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              The Maroon ESTABLISHED 1923 V0L.76 NO. 17 Loyola University New Orleans FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1998 SGA allocates $63,000 to organizations By ELIZABETH STUART Editorial Editor Student organizations received more than $63,000 in allocations at the Student Government Association meeting Tuesday. Of the 62 organizations that asked for money, SGA gave money to 59 for spring programs. The Black Student Union, Loyola University Officials Club and the Maritime Law Association received no money. BSU asked for almost $5,000. and $2,500 of it was denied because of a request violation concerning speaker honoraria and a letter of intent from the speaker. The rest of the money was cut during the second round of cuts. The Loyola University Qflkiah-Club asked for $720. The SGA Ways and Means Committee cut it all because the organization did not provide complete information about its events in the submitted budget packet. The Maritime Law Association requested about $1,500. Ways and Means HEY, MISTER Staff photo by SARAH BARNETT Little Nick bathes in the light of queen's float as he tries to entice the court to give him some goodies. The Krewe of Pegasus paraded through Uptown Tuesday night. Student arrested for battery of a Loyola police officer By MICHAEL GIUSTI News Editor Public Safety corporal Lyle Hunter was surprised when he responded to a disturbance call. He was attacked by a Loyola student, said Roger Pinac. Public Safety investigator. The student was arrested and booked in central lockup. The alleged attack was at 4:30 a.m. Feb 12. Pinac said since it is so rare for Public Safety to arrest Loyola students, he is not sure what the procedure will be for pressing charges. "Someone called in who heard a lot of loud noise and said it may be a fight," Pinac said. He said Hunter approached a group of students who were standing behind Biever Hall and that one of the students turned on the officer. "The student became hostile for unknown reasons. The officer merely approached them, asked what was going on and he was basically attacked. ... We don't know why the attack occurred," said Pinac. Hunter was not seriously harmed. "Through the restraint and the '• The student became hostile for unknown reasons. The officer merely approached them, asked what was going on, and he was basically attacked. — Roger Pinac professionalism of the officer, the other party (the student) was not injured either," Pinac said. Hunter said he was not allowed to comment because only the director of Public Safety or Pinac is allowed to release information to the press. Pinac said he was not allowed by the director of Public Safety, Patrick Bailey, to release the arrest report. The arrest report is a public document. According to the Louisiana criminal code, in the case of a battery of a police officer in which the officer does not need medical attention, the maximum fine is $500 and the sentence is between 15 days and six months in jail. Garage closed for Mardi Gras By NEAL FALGOUST Editor in Chief Two recent e-mail messages have alerted the Loyola community to repeated parking violations in the West Road Garage. The messages, circulated early this week, outlined parking restrictions for the Mardi Gras holiday and warned users of the West Road Garage not to park in spaces reserved for handicapped drivers. According to one message sent by the parking services office, Loyola has experienced a problem with Mardi Gras revelers sleeping in their cars over the holiday. As a result, the message said, criminal activity usually increases during the holiday. "They try to come in, park their vehicle and that's their little home base. They'll eat, sleep, live out of it," said Roger Pinac, Public Safety investigator. To counter these activities, Loyola will close the upper levels of the garage beginning today at 6 p.m. through 5 a.m. Wednesday Anyone parked in the garage after 6 p.m. today will have to contact Public Safety so they can be allowed to exit. In a separate message sent via email, the Division of Student Affairs warned users of the West Road garage to abide by all handicapped parking regulations. According to the message, those who park in handicapped parking spaces without proper identification face a 575 fine if caught by Loyola police. But since the State of Louisiana oversees enforcement of handicapped parking regulations, even on Loyola's campus, anyone ticketed by the state faces a S3OO fine. A&S dean candidates begin campus visits By MICHAEL GIUSTI News Editor Nicholas Capaldi shamelessly proposed ideas on how to improve Loyola's College of Arts and Sciences. Capaldi, a candidate for the arts and sciences dean position, met with faculty and students Monday and Tuesday. "One thing a university can do is to bring shame on schools that produce students like that (below average). ... You should shame people into doing the right thing. If you don't want to be on the shame list, you better do the right thing," Capaldi told the student advisory committee. Capaldi is one of six finalists being considered for the position. He is chairman of the philosophy department at the University of Tulsa. Finni Murray, biology chairman at Ohio University; David Sachsman, who holds the West Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Judith Schafer. associate director of the Murphy Institute ol Political Economy at Tulane University; and Frank Scully, interim dean of the College of Sciences at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., round out the field Search for Campus Ministry dean begins. See Page 4. Nicholas Capaldi is the first of six candidates for the position of dean of arts and sciences to visit Loyola. Staff photo by CHARLES COSTELLO See SGA. Pg. 3 See DEAN. Pg -i m stM NEWS f *■ Donnelley Center T celebrates birthday. I Page 3 "For a Greater Loyola." ♦♦♦ MARDIGRAS ISSUE ♦♦♦ life & jmmES