Stag - Vol. 21, No. 06 - October 22, 1969

              (A) OFF·CAMPUS COMMUTERS
CIaH of '70
Peter Arroyo , .
Mark Govoni .
Charles Scalesse .........................•..•.....
Clan of "1'1
David Johnson .
Jeffrey Rhelnhard ............................•....
Michael Mastromonaco , .........•..•.....
ClaN of '7Z
Thomas Krause ...........................•..•....
Robert Lacobelle .......................•.....•...
Cius of '18
Peter Bilrney .
Michael Knight .
:r.1ark Krom .................•...................•.
(BI OFF CAMPUS BOABDERS
Donald DeFronzo .
Allan Kaulbach .
Thomas Gleason .
Kevin lI,fcAulitre ........•..•......•..•..•..•..•....
John Harrington ......••..•.........•..•..•..•....
Thomas WUli8IJlS .......•......•..•. _•..•.....•....
Robert Carpenter .
Donald :r.falone .
John Mekrut .
(B) ON CAMPUS BOARDERS
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Gerald Kelly .
Arthur Gallagher .
James Clarke .........................•..•. _ .
Frank Verrastro ...................•..•..•........
William O'Neill ....................•..•..•........
George Vuturo ...........................••..•....
George McKiernan .......................•........
Jesse Hepp ................•.................•....
New Dorm
John O'Nell ..............................•..•....
Dennis Barry ..........................•..•..•....
lI,f1chael Felghan .......•.....•..•..•..••..•..•....
Peter Lennon .
Stephen Ferri .............•..•..•..••..•..•..•....
John Fagan ............................•..•..•....
Joseph Chlota .........................•..•..•.....
Carl DeLucia .................................•....
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Gordon Andrews .........................•..•.....
Greg Keilty ...........................••••••.•....
Gary Grossen .
John Hayes ...........................•..•...
Kenneth Doughty ......................•....•......
Loyola
John LaMura .
Michael Maruzo .......................•...........
William Merritt .
Stephen Lennox .......................•..•...•....
Rudolph Pino ..........................•..•..•.....
Campion
P. J. Kelleher ........................•...•..•.....
Terry Horan .........................••..•..•.....
Jim Sullivan ....................•..•..•..•..•......
Bruce Zwicker ...........•..•..•..•..•..•..•......
Shaun Slocum ..................•..•..•..•...•.....
Charles Spahr ..................•..•..•..•..•......
Odober 22, 1969
Two other businessmen COtn­mented:
"This march is wonder­ful
We don't believe that It will
have a strong etrect on the
community of Falrfteld, but ~in­ed
with the efforts of other
movements throughout the na­tion,
It will be successful."
AU "Dn.tt·D~n"
"They are all 'draft-dodgers:
The North Vietnamese love
every one of them," retorted
a Fairfield man, ten years a
Navy veteran.
At R 0 g e r Ludlowe High
School, Principal Roger Warner
expressed Ludlowe's stand on
the moratorium: "In order to
establish a meaningful day of
recollection and concern on Viet­nam,
a committee, comprised
of students, faculty, and admin­Istration
members created a
program of discussion and de­bate
for the moratorium day.
The plan was atriliated with
(CoaUa.ued. oa P-ee J)
non-vlolent objectives," respond­ed
a female employee in a local
dry cleaning establlshmenL
A Fairfield businessman claim­ed
that "the whole thing is just
a bunch of college students with
noth1ng to do."
"Only Way"
A young lady just one year
in Fairfield saId enthusiastieal~
ly, "I almost cried when I saw
the march. It's been such a long
time since I've seen a mov~
ment such as this one. The
moratorium Is the only way to
solve the Vietnam war."
I Bsue s. Their etrorts were
brotl&ht to a halt by the angry
protest of a single student who
was quickly supported by a c0n­siderable
portion of the crowd.
Upon the termination of Peel's
performance a large number of
students protested his removal.
However, the appearance of an·
other rock group settled the dis­turbance.
The program proceed­ed
until approximately four a.m.
Moratorlmn: "Moral Coaoem"
Falrfield's moratorium pro­pram
began at 10:00 a.m., Wed­nesday,
October 15th, when
some 150 persons attended a
rally on the Campus Center
patio. The Very Reverend Wil­liam
C. McInnes, S.J., Identl­ned
the moratorium as "a sense
of moral concern." He told the
crowd not be "be discouranged
by numbers, for success lies in
what the individuals do, not In
how many there are." Fr. Mc·
Innes rounded out his ideas
(Continued on Page %)
continued, "Many students have
concrete opinions regarding
Vietnam but are hesitant to
openly express them."
Fr. Donald Lynch. S..,.
Fr. Donald Lynch, S.J., Pro­fessor
of English, was generally
satisfied with the handling of
the OCtober Moratorium on
Fairfield's campus. He consid­ered
It a "sincere expression by
many people" ot concern over
the Vietnam conflict. "By hold­ing
classes and lectures, mani­festing
support for difficult
government decisions," he said,
those students who were "not
necessarily against peace" were
allowed to express their feel­Ings,
and "both sides were rep.
resented."
On the other hand Fr. Lynch
stated that he was "concerned
that perhaps some took advant­age"
of the moratorium. declar­ing
for themselves a "holiday."
Emphasis was placed on the
(CoDtiDued OD Pace Z)
During the mareh many in­dividuals
gathered along the
streets. Following are candid
remarks made by persons along
Post Road:
'''I1lis moratorium ls a
healthy, peaceful movement and
tfJe people of the conununitY
will look favorably upon its
the day served to disappoint
most and to anger some.
The moratoriwn oI!lclally be­gan
at approximately 10:00 p.rn.
Tuesday, October 14th when
nearly seven hundred orderly
participants marched from the
University of Bridgeport to the
Federal Courthouse in that
town. From there, the march·
ers returned to Marina Circle.
Bridgeport Rally
Shortly after midnight, Oc·
tober 15th, the opening rally
began with a minute of silence
out of respect for the dead in
Vietnam. Professor Francis J.
Luongo, of Sacred Heart Uni­versity,
spoke to the huddled
crowd estimated at over twelve
hundred. The program continu­ed
with the musical perform­ances
or several "folk·rock"
groups.
One of these groups, David
Peet" and the Lower Eut Side,
focused its selections on sex,
drugs, and various other moral
Residents Of Fairfield
Express Observations
Following the October 15th
moratorlwn, several members
of Fairfield University's faculty
expressed their oplnJons of the
day's activities.
Fr. l""nM Murphy, S.I.
In respol:tSe to a question of
the lack of student support the
Reverend James Murphy, S.J.,
Professor of History, said, ''The
average 'Stag' Is not politically
conscious. So many are Indif·
ferent. They claim that they are
not quallfled to make state­ments."
F'r. Murphy added,
"There Is 'no excuse for Indif·
ference In regard to such a
vital concern as Vietnam."
"If we compare October 15th
to the 1967 protest at Fairfield,
the moratorium bears some
fruit. How~er, upon consider­ing
the support behind the
spring protest of 1969. the re­SUllS
of October 15th are a poor
evaluation of the students,"
commented Mr. Lawrence Ka­zura,
Professor of History. He
When the history of the pres­ent
decade - the 1960's - is
recorded ag a whole, there will
be a number of awesome and
original events that will demand
inclusion. Never before has such
quick and giant steps been
taken In scientific research;
never before have the eyes of
Time seen a man stand on the
surface of the moon: never be­fore
this decade have existed
such wealth and squalor side­by
·slde: never has there been
a schism 1;)(~tween the young and
old on suct! a widespread level:
never before has an era of such
staggering social upheaval and
rearrangement been seen.
In the midst of this revolution
In trends, though possibly not
foremost In historical Impact,
was an event which unfolded
before the (!yes of perhaps every
American nnd most of the free
world only last week. This was
National Vietnam Moratorium
Day, October 15: and al·
though the effects of It are not
yet all tol d, one can assume
that this wns a unJque and pow_
erfully slcnlficant day In a
decade which could be simlJa~
ly described.
National Suoceu
NationaUy. the day of mora·
torlum was generally viewed as
a success, even as a triumph
of the democratic process. At
FaIrfield, the description was
quite different. Minuscule turn­outs
at the various activities of
Vietnam Moratorium
Viewed By Faculty
Fairfield Moratorium Day
Plagued By Poor Turnout
By MIKE FARRELL
and C. SULLlVAN
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Vol. 21 No.6
Pag. Two
Community Affairs
Expert Speaks Thurs.
Residents See Moratorium
FAIRFIELD. CONN. - John
F. Merchant. deputy commis­sioner
for the Connecticut State
Department of Community i\f­fairs
will talk about the needs
of a chanli:inli: soicl'ty Thursday
evening at 7:30 in Fairfield Uni­
··.·t ..; .. ~ Campus Ccn't;>r Oak
Room.
Th.. prognun, Ojlf'n 10 tb('
general public free of charge,
is part of a ~rit>S prest'nted by
"". l:1.j'-"f1'ity's Student Gon'rn­ment
under the direction of
C:,arh'!; Coviello, Jr.
;1.11'. :\T(>I'chant, who rt'Sides in
Brid'·'·l'or!. was born and edu­('
aled in CI·('Cnwich. A graduate
II.' Virgima Union Univcrsity.
w;)(,l'e he majored in sociology,
he h-'clll11e the firsl Negro grad·
uate of the UniversIty of Vir­ginla's
Law School in 1958.
Presently a partner in the
Faculty
WW firm of Merchant, MelciJJe
.Il: Spear, Mr. Merchant was
Del)uty Dirl'ctor of Action for
Bl'idw;eporl Community Develop­ment.
Inc.. until 1967 when he
was appointed to his present
""'I.
Active in many area organi·
zations and associations, Mer­chant
served over four years
with the U.S. Navy following
his completion of law school and
is a Ueutenant Commander in
the active reserves as Com·
manding Officer of MTD 3-3 in
New Haven.
The lecture is the tourth of
15 sponsored by the Fairfield
University Student Government,
which are designed to provide
students and members at the
community with infonnation on
important topics from authori­tative
sources.
Comment
THE STAG
(CoDtlDDed fr'lXD P-ee 1)
the Social Studies department
at Roger Ludlowe and involved
nearly 75% of the student body.
Both students and faculty ex~
pressed deep satisfaction with
its results. Wednesday absences
were only ten more than the
average school day,"
service on Green
At 3:30 p.m. the marchers
arrived at Fairfield's Town Hall
green, and a memorial service
was held. The service, which
included peace songs by a group
of folk singers. was begun by
Gordon Davies, an organizer of
the 24-hour reading of war dead
in Fairfteld. Mr. Davies was
followed by the Reverend Stan­ley
Houston who termed the
moratorium events "a rededica­tion
of our lives toward the
things that make for peace. No
nation ever wins at war. Wq
cannot convince our enemies
we love them if we go on shoot­ing."
A moment at silence was then
observed, after which the Rev­erend
Thomas Kelbourn told
participants, '"T1lere is no loud­er
voice we can raise than the
voice of silence."
After the memorial service,
students scanned the conununi­ty
and distributed Uterature on
the war in shopping centers, the
railroad station, and door-to­door.
During an interview with
First Selectman John J. Sulli­van
at Town Hall, he stated
that. "the students from Fair­field
have organized and run a
peaceful, orderly protesL I do
not teel that it will have a tre­mendous
effect on Fairfteld, but
taking the protests from the en­tire
State of Connecticut, the
movement will collectively pres.
sure the government." Mr. Sui­llvan
added, '''Illis moratorium
will cause the community to
fonn some opinions and desires.
It is my job to carry out their
needs. Thus the moratorium
aids me in my work."
October 22, 1969
The Southern Connecticut
Vietnam Moratorium Committee
brought the·October 15th Mora­torium
Day to a close at a rally
held on the campus of Sacred
Heart University. The "prayer
for peace" service was attended
by more than one thousand
people. The service was high­llghted
by the words of the
Most Reverend Walter W. eur~
tis, bishop of the Diocese of
Bridgeport: ''We must all work
tor peace. Some people are In­sinuating
that the moratorium
day was a Communist plot to
cause unrest and contusion.
They are wrong," Bishop CUrtis
continued, "and it enough clear
thinking is done by these people,
they will realize that everyone
who takes part in these demon­strations
has something to say
to our political leaders."
The service was brought to
an end by a nickering candle~
light vigil calling tor United
States withdrawal from Viet­nam
fighting.
Moratorium Activities
(C_tiaue4 tn.n .... 1)
word "some" in this conunent;
it was not intended that apathy
was a description at all at Fair_
field. This did cause FT. Lynch
to slate that he would also "be
concerned" with the monthly
moratorium as a "continuing
process."
