The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 54, Issue 10 - November 8, 1976

November 8,1976 Vol. 54 No. 10 Loyola Marymount University get volleyball court Charles Moss and Susan Presslmone rehearse for upcoming Del Rey Players’ production of Noel Coward's Private Lives, opening this Thursday. (See story, p&ge 3.) Resident students will The vacant field , between the Loyola Apartments and the Bird Nest will soon be covered with grass and turned into volleyball courts, according to Bill Wilson, Physical Plant Director. ‘ ‘This project will hopefully be completed by the end of the week/ ' Wilson said. The grass courts will replace sand courts which were eliminated last year. According to Wilson, approval for the project came from Richard Baker, Director of Hous¬ ing, after Rev. Richard Robin* SJ, former associate dean of Student Affairs, requested the change some time last year. Wilson cited two reasons for the decision. “The wind blew the -sand from the courts into the grass and shrub areas surrounding the area and killed much of the vegetation, ’ щ Wilson said. He also added that the sand was blown into the Bird Nest pool, creating problems with the filter system. According -to Wilson, the project has been delayed until recently because of Physical Plant’s limited resources! “We don’t have the grading equipment to rearrange and level the earth and cause it to drain properly*” he said. Fill dirt was heeded before the grass could be planted and manpower is limited because of other maintenance projects. Wilson said that the project’s cost was kept down by taking advantage pf the library construc¬ tion equipment. “We had to wait until this equipment was* available, which was another reason for the delay,” he explained. Wilson explained that before the project is completed, the irrigation system for sprinklers must be installed and the trenches filled in. There also must be a final raking and dragging of the soil before the grass can be planted. The sod that was removed to make way for, the Malone Campus Ministry Project provided the grass needed for the courts. Wilson is not sure if this will be enough to cover the entire field. “Seed will be planted to fill in any bare areas if needed, ”. he said. “The decision to reconstruct volleyball courts was made to continue thq original plan for that area,” Wilson said. “It is' part of the ongoing sensitivity to student needs for recreation facilities.” Inside Profile. .................... page 7 LMU graduate student Ali (jolbad came to America for all its splendor and beauty. He found the beauty, but also discovered places like Skid Row. Dave Hamilton talks with Ali and finds out why he takes the -stunning photographs he does. Some Pf Ali’s photos accompany the stofy. Culture . . . . . • • • • * page 11 Van Nuys Boulevard, hot cars apd cruising are the topics covered in Leon Perahia’s article. What you thought might be a lost era is in fact very much alive and well and living in Van Nuys. Fashion ..... . . § . . ..... . . . page 12 Some prefer it long, others short. No matter how you choose to wear your hair, you’ll find this article by Therese Wells both entertaining and helpM. Reading it may also save that head of hair so that the Telly Savalas look doesn’t become a necessity for you. у NAPA, ex-mental patients, to speak out against psychiatry this Tuesday Richard Reed claims that he has been imprisoned, held against his will and brutally tortured. Hi» Experience took place, not in a Vietnamese prison camp, but in an American psychiatric institution. The Network Against Psychiatric Assault (NAPA), a group of ex¬ mental patients will speak to the problems of involuntary commit¬ ment and the general treatment of mental patients tomorrow, Novem¬ ber 9, at 11 am in Pereira 31. The panel presentation is being sponsored by the Psychology So¬ ciety. NAPA’s primary concern is the abuse of mental patients’ rights, rights which are presently not completely guaranteed by law. Specifically, NAPA members are opposed to the administration 6f drugs, electro- shock and psycho¬ surgery without the patient’s volun¬ tary informed consent. NAPA also opposes involuntary commitment. Due to its anti-psychiatric lean¬ ings, NAPA has been criticized by the psychiatric community. Accord¬ ing to an article in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, as a result of personal experience or abuse,; NAPA members regard psychiatric judgments with much suspicion and distrust.* Psychiatrists, in turn, regard NAPA as a revenge-seeking group of former patients who confronted abuses which are not indicative of the psychiatric profession as a whole. A NAPA member explained that, 4 ‘Many psychiatrists think of them¬ selves as humanitarians. We’re not trying to suggest that they are ogres or people who are trying to screw up people’s lives and inflict pain on them intentionally. They customarily think of themselves as doing good things. Intentions, though, are not enough. “We are not against voluntary psychiatry and we are not against the existence of psychiatry. But we do oppose being forced into an institution against your will.’’ Reed, a member of NAPA who lives in El Segundo and has spoken at LMU previously, said, “I was accused, tried, convicted and sen¬ tenced to imprisonment and torture (while a student at Berkley in 1963) for the deadly crime of ‘thinking funny.’ Г have lots of wild ideas, many of them worthless for , any purpose except for my own enter¬ tainment. No one at any time ever accused me of doing violence to people or property, threatening to do violence to people or property, or inciting others to do violence to people or property.” Reed will be one of the speakers at Tuesday’s presentation. During his seven week stay at Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, in San Francisco, Reed was given drugs and eight to ten electro-shock treatments. “The wildest idea of all,” said Reed, “is that I am too stupid to know when I have been hurt. I am simultaneously amused and en¬ raged when I find psychiatric authorities proclaiming that'electro- ( Continued on Page 16) LMU students urged to stay hungry Next week the Peace Studies Society and the Student Develop¬ ment Center are co-sponsoring World Hunger Week, according to Laura Sanders,. Director of Peace Studies. “The purpose of this week is to foster ap awareness of the world hunger problem among the LMU community,” Sanders said. World Hunger Week will climax with a day of fast scheduled for Thursday, . November 18. “The purpose of the fast, ” said Sanders* ‘4s to empathize with the world’s hungry and td learn how hungry people see the worlds around them.” Beginning last week, LMU stu¬ dents from the Peace Studies group have be.en visiting dormitories and apartments on campus asking resi¬ dents to volunteer for the fast. may also sign up this week and next week on Regents’ Terrace. Students who sign up for the fast will be given sponsor sheets. The LMU community is invited to sponsor those fasting by pledging to donate whatever they wish. i The money collected during World Hunger Week will go to the Community Hunger Appeal of Church World Services. Money will be used for relief and development projects for the hungry. Tom Dunlop, director of SAGA 1 Food Service at LMU, has agreed to donate the cost of the food for every student on the, meal plan who decides to fast. These students should report to Dunlop to get their meal card punched in order that the money can be donated. rFrbm Щ am to 12 noon on Thursday, the day of the fast, those “to reflect on the purpose of the fast,” Sanders explained. That evening' the fast will end with a Third World Banquet consisting of beans and rice. Lucky Market will donate part of the food for this event. Throughout World Hunger Week several films will be presented dealing with world hunger. These include The Glass House, Beyond the Next Harvest, and Tilt. On Friday, November 19, the Resource Center for Non-violence, a group from Santa Cruz, will conduct a discussion on hunger issues. Dr. Brian Robinson, Director of the Student Development Center, said he was ‘ ‘ pleasantly surprised ’ ’ at the student concern for world hunger. “I hope that World Hun¬ ger Week will encourage students to internalize these values and to Students wasted no time christening the huge mound of earth created last week by the Malone Campus Ministry project. The dirt pile eventually disappeared, as did the letter ‘M’.