Category: Articles

A Conversation with Alexandra Natapoff

Alexandra Natapoff is a professor of law at Loyola Law School. She is a nationally recognized expert on snitching in the criminal justice system and has written articles and given testimony before the U.S. Congress on confidential informant practices. Natapoff is the author of “Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice” (NYU Press, 2009). She was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.

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A Conversation With Chris Ayzoukian ’99, EMBA ’07

Chris Ayzoukian’s head and heart are in perfect harmony. He earned a bachelor’s degree in music theory and composition in 1999 and later returned to LMU and the Del Rey bluffs to a get a degree in the Executive M.B.A. program in 2007. Ayzoukian now is director of recorded media with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He was interviewed by Janis Rizzuto.

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The Careers of Dwayne Hickman ’56

Young Dwayne Hickman was a TV fixture in the 1950s and early ’60s. As a student at Loyola University, he had a supporting role in the smash hit “The Bob Cummings Show” and, after college, the lead — Dobie — in the groundbreaking comedy “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” Hickman has enjoyed a full career in acting and directing, and another as a painter, which he pursues today. See his artwork here. We spoke to Hickman about his acting career, his friendship on- and off-camera with Bob Denver ’57, and his art work. He was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.

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Justice Anthony Kennedy

Anthony Kennedy, one of the most important jurists in the United States as associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court — and often that body’s “swing” vote — gave a keynote address at the dedication of the Loyola Law School’s new Alarcón Advocacy Center Sept. 28.

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Trial and Error

Obie Anthony did not kill Felipe Gonzales Angeles on the night of March 27, 1994. Seventeen years later, the criminal justice system finally agreed

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The Path Paved

When Rafael Baca ’11 was signed by the San Jose Earthquakes to a professional contract in July, he became LMU’s ninth soccer standout to go pro. And he joined fellow alumnus Bobby Burling ’06 on the team.

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The Gift is the Experience

Scholarships helped Frank Amato pay for college. “I got help from the university, and I even borrowed money. I feel indebted to the university. Not only did it give me the best education in the world, but it prepared me for life.”

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Serious Fun, Seriously

On a clear, Friday evening in the middle of September, 350 students fill seven buses that are headed east, to a respite in Pali Mountain near Lake Arrowhead for a three-day getaway. It’s the First Year Retreat, a gathering where freshman and transfer students look closely together at what it will mean to adjust to […]

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