Stag - Vol. 15, No. 11 - March 11, 1964

              Published by Students of Fairfield Univer~j(y, Fairfield, Conn.· ';March 11, 1964 -----------....:..-__----:....:--
Vol. 15, N~. 11~
Constitution Seeks Student Approval
MAURICE O'SULLIVAN and MICHAEL DOGALLIE Fresh­men
Orientation chairmen, are shown discussing the'ir plans.
box offices and ticket takers. Six
. Pinkerton men were on duty, 2.at
the ticket gates, 4 at the locked
side entrances, Normally these
security measures are suff~cient.
But obviously normal security
was not sufficient to offset the
attraction exerted by basketball
power Assumption on WOUld-be.
and highly enterprising specta..;
tors. Post fiasco investigation
shows that some spectators· re··
'moved screens from washroom'
windows and thus gained undig-nified
entrance. .
Others ·working with cohorts
and oversympathetic individuals
gained entrance through the multi­doored
side entrances when the
guards were distracte.d. A truck
entrance to the back gym (con­necting
with the game gym) was
found afterwards to have been
open. Apparently this unusual en­trance
was opened by students
(See GYM, page 5)
The· gym holds 1660 people
for a game. To avoid overcrowd­ing,
tickets and special passes.
are ordinarily held to 1600. That
night the gym was undersold.·
The night of the Assumption
game only 1179 tickets were
sold; 83 reserved tickets were
to be picked up; 119 complimen­tary
tickets (including thqse for
the Freshman team members).
were issued, plus 19 press pas­ses
and 45 seats for priests and
officials. The grand total is only
1443. But the gym was filled
and people were standing, even
though some ticket holders were
not yet in; The Fire Chief'sedict
left them and other arrivals out
in the cold (12 degrees).
Where did the "in·group" at
the game come from? The 5
multiple-door entrances to the
gym were locked on the outside,
except for the lobby ones where
spectators normally enter to p~ss
Basketball Mystery:
Undersold, Overc~owded
. The mystery of the undersold but overcrowded gym at
Fairfield Umversity for th~ Assumption-Stag game has been
half solved. The obvious fact is that the attraction of the
Assumptio.n (Worcester) College Grey-hounds proved too
much for Fairfie1d U.'s security arrangements., .
On the chilly night of February 22· several hundred
ticket (or reservation) holders arrived to find theF. U. gym.
site of Assumption College's varsity basketball game with
the Stags. filled and .overflowing. The local fire chid had
already given an ul1inutum. - "Close the doors, the gym
cannot hold more."
The President of Ass~mption College had difficulty
getting inside to see his team, and had to .go out i.nto the
night to speak to his ,alumni who had come from afar. A
busload of Marymount girls settled for ,philosophical dis­cussion
over hot chocolate in Loyola Lounge instead of
cheering at the game.
them here at Fairfield."
In trying to help the class of
'68 adjust. t11e co-chairmen plan a
well rounded week of activities· in
cluding the traditional retreat, a
Field Day, and many social func­tions.
The chairmen expressed
the desire to see the retreat
pushed back a day. O'Sullivan
commented that "starting it
Tuesday would be better than
Monday afternoon, as usual. I
feel that this will give the boys
more time to get acquainted with
each other before getting into the
retreat."
As yet -the schedule for the
entire week is not drawn up.
Tentative' plans, however, include
a Talent Night planned for Thurs­day,
which will combine the talent
of the Freshmen and Sophomores.
An oPen mixer is planned for Fri­~
ay night, and a closed mixer
(See ORIENTATION•. page 11)
Rev. Henry·J, Murphy, S.J.,
Dean of AdmIssions, and Fresh­man
Dean of Studies, has an­nounced
the appointment of Mau­rice
O'Sullivan as chairman of the
F res hman Orientation,· and
Michael Dogallie as assistant
chairman. These two sophomores
will head all activities during
orientation week, which will run
from Sunday, September 13, to
Saturday, the 19.
. In discussing the value of ori­entation
week, O'Sullivan stated
"Orientation week is an important
period for the freshman. This is
their time of adjustment. Most
boys are away from home for the
first time, and will need a little
comforting and companionship.
That is why we would like to show
them the best time possible, and
help them in every way to adjust
to their new college surround­ings.
The quicker.this is brought
about, the easier it will be-for'
'Frosh Orientation
Committees Chosen
Dogwood Sets
S.at. Nite -Plans
The saturday night ::;url 1--arty 01·
the Dogwood Festival will be held
at the Fairfield Beach SUrf Club
on May 9, 1964, from 8 p.m.
until 1 a.m.
In addition to the sand and surf
atmosphere of the evening, the
chairman, Joe McIlduff and Chuck
Protano, have provided a com­bination
of two top recording
groups.
"Les Cooper and the-SOul Rock­ers"
have been contracted to pro­vide
continuous music for the en­tire
evening. The" Soul Rockers"
are well-known for their hit re­cording
of "Wiggle Wobble" and
are presently engaged in the
promotion of a new record "Motor
City" and "Swobblin."
Les Cooper arrived on the na­tional
scene transported by the
novel sounds produced by the
chromatic combination of guitars,
drums, saxophone, and a"home­made"
organ.
Since the mid-50's, they have
played a long list of engagements
at colleges in the New York area
as well as several appearances at
Fairfield's New Haven neighbor,
Yale. Wherever they have played,
they have received reviews which
agree with the general statement,
made concerning one oftheir New
Haven appearances, "LesCooper
and the Sour Rockers" put on one
of the liveliest andmost interest­ing
shows ever presented by a
rock 'n roll group.'"
Along with Les Cooper, the
Festival 90mmittee has prOVided
a group which promises to en- .
bance the mood instituted by
flickering bonfires on a monlit
beach. .
The "Five Satans" known in­ternationally
for their recording
of "In the still of the Night" have
_ bequeathed on rock and roll a
more serious and dreamy aspect.
The group has been described as
"outstanding," "fabUlous," and
"one of the best vocal groups in
the history of popular music."
Their record "In the Still of the
Night" has been reissued every
year since it was originally made
in 1956 and h.a~beennamedQneof
. (See D(X;WOOD. page 5)
Sand and Surf
Entertainment
Admin., Approves Constitution
The Judicial branch ~fthepJ"o­posed
student Government was in­dorsed
by the administration, last
Wednesday. A, committee com­posed
of l1r. Coughlin, Dean of
studies, Fr. McCormick. Dean of
Men, Fr. Murphy, Dean of Fresh-
, man and Admissions, Fr. Galla­gher,
Assistant Dean of Men and
Fr. Bresnahan, a legal Advisor,
ratified the final part of the ~on­stituti9n
after a few minor
changes were made. The student
Council was represented by Jim
Davidson '64, Joseph S3.!!.tangelo
'65, William Schuck '65, and Ken­neth
Keane '64.
Before this meeting Fr. Mc­Cormick
made a stateme~t con­cerning
the Judicial Branch. "The
. recent meeting with students con-cerning
the Judicial Branchofthe
proposed Student Governmentwas
constructively. profitable for both
students and members of the ad­ministration.
With a few minor
clarifications it seems that the
Articles pertaining to the Judicial
. Branch wouldbe beneficial to both
stUdents' and administration.
However, the success of any
Student Government ·ultimately
will be determined by'the willing­'
ness of capable students to ac­cept
the obligations and responsi­bilities
demanded for the smooth
and effective operation of a pro­ject.
Likewise, a student effort of
this magnitude cannot succeed
without the approval, encourage­ment
and cooperation of the ad­ministration."
Fr. Murphy added that'he was '
pleased with the i!llorts of the
student Council concerning the
Judicial Branch and that he was
in favor of the student Govern­'
ment.
Fr. Gallagher commented on
the February 26 meeting saying
"There was a very good dialogue
between students and administra­tion.
In substance there was argu­ment
on what the Judical Branch
should be in a Jesuit CoUege.
There remains a problem of
technical expression in the writ­ten
constitution and a few par­tiCulars
that need. solution. The
fear that the students will be
principally directing the discip­lining
picture at Fairfield Uni­versity
is not grounded in any- .
thing written in the Constitution."
(See CONSTITUTION. page 5)
FAIRFIELD STUDENTS PRESENT STATUTE TO POPE Jay
Lacroix and Lester Abrams, of the University, present statute of
St. Peter the Fisherman casting his net to Pope Paul VI during
audience in Vatican City. Interpreter was Rev. John Felice, second
from left. Presentation of the statute, which was executed by
sculptor Frederick Shrady, of Easton, was made yesterday on pehalf
of the student hody. .
Directory
Wild speaks on Existentialism, page 3.
Editorial commentary, "Capitol Review," page 4.
Marketing Club award, page 5.
Student .Government Constitution, pages 6, 7, 8.
Onion Patch, page 8.
Review: "Love With The Proper Stranger," page 11.
The Sports Desk, page 13.
Record breakers, page 13.
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PAGE 2 THE STAG March 11, 1964
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» FACULTY PERSONAUTY STAG HUNTS 1.-:..-·._CAM_P_U-:--S_,PE_RS_ON_AUTY 1
WE FOLD 'EM TOO!
'someday enter the field of high
,school administration.
One thing many students do
not realize is that he has been
working on a committee for the
improvement of the food situa­tion.
"I am pleased with the
progress made, and Lhope this
work will continue" he says.
When asked what he had en­joyed
in his many activities he
said; "Orientation was one of
. the most impressive things I
found as a Freshman. Then in
my Junior year, I had the honor
of heading thEf Orientation Com­mittee.
Although there were many
tiring hours of preparation dur­ing
the course of the preceding
summer, the end result was a
most satisfying and successful
one,"
Then he added, "But, what­ever
success I have achieved
here at Fairfield is due in great
part to the generous support and
. many sacrafices of· my class­mates
and friends.
HOW YOU QUALIFY FOR
INTERVIEW
1. If you are at least 18.
2. If you have a
valid driver's license.
3. If you are willing to
work hard.
Makers of the world's fastest selling ice cream specialties will
interview you on this date. If you're selected your job is reserved
for you until school closes. Start work as early as April 1st.
James Duquette came to Fair.. '
field in 1960 upon graduating from
St. Joseph High School in Pitts­field,
Mass. Since that time, he
has been a standout in practi­cally
all phases of 'campus life.
Jim's first year here was de­voted
almost entirely to his stu­dies.
However, in his Sophomore
year he was elected a member
of the Cardinal Key Society. Then,
in rapid succeSSion, he was ap­pointed
General Chairman of the
Freshman Orientation Commit­tee
and elected President of the
Class of '64 for his Junior year,
Jim was again voted President
for this his Senior year as well,
In addition to the above posi­tions,
he has been an active
member of the Education ClUb,
the Berkshire Area Club and the
Drama Society.
Jim is majoring in English
and hopes to continue here at
,fairfield for his Masters in Ed­,
ucation, He 'expressed a desire to
JIM DUQUETTE, '64
,
REGISTER NOW! ...
Your Placement Director or Summer
Placement Officer will set up an inter­view
schedule for you.
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CO°.sitlumor
Of The 300 College men who worked
10 or more weeks last Summer - 169
earned more than $1,200 with some
exceeding $2,000.
COO~umor
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Today tIle 1:>lagbeginsanewand
revised "Heeler System," for all
students interested in working on
the newspaper. The system has
two phases; first, a writing course
for all interested in joining the
News, Sports, or Features de­partments;
second, a tutor course
for all interested in Photography,
Layout, Advertising and Circula­tion,
The writing course will run
between four and five weeks and
will stress writing news, sports
or feature writing. The Heelers
will be assigned a hypothetical
story and he will submit the story
the next day, The stories will be
edited and'given back to the Heel­er
so that he can detect his mis­takes.
After the course he will
become an "apprentice" and will
work with his editor for two weeks.
After this period the editor will
submit an evaluation of the Heel­er's
work, and the accepted Heeler
would then become a member of
the staff.
The Heelers applying for po­sitions
in the other departments
will go to the general introduc­tion
today and then will be put
under thesupervision of that de­partment's
editor.
Layout staff members will be
responsible for laying out the
paper on Sunday and Monday
nights, Photography demands at­tendance
at events, plus printing
and processing of pictures.
Advertizing offers a ten per
cent commission for new ad, and
circulation serves the paid sub­scribers,
and places the stag at
. desiginated areas on campus,
The editors of these depart­ments
will submit regular reports
to the Persb.nel Manager and after
five weeks, if the Heeler's work
has been satisfactory, he will be ,
accepted as a staff member.
The stag will accept as Heelers
all students interested in news­paper
work and will attempt to as­sign
the Heeler to the department
of his choice.
field, and thiS' dues not leave
time for research.
He also said that it was the
job of the historian to correlate
knowledge, because there isn't
anything as science or Philoso­phy
by itself, but it is connected
with mankind. He believes that
philosophy should start with the
problem and not an ans~er,
And he does not be1ieve that
the calibre of the student should
be underestimated. It is simply
a matter of motivation, and the
University should awaken an in­tellectual
awareness.
On. the question. of whether the
University has a good intellec­tual
atmosphere, he stated that it
was up to each student to make it
good. If a student is dissatisfied
it is up to him to make it better.
A class is a give and take be­tween
studEmt and professor, and
ninty per cent of the time, if a
class is dull it is because the
stu51ents are dull.
However, the hymn singing, un­less
organized and SUPPlemented,
should be eliminated•.
Peter O'Niell '67 From a utili­tarian
point of View, if the re­sult
of a more meaningfulliturgYI
is fulfilled, then it is good, re':'
gardless of opinion. Before there
was much that wasn't meaningful,
especially to the greater number
of the 19th century Irish Roman
Catholics. .