Another member at the Jesuit
Community on Fairfield's cam­pus
who prefers to remain ano­nymous.
felt that the Morato­rium
Day genuinely reflected
"the national impatiece at the
stalemate of the negotiations in
Paris." He agreed with Fr.
Lynch that "pros and cons were
both brought out" Another of
his comments was that "the
element of political sentiment"'
could be incorporated into "spe­cial
prayers" to achieve the
same end. Though not stating
a reaction to apathy at Fair­field.
he said that the opposi­tion
for future moratoria might
be a "question ot effectiveness."'
NOl"f,mber l'loratorhUD
In less than one month, the
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1111 POST lOAD
MIUIaD. CONNacncUT
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naOon will celebrate its seeond
monthly moratorium against the
war. The dates of this will be
the 13th and 14th of November,
as the National Moratorium
Committee has made plans to
effect a monthly increase of one
day on the work and study
pause. As has been intimated
above. the teelmg at Fairfield
appears to be somewhat skep­tical
about this, due in part to
the slight interest of students
In the last moratorium. The
fifteenth of November, a Satur­day,
will be the date at a mas­sive
march in Washln&ton, D.C.,
in which all are encouraged to
participate.
Presently, with rumors and
bmuendos blowing around as
freely aill autumn leaves, it is
ditflcult to speculate accurately
on the extent of Fairfteld's par­ticipation
in November's Mora­torium
Days. But U popular
sentiment here will be deter­minant.
It is unlikely t hat
they're will be a repetition at
October fifteenth at Fairfield.
Center, offered by the Reverend
Joseph Trinkle. Assisting Fr.
Trinkle were Father McInnes
and the Reverend Joseph Me­Connick,
S.J., and several other
priests. The vigil was conclucJ..
ed with the vigorous chanting
at ''Give Peace a Chance."
Town Mal'clt
Gathering at 1:00 p.m. in
LudJowe Park, University stu­dents
and faculty staged a peace
march through the center at
Fairfield. The march was led
by four faculty members ot the
University carrying a banner
bearing the words: "Peace
Now." Traveling down Post
Road to Miller Street, around
the raUroad station, back to
Post Road, up Unquowa Road
to Roger Ludlowe High School,
the marchers chanted "peace
now," and other anti-war slo­gans.
At both Roger Ludlowe
and Tomlinson Junior High
School, the ranks were increas­ed
by students who had just
·ftnished classes. Police estimat­ed
that on the return leg to
Town Hall. the march was com·
prised of about 650 pel'lKlQl.
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October 22, 1969 THE STAG p • n...
American Drama Festival
To Premiere Th is Friday
Fairfield AAUP Chapter Hosts
Statewide Convention Saturday
AcademicCouncilReport
Respectfully submitted,
HUGH HUMPHREY
Recording Secretary
(Ed. Note: In addition to the resolutions of the Academic
Council about the structure of the University Counell, there was
also action upon the academic resolutions of the trl·partlte ·body
and all but sections B1 & 25 were referred mthe Faculty Curricu­lum
Committee for its recommendations.)
LIndsay co-ordinator Jeff Stein,
presented his case accordingly:
'~irty per cent of the voters
ar,~ still undecided. We want
to bring them over to us, and
we need students to do it."
While on the war, Mr. New­field
emphasized t hat once
prominent peace figures are
now silent due tq assasination or
election defeat. "If Mayor Und­say
wins the election we will
have a major figure In this
country against the war."
Speechwriler Jeff Greenfield
hailed the peace movement as
a mayoral campaign issue,
pointing out that the Vietnam
war's drain on the federal
bu1get hindered the cause rI.
dty development. Introduced as
"the chief Met supporter," Mr.
Greenfield also hailed the city's
victorious baseball team. "I
don't want to make this a po..
IItleal issue, but when LIndsay
got in, the Mets were in last
place:'
The war did not become an
issue in New York City's ma­yoral
campaign until Lindsay
ordered that flap on city 'build­Ings
be flown at half-mast and
joined hundreds of thousands of
New Yorkers on Oct. 15's na·
tlon-wide Moratorium Day. The
mayor was recently condemned
by John Marchi, the Republican
mayoral candidate, for "plant­ing
a dagger In the back of
American servicemen in Viet·
nam" by his anti-war posture.
Mr. Greenfield in ve I g h e d
against the war as detrimental
to urgent urban needs, descritJ..
Ing New York City as a "pri­soner
of war." ''The money that
we have Is not remaining in
NE'w York," he saId. "It is go­In&
to the Pentagon 1lDd the
war."
To demonstrate his point, Mr.
Greenfield pointed. out that
t h r e e billion dollars in New
York City's federal taxes go
toward funding the war in VIet·
nam, while an additional six
billion go to the Pentagon's gen­eral
defense budget. "'Ibat's a
total of nine billion dollars," he
said. '1l\e total budget of New
York Is 6.6 bUilon dollars. Our
commitment Is such that every
minute In Vietnam costs more
than It takes us to ron a city
hIgh school for a year:'
Sid Davidoff, an assistant to
Mayor LIndsay, directed his ad.
dress toward the need for great-­er
student involvement in the
mayoral campaign: "We are ~
Ing to turn to the people to
tell them that we do care. we
give a damn. You proved It
In New Hampshire, and you cot
to prove It in New York."
Jean Barret, an attractive
Manhattanvilllte, invited stu-­dents
to spend a Saturday can­vassing
New York !telgborhoods
in suppoM of Mayor Lindsay.
"Our system is 'let them tell us
about their problems.' Then we
talk about the Issues ... we try
to talk about the things Lind­say's
done." Students desirous
of joining Miss Barret and the
Students for Lindsay organlza·
tlon can meet at Finch College,
52 West 78th St., FrIday eve­ning
at 9 p.m. (for tree over·
n I C h t accommodations and
meals), or Saturday morning
before 10 a.m., on either two
weekends remaining before Nov.
.th. The phone 1& (212) 883-74&1.
Lindsay Supporters
At Manhattanville
By .lOHN C. LEDDY
Jack Newfield, Jeff Green­fleid,
and Sid Davidoff, promi­nent
figures in John Lindsay's
re-election campaign, appeared
at Manhattanville College last
ThUrsday to promote the New
York mayor's cause and garner
active student support.
With the election only a few
weeKs away, Lindsay forces are
attempting to engineer a stu­dent
crusade similar to the ef.
forts of the youthful forces
that rallied to Eugene Mc­Carthy
in 1968. Students for
The 10 c a I chapter of the
AAUP "helps preside over llfe
in the University and health of
the academic corrununity," ac­cording
to Mr. Leo O'Connor
of the English Department, its
president. The local chapter is
presenting an eight series lec­ture
con.:erning education, men­tal
health, the cities and the
Nf'W Haven Railroad. There are
approximately forty members of
the one hundred and fifty mem­ber
faculty.
Also, in essence the local
chapter supports the use of fa·
culty evaluation and has rec0m­mended
that individual faculty
seek fealback from their stu·
dents to Improve their courses.
As a chapter they are concern­ed
with the &ize of the student
association and its effect on stu­de:
lt--teacher raUo and class size,
the smooth evolution of Fair·
field into a co-educatlonal in.
sCtution and the implementa­tion
of the faculty handbook.
Mr. O'Connor emphasized that
th~ real for c e of the local
AAUP would be felt in a crisis
situation like the student un­re!'
t last spring. ~ local chap­ter
did not endorse a 'student
strike stating that the situation
WAS not serious enough and thus
it would not be in the best In.
terests of the University.
Previous issues of the local
chapter were the calling on the
National Office of the AAUP
to censure St. John's University
after its firing of nineteen pro­fessors
in December 1965; sur­vey
and discussion of Fairfield
going eo-educational; initiation
of the first discussion of the
Vletnam war in 1966; and the
encouragement of discussion on
faculty evaluation as a standard
professional procedure in 1967.
nancial planning of the univer­sity
and faculty salaries.
Academic Freedom
~e American Association of
University Professors, founded
in 1915 by a group of distin­guished
scholars, is the only na·
tlonal organization in the United
States serving exclusively the
interests of all teachers and re­st!
arch scholars at institutions
of higher learning." The basic
alms of thf' AAUP Is the preser.
vatlon of academic freedom,
publiciZing of faculty salaries,
a statement of professional
ethics, a statement of the rights
ar:.d freedoms of students and
the faculty role in accredlta·
tlon.
Relating to the popula{ity 105.'1
which the playwright has en·
dured recently, Mr. Emerich
sa i d, "Williams' probing of
man's existence and the mean­ing
of life has rarely been gen­eralized
cool or re~te. He is
not an ivory tower philosopher.
His probings have been deep­ly
perscnal and introspective,
and being a writer Of plays
leads him to a double jeopardy.
Like Melville his popularity
suffers because he is too per­sonal,
too singular and too in­timate."
urday, Oct. 25. Included in the
da)· are the business meeting
of the organization and three
panels concerning faculty evalu­alion,
faculty participatkm in fi-
By JOHN BRENNEN
This year the local chapter
of American Association of Uni­versity
Professors will host the
-annual state convention on Sat-
Iiams was chosen as the first
pl3ywright featured with the
following statement: "It has be­come
de rigeur to emphasize
that Mr. Williams is no longer a
writer of successful plays, but
hi,; past w 0 r k s are so dis­U~
gulsh~ that he tops the list
of outstanding playwrights.
"Williams is not alone in the
group of cther great playwrights
who have lost their popularity.
N(,tably Arthur Miller and Ed­ward
Albee, have not, after leV·
eral successes. been able to re­peat
their magic fonnula."
The Academic Council recognizes that each of the three
segments of the university (Faculty, Students and Administra­tion)
will need a form of governance for Itsel!.
It would seem adequate to have a student government
that exercised. a decision-making function In reference to
student interests, e.g., disbursement of funds to
student groups from the activities' fee. Similarly the proper
management of the SUppoM functions 0:' the university (Ad­ministration)
would seem to need the frequent and specialized
coordination of departments comparable to that now pro­vided
·by the Administrative Board. Again, the Faculty needs
a fonn of governance which will permit to assure excellence
In curriculum and teaching and to develop new educational
programs.
The Academic Council recognizes that the university can.
not adequately accomplish its purpose of the education of students
without the cooperation of Its three component parts.
II education is the purpose ot the university, the Facul­ty
cannot accomplish its function of instruction apart from
a aincern for the resources available for study for the en­vironment
within which study Is done. tor the ~medying of
a student's personal psychologjc.ll problems which Impede
his studying, and for the students' reaction to that instruc­tion.
Similarly, students cannot expect an open quest for
truth unless they concede to Faculty a respect for the latter's
scholarship and the freedom to hold views, however, co~
trary, based upon that scholarship. Again, neither Faculty
!\Or Students can give themselves entirely to the quest for
truth unless there exists the support-groups (Administration)
which assure the existence of the physical context within
which it is pursued
The Academic Council endorses a fonn of goverance for
Fairfield University which will include a tri-partite body, within
which each of the three segments of the University (Faculty,
Students and Administration) will have adequate representation.
The Academic Council sustaIns a concept of the University
Senate as a legislative body in those areas where its constitution
<>ives it If!l!islative authority.
Thc Academic Council. acting as the expcutive ann of the
Faculty, directs the former faculty repre;entatlves on the trl.
"'Il.rt!tn Unive!'Sitv Council to develop. with representatives from
t,"e admlnistraflve and student seJm1ents of the university, a
Ccnstltutlo"l for a pew University Senate.
The Academic Council asks that the General Faculty decide
who its r'eDres"ntatives to the University Senate should be. The
A"adem1c Council recommends to the Faculty that, to avoid con­fllSio!
l between the two major bodies, membership be limited
10 A('ademlc Council members. not necessarily those presently
In office.
TI>e ACl'demic Council wishes to expl"t'Ss Its sincere thanks
and appreciatlon to aU members of the University Council for
Irl! time and "ffort which they have given and for the work
whi~h they have accomplished.
On Dec. 5, "A Streetcar
Named Desire" will bow with
Susan Hyra as Stella and Eileen
Wilson as Blanche. The pro­duction
also will be staged by
Mr Emerich.
The ".bove observations. on
theater 1969 are from Robert
Emerich, director of the Fair_
field University p I a y h 0 use.
Round Hill Road, Fairfield. For
him they are excellent reasons
to launch this Fall, an Ameri­can
Pla.vwright's festival, with
an immediate tribute to Ten·
nessee Williams in the fonn of
five PrOOuctions of the play.
wright's most representational
wcrks.
A costumed reading of '~e
Glass Menagerie" will have a
limited weekend run beginning
Jan. 9.
Following, Vera Meyers will
be the Tennessee Williams guest
dLrector for "Suddenly Last
Stanmer" and '~e G a rd e n
Dktrict," scheduled for a Feb.
