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              LOYOLA  MAROON VOL. XLVI Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Friday, November 7, 1969 No. 10 WWL may keep tax exemption By GARY ATKINS (Maroon Managing Editor) Loyola's radio and television station, WWL, may keep its religious tax exemption after all. Last week, the Senate Finance Committee added an amendment to its tax reform package that would allow Loyola to keep its exemption on earnings from WWL. The issue involves from two to four hundred thousand dollars a year, the amount that Loyola would lose if WWL were subjected to a Federa corporate tax, according to the Rev. Francis Benedetto, S.J., faculty director of WWL. The tax reform bill passed by the House of Representatives in August would have removed exemptions from "unrelated businesses" owned by religious organizations. The Senate committee amended the bill to exempt "unrelated businesses" which contributed 90 per cent of their taxable income to religious, charitable or educational purposes. Father Benedetto said WWL had contributed from 80 to 100 per cent of its income to Loyola-"all of the profits are sent to the university," he said. The Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J. said that he was happy that "Loyola's broadcasting operations are among its church-owned businesses which fall well within the committee's stipulations." The amendment passed by the committee also requires the unrelated businesses to have been church-owned for at least 10 years and to have competitive prices and rates with other operations in the same market in order to qualify for the tax exemption. The tax reforms were originally proposed in order to correct abuses of the church tax exemption. Until 1950, many charitable, educational and religious organizations were tax-exempt. Then, in perhaps the most publicized case of the type, New York University bought a spaghetti factory and began making money off the operation. Eventually, the Congress attempted to close the loophole by imposing the tax on certain exempt organizations. However, it said churches and church associations could continue to keep their tax-exemption on unrelated businesses. Congressmen at the time did not want to tax small church operations like rummage sales, fund-raising dances and so on. But they forgot about church operations like University Hills foundation, owned by Loyola University, Los Angeles. Mortimer Caplin, former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, told a House committee last winter that University Hills had managed to acquire 24 businesses, including a plastics manufacturer, three dairies, a hotel, a foundry, three sand, gravel and concrete producers, and a rubber treads business-and profits from all the businesses were protected by the religious tax-exemption. Last May, the House Ways and Means Committee framed a bill which would tax the unrelated businesses owned by religious organizations. The Senate committee amendment, if passed by the Senate, approved by a conference committee, and accepted by both houses would exempt businesses such as WWL which contribute their earnings to educational, charitable or religious organizations. Father Benedetto said, "We felt we had an excellent case at Loyola we had not bought WWL off the market, we had never used unfair business practices, we had not taken anything off the existing tax rolls." WWL was originally developed by Loyola's physics department. In 1922, WWL-radio broadcast the first radio program in the New Orleans area; in 1957, Loyola branched into television. In a written statement to the Senate committee, Father Jolley noted that "in the past five years, WWL has expended 82 per cent of its earnings for the benefit of Loyola's educational facilities. Without this source of income, Loyola could neither afford to meet the ever increasing demand for higher education programs in the South nor continue to maintain our present level of competince in academic quality." "We'd have to cut back our programs," Father Benedetto said. "Loyola wouldn't be the same university it is today without WWL." "We felt if we were to be taxed," he said, "we would then have to get money from the government." He said when Louisiana Senator Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was approached about the possibility of an amendment to the bill, Long told the Loyola administrators "somebody has got to help you people do your job. If the government takes money away from you with one hand, it's foing to have to give it back to you with the other to keep you going." In his statement ot the committee. Father Jolley recommended as an "alternative to across the board extension of the unrelated business income tax to churches, that churches be required to expend a minimum of their earnings on an annual basis," the minimum to be 80 per cent. The committee raised that to 90 per cent. After the amendment passed, Father Jolley, in a written statement, praised Senator Long for his efforts in the passage of the proposal and said that "the proposal will enable Loyola to continue broadcasting educations! programs and to be of even greater service to Metropolitan New Orleans and to the South." FATHER FRANCIS BENEDETTO BS&T scheduled tomorrow Show begins at 8:30 