Stag - Vol. 12, No. 05 - February 17, 1961

              Publi~hed by Students o,f Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn. FEBRUARY 11, 1961
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Council Bid Adieu
To Xavier Hall
The meeting place of .the
Student Council will no longer
be Xavier cafeteria. Legisla­tion
passed at the last meeting
provides for a change to Gon­zaga
auditorium if possible, or
if this is in use, to Canisius 101.
It was the general consensus of
opinion that the change would
provide a more centrally locat­ed
place of meeting and enable
the students of the university
to more easily attend the meet­ings
and thus make for a more
representative Student Council.
Another change is that the
meetings will now be held on
Thursday nights instead of on
Tuesday as in the past. The
schedules of many of the coun­cil
members sometimes render­ed
them unable to attend, but
with this change most of the
members will now be able to
be present at every meeting.
Beginning this year the
council will check the activity
points listed by each student.
This is to prevent false tribute
in the year book and to make
sure that unworthy students are
kept out of the honor society.
At the end of each school year
the presidents of all campus ac­tivities
will be asked to submit
a list of their active members.
(Continued on Page 5, Col. 5)
FOLKSINGERS COME MAR. 7
Folksingers Carolyn Hester
and David Van Ronk will pre­sent
a concert March 7 at 8
p.m. in Gonzaga Theatre under
the auspices of the newly
founded FU Seven Arts So­ciety.
NFCCS Regional Meet
At Immanuel 'College
New England collegians will
participate in the Winter Coun­cil
of the National Federation
of Catholic College Students re­gional
body, Feb. 18. Boston's
Emmanuel College will be host
school of the student meeting
(Cant. on Page 3. Col. 3)
------------~~ A bequest of $10,000 to be
I used in assisting worthy stu­dents,
has been made to Fair­field
University, according to
the Very Rev. James E. Fitz­Gerald,
S.J., Fairfield U presi­dent.
The sum, one of the largest
ever donated to Fairfield U, was
presented in accordance with
the will of the late Anabel Mc­Padden
Davey, to be used for
a scholarship fund in memo,ry
of her brother, the late Edward
F. McPadden.
Fairfield University's treasur­er,
,the Rev. Harry Huss, S.J.,
will serve as fund trustee.
(Cant. on Page 8. Col. 3)
McPadden Memorial Grant
Boosts Scholarship Funds
Research Grants
Awarded Seniors
WILLIAM R. WIELAND '64
crowns Miss Arlene Sebestian,
18, as Queen during the first
night prom of the Mid-Winter
Carnival festivities at Fair
field University in January.
His date was selected from
approximately 25 entrants to
reign at the semester-break
triduum.
National Science Foundation
research assistant grants have
been awarded to two Fairfield
University undergraduates, it
was announced today.
The two seniors, Richard E.
Nanfeldt and Joseph J. Sizen­sky,
will aid Dr. John Barone,
associate professor of chemistry
at Fairfield U., with his study
of nucleic acids. Nucleic acids
are vital to cell growth and de­velopment.
Endorsing the University's
program of undergraduate and
graduate scientific study im­provement,
such national agen­cies
as the National Science
Foundation have contributed a
total of $21,968 in grants to the
University in recent months.
Mr. Nanfeldt, a candidate for
a Bachelor of Science degree in
chemistry, is president of the
(Cant. on Page 8. Col. 4)
Petry To Deliver
Pluralism Talk
Thomas Tierney, '62, has
been named president of the
Public Affairs Club. He fills the
position vacated by George
Tolmie.
Rev. William Hohmann, S.J.,
and Mr. John Norman, so-mod­erators,
have given their sanc­tion
to a reorganization of the
club which Mr. Tolmie tempor­arily
disbanded in late Novem­ber.
In accepting the position,
President Tierney told the STAG
he would wage an active cam­paign
to restore the club to its
former status as a major source
of good lectures. Already he has
written to numerous organiza­tions
attempting to get promi­nent
speakers despite what he
termed "the absence of suffici­ent
funds."
(Cant. on Page 8. Col. 5)
Mr. Walter Petry of the Fair­field
University History De­partment
will speak at a semi­nar
on pluralism at 7:30 p.m.,
Tuesday, Feb. 28, in Can­isius
Hall, room 101. He has
chosen "Education in a Plural­ist
Society: the Role of the Fed­eral
Government" as his topic.
This will be the first in a
series of seminars that the Fair­field
University campus unit of
the National Federation of
Catholic College Students will
sponsor in accordance with the
1960-61 Contemporary Issues
Program of the N.F.C.C.S. which
has "An Understanding of Our
Time: Catholic Responsibility in
a Pluralistic Society" as its
theme.
Each of the seminars will in­clude
a speaker who is well
versed in the subject and is
particularly interesting and
thought - provoking. Questions
(Cant. on Page 5. Col. 5)
Tierney Named Prexy
OJ Public Affairs Club
Fairfield Sodalists In
Tri-College Conclave
Rudd Announces Dates
For Dogwood Festival
The 1961 Dogwood Festival,
sponsored by the Class of 1962,
will be held May 12-14, accord­ing
to Paul K. Rudd, general
chairman.
The weekend will begin on
Friday night, May 12, with a
formal dance followed by a
Post Party sponsored by the
Knights of Columbus. On Sat­urday,
May 13th, the weekend
will resume with a picnic at
Sherwood lsi and. Saturday
night, Second Annual Jazz on
Campus, initiated last year by
the Class of '61, will be pre­sented.
This year's weekend will
feature a new event, a post jazz
concert party, open only to
Fairfield students.
A Communion breakfast Sun­day
morning and a jazz concert
on Sunday afternoon will com­plete
the triduum.
In announcing the Festival
dates, the officers of the Class
(Cant. on Page 9)
The Sodality of Our Lady of
Fairfield will attend a tri-col-
Vocational Director lege conclave to be held at Holy
Departs Tomorrow Cross College Sunday.
Sodalists from Holy Cross,
Rev. Francis X. Curran, S.J., Boston College, and Fairfield
vocational consultant for New University will participate in a
England schools and colleges, workshop discussing the role of
will terminate his series of con- the laity in the church today.
sultations with Fairfield stu- Bishop Flanagan of the Wor­dents
tomorrow. cester Diocese will celebrate
Fr. Curran has been available mass after which the sodalists
to FU students seeking advice will hear lay speakers from the
about religious and lay voca- fields of law, medicine, educa­tions,
and may be contacted at tion, social work, and business.
Canisius Hall 210 both mornings The sodalists will discuss the
and evenings, and at the stu- transition period from a college
dent counselor's· office in Xavier sodality to one of' these profes-
Hall during the afternoon. . sional sodalities.
NED COLL '62 has his blood pressure checked by one of the
visiting Red Cross nurses during last week's campus drain
which netted 143 pints of stag blood for the Fairfield chapter
of the Red Cross.
Administration Considering
Million Dollar Dormitorv~
Vol. 12 - No.5
Top Summer Jobs
Offered Students
Construction of a new student<S>-------------­dormitory
is now being consid­ered
by the s'chool administra­tion,
according to Rev. George
S. Mahan, S.J., executive assist­ant
to the university president.
The new building, for which
plans are in :the formative stage,
will accomodate approximately
200 students. Work on the struc­ture
is tentatively scheduled to
begin during August, with com­pletion
slated for September,
1962. An application for a one
million dollar federal loan to
cover the cost is also being con­templated
by the administration.
Fr. Mahan said in a news
release to the STAG that the
new dorm would have either a
cafeteria, capable of serving
800 persons, or a book store and
laundry room facilities for the
students, depending 'On the de­cision
being considered where­by
the present Icafeteria in
Loyola Hall would be altered
to serve a larger number of
student~.
Summer jobs paying up to
$350 per month are available
with the Federal government,
according to Crux ,Intercollegi­ate
News.
A number of US Government
agencies have instituted training
programs for which collegians
are eligiJble. Appointment is
made on a summer basis.
Interested students shou1d
check with· the nearest Civil
Service office or write <the com­mission
headquar.ters, Washing­ton
25, D.C. Ask for theboo.k­let
"Opportunities for Student
Trainees." The .. !booklet is dis­tributedfree
of charge.
JFH
February 17. 1961
BUSINESS MANAGER
KENNETH E. DUBUC
EXCHANGE EDITOR
ROBERT WIDMER
MANAGING EDITOR
CLEMENT A. LAMB
FEATURE EDITOR
DONALD A. PREZIOSI
PHOTO EDITOR
SEAN M. DUNPHY
is an anachronism. Everyone
realizes this; everyone but the
powers that be at Fairfield.
Of course, the noblest reasons
are always proferred for the ex­istence
of this poll tax, just as
some of our southern cousins
rush to express their sudden
concern for "states rights" when
the hue and cry is raised
against them for denying the
rights of their fellow man.
Can it be that those success­ful
campus _politicians, in whom
we were gracious enough to
place two and a half dollars
worth of trust, do not in turn
trust the people who put them
in office enough to believe that
we would pay the $2.50 activ­ity
fee even if it were not glued
onto the right to vote?
Sic Semper Tyrannis
(signed)
John G. Bananas
A Great and Unflinching
Liberal
Thank you,
Joseph Cirasuolo
Chairman - C.T.S.
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NEWS EDITOR
JAMES F. HILL
SPORTS EDITOR
ROD DOWLING
ADVERTISING MANAGER
ROBERT STEVENS
LAYOUT EDITOR
ROBERT B. CAGNASSOLA
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MICHAEL T. KIERNAN
if everyone pays for the pamph­lets
he purchases.
In summation, we appeal to
the student body, first out of a
sense of justice and secondly,
out of concern for a constant
influx of Catholic ideas onto a
Catholic campus, to pay for
whatever pamphlets they "pur­chase."
To the Editor:
Probably nothing on the
Fairfield University campus so
2'r:ates on my liberal sensibili­ties
as the poll tax imposed on
the Fairfield University stud­ent.
The ordinary Fairfield
man only becomes worthy
enough to vote for the campus
politicians when he pays $2.50.
The right to vote is peddled
like a piece of fish.
Even in the south, bourbons
are realizing that the poll tax
Fairfield University will be without a student newspaper
by 1962 unless sufficient numbers of underclassmen take increased
interest in their present campus publication.
The current STAG staff includes a mere handful of de­pendable
freshmen and sophomores, who, without adequate sup­port
from their classmates, will not be able to publish a news­paper
capable of handling the needs of a growing student body.
To operate efficiently, a journal such as the STAG requires a
minimum of 30 to 40 permanent workers. (Some university pa­per
list more than 100 staff members.)
Four or five people cannot possibly accomplish the time
consuming tasks of compiling news stories and editing them,
the many photography assignments, plus the advertising and
managerial offices which comprise the publication of a single
edition; and much improvement lies ahead before the STAG
can even be considered, in the true sense of the term, a news­paper.
