The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 50, Issue 16 - April 16, 1973

Los Angeles LOYOLAN Vol. 50 — No. 16 A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT PUBLICATION April 16. 1973 L/M needs laughter to survive By Greg Erlandson The signal of our birth into this world is a Wailing cry, and We can usually be found squalling forever after. - .. If it is not because some rubber- gloved excuse for a doctor has just assaulted our bottom, then it may be the result of a velvet- gloved excuse for a mother snatching v away a Hersheyed ec¬ stasy, or some iron-gloved excuse for an administrator ignoring our inalienable right to be inept. The much more difficult task for man is to laugh. Ajs an infant you need either a tickle or a par¬ ent with an incredibly fascinating face. With advancing childhood it takes only a good mud fight or one elastic face being pulled and stretched into a variety of poses by giggling fingers. However, by the time we be¬ come young adults, our faces have frozen into the most gro¬ tesque expressions of intellectual seriousness, and our giggling fin¬ gers have either become angrily clenched or else weary and limp. And yet how much we need laughter, child-like, timeless, face-stretching laughter. Laugh¬ ter is a salv^iuLfrayed nerves. It binds together hurt feelings. It produces a temporary harmony in people separated from each other by their own inexorable concerns. It also instructs. Satire is a stimulus to change, an instruc¬ tive, often painful point accom¬ panied by a laugh. Heedless of these benefits, we continually re¬ turn to a gloomier land of tears and recriminations. At Loyola, this return to our natal exclamation of despair is fast becoming an exodus. We slip too easily into our worry-filled womb of personal concerns. Or, if we strug^e out of ourselves in or¬ der to push к particular cause, it is done too often with a scowl. The absence of a healthy sense of humor on our fair campus has become unavoidably apparent within the last year. For on this campus we are blessed with one of the biggest comic delights that could ever be desired. Its antics should be producing paroxysms of laughter. It has the slapstick style of Watergate and the affable pop¬ ularity of the dearly departed Papa Doc. Yet, do we appreciate the hu¬ morous, lighthearted clowns in our student government? Do we ever thank them for their $70,000 attempts to bring smiles to our education-wearied faces? Here we go and pay $5 entrance fee this quarter to the A.S.L.M., and we don’t even enjoy the floor show! (Continued on Page 5) TUESDAY, April 17, is the last day to complete second quarter incompletes and to file for cred¬ it/no credit. MAS degree accepted Merrifield overturns UC semester approval Sr. Raymunde McKay, RSHM McKay discusses plans for ’73 -’74 sabbatical :Sr. Raymunde McKay, RSIIM, has been involved in college ad¬ ministration for twenty years. Next year she is going to take a year off. “I’ve been given a one year sabbatical and I haven’t really planned anything yet. I’ve been in administration for a long time un¬ der what could be called pretty challenging conditions. “I just want to unwind. 1 don’t have any pilaris to announce to the media.” McKay, a native of Northern Ire¬ land, started her administrative career in 1053 as dean of the city branch of Marymount Tarrytown. As dean she was given responsi- b i 1 it у for' the separate in¬ corporation of the city branch. “The two campuses had differ¬ ent problems. As dean I was mak¬ ing decisions that the president of the college should have been mak¬ ing but communications between the two schools had broken down over the years.” McKay succeeded in obtaining a separate charter for the school from the state of New York. In Ш1 she became the first presi¬ dent of Marymount Manhattan College. At the Manhattan College she began programs of educational in¬ novation, aft important emphasis in her career. She introduced ex¬ perimental programs of group tu¬ torial teaching and began certifi¬ cation for teachers of the men¬ tally retarded. She was appointed president of Marymount College at Palos Ver¬ des in August, 1 964. She continued her policy of innovation at that campus. She introduced the 4-1-4 semester and the: Upward Bound program. She encouraged the training of teachers for ex¬ ceptional children. In 1868 she negotiated the affi* liation between Marymount Col¬ lege and Loyola University with the Rev. Charles S. Casassa, SJ, then president of Loyola. She also participated in the recent merger discussions which has resulted in the formation pf Loyola Mary¬ mount University. McKay’s academic training is in economics. Her particular em¬ phases are underdeveloped na- (Continued on Page 7) Holy Week Faith-walk by Kevin Leidich, SJ As part of the Lenten program of prayer and the services for Holy Week, the campus ministry team is organizing a pilgrimage or “faith-walk” on Wednesday, April 18. It is open to all members of