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              LOYOLA MAROON VOL. XLVI Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Friday, January 30, 1970 1 Contracts spark movement J O Why Senate revolted — Maroon analysis By LOUIS LASSUS (Maroon Managing Editor) Why did the University Senate suddenly decide during the holidays to launch an attack on two of the top men in the administration-the vice president for academic affairs, and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences? Why did the Senate find it necessary to take their grievances directly to the Board of Directors, bypassing normal procedural channels? Questions like these have been running through the minds of many persons on campus during the last three weeks. At the end of the fall semester relations between the faculty and the administration seemed to have been far from intolerable. There was some ill will among individual members of the faculty and administration, but nothing that could amass a large enough segment of the faculty to support an all out attack on the leading administrators of the university. What happened over the holidays then that could have alienated and infuriated so many faculty members? The answer to this and the two above questions is a fairly simple one-during the holidays the faculty received their contracts-and with them the realization that they were M being bound by a faculty handbook formulated by a member of the administration, .the Rev. Thomas H. Clancy, S.J., vice president for academic affairs. On the day before Christmas most members of the faculty received their contracts. The contracts were accompanied by a letter from Father Clancy which explained rather ambiguously that the Board of Directors had approved Father Clancy's handbook as the official document upon which all faculty would be bound by the university. On that day, Leonard White, assistant professor of journalism, phoned his colleague, Jules Sauvageot, instructor in journalism, and asked him if he had received his contract. Sauvageot said yes but expressed his dissatisfaction with the letter which accompanied the contract. Sauvageot is a member of the University Senate and was well aware that the Senate had spent many grueling hours laboring over a Faculty Rights, Freedoms, and Responsibilities Document which Father Clancy was to present to the Board of Directors for their consideration. The Senate had hopes that the document might become the basis of faculty contracts. Father Clancy had said in he accompanying letter that the Board of Directors had not had enotight time to act on the Senate document and implied that he had not even presented the document to the Board. Sauvageot then called Dr. John W. Corrington, chairman of the Department of English and was informed by Corrington that he was not only infuriated by Father Clancy's letter but also, that he thought the English department had been gypped on salary increases. Sauvageot then called some other members of the faculty and found that they also were displeased not only with F:ather Clancy's letter, but with such things as salary increases. Prior to the issuance of contracts, many individuals and some entire departments in the College of Arts and Sciences had for one reason or another been dissatisfied with Father Clancy and Dean Crabtree. Some A&S faculty had been dissatisfied with Dean Crabtree ever since Mardi (Iras Monday, the day he was practically forced upon the college of Arts & Sciences by Father Clancy during an emergency meeting of the A&S faculty. Dr. Corrington and many members of the Hnglish department had been a little miffed, to say the least, because Dr. Wagar succeeds Rev. Molloy as vice president for student affairs Dr. Frank Wagar has been moved from his post of dean of students to that of vice president for student affairs, it was announced over the semester break. Wagar, a Loyola graduate in 1964, succeeds the Rev. Joseph Molloy, S.J., who is on a leave of absence because of illness. Father Molloy's leave began May 21, 1969 when Wagar was appointed dean of students. The announcement of Wagar's appointment first came at the University Senate meeting Jan. 15. Until that time, Father Molloy was still officially vice president for student affairs. Because of the appointment, Wagar becomes an ex officio member of the senate. Wagar was asked in an interview last week what the difference between the two positions was and he said, "Nothing, not that I know of." Wagar said the Board of Directors approved his appointment as vice president in November and that the appointment is scheduled to run until May 22, when his term in office expires. He would not comment on his plans after the 22nd of May. Over the semester break, some additions were approved through Wagar's office. A complete set of weights was given to the men's dorm along with a color TV. The women's dorm received a color TV plus six black and white TVs. Wagar said the additions were financed by money taken in from the renting out of Biever and Buddig Halls to Super Bowl visitors over the semester break. Each dorm received $1,500, according to Wagar. He also said an information booth, to be built on