Los Angeles LOYOLAN
Vol. 50 — No. 20
A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT PUBLICATION
May 28, 1973
Five chicanos elected
to next year’s BOG
There were a lot of speakers, but not many listeners at last Thursday’s attempted town ball meeting.
Town hall meeting flops as 28 show
Last Thursday, May 24, at 12
noon, a town hall meeting took
place on Regents Terrace. Only
28 people showed up for the event,
which preceeded the Festival of
life. Microphone difficulties was
said to be the primary reason for
the low turnout, according to
John Sessions, governor.
The meeting was originally set
u»p to help consider the con¬
stitutional revision which is being
planned^ Due to the lack of time,
and the ppor turnout the meeting
instead was held to help acquaint
the students with the workings of
student government.
Barry Williams, commissioner
of student organizations, was the
first to take the podium. He told
the students about the jobs avail¬
able in student government for
pay. TheSe included the Directors
of University and Student Rela¬
tions, Financial Director, Coor^
dinator of Public Relations and
the Commissioner positions.
Sessions discussed the repre¬
sentation in the board. As the au-
plained that the board is made up
of three resident males, three
commuter males, and two each
resident and commuter women ,
Sessions also discussed the two
major jobs the board has: to
make appointments and to spend
money.
Rick Humm, director of univer¬
sity relations, talked about his po¬
sition, and what it encompassed.
He also spoke out in favor of
merging the two directorships, 1
and returning to the form of gov¬
ernment before the present sys¬
tem came into being, i.e. the sen¬
ate.
One of last year’s five appointed
commissioners, Tom Byrne, com-
student affairs, dis¬
cussed those positions. He pointed
out that the pay was $100 per
quarter.
Tom Beck, governor, concluded
the short meeting by outlining the
ASLM budget of last year.
by Pat Michell
Last week 841 Loyola and Mary-
mount students elected a new
Board of Governors. The gover-
nors-elect will take office June
1st, and will be responsible for al¬
locating next years projected
$80,000 ASLM budget. The budget
is funded by the $30 student tax.
Forty-five men and women can¬
didates representing the four con¬
stituencies, male resident, male
day, female resident and female
day, ran for the Board positions
during the elections' which were
held, May 15-17. Students could
vote only for those candidates
running in their constituencies.
By constituency; and vote total
those elected to the Board are:
m a 1 e resident representatives
Paul Thomas,
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Andre Jacob,
120, and Armand Duron, 111. Male
day representatives are ' Alfredo
Magallenes, 95, Raul Mijares,
81, and Arthur Almaguer, 73. Re¬
male resident representatives are
Catherine Farley, 73, and Dorrit
Walsh, 51. Female day repre¬
sentatives are Mary Salinas, 50,
and Deborah Barthel, 43.
Five of the new Board members
are chicano students including
two incumbents. As this might
conceivably constitute a voting
majority there was immediate
speculation that the chicanos,
though MEiOHA, had engineered a
takeover of the Board. However
an analysis of the day by day vot¬
ing totals, the election practices
of winning and losing candidates,
and interviews with students who
voted in the election does not gen¬
erally support this coqtention, al¬
though the chicane MBOHA in¬
fluence cannot be ruled out entire-
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Raul Mijares, an incumibenjt,
noted that although there are over
100 members listed on the MECHA
roster, only about 35 could be
called active members. Like all
the successful candidates, he said,
“the chicanos were elected by the
general student population.”
A review of the official voter
roster indicates that approxima¬
tely 133 students with Spanish
surnames J voted in the Board of
Governors elections. This repre¬
sents approximately 335 potential
votes, based on a formula that ac¬
counts for the difference in num¬
ber votes allowed for men and
women. Men were given three
votes per constituency while wom¬
en received two. This reflects the
ratio of men to women which ac¬
cording to the University fact
sheet is 2.5 to 1.
The approximate total vote for
all chicano candidates was 732.
The five winning chicano candi¬
dates received 410 of those votes.
Even supposing that all Spanish
surnames votes went to chicano
candidates, an unlikely event, ad¬
ditional support from the general
student body was necessary for
the chicano , students successful
candidacy.
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Chief Davis scores “marble palaces”
Richard’s resignation
leaves football coachless
Tom Richards, Loyola head
football coach, resigned last Wed¬
nesday at the Football Board of
Trustees m e eti n g saying “an
opportunity with the Los Angeles
school district” would make it
“infeasible” to continue as coach
next year.
Richards had been expected to
renew his contract at the meeting.
Instead, the Board accepted his
resignation, formed a search com¬
mittee and authorized it to hire a
new coach under the one year,
$6,000 contract which was offered
to Richards.
v There was no forewarning
Richards told the Loyolaii, be¬
cause the opportunity had only
come up in the last few days. He
declined to elaborate on his plans
saying they were still only possi¬
bilities.
At the meeting Richards recom¬
mended for the head coach posi¬
tion, Herb RobinsoU, assistant
coach, who has been with the pro¬
gram since 11969.
Named to the search committee
were Dr. Alex Albia, faculty mod-,
erator,Raul Mijares, Tom Beck,
Ed Madigan, and student mem-
bers-at-large to the Board of
Trustees, Bob Pace and Tom Rey¬
nolds.
Other business at the meeting
included the appointment of the
new student director of football,
John Downs, currently business
manager. Downs was confirmed
by an 8-0 vote which ended a
half hour discussion. Alfredo Mar
gailanes abstained after bringing
up the possibility of getting more
student input. Downs was the only
applicant.
As the position of business man¬
ager for next year remains open,
the Board decided to raise the
salary from $400 to $500. The ex¬
tra money came from the allocar
tion for the stadium manager, a
position which is now voluntary.
Aloia moved that Ed Madigan,
the outgoing director, be named
alumni advisor to the program.
After it decided that alumni advi¬
sor’s services would be voluntary,
the board approved the appoint¬
ment. Sgjllgg lg gig Hi 4V ■ *
By Joe Quesenberry
Los Angeles Police Chief Ed
Davis spoke at Loyo la
/
Mary-
mount last Tuesday before a
small crowd of 50 people in St.
Robert’s Auditorium.
Known for his outspoken views,
the chief lashed out at the
“marble palaces” built by the Los
Angeles County Board of Super¬
visors specifically referring to the
new criminal courts building
downtown. Davis believes that the
people would be better served by
a decentralized judicial system
which places courts in the local
community.
In place of the current system
he would substitutfe ‘-criminal
justice center.” These justice
centers would include police,
courts, prosecutor's, probation and
parole officers, and psychological
counseling. Davis insists that if
the “courts had to exist in the
ghetto, white liberal judges would
be sensitized to community con¬
cerns” and would not be as
lenient in turning: criminals back
on the community.
“I am a great advocate of capi¬
tal punishment,” Davis said. “I
participated heavily in the in¬
itiative drive to restore capital
punishment in California. This
was passed by a two*thirds ma¬
jority vote We have 13 eases
ш
our files of convicted murderers
repeating their crimes. I think so¬
ciety has a right to protect itself,”
Davis said.
He explained that it costs $500,-
000 to maintain a convicted mur¬
derer in prison for life. “I would
rather that the money be spent
on i n d i v i d u a 1 s that can be
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Ed Da vis, chief of police