The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 55, Issue 14 - February 6, 1978

VoL 55, No. 14 Loyola Marymount University February 6, 1978 A MID-AIR COLLISION involving two airplanes near LMU Friday claimed the life of one pilot (unidentified at press time), who was killed when his twin-engine Cessna 357 Skymaster plunged to the ground and burned near Jefferson Blvd., just north of the Hughes airstrip (top photo). The other pilot, Larry Lamboy, 44, of Garden Grove, guided his Cessna 182 to a crash-landing on Dockweiler Beach in Playa Del Rey, about two miles from the other crash site. Lamboy, whose plane nosed over on impact (above), was treated at a Torrance hospital for minor cuts and released. Several LMU students reportedly eyewitnessed the collision from LMU’s bluff, which overlooks the Hughes property. The FAA is investigating the accident. (Loyolan photos by Nels Israelson) New residence behind schedule by Kathryn Denny The new 282-bed apartment complex on the south side of campus will not be completed by September, 1978, as originally / planned, said John Pfaffinger, vice president of Business Affairs, and Tom Reynolds, director of Hous¬ ing. Though final contract deadlines will not be set until this week, Pfaffinger and Reynolds estimated that the apartments will be ready one month after school begins. the new apartments will be included in the housing lottery this spring, Reynolds said. Students who sign up to live in them this fall will be notified that they can expect to move in late. Various arrange¬ ments will be made to accommo¬ date students waiting to occupy the new building. The Housing Office is planning to enclose a form along with the contracts for next year’s residents of McKay Hall and Tenderich and Loyola apartments, asking if they would be willing to have an extra person in the room for that period, in exchange for a reduction in rent, Reynolds said. Temporary off-campus housing is another alternative for those awaiting the new building’s com¬ pletion. Reynold’s noted that Northrup Institute of Technology (at Aviation Blvd. and Arbor Vitae in Inglewood, 2.9 miles from campus) has a large dormitory that is usually not more than 50 per cent occupied in the fall. Reynolds said Northrup seemed interested in accommodating LMU. This same arrangement was used in 1971 when the Loyola apartments were not completed until after school had begun. Reynolds noted that a shuttle bus service would need to be arranged between Loyola and Northrup. LMU is terminating its contract with Manchester Plaza Apart¬ ments, as expected, effective the end of May. Reynolds hoped some of the rooms of the second floors at Manchester now rented by LMU students would still be unoccupied next fall, and that some students would be temporarily housed there. Reynolds also expressed confi¬ dence that Fran Williams, Coordin¬ ator of Off-Campus Housing, would be able to place students. The total apartment complex project will cost $2.5 million, Pfaffinger said. The firm of Monro- Burns and Jackson Brothers, which built Tenderich Apartments in 1971, was awarded the contract. Construction fees, architect servi¬ ces, lawyer fees, permits, insur¬ ance, and furnishings, among other costs, are included in the total sum. Room rental fees, not tuition, will pay for the apartment complex project. Pfaffinger explained, “Our [LMU’s] policy is that auxiliary services have to be self-supporting, and this is an auxiliary service.’* Reynolds estimated that the rate for a room in the new apartment building, before adjustments for late occupancy, will be $1,050 per student. This rate is about 10 per cent higher than for rooms in Tenderich and Loyola apartments, which Reynolds believed will cost around $950. “Cost of the building and its debt service effects [loan interest] determine what the room rates will be,” Pfaffinger clarified. Financing of the construction is 'being made through a bond project with the California Educational Facilities Authority (CEFA). Pfaff¬ inger explained that CEFA “if empowered by the state of Califor¬ nia to offer tax-exempt bonds for public sale. In effect the University is offering the bonds through CEFA.’