Vol. 42— No. 13
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANGELES
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February 15, 1965
Antoninus to Read Prose
WAR ON POVERTY
BEGINS AT HOME
Already this week over sixty Loyolans have enlisted
in the local War on Poverty. Starting next week, the first
squads will be dispatched in car pools to the East Side's
Youth Opportunities Board, to Compton Elementary School
(scene of Loyola's experimental ^ • '7-^' - :
tutorial projects last year), and to of reading skills is strictly subordi-
the 102nd Street School in Watts
(where an altogether new tutorial
project is being planned in collabo¬
ration with Mary mount College.)
At battalion headquarters, Steve
Bansbach, John Nomura, Tom Se-
liga, and Junji Hashimoto are
staggering under the impact of
the whole-hearted response to their
initial questionnaire. Still they in¬
sist that with adequate planning
there is more than enough work
for all comers. No one will be
turned away, they say, if he is
ready and willing to fight the War
faithfully and consistently every
week.
Many Helped
They describe their present com¬
mitments as “tutorial projects,
sponsored by the Loyola Commit¬
tee on Human Relations." But in
the words of Mr. Taylor, principal
of Compton Elementary School,
“The communication of ideas and
nate to the simple sharing of
friendship." According to Father
Hilsdale, faculty advisor to the
project, “This semester the tu-
torees in Watts are being selected
from sndents who are both able
and willing to learn. All they need
is motivation— someone who is
interested and concerned, who will
read with them and discuss what
they’ve read, who will talk with
them and give his time and his
love. We’re not yet ready to help
emotionally retarded children; for
the time being, we’ll leave that
to the experts, and concentrate on
what we have the skills to handle."
Loyola’s work will be divided be¬
tween Negro elementary school
students in the Watts area and
Mexican teenage drop-outs who
are being given job training at the
Youth Opportunities Board on the
East Side.
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Peace Corps
Screens L.U.
Charles E. McKinney, Peace
Corps representative from Wash¬
ington, D.C., will be here on cam¬
pus February 16 to meet with stu¬
dents who are interested in the
Corps. He will speak with Engineer¬
ing students n the morning and will
interview applicants in the Place¬
ment Bureau that afternoon. As
there are only a few spots left for
the interview please sign up early.
He assesses hi$ two-year stint in
the highlands of Brazil as ‘‘fantas¬
tically enlightening." Assigned to
a community development project
patterned after the Tennessee Val¬
ley Authority, he was sent to the
town of Pirapora on the banks of
the Sao Francisco River in Eastern
Brazil.
“My job was to try to improve,
not change the methods of cattle
production and animal husbandry
which was holding back economic
development," McKinney said. “I
worked with a Brazilian counter¬
part who was a veterinarian and
lived in Pirapora."
Homecoming Plans
Near Completion
by John Redmond
The carnival season is fast approaching us and, in no
time at all, Loyola will be transformed into a huge three-ring
circus. All of the hard work and long planning which has
gone into this event will be put into action on the final week¬
end of this month. If the good$> - - - - - -
Lord’s willing and the rain don’t
fall, February 26 to 28 will be the
high point of the entire school year.
Bigger and Better
This year, the carnival will be
greatly expended over last year
and is expected to draw far more
than the approximately ten thou¬
sand visitors of last year. There
will be four major rides this year,
dozens of games and several nov
elty entriesLall together there
will be thirty six entries. Ther will
also be several rock and roll and
folk groups to add to the enjoy¬
ment.
The official oppening of Loyola
•Frontier Days’ will be Friday
night, February 26 at six o’clock.
The first night will run 6 p.m. to
1 a.m. Saturday the carnival will
reopen at 1 p.m. and will run
through to 1 a.m. The final day of
the carnival, Sunday will run from
1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Each day will
offer new entertainment and new
excitement. Many entertainers and
guest celebrities will be on hand
to keep things lively.
On the final day of the carnival,
Sunday, the trophies for the best
entries will be awarded. The
Homecoming Queen, together with
her court and several professional
men will tour the entries and
award the trophies. Also on Sun¬
day, a special Ladies Day admis¬
sion will be put into effect. On this
day only, all females or reasonable
facsimile thereof, will be admitted
to the carnival absolutely free of
charge.
Folk Groups
Included in the carnival this year
will be two folk groups. The Young-
folk will give two performances on
Friday night and there will also
be an outstanding folk group to
entertain on Saturady night. It this
is not enough music, there will
again be a rock and roll dance
band on the grounds.
So remember the last weekend
of February is Frontier Days at
Loyola. Chock off all homework
assignments for that weekend and
be there !
