The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 53, Issue 14 - February 9, 1976

Vol.53, No. 14 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY 2 Monday, Feb. 9, 1 976 byJeffTcurier Dr. William Hockley’s planned March 15th visit to Loyola Mary- mount, which was first publicly an¬ nounced last December 8, was can¬ celled lhst Tuesday, February 3, by the Student Activities Board. The SAB had been under pressure from various administrators, faculty and students to cancel the controversial Stanford phsycicist’s visit. This was the third reconsidera¬ tion vote by the SAB. Both the first, before the semester break, and the second, last Monday, February 2, failed to get the necessary two-thirds vote. On Tuesday, Katy MacMurray changed her vote and Ed Quevedo, who was not at the Monday meet¬ ing, voted to cancel Shockley, giv¬ ing the SAB the necessary two- thirds. Last Monday, at the same time the SAB was meeting, the Student Life Committee of the Board of Trustees was also meeting and dis¬ cussed Shockley. The Committee placed on record their disappoin- ment in the SAB’s selection of Shockley as a speaker, giving three reasons: 1. Dr. Shockley would be speak¬ ing outside of his field on a very complex subject ; 2. Dr. Shockley is a sena- tionalistic speaker, not a con¬ troversial speaker; and 3. Dr. Shockley would be un¬ scientifically setting forth a posi¬ tion antithetical, to Christianity and the University commitment to Christian values. Later that day the entire Board of Trustees met and accepted the Student Life Committee’s report into its minutes. The Board also voted, though, to not interfere in any student decisions on hiring speakers. Also on Monday, many faculty members found a note from Carlos G. Wilson, of the Modern Languages Dept., in their Campus boxes. The note called Shockley’s visit to LMU “an affront to human dignity,” and his theories “in¬ flammatory nonsense. ” Although the Shockley con¬ troversy reached its apex last week, the Student Activities Board voted to bring Shockley to campus last August fourth. Last November the Black Students Freedom Al¬ liance asked the SAB to cancel Shockley because what he said was “offensive to Black people,” ac¬ cording to Ronald White. White, president of the BSFA said that if Shockley did speak “there might be trouble.” Last December Shockley was dragged off stage at USC and UCLA subsequently cancelled Shockley’s planned appearance the same week. Students, faculty, trustees pressure SAB into cancelling Shockley In this issue iflH У!: Bernard Sandalow talks about the lighter side of music with Dr. Demento . page 15 The Jesuit attitude toward AFROTC is the subject of Gene Gable's analysis ..... page 10 sssnee s Victoria Tucker and Regina Piantadosi in Whispers on the Wind, LMU's award winning play . . . page 2 During the semester break many students of all races ap¬ proached various members of stu¬ dent government and Dr. Thomas Quinlan, vice president for Student Affairs, expressing their dis¬ pleasure in Shockley’s planned ap¬ pearance. Two students, Festus Brotherson III and Getachew Mescal, have put together an anti-Shockley newslet¬ ter which they originally planned to distribute today, the first day of classes. Other groups on campus who have protested Shockley’s planned appearance include the Cultural Affairs Committee and the Women’s Center Advisory Board and Staff. In a letter dated December 15, 1975, the Cultural Affairs Commit¬ tee wrote the Rev. Donald P. Mer- rifield, SJ, president, “The Cultural Affairs Committee vehemently protests, the ap¬ pearance of Dr. Shockley as an af¬ front to human dignity.*’ Unaware that Shockley was to appear in a debate, the letter went on to say that Shockley should only be al¬ lowed to speak on campus “in a de¬ bate format answered by an authority of equal stature in the field.” In part, a Women’s Center memo to many members of the (Continued on Page 4) шШтт лМИГЬ j j#Hlf CURRENT CONSTRUCTION TAKING PLACE BEHIND LIBRARY is pre¬ liminary work which must be completed before actual construction can begin on the $3.5 million Library expansion. Bidding on that construc¬ tion will take place Wednesday, with construction beginning in an estimated 5-10 weeks. Trustees hike tuition to $2800 for 1976-77 The Board of Trustees voted last week to raise tuition next year at LMU from $2500 to $2800, an in¬ crease of 12 per cent. The $2800 figure was the maximum recom¬ mended by the administration, and minimum by the Trustee’s Finance Committee. Residence rates will jump 10 per cent, and board rates will