The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 52, Issue 6 - October 14, 1974

LOS ANGELES LOYOLAN VOL. 52 No. 6 A LOYOLA MARYMOUNT PUBLICATION Monday, October 14, 1974 Activities Board changes policy on event funding Electric Light Orchestra performs in December The Electric Light Orchestra will perform at Loyola Mary- mount University on December 4 as a fall activity sponsored by the Student Activities Board. The Board, in their October 9 meeting, approved a motion to use $1500 to $2500 out of its special activities fund op the concert. The Board also approved a re¬ quest by the Rugby team to have a formal dance on November 15 at the Marriot Hotel. The Activities Board will supply the advance money and be paid back out of the receipts. They also approved a proposal by the McKay residents to fund a Halloween dance in the gym on November 1. There will be a band and a haunted house set up in the foyer. Admission will be 50 cents. The Board was informed by Joani Conley that Adam King , a performance of which the Board had approved at the previous week’s meeting, was cancelling all engagements and closing the show. The performance would have been on October 29 and 30. Tom Garvin, chairman, brought up the subject of financing ac¬ tivities of a limited interest. He said that if an activity was of in¬ terest only to very limited group of students, that the Board should turn down a request for funding. He altered his position slightly from that given at the previous week’s Student Congress meeting when he said that if an activity was made open to all students, although the interest might not have a wide appeal, it would be considered on the basis of 1). cost requested, 2). spectrum of appeal, and 3 ) . nature of the activity. When questioned why specific guidelines were not set up he said that he wanted to allow flexibility to judge each activity on its own merits. Garvin went on to explain that any organization or individual stu¬ dent who wishes to plan an activi¬ ty that would appeal to more than a small amount of people and needs money to finance such a venture, should go to the Ac¬ tivities Board. He said that they have approximately $31,000 to use, which represents one half of the $24 student tax, and that it -is available to the entire student body. Information on how to go to the Activities Board will be available in Malone 109. The Board also set its salaries. They decided to pay the six stu¬ dent members $150 each per semester, and then review the de¬ cision at the end of the semester to determine the salaries for next semester, The Board added a movie for October to its list from the week before. Lady Sings the Blues will be the October movie to be shown this Thursday, October 17, at 7:00 p.m. in Mayer theatre. The rest of the movies are Nov. 20, Class of ’44; Dec. 4, Clockwork Orange; - Feb. 5; Deliverance: Feb. 19, Scarecrow ; and March 19., - Jeremiah Johnson . The showing schedule for the movies (with the exception of this Thursday; will be: Mayer Theatre, 3:30 and 7:00 p.m. and St. Robert’s Hall, 10:00 p.m. Cross Creek MALONE SECOND FLOOR underwent reorganization of available office space last week. Photo by Jerry Blss Student managers to take complaints Cross Creek Village Apart¬ ments has somewhere from 160 to 170 Loyola Marymount students in residence there. Serving as in¬ termediaries between the stu¬ dents and Cross Creek manage¬ ment, are Joe Knott and Chris King. We are not RA’s,” emphasized Knott. He said they were there to take complaints and answer ques¬ tions about LMU. According to Fran Williams, of the Housing Office, Knott and King are there to take complaints from both the management at Cross Creek and the students. Knott Said that he and King were not hired by Cross Creek or LMU, and are not being payed for their services. “They pay their own rent” said Williams. It was reported that they receive a dis¬ count on their apartment, and it was noted that the two student managers”, as Williams calls them, live in a three bedroom apartment. Student managers were re¬ quested by Cross Creek manage¬ ment to serve as a communication between the management and the students, said Williams. She said that the three, main, off-campus apartment complexes that have the most LMU students have been very helpful in placing students and have even offered a discount to students. “In view of this, we (Housing), didn’t think that this was too much to ask.” said Williams. Knott said that they -were not given any specific instructions, but that he thought that they were most likely asked due to their pre¬ vious experience as Head Resi¬ dent Advisors. He more than once stressed the point that they were not RA’s. He said they couldn’t possibly be RA’s considering that they both hold full-time jobs. Knott said they had not had much contact with the students but, from what he heard, the stu¬ dents were not happy about their being there. Williams said that several stu¬ dents had come into the Housing Office to complain about having off-campus RA’s, but left satisfied after being told that they were not being policed and finding out ex¬ actly what the situation was. According to Knott, a letter had been sent out telling of their ex- istance, but had apparently been misunderstood. He said that he believed another letter will be coming out soon clarifying their positions. Madrid Monterey Apartments will also be receiving one of these “intermediaries.” At present, she is known only as, Mrs. Murray. Williams said that she would be showing apartments to students, taking complaints, and asking them to turn down stereos that are drawing complaints from neighbors. Manchester Plaza, another apartment complex with a high LMU student residence as of yet has no “student manager”. Willianis said that it depended on how well the students adjust to off-campus living, whether or not the “student managers” will be retained for any definite length of time. Enrollment up 3.5 per cent; establishes all time high With enrollment at most col¬ leges and universities on the decline, more students keep on enrolling at Loyola Marymount This year total enrollment jumped 3.5 per cent to a new all time high of 3983 , The most important factor in the increase was the phenomenal jump in the freshman class. 156 more freshmen registered at LMU this fall, a 17 per cent in¬ crease over last year’s calss of 771. Щ Registrar, Cathe rin e Emenaker, noted that there was also a large increase in transfers. She said that what kept enroll¬ ment from skyrocketing was the loss last June of a large senior class, giving way to a relatively small senior class this year. Total full time undergraduate enrollment is 2884, with 269 full time graduate students bringing the total to 3113 full time students. There are 870 part time students. Emenaker noted that, although the College of Liberal Arts achieved a male/female parity this semester, overall, the male/female ratio at LMU re¬ mained stable at two to one. An increase in minority enroll- ment was also noted by Emenaker. “This year there has been an 8.5 per cent increase in undergraduate Blacks, a 5 per cent increase in Chicanos and a 9.75 per cent increase in Spanish surname enrollment,” Emenaker said. Liberal Arts still leads all colleges in enrollment, but by not quite the same margin as in pre- ( Continued on Page 3) BSFA gets Malone 207 in reshuffle There is to be a re-shuffling of assigned office space on the second floor of Malone in the near future. The changes are coming about as the result of a series of meetings held last week, at which the second-floor tenants ex¬ pressed their ideas about who should have which office. It was decided that BSFA would move to 207, trading 205b to the ASLM. The Crimson Circle and Gryphons will share the old foot¬ ball office, 205a. The Chibano Studies publica¬ tion, Vida, will finally have a permanent home in 203a. All other offices will keep their current tenants. Debbie Barthel, ASLM director, said she planned to set up the ASLM Public Relations, off ice in 205b. It was originally planned for ASLM to have 207, however, both Vida and BSFA said they needed office space for their publications. Several organizations that re¬ quested office space, didn’t re¬ ceive it. A consensus was reached by the second-floor tenants that those organizations turned down were not important enough to merit office space at this time. Religious Denomination Statistics Undergraduates Religion ЩШйй? percent Greek Orthodox . . . . . . л . . . ................... 5 . . . . . .*. . . . 0.16 Protestant . 264 ........ . . . ..8.82 Roman Catholic . . . . W . . . . . . 2397 . . . 80.22 Jewish - - - - - ... - - 9 . . . 0.30 Declined to State . . . 240. ..... . . 8.03 Other-. . . . . . . . .64 . . . . 0.21