Los Angeles LOYOLAN
VOL. 46— NO. 4
A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION
OCTOBER 28, 1968
LAPD Harass Loyolans;
Full Investigation Vowed
By Mike Steed
On Saturday evening, October 12, Greg Bunting and William
Strickland, Sophomore members of the Loyola University Black
Student Union, were illegally stopped, searched, and mistreated by
officers of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Bunting and Strickland were returning to Loyola after going
to their fraternity house when they were stopped on the corner of
54th and Crenshaw by officers in an unmarked car. Both students
were wearing their black berets at the time.
According to Bunting, “The offi¬
cers, who were un-capped and
had no badges, first said, ‘all
right mother-f — , let’s see some
hands.’ ” Getting out of their
green Sprite, both students found
shotguns “five inches from our
heads.”
Bunting stated, “At no time
were we given citations or warn¬
ings; we were never told why
they stopped us. It must have
been because of the black berets
we were wearing.”
The students were forced to put
their hands on their heads and
one of the policemen told them,
“The first M.F. that drops his
hands down, dies.”
Then seven more police cars
showed up at the scene, bringing
the total qf police ip the area to
fourteen to question the two stu¬
dents.
William Strickland, the driver
of the car said, “They kicked our
ankles and searched us. They hit
me in the chest with a flashlight.
They searched my car without my
permission or a warrant.” It was
later discovered that the officers
had pulled some wires loose and
had severely bent the trunk lid of
the car.
After standing there for twenty
minutes the students were
allowed to put their hands down,
but were forced to stay for anoth¬
er forty minutes.
“Finally, after going through
our wallets, making comments
about our manhood, and taunting
us so we’d panic and run so they
could shoot us dead, they let us
go,” commented Bunting.
Strickland noted that as they
were leaving “an officer pointed a
shotgun at them and was making
a clicking noise. Another officer
said, ‘You’re not going to still
shoot ’em are you?’ ”
Fr. Patrick Cahalan S.J., Assis¬
tant Dean of Students heard of the
incident and recommended that
immediate action be taken.
The Student-California Teach¬
er’s Association is offering its
services to students interested
in teaching as a career. These
services include an organized
voice in professional matters,
special economic benefits and
professional publications. More
information is available in
Malone 205 weekdays between
12 and 1 p.m. through Novem¬
ber 1.
Fr. Richard A. Vachon, S.J.,
the acting Dean of the Loyola
Law School was called and he
suggested that a complaint be
filed so that the incident could be
investigated further.
(Continued on Page 2)
Dr. Cleymaet
To Deliver
Convocation
By Andy Butcher
The second convocation lecture
of this academic year, Simone
Weil: Gravity, Transparency and
Grace, will be delivered in Strub
Memorial Theatre on Tuesday,
October 29, at 10:40 a.m., featur¬
ing Professor R. 0. Cleymaet,
Chairman of the Modem Lan¬
guages Department.
“Miss Weil is a mystic or an
anarchist, depending on your
viewpoint,” says Cleymaet.
Dr. Robert Cleymaet
Simone Weil was bom of Jew¬
ish family in Paris in 1909. Her
family upbringing was agnostic,
but she became a professor of phi¬
losophy. She wrote extensively
from the age of twenty-four to her
death in 1943, but few of her
works were published during her
lifetime. In conformity With her
life-philosophy of knowing men
through their physical as well as
metaphysical fives, she became a
factory worker, lived with Portu¬
guese fishing families, was an
agricultural peon, and volun¬
teered for the Spanish Civil War.
From each of these experiences
she derived a separate insight
into the university of her own
soul.
The most striking aspect of
Simone Weil’s life was her purity
(Continued on Page 3)
DAVID HARRIS, a leader of the resistance to the draft, and the
former student body president of Stanford, is shown above par¬
ticipating in anti-war activities. Harris spoke in Strub, October 24.
Dave Harris of Resistance
Decries 'Mass Bloodshed'
By John Soltesz
“How can you be a free man if you sign over your life to the
state to do with whatever it pleases?” The speaker was David
Harris, founder and leader of the Resistance movement, in an ad¬
dress to a full Strub Theater last Thursday.
The tall, thin Harris, introduced as a man who for turning in
his draft card was going to jail in February, began his talk by
asking, “What is it that you and I have that’s a tool to change
society?” His answer was “a life and how that life is lived.”
He went on to explain that so-
Pike Lecture
Scheduled for
Roberts, Nov. 7
On November 7, at 8 p.m.,
Bishop James A. Pike, former
Episcopal Bishop of California
and one time Santa Claran, will
speak in St. Robert’s Auditorium.
Bishop Pike brought himself
into the mainstream of American
life in 1958 when, as Dean of the
Cathedral of Saint John the Di¬
vine, he inaugurated the “Dean’s
Hour” radio and television pro¬
grams in New York City.
Pike was the center of a con¬
troversy which shook established
structures of faith when he was
accused of heresy by 22 of his
brother bishops during a general
meeting of the American Episco¬
pal Church. In accordance with
canon law, Pike, a jurist himself,
demanded a trial by his peers and
was acquitted.
In his role as pastor, Pike
called for radical reform within
the Church in America. He pre¬
dicted that unless such reforms
are undertaken immediately the
decline of the Church will con¬
tinue.
Pike is now affiliated with the
New Focus Foundation and the
Center for the Study of Democrat¬
ic Institutions. Two of his prime
ministries are to university stu¬
dents and concerned Christians.
The lecture by Bishop Pike had
to be approved by University
President Rev. Charles Casassa,
S.J. This has prompted Grover
McKean, Political Union chair¬
man to ask that “the Committee
on Cultural and Intellectual Af¬
fairs be expanded to indude sev¬
eral more students. It’s student
money that the Committee tells
us how to spend.”
The Loyola-Marymount commu¬
nity is invited to the lecture.
There is no admission charge.
ciety is not great events, great
men or great institutions, but is
the set of assumptions made by
the members of that society. The
policies of any society are not
mistaken within themselves but
grow out of the organization of
that society. Vietnam, for ex¬
ample, is “the American logic
coming to fruition.”
Smith, Brownfield Interviewed
On Footballs Financial Crisis
By Mike Steed
On Tuesday, October 22, Ralph Smith, Director of Loyola Stu¬
dent Football, met with University President Fr. Charles Casassa,
S.J., to discuss the withdrawal of University credit to Student Foot¬
ball.
“We must build a new social
logic based on the statement that
all men are brothers, and we
must give this statement mean¬
ing and substance.” But con¬
scription is opposed to brother¬
hood.
Harris claims that military
conscription is a euphemism,
that its real purpose is to teach
men how to “kill or be killed.”
People’s- lives belong not to
themselves but become tools and
properties of the state.
(Continued on Page 2)
Smith said that Fr. Casassa explained that the cancellation of
credit was decided by the Board of Trustees, on the advice of Mr.
Stein, legal council for the university. Stein claimed that there was a
possibility that football would incur a large deficit. Smith termed
Stein’s stand “preposterous.”
Smith explained that Stein knew
of the financial status of football
because “he attended the meeting
of Football Board of Directors
and heard the fiscal report by the
Board’s directors.
“The report showed that foot¬
ball could suffer a maximum defi¬
cit of $4,000, if 3,000 season tickets
were left outstanding.”
“Stein raised no question about
the veracity of the report,” said
Smith, who also noted that “foot¬
ball, at present, has no deficit.”
Because of the loss of credit,
the director plans to ask for an
extra $5,000 from the ASLU. This
money will not be used to cover a
deficit, but is for contingency
(Continued on Page 2)
