Art & Theater
The Importance of
Being Earnest reviewed:
Page 10
Music
Freedy Johnston bares
his soul:
Page 16
Sports
Baseball team wins
three against St. Mary’s:
Page 18
Seniors Honored
for Achievement
by Susan Myers
Assistant News Editor
ervice to the community
and academic success —
twin values of a Jesuit educa¬
tion — are strong indicators of
the effect an individual will
have on the world. Seniors
who have accomplished both
were honored on two occa¬
sions, Thursday’s Academic
Awards Convocation and at
Friday’s Service and
Leadership Awards.
At Thursday’s event, the
Office of the President and
various academic depart¬
ments honored students who
have demonstrated outstand¬
ing academic achievement,
leadership and a commitment
to community service. Dan
Chavira, a senior who will
graduate with degrees in both
biology and theology, was
honored as University
Scholar and was the recipient
of the Ignatian Award.
Chavira received a total of six
awards that day and one
more the next.
"I felt overwhelmed and
very grateful,” said Chavira.
“I had a lot of friends there,
supporting one another, cele¬
brating with one another
after four years together. I
realized how much of a com¬
munity we are at that point.”
Chavira will spend five
months after graduation in
Europe, and will then spend
the next year in Australia
studying literature and art.
Mark Volman, named this
year’s valedictorian, returned
to college after years as a
member of the 60’s rock band
the Turtles. Volman has been
involved in the University’s
choir and is a member of the
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Volman will give the valedic¬
torian speech at commence¬
ment on May 17.
Ann Goodman received the
Marian Award for community
service and campus leader¬
ship. Goodman will work at
Mattel next year as an engi¬
neer in new product develop¬
ment.
Each college presented
students with awards for
scholarly achievement. Paul
Lukaszewski, an accounting
major, was honored with the
College of Business
Administration’s highest
Awards: page
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Sr. Byrne, RSHM
Passes Away
by Mia Shanley
News Editor
r. Martin Byrne, RSHM,
loved her students and she
loved to travel.
She visited faraway places
with her students in East Asia,
India, South America and the
Caribbean as a part of LMU’s
Comparative Management
Studies Program.
This summer she planned to
travel to South Africa with the
graduate students in the
Business program. Those plans
were cut short in early January
after she found out that she
suffered from liver cancer.
Byrne died on Thursday, just
four short months after she dis¬
covered her illness.
At 71, Byrne worked as a
full-time professor of finance,
serving the Marymount
College, Loyola University and
Loyola Marymount University
for nearly fifty years.
"She was really one in a mil¬
lion,” said Dr. Dan Stage, pro¬
fessor of Management. "She
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Sr. Martin Byrne, R.S.H.M.
was respected, admired, appre¬
ciated and loved.”
Her dedication to the cam¬
pus community began in 1946
when she received her degree
from Marymount College in
New York. She received her
MBA from UCLA, eventually
graduating as the first woman
with a Ph.D. in Finance.
"I’m missing her so much,”
said Sr. Mary Theresa Kelly,
R.S.H.M., who has been friends
with Byrne for almost 50 years.
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SCOTT GROLLER
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LOYOLAN
Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis spoke to LMU film students at the II Festival del Cinema Italiano on
Sunday. De Laurentiis, who has worked on such films as La Strada, The Nights of Cabiria, King Kong,
and Conan the Barbarian, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his success.
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A Call for Justice and Action
A Filmmaker’s Dream
by Ruben Arroyo
Staff Writer
If you want peace, work for jus¬
tice.” This was the theme for
the nearly 400 people on hand
at the first Justice and Peace
Conference, sponsored by the
Justice and Peace Commission
of the Archdiocese
of Los Angeles. The
event was held at
the Hilton Business
Center and St.
Robert’s
Auditorium.
"I hope the infor¬
mation will have an
impact on our youth
today, so that they
can change the
world,” said Sr. Laurence Mary
Diaz, a teacher at Sacred Heart
High School who brought her
class to the conference. “Maybe
they will work in the govern¬
ment and change some policies
or at least be conscious about
what’s happening in the world
today and the injustices that are
being done.”
Along with sharing their
faith and making new friends,
those who attended also gen¬
uinely worked toward creating a
society of justice and a better
understanding of what it
means.
"We want to network, to
share resources and hopefully
get people energized about the
work they are doing,” said Tom
Chabolla, the executive director
of the commission.
Groups such as the Coalition
for Human Immigrant Rights in
Los Angeles and Families
Against Violence Advocacy
Network were on hand to dis¬
tribute information. Guests
attended several workshops
designed to help them deal with
controversial issues such as
euthanasia and race relations.
The conference was the
result of almost eight years of
work since the creation of the
Justice and Peace Commission
in 1989. The commission was
designed to bring together arch¬
diocesan leaders who were to
share ideas and find companion¬
ship in their work.
Joan Harper, chair of the jus¬
tice and peace committee,
described what she hoped the
conference would achieve. “We
want to say to the people out
working in the community we
want to be a resource for you, we
want you to talk to each other.
We’re really about building rela¬
tionships today.”
"I’ve always been concerned,
but I have a small child now,
and I really don’t want to leave
him a world that is worse than
what I grew up in,” said Jean
Hamilton, a member of the
social justice committee at St.
Paul the Apostle church in
Westwood.
Fr. John Coleman, S.J., who
will serve as the Charles
Cassassa Chair of Social Values
starting this July, emphasized
the importance of people’s
involvement in their community
through their religion.
He also said
that the media does
not focus enough on
positive aspects of
the community.
"The success stories
are the accumula¬
tion of twenty years
of hard work — lights
on a dark street,
stop signs, extra
police substations —
these are all things that change
a whole neighborhood. The
media wants to tell dramatic
stories, and these are not dra¬
matic stories,” he said.
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I hope the information will have
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—Sr. Laurence Mary Diaz
Teacher, Sacred Heart High School
