Category: Articles
Colton Plaia Throws People Out
Colton Plaia ’13 was named a First Team All-West Coast Conference selection in his junior and senior years. At the end of the 2013 season, he was named the WCC Defensive Player of the Year. He led all Lion hitters with a .311 average, 24 runs scored, 16 doubles and three homers, and recorded 25 RBIs. Plaia was named to College Baseball Daily’s Top 100 Players list prior to the 2013 season. As a junior, he was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 33rd round but elected to return to LMU after playing for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team during the summer of 2012. His brother, Nick Murphy, played catcher in college, which is why Plaia has been practicing catcher’s drills since he was a boy.
American Originals
Pat Ganahl ’69, M.A. ’73 hunts down, builds, restores and writes about hot rods. He drove in on classic wheels when he arrived on campus in 1965, and he’s been devoted to roadsters ever since.
Alex Cowling Puts History in Its Place
Alex Cowling will make basketball history if she becomes the all-time scoring title in the West Coast Conference this season. She’s third now, but she says individual glory is no match for team wins.
Hearing Voices
In 1978, Oxford University published Albert Raboteau’s “Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution’ in the Antebellum South.” It soon became a classic in the field of African American religious history. In 2002, Raboteau wrote “A Sorrowful Joy,” a brief but deeply moving account of his spiritual journey and life crises. We asked Raboteau to write about what led a young, fatherless African American boy to become one of the nation’s foremost scholars of African American religion.
Values Added
What distinguishes an LMU education from others and makes it unique? It’s all in the LMU experience. Here’s an example: holding in your hand a tile once owned by Pontius Pilate.
Upon This Rock
David S. DeVito knows money. He knows management. He knows civic and community values and virtues. And he very well knows Loyola Marymount University. All of this makes DeVito an ideal person to provide an update and analysis concerning an extremely important — and all too often overlooked or misunderstood — aspect of the university’s long-term financial health, the university’s endowment.
The Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
The Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary strengthened their 44-year legacy of social justice and gospel values by funding three new programs during LMU’s campaign.
Kevin Harter ’10
Kevin Harter ’10 works hard and plays hard. As LMU’s first Page Merit Scholar, he benefited from significant Campaign support.
Christopher Pearson ’06
LMU helped put Christopher Pearson ’06 on the path to leadership and public service.