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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa joined Loyola Marymount University at the kickoff of the school's $300 million fundraising campaign. Villaraigosa paid tribute to the many generations of LMU students that have returned to Los Angeles to give back to the city, and offered LMU the city's support in the campaign effort, "because with it we can continue to nurture that new generation of leaders."
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Right Place. Right Time.The Campaign for LMU.
Los Angeles is becoming a great world city of this still-new millennium. It is a place where the promise and the problems of the modern world play out most intensely. Los Angeles also is home to Loyola Marymount University. LMU is integrally connected to Los Angeles as it sends its students into this diverse community to learn, to work and to become catalysts for positive change locally and globally.
While Los Angeles is the perfect reality classroom, LMU in turn is the answer to the times. LMU is a values-centered based institution. Social responsibility is the reason LMU exists; it’s not a byproduct. Like the city that surrounds it, LMU is an inclusive environment, embracing individuals of every ethnicity, faith and socio-economic status.
LMU is an educational institution that prepares young people to be citizens and shapers of the world. This is LMU’s goal, now and for future generations of students. And this is why LMU, as it becomes one of the nation’s truly distinguished universities, announces an historic fundraising campaign to raise $300 million by 2008.
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