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Campus News
Students in business
courses receive help from
study groups. Page 8
Retirement
Ten years later, two of
LMITs finest have jer¬
seys retired. Page 14
Sports
Men’s Baseball defeats
UCLA in ninth-inning
nail-biter. PAGE 28
Number of LMU
Applicants Soar
Unexpected
Weather
Postpones
Charter Ball
by Jen MacNeil
Managing Editor
The gloomy skies and inter¬
mittent rain are expected to
continue throughout the week
and, consequently, Charter
Balk originally scheduled for
Friday, Feb. 18, has been post¬
poned.
Assembly of the tents and
dance floor in the Sunken
Gardens was supposed to have
commenced earlier today, but
planners agree that sodden
grass would have ruined the
equipment. Trucks carrying
the equipment would have had
to drive onto the lawn itself,
and their tires would have
caused damage to rain-soaked
land.
“We thought about chang¬
ing [the dance] to an elevated
dance floor, but that wouldn’t
have worked either,” said
Lysandra Sapp, ASLMU presi¬
dent. “We had a couple rain
sites in mind. Gersten couldn’t
Rain Delay: page 3
by Leanne Salazar
Staff Writer
For the upcoming fall
semester, the face of LMU will
be different with the addition of
a new gym, a new residence
hall, and the renovation and
move into the Raytheon build¬
ing. As a
growth in
facilities and
space contin-
ues, many
wonder if
there will be
proportional
growth in the
size of the
incoming
fir s t-y e ar
class.
“The intent is clear. It is not
a good idea for the University to
get any larger than where it’s at
now, and it’s intended to keep
next year’s freshman class just
about the same size as this
у
e ar’ s , ”. s aid Mat thew
Fissinger* director of admis¬
sions.
This year, the 1,536 newly-
enrolled first-year and transfer
students became the largest
entering class of LMU’s history.
Currently in the middle of
wading through applications,
the admissions office doesn’t
expect to see the 10 to 15 per¬
cent increase in applications
received this year that has
occurred in year’s past.
Although a
larger pool of
applicants
than in years
past is expect¬
ed, admissions
officials do not
expect as large
an increase as
occurred with
last year’s
record-break¬
ing enrollment. There contin¬
ues to be a healthy percentage
growth every year since 1992,
when there were about 3,650
a p p lie at i
о
n s , throu g h 1 a s t
year’s 6,300 applications.
“We were swamped with
applications [this spring],” said
Maureen Robinson, first-year
business law major and a mem-
Admissions: page
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Number of Applicants
♦1996 . . .
... . 4,855
♦ 1997 . . .
. . . 5,124
♦1998 . . .
. . 5,751
♦ 1999
..6,345
♦ 2000*. .
(*= approx.)
...6,500
Recent Web Attacks Raise
Campus Security Concerns
■ Computers: lmu network
security believed to be protected
against latest string of website
shutdowns.
by Michael Ambrozewicz
Ne ws Editor
He used to hack into his high school’s
computer system to check out grades,
class schedules, and secure information,
but he never touched anything. “Mark,”
an LMU first-year student, is not a com¬
puter hacker by any means, but he cer¬
tainly knows his way around a
hard drive and network systems.
With last week’s website a
against eBay, Buy.com, Yahoo!, and
CNN.com, Generation-X computer maver¬
icks like Mark, especially those who hack
into Internet sites with the intent of crip¬
pling the site, have gained national
tion. The sites were shut down over
three-day period due to an onslaught
traffic that overwhelmed the site’s net¬
work servers.
Following the attacks, the FBI
launched an electronic search for those
responsible and discovered that comput¬
ers from the University of California,
Santa Barbara and Stanford University
were used to route traffic to the intended ^ ANA MARIA DA VEIGA
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• Computer systems like this one in a first-year students room are
SECURITY: page 7 becoming more and more commonplace in college dorm rooms.
CATHLEENA CHAVEZ
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As part of LMUs uLove Your Body” week, members of the community go for
a spin in Club Commons on Monday, Feb. 14.
Eating Disorder
Trend Examined
■ Special Report:
LMU addresses prob¬
lems with eating disor¬
ders on America’s col¬
lege campuses.
by Leigh Woosley
Asst. News Editor
During college, everyone
thought that “Mary*” had it all
together.
She was a cheerleader, did
well in classes, held two jobs, and
danced with a local company. She
was 5’8,” 105 pounds, nice-look¬
ing, and athletic.
But it was what everyone did
not know that nearly killed Mary.
No one knew that she got up
in the middle of night and threw
up because she was terrified , of
the food inside of her. No one
knew that she had to run at least
five miles a day in order to feel
okay. No one knew that a
“hideous beast” lurked beneath
her near-perfect exterior. No one
knew that this “hideous beast”
was the combination of anorexia
and bulimia that plagued Mary’s
life.
The truth is that no one truly
knows what goes on behind
closed doors, but this week LMU
is trying to change that. In light
of National Eating Disorders
Awareness Week, which began on
Monday, Feb. 14, the campus is
celebrating “Love Your Body”
week. The week is devoted to
educating students about a bal¬
anced lifestyle and promoting
positive self-images.
The week will consist of sever¬
al events ranging from fitness
trainers discussing correct exer¬
cise techniques to speakers
revealing the truth about images
in the media. “This is not just
about building muscle or looking
great,” said Dr. Susan Kolhruss-
Salem, Ph.D., clinical psycholo¬
gist in student psychological ser¬
vices. ‘This is about health and
not overdoing it.”
Salem heads an eating disor¬
der support group for students
that meets on campus weekly and
is the organizer of the Eating
Disorders Education Network
(EDEN). She has been treating
eating disorders, which she refers
to as the “look good, feel bad” dis¬
order, for approximately 10 years.
EDEN is a program consisting
of three student interns who edu¬
cate other students about eating
disorder prevention and concen¬
trate on promoting a healthy
body image, helping a friend with
an eating disorder, and maintain¬
ing a balanced lifestyle.
“The basic thing [about
EDEN} is that we want people to
Epidemic: page 7
INDEX
News 1
Campus News 8
Arts & Entertainment 9
Features 12
Retirement Special 14
Perspectives 17
Classified 20
Sports 28
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