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              The Maroon ESTABLISHED 1923 VOL. 74 NO. 2 Loyola University New Orleans FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1995 Library funding comes from capital campaign By DOMINIC MASSA Staff writer As preparations for the site of new J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library progress, so do efforts to secure funding for the multimillion dollar, state-of-theart facility. According to Sherri Smith, director of Loyola's capital campaign, an effort is underway to raise funds towards the goal of $50 million, which will fund the construction and endowment of the Monroe library, as well as student scholarships and faculty growth. Joseph Mansfield, vice president for Institutional Advancement, said money raised in the campaign wi 11 be distributed in several different ways. Twenty million dollars will cover the construction of the Monroe library. An additional $10 million will go towards the new library's endowment, for its operating budget. Ten million dollars of the $50 million goal will go towards student scholarships, with the remaining $10 million for faculty growth and development efforts. Mansfield explained the funds needed for construction of the Monroe library, however, are already in hand. campaign is  currently in its "silent phase," meaning donations are being sought from major benefactors before a public effort to raise funds will "From this point forward, we need to raise the money to endow the library." — Sherri Smith fundraising efforts will focus on the library's $10 million endowment. "From this the money to endow the library, so that we don't put a strain on the operating budget once it is completed," Smith Mansfield explained that though the university has set a goal of $10 million for the library's endowment, only a small portion of that will contribute to the operating budget each year. "The university, on average, can allocate only five percent of the endowment's principle per year, meaning that for every million dollars we have, we get $50,000 per year for the budget," he said. In addition to funds raised as part of the campaign, a portion of the financing for the 155,000 square foot library will Buddig evacuated in Labor Day bomb scare By MELISSA WONG Page Two Editor A moment of silence was broken with the rapid knocking on residents' doors by Margarita Perez, history/ education junior and the third floor Resident Assistant of Buddig Hall. "They're evacuating the building," she called out up and down the third floor. "Grab your keys and let's go." At 3:45 p.m. on Labor Day, Public- Safety ordered an immediate evacuation of Buddig Hall due to a bomb threat. Other RAs, like Perez, notified students of the evacuation and led them downstairs out the front doors of Buddig. Around 150 to 200 residents filed out of Buddig carrying favorite stuffed animals, homework and food. After several minutes Public Safety instructed the students to wait in the Danna Center or on the side of the Danna Center facing Bobet Hall until the situation was resolved. Most students found a place to spend the hour and a half wait, gathering in the St. Charles room or watching The Lion King in the Danna Center Lounge. Barbie Bell, communications freshman and Buddig resident said, "The waiting was boring and frustrating because no one was telling us what was going on." While students were waiting to get back into the building, all available Public Safety personnel. Residential Life members and directors searched all the floors and rooms for a potential bomb. Robert Reed, director of Residential Life, said that the actual incident began when a resident came back to her dorm room and found the threat on her answering machine. She then called the front desk, which in turn called the Department of Public Safety. Roger Pinac, Public Safety investigator, declined to comment about the specifics of the telephone message, but he said that 'once we received notice, we made every effort to evacuate the building as expeditiously as possible without creating panic." "The evacuation proceeded in an orderly manner," he said. At the time of the evacuation, the fire alarm system was not activated, and students had to be personally told to leave Buddig Hall. Reed explained that there is not, as of yet, a standard procedure concerning the evacuation of residence buildings in the occurrence of a bomb threat. For this reason, the students were contacted personally by their RAs. Although he cites no major problems with the evacuation, he points out, "To my knowledge, we have never had a bomb scare before." Public Safety does not know whether the bomb threat was made from inside or outside the campus. Regardless of its origin, the department has undertaken it as a major priority. "The incident is still under investigation and the threat is being taken very seriously," Pinac said. —Stephen Stuart coniributed to this article Loyola mourns murdered Marriott employee By STEPHEN STUART News Editor Mark Anthony Woods, 31, a Marriot Dining Services employee and evening chef for the Jesuit residents in Thomas Hall, died of a gunshot wound to the head on Aug. 21. The murder occurred in the 300 block of North Pierce near the corner of Bienville and North Pierce shortly after 2 a.m. According to New Orleans Police Department Spokesman Sgt. Barry Fletcher, officers were responding to an unrelated incident nearby when they heard the gunshots. Woods apparently was driving his late-model, white Toyota on North Pierce at the time of the shooting, Fletcher said. A short time after the incident, officers found him slumped over in his car, which had swerved off the street and crashed into a fence. An ambulance arrived on the scene and transported him to Charity Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:48 a.m. The coroner's office could not be reached for comment on the case. At the time this paper went to press, investigators had no motive or suspects in the incident, Fletcher said. He added that there are "no indications that this crime is related to his employment at the university." A small memorial ceremony for Woods was held on Tuesday, Sept. 6 in Ignatius Chapel on the first floor of Bobet Hall. Dallas Jones, Woods's sister, attended the service and described her brother as By DAN OBARSKI Fr. Joseph Currie celebrates a memorial service for Mark Woods, who is symbolized by the roses. See LIBRARY. Pa. 5 See WOODS pg 4 uml Ad team shines in J American Advertising Si I Federation competition. yVj I Soccer split ' Women's team scores I seven goals during a I loss and a win. Pg.7 jJL3 cw Orleans eateries ■■gflk offer sandwiches for j poor boys and girls