Stag - Vol. 15, No. 06 - November 27, 1963

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Winning the Peace •
IS a Lonely Battle
Vol. 15, No.6 Published by Stu~ents of Filh·J;_l~ University, Fairfield. Conn. ' . November 27, 1963
SC ~e~ats~elevi~ion~otion~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After Seven Roll-Call Votes Students, Faculty Join In Mass
To Mourn Dead Chief-of-State
HURRICANES S~OR'M
WIN~ER CARNIVAL
Fire Wrecks Ffld. Crier;
Offset .Camera ~estroyed
Concert To Aid
Gifted Students
The Bellarmine Se r i e s of
Fatrfield University is spon­ooring
a scholarship concert to
aid a musically inclined yet·
needy student at the University.
The featured work of the con­cert
which will take place at the
Klein Memorial in Bridgeport
on ·December 7 will be "Missa
Solemnis Brevis" in honor of st.
Margaret, written by John L.
.Bonn, Sr. of Waterbury, 93 year
old father of Rev. John L. Bonn,
S. J. of the Un~-versity facul~y.
Professor Bonn, in this Mass,
has proven that a short compo­sition
can be just as solemn and
festive' as the larger Masse~
which have been abandoned by
the Church as entirely unsuit­able
to her divine liturgy, and
has given full expression to.
the text in a concise and at~
tractive manner.
Member~ of the committee
working to make the evening a
.success are: Mrs. James S.
Becke~.LJr., TrumbUll; Mrs•.
John Barone, Fairfield; Mrs.
Alex Ross, Wilton; Mrs. Ray­mond
Martin, Norwalk; Mrs.
James V. Joy, Bridgeport; Mrs•
Hubert Roth, Fairfield; Mrs.
Bernard A. Gilhuly, Fairfield;
and Dr. Marie Jaeger and Dr.
Eileen Lord, both ofthe Univer­sity
of Bridgeport.
Reservations for the concert
may be obtained by calling 255­1011,
Extension 214; Mrs.
Brendan O'Kelly uf We s ton,
227-2162, or Mrs. Philip Dun­ning.
of Westport, 227-3558:
la.rge 'offset printing c-amera on
the lower floor of the plant and
caused heavy damage to several
,printing machines on the main
floor. A block-lo.ng Gass photo
offset press install.ed a year
ago was put temporarily out of
commission in the blaze which
wrecked the Post Road plant.
In addition to The STAG, the.
Fairfield Press Company com­poses
and prints 11 Progresso,
the largest Italian daily news­paper
in America, and· pub­lishes
their own twice-:weekly
newspaper "The Town Crier."
The firm made immediate
plans to move. the location of·
the plant from 1150 Post Road
to a vacant bUilding a few blocks .
down the Post Road owned by·
the Williamson-BrooKs Com-·
pany. Meanwhile, members of
the composing staffwere trans- ,
ferred to temporary locations
where the company arranged to
use equipment. Workers from
the Crier went to the Bridge­port
Herald while others (11
Progresso) went to New Jersey
and New York where the Italian
. newspaper is being temporarily
composed and printed.
In this edition of the STAG
the editors had expected alter­ations
in the process used in
pUblishing the last four is·sues.
In September, members of the
staff took over the complete
composition of the paper them-.
selves, a process known as
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The couples at the Frida¥
night Formal Prom will dancf
to the strains ofthe Intonatiom'.
This orchestra, which was
"well received" at last year's
Carnival, will return to the
Longshore Country Club on
January 31.
The Saturday afternoon picnic
Prom & Indoor Picnic·
The fire'-ivhich swept through
the Fairfield Press Company
(Town Crier) in the early hours
of November 17 destroyed a
Students and faculty oJ the
University P'lrticipated .at Mass
in memory of President· John
Fitzgerald Kennedy at 4:45 p.m.
Friday, only three hours after the
.young and personable 35th Chief
of State was cut down by an
assassin's bullet on a Dallas,
Texas main street.
.University students joined
Dallas, Washington and the nation
in stunned reaction to the abrupt
and tragic news which spread
through the campus within min­utes.
Within an hour there was
nothing to report. The President
was dead. Texas .Governor Con­nally
was in satisfactory condi­tion
in the Parkland Hospital in
Dallas. '
Bewildered students wandered
in and out of television lounges
and more than a few wept openly
in the wake of the sorrowful and
historic event which resulted in
what first reports termed, "A
Disturbance in Dallas."
For the STAG and the Univer­sity
words and time will not.
allow the epitaph which the man
demands. Forget the epitaph,
though, and take up the song.
God Bless .... God Bless.
. singers placed as "Top In­strumental
Group of 1959" in
the Cashbox popularity polls and
in the same year won England's
Silver Disk Award for the re­cord
"Red River Rock".
In 1960, Johnny and the Hur­ricanes
headlined in a United·
states - Canada tour of General
Artists Corporation's "The
Biggest ShowofStars for 1960" •
The remainder of that year took
the Hurrioanes on an inter­national
tour which included the
British Isles, Europe, Aus­tralia,
New Zealand, Japan and
Hawaii. .
The Informal Dance, on the
evening of Feb. 1 will be held
in the back gym.
JOHNNY PARIS
Johnny and the Hurr:icanes,
of "Crossfire" and "Down Yon­der"
fame, will provide the en­tertainment
for the Informal
Dance Of the 1964 Winter Car­nival.
The qUintet of rock 'n roll
constitution which allowed such
a motion. O'Marra pas sed
twice, voted in favor ofthe reg­~
lation, "yes" twice, and "no"
three times.
Leo Paquette '65, who intro­duced
the original motion early
. in . November, remarked that I
".Kappenberg's argument was all
'but "irrefutable," and charged
the Council with "medieval log­ie-
chopping and bringing up un­foreseen
g ran d i 0 s e circum­stances."
At one point, visibly disturbed
at Qontinual' interjections on
points of procedure, Paquette
let loose on O'Marra in a fiery
exchange of words. "Mr.
O'Marra) what are you trying
to do. here? Let's stop all of
this and get some workdone."
O'Marra defended his right to
floor, but Davidson returned the
Council to Paquette who apolo­gized
and then told the Council
that if '~we cannot pass a regu­lation
like this we might as
well disband; we can't do any­thing
if we can't do this."
After an hour of discussion
the Council moved to a roll call
vote. In favor of the regulation
were: Bradford, Keene, De­Luca,
Schuck, and Paquette. Op­posed
were: Stone, Massey,
Santangelo, Della Bitta, Burke,
and Ahearn. Duquette abstained
while O'Marra and Davidson
. passed. At the end of the vote
O'Marra voted "yes" creating
a tied situation. The Council
called upon Davidson to cast his
vote. The president asked sev-continued
on page 2, col. 2
The Brid&eport Area Club of
Fairfield University will present
its Annual In t e r coli e g i ate
Thank~giving Dance'. at the
Knights of Columbus Hall, 2500
Park Avenue, Bridgeport, Con­necticut
(across from St. Mar-·
garet's Shrine), on Friday, No­vember
29, 1963 from 8:30 p.m.
-- 1:00 a.m.
The donation will be $3.00 per.
couple for members, and $3.50
a couple for non-members. Ice
and mixers will be provided, and
the dress is semi-formal.
Those interested JI). ob.t~ining
tickets should contact James
.Lombard, ticket chairman, at·
378-0926.
B.A.C.
Student council representa­.
tives voted last Thursday to re­quest
an explanation for the re­striction
of freshman and soph­omores
at the recent showing of
"La Dolce Vita." Acceptance of
the motion followed strong ar­guments
favoring positive ac­tion
by the Council in this situ­ation.
At the same meeting angry .
outbursts, lengthy discussions
on procedure and seven calls
for re-voting by roll call plagu­ed
the Council in its reconsider­ation
and final defeat of a motion
calling for the regulation of
campus televisions.
John Kappenberg '64, not a
member of the Student Council,
presented. an argument favoring
the motion in which he Said,
"At e d u cat io n al institutions
some people are interested in
educattllg themselves whi I e
others are interested in acquir­ing
a degree. I think it is in the
philosophy of this institution
that the rights come first to
those who want to further their
education." Kappenberg cited
several television shows which.
could be used in conjunction
with educational mat t e r and
concluded by saying that he
realized he was ask i n g the
Council to vote in favor of the
philosophy of the University and
against a majority rule. "Ifthis
.is an educational institution and
education t a k e s precedence·
over majority rule then I do not
see hOw the Council could fail to
pass this motion."
While the majority of the
members hailed the argument,
discussion arose as to the right
of the Council to take action on
such matters. Jerry' Hemenway
'65, who, on the 1?asis of his
off-campus s tat u s, abstained
during seven roll calls, said he
felt it was the role of the Dean
of Men to invoke such a regula­tion.
DelegatJ! Tom O'Marra '64
suggested several possibilities
to Kappenberg which would
make it difficult to enforce the
rUle, but O'Marra maintained
that the Council should take.
the action themselves, and
pointed out the section· of the
Page Two November 27, 1963
DECK THE HALLS
•
Senior Spectacul~r
Following an indoor picnic the
second phase of SENIOR SPEC­TACULAR,
'and perhaps the most
successful, got under way. A
good sized crowd, and an ex­cellent
style of music made the
evening one of enjoyment for all
who at ten d e d. The following
afternoon a Hootenanny show was
presented in GonzagaAuditorium
which proved to be diversified
and entertaining. Negro spiritual
singer Dick Porter showed unique
and outstanding talent. Senior.­Spectacular
chirmen Ron Bianchi
and Tom- Mettling appraised the
weekend as a success, and
thanked all who contributedo to
making it so.
• •
(Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!"
and "Barefoot Boy With Cheek".)
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a/!~ke kf/TlOdO W8~ Cell!tiSMPtf!
The ho-liday season or any other season is the season to be
jolly-if Marlboro is your brand. You'll find Marlboros wher­ever
cigarettes are sold in all fifty states of the Union. You- .
get a lot to like in Marlboro Country.
The time has come to think of Christmas shopping, for the
Yuletide will be upon us quicker than you can say Jack Robin­
·son. (Have you ever wondered, incidentally, about the origin
of this interesting phrase "Quicker than you can say Jack
Robinson"? Well sir, the original saying was French-"Plus
vite que de dire Jacques Robespierre." Jack Robinson is, as every­one
knows, an Anglicization of Jacques Robespierre who was,
as everyone knows, the famous figure from the French Revolu­tion
who, as everyone knows, got murdered in his bath by
Danton, Murat, Caligula, and AI Capone.
(The reas~n people started saying "Quicker than you can
say Jacques Robespierre"-or Jack Robinson, as he is called in
English-speaking countries like England, the U.S., and Cleve­land-
is quite an interesting little story. It seems that Robes­pierre's
wife, Georges Sand, got word of the plot to murder
her husband in his bath. All she had to do to save his life was
call his name and warn him. But, alas, quicker than she could
say Jacques Robespierre,she received a telegram from her old
friend Frederic Chopin who was down in Majorca setting lyrics
to his immortal "Warsaw Concerto." Chopin said he needed
Georges Sand's help desperately because he could not find a
rhyme for "Warsaw." Naturally, Georges could not refuse
such an urgent request.
(Well' sir, off to Majorca went Georges, but before she left,
she told her little daughter Walter that some bad men were
coming to murde::- Daddy in his bath. She instructed Walter
to shout Robespierre's name the moment the bad men arrived.
But Walter, alas, had been sea-bathing that morning on the
Riviera, and she had come home with a big bag of salt water
taffy, and when the bad men arrived to murder Robespierre,
Walter, alas, was chewing a wad of taffy and could not get her
mouth unstuck in time to shout a warning. Robespierre, alas,
was murdered quicker than you could say Jacques Robespierre
-or Jack Robinson, as he is called in English-speaking countries.
(There is, I am pleased to report, one small note of cheer
in this grisly tale. When Georges Sand got to Majorca, she did
succeed in helping Chopin find a rhyme for "Warsaw" as every­one
knows who has heard those haunting lyrics:
In the fair town of Warsaw,
Which Napoleon's horse saw,
Singing cockles and mussels, alive alive o!)
But I digress. .
We were speaking of Christmas gifts. What we all try to
find at Christmas is, of course, unusual and distinctive gifts for
our friends. May I suggest then a carton of Marlboro Cigarettes?
What? You are astonished? You had not thought of Marlboros
as unusual? You had regarded them as familiar, reliable smokes
. whose excellence varied not one jot nor tittle from year to year?
True. All true. But all the same, Mar/boros are unusual be-
. cause every time you try one, it's like the first time. The flavor
never palls, the filter never gets hackneyed, the soft pack is
ever a new delight, and so is the Flip Top box. Each Mar~boro
is a fresh and priktine pleatmre, and if you want all your friends
to clap their hands and cry, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa
Claus I" you will see that their stockings are filled 'Yith Marl­boros
on Christmas morn. © 1963 Max ShWmaD
Conference on Automation..; De-
'troit Research Institute); A
Bank'S Computer Service Bu­reau
Approach (A.B.A. Banking
magazine August - 1963; and
MICR Commercial Applications
~Fourth National Conference on
Automation - Detroit Research
Institute). '
Zinser has taught on the grad­uate
level at the University of
Hartford Graduate School of
Business Administration.
B.B.R. To Sponsor
Lecture By Zinser
(:ISL: Delegation'
Presenting Bills
voted with the majority. Rules
indicate that a pass must be
changed to a positive, negative
or abstaining status before the
ballot is complete. In the tfal
two ballots Davidson voted "no"
with the majority.
In the wake of the defeat,
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As part of the Management
Techniques Course sponsored
by the Bureau of Business Re­.
search of the .University, Alan
J. Zinser, Manager ofthe Aiito~
'mated Accounting. C en t e r of
Connecticut, a computer ser­vice
bureau d i v is ion of the
Waterbury National Ban~, will.
lecture ort "Control Functions,
the Computer, and the Small
Manufacturer" tonight at 7:30
p.m. in Canisius Hall on the
campus.
A graduate of Wesleyan Uni­versity,
Zinser received his M•
.B. A. degree from the Harvard
Graduate School of Business
Administration. Zinser'S re­cent
publications include: Com­puter
Services - ASmall Bank'S
Opportunities (Third National
'the Philip-Morris Company ana
ran until Nov. 14. The winners'
had been collecting the packs
for the past year.