6 opening.
Concluding the festival's Wi!.
lIams phase will be "An eve­ning
with Tennessee Williams,"
produced and directed by the
Westport. Weston Community
theater in association with the
Fairfielc University playhouse.
Opening date for the Williams
evening Is Mar. 6.
All pl"C\ductions with the ex­ception
of the reading of ''TIle
Glass Menagerie" will have a
one·week run.
"WILUAMS is considered by
many and wIt h myself, the
greatest of the country's play­wrights,
as he Is the only real
poet in American theater," said
Mr. Emerich is a t"ec1!nt press
statement announcing the selec­tion
of the dramatist as the
first American playwright on
examination in the festival.
The director pur sue d the
question of why Tennessee WU·
The underlying Intent of the
festival, Prof. Emerich says, is
"to promote plays which are
against the current avant garde
theater, and· to combat the cult
of desp..'lir and disillusion we
find todny in new drnma."
The long range festival whIch
is projected to run throui:h the
1971 season, wlll according to
its director, "encourage the
writing and producing of plays
which will recall man's Inex.
haustlble courage, hope and
compassion in the pursuit of
justice and freedom."
The Tennessee WJIllams SElg.
ment, which will be produced
in association with the West.
poM-Weston Community thea­ter
and UK" The Polka Dot Play.
ers, will premiere on Oct. 24
with 'The Milk Train Doesn't
Stop Here Anymore." Directed
by Mr. Emerich, the production
will star Vera Meyers as Flora
Gcforth.
By TIM HOLLEY
'"Theater need not frustrate
you in order to be good . . .
TI10e best goal of a playwright
is enter:alnment . . . Today
people feel guilty after walk­ing
out of 'Hello DolIy' because
they haven't seen the latest
Pinter which will leave their
conversation 'out' at cocktail
parties."
October 22, 1969
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UNWRITTEN POEM
played on any of the "progres­sive
rock" stations.
Although I personally prefer
the Nashville spund or Stewart's
other album to the heavily at'­chestrated
backing on this one
It Is, In the words of painter
James Wyeth which appear on
the back of the album. "an ex­ceedingly
sensitive and compas­sionate
portrait of contempor-­ary
America."
With the concert album slow­ly
climbing Into the top 100 LP
sales chart and the two John
Stewart albwns achieving aes~
thetic success, Bob Shane has
decided to resurrect the Kings­ton
Trio one more time. Called
the New KIngston Trio, It will
include two other members not
with the original group, Pat
Horine who will be featured on
guitar and Jim Conner who will
play banjo, guitar, hannonlca
and dobro, along with Shane.
UVE IF YOU WANT IT:
Friday and saturday - Fillmore
East. The WOO (completely sold
out); Electric Circus, Raven;
saturday - Long Island Uni­versity
(Brooklyn), Tim Hard­In,
Melanie and Jerry Jeff Wal­ker;
St. John's University, The
Rascals.
s tore
Open 'til 9 WeekdaYI.
6 Soturooys
book
My only complaint with "Sig­nals
Through the Glass" is that
Buffy Ford sings too much,
leaving Stewart's husky voice
In the background where it def­Initely
doesn't belong. Again,
however, finding this album In a
record store Is next to impos­sible
and It never seems to be
these days of the super-hype Is
regrettable because quite plain­ly,
no one knows the album ex­Ists.
This Is unfortunate because
it Is an excellent album with 12
songs written by Stewart. The
Instrumental backing for the
record is provided by the same
group of Nashville musicians
who are heard on Dylan's
"Nashville Skyline" and they
helped ensure a tight album.
There is only one so-called
"bummer" and the other eleven
songs are well written and per­formed
especially the title song
"California Bloodlines," "She
Believes In Me," "Missouri
Birds," "July, You're A Worn­an"
and "Never Goln' Back."
Stewart also brings a new twist
to musicians credits by includ­Ing
them as part of the last
track of the album.
•
paperback
THE STAG
I
IIJ Ii.
BOOK
ours," as well as Kingston Trio
standards such as ''The MTA,"
''The Ballad of the Shape oC
Things," "Where Have All the
Flowers Gone" and ''Greenback
Dollar." Hearing Bob Shane
sing the always-moving "Scotch
and Soda" one almost wishes
that those three striped shirt
performers were still around.
However, upon further listen­ings
the fact that the Kingston
Trio have becclne an anachron­ism
becomes increasingly clear.
For some reason they, unlike
Peter, Paul and Mary, were un­able
to make the musical trans­fonnatlon
into the present gen­eration.
But It is unfair to over_
ly criticize a record which was
taped In 1966 two years before
Chicago and three years before
Woodstock and perhaps it is
best to sit back and enjoy It as
history.
John Stewart's solo effort en_
titled "California Bloodlines"
was released by Capitol Records
without any buildup, which In
:Ame
By KEVIN KELLEY
One
GRASS ROOTS
Included in albums are songs
by contemporary artists like
Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Mor­nin'
Rain" and Donovan's "Col-
"Doeti tbe Future Beloo( to Mario!"
The Saturday-morning sun covers Queens Boulevard with a
harsh light. It ruthlessly accentuates the fading complexions of
the housewives as they move slowly down the crowded side.­walks,
threading th~ir way through the labyrinth of baby car­riages,
shopping carts and double-parked Ford station wagons.
The apartment house; ugly, red-brick monuments to the post-war
'baby-boom-tower In ominous relief above the Kosher delica­tessens
and Grand Union supermarkets. Suddenly, the serene
monotony of t his Saturday is interrupted by the appearance
of a bustling entourage of 1fBY-haired men wearin& identical
blue, pin-striped suits. Simultaneously, a sound truck turns the
comer and announces In blarlng tones that you are about to
meet, "The next mayor of the City ot New York, Mario Proca­ccino."
In a moment, the rln&'11li" prophecy is fulfilled; the Messiah
ot the middle class Is wriggling his way through the curious
croWd, grasping hands as he goes, occasionally pausing to ex­change
a few, quick sentences with an awe-struck woman. He
wears an ear-to-ftr smile beneath his pencil-thin moustache; his
round little body and darting black eyes·remind one of the Mafia
bosses Elliot Ness used to track down on ABC a few years ago.
Marlo, however, does not need physical attractiveness to woo
voters. This Is his country: Queens-the land ot the Forgotten
American who has been covered with snow, mugged in the
streets, and brought to the brink of bankruptcy by spiraling
tax...
The two and a half million Inhabitants of Queens are united
by two common causes: their desperate search for security and
their impassioned hatred for John Lindsay. As they see it., Und­say
has been solely responsible for the plethora of burdens they
have borne for the last four years. They feel cheated and Ignored.
by the city's politicians who have promised much but delivered
nothing. They harbor a smoldering anbnoslty towards the Blacks
(whom they feel have gotten too much for nothing), the stu­dents
(whom they regard as ungnteful Communists Intent on
destroying America) and liberal politiclans (whom they accuse
of being more concerned with a distant war than the foot of
snow that clogged their streets for two weeks last winter).
Lindsay, through his empathy with minorities and interest
In International affairs, has won their eternal loathing. Mario,
by appealing to the silent fears and Intense resentments they
carry within them, has become their spokesman and savior.
In this, the age of law and order, Marlo typifies all the vil'­tues
and aspirations that comprise the American Dream for the
over-30, white generation. He Is Horatio Alger lately arrived In
the Promised Land; the little guy who worked like crazy, never
gave up and has finally made It to the top. HIs politics are not
dissimilar to those of Richard Nixon. He speaks In cliches, rarely
commits himself to particulars, seldom offers solutions, and makes
pointed, but empty references to "limousine liberals who control
this city."
As white Americans flee from the fleethlng chaos of the
inner-city to seek a ranch-house outpost In the SUburbs, the Mario
Procacclnos gain increasingly at the polls. As the nation becomes
more and more a macrocosm of Los Angeles and Levittown the
John Undsays fade from prominence and their pleas for u'rban
improvement become moot Issues. Perhaps the blue-suited bu­reaucrats
and the little man with the moustache are the rulers
of the future. They will Insure the smooth continuance of the
technocracy, they will defend their constituents from the rude
encroachments of the militants and they will slowly, but inevi­tably,
widen all the gaps and deepen all the chasms that already
divide this society against Itself.
Music
By PAT LONG
Born in 1957 and brought to fame in 1958 with their smash hit "Tom Dool~y"
the foremost performers of the folk era, the Kingston Trio - John Stewart, Nick
Reyonlds and Bob Shane _ retired in 1967 because they felt :'it was time.': After
a two year recording absense, the trio seems to .have been remcarnated this past
summer with the issue of a double-album recordmg of a 1966 Lake Tahoe concert,
a solo album by John Stewart, a waxing com~ining the talents of Stewart and Buffy
Ford and the announcement of the reformatIOn of the group. .
The concert album is a micro­cosm
of all that the Kingston
Trio was, it includes all. that
made the group great and also
exhibits many of the reasons
for their departure from the
music scene.
rage Four
Vietnam Moratorium Day
Photos By
Bryan Smith
and
Tom Lenzo
U11US TO THE EDITOR I ----
,.,. SO:
On Campus
..,. JOHN O. LEDDY
''The Etrlc.lMCY Squad."
In the busy days following John Kennedy's aseension to the
U.S. presidency, Washington observers witnessed a whirlwind of
activity reminiseent of F.D.R.'s "Hundred Days." After eight bland
Eisenhower years, Kennedy's "bright young men" came in and
rolled up their sleeves to attack the problems that had been smold-­ering
unattended in the nation and throughout the world.
Careful scrutiny beyond the reader's initial amusement may
uncover a striking resemblance to the above in the activities of
the Student Government over the past two presidential adminis­trations:
beneath the quiet exterior of Air Force trainee Philip
Howe's student association, parking lots emptied out every week­end,
the Legislature couldn't get a quorum, and a smiling univer­sity
president treated student wave_makers to long, friendly chats
in his office. Then the students elected a new president in March,
as usual; the candidate who had made the most promises, as
usual; and then desperately waited for something new, as usual
What the Mariani administration then accomplished in the
next two months exceeded the achievements of any of the four
previous Student Government presidents. The parking lots remain
quite full now on weekends, and the Legislalu~ under Majo:-ity
Leader Tom Gleason has produced a moratorium day organization
and a brand new Constitution. More than the sweeping social re­form
of last year and the specific suceesses thus far this year, Al
Mariani's unpretentious leadership has brought an energy to stu­dent
activism which is maintaining administrative seats at high
temperature and fa cui t y meetlngs unrecognizably unlike the
placid congresses of years past.
An Immeasurable amount of credit for the government's role
in liberal reform must go to a determined group of "bright young
men," the Ex~ulive Board, whose spirit of militant "can-do" has
helped transform the Student Government into a well~rgan!zed
and self respecting institution: William Provost, John Ward,
Charles Coviello and Robert Dohn, seniors; Robert Buccino and
Robert Murphy, juniors; and Thomas Sobocinski, a sophomore.
In the social department, John Ward and Bill Provost have
done a very creditable job. They are both quite satisfied with lhe
success of the two Intercollegiate Days held at Manhattanv'lle
College: 'The Intercollegiate spirit was always kind of narrow,"
says John. 'ThIs has been a real good way to show schools . . .
like Manhattanville, Marymount and CNR ... that there really
is no rivalry.
(Present evidence points to the need for more of such amic­able
get·togethers, especially at Manhattanvllle, whose stud"nt
newspaper printed an editorial last week lamenting that "the
same schools that were invited to the Intercollegiate Day . . .
sponsored with Fairfield University . . . were invited to the
mixer of sept. 26." The paper criticized the invitation of Norwalk
Community and Paee Colleges while Ivy League schools were not
courted. ". . . when we're doing our thing let's invite the men
our women really want,") the Touchstone concluded
The very first week of March '68 saw Bob Buccino's Off­Campus
Affairs Department demanding that the oft'.('ampus park­ing
lot be rescued from Its pot·hole ridden plight. Despite these
efforts, however, the situation remains deplorable as Student
Services pleads a tight budget.
The Student Government Lecture Series was made posslble
by the untiring efforts of Charles Coviello, activities Chairman
and Executive Board work horse for everything from activities
fee payment to the co-ordination of all campus organizations. In
the academic department, Bob Dohn's work with the Tri-Partite
has created a harmony in student·faculty affairs which may yet
bring about a lightening of our academic requirements.
And then there's Tom Sobocinski, in the vital post of Com­munications
Chairman: all during the h~tic activity of last spring,
it was Tom who kept the student body informed about planning
and prepared for the eventualities.
