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Volume 90, Issue 15
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Students sleep outside as part of Homeless Awareness Week
Magis, the Black Student Union and Delta Zeta are hosting Homeless Awareness Week, during which students sleep outside as a sign of
solidarity with the homeless population. To hear students reflect on the event; listen to a collection of sound bites at laloyolan.com.
LMU ranks third in educational value
NEWS ANALYSIS
Kiplingcr’s Personal Finance magazine
lists LMU as die private college w ith
die third best value in die state.
By Margo Jasukaitis
Asst. News Editor
According to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
magazine’s annual list of Best Values in
Private Colleges, LMU students are getting
the third best value in the state. The list,
which was released last Tbesday, Oct. 25,
evaluated colleges based on a variety of
factors perceived to affect the overall value
of an education. Four-year graduation rate,
student debt at graduation and class size
were among the factor's Kiplinger included
in its assessment In an economic climate
that necessitates an increased level of fiscal
caution, the cost of higher education continues
to rise. The number of institutions charging
more than $50,000 a year has increased to
123 in the past year (up from 100), according
to an Oct. 26 article in The Chronicle of Higher
Education titled, “Institutions Charging More
Than $50K for Ibition, Fees, Room, and
Board.”
According to Dr. Jennifer Pate, chair' of
the economics department and a member
of the University’s Strategic Planning
Committee, LMU is fairly unique relative to
the other colleges named on Kiplinger’s list,
in that a majority of its funding comes from
student tuition. “We are a tuition-dependent
university," she said. “I think it speaks to just
how much value LMU students are getting
from [the University] that [LMU] is able to
have that high caliber of education while
being tuition-dependent,” Pate said. “I think
we’re an even better value than [is] reflected
on the list because of that,” she said.
Pate continued to say that other schools
lauded by Kiplinger rely heavily on large
endowments, but pointed out the equally high
caliber of education LMU provides without
such an endowment. Pate said she sees this as
a “testament to the University’s commitment
to its students.”
According to Pate, one of the objectives
of the Strategic Planning Committee is to
maximize the value students receive from an
LMU education. “Its nice to hear [LMU] is
See Value | Page 4
addresses
LAPD-cited
students
City Attorney hearing aims to
improve relationships between
students and neighbors.
By Tierney Finster
News Editor
Progress has been made in the cases of over
30 LMU students who were cited at an off-
campus party in September.
As reported in a Sept. 12 Loyolan article
titled “Arrests made at off-campus party,”
approximately 32 students were issued
misdemeanor citations at a Labor Day
Weekend party on West 79th Street in
Westchester. Of these 32 individuals, three
were arrested for disturbing the peace and
one for public intoxication. According to the
Department of Public Safety’s report, over
200 people were at the party when the arrests
were made.
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)
Captain Gaiy Walter's explained at the time
of the previous article that the students facing
misdemeanor chaiges could potentially face
fines, community service requirements or
jail sentences of one year' or less. However,
Deputy City Attorney Claudia Martin told the
Loyolan that the Office of the City Attorney
decided to host a hearing only for the renters
of the home in which the party took place.
‘We focused our efforts on the people who
were renting the house where the party took
place and were cited. . . . Since we determined
that we were focusing our efforts on the people
that rent the house, in the interest of justice
we figured that declining to file chaiges
against them was the appropriate thing to
do. These cases weren’t set up for hearing or
prosecution,” Martin said.
At the healing, the homeowner, the student
renters and LAPD were present Also in
attendance was a hearing officer and Martin
herself. The benefit of these healings, as
Martin explained, is to give all parties involved
a chance to communicate with each other.
See Hearing | Page 3
Tony Alonso aims to
‘inspire participation’
NEWS FEATURE
Director of Music for Campus
Ministry Tony Alonso discusses
his passion for liturgical music.
By Emily Rome
Copy Editor
Sacred Heart Chapel is a place most
members of the LMU community are
accustomed to seeing filled with people and
music. Outside of Mass, however, the chapel
is a quiet serene place. This is how Tbny
Alonso, whose office is in the back of the
chapel, is accustomed to seeing the church.
Alonso, LMUs director of music for Campus
Ministry, is responsible for filling Sacred
Heart Chapel with song on certain Sundays
and Holy Days.
When he moved from Chicago to Los
Angeles in 2006, Alonso began directing the
LMU Ensemble, the choir' that sings during
Mass. The move to LMU was not only a
major shift from the windy city to sunny
Southern California but was also a transition
to working with an age-specific group.
“I was veiy nervous to work with college-age
students just because I had not worked with
an age-specific group before,” Alonso said.
But any apprehension Alonso felt only
further encouraged him to accept the
invitation from John Flaherty, director of
liturgy and music, to work at LMU.
“I think it was that little bit of nervousness
that made me want to be a part of this. ... I
figured if you’re not doing something that
makes you a little nervous once and a while,
you’re never going to grow,” Alonso said.
See Composer | Page 3
Devin Sixt| Loyolan
Delta Zeta hosts annual Turtle Tug philanthropy
Last Saturday's TurtleTug event in Sunken Garden consisted of a tug-of-war competition
over pools of green Jell-o. According to Amanda Pesqueira, senior communication studies
major and Delta Zeta president, the 201 1 competition had 639 participants and raised
approximately $1 3,000. Turn to Page 2 for more photos from the event
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>n November 7, 2011.
Confident
An LMU sophomore
battled leukemia and is
now a walk-on for the
men's water polo team.
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Sports, Page 16