Freshette '66 is Assistant,
news editor of The Stag.
:to'airfield's delegation to the
Connecticut Intercollegiate stu­dent
Legislature, lead by dele­gate
Joseph Brodigan '64, will
present two bills at the groups
annual convention in Hartford.
They are, "Truth in Lending
Law", and a measure to change
tlie Food and Drug Law.
The convention draws repre­sentatives
from all of the ma-
. jor colleges and univerSities in
the state •. The 'Truth in Lending
bill is being drawn up by Paul
Rooney, ,64 and the amendment
to the Food and Drug Law by
Peter Lingua '64. The delega­tion
is going to Yale on Decem- .
ber 8, and will launch a cam­,
paign to have some of its mem­bers
selected to serve as com­mittee
chairmen. The other of­ficers
of the club are Lawrence
Wagner '65, Junior Delegate;.
Joseph Pagano '64, the treas-,
urer and Robert Rooney. '65,
secretary. Dr. Vail i~ !jioder-ator
of the club. .
MARLBORO COUNTRY
Gene Boffa and Claude Fresh­ette
won the Marlboro Brand
Round-Up Cont6j;t with a com-.
bined total of 24,000 boxes. The­prizes'
we~e a portable tele­vision
and ahi-fi stereo.
~. contest was spon:-=s""occr-e~d~b-y
COUNCIL
Continued from Page 1, Col,2
eral questions of the motion,
and O'Marra made it clear that a
·two-thirds majority could not be
attained even' with his vote.
Davidson then abstained and
called a five minute recess.
Following the r e c e s s six
more votes were called in which
Davidson pas,sed fou: times the~
Glee Club and played mtramural
, basketball. With the beginning
lof his sophomore year came the
birth of the "Dukes", a band
well-known to Fairfield stu­dents.
Jim was Assistant Chair-
·man of the Freshman Orienta­tion
Committee and Chairman
of the Dogwood Fe,stival. He
has been an officer in the Edu­cation
Club for the past two
years and is currently' ~ice-
,president of the senior class.
Among other things he devotes
his attention to the Cardinal
Key Society, the Year Book
Staff and the st. Ives Pre­Legal
Society. Jim's major is
history and after graduation he
plans to go t~ law school.!-.
Commenting on Fairfield's'
progress, Jim said "I was ver.y
prOUd of the. College Bowl Team
·and I think their contribution did
as much, if not more, for the
representation of the school
. than any of our athletic or Glee
Club accomplishments."
'JAMES WHITE '64,
CAMPUS PERSONALITY
By Ed Schuck
"The object ofthe Intramural
Program, this year, is to create
enough diversified activity so
that every stu dent can find
something in which he can par­ticipate."
Commissioner of In..;
tramurals, Jim White, has the
job of handling this project. He
intends to achieve this goal by
running events such as a pool
tournament during the winter
and a tennis tournament during
the spring. other events are
also tentatively planned.
Jim lives in Fairfield, Con­necticut,
and graduated from
Fairfield Prep where he ex­celled
in baseball, / basketball
and cross country.
During his freshman. year at
the University Jim sang for the
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Father Laurence MUllin, S.J.,
recently told 117 students that·
"Alcoholism is a health problem
of major importance, ranking
with cancer, mental illness and
heart disease."
The speaker, in a lecture No­vember
19, said that there are:
5 million known American alco­holics,
but this fact tells little
or nothing of the immeasurable
effects felt by approximately 25
million other innocent people
(relatives, f r i end s and as - .
sociates).
The lecture, sponsored by the
Mendel ClUb, was followed by a
30 minute movie, "Alcoholism:
The Revolving Door."
Alcoholism
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.SC Food Committee
Hears Caf. Complaints
The Student Council- has
initiate'd a Food Committee to
deal with the problems arising
fro m student dissatisfaction
with the Cafeteria food. The
committee resulted from a visit
by Fr. Mccormick, James Du­quette
and James Davidson, to
Mr. Niedermyer the President
of the Beechmont Dairy, which
holds the food contract for
Loyola Cafeteria.
Suggestions and criticisms as
to the type and quality of the food
resulted in the formation of a
committee to meet every three
weeks with Mr. Niedermyer to
register any complaints and
discuss changes. The commit­tee
will include the four class
. president.s and James Davidson,
Student council president.
The members of this Com­mittee'
are available to hear the
complaint of any student at any
time or written complaints can
be h~nded into the Council of­fice.
Mr. Nledermyer was con­sulted
rather than authorities
at the' university, because it Is
believed he can look upon the
situation with objectivity.
, Page Thre~
F.U. Gets $16,556,Grant,
For Cancer Drug Research
BRIDGEPORT
The Connecticut sOciety"ot
Certified Public Accountants
'awarded scholarships to four
University students majoring
in accounting last week, accord­ing
to Thomas J. Fitzpalrick, '
Professor of Accounting and
Bus1ness at the University.
William J. Hoehler '64, 18
Buckingham .Road, Cresskill,
New Jersey; and David J. At­tianese
'64,2335 Madison Aven­ue,
Bridge po rt, Connecticut,
received $150 each. Receiv1ng
$50 scholarships wereJamesJ.
Mulville, Jr. '65, 116 Bucking­ham
Street, Waterbury, Con­necticut;
and Michael J. Kelly
'65, 284 Fulton Avenue, Jersey
City, New Jersey.
The scholarships were pre­sented
by John H. Venman,
Secretary of the Educational
Trust Fund on November 19.
The grants are designed to en-:
courage outstand1ng students to"
en t e r the Public Account1ng
field.
Debators Get
Near Victory
4 Students Win
CPA Scholarships
Debators from lhe Robert
, Bellarmine Debate Society­"
came within a hair of their
'first tournament victory on
'October 16 when they finished
second in the Central Connec­ticut
State College Invitational
Debate Tournament. A Fair­field
team composed of Vincent
, Scribinski '65, Steve Kiley '67,
Tom Callahan '67 and Harry
Riss~tto '65 compiled a recorp
of 4 wins and 2 loses, which
.placed them second, behind a
team from the University of
Connecticut which finished the
day with a five and one re­cord;
Teams from the Univer­sity
of Rhode Island, Univer­sity
of Connecticut and South­ern
Connecticut State College
were among the participating
schools. In the final tabulations
Harry Rissetto received a cer~
tificate as the Best Negative
Speaker in the tournament. This
is the first time a Fairfield
team has finished either first
or second in a tournament and
it marks (as a spokesman for
the club put it), I'The first
step in' the rejuvenaticn of Fo­rensics
at Fairfield". In re­cent
weeks the team partici­pated
iil a tournament at thE
College of New Rochelle where
they ,finished seventh out of
eightenn schools, with four
wins, four losses. At this tour­nament,
which included teams
from C.C.N. Y., Fordham, St.
Peters, and St, Johns, Fair­field
was represented by Tom
Oligino '65, Art Donnelly"67,
Don King '66 and Harry Tis­setto
'65. This year inter­scholastic
debates' have beer.
held with Good Counsel and AI­bertus
Magnus, and forthcom­ing
contests include debatE!s
with teams from New Rochelfe,
Fordham, Marymount, lona and
Yale. The debate team which
thus far has -a 10 and 8 re­cord
is moderated by Father
Albert Reddy S.J.
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'; was in the Army for two years,
.: rlSl;;t" to the' rank of SP.4
(equivilent to corporal), and
Con'n,o. C'1ief. Barnes, presently
enrolled in B.S.S., intends to
switch to B.B.A. next year.
Fitzpatrick McCovern, and
Barnes ran on the same platform
iand campaigned in a un'it. When
lasked to explain the proposed
Freshman Committee, Fitz-'
patrick said, "The Committee
will be selected by the elected
officers next week. It will be
proportioned am on g t h r ee
groups: the dormitory students,
the Off-campus boarders, and'
the commuters. In this way, the
off-campus students will have.
more representation." . .
Egan, who ran independently,
thought that the idea of the com­'
mittee had been misrepresented
to the students. "It's not a re­presentative
body," said Egan,
"only an appointed group. It's a
good idea but it needs more
work. It's similar to the pre­sident;
s cabinet; it's not re­presentative."
The new secretary, McGovern,
said, "As of now there is no
unity among the three g-roups.
With the committee, there will be
two representatives from each
floor in Loyola, two off-campus
boarders, and two day-hOps.
Also, I think the new student
council constitution is a good
idea."
Expressing the opinion of the
.committee for the Fitzpatrick­McGovern-
Barnes ticket, Barnes
said, "It's great; we're pushing'
it. I'm a conservative and I think
the poWff of the class officers
would be checked by the commit­tee.
It will triple the chances of
the students' ideas getting to us
and the Student Council." Of the
new StUdent Council constitution,
Barnes said, "As I see it now
it's under revision, but I think·
the idea of a three branch govern-,
ment is 11'000."
The new officers cover every
phase of the freshman class.
Fit:,patrick and Mc<..overn live
on t;le second and tJ1ird flol'r~
of Loyola respectively; Egan il:'
:ar off-campus boarder; and
Ba~'~es is a day-hOp.
COUNCIL
..~ .
ELECTED: Officers of the Freshmen blass, elected last
week, are from left, front row: Jim Egan, Vice Presidemt;
Paul Barnes, Treasurer; second row; Kevin McGovern,
~ecr~tary, and Gerald Fitzpatrick, President.
Continued from Page 2, Col. 3
Jim Duquette raised a new mo­tion
ask1ng for $35 for an adver­tisement
1n. the Bas k etb all
Yearbook being sponsored by
the Athletic Association. The
motion was seconded and the
question was moved. However,
O'M!U'ra stated a po1nt oforder
say1ng that the two-thirds ma­jority
required to move the
.question under Robert's Rule,
which governs procedure 1n the
Council. has not been reached'
in the vote. Ken Keene,parlla-,
mentarian, said he was not sure
of the exact rui1ng but he felt'
the chair should accept a simple
majority, which it did.O'Marra
appealed the decision of the
chair and read the passage call­1ng
for two-thirds vote to the
CounCil. In a vote on the appeal
the C 0 u n c 11 reached a t w0­thirds
majority 1n favor of the
chair and the simple majority
ruled by the parliamentarian
was effected. The motion was
passed.
In other Council activity dur­ing
the week, Davidson ap­proached
the Cardinal Key So­ciety
with a plan Whereby he
would res i g n his ex-officio
membership 1n the Key. David­son
told the Student Council at
the time' of his election that
he planned to turn down the
membership and hoped to place,
a student of his choice 1n the
Key position. As of the end of
last week Davidson had not re­signed,
and Key president,
Charles Bialowas '64 told The
STAG that, "positive action
cannot be taken by the Key until
Jim decides definitely whether
to accept or reject his eX-OffiCio
seat." I
,Fitzpatrick Freshmen Prexy;'
Officers Propose Committee
BY J. STANDISH
Gerald Fitzpatrick was elected .
Freshman Class Pre~ident last.
,week in a large' turnout hy the
class of '67 at-the .polls. Fitz­patrick,
son of Mayor and Mrs.
Francis Fit"L,patrick of Bayonne,
N.J., is an A.B., Greek student
from St~ Peter's·Prep. in Jersey
City. AlsO elected were Kev,in
.McCovern, secretary; P au 1
Barnes, treasurer; and Bill Egan,
vice-president.
Egan, a B.S.S. major from De
La Salle Academy in Newport,
R.L, ,is the son of Mrs. John J.
'Egan of Newport. McGovern gra­duated
from Seton Hall Prep in
West Orange, N.J. He is the son
elf Mr. ,andMrs:John McGovern,
of Mountainside, N.J. Tile new
treasurer, Barnes, lives with his
mother; Mrs. Maree E. Barnes,
in Westport. After graduatil1["
from Iona Prep, Barr.es spent a'
year at Iona College and. then
Fairfield University will have
the distinction of enjoying New'
England's first Pre-Dental Club.
The club is open ta all students
interested in dentistry and will
endeavor to give insight into all
fields of dentistry and the re­quirements
for admission into
various dental schools. A 'con­stitution
Is being drawn up and
will soon be submitted to the
Student Covernment for accep­tance.
President Sheldon Katsoff '65
announced that because of the
pioneer nature of the club, the
Alllerican Dental Magazine and
some of the local newspapers
will be doing articles. on the
club. Katsoff also announced that
in addition to a program of
speakers and movies the club
is planning a field trip to King's
County Medical Hospital to ob­serve
the dental clinic there:
Dr. Karazulas,· a graduate of
Fairfield and Temple Universi­Les
and presently a practicing
dentist in Bridgeport,' will act
as moderator for the [roup,
Roland Zwiebel '65 and Stephen
Vogel '66 were elected vice­president
and secretary.
Plastic Surgery, Program
Slated for December lO
FU Pre-Dental Cub:
- 1s1 In New England
of Research and Graduate Sci­ence
at Fairfield emphasized'
that faculty researCh, 1n addi­tion
to such results as it may
uncover, is a vital part of the
modern educational process.
For full educational impact,
student participation 1n the work
is vital. Funds made available
by the new grant enable one
senior chemistry major to as­sist
. in the National Cancer
Institute pro j e c t. Another
chemistry m a j 0 r in related
work is supported by a $1,000
grant from the Women's Auxil­iary
of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. Related research will be
done by two others.
Such student and faculty re­search
requires 1ncreasingly
expensive 1nstruments as sci­ence
becomes more sophisti­cated.
Grants from the National
Science Foundation and the
Atomic Energy Commission to
Fairfield's chemistryandphys­ics
departments have resulted
in the purchase of over $60,000
worth of equipment.1n the last
year and a half. This, 1n turn,
has made possible the effecting
of curricula revisions. This
program of study and research
aided the University in securing'
approval by the American
: approval by the American
Chemical Society, mak1ng F31r­field
one of the 300 out of the
nation's 2000 colleges and uni­versities
wh ic h have s u c h
standing.
Reconstructive plastIc s u r­gery
involves both physical and
psychological factors. In the
needs for such surgery, and
in its consequences, these fac­tors
are dynamically related.
December 10, at 8: 30 p.m.,
in Gonzaga 'Auditorium, Fair-
, field University, the Psychology
and Mendel Clubs will c'o-spon- .
sor a lecture on reconstructive
plastic surgery. The prQgram
will have as its format the
dual set of factors involved.
