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              LOYOLA MAROON VOL. XLV Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Friday, November 22, 1968 No. 10 Record crowd attends events Homecoming week activities came to a close Saturday night as over 1500 people attended student and alumni balls in the Danna Center. Approximately 1200 persons crowded into the Contract Dining Room and downstairs lounge for the student Homecoming Dance. John Kelly, Homecoming chairman for the Student Council, pronounced it a record crowd for any student dance ever held at Loyola. The dance was co-sponsored by the Student Union and the Student Council. LA. Timmreek, alumni director, reported more than 300 at the alumni ball in the A la Carte dining room and snack bar areas. The campus court was presented at each ball and will also be presented at the one remaining Homecoming activity, the basketball game with Spring Hill on December 7. Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority and Beggars fraternity won the Homecoming display competition with their theme, "Curse you. Red Badgers." Trophies were presented to the Greek representatives at half-time activities of the Loyola-Spring Hill football game Nov. 16. The campus queen, Terry Tracy, was also crowned at the game that Loyola lost 20-19. Other displays erected by the Greeks for Homecoming were by Theta Phi Alpha sorority and Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity ("Brand the Badgers"), Phi Phi Phi sorority and Phi Kappa Theta fraternity ("Bag the Badgers"), Kappa Beta Gamma sorority and Sigma Alpha Kappa fraternity (an abstract presentation of football), and Upsilon Beta Lambda fraternity and the freshmen girls ("Paddle the Badgers: Send Them Down the River"). Timmreek was pleased with this year's Homecoming turnout. "The numbers were there," he said, "and the spirit was there. There were no unhappy events." Timmreek said he felt the crowds were good this year. He quoted figures of 365 at the alumni cocktail party, 140 at the luncheon Nov. 14 at the Royal Orleans, 80 at the panel discussion preceding the alumni cocktail party Sunday, Nov. 10, 85 at the 25-year social honoring 1943 graduates preceding the alumni ball, and 3200 at the football game. "The feeling was good among alumni, faculty and students," Timmreek said. "I would definitely call this Homecoming a success." UP WE GO-Bernie Arghiere strains under the weight of the "Red Badger" as Beggars fraternity moves its display into the sun after a rainy night of decorating. Beggars and Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority won homecoming display competition with the "Curse You, Red Badger" display. Powell asks students' help to save country ,vDm%'ssn/nX*n«Dsi3'\«n&i!JU& "What am I gonna do if I'm not reseated in the House? Raise hell!", Adam Clayton Powell, recently reelected to the House of Representatives, said last week. Powell, stripped of his seniority by the House in 1967 for alleged misuse of public funds, spoke to an estimated 2,000 people at Tulane's McAlister Auditorium. With a gold "cross of Ethiopia" dangling from his black turtle neck suit, Powell appeared in New Orleans rapping the "nitty gritty" of Black Power and preaching the gospel of salvation of the republic. Gesticulating madly with fiery Elmer Gantry flambouyancy, Powell called upon university students to unite with black militants and the poor to become part of a national movement to "keep America from going down the drain." Powell urged the students to understand what was happening among blacks on college campuses—why the black unity and Afro "au natural" hair styles. "We're tired of our mothers coming home beaten from being overworked and underpaid to rat-infested houses. . .tired of fathers and brothers being unable to get jobs, lacking skills for this automated society," Powell screamed passionately into the microphone. Powell said that Black Power means "we are not anti-white, but pro-Black." "It means," he said in a rising crescendo, "we are as proud of being Black as a Jew is of being a Jew, as a Pole ofEeing a Pole, as an Italian is of being Italian. It means Black is beautiful!" "It means," he said, "blacks are going to be defenders, not aggressors. But we're not gonna let 'em kick our people around anymore. There's not a white person around who will let his brother, mother or sister be kicked around. In the great American tradition we're gonna walk with dignity with our heads high. . .full equality now!" Powell called on his audience to "stand together, black and white, and let the corrupt Congressmen and business firms getting kick ack from government sources know that this is God's world and that they don't run it anymore." Powell said that the state of the nation now is bleak. He quoted Steward Alsop, national columnist, saying that America is becoming a second class power fighting a useless war in Vietnam. He also said the United States is losing the ability to