The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 50, Issue 8 - January 15, 1973

LOS ANGELES LOYOLAN Vol. 50 — No. 8 A LOYOLA-MARYMOUNT PUBLICATION Jan. 15, 1973 Board votes to hold election on football In its first meeting of the quar¬ ter the ASiLM Board of Governors voted to hold an election on the student football program and ac¬ cepted the resignations of the ASLM public relations staff. Chris Merten moved that the football election be held She stated that she felt it was impor¬ tant for the board to know student opinion on the program. Merten stressed that this could not be an election on the program's $17,000 budget, but a vote of the corpo¬ ration’s stockholders on the exis¬ tence of the, program. Other board members sug¬ gested that any election could be held off until the student, court rules on the student spending in¬ itiative. (It is possible that an election will be held on the ASLM Low In- c o me Scholarship budget of $20,000 under the provisions of the 'initiative.) Merten pointed out that some confusion might result if both football and low income scholar¬ ships appeared on the same bal¬ lot. She reiterated that the foot¬ ball vote wduld not have anything to do with the ASLM allocation to football while any election under the initiative would concern Щ etary allocations. The Board voted to hold an elec¬ tion on the football program by February 1. Merten, Chmiel, Aguirre, Mag- ellanes, Mihares, and Wellington voted yes. Tom Beck voted no. Gould and Sessions were not present for the vote, although they did attend the meeting. Tom Sweet, chairman, reported to the board that the entire public relations staff had resigned. David Hyman, coordinator ASLM public relations, wrote a letter December 13 explaining that his duties as coordinator in¬ terfered with other responsi¬ bilities. He asked that his staff, Cathy Hughes, Gail Bernstein, and Gary Zimmerman be com¬ mended for their volunteer work. According to Hughes, the rest of the staff resigned because they felt that 4 ‘if Dave was going, we’d all go. We got along very well as a group.” The Board instructed Richard Boswell, ASLM director of student relations, to publicize the vacan¬ cy. The Board also voted unani¬ mously not to reimburse the Free Press for the newsstands which were vandalized last quarter. The Free Press had billed the ASLM for $110. Sweet reported that he had re¬ ceived a request from the farm¬ workers lettuce boycott that Loyo- a - Marymount participate in the boj^ott by insisting that food service purchase only union let¬ tuce. Since none of the governors knew whether the lettuce used on campus is union, Beck volun- ( Continued on Page 3) LU% boeei ball champion^ Hot Hands Higgins and Dynamite Draper. Students Affairs to reorganize Dean Scully resigns, search committee formed by Sara Denning The Office of Student Aff a iri; is to undergo a general reorganiza¬ tion that wiR become effective next September. The most significant change is the resignation of Thomas J. Scully, vice-president for Student Affairs. According to Rev. Donald P. Merrifield, SI, president of Loyo¬ la, the of fice of vice-president wdl be replaced by a Dean of Student Affairs. A Search Committee has been created to nominate a ca¬ pable dean. Rev, Robert L. St. ' Clair, SJ, Sr. Suzanne Sassus," CSJ, Dr. James Foxworthy, Liz Henderson, Rick Humm, and Tom Sweet comprise this commiittee. The committee hopes to have a recommendation by mid-Febru¬ ary. Scully described the department at it currently exists. He said that at the time of the Loyola - Mary¬ mount affiliation five years ago, л Marymount retained a separate student services department. Last year the two student serv¬ ice departments were merged with Scully in charge of the com¬ bined operation. However7 the new merger of Loyola - Mary¬ mount “will involve an awful lot of personnel alignment,” Scully said. “The StudehtAffairs department needs to provide certain suppor¬ tive services for the Student to aid him in getting /through the institu¬ tion,” Scully said. He would like to see the Student Affairs depart¬ ment provide excellent counseling services in specific as well as gen¬ eral fields. Щ Scully said thatcoimseling serv¬ ices should relate the academic sphere to the general life of the student. Scully called such an in- ( Continued on Page 6) Giant step for wom-lib Women now serve front desk in library by Hoffman and Steed Twoyears ago the library had a revolution. The Loyolan has in¬ vestigated reports that another has occurred. Two years ago Loyola students , working in the library were allow¬ ed to grow moustaches to the lip and hair to the cdlar. Recently the* first woman was brought from the back