The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 48, Issue 3 - October 19, 1970

Los Angeles LOYOLAN Vol. 48— No. 3 A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION October 19, 1970 New forensic society at Marymount In an effort to extend the re¬ sources of the public speaking de¬ partment, a Marymount counter¬ part to Loyola’s Forensic Associ¬ ation is being initiated. Interested students are invited to meet Octo¬ ber 27 at 4 p.m. in Malone 204. The new Marymount College Forensic Association, under the direction of Mrs. Barbara Busse, a speech instructor, will follow the same program of activities as Loyola’s group, but will be re¬ sponsible for raising its own funds. Mrs. Busse pointed out that the program is being underfunded un¬ til it proves its worth, but she added that its worth has already been established. “The program is not just intellectually useful,’’ Mrs. Busse stressed. “It is also socially useful.” “It will offer girls a chance to get off campus away from the limited scope of vision they get here,” she continued. “It will give them other students and they will be able to spend more time with the faculty.” The girls, along with Loyola stu¬ dents, will travel on weekends to college and university campuses all over the Southland, and if more funds are made available to the organization they will join with., the Loyola men in com¬ petition on a national basis. According to Mrs. Busse, the various catagories open in the speech competitions can be at¬ tractive to students with many in¬ terests. Those interested in liter¬ ature can participate in the oral reading competition. The oppor¬ tunity to give persuasive speeches and extemporaneous speeches prepared “on the spot” from es¬ says is also available to interested students. By Rosemary Patmore Dr. Allen Cohen, a former asso¬ ciate of Timothy Leary, focused his attention on the drug scene last Monday; October 11, at the first convocation of the fall quar¬ ter, presented in St. Robert’s Hall. Cohen has his Ph.D. in clinical psychology, and his whole inter¬ est in the subject started in 1961, when he walked into his first graduate class at Harvard, titled Field Work in Clinical Psy¬ chology, he explained. The two professors were Dr. Richard Al¬ bert, and Dr. Timothy Leary. Cd- hen went on to say that “the field Clinic offers students hot-line training course By Mike Carey The Westchester Mental Health Clinic has initiated a program to train Loyola University students as listeners for the Westchester Hot Line program. The Hot Line is a private and confidential service to youth and adults. It is provided without charge, and on a voluntary basis. Basically, the Hot Line provides troubled individuals with help. But, according to Jose Luis Flores, student director of the program at Loyola, “we’re not there to solve a person’s prqblem, we’re there to aid them. ” According to Flores, when an individual is in trouble or is upset about something, he can get in touch with a Hot Line listener by calling 654-3333. All conversations are kept on a first name basis, with neither the listener nor the caller revealing his identity. Ev¬ erything said to a listener is privi¬ leged information. Under no cir¬ cumstances are the authorities ever called, unless the caller him¬ self asks for their assistance. Flores says that in cases where the listener feels that personal counseling is necessary, he is pre¬ pared to provide counselors from the Hot Line program itself. The listener is also equipped to (Continued on Page 3) Brownfield offered major posts, remains at Loyola DR. ALLEN COHEN, a clinical psychologist, discusses his exper¬ iences with hallucinatory drugs before an interested audience in St. Robert’s Auditorium. Guest lecturer Dr. Cohen looks at spiritual drugs trips were quite different, as all the students in the program were introduced to LSD and Mesculin at a time when we knew nothing about it. Harvard took a year to get upset about it, but when they did, Leary was fired.” A year later, in the summer of 1962, Cohen explained, Leary organized a group of people from all walks of life, in Mexico, to experimen t with LSD and other psychedelics that could expand human consciousness. “It was a totally idealistic gung-ho community.” Cohen added, “as far as we were concerned drugs were sacraments, £nd it was the people who were flipped out. The whole notion, was that the usage had something to do with the reli¬ gious spiritual experience, some¬ thing that is not too well cate¬ gorized in our society.” The next three years, ’62, ’63, ’64, brought more sophistication to the group, along with a power¬ ful change in the direction of spir¬ itual orientation, Cohen pointed out. The group was still idealistic but now had to fight the forces of law and order. Another prob¬ lem also surfaced. He asked, “What happened