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THE GREEN ISSUE • SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE • HOW TO GREEN YOUR ROUTINE THE MAGAZINE OF LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO • SPRING 2008 The RICHARD J. KLARCHEK INFORMATION COMMONS WELCOME 007 PRESIDENT’S REPORT UPDAT E The last issue of Loyola magazine featured the annual President’s Report. Unfortunately, the names of some donors were inadvertently omitted or listed incorrectly. We are sorry for the oversight and would like to highlight their involvement with the University. We are grateful for their generous support. • Rita (BSC ’58) and John Barnett (BSC ’51). Mr. Barnett’s class year was incorrectly listed as BSC ’58. • Dennis Kearns (JD ’76) should have been labeled as a Loyola Loyalist. DEAR ALUMNI, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS, • Mary and Michael Stahl were omitted from the Parents’ Leadership elcome to the “green” issue of Loyola magazine. While being Council listing. environmentally conscious is far from a new idea, it is something These benefactors were that has recently become a priority for Loyola University Chicago. In omitted from the list of University Faculty and Staff this issue, read about the new Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons, Donors: W • Katricia Andreoni a digital library with a cutting-edge, with soy, linseed, and corn. To complete the environmentally friendly design. This issue circle, we encourage you to recycle this issue (BS ’03, MSW ‘05) also features the many components of the when you are finished reading it. • Nina Appel University’s sustainability initiative, a set Thank you for your readership. I hope you • James Carey of programs focused on reducing Loyola’s enjoy learning about the goings-on on our • Donna Estler (MBA ’77) ecological footprint, and our Fast Class offers campuses, and about the ways Loyola students, • Abol Jalilvand, PhD ways you make your everyday routine a little faculty, staff, and alumni are contributing to • Bruce Montes (BA ’98) • Mary O’Callaghan (BS ’67) more green. their communities and the world. As always, • John Pelissero, PhD I am pleased to announce that this issue of I welcome your feedback and correspondence. • William Sherry Loyola magazine is green not only in content, I wish you a wonderful and renewing spring. • Thomas Skowronski but by its nature: this issue, as all issues will (BS BA ’05) be from now on, is composed of paper with 10 • Richard Williams percent post-consumer waste content, and is Anastasia Busiek printed with Enviro/Tech-classified ink made Editor, Loyola magazine If you have questions about the listing of Damen Society members, please contact Stephanie Gunter at [email protected] • 312.915.6930 • 820 N. Michigan Ave., 14th Floor • Chicago, IL 60611 [email protected] or 312.915.7292. LOYOLA MAGAZINE THE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 OF LOYOLA UNIVERSITY C ONTENTS CHICAGO THE GREEN ISSUE Loyola magazine is published for alumni and friends. EDITOR 10 Learning Anastasia Busiek ART DIRECTOR on the Lake Ted Yee Introducing the new Richard J. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Carla Beecher, Anastasia Klarcheck Information Commons— Busiek, Steve Christensen, an innovative digital library and Anne Hughes, Brendan one of the most exciting buildings Keating (BA ’01, JD ’04), to open at Loyola in decades. Jenny Kustra-Quinn, Gina Lettiere, Gail Mansfield, Nicole LeDuc Meehan 14 ON THE RIGHT TRACK (BS ’02, MBA ’06), Lisa Reitz The University assesses its sustain- (English ‘08), John T. Slania (BA ’79), April Specht (BS ’01), ability and studies how to become Cynthia Vargas even more environmentally friendly. PHOTOGRAPHERS Mark Beane (BA ’98), 17 FAST CLASS: Alvin Hayashi GREEN YOUR ROUTINE PROOFREADER Even the smallest things can add up Kathleen Kopitke when they become part of your daily EDITORIAL ADVISORY routine. Here’s how to get started. COMMITTEE: Carla Beecher, Anastasia Busiek, Jonathan Heintzelman, Nicole LeDuc Meehan (BS ’02, MBA ’06), John Pelissero, and Deborah DEPARTMENTS Simpkins Laying out the Help for those TO CHANGE/UPDATE welcome mat who need it FRONTLINES 4 YOUR ADDRESS OR MAILING STATUS, please MISSION IN ACTION 21 call 312.915.7660 or e-mail Led by Justin Daffron, S.J., Loyola embarks on OUR BACKYARD 22 [email protected]. the Office of First-Year a unique, multi-faceted PLAYTIME 24 Experience aims to help partnership with the CORRESPONDENCE: new students feel at home. Cook County Jail. MOVERS & SHAPERS 26 Loyola magazine 820 N. Michigan Ave. DISCOVERY 28 18 22 Chicago, IL 60611 GIFTS 31 312.915.6930 ALMA MATTERS 34 [email protected] SPRING 2008 FRONTLINES Warhol exhibit at LUMA © NAT FINKELSTEIN Little girl at the Silver Clouds exhibit, Castelli Gallery, 1966 Come to LUMA to see the exhibit the Chicago Sun-Times calls MANIFEST DESTINY, “oddly affecting and uplifting, not to mention a surprising amount of MANIFEST RESPONSIBILITY: Environmentalism and fun.” Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds, at LUMA through April 27, 2008, the Art of the American consists of large helium-filled, pillow-like forms made of silver plastic Landscape film. First shown in 1966 at the Castelli Gallery in New York, the clouds MAY 17 AUGUST 10 glide gently on fan-propelled wind, allowing visitors to experience an Featuring selections from Andy Warhol, Flowers interactive walk through a pop interpretation of the heavens. the collection of the Terra Portfolio, 1970, on loan Silver Clouds inspired choreographer Merce Cunningham to SAVE Foundation for American from the Bank THE create a dance work with sets by artist Jasper Johns in 1968, a video DATE Art by Frederic Church, of America Collection projection of which will initiate museum visitors. Five Chicago Georgia O’Keefe, and dance companies will perform during the course of the exhibition. A others, this exhibit explores Silver Clouds America’s longstanding photographic documentation of Silver Clouds by Nat Finkelstein, a at LUMA through relationship to the land April 7, 008 resident member of the Warhol Factory in the 1960s, will also be on traditionally considered its display. This collection contains some of Finkelstein’s most famous national birthright. 80 N. Michigan Ave. photographs, including those of Warhol working in the studio and For LUMA hours installing Silver Clouds at the Castelli Gallery and of visiting celebrities and information, Marcel Duchamp, the Velvet Underground, and Bob Dylan. Five print visit LUC.edu/luma. portfolios of Warhol’s later work, on loan from the Bank of America Collection, will also be on display. 4 LOYOLA MAGAZINE New School of Communication to train future leaders Loyola University Chicago is pleased to announce the School of Communication, the University’s first new school in 39 years. It will begin independent operations this summer, and will occupy the first three floors of The Clare at Water Tower Campus beginning in January 2009. Initially, the school will offer undergraduate majors in advertising/public relations, communication, and journalism. Says Provost From left: Dan Walsh, chairman, board of directors, Loyola University Health System; Henry Lang, Christine Wiseman, “Our chairman, board of directors, Gottlieb Health Resources; Paul K. Whelton, president and CEO, Loyola location in downtown University Health System; Jack Weinberg, chairman, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital; John Morgan, Chicago is a major president, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital advantage. As one of the nation’s largest media markets, Chicago offers Gottlieb, LUHS join forces Loyola students abundant opportunities to cut their N A NEW AND MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL ARRANGEMENT, GOTTLIEB HEALTH teeth in the communication Look for more fields.” The school will Resources in Melrose Park will become part of the Loyola University Health on the School of partner with the College of System (LUHS). Pending state approval, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital will remain Communication Arts and Sciences to support a full-service community hospital, and LUHS will assume governance of all other in future issues of the international film and I Gottlieb entities, including the the hallmark of a major teaching Loyola magazine. media studies major. “This agreement 250-bed hospital, the Gottlieb hospital. “This new school will be a represents the Health & Fitness Center, and the Loyola will relocate most of its collaborative community of scholars and professionals. Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer coming together general obstetrics and general They will work within our Jesuit tradition of liberal Care Center, all located on the of two respected gynecology services and its arts education with a focus on preparing our students Melrose Park campus. orthopaedic joint program to for successful and rewarding professional lives,” says not-for-profit “This agreement represents the Gottlieb campus, which will President Michael Garanzini, S.J. institutions.” the coming together of two be known as Loyola University respected not-for-profit PAUL WHELTON, MD Health System at Gottlieb, once institutions that complement the transaction is finalized. The We strongly each other, the sum of which two hospitals’ medical staffs will greatly enhance health care in the area,” will remain separate, and there are no plans to encourage all says Paul K. Whelton, MB, MD, MSc, CEO of eliminate positions at either facility as a result students, faculty, LUHS. The agreement helps address critical of this transaction. “Together, we can optimize Loyola recently launched a special and staff to capacity issues for the 570-licensed-bed Loyola health care and clinical innovations for the service to alert students, faculty, register. It takes University Hospital and LUHS’s outpatient thousands of individuals who turn to us for staff, and other personnel in only a minute at clinics throughout the western suburbs. The care each year,” says John Morgan, president case of a critical emergency. This agreement also will allow patients at Gottlieb of Gottlieb Memorial Hospital. Whelton hopes service, Loyola Alert, will send text, .⁄ to participate in clinical trials conducted at that the agreement will receive state approval voice, and e-mail messages to Loyola and access the cutting-edge care that is by early summer. registered participants.