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              The Loyola Maroon Volume 71 No. 2 I 11 = J Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana 701 18 March 26, 1993 •1993 Student Government Association Elections* || Three in running for SGA presidency Lessard returns for second helping BRADY LESS ARD •history senior •2.9 GPA •former president, PJ Kappa Theta fraternity •Army reservist •American Red Cross Disaster Relief volunteer •founder. Southern Legal Studies Group It's hard to imagine a Student Government election without the candidacy of Brady Lessard. He has run for four years, this year and last year for president. He has not won yet. "I have a burning desire. I really feel it's my duty to represent the entire student body—a quest to serve," he said Lessard jokes that he called Las Vegas: "I'm a nine to one long shot. I might be running with the bulls next year... but I'll run till I win." At Wednesday's debate, he explained his rationale for his perennial candidacy: "I have to come back beesine to set elected Mooney promises visible leadership PATRICK MOONEY •political science junior •2.9 GPA •Residential Assistant. Beiver Hall •Phi Kappa Psi fraternity •Baseball team member •Awaking retreat leader •former WLDC disc jockey SGA presidential candidate Pat Mooney is unsure what course his future will take. Either he will go to Law School or he will become a candidate for a religious brotherhood. While these two choices may seem to be the be at the opposite ends of the spectrum, Pat Mooney thinks both would be in congruence with what he views as his ultimate goal: to change the world. Mooney has aspirations of being a politician, and he says,"You need to learn about law to help other people." Mooney first became interested in the religious life when he Schwarz builds on experience as VP LRIKA SCHWARZ •communications senior •3.7 GPA •current SGA vice president • former president. Delta Gamma sorority •former vice president, Loyola Panhellenic Council •Cardinal Key Service Organization Presidential candidate Erika Schwarz describes herself as "ambitious, sincere and dedicated." She proved this during last semester, in which as SGA vice president she worked to reduce parking fines, create a grace period in which students are not charged for add/drops and implemented the book exchange program. "I sat up many nights working on the book exchange when other people went out and left me behind," Schwarz said at Wednesday's debates. She said that other SGA members told her, '"Erika, that (the book exchange] is not going to work,so she knew she had Lack of interest silences spring Free Speech Alley By Rhonda Jones Staff Writer The overall response from the Free Speech Alley speakers was "Apathy wins" when they were shut down on March 9. At the last FS A, Mike Starke, political science senior and FSA speaker, polled the students who sat observing the alley. Out of the 60 or so polled, only nine people responded; eight voted for it to end, and only one person wanted it to continue. "Apparently, there are some elements at Loyola who do not understand the concept or the importanceof the First Amendment," Starke commented. "It seems tragic that an institution that produces a disproportionate number of business leaders and political leaders for the region should be unable to support an institution considered integral to most university communities."He believes that one reason FSAfailedwas because some speakers received harassment and ridicule while speaking. He feels that the harassment hindered other students from speaking.Louis Boglioli, business management senior, disagrees. He saw (he reason for FSA's failure to be the fact that the format was too free. They got one or two good topics, but then they ran out of things to talk about. Some people even gave recipes. If they had some basic format, then it would be a very good idea to keep it." Ivette Cintra, English freshman, is glad that it is gone. She saw FSA to be "pretty idealistic" from the start "It got a slow start, but once people got the hang of it, it got pretty productive for about three weeks. Then it regressed back to fraternity and hippy bashing." Philosophy sophomore Derek Dehoog, one of last semester's speakers, said that another reason for the failure was a lack of interest due to the spring semester's calender. "Since the spring semester is so short, and students are busy with mid-terms, and with finals coming, the students just did not have as much time." The FSA speakers did, however, try to take steps to save it from failure. One such step was to move it from Wednesdays at 12:30 to Tuesday's window. The move took place to give more people the opportunity to see FSA. Dehoog commented, "I always found it better being at 12:30 (Wednesdays) because it gave people a reason to skip class." English sophomore Meredith Wharton, another speaker, said that FSA was beneficial because "people could express their ideas without any repercussions." Starke agreed. He viewed FSA as "the old concept of the soapbox on the comer." Although FSA has shut down, there is still optimism about it returning. The time spot and equipment are still reserved for whoever may want to pick it up. Wharton believes,'lf enough people want it to, it will come back." "Apparently, there are some elements at Loyola who do not understand the concept or the Importance of the First Amend' ment." —Mike Starke, poltical science junlior U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia addresses law school By Martin A. Wens ' Staff Writer United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia addressed a capacity audience of Loyola law students and legal scholars in an attempt to persuade them that legislative history ought not be used as an authoritative indication of the meaning of a statute. Rather than attempting to guess what Congress probably had in mind when the majority passed the law, scholars and judges should interpret the actual words of the statute. Scalia, known for his controversial and conservative stance on legal issues, presented the lecture titled, "Use of Legislative History: Judicial Abdication to Fictitious Legislative Intent," as the 1993 Ninth Annual Ainsworth Memorial lecturer. He said he chose the topic because there was no admissioncharge and it would probably keep out the riffraff. "Nobody was going to come in out of the cold to listen to a talk on legislative intent," he said. Over 300 people filled the auditorium at the Any /usdce*—Seal la packs them In at the law school on March 12 ./Photo by Martin ft. Wells See Mooney, pg. 3 See Schwarz, pg. 3 See Scalla, pg. 2 See Lessard. pg. 3 | I : Vice-presidential hopefuls jjif wlDo are Final Four picks? Hi : Rock and ro"'n' on ,he r'ver I " BCt the'r Say See page 4 |j See page 5 fj|| See page 9 |f