Joseph Kroll '65 I would like
to see the complete vernacular
used in the Mass. The prayers
should be put into the modern
idiom, and shOUld be chanted by
ilie congregation.
Robert Edenbach '64 The
changes in the liturgy on campus
are very fine, and have helped a
lot of students to appreciate the
Mas: more fully ~ The singing
howeveD, sometimes hampers
those who like to use their Missle.
I like the dialogue Mass because
it brings the congregation closer
to the sacrifice,
Born in Rumford, Maine, Dr.
Matthew McCarthy, professor of
Government and History, te­ceived
his Bachelors degree from
Holy Cross, and then returned to
Maine to teach high school Eng­lish
for four years. After serVing
in the Armed 'Forces, he attended
Boston University where he ob­tained
his Masters and Doctor- '
ate Degrees.
In 1949 he joinE;!d the faculty ofa
then almost unknown college
called Fairfield, and helped it to
grow to its present stature.
His thesis "Historical Factors
Behind Bicamerallism in the
United States" concerns the myth
of'the need for the two houses' of
legislature.
Dr. ,McCarthy thinks that the
caliversity is very good, however
the faculty lacks time for re­search
work, without sabbatical
leave. To teach,. a professor
must read current work in his
STUDENT OPINION POl~L
FAIRFIELD LAUNDROMAT
Herb Casey '67 I feel that the
reform is good, it brings out new
ideas and criticisms,and goes
along with the radical change
that are taking place in the en­tire
church, however (don't think
it should be as rapid. We seem
to be eliminating old hymns, etc.,
completely.
Robert Baffa '66 Reform i~
liturgy displayed in our chapel
have both abeted and taken away
from the Mass, The altar, with
the priest facing the congrega­tion
does afford the students a
deeper feeling of participation.
POST ROAD, FAIRFIELD
Dr. MATTHEW McCARTHY
-Professor of History-
NOW PICKS UP ON WED. AND DELIVERS ON FRIDAY
AT MRS BROWN'S OFFICE NEAR THE MAIL BOXES
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THE BEST IN LAUNDERING
QUESTION: What is your per­sonal
reaction to the reforms
taking place in the liturgy. What
more. would you like to see, to
what do you object?
. 'Nicholas De Paolo '67 I ap­preciate
the efforts of the priests
in helping us to understand the.
Mass'better, especially the altar
facing the people, however I do
,not desire to sing during the
offertory, or after returning
from communion. I think medi­tation
is important at these mo­ments.
.. .
Wild Speaks Catholic WorkerMovemen.t
March 11, 1964
Sr. M. Madeleva
THE STAG PAGE 3 ~
Discusses 'Poet's Role On Existentialism Explained by:Assoc. 'Editor
*
(See CHOIR, page 12)
The Choir of Men and Boys of
Trinity Parish, Southport, Con­necticut,
presented a program of
English Cathedral Music from
various periods of musical his­tory,
as part of the University's
Bellarmine series.
The program included: ",1\1­mightly
and Everlasting God"'by
Gibbons; "Hosanna to the SOn of
David" by Weelkes; "Rejoic'e in
the Lord Alway" anonymous 16th
century; "0 Where Shall Wisdom
Be Found?" Boyce; "Lord, Let
~e Know Mine End" b,Y Greene;
"Ascribe unto the Lord" by Tra-vers;
,
Truu,cy elwir
Sings At Dniv.
in their group, has been arrested
many times. One of the more'
well known occasions was when
she and a gathering of friends
refused to take shelter during a
practice air raid ,drill.
Tom continued by explaining the
works and wishes of the paper
over the thirty years of its pub­lication.
Acting as a socialagen­cY,
the Worker feeds 300 people
a day, runs a farm on Staten
Island which is a type of half­way
house, and cares for anyone
who should drop off the street
into their arms. They sponsor
talks every Friday night at 8:30
in their office on Chrystie St.
with no charge for admission.
~r. Cornell expressed the de­sire
for gradual but total. dis­armament,
stating that .he is in
favor of the unilateral system.
He also stated that "capitalism
is intrinsically evil", because it
is "selling things to people be­cause
they need them." About
eleven o'clock our discussion
moved into the cafeteria where
the conversation wandered from
conscientious objectors to dope on
Delancy st. Tom thinks that the
conscientious objectors' platform
should be presented to high school
, seniors just as the Army, Navy
and the other services present
their· representatives to many'
schools. Interesting questions
were put forth all during the
evening, then the lecturer left
to spend the night at his home
in Trumbull, heading back into
the city 6P.the following day.
D TBI MJ.BJ.BOBO
.UIlID
BOV.JD~Vr
·COI'lIST
Mr. TOM CORNELL
Torn Cornell now occupies a'
shabby apartment on Chrystie
Streetin New York City which is
quite a change from his parents'
horne in Trumbull, Connecticut.
He attended Fairfield Prep and
went on to graduate from Fair­field
University in 1956 although
he realized that, "college was
interfering with my education."
Leading picket lines and marches,
he is recognized as one of the
organizers and leaders of the New
London . "submarine jumping"
escapade of a few years ago. It
was at this time that Dorothy
Day turned the Catholic Worker
oyer to him.
His talk began with the begin­nings
of the Catholic Worker and
Dorothy Day, a Catholic convert,
who was one of the founders of
the paper. She carne from a family
of journalists and attended col­lege
for a few years until she
began to feel cramped by a men­tal
straight-jacket. She, as many
What is the Catholic Worker?
What beliefs and positions do its
"staffers" hold? Radical? Social­istic?
Communistic? Tom Cor­nell,
the Associate Editor of this
newspaper,. spoke to an impres­sive
gathering in Canisius Hall on
February 25. His expressed in­tentions
were to conclude early,
thus allowing fight fans to listen
to the Liston- Clay bout, but as
time passed, some forgot the con­test
and ~r. Cornell left our
campus at midnight.
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The Bellarmine Philosophy
Lecture Series opened ~onday
with Professor John Wild of Yale
Univesity probing the prol,llems
of "Freedom and Responsi';
bility." ,
Professor Wild approached his
topic from a Phenomonological
and Existential point of view.
He opened his lecture with a
background of the Phenomono­logical
approach.
"It arose when thinkers felt
that traditional philosophy Was
too abstract and remote fro'll our
world."
'Their main idea was that phil­osophy
should make an attempt to
get closer to life as it is lived,
to concretize it in out lives, as It
is "existed".
He went on to say that natural
science has discovered many
facts, but it hasn't, and can't,
by its method, probe into the
dep~er meaning of our world.
'''fIussen taught that the chief
task of Philosophy is to explore
the patterns and structures of this
world. It should try to conceptu­alize
and clairfy these patterns.
''In our u'a~Hlvu ... ., ~
someone who belongs to the Exi­stEmtial
school. William James
believed that our ideas should be
related to 'the world of the
street' ". He didn't want some
pure, abstractive' world, and he
felt the harsh contrast of the aca­demic
philosophy and the life of
the street. He felt that this world
was broader, deeper, and richer'
than the objective one. Toward
the end of his life he wrote that
"science must remember it is
enveloped in a wider order."
Professor Wild stated that we
have false ideas in regard to free­dom
and responsibility. These
general assumptions are:
1) Freedom is primarilynega­tive
(typified by the words "free­dom
from")
2) It is restricted to the will
3) It is opposed to responsi­bility
4) It is in the same objective
frame as sdence
Freedom should be, rather, an
active, dominant part of our life,
not passive.
But just what is this new idea
of freedom? Professor Wild il­lustrated
it by passages from a
psychologist's memoirs of his
detention in aGerman concentra­tion
camp.
This man, Victor Frankel,
thought that,' .without freedom,
man, was merely an object, a
slave, to other men's and nature's
whims. He believed that we must
become responsible for our ac­tions.
This gives meaning to
man's life when he gives re­sponse
to his environment. We '
must accept the consequences of
our actins arid decisions.
In the German camp during
WW il, the men who built up an
illusionary world of their past
or future were destroyed. But
the men who took stock of them­selves
and their situation and
then became involved in a pro­ject
or set a goal for themselves
were saved because their activi­ties
gave their lives meaning.
They realized that it is man's
responsibility to suffer because
of his situation, and his suffering
is part of his life's task.
During the question period, one
student asked whether he thought
Thomism is too abstract. Profes­sor
Wild replied that while there
are good points in the system,
it is not concrete enough nor re­sponsive
enough to the world.,
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GREEN COMET
DINER
Joseph Brodigan
Joseph Brodigan, Senior Dele­gate
and presiding officer of the
Fairfield University Chapter of
the Connecticut Interscholastic
Legislature, returned from the
annual convention of March 5-7
in Hartford extremely pleased
with the Stags' showing.
One of the two bills proposed
by the Fairfield Delegation, the
TRUTH IN LENDING BILL, pro­pounded
by Matt Carroll '64,
Jack Gardner '65, and Paul
Rooney '64, passed both houses
of the legislature almost unani­mously.
This bill was formulated
with the purpose of protecting the
public from unfair loan practises
by requiring interest rates to be
printed directly on the face ofthe
loan certificate.
The second bill, The Pure Food
Act, presented by Harry Risetto
'65 and Pete Kingua '64 was de­feated
in the House of Repre­sentatives
by six votes.
The CISL convention, which in­cludes
all colleges and Univer­sities
in the state in its mem­bership,
meets annually in Hart­ford.
All delegations are quar­tered
in the Shoreham ~otor
Hotel. The convention proceed­ings
take place in the actual House
and Seante chambers in the state
capitol building, while committee
work is done at The Shoreham.
Joseph Brodigan, in addition to
his duties as senior delegate
from Fairfield, werved as vice­chairman
on the state level, and
bore much of the responsibility
for the arrangements ofthe three
day affair.
- In preparation for next year's
convention, Larrv Wagner, Jun­ior
Delegate of the Fairfield con­tingent,
was elected House Ma­jority
Leader. In addition to his
state wide duties he will become
senior 'delegate from Fairfield.
'a ,diamond in the rough, and then
polishes it.
"The poet uses intuition,
something that is given to him,
a,nd is also a ruminating animal,
who works on a thought in his
mind.
"Poetry," she said, "is to
art, what grace is to the moral
life. Grace puts a supernatural
value on human things, it trans­forms
man to the divine. Poetry
'transfigures the simplest truth.·
As an example, she read her
poem on the fall of Jericho. "I
Remember;Rahab."
She also' spoke on a subject
she is trying to popularize,Death.
"There is no greater gift, next
to birth and baptism, than dying.
Suppose we should never die,
after a thousand years how will
you enjoy yourself? Death' is
the only door that leads to the
beatific vision."
She, Sr. ~adeleva, ended by
reading her poem "Candlelight,"
and emphasized that "Christ is
the focus of contemplation and
Christ Crucified draws to him­self
everything in man. All things
are reconciled at the height of
His heart."
"Every time you say a Hail
~ary you speak the language of
Archangels and every time you
say Our Father you speak the
language that Christ spoke to
His Father."
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Poet Sr. ~. ~deleva ,addres­sed
students and visitors here
~arch 5 on the "Adventures of
Inner Space." She discussed the
purPose of the poet, and using
examples from her own poetry,
demonstrated how the poet en­shrines
truth in beauty.
Sr~ ~. ~adeleva received her
AB from St. ~ary"s of Notre
Dame Indiana, her ~asters from
Notre Dame and her Doctorate
from the University of Califor­nia.
She studied at Oxford, and
has honory degrees from seven
Universities. She was president
of St. ~arY'sofIndianafrom1934
to 1961, and is now Consultant
to the president.
Sr. ~adeleva began by men­tioning
the great effort that we
are now going through to reach
outer space, and then quoting
from a nur'sery rhyme she
learned as a child:
Hi diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle
The cow jumped over the moon
maybe we aren't doing so well
in just reaching the moon, after
all?
However, while it takes great
energy and courage to conquer
outer space, we can reach inner
space simply by saying "Our
. Father."
In stressing the need for more
thought and contemplation she
asked "How many college stu-
. dents think...," and estimated
ten per cent of the college stu­dents
and", twenty five per cent
of graduate students. The ques­tion
then arises, if they are not
thinking what are they doing?
~aybe some are remembering
and some are imitating.
Quoting from Jacques ~aritain
she said"man is called to super­natural
contemplation, and to in­vite
him to darkness is to rob
him." She analyzed the word
contemplation breaking it down
to "being among the stars."
"To aim lower than God is
the first cause of all disorder,"
and surely none would argue that.
our world is in disorder today•.
We must aim at what we were
created to be."
"The poet and the philosopher
are the two persons who really
practice contemplation," and Sr.
Madeleva discussed the role of
the poet. "A poet is a diviIla­tor
of the spiritual in the things
of the sense. Divination is parti­cipating
in the supernatural
knowledge 'of the Gods,' and the
poet extracts the spiritual from
, the things of sense."
The pOet turns to the philoso­pher
for truth, and attempts to.
make a little shrine where truth
PAGE 4 THE STAG March 11, 1964
(From CURRENT EVENTS)
We congratulate the New York
State Department ·of Education for
. ruling in favor of prayers in the
state's public schools for the late
President John F. Kennedy. Since
such prayers are legal, how can it be
said that prayers for the victims of
other accidents or misfortune, or for
people suffering from poverty and
disease, are illegal? If ,one may pray
for the late Presigent, surely he may
pray for his parents, his teachers, his
'issaciates and himself. Surely it can­not
be sa~d that one person is worthy
to be prayed for in the public schools
and another is not. That would be
a degree of inequality which we have
never seen advocated anywhere.
