The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 51, Issue 18 - May 20, 1974

о LOS ANGELES LOYOLAN о VOL. 51 NO. 18 A LOYOLA MARYMOUNT PUBLICATION «.2 Monday, May 20, 1 974 DR. A. MUSHIN EL-B1ALI, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES , speaking at Religious Council meeting , condemned Mid-East bloodshed. Rabbi says Jews will stand alone CA majors; what’s it all for? by Cathie Farley “It’s all there; you’re just not using it.” This familiar quote echoes from Studio A into the in¬ stitute of higher learning and down into the basement. Sometimes, they say, even onto the third floor. , If you’re one of LMUJs 60 or so Freshman C.A. majors, you can look around at Wil Von Der Ahe’s 3.2 million dollar masterpiece and say to yourself, “Gee, these machines are impressive looking, I wonder if someday I can learn to use them all and be a big time director in the real word.” Then you go sit in Mayer- Theatre and sort of muddle through GA 100 and realize what a fun major you chose with all kinds of neat Jews and agnostics teaching you and big shiny machines to play with. A couple of aimless years later you’re into the production classes and when admissions brings all the visitors through the building they can watch you play on the switcher doing all kinds of neat special effects and you seem awfully impressive. Senior year comes and suddenly you’ve just finished your 460 project and you realize, hey I guaduate in two weeks, what am I going to do? Speaking of all that bright shiny equipment and getting back on the track of this formerly nice and concise news article, whatever do they learn over in the C A depart¬ ment? Rumor his it that once you’re proficient you go out into the cold cruel world and you’re behind the times, that the in¬ dustry has progressed beyond Norelco PC-70’s and the Ampex 1200. You go up to the department chairman who happens to be there that day, even though he’s on sab¬ batical for the semester and he re¬ assures you that, yes, Johnny , you are alright. The. equipment is in fine working condition and nowhere can you get a better education from as impressive a physical plant ( at least not in CA ) . After all it’s the content that counts, not what machine it came out of. Feeling reassured as* to the value of your eight thousand dollar education, you ran go into production class not prepared and wing it through your cute little five minute script. But alas! Sud¬ denly you hear “expletive delete ed” and you realize that you have incurred the wrath of Cas. Yes, it’s Lamar Caselli once again reminding you that CA ma¬ jors still don’t come up to the level of the equipment. You seem to have forgotten to take the butt can (Continued on Page 5) by JimHillson As a result of the guerilla action which claimed the lives of 16 high .school stu¬ dents in the Middle East last week, the Jewish people will enter a phase where they will stand alone, and turn their backs on Christians and Moslems in a defensive measure. Rabbi Allen Freehling told students and Religious Council members in a discussion concerning re¬ ligious beliefs and social con¬ sciousness, held last Thurs¬ day morning in St. Roberts Auditorium. Seven major religions were represented at the foriim. Freehling charged that the events of last week have crip¬ pled if not destroyed Secretary of State Kssinger’s efforts to bring peace to the Mid-East at the very time Israel and her sister states were beginning to accorm modate each other. He implored all people of good will to put away dealing in abstractions and impress upon leaders of the. world, “the absolute necessity of putting an end to terrible ad¬ ventures where innocent become martyrs. ’ ’ Dr. A. Mushin El-Biali, representing the Islamic re¬ ligion, said that being human, he could not pass judgement on who the culprits were. But, being that four guerillas were killed in the incident, as well as the high school stu¬ dents, he said that any bloodshed is bad, and “we cannot immediately indict anyone for this Arab and Jewish massacre.” El-Biali indicated that the Islamic Foundation of Southern California is trying to help Muslims adjust to American life without losing their religious identity. Rev. Kondani, representing the Buddhist faith, also said that Buddism is an ethnic institu¬ tion wh ich provides Japanese-Americans with an identity. El-Biali said that the old style of religious life must come to an end, and his as¬ sociation with the Inter- Religious Council might open eyes and minds to a common religious heritage. Also speaking were Fr. Royale Vadakin, represent¬ ing the Catholic faith, Methodist minister Don Boyle, representing the Protestant faith, and Plidip Sing Hiskins of the