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February 16, 2012
Volume 90, Issue 31
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LIONS WIN BIG.
To read the recap of LMU’s 75-
upset over No. 16 St. Mary’s Co
turn to Page 16.
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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
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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
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Asst. Opinion Editor Anna-
Michelle Escher criticizes the
continual debate on birth control.
Opinion, Page 7
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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