Los Angeles LOYOLAN
VOL. 48 — NO. 1 1
A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION MARCH 2, 1970
LEO REILLY AND JOE GALLAGHER discuss the conditions at KXLU with Grover
McKean, Joe Deems, and Dr. Jim Foxworthy at the Student Affairs Committee meeting.
Faculty Salaries
Merrifield rejects faculty requests
By Richard L.Sehwartz
In an open letter to all Loyola
and Marymount faculty, Fr. Don¬
ald Merrifield rejected recent
faculty requests for salary in¬
creases, stating, “Our salary
schedule, while needing some mi¬
nor adjustments ... compared
well to those of other schools of
our type and size ...”
By Linda Lester
Andrea Butcher was elected
ASMC vice-president in a sweep¬
ing 157-14 victory last Thursday,
February 26. Miss Butcher ran
unopposed.
In an interview with the Loyo-
lan, Andrea spoke of her reasons
for seeking the office. “The pri¬
mary reason,” she explained, *%
that no one else who is ‘qualified
will do it.” She continued, “It’s a
sad state when an office like this
can attract no one with a very
real enthusiastic spirit fof it.”
Andrea gave her opinion on the
reason for this lack of en¬
thusiasm. “All the students listed
as qualified for vice-president are
just plain tired. I am -too. The
outgoing council has been a very
hard-working one.”
Despite the work of the past
council, Andrea noted a sense of
frustration in student govern¬
ment. “The council has encoun¬
tered a great deal of frustration;
and frankly, whether or not stu-
Merrifield’s comments came in
response to a report of the Joint
Committee of the AAUP (Ameri¬
can Association of University Pro¬
fessors) and Academic Assembly,
which met on January 30 “to dis¬
cuss the question of faculty sala¬
ries and to make recommenda¬
tions to the administration re¬
garding the improvement of such
dent government can accomplish
anything seems hcpeless to most
of us.”
To decrease the frustration of
overworked council members, Ar-
drea had several suggestions.
“The qualifications for office
should be amended so that pre¬
vious service on the council is
not a prerequisite for filing one’s
candidacy. I’m sure there are
many more interested and enthu¬
siastic people who could do the
job, but are technically not qual¬
ified by reason of this stipula¬
tion.”
Andrea has served on the coun¬
cil for a full academic year
in the function of representative-
at-large.
Asked about her expectations
fcr the coming year, Andrea gave
the following comments.
“No one knows the direction
that Marymount student govern¬
ment will take next year. Dolores
Carraher (the president-elect) has
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salaries.”
Among the statements ad¬
vanced by the Joint Committee
was that “simply raising salaries
10 per cent will do nothing more
than prevent a cut in pay.” Fur¬
ther, the faculty group suggested
that Loyola “attempt to reach a
level of compensation to what has
been thought of a
В
plus rank.”
This point referred to rating of
universities issued by the AAUP.
In addition, the Committee rec¬
ommended “the publication of a
scale of compensation which
would indicate the! number ol
people in each rank, the average
compensation for that rank ...
the minimum compensation and
the number of faculty receiving
this minimum.”
A fourth proposal was that fac¬
ulty salaries and raises be deter¬
mined by the cost of living, an an¬
nual longevity increment, and
merit. Finally, the Joint Com¬
mittee “proposed that six faculty
members be elected by the Aca¬
demic Assembly to the Committee
on the University Budget.”
In his response to the faculty
proposals, Merrifield said, “The
subject of faculty compensation
is a very important one. It should
and does receive the full attention
of the administration. The quality
of instruction is the single most
important factor in our effective¬
ness, and our salary scale should
be of such a character as to com¬
pensate present faculty as fully as
possible and to continue to attract
a highly qualified faculty.”
However, when asked in an in¬
terview with Loyolan staff mem-
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Andy Butcher elected VP,
favors merged government
Affairs committee closes
down KXLU radio station
Effective Wednesday, February
25, KXLU-AM was closed by order
of the Student Affairs Committee
for failure to comply with a di¬
rective requiring student or¬
ganizations to have an operative
charter.
Over a month ago the Student
Affairs Committee found the char¬
ter of KXLU inoperative and
passed a resolution providing that
“twenty-one days after notifica¬
tion, KXLU will be required to
present a revised charter to the
committee or face suspension as a
campus organization.”
Last week the Committee voted
a one week extension. However,
this Wednesday, when the Student
Affairs Committee met, the char¬
ter had still not been received
from the management of KXLU.
The controversy at KXLU first
came to light when Leo Reilly,
spokesman for several recently
fired KXLU staff members, ap¬
peared before the Committee on
Student Affairs and charged, “The
station’s format, as well as hiring
and firing in the AM section, was
being controlled by a non-stu¬
dent.’! Reilly further claimed,
“There was censorship, harass¬
ment, and intimidation of students
who were members of the staff.”
The testimony on behalf of the
station’s management by Bob Fe-
sinmeyer revealed that the prob¬
lem was the result of the lack of
an operative charter. Fesinmeyer
stated that the charter, under
which KXLU then worked, had
never been operative. In defense
of this position Fesinmeyer stated
that the station is run “by com¬
mon law, which you all know is
unwritten.”
Further investigation by the
Committee found that the actual
affairs of the station were run by
a board of directors. When ques¬
tioned as to exactly how one be¬
came a member of the board of
directors, Fesinmeyer informed
the committee that the board,
which appoints the station man¬
ager, is appointed by the station
manager.
The involvement of a non-stu¬
dent in the decision-making pro¬
cess of KXLU was the subject of
the most heated debate during
the unprecedented series of
three meetings in six days. Ed
O’Dwyer, the disputed non-stu¬
dent and music director of
KXLU, appeared before the com¬
mittee and stated that in no way
had he ever attempted to influ¬
ence policy making or the hiring
of personnel.
Reilly responded that O’Dwyer
had indeed been active in policy
decisions made at KXLU. One of
several examples that Reilly of¬
fered was that O’Dwyer nad been
censoring records, the recent one
being an Arlo Guthrie album.
He further alleged that
O’Dwyer had been in some way
responsible for the firings of sev¬
eral staff members, and that
O’Dwyer was the deciding factor
as to what went on the air an<T
what didn’t in AM.
Reilly further stated that if the
University wanted, it could fill
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