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              LOYOLA MAROON VOL. XLVI Loyola University, New Orleans, La., 70118, Friday, April 24, 1970 No. 26 Rev. Jolley rejects plan for Biever The University president rejected Tuesday a new open house proposal which would have extended the hours during which women could visit in Biever Hall. The proposal was submitted by the Men's Residence Council (MRC) in conjunction with what MRC members called "Nine Demands for Decent Living". However, while the Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J., ruled against the open house proposal, administrators say that action is being taken on a number of the MRC demands. Father Jolley's ruling on the open house plan-which would have allowed women to visit in Biever Hall until 2 a.m. on weekends-came at a meeting of the Administrative Council. At the time of this writing, Father Jolley was unavailable for comment on his decision. However, a MRC spokesman said Wednesday that Father Jolley had scheduled a meeting with MRC members for early next week. According to the spokesman, they will discuss the new open house plan and explore the possibility of placing a student on the Administrative Council as a non-voting member. While the open house proposal was rejected, MRC members say they have had more success with their "Nine Demands for Decent Living". Six of the MRC's nine demands call for the remedy of what MRC members say are service and maintenance problems in Biever Hall. The remaining three call for the removal of ROTC from its present location, allowing juniors and seniors to live off campus and denying use of the facility as a "hotel" for visiting guests of the university. According to Robert Sabolyk, dean of men, steps are being taken to correct most of the service and maintenance problems pointed up in the demands. The MRC demands had called for repair or replacement of vending machines, washers, dryers and elevators, plus better supervision of maid service and immediate cleanup and repair of Biever Hall. Sabolyk said yesterday that the university had made arrangements for the replacement of malfunctioning laundry equipment and in addition had ordered six more dryers to be installed during the summer. BUSINESS LEADER-Patricia Manning accepts the John X. Wegmann Achievement Trophy from BA Dean Dr. G. Ralph Smith for being named the outstanding business student at Tuesday's BA Recognition Day. See full story on page three. Earth Day Students gather to award the Polluter of the Month Award to Chevron at Tulane, right, while another student helps in the clean-up of Audubon Park, below, during Earth Day Wednesday. Meanwhile the problems, as indicated in the above downtown scene, continue. Join the Environmental Weekend today, tomorrow and Sunday in Covington to find out how you can help. New Council demands response By MIMI GRIFFITH (Maroon Staff Reporter) General consensus of opinion and a well-planned agenda enabled the Student Council to deal quickly and effectively with a wide range of issues this week. The Council passed by a large majority a package of four motions demanding a response from the Very Rev. President Homer Jolley, S.J. The first of these motions calls for Father Jolley to exercise the power granted to him by the university charter and reverse the decision of the Board of Directors to terminate Tom Blouin, English instructor. Last month the Board upheld the administration's decision to fire Blouin. The reasons given publicly by the Board were Blouin's lack of tenure due to no Ph.D., his practice of smoking in class and his open refusal to hold office hours. This was the only motion in the package presented by Wally Schneidau, A&S representative, to draw any significant opposition. Bob Chopin, law representative, attacked the motion for Blouin by saying that it would not do any good. Schneidau admitted, "I have little confidence in Father Jolley." However, he defended the motion's purpose which is to give the Goals commission planned administration notice that the new Student Council backs the movement to retain Blouin. Student Council passed the motion by a vote of 23-6. In response to widespread student opposition to the $50 overload fee for every credit hour over 19 and the $30 university fee, the Student Council passed another motion. Also authored by Schneidau, the motion demands a public meeting of appropriate administrators, chairmen of all departments of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Business Administration, and a committee of the Student Council. The motion passed 25-0. In another unanimous decision the Council passed a third motion asking that Father Jolley give his written acceptance to the Council's resolution on proper procedures for expulsion of students. In the present situation the university catalog states that the administration can expel a student without giving a reason and students no course of appeal. (See Maroon, April 10 for text of resolution). The final motion of Schneidau's package requests that Father Jolley reply to these demands within five days of receiving them. The Council voted to pass this motion by acclamation. Dooky Chase, president of the Student Council, announced at the meeting that the Student Judicial Court struck down the Student Council service charge in a recent decision. (See page four for the text of the court's decision.) According to Chase, the main reason for the unfavorable decision was that the Council's constitution does not specifically permit the Student Council to levy a service charge. Added to unconstitutionality, the Student Court stated that the service charge is not equitably collected since it