Stag - Vol. 13, No. 08 - March 2, 1962

              March 2, 1962
Rev. William Healy, S.J.,
Dean of the University has
announced a change in the
academic calendar for the
month of March. Friday,
March 16, has been slated as
Rector's Day, the traditional
holiday in honor of the Very
Rev. James E. FitzGerald,
S.J., President of the Univer­sity.
Classes have also been
cancelled for Monday, March
19, and Tuesday, March 20, in
honor of His Exceliency,
Bishop Walter Curtis, D.D.,
Bishop of Bridgeport.
SENIOR DANCE
TOMORROW
Senator Barry Goldwater strides into Gymnasium for Rally
speech. Paul Rudd and Shaun Sullivan of the Cardinal Key
escort the Senator.
Goldwater Favors Peace Corps
Federal Aid 'To All Schools
Senior Class President, David
Jones, has announced that the
mixer "Zooenda," to be jointly
sponsored by the Freshmen and
Senior classes, has definitely
been calncelled. Mr. Jones ex­pressed
the hope that the Senior
dance on March 3 would com­pensate
for the cancellation of
"Zooenda."
The Senior Class will sponsor
this date-dance in Berchmans
Hall tomorrow night immediate­ly
following the basketball game
between Fairfield and St. An­selm's.
The price is $2.00 per
couple and refreshments will be
served. This dance is open only
to members of the Senior Class.
---------------$> by KENNETH V. McCLUSKEY
Senator Bany M. Goldwatea:,
the junior Senator from Arizona,
after his recent appearance at
FaiI1field University, granted an
exclusive interview to this re­porter.
This interview dealt with
s·ome of the main areas of the
senator's thinking on interna­tional
and domestic affairs.
Concerning the Peace COil1PS,
the senator said that his fear
had not been 'realized and that
the Feace Corps has not turned
into a "Haven for beatniks." He
said that he felt the Peace Corps
"has done a good job." He add­ed
tha t the Peace Corps was a
g,ood idea and answered with a
definite "Y€S" when asked if he
was "all for the Peace Corps."
Rega['ding Federal Aid to Edu­cation,
the Senator s:aid thalt he
was against the bill which is
now before the Cong'ress. This
was not taken to mean that he
was against Federal Aid t,o
Education, 'hc explained. On
the contrary, the Sel1'atar re­marked:
"I am for universal
federal aid to education." 'Dhe
senator said that he wished to
see aid given to both 'public and
narochial schools. The Senator
denied any knowledge of the
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passed ,on to the next class, and
the next class, etc., until the
actual design was ,completed.
The actual rocket would then, if
we had the financial support,
be constructed, but the actual
g.oals of the rocket project as
such are lea'rning how to apply
the principles that we've been
learning in elass: to design an
(Cont'd on Page 12, Col. 3)
Ne~v Dorm .L4head
Of Schedule; Will
Be NUlned Soon
by GIL CASS
The Director of the Mainten­ance
Department at Fairfield,
Rev. J. D. Kelly, S.J., stated
in a recent report on the new
dormitory that work is proceed­ing
ahead of schedule. Father
also gave a report on the num­erous
facilities of 'the new
building. Of the ninety-nine
rooms nine will be three-man
rooms. All the others will be
double rooms. All student offices
now located in Gonzaga will be
transferred to the new build­ing.
A faculty conference room
will be given space in the new
dOI'm. The offices vacated in
Gonzaga could be used as fac­ulty
'consultation rooms, Fr.
Kelly stated.
A laundry room will include
three washers and two .dryers.
Father said that in all probabil­ity
the new book store will op­erate
on a self service basis, and
will measure 56'x15'.
Other rooms include a T.V.
lounge, mail room, :and ·a main
lounge deco,rated along the line
of a hotel lobby.
In addition to summarizing
(Cont'd on Page 13, Col. 1)
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff,
stands outside Gonzaga Auditorium before speaking to over-flow
crowd. Senior Sean Dunphy of the Public Affairs Club, the lec­ture's
sponsor prepares to usher the former Connecticut governor
to the stage. I
Published by Students of Fairfield University, Fairfie,ld, Conn.
Math-Physics Turns to Theory
Lacl{ of Funds Grounds Rocket
by GIL CASS
Entitling his lecture "The
Death of God," t.he Rev. John
Courtney Murray, S.J., opened
his discussion of the "Godless
Man." Father Murray introduc­ed
his subject by outlining three
types of atheism found in Scrip­ture.
He labelled these eategor­ies
the atheism of the people
"within the people of God," the
Godless people, and the God­less
philosopher.
"Would you like to become
an atheist?" asked Fr. Murray
as he began an explanation of
the atheistic approach, which
he divided again into three
areas. One group approaches
atheism within the order of
ideas, another from the order of
fact. The third group believes
the world and man to be ab­surd,
and man's problem is
merely to live out the "absurd­ity."
Fr. Murray discussed several
ramifications of the ideas of
God and the world, and the fact
of evil. He set forth capsule
reviews of the philosophy of the
French Revolution.. Marxism,
Messianism, and the philosophy
of Nietzche, who preached in
his system of philosophy, the
death of God.
by GIL HOLT
Mr. Louis Arpino, president ,of
the Math-Physics Society, today
revealed that after having run
a cost study, the Society had
decided to table the p~oduction
of the rocket indefinitely and to
concentrate on the designing
end of the project.
The main obstacle is the ma­chining
of the rocket. The low­est
estimate reported in the cost
study was around $3,000.00, a
figure judged to be far beyond
the financial potential of the
Society even with support from
industry. Mr. Arpino explained
that the high cost was because
of titanium's brittleness in the
machining process.
Present Goals
The immediate goal then of
the Society is to work out and
perfect the rocket theoretically,
and in doing so to instruct the
members of the Society by giv­ing
them a chance to apply
classroom principles to the de­signing
of an actual product.
Mr. Arpino said: "We decided
t.o break up the members who
are interested in the project into
a sem;nar .!!'roup where each of
the classes would contribute
somethin!!' to the rocket in con­formity
with the courses they
are taking.: in other words, any­body
taking a eourse in elec­tronics
would work on the elec­tronics
end, and this would be
Vol. 13 - No.8
Revc J. Courtney Murray, S.J.
Discusses "The Death Of God'"
Price FOor Groolll
In "Shadow" Cast
Rev. J. Courtney Murray, S.J.
REIDY SILENT
Mr. William Reidy, President
of the Junior Class, announced
that in the next issue of the
STAG he will make known the
names of the performers appear­ing
at the Dogwood Festival.
.. Mr. Reidy stated that the
events and their locations dur­ing
the weekend will also be
announced at that time.
Sam Groom '62, slated for a
lead role in the Drama Society's
March 22, 23, 24 production of
"A Shadow Of My Enemy," has
withdrawn from the cast, it was
announced today by Mr. Robert
Emerich,. director of the play.
Mr. Groom withdrew to accept
a part in a professional produc­tion.
Frederick Price, also a senior,
has been named to play Horace
Smith, the part vacated by
Groom. Horace Smith is the
pseudo-name which author Sol
Stein uses for Alger Hiss. Mr.
Price has had experience in the
portrayal of the captain in
"Enemy of the People."
William Ndini, '62 plays Whit­taker
Chambers, called August
Randall in "Shadow." Bill Ndini
is probably best remembered for
his dramatic presentation of
"Black Cat" last year. In addi­tion
to his numerous appear­ances
on the Fairfield University
stage, he has appeared in sev­eral
Polka Dot Playhouse pro­ductions
in Bridgeport, including
"Teahouse of the August Moon,"
and "Guys and Dolls."
When interviewed, Mr. Ndini
said that the most striking thing
about this play is "the conflict
of two ideologies, both men feel­ing
that their concept is right,
and their philosophies which
transcend their friendship."
Supporting the two leading
characters are Gary Titus, '64,
Bill Sangiovanni, '62, John
Moore, '62, Bob Malstrom, '62,
(Cont'd on Page 13, Col. 1)
Cupacit)!' Crowd Hears Attack
OnNelv Frontier ByGoldl,vater
March 2. 1962
slavery are incompatible." "By
1970," he said, "we'll be free or
we'll be slave."
Senator Bush
Senator Goldwater was intro­duced
by Senator Prescott Bush,
who termed the political rally
as "the biggest I've ever seen in
Fairfield County." He called
Senator Goldwater "a bold, dy­namic
leader and a great Ameri­can."
Senator Bush attacked the
present Administration's spend­ing
policies, in that "Govern­ment
spending neither makes
money nor sense, but causes
infla tion."
Other speakers included Con­gressman
Abner Sibal and State
Senator John M. Lupton, a can­didate
for governor of Connecti­cut.
Sen. Lupton remarked:
"there has been a dearth of true
leadership in American politics
in recent years. Those in high
places in Government have been
offering and we have been ac­cepting
much which was neither
theirs to give nor ours to
receive."
Cardinal Key Society usher, Paul Rudd '62, converses with Sena­tor
Goldwater prior to Republican Rally appearance.
of the most intelligent men I
have ever heard." He challenged
President Kennedy to appoint
Robert Weaver, who would be
the first Negro ever appointed to
a Cabinet position, to the "post
that Mr. Ribicoff is going to
leave in his disastrous move."
The Senator pointed out that
the GOP differs from the Demo­cratic
Party, in that the "Repub­lican
Party believes in respons­ibility
- a deep, united re­sponsibility
for dignity and free­dom
of the individual." Under
the present regime, he said, the
American people cannot enjoy
life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness that "freedom and
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Guests
Also present were Connecticut
State Chairman, Searle Penney,
John Davis Lodge, former Am­bassador
to Spain, and other
state and county officials.
Rev. John L. Bonn, S.J., mod­erator
of the University Repub­!
ican Club gave a brief invoca­tlOn.
The following quotes were
given to the STAG on the night
of the Goldwater rally:
State Senator John Lupton
when asked if he felt that the
Republicans could win in the
fall said: "If we follow Senator
". Goldwater and have the courage
to take this line, we'll win the
Congress." The Senator refused
to compare himself with Senator
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with local issues of which Sena­tor
Goldwater would have no
idea.
When asked what he thought
of the Goldwater speech, Sena­tor
Prescott Bush said: "I
thought that it was a very stir­ring
appeal for Republican
unity. Obviously he was very
warmly appreciated."
When asked to state his po­litical
position as compared with
Senator Goldwater, the senator
said: "Let's just say that I'm a
progressive conservative."
Monarchs and U.s.
In reference to President Ken­nedy's
request for power to low­er
taxes, Goldwater said this
was a power "never intended by
the Constitution to be put in the
hands of one man." Requests
such as the power to level
tariffs, he pointed out, are "re­quests
that a monarch must
have if he is going to rule the
people." This power would be
used by Government as a "club
to beat business over the head,"
and would "slowly but surely
destroy our republic," he said.
Senator Goldwater referred to
the appointment of Robert C.
Weaver as head of the proposed
Department of Urban Affairs as
"a cheap trick, one of the lowest
I've ever heard of in politics."
He hailed Mr. Weaver as "one
by JAMES M. KICKHAM
Before a capacity crowd of
nearly 3,000 cheering Republi­cans
in the University Gymnas­ium,
Senator Barry Goldwater
said that he was more convinced
·than he ever was that the Re­publicans
would both carry the
House of Representatives and
gain seats in the Senate in the
upcoming elections, "even if we
are the minority party." He
called for the re-election of both
Senator Prescott Bush and Con­gressman
Abner SibaI, and
termed a move by Secretary
Abraham Ribicoff to oppose
Senator Bush as "disastrous" for
the Secretary.
Sen. Goldwater said that the
"American people have had
enough of the New Frontiers,"
and are frustrated for the first
time, sensing that "they are be­ing
led by someone who is not
sure where he is leading him­self."
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REFLECTIONS
By MICHAEL LAWRENCE
The calmest and most sensible commentary that I have seen
on Mater et Magistra, the Pope's recent encyclical, was in the
December 1961 issue of The New Guard, the magazine of Young
Americans for Freedom.
The article, "Mater Si, Magistra Si?," written by Carol D.
Bauman New Guard's managing editor, is in marked, and wel­come,
c~ntrast to the inane volleys of rhetoric fired at each other
by National Review and Amlerica over the past summer and fall.
Both of these journals ignored Pope John~s exhortation that dis­agreeing
Catholics should "keep alive mutual esteem and respect
and should s'trive to find points of agreement for efficacious and
suitable action."
It all began when, on July 29, National Review opined that,
bec"ause of its disregarding of the Communist menace, the en­cyclical
"must strike some as ,a venture in triv1ality coming at
this particular time in history." America countered with a rather
pompous editorial denouncing, primarily, William F. Buckley,
and, secondarily, National Review's treatment of the encyclical.
This kind of thing went back and forth for a while longer,
until finally Buckley printed in National Review (9/23/61) an
open letter to Fr. Thurston Davis, S.J., America's editor, which
more clearly explained and justified the conservative journal's
opinion. (America had earlier refused tp print the letter.) Re­grettably,
the best America could do in response was to increase
its bombast: "There is a serious lesson in all of this for those
who insist that National Review is an authentic voice of Catholic
conservatism. It is not, We repeat: it most certainly is not."
(9/30/61).
After this kind of treatment from two suppos,edly adult
mag.azines, it was surprising and heartening to see an organ of
conservative yo.uth face the issue and come to some meaningful
conclusions. Miss Bauman pointed out that the disagreement
could be resolved by a proper understanding of the Pope's use
of the word "socialization." She cites The Wanderer, a con­servative
national Catholic weekly newspaper: "There is a world
of difference between socialism understood in the sense of en­forced
government ownership and contl'ol of productive property
and human affairs, and 'soci'alization' as Pope John defines it, in
the sense of individuals and groups voluntarily joining together
and, with the 'aid of the public authority (State or Federal) striv­ing
to attain legitimate objectives which are beyond their natural
capacity and means."
