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This article gives details on the involvement of Loyola's School of Law in the Chicago Street Law Project, which sought to equip laypersons with knowledge of laws and legal principles that would be useful for daily life.
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This article names some of the video games and other recreational activities offered by the LSC Rec Center. It also features interviews with students expressing their thoughts on video games and covers recent developments of video games along with commentary on the effects of video games.
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This article by Zuhair Nubani follows Pax Christi, a Loyola student organization, and its anti-nuclear weapons activism.
"The last few weeks have been a time of protest and demonstration in Europe and the U.S. The protest is over the planned December deployment of Cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. There have been mass demonstrations throughout West Germany, England, the Netherlands, and the U.S. to stop more American and Soviet nuclear weapons before it is too late.
On Oct. 22, a local group, H.E.A.R. (Help End the Arms Race) headed a demonstration in downtown Chicago to protest the use of Cruise and Pershing II missiles in Europe."
Thirty Pax Christi members, led by KEvin Coley and Chris Gagliano, "left from Centennial Forum on Sunday at noon to Seneca Park which is located on Chicago AVe., east of State St.
Once there the Pax Christi group joined up with almost 500 other demonstrators from other organizations. Because of the unabating rain all day the number was much lower than expected.
From Seneca Park the demonstrators slowly advanced the one mile distance to the Daley Plaza on Dearborn and Washington in the pouring rain. The entire time they were chanting anti-nuclear and anti-war slogans.
After the thirty minute walk, the various groups gathered for a rally outside the Daley Plaza. There they listened to several guest speakers talk about the necessity of peace, the dangers of nuclear weapons and war and the provocations that the new missiles would cause.
Other topics raised were further U.S. involvement in the Middle East and U.S. involvement in Central America. The rally program included: Conrad Worrell, leader of the Black United Front; Juan Soliz, a Latino political leader from the West Side; Stefan Schaff, a West German peace activist, and Rosalinda Ramirez of the Religious Task Force on Central America.
One of the speakers said that we should put our money and energy to use in America to help solve the precarious economic problems we are facing instead of sending it to dictatorships in other parts of the world. Another speaker said, 'every conscientious American should oppose the build-up of a nuclear arsenal in Europe. Our future, the future of our children and the future of our grandchildren are in serious jeopardy with the deployment of these weapons.'
Chris Gagliano of Pax Christi said, 'it is the moral responsibility of all people to speak out against the deployment of these new missiles in Europe.' He also commented that he was glad to see the turnout of young people and he hoped that more young people would get involved, because after all the young people of today are the leaders of tomorrow."
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This article by Donna DiBlase covers anti-nuclear weapons activism at Loyola. Pax Christi, a Catholic student group working to address social problems, joined the Student Freeze Network, "a coalition working for a bilateral nuclear weapons freeze in which 15 other Chicago area college campuses are involved.
Christ Gagliano, organizer of Loyola's involvement with the network, said that 'this is a way of getting as many campus groups as possible involved in thinking about these issues. Pax Christi is part of a city-wide network whose main goal is to consolidate already existing groups.' He said that since the publication of the organization's first newsletter in December, twice as many contacts have been established.
Pax Christi is now planning a petition drive to be completed by early April. The petitions against the MX, Pershing and Trident Missiles, will be presented to Congress before a vote is made in this year's session.
'The most important activity of this year will be a 'Mother's Day Festival for Peace,' to be held on May 8,' said Gagliano. He said that the day will begin with a peace march in the downtown area, ending up at Grant Park for a day of peaceful demonstrations and festivities.
Other area schools included in the network include DePaul, Northwestern, Mundelein, University of Chicago and several more. Many schools have sponsored successful activities in the past months and will be involved in the May 7 demonstration.
DePaul University organized a 'Nuclear Freeze Week' before the November 1982 elections. Activities included lectures, debates, and films with the week ending in a half-hour silent vigil. Northwestern held a similar event.
Loyola's Pax Christi held a 'Vote for the Freeze' week last November as well. Films, speakers and a liturgy for peace were included in the week's activities.
The networks headquarters is located at 4652 N. Kenmore in Chicago."
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This article by Connie Jaremczuk discusses the activities of the Loyola Women's Center, which was formally recognized the year before after beginning as an informal group of faculty and students who met to discuss feminist issues.
