Stag - Vol. 19, No. 05 - October 18, 1967

              Vol. 19 No.5 Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut October 18, 1967
Vietnam Critics Puzzle Katzenbach
By JAY DOOLAN
Apparently to counter Mon­day's
outbreak of demonstra­tions
and other recent protests
against United States' involve­ment
in Vietnam, Nicholas D.
Katzenbach, Undersecretary of
State, declared, "Our commit­ment
to the South Vietnam­ese
is far better grounded than
were those to South Korea at
the time of the alggression
there. For this reason I am
puzzled as to why so many
Uberals who supported Presi­dent
Truman in a policy of war
in Korea now oppose a parallel
policy in Vietnam."
Self·Government
Speaking last night before an
audience of 350 business, civic,
and education officials attend­ing
the University's first annual
ProgreSiS Dinner, the Undersec­retary
noted that, "In both
cases we were aiding an inde­pendent
government to govern
itself, not seeking to govern it
ourselves. Finding enough lead­ership
has been a problem for
the South Vietnamese. Miracles
will not take place overnight."
Wave of Uneasiness
Keeping within the Johnson
administration's guidelines, Mr.
Katzeooach attributed the cur­rent
wave of uneasiness over
the war to the realiz'ation that
easy alternatives do not pre­sent
themselves. This is why
so much of the debate over
Vietnam has wandered up so
many "blank alleys," that is
why it has pursued so many
"irrelevancies," and pursued so
many "pipe dreams."
Noting that past decisions re­garding
Vietnam can be argued
by historians, the famed speak­er
stated that "such debate
helps us little now. Now is our
starting point! Now is from
where we must go!"
Civil Rights
Regarding the domestic issue
of civil rights and in particular
this summer'" racia'l violence,
Mr. Katzenbach found some
consolation in the fact that they
"brought home the deep need
of some of our c:tizens." "The
lifting of the legal barriers to
equality, the enormous prog-
Oontinued on Page 6
Nicholas Katzenbach
Undersecretary of State
Robert Penn Warren Highlights
'Evening of Poetry' Tonight
Some felt that the use of the
words "Free University" seemed
to iynnl3''O' 4--1_ ~ f .t.'!__ ....~ ... u,IJC.1:s U1
the group were denying that
Fairfield was a free university.
Free University
When a vote was taken at
the close of the meeting, how­ever,
the name Free Universi­ty
was accepted by a consider­able
margin. As one student put
it, "To me, the concept of such
a university in no way negates
the present system; on the con­trary,
it complements our pres­ent
community."
The discussion then turned to
the practical aspects of setting
up the university. It was de­cided
that the Free University
should answer the call to intel­lectual
activism by offering
courses in topics which, the
members feel, can not be dis­cussed
In depth in the class­room.
Supplement Curriculum
The free university will at­tempt
to supplement the regu­lar
curriculum by offering
courses on Vietnam, Drugs and
Hippies, Christianity and Sex,
Red China, Revolution, The
Establishment, The Christian
Continued on Page 7
Legislature Meets
The next regular meeting of the Student Legislature
will be tomorrow evening at 9:00 p.m. in the Ca,mpus Center
Oak Room with P. Sherwood Howe's Constitutional Com­missIon
bill first on tbe agenda.
The proposal calls for a commission to write a new Stu­dent
Government Constitution to be submitted to the voters
next JaIWary.
Other major items on the agenda are:
-A resoultion to pave the area behind the gymnasium,
submitted by sophomore representative Charles Covieilo.
-The Student Action Movement Constitution, intro­duced
last week by Junior class representative Barney Monks.
-A bill to impose a 15% fine on all those who have not
paid their Activities Fee by October 81 this ~, and Oct­ober
1 every year after, proposed by Senior John Grandinetti.
Free University Plans
Modern Courses
week in the establishment of a
free university.
A discussion of the pros and
cons of the title "Free Univer­sity"
opened the meeting, with
varied opinions on the topic
coming from some 90 faculty
and students in attendance.
By ROBERT ARNONE
One of the most interesting
activities to be offered to Fair-
A",::'d. ~"....\1.....aa(," uu..",erJauzed last
Both faculty and students listen attentively as suggestions for
the curriculum of a Free "University are voiced.
most recent work.
People and Things
Miss Meyer, born in Harlem
of immigrant parents from the
British West Indies, has writ­ten
poetry since the age of
seven. In her works, she puts
special stress on the writing of
sounds, atmospheres, attitudes,
and the rhythm of numerous
and varied people and things·.