Strub Theater Hosts
Br. Antoninus Recital
Brother Antonius, member of the San Francisco Ren¬
aissance, will give a reading of his poems and prose medita¬
tions on Wednesday, February 17, at 8:00 p.m., in Strub
Memorial Theater. The reading is sponsored by the A.S.L.U*
as part of their Jubilee Lecture
Series. There is no admission
charge; a coffee hour will follow.
Brother Antoninus was born Wil¬
liam Everson. He grew up in
Selma, California, married there
and became a farm laborer. He
wrote a series of books then which
established him as one of the
West’s promising poets. During the
war, he was drafted as a consci¬
entious objector; upon his release
he settled in the Bay Area and!
became identified with the anarcho-|
pacifist group of poet Kenneth
Rexroth. In 1948 he published a vol-j
ume of poetry, The Residual Years,
which brought him national atten¬
tion and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
His marriage had not survived
the war, and during the period
after his release, he met a fallen-
away Catholic whose struggle back
to the faith led to his own conver¬
sion. He spent a year with the
Catholic Worker movement and
was increasingly drawn to the
monastic life. In 1951 he entered the
Dominican Order as an oblate.
The ensuing years of contempla¬
tive withdrawal prepared him for
BROTHER ANTONINUS
his reemergence with the San
Francisco Renaissance in 1957.
This movement in poetry, a move¬
ment entered on the importance
of living, was vaulted into the na¬
tional scene by a 1957 issue of
Evergreen Review devoted to the
“San Francisco Scene." In this is¬
sue, Kenneth Rexroth said of
Brother Antoninus, “Probably the
most profoundly moving and dur-
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Physics Department to Host
Lecture Series in Seaver
The Department of Physics of Loyola University, in con¬
junction with the American Geophysical Union, Los Angeles
Geodesy Chapter, will sponsor a geophysic symposium en¬
titled, “Earth Crustal Movement — A Current Review." The
symposium, co-ordinated under the^ p
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Charles e. McKinney
After carefully studying how the
cattle breeders and farmers oper¬
ated, McKinney concluded that
their basic problem was the long
nine-month drought which caused
a high mortality rate among the
herds. He finally persuaded the
ranchers to grow sorghum as a
new feed for cattle. McKinney
hopes this system of trench silage
is now spreading to other ranchers.
While it was very satisfying to be
able to help in this way, McKinney
is most excited when he talks about
the opportunity for personal rela¬
tionships he had with Brazilians.
“An American has to be many
things at once to a foreign people,"
he said. “He must try to break any
images the people might have about
the ugly American, and he must
truthfully respect the existing meth¬
ods of the community." Some were
suspicious of his motives. “Again
and again I ran into the question,
‘What are you doing down here?"
joint direction of Ira H. Alexander,
program chairman, and Dr. Ro
man
К.
C. Johns, Professor of
Physics and Director of Geosci¬
ence Research at Loyola, is
another of the many different types
of lectures, conferences, and sym¬
posiums held during the Golden
Jubilee Year at Loyola.
The lecture, which will be held
at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb¬
ruary 17th in Seaver Hall of Sci¬
ence, Room 100, will feature four
experienced men in the field of
geophysical research and work.
Each of the men will speak on a
different aspect of geophysics, the
science which deals with agencies
which modify the earth, such as
earthquakes, etc. Many of the geo¬
physical problems and explanations
which confront our own State of
California and the neighboring
Pacific Ocean (such as earth¬
quakes) will be discussed in light of
current aspects of the problem.
Scheduled to speak are:
(1) Dr. Michele Caputo, a mem¬
ber of the Institute of Geophysics
and Planetary Physics at UCLA,
who will speak on the movement
of the earth’s crust recored with
horizontal pendulums in Europe;
(2) Dr. Mason L. Hill, Manager
of Exploration of the Richfield Oil
Corporation, Los Angeles, who will
speak on geological evidence for
cumulative slip along the San An¬
dreas Fault Zone;
(3) Dr. Pierre St. Amand, the
Earth and Planetary Sciences Div¬
ision of the U.S. Naval Ordinances
2-pt. Station, China Lake; and
(4) Captain Philip A. Weber, the
United Coast and Geodetic Survey,
speaking on the progress in the
determination of earth crustal
movement in California.
After the symposium will fol¬
low an open discussion at which
time any of the speakers may be
questioned concerning their topics.
The symposium is open to the
public as well as to the students
of Loyola University and their
guests. All are invited and urged
to attend these lectures which
should shed some new light on re¬
cent developments in the field of
geophysics and geology.