And she quotes Msgr. Higgins, director of the Social Action
Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference: " ...
the new encyclical, in favoring socialization, is giving its blessing,
first and 'foremost, but not exclusively, to voluntary programs
in the field of social reform and social 'welfare. Governmental
programs - for example Social Security - are als,o commended
insof,ar as they are in harmony with the principle of subsidiarity
... too much attention has been given to what the encyclical
has to say about the legitimate government action and too little
attention to what it has to say about the indispensable r,ole of
voluntary groups."
Miss Bauman points out that Pope John has reaffirmed Pope
Pius Xl's warning, in Quadragesimo Anno. that "Catholics can
in no way give approVlal to those who support a form of mod­erate
socialism." (M.M., pam. 34.) And, on the other side, she
reminds conservatives that there are problems, and that besides
their opposition to statist answers to these problems, conservatives
must not "hesitate to contribute their <time and energies to the
positive betterment of the community through local action for
better schools, (etc.) ... "
Miss Bauman concludes her article as follows: "Social justice
is an obligation imposed by God on every individual. It would
bind each ,one of us whether the Holy Father had written an
encyclical or not." It is paradoxical that this reminder must oome
from a magazine written by and primarily intended for youth
and young adults. It is indicative and reassuring that its author
should be a member of the conserv,ative movement.
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Tuesday Nite
The Public Affairs Club of
Fairfield University will hold a
political debate on. the topic
"Should the Welfare State be
furthered in the United States?"
Speaking for the affirmative
will be Richard M. Lawless,
Features Editor of the STAG
and author of the column
"Aspect." Speaking for the nega­tive
will be Michael Lawrence
of the Conservative Club who is
author of the column "Reflec­tions"
which appears in the
STAG.
Mr. Lawless believes that in
view of the present Administra­tion
"there is a definite need for
President Kennedy's proposals,"
and he favors "capitalism with
government control."
Mr. Lawrence said he will at­tempt
to show that the Conserv­atives
do not reject welfare as
such but that there is a way to
attain it without the ill effects
that are almost inevitable results
of the type of "shot in the dark
legislation so far proposed by
the Administration." He feels
that Mr. Lawless is "more sin­cere
in the application of the
policy than the President."
The debate will take place on
Tuesday, March 6, 1962 at 3
o'clock, in Canisius Hall, room
101. Public Affairs Club Presi­dent
Thomas Tierney will pre­side;
a question and answer
period will follow.
Easter bunnies have lately
been seen romping aJhout the
wooded sections of the campus.
Students are warned by campus
officials that the hunting season
does not open at Fairfield Uni­versity
until after the results of
the spring estimates have been
made official.
Certain individuals of the
student body haye been heck­ling
school officials with inquk­ies
as to whether or noJt provi­sions
have been made for an air
raid shelter in the new dormi­tory.
at the
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KofC Prepares For Ignatian Day;
Competes F(lor Intercollegiate Title
--------------<~ The Knights of Columbus are
arranging for Ignatian Day on
March 11, and are awaiting the
final decision by the Knights'
Headquarters in New Haven as
to the most accomplished Col­lege
K. of C. order in the United
States for 1961-62.
Ignatian Day on March 11 will
feature the reception of Knights
of Columbus officials, a High
Mass, Communion Breakfast,
and an exemplification of the
Third Degree.
The day will begin with a
High Mass in St. Ignatius Chapel
in. Loyola Hall, to be celebrated
by the Rev. T. Everett McPeake,
S.J., Chaplain of the Ignatian
Council. The Communion Break­fast
following will be addressed
by Dr. John McDevitt, Ph.D.,
Deputy Supreme Knight of the
K. of C. and the State Deputy
of the State of Connecticut. Mr.
McDevitt will speak on the In­ternal
Structure of the Knights.
Climaxing the Ignatian Day
will be the exemplification of
the Third Degree to the new
members of the Ignatian Coun­cil.
For the past two years the
Fairfield K. of C. has been select­ed
as the nation's most effective
and accomplished college K. of
C. by the Knights' headquarters
in New Haven. Twenty-four
schools participate in the com­petition
and are judged accord­ing
to a six-point program.
Should Fairfield win the award
on May 22, it will be the first
time the same school has won
the award for three consecutive
years.
WVOF, a broadcasting campus
radio station, within the month
is the promise made by Ferdi­nand
Visco, President of the
F.U. Radio Club.
The Club, which is moderated
by Father Ring, has acquired a
150 watt transmitter. By em­ploying
the wiring of the school
as an antenna (a system success­fully
used at Holy Cross College
and Purdue University), the
Club will broadcast to Loyola,
Gonzaga and Canisius. Next
semester Xavier and the new
Dorm. will be blanketed.
The Voice of Fairfield will
feature interviews, music, trans­mission
of away games which
are broadcasted, but which can
not be picked up on ordinary
short range sets and the re­broadcast
of important home
games. Program schedules will
be posted.
Future plans by the Club call
for "phone patching", a legal
system whereby students could
call home via short wave for
free. WVOF will contact a ra­dio
operator in the student's
home town, and he in turn will
call the student's home, and the
conversation will thus be trans­mitted.
Mr. Visco stresses the import­ance
of student-faculty support
if the Club is to be successful.
Time of club meetings are post­ed.
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APPLICATIONS
Applications for membership
into ·the Cardinal Key Society
are now available. These appli­cations
may be obtained either
in the Xavier Dean of Men's
Office or in Loyola 127.
The Cardinal Key Society is
looking for students with a good
record of service to the school
as well as some qualities of
leadership in its potential mem­bers.
A scholastic average of
75% or better is required. Mem­bership
in the Society is by
seli-nomination.
Mr. Louis Ockey, Cardinal
Key president, is hoping for a
large number of applicants.
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Life membership is presented to the Rev. Harry L. Huss, S.J.,
Treasurer of the University by Mr. Peter J. Fagan, '62, President.
Looking on are: Robert K. Swatland, Robert Jenkins, Professor
Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, James M. Duffy, C. Donald Cook, George
J. O'Connell, and Mr. T.J.F. Pinkman, Moderator.
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Marketing Club's
Annual Award
Honors Fr. Huss
March 2, 1962
The Rev. Harry L. Huss, S.J.,
treasurer of Fairfield University
was awarded an "Honorary Life
Membership" by the Collegiate
Marketing Club of Fairfield Uni­versitv.
The award was made
for F;. Huss' "outstanding con­tributions
to the organization's
educational program."
This is the second year that
this annual award has been
made, reported Peter J. Fagan,
president of the club.
In addition to receiving this
award certificate, Fr. Huss re­ceived
the American Marketing
Association's "Gold Key."
Under the direction of Mr. T.
J. F. Pinkham, moderator of the
club, and Mr. Fagan, president
of the club, the marketing club
has followed a program through­out
the· school year. The group
has arranged for a cooperative
program with a number of local
industries. Tours have been ar­ranged
with the Raybestos Cor­poration
of Stratford, Conn. A
conference on "Careers In Mar­keting"
was held at Hartford
University. On March 21, the
Club plans to be represented at
the 12th annual Student Market­ing
Conference at New York
University.
Mr. F.agan said the program
of the club is desi'gned to ac­quaint
student-members wit h
distribution problems which face
the retailer and wholesaler to­d,
ay.
After the first three weeks, I Building Plans
A supplement to the Manor
Fairfield University's initial an- Fairfield's young alumni body will be published this year dur-nual
alumni giving program has are spearheading a program of ing the last week of July or the
reported to date 400 gifts for University development for fac- first week of August. The sup­$
18,075.00, according to an- ulty salaries, scholarships, li- plement will include twenty-nouncement
by Edward Flan- brary expansion and research. four pages on Senior Week and
appropriate sections on track,
nery, Stratford, chairman of the The development program also tennis, and baseball.
1962 alumni fund. Flannery not- envisions dormitories, faculty
ed that the per capita gift of $45 r~sidence, a student center, addi- The means of attaching the
t 1 1 1 b supplement permanently to the
thus faI' from 20 010 of the alumnI' IOna c. ~s~room area~, a ora-l'
t fIt d h 11 main issue will be supplied with
was above the $35 national aver- ory aCI lIes an a sCIence ~ . that issue. Both the supplement
W'th fi th t'll Very Reverend James E. Fltz-age..
. I fvIe mton' s s If trhe- Gerald, S.J., preSI'dent 0 f Fal.r- and the means of attachment
mammg or comp e Ion 0 e fi ld d t' f' will be included in the price of
fund · he sal'd that I't was ll'ke1y the, e1xpresse sat ISthactIO1n at. the main issue. F . fi ld ld t bl' h e ear y response 0 e a umm
all' e wou es. a IS ne;, fund. He said: "this spontaneous The Manor itself, in print for
records among thIS ~o~mtr:Y s willingness on the part of our about a month, will be distribut-
FU Junior Saves colleges both for p~rtI~I~atI~n alumni to share the responsibil- ed in early May.
and per capIta alumm gIvmg ill ity of helping to build an ever
Drowning Children a first year effort. In a progress t F'rfi ld'd A notice concerning comple-report
to all Fairfield alumni grea er al e proVI es won- tion of payments for the Manor
In Massapequa Lake Fl t d th t 88 01 f th derful encouragement to me and '11 b t d
fi annery no e. a tOlO ef
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ve year annIversary c ass 0 h d 'th 1 f
Gary J. Ambert '63 a.nd Mr. '57 were partI·C·lpat'mg I.n the move a ea dWI' ouhr 'pans ot r
Irwin Roache rescued three fund. He sal'd that alum'm were.gretahteer .act'a se"mlC ac Ievemen s
young boys from Caroons Lake, widely accepting the campaign's m SIX Ie .
Massapequa, Long Island, on theme of "Just Share" giving He said that he was happy to
Sunday, February 18. Saved whereby all gifts no matter how announce that the new dormi­from
the icy waters were Henry large or small have an equality tory currently under construc­Sullivan,
age 8, and Harry Bur- of their own. tion would be completed in time.
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unidentified.
Ambert, a Fairfield student
majoring in Spanish, and Roache
ran to the lake when they heard
the boys scream for help.
Mr. Ambert resides at 89 Bay
Drive, Massapequa.
Page Four THE STAG March I, 1962
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GENE MASSEY
Our only differences will be over imple­mentation.
We will realize that the danger is
both from without and from within,
there it has always been, there it will
always be; there we must fight it, and
there with the help of God we shall
prevail.
-Joseph Cirasuolo '63
To the Editor:
I feel obligated in replying to Mr.
Jakiela's letter to the editor concerning
my comments on Barry Goldwater and
the statehood of Hawaii. First of all, I
did not say Goldwater never voted for
admission of Hawaii. Secondly, despite
Mr. Jakiela's contrary assertion, Mr.
Goldwater did vote against the admis­sion
of Hawaii.
On March 11, 1954, Barry Goldwater
voted against Senate bill number 49
which proposed admission of Hawaii
into the Union. By the way John F.
Kennedy voted for the measure. Uncle
Barry also voted against a proposal
on April 1, 1954, to submit the question
of statehood or commonwealth status
to the inhabitants of Hawaii.
In voting against statehood he joined
the conservatives who objected to ad­mitting
a state whose population was
mostly non white. Also, and this was
the main reason for Goldwater's anti
vote, was Harry Bridges, the avowed
communist leader of the ILWU whose
members work on the sugar and pine­apple
plantations, the mainstay of Ha­waiian
economy. Goldwater was con­cerned
with this communist's "great"
(to quote reflective Mike Lawrence) in­fluence
despite the fact that the FBI
reported only 36 communists in Hawaii
and the Department of Justice in 1954
said "prosecution of leaders· of the
communist conspiracy is not an indi­cation
of party control in the area."
But comrade Barry was convinced as a
conservative journal reported (from
which I gathered my facts.)
Why did he vote for admission of Ha­waii
in 1959? Harry Bridges was more
powerful and influential than ever.
What about his "great" influence?
Was the White House in view at this
early date? Goldwater's change to a pro
vote only points out more the theme
of my article that inconsistency, insin­ceri:
ty and selectivity aTe the traits of
this freedom-
As for Mike Lllwrence's objections to
my article, it seems I can only say his
distortions have spread from his
speeches to his column.
-Thomas Tierney '62
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I realize that in military actions many
will be killed, possibly including Mr.
Tierney, Mr. Lawless, and myself. I
realize that a possible, though nOit
necessarY,consequence of a 'Policy di­rected
toward the defeat of Commun­ism
is nuclear annihilation. However, I
feel that what I stand for as an Ameri­can
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I feel that as soon as the American
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The Sodality's influence isn't par­ticularly
aided by its possession of
the fourth period on Tuesdays. If
the Sodalists are dedicated, they will
come to night or afterclass meetings.
After all, if these Sodalists are in "a
way of life," then the first thing in
their lives is Sodality. If they are
eventually to join Adult or Profes­sional
Sodalities, then they better
get used to night meetings.
This latent-for-Iack-of-a c t ion
group gives any thinking non-So­dalist
the impression that the Church
should stay in its shrines, parish halls,
and rectories, and not try to permeate
the Family, social life, business, and
education through the layman for
such work is doomed to fail. The
college graduate better comprehend
the purpose for Catholic Act ion
groups or such work will always
stand for sanctimonious prudery. The
Sodality is so paramount because the
Theology courses are confined with­in
credit hours, the Knights of Co­lumbus
is a fraternal group; the So­dality
alone is the one established
means on this campus to inculcate
the Church into every student's life
beyond sermons and liturgical wor­ship.
Keeping the concept that "Grace
works on nature" in mind, the So­dality
must see its unique role here.
