The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 51, Issue 15 - April 22, 1974

LOS ANGELES LOYOLAN VOL.51NO.l5 <4S>2 A LOYOLA MARYMOUNT PUBLICATION Monday, April 22,. 1974 PROFESSOR WASSILY LEONTIEF, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER and economics professor at Harvard, em¬ phasized the social problems involved with current economic difficulties, on April 4 in St. Robert’s auditorium. He reported on an economist’s duty to research these issues and objectively present their fin¬ dings to concerned parties. Canine bites human being LMU f aUs within new districts by Dennis Mosher In June, Californians will vote for U.S. Congressmen, state Senators and state As¬ semblymen for the first time under the new California Su¬ preme Court ordered ‘Masters Plan” for legislative reappor¬ tionment. The redrawing of district boundaries, which will go into effect at the time of the elec¬ tion, will represent what can only be called a political double reverse for residents of the Loyola Marymount campus and the adjacent communities. Loyola Marymount is cur¬ rently located in the 37th Con¬ gressional District of Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, a black v Democrat. In Sacramento, LMU is represented by state Senator Robert Stevens of the 25th Senatorial District and As¬ semblyman Robert Beverly from the 46th Assembly Dis¬ trict. Both are white Republi¬ cans. On election day, the Univer¬ sity will become a constituency of white Republican Alphonzo Bell, whose reapportioned 27th Congressional District will stretch along the coastline from West Los Angeles down through the South Bay as far as Rolling Hills. Bell, former president and chairman of the board of direc¬ tors of Bell Petroleum Com¬ pany, was first elected to Con¬ gress in 1960. He currently serves on the Science and As¬ tronautics and the Education and Labor Committees. Although known in Republi¬ can circles as a moderate, a spokeswoman for the liberal Americans for Democratic Ac¬ tion rated his House voting record as ‘^consistently poor.” Loyola Marymount will also fall into a newly created 50th Assembly District of black As¬ semblyman Frank Holoman, a Democrat. Holoman, who recently completed his first year in the state Assembly, is chairman of the Joint Subcom¬ mittee on Community Devel¬ opment, vice-chairman of the Joint Committee on Housing Needs and Community Devel¬ opment. Holoman’ s 50th District reaches inland from the ocean through Westchester, In¬ glewood, and extends to Ver¬ mont Blvd. in Los Angeles. According to figures com¬ piled from the 1970 census by Fr. Robert Welch, SJ, assist¬ ant professor of political sci¬ ence, the 50th Assembly Dis- ( Continued on Page 6) by Matt Marnell Ken Clark’s small black Ger¬ man shepherd which was wearing a blue bandanna bit Larry Prior’s left calf at approx¬ imately 1:15 pm. Wednesday, April 17. According to onlookers the dog attacked without prov¬ ocation. After commenting “You should¬ n’t have done that,” Prior went to the Heatlh Center for treatment. In the second such incident in a month burglars broke into St. Roberts Hall and stole $4,000 worth of office equipment during the night of April 9-10. According to the LAPD crime report, the burglars entered through a first floor Business Office window bet¬ ween the hours of 2 and 7 a.m. They left Robert’s with an IBM electric typewriter, six desk calculators and two adding machines. During the same night Periera Hall was broken into and windows in the library, Seaver and Malone were broken. Nothing was taken from these buildings. Clyde Myers, business manager, believes the incidents to be related, although there is no evidence to that effect. Myers explained that the burglars lifted a vertical sliding window in the business office, breaking the “hardly ap¬ propriate” lock in the process. In the previous robbery at the end of March the burglars took a $360 Murantz preamplifier from The Rev. Ernest S. Sweeney, SJ, a witness, reported the biting to Security and Safety. Roger Metzger, security officer, called the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Metzger later explained to the Loyolan that Security has neither the tools nor the facilities to han¬ dle loose dogs on campus; Accor¬ ding to Metzger, the SPCA $4,000 Robert’s auditorium, when a lock installed to allow a construction crew to enter was left unsecured. “I would venture to say that if anyone wanted to get into any university building in Southern California, he could with ease,” Myers