Xavier Hall, Loyola Marymount University. (Photo: public domain)
Loyola Marymount University Discriminated on Basis of Race, Sex, New Federal Civil Rights Complaint Alleges
‘Ending the discrimination, however, is not sufficient – there needs to be accountability’
By Evan Gahr, May 15, 2025 3:30 am
It looks like quota mongers were out in full force at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in violation of federal and California law.
The school was just hit with a federal civil rights complaint filed by the Equal Protection Project, a civil rights organization, for a slew of scholarship programs that casually exclude people based on race and gender. The complaint about this brazen discrimination was filed last week with the Office for Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education.
It says the programs that exclude based on race violate Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the gender exclusive programs violate the Title lX law that prohibits discrimination in educational programs based on gender.
Equal Protection Project founder William Jacobson told the California Globe that the discriminatory scholarships at Loyola Marymount University are fairly typical for academia these days.
“EPP has filed legal challenges to almost 100 colleges and universities since launch in February 2023, covering over 300 discriminatory programs and scholarships.We have become widely recognized as the leading civil rights group fighting DEI discrimination in higher education, “ he emailed. “We only file cases where we believe there is clear evidence of unlawful discrimination. In each of our cases we are surprised at the brazen disregard for the civil rights laws and the school’s own nondiscrimination rules, and Loyola Marymount is no exception. There is a culture throughout higher education that past discrimination justifies present discrimination, but that is contrary to law.
The Equal Protection Project is asking for an investigation of the programs. Its complaint says that, “The Office for Civil Rights has the power and obligation to investigate LMU’s role in creating, funding, promoting and administering these scholarships as well as the duty to impose whatever remedial relief is necessary to hold it accountable for this unlawful conduct.”
“Accordingly, we respectfully ask that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights promptly open a formal investigation, impose such remedial relief as the law permits for the benefit of those who have been illegally excluded from LMU’s various scholarships and programs based on discriminatory criteria, and ensure that all ongoing and future scholarships and programming at LMU comports with the federal civil rights laws.”
It seems that the school’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion office is behind the program. The complaint says that LMU’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office “oversees numerous initiatives and programs that” in its words are designed to “cultivate an anti-racist institutional climate that supports inclusive excellence and fights systemic oppression.”
The end result is that this “mission has resulted in discriminatory practices on campus.”
There is something called the “African-American Scholarship” that says it “provides critical financial support to an incoming or current African American student who might not otherwise be able to afford a Loyola education.”
Sounds like a good deal if you have the right skin color.
There is also the “Latino Scholarship” that offers donors a chance to support “an emerging Latina/o leader who shows incredible promise through community involvement, academic excellence, and/or campus engagement.”
Then there is another scholarship program called the Academic Community of Excellence. The name sounds inviting to everyone. But the description makes clear that only people with sufficient melanin can apply. It says “The Academic Community of Excellence prepares underrepresented students (as defined by the U.S. Department of Education) and other students of color to pursue graduate and professional school. The program’s goal is to increase the representation of students of color in advanced degree programs and diversify our nation’s professional sectors.”
The complaint says Title lX is violated by the school’s Alliance for Women Philanthropists scholarship program that has a discriminatory preference for women recipients.
The final scholarship program listed in the complaint is a discriminatory twofer, excluding both on the basis of gender and race. The Argelia Atilano Scholarship has a stated preference for “female, Latina students who are first generation students to attend college.”
William Jacobson of the Equal Protection Project said Loyola Marymount University should apologize for its rank discrimination and that he hopes the Education Department is going to take action against the school.
“In all of our cases the primary goal is to remove discriminatory barriers and to open the program or scholarship to all students without regard to race, color, national origin, or sex. In almost all of our cases that have reached a conclusion, the removal of discriminatory barriers was the result. Our high success rate reflects that our Civil Rights Complaints are extremely detailed and present clear evidence and law supporting our position” he explained. “We hope to achieve similar success with Loyola Marymount.”
“Ending the discrimination, however, is not sufficient. There needs to be accountability. First and foremost, Loyola Marymount should apologize to the community. Second, the Office for Civil Rights needs to impose remedies — financial or otherwise — that make sure the misconduct does not repeat itself. Otherwise, we are just playing whack-a-mole with discriminatory programs and scholarships.”
Loyola Marymount spokesperson Griff McNerney declined comment.
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Not surprised? Loyola Marymount is a Jesuit institution and the Jesuits have a long and ugly history of discrimination. Jesuits, participated in the institution of slavery in North America from the colonial era until the passage of the 13th Amendment. The Jesuits owned, rented, and borrowed enslaved people, whose involuntary labor helped establish, expand, and sustain Jesuit missionary efforts and educational institutions. This includes the notorious sale of 272 enslaved individuals by the Maryland Jesuits to Louisiana planters in 1838, which generated significant criticism at the time.
Ironically, Loyola Marymount’s mission statement claims they have a “commitment to local and global justice.”
Discriminatory scholarships along with discriminatory student admissions are fairly common not only at Loyola Marymount but at most universities and colleges?
Grok3, confirms your statements, TJ:
You’re correct that the Jesuits in North America were involved in the institution of slavery from the colonial period until the 13th Amendment abolished it in 1865. They owned, rented, and borrowed enslaved people to support their missionary activities and educational institutions, including Georgetown College (now Georgetown University). The 1838 sale of 272 enslaved individuals by the Maryland Jesuits to Louisiana planters, known as the GU272, was particularly significant, generating funds to sustain the college but drawing criticism even then for its moral implications. This sale, valued at about $115,000 (roughly $3.3 million today), involved men, women, and children, many of whom were sent to plantations under harsh conditions. The Jesuits’ reliance on enslaved labor mirrored broader societal practices but has since been acknowledged as a grave moral failing, with Georgetown and the Jesuits taking steps in recent years to address this history through research, apologies, and reparative efforts. If you’d like, I can dig deeper into specific aspects, like the GU272 descendants’ stories or the Jesuits’ financial dependence on slavery.
Thanks for confirming how morally bankrupt the Jesuits have been and continue to be. So now the Jesuits at LMU are making up for their past “grave moral failing” of being slave traders by discriminating and excluding innocent students based on their race and gender in direct violation of federal and California law. The Jesuits at LMU have learned nothing from their ugly past and they’ve just continued their “grave moral failings” in a different form?
It’s appalling?
Yes, TJ. Appalling indeed. Our hair-gel governor also graduated from a Jesuit institution…..Santa Clara University……Of course, we are not intimating that ALL Jesuit institutions are like LMU?
Former Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown was also a Jesuit. In 1955, Brown entered Santa Clara University for a year and left to attend Sacred Heart Novitiate, a Jesuit novice house in Los Gatos, intent on becoming a Catholic priest.
Maybe there’s a Jesuit mafia mob running the state?
Leo Zagami, a Vatican insider and author, joined Alex Jones live on his show to reveal that the new Pope Leo XIV is a Jesuit who is a continuation of the NWO globalist takeover of the Catholic Church. According to Zagami, the new Pope is worse than his predecessor and he will likely attack Trump.
(https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1920546532480463248)
Nothing like being an “ex Jesuit” on the (d) plantation.