the iLoyola/Marymount community. The pilgrimage will be a five and a half mile journey, arid will end with a Mass concelebrated with Cardinal Timothy Manning at St. Vibiana’s cathedral. Rev. Donald Foree, SJ, univer¬ sity chaplain, explained, “We have chosen a pilgrimage as a form of prayer because it is a vis¬ ible sign of our faith. We have chosen the cathedral because we are aware of the importance and centrality of our chief shepherd’s church,” • x^yi***^ by Pat Michell The University Council, the highest advisory committee to the President of the University, voted 11 to 9 with one abstention last Thursday to ; adopt the complete semester system for the up¬ coming academic year. The com¬ mittee also recommended adop¬ tion of a Mexican-American Stud¬ ies Degree program. The next day Rev. Donald P. Merrifield, SJ, president of Loyo¬ la University, rejected the com¬ mittee’s vote on the complete se¬ mester system but accepted the committee’s endorsement of the Mexican- American Studies De¬ gree Program. The questiori put to the Vote wa s immediate implementation versus study with possible imple¬ mentation in the 1974-76 academic year. Major opposition to the plan came from the Loyola deans. Dean Theodore Erlandson, of the College of Liberal Arts, said that many students had asked him to oppose the complete semester : system, . He noted that the complete se¬ mester plan would shorten avail¬ ably class time by six per cent; Richard iL. Williamson, dean of the College of Business Adminis¬ tration said that the length of any semester system should be made on the basis of academic criteria. The major question raised against the 14 week complete se¬ mester system centered on the problem of quality education. The opponents to the system said that more study was needed before im¬ plementation could be accepted. The eight student members of the Council were joined by Rev. Richard Robin, SJ, Dr. Roger Haug, and Dr. Loretta Morris voted in favor of the semester system. Representatives for the Com¬ plete Semester Committee, John Sessions and Barry Williams, ex¬ plained the major advantages of the complete semester to the Council. Sessions said that the complete semester would overcome the in¬ herent problems of a lame duck session, would allow for a 6 week Christmas vacation break which could be utilized for study, travel, and work, and it would give stu¬ dents a two week advantage in the summer job market due to the early May dismissal. Sessions also introduced the re¬ sults of a student survey which he said indicated that jobs were available during the break period. The Mexican-American Studies Degree program vote was 19 yes, one no^and one abstention, The proposal called for a sepa¬ rate program and a degree in M e x i 9 a n-American Studies. Presently there is no Mexican- American Degree program but rather an emphasis in Mexican- American Studies in the Sociology Department. Under the proposal a director^ position will be created. The posi¬ tion will be corhparable to a de¬ partment chairman’s. The direc¬ tor will counsel and advise stu¬ dents in the program, develop and co-ordinate the program and re¬ cruit faculty as required. Dr. Anthony Turhollow, chair¬ man of the history department, asked that a proficiency test in Spanish at an intermediate level be instituted as a degree require ment. Rev. John Clark, SJ, afcademic vice president, answered that one class in Spanish would be re¬ quired. “This class presumes (Continued on Page 6) organized for Wednesday The pilgrimage is symbolically a “Way of the Cross” and Christ’s final jourriey to Jerusalem. It is to remind the Christians of Loyola that faith is not just oeritered on campus. The pilgrimage expresses care and concern for all people. Before the event there will be a penance Service at Huesman Chapel on Tuesday evening, April 17. Participants in the pilgrimage will also meet at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Huesman Chapel for brief prayer and instruction. The hike itself will commence at St. Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral at Normandie and Pico. All transportation will be pro¬ vided by car pools. The walk will end at the cathedral at Second and Main Streets for mass at 5 P.m. v. . The- nature' of the pilgrimage will be prayerful and silent. Brief stops along the way at churches of differing faiths for prayer and scripture readings will provide a little rest. Students, with assis¬ tance from the campus ministry team, will lead the pilgrimage. The visits to churches of differ¬ ent denominations will express an ecumenical spirit. The pilgrimage will hopefully increase the esprit- de-corps among the participants through sharing -in this faith ex¬ perience. This day is partially inspired by the weekend pilgrimages of Gon- zaga University students to Mis¬ sion Cataldo, Idaho, The pilgri¬ mage of Gonzaga has been a growing success, since its in¬ ception in 1970. Its participants (Continued on Page 6)