Los Angeles LOYOLAN
VOLUME 46. NO. I
A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION OCTOBER 7, 1968
Biafran Lecture
Given in Roberts
On September 24, in St. Rob¬
ert’s Auditorium, Dr. Boniface
Obichere, a UCLA history profes¬
sor, and Paddy Najaka. a recent
Loyola graduate, spoke in a series
of weekly lectures sponsored by
the ASLU.
Biafra, formerly the eastern
province of Nigeria, is fighting a
revolutionary war with Nigeria in
its effort to become a self-deter¬
mining nation. Dr. Obichere, who
received his Ph.D. at Oxford, and
Najaka are both native Biafrans.
Obichere called for action by
the United States and. the Un'ted
Nations “to end this terrible hu¬
man struggle.’’ Najaka asked
those attending “not for arms or
troops but to write to their Con¬
gressmen to find out why Amer¬
ica is turning its back on this
problem.”
The program was originally
scheduled to be a debate between
the Biafrans and a Nigerian dele¬
gation. However, a recent declar¬
ation from the Nigerian govern¬
ment prohibits all Nigerians from
participating in this kind of dis¬
cussion in front of American au¬
diences.
“PARENTS'** discuss progress of freshman module programs—
Mahan Institutes
Modular Program
As the result of a Danforth Foundation Workshop Team Report,
Father Mahan has instituted an experimental Freshman Modular
System. Under this program, 48 freshmen picked at random are
placed ink. groups called “Modules” or, less formally, “Families.”
There are six such groups: each of them containing eight students—
five boys and three girls. -
JOHN ARMSTRONG PRESENTS proposed changes in curriculum to
Philosophy Society meeting last Tuesday.
Bishop Pike May
Give Speech Here
“We’re having a barbecue, bring your own stake.”
Such was the reaction of Bishop James A. Pike to the news
that he had been accused of heresy by a brother-bishop and might
have to stand trial before an inquisitorial board of fellow bishops
of the Episcopal Church in 1966 at the Wheeling Conference.
On November 7 (Thursday eve¬
ning), Bishop Pike will speak at
Loyola, once he has been ap¬
proved by President Casassa.
Bishop Pike attended the Univer¬
sity of Santa Clara and was editor
of the school paper in the years
1930-32. (Unlike many Santa Clar-
ans whose only reaction is nausea,
young James was moved to leave
the Catholic Church and the uni¬
versity.)
James Pike first became a law¬
yer and is still affiliated with the
San Francisco Bar Association.
His interests later turned to theo¬
logy; he took his B.D. magna cum
laude at Union Theological in 1951
as a priest ordained in the Episco¬
pal Church. He became head of
the Department of Religion and
Chaplain at Columbia University.
James Pike had the dubious hon¬
or of being a lecturer at the Cath¬
olic University of America in 1938-
39. He was named Dean of the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
in New York in 1958, and his
name became a household word
due to his Dean’s Hour, a Sunday
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This program is strictly volun¬
tary, although certain require¬
ments had to be met before they
were invited to participate.
The students had to be Cath¬
olic, resident, full time students
majoring in art, art history, Eng¬
lish, history, foreign language,
music, political science, theatre
arts or undecided in arts and sci¬
ences. They also were required to
score 500 or better on the verbal
section of the Scholastic Aptitude
Test.
All students in the Modular Pro¬
gram have the same instructor
in several common courses — Dr.
Sullivan for English, Miss Robin¬
son for psychology, and Fr. Mc-
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SENIOR PICTURES
Monday, Oct. 7
Tuesday, Oct. 8
Hours: 9-11 a.m.
12-3 p.m.
(both days)
Place: Malone 207
WEAR a coat and tie
BRING $2.50
(Christy & Shepherd’s fee,
not ours)
Philosophy Society
Examines Curriculum
By Andy Platt
The Philosophical Society of Loyola University met in Malone
204 on Tuesday, October 1st, to hear a report by ASLU Research
Consultant John Armstrong on the subject of Loyola’s course offer¬
ings in philosophy in comparison with those of other prominent
secular and Jesuit universities. Present were eight of the nine mem¬
bers of the philosophy department, several professors from other
departments, and approximately 20 interested students.
Mr. Armstrong began by stating
that his research had shown con¬
clusively that there was no set
standard among the different
Jesuit Universities in regards to
philosophy requirements (Santa
Clara, for instance, requires three
philosophy courses of the stu¬
dent’s choice; Fordham requires
two courses of the student’s
choice). Further, the two re¬
quired philosophy courses offered
at Loyola, Philosophy of Man
and Philosophical Problems of
God, are offered as required
courses at only two of the 80
prominent secular universities
polled. This would tend to explode
the myth that Loyola’s philosophy
requirements are set and cannot
be changed by the university,
and also that “Man” and “God”
are required because a number of
other universities also require
them.
He then went on to criticize
the “Man” and “God” courses on
the basis that they were too broad
to be handled in one quarter and
so they usually only cover a
small spectrum. Also, many stu¬
dents examined on the subject
stated that the “Man” and “God”
Food "Servi
courses did not aid them in doing
upper division study in philos¬
ophy. Finally, he said that one
of the most detrimental effects
of offering
“Мац”
and “God” as
required courses is the fact that,
since four sections of “Man” and
eight sections of “God” are being
offered, a great deal of the Phil¬
osophy Department’s time is
spent on these two requirements
when it could be spent on more
profitable matters.
After having thus stated his
arguments against offering the
“Man” and “God” courses as re¬
quirements, Mr. Armstrong sug¬
gested that these courses be drop¬
ped as requirements and that a
non-required History of Philoso¬
phy course (which is the most
common type of introduction used
in other schools) be offered in a
lecture fashion for those students
who need an introductory course.
The two upper division elective
courses would then be retained as
the only requirement for the stu¬
dent. This proposal would have
the double advantage of making
the philosophy department more
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Worsens
By Mike Malak
Those still eating on campus— about 500 Loyolans according to
Food Service— have undoubtedly experienced the wait for a meal.
One solution proposed by Food Service itself involved a complicated
system of eating hours determined by the number on meal cards.
This plan was promptly rejected by the Loyola administration.
At the present time there seems to be no solution in sight. In the
words of one administrator: “We
level.”
The problem is even more com¬
plicated when the three hundred
Marymount boarders are consid¬
ered. At the present time, ac¬
cording to its own figures,
Food Service is accommodating
nearly eight hundred students at
lunch and dinner. This is spec¬
tacular if you stop to consider
that the Terrace Room has a ca¬
pacity of four hundred and forty.
Food Service claims that the
problem stems largely from the
students themselves: over 600
people are served during the first
hour of dinner and lunch. Julian
Kapuy, Director of Food Service,
states that “the students will have
to learn that we are open for two
hours.”
Of interest to those eating off
campus is Kapuy’s claim that
boarders pay a little over two
are going to let it seek its own
dollars a day for meals. By his
own admission Food Service
“would be bankrupt by March if
each student on campus ate each
and every meal offered.” The
present system is based on the
premise that students will not
show up for all meals. Kapuy
maintains, however, that by pay¬
ing only two dollars a day for
meals students still don’t lose
money by not eating.
The new turnstiles which have
decorated the landscape of the
Terrace Room were put in as “a
protection for the resident.” By
losing meals to non-residents,
costs rise radically. Under the
new system even seconds appear
to be safe from non-paying mem¬
bers of the Loyola community.
Still, Kapuy sees a rise in board
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