The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 53, Issue 9 - November 3, 1975

Vol. 53, No. 9 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY Monday, Nov. 3, 1975 Quinlan supports Council decision by Bernard Sandalow Dr. Thomas Quinlan, V ice Presi¬ dent of Student Affairs after con¬ ferring with University attorney William Stein, decided last Friday .that the Judicial Council injunction ordering the ASLM to fund the BSFA $2368 must be enforced. ASLM Director Tom Normandin stated that the ASLM will continue to ignore the Council s order. In an opinion appearing in last week’s Loyolan, Normandin said that the ASLM has the constitutional power of final control over all ASLM funds, and later he reiterated his stand. “I feel that the Council has oyer- stepped their boundaries,’’ Normandin said. “They’re taking power away from the Student Congress which is incongruent with the way our whole gov¬ ernmental structure is set up.” The Council, on the other hand, feels that its position has more Constitutional authority. Chief Justice Phil Toomey emphasized, “We have the authority to review all ASLM decisions , and pro¬ cedures, and that’s exactly what we did.” Both sides presented their case to Quinlan last week, who in turn referred the matter to Stein in or¬ der to examine all the legal im¬ plications and long-range effects of the decision. Quinlan said, “I think the University needs to take a position in this matter because we are the tax collectors and the students do not have a choice whether or not they pay that tax.” Normandin said that Quinlan should stay out of the matter. “This is purely an ASLM dis¬ cussion, ” he said. Normandin said that the BSFA question was now of second importance, arid that the main controversy was now between the ASLM and the Coun¬ cil. If the ASLM still refuses to heed the Council’s order, Toomey said that the Council was prepared to invoke its contempt-of-court powers. Toomey also suggested that refusal to comply was a viola¬ tion of the law and that that action was grounds for removal from of¬ fice. In Stein’s recommendation to Quinlan, he pointed out that since there is ‘ ‘no appellate mechanism provided for going beyond the Council, its decision must be pre¬ sumed final.” Stein also noted, though, that the interpretation . of the Council re¬ garding limitations of time in which a governing body may re¬ consider its actions was in error. -‘Upon careful thought we feel everyone will agree that a legislative body must be free to re¬ consider its prior determinations at any time subsequent thereto,” Striinsaid. The entire controversy began several weeks ago when, after vot¬ ing to give the BSFA $2368, four Congress persons changed their votes. STUDENTS TAKE PART IN DRY LAND SKI SCHOOL offered last Wednes¬ day and Thursday by the LMU Ski Club. The lessons were conducted on the west side of the campus, near the University Relations building. In this issue Protect Yourself Against Rape . ... ... Page 3 Utilities Cost Up ..... . . . . .Page 3 Endowment Funds ..... . . . . «Page 5 Indians’ Problems . ........... . . . . . . . Page 6 Opinions . . . . . .Page 7 In subsequent voting, the Congress reduced the allocation by $400, cutting out a planned snow trip. BSFA appealed to the Council that they had been victimized by the question of whether the Congress was operating under formal or informal rules, and how each, affected the possibility of changing votes later. ; The Council feit that the Congress had unlawfully voided a previous decision, and that its original decision must stand. Norman din ordered Com¬ missioner of Finance Tom Garvin not to make any allocation other than the $1968 that was finally ap¬ proved. Normandin said that student in¬ itiative is “ultimately the only way to solve any type of problem. For once the students should answer the questions. Here you’ve got the Council saying one thing, the ASLM saying another. Who’s to de¬ cide? It should be students. It shouldn’t be Dr. Quinlan ” Quinlan said that the University does have some authority over ASLM funds, and that there is legal precedent for University in¬ volvement. He said, however, that the situation should be resolved, eventually, by the student govern¬ ment itself. “I want to see equity prevail,” Quinlan said. “This whole thing has gotten absurd, and I think there’s a real need for Constitu¬ tional review.” Toomey echoed this point. “We should review the Constitutional (Continued on Page 5) . THE WHITE ROOTS OF PEACE, an Indian organization, were on cam¬ pus last Thursday and despite unexpected rain, conducted activities throughout the day and evening. Indian spokesman blasts bureaucratic inefficiency The U.S. Congress