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^OLoyola
Marymount
University
November lb, 1981
Volume 59
Number 10
I. F. Stone blasts Reagan policies
by Dennis Dlugos
Distinguished journalist I.F.
Stone blasted the Reagan ad¬
ministration’s military,
^economic and social policies in
^ his major address to the LMU
community last Wednesday,
calling Reagan a “lunatic” and
his policies “simplistic nice-guy
cliches.”
Labeling Reagan “one of the
greatest salesmen ever to become
President,” Stone said that “the
administration is approaching
problems of growing complexity
with such gross oversimplifica¬
tions of that they alarm
thoughtful people right and left,
at home and abroad.”
The' Reagan policies, Stone
said, arrive from two premises.
“One is that all we need to do to
solve economic problems— here
and abroad — is to unleash
greed. And all we need to do to
deal With the mstability in the,
world is to drop a bomb on
Moscow.”
In a private meeting with
members of the campus
newspapers, Stone said he had
known Reagan since he was
governor of California. “Ronald
Reagan represents the interests
of the super-rich and the super¬
stupid, and God knows Califor¬
nia is full of both. ”
Speaking to the entire com¬
munity on Veterans Day, Stone
pointed out that this holiday was
once called Armistice Day to
‘‘celebrate the promise of
Woodrow Wilson at the end of
World War I — this was the war
to end all wars.
“Today, Armistice Day has
been devitalized and has become
part of the military
propaganda.”
Stone credited the Reagan ad¬
ministration with making effec¬
tive use of propaganda to back
up its military policies. “Using
the idea of Russian superiority as
a justification for rearming
America is the biggest hoax ever
perpetrated on the American
electorate.
“We’ve never had so much
overkill. If we were to spill all of
our nuclear weapons on the
USSR,” Stone hypothesized,
and they didn’t shoot one at us,
enough radioactivity would be
released to cause severe damage
in the Northern hemisphere,”
“The so-called window of
vulnerability depends on the
view that if you fire nuclear
weapons for the first tithe across
the north/south axis, you can be
absolutely sure where they’re go¬
ing and where they’re going to
drop.”
“But if you read the scientific
papers, you find out we just
don’t know what would happen.
We don’t know about the ef¬
fects of electromagnetic pulse,
how we would communicate,
how our computers would func¬
tion, how missiles would stay on
course.
“In short, we wouldn’t know
what the hell we were doing.”
Stone continued his critcisms
of Reagan’s handling of U.S.
nuclear defense policy, stating
that the people in the Reagan
I.F. Stone, pictured here with his wife, visited LMU for three days last week. In his major address,
Stone strongly criticized the Reagan administration. (Loyolan photo by Peter Meyers)
administration, “really think we
ought to move ahead to a con¬
frontation, and risk nuclear war,
and that we can win a nuclear
war, and that we might lose 10
million people or 100 million
people.”
Weare appointed
to assist president
“It’s just madness. We used
wonder what would happen if a
lunatic had his hands on the trig¬
ger. Well, the lunatics now have
thieir hands on the trigger. '
Stone linked the Reagan
military and economic policies,
saying that “the idea that all of
these complex problems can be
•Two resident advisors
assaulted in McKay Hall
Two resident advisors were
taken to Marina Mercy Hospital
last Thursday night for treat¬
ment of injuries recieved as a
result of a dorm incident.
Paul Stretch and Tim Town¬
send received facial cuts and
abraisions in a physical confron¬
tation occuring late Thursday
^ night in McKay Hall.
Tim Rynn, Head R.A. in
^“McKay, stated that two men
were causing a disturbance in the
fourth-floor laundry room.
When the R.A.’s attempted to
intervene, a fight ensued.
“1 wouldn’t say that they were
beaten up... they were physically
abused,” stated Hank Durand,
vice president for student af¬
fairs.
Regarding the details of the
incident, Durand said, “It’s a
very complicated story, and we
have three or four different ver¬
sions of what happened. We’re
trying to sort that out now.”'
One witness stated that the
two suspects had been asked to
leave McKay earlier this year.
The two, Kevin and Brian, were
alledgedly visiting a friend on the
fourth floor at the time of the in¬
cident.
Although the suspects have
not been arrested at this time,
Durand stated that “We feel
very confident that we are going
to get some action on this.” He
said that the two were “known
to some people on campus” and
would be located soon.
Durand also stated that
security had been stepped up in
the building.
One student reported seeing
two or three undercover LAPD
officers staked out in front of
McKay on Thursday night.
Stated Durand, “I believe
that the LAPD has been con¬
sulted on this.”
Durand reported that both
R.A.’s were doing fine, both
physically and psychologically,
as of Sunday afternoon. Both
were relieved of duty for the
weekend.
“They received tremendous
support from the people in the
building, ” said Durand.
In discussing the event,
Durand said that he hoped to
avoid sensationalism of the inci¬
dent. “We don’t want to create
a hysteria which we don’t believe
is warranted at this time.”
by Dennis Dlugos
Dr. Kenneth Weare, assistant
professor of theology during
1980-81, was appointed assistant
to the president of LMU on
November 2.
Although a formal list of
responsibilities had not been
drawn up as of last week, Weare
said his role is two-fold: 1) to act
as an advisor and consultant to
LMU President Donald Mer-
rifield, SJ, on every issue, and 2)
to facilitate Merrifield’ s access to
faculty, students and staff.
“The position does not in¬
volve any decision making
power,” Weare said. “It’s an
advisory role. One of my jobs is
to discover the concerns of
faculty, students and staff and
initiate contact with Merrifield.
“My door is always open to
anyone who wishes to see me,”
he added.
Weare received his Ph.D. in
theology tom the Catholic
University 46* Louvain, Belgium
in 1980 and, served
as a theological consultant for
European Bishops.
In addition to teaching moral
theology and ecclesiology at
LMU last , year, Weare taught
moral and political theology in
Tanzania in 1977.
The objective of any Catholic
University, according to Weare,
should be to “strive for the full
development of a student as a
human person adequately
understood. This is a process of
maturation that involves three
phases— adjustment, function¬
ing, and integration— vis-a-vis
him or herself, society and God.
“If LMU can graduate
students with com¬
petence — professional com¬
petence and adult maturity, and
compassion— instilled with a
sense of justice and love, then
we are succeeding as a Universi¬
ty, ”
Weare disagreed that LMU
placed too much emphasis on
preprofessional education, but
said that “every class should be
challenging. Students should ex¬
pect their classes to be difficult.
' “And the philosophy courses
should be just as important to an
engineer as any of the engineer¬
ing courses.”
Concerning the presence of
ROTC on campus, Weare said
the question should certainly be
“raised and discussed”, but
there were other areas which
deserved equal attention. He
stated that “the Loyolan should
consider whether or not to ac¬
cept advertising from corpora¬
tions which manufacture nuclear
arms — arms which are clearly
immoral according to the
Catholic curch.”
Weare also defended LMU’s
commitment to minorities. “A
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