Category: Articles
Profile: Brett Beach ’96
Brett Beach is hoping for some sweet success in his new venture with partner Timothy McCollum. The duo founded Madécasse, a company that grows and manufactures chocolate “from bean to bar” in Madagascar, an island off the southeastern coast of Africa. Beach works with a handful of farming cooperatives that grow and harvest the beans. […]
Object Lesson: History Set in Sand
It must be one of the oddest historical pieces in the William H. Hannon Library Archives and Special Collections: a sand jar, eight inches tall, with the words “The New Loyola — Rev. Joseph Sullivan —For the greater glory of God,” an image of the U.S. flag, and a jagged pattern of green, white, red, tan, pink, gray and gold sand lines. Even stranger is its origin.
No One Left Behind
In fall 1950, the Civil Rights movement had barely begun. Sit-ins and Supreme Court decisions were a few years away. But ethical stands against segregation were already being taken, including at Loyola University, where a great football team refused to play a game in Texas when told their African American players couldn’t take the field.
My Take: Defense Walls
An L.A. Times business editor assesses the damage in the tumultuous decline of the newspaper industry.
Love Story: The Bonn Connection
Every year they got closer, but Suzanne Pompili ’04 and Ryan Lucke ’04 had to travel halfway around the world to meet.
Letter From Brooklyn
DEAR LMU Who would have thought I’d leave sunny California and LMU’s amazing view from the bluff for the fast-paced life of New York! After graduation, I headed east to pursue a master’s degree in social work at Columbia University. My first winter here was truly miserable, and I ached to be home in sunny […]
Help Us Write a New LMU Alma Mater
Students rally the men’s soccer team at a match last season, when LMU finished with an invitation to the NCAA tournament. LMU’s Alma Mater, “Hail Crimson Blue,” was written in 1938 by John T. Boudreau, a composer and band leader who was deeply involved in the L.A. music entertainment world. College life has changed since […]
Dispatches: Summer 2010
1944 Byron Dillon [SciEng], after graduating in 1944, received a degree in dentistry from USC School of Dentistry in 1949. He served in World War II and was a captain in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Argentina and Newfoundland. 1952 Leo Lagasse [SciEng] is co-founder of Medicine for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that provides […]
Equal Opportunity Offender
Mike Smith is a self-proclaimed “geeky artist.” He’s been drawing since childhood, and when he found his old sketchbooks in his mother’s garage, they proved that he was opinionated even as a boy. But his career as an editorial cartoonist was launched officially at The Los Angeles Loyolan during his junior year, when his friend, […]
Conversation: Paul Zeleza
Paul Zeleza is dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at LMU. He has taught at universities in Canada, Jamaica, Kenya and the United States. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Malawi, a master’s degree from the University of London and a Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Zeleza […]