In February 2012, 10 students journeyed more than 2,400 miles From L.A.’s southwest urban sprawl, palm trees and freeways to the creeks and hollers of the coal-ridden mountains of West Virginia.
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MAAA Renamed as Latino Alumni Association
This spring, the MAAA Board of Directors unanimously decided to take the occasion of the group’s 30th anniversary and LMU’s centennial celebration to rename their association the LMU Latino Alumni Association. The change makes clear the commitment of the association’s founders to serve Latinos throughout Southern California.
Sacramento
Forty-one years ago, I left the gentle ocean breezes and sunshine of Westchester to live and work in Sacramento — cold, damp, foggy Sacramento; government-town Sacramento; tomato-and-rice farming Sacramento. Goodbye, civilization. Hello, “cow town.”
Writer for Life
By the time she finished fourth grade, Meg Grant ’81 had decided that she would spend her life writing. “I’m one of those weird and maybe fortunate people,” Grant says, “who knew what I wanted to be when I was very young.”
See Yourself
Graciela Limón ’65, who has taught Latino literature, is best known today as a leading fiction writer. She has written eight novels, including “The Madness of Mamá Carlota” and “In Search of Bernabé,” which won a Before Columbus Foundation American…
In Memoriam Spring 2012
Henry M. Espoy [SciEng ’39] on Nov. 26, 2007 John W. O’Neil [LibArts ’41] on Nov. 27, 2007 Henry Ugarte [BusAdm ’42] on Aug. 19, 2011 Wayne T. French [BusAdm ’44] on Sept. 10, 2011 William F. Avitabile [BusAdm ’45]…
Bully Pulpit
First Amendment speech rights may be nowhere murkier than in schools. Is student speech protected on and off campus? Is bullying speech in cyberspace protected? What if it originates in a student’s home? Court rulings have been unclear, and school administrators are caught in the middle. We asked Martha McCarthy, President’s Professor in the School of Education, for some clarity. She was interviewed by Doug McInnis, a freelance writer in Casper, Wyoming.
Susan Barber
Susan Barber is an associate professor of film studies in the School of Film and Television whose expertise is in Australian and American films. She is finishing “Visions of Australia,” a book on the Australian Film Revival from 1970 to the present. Barber also is working on a project exploring the depiction of fathers and daughters in Australian films of the 1990s.
A Conversation with Wojciech Kocyan
Wojciech Kocyan is a clinical professor of piano in the College of Communication and Fine Arts, where he teaches piano and opera among other courses. Born in Poland, Kocyan has performed around the world and won multiple awards. In 2007, Gramophone magazine named his “Skriabin Prokofiew Rachmaninow” (Dux Records) as one of the 50 best classical recordings ever made. He was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.