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              LOYOLA MAROON VOL. XLV Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Friday, February 14,1969 No. 15 LU rights committee approves 'Word' sale By GARY ATKINS (Maroon Desk hditor) The Committee on Student Rights and Freedoms announced this week that it could see "no reason why the Word cannot be sold on campus," according to the committee chairman, G. Ralph Smith. The Office of Student Affairs last semester had denied promoters of the underground newspaper permission to set up a vending machine on campus. Steve Vakas, A&S sophomore, had appealed the decision of the student affairs office to the rights committee before last semester ended. The rights committee, adhering to its policy of not releasing the proceedings of its meetings, did not explain the basis for its decision in the announcement. Smith said that the policy of the committee was to "afford maximum protection" to students appearing before the committee. The Rev. J. Joseph Molloy, S.J., vice-president for student affairs, said that, as of this writing, he had not yet received official notice of the committee's decision. However, he said that before his office could grant permission for distribution of the Word, he was "going to ask the committee on what grounds they feel any right or freedom of a student was infringed upon." Smith said that he did not think any one section of the student rights document could be pointed to as a simple basis of the committee's decision. Father Molloy said that he thought the problem might "come down to a question of me confronting the committee and seeing what its powers are." He said he thought the function of the committee was to protect the rights of students and to tell administrators when they had infringed upon those rights. If the student affairs office had violated a student's rights, it would correct the situation, Father Molloy said. He emphasized though that he would first have to know the committee's groiunds for its decision, regardless of the committee's confidential policies. He said that if the committee "is going to take over the whole decision-making process of the (student affairs) office, we might as well go out of business." Vakas said that he was "really shocked" when the committee decided in favor of his case. The dispute over the Word was the first case the THE REV. BENARD A. TONNAR, S. J To continue as math instructor Four announce SC candidacy By ED ANDERSON By GARY ATKINS (Maroon Desk Kditor) For president. vice-president (Maroon Editor) Ron Legendre, A&S junior, and Edgar "Dooky" Chase, announced this week their intention to run for the presidency and vice-presidency, respectively, of the Student Council in this spring's elections. In announcing their candidacy, Legendre and Chase became the third ticket to state their intention to run for the Student Council's top two positions. Ralph Adamo and Joe Duggan, both A&S juniors, announced their intention in last week's Maroon. The second ticket was the Billy Guste—Charlie Magarahan ticket announced earlier this week. In discussing their platform in an interview, Legendre and Chase said their primary plank concerns "a more equitable distribution of student representation on both the executive and standing committees of the Announces his candidacy council." He said the rationale for this is to give divisions of the university other than Arts and Sciences—the School of Music, the College of Business Administration, Evening Division, the School of Law and the School of Dentistry—a "greater representation in policy-involving decisions" of the council and its various committees. Legendre and Chase both feel the present council is top-heavy with A&S representatives. They said five of the six officers of the council (which comprise the Executive Committee) are in A&S. Only one BA student, junior Kerry Leftwich (who is the council's corresponding secretary) is a member of the Executive Committee. Chase said he feels it "would be the job of the president and vice-president of the Student Council to appoint a diversity of students to the various committees, so an A&S dominated council would be avoided." Legendre also said he and Chase feel a reform "from within, not from without the Student Council" is needed. Legendre said the idea of a House of Representatives as proposed by Adamo is "a fairly good plan." Yet he feels that his plan for a council reform would be better. Legendre proposed that "departments or combinations of departments" be represented by popular vote on the council. He said his ticket's plan differs from Adamo's "mainly in size." He said his departmental representation would be smaller, since he'would combine some departments—like history and political science—in the same representatives. Legendre added: "His (Adamo's) plan calls for a larger representative body from the departments. Our plan calls for a smaller body, since we would consolidate some departments under the same representative. His (Adamo's) plan of representation would be one that would need a period of transition; ours wouldn't, since we won't call for a special election and a new constitution. "Our plan would be incorporated with our administration in September and we would work on it, without calling any special elections so that it (the reforms) could be effected by the following school year." Legendre said the reason for the proposed reforms "is to diversify the membership on the council to a more equitable system of representation." Chase said that there is also a need to revise the old charter and statutes of procedure of the Student Council and his ticket will work to do that. Legendre said another key plank of their platform involves closer unification of the students, faculty and administration in the realm of academic affairs. He said his ticket would like to establish a joint committee among students, the administration and faculty "to hlep advise each other of the academic situation." He also said the students, through the Student Council, should have a louder voice in student affairs. He said Billy Guste, president of the College of Arts and Sciences, announced this week that he would run for the presidency of the Student Council with the idea of helping create a true student government at Loyola by having students participate in the formation of academic, social and disciplinary policies. Guste's running mate, Charlie Magarahan, A&S junior representative, had been considered one of the leading contenders for the council presidency himself. However, he said that since his and Guste's "ideas as to the function of the Student Council are very much alike, the best way to be sure of seeing the ideas come about was to run together." Guste and Magarahan were the second of three tickets that have declared for the council posts so far. Each ticket has based its candidacy on reform of the council, with the candidates differing about how student government should be changed. Unlike the other tickets, Guste and Magarahan are not now proposing a radical change in the structure of the council as a basis for their candidacy. "A change in the structure will not necessarily be the change in the function of the council," that needs to be accomplished, Guste said. "Our main objective is to get the council into academic and social and disciplinary policy-making," Guste said. Magarahan said that even though the council may have to continue supplementing the Student Union's budget for dances, entertainment and speakers, the council shouldn't be debating about what speaker to get or what type of dance should be sponsored. That should be generally left up to the union, he said. "We want to try to build positions in which students can help in making policy decisions at Loyola, not simply to recommend but to have more voice in the decisions that are being made," Magarahan said. They said they wanted to have students placed on the Academic Planning Committee of the university and on the curriculum committees of the different colleges, as well as having a joint academics committee of students, faculty and administrators created to advise the vice-president for academic affairs. The students on the committees would be made responsible to the Student Council, Magarahan said. Guste said the exact mechanisms for setting up the committee and appointing the members could be decided by next year's council. He said possible suggestions would be nominating members from the floor of the council, having the council president appoint them and the council ratify the appointments or having general elections for the committee representatives. The first step toward the possible creation of a joint academics advisory committee was taken just before Guste and Magarahan announced their candidacy when the council passed a motion by Guste to recommend that the administration set up such a committee. The committee would be similiar in function to the Student Affairs Policy Advisory Committee (SAPAC) which presently advises the vice-president for student affairs. The joint academics committee would discuss ways of improving the academic situation at Loyola and make recommendations to the academic vice-president. Guste and Magarahan pointed out that there is presently no method for a continuing discussion between representatives of students, faculty and administration about academic affairs. "Loyola has a potential to have a more vital student body," Magarahan said. "The Student Council as a whole can't go sit with the faculty and RON LEGENDRE EDGAR CHASE To run with Legendre BILLY GUSTE To seek SC presidency CHARLIE MAGARAHAN On Guste's ticket Dean of A&S resigns post By FERREL GUILLORY (Maroon Special Reporter) and GARY ATKINS (Maroon Desk Editor) In a sudden move this week, the Rev. Bernard A. Tonnar, S.J., submitted his resignation from his position as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He announced Wednesday that he had sent a letter of resignation to the Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J. Father Jolley said he had received the letter and that the resignation would be accepted. Father Tonnar said in an interview that his letter made clear that his resignation was effective Feb. 8. He will continue as dean until a successor is appointed, Father Jolley said. The decision to resign, Father Tonnar said, was made during registration "for personal reasons and health." Father Jolley said the resignation was not something that had occurred suddenly. "Father Tonnar let me know about six months ago," he said, "that he didn't really enjoy administrative work. When he accepted the dean's job, he said he didn't really like administrative work" but would accept the position temporarily. • He said that Father Tonnar felt that, having begun the second semester and gotten through registration, he could resign. Both Father Jolley and the Rsv. Thomas H. Clancy, S.J., vice-president for academic affairs, said that both laymen and Jesuits were being considered as successors. Father Clancy late Wednesday afternoon said he had not yet received Father Tonnar's letter of resignation. However, he indicated that the administration was already receptive to suggestions for possible replacements. He said some people on campus had called his office during the day Wednesday with proposals for a new dean. Father Clancy hinted that he would solicit the views of students as to whom the successor should be. He said the new dean will almost certainly be chosen from among current faculty members. The resignation move by Father Tonnar was generally unexpected by students and faculty, though Father Jolley apparently knew of Father Tonnar's wish to resign. Council rejects academic report The Student Council rejected the recent report of the SC academics committee dealing with Loyola's academic policies and voted to send a memorandum to all department chairmen disassociating the Council with the report. The report, issued sometime last month, criticized various Loyola policies and suggested ways of improving the university academic atmosphere. Copies of the report were given to the Student Council, The Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J., the Rev. Thomas H. Clancy, S.J., vice-president for academic affairs, and the Rev. Bernard A. Tonnar, S.J., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, according to Billy Guste, chairman of the committee. Guste said that Father Clancy had then sent memorandums pertaining to the report to all the academic department chairmen in the university. Dave Segal, Law School representative, made the motion to reject the report because it did not express the views of the whole council but only those of the academics committee. Segal argued that the report looked like it was done in "one night" and compared it to a "high school manifesto." He said that the report was "ridiculous" and complained that it had been sent to the chairmen of all departments before the council had ratified the report. "All this (the report) has been said before" in classes and elsewhere on campus, said Segal. Billy Guste, defending the report, said that there does seem to be some "apparent contradictions" in the report but that if one read the report closely he would find that there were in reality no contradictions. Guste argued that the report did have some constructive value and pointed out that the report suggests that final exams be made optional. Guste cited a passage in the report stating that students who study day by day will retain more of what they learn than students who cram for exams. The report, Guste said, suggests that students who do well during the semester should be exempt from finals because of this "proven fact." There was some discussion as to what the Council was voting on. Some members seemed to think that the central issue was that Father Clancy had sent memorandums to all academic department chairmen and therefore fostered the idea that the Council backed the report. Others felt that the Council should have considered that the report was primarily a committee report to the Council and that Father Clancy's sending of the memorandums was of secondary importance. After the motion to reject the report was passed, Segal introduced the motion to send letters to all academic department chairmen disassociating the council with the report. The Council later passed a motion to ask Father Jolley, Father Clancy, and Father Tonnar to meet with students from the SC to form an academic affairs advisory committee. Guste, who introduced the motion, said that this committee would recommend to Father Clancy what position he should take on the academic needs of the students. 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