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              MAROON LOYOLA UNIVERSITY IMEW ORLEANS DECEMBER 3,1976 VOL. LIN IMO.II 1976 Law honors are announced Stephen I. Dwyer, a 1976 magna cum laude graduate of the Loyola University School of Law, received top honors last week at the annual awards night ceremonies sponsored jointly by the Loyola Student Bar Association and School of Law. Dwyer received the Faculty Award and the Allen Smith Company Award which are given annually to the senior law student who has maintained the highest average over his entire course of study. The Dean's Award, given to the student who has maintained the highest average during his first year of law school, was awarded to Patrick McTernan. Anthony Dingleman received the Law Week Award given to the graduating senior who has made the most satisfactory scholastic progress in the final year- Other students receiving top honors included: William C. Credo.lll, Henry L. Sarpy Memorial Award; Monica T. Surprenant, Edwin I. Mahoney Award; Stephen I. Dwyer, Deborah F. Zehner. Patrick McTernan, Bettye Barrios, Dr. Monte Holland, Selma E. Bordelon, L. Kent Abney, Samuel O. Buckley 111, Janine S. Dingleman, Susan Peterson, Monica Surprenant, and Terry Deffes, West Publishing Company Awards; Catherine Soutullo, New Orleans Notary Association Award; William Aaron, Louis Cosenza, and Kim Gandy, Loyola Law Alumni Award; Patrick McTernan, Federal Bar Association Award; Charles N. Miller, Jr., Jack LaNasa Award; Cynthia Coulter, David Simerly and Monica Surprenant, Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association Awards. Also, Deborah F. Zehner, Brendan F. Brown Award; Andre Mouledoux, Rene Mouledoux, Scott St. Mane, Elizabeth Tunks, and Anthony Zebouni, International Moot Court Award; Lauria Pittella, Antonio E. Papale Award; Charlene S. Dittmer, Joseph M. Rault Award and Joseph A. Mengacci, Law Clinic Award. Student Bar Association Certificates of Merit were presented to the student earning the highest grade in each course for which American Jurisprudence Books were not awarded. Step right up, sell those books The Loyola Bookstore is sponsoring j book and record sale which will last through Dec, 24 and plans to buy back used books Dec. 16-17. According to Marjorie Nobles, Bookstore manager, "The book sale concerns texts that we weren't able to return to the publisher. They are those left over from classes, and for various reasons we were not able to return the surplus. We are allowed to return 20 per cent of leftover books, but if that book goes out of print they will not be bought by the publisher." Students will be able to sell back their books for approximately one-fourth the cost during December. "Textbooks we know will be used in the spring are the ones we want, but the Nebraska Book Company representative (supplier) will be here to buy back all books from everyone during those two days," she said. Concerning the cost which students will receive for books Nobles stated, "The book company is taking a chance in buying back books which they could get stuck with since they may be outdated with a new printing. Books drop in value each year they are in print." The record sale, which will be sponsored again in March, involves all types of music-pop, jazz. folk and classical. "We are especially heavy on classical m.;sic since there are so many music students," Nobles said. Most of the store's record sales come from classical records. Books For Sale - Social work major, Lou Ann Cupp takes advantage of the book and record sale sponsored by the Loyola Bookstore. photo :Don Cooper, Jr. Teacher's wife asks for free tuition By Ruth Largay In a letter to Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., president of Loyola, dated November 8, Mrs. Jodie Bell, a junior majoring in Urban Affairs and Communications, asked that faculty spouses be granted the privilege of attending Loyola free on the basis of information which she supplied in her letter. Bell, who is the wife of assistant professor of journalism Tom Bell, wrote the letter asking that the situation of only a partial tuition remission for faculty spouses be remedied at the November 18 Board of Directors meeting. In her letter, Bell points out that it is cheaper for a faculty spouse to attend the University of New Orleans and pay full tuition than it is to attend Loyola with a partial tuition remission. She also wrote in her letter that Loyola is in the miniority of universities"charging tuition to faculty spouses and that Loyola" is the only private university to do so. According to Bell, Tulane University, Xavier University, St. Mary's Dominican College and Dillard University do not charge tuition to faculty spouses. Bell wrote in her letter that the Reflective Age Program at Loyola allows anyone over the age of 65 attend Loyola free regardless of whether or not they are related to faculty or staff. Loyola actually allows anyone over the age of 62.5 to attend the university free. She wrote, "I believe if the university is inclined to grant tuition exemption to any group, it is morally bound to do so for members of its own community before extending such largesse to the public." John L. Eckholdt, senior vice president for business and finance, responded to Bell's letter at the request of Carter. Eckholdt's response indicated that an ad hoc committee is presently evaluating the question of tuition remission for faculty spouses. Board slow to act on free tuition plan By Ruth Largay The Board of Directors has still not acted on a recommendation passed seven months ago by the Faculty Senate to allow faculty spouses full tuition remission. In a report to the University community concerning actions taken by the Board of Directors at its Nov. 18 meeting, the Rev. Robert J. Ratchford, S.J., Recorder for the Board, wrote: ". . .The Finance Committee is studying the tuition remission policy." When asked whether or not the tuition remission program under study included a consideration of faculty husbands and wives, Fr. Ratchford replied, "Yes, indirectly, it would have to do with faculty and staff spouses." The uncertain status of the Faculty Senate's recommendation came to light as a result of investigation of another story regarding a letter written to Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., president of Loyola, by Mrs. Jodie Bell, wife of Associate Professor of Journalism Tom Bell. Mrs. Bell's letter addressed the question of faculty spouse tuition remission. According to Dr. Fdward Renwick, president of the Faculty Senate, the Faculty Senate acts as an advisory body to the Board of Directors and the administration. "Last April, in a close vote, the Faculty Senate voted to recommend to the administration and the Board of Directors that the tuition remission for faculty spouses be raised from 75-100 per cent," said Renwick. According to Dr. Anthony Di Maggio, who was president of the Faculty Senate in April, the motion for the recommendation carried by an eight to five vote at the April 1 meeting of the Faculty Senate. Di Maggio said that the minutes of that meeting were automatically sent to the ex-officio members of the Faculty Senate, Carter,a member of the Board of Directors, and Dr. 'Robert A. Preston, Vice President for Academic Affairs. Carter's secretary, Lilly Harris, refused to allow a Maroon reporter to speak with Carter, saying that his tight schedule would not permit it. She directed the Maroon reporter to speak with John L. Eckholdt Senior Vice President for Business and Finance, since, she said, he was now handling the matter. Informed that the -oorter had already spoken with F.ckholdt, who said he did not know anything about the Faculty Senate's recommendation .Harris then directed the reporter to speak with Preston. Preston refused to see the reporter to discuss the matter, but sent word through a secretary that "as far as he knows, it (the recommendation) has never gotten into the President's office." According to Di Maggio, as president of the Faculty Senate he did not write a specific letter to the Board of Directors about the recommendation, however, he said that Carter received a copy of the minutes which included the recommendation. (Cont'd. on pg 4 )