Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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if ig' ,, 5, ,V A, R , 5 ' .a 4 ! . . 5 , ,, J' I TA, 4 1 . f V.. ...ig .8 V . f jx-X Q I I y ,---.. Y- if 2 xgfx. Lewis Towers: L T is People by Corinne Fanelli As a graduating senior who has spent all of her four years at Lewis Towers campus, I would like to share with you my impressions and experiences over how this campus has changed and altered while I have been here. For one, the enrollment has been declining visibly, where once you had to search to find a table to sit at in either the Xavier Grill or the Georgetown Room, now you can pick and choose. So in a sense, the character of the school has become more that of a small college. The advantage of a smaller student body is a smaller student- faculty ratio and a greater amount of interaction in the learning proc- ess. But the attractive dimension missing in other small colleges that LT has is its central location- cen- tral to the downtown business dis- trict for the many students who work there part-time, central to libraries and art galleries, Lincoln Park Zoo and the Chicago Historical Society, fine restaurants and small delicatessens. Physically the undergraduate cam- pus is just two buildings linked by a bridge. So already we do not fit into the traditional definitions of a col- lege. But this limit of space gives us our most distinctive character. Since we must spend so much time with the other students, semester after semester, and literally bump into our professors, fellow class members at least once a day, one has the choice to either ignore them or talk to them. In its deepest sense, then, LT is people. While at the elevators two strangers waiting can develop a true spirit of friendship. 6 Since there is such an easy recog- nition of faces, familiarity deepens. Because most of the students come here by choice or at least freely decide to stay on, there is a concern felt by all for this campus. Over the years I can honestly state that there has been a growing feeling of identity as an LT student rather than a Loy- ola students. With the university split in two physically, and most of the campus leaders, activities and organizations up at Lake Shore, I felt distinctly in my first year especially that as a division of the College of Arts and Sciences we were unimportant or at best an adjunct to the real Loyola at Lake Shore. This unhealthy condi- tion would induce people into a rein- forcing situation of inferiority, apathy and the tendency to put the blame on something outside our- selves and beyond our help. Through one very loosely structured, student- led group, CULT lCommunity for Unity at Lewis Towersl which was formed last year, there has been a growing unity and identity among LT students. This group, whose members are all students in attend- ance at this campus, invited speak- ers such as Father Baumhart, President of the University, and Father McNamara, Dean of the Col- lege of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Charles Hart, Associate Dean of the College of Arts 81 Sciences at Lewis Towers, and Dr. F. Virgil Boyd, Dean of the School of Business Ad- ministration to speak to students and answer their questions. These ver- bal encounters were vital to clear up misconceptions, articulate our 'ip frustrations because of years of benign neglect and to have a Dl- FIECT source of communication to persons in responsible positions. This forthrightness and clarity is so important at a time when the uni- versity is decompartmentaIizing into finer and finer branches of limited focus. The student can so easily be forgotten in the pursuit of doing things for him institutionally that personally he may be neglected. LT has come to maturity now and accepted the reality that Lake Shore and LT are two distinct entities, separate but equal. Though a long time coming, this cleavage has en- abled us to grow. There is now an office of the school newspaper with a staff writing about what is hap- pening herep also there is a newly formed LT Student Operations Board, with a budget to be spent on activities for students attending this campus. When you consider that our student activities funds would all go for movies, concerts and lecturers held at Lake Shore, the depth and reason for our anger is understood. Ironically, the Lake Shore Student Activities Board had to vote to give us money which has rightfully been ours all along. LT stands or falls on the quality of the relationships among the students, faculty, administrators, mainte- nance workers, etc. On that cri- teria, I invite you to judge how much Loyola has changed.