Christopher We at her 1y­White,
M. D. (Harvard Univer­sity),
will speak on "TheTheo­ries
and Techniques of Plastic
Surgery." Dr. Murphy is a
clinical psychologist with apri­vate
practice in Westport, Conn.
A reception in Loyola Lounge,
Loyola Hall will follow the lec­ture.
'
Fr. Eiardi Aids
Summer Tour
Catholic Travel League has
announced tt{~ appointment of
Reverend Anthony J. 'Eiardi,
S.J. of Fairfieid University,
Fairfield, Connec tic u t , as
Spiritual Director of the 1964
SUMMER PILGRIMAGE to the
famous Shrines of Europe.
Members of the group will
depart New York aboard the
t o'tt e r d a ni orthe Holland
America Line on July 17th.
,The well-planed itinerary of
five weeks includes visits to
eight countries ,- England,
France,Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, Italy, Spain and Portu­gal.
Among the Shr.ines of the
Blessed Virgin to be visited
are Walsingham in England,
Rue du Bac and Lourdes in
,France, Einsiedeln in Switzer­land,
the renowned "Mater Ad­mirabllis"
in Rome, Montser­rat
in Barcelona, and Fatima
in Portugal. '
, An Extension to Ireland will
be offered for those who wish
to enjoy the beautyoftheEmer­aId
Isle before returning home.
Early registration is urged
in order to avoid disappoint­ment.
For further information
,please write Catholic Travel
League, 1841 Broadway, New
York 23, New York or telephone.
Columbus 5-7800.
Fairfielcf'has been awarded a
new three year grant bytheNa­tional
Cancer Institute of the U.
, S. Public Health Service to'sup­port
the research of Dr. John A.
Barone"Professor of Chemis­try
in the field of potential can­cer
drugs. The gran t totals
$16,556 with $6,774 allocated
for the first year and the re­mainder
approved by the Na­tional
Advisory Co u n c 11 for
Cancer but with allocation de­pending
on funds be1n~' made
available by Congress dur1ng
, the 'proper fiscal year.
Dr. Barone has already re­ceived
over $25,000 1n grants
from the National Cancerlnsti­tute
and the National Science
Foundation 1n suppOrt' of his
pl'evious work on the study of the
preparation and properties of
compounds which might be can­cer'
antimetabolites.
The program at this stage of
development 1nvolves a number
of different fa c e t s1ncluding
methods for the incorporation
of carbon-fluor1ne groups into
nucleic acid bases (they con­trol
cell growth and develop­ment)
1n place of the usual
carbon-hydrogen groups and the,
preparation of and spectroscop­ic,
studies on new compounds re- '
lated to nucleic acid bases ,and
certain of the B-vitamins.
The scientific merit of the,
past work has been recognized
by the pUblishing of various
papers to the American Chem­istry
and the presentation of a
paper to the American Chemical
Society's Division of Medicinal
Chemistry. The research at the,
University is part of a massive,
effort aga1nst cancer be1n.g wag-,
ed by government and private
agencies.
Dr. Barone states that he
has been fortunate 1n hav1ng
the biological work on his new
materials done by such col­laborators
as Dr. James F;
Holland, Chief of Medicine at
Roswell Park Memorial Insti­tute,
the New York State Can-.
cer center 1n Buffalo, and Dt
Robert Guthrie of Children's
Hospital, Buffalo, who has re-
'ceived wide 'acclaim for his'
method of detect1ng phenylke­tonuria
in 1nfants.
Dr. Barone, who is Director
November 27, 1963
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'Claude Frechette,
Sean Maloney '66
theme, the film maker has made use of
some highly sensational subject matter.
These shocking scenes, however, are
never exploited for sensual delight; on the
contrary, their shock value is intended to
generate a salutary recognition of eml as
evil, sin as sin."
The Jesuit monthly, "Catholic Mind"
(March, '62), gave the film high praise
on its religious and moral aspects. It
points out that the film is a modern
interpretation of St. John's Apocalypse and
that it traces "the dangerous decline in
contemporary moral standards which has
led modern man'to the brink of disaster..
The Cod of 'La Dolce Vita' is not an
avenging God, but rather a God who waits
and lets deprav,ity prove its own punish­ment
for those who would embrace it.
The emptiness, the spiritual desolation,
and the desicated futility of, the 'easy
life' are terribly evident." "
Due to pressure brought on the Ad­ministration,
the showing of this film at
the University was limited to juniors and,
seniors only. We have been told that this
pressure was very great, but just what was
its nature, who were these people who
objected?
If the pressure was from outside the
school there was absolutely no right for
objection because the president ofthe film
society said at a Student Council meeting
before the movie was shown, that it was
open only to members of the sChool.'
Therefore, there could be no harm done
to any children of the residents in the
area. Why have these people refused to
make themselves known? Are they afraid,
of censorship? It seems to me that a
"righteous" person should have nothing to
hide. '
Who is. to jUdge whether this or any
other movie would be morally offensive to
the students of this campus? The Ad­ministration,
(which initially allowed the
film to be shown to all classes), is in
daily contact with us and is in a better
position to determine than some people
who have lit tIe or no contact with the
school.
What if these moralists should decide
that some of the assigned readings for
Freshman and Sophmores are immoral? It
seems that a dangerous precedence has
been set that implies that any outside group
can enter into a soverig,h institution and be
the determinate of its morals.
In the November 3, 1962 issue of Amer­ica",
Moira Walsh states that "viewers­'
with-alarm seem blissfully unaware that
the alternative (a screen which would not
reflect the unpleasant aspects of con­temporary
life along with the pleasant)
would ,be a sure menace to our Welfare
as a free nation."
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MEMBER
To the editor:
What's wrong with the present state of
folk music in this country? Jt is the so­called
"pop folk music" of the Kingston
Trio, the Limelighters, etc. that has re­juvenated
the so-called "ethnic" branch of
folk music. Your "teenage ,hootenannies
(ugh)" , you will find, still have your
cherished ethnic elements of folk lore, if
you would take time out to attend one.
I'm sorry to say that even though I'm
not a member of the "radical right" I
don't enjoy ,Bob Dylan. He should keep his
"talent" channelled to writing since it is
plainly obvious he doesn't have a voice
and can't play the gu'itar. I am also sorry
that he spoHed your ethnic outlook by
putting out such a "commercialism" as a
phonograph record, but this "commercial­ism"
was probabiy necessitated by
another - money.
Folk Singer?
{1 Soph Speaks
News: Edward SChUCk,' Stephan O'Neil, William Bums, Andrew Hogan, Michael
DeMore, Joseph Standish, Richard Meehan '
Layout: Edward SchUCk, Dennis Dickinson
Sports: WaIter Donnelley, .Carl LoGalbo . ,
Photography: Dennis Dickinson,' Gregory Wilinski, Leonard Pietrafesa, James
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Frank Zaino '66
To the editor:
Before the film "La Dolce Vita" was
imported to ,the United States, it had won
twenty-six important European fitm
awards, and its producer, Federico Fel­lini,
was ranked with.Ingmar Bergman and
Roberto Rossellini as a giant in the cine­matic
arts. It is a film immersed tn great
controversy, with its critics sharply di­vided
over its merits.
The National Leg ion of Decency has
given to this movie an A-4 rating which
"is given to certain films which, while
not morally offensive, require some an­alysis
and explanation as' a protection to
the' uninformed against wrong interpre-:
tations and false conclusions." The Fair­field
University Film Society, in booking
the film, had invited Moira Walsh, film
cr itic for "America", to speak on this
film. This fulfilled the provision of being
given an "analysis and explanation."
Miss Walsh praised the movie highly
and stated that there was nothing im­moral
in its presentation. Rather, she
praised its "shock therapy" for forcing
'people to take a critical view of their
world and not be misled by the movies
which present only the pleasantries of
life. In the January 13, 1962 issue of
America, she called it one of the year's
'ten best movies.
In its criticism of the film, the Le­gion
of Decency remarked, that "In the
cinematic development of the movie's
The President said once of success
that it has many fathers while defeat is'
an orphan. He launched us upon the tur­bulent
seas of the atomic age, and we are
left to land the ship of State success­fully",
We are alon~ Indeed, winning the
peace is a lonely battle for us today, but
we cannot shrink from OUR duty. Rather,
we too must welcome it, and find strength
in what he has left behind him.
R.I.P.
Sunday of Pentecost which paints a verbai
picture of the end of the world. Yet
that is a pictur'e of hope. It is a hope
in God. John Kennedy had a good deal of
hope in God.
All letters to the Editor must'
be submitted orie week before
yubHeation: ~t.~lers ,'must, be
sign!!d'and not exceed 110 ....(,n:,dso:'·
For all of us there' will be special
remembrances of the Pre,sident. Some
recall the activities of his', public life:
the nomination, inauguration, the life of
the fir s t family. others remember mo-.
mentary meetings and fleeting words midst
thousands of people. Friends will have
more intimate memories, and a few from
Dallas who saw the act have had imprint­ed'
on theine- minds forever the awful
vision of a great man's anguished face
and wounded body. It must have been the
face like the face of a king who dies of
wounds almost unteded and nearly alone.
His passing has not made us unaware
that the world moves, but, we find conso­'
lation in the fact that in the hurry of today's
living the world can pause a moment to
'reflect on a lost greatness which burned
with a desire to be free. Now he at least
is free, and the light still glows. For
tlle rest of humanity, perhpas we can
find some, comfort in the calm ,rapport
of the vioman he loved. That gentle lady
with her children's hands held firmly
in her own has rendered to the bereaved
world at large a final profile of the
limitless courage her husband possessed.
Please re'member in your prayers and
at Mass, Rev. John O'Brien, S.J. Fr.
O'Brien' was a former member of the
University faculty.
showing of the film and was attended in
'great numbers by freshmen and sopho­mores.
This display of support by these
two classes, realizing they could not see,
the movie, gave testimony to a sincere
interest in the art of the film and a'
maturity of view-pdint on their part.
What is the present situation? A few
are still concerned about this set-back at
the University; the majority have let this
c,risis pass and have buried the body.
The problem has not been solved. Mis­understanding
and a confused conception of
the past situation will remain forever
unless a clear, full explanation is forth­coming.
How are we to deal with a future
crisis of this nature?
If the Film Society should desire to
show another film like "La Dolce Vita"
what would be the outcome? If any campus
organiz;ltion was faced with a similar
crisis how would the Administration;sand
general public's reactions be handled?
The recent cancellation ofthe showing of
"La Dolce Vita" to freshmen and sopho­mores
remains surrounded by several un-'
knowns which have brought about much
misunderstanding and, in turn, contro­versy.
Original plans were for the showing of
the movie on November 13 to the entire
school. Approximately one week before the
scheduled date an announcement appeared
on the bulletin boards stating that freshmen
and sophomores would not be permitted to
see "La Dolce Vita" and only junior and
senior theology students would ba admit­ted.
Reasons for the about-face were at­tributed
to "outs,ide forces which have ap­plied
pressure and must be heeded." The
maturity of fr,eshmen and sophomores did
not come under direct attack nor was a
more advanced maturity of juniors and
seniors posited.
On the evening of the 13th a lecture by
film critic Moira Walsh preceded the
And Then He Was No More•••
Coffin that passes through !lines and
streets,
Through day and night with the great
cloud darkening the land,
With the pomp of the inloop'd flags with
the cities draped in black.
With the show of the States themselves
as of crepe-veil'd women standing,
With prpcessions long and winding and
the flambeaus of the night,
With the countless torches lit, with the
silent sea of faces and the unbared
heads,
With the waiting depot, the arriving cof­fin,
the somber faces,
With dirges through the night, with the
thousand v 0 ice s r ising strong and
solemn,
With all the mournful voices of the dirges
pour'd around the coffin.
The dim-lit churches and the shudder­ing
organs -'" where amid these you
journey,
With the tolling tolling bells' perpetual
clang,
Here, coffin that slowly passes,
I give you my sprig of lilac.
from - When Lilacs Last In The
Dooryard Bloom'd - Walt Whitman's
memorial to Lincoln, 1865-66
Movie Controversy
It seemed a sense of timelessness
shrouded the environs as the cortege
moved up the streets of, Washington on
Sunday a:-d down again on Monday. It
might have been the same days and
nights in 1865 When Abraham Lincoln's
funeral darkened the land.
Lincoln is for the poet of 19th century
Americana, Walt Whitman, the "power.,
ful western fallen star!" To the energetic
young Americans or'the twentieth century
workers; soldiers and students, John
Kennedy is of a similar fashion and mold.
Powerful and bursting with the joy of
living, the man stood out as a solitary
figure in a world pessimistic toward the
,new generation. He called upon us to take
up arms and hear the sounds of war and'
the sounds of peace.
He had a real1tnowledge of our intelli­gent
hopes and aspirations, and never was
there a man in American history who
laid a trust so firm and so perpetual in
our ability to achieve something in the
world. Only once in the history of the
world has the new generation been told in
terms so bloody and violent to keep the
watch' of peace long into 'the night that is
starless because the star is fallen. This
man in our lives has bequeathed to his
much-loved generation a tool, and it is
sacred to him and to us. Th'at tool is hope:
hope that lodges in our tensions and
turns them into giant dynamos of energy;
hope reflected ,in green vest{Ilents worn'
,by thep~iest" on 'last' Sunday, the final-
Shrady's Statue: Peter, Fisher
of Men.
of view. The image represents
movement, violent action, but
(and may Calder forgive me)
SCUlpture is intrinsically static: '
it freezes movement.
The artist attacks this prob­lem
by concentrating in one
dynamic line which rises from
the heels to the end of the
floating net. It has a powerful
effect; .the small figure acquires
monumental dimensions.
The dynamics could have been
further enhanced if some too
correct anatomical details - as
in the arms and hands of the
figure - would have been sacri­ficed
for harmony With the fly­ing
freedom of the whole.
• ~ork. ,The somewhat raspy
voice of Pete Seeger sings.
·"East Virginia Blues". I
suppose someone 'will say, as I
have heard several times about
Bob Dylan, "he hasn't got any
voice." I was never aware that
·a '.',good" voice was' THE re­quisite
for a folk singer. Lead­belly
was hardly a canary and
I doubt if anyone can deny his
effect on folk singing. Also pre­l;
ient is Joan Baez in one of her
first appearances. The voice is
a younger Joan than the one we
known now, but the promise of
great things to come is ap­parent.
