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VoL 55, No. 23 Loyola Marymount University April 24, 1978
National editor Sherry Hillson recently took time out to visit Jet Pets, a
combination kenriel, Federal Quarantine Station, and home for stray
animals.
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Dr. Lynne Gross’ CA 498 course “Communication Practicum” offers LMU
CA majors an opportunity to gain valuable career experience in the
communication fields. Kathryn Denny talks with some of the student
interns and learns of their trials in the “real world.”
HOWARD MILLER AND JAMES EARL CHRISTO met in a debate last Thursday, April 20 at Orville Wright
Junior High School in Westchester, to dicuss the pros and cons of Proposition 13, the Jarvis Initiative. (Loyolan
photos by Nels Israelson)
'F passed by University Council
workshops on life and world hunger. (Loyolan photo by Nels Israelson)
by David Boschetto
The University Council, meeting
on March 20, passed the motion
that the “F” grade be used to
indicate failure to complete a
course and be calculated into the
GPA. Included in the approved
motion was that a “NC,” which
may still be given in Credit/No (
Credit classes, will not be used in
calculating the GPA.
The University Council, an advis¬
ory board composed of administra¬
tors, faculty and, student represent¬
atives, was chaired by Rev. Donald
Merrifield, SJ, President of the
University. The Council was voting
on grading proposals previously
considered by the all-faculty Aca¬
demic Assembly;
Five LMU teachers given tenure
Five LMU professors have been
granted tenure, and another six
promoted in rank, announced Rev.
John Clark, SJ, Academic vice
president, April 14.
Both Clark and Rev, Clarence
Wallen, SJ, professor of Mathe¬
matics and chairman of the Rank
and Tenure Committee, refused to
say if any professor had been
denied tenure.
However, at least one applicant
had been denied, “if you mean for
both rank and tenure,” Clark
commented.
Tenured as of September, 1979
are Dr, Lance Blakesley , assistant'
professor of Political Science; Dr.
C. Melvin Davidson, dean of the
college of Fine and Communication
Arts; Dr. James Mathieu, assis¬
tant professor of Sociology; Dr.
Howard Towner, assistant profes¬
sor of Biology; and Rev. Robert
Welch, SJ, assistant professor of
Political Science.
Tenure guarantees? a college
teacher that he cannot be fired
from his position without a formal
hearing, with the burden of proving
misconduct or incompetence falling
on the university. It is official
recognition that a teacher has been
doing satisfactory work long e-
noirgh to win the university’s
commitment.
A teacher is eligible to apply for
tenure at the beginning of his sixth
year of college teaching, if at least
three of those years were at LMU.
Tenure is conferred one year after
application.
Promoted to the rank of full
professor were Dr. John Page,
Eight running for office
as write-in candidates
At least eight students are
campaigning as write-in candidates
in this week’s ASLM elections, all
for seats on the University Council.
Two weeks ago, five ASLM posts
had failed to attract any office-seek¬
ers before the April 13 deadline for
declaration of candidacy. Neither
the Business Administration nor
the Fine and Communication Arts
seats on the University Council had
applicants. Only two students had
announced their intention of run¬
ning for the five available spots on
the Parking Commission.
ASLM Election Committee chair¬
man John Wolnisty announced
then that the filing deadline would
not be extended, and that uncon¬
tested offices would have to be
filled with write-in candidates.
professor of Electrical Engineering
and Sr. Genevieve Underwood,
RSHM, chairwoman of the Art
department.
Promoted to the rank of associate
professor were Bogidar Avramov,
associate professor of Music; Rev.
Michael Callahan, SJ, associate
professor of Communication Arts;
Dr. Peter Haen, chairman of the
Biology department; and Dr. Shar¬
on Locy, associate professor of
English.
The University Council is the
highest advisory body at LMU of
which students are voting mem¬
bers.
Other proposals accepted during
the meeting included a motion that
a “single transcript be restored
which will reflect all courses taken
by the students.” Currently,
courses which are given “NC,”
“Incomplete” and “Withdrawal”,
grades are not put on students’
records. '
Also defeated was the motion
that a incomplete grade, “I,” be
considered and recorded as ah “F”
if not deleted by the due date. This
proposal had been previously ap¬
proved by the Academic Assembly.