What will move the student to Christ
amid all contrary influences, unless
this "elite core" of dedicated Chris­tians
operates to its full potential?
The Sodalist is the ideal Catholic
in any age. It is time that Sodality
presented a mature, comprehendable,
socially -influen tial image.
during the past 17 years testify, is an
attitude the Communists will not con­sider.
They have not made one con­cession
on the major issues, such as
disarmament, since 1945. They merely
make a few peripheral peace moves in
order to lull us back into a hopeful
frame of mind where "peaceful co-exist­ence"
seems poss~ble. They negotiate,
not with a willingness to reach an
agreement, but under the dictum that
"what's mine is mine, and what's yours
is negoti<able."
Secondly, even if all I have said in
the preceding paragraph is incorrect,
this compromise would violate our
American heritage, and Catholic prin­ciples,
and would abrogate the argu­ment
fostered by Mr. Lawless in an­other
area.
The American tradition certainly has
not been centered with ideas of a
"middle ground." Did Washington
seek a "middle ground?" Did Monroe?
Did Lincoln? Did Theodore or Franklin
Roosevelt? Did Woodrow Wilson?
Catholicism is based on a strange
idea that we are our brother's keeper.
Mr. Lawless, I am sure, would remind
us of that if any of us dared to attack
foreign aid. If Mr. Lawless is so con­cerned
about the bodies of people in
Asia, Africa, and South America, why
is he not concerned about the rights
of Cubans, Russians, Chinese, etc. . .
Certainly the right to save one's soul
is more important than food, clothing
and shelter. I am not opposed to foreign
aid because I am concerned about
people's bodies. However, I am also
concerned about their souls, and there­fore
I am dedicated to defeating Com­munism.
The underlying thought behind both
these positions is a fear of the conse­quences
of any actions which would be
directed toward defeating Communists.
The consequences are tremendous, and
the fear is legitimate. However, this
fear is not a justifiable excuse for shirk­ing
our duty.
or at a mixer. Hypocrisy may be a
terrible thing; ignorance of the full
comprehension of the Sodality "way
of life" - twenty-four hour Catho­lic
consecrated to the Church - is
far more damaging.
Concerned now wit h teaching
Catechism to public school children,
learning the sign language to con­verse
with the deaf, fostering Holy
Hours, Devotional Meetings, and the
daily Rosary, the "anti-Sodality"
people have a fair! y-solid basis for
"prayer group," " rosy -c h e eke d
cherub" criticism, since these projects
are the limit of Sodality activity.
Here is the Fairfield Sodality and
it does less daily, practical, apostolic
labor on this campus, its primary
milieu, than the newly-appointed
Security Officer. The "apostolate" is
not just good example, not just the
Spiritual and Corporal W 0 r k s of
Mercy, not just joining activities and
being the Catholic version of "Joe
College", not just filling pamphlet
racks, rather the apostolate involves
a personal attack on individuals and
groups to re-Christianize society, the
apostolate involves a group evalu­ation,
decision, and action incorpor­ating
Catholicism in every area of
this state of life.
In "Ideals and Nor m s," Pope
Pius XII stated that the Sodality
"demands men who reject medio­crity."
Note the word, mediocrity,
implies that something is being done.
At present, the majority of Sodal­ists
are not doing anything for their
campus apostolate. The y haven't
attained mediocrity.
THE IMAGE MAKEiRS
Editorial
Letters To The Editor ••
Two articles in the last issue of the
Stag, Horizons by Mr. Thomas Tierney,
and Aspect by Mr. Richard M. Lawless,
need commenting upon. I would like
to first deal with them separately and
then say something about their joint
position.
Mr. Tierney paints quite a pessimistic
picture and, for the large part, he is
correct. However, his limitation of the
tools of American foreign policy to
"the United Nations, a knowledgable
State Department, and prayer," is il­logical
because in the preceding para­graphs
he has given conclusive evi­dence
of the fact that these three tools
are not enough. The United Nations can­not
settle the struggle, when one large
voting bloc, the Communists, do not
subscribe to the Charter, and when an­other
large voting bloc, the "neutrals",
are showing increasing tendencies
toward irresponsibility. The State De­partment
cannot function properly un­less
it is backed by a willingness and
eagerness to win. Prayer is fine. Yet
we cannot expect God to do that which
he has given us a responsibility to do.
If Mr. Tierney limits us to these tools,
he shou1d not merely raUonally, but
also, instinctively, despair.
Mr. Tierney wants to defeat Com­munism,
yet he will not grant us the
tools of victory. I do not advocate push­ing
the button and starting a titanic
conflict. However, I feel we should en­gage
in the para-military activities
which the Communists use so well
largely because they are unopposed.
Mr. Lawless differs from Mr. Tierney
in that he advocates no total victory
but rather a flight to something he
terms the "middle ground."
First of all, this is an illusion because
a "middle ground" necessarily would
connote a set of mutual concessions be­tween
ourselves and the Communists.
This, as all our attempts at negotiation
Although the Sodality on this
<:ampus is composed of but forty
students, this institution's importance
in the life of every student establishes
the purpose for this editorial.
One of the common instigators of
deriding opinions of the Sodality and
the Knights of Columbus is that con­secrated
Sodalist or Third Degree
Knight languishing behind his or­ganization's
facade. The Catholic
Action group or Christian fraternity
containing such membership should
not just plod along unaffecting its
surroundings. The STAG believes
that the lack of acting Catholic lay­men
now, definitely influences clergy­lay
relations in future decades.
If the supposedIy trained Catholic
layman cannot incorporate Catho­licism
on a practical level in his pres­ent
student milieu, what miracle is
scheduled to produce such efforts ten
years from now? This University's
Sodalist not only neglects his campus
apsotolate, but he is ignorant of the
future reprecussions of his present
apathetic status.
Sodalists shirking because of the
very real attitude, "Sodality is for
fags, prayer wheel twirlers, and in­troverts,"
will never develop a basis
for a mature, respectful, evaluation
of Sodality until the present lack of
"persuasive leadership" reverses. The
Sodalist just does not see his mission
in a college environment. He does
not see Christ in studies, the per­formance
of his spiritual exercises,
the Student Council, the service or­ganizations
on campus, the various
activities, much less, in the classroom
March 2, 1962 THE STAG Page Five
Sisters from local area partake of sixteen page STAG distributed at Glee
Club's special concert for Religious in Gonzaga Auditorium on February 22nd.
I sometimes fancy as I spy
That I excel the F.B.I.
Right now I'm making little lists
Of folks I think are Communists.
I have no proof on anyone,
And yet the lists are loads of fun.
All friends of foreign aid, I think,
Must be set down as rather pink.
A little pinker, not far off,
I list, perforce, the college prof,
And pinker yet the college crowd
That lauds the Bill of Rights out loud.
UN supporters, as I've said,
Are also ipso facto red;
And redder still, on my red lists,
Are all the integrationists.
Just for good measure in my labors,
I add a few of my good neighbors.
Thus I rejoice that loyalty,
Resides alone in you and me-
Although, before my work is through,
You may, good friend, be listed too.
Rev. Thurston N. Davis, 8.J.
Editor-in-Chief, AMERICA
February 24, 1962
P. A. Olander '62
attainment of a valuable amount of
reading information. In this day and
age it presents itself as an archaic insti­tution
set up hundreds of years ago
and which today serves no useful
purpose.
For example, the books which in any
way portray the philosophical founda­tion
for the eighteenth century society
were written by such people as Hume,
Diderot, Voltaire, and Montesquieu.
But yet, any book of any significance
is prohibited reading as far as the
Church is concerned. So what! The
eighteenth century was immoral. But
the only way one is going to gain in­sight
into this type of society and
understand it, is to read the works of
those who lived in that era.
Therefore, let's, in the name of hu­man
progress, eliminate the impedi­ments.
Let's stop being so superficial
in our reading lists and go beyond the
"Index librorum prohibitorum." I'm
quite sure that to the educated person
Hume's "Dialogues Concerning Natural
Religion" would hardly be inimical to
faith and morals - and. as far as the
uneducated are concerned, the only
Hume they have heard of is Hume
Cronyn.
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YOU N\~A~~ YOU UK!; IT JUST AS IT IS?
To the Editor:
When, in the course of centuries,
definite progress has been attained, it
seems only logical that certain systems
or institutions which in any way ob­struct
that progress should be abolish­ed.
Now, in my estimation, the world
has definitely progressed to a rather
high status, politically, socially, intel­lectually,
and culturally. And also, in
my opinion, there exist two institutions
which in this twentieth century are
impeding that progress and they are:
The American Electoral College system
and the infamous Catholic Index Sys­tem.
Woe to the poor historian who, when­ever
he wants to read a book based
on sixteenth, seventeenth, or eighteenth
century development practically has to
consult the Pope to do so.
As far as I can see it, the Index
most assuredly is an institution which,
to a measurable degree, impedes one's
(3) free election be held under in­ternational
supervision.
This movement has now reached the
United States, where already such per­sons
as George Meany and Walter Reu­ther,
for example, have given to it
their wholehearted support.
The original resolution of the United
Nations, passed five years ago, has
nearly sunk into oblivion. The de­mands,
however, which were in this
resolution must be raised again. Hun­gary's
fight for freedom is your fight
too. By signing the petition, you will
strike a blow not only for Hungary
and for the captive nations, but also
for yours-elf. Your signature is a reaffir­mation
of your faith in liberty and jus­tice
everywhere.
The signature of one American stu­dent
will speak for one Hungarian stu­dent
who is condemned to silence.
Demonstrate again that the links of
solidarity between students of the world
are stronger than the chains of oppres­sion.
Please write and have your friends
write to Sir Leslie Munro, Chairman of
the Special Committee On The Problem
of Hungary, United Nations, U.N. Plaza,
New York, N.Y.
LESLIE C. TOTH
President
Association of Hungarian Stu­dents
in North America, Inc.
211 E. 37th Street,
New York 16, N.Y.
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able them to fight side by side wilth
you for liberty and social justice all
over the world.
The welcome you extended to them
five years ago when they came to the
United States, the friendship with
which you have surrounded them ever
since they have joined you on your
campuses, and the interest you have
shown toward their countrymen's or­deal,
grant them the Hbel'ty to turn to
you once again for support in their
s-truggle to bberate their counJtry from
foreign domination. The flight for self­determination
for the captive peoples
has ceased to be the lonely concern of a
few, but has become the aim of all
enlightened peoples of the world. Can
you help? Will you help? Will you, who
have freedom of the speech, be the
voice for the Hungarian student who
cannot speak for himself?
In the forums of the United Nations
the Soviet Union clamors loudly for
"non-intervention," for "destruction of
colonial system," and for the "with­drawal
of foreign troops." Yet it is this
very power whose troops intervened
into the internal lives of other countries
in order to establish its own colonial
system in clear violation of the United
Nations Charter and other international
agreement.
A few months ago a movement
emerged in Europe and South America,
led by personalities of such world re­nown
as Gabriel Marcel, Jules Romain,
Gertrud von Le Fort, Prof. MacCartney
and Salvador de Madariaga, to mention
only a few. The aim of this movement
is to confront the General Assembly
of the United Nations with the signa­tures
of ten million residents of the
free world who love freedom enough
to speak for the ten million Hungarian
men, women and children who cannot
speak for themselves. The signatures
will be in support of a resolution adopt­ed
by the Assembly after the Hun­garian
Revolution urging that
(1) all foreign troops be withdrawn
from Hungary;
(2) the Hungarian people be grant­ed
self-determination; and
STAG photographer, Pete Goss '64,
desperately races to take down prof's
dictation. Balancing books on the nar­row
desk tops has become an unoffi­cially-
designated campus sport. The
desks were built to hold not more than
one book at a time. Students cQmplain
of lack of support during less-inspiring
courses.
Everybody Reads The STAG
To the Editor:
Today hundreds Of Hungarian stu­dents
study at the American colleges
and universities. 1,800 of them came
to this country after their fight for
freedom was brutally suppressed by
Soviet tanks. Many of the things which
they fought for at home have been
granted to them in this land. They have
been given the opportunity for learning
in the field of their choice which was
denied to them under the Communist
regime. Here they enjoy all the aca­demic
freedoms which are only a fan­tastic
dream for those of their comrades
who remain in Hungary. Here they
live in a country of liberty to which'
they have come from a land of slavery.
Here they have a chance to become
useful members of society and do not
have to live in fear of being forced to
become the tools of an oppressive sys­tem.
The knowledge they acquire here
and the experience they gain will en-
Exchange Student For Fairfield U?
Faculty And Students Urge Action
Gary Ambert winks provocatively at Stag cameraman as Shaun
Sullivan and Dick Badolato wait turn.
Peace Corps Requirements Set
VolunteerTrainingIntensified
place, and with its own charac­teristics
upon it. It is almost
prophetic from its knowledge of
History; it is almost heart­searching
from its knowledge of
human nature; it has almost
supernatural charity from its
freedom from littleness and
prejudice."
Keeping this principle in mind,
as writer of this new column I
shall attempt at all times to
keep the issues in their proper
relationships. Hence the title,
PERSPECTIVE.
For the founders of our coun·
try were men who, despite their
many disputes, kept their main
goals and ideals before them at
all times. Yet they were realists
who knew,that a strict set of
dogmatic rules would not suffice
for the system of government
they planned. They knew that
it was the people who were the
molders of the Law of the Land,
and not the Law that moulded
the people to an alien design.
And so, through a series of fam­ous
compromises that every
schoolboy should know, they
devised a practical, realistic,
flexible plan of government
which has stood the test of time
while other governments have
toppled, the Constitution of the
United States.
These men stood for more than
our distinguished guest from
Arizona in his speech the other
night at Fairfield, who took the
unique position of being for
Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of
Happiness, America, and Free­dom.