Most of the American people be­lieve
in God and they certainly be­lieve
in the freedom to petition Him
and express their adoration of Him
wherever and whenever they like,
The prohibition of prayer in the pub­lic
schools becomes increasingly dis­tasteful
to the American people.
A non-denominational .prayer, ex­pressing
no' preference' for one faith
over .another, does not violate the
Constitution and cannot be said to be
an establishment of religion. We need
a reversal of the Supreme Court's
decision in this respec'r.
-Prayer'-D~~fsi~ii:-
, '.
A Postscript.
,Public Supported
.Junior Colleges?
:From 'CURRENT EVENTS)
That all American youth receive
two years of college training after
high school at public expense has
been suggested by the Educational
Policies Commission, a group SPan­'
sored by the National. Education As­sociation
and the American Associa­tion
of School Administrators.
In view of the financial problem
faced by public high schools every­where
in meeting the !Crush of sky­rocketing
enrollments, the suggestion
may seem a bit startling.
But that isn't all.
EPC insists that there be ho stand­ards
for admission to' this proposed
curriculum. And, furthemore, the
new colleges "must operate under
controls which ensure that they are
truly nonselective." They must be
"universal in the i r admissions
polkies." .
As the bu'1letin published by the
Council for Basic Education points
out. this scheme is like advising a
hard-pressed housewife to stop trying
to provide nourishipg fare for the
family and to invite everybody on
the block in for hot dogs. .
~~,\,~, ~~:j- From tIme to time throughout
,-the year,.tbe STAG provides in-­,
sight into events not necessarily
concerned with the school proper,
but geared to National events to
which everyone should be can"
cerned,
in moving the bill 'through Congress,
The bill is traced from its incipiency,
through its passage, to its end in the
workings of our government,
We feel that this joint political
club endeavor is highly commend­able,
Nineteen sixty-four is an elec­tion
year an'd as .such, the eyes of the
nation will be turned toward Wash­ington'
For authoritative informa­tion
about the candidates,. their rec­ords.
and how they think, we should
read beyond our text books 'to see our
government in action, "Capitol Re­view"
gives an objective view in such
matters, In their combined project,
the Young Democratic and the Young
Republican clubs have shown, by this
unselfish activity. that they have the
true interest of· the University in
mind, Few clubs on campus have
brought the University into their
club, most have brought the club in- .
to the University, "Capitol Review"
is an instance of the former and com­ing
at a most appropriate 'time,
This praisew,orthy aim with its
results so beneficial to the whole
campus community should not be
ignored.
,.
A' Model Of .Cooperation'
Editorial Commentary
1_'~ LET'_I',E:-ll-S"_~_O_TB_Z' _ED",!"""",·_iTO_iJl _---J1
"Students are actively concerned
about national and international
affairs. "
This was statement number fifty­seven
in which juniors were asked to
typify the atmosphere of Fairfield
University in a recent survey con­ducted
by the administration,
On February 10. 1964. the Fair­fiel,
d U niversity Young Democratic
and Young Republican clubs jointly
i'ssued the first in a series of reports
entitled "Capitol Review" so that it
may "interest and inform the student
body in national affairs,"
These weekly concise reports on
national affairs are unbiased. giving
both sides of a public issue, The
"Review" lets the record speak for
itself, It follows the contemporaneous
government workings such as Civil
Rights, the Tax Cut Bill. Supreme
Court decisions. and giv~s future
perspectives on such issues as the pos­sible
Senate filibuster. "Capitol Re­view"
cites the opinions of the bills
proposed, reports results of voting,
and brings out the views of the more
prominent politicians, It also points
out what the passing of such a bill
means and whose responsibility it is
Behind Closed Doors?
To. the Editor:
This past Friday eve'ning the Class of '65
sponsored its Second Annual Folk Festival
on campus.
As a member of the Class of '.65 we Were
surprised to learn that a party financed by
the Class was held after the Folk Festival.
Invited to this party were the entertainers
and the committeemen who worked on the
Folk Festiv.al. '
In itself there is no reason why such a
party should not have been held. However,
it becomes objectionable due to these
points:
First, there was a substantial ex­penditure
of Class funds without approval
of the Class.
Secondly, the entire situation was con­cealed
from the Class by a deliberate
effort; the members of the committee were
pledged to reveal to no one th!=l existence
of the party or the expenditures involved.
It would appear that these surreptitious
expenditures of Class funds are becoming
repetitious. We make reference here to the
Junior Class Mixer after which a sum of
money was expended for the personal en-
•
tertainment of a small number of the dance
committee.
The reasons why the party and the ex­penditures
become objectionable has been'
stated avove. In addition the selection of
committeemen for the Folk Festival and
the Junior Mixer can be called into
question. These were both Class enter­prises
and in neithe-r case was a general
appeal made to the Class for committee­men.
In view of these circumstances:
First, we petition the Student Govern­ment
to make a complete audit of the
financial records of the Class of '65 and
to make the results of this audit public.
Secondly, we petition the officers of the
Class of '65 to seek the approval of the
Class for any such further expenditures.
, Finally, we petition our Class officers
to initiate a policy of making general ap­peals
to the Class for committeemen for
Class projects.
Yours truly.
ThOmas S. Calderwood '65
Thomas J. Cutolo '65
Walter J. Gale '65
Let Me Explain
. ITo The Editor:
In the last issue of "The Stag", Mr. Leo
Paquette, President of the Young Demo­cratic
ClUb, submitted a letter concerning
the February 20th speech of Mr. John
M. Lupton. In my opinion Mr. Paquette's
letter was .quite accurate in interpreting
the subjectmatter of Mr. Lupton's speech,
(only when overlooking the "liberalistic"
emphases supplied by Mr. Paquette). How­ever,
I feel I must elaborate on aparticu­lar.
sentence in Mr., Paquette's letter
(which Mr. Paquette left dangling without
correct interpretation and which could
lead one, not familiar with Mr. Lupton'!:
policies, to false conclusions). I feel I
_mus~ :interpret the follOWing sentences in
Mr. Paquette's articleaccording to WHAT
MR. LUPTON MEANT BY IT. The sen­tence
reads as follows: "Instead he (Lup­ton
espoused the Goldwaterviewthatthere
areplentLof job~~Qr the unemployed"'.
who are only too lazy and dishonest to take
advantage of them". The wordsI wonld
like to emphasize ate "lazy" and "dis- ~
honest". These words out or proper eon':"
notation could be "misleading". Mr. Lup-ton
clearly stated that unemployed people
very often refuse jobs which do not par­ticulary
suit their fancy. THERE ARE
JOBS WHICH PEOPLE REFUSE BECAUSE
THEY DON'T LIKE THEM. SOME
PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO GET THEIR
HANDS DIRTY. THEY'D RATHER COL­LECT
CHECKS. This is what Mr.LuP-ton
suggested· to our Fairfield stuaents"
that evening. This is what I'am attempting
to clarify to our students.
As to Mr. Paquette's profound -;;~h
"that Mr. Lupton had only been wi£flhim
one afternoon "in a certain section of
Bridgeport", I can only come to the con­elusion
that Mr. Paquette is usirig a
,VERY BASE ARGUMENT in refuting the
'proposals and suggestions of Mr. Lupton.
'After all, .Mr. Paquette, WHO IS AND
WHO HAS BEEN IN POWER IN BRIDGE­PORT
FOR SO LONG? WHO IS RESPON­SIBLE
FOR WHAT YOU SAWIN BRIDGE­PORT
THAT AFTERNOON, THE RE­PUBLICANS?
Sincerely,
A. Richard Saginario '66,
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out sympathy for our plight. He made
To The Editor: sure that sensible safety laws were en-
"Sint ut sunt, aut non sint ••• " forced; he wasn't· responsible for the
Fairfield University is a young school. people sitting in our seats.
It was founded in 1942, by the Jesuits, No apologies were offered by the Fair';'
whose recognition as teachers dates from field Athletic Director. He refused to
the ~ixteenth century, and whose tradi- speak to anyone, unless he was button-tional
emphasis on the humanities has holed, and then replied with apathy: "I
formed some ofthe world's greatest minds can't, do anything." Other priests, who
from Voltaire to Teilhard de Chardin. occasionally turned away from the action
·Their great American universities have . of the game, condescended to look upon
also sponsored fine intercollegiate ath- us as trouble-bent rabble. Some people
· le'tics. I have seen Fairfield teams com- gained access to the gym through de-
'pete for over seven years, and I have vious means, but many had to return home.
special respect for the stags' astute The president of Assumption College had
basketball coaCh, George Bisacca. How- to plead for permission to go out and speak
·ever, on saturday night, February 23, to some of his disgusted alumni. We later
Fairfield's youth was showing. , discovered that a busload of Assumption
I drove to Fairfield from New Jersey, stUdents had to turn back for Worcester,
with a paid reserved-seat ticket, antici- Mass. although the Fairfield Athletic Of-pating
a tight basketball contest between fice had guaranteed them a block of tickets.
Fairfield and Assumption. On the glass If Fairfield's gym can't accomodate the.
doors of the gym was a hastily-scribbled' spectators it promises seats to, then
sign: "Sold Out." Despite the fact that I their games. should be played on their
had a ticket, I had to stand outside in the opponents' courts.
bitter COld, With people from New York, When 1 finally managed to get in, in the
New Jersey, MassachUSetts and else- second half of the varsity contest, I was
where - who had also purchased tickets struck by the unexemplary conduct of the
in advance! Hour money had paid to make student spectators: standing and shouting,
this game a sell-out, shouldn't we have while oblivous to their OWN team's ef-been
able to see it? There seemed to be 'forts at the foul line; striking an official
rather doubtful ethics involved here - in and then. an Assumption player when they
'fact, someone was making an unhealthy came within range; and rolling small cans'
profit. onto the court. But does the fault lie with
The security guards, from a private these students? In the end, the stagS lost
agency; were merely following orders, the game - and perhaps more. I suggest NEWS: Michael DeMore, Steve O·Neil. Robert Baffa. David Freschi.
though they did so with some amount that you save yourself the trouble of going SPORTS: Philip SinisgaUL
of consideration and good humor; re- to see a game at the Fairfield gym. Stay FEATURES: Jeff Clutterbuck, David Fteschi. William Garland, David Aurandt, Francis
laying the game's score by hand signals home and listen to it on WNAB, or you Cunningham, Jay La Croix, Gerard Wolf.
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LIFE MEMBERsffiP.is presented to Mr. Robert O'Neil, Assistant ProfeSsor of Man­agement
of the University by Mr. Harry Christianson, '64. Lpoking on, left to right are
John Rohmer '64, Ronald Salvatore '64, Peter Borchetta '64, Rev. William Hohman, S.J.,
Christianson, O'Neil, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Chairman of Dept. of Accounting and BUSiness,
John Mountain '64, Richard Murphy '65 and Mr. T.J.F. Pinkman, Moderator.
•
OPEN
, F:RIDAYS
TO,
'8'P:M:
One Small 'Voice
If),
Frank J. CunninghdbJ.
PAGE 5 '
As a new and almost unknown voice in The Stag, my first move
should be to lay down in reasonably certain terms why I am writing.
It is only fair that I do this to commit myself to a definite policy,
and to permit you, my fellow stUdents, to judge what I say in a proper
persepective. .
I have been told, and have come firmly to believe, in the past year,
that the only way a man can grow is in terms of his surroundings.
We are not isolated beings, but men liVing with other men. This is
brought out admirably in the milieu of a University. Not a single one
of us can honestly say that he can live, learn, and prosper in this in­stitution
without coming in contact with others, discussing thoughts
and "problems with them, and drawing from them new insights.
We are destined to progress, we are driven to progress. This is the
reason we are here, or the reason we should be here, to develop in
knowledge, in understanding, to molda logical and workable philosophy
which will govern our lives.
The purpose of this column then is to present my views, my
opinions, my ideas, and to submit them to you for analysis, criticism
and comment. Tliis is similar to the scientist observing a particular
specemen' under different lights. Each time he changes the color or
frequency of the light there is a chance he may observe some
phenomenon which has before passed unnoticed.
The subject matter thal I wish to deal with cannot be limited. I
propose to touch on anything and everything I think worthy of notice.
Any incident in the school, any action on the part of the faculty, ad­ministration
or students which provokes thought I consider fair
SUbject matter for this column. I propose to pUll no punches, to draw
no lines, to write everything I consider pertinent to the thought under
discussion. Any less would be cowardice on my part, any more in­tellectual
falsehood.
*' * * The Beatles have left us. American teenagers weep at their depar-tureand
cling to those things they have left behind: autographed
pictures, memories of personal appearances, programs from Car­negie
Hall, and Income tax.
What is it that has drawn the American girl to the Beatles, in-
,spired her to bUy their records, and caused her to gather with her
comrades in mobs to scream their approv~? Is there something
magnetic}n these four yoUng men that attracts such devotion, or is
there rather something in Ameri<;a, that draws such strange appari­tions
to its shores? I think the latter is true. It is hard for me to.
believe that the Beatles are an attractive force. But it is not at all
difficult to see trends in American that point toward an increasing
devotion to the off-beat, the unusual, the radical. Our music;
(Rock and Roll), our literature (Henry Miller), our jokes (What'!!
purple•••), our dances, all reflect this movement of rebellion in the
younger generation. And what is at the rootoOf this vast continental
movement? Many choose to write it off to the natural desire in youth
to exert its authority, to "feel its oats", to rebel against the older
generation. But it occurs to me that it is more. We live in an era of
prosperity which fosters radical thought, but we are also approaching
an era of religious and moral vacuity, where the God our puritanical
fathers worshipped is dead, and we have yet to raise a proper God in
h~s place. We have thrQwn out the old standard, not because we have a better one to replace it with, but merely because we Oo'not like
the old.
