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              The Maroon Vol. XXXIX Loyola University, New Orleans, Friday, May 10, 1963 No. 20 PHILOSOPHY REQUISITES CHANGED Wagar Wins Again Revisions in the philosophy curriculum at the university, which will be effective at the beginning of the fall semester of this year, were announced by the Rev. Edward A. Doyle, S.J., dean of the college of arts and sciences. The Rev. Henry R. Montecino, S.J., chairman of the department of philosophy at Loyola made his report on the revisions in his department at the college of arts and sciences faculty meeting Tuesday in Marquette auditorium. Students attempting an  B.M. degree will be required to take 16 hours, while pre-meds and pie-laws who are not taking a combined degree will be required to take 12. Pre-dent, pre-pharmacy, B.M. in Music Therapy, B.C.E. and Evening Division students will be required to take • NEW SETUP The new curriculum will consist of three courses which are prescribed, that is, must be taken by all students, and electives. Required courses will include 202— Metaphysics, 301—Philosophy of Human Nature and 302—Ethics. All other philosophy courses will be considered as electives. Students required to take nine hours of philosophy must take the three required courses, while those who must take more will be required to take these three, plus as many electives as is necessary to fulfill these requirements. Prescribed courses will be offered every semester. Metaphysics, for example, will be offered both during the fall and spring semester and every year, not just during one semester as is the case now. The reason for this change is to reduce the number of students in each section. No more than 35 persons will be allowed to register for any section of any course, prescribed or elective. Logic—Pl. 201: will no longer be a required course. It may be taken as an elective when offered. Metaphysics—Pl 202: will be a prescribed course for all students. The syllabus of this course will be arranged so as to include proof for the existence of God. This procedure is followed even by the most elementary textbooks in Metaphysics. This course will be a prerequisite for all other prescribed courses and for most of the electives. Natural Theology—Pl 203: will no longer be a prescribed course. It will be offered as an elective from time to time. • COMPULSORY Philosophy of Human Nature— PI 301: will be a prescribed course for all students and will be a prerequisite for Ethics, PI 302, and for some elective courses which by their nature would presuppose it. Ethics—Pl 302: as a prescribed course for all students will be a one semester course. The syllabus , of this course will include the main ethical principles and will apply these to contemporary ethical problems. The department intends to offer other courses in ethics as electives, e.g., Medical Ethics, Legal Ethics, etc. Special Ethics—Pl 303: is no longer required. The department intends to offer certain specific courses every semester in the history of modern philosophy and the history of contemporary philosophy. • ELECTIVES The department also intends to offer other electives every semester, but these will not always be the same. Electives which will be offered from time to time would be: the Philosophy of Law, Symbolic Logic, History of Ancient Philosophy, History of Medieval Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge, American Philosophy, Philosophy of History. Students who have had 12 or more hours by the end of the fall semester, but who have not yet had Ethics, will need only a course in Ethics to compete their requirements.Anyone who has already had a course which is not prescribed in the new system may count that course as an elective; e.g., Logic, Met. II or Special Ethics Any school or department may udd as many hours as desirable to the minimum requirment. FRANK WAGAR More Choice Reasons Why The number of philosophy courses required of most students, has been lessened in order to gain time and teachers to offer a wider variety of courses in the field, according to department head Father Henry Montecino Any department may require extra philosophy hours for students majoring in its subject, he brought Students Name Wagar Arts, Sciences President In what seemed to some an upset over popular Council-member Eric Timmreck Friday, political science junior Frank Wagar, was elected president of the college of arts and sciences—the largest faction on the Student Council. Due to a tie in the Monday-Tuesday runoff, a revote was scheduled for Thursday and Friday. During the interim between elections, both candidates began stepped-up campaigning to break the unexpected tie—a first in Loyola's political history. The fact that he won over better known Timmreck did not seem to surprise the dynamic new president. He thought he would win— for if he felt that he didn't have a chance he would not have run, he remarked candidly after the election. "It seems to be a trend among the voters at Loyola to do the unexpected. When I was a freshman, Emmet Pugh, a popular student