The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 44, Issue 10 - December 12, 1966

Voi. 44— No. 10 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANGELES December 12, 1966 March of Lions In an interview last week, IFC President Greg Perez outlined ten¬ tative plans for next semester. Following a committee meeting to¬ morrow, they will be made definite. Heading the committee for the week to be called “The March of Lions” are John Redmond in charge, Jim Raycraft in publicity, and Perez representing the IFC. Spring Week Perez has hopes that this spring week will not only supplant the Carnival of past years, but will prove an even greater success. Already the ball has started to roll with pledges of $75 from each of the girls schools to help defer costs. Speaker Names such as Ronald Reagan and Senator Murphy have been dis¬ cussed as possible spreakers dur¬ ing the week. To date, the committee is not prepared to give a day by day calendar of events, but the run down is something like this: On the first weekend, the Loy- olans meet USF Mar. 3, and Santa Clarii Mar. 4. A dance follows the Santa Clara game. Festivities During the week, the festivities begin, with each campus organiza¬ tion, in particular the fraternities providing talent exhibitions. Educationally, the various other organizations and societies on cam¬ pus will have the chance to provide speakers for their particular group Girls Each of the girls schools that have contributed so generously to participate will, of course, play an integral role in the activities. The final weekend sees Loyola meet UCSB on Friday, then the Homecoming, and final game of the year, on Saturday against San Jose State. Dance Again following the Saturday night game, a dance will follow. The bands and the places for each dance have not been announced to date. According to Perez, plans are going much better than expected, and Loyolans should find no dis¬ appointment, but rather improve¬ ment over the carnival of last year. RESTING— A group of Loyola students take time out after do¬ nating blood to the annual Crimson Circle Blood Drive. Drive was a huge success. Midnight Mass For Students On Christmas ..A solemn High Mass will be of¬ fered at midnight on Christmas in the Sacred Heart Chapel. The Mass is offered for the benefit of Loyola students, faculty and their invited guests. Admission to the Mass is by ticket only. . . Tickets may be obtained from the chaplain’s office on the ground floor of Malone Center. They will be distributed on a first come first serve basis... The Ministers at the Mass will be as follows: (Continued on Page 2) Austerity Football Question ASLU President Mike Maloney’s “Austerity Program”, announced last week in the L о у о 1 a n, has caused some disturbances in upper circles. According to the dictates of the program, the ASLU budget would have to be cut some $3,000 dollars in order to give Lion Football a chance to return. ORGANIZATION This, of course, would mean, that various other campus organi¬ zations that depend upon the ASLU for funds could suffer. One such disturbance occured (Continued on Page 2) CRIMSON CIRCLE COLLECTS BLOOD The Crimson Circle on November 30 sponsored in connection with the Red Cross Bloodmobile its annual blood drive. Loyola’s quota was set at 200 pints and this was exceeded by 15 pints. A total of 252 students volunteered, 37 of which were re¬ jected for various reasons. Large Turnout Due to this large turn out the Red Cross is increasing the number of beds to be used in forth coming drives and has asked the Crimson Circle to sponsor' a drive each semester. The Loyola Belles were extreme¬ ly helpful in many aspects of this drive especially in the recruitment and secretarial processes. According to Crimson Circle President Jerry Boyd, the interest and large turnout of the Jesuits and fraternities was “deeply ap¬ preciated.” Account The donated blood goes/ into the Loyola Blood Bank account. All students, faculty members, admin¬ istrators, and their families can draw upon this account in time of need without charge. Upon graduation all students, who have participated in the blood drives, can draw out the number of pints they donated. Lair Forum Under Fire By Rad Artukovich “Assumed, the Loyola man is a child” was the topic of Loyola’s first Lair Forum this year, and after 15 minutes it was proven. Sophomore John Jackson gave a superfluous oratory on what was wrong with the Loyola man and how childishly he acts. Spellbound Andy Smith, RSA President, can be credited with keeping the crowd spellbound as he made unbelievably sick statements. John Duggan received the great¬ est amount of applause for stating what everyone else was thinking. John Redmond should get an E for effort for the tremendous job he did in