Nature abhors a vacumn, and yet we have created one in our moral
and rel1gious lives and are trying to preserve the vacuum by throwing
insignificant things into it, things thattake up no space, that preserve
the vacuum, but give the illusion of substitution. So we deifynovelty,
strangeness, and the avant-guarde, as well as the traditional false
gods of power, wealth and seXUality. We are searching, but we are
exploring all the wrong 'places. We have brought about chang~ for the
sake of change, and na,w we are without anything substantial ~o change
to. So we cling to superficialities and set up as our symbols, things
which in the final analysis are only symbols of a vast and vicious
uncertainty.
Let us turn to ourselves, rip away the outer covering of illusions
in which we have clothed ourselves, and see if there is anything un­derneath.
If not, let's start to fill the vacuum with something that
won't collapse. Let's find a God. '
The Beatles have gone, but the thing that attracted them remains
to plague and, destroy us, unless we act to create, to give meaning to
this world. We live in our world, let's make it live in us.
CKS
On and Off
the Campus.
This year, the Cardinal Key
Society has fifty-eight applicants
to choose from: 12 juniors, 30
sophs and 16 frosh. The final,
deciding interviews, which de~
termine who will be accepted, are
to be hald on April 21 and 23 but
between now and April these men
will not be forgotten bY C.K.S.
officers. They have been invited
to all the meetings and asked to
help out in projects in order to
give them a fairer chance and
allow officers to get acquainted
with them. Charlie Bialowas '64,
president of Key, said that h,e is
very pleased with the turnout
whi ch has been the best in the past
few years. He hopes that,' "the
guys will get to know the -Key so
that everyone else may learn from
them. The Stag can go so far,
what we need is student to student
conta8t."
Plans to elim inate the amount of
juniors accepted are in the mak­ing.
The reason for this change is,
the junior s can't help as much be­cause
of the limited time that they
will be with the organization.
Next year they intend on taking 4
juniors, 10 sophs, and 6 frosh as
compared to the usual 6 jrs.,
8 sophs, and 6 frosh. By 1967
the total enrollment of the Key
will be 42 members.
:DRINK.-,PEPSI
Gym
Dogwood'
the ten best "standard" record­ings
for seven out of the eight
years it has been in existance.
The saturday afternoon picnic
will be held at Sherwood Island on
May 9, 1964, from one p.m. until
5 p.m.
Fairfield may never go co-ed,
but the committee for the Satur­day
afternoon has instituted a step
in that direction by inaugurating
a program of co-ed sports events
d uri n g the Sherwood Island
events.
who were preparing the back
gym for a post-game "mixer",
but then was inadvertently left
open (certainly not by a business
major). No one will ever be able
to discover how many hundreds
entered through this wide open
rear pass to mingle with the shift­ing
freshman game crowd before
the varsity game started.
University officials are ex­tremely
regretful if the incon­venience
caused for so many
legitimate would-be spectators.
.Security has been further streng­thened
by A.A. officials, and re­funds
are still available for ticket
holders. Athletic Moderator, Rev.
James W. Ring, S.J. summed it
up by saying, "Ticket holders
lost the game, Assumption won
(76-70), and private enterprisers
scored a victory over security."
He vows it will not happen again.
J (}tit; tieJ- S-JAG
Constitution
Marketing Club Honors O'Neil , ,_
Professor O'Neil by Henry J. from, Fairfield in 1955, received
Mr. ~obert F. O'Ne~l, who re- Christiansoh; president of the an M.B.A. degree from New York
cently finished a survey of shop- club recognized "his outstand- University and is continuing his
ping habits in the town of Fair- ing ~ontribution to the club's edu- studies at' Fordham University.
field for the FairfieldChamber of , cational program." In addition to He has assisted FairJield in its
Commerce and the Town Planning the award certificate Professor industrial techniques laboratory
Commission, received the Annual O'Neil also 1 dCtllVea ~ne Ain-eri- one of the first on the colleg~
Award of theFairfieldUniver~ity can Marketing Association's GOld level. O'Neil is a member of the
Mark~ting ClUb, an affiliate of~he Honor. Key. National Association of Purchas-
American MarketingAssociahon. Prof. O'Neil, a native of Water- ing Agents, Connecticut Chapter,
The award for outstanding, bury and Assistant Professor of and Vice-President ofthe Society
achievement consistsofHonoraJ:Y Industrial Management :It Fai_r- for the Advancement of Manage-
Life Membership in the Marketing Held University- was graduated mente
Club. The Citation, presented to ' '
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Fr. Gallagher also stated that
"stUdent participation in the dis­,
ciplinary life at Fairfield is an
educational function of the Uni­versity.
It is ALMOST an ob­viosity
that the disciplinary policy
in a Jesuit College should be by
Jesuits. For the sake of lI.rgu­ment,
one might say that Jesuit
discipline is passe. If a student
should think that is so, then he
has a perfect right to endorse
some other policy of discipline by
his enrollment in some other
school.
"However it is imponantto add
that the dialogue between admin­istration
and students should help
form the policy of discipline, but
as to who Is the final arbiter in
these matters it seems clear it
should be the administration."
Council President Davidson an­nounced
that meetings with the
freshman, sophomore' and junior
classes will take place during
March 11 to March 25. The pur­pose
will be to acquaint these
classes with the government and
to answer any questions.' .
During the month of April the
meeting will be held to prepare
any prospective candidates for
positions in the Government and
on April 15 the student body will
vote to accept or reject the
Government.
If the constitution is passedthe
Council will hold primary elect­ions
on April 30 and the final
election on May 6 for Govern­ment
officers.
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STUDENT GOVERN-MENT~ CONSTITUTION
The following is the complete text of the proposed student Government Constitu­tion.
The Student Council asks tluit each student retain his copy for future·re­ference.
PREAMBLE
We the members of the student Association
of Fairfield University of St. Robert Bellar­mine
do hereby ordain and establish this con­stitution
for the mutual satisfaction, protec- '
tion, and fulfillment of the general well­being
of our members spiritually, intellec­tually,
morally, phsysically and socially.
ARTICLE I: Executive Branch '
Section 1 - Purpose
The purpose of the Executive Branch is to perform those duties which
are consistent with the Constitution and,with any legislation that the
Student Government may see fit to initiate. '
Section 2 - Organization
The Executive Branch Of the Student Government will consist of:
a. President - elected by the entire StUdent Body.
b. Vice-President - elected by the entire Student Body.
c. Treasurer - elected by the entire Student Body. ,
d. Executive Chairman - appointed by the President.
e. Executive Board - appointed by the President.
Section 3 - Qualifications for Office
, a. President must be:
1. a member of the Senior Class.
2. a member of the Student Association for two consecutive semesters
prior to election.
3. SUbject to the regulations regarding participation in extra-curricu­lar
activities which participation will not be in excess of member­ship
without office in one major, one minor, and/or one social
activity, excluding membership without office in any cardinal ac­tivity
with the exception of the 'Sodality of Our Lady of Fairfield
University.
b. Vice-President must be:
1. a member of the Junior Class.
2. a member of the Student Association for two consecutive semesters
~~~~ct~ ,
3. subject to the regulation regarding participation in extra-curricu­lar
activities, which participation is not in excess of member­'
ship without office in one other cardinal, one major, one minor,
and/or one social activity in addition to membership in the Sodality
of OUr Lady. '
c. Treasurer must be:
'" l.a member of either the Junior or Senior classes.
2. a member of the Student Association for two consecutive semesters
prior to election.
3. an individual who has completed a minimum of six credits in ac-counting
(two semester course). ,
4. subject to those extra-curricular activity restrictions as speci­fied
above for the Vice-President.
Section 4 - Powers.of the executive
a. President shall:
1. conduct the full sessions of the Executive Branch.
2. initiate, with the powers at his disposal, those actions which are
necessary for the enactment of this Constitution and the laws
thereof.
,3. represent the Student Government in meeti,ngs with the administra­tive
authorities of the University or appoint such representatives
as he deems necessary to fulfill that duty under regulations of the
By-Laws of the Student Association.
, 4. have the power of veto in the by-laws of the Student Association.
, b. Vice-Presidentshall:'
1. assume the duties of the Presidency in the event that the Presi­dent
should become incapacitated or for any other reason is unable
to assume the duties of his office. '
2. preside over the convocation of the Legislature and call into session
the first full convocatiQns of that Legislature after its election in May
and at the beginning of the fall semester.
c. Treasurer shall:
1. preside over all meetings of the Financial Committee of the Execu­tive
Branch.
2. be responsible for all financial reports, records and funds which
pertain to the Student Government.
3. choose those members from the Student Association to serve as
members of the Financial Committee of the Executive Branch.
4. be responsible for the formulation of the budget.
d. Executive Chairman shall: '
1. assume the duties of Secretary of toe Executive Branch.
2. preside over all meetings of the Executive Board.
3. organize and execute those actions which the President deems ne­nessary
for the fulfillment of those duties allied to this Constitu,­tion
and the laws thereof. .
4. act as an advisor at all meetings of the Executive Branch.
e. Executive Board shall be composed of a Financial, Activities, Griev­ance
Social and Correspondence Committee.
1. Fina~cial Committee shall be:
a) presided over by the Treasurer of the Student Association.
b) be responsible for formulating the budget.
c) be responsible for the maintenance of the financial records of
the Student Government.
2. Activities Committee shall be:
a) presided over by a chairman appointed by the President and
, approved by the Legislature of the Student Government.
, b) charged with the responsibility of formulating, coordinating,
and regulating the activities of the several extra-currtcular
activities of the University.
c) responsible for the formulation and publication of an ActiVities
Calendar, which calendar will register the events of all ac­tivities
for a consequent one month period.
d) shall tabulate and record the 'honor p~ints of those students ap-'
plying to the Honor Society.
3. Grievance Committee shall be:
a) presided over' by a chairman app inted by the President and
approved by the Legislature of the student Government. -~
,b) responsible for the application of measures considered adequate
for the redress of Student grievances.
4. Social Committee shall'be:
a) presided over by a chairman appointed by the President and
approved by the Legislature of the Student Government.
b) responsible for formulating a social calendar for the University
c.f. the by-laws of the Student Association. ,
c) considered the representative of the Student Association in all
intercollegiate social activities.
5. Correspondence Committee shall be:
!l) pre~i~ed .over by a chairman ,-appointed by the Presi~ent and
, .' ,'~p,p~v,e?.by ,the Legislature of the Student ~over~men~.. ','
b) responsible for all correspondence between the Executive Branch
of the' student Government and all otlier agencies of the Student
Association, and all the correspondence delegated to it by the
President of the Executive Branch.
c) responsible for the minutes of all, Executive Board meeting~
ARTICLE n: Legislative Branch
Section 1 - ,Purpose - to insure for each member of the student community
a just representation in the affairs of the designated Govern­ment
of that community and to provide an opportunity for each
member of the community to serve as a representative of his
constituenc~ "
Section 2 - Organization - The Legislature of the stUdent 'Association shall
consist of all duly elected representatives of the Student Associa­tion
in accord with the procedures for ~lection of representatives
as stipulated in the Bylaws of the student Asscociation.
Section 3 - Powers of the Legislature
a. to determine, with the concurrence and approval of the University Dean
of Discipline, the disciplinary and social codes ofthe Student Association.
b. to determine the needs of the student community and to act to fill those
needs by legislative measures.
c. to provide such funds as is necessary for the enactment of that same le­gislation.
d. to ap~ove and/or censure the activities of all extra-curriCUlar or­ganizations
except the Sodality, of Our Lady of Fairfield and except where
those activities are pertinent to the disciplinary and/or the social codes.
e. to approve or reject all executive appointments to either the Executive
Branch or to the Judicial Branch.
f. to determine ti)e rules of action for all branches of the Student Govern-
~nt. '
g. to call before the Legislature, ill. committee, person or reports from any
segment of the Student Association including inter-governmental and
extra-curricular areas concerning matters of the common good except
where those matters are considered by the Court to be pertaining to the
disciplinary and/or social codes.
h. to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into
execution the foregoing powers.
Section' 4 - Officers
a. The Vice-President of the student Association shall preside over all
convocations of the Legislature.
b. The President pro tempore of the Legislature shall be chosen by the
Legislature from among the senior class representatives of the Legisla­ture
by a majority (50% plus 1) vote of the quorum present.
1. He will preside in the absence of the Vice-President of the student
Association.
2. He may also head one of the'standing committees of the Legislature.
c. The Secretary of the Legislature shall be elected by the Legislature from
amongst the Junior and Sophomore representatives of the Legislature by a
majority (50% plus 1) of the quorum present.
d. The Parliamentarian of the Legislature shaH be chosen by the President
of the Legislature from amongst the Senior class representatives with at
least one year's previous experience in the Legislature and approval by a
majority of Hie quorum present.
Section 5 - Censure
. a. Censure is defined as loss of voice and vote for the remainder of the
legislative session.
b. if any repre'sentative in the legislative branch is absent from five (5)
meetings during anyone session he is liable to compulsory censure.
c. notification of the censure will be published by the secretary along with an
annoncement that the members of the Association whom the censured
member represents would be in order to recall the censured legislator
and elect a replacement if a majority of them/so desire.,
d. the method of recall and replacement is to be published as part of the
announcement.
