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              The Loyola MAROON \je\.no Mo. Ik Roussell withdraws Scholars proposal By Chris Raphael News editor Dr. Norman Roussell, vice president for Administration, announced in a forum last Thursday that he would withdraw his proposal to eliminate presidential scholarships. "Which ever way we go is fine with me," he said. "But I want to caution you — these are serious problems," Roussell said, referring to Loyola's economic condition. Although the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., university president, had asked the Financial Aid Committee to reconvene on the measure, Roussell said he would not do that. "I will withdraw my proposal," he said. Roussell felt that ultimately the faculty should deal with the problem. "I was confused by Dr. Roussell, at the end of the meeting, saying that there was no longer any proposal to eliminate the presidential scholars on the table. If that was the case, when what was the purpose of the forum?," Dr. Vemon Gregson, associate professor of religious studies, asked. The forum, scheduled for one hour, had gone on for about 45 minutes when faculty, who felt that a question and answer period had been put off too long, interrupted Roussell. "This is not the forum that the faculty requested, nor that Father Carter said we'd have to discuss Presidential Scholarships," Gregson said. "You are obviously personally invested in this,"Gregson told Roussell. Roussell replied that he would stay at the forum until midnight if he had to. Faculty immediately began pressing him with questions, explaining that because they had two o 'clock classes, they could not afford to wait. Roussell explained that his earlier proposal to eliminate full scholarships and replace them with more partial-tuition, merit scholarships was based on Loyola's "serious financial situation" and a request by the Board of Trustees to reduce the rate of expenditures. Make a wish—Loyola students celebrate with New Orleans businessman and Loyola benefactor J. Edgar Monroe, who turned 95 last Tuesday. Monroe is the single largest contributor in Loyola's 79 year history, contributing over the course of many years as much as $40 million. /File Photo Law Library custodian attacked By Michael Wilson Editor in Chief An unidentified man allegedly assaulted a Loyola University custodian in the Law Library early last Friday morning, Sandy T. Gavin, acting investigator for the department of Public Safety, said. Tina Francois, a Witt, Fiala, Flarmery and Associates employee contracted by Loyola and stationed in the Law Library on the Broadway campus, said she was grabbed around the throat from behind by a tall, thin, 25 to 30-year-old white man, wearing dark clothes and a black ski mask over his face. The man pulled Francois to the ground on the second floor of the Law Library, then disappeared into the library stacks, she said. The suspect was not seen leaving the building by an officer on the third floor, a number of other custodians and supervisors on the first floor, nor the officer parked in the shuttle in front of the building, Gavin said. However, the suspect may have escaped through a first floor back door with an inoperative alarm, Gavin said. He also said that Public Safety cannot determine whether the man entered the building that morning, or stayed in the library all night. Both the Law Building and Library stay locked between midnight and 7:30 a.m., and Public Safety officers make periodic sweeps of the library throughout the night, he said. Francois, however, said that the current Public Safety coverage of the library is not enough. "Security is not doing what they're supposed to be doing. I don't feel safe," she said. She said that she is usually the first person to enter the "pitch dark" Law Library in the morning before it opens, and wishes a Public Safety officer would check the building and turn on the lights before her. She added that Public Safety followed this procedure on Tuesday, her first day back on the job, but not on Wednesday. "It was just like I was on my own," she said. Since the attack, upon entering the building in the morning, she locks herself in the administrative office section of the library's second floor and cleans it first, venturing outside only after the library opens 90 minutes later, she said. "It puts me behind, but it's the only way I feel safe," she said. Judy Kelly, documents, acquisitions and serials librarian, said that she was the first to find Francois after the attack in a library corridor, and locked herself and Francois in the Government Documents room before calling Public Safety at around 7:15 a.m. "I've never seen such terror on a person's face in my whole life," Kelly said. "She couldn't talk, she couldn't cry, she couldn't scream. She was petrified, and kept looking over her shoulder." Kelly added that she found an unlocked door to the second floor of the library that morning. SGA kills proposed Handbook change By Jessica Krogh Staff writer The Student Government Association unanimously passed a resolutionon Wednesday recommending a proposed policy change in the Loyola Student Handbook be revised. The Student Affairs Policy Advisory Committee had planned to update the Handbook by extending jurisdiction of Student Affairs to off-campus, non-university related events. The addition to the current section of the Handbook on regulations governing student behavior states: "At off-campus, nonuniversity related activities, the university may sanction students for behavior which constitutes a hazard to the health, safety or well-being of members of the university community." The resolution, drafted by SGA members Tanya Mascarich and Erika Schwarz, however, referred to the SGA's responsibility to protect student rights. It states that off-campus incidents are already "subject to civil and criminal authority and regulation," and that the proposed change is overbroad and serves to "establish parameters of authority much greater than needed to achieve the principle objectives of the office of Student Affairs." Moreover, SGA recommended that the university "may not sanction students at any time for actions taking place outside its normal established jurisdiction," but rather that it mediate conflicts. The authors of the resolution defined "mediate" as conciliation with the voluntary consent of all parties involved. Gerry Blaker, member of both SAPAC and SGA, said Vince Knipfing, vice president of Student Affairs, recommended the change to protect students. However, Blaker said that in cases of date rape and fights in bars off-campus, Loyola's Department of Public Safety is unable to arbitrate because students feel threatened when they later see the other student involved on campus. Jim Dug an, SGA president, expressed concern over the pol icy because he felt it would be enabling Loyola to act as the New Orleans Police Department. "What about the one time Loyola doesn't take action?" Dugan asked. "They're opening themselves up for lawsuits." In response, Blaker said, "This is not Student Affairs trying to see Scholars/ page 3 see Security/ page 4 Inside This Week:. See page 10