The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 51, Issue 19 - May 28, 1974

LOS ANGELES LOYOLAN VOL. 51 NO. 19 A LOYOLA MARYMOUNT PUBLICATION Tuesday, May 28, 1974 Housing office searches for off-campus space By Kathleen MeKenna To find the Housing Office these days, just head for the first floor of Malone and look for the crowds. For over two hundred students who drew low numbers in ttye housing lottery and for the in¬ coming students who cannot get into the dorms, Malone 105 is the center point of a search for apart¬ ments, rooms and houses. Mrs. Fran Williams, hired two months ago to fill a permanent position as off-campus housing advisor, has been contacting apartment managers, real .estate agents, and private homeowners for places that will accept students. She maintains a bulletin board outside the housing office listing available housing. Inside the of¬ fice Williams has files listing apartment complexes, rooms and roommates. She also keeps a file listing students’ names and the type, cost and date of their housing needs. She contacts them as housing becomes available. In addition, the Housing Office will soon publish a guide to find, off-campus housing. Williams provides transpor¬ tation for students without cars so that they can see apartments and rooms. Williams, who is familiar with the local area through her work as a columnist for the West- chester-Ladera Observer and as a Welcome Wagon Hostess, has in¬ vestigated housing throughout the “Westchester, Culver City, Inglewood, Playa del Rey, and El Segundo aleas. She said that she feels it is important to find “safe” housing for the students. Although apartments are cheaper in Inglewood, Williams hesitates to recommend the area to female Minor candidates cla* students. “With girls we want to be doubly careful,” she said. Three local security apartment complexes have responded to Loyola* Marymount’s housing ap¬ peal by promising to guarantee students apartments in Septem¬ ber if they will sign year-long con¬ tracts and pay deposits now. In return, Cross Creek Village in Playa del Rey, and the Madrid and Monterey apartments in Westchester, have stretched oc¬ cupancy limits to allow six students in three-bedroom and four in two-bedroom apartments. Williams said that students in¬ terested in this deal should con¬ tact the housing office for a refer¬ ral card. Rents at the Madrid and Mon¬ terey run $265 for an unfurnished two-bedroom to $300 for fyrnished two-bedrooms, $300 for unfur¬ nished three-bedrooms, and $340 for furnished three-bedrooms. At Cross Creek rents run ap¬ proximately $40 higher. For students who cannot afford apartment rents or whose parents do not want them living in apart- ( Continued on Page 6) Mayor Joseph Alioto and Super¬ visor Baxter Ward, as noted by the Loyolan last week, failed to appear at the Open Forum for the Gubernatorial candidates last Thursday at 11 a.m., on Regents Terrace. Congressman Jerome Waldie, another major candidate did not appear either. Waldie was in Washington fulfilling his “congressional duties” and Ward, was at a Board of Supervisors meeting. Both sent represen¬ tatives. Dr. Alex D. Aloia, professor of Education, was the first of the speakers. Aloia told of his ser¬ vices to the community and declared himself “a major human being.” He said that he wanted to help people gain a self concept . Aloia also commented on the “lack of integrity as we deal with people. People are turned off.” He said, “The faith of the people must be restored.” he was elected, fifty per cent of his appointments would be women. Other appoint¬ ments would include those with Spanish surnames and youth. Herb Hafif, another “minor” candidate, centered his discussion around money and candidates. He said that those candidates who have the money for thirty second spots do not necessarily have the support of a great number -of people. Women ’s Advisory Board Center responsibilities transferred Hafif pointed out that a few of the least publicized candidates such as Waldie, Ward, and him¬ self, had many supporters, more so than those candidates who are spending a lot of money to make themselves known. Responsibility for the Women's Center Advisory Board has been transferred from Dr. Thomas Quinlin, dean of student affairs, to Sr. Renee Harrangue, RSHM, Provost. The change was ap¬ proved last week by President Donald P. Merrifield, SJ. Jody Fisher, newly elected chairwoman of the Board, said the transfer from Student Ac¬ tivities was requested because the Women’s Center serves Staff and faculty as well as