Section 6 - Quorum - 50% plus 1 majority of the duly elected representatives
of the legislature constitutes a quorum.
ARTICLE 111: JUDICIAL BRANCH
Section 1 - Purpose
The Judicial branch of the Student Government shall ajudicate cases where
undergraduate students have violated regulations as specified in the Discb-c
plinary Code, in so far as the University Administration, which possesses
the ultimate authority for enforcement of rules, has in practice delegated
to the Student Government that authority which it responsibily executes.
a) The Student Court shall be a body of original jurisdiction and shall hear
cases of student infractions of University regulations as specified in the
Disciplinary Code. '
b) The Supreme Court shall be an'appellate court in cases:
1) of appeal from the Student Court, ano
2) of appeal from the judgment of the Dean of Men in eases where he
deems immed,iate judgment necessary.
Section 2 - Organization
a) The Student Court shall be composed of:
1) Nine Justices appointed by the President of the Student Government
only after sufficient consultation with the officers of the Executive
Branch of the Government and the Deanof Men. Four ,of these appoint­ments
shalt' be seniors, three shall be Juniors and two shall be sopho­mores.
One of the senior appointments shall be further appointed as the
Chief Justice of' the Student Court by the President of the student
Government.
2) A clerk of courts and a court stenographer who shall be appointed by
the President of the Student Government.,
. 3) A fact finding board, the membership of which shall consist of thi-ee
court justices.
b) The Supreme Court shall be composed of:
1) The Dean of Men, the Dean ofStudy (or a person delegated by him), the
Moderator of Student Government as appointed by the President of the
University, the Chief Justice of the Student Court, and one other senior
justice of the Student Court as appointed by the Chief Justice of the
Student Court. The Moderator of the student Government shall preside
as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Section 3 - Duties
a) The Chief Justice is to:
1) Preside over aU sessions of the Student Court or delegate said re­sponsibility
to a senior member ofthe Student Court in accord with the
stipulations of the By-Laws, of the Student Association.
2) Determine the necessary. quorum as speCified in the By-Laws
, Article II, Section 3a3 of this constitution.
b) The clerk of the courts is to:
1) Determine -the calendar for pll,rticular sessions of the student and
Supreme Courts in accord with the By-Lawsofthe Student Association.
2) Notify the accused ofthedate, time:and place of his court appearance.
3) Provide that information from the records of the court and Dean of
Men's office pertaining to the case at hand.
4) Sufficiently promulgate the decisions of the court which are applicable
to the conduct and organization of the Student Association.
5) Administer the oath to all persons giving testimony before the Court.
c) The Court stenographer is to:
1) Record the proceedings of all sessions of the Student and Supreme
Courts.
2) Be responsible for the maintainance of all Court records.
d) The fa<:t finding board is to:
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1) Determine the magoifilde of parhcular violations prior to assignment
for hearing.
2) Determine those cases which will be heard at the next court session.
3) Determine those cases which are to be ajudicated automatically and
promulgated as specified in the Disciplinary Code.
e) All cases of violation to be judged must be judged by the Student Court
except In the case where the Dean of Men determines the situation to be
extraordinary and not within the authorityofthe Student Court or in cases
~h~re the Dean of Men deems immediate judgement necessary. For suf­fiCIent
cause the student maintains the right torequest his case be heard
by the Dean of Men, buUheDean of Men retains the right to refuse to hear
the case and to return ittothe Student Court when he considers sufficient
cause for this privilege to be lacking.
f) Cases of appeal to the Supreme Court will be heard at the discretion of
tha~ body, except in, those cases involving suspension, expulsion or pro­batIon
from the Un,lye,I;sity i.n. which case the student has an automatic
rIght to be heard. The decisions of the Supreme Court are final uncon­t~
stable, and binding on the entire Student Association and prohibit the
rIght to further appeal of thEl decided case in either of these Courts
All decisions of expulsion ana suspension rendered by the SUprem;
. Court are subject to' the approval of the President of. the University.
SectIon 4 - Tenure .
All Justices are appointed for the remainder of their matriculation as a
'~embe~ of the Student Association of Fairfield Universityunless this tenure
-IS termInated by personal resignation submitted in writing to the President
?f the Student ~overnment or unless they become SUbject to impeachment"
In accordance WIth the By-Laws of the Student Association.
ARTICLE IV: Faculty Moderator
Section ~ - The student Gov~rnment shall be ai~ed by the services of a FaCUlty
Moder~t?r, deSIgnated by the PreSIdent of the University to act as
the offICIal representative ofthe Administration with the government
and as the counselor thereof.
Section 2 - The Facutly Moderator shall, have the right to veto any and all
executive or legislative actions ofthe student Government when those
actions are thought by him to ba antagonistic to best interest of the
the student Association. The student Government shall hold itself
free to put ,into effect any legislation or action not vetoed in the
cou.rse .of five school days after the passing or initiation of said
legIslatIon or action.
ARTICLE V: Amendments
Section 1 - Ammendments of this Constitution may be .carried at any meeting of
the Student Government Legislature by a two-thirds vote of those
present; the amllndment must have been proposed at least one meet-ing
previous to vote. '
Section 2 - The amendment when carried by the Legislature will then be pub';
lished in the student newspaper.
Section 3 - The proposed and pUblicized amendment will tllen be submitted to
the whole Association for a vote. ' ,.
Section 4 - A strict majority vote (50% plus' one of those votes cast by the
members of the student Association) is needed to make such an
amendment valid and licit.
,ARTICLE VI: Adoption '
For adopt'ion th~S <?onstitution and the Student Government By-laws must be ap­proved
by a majorIty vote ofthe present Student Council. It must then be recom­mended
by the Dean. of t.he College to the President pf the University. Upon' ap­proval
by the ~re.sIdent this Constitution and the By-laws thereof must be ap­proved
by a majOrIty (50% plus one) vote of the members of the Student Associa­tion
voting, for ratification. Once ratified this Constitution and the By-laws
thereof become effective immediately superceding all the previous Constitutions
and By-laws.
BY LAWS
ARTICLE I: Elections
Section I - Executive
a. All elections for executive offices shall take place during the last ~eek of
April 'and the first week ofMay, such date to be determined by the Chair­man
of the Elections Committee of the Legislature.
b. Primar~es Will. be held one week prior to the general election where
there are more than three nominees for an executive office. '
c. All nominees for executive office are subject to the approval of the Dean
of studies and the Dean of Men.
d. All nominees are SUbject to the campaign procedures as specified by the
Elections Committee of the Legislature.
Section 2 - Legislature .
a. Qualifications for office
1. Any student may qualify for office'in the Legislature if
a) he is a fully enrolled member of the undergraduate community.
b) ,he .receives the necessary ten names on his petition for·nomination,
which names do not appear on another legislative nomination sheet
which ten names come from the nominee's constituency division~
c) he is not prohibited from running by any academic deficiency as
determined by the Dean ofthe University and subject to the appr~val
of the Dean of Men.
b. Proportional representation
1. For freshmen
a) One member for each fifty students shall be elected from the fresh-man
class. '
b) The areas to be repr,esented are:
1) the on-campus boarders
2) the off-campus boarders
3) the day-hops , '
c) Each area must be 'represented in the Legislature by at least one
representative from each of the four classes.
d) Should the number of students in the freshman class be in excess of
a mUltiple of fifty, the class will be allowed one at-large candidate
for every fifty members drawn from the total excess of day-hops,
off-campus, and on-campus boarders.
2. For upperclassmen: . '
a) The number of representatives to the Legislature for sophomores
juniors, and seniors shall depend on that class' freshman year rep:
resentation regardless of the number ofmembers presently enrolled
in that class at the time of nomination. .
c. Election of officers .'
1. The election of· all officers shall take place at the first meeting of
the· Legislature within two weeks of its election, such meeting to be
called by the Vice-President of the Student Association.
a) The procedure will be as follows:
1) nominations will be entertained from the floor.
2) a secret ballot will follow each set of nominations for each
position. .
3) th"e votes will be counted ,by the Vice-'President and reported to
the Legislature.
4) the elected will assume their positions imm'ediately.
d. All elections for upperclassmen shall take place on the same day as the
Executive elections and shall be SUbject to the regulations as determined
by the Elections Committee of the LegiSlature.
e. All elections for Freshman representatives shall take place three weeks
after the beginning of school in the Fall term and shall be SUbject to the
regulations as determined by the Elections Committee ofthe Legislature.
f. At the time of adoption of the Constitution these election dates and pro­cedures
may be waived by a majority vote of the quorum present of the
existing student Council. , '
Section 3 - Class Elections
a. Elections for class officers will be held during the second and third weeks
of May, such date to be determined by the Chairman of the Elections
Committee.
b. Votes will be cast for Freshmen e.lass officers during the fifth and sixth
weeks latter the resumption of school in the fall, such dates to be! deter-mined
by the Chairman of the Elections Committee. '
c. fiominees shall abide by the regulations concerning campaigning pro­cedures
as specified by the Elections Committee and all regUlations
theretofore apertaining.
,Section 4 - Elections Committee
a. The Elections Committee of the Legislatur~:
l~ shall be composed of all senior' chairmen of the standing legislative
committees. .
2. shall be headed by a chairman appointed from the committee by the
president of the Legislature .'
3. shall run all elections for office within the student government and
elections for class officers.
4! shall receive all nominations two school weeks prior to date set for'
the general election.
5. 'shall dete~mine, each year, the acceptable, campaign procedures.
6. shall specIfy from which area a candidate is a representative two
s.choo.1 days prior to the election by notice or any other communica­tIve
means at his disposal and as is determined by a popular majority
vote of the committee.
7•.shall print separate ballots for each area, and each class and shall
mclude on these. ballots the at-large candidates. '
8. shal.1 check the registra~ion of .each voter to determine the ballot they
are to receive.
9. shall count a~l ballots, in committee, ~d present the' results to the
Student ASSOCIation. .
10. shall acquire the necessary voting machines for the general election~.
ARTICLE II: Meetings
Section 1 - Executive .
a. The exticutive board will meet within two weeks of the acceptance of the
board members by the Legislat'ure as specified in the By-laws of
the Student Association.
b. This meeting will be called by the President of the Student Association.
c. All consequent meetings of the Board will be called by the President at
his discretion provided the time lapse between meetings does not exceed
ten school days, in which case the Executive Chairman may call said
meeting.
d. Should the Executive Chairman fail to call said meet'ing within the time
, prescribed in the By-Laws, any member of said board can, with the con­currence
of the majority of that Board call said meeting. ,
Section 2 - Legislative '
. a. The first meeting of the newly elected' Legislature shall be called Within'
two school weeks of the Spring elections by the Vice-President of the
Student Association.
b. The first meeting in the Fall term shall be 'called by the Vice-President
. of the student Association within one :week of the beginning of 'fall classes
for all classes of the student Association. , . .
The consequent meetings of the Legislature shall be called by the Vice­President
of the Student Association every two weeks after the first con­vocation
in the Fall term save during those periods of· Christmas,
Examination, and Easter recess in which case the Legislature shall ad­journuntil
reconvened by the Vice-President of the Student Association.
d. A meeting will be constituted by a duly called convocation at which 50%
plus 1 of the duly elected representatives are present and register their
presence with the secretary, a quorum must be maintained for thEl com­mencement
of business and the taking of vote.
Section 3 - Judicial
a) student Court ,
1) The Student Court shall meet at least once every school week at the
discretion of the Chief Justice. .
2) The Chief JU'stice shall preside oyer all meetings of the Student Court,
save in those meetings where it is determined by him to be Impossible,
in which case he will choose a senior member of the Court to act in his
stead, such seniority to be determined by the number of years the
Justice has served on the Court, which rule may be suspended durilU!:
the first year after adoption of this constitution.
3) The number' of Justices presiding at any session of the Court must be
an odd number, five (5),. seven (7), or nine (9), except in cases of
emergency, in which case the Court may sit with a'minimum of three
(3) Justices.
4) AJustice should disqualify himself from hearing any case concerning
an activity, person with whom, or situation in which he was or is per­sonallyinvolved.
i 5) Procedure:
a) Student violations of the University regulations as stipulated in
i the Disciplinary Code sh,all be reported by means of the appro:
priate Court form directly to the Clerk of Courts by any member
. of the University community, including students faculty admini-stration
and any person employed by the University. '
b) The accused party whose infraction has been set down by the fact
finding board to be heard bythe Student Court shall be summoned by
the Clerk of Courts within three(3) days after no~ification of in­fraction
to the Court.
c) Those students whose minor infractions have been determined by the
fact finding board to be valid and worthy of sanction but not suf­ficiently
important to be heard by the Student Court and who be­lieve
that they are not guilty of said infraction may request a
hearing in the Student Court.
d) The Clerk shall .notify the. accused party of time, date, and place
of his hearing.
e),Hearings will be closed (e.g. military).
f) The accused party shall be allowed counsel at all times, so long
as the source of 'counsel remains from within the University
community. '
g) Decisions of the Court shall be handed down within one school
week consequent upon the date of hearing. .
h) Only the accused shall maintain the right to have the name of the
accuser revealed to him in a manner which will permit him to
make adequate defense against a charge.
b) The Supreme Court
1) The SUpreme Court shall meet at the discretion of that body.
2) A.ppeals to the Supreme Court must be filrI on the Court form pro­VIded
by the Clerk of Courts within forty-eight (48) hours of effective
notification of the decision of the student Court.
a) One affirmative vote of the Supreme Court Justices is needed to
place an appeal on its calendar with regard to all cases excepting.
suspension, expulsion and probation.