But without people who recognize its potential and dis­play
their desire for its continued existence, Fairfield will lose
what newspaper it now has.
It is not to be expected that an undergraduate will turn out
a news article or column of professional caliber at first attempt.
Were this the case, all those now working for university news­papers
would, instead, undoubtedly be writing for paying organi­zations.
It can, therefore, be said, that minimum prerequisities
for a position on the STAG are a small dose of talent and, more
important, a personal interest in the well-being of the student
body.
These comments are not intended to instill fervor in the
readers with respect to the desirability of a school newspaper.
This is not an appeal. But without some vehicle of expression,
Fairfield students will never stimulate or actuate a dynamic
community.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE STAG
Today's issue marks the be­ginning
of this paper's partici­pation
in an· experimental
Catholic press service which
will operate in the New Eng­land
area under the auspices
of National Federation of Cath­olic
College Students. The serv­ice
has been named Crux In­tercollegiate
News.
The Crux venture will seek
to supply each college news­paper
with professional-level
news sources through periodic
syndicated releases. Material
from this paper will form part
of the cooperative pool to be
drawn upon by the service.
Based at Providence College,
the news service's coordinating
office will be directed by
Charles Goetz, former editor-in­chief
of that school's paper. The
regional executive board of
NFCCS has appropriated funds
to make the service available.
Purpose of the group is "to
help Catholic College journal­ism
along the road to its right­ful
road of campus leadership
in the cause of Christ," accord­ing
to a letter from Goetz to
New England Catholic college
editors.
NF Netvs Sert,ice
A.dopted By Stag
To the Editor:
The Catholic Truth Section of
the Sodality of Our Lady pro­vides
Catholic reading material
on campus by means of three
pamphlet racks. They are lo­cated
in Xavier, Loyola and
Gonzaga halls.
The prices we charge for the
pamphlets are not extravagant,
but certain students persist in
borrowing these pamphlets and
neither paying for them nor
returning them. No matter how
one tries to rationalize, this is
thievery, and those engaging in
such actions are dishonest
thieves. The students involved
in such actions should remem­ber
two things.
First, we are not a profit
making organization. We do not
get these pamphlets for nothing.
We get them at a slight dis­count,
and if all goes well, due
to the fact that some pamphlets
do not sell, we should come
approximately even. However,
this year we will not come even
close to breaking even. This is
due to the fact that some indi­viduals
lack a rudimentary
sense of justice.
Secondly, these thieves should
consider the fact that only
when we reap sufficient funds
can we purchase the types of
pamphlets which we feel will
be most beneficial to the stud­ent
body. This year, we have
tried to order pamphlets deal­ing
with controversial and vital
many more pamphlets which
we could order, if we had the
funds. We would have the funds
issues which affect the -lives of
college students. There are
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Bi-Weekly Publication
Schedule
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Animal I May 5
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OF BEARDS AND BLAZERS
OPINION -OR CONVICTION?
Editorials
Page 2
Responsible agents at the U have finally been roused from
their slumber, and none too soon. Those stalwarts to whom we
refer have initiated reform whereby all unsavory characters in
our midst must soon change their ways, or suffer ostracization
from the fold.
Noteworthy and highly commendable is the recent positive
position assumed, by officials in several societies, i.e. the Glee
Club and Debating Society, whereby "theater folk" on campus
will not be able to contaminate the good name and appearance
of Fairfield by their obstinate insistance upon functioning with
garish growths on their faces. Such uncultured lads have been
declared personna non grata to these two groups.
It is hoped, however, that in the future other agents will
not only harken to the coups scored by the above mentioned
habingers, but will be MORE STRICT and MORE UNIVERSAL
in administering just desserts to any noxious offenders.
Officials must be ever diligent- in marking that wiley under­graduates
never step out of line; that they never fracture the
premise of the ONE. Consider what campus life would be .like
if everyone wore beards; or if everyone parted their hair on
the left or didn't wear red blazers, when everyone knows it is
the acknowledged CUSTOM to do the opposities. Barbarianism
becomes the sole description befitting such dastardly, actions.
It is unthinkable that any person, who, merely because he
has to carry a spear in some amateurish production of an ob­scure
drama clique, should be audacious enough to feel that he's1.--------------_ as good as the rest of us; or that his vocal cords are half as
pleasing as those of sanctioned members of the bi-Iabial groups
referred to; when everyone knows that barbarians cannot sing
as well, speak as intelligently, or do anything excepting spear
toting as well as those w.ith smooth faces, smooth tongues, and
in mariy caSes, smooth pates.
Toleration affords no answer. Neither does co-existence be­tween
shaved and unshaved offer hope of harmonious solution.
Minorities, rascallious violators of UNITY and SMOOTHNESS
at the U, must GO.
"Colleges fail to familiarize the student with the world in
which we are living - its problems, issues and rapid changes.
Nor does a college education appear to lead to a significant in­crease
in the information of current affairs as seniors profess
the same degree of ignorance in this field as freshmen," accord­ing
to Dr. Josef E. (iarai in a recent "New York Times" article.
Dr. Garai, a professor at New York's Staten Island Com­munity
College based this statement on studies he has made of
information on world news possessed by a representative 437
undergraduates at five colleges in New York City.
Employing the New York Times Public Affairs Test, Dr.
Garai found the students tested knew more about sports, enter­tainment
and advertised merchandise than they did about cur­rent
events. "Wrong answers often revealed astonishing con­fusion
and ignorance: twenty-seven students believed that Nehru
is the Prime Minister of Israel, thirty-four students regarded
(Gov. Orval) Faubus as a rock-and-roll singer, confusing him
with Fabian; Castro was given as the name of the capital of
Cuba by four students and Hymen Rickover was identified as
an admiral in the Air Force by one student."
Dr. Garai's solution, and one desparately needed at Fairfield,
was for all colleges to have required courses on current events
with regular class discussions based on required daily newspaper
reading.
In another article from the same journal, Frederick H.
Boland, President of the United Nations General Assembly said,
"The attitude of the average Communist is one of complete
dedication to the cause. A primary aim of our Catholic education
must be to instill an even greater dedication, an even stronger
sense of mission."
While both men were addressing their comments to the
nation's educators, Fairfield's student body and especially those
students engaged in reforming the campus Public Affairs Club
(cf. news item this issue) should take heed of these warnings.
Politics, traditionally the meat of the Public Affairs Club should
be handed over to its rightful owners, the campus political
clubs. 'Rather, it should be the devoted aim of the PA club to
dispell the shroud of "too many opinions and too few convic­tions"
concerning current events and astheistic communism,
with a vibrant (and frequent) lecture series.
The campus NFCCS unit has slated Mr. Walter Petry for
a t;;alk February 27. Concretizing its plans, the germinating Public
Affairs Club should follow suit as soon as possible. Until ade­quate
funds can be obtained, the valuable reservoir of speakers
to be found among our own faculty should be tapped. A token
admission fee could be charged at early lectures to gain funds
to pay for outside speakers.
We'd also suggest that Public Affairs Club president Tom
Tierney move the question and answer period following each
lecture into the TV lounge adjacent to the auditorium. We're sure
the University, as anxious as we to establish intellectual COMI­TATUS
would foot the minimal cost of setting up a coffee urn to
garnish a post-lecture discussion.
As regards going to a concert, the procedure is neither in­volved,
painful, nor expensive; for all evening concerts except
the special Kostelanez series, all but the balcony are sold for
the season. These seats are generally two dollars or less, well
under the price of a concert record.
Perhaps the best introduction to the Philharmonic would
be one of the Kostelanez series. These special Saturday night
concerts are more on a "pop" line than the regular program.
They include show tunes and light classical pieces as a regular
feature of their programming. The next date for this series is
March 4th. The regular concert that weekend will feature
Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique", a highly melodious introduction to
concert-going.
If I seem to have gone on at great length saking things you
already knew, I apologize. But I think that if Fairfield students
continue to avoid one of the world's great orchestras with the
same consistancy that they avoid ugly women, it would prove
that our "liberal education" is as mythical as it is frequently
pictured to be by the campus pessimists.
There is something about the phrase "classical music" that
chills the collective heart of the Fairfield student body. It goes
without saying that this, for the liberally educated student, should
not be so. It is however, and its basis is wholly understandable.
For most of us, the introduction to serious music came either
from a long-nosed music teacher (do most grammar school
music teachers have really long noses, or is it my imagination?),
or from a little girl that everyone hated who performed the
"Surprise Symphony" at the school assembly. Attendance was
mandatory.
The possibilities are perhaps a little more varied, and in­finitely
more professional, in New York. I say this although
I can't speak with solid critical authority on music, but only
from a lay neophyte's angle. A glance at the Sunday Times will
give you an idea of the tremendous volume of concerts that go
on during any week, but unless you have off-the-wall interests
in a certain type of music, your best beginning is the Philhar­monic.
Aside from the musical qualities, an orchestra of the size
and precision of the Philharmonic produces enough visual stimu­lation
to hold the attention of even the most rock 'n' roll-orientat­ed
listener. As I said earlier, I cannot really evaluate the music
from a critic's standpoint, 'but I can say that it is not, as a rule,
"hard to understand", "boring" or any of the other standard
pejorative cliches that have attatched themselves to much serious
music.
Page 3
scrupulous agents buy in and at
best declines in housing value.
At worst, houses are partitioned
to accommodate several fami­lies,
and if, as is frequent, the
neighborhood adjoins a slum
section the general effect is the
spreading of the slUm.
The Exodus
One general result is the in­creasing
of the exodus to the
suburbs and the additional prob­lems
faced by our already suf­fering
cities. Another is the
curious fact that the party hard­est
hurt is the middle class
Negro seeking at exorbitant ex­pense
to escape the. slum.
Some Negro leaders recogniz­ing
that integration must come
first in the cities are privately
coming to favor certain reason­able
quota systems (at least in
public housing) to guarantee
that the whites will not flee.
If real integration and racial
equality is to be obtained it
must be done in the cities first.
The problem, moreover, faces
the northerner more immedi­ately.
If the established and
urbanized northern Negro laces
racial hostility what can be ex­pected
for his southern coun­terpart?
mon prejudices to the contrary,
they were slums before the
Negroes' arrival and inhabited
by the Italians and maybe the
Irish before them. As establish­ed
Negro residents move out,
they a~e often replaced by new
arrivals from the South, lured
by northern industrial wages,
who usually do little to restore
the declining neighborhood.
As the prospering middle
class Negroes seek' to leave the
slum their problems complicate.
They might well be charged ex­cessively
for their new homes,
especially if they're in a pre­dominantly
white area. Once
established, their security in
their new neighborhood is fre­quently
threatened.
