The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 78, Issue 28 - May 6, 2000

Campus News Features Y }щШк- •$! ''iv\ 4. v 4 Sports Armenian Student Association celebrates culture. Page 6 Seniors reflect on cam- ЩШыЖшё pus change and their legacy. Page 14 Women’s Water Polo heads to national champi¬ onships. Page 28 May 6/2000 Loyola Marymount University Volume 78, No. 28 Campus News 6 Perspective 10 Features : 14 Arts & Entertainment 16 Classifieds 20 Jones to Address/ Graduation Audience ■ Valedictorian: Senior emphasizes choices and the new millennium. PHOTO COURTESY OF TOWER YEARBOOK Senior Ryane Jones will speak as the Class of 2000 valedictorian. by Leanne Salazar Asst. News Editor ’00-01 Meningitis Scare Quickly Controlled For someone who has been published in four publications, is a recognized poet, and has had experience as an intern for a publishing company, all by the age of 21, a university com¬ mencement address should be a piece of cake, right? Ryane Jones, valedictorian for the class of 2000 who is scheduled to deliver the commencement address during Saturday’s cere¬ mony, said that the answer to this question was achieved through an experience of “divine inspiration.” “I went and sat in the middle of Sunken Gardens and prayed, and the words just flowed onto the paper,” said Jones, who just barely made the deadline for her speech to be reviewed for acceptance. “I feel very confi¬ dent about what I’ve written in my speech because I am very passionate about it.” Jones plans to address the topic of life choices and deci¬ sions for the class of 2000, an Valedictorian: page 5 Winkler Chosen as 00 Speaker PHOTO COURTESY OF MGM STUDIOS Television star Winkler to share words of wisdom with Class of 2000, today, Saturday, May 6 at undergraduate commencement ceremonies. ■ Graduation: ‘The Fonz” gives advice to LMU seniors. by JenMacNeil Managing Editor ’99-’00 He has gone from establish¬ ing himself as a pop-culture icon as “The Fonz,” to becoming a father of three, to directing and producing a host of suc¬ cessful projects. Now, Henry Winkler will make his mark at LMU as the commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient for the Class of 2000. A personal friend of univer¬ sity President Rev. Robert B. Lawton, S.J., Winkler was per¬ sonally invited to speak at today’s commencement cere¬ monies. “I know Fr. Bob, Fr. Lawton. I’ve known him for a long, long time and he called me and he asked me to come and do this,” said Winkler, who plans to invigorate the class of 2000 by encouraging them to live life to the very fullest. “Eryoy the honor and the privi¬ lege of being alive,” he advised. Winkler, an alum of Boston’s Emerson College and the Yale School of Drama, is a promi¬ nent figure in vintage televi¬ sion, when “Happy Days” not only immortalized him as the epitome of ‘70s cool, but earned him two Golden Globe Awards for Best TV Actor and three consecutive Emmy nomina¬ tions. Aside from Nick-At- Night’s “Happy Days” reruns, generation-Xers saw Winkler in the Adam Sandler hit “The Watefboy” and the first of the “Scream” films, as a doomed, neurotic high school principal. As a producёr, Winkler is responsible for television’s “MacGyver” and the Disney Channel’s “So Weird,” and in 1993, he directed the Burt Reynolds comedy “Cop and a Half.” Despite his steady stream of success in both acting and directing, even “The Fonz” has had his share of pitfalls, includ¬ ing a temporary expulsion from his theater major as an under¬ graduate. “I forgot to memorize the scene for class,” said Speaker: page з ■ Health: student diagnosed with life- threatening illness. by Mara Slade News Editor ’00-01 When Henry “George” Hahn’s suitemates saw that Hahn had spots covering his hands and arms, they knew something was wrong. What they didn’t know is that by taking him to the hospi¬ tal, they were saving his life. On Friday, April 21, Hahn was diagnosed with type “B” bacteri¬ al meningitis. Meningitis is an infection of the fluid of a person’s spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain. Doctors at D a n i el Freeman Marina Hospital informed him that he had a 50 percent chance of living. Hahn spent the next two days in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital, where “things got pret¬ ty rough,” according to Hahn’s father. His parents flew out from Maryland when they heard the pews that their son’s life was in danger. Brett Bodie, Hahn’s suitemate, described the experience as “sur¬ real ” After doctors told him that Hahn might not make it, Bodie was shocked, because “he didn’t seem that sick” and he thought that it was “just a nasty flu.” That is the trouble with menin¬ gitis — the symptoms, such as fever, severe headache, stiff neck, nausea and lethargy, mimic those of the flu. Medical experts say that a rash com¬ bined with any flu¬ like symptoms is a likely indicator of meningitis. But many people are not diag¬ nosed with the dis¬ ease until it is too late, since meningitis can turn deadly with- in 2‘4-48 hours. Doctors said that, if his suitemates had waited six more hours to take Hahn to the hospital, he most likely would not have survived. Hahn said on Monday that he had a headache from April 17 through Friday, April 21. On Friday, he woke up with spots on his arms and hands. He began to have chills, and then “everything started to hurt,” he said. Hahn’s suitemates, Bodie and Kishan Kasondra, were about to leave for the long Easter weekend when they noticed that Hahn was sweating and that he had spots on his hands. They decided to call Student Health Services, (SHS) but the office was closed because it was Good Friday. Then Bodie and Kasondra called public safety, Health: page 5 Singing to Heaven MATT JILLSON / LOYOLAN During LMlTs 35th annual Spring Chorale on Saturday, April 29, choral ensembles performed several selections of classical songs in Sacred Heart Chapel.