lead other nations which see America not practicing at home what it preaches abroad. "I'm a religious man," said Powell "and I believe that one day this is going to be the kind of world it should be—and I hope all you here not only live to see it but live to make it." In a question and answer period Powell said he thought "law and order" was just another way of saying racism. "Law and order is who killed Medgar Evers, and those two white civil rights workers and my soul brother Chaney down in Lowndes County, Mississippi," he said. "Law and order is who killed Bobby Kennedy, who killed Martin King!" "Law and order is a gang right here in New Orleans controlling the numbers, the Mafia living in pent-houses in Miami Beach and smuggling dope into Harlem and the ghettoes feeding it to my people to keep them slaves!" Powell ranted. Powell was not accorded the usual reception and proper treatment normally given a speaker, according to Robert Logan, student chairman of the Tulane Lyceum Committee which sponsored the speech, because there had been so many threats on his life. Logan said he had received menacing phone calls and signed letters threatening to withdraw funds from Tulane if Powell appeared on Tulane's campus. During his speech, Powell also inveighed against Congress claiming that the reason he was stripped of seat and seniority was because he was only seventh in seniority in Congress with only a few "octogenarians" ahead of him for position as Speaker of the House. 'And they (whites) saw that mv people in Harlem would keep sending me back and keep sending me back until I became speaker, which would mean I would be third in line for Presidential succession. . .and those white men said 'Oh no-o-o-o-o! Not that! That cat's gonna get into the White House and paint it black and make Rap Brown secretary for defense. . ." M:iruiiii photo by Bill Hunlt'i PREACHING THE GOSPEL - Adam Clayton Powell, congressman from Harlem, calls upon students to stand together with blacks to "keep America from going down the drain." Powell spoke in Tulane's McAlister Auditorium. i Stevens says drinking 'on a vast increase' The Student Affairs Policy Advisory Committee (SAPAC) this week once again undertook consideration of problems arising from the consumption of alcoholic beverages on-campus. Capt. E.M. Stevens, director of Loyola security, told the committee that excessive drinking and problems resulting from drinking had been "on a vast increase" in the last two weeks. He said that though Homecoming weekend might be considered exceptional, Loyola guards had reported that the weekend before (Nov. 8-10) there had also been exceptionally excessive drinking. Stevens said that weekend there had been five men—not all Loyola students—who had been breaking wine bottles in the road near the rear physics building and two who were later "pouring wine on one another and spilling food" in the Contract Dining Room. After the Homecoming dances, he said, "it was a disgrace." "People vomited in the bathrooms and the upper corridors in Danna Center and one young lady even walked through a plate-glass window." Even on a normal weekend, he said, "the back of Biever Hall on a Monday morning looks like the back of a tavern." The Rev. J. Joseph Molloy, S.J., vice-president for student affairs, said that some 15 to 20 wine bottles had been smashed behind Biever Hall the weekend of Nov. 8. Stevens said he was primarily concerned with students drinking excessively and "then trying to tear down half the campus." "I need something to tell my guards," he said, "so they will know how far to go. If the student gets obnoxious, what do we do? Jail them? Or go back to our office?" SAP AC, which last month rejected a plan to propose an entirely new policy on the consumption of alcoholic beverages, then appointed a subcommittee to draw up a list of suggestions concerning action the security guards should take against anyone drinking excessively. SAP AC rejected the proposal for a new policy last month because the committee members felt the university already had rules governing drinking on campus. In other business, SAPAC decided to recommend to the university that the words "reasonable time" be dropped from the university's policy on disruptive demonstrations. The demonstrations policy, originally developed by SAPAC last September, lists the steps to be taken if any protest becomes disruptive. The statement says that "if a disruptive demonstration or sit-in occurs on campus, the individuals or groups participating will be given a reasonable time to disperse." SAPAC recommended that if a ' disruptive demonstration occurs, "the individuals or groups participating will be directed to disperse by the Vice-President for Student Affairs or his designate." Fincher named to regents post Murray C. Fincher, New Orleans businessman and civic leader, has been elected chairman of the Loyola Board of Regents, announced Donald K. Ross, vice-president for public relations