The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 45, Issue 20 - May 21, 1968

Loyola University of Los Angeles Vol. 45, No. 20 May 21, 1968 Publications Committee Opposes Censorship The Los Angeles LOYOLAN Loyolan Merger Okayed Loyola University and Marymount College will pub¬ lish a joint newspaper next year combining the present Loyolan and Current. At the Academic Council meeting last Thursday, Fr. Terrance L. Mahan, S. J., announced that the Loyola- Marymount Steering Com¬ mittee has reached agree¬ ment on procedures for a joint publications committee. The committee will be composed of three faculty members from Loyola and two from Marymount, two students from Loyola and one from Marymount. The committee will be responsi¬ ble to Loyola Dean of Stu¬ dents, Fr. Richard Rolfs, S.J. The committee will ap¬ point the student editor and associate editor from either school. The editors will ap¬ point their staff in the same way. Thus the editor could be a Marymount woman and her entire staff Loyola men. Father Casassa will ap¬ point the Faculty Advisor from either institution. If the advisor, is from Mary¬ mount, Marymount Presi¬ dent Sister M. Raymund Mc¬ Kay must approve the ap¬ pointment. According to Fr. Mahan, the two schools will share ex¬ penses of the paper on a pro¬ portionate basis. But Loyola will bear legal responsibility for any lawsuits. It had been previously an¬ nounced that the new paper will be called the Loyolan. Blase Bonpane Speaks at IHC Father Blase Bonpane will speak on “The Making of a Guerrilla” at Immaculate Heart College, Friday, Mav 24, at 8:00 P.M. His superior asked him to return from Guatemala be¬ cause of reported association with guerrilla bands there. Of the other Maryknoll mis¬ sionaries who returned with him, one has been assasin- ated and two are married and living in Mexico. Father Bonpane has re¬ cently testified before Con¬ gress and spoken at numer¬ ous universities on the way American involvement causes guerrilla activity. ASLU PRESIDENT-ELECT TED MATHEWS is pictured above on election day with Crimson Circle members and (standing in front of ballot box) Ralph Smith-supporters Mike Malak and Bruce Strotz. Mathews , Ashby Push Constitution Chunges ASLU President-elect Ted Mathews, working closely with ASLU President Joe Ashby, began moving last week for an election that would amend several sections of the ASLU Constitution and establish the Vice-Presidents for Resident and Day Student Affairs that Mathews advocated in his campaign platform. Mathews, who takes office June 1, persuaded Ashby day, May 27. The amendments Mathews is proposing would require two-thirds affirmative votes by a minimum of 336 students (one quarter of ASLU members). Mathews has also received support for the plan from other prominent student leaders. Among them are former ASLU Presidential candidates Ralph Smith, Mike Alexander, and John Jackson and Loyolan Editor Jerry Floyd. As the Loyolan went to press, Mathews and Ashby were preparing to gather the nearly 200 signatures re¬ quired to place an amend¬ ment before the student body. An amendment can be placed on the ballot by two- thirds vote of the ASLU Senate, but the two student leaders thought the signa¬ tures should be gathered as a precautionary measure — in case the lame duck ASLU Senate, in its final meeting last Sunday, could not mus¬ ter the necessary votes. Under Mathews’ propos¬ als, a Resident Student Vice- President would be “in charge of all resident stu¬ dent affairs social and oth¬ erwise not specifically dele¬ gated to the dorm Boards of Governors or the Resident Board of Control.” A Day Student Vice-Presi¬ dent would “communicate and represent the needs of day students to the ASLU. A special enabling clause would allow present RSA President Wayne King to act as Resident Student Vice-President for the com¬ ing academic year. It would also allow Mathews to ap¬ point a Day Student Vice- President until the time of the frosh elections in the Fall of 1968. Closely connected with their move for a Resident Student Vice-President, is a plan by Mathews and Ashby to eliminate the Resident Students Association by get¬ ting the ASLU Senate to disapprove of the RSA’s Constitution. The Senate has the power to approve all organization constitutions, but has never exercised that power in the case of the RSA. A senate disapproval could be coupled with a recom¬ mendation that the Student Affairs Committee also vote to eliminate the RSA. This would virtually end the or¬ ganization’s existence. Members Vote Unanimously to Change Faculty Advisor Role The University Committee on Student Publications has voted unanimously that prior censorship of the student newspaper should be virtually eliminated. The old policy on censorship gave the Faculty Adviser the right to “refuse publication of any material chosen by the Editor in Chief.” At its special meeting last Tuesday, the Committee de¬ cided to accept a student proposal to reduce the Faculty Advisor’s powers to withholding from publication “any article which, in his opinion, would result in legal proceed¬ ings against the University.” Under the new decision, the Faculty Advisor would continue to advise the edi¬ tors oh canons of good jour¬ nalism, good taste, or the in¬ terests of the University. But the final decision would be left to the Editor in Chief. The Publications Com¬ mittee is immediately re¬ sponsible for the adminis¬ tration and supervision of all authorized student publica¬ tions. But the Committee’s decision is subject to veto by University President Fr. Charles S. Casassa, S.J. In a luncheon discussion with ASLU President-elect Ted Mathews, Fr. Casassa in¬ dicated that he wanted to study the decision. He felt, according to Mathews, that prior censorship should also include articles that would result in financial loss for the University. The resolution passed by the Committee also contains a series of penalties to be ap¬ plied if, in the Committee's judgment, the Editor in Chief violated the Editorial Policy on Student Publica¬ tions. The more serious penalties are designed “both to correct the Editor and to inform his readership of the Com¬ mittee’s disapproval.” This would be accomplished, when necessary, either by publish¬ ing an official reprimand or censure in a prominent place in the newspaper or by re¬ moving the Editor in Chief from office. In presenting this propos¬ al to the Committee, the Edi¬ tors of the Loyolan argued that these penalties would be sufficient to protect the Uni¬ versity from financial loss. Awards Convocation To Be Held Next Week The presentation of the Ignation Award to ASLU President Joe Ashby will highlight the ASLU Awards Convocation to be held at 11:30 this coming Tuesday, May 28, on Regents Terrace. The Ignation Award is given each year by the Student Affairs Committee to the Senior who has contributed most to the University. Following traditional procedure, it was awarded this year after votes of students and faculty members. In the student voting, Ashby received twice as many votes as all other con¬ tendere combined. Im¬ mediately following Ashby in the ballot count were Crimson Circle President Rick Del Bonta, Loyolan Editor Jerry Floyd, and Sen¬ ior Tim Riley. Loyolan Copy Editor John Jackson, a recent candidate for ASLU President, will be named Outstanding Junior. Eleven votes separated con¬ tenders in balloting for this award. Nominated by stu¬ dents were Tony Vulin (ASLU Vice- President¬ elect), Jackson, ASLU Vice- President Ralph Smith, and ASLU Secretary Glen Gold¬ en. Honors presented by the ASLU include Outstanding Administrator— to Assistant Dean of Students Rev. Pat¬ rick Cahalan — and three Outstanding Faculty Mem¬ ber awards: Dr. Frank Ca- rothers (Arts and Sciences), Fr. John Clark (Business Administration) , and Dr. James Foxworthy (Engin¬ eering) . Winners of other awards to be presented have not yet been revealed. Among these are the Charles C. Conroy (Continued on Page 3)