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The LMU Student Workers hard at work weeding on Manchester Boulevard as part of
the University Village project created by local merchants (See story , page two).
Student Leaders Gather for
Conference in Hilton Center
By James Keane
Editor-In-Chief
Leaders from all facets of stu¬
dent life, from R.A.s to manag¬
ers to editors and officers, gath¬
ered last Saturday, September 9,
in the Hilton Business Center for
the annual Student Affairs Leader¬
ship Conference. With over 175
participants, the event brought to¬
gether campus leaders with ad¬
ministration for a day of workshops,
networking, and informational ses¬
sions on the coming year at LMU.
Organized by the Department of
Student Affairs, this year’s confer¬
ence offered a revamped format in
comparison to past years, when
the leadership conference was held
during the last few days of summer.
The new format included a single¬
day conference, with students
breaking down at several points
into small group sessions, and also
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gave students the opportunity to
pick and choose from among a
wide array of session topics.
“Our goal was to do a one-day,
concise, nuts-and-bolts event for
leaders on campus,” commented
Patrick Naessens, Assistant to the
Vice President for Student Affairs
and Chair of the Conference Com¬
mittee. In the spring, Student Af¬
fairs plans an overnight off-cam¬
pus retreat for a smaller group of
key leaders to be held with admin¬
istration members, focusing on
team-building and relationship¬
building for future leaders.
This year’s conference also fea¬
tured a welcome from Dr. Lane
Bove, Vice President for Student
Affairs, a keynote address by Dr.
Leonard Olguin, a professor at Cal
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Photo By James Keane
LMU student leaders listen to a presentation by Patricia Oliver at
Saturday's Student Affairs Leadership Conference.
Food Poisoning
Strikes Conference
At ?s
By Jennifer D’Andrea
■oyoia Marymount’s campus
has been buzzing with activ¬
ity since last Saturday’s Student
Affairs Leadership Conference,
after which many students and
several administrators became
inexplicably ill.
Marriott ManagemWeent Ser¬
vices, which catered the event,
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two days to two weeks. The food
and stool samples will determine
whether or not a common bacte¬
ria or virus is present that could
link the cause of the illness to the
food, according to LMU’s Medi¬
cal Director for Health Services,
Dan Hyslop.
Hyslop noted that food poison-
similar cases of:
Health Center has
The
cause of the outbreak. The agen¬
cies involved include the Bureau
of Consumer Protection and
Evironmental Health, the Center
for Disease Control and Preven¬
tion of Los Angeles, the Los An¬
geles County Health Department,
the Health Department Testing
Tests are currently being con¬
ducted on the leftover food served
at the conference as well as stu¬
dent stool samples and results
expenero
though some students went di¬
rectly to a local hospital while
others did not seek treatment.
“We’ve had an outbreak of what
we suspect is food poisoning,”
Hyslop said Tuesday. “It seems
to have occurred during the Lead¬
ership Conference on Saturday
because all of the people we’ve
seen have one thing in common —
they all ate the same meal that
was at the Leadership Confer¬
ence. I’d be surprised if we didn’t
get a clear answer (from the test
LMU to Host Training Session on Diversity
S.T.A.R. Conference to Prepare Student
Volunteers for Sensitivity Training
By Jennifer D’Andrea
News Editor
More than any previous gen¬
eration, today’s young Ameri¬
cans are growing up in an era of
racial and ethnic diversity. By the
year 2050, nearly one-half of the
U.S. population will be black, His¬
panic, Asian or belong to other eth¬
nic groups.”
The reality of the above com¬
ment has led to the formation of a
program created by People For the
American Way called S.T.A.R —
Students Talk About Racism —
which prepares and encourages
student volunteers to help middle
and high school students discuss
issues concerning prejudice and
diversity.
Loyola Marymount, chosen for
its central location, is hosting
S.T.A.R. ’s professional diversity
sensitivity training on Saturday,
September 30, during which stu¬
dents from UCLA, CSU Northridge,
Loyola Marymount, CSU
Dominguez Hills, CSU Long Beach,
USC, Occidental College and CSU
Los Angeles will participate in the
training.
The training session, led by
James Saticeda, Ph.D., Director of
the Multicultural* Center at CSU
Long Beach, will prepare students
for issues in diversity, prejudice
reduction, conflict mediation, class¬
room facilitation and the S.T.A.R.
curriculum.
After the training session, stu¬
dent volunteers will be ready to
venture into middle and high school
classrooms in their local area where
they will meet with students from
three different schools once each
month for ten weeks, beginning in
October. The total in-class time
commitment is 12 hours.
“The whole issue of
multiculturalism has always been
important but right now it’s more
visible and more people are talking
about it than ever before,” said
Fernando Guerra, Assistant to the
President and Chair of the Depart¬
ment of Chicano Studies at LMU.
“In learning to teach, you look at a
subject matter differently. You pick
up the nuances of how to present it
and you learn how to respond to the
inquiries of students.”
Guerra decided to have LMU’s
Department of Chicano Studies
sponsor the program since other
groups on campus, such as the
President’s Committee on Diver¬
sity, are supportive of the program
but are not endorsing it.
LMU student volunteers will fo¬
cus on three target schools in LMU’s
neighborhood including Orville
Wright Middle School, Venice High
School and Westchester High
School. Students will lead discus¬
sions with a partner and will work
with the same class each time they
visit the schools.
Joseph McKenna, a former LMU
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