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              LOYOLA MAROON Vol. XLIV Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Friday, January 19, 1968 No. 12 Tuition increased again for 1968-69 By ED ANDERSON Up $100 Tuititon at Loyola will be increased from $600 to $700 per semester in the 1968-69 academic year and to $750 in the 1969-70 academic year, announced the Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J., in a statement made to a December 20 special session of the Student Council. The Rev. Joseph Molloy, S.J., Vice- President of Student Affairs, read the statement to the Student Council in Father Jolley's absence. He quoted the statement by saying that the increase is necessary "because of the rising costs of operation" of the university. "The substantial improvements made in quality of faculty, curriculum, and facilities have contributed to these mounting costs." The new tuition rates will apply to all students in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business Administration, the College of Music, and the School of Law. However, all undergraduate students who have paid full tuition at Loyola for six semesters will pay $650 per semester instead of the full rate of $700 per semester. In his statement. Father Jolley pointed out that the university will do "everything within its financial capacity to see that all qualified students who wish to attend the university are able to do so." In quoting the president's statement Father Molloy said: "To assist students in need of financial aid, the program in scholarships, loans, student assistantships and other forms of financial assistance will be expanded," Explaining why the special session was called during exam week, Father Molloy said: "Father Jolley made a commitment to the Council last year when he pointed out another rise in tuition may be necessary. Hence, he felt it was a commitment to do so before Christmas. "He commissioned John Eckholdt, Vice-President for Business and Finace to make a study of the finances of the university from all sources—tuition, WWL radio, WWLTV, etc. However, he hoped to have this done before now." Dr. John F. Christman, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, and Eckholdt were also present at the meeting to answer questions concerning the tuition increase. College of Music representative Alex Tiliakos voiced concern over the tuition increase and, he said, the seemingly little benefit that the College of Music has recieved in return. This same concern was also voiced by Wayne Mancuso, representative from the School of Law, concerning the law school. Tiliakos said: "The students in the School of Music seem to see no benefit from the increase. We only had one new faculty member added to the staff in the music school and the only repairs we have received were those done from the damage of Hurricane Betsy. We have asked for more practice rooms; we have even had to cut down our tour because of lack of funds. All of these things are necessary."In response to questions concerning both the School of Law and the College of Music, Dr. Christman said: "The law school is closer to having new quarters than the music school. The new law school will be occupied in 1969-70. The music school will be housed in the Fine Arts Center which is included in the second phase of the Campaign for Excellence. This is scheduled to begin in Jan., 1969, and end by 1972. However, in the Science Complex there will be a lecture hall and auditorium for recitals by the School of Music." Dr. Christman continued: "There is a request for additional faculty members for the music school at the doctoral level. The law school has been substantially increased in the total number of faculty members. There may be perhaps two or three more faculty members in law school next year. Further increases in faculty are costing us more money The music school should get more assistance. However, this year and maybe next year we will be operating under a deficit." Eckholdt told Tiliakos that the maintenance department has been authorized to spend up to $3,000 to refurbish the basement of the music school for practice rooms before the end of the school year. Photo by Ed Curda ON THE RISE: The Rev. Joseph Molloy, S.J., Vice-President for Student Affairs, addresses the Student Council concerning the tuition increase in the coming academic year. Tom Wright, council president, presides over the meeting. Francis C. Doyle, John Mecom, Jr., new Loyola regents Francis C. Doyle, executive vicepresident of the National Bank of Commerce in New Orleans, and John Mecom, Jr., president of the New Orleans Saints, were recently elected to the Board of Regents of Loyola University. The Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J., announced that the new members of the Board of Regents were elected at the board's regular bi-monthly meeting Thursday, Jan. 11, in Danna Center. A graduate of the Loyola University School of Law, Doyle is the former president of the Estate Planning Council of New Orleans, the United Fund, and the Crippled Children's Hospital. He also served as Three LU departments reorganized By LOUIS LASSUS Classics, English now one The Departments of Classical Studies, English, and Modern Foreign Languages will be reorganized to create the Department of Languages and Linguistics, and the Department of Literature, Dr. John F. Christman, Vice-President of Academic Affairs, announced last week. Dr. Christman said the department reorganization, effective with the opening of the 1968-69 academic year, will allow more "flexibility in meeting students needs and interests." The new departments will broaden curriculums, and focus studies more