The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 77, Issue 4 - September 23, 1998

1 Ш A&E Features Sports Mike Watt Show takes center stage. Page 10 The Hollywood connection to Clinton’s defense fund. Page 13 Women’s soccer remains undefeated. Page 20 Lungren, Davis Address Catholic Issues at LMU PAT HORTON / LOYOLAN Lieutenant Governor Gray Davis (D). ■ California Politics: Archdiocese of Los Angeles holds historic guberna¬ torial forum. by Jasmine C. Marshall News Editor & Daniel Wolowicz Editor in Chief The future of California politics took center stagfe in St. Robert's Auditorium late Sunday afternoon in a historic event for both Loyola Marymount University and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, during the guber¬ natorial candidate’s forum. The estimated crowd of 300 in attendance listened as Gubernatorial candidates Dan Lungren, repub¬ lican, and Gray Davis, democrat, gave their opinions on key election year issues from a moral standpoint. The forum, organized by the Archdiocese of PAT HORTON/ LOYOLAN Attorney General Dan Lungren (R). Los Angeles Justice and Peace Commission and the Office of the Justice and Peace, was intend¬ ed to make Lungren and Davis accountable for specific issues of interest to Catholics. At this time, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles comprises three counties and has a population of 4.5 mil¬ lion Catholics. “What we really wanted from the candidates was a commitment on each of these issues that we can hold them accountable to,” said Rod Wikkar, co-chair for the event and member of the Office of Justice and Peace. Wikkar pointed out that the forum was also intended to gamer “a commitment from the candidates to meet with the Catholic church once they have been elected.” Stacy Franklin, co-chair of the forum and a parish leadership council member, for the Archdiocese, commented, “This is a historic event for Catholics of the Archdiocese of Forum: page 4 Alleged Student Sexual Assault Reported in Hannon Apartments ■ Crime: For second week in a row, LMU student reports a sexual assault on campus. by Roy Rufo Jr. Asst. News Editor & Kasey Seymour Managing Editor INDEX News i Perspective 7 Arts & Entertainment 10 Features 13 Classified 15 Sports 20 O. n t h e, W e b : -www. 1 rn u . e Jci/srudFf/Idyof Sn Last Saturday, student resi¬ dents were notified of another alleged sexual assault on the LMU campus, the second reported assault in the last week. The most recent alleged sexual assault was reported on Friday, Sept. 18. According to Chief Raymond Hilyar, director of public and environmental safety, “The actual assault occurred at 4:30 a m. [early Friday morning]. The victim entered the public safety office and reported the incident at approximately 5:15 a m.” Although the number of peo¬ ple involved in the incident could not be disclosed, it was confirmed by Detective Terrie Illsley of the Pacific Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, head of the inves¬ tigation, that both the victim and the alleged perpetrator are male. “It was not a stranger related incident,” added Hilyar. “Both parties are students at LMU.” Illsley continued, “The alleged male suspect was taken into custody [by LAPD officers and then booked] at the Van Nuys jail at approximately 4 p.m. The alleged perpetrator posted bail a few hours after he was booked and was ordered to stay off the LMU campus.” The university has a very strict policy on sexual assaults. As stated in the LMU Student Handbook, “The Loyola Marymount University campus will not tolerate sexual assault Sexual Assault: page 2 O'Malley Discloses Plan to Purchase Raytheon Building ■ President's Convocation: In Rev. Thomas P. O’Malley, S.J.’s last annual convocation to the uni¬ versity, he makes stunning announcement of plans to make bid for former Hughes Corporation Building. by Sharon King Staff Writer President Thomas O’Malley, S.J., announced yesterday at his final convocation address his intention to present an offer to acquire the Raytheon building. A subcommittee of the Planning Council has been formed and, hopefully, a deal will take place by the end of this semester. At the convocation, O’Malley explained that the mood among faculty and administration was that “they were bent on going ahead,” but this is not absolute¬ ly certain at the moment. The estimated cost of the building is $75 million, of which a substan¬ tial amount will have to be bor¬ rowed, but the Board of Trustees have given their license to go ahead with a deal. John Oester, vice president of business and finance, said that “it’s an ambitious program, but we can see how we can achieve our aims. The money raised will be a combination of dona¬ tions, endowments and loans.” Some of O'Malley’s main concerns given during the speech were the shortage of space on campus and the need to move staff from the trailers, improve facilities for students and make the university more competitive. The extension of campus through the acquisi¬ tion of the Raytheon building would help resolve these issues. The President stated that “The building is absolutely enor¬ mous, estimated up to 6,000 square feet. It is close to the rest of our campus and would extend it up to 150 acres. Liberal Arts, which is currently dispersed all over campus, would be located in the building as would most of the administration and staff.” The President continued, “the trustees were keen that we should think of the building in terms of undergraduate stu¬ dents,” and reassured listeners that it was “not going to be made into an ivory tower for only faculty and administra¬ tion.” Lysandra Sapp, president of ASLMU and a member of the planning subcommittee for the acquisition of Raytheon, was also strongly in favor of the cob lege of liberal arts being situat¬ ed in the building to ensure a continuous flow of students that would prevent “an (us and them) atmosphere being created by having most of the adminis¬ trative staff situated there.” Sapp also Telt that it would be good to have a central area for administration, which is dispersed all over campus. During convocation, O'Malley also reassured faculty and staff that planned exten¬ sions to other buildings will not Raytheon: page 3 ANNA DEVEIG*/ LOYOLAN University President Rev. Thomas P O'Malley , S.J. addresses the LMU community at his last presidential convocation yesterday.