They did not merely stand
on street corners lambasting the
reign of George III. They made
concrete proposals for a new,
revolutionary way of life.
I am a liberal. I realize it's a
difficult word to define. In some
circles it is a very dirty word,
often equated with such terms
as socialist, "pink," and even
communist. No, I was'not raised
in a slum on welfare money, nor
was my mind ever poisoned by
some Fabian Socialist over in
England. I ·am in favor neither
of the complete Welfare State
nor appeasement. Whoever tacks
these epithets onto the true
liberal is guilty of ignorance or
irresponsibility.
I do believe, however, in So­cial
Justice, a topic of three mod­ern
papal encyclicals, but a con­cept
which I am sad to say some
people in our country, and in­deed
some on this campus, do
not fully believe or understand.
I do believe that mankind must
determine a different solution to
its problems than another sense­less
war.
When I see a fellow student
attacking social security, or
foreign aid, or the principle of
the United Nations, I wonder if
we shall ever learn the bitter
lesson which two world wars
and a great depression have
taught. When I see an extreme
rightest charging the govern­ment,
or the Church, or his
neighibors with Communist sub­version,
I wonder where our
reason has fled. F,or I am firmly
convinced that the ultimate
struggle we face is not between
Capittalism and Communism,
but between Freedom and To­talitarianism.
We are being
dangerously shortsighted if we
take any of ·our .own rreedoms
to fight the enemies ,of freedom.
Perhaps we shall hav,e won the
battle, but we shall have irre­vocably
lost the war.
PERSPECTIVE
By LEO G. PAQUETTE
No one who reads the various
publications that float around
Fairfield's campus will deny that
a large number of students are
actively engaged in the great
liberal - conservative deb ate
which rages in our country, and
that many more students are
avid onlookers. This is fine.
Too often, however, the parti­cipants
in this debate become
involved in meaningless, petty
quibblings and name callings
that have no relevance to the
main issues that divide the lib­eral
and conservative philos')­phies.
As students at a Catholic
liberal arts university, we for­get
the basic aim of our educa­tion.
John Cardinal Newman in his
essay on "Knowledge Viewed in
Relation to Learning" writes:
"Perfection of the Intellect,
which is the result of Education
... is the clear, calm, accurate
vision and comprehension of all
things, as far as the finite mind
can embrace them, each in its
Young Dems Caucus
Establishes Policy
At a recent meeting, the
Young Democrats discussed
plans to stabilize their position
in the political spotlight.
A group of thirty freshmen
and sophomores, along with the
officers, labored through an hour
of controversies concerning their
policy, prominent democratic
politicos as guest speakers, and
the newly initiated newspaper­"
The News Letter."
By the end of the caucus, they
agreed to a policy, which or­ganizes
them as a club, not a
faction against opposing parties;
to start "booking" prominent
democratic leaders as speakers
at the campus; and to make the
Young Dems available to those
who deem themselves as moder­ates
or liberals.
"The News Letter" will be
their official newspaper, and will
be composed of articles dealing
with current topics and demo­cratic
views, all of which will
be submitted by the members
of the club. The first issue is due
sometime during March.
March 2, 1962
Waterbury Club Hosts
Univ. Singers March 23
The Waterbury Area Club is
the sponsor of an upcoming
Fairfield University Glee Club
concert. The concert to be held
on March 23, at Wilby High
School, W,aterbury, will be fol­lowed
by ·a dance, the proceeds
from whkh will augmellit the
Club's scholarship fund. Tickets
for the concert, p~iced at $1.50,
may be purchased from any
member of the club.
In addition to the Glee Club
concert and the annual $600
scholarship, the Waterbury Area
Club promotes various other ac­tivities
during the year. Under
the direction of president Robert
Crean and moderator Mr. Car­men
Donnarumma, the club has
sponsored a summer excursion
to Cape Cod for its members, a
picnic in honor of Fairfield
Freshmen from Waterbury, a
Halloween party, a Christmas
dinner dance, and a post-exam
social. Coming activities include
a spring social and a Senior fare­well
party.
A School Assistance Act in­troduced
by Rep. James J. De­laney
into Congress has receive-d
the whole - hearted support of
the Citizens for Educational
Freedom. Mr. Delaney's bill .au­thorizes,
for a two year period,
a $20 grant for financial assist­ance
for ea(;h child attending
school, whether public or priv­ate,
In the case of a child attend­ing
a public school the grant
would be issued to the local
school agency. In the case of a
private school child, the grant
would go to the parent or legal
guardian, and would be honored
only for payment when endorsed
to the school by the payee and
also endorsed by an authorized
official of the school.
The CEF takes no position on
the fundamental question of fed­eral
assistance to education, but
strongly urges support of De­laney's
bill if Congress deter­mines
that federal aid to educa­tion
is necessary because the
Delaney bill would include all
children.
The CEF states: "We have
done away with the poor-house
concept of welfare benefits in
every field but education. Just
as Social Security benefits go to
the individual and not to an
institution, and allow individual
choice of spending, so public
education benefits should go to
the parents of the child."
THE STAG
that Fairfield could gain much
from the presence of a foreign
student and the student he feels
would profit, both for himself
and his country. The success of
such a program, however, in­volves
much organization and
planning, in both raising funds
and in arranging some of his
activities. Perhaps most import­ant,
the ready acceptance of
such a student by Fairfield men
and the existence of enough
people personally interested in
him to assure his happiness here
would be necessary, Mr. Petry
said.
According to a recent Dept.
of State Bulletin, the opinion of
American life which the foreign
student leaves with our country
depends upon the above factors.
The occasional neglect of some
of these factors in some colleges
and universities has been recog­nized
as such a serious problem
as to be investigated by a Con­gressional
Sub-Committee.
Many foreign students in the
U.S. are financed not only by
their own countries or the
American government but by
foundations· and private organ­izations.
Several members of
campus organizations have sug­gested
that should financial sup­port
from outside the University
fail, some money making events
or donations from the classes,
Student Council, or other organ­izations
could finance a student
at Fairfield.
Some of the other American
Catholic Colleges participating
in at least one of the programs
are: Georgetown, Marquette,
Fordham, and Manhattanville.
Mr. Petry finds the possibility
of having a student from one of
these countries here an "inspira­tion"
and Fr. Mahan, S.J. would
be "very proud" should this plan
achieve reality.
CEF Supports Bill
For Equal Federal Aid
Law School Chairman
Speaks to Law Guild
Professor Joseph F. McCarthy,
Chairman of the Board of Ad­missions
of Boston College
School of Law, in an address to
the St. Ive's Guild, stated that
many opportunities were open
for law school graduates in the
armed forces, especially the Ma­rines
and the Air Force.
Likewise, he said, govern­mental
agencies, such as the
Litigation Division of the De­partment
of Justice and the
State Planning and Taxing
Board are constantly seeking
qualified lawyers.
Prof. McCarthy noted the ad­vantages
in attending a law
school in one's own community.
The contacts and close associ­ates
made in law school he said
often prove quite advantageous
in one's own practice.
Prof. McCarthy further point­ed
out that students, aspiring to
a law career, who have not ful­filled
their military obligation,
should find little difficulty in
obtaining deferments, since law
school is considered as a con­tinuation
of under-graduate
school.
by LEN SOHLBERG
Fr. George S. Mahan, S.J., As­sistant
to the President, Mr.
Petry of the History Dept.,
along with other faculty mem­bers
and students have express­ed
interest in having a student
from Africa or Asia at Fairfield
University.
Numerous programs for such a
foreign student exist. Preceding
such a step is the acquisition of
funds and the making of neces­sary
arrangements.
Last year a record number of
such students enrolled in Ameri­can
Universities .Mr. Petry feels
ternational relations. The period
of training in the United States
will be followed by two or three
weeks of instruction in the hosi
oountry.
Peace Corps volunteer ques­tiJonnaires
can be o'otained from
10cal Post Offices, your U.S.
Sena'tor, Congressman, 'Or from
\Peaoe Corps, Washington 25,
D.C.
Page Six
by FRANCIS CROWLEY
Recently, press releases from
the Peaoe Corps hav.e outlined
basic requlrements f,or all vol­unteers,
and the present needs
of the countries to which mem­bers
of the Corps will be sent.
The basic qualifications for
all vlolunteers include the equi­valent
of a high school educa­tion,
and a minimum age re­quirement
of 18 years. There is
no upper age limit. MaI1I"ied
oouples are eligible if both hus­band
and wife qualify and if
they have no dependents under
18. Vlolunteers receive a living
allowance f.or food, ,clothing,
housing, medical care, and in­cidentals,
plus ·a termination
payment of $75 fior each month
of service.
Most ,of' the countries that
have requested volunteers a're
in South America taud Af,rica.
Bolivia, Peru, and Venezuela
need elementary and literacy
teachers, registered nurses,
sanitary engineers, civil engi­neers,
and prog'ram directors to
train native volunteer social
wor~e~s 'to develop sports and
social lactivities. There are
many requests fl'Om Mrica
(Tupisia, Gabon, Ivory Coast,
Togo/ f.or secondary school
teachers wlth Bachelors or
Masters Degrees in English,
science, or mathematics. There
are also requests for medical
technicians, physioal eduoation
instructors, and home economic
teachers.
A pedod of Intensive train­ing
for all volunteers precedes
all assignments. Training starts
in the United States and oovers
job training and a study of the
language, oulture, people, and
policies 'Of the host countries. In
the Af,rioan coun1xries some
fluency in French is essential
for secondary teachers, especial­ly
in mathematics and science.
French majors or minors are
pa'rticularly suitable fO'r these
projects. For 'agricultural and
oonstruction workers so m e
knowledg.e of French would
prove helpful. In all cases
Language 1xraining will be pm­vided
during training.
The training program preced­ing
,assignments in South Amer­ica
includes Spanish language,
development of recreation pro­g'rams,
Amerioan history, and
Latin American history, physi­cal
fitness and health, and in-
March 2, 1962 THE STAG Page Seven
BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
an already efficient payment process even more efficient!
Joe Bobrowski of the Bell Telephone Company of
Pennsylvania, and other young men like him in Bell Tele­phone
Companies throughout the country, help bring the
finest communications service in the world to the homes
and businesses of a growing America.
to a thorough investigation of He pointed out that the psy­the
Russian aspect only. A com- ch010gical root of political
parison of both these historical messianism lies in the adverse
messianic traditions will be the contact with ,the West tha!t
subject of a future talk to the Russia has experienced tlwough­Rusisan
Circle. out her history. The West was
Dr. Buczek divided his talk decadent and any contact with
into two considevations: first, it was liable to produce oor­Russian
90litical messianism in ruption, he said. As a conse­the
nineteenth century as seen quence, there is a strong tend­:
n the position of the Slavophiles ency in Soviet 90litical messian­such
as Dostoevsky, and sec- ism to assert Russian cultural
ondly, the military and political superiority, he feels.
messianism in the Stalinist per- On March 7 the Russian Circle
iod -of this century as seen in will present a lecture by Dr.
its 9reoocupation with the no- McCarthy, on a subject to be
bon of salvation in suffering. announced. The president of the
l1his is a Russian version of the 'I Circle invites the student body
"white man's burden," Dr. to attend all of their future lec-
Buczek said. tures.
Dr. Buczek Sees Russian Political Messianism
Rooted To Adverse Relations With JT1est
by FRANCIS CROWLEY
On Wednesday, February 14,
Dr. Buczek of the history de­partment
spoke to members .of
the Russian Circle and guests on
the oolitical messianism in mod­ern
- Russian history. The good
attendance shows the increasing
interest on the part .of the stu­dents
in modern Russian cul­ture,
aceording to Peter Behun­iak,
president of the Circle.
Having spent the last few
years independently studying
political messianism in both
P'olish and Russian history, Dr.
Buczek dis-cussed some lof the
basic notions in these unique
movements. However, he limit­ed
himself· -in this presentation
Although he's been with Bell of Pennsylvania only six
months, Joe Bobrowski is already making an important
contribution at the Company's Data Processing Center
in Harrisburg. He's perfecting a "mechanized" way to
speed up payment of monthly invoices from 1700 suppliers
who sell to his company. Joe's excellent idea could make
for our security to act ahead of
it. The U.S. shouLd be very care­ful
that the U.N. does not be­come
dominated by our enemy.
When asked what students
can do for their government, he
replied tha t we should make
oUl'selves informed citizens and
spread our knowledge of Poli­tics
and Government.
In his speech Mr. Lodge stat­ed
his pleasure at speaking at a
school which emphasizes the
sprritual aspects of man. This
type of education, he felt, eoun­teracts
and lessens the belief
many foreigners have that the
U.S. is materially advanced but
spiritually ban~rupt.
Shaun Sullivan, a senior from
Newport, R.I., has recently been
made a member of the Cardinal
Key Society.
He is currently on the Student
Council and was chairman of
the committee which arranged
for the appearance of the Bro­thers
Four on campus.
Along with Steven Carberry,
Mr. Sullivan will work on the
arrangements for the spring
Senior Parents Weekend which
is being sponsored by the CKS.
Comments on U.N.
He also felt the U.N. should
be formally relied upon to me­diate
conflicts but that in some
situations it has been necessary
by LEONARD SOHLBERG
John Lodge, former Ambassa­dor
to Spain and former Gov­ernor
of Connecticut, last week
reiterated at the Republican
Club lecture that he is "leaving
the door open to possible candi­dacy
for Governor."
Though he has said this sev­eral
times in recent months he
has made no direct move into
the gubernatorial race. Other
avowed candidates are: John
Alsop of Avon, Edwin H. May,
Jr. of Wethersfield, Newman M.
Marsilius of Trumbull, and
State Sen. John Lupton of
Weston.
