The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 48, Issue 8 - February 1, 1971

Los Angeles LOYOLAN Vol. 48 — No. 8 A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION February I, 1971 MARYMOUNT STUDENT COUNCIL— Andy Butcher, seated, center, presides over a recent meeting, during which appropriations for a loan fund and other purposes were passed. Minority Affairs HEW cites LU for unfair hiring By Carey and Henderson An advisory board of the De¬ partment of Health, Education, and Welf are has cited Loyola Uni¬ versity as one of 18 institutions with discriminatory hiring prac¬ tices under executive order 11246. Last August 28, University President, Rev. Donald P. Mer¬ rifield, SJ received a letter from HEW informing him that Loyola has been lax in the placement of women and minority group mem¬ bers in faculty and administrative positions. Failure to enact suf¬ ficient changes, according to HEW, could conceivably result in a loss of federal grants and loans to the University. Specifically HEW charged that: 1) an insufficient number of wom¬ en are employed as adminis¬ trators or professors; 2) women holding administrative or faculty positions are not receiving equit¬ able salaries with men; and 3) too many minority group members are now employed in the tradi¬ tional, custodial jobs. Currently, there are 17 female faculty members among the 231 positions held. In the adminis¬ trative category 25% of the posi¬ tions are held by women. In the Office and Technical category, 91% of the positions are held by women. It should be noted that this category consists mainly of clerical and secretarial jobs. Of the Management and Supervisory positions, 41% are held by women. In the Service Department 40% of those employed are women. According to University sources, some salary inequities do exist. In the past women were willing to work for less than their male counterparts. Recent hirings are being paid on an equal scale, although discrimination does exist by departments. In the service departments it has been the policy to exclude women from consideration for more highly paid positions on the basis of job description because of “protective” labor laws. This means that women were not al¬ lowed to work at jobs requiring physical exertion involving the use of heavy appliances. Since these laws are no longer in effect women will be considered for those jobs from which they were previously banned. The only area in which minor¬ ities are over-utilized is in the Service of Buildings and Grounds. A total of 88% of the service staff is of a minority group. In an inter¬ view with tKe Loyolan Merrifield mentioned that this over-utili¬ zation has resulted in a decrease in the minority hirings for this de¬ partment. MM student council votes appropriations By Sue Remley The Marymount Student Council has discussed and acted upon sev¬ eral issues in its first three ses¬ sions so far this term. At the January 27 meeting,- the establishment of a Marymount student loan fund was given final council approval. An initial appro¬ priation of $1,000 in the fund will exist under the same terms as that of Loyola’s student loan fund, a maximum of $30 repa¬ yable over a period of thirty days. Any Marymount student who wishes to take out a loan, for any reason, must apply at the Dean of Students’ office, Malone 109. A $500 request from the ASMC Low Income Scholarships Development stalls on ASLU aid program funds John Clewis, director of person- el services, told the Loyolan that work is now being done on defin¬ ing problem areas, manpower goals, and target dates. Work being done , includes an inventory of personnel breakdown accord¬ ing to department and categories. Clewis stressed that goals set must be realistic, and dependent upon availability of positions being opened and the number of suitable applicants in the labor market. Merrifield said “Where jobs ap¬ pear we will widely advertise them and where possible will fa¬ vor the two minorities.” He added that this will occur only when mi¬ nority applicants are as able as any other applicants. He also mentioned that wide recruiting may be good for the University. (Continued on Page 2) Tensions are mounting on the Low Income Scholarship Com¬ mittee as Loyola’s Development Office appears to be failing to ful¬ fill its commitment to match ASLU funds. To date, the Devel¬ opment Office has not set aside any money for the program. The Committee was established by the ASLU Senate last year, when, in an unprecedented move, they committed $7,500 of their budget for a scholarship fund for low income students. The purpose of this fund was to provide both grants and loans for educational expenses, room and board to needy students who were not qualified or able to receive money from regular financial aid sources. The program was in¬ tended to help both low and middle income students who fell into temporary or long term fi¬ nancial emergencies after the deadline for application for regu¬ lar scholarship funds was past. Often such students are forced to drop out of school to seek employ¬ ment. The ASLU Senate established this fund last year with the under- standing that the University would match their appropriations on a dollar for dollar basis. The Development Office at that time seemed willing to do so. In a letter to the ASLU Senate dated April 20, 1970, Mrs. Anita Rook, Director of Research and Records for the Development Of¬ fice, stated: “The proposal for an ASLU Scholarship Fund for low- income undergraduate students is an excellent one and I am con¬ fident that if the proposal is passed we will have little difficul¬ ty in getting matching scholarship funds from other sources. In doing preliminary research I have located several foundations which would be interested in such a pro¬ gram.” Richard M. Mason, Vice Presi¬ dent for Planning and Devel¬ opment, declared in a letter to the ASLU Senate of the same date: “It is- entirely possible that the Development Office can find matching or supplemental funds from individuals and foundations if such a fund is established. We will do our best to make this hap¬ pen.” f However, in the year since (Continued on Page 6) Tereschuk to head Tecate Orphanage charity drive Student Council for this year’s Te¬ cate project was made by Joe Tereschuk, of the Phi Sig frater¬ nity. This will be used to complete Hie construction of a girls’ dor¬ mitory, and to dig a water well, both at the Mexican orphanage. All ‘Marymount students will again vote by poll on the most ap¬ propriate sum of their money that should be spent on the project. Marilyn McCandles,, Commis¬ sioner of Cultural Affairs, an¬ nounced that Sylvia Walden will be back on February 9 for another extravaganza performance of un¬ usual theatre arts performances. All students are encouraged to (Continued on Page 2) By Dennis Atchley Joe Tereschuk is heading Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity’s annual drive to aid Tecate Orphanage. Since his appointment as head of the drive last spring, Teres¬ chuk has worked on organizing the myriad facets that combine to make up the fraternity’s yearly charity drive. Some of these include: the re¬ cent successful benefit perform¬ ance of The Detective Story, a re¬ quested $500 donation from the ASLU, a Tecate night at the Attic February 9, a giant inter-frater¬ nity sponsored dance February 2, and a slide lecture delivered toy Father Henry Vetter, founder of the orphanage, on February 16. The entire drive culminates on the February 20 with work day at Tecate. In an interview with the Loyo¬ lan, Tereschuk discussed the his¬ tory of the Tecate orphanage and the state of the drive. Situated on the fringe of the town of Tecate, Mexico, the or¬ phanage houses some 80 children, ranging in age from 1-5, a staff of nuns and Fr. Henry. The children have been reduced to eating less than substantial food, and all water has to be trucked in from San Diego, Teres¬ chuk said. To remedy this, he hopes that “the student body will respond to the needs of the orphanage with donations of canned and dried foods, second hand or discarded clothing, and money.” He went on to explain that this money will be used to finance the completion of a girls’ dormitory, a $3,000 water well drilling proj¬ ect, and to initiate construction of a trade school on the orphanage grounds. Since all professional help is donated on the work days, construction costs consist mainly of materials. Phi Sigma Kappa has sponsored this drive for the last four years. Year after year, response to the drive has increased. Last year, under the direction of Deno Vaer- ini, the drive was a big success, netting over $1,600. This year, with the help of the student body, Tereschuk hopes to greatly sur¬ pass that figure. As he puts it, “With a little co¬ operation and sacrifice during the next four weeks, combined with student participation in the com¬ ing events, the drive should be a huge success.” (Up until press time the Univer¬ sity led by Rev. Donald Mer- riifield had still not contributed a cent to the Tecate Drive.)