Others include Odetta,
Ewan McColl, Ed McCurdy, The
Weavers, and many others.
Funny, the Weavers don't seem
concerned about not getting on
television's "Hootenanny".
Probably they're embarassed to
appear with such "liberals and
folk artists."
I could continue enumerating
artists but it would be tOQ"
laborious for me and for ·ani.
readers. All the singers de­serve
mention and none are pur­posely
omitted. So, if one wants
a good basic representation of
folk music, from freedom to'
fun, I suggest this collection.
It's a bit expensive, but it is
large and valuable in broad-
·ening one's horizons in the,field.
DAVE FRESCm
There is a theory that it is
best to start something at the
beginning rattIer than at the
middle or at the end. The Clas- .
sics Record Library has put out
· a four-record set called "Folk
Song and Minstrelsy." This set
makes a good addition to any
collection. It also would be a
good starting point for anyone
interested in good folk music.
I would like to give some of
my own basic ideas here and
·review an album which is basic.
The set contains more than
sixty selections. Everyone is'
legitimate folk music. Each
shows a different interpretation
or style. The amazing thing is
that with so many selections
·there is not one bastar(ilzation
as is common nowadays. I dQn't
mean to say that each and every
song wlll cause one, to .go into
a state of ecstasy or that only,
the "gung-ho" purist will en-'
joy them. The "purist" who:
holds that folk music is only,
for a certain few or says that
one must be dug out of the
compost heap to be a folk singer
holds a position just as ri­diculous
as the rock-and-roll
folk singers do. They both suf­fer
from B.O.
.The 'artists. on the records
cover just about every area.,
There is .Cisco Huston, an avid
follower .of Woody Guthrie's
Palko Lukacs Comments
OnShrady's "Fisherman"
REVIEWS
Sixty Basic SelectIons Siyle
Album Of Folk Music
Page Five'
The Stag, wishing to present a
comment backed by authority on
Shrady's "Fisherman", asked
Mr. Palko Lukacs for his opin­ion.
Mr. Lukacs is a professor
'of Fine Arts at the University.
An accomplished artist, he has
engaged in several one man ex­hibitions
in Connectic'!t, New
York City and Europe. Over this
past summer, he jUdged a rellg- ,
ious art show where works on
the style of the "Fisherman"
'were presented. Mr. Shrady
created this statue, "Peter,
Fisher of Men" , for the student
body of Fairfield University. It
is intended, to be their gift to
Pope Paul VI. The following is
the complete text of his state­ment:
• ..Andit was decreed that art
should be seyered from anyop­tical
representation of any sub­,
je.ct matter: ·anathema if any­;
thing should be conveyed by
optics, words, or ideas. Conse­'
quently the concept "religious
art" is clearly "contradictic in
·adjecto".
But man needs to find meaning
in his existence and faith urges
to be manlfest in every form of
human endeavor; Defying all the
rules it possesses itself of art,
which breaks the bars of the
. ivory tower in which anewbreed
of Scribes and Ph1l1stines is
trying to imprison it.
Shrady's "Fisherman" de­fies
the taboo of the nonobjec-.
tiveabstractexpressionist high'
priests without falling back into'.
·the lifeless realism ofthe other
academies. His bronze figure of
a man casting a net into the
waters cannot be confounded
with any old man of the sea
catching sardines, but is unmis-,
takably, uniquely the Apostle;
Fishing for the Soul of Man.
If criticism is to be applied,
then from a mere formal point.
wlll feature the Cataiinas, - a'
rock 'n roll group from the 1229.
qUb in Yonkers, N. 'l. The pic­nic
wlll be in the back gym and
the dress will be casual.
THE STAG
WINTER CARNIVAL
Continued from Page 1, Co. 3
CARMEN,
·DONNARUMMA
nAVID BANNON
Communion Breakfast
Poitier Poignant
'Among "Lilies"
The essential brotherhood of
man is shown in two ways. First,
the harmony between God-fear­ing
people of different faiths
becomes evident. This is not to
say that Homer is converted to
Catholicism as might happen in
some sloppy ,Bing Crosby type
picture dealing with the clergy.
AlSO, Sidney Poitier is a Negro.
Racial barriers are, therefore,
softly but effectively broken.
For his role in "Lilies ofthe
Field", Po1t1er was given the
Silver Bear Award for Best
ActoraHile Berlin 'FilmF'estl­.
val. He is the only one to have
,received this same prize twice.
.having previously been the win­'
ner for his part in" The Defiant
Ones". Homer Smith is a devi­ation
from the normal category',
of Poitier's Characters, yet he
displays the same sincerity and
'strength present in his other
:roles. L1l1a Skala is worthy of
'praise as Mother Maria, the
clever and domineering Mother
Superior. Stanley Adams is con­vincing
as Juan, the pragmatic
general-store owner~ Fr. Mur­phy,
the traveling priest who is
disillusioned with the Success
of the nuns' indomitable faith, is
played by Dan Frazer. '
"L1l1es ofthe Field''', adapted
from William Barret's novel of
the same name, is a simple pic­ture
with a simple theme. As
the various characters begin to
see the error in their solely
materialistic ways, one gains
hope that maybe it isn't such a
bad world after all.
Mr. Carmen Donnarumma, an
Associate Professor of History
at the University will be the
guest speaker at the Winter
Carnival Communion Breakfast
February 2, 1964. .
'-, Mr.-bonnaromma, a native of
Waterbury, received his A.B.
and. M.A. from Fordham Uni­versity
and has done some gra­duate
work at Columbia. He is
a member of the American,
Catholic Historical Society, the
Catholic Historical Society, and'
. th~ Medieval Academy.
lying. However the distinction
;>arts of the faith which are
irrevocably t rue and tho s e
which are SUbject to human
interpretation. This latter is
much more vast and is subject
constantly to clarification, 're­newal
and specifically, change•
But such is not compromise. '••
or it is comprpmise only in
so far as the Church has been
misinterpreted by an individual
to the point where accidents
have become fundamentals.
Now we. are bordering upon
the problem of the Church's
treasury of undefined Tradi­tion.
Frequently the above argu­ment
is interpreted as license
for free rein in any matters
outside of de Fid~ g.efinita doc­trine.
But this is jUS( as much
a fallacy . . • only now we
are defining the Church in terms
of the few de Fide dogmas
instead of a plurality of "ac-'
cidental" necessit i e s. The
church, basically the people
of God, must be viewed' in a
much broajer scope, that is
one which includes the en­tir~
salvific process. The tot­al
Church is one Divine and
Continued on Page' 9,Col. l'
Vatican Council Discusses
Religious Liberty~ Reunion'
Playboy's New Church~State
Hugh Hefner, head of the now-famous andwidelysuccuss­ful
"Playboy" movement, came out last year with the
worldy-wise and super-modern-man-of-today "Playboy
Philosophy/> , and for some strange reason the STAG re­ceived
all the installments of this masterpiece. Literally
quires of material were turned out by Hefner's organiza­tion,
and it was called "an editorial". The purpose was
put forth as discussion of "the problem of censorship in
contemporary America", but the wading reader soon be­came
convinced that Mr. H. should have called it "Apolo­gia
Pro Vita Mea". The words are the words of a man
defending and explaining something' that he holds with
such 'tremendous self-assurance and confidence that he
knows it needs no defense or explanation. So why does he
bother? (His associate publisher claims i~ is because
"We are certain you will agree that his revealing analysis
of the continuing encroachments of censorship will help to
bolster this nation's traditional freedom of thought and ex­pression.")
They welcome comments, and they certainly.
deserve the'm on almost everything that is said; but I
shall limit my remarks to one statement which I found
especially interesting.
Within Editor Hefner's discussion of the separation of.
church and state is contained a little gem that one might·,
almost pass over it comes with such casual strength.
of conviction. He advocates, of course, the "separation
of church and state in any society that is to remain truly
free", and goes on to the most obvious reason for this:
that has ever been proposed. I am surprised no one had
ever thought of it before. Church and state should be
separate because the church is based on faith and the
state of government is based on reason. Why, now why, .
I ask again, did no one ever come up with that before?
As anyone can see these organizations based on such
completely antithetic principles must,by the very nature
of their separate foundations, be entirely separate. And
there is nothing as far from faith as reason. It's simply
a matter of black and white.
Hopefully, I need belabor the point no)~nger; especially
since weare all Catholics an~ Catholic college studen@~
wliile we might agree wITh' the separation of church
and state, it would be for the many sound reasons. that
have long been proferred by numerous solid religious
and secular thinkers. Unfortunately Playboy H. displays
only a gross incompetency to even mention such' a matter
because he totally misunderstands the meaning of faith
and reason, and completely misinterprets the two insti­tutions
to which he so wrongly applies these terms. If
one had been doubtful at first about taking seriously
such a beast as the· "Playboy Philosophy" he should,
having read these few absurdities, be convinced. that
laughter might be the only reason for even picking it up.
As we leave the philosopher Hugh sinking slowly in
the Mid-West, let us not sit back in complacency and say
to ourselves, "I am glad I am not like the r.est of men.• '; .
And this is my reason for bringing the matter up. I fear
that silently and unconsciously many more support Herr'
Hefner than .appear obvious at first glance. Think of all
those in the world who haye made faith synomymous with
emotional belief, who mak{religion a matter of feeling,
who scream for the freedom on non-compulsory Mass and
then never choose to go becau~e they don't feel like it,
who keep God out of any discussion like segregation, who
make RATIONAL animals memorize the truths of their . . - . .
"faith" that t,hey are to "believe". and on and on and on
'til the CTlP runneth over. How hard can any 01 U's'laugn
at Editor Playboy, if we suffer from the same misunder­standing
and misinterpretation although it may be in a
more subtle way. At least, we must assume, his error
does not conceal self-deceit. It's too obvious.
familiar fables
David S~ Aurandt
BY William J. Burns
Religious lib e r t y has fre­quently
flashed into sensational
accounts of the Council during
the past few weeks. Once again
the Fathers have discussed ecu­menism
and the eager world
.has jumped at the prospect of
a reunion. Fortunately the con­cept
of religious liberty under
discussion is not the shallow
affirmation of salvation outside
the organized and formal struc­ture
of the Church, but rather
a much .more meaningful doc­trine
touching upon the very
nature of man and his com­munion
with God.
It is difficult to aChieve a well
jefined view of liberty and ecu­menism
without first excluding
some of those qualities which
·it is not. So for our purposed
let us view the situation nega­tively.
Neither religious liber­ty
nor ecumenism are euphem­isms
for compromise. Aner
a.ll, there is a truth objective­ly
• • • even if-nobody knew
axist. But there are some parts
of the Church which are in
accord with this truth, irre­vocably.
In these areas to com­;>
romise would be equivalent to
. November 27, 1963
dateline:
I ' ,. The World Mission
Mr. Jessee Brainard, SUper­visor
of Training at the Sikorsky
Aircraft Division of United Air­craft
Corporation, lectured on
"Personnel Problems - Hand­ling
and Motivating Employ­ees';'
Wednesday, November 20
at the University.
Brainard is a former presi­dent
of the Connecticut Council
for Education, serving from
1954-1956, and was one of the
original officers of the Connec­ticut
Citizen's for Public
Schools. He ~so served in the
capacity of president of the
Southern Connecticut Training
Council.
'Brainard resides in South
Coventry, Connecticut; He has
,been chairman of the school
boards in Coventry and Ashford
and was head of the Connecticut
delegation to the White House
Conference on E due at ion in
1955.
The ,lecture was part of the
Management Techniques' Pro­gram
sponsored by the Bureau
of Business Research of Fair­field
University.
open to qUalified students from.
other schools'. '
Taking part in the program
were: Rev. Laurence S. MUllin,
S. J., Philosophy Professor at
Fairfield University who direc­ted
the program in Amiens; Rev.
Victor Leeber, S.J. , Chairman
of the Department of Modern
Languages, who was Assistant
Director for four months of the
Fordham University Stu' d eil t
Program in Chile; Fairfield
undergraduates Arm an d A.
Basmajian, '65, Woodside, L. I.,
and Marc Charbonneau, '64,
Hollywood, Florida, who studied
in France; and Kevin Ecclesine,
'64, White Plains, who studied in
, Santiago, Chile. Also participa- ,
ting were the Misses Ann Walsh
and Elaine Alteri of Marymount
College, New York, who studied
in the Fairfield Un i v er s it y
school in Sarlat in Southern
France.
Everyday packed with action
•.. new friends •.. fun!
f':
B.B.R. Hears
Brainard
SUN.-:'Get acquainted dance.
(Wear Bennudas!) 1'ION.­College
nay at the beach. Tal·
bot BrotherS Calypso, College
Queen Contest, barbecue lunch.
TUE..~.-Jazz session, Limbo
contest, buffet lunch. WED.
- Cruise to St. George, Steel
Band entertainment, Gombey
dancen, refreshmenu.'
THURS.-On your own:
swim, shop, sightsee, sports.
FRI.-College Week Revue-:
entenainment. Tennis finalL
f': ,
All these ... and lots more
complimentary activities!
See your
Campus Organizer now!
Th" Ilttmud. Tr.d" D"""lop";ettt Bod
!620 FiflbAYea,:,e. N~ York. N.1: I•..
BERMUDA
COUEGE WEEK, 1964: MAIlCH 22·APRIL II
Present Frosh Class
Faculty, Students
Appear On TV Show
Scienisls Address
Dr. Bonner discussed the
Chern study approach whtch,
bases the course on the' stu-'
,dent's own observations in the
laboratory. He has been a
member of an Institute staff
at Cornell which was specially
constituted to prepare teach­ers
for this approa,ch. Agradu- :
ate of the University of Utah,
Dr. Bonner'received his Ph.D.
from Yale University, taught
at Brooklyn College, was a
Visiting Fellow at Harvard, and
has beeR a scientist on the
staffs of the Oak Ridge and
Brookhaven National Labora.,.
tories. At present, he is with
the state University of New
York at stony Brook, Long Is­land.
Dr. Bonner'S research
interests include radiochem­istry
and reactionmechanisms,
In-Service Institute
November 27, 1963
Two outstanding scientists,
Dr. Francis T. Bonner, Pro­fessor
of Chemjstry at the state
University of New York, and Dr.
