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THE MAGAZINE OF LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY VIDEO Garrett Snyder ’09, food editor for LA Weekly, talks about favorite Los Angeles eats at magazine.lmu.edu. VIDEO Bill Clinton, 42nd president, receives an honorary degree, and commencement 2016 becomes one for the ages. See the highlight reel at LMU magazine.lmu.edu. OUT OF THE PARK LMU HALL OF FAMER BILLY BEAN ’86 HAD A SIX-YEAR BIG LEAGUE CAREER BUT NOW, AS MLB’S AMBASSADOR FOR INCLUSION, HE’S BECOME A REAL GAME-CHANGER. ONLINE Read more from the editor of LMU Magazine and share your thoughts. Go to magazine.lmu.edu/editors-blog. Letter From L.A. Joseph Wakelee-Lynch Prayer Time The Muslim house of prayer closest to LMU is the King Fahad Mosque — about 5 miles away, 20 minutes by car. Drive north on Lincoln, turn right on W. Washington until you get to the intersection with Huron Ave. You can’t miss the mosque. With a towering 72-foot-high minaret, it stands out. But the intersection could be found in any U.S. city, large or small: Across the street is a 7-Eleven, a Christian Assembly church and a gun shop. A block away are the NFL Network offices. This fall, Muslim students at LMU re- quested campus space to hold communal prayer each Friday. Their request was wel- comed by the university, and they now meet in the Marymount Institute for Faith, Cul- ture, and the Arts, in University Hall. It’s a great boon to them and several Muslim staff members, who would find it difficult to get to the mosque for prayer and back in time for class or work. During the current electoral season, Mus- lim Americans have been labeled suspicious and untrustworthy by some U.S. political leaders. They are judged as a group by many Americans as well because of the actions of extremists — terrorists, Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State — who claim to share their Islamic faith. “As the national conversation around Islam grows increasingly fraught, coarse and driven by fear and often willful misinformation, the Catholic Church must help to model real dialogue and goodwill,” said Bishop Mitchell Rozanski, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Ecumeni- cal and Interreligous Affairs. To respond, the bishops in February launched a national dialogue with U.S. Muslims, with Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago as its co-chair. Fear, suspicion and willful misinformation were the order of the day during World War II, when Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated to concentration camps under U.S. internment policy. Decades later, it was Japa- nese Americans who reached out to Muslim Americans after the events of 9/11. Today, an annual April pilgrimage to California’s Manzanar National Historic Site is joined by Muslims from Southern California. Although following Lincoln and Wash- ington is a quick path to the King Fahad Women await the call to Mosque, another way to get there is to take prayer at the Women’s Culver Blvd. to Braddock Dr. — passing the Mosque of America in Venice Japanese Community Center — to downtown Los Angeles. Huron Ave. That will take a little more time, but it’s probably worth stopping at the VJCC on your way to the mosque. magazine.lmu.edu 1 LMU(mag) (web)LMU LMU Magazine Summer 2016, Vol. 6, No. 2 magazine.lmu.edu LMU Magazine Online FRONT ALWAYS THERE 1.............................. Letter From L.A. Message From the U.N. ........................ The distance separating U.N. Secretary-General the West and Islam may Ban Ki-moon stressed the seem an unbridgeable need to help the world’s chasm, but the nearest vulnerable and excluded mosque to LMU is minutes peoples, and urged stu- away in Culver City. dents to dedicate them- Go meet your friends selves to service to others and neighbors. 4............................. Dear LMU De Colores testimonies; voices from the choruses sing the praises of the late LMU maestro Paul Salamunovich; a voting rights advocate from Virginia discusses the right to cast a ballot and legislation that restricts it; why we should care that Mexico’s problems are America’s problems. when he was awarded an 6.............................. LMU(news) Honorary Doctorate of News — President Clinton Humane Letters. Watch gives the commencement our video of his visit. address; Traditions — find out which LMU team plays for the Doherty Cup; Station Chief ........................ Conversation — the traf- Malcom Dicks ’94 captains ficking journey often ends Los Angeles County Fire in California; MyLA — walk Station No. 125, in Calaba- a few blocks and escape sas, California. He got his to the quiet of the Venice start as a paramedic. But Canals; Conversation — 20 years ago, the advice why Hawaii really is afraid of an LMU alumnus, who of snakes in planes. was his captain at the time, convinced him to try for more and become a fire- BACK FEATURE STORIES ONLINE WEB EXCLUSIVES fighter/paramedic. Watch our video and learn why 40......................... LMU(sports) Dicks loves his job. Is women’s water polo 16.......................Imagined L.A. Home at Last .................... rougher and, yes, dirtier Can the City of Angels be imagined as home to our better selves? Billy Bean, LMU hall of famer who captained the 1986 baseball than men’s water polo? team to the College World Series, came out as gay in 1999. Bean Field Lessons .................... A former player once said 18....................... Muslim USA says it was a long, painful and confusing journey. In 2014, Major LMU’s Alternative Breaks yes, because there’s more and Ignacio Compan- Muslims at LMU describe their faith, image and country. League Baseball named him Ambassador for Inclusion, ask- material to grab. Teammates ions programs take Erin Byrne and Eleanor ing him to lead efforts to make baseball a more accepting sport. students into the field Lee explain why. 26...................... Fair Game Bean tells his story in our video. for hands-on experience Billy Bean, who led LMU baseball to the 1986 College World and firsthand learning 42.......................... LMU(alumni) Series, now leads baseball’s efforts toward inclusiveness. The Food Tour .................... everywhere from Jamaica Favorites — food blogger Los Angeles has more nationalities and ethnic groups than and Chile to Oakland Garrett Snyder ’09 picks and Appalachia. Read ...................... This Is Indian Country the United Nations, and its food is just as diverse. L.A.’s best street foods; Chat 28 students’ reflections on — Bo Hamby ’16, art history Los Angeles, believe it or not, is a Native American center. Garrett Snyder ’09, food editor for the LA Weekly who also what they’ve discovered major, is asking, “Travel now, ran the food blog for Los Angeles Magazine, gives us a tour of about themselves as or get to work?” 32...................... Crossroads some of his favorite street foods. well as the places Lynell George ’84 finds that the artist’s imagination and ability they’ve visited. .......................... My Take 52 to adapt can get you through a career crisis. Commencement With President 42 .................... Amy Orr Morris-Young ’84 wonders whether it’s our When President Bill Clinton gave the 2016 commencement DNA or the community 36...................... The Duke address, students heard the advice of one of five people in the surrounding us that Don Klosterman ’52, former Rams’ exec., was an NFL icon; no world who hold or have held the job of president of the United ON THE COVERS shapes us more. one would be happier with pro football’s return to Los Angeles. States of America. Watch our video to learn what he had to say. Photographs by Jon Rou 2 LMU Magazine magazine.lmu.edu 3 SAY IT Got something to say about what you’ve read in LMU Magazine? Tell us. Go to magazine.lmu.edu/join-in. Heritage Pilgrimage to Tijuana Dear LMU From Our Readers MAGAZINE beautiful look of policies have had lmu.edu). I am one Confederacy and for the Civil Rights Act, important only to the EDITOR gratitude I have ever negative conse- of those non-music massive resistance which was the relief extent that citizens Joseph Wakelee-Lynch seen in my life. quences on people majors privileged to school integration suggested by the vote. Unfortunately, ART DIRECTOR This trip was life- living south of our to work with him and its 32-year delay Supreme Court. young people are the Maureen Pacino ’93 Mother Teresa’s Pews changing in one addi- border. during my LMU col- in ratifying the 19th Several of the demographic least Terry Mock ’70 PHOTOGRAPHER A Student Workers assignment — deliver some unneeded chapel tional way for me. As lege experience. His Amendment provid- milestones Profes- likely to turn out to Jon Rou we approached the Redlands, California authority — loving, ing women with sor Shortell men- vote. I hope that the pews to a convent in Tijuana — led to a meeting with Mother Teresa. international border, stern, wise, talented, the right to vote — tions are individual university is using all DIGITAL AND DESIGN I saw the gleaming SALAMUNOVICH experienced, exact- among other things. state acts, such of its resources to SPECIALIST buildings and wealth I had the privilege ing, grateful — is Thus, I would have as vote-by-mail help LMU students Lesley Wheeler of San Diego in a of singing in the something that very assigned much more and automatic understand that VIDEO PRODUCTION DE COLORES new light. I saw the Los Angeles Master few teachers have importance, in its voter registration, the future of our MANAGER I read with delight disparity between Chorale for the shared so fully, so adverse effects, to which are unlikely democracy depends Yoshikazu Ysa about the 30th anni- poverty and wealth [1994] premiere of richly, to bring their the Shelby decision to be adopted by on them and their DESIGN versary of De Colores divided by that fence “O Magnum Myste- subject matter to that effectively ended many states unless cohorts — and Pentagram Design (“Traditions,” Winter and thought, “God rium.” My favorite life.

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