For aU this, the Executive Board is not the smooth running
group one might think. Jim Ruane resigned his Dormitory Affairs
post over the summer without explanation, 8.fter setting up the
structure and general outlines of the still theoretical Dorm Coun.
cil. And it Is no secret that occasional friction arises between Mr.
:Mariani and his able and ambitious viee-president, Bob Murphy.
Yet certain friction must exist among aD members of the
"etriciency squad" which has managed to infuse the entire Student
Government with its energy and determination. Its tasks ahead
are to maintain the momentum of social reform, while garnering
tri-part:lsan support for the Curriculum Committee's academic
ft!fOl"D16, difficult tasks, but then, they have always been difficult,
and the "efficiency squad" has &hown itseU to be their equal.
THE STA6
Bury Them
To the Edltol.
It should be explained that until mid
November, the radio station, WVOF,
has no voice, and thanks you for these
opportunities to express itseU.
Reading last week's Stac", I see that
more than a few of our "honorable men"
here at Fairfield were upset over the
editorial criticizing Dr. Grassl and his
Curriculwn choices. It seemed that their
great objection to yuur editorial was
the way in which It was written. Palko
Luckas was upset at the "vile, un­justified
language", Dr. Coleman and
cohorts called it a "vicious editorial",
and Dr. Roslvach took offense at the
"abuse and Insult" heaped upon Dr.
Grassi. I feel these men really have
no idea what taking otfense means until
they've spent a semester under the di­rection
of Dr. Grassi. More often than
not. Dr. Grassi's language in the class­room,
has been called vile. unjustified,
abusive and insulting. All these words
being euphemisms at best.
These men would have been wise to
see the issue Tbe Stag tried to validly
bring out.
We carne here not to praise Dr. Grassi,
or his curriculum ideas, but to bury
them.
Requieecat in Pa.eem,
EdItorial Board of WVOF
EDITOR'S NOTE: Welcome aboard.
• • •
Oilr Rotten Core
To the Editor:
As a student legislator, I support the
Stae'. position on the revision of the
core curriculum as concerns the reduc­tion
in philosophy requirements. I found
very interesting the vitriolic letters of
last week accusing the Slag of a vitri­olic
attack on the Philosophy Depart­ment
Chairman. In them. some of the
most colorful campus personalities ac-­cused
the paper of injecting personality
into a subject that should be devoid of
personalHy. This is amusing since in my
tenure at Fairfield, 110 one element has
influenced administration-faculty policy
more than the element of personality,
and it appears that it cootinues to reign
supreme.
Why should the core curriculum CO&
tain only six required credits of phi1­osophy!
certainly not because other
schools have minimal requirements.
AUer all, we are innovators, not imi­tators,
and by maintaining our present
stance, we will be in the lead when the
other instituHons retreat into the past.
We must not abdicate this enviable p0­sition
on such a .flimsy whimsy. There­fore,
I have a proposal which should
satisfy both the uppity Stag editorial
board and the sane elements on campus
while securing Fairfield's position of
leadership in the rear-guard. Let there
be six required eredils of philosophy and
six required credits of Greek.
-,".".,.,.".-.., • • •
Mets, Huddle-Or Peace
To the Editor:
For us, the October 15th Moratorium
was very disappointing because of the
number of Fairfield University students
who participated. We felt that the Mora­torium
Committee did an exeellent job
of publicizing the event, and we can only
wonder why students did not attend.
We cannot understand why someone
who supported the Moratoriunn or be­lieved
that peace should be iiven a
chance was not present at a majority
of the events held last Wednesday. Real­izing
that there are those who disa~
October :
proved of the Moratorium, why didn't
they attend class or object to the pr0­fessor
cancelling his class! Why weren't
people individuals?
We also realized the charismatic In­fluence
of the World Series game on the
Stags, but in view of the situation last
Wednesday, which was more important.
• Apalbedcally.
Jolm BnaDaa '11
BIdanl GraavlDe .,..
• • •
Thanks
To the Editor:
We would like to take this opportunity
to compliment the Stags on their ingenui­ty.
While many students throughout the
nation demonstrated their moral eorr
cern (ken sum) for the war by the
Vietnam Moratorium (mor'e tor'i em),
the Stags successfully added a new di­mension
to the protest. Their brilliant
sleep.in technique, in the Fairfield tra­dition
of Innovation, transformed an ex­pression
of conscience from a Moratori­wn
to a DormitoIium. In the spirit of
this DonnitoIium the Stags suspended
"business as usual" by observance of
the traditional World Seril!S game.
St:a«naoUy yours,
Jamell KJerDall '12
Tom Soboch..kl '72
O. I, Waflbbanl "n
• • •
Life Over Death
To the EdItor:
Tuesday night, on the way back from
U.B., my friends and I stopped oft at the
Town Hall in Fairfield and walked over
to the green where a half..oozen people.
most o( them older, were reading the
names of war-dead. Well, what does it
mean II you do ii, I asked myself. How
many of these people went over there
voluntarily? - might, If they still could,
send me over there? All the time think·
ing: it could be me; it could easily be
me. I didn't decide just what it was going
to mean but volunteered to read anyway.
No one else jumped forward, so the pre­vious
reader handed me the book and I
began at the upper left-hand comer. It
was a strangely affecting experience:
plctwing individual death - incidents;
thinking (this encouraged me) that ~
pie all across the country are now read-­ing
these very same names - and aren't
we, in a sense, somehow together des­pite
the great distances. and isn't that a
remarkable thing; conceiving the absW'd
and eerie possibility of Ute deceased
themselves witnessing my citation of
them. Were they? - in any sense? I
wondered what they might say ... Yes,
I was proud and eager to serve my coun­try.
But death ... No, not death. Give
me ute again. Now I want We.
BID ...." • • •
Moratorium
Misgivings
To the Editor:
As a passive supporter of the October
15 Moratorium, a number of doubts have
entered my mind concerning the wis­dom
of the whole project.
First, and most important, Is Its effect
upon the Parisian debacle, now in its
umpteenth session of concentrated ab­surdity.
For a nation which has waged
war with Asians (or nearly three dec:­ades.
our understanding of the Oriental
temperment leaves much to be desired.
Only after the dropping of two atomic
bombs were the Japanese willing to
surrender. Their decision was prompted
by the short time lapse (3 days) between
the detonations, which suggested aD un­limited
stockpile. Even then, a coup
12, 1969 THE STAG
No More Moratoriums
The Stag would like to go on record as opposing even the sug­gestion
of a two-day Moratorium on the Vietnam war for the month
of November. The sorry perfonnance of the student body on October
15 precludes it.
Apparently, the students in the main looked on the Moratorium
as a holiday - a chance to get drunk on a weeknight, a chance to
sleep late, a chance to follow the Mets' adventures unbothered by
classes. The situation was at its worst in the morning when a handful
of faculty, students, and Administration stood in the cold while the
dorms stood full but eerily silent. One would think if the students op-posed
the Moratorium they would attend classes or counterprotest,
but they simply did nothing.
Our indictment is only partial. Percentagewise, the faculty. g~t
no more involved than the students, only Fr. McInnes played a slgm·
ficant role for the Administration, and those students who did par­ticipate
deserve credit, not abuse.
Perhaps the most ominous aspect of all is that many students
used the day to travel to Boston Common. New Haven Green, or
Bryant Park. They can hardly be blamed. but we must wonder what
it is that makes the surroundings of Fairfield University an inappro­priate
place to express antiwar convictions in their minds.
• Meetings Are For Business
A letter was distributed by two faculty members last week about
events of the October 8 faculty meeting. As the letter put it, "At one
point. one of the students was granted permission to ~peak.to the as­sembled
faculty. Unfortunately, neither the manner m which he ad­dressed
the faculty nor what he had to say was appropriate by the
standards that members of an academic or any other civilized com­munity
recognize. He insisted on addressing the faculty as 'you
people' ... He discussed no issue but limited himself to a.bus~. We
do not believe that members of the faculty have the obhgahon to
tolerate talk of such tenor from any source whatsoever. On the con·
trary we think that in permitting it we suffer a loss of our dignity as
hum~n beings and as representatives of our profession."
Respectfully, we do not concur with this judgment. For one, the
student in Question apologized fo~ the acerbic n~ture of.his re~arks,
realizing that they were a tachcal error which undlplomatically
alienated the most liberal faculty. That should have been enough.
paternalism, but of supplanting the Administration as its practition­ers.
It is heightened when students are told about'''the responsibilities
of freedom" by those who abuse and waste the parliamentary pro­cedure
and academic freedom available to them. It is heightened
when hysterical letters signed by faculty misread an editorial as char­acter
assassination, and, with one exception, ignore the fact that aca·
demic communities are not truly cohesive until their members are
gracious under fire from others. And it is heightened by the faculty's
view of last April's meeting as a resounding s~ccess. Surely. for.a
crisis gathering, it accomplished no more that dl4 trench warfare 10
World War I.
It should be noted that to outsiders, faculty meetings appear u
low camp humor' and in an era of student extremism that has seen
deans and faculty' bombed at San Francisco State, maced at Berkeley,
assaulted at Columbia, and hurled down stairs at Harvard, to be
addressed as "you people" is getting off rather easy.
All this serves to confirm much despairing speculation about the
faculty. It seems as if there are as many philosophies about what
Fairfield should be like as there are faculty members, and that all
too many teachers convert them i!1to wh;at are ~nown as "ego ~ps"
- that is obsessive personal mamas which attam such an overndmg
position i~ the psyche as to warp one's personal relations and sense
of reality. This impressi0!1 is hei~htened when one h~a.:.:s faculty d~.
scribe the new Core Curnculum m terms, not of abohshmg academiC
More damning, the remarks were no~ withou~ pla~e. The facultr
meeting in question was supposed to rahfy or reject In toto th~ Tn­Partite
Recommendations on social reform. Yet, to the chagnn of
even the Academic Dean, a series of obstructive suggestions and
amendments were offered, sometimes by people who did not bother
to remain to debate them. At length, because barety half the fac~lty
attended to begin with and because most in attendance had rehred
outside to talk shop and smoke pipes, the faculty almost ended up
endorsing the unlimited use of narcotics, and could not muster the
Quorum to adjourn. Nothing at all wa. accompli.hed.
attempt was carried out by a dozen
army and navy otncers of the war
ministry, and was thwarted by an
eleventh-hour etrort of loyal troops and
some quick thinking by the foreign min­ister.
In short. the Japanese gave up
When they saw our will was stronger
than their own.
Almost immediately following the dis­missal
of MacArthur in Korea (to say
the least. a necessary step). the Com·
munists launched their largest offensive,
deploying some 175.000 f1.rst·rate troops.
Forty percent of these men were casu­alties
before the enemy was convinced
of U.N. solidarity and detennination to
fulfill its commitment In 1953 the peace
talks were stalled on the issue of repa·
triation of prisoners when the Commun­ists
again launched a series of small of·
fensive to test the mettle of U.N. troops
at a time when an armistice was nearly
certain. Atfer a nwnber of sanguinary
repulses (the battles of Pork Oxlp. White
Horse and Old Baldy Hills). the O1lnese
and North Koreans agreed to the U.N.
screening proposal. Again. the will of the
West was stronger. and. Asians have tra·
ditlonally respected strength.
1 cannot help but feel that the recent
show of militant opposition will entice
the negotiations for Hanoi and the Viet­cong
to make more strident demands
upon our representatives in Paris, de­mands
to which Nixon et al will never
accede. OUr will to stand finn for an
"honorable" settlement is now ques­tioned.
Despite the egomaniacal rav­ings
of those who assert that Nixon will
simply RAVE to withdraw in the face
of such overwhelming opposition, the
President. thanks to the Gult of Tonkin
(CoIItlmaed OlD Pace ')
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challenges facing the faculty, its fitful incapacity to meet them nght
now the shambles the October 8 meeting was. Even if they consider
this 'editorial half-baked, they will at least absorb its content ration·
ally. But such faculty will have to say what the student did if the
faculty at large does not get on the ball forthwith.
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Paqe Eiqht THE STAG October 22, 1969
(Reprinted from the Washington Post)
By NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
I've been asked to make speeches at a number of places
today. I can't because I have to work. I think that everyone
should refrain from working if he can; the two exceptions should
be medical personnel and newsmen. If I had spoken, this is what
I would have said:
The moratoriwn Isn't a protest. It's an ultimatum by an
enormous section of the population laid down to 118 politicians.
That ultlmatwn says there I. no time left. It .says there's no more
credlbllity ga.p because there's no more credlbllity, It'll an ulti­matum
that say. either end the WlU' forthwith or we wUl stop
It ourselves.
That's not what the politicians want to make of this day
A man like Congressman Rogers C. B. Morton. the Republican
national chairman, would have you believe, "I'm for the mora·
torium as part of our right to assemble." That's not what the
moratorium is about. The right to petition a government that
rejects petitwns before they're laid before it is a sterile right.
