When he was confronted as a student with misinformation about proposed laws, Patrick Utz started thinking about an app to improve transparency in the legislative process. It’s now in use.
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Joseph Wakelee-Lynch
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A Dream Born on Skid Row
Marina Marmolejo ’17 doesn’t believe youth homelessness must forever be an intractable problem. She has developed an app-based program that offers mentorship and education opportunities to homeless young people as path toward a new life.
America’s Unfinished Democracy
The political chasm opened by the January 2021 insurrection reveals that America’s democracy build is not, and never has been, completed.
The Neighbor’s Needs
“The church exists in departure and its destination is the world.” —Eugene Schlesinger, Lecturer in Religious Studies, Santa Clara University St. Ignatius Loyola definitely would agree with Professor Schlesinger. Ignatius instructed the early Jesuits to “hurry to any part of…
Rudy deLeon ’74 on the Biden Presidency
Rudy deLeon ’74 capped a 25-year career in government defense policy as the No. 2 official in the Department of Defense in the Clinton administration. deLeon talks about the foreign policy challenges facing the new Biden administration.
Christmas Reflections 2020
Amid a once-a-century pandemic and unprecedented political turmoil, we asked members of the LMU community to share the wishes for Christmas 2020.
The Stories Children Carry
So much rides on telling stories. Why not encourage children earlier to express their inventive imagination earlier through creative writing, suggests novelist Denise Hamilton ’81.
Straw For the Manger
Doing good deeds was a part of the Christmas tradition in Cecilia González-Andrieu’s family, and it remains an act of hope today.
From Poverty, Hope
Mary Agnes Erlandson ’82, who directs a social service center in Lennox, sees as Christmas as a season in which to be bearers of hope.
My Wish For Teachers
Ellen Ensher ’87, professor of management, asks if teachers have shaped the lives of so many of us why do we not reward them accordingly.