The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 49, Issue 2 - October 11, 1971

City-wide demonstration planned to withdrawal By Michael T. McColIoch A city-wide demonstration call¬ ing on Nixon to set the date for complete withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Southeast Asia has been planned for October 13. It is being organized by the Peace Ac¬ tion Counsel and the People for Peace and Justice, Westside, two local groups dedicated to ending the war. force troop in Vietnam On July 1, the Provisional Rev¬ olutionary Government of South Vietnam issued a seven-point peace proposal, hinging funda¬ mentally on a terminal date for withdrawal. The offer is as fol¬ lows: (1) If the U.S. sets such a date, the two sides will immed¬ iately establish a general cease¬ fire and start releasing all mili¬ tary and civilian prisoners by them. (2) The U.S. must cease all support for S aigon President Thieu, and the PRG will hold talks to form an interim coalition government before general elec¬ tions can take place. (3) The Vietnamese themselves will settle the question of Viet¬ namese armed forces in South Vietnam (4) Vietnam will be re¬ unified by negotiation without the use of military intervention. (5) South Vietnam’s foreign policy will be based on the Five Prin¬ ciples of Peaceful Co-existence. i (6) The U:S. will bear the full responsibility for war damages in both parts of Vietnam. (7) The U.S. and Vietnamese patriots will agree to international guarantees to assure carrying out these pro¬ posals. This offer for peace is the most honest and progressive item to come out of Paris to this date. The history of the Paris talks has been a continum of PRG propos¬ als and U.S. rejections and/or re¬ fusals to negotiate; to say that Nixon and his negotiators have been dragging their feet would be an understatement. With all his concern about “freezes,” one might say that the “cold” has seriously affected Nixon’s mind. There is no empi¬ rical proof for the contention that our President has a snowball for a brain, but it appears that he is trying to freeze the American people’s demand" for peace by shifting governmental priorities away from the war and to the economy. What he fails to realize, or more likely ignores, is the fact that the war is the perpetuating cause for continuing inflation and unemployment, as $40 billion yearly goes directly to preserving the war effort, and $80 billion yearly goes to the Pentagon as a whole. The -PRG offer for peace should enjoy more popular support in the U.S. than any previous offer, because of the emotional appeal of the release of the POW’s. Support should be drawn from the right as well as the left, because to many parents and relatives who might Otherwise think we have a “cause” in Vietnam, their cap¬ tured sons or loved ones are more important than “honorable peace” (to use a popular but somewhat nebulous phrase). (Continued on Page 2) LOS ANGELES LOYOLAN Vol. 49 — No. 2 A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION October II, 1971 Former Loyola Professor N. Curcione may return By Charles Bahl According to Robert Taylor, as¬ sociate professor to the sociology department there is a good chance that former Loyola sociol¬ ogy teacher Nick Curcione may be rehired -after ah absence of little more than a year. In an interview with the Loyb- lan, Taylor stated that he, under departmental direction, has been in personal communication with Curcione in order to sound out the possibility of his return next fall. He emphasized the fact that it was the sociology department it¬ self rather than Curcione that had initiated the communications. Taylor further stated that Cur¬ cione expressed his willingness to return if the position were made available to him. As of this date, Curcione has already filed his re¬ sume and is now awaiting the ac¬ ceptance of the sociology depart¬ ment and its chairman, Mr. Mi¬ chael Ben-Levi. Nick Curcione voluntarily with¬ drew from the Loyola faculty at the end of the ’69-70 school year , over a dispute that centered around the issue of salary. At the time of his withdrawal Curcione Br. David buried at Santa Clara Br. David Worthsmith, SJ, a member of the Loyola community for the last 15 years, died Tuesday evening, October 5. He was 81. While he was living as a retired member of the Jesuit community, Br. Worthsmith made himself known to many students during his daily walks around the campus. The Jesuit community con- celebrated his funeral Mass last Thursday at 8 p.m. in Sacred Heart Chapel. The burial was at Santa Clara cemetery at the Uni¬ versity of Santa Clara. was quoted as saying, “The de¬ partment is in a bad way . The so¬ ciology department should be one of t he most dramatic о n this campus but, in fact, it’s not.” Since his withdrawal Curcione has been employed as a sociology teacher at Queens College in N£w York; During that time he has worked on several research pa¬ pers, including a report on penal institutions. Taylor expressed his high regard for Curcione’s abili¬ ties. “He would do the depart¬ ment a lot of good,” Taylor said. Keith Reagan surveys area that was to have been used as new Del Rey Players Theatre. (Story pg. 3.) Presidents’ Commission Reports By Liz Henderson After sixteen months of study the Presidents’ Commission on General Education made its re¬ port this week. The eleven mem¬ ber committee was established in Spring of 1070 for the purpose of evaluating education at Loyola- Marymount and to make recom¬ mendations to improve general educational conditions here. The report is divided into two main parts and nine subsections. Twenty-nine short term proposals are made as well as three long term goals. The report first deals with the goals of education in general and with the educational philosophies of the Jesuits and of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. From this vantage the Commis¬ sion then addresses itself to the specific problems of this commu¬ nity. Because of the length of the pro¬ posals it is possible to present them only in a very general way here. To understand the reasoning behind the proposals it is neces¬ sary to read the thirty-eight page report. It is the intention of this article only to give summary, not to exhaustively analyze the re¬ port. The twenty-nine short term goals center around seven major areas. The first is a new approach to general education. It is recom¬ mended that all general education requirements be dropped so that responsibility for education will lie with the student. The second area is related to this proposal. With responsibility for his educa¬ tion primarily resting with the student it is increasingly neces¬ sary that counseling and advising be effective. For this reason the Commission suggests that a work¬ shop be held on campus for all faculty involved in the function of counseling and advising. Addition¬ ally, it is felt that the student be allowed to work with the coun¬ selor of this choice as much as possible. Evaluation is the next topic that the report covers. It was felt that each student should be given the option of receiving either the let¬ ter grades of А, В, C, No credit, or receiving Pass/No credit as evaluation. This choice should, in the opinion of the commission, be subject only to the consent of the instructor and the department Merrifield suggests meetings on budgets by Mitch Rosplock Rev. Donald P. Merrifield, S.J., in a discussion of budget priorities and allocations of the 1071-72 year, made some strong sugges¬ tions for eliminating the present budget review system by com¬ mittee and setting up a series of “town hall meetings” in which confrontation of administrators, departments and students would determine future budget alloca¬ tions. Merrifield sketched a five point plan proposal for budget resolu¬ tions that would include faculty, student and administrative input. First, the cost and income would be estimated for the year. Sec¬ ond, the vice-presidents would review all departmental requests for larger staffs and increased funding. (Continued on Page 2) concerned. Written evaluations were suggested to accompany or replace the letter grade. This was judged especially important in situations where Pass/No credit was elected. The fourth topic was the .calen¬ dar system. It was felt that the quarter system is not working as it was hoped it would when it was instituted a few years ago. For this reason the Commission recommended that the University and the College revert to the se¬ mester system but that instruc¬ tion should start early enough that the “lame duck” session would be eliminated. It was also suggested that adequate reading periods be included in the semes¬ ter. (Continued on Page 7) iHtiiiititiiiiiiiiitiitiiiitiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiHitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH Inside: Ronda’s Tummy ... . ..P 5 Mysticism .... .. . ... .. ..P 4 Editorials . . ....... .... .p 6 SPECIAL ELECTION COVERAGE Page .**....Л.,.. 3 lllllllllllllirillllllllllllltllllllltillllltllillllltllllttlllliltliltililllillllinitlltt