During the discussion on this, Dr.
Theodore Erlandson, dean of Liber¬
al Arts, stated that LMU is “aver¬
aging about 1,500 incompletes a
year.”
The council approved a substi¬
tute amendment which read that
the incomplete grade, if not deleted
by the due date, would be changed
to a letter grade assigned by the
professor at the time the “I” was
requested.
The proposal to shorten the
withdrawal time was defeated. The
current withdrawal time of thirteen
weeks was retained and not re¬
duced to 10 weeks as the Academic
Assembly suggested. There was
much discussion among the faculty
members over this proposal.
The accepted motion which call¬
ed for the return of the “F” grade
was originally passed by the Aca¬
demic Assembly as two separate
proposals.
Another topic on the agenda at
the meeting was the University
development program. Merrifield
noted efforts to get alumni involved
in the endowment program, which
would fund. the planned Fine Arts
and faculty buildings. A pamphlet
of the new athletic complex is being
put together, Merrifield said.
Merrifield commented that the
Summa Corporation land west of
the LMU campus is being offered
for sale and that several bidders
are interested. The land should be
bought “by the end of the month,”
he said. LMU is not bidding for the
land, Merrifield explained, be¬
cause it lacks the funds.
Also, the council passed the
proposed statutes of the Library
Committee, after Dr. Mel Berto-
lozzi, assistant professor of English
and chairman of the Library Com¬
mittee, commented briefly on the
proposal.
The recommendation to revise
the academic calendar for fall of
1978 was also passed by the coun¬
cil. This passage calls for the obser¬
vation of September 4, Labor Day,
as a holiday.
Miller, Christo tangle over Prop. 13
Running write-in campaigns for
the University Council Fine and
Communication Arts post are soph¬
omores Tom Cendejas and Pat
Reagan (the current University
Council representative) and junior
Dave Hamilton.
For the Business Administration
seat, sophomore Ellen Perches and
fresliman Greg Shea are campaign¬
ing.
Three new candidates for the
University Council Science and
Engineering seat are contending as
write-ins against freshman Greg
Millnamow, who filed his candi¬
dacy before the deadline. Sopho¬
mores Bill Foster and Terri McDon¬
ough, and freshman Rosalind Ne¬
ville have started campaigns for the
spot.
by John Chandler
Los Angeles School Board president Howard Miller
and James Earl Christo, state vice-chairman of the
United Organization of Taxpayers, tangled over Propo¬
sition 13, the property tax relief measure, at Orville
Wright Junior High School last Thursday night, Aprils
20. Christo, along with Howard Jarvis, Chairman of ,
the UOT, ahd Paul Gann, Chairman of another tax
relief organization, People’s Advocate, are the major
supporters of Proposition 13.
The debate, which was attended by between 200 and
300 people, was one in a series of events being staged
throughout the state with the intent of clearing up the
misconceptions circulating about the consequences of
Propostition 13, better known as the Jarvis Initiative.
The major issues between Miller and Christo at the
debate concerned the fate of the Los Angeles public
schools under Proposition 13, and Miller’s contention
that business and commercial interests would benefit
most from any property tax relief under Proposition 13,
“Two to three months ago,” Miller commented, “if
a vote was taken, there was every indication that
Proposition 13 would have passed, but the most recent
Currently, approximately a third would vote ‘yes,’ a
third would vote ‘no,’ and about a third are undecided.
The surest thing you can say about Proposition 13 is
this: the more you learn about it, the less you like it.”
Christo, although he did not answer those remarks
directly, charged that “when you ask a person if they
want half their police force cut, they are bound to
answer ‘NO.’
One of the most confusing aspects of Proposition 13
concerns just where the monies collected under the
one per cent property tax limit are to be distributed. If
Proposition 13 passes on June 6, the state of California
will lose approximately seven billion dollars in
property tax revenues. Christo contended that “the fat
needs to be trimmed from our government,” while
Miller claimed that “it is not the fat that will be
trimmed, but Proposition 13 will cut right to the
marrow.”
Should Proposition 13 pass, the L.A. Unified School
District stands to lost $779 million, or a full
three-quarters of its current operating budget. Other
school districts in the state' stand to lose approximately
the same proportion of revenue, depending on how
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