Le Moyne College

infobox University
name= Le Moyne College


motto= "Totus in Domino Jesu" (Everything in Lord Jesus)
established= 1946
type= Private, Jesuit, Roman Catholic
faculty= 230
president= Dr. Fred P. Pestello
students= 2,290
city= Syracuse
state= NY
country= USA
campus= Urban and Suburban
free_label=School Colors
free= Green & Gold
free_label= Sports Team
free= Dolphins
website= [http://www.lemoyne.edu/ www.lemoyne.edu]

Le Moyne College, named after Simon Le Moyne, is a private, four-year Jesuit college of approximately 2,300 undergraduate students that balances a comprehensive liberal arts education with preparation for specific career paths or graduate study. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1946, Le Moyne is the second-youngest of the twenty-eight Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States.

Le Moyne's convert|150|acre|km2|sing=on campus is located in a residential setting of the Syracuse, New York suburb of DeWitt, New York. A small portion of the Le Moyne campus stretches into the Meadowbrook Neighborhood of Syracuse, New York, which allows the school to employ a legal Syracuse, New York, address.

Academics

Le Moyne offers undergraduate academic programs in Accounting, Biology, Business Administration, Chemistry & Physics, Communication, Criminology and Crime & Justice Studies, Economics, Education (Dual Certification with Special Ed), English, Foreign Languages & Literature, Industrial Relations & Human Resource Management, Information Systems, Mathematics & Computer Science, Nursing, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology & Anthropology, Theatre Arts, and Visual & Performing Arts.

Interdisciplinary Programs are offered in Biochemistry, Catholic Studies, Cultural Foundations of Medicine, Gender and Women's Studies, Integral Honors, Multiple Science, Peace & Global Studies, and Urban Studies.

In addition, Le Moyne offers the following special programs: affiliated 3-4 programs in dentistry, optometry, and podiatry; early assurance dental and medical programs; pre-engineering, pre-environmental science and forestry; pre-health related professions; pre-law; pre-medicine, pre-physician assistant; and study abroad. Le Moyne students may enroll in Army and Air Force ROTC programs at Syracuse University.

While each major department has its own sequence requirements for the minimum 120 credit hours needed for the Le Moyne degree, the core curriculum includes studies of English language and literature, philosophy, history, religious studies, science, mathematics, and social sciences.

Le Moyne College's Graduate Programs include Graduate Education, Masters in Business Administration, Physician Assistant Studies, and Nursing.

Degree Honors and Dean's List

Students who achieve a cumulative G.P.A of 3.5-3.69 in all subjects by the end of their program duration are awarded the bachelor's degree cum laude. Those who achieve a cumulative G.P.A 3.7-3.84 are awarded a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude. And those who achieve a cumulative G.P.A 3.85-4.0 are awarded a bachelor’s summa cum laude.

Students who achieve a G.P.A (non-cumulative) of 3.5 make Dean's list for the concerned semester.

Campus Facilities and Resources

Students can access the campus network, the Library's system, and the Internet from several computer labs around campus or from their rooms if they have computers of their own. All classrooms are being converted to "smart" classrooms, with multimedia capabilities. The Coyne Science Center has over 60 labs, classrooms, prep rooms and faculty/office suites, with two electron microscopes and a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer.

The Recreation Center is designed primarily for intramural, personal fitness and recreational activities. The building houses a fitness room with Nautilus and Universal equipment, an Olympic-size indoor pool built for competition, a whirlpool, an elevated jogging track, racket ball courts, and a large multipurpose gymnasium that can be divided into three courts for tennis, volleyball, basketball and other activities.

Residence halls range from the traditional dormitories to townhouse-style living, featuring three floors of living with three two-person bedrooms, a common area, kitchen, dining cove, and three bathrooms.

Campus Library

The Noreen Reale Falcone Library, Le Moyne's only on-campus library, constructed in 1981, currently houses almost 900,000 materials and maintains its own online public access catalog, which is available from both on- and off-campus computers.

At last count, the following materials were available from the library:
* 256,565 books, serial backfiles, and government documents (titles)
* 13,589 current serials (titles), including periodicals, newspapers, and government documents
* 577,468 microforms (titles)
* 10,935 video and audio titles
* 125 research databases

Student Life

A wide range of student-directed activities, athletics, clubs, and service organizations are available to the student body. Students are represented by a Student Senate and have formal representation through the senate on most College-wide committees involved in decision making and policy formation.

Approximately 80 percent of students live in residence halls and townhouses on campus. The Residence Hall Councils and the Le Moyne Student Programming Board organize many campus activities, including concerts, dances, a weekly film series, student talent programs, and special lectures as well as off-campus trips and skiing excursions. Le Moyne's theater program puts on two productions a year.

Le Moyne is home to "The Dolphin", a weekly student newspaper. The paper's staff discontinued production of the newspaper from November 2005 until September 2006, in protest, due to the administration's removal of its adviser. For its actions, Le Moyne has been criticized and subsequently censured for violations of freedom of speech, by two well-known national organizations, [http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/7024.html FIRE] , and [http://www.collegemedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=126&Itemid=1 College Media Advisers] . The nearly eleven-month protest formally came to an end on Tuesday, September 26, when Le Moyne's administration dissolved The Dolphin as an organization on campus. The students later decided to put out a new newspaper with a revamped staff and a new adviser.