It's using the forms of political process to frustrate their pur­pose.
It's a con, a fancy way of saying. "You go ahead and exer·
cise your god-given constitutional rights to be ineffectual while
we go ahead and run the war."
Even before the Mccarthy -mmpalgn. hope In the right of
petition died. On Its better day.s the government rejected poUUcs
with the contention that the Rostows and K.I.s8lngers knew more
and knew better. They know nothing, but that's another story.
On Its worst and more ordinary days. the government re.ponded
by trlckt; and fa.lslflC&Uons • . . Pull out 8,000 men here, hide
them ,under palm trees there, don't bomb this but bomb that,
Invent another round of flctitloU8 .sooret peace 1aJks, nm and cry
on U Thant's shoulder, -,"et the Pope to bold your hand,
Now comes Sen. Fred Harris, the Democratic chairman say­ing,
"It's time to take the gloves ofJ' on the Vietnam war issue.
It's nine months since the President took office." It was time
to do that in Chicago, August 1968, when the Senator and his
friends kept the Democrats a war party and drove the Clean
Gene kids and a lot of other people out of electoral politics.
Today he wants to be a peacenik because he has a dawning
fear that the people have had it up to their gezuk with this per·
petual tragedy.
Every aspect of government, aU three branches, have failed
but not all men in government. Former Senators Morse and
Gruening are charter members of the opposition. Fu~bright may
have helped vote us into this war and into the set of policies
which make such conflicts as inevitable as they are recurring,
but he's said he was wrong, unthinking and gulled. We must
accept that This is no longer a ~mall protest movement, and
it's bad to get into the silly, purist radical bag of refusing to
associate with anybody whose antiwar credentials are dated after
1964. This war has taught all of us many awful things about our­selves
and our country. It's not just Sen. Fulbright who had to
learn the hard way.
But if the few respectable men in higli. office could make
such terrible mistakes, then the question is who should lead?
Many speakers today will say the politicians, chastened, hum­bled,
made honest and sensitive to the death of their constitu­ents'
sons and the voters' high taxes. Don't you believe it. Don't
let them steal the movement away.
The strength of the peace movement Is its leaderlessness,
the way It can survive and grow on a consens.ua.l process which
Is as easy to see as It's hard to de.scrlbe with nactltude. Let
the movement continue to be led as It has, by Its adherent., by
small groups of people proposing ,\0 Idea and testing It by soo_
~ who and how many will eome In with them on It. That's how
this moratorium was lltarted. Six months ago a few of the form­er
McCarthy people aotlclpated that whozlz was as tMJ8tworthy
as his predeceuor when he said he bad a piau for ending the
war. They Judged that by October we would be ready for the
moratorlWJL They were right. Today we put black crepe on our
arms and refrain from work.
That wUl not be enough to end the war, We may get some·
thing out of It. Hershey's already been tossed to u.s, although
what we're IUPIH*6d to do with the old f1esh·trsder Is & puzzle.
Maybe Hoover'U be given to u.s next, but these ancient bonbons
have l08t their sweetnes.s. U we're very lucky, they'll give U8
some tln8lly cease·fire wbUe they lIneak a secret war in Laos.
The govemment should not be permitted to keep a single IJOldleJ'
in those pan., but to get them out we mu.st do more tban
Ioday.
In fact today is a preparation for more. November the 15th
is already 'being planned as a march on Washington. Today is
a day of accustoming great numbers of people to the anxiety
of standing up to their government. Even in a country like ours
where there are civil liberties, great strain still attaches to ex­ercising
them. We were all brought up trusting the government;
it's hard to shake off the feeling that resistance to it, especially
about a war, is a form of social treason. The moratorium will
make people comfortable in their new roles of resistance. It will
make opposition socially acceptable, perhaps even stylish.
This isn't by design but is dictated by the probable course
of events. Either the war must end or the resistance must grow
and take tougher forms. The face will not be clear In most of the
talks given today because they'll be given by summer-soldier poli­ticians
who will want to felicitate everyone on their orderly, good
conduct; they will praise their audiences for the lawful and con­stitutional
manner by which they express their hatred of this
lousy war. That's all right. Only imbeciles prefer street brawling
By BEN CAPELLE
The October moratorium has come and gone. In its wake lies
the satisfaction of a protest well presented and the reality of a
university's apathy starkly revealed and almost sickly acknowl­edged.
Perhaps, the tone was set early that morning by the blar­ing
Stones music issuing from Gonzaga, temporarily distracting
a solemn audience from Father McInnes' speech in support of
peace.
Granted that a minority staged lind participated in the mora­torium,
r still cannot believe that over 90% of the student body
could treat October 15 as an unexpected holiday useful only for
making up sleep or studies. Such abuse must not be attributed
to disagreement with the principles of the moratorium. Cer­tainly,
the prospects of instant peace or a drastic step-up by
the Nixon administration to culminate the war does not have
universal appeal. Many, including myself, can justifiably oppose
those ideals. But opposition expressed by Indifference is empty,
useless and childish. Fairfield Prep students had the option of
attending classes or the moratorium. The majority, laughing at
both choices, went home for the day. Could such be the attitude
of university students?
Apathy is swallowing our college, reducing It to donnltorles
and a Campus Center. It is taking over the majority of students
and the result for them can only be an incomplete, passive col­lege
career. We cannot let Fairfield succumb to a white, middle­class,
suburban haven of isolationism. With few exceptions, the
extra-curricular organizations are pressed for membership. Join
one or two and in the process contribute to Fairfield and your­self.
The alternative, a selfish all·take-and·no-give atmosphere
can only cripple our college and reduce its appeal to incoming
students, induding co-eds.
These thoughts may be considered to be without foundation
and the ravings of a demented cynic. Maybe, they are. But can
you really 'be proud of the overall support of the student body
at university functions. I congratulate those whose actions prove
me a liar, but they represent a dwindling minority.
I read a peace poster which observed, "Suppose they had a
war and nobody came?" Naturally, there "'auld be no war. Well,
suppose there was a university where nobody gave a damn?
The answer to apathy is, obviously, Involvement. An opened.
arm welcome awaits those who act in favor of a Fairfield be­yond
the classroom. r guarantee you will experience a very ao-­tive
scene of fulfillment if you can count yourself "in that numbc
when the Stags go marchini in"
and law breaking to orderly political process, but that's not the
point.
The point is that there would never have been a Peace Move­ment
if it had remained law abiding in the government's eyes.
The Peace Movement is where it is because people broke into
draft boards and threw blood on ~he filE'S or got their heads
beaten standing in front of induction centers or, like Capt. How­ard
Levy, took a court martial and a jail sentence.
They dramatized the war's nature. They forced the rest of us
to go back over the rec.ord and check to be sure there was some
plausible justification for taking human livC's as we were doing.
They did more. When they faced their judges and pleaded inno­cent
by virtue of Nuremburg, they reminded us that we're in.
dividually responsible for what's done in our names. Our govern­ment,
our armies, our taxes, our napalm., our soldiers, our young
men.
These law breakers planted in us the bad dream that there
could be the Cincinnati War Crimes Trials of 1971 in which we
would have to stand before the bar and plead we were good
Americans. The Spacks, the Muhammad Alis, the Father Berri­gans,
the David Harrises, they did that to us, gave us the bad
dream of the good American.
Their example shows that an action like the moratorium
isn't an event in itself but the preparation and the threat of
more and wider action. Even nOw what. started out to be a
sedate moratorium is inching in the direction of a general strike.
It hasn't reached that point yet, but it "'ill unless the govern­ment
capitulates to its citizens.
But what's·hl.s-face, the furtive and fugitive president who
darts from TV sta.Uon to armed compound, doesn't know that;
he doesn't know tilat If be keeps it up, by spring the country DULy
be ungovernable. He says, be won't be the tInt American. presl.
dent to lose & war, when wba* be rt.sk8 Is becomtng the first
president to hl8e Amerka.
Maybe today he will read the ultimatum correctly and under­stand
that playtime is over. That there, i~ no patience left for
Henry Cabot Lodge, Ellsworth Bunker and more diddlybop about
bugging out, leaving allies in the lurch or saving the State De­partment's
occidental face. People don't care if we bug out, run
out, march out, stumble out, crawl out or fade out as long as
we get out now. They've had it, and the tumult and anger is
spreading everywhere. Even the federal bureaucracy is threaten­ing
to take to the streets. It's no longer students or blacks: it's
older people, -businessmen, conservatives, liberals, anti-Commu­nists,
pro-Communists; it's everybody who knows that a perennial
war that we have no will to win or even fight is insanity, that
a democracy which carries on a war that 40 or 50 per cent of
the population detests risks destroying itself.
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Epsilon Kappa Chapter of
Phi Kappa Theta International
Fraternity recently culminated
its 1969 Rush Program with the
induction into the Junior Bro­ther
Program of twenty-nine
men. From 118 potential bro­thers,
the following men were
chosen: Bill Tribon, 'Ben Capel­le,
RoT)' McCarthy, Don Sedulk,
Rich Esperon, Tim Byrne, Chris
Haymes, Joe Hall, Frank Rupp,
Joe Goodhouse, Pat Teubner,
Larry Wilkes, John Hogan,
Shawan Slocum, David racca­rino,
Bruce Wollschager, Kevin
Esperon, Joe Marlclno, Jack
Dwyer, Tom Wiseman, Dan
Sciarre, Steve O'Neil, Tom Cun·
ningham, Mike Gruber, John
Timbone, Chris Kinney, Rich
Pinkouski, Steve Ferri, and
Bob Reilly.
The Rush program consisted
of a number of various events
including a smoker, intramural
football game and finally in­dividual
interviews with each
perspective candidate. The pur·
pose of the program was to ac­quaint
Fairfield students with
the different aspects of fratern­Ity
life.
The twenty-nine Rushes ac­cepted
by vote of the brother­hood
will now advance to a ten
week Junior Brother program
administered by Brother Neil
Hart and the Junior Brother
Council.
Phi Kappa Theta has institut­ed
a new outlook this year ­The
Junior Brother approach.
This approach replaces the fol'-­mer
pledge outlook and believes
that respect and responsibility
form greater relationships, and
creates a more beneficial atmos­phere
for growth and develoj>
ment. It is our opinion of the
first brothers that hazing is de­structive,
immature and a child­ish
attitude which ignores and
turns off responsibility in indi­viduals.
The brotherhood looks
at college students as men and
consequently should be treated
as such.
The Junior Brother program
will be concluded on December
14, when the formal Installa­tion
into the bond of Phi Kappa
Theta will be held
Report
End The War Or We Will
October 22, 1969 THE STAG
Letters To The Editor
(Conllnued frolll Page 1)
Resolution, has the final say. Tricky
Dick will not make a precipitate re­treat.
After all. the nation's students
didn't elect him. and he still has three
years to go before thl:y can votc against
him.
Secondly. the leadership, that is, the
spiritual leadership. of the movement
is subject to question. The affable Dr.
Spock, who has risen as a quasi-martyr.
is, at best misleading and uninforma­tive.
Teddy Kennedy. whose' plea for
morality is a rallying point, should look
to the tidying up of his own private life
(have I blasphemed?) before he dedares
himself as the paragon of moral judg·
ment.
For these reasons, Americans should
re-evaluate the moratorium with a more
pragmatic view, leaving idealism and
utopia to the Moores of our time.
J. F. MeMaDua '''II
• • •
Academic Freedom
Letter to the Editor:
Dear Fairfteld:
Wednesday, 15 October 'Y"J see this
community internJpt its scho!astic life
for the purpose of protesting the war.
Disregarding the fact of how we might
feel about the Vietnam problem, need
we remind ourselves that the universi­ty
is an academic institution, and as
such, exists on a level higher than per-­sonal
poUtical belief, however dedicated
or apathetic.
The moratorium compromises the
ideals of scholarship and political 00.­lief,
unnecessarily. 1bere could have
been numerous ways in which protest
could have been effected without the dis-­ruption
of classes. I doubt whether one
day will seriously affect our academic
fiber, but where does the significance
lie? For most university people, the 15th
will primarily be a, day off. For the av·
erage citizen. whom we are attempting
to impress, the sacrifice of one day in
Fairfield'S eager pursuit of knowledge
will be singularly unimpressive. Those
same people who contemplate "love" on
25 December will be the ones to con­template
"human life" on 15 October.
At this time last year, you will recall
that the students of Fairfield were fight­ing
for the right of sloppy dress. Then It
was the "paternalistic" administration
who was squelching their "academic"
freedom. No effigies will be burned. on
Wednesday however because the stu­dents
will be doing the squelching. only
this time it is the real thing.
