The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 45, Issue 15 - March 4, 1968

The Los Angeles LOYOLAN Loyola University of Los Angeles Vol. 45, No. 15 March 4, 1968 War Week March 4-8 Loyola University and Marymount College will join this week in a week-long series of films, lectures, poe¬ try readings, and symposi¬ ums on the Vietnam war and on war in general. Faculty Coordinators for Marymount include James Andrews, Department of English; Robert Papstein, Department of History; and Denise Scott, Department of English. Loyola events are being coordinated by sophomore Bob Beckett, with assistance from John Jackson. Highlights of the “Voices on War” program will in¬ clude screenings of Peter Watkins’ Academy Award- winning documentary, War Game, Dr. Strangelove (star¬ ring Peter Sellers), and two shorts — Vivere and Neigh¬ bors. Guest speakers will be Ar¬ nold Kaufman, organizer of the National Teach-in at Washington (1965) and edi¬ tor of Dissent, and promi¬ nent screenwriter Fred Nib- lo, Jr., who has spent eight years in Southeast Asia writ¬ ing and producing films for the TT.S. Information Agency. (Continued on Page 3) DR. MAX RAFFERTY, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, speaks to St. Roberts audience last Wednes¬ day evening. Rafferty Delivers Campaign Speech By Rich Walter “I would have been at a Santa Monica beer bust.” With these words Dr. Max Rafferty, the State Super¬ intendent of Public Instruction, told an audience of 200 gathered in St. Robert’s Hall yvhere he would have been if a candidate for the U.S. Senate came to speak on his campus when he was in college. Last Wednesday evening, on the Loyola Campus, Raf¬ ferty ma dethe second major speech of hs campaign to wrest the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from incembent Thomas Kuchel. Publications Committee To Name Loyolan Editor The University Committee on Student Publications, meeting tomorrow afternoon, is expected to name a new Editor in Chief for the Loyolan and, at the same time, to. discuss a compromise plan that would extend the term of office of present Editor Jerry Floyd to the middle of the. Spring term. Fr. David T. Fisher, S.J., the Loyolan’s Faculty Ad¬ visor, must nominate a student to succeed Floyd as Editor. While Fr. Fisher has made no official statements, Dr. Daniel T. Mitchell, Chairman of the Committee on Student Publications, says he expects Fr. Fisher to nominate Dennis McLaughlin, currently the Loyolan’s Sports Editor, to the newspaper’s top position. McLaughlin has confirmed that he has been approached by both Fr. Fisher and Dr. Mitchell concerning the ap¬ pointment. Dr. Mitchell also indicated that his Committee would discuss the policy change that was announced two weeks ago, involving the re¬ moval of Jerry Floyd. Floyd was informed on February 13 that his term of office would end with the Winter Quarter. Floyd had not been informed of this Dr. Rafferty outlined his positions on what he thought were the key issues of the day and then opened himself for questions. He said “any jackass can make a speech,” (Continued on Page 3) Loyola ns Join in Boston Conference Student Body Presidents and student leaders front Jesuit colleges in the United States and Canada assembled at Boston College over the Washington's Birthday Holiday for the Fourth Annual Jesuit Student Body Presidents' Conference. _ _ _ Clark Succeeds Terry As Academic Vice-President Rev. John W. Clark, S.J., Loyola University College of Business Administration faculty member, has been ap¬ proved as the University’s academic vice president by Loyola’s Board of Trustees. The appointment became effective- March 1, the same date on which Rev. Thomas D. Terry, S.J., formerly Loy¬ ola’s academic vice-president, assumed the presidency of Santa Clara University. Representing Loyola were Crimson Circle President Rick Del Bonta, ASLU Vice- President Ralph Smith, and Junior Class Vice-President Wayne King. With Loyola casting af¬ firmative votes, the Confer¬ ence “strongly endorsed and accepted” the Joint State¬ ment on the Rights and Freedoms of Students; sup¬ ported seating “voting stu¬ dent members to all standing and ad hoc university com¬ mittees which deal with aca¬ demic policy and student af¬ fairs ;” favored a pass-fail option for all