The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 47, Issue 18 - May 25, 1970

Los Angeles LO YOL AN VOL 47— NO. 18 A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION May 25, 1970 Academic Assembly bars reporters from debate Minority Report Financial aids excludes Orientals By Glen Lee With all the current movements in the nation and the states for effective justice for the “op¬ pressed” minorities of the U.S., it is appalling that this furor has not had a more significant effect at Loyola University. The question of the quali¬ fications for the minority scholar¬ ships should be reexamined for its true value. As it stands today, this scholarship program is open to the qualified minority groups of this campus who are American citizens. The Office of Financial Aids de¬ fined these groups into three classes: Negroes, Mexican Ameri¬ cans and American Indians. It is interesting to note that the Ori¬ entals, i.e., Japanese, Chinese and Koreans, of American citizen¬ ship are excluded from these groups. The office’s reason for exclu¬ sion is that most of the Orientals are foreign students Angela Davis condemns imperialism and genocide Declaring that “Colleges are really prisons,” and indicting 1 ‘North American ^imperialism and g e n о c i d e,” controversial UCLA philosophy professor An¬ gela Davis spoke before a crowd of approximately five hundred members of the university com¬ munity, in the gym at noon last Friday. After apologizing for the misun¬ derstanding which caused her failure to appear on Monday, Davis began; “Colleges are being used as instruments to provide, if possible, robots who are going to fit right into the slots of an op¬ pressive system.” Further /she noted that several days ago blacks commemorated the birth of militant black leader Malcolm X, and pointed out that Ho Chi Minh had been bom on the same day. Davis stated that she wished to consider the problems of oppressed peoples today in light of the counsel of Malcolm X and Ho, specifically their advice to know “your friends.” “We are facing the most profound crisis in the history of this country,” Davis contended. “Nixon, who has broken prac¬ tically every single law of human¬ ity in the world, didn’t give a damn about the people when he extended the war in Vietnam.” And, she continued, “There is also a war going on right here at home. Blacks and Chicanos have taken the responsibility of lead- e r s h i p in the revolutionary struggle that is going to over¬ throw North American imperial- ism.Repression has reached a peak,” she charged. “The very le¬ gal structures in the country are (Continued on Page 5) with foreign citizenships. They neglect the fact that there are Oriental Americans who are ac¬ tually registered at Loyola. In Los Angeles County, the Hu¬ man Relations Committee and the Regional Planning Commission compiled the following data in October of 1967. For the minority groups of the state, Spanish surnames com¬ prised 12.9%, Negroes 11%, Ori¬ entals (Japanese, Chinese, Ko¬ reans) 2.1% and American In¬ dians 0.1% and others 0.4%. It is clear from these figures that the Oriental faction is a “minority” of a minority and makes up a mere 14.5% of the total non-white population. Percentage wise, there are more Orientals than American Indians, and they still do not qualify for the pro¬ gram. To the best of the knowledge of our Registrar’s office, from the total enrollment of 2,229 students on the Westchester campus, Span¬ ish surnames make up 5.84%, Ori¬ entals: 1.97%, Negro: 1.75%, and American Indians: 1.25%. Roughly 50% of the Orientals or 0.985% of the total enrollment of Loyola are American citizens. ' Surely this proportion con¬ stitutes the smallest racial group on campus. The current generation prob¬ ably has not witnessed the action which the United States did dur¬ ing World War II. It was decided to “relocate” approximately 110,- 000 Japanese-Americans from the West Coast; roughly 75,000 of them native-born citizens of (Continued on Page 2) After a considerable amount of controversy, the Academic Assem¬ bly finally issued its minutes from a recent meeting which dealt with the students demands surround¬ ing the take-over of the Devel¬ opment Office. The students had four demands. These demands would allow for the students to do the following: a) remain in class; b) take in- completes in their classes and be given the opportunity to make up the credits without the usual pen¬ alty fee; c) take the current grade of each class or work credit completed up to the date as the final grade; d) arrange with each individual teacher the work that would be done for a final grade without attending the remaining scheduled class sessions. Reporters from the Loyolan were denied entrance to the meet¬ ing for about one hour. After a brief confrontation, and upon the suggestion of Fr. Merrified, three reporters were allowed into the meeting. Father Merrifield addressed the meeting, commending the calm¬ ness and dignity of the Peace March, and pointed out that the entire faculty speaks through the Academic Assembly and that he as president ought to listen to their recommendations. Representing the students in support of the demands were Ken Smith, Julie Draper and Brian Bennett. Smith maintained that a different form of education should be made available to students who would like intense personal involvement in community pro¬ grams. He stated that he was not asking for unilateral accord, but that agreements should be reached between students and their teachers if more good could be done in a educational way oth¬ er than the classroom situation. Students in opposition to the proposal at the meeting were Bill Pinalto, John Lorenze and Steve С 1 e n d e n e n, as spokesman, objected primarily to item “C” of the proposal, that is, that students be given credit for the work done so far in the term. He contended that to accept “C” would lower the educational standards of the university and would be unfair both to students remaining in classes and to those leaving classes. For some time after the stu¬ dents presentations, the Assem¬ bly and the students discusses the proposals, with faculty members expressing strong concern over item “C.” After the discussion of the pro¬ posals with students ended, Loyo¬ lan reporters were asked to leave (Continued on Page 6) Fields, Adams elected to top ASLU executive posts By Dave Devereaux Ron Fields was elected presi¬ dent of the ASLU, defeating Gro¬ ver McKean by a vote pf 467-391 in the May 15 election. During his campaign, Fields stressed the necessity for on- Ron Fields campus Selective Service coun¬ seling, proposed the publication of off-campus book store and restau¬ rant prices, and advocated a pres¬ ident who would be more relevant to the students. For the office of ASLU execu¬ tive vice-president, Mark Adams out-polled Mike Stoltz. Adams tal¬ lied 520 votes to Stolz 317. Adams, speaking at the election forum, declared that “student government must provide the vi¬ tal function of bringing us togeth¬ er; the ASLU is no longer a politi¬ cal unit, it is becoming a service organization.” Steve Brunett was elected resi¬ dent student vice-president by a vote of 337 yes to 61 no. For day-student vice-president, Mike Tramontin defeated John Bielanski by a vote of 244 to 106. Dan Moothart was elected ASLU secretary over his oppo¬ nent, Michael McColloch, by a vote of 430-351. In the student body treasurer election, Charles McClain was voted into office by a 381-342 ma¬ jority over Daniel Vistica. Alex Cruz was seated as resi¬ dent student representative at large by a yes-no vote of 336-61. The position of day student dele¬ gate at large was decided in favor of Sal Munoz over Steve Goodman by a vote of 227 to 117. John Boylan was elected politi- ( Continued on Page 3)