The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 51, Issue 1 - October 15, 1973

Los Angeles LOYOLAN Vol. 51 — No. 1 • A LOYOLA MARYMOUNT PUBLICATION October 1 5, 1 973 Denise Scott LMU spends $235,000 on campus repair This p^st summer approximate¬ ly $235,000 was spent on recon¬ struction and renovation of the Loyola Marymount campus, ac¬ cording to Bill Wilson, director of the physical plant. The largest ex¬ penditure was on the repainting 6f Foley, which cost, said Wilson, $100,000. Altogether $150,000 was spent on painting ths summer, he stated. Much of the work being done on LMU is still going on. “The uncer¬ tainty in enrollment caused a de¬ lay in determining when and what was to be constructed and reno¬ vated/’ noted Wilson. He said that all of the work now underway would be concluded by the end of October. * ' The major project still under construction is the complete reno¬ vation of St. Robert’s Auditorium. According to Wilson “a $50,000 anonymous donation made this project feasible.” Wilson said that the interior us¬ age of the auditorium is being re¬ versed. “Presentations will now be given from the north end of. the hall,” Wilson said. /Д platform will be provided, along with small dressing rooms. Access to now ex¬ isting restroom facilities is being made available.” “A twelve foot wide entry corri¬ dor is being built adjacent to the Controller’s Office, while new en- trys are being built at each end of the building. The auditorium has been acoustically designed, with a basic provision for mikes, speak¬ ers, and other paraphenalia.” Wilson mentioned that for “cost reasons” no projection room is being built, but that he and an ar¬ chitect are working now on a de¬ sign for one at minimum cost. In Malone Student Center there has been an almost complete relo- ' cation of the offices on the first work and third floors. Delays caused by the resignation of the Rev. Wil¬ liam Werner, SJ, administrative assistant to the office of student affairs, and a “flood” which caused some damage to the new Rec Center, have lengthened the time needed to complete the nec¬ essary work. Normal refurbishment done each summer on the dormitories and apartments has been com¬ pleted. There has been the addi¬ tion of new security lighting on the south side of Rosecrans, and new lounges in Rosecrans and Whelan. To accommodate the enlargement of the education department three new offices and a new reception area have been (Continued on Page 8) Library expansion plans focus on 1976, maybe Denise Scott dies at age 44 Denise L. Scott, former chair¬ man of the Marymount English Department and a beautiful and courageous woman, .died of can¬ cer September 30. She was 44. Memorial services were offered October 2 on Regents’ Terrace. Elegant words fall flat when ap¬ plied to Denise. She was not the plaster kind of saint. At the end of the day she grew tired. On occa¬ sion she could become angry. And this year she must have felt, as all who knew her felt, the horror and injustice of the fate that overtook her. She earned enough respect and love in her life to eclipse any at¬ tempt to puff up her virtues with belated words here, We of the Loyolan only hope that the love Loyola Marymount felt for her made it easier at the end and that her family will ac¬ cept our fullest sympathy ... A native of Minnesota, Denise Scott joined the faculty of Mary¬ mount College (Palos Verdes) in September 1967, under personal pressures few but she could have endured. Character is an old-fashioned word, self-reliance a rpuch-abused concept. But a woman with chil¬ dren to care for and little or no outside help needs a sturdy, even a flinty admixture of both. . “She could never be anything but herself,” a colleague com¬ mented last week, “She was an aristocrat.” Denise left college at the end of her freshman year. Fourteen years, a broken piarriage and four children later, she went back. The energies that had gone into civic and social work, into helping write and direct a television series in St. Paul, into the myriad responsibilities an aristocrat takes oh, she rerouted into the struggle to survive. Bv hard work, by artfully bal¬ ancing the demands of family and job and school, she graduated magna cum laude from St. Paul’s Macalester College in 1964. Then she and the family came west, first to two years’ teaching and graduate study at USC, then a year at Rolling Hills High School. And then Marymount, which if it did not test her sta¬ mina so ruthlessly, pushed her by Frank Lang With the completion of the Loy¬ ola Marymount merger both male and female resident students are now subject to the same rules re¬ garding dorm life this year. Both