3) Provedure shall be determined byrules set down by the Student Court.
ARTICLE III: Standing Committees of the Legislature
Section 1 - ~rganization: The Standing Committees of the Legislature shall be
Fmance, Ways and Means, Grievance, Activities, Legislative, and
Honor.
Section 2 - Chairmen: The Chairman of ellch standing Committee shall be
chosen from, among the senior representatives in the Legislature
by the PreSIdent of the Legislature (the Vice-President of the
Student Association).
a) Whenever. possible preference for chairmanships should be given to
those semors who have had at least one year of previous .experience in
the Legislature of this Student Government. .
, b) Should there .be a ,deficient number of seniors to fill the Chairmanships
Qf the Standing Committees, a junior may be selected. ' -
c. Appointments will be made' at the first meeting'of the new legislature
after the Spring elections.
Constitution In Outline
the neim of Studies and the Den of Men before they are presented
to the Legislature for approval. .
Section 2 - The President shall make such arrangements as are necessary for
fulfilling the above requirements.
ARTICLE XI: Social Calendar'
Section' I - The Social Calendar will list all sociai activities for a consequent
one month period~
Section 2 I..- All extra-curricular and class activities must submit their sche­dule.
of events for that one month period. ,
Section 3 - Failure to comply with the regulations concerning scheduling of
events will result in Ifenalties in accord with the regulations of the
1. Disciplinary Code as promulgated by.the Legislature.
Section 4 - The Social Chairman shall provide that information concerning
efficient organization of all social activities, e.g. the phone list­ings
and rates of Fire Department protection, etc.
Section 5 - The Social Calendar will be posted weekly. '
ARTICLE XII: Activities Calendar
Section 1 - The Activities Calendar will list all times and dates of extra-cur­ricular
activities meetings for the -consequent week.
Section 2 - The Activities Calendar will be posted by the Chairman each school
week. '
ARTICLE XIII: Activity Points
Section' 1 - The Chairma,n of the Activities ,Committee of the Executive shall
SUbmit, a list of activity points 'for the several extra-curricular
activities in accord with the rules set regarding the Honor Society
of Fairfield University, to the Activities Committee of the Legis­lature.
Section 2 - The Executive motion will then be subject to the procedure for
passage of bills.
Section 3, - This activity point allocation is subject to yearly review and if
necessary revision by the .Chairman or'the Activities Committee
of the Executive.
ARTICLE XIV: Amendments
Section 1 - Cf. Constitution, Article V.
'Section 2 - All prbposed amendments must be submitted in writing.
ARTICLE XV: Veto
Section 1 - The Presidential power of veto will be the prerogative of the
President.
a. the procedure will be as follows: '
1. a bill submitted to the President must be signed 'by him within two
weeks of receipt.
2. should the President fail to sign We b'ill and fail to return the same
to the Legislature within that two week period, the bill will then be­come
law.
3. should the President return the bill vetoed to the Legi~lature within
two weeks a two-thirds vote of the quorum present of the Legislature
is necessary to override the President's veto.
ARTICLE XV1: Student Government Membership .
Section 1 - No member of the Student Association shall hold position in more
than one branch o~ the Student Government at the same time.
members of his constituency division.
2. The procedure will be as follows:
a) The petition will be submitted to the Elections Committee,of the
Legislature which will arrange for an election to fill the vacated
position. '
b) The recalled legislator may run in the above mentioned election.
Section 2 - Referendum "
a. Any official act, law, or decision ofthe Legislative Branch of the Govern­ment
can be subject to reversal, change, or annulment under, the following
conditions:
1. Apetition for the same bya majority vote of the whole Student Associa­tion
(50% plus one), which petition is then presented to the Student
Government President.
2. Said President, within five days of receipt of said petition, will call a
meeting of the entire Student Association for discussion of and voting
on the submitted petition.
3. A two-thirds vote of the entire Association in favor of said petition
will effect the reversal, change, or annulment of the Student Govern­ment
decision, law, or act.
ARTICLE VIII: Succession
Section 1 - The order of sucession to the Presidency of the Student Association
shall be:
a. Vice-President of the Executive Branch.
b. President Pro tempore of the Legislature.
c. Any further succession beyond this position is to be determined by a two­thirds
vote of the quorum present of the Legislature. The candidate must
be a Senior member' of said Legislature.
ARTICLE IX: Parliamentary Procedure
Section 1 - The rules contained in Robert's Rules of Order revised edition
shall govern the proceedings of the Association a~ of the Govern~
ment, except in such cases as are covered by the Constitution and
I the By-laws of that same Constitution.
a. Robert's Rules may be suspended by a two-thirds vote of the quorum
present of the Legislature.
b. A Parliamentarian shall be appointed by the Vice-President of the
Student Association in order to advise on questions dealing with Robert' s
Rules.
ARTICLE X: Clearance
Section 1 - All appointments made by the Executive should first be cleared with
the De~ of Studies and the Den of Men before they are presented
PAGE 8
Section 3 - Membership: The members of each commitk!e shall be appointed
by the President of the Legislature.
a. Each committee must have at least one member from each class unless
'the number of committees exceeds the'number of representatives in any
class, in whic,h case this restriction may be waived.' '
b. All appointments to committees are to be made at the first convocation
of the new Legislature after the Spring election with the exception of
the Freshman representatives who are to be added to the committees
at the first session following their election in the Fa,ll.
Section 4 - Meetings: All meetings of the Legislative Standing Committees
shall be called by the Chairman oUhose,committees, said meetings
to take place during the week that the full Legislature is not in
session as specified in the By-Laws of the Student Association.
a. Other meetings of the Standing Committees may be called at the dis­cretion
of the Chairman.
section 5 - Duties
a. Finance Committee is to receive all bills and budgets pertaining to
legislation with regard to finance and appropriations.
b. Ways and Means Committee is to determine the agenda for proceedings
of the Legislature and publish the same for use by the legislators prior
to that session. \
c. Grievance Committee is to receive all bills and requests pertaining to
all redresses of the grievances of the Student Association which per­tain
to the law.
d. Activities Committee is to receive all bills pertaining to activity legis-lation.
'
e. Legislative Committee is to receive all constitutions and the amend­ments
thereof to determine their correspondence to this Constitution
and By-Laws and further to make a critical survey of operational
procedure of this Constitution and By-LaWS and present at least an an.,.
nual report concerning flaws and possible corrections.
f. Honor Committee is to initiate, maintain and supervise annually an
Academic Forum and to suggest to the Legislature, after interviewing
each applicant, those students who in its opinion are considered capable
of fulfilling the duties thereof which applicants are subject to 'approval
of. the Legislature, and to maintain in conjunction with the Dean of
StUdies, the University regulations pertaining to pro'cedures of examina­tion
'and to investigate as it sees fit the present conditions concerning
such.
ARTICLE IV: Special Committees - All special com'mittees created by the Legis­lature
which are responsible for matters that are not directly limited
to the Government's business but which affect more directly the Stu­dent
Association as a whole, shall be headedby a chairman appointed
by the President, of the Legislature from the constituency of repre­sentatives.
The members of said committees will be appointed by the
chairman of said committee from either the members of the Student
Association or from representatives in the Legislature of that given
~ar. '
, ARTICLE V: Endorsement of Executive Appointments
Section I - In accord with Article II, Section 3-f of this Constitution, the
, Legislature shall
a. receive at the first convocation of the legislature in the Spring, a list of
appointments to' executive positions to be submitted to the chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee twenty-fool" hours prior to that convo­cation
at which time the said appointments will automatically be plaCed
on the agenda for that convocatioq.
b. receive at the first meeting oftheSpring session the list of appointments
of the Judiciary as submitted by the President of the Student Association.
SUch appointments must bear the signatures of both the President and
Vice-President of the Association.
1. Appointments will follow the procedure 'for passage of a bill. A simple
majority of the quorum present is necessary for approvU.
'2. Should the Legislature approve the appointments, the appointees will
be ~worn in by pledge by the Chief Justice, except in the case of ap­pointment
of Chief Justice, in which case, the President of the Student
Association will swear in the Chief Justice who will in turn' swear in
the remaining appointees. '
3. The swearingin will take place within one week of the Legislature's
confirmation of said appointments. Two witnesses must be present at
the ceremony.
4. Should the Legislature reject the appointments the list of rejections
will be returned with the list of approval and a complementary list or
appointments must be submitted to the Ways and Means Committee'
within one school week of rejection, at the following session of which
the Legislature will approve or reject these appointments.
5. The complementary list may include a previously rejected appointee.
6. Should the Executive fail to submit this complementary list within
one school week of the.,rejection of the previous nominations, the
Legislature shall, by popular majority, fill those same vacancies by
nomination from the floor.
ARTICLE VI: Control of Extra-Curricular Activities
Section I - In accord with Article II, Section 3-d of this Constitution, the Legis­lature
shall specify that:
a. The minutes of all extra-curricular activity meetings will be kept by the
secretary of that activity.
b. These minutes will be dated and signed by the officers of that activity
within two days of the meeting.
_ c. A financial statement from each extra-curricular activity; cardinal,
major, minor, and social, must be submitted within one week of the first
meeting of that activity in the Fall semester to the financial committee
of the Legislature.
d. A financial and progress report regarding every function or'the extra~
curricular activity must be submitted to the Legislature one week con­sequent
to that function; the former to the Financial, the latter to the
Activities Committee. This law does riot bInd the Sodality of Our Lady
of Fairfield. - '
e. The list of officers voted in bythe extra-curricular activities must be for­warded
to the Activities ,Committee of the Legislature two weeks conse­quent
to those elections.
f. All motions of an extra-curricular activity regarding changes in constitu­tions
will be forwarded to the Legislative Committee of the Legislature
within two weeks of approval by that organization.
g. These motions must be signed by the President and Secretary of that
extra-curricular activity.
h. Should an investigation be necessay, the Legislature may call for mem­bers
of the activities before it, 'in committee, and it may, after securing
the permi,ssion of the Court, impound books of that activity.
i. All requests of an extra-curricular activity regarding financial aid and the
requests foc running activities must be forwarded to the respective com­mittees
of the Executive for clearance and approval as specified in
Article I, Section 4-e, 2-c of this COl,lstitution.
ARTICLE VII - Recall and Rederendum
Section I - Recall
a. Executive and Judicial
1. Any member of the Executive and Judicials Branches is subject to re­moval
from the Government by either
a) a petition for the same bya majority vote (50% plus 1) of the entire
Student Association, which petition will then be forwarded to the
elections committee for investigation, pUblication, and institution of
the necessary consequent procedures or
ti) a two-thirds vote of the quorum present of the legislature, which
proceedings will be presided over by the President pro tempore of
the' Legislature, except in the case of Presidential recall, in which
case the Chief Justice will preside. -
b. Legislative
1. Any member of the Legislature is SUbject to removal from Govern­ment
by petition for the same by a majority vote (50% plus 1) of the
THE STAG
1) The new government offers several times
more oppOrtunities for students to gain ex­pereince
in leadership, politics and law than
exist in any organization on campus; the
concept of self- rule through the three
branches increases student consciousness of
the rights and obligations we have toward
each other and society.
2) By its very nature the new constitution
demands student involevment, authority and
reSpOnsibility in the direct right to influence
policy in nearly every area of the student
community.
3) It offers the first and most significant
effort to unite the three residential areas
of the University into one cooperative unit
of operation.
4) The degree of contact, control and
regulation the Government shall have over all
organizations and policies will raise the stan­dard
of an increase the amount of campus
activity to a point where students may achieve
maximum educational, SOCial, moral, and
spiritual benefit from these functions.
Executive Branch
1) CompOsition: three officers elected by
the entire student body; and Executive Board
and a Board Chairman who are appointed;
the Board consists of Financial,: Activities,
March 11, 1964
Grievance, Social, and CorreSpOndence Com­mittees.
2) Operation: this branch shall perform
those duties inhere!1t ,in the constitution and
initiated by the Legislature.
Legislative Branch
1) Composition: four officers; proportional
representation from all three residential
areas ofday-hops, off-campus and on-campus
boarders; Financial, Ways and Means, Grie­vance,
Activities, Legislative, and Honor
Committees.
2) operation: this branch is responsible for
, the initiation, formulation, and legislation of
policy throughout the Government and into
those effected areas of the Student Associa­tion.
Judicial Branch
1) CompOsition: Student and Supreme
Courts; nine appOinted Justices, a clerk of
courts, and court stenographer and a' fact
finding board ,in the Student Court;, the Dean
of Men, Dean of Study, Moderator of Student
Government, and two Student Court Justices
in the Supreme Court.
2) Operation: this branch shall ajudicate,
in cooperation with the University authorities,
cases of student violations or regulations as
stated in the Disciplinary Code.
'r
March 11, 1964 ThiE STAG PAGE 9
KENT HUFF and BOB BLACKBURN
Evaluates Coursef
Any student interested in par­ticipating
in this drive should
contaCt Kevin McGovern, Box
392, 259-9180, L - 308.
Academic Fourm
The Academic Forum is in the
process of evaluating the general
education, that is, non-profes­sional,
'non-major courses, to ad­vise
and make specificrecom­mendations
to the Dean.
Meeting with the Dean, the
members of the Forum agreed
to undertake this task and were
assured that these studies will
definately be taken into consid­eration.
The general curriculum will be
divided into six specific areas;
languages, history and govern­ment,
English, theology, math-
,ematics and general science, with
each member of the Forum taking
one of these areas.
