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              LOYOLA MAROON VOL. XLVI Loyola University. New Orleans, La., 70118, Friday, April 3, 1970 No. 23 Demonstrations cease; letters sent out By LOUIS LASSUS (Maroon Managing Editor) By MIKE'LANGt (Maroon Editor) There was a lull in the student and faculty movement for Blouin early this week. Demonstrations last week and on Easter Sunday marked student and faculty protest of the Board of Directors March 19 decision to terminate Tom Blouin, instructor in the Department of English. However, no demonstrations were held through Wednesday of this week. Wally Schneidau, A&.S junior and spokesman for the group, said in an interview this week that the lull was due mainly to a rechanneling of effort by the students involved in the Blouin dispute. The Board of Directors ruled March 19 that Blouin would be terminated because he did not have a terminal degree, smokes in class and refuses to hold regular office hours. Many of the students involved in the dispute spent their Easter holidays helping send out letters to students' parents for the Student Council. The Council passed a pressure sanction against the university last week. The sanction called for the Council to send out letters to students' parents asking for their support in the Blouin case. Schneidau's apartment, 8009 St. Charles Ave., commonly known as Roach Haven, has been the headquarters of the movement and was used Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to put out the letters. Schneidau said Wednesday that he did not know if the students would begin demonstrations again. He said that the group was going to have a meeting sometime this week to decide "if and how" the group was going to continue to support Blouin in his efforts to remain at Loyola. "We might not wish to continue the demonstrations at all," he said. Or the group may decide to demonstrate once a week or every other day, he said. "The Board of Directors has not left us with many alternatives," explained Schneidau. "We have tried to work with the Student Council," he said. A lot depends upon how much support the group can get in the matter, he added. "We will do anything we can to help Mr. Blouin, but we do not wish to see the university hurt in any manner," said Schneidau. Schneidau said that he has no idea of how much support the movement has gotten from the outside community. He said that he has no way of knowing if the picketing has any effect. All reactions from the outside community would be sent to the administration, he said. The purpose of the demonstrations was to alert the outside community of the situation, he noted. The group is trying to apply pressure both from outside and inside the university, he said. "It is obvious that a direct talk with the Board is useless," explained Schneidau. He said that he has had no direct contact with any members of the Board since their March 19 meeting. Alan Vera, A&S representative of the Council, said this week that it will be up to the new Council to act on Surviving a heated Student Council debate and an attempt to get a court injunction against issuance, a letter seeking to enlist the aid of parents in the current campus controversy was sent out last weekend. The letter, authored by Alan Vera, A&S representative on the Student Council, and passed by the Council, offered a version of the controversy and asked parents to write the Board of Directors in care of the Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J. The Council asked in the letter that parents "inform the Board that it is your opinion that the ability to teach is equally important, if not more so, than a Ph.D. after a man's name. Ask them to reconsider the case of this man (Tom Blouin) who has proven that he is a competent teacher. Persuade the Board that it would be to thier advantage to clarify (all we ask is information) the policies and procedures which have brought the administration into conflict with faculty. Above all, stress your desirt to avoid investigation by the AAUP (American Association of University Professors) with the possible resulting consequences to Loyola." (See full text of letter on page four.) A form was attached to the bottom of the letter asking parents to fill to it out and send it back to the Council expressing their support of the Council's "efforts to keep good teachers at Loyola." The letter was passed at the March 24 meeting of the Council by a 16-1 vote with two abstentions. This was the only business transacted at this meeting. QUORUM QUESTIONED Bob Chopin, law school representative who opposed the motion during the discussion at the March 24 meeting, filed suit against certain members of the Student Council for conducting business (passing the sanction motion) without a quorum. He took the case to Student Judical Court to