The Los Angeles
LOYOLAN
Loyola University
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Los Angeles
Vol. 45, No. 1 1
Jan. 29,
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Non -White Alliance Forum in Lair Tuesday
Day Students'
Non-Election
Illegal Anyway
The unsuccessful election
that ASLU Secretary Glen
Golden tried to hold last
week would have been illegal,
Loyolan reporters discovered
last Tuesday.
The election, which was to
have filled the vacant post of
one of the Day Student Rep-
resentatives-at-Large, was
to be held at polling places
on Regents Terrace last
Wednesday.
But Golden cancelled the
election Tuesday, after the
Dean of Students’ office re¬
ported that no one had
turned in the petition re¬
quired to get a candidate’s
name on the ballot.
It was later acknowledged
that day student John Cash-
ell had turned in a petition,
but that it had been lost in a
pile of paperwork.
But, as Loyolan reporters
learned, the election would
have been illegal anyway.
The ASLU Constitution
provides that, when a vacan¬
cy occurs in the second half
of a term of office, the va¬
cancy shall be filled by presi¬
dential appointement with
ASLU Senate approval.
By calculating the term of
office from September in¬
stead of May, Golden had
mistakenly concluded that
there should be an election.
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LOYOLA'S MASCOT gets facial from maintenance worker.
Furtive ’USF' Vandal
Hits Loyola Mascot
Leaving the words “USF Dons” behind, an unknown
vandal, armed with a can of spray paint, wreaked brilliant
green havoc on Loyola’s mascot last week.
• The incident, which apparently occured sometime, be¬
tween 3 and 4 a.m. last Wednesday, left school officials
puzzled as to the reason for the attack.
One theory is that Pepperdine vandals, remembering
last year’s Loyola Frosh terror campaign on their campus,
and anticipating Friday’s - ; -
basketball game, simply put
“USF” on the lion to place
the blame elsewhere.
Others have pointed out
Fr. Casassa Charges
vvLoyolanvv Distortions
The Very Rev. Charles S. Casassa, S.J., President of
Loyola University, has delivered a sharp attack on the
Los Angeles Loyolan.
In a letter, dated January 23, to the members of Loy¬
ola’s Academic Council, Fr. President charged the student
newspaper with distorting both the name and the respon¬
sibilities of a committee he had created to study the struc¬
ture of the Council.
Fr. President said that the Loyolan, in its issue of
January 15, had incorrectly referred to this “special”
Committee on Reorganization as “a sub-committee of the
Academic Council.”
Fr. President also com¬
mented that the January
15th issue “appears to have
given a much wider mandate
for the Committee” than Fr.
President had actually given
it.
,To this Fr. President add¬
ed in particular that he “did
not give any charge to the
Committee to take up the
matter of the seating of the
ASLU President as a mem¬
ber of the Council.”
This, coupled with the
President’s final comment
that “to ask the Committee
to consider this issue would
be to place an undue burden
on it . . .,” seems to indicate
that the President has re¬
jected a recommendation
made by the Academic Coun¬
cil at its meeting of Decem¬
ber 6.
At that meeting the Coun¬
cil, by a vote of 16 to 1, ap¬
proved a motion that was
“amended to include a rec¬
ommendation that this Com¬
mittee (on Reorganization)
consider the membership of
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that the USF College Play¬
ers were on campus with
“The Potting Shed” last
week. The Players, however,
were reportedly at a party
the night of the incident.
The most prevalent theory
is that a USF student, home
on his Semester break and
perhaps disgruntled over the
USF loss to Loyola in bas¬
ketball, simply decided to
wreak his revenge on the
hapless lion.
The lion, donated four
years ago by the Class of
'64, has known similar treat¬
ment before in its short his¬
tory.
Two years ago St. Mary’s
christened it with blue spray
paint. The process involved
in removing the paint almost
disintegrated the mascot.
This time precautions
have been taken to see that
Loyola’s stone beast is not
unduly harmed by the paint
removal.
The vandal also committed
a lesser, but braver crime
the same night. Using his
trusty can of spray paint, he
crossed out “Loyola Univer¬
sity” on the well lit entrance
monument, and renamed the
campus “USF.”
This, however, was reme¬
died within hours by a fresh
coat of paint on the monu¬
ment.
King and Hidalgo Will Speak;
First Meeting Held Last Week
A forum will be held Tuesday, January 30, at noon
in the Lair to discuss the formation of a Non-White Stu¬
dent Alliance. Wayne King of the Black Student Union,
and Frank Hidalgo of the United Mexican American Stu¬
dents, will address the forum and then open the floor
for discussion.
Antoninus to
Speak Tomorrow
Brother Antoninus, \a
Dominican lay brother
whose poetry has brought
him national prominence,
will read his verse and prose
meditations in St. Roberts
Auditorium on Tuesday, Jan¬
uary 30.
Brother Antoninus grew
up in Selma, Calif. He mar¬
ried there and became a
farm laborer. During the
war, he was drafted as a con¬
scientious objector.
After the war, which his
marriage did not survive, he
settled in the San Francisco
area.
He published several
books, including The Residu-
BROTHER ANTONINUS
al Years, which brought him
national attention and a
Guggenheim Fellowship in
1948.
He met a fallen-away
Catholic whose struggle
back to faith led to his own
conversion. In 1951, he en¬
tered the Dominican Order.
Antoninus reemerged with
the San Francisco Renais¬
sance in 1957. In that year,
the Evergreen Review called
him the “most profoundly
moving and durable of the
poets ... the finest Catholic
poet writing today.”
The reading, sponsored by
the English Society, is titled
“The Savagery of Love.”
There will be no admission
charge for the presentation,
which begins at 8 :00 p.m.
A preliminary meeting of
students interested in for¬
ming the alliance was held
Thursday, January 25, in
the President’s Lounge. The
meeting was attended by
about thirty Loyola students
among whom were King and
Hidalgo.
King spoke on behalf of a
proposed Black Student Un¬
ion and Hidalgo on another
group to be known as the
United Mexican American
Students (UMAS) . The
meeting was held with the
idea of forming the two
groups separately and work¬
ing together as a Non-
White Student Alliance.
Wayne King in his re¬
marks about the proposed
Black Student Union said
that the group would be set
up with the idea of promot¬
ing self identity. He also
suggested that the Union
would be a way of stopping
violence with an “intellectual
approach” and “reason.”
On a national scale, King
said that a similar group had
been started four or five
years ago at Harvard. He
stated that the group was
late in starting here because
people on the West Coast
“take things for granted.”
He outlined a tentative
program for the group in
which they would help people
in black communities such as
Venice and Watts. The group
would make the people aware
of the educational opportuni¬
ties available, and tell them
that as University students
they have not lost and will
not lose their identity, and
that they will come back to
their communities after
graduation.
The history of the move¬
ment on this campus was also
outlined by King. They ap¬
parently started work on
their constitution in Decem¬
ber while holding meetings
in what King called the
“Watts Wing of Whelan.”
Hidalgo, who spoke on be¬
half of UMAS said that its
purpose was to “make the
Mexican more aware of his
predicament.” In comment¬
ing on the response to his ar¬
ticle the January 15 issue of
the Loyolan he said that Ce-
lestino Beltran, author of
the letter to the editor titled
“The Ultimate Minority,” is
“the type of person I aimed
my article at.”
He further stated, “It
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