The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 52, Issue 11 - November 18, 1974

I LOS ANGELES LOYOLAN VOL. 52 No. 1 1 A LOYOLA MARYMOUNT PUBLICATION ' Monday, November 1 8, 1 974 A brief encounter with politics by Robert Tormey Anne Wilson had asked me herself, “I need your support,” The words sat heavy on my mind and continued to burn there. Somehow her need had struck a supportive chord in an otherwise uncaring soul. My apartment behind me, I went to my car, mind bleary in cynic disgust of politick¬ ing. The car failed to stall, and I had to go. The caucus was held in the auditorium of El Segundo High School. I entered this nameless place and was met by nameless faces, filled with sidelong glances. Suspicion clouded the room. Characters from smoke-filled places filled this one. Shouts of roll calls, votes, and tallies echoed from the stage and through the hall. The business of politics, reflecting. a higher order. Behind the guise of people’s rule, lurked a landscape of whispers and deceit. Though foreign to such insin¬ cerity, a friend was in need. So I stayed and searched, amidst the gloofn, and found gleaming the Loyola delegation. They stayed there with their leader. No policy or platform held them — only friendship. No thoughts of political aspira¬ tion could appeal to us. We were extinguished by recent treasons, tapes and thefts, plumbers of Watergate, — all, it seems went unpunished. Anne was part of a three member slate. On the strength of this she stood strong to the second ballot. There was never any doubt, however, that Anne was ‘our’ candidate. It was on the strength of the Loyola block that she had first obtained the support of the labor slate. Though obliged to vote for someone we did nbt know, the compromise was a worthy one, for Anne’s sake. Now the third ballot was cast. Success, thus far, stirred thoughts . of victory for Anne. In that hall we were but students. We were newcomers to this system. Yet, strangers that we were, however unaccustomed to whispers and suspicion, we could leave as vic¬ tors. One, and then another cam didate, took a delegate seat from us. Only one was left. The long day took its weary toll on the ranks of the last few contenders. Delegations were leaving for home. Hungry, homesick quitters, we thought them. Loyola re¬ mained. Excitement, gnawing hope, and Anne Wilson, tied us to our seats. At length, the fifth ballot justified our wait. Anne Wilson Was elected a delegate from the 27th Congressional district. Childish exuberance broke through our poker faces as the re¬ sult was announced. Photo by Dennis Mosher ANNE WILSON Wilson selected to be delegate to convention by Frank Lang Anne Wilson, a junior English major at Loyola Marymount University, entered the game of politics recently and came out a winner. At the 27th Congressional Dis¬ trict caucus, held on November 9, Wilson was chosen to be one of 179 California delegates to the Democratic National Convention, to be held in December. Wilson received publicity two weeks ago, when she mounted a strong campaign for one of three delegate spots from the 27th dis¬ trict. 1000 Democrats from the district were expected to attend and she expected strong opposi¬ tion from manjfparty regulars. At the same time, many party regulars were expecting a strong show of support from Loyola Marymount on behalf of Wilson. In order to avoid a head-on con¬ flict, Max Mont, of the labor fac¬ tion of the local party, invited Wilson to join the Labor slate. Wilson accepted. At the caucus, fewer than 20 LMU students and faculty showed up in support of Wilson, however, many people in attendance re¬ mained convinced of a large Loyola Marymount power block. Imaginary or not, this block played an important role throughout the long day. At the start of the balloting, the power of the 338 present was divided among the Labor slate, consisting of Wilson, Bill Demer and Amie Hoeber; Betty Bren¬ nan, an unsuccessful assembly candidate; and George Kieffer, a Century City attorney. A simple Ticket sales light for ELO majority, 50 per cent plus one, was needed to win. On the first ballot, no one re¬ ceived a majority. On the second ballot, Brennan and Hoeber lost support, while Wilson, Kieffer and Demer gained, with Demer win¬ ning a place on the delegation. In the third ballot, Wilson gained a plurality but failed to win a majority. Keiffer was two votes behind, with Brennan three behind and Hoeber trailing a poor fourth. Against Wilson’s wishes, the LMU contingent dropped its sup¬ port of Hoeber in the fourth ballot and supported Kieffer. The gam¬ ble, that Keiffer’s supporters would reciprocate, paid off. Kief¬ fer gained a majority in the fourth ballot, and in the fifth, between Wilson and Brennan only, Kief¬ fer ’s supporters rallied behind Wilson, putting her over the top. Problems with Foley mar TA/DRP relations The Foley Communication Arts building forces the strife between the Del Rey Players and the Theatre Arts department, according to Emmet Jacobs, chairman of Theatre Arts. “The real villain is the building itself,’’ Jacobs said. “The physical closeness makes it awfully difficult to maintain the two activities at the same time.’’ Jacobs explained that the plan¬ ners of Foley had no idea that two theatrical organizations would share one building. “Two things cannot occupy the same space,” Jacobs said. “As % understood it, Foley was built as a communication arts building, primarily to serve the needs of the CA department. Nowhere along the line was it built with the idea of being a major theatre facility.” Jacobs stated that the expense of expanding the building pro- . hibits additions. The limited space, according to Jacobs, d.oes not allow for any vertical move¬ ment of props on stage, forces ТА to store costumes under stairways, and allows the noise of Strub patrons during intermission to disturb the performance in the Wine Cellar, and vice versa. “As long as those two physical spaces are back to back, I don’t think all the problems will be solved/’ said Jacobs, “Undoub¬ tedly, we have disturbed them just as much as they have dis¬ turbed us, and I don’t blame DRP. By the same token, ТА should not be blamed. The only way around it is not to schedule performances on the same night. Jacobs stated that C. Melvin Davidson, dean of the College of Fine and Communication Arts, had arranged for both of them to discuss schedules with Paul Kauf¬ man, moderator of DRP, and Dr. Thomas Quinlan, dean of student affairs. * In last week’s Loyolan, Davidson accused DRP of rescheduling their calendar after he had spent four weeks minimiz¬ ing cpnflicting dates. Kaufman stated that ТА had changed two performance dates, and he had not changed any. Jacobs withheld remarks about schedules until x after the upcoming meeting. Jacobs disputed any implication (Continued on Page 4) As of press time, only 83 bids had been sold for the winter formal, “That’s Entertainment.” Co-sponsored by the Rugby Team and the Student Activities Board, the dance was expected to draw about 400 couples Also, the SAB sponsored Elec¬ tric Light Orchestra concert had only sold 386 tickets for the con¬ cert in the gym on November 25. The Board expects to sell 2000 tickets. According to Tom Garvin, SAB chairman, the Board stands to lose about $700 on the formal. The SAB cost is $1150. At the price of $5 per bid, even if 100 couples at¬ tend, the income generated will only be $500 leaving a loss of at least $650. An informal survey of LMU stu¬ dents indicated that the publicity has not been adequate. The ma¬ jority of students who said they heard about the formal and the ELO concert, said the Loyolan, KXLU, or friends were responsi¬ ble. One student said he found out from his sister, who was trying to get a date. Garidn blamed the poor publici¬ ty on the Rugby Team. At the November 13 meeting of the SAB Garvin said, “The deal was sup¬ posed to be that we (SAB) would supply the advance money and the Rugby team would do the legwork.” Garvin said he had not been (Continued on Page 4) 205 donate blood to Red Cross The annual Red jCross Blood Drive was here last week getting blood from students and faculty, and it drove off with 250 pints of blood. Originally 401 people signed up to give blood. The . final tally showed that 253 showed up, with 205 donating blood. Liz Purtell, RN, Health Center nurse, said that 48 people were not allowed to give blood due to sickness or weight problems. “We consider this a good turnout,” said Bob Gould, blood programming consultant for the Red Cross. “Loyola Marymount is one of our better campuses;” According to Gould most of the blood is used within 48 hours of the time it is given, in the LA arid Orange County area. Often the blood is broken into its five com¬ ponents and five different people receive part of the pint that was given. “Once we have the blood analysed it is very safe. Red Cross blood comes from volunteers rather that people who give it for money,” said Gould.” We are hop¬ ing that we will be able to supply 100 percent of the area needs for blood. “We have to get donations from an additional 1 per cent of the population to reach that goal. We would like to come to Loyola twice ayear.” Gould said that the Red Cross is ‘hoping to collect 20,000 pints of blood all during the year. Some people hesitate to give blood because they think they will (Continued on Page 2)