commented. Myers said that dormitories and apartments are usually the prime target since doors are frequently unlocked. “And the laws Of chance say that with so many doors to try, one will be open,” he added. An unlocked door cost Terry Hack, a Rosecrans resident, $60 in late March when a burglar en¬ tered his room as he slept. Myers commended the Crime. Prevention Bureau for its efforts in alerting students to the need for their participation in campus security. He suggested more student attempts at crime prevention as an aid. “The police just can’t be everywhere at on¬ ce,” he concluded. “Here on cam¬ pus, Security needs help from the students in order to prevent burglary.” requested that the dog be in custody before they arrived. But Security “couldn’t do more than try to coax the dog into the of¬ fice.” Security does not even have the authority to cite owners of loose dogs on campus. “But from now on,” said Metzger, “anytime we see two or more dogs running loose, we’ll call the SPCA The SPCA said they would come in with two or three trucks and im¬ pound the dogs. If that doesn’t work, we’ll have to call in the LAPD and they will write the owner a $10 citation.” Clyde V. Myers, to whom Security and Safety reports, had received numerous complaints about loose dogs before this biting incident. On April 5 he issued a statement which read, “No dog or other animal (exempting seeing eye dogs) will be permitted on this campus unless it is on a leash of six feet or less in length that is secured by a person’s hand or an adequate object. ” “If we know that the dog belongs to a student, faculty or staff,” Myers told the Loyolan , “we warn them a couple of times. “After that the case is turned over to Dean Quinlan’s for disciplinary measures. These measures are up to his discretion. “I’m an animal lover,” Myers added. “Some of the dogs, like that Irish Setter (which is frequently seen on campus) are beautiful. But we have to protect the student body and faculty at large. “We know who most dogs belong to,” Myers concluded. “But if we cannot establish after repeated attempts who the dog belongs to then we have to call either the SPCA or a private firm . ” ' $51 left in ASLM budget By Pat Michell Only $51.00 in unallocated ASLM funds, perhaps less, is left in the student government budget, Frank Llerandi, financial manager, told the Board of Gover¬ nors at last Wednesday’s meeting. There is actually $4,496.52 in the ASLM’s account but bills and con¬ tractual commitment^ are expec¬ ted to approach $5,000 ; leaving lit¬ tle, if any, funds, for new business between now and June, explained Llerandi. The upcoming Spring Formal dance is expected to bring in $1,000 which will help alleviate the shortage, but the Board will be forced to operate with severely limited spending powers. According to Llerandi, the original ASLM budget was projec¬ ted at $85,000. This figure is based on the number of full time un¬ dergraduates who pay the man¬ datory $30 student tax. The un¬ dergraduate figures which were supplied by the Registrar, originally included approximately 50 graduate students who were classified incorrectly as seniors. Graduates do not pay the tax. This factor and the unanticipated drop in student enrollment in the second semester, has whittled the ASLM budget down to $79,500. The budget problems have all but curtailed plans approved at the March 27th meeting, for a $6,000 concert which would be free for students. At that time, due to the inaccurate enrollment figures, a $7,000 unallocated “surplus” was anticipated. The Electric Light Orchestra, or a band of similar status and a backup band were to have given an afternoon concert in May. The concert was approved along with the second $10,000 SGIA allocation in a compromise which was aimed at appealing to both the pro and anti-SGIA mem¬ bers of the board. At the April 17th meeting, John Sessions, director of University relations, reported that all the SGIA grants had been made (133 in all) and that except for a case involving two students with the same names in which the money went to the wrong student, the program was operating smoothly. At both the April 3rd, and April 17th Board meetings, the question of constitutional review, man¬ dated by the present constitution, sparked much controversy, and, at times, led to heated shouting matches. The Board, at the April 3rd meeting, rejected the con¬ stitutional revisions which were recommended by the ASLM Con- ( Continued on Page 6) Thieves get in office equipment