Ш. 44—
No.
8
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANGELES
November 21, 1966
DAVID KETCHUM M.C.
FOR FALL FESTIVAL
On December 3, the Loyola Men’s
Chorus will present the Second An¬
nual Fall Festival of Music at Hol¬
lywood High School Auditorium.
For those new comers to the Loy¬
ola campus, the Fall Festival is a
competition among various organi¬
zations of the Catholic College
Community. The competition is di¬
vided into two general areas: Nov¬
elty and Choral. The choral groups
are further divided into Men’s,
Women’s and Mixed groups who
will be vying for a Sweepstakes
David Ketch urn
trophy, awarded permanently to
any group winning three times.
David Ketchum M.C.
Negotiations have just been com¬
pleted to obtain David Ketchum as
Master of Ceremonies for the pro¬
gram. Mr. Ketchum is widely
known for his television work. He
is presently co-starring as “Agent
13” in the popular “Get Smart” se¬
ries. During the 1965-66 season, Mr.
Ketchum starred as the Senior
Camp Counselor in “Camp Buna-
muck.” He has also appeared as a
regular in “I’m Dickens . . . He’s
Fenster”, as well as in “My Three
Sons,” “The Tycoon,” “The Mun-
sters,” “The Joey Bishop Show,”
“The Tonight Show,” “Hey Land¬
lord” and in the motion picture
“Good Neighbor Sam.”
Ketchum played in summer stock
in Roberta, South Pacific, The Stu¬
dent Prince and made his Broad¬
way debut in Billy Barnes People
in 1961. In addition to a recently
launched television writing career,
Mr. Ketchum is also known for his
appearances at leading supper
clubs, headling his own act.
According to Festival chairman,
Vance Schweitzer, this year’s pro¬
gram will emphasize variety in an
attempt to appeal to a differenti¬
ated audience. Groups entering the
competition vary from Madrigal to
Folk to Bossa Nova to Popular
Choral.
Among the groups entering are
last year’s Sweepstakes winners,
Phi Kappa Theta and last year’s
Novelty winners, The Wayfarers.
Also returning in an attempt to
capture trophies are the Knights of
Columbus, Claretville and, after an
absence of one year, Alpha Delta
Gamma. New to the program, as
well as the school, are the Jesuit
Students, who are entering groups
in both divisions. These along with
a group from Marymount will
round out the Sweepstakes compe¬
titors.
One of the most important
changes, as far as the audience
will be concerned, is the price. This
year a General Admission of only
$1.50 single or $2.50 per couple will
be charged. This is a savings of
from $1.50 to $2.50 over last year.
Tickets will go on sale in the
Lair and Terrace Room Nov. 21 at
noon. Tickets will also be available
at the door on the night of the per¬
formance.
Lions Place
In Tourneys
The Loyola debate squad turned
in its finest early season perform¬
ance in recent years at the Univer¬
sity of the Pacific debate tourna¬
ment last week.
Thrity-five schools and 150 de¬
bate teams competed in the two-
day tournament. Loyola placed
more teams in the finals than any
other school. All four Lion teams
placed fourth place or better in
their respective divisions.
Senior Division
In senior division Vince McGraw
and Jeff Bachmann had the high¬
est team ratings of any team to
reach the finals and finished third
place overall. McGraw and Bach¬
mann have placed fourth or better
in each of their three tournaments
this year, including first place in
the Loyola-USC tournament.
Richard LoCicero and George
Sheridan were the only team in the
tournament to win all six of their
preliminary debates before bowing
out in the quarter-finals on a two-
to-one decision. They tied for fourth
place in their strongest showing
of the year with wins over the top
teams from USC and Redlands.
Jim Stiles and Ted Mathews,
who had the third highest team rat¬
ings in the prelims, also reached
the quarter-finals and tied for
fourth place. This was their first
tournament as colleagues. Their
loss was also two-to-one.
In Junior division, John Arm¬
strong and John Cashel (the John-
John team) made an excellent
showing finishing third place from
among the 80 junior division teams.
It was Loyola’s strongest showing
of the year in Junior division.
Professor George Schell, Direc¬
tor of Forensics, expressed great
satisfaction with the squad’s per¬
formance. “We’ve got a fine group
of debaters this year,” he re¬
marked. “This squad shows the po¬
tential for becoming the best in
our history, and the nice thing is
that they’re all coming back next
year.”
PRES. MALONEY DELIVERS
STATE OF ASLU MESSAGE
“Our task then this evening and
in the long days ahead is to dem-
onnstrate vigor of leadership, to
get back to the students, to restore
their confidence . . . We must
give our students reason to care.”
