MON TUES WED THUR
62"- 49' 60"- 51" 60"-53° 61"- 53"
ESTABLISHED 1921
March 26, 201 2
Volume 90, Issue 38
Your Home. Your Voice. Your News. Loyola Marymount University www.laloyolan.com
LMU hosts Urban Economic Forum
Earvin “Magic” Johnson and the
U.S. Secretary of Labor are two of the
speakers at tire White House event.
By Zaneta Pereira
News Editor
As a five-time NBA champion, Earvin
“Magic” Johnson may not be the first name
one thinks of in connection with urban
entrepreneurship.
However, after basketball, Johnson
commited himself to developing businesses
in urban communities. His successes and
business acumen led to his selection to
participate in a panel discussion about urban
entrepreneurship at last Thursday’s White
House Urban Economic Forum.
The event, which saw a flood oflocal business
owners, government officials and students
stream into Gersten Pavilion, was the third
in a series being hosted in cities around the
country and was presented in collaboration
by the White House Business Council, the
U.S. Small Business Administration and LA
Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa.
The former basketball star, along with
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, spoke
as part of the event’s opening panel, which
was loosely centered on the idea of building
a profile of the urban entrepreneur. Johnson
drew heavily on his personal experience of
leveraging his ‘brand in sports” to build his
brand in business.
Specifically, Johnson stressed the
importance of understanding one’s customer,
providing concrete examples from his own
experiences of opening movie theater's and
Starbucks coffee shops in predominantly
black urban areas of LA.
“I didn’t build a business and say, ‘Oh I
hope they come,”’ he said. “Instead, I built a
business where I asked the community what
they needed and brought it to them.”
Johnson also provided practical advice for
the many small business owners attending
the forum, and said, “If you want retention.
See Forum | Page 5
Loyola Law
adresses
allegations
of fraud
Loyola Law School is on a list of
institutions that lawyers plan to
sue by Memorial Day weekend.
By Laura Riparbelli
Senior Editor
Loyola Law School has been named as one
of 20 law schools that a group of lawyer's are
planning to sue for fraud based on allegations
that the institutions fabricate their' post¬
graduation employment success rates.
The lawsuits claim that law schools
collect and report inaccurate information
regarding post-graduation employment rates
by including both law-related and non-law
related jobs in their statistics. This, according
to the plaintiffs, gives students false hope and
leads law school graduates to erroneously
believe the job market will be highly favorable
to them come graduation time when, in reality,
this is not the case, according to plaintiffs.
Fourteen class action lawsuits have been
filed to date, one of which was thrown out of
a New York court on March 21. The lawyers
plan to sue multiple law schools every few
months, and Loyola Law School is on the list
of the next 20 that the litigators plan to go
after, which lawyers announced earlier this
month.
David Anziska is one of the lawyers
spearheading the motions, along with a
consortium of other litigators and law firms.
“We’re hoping to sue 20 law schools throughout
the country by hopefully Memorial Day
weekend, and Loyola is one of the schools,”
he told the Loyolan. ‘Hopefully in the next
few months we will have sued 35 law schools
throughout the country.”
Anziska said that the targeted law schools
were chosen for a variety of reasons including
location, the area’s saturation of law students
and the marks that the schools claimed.
Loyola Law School reports on their website
that 94.07 percent of graduates are employed
following graduation either in full-time or
See Law | Page 3
Community collaborates
to serve less fortunate
FIRST-PERSON FEATURE
A student details her varied
experiences during the Centennial
National Day of Service.
By Wh itney Wozn iak
Contributor
In continuation of a year packed with
celebrations and traditions, this Saturday
marked LMU’s Centennial National Day
of Service, providing students, faculty,
staff and alumni with opportunities to
not only serve together in four locations
across Los Angeles, but in cities across
the country as well. (For photos from the
Centennial National Day of Service, see
Page 2)
My Saturday began at 7 a.m. at the
Midnight Mission in Los Angeles, a
support center that provides resources
and daily meals for the homeless men,
women, and children that currently live
on Skid Row.
As a member of the committee for the
Centennial National Day of Service, I was
prepared for the expected activities of the
day: serving meals, assembling toiletiy
kits for the inhabitants of Skid Row and
providing the community with live music,
courtesy of Mane Entertainment.
I expected a busy day, but what I
hadn’t expected was the community and
collaboration that I witnessed amongst
my peers and colleagues with the
See Service | Page 4
Kenzie O'Keefe | Loyolan
Students gather to honor Trayvon Martin
LMU community members pause to reflect on the murder of Trayvon
Martin, a 1 7-year-old boy whose killer, George Zimmerman, has yet to be
charged. To read the Loyolan's Board Editorial on this issue, see Page 6.
Opinion Intern
Amanda Kotch
argues that
Nokia1 s new
patent is too “Big
Brother.”
Index
Classifieds . 5
Opinion . 6
Coffee Break . 8
A&E . 9
Sports . 1 6
Tlxr next issue of life limilan will lx- printed on Man'll 29, 2012.
SETS SIGHTS HIGH
Men's basketball guard
Anthony Ireland looks to
build off a successful
season.
Sports, Page 1 6
