The Rev. John Lo Schiavo, who spent 14 years as president of the University of San Francisco, notably making headlines when he took the rare step of suspending the men’s basketball program after repeated violations of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, died on Friday in Los Gatos, Calif. He was 90.
The death was confirmed in an email by a spokeswoman for the university, Anne-Marie Devine Tasto, who said Father Lo Schiavo had dementia.
Father Lo Schiavo, a San Francisco native, was affiliated with the university, a Jesuit school, almost continuously for more than 60 years. He started as a philosophy instructor in 1950 and was later dean of students, vice president for student affairs, chairman of the board of trustees and rector of the university Jesuit community.