Robert C~ Cleverdon, Professor
of Bacteriology at the Univer­sity
of Connecti~!!trecturedNo­vember
16 at the, . Unive'rsity.
They addressed members of
the National Science Founda­tion
In-Service Institute for
Secondary School Teachers of
'Science and Mathematics.
Members of the university
faculty and students appeared on
the CBS TV program "The Way
to Go" Sunday, ~ovember 17, on
Channel 2. Toe students and
Jesuit priests who directed and
studied in summer programs in
France and Chile illustrated
from their experience the way
in which knowledge of the lan­guage
(e.g. French) enhances
contact with the p e 0 pie of
F ranee and deepens under­standing.
The University maintains two
summer programs in France
for college men and women.
These are six-credit programs
given by Fairfield professors
under the direction of Rev.
Thomas A. Johnson, S. J., As­sistant
Professor of Theology at
the University. This past year
the courses were conducted at
Amiens and Sarlat. The pro­grams,
like other sum mer
courses at the University, are
Dr. Cleverdon spoke on
phases of microbiology. He
,is a graduate of Oklahoma state
University and received his
Ph. D. from the University of
Maryland. Dr. Cleverdon has
also been- a National Science
Foundation Faculty Fellow at
Yale. Before joining the staff
at UConn, wbere he is a mem­ber
of the Executive Commit­tee
of the Institute of Cellular
Biology, Dr. Cleverdon was as­sociated
with theU. S. Food
and Drug Administration:
Represents 5 Countries
The Freshmen this year
represent ThirteenStates"Ber­muda,
Peru, Puerto Rico, and
Panama, according to statistics
released by the Admissions Off­ice.
144 of these students are
boarding on campus, 75 are
boarding off c~mpus and 116
I are day scholars. Of the 136
Secondary Schools represented,
69 are pUblic high schools.
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Fred Lorensen has been e­lected
to the office of Second
Trustee.
The meetings for the exem­plification
of the First and Sec­ond
Degree will be held on Mon­day,
December 2, and Thurs­day,
December 5, respective­ly.
Both meetings will be held
in Xavier 307 and will begin at
7 p.m. The Third Degree will
be exemplified on Sunday af­ternoon,
December 8-,' at Fr.
Coleman Council's hallinFair­field.
K of C 'NOTES
by Richard F. Meehan
~TH,E STAG'. '
A recent meeting of four
Councils in the area was held
to plan joint activities for the
coming year. George Egan and
Mike Dillon represented Igna-,
tian Council at the meeting
chairmanned by District Depu­ty
Gerald Murphy.
At the November 20 meet­ing
of the Knights of Colum~
bUS, Fraternal ActivfITes
Chairman, Lou Krodelpresent­ed
the Knight of the M0 nth
Award for October, to P au 1
PAUL ROONEY'64
The Night of Adoration for
the month of, December will,
be on Friday morning, Decem-'
ber 6, beginning immediately,
after the midnight Mas~. All_
Knights interested in spending
some time before the Blessed
Sacrament should sign the list
on the Knights of Columbus
bulletin board. Outside Coun­cils
in the area are being in­vited
to participate.
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Knights of Columbus Beer
Mugs are now on sale. The
mugs, following the lines of
the regular Fairfield mug s
·have the Knights of Columbus
emblem ,and the name and num­ber
of the Council on the front.
A nam'e may be inscribed on
the back if the buyer wishes.
Terry Toal and Tom Londre­gan
are in charge of the sale.
Rooney. Rooney who .is begin­ning
his fourth year with Inga­tian
CounCil, is the present
Chairman of Catholic Activi­ties.
for the Council. In this
,capacity he has initiated the'
Night of Adoration from 1 to
7 a.m. on the morning of the
First Friday. He planned the
Knights of Columbus Retreat
and also a Communion Break­fast
during October. He is the
head of the Knights of Colum­bus
C.C.D. program, and last
year headed a committee to
revise the by-laws of our Coun­cil.
Paul is presently planning
a Corporate Mass and Com­munion
Breakfast in honor of
the present class of candidates
on the day of their Third De­gree.
The Knights of Columbus
,Blood Bank held in conjunc­tion
with the annual Cardinal
Key Society Blood Bank y.oas
a success. ·66 pints of blood
went into the K o~ C Bank,
which may be freely drawn on
,by any Knight of our Coun­Cil
in need of blood.
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Continued on. Page 8, col. 1
Some have criticized the lack
of historical awareness (i.e.
the dire need of lay assistance
in ,the spreading of the faith)
in this chapter; however, the
compOsers of the chapter want­ed
to stress that the duty and
responsibility of lay participa­tion
in christianizing the world
is independent of any exterior
social or moral want, because
of the character conferred on
the layman by Baptism and
Confirmation which incorpo­rates
him into the Church and
the Church world mission.
Many feel the chapter is too
ecclesiastic and tends to sep­arate
the layman from the neu­tral
activities which would help
'to sow the ecumenical spirit
on separated soil. This infatu­ation
with purely church acti­vities,
it is felt, would foster
no appeal to many of the pro­fessional
class. Father George
Tavard was quoted, " •••the
chapter's tone is too 'church',
ecclesastic. The inference one
gets from it seems to be that
the idea of the laymen is one
who spends' much of his time
in Church activities. M0 r e
stress has to be placed on his
activity in the world today,
lay activities, professional and
social activities in the con-
FLORENCE, ITALY
by Jay LaCroix
A VISIT TO A COMMUNIST COUN1;:RY
The Italian boarder guard passed 'quiCkly though the train
looking at passports. He was followed by a Yugoslavian who ­did
the same thing. The Yugoslavian issued us a visa good
for a month for "two American dollars." The officals left
the train and it chugged across the boarder. For some
reason, it seemed strange that we could cross so easily
and unceramoniously from a free society into a totalitarian
communist state• .- .
We passed through many thatched roofed villages which
have remained virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages.
From what we saw the farming methods are also of that
period. During our entire trip we never saw a tractor.
Our destination was Rijeka, a harbor city on the Adriatic.
The city was a sharp contrast to those we had ,seen in
Germany and Italy. Whereas we had seen little evidence
of war ruins, in those countries, we were shocked by the
evidences of the war whictr'remain in Rijeka. While there
are several modern office buildings and apartment buildings,
many people still live in ruins. Behind the new apartment
houses we found whole areas in ruin. Often the streets
would just end in rubble. In general the streets are in poor
condition and are repaired by work crp.ws using primative ,
equipment.
If the country is impoverished, it is not because of laziness
on the part of the people. Their seriousness and industry
are obvious to the most casual observer. There are many
shops offering a variety of goods. They seemed so different
that it was hard to remember that they were all owned by the
State.
In sharp contrast to our Italian friends, we found the,
Yugoslavians to be extremely, honest. We never once fe~t
'we were in a tourist trap, and no one expected a tip which
was a refreshing change.
FREEDOM OF RELIGION
Offically, Yugoslavia has always had 'freedom' of religion~
Only 'those employed by the State were forbidden to g6 to
Church and no one was, forced to work for the State. Since
the State owns everything, however, it was a little impracticle
not to work for it! In reality only the old and the young could'
attend Mass. This regulation has been relaxed so that people
now attend ~ass freely. Hig-h officals and intellectuals still
are not free to practice their religion openly for fear of re­prisals.
The churches are crowded; not with old women and
girls as is the case in Italy, but with men and young people
as well. Mass is attended devoutly, an attitude we have not
observed in 'Catholic' Italy.
Like her people, the Church In Yugoslavia is very poor.
It is not uncommon to see nuns repafring the churches.
I can not overemphasize the striking differences between
Northern Italy and Yugoslavia. There is evident poverty,
(however it should be noted that th.ere is no begging).
The dress of the people is 'every drab and shapeless. There
are very few cars' even in the cities.
In fairness, it should be noted that these impressions are
of the city of Rijeka andof the southern region of the People's
Republic of Slovenia and may, or may not, represent a true
picture of the country as a whole.
We noted that the red star painted on the communist
party headquarters in Rijeka had almost washed off and was
pink. However we can not delude ourselves into thinking that
time will have the same effect on the system.
Next Week: The Sodality in Italy: The Struggle to Make the
Romans Catholic.'
By Andrew Hogan
In recent meetings of the
Council, the main point of dis­cussion
has concerned, the
inter-relationship of the laity
'to the Church and the Church
la'ity to society as it is de,­fined
in Chapter III of "Schema
de Ecclesia". The chapter as­serts'
"We shall first stress
the great biblical truth that the
entire Church has one same
vocation, one' indivisible mis­sion
and responsibility before
the world. The mistaken idea
of the Church, namely, that'
only 'bishopsand priests make
up the ChurCh, properly so call- -.
ed must be eradicated once
and for all. All the faithful
are called into the building of
the Body of Christ: All of them
through 'Baptism and Confirma­tion,
are incorporated into the
holy community of the people
of God and are dedicated to
the task of salvation and the
sanctification of the world.••
Without belonging to the hier­archy,
he (the layman) shares
like all Christians in the mis­sion
,of the Church to the world.•
part of the mission of the lay­man
is his co-responsibility'
in the preaching of the Christian,
message and the presentation
of Christian revelation to the
world. "
ovember 27! 1963 THE STAG'. '
Page Seven
Edu. Grad School
Begins Radio Series
Testimonial Scroll Presented
To Graduate School Pioneer
Fairfield's Graduate School
of Education will launch a new
radio series describing trends
and developments in education.
Speaking on the'program will be
Fairfield graduate professors
who train some 800 primary
and secondary school teachers.
The programs are designed
to aid adults to understand what
is happening behind the facades
of new schools and to under­stand
what is at stake at school
board meetings. The discus­sions
will reflect, especially,
what is happening as pressure
is exerted downwards trom the
graduate schools for more ma­terial
to be assimilated into
the curriculum at every level
of education.
The program will be 15 min-,
utes long onWNHC every Sunday
at 6 p.m., and began on Novem­bel'
17.
Among the topics treated will
be: Is Audio-Visual Education a
Fad?; How can Audio-Visual'
Materials Aid Education?; Who
Controls Education in Your
Town?; What Can ~ou Do to
Help Your Child's Homework?;
Are Teachers Born or Are They
Made?; What Are the New Di­rections
in Mathematics?; Are
There Better Ways to Teach
Biology?; Does the American
Emphasis on Status Affect Edu­cation?;
and Does the School
Fit the Child for Society?
Involved in the first few pro- '
grams will be the following
professors from the Graduate
School of Education: Dr. Maur­rice
E. Rogalin, Assistant Dean
and Professor of Education; Leo
Rosenthal, Director of Audio­Visual
Education; Public
Schools, Fairfield and Lecturer
in Education; John F. Murphy,
Assistant Professor of Educa­tion
and Director of Teacher
Training; Chester J. Stuart,
Associate Professor of Educa­tion
and German; Robert F.
Bolger, Assistant Professor
of Mathematics; Dr. John E.
Klimas, Jr., Associate Pro­fessor
of Biology; and James
p. Vail, Associate Pi"ofessor
of Education and Sociology.
John Carroll Univ.
Sets Honor Program
Two academic programs will
be offered to students of super­ior
ability beginning this fall
at John Carroll University, the
Rev. Thomas P. Conry, S.J.;
dean of Arts and Sciences, an­nounced
here recently. Fortyof
the enrolled 660 freshmen ac­cepted
invitations to participate
in an Honors ~rogram. About'
150 students have also been,
designated 'to take "Western
Heritage, " a great books pro­gram.
The Honors Program is de­signed
to aid superior students
in maximum intellectual devel­opment
through special sections
in the core curriculurr" Father
Conry said. The prog~:om will
increase each year until the
four undergraduate years are
included.
The "western Heritage"
program will consist of reading
the great books of Western
civilization and passing a test
on these books in May. One
or more, lectures will be given
on each book during the' year
by some member of the facul­ty
with special competence in
the fie I d. ApprOXimately 12
books will be read each year
over a four-year cycle.
One of the pioneers in the
Graduate School of Education
at Fairfield University, Dr.
Thomas Joseph Quirk, was hon­ored
by the Connecticut Educa­tion
Association on Thursday,
November 14, by'the presenta­tion
of a testimonial scroll to
Rev. T. Everett McPeake, S.J.,
present Dean of the Graduate
School. Making the presenta­tion
in Campion Hall at the Uni­versity
were Ella E. Rice, Vice
President and Dr. Wilfred Shee­han,
Executive Secretary of the
Association. Dr. Quirk, who was :
prominent in Connecticut Edu­cation
circles, died on January
14, 1963.
The scroll reads: "The Con­necticut
Education Association
is aware of the loss which is
felt by all members of the As­sociation
in the pas sin g of
THOMAS J. QUIRK, January 14,
1963, and Thomas J. Quirk as
headmaster of Hartford Public
High School July 1938 - October
1962 and Director of Teacher
Training Pro g I' a m Fairfield
University 1962-1963 through
'his abiiities andlnfinitewisdom
created an'aura of profound ap­preciation
for 1ear n i n g and
Thomas J. Quirk in his capacity
as Chairman ofthe state Teach­ers'
Retirement Board by his
kindness, understanding andin­terest
has helped immeasurably'
to insure adequate retirement
policies for the teachers of the
state of Connecticut and ThJ
Connecticut Education Associ­ation,
acknowledges with deep
gratitude the labors of Thomas
J. Quirk as he served his fellow
man doing so in a manner be­fitting
a gentleman and an edu­cator.
Therefore Be It Resolved
- that a suitable memorial to
Thomas J. Quirk be incorpor-'
ated in the new C.E.A.Building
and that this res 0 1ut ion be
spread upon' the minutes' of the
February seventh meeting of
the Board of Directors and a
copy suitably engro.ssed be pre­sented
to Hartford Public High
School and to Fairfield Univer­sity."
@BELL TEL~PHONE COMPANIES
,THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
, '
SALUTE: LEO BERARD
His initiative in carrying out the study and his ability
to capably represent his company are just two of the traits
that earned Leo his promotion to Engineer in the Plant
Extension Department.
\.
Leo Berard, like many young engineers, is impatient
to make things happen for his company and him: ~lf. There
are few places where such restlessness is mort. welcomed
or rewarded than in the fast-growing telephone business.