Luigi Laurenti's new book
"Property Values and Race:
Studies in Seven Cities" (Univ.
of California Press) adds one
more blow against the myth
that housing values fall inevit­ably
when Negroes buy in a
neighborhood. Occasionally val­ues
may rise, frequently remain
static, but always will fall if
panic selling ensues.
Panic selling is a phenomen­on
that benefits no one but the
real estate agent. The neighbor­hood
rapidly deteriorates if un-
BY
GEOFF STOKES
NEW YORK NOTEBOOK
By John Faulkner
As this article is being writ­ten,
plans are being pressed in
nearby New Rochelle, N.Y., for
a one day boycott of public
schools by parental refusal to
allow their children's attend­ance.
Supported by both
Negroes and Whites, it was call­ed
to protest the city's appeal
of a court order to enforce in­tegration
at Lincoln (irony un­intentional)
school. Lincoln, as
mentioned in the previous art­icle,
has a 94 percent colored
student body as the result of
expensive zoning.
Lincoln's case is merely an
extreme of a rather common
occurrence in the North. Our
schools are characterized by a
form of proportional segregation
on the elementary and junior
high levels by the massive fact
of housing segregation. In most
cities Negro school enrollment
is concentrated in certain
schools and nearly, if not, non­existent
in several others be­cause
of simple geographical
proximity. New York City's
plan for transporting colored
children to different school
zones doesn't seem really ef­fective.
Ultimately any change
must come from the neighbor­hoods,
and it is here where we
shall focus.
Slums Already
The neighborhoods most fre­
·quently inhabited by Negroes
are slums. Usually, despite com-
(The second in a series of
articles on integration as a
national problem of this
decade.)
Segregation:
Local Problems
THE STAG
NFCCS
(Cont. from Page 1)
whose agenda includes discus­sion
groups on student govern­ment,
lay missions, editorial af­fairs,
and other topics of inter­est.
The council will also discuss
more formal aspects of regional
business, according to president
Elizabeth Magee. Financ'es,
plans for the Spring Congress
at St. Anselm's, and arrange­ments
for the National Congress
to be held in Pittsburgh this
summer are among the points
expected to be considered.
"We will evaluate the pro­gram
presented by the national
organization in order to deter­mine
its usefulness and how it
might be better implemented
here in New England," Miss
Magee explained. The federa­tion's
principal program, en­titled
"Catholic Responsibility
in a Pluralistic Society," will
come under discussion.
"We have invited Richard
Cumming, national NFCCS
vice-president, to explain the
program in detail and also an­ticipate
the appearance of a
noted speaker who will deal
with the complexities of life in
our pluralistic society," Miss
Magee added.
All senior delegates will be
kept informed of plans for the
Council through mailings from
Sandra Shaw, the regional sec­retary.
Interested students may,
in turn, consult the: campus
delegate, John Faulkner, for
further details on the Feb. 18
meeting.
is to say that there shall have
arisen v-arious and sundry Con­ceptions
of Life, etc., which
have made one or a number of
the basic Assumptions or Postu­lations
of the System false or
less relevant. Another condition
for impossible Salvation mi~ht
well be that the Thing, System,
etc., may have decayed irom
within; that is, the logical Con­clusions
of its Doctrines may
have, during the course of prac­tical
Application, proved a
Harm or Hurt to the natural
Tendencies of Men, or been
stifling to his various Aspira­tions.
For him who would be a
Revolutionary, - or, as your
Germans would say, Grunewald
- or the potential Revolution­ary,
the above Conditions are
either present or must be Cle­ated
if there only partially; or
made clear (inetllectually, or
imaginatively and emotionally)
if they are yet vague. The Con­ception
of such a Thing, Sys­tem,
etc., which has trapp'd
him, either voluntarily or
against his Wish has to thi.s
Wretch Connotations of a Pri­son,
Asylum, straight Jacket,
etc., from which he needs :must
take quick and speedy Flight,
if it be possible; or upon which
he must wring Havoc and De­struction,
not to mention Ter­ror.
VB Teacher Slams
Exam Cheating
Bridgeport, Conn. - (LP.)
No student is justified in blam­ing
his cheating on the fact that
"everyone does it," says Dr.
Alfred R. Wolff, director of Stu­dent
Personnel at the Univer­sity
of Bridgeport. In the past,
he admits, copies of tests were
procured by 9tudents by such
means as taking imperfect cop­ies
out of wastebaskets.
This is no longer possible,
claims, Dr. Wolff, because the
instructor is now required to
watch the entire procedure of
typing and mimeographing an
exam. In addition, the pro­cedure
in the mail and supply
room, where it once was rumor­ed
that copies of exams were
being obtained, is now being
watched, warns Dr. Wolff.
During an interview in 1958
with five University students
who admitted cheating, one of
them related that his reasons
were ,that he resented obscure
objective questions, and saw
cheating as a means of balanc­1ng
this handicap. Dr. Wolff
remarks that students tend ,to
blame everyone but themselves
in such a case. He believes it is
not the instructor's fault, al­though
it is best for 'the student
to ,be given as few ·chances as
possible to chea't.
Plagiarism, too, if it can be
proven deliberate, should be
rated in Ithe same manner as
creating, Wolff maintains.
The penalties for cheating on
this campus are: .first offense
results in a zero and a lowering
of the grade hyone letter; sec­ond
offense gets an .automatic
failure in the .course; and third
offense means expulsion from
the class. Dr. Wolff feels that,
although light, these penalties
could not be made heavier be­caUse
the instructors might be
reluctant to turn a student in.
" A Systemization of the
Fortunes of Things. Sys­tems.
etc.• (excluding Sys­tems
systematized from an
animating Principle which
is Supersubstantive.) which
Systemization. being some­what
systematized. is in ad­dition
somewhat serious."
By
DON
PREZIOSI
MOODS
The Obsession, Fixation, or,
as it were, Preoccupation with
or concerning the outward
Manifestations and formal Ar­rangements
of Things, Systems,
etc., has in the past oft times led
to a Disintegration and general
Discrediting of such Things,
Systems, etc., as pertinent to
human Life. When such Adher­ents
as may be to such Systems
- be they of a philosophical,
aesthetic, or social Nature ­lose
sight of or misinterpret
their animating Principle, such
Systems become mere empty
Structures. mere Grand Designs,
which St'ructures or Designs
entomb their Adherents or Be­lievers.
These Adherents, Be­lievers,
or, as the Spanish say,
Boton, now become Slaves who,
so as to remedy their unpleas­ant
State, must needs arrive at
either of two Solutions, these
Solutions being: Salvation of
the Thing, System, etc., or Re­bellion
from it.
Such Salvation as may be
possible is possible under cer­tain
Conditions, the first of
which is this: there must yet
be alive those who, if of the
proper Disposition toward that
System, have during Life made
internal that System; which is
to say such Adherents shall
have thoroughly fostered with­in
themselves such Truth as
may exist in that System so that
they fully comprehend and in­deed
live that System, being
conscious of the Reasons under­lying
each Law, Rule, or Ad­monition
as may be.
Salvation is alternately pos­sible
under this second Condi­tion:
there being none or few
Adherents as just mentioned; if
there were a Record, Book, or,
as the French would have it,
Fleuve, of the Wisdom of such
Adherents and Proponents of
the System to a Degree suffici­ent
to bring about a Revitaliza­tion
or, as it were, Re-creation,
of the animating Principle with­in
him who would wish to or
is in the process of believing,
then that Salvation may be
achieved, by Diligence and hard
Study.
The Alternate to this cursus
(as the great and noble Romans
would say) is Rebellion; which
Rebellion shall have become
necessary if Salvation is im­possible,
improbable, or unlike­ly.
Salvation shall be impos­sible,
etc., under these Condi­tions:
external Situations or
Ch.anges, such as are known to
have flower'd during the course
of one's Life, must have made
the System an Incongruity and,
as they say, Impertinency to
the Facts of Existence; which
February 17, 1961
February 17, 1961
JAZZ '61
LIFE MEMBERSHIPS in the Marketing Club are presented to
Mr. Thomas Fitzpatrick and Rev. William J. Healy, S.J. Pic­tured
at the ceremony are, first row, left to right, Van A.
Geisler, vice president of the club; Mr. Fitzpatrick, Fr. Healy,
Anthony D. Verrilli, club president; and Thomas J. Pinkham,
club moderator. Back row, Dominic J. Galluzzo, John Moore,
Peter R. Houser and Robert Jenkins, all of whom are club
officers.
ANIMAL F
Copy Deadline
Friday, Feb. 24
DENIS G ANN 0 N, named
Knight of the Month for Jan­uary
by Ignatian C 0 u n c i I
#4203. .Cited for ."perserver­ance
and achievement in the
ideals of Columbianism; Char­ity,
Unity Fraternity and
Patriotism," Mr. Gannon will
receive a engraved trophy for
his achievement. The selection
was made by the Council's
Fraternal Activities Commit­tee
headed by Bob Cagnassola
after a careful screening pro­cess.
The movies "Pal Joey" and
"Picnic" will be shown by The
Cardinal Key Society at 6:30
p.m., Wednesday, in Gonzaga
Auditorium. The purpose of the
movies is to help sustain the
Cardinal Key Society in its
services to the school and com­munity.
By JOHN FAULKNER
The American penchant for All-Star teams has long since
extended itself into the jazz polls. Since, however, the criteria
for recognition is art, there is much of the ridiculous in the
worst (eg. Playboy's) and even occassional confusion in the
judgements of the best (Downbeat's Critics' Poll). One of the
major sources of confusion has been the category of jazz vocalists
where such pop favorites as Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee get
persistent attention. It is then very appropriate to ask, though
a bit presumptious to answer, what makes for good jazz singing?
One of the strongest influences on modern jazz singing is that
exercised by many competent instrumentalists. It is rather
common to hear the voice of a singer compared to someone's
saxophone. Very successful instances of this approach are found
in Sarah Vaughn's rare duet with Cannonball Adderly in her
"In the Land of Hi-Fi" album, and in the Basie recreations
by Lambert-Hendricks-Ross. The committment of the latter
group to the voice-is-instrument approach is indeed nearly total,
if one excludes their novelty efforts.
This concept of jazz singing, however enjoyable in isolated
cases, ignores one of the essentials of any vocalizing. In virtually
all performances the singer sings lyrics! Why bother to try to
transcribe the Basie classics into vocal imitation when the idiom
in which their greatness lies is that of the band?
But the problem isn't that simple. Jon Hendricks has gone
to great pains to translate the musical expression of the Basie
soloists into lyrics to be sung by his group. The ultimate question
regarding the voice-as-instrument approach to vocal jazz is, can
the spontaneous expression in the language of music by the
instrumental soloist be translated into the language of words
and lyrics? The answer must be negative. Although L.-H.-R. may
achieve a high degree of relatiely successful adaptations, one
cannot consistently, if ever, translate the artistic meaning from
pure sound to words, let alone lyrics coincident with the musical
phrase. The only true way of using the voice as instrument
would be to sing sounds, not words.