attempt to get an injuction against the issuance of the letter. However, in a decision delivered by Chief justice Tom Blasi March 25, the court decided to deny Chopin and James Baggett's petition for injunction. The decision came after a three-and-a-half hour hearing in which Chopin and Baggett.both members of the Student Council, represented by Chopin and Ashton O'Dwyer argued that a quorum was not present when the letter was passed and, therefore, the letter could not be sent out. The plantiff's main argument was that the vote as recorded in the secretary's role book indicated that the final vote was 16-1. In order for there to be a quorum, 18 votes were needed. The 17 votes recorded would not have been a quorum. The defense, represented by Brod Bagert and David Caruso, argued that two Council member, Chopin and Baggett, were seen walking out after the role call had begun. Ronn Legendre, Council parliamentarian, appeared as a witness for the defense and said he saw the two members walking out and he ruled at the time that their votes would count as abstentions since the vote had already begun. At the time, he said he told his ruling to Billy Guste, Council president. Guste, another defense witness, reiterated Legendre's ruling and said it was his (Guste's) fault that the secretary was not informed of Legendre's ruling and this was why the votes were not recorded. The Court upheld Legendre's ruling, and cited Article V, Section 3, sub-section of the Council constitution, which states, in part, "The Parliamentarian shall rule on all controversies concerning partliamentary procedure: such rulings shall be final." Based on this, the final vote was recorded as 16-1 with two abstentions. Student volunteers, some from the SIGNING ON — Two Loyola coeds who participated in last week's picketing pause for a brief rest during the marching which was halted earlier this week. Tuition change causes dissension between SC and administration By ANNALYN SWAN (Maroon News Kditor) The Board of Directors' decision to affix a $50 fee upon every semester hour taken above 19 hours is currently causing dissension between the administration and Student Council representatives from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Business Administration. Student discontent centers around the Board's adoption of the new plan without previous student approval. The Rev. Thomas H. Clancy, S.J., vice president for academic affairs, had promised that no such action would be taken without express student approval, according to Ronn Legendre, A&S president. The decision, which will affect only students in A&S and BA, provides for the excess course load fee to replace the existing eight-semester rule. The new plan, scheduled to begin in the Fall of 1970, was cited in a letter by Father Clancy as a more workable substitute for the existing rule (see Maroon, March 24). Father Clancy, originator of the proposal, said he had discussed the new plan with A&S and BA Council members prior to the Board's decision and had made an attempt to get their reaction to the proposal. Father Clancy said he had sent letters to Legendre and Harold Buckley, BA president, requesting that they and their colleges' Council representatives meet with him to discuss the proposal. In his letter, Father Clancy stated, "Since last December I have been talking to university officials about various substitutes for this (the eight-semester rule|. I now have succeeded in getting an alternative arrangement....However, I want you to have a chance to express your opinion on my proposal before I present it to the Board of Directors. According to Father Clancy, few representatives attended the meeting scheduled in the letter for March 10. Those who came, he said, seemed to favor the $50 fee idea but asked that a formal reply be given later in written form. A written reply from the Council members, which was supposed to be completed prior to .the Boards meeting, was never received, said l ather Clancy. After the decision was made, the Board authorized l ather Clancy to negotiate the new plan with Student Council representatives before being finalized. No formal Council opinion has yet reached the administration concerning the new plan, said Father Clancy. "I have the authority to finalize the plan," he stated, "and if I haven't heard from them (the Council) I will do so." According to Council representatives involved in the decision, a written reply has been withheld until full investigation of the new plan has taken place. Legendre said the representatives' favorable opinion of the idea at the March 10 meeting came from an inadequate knowledge of the plan's overall effect. "At the meeting, Father Clancy gave us a one-sided view," said Legendre. "We wanted to investigate the idea. This was not done in time to write a letter." Legendre