The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 75, Issue 20 - March 5, 1997

Campus Life Get to know LMU’s service organizations: Page 8 Music Jason Bentley tells his story of success: Page 16 Sports LMU upsets Santa Clara in Tournament: Page 23 J-J U & A H g G l G S амшь LOYOLAN Los March 5,1997 Volume 75, No. 20 Students Question Tanaka, Future of SDS ■ Forum: Acting Associate Dean criticized for lack of support for students; Tanaka cites inner office conflict for departmental woes RYAN CHUTE / LOYOLAN Sixty students involved in Student Development Services packed into a conference room to express their frustrations with Tanaka's handling of departmental affairs and the direction in which SDS is headed. by Jason Foo Assistant Section Editor & Mia Shanley News Editor The tempers of students flared last week as a flurry of questions about the state of Student Development Services (SDS) stood unanswered. The turmoil in SDS culmi¬ nated Thursday when approxi¬ mately 60 students took mat¬ ters into their own hands with an intense question and answer session with Dr. Greg Tanaka, the acting Associate Dean of Special Projects for SDS. SDS members called the meeting to voice concerns about Tanaka’s role and his vision for the organization. During the heated 90-minute debate, stu¬ dents stressed their unhappi¬ ness with changes in the department. Many students expressed concern that Tanaka does not represent them. “I feel like you’re just sitting here holding somebody’s seat,” said senior Danielle Dunn. “You’re not serving our needs — -you’re not our advocate.” “These offices were started by students, and so for you to bypass us, that’s out of proto¬ col,” said sophomore Ernesto Colin. Whelan Residents Attacked ■ Two related fights erupt over weekend involving residents and soccer players by Mia Shanley News Editor & Daniel Wolowicz Sports Editor Residents of a first floor wing in Whelan Hall were awakened in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning by an angry mob of approximately 15 INDEX News Campus Life Feature Art & Theater Perspective U - - It was a melee of people hitting each other. There were heads snapping back. There was blood all over the place... Classified students. The group knocked on doors, assaulted students and quickly turned the quiet corridor into the scene of a bloody brawl within minutes. The incident was initially sparked by a previous fight that had taken place earlier that night. During the initial con¬ frontation, at approxi¬ mately 1:30 a.m., two LMU stu- — dents, a Whelan resident, and another suspect identified as an LMU soccer team member, not an on campus resident, exchanged words which resulted in a vio¬ lent fight directly in front of the Whelan entrance. When the fight was broken up, one student was restrained by fellow residents of Whelan, while the non-resident was taken to the other side of the building to receive attention by the Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) for a gash on the back of his head caused by a broken bottle. Two hours later, the con¬ frontation flared up again — Jacob Vander Linden Resident Advisor, Whelan when approximately 15 people were reported entering Whelan Hall. They began knocking on doors in a wing on the first floor where the student involved in the first fight lived. According to Resident Adviser Jacob Vander Linden, the intruders knocked on doors and attacked the residents aroused by the commotion. The door- to- door assaults culminated in a one- and a- half minute brawl which was eventually broken up when another R.A. called Public Safety. Although the majority of the non-residential students escaped, three were apprehend¬ ed by Public - Safety. Both R.A.s identified most of the non-resi¬ dents as mem¬ bers of the LMU men’s soccer team. “I recognized the majority of the members as soccer players because a good bunch of them were residents from the building last year and they were constantly discipline problems,” said Vander Linden. Toby Henry, a Whelan resi¬ dent involved in the second Whelan: page 5 But according to Tanaka, the balance that he must maintain as both a student advocate and an administrative authority is a position that students haven’t accepted. He says he’s caught in the middle of both. SDS — comprised of the Office of Black Student Services, Chicano Latino Student Services, Asian Pacific Student Services, and the Academic Persistence Program (APP) — was founded by students of color in the late sixties to give them a voice on a predominantly white campus. A number of issues arose in the meeting. Students claimed Tanaka was not an advocate for the students, but rather a part of the administrative power structure. Students talked of SDS: page 4 Clubs Receive Board Money by Susan Myers Assistant News Editor This semester LMU intro¬ duced the first round of Budget ballot paired with club allocations in response to stu¬ dent senators Jacob Vander Linden and Paul Lukaszewski’s appeals. J. Ruben Gonzalez, AS LMU President said, “I believe the program we have now is a great melding of the two, but we are always open to student’s sug¬ gestions.” Sharon Marciniak, vice pres¬ ident of finance for ASLMU, noted that after budget ballot $10,473 was left in ASLMU’s budget to be distributed to clubs through the allocations board. The top recipients include Isang Bansa with $700, Na Kolea with $700, Hannon Loft in third with $600, and MEChA and Loyola Rugby with $500 each. Gonzalez explained, through Club Allocations, “Those clubs that didn’t get the Lion’s share of budget ballot, have another chance to have what they want to do for campus deeply looked at.” Money: page 6