The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 51, Issue 6 - December 3, 1973

LOS ANGELES LOYOLAN VOL. 51 NO. 6 A LOYOLA MARYMOUNT PUBLICATION December 3. 1973 Tape explanation A1 Masters is seen donating blood at last Thursdays Blood Drive. Hie Blood Drive which was sponsored by the Crimson Circle and the Loyola Belles raised 242 pints of blood for the Red Cross New faculty hired by affirmative action guides Purtell says athletes lack needed health care questioned by Frank Lang Ridley Williams, commu¬ nication arts instructor, ex¬ pressed doubts Tuesday about the explanation given by Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon ’.s personal secretary, concerning the erasure of. 18 minutes of a key Watergate tape. Williams, .demonstrating the operation of a machine identi¬ cal to the one in question for Fr. Edward Lynch’s Politics and Mass Media class, said that the purported mistake could have happened but that there was no reason at all for a competent secretary to make the error. Woods testified last Monday that she had been transcribing a conversation between Presi¬ dent Nixon and then White House Chief of Staff, H. R. Hal- deman two days after the Wa¬ tergate break-in when a tele¬ phone call interrupted her work. She said she apparently had punched the “record ” key in¬ stead of the “stop” key oii the machine and kept her foot down on the foot pedal at the same time: This accidently caused a portion of the tape to be obliterated, leaving only a high-pitched hum, she said. Williams said, “There would be no need at all for a trans¬ criber to press the ‘record’ or ‘stop’ keys at all because re¬ leasing the foot pedal would stop the machine. would know this and would not reach for the key panel on the recorder itself. Щ The Uher machine, model 5000, about the size of a small ‘typewriter, is considered a high quality piece of equip¬ ment. mflj.ke many small cas¬ sette recorders, it uses tape reels. Williams pointed out that it will not accept any reels larger than six inches lit diameter while it has been repeatedly emphasized in court testimony that the recordings were made on seven inch reels. “This would indicate the pos¬ sibility that she was not listen¬ ing to the original tapes, which might explain the erasure,” he said. “It’s also impossible to get any kind of a hum on the tape by repeating Miss Woods’ al¬ leged actions,” he added. “To get sound on the tape you need the microphone at¬ tached which, first of all, would have picked up the sound of the telephone conversation and, secondly, cannot be done when the foot pedal is connected to the machine.” by McKenna and Taxier Affirmative action, a policy where the university actively recruits minorities (blacks, and Ori¬ entals) and women is the pri¬ mary policy used by Loyola Mar у mount in it’s hiring prac¬ tices. Of the 32 new faculty mem¬ bers at LMU this year, eleven are women, two are blacks, and two have Spahish sur¬ names, said the Rev. John Clark, S J , academic vice- president. “25 per cent of the University f a c u 1 1 у are women,” said Clark. He mentioned, though, that the University has a hard time hiring minorities. Dr. Ir¬ ving Kessler, chairman of the Psychology Department, said, “The pay level at Loyola Mary¬ mount is decidedly inferior to other universities looking for minorities.” Clark said that most hired professors are “just out of graduate school* with some teaching, usually teaching as- sist ant , experience.” Dr. James E. Fox worthy, dean of the college of science and Engi¬ neering mentioned that as little as five years ago Loyola Mary- mount had a hard time hiring faculty with Ph.D’s Now the situation is reversed. “It’s a buyer’s market,” he said. The largest college at Loyola Mar у mount is Liberal Arts. Dean Theodore Erlandson said. “It’s tragic that there are so many young people who don’t have college teaching posi¬ tions.” He Said there are more qualified people with docto¬ rates and no jobs than ever be¬ fore. “The field is very tight in Liberal Arts,” he emphasized. Dr. Gary Sibeck, assistant dean of the business college, said that the case is reversed in his college. “The demand is more than the supply in both business and accounting,” he said. “There are practically no Ph. D’s in accounting.” An ex¬ ample that he gave was the fill¬ ing of an accounting position this semester with Dr. Joseph V, Nash, assistant professor of business administration that had been vacant for over a year. Dr. Karl Kadner , chairman of the Biology