also stated that poor attendance at the meeting was due to what he termed the "misleading content" of Father Clancy's letter. He said that he thought only Buckley and he were invited to discuss the proposal. Buckley said that he never received the letter written by Father Clancy. "I didn't get a letter; I was informed of the meeting through word of mouth," he stated. The BA president also said he was sent a piece of paper to record the vote of his college on I he proposed plan. He said the vole of his college was one fur the plan, two against, and two abstentions. Hdgar (Dooky) Chase, Council president-elect, pointed out that the students' informal agreement at the meeting stemmed from Father Clancy's assertion that the plan would constitute a cut in tuition. "We had informally agreed with it I the $50 fee proposal | at the meeting," Chase stated. "Right now, we're under the impression that it was represented falsely to us. Alan Vera (A&S representative| now has proof of this," Chase added. In line with the investigation, the Council passed a motion Tuesday requesting a meeting between representatives of the administration, chairmen of the departments involved, and Council members to discuss the new rule. Current Council opposition to the idea centers upon the number of departments requiring over 19 semester hours in the regular curriculum schedule. It is feared that a far greater number of students may be affected than only those cited by Father Clancy in the Departments of FATHER THOMAS CLANCY Blue Key taps twenty-eight Blue Key National Honor Fraternity has recently tapped 28 Loyola men for membership in the prestigious organization. Members are chosen by the active membership on the basis of leadership, scholarship and service. Formal tapping of the new members will take place Sunday, April 12 at the annual Blue Key Banquet. Following is a list of new members and some of their achievements at Loyola: Hans Adam-Cruz, BA senior. student delagate to Student Affairs Policy Advisory Committee, member of Student Rights and Freedom Committee and University Library Committee and Finance Committee; Gary Atkins, A&S junior. University Fellow, dean's list, desk editor, managing editor and associate editor of Maroon, Alpha Sigma Nu Freshman Key Award, Student Union member. Stanley Bjurstrom, law senior, editor of Loyola Law Review, Who's Who, American Bar Association, law Formal tapping set April 12 student division: Gerard Brechtel, BA senior, outstanding student in BA, four-year letterman in varsity baseball, Alpha Sigma Nu member and Delta Fpsilon Sigma member. Daniel Broussard, law senior, associate editor of Law Review, member of Student Bar Association and member of Phi Alpha Delta, legal fraternity; Fdgar Chase, BA junior, president-elect of Student Council, financial vice president-elect of Student Union, second vice president of Administrative Management Society, Delta Sigma Pi and Black Student Union member. Mario Dell'Osso, BA junior, corresponding secretary of Alpha Delta Gamma social fraternity, monitor in men's dorm, ASN freshman Key Award, Outstanding Male Freshman in BA; Ray Fransen, music junior, music president to Student Council, member of Loyola stage band. ' Charles Hebert, dental senior, president of Junior American Dental Association, vice president of senior class, member of Dental Association, vice president of senior class, member of Delta Sigma Delta and C. Victor Vignes Society. Charles Imbornone, law junior, president of St. Thomas More Law Club, dean of Delta Theta Phi, Student Council member and Cross Keys member. John Koval, A&S junior, chairman of Student Union dance and entertainment committee, secretary of Beggars social fraternity; Richard Lyons, A&S junior, University Fellow, assistant director of men's housing, member of Delta Fpsilon Sigma and Loyola University Student Historical Association. Frank Macaluso, BA senior, president of Delta Sigma Pi, member of BA central committee; Gordon Matheny, law senior, Delta Theta Phi, baliff and vice dean, St. Thomas More Law Club, Student Bar Association, Legal Rag. George Mattingly, BA senior, president of Student Union, dean's list, Who's Who, senior project member; James McCartney, A&S senior, president of Inter-Fraternity Council, president, ADG social fraternity, vice president of Men's Intramural Board, men's dorm monitor. Ronald Merlino, law junior, 1969 National Moot Court, law student division representative to the American Bar Association, vice justice of Phi Alpha Delta law Fraternity; Ashton O'Dwyer, Loyola Law Review, secretary of SBA, 1970 National Moot Court, St. Thomas More Law Club. Patrick O'Keefe, A&S sophomore, vice president-elect of Student Council, member of Communications Board, Pershing Rifles and E.D. White Debate Society: Wayne Pike, evening division junior. Who's