Los Angeles LOYOLAN
VOL 46— NO. 5
A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBUCATION NOVEMBER II. 1968
New Task Forces Formed P®
To Work Out Racial Crisis
By Mike Steed
Are you a racist? If you are, Loyola is going to become a very
unpleasant place for you in the future. Following initiatives by Fr.
President and various concerned faculty and students, the Univer¬
sity is planning a major new emphasis in the area of race relations.
Last Wednesday afternoon, November 6, two task forces met
separately to discuss and to study in depth University programs in
race relations on the community and college levels. Members of
the two task forces were chosen from the President’s Ad-Hoc Com¬
mittee on Race Relations.
This group had been called to¬
gether by Fr. Casassa and Ralph
Smith so that the University could
study and begin to formulate mul¬
tidimensional plans for involving
Loyola-Marymount in projects
aiding race relations.
Before adjournment, the Ad-
Hoc Committee formed itself into
the two task forces and directed
that they begin to formulate spe¬
cific proposals in their respective
areas.
The Pre-College and Commun¬
ity Relations Task Force was or¬
ganized by Ted Mathews, ASLU
President. Among the members
present were Fr. Richard Rolfs,
SJ., Dean of Students of Loyola
University; Ralph Smith, BSU
Representative; Mr. Carl Kay-
mark, Director of Financial Aids;
and Mrs. Eastman, Marymount
Director of Upward Bound.
Discussion centered around four
programs in which the Loyola
community has recently devel¬
oped interest. The four programs
are Upward Bound, Project Suc¬
cess, Malabar Project, and Pro¬
gram for Black Students.
Mrs. Eastman began by briefly
stating how the Upward Bound
project was doing at Marymount.
She stated, “It is rather vague
as to what the funding for Up¬
ward Bound would be since it was
recently changed from the Of¬
fice of Economic Opportunity to
the Dept, of Health, Education
and Welfare.”
She went on to say that present¬
ly 54 students are participating in
Upward Bound. The cost of the
program was close to $100,000 of
which Marymount has to pay ap¬
proximately 20 per cent.
Mr. Smith stated that he thought
that both Universities should have
an Upward Bound project so that
it could reach more children, in
various communities that at pres¬
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ent do not have such a program.
Mrs. Eastman answered that,
“Due to the crisis in Washington
concerning the future funding of
Upward Bound it would be next
to impossible to get Upward
Bound sponsored by Loyola this
year.” But she said that Loyola
could help greatly in the project
at Palos Verdes. This program
which previously had been re¬
stricted to female students was
recently opened to male students.
Mr. Kaymark said that it would
benefit Hie University to hire
somebody at least on a part-time
basis to help co-ordinate the ac¬
tivities of both institutions. Ted
Mathews agreed with this point
and added, “Both Universities
should co-ordinate the ideas sur¬
rounding Project Success and
programs for Black students into
Upward Bound or other federally-
financed programs.”
Fr. Rolfs concluded the meeting
with a brief summary of what the
committee would recommend. The
overall consensus was that Loy¬
ola should have a contingency
program with Marymount’s Up¬
ward Bound while still trying to
secure their own programs for the
pre-college area financed either
with government aid or from do¬
nations.
The second task force on Col-
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EPISCOPAL BISHOP JAMES PIKE addresses an overflow audi¬
ence in St. Roberts, Thursday, November 7.
Bishop Pike Denounces
The Established Church
By Mike Malak
With the words, “If God isn’t dead, he ought to be,” James A.
Pike, Bishop Emeritus of California, began to deal with the subject:
“A Laving God in a Dying Church.” He pointed out that his type of
thinking stems from a simple identification of God and the Church.
According to Pike, the attitude that should prevail is one of
“semper reformanda,” it always ought to be reformed. Pike cited
this as Paul Tillich’s Protestant ethic.