Your comments are welcome, person­ally
or to Box 113.
~ben BeUetude
• • •
Prisoners Of War
Dear Editor:
We recognize the concern for peace on
the part of college students throughout
the nation. We are aware of the dedi·
cation of the youth movement as seen in
the recent mobilization of the October
15th Moratorium for Peace.
There Is one problem of particular con­cern
to the American Red Cross that we
hope will be brought to the attention of
the students on your campus involved In
this movement as well as other students
and faculty. Recent figures show some
413 men are known to be prisoners of
war in North Vietnam. There are an­other
918 missing aJXl believed captured.
These men are not there by choice. All
Americans of good will should insist on
their receiving the humane treatment
called for by the Conventions.
Although North Vietnam Is a signator
to the 1949 Geneva Com'entions, which
covers the treatment of prisloners of
war. it has refused to allow delegates of
the International Committee of Red
Cross to visit prison camps where Ameri·
cans are be1n& held. The HanQi govern­ment
has also refused to provide the In­ternational
Committee with the names of
American prlsioners they hold or to per­mit
the regular flow of mall between
prlsioners and their families in this COWl­!<
y.
The American Red Cross is intenHlfy­Ing
Its efforts to open channels of com­munication
in accordance with the Con­ventions.
Our responsibility as an orgam­zation
and our humane concern for the
weUare of these men is our only moti­vation.
This effort can be even more effective
if we have the support of students in
recognizing this Red Cross mission.
8locerely YOOnl,
Pete Upton
National Dlrectll>r
Offloe of Public RellltlOllkll
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Flak, Inc.
To the EdJtor:
1 must say that I was very much dis­turbed
upon reading your editorial _
"Academics: The Chairman Speaks" ­which
appeared In the Stag two weeks
ago. Among other things, the author' of
this editorial seemed to care very little
about the authenticity and a«uracy of
his information. He attributed to me
something that I was obviously oot re­sponsible.
Worse stiU, he even invented
for me - but for his purpose - a Iifll!'
of reasoning that I woukI. be the last one
to adopt. But tirst let me quote here thO!
following passage: "The Curriculum
Committee investigated competitive
schools - Catholic, non~atholic denomi­national,
private, state - and found no
respectable institution requiring morc
than six credits. Their departmems
were as good or better than OUM!. .'or
tbU reaaQa, the eommJ«ee'. pblIOISOti'hy
department rep.-eataU,·c ultimately
SUCre-ted tbat pbilOllOpby requiremeDts
be lowered from 9 to 6 eredlts...
The statement concerning the Curti,Cll­lum
Committee was at least a distortion
of the truth. As to the other statement
concerning my part as the Committee's
philosophy department representative, it
was definitely a wholeslae falsification.
Speaking as a member of the CUrriculum
Committee, I can testily that the Com­mittee
has made no exhaustive study of
the liberal arts curricula in other com­parable
colleges or universities. The
Committee was certainly in no position
to make such categorical statement that
it "found no respectable Institution re­quiring
more than six credits" unless,. of
course, that any school or Institution re­quiring
more than six credits In philoso­phy
would not be considered "respect_
able." As a matter of fact, I do not 00.­Iieve
that any member of the Curriculum
Committee had relied on argument of
this kind as the primary basis for his or
her decisions. It was certainly not my
kind of argument.
As the philosophy department represen­tative
on the CUrriculum Committee, I
was - and still am _ a dissenter. dis,
agreeing with the majority of my eol­leagues
both in the Commlaee and with­in
my own department. My position was
- and baa alwa,. beea - that 9 (not
12 nor 6) credits in philosophy (prefer­ably
with 3 credits in 1.Dgic made man­datory)
be required for all our under·
graduate students. Believing that 9 out of
120 or 126 Is not too much, considering
the merits such reqirement would bring,
I defend my position for purely academ-ic
reasons, which were officially record·
ed In the minutes of the CUrriculum Com..
mittee. Philosophy Is not a "sacred cow."
But from the purely academic stand·
point, there is no question in my mind
that there la something special about
philosophy. Philosophy is special 00.­cause
rational thinking is special: for
rational thinking as sucb is the special
province of philosophy. Philosophy is the
cow, if you like, for civilized mankincl ­civilized,
that is, by being rational.
Thus while vhi1osophy may not be
necessary for our Immediate survival,
It plays a central role in directing the
cultural process in which humanity con­summates
its rational existence. And it
certainly has much to offer for the main­tenance
and growth of a community
founded essentially on the basis of ra·
tiona} discourse. Philosophy at least
teaches us not to trust hearsays, but to
go directly to the source of evidence.
May I ask, am I a reliable source for
my opinions - and for my "ultimate"
opinion? Surely, the author of this edi·
torlal could havc avoided using a piece
of false information, if only he had cared
to takc the trouble of consulting me di·
rectly about It.
I do not wish to create here the im­pression
of hostility towards the author
or any member on the editorial board
of the Stag. But such careless and hasty
atlltude in matters of information and
evidence is certainly not to be commend­ed,
for it could have very grave con­sequences.
So far, we have heard much,
If you will forgive me, Intellectually
cheap argumcnts and superficial psy.
chologizing. But as regards genuine
philosophical or intellectual arguments,
I have heard very little, if any at all.
Do intellectual arguments count any
more? That is a strange question to
ask in an intellectual community, isn't
it? But I am afraid this is a fact.
Perhaps philosophy Is really no longer
relevant. No! Philosophy Is no longer
relevant even If we still want to think
self.oeonsistently and a course In Logic
could help us to fulfl.ll this minimum re­quirement
of rational thinking. No! Phil­osophy
has no reelvance for any ade­quate
understanding of the world or for
the formation of new, cha1Ienging Ideolo­gies
in this transitional period of our
time, even If we often feel at the heart
of our being the urge and drive to delve
Into the rots of all existence. No! How
is It possible for philosophy to be prac­tically
relevant even if an uncritical ac­ceptance
of a false idea or theory could
have disastrous consequences!
But it you do think that philosophy is
relevant, then let us resort to rational
arguments so as to decide on its proper
role in our core curriculum. Perhaps
there should be no required courses in
philosophy, as the author of the editorial
would lead one to suggest. I must say
he had a great deal of courage in mak·
ing bold statements. If every high school
graduate arriving on campus is already
fully equipped with that most admirable
quality a person could have - namely,
the ability to think for himself, as he so
confI.dently assured us. then there is
indeed no place for philosophy in our unI·
versity education. For in the final ana)..
15is. the aim of philosophical training
consists simply and precisely in this _
to enable the studcnt to think for him­self
(rationally. of course).
To turn now to the "Philosophy Let­ter,"
I must admit Is was not very
good. To be more exact. it was phiiOSl>
phically weak: it failed to support its
proposal by rigorous phI:osophical argu­ments.
For this and for the other o~
viaus reason (its recommendation of 12
credits), I personally did not endorse it.
But I did approve of its submission to
the general faculty inasmuch as I
hoped, as the majority of my colleagues
did, that It might stir up rational and
fruitful discussions. A stir, all right ­but
unfortunately wrong-headed!
When a claim is presented. in separa­tion
(rom Its justification, It is bound to
create the Impress.lon of BIT'Oi'ance. If
the "Philosophy Letter" had in fact
given rise to such hostility and antagon­ism
as to bar any possibility of rational
discourse on the issue. it ~ld surely
be a regrettable thing for all of us. But
let us keep in mind that Fairfield Uni·
versity is a more permanent Institution
than its Individual departmcnts and stu­dent
bodies. And Philosophy is not to be
identified with a philosophy department.
We want to establish a soWld. curriculum
for Fairfield University _ DOt just for
any part of It.
From this standpoint, no department
could be that special as to merit special
considerations inconsistent with the com­mon
ideals of the academic community
as a unified whole. The Philosophy De­partment
Is certainly no exception, es.­pecially
when Its past performance must
be considered one big failure (my own
share included). For how can a philoso­phy
department be described as sucess­lui,
If it should generate so much 0p­position
against Philosophy?
What is truly special about our d~
partment, I believe, cooslsts In the un­usual
enthusiasm on the part of its mem­bers.
We have tried - and tried very
hard - to serve the University. Yes,
we may have over--rated our own im­portance.
But, you know, that Is a sin
committed mostly by enthuslaats.
But even It that Is really a sin, It still
does not deserve the kind of ridicule that
the editorial so playfully bestowed upon
us. We ~eularly resented the tD&iD­uation
implled In the expression "The
Ol.airman and his Philosophy Depart·
ment." Dr. Grassl is the chairman of
the Philosophy Department, but the Phil­osophy
Department Is certainly not hla.
We did not elect him chairman with dag·
gers on our necks. Furthermore, our
"Philosophy Hall" may have the ap­pearance
of a united front, but it Is ac­tually
a hoUse of dissenters.
As for our despot-Olairman, well, he
is said to have acted rather "irrational­ly"
on occasions. But such "irrationallty"
Is an attestation more to his somewhat
Latin temperament (No?), than to his
integrity as a scholar and philosopher.
Behind the apparently puzzling agitations
there Is a man of very high principles ­a
core of seriousness which deserves aU
our respect. Surely we, as friends, would
not want to make Dr. Grassl perfed!
1be concern 01 a universlt,y teacher
does not cease at the end of four years.
And philosophers, imperfect as they are,
do not find less time to reflect on the
solemn purpose of their profession. The
accusation of "playing psychological
warfare and power politics" Is as cleav­er
as It is easy, and as trivial as it is
clever. The lack or communication and
mutual understanding is often the result
of such false projections. Let us 00.­ware
of the trap that is our own mak­Ina
·
8lnce:rely you....
Uk Kuea Toq
Departmeat of PbUOMIpby
Editor's Not.!!: To tbe best of our kDow·
ledge, Dr. Tong orlctaaUy favored 6
credits in pbil.cpby, cbangro h.Ia view
to 9 &Uer COnllUItl.Dg h1I departmeDt,
and was overruled. "The Stag" millre­ported.
the sequence and oc:cu&oa of Dr,
Tong'. cbaDge of miDd, aud pubUdy re­greta
8Ily .upt to his cbaracler. Be
was not personally CO.RUed about tile
editorial because the lnfonnaUon wu
not crucial. not libelous and bad ao ~
SOD to be doubted at tace ''alue. As for
Tong's contention on \be Committee'.
reotearcb, we .taDd by tbe editorIaL
Page Ten THE STAG October 22, 1969
Stage Set For ND3-DSP Showdown
Schultz Gets 2 TD's In Defeat
to the Stag ~yard line. Joe
Sirangelo, St. Peter's second
string quarterback ran 11 yards
to the Fairfield 9. He then roll­ed
out and spotted Brian Stran­ton
ahead of Kevin Murphy and
big No. 88 ran It in to make
the score 34-14.
Thus Fairfield went down to
its fourth defeat at the hands
of St. Peter's College by a score
of 34-14.
Next week Fairfield travels
to SCranton, Pennsylvania, to
take on Scranton University in
search of its first victory In
over a year. But the Stags will
not 6nd that victory unless
Coach O'Toole decides to go
completely with the Shotgun
offense. Also with experience
Muller will not throw as many
interceptions &5 he dId last Sat­urday.
If the Stags move to t:hi9
type of play there Is hope, oth­erwise
they will return from
Scranton with defeat nwnber
ftve.
et.27.
NOy.l
fVES. 8<30; MATS. WED... SAT. at 2:30
CflDter. Sllt.p lest n..l.Il1h .trlJbt, StoU, bat 8clwltz ROred boUt
touchdown. Fairfield 11 ..t SCranton saturday Afternoon..
The Stags held S1. Peter's
briefly in the last two minutes.
But when the Stags got the
ball again Muller threw a pass
whIch Gene Scheurer picked off
again for his third interception
of the day, which he returned
(!~!!»!qU!~!)
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aNd GU11deNg~NP'J.~
~~nedd~.rTOM STOPPARO'
Orch. 1st Bale. :nd Bale.
Eves. $6.00 $5.50 - $5.06 $2.75
Mats. $5.50 $5.00 _$4.50 $2.75
SP£CIAL PRICES TO STUDENTS
$2.50 All Seats All Perf.
beept Friday and Saturday Evenings
kickoff Gene Scheurer picked
off his second Interception of
the day. However, the Stags
held St. Peter's and after the
punt put the ball in play on
their own 30-yard line. Muller
dropped back on ,first down and
threw a bomb to Bobby Mals
who attempted to cut back and
was pulled down on the S1.
Peter's ll-yard line. After an
off side penalty, Muller passed
six yards to Mals. Then after a
pass Interference pen a I t y,
Schultz took it over from the
one for his second touchdown
at the day. Murphy's kick was
good. and the score read 27-14
in favor of St. Peter's with only
3:15 left.
