LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO

'Loyola University Chicago' is a private co-educational religious-affiliated university established in Chicago in 1870 as Saint Ignatius College. It was founded by the Roman Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus and bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of twenty-eight member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and, with its current enrollment of more than 15,000 students, is one of the largest Jesuit Universities in the United States. ^[4] Loyola is considered one of the 262 "national universities" by US News & World Report, with a ranking of 112.^[5]

Contents

Beginnings and expansions

Main campuses

Religious education

Athletics

Civil rights movement and the 1963 NCAA Basketball Championship

Buildings

Lake Shore Campus

Water Tower Campus

Student Life

Sports

Greek Life

Notable alumni

Notable professors

See also

External links

Loyola University campuses

Loyola University athletics

Loyola University media

Loyola Related

References

Beginnings and expansions

Founded in 1870 as the St Ignatius College on Chicago's West Side. In 1908 the School of Law was established as the first of the professional programs. St Ignatius College changed its name to Loyola University in 1909, while also adding the Stritch School of Medicine. 1923 saw the affiliation of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery with Loyola University, later to be known as Loyola University School of Dentistry (no longer open). In 1934 West Baden College affiliates itself with Loyola University, later to be known as the Bellarmine School of Theology then the Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago. Loyola University established the School of Nursing in 1935, the first fully accredited collegiate school of nursing in the state of Illinois. Loyola then opened the Rome Center for Liberal Arts in 1962, the first American university sponsored program in Rome. 1969 saw the establishment of the School of Education and the opening of the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. In 1979 the School of Nursing is renamed the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. The most recent expansion was the 1991 acquisition of neighboring Mundelein College from the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Main campuses

Loyola University is anchored at the Lake Shore Campus (on the shore of Lake Michigan) in Rogers Park, the northernmost neighborhood of the city of Chicago. Loyola has developed a ten year master plan that is designed to revitalize the community by adding an updated arts center as well as a retail district called "Loyola Station" near the CTA's Loyola 'L' stop. Parts of this plan are in doubt as they rely on public tax money, and Article 10 of the Illinois Constitution prohibits any public money for any reason to a religious institution. Among many others, the science departments are located on this campus. Loyola also has a Water Tower Campus in downtown Chicago on the Magnificent Mile of North Michigan Avenue, steps away from such landmarks as the Water Tower (one of the few structures to survive the Great Chicago Fire) and the John Hancock Center (one of the tallest buildings in the United States). The School of Business Administration, School of Social Work, and the Law School are located at the Water Tower Campus (previously Lewis Towers), and many other classes are held at this campus.
Chicago's Jesuit university also boasts a campus in Rome, Italy. Loyola University Chicago Rome Center was established in 1962 on the site of the 1960 Summer Olympics grounds. It moved to several locations in Rome until finally settling in Monte Mario on the Via Massimi, one of the most affluent districts of the Italian capital. The campus offers a full academic year for Chicago-based Loyola University students wishing to study abroad.
Loyola University of Chicago has a medical school, the Stritch School of Medicine, and a hospital and medical center associated with them, all located on a campus in Maywood, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. The former Mundelein College is located just south of the Lake Shore Campus. The former Niles campus no longer exists.

Religious education

Religious education is still one of Loyola University's hallmarks as home to Saint Joseph College Seminary as well as the Jesuit First Studies program.
Loyola's First Studies Program is one of three in the country, with Fordham University and Saint Louis University housing the other two. During this three year period, Jesuit Scholastics and Brothers generally study philosophy and some theology. First Studies is one part of an eleven-year formation process toward the Jesuit priesthood. This program is administered by the Chicago Province Society of Jesus.
Saint Joseph College Seminary serves the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago and provides vocational training to candidates of diocesan priesthood. Loyola University also provides rigorous religious education for those seeking careers in lay ministry with the Loyola University Pastoral Institute as well as degree opportunities in interdisciplinary Catholic studies.

Athletics

The Loyola Ramblers compete in the Horizon League (formerly the Midwestern Collegiate Conference) of the NCAA's Division I. The Men's Volleyball team competes in the NCAA's Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association with schools such as Ball State and Ohio State, and is considered a national power with regular Top 15 rankings. ^[6] Loyola University boasts men's and women's teams in basketball, cross country, track, golf, soccer, and volleyball, as well as women's softball. The Loyola Ramblers title originated in the late 1920s as a nickname given to the school's football team. Today, Loyola University no longer has a football team. The standing joke is that the team is undefeated since 1930. Outside of the NCAA regulated athletics programs, Loyola Ramblers also compete in non-traditional intercollegiate sports such as cricket and rugby.
Additionally, in recent years Loyola students have become integral in the resurrection of Hurling, still a major collegiate sport in Ireland and England, in the United States.
The Loyola Ramblers mascot is Lou Wolf. Lou Wolf was inspired by the Basque coat-of-arms of Saint Ignatius of Loyola depicting two wolves over a kettle. The popular mascot, which had become a Chicago institution through several generations, received a facelift over the summer of 2000. Originally the Loyola mascot was a Gyspy Rambler but many were upset over its racist depiction.

