The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 75, Issue 13 - December 4, 1996

Music Grateful Dead Live On with Two New Releases: Page 8 Perspective Managing Editor Says Goodbye to LMU: Page 18 Sports Men’s Basketball at .500 After Four Games Page 22 SPORTS INFORMATION LMU women's volleyball team , ranked sixth in the nation, defeated the University of San Francisco Nov. 22, and clinched the WCC title. by Daniel Wolowicz Sports Editor They did it. Through all the sweat and tears of a long season and after all the arduous practices and jet-lagged road trips, the Loyola Marymount University women's volleyball team, sixth in the nation, are champions'. The Lions clinched their third West Coast Conference Championship title against the University of San Francisco in Memorial Gymnasium Nov. 22, with an impressive three game win, 15-6, 15-8, 15-10. The team capped their sea¬ son off with a nail-biting finale on Nov. 23, when they won the first three games to the University of San Diego in five games; 17-15, 15-10, 15-9, 15-8, INDEX News Campus Life Music Film V-Bail Feature Perspective Art & Theater Classified О www.lmu.edu/ stuaff/loyolan.htm 15-8. The Lions ended the regu¬ lar season with a 14-0 WCC record and 25-2 overall season record. “It's a big deal,” setter Tracy Holman said. “It’s what we had been working towards for an entire season.” USF (3-10 WCC) was unable to trip up the league-leading Lions in their quick three game match. The Lions jumped out to an early first game lead and never looked back throughout the entire course of the compe¬ tition. The Lady Dons were kept at bay by middle blockers Sarah Noriega and first-year student Lydia Day. Day filled in for senior Tate Medley, who is the Lions’ primary starter, but has been plagued with chronic knee injuries. Noriega dominated the court, as she led the team with 15 kills and a .462 hitting per¬ centage. Tracy Holman and Jeanette Hecker together set 47 of the teams’ 55 assists. Cindy Volleyball: page 14 O’Malley Honored with Doctor of Letters Degree ■ President’s of LMU and Sogang Univ. Sign Agreement to Implement Dual Degree Program by Jennifer L. D’Andrea Managing Editor Jesuit universities in the East and West may be worlds apart, but a newly established degree program between Loyola Marymount and South Korea’s Sogang University aims to bridge the gap between the two cultures. Several members of the LMU community traveled to Sogang, a Jesuit university in Seoul, South Korea in October, where University President Fr. Thomas P. O’Malley, S.J. was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. “This degree,” O’Malley explained, “is given as a sign of the growing connection between two Jesuit universities. The inter¬ national possibilities are enor¬ mous.” During a meeting between the presidents of the two universities, an agreement was signed to estab¬ lish a Double Degree Program between LMU and Sogang, which boasts a student population of over 13,000. The program, pro¬ jected to be offered in 1998, will enable students to obtain a dual degree by studying both in Los Angeles and Korea. O’Malley said LMU students who participate in the program will study for an estimated two and a half years at LMU, spend approximately one a half years in at Sogang, and then return to LMU to complete their education. At the conclusion of their interna¬ tional studies, students will receive a degree from both univer¬ sities. “This is part of a larger out¬ reach to Asia and particularly to Korea,” noted O’Malley who also visited Hong Kong and Jakarta, Indonesia. “There is a perfect rec¬ iprocity among programs. Having connections in places like Korea is very important.” “What I found so extraordi¬ nary was the booming economies O’Malley: page 4 PRESIDENT'S OFFICE Fr. Thomas P O'Malley, S.J. pictured with Rev. Park Hong, S.J., President of Sogang University (center) and Kim Seung-youn, Chairman, HANWHA Group (right), who also received an honorary degree from Sogang. Dedication Ceremony McCarthy Hall Held for by Jason Foo Staff Writer LMU’s newest residence hall was dedicated on Monday to one of the University’s most prominent benefactors, J. Thomas McCarthy. Approximately 100 alumni, trustees and friends of the McCarthy family were present at the ceremony in front of the McCarthy residence hall. The dedication marks LMU’s first step in providing housing for the majority of undergraduates. The dedication began with an address by J. Terrance Lanni, Chair of the Board of Trustees and master of ceremonies. The ceremony included remarks from LMU President Fr. Thomas P. O’Malley, S.J. and Kathleen Leavey McCarthy, wife of the late J. Thomas McCarthy. “Kathleen McCarthy’s speech was a very nice tribute to her husband,” said Beth Stoddard, Director of Student Housing. The ceremony concluded with a prayer of dedication and sprinkling rite by resident chap¬ lains, Fr. William F. Cain, S.J. and Margaret Dolan, R.S.H.M.; Classics professor William J. Fulco, S.J.; and the resident advising staff. Tours of the resi¬ dence hall and a lunch in the lobby and main lounge of McCarthy followed the dedica¬ tion. An attorney and philan¬ thropist, McCarthy was the head of the Leavey Foundation which has been responsible for providing millions of dollars to Southern California education¬ al, medical and Catholic institu¬ tions. McCarthy and his wife both received honorary doctor¬ ates of Humane Letters from LMU in May, 1995. McCarthy died Feb. 7 of cancer at the age of sixty-three. In 1993, the Leavey Foundation awarded LMU a grant to develop 27 acres of the Del Rey Bluffs, located just west of the main campus, which would be the site of McCarthy Hall. It is the first residence hall built at LMU within the past ten years and the first of five residences to be built on the Leavey campus. The second res¬ idence hall, currently under con¬ struction, is scheduled for com¬ pletion in August 1997. Three apartment complexes are also planned. McCarthy: page з DENISE ESPINOZA / LOYOLAN Alumni, trustees and University officials gathered for the official dedication of McCarthy Residence Hall on Monday.