The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 76, Issue 4 - September 17, 1997

Features: KXLU aims to raise $100,000 in fundraiser Page 6 Sports: Women’s soccer defeats Texas in overtime, 1-0 Page 17 Mighty Mighty BossTones to Headline Sunset Concert I ASLMU: Annual event to be held indoors for first time by Ann Carlson Staff Writer This year’s Sunset Concert will bring one of the most popular ska bands, the Mighty Mighty BossTones, to LMU’s Gersten Pavilion on Sept. 19. In a change from last year’s concert, ASLMU will charge students and guests for the first time in two years. “Basically, it’s an issue of charging for the concert so we can have a top act like the BossTones, but still have enough money in the ASLMU accounts to put on events later in the year,” said ASLMU Vice-President of the Activities Programming Commission Nicole Carlin. She “The Mighty Mighty BossTones ... appeal to a wider range of people because they’re a ska group.” — Ryan Eisberg, ASLMU President President Addresses University's Future В Speech: Campus improve¬ ments and funding discussed by Jason Foo Assistant News Editor niversity President Rev. Thomas P. O’Malley, S.J., presented his vision for the university for the newly commenced aca¬ demic year and the years to come, in his con¬ vocation address to LMU faculty and staff Tuesday in Hilton. In his convocation address, O’Malley dis¬ cussed, among other objectives of the univer¬ sity, new facilities and a plan to improve those already existing, a desire for more applications, and a drive to increase the endowment. Stressing the goal for every college to increase in quality rather than size, O’Malley said, “We want more applications, we want to keep the quality line going up; we want to develop character in ourselves, so that we will be able to resist the temptation to con¬ tinually grow.” One of LMU’s primary focuses is “build¬ ing and rebuilding,” said the university pres¬ ident. In his address, he touched upon the renovations and new facilities planned for the upcoming years, much of it contingent on pledges from various donors. LMU present¬ ly has $125 million in cash and pledges; the goal for the campaign is $128 million by December 31. In the address, O’Malley said there is a partial pledge for a new 80,000 square foot library next to Hilton that will operate in conjunction with the Von der Ahe Library as one unified library. There is also a $10 mil¬ lion pledge to replace the Alumni Gym for new recreation, athletic and health facilities. He mentioned the Jesuits’ intent to build a new residence on-campus just west of Xavier Hall, the current Jesuit residence, allowing Xavier to be used as a much needed univer¬ sity building. He also spoke of a refurbish¬ ment to Gersten Pavilion in the next few years, and the need to give the College of Liberal Arts its own building and expanded facilities for the College of Communications and Fine Arts. Increasing the endowment of $210 mil¬ lion is also a goal at hand. “We rank 150th, more or less, in American Colleges and Universities, in the size of our endowment.” O’Malley described LMU’s endowment as “not bad... [but] it can be better.” He said being in the top 125 in the size of endow¬ ments is a goal LMU can visualize. “A lot of positive changes have stemmed from what Rev. O’Malley is doing,” said Ryan Eisberg, ASLMU President. “It’s good to see we’re moving to the future, that LMU has its eyes on the horizon, and Rev. O’Malley is getting us there,” said Mark Gaspers, Vice President of Community Services. added that ASLMU still feels it is doing students a service by bringing in a band that is charging $20 for tickets at other venues. The other major change from last year is that Sunset Concert will be held inside Gersten Pavilion. In the past few years, the event was held outdoors in the Sunken Gardens. “We moved to Gersten Pavilion so that we could charge students for the concert. It wouldn’t be very fair to charge students for the concert if it were held outdoors, and then have everyone else sitting right outside the fence watch- Sunset Concert: page 2 INDEX News i Perspective Features 4 8 I Arts & Entertainment 1 1 1 Sports Classified 16 21 On the W e mw.lmu.edu/stuaff/loyolan.htm | Mass of the Holy Spirit Opens Academic Year DENISE ESPINOZA/ 10Y0UN Students and clergy celebrate the Mass of the Holy Spirit in Sacred Heart Chapel by Dan Newton Staff Writer о mark the spiritual opening of the academic year, over 800 LMU stu¬ dents and faculty attended the annual celebration of the Mass of the Holy Spirit in Sacred Heart Chapel Thursday. The Mass of the Holy Spirit was celebrated worldwide at all Jesuit and Mary mount Universities. This year’s mass celebrated the diver¬ sity of LMU with music from a variety of backgrounds. “I tried to choose music that represented LMU,” said Will Salvini, Director of Music for Campus Ministry .The communion song, “Ven al Banquete” (Come to the Feast) sung in both English and Spanish, followed the theme of multi-culturalism. “I chose it to be intentionally bilingual, in this case Spanish and English, for we have such a strong presence of Latino and Hispanic students that it is important to be inclu¬ sive,” Salvini said. The Mass featured a dramatic read¬ ing of Chapter 19 of the Gospel of Luke by Rev. Thomas P. O’Malley, S.J., University President. While the gospel passage was recited, various members of the university acted out the passage. The homilist for this year’s mass was Fr. John Coleman, S.J., who spoke of the need to break down barriers that dis¬ courage interaction. “The modern univer¬ sity has become a kind of walled-off plea¬ sure garden,” Coleman said. “A campus enclave cut off from its surrounding city where minutes away from its sunken and carefully manicured lawns life is brutal and brutalizing.” Coleman used the panel of the dismantled Berlin Wall as an example of a barrier broken to let good shine through. Coleman later said, “Universities have three publics they pay attention to. They pay attention to the church, the academia and to society, and that’s the one that is probably less seriously and critically looked at.” Director of Liturgy for the Campus Ministry, John Flaherty explained the importance of the mass. “It calls forth the spirit and is the way that the year is begun in many universities and institu¬ tions. In many ways it is to give us a vision for the coming year, to focus us in a sense, and to bless the Holy Spirit upon us for the year.”