Mar. 6. 1972
A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION
Vol. 49— No. 14
CA enrollment reaches
saturation point
The benches »f the Alumni Mall, which was almost completed last week, are already in constant use by
students Completion of the Mall fulfills the dreams of the Alumni and the developer (Dick Mason)'.
Fitzgerald speaks on issues
by Andy Butcher
On March 2, at X
p.m.> Dr, Wffiiam F. Fitzgerald,
chairman of Loyola’s political
science department, addressed the
Loyola-Mary mount community on
the subject of his current cam¬
paign for public office in the Cali¬
fornia state legislature.
Dr. Fitzgerald Ms not made a
final decision as to which race
to enter. He will run in either
the 31st State senatorial district,
or the 63rd assembly district,
which comprises MJf of the sen¬
ate district. He specified that his
indecision is based ift part on the
difference in cost between the two
campaigns, and in part on the as¬
sessment of his chances for win¬
ning either race.
A position in the state senate
would obviously be the more in¬
fluential and effective as far as
legislation is concerned. But the
costs of campaigning for the as-
Marijuana intiative
proposed in California
The California Marijuana In¬
itiative is a statewide effort to
place on the November,
Щ2,
bal¬
lot an initiative which would re¬
move criminal penalties for adult
personal use of marijuana. The
proposed measure . reads as fol¬
lows:
SECTION 11530.2
(1) No person in the State of Cal-
v ifornia 18 years rof age or older
shall be Punished criminally, or
be denied any right or privilege,
•йу
reason of spch person’s
^-planting, cultivating, haryest-
|»mg, drying, processing, others
wise preparing, transporting or
possessing marijuana for per¬
sonal use, :’’or 6y rtfeason' of that
use. ; ■ . ’ ’
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(2) This provision shall in no
way be epnstrhed to repeal
existing legislation^ or limit the
eimctment of future legislation,
prohibiting persons under the
influence of marijuana from
engaging in conduct that endan¬
gers others.
dorsement of marijuana; rather
it is a recognition that the use of
pot is a personal choice and that
for the welfare of the user, his
family and friends, and the socie¬
ty as whole, users should not be
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sembly would be considerably
less, and ^ legislators m Sacrih
mento have informed him that his
chances of victory in this race
are greater. There is an incum-
sbent Democrat in the 31st senate
district, and there is no incum¬
bent in the assembly district at
this time. The same number of
candidates is presently slated in
each of the two political contests.
Regarding the most basic rea¬
sons for his decision to leave the
University community and enter
the public arena of politics, Dr.
Fitzgerald first stated that his
teaching experience has always
been a meaningful and fulfilling
one for him. He said that he was
certain he could always find that
satisfaction in the teaching pro¬
fession, but that “as a professor
of political science, it has always
been my policy to urge students
to become actively involved in the
political -process as a viable
(Continued on Page 2)
By Michael Carey
If the Communication Arts pro¬
gram at Loyola continues to grow
at its present rate,- it will become
necessary to either increase the
number of faculty or decrease the
number of students.
Ben Abenne, chairman of the
CA department, said this in an in¬
terview with the Loyolifa last
week. He also stated that the de¬
partment was having many prob¬
lems at the present time, due
mainly to the move into the new
building.
Last week Abenne met with
Theodore Erlandspn, dean of Loy¬
ola’s College of Arts and Sciences,
and Fr. John Clarke, SJ, Loyola
Academic Vice-president, to dis¬
cuss these problems.
“D e a n Erlandson and Fr.
Clarke met with me at my
request because of a multiple
number of problems all stemming
from moving into a new facility
and handling not only internal but
external problems.
“Among the many things we
talked about was that if our
growth continues, and we can’t
give total support to maintain our
academic level, then the choice
will obviously be to either in¬
crease faculty or cut down ma¬
jors.”
Abenne was unsure of which
way the problem would be re¬
solved, but said that since the
University is thinking of cutting
down its overall enrollment, while
CA’s enrollment is continually in¬
creasing, it might require a level¬
ing off of the number of majors.
Also an increase in the number of
faculty might not be feasible in
light of the projected budget for
next year.
“If we decided to decrease stu¬
dents,’ ’ he said, “f would stop the
tremendous inflow of freshmen.
We have to find some way of lim¬
iting the number of majors, some
reasonable testing method for
limiting the number of majors.”
He said that the department
cannot function in the “tradition¬
al way of bringing in 100 students
and then saying that by the time
they’re seniors we’ll cut them
down to 30. We have to be able to
fiftd some method of choice at the
freshman level. There are no
tests, no SAT scores; the maths
and the verbals don’t work out for
our kind of students.”
Abenne also mentioned that
many upperclassmen switch ma¬
jors in their junior year,, or
change to a double major pro¬
gram. He mentioned that this was
good, but that if the numbers be¬
came overwhelming, then some
sort of test will have to be worked
out also.
The problem lies in the type of
subject matter offered. According
to Abenne, writing and production
takes up a lot of the faculty mem¬
bers’ time, meaning fewer stu¬
dents per class. That is why most
of the CA courses on the spring
quarter class schedule are closed
to CA majors.
“The building,” Abenne con¬
tinued, “is designed to take 246
undergraduate, students at a theo¬
retical 60 per class. Of course;
that’s not mathematically accu¬
rate. It’s also designed to have on
a two-year master program 30
graduate students per year, for a
total of 300 students.
“It’s designed for that. But the
problem of supporting that be-
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Brownfield contract
voted out by Board
The Loyola - Marymount Foot¬
ball Board of Trustees voted 4-3
last Monday night to not renew
Coach Jim Brownfield’s contract
for the 1972-73 football season.
In the face of approximately 30
football players, the Board of
Trustees discussed the issue of
Brownfield’s contract with the
football team and'coach.
Mark Adams cited four major
reasons for the board’s motion
which centered around a differ¬
ence in the basic philosophy in
how the football program should
be run. The board’s contention is
that football program cannot af¬
ford to expand anymore than it
has, and that the coach’s fund-
raising practices, his philosophy;
and his requests for additional
program funds would cause un¬
needed friction in the program’s
structure.
The four points in question
were: Brownfield’s independent
fund raising and public relations,
the recent coach’s clinic, loss of
money for development in rela¬
tionship to the St. Benedict’s
The;.cappmg&l;k:t,..iiPit'
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suring has come to. Loyola, Many couples enjoy the fine weather on the lawa.
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