allocates $1.25 billion each year to provide for 400,000 American Indians who are living on reservations, accord¬ ing to Rarihokwats, a spokesman for the American Indian Move¬ ment. However, Rarihokwats said the Bureau of Indian Affairs, (BIA), squanders the bulk of the funds on administrative functions. He said Education, Housing, and Construc¬ tion lobbies take out inordinate amounts of funds as well, and the Indians themselves, deprived of necessary services, live in pov¬ erty. Rarihokwats is a member of The White Roots of Peace, an Indian group which travels to promote the Indian cause and traditions. The group, sponsored by the Student Activities Board, visited campus last Thursday, October 30. In 1972 the American Indian Movement, (AIM), presented a formal proposal called, “The Trail of Broken Treaties,” to the BIA, which would establish a new cor¬ poration to distribute government funds to the Indians. The corporation, called the American Indian Reservation Reconstruction Organization, would be comprised of the AIM. It would distribute the same $125 billion a year, which is currently appropriated to the BIA, to Indians on a grass roots level without an expensive bureaucracy. The BIA would be eliminated two years after the acceptance of the pro¬ posal. Rarihokwats said the reserva¬ tions today are “colonies.” He said they are so small the Indians can¬ not make a living on them. He said the U.S. .made treaties with the Indian giving them status as a self-governing sovereign na¬ tion. He said Indians do not gov¬ ern themselves. Their lands and their funds are controlled by the BIA and Interior -Department bureaucrats. The Interior Department did not accept the proposal. Alcohol: a mounting problem by Jim Fiedler “The strongest drug in society is Alcohol,’’ Anthony Smulders, CFMM, said to over 60 students gathered in McKay lounge last Tuesday night for a discussion on Alcohol and LMU. According to Smulders, $300 million is spent to promote alcohol in the U.S. each year. The presentation was the third in a series of Alcoholism discussions, organized by Peer Counseling. The list of speakers included Liz Purtell, RN , Dr. Thomas Quinlan, vice president of Student Affairs, and Gaylord Long, Executive Director of the Alcoholism Council of West L. A. Long estimated that 5-6 per cent of the students at LMU are alcoholics. “They should be con¬ fronted and offered a solution to drinking. Timing is critical,” he said. “The best help can be offered by the alcoholic’s peers,” Smulders said. Smulders said 70 per cent of the adults in the U.S., drink alcohol and one out of 11 is an alcoholic. Yet “only 3-5 per cent of the alcoholics are on skid row. ” The roughly 9 million alcoholics result in a $25 billion drain on in¬ dustry, welfare services, and pro¬ perty. “The life expectancy of an alcoholic is 12 years less than a normal person,” Smulders said. “It’s weird to think that alcohol is so socially accepted, so much a part of the American image of suc¬ cess, when you consider the tragic effects it produces,” Quinlan com¬ mented. Quinlan said the university’s responsibility with regard to drink¬ ing is similar to an individual who serves drinks to a drunk person and then lets him drive home. He said. ‘-‘We are responsible and lia¬ ble for their actions.” The panel agreed that if a person is stopped by an officer while driv¬ ing under the influence, he should remain calm and not resist. The driver must consent to one of the sobriety tests or be subject to an automatic six month driver’s sus¬ pension. The blood test is usually thn best to consent to because it ta^es the most time to administer: The cops arrest you for your own safety,” Purtell said. “The v* tims of drunk driving accidents are horrendous.” More thari 50 per cent of all fatal auto accidents in¬ volve an intoxicated driver. “The drunk driving laws are get¬ ting tighter , ’ ’ Long said . If a person’s body contains .10 parts of alcohol per 10,000 parts of blood, he is considered legally drunk in California. Purtell explained how to handle a hangover in cases of acute intox¬ ication. “It should be treated as a poison,” she said. “You want to get the alcohol out of the system. Get the person to bed and lay him on his side.” “The headache of the hangover is caused by dehydration,” she said. The morning after, the person is still drunk, except that the stomach pains are gone. ‘ ‘Make the person eat as much as he or she can, and increase the fluid con¬ sumption,” Purtell said. “Gatorade is an excellent fluid to use.” Chemically, alcohol is broken down in the liver into ace¬ taldehyde, a poisonous by¬ product, but is immediately joined by. oxygen and an enzyme. This (Continued on Page 8)