department, said that all the applicants for jobs in his department have docto¬ rates. “Many have had a year о r more of post-doctorate work,” he said. “ W hen advertising for two full-time positions last school (Continued on Page 3) by Tom Garvin With the number of students involved in 'some form of athe- letics at Loyola Marymount University approaching up-1 wards of 50 per cent of the stu¬ dent body the lack of needed health care facilities in the gymnasium is a problem, Liz Purtell of the student health services told the Loyolan. Purtell noted that “in the past we have had to walk stu¬ dents over from the field due to lack of Athletic Department health facilities., “This is bad for shock cases,” she said. Й Purtell said that there is a need for another whirlpool, an ultrasonic treatment unit, two collapsable stretchers, three blankets, and assorted sup¬ plies. “The major cost would be for the whirlpool, with the total cost in the ^rea of $1,700,” said Purtell. The present equipment in the Atheletic Department is being Used to the limits. Avery Tuck¬ er, the Atheletic Department traine r said, ”the present whirlpool is being used eight hours each day. ”. Tucker said that the addition¬ al equipment would be very usef ul . “It is heeded. Does a fish need water?” he asked. Purtell explained that “the whirlpool would allow for pre- at hie tic warm-up. A lack of adequate warm-up is probably the biggest cause of inj pries. ” On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week, almost 1,000 students voted to elect four student representatives to the University council, and de¬ cide whether or not to appro¬ priate $20,000 of ASLM funds to the Supplementary Grants in Aid program. Mike Frym, Vince O’Neil, Cathy Neilson and Charles Williams were elected to the council, representing the Col¬ leges of Fine and Commu¬ nication Arts, . Liberal Arts, Business, and Science and Engi¬ neering, respectively. The SGIA measure was de¬ feated, 586 to 403, a three-to- two vote. It was felt by many that one of the reasons for its defeat was a lack of confidence on the part of the voters over the abil¬ ity of students to fairly and competently manage the pro¬ gram. These doubts among the elec¬ torate can be attributed in large part to a lack of factual, material on the election provided Tucker noted that T've been putting in a request for this ad¬ ditional equipment for years now.” “Apparently this equipment has been requested in the Ath¬ letic budget, but the budget keeps getting cut. The money should now be allocated to the Athletic Department,” said Purtell. The apparent reason for the failure of past requests was ex¬ plained by Dr. Thomas Quin¬ lan, Dean of Student Affairs. “The requests by the Athletic Department for these additions have been made as additional departmental requests! None of the additional requests for any department were approved. This decision was a University decision,” said Quinlan. On the "availability of funds, Quinlan noted that, “we don't have the money to fund this ex¬ pansion now.” Quinlan then explained how the additional money could pos¬ sibly be obtained “This ne^d must be examined and bal¬ anced in terms of other present and future needs of the Univer¬ sity.” Though no fina “decision has been made on this subject, Quinlan said, “if this thing is formally recommended by both the Athletic Department and by Health Services as needed, I think I would probably take the position that we certainly try to seek the additional funds from somewhere.” the students, and a last-minute campaign by the Committee of Concerned Students which, some say, tended to appeal to racial fears and prejudices of the students rather than the issues. Because of these factors, it was felt by the election com¬ mittee, composed of five mem¬ bers of the Board of Governors, meeting Thursday afternoon, that the students had not been presented with a properly ad¬ ministered election, and that a new election should be held some time before Christmas break, at which time the stu¬ dents would be given a ballot measure that included all of the guidelines which the SGIA committee would have to fol¬ low. Raul Mijares, chairman of the Board of Governors,* said after the meeting that there would probably be very strin¬ gent controls imposed on the dissemination of campaign ma¬ terials, due to the so-called misleading materials that were distributed last week. “A professional secretary working with the machine Spanish surname, Grants in Aid defeated; reconsideration planned