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              loyola maroon Vol. XLVII Loyola University, New Orleans, La., 70118, Friday, October 16,1970 Wo. 7 BA — a controversy over quality By MIMI GRIFFITH Maroon Staff Reporter An interview with the dean Complaints about losing accreditation 'arise from a misunderstanding' Many faculty members who agitate for change, said Dr. G. Ralph Smith, dean of the College of Business Administration, "do not seem to realize the complexities involved." In a interview this week Dr. Smith cited curriculum revision, teacher recruitment, and college accreditation as aeras of misunderstandings between some faculty members and the dean's office. The College of Business Administration has been the scene of controversy over student and faculty criticism of the school's academic quality. Some business students describe the faculty as divided in progressive versus traditional camps. In a faculty memo this fall the dean outlined suggested goals for the business school. One of the goals commits the college to teaching the student "the manifold uses of mathematics, computers and probability as tools for business. Dr. Smith indicated that groups of faculty and students do not believe the college is moving fast enough toward this goal of emphasizing the quantitative aspects of business. The dean noted that when the new CDC 3300 is installed in the computer science department of A&S, the business college will take advantage of it. Fven now the business school has "very good relations" with computer science, he said. Another goal stated in the dean's faculty memo is "a constant scanning of the required and elective areas of programs of study with the intent of altering the curriculum." However, Dr. Smith emphasized that he believes the crux of curriculum change is finding new faculty to teach the new courses. He noted Dr. Tataconda had been especially recruited to teach the quantitative aspects of business. Hiring him was the "climax of a search of several years for someone of his skills," he said. Dr. Smith said a good school is built mainly on good teachers which he said are hard to find. In the attempt to maintain academic excellence, the business school tries to bring in qualified teachers with terminal degrees. One of the problems involved is that about 40 per cent of the American Ph.D's who graduate in business administration leave the academic community for business ot government. According to the dean this a much higher proportion than in other disciplines. Added to the shortage of qualified teachers is the fact that Loyola's College of Business Administration emphasizes undergraduate education. The dean said that while many professors prefer to teach graduate students, the business school only hires those who are willing to teach undergraduate as well as graduates. Dr. Smith said it is difficult to find faculty who want to teach undergraduates at a small school-often at a decrease in salary. Another area of dispute in the business school revolves around accreditation. Loyola's business college is accredited by the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACBS). The dean said segments of the faculty and students had complained the school was in danger of losing its accreditation for lack of professors holding terminal degrees. He contends this arises from a misunderstanding of the AACSB's requirements. Dr. Smith explained that the AASCB inagurated a new system of accreditation in 1970 and gave the schools a year to qualify. He said that he believes Loyola's business school is in no danger of failing accreditation. The dean said that his office is in the process of completing AASCB accreditation forms which are due back to the association by the end of December. He said he expects to know the final results from the ASSCB by spring of next year. Dr. Smith envisions the man in the office of assistant dean helping him with the jobs of revising the curriculum and filing for accredation. He said he would like the assistant dean to become the "dean's understudy" knowledgeable in all areas of the college. Dr. Rudolpf Coper was appointed to the newly-created post of assistant dean last spring. The Rev. Thomas H. Clancy, former academic vice president, appointed Dr. Coper for a term of one year. Dr. Smith said he did riot know if Dr. Coper would continue as assistant dean after the year is up. In addition to the goals of quantitative orientation and curriculum revision, the dean's faculty memo suggested the business school should emphasize " private enterprise's responsibility to society." In line with such a committment, the business school is exploring the possibility of providing its professional expertise to aid minorities in the New Orleans Area. Proposals for such minority assistance programs are still in the planning stages. In one such program, the Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Corporation (MESBIC), faculty of the business school would participate as resources of professional knowledge for disadvantaged persons who wish to go into business. Another possibility in this area is a program of courses sponsored by the consortium. Classes in business methods would be offered as electives to regular college students, as well as G. RALPH SMITH SC representatives elected by freshmen Newly elected council members Rip Charbonnet, Buddy Ray and Suzanne Toppino will represent A&S freshmen in the student government. After