The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 77, Issue 14 - January 13, 1999

Features Lack of concern over the impeachment is a sign of the times Page 6 A&E Winter Film Reviews. Page 8 S P O R T S Women’s Basketball: First WCG win togeU January 13, 1999 Loyola Mary мои n't University ■ Л,/ ; r- . •; : _ i • • f I New Year Volume 77, No. 14 m by Jasmine Marshall News Editor Students arriving back on campus to begin - the spring semester were greeted with the sights and sounds of construction in progress on the walkway between the Lair and Alumni Mall. Where black concrete once covered the whlkway, a sidewalk with benches and palm trees will soon be complete. Aesthetic Landscapes, the project’s con¬ tracting company, is expected to complete the first phase of the project by mid-February. According to David Trump, Vice President for Facilities Management, “The primary con¬ struction accomplished over the break was work on the cross mall. We have completed the sidewalk and have raised the grade. We will be adding palm trees and benches.” Trump added that the changes are mostly aes¬ thetic, and N^ludents more places to- gather and for clubs to put on programs.” The project is part of the Master Plan for construction improvements at LMU, funded by the annual capitol improve¬ ment fund, according to Trump. When completed, the construc¬ tion improvements will create a nem ~t ""Tr — “TL — Г p зшуой_ П An artist's depiction of the new student apartment complex to be built soon on the Leavey campus. DRAWING COURTESY OF DAVID TRUMP cruciform pattern when seen from an aerial view. “The plans for the improvement have been in place for quite a while,” Trump noted. He also added that the new sidewalk is more accessible f о r h a n d i c a p p e d students and faculty. In addition to the aesthetic improvements, other major con¬ struction proj ects are slated to begin soon. Construction of a new student apartment complex on the Leavey campus, with the capacity to house 166 students, will begin soon, according to Trump. “We will be starting shortly on excavation of the soil,” he said. “[The apartment com¬ plex] will be completed and ready for students to occupy the facility in the summer of 2000. The pro¬ ject will take a little over a year to complete.” ; Richard Rocheleau, director of student housing, said that plans to build the apartment complex, “have been in the works for about a year. The official deci¬ sion was made by the board of trustees.” The new apartment complex will house junior and senior students, who will bid for space in the complex in the annual junior-senior lottery. Although the complex will not meet the entire demand for junior and senior students for on-campus housing, Rocheleau said, “It is a step toward resolv¬ ing the problem.” The new Miyawaki library will also begin to take shape in coming months. Trump noted that Swinerton and Walberg, the contracting firm selected for Construction: page 3 KXLU Wins Battle to by Kasey Seymour Mana ging Editor In a recent struggle between KXLU , the Federal Communicajfcions Commission [FCC], and a Christian radio sta¬ tion based in Lancaster, California, the listeners of LMLPs KXLU came out with an outpour¬ ing of support to protect the sta- tion’s 88,9 FM frequency. Just before the end of the fall semester, it came to the attention of executives at KXLU that Living Way Ministries was lobby¬ ing for the 88.7 FM and the 88.9 FM frequencies, KXLU’s fre- q uency *be i n g t h e 1 at te r . “I first heard about it a couple INDEX News .. 1 Perspective 4 Features 6 Arts & Entertainment 8 Classified 12 Sports 16 О n t ke.We b : wvw.lmu.edu/ftuaff/loyolan ' of weeks before finals. Our ex¬ chief engineer had come down from Seattle to install our new transmitter and he had told us that . . . somebody was thinking of putting in a petition to have the 88.7 FM frequency. At first I did¬ n’t really think anything of it because it had happened in the past and other stations had put out petitions to deny,” explained KXLU General Manager, Olivia Torres. Initially, the KXLU staff thought nothing would come of the other station’s efforts to be granted the frequency. Torres said, “I didn't really worry about it, but then they put in another petition for the 88.9 frequency, and that’s when I started worry¬ ing.” Living Way Ministries wanted to put-up several radio transla¬ tors in Long Beach and Buena Park for their own station. Since Living Way Ministries already has their own station, the 100- watt translator would send their signal to a greater area, specifi¬ cally to much of the area that KXLU broadcasts. If Living Way Ministries were to receive the KXLU: page 3 Computer Network Disabled Due to Planned Power Outage The problems with the network occurred when the power outage caused “several small parts [to] fail when the power was turned back on, which prevented some buildings and offices from connecting to the network. Some software configurations were lost from memory causing intermittent connectivity, connections to be dropped unexpectedly and slow response times/ said Dase. Unfortunately, the problem comes during the busiest week of the semester, as students Computers: page 2 by Jasmine Marshall News Editor & Roy Rufo Jr. Assistant News Editor A planned power outage on Jan. 13, resulted in chaos on the LMUNet, complicating opera¬ tions for all departments and frustrating stu¬ dent attempts to change class schedules during the first week of school. “There was a planned power outage to per¬ form preventive maintenance on our electrical system . Th is maint e n anc e helps ensure that we don’t have unplanned outages,” said Joseph Zirbel, manager of plan¬ ning and control. “We attempt¬ ed to try to make the situation as convenient as possible. We coordinated ' with most depart¬ ments on campus approximately one month before the planned power outage occurred . ” According to MaryAnn Dase, assistant vice president of infor¬ mation services, “None of the servers supporting applications, e-mail or internet access were affected by the power outage. Only network communication equipment was affected.” Dase characterized these as “devices . CHRIS MORRING / LOYOUN on the network that allow indi- The usual flurry of schedule changes at the Registrar's Office was impacted vidual workstations to connect this past week by a planned power outage on the computer networks. with the i n t e r n e t . ”