(Continued from Page 12)
a great tackle by Mike Kene­fick.
As St. Peter's marched
down 10 the Stag 30, they seem­ed,
now, In full control of the
ball game. On first down Mon­tanaro
rolled left and picked up
18 yards. After an Incomplete
pass, the S1. Peter's quarter­back
scrambled again and took
It over from the 12. The extra
point was good and the score
was now 13-7 in favor of S1.
Peter's.
Peaeocu Lead At Hall
At this point the Stag offense
changed to a shotgUn forma­tion,
and after a short drive
Van Muller fwnbled on the op­ponent's
45 and St. Peter's re­covered.
Thus the half ended
with the Stags on the short side
of a 13-7 score.
As the second hall opened
O'Toole went back to the T­fonnation
and the Stags went
nowhere. On third down and 10
a Schultz pass was picked off
by the St. Peter's defense and
returned 4 yards to the Stag
38. In four plays the Peacocks
moved down to the Stag 9-yard
line on the ruMing of Frank
Spillane and quarterback Bill
Montanaro. On 4th and 1 fn::m
the 9, Montanaro rolled out to
his right and scored. The extra
pain t was good and the StagS
found themselves down ~7.
After Fairfield punted, the
defense rose up and played some
of the toughest ball of the sea­son.
After a ~yard run by
Montanaro the Stag defense
pushed the Peacocks back from
the 43 of Fairfield to a 4th and
31 situation. As the Stap took
over On ottense they started to
move. However, after picking
up a first down, on fourth and
4 Van Muller threw a pass
which No. 28 Jim Seaman
picked off and returned for a
~yard touchdo\vn. The Stags
were now down Zl-7.
SChultz 8eoru
On the first down after the
"tJT TWO: Slal" Quaterbad: Frank SCbuita
Peter's DetenM. Tony Depan1l.lla is the Stagfl
HUT ONf..
reaU the St.
Harriers
Flanker Larry Dunn, who
led the league last year in
TO pass receptions, caught
two long bombs thrown by
quarterback Chuck Dom·
beck, and scored twice, as
he led the Delta Sigs over
1.2. Larry, for the third time
this year, scored one TD on
the first play of the game via
a W.yard bomb. Larry scor­ed
his second TD on a ~
yard bomb as he grabbed the
ball between two 1.2 defend­ers
and beat them the final
20 yards to pay dirt.
(Colltbloed from Page l!)
don College. If Fairfield can
take this one, the chances are
good that they will be able to
complete the remainder of their
season undefeated. Coach Nick
Giaquinto thinks the team can
accomplish this and finish 9-2
for the season. The nmners
hape they can, but one thing is
for sure, when you are a team
of five men, you have to stick
together. U you don't, the oth­l!
r team might think you didn't
show up and leave: If you do,
the other team may as well
leave anyway.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
LARRY DUNN
D.S.P, FRATERNITY
spectivt'ly. Quarterback Pat
Shambach and Bobby Weir led
C4 to a 6-0 victory over C2;
and Quarterback Terry Sacchl
It'd R3 to a 13-6 victory over
tht' disheartened Fresh. C-4 won
over LI by way of forfeit this
week, also. And finally, C3 won
over the PKT Fraternity.
Once again, all team captains
be sure to submit a reswne of
games played to ND222, Box
1770, Gary Marzolla, In order
to receive proper recognition in
The Stac.
By GARY MARZOLLA
This past week featured im­'
portant games in the American
League, &5 both N03 and the
DS.P. FratemJty won key corr­tests.
The "Ro Ho Pubs" of
ND3 beat NOI by the score of
12-0, and proceeded to conquer
1.2 by the identical SC()n!. Mean­while,
the Delta Sigs conque~
1.2 by a 13-0 marain to stay
one point behind ND3 in the
American Division.
Natioul Leape
In the National League, Fair­field
Beach warded off any ideas
that either ND4 or ND2 had of
upset wins as the "Beach Boys,"
under the alternating leader­ship
of Pat McCarthy and Greg
Kelly, rolled over both ND4 and
ND2 in two days. The double
win just about clinches first
place in the National League
for Larry Maher, Ed Boudrealt
and the Boys.
Also In the National League,
the contending C2 Frosh l06t a
pair of games to C4 and R3 reo
The "Ro Ho's" started the
w~k otr promptly as their ace
quarterback Tom Denning bit
halfback Tonuny Bligh on a
SO-yard TD tass. The ND3 de­fense
held NOl In check for
the first half, but under the
guidance of Freddie Rapcyzn­ski,
Ken Lanafero, and the
Thielebeule Twins, NOl threat..
ened to score in the second halt
The "Ro Ho's" held, though,
and N03 scored again to finish
their afternoon work 12-0. On
the following day ND3 once
again took the field to battle the
always pesky 1..2 Frosh. With
"K" Maher holding the ball on
kickoffs, sporting a bright Pan­ama
hat, the "Pubs" had an
easier time against the Frosh
than they did the day before
against NOI. Quarterback Den­ning
threw a short screen pass
to halfback Dave Closter who
ran the final 20 yards for the
TO. The determined Frosh bat­tled
hard, but their failure to
down the opening kickoff of the
second in the end zone resulted
In the second ND3 score of the
afternoon. By far, the last TO
was N03's easIest of the year.
DombeckSbarp
Mea n w h II e, quarterback
Chuck Dombe(:k led his Delta
Sigs to a 13-0 victory over the
same 1..2 Frosh. Dombeck hit
his ace flanker Larry Dunn on
two bombs for the fraternity
scores. For the second straight
game, D.S.P. looked sharp de­fensively
as the opposition did
not cross mJdfteld all game. The
D.S.P. remains one point be-­hind
ND3 for the lea~e lead
The crucial game between these
two teams will most likely take
place on Monday, October Zlth
at 4:30. It should be quite a
game, with the winner taking
sole and ftnal possession of first
place in the American League.
This preswnes, of course, that
both N03 and D.S.P. win their
respective games this week.
Rounding out the American
League, R4, who stl1l has an
outside chance for second place,
beat Gl by a 6-0 score as Fran
Neary threw a 2O-yard TD to
Tony Nebiolo. Also, NOI won
by forfeit over R2, and BAK
was victorious over Gl by the
same procedure.
SPOI{TS PERSONALITY
October 22, 1969 THE STAG
, THE
Page Eleven
FLAME
ED BEAUDREAULT
Ruggers Split Games
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8J IOHm VA.LI:IIJ.O -- Kill The Club?
Father and Son Day 1968 was a gray, overcast day
and it was humid, surely not a~day for f90tball. But
on that October afternoon the Fairfield University Foot.­ball
Club trotted onto Alumni Field and thoroughly
whipped New Haven College, 28-8. Last Saturday was
Father and Son Day 1969 and, unlike the previous one,
it was a beautiful day for football. The sun was shining
brightly, there was nary a cloud in the sky, and the
temperature was in the high 50's. It was a day for crisp
action - football. But highly respectable St. Peter's
College came to Fairfield to notch their fourth victory
in five outings and send the Stags to their ninth straight
defeat. The Stags, it must be realized, have not won
since that dark day last October.
Against the New Jersey eleven the Stags did some­thing
they have been unable to do all year and that
was take the lead in the ball game, After the Peacocks
jumped out in front 6-0, they fumbled on their own
one-yard line. Now, in the past two seasons it has been
the Stags who have been fumbling or being intercepted
deep in their own territory, they discovered themselves
knocking at their opponents door as a result of their
foe's mistake. It felt good. One Quarterback sneak
failed, but on second down and goal to go Frank
Schultz, the sophomore Quarterback, bulled his way
into the end zone. Suddenly it was 6-6 and a moment
later Kevin Murphy's perfect placement gave the Men
in Red their first, and thus far only, lead of the sea­son,
7-6.
St. Peter's scored shortly before the half ended
and took a 13-7 lead into the locker room. "I thought
we would win at the half," football player Joe Driscoll
reflected at the Father and Son Dinner last Saturday
evening. "We were really psyched but we couldn't do
anything right in the second half." The main reason
Fairfield didn't do anything right in the second half
was because of their offensive line. The Stags have
played four games this year and scored only 21 points.
The quarterbacks, be it Frank Schultz from the T-for­mation,
or Van Muller from the shotgun, have received
absolutely no protection from their interior linemen.
When a quarterback receives horrible protection he
will be mauled for huge losses. This happened to
Schultz twelve times in this season's opening debacle
with Fordham. After a while the QB gets desperate
and starts to fend off would-be-tacklers with one hand
and throw with his other. This is a very good ingredient
for interceptions and the Stags have experienced this
often throughout this dismal autumn. In last Saturday's
second half the Peacocks scored three touchdowns as
a result of interceptions. Hence, Fairfield was routed
34-14.
Football Sehedule .. Abaurd
Last year the Stags were ranked 11th in the na­tion
in pre-season polls. But the 1968 club suffered two
early season routs and their confidence never fully re­covered.
This is readily seen when examining the scores
of their defeats. Four of last year's six defeats were by
less than nine points. For the most part, the Stags were
in all their games save two. This Fall, however, Fair­field
has not threatened to win one game. In light of
their schedule and talent on the squad, the Stags for­midable
schedule is absurd to say the least. There can
be no glory, or any fun, in going out on the field to play
a game once a week and get your head bashed in.
Some will claim that there can be some glory in losing,
but not by the scores Fairfield has lost by. These Stags
have suffered no heartbreaking defeats; they have
simply been soundly beaten.
The football club at Fairfield University is not a
profitable organization. Something must be done, name­ly
their program must be re-evaluated. Losers are not
supportable, especially at Fairfield University, to an­swer
the question posed by Rev. James M. Murphy,
S.J., in his controversial letter, "The Club's Crisis." If
Fairfield University Club Football is to continue there
is only one thing left to do and that is play an easier
schedule, Michael Kenefick has accused this editor of
trying to "kill the club." In a sense his assertion is true.
It would be very selfish for the club to exist for ap­proximately
100 people in a university of 1,600. No one
goes to the away games and the rugby club has been
outdrawing club football at both games and mixers.
"A number of guys built the club so we could play and
play for ourselves," Kenefick explains. Well if the
Stags don't playa more realistic schedule. one that will
allow them to provide the university with a winning
record, or even one win, then Kenefick and those who
think like him can play semi·pro football for them­selves.
as much 011' the field as he does
on."
Manhattan'. t..t Win
The loss to Manhattan left
the Stags with a 5-2 record as
the New Yorkers evened their
slate at 1-1-1. The Stags hope
that SChUc~, Q. Murphy, AI
Perkins, Billy Connolly, and
Jim Casey, who received a most
valuable player award from the
Father and Son Day committee,
will return to the line-up In
next week's away contest at
M.I.T.
In the "B" game last Satur­day,
the Stags blanked Old
Maroon, 24..(). Mike Gallagher
and Peter Yaros were the top
scorers for Fairfield with six
poina..each. Yaros soored two
tries and Gallagher had a solo
try and one penalty kick. Mike
Pheehan, Mat t Grassbura:er,
Geno Tarnowski, and Carl
Sachs all registered tries for
the Red Ruggen as they raised
their record to 2-1-1,
poinU. In the final minute of
the game Chuck Dombeck, a
Stag junior, scored on a 2S-yard
drop klck shaving the verdict
to 27-3.
This combination aspires to
score come February in New
Orleans at the Mardi Gras.
"Why not start the second se­mester
right - a little earit'
spring fever'!''' is their logical,
rhetorical question. Some of
"Fast Eddy's" more abbreviated
journeys include last Thursday's
trip to New York to join in the
massive celebration of the Mets'
World Series win. Earlier this
swnmer Ed took a break from
his construction job to make it
to Woodstock, where, when the
money ran low, he sold lemon­ade.
He also saw Newport,
Rhode Island and its jazz fes­tival,
as well as Mexico.
Ed hopes to atted Law School
in Boston. He is currently Treas­urer
of the SL Ives Legal Guild
and Vice-President of the Busi­ness
Club. In each capacity he
seeks to engage speakers to en­lighten
undergraduates about
future careers, "We have an op.­portunity
to query representa­tives
from various law schools
as to their specific qualifica­tions."
Interest and desire are
among the specific qualifications
for an athlete. Ed Beaudreault
has them both.
(Contlnued from Pace U)
side line and, moments later,
the blonde outside center broke
into the end zone for another
try making the score 20-0.
O'Mahoney's extra point kick
was good and the Manhattan
team led 22..0.