p.m. Biood, Sweat and Tears will offer a variety of musical sounds as they appear in concert tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m. in the Field House. The nine-man folk rock ensemble with its five-man horn section combines jazz, and blues with rock guitar and rhythm to produce an exciting and creative sound all their own. David Clayton-Thomas, lead vocalist and song writer fox the group, summed up the purpose of the group after a recent concert in Oakland. "We want to bring to our audiences an awareness of music as an intellectual stimulation, not just a groin stimulation. Rock has degenerated to the point where you're supposed to come to a concert and become an animal. Our thing is to come to a rock concert to listen to some good music and be cool and dig it." The big sound of BS&T has already this year produced over a million dollars in record sales from one album and the two singles, "You Made Me So Very Happy" and "Spinning Wheel," from that album. Despite success the group remains unchanged in their concept of the group and what it stands for. "Nobody in this band ever expected to be a pop star or ever took on the personality of one," says Clayton-Thomas. "So when all this pop star bit happened, well, it's all a joke." The concert is sponsored by the Student Union. Tickets are on sale in the lobby of Danna Center, the Field House, and Werlein's, 605 Canal. The tickets are S3, $4 and $5 with a 50 cents discount on any ticket bought with a Loyola ID. Coming activities of the Student Union include The Dating Game to be held Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. in the amphitheater. The Current Events Committee is attempting to book a big name speaker at the end of this semester or early next semester, according to George Mattingly, president of the Union. A student poll taken by the Personal Committee revealed that most students would like to hear Walter Cronkite, said Mattingly. The Union is in the process of trying to set up some arrangement with Cronkite, he added. BLOOD, SWEAT and TEARS - To appear in Field House tomorrow night SC defeats freshmen voting proposal By STEVE VAKAS (Maroon Staff Reporter) -A motion designed to re-organize the freshman committee and create additional voting spots on the council was defeated at Tuesday's Student Council meeting. The freshman committee consists of the freshman presidents of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, and Music. The motion, proposed by Ron Legendre, A&S senior, sought to expand the freshman committee so that the three colleges would have: -a voting freshman president and vice-president -a voting freshman councilman-at-large for the first 174 students enrolled in the particular college -a voting freshman councilman-at-large for every additional 100 students in the particular college Opposition to the motion was strong. Bob Chopin, lawschool representative, accused proponents of the motion of attempting a "power run" which could possibly create a "block vote" of A&S students. Chopin further stated that the proposed amendment was unfair because it "completely eliminated" the Evining Division. Had the amendment passed, A&S would have four councilmen-at-iarge (due to 515 enrolled students) plus a voting president and vice-president. Music School and BA would have had voting presidents and vice-presidents plus one councilman-at-large (BA: 119 enrolled students; Music: 36). According to proponents of Legendre's motion, the idea was to provide proportional and realistic guidelines for the freshman vote at Loyola. Although the motion received a moahority of votes (15-12) in favor of its passage, rules for Parlimentary procedure required a two-thirds majority of members present. In this case, passage would have required 18 votes in favor of the motion. Winners in the freshman election run-off were announced: Sam Gregario defeated Mike Moncrief 101-51 for vice-president of A&S. Marty Georges overcame Joseph Charbonnet 35-29 in his bid for president of BA. In Music school elections, Ray Fransen was elected president, Dan Kelley was elected sophomore representative, and Carolyn Hawkins won the office of freshman treasurer. The recent survey taken by the council concerning the fate of the Wolf yearbook was made public just prior to the meeting. Vice president Charles Magarahan read a letter from the council to the Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley urging that the Wolf be "reinstated" by virtue of the results of that survey. Magarahan said he felt the survey which reached 320 students was "representative." He said only 11 people in the survey did not want a Fenerty outlines plans for alumni homecoming By DEBBIE BOURQUE (Maroon Staff Reporter) Loyola's Student Homecoming Bali will be held Friday, Dec. 5, at 9 p.m. in the Danna Center with music by the Buckinghams, according to John Fenerty. "Loyola student homecoming activities will begin when the students display their campus decorations on Tuesday, Dec. 2," said Fenerty, assistant director of alumni affairs. "They will be judged by the alumni at 5:30 p.m." Fenerty said the Homecoming basketball game, Loyola versus Tampa, will begin at 7:45 in the Field House. Activities at the half will include presentation of the Homecoming Queen and her court, announcement