Leo Berard (B.S.M.E., 1957) joined New England Tele­phone
in the fall of 1960 and, within months, was put in
charge of an ,important study to determine the feasibility
of large-scale buried cable operations in Rhode Island.
Developing standards and practices where few previ­ously
existed, Leo presented his final reports before top­level
management, engineering groups, municipal planners,
and Chambers of Commerce throughout Rhode Island.
,Local Teachers
Studying
Here
Attending the Conceptual Ap- ,
proach to Chemistry are: Mrs.
Dagfrid H. ChurCh, 8 Sycamore
Drive; Westport, Roger Lud­lowe
High School; William M.
Magee, 366 Adley Road, Andrew
Warde High Scho,ol; John Pla­'
tenyk, 112 Taunton Road, Mid-'
dlesex Junior High School, Da­rien;
Robert E. Pqeltl, 67-Cold­spring
Circle, Shelton, Roger
Ludlowe High School; Robert
W. Shackleton, 82 River View
Circle, New Canaan High
School; and Mrs, Jeanne I!.
Swanton, Westport, Andrew
Warde High School.
Attending tlie'Modern Geom'e-'
tty Course are: Paul W. Poeitl,
152 Colony street, Andr ew
Warde High School; and Mrs.
,PaUla W. Spitalny, 83 Morgan
street, Stamford, Anctr ew
Warde High School.
gy, and physical science are
being offered. Partici p a ti n g
teachers not only receive free
tuition but also book and travel
allowances. They may take one
course or a sequence and the
credits are applicable toward
a master's degree or a sixth
year certificate.
Attending the Biolog i c a I
Techniques Course are the fol­lowing
teachers from Fairfield; ,
William E. Barstow, 345 High
Street, a teacher at Andrew
Warde High School; Andrew J.
Kosch, Jr., 300 Linwood Ave­nue,
Roger Ludlowe High
. School; Norbert C. Lux, 49
Melville Avenue, Long Lots
Junior High School, Westport.
Ele'ien local teachers of
mathematics and science are
,giVing up Saturday morning lei­sure
to update their knowledge
of science at Fairfield Univer­,
sity's in-ser'd,ce institute pre­sented
in cooperation with the
National Science Foundation.
The Institute, under the di':
rection of Dr. John A. Barone,
director of research and gradu-'
ate science at the university,
meets each Saturday morning.
Programs demonstrating ad­vances
in SUbject matter and .
method in mathemati~s, biolo-
Pal. Eight. THE StAG
A· P.ageant WithoutParallel
November 27, 196:r
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Photo By Bob Vuolo
BEHIND ENEMY LINES
In the afterp.oon and evening of saturday, November sixteenth,
I was priVileged to attend a conference entitled "Fear Peddl1Iig ­Growinl!'
Menace to Democracy" at the Long Lots Junior High
,School iri neighboring Westport. The conference vias sponsor­ed
by twenty-four local and national organizations which, broadly
speaking, can be classified as "Liberal': Sponsors 1Iicluded
'SUCh organizations as the Fairfield County Committee for a
Sane Nuclear Policy and the Americans for Democratic Action~
Book Burners
The first speech of the day was concerned with an attempt to
exclude certain texts ·from .use in the Meriden, Connecticut,
school system. It appears that those who sought the texts' ex­clusion
were overzealous in their critiCism, attempting to turn
what might be called a cas~ of poor judgement into an ·excuse
for the cry of "subversion". The objectors cited a commentary
by E. Merril Root who feIt the texts were inadequate on episte­mological
grounds. (This was the reason given by the speakers).
The speaker obviously thought that this was pretty humorous and
the audience agreed with their laughter and applause when the
speaker ml:spronounced epistemology, intoning it in such a way
as to make the hearer ask of himself, "What the h~ck is episte­mology?
Who ever heard· of that?" Well, at least the audience
'got .a ~ew. lalJ~h,s out-of thi~_first speaker if nothing else.
. At two o'clock, the audience broke up and went to one of
the· four scheduled conferences, one each dealing with civil '
llberties, civil rights, the pursuit of peace, an~. the f!ight .
peddlers. At four o'clock, the conference reconvenedfoi' reports
from the leaders of the workshops. The first to report was the
chairman of the workshop on civil liberties, Mr. Osmond K.
Fraenkel, General Co~nsel of the American Civil Liberties
Union. One must respect the dedication and consistency of the
ACLU in defending everybody's civllllberties. Mr. Fraenkel
was both forceful ana convincing in his pleas for his concept of '
civil liberties. I found he and other members of the Civil Liber­ties
Union very persuasive, though I differ with them on several
points of interpretation. The report on civil rights, delivered by
the Rev. JamesD. Peters, Jr. of the EaSt End Baptist Church
in Bridgeport, fell into the same category.
The workshop which I and another Fairfield student attended
'was the ,one entitled the Pursuit of Peace, w:hich was addressed
by Mr. stewart Meacham of the American Friends Service Com­mittee,
a QUaker organization. Mr. Meacham was a man of high
ideals and devotion to the cause ,of peace. His views, however,
tended towards the unreal and the unattainable. He endorsed
nuclear disarmament bY' ~eans of negotiated treaties. Most
people are with him there prOVided that sufficient safeguards are
provided; put there is a further step,he would take which falls
short of a required amount of realism. Mr. Meacham endorsed,
in the event that negotiations failed, unilateral disarmament on
the initiative of the United States. The advocates of unilateral
disarmament have not given SUfficient consideration to the perils
of the surrender propaganda which they disseminate. Have they
considered the large numbers of the middle class and the educa­ted
who would be liquidated in the event of surrende,r. Surrender
might save people from nuclear death only to face Communist
liquidation. .
The fourth workshop, which I did not attend, but heard a report
about from its speaker, was (from the report of its speaker) a
consideration of the various organizations and grouping of the
right in the United states. Apparently they had emphasized the
'Birch Society. and similar groups. The report, unfortunately,
concentrated on the Robert Welch type 'conservatism', which is
at best a mutilated form of one aSpect of conservatism. Fortun­ately
for conServatism, there is a lot more to it than Robert
Welch.
. MISSIONS
Continued from 1"af,e G, Col. 2!
temporary worId. As th'e chap­ter
stands it will make no
special appeal to artists, in­te
lleetuals, scient is t s, and
other professional people."
Some of the Council Fathers
are pleased with the chapter
for giving the layman a real
participation in the mission of
. Christ and the Ch'lfch. • .a
mission not only of sanctifi­cation
of God's people, but also
of the evangelization of the
world. They feel this mission
is not just work' for priests
and bishops but for all the
people of God, and that most
of the best work can be done
by the laity who are most in-
. volved in their daily lives in
this new civilization. Hoever,
the Fathers complain that the
chapter seems to take for grant­ed
that most Christians except
those in the missions actually
live in a Christian society.
Pope PaUl,. addressing the
Council several wee ks, ago, ' ,
commented on the new interest
in lay participation in the world
mission saying, "Finally the
Council will build a bridge to­wards
the contemporary world.
A singular phenomenon. While
the Church seeks to revive
her interior life in. the spirit
of the Lord, thus disguising
and' separating herself from
secular society in which she
exists. at the same time she
Lewis To'Speak­At
Dinner Meeting
Carroll F. Lewis, CPA, re-.
,tired manager ofthe tax division·.
at Remington Arms Company in
Bridgeport, w1ll speak at the
Business Club's dinner meeting
December 9 at the Turf Restau­rant
on the Post Road.
Lewis is a g;aduate oi Pace.
College, New York, and speaks.
frequently on tax related topics,
two of which have been on
"Government Fiscal Responsi­butty"
and "Whose Hand is in
Your Pocket?". He has made
two appearances b e for e Con­gress
during 1963 to discuss
Presidential tax proposals, and
before Representative Wilbur'
Mill$' House Ways and Means,
Committee and before Senator
Harry Byrd's Senate Finance
Committee, both times repre­senting
the manufacturers of the
area,
• is signalized as the life giv­ing
ferment and the instrument.
of salvation to the world, both
revealing and strengthening her
missionary vocation which is to
treat humanity, in whate v e r
condition it may be, as the
, object of her dedicated mission
of communicating the teaching
of the gospel." •• "From the
.. window of the Council open'
wide on the world the Church
looks towards some categories
· of persons with particular soli­citude:
she looks towards the
poor, the needy, the hungry, .
the Suffering, the sorrowing•••
She looks towards men of cul-,
ture and learning, scientists,
· artists and also for these she,
has great esteem and a great
desire to receive the fruits.
of their experience••.She looks
upon the workers, towards the
dignity of their person and their
labors. • .She looks towards
the leaders of nations.••other
vast ,fields of humanity fall
under her gaze: The new gene­rations
of youth desirous of
,living and expressing them­selves,
the new people nqw
coming to self awareness, inde­pendence
and c i vii organi~a­tions,
the ir.numerable lnen·and
women .who .feel isolated in a
troubled society."
It is' obvious' from the tope
of all three chaptersoi~'Schema'
de Ecclesia" that the missl<>n­'
ary nature of the Church will
become her outstanding. and
',most important characteristic.
FlEE
Continued from Pabe 1, Col. 4
"cold type" because no hot
lead is used to set type.
The fire ieftgthens the list
of ·incidents ,the firm has· en­.
countered since the installation
of the new press last December.
During the long New York news­paper
strike the company took
on an added workload while
printing the New York Brook­lyn
Eagle. On May 10 of this
year the linotypists, went on
strike. The Crier then moved
to the cold type process, a plan
which Joseph Purtell, President
and Publisher, had conceived a
year before.
The strike lasted all summer
and ended only a few days before
the firm began composing and:
printing II Progresso, which is,
done largely in cold type.
Second Fire
Less than a month ago STAG
news editor; Gilbert Cass, re­ported
to the Fairfield Fire
Department a brush fire which
raged for ten minutes within a'
few feet of the building. He and
the Ed1tor~in Chief, Vincent
:D'Alessandro, were in the plant
Penn Warren
Discusses P()ems
Robert Penn Warren,~
Pulitzer Prize winning au­thor
and professor at Yale, de­livered
the second lecture in
the Bellarmine Series on Nov.
'18 at Gonzaga Auditorium. In
introducing Penn Warren, Fr.
Oliver Nickerson said that a
lecturer is either known or not
known. Mr. Penn Warren re­turned
the compllment when he
said of Fr. Nickerson, "He must
be great in a classroom." He
then went on to explain his late­ness
as a result of detours set
up by the Fairfield Pollce.
The noted lecturer and writer
,then spoke about his poems and
poetry in general. "Poetry," he
said,"is written in ordinary
language, and when it loses or­dinary
language, the poetry suf­fers.
Among the eight poems
of his that he read and then
commented on were: Crime,
The Child Next Door, and Into
Broad Dayllght. Using one of
his poems as an example, Penn
Warren explained that form is
the only way to get meaning.
The lecture, which was well
attended by students and fac- .
uIty members as well as by
area residents, was free of
charge and open to the public
as all Bellarmine Lectures are.
·complet1ng-the October 31issue
,of The STAG.,
In addition to printing The
STAG, the company presently
employs four full-time students
of the University. During the
past year a large .a.mber of
students have been cj',fhe firm's
payroll from time tfrtime. '
Vincent R. D'AI essan.dro,.
Editor-in:'Chief of The STAG,
extends the apprec1at1on of the
, editors and staff of the paper to
. the Fairfield Press Company
and particularly to Mr. stephen
Yeroczi" General Manager of
the firm, for making it possi­ble
for The STAG to continue
its usual procedure in spite of
the fire which destroyed a large
portion of the company's plant
on the Post Road. At a time
when short cuts in printing
would have expedited matters"
the long-time printers of tlie,
cl',mpus newspaper extended all '
of their usual excellent service
and provided special courtesies
in an effort to set type and
print the issue.
[ REFLECTIONS
WilJiam Garland I
f ,rr r 1''"'1
November 27, 1963 THE STAG Page Nine
ONION PATCH
We Shall Overrun '
One of the most astounding phenomena of this life is the
remarkable wisdom of. the man who agrees with you. I found
a lot' of wise people around here after my last column.
Another amazing phenomenon is the discriminatory power
of the average reader. He may glance t~rough an ~ntire col­umn
and only read a few lines which happen to coincide (or
conflict) with his views. We all do this; its au.l.y human.
It's not my purpose here to create antipathy between fac­ulty
and students, or between any other groups, when I criti­cize
the record of Catholic education. It's rather foolish to
place blame for failure on a certain class or generation of
people. In fact, any social classification, one learns from'
experience, is rather futile. Only by the sheerest accident
is a man born into one generation or another. Men of superior
competence and philosophical outlook are always welcome in
each others circles, no matter what artificial barriers of,
classification are set up in other men's minds. Similarly,
today's mediocre student is tomorrow's mediocre teacher.
. Therefore, any student who would blame his ills on his
in~tructors, or on the "older generation," is practicing irres-·
,ponsibility. Likewise, any faculty member who would look dowI1!
upon responsible student opinion and criticism is a contradic­tion
to himself. He is in the wrong business.
Anolher disturbing aspect of my friends at the Columbia
. conf~rence which I mentioned in the last PATCH was thei[
enthusiasm for condemnin'-g and abandoning'~the so".", /' t\
"';hi~h they had been rai~ed.I he~d stude~ts aPologize for being
members of the "complacent middle class." I hea.r:d students
apologize for the color of their skin. I heard students damn the
entire heritage--.!hat older generations had given them. Seeing
all the things which outraged their acute sense of justice, and
the terrible indiffere'nce of their peers, I could understand
their attitude. UndE;!rstand, but not agree.
Those who ignore the past are condemned to repeat its mis­takes.
Those who try to wash their hands of it have the added
weight of a new kind of social irresponsibility, a desertion of
the race. By far the stupidest digressions of men have come
from those who thought themselves completely superior and
. detached from the past. ·This is why so much of our history
appears to be cyclic.
We have, however, a much greater concept of history than to
assume that it must travel in cycles of failure. The ancient
Hebraic linear concept of history is our heritage. Man is some­body
of importance. He is going. somewhere. He lias a destiny.
'This is why each generation must profit by the total human ex­.
perfence. You cari_go ~ound1n~irclesifyou want to. As for me,
I want to go somewhere.
On a very personal basis, given the same opportunities as
your father or grandfath~r,what :would you have done? How did
you get where you are today, and consequently, what are your
responsibilities to your forebears as well as your decendants?
