Special Games Fills Sunken Gardens with Life
Over 800 Participate in
1 8th Annual Big Day
By Josephine De Felice
Assistant News Editor
Saturday, April 8, marked the
eighteenth annual Special
Games : Big Day at LMU. Mem¬
bers of the community, students,
and faculty spent a day in Sunken
Gardens for activities, games, and
entertainment with the physically
and mentally challenged from vari¬
ous agencies in Southern Califor¬
nia. The purpose of Special Games
is to provide a social and recre¬
ational outlet for disabled mem¬
bers of the Los Angeles commu¬
nity. Approximately 325 athletes,
350 coaches, 32 team leaders, and
1 00 volunteers gathered in the spirit
of this year’s theme “One Love. .
.One World.”
Special Games, started in 1977,
was created in order to provide a
special day for the physically as
well as the mentally challenged
which was not provided for by the
California Special Olympics. In
1978, LMU broke away from the
Special Olympics, thus forming
Special games.
“Special Games gives athletes
an outlet to be energetic and ac¬
tive. For many of the athletes, it’s
the only time they really interact
with other people . Special Games
shows the athletes people are will¬
ing to be their friends,” commented
Fernando Villaluna, Special Games
Director and senior at LMU.
“Big Day” began with the lighting
of the torch and procession of
coaches and athletes down Alumni
Mall. Opening statements were
made by Fr. Thomas P. O’Malley,
S.J., President of Loyola
Marymount Uni¬
versity, and Fr.
Thomas
Maloney, S.J.
The Special
Games Procla¬
mation was
given by Dolores
Cinizaes, a rep¬
resentative from
the Los Angeles
Mayor’s office.
Athletes,
guided by as¬
signed coaches,
participated in a
number of
games run by
volunteers from
various campus
clubs and orga-
n i z a t i
о
n s .
Games included
a basketball
Photo By Robert Ganem
th row, run by Special Games featured a number and activities , including a face painting booth.
members of the LMU basketball
team, bowling, hula hoop, t-ball,
and a variety of other sports includ¬
ing the opportunity to drench mem¬
bers of the LMU community, in¬
cluding Fr. Thomas Maloney, S.J.,
in a dunk tank.
Participants were entertained by
Polynesian dancing by members
of Na’ Kolea, pole dancing by mem¬
bers of Isang Bansa, and musical
continued on page three
It has been brought to our attention that an increased number of
books and periodicals in our library are being vandalized by some
library patrons. Entire articles are being torn or cut from some
journals. We view this as a very serious matter. We call upon
everyone in our LMU community to treat our University resources,
including books and periodicals, with the proper care and consider¬
ation, and to report any instances of such vandalism to library staff
immediately.
Vandalism against scholarly and academic resources is not and will
not be tolerated at LMU. Violators, both students and non-students,
should reckon with serious consequences, including financial liability
and possible legal prosecution.
Executive Committee,
LMU Faculty Senate
Robert Epstein, Beloved Instructor of
Communication Arts, Passes Away
By James Keane
News Editor
Robert Epstein, beloved instruc¬
tor in Communication Arts,
passed away Sunday, April 9, of a
heart attack. Epstein, an instructor
at LMU since 1984, was also a
renowned jazz disc jockey, a re¬
spected figure in the film commu¬
nity, and afatherof two. He was 58.
Born in 1 937, Epstein graduated
from Loyola High School in Los
Angeles in 1 955. He received no
college degree, but was “consid¬
ered one of the leading authorities
on American film,” according to Dr.
Tom Kelly, Acting Dean of the Col¬
lege of Communication and Fine
Arts.
Epstein also founded the UCLA
film archives, which is considered
the most famous and active film
preservation facility in the world
after the Cinemateque in France.
Epstein also worked as a jazz
disc jockey for KLON in Long Beach.
The show is widely popular through¬
out Europe, where it is downlinked
by satellite. He was a noted collec¬
tor of old jazz records as well.
At Loyola Marymount, Epstein
was originally hired to teach Art of
the Cinema. In the ensuing years,
he taught a number of classes
throughout the Communications
Department, including advanced
classes in film, radio broadcasting,
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LMU Students Finish Third in 1995
Computer Programming Contest
at Austin. LMU’s team beat several'
prestigious universities, including
Stanford University and the Uni¬
versity of California, Los Angeles,
while Duke University received first
place and the University of Puerto
Rico came in second.
The NCP is an invitational com¬
puter programming contest which
selects 1 6 teams of three under¬
graduate students from various
universities to compete against
each other in a challenging com¬
puter programming game created
for the contest by the NCP organiz¬
ers. The teams were not informed
of their task until the contest day.
“Other sciences participate in
contests, so why shouldn’t com¬
puter science? Mechanical engi¬
neers have their Dunebuggy Con¬
test, civil engineers have their Con¬
crete Canoe Contest, and electri¬
cal engineers have their Electronic
Mouse Contest. This was just our
contest for our major,” noted
Santos. “In a sense, our contest
was harder because the other sci¬
ences get to prepare for their con¬
tests whereas no preparation was
allowed for ours.”
The game’s setup for this year
consisted of a chess board with
100 squares and ants on each
square. The object of the game
was for each team to kill off their
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Photo By James Keane
LMU’s team of J ad Santos , Chris Serrano , and Mark Chavira placed
third in the National Computer Programming Competition.
By Jennifer D’Andrea
Staff Writer
Loyola Marymount seniors Chris
Serrano, Jad Santos and Mark
Chavira were awarded third place
in the 1995 IEEE CS National Pro¬
gramming Contest (NCP) which
was held from March 24 through
March 26 at the University of Texas
Campus
Life
Turtle Tug Helps
Hearing Impaired
•page 5
Perspective
Words from a Candi¬
date
•page 9
Arts &
bntertainnieiii
Faculty Dance Concert
•page 16
Sports
Baseball Takes Four
Straight
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