this week's freshmen elections for Student Council, thereis still one A&S slot vacant. Candidates Jeanie Shehan, Mary Beth Harun and Peggy Johnson will compete for the seat in a run-off next week. There will also be a run-off between Bob Rayhawk and James Simpson for the single freshman seat in the College of Business Administration. The only freshman music school candidate, Lynn Enenbach, will represent music school freshmen. Run-offs will be held Monday and Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in from of the Danna Center. Highlighting the freshman campaign this year was a WLDC radio program which allowed candidates to express their views on university issues. An opinion voiced by several candidates was that Loyola students seem to lack enthusiasm and unity. Some candidates also complained that campaign publicity had been too limited. The apportionment scheme of the new constitution provides for a different system of representation for freshmen than was used formerly. This year a total of six freshmen representatives, apportioned according to the number of freshmen in each college, will serve on the council. Under the old constitution, the freshman class elected a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. The president of each freshman class had a voting membership on the Student Council. Admissions policy protested by council By BILL LAM Maroon Staff Reporter The Student Council this week passed a resolution disapproving of the Admissions' Office's new non-retroactive policy of accepting "D" grades from transfer students. The council unanimously passed a motion calling on its president, Edgar Chase, to submit a letter to the Committee on Admission Standards and Policy. The letter denounces the new policy, which council members say "may lower Loyola's academic standards in the eyes of the general public." Two of the main points stressed in the letter are: 1.) opposition to the lowering of admission requirements through the acceptance of "D's" from transfer students; 2.) objection to the fact that students tranfering to Loyola prior to the adoption of the new policy will not have their "D's" credited. Elliote M. Harold, assistant director of admissions, speaking at the council meeting said that Loyola still requires admissable students to hold an overall "C" average. According to Dr. Robert T. McLean, chairman of Loyola's Committee on Admissions Standards and Policy, the new policy will not affect the university's academic standards as the council believes it will. In an interview, Dr. McLean emphasized two points: I.) transfer applicants have always had their "D's" and "F's" used in calculation of their admissability. This will still be the case. 2.) An applicant now being admitted with at least an overall "C" average but who has some "D" grades would meet with either the dean of his college or major advisors. These two have the option of allowing one oi more of the student's "D" grades to count toward his degree. McLean said that the new policy had not beeen made retroactive because when the policy was approved by the committee last May, no motion had been made to make it retroactive. McLean would not say whether he felt the policy should have been made retroactive, saying "It might prejudice the committee should it reconvene to consider the retroactive aspect of the policy." City College representatives have been highly involved in bringing the new policy to light in council meetings. The council did not know of the new policy until Hal Schiffman, City College student body president, presented it at last week's council meeting. In other council business this week, three students were nominated to fill posts on the Advisory Board on Disruptive Demonstrations. The board will attempt to provide an acceptable definition of the word "disruptive" to replace a provisional definition recently issued by the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., vice president for academic aft airs. The three students on the committee are: Pat Beauchamp, law fresh-' man; John Brazier, A&S senior; and Ashton O'Dwyer, law school president. Other members of the board will consist of three administrators and three faculty. Additionally, the council appropriated $100 to repay a loan to Peter Cangelosi, faculty member in the Department of History, Dental School representative Craig Marcello moved that the council appropriate $600 to dental school for social and professional activities. That motion will be considered at next week's council meeting. A new member of the council, Lynn Levy, Dental Hygiene junior, was sworn in to fill the vacancy left by Bert McCoy, who did not return to Loyola this year. Senate reelects Rousseau; R & T committee discussed By DEBBIE BOURQUE Maroon Desk Editor Dennis L. Rousseau, associate professor of law, was elected to a second term as chairman of the University Senate last week as the new Senate began organizing itself for the next two years. The faculty representatives elected Janet Riley, associate professor of law, vice chairman and the Rev. Louis A. Poche.S.J., assistant professor of theology, was elected secretary. After the election of new officers, the senate discussed plans to elect a university rank and tenure committee. The senate has had its own rank and tenure committee since 1969. However, Loyola does not yet have a university-wide committee. The original plan, which followed the plan used by Harvard