April 17. 1972
A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT PUBLICATION
-Vol. 49 — No. 16
The Right to Life League was allowed to distribute anti-abortion literature on campus last week.
McKay tells of merger plans
By Carey & Jackson
The L o
у о
1 a/Marymount ad-
ministrations have been hoping to
complete plans before the term
ends for merging the two 'schools,
Sr. Raymunde McKay, RSHM,
Marymount’s president, disclosed
last week.
In an interview with the Loyo¬
lan, McKay commeiited that,
while “no one wants to make a
mistake on this business,” the
planning “still may be” finished
by June.
Rumors about a June or July
deadline have gained considerable
currency among faculty and staff.
The Rev. Donald P. Merrifield,
SJ, Loyola’s president, reportedly
told ~an ASLM officer that the
merger wbuld be all but accom¬
plished by mid-summer.
Merrifield says for the record
that Marymount’s trustees met
April 7 on the merger and Loyo¬
la’s met last Monday. Both sides
drew upv recommendations, he
adds, but neither will know what
the other’s are until sometime in
May.
.Whatever the recommendations
say, and those who know are not
News Analysis
ASLM controls $77,760:
new guidelines sought
By Mitch Rosplock
Amid all the resignations, cen¬
sures and impeachments of the
ASLM Board of Governors this
year, the student government has
spent a staggering sum of $77,760.
At the cost of $30 per student a
year, student government has tak¬
en the student body for a ride.
ASLM turnover rate and box
score' for the year, reveal four
governor resignations, two direc¬
tor resignations, and thirteen
commissioner resignations or dis¬
missals. One wonders how any
government could spend its mon¬
ey effectively while -internal con¬
flicts have plagued government
personnel.
A breakdown of the budget
somewhat reveals where the stu¬
dent dollar has gone for the 1971-
72 school year:
Football:
Loyola Student Football, Inc.
has been budgeted and has spent
$21,210 for the year. The amount
does not seem overly unreason¬
able and offers just enough for.
the program to operate suf¬
ficiently. : 7
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Student Activities:
The $^750 budget for student
activities ; has covered: danced,
the Fine Arts Week, Greek Week,
Rec. Center Entertainment, dupli¬
cating, Orientation, La Venta Inn
Dance, Homecoming and the
.•Soirees.' :■ ,
This account is probably one of
the few commissions that has
spent 1 such a small sum so effec¬
tively^ The events are the usual
and necessary events that high¬
light most social calendars.
Scholarships:
The $1,815 a year is allbted to
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Merrifield, Scully forbid
pro-abortion exhibit
Last -week the scheduled ap¬
pearance of representatives of the
Women’s Clinic was stopped by
Rev. Donald P. Merrifield SJ,
President of Loyola.
Merrifield was asked to approve
an information booth sponsored
by the Right of Life League on
Thursday. The petition included a
request for approval of a similar
information distribution by the
Women’s Clinic on Friday.
Smiling, Merrifield replied to
John Sessions, ASLM Commis¬
sioner of Speakers Bureau, “I’m
going to be biased. I’m going to
let the group come on Thursday,
but not on Friday.”
In an Loyolan interview Mer¬
rifield stated that he made this
decision on the recommendation
of Thomas/ Scully, Vice President
for Student Affairs. “I have no
knowledge of what propaganda
they had to distribute,” Merrifield
s a id. “His (Scully’s) under¬
standing was that their approach
would be very activist, signing up
people to be involved. He thought
that this was not a good thing to
sponsor on campus.”
Asked what effect this action
would have on the ideal of free
inquiry; Merrifield commented,
“It’s obvious that the University
has a strong bias against abor¬
tion.” He said that equal time for
all causes could led to “ridiculous
situations.”
Merrifield concluded by stating,
“1 don’t see that both vsides al¬
ways must be represented. We’re
not a Federal institution, we don’t
have to give equal time neces¬
sarily.”
Scully was unavailable for com¬
ment.
Sessions said that the groups
had been asked to dissimulate in¬
formation in order to focus
campus attention on the abortion
issue. He suggested that this
would encourage attendance at
Friday’s abortion debate.
telling, there has been no public
discussion of them.
McKay told the Loyolan that the
whole question of the affiliation
was studied by a joint committee
о
f L
о у о
1 a and Marymount
trustees,* who reported their con¬
clusions to the Marymount group
— from which student and admim
istration representatives had been
excluded.
Noting that past talk of a Loyo-
la/Marymount merger — she pre¬
fers to speak of improving the af¬
filiation — has usually envisioned
Loyola’s absorbing Marymount,
McKay introduced a theme she
repeated later in the interview:
that Loyola has not always paid
sufficient heed to Marymount’s
wishes.
“Marymount with academic au¬
tonomy,” she remarked, “would
be more satisfactory than a merg-
e r . ’ ’ Absorbing Marymount’s
structure into Loyola’s would di¬
lute, if not destroy, the college’s
sense of its own “identity,” she
has said in the past.
Many p eopl e at Loyo-
la/Marymount do not really un¬
derstand the affiliation’s original
plan of operation, McKay insisted,
and most Marymount people be¬
lieve that the college should re¬
tain its identity.
(McKay has been a staunch and
vocal defender of Marymount’s
limited autonomy since the affilia¬
tion began in 1968, and has
frequently said that the present
situation allows Marymount more
room for academic innovation
than Loyola has or merged
schools would have.)
Asked how she knew what her
college’s sentiment toward merg-
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Governor Ronald Reagan will be speaking Monday, April 17 at 12
noon in the Loyola gym. This will mark Reagan’s first appearance
since 1970 on a college campus, Reagan will devote the hour to an-
swering questions from the audience. N-
Iacino replaces Laporte
After five weeks without a
meeting, the ASLM Board of Gov¬
ernors finaUy got together last
Wednesday.
The board accepted Mike Lap-
orte’s resignation as Director of
Student Affairs. Terri Iacino, the
board’s chairman, was appointed
to fill the remaining five weeks of
Laporte’s term. She will be paid
$2CK> for the job.
Mark Adams proposed that the
board unanimously affirm the le¬
gality of its decision not to renew
Coach Brownfield’S contract. He
pointed out that news of the job
opening must be released soon or
there will be no coach for next
season. Adam’s proposal was
passed 8 to 0.
On the proposed 15 week semes¬
ter system, the board decided that
a poll would be taken of student
opinions. However, the board was
told that the EPFC had already
accepted the proposal and sent it
to the University Council.
Mark Ferelli, the ASLM attor¬
ney general, informed the board
that an agreement had been
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