Le Moyne's student radio station is WLMU.

Le Moyne also hosts a new student lounge known as The Cove. The Cove offers a variety of entertainment on weekends including concerts and movie screenings, and is a popular spot for freshman students.

Athletics

Le Moyne sponsors 16 NCAA varsity teams. Le Moyne's varsity athletic program allows new students to make an immediate impact on a team--an opportunity that is not available at many larger institutions. Le Moyne competes in Division I baseball and women's lacrosse as independent, as well as in Division II (Northeast 10) with varsity teams in men's/women's basketball, cross-country, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis; men's golf; and women's softball and volleyball.

The College participates in four sports on the club level: men's ice hockey, rugby, and volleyball, in addition to cheerleading, with both men and women on the squad.

The College conducts an extensive intramural program with sports and competitors that vary each year. The program usually includes: basketball (men's and women's leagues); flag football (men); indoor soccer (men's, women's and coed leagues); walleyball (coed); racquetball tournaments (coed, men's and women's divisions); volleyball (coed); softball (men's and women's leagues); and inner tube water polo (coed).

Sports at-a-glance

Varsity

* Baseball
* Men's & Women's Basketball
* Men's & Women's Cross Country
* Golf
* Men's & Women's Lacrosse
* Men's & Women's Soccer
* Softball
* Men's & Women's Swimming and Diving
* Men's & Women's Tennis
* Volleyball

Intramural activities

* Basketball
* Flag Football
* Indoor Soccer
* Inner Tube Water Polo
* Racquetball
* Softball
* Volleyball
* Wallyball

Club sports

* Men's Ice Hockey
* Rugby
* Volleyball
* Cheerleading
* Field Hockey

National championships

* 2004 - Men's Lacrosse [Division II]
* 2006 - Men's Lacrosse [Division II]
* 2007 - Men's Lacrosse [Division II]

Athletic centers

*Anthony A. Henninger Athletic Center

Recreation center

The college's recreation center is a convert|47000|sqft|m2|sing=on facility connected to the Anthony A. Henninger Athletic Center. Designed primarily for intramural, recreational use and personal fitness activities, the center is one of the most modern small-college recreation centers in the Northeast. The college community can use the convert|25|yd|m|sing=on competition-size swimming pool, whirlpool, large fitness center and weight room, a three-court size multi-purpose gym area, an elevated jogging track, and four racquetball courts.

Alma mater

Against the sky you stand, Le Moyne.
A beacon to us all,
And on the Heights our forces join,
We rally to your call.

From loyal hearts our challenge roars
That here we stand allied,
You're ours, Le Moyne, and we are yours
While Heights and Hearts abide.

May your ideals be our command
Your praises ever sung;
So long as on the Heights you stand
Your name be on our tongue.

From loyal hearts our challenge roars
That here we stand allied,
You're ours, Le Moyne, and we are yours
While Heights and Hearts abide.

Notable alumni

*Siobhan Fallon, actress, "Forrest Gump", "Boiler Room", "Saturday Night Live", "Seinfeld", "Men in Black", "Holes", "The Negotiator", "Baby Mama"
*Tom Browning, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
*Scott Cassidy, Current Major League Baseball Pitcher
*Kate Clinton, Feminist Humorist
*Tim DeKay, actor, Best known for his role as Clayton "Jonesy" Jones in the HBO series Carnivàle
*Jim Deshaies, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher and Current Announcer for the Houston Astros
*Peter Hoy, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
*Nicholas J. Pirro, Former Onondaga County Executive
*Thomas Barrett, Deputy Secretary of Transportation
*James Zogby, Founder and President of the Arab American Institute based in Washington D.C.
*Jon Ratliff, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
*Jim Wessinger, Former Major League Second Baseman
*John Zogby, President & CEO, Zogby International (creator of the Zogby Poll)
*Tom DiFalco, Former Editor-in-Chief, Marvel Comics
*Michael Kwee, Chairman & CEO, PAMA Group, Inc.
*Frederick Valerino, Founder & CEO, Pevco Systems
*Bruce Zicari, President & CEO, Cheeburger Cheeburger Restaurants
*Robert Keegan, Chief Executive Officer, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
*Winifred Coleman, Retired President, St. Joseph's College
*Eugene Pigott, Associate Judge, State of New York Court of Appeals
*John Reagan, Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs, Walt Disney Pictures
*Dr. Joanne Sadowski Ingwall, Professor of Physiology, Harvard Medical School
*Kris Balderston, Deputy Chief of Staff, Sen. Hillary Clinton
*Carl Schramm, President & CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
*Barbara McHugh, Director of Marketing, Sports Museum of America
*Neil Olshey, Director of Player Personnel, Los Angeles Clippers
*Mike Ondrejko, Vice President of Sales, Cleveland Cavaliers
*Jack Curry, Executive Editor, USA Weekend Magazine
*Jack Boorman, Retired Counsellor and Director of Policy Development & Review, International Monetary Fund
*Thomas Young, Former Mayor of Syracuse

External links

* [http://www.lemoyne.edu/index.asp Le Moyne College website]
* [http://www.lemoynedolphins.com Le Moyne Athletics website]
* [http://www.lemoyne.edu/library/index.htm Noreen Reale Falcone Library Webpage]