The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 45, Issue 11 - January 29, 1968

The Los Angeles LOYOLAN Loyola University pf Los Angeles Vol. 45, No. 1 1 Jan. 29, Г968 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. jpgi ц Ну ■ Щ I 4 iti ШИ1 ж 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 (Continued on Page 2) 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 (Continued on Page 3)