The 31-year-old poet, who
witnessed and later wrote about
the Harlem riots of 1964,
worked on the movie The Cool
World as assistant to the pro­duced.
Her articles have been
publi:shed in Esquire Magazine,
New York Magazine of the New
York Herald Tribune, Made­moiselle,
and The Nation. Her
poetry has appeared in Libera­tor
Magazine, American Dia·
log and New Jazz Poets.
The appeaml1ce of the three
poets win be followed by a re­ception
in the Campus Center.
Other Bellarmine S e I' i e s
events for the coming year will
deal with the computer in to­day's
society, poverty, and East
Asia.
Primaries will be held today
to eliminate five candidates
from the representative slot,
and one candidate from both
the president and vice·president
positions in the class officers
race. Final elections will take
place next Wednesday.
The twenty candidates for the
ten on-eampus seats are: Paul
Corsi, Francis D'Amati, Ste­phen
Daur, Brian Donohue,
Riichard Doolan, James Doyle,
Paul Flanagan, Edmund Grain­ger,
Roger Grigg, Thomas Gug­liotti,
Shaun Harrington, Rich­ard
Jones, Colin Kiley, Michael
Leary, Steven Leone, John
Mirivola, Thomas Mitchell, Rob­ert
Murphy. James Schiefer-
(Continued on Page 5)
volume of poetry, Promises. His
latest book, Selected Poems:
New and Old, 1928-1966, was
published last year.
Poet Chancellor
One of the 12 chancellors of
the Academy of American
Poets, Mr. Meredith has won
three of poetry's annual prizes,
a grant from the National
Academy of Arts and Letters,
and one from the Ford Founda­tion
to study opera.
His first book of poems, Love
Letter from an Impossible
Land, was chosen by Archibald
MacLeish in 1944 for the Yale
Series of Younger Poets. Also
included in his works are Ships
and Other Figures; The Open
Sea; Alcools, a volume of Guil­laume
Apollonaire in transla­tion:
and The Wreck of the
Thresher ana Oth".. Poems, his
By
By BILL BERTIER
"By leaving 20% of their al­lotted
seats in the legislature
open it seems that the Olass of
'71 has not only shown a dis­tinct
lack of interest in their
university but has also commit­ted
a grave injustice against
itself by not taking full ad­vantage
of its constitutional
right to representa'tion."
In this way Robert Maggi,
Elections Committee Chairman,
pointed out that out of sixteen
representative seats, petitions
were received from twenty-two
candidates for only twelve
seats. This means that appro.xi·
mately 105 freshmen will not
be represented in the Student
Legislature.
Primaries Today
The much·lauded poet Robert
Penn Warren will read and dis·
cuss his works at "An Evening
of Poetry," the first event of
the year in the University Bel·
larmine Series.
The program, which will also
include readings by William
Meredith and June Meyer, will
be held tonight in Gonzaga Au·
ditorium at 8 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Mr. Warren published his
first novel, Night Rider, in 1939
and won his first Guggenheim
FeNowship. Following this in­itial
success were five other
novels including All the King's
Men which won him a Pulitzer
Prize in 1946.
Recipient of the 1967 Bol·
lingen Prize for Poetry. Mr.
Warren also won the National
Book Award in 1957 for his
Lack of Interest Shown
Candidate Shortage
Established 19"49
EDI .oOARD
FACULTY MODERATOB,' Albert F. Reddy, S.J.
Ed1~~ o~= ~"= :~A~lUamlsIS and ~Irwers an thf!lr awn and In r..o "ay ref\«t lhe
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()etober 18, 1967
To the Editor:
Sincerely,
Paul ,J. Greeley, Jr.
EdItor·In·Chlef
1968 MANOR
To the Editor:
• * *
In answer to the recent charges of
"political buffoonery", "plagiarism," and
"bHlknapping", by a Mr. Malone, who­ever
he may be, all 1 need say is, check
the facts.
1968 MANOR staff wants to publish a
yearbook, not another issue of a news­paper.
The questiQn of schodl spirit at a
"stag" football game should not be
dOUbted. Yet, the lana football game
clearly showed that whatever spirit
there was on the "stag" sidelines was
either lost in the night air or drowned
out by the Iona students who were ex­pertly
led by their cheerleaders.
The responSIbility of organizing ef­fective
chants at our games is placed in
the hands of our che.erleaders. Without
the support of the fans, the cheerleaders
are- helpless and without the organiza­tion
of the cheerleaders, the individual
"stag" students are yelling and getting
hoarse for the sake of the two or three
people sitting beside them.