of the winners of the student campus decoration competition, and entertainment. "Loyola Day at the Races" will be at the Fairgrounds Dec. 3. The races will begin at 1:30 p.m. The Homecoming Queen and her court will be there. But the student activities will not be the main aspect of homecoming this year, according to Fenerty. "Homecoming activities will cater mostly to Loyola alumni," said Fenerty. He said it is usually hard for alumni to come back as a group. "Homecoming is the only time that the Alumni Association actively tries to get graduates to come back," he said. CAP completes research work Planning stages ahead Loyola's Council for Academic Planning has completed its major research work with the presentation of the report by the Goals Committee and now is moving into the actual planning stages. Dr. Frank Crabtree, who is currently serving as chairman of the council, said a series of eight special task force committees have been established to start the planning stages. The eight committees are the Student Life, Philosophical Aims, Education, Fine Arts and Communication, Business and Law, Arts and Sciences, Non-degree and Special Programs and Finance. Seventy-six persons, representing all segments of the university community, are on the committees. Jhese people have been invited to meet with the 15-member CAP Thursday to discuss plans for the future of Loyola. The purpose of the CAP is to develop long-range academic planning for this university. Its final report is scheduled to be issued in September, 1970. The issuance of the final report by the Academic Goals Committee last week (Maroon, Oct. 31, page one) marked the end of the research stage for the CAP. PROTEST LODGED A petition, drawn up by Buddy D'Aquiia of the fine arts department, was presented to the council at its Monday meeting. The petition, signed by 14 faculty members and two students, declared that "the statement (of the aims committee) is not based on sufficiently adequate philosophical premises to be a worthwhile statement of purposes and goals." The aims committee statement was also criticized in the petition because "The statement cannot be agreed or disagreed with; it says nothing in terms of what Loyola should actually be." The petition called for the drafting of a philosophical statement before the council moved into the planning stages D'Aquila, a member of the Academic Goals Committee who had cast the only vote against the final statement, explained that such a statement "should be a rational perspective on the higher educational needs of faculty and students." He said the statement as it now stands is "ambiguous" and "the proper thing to do is to suspend planning until the council can get a philosophical statement." The committee on Philosophical Aims was set up, according to Dr. Crabtree, to draft a philosophical preamble to the present statement. The committee was established after the petition was presented to the council Monday. Consortium to begin fall cultural series The New Orleans Consortium will sponsor its fall cultural series Nov. 13, 14, and 15 on the campuses of Loyola, St. Mary's Dominican, and Xavier. The subject of discussion will be "The University Scene Today." Four speakers will be on hand to lead the series beginning with Charles Hamilton, chairman of Harvard s Afro-Americans for Kducational Opportunity. Hamilton will speak at Xavier at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, on "Black Studies" developing the theme, "And Furthermore We Dema nd...." Friday's session will start at 10 a.m. at Dominican where Dr. Howard Stein, associate dean of the Yale Drama school, will speak on "Administrative Change." Dr. Stein, holder of degrees from Columbia and the University of lowa, has been an instructor at a number of universities, and now serves as professor and associate dean of the Yale Drama school. He has written a book of plays as well as articles for education and trade journals. Another session is slated for Friday evening at 8:30 p.m. at Dominican where Los Angeles City Councilman Ton Bradley will discuss "Autonomy." Bradley's career has been in law enforcement, politics, law, government, and banking. The one-time UCLA track and football star retired from the Los Angeles police department after 21 years of service and was elected to the city council in 1963. The final speaker will be Dr. Leslie Fielder, professor of English at the University of Buffalo. He will review the "New Power Structure" at 8:30 p.m. at Xavier. Fielder is well known as a researcher, lecturer and author, and is currently on sabbatical leave from State University of New York at Buffalo, where he professor of English. His published works include "Love and Death in the American Novel," "An End to Innocence," and others. He has taught at England, Italy, and Greece. Two panel discussions will also take place at Loyola's Danna Center. Friday at 2 p.m. "The Administration: Policeman or Businessman" will be discussed. President of Xavier, Dr. Norman Francis will lead the discussion. Dr. Earl Larre of Dominican will lead Saturday's 1:30 p.m. discussion entitled "Students: The Simple Savages." This is the second presentation of this type of cultural events series. BRADLEY FIEDLER HAMILTON STEIN (continued on page J) (continued on page 3)