The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 53, Issue 6 - October 13, 1975

Vol. 53, No. 6 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY Monday, Oct. 13, 1975 CONSUMER ADVOCATE RALPH NADER gave keynote speech at Consumer Conference held at LMU. Congress gives BSFA $1968; cuts The ASLM Congress voted last Monday to allocate the Black Stu¬ dents’ -Freedom Alliance $1,968. Four Congress members had earlier changed their votes on an original allocation of $2,368, forc¬ ing a reconsideration of BSFA’s budget. The $400 reduction resulted when Congress voted to cut out BSFA’s planned snow trip. At the same time, 50 additional spots were made available on a planned SAB snow trip to compensate for the cut. Voting in favor of the $1,968 were Chris Comfort, Pat Rude, Nancy O’Malley, Tony Stanton, and Liz Whitney. Ed Quevedo, Mickey Clarke and Ron Slater cast negative votes. Chairman Ruben Contreras cast a vote in favor of the allotment, giving it the two- thirds margin necessary to pass. The meeting was held in Pereira 31 to accommodate an expected large audience, which did not materialize. Members of BSFA boycotted the meeting. “There was no point in going,’’ BSFA President Ron White said. “We ex¬ pected the decision, and had already given our arguments. ’ ’ White said that as far as BSFA was concerned, the ASLM Congress had lost its credibility. “We no longer recognize them as a viable campus organization,’’ he said. “We still feel the vote change was wrong.’’ White said that the $1 ,968 was not acceptable. The BSFA will at¬ tempt to have part or all of their members’ student taxes removed from ASLM funds. A petition to that effect was circulated and pre¬ sented to Quinlan. Quinlan said that the petition re¬ quests were discussed with the University attorneys as well as snow trip several other administrators. Based on the attorneys advice Quinlan determined that “Since the tax was pre-established and collected, for the ASLM by the University on a Compulsory basis from all students that no student group has the legitimate right to remove funds or change the means of allocating them.” Quinlan said that traditionally it is the students themselves who i have the responsibility' of establishing the form of student' government, electing their r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s , Ж selecting priorities, an<f allocating funds. Normandin said that he didn’t feel that the $1,968 amount was equitable. “I felt that the changing of the votes was unfair in the first place,’’ he said. Normandin also ' felt that the BSFA allocation was inconsistent with the MEChA budget in the amounts taken out for social ac¬ tivities. “I would like to see more consistency, ’ ’ he commented. “BSFA felt that they couldn’t participate as a club on an SAB sponsored snow trip as much as they could if they went by themselves. They have special needs like any other large groups do,’’ Normandin said. Contreras said, “It was the most equitable sum we could’ve come up with.” He also said, however, that the idea of cutting BSFA’s ski trip was misdirected. Chris Comfort, one of the Congressmen who changed his vote earlier, felt that he could live with the $1,968 amount passed, and believed that it would enable BSFA to establish programs that would promote their interests to the entire community, of students rather than just benefit themselves. / - — - - - - — . . . . 4 In this issue Disney on View . . . . Page 5 Kate on Screen . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 Quotes on Dope . . . . . Page 7 Sorority on Campus .............. ... ..... . Page 2 - - i _ _ _ : _ Ш Raps business, Gov. Brown Nader proposes consumer co-ops Consumer advocate Ralph Nader spoke to a receptive crowd October 5 in the LMU Alumni Memorial Gymnasiqm. Nader made his comments as the keynote speaker at the Consumer ’75 Conference sponsored by the State Depart¬ ment of Consumer Affairs. He stated that the public'is will¬ ing to support programs that work for justice and opportunity. “A fer¬ vent public consciousness is de¬ veloping throughout the country,” Nader said. Nader indicated that consumer activist organizations face a real challenge in linking up large num¬ bers of consumers into cohesive groups. During a press conference after the speech, Nader charged that Gov. Brown ’ s ‘ ‘mystical evasions’ ’ have about run their course and “people are wondering why he hasn’t started moving. ’ ’ “We’ve been waiting-and-seeing for nine months, ” Nader said. “He’s become an increasing, source of disappointment. ’ * “Is he just going to throw self- serving rhetoric to his supporters or is he going to really start the basic changes that are necessary in California and lead the rest of the country?” Nader asked. “You see, with Reagan (former Gov. Ronald Reagan) you can ex¬ cuse him for his abysmal ig¬ norance, but you can’t excuse Jerry Brown with that,” Nader said. “Bad enough that his father (former Gov. Edmund G. Brown,) represents some of the most cor¬ rupt, vertal economic powers in the state. Just to clear the family name, one would think that he would come out the other way. ’ ’ It is very easy to be high in the polls now by throwing out cynical phrases,” he said, “but it’s a tougher thing to stay high in the polls as you redistribute power and begin to initiate programs that ad¬ dress themselves to the problems all politicians recognize — un¬ employment, pollution, consumer justice and monopolistic power of the Exxons and Arcos. ’ ’ Nader also urged consumers to form cooperatives to combat big business. He charged that the Unit¬ ed States is “not number 1 in a number pf things. “A country which can develop submarines, one of which can destroy 160 cities of the world with one blast, somehow can’t give its people adequate housing. “One third of the housing started in the U S; last year were mobile homes. Why? Because people can’t afford houses.” Regarding his opinion on other California politicians, Nader said Sen. John Tunney (D. -Calif.) “seems to be swinging to the right, but I think he’s misreading the public.” He said Tunney apparently had been won over to an opinion that he said is common in Washington that people are against the govern¬ ment. : “What he doesn’t realize,” Nader said, “is that what people are against is wasteful govern¬ ment, corrupt government, Watergate government, tax- loophole government.” Consumer Conference ’75 con¬ sisted of two days of workshops and * presentations in consumer- related fields. Workshops varied in topics from nuclear power, utility rates and food regulations to media treat¬ ment of consumer complaints, women and credit, and anti-trust. The keynote speaker at the Saturday session of the con¬ ference, City Attorney Burt Pines, said that more than $475,000 in fines, and civil penalties have been collected within the last year in the area of civil fraud. Maria Muldaur headlines concert The Student Activities Board has announced that Maria Muldaur will perform November 4 in the Alumni Memorial Gymnasium. Tickets for the event will be $4. According to Walt Mahaffa, Chairman, the SAB (Gopher-it Productions) has been negotiating with Muldaur’s agent for some time. The contract was not finalized until last week. The opening act at the concert will be Danny O’Keefe. The SAB provides activities from money derived by collection of half of the $24 student tax. They are responsible for Wednesday movies, concerts, speakers, dances, and a variety of other en¬ tertainment. Last year the SAE presented The Electric Light Orchestra, and Jackson Browne with Phoebe Snow in two separate concerts. Mahaffa said it would be im possible to provide big name enter tainment without charging at least a minimal admission. The Board determines admission price based on the cost of the entertainment, the capacity of the gymnasium, and the amount of money available in their budget. This year the SAB will collect about $32,000. The Board is made up of seven students and 2 administrators. Muldaur is best known for her hits “Midnight at the Oasis” and “I’m a Woman.” “Midnight,” from her first album Maria Muldaur made it to the top ten after 38 weeks on the chart . Her second album is called Waitress in a Donut Shop. Muldaur’s music has been called by Rolling Stone “A combination of the best of jazz, Dixieland, jugband, country, pop, and rock.” Muldaur started singing and writing music while still in high school in New York. She admits that she and her friends used to cut class to sing in the bathroom. Tickets for the performance will be sold in Malone 202, at first to LMU students only, then to the general public.