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              ghg THE LOYOLA MAROON VOLUME 69, NO. 16 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 February 8, 1991 SGA slashes group allocations By Charles Lussier and Courtney Sullivan Staff writers When Scott Laragy, communications senior and junior congressperson at large, walked up to the chalkboard in the SGA office in the lower Danna Center Lounge and scribbled "All or nothing," Saturday morning, he said it all. The Student Government Association Ways and Means Committee soon fulfilled their blackboard promise as over $85,000 was slashed from original funding requests by 40 Loyola student organ izationsatSGA's semesterly budget allocation meeting Saturday. Original requests totaled $134,339, up from last semester's total of $72,903. The SGA only funded $49,000 worth of these requests. David Vandcrsand, management and marketing senior and SGA president, discussed the proposed budget at the SGA congress meeting Tuesday. He said the suggested allocations were the most the SGA has ever given out to organizations. Unallocated funds from last semester allowed the committee to give out more money, he said. Although no organizations were completely rejected, no organizations were left untouched. "There are no sacred cows, only lambs to slaughter," Vandersand said. Before the group began to debate over which projects to fund, Vandersand said: "Sometimes we have to say all or nothing." In the past SGA was too cowardly to completely cut some projects, Vandersand said. They allocated only part of the requested money for the projects which made for unsuccessful programs, he said. "My one big final concern are social Greek organizations," Vandersand said. The national and regional conferences Greeks attend to learn organizational and leadership skills do not necessarily serve the Loyola community, he said. Although the conferences benefit the groups, Vandersand suggested that the SGA limit funding to only two persons per conference. Greek organizations were not the only groups affected by the two person rule. The SGA limited all groups' conference funding to two members, except for the Loyola Advertising Club and the Moot Court which required more than two members to attend. Suggested allocations drastically reduced the funds for the University Programming Board, the Sailing Club and the Panhellenic Council. The UPB originally requested over $19,000 and was cut over the course of three rounds to $3,500. When the UPB's turn came up, Patrick Professor Griff raps of color, controversy By Michael Wilson Staff writer Professor Griff, lead singer of the rap group The Last Asiatic Disciples, lashed out against the "state of the black race," and implored Loyola's black students to put their education "back into the black community" at a University Programming Board-sponsored lecture Tuesday afternoon. "What's wrong with black people teaching black people?" he asked the approximately 130 students, both black and white, present in the Audubon room. However, in the course of the 90-minute unwritten speech he also denied the validity of the Immaculate Conception. "You mean to tell me that Mary was walking by the church, and she had her miniskirt on that day, and she had on some extensions, and green contact lenses, and something just rushed out, slammed her to the ground, and got her pregnant? N0... Joseph got Mary pregnant.. ..She didn't just 'get' pregnant," he said. He made this remark while questioning the color of Jesus, who he claims "was not a white man." Vincent Knipfing, vice president for Student Affairs, ruled in 1989 that all speakers sponsored by departments under Student Affairs must consent to having "the olher side presented," especially when the of the Catholic Church. There were no alternate speakers present Tuesday. The UPB paid $6,500 for the controversial speaker, who was thrown out of the rap group Public Enemy in July, 1989. Griff's anti-Semitic remarks during a May 22 interview with Washington Times reporter David Mills led to his dismissal from the band. This fee included the lecture and a rap concert in the Wolf Pub Tuesday night, Robert Hepler, adviser to the UPB, said. The Issues and Ideas, Performing Arts and Contemporary Sounds committees funded Griff's visit to Loyola, Hepler said. Roslyn L. Robertson, communications senior, spearheaded the effort to get Griff to speak and perform at Loyola, Hepler and Mark Conrey, Business Administration graduate student and UPB president, said. One of the most difficult parts of this task was negotiating Griff's standard fee for such visits, which is $12,500, Hepler Robertson also convinced UPB last fall that Griff "would be of some good to the Loyola students," he said. She presented literature concerning the content of similar lectures at Columbia University, University of South Florida and Howard University, he said. The lecture was scheduled to coincide with Black History Month, a program I Griff attacked. hy would you let the 'United Snakes erica' give you a month when you idy 365 days of black history?" he Causin'a stir— Controversial rapper Professor Griff performs Wednesday night injhe Wolf Pub./ Photo by Meg Ballanl See SGA/page 5 See Griff/page 5 L ■