directly on individual student careers, he said. Literature of all languages will be grouped into one department and all studies of language and linguistics into the other, said Dr. Christman. There will no longer be English, Classical Studies, and Modern Foreign Language departments. Both new departments will be in the College of Arts and Sciences. Students will have the opportunity to take literature courses in any one of several languages and the number of literature and language courses will be increased, he said. The Department of Languages and Linguistics will provide instruction from basic through advanced courses in French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. The purpose of the basic courses in these languages will be to assure that students gain a proficient reading ability in their chosen language, said Dr. Christman. A student taking Spanish as his language requirement, for example, need not even know how to say "good morning" in Spanish, as long as he can read it proficiently, said Dr. Christman. Under the present Department of Modern Foreign Languages, students must learn to speak and read a foreign language. Speaking proficiency and reading proficiency have been separated because a competent reading knowledge of a foreign language is all that is necessary for many careers, said Dr. Christman. The courses will also provide students with the groundwork for a speaking and writing knowledge of a language if they decide to continue their study. Courses in general linguistics, advanced grammar, and a course in the history and development of modern Europeon languages will be offered. Courses in descriptive, comparative, and structural linguistics will also be offered. The Department of languages and Linguistics will grant a B.A. degree in each modern language, including English. The degree would be called, for example, Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Linguistics, explained Dr. Christman. Although the linguistics portion of the foreign language requirement will be dropped, another stipulation will be added, said Dr. Christman. A comprehensive language examination will be administered to all language students no later than the first semestersemester of their junior year. Non-credit courses in English, composition and in basic foreign languages will be offered for those students who fail the examination. Loyola will require only that a student have a competent reading ability in a foreign language, said Dr. Christman. If a student can pass the exam without taking any courses at Loyola, he will already have the language requirements for a degree, he said. The Department of Literature will provide a four-course introduction to literature required of all freshmen and sophomores. The introduction will give students a background in literature and training in English composition.The department will offer a full program of advanced courses in general literary study. Specific courses in English, American, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian and the Classics will be offered. The department will offer a B.A. degree in each of the areas of literature listed. The degree will be called, for example, a Bachelor of Arts in Italian Literature. The language and literature courses of the Classics will remain in the Department of Literature, said Dr. Christman, since the linguistic aspect of these languages is nonexistent. These changes in the language departments do not necessarily effect present Loyola students, said Dr. Christman. Current students will be allowed to follow the same curriculum they now follow. They may, however, follow the new language curriculum during the fall semester. Incoming freshmen in the fall semester will be required to follow the new curriculum, said Dr. Christman. Noted newspaper reporter scheduled to lecture students William J. Woestendiek, managing editor of IBM's Think magazine, will address the student body in the A la Carte room on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 8 p.m. as a guest of the Department of Journalism and the Thirty Club. His speech will be "Do Communications Turn You On?" He will also conduct seminars in corporate and newspaper journalism for journalism students on the following day. Woestendiek, a native of Newark, N.J., received a B.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina, and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. He began his career as a reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal in 1948. He later advanced to the positions of copy editor, city editor and Sunday editor of the Journal. Woestendiek served in the armed forces for a period of 18 months during the Korean Conflict. He was awarded the North Carolina Free Press Association's feature prize while with the Journal for articles written in Korea during the conflict. In 1954 Woestendiek won a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard UniversityHe then became editorial director and assistant to the publisher of Long Island's Newsday. While working there he added to his list of accomplishments by organizing the Newsday Washington Bureau, and got Aldous Huxley to write a special 32-page supplement called "Tyranny of the Mind" later published as a book, "Brave New World Revisted." Woestendiek got an exclusive answer from President Kennedy to the question "What can you do for your country?" While working for Newsday, he also wrote a series of articles following a month's trip to the Soviet Union. For this series he won the national Sigma Delta Chi foreign correspondence award in 1962. Woestendiek's talents also found their way into national politics when he directed on-the-scene coverage of the national