and development, recently. In other action by the Board of Regents, Judge Preston L. Savoy was elected vice-chariman of the 37-member board. Miss Margaret E. Lauer will continue to serve as secretary of the board. Fincher, a native of Eclectic, Ala. succeeds Louis H. Pilie as board chairman. However, Pilie will be retained to fill the newly created position of honorary chairman. Fincher is vice-president of South Central Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. A graduate of Birmingham Southern College, he joined South Central Bell in Atlanta in 1939. He came to Louisiana in 1957 and was named to his present position with South Central Bell in 1963. In 1965, he became a member of the Board of Regents. He is also currently presidenct ol the Chamber of Commerce of the Greater New Orleans area and actively participates in a number of business, professional and civic groups and projects in the area. Fincher, the first regent from out-of-town to be a board officer, is a trustee and member of the executive committee of the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana and is also a trustee of the Gulf South Research Institute (GSRI). He is a director of the International City Bank (ICB) and of the Methodist Hospital. He was chairman of the New Orleans "Committee of 50," and is a member and director of the executive committee of the Council for a Better Louisiana. Judge Savoy, a graduate of the Loyola School of Law, was named to the board in April, 1967. A native of Gueydan, La., Judge Savoy was elected to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1960. Prior to that, he had served as 14th United States District Judge for 12 years and as assistant district attorney for the 14th district for seven years. Judge Savoy is also active in Lake Charles civic affairs, having served on the board of directors of both the Lake Charles Kiwanis Club and the Lake Charles YMCA. Pilie was first chairman of the Loyola Board of Regents in 1965 when the group was founded. He served as vice-chairman in 1966-67 and was elected chairman of the board last year. Pilie, a New Orleans native, is a past president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, president of the Structural Systems Corporation, and a former member of the Loyola faculty. Ross said Pilie was chosen as the first honorary chairman of the Board of Regents because "his experience will add leadership to the board." He also said that Pilie would serve as honorary chairman "for a minimum period of one year." Ross said that at the January 9 meeting of the Board of Regents, "an indefinite number of new members will be elected." He said that a slate of nine candidates was nominated at last week*s meeting of the board, and from these nominees the "indefinite number" of regents will be selected. The Board of Regents is the university's highest ranking advisory body. Members of the board include business, professional and academic leaders of the New Orleans area. MURRAY FINCHER Elected chairman of Regents Badgers master Wolfpack, 20-19 By DAVID LAGARDE (Maroon Sports Editor) The Spring Hill Badgers continued their mastery over Loyola's Football Club last Saturday afternoon by taking a thrilling 20-19 vidtory over the Wolfpack, spoiling Homecoming festivities for Loyola. The Badgers are the only club ever to defeat Loyola, also winning last year in Mobile, 14-8. Eddie Farrell combined with Badger quarterback Gerald Rodgers on a 21-yard scoring pass with 20 seconds remaining to tie the game. Joe Kulakowski calmly added the point after to give Spring Hill its margin of victory. The game was not over yet as the Pack came battling back after recovering Spring Hill's onside kick attempt at the Loyola 47 with 18 seconds remaining. Wolfpack quarterback Wayne Mumphrey then hit split and Casey Levy with a 51-yard pass and-run-play that carried down to the Badger two-yard stripe. After taking their last time out with seven seconds remaining, Mumphrey then sent fullback Rice Baxter off right tackle, but the aroused Badger defense stopped Baxter for no gain as the clock ran out. The win for the Badgers evens their record at 2-2 and also closes out their season. The loss drops Loyola to 1-1 on the season and ti-2 overall. The last game of the season for the Wolfpack was played last night at Tad Gormley Stadium against arch-rival LSUNO. The first half was rather dull, with both teams scoring a touchdown and missing the extra point. Spring Hill drew first blood, striking quickly as Rogers hit end Tex Johnson with two passes that carried from Spring Hill's 38-yard line to the Wolfpack end zone. The final pass covered 44 yards as Johnson side-stepped one Loyola defender and raced into the end zone DOWN, NOT OUT-Rice Baxter (No. 32), Wolfpack fullback, is hit hard by two Spring Hill defenders after picking up a substantial gain in last Sunday's homecoming game against the Badgers. The Pack lost in the waning minutes, 20-1 9. (continued on page 8)