The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 45, Issue 17 - April 8, 1968

The Los Angeles LOYQLAN Loyola University of Los Angeles Vol. 45. No. 17 April 8, 1968 Spring Sing Kicks Off Loyola-68 The Men’s Chorus spon¬ sors its tenth annual Spring Sing next week, April 20, beginning at 8:00 p.m. This year the event opens 'the ASLU - sponsored Loyola 68 week. The Spring Sing has tra¬ ditionally been a competi¬ tion among Loyola’s frater¬ nities for the perpetual tro¬ phy in the sweepstakes di¬ vision. This year, greater vari¬ ety among smaller groups in the novelty division has been encouraged, with instrumen¬ tal and dance numbers re¬ cruited from Loyola, 1HC, Mt. St. Mary’s and Mary- mount. Groups returning from last year will be the Phi- Kaps and A.D.G.’s, and Git Tanner and the Skillet Lick- ers, the jug band that won first place in last year’s novelty division. The Stu¬ dent Workers have re¬ entered the competition after a year’s absence. Judging the performers will be Robert Hunter, com¬ poser and musical director for Carol Channing and George Burns; Miss Mamie Nixon, the talented Hollywood so¬ prano who has dubbed for Audrie Hepburn in My Fair Lady and for Natalie Wood in West Side Story; and tele¬ vision producer and director Joseph Connaly. Waws But¬ ler, the voice of Hanna-Bar- bera cartoon characters, will be Master of Ceremonies. In an effort to attract more Loyolans to the Spring Sing the Men’s Chorus has moved the event from Holly¬ wood High School to the au¬ ditorium of Orville Wright Junior High, four blocks east of Loyola Uniersvity. The price of admission is $1.00. Tickets will be sold by members of the Men’s Chorus. Seniors Should File for Degree In a special announcement addressed to all seniors, the Registrar reminded that April 19 is the last day to file petitions for the grant¬ ing of a June degree. Any senior in doubt about his status regarding gradu¬ ation, or desiring informa¬ tion and counseling, is in¬ vited to contact the Dean of his college or the Regis¬ trar’s office. All seniors are requested to submit their petitions at the earliest possible date. CARLOS WILSON, 27-year-old Loyola senior from Panama, has won a four-year graduate fellowship to UCLA. (Inter¬ view on page 4.) Campaign Support Forms on Campus Student groups supporting the presidential candi¬ dacies of Senators Robert F. Kennedy (New York) and Eugene J. McCarthy (Minnesota) were scurrying about campus in an effort to drum up support and, in the process, press for speaking engagements from their choices. John Armstrong, a Loyola sophomore, is the “unofficial chairman” of Loyola stu¬ dents for Kennedy. Arm¬ strong is working at the Kennedy Southern Californ¬ ia Headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard. He is trying to arrange a visit to the cam¬ pus by either the candidate himself or his brother, Sen¬ ator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. ASLU Political Union Chairman Tony Cole is pres¬ ently working through cam¬ pus contacts in the faculty (and headquarters officials) to provide Loyola with such an address before mid-June. Father John Clark, S.J., Academic Vice - President, has written Senator McCar¬ thy personally, and stated that any classes interfering with an address by one of the candidates would be can¬ celled. He also noted that a morning or afternoon ad¬ dress would be held at Re¬ gents’ Terrace, while an eve¬ ning speech would be given in Memorial Gymnasium. Grover McKean, Loyola freshman and a member of the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council, is in almost con¬ stant contact with McCarthy headquarters on South Fair¬ fax. Last Wednesday, ASLU President Joseph Ashby, along with McKean and freshman Richard Walter, adroitly maneuvered them¬ selves into leading a “Volun¬ teers for McCarthy” drive at Loyola while attempting to gain additional information about the peace candidate. Ashby, under the advice (Continued on Page 2) Loyola-68 Week Coming April 20-27 By Joe Ashby The ASLU, having stum¬ bled through a rather shab¬ by homecoming celebration during the fall, will attempt to make amends during the week of April 20-27 with Loyola 68. The seven - day MEL CARTER period of events, both on and off the campus, runs the ga¬ mut from outstanding enter¬ tainment (Spring Sing and Spring Dance), to culture (Art Festival and Film Fair) and athletics (the an- n u a 1 intrasquad football game). Perhaps the highlight of the entire program is the Lo¬ yola 68 Spring Dance on (Continued on Page 2) Martin Luther King The flag was at half mast. The silent line of Black students, all in suits, sat facing away from Regents Ter¬ race toward the Chapel. Their sign said: “This is not a eulogy. This is fact. One or two fingers might have pulled the trigger but racism and bigotry aimed the gun. The seriousness of the situation must be realized because non-violence died yes¬ terday. “America, the example of freedom, the example of democracy, you’ve killed your best friend. Martin Luther King was the last Black Man to die for Non-Violence.” Every hour between classes a crowd of white students gathered behind the Black men and their sign. Some joined them, sitting in silence but unable to hold their heads up. Professor Frank Sullivan led his class in silence to the Chapel. He prayed : “Let us remember that we are in the presence of God, who made all men. When one man dies, all men die. When the law is broken, all men are destroyed. And we have lost a brother.” One student sat alone in the classroom. He said, “Did you see what happened in Memphis? Two hundred peo¬ ple in jail, sixty-seven hurt.” He did not approve of Dr. King. There will be a memorial Mass in Sacred Heart Chapel, Wednesday at noon. Publications Board Meets This Afternoon On Loyolan Censorship A special meeting of the Committee on Student Pub¬ lications will convene this afternoon to hear an appeal from the Editors of the Loyolan on a censorship decision made a week ago Friday by Fr. David T. Fisher, SJ., Faculty Advisor of the student newspaper. On March 29 the Editors had prepared a two-page satire of the Tidings, the official newspaper of the Los An¬ geles Archdiocese, to run in last Monday’s Loyolan. Fr. Fisher ruled that the satire could not be published and that it had.no place in the student newspaper. - The Editors made their appeal under provisions of the “Editorial Policy for Stu¬ dent Publications.” The Pol¬ icy declares that “The Fac¬ ulty Advisor reserves the right to refuse publication of any material chosen by the Editor in Chief, his decision being subject to appeal to the Committee on Student Publications.” The satire, entitled the Tithings, contained parodies of eight different features usually found in the Arch¬ diocesan newspaper. Among them were a news story, two feature columns, a cartoon, an ad, a sports col¬ umn, an editorial and a statement of the Tithings’ purpose as “a weekly Catho¬ lic newspaper.” Since there are no prece¬ dents for this kind of appeal (during the last major cen¬ sorship dispute — in April of 1966, when the regulation did not exist — three Edi¬ tors resigned), exactly how the appeal would be heard was not immediately clear. In their letter to the Com¬ mittee, Editor-in-Chief Den¬ nis McLaughlin and Associ¬ ate Editor Jerry Floyd said, “we believe it would expedite matters if we were allowed to be present during the meeting at which the appeal is heard.” Meanwhile, the ASLU Senate last Sunday passed (6-1-1) a resolution calling for a general review of the censorship poiicy at Loyola. The resolution read in part : “. . . WHEREAS the na¬ tionally recognized Joint Statement on the Rights and Freedoms of Students states clearly that ‘the student press should be free of cen¬ sorship and advance approv¬ al of copy . . .’ “AND WHEREAS Lo¬ yola’s ‘Editorial Policy for Student Publications’ does not presently conform to this norm; “BE IT HEREBY RE¬ SOLVED that the ASLU Senate urges the Committee on Student Publication to adopt the norms of the Joint Statement and to abolish all prior censorship of student publications.”