April 10. 1972
A lOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION
Vol. 49— No. 15
Rumor LaPorte to leave;
Board removes Joseph
Directorship now I ladno named
vacant new chairman
Michael LaPorte, Director of
Student Affairs for the ASLM gov^
ernment, has reportedly resigned
his position. Alvin Kato, Deputy
Director under LaPorte, told stu¬
dents at a commissioners meeting
that LaPorte had informed Terry
Iacino, Chairman of the Board of
Governors for the ASLM, that he
was resigning.
According to Kato, the reasons
for LaPorte’s leaving his position
were a disillusionment With the
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Mike Joseph
Photo by Heithaus
Terri Iacino
By Mary Ellen Clinton
The end , of winter quarter
brought to a close the Board of
Governors chairmanship for Mike
Joseph. In the final weeks of
the quarter the Board convened
to give Terri Iacino the chair.
According to those members of
the Board who supported, this
move, there was dissatisfaction
with the manner in which Joseph
had been executing the responsi¬
bilities of his position.
Complaints against Joseph in¬
cluded: (1) the meetings were not
announced properly, (2) meetings
were too long, and (3) meetings
were run inefficiently. Those in
support of Iacino felt that she
“ran a better meeting.”
This was not the first time that
Joseph’s performance as chair¬
man has been challenged. Earlier
this year he was brought to task
concerning the manner in which
he conducted meetings. At that
time Joseph successfully defend¬
ed himself and was allowed to
con t i n u e as chairman. The
charges brought against him then
were essentially the same as
those that led to his dismissal.
In an interview with the Loyo-
lan, Joseph expressed discontent
with the Board of Governors for
its lack of regard for Robert’s
Rules of Order. He stated that the
first vote to replace him was tak¬
en during a meeting that was un¬
constitutional because he had can¬
celled that meeting and that the
motion to replace him was passed
without a two-thirds majority. A
vote taken in a subsequent meet¬
ing passed the motion again. Jo¬
seph pointed out, however, that
the second vote was taken out of
order since Terri Iacino, who
was acting as chairman at the
time, took part in the vote. In ad¬
dition, it was not clearly defined
that the people who were newly
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Modified semester plan
approved by committee
By Dave Devereaux
A semester calendar has re¬
ceived approval from the Educa¬
tional Program and Planning
Committee (EPPC) and now
awaits final consideration by the
University Council and the Presi¬
dent.
The proposed system, which
would be in effect for the 1973-74
academic year, calls for classes
to begin during the first week of
October and run ten weeks
through to the Christmas vaca¬
tion. Classes would resume in ear¬
ly January with five weeks of in¬
struction and one week of exam¬
inations followed by semester re¬
cess. The second semester begins
in mid-February arid rims to the
end of examinations around June
10.
In approving this calendar the
EPPC rejected the recommenda¬
tion of the General Education
Commission and its Task Force
that a system be adopted in which
the first semester concludes be¬
fore Christmas.
Before the matter caine to the
EPPC^ nine proposed systems
were reviewed by the Deans’
Council. Included among these
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April 13 is the last day voters may register to be eligible to vote in the June 6 primary. Registrars wffl
be working on Regents Terrace this week.
PR-Development Reorganization
Languirand goes Hollywood
By Michael Carey
Richard Languirand, Director
of the Loyola Marymount Office
of Development for the past three
years, has left his position to ac¬
cept an offer to become Director
of Development for the American
Film Institute! He is to be re¬
placed by Stewart Bachtelle, who
until now has headed Public Rela¬
tions.
According to Richard Mason,
Vice President of University Rela¬
tions, the position Vacated Dby
Bachtelle will not be filled by one
person. Instead, the plan is to di¬
vide the responsibility among
three of the remaining Public Re¬
lations staff members.
The staff members who will
share authority for the office are
Ray Brown, Bill Knittle, and Bill
Barron. Before the changes, all of
them worked directly under Bach¬
telle. Nqw, Mason says, the three
will be dividing the duties of the
director of the Public Relations.
Mason, in a Public Relations
Staff Memo, outlined the new
structure. First, Bachtelle will as¬
sume responsibility as Acting Di¬
rector of Development. He will re¬
tain the responsibility and author¬
ity in managing the Loyola jg
M a r y m o u n t Public Relations
function as counselor and advisor.
Bachtelle will also remain pub^
lisher of thq Lion & Gryphon.
Ray Brown will report directly
to Mason, and will take over the
responsibility of coordinating and
managing the office functions of
Public Relations. This is to in¬
clude office management, prepa¬
ration of advertising support,
preparation of campus logo, im¬
age, press kits, etc. Brown will
also be responsible for coordinat¬
ing arid supervising production
arid publication of bulletins, cata¬
logs, and the campus guide and
speakers bureau pamphlets.
Bill Knittle will be responsible
for all press relations with all
media except sports writers and
the ^On Campus” television show.
Also, he will be in charge of pho¬
tographic support, scheduling,
and stock photo file for all
campus activities. Knittle will
prepare and respond to press
queries, as well as supervise
press relations for all major
campus events and visitors. He
will act as Assistant Publication
Editor, and will supervise the ac¬
tivities of Liz McHale, another
staff member of Public Rela¬
tions.
Bill Barron will take the respon¬
sibility of producing all film clips
for campus and sports events, in¬
cluding the “On Campus” show.
He will work on community rela¬
tions programs, as well as man¬
age all major campus events,
such as dedications.
Although all three men will be
sharing responsibility, Brown will
be the one who will make the day
to day decisions affecting the pub¬
lic relations function.
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Marymount High to move
and merge with MMPV
Setting what may well become
an educational trend, the eleventh
and twelfth grades of Marymount
High School of Palos Verdes will
move to the Marymount College
of Palos Verdes campus in Sep¬
tember. Sr. Raymunde McKay,
president of the Marymount Col¬
leges of Southern California said
in an interview With the Los Ange¬
les Times, that the term “middle
college” would describe the new
program. She commented that
she sees it as a possible way to
eliminate the senior year of high
school during which she said that
many students become bored.
“Too often,” she said, “12th
graders take electives which must
then be repeated in college. Our
objective is to avoid Ms useless
duplication. The qualified student
may accelerate his program and
complete the rfequirempnts for an
associate in arts degree within
three years.” She continued to
Say that the emphasis will be on
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student acquiring academic
credit, not on the amount of years
she or he spends in the classroom.
Sr. Raymunde sees this as a na¬
tional trend. She commented,
“High schools all across the coun¬
try are offering accelerated
classes with college emphasis.”
Students at the “middle col¬
lege” will not be labeled as fresh¬
men, sophomores, juniors, and
seniors. Each academic progress¬
ion will be considered as a leveL
The students will be rated on four
levels. Thus students, based on
their abilities, could take classes
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Gov. Ronald Reagan will
speak on campus April 17.
As the program is planned
to allow students to ques¬
tion the Governor as freely
as possible, the forum ten¬
tatively has been scheduled
for the Gym. It will mark
Reagan’s first address at a
private, independent col¬
lege.
