Accusations of politics, bigotry at ASLM meeting
Joseph and Stoltz
charged; asked
for resignations
By Mitch Rosplock
In a move to impeach Mike
Stoltz, Director of University Re¬
lations and Mike Joseph, Chair¬
man of the Board of Governors,
charges of negligence, general in¬
competence and racism were
wielded by members of the ASLM
at the Board of Governors meet¬
ing on Wednesday, October 27.
Mike Tramontin, representing
the contingent of governors seek¬
ing the removal of Stoltz and Jo¬
seph, moved that the agenda
items of the day be taken out of
order and the board moved into a
committee of the whole. Tramon¬
tin levied the charges held against
the Director and the Chairman.
In citing the charges against
Joseph, Tramontin expressed the
board’s feeling that Joseph is a
“very bright” person, but that in
running meetings, Joseph dis¬
plays general incompetence. Jo¬
seph was cited for letting the
meeting drag oh and go too slow.
“The meetings were not topical,”
Tramontin stated, “and very of¬
ten we got off the topic too much.
The tree planting ceremonies, held last Tuesday, added one lone¬
some pine to the new Alumni Mall. The tree was reported to have
cost the University approximately $600.
Seaver and St. Roberts
shut down in bomb scare
On Thursday, November 4, two
bomb scares caused the evac¬
uation and shutdown of two class¬
room buildings.
At 9:10 a caller with a young
voice on an outside line told the
operator, “Listen to this. There is
a bomb going off at 10:30 in Sea¬
ver Hall.” Clyde Myers, vice-
president of Business Affairs, and
the security personnel were im¬
mediately notified. The Los Ange¬
les Police Department's bomb
squad was notified and the build¬
ing was evacuated. The LAPD
and Loyola security finished their
search at 10:15 without finding ex¬
plosives. The building was reopen¬
ed at 10:45.
Another caller, this one ideati- j
fled as male, called the switch¬
board at 2:15 and said, “There’s a
bomb going off in St. Robert’s in a
few minutes.” The building was
immediately evacuated and se¬
curity personnel searched the
building. By the time the LAPD’s
squad arrived the search was
over. No bomb was found. The
building was reopened at 3:15.
Stewart (Bus) Bachtelle, Direc¬
tor of Public Relations, noted that
although both calls came in on an
outside line they could have been
made on one of the campus pay¬
phones. He also said that the Uni¬
versity was working in con¬
junction with the telephone com¬
pany to trace the calls and identi¬
fy the callers.
The reports were too long and
many times the chairman would
interject his own opinion.”
Joseph was also cited for a lack
of communication between him¬
self and the board members and
for a conflict of interest charge.
Tramontin noted that Joseph, a
student governor, was hired and
paid approximately $250 by the
student government for playing in
the orientation soiree, a student
concert which has never hired
people in the past.
Tramontin next cited Stoltz hay¬
ing become a “running joke with
the administrators.” He pointed
out that Stoltz, whose primary
function is university relations,
had practically alienated most of
the administrators already.
Stoltz was also cited for taking
too long to make student appoint
nients to the university com¬
mittees, for running up phone
bills in the summer, for lacking
initiative and for sending out an
unauthorized and costly letter to
the students last summer, inform¬
ing them of the yearbook cancel¬
lation.
The floor was then turned over
I Student Affairs Director quits
See story: page 2 I
to Mike Joseph, who answered
his charges point by point.
Joseph felt that he saw his
duties as chairman in terms of
how the governors responded to
him and how they wanted him to
run the meeting. He indicated
that he could have used criticism
from the governors in order to
evaluate his performance. Joseph
was disappointed that, until this
time, no one had commented on
the job that be was doing. He was
surprised that the governors
would desire to impeach him as
chairman in such a sudden out¬
burst.
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LOS
November 8, 1971
Vol. 49 — No. 5
A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT STUDENT PUBLICATION
Marymount Senate
Faculty to study evaluation
The Marymount Faculty Senate
decided last week to appoint a
committee to investigate and
make recommendations for im¬
provement of the present system
used for the student evaluation of
teaching. This action wa& a result
of a general dissatisfaction among
faculty members as to how the
evaluation has been handled in
the past.
The senate met last Tuesday
and was open to general dis¬
cussion concerning the evaluation.
The Crimson Circle has handled
the mechanics of the program for
the past two years, and they were
represented by David Urmeda
and Steve Balak. Also present
from Loyola was Thomas Skully,
Dean of Students, and Dr. Ben-
Levi, representing the Loyola
Faculty Senate.
One of the Marymount teachers,
Mrs. Weiner of the Art History de¬
partment* who recently came
from Cal State at Long Beach,
told the senate that it was her ex¬
perience that when the teachers
were involved in the actual eval¬
uation process, there was a
chance for an invalid reaction
from the students. She said that
some of the teachers at Cal State
would go over the questionnaire
with the students so they would
understand what was being asked
of them, and a couple of teachers
defended themselves in class even
before the students answered the
questionnaire, with a resulting
higher score.
The discussion settled generally
around the question of how far a
faculty member should be in¬
volved in the evaluation. Most of
those present thought that it
should remain totally within the
hands of the students. Up to now,
the computer card questionnaires
have been put In the teachers’ ;,
mailboxes, where they would pick
them up, take them to class, pass
them out, collect them, and then
return them to the campus post
office.
Dr, Liebermann of the psy¬
chology department thought it
would have been a good idea for
the Crimson Circle to include in¬
structions for distribution with
the cards.
At this point Ben-Levi inter¬
jected, saying that the Loyola
Faculty Senate had also found
fault with the evaluation. How¬
ever the dissatisfaction centered
around the content rather than
the mechanics*
He said the evaluation should
take into consideration the varL
ation in the type of education
present at the University. This
ranges from skill-orientated stud¬
ies to the humanities. Some of the
Marymount teachers agreed with
him that the content was rather
lacking in good questions.
Urmeda told the senate that the
Crimson Circle had nothing to do
with the content of the evaluation,
but were only responsible to see
that the data was compiled. The
questions themselves were the
work of the student government.
Weiner then told those present
at the meeting that the people
who are in charge of the eval¬
uation must recognize their re¬
sponsibility in the things they
make public. She said that some
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Lacy resigns; Carothers
replaces her until June
By Michael Frym
Sr. Pat Lacy, RSHM will soon
be leaving the Loyola - Mary¬
mount Community. Lacy, a re¬
nowned geneticist has been serv¬
ing in a dual capacity at Loyola :
first, as an Assistant Dean of Arts
and Sciences under Dr, Theodore
Erlandson ; secondly, as an in¬
structor of Scientific Thought:
Biology. Lacy’s resignation will
not go into effect until the end of
the quarter, and until then she
will perform her regular duties.
Plans for the future entail re¬
turning to her native New York
in a teaching capacity at one of
New York’s two Marymount Col¬
leges. Lacy stated that she has
enjoyed being at L/M; however,
after going back to a conference
in New York she decided that
teaching in there was what she
wanted.
The position of Assistant Dean
will be temporarily filled by Dr.
Francis Carothers, Chairman of
the Loyola English Department.
This was confirmed at an inter¬
view with Carothers, at which he
also said that this would not be
permanent. T hough Carothers
plans to vacation in Europe this
summer, he does not foresee any
teaching assignments abroad in
the near future.
It is rumored that next year the
Assistant Dean’s position will be
held by Sr. Carol Sullivan, Chair¬
man of the Marymount History
Department. It has been said that
the reason that SulMvan is not fill¬
ing the post now can be attributed
to a conflict of contracts.