Girl cheerleaders who are imported
from other schools only add to the con­fusion.
How can a girl from another
school have the same spirit as a "stag"?
For a student body which voted down
co-education, imported girl cheerleaders
are out of PI·ace. They are not needed
in this school.
The question of school spirit here
should not be a question at all. It is
answered in every student. Let us get
some organization so that the ques­tion
will be answered for every one else
too.
--
Spirited Question
• • •
Sincerely,
Robert H. BllIceglla
Sincerely,
Robert M. Carpenter
Representative, Class of '70
Check the Facts
NEWS EDITOR: Jay Doolan. SPORTS EDITOR: William D'Alessandro.
FEA'lfURES EDITOR: Ralph Kister. LAYOUT EDITOR: Philip Keane.
PHOTOqRAPHY EDITOR: Thomas Quackenbush. ADVERTISING EDI.
TOR: Barry Smolko. CIRCULATION: Stephen Hackett. ART: Peter
DeLisa.
• • •
It seems p.vident, from the tone of
the cartoon in last week's issue of THE
STAG, that the editorial board of THE
STAG feels that it is capable not only
to publish a weekly newspaper but also
to dictate the manner in which the
yearbook should be printed.
It is also clear from the editorial in
that same issue, that the editorial board
is ignorant of how the yea~book oper­ates
and the time !!on!! energy that goes
into its publication.
While the staff of the 1968 MANOR
grea1'ly appreciates any and all advice
from any and all sources, it does not
appreciate be'ing told what to do. The
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
SPORTS: Robert Sillery. PHOTOGRAPHY: Mark Borserine.
STAFF
NEWS: Daniel Richardson, Bill Brower, Chuck Angelo, Robert Arnone,
Edward Castiglione, Benoit Poisson, Gerald Sabo, Michael Collins,.
Bill Bertier, Bill Updegraff, John. Brennan, Colin Kiley. SPORTS: James
Magnuson, Steven Ryan. FEATURES: Richard Downey, John Boland,
Peter Hearn, Richard Otto, Richard Elliot, Vincent Curcio, Paul Kemezis.
ART: Richard Heggie. CIRCULATION: Joseph Lembo, John Legowski,
Richard Leuschner. LAYOUT: Thomas Boudreau.
Sincerely,
Edward J. WUIJams
To the Editor:
I, Edward Williams, hereby resign
my position as the Sports Edi·tor of the
Fairfield University STAG. My decision
to resign has been thoroughly con­sidered
and, under the present circwn­.<;
tances, I can see no alternative.
Although there are many people U.,l
this campus who may not agree, I have
always performed my duties to the best
of my ability. I only hope that my re­placement
is better equipped with an
amiable personality in order to cope
with the higher echelon who control
him. I also hope tha·t his staff expands
to meet the needs of this grow·ing cam­pus.
Finally, I would like to thank Fr.
A~bert Reddy for both his guidance and
assistance throughout my abbreviated
term.
Resignation
After meeting with THE STAG Edi­torial
Board last week, I found that
my section of the paper was found to
be unsatisfactory. According to a con­sensus
of the Board, my services were
no longer needed. Therefore,. rather
than cope with an expected hostil'ity,
I would rather not continue in thh posi­tion.
See you in
September
To the Editor:
THE STAG
• • •
encourage them to make this
position known before their pro­posed
constitution is approved.
If they wish to be responsible
leaders of student involvement on
campus issues, they must break
away from the bureaucracy and
inactivity prevalent at their last
meeting. They have set up an
incredible number of committees
in their' short history. The most
significant seems to bt the com­mittee
to form a petition to liber­alize
dress regulations in the din­ing
hall - an ifiea which has
been alr.eady proposed at the last
Student Legislature meeting.
The Student Action Movement
was founded to counter the com·
placency and indifference of our
campus, then they must quickly
begin to show imagination and
initiative. F'Or many months now
the student body has only heard
promises and has seen nothing.
We hope that S.A.M. will break
away from it..~·Jethargy and pro­duce
a· significant contribution to
0u! campus.
America .for their liberati<m by
any means necessary." The "any
means necessary" clause, r::tised
a long. dpbate at the congress
with one faction finding it diffi­cult
to "condemn Vietnam and
condone Detroit."
Also this summer, the N.S.A.
collaborated in a joint statement
on student rights and freedom.
It called for .radical changes in
the power structure