Any Church that regards itself efforts, they have begun to regard
as “reformata,” or reformed, is
in serious trouble. For that rea¬
son, Pike stated, Roman Cath¬
olicism is in trouble due to the
fact that following the conciliar
Proposed Black History
Gets Support, Opposition
By S vitek and Bennett
Proposals calling for the adoption of minority history courses
at Loyola have been met with resistance by members of the Loyola
History Department. However Loyola students have organized into
an “Open Coalition” to push for the adoption of these courses.
In a meeting of the History Society on Tuesday, October 29, ASLU
Research Consultant John Armstrong recommended that the History
Department institute courses in Black History .African History, and
Mexican-American History, following the example of many other col¬
leges and universities around the country.
The meeting, attended by rep- Rev. John A. Donohue, S.J.,
resentatives of the Loyola and tenured faculty member in the
department, said that there were
really no books written, from a
historic point of view, on the sub¬
ject of African history.
Mr. Robert Papstein, a member
of the Marymount History Depart¬
ment, whose specialty is African
history, expressed disagreement
with Dr. Turhollow, and pointed
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Marymount History Departments,
was devoted to a discussion of the
merits of such a series of course
offerings. Dr. Anthony Turhollow,
Chairman of Loyola’s History De¬
partment pointed out, that, in his
opinion, there was no African
history as such, except, perhaps,
as an extension of Western his¬
tory.
themselves as “reformata.”
Churches now are “absolutizing
the ephemeral, eternalizing the
mortal, making morals of the
mores of man, and making the
purposes of man those of God,”
resulting in a new type of idola-
tory, worship of the Church.
It is due to this desire of the
Church to become equal to or
analagous to God, that man has
wished that there be no God.
“This is the qualm and quest of
mankind; they seek, yet they re¬
pudiate.”
Dissatisfaction with organized
religion is making itself felt
through a lack of vocations, minis¬
ters leaving the Church, and
through a lack of monetary con¬
tributions. According to the Bish¬
op, a gap exists in credibility,
relevance, and performance. The
credibility gap exists largely due
to the increased education of the
American people. The churches
are now being caught up in those
things which people formerly ac¬
cepted as true.
Pike demonstrated the rele¬
vance gap by the fact that now
only 46% of Roman Catholics be-
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Marymount to Show
Bergman's 'Silence'
In Strub, Tonight
The Marymount Cultural Com¬
mittee will continue its series of
films with the presentation of
Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence,
Cultural Chairman Pat Garvey
announced last week. The mov¬
ie, which will be shown in St.
Robert’s Auditorium November 11
at 7:30 p.m., examines the condi¬
tions of man in the modern world
where God is silent.
In The Silence Bergman takes
a “frank look at life” in his study
of two sisters united since child¬
hood in a lesbian relationship and
the struggleinto which they are
thrown when the younger sister
seeks her freedom in a hetero-se-
xual romance.
The performances of Ingrid
Thulin and Gennel Lindblom are
outstanding as flickering mirrors
of humanity in trouble: living,
traveGng, moving and dying in a
world on the brink of war.
The movie is a shattering
glimpse of man’s condition when
human relations are grotesquely
ego-centric and perversely sexual.
Miss Garvey called The Silence,
“a memorable collection of vivid¬
ly presented images and incidents
spiked with erotic symbols in
which Mr. Bergman tries to tell
us something which each individ¬
ual viewer must fathom and dis¬
cover for himself.”
The New Yorker commented in
its review of the movie, “We are
instructed that sexual joy in any
and all forms — some of them
fairly bizarre — is a delusion and
the pursuit of it (is) continuously
humiliating.”
Faculty members and Mary¬
mount students are invited to at¬
tend free of charge. Loyola stu¬
dents will be admitted for 25 cents
with their student ID cards. Cof¬
fee will be served during a dis¬
cussion period following the mov¬
ie.
EL PLAYANO, Loyola-
Marymount’s literary maga¬
zine, is now accepting essays,
short stories, poems, reviews,
interviews and articles.
Interested Loyola and
Marymount students are in¬
vited to submit material
(which should be typed and
double spaced) to Dr. Caroth-
er’s office on the third floor
of Foley or to any El Playano
staff member. The deadline
for copy for this issue of the
El Playano is November 29.