In his talk Mr. Lodge warned
of communist propaganda. "Rus-1------------------------------------------------------------
~~as;~~:k:it~h~nc:~O:i~~·~~~ THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
pire which detests her and yet
she gailil5 position after posi- SALUTE- JOE BOBROWSKI tion." American opinion has -
bee. drugged with half truths
and distortions; this has pre­vented
a realization of the im­minence
of the dangers of the
Cold War, he mentioned the 3.6
billion pieces of Soviet litera­ture
iaundating the United
States.
Aggressive Policy
American people and business
must leatTl to sacrifice and con­tribu~
more to the free world's
effort if we are to be success­ful,
he said. He feels that the
U.S. must form a more aggres­sive
diplomatic policy to re­place
our old po1i<cy of contain­ment
of the Soviet Union.
Spain and U.S.
Franco's Spain is widely mis­interpreted
in the U.S., he men­tioned.
First, she is one of our
most dependable NATO allies
and has retained American Air
Bases despite threats from the
Soviets. As regards their in­ternal
form of government, Mr.
Lodge said that most Americans
neglect to consider Spain's and
South America's political heri­tage
and personality. It being
unrealistic to presume that the
American brand of democracy
can be introduced in all situa­tions
quickly and that someone
has sinned if it does not.
Mr. Lodge felt that the most
likely successor to Franco
would be Prince Juan Carlos,
now living in Portugal.
While Ambassador L 00 d g e
rejected the Peace Corps pro­gram
far Spain because he felt
it would be ineffective there and
perhaps mi$'1t be resented, he
admitted its value in other
areas.
Cardinal Key Selects
Shaun Sullivan '62
Lodge 'Open For Candidacy;
Says Stronger Policies Needed
Page Eight THE STAG March 2, 1962:
Stags Beat F-D To Win Title~
Face St. Anselm's Before NCM
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Sienko
Curtin
Duquette
Donnelly
Hunt
Nelson
Hurley
Kelly
Magner
by VICTO<R TESORIERO
Captain Charlie Hunt led his'
five to a 57-47 victory over pre­viously
undefeated CUTtin last
week. In this contest, Hunt
scored 25 points, hitting on
long jumpers from everywhere
on the court. Hunt's team play­~
d. the game without the help of
InJured Dick Robinson, one of
the team's best starters.
The league also witnessed a
close attemp't a,t de f ea. tin g
Charlie Bialowas' first-place
team. Andy Donnelly's squad
lost by only 3 points in an over­time
contest which went as a
55-52 victory for Bialowas.
Marty Sienko's cagers moved
into second place ahead of Cur­tin,
after consecutive wins over
Magner, Donnelly and Hurley.
As the league continues, the
fight for the number one spot
becomes more fierce and, in the
next few weeks, many crucial
games will be played.
As of February 22nd, the
standings were:
due to the lack of competition
in their section and the swifter
teams in other heats, th~ quar­tet
was placed sixth in the final
standings based on comparative
times. The fastest times were
registered by Longua and Daly.
In the two mile relay for
bo~h Frosh and V'arsity, the
FauTIeld entrants fared poorly,
as the competitoTs are not as
yet in the best shape.
The next meet is the Collegi­ate
Track Conference Indoor
Championships in two weeks at
Queen's College; and by that
time, all the runners should be
ready to face the top-flight com­petition.
Bialowas Heads Loop;
Sienko (4-1) Second
Bill. Shin arches a jump shot
agamst CCNY in a game which
the Stags won 78-57.
to the
were:
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Lynch
Mullen
Radigan
Saccomanno
DiBeradino
Duffy .
Degennaro
by JOHN SCOTT
With the first round rapidly
coming to a close, Lynch has
won his last two games to tie
Leonard for the league lead.
The deciding game was played
last Wednesday to determine the
loop's winner, and in a hard­fought
contest, Leonard emerg­ed
as the undefeated winner.
In recent games, Lynch
trounced DiBerardino's five,
55-34, as Jay Behr hit for 15
points. John Mullen's quintet
edged Radigan's squad, 47-44 as
MuHen and Dowling netted 23
and 17 points, respectively.
Mullen's team also posted a
wjn over DeGennaro with a
71-44 triumph. Mullen and
Dowling again led the s'corers
with 20 and 17 points.
Elsewhere, Duffy's "hard­luck"
boys won their first game
of the season, 52-40, over De­Gennaro,
thus moving out 'of
last pla,ce.
The standings prior
Lynch-Leonard meeting
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Prior To Wed. Game
Relay Team Sets Mile Record
Longua~Daly Post Best Times
by PETER J. GARRY
On Saturday, February 17, in
the Collegiate Track Conference
Relay Carnival at Queen's Col­lege,
New York, the Stags' in­door
running crew made their
debut under their new mentor,
Mr. Nick Giaquinto.
Though the squad did not
score, the mile relay team was
impressive as they shattered
the old school record by seven
seconds in Iposting a respectable
3:40.3 time for the eight fur­long
race.
The team composed of Larry
Longua, Mickey Kinney, Jack
Barry and Jimmy Daly captur­ed
their heat in a runaway, but
Friars 88 - Stags 65
Recently named to the '62
MIT, Providence College snap­ped
the Stags' victory string at
nine, and handed FU an 88-65
defeat, in a game played at PC.
The Friars, led by Ray Flynn
hitting on outside jumpers'
built up a 10-4 lead early in th~
game. The Stags fought back to
tie at ten all; but the Friars
again took the lead and wirth
6:20 remaining in the period,
held a 26-22 advantage. Then
PC outscored Fairfield 16-3 to
lead 42-25 at 'the half.
In the second period, the
Stags were never closer than
13 points; and in the final ten
minutes, the game turned into a
rout. 'Dhe HT - Hadnot, Thomp­son
combination - was too
much :for :Flairfield, although
FU's rebounding certainly was
impressive.
Jim Hadnot led PC with 26
points, and John Thompson had
17. Bob Hutter led the Fairfield
scorers with 19 points - 13 in
the second half. Bobby Jenkins
netted 17 points and held FriaI
backcourt flash, Vin Ernst,
scoreless.
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Stags Trounce Brooklyn, 87-61
Fairfield overcame an early
Brooklyn College lead and went
on to an 87-61 triumph. With
the Stags trailing 10-5, Bobby
Jenkins led a comeback which
FU built to a 42-31 halftime
lead.
At the outset of the second
half, the Stags outscored the
Kingsmen, 16-4, thus ena1bling
Coach Bisacca to use his entire
bench. Most impressive was
Frank McAnulty who gracbbed
6 rebounds and netted 4 points
in a three minute span.
Nick Macarchuk and Fred
Weismiller led Fairfield with 15
points apiece. D. Harawitz with
27 points and I. Smolev wiJth 20
led the losers. Brooklyn played
without the services of the
squad's leading scorer, Schein­blum,
who graduated last month.
the tables turned as they were
beaten at their own game when
FU held the lead in the final
minutes of the game.
The first half saw the Stags
build a 20-15 lead, but the Grey­hounds
outscored Fairfield 8-2
:n the closing minutes of th~ half
to lead 23-22 at intermission.
Bill Shin tapped in a bucket
~n the opening minutes of the
third quarter to give the Stags
:1 lead which they maintained
till the buzzer.
Steve Warner led the scorers
with 17 'points, and Bobby Jen­kins
ripped the cords for 16.
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Stags Reut Hunter, 76-56
The Stags took an early lead,
and were never headed as they
went on to wallop Hunter Col­lege,
76-56.
Fred Weismiller with 14 points
and Bob Hutter with 12 mark­ers
paced the Stags to a 36-21
halftime lead. Weismiller stole
the ball several times and con­verted
the steal into baskets on
six occasions.
In the second half, the visitors
fought to within three points,
42 - 39, but two consecutive
jump shots and a layup by Nick
Macarchuk put the Stags ahead
by a comfortable margin which
they built into a rout in the
final minutes. In the closing
mmutes, Coach Bisacca utilized
his entire bench, and they net­ted
10 points between them.
Weismiller and Hutter shared
the scoring honors with 20
points apiece, and Hunter's
Rosen had 18.
Jenkins Stars in 54-48 Win
Over Assumlpiion
The Stags sent a highly reted
Assumption five to their fourth
lo.ss with a come-from-behind
VIctory over the visitors. The
Greyhounds, ranked third best
among small colleges in defense
allowing only 49.8 p.p.g., found
On and Off
the Campus
Bill Shin receives trophy presented by the Bridgeport Area
Club to the Fairfield-UB game's MVP. Shin scored 29 points to
pace the Stags to a 96-92 overtime victory.
by JOHN SCOTT
Stags Top Fairleigh
Facing the only remaining
threat to their third straight Tri­State
crown, the Stags edged
Fairleigh-Dickinson, 89-81. The
victory made Fairfield an auto­matic
qualifier for a berth in
the post-season NCAA tourna­ment
as winner of the Tri-State
league.
In the first half F-D matched
the red Stags' offensive attack
until a jump shot by Bill Shin
put FU in front to stay. Fair­leigh,
trailing 43-35 at the half
could only manage to com~
within six points and that with
eight minutes remaining. Fred
Weismiller's 13 points and
Ravettine's 15 points set the
scoring pace in the opening
period.
The second half featured two
more heroes. Nick Macarchuk
netting 16 of his 25 points in
this ~eriod together with Bobby
J enkms who dropped in 11 of
his 19 markers kept the Stags
ahead till the buzzer. Nick hit
9 for 9 from the floor and sank
7 of 9 from the free throw line
in his best output of the year.
For the visitors, Tom Fox took
scoring honors with 23 points ­15
in the final ten minutes.
Marty Godzenovich and Ravet-
Stags Win in OT, 96-92
In our traditional non-league
tilt with UB, the Stags set a
new record for consecutive vic­tories
(9), with a 96-92 overtime
wi? over a never-say-die
Bndgeport five. The exciting
overtime win saw the Stags hit
for 6 straight points and out­score
the Knights, 9-2, in the
first three minutes to insure the
victory.
The Fairfield cagers featured
a starting five composed of four
seniors 'and Macarchuk and the
visitors jumped to an 8-2 lead
in the first two minutes. Here
Coach Bisacca inserted his reg­ulars,
and the Stags fought back
to tie the score at 18 all with
12:24 remaining. Then, led by
Fred Weismiller and Bill Shin
the F'airfieldites moved to ~
45-39 haYtime advantage.
In the second half Fairfield
increased its margin and led by
as many as 14 points, 68-54 and
then 76-69 with 6 minutes re­maining.
Here the Knights, led
by Joe Yasinski, fought to a
one point lead, 81-80, before
Weismiller tied the score at 81
all to send the contest into
overtime. The Knights played
for one shot in the final 40 sec­onds,
but a corner jump shot by
Yasinski with 3 seconds left was
off.
Scoring honors went to Bill
Shin with 29 points. Fred Weis­meller
netted 25, and Nick Ma­carchuk
added 22. For' the
Knights,. Joe Yasinski was high
Specializing in man wIth 34 points, and Dan
'European Safaris' Morello contributed 25.
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Frosh Drop Four;
Two Starters Out
by PET'ER GARRY
The freshman basketball team
has played four games in the
last two weeks, all on their
home court.
Their first encounter was
against Hunter, and after a nip
and tuck battle that saw the
Frosh on top at the half, 33-31,
the Stags were edged at the
buzzer, 59-58.
Grossman of the visitors led
all scorers with 21 points while
Bernie Casey paced the hosts
with 17.
Following Assumption, Fair­leigh-
Dickinson furnished the
opposition; and in a pattern
similar to many of tihei't recent
performances, the frosh started
strong, but faded a short way
through the second half.
John Behringer's 7 straight
points put Fairfield ahead for a
few moments in the second half;
but as the pace quickened, the
little Stags bogged down and
were outlasted by a margin of
68-49. Ronald Roedema of
Fairleigh-Dickins,on and John
BehTinger headed their respec­tive
squads with 19 and 14
points.
The next contest matched our
young Stag,s a'g.ainst ,the Grey­"
hounds of Assum':)tion College.
In this fray, Fairfield played
without the services of top scor­er
Joel Pascale, who will be lost
for the remainder of the season
due to a back injury. His ab­sence
was one of the reasons
contributing to the freshmen's
77-44 defeat.
Bob Kenney led the Grey­hounds
with 17, and Bernie
Casey led the yearlings with 13.
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by PAT HURLEY Nick is no stranger to ath-
Nick Macarchuk, a junior Ie tic honors. While attending
from Montville, Connecticut, high school at Norwich Free
combines hustle, aggressiveness, Academy, he was a three-letter
shooting ability, and rebound- man and was named to All­ing
prowess to sparkplug the Conference and All-State teams
1961-62 Stags. Last year as ,a in basketball, baseball, and
sophomore, Nick was second in football. The type of aggressive
team scoring with a 15.5 p.p.g. play that won Nick these honors
average and led the team with in high school is now personi­299
rebounds. Two years ago, fied here at Fairfield by his re-
Nick led the freshman team The yearlings hosted the UB
with a 17.2 p.p.g. average. bounding and great team spirit. frosh in their second meeting of
He is currently the team's lead-
Nick has been one of the key'mg rebounder with an average Ithe season with the cloud of a
reasons for the Stags' 17-4 re- of 14 per game. previous 91-57 walloping over
cord thus far. He opened the their heads. The Purple Knights
season with a fine performance Nick will be hard to replace after winning only two of their
against St. Peter's, netting 20 after his graduation in 1963. He first eleven games brought their
points and grabbing 19 re- is the type of ballplayer that season's record to 8-11 bywhip­bounds.
