The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 45, Issue 7 - November 20, 1967

The Los Angeles LOYOLAN Loyola University of Los Angeles VoL 45, No. 7 Nov. 20, 1967 ASLU President Football Victim I., addressed on Regents Los Angeles Laymen Shape Association ASLU President Joe Ash¬ by found football practice very interesting last week. Unfortunately, he was driv¬ ing at the time. While tooling up Loyola Blvd. past Sullivan Field in his already battered Volks¬ wagen, Ashby bumped into Steve Huchting who hap¬ pened to be in a ’66 Chevro¬ let Impala. Huchting waS backing up to talk to a friend. The result? Ashby tested Volks^wSdfhiffan^ wlS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Fr. Charles S. Casassa, S.J. cut in the process. Hunting Parents .°" . Day- Novefnber l2- With him was unhurt. Terrace ,s Fr. McIntosh. _ "The President was taken to Daniel Freeman hospital for treatment. Stitches were required for his lower lip, and he suffered relatively severe bruises. The automobiles didn’t fare . too well either. The front end of the small car was nearly totaled and its A full-page ad, announcing the formation of a new steering wheel was broken Catholic laymen's group for the Archdiocese of Los An- off when Ashby hit it. The geles, will soon appear in the Los Angeles Times, sources Chevy’s back end was badly at Loyola revealed last week. smashed. The group, to be known officially as the Los Angeles After about three hours at Association of Laymen, will hold its first full-scale'meeting the hospital, Ashby was re- on Saturday, December 2. leased. His main activity The Times’ ad will announce the time and place of the since the accident has been meeting. Also announced will be a keynote speaker, proba- no activity at all. bly the head of the National Association of Laymen from Washington, D.C. Membership in the organ¬ ization will be open to stu¬ dents. A spokesman at Loy¬ ola said the Association would л „ ! - T^—— —г 1 welcome anyone who wanted A Senior Class Committee on Graduation Procedures «to do something about the last week reached final agreement on a slate of speakers state of the Church in Los to be submitted to the University Board of Regents at its Angeles ” meeting the first week of December. * . _ Working with the advice and counsel of a special w/t ьы^я^ттгТд faculty committee chosen by the Faculty Assembly, stu- Ja® Novembi^Of nearfv dents Rick Del Bonta, Joe Ashby, Jerry Floyd, Tony von’ Cole and Mike Shery selected the following persons as the mating ovct 200*1^ preferred candidates for commencement speakers: ™en TowS uo toTea^a Fulton J. Sheen, Bishop of R , , 3~Т~“7Г" keynote address by IHC’s Rochester; Reverend Theo- ®100^e _of Mf^husetts, Dr FalIon Evans (subbing dore Hesburgh, President of Senator Eugene McCarthy of for a prominent Loyola pro- Minnesota ; Chancellor fessor, who was attending Franklin Murphy of UCLA; Loyola’s University Day) . Eric Severeid of. CBS News. I Also : the President of UC Santa Cruz; Sister Anita Caspari, Mother General of GRADUATION COMMITTEE SUBMITS SPEAKER SLATE Notre Dame ; Very Reverend Patrick Donohoe, S.J., Presi¬ dent of the University of Santa Clara. Also: Senator Edward LATE NEWS The gathering reportedly produced “considerable” pledges of financial support. Sources also indicated the . _. , „ - - - tone of the meeting was the Sisters of the Immacu- positive, and “not just an late Heart of Mary ; Eric angry one.” At its meeting Friday after¬ noon, the Faculty Assembly re- Hoffer, social philosopher and longshoreman from San solved to authorize the President Francisco; Richard M. Nix- of the Assembly to send three, __ . „ y, _ , non-voting, participant - observ- °5’ , , гп??