is tied to the I.D. card system. Presently the fee is collected at the time a registering student obtains an I.D. card. To remedy the situation Chase laid on the table for consideration next week a motion to amend the Council's constitution. The proposed amendment will give Student Council the power to assess and collect a service charge that is binding on all Loyola students except graduate division students who are neither in law or dental schools. Danny Hynes, A&S president, presented a motion which calls for a private meeting between the Academic Committee of the Student Council and representatives of the administration. Such a meeting would discuss the problems created by major changes in university requirements and fees and possible remedies for these problems. The purpose of the motion, according to Hynes, is to allow the administration the alternative of discussing the matter in private with the Student Council. "Father Clancy does not seem amenable to the idea of an open meeting," said Hynes. The motion, passed by the Council, requests an answer from the administration within five days. Pat O'Keefe, vice president of the Council, announced a plan to set up a goals commission for the Council. Consisting of 11 non-Council members, the commission will study the past and present course of Loyola's student government. The commission will propose streamlining of procedures when it WALLY SCHNEIDAU Senators, Rev. Clancy prepare for final debate By DEBBIE BOURQUE (Maroon Staff Reporter) The University Senate will hold an open debate session Thursday to allow free wheeling discussion and defense of the charges presented against Rev. Thomas H. Clancy, S.J., by members of the University Senate. This meeting will be the third of a tri-partite session set up by the Senate to discuss and debate a motion set forth by the Senate members three weeks ago to censure the academic vice president for charges ranging from incompetence to deceit. The groundwork for next week's meeting was laid by Father Clancy yesterday when he answeredthe charges against him. Yesterday's meeting was held after Maroon deadline, making coverage in today's paper impossible. Last week's meeting, which was the first of the tri-partite session, was devoted entirely to the presentation of the charges leveled against Father Clancy. The motion introduced by Professor Robert Petterson of the chemistry department three weeks ago charged Father Clancy with the following: l.He authorized Father Joseph Tetlow, the acting dean, to remove Dr. J.W. Corrington as chairman, English department, against the unanimous vote of a plenary session of the department faculty, and against the advice of many of the faculty members he consulted before acting. 2. Father Clancy made contract offers for 1970- 71 to many faculty members which bore no relationship to merit, according to the tenured members of at least two departments. He did not consult chairmen or deans in at least some cases and thus violated the Faculty Handbook, Appendix D which states: "The Faculty should actively participate in the determination of policies and procedures governing salary increases." 3. He ordered major changes in the size of at least one department, theology, without participation of the "Board, administration, and faculty", as required by Appendix D, page 7. 4. He failed to honor a witnessed verbal contract made by Dean Frank Crabtree, acting as his agent, with Thomas Preston chairman tDf the English department, that, if the English department and Mr. Blouin would cease to press the Blouin case, Mr. Blouin would be given another contract quietly and allowed to have indisputable tenure. 5. Father Clancy told several lies in public, at his Free Speech appearance of February 20, 1970, some of them so obvious that he was forced to recant at the time, thus finally destroying any confidence that remained as to his veracity. a. With reference to the Mardi Gras Monday Arts and Sciences "Faculty" Meeting (February 17, 1970) he said that an overwhelming majority of the "people present" voted for Dr. Frank Crabtree to be Dean. He was forced to retract this lie publicly. (See transcript below). The actual vote was 61-60. b. He stated that Dr. Corrington had been removed as chairman of the English department once before. Dr. Corrington then read a letter from Father Jolley to him which contradicted Father Clancy's statement absolutely. c. He stated that "Mr. Blouin's salary has never been raised since he's been here." This was denied by Dr. Corrington who is in a position to fully document the truth. His salary has been raised. d. Father Clancy stated "you cannot offer a man a contract at a lower salary. A faculty member always gets the same salary or better the next year if he's kept on." Since he made this remark it has become widely known that he has knowingly offered Miss Barbara Steinberg of the English faculty a lower salary rate for 1970-71 than she is presently receiving. e. Father Clancy said that in a meeting with Mr. Blouin in April 1969 the following agreement was reached, "namely, at the same time he would get a termination letter giving him one year's notice that if he did not make appreciable advance towards the terminal degree in the course of a year this would be his last year at Loyola. That's where the case stands right now." The termination letter Father Clancy actually sent to Mr. Blouin, April 19, 1969, said that Mr. Blouin must complete all requirements for the Ph.D. degree within the year, a very different matter from "an appreciable advance." Thus it appears that Father Clancy lied to Mr. Blouin. This matter is complicated by the fact that Chase foresees Loyola 