The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 90, Issue 31 - February 16, 2012

Your Home. Your Voice. Your Newspaper. Loyola Marymount University Established 1921 February 16, 2012 Volume 90, Issue 31 laloyolan.com LIONS WIN BIG. To read the recap of LMU’s 75- upset over No. 16 St. Mary’s Co turn to Page 16. 60 liege, Devin Sixt | Loyol an Annual blood drive attempts to break last year's record 674 pints Event specialist staff member Elmo Johnson (above) donated blood in St. Rob's Auditorium yesterday. Khachao Shahnazarian, a registered nurse from UCLA, praised "the behavior of the donors, their patience, willingness and it's so well organized - we look forward [to] coming here. We keep coming back and always get record donors. If I can go to any blood drive, this is the one." University reacts to city’s new trash plan The city of Los Angeles’ proposed plan would franchise garbage disposal services. By Kevin O'Keeffe Managing Editor The city of Los Angeles is currently considering a new garbage disposal plan that would see the hauling of all waste performed by a single, assigned private contractor. The plan, which is purported to be an instrumental step in reaching the “zero waste” output goal, is generating controversy due to its potential to shut down smaller contractors. While officials supporting the plan argue that the greater L.A. area would likely see a major boost in the See Recycling | Page 4 Tutoring program for campus workers kicks off The winning Inspiration Grant project aims to provide academic aid and college application advice. By Jay Lee Asst. News Editor Campus workers and their fami¬ lies are now able to receive tutoring on campus. Students for Labor and Economic Justice (SLEJ) was award¬ ed ASLMU’s Inspiration Grant to implement Tutoring Tomorrow Today, a program that will provide campus workers and their families with ac¬ cess to tutoring and other resources. Every year, ASLMU’s Inspiration Grant awards $5,000 to a team of three or more students who, accord¬ ing to ASLMU’s website, “wish to make a long-term impact by initiat¬ ing a project that can be carried on fora number of years. ... The Inspira¬ tion Grant aims to provide inspired students with funds to realize their dreams of a more socially just and sustainable community.” According to Kimberly Tomicich, a senior environmental science major and ASLMU vice president, SLEJ has three sessions planned this semester during which workers and their fami¬ lies will have access to tutors, men¬ tors and other University resources. Sophia Pavlos, a psychology grad¬ uate student and the president of SLEJ, explained that this event is a joint collaboration of several stu¬ dent groups, including SLEJ, Sig¬ ma Lambda Gamma, Black Student Alumni reflect on finding love at LMU NEWS FEATURE With 25 weddings a year in Sacred Heart Chapel, alumni who married fellow Lions describe their courtship. By Brigette Scobas Human Resources Coordinator | Asst. News Editor They were friends at first, both seeing other people, until he “had the guts to ask her out.” He waited un¬ til the spring semester of his senior year at LMU to finally take her out to dinner. Will Salvini ’90, manager of Aca¬ demic Publications in the Office of the Registrar, was the student who “had the guts” to ask out his wife, Tanya Salvini ’91, Academic Records Coordinator in the Office of the Reg¬ istrar. Will and Tanya, however, are far from being the only couple made up of two LMU graduates. Tony and Teresa Loren ’83 as well as Robert ’82 and Fran Marick ’83 are all LMU graduates who married fel¬ low Lions. According to Fr. John Galvan, S.J., campus minister, each year there are about 25 weddings in Sacred Heart Chapel, and about half are weddings where both the bride and groom are alumni, while the other half are cou¬ ples of one alum and one non-LMU grad. “The weddings started back in the 1960s very sporadically because the chapel was built in 1953 ... and I guess it picked up in the 1970s to the point where we have quite a few each year,” Galvan said. See Wedding | Page 2 Union, Sociology Society, ASLMU and Underwings Praxis. Pavlos was part of the team that helped found Tutoring Tomorrow To¬ day and, according to her, the inspi¬ ration for the event came from the realization that, although LMU is a university, it fell short in offering its full resources to campus workers. “The best thing that we have as a University, as a place of higher learn¬ ing, is our academic resources, our educational resources,” she said. The team aimed to extend these resources to campus workers in order to create what Pavlos describes as, “a more in¬ clusive environment, one where every member of the campus community can have access to the educational resources.” In order to rectify this shortcom¬ ing, Tutoring Tomorrow Today aims to provide assistance to campus workers who wish to take advantage of such resources as Pavlos explains that the program “came from our re¬ lationships with facilities manage¬ ment and Sodexo workers, and from those relationships some of them asked us to help tutor and mentor their children.” Pavlos described the process of or¬ ganizing the event, stating that stu¬ dents have been working closely with campus workers to “find out if they or any of their family members need help, need tutoring or guidance.” Ad¬ ditionally, she noted that the tutoring will not focus solely on academic and See SLEJ | Page 5 EmilyLoren Tony and Teresa Loren '83 (middle couple) are just one of many married couples where both partners are LMU alumni. The Lorens started dating during their senior year and are pictured above on their graduation day with mutual friends. QUIT ARGUING AND GIVE ТНЕ1У HELP Asst. Opinion Editor Anna- Michelle Escher criticizes the continual debate on birth control. Opinion, Page 7 Index ( Tassifieds. . . ...5 Opinion . . 6 A&E . . 9 Sports . . 16 ТЪс next issue of die Hivolan will lie printed « l Feb. 20, 2012. AN INTENSE AND MASTERFUL SHOW Managing Editor Kevin O’Keeffe reviews the theatre arts and dance department’s latest performance, “The Bacchae of Euripides.” A&E, Page 1 2