The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 50, Issue 20 - May 28, 1973

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, Ш,. 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- Щ 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. (Continued on Page 6) 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 (Continued on Page 6) Ed Da vis, chief of police