Sikh sect, one of the newest religions in America, whose congrega¬ tion numbers, in the tens of thousands. Vadakin stressed the pro¬ blem of making religious principles real to persons in the congregation, while Boyle and Hoskins used their time to explain basic tenets of their faiths. Bookstore overpriced in personal items by Butler and Lang Most students on campus do not go to the bookstore for their every¬ day, personal needs. They feel the prices on sundry items are too high, and that the sundries are not kept well-stocked. (Sundries are such items as shampoo, candy, magazines, medicines, etc. ) Most of the sundry items in the bookstore have a 40percent mark¬ up, which is excessive. Most drug stores operating on a profit basis have only a 331/3 percent mark-up. Conflicts disrupt forum by Matt Marnell Democratic gubernatorial can¬ didates County Supervisor Baxter Ward, Mayor Joseph L. Alioto, Professor Alex D. Aloia, Consumer advocate Herbert Hafif, and Mr. William Matson Roth are scheduled to speak in an open forum* at Loyola on Thurs¬ day, May 23. However, a conflict between the eight studeiit groups hosting the activity and the ASLM Speaker’s Bureau threatens to disrupt all the planning. In fact, according to Ward’s col¬ lege coordinator, Jack Saccoman- do, Ward has cancelled his ap¬ pearance due to a Supervisor’s meeting from 9 a m. to 5 p.m. that he must attend. Also, Bill Knittle, LMU director of news and media services, ex¬ pressed doubt that Alioto, who has already spoken at Loyola, would appear this Thursday due to the Zebra killings and the absence of Ward. Commissioner John Geyer of tpe Speaker’s Bureau reported that they had planned earlier this year individual appearances for all gubernatorial, candidates on separate dates. “We started to get in touch with the candidates in December,” Geyer said. “Getting all of them here on one day for a debate is next to impossible.” Carol Peterson, of Student - Ac¬ tivities, and eight special interest groups, attempting the “impossi¬ ble,” began producing the forum in early April. Hie groups in¬ cluded the United Democrats, the English Society, the History Society, the Political Science As¬ sociation, and Pi Gamma Nu. “By thg middle of April we were at the same place as the Speaker’s Btireau — just getting confirma¬ tions,” Peterson said. (Continued on Page 6) David Roberts, bookstore manager, said that the store uses the suggested retail prices sup¬ plied by its primary wholesaler, McKesson Drug Company. He said it was easier than determin¬ ing individual prices based on a rate determined at the bookstore. Roberts said the reason sun¬ dries are not well stocked is that they have a very low priority. He said they account for only 10 per¬ cent of the store’s volume and are only thought of after the books, stationery supplies, ^ and general functioning of the store. However, sundries play an im¬ portant part in financial success of the book store. Although , they account for 10 percent of the volume, they are high profit items. Books have a lower (20-30 percent) mark-up. Deliveries to the bookstore are few and far between. A represen¬ tative from McKessor Drug Com¬ pany shows up every two months for an order. The items ordered usually arrive a couple of days later. With Colgate Palmolive products, the store orders directly from the manufacturer ; getting a better deal, but also having to or¬ der in very large quantities. Thus Colgate Palmolive products are only ordered twice during a semester. % Candy is ordered every week to keep up with the demand. Following one of these periodic deliveries, a student willhave no problem finding an abundance of what he needs upder several brand names. As the date for the: next delivery draws neat*, however ; supplies dwindle until a student will be lucky to find what he wants at all, let alone a specific brand name. Roberts said that if the store runs out of a necessary item, such as toothpaste, they can call up McKesson and two or three days later, it will be delivered. If the item isn’t considered necessary, or the store has it in a different size or brand, they won’t do anything. Most drugstores receive drug deliveries daily, and occasionally, twice a day. If the order is called in the morning, it will be de¬ livered by that afternoon. Roberts said that he is planning many changes in policy for the bookstore during the summer when he will have time to re¬ organize. The bookstore’s deal¬ ings with McKesson will be re¬ viewed as a matter of policy, and possible new wholesalers will be looked into. Roberts said that he hoped to be able to lower the mark-up on sun¬ dries although prices would pro¬ bably be going up anyway due to inflation.