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one station in New

Orleans. -Fr. Clancy

MAROON FILE PHOTO

WWL reins change hands

Rev. Thomas II. Clancy, S.J.. is the
new vice president for communications at
Loyola University responsible for the
university’s WWL broadcasting opera-
tions. He replaces Rev. Francis A. Bene—
detto. S.J., who will assume other respon-
sibilities with the university on Nov. I.

As vice president for communications.
Fr. Clancy will serve as a liaison between
WWL Vice President and General Manager
J. Michael Early and Loyola President
Rev. James C. Carter, SJ. He will formu-
late and recommend to the Broadcast
Committee. that acts as the governing
board of the station. basic policies gov-
erning the objectives and operating philo-
sophy of WWL, He also serves as liaison
between the university and the network.

A native of Ilclena. Arkansas. Fr.
Clancy entered the Society of Jesus in
1042. He was awarded a bachelor‘s degree
from Spring Hill College. a master's from
Fordham University. a Iicentiate in sacred
theology from the Jesuit Faculty. and a
doctorate from the London Schoi.~
Economics and Political Science.

Fr. Clancy joined the Loyola faculty
in 1960 and served as chairman of the
political science department f
1966-69. He also served the universi
the capacity of vice president for aca-
demic affairs.

In 1970, he became an associate editor
of the Jesuit weekly, America. He was
appointed in 1971 Provincial Superior of
the New Orleans Province of the Society
of Jesus which covers IO states in the
South and Southwest. Since October
1977. he has been doing retreat and
formation work at St. Charles College in

Grand Coteau. ‘
When asked about future plans tor

changes at WWL. Fr. Clancy told the
Maroon, “We are starting a new program
on FM. “Good News At Ten'.“ He said
the new program would feature popular
religious music.

The position of vice president for
communications was once known as fac-
ulty advisor since the formation of WWL
was the result of a spark-gap student
experiment in 1023. What began in the
physics laboratory in Loyola‘s Marquette
Hall has been managed well by the Jesuit
Fathers at Loyola and has grown into a
multi-million dollar endowment that pro-
vides the university with money to edu-
cate.

WWL-TV-AM-FM is the only locally
owned broadcast operation affiliated with
a major neIWork. WWL's excess of reve-
nues over expenditures goes to educa-
tional programs in other divisions of the
university and is spent in the New Orleans
area.

Fr. Benedetto will assume the position
of director of creative improvement at
Loyola. The Macon, Ga. native continues
to serve as secretary of Loyola‘s Board of
Directors and has served as chairman of
Loyola‘s physics and mathematics depart-
ment, physics department. research grants
committee. and scientific facilities com
mittee.

Fr. Benedetto has also served as chief
of the radiological section, New Orleans
Civil Defense, and as regional counselor
for the American Association of Physics
Teachers, and the American Institute of
Physics.

Allen leaves 'LU after another threat

By Maureen King

Security and Student Affairs were still
probing the assault on Gretchen Allen,
the only black candidate in the freshmen
elections for SGA Arts and Sciences
representative, when she was threatened
again last Sunday night. As this issue goes
to press, Allen is not an enrolled student
at Loyola University. She withdrew earli-
er this week.

On Monday, Oct. 30, Allen was as-
saulted by two unidentified girls in the
first floor rest room of Buddig Hall.

Allen had been away from the campus
since the attack and arrived unexpectedly

at Loyola around 8 pm. Sunday. She had
arrived with her parents and they stayed
with her until about 10 pm. Only min
utes after her parents left her room,
someone tried the knob on Allen’s locked
door. According to Vincent Knipfing,
vice-president for StudenT‘Affairs, Allen
asked who was at the door. The reply
came, “Open the door, you nigger.” Allen
later identified the voice as belonging to
one of the girls that had attacked her a
week earlier.

Knipfing told the Maroon that Allen

W

barricaded the door with a small refrigera-
tor and a chair. She also fired a small gun,
that released no projectile, near the door
in an attempt to scare the girl away.

There were no witnesses to the inci-
dent though several residents of the hall
admit to hearing a “pop.” Residents say
they did not investigate the noise be-
lieving it to be a fire-cracker. “No one
indicated seeing or hearing anyone or
anything out of the ordinary,” said
Knipfing.

The resident assistant on the floor was
investigating the smoke in the hall when
she discovered Allen in her room.

At a meeting with the fourth floor
residents (Allen’s floor) of Buddig Hall
Monday night, the Very Rev. James
Carter, S.J., president of Loyola Univer-
sity, and Knipfing both expressed deep
concern over the matter. Fr. Carter feels
that the timing was “too perfect.” He
believes that Allen was under surveillance
and that her assailants cannot live too far
from the fourth floor.

“To date, we have interviewed 30

different persons,” said Knipfing of the
investigation at a recent invertiew with

WLDC. “We’ve talked to . . . people living
on the floor, desk clerks, mail clerks,just
about everyone we can get our hands
on,” he said. “We’re not going to rest
until we track down every possible lead.”

Fr. Carter also talked to WLDC about
the affair. “We don’t know what this
person will do next,” he said. “We know
we are dealing with a person who is ready
to surprise us at any moment and we’re
just going to be ready for surprises."

The entire investigation was turned
over to the New Orleans Police Depart-
ment Tuesday. From now on. said
Knipfing, “The university will conduct its
investigation with the cooperation and
under the supervision of the Police De-
partment.” Allen has brought in an attor-
ney and when/if the person(s) involved is
caught, the person(s) will be sequestered
from the university.

Allen turned in her application for
withdrawal from Loyola University on
Monday afternoon. according to Maroon
sources. Fr. Carter has appealed to Allen
to return and he commented, “It will be
the university’s loss if Gretchen does not
return to Loyola.”

MAR N

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY / NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA / VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 10/ NOVEMBER 10,1978

MAROON FILE PHOTO

Fr. Benedetto will assume

the position of director of

creative improvements.

Inside

A one-hour ritual ceremony was
held earlier this week in one of the
white barracks between Bobet Hall
and“ the Danna Center. People sat on
the floor chanting and there was a
humming sound throughout the core-
mony. Actually, the ceremony was a
performance of Jean-Claude Van ital-

lie’s TheSerpenr. , Page 8

Are you: compulsive jogger? Are
you a habitual jogger? if the answer is
no, then ’you are a member of the
silent majority. if the answer is yes,
then you should examine your motives
and .then consider joining the silent

majority. Page II

Didn’t I hear that voice before on
the CBS Evening Nevis? Loyola com-
munications assistant professor Peter
Kalischer is back in broadcasting al-
most two years after he left CBS.
Kaiischer has his own program on a
IocalFM‘station; Page 12