Jan. 25 - Fox11 News at 10
Speech Touches on ‘Class Warfare’
Professor Fernando Guerra of Loyola Marymount University’s Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles discussed President Obama’s mention of the divide between the haves and have-nots in his 2012 State of the Union Address. That divide is something that students in LMU’s Political Science classes discuss and study, as a factor in how the economy influences the nation’s political scene.
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Jan. 17 - Slate
Do Women and Children Go First?
The 4,300-passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground off the Italian coast on Friday. Some passengers say there was chaos during the evacuation, with no respect for the tradition of women and children first. Are there laws governing how to abandon ship? In her book Women and Children First: 19th-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity, Loyola Marymount professor Robin Miskolcze chronicled the origins of our maritime evacuation priorities.
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Jan. 8 - New York Times
Lawyer Helped Family Realize Its Vision
The architect of many of those dreams, Keven Joseph Davis, was in the room in Manhattan that day, standing off to the side, sufficiently in the background but looking on with pride as another piece of history was made. Davis met the Williams sisters in 1990 when Venus was 10 and Serena was 9. His roommate at Loyola Marymount, Rodney Gabriel, now an orthopedic surgeon, had attended to Venus since she was 9.
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