The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 74, Issue 7 - October 11, 1995

Los»Angeles LOYOLAN VOL. 74 • NO. 7 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY October 1 1 , 1 995 Tuition Increase Third and Fourth $14,340 Year Students $15,444 .|§j|and Second Year Students i 5.5 Percent Tuition Hike Approved for 1996-97 Dual Cost Program Eliminated by Trustees; Campus Housing Costs to Rise Four Percent By James Keane Editor-In-Chief Last Monday, October 2, the Loyola Marymount Board of Trustees approved a 5.5 percent increase in tuition for the 1996- 1 997 academic year. Room and board for next year are expected to increase by four percent. Parking fees will rise from $165 a year to $200, and will re¬ main capped for several years fol¬ lowing. In addition, the Board of Trust¬ ees eliminated the dual tuition pro¬ gram established last year, under which first year students paid an extra $300 on top of tuition. The 5.5 percent increase for next year will be based upon the original tu¬ ition for all classes from this year’s sophomore class on up, while all new classes will pay based on a 5.5 percent increase from this year’s first year student tuition. In other words, the new program will not punish next year’s juniors and seniors by charging them the higher rate from the old dual sys- and senior students will pay $15,128. Last year’s tuition was $1 4,340 for returning students and $14,640 for incoming students. John Oester, Vice President of Business and Finance at Loyola Marymount, stressed that the in¬ creases are only tentative, and will Tuition increases have been slowly dropping the last five years, from a high of 9.85 percent in 1991-1992.’ tern, but will continue to charge incoming students the new rate until students from all four years are paying an equal amount. T uition for incoming students and sophomores next year will be ap¬ proximately $15,444, while junior not be finalized until the next Board of Trustees meeting on December 4. The Board is obligated only to stay below the announced in¬ creases in their final approval. Tuition increases at LMU have been slowly drooping the last five years, from a high of 9.85 percent in 1991-92. “The varying committees on the Board, as well as the Board, did a long and serious review of this matter,” commented J. Terrence Lanni, Chair of the Board of Trust¬ ees. “Obviously, we would prefer to have no increase at all, but when you’re trying to be fair to every constituency, you’re not always going to get what you want.” In determining the increase, the Board considered a number of fac¬ tors, including faculty and staff sal¬ ary increases, the status of the continued on page three - ; Campus Life in El Espejo! •page 5 • ■ . ; Perspective ■ ■ The Last of OJ •page 12-15 . Arts & Entertainment How do You Make an American Quilt? •page 17 Sports W. Soccer Wins Hawaii Tournament •page 22 'JEE - •• T ASLMU to Hold Weekly Open Forums By Jennifer D’Andrea News Editor In an effort to promote discourse between students and the stu¬ dent government at Loyola Marymount, ASLMU has recently created the “LMU Outreach Plat¬ form,” during which students can voice their opinions about issues in an open-forum style. “LMU Outreach Platform” will be held every Tuesday during convo¬ cation hour on Foley Lawn, although the date of the first platform has not yet been scheduled. According to Senator Marco Aiello, who was the primary author of the proclamation, issues related to Student Life will be presented on the platform if and when they arise. If there is no issue to be discussed, announcements will be made con¬ cerning ASLMU general informa¬ tion, APC events, Senate issues, club events, student-managed fa¬ cility events, administrative events for students, and athletic events. “A lot of organizations and clubs put on a lot of good events but most of the time you wouldn’t know about them or you find out too late,” Aiello said. “My initial goal was to have a program where ASLMU was going to the students rather than the stu- dentsgoingtoASLMU. We’reopen- ing the doors of representation so that all you have to do is come up to the table and voice your opinions.” Students, administrators and stu¬ dent organization representatives continued on page four Wholihan Elected Founding President of International Jesuit Business Organization By Jennifer D’Andrea News Editor Loyola Marymount’s John Wholihan, Dean of the College of Business Administration, has helped form a unique effort to en¬ courage unity within the worldwide Jesuit community. Wholihan has president of the International Asso¬ ciation of Jesuit Business Schools. A total of about 40 representa¬ tives from approximately 15 differ¬ ent countries appointed Wholihan president at the third World Forum of Deans and Directors of Jesuit Business Schools held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The first forum was held in Photo courtesy of Public Relations John Wholihan , Dean of the College of Business Administration and President of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools . ebrate the 450th anniversary of the Jesuit organization worldwide, Wholihan said. Wholihan acted as the main co¬ ordinator of the first conference in an effort to “recognize that this worldwide organization exists but, in fact, is not networked,” he said. “People really responded to the idea that we should network the Jesuit college administration we can develop more student and faculty exchanges, utilization of technology to enhance teaching/ learning processes, and to develop a universal set of statements that reflect the role of Jesuit education throughout the world; for example, by releasing a code of conduct for businesses in 1996,” noted Wholihan. The 1 996 conference will beheld “We’re recognizing that there is no other group that has a worldwide organization like the Jesuit universities.” — John Wholihan throughout the world.” The second forum was held in Recife, Brazil, at the Catholic Uni¬ versity at Pernambuco in 1 994. The forums are generally scheduled in conjunction with St. Ignatius Day on July 31, and the number of at¬ tendees have been steadily increas¬ ing over the past years. “The idea is to draw on each others’ strengths and resources so at LMU, where 125 to 150 attend¬ ees are expected to represent at least 60 schools, Wholihan said. The organization will coordinate “a pre-conference video conference that will allow us to prepare the materials for demonstration and use at the actual meeting,” noted Wholihan. “We will be surveying 90 different schools to find out what continued on page three