The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 72, Issue 3 - September 14, 1994

Campus Life ♦ — Sports — -*• 13 W. Volleyball Finishes Second at UCSB Tourney — Arts & Entertainment—* 12 ASLMU Movie of the Week Jurassic Park M.E.C.h.A. Introduces "Mes de la Raza Cosmica " Government Regulations on Television? n This Issue Los*Angeles LO YO LAN VOL. 72 • NO. 3 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY September 1 4Л 1 994 Fr. Ojibway Joins White House Conference Historic American Indian Urban Policy Conference Includes Two LMU Grads Fr. Paul Ojibway , Director of American Indian Programs at Loyola Marymount, will attend the American Indian Urban Policy Conference at the White House on September 30. By Jennifer D’ Andrea Staff Writer Los Angeles Native American leaders will meet at the White House on September 30 to discuss policy and legislative recommenda¬ tions at the American Indian Urban Policy Conference. Attending the meeting will be Fr. Paul Ojibway, Liaison to the American Indian com¬ munity for the Archbishop, Director of American Indian Ministry for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and Director of American Indian Pro¬ grams at Loyola Marymount Uni¬ versity. The conference is a follow-up to a June 10 meeting in Washington, D.C., at which Ojibway and other urban Indian leaders met with ex¬ ecutive staff in various federal agen¬ cies to share thoughts on health, housing, and labor. The June 10 meeting was historic in that it was By Matthew Parlow Staff Writer Loyola Marymount will celebrate its annual Mass of the Holy Spirit this Thursday, September 16. The event, which has been a part of Jesuit and Catholic University life for many years, was prepared by Fr. Wayne Negrete, S.J., Prefect of the Chapel, Fr. Thomas P. O’Malley, S.J., President of the University, Fr. Michael Engh, S.J., Rector of the Jesuit Community, Fr. Paul Ojibway, Dr. Lizette Larson-Miller, Mr. Jim McCluskey, students Greg Davies, Angelo Mercado, Kelli Lynn Harrison, Paul Suppa, and repre¬ sentatives from the PanHellenic, Interfraternity, and liturgical plan¬ ning committees. This planning group is working to provide the best liturgy possible for the students, faculty, and staff so that they can “start off the year as a community and focus on ourselves, our overall mission and goal as a community, and renew ourselves in that spirit,” commented Kelli Lynn Harrison. Fr. O’Malley, S.J., will preside at the Mass with Fr. Engh, S.J., concelebrating and delivering the sermon. As in years before, the beginning of mass will be marked by a procession of representatives from different segments of the Loyola Marymount community. Classes on Thursday will end at the first time that government ad¬ ministration met with urban Indian leaders and, according to Ojibway, it had opened the door for change. Previously, the government’s goal had been to assimilate American Indians into modern society and to get them off the reservations, ac¬ cording to Ojibway: “American Indi¬ ans have been faced with consis¬ tent, systemic, and historical racism [as shown in the] government’s goal of making 200,000 Indians in Los Angeles invisible.” Urban Indians are seeking the same protection and benefits that Indians who live on reservations receive from the government. Al¬ though two-thirds of American Indi¬ ans live in urban areas (of which the Los Angeles delegation represents the largest segment of the urban Indian population in the U.S.), their needs have never been addressed by a national Indian coalition and then presented to federal officials, Ojibway said. At the conference, the leaders will discuss their concerns about a wide range of issues, including the fact that less than 5 percent of fund¬ ing for Indian health programs goes to urban Indians (60 percent of the total Indian population), the need for clarification of inner-government policies that are inconsistent regard¬ ing Native Americans, and the Com¬ merce Department’s consistent undercount of the Indian popula¬ tion, negatively impacting their abil¬ ity to obtain federal funds. In addition, they will discuss the need for urban Indian representa¬ tion in the form of a White House liaison for urban American Indian issues, the development of federal inter-agency policy that affects ur- continued on page three Annual Mass of the Holy Spirit Kicks Off New Year Celebration to Stress Renewal of Campus Spirit, Multicultural Student Community 1 1 :45 a.m. and will resume at 1 :30 p.m. to allow ail university members to attend the celebration. Fr. Negrete commented that this year’s mass will be a strongly multicultural event, especially in terms of music, ritual, and language. A new component to the Mass of the Holy Spirit will be the opening prayer, performed in traditional Native American Indian style. A Native American Indian flute player to Speak at LMU By James Keane News Editor I he Marymount Institute tor Faith, Culture, and the Arts will She has written two collections stories, <5 Porch and Sleepwalker In a Fog, both of which have been trans- able from the Loyola Matymount I : atyanaTo sr- held in Murphy Recital Hall ot the cans. In addition to fiction, shehas Russian-Ameiican relations that have sparked discussion in aca¬ demic and literary circles, daughter of writer Alexei Tolstoy. Her internationally famous fic- igfaduated from Leningrad Univer- Russian and American pubiica sityin1974. of famed Russian writer and phi- ‘The Mass of the Holy Spirit helps us to obtain an understanding of ourselves and the gifts we have been given.’ will accompany Fr. Ojibway in the opening prayer, which was planned by Fr. Ojibway and Mr. McCluskey. According to Fr. Ojibway, this tra¬ ditional prayer will “give new insight to how Native Americans pray, and will show the Loyola Marymount community that the Native Ameri¬ cans are here and are highly in¬ volved in the academic and LMU community. They are no longer marginal; the Native Americans are a part of how the University looks at itself. Mr. Fernando Moreno, Director of Campus Ministry, explained what the Mass of the Holy Spirit means to LMU: ‘The Mass of the Holy Spirit is a tradition among the Jesuit col¬ leges and universities that unifies us in prayer to have our community come together as the year begins. In this Mass we pray for under¬ standing, commitment, and the gifts we need to make this year one filled with fulfillment, love, and success. ‘The Mass of the Holy Spirit helps us to obtain a deeper understand¬ ing of ourselves and the gifts we have been given.”