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Union Labor
Hostilities
Surface on
Campus
■ Benefits: Flyers
passed out on campus
have university officials
worried.
Loyola Marymount University
Volume 78, No. 24
by Leigh Woosley
Asst. News Editor
After a local labor union
distributed flyers on Alumni
Mall last month defaming a
с о
n t r actin g c ompany, J. P.
Carroll, that is currently
working on campus construc¬
tion, the university has been
indirectly entangled in an on¬
going and heated debate
between union and non-union
organizations.
Approximately six mem¬
bers of the Painter and Allied
Trade’s District Council #36,
based in Orange County,
handed out neon green flyers
alleging that J.P. Carroll
Painting Contractors, a sub¬
contractor working in the new
student apartments on Leavey
Campus , is “making h u g e
profits by slashing wages and
benefits from its workers,” as
well as not providing “ade¬
quate health care, pension
and v
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t i on for their
[employees’] families.”
The flyer, headed by the
biblical quote “Do unto others
as you would have them do
unto you,” claims that the
ethics of J.P. Carroll do not
adhere to LMU’s mission
statement “to keep the values
of honesty and compassion.”
In closing, the flyer urges peo¬
ple to go to university
President Rev. Robert B.
Lawton, S.J., or call his office
and “ask what’s going on.”
The derogatory nature of
the flyer has piqued the con¬
cern of some campus officials.
“Wow, this is not a nice flyer,”
Linda Lang, director of facili¬
ties planning and administra¬
tion, said after first seeing the
Workers: page 5
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University President Rev. Robert B. Lawton, S.J., cheered on here by members of LMU’s ROTC pro¬
gram, was given a head start at last Friday’s 5K run through LMU and the Westchester neighborhood.
LMUnity Walk/Run
Finishes Successfully
■ Community: 5K event raises
food, money for local homeless
outreach center.
by Leanne Salazar
Staff Writ&r
Last week’s Springfest came to a close
as fireworks lit up the night sky following
the first-annual LMUnity 5K Fun
Run/Walk. The afternoon was a success,
and plans are being made to continue the
event in the future. The course for the run
began and ended at Sacred Heart Chapel
and wound through neighboring streets of
Westchester,
“It went 100 times better than I ever
could have imagined,” said Susan Shey
Dvonch, assistant director off admissions at
LMU, who was on the planning committee
and participated as a runner in the event.
“There was a phenomenal mix of students,
faculty, staff and community members, and
it definitely accomplished what it was
meant to,” said Dvonch.
Intended not only to bring together
members of the university community with
Westchester residents, the run also helped
to benefit St. Joseph’s Renter in Venice.
The center helps to feed the homeless and
provides assistance to low-income families.
LMU donated five large boxes of canned
food to the center, and the final amount of
proceeds collected are still being deter¬
mined.
Approximately 275 participants attend¬
ed, much more than the 150 expected.
“The whole campus was very supportive,
and we received lots of contributions from
different departments,” said Carol Chung,
office manager of the department of stu¬
dent life. Various departments donated
items raffled at the end of the race, and the
bookstore, Lion’s Den, and Ralph’s donated
gift certificates as well.
“I thought it was a really fun experience
and a good cause,” said Amy Eberhardt, a
first-year studio arts major whose time for
Run: page 3
Cancer Takes
Arias' Life
■ Struggle: Community
loses fighter, humble friend.
by Kasey Seymour
Editor in Chief
Despite efforts made by many
members of the campus community to
find a bone marrow donor for
leukemia patient Jorge Arias, the for¬
mer LMU sophomore died last
Thursday, March 23, after a 15-
month struggle. He had just turned
21 at the beginning of the month.
Arias, from Inglewood, Calif., was
diagnosed with leukemia in
December of 1998. He became sick
over winter break of his sophomore
year and was diagnosed while on a
trip to Mexico. He returned to Los
Angeles and began extensive radia¬
tion treatment and chemotherapy at
Inglewood’s City of Hope.
Arias did not return to school for
the second semester of his sophomore
year. Ernesto Pantoja and Raquel
Amezquita, two close friends of Arias,
organized a bone marrow drive in
April of
1999, in
the hope of
finding a
donor. I n
April of
1 9 9 9,
Amezquita
s a i d ,
“ C hemo-
therapy
and radia¬
tion failed,
and his
family
tested neg¬
ative for a
match. We
PHOTO COURTESY OF TOWER YEARBOOK
Junior political science major
Jorge Arias died Thursday.
are trying to find a match for him.
He’s Hispanic, and it is more likely to
find a match with another Hispanic.”
Two hundred and seventy-seven
members of the campus community
came out in support of Arias, but no
match was found. During the summer
of 1999, Arias went into remission,
but by the time the 1999-2000 acade¬
mic year began, he had relapsed.
Another on-campus bone marrow
drive was organized for November 9,
Arias: page
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Public Safety Takes Hardline Stance
■ PARKING: After months of ticketing and warn¬
ing, officers are instructed to tow offenders.
by Marisol Garcia
Staff Writer
In response to a recent inspection by the Los Angeles Fire
Department concerning inadequate access to the campus in case of
emergencies, Public Safety has decided to enforce current parking
laws on a higher level.
Department of Public Safety Chief Raymond Hilyar issued a
community advisory stating that, due to an increase in the number
of vehicles parked illegally in red or handicap zones, public safety
officers have been directed to issue citations with greater strictness.
If a vehicle is found to have been issued multiple prior citations, or
is parked in areas marked “Firelane” or “Handicap,” it wffl be towed
immediately, without warning, at the owner’s expense.
Since the advisory has been made public, Hilyar has not seen a
significant difference in students’ attitudes. Although there has
been less illegal parking, he believes that the upcoming week will
truly reveal students’ response to the ad. The peak ticketing hours,
he added, are during lunch when students tend to park in the red
zones to quickly grab food, then leave. Hilyar continued by saying,
“We have set aside 10-minute parking behind Foley, but the prob¬
lem with those spots is that people will park there for a half-hour,
hour, or all day long. It cheats the other people from parking quick¬
ly and then exiting.”
Hilyar said that he, or another designated officer, surveys the
Enforcement: page 7