University, was submitted to the senate last May by the then-president, the Very Rev. Homer R. Jolley, S.J., but was tabled by the old senate. Father Jolley's plan suggested guidelines concerning eligibility for membershipmembership on the rank and tenure committee, the manner in which representatives are elected, and the length of term of office. During the summer, the senate's Handbook Negotiations committee revised Father Jolley's plan. The revised plan was presented to the new senate last Thursday. The suggestions made by the handbook committee will be discussed and voted upon at the next senate meeting October 22, according to Father Poche. Father Poche said that the revisions to be voted upon concern mostly details such as whether or not an assistant professor can be nominated or if only associate professors are eligible. In other business, Rousseau spoke briefly concerning pending senate business which includes a proposal from the Student Council concerning the formation of a joint faculty-student-administration body. The proposal will be discussed at a future meeting. 'We want freedom', says IMCCF member Holmes explains Panther program "The people took care of business," a member of the National Committee to Combat Fascism said at Loyola last week. Harold Holmes, NCCF member, said in a panel discussion last week that most whites in the community had been given a false impression of the recent violence in the Desire Street Project in New Orleans. Holmes told his audience that the undercover policemen who were allegedly beaten by the NCCF at the beginning of the incident were exposed in one of the group's political education classes. He said they had been turned over to the people of the community. After the police later raided the NCCF office, "the people moved in and cleaned up," Holmes said. According to Holmes, the NCCF is the organizing arm of the Black Panther Party. He described the party's ten point program saying: "1.) We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black community. "2.) We want full employment for our people "3.) We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black community."4.) We want decent housing fit for shelter of human beings. "5.) We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of the decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in present day society. "6.) We want all black men exempt from military service. "7.) We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people. "8.) We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state and county prisons and jails. "9.) We want all black people, when brought to trial, to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from the black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. "10.) We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace and as our major political objective a United Nations supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate for the purpose of determining the will of the black people as to their individual destiny." Audience participation was almost instantaneous. Holmes was asked why the Panthers felt that blacks should be freed from military service. "How can we go fight poor oppressed people when people over here are shot down in the streets?" he answered. "How can we protect this country when they don't protect us? We're for all poor, oppressed people in the world. This is our primary objective." He added that the army is one of "the most racist complexes in the United States, reserving the right to put poor blacks and whites in the front lines. Another question was asked concerning the idea of freeing blacks from prisons. Holmes' explanation was that most people on juries do not understand the black man. Blacks should be released from prison so that they can be tried by members of their own peer group, he said. In reference to those blacks who do not agree to the Black Panther approach to the race problem, Holmes said that these people know they are oppressed but they will have to be oppressed a little longer before they see that the Black Panthers will solve their problems. Holmes said that the NCCF is supported by most members of the black community, "but most are afraid to stick their necks out because they know what the pigs will do to them . . . the only problem we have is the pig problem." The ultimate goal of the NCCF is revolution, Holmes said. "The pigs have declared war on the black community," he said. Blacks want to write their own constitution since they were "not considered human" when the U.S. Constitution was written, he said. Holmes urged black students to become part of the revolution and be willing to give their lives for it. One member of the audience ventured that this especially applies to students in the sciences who should be able "to construct explosives out of kitchen utensils." Asked what was the most useful instrument of the revolution, Holmes' one word reply was "Guns." Holmes rejected the idea of blacks seceeding from the United States though. This is unfeasible he said. "The destiny of the world is in the hands of the American people," he said. Also, "the means of production is in the hands of thp capitalists." "All power to the people," Holmes said. "Black power to black people, white power to white people, brown power to brown people and yellow power to Ho Chi Minn and all his brothers and sisters." HAROLD HOLMES Thy ultimate goal is revolution i (continued on page 4)