Features: An
American Journey
page 11
A&E: Oasis makes big
splash with new album
page 9
Sports: Men’s Soccer
kicked out of bounds by
UCLA
page 18
Mother Teresa Dies at 87
COURTESY OF CAMPUS MINISTRY
LMU students are joined by Mother Teresa of Calcutta at the De Colores Orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico during the
spring of 1992.
by Don Zacharias
Editor-in-chief
other Teresa, the Roman
Catholic nun whose work
with the poor in Calcutta won
her a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979
and the respect and admiration
of the world, died Friday at age
87 in her convent in Calcutta,
in the very center of her life’s
work.
Her passing has caused a
worldwide outpouring of grati¬
tude for her long and humble
life of service. Pope John Paul
II celebrated an official mass for
Mother Teresa at Castel
Gandolfo, his summer residence
outside Rome. In the United
States, the House of
Representatives marked her
death with a moment of silence,
and President Clinton spoke of
her while on vacation in
Martha’s Vineyard. And in
Buckingham Palace, amidst
preparations for Diana’s world¬
wide-televised funeral, the
British Royal Family officially
mourned her passing.
Mother Teresa, born Agnes
Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Macedonia
in 1910, became a novitiate in
the Loretto order at age 18 and
was sent to Calcutta. She
received her calling to serve the
“poorest of the poor” during a
train ride outside Darjeeling in
1946. One year later, she
moved to the slums and found¬
ed the first of many schools for
the poor of Calcutta’s streets.
In 1950 she founded the order
of Missionaries of Charity,
which now works for the poor in
countries all over the planet.
In addition to the charity
work that Mother Teresa per¬
formed in Calcutta, Mother
Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity
have worked in several other
countries, including orphan¬
ages and community centers in
Tijuana, including an orphan¬
age and a home for women
there.
In the spring of 1992,
Mother Teresa: page 3
LMU Maintains Rank Among Regional Universities
by Jasmine Marshall
News Editor
or the second straight year
LMU has been ranked third
among Western Regional
Universities by U.S. News World
Report’s annual college rank¬
ings. LMU rounds out the top
three, following number one
ranked Trinity College and sec¬
ond-ranked Santa Clara
University.
“We are happy about the
ranking, there’s no question
about it,” said Director of
Admissions Matthew X.
Fissinger. “The rankings are
huge publicity for us, especially
for prospective students.”
Each year, U.S. News and
World Report surveys data on
colleges and universities across
the nation. Rankings are divided
Top Five Regional Universities
- West -
Trinity University
(TX)
Loyola Marymount
University (CA)
Gonzaga University
(WA)
100.0
88.0
How were the rankings determined?
To determine academic reputation, 4,200 college presidents, deans and admissions directors were
asked to evaluate all schools in the same categories as their own; 65 percent replied. These results
counted for 25 percent of the overall total. They were then combined with the tools in the categories of
student selectivity, faculty resources, financial resources, retention rank and alumni giving rank.
-U.S. News World Report
chart by Oavtif Hartkop
into national universities, liber¬
al arts colleges, and regional
universities. According to
Fissinger, LMU is ranked in the
regional category because the
majority of students are drawn
from California and other west¬
ern states. U.S. News and World
Report states that a regional
school offers a full range of
undergraduate programs and
provides graduate level educa¬
tion at the master’s level.
The rankings are based upon
selectivity of the university (con-
Advancement of Teaching.
Although the ranking by U.S.
News and World Report lends
prestige to LMU, Fissinger said
that the rank will not be the pri¬
mary reason students apply to
LMU. “Since the previous year
when we were ranked third,
applications to LMU are up. The
ranking does generate more vis¬
ibility, which can help lead to
more applications. The
increased number of applica¬
tions follows the trend of appli-
cations increasing over the past
“The rankings are huge publicity for us,
especially for prospective students.”
— Matthew X. Fissinger,
Director of Admissions
sisting of tests scores, high
school class standing, accep¬
tance rate, and yield — the pro¬
portion of those who applied to
those who attend), academic
reputation, faculty resources,
financial resources, retention of
students, and alumni giving
rates. The presidents, deans,
and admissions directors of
4,200 schools were given ques¬
tionnaires that determine the
rankings. The results were then
calculated by the Carneagie
Foundation for the
four years. Although the rank¬
ings probably helped raise the
number of applications, I don’t
believe they are the only rea¬
son,” said Fissinger.
“It’s nice to have a third party
corroborate that LMU is a solid
place,” Fissinger said. <rWhat the
rankings do is to support and
confirm what we have been
doing. The fact that we rank
highly across the board shows
we are comprehensible to other
regional universities in the
west.”
Library
Computers
Offer 24
Hour Access
by Christina Thomas
Staff Writer
Thirteen new LMU residents
have recently become
extremely popular among stu¬
dents. Students are turning to
them for their vast wealth of
information and their easy
accessibility. These new resi¬
dents don’t mind being used; in
fact, that’s the entire purpose of
their existence. They are the
new Dell Pentium-Pro comput¬
ers residing in the reference
area of the Von der Ahe Library.
Unlike print index and CD-
ROM library catalog-containing
ancestors, these machines con-
“We as librarians want
to provide exactly what
students want to find.”
— Glen Johnson-Grau
Network Resources Librarian
tain two new internet-based
indexes in addition to fourteen
other specific CD-ROM indexes
which contain information on
various subjects, ranging from
religion to biology and nearly
everything in between. The
new internet-based indexes,
EBSCOhost and ABI/Inform,
both obtained by LMU through
specialized subscription, are
accessible to LMU students on
and off campus.
EBSCOhost is a general
index of articles in all subject
areas, making it a helpful
research tool. ABI/Inform is a
business index that contains
nearly 1300 journals, 600 of
which are full text. A third
internet-based index,
FirstSearch, will be added to
the computers in the Von der
Ahe Library reference area and
LMU-Net within a few weeks.
Computers: page 3
INDEX
News 1
Perspective 6
Arts & Entertainment 8
Feature 11
Sports . 18
Classified 21
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