Each generation, each person, must answer these questions for
himse-lf.. .
BaCK to Catholic colleges. The reasons we have receive.!! a.
smirched reputaffon -are chiefly (1) soci3.I"immaturity, and (2)
a misgUided sense of preserving the "truth" which has tended
to restrict intellectual freedom. The for.mer excuse is under­standable,
even excusable in the past. Neither excuse is de­fensible
today. Catholic colleges have turned out many res­pectable
lawyers, businessmen, and doctors. Now they must
produce a comparable number of respectable thinkers, if they
are to justify their existence.
This, I repeat, is my hope for my university. And with the
characteristic impatience of' youth, I want it now. If anyone
would obstruct the fulfullmenf of this ideal, by his c01l!@ac~I!~
lack of imagination~or plain laziness, be he eighteen or eighty,
he has no place at Fairfield, undermining the toil of the paSt,
the lives of the present, and the hopes of the future.
"Man is but a reed, the weakest.!n ~ature; but he's a thinking
reed." --- Blaise Pascal
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Critic Decries
Film's Aura
Miss Walsh remarked that
"the approach of most people to
films were first created as a
light diversion; then film mak­ers
began to give the puolic what
it wanted, and they became de­humanized,
self inflated day­dreams.
She warned of films
that "wash over us pleasantly,"
(i.e. "The Thrill Of It All';)-a;
the ones that we should be most
careful about.
By M. DeMor"
Film critic Moira Walsh ad­dressed
about 450 people prior
to the showing of "La Dolce
Vita". In introducing her, Fr.
Oliver Nickerson, S. J. welcom- .
ed the freshmen and sopho­mores,
and was pleased to see.
them reconfirm their maturity
by coming to hear Miss Walsh
although they had be n restric­ted
from the film itself.
.She thinks the 'aur~ c;>f. con­troversy
surrounding "L aDol­ce
Vita" is unjustified. However
the controversy may attract
someone who otherwise would
not have come. The film asks,
"if Christ came bac~ to earth
today, what would He see?" In
the beginning of th~ film, he
:;ymboli~ally returns to earth
as a statue being moved by a
helicopter. The film is seen
throught the lens of the film
makers 'distaste, and was in-'
. tended to portray stark rea!ity
potential' donors who somehow
pallored suddenly before givin~
and naturally blamed their' at­tack'
on the light and ruffled
breakfast they were exposed to
at Loyola Cafeter;<o,
Of the 207. pints, 66 came
from members of Ignatian K.
of C. Council here on campus.
These pints will go into a se­parate
bank for the council
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Mrs. Barbara Morelli, in charge of the Red Cross unit
which conducted the blood bank here on November 12, holds
the head of Tom Curtin '65, while Ronald Bianchi '64, giv~s'
moral support.
Proffesseurs. For eleven'years
immedtately previous to the se­cond
World War, he gave French
and Spanish lessons over a
Hartford radio station. Also an
author, Mr. Croteau has com­posed
readers, three of which
are used by the University, and
translations such as Sainte
Mar'ie' de Guadal?Upe and Le
Saint-Esprit. He is pr.esently a
co-consultant for a series of
French textbooks for the Grades
that the Sisters of the Holy
,Spirit are publishing at this
time. Two more of his works
are scheduled for 1964.
The bUSy Monsieur Croteau
wants his students relaxed and
yet alert. He sees to it that
important things are re­mem.
bered in an enjoyable at­mosphere.
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DINER
The K of C, CKS Blood Bank
collected 207 pints of blood on
November 12.
There were a few donors
that day not quite as produc­tive
as the one pictured above.
Due to the inconsistency of the
.weather and the weakened con­dition
of plany academic stal­.
warts there were more rejec­tions
at this bank than ever
before. Also there were a few
LDonors Give 207 Pints J
FACULTY. PE:RSONALITY~
"Education is what is left
after everything else is for­gotton,"
so says Mr. Arsene
Croteau, better known to his
students as Monsieur Croteau.
Now a full professor of modern
languages at Fairfield Un'iver­sity,
this dedicated man pre­ciously
taught for 37 years at
.the University of Connecticut,
coming here in 1955.' His stu-dents
tend to laud his friendly
manner and sincere concern
rather than remark about his
daily quizzes. This seems to
be an indication of his excep­tional
abilities,
He was born in St, Jean­ChrY5astome,
Candan, and at­tended
St. Mary's parochial
school in Manchester, New
Hampshire. He was a student
at Iberville Commercial Col­lege
and st. Charles Seminary
both of which are in Canada.
He received his M.A. from
Boston University in 1928 and
earned all the credits for his
Ph.D after taking courses at
Columbia Teachers'" College
and Harvard.
He started out as a reporter
ana soon became' editor oI Se­veral
New England, French
newspapers but then' turned to
teaching when they failed to
prosper. Realizing his aptitude
to "put across ideas'; he pro­ceeded
from instructor ,through
full professor in French,
Spanish and Methods of teaching
foreign languages. He assumed
a position as head of the Fo­reign
Language Department at
the University of Connecticut.
From there, Mr. Croteau came
to Fairfield.
His outside activities have in­cluded
membership in the New
England Modern Language As­sociation,
as chairman, Ameri­can
Association of Teachers of
French, and the Association des
ECUMENICAL
Continued from Page 5, Col. 2
,human ;.nstitution. Al1 or her
tr aditions and-actions must be
respected, viev:ed, a~1d submit­ted
to in that aspect which
leads to the ultimate salva­tion
of the people of Cod. If
some of the' attributes of the
Church are to be renewed, it
is not because of a basic er­or
in their original intention
but rather that this intention
is no longer clear and must
be reemphasized by renewed
means. In this concept and in
all our thought the destiny of
the Church must rema~n prom­10ent.
It thus appears that religious
liberty is a middle of the road
course between strict de F~de
doctrine and dogmatization of.
the whole bf the Church. Yet
it is also a median course
between enforced conformity
and complete supremacy of in­dividual
rights. Now there is
no argument that all indivi­duals,
each with their own con­sciences
should not be forced
to accept doctrines contrary
to that conscience. However,
it sometimes happens that the
effOJ;t to resist conformity for
one does impair the rights of
another. -This is of course ip­supportable.
It is no better
. to restrict the fundame n tal
rights of the majority in order
to protect the rights ,of the!
individual than it is to re­strict
the individual. The hap­py
mean must be found, that
is the point where all may
follow their consiciences while
none is injured. Obviously the
balance is delicate and will
frequently he upset but true'
liberty demands the constant'
struggle for such a balance.
Throughout history the areas
of interpr,etation have beenfre­quently
applied to the ,problem
of the Jews in a Christian
Society. ,Once agai~'the Coun­cil
'is facing the situatiqn. Lat­er'
we 'shall cons1der' this spe­cific'
i'ssue: 'in' relation' to the' '
more positive and beneficial
aspects of' Religious liberty.
THE ~J~G. November 27, 1963
The Stags still have to. con­tend
with the lack of a big man,
but if Coach Bisacca should go
with Walt Donnelly and Stan
Poole, .the team will have-good
overall height with every man
over 6' 3". Pascal has just re-.
turned to action after a three
week layoff due to a dislocated
finger. If his deadly jump shot
hasn't been affected by the in­jury,
his chances for a starting
berth will be greatly enhanced.
Continued on Page 11,Col. 3
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STAG CO-CAPTAINS with Coach George Bisaccaj left,
Walt Donnelley '64;.right, Larry Rafferty '64.
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Burke and Branch appear to
have made the transition to Var­sity
ball· and are expected to
continue the scoring punch they
displayed as frosh when Burke
averaged 21 points per game and
Branch 18 points per game.
The other two starting berths
will probably go to 6'3" senior
co:'captain Walt Donnelly and
6'3" sophomore Staii. ·poo1E~, but
juniors Kurt Kilty (6'4") and
Joel Pascal (6') and 6' sopho-,
more guard Jack McGovern are
still very much in contention.
STAN POOLE '66
"An,,-
CENTER.
RESTAURANT
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Bisacca Readies Var-sity Stags For
Ope,ner With Pitt On Nov. 30th
Three men have a1rea_dy
earned the m s e 1v e s starting
berths as ,a result of their fine
showing in practice thus far;
they ar~ 6'3" senior guard
Larry Rafferty, 6'4" sopho­more
center Pat Burke and 6'4"
sophomore. forward Mike
Branch. From their showing in
practice and in the scrimmages,
it would appear that these three
men wlll carry the brunt of the
load. Rafferty is the only man on
the squad with much experience
and is the key middleman ofthe
Stags' fast break offense.
,VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM: 1-1', Pete Fall, Jack McGovern, Dave Lingua, Stan
Poole, Pat Burke, Kurt Kilty, Mike Branch, John Benedict, Kevin Lyall, Joel Pascale
and Bill Hegarty. Kneeling: Co-Captains Walt Donnelly and Larry Rafferty and Coach
George ,Bisacca.
Varsity ·Basketbal1 C <> a c h
.George Bisacca will pass final
jUdgement on his players this
week before picking his definite
starting lineup for the Stags',
opener with the University of
Pitssburgh at Pittsburgh on Sat­urday
night, November 30th.·
The game will be the flrst half
of a 1l0ub1eheader at the Pitt
Field House with the second
game pairing off Dusquesne and
American University.
Providence
Coach Joe Mullaney'S NIT
champions have lost both Vinny
Ernsf and Ray Flynn, yet they
are returning to the wars this
year with 6'10" John Thompson
(18.9 ppg. and 14 rpg.) who was
an AP and UPI All-East se1ec­hon
last year. Along wit h
Thompson will be 6'2" senior
Jim Stone (14.5 ppg) and junior
Bob Kovalski (6'8".., 9.• 5 ppg.).
The big story however, is the
B.C. sophomore contingent. In
6'1" John Austin (25 ppg.) the
E a g 1e s have an All-America
candidate with all the creden­tials.
Also up from last year's
squad are: John Kelly (6'3", 16
ppg.), Ed Hockenbury (6'2", 15
ppg.), Manny Papou1a (6'5", 10
ppg.) and Bobby Ward (6'2", 10
ppg.).
The sophomores will be weB
represented by Jim Benedict
(6'3", . 25 ppg.) and Bill Blair
(6'2", 20 ppg.). This team will
be looking to continue a 15 game
winning streak when they en­counter
the Stags at Providence
on December 10th.
The team will have eight
veterans from last years 10-16
squad~ Among them will be this
year's captain, 6'2" senior
George Fitzsimmons, and an­other
senior in e 11 g i b 1e last
year, 6'2" Jerry Power.
He saw limited action in his
sophomore year due to a con­stant
bout with injuries, just as
in freshman year .too, Joe
missed the last few games due
to a back injury. .
Although injured agaIn ear­lier
this year, this 6', 180
lb. junior anticipates the coming
season with entuslasm. He is
expected to be in fine shape by
the time the opener at Pitts­burgh
rolls around, and he hopes
that he can be of help to the
squad.
Joe is an exceptionally· hard.
working student pursuing a de­gree
in Sociology and later
hopes to make a career in the
same field. He was a member
of the successful Freshman­Orientation
Committee and is
also active in spring intra­murals
and the Fairfield Uni-
. versity Sociology Club.
Joe'~ persistence and desire
in everything he under­takes
and his modesty in his ac­complishments
points toward a
successful future for this
week's Sports Personality.
The first three gaines' 00·be'
played by the Stag Varsity this
season will be the.toughest test
any Fairfield team has had to
face in the history of the school.
In Pittsburgh, Boston College
and Providence in succession
and all on the road, the Bisac­camen
will meet the best com­petition
they have ever come up
against, but also with the finest
talent and potential they've ever
carried with them.
Boston College
As everyone knows, Bob
Cousy (Mr. Basketball) is the
new coach at Boston College and·
he can be expected to produce a
great squad that is to face the
Stags in their (B.C.'s) o~ner.
Pittsburgh
Coach Bob Timmons of Pitts­.
burgh has fOUf starters back
from last year's Pitt varsity
which compiled a 19-6 record
with wins over West Virginia,
Penn State and nuquesne includ­ed.
The team also received an
NCAA regional bid. •
The four returnees are senior
Brian Generalovich (6-5, 13.6
ppg.), senior Paul Krieger (6-6,
10.2 ppg.), senior Dave Roman
(5-9, 15.0 ppg.) and Cal Shef­field
(6-0, 11.1 ppg.).
The Panthers also have four
other returning lettermen and a·
group of big and talented sopho­mores.
Stags To Meet Early Test In
Pit~ B.C., And Providence
JOEL PASCALE '65
,SPORTS PERSONAIJTY
This week's Sports Per­sonality
is an amiable Junior,
Joel Pascal, "Joe", as he pre­fers
to be called, is well known
for his offbeat sense of humor
and his uncanny abil1ty to make
a friend of everyone he meets.
His athletic aOluty· can be
traced back to Loyola High
. School in New York City, where
he excelled in both baseball and
basketball. On the court, his re­cords
speak for themselves.
Holding down the guard posi­tion
in his junior year at Loyola,
Joe broke the school reco·rd for
the most points scored in one
game by tallying 51 points. He
led the team as Captain in Se­nior
year, and his point total
for his three year varsity
career at Loyola was 1414
points, which shattered the pre­vious
record.
As a freshman at Fairfield,
Joe was the frosh high scorer,
averaging 16 points agame. His
name was put in the record
books here at the University
when he scored 38 points against
Iona to. set a new one game
scoring total for the freshman
team.
dinal Key Society's project of
sending busses of fans to all .
these games. The Student A.A.
. will also usher and handle the
concessions at all the home·
games in the University gym;
and serve as official greeters
for all visiting schools. .
Another aspect concerning
the S.A.A. this year, has been
the setting up of university ath­letic
bulletin boards. These
boards contain all the up to date
athletic information that pertain
to the student body. They are lo­cated
in the Xavier Cafe, Cam
pion Hall, the main lobby of the
gym, the varsity locker room,
and the two west side entrances
of the university gym.
Finally, the S.A.A. is co-or­dinating
various sports , clubs
on campus such as the Rugby,
Hockey and Weightlifting clubs
which have been or will be
active during the school year.