During the first week of most coaches dream of having ping the Frosh, 100-63. Ahead
January, Nick was named to the on their side. by 54-33 at the half. the visitors
Eastern Collegiate Athletic built their lead to thirty points
Conference kll-Star team on Psychology Department, take after five and a half minutes of
the basis of his fine play against note: fishermen in Long Island play in the second period.
St. Francis and American Inter- Sound are complaining of Fair- Led by Mandy with 23
national College. In the A.I:C. field University book covers points, five of the visitors hit
game, h e was partI.cularly im- ""etting snagged in thel'r ll·nes. for double ,figures . HI'gh man for
pressive as he ran away with Maybe the phantom thief needs Fairfield was Bernie Casey with
all laurels scoring 22 points and
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snaring 27 reboUJrlds in ,a tre- r
mendous night's work. In the
F,airleigh - Dickinson game he
poured in 25 points to once
again spark the team to victory.
recent outings. Last week there
were seven "200" games.
In a recent meeting, it was
agreed to drop the teams of
Spring and Mancini since these
teams had attendance difficulties.
The league was strengthened by
the appearance of two or three
ltop~llight bov.rl1ers from the
freshman class in the last three
weeks. Their addition to weak
teams has made the league more
exciting.
The standings after Feb. 19
were:
W L Pins
Dr. Grassi 26lh 8lh 26582
Agostino 25 11 27101
Maney 23 13 26616
Torrillo 22 14 26526
Connelly 21lh 14% 26160
Dermody 18 18 23729
Feru~ia 17lh 181/2 26119
Grogan 16 20 23255
Sampson 14 22 25961
Quinlan l1lh 14lh 23578
by JOHN SCOTT
SPORTS SLANTS
Dr. 'Grassi Leads I{egler Loop
With their recent win over Fairleigh-Dickinson, Fair­field's
'61-'62 cagers clinched their third straight Tri-State
crown thus assuring themselves of an automatic berth in the
post-season NCAA small college tournament. The Stags'
domination of the league has extended over the past twenty­five
games - excluding Rider, and now the FU hoopsters
have their sights set on the upcoming regionals which begin
one week from today. The site of the regionals was recently
announced as Rochester, N.Y.; but as of this writing, it is
not known whether the games will be played on Rochester'~
home court or at the War Memorial Auditorium.
Unlike the past two season, Fairfield this year is in
District 1 of the NCAA college division. This region includes
more than just the New England area as it was previously
thought.
Regarding the Participants . .
As of Feb. 28, Fairfield, St. Anselm's, and Rochester
had been named. The fourth participant was not named
officially; but according to a N.Y. statistics bureau, North­eastern
is the fourth participant.
As of Feb. 27, Rochester was 15 -3 having lost to Cor­nelL
Colgate, and Bucknell. Their victories included wins
over New Hampshire, Columbia, and Trinity. They beat
Assumption in a pre-season scrimmage.
Williams in agreement with the Little Three has declined
to play any post-season games.
, St. Anselm's has lost only to Holy Cross and Hofstra,
and as an example of what we might expect from them, Nick Macarchuk hits for two over the outstretched hands of
mauled Adelphi 92-69 one month after we played them. F~irleigh's To~ Fox. Nick hit 9 for 9 from the floor and con­The
game was played on the Adelphi court. Itrlbuted 25 ~omts .to the Stag offens.iv~. For his rebounding and
The men from New Hampshire are led by high-scoring clutch shootmg, NICk was named thiS Issue's Sports Personality.
Dave Swan and 6' Miles Dorch. The outcome of tomorrow's
contest will shed some light on the future of the Stags in
the tournament.
* * * Assumption, which won its first eight befor~ losing to
Holy Cross, has lost also to Providence, St. Michael's, and,
more recently, to Fairfield and St. Anselm's. These last two
losses could be responsible for their possible refusal of a bid.
* * * Northeastern has a record which isn't as impressive as
the other proposed representatives, and their recent loss to
Coast Guard leaves some minds wondering.
Sidelights:
Fred Weismiller was named to the ECAC All-East small
college basketball team for his play against lona, Hunter, and
Assumption. In the three games Fred scored 54 points hitting
63 '10 of his shots ... Bob Hutter was named to the squad
for the second time, based on his performances in the LIU
and CCNY games last month. Against CCNY 'Huts' scored
25, and the LIV game saw him net 17 ... Hutter is within
reach of two records he set last season-l72 field goals, and
425 total points. Weismiller still has a chance to better Mikr
Touhey's free throw record of 106 ... Assumption's "de­fensive"
ability can be attributed to their slow-down tactics
rather than stellar floor work . . . As of Feb. 21 Fairfield
was ranked 24th among small colleges.
by MARTY SIENKO
After the completion of last
week's bowling schedule, Dr.
Grassi's team still remains in
first place. His foursome again
garnered 3 points via a forfeit.
It was their second forfeit win
in three weeks.
Len Agostino's team lost valu­able
ground in their bid for first
place when they dropped 2 out
of 3 encounters.
Jack Maney tightened the
race for second place with five
wins and one loss over the past
two weeks. In fourth place and
still fighting for top honors is
the team of Dom Torrillo.
The latest statistics show that
Dr. Grassi has moved into the
number one spot for the high­est
average. He has a 167 aver­age
for 36 g,ames. Jack Maney
is a close second with a 165
average..
A new high individual game
was recorded by John Scanlon.
John rolled a 236 in one of his
YOUNG RADICALS take stand in soon-to-be-recruited member's
room. Walt Leed '61, Chief Radical Ken Wagner '64, and Ed
Hogan '64 personify ideals of Radicals - Preparation, Tyranny,
and Guerrila Warfare.
Fairfield Infiltrated;
Radicals
Page Ten
By KENNETH WAGNER
CHIEF RADICAL,
Yes Fairfield University has
finall; been accepted by the Rig
Me Foo Chapter of the Young
Radicals. The Club had its hum­ble
beginnings in the fertile
mind of a German house paint­er.
It grew popular, but had a
severe setback in the mid-forty's
from which it has nobly recov­ered
and gone forward into
higher plains.
Unlike the policy of Fairfield's
two other political cliques whose
embarrassment I will save by
permitting them to remain
anonymous, the young Radicals
will not be content with a stag­nant
organization. The planned
activities for this semester are:
first there will be a series of
muggings, beatings, "incendiary
machinations," terrorizing, and
just plain "bugging" of the co~­servatives.
From here we WIll
undertake a series of lectures in
Canisius 406 with guest speak­ers,
Juan Perrone, Mao tse Foo,
and a group of recently escaped
Freedom Fighters. Culminating
these thrilling and informative
talks will be the handing out of
various presents such as a John
F. Kennedy Dart board, pictures
of Caroline Kennedy in touch­football
togs, the fiery novel
Solve the Federal Aid to the
Aged Problem by Adolf Eich­mann
the new play Glass Me­nagerie
by Don Preziosi, and
nude pictures of Trigger.
BARRY
(Cont'd from Page I, Col. 5)
Citizens for Educational F,ree­dom,
a group pl'oposing similar
ideas of universal ·aid to edu­cation.
On the issue of Federal Re­clamations
Projects, such as the
Hells Canyon Darn proj,ect, the
senator expressed his support
for them. "They are provided
for in the Constitution," he said.
'I'he senator eorrected our in­f,
ormation as to the location of
the Hells Canyon Dam Project
and 'expressed a hope that simi­lar
projects would be under­taken.
'I'he senator made no state­ment
concerning his personal
political aspirations.
Thrive
Concluding the first semester
of the embryonic, but virile,
club will be a May Day parade
on the theme, "Even a Capitalis­tic
Golfer can become President,
I think." Members need not sign
up. They will be recruited be­tween
the hours of three and
five in the morning by a jolly
gr,oup of pranking Y,oung Radi­cals.
They might laughingly
carve "Robert Welch, you're
sick," on your eyelids or some
other collegiate gag.
Arts Seeks Members;
New Ideas Submitted
The Seven Arts of Fairfield U.
has begun interviewing poten­tial
caYldidates for membership.
Ten vacancies are to be filled
this year. Applicants have been
asked to submit to the Society
a proposed schedule of five
shows which they think would
be of interest to the sbdent
body.
Candidates will be ch::lsen on
the basis of the utility of these
schedules and of the intensity
of interest each one has in at
least one field of the performing
arts. Members will be chosen in
proportion to the number of
applicants from each class.
No definite plans have been
made by the Seven Arts' in
regard to any entertainment for
the second semester. A show has
been tentatively scheduled near
the end of the year with at least
one prominent folk-singer on
the program but no date or name
is yet available.
An attempt is being made to
contact Conrad Pomerleau, an
actor whu does dramatic inter­pretations
of the works of Edgar
Allen Poe, to appear before a
}<'airfield audience.
Cal'olyn Hester, the f,olk-singer
who performed on campus last
year, is on the Society's list for
return engagements. At present
Miss Hester is on a tour through
the mid-west and a concert at
Fairfield this year is only a re­mote
possibility according to a
Seven Arts spokesman. Next
year, however, the Society is
confident that she will once
again appear on the Gonzaga
stage.
THE STAG
State CISL Marks
15th Anniversary
by CHRIS LANGLOIS
Sean Dunphy, '62, a member
of Fairfield's delegation to the
Connecticut Intercollegiate Stu­dent
Legislature, recently com­mented
on the history of that
organization. This year, he said,
marks the fifteenth annual ses­sion
of C.I.S.L., an org,aniza­tion
whose main purpose, as
,tated in the preamble of their
constitution, is "to stimulate
3mong college students a fur­ther
interest in government, and
to offer the eXlJerience neces­sary
for a practi-cal understand­ing
of the political activities of
the General Assembly concern­ing
contempor,ary state affairs."
Each of sixteen colleges and
universities in Connecticut sends
a 23-member delegation to the
Assembly. FaiI'field has been a
member of C.I.S.L. since the
student legislature originated in
1948. This year the delegation
was selected from among the
members of the Public Affairs
Club. Dr. James Vail, Associate
Professor of Sociology at Fair­field,
is faculty advisor for the
delegation.
C.I.S.L. has its own constitu­tion
and is set up along the lines
of the regular state legislature
with approximately the same
number of members. The
Assembly elects the President
of the Senate, the Speaker of
the House, and two majority
leaders. There are eight com­mittees,
each headed by two
chairmen, one from the House,
the other from the Senate.
When the session ends, the Ex­ecutive
Committee is elected to
make arrangements for the fol­lowing
year's convention.
Peter Jones, '64, a spokesman
for the Public Affairs Club,
stated that in past years the
Fairfield delegation has domi­nated
the mock legisalture,
with the exception of last year's
convention, when the Public
Affairs Club was undergoing
re-organization. He expressed
the hope that the delegation
will reassume its position of
leadership at the Student Legis­lature
in next month's conven­tion
held traditionally in Hart­ford.
Psychiatry and Religion
Subject of ASN Talk
The Alpha Sigma Nu Book
Club will present a discussion,
led by the Rev. Thomas Mc­Grath,
S.J., on Mar. 22. It will
be held in the Faculty Lounge
!n Canisus Hall at 8:00 p.m.
Fat her McGraith, psychology
professor at Fairfield, will base
his talk on the topjc, "Psychia­try
and Religion."
The discussion will be center­ed
around the "Pillar of Fire,"
a pamphlet by Karl Stern, the
"Basic Writings of Sigmund
Freud" by Random House, and
"Abnormal Psychology and
Modern Life" by Colman.
William Ndini, President of
the Arts Forum, an organiza­tional
unit of Alpha Sigma Nu,
stressed that attending students
should be prepared to partici­pate
actively in the discussion.
Furthermore he said that it is
not a lecture, but a discussion
and those at any such program
should read at least one of the
proposed pamphlets or books.
March 2, 1962
THE THEATRE
by DALE A. McNULTY
What is theatre? It is certainly more than mere entertain­ment
and yet it is not eXiactly like reality. Watching the ele­phants
at the zoo is entertainment, but this is not theatre. See­ing
dope addiction and its results is not in the least appealing in
real life, but a play about it might enjoy success in the theatre.
There is a definite connection with reality in the theatre. This
reality isn't treated in the same light or the same method as a
documentary coverage for the newsreel might be. It doesn't in­clude
all of the facts in their proper focus or their proper order.
Its seleotion gives it the dramatic that makes theatre either
tragic or comic.
Instead of a technical discussion of the pedantic aspects of
tragedy or comedy at this moment, it is interesting to look at
these :areas in the modern theatre: from oa pradi!cal appro,ach,
not a theoretical one.
Today one can seldom see a play that is billed as a tragedy.
The word usag,e has chang,ed, the connotation of the 'Word is
only suitable for pre-Ibsen dramatic writing - with rare and
notable exceptions in modern times. Itbsen brought the drama
down from the lofty plateaus of state sy'mbolism and the faults
of princes and kings to the I'ealm of the common, little man. This
is the school of realism, whose work can be termed dmma but
tI'agedy can be applied to it only in the most generic sense.
With the tr,ansgression of tragic convention by Ibsen have
come many other violations. Within this general terminology
can be grouped such experimenters as Camus, Genet, Samuel
Becket, Brecht and Ionesco. With many of these practitioners, in
many of their works, their purpose is to move the audience to
a general mood or feeling. A little old loady was heard to remark
that she felt lik,e going home and taking a bath after seeing one
of their works. This type of emotional reaction is the goal. This
cannot be said of the classical tmgedians. Their goal was an
emotional reaction but it dealt with the definite emotions of pity
and fear and incorporated 'an intellectual realization as part of
the total audience reaction. One does not leave a performance of
Cinna, Phaedra, Berenice or MacBeth with this general emotional
and physical depression. There is an appeal to specific emotions,
clearly wrought and powerfully effective because of their delin­eation
and incisiv,eness. One knows the cause of the emotional
reaction and can theI'ef<oreappreciate it all the mor~. Its origin
is not muddled with baseness, extreme naturalism or mere the­atrical
gimmicks.
