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              The Maroon PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF LOYOLA UNIVERSITY VOL. VII NEW ORLEANS, LA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1928 No. 2 CUSS ELECTIONS ARE CONDUCTED IN ARTS DEPARTMENT Ganucheau, Rouchell and Mock Elected Presidents of Various Classes. As a result of the elections held in the Arts and Science department during the past week, Paul Ganucheau, Harold Rouchell and Raymond Mock were named president of the Senior, Junior and the Freshman classes, respectively. No election was held in the Sophomore class due to the fact that sufficient representation was not present at the meeting. An unusual feature of the elections was the fact that of the ten officers selected among the three classes only one man was an out-of-town student. The Senior class chose Paul Ganucheau. who is prominent on the campus as a result of having performed in the leading role of the Thespian play last spring, for the presidency, Gerard Rault. vice-president, William Patout, oi Patoutville, 1.a., secretary, and A 1 Kreider, treasurer. Harold Rouchell. the newly-elected president of the Junior class, holds the office of secretary in the Thespians and is. on the editorial staff oi the Maroon. Mark Malloy, vice-president, and Charles Lange. secretary-treasurer are the other officers. In addition to Raymond Mock, the freshmen honored Man Montagnet and Paul Reising with the positions of vice-president and secretary-treasuier, respectively. All three of the firstyear officers came to Loyola from the local Jesuits' high school. STUDENTS WITNESS FOOTBALL PICTURES Motion pictures of the football game played between Loyola and Notre Dame at South Bend were shown to an assembly of students in Marquette auditorium last week by H. W. E. Walthers, a Wolf supporter, who ♦reked north with the team and "shot" action scenes of the play on Cartier Field. Although Mr. Walthers is an amateur photographer, he succeeded in getting a number of excellent views with his 16 millimeter Eastman Cinekodak. The developed film, four-hundred feet in length, was projected upon a silver screen from Mr. Walthers' own projection machine. The game was shown in its entirety except in the instances when Notre Dame scored its two touchdowns. Both tims, explained Mr. Walthers, the hundred-foot rolls in the camera were exhausted, and the touchdowns completed before he could reload. Present at the showing were: Father F. D. 'Sullivan, Father Hvnes, Tad Gormley, and B. S. D'Antoni. Parochial school children were guests at a second performance directly following the first. Evolution Is Explained By Dr. Leo F. Kuntz Before Hospital Nurses In an address to student nurses of Charity Hospital recently, Leo. F. Kuntz, Ph. D.. head of the educational department at Loyola University, spoke 011 the theory erf evolution, treating it from a historical point of view and explaining the various types of evidences used by controversial evolutionists."T\*l'p kinds of general evidence are admitted by evolutionists," said Dr. Kuntz, who denied the material theory of transformism, "empirical evidence, which is based on such variations as we now observe to occur among living organisms, and inferential evidence, which aprioristically deduces the common ancestry oi allied organic types from their resemblances and their sequence in geological time." He also defined genetic, zoological, and paleontological evidence and showed where they were insufficient to explain the origin of man. These systems of evolution, Dr. Kuntz said, are defective inasmuch as they make man a simplified amoeba and are unable to construct a scheme of transmutation that synthesizes inheritance and variation in a logically coherent and factually substantial formula. Fossils reconstructed by paleontologists are inadequate to explain evolution because proof of geological time is practically impossible, he said. CASEY IS EDITOR OF LAW JOURNAL Powell A. Casey was elected editorin-chief of the Loyola Law Journal at a meeting held Tuesday, October 9. He succeeds Miss Leah Bertel. Everette Burgoyne and Willis Dwen were selected as associate editors. The others elected were: Rusiness Manager, John Carter; Advertising Manager, Levere Montgomery ; Departmental Editors, Supreme Court Reports, Paul Ganucheau; Court of Appeals Reports, Alex Granzin; Book Reviews, Jerry Rault; Exchanges, Miss Nedra Pilsbury. 'The Contributing Editors are: Joe Bowab, Miss Leah Bertel, Gerald Brown, Mrs. Ella Hubbel, James Hannie, John Charbonnet, D. T. Salsiccia, Ben Washastrom, George Duron, Louis Sulm, Harvey Betts, Roland Artigues, John McNellis, Frank DeLouche and Leon Sarpy. Several prominent attorneys will contribute articles this year. Among these will be Mr. W. O. Hart who has already written an article on "Monuments" which will appear in the next issue. This issue, the first of the year, will probably be the largest ever published as it will contain the issue of last July as well. It will be issued at an early date, probably during the first week of November. STRAYHAN CHOSEN AS PRESIDENT OF STUDENT COUNCIL Rault and Smith Named to Other Offices; Six New Members Are Installed. Harvey Strayhan of Shreveport, La.. Senior Arts student, was elected president of the Loyola Student Council at a meeting of the student governing body held last week in Bobet Hall. Other officers named at the meeting were Gerard Rault of New Orleans, Junior Law student, vice-president: and Prescott Smith, also of New Orleans and a senior in the Dental school, secretary-treasurer. The new men elected to positions on the Council at a meeting last week include Herb Potirciau. of New Iberia, Julian Jurgens of New Orleans and Leon Tujague of Opelousas, representatives of the school of Pharmacy, and William Roberts of Baton Rouge, Louis Leßlanc of Paincourtville, and Prescott Smith of New Orleans, of the school of Dentistry. In addition to Strayhan and Rault, the old members of the Council are QUAKE IN MEXICO IS RECORDED HERE The earthquake which rocked Mexico City and nine states of Mexico last Monday evening was recorded by the university seismograph. According to Rev. O. L. Abell, a preliminary disturbance was recorded at 9:05 p. m., followed shortly afterward by a severe, quake which lasted until 