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              loyola maroon Vol. XLVII Loyola University, New Orleans, La., 70118, Friday, March 5,1971 No. 18 Beauchamp An editorial According to one student government representative, the issue in next week's SGA presidential election is that there are no issues Perhaps-it would hardly be a unique occurence. But that statement overlooks one very basic issue that does exist this year, an issue no student should overlook when he votes next week. That is the orientation of the SGA itself, the question of how it will benefit students in the coming year. The old student council which used to sponsor dances, hold sweetheart elections and write dress rules is gone—and not missed at all. The need this year is for a president who will carry the SGA through to a new and more effective role in the university. The demand is for an experienced leader who understands the need for effective representation of student interests, not only within the university but within the community. Two of the four candidates seem to have the potential to meet the demand—Patrick Beauchamp and Sam Gregorio. However, in a decision between the two, we feel Mr. Beauchamp will have the most success in filling the need for a strong and forceful leader. The decision is not an easy one to make and indeed, in the Maroon's editorial board, was close. In fact, the quality and sincerity of the candidates this year encourages us to break tradition a bit—usually newspapers editorially endorse one candidate and avoid mention of the good points of the others. This year though, in the interests of fairness the lead editorial on page two presents the impressions of the candidates we gained in interviews held earlier this week. Most of the impressions were good. Still, it was those interviews that convinced us that Mr. Beauchamp is best qualified to lead the SGA at this particular point in its development. For two years now, the SGA has been moving away from the outdated concept of a social service club. It has legislated away many of the old trappings that typify sandbox student government. In doing so, it has arrived at an interim period where is has no well-defined function. Now the SGA must find a new role, according to Mr. Beauchamp, and that role cannot be of disciplinarian setting dress rules or of a passive puppet that grins and nods at everything before it. We agree. The SGA must become an active and effective representative of student desires, needs and demands. We must have no more of situations where students requesting rule changes are told they are wasting administrators' time. No more of situations where students sit in rotting buildings without an effective university voice to represent their concern. No more of disguised tuition raises and cavalier treatment of legitimate student interests. No more of a student council that passively accepts all this and yet feels righteous enough to tax students for the good job it is doing of representing them. In a phase, the need is for an effective and forceful representative, in academic as well as social affairs. Mr. Beauchamp, we think, fills the need. In the five years he has been at Loyola, he has gained an understanding and awareness unsurpassed by the other candidates of both the potential and problems of students participation in the university. Having graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences and become a freshman in the School of Law, Mr. Beauchamp is directly acquainted with the academic needs of the largest of Loyola's graduate and undergraduate schools. As an undergraduate English major last year, he was active in forcefully representing the desires of those majors. It is this combination of experience and forcefulness that tipped the decision of the editorial board of the Maroon toward Mr. Beauchamp—he will, we feel, lead the SGA through to its new role and not simply chair meetings as many council presidents have in the past. Mr. Gregorio, an impressive candidate, simply has not had the time in his one ana half years at Loyola to gain as much knowledge of the inner workings of the university and of the pressures students can bring to bear. Right now, though, the demand is for a person of Mr. Beauchamp's long experience and forceful personality. We need leadership, not consolidation; a president, not a chairman. Otherwise, the SGA is going to be stuck in that interim period without anything to do for a very long time. And the only benefit students will be getting from it will be the "privilege" to pay taxes to it. College races set By RHONDA NABONNE Maroon Staff Reporter Candidates have been busy this week setting up proposals, platforms, and posters for the primary elections for Presidents of the Colleges of Arts and Science, Business Administration, Music and City College to be held March 8 and 9. Kathleen Walsh, junior, and Jeff Jay, sophomore, are candidates for A&S. Brett R. Patton, sophomore, seeks the BA presidential seat. Anthony Laciura, sophomore, is a candidate for the Music School election. City College candidates are Charles Dorhauer and Alan Jackson, a junior. In discussing her candidacy, Miss Walsh based her platform on two levels: the university and the College of Arts and Science. Pretaining to the University level, she suggested "a changing tone of the SGA" from a mere legislative body to more of a lobby group through which student issues can be settled and students' rights and needs can be pushed. On the A&S level her main concern is with curriculum changes. She proposed the need for a General Studies program whereby all incoming freshmen, with counseling aid, can firmly decide on a major field of interest. In conjunction with this, she said interviews can be set up with Four to run for SGA president By KATHY BRISCOE Maroon Staff Reporter Elections for the Student Government Association (SGA) president and vice president, and the college student presidents will be