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              MAROON Oct. 17,1980 V 01.58, N0.6 Loyola University, New Orleans Security beefed up after Buddig burglary Loyola security is being reinforced after a Budding Hall resident was assaulted and robbed at gunpoint in her sixth floor room, Oct. 5. According to a New Orleans Police Department spokesman, a black male, armed with a revolver, knocked on the student's door about 3 p.m. and forced his way in when she opened it. He demanded money and the victim gave him $3. "He (also) told her he wanted to make love with her, but she talked him out of it," NOPD 2nd District Captain Raymond Bergeron said. The suspect then tied her up and burglarized the room. After spending about an hour in the room, the intruder gagged the woman and escaped with the cash, several personal items and her keys, including dorm keys. She was found more than an hour later by a friend. Several students expressed concern about their safety to housing director Robert Turek. "Students have been more security-conscious since the incident," Turek said. He added that he hoped their concern wasn't temporary. Mary Belle Sherlock, a Buddig resident, said students are especially concerned because the assailant has a key to the dorm. "The other night I came back to the dorm late and had to use my key (to the front door). I felt so unsafe unlocking a door that some man had a key to," Sherlock said. "If my key works, that man's got keys that work." The university changed the victim's room door lock, but it will take at least two weeks to change the main door locks because keys for the residents haven't come in yet, Turek said. Since the incident, security has been increased. An additional security guard now covers Buddig and Biever halls. Previously there was one guard for the back of the campus. Peepholes are being installed in every residence hall door. And Loyola's president, the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., said the security program will be re-evaluated.re-evaluated.Vincent Knipfing, vice president for Student Affairs, said, "As a result of this incident, I don't mind saying, we found one problem, in that on that particular day, a number of (fire) exit doors were unlocked." According to Bergeron and Knipfing, the suspect probably came in through a fire exit. Bergeron said the exit doors on the first through fifth floors were locked, but the sixth floor door was unlocked. And the student working at the front desk did not see anyone who fit the suspect's description, Bergeron said. JUNIOR CINDY HUE is among the hundreds of students to enjoy an opening day meal on Monday at Hardee's, the final link in Loyola's food chain. (Photo by Mark Botello) Biever, Buddig residents say LU Security is inadequate By TOM HARMEYER Reports of violent crime on campus and theft of personal items are primary reasons why most resident students and many commuters find Loyola's campus security inadequate, according to a Maroon poll. Of the 173 students asked, "Do you believe Loyola's campus security provides adequate protection?," 37.6 percent said "yes" while 44.5 percent said "no" and 17.9 percent claimed to have no experience with the security system. On-campus residents were more critical of campus security than commuters, with 65.2 percent of the residents saying it was inadequate, compared to 37 percent of the commuters. Complete results are as follows: DO YOU BELIEVE LOYOLA'S CAMPUS SECURITY PROVIDES ADEQUATE PROTECTION?Yes No No exp. Residents 32.4% 65.2% 2.2% Commuters 39.4% 37.0% 23.6% Total 37.6% 44.5% 17.9% SGA disagrees over convention allocations By MARCIA MOLNAR Student Government Association representatives got into a heated discussion over organizational funding at Tuesday's meeting.The conflict began shortly after Stephen Lee, a junior music school delegate, presented a bill to allocate $125 to the Loyola Association of Music Therapy Students. Lee had originally requested $850 from the finance committee to cover the costs of five students attending a national convention in Memphis, but was allocated only $125. Past SGA procedure, Lee said, was to fund half the cost of transportation, half the cost of lodging and the full cost of registration.However, Ivan Ransopher, SGA vice president, said the finance committee this week agreed to consider funding only the registration fee for a group going to a convention. He said the criterion. was agreed upon when the finance committee realized the SGA had only $7,000 left in the organizational budget for the rest of the year. However, Ransopher said the criterion was just adopted and not yet "put on paper." "I think it's unprofessional to just arbitrarily set a date (and decide) SGA will only finance registration," Lee said. "I should have been contacted first when they (the finance committee) adjusted the bill from $850 to $125," he said. "1 don't think it's fair to just state the rules. Where are you putting it down on paper?" Greg Enns, a senior and president of the Arts and Sciences delegation, said, "Obviously we made a major screw up. We haven't distributed the money equitably." Enns said the SGA set down the criteria in the beginning of the year and the assembly ought to follow that. Clark says U.S. in 'moral recession' By MARIA C.WARD American hostages in Iran may be released soon, but the United States is in the middle of a "moral recession," according to Ramsey Clark, who spoke to students in Nunemaker last Thursday night. Clark, who was U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon Johnson in 1967-69, said, "The Iranian people, the Iranian leadership in all segments, realize that holding the hostages is wrong - that anger is misdirected." He said the revolutionary leaders were prepared to release the hostages immediately but "suddenly came to equate holding the hostages with resistance to the United States. "Holding the hostages is a palpable way of saying no to the super powers," Clark said. Clark said he doesn't think the upcoming presidential election will have any effect on the release of the hostages. "In Iran, they don't know who Ronald Reagan is and they don't have a high opinion of Jimmy Carter," Clark said. He said the United States is "in a period of moral recession ... that comes from insecurity." He said the American people are insecure about inflation, racism and "the omnipresent fear of nuclear war. "If you don't believe you have a future, if you're insecure, you get selfish," Clark said. Clark said U.S. conduct toward Iran "has violated every sacred principle the U.S. proclaims." In supporting the Shah, the United States, "supported a totalitarian society that compelled absolute obedience to authority. "We claim to believe in freedom, how we love it. and we supported tyranny — a police state of the most despotic order," Clark said. He noted that torture and summary execution were CLARK, con't. p. 8 BURGLARY, con't. p. 8