г., X1C® Г President era to today’s meeting of the of the United States; and Joint Committee on University Jesse Unruh, Speaker of the Reform, sources told the Loyoian California Assembly. Observers speculated the three faculty committee “* "’f®’"’’'» might be Fr. Arenz, Fr. Kigali, composed of Dr. Carothers, thirty laymen, including and ©r. Tom Taylor, who had Fr. Clark, Dr. Zekavat, Dr. some Loyola faculty mem- been appointed originally. Delaney and Dr. Lambert bers, in attendance. Objection to the manner of submitted the student re- commedations to the full Academic Assembly for endorsement on Friday. At the Regents’ meeting ^ННННННВВЩВИНЯ of к ef^^ion speaicers to. he jn December, the list will re- of Loyola’s Development Of- submitted to the Board of Re- цщ; its final scrutiny. If fice and now a partner in a (Continued on Page 7) (Continued on Page 2) their appointment caused the vote to be taken to the assem¬ bly floor. In other action, the Assembly reportedly : “applauded” a slate ■ gents by a Senior Class com¬ mittee. Other meetings had taken place as far back as July. At that time, nine men met in a private home to discuss for¬ ming the Association. A second, secret meeting was held on the Loyola cam¬ pus in August, with about A third meeting, held at UCLA with about fifty people on hand, elected offi¬ cers for the Association. Dave Thompson, formerly Joint Committee Meets Faculty This Afternoon Student and administrative members . of the Joint Committee on University Reform will meet this afternoon with three newly, elected faculty representatives for final discussion of statutes that would make the Joint Com¬ mittee a standing committee of the University. The faculty members were elected Friday at a meet¬ ing of the Academic Assembly; _ _ _ Statutes approved at to- Marymount Breaks Ground Here Dec. 4 Loyola-Marymount Day, day’s meeting will be sub¬ mitted to a special session of the Academic Council, Loyola’s top committee, dur¬ ing the first week of De¬ cember. The Council will also dis¬ cuss student objections to . _ _ _ <ir recent changes in the stat- featuring a visit by Francis utes of the Committee on Student Discipline. Today’s meeting, however, is considered crucial/ Fr. Thomas D. Terry, S.J., Loyola’s Academic' Vice- President, recently said that he would oppose the estab¬ lishment of the Board of Consultors (the proposed name for the standing Re¬ form Committee) , unless some unique purpose could be demonstrated for it at today’s meeting. Student Members of the Joint Committee were agreed that there was almost no chance of getting the pro¬ posed statutes through the Academic ' Council without Fr. Terry’s support; Meanwhile, a flurry of behind - the - scenes activity was going on. On Sunday, Nov. 12, ASLU President Joe Ashby sent a full-page letter to Fr. Terry stressing the value of a Board of Consultors “as a (Continued on Page 2) Cardinal McIntyre and ground breaking ceremonies for the Marymount struc¬ tures, will be . celebrated Monday, December 4. The program will begin at 11:00 a.m. with an Invoca¬ tion by the Cardinal, fol¬ lowed by the Very Rev. Charles Cassasa, S.J., Presi¬ dent of Loyola With a wel¬ coming address. Sr. Raymond McKay, President of Marymount, will deliver a speech in re¬ sponse and the ground will be broken. Joe Ashby, ASLU Presi¬ dent, and Kim Toohig, Mary- mount’s Student Body Presi¬ dent, will also take turns at the podium. Later, while about 100 Re¬ gents and Alumni, along with Ashby and Toohig, dine in the Del Rey Rooms, the gathered students of Mary¬ mount and Loyola will hold some sort of function, still in the planning stage. McAfee Brown: Unity thru Action A near-capacity crowd was on hand in St. Roberts Auditorium last Thursday night to hear Dr. Robert McAfee Brown assert that the churches’ growing concern for the secular order is leading them closer together. In a talk entitled “The New Ecumenical Situation,” the Stanford theologian traced the increasing social con¬ cern in both Protestant and Catholic thought. Another lecture, “Current - - - - - Trends in Protestant ecumenists had usually con- Thought,” was held Friday centrated on the theme of j night, as the Loyoian went unity among the Christian to press. Dr. Brown noted that ROBERT McAFEE BROWN I churches. В But ecumenism, he stressed, had a second mean¬ ing: to pursue fully the. churches’ mission to “reach out to all men of good will.” The World Council of Churches, Dr. Brown said, discovered after several years of ecumenical endeavor that a concern for unity was detracting from this concern for mission. He emphasized that nei¬ ther the unity nor the mis¬ sion of the Church could be fulfilled without reference to one another. ' Dr! • Brown also noted the remark of Fr. Avery Dulles, S.J., that an honest look at (Continued on Paere 31