An alternative lies in the element of lyrics. These, of ne­cessity,
present a limitation; one cannot make "S'Wonderful"
a lament. Yet lyrics provide a further dimension of expression
in the word rhythms and sounds which support the content of
the really good songs. The singer does not have to adhere strictly
to the melody or lyric, but should follow the verbal meaning of
the song in his personal expression.
It is of significance that this adherence to the lyric sense is
found in the blues, from which most of the historically great
L- oIljazz singers have risen.
Prominent of this type of singer is Ella Fitzgerald who sings
a happy sounding jazz as often as the sad. And it is noteworthy
to mention here that to scat-sing a happy song is often to sup­port
its sense. Anita O'Day (I'm told) on occasion sings bril­liantly
in this way, as does Sarah Vaughn who is in addition
unsurpassed at ballads. (And how many instrumentalists and
instrumental singers render ballads well?)
Finally this interpretation of jazz singing explains why
some of the more venturesome pop singers occasionally drift
into the jazz idiom varied success. More than this, it would also
indicate that the top jazz singers' can at will ping superlatively
in the popular field. And ~fter hearing Ella's Gershwin and
Sassy's show tunes, I'll not disagree.
CardilWl Key Presents
'Pal]oey,' 'Picnic' Wed.
THE STAG
Marketing Club
Gives Dean Life
Two Fairfield University offi­cials
have been awarded honor­ary
life memberships by the
University's Collegiate Market­ing
club for "outstanding ,con­tributions
to the organization's
educational program."
Honored by the student group
are Rev. William J. Healy, S.J.,
Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences; and Thomas J. Fitz­patrick,
chairman of the Uni­versity's
accounting and busi­ness
department.
The honorary memberships
will be awarded annually, it
was announced by Anthony D.
Verrilli, president of the stu­dent
group whose membership
ranked eleventh in the country
for its first year of operation.
Memberships to Fr. Healy and
Mr. Fitzpatrick are the first
awards made 'by the club. Both
officials also received the Ameri­can
Marketing Association's
Gold Keys.
Under the direction of Mr.
Pinkham and Mr. Verrilli, the
Marketing group has arranged
for a cooperative program with
a number of area industries.
Tours have been arranged with
Columbia Records, Carpenter
Steel, Warner Brothers, Gen­eral
Electric and Sikorsky Air­craf~.
The program is designed to
acquaint the students with mar­keting
and other manufacturing
problem,;.
*
Young Men!
Your career demands it.
That you put your head
and nat u r a I shoulders
above the crowd . . . in a
CRICKETEER suit natur­ally.
The suit that makes
news with a longer vest,
sensibly narrow slacks with
no pleats, and the slimmer
lapels.
*
You expected maybe Max Schulman at these prices?
Page 4
By MIKE FRATANTUNO
The white hills of Fairfield o'erlook Long Island Sound. The
snow has fallen and taken hold of the bare brown earth. The
ducks are gone (where I do not know) and they have been re­placed
- yes, replaced - by a veritable army of KIDS! and so
today we will discuss "Fairfield - Winter Wonderland for
Children."
I didn't know that there were so many children in the
whole county, but there they are, gaily playing and cursing and
smoking and heaving snow at faculty and student alike. Their
little gaily-colored sleds aimed directly at your legs the cute
little tykes barrel down Bellarmine Expert Slope #1 at a
standard rate of 90 m.p.h. Large aluminum discs, resembling
small flying saucers, wail down the hill, bowling over our
stately foliage with no effort at all. The older kiddies' parents
have gleefully bought them skis, and these make excellent long
distance projectiles. Did you know that a well-waxed ski, sailing
free on a good icy slope, can do over 60? Unfortunately, the
little brown cocker spaniel didn't know, but what's another
material soul. The parents of the child are suing the aged owners
of the dog for the damage to the ski and the resultant trauma
Little Pembroke got.
A cute little game that the kids love to play, especially
around dusk when vision is down to nil, is "Scare-the-Life-out­of-
the-Driver." It goes something like this. One child stands
on the highest point of the hill and watches for cars. Three or
four other kids are on their sleds, poised for action. A car ap­pears,
let's say down by Southwell Gate. The look-out signals
the othe.r kids, and they make last minute preparations (adjust
goggles, check the wind, rate of drift, etc.).
The car rounds the turn by the pond and proceeds up the
road towards Canisius. Out of nowhere four tykes on sleds are
whizzing down the hill at a tremendous speed. The driver of the
car slams on the brakes, skids out of control, goes off the road,
rolls over three times, and the vehicle ends up in the pond. The
driver, 'beaten and bent, crawls out the door and collapses on
the ice near his car. Several new children skate up and beat
the man upside the ears with professional model hockey sticks.
You can't blame them, as the man's car collapsed the ice and
broke up the game. Meanwhile, the little cherubs on the hill,
having skillfully turned their sleds and well missing the road,
and having laughed until their little sides hurt, are now slowly
lugging their heavy sleds back up to the summit, to await perhaps
another good score before supper.
That poor man has regained his feet, and quickly too, since
several huge German Shepherds (assigned as guards for the
ducks) are snapping their sharp steel teeth at his posterior as
they chase him out the gate. The kids all laughed to see such
a sight, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
GRAND KNIGHT Kenneth E. Dubuc, left, presents Student
Council President Dave Royston with a $100 check. The gift,
authorized at K of C Council meeting earlier this month, will
go to aid the Student Council's work of giving financial aid
to the almost forty clubs on campus.
MR. PETRY
(Coni. from Page 1)
and discussion will follow. The
entire format of the seminars
is to be kept as flexible as pos­sible
so as to encourage a live­ly
and fruitful exchange of
ideas.
STUDENT COUNCIL
(Coni. from Page 1)
A committee to investigate
the possibility of a soccer team
representing the university in
intercollegiate play has been
formed. Their activities will in­clude
looking for a possible
coach, a place to play, and try­ing
to initiate an intramural
soccer tournament. If all goes
as planned the university will
probably have a soccer team in
the fall of 1962.
only the autonomy but also the
very self of the individual.
The autonomy 'of the indi­vidualist
is not like a general
amnesty from responsibility
Autonomy is responsibility and
it can hardly be appropriated
by the college student who
knows he has some hard cheat­ing
to do on his next series of
fin a] examinations.
Page 5
... the gymnasium shall be reserved for the use of the students
between the hours . . . "
"RATS"
does not even assure the reach­ing
of a chosen destination. But
it does promise a fullness ·of
experience and knowledge
which should lead there.
Mediocrity
If there is disappointment in
the mediocrity of .contemporary
youth, there should be an exam­ination
of the cause of that
mediocrity also. A man does not
happen. The illusion that some-where
in the adolescent years
a mutation called maturation
occurs is responsible for the
overwhelming numbers of so­ciety
who create mother and
father images out of every or­ganization
they join. It must be
worked at: this thing called ma­turity,
this thing called auton­omy,
this individualism. And
this work is the negative pro­cess
of rejection; rejection of
the attitudes and actions which
are immature, dependent, and
COllectivized. .
But autonomy, maturity, and
individualism are not gifts to
be expected as a reway.d for a
given amount of suffering un­der
.authority. They are earned.
They are merited only by the
total application of self to the
perpetual business of under­standing,
understanding author­ity
which, after all, is not
abandoned but self-applied by
the autonomous, understanding1--------------_
the self which is to exercise that
authority, and understanding
the ethical relation of man to
man. To accept autonomy re­quires
the abnegation in the
self of lies, of cheating, of in­temperate
behavior which could
corrupt, destroy, or ruin not
By
RICHARD
TINO
THE
WHEfSTONE
THE STAG
CLOTHES
WASHED and DRIED
REASONABLE RATES
Fairfield Laundromat
1227 Post Road Fairfi-td
Opp. Post Office
There is no formula for in-'
dividualism. There are patterns
for the organization man, the
collegiate man, and the bohe­mian,
ibut none of these <con­tribute
to an individualistic
personality or character. A gen­eral
statement a·bout individual­ism
is, at least, challengeable.
This much, however, <can be
said: Individualism stems fl'om
autonomy.
In a society moving under a
hundred years of revulsion with
unscrupulous individualism and
rebellion against the devalua­tion
of humanity by mechaniza­tion,
a few words for the indi­vidualist
are likely to be mis­understood
as fascist propa­ganda
or anti-welfare-state-ism.
But individualism in the body
social and in the body politic
are not one and the same.
Although a ,society and its
politics are inseparably inter­mixed
with each other and al­though
they transfer and im­print
characteristics upon each
other, they are distinct entities.
Individualism, as used here, is
,ocial, not political. The prob­lem
of integrating social indi­vidualism
with ·contemporary
politics is material for another
time. The problem here is with
,ocial unity, the unity of clubs
3.nd organizations, the unity
which was conceived to com'bat
the diminshing value of the
individual, that unity which
walks hand in hand with the
very ·concept it meant to com­bat.
Mass societies do not bene­fit
the human personality. They
destroy it ,by ignoring it as it
really is, unique in everyone,
and, by ·an abstraction of the
most general traits, .create that
inhuman, faceless monster, the
5rouP·
Altruism
Altruism deserves commenda­tion
but never when it is a
means to the destruction of self,
never when it propagates the
reality of helpless human in­action.
There is a 'basic self­deception
in group altruism.
The group may be altruistic;
the members are not. Competi­tive
do-good-ism is merely a
manifestation -of status compe­tition.
It does not merit the
name "sacrifice." The autonom­ous
individual is not motivated
by the ·rules which direct the
group altruist, and his social
actions are the more worthy for
the want of those rules.
The value of self-rule is not
in its direct application to so­ciety,
however. It is in the indi­vidual
that it has its most im­portant
worth. Maturation, that
quality which differentiates the
selfish from the productive, the _------------_1 dependent from the self-reliant,
is proportional to the degree of
autonomy achieved. Guiding
oneself and ,being guided lead
to extremely different paths.
Super.ficia:lly, the scenery may
look the same but this is the
sort of ·confusion to which many
travelers, finding themselves
lost, have succumbed. Such a
hopelessly lost traveler has, -as
his -only 'resource, rthat authority
to which he has subjected him­self
for a life-time and to which
he must continue to be bound.
Autonomy does not offer the
promise of a safe journey. It
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Page 6 THE STAG February 17, 1961
FRANK McANULTY, 6-6 center grabs one of his twelve re­bounds
against CCNY in Fairfield's 76-47 win on the losers
court. Sophomore Nick Marcarchuk (25) and junior Bill Shin
(55) aid in the confusion.
32 26 90
22 15 59
37 20 94
LATE FLASH
Jenkins Stars in St. Francis Win
Bobby Jenkins ripped the
cords for 33 points on Tuesday
night in a close 91-83 decision
over St. Francis of Brooklyn,
in the 69th Regiment Armory.