held next Monday and Tuesday. Four students have announced their candidacy for president and three for vice president. A free speech mike has been scheduled for today in the Danna Center for the candidates to express their views. Those running for president are: Chuck Bauerlein, A&S sophomore, Pat Beauchamp. law school freshman, Sam Gregorio, A&S sophomore and Andy Tipton, A&S Sophomore. Vice presidential candidates are: Dick Chopin, law school freshman, Cyndy Littlefield. A&S sophomore, and Pat O'Keefe, A&S junior. In order to make the various issues as clear as possible for the student, there follows on page four a synopsis of each candidate, his views at\d his platform. Directors name committees on faculty, student affairs The administration activated two new committees of the Board of Directors thereby giving the faculty and students a direct line to the board. The board approved a motion by the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J. at its November meeting creating the Faculty Affairs Committee and the Student Affairs Committee. They are to prepare items for the board's agenda in each of their respective areas of university life. The committees are each composed of three members of the board and one faculty and one student member. The board determined the composition of each of the committees - the board representatives being appointed by the president of the university and the faculty and student members elected by the University Senate and the Student Government Association, respectively. The faculty and student members will not have a vote in the board decisions, however. The board members of the Faculty Affairs Committee are the Rev. John Mullahy, S.J., Rev. Francis Benedetto, S.J. and Rev. Henry Montecino, S.J. The board representatives on the Student Affairs Committee are ihe Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., Rev. Henry Montecino, S.J. and Rev. ErnestFerlita, S.J. The functions of the committees parallel each other. According to Father Carter they are designed to "significantly improve the input of information to the board." The committees are to gather information about student or faculty affairs and present it to the Executive Committee of the board for presentation to the board. This function was previously carried out by the board members themselves. Besides the committees' own channels of information in the university, matters for their consideration will also be presented to them from the president and from the board's Executive Committee. Students or faculty members having matters to present to the board would consult these committees first. "The idea," said Father Carter, '"is to get other people into board meetings to improve the input into the decision making process." He cited the Faculty Handbook as one of the things which might come under the jurisdiction of the Faculty Affairs Committee. If there were no committee already handling ,the handbook negotiations, he said, the Faculty Affairs Committee would handle its presentation to the board. Father Carter cited a student swimming pool as an example of the kind of things that the Student Affairs Committee might be concerned with. The petition for a swimming pool, which would require a major expenditure of money, would have to be presented to the board by the Student Affairs Committee. A&S approves four committees The Arts and Sciences faculty voted Wednesday at a college assembly to establish several committees, including a College Council, a Committee on Procedure, a Conciliation Committee and a Committee on Innovation. Tabled until the A&S faculty can meet again was a proposal for forming a new college rank and tenure committee. Besides deciding to establish the committees, the A&S faculty also voted on three other motions concerning the general formation of the committees. The assembly passed a motion made by the Rev. Joseph Tetlow, S.J., A&S dean, which calls for the committees formed to report back tor the assembly at its meeting in the fall of 1971. A motion by Dr. Marcus Smith asking that distinctions between tenured and non-tenured faculty members be ignored in the composition of the committees failed. A motion by Dr. C.J. Hebert that a faculty member may serve on only one of the newly-formed committees passed. When the faculty decided to form the committees, they went through a process of first voting to establish each committee and then voting to accept or reject the design for each committee drawn up by tht Curriculum Committee. Tht Curriculum Committee, composed ol A&S department chairmen, has beer working for the past few months or the outlines of the committees. The A&S faculty voted tc endorse the Curriculum Committee'; design for the College Council, the Committee on Procedure, the Conciliation Committee and the Committee on Innovation. Several faculty members spoke against accepting the Curriculum Committee's proposed design for the college Rank and Tenure (R&T) Committee, and amendments to the R&T design will be considered later. Below are outlines for the A&S committees as designed by the Curriculum Committee: The College Council, composed of five tenured and two non-tenured faculty members, will advise the dean on all non-curricular affairs. Members of this faculty-elected committee may be nominated by the dean or by fellow faculty members. The Committee on Procedure will run all college elections and decide on questions of procedure and due-process within the college. The two tenured members and the single non-tenured member will be nominated by the College Council and the Curriculum Committee and elected by the faculty. The principle aim of the Conciliation Committee is the settlement of problems within the college by informal means. The committee may hear complaints of faculty, administrators and students in disputes. This seven-member committee will have two student representatives and there will be five faculty members, of whom at least one and no