'liberation' as improbable By ANNALYN SWAN (Maroon News Editor) At the height of the recent Tulane Liberation Front (TLF) movement, a Loyola coed gained the free speech microphone long enough to request aid from the striking students in "liberating" Loyola University. The TLF, composed of student body elements disgruntled by administrative policy, aired their demands in a marathon sit-in of the University Center two weeks ago. This was their form of demonstration; could it, as the Loyola student implied,' take hold at Loyola in a similar liberation movement? Dooky Chase, student body president for 1970-71, feels that the possibility of a Loyola liberation movement forming is remote. "There are more things tending against such a situation than if favor of it," Chase said. Chase based his opinion primarily on the different compositions of the Loyola and Tulane student bodies. He pointed out that Loyola draws more heavily on in-town students than does Tulane and that local students would be influenced away from such demonstrations both by their parents and by their residence in the city. Chase called attention to the Blouin issue (see March 24 Maroon and subsequent issues) as an example. He stated that the majority of students involved in the movement to reinstate Blouin, a member of the English faculty, were from out of town. Although Chase indicated that a liberation movement would probably not form at Loyola, he did not rule out such a possibility. "There's always an incident which starts off small and tends to avalanche and involve more students," he said. He pointed out that students dissatisfied with various issues, such as administrative refusal of Men's Residence Council demands and failure of the administration to rehire Blouin, could join together to from such a movement. He said, however, that he didn't think he student body would unite on any single issue. Chase ruled out the possibility of the Student Council organizing a liberation movement. "If demands came from the Student Council and weren't answered (by the administration), I don't think we would take over the Danna Center or the administration building," said Chase. "We would go back to the sanctions and call in certain measures," he added. He said that as a last resort the Student Council would try to unite the student body behind a refusal to pay tuition fees to the university. "To me, asking students not to pay tuition fees is more positive than having a sit-in," Chase said. Even if students' demands did not come from the Student Council, Chase said the group would take a stand on the demands. He declared that the Council would try to negotiate with the students, find out their grievances, and see if their demands were reasonable. Then the Council would vote either to support the movement or reject their demands. However, the student body president seemed to feel that future student grievances would be aired through the Student Council. He cited keeping abreast of student opinion as one of the major goals of the 1970-71 Council, saying that if the group, succeeded in their aims, all such demands would come through the Council. Chase also described the new Council as a group of more active student leaders than in past years. "I think the Student Council now is more liberal than last year's and more willing to work for something good and reasonable for the student body," he explained. "However, this liberalness would show itself in other ways than that taken by the Tulane Liberation Front," he said. AAUP consultant visits LU briefly A consultant for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) came to Loyola last week to discuss the Blouin case with faculty and the administration. Dr. Anthony DiMaggio, chairman of the Department of Chemistry and president of the Loyola chapter of the AAUP, said that the consultant, John McCall, came to Loyola because of letters written to the AAUP headquarters in Washington by Dr. John W. Corrington, removed chairman of the Department of English, and Michel T. Blouin, instructor of English. Dr. DiMaggio said that he could not comment on the specific nature of McCall's visit because McCall was given instructions to report to the main office in Washington and not divulge any information about his trip to anyone else. However, Dr. DiMaggio did release a letter sent to him from the Associate Secretary of the AAUP in Washington explaining the nature of McCall's visit to Loyola. The letter stated that McCall, professor of English and head-elect of the Department of English at the University of Cincinnati, would "serve as a consultant for this Association (AAUP) to the administration and faculty at Loyola University." The letter stresSed that McCall's role was strictly an advisory one and should be "carefully distinguished from that of an ad hoc investigating committee." It also indicated that the AAUP would write a letter to Father Jolley and asked that Dr. DiMaggio set up an appointment with Father Jolley and McCall. Wednesday, Father Jolley said that he had received a letter from the AAUP and had talked to McCall but said that it was his understanding from the tone of the letter from the AAUP and from the nature of the visit from McCall that it was a purely informal visit without publicity so he did not feel free to discuss it. DR. ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Maroon notice Deadline for applications for the position of Maroon editor is Monday. Resumes should be brought to the Department of Journalism. Due to the change in the exam schedule, next week's Maroon is the final scheduled issue of the year. (continued on page five) (continued on page 5) (continued on page 3)