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RSHM Celebrates End of 1 50th Year
MATT JILLSON
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LOYOLAN
Sr. Frances Gusenhoven, RSHM, addresses the congregation during Tuesday's anniversary mass.
by Leigh Woosley
Asst. News Editor
To a casual observer, Sister
Frances Gussenhoven, RSHM
may seem like any other English
professor at LMU.
She often retires to a book-
lined office on the third floor of
Foley, marches into St. Robert’s
Hall on Tuesday and Thursday
morning to teach Arthurian
Romance, and may be seen strid¬
ing across Alumni Mall at any
given time of day.
Yet beyond the realm of LMU,
Gussenhoven leads a life unlike
that of the average professor.
As a sister in the Religious of
the Sacred Heart of Mary
(RSHM) congregation, she has
devoted her life to God and the
vows of “poverty, chastity, and
obedience,” By walking this path
of life, Gusssenhoven maintains a
relationship with God that is
“very mystical, very personal, and
very individual” while upholding
“a unified, love-filled community
coming to God.”
Gussenhoven joined others to
celebrate the RSHM community’s
150th anniversary and the clos¬
ing of a jubilee year on Tuesday,
Jan. 25 in Sacred Heart Chapel.
As major players in both the
founding of Marymount College
and, later, the merging of the col¬
lege with Loyola University in
1973, the sisters of RSHM are an
integral part of the community
today.
The story begins during the
mid- 1800’s in the small southern
town of Beziers, France, when
Father John Gailhac was inspired
to help his community after see¬
ing scores of indigent and aban¬
doned people enter the struggling
City Hospital where he was a
chaplain. The majority of this
populace was composed of women
and children, including the home¬
less and prostitutes. Gailhac
envisioned a community of reli¬
gious women who would work to
relieve the suffering of these peo¬
ple.
“Fr. Gailhac was always con¬
cerned about women and their
dignity,” said Sister Peg Dolan,
RSHM alumni chaplain and
alumni campus minister. “From
the very beginning, he always
encouraged women to develop
their own gifts ”
Gailhac called on the gifts of
Apollonie Pelissier-Cure, who
was the widow of Eugene Cure,
Gailhac’s boyhood friend, and the
two collaborated to form the
RSHM on February 24, 1849.
Gailhac and Pelissier-Cure, later
known as Mother Saint Jean,
encouraged the sisters to use
their God-given gifts to the fullest
extent in order to help their com¬
munity.
Dolan said that Gailhac’s
“faith and trust in the talents of
women” was “a unique and radi¬
cal idea at the time ” He crated
a successful community of serving
women and based their work on
the fundamental belief “that all
may have life,” a statement that
is engraved on the cross worn by
each sister.
Today Hj these crosses are
donned for all to see, yet there
was a time when a woman’s role
in religion was limited. “Women
were treated for many centuries
more or less like objects to be
bought and sold and to give birth
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Hot-Water Pipe-Burst
Soaks Hilton Basement
by Michael Ambrozewicz
News Editor
When Renee Bonner returned to work at
Information Services on Monday, Jan. 22, she
found that her office and the rest of the Hilton
basement were “a hot, sticky, wet mess.”
On the morning of Sunday, Jan. 22, a hot
water pipe supplying the Hilton Center for
Business and Rains and McCarthy Halls unex-
ANDREA JABLONSKI
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LOYOLAN
Water damage in the basement of Hilton Center for Business was
extensive Sunday. Equipment is being assessed for damages.
pectedly broke, spilling an estimated 10,000
gallons of hot water into the basement of Hilton.
The water pipe, located in the mechanical
room in the basement, was part of the original
construction six years ago and failed at a seam
which glued two sections of the pipe together.
According the David Littell, director of opera¬
tions and maintenance, the 180-degree water
caused the mechanical room to fill with steam
which set off the fire sprinkler system. This
sent out an alarm to the department
of public safety and to the fire
department. Melissa Hansen, a
sophomore English major, said that
she “heard the alarm [in h^r room in
McCarthy] and thought it was a
fire.”
Fire officials arrived on the scene
at 10:44 a.m., according to the
department of public safety’s time
log of the incident. Littell said that
the firefighters needed to use their
oxygen masks and tanks because the
scalding-hot water produced so
much steam that visibility was
reduced. Shortly thereafter, crews
from operations and maintenance
arrived and shut off the valves, stop¬
ping the water flow and returning
water service to the affected areas.
“I thought it was a routine proce¬
dure,” said sophomore graphic
design major Dave Fallon. When he
saw the clean-up trucks, he wasn’t
worried, even though a public safety
official told him that it was a “cam¬
pus emergency.” The situation was
contained by Sunday night, when
operations and maintenance had
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■ Anniversary: LMUs
other founding religious
order marks passage of
jubilee year.
Seton Hall
Sounds
Alarm on
Fire Safety
■ TRAGEDY: Dorm blaze
in New Jersey raises
concerns about false
drills on campus.
by Kasey Seymour
Editor in Chief
The dormitory fire at Seton
Hall university which took the
lives of three students and
injured over 60 others last week,
has LMU residents and members
of the student housing staff eval¬
uating the possibility that such a
tragedy could here.
Early last Wednesday morn¬
ing, Jan. 19, during finals week
at Seton Hall, a fire started on
the third floor of Boland Hall on
Seton Hall’s South Orange, New
Jersey campus. Eighteen false
alarms had been pulled since
September, according to authori¬
ties. Thinking that the fire alarm
was a false alarm, as there had
been seven false alarms during
finals week, some students, were
slow to leave the building. As a
result, the ensuing injuries were
much worse than if students had
left the building quickly.
Rich Rocheleau, EMU’s direc¬
tor of student housing, comment¬
ed on the situation earlier this
week. “I was shocked and sad¬
dened to hear what had hap¬
pened,” he said. “I think that is
eveiy director of housing’s worst
nightmare — for something like
that to happen on their campus.”
In years past, LMU has had
its share of false fire alarms. The
two buildings, according to
Rocheleau that have had the
most problems historically have
been McKay and Rains.
“[However], in both buildings, the
number of false alarms is down.
Although, more than one is one
too many.”
According to Jim Espinoza,
area coordinator for the Leavey
campus there were seven false
fire alarms in Rains during the
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