by the ASLMU.
Brown discussed the political*
perceptions that Americans hold
about their government . The
speech incorporated the trademark
Brown “cut-through-it-all” attitude
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that has given the politician na¬
tional attention which reached its
paramount last November in the
national presidential election when
Brown attempted to acquire the
Democratic nomination for Presi¬
dent.
“We, as American citizens mold
society. There are other people who
would like to mold society as well.
You have to look at your politicians
very suspiciously when they start
poo-pooing democracy and other
liberties and start taking it upon
themselves to say ‘this is what we
need'. There are a very powerful
set of ideas that are at the base of
our government. St. Ignatius stated
that the lack of critical thinking will
cause someone to be detached from
the world around them.
“If you look at health or sickness,
glory or humiliation, riches or pov¬
erty, you’re supposed to be able to
see it. To see clearly, you have to
be able to see without fear or de¬
sire. These are the things that ob¬
scure clarity, and without that, you
are lost. Obviously, that is a task for
“When you look at all the things
that are out there, you’re talking
about TV, newspaper, magazines,
crimes: all of that stuff. If you begin
to think, ‘maybe that’s not if , then
you’re beginning to deconstruct the
imagery and illusion of our modern
magic.
I “I’m going to open your mind to
the possibility of looking at things in
radically different way. When we
come to the public light, I want you
to put everything in a critical mode
of analysis. I want you to free your¬
self from the propaganda that cov¬
ers you day after day.
“In our current system of repre¬
sentation, we are moving into or are
already imbedded into a system of
simulation — not representation.
Representation means that you
elect some to Qongress to look out
for your interests. Simulation is pre¬
tend. Ifs not real. It claims to be
something that it is not.
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