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              LOYOLA MAROON Vol. XLIV Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Friday, March 15, 1968 No. 19 Thirty-six students given high honors i Blue, Cardinal Key Twelve Loyola coeds were named this week to membership in the Cardinal Key National Honor Sorority, announced Lynn M. Fitzpatrick, president of the organization. The formal initiation of the girls will be held March 21 at 7 p.m. in rooms 2D and E of the Danna Center.Membership in Cardinal Key is considered to be the highest honor a Loyola coed can receive. The 12 new members are: Marie Antoinette Armbruster, Mary Ann Batinich, Mary Beth Favaloro, Jane Mary Gisevius, Mary Leonie Henderson, Elsie Anne Higgins, Mary Elizabeth Nolan, Patricia Eileen Peltier, Jane Therese Ryan, Shirley Hope Sewell, Mary Catherine Springstead and Martha Louise Vietter. Membership in Cardinal Key is based on scholarship, leadership, service and character. The sorority was founded on the Loyola campus in 1952. Miss Armbruster is a senior in music school and was recently named to "Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities." She is also president of Phi Beta music sorority and is on the dean's list. Mary Ann Batinich is a business administration junior, treasurer of Theta Phi Alpha social sorority, and a member of Lambda Sigma Lambda service sorority and the Student Union.Miss Favaloro is a junior in education, newly-elected president of Tri Sigma and a member of Lambda Sigma Lambda and the Women's Panhellinic Council. A senior in law. Miss Gisevius is also secretary of the St. Thomas More Law Club, and a member of the Law Review and the Student Bar Association.Miss Henderson, a junior in medical technology, is vice-president of the Alpha Delta Theta medical technology society, a member of the medical technology honor society and treasurer of the Women's Residence Council. Miss Higgins is a junior in elementary education, secretary of Theta Phi Alpha social sorority, a member of the Kappa Delta Phi honorary education club, the Wolfettes and was on the freshman sweetheart court. Miss Nolan, visual arts sophomore, is vice-president of Phi Phi Phi and is on the dean's list. Miss Peltier, a business administration senior, is corresponding secretary of Kappa Beta Gamma and president of the National Collegiate Association of Secretaries. Miss Ryan is a sophomore in German, a member of Tri Sigma, president of the Russian Club, and a member of the Women's Residence Council.Miss Sewell is an elementary education junior and is treasurer of the Education club, and a member of Phi Phi Phi. Miss Springstead is a senior dental hygiene student, vice-president of Theta Phi Alpha, a former student council representative and has won the exemplary award in dental hygiene.Miss Vitter is a senior in secondary education, a member of Theta Phi Alpha, and Kappa Delta Phi, as well as the Student Union. Twenty-four male students have been elected to membership in Blue Key National Honor Fraternity. The formal tapping ceremonies will be held Sunday night, March 17, at 7 p.m. in the A la Carte dining room of Danna Center. Membership in Blue Key is based upon excellence in leadership, scholarship and service to the university. New members announced this week by Louis Meyer, president, are: Rich- Pictures of the students to be inducted into Blue Key can be found on page 4. ard Kelly Akin, Bernard James Arghiere, Bernard John Bagert, Charles Bradley Bice, Allen Joseph Borne, Charles M. Brent, Robert J. Burns, Fletcher Cochran, Michael George Crow, James R. Dumas, Robert Louis Dupont, John Ferrel Guillory, Patrick Hymel, Ronald Joseph Jung, Michael A. McConnell, Richard Ness, George Malcolm Papale, Michael Owings Read, Kenneth Lowry Sanders, Alexander John Tiliakos, John Elliot Unsworth Jr., Paul Joseph Walters, Henry George White and Stephen F. X. Zieman.Membership in Blue Key is generally considered at Loyola to be one of the highest honors a male student can receive. Richard Kelly Atkin, a dental senior, is president of the Junior American Dental Society and treasurer of Delta Sigma Delta dental fraternity. He is aJso a member of Alpha Delta Gamma social fraternity. Bernard James Arghiere, BA junior, is president of BA, a member of Alpha Sigma Nu honorary fraternity, Beggars social fraternity and is listed in "Who's Who." Bernard John Bagert. law senior, is a member of the Student Council, St. Thomas More Law Club and staff member of the Legal Rag. He is presently president of Law School and is a member of Sigma Alpha Kappa social fraternity. Charles Bradley Bice, senior law student, is editor of the Law