on campus, was running for reelection as president of arts and sciences. He was defeated by the lesser known Ken Sills. Then came Cordaro, who then too was litle known. Now I guess it is my turn," he said. • WEST POINTER Wagar, who attended West Point a year prior to coming to Loyola, was a member of the Council in his freshman year and was elected vice-president of the freshman class. He is presently the president of Loyola's Southern Democrat Association, which in the past year has boosted its position among the organizations here and has become one of the most active on campus. He regarded running for presidency a challenge. Friends of his were skeptical. For instance, expresidents Ken Sills and J. B. Cordaro, both A&S seniors and friends of Wagar, seemed to think that he would not win. Said Wagar, "Sills thought Timmreck would win on basis of his good record. J. B. told me that is would be a good experiment in political science." Frank bases his victory on his platform, since the other people running for office—Gerry Rault and Timmreck, who were both on the Council this year—were better known. • INITIATION The platform advocated a laison committee among the different colleges of the city, the purpose of which would be a student information committee. It also proposed an extended initiation program for freshmen. The new A&S president feels that because of the unique structure of the Council, the Council president has the majority of power. He appoints all the committees and distributes all funds. Should the A&S council wish to make improvements on their own they would have no funds and no authorization without his consent. Since out of the 30-32 members MICHAEL ZELDEN JAMES DOYLE New Thirty Club Members... These five Loyola students are the newly inducted members of the Thirty club, honorary journalism society. They are from left to right Liz Brodrick, Bill Murphy, Sherry Gelpi, Ronald Virgets, and Julie Yokum. Missing from the picture is Frank Carrara. President of A&S Picked SC Head Frank Wagar, president of the college of arts and sciences, was elected president of the Student Council over Neil Heusel, BA president, on the fourth ballot Wednesday night. Also elected were: Neil Heusel, vice-president; Donna Mac Donald, A&S sophomore representative, recording secretary Elaine Engler, BA sophomore representative, corresponding secretary; John Coman, law school representative, treasurer, and Ed Carriere, A&S junior representative, parliamentarian. After three tie ballots in the election for president, the council suspended the constitution and allowed the two candidates to be called into the chamber to speak for themselves. Wagar was caifed in tirst because he was nominated first. In the next round of voting Wagar won 16 to 14. • PROMISES TO TRY "I will try," Wagar said, "to live up to the responsibility entrusted to me, and I know that Neil will assist me." Also nominated for vice-president were Ed Carriere and Joe D'Avignon. A&S junior representative. However, Heusel received a majority on the first ballot. Mary Jo Butler, representative of the college of music, was the only other nominee for recording secretary. She was also nominated for corresponding secetary along with aKthleen aVth, A&S sophomore representative. Parliamentarian nominees included Mickey McGregor, junior representative and Tom Satory, A&S sophomore representative. John Comas was accepted as treasurer by acclamation.• CALLED TO ORDER Before the first meeting of the new Council took place, this past year's council was called to order and the minutes of the votings in each college read. The meeting was immediately adjourned. Jack Dardis, past president of the Council, then called the new Council to order and introduction of members was made informally around the table. He explained the voting procedures and swore in the members, after which he enumerated their responsibilities. When Dardis left on a personal privilege and turned the meeting over to the newlyelected Wagar, he received the Council's applause. • PRESIDENT OF LSDA Frank Wagar is a political science junior. As president of the Loyola Student's Democratic Association (LSDA) he instituted and participates in courses on the history of Communism among ten high schools throughout the city. He has taken part in activities of the Debate society, the Industrial Relations institute, and the sociology department. He holds down an ouside job in addition to his campus activities and has been on the Dean's list throughout his Loyola career. Highlights of his platform include pledges to institute and extend curriculum and instructor evaluation programs; to establish and maintain honor programs which recognize outstanding students; to establish a liaison committee between the city's colleges; tutorial programs, on campus and off; and to improve the orientation program. WRC Awards Given To Ten Awards for exemplary girl from each dormitory were presented by Dean of Women Miss Rosalie Parrino at the Women's Residence Council awards dinner held recently in the cafeteria. Those who received awards