It was the fifth straight vic­tory
for the Stags and upped
their season record to 12-3.
The first half was a see-saw
battle with Dick Dreyer of St.
Francis and Jenkins and Nick
Macarchuk of Fairfield doing
most of the scoring. The Stags
(Cont. on Page 7. Col. 3)
MIKE TOUHEY SCORES 29
AGAINST U.B.
Forced into a freeze in the
final few minutes Fairfield nip­ped
a determined U.B. squad
94-90 in a league tilt. Mike
Touhey, voted most valuable
player by the Bridgeport
Area Alumni Club, led the
Stags to a 48-41 halftime lead
by scoring half of the Stags
points on seven of nine shots
from the floor and 10 straight
foul shots.
Don Bolk of U.B. came off
the bench in the second half
with about three minutes left
in the game and scored a quick
6 'points to cut the Stags lead
to 91-83. Fairfield put up a
strong defense and began foul­ing
U.B. players who further
cut the margin to 93-88. Touhey
scoring 29 points led all scorers,
but received support from Art
Crawford with 16 points and
Bob Hutter with 21 points.
FAIRFIELD BRIDGEPORT
G F PI G F P
Crawford 7 2 16 Yasinski 6 9 21
Hutter 9 3 21 Morello 6 5 17
Jenkins 1 1 3 Herer 0 0 0
Macarchuk 7 1 15 Troiano 10 2 22
Touhey 9 11 29 Bolk 4 2 10
WeismilJer 3 2 8 Holmquist 0 2 2
McAnulty 1 0 2 Robbins 2 2 6
Doolan 0 0 0 Schack 4 4 12
FAIRFIELD ADELPHI
G F PI G F P
Macarchuk 5 7 17 Bass 0 0 0
Hutter 5 7 17 Cahill 1 4 6
Crawford 3 2 8 Chestnut 1 1 3
Jenkins 3 2 8 Dyer 3 1 7
Touhey 6 2 14 Haynes 2 1 5
Shin 1 0 2 Jurow 0 2 2
Weismiller 3 5 11 Klinger 1 0 2
Doolan 3 1 7 Liebowitz 4 6 14
McAnulty 1 0 21Quarto 0 0 0
Panuczak 0 0 0 Woltering 10 0 20
Reischer 0 2 2 Wunder 0 0 0
D'Agostin 0 0 01
30 28 88,
34 20 88 34 15 83
FAIRFIELD LONG ISLAND
G F P Hernandez 7 3 17
Crawford 7 4 18 Schroeder 3 5 11
Hutter 6 5 17 Sherman 3 1 7
Jenkins 3 5 11 Bain 9 1 19
Shin 2 1 5 McCarthy 3 3 9
Touhey 5 4 14 Baken 9 2 20
Macarch'k 11 1 23 Wernick 0 0 0
Weismiller 0 0 0
CRAWFORD STARS IN L.I.U.
WIN
With Captain Art Crawford
scoring six points in a tense
overtime period, Fairfield U.
clinched Tri-State honors with
an 88-83 victory over Long
Island University. After hold­ing
a 43-29 lead at halftime, the
Stags encountered a tremend­ous
second half effort by the
Blackbirds, which left us trail­ing
75-73 with six seconds re­maining.
It was at this juncture
that Crawford took command.
The Stags called for time and
on the out of bounds play, Mike
Touhey passed to Bob Jenkins
who fed the ball to Crawford
whose layup sent the game into
overtime.
Although Crawford played
brilliantly for the Stags scoring
18 points and pulling down 17
rebounds, not to be overlooked
are Nick Macarchuk and Bob
Jenkins, Macarchuk scored 23
points and also pulled down 17
rebounds while Jenkins, only
scoring 14 points, pulled down
13 important rebounds. This
may not seem like many re­bounds
but then consider that
at 5-9 Jenkins gives from 5 to
7 inches to each opponent under
the boards.
STAGS ROUT C.C.N.Y.
Led by Bob Hutter who tal­lied
21 points Fairfield com­pleted
an undefeated league
season by routing City College
of New York, 76-47.
The Stags with Bob Jenkins
and Mike Touhey supplying the
early punch raced to a quick
18-7 advantage in the first
seven minutes and were never
threatened the rest of the way.
Hutter hit for 10 of his 21 points
in the last eight minutes of the
first half pacing the Stags to a
37-22 halftime advantage.
Increasing their margin to
61-32 early in the second half,
mainly on the rebounding and
scoring of versatile Nick Ma­carchuk,
Coach Bisacca emptied
his bench. Devin Doolan, Dick
Panuczak and Frank McAnulty,
who grabbed twelve rebounds
in ten minutes, turned in fine
performances for the reserves.
Aiding Hutter in the scoring
column were Macarchuk and
Jenkins with twelve points
each. TEAM EFFORT CONQUERS
Coach Emil Garofalo's year- ADELPHI
lings scored their ninth straight Employing one of our better
victory by trouncing the team efforts of the season the
C.C.N.Y. Frosh 77-61 in the pre- Red Stags easily overcame the
lim. All five Fairfield starters Adelphi Panthers with a torrid
scored in double figures with second half pace, 88-59. Bob
Nelson Grillo getting 19 points, Hutter and Nick Macarchuk led
and Larry Rafferty hitting 16. the Stags' attack with 17 points
FAIRFIELD C.C.N.Y. each while Mike Touhey added
G F pi G F P 14 and Fred Weismiller 11.
~~atfefrord 1~ i 2~1~~~~~ 3 ~ 1~ The Panthers started fast
;~~~ins ~ g1~ tl:i~~~gn ~ ~ 1~ \'tnd led 13-6 before the Sta?s
Touhey 4 1 9 Cidat 2 0 4 took command and came out m
McAnulty 2 0 4 Egol 0 0 0 front 38-33 at the end of the
~a~~~~~~k ~ ~ 1: ir~i~~kh ~ g ~ half. In the second half with
~~;l~ller 0 0 0 Greenberg 0 2 2 Jenkins setting up the plays
Reischer f ~ ~ and Bill Shin and Nick Macar-
D'Agostin ~ ~ ~! chuk rebounding the Stags
34 8 76 18 11 47 opened up the score.
Stags Cop Tri··State Crown
llead Into Rough
Part of Schedule
By ROD DOWLING
Fairfield. University clinched
its second successive Tri-State
crown by knocking off all nine
of its league opponents this
year. These nine wins coupled
with last years league streak of
eight give the Stags an impres­sive
seventeen game winning
streak over a two year span.
The Stags clinched the Tri­State
crown in championship
form with a thrilling overtime
victory over second place Long
Island University.
With league competition com­pIe
ted successfully, Coach
George Bisacca's fast-moving
Stags move into the brunt of
this year's schedule. Assump­tion
College, St. Michael's, Holy
Cross, University of Bridgeport
and Providence College are
more than considerable opposi­tion
for the Stags. More than
likely excluding U.B., the Red
Stags will enter the other four
tilts as definite underdogs to
these top flight squads.
Having automatically quali­fied
for a berth in the N.C.A.A.
College tournament by winning
the Tri-State title, Coach Bi­sacca
has assured Fairfield fans
of a successful season. A great
season can be accomplished by
upsetting a few of the power­houses
such as the Cross or the
Friars and this can be accom­plished
by filling our gym or
our opponents' gym with Stag
rooters. Show your appreciation
to Coach Bisacca and his team
for a fine season by attending
all the remaining games.
NEWS
And
VIEWS
By ROD DOWLING
The Fairfield University basketball 'team is having
one of i'DS best yea'rs on the couct since it inaugurated
basketball in 1948-49, even though the team in general
is neglect,mg one of the basic 'tenets of the game itself;
defense. The game of basketball has undergone many
var,ious changes in patterns of play since its beginning,
one of which :is occurring over the past few seasons.
The most remarkable shift in the ,style of the game
occurred about twenty years ago when the East met
the West. Eastern basketball during the thirties was a
combination of pass, pass, pa,ss offense that would fi­nally
shake a man loose for a two handed set-shot.
Along came ,the West and Midwest teams with their
one-handed jump shots and a racehorse brand of bas­ketball
which lef,t the East on the tail end of the score.
The East responded, changing to Ithe fast break brand
of basketball which many teams still play today, in­cluding
the Stags. This was a significant change in bas­ketball.
The present, increasing emphasis on defense
will not change the style of basketball as the fast break
or racehorse bmnd did but it should in ,the end be even
more significant.
Most college coaches ,today argue that neither the
fans nor the players (especially the prima donnas) like
defensive basketball. This may be true in some cases
but the real truth is that defensive basketball requires
a great deal 'of time and effoI't and many coaches and
players have been too lazy Ito bother with it. When a
young player starts shooting baskets in grammar
school there is only one objective in his mind, to put
the ball through the hoop. There is nothing wrong
with this philosophy because it wins ball games, but
why not also concentrate on preventing an opposing
player iirom getting off a good shot ,and winning more
games. A team which balances a superb offense with
an equally superb defense is a g,reat team. The only
team which completely fills this bill is Ohio State. This
combinaltion has enabled them to cop the N.C.A.A. title
last year and more than likely the title this year.
In the last decade there have been a number of
coaches who have stressed defense - Phil Woolpert of
San Francisco, Pete Newell of California, Harry Lit­wack
of Temple, Ray Meyer of De Paul, Adolph Rupp
of Kentucky, Hank Iba of Oklahoma State and Dudey
Moore of La Salle. These coaches stand out in my mind
because taken as a group ,they have been the most suc­cessful
coaches in college basketball. Pete Newell has
become the athletic director at California and has be­come
the recognized spokesman for the defense. In the
last few years he has conducted many clinics out West
and has been a leadiilg figure in bringing back defense
to basketball.
St. John's University, man for man, W;:lS one of the
highly ranked teams in pre-season polls. The Redmen
could easily be number one or two in the weekly polls
but are having trouble staying in the top twenty. Why?
Witness their upsets last week by St. Louis Universi.ty
and St. Joseph's of PhiLadelphi.a Both games were a
test of conflicting styles. St. John's employs the typical
quick 'shooting brand while St. Louis and St. Joseph's
employ a passing defense style. St. John's was har­rassed
:iiIllto making repeated errors and in both games
wound up getting less shots ,than its opponents.
In recent yeaI1s many of the high draft choices of
the pro-basketball teams have been defensive aees in
college. Such low scoring stars as Bill Russell, Len
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WNAB to Air Assumption
Bridgeport radio station
WNAB (1450 on the AM dial)
will broadcast the Fairfield
"Red Stags" next three bas­ketball
games. including to­morrow
night's tilt with
Assumption College.
Carl Grande. sports direc­tor
of WNAB, will describe
the play-by-play action. Bud­dy
Amendola, former Uni­versity
of Connecticut football
star and Commissioner John
Creed, FU statistician, 'Will
function as "color men" dur­ing
the broadcasts.