* Pfaffinger noted the University received a favorable six per cent interest rate on the 30-year loan. Some of the revenues from the new apartments will go to pay off earlier loans which had been obtained at higher rates of interest first. Reynolds and Pfaffinger agreed that there is now both the demand (Continued on Page 6) $3250 tuition passed by University Council by Greg Clinton The University Council gave its approval to a tuition increase for the 1978-79 school year to $3,250 at their meeting on December 14. The increase, which represents an 8.3 per cent hike over this year’s tuition, will most likely be passed by the LMU Board of Trustees when they meet next Monday, February 13. At that meeting the Trustees will also consider a recommendation to raise housing fees by approximate¬ ly 10 per cent. The $3,250 tuition figure finally approved by the Council represen¬ ted a reduction of an earlier proposal submitted by John Pfaf¬ finger, vice president of Business Affairs, at their meeting on Decem¬ ber 7. At that meeting, Pfaffinger proposed three tuition planning models with ceilings of $3,264, $3,300, and $3,333. Pfaffinger arrived at the $3,250 amount by making several adjust¬ ments to his original proposals. The number of full time students, for example, was increased from 3,314, as originally planned for next year, to 3,334. This figure is $till below the 1977-78 full time enrollment of 3,364. Also, three faculty and staff positions were deleted from the original proposal to help bring the tuition figure down to $3,250. In addition, $40,000 was subtracted from the University’s operating budget and $30,000 from the capital expenditure budget. When the Board of Trustees meets to consider the budget plan next Monday, they will mostly be checking it for “reasonablemess,” Pfaffinger explained. “In general, they’ve supported the administra¬ tion,’’ he added. The increased tuition, which will amount to additional revenues of $893,000 for next year, will be used to cover extimated increased ex¬ penses in several areas of the University. For example, salary for faculty and staff will be increased next year overall by 7.5 per cent, according to the revised plan. In addition, benefits for faculty and staff will go up 16 per cent. Pfaffinger also noted that utility costs for the University are expect¬ ed to go up 20 per cent next year. A report from the Business Affairs office projects further tui¬ tion increases up to the year 1982. According to that report, the (Continued on Page 4) LMU students to stage own Special Olympics by Chuck Bostwick Between now and April 8, a good-sized chunk of the Loyola Marymount community will be gearing lip to present a Special Olympics, ' the competitions for handicapped children and adults, here on campus. But it will be a Special Olympics with a different twist. Instead of concentrating on the mentally re¬ tarded, LMU’s games will be directed toward the physically han¬ dicapped. In addition, the games will be directed by the University itself — for the most part by stu¬ dents — with little outside help. “We found that the usual Special Olympics, by the nature of their events, do not include the more physically handicapped,” said Mickey Elliott, EPIC intern and a Special Olympics coordinator. LMU’s games will be adapted for paraplegics, quadraplegics, and the multiply-handicapped, he said. “They’re really less fortunate than the mentally retarded,” said Jo Marino, one of the originators of the LMU games. “The physically handicapped have no activities at all, but they have their minds. We wanted to do something for them.” “As far as we can tell,” Elliott said, “no university has sponsored, created, initiated, and followed through on an Olympics like this before. “Special Olympics have been held at colleges, but they’ve been run by a separate group, like California Special Olympics,” he explained. “These people have been together since the Special Olympic concept was started, and they put on all the programs in the state, with help from local Cham¬ bers of Commerce and busi¬ nesses.” LMU’s Olympic trainers, be¬ cause they aren’t veterans like the (Continued on Page 7) Inside Bookstore . . ................ Page 3 United Bookstore Company is in, and with it comes more cash registers * less hassle, a new coding system for books, new merchandise, and longer operating hours. The Horsey Set . . Page 8 Whether you’re riding or betting on one, many people make horses a large part of their lives. In this week’s features section, three writers share experiences dealing with the care, riding, racing and love of horses. Beatlemania! . . . . Page 13 While lacking narration, plot and direction, entertainment editor Cary Darling nonetheless calls Beatlemania a lightweight multimedia triumph.