Civil rights movement and the 1963 NCAA Basketball Championship

The 1963 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship and the obstacles faced on the team's road to victory in a racially segregated country put Loyola in the national spotlight. Before the championship, there was a gentlemen's agreement among college teams limiting how many black players could play during a game. Beginning in 1961, Loyola head coach George Ireland broke the gentlemen's agreement by putting as many as four black players on the court at every game.^[7] In 1962-63, Ireland played four black starters in every game. In a game in Oklahoma City against Wyoming, Ireland replaced fouled-out starter John Egan with Pablo Robertson (even with two white players available on his bench), marking the first time a Division I college team fielded five black players. ^[8]
After winning its first round NCAA tournament game on March 11, 1963 against Tennessee Tech, the Loyola Ramblers were scheduled to play in the second round against Mississippi State University, which practiced racial segregation. Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett banned the Mississippi school from traveling to the tournament to play against Loyola's black players. Sending a decoy team to divert state police, the Mississippi State team successfully sneaked out of the state to play the Ramblers. ^[9] Loyola won and went on to beat Illinois in its regional final and Duke in the national semifinals. At the NCAA Final, newspapers reported that the Ramblers didn't have a chance against Cincinnati, the two-time defending national champions. In one of the closest games of the season, Loyola became the third Jesuit University (Holy Cross won in 1947 and San Francisco won twice in the 1950s) to ever win the NCAA Tournament. Loyola remains the only school in Chicago, and in the state of Illinois, to do so.

Buildings

Lake Shore Campus

★ Alumni Gym

★ Arrupe House

★ Athletic Field & Stevens Building

★ Campion Hall & St. Joseph Seminary

★ Centennial Forum Student Union

★ Coffey Hall

★ Creighton Hall

★ Crown Center

★ Cudahy Library

★ Cudahy Science Hall

★ Dumbach Hall (Formerly "Loyola Academy")

★ Fairfield Hall

★ Fine Arts / Root Building

★ Fine Arts Annex

★ Flanner Hall

★ Fordham Hall

★ George Halas, Jr. Sports Center

★ Georgetown Hall

★ Gonzaga Hall

★ Granada Center (Part of Fordham Hall, formerly the site of the Granada Theatre)

★ Holy Cross Hall

★ Information Commons (Building currently under construction)

★ Loyola University Jesuit Residence

★ Madonna Della Strada Chapel

★ Martin D'Arcy Museum of Art (Now located at Lewis Towers ,Water Tower Campus under the name Loyola University Museum of Art)

★ Mertz Hall

★ Mundelein Center (Formerly "Skyscraper Building", "Mundelein College")

★ Piper Hall

★ The Quinn Quadrangle

★ The Quinlan Life & Science Center

★ Regis Hall

★ Rockhurst Hall

★ Santa Clara Hall

★ Seattle Hall

★ Simpson Living-Learning Center

★ Sullivan Center for Student Services (Formerly "Sullivan Science Library")

★ Wright Hall (BVM Residence)

★ The Yellow House

★ Xavier Hall

Water Tower Campus

★ 25 E. Pearson Loyola Law Center

★ Rev. Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J. Residence Hall and Terry Student Center

★ The Clare (Building currently under construction)

★ Lewis Towers (Also houses "Loyola University Museum of Art")

★ Maguire Hall

Student Life

Sports

''Lou Wolf'' is the mascot for the university. He was inspired by the coat-of-arms of St Ignatius of Loyola, from whom Loyola derives its name, which depicts two wolves standing over a kettle. He is ever-present at Loyola's basketball games, encouraging fans to show their support for the Ramblers.

Greek Life

Loyola University Chicago also houses Greek life on its Lake Shore Campus. These Greek organizations include the normal social fraternities Sigma Pi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Alpha Delta Gamma;as well as the normal social sororities Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Phi Sigma Sigma and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Alpha Delta Gamma remains the only private school-sanctioned fraternity house on campus. ^{[Us News & World Report]http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drextras_1710_brief.php}
Loyola is also home to the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations (NALFO) co-ed fraternity Alpha Psi Lambda, and sororities Gamma Phi Omega (The first Latina-oriented sorority at Loyola) and Sigma Lambda Gamma (the largest Latina-oriented sorority in the U.S.) as well as several co-ed business fraternities such as Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Pi, Kappa Psi, and Sigma Tau Delta. Loyola also has a co-ed service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega.