The members ofthe Forum are,
Richard Lawless '64, Dale Mc­Nulty
'64, Robert Anderson '64,
Michael Curley '64, Tom Scoff
. '65 and James Cahill '66.
The members of the Forum
will first ascertain the objectives
of each department, and then
speak with students about their
per son a 1 evaluation of the
courses. The eRd result will be
SiX stUdies, which will give the
faculity an idea of the student
viewpoint on general education.
OUTLOOK ON
LATIN AMERICA
THE UNIVERSITY IN LATiN AMERICA
Patte'rned on Salamanca, Bologna, and Padua, the colonial univer·
sity was a complete institution in accordance with the norms of thosf
times. The Spanish American colonial university is looked up to b;
contemporary university authorities with great pride as an institutioJ
which was efficient, effective, and complete.
The Nineteenth Century movements, political and educational, art
blamed for destroying the unity and lniversality of the colonial uni­versity.
The Spanish American universitywas engulfed in the politica
turbulence and socio-intellectual upheaval, so characteristic ofthosl
times, and was reduced to a central administrative office.
The republican university shifted the emphasis from culture to thf
professions. Most Schools of Humanities, or Faculties of Philosoph~
and Letters are of Twentieth Century origin. I might digress momen·
tarily to explain that the term FACULTY in Latin America is use!
to mean that division of the university which is presided over by :
Dean, namely the School, and refers also to the teaching stat! of tha
School. The Faculties are accused of opposing any central authority
and of destroying the traditional stl"\!cture of the university. Doctor:
and lawyers are cast as the chief villains, although any professiona
might fit the part. '
In the transition from the subsidizing of universities by religiou~
orders in the colonial period to the government subsidies of contem­porary
universities. there has arisen an uneasiness in university­state
relations. Its implications are im mediately seen. The university,
receiving its "life blood" from the national government, is expectec
to either remain outside the framework of society and not participah
in its functions, or it is to respect every policy of the national govern­ment
towards its society.
. The relationship between the Spanish American university and thE
national government is characterized by a struggle fromgovernmen:
and for the control of its own academic destines. This constant in.
tervention oa the part of the governm<:!nt for political reasons, -whict
usually results in dismissals or suspensions, plus a fear of tyranny:
sho'J1d the professors gain comp~etecontrol of the institution, account~
for the reluctance of professional or full-time teachers to work in thE
universities. As a result, students receive history and law course~
from lawyers who can devote only a small portion of their professiona
time to the preparation and instruction of their courses. Here the
problem is not an issue of non- participation on the part of the studem
but rather faculty absences.
The question of the political role of the university is an important
one. Many so-called authorities agree that a prohibition should exist
against the participation - collective, corporate, or institutional _
by professors and students in contemporary politics or party disputes.
I Violently d5agree.
In the first instance, the role of the university is two-fold: namely
to train the youth of its nation in the performance of a taSk, in which
each individual is interested, that will be effectual in that individu'l1's
society; and to form a pJ1itica! attitude toward that society.
Remaining completely aloof from the confrontation of SOCial,
economic, and political problems, the university: (1) loses its stature
as a paladin of liberalism. which exerts pressure 0'1 conservative
procrastination in relation to badly needed'land reform, housing, and
wage increase; (2) losing this im.?ortant role, the university would
cease to be the champion of freedJm and liberty, and would thus
degenerate to the position of a stagnant institution.
The solution of this situation, I feel, can only be reached when the
governments of each Latin American country realize that the pro­gress,
strength, and stability rest in the liberation, and not in the re-pression,
of their universities. . .
Next week - The.La,tin,American Student
O'Marra, McGovern,
Appointed To Drive
Gera.rd Wolf
Spontaneous requests by col­lege
students on many campuses
have resulted in the organiza-'
tion of a National Student Com­mittee
for the proposed $10 mil-'
lion John Fitzgerald Kennedy Li...
brary in Boston, it was announced
yesterday by the Kennedy Library
Corporation.
Tile national committee will
coordinate student drives in late
April on 2, 100 campuses through­out
the nation as their part in the
public campagin to raise the ne­cessary
funds. On completion,
the Library will be turned over
to the United States Government
to' be operated as part of the
National Archives. Kevin McGo­vern
'67 and Thomas O;Marra
'64 has been awointed chairman
of the Kennedy Library Commit­tee
to direct the drive at Fair-field
University,. _
-ibe- site of the Library on the
banks of the Charles River in
Mr. Kennedy's native city was
chosen by him shorUy before
his death. The building, in addi.,.
tion to an austere and beautiful
memorial room, will include sev­eral
working components: a Mu­seum,
an Archive an~ an Insti­tute.
. According to the Corporation
announcement, the Institute of the
Library will further one of Pre­sident
Kennedy's deepest con­~
ersn - his ~()!!.tin~~lJll?!
to bring together the world of
ideas and the world of affairs;
the world of scholarship and the
world of decision. This purpose
consistently animated his life,
and no cause could better serve
. his memory.
was familiar with the naval aspect
of the war since he served with '
another singer, Cisco Houston,
in the merchant marine. Also
some humorous "talking" type
of songs which were very close
to the styling of Bob Dylan. The
Even Song Minstrels gave the
audience a folk song which is a
standard from the hootenanny to
the civil-rights marches. This
was the old "We Shall Over­come".
These three girls sang a
few numbers with a group called
The Landsmen. The Landsmen
also sang on their own in a stan­dard
commPTcial style.
Fr. F.X. CORRAN, S.J.
Fr. F.X. Curran, S.J., New
England Province Director of Vo­cations,
will make his annual visit
to the campus beginning March
9th. Due to his former visits' and
retreats at Fairfield University,
Fr. Curran is not, a stranger.
His objective in coming here, as
well as to the other Jesuit Col­leges
and Universities in New
England, is to help any student
who might be interested in a vo­cation
to the priesthood or even
to the brotherhc.xI. Fr. Curran
seeks to be of h~lp to all in
determining a true vocation,
whether it be to thl;! Diocesan
priesthood, to the religious life
or to the missionary fields. From
his wide experience over the past
several years, he has a fund of
information and a depth in spirit­ual
guidance. Some students ex­perience
a reserve and reticence.
in talking over a possible vo­cation
with members of the fac­ulty,
but feel comparatively free
wi.th a priest from outside the
academic circle. '
During the month of March, all
should offer some prayers and
sacrifices for more vocations.
"The fields are white for the
harvest, but the laborers are
few."
Vocation Director
Visiting Campus
Fr. Curran will be in Canisius
212 in the morning; in the stu­dent
Counselor's Office, Xavier,
during the afternoons, and in
Rommo 10 of Gonzaga Hall every
evening. Fr. Curran will be here
from March 9 to 13.
sang with a polished style and
finely controlled voices. The
songs were relativelyfamiliar to
the listeners. The shouts of ad- ,
miration from the audience left
little doubt regarding the girls'
popularity.
Bob Carboni gave an excellent
display of skill on the twelve
string guitar. To this he also
added' an interpretive rendition
of some folk blues tunes. The
duo of Kappenberg and Casper
gave a spirited perform~nce of
the Woody Guthrie song, "Reu­ben
James". This was a song
about the first American warship
lost in World "War II. Guthrie
O~NION PA£T.0,.C....H....
'~'
Lately the administration and faculty at Fairfield have come in for
lome candid criticism from our students. Many of ~he points made
could well be taken. But an amazing aspect about this critIcism is
the loud cheers it gets from the students upon being printed. In
contrast, whenever the student body comes in for similar blasting,
ov.r reaction is neither cheers, now how]s, •••• simply nothing.,
It passes right over the dear student's head. '
Yet there are some areas at Fairfield where the faculty as a whole
far surpasses its backward, reactionary students in its progressive
ouUook. I'll speak here of two areas, one specific and the other more
general.
The first is what we call the liturgical movement. After several
years of feeble student attempts to encourage participation at Mass,
visible progress has finally been made this year through the initia­tive
of a few priests in particular, with the suppqrt by and large, of
the remaining Jesuit faculty. Lord knows they've had to work very
hard to overcome student lethargy and plain cussedness. Still we have
students who simply refuse to make responses in a communal spirit,
much less raise their voices in a Sunday morning song. And then
there is the case of the incorrigibles who persist in selecting their
pews according to which will get them to breakfast quickest. The
only conclusion here is that we students are still too "set in our
ways."
A more sweeping area where the attitude of the faculty as a whole
is more progressive than their foppish students is that of social
consciousness.
Just because none of our stl.t.:!ents have ever known war, very few
have felt poverty. and none have been trapped by ignorance, they
think the world is hunky-dory. Oh, of course, tnere are the insurmount­able
problems of the harassed' student, subject to a world of untold
tensions, and to a life of unbearable school pressures under the handi­cap
that no one understands him! But aside from that, everyone else
is doing fine.
Maybe it doesn't bother the Fairfield student that he is a hypo­crite
and a heretic who does not believe in such things as "Mater et
Magistra" and "Pacem in Terris". Maybe it doesn't bother him that
some people don't have his material comforts or anteseptic surround­ings,
or freedom frbm fear and ignorance. Maybe it doesn't bother
him that many students with much less of a Christian background
show more Christian awareness than he; He honestly believes that
these things just don't eXist. '
I say this despite the lecture and courses you tell me he attends
that have a bearing on social action today. I say it despite the small
number of students who have involved themselves in social projects.
I say it in face of the overwhelming reality that the Fairfield student
today is just too plain fat and selfish. ,
While students from other schools may risk imprisonmentfighting
for human rights, here I haven't seen even a decent picket line for one
decent cause, except perhaps if the toast was too cold one morning.
I'm not talking simply about things like civil rights. I'm talking
about a prevailing, permeating attitude which colors the actions (in­actions)
and thinking of the entrie student body, from the liturgical
movement, to national welfare. It is a subconscious attitude which
underlies the actions of even those who verbally repute the selfish "
doctrines of rugged-individualism enjoying their renaissance today.
The Fairfield student has a keen sense of justice when someone
has cramped his style. He'will have matured immeasureably when he
realizes that if someone steals his candy, it's not quite the same as
stealing someone else's bread. Put that in your overstuffed pipe and
smoke it.
Folk Festival Highlights
'University and Area Talent
An exceptionally large au­dience
witnessed the second an­nual
folk festival and mixer spon­sored
by the class of '65. The
performers came on a voluntary
basis from various localities.
They brought with them a range
of styles from the sophisticated
city folk singer and the commer­cial
to the unpolished but popu­lar
styles of Woody Guthrie.
The performers had a full range
of stringed instuments to back up
their voices. 'There were Blue­grass
ganjoes, autO-harps, and an
instrument which, though popular
in the folk field, is rather scarce.
This was the twelve string gUi­tar
played by Bob-earboni and ac­complished
young stringpicker
and folk blues singer. There
was also the usual preponderance
of six string guitars.
The master of ceremonies was
Ken Taplin who is an accomp-
. lished folk singer in his own right.
,Mr. Taplin started the show off
with two numbers on his part
and then introduced the perfor­mers.
Some of these were The
,Landsmen, The Even Song Min­strels
and The Linguivos, Bob
Carboni, John Kappenberg and
Jack Casper a man with a de­cidedly
Dylanesque flavor. There
were also the Minutemen, Ken
Huff and the Pond Edge Wil­low;.
There was no shortage of
talent for this show.
The group which had perhaps
the best reception was The Lin­guivos.'
This group consisted of
ten girls from the college of New
Rochelle with some male accom­paniests.
This performance of
The Linguivos might have been
their last in an amateur role.
The group has recently been given
a contract' for twp records. They
PAGE 10 .
by Richard F. Meehan
K'of C NOTES
Federal Officials Lect":re
MORE THAN "S':l:'AGNATION"
The lead editorial of last issue's STAG, if nothing else, caused
ripples to run across the usually quiet and becalmed campus, and this
is a good thing. There were many comments about it and they seemed
to be either for or against with no middle ground and no person that'
had not, at least, heard something ofit even if he were not interested
enough to read it himself. I am not going to say whether I agree or
disagree with what was said or with the manner in which it was. put
forth' because there are other questions that were raised during the
course of the effects that were felt after publication of the editorial.
These questions were raised directly and explicitly by some teachers
and indirectly and perhaps unconsciously among others including
many, many students. These were evidenced in all the reactions pro
and contra, vigorous or quiet; but the questions were there apart from
considerations as to whether the editorial was true or not, justified
or no, well and maturely put or the product of a less intellectual
strain on campus.
What is the function of the college newspaper? What should be its
editorial policy and how should it be presented? Is a cartoon really
an integral _part of the more serious purpose of the newspaper? Is
the newspaper to be carefully crafted and turned out for those outside
who will get a look at the school through the newspaper? Can there
be more real news than is and has been reported?· Are complaints
leg1t1mately registered in the newspaper or should they be omitted?
Is the newspaper to be an organ of student opinion as well as
a report sheet of campus doings? How powerful should and can the
newspaper be? What is the relationship between the school newspaper
and the administration? There are more questions but a repetition
of the interrogative can be and probably is by now boring. All of these
were raised and if no one thinks they were they should examine their
conscious and unconscious reactions to the editorial. This is what
was so good about the editorial if nothing else, and that was that it
seemed· at least to awaken minds throughout the school. Apart from
anything else, and I shall give no approval or disapproval of what was
done or the method, the editorial did appear to stir some thought and
opinion. .
.Anyone who has been or is now involved in the publication of the
STAG can testify to the discouraging and sometimes not .under- .
standable unconcern for anything except some ads, sports, and one or
two news stories. I am certain that if a poll were taken this feeling on
the part of the staff would be regretably verified in black and white.