10:30 p. m. He located the seat of the disturbance to have been about the same as the Mexican quakes which were recorded last March and which were severely felt in Mexico City. Last week's quake resulted in the iniurv of five persons and caused damage over a wide area of Mexico. Associated Press dispatches from Oaxaca said that a large part of the southern section of the city was in ruins and other sections were badly damaged. The walls of the city hall of the town of Chalco, Mexico, collapsed, causing prisoners to attempt to break open the doors of the cells. The Pacific port of Acapulso in the state of Guerrero was also greatly damaged. Burglar Steals $27 From Desk in Oklahoma Ranch Twenty-seven dollars in cash was stolen from the desk of Mrs. R. J. Robichaux in the Oklahoma Ranch on October 6by an unknown person. The money represented rent paid by student boarders at the Ranch which Mrs. Robichaux had not had time to deposit in the bank. As yet no clue as to the thief has been obtained and "Ma," as Mrs. Robichaux is known to her boarders, has about given up hope of recovering Sodality Meeting Is Featured by Election of Officers for Year Jacques Yenni, junior' Arts student, was elected president of the Sodality at the reorganization meeting held in the Marquette Auditorium last week under the direction of Father Crean, faculty adviser of the society. Paul Ganucheai'.. a junior in the law department, was selected as vice-president while Julian Jurgens, senior pharmacist, and Emniett Benit, frosh dental, received the positions of secretary and treasurer, respectively. An active program has been planned for members of the sodality. Included in the future activities are regular; business meetings which are to be  on the first Monday of the month an noon and spiritual meetings which are scheduled twice a month — following the seven o'clock mass on the first "Friday of each month and after the eight o'clock mass on the third Sunday, which has been designated as the regular Communion day for members of the sodality and any other students who wish to attend. Father Crean has made it plain that all students who were members of sodalities in high school or at I.ovola in previous years, but who have not as yet become affiliated with the sodality since its reorganization, are urged and expected to join. All Catholic students, whether members or not, are expected to attend mass and Communion on the third Sunday of each month at the eight o'clock mass, which is the time specially dedicated to the sodality. At present some fifty students arc active members of the society and additional members are being enrolled daily. PHARMACY ROLL SHOWS INCREASE "Taking this year's enrollment of freshmen in the pharmacy department as a criterion, in comparison to the registration of preceding years, it is evident that Loyola University of the South is educating a majority of the future pharmacists of our city and state." Such was the statement of "Doc" Grasser, dean of the Pharmacy Department, in an interview with a Maroon reporter. "Doc" contends that it seems the young people of Louisiana. Mississippi and other southern states are just beginning to realize what an interesting and lucrative profession pharmacy is. This awakening is evidenced by the banner enrollment of the '28 pharmacy frosh with a total of thirty registrations, a considerable increase over last year. An addition of one or two instructors is contemplated as "Doc" Grasser says the present staff has its hands full in maintaining a proper course of instruction in the dispensing laboratory and other divisions of the department. The new instructor probably will be called on to assist Mr. D. L. Abadie, Jr. with his pharmaceutical laboratory work. BRIGHT FUTURE FOR UNIVERSITY BAND, SAYS PROF. CUPERO Most Successful Year in History Predicted for Musicians By Director. According to the statements of Father Westland, S. J., and Prof essor Cupero the university band is to have its most successful season during the coming year. In a recent interview. Professor Cupero had the following to say regarding the growth and development of the band: "It gives me great pleasure to have this opportunity to say a little about Loyola s truly marvelous band. In 1924 some ten or fifteen students met to hold our first band practice. Those few increased to twenty-five or thirty and before the year was completed Loyola had a real band." "The years 1925 and 1926 saw further progress until now in 1928 we have what I believe is one of the best college bands in the country. The personnel is one that could be envied by any leader. I love boys and music. Here at Loyola both are co-operated. I don t believe a finer or more cleancut set of boys could be found. They are always willing to work, quick to grasp instructions and suggestions at rehearsals, attentive and disciplined before audiences." "Success is difficult to obtain. Time, work and patience all go to make it up. I know the band's success in great part is due to the earnest, unselfish co-operation and support of Father Francis. For four years the band has had his attention at all times. I want everyone to know that I could never have done anything without his assistance. Mr. Denena also has been the STUDENT PHOTOS ARE TAKEN FOR 1929 WOLF Work on the 1929 issue of the Wolf began last week with the taking of the pictures of the various classes. The photographs were done this year, as in previous ones, by the Varenholt studio. Pictures of night-school students were taken the previous week. The Wolf staff for this year has not as yet ben completed . Jacques Yenni, formerly assistant editor, heads this years staff with ixubcit Avsworth acting as assistant editor. Benet Cain is fraternity editor, a post which he filled on last year's staff. The positions of business manager and departmental representatives are still open, but the editor expects to fill them shortly. leather O'Connor succeeds Mr. Achee as faculty adviser of this issue of the yearbook. The editorial staff is anxious to receive contributions of photographs from students of athletic and campus activities. This section of the yearbook has always been of special interest, and this year's staff wishes to improve on preceding issues in this department as well as others. (Continued on Page 2.) (Continued on Page 2.)