students. The Advisory Board chose Harrangue because, “The Provost is charged with the responsibility of women’s concerns on campus,’’ said Fisher. Until the decision, Harrangue was a member of the Women’s Center Advisory Board. She will now serve as an ex-officio mem¬ ber. The Board plans to work closely with Harrangue,' said Fisher. In recent business, the Advisory Board approved a constitution, submitted a budget, and elected officers. Mona Lafaso, junior English major, and Dr. Virginia Merriam, assistant professor of Biology, will serve with Fisher as vice-chairwoman and /secretary, respectively. Dr. Sara Liberman, assistant professor of Psychology, has replaced Dr. Loretta Morris, chairman of the Sociology Depart¬ ment, as a voting member of the advisory Board. Morris is the new chairperson of the Association, on the Status of Women. She will continue as an ex-officio member of the board. The Advisory Board is looking into the possibility of moving their offices from the old year book of¬ fice* where they are presently located to Malone 204 which is larger and offers better campus visibility. In conjunction with the As¬ sociation on the Status of Women, the Board is preparing a question¬ naire to be distributed to campus women this week. The question¬ naire will seek a profile of and ask about problems of women on cam¬ pus. A director will be selected during the summer. Fisher said there is some feeling among Ad¬ visory Board members that the director should be chosen from the LMU community so she will be familiar with its problems. However, she said it is possible (Continued on Page 6) Hafif said, “We have developed the idea that we can’t make a dif¬ ference.” He said that the only way we are going to change the bureaucratic indifference is by getting involved. “No candidate is going to save everything, ’ ’ Joe Skillin, representing Waldie, tended to lean towards the religious aspect of Waldie in an apparent attempt to win the vote of the students of a Catholic university. Skillin said “Better candidates aren’t the ones with all the money. Waldie has been nickle and diming it.” According to Skillin, Waldie has been endorsed by eight congress¬ men and has the labor vote. ( Continued on Page 6 ) Seale speaks on revolution by John Corrigan “Tonight Л want to do some education on what revolution is,” said Black Panther Party Chair¬ man Bobby Seale. Seale spoke last Thursday night in St. Robert’s Auditorium to a crowd of 250. * Introducing Seale was Elaine Brown, described as “the right arm of Bobby Seale.” She was the Panthers’ Minister of Infor¬ mation, while the office existed. Seale, a recent Oakland mayoral candidate and co-foun¬ der of the Panthers in October of 1966 with Huey Newton, spoke on why he ran for mayor, what his party’s goals are, and what revolution is. Seale said that his running for mayor caused some to say, “Hey, now Bobby Seale is working within the system:” “But,” Seale asked, / ‘what is the system? ’ ’ Seale said that the Panthers had never been outside the system. He said, “Revolutionaries can’t get outside the system. If some cats go to Cape Kennedy, hijack an astronaut and a rocket and go to the moon, old Tricky Dick Nixon would send a rocket after them to bring ’em back!” Seale said that everything was in the system. “Capitalism and racism are preponderant parts of the system,” said Seale, “but they are not the system. Those who get the boot of capitalism and racism are in the system.” He said he was still a revolutionary . On the Panther Party, Seale said, “Most heard all we did was pick up guns and patrol the police. We did do that, but we also had a ten-point program the press didn’t tell you about.” This program included full em¬ ployment, along with food and shelter, for “the people.” “The Party,” according to its chair¬ man, “has set up Breakfast for Children programs along with programs that have provided free shoes, free clinics, free pest con¬ trol . . . “ and the list went on. He emphasized that the media, never told the public about these programs and that the police sought to end them. Seale told of the first day of the Breakfast for Children program here in L A. , where the Panthers were serving breakfast to. about 200 kids. “The police came in,” said Seale, “drew their guns, shouted a few racist words, and left. The next day only about 25 kids showed up because the rest had told their parents what had happened.” The Symbionese Liberation Army received harsh words from Seale, especially for their assas¬ sination of Marcus Foster, the (Continued on Page 6)