Campus Life
De Colores Helps
Children in Tijuana:
Page 7
Film
Flicks Packed With
Stars and Dynamite:
Page 20
Sports
Women’s Volleyball
Breaks Into Top Ten:
Page 24
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LOYOLAN
October 16, 1996
Loyola Marymount University
Volume 75, No. 8
Trustees Cast Votes
to Increase Tuition
RISING TUITION
Incoming Returning Incoming Returning Incoming Returning Incoming Returning
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■ MONEY: Board Raises
Tbition 5.5 Percent; 2.8
Percent to go to Faculty
and Staff Salaries
by Susan Myers
Assistant News Editor
The Financial Committee of the Board
of Trustees voted unanimously Oct. 7
to raise tuition for the next academic
year due to increasing University costs.
Tuition fees will be increased by 5.5
percent, housing fees by 4 percent and
meal plans by 3.5 percent.
This will raise the price of tuition by
$850, housing by an average of $167 and
meal plans by an average of $89.
A two-tier tuition system is still in
effect for this year, in which students
who enrolled after May 13, 1994, are
charged a higher rate of tuition than
students who enrolled before the first
tuition hike. After the 1997-98 academic
year, the tier system will have died out,
since any students enrolled before 1994.
should have graduated.
Compromise
by Joseph Costanzo
Staff Writer
Student Senate voted Sunday to pass
an amendment to the ASLMU
Constitution which adds Budget Ballot
to the current Club Allocation system.
According to the new amendment,
full time students will be responsible for
allocating 40 percent of the total amount
of money available to clubs with ASLMU
accounts through Budget Ballot in the
fall semester.
An additional 40 percent will be allo¬
cated by full-time students in the spring
semester. The remaining 20 percent of
the funds will automatically be placed in
an Emergency Fund to be distributed at
the discretion of the Student Senate
each semester.
According to the current figures,
each full time student will allot approxi¬
mately ten dollars each semester,
though this amount may change based
on the size of the student population at
the time of the Budget Ballot.
INDEX
Campus Life
7
Music
10
Art & Theater
14
Perspective
16
Film
20
Sports
24
Classified
28
John Oester, Vice President of
Business and Finance, said five con¬
stituencies including the Faculty Senate,
the Staff Advisory Committee, Human
Resources, ASLMU ancLthe administra¬
tion presented financial proposals to the
Financial Committee of the Board of
Trustees.
“The Financial Committee weighs the
recommendations and makes a recom-
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Students are the
lifeblood of the
University and without
us all you have are
empty buildings.
— J. Ruben Gonzalez
ASLMU President
mendation to the full Board of
Trustees who either accept, reject or
alter the proposal,” said Oester.
In working with the Board of
The funds that are not allocated by
students during Budget Ballot will be
placed under the control of the Club
Allocations Board.
Mark Gaspers, Speaker of the Senate
and co-author of the new amendment,
said he incorporated input from the
entire Student Senate when drafting the
new amendment.
“I compiled the opinions of senators
by Mia Shanley
News Editor
In an attempt to bring the issues
regarding affirmative action to the
forefront at LMU, the Faculty Senate
members voted on a resolution against
Proposition 209’s move to eradicate
affirmative action programs statewide.
While only 13 of the 23 Faculty
Senate members were in attendance
Thursday, there was a quorum for the
vote at the meeting. Eight voted in
favor of the resolution while three
abstained.
“It’s important for bodies like the
Faculty Senate to address issues like
Proposition 209 because it affects edu¬
cation and it is an issue of social jus¬
tice,” commented Dr. Herbert Medina,
Trustees, ASLMU helps create a budget
model that will estimate how much
money the school will have for the next
academic year.
The Board of Trustees cross refer¬
ences the fee increase with the number
of prospective students and the amount
of money the school will have next year.
Matthew Dillon, President of the
Faculty Senate, said, “The first meeting
of the year is meant to set the big blocks
after we all spoke with fellow students.
Then I took the previously proposed
amendment, combined it with the sena¬
tors’ opinions and discussed it with
Sharon Marciniak [Vice President of
Finance] to find the best combination in
order to make the strongest bill.”
Marciniak said her job will be to
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
and the sponsor and author of the res¬
olution.
Discussing resolutions addressing
major political issues such as
Proposition 209 has been a topic of
debate among the Faculty Senate.
Aside from last year’s vote in favor of a
resolution against Proposition 187 (a
measure that would deny state benefits
to illegal immigrants), the Faculty
Senate usually addresses issues involv¬
ing the academia of the University
such as teaching, scholarship and sup¬
port services.
Some members oppose the inclusion
of outside political issues, saying that
they do not have the responsibility as
SENATE: page 4
Recent
Grad Dies
of Heart
Failure
by Clare Climaco
Editor-in-Chief
Her laugh was contagious and her
smile said it all. That’s how family
and friends of Athena Gonzalez remem¬
ber her. Compassionate, completely giv¬
ing and caring were just a few of the
words used to describe the class of ‘95
alumna.
Gonzalez, 23, collapsed in her
Bakersfield home Friday evening. After
several attempts to resuscitate her,
Gonzalez was rushed to Mercy Hospital,
where she died later that evening.
Gonzalez was to be married this week¬
end to her high school sweetheart, Jeff
Miller.
Memorial services are being held this
morning at 10 a. m. at St. Francis Church
in Bakersfield. Yesterday, family and
friends gathered at the Gonzalez home
for a visitation and a Rosary service in
GONZALEZ: page 4
COURTESY OF ROB GANEM
Gonzalez, pictured above as a sophomore,
served as Panhellenic President in 1993.
MONEY: page 2
Reached for Club Funding
AMENDMENT: page 4
Faculty Senate Takes
Stand Against Prop 209
■ VOTE: Senate Passes Resolution to Encourage
Students to Vote In Favor of Affirmative Action