the first floor of Danna Center, has been financed through his office and the Student Union. The booth will be manned during the day by student assistants. DR. FRANK WAGAR Father Callens dies at age 74 " The Rev. Paul L. Callens, S.J., former member of the Loyola faculty died Monday, Jan. 1 2, at 2 p.m. after a brief illness. Funeral services were held at J. Shoen and Sons Inc. He was interred in Grand Coteau, La. on Jan. 15, 1970. Father Callens, a native of Tourcoing, France joined the Society of Jesus in 1914 and was ordained in 1926 in Fngheim, Belgium. After joining the Loyola faculty in 1939, Father Callens taught Latin and French and he became the chairman of the department of foreign languages in the 1940'5. Among his works is a book of proverbs, the Latin version of which was recently published. SC asks more voice in selecting next VP Two motions aimed at increasing student participation in university affairs met dissimilar fates Tuesday as the Student Council voted to ask the administration for a greater student voice in the selection of , the next academic vice president. However, a second motion which called for student representation in the areas of admissions and financial aid was defeated by a vote of 18-6. Meeting in its first session of the second semester, the Council passed in rapid fire order six out of seven motions in a little over 45 minutes. President Bill Guste was forced to adjourn the meeting after a number of Council members walked out early, reducing attendance to a level below that needed for a quorum. By a unanimous vote, the Council passed a motion urging the Very Rev. President Homre R. Jolley, S.J., to appoint two more students to the recently reconvened Search Committee. Father Jolley has indicated that since one of the candidates recommended by the committee for the post of academic vice president refused the job and the two remaining candidates were rejected by the Board of Directors, he will reconvene the committee to screen additional possibilities. Currently the committee is composed of three administrators, three faculty members and one student. The Council mition, if implemented by Father Jolley would alter the committee structure to gove students an equal voice with faculty and administrators. The motion suggested that Father Jolley pick the students form a list of nominees submitted by the Council. The only significant opposition to the motion was voiced by A&S representative Tim McCune who said his opposition was in line with the feelings of committee chairman Dr. Dennis Rousseau. McCune declared I hat both he and Dr. Rousseau felt that to revamp the committee would be a gesture indicating "a lack of confidence in the committee." McCune also said that passage of the motion would cast a deep, dark shadow over the performance of the committee until now. A second motion, this one authored by A&S president Ronn Legendre, met with stiffer opposition, however. Legendre proposed that the Council "establish a committee to create student membership in the affairs of MAKING HIS MOVE-Pat O'Keefe, sophomore A&S representative to the Student Council, reads a statement to the Council at Dr. Crabtree gives reply to charges By MIKE LANGE (Maroon Kditor) Dr. Frank Crabtree, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, spoke out in his defense Tuesday and questioned the motives of some members of the University Senate who charged him earlier with procedural misusages. The Senate passed a motion at a Jan. 15 emergency meeting requesting that the Board of Directors, the legal administrators of Loyola, remove Dean Crabtree from office "in ccordance with all due process." The motion, made by the Rev. James Counahan, 0.P., was' brought before the Senate with a supporting statement that listed six specific charges against the dean. Dean Crabtree said he planned to bring suit against Father Counahan and two other members of the Senate for defamation of character and, for this reason, has not earlier answered the charges against him. He said he still intends to sue. However, in an interview Tuesday, he directed answers to each charge against him. The charges and Dean Crabtree's responses to them follow: I. "He has attempted the removal of the chairman of the theology department against the wishes of the department as expressed overwhelmingly in secret ballot, failing to convene the other chairmen of Arts CS Sciences for consultation, and without any stated cause for removal. " Dean Crabtree: "It is not within the power of my office to remove department chairmen. It is true that 1 have recommended removal of the chairman of the theology department to the academic vice president." Dean Crabtree said he had presented reasons to the vice president in his request for removal, but that the publication of these reasons would be a violation of the privacy and rights of the chairman involved. He added that, in fact, he had not removed the chairman. RANK AND TENURE "2. After publically promising that the College of Arts & Sciences would have an 'elected Rank and Tenure Committee this year,' and despite the clear vote of the college and the chairmen in favor of this policy, he interrupted the