Air time is slated for 8:25
p.m.
The intramural basketball
season is heading toward its
climax, and from all indications
it appears that J a'ck Kovaleski's
squad is on top to stay. Having
beaten second ranked Brian
M,cAuley's team, Kovaleski
seems headed toward an unde­feated
season. In the decisive
tilt, lVkAuley sank a set shot in
,the final seconds to send the
game into overtime, but lost
38-35. Freshman Andy Donnel­ly
paced the victors with 13
points.
All other teams in the loop
have at least two losses, and
with only four games remain­ing
it will be extremely diffi­cult
to ,best Kovaleski.
Roger Lynch's team is now
in second place, having rallied
after losing their first two
games, wilth four 'wins in a row.
Lynch has been averaging 20
points a game and has been
ably assisted by the fine play
of Frank Masino.
'The standings as
BOB RITTER, left, and Jim O'Connor, right, look on in amaz~­ment
as an unidentified intramural player shows bad form In
missing an easy two points.
Yearling'Rebound Extremely Close Race
With Win Streak To Go Down To Wire
Rebounding from ,their early
three game losing streak, Coach
Emil Garofalo's freshmen team
hosted the Pioneers of C. W.
Po,st in quest of their sixth
straight win. From the opening
minutes of play until the final
buzzer, the Stags held ihe lead
as they eased to an 89-71 tri­umph.
Scoring honors were
shared by Kurt Kilty with 24,
and Nelson Grillo with 21. Larry
Rafferty, whose 13 points spark­ed
the first half scoring, con­tributed
15.
In their next tilt, the frosh
met a fas,t moving VB team, in
the firs't of a two game series
the second game which will be
played at V.B. In a thrilling
contest witnessed by the sea­son's
largest crowd, the Stags
edged ,the Purple ~nights 86­84
as the Knights' ,final shot
rolled off the rim as the buzzer
sounded.
The highlight of the evening
was a 37 point scoring effort by
Nelson Grillo, which se,t a new
school record for total poi11llts
in a game by a freshman. Nel­son
hit with 10 field goals and
sank 17 of 20 free throws. Kurt
Kilty, who came alive in the
second half, contdbuted 24
points to ihe cause.
After a three week break for
exams aJnd the inter-term holi­day,
the well rested freshmen
met Adelphi seeking their
eighth consecutive wLn. Paced
by Nelson Grillo's 20 points and
a fine defense, the frosh easily
topped their oppositiolIl 86-52
with the entire starting team
hi,tting for double figures. Walt
Donnelly sank 17, wilth Wagner,
Kilty, and Rafferty adding 11
each. 'The team's overall record
now stands at 8-3.
BEAT
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Mullen
Tracy
Dowling
Tiscornia
Feehan
Muller
O'Keefe
Falvey
Arnold
Slayne
STAGS
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took a slim 46-43 margin at
halftime.
With Bill Shin starring in the
second half, along with Jen­kins,
the Stags played on even
terms with the Terriers untIl
pulling away in the last two
minutes.
FAIRFIELD ST. FRANCIS
G F ,PDreyer 10 4 24
Hutter 5 2 12 Davey 3 9 15
Macarchuk 9 3 21 Nash 1 4 6
Touhey 0 5 5 Lopez 3 1 7
Jenkins 11 11 33 Rafferty 5 7 17
Shin 7 1 150'Lee 0 0 0
Doolan 0 0 0 Jaisel 7 0 14
Weismiller 0 3 3
McAnulty 1 0 2
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After marking up ,five victor­ies
in as many outings John
Mullen's team has gained full
control of first place in the
Senior - Junior loop. Led by the
fine scoring of both himself and
Jim O'Connor, they have been
able to take each game by com­fortable
margins.
In second place with a record
of 3 wins and 1 defeat is Frank
Tracy's club. Their only setback
came at the hands of John
Mullen's squad.
Tied for third place are ihe
teams of Rod Dowling and John
Tiscornia. Dowling started the
season with three consecutive
victories ,but suffered successive
defeats at the hands of both
Mullen and Muller. Tiscornia's
club, after a slow start has been
playing fine ball and shows two
fine scorers in 'Tony McCall and
Fran Lee.
The fifth slot in the league
is knotted four ways with Fee­han,
Muller, O'Keefe, and Fal­vey,
showing identical records
of 2 wins and 3 defeats. Gary
Muller's squad appears ready
to challenge the leaders after
his win over Dowling. In the
last two spots are Arnold, 1-3,
and Slayne, 0-3.
The standings as
Tracy, Tiscornia Move
To Challenge Leader
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
FINAL TRI-STATE STATISTICS
1960 - 1961
Name G Fga Fgm Fta Ftm Reb Pf Pts Avg
Hutter . . . . . . . . . 9 143 65 35 29 84 20 159 17.7
Touhey 9 103 47 52 41 30 26 135 15.0
Macarchuck ..... 9 97 50 52 31 93 29 131 14.5
Crawford 9 84 43 46 27 98 21 113 12.5
Jenkins 9 76 36 33 22 61 27 94 10.4
Weismiller 9 35 14 29 17 16 15 45 5.0
Shin 7 37 15 16 10 33 10 40 5.7
McAnulty ....... 8 20 8 9 3 38 10 19 2.3
Doolan ......... 8 16 9 6 4 11 11 22 2.7
Panuczak ........ 5 8 1 8 6 2 2 8 1.6
Reischer . . . . . . . . 5 6 1 4 4 2 3 6 1.2
D'Agostin ....... 5 6 1 2 1 4 4 3 0.6
Totals .......... 9 631 290 292 195 527 178 775 86.1
1960 - 1961
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY CUMULATIVE STATISTICS
NAME G FG FTA FT RB PF TP AVG.
Hutter 14 94 50 38 132 27 226 16.1
Macarchuk 14 80 84 50 154 44 210 15.0
Touhey .,.... 14 68 88 66 37 39 202 14.4
Crawford 14 65 87 53 161 31 183 13.1
Jenkins 14 48 49 34 78 44 130 9.2 On and Off
Weismiller 13 30 48 27 28 31 87 6.7
Shin 10 22 22 12 72 18 56 5.6
DO'olan 10 16 13 8 19 15 40 4.0 the Campus
McAnulty 10 9 12 4 33 15 22 2.2
Panuczak 7 1 8 6 4 8 8 1.1
D'Agostin 5 2 2 1 4 4 5 1.0 DRINK PEPSI Reischer 6 1 4 4 3 3 6 1.0
Totals 14 436 465 303 774 279 1175 83.9 .
SPORTS PERSONALITY
MIKE TOUHEY
By DICKIE BADOLATO
The most lethal weapon in cage circles from coast to coast
today is the jump shot. It replaced the set shot and one hand
push about ten years ago and can be attributed to the high
scores in basketball today. But yet a lot of Fairfield's court suc­cess
this year is due to the fine set shot and backcourt play of
Mike Touhey.
Mike, who hails from the Bronx, New York, is 5'11" and
weighs a solid 185 pounds. He played his high school ball at
La Salle Academy in New York and in his senor year averaged
better than 18 points a game. He then went on to lead the fresh­man
"Stags" team to its greatest record (17 and 1), and was the
team's leading scorer with a 19 point average. Last year Mike
only averaged about 7 points a game, but this year he is the
third highest scorer and has had the most points in one game, 29
(against V.B.).
Besides playing ball, Mike is one of the most popular mem­bers
of the class of "62". He is a English major, and has main­tained
a B average. He hopes to go to law school (perferably
Georgetown). He is also reported as being a steady softball
player in intramurals and a potential "great" in cross country.
When asked what he thought about being named M.V.P. in the
V.B. game, Mike replied jokingly, "I deserved it." His wit and
affable manner have helped to make Mike the fine personality
he is both on and off the court. Good luck, "Tank".
February 17, 1961
"GIVE A MAN ATOUGH JOB AND A CHANCE TO GO SOMEWHERE
•.. AND HE'll BREAK HIS NECK TO DO IT"
FREDERICK R. KAPPEL, President
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
February 17, 1961
who died in an accident. Iand the recipient of the Peter
Mr. Tartaro said the fund will Bernard Scholarship twice dur­aid
in augffienting the Univer- ing his stay at Fairfield, plans a
sity's scholarship program which career as an industrial research
presently includes awards under chemist.
the auspices of the Fairfield He is a candidate for a Bach­University
Regional clubs, the elor of Science degree in chem­Bridgeport
B l' ass company, istry.
Bridgeport City Trust, Bellar- _
mine organizations and the
University. PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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National Foundation Mr. Tierney expressed hope
(Cant. from Page 1) that the last editorial in the
STAG concerning lack of school
German Club, treasurer of the support of such events will re-
Chemistry Club and a member juvenate student interest. He
of the Math-Physics Club. He .
. I . b f th "M "also plans to ask the history,
IS a so a mem er 0 e anor . government and economic pro-yearbook
staff. Ifessors to encourage and pro-
Mr. Sizensky, a four year vide incentive toward attend­member
of the Chemistry Club, ance at the lectures.
a group of seven engineers to design a new long
distance switching center for Saginaw, Michigan
-a $4,000,000 engineering project.
Today, Bill is on the staff of Michigan Bell's
Program Engineer. He's working on a system for
mechanized control of telephone construction costs.
How does Bill feel about his job? "Give a man
a tough job and a chance to go somewhere-and
he'll break his neck to do it. Of course, I don't
think I'm going to be running the business next
year-but I'm getting every opportunity to hit the
top. You don't worry about opportunity here-you
worry about whether you're as big as the job."
If you're a man like Bill Ebben, a man who can
size up a job, figure out what needs to be done, and
then do it-then you should get in touch with one of
the Bell Companies. Visit your Placement Office for
literature and additienal information.
THE STAG
GRANT
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According to Mrs. Davey's
wishes, income from the fund
will be used "in assisting wor­thy
students in such manner as
the Board of Directors of the
University shall detennine."
Frederick W. Tartaro, public
relations director at Fairfield U,
said plans will be announced
soon fOT awards to be made in
memory of Mr. McPadden, who
was associated wirth Anderson
and McPadden, Inc., of Bridge­port.
Mrs. Davey was a resident of
Greenwich.
The bequest makes possible
Fairfield U's second memorial
scholal'Ship. The first is named
in honor of a fonn·er student
"Our number one aim is to have in all
management jobs the most vital, intelli­gent,
positive and imaginative men we
can possibly find."
In 1958 when Bill Ebben was only a few months
away from his engineering degree at the University
of Detroit, he was in touch with 15 prospective
employers.
He chose the Michigan Bell Telephone Com­pany
because: "This company offered the kind of
engineering management opportunity I wanted­and
they weren't kidding."
