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              Loyolla MAROON LOYOLA UNIVERSITY / NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA / VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 9 / NOVEMBER 3, 1978 Violence mars election Compiled from staff reports An assault and battery, apparently related to the current Student Government Association elections for freshman representative in the Arts and Sciences delegation, occured last Monday night. At about 7:30 p.m., in a restroom on the first floor of Buddig Hall, Gretchen Allen, a candidate for the freshman representative seat, was attacked by two female assailants. This assault came after Allen had received a threatening phone call. She had also received a note in her mail box that carried the message, "If you don't withdraw from the election we are going to kill you." After notifying Campus Security of the threats, Allen found another note that had been slipped under her door. "Win the election and lose your life." Mercia Buckner, Allen's roommate, recalls last' Monday evening. "We were both in the laundry room. She asked me to take care of some of her clothes and walked across the hall to the restroom. Three or four minutes later she came into the laundry room crying." According to Allen, two white girls, one short, the other tall, attacked her. One held her while the other marked her chest and punched her. Allen had her blouse torn and water poured over her head. Allen is the only black running for the SGA office. It was predicted that she would take the black vote leaving the white vote to be split among the remaining five candidates. Though the SGA has issued a stall order on the election, most of the candidates have volunteered to postpone the election until the turmoil has subsided. Loyola University Security Director. Frank Oschmann, will be coordinating a full time investigation of the incident in order to ascertain the responsible parties. The identity of the assailants is unknown as this issue goes to press. Allen reported that the girls concealed their identities by wearing scarves on their faces. "I don't think it occurred on the spur of the moment," said Vincent Knipfing, vice president for student affairs, during a recent press conference. "It is my opinion that there was some planning to it," he said. Gretchen Allen has decided to go ahead with her campaign for freshman representative from Arts and Sciences to the SGA. "I do not intend to be intimidated by people of this sort," she told the Maroon. "Personally, I don't think they should be in school." Spinnin' wheels EDDIE LECKERT Not much was accomplished at last week's SGA meeting. The discussion and debate sparked by the release of the budget cuts slowed down the proceeding considerably. Kilpatrick encourages young lawyers By Sandy Jetton James (Jack) Kilpatrick, commentator for the television show "60 Minutes," spoke to a packed house Oct. 25 on the topic of "Fair Trial-Free Press Controversy."Kilpatrick, who lectured to a Nunemaker crowd of about 500 people, gave his views on such diverse but related topics as the Myron Farber case, the Supreme Court and various chief justices. As a guest of the Law School and the Student Bar Association, Kilpatrick began his talk with a little biographical information."It is always a great pleasure for me to return to New Orleans," he said. "This was an ancestral home. My father came from here. My grandfather and my greatgrandfather were all New Orleans people."The lecture was aimed mostly at the law students to whom Kilpatrick said he would talk "shop talk" concerning the relationship between the judiciary and the press. "I hope all of you who are not lawyers but are interested in law will bear with me, because I'm engaged tonight in a truly educational task: to try to talk to some of these young lawyers who very soon will be old judges and to persuade them that there is a point of view in the newspaper fraternity that they might otherwise have missed," he said. "We in the newspaper world feel rather set-upon by the judiciary from time to time. We understand judges extremely well. We know exactly what makes the lawyers' minds tick and what depresses us from time to time is that we're afraid they don't understand us," he said. "We are not loved by the judiciary and we don't understand because we are very lovable people." Kilpatrick had his first journalism job at the age of 20 in Richmond in 1941. One thing that left an "absolutely unforgetable" impression on the young journalist was a trip to Washington, D.C. There, he found his way to the Supreme Court. "Hughes was Chief Justice then. He looked more like God than God," said Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick's law experience includes covering the civil and criminal courts in Richmond, the federal and state appellate courts and everything in between the "lowest police court all the way to the Supreme Court." Kilpatrick discussed the conflict that has arisen between court and press. EDDIE LECKERT Renowned columnist and political critic James Kilpatrick addressed a full house at Nunemaker Hall last week. (Continued on page 2) I Inside Enrollment at Loyola should dese anywhere between one and e percent within the next four years despite an increase of over 100 students this semester. John Sears, director of planning, management and evaluation at Loyola, said this is part of a national trend. Page 3 A bill recently passed by Congress, which expands the Basic Equal Opportunity Grants (BEOG) program by guaranteeing the eligibility of more middle-class Americans, is only a token, according to Dr. E. P. Seybold, director of Scholarships and Financial Did you know that running the copy reproduction machine in Loyola's print shop requires a knowledge of ballet, calligraphy and harpsichord repair? Not really, but the man who runs the machine has all these talents, not ■ mention acting, choreography and uch more. Page 5 Few people ever have the experience of being within three feet of a great white shark. There is a man who does it for a living. Stan Waterman, underwater photographer of The Deep