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Progress
on Life
Sciences
building
New Life Sciences building
remains on track and is
scheduled to open Fall 2015.
Carly Barnhill
Asst. News Editor
@carlyabarn
Students, faculty and staff are eagerly
awaiting the completion of the Life Sciences
building, which has been under construction
between Seaver Hall and Periera Hall since
spring 2013. An event held on Nov. 7 updated
those involved with the construction process
that the project should be completed in June
2015. Project manager of C.W. Driver, the
company heading the construction of the
building, Matthew Wilt confirmed that the
project is 70 percent complete and the current
focus is on the inside of the building.
Seaver Hall, the current science building,
was built in the 1950s. According to Tiffany
Jonick, communications manager for the
Seaver College of Science and Engineering,
a committee began designing the new Life
Sciences building nine years ago, but its
process was put on hold during the recession.
Two years ago, the project was picked up
again in collaboration with C.W. Driver.
Since then, the project has made substantial
progress, and LMU students have joined the
efforts. According to Jonick, various Seaver
engineering students have engaged in a variety
of internship opportunities.
“C.W. Driver was very supportive and
open to the idea and even encouraged its
subcontractors to bring on Seaver interns,” she
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Basketball season tips off
for Lions
Caroline Burt | Loyolan
LMU basketball season kicks off this Friday, Nov. 14, with both men's and women’s games against South East Missouri St. and Oklahoma St.
University, respectively. The men's game against SE Missouri St. will take place in Gersten Pavilion at 6 p.m. This marks the first regular season
game for new men's basketball head coach Mike Dunlap. [Check out our special basketball pull-out inside, starting on page B1.]
Annual luncheon honors veterans’ service
Talia Baugnon | Loyolan
The Annual Veterans Day Luncheon was held on Wednesday, Nov. 11, in
Lawton Plaza to honor and rememberthe U.S. Veterans from World War II, the Korean War,
Vietnam, and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as veterans who are currently MIA or P0W&
Veterans Day luncheon brought
together and recognized
veterans of different wars.
Julia Sacco
News Editor
@_JuliaSacco_
LMU’s Veterans Day Luncheon on
Tuesday, Nov. 11 was held to honor,
appreciate and remember LMU and U.S.
veterans with a ceremony in Lawton Plaza
as a part of LMU’s Veterans Appreciation
Week.
“The whole week and the whole idea of
this luncheon is just a very good reminder
to honor our veterans, more than anything
else, as Americans,” Associate Chancellor
of University Relations Fr. Albert P.
Koppes, O. Carm, said.
Co-sponsored by the Loyola University
Club and Student Affairs, the luncheon
recognized attendees who served during
World War II, the Korean War and
Vietnam, along with those currently
serving our country. It began with an
opening by the AFROTC Honor Guard and
the presentation of the colors, followed
by the National Anthem and Pledge of
Allegiance.
An AFROTC Cadet then directed the
audience to the lone, white table with
one chair in the center of the crowd.
He explained that this table was set for
all those missing in action (MIA) and
prisoners of war (POWs) who could not
be in attendance or celebrate on Veterans
Day. The white tablecloth symbolized
purity and the single chair signified their
solitude on this day, and the crowd toasted
to their safe return home.
LMU President David W. Burcham gave
his remarks and introduced the keynote
speaker, Lance MacNiven. Burcham spoke
of the history of the LMU ROTC program
that took shape in 1948. Since then, 750
men and women have graduated from
the program. “LMU has deep roots and
affection for those who serve us,” he said.
“It is easy to take those men and women
for granted,” Burcham said. “Make sure
to treat our veterans with the respect and
dignity that they deserve and that they
earned.”
MacNiven, who graduated from LMU
in spring of 2014, served in the U.S. Navy
from 2006 to 2010 and was deployed to
the Persian Gulf from November 2007 to
May 2008. Currently pursing his Masters
degree in urban and regional planning at
UCLA, he explained his journey from a
young boy to where he is today. “The man
you see here today is a testimony to my
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