Notable alumni

★ Patrick H. Arbor, Chicago Board of Trade Chairman

★ Leslie David Baker, actor, The Office (US TV series)

★ Brenda C. Barnes, Sara Lee Corporation Chairman, CEO; first female COO of PepsiCo

★ Lawrence Biondi, St. Louis University President

★ Susan Candiotti, CNN Correspondent

★ William J. Campbell, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

★ Philip Caputo, Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

★ Susan Carlson, WBBM-TV Chicago News Anchor

★ Gery J. Chico, Chicago Board of Education President

★ Sandra Cisneros, author

★ Edwin M. Conway, Bishop of Chicago

★ Chris Craig, Chairman & CEO, Photogenic, Inc.

★ William M. Daley, United States Secretary of Commerce

★ Richard A. Devine, Cook County State's Attorney

★ Karla DeVito, lead solo performer/ singer

★ David Draiman, lead singer of Disturbed

★ Stuart Dybek, author

★ John Egan, basketball player

★ Erik Eglite, CCO Aspreva Pharmaceuticals

★ David Ferm, Business Week Publisher

★ Richard L. Flanagan, Borders Group CEO

★ Norman Geisler, President of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte Carolina

★ Jerry Harkness, former professional basketball player & civil rights activist

★ Neil F. Hartigan, former Attorney General of Illinois

★ Alice B. Hayes, President Emerita & former President of the University of San Diego

★ Les Hunter, former professional basketball player

★ Henry Hyde, former Illinois Congressman

★ James Iha, ''The Smashing Pumpkins'' and ''A Perfect Circle'' guitarist

★ Jeffrey D. Jacobs, Harpo Entertainment Group President

★ Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General

★ Vincent A. Mahler, prominent political scientist

★ Ernie Manouse, TV Anchor/Producer, PBS

★ LaRue Martin, former professional basketball player (# 1 pick in 1972 NBA Draft)

★ James McManus, author

★ Mary Ann G. McMorrow, Illinois Supreme Court Justice

★ John B. Menzer, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Vice Chairman

★ James J. Molloy Deputy Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department

★ Thomas B. Molloy Nationally Acclaimed Friend

★ Mary Morello, Progressive activist

★ Jennifer Morrison, actress ''(House M.D.)''

★ Bob Newhart, actor/comedian

★ Mike Novak, former professional basketball player

★ J. Dennis O'Connor, university president

★ Tom O'Hara, Former Indoor Mile World Record Holder, 1964 Olympian

★ Robert L. Parkinson, Jr., Baxter International Inc. President/CEO

★ David Pasquesi, actor

★ Thomas Pilat, Associate Professor

★ Bill Plante, CBS White House Correspondent

★ David Rindner,Visual Effects Artist

★ Michael R. Quinlan, McDonald's Corporation Chairman

★ Daniel Quinn, author

★ Bill Rancic, winner of ''The Apprentice'' (first season)

★ Joseph Rebman, Jr., CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business

★ Dan Rostenkowski, former Congressman

★ John Roy, comedian

★ Lenny Sachs, Hall of Fame basketball coach

★ Edith Sampson, first Black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.

★ Thomas M. Schoewe, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Executive Vice President & CFO

★ Aloysius VanEekeren, President of Vanee Foods Company

★ Stuart Shea, baseball writer & rock music critic

★ Phil Weintraub, major league baseball player

★ Sho Yano, child prodigy

Notable professors

★ Sergio Balanzino

★ Mark Bosco S.J.

★ Michael J. Garanzini S.J., President

★ Franz Jozef Van Beeck S.J.

★ Vincent A. Mahler

★ T. Jerome Overbeck S.J.

★ Mike Quigley

★ David Schweickart

★ Louis W. Tordella

★ Robert O. Bucholz

See also

★ Loyola Phoenix

★ Loyola University Chicago Rome Center

External links

Loyola University campuses

★ Official website

★ Maps of campuses

★ Loyola University Rome Center

★ Loyola University School of Business

★ Loyola University School of Education

★ Loyola University School of Law

★ Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine

★ Loyola University Niehoff School of Nursing

★ Loyola University Medical Center

Loyola University athletics

★ Loyola Ramblers

★ Horizon League

★ Rambler Mania

★ Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association

Loyola University media

★ Loyola Phoenix Newspaper

★ Loyola University Webcams

★ WLUW-FM

Loyola Related

★ Student Associate

References

1. http://www.luc.edu/undergrad/academics/factsheets/facts_at_a_glance.pdf
2. http://www.luc.edu/undergrad/academics/factsheets/facts_at_a_glance.pdf
3. http://www.nacubo.org/documents/research/2006NES_Listing.pdf
4. http://www.luc.edu/keyfacts/
5. http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/ranknatudoc_brief.php
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7. http://www.ramblermania.com/history.htm
8. http://www.ramblermania.com/1963/index.htm
9. http://www2.ncaa.org/portal/media_and_events/press_room/2006/january/20060106_defining_moments_rls.html