The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 47, Issue 16 - May 4, 1970

Los Angeles LOYOLAN VOL. 47— NO. 16 A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION , MAY 4, 1970 Hunger walk planned for fund-raising By Nancy Talmachoff Loyola students will have an op¬ portunity to participate in a na¬ tional “Walk against Hunger,” which will begin at San Fernando Valley State College on May 10. The walk is a money raising event, nationally sponsored by the American Freedom from Hunger Foundation, and 20,000 to 30,000 people are expected to march the 30 mile route* There are three basic reasons for the walk: to make people aware of hunger and malnutrition on an international, national, and local level; to raise money for development projects to deal with the root causes of human suffer¬ ing, and to bring together all ele¬ ments of the community to work on common problems. The march¬ ers hope to dramatically illustrate the ironic nature of the world hunger problem: in a world where people are dying of malnutrition, Americans are dieting. The sponsors of the walk are stressing the development of com¬ munity projects which will deal with the basic causes of hunger and not just the symptoms. In other words, food hand-outs will not be given because they are not considered valuable as long range plans for development. “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; (Continued on page 2) GROVER McKEAN, EPPC, STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE, votes to lower general education requirements in theology and philosophy dur¬ ing recent EPPC meeting. EPPC approves proposals to lower requirements The Educational Program and Planning Committee (EPPC) last week approved proposals to lower the philosophy and theology gen¬ eral education requirements and Griffin proposes workshop in cinema and history By Richard L. Schwartz The establishment of a Work¬ shop for Cinema and History, in which “students will engage in the production of documentary films and cinema verite” has been proposed by Dr. Patrick H. Griffin, Loyola Professor of His¬ tory. An experimental course in CL nema and History was offered in the winter quarter of this year, under Griffin’s direction. The course was financed by a $500 grant from the Committee on In¬ novations and financial assistance from Mr. Bachtelle and Mr. Knittle of the Public Relations De¬ partment. The workshop was offered in co- operation with the Commu¬ nication Arts Department, which provided guest lecturers, techni¬ cal facilities, raw stock film and laboratory processing. One of the film projects begun by a crew of students during the workshop was recently screened before a small group of faculty and students. The film, “1900,” was a sensitive evocation of the patterns of American society at the turn of the century. The raw material for the docu¬ mentary was 2300 feet of period film restored by film historian, Kemp Niver. Skillfully employing the techniques of montage, the student film-makers outlined the influences which shaped the pe¬ riod; immigration, an industrial¬ ized economy and city life; femin¬ ism, a closing frontier and the heroes of the time *— from Teddy Roosevelt to Ту Cobb. Griffin’s proposal would center on a curriculum of from six to eight courses. It would include “at least three introductory courses on documentary and ci¬ nema verite for the social science majors,” to be offered in the Fall and Winter quarters, and three workshop courses, to be offered during the entire academic year: In addition, the suggested pro¬ gram would include “two courses, either editing, cinema verite or on some specialized subject. ... The introductory courses would ... be offered to the students as part of the general curriculum of the history major.” Funding for the program, Grif¬ fin stated, could be obtained (Continued on Page 3) to create a Religious Studies ma¬ jor. Student representatives Mike Steed and Grover McKean cast their votes in favor of the propo¬ sals. The committee approved the items in a series of four general meetings and several subcom¬ mittee meetings over the past two weeks. The proposals affecting the theology and philosophy re¬ quirements will not be applicable to graduating seniors. However, when the Academic Council and Fr. Merrifield approve the re¬ vised requirements, under¬ classmen and juniors will gain additional electives in place of the formerly required theology and philosophy courses. The lowered requirements, if enacted, would entail two courses — one upper and one lower division. Both would be chosen by the student from several alternatives. At present, all students must com¬ plete four courses in both theology and philosophy, several of these in a specific sequence. The new system allows for greater freedom of choice in bqth philosophy and theology classes and will enable the theology de¬ partment to submit a proposal creating a major in Religious Studies. The proposal to create a Reli¬ gious Studies major was sub¬ mitted with the idea that “the program has definite appeal to a wide range of students.” It was suggested that many students might use their new electives to study in the areas in which the requirements originally existed, but that they would approach the (Continued on Page 7) New constitution survives challenge by campus YR’s DR. JAMES FOXWORTHY, DEAN of the College of Engineering, has been appointed by Mayor Sam Yorty to a nineteen-man interim city Environmental Advisory Council. The council will advise the Mayor on environmental problems until the City Council takes final action on a proposed Department of Environmental Standards. It will also aug¬ ment the findings and recommendations stemming from the Mayor’s public conference on environmental management held last month at the Biltmore Hotel. Dr. Foxworthy helped plan that conference. The ASLU constitution, which managed to get a 25 per cent vote of the student body on the fourth day of elections, faced challenges this past week in Student Court. The students passed the new Con¬ stitution by a 262 to 103 vote. The matter managed eventually to reach the Committee on Student Affairs. John Lorenze, a member of Loyola-Marymount’s Young Re¬ publican’s Club, filed a suit jn stu¬ dent court that sought to have the ASLIJ Constitution declared un¬ constitutional. Lorenze, acting in the name of the organization, stated that the ammending procedures contained in the 1967 ASLU Constitution had not been followed. The old Con¬ stitution had stipulated that am- mendments can be proposed ei¬ ther by a petition signed by 15 per cent of the student body, or by two-thirds of the ASLU Senate. The minutes of the meeting at which the Constitution was ap¬ proved by the Senate, recorded an 8-0-0 vote on the matter. There are 17 voting members of the Sen¬ ate. The Student Court decided in fa¬ vor of the Young Republicans claim. Mark Adams, who defend¬ ed the ASLU during the proceed¬ ing, informed the court that he in¬ tended to appeal the decision to the Committee on Student Affairs. The statutes of the committee include jurisdiction over all stu¬ dent organizations. The committee met on Thurs¬ day of last week to consider the appeal. Hie proceedings were chaired by Rev. Richard Rolfs, S.J., Chairman of the Committee. The first order of business was an entire review of the court’s reasons for making their decision, a review of the defense’s argu¬ ments, and then a consideration as to why the decision of the court should be overturned. During the arguments, Adams indicated his reasons for the ap¬ peal. He stated that the ASLU had obtained substantial new evidence to present. That evidence con¬ sisted of the minutes of the pre- ceeding meeting of the ASLU Sen¬ ate, during which a proposal was made by Mike Malak, ASLU Day Student Vice-President, to amend the old ASLU Constitution and to change to a commission form of government. The decision to do that was a unanimous vote of 16- 0-0. The Student Court represent¬ ative, William Luxford, Chief Justice* indicated that given the evidence the court had been presented with, it had no option but to declare the new ASLU Con¬ stitution unconstitutional. Mention was made of a change (Continued on Page 7)