The great and enduring tragedies are essentially simple.
Their plot construction might be intricate, but it is integrated.
Their characters might be inVQlved, possessing a psychological
depth and complication, 'but they are straightforward. Most im­portant
of all, their concepts mutually bolster and are bolstered
by the other elements of the play to form a uniJfied whole. There
is no need for theatrical tricks of staging and confusion here.
The simplicity is powerful and honest.
The theatre, by its very nature, must deal with people. Peo­ple
comprise the audience, the subject matter and the vehicle
for expressing this subject matter. The play, then, must stay
within the confines dictated by these circumstances. The con­fines
are, of course, sUlbject to the age and the mores of the age
they are used in. Different dramatic conventions have drifted m
and out of usage depending upon their reration to. the age. In
the same age but in diff'erent societies Shakespeare used the
soliLoquy for character revelation and Racine used the oonndant
for almost the same purpose. While Shakespeare audiences ac­cepted
brutalities and vulgarities but did not take obscenity in
their stride, modern audi~nces are ready to accept obscenity,
though their victorian hang-overs abhor vulgarity.
It is much more rewarding to be aware of some of the basic
areas of emphasis and variation in the art form when attending
a play. One must always l'emember that the basic element of
the theatre is people. In tmgedy this element is often concerned
with a basic conflict of good and evil, truth and uncertainty, will
and intellect. In all areas of the theatre, one must be wary of
generalities for they are only as good as their applioation. Be­cause
their application is to that basic element of the theatre,
people, generalities are only valid on the surface. They can pro­vide
merely the general prindples upon which the individual
instances are founded. They are, however, a starting point f.or
appreciation and understanding.
THE WHETSTONE
ICont'd from Page 12)
For he removes the human element and his system becomes an
activ,ated but meaningless theory.
The institutions of our age are enormous systems which afford
the individual protection for any cant and cavil he instigates.
The values of our age deny a basic fact of existence - man's
humanity - ·and lead to a disassociation of man from the re­sponsibility
for his actions.
The logical procedure from this position would be to elimi­nate
the necessity of belief in a God. That logic has not escaped
a good number of people which has come to accept the system
as the one unquestionable reality and thus the origin of all
ethics. The man who rebels against the system will find his ethics
elsewhere. The man who has given himself to the system can
justify any action; however irrational, immoral or inhuman, on
the basis of that system.
March 2, 1962 THE STAG Page Eleven
REVIEWS
The STAG is initiating this page of reviews in the interest of
the University community. Books. plays. motion pictures and
records will be reviewed. We ·are asking for contributions from
students .and faculty alike: :reviews must ·be clear. concise and
well-written. This page is for you and your help will determine
its success.
By Lester Abrams
Canisius Academy
Studies Judaism
warns that "if the President and
the Congress had taken forth­right
stand; ... federal troops
might not have been forced to
walk the corridors of Central
High School."
The quality of Martin King's
prose is not outstanding. His
dedication and determination
are. His passion for a just cause
is evident in his words: "Bomb
our homes and threaten our
children; send your perpetrators
of violence into our communi­ties
and drag us on some way­side
road, beating us and leaving
us half dead, and we will still
love you." Hate will never
truimph over such resolution.
Michael J. Curley
Ghandi and Thoreau (especially
the "Essay on Civil Disobedi­ence"),
unofficially assumed the
leadership of the M.LA. Conse­quently
the crusade was carried
out exclusively on a pacifist
basis. Its creed became the say­ing
of Booker T. Washington,
"Let no man pull you so low as
to make you hate him." Al­though
17,500 Negroes partici­pated
in the boycott, there was
not one violent demonstration
reported involving a colored
citizen.
Dr. King relates how car
pools were established with
funds donated by supporters
from this country as well as
from faraway cities as London
and Tokyo. In all, the contribu­tions
amounted to nearly $250,­000.
It is amusing to note that
many white employers of Negro
workers themselves lent a help­ing
hand to the movement by
providing transportation to and
from work,
After several meetings with by JOHN O'CONNELL
the White Council and the May- At a recent meeting, The
or of Montgomergy had' ended Canisius Academy presented a
in stalemate, the case was at review of the book, Judaism. by
last brought to the state courts. Paul Demon.
The city had lost more than
$150,000 by this time. When the The reviewer said that the
decision was handed down in author discusses in the first
favor of the M.LA., it was im- chapter, entitled "Israel and the
mediately appealed. The U.S. ChuTch," the similarities be­Supreme
Court thereupon up- tween Judaism and Catholicism,
held the lower court's judge- explaining that both Judaism
ment. and Catholicism aTise from the
The author relates how the same source in the Old Testa­K.
K.K. went into action follow- ment.
ing the court's decision. Several The reviewer stated that with
houses were bombed, including
Rev. King's. On one occasion a this spirit of fellowship estll!b~
young Negro child was seen lished, the author goes on to
"warming his hands over a trace the history of the Jewish
burning cross on his front lawn." people from early, post...btblical
This was the attitude taken to times to the present day. The
white violence. Throughout the ;reviewer commented that MI'.
bitter struggle for integrity, Demon discussed the develop­pacificism
was maintained. ment of the liberal Reformed
In the second part of his book, Judaism and Neo-Orthoo'Ox Ju­Rev.
King has a chapter entitled d-aism. He then discussed the
"Where Do We Go from Here?" main lines of Jewish doctrine
He takes a stronger view of as related by the author, and
what should be done in the fu- oommented on the closing chap­ture
than one would expect hav- tel' on mystic trends in Judaism.
ing read the first part. He states
that "it would be false to imply Academy President, Robert
that the majority of white peo- Jm-Iett, a'nnounced plans for the
pIe in Montgomery have (since inauguration 'Of the Spring lee­1956)
ceased to oppose integra- ture series. The Secretary of -the
tion." Noting that the two most Academy, Richard Fagan, dis­important
groups helping to con- trilbuted revised copies of the
tinue segregation are the news- constitution of the Academy to
papers and the politicians, King Ithe members present.
and We Take the Town does fit
within tha,t area. Its eX'act pl.ace­ment
will be left ,to <tJhe audience
for this unusual musical chro­nicle
of the life ·and death of a
Mexican bad man who has turn­ed
hero ·and then failure. Inter­esting.
Almost provocative.
Dale A. McNulty
STlJDENT LIFE
Peaceful Struggle
On November 13, 1956 the
United States Supreme Court
ruled that segregated public
busses in Montgomery, Albama
were unconstitutional and or­dered
that integrated facilities
be effected immediately. This
simple judiciary act was the re­sult
of months of sacrifice and
endurance by Montgomery's
Negro population. The details of
that historic battle against pre­judice
and ignorance are set
down in a book entitled Stride
Toward Freedom by Rev. Mar­tin
Luther King.
The colored population had
been living under the insult of
"separate but equal" facilities
for years but for the most part
their dignity as human beings
never quite let them accept the
situation as permanent. On De­cember
1, 1955 the impending
and inevitable clash was at last
precipitated. On that morning
Mrs. Rosa Parks boarded a city
bus and took the last remaining
seat. When a white passenger
entered, the driver ordered Mrs.
Parks to surrender her place.
She refused and was thereupon
arrested.
That night Rev. King met
with influential Negro leaders of
the city and agreed to draw up
plans for a complete boycott of
the city bus facilities. Rev. King
relates how mimeographed no­tices
were then drawn up re­questing
the Negroes of the city
to gather for a mass rally on
the following evening. So wide
was the coverage of that as­sembly
in the morning papers
according to Rev. King, that
every Negro in Montgomery
knew that the boycott was on.
The same was true of every
meeting following; the news­papers
became the free publicity
of the M.LA. (Montgomery Im­provement
Association.)
Dr. King, who was profundly
influenced by the writings of
THE FEATURES EDITOR
Viva Preston's Villa
We Take the Town. a musical
adventure starring RobeI"t Pres­ton
has recently completed its
pre-Broadway run at the Shu­bert
Theatre in New Haven. It
was produced by Stuart Ostraw,
with music by H. Karl' and
lyrics by M. Dubey with book
by F. Bauer and M. Dubey.
All productions on their way
to New York are in a state of
flux. There is continual chang­ing,
additions and deletions, all
calculated to achieve the per­fect
balance for the New York
audience. To view a show at one
of its pre-Broadway runs is
therefore an interesting experi­ence.
For one thing, it permits
a personal assessment prior to
the New York pronouncements,
for another it enables the audi­ence
to help in the shaping pro­cess
for the production.
This show will undergo con­siderable
alteration before it
reaches Broadway. Though the
opening night audience in New
Haven l'aved, there were obvious
faults that will have to be
corrected.
Robert Preston was full of vim
and vigor as the mustachioed
Pancho Villa and literally kept
the show going in his marathon
role. His Music Man facility for
talking a song did him no good
with the music of Harold Karl'.
There was certainly a Spanish­Mexican
flavor to the music but
it lacked, at the beginning of
the New Haven run, that is, any
melodic themes that are so
necessary to the success of a
musical. The music was full of
the rythmic pulse of the Mexican
but it was better to listen to,
not to sing to.
From the opening production
number to the strange dream
sequence ballet, the direction
and choreography were full of
the vitality that characterized
the show. It was colorful and
eyecatching in costumes by
Motely and enhanced by setting
of Peter Larkin.
The vitality that is a keynote
of the show will save it when it
reaches Broadway. It should be
a hit if the proper grooming has
been done.
A worning is necessary, how­ever.
The production makes no
pretense to being a happy, light
and gay musical in the usual
sense. Calling it a musical ad­venture
is -an interes'ting trick.
'Dhis covers quite a bit of area
found in his research on Michel­angelo.
The Agony and the
Ecstasy is not a book that sud­denly
captures your attention on
the first page. Rather it is a
work that gradually engrosses
you and involves you in the
life of an amazing figure, who
steps out of the pages of history
which includes such figures as
the notorious Pope Alexander
VI and the mysterious monk
Savanarola, into your own life
and times. Mr. Stone does an
admirable job of portraying the
life of Michelangelo in a plaus­ible
manner, which makes the
book both an enjoyable and en­lightening
experience.
Leo Paquette
Agony 0/ An Artist
All too often in our studies of
the Middle Ages the characters
parade before us and pass face­lessly
onward leaving us no dis­tinct
impression or sense of
relevance to the modern day
man. In fact, there is such a
gap in our understanding of this
age that the ancient civilizations
of Greece and Rome seem much
closer to us than the fifteenth
century. This void also extends
to our comprehension of the
Renaissance and its gigantic
characters. \Ve fail to see a da
Vinci or de Medici as a living,
breathing, flesh-and-blood hu­man
being.
The mastery of this bugbear,
however, is the triumph of Irv­ing
Stone's The Agony and the
Ecstasy. the biography of one
of the most remarkable geniuses
the world has produced, Michel­angelo
Buonarroti. Through
years of painstaking research in
Italy, during which time he ap­prenticed
himself to a sculptor,
Mr. Stone m.anages to get inside
the mind and heart of the Flor­entine
master who had a passion
to carve his bel'Oved maI"ble, and
suffered many years under the
opposition of his family and the
bidding of popes in order to
achieve his goal.
Michelangelo was not a hand­some
or charming man like
his contemporary Leonardo da
Vinci. He was a small man,
barely weighing more than a
hundred pounds. From his earl­iest
life as a stone cutter he
longed to hew life from the mar­ble
stones with his hammer and
chisel. As a youth he showed
such promise that he was taken
into the palace of the great
Florentine patron Lorenzo de
Medici, where he met his first
love, Lorenzo's daughter, and
Lorenzo's son, who was one day
to become pope. Upon Lorenzo's
death, he went to Bologna, and
thence to Rome, where his fam­ous
Pieta established him as
Italy's greatest sculptor.
Few people realize that the
crowning work of his genius,
the ceiling of the Sistine chapel,
was undertaken against his will
under the direction of Pope
Julius II ,who promised Michel­angelo
that he might go back to
carving his beloved marble after
he had done this work. Michel­angelo's
passion for artistic per­fection,
however, compelled him
to conceive the mighty theme of
Creation for his ceiling, and to
work four and a half years
perched on the scaffolding high
above the chapel floor.
Michelangelo's life was a
struggle to release his creative
spirit against some of the most
monumental opposition and try­ing
circumstances ever arrayed
on earth. Here is a man for all
ages, a giant who rose above
the pettiness surrounding him
to serve both the glory of God
and man.
Irving Stone's work reflects
the skiH of a true craftsman
doing a monumental work in
the difficult field of biography.
I cannot help thinking that he
must have been inspired in his
own work by the example he
Page Twelve THE STAG March 2, 1962
Brothers InChrist
By
RICHARD
TINO
THE
WHETSTONE
The institutions of any given ag·e have a tendency to reflect
the particular human qualities to which the people of that age
have attached value. The Greek polis was an outgrowth of the
jealous autonomy and jealous love of personal excellence in all
fields. The Roman civitates represented a change, a shift in value,
from the personally oriented culture of Classical Greece to the
legalistic society of Rome.
Throughout the Middle Ages man exhibited a desire for
stability and security in his daily aff·airs which led him through
fealty to serfdom while the same values, through the same sys­tem,
gave rise to an aristocr.acy and an eventual kingship in
many Western areas.
Once established, these values remained. The systems which
had evolved became powerful enough to perpetuate themselves
within reasonable limits. Wars, both internal and extern.al, did
not change the systems. They merely changed the administrators
of the system. A king might lose his kingdom but the victor was
not a president. There is much reliable testimony that these
systems worked as well or as poorly as others had or would.