One might even apply the old test to his classmates: "Did you read
such and SUCh," or "Whatdo you think about the editorial this week?"
It is sad indeed if the only way that peOple will look up is by going out
and poking them in the eye because then their eye will run and perbaps
even be bloodshot. It is hoped that the appeal would not have- £0 00 so
bluntly physical.
I do not want to say that the editorial was right or wrong, though I
do have my opinion; but the more important thing that arose from
last issue was the questions that carne up and repeated themselves' and
especially the question ofthe student-newspaPer relationship. It would
seem that everyone does have to be poked in the eye in order to read
the whole newspaper. Whetherornotthefaultlies within the paper it­self
and its staff it appears that there is only this small circle of in­terest~
staff members and a few real readers.
If the critics of the STAG would criticize something let thEm first
dwell upon the greatest disease in the student organ of information
and opinion and that is the disease of lethargy and unconcern within
the majority of the student body. . .
familiar fable.
David s_ .AInndt
Among the eight Federal ot-. Board of l>irectors of the 1).(;.
ficials who Will lecture at a Federal Bar Associlttion.
special Fai r fi e 1d University Philip M. Risik is a member
course for area Business men onf of the Armed SerVices Board of
securing and ,servicing Govern- Contract Appeals. A member of
ment contracts will be: Paul A. the New York State and Federal
Barron, William L. McElr~y, Bar ASSOCiations, he was pre-
Eugene J. Davidson, Philip -M. viously engaged in private law
Risik, and Julius Silverstein. parctice (1937-51), and alsoser-
Paul Barron is Assistant Gen- ved as an Army officer in World
eral Counsel in the Regulations War n and the Korean conflict.
and GeneriU Law Division of the He is a Colonel in the U.S.
General Services Administration. Army Reserve. Previous to his
This division is responsible for present appointment, he was Staff
the management of the Federal Procurement Speeialist in the Of-
Procurement Regulation system. fice of the Assistant Secretary of
He was previously (1956-59) a Defense.
.staIf director of the interagency J u Ii u s Silverstein is Chief
Task Force on Govt. Procure- Counsel for Regulations, Codifi-ment
Policies, Head of the Of- cation and General Law for the
fice of Grants and Contracts of General Services Administration
the National Science Foundation in Washington. Some of his pre-
(1959-62), Chairman of the Fed. vious assignments were with the
Bar Assoc. Committee on Go- Treasury Department, War Pro-venunent
Contracts and Editor- duction Board, and General Ac-in-
Chief of the Federal BarJour- counting Office. He is at pre-nal.
sent chairman of the Subcom-
William L. McElroy is Attor- mittee on Civilian Procurement.
ney-Adviser in the Procurement A member of the New York Bar,
and Administrative Division, Of- the District of Columbia Bar, and
fice of General Counsel, of the Supreme Court, he also taught in
Small Business Administration. the Graduate School of the De­Previously
he was Procux:ement partment of Agriculture (1951-
Attorney for the U.S. Army (1953- 62).
62). He is a member of the Fed- The Course is sponsored by the
eral Bar Association, the Ameri- Bureau of Business Research of
can Bar Assocition and the Ala- Fairfield University in co-opera-baina
Bar. He will lecture on the tion with the Small Business Ad­rights.
of small businessmen to ministration, the ~ridgeport
prime and subcontracts. Chamber of Commerce, the
Eugene J. Davidson, Assistant Manufacturers Association of
General Counsel for Procurement Bridgeport and the Management
in the Small Business Adminis- Council of Southwestern Con­tration,
is also an instructor in necticut. Beginning March 4, it
Government" Contracting at the will continue each Wednesday
Graduate School of the U.S. De- evening from 7:30 to 9:30 for
partrnent of Agriculture. Pre- nine weeks. The purpose of this
viously he was Civilian Procure- program is to give small business
ment Litigation Attorney in the owners, purchasing agents and
Office of the Judge Advocate contract administrators a better
General, Department of the Army understanding of how to. obtain
(1953-57). He'is the Deputy Edi- and admmistElr,. contracts with
_tor~~Jl::9ti~f. 9~ ~e..Federal Bar various federal agencie~, and
Journal and a member' "of ·the ' . tn1l1ta'rY 1:!smblishment&.,
The class received the honors
'of the First .uC&""~ 011 Monuay,
March 2 and the honors of the
Second Degree on Thursday"
March 5. Torn Connors '64, in his
capacity as Membership .Insur­ance
Chairman; named the class
in honor of District Deputy Gerald
MurphY who presided over the
preceediIlg~'ofthe ThirdDe~ree.
the Third Degree on Sunday af­ternoon
March 8, 1964 at Fr.
Coleman Council in Fairfield:
Robert A. Baffa, James P.Bren­nan,
Timothy p. Buckley, John
L. Burke, Jr., Michael E. Byrnes,
.~fichaet" j~ Cortegiano, Joh.~: P;
Costello, William H. Crawford
ill, Paull. DaviS, Arlhur J: ve-:
Lucai, Edward P. Del Vecchio,
Nicholas C. DePaolo, Lawrence
A. DeSando, Michael Dogali, Tho­mas
E. Finch, Sebastian L. Fiore,
Thomas W. Fraher, Henry B~
Franey, Jr., .ArthurV.Giles, Jr.,
'Patrick D. Hanley, Thomas A.
Hufnagel, Donald P. Kline, Robert
C. Knick, James T. Larkin, Rob­ert
J. Levens, Matthew J. Lyons,
Richard T. Maronney, William J.
Mazzara, Jr., William a; Me­Carthy,
William J. McGee, Ri-·
chard A. Molteni, Charles W.
. Moakley, Peter J. Moran, Leo J.
O'Neill, Lawrence E. Palaia, Joel
G. Pascale, Richard A. Pelle­giino,
Timothy. J. Rabbitt, Frank
R. Richters, Charles W. Riley,
Paul J. Terranova, Edward A.
Truscinski, ~aymond E. Varga"
Stephen J. Vogel, Francis J.
Zaino. Mr. Paul I. DaviS, pro­.
fessor' of history at Fairfield,
became the first faculty m~mber
to take Degrees through out Coun-cil.
•
The following forty-six can­dida!
es received. the hono!"s of
• • •
RUSSELL KELLERMAN
At a recent meeting ofIgnatian
Council Fraternal Activities
Chairman Lou Krodel presented
the Knight of the Month Awarp
for January to Russell F. Keller­man
'66. Russ is in his second
year with 19natian Council and is
the present Chairman of Public
Relations. In this capacity he has
been responsible for all advertis­ing
of the Council's activities.
Through his efforts many of our
activities have been reported in
national Knights of Columbus
publications. For the past two
years Russ has also worked on the
bi-annual prayer cards and the
Membership Co~mittee.
I R_E_FII'_L~C._~_IO_N_S__I
I don't suppose that there is anyone reading this article who hasn't
bought something at a discount at one.qme or another. If a particular
bill now before Congress becomes law, it's going to be a lot harder to
buy brand name prodUcts at a discount. The bill is t~e so-called
Quality Stabilization Act, HR 3669, introduced in early 1963 by
Representat~ves Oren Harris (D. Ark.) and Ray Madden (D. Ind.).
The bill would, in effeCt, impose a federal "fair trade" law on all
fifty states, even though 23 state Supreme Courts have declared
similar laws to be unconstitutional when passed by state legislatures.
. A similar bill, S.774, has been introduced' in the Beante by Democrat
whip Ben. Hubert Humphrey for himself and 10 other senators.
The ostensible purpose of the law, to protect small businessmen
from "cannibalistic competition", would be achieved by allowing
manufacturers of products with brands, names or trademarks to set
the retail prices for these· goods. The bills do not limit this power to
new goods, thus making it possible to fix the prices even of used
goods. .
The essence of this bill is a negation of economic law. By allowing
manufacturers to set prices and not theforcesof supply and demand,
the sponsors would establish an artifical pricing system by inter­fering
with the structure of prices. Paul R. Dixon, Chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission, speaking in opposition to the bill at
Congressional committe.e hearings stated that "In our (FTC's)
opinion, S. 774 presents two determinations or propositions, with
reference to its resale price maintenance provisions: First, the
. proposed resale price maintenance provides for the determinations
of resale prices by non-competitive forces: the bill attempts to set
. up a system of price control by private agreement. Second, the main­tenance
of resale prices does not promote efficiency in the economic
system, and as a result does not provide the American consumer with
the goods and services he requires at the lowest prices ••• If the
vital element of competitive pricing is removed from a significant
part of our economy, what remains is not a competitive, but a price- .
controlled system, with resale price of branded articles set by
manufacturers."
The effect of this new pricing system would hardly be beneficial to
the consumer. Senator Strom Thurmond (D. S.C.) states that he
remembers from a Senate investigation conducted several years ago
into the. influence of state "fair trade laws" that prices ran roughly
twenty-five percent higher where the laws were in effect. When Sena­tor
Thurmond asked Mr. Dixon whether price increases would re­sult
fro"m the present bill, Mr. Dixon answered, "It certainly WOUld."
A similar survey conducted by. the Justice Department indicates that
the law would keep "the price of-brand-name consumer goods about
twenty percent above the free market price. As Assistant Attorney
General Lee Loevinger has stated: "Consumers pay the bill." The
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee heard evidence
that' when the Ohio Supreme Court declared such a law unconstitu­tional
in that state the price of coffee perkers dropped from $39.95
to $29.97 and the price of electric frying pans dropped from $19.95
to $13.87, such decreases in price were common for other goods.
Representative John Dingell (D. Mich.) said that the bill "would re­peal
the free enterprise system, gouge the consumer, and set off_ a
dizzying spiral of inflation." Representative Bruce Alger (R•. Tex.)
said that the bill "would abolish capitalism as we know it. It would
outlaw price competition and penalize not only the efficient retailer
but the bargain-hunting housewife as well."
Despite the bill's formidable oPP9sition, the prospects are good for
its passage. Shortly after the qi~I.'Yas}.!l~r.9~uce?,i~ went .thro,u~h t~e
'House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee 15y a vote 01
thirty-two to one~'The bill has not v receivetl - much pUbli'city but_
lobbyists have been effective.
For Elections,
Convention
Y-Dems Plan
Summer Work
The young Democrats will meet
today in C-I02 to formulate final
plans for club elections and the
forthcoming State Young Dem.
Convention, to be held in Bridge-'
POrt April 17 and 18.
Nominations for the six avail­able
officers will be held next
Wednesday, March 18. Clubelec­tions
will follow after Easter .
vacation April 6. Club president
'Leo Paquette emphasized in a
statement today that all those who
wish to vote or run for office
in the club must have registered
and paid their dues by the March
18 date. He also stated that any
member of the club, regardless
of the year, is elibible for of­fice.
Some 65 clubs from throughout
the state will converge on Bridge­port
in April for the annual con­vention.
Paquette said that the
proximity of this years gathering
provides a unique opportunity for
students of Fairfield who are club
members to see the inside work­ings
of a political convention.
Again he explained that eligibilty
to the convention will strictly be
limited to members in good stand­ing
by March 18.
"With the Presidential and
Congressional elections corning
up in the fall" said Paquette"
students will have many oppor­tunities
to learn the issues and
back the candidates of their choice
through the Young ·Dems. But to
join tij.e effort in September will
be too late. That is why I urge
all sijldents who possibly can to
corne to our activities for the
remainder of the semester."
In order to help Fairfield stu­dents
who might be interested in
working in some bype of summer
lay apostolate program this sum­mer,
we list the following ad­dresses
for inquiries into such
opportunities:
Mr. George Reger, M.Mo,
Mary knoll Seminary, Mary­knoll,
Ny.Y. Involvesworkin
a reform school or migrant
labor camp in New Mexico or
Texas.
Catholics for Latin America,
180 Hudson Terrace, Yon­kers,
N.Y.Involvesworkwith
teachers and other college
students in projects to help
slum dwellers. Place, Buenos
Aires, Argentina - Deadline.
for inquiries -' March-15
Phone YO 5-6022
Peruvian American Councll for
Educational Exchange (PA­CE)
55 West 42nd St., Room
1244, N.Y. N.Y. 10036Phone
MU 7-3383 _
AID (Association for Interna­tional
Development), 374
Grand Street, Paterson 1,
N.J. There are some horne
front programs centered
around World Affairs Edu­cation,
Foreign visitors and
stUdents, and Press and PUb­lic
Information.
Note: A training manual called
"The Church in the Modern
World," has been preparedby the
Maryknoll Fathers for college
students who sill spend the sum­mer
working in Mexico, Peru,
and other Latin American coun­tries.
Copies can be ordered by
writing to WORI:.D CAMPUS,
Maryknoll, New York.
Information on these programs
to MexiCo and Peru can also be
obtained from World Campus~
OPPORTUNITY
The State of Connect'cut is
recruiting college seniors for
employment after graduat:on in
the Unemployment Compensation
program.
Assignment: Claims Exam­iner
H
Salary: $4500
after one year, $5080
Exceptional career possibilities
in this area of social insurance.
For further information and'
... ,appl-icati6ns'_wtjt.e State',P:el:~9n,- .
nel Dept., 405 State OFice Build- I
ing, Hartford.
March 11, 1964
THE STAG
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Dr. Joseph' Grassi will give a
talk designeo to help students
pre par e for their graduate
stUdies, on Monday, March 16,
in Canis ius 201 at 3: 10. The
talk will be of, particular im-/'
p