Loyola Phoenix: From the Ashes: Sink the Tink

Item 1: This column by Jim Mueller describes a student movement called "Sink the Tink," which announced plans at an outdoor concert to call for the resignation of Vice-President and Dean of Student Wayne F. Tinkle. The students listed 5 main grievances, including the firing of Jim Robinson, former director of the Student Activities Office, and Bill Svrluga, former head of the Student Housing Office. They also demanded a search committee to replace these two administrators with student representatives. Another grievance was the heroin usage problem at Loyola. Students felt that Mr. Tinkle was more concerned with alcohol use than with the heroin problem, and that he had been "boorish" in attempting to act in loco parentis of students by attempting to remove Playboy from sale at a campus store. Finally, they pointed to the complete lack of doctors at the Student Health Service and the lack of improvement from the year before. The author comments that since nearly all student groups signed on to the "Sink the Tink" letter, it showed that "many of the student leaders at Loyola have lost all respect and lines of communication with the Dean of Students. If the new organization can take its case to the main student body and win, the Office of Student Personnel will become, in effect, obsolete. The failure or success of any such office relies on the trust and open lines of communication which it maintains with the student body."

Item 2: Detail of first two paragraphs of the article describing the group's announcement and first two grievances.

1971-10-08

Loyola Phoenix, 1971-10-08, page 3, "From the Ashes"

University Archives and Special Collections

University Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Phoenix, 1971-10-08, page 3, "From the Ashes"

Loyola University Chicago

Student life organizations

Wayne F. Tinkle

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