But the world began to change. It grew. It became confus­ing
and complex. It became violent. Nations formed alliances;
tradesmen formed guilds; even travellers banded together to in­sure
against this violence and complexity. The systems were
becoming larger and impersonal. The individual took another
step down the ladder of values.
His descent has been precipitous. Long ago human beings
have passed systems traveling in an opposite direction. Although
it is man who runs the system, his place is subordinate, his job
is mechanical. The system exists today with an overpowering
strength. It is the cause of ethical decadence in the West. And
within a short time it will fully assume a similar responsibility
in the East.
Some twenty-odd centuries ago a Greek would have been
able to say, "I am civilization." Now he would probably say, "I
am part of this or that system." The difference is not in the
man, for human nature is a constant in this equatiop. The differ­ence
is how the man thinks.
T'oday a man has no difficulty in offering the system under
which he lives as a reason for his actions. To paraphrase Madame
Roland: 0 l'organisme! que de crimes on conimet en ton nom!
The crimes speak for themselves. Under fascism there is an
E'ichmann. Under communism a Stalin, or Krushchev, or a Castro.
In Spain there is a Franco; Portugal, a Salazer; in Egypt, a
Nas·ser; in Indonesia, a Sukarno; India, 'a Nehru or a V. K.
Mennon. In America there are Carnegies and Rockefellers.
Joseph McCarthys 'and Robert Welchs, White Ci·rcle Leagues, and
Ku Klux Klans.
But these are extremes and there is no need to look further
than the norm. There is little need to examine action outside of
the oampus. There is no need to ex,amine fully each CYf the many
systems on every American campus. A scattered sampling of two
is sufficient. _
The academic system in a university involves the established
patterns of activity in the teacher-pupil relationship. When the
ratio of students per teacher is grotesquely unbalanced the sys­tem
works to de-personalize effectiveness and student interest.
Mere numbers, however are not the cause of academic apathy.
The system is. The student has become a mark in a grade book
to the teacher because the system does not require that he be
anything more. The teacher becomes an alternating series of
notes and exams to the student because the system does not re­quire
that he either know or understand what is being said about
him. The current academic system does not require teachers and
students so much as it requires stencils and notebooks.
In addition to the academic system there is also an adminis­trative
system in the university. It is here that we are' best able
to see the effects of the impersonal system at work. The presi­dents
need never pass a word or a thought directly to one of
the students. The ultimate refinement of this would have him
speaking only to his secretary and, like the Boston Lowells, occa­sionally
to God. The admission deans have the advantage of an
adequate file of application information should the need to use
it arise. But the possibility of that need ever a'rising is well
met by the downfield blocking of the personnel and disciplinary
deans. It is the job of the personnel dean to keep the machinery
running without overloading the circuits - a delicate although
enormous operation, yet one which requires a minimum of per­sonal
contact with the students. His work is primarily a matter
of sanction which involves slips of paper of all sorts and sizes
all marching under the common banner of his signature. Where
then, excepting a bull session or a beer-call which have little to
do with college administration, is made the contact between man
and man? It had ought to be through the disciplinari·an. The
system is running out of parts.
If personal contact cannot be made in a university through,
at very least, its disciplinarian, then the complete depersonaliza­tion
of its systems has been accomplished. And the individuals
it involves can no longer recognize their existence as human
beings. They are now parts of a machine. If a disciplinarian can
dispense arbitrary judgments for which he cites the system as his
law, there is a distortion in the ethical composition of such a
man. When the disciplinarian is nothing more than a pseudopod
of the system, he has destroyed not only the value of his own
being, but also the value of the very system he claims to assist.
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The Society hopes in follow­ing
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the floor level of the sanctuary
is continued for a few feet,
thus providing a raised platform
for the reading of the lessons;
but other churches are open.
There are said to be nearly
6,000 Chaldeans in the United
States, mostly in and about the
Chicago area.
The Liturgy of Malabar
There have been Christians on
the southwest coast of India
since very early times indeed,
but they are today divided into
many and confusing bodies. Of
these the biggest is that of the
Catholics of the East Syrian rite,
well ,over half a million of them.
Just ·as the Syrian Maronites,
with a version of the ordinary
West Syrian liturgy, so these
Syro-Indians of Malabar use a
modified form of the East Syrian
or Chaldean liturgy. And just as
the Maronite liturgy has been
"hybridized" especially in ex­ternals,
under western influence,
so also has that of Malabar. The
architecture of many Malabar
churches is very distinctive, but
their appointments, altar-bread,
vestments (the clergy even wearr
the biretta), calendar, all are as
in the Roman rite; genuflection
replaces the low bow, and so on.
On the other hand the degree of
arbitrary alteration of the text
of this liturgy has been exagger­ated,
and it is perhaps closer to
its original than is the Maronite.
The Syriac liturgical language
has been retained throughout
without the admixture of an;
vernacular; but the Chaldean
"second and third hallowings"
have been abandoned, so that
there is only one anaphora, that
"of the holy apostles Addai and
MarL" As with the Maronites
there is a uniform way of cele~
brating "low Mass" but approxi­mately
much more closely to
Western customs, e.g., no incense
or singing, the moving of the
missals from side to side of the
altar and so forth.
At the inception of this series
of articles this writer stated his
aims as twofold: to enable the
reader to understand better and
so appreciate more his own be­loved
rite; and to arouse interest
and appreciation of the Eastern
Churches. If I have accomplish­ed
this task in even the remotest
way, I shall be satisfied.
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NEAR EAST CATHOLICS
By ERNEST WEBBY, JR.
(Sixth and final article in a
series dealing with the Eastern
Churches.)
Mesopotamia, "the Land be­tween
the Rivers," was an early
prey of the Arabs, and the Iraq
of today is pretty solidly Mo­hammedan.
The chief Christian
body is that of the Catholics call­ed
Chaldeans, nearly 150,000 of
them, whose separated counter­part,
the Nestorian or "Assyrian"
Church, is now reduced to not
much more than half as many
adherents.
The Chaldean liturgy is de­rived
from the ancient rite of
Edessa (now Urfa); except for
the scriptural lessons and a few
other elements, which are in the
local vernacular (AraJbic, Turk­ish,
etJc.,) its language in Syriac,
Le., the Edessene dialect of Ara­maic
with Jthe e'astern pronoun­ciation
and written' characters.
A debased furm of this tongue
is still spoken by some Chal­deans
,and other Syrians. There
are thI'ee alternative anaphoras,
called "hallowings," of which
the chief is called "of the Holy
Apostles," i.e., S.S. Addai and
Mari, a'Postles of Mesopot'amia
and Persia.'
A characteristic of Chaldean
church buildings is that often
the sanctuary is cut off from the
nave by a solid wall, pierced by
three doors of which the middle
one gives a view of the altar,
except when it is covered with
a curtain; in front of the wall
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figure on a
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by WILLIAM ZAVATSKY
* * * © 1962 Max Shtilmao
~Author of "I Wa~ a Teen-aye Dwarf", "The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis", etc.)
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Page Thirteen
The academic world, as we all know, is loaded with dignity and
ethics, with lofty means and exalted ends, with truth and beauty.
In such ~(world a heinous thing like faculty raiding-colleges en­ticing
teaclwrs away from other colleges-is not even thinkable.
However; if the dean of one college happens-purely by
chance, mind you-to run into a professor frotn another college,
and the professor happens to remark'-:just in passing, mind you
-that he is discontented with his present position, why, what's
wrong with the dean making the professor an offer? Like the
other afternoon, for instance, Dean Sigafoos of Granslllire
Polytech, finding; himself in need of a refreshing cup of oolong,
dropped in quite by chance at the Discontented Professors
Exchange where he discovered Professor Stuneros from the
English Department of Kroveny A and M sitting over a pot of
b.psang soochong and shrieking "I Hate Kroveny A and M!"
Surely there was nothing improper in the dean saying to the
professor, "Leander, perhaps you'd like to come over to us. I
think you'll find our shop A-OK."
. (It should be noted here that all English professors are named
Leander, just as all psychics professors are named Fred. All
s~ciology professors are, of course, named Myron, all veterinary
m~dicine professors are named Rover, and all German professors
are named Hansel and Gretel. All deans, are, of course, named
Attila.)
But I digress. Leander, the professor, has just been offered a
job by Attila, the dean, and he replies, "Thank you, but I
don't think so."
"And I don't blame you," says Attila, stoutly. "I under­stand
Kroveny has a fine little library."
"\\Tell, it's not too bad," says Leander. "We have 28 volumes
in all, including a mint copy of Nancy Drew, Girl Detective."
"Very impressive," says Attila. "Us now, we have 36 million
volumes, including all of Shakespeare's first folios and the Dead
Sea Scrolls."
."Oolly whiskers," says Leander.
"But of course," says Attila, "you don't want to leave
Kroveny where, I am told, working conditions are tickety-boo~"
"Oh, they're not too uad," says Leander. "I teach 18 hours
of English, 11 hours of optometry, 6 hours of forestry, eoach the
fencing team, and walk Prexy's'cat twice a day."
"A full, rich life," says Attila. "At our school you'd be some­what
less active. You'd teach one class a week, limited to four A
students. As to salary, you'd start at £50,000 a year, with
retirement at full pay upon reaching age 29."
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GOLDER
"Sir," says Leander, "your offer is most fair but you must
understand that I owe a certain loyalty to Kroveny."
"I not only understand, I applaud," says Attila. "But before
you make a final decision, let me tell you one thing more. We
supply '!:arlboro cigarettes to our faculty-all you want at aU
times."
."Gloryosky!" cries Leander, bounding to his feet. "You mean
Marlboro, the filter cigarette with the unfiltered taste­Marlboro,
the cigarette with better makin's-Marlboro that
comes to you in pack or box-Marlboro that gives you such a
lot to like?"
"Yep," says Attila, "that's the Mal:lboro I mean."
"t am yours," cries Leander, wringing the Dean's hand.
"\V~?ere do I sign?"
HAt the quarry," replies Attila. "Frankly, we don't trust
papel'.contmcts any more. We chisel them in marble."
St01!-€cutters cut it in stone, woodcutters cut it in wood,
seal1;!str,esses embroider it in doilies: you get a lot to like
in a Marlboro-filter, flavor, pack or box.
The Connecticut Intercollegi­ate
Student Legislature will hold
its annual convention in Hart­ford
on March 9, 10, 11.
Michael Hurley, '62, is the
State Chairman of CISL, and
will serve as governor of the
state during the three day con­vention.
Sean Dunphy, '62, will be the
whip for the Fairfield delega­tion.
Mr. Dunphy explained that
in this position he will be in­forming
the delegation of Fair­field's
policies on the various
bills and candidates.
The Senior delegate to the
mock legislature is Robert John­son,
'62, the Junior delegate is
Thomas Connors, '63. These men
will lead the campaign to pass
the bills to be proposed by the
Fairfield delegation. Mr. Con­nors
is also a candidate for Ma­jority
Leader of the House.
Mr. Ernest Webby and Mr.
Michael Delaney will propose
one bill ealling for aid to mi­grant
workers. The second bill
which provides for aid to 'priv­ate
institutions for the mentally
retarded will be introduced by
Mr. Gino Ferreri and Mr. Joseph
Brodigan.
Mr. Nattie Bumpo, leader of
the campus custodian move­ment,
recently emptied ,a harrel.
TH.E STAG
CISL Convenes Mar. 9;
I;'U Sponsors Two Bills
the development of the art have
been made by the American
Negro musician, who must be
recognized as the most power­ful
force in jazz. These contri­butions
have finally been ac­knowledged,
giving him the
opportunity to raise his public
image considerably, and conse­quently,
that of his race.
Each type of jazz has its own
particular appeal, as do the im­provisations
peculiar to each
jazz artist. Certainly everyone
has heard of Dixieland and
Swing, just two facets of an
entire musical world. Modern
Jazz takes many forms: Cool
stresses the intellectual, Soul or
Funky the earthy and emotional,
Hard" Bop technical agility at
furio;l,Is tempos, Third Stream
the desire of several modern
contempqrary and jazz compos­ers
to combine the forms of
classical music with the vigor
of jazz. Hecently the New Thing
movement has daringly sought
to extend the boundades of jazz
even further. Understanding the
music requires a bit of patience
and direction in listening, as we
shall see in the next column
yet the reward is all the emo~
tional fulfillment and intellec­tual
satisfaction that a pulsat­ing
living art can offer.
Why listen to jazz? Its spon­taneous
nature is rooted in the
intellect and the emotions, so
that when a jazz artist plays he
is expressing his particular de­lights,
woes, 'sarcasms, frustI'a­tions.
Never can we know
enough about life, but through
the looking glass of jazz music
and the expressions of the jazz
musician, we can witness a cry­stallization
of human feeling.
THE JAZZ WORD
Interest has recently been
shown in drilling for ·oil in the
Bellarmine playground to 'Sup­plement
funds for the Univer­sity
expansi'On program.
Why Listen to Jazz?
One searching for musical
validity will discover, in jazz
music, a middle ground which
embodies enough of the intel­lectual
appeal of classical music
without sacrificing the raw
emotion of rock and roll. Neither
the unschooled musician nor the
one whose creations depend
solely on technique will find a
place in today's jazz world. Mod­ern
music, with its many intri­cacies,
requires that the artist
have technical facility and a
thorough knowledge of music
theory. At the same time, he
should have the ability to excite
some emotional response within
the listener. He must be able to
communicate those feelings root­ed
in his soul.
As an art form, jazz stands
alone as the only original con­tribution
to the arts that Amer­ioa
'can claim. Our very nation,
composed as it is of interwoven
cultures, finds a superb parallel
in its native mu~iv, the product
of a 300 year-01d blending of the
best European and West African
musical traditions. Jazz is truly
an American music.
If .you're in,terested in jazz,
you're interesteq in things Amer