"The center 'provides a setting in which Loyola women examine the roots and manifestations of the inequities and restrictions in our own lives and the lives of others springing from the dominant sexist value system of present day American society,' according to its officially stated purpose."
Speakers discussed women's ordination and women's labor, and also engaged in activism, especially in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. However, few people outside the group contributed to their dedicated promotion of the ERA. As group member Linda George noted, "Most of the women (in the center) are older women who've come back to school. They've been out in the world and are aware of what is happening. They haven't just been in an isolated community on campus." She also felt that students won't realize how much it will affect the "until they are out in the working world."
The center hell a rally for the ERA and participated in a demonstration in Springfield, but the effort did not succeed, though members felt that the lessons learned would help them strengthen the women's movement.
The Women's Center met every second Wednesday at 3 p.m., usually on the ninth floor of Damen Hall, and would discuss a chosen topic at each meeting, including "the November elections, women in advertising, and sexist language." They hoped to acquire a permanent room at Loyola and to collect a feminist library for members to use, as well as to collaborate with other groups on campus such as "Amnesty International, Pax Christi, LOSPES, and Loyola's Afro-American Student Organization."
LOSPES was the Loyola Organization in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador.
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First image: entire article
Second image: detail of the article's diagram of the heart transplant procedure
This front-page article by Frank Vela reports that "The Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood performed the first heart transplant in the Chicago area in the past 14 years.
The patient, twenty-one-year-old Michael Dowling from Villa Park was reported doing very well on Tuesday by Dr. John O'Connell, assistant professor of medicine at the Medical Center and medical director of the heart transplant program.
As one surgical team was preparing Dowling for the surgery Sunday morning, another flew by helicopter to remove the heart from a Chicago area auto accident victim whose brain had stopped functioning.
The donor heart, treated with drugs and packed in ice to keep it just a few degrees above freezing was then flown to Loyola."
The hospital staff observed Dowling, waiting to see if his body would accept the new heart. The disease he had previously would have been fatal without the transplant, which was "the first heart transplant at Loyola and the first in Chicago since the late 1960's. The success rate had been low until the development of cyclosporine, which "counteracts the body's tendency to reject a foreign organ."
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A Loyola Phoenix article by Maria T. Galo reports that thirteen Loyola students "joined the Nov. 12 Coalition which staged a march on Washington D. C. in protest of the U.S. intervention in the Caribbean and South and Central America this past Saturday.
Among the students were four representatives of Lospes [Loyola Organization in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador], a representative from Afro-American Studies, a student from Peace, Bread and Justice, and four graduate students." Several of the students are interviewed about why they chose to participate, especially against the policies of President Reagan. The article describes a group of counter protestors, as well as the following rally with speeches by Rep. Ted Weiss and Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.
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This article details the work of the Urban Concerns Committee (UCC) at Loyola. Its work was focussed on preventing crime and preventing students from becoming victims of crime.
At the time of the article in late 1982, two of UCC's ongoing programs was on rape awareness, and the potential threat of cults toward college students, particularly given the close proximity of two cult houses to Loyola. To provide students with resources, UCC hosted speeches and discussions, screened films on these issues, and published and distributed pamphlets with relevant information.
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This article details the formation of a security advisory committee that would involve representatives from all the dorms on campus. Two students worked on this initiative with the Loyola Director of Security and Safety. The article also included some updates on the TKE-initiated South Dorms escort service for students living in the South Dorms who wished to head to or from the library or Mertz Hall .
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This article covers the main programs planned for Social Justice Week, previously commemorated as Hunger Week, at the Water Tower Campus. These programs consisted of a wall space for commentaries, a series of Speak-Outs, afternoons for reflection, the creation of a Community Resource Network, and a potential Vice-President Forum.
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This article details the trial escort service begun by the TKE, a Loyola fraternity, in conjunction with Loyola security. The service was available for twenty-four hours a day, mainly after dark, for students wanting to head from the South Dorms to the library or Mertz Hall and vice versa.
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This article details the contents of a talk held by Loyola's chapter of Amnesty International, an organization working to abolish torture and capital punishment. The talk was given by Tomas Bissonnette on the experiences of Guatemalan refugees of his parish. One of the parish members, a law student, spoke on the current political situation in Guatemala with Bissonnette acting as translator.