when you had a generation of young people who were super aware of what was happening, who were affluent, and who started going to psychia¬ trist for the Freudian, neurotic problems of somehow liberating their ID? The problem was that they didn’t know what to do with it once it was liberated. This (Continued on Page 2) By Mike Carey Rumors have been circulating around campus lately that Jim Brownfield, head football coach at Loyola, has been offered coaching positions at other colleges. It has also been suggested that he has accepted one of these offers, and Will soon be leaving the univer¬ sity. In an interview with the Loyo¬ lan, Brownfield said that he had been offered positions by not one, but three colleges. Asked if one of t he c oil eges was* Purdue, Brownfield said yes. Further, he stated that he was offered $15,000 more than he is presently being paid at Loyola. He also mentioned that he had even been offered an expense paid trip to visit the campus of one of the colleges. But Brownfield said he turned down the offers, and didn’t want to visit any other schools. He said he is happy here, and stated: “I place no value on money.” He indicated that he likes Loyola very much, and that he enjoys working here as head coach. This is more important to him than any monetary benefits. He says he feels "absolutely no urge to leave Loyola. Brownfield then turned to the recent St. Benedict’s game, ad¬ mitting that it was a mis-match between the two schools. “We apologized to our team” at half¬ time for the Ravens’ poor playing. But Brownfield doesn’t feel that the game was a complete loss. He said that before the game, St. Benedict’s had been considering dropping their football program. Now, he says, there is a chance that they w i\\ continue. Brownfield sent a letter to St. Benedict’s suggesting that Loyola play the Ravens on their home field next year. This trip, he feels, will help recruiting. . Brownfield also felt that the publicity received by the Lions was good, and that this was a definite advantage to the game. Next, Brownfield was asked his feelings on recent articles in the Loyolan concerning the football program. He said that the football office and the team were very up¬ set. Referring to the Pudge Hefi flefinger’s article in last week’s issue of the Loyolan, Brownfield stated that he and the players thought it was in very poor taste. He said that if he were a different kind of person, “I’d take it to court.” But, Brownfield said later in the interview, “I don’t want to get involved in politics.” Brownfield definitely feels that an individual writer has a right to criticize; but he feels that the Loyolan should show both aspects, and not shade the issue to one side. Brownfield also thinks that Loy¬ olan articles have hurt the opinion of outsiders toward the football program. He suggests that the newspaper has handicapped re¬ cruiting of high school . students. Coaches of high schools have (Continued on Page 2) Senate votes to support Griffin’s cinema course By Dave Devereaux By a nearly unanimous vote at its October 11 meeting, the Stu¬ dent Senate agreed to appropriate funds to finance Dr. Patrick H. Griffin’s History and Cinema Workshop. The Senate appropria¬ tion was for $1,000. First offered last winter, HS 293, the experimental workshop in the fundamentals of film-making, was financed by a grant from the Committee on Innovations. This committee could not spon¬ sor it for a second term, so it was not offered last spring. A similar special studies course was offered in its place. This term HS 293 is back on the books, but a lack of funds has placed its future in doubt. As a result, a number of stu¬ dents on Dr. Griffin’s behalf re¬ quested the ASLU to petition a grant from the Student Senate on behalf of the course. Now that the request has been granted, the Senate will seek to have its grant supplemented by the University to allow the course to continue through the winter and spring quarters. The Senate is asking the university to contribute $2,000 each quarter to the program. (See page 5 for text of Senate letter). If this request is denied, Griffin will have to seek funds elsewhere if the course is to continue. Ear¬ lier he had applied for a grant through the Sacramento office of the Department of Health, Educa¬ tion and Welfare to keep the course alive this year on an ex¬ perimental basis. He was turned down because the course is not of the research kind, which HEW wishes to support. Nevertheless, Griffin indicated that there are other actions that can be taken, adding that the con¬ struction of the new commu¬ nication arts complex will very much improve the chances of se¬ curing a grant from another source. Says Dr. Griffin, “I would like to see the course stay on the books if it can be supported by continued student interest.” (Continued on page 2)