were; from Quealy's dormitory; Jane Davis, dental hygiene sophomore; from Montz's Vicke Ferral, A&S freshman; from Cahill's Sharon Henry, dental hygiene freshman; from Martin's; Bobbie Montouri, A&S junior; from Carey's, Judy Smith, A&S sophomore; from Carmel's, Ellen Buchignani, A&S freshman; and from Immaculate, Joanne Dell'Osso, A&S freshman. The girls were voted on by members of the dorm and names were kept secret until presentation.Scholastic awards for a 4.0 average went to A&S freshman Carolyn Matherne of Immaculata and pharmacy freshman Margaret Laura of Cahill's. Miss Parrino presented a gold president's charm to A&S junior Nancy Guibault. The other awards were statuettes of the Blessed Virgin Mary with an engraved plaque on the base of the statue. Doyle and Zelden Cop Top Awards ROTC Awards Day James B. Doyle and Michael D. Zelden received top honors at the university's annual ROTC awards day celebration in the fieldhouse yesterday. Doyle who was executive officer of the band this year reaverage in ROTC over the past few years. The award will be presented to him by the Very Rev. Andrew C. Smith, S.J., president of Loyola, later this month at the annual university awards day. Zelden, Loyola's battle group commander this year, was presented the dean's award as the graduating senior with the highest average who has also best contributed to the unit's military events throughout the year. The t Edward A. Doyle, S.J., dean cutties, presented the award, e superior cadet ribbons pred to the student in each class has best displayed the qualities of a potential officer went to John H. Chavanne, senior; Thomas Gallagher, junior; Frederick Hosch, sophomore, and Michael Wittman, freshman. The ribbons were awarded by Fr. Smith, and Colonel J. M. Markley, infantry commander, Louisiana sector command XIX, U. S. Army Corps. The Professor of Military Science awards given to those cadets »at earlier drills displayed outling leadership and drill profiy went to Terry Rhodes, junand Ronald Cuevas, sophomore.The awards were presented by Lt. Colonel Henry Fee, professor of military science at Loyola. Other awards presented in the ceremony were: The Chicago-Tribune awards were presented by Dean Henry Engler of the college of business administration. The awards are given to the student in each class who in each semester distinguished himself in the fields of leadership and scholastics. Recipients for the first semester were Kenneth Aucoin, senior; Alvis Roberts Jr., junior; Ronald Gros, sophomore; and George Papale, freshman. Second semester recipients were John Dardis, senior; James Brown 111, junior; Leonard Ray, sophomore; and David Leßlanc, freshman. Second semester awards were presented by Councilman Henry B. Curtis, District A. The Reserve Officer's Association medal to the senior outstanding in scholarship and leadership presented to Paul Ayo Jr. by Lt. Colonel Robert Follette, USAR retired.The armor award presented to John Chavanne by Colonel Maikey.• AUSA The Association of the United States Army award presented to Roy J. D'Avingnon as the junior best displaying military proficiency. It was presented by Colonel Lansing Mitchell, USAR. The Amprioan Leeion medal presented j the lD; ship and leadership wein tC Charles Dittmer Jr. Tin Chester A. Peyroniiin, I SAI ictired.The Military Order of World Wars medal was presented to Eric Timmreck for the junior displaying military proficiency and interest in the university unit. It was presented by Julian Humphrey, USNR. The Forty and Eight medal was presented to Robert Perez by Joseph Sehiro. The Alumni Association Best Company award presented by Frank Charbonnet, association president, to company D. Accepting was Commander John Chavanne. The award is given to the company who throughout the year has compiled the best score in the weekly drill competitions. The Louisiana Society, Sons of American Revolution award was presented to James B. Elston by Richard Hallenus. The award is given for overall scholarship. The Association of U. S. Army award for excellence in military history was presented to Frederick Hosch by Colonel Mitchell.• ROTC BAND The ROTC band award was presented to Allison Zansler by George Douglas. The National ROTC Outstanding Bandsman award was presented to Raymond Waguespack (See CHOICE, page 3) (See ROTC, page 3) (See WAGAR, page 4) . . . Looking Inside • Loyola students are now realizing that final exams are right around the corner. To find out your exam and the regulations for taking it turn to . . . page 2 Birmingham, Alabama has been in the news for the past several weeks. Many opinions have been expressed about the actions of both groups involved . . . The Maroon is no exception . . . turn to . . . page 4 • Your vacation may just be starting but Joe Lo- Ibo's has ended. The great Infallible One who after a brief absence has returned. To see his latest classic turn to .. . page 5 • The scourge of Loyola basketball opponents, Ken Ryan, has been named the school's most valuable athlete by The Maroon sports staff. For this story and more sports turn to . . . page 6