However, O'Mahoney wasn't
finished as he scored ftve more
points on a try and extra point
kick. This raised the score to
an astonishing 27..0, but O'Ma­honey
himself had 'cored 21
fused referees, preparing to
step in, were dwnbfounded
when Ed, realizing the safety
was his good friend, Ed Bouch­er,
laughed and shook his hand.
Again on the light side, Bo re­calls
his teammates warming
themselves with potion of cough
medicine before last January's
"Frozen Bowl" playoll's.
Unacored Upon Defl:.nM
Ed feels that this year's
Beachcrafts (5-0) can again
reach the finals. With a defense
that is unscored upon and has
allowed only three first downs
in the five contests, not too
many people will argue with
him. By the way, the oll'ense
averages 19 points. New Dorm
3 and D.S.P. present what
Beaudreault con sid e r s the
toughest opposition. Ed looks
forward to the encounter with
Boucher's Campion 2 squad, "I
want to get a shot at Ed Bouch­er
and his star, Mike Yates:'
At home Ed Bo plays "house­maid"
to Jack Madoo, Mike
Iglesias,· Jim Fitzpatrick, Bill
Barrie, and Tim Kloczko. Ed
jokes, "One of my favorite pas­times
Is watching the tube with
Jack." Madeo counters with a
revelatory comment about Ed's
nickname, "Fast Eddy scores
''" • • ,.....•...,••.........••••
October Sports Schedule
I"OOTIl.UL SOCCER
18 St. Peter'. Home 18 Paterson State Away
25 SCnnton• • Away 21 Eutern Conn. Away •
aUGn 23 New Haven Away
25 Marilt Home
18 Old Harooa H.... 20 CCSC I. -- ,..... Home • • • 25 lilT. Away
• • • CROSS COUNTlty
HOCKEY 18 SL Peter's Away
!I Queeas Aw., 25 A..wnpticD A_
AlI.StaI' Performer
"Ed-So" found enough ways
to win last year to be named
to both the Intramural All-Star
football and basketball squads,
as a forward in the latter case.
Ed's sport's background in­cludes
three years of football,
basketball, and baseball at Put­nam
High in Connecticut. At
Fairfleld the tough 205-pounder
played freshman basketball and
one abortive varsity baseball
season (he was sidelined by a
severe bum). Most staunch cage
followers will remember the job
that Ed did filling in at forward
for Rick SChoenbeck who suf­fered
a broken ankle. Bo start­ed
the last 10 games and made
perhaps hi' best ell'ort in a road
game versus the highly-touted
Providence Friars. In that game
he had 15 points and numerous
rebounds in the two-point loss.
Not one to shrink from a con­frontation,
Beaudreaut recalls a
play last year in which he was
soundly jostled by a pack of de­fenders
on a pass play. As the
pile-up untangled Ed and one
of the fl.red.up "felies got
ready to SQuare-oft'. The con-
By BILL WARNKEN
If you venture out to the in­tramural
gridiron on anyone of
these gray autumn afternoons
you're more than likely to see
a sure-handed, rugged tight-end
muscling his way to acrobatic
catches; he'll be identiflable by
his omnipresent red sweats. Ed.
gar "Fast Eddy" Beaudreault
has been doing things like that
for Fairfield Beach again this
season and no end is in sight
with seasonal transitions, as
Ed's prowess extends to basket­ball
and baseball.
The 6-1 senior, In his second
year at Fairfield Beach, has
taken over the captain's spot
vacated by Bob Giusti ('68).
He is in the unenviable position
of trying to provide an encore
for the act put on by such for­mer
Beach stars as Tom Crow­ley,
Doug Asper, Bill Sweeney,
and Willis Renke. While Ed
was a vital cog in last year's
Beach machine he approaches
his leadership role with no iUu­slons
of grandeur, capturing the
true spirit of the intramural
program, "I guess in part in­tramurals
can help you burn
olf your aggressions, but mostly
I just enjoy playing, especially
with Beach because, although
we sometimes appear haphazard
and disorganized, we have a
special kind of spirit, a certain
camaraderie, and usually find
a way to win:'
Harriers Garner3 Straight;
O'Donoghue Is Impressive
St. Peter's 11 Mauls Stags, 34-14
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE: CIu1s GalvlD, M)lpbomore Rugby &tar. run. to daylJcbt. (Smith Photo).
SPORTS
ST
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Page 12 October 22, 1969
By MICHAEL LEARY
Last Saturday the Fairfield
soccer team traveled down to
New Jersey to play Paterson
State Collea:e. When the anal
buzzer rang the Stap found
themselves behind by a score
of 3-1. This gave them a G4-1
record with nine games left on
their schedule. Four of these
games will be home lames.
This lack of the home field
advantage may be one reason
for the unsuccessful season.
Eight of the fourteen lames
are played away. The lana:, tir­ing
bus ride and new field often
hurts the Falrfleld players.
Corbin M. V. P.
This was one of the disad­vantages
last Saturday when
the Stags went down to New
Jersey to play Paterson State.
Roland Corbin again led the of­fense.
He was voted the most
valuable played at the Father­Son
banquet. Dan wncox hel~
ed bolster the defense by scor­Ing
Its only goal. The defense
played its average game allow­"
In,g,:,.three goals for the oppon­Paterson
State College had a
l~ lead at half. But by the end
of the third quarter, they led
3-0. Their last goal demaralized
the team since it was a contro­versial
penalty kick. Despite
this, Dan Wilcox managed to
score the Stags lone goal. This
year the team would be unde­feated,
not winless, If the of­fense
could manage to score
four points per game. The de­fense
has held the opponents to
three points every game.
Week of Decision
This week will decide whether
the soccer team can salvage a
winning record. They play three
lames within five days. U the
Stags sweep all three games
they can again be in sla:ht of a
successful season. Their record
would be 3-4-1 with six games
left to play. Yesterday they
faced Eastern Connecticut Col­lege
and tomorrow they will
meet New Haven College. On
Saturday the team will return
home to play Marist College.
The soccer team is capable of
defeating all three if the of­fense
can improve. The soccer
team must win at least two of
the three games because their
next opponent Is tough Central
Connecticut State College. Thus
this week decides whether coach
Jim Kuhlman can have his
second strai&;ht winnin& season.
BootersBow;
NowAtO-4-]
explained that the "scrum play­ed
lousy In the fl.rst half, but
great In the second half." Sure­ly,
the scnun held the key to
victory over Old Maroon.
~~ Start
Manhattan's Sunday team ar­rived
at Grauert Field 90 min­utes
late and this delayed start
may have caused the Red Rug­gen
to lose some of their lim­Ing.
Early in the Manhattan game
Tom Krenn missed an easy 15­yard
penalty kick. Shortly there
after, Dennis Barry raced 30
yards for an apparent try but
while he attempted to get bet­ter
field position for the ensu­Ing
extra point kick he was
tackled and (wnbled the ball
out of bounds. Krenn later miss­ed
a 3O-yard kick and the first
half ended scoreless. Krenn,
President of the Fairfield Rugby
Football Club, told his team­mates
at half-time that "we
should be ahead 15-0:' He may
have exaggerated, but the Stags
should have scored at least one
try and one penalty kick.
Unlike the Old Maroon game,
the second-halt belonged to the
green, blue, and white shlrted
Manhattan team. They scored
14 points in the first 10 minutes
of the second half as Jake Tay­lor
scored a try, passed to Jack
O'Mahoney for another try,
Bob Dea scored on a strong
scrum movement. and O'Maho­ney
cashed in on a 2O-yard
penalty kick. O'Mahoney also
scored a brace of points on an
extra point kick raising the
count to 14~.
By this time it was apparent
that Fairfield was beaten but
O'Mahoney scored on a bril­liant
6().yard dash down the left
(CoatlDued on Pace 11)
Stap DomJnate
The second-half was all Fair­field.
Gil Walsh, who filled in
admirably for Ben Hammer­backer
at the second row posi­tion,
passed to Dennis Barry
and Barry whipped the ball to
Stevie Ryan who raced 15 yards
for the try which evened the
score at six all.
Midway through the second
half, Kurt Schlieting wheeled
15 yards al'OUnd the left side of
the scrum for the try which
put the Stags ahead to stay,
9-6. Sophomore Chris Galvin
later scored on a five-yard run
and the fl.nal score was Fall'­fl.
eld 12, Old Maroon 6.
Frank Santulli, the long-hair­ed
leader of the Fairfield serum.
yards for a try. However, Joe
Sindt ran 30 yards to pay dirt
to narrow the score to &3 at the
half.
line. On the second play Frank
Schulu went over from the one
and Kevin Murphy's kick was
good as the Stags took the lead
7...
With 9:00 left in the half
some dessension was spoted in
the Peacock huddle. The de­fensive
captain unleashed Into
a player, saying that there was
39 minutes left. This was some­what
surprising to hear from a
team down by one point and a
team that had held the Stag
offense almost motionless.
At this point the Stags punt­ed
and St. Peter's took over
on their o...m 30. On the first
play Spillane ran wide for 26
yards and was stopped only by
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and Falrfteld looked in good
shape.
With time ronnmg out in the
first quarter St. Peter's blocked
Mraz's punt and recovered on
the 22-yard line of Fairfield. It
took St. Peter's six plays, as
Frank Spillane, St. Peter's hard
running fullback, took It over
for the score. The point after
hit the goal post and St. Peter's
led 6-0.
Star Attack Weak
The Stag attack was very
poor. However, Mraz got off a
booming kick and on the first
play from scrimmage Monta­naro
was hit hard behind the
line by a group of Stags and
Marshall recovered the loose
football on St. Peter's ~yard
By JOSEPH VALERIO
Spor18 Editor
The Red Ruggers from Fair­field
University scored a 12-6
victory over Old Maroon last
SaturdAy with an impressive
second-half perfonnance, but
on Sunday the Stags experienc­ed
second-half jitters and went
down to their second defeat in
seven games at the hands of
Manhattan's Sunday team, 27-3.
Both games were played at
Lt. Hans Grauert Memorial
Field on bright and sunny days.
The weather was ideal for rug­by
and there was a very large
turnout of more than 500 for
Saturday's Father and Son Day
game.
In Saturday's game, the Stags
fell behind 6-0 as Old Maroon's
Carl Klein scored on a drop
kick and Pete Kiernan raced 20
Ruggers Defeat Old Maroon;
Routed By Manhattan, 27-3
By THOMAS DUNN
On Saturday of Father and
Son Weekend, the Fairfield
Football Club entertained St.
Peter's of Jersey City, New
hrsey. St. Peter's won 34-14.
During the first quarter the
two clubs were feeling each
other out. St. Peter's started
marching down the fl.eld with
abandon. On third down and
nine, the Stag defense put on
a big rush, but the Peacock
quarterback, Bill Montanaro
scrambled to the Stag 35-yard
line. On third and 10 Montanaro
was thrown back to the Stag
47 by Tom Rosendahl. On
fourth down little Don Marshall
broke through to block the kick,
lst Trl·Meet Vietor')'
Aplnst Clark and New Ha­ven,
which was a tJi·meet held
at Fairfl.eld on Oct. 11, the Stag
hUTlers had Mark O'Donoghue
In second, Gene Mulvaney In
third, Bob Kunces In fOlolrth,
Bob Pantone In fifth, Skip
Waite in 10th rounded olIff the
scoring and Fairfteld ran 011'
with Its first trkneet victory
of the 1969 season.
The unity of the team was
again demonstrated in the dual
meet with U.B. Bob Pontone,
running one of the finest races
of his young career, took a min­ute
and thirty seconds off his
previous best time and finished
first in a time of 29:11 on the
Stags home course. A hair be­hind
was O'Donoghue who ran
29:11.1 to take second, and was
followed by Kunces In fourth,
Mulvaney In fifth, and Skip
Waite In ninth, glvlna: our har­riers
their Ilfth win.
This coming Saturday the
hUTlers travel to Worc:hester,
Mass. for a meet with Assum~
(CoItUnaeid 011 Pare 10)
In the past two weeks Fair-­field's
Cross Country team, five
men strong, have won three
meets bringing their cu~nt
record to 5 wins and 2 defeats.
The Stag harriers defeated
New Haven College (24-31>,
Clark University of Worchester
(21).35). and the University of
Bridgeport (20-35) in their three
most recent encounters.
The team, consisting of Jun­ior
Captain Mark O'Donoghue,
&emor Ralph (Skip) Waite,
sophomore Bob Pontone. and
freshmen Bob Rum,~es and Gene
Mulvaney, can credit their
scmewhat 5ucprising record to
a number of causes. Hard work
and determination are not
among the smallest factors, but
the most outstandinll: attribute
of this team is their ability to
run each race as a unit. In
cross country the lowest score
is the winning lcore, conse­quently
the object of a race is
to place a number of runners
tightly grouped near or in the
lead. FalI"fteld's harriers can do
this.