Review, a member of the Student-Faculty Relations Committee and is listed in 'Who's Who." Law senior Allen Joseph Borne is a member of the Student Council and St. Thomas More Law Club. He also helped organize Loyola's wrestling club. Charles M. Brent, music sophomore, is assistant stage band director and arranger and also composed the music played at the Jazz Festival in Mobile which Loyola won. Brent has also played with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra. Robert J. Burns, law junior, received the Dean's award for the athlete with the highest average in 1966, and was a member of the baseball team and captain for two years. He is CARDINAL KEY: (sitting) Jane Ryan, Toni Armbruster, Mary Ann Batinich, Tootie Vitter, Mary Nolan, Hope Sewell. (standing) Mary Photo by Ed Curda Beth Favaloro, Mary Henderson, Anne Higgins, Kathy Springstead, Jane Gisevius, and Pat Peltier. Students protest decision for SC leaders By ED CURDA Elections Committee denies petition The Student Council Elections Committee upheld Tuesday its decision made last week that no primary election was possible for the positions of council president and vice-president, and that the sole candidates for each office should be declared the winner. Acting in a judicial capacity, the committee announced its ruling after an official protest had been lodged over the March 5 decision. The six students who protested objected to the committee's action declaring Tom White and Mike McConnell, A&S juniors, the winners of the council presidency and vice-presidency on the grounds that it "violated precedence, the Statutes of Procedure and the Constitution of the Student Council," and that it denied "the student to cast his vote for those officials, either by voting for candidates officially on the ballot or by writing in a candidate of his choice." Five of the six signers of the protest, Dave Denny, Steve Martinez, Glenn Nackoney, Ron Petitjean and Tom Struve met with the Elections Committee Saturday afternoon to presentpresent their arguments against the committee's decision and to allow the committee an opportunity to explain its action. The five students brought with them a petition with 259 student signatures to show support for their cause. However, the petition was not officially submitted to the committee because a time limit of 72 hours had lapsed at 5 p.m. Friday. The students' protest centered around two main arguments: 1. The Student Council Constitution provides that the "election of the president and vice-president (of the Student Council) . . . will be by a vote of the entire university." 2. Write-in ballots were acceptable in previous elections. Furthermore, the Statutes of Procedure implicitly allows for write-in ballots in primary elections: "If a student be nominated for an office during the primary election, though his name not be on the ballot. . ." Mary Fiser, committee chairman, explained to the protesting students that the decision stemmed from the unprecedented situation of only one person filing for the offices of president and vice-president. "The Council Constiution, the Statutes of Precedure and Roberts' Rules of Order had no provision for the situation," she said, "and at first, we (the committee) didn't know what to do. If we were to go ahead and hold an election, it would technically be neither a primary nor a run-off. And none of us liked the idea of putting out a ballot with only one name on it." "Furthermore, we were under no pressure whatever to rule one way or another," she said. "No one even tried to file late during the ten days between the close of filing and March 5 when we reported our decision to the council. There was no protest or opposition of any kind until after our decision was announced." Miss Fiser said that one reason for the decision was that "the Elections Committee may supplement this code with the approval of the President of the Student Body in order to facilitate the performance of the elections listed in this code." "In view of these two bases, the lack of student interest in filing, the needlessness of a primary and the provision in the constitution that two candidates are required for a run-off election," Miss Fiser said, "the committee ruled to declare White and McConnell the winners of their respective offices. This was the decision we reported to the council March 5." Council President Tom Wright interjected that the committee's March 5 decision was in the capacity of a legislative body supplementing the election code, and could have been overruled. "However," Wright added, "since the council did not formally approve or disapprove the committee's decision, it was thereby