sexes are now equally restricted as to eating, drinking and smok¬ ing. According to Debbie Frahm,, head resident advisor at McKay Hall, the Women’s dorm, students may have visitors of the opposite sex until midnight on weeknights and two a.m. on weekends. Over¬ nights guests pf the same sex are permitted with the provision that they be registered with the resi¬ dent advisor concerned. The only change that has sparked any significant con- system instituted in McKay. Under this system McKay resi¬ dents are given a key to their floor as well as their room. The doors from the stairwells to the spirit at least into new and poorly charted ground. The late Sixties were a hard time for many teachers. A surge of student consciousness put those professors who had seen the uni- versity as a haven from chal¬ lenge, in an uncomfortable, dilemma everywhere . Some sprouted beads and slo¬ gans, land merely succeeded in looking silly; a great many oth¬ ers reacted with dazed animosity. Denise brought herself, which she would never abandon, to her (Continued on Page 5) floors are now locked twenty-four hours a day . The Rev. Richard Robin, SJ, associate dean of Student Affairs, explained this system has been implemented to prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to the residence areas of McKay. This was a more practical and less expensive alternative to a 24 hour guard, he said. The inability of friends to visit residents and the ability of anyone to pick up the phone outside the main entrance, dial a number at random and monitor someone’s conversation have been problems according to residents. These problems are soon to be alleviated. A resident directory will be posted by the phone and a warning buzzer will be installed in the intercom system to let any resident know when her number has been dialed. Loyolan Analysis by Jeff Taxier Bill Wilson, director of the phys¬ ical plant, told the Loyolan last week that the planned Voh der Ahe Library expansion is to be completed in January, 1976. Wilson said that the construc¬ tion of the much needed ex¬ pansion would begin in October, 1974. These announcements come af¬ ter years of assorted development projections made by yniversity officials, about the importance of this expansion and projected dates for its completion. Recently, Richard Mason, vice president of university relations told the Loyolan that he would no longer project dates of com¬ pletion on the library project be¬ cause he had made so many poor predictions in the past. Mason would not tell the Loyolan if there is a primary project that his of¬ fice of Development is working on. According to Mason, priority is now based on whether the A projected deficit of up to $5000 from the 1972-73 ASLM budget faced the new Board of Governors at their first meeting of the new academic year, Tues¬ day, October 2. “A bad account¬ ing system and a bad financial di¬ rector was responsible for the large debt,” according to Barry Williams, director of University Relations. • Williams also believes that last year’s director of Student Rela¬ tions, Richard Boswell, is partial¬ ly responsible because of “poor planning on his part and allowing his commissioners to overspend; “The board also failed to exercise University can get the money or not; not on how important the project may be. Mason mentioned that two other projects were being given consid¬ eration. They are the proposed fine arts complex, and a new rec¬ reation area on the southeast cor¬ ner of the campus, which will in¬ clude a new gymnasium. As recently as January 22, 1973, Mason told the Loyolan that the proposed library expansion would cost an estimated $1.8 million, and would be completed by fall 1974. According to Wilson the esti¬ mated cost has skyrocketed to $3.2 million. . In October. 1970, Mason dis¬ cussed then current development priorities. In a Loyolan. article in the October 26 issue, Mason was quoted as saying that the library was “inadequate for a university" and was thusly a “matter of ac¬ creditation.” In the October 4, 1971 edition of (Continued on Page 6) proper supervision over budg¬ etary matters,’’ he said. Although a small deficit was ex¬ pected, Williams did not become aware of the size of it until he re¬ ceived a phone call from the Rev. William Werner, SJ, this summer. “The 1972-73 books were never closed out by last year’s financial director,” Williams noted. The budget submitted by Wil¬ liams for the upcoming academic year includes a $5,000 surplus ac¬ count to cover last year’s deficit. The Board of Governors has not yet approved this budget. At the Oct. 2 meeting. Dr. (Continued on Page 3) Rules for coeds eased ASLM $5,000 in red