more than two are to be non-tenured. The Committee on Innovation will form new ideas and developments for the college. This four man committee will have at least one student and two faculty members. The proposal for the Rank and Tenure Committee was tabled, bu the design outlined by the Curriculum Committee would make the committee have final faculty decision in the college on questions of both rank and tenure. A minimum of six tenured and a maximum of three non-tenured faculty members would make up the committee. While students would not be formal members, the committee would set up procedures for systematic student consultation. Dickhaus quits post By MIMI GRIFFITH Maroon Desk I ditor Jerome Dickhaus resigned last week as the head of Loyola's development office and has been replaced by Henry F.ngler, now the Acting Director of Development. According to F.ngler, Dickhaus left his post with Loyola's fund-raising office to take a development job with WYFS-TV. He said Dickhaus could not be charged with "any problems whatsoever." The acting director said it is not unusual for the university to release employees from their contracts when the opportunity for a better job comes along. He said Dickhaus' post with WYES-TV will give him more freedom in his work as well as a less compartmentalized office situation. Engler noted that the change in personnel has come during a "time for adjustment in development." He said the office is currently in "a waiting period between phases of the Campaign for Excellence (CFE)." Engler said that he had been appointed temporarily by the president of the university because he has not only worked in development, but has also had previous experience in the general management of the development office. Before Engler came to Loyola's development office in 1967, he served as dean of the business school 1954-1967. He also worked as a faculty member and consultant for the business school and is a former Loyola student. Engler said he does not know when a permanent head for development will be named. However, he noted that "the long-term director may well not be me." In the meantime, F.ngler says he plans to act as "custodian" of development and the office will catch up on back work before launching the second phase of the CFF. Currently development will concentrate on -accelerating collection of payments on pledges of gifts already made to Loyola -soliciting from annual givers -improving the accounting system of the development office to minimize human error. modifying development's report system "so that administrators and donors receive enough of the information they deserve to know." JEROME DICKHAUS Are the signups legal or illegal? By MARYGEHMAN Maroon Staff Reporter It's happening again-a sticky controversy in Student Clovernment Association (SGA) elections. One of three candidates for vice president Richard Chopin, may be running illegally. As of press date, he had not yet signed the affadavit required to make his campaign official. According to SGA President, Dooky Chase, a case could be made that Chopin's campaign is illegal. Pat O'Keefe, also running for vice president along with Cyndy Littlefield, plans to contest Chopin. "1 will continue my campaign," he stated to the Maroon, "but if I am forced to a run-off because of Mr. Chopin splitting the vote, he can be prepared to defend himself in Student Court." SGA election guidelines in effect during the nominations stated that u student wishing to run for office must sign an affidavit to that effect. Chopin contends that he was not able to appear Friday, Feb. 26, during the scheduled hours for signing the affidavits. He asked his friend, the president of the law school student body, Ashton O'Dwyer, to sign him up. O'Dwyer complied. However, he signed up five other candidates for vice president in Ihe same move. Roger Larue, Huntington Downer, Joey Mitchell and Billy Guste, all of the law school and Hal Schiffman, president of City College. Three of the five were not consulted about being nominated, and the two who were consulted refuse to comment on their reasons lor not signing the affidavits themselves. All five candidates have withdrawn their nominations. Mitchell, one of the three uninformed nominees, said Tuesday night that he had not seen O'Dwyer and that he will investigate the CMS, on his own. He said he thinks the move by O'Dwyer might be a political effort to affect the other vice presidential candidates. O'Dwyer, on the other hadn, has been quick to defend his position. "In my signing up any names whatsoever for the office of vice president," he said, "1 was merely exercising a right which I not only thought I hud, but which had precedent. "Last year when I ran for law school president, I was forced at great expense both financially and physically, into a run-off election due to the fact that a third candidate was entered into the race by someone other than himself. No one challenged the legality of his running. This candidate polled 13 votes, thus forcing a run-off. Chopin has stated that he is disturbed aobut O'Keefe publicizing his indignation to the SO A rather than approaching Chopin directly. "He seems to be shying away from competition," he said. Also unexplained is the action of SCiA president Chase in co-signing the affidavits with O'Dwyer. Chase was acting as chairman of the SGA Klections Committee in place of Bob Rayhawk who resigned as chairman Thursday, Feb. 25 in order to back Andy Tipton for SCiA President, and admits that he did not question the legality of O'Dwyer's sign-ups until recently. Chase said he was not aware of the precedent claimed by O'Dwyer. An amendment of the election bylaws passed in Tuesday's SGA meeting, which now makes it possible for a student to sign affidavits for other students in the future has come too late to rescue Chopin. He may very well have to consult his own law textbooks if his campaign gets off the ground. ASHTON O'DWYER (continued on pane 4)