normally slow procedures of a largely deliberative body to cooperate in foisting another appointed Rank and Tenure Committee upon the college." Dean Crabtree: "This charge is absolute nonsense. The idea for an elected Rank and Tenure Committee was mine and mine alone." Dean Crabtree went into the history of his attempts to get a R&T committee elected. "A called A&S meeting earlier in he year degenerated into a discussion of procedures for election. This is important, but in a large body, very little can be accomplished by such discussion. In view of this, 1 recommended that the procedure for the election of such a body be given to a committee of chairmen which would consult with department faculty and return with recommendations to the next meeting of the A&S faculty. "After the appointment of a subcommittee, the council of chairmen voted unanimously the recommendation as amended by that subcommittee. This information was communicated at the next meeting of the faculty of A&S. At that meeting it bacame apparent to me that many of the faculty had never received or read the recommendations of the subcommittee. Fewer rushees pledge as sorority rush closes Sorority Rush at Loyola University has opened the Spring semester with 34 new pledges, as compared to last year's two-semester total of 133. Mrs. Lynn Neitzchman, dean of women, said that the decrease can be attributed to a number of things, such as low grades, or bad timing, but mainly to the fact that "interest in selective membership is decreasing all over the nation." She said that students are getting more involved in university affairs than in ofher students. Phi Phi Phi pledged 14 prosepective members; Theta Phi Alpha, 13; and Sigma Sigma Sigma, 12. Kappa Beta Gamma, the fourth Loyola sorority, did not pledge any new members. The new pledges are listed below according to individual sororities; Sigma Sigma Sigma: Debbie Blanck, Kit Boudreaux, Mary Jo Komodowski, Karen Marcinak, Sue Schneider, Liz Silva, Becky Stell, Sue STrona, Gerry Temples, Kay Tryanham, Kathy Walsh, and Kathy Wick. Phi Phi Phi: Diane Carriere, Adele du Tertre, Noel Flynn. Kaye Gannon, Lileen Hooper, Debbie Levy, Louise Mandich, Eileen Martin, Maura O'Melia, Pam Quinlivan, Barbara Scanlon, Mary Ann Schmelzle, Terry Smith, and Terty Thompson. Theta Phi Alpha: Cindy Brocato, Denise Ducasse, Peggy LeC'orgne, Diane Lucey, Sue McLaughlin, Pat Neeb, Ann O'Donnell, Cheryl Poirrier, Julie Pope, Deidre Shanahan, Louise Tibiier, Susan Vorhaben, and Susan Westphal. SIGNING UP- Loyola freshman coed Noel Flynn signs a pledge witTi Phi Phi Phi sorority. Pledge season begins this week, after two weeks of rushing. Thirty-nine coeds pledged sororities the semester. Talent Night cancelled by Blue Key The Loyola Chapter of the Blue Key National Honor Fraternity has decided not to stage Talent Night this year. The group issued a statement following a meeting Tuesday night which said, in part, "It is our belief that a second semester show has not generated the interest necessary to render fruitful the effort of all those organizations which give of their time." Talent Night was originally scheduled for March 14 in the Field House. As of Monday, the deadline for entries, only five entries had been received by Arthur Mann, auditions chairman. Louis Meyer, president of Blue Key who signed the open letter to the student body, said that 16 acts are needed in order to have a Talent Night and it is desirable to have at least 30 entries to chose from. Before last year, Talent Night had been held during the Fall semester. However, the semester system in which exams are held before the Christmas holidays forced Blue Key to move the event to Spring semester last year. Last year's was held in the Municipal Auditorium and was not successful financially. Meyer also said, "We are not To The Students of Loyola University: This year Blue Key National Honor Fraternity will not hold its annual taltent night. A culmination of factors hasled to this decision by the entire membership at a special meeting held Jan. 27. 1970. The deadline for audition forms was Jan. 26, 1970. As of Jan. 1970 there were only 5 forms sent to the Blue Key office. We thank those students who were interested enough to ask to participate in the show. It is our belief that a second semester show has not generated the financially able to stage a professional show with the student interest shown to date." Meyer said Blue Key plans to elect new members later this semester and plans a raffle "in order to offset some of the still outstanding debts incurred by last year's show," according to Meyer. interest necessary to render fruitful the effort of all those organizations which give of their time. We regret that the interests of all students did not reach the level necessary to stage the show. Plans are being made for a show to be held in the first semester of the 1970-71 school year. We ask for those who have expressed an interest in this year's show to retain that interest. We ask those who have not come forward to consider active participation in next year's show. , ' Louis Meyer President, Blue Key (continued on page 6) (continued on pane 5/ (continued on page 5)