The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 53, Issue 23 - April 5, 1976

TOM HAYDEN: "Not a question of more or less government, but of a reorganization of the government." New constitution voted for ASLM, lowers student rates As a result of a landslide vic¬ tory last week, the Associated Students of Loyola Mary mount will operate under a new Constitu¬ tion, one that calls for major changes in the ASLM structure. The final tabulation of the ballots showed that 813 students were in favor of the new Constitution, and 92 were opposed. Approximately 30 per cent of the student body voted in the election. Tom Garvin and Gene Gable, authors of the Constitution called the victory “a major step in tak¬ ing government out of the hands of a few and giving it back to the students.'’ Under the new system, student taxes are reduced from $24 to $20 per year, and students will have a direct say in how funds are spent through a special “budgeting ballot.” Costs have been cut by the elimination of the Student Congress and Judicial Council. ASLM officers currently collect over $10,000 per year in salaries. The new Constitution provides^ for a nine-member Student Ac¬ tivities Board to promote and coordinate student -f unded ac¬ tivities, while an appointed elec¬ tions committee and an elected parking commission oversee those areas. The elected student Director of the ASLM and his staff, including an Assistant Director for Student Affairs and an Assistant Director for Services, will be responsible for overseeing the general opera¬ tion of the ASLM, and the various services and programs the stu¬ dents fund. Housing office sets date for lottery, deposit guides Students will have from Monday, April 19 until Thursday, April 22 to submit lottery tickets containing their name and the names of three other students for the LMU Apartment lottery, the Housing office announced last week. The lottery itself will take place Friday, April 23, with the official results of the drawing to be posted later that day, The exact time and place of the drawing has not yet been decided. The Housing Office said that stu¬ dents having trouble finding four people to comprise a lottery ticket , may submit thier names and the office will assist them in finding compatible roommates. The lottery ticket will have three options listed, and groups may choose only one of these options. They are : a ) We presently live and wish to remain in Apt. #- — *; b) We prefer to live in Loyola Apt. # - (three choices); or c) We prefer to live in Tenderich Apt. # - (three choices). Those who are successful in the lottery will have the week from April 26-30 to pay a $50 non- refundable housing deposit per stu¬ dent to the business office, which will then issue receipts to students who have paid. The housing office will legally bind all students who survive the drawing to pay their deposit by signing a mandatory letter of in* tent. ( Continued on Page 2) □m GGoBs Pull-out Calendar. . i . ; . . . . . , .... . . . pages 6-7 Berlin Wall. page 8 Jehovah's Witnesses . . . page 9 Thoughts on the Oscars.. .... . . ...... page 10 by Cdry Darling Tom Hayden, student radical turned Democratic Senatorial can¬ didate, spoke on campus last Thursday on Regent ’s Terrace. Hayden called for a “third alternative” to what most can¬ didates are proposing this year. Republicans, he said, who favor in¬ dustry and Democrats who favor more government are both using the wrong approach. Instead, Hayden said there has to be a reorganization of govern¬ ment. 4 ‘It’s not aquestidnof more gov¬ ernment or less government but of a reorganization of the govern* ment.” r Part of this reorganization would include an economic bill of rights. The bill of rights, designed to pro¬ tect the consumer, is an integral part of the Hayden campaign. Points in the bill are to promote and establish neighborhood health clinics as opposed to centralized county or provate facilities. Also, Hayden’s plans include a reorganization of the Federal Reserve Board so that bankers do not monopolize the board. He said that if the Board were made up of people from various walks of life, the interests of the average pro¬ spective home buyer would be at heart. The third point is to force the corporations to build items within their capabilities. The construc¬ tion industry should build better, highly insulated homes, automobile manufacturers should not build cars with guaranteed “planned obselescence” and the highway lobby should be working on getting metropolitan electric train services instead of creating more highways, Hayden said. These same points are also in¬ cluded in Hayden’s energy pro¬ posal. Before California becomes a “west coast New Jersey” Hayden would like to see solar energy, geothermal energy, and wind energy explored. He said he pre¬ fers those methods to atomic energy and the traditional sources of energy for industry. He quoted a NASA statistic which said solar energy could be ready for federal use in five years. Hayden called our current economic system “'economic feudalism which puts money ahead of any other value” and said that Americans should become in¬ dependent of Exxon as well as the Arabs. Corporations should not, he said, be subsidized with govern¬ ment money to play the stock market. Vol. 53, No. 23 v LOYOLA MARYMOU NT UNIVERSITY 2 Monday, April 5, 1976 Healey criticizes foreign policy by Ron Slater Dorothy Healey, the former American Communist Party of¬ ficial, sharply criticized the foreign policies of the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union in a lecture last Tuesday evening in Pereira 31. Healey, after declaring her pre¬ sent affiliation with the recently organized New American Move¬ ment h\ a Marxist oriented mem¬ bership, examined the reasons for the disunity existing among the socialist countries. “I think most Marxists are pro¬ bably not aware of Lenin’s com¬ ments about the very probability of clashes and collisions between socialist countries,” she said. “Lenin wrote that these clashes would continue until, as he said, ‘they had learned to overcome their narrow national interests.’ Щ Healey explained that boundary disputes and political in-fighting between neighboring socialist couhtries has reduced the potential of communism becoming a cohfesive, powerful revolutionary force in the world. “The split between the Soviet Union and China is one indication of how non-Ma r x ist and materialistic, in the philosophic sense, socialism is in the real world. “Here are two socialist coun¬ tries whose economic base is the same, 1 think, and yet whose dif¬ ferences today are sharper than the differences they have with the imperialist countries.” Healey explained that state¬ ments prescribing deliberations between the various communist parties or between representatives of the socialist countries to ameliorate their differences are unrealistic. * Tn my opinion; narrow national interests are still the dominant motivating factors responsible, for not only China’s and Russia’s dif¬ ferences but also the differences that are taking place among radicals throughout the world.” She suggested that both coun¬ tries “have had to clothe their dif¬ ferences in very theoretical language, they had to build a superstructure in theory in order to enlist support” of their respec¬ tive populations so each govern¬ ment could pursue these “narrow national interests. ’ ’ Reflecting upon her life-long struggle against capitalism, she explained how it was, in fact, a struggle for the liberation of those who are oppressed by “the handful of those who control the capital flow in America.” She also ex¬ plained that socialism and de¬ mocracy are quite compatible. THIS WEEK IT'S FOR REAL. Construct»on4on LMU's $2.8 million Library addition began last Monday, March 29.