Here on Campus

Patrick J. Ryan, SJ. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham, gave the well received opening-day keynote, “Catholic, Jesuit, and Intercultural: The Vocation of a Jesuit University Today,” at last May’s President’s Institute (Click here to read Ft. Ryan’s address). The institute is an annual week-long faculty seminar on LMU’s Catholic identity and was organized this year by Barbara Rico, Professor of English and Chair of the Faculty Mission and Identity Committee, assisted by Elizabeth Drummond, Assistant Professor of History.

For a hands-on experience of service and solidarity, the 16 Institute participants joined colleagues from Student Affairs on May 19 for their annual Into the Streets program, organized by the Student Affairs Mission and Identity Committee under the leadership of Mary Plumb.


Other Summer Programs
Kristin Linden, Director of Student Psychological Services, José Garcia Moreno, Associate Professor of Animation and Chair of the Department, and Lori Husein, Controller, were this year’s LMU participants in the Magis Retreat at the St. Malo Conference Center in the Rockies in late June.  The annual six-day Ignatian retreat is organized under the auspices of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU).
 
Joe Hellige, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dennis Slon, Senior Vice President for University Relations, travelled to Nicaragua in early June for a developing-world immersion experience.  It was part of their involvement in Cohort 3 of the AJCU-sponsored Ignatian Colleagues Program.  Participating in ICP’s Cohort 4, which got underway in late July, are Andrea Niemi, Director of Student Leadership and Development, Jonathan Rothchild, Associate Professor of Theological Studies, and Steve Ujlaki, Dean of the School of Film and Television. 
 
Elizabeth Drummond, Assistant Professor of History, represented LMU at 'the Summer Colloquy on Faith and the Intellectual Life, held June 17-24 at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA.  The colloquy is sponsored annually by Collegum, a national consortium of Catholic colleges and universities.  Reporting on her colloquy experience,  Professor Drummond states that she particularly benefitted from the small-group discussions on Catholic mission and identity because of the different perspectives of faculty in her group, who were equally divided between professional programs and the humanities, with a social scientist as their leader.

Lilly Grants.  Loyola Marymount’s membership in the Lilly Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities entitles faculty and other members of the community to apply for a variety of grants and prizes. Barbara Rico, Professor of English/Chair, Faculty Mission and Identity Committee, was recently awarded a $3,000 grant to develop a faculty seminar on the interplay between the intellectual and the transcendent. 

Maureen Fitzsimmons (B.A. ’09, M.A. ’11) is one of 16 beginning Ph.D. students to be accepted into the Lilly Graduate Fellows Program that provides annual stipends, mentoring, and opportunities to network with other scholars interested in eventual teaching in a church-related university.  Maureen’s Ph.D. studies will be at UC-Irvine, where her research will focus on pedagogy embedded in the Jesuit rhetorical tradition.  At LMU her mentor was Presidential Professor Steven Mailloux.

If you would like to learn more about any of the programs mentioned above, visit http:www.lmu.edu/about/mission/initiatives.htm or call the Mission and Ministry Office at 310.338-2987.

Campus Ministry
Although Campus Ministry activities slow down during the summer months, under the leadership of John Galvan, SJ, eight students travelled to Spain for 15 days in August to participate in World Youth Day and earlier in  the Jesuit-sponsored Magis experience.  A highlight of World Youth Day in Madrid was the Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. Before arriving in Madrid the LMU delegation, together with students from other Jesuit schools, gathered at the birthplace of St. Ignatius of Loyola in the Basque region of Spain, where they had an opportunity to interact with the current Jesuit superior general, Adolfo Nicolás, SJ.  

For the first time in history, Campus Ministry’s First-Year Retreat (Sept. 16-18) was fully booked even before the semester began. Additional slots have been made available, so 300 incoming students, plus 50 team members, will be able to get away for a weekend to play and pray and make new friends at Pali Mountain near Lake Arrowhead.

Liturgy Schedule

Sunday Masses
10:00 a.m. Sacred Heart Chapel
8:00 p.m. Sacred Heart Chapel
10:00 p.m. Huesman Chapel

Daily Masses
8:00 a.m. M-S Leavey Chapel
12:10 p.m. M,T,R,F Mary Chapel
12:10 p.m. Wed Marymount Inst.
10:15 p.m. Wed Huesman Chapel

Sacrament of Reconciliation
Sacred Heart Chapel
9:00 – 10:00 p.m Wednesdays 

 Mission Day 2012

Save the date for this year’s Mission Day, Thursday, January 26, 2012, when the convocation hour keynote address will be given by Kevin Starr, author of the recently released centennial history of Loyola Marymount University.  Dr. Starr has served as California State Librarian and is currently University Professor of History at USC.  He is perhaps best known for his multi-volume history of California, Americans and the California Dream.