The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 75, Issue 3 - September 12, 1996

шШш Campus Life Rating the Lion’s Den and Molly Malone’s: Page 6 • /2йЙЙ|Я Art & Theater Broken Eggs Makes a Dirty Dozen: Page 14 1жЛ'4 Sports Women’s Soccor Wins First Game: Page 16 „ Los Angeles LOYOLAN September 12, 1996 Loyola Mary mount University Volume 75, No. 3 LMU Ranked Third Among West’s Universities Top Five Regional Universities West ; : J Jll School Name Hj .Location .Overall Score Academic Reputation. : Student Selectivity Faculty SB Resources 1. Trinity University Texas 100.0 1 2 2 Щ 89.6 12 — 3. LMU California 88.3 5 21 i 4 4'ш2к°тес0ай<Ь " [ill 5. Linfield College Щ Oregon 85.0 11 5 1° • 3 g Hpw,w 3 To determine academic reputation, 4,200 college presidents, deans and admissions direc- cn tors were asked to evaulate all schools in the same categories as their own; 65 percent 2 replied. These results counted for 25 percent of the overall total. They were then corn¬ ea hined with the totals in the categories of student selectivity, faculty resources, financial > resources, retention rank and alumni giving rank. _ — U.S. News & World Report Students Instigate Petition Against New Parking H PARKING: Upset Over New Policies, Students Collect Signatures to Make a Change; ASLMU Backs Move by Mia Shanley & Jason Foo News Editor and Staff Writer Students are challenging the Department of Public Safety’s recently enforced park¬ ing procedures and are peti¬ tioning to get the policy revoked. Over 300 signatures have been collected so far. The peti¬ tion, which needs 500 signa¬ tures before it will be presented to Dr. Lane Bove, Vice President of Student Affairs, and Dave Trump, Vice President of Facilities INDEX Campus Life 5 Film 9 Perspective 12 Music 14 Art & Theater 15 Sports 16 Classified 20 Management. Three under¬ graduate students — Theresa Ferraria, Irene Mapua and Christian Armbrister — are gathering signatures for the petition. ASLMU is backing students’ efforts to revoke Public Safety’s newly imple¬ mented parking procedures. Students are not only dissat¬ isfied with the new policy that requires commuters to choose between parking in the Leavey structure and Hannon Lot, but students have complained about the fact that the policy to choose between lots was not stated in the parking infor- « - What’s the $200 doing for me ? It’s doing nothing. — Chrisitan Armbrister Senior - J5 mational pamphlet. Armbrister noted, “It’s real¬ ly unfortunate that they didn’t give anyone prior notice. It was first-come-first-served and no one knew when they were even doing this.” “The parking rules were made before [the decision to make commuters choose] was Parking: page 2 ■ SURVEY: U.S. News & World Report Rates LMU Among the Best in the West by Susan Myers Assistant News Editor LMU edges into third place in the Western Regional Schools survey by U.S. News & Whrld Report, five places closer than last year’s evaluation. On September 16, U.S. News & World Report will release their reports on colleges and universities in the “America’s Best Colleges” issue. Trinity University in Texas stands as the first ranked school among regional universi¬ ties in the West, while Santa Clara University in California is second to the top. Joseph Merante, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, said, “It depends what the University’s interests are. We are primarily populated with students west of the Mississippi. It still is an insti¬ tution that primarily focuses on the west coast.” The difference in LMU’s ranking this year wasn’t neces¬ sarily due to differences in qualifications, but in the way the ratios were calculated this year. “[This report] is more of a reflection of perceived quality as opposed to any significant differences in applications or interest,” said Merante. The magazine also changed their method of evaluation for this year, which caused a num¬ ber of schools to drop out of the evaluating process. “The rankings, if anything, are creating more of an aware¬ ness than changing values or having any substative differ¬ ences,” Merante noted. Norm Schneider, Director of Public Relations, said, “We remain on the highest level of educational institutes. This is recognition of the hard work that everyone has done last year.” He added, “People all over the world will see this report, it will have great effects down the road. It will affect their deci¬ sions whether to come to LMU.” Trinity University in Texas has been in the number one regional ranking for the past few years. Survey: page 4 Student Leaders Frolic on Leavey Field %. \ % September 7. Щ ufm Щ attendees remained food- ALEX GALVEZ/ LOYOLAN 2,000 Expected for LMU’s 43rd Annual Alumni BBQ by Mark D’Anna Assistant News Editor Loyola Marymount will wel¬ come its lions home for the 43rd annual Alumni Barbeque this Saturday, September 12, in Sunken Gardens where 2,000 attendees are expected. From 12:30 p.m. until 6 p.m., there are sure to be old stories swapped and longtime friendships rekindled by the alumni who will be in atten- dence, and this years barbeque promises to be bigger and bet¬ ter than ever. “We’re expecting alumni from as far back as the ‘30s” commented Ralph J. Consola, Director of Alumni Relations and member of LMU’s class of ‘87. This year, the Barbeque will feature more games and activi¬ ties geared toward children. There will also be a live band performing that features Fr. Richard Rolfs S.J. of the class of 1950. The name of the band is the “Holy Cats” and it features a few alumni. Every year at the Barbecue there is a section reserved for the Golden Lions. The mem¬ bers of this group are those who graduated from LMU over 50 years ago.