The Student Athletic Assoc­.
iation is composed of students
who are interested in not only
the academic aspects of Fair­field
University, but also in
promoting Fairfield's name in
the field of athletics. To do
this the S.A..A.. must have the
support of the entire student
body. Therefore, it is asked
that undergraduated and grad­uates
show at least a small
amount of interest in the ath­letic
ventures of Fairfield Uni­versity.
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Stag Student A.A.'Making
Steady Progress In 1st Year
New Signs of Growth
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SAA OFFICIALS: Officials of the Student Athletic Asso­ciation
.met this month in Campion conference room. They
are from left to right: Vic Tesoriero, Walt Lee, Lenny
Pietrafesa, Jerry Norton, Mike Kelly, and Don Pijar; not
i~ picture, Jack Zanetti.
The Student Athletic Associ­ation
was formed at the epd of
last year for the purpose of co­ordinating
and promoting the
·athletic events and organiza"
tions at Fairfield. This year,
·with but two months gone, th2'
Student A.A. has begun to strive
towards the goals mentioned a­bove.
Concerning the intramural
athletics at Fairfield, the Stu­dent
A.A. will take over and co­ordinate
the intramural basket­ball
and softball league. The
organization will provide the
officials for all the basketball
and softball games, from the
newly formed Officials Club,
whi.ch is under the auspices of
the S.A..A. Also being planned in
intramurals sports are wrest-
·ling, pool, and ping-pong tour­naments.
The organization has already
rendered. services to the Uni­versity
athletic department, by
acting as timers and officials
at cross country meets, lining
the soccer field; and rebUilding
the baseball field, which wilt'be
·completed in the spring.
The basketball season will
also receive a helping hand from
the S.A.A. The association will
·also sell tickets for the away
games at Boston College, Pro­vidence,
Adelphi, Seton Hall,
St. Peter's and Holy Cross.
This will coincide with the Car-
GYM REGULATIONS
Since th'e season is over and
{ so few participated, recognition
· is due those who lasted out the
s~ason and will receive letters.
Seniors John Guerin and Peter
·Garry; .Jupiors Rick Anastasio
and Jerry Norton andsophsJim
Milton and Ray McDermott and
the lone frosh Blll Kroeschner.
Continued from Pag;e 10,CoI. 5
BASKETBALL
This last victory was ~dedby
the return to action of;.sopho­more
star Jim Milton, who was
,reactivated just at the rig h t
time, since senior Captain Pete
Garry sprained his ankle inthis
meet and the former was neces­sary
for the complete stag five.
The winner ofthis race was jun­ior
Rick AnastaSio who defeated
MUton by about 100 yards.
Harrier's Record 3-3;
Nip Queensborough
THE STAG
In the Adelphi meet a week
earlier, th'e Fairfield harriers
were also triumphant, thistime
in a relatively easy fashion.
·since Ade~phi could not furnish
a full team for opposition. The
race was run anyway against the
meag e r :representation from
'Long Island and Garry was the
winner for Fairfield.
The 1963 season ended on a
bright note for the Fairfield
University Cross Country team
on Tuesday, November 5 as the'
fleet footed stags raced to vic­tory
over the Queensborough
squad by the score of 27-28.
This tight Victory enabled the
forces of Mr. Nick Giaquinto to
terminate their season with a
re'~ord of three wins and three
losses.
Holiday Tournament
The Fairfield Varsity Bas-'
ketball team will play Wagner
College of staten Island, New,
'York, in the first round of the
.Richmond County Holiday Bas­:
ketball Tournament.· according
to the pair1i'6~ released on'
,Tuesday, November 19th. The
tournament is being held De­cember
27th an d 28th at the
Wa~ner College Gymnasium.
In the other first ro'und game,
St. Peter's College of Jersey
City, New Jersey, wlll take on
the University of Massachusetts
The St. Peter's vs. University
of Massachusetts cont est is
scheduled for 7:00 p.m., De­cember
27th and the Fairfield
vs. Wagner College clash is
. slated for 9:00 p.m.
...
Charlie Phillips of Brooklyn.
. Phillips is a fine shooter and
rebounder.
Tl]e frontcourt will be oc­cupied
by 6'3" Jimmy Brown
of ",ew Haven, Connecticut, and
6'3" Bill. Boyd of Brooklyn.
Brown was an Ar. State pick
at Hillhouse High School after
leading the team to the state
championship. Boyd, a graduate
of St. Augustine's High School,
ras been troubled by a k;,ee
injury but· is expected. to be.
fully recovered before the sea­son
begins.
Boston College will pro, ide
t'le opposition in the opening
game of the season December 6
at Boston.
The opening of the 1963-1964 Varsity Basketball season
brings with it a complex of emotions within the student
community here at Fairfield. A few months ago, it wOUld
. have been expected to bring with it just one emotion, that
of optimistic anticipation; but something is wearing away
at tha~ optimism.
This year we face a very tough schedl11e with games
against Pittsburgh, Boston College, Providence, Holy Cross
and Seton Hall forming a formidable block of adversaries.
We knew at the outset of the year that this schedule was
tough and yet there was no flagging of spirits as is evident
now.
This year also, we ha'/e a team with proven talent and a
wealth of potential. Should this team jell, Fairfield fans'
might be greeted with a few surprising and thrilling upsets,
and yet there seems to be no more ,talk of upsets in these
hallowed halls. We have a team that can shoot and move
and rebound with a lot of class, and yet., nobody is talking
about class anymore. .
The team itself is working hard every l1ight in the gym
from 8: 15 to 10: 30 and everyone on it is hustling, but even
though we haven't yet played a game on our schedule, some
people are writing 30 to our season already. Why?
The reason why, although quite obvious, is also quite un­fair
and doesn't say much for the loyalty of Stag fans
throughout the University. As many know, our Varsity
Basketvall team has had two scrimmages to date, with
Weslyan University and St. Francis of Brooklyn and un­fortunately
appears to be experiencing .a pre-season slump.
For some reason, the 'team hasn't found its groove yet.
Consegquently, although the team looks good in spots, its
play lacks continuity and it looks unimpressive as a unit.
This is hardly a cause for great alarm. Teams, and good
teams too, experience slumps in all sports. Individuals in
sports also experience periods in which they can't do what
tlley usually do best, whether its putting a ball through hoop,
hitting it over the fence or running it over an adversary.
When this happens in mid-sea'son, or at crucial points in a
season, it means big trouble. If it happens before a season
starts, it can be corrected and in some cases, may prove to
be a blessing in disguise. '
When a team with as much talent as our Varsity Basket­ball
team has experiences a slump in the practice season,
or takes a little longer than expected to jell, its not time to
get down on them. On the contrary, its time to back them to
the hilt, to stick with them. They're doing their best and
when a team is doing their best, slumps are broken. This
one shouldn't last.
KING SPEAKS AT GONZAGA
On Wednesday night, November 20th, New York Giant
halfback Phil King was kind enough to appear in Gonzaga
Auditorium and talk about his experiences on the gridiron
as well as answer, and answer well, a multitude of questions
fired at him byan enthusiastic audience of Fairfield students.
Mr. King left the audience with a tremendously favorable
impression of the Giant star and the STAG wishes to thank
Mr. King for coming as 'well as thank the Student Govern-ment
for arranging the program. .
"THE CHIEF" of the New York Football Giants, Phil
King, met a large group of Fairfield students on campus
last week.
THE WORD IS...
November 27, 1963
THE SPORTS DESK
Iv .....
Fa;rfield 'University Athletic
Director George Bisacca today
announced t \, at' the Stags'
Freshman team has added a
. game with St. Peter's College
to the schedule. The game will
be played Fevruary 1 at St.
Peter's.
Coach Lou Saccone has been
running the Stags thirteen man
squad through their paces for
three weeks. Four men have
practically assured themselves
of starting berths. The back­court
will be occupied by
5'10" Carl Menendez of West
Hempstead, Long Island. Men­endez
makes up for his 'lack of
'1eight with quick hands and a
deadly jump shot. Joining Men­endez
at guard will be 6'2"
\..
frtll1le :s.n
••n
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'11' 10.
November 27, 1963
SoccerTeam Loses To ·V.B.In
Scrimmage;Coach Optimistic'
'Rugby Club Swamps NYRC 36-6,
Waters" Sullivan, Ciacci 'Star
As the NFL rolls into its final the Giant offense and delt them
quarter of rib-cracking competi- their first shutout in many a
tion, the scholarship of all the season. On that gloomy Sunday
fourth-down quarter backs.from afternoon in September the at-·
Wall Street to Niagra Fa.lls is tacking of Dial Hoak and John
geared to the exploits of the New Henry Johnson ran the fearsome
·York Giants. foursome of the Giant defensive
· The Monster Men are at the' line into the turf while rolling
head of the class in their division' up a total score of, 31 points.
but, however, are not as comfor- The likes of the Steelers have
!able up front as, let'~..~aYLJI1~ always harrased Giant teams in
'Yankees usually are. Both the the past but if they have the mis-
'Cardinals- an<fBrownS are mak- fortune of standing in the way
ing it their business to gnaw at the of a Giant bid for the world
heels of the Giants and are only championship come the last game
a game leap away from catch- of the season it would be safer
ing up with the Beefy Boys of through a briar patch than to
'New Yo r k. The question is race the Giants over the scrim-·
whether or not the' Giants can mage line.
Whether or not the Giants can
carry the crown across the goal take that last successful step
line.
Before the close of the sea- .across the finish line is a quest-son
the Maramen must do battle ion that has it's answer in Yel­with
St. Louis and Pittsburg. It's verton Abraham Tittle. As Yat
difficult to tell whether these goes so go the Giants. One off-struggles
will mean the demise day some Sunday by the year's
top squad leader may put the
of the Giants or merely serve Giants in front of their TV sets
as stepping stones.to another come December 29. The Bears
; sectional championship. or Packers will have to settle
· Although St. Louis -suffered
defeat in their first encounter for a second rate ballclub from
the East on which to exercise
with Sherman's Stout Slickers their animalfstic tactics.
from the East, they may well
turn the tide in the second meet- Yat, however, will more than
-ing. Charley Johnson along with likely come through down the
his ace receivers Sonny Randie stretch as he has so superbly
thus far for the season. The
and Bobby Joe Conrad can crack
any defense in the league and' Giants will once again wear the
with a good Sunday they may .championshop belt in the East;
provide the impetus necessary but this year it will only com­to
upset the high flying Giants. plement the wider girdle which
will bind the New York Giants
As for Pittsburg~ it was their .. together as the champions of the
staunch defense that continued world.
or any combination
BIG JOHN BENDER snares a line-out for Fairfield against
New York
THE FAffiFlELD SCRUM holds its own against the New
York Rugby Club': Stags won 36-6
JACKETS
SWEATERS
FAIRFIELD CLEANERS &DYERS
PANTS
Beautilully Dry Oeaned &~ressed
On Saturday, November 16 at
Van Cortlandt ParkinNewYork
City, the Fairfield Rugby Club
defeated the New York Club's
"C" team by the score of 36-6.
Doc Kenyon's charges' got off
to an early lead when Ken
Waters kicked the ball through
the uprights for 3points follow­ing
a penalty against New York.'
Seconds later Jeff Campbell fell
on a loose ball in the New York'
end zone for 3 points and Ken
Waters kicked the two point con­version.
The Stags led at this
point.bl 8-0.' '.
Al Su1l1van then ripped off a
neat run down the sidelines for
about 40 yards and another 3
point try. By the end of the
first 'half, Doug Ciacci and Ken'
Waters had also had long runs
for scores and at the half Fair­field
led 21-3.
The highlights of this game
were Junior Ken Waters' scor­ing
18 points (half of the Fair­field
total) on one try (3 pts),
one penalty kick (3 pts.), and 6
conversions (2 pts.apiece). Al­so
outstanding were Doug Ciacci
and Al Sullivan who have proven
t<:> be the team's be§t lla.cks.
Lineup",. "' o. nards - Chis­holm,
Sw:i.nhaus, Kelly, Bender,
.Campbell, Phoehn, B. Su1l1van,
Fallon. Backs - Ciacci, A.
Sullivan, Waters, Batch, Gatti,
Kappenberg, Fall.
Due to the sudden and tragic .
death of. President John F.'
-Kennedy-;-0n Friday, November
22nd, the Rugby Club cancel­led
its game scheduled for Sat­urday
the 23rd.
. This game, 'which was to
have been played against Holy
C r 0 s s, will prob a b 1Y be
scheduled again for the' Spring.
season.
BY CARL LOGAJ,~O
siveness. "
The University of Bridgeport,
a perennial soccer power­house,
has ten boys from foreign
countries onthe startiilg eleven.
These boys have played soccer
as their respective nat ion a 1
spOrt for· most of their lives.
Bridgeport also has ninety-per-
. cent of its team on scholarships.
This foreign element plus the
scholarshiJ;>s account for their
unblemished records year-in
am:! year-out in soccer•
Fairneld's yearlings h a v e
cQme a: long way since the start
of the season under the steady
guidance of Coach James Kuhl­man.
Although very happy about
the spirit and development ofthe
boys, he spoke optimistically of
next ye.ar's squad. Coach Kuhl­:
man stated that in order for
Fairfield to unfold a top-notch
'soccer- squad, the stags must
recruit boys. with exceptional
skill not only in this area, but
also from foreign' lands and
would like to see this program
started as soon as po s sib 1e.
Only then will Fairfield be noted
as .a trUly representative and
respectable soccer team.
On Monday, November l8,the
stag varsity soccer team
scrimmaged the University of
Bridgeport's freshmen team on
the home field. Although no of­ficial
score was kept, duetoJhe
nature of the scrimmage,
Bridgeport's experienced squad
scored 9 goals while the stags
battled back in vain. The game
was terminated b e c au s e of
darkness.
Although outplayed by the tal-
.ented visitors, the stag year­lings
saw the first-quarter fair­'
ly evenly played as both teams
demonstl'ated a good degree of
aggressiveness, but in the sec­ond-
quarter, U. B. broke
through the defense for a tally.
The Stag's defense was more.
than respectable, while the for­ward
line lacked that extra toe
to kick the ball through the
nets. Throughout the game,
however, the stags continUally
set up plays and showed good
potential for a score even though
their efforts were frustrated by
the tight defense. The hard
fought" contest was ,marked by
penalties as both teams were
penalized due to overaggres-
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