The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 52, Issue 22 - April 28, 1975

LOS VOL. 52 No. 22 ANGELES LOYOLAN ~ LOYOLA AAARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES, CA. 90045 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage ! PAII > Los Angeles, Ca. Permit No. 27415 Monday, April 28, 1975 ASLM Election Results Congressman Tom Normandin won the ASLM direc¬ torship for the 1975-76 school year in last week’s elections. He received 467 votes, 40% of the total balloting, according to Mark Amico, chairman of the elections committee. Winners in the campaign for Congress were: Commuters Tony Stanton, Patrick Rude, Mickey Clark, Ruben A. Con¬ treras, and Ron Weathersby; Residents Nancy O’Malley, Chris Comfort, Ed Quevedo, Liz Whitney, and Ron Slater. The new Judicial Council members are: Rick Ramos, Lecia Brooks. Paolercio blasts ASLM and LMU administration by Bernard Sandalotv Mark Paolercio withdrew himself from the election for ASLM Director last Tuesday night during a forum held in Desmond Hall. Paolercio made the unexpected announcement before a crowd of about 100, and spoke for several minutes about his dissatisfaction with student government. He in¬ dicated he would remain in the Resident Advisor program. He had indicated that the “joke,” referring to student gov¬ ernment, must not continue. “People aren’t laughing anymore,” he said, “and it’ll be up to you to end the buck passing and the pettiness.” The night before, Paolercio was involved in a heated exchange with Tom Garvin at a forum in Whelan Hall. He said the Garvin argument, or the report that a question had been raised by Garvin over the validity of Paolercio’s candidacy, had not af¬ fected his decision to withdraw. “The issue had been brought up that there were only two valid candidates in this election,” he explained. He referred to an en¬ dorsement for Garvin saying . . . the same thing, and complained that he was being denied the op¬ portunity to answer questions put to him by the audience. “I just finally exploded,” he said. ' That meeting then broke down with Garvin questioning Paolercio’s competency and his experience, and brought up the question of whether or not Paolercio was creating a conflict of interest by running. Paolercio said the question of a conflict of interest was what prompted him to quit the race. “We were very, enthusiastic at first. I was hoping that maybe my name on the ballot could pro¬ vide students with a protest vote. Then I got called in by the hous¬ ing office,” he said. “They said at first there was a conflict of interest,” he said. “I was put in a position of leading people on by running a serious campaign when all along there was a chance I wasn’t going to be able to do it. They questioned whether an RA could be an ASLM Director. So, it came down to an ultimatum.” Asked why he couldn’t have stuck the election out and then re¬ turned to the RA program if he lost, Paolercio replied, “That ( Continued on Page 4) Robin to leave housing position by Mary Jo Estrada Fr. Richard A Robin, SJ, direc¬ tor of student housing, is leaving that post after serving in it for six years. Robin will still hold his position as Associate Dean of Stu¬ dent Affairs. Replacing Robin is Richard A. Baker, director of Athletics. Baker will retain his position with the Athletic Department as well as working in his new office. Robin will be with the Ad¬ missions and Development of¬ fices. He said that he requested the transfer because “I feel a need for something new and challenging.” Robin said that one of his duties will be the recruitment of high school students. He also said that he would be making sure that the community knows what a good image Loyola Marymount has. He expounded on the virtues of the University including its fine academics and the atmosphere here. Robin compared Loyola to USC where he completed his graduate work. He felt that LMU deserved just as much publicity as USC. “We deserve some recogni¬ tion,” he said. “There are people who say that there are not enough nuns and priests out in the public,” said Robin. He said that he was doing something about this by going out into the community to “assist them in finding out what our system of education is all about. What a Catholic University is all about.” Robin said that he “found it re¬ warding to work here on such a close level with the students,” and that he “would miss certain aspects of the job.” Cancelled concert explained Ron Weathersby, chairman of the Sickle Cell Relief Fund Com¬ mittee, said last Wednesday that the Easter Sunday Sickle Cell charity concert was cancelled on March 19, eleven days before the scheduled concert, on the legal grounds of “misrepresentation”. The major confusion, causing the mirepresentation, Weathersby stated, concerned Freddie Hubbard’s back-up band. “We expected that Freddie would supply his own, regular back-up group,” Weathersby ex¬ plained. “When we approached Sam Russell, the concert pro¬ moter, he said Hubbard would be backed-up by an ‘all-star’ band. “On the other hand,’’ Weathersby continued, “when we talked to Mike Levy, Hubbard’s personal manager, he indicated that Hubbard had been ap¬ proached to do a ‘cameo’ concert without a back-up group. ” Weathersby said that he dis¬ cussed the situation with Dr. Thomas Quinlan, dean of Student Affairs, and an attorney. The Committee decided to cancel the concert. Weathersby said that there was too much at stake, especially with the ASLM loan, to go on with a concert that was on such shaky grounds. With the concert cancelled, Weathersby said that the first or¬ der of business was to inform those giving free publicity for the concert to stop doing so, and to re¬ imburse those who had already bought tickets. With that taken care of, Weathersby approached Russell with the intent of getting the $2,000 back. “Russell said that he had dis¬ tributed the money to the performers as deposit on their final pay. “On April 15 a letter was given personally to Russell asking for the money back,” Weatherby said. He expected an answer last Saturday, April 26, from Russell. Weathersby stated that if ( Continued on Page 4) budget inadequate CA repair by Gene Gable The effects of age and growth are beginning to be felt in the Communication Arts department. Equipment breakdowns and general departmental objectives are two areas of concern. Because much of the equipment is now several years old and because it is used primarily by students, breakdowns have been more frequent. According to Lamar Caselli, as¬ sociate professor of Communica¬ tion Arts, the present main¬ tenance budget is inadequate con¬ sidering the types of repairs that have recently become necessary. Occasionally the department rents facilities to private and commercial concerns. Revenue generated from this is put into a special fund to be used to purchase new equipment . Recent¬ ly this money had to be used to replace three plubicon camera tubes. Caselli is concerned that a suffi¬ cient maintenance budget has not been established. “You simply cannot run a de¬ partment like this one if the equip¬ ment is not working,” said Caselli. “In a production class you can’t adjust to the fact that a camera is not functioning.” According to Rev. John Clark, SJ, academic vice president, the Administration is presently con¬ sidering a maintenance budget submitted by the Communication Arts department. “We have tried in the past,” said Clark, “to rely on outside gifts to take care of some of the major expenses in the CA department.” “We do need, though, to get an appretiation of exactly how much a normal main¬ tenance budget for the depart¬ ment is. You can’t predict exactly when equipment is going to go out.” Caselli says he realizes that money is short all over and that like most other departments, CA would prefer to have more. He sees the problem now as being one primarily of definition. He says that no one is complete¬ ly sure of what exactly it is that the CA department is supposed to be accomplishing, and that it is hard to evaluate budgeting until the objectives of the department are clearly defined. Caselli said that within the con¬ text of the objectives the depart¬ ment has established for itself, funding is adequate. When it comes to the image of the department that the Universi¬ ty is projecting though, Caselli feels that they are not supported sufficiently. He feels it is impor¬ tant, then, that specific objectives be clarified. Clark says that the University has given a heavy committment to the CA Department and he doesn’t feel that has changed. He believes the department is ac¬ complishing certain objectives but also feels that they would like to be better. He said they should solidify present thrusts and possibly look for new thrusts.