making himself heard even though his mouth was wired. Subjects Many interesting subjects were discussed: The need for a Com¬ munist speaker on campus, why Boarderline is falling apart, why Andy Smith makes us sick, why getting drunk is a sign of im¬ maturity, why it is terrible to be apathetic, why Doesn’t somebody jump on John Jackson, and WHY HAVE A FORUM ANYWAY. There was something new, how¬ ever, about this forum. (Continued on Page 2) FORUM DEBATES LU "CHILDREN" By Joe Ashby On Friday, December 2, a forum was conducted in the Lair with the subject: “Assumed: The Loyola- man is a Child.” The forum was conducted by the RSA, represented by President Andy Smith who served as chair¬ man, with the assistance of Dr. Kearley of the Philisophy Depart¬ ment, who explained the format and purpose of a student forum. John Allen Jackson, former Ex¬ ecutive Assistant on Procedures for the ASLU, and an active as well as brilliant student during his two years at Loyola, delivered the “keynote” address. Apathy Jackson deplored the Loyola stu¬ dent’s apathy with regard to aca¬ demics as well as his fellow man. With the usual large crowd of Lair visitors turning their attention to his thought-provoking words, Jack- son said he found a lack of intel¬ lectual curiosity in the student body; many of them content them¬ selves with the bare minimum of required work and manage to “squeak” by with no regard for outside matter. Frats He also found fault with the so¬ cial fraternities, claiming their members have no interest in the school as a whole and satisfy them¬ selves with beer and other diver¬ sions. Children He found Loyola’s student gov¬ ernment ineffective for the most part, and noted that students spend their time with stupid “rf’s” and pledging projects while ignoring campus lectures and programs of cultural importance. Jackson’s opening remarks, in which he addressed the audience as “fellow children” and compared the studenty body to freshmen in high school and the school itself to a kindergarten immediately jarred his listeners, and he did not over¬ look certain administrative depart¬ ments of the University with his sharp criticism. The following response by the students often turned into heated exchange between Smith and vari¬ ous students. Smith’s comments following remarks by the students were sometimes construed as im¬ polite and even boorish, although they served their purpose in draw¬ ing commentary, regardless of the individuaPs point of view. Faculty Several faculty members, includ¬ ing Father Robert A. Taylor of the English Department and Father Paul Hillsdale, S.J., of the Theolo¬ gy Department joined the dicus- sion; both generally concurred with Jackson’s statement on the stu¬ dent body’s lack of sincere intel¬ lectual interest and unwillingness to participate in “probing” con¬ cerns. The forum, which rose to an angry pitch at one moment and later mellowed into a peaceful ex¬ change of opinion, produced every¬ thing from a defense of some “rf-ing” as an example of spirit to a simple call for people to “stop bitching and start working!” FOOD SERVICE IN DISCUSSION Because of the wave of criticism over the food service, the RSA held a meeting last Wednesday night to discuss the complaints concerning the cafeteria. A panel consisting of Andy Smith, RSA President, Fr. Werts, Assistant Business Manager, and Mr. Julian Koupy, head of food service, stated their views and answered questions from a small turnout of 20 students. Smith spoke first and outlined the problem into the two major areas of profit made and quality of the food. He compalined that cold food was served, the quality was bad and challenged the lack of orginality and creativity in the selection of foods. On the profit made by the food service, Smith thought a one or two per cent profit was enough instead of the believed 10 per cent. Каиру answered that the problem of cold food was irisolvable as stu¬ dents come in groups and the cafe¬ teria has no electrical equipment. He did not reply to the lack of crea¬ tivity charge and said all foods were government inspected and approved in answer to the opinion about the quality. Talking about the profits, the head of food service stated they came mainly from special events and the students contributed appro¬ ximately 30 per cent or ten thou¬ sand dollars. The proposed change to an a la carte or “pay as you eat” system came up in the discussion. Smith favored this system, explaining that many students do not eat breakfast and go home on weekends. The RSA President received op¬ position on this idea from his V.P., Ralph Smith, who would rather pay everything at the start of the se¬ mester and not have to worry about carrying around large amounts of money. Another problem of the a la (Continued on Page 2)