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lpn-1 ,'f--sas--. doing um. Do you like being president of a large university or would you like to be president of a small college! This is where I am. l like Chicago. Chicago is my kind of town. I think it's very important that the Presi- dent of a university know the city and state he's in and more particu- larly, the people and the flavor of the place. You can go pretty far wrong in your first year if you don't. Do you have plans for any new buildings for Loyola! The only thing that is really on the books is completing the ninth and tenth floors of Damen Hall. If we can, and I'm sure we can, get the planning and construction done, it will be ready for the next academic year. If the PLUS campaign is going to be successful, and there aren't any major changes in student attendance at Loyola: that is, if we continue to fill the Lake Shore Campus and so on and the need for parking space continues, what I can see in. . .no longer than three years is a high- level or six story, seven story, or eight story parking facility on the Lake Shore Campus. What about do wnto wn ! I can't see it. We can't afford it here. The ground is too expensive. I'Il give you a couple of parameters of a decision like that. Elevators for cars are out. They have not worked. Nobody is putting up a parking fa- cility with elevators. About the high- est you can go is about eight sto- ries. Given the cost of land and the cost of construction, especially in this neighborhood, if you put up an eight story parking facility, you have to get about S4.00 per space a day to break even. 5

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I LT Doesn 't Want to be the Tail on the Lake Shore Dog lArt Eichlin, Assistant Dean of Stu- dents, as interviewed by Terry Shee- hanl The LT-SOB lLewis Towers Stu- dent Operations Boardl began this year with a S1600 allotment from SAB. With business majors watch- ing the money, they have sponsored many activities: Apathy Day, mov- ies, a Christmas Benefit raising S500 for charity, ping-pong tourna- ments, TGIF parties, a Las Vegas night, a newsletter listing events and an information booth. Why was LT-SOB started? Accord- ing to Art Eichlin, Up until this year, there was one SAB for the whole university. Theoretically, it's possible, but it just didn't work out. Most of the people were at Lake Shore- no criticism or anything- they were just there. Ours had to go up there Sunday nights when the meetings were and they didn't al- ways show and that was our fault for not going. But there were two of them and there just wasn't the feel- ing. This way, having the money here has made a real difference. The people know they can spend it. They've got their account and they can plan it. If they goof up on some- thing, it's their fault. Just the physi- cal fact of having the money and not having to go for it on bended knee makes a difference. flll I I It came out of CULT lCommunity United for Lewis Towersl, which started first semester. Student gov- ernment down here was nothing. People just didn't care about it. We got a group of people together-no- body was elected- to work on mu- tual problems like parking and not having enough classes. What we want is to get the kids together with us and with the administration to find out what has been done over the last couple of years and to find what more can be done without making minutes and the whole yuk. It worked out pretty well. People at least found out what was going on. Any issue that came up we could at least sit down and talk about with people that hopefully had some answers. l think they are or what I hope they will be is a sort of coordinating agent for this campus. There are a lot of things going on that nobody knows about and they could co- ordinate or at least publicize them. I don't know what the student gov- ernment set-up is going to be at this point: I don't think they know. They had many votes for a separate student government at LT but there is some really strong feeling on the part of some of the people here that maybe that isn't the total answer. They're trying to work out some- IZ- .-.37 451-1 C17 thing that's agreeable to all of them. lf student government is totally separate, then who makes the ap- pointments for all those committees that affect LT! Student representa- tion on significant committees can be important, as important as any- thing the student government can do, in my opinion. It would be nice to have a student government down here. I think for most things, we want to be separate. We don't have a resident popula- tion that's coming back at night. So we have to do things for these people who are here when they're here. What is the purpose! As Mr. Eich- lin says: . .to find an identity, to not always be the tail-end of the Lake Shore dog. It's just to find things that they can do themselves, to have the money they're paying in tuition, that portion of it for student activities, being spent here. It's to get their fair share of things, to create something here for them- selves. Having money makes the difference. It's being able to spend money for things you want to do to make this a campus. It's trying to build a sense of community down here. 1 RN?j.. X Qi f 555 ' f'+ 'Te'