The article also includes details on how Amnesty International chiefly conducts its work through letter-writing and the membership fees for Loyola's chapter of Amnesty International.
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Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets and recipient of the 1982 Sword of Loyola, shares the stage with Kermit at the Annual Awards dinner.
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The members of the Loyola University Mime Company pose with a sign reading "FINIS" for their yearbook photo. The caption explains:
"The Loyola University Mime Company was formed during 1970-1972. The original twelve members of the company were the original cast of the 1971 production of "An Evening of Mime". Those twelve members went on to form the Mime Company and began touring shows to local Universities and High Schools. In May of 1971 the company was increased to eighteen members. These eighteen have continued study in the art on Mime and the Company has continued to tour. The Company is under the direction of Bud Beyer, Artist in Residence in the Theater Department. Members of the Company are chosen by audition."
"Members: Bud Beyer (Director), John Cannell, Jim Corti, Natasha Detmer, Mary Filice, JoAnn Galluzzi, Douglas Guthrie, Annette Jops, Shelia Landahl, Tom McKeon, Graziano Marcheschi, Donna Martin, Peter Martin, Joyce Nicholas, Ronald Nicholas, Jackie Pipitone, Augustine Ripa, Phil Sandstrom, Noreen Tobin, Mary Wonderlick."
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This invitation to a luncheon for Chicago's Sesquicentennial features color illustrations of various buildings rendered in a comic style. On a drawing of a white poster at the center of the picture are the words "You are invited to Celebrate the Birthday of your city." above the Chicago Sesquicentennial logo.
This is the cover of an invitation to a luncheon held on December 16, 1982.
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A couple dance at the Fifties Dance in 1980. One wears a leather vest, jeans rolled at the ankle with a comb in the pocket, and sneakers. The other wears a dark shirt, pants, and boots.
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A group of students dressed as Elvis, with leather jackets, white shirts, slicked hair, and jeans rolled up at the ankle, stand together onstage and sing. The Elvis impersonators performed at the Fifties Dance in 1980.
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A group of students dressed as greasers with jeans, white shirts, sunglasses, slicked-back hair, and sneakers pose in a line at the Fifties Dance in 1980.
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A group of performers in long dresses stand in a semicircle, holding large tasseled objects. They perform as part of the Water Tower Campus Tuesday lunch break performance series in the Georgetown Room.
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A collage of photos show dancers and musicians performing during the Student Activities Board's 3rd Annual International Festival on Wed. Aril 6th, 1983, held in conjunction with "ethnic groups in and around the Loyola community."
"The performances included a traditional Indian dance known as the "Jatishwaram" (it is a dance of devotion). The Vietnamese club performed a folk song and demonstrated [martial] arts. KAWPA, the Philippino Club, performed a dance of Spanish influence and a traditional ballroom dance. The International Student Organization performed a modern Persian dnce. The Polish Club presented the PNA youth dancers. They performed three National Dances originating during the 17th century. The Indian Students of Loyola performed a folk dance from Western India which was devotional in nature."
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A line of people dances in a kick line during the Superdance '80 24-hour dance marathon for charity, held from 9 P.M. March 14 to 9 P.M the next evening. The marathon raised almost $10,000 and included contests, such as a pie throw at Cathi Kern's face.
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A collage of three photos from the 1983 yearbook include students sitting with microphones in a line in front of a large sign for Hunger Week, two students sitting at a table while fundraising, and a student with a guitar singing.
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Five members of the Mundelein Lakers basketball team play basketball. One team member is about to shoot a basket, while others try to block her. The photo is taken from above and is lit dramatically.
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A stylized, black-and-white image shows the text of a World Peace Prayer with detailed boxes and diamond symbols around the text. The text reads:
"WORLD PEACE PRAYER
LEAD ME FROM DEATH
to LIFE, from FALSEHOOD to TRUTH
LEAD ME FROM DESPAIR
to HOPE, from FEAR to TRUST
LEAD ME FROM HATE
to LOVE, from WAR to PEACE
LET PEACE FILL OUR HEART,
OUR WORLD, OUR UNIVERSE."
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Sr. Mary Ann Ida Gannon, BVM poses with a group of Gannon Scholars on the first floor of what is now Piper Hall, in front of the staircase.