One of Bill's first assignments was a survey of
Michigan Bell's big Central District to find out
how long available building space could accom­modate
the switching equipment required by rapid
telephone groWth. "I wasn't given any instruc­tion,"
Bill says, "I was just told to do the job."
So Bill did it. His report became the guide for
planning and budgeting future construction.
On his next move, Bill proved he could handle
supervisory responsibility. He was sent to head up
In modern poetry, the art has
become so complicated that to
many people, the title "poet"
would almost seem to brand one
as an outsider; and among some
creative people, the title "poet
of the people" would likewise
seem to make you an outsider
in this class.
In the creative circle the
modern "detachment of the
artist" theme has been over­worked;
now, almost no modern
poet would like that title, "poet
of the people." And this is my
point; artistic pride has perhaps,
in some cases, degenerated into
artistic snobbishness, perhaps
with cause, but doing no good
for the furtherance of the arts;
it has tended to promote the
obscure for obscurity's sake.
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ASPECTS
By RICHARD M. LAWLESS
One eften hears the tenns,
"the great unwashed" or "the
mob," referring to people who
do not possess the ability or ca­picity
to enjoy or comprehend
the works of the modern,
avante - garde artist. These
"stones" just do not possess the
artistic consciousness necessary
to gain any pleasure or aesthetic
enjoyment from the works of
said artist; this, at least, said
artist would have us believe.
One discusses these unintel­ligentia
at cocktail parties and
laughs considering the only
worthwhile public is the small
number who see worth in' one's
own work. This can be an ex­tremely
egotistical view and
when it is, it is worth being
dealt with harshly. Perhaps an
"overdose" of this artistic pride
or a misunderstanding of it by
an artist, could be one phase of
the answer to the seeming ob­scurity
of the modern arts.
Public Property
Ideally, the artist should not
write or paint or compose
thinking only in terms of his
audience, And yet, the arts in
a sense are public property,
Most people read, observe
paintings and listen to music
for pleasure; critics as critics do
not, I suggest that the evalua­tion
of an art work should de­pend
on the opinion of a larger
audience than the group of
professional critics, provided
that audience has a familiarity
with 'the art form being pre­sented
- its basic aims - as
well as a fairly sharp innate or
educated sensitivity to that
form,
The see min g incompre­hensibility
of the modern art
form is actually a manifesta­tion
of improved craft tech­niques,
The answer is perhaps
that the mastery of a complex
art form entails some obscurity
at first reception by the audi­ence;
but if the artist does in­deed
possess a mastery of his
craft, the idea or concept or ex­perience
presented in his work
should come after a study of
the work, if not immediately to
full comprehensibility, at least
to a knowledge and apprecia­tion
of the basic thought pre­sented,
Some artists, by sheer mas­tery
of their craft, manage to
employ all the modern tech­niques
and yet are comprehens­ible.
Craft
Consider now modern paint­ing.
With the advent of pho­tography,
one no longer needed
the artist to present clear pic­tures
and portraits. The camera
could do so. Many artists then
turned to the study of various
craft techniques .of pure color
and fonn.
Unfortunately, today much
modern art has alienated itself
from the general acceptance by
"the masses" with no real rea­son,
except that some artists
became too involved in experi­menting
with craft and its
subtleties, to the almost total
exclusion of the audience.
These modern craftsmen saw
their work come to the fore
and other artists followed suit.
This was the gradual pattern of
alienation, and the audience
turned away, perhaps feeling a
bit unneeded in such a craft­man's
world. This should not
have happened.
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Rev. James H. Coughlin, S.J.,
chairman of the University
Graduate School, Department of
Education and Mr. Frederick
Tartaro, placement director
were guest speakers at ,a meet­ing
of the Education Club last
week.
Fr. Coughlin outlined meth­ods
and ,techniques for applying
for teaching positions after
graduation. He discussed the
times for such applications as
well as what should ·be expected
from such applications.
Mr. Tartaro emphasized the
importance of personal neatness
and promptness when approach­ing
a superintendent of schools
fora teaching position.
He also mentioned sue h
sources as the Education Place­ment
fiiles in Fr. Coughlin's
office, the Conn. State Employ­ment
Service as valuable to the
aspiring teacher.
On March 1, the 'Education
Club will travel to Fairfield's
Andrew Warde High School
The field trip was postponed
earlier this month due to a
snoW stonn.
Education Club
Gets Pointers
Fairfield Doubles
Its Blood Quota
Fairfield University students,
rallying behind the efforts of
the school's Cardinal Key So­ciety,
donated 143 pints of blood
last week and an additional 25
were rescheduled for a later
date before a weary group of
nurses and Red Cross aides
"called it a day" two hours later
than usual.
A goal had been set for 75
pints, but additional blood con­tainers
were ordered from New
Haven by Paul Mooney, direc­tor
of the Fairfield Red Cross
blood program, when it became
apparent that donations by the
Fairfield U students and faculty
would exceed expectations.
Mr. Mooney termed the blood
bank "unique" since more blood
was obtained than had been
promised.
"It was one of the best spon­sored
banks that I have seen,"
according to Mr. Mooney.
He attributed the success of
the project to the Cardinal Key
Society and the University's
"group spirit."
Most of the blood will go to
the Connecticut Blood program,
it was announced' by Dave
Shay, student chairman, who
was assisted by Louis Ockey.
About 20 pints will be re­served
for relatives of students
including the father of Arthur
Crawford, captain of the Fair­field
U. basketball team.
The Cardinal Key is an or­ganization
of 40 students who
are elected to membership on
the basis of scholastic records
and service to the University.
Assisting the blood program
is one of a series of community
and University services plan­ned
by the students who are
headed by Louis Parent of New
Bedford, Massachusetts.
FRENCH CLUB SPEAKER
Armand Carlier, W est 0 n
(Conn.) High School teacher,
will be the guest speaker at the
Feb. 23 meeting of the French
Club. The meeting, which starts
at 8:00 p.m., will consist of a
lecture accompanied by slides
and a question and answer
period.
Mr Carlier,a native of Bel­gium,
is ,teaching at Weston as
pal't of a U.S. teacher exchange
program. His topic will be of
the problems of education in
his country and its differences
as compared to our country.
ence is 50% compulsory and a
student may enter or leave the
class at his will. Except for an
occasional question of two, the
class procedure is strict lecture
with very little class discussion.
Outside w r itt e n assignments
and term papers are at a mini­mum
while reading assignments
are at a maximum.
As we said before the strict
lecture method is used by the
professors, when the professors
attend class. The fact is the pro­fessors
in Chile are not paid
sufficiently and as a result they
are full time business or pro­fessional
men and only part time
professors. This we feel cheats
the student and therefore ac­counts
for the inferiority of
their university system to ours.
Examinations in Chile are not
as we know them. Tests' during
the year are few with the major
emphasis being placed on the
final oral examination from
which the final grade is ob­tained.
The Chilean student's m a i n
outside interest is not sports as
in our universities, but politics.
Class elections are by political
parties and are very heavily
contested and taken very seri­ously.
As a rule class interest
lies here also.
The main sport in South
American Universities is soc­cer.
These games are attended
and publicized like our football
games. Baseball and basketball
games are also played, but in­terest
in these are small in com­parison
to the weekly soccer
games.
Although after our university
education is completed we sur­pass
the Chilean university stu­~
ent, our grammer and high
school systems find much to be
desired. We have come to form
several new concepts. The first
is that the greater majority of
Chilean students are prepared
to compete in the world with
only a high school education
whereas the average US high
school student is not properly
equipped to face the world with
the same degree of education;
he must attend the university
in order to be properly equip­ped.
The second is that unless
the U.S. makes some very seri­ous
and advanced alterations in
its primary and secondary sys­tems
it will find itself behind
the ever advancing Chilean
system.
DosBacherilleratos Return
From Chile: ·Contrast'
The Educational Systems
By TOM HOLLAND and PAT PERILLO ~
When an American spends time as a student in a foreign
country, it is generally the case that upon returning he brings
many new concepts and finds older ones vastly altered.
We, being no exceptions, have~
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Wilkens, Mike Farmer and Darrell Imhoff have all been
picked for their defensive abilities raJther than their
offensive talents. Many of the offensive leaders in col­lege
basketball in the last five years have failed in pro­basketball
because their great offensive abilities were
not backed up by even a basic knowledge of defense.
Returning to 'this year's edition of Fairfield's bas­ke'tball
<team, they are one of the highest scoring 'teams
in New England, averaging eighty-five points a tilt. Yet
the opposition has averaged over seventy-five points a
game. If the Stags could back up their fine offense with
an equally fine defense many of the close g,ames this
season would have been decided before the end of the
first half instead of in the last five minutes. As long as
I am aiming some constructive criticism at a lazy de­fense
I mighet as well aim some at a lazy athletic depart­ment.
Every basketball magazine picked the Stags to
win the Tri-State League, yet could not even give a
rundown on the team',s personnel or coach because
Fairfield's Athletic Departmen<t failed to furnish them
with aJIly material. The athletic department is appar­ently
afraid of publicity because they even denied your
sports editor permission to Itravel with the team in
order to cover away games.
assimilated the customs, lan­guage
and way of life of the
Chilean people. In a series of
STAG articles we will try to
convey to you the ideas we have
acquired and at the same time
explain just what the life in a
South American country is like.
We ask our readers to hold in
mind that these articles will per­tain
directly to Chile but gen­erally
can be applied to other
Latin American countries.
Last May, started our experi­ences
as exchange students at
the Catholic University of Chile
in Santiago, Chile. Being uni­versity
students, the first thing
that was drawn to our attention
was the educational s y s t e m
there. We feel it would be un­just
to present the University
system without first mentioning
something of the secondary edu-cational
system.
The Chilean student upon en­tering
the university has already
completed six years of grammer
sc!;lool and six years of high
school. The six years. of high
school are far more complete
than our secondary system. For
example: Chilean hi g h school
students are required to study
philosophy three years, English
and French six years, math and
sciences· six years, along with
all the social sciences. Each stu­dent
faces' a s c h e d u I e of 11
courses each year.
Because of economic and so­cial
conditions the a v era g e
Chilean student is unable to at­tend
the University. This ac-counts
for the necessity of a
more complete high school edu­cation.
As a result, the Chilean
high school student is, upon
graduating, much more advanc­ed
and has a much broader con­cept
of life than average North
American high school graduates.
Let us consider now the Chil-ean
high school graduate who
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Idecides and is able to continue ~ his education on the University
level. In order to enter the Uni­versity,
each student is required
to take the entrance exam called
the "Bacherillerato." This exam
is extremely difficult and if not
passed the student is unable to
enter the University but must
wait until the following year at
which time he may again take
the "Bacherillerato." This is
comparable to our College Board
Exams.