rooms and allowed to take one of the two top jobs onen to student employees : working be¬ hind the check out desk and guard duty at the turnstile. Women are now allowed to work behind the desk, according to Dorothy O’Malley, librarian. They do not take guard duty. “I didn’t feel women should do the work. There are many problems. It was better for the boys to handle them.” O’Malley said the duty of the guards was to keep order and check materials leaving the li¬ brary; She also said the work in¬ volved lifting boxes of donated books. The periodical section of the li¬ brary, oin the second floor, hires both men and women even though they must handle heavy audio- vis-, uai equipment regularly. The appearance of women in the public area of library (before they were given secretarial jobs in the cataloging rooms) was ac¬ complished after talks between Clark, SJ, vice presi¬ dent for academic affairs, Mrs, Bernice Russell, Assistant Direc¬ tor of Placement, Rev. Theodore Marshall, SJ, Director of the li¬ braries, and O’Malley. T h e Loyolan asked Clark* O’Malley and Russell why women had not been hired in the library since the Marymount affiliation five years ago. Clark said, “I have been asked to look into this problem, though supervision of departments is al¬ ways an ongoing operation. There is a lack of proportion in the num¬ ber of women working in the li¬ brary. I am convinced there was no bias v or deliberate method of exclusion in hiring or staff promo¬ tions. The staff spoke openly to me. Nevertheless, there is a lack of women working there.” “Women were not hired before because,” according to O’Malley, “Loyola students begin work in their freshman year and remain until their graduation.” The infer¬ ence is that library hiring is therefore infrequent so women did not have as great a chance of joining the staff. Another reason is the Univer¬ sity hiring guidelines. Until a few years ago University departments could hire any student they want¬ ed. The University now requires that students demonstrate finan¬ cial need and that they are com¬ petent in the job, Clark said. This means students now must be Cleared by Financial Aids and go through the Placement Office to get on campus jobs. Two Loyola student workers did not clear Fi¬ nancial Aids this fall, Russell said. Because of this and three other departures, the first quarter saw a shortage of trained workers, ac¬ cording to Russell. “The seven students hired at the beginning of the quarter could not take over desk and guard positions. All workers must spend one quarter training. Since several students didn’t return this year, the trained students had extra duty.” Russell said some students com¬ plained to her about this shortage and the lack of women hired. Of the five students who did not return, one left because of this sit¬ uation, Russell said. Largest gift in history LU gets $3 million Chilton estate by Dave Devereaux After two years in probate the T. Marie Chilton estate valued at approximately $3 million, has been awarded to Loyola Univer¬ sity. Mrs r Chilton’s will, which named the President of Loyola University and the Security Pacif¬ ic National Bank as executors, was contested in 1971 by Bruce Stevens, Mrs. Chilton’s ex-hus¬ band. Stevens claimed to have a will naming himself and an archi¬ tect co-trustees, but Superior Court Judge Howard Schmidt ruled that Mrs. Chilton had been incompetent when she wrote that document Now that the will has been exe¬ cuted, decisions have been made as to the use of the funds. John A. Pfaffinger, Vice President for Business Affairs, disclosed that the money will be put into the University’s endowment fund. Most of the money is presently invested in stocks and bonds earn¬ ing about four per cent annually. Pfaffinger hopes to increase this interest rate considerably. Loyola’s current endowment of $3.5 million, earning 12.7 per cent, is in the Common Fund, an in- v e s tm en t fund for non-profit educational institutions. The University Finance Com¬ mittee met on January 8 to dis¬ cuss whether to invest the Chilton money in this fund also, or hire a private investment counsellor. Af¬ ter the meeting Pfaffinger stated that the committee had decided in favor of the Common Fund. He also indicated that the first $75,000 earned from the in¬ vestment will be used to hire an architect to begin planning the ex¬ pansion of the library facilities. Richard Mason, vice president for University relations, also sug¬ gested that some of the funds might be used to finance the pro¬ posed expansion, itself. However, he hopes that money for this proj¬ ect can be raised elsewhere so the endowment; fund can remain in¬ tact. (Continued on Page 7)