The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 48, Issue 10 - February 22, 1971

Los Angeles LO YOLAN Vol. 48 — No. 10 %дакг<аш> A LOYOLA-MARYM'OUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION February 22, 1971 THIS' is AN ARTIST’S CONCEPTION of what the proposed new men’s apartment-style dorms will look like. It is hoped that this structure will be completed for juniors, seniors and graduate students by Fall of 1971. Men’s Dorm Apartments By Rosemary Patmore By fall of 1971, the new men’s apartment-style dorm will ibe completed for juniors, seniors, and graduate students. It will be located in the parking lot behind Whalen, ’Desmond, and Rose- crans. Fr. Richard Robin S.J., and Dean Scully are in charge of the men’s dorms. In an • interview with th^ Loyolan, Ft.' Robin com¬ mented bout the acquisition of sufficient financing. “I contacted the loan companies, but it’s still not settled, though by next week we hope to get the money.” The “garden” apartments will be three stories with red wood facing and flat roofs to blend in with the other buildings, with an emphasis on privacy. This is achieved by having, for example, a unit with its own outside walk¬ way separated from the next unit by a garden. To enhance the decor, many palm and pine trees will be planted. “Each room will have a living room, with a pullman type kitch¬ en, and then in the back a bed¬ rooms for two, with a connecting bathroom. The kitchen is against one wall in the living room. “We hope to have a gas stove and oven, sink and refrigerator.” He continued, “the bedrooms are 12’ by 12’, and the kitchen area and living room is 12’ by 17’.” There is a total of 60 units with four students to each unit. The es¬ timated cost for each student is $575, including utilities plus an additional $12.50 cleaning fee. The only extra payments would be for damage. Fr. Robin pointed out that the architect is David Teneeson Rich. “He also has done Don the Beach- to Emphasize Privacy comber in Marina del Key, along with several other apartments.” He continued describing the apartments, “The desks will be a movable metal type, with a dr af t s m e n type ramp. The chesterfield and easy chair both will be done in a soft vinyl type of material, so it doesn’t look institu¬ tional. One wall in the living room might, have cork on it. There will be bookshelves in the bedroom, and a knickknack shelf in the liv¬ ing room. Also, sway lamps will be used. “Furniture that will take a lot of wear, but at the same time look very attractive is the idea in mind. There have been comments made by a few of the girls in Marymount that the furniture is a little sterile with the desks attached to the wall. Our big point is creating a per¬ sonal atmosphere. For instance, instead of walking out into a corridor, they can walk out of their room,, look around and see different people.” Considered to 'be the biggest at¬ traction is the student center to be put up for use by all the men’s dorms. “This center will be all stone and redwood, measuring 40’ by 40’. There will be a fireplace with a pit-type of seating arrange¬ ment, so the studnet can sit (Continued on Page 3) Constitution readied by unification committee By Tom Sutpen Fields, Andy Butcher, Pam Croft, The Student Government Unifi¬ cation Committee is nearing com¬ pletion of its work after five months of labor. The new con¬ stitution has, been finished and is ready for presentation to the stu¬ dent legislatures and the student body. (Members of the committee presented the constitution to Marymount’s Student Council last Wednesday. That body approved it unanimously. It was then presented to the ASLU Senate on Sunday, but the results of this meeting were not known at the time the paper went to press. The constitution was written by an inter-governmental committee composed of Mark Adams, Rick Humm, David Williams, Ron Terri Iacino, and Ronnie Hayes. This committee which met twice a week during the first quarter, and every day during the second, is proposing an en¬ tirely new concept for student government. In an interview with the Loyolan, several of the com¬ mittee members explained this concept. I “Basically, it is an attempt to create a strong representative body of the students, to abolish much of the egotism and politics of student government, and to make student government a serv¬ ice organization for the students” according to Andy Butcher. Mark Adams commented, , “the reason for the Board of Governors (Continued on Page 2) Fr. Ryan Resigns Trame Appointed New Graduate School Dean Rev. Richard H. Trame, SJ, has been appointed Dean of the Graduate School, succeeding Rev. Harold Ryan, whose resignation was recently announced. A student-faculty search com¬ mittee, unanimously recommend¬ ed Trame for the post. The com¬ mittee, chaired by Rev. John Do¬ nahue, SJ, included Rev. John O’Farrell, SJ, Dr. Frank Sullivan and Dr. Robert Ritter and Dr. Michael Wright. Ryan is retiring after a 20-year term as head of the Graduate Di¬ vision. He was at Loyola from ’33-’35, received his Ph.D. in English at the University of St. Louis in 1944, and then came back to Loyola in ’45. It has been said by many that he was the entire English depart¬ ment after the war. He hired Dr. Sullivan, Dr. Carothers, Dr. Er- landson, Mr. Stone, and Fr. Al¬ bertson, S.J. He began the Loyola lecture series in ’46 and directed it until he became heavily in¬ volved in the graduate division. Fr. Ryan first met Marshall McLuhan at the University of St. Louis. “He was a very stimulating teacher, and was on my dis¬ sertation committee. He handled 1he non-dramatic literature of the Renaissance, and he went from there to the University of Toronto, where he is now. I visited him in ’66, and correspond with him on and off.” In 1949 he took a trip to Rio De Janeiro as the first priest to be asked by the State Department to lecture there. “It was a Catholic university and they wanted a vis¬ iting professor in American: lit. and civililation. I had a class and gave lectures at 1 he American Cultural Institute.” Asked how he got involved as Dean of the Graduate division he replied, “the first graduate de¬ partment was English, and in 1950, after I came back from Bra¬ zil, they felt we should start grad¬ uate work, and the only depart¬ ment adequately prepared to go into it was English. So we started out with English and I was the (Continued on Page 2) Self-Study Retreat Resolutions implemented, need for future study By Kathy McCoy Last February, members of the Loyola/Marymount community converged at a Palos Verdes re¬ treat house in the second con¬ secutive self-evaluation retreat, hoping to study and improve upon various elements of the univer¬ sity. One year later, the two questions to be answered are ex¬ actly what has been accomp¬ lished as a result of this self- study, and is it feasible and ad- viseable to continue the program. The forty-one faculty members, eleven students and eight admin¬ istrators in attendance approved six proposals: First was the Resolution on a Tripartite Committee period. This committee to be composed of was 1/3 students, 1/3 faculty and 1/2 administrators, with the express purpose of examining and making recommendations on the decision- m a king process at Loyo- la-Marymount. Second was the Resolution on Student Attendance at Depart¬ ment Meetings. This resolution stated that all departmental meet¬ ings are to be opened to student* participation with or without vot¬ ing power, except when personal or student evaluation problems are discussed. Discussion about allowing students to vote at the meetings would be handled in each department. Third was Resolution on Gener¬ al Education. Within this resolu¬ tion a free college with curricular autonomy, was to be set up with¬ in the University structure. Fourth was the Resolution on Student Housing. Specifically re¬ quested was that future housing developments should take into consideration different commu¬ nity living, with the goal of stu¬ dent autonomy in the dorm. Fifth was the Resolution on Community Living. This is basi¬ cally embodied in, the Fourth Res¬ olution. Sixth was the Resolution on Ex¬ tended hours for the Library and the President’s Lounge. This reso¬ lution specifically requested that Library and President’s Lounge hours be extended from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. for seven days a week. The idea of a tripartite com¬ mittee to examine the decision¬ al aking. process at Loyo- ia/Marymount has been imple¬ mented. Under the leadership of Dr. Richard Williamson, Dean of the Business College, the Gover¬ nance Commission has been meet¬ ing since last Spring. (Continued on Page 3)