non-major courses and endorsed a teacher-evaluation to be sub¬ mitted to committees on rank and tenure. The Conference concluded that “matters that relate to the internal affairs of the academic community should be decided by the three groups which compose the community: students, fac¬ ulty, and administration. This,” the leaders continued, “can be best accomplished by the establishment of a tri¬ partite board . . .” Regarding student power, the delegates said that “only when administrative obdur- ance is inconsistent with the ideals of liberal education can pressure tactics be justi¬ fied.” In the religious field, Loyola delegate Rick Del Bonta introduced the follow¬ ing plank, adopted by the Conference: “When hierar- chal controls of the Catholic religion are found to be an unreasonable obstruction to the means and processes of Christian commitment, the students have the right and the responsibility to work constructively through any legitimate means toward the solution of the problem.” The delegates also sup¬ ported “a policy of providing optional academic credit (s) for those involved in student government.” Both Loyola and Santa Clara opposed this statement. Father Terry, who two years ago was dean of Santa Clara’s College of Arts and Sciences, fills the post va¬ cated by Rev. Patrick A. Donohoe, S.J., recently named provincial of the Cali¬ fornia province of the Soci¬ ety of Jesus. A native of Los Angeles, Father Clark was educated at Polytechnic and Loyola High Schools in Los Ange- les ; Gonzaga University (bachelor’s and master’s de¬ grees) in Spokane, Wash.; another master’s degree from Santa Clara; and in 1965 completed his doctor’s degree in business adminis¬ tration from UCLA. His book, Religion and the Moral Standards of Ameri¬ can Businessmen, a three- part study investigating the influence of religion on con¬ temporary business stand¬ ards, was an outgrowth of his doctoral dissertation at UCLA. During the last few years of his academic work, Father Clark was the recipient of grants from both the Ford Foundation and, the David H. Weiss Memorial fund at UCLA, He joined the Loyola staff policy when he took office last Spring. Under this policy Floyd would be demoted to Senior Editor and the incoming edi¬ tor would have the full pow¬ er of Editor in Chief. The compromise was for¬ mulated by Floyd after an informal discussion between Floyd and Mitchell on Febru¬ ary 20. In a letter of the same date to Mitchell, Floyd sug¬ gested that his term of of¬ fice be extended “though the month of April,” with the new Editor in Chief “to serve as Senior Editor dur¬ ing that month.” As of May 1, Floyd would assume the position of Sen¬ ior Editor and the new Editor in Chief would take office. Floyd would serve in this advisory capacity for the last three issues of the year. This compromise would apply to this year only. In his letter, Floyd said that “the central point of our criticism has been that I, as Editor in Chief, was not . ’ ~ ~ informed of the recently an- m 1964, after serving (on the nounced policy change when faculties of St. Ignatius High School, San Francisco, FR. JOHN CLARK, and the University of San Francisco. - After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Father Clark entered Los Gatos Novitiate in 1946. He was ordained in Los Angeles in 1959, and took his final vows for the priesthood August 15, 1963. the Committee appointed me to office.” “In light of this,” Floyd continued, “(and the doubts that still persist about whether or not the policy was approved last year), the members of the Loyolan staff feel that the policy change was applied to my term of office in an ex post facto manner.” Emphasizing that he and the staff continue to support the Winter Quarter change- of-editors policy, Floyd said the compromise plan “would be an indication from the Committee (on Student Pub¬ lications) that its members do not support an ex post facto application of the poli¬ cy change.” Prior to the Compromise proposal, the Loyolan termed the sudden policy change “a dangerous precedent.” In a February 19 editorial, the Loyolan said that “the man¬ ner and context in which that policy is implemented convey the impression that those who dare to say any¬ thing on this campus will be ‘taken care of.’ ” (Continued on Page 3)