Who, member of Student Council, AMS, Evening Division Student Union. Larry Robert, BA senior, president of Men's Intramural Board, athletic director of ADG, football club; Wallace Schneidau, A&S junior, director of teacher and course evaluation, member of University Reasearch team, University Fellow, member of LUSHA and Phi Alpha Theta. Dan Sheehan, BA senior, board of Board okays degree in computer science A degree program in computer science was approved by the Board of Directors at their March 19 meeting, according to the Rev. John Mullahy, S.J., who served as chairman of the meeting. Additionally, the Rev. Joseph Tetlow, S.J., acting dean of the College of Arts and Science, has announced that the curriculum committee recently voted to allow computer science courses to fulfill math requirements for students in many A&S departments. The Board has not yet appropriated any funds for the purchase of a new computer, said Father Mullahy. However, the Rev. Thomas H. Clancy, S.J., vice president for academic affairs, said that he promised Gregson Payne, chairman of the Department of Computer Science, that the Board will vote in favor of getting him what he needs to run the program. I'ayne noted that a new computer is necessary for the program. He said he views father Clancy's comments as meaning the school will have a computer in the fall. He said that he will be recruiting two new faculty members for next fall. In March of last year, the Curriculum Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences approved a computer degree program proposed by Payne. A report earlier in the year that the Board of Directors had vetoed the decision of the committee was false, according to Father Clancy, because the measure was never placed on the Board's agenda. A Xerox computer had been unexpectedly delivered to the Science Complex last month. This computer, according to John Fckholdt, vice president for business and finance, will probably be shipped back. The Board never actually okayed purchase of that computer, said Father Mullahy. "We |the Board] told them not to ship it and they (Xerox | still shipped it." He added that the Board is not sure it is the best computer to buy for the program. There may be some very serious legal problems with Xerox, Payne said, but he refused to comment further on the problems. Council votes to reject proposed tuition plan The Student Council passed a motion at Tuesday's meeting which rejects the substitution made by the Board of Directors for the eight-semester rule. Formerly, incoming freshmen were required to remain at Loyola for eight semesters in order to graduate. However, students were allowed to take as many courses as they wanted at no extra charge. The Board's new ruling applies only to students in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Business Administration. It states that, beginning next year, students must pay $50 for every credit hour over 19 hours, with the exception of military science. Students may now graduate in fewer than eight semesters. Alan Vera, A&S senior, made the motion which attacks the Board's decision, saying "It hinders the efforts of the more talented and ambitious students to obtain the fullest education possible." According to Vera, there are 10 departments which are directly affected by the new ruling because they require students majoring in the department to take more than 19 hours in one or more semesters. In order to graduate with a major in certain departments, a student will have to pay extra money, according to Vera. Besides rejecting the substitution for the eight-semester rule, the motion calls for a meeting of representatives of the administration, the chairmen of the departments involved, and a committee from the 1970-71 Council to arbitrate the matter. No date was set for such u meeting. Vera's motion originally made specific proposals which would allow students freedom to choose between an eight-semester program and one in which they could graduate in less than eight semesters but in which students would be required to pay $50 for every credit hour over 22. The purpose of the proposals was to "protect the students who want to keep the eight-semester rule," said Vera, "and yet allow students to choose to graduate in fewer than eight semesters." Because the motion, in its original form drew strong opposition from the floor of the Council, Vera amended it. The amended version deleted the specific counter-proposal to the Board's ruling. The motion passed unanimously in its amended form. At the same meeting, Kdgar (Dooky) Chase, Council president-elect, moved that the Student Council take a stand that favored the hiring of more Ph.D.'s throughout the university. The motion was aimed particularly at the College of Business Administration. 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