Maroon

              LOYOLA MAROON Vol. L no. 5 October 11, 1973 Slash victim doesn't blame Loyola By Patti Breckenridge MAROON STAFF REPORTER Wrapped in bandages concealing 200 stitches, his arms lay motionless on thebedspread. He sat somewhat comfortably, propped up against the backboard of the bed, surrounded by visitors. His saxophone was next to his bed, unplayed fora week. "I don't blame the University," said Albert Stauder, a freshman music student recuperating after being attacked by three men last week on Calhoun St. behind the Science Complex. Two of the men held him on the ground, while the third assailant slashed Slander's arms repeatedly with sharp instruments. "We want to see you bleed," one of the assailants had said to Stauder. Standing on the opposite side of the small, crowded bedroom, Mrs. Stauder added, "It's not really a reflection on the University. I have no bad feelings against them. It could have happened anywhere in the country at this particular time in history." Stauder agreed. "There's always a possibility of this kind of incident happening anywhere at all in the city," he said. Speaking with composure, Stauder recounted the attack. "I was finishing the freshman orientation program in the library; that night was a visual aids program. My car was parked on St. Charles Street. I was walking alone along thesidewalk behind the Science Complex, going to my car, when it happened. While I was being attacked, I never did calm down; I just wanted to get away. One guy held my head, and another stepped on my legs, while the third one was cutting me up." Stauder said he got up and walked back to the campus after his attackers left. Asked whether he would be afraid to walk around Loyola's campus now, Stauder replied, "I always felt safe around Loyola. I'll have to wait \o see if I have any fear." To help prevent further attacks Stauder suggested that something be done about the parking situation, lighting around campus, and patrolling by security. He said many students are forced to park off campus, sometimes blocks away from Loyola where the lighting is bad. "If they had lights below the trees instead of above them, the danger wouldn't be so bad, especially behind the Science Complex," Stauder said. Stauder believes more security guards should be assigned Stauder believes more security guards should be assigned to patrol. "This kind of incident still could happen even if these precautions are taken, but there would be less of a chance," he said. Stauder suggests that the students themselves can take precautions. "For instance, if I ever again walk around Loyola at night, 111 go through the campus 1 "8 i i ! A late night place to avoid. Scene: Calhoun side of the Science Complex where a Loyola student was recently slashed. Campus crime rate causes security changes By Patti Breckenridge Maroon Staff Reporter As a result of the slashing incident last week involving a freshman Loyolastudent a number of new security measures are being initiated both on and off campus. "It looks as though everything is going haywire," said Jack T. Kellogg, Loyola Security Director. "The situation this semester has dictated that we take new security precuations." Kellogg said the bathroom incidents and other disturbances this semester have all happened before, "It's just that everything's bunched up together this semester." The slashing incident was the first of its kind, he said. Kellogg outlined four security measures that have been or will be initiated as a resultof these incidents: additional security equipment, aletter to the Loyola community from the Security Department, additional lighting and rumor-control procedures. "The slashing and the incident involving the man in the women's bathroom have speeded up the process as far as obtaining nightsticks and mace," Kellogg said. The security guards now carry both of these as part of their equipment. Kellogg said he sent a letter to faculty members will suggestions for their personal safety. Copies of the letter were also put in the school Post Office boxes. Kellogg added that the Security Department is looking into placing lights behind the Science Complex on Calhoun Street, where the slashing occurrred. "Technically speaking," he said, "it's the city's job. However, we are going to take these precations anyway." Kellogg said he is also interested in setting up channels of communication with the MAROON and WLDC so that standard uniform rumor-control procedures could be established. Responding to the recommendation by Albert Stauder, the student slashed last weekthat increased patrolling of dark areas would increase safety, Kellogg said, "We could place a man every ten feet apart around the campus and that would solve the problem. But as a practical matter, I don't think increased patrolling is the solution. We'll never have this place completely saturated with security guards." Asked if the Security Department was paying special attention to the area where the slashing occurred, Kellogg said, "We are placing some security emphasis there, looking in retrospect, but that's not the only place that kind of incident could have occurred. So we aren't pulling guards off campus to patrol that area and leave another area unguarded." The New Orleans Police Department has also responded to the slashing incident by taking some precautions. A police officer from the Second District, which encompasses the University area, told the MAROON that police cars are now patrolling the streets around Loyola more frequently in the evenings until nine or ten o'clock. • ■• ■■ Judith Crist to speak Film and drama critic Judith Crist will be the first in a series of speakers brought to Loyola by the recently formed Campus-Wide Speakers Progranr. Crist will speak in Nunemaker Hall on Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. The speakers program is a "cooperative endeavor on the part of the Student Union, SGA, and the university Guest Lectures committee, to put together a viable university wide speakers program," said Bob DeVoto, Student Government Association president and SGA representative for the speaker's program. Two other representatives on I hespeakers program, Bill Lussy, Student Union Cultural committee chairman, and Dr. Phil Dynia, University Guest Lectures committee chairman, are optimistic about the program's success. "If all the parties for the co-sponsorship in the Campus-Wide Speakers program work together to bring in high-quality speakers, as they seem to be, then it should be very successful," said Lussy. Dynia agreed. "We have to keep a balance between planning ahead and scheduling speakers who are available on short notice," said Dynia. DeVoto, who planned the forumulation of the speakers program along with Dynia and the Rev. James C. Carter, University Provost, believes that it will fulfill the student's interests. "The cooperation of all bpdies is essential and if one body fails to cooperate it will be easy to see which body is culpable for the failure. The burden of responsibility is shared by all," said DeVoto. The funding of the speakers program is twofold. Ten thousand dollars has been appropriated by Carter to the guest lectures committee to fund departmental speakers and help fund speakers with university-wide appeal. The' SGA appropriates funds to the Cultural Committee of the Student Union for the sole purpose of jointly funding, with the guest lectures committee, the Campus-Wide Speakers Program. (continued on page 12) (continued an page 11)