LMU Magazine

02/20/2025

In February 1942, an executive order by the U.S. president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, authorized the arrest, forcible relocation, and imprisonment of 120,000 people of Japanese descent. This short piece describes the opposition to the American concentration camps by Edward Whelan, S.J., president of what is now Loyola Marymount University, who spoke up vigorously against the injustice and took steps to redress the wrong.

LMU Magazine is the university magazine of Loyola Marymount University, a Jesuit, Catholic university in Los Angeles, California.

02/18/2025

Richard Frishman’s photography show, “Ghosts of Segregation,” documents important sites in the history of slavery and racism in America and is on display now at the LMU Laband Art Gallery. Read our interview with him and B. Brian Foster.

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02/11/2025

The January 2025 wildfires and recovery will shape life in LA for years to come. Fernando Guerra, director of the LMU Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles, walks us through the current and future impacts.

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01/09/2025

Prof. Michael Genovese, expert on the U.S. presidency, looks back at the legacy of the late President Jimmy Carter.

https://bit.ly/LMUmJC

12/17/2024

Los Angeles has become famous for its murals found on walls throughout the city. But it wasn’t always so. Alejandro Poli Jr. ’93 (Man One) explains how street art has become a source of public pride.

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12/10/2024

As performers, LMU’s Mata family have made mariachi music a way of life. As teachers, they’re raising the next generation in mariachi’s musical heritage.

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12/05/2024

Ever considered sending up a prayer to St. Isidore because your computer crashed while on the internet? Or to St. Apollonia, to soothe that persistent toothache? Jake Martin, S.J., reminds us why praying to the saints has long seemed a reasonable cry for help.

https://bit.ly/LMUmSaints

12/04/2024

Coach Trent Kersten, in just his second season at the helm, led LMU Women's Volleyball to its first WCC title since 1996 and took Coach of the Year honors. Now the team heads to the NCAA Women's Volleyball tournament vs. University of Washington, Friday, Dec. 6. Here’s his take on D1 volleyball and LMU’s program. https://bit.ly/LMUmKerstenPod

11/27/2024

If your feast tomorrow leaves you curled up in Child’s pose, never fear. We’ll have you back in Happy Baby before you can say, “Savasana, please!” Let Professor Christopher Chapple, director of LMU’s Masters in Yoga Studies, guide you through some of his favorite yoga postures. So, go for the pie and then get into Warrior pose. Happy Thanksgiving, and Namaste from all of us at LMU Magazine!

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11/19/2024

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, L.A.’s freeways are the vascular system to the beating heart of this city. Freeways transformed our humble town into a global metropolis but meteoric growth came with a cost, decimating tight-knit communities, mostly of color, to make way for miles of overlapping concrete. Nate Sessoms, assistant professor of urban planning, and other LMU faculty give us the history.

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11/11/2024

The coastal rivalry between LA and NY is for real and it runs much deeper than baseball bragging rights.

Writer, Jim McDermott, has a personal take on the funny/not-funny beef between New Yorkers and Angelenos. Use the link in our bio to read more!

11/05/2024

It is the First Amendment right of all Americans to vote in free and fair elections. But there is reason for worry that voter suppression at the polls today will restrict access to polling places and disproportionately affect minority and low-income voters.

Additionally, misinformation campaigns and stringent voter ID requirements are raising fears about disenfranchisement and the overall integrity of the electoral process. Click the link in bio to read the full article.

11/05/2024

Are we electing a president today, or deciding whether we’ll remain a democracy?

Five LMU professors provide essays addressing various aspects of the question, ranging from the role of professional journalism in a democracy; the deeper philosophical issues at play; voting access among some parts of the electorate; the history of race in voting; and one essay that suggests the wheels of democracy are turning efficiently, even if some of us do not like all the results of elections. Use the link in bio to learn more.

11/04/2024

Stop the presses! We’ve got a brand new digital magazine. It packs a serious punch of the timely, relevant, fun, cool, hip, highly-readable stories you expect from LMU Magazine. Link in bio to read!

And yes, we are still printing — the next print edition hits Spring 2025.

10/30/2024

L.A. vs. NY—America’s cross-country classic rivalry, and taking place now in MLB’s World Series (Go Dodgers!). Which side are you on? Find out more in LMU Magazine’s first digital issue, coming soon.

10/07/2024

Many women in China who leave their rural home and children behind to earn income in an urban center are left with both grief and a sense of failure as mothers. Loyola Marymount University Prof. Meng Li’s research explores this deeply emotional phenomenon. https://bit.ly/LMUmChinamothers LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts

Mothers in rural China who migrate to cities to earn income often feel grief and a sense of failure from leaving their children behind.