rise an average of four per cent. Typical resident students on the 20-meal plan will have to pay $4290 for tuition, fees, room and board next year, an increase of 10.1 per cent over the current rates. Tuition at Loyola Law School, currently set at $87 per unit, will remain the same. Most of the tuition hike will go Bookstore security to fight shoplifting losses Student shoplifting in the cam¬ pus bookstore accounted for at least $15*000 in losses during the last fiscal year, store manager Dave Roberts said. Because it is impossible to de¬ termine an accurate figure for theft losses, the total could be as high as $30,000. Roberts said that shoplifting was at least three per cent of the store’s total sales. The main theft item is textbooks, and most of the thieves simply walk right out the door with them concealed underneath a jacket or other clothing item, Roberts said. He cited the layout of the store as one of the problems in reducing theft. “When this store was laid out we were under a time restraint. Everyone was in a hurry to get it built,’’ Roberts said, point¬ ing out how personnel are all locat¬ ed in one comer of the store, and cash registers are all in another, leaving about half the store com¬ pletely unsupervised. Roberts said that the store will be rearranged and that store personnel will be circulating around the Sales floor more often. It has also been decided that, to combat the shoplifting problem, students caught stealing may very well be handed over to Los Angeles Police and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. “In the past, we have slapped people on the wrists,” explained Dr. Thomas Quinlan, Vice President for Stu¬ dent Affairs. “Apparently that has not sufficed, The purpose of taking this harder stand is not to see stu¬ dents go to jail. It’s to make the whole thing stop. ” Roberts agrees. “I’d rather dis¬ courage them than catch them,” he said. “It’s really stupid for so¬ meone to risk everything for a lousy $10 book.” Since the bookstore has no al¬ lowance to cover theft losses, the money comes right off the top of their budget. Eventually, this re¬ sults in higher prices that all stu¬ dents must pay. “People who study this sort of thing have established that it’s a very small minority of students who do 80 to 90 percent of the shoplifting,” Quinlan said. He pointed out that most people don’t realize that four or five per cent of what they pay in the bookstore is used to cover shoplifting losses. Roberts added that security of¬ ficers will regularly patrol the bookstore, and that the policy of “No refunds without a receipt” (Continued on Page 4) for increased salaries and benefits. Faculty members can ex¬ pect a 10 per cent pay increase, while administrators can expect a nine per cent boost and staff or service people a 13 per cent in¬ crease. Student wages will also rise 13 per cent. Costs are up in many University areas. Utility costs have been pro¬ jected to rise 25 per cent. In a report to the Trustees, University President Rev. Donald P. Merrifield, SJ, said of the salary increases, “Our salaries for facul¬ ty have been somewhat lower than comparable institutions and should continue to be improved as much as possible within our resources.” Because of decreasing income from gifts and endowments, the University has become more and more dependent on tuition. Next year tuition income will account for 89 percent of all educational and general income. John Pfaf- finger, Vice President for Business Affairs, believes LMU’s future is good. “I think we’re sound financial¬ ly,’’ he said. “We have a secure en¬ dowment, a sound plant fund, and our current operating expenses have run pretty tight.” Pfaff inger said students may ex¬ pect tuition hikes in years to come due to continuing economic pro¬ blems. “We are not an isolated phenomenon to the rest of socie¬ ty,” he commented. Many schools, like LMU, are an¬ nouncing tuition hikes for next year. Stanford University will hike tuition to $4275 and USC will charge $3540. Many other schools are already more expensive than the $2800 LMU will charge. Occidental College’s tuition is currently $3300, the Claremont Colleges around $3400, and Pepperdine $3150. Approximately 82 per cent of all LMU students receive financial aid and depend on it for at least part of their tuition. One-third of all students receive a California State Scholarship. The California State Legislature has already approved a raise in the State Scholarships to $2700 for 1978-77. According to LMU Chan¬ cellor Rev. Charles Cassassa, SJ, (Continued on Page 4)