nomination conventions, traveling with Stevenson, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Kennedy on their campaigns. Woestendiek can boast of "having WILLIAM WOESTENDIEK Solid journalism philosophy Revisions in academic calendar provide quiet day, longer vacation Loyola's academic calendar for the spring semester will have a few additions this year, according to the Vice- President for Academic Affairs, Dr. John F. Christman. A quiet day, May 6, was created so students could have a chance to prepare for their final exams which begin on May 7, Dr. Christman said. "There will be no exams, no review classes, no ad hoc classes, nothing, on quiet day," he said. "This will give the students and teachers an opportunity to get out of the class routine and get into the right fram of mind to take or give exams," he explained. The Baccalaurete Mass and the commencement exercises have been scheduled for the same day so that parents of out-of-town students could more easily attend both. Dr. Christman said. The Mass and graduation, which had been set for May 13 and 14 respectively, were rescheduled for May 15. "When we added on the extra day Group finishes its first phase of rights study The President's Committee on Student Rights and Freedoms has completed the first phase of its work and is now preparing for open hearings which will eventually result in a definitve statement on student rights for Loyola University. The committee presented its first report to the Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J., on Dec. 28, 1967. The report consisted mainly in amendments and commentary on the "Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students," which was drawn up this past summer by the United States National Student Association, the American Association of University Professors and eight other academic organizations. The Loyola committee made few changes in the original statement and made only three additions. Henry Engler, chairman of the committee, said the purpose of the first phase of the committee's work was to present a statement which would serve as a "suitable springboard" for the writing of a document for Loyola itself. Engler also said that Father Jolley wanted the committee to give him an idea of the "sense of how Loyola felt" on such a statement to which Father Jolley could refer during a meeting of the presidents of the Jesuit universities and colleges. This meeting, just completed, was held in Minneapolis, Minn. Engler reported that the committee is planning a meeting on Jan. 29 to establish the procedures by which the open meetings are to be handled. He said that during these open meetings all students, faculty members and administrators of the university will be invited to attend and, he said, there is a good chance that anyone in these groups will be allowed to speak. "The essential problem is one of language." Engler said, while explaining that he felt the Loyola statement would probably be little different from the first committee report. Dr. John Christman, Vice-President for Academic Affairs and a member of the committee, said the Loyola statement may not be any more restrictive than the first statement, but that the final committee document could be less restrictive. The main thrust of the document is the protection of students from arbitrary actions on the part of teachers and administrators. The document says that students should not be graded according to personal beliefs, that they can join the organizations they want, that student editors should not be restricted as to editorial policy, that students be allowed to express themselves openly on campus and that students not be disciplined except through formal and fair procedures. "Freedom to teach and freedom to learn," the statement says, "are inseparable facets of academic freedom. The freedom to learn depends upon appropriate opportunities and conditions in the classroom, on the campus, and in the larger community." The document places much emphasis on the rights of the student to choose—his associates, his views and his demeanor outside of the university. The three major additions the committee made to the original statement are: 1) That the university should make as a policy of recognizing officially a student organization that the organization must be open to all students without regard to race, national origin or creed, except for religious qualifications in strictly sectarian organizations. 2) That the student press has the right to obtain any and all "nonprivileged information in the academic community." 3) That a hearing of a disciplinary committee can be closed at the request of either the hearing committee or of the defendant. Engler said that the committee's powers rest mainly in giving its final document to the president. He said it would not be official university policy until Father Jolley approves it or until whomever he appoints to approve it does so. The membership of the committee, Engler said, may also be increased from nine to 12 members. Currently, the committee is made up of three persons representing students, faculty and administration. Copies of the amended statement are available for any member of the university community in the library. 500 student extras needed to volunteer for Visual Arts film The Department of Visual Arts is looking for student extras for a scene in a movie the department is producing.Anthony Jones, director of the project, said that the department was going to film a scene in the main quadrangle next week and that 500 students were needed. He said the exact time of the filming would he announced on the bulletin boards. (continued on page 3) (continued on page 4) (continued on page 3)