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              MAROON ■ LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARCH 11 1976 i VOL. Lll NO. 18 'Collegiate, folds, no longer 'Uptown, by Mike Furlong The COLLEGIATE, a semi-monthly publication formerly known as the UPTOWN COLLEGIATE, folded this week shortly after its first anniversary. According to Dan Karpelman, the COLLEGIATE's publisher and "one-man-show," the demise of the paper was due to financial burdens that cost him personally $8500. However, the paper's financial obligations are being met with outstanding Accounts Receivable. The COLLEGIATE, which had a circulation of 15,000, functioned with only four to six active personnel and operated at a deficit due to a lack of funding by the seven universities and 46,300 students it serviced. The COLLEGIATE was distributed to Tulane, UNO, Dominican, Southern, Dillard and Xavier Universities. Four or more attempts to merge with the Loyola MAROON failed. The latest attempt, last semester, failed because the COLLEGIATE's platform for news did not coincide with the MAROON's purpose for publication —to inform the Loyola University community about current activities and events around campus. The COLLEGIATE was initiated last year by Karpelman, a Loyola student, as an independent studies project. It was intended to supplement the MAROON's news coverage and act as an inter-campus newspaper. The idea was commended by Tom Madden, the MAROON advisor. Unfortunately, the COLLEGIATE's birth as a MAROON adjunct never materialized. Karpelman sold his own stereo equipment to get the paper started and began production using tedious manual methods of production that involved hiring a printer to do the typesetting. The cost of production was running at almost $500 per issue. Lacking interested personnel and having only four advertising contracts, the COLLEGIATE was unable to finance operations beyond the first 13 months. Karpelman feels that he did accomplish something. "I'm the only New Orleans student to start an inter-campus paper from scratch and keep it in production for over a year. Producing the paper was 15 times more valuable than classroom theory, but unfortunately you can't get a degree without the classroom theory." DANIEL KARPELMAN, editor and publisher of the now defunct COLLEGIATE, is. leaving Loyola to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel HOI. He will start a feature weekly serving the Chapel Hill Triangle area. Loyola students serve inmates LUCAP at Jackson Barracks by Carlos Navarro Every Wednesday and Thursday night the cafeteria at Jackson Barracks Prison is converted into a classroom as student volunteers from Loyola and Xavier Universities tutor the inmates and mingle freely with them. The atmosphere is friendly and enthusiasm is high. Class is very informal; inmates are tutored on a personal basis in high school math, english, social studies and science. But learning goes beyond academic subjects. "What's so beautiful about this is that we learn from each other. The students teach us and they learn from us," said Camille Broussard, an inmate who has been in prison for seven years. "You're in here for a while, you tend to forget what the outside world looks like. These students come in here and show us that there is hope," Broussard said. "No way something like this could happen at Angola, only in a small satellite prison like this. It's good that someone's finding the potential that has been here," she added. The student volunteers agree. Norm Horstman, student chairman of LUCAP's (Loyola University Community Action Program) Jackson Barracks Program explained, "Most of the volunteers enjoy it. They consider it a very open and challenging evening." Volunteer Gerry Maloy, a Loyola freshman in Arts and Sciences, agreed, "It's good to get out ot my world of school and get into a different kind of atmosphere." "In terms of the overall impact the program has had on the prison, it has been extremely successful," Horstman said. "We have 35 to 40 inmates aspiring for a Graduate Equivalency Diploma(GED). Just the presence of the students has motivated a climate of good will, friendship and learning." The program has been in existence since last September. The administration at the prison seems to be quite pleased with the program. "It's the greatest thing that's happened in the Department of Corrections. We are overcoming one of the biggest difficulties in the prison system: education," Steven Leake, Assistant Prison Supervisor, said. "The inmates look forward to the coming of the students. They tend to dress better on Wednesday and Thursday and discipline problems decrease considerably, not that we usually have a big discipline problem," Leake said. "Sixty to seventy per cent of the inmates involved in the program spend from three to four nights a week studying the material," he added. Local officials are not the only ones who are impressed with the program. "A legislative committee from Baton Rouge assessing the facility was very impressed with what it saw. They were just on cloud nine when they walked out. To them it means that rehabilitation is working," explained the Reverend Joseph McGill, S. J., Associate Campus Minister at Loyola, who has been working with Jackson Barracks for more than two years. "The reason the program works is because the system is not doing it, but the community. It is in the hands of these young adults from Loyola and Xavier. The inmates can respond to them without responding to the system and they feel a certain sense of freedom," Father McGill said. Funding the program has not been a problem. "The (Orleans Parish) school board gets funds for the program from the State Department of Adult Education," said James B. Winder, the instructor assigned by the Orleans Parish School Board. LUCAP also has a special fund, should the program need additional money. "We haven't needed to spend a cent. The only expenses are books and other materials which the school board provides," Horstman said. However, the program is not without drawbacks. Apparently those inmates qualifying for a GED have run into some problems in taking the state required test. "We have a problem about location of testing because the inmates can't get out to take the test and the State Board of Education won't come here to give it." Winder said. Father McGill said, "The problem is in the process of being worked out. We have five men waiting since December to take the GED test. They have already passed a stiffer test." Father McGill who was the brain behind the whole Jackson Barracks program expressed his feelings. "The program has been successful beyond my fondest dreams. The genuine desire of the inmates for improving their situation in life, the students' response to the inmates' response have concretized my faith in man's desire to grow." Father McGill always makes a mass available to the inmates and students. "I don't preach; we have a dialogue homily. Some of the most moving masses I have said have been here at Jackson Barracks. I think the volunteers in a sense are saying mass. The inmates are being served by anonymous Christs," he said. Americans constitute greatest U.S. enemy by Peggy Hannan "We have met the enemy, and he is us." This famous quote from Pogo was the focus of "Perspectives on American Foreign Policy," a lecture given by Ronald Steel on Monday night in Nunemaker Hall. Steel is a former Foreign Service Officer and Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association. Steel has taught at Yale University and is now writing a biography of historian Walter Lippman. In the lecture, Steel icviewed American foreign policy since World War 11. Although the Soviets are "always held generally responsible," he said, the American people are to blame for world problems. According to Steel, because Americans complain about the CIA and won't support large military budgets "one begins to see that the greatest enemy of the United States is the American people themselves." Steel contends that the government has given U.S. foreign policy a veneer of morality so that Americans will accept it. He said the Viet Nam war was a denial of these morals, as were the Watergate scandal and covert CIA operations. He sees Americans alienating themselves from government in several ways. "One form is apathy. Another form is violence, as in war protests. A third form is withdrawal-for example, a whole counter-culture going off and baking bread in Vermont," he said, citing this alienation as the main problem facing us today. "As we celebrate our 2OOth birthday we see that the state is turning against all of us. The citizens are the enemy." He thought the conventional definition of foreign policy as a protector against invasion was overused, with the Vietnam war as an example. "Actually, the reason for the participation of the United States is.. .a test of our ability to impose the American will and our worth to ourselves," he said. Steel criticized detente by saying, "It was an invention of Henry Kissinger used to describe a situation whereby we and the Soviets would not devastate each other." Americans are disturbed, he said, because foreign policy is not running as smoothly as it once did. "We're not able to deal with the world the way we used to," Steel commented, "and if s frustrating." Ronald Steel