Each "Faculty" or school of
the university is autonomous ­i.
e. they operate as individual
units. For example, a law stu-
~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~;;;;I;d;~ent belongs only to the "Facul- i- tad de Derecho" and therefore
has all his classes in that sec­tion
of the University, and is
directly subject to the rules' of
the faculty and indirectly to the
university. Following from this,
then, a student's friends are us­ually
only found within his par­ticular
faculty, his vacation
periods are different than other
faculties as is his examination
schedule.
Class ;itmosphere is m u c h
more informal, following the
European system. Smoking is
permitted in class, class attend-
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Harvard College Establishes
Uniqlle Comitatus System
February 17. 1961
"Democracy is poorly admin­istered
if a spirit of inertia ex­ists,
coupled with a lack of
courage on the part of the poli­tician,"
according to Dr. Stefan
Possony, who spoke at last
week's Bellarmine lecture, on
the subject, "Beyond Ideology."
Dr. Possony is an authority
on world politics an author, a
former professor of government
at <;}eorgetown, and a frequent
lecturer at the National War
College.
He spoke on various ideolo­gies
or political views, such as
communism, anarchism, social­ism,
liberalism, and conserva­tism,
explaining the thought
content of each ideology.
Dr. Possony offered a brief
critique of each ideology, and
defined his concept of a well­administered
country as: "One
that allowed for certain ideolo­gies,
but subject to reform as
times and nature change."
Finally, Doctor Possony stat­ed
that, "There is a great deal
of room for logic in politics."
An informal question period
followed the lecture.
Democracy Must Have
Courageous Politicians
Society Affords Med
Studen'ts Experience
SAM GROOM
Hamlet Apex Of ChalJenge
For Every Actor: Groom
MOTOR INN
Kings Highway - in F'field
Exit 24 Conn. Tpke.
FO 7·4404
A Convenient Stop
for Your Friends
and Relatives
Just 5 minutes from Campus
THE STAG
Sodality Spurs
Mass Crusade
Dennis Enright Plans
New Cigaret Contest
Philip Morris & Co. has an­nounced
plans to run another
cigarette contest on campus.
According to Dennis Enright,
'62 PM representative, the new
contest will run for a full
month beginning on Feb. 20th.
Students who wish to enter
are asked to print their name
and address on an empty pack
of any Philip Morris product.
Entry boxes have been placed
in both Loyola and Xavier cafe­terias.
The winners will be an­nounced
on March 20th.
First prize will be a three
speed stereo set, second prize
will be a portable radio and
third prize will be three c~rtons
of cigarettes. Students may
enter as many empty packs as
they wish.
Sophomore chemistry majors,
Nick Burleson, Paul Shaver
and Dick Link have been nam­ed
to head the committee for
the coming tour of the Univer­sity
labs by Fairfield Prep
students. The Prep students
will be shown the department
at a time when all the facilities
are being used. This demonstra­tion
will show the Prepster the
many aspects of chemistry of­fered
at the University.
On March 1, the film, "Thread
of Life," obtained from the B'ell
Telephone Co., will be shown
at the Chemistry Club's regu­lar
meeting.
Recently, Mr. Limoncelli, a
Fairfield graduate of '54 and
presently employed at Pratt and
Whitney, gave a lecture on
"High Vacuum Techniques." Bob
Bianchi and Tony Saulaities are
now working with Rev. Robert
E. Varnerin, S.J., in this field
dealing with high vacuum sys­tems.
The Sodality has announced
it will sponsor a Mass Crusade
for the entire student body dur­ing
Lent.
Mass pledge cards will be
passed out to be signed and re­turned
by the students. The
cards will then be placed on the
altar for the remainder of Lent.
A student filling out a pledge
card promises to attend mass on
every class day during Lent.
In addition to the regular
masses held in Loyola chapel at
7:30,8:05, 11:10, and 12:10, there
will be a special mass said on
M 0 n day s, Wednesdays, and
Thursdays as 1:10 for the entire
Lenten season.
By OHARLES J. ROLAND 0>-------------
The rather inconspicuous
headline in .the last issue of ,the
STAG which announced: "Sam
to Play Ham," deems it some­what
appropriate for this journ­al
to give a .fuller account of
Sam Groom, Longmeadow,
Mass. actor who has been
s·elected for ,the lead in the
Drama Society's Spring produc­tion
of "Hamlet."
Groom is no newcomer to the
theater. Shortly before entering
the University he attended the
drama classes of Twentieth
Century 'Fox in Hollywood, and
has undertaken various roles in
productions both at Fairfield
and with a .group from Spring­field,
Mass. Among his portray­als
were Dr. Stockman in Ibsen's
"Enemy of the People," Ben in
"The Sound of Triumph" by
Inge,and Jeff Paget in "Dear
Adversary." With the Spring­field
group, he had a prominent
role in a production of "Little
Foxes."
With the task of Hamlet in
,the near future, Groom says he
is being given an opportunity
to portray a role that is widely
coveted by 'every aspiring and
successful actor. "Hamlet is as
far as one can go; every actor
wishes to do Hamlet. Yet at
such an early stage, it presents
an almost terrifying, yet won­derful
thought. It 'IS an end to
an actor's dream," says Groom.
Asiding any restraints, Groom
feels that being placed under
the direction of Rev. John iL. Fairfield University Pre-med­Bonn,
S.J., his role "will be ical students can now take ad­made
more easy."
Following graduation from vantage of a plan developed by
Fairfield in 1962, Groom has Dr. Eckels, Dr. Les Champs and
chosen the theatre for his career. Dr. Looney of St. Vincent's Hos-pital,
Bridgeport.
Therefore, this advantageous
medium will be a step to a fu- The plan named after the
ture goal. Roman father of medicine, is
~------------_..~ I Drama has not been Groom's the Aesculapian Society, which
BRIDGEPORT sole extra _curricular interest. provides for practical guidance
While in high school he was a from doctors and experience in
suocessful athlete, h a v i n g the many phases of hospital
achieved various awards. He life.
was named to I1:he All-Worcester, Among the advantages avail­Mass.
basketball team and to able to the Pre-Med students
the second team for the All- are access to the hospital li­Worcester,
Mass. football team. brary, staff rooms, and the de­He
also captained his high velopmental observation in the
school ,track team. He has play- laboratories and 0 per a tin g
ed intra-mural basketball fo,r rooms. Student interest in the
two years at Fairfield, and in plan should increase now that
addi1ion has scholastically main- exams and vacations are over.
taineda B average in his A.B. A' second general meeting is
English curriculum. planned for early Spring.
Chemistry Majors
Conduct Prep Tour
REV. FRANCIS X. CURRAN,
S.J., vocational consultant for
New England schools and col­leges,
concludes his counseling
of Fairfield students, tomor­row.
Opportunity For
Graduate Awards
Chairmen Selected
For Senior VVeek
Dogwood Festival
(Cont. from Page I)'
Cambridge, Mass. - (LP.) -0------------­Harvard
College is taking an­other
step in its program of
bringing undergraduates close
to the intellectual life of the
University President Nathan M. The Department of Philosophy
Pusey recently announced the of The American University will
appointment of 21 senior fac- accept applications for graduate
ulty members as Fellows of the awards through February 28,
Harv.ard Houses. Additional 1961, for the fall, 1961, semes­Fellows
will be appointed later. ter.
They will have special re- A graduate assistantship of-sponsibilities,
in association with. fers $1500 plus tuition to a stu­the
Masters, for the expanding dent working toward the Mas­intellectual
life of the Houses. ter of Arts degree in philosophy.
Each House now has, on the The student must work for the
average, about 400 student department 15 hours per week.
members and about 40 Faculty The Borden P. Bowne Scho­Associates
and Tutors. Appoint- larship offers $1000 plus tuition
ments of Fellows is the latest to a student working toward the
in a series of steps which in- M.A. degree in philosophy. Uni­crease
the role of the Houses versity awards up to $2000 are
in the social and intellectual also available.
life of the college. Earlier, the Inquiries should be sent to:
advising of students in academ- Dr. Harold A. Durfee, chairman,
ic and personal matters was Department of Philosophy, The
placed in the Houses. American University, Washing-
House Seminars ton 16, D.C.
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The Houses have also devel-oped
noncredit seminars and
special-interest "tables," which
meet over lunch or dinner to
discuss with Faculty members
current issues in different
fields. The Houses also have
developed their own workshops
ip. the arls - dramatic groups,
painting and photography, and
musical g r 0 ups. Individual
Houses, from time to time,
bring, as visitors, scholars from
abroad and men of affairs to
join in the life of the House.
"The Fellow of the House,"
commented President Pusey, "is
a new office designed to .
strengthen the House by bring­ing
into the management of its
affairs the direct interest and
insights of a number of men
from many departments of the
university. As the work of the
Houses grows, and as the num­ber
of faculty associates in­creases,
the Masters have a
great need for help from a
smaller group of close col­leagues."
Among the responsibilities of
Fellows may be such matters as
consulting with the Master on
new Faculty appointments to
the Senior Common Room of
the House, sharing with the
Master the responsibility for
initiating special House aj;tivi­ties,
and working with the Mas­ter
and the Dean to develop
new House seminars.
Paul Coughlin and Bob Crow­ley
will act as chairman and co­
·chairman respectively of this
year's Senior Week. festivities,
Joe Cannizzaro, senior class
president announced today.
Presently, ihe two chairmen
are circulating questionnaires
to members of their class to
determine the specific activities
of the week. The iwo announc­ed
one change in the proposed
schedule, viz. Commencement
exercises will be held on Mon­day,
June 12, 1961 instead of
of '62 also made known co- Tuesday as previously an­chairmen
for the weekend. Co- nounced.
chairmen of the formal dance A detailed schedule will not
are John McCall' and Edward be available until the question­Fitzgerald,
co-chairmen for lDaire results have been gar­tickets
are David Jones and nered.
Robert Malstrom and for the Rev. John Ryan, S.J. and Rev.
picnic, Shaun Sulliva,n and William Carr, S.J. will function
Kenneth Wadeka. as faculiy moderators of the
The individual chairmen are: week. Fr. Ryan will serve as'
Jazz On Campus, Michael Gu- moderator for Baccalaureate
glielmo; Closed Party, Barry and Commencement and IFr.
Carr will serve as moderator of
Coyle; Communion Breakfast, all social events.
John O'Regan; Jazz Concert, Mr. Coughlin, a member of
Stanley Rashid; Publicity, Rich-ard
Badolato; Finance, Kenneth the Cardinal Key Society and
a previous officer of his class, is
Dubuc and the Queen Contest, a native 'Of Johnson City, Tenn.
Cornelius Ahern. Mr. Crowley is Business
Richard Badolato told· the Manager of the "Manor"and--.i'S,
STAG that particular plans fota member of the Knights ·of
each event will be released. in Columbus Council #4203. He
subsequent issues. • hails from Dorchester, Mass.