This was the highlight of ASLU
President Mike Maloney’s State of
the ASLU message last Wednesday
night.
Speaking before a joint session
of the Student Legislature, the
Executive Committee, and the
Student Court, Maloney recalled
the “spirit of April, 1966” and a
by-gone era of student interest and
concern.
When the students elected his
administration last semester, Ma¬
loney said they committed them¬
selves to “a New Role and a New
Politics in University decision¬
making.”
Student Rights
The students did this, Maloney
emphasized, “not as the recipients
of privileges granted from above,
but as American students articu¬
lating rights derived from the na¬
ture of a university, from the na¬
ture of our contract with it, and
from our nature as human beings.”
But the President noted that Loy¬
ola is very different this semester,
that the great issues that aroused
so much discussion and enthusiasm
last year were no longer consid¬
ered important by “the vast ma¬
jority.”
Besides calling on the assembled
student leaders to “renew last
year’s hope and pledge,” Maloney
announced his support for a series
of meetings among students, fa¬
culty, and administrators” to de¬
lineate areas of authority and to
establishd genuine dialogue.”
The University’s current situa¬
tion, Maloney said, is not healthy.
Dissension and frustration, whether
real or apparent, must be recog¬
nized and dealt with if Loyola is
to progress.
Authority
Maloney also urged a basic and
comprehensive overhaul of the
University structure. Noting that
the University is an autocracy in
which all power and authority
come from above, Maloney sug¬
gested that the students and fac¬
ulty also have some inherent,
though subordinate, authority that
the University must recognize and
guarantee.
“Here we have a basic philo¬
sophical difference with the Uni¬
versity administration,” the Presi¬
dent said. “If we infuse some lati¬
tude on off-campus speakers, we
can publish our own student news¬
paper; we can have real, not ap¬
parent, decision-making power in
some University affairs.”
Noting also a certain amount of
dissension in the ranks within his
administration, Maloney reminded
his fellow students that they were
elected or appointed “not to rule,
but to serve — not primarily to in¬
crease our own prestige — but to
lead our fellow students on the
course Loyola must begin to follow
before we take our leave.”
But perhaps the main thrust of
the speech was in its optimistic out¬
look. The progress that has been
made on the University committee
structure, the Loyolan, the off-
campus speaker policy, the politi¬
cal union^ and even a possible beer
pub were all discussed with enthu¬
siasm.
Football
Speaking of the football program,
Maloney stated that “as a means
— T. J. Mueller
Mike Maloney
to increase school spirit and resur¬
rect our sense of community, no
other single proposal is more im¬
portant.”
The year, Maloney said, has not
been without its problems. Chief
among these was the Social Com¬
mittee’s loss of $1100 dollars on two
recent events. Speaking of that
loss, Maloney was firm: “This can¬
not, should not, and will not be con¬
doned. But neither will we scape a
goat.”
Maloney said that, on the advice
at Treasurer Jeff Bachmann and
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USF PLAYERS
AT LOYOLA
The University of San Fran-»
cisco’s College Players, now in
their 101st year of existence at our
sister-institution in the City by the
Bay, played to packed houses in
Strub Theatre over the week-end
of Nov. 11 and 12. The inaugural
production in this interchange-pro¬
gram between Jesuit educational
institutions was the Commedia de
’Arte piece of Carlo Goldoni,
A SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS.
The play was first produced in
Pisa, Italy, in 1745. It more re¬
cently opened the College Players*
season at Gill Theatre, Campion
Hall in San Francisco, under the
direction of Mr. John Collins, of
the University’s Department of
Speech and drama.
Some of the best scenes those
between Pantalone and Dotore, the
sword play between Silvio and Bea¬
trice and the waiters’ scene.
One of the most refreshing fea¬
tures of the prodution was direc¬
tor Collins’ inclusion of the com-»
media convention of having the
entire cast bustling about and
breaking character during the in¬
terlude between acts.
This device allowed for com¬
munication between performer and
audience allowing all to join in the
intended broadness and fun of the
production. No one was expected
to take the whole matter seri¬
ously— audiences in the 18th cent¬
ury didn’t take Commedia perfor¬
mances seriously either.
The stylistic sets were expertly
designed and executed by technical
director Richard Melo, also of the
University faculty and bosed on
first hand research done on Melo’s
recent trip to Italy. The music,
also by Melo, was a combination
of Mozart and Handel. Mozart con¬
sidered basing an opera buff a on
this play but never quite managed
it.
