The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 63, Issue 12 - November 25, 1985

INSIDE THIS ISSUE In News . . . see page 3 if ft In Entertainment ... ||: In Features ... 1 In Sports ... Archbishop New Music Callahan 1985: The Mahoney ¥ № ' Spotlighted. HBKv ; -1 Challenges J Щ Year in Sports. to speak at В ... see page 14. JJ \ Students to Risk. ... see page 21. Commencement . I 8Ш: ЩЩ ... see page 6 - r r 1 в . \ Los Angeles Loyolan Loyola Marymount University Volume 63 Issue 12 November 25, 1985 RHA Considers Revision of Its Constitution By MONICA SAVO, News Writer Г чтЛап plwMo !>> Ben* Mimnnm Leslie Miller , assistant director of Resident Life, will help RHA make a decision regarding the status of its present constitution. Provost Previewed By DENISE M. O’BRIEN, News Writer В allowing a controversy about whether LMU even needs a provost anymore, negotiations have commenced to redefine the role of that position. Once the new job description is com¬ plete, thq position will probably be filled by a Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (RSHM), and even more pro¬ bably, by Sister Mary Milligan, wh6 recently finished a five-year stint as General Superior of that order Her education and credentials include a doctorate degree in English from the University of Paris, and a doctorate from the Gregorian University. Milligan speaks Portuguese and French fluently. '‘After living in Italy for seven years, I also speak Italian fair¬ ly well, and I understand Spanish,” she added. Milligan misses the “cosmopolitan lifestyle” she led in her extensive travels. Now that she is back, she is no stranger to Los Angeles, or to LMU. р**лт tQSQ-1967 taught French tfwe can workout the details, and she is willing to take the position (it wit betted). Milligan returneu i'rum Runic iu Los Angeles a few weeks ago, after five years of travel throughout different parts of the world, including South America, Europe, and Africa. She is a native Californian originally from the San Fernando valley, where she attended Corvallis High School. Following high school, she studied for a year at Mount Saint Mary’s College before entering the RSHM. and t neology at Магушоиш College , Palos Verdes. In 1968 and 1969, she taught theology at Loyola University. After the merger, she also taught theology at LMU in 1977 and 1978. Milligan has met with Fr. Loughran two times since she returned from Italy. “We have had good conversations,” she says. “We are currently negotiating a provost role description that is -• - t.-. , (continued on page 2) She Resident Hall Association may revise its present constitution following Chrjstmas break, finding that the document! is somewhat obscure in certain areas and contains some loopholes. RHA is presently finding problems with the amending procedure of the con¬ stitution, and it is also debating whether to add an impeachment clause to the document. Article Six of the constitution states that an amendment may be proposed either by the Interhall Council, or through a petition bearing 200 signatures \ presented to the Interhall ^ Council. An amendment will be adopted if a majority vote of resident students is obtained in an election with a minimum turn out of 500 students. “The constitution’s purpose is realistic, but since we are a very new group [3 years old], the document con¬ tains inconsistencies and weaknesses,” said Collette Lewis, McKay dorm presi¬ dent. Some members of the RHA executive board believe that article six in the con¬ stitution is, at present, ineffective. A vote will be taken following the semester break to decide whether or not the amendment clause will be amended. Mike Gatbunton, president of Whelan, believes that the proposed con¬ stitutional revisions would take par¬ ticipation in RHA away from many students. RHA president Colleen Shields defends change, saying, “I think the constitution should be revised because RHA is a functioning group, and many students [residents] don’t understand constitutional issues.” Shields explained the implications of the current amendment procedure: “The way it stands now, I could walk around door-to-door asking students to check yes or no on an amendment, and get it passed if I had enough yesses”-whether or not it had been read by any students, or discussed. Another proposed revision RHA is debating has to do with adding a recall measure to its present constitution. It would allow presidents or vice- presidents to be dismissed from office after due process. The consitution now has no impeach¬ ment procedure through which students can recall their elected representatives, only “grounds for dismissal” from elected positions which are enforced by Resident Life. The proposed impeachment clause states that a petition signed by 25 per¬ cent of a building’s residents should be submitted to the president of the RHA executive board. After this procedure, the board will conduct a building elec¬ tion by written ballot in which a majori¬ ty vote would be required for the dismissal of building officers. Some feel that the impeachment clause, like the amendment clause, is unreasonable. “The proposed clause makes it too easy to impeach a president, and I feel that a new system should be [considered],” said Gatbunton. Presently the recall amendment and the amending amendment are both in a state of limbo. Leslie Miller, assistant director of Resident Life, feels that the revision processes are going to be long procedures that should not be challeng¬ ed until after the semester break. “The RHA organization is a fairly new group, and there is nokoubt that some revisions should be made to clear some vagueness which the document [the constitution] now illustrates,” con¬ cluded Miller. ■ Nothing Much Will Be Cooking for This Holiday Weekend By BRIAN DENNISON, News Writer ■ he day of giving, when the Pilgrims threw a party (and supposedly in¬ vited the Indians), will be upon us this Thursday. Most of us will scamper off campus to friends and family. But for those who have no place to carve the bird, what’s to do? Will this campus be barren of festivi¬ ty,, save for the bats? Well, almost^ ASLMU president Mike Davitt says there will not be much to do. 4 ‘The feeling we get is that most peo¬ ple leave for the holiday. Asking people who have places to go to stay and work a function would be hard on us.” Arnold Casteneda, director of ac¬ tivities, agreed with Davitt. Mass will be offered at 7:00 a.m. and 12:05 p.m. on Thursday, in Sacred Heart Chapel. But what about the bird? Ben Franklin had wanted it to be our na¬ tional symbol, and it used to be hip to call a not-so-hip person a “turkey,” but those are other stories. A feathered friend Or two will be on the menu that day at SAGA, where food service director Chuch Urbanowicz has seen to it that students will be served all the fixings of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. As SAGA does not expect much of a turnout, the dining hall will be clos¬ ed, and the white-linen affair will be held in the Lair, otherwise closed this weekend. If you don’t feel keen on SAGA turkey, there may be an alternative. In this writer’s opinion, the hot spot in Westchester this Thanksgiving is the Fifeside Inn, on the corner of Man¬ chester and Lincoln. They will feature both the full fixings, and piano-bar entertainment. Nix on that idea? Well, pretend you are Canadien. Their bird day is October 14, eh? ■