Art & Theater
Neil Simon Dishes Up
Comedy in Rumors:
Page 16
Film
Inside Look at Barbara
Streisand’s Latest Film:
Page 20
Sports
Women’s Volleyball Ties
for WCC Championship:
Page 22
Grant Awarded for
Shakespearean Studies
consent of Marsaco and de Vroom. These
students will be involved in a final per¬
formance which Marasco and de Vroom
see as a “living essay” in the spring of
1998:
“We hope to restore Shakespeare to
the level of Tarantino,” said de Vroom.
“We want to give students the context of
his jokes, and his humor — why things
are funny, why they are irreverent. What
has happened with Shakespeare is that
the context has been dislodged.”
Marasco, who is an associate profes¬
sor of theater arts also spoke of the pro-
Grant: page 4
AIDS Quilt
to Return
in Spring
■ Fundraiser: Student Life
Initiates Effort to Bring
Quilt to Gersten Pavilion
by Mia Shanley
News Editor
With the AIDS quilt scheduled to
return to LMU’s Gersten Pavilion
in April, the Department of Student Life
has recently kicked off fundraising
efforts needed to cover costs for the quilt.
The AIDS quilt returns to LMU five
years after its last visit. It is predicted
to be one of the largest displays sched¬
uled for Los Angeles in 1997.
Although Student Life has already
reserved the AIDS Memorial quilt, they
have only collected half of the $9,000
transportation and insurance costs to
bring it to LMU.
They also hope to raise another
$9,000, which will be donated to the
Serra Project Foundation, an organiza¬
tion which provides homes for those with
the AIDS virus.
LMU’s AIDS quilt committee began
collaborating in their efforts for the
return of the quilt last year.
Jen Bedrosian, a Student Life
Assistant who has been working closely
with the project, said, “A lot of people
want to get involved. It’s been heart¬
warming and enlightening to see all the
AIDS: page 2
Men’s Basketball
SCOTT GROLLER
/
LOYOLAN
Men's basketball is on the verge of the 1996-97 season. See team preview page 13.
Imagine an innovative program that
iiicorporates Shakespearean drama,
intellectual discourse, and a discussion
of an apocalyptic millennium. This is
what students and faculty have to look
forward to in the spring semester and
the coming year with Dr. Ron Marsaco
and Dr. Theresia de Vroom’s grant pro¬
ject entitled “Millennial Visions:
Shakespearean Visions of the
Apocalypse.”
Marasco and de Vroom’s grant pro¬
posal to LMU’s Mary mount Institute for
Faith, Culture and the Arts was award¬
ed $5,000 for meeting this year’s theme
of “Millennial Visions,” according to
Marymount Institute director Dr. Marie
Anne Mayeski.
“We are thrilled, pleased, and hon¬
ored to be selected for the grant,” com¬
mented de Vroom, an associate professor
of English and director of the honors pro¬
gram at LMU. She and Marasco plan to
begin the process with several spring
semester classes cross-listed as theater,
English and honors. Students wishing to
enroll in these classes must obtain the
■ Marymount Institute to
Fund Research by Profs.
Marasco and de Vroom
by Jasmine C. Marshall
Staff Writer
Fast Continues for Homeless Cause
9 Awareness: Almost
$1,000 Worth of Food and
Clothing Donated to CCPH
by Mark D’Anna
Assistant News Editor
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6
Perspective
8
Art & Theater
10
M. Basketball Preview 13 1
Music
18
Film
20 •]
Sports
22
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DENISE ESPINOZA / LOYOLAN
Daniel Chapin spoke to a crowd on the bluff during a meditation on the hunger strike Saturday.
Mid- January, 1993: a homeless man
struggled to push his shopping
cart, filled with his belongings, across a
lot. He kept falling to his knees no mat¬
ter how hard he tried to escape the cold
that the winter day brought to his
home — the streets.
That same afternoon, Daniel Chapin,
an LMU senior, and a friend arrived on
this scene. Chapin and his friend picked
up the man and carried him back to a
shelter where they called for help. When
the paramedics arrived, the man was
already dead.
It is this type of situation that
Chapin hoped to raise awareness about
with a 13-day hunger fast that began
with a meditation on the bluff on
Saturday afternoon.
Originally there were only four stu¬
dents participating in the fast. Now
nine others have joined Chapin in his
efforts to raise awareness. The students,
who are members of the Community
No Loyolan
The Loyolan will not appear next week
because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Publication will resume on Dec. 4.
Coalition for the Prevention of
Homelessness (CCPH), set a goal of
attaining $500 during the hunger fast.
They attained almost $400 from the out¬
side community before the fast began.
The money came in response to an arti¬
cle on the front page of the Daily News.
Chapin emphasized the fact that they
will not stop and will strive to raise even
more aid for the homeless.
As of Tuesday, Chapin said that $300
in food had been donated. Additionally,
people have given clothing, Lucky’s
turkey tokens and blankets. “We have to
just keep going,” said Chapin. “We all
know what it’s like to have a roof over
our heads and three square meals a day,
but it’s another issue when you start to
feel the hunger pains,” he added.
The meditation began with an emo¬
tionally charged speech by Chapin that
moved many listeners to tears. He
emphasized the fact that we have a
responsibility to choose to help the
homeless by “extending our hands out to
them in love and understanding.”
“Our goal is to raise empathy for the
plight of the homeless. We ask those
involved to take a step out of their shoes
and into the shoes of a homeless person.
This will help us understand what it’s
like to be hungry and help us to remem¬
ber that we are not much different than
Strike: page 2