legally approved by acquiescence." Petijean challenged the decision, pointing to what he termed an inconsistency in the elections code. "The code states that the 'election of the President and Vice-President will be by a vote of the entire university,," he said, "whereas for the school and college presidents and representatives, it states that they shall be selected.' I interpret "select' as opening the possibility of declaring a lone candidate the winner, but a 'vote of the entire university' indicates a ballot election." Denny added that there is quite a difference between "selection by schools and a vote of the entire university. The difference lies not only in semantics but in constituency as well," he said, "and I don't think the precedent stated holds." Committee member Mike Morgan commented that Petijean's interpretation of "election" seemed too narrow."An election is more than just marking an 'X' on a ballot," he said. "It is an entire process which includes filing." After two hours of discussion, the Elections Committee moved into closed session for deliberation. At 1 p.m. Tuesday, after a total of 20 hours of debate and consideration, Miss Fiser announced that since "the purpose of a primary election is to narrow the choices of candidates for each position to two, . . . since it is impossible to further narrow a field of one candidate, and since two candidates are required for a run-off election, there could be no vote of the entire University." The committee, based upon the authority of the Statutes of Procedure which allow for supplementation of the code, decided that the sole candidates for each office should become the winner. "We have shown that there was no other course of action for the committee to take but to declare that there was no legal grounds on which to hold a primary or a runoff election," she said. Symposium opens Latin America Week; lectures, style show, exhibits included By SHERYL BUTLER A symposium Monday, entitled "Continent In Transition: The Role of the United States in Latin America," will formally open "Focus: Latin America," a three day program presented by the Student Union in conjunction with the 250 th Anniversary of New Orleans. Participants in the symposium, which will be held at 8:00 p.m. in the A la Carte will be Miguel Aranguren, deputy director of Public Information and Affairs for the Pan American Union; Thomas Mcßride, deputy director of the Peace Corps' Latin American programs; and Richard W. Richardson, Associate U.S. Coordinator for the Alliance for Progress. Charles Pahl, associate professor of history at Loyola, will serve as moderator.The symposium will highlight dis- JOHN GERASSI Ramparts editor to speak Student Council filings for representatives yield one contested race for president of a college Filings for Student Council representatives on March 11 and 12 yielded only one contested race for president of a college. Billy Guste and William Peacock filed for the position of president from the College of Arts and Sciences.Bernie Arghiere was the only candidate for president from the College of Business Administration, Stephen Zieman from the dental school; Paul J. Carmouche from the law school, and Edward Mclnnis from the music school. Filings for Student Council representatives were also held. From the College of Arts and Sciences, candidates for junior representatives include: Nancy Bamette, Ed Lahey, Ronald Legendre, Joe Looney, Charlie Magarahan, Beth Miller, Ronald Nabonne, Connie Regan, Mark Silverio, and Larry Zani. Filing for sophomore representatives were: Kathie Andressen, Ann Donnelly, Craig Forshag, Bob Marshall, Liz Palermo, and Raymond Poret. From the College of Business Administration those filing for junior representatives were: Thomas Anzelmo, Kerry Leftwich, Steve Rapp, and Daniel Sheehan. For sophomore representatives those filing were: Edgar L. Chase 111, John Demarest, Michael Harmon, Clint Kuzmich, Neil Mc- Carthy, D r a c os Morvant, Warren Mouledoux, Vince O'Hara, and Ernie Perry. Filing for junior representative from the dental school were: Joseph D. Barrios, Claude S. Pratte, and Clay Charbonnet. Sharmon McCarthy and Janet Smart filed for dental hygiene representative.Representatives filing from the law school include Theodore J. Adams, Gary Aspiazu, Ariel Campos, Elliot Courtright, and Frank Saia. From the music school, Linda Johnson and Carol Verges filed for sophomore representatives. The first primaries for the elections will be held March 25 and 26, with the final elections following on April 1 and 2. Ballot boxes for the elections will be placed in the respective schools. (continued on page 4) (continued on page 4)