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              LOYOLA MAROON VOL. XLVI Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Friday, October 17, 1969 No. 7 Loyola students join moratorium activities ground- "Thou shalt not kill-God"-and a five-yeai-old girl picked it up and carried it off toward the police motorcycles. There was an elderly man-a conscientious deserter from World War I passing out leaflets in support of the anti-war protest. See related story on page five And there were over 700 Loyola students joining some 2000 other students on the steps of City Hall to protest the Vietnam war. About 1500 students formed in front of the Loyola Field House Wednesday afternoon to begin their six-mile walk to the Federal Building, around the central business district and into Duncan Plaza in front of City During the march, the crowd spontaneous singing and urged bystanders to join in the march with varying success. "It's just a hippie parade," one bystander said. "They're having a good time, having a holiday." "One, two three four, what in the hell we're fightint for," one elderly black man was chanting in between singing "We Shall Overcome" and telling people to join the march. "To think that human beings would do something like that," one shopper said as she hurried along Canal Street. The marchers reached Duncan Plaza about 5:30 and listened to three hours of songs, speeches and chanting. As night fell, candles and an occasional fire or two began to flicker in the midst of the crowd. While the music played, the children danced the five-year-old girl who had the picket sign dropped it now and began wriggling around it. Two other children, sitting on an abutment, were being shown how to make a peace sign with their fingers. "Do this, with just two fingers," a middle-aged woman was telling them as she made a V-sign. Finally, they succeeded, and the woman walked away. The children looked at each other, flashed their peace signs and laughed. And, up at the microphone, Herman Levy, a Loyola English professor, was denouncing a "rotten, corrupt and depraved" society. And a little later, a young black, about 10, shouted to the crowd, "Wash Nixon out. I just have two words to say to you, wash Nixon out, please!" For a while, there was a short debate brewing between the protestors and supporters of the war. "You make me sick," a Marine lance corporal told the group. "You're not helping us. You're destroying us. You're making us fight more now because of what you just did. You just put us back behind times." One of the march leaders tried to cut the debate off at first by telling the crowd it was time for the band to play. But the marchers insisted on letting the Marine and a few other supporters of the war have their say. A retired Seabee told the group that "in order to be a strong country we have to stand behind our president." A sophomore Loyola student, Nguyen Le Minh, from South Vietnam told the crowd that he would like to see the Vietnamese solve the Vietnamese problems. "The Vietnamese people are very proud but they do not want to die any more than Americans want to die." The march leader eventually had his way and rather than let the debate develop, he broke in and told the crowd, "The next speech is from the band." So much for the debate and back to the dancing. And there was dancing, by individuals, in groups and in lines which at one time stretched across Perdido Street from City Hall into Duncan Plaza. Whites linked arms with Macks what blacks there were and jumped and shouted as the Palace Ciuards played. STARTING THE MARCH-Studcnts from Loyola and Tulane rather in front of the Field House Wednesday afternoon shortly before leaving on their Moratorium Day March to the downtown area. Two resign from Council in protest By STEVE VAKAS (Maroon Staff Reporter) Two students submitted a joint resignation after the Student Council meeting Tuesday for reasons of "personal overextension." Ed Mclnnis, music senior, and Larry McGarrell, S.J., music junior, music school representatives, expressed their frustration in the letter of resignation: "A council which consistently holds meetings with a bare quorum present, one whose major committee chairman is free effectively to ignore pending business for a month by his absence from three consecutive meetings, whose members with only a handful of exceptions render meetings time-consuming beyond necessity by their complete lack of preparation, and which can barely discover imaginative ways of dealing with issues of genuine concern cannot be considered of enough significance to take precedence over other responsibilities." In council action, Ron Legendre, A&S senior, moved that the council issue quarterly reports to students which would contain council minutes, activity reports and an agenda for future meetings. A roll call vote was deemed necessary by council members on this motion. Twenty-three voted in favor of the motion; there was one abstention (Lyn Troxell, dental hygiene). Another motion which required a roll call vote was made by Robert Chopin, law school respresentative. Chopin asked that the council send a letter of censure to the Maroon for its treatment of the council's last meeting. According to council vice-president Charles Magarahan, A&S senior, the motion was specifically related to Ralph Adamo's column of Oct. 10, "The Student Council is dead." The motion failed to carry. Twenty-one opposed the motion; there were two abstentions (Robert Chopin, law school representative; Harold Buckley, business administration representative). Group accepts religious studies By LOUIS LASSUS (Mar Desk Editor) The Curriculum Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday to institute a religious studies program under the jurisdiction of Dr. Frank Crabtree, Dean of A&S. The program, under lhe direction of the Rev. A. Patrick Phillips, S.J., will be an inter-departmental and Inter-disciplinary program. Father Phillips has been released from the Department of Theology SO he can head the new program, The program will be taught by members of the theology department and other departments selected by Father Phillips. The committee decided that since Father Phillips will be the only full-time member involved in the program they would not form a new department. The Curriculum Committee had voted to accept "in principle" a religious studies program at their September 9 meeting. The committee had also asked that lather Phillips draw up a description of the courses he would like to offer under the program. Father Phillips had submitted a description of the programs to the committee members prior to the Tuesday meeting. The Rev. Fmmett Bienvenu, S.J., chairman of the Department of Classical Studies, told the committee that the program as presented by Father Phillips contained "an awful lot of repetition in various areas." The Rev. J. Emile Pfister, S.J., chairman of the theology department, agreed with Father Bienvenu and added that some courses listed under FATHER EMILE PFISTER Departmental revisions arouse linguistic debate By GARY ATKINS Six authors to participate (Maroon Managing Editor) An academic conflict that has been brewing for weeks in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages finally showed itself in public last week and promptly turned the department into a battleground ol name-calling, accusations and counter-accusations. Several changes in department policy were announced last week. changes which department chairman Herbert Graf says are designed to upgrade the department but changes which students and language faculty have been protesting. In a letter to the editor of the Maroon last week, more than 140 students called for clarification of what they called the department's "piecemeal manner of changes and directives" and criticized Graf for not consulting students in making the changes. Graf took steps to correct the second criticism this week by forming an advisory committee of language majors as well as a faculty advisory group. . Among the changes involved in the dispute are: the creation of a departmental exam for lower division students: the amount of the students' grade that will be determined by that exam (Graf originally said the exam would count lor 70 per cent of the students' grade, but later compromised to 50 per cent); the elimination of an intermediate level course (103-104) in Spanish and French; an increased emphasis or literature and reading; and the ordering of textbooks for language courses by Graf. Charges have been flying over the. changes and the methods Graf has used to make them: Graf says he has been called everything from "fool" to "Fascist pig" in the past few days by students; soma of his faculty have criticized him as being a "dictator;" Dr. John Mosier, assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and one of the administrators who has been supporting Graf, has accused some of the language faculty of "conning" the students into protesting. Graf was originally named acting chairman of languages with the authority to clean out the depart .lent according to Dr. Frank Crabtree, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Much of the dispute between him and his faculty seems to center around two different interpretations of the Symposium opens Wednesday The third annual Writers Symposium will be held at Loyola on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, announced Dr. John Corrington, Chairman of the English Department. The symposium, entitled "At the Turnof the Decade-Writing Now," will feature writers Maxine Kumin, J. Michael Yates, Seymour Epstein, Harry Crews, John Corrington, and Miller Williams. A poetry reading by Dr. Corrington is scheduled for Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in room 157 of the Science Complex. At 8 p.m. Crews will deliver a lecture on "New Regionalism in Literature" in the amphitheater. On Thursday. John Biguenet, A&S junior, will moderate a panel discussion on "The Writer and the University" at 10:30 p.m. in rooms 2 AB&C of Danna Center. Crews, Yates, Epstein, and Williams will he on the panel. Yates will hold a poetry reading at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday in room 157 of the Science Complex and miss Kumin will speak on "The Novel Today" at 8 p.m. in the amphitheater. The final day of the symposium will open with a panel discussion on "The Writer and the Critic" in room 2 AB&C of Danna Center. The discussion, moderated by John Brazier, A&S junior, will include Dr. Corrington, Yates, Miss Kumin and Crews. Williams will have a poetry reading at 2:30 p.m. in room 157 of the Science Complex and Epstein will speak on "Literature and Politics" at 7 p.m. in room 2 AB&C in Danmi Center. Epstein is author of Pillar of Salt, The Successor, Leah, and Caught in That Music. He has also written A Penny for Charity, a collection of short stories. Epstein has taught creative writing at the University of Denver for the past year and was on the staff of the 1969 Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. He participated in the 1967 writers symposium. Crews is the author of The Gospel Singer, and Naked in the Garden Hills. He teaches at the University of Florida and was on the staff of the 1969 Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. He lectured at the symposium last year. Miss Kumin is a poet and a novelist. She has published two collections of her poetry Halfway and The Privilege. She has authored two novels-Through Dooms of Love, and The Passions of Uxpart. Miss Kumin was on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. Yates, the symposium's first Canadian poet, teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His works include Spiral of Mirrors, Hunt in an Unmapped Interior, Canticle for Electronic Music, and Man in the Glass Octopus. Williams, an associate professor of English at Loyola, has written The Achievement of John Ciardi. He has also published a collection of his poems in So Long at the Fair. Dr. Corrington is author of And Wait for the Night and The Upper Hand. He has also written The Lonesome Traveler, a collection of short stories. HARRY CREWS J. MICHAEL YATES Romulo calls for 'end of agression' By MIMI GRIFFITH (Maroon Staff Reporter) The phrase "no more Vietnam" is meaningless unless the major world powers make a change in policy toward smaller nations, said Genera] Carlos P. Romulo in an address at a special convocation Monday night in the amphitheater. Distinguished guests, faculty members and students gathered for the formal convocation during which Loyola University conferred the Degree Doctor of Letters, honoris causa on Cien. Carlos P. Romulo. Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Philippines for his work on behalf of freedom and world peace The former president of the United Nations General Assembly discussed the role the United States will play in Asia after Vietnam. He aid the phrase "no more Vietnam!" will be meaningful for Asia only on the "basis of a common guarantee, subscribed to by all the great powers, to refrain from acts of aggression." This guarantee, noted the general, would require a major change in the approach to the smaller Asian nations which "has been dominated largely by cold war considerations." Positive steps towards this new policy would be a dialogue among the super-powers, bringing in communist China at some stage, "since no guarantee of non-aggression in Asia could be credible or effective if it excluded China," he explained. Romulo said "a new Asia has emerged" and along with the development of individual nations, "the free Asian countries are making heartening progress in regional cooperation." Romulo pointed to the numerous inter-Asian organizations which promote "unity in diversity." Romulo went on to say "the gap between Asian development goals and available resources is still too wide to be bridged without international assistance." Although the U.S. is the greatest tree world power, "the challenge is not to America alone, but to the entire community of nations," he said. Three weeks ago a commission set up by the World Bank recommended measures the international community should take. Romulo's outline of these measures included an increase of foreign aid from industrial countries to a level of .7 per cent of their gross national product; the fraction of this conomic aid which is channeled through international organizations should be raised to 20 per cent; and trade should be liberalized so that poor nations will have an increased share of the world market. However, economic growth in Asia is not enough; plans must include raising the standards of social justice as well, said the general. Romulo declared that "Asia is the main proving ground of international efforts to achieve larger freedom and universal peace." Like others of their generation throughout the world, Asian youth demands a say in the reconstruction of the present social order and in the shaping of tomorrow, said Romulo. And in the Philippines and elsewhere, their voices are being heard with increasingly careful attention, he said. According to Romulo, the objectives of freedom and peace should be approached from two directions. "The efforts of the United Nations and other international organizations to project across national frontiers the world's concern and compassion lor the less fortunate peoples should be matched by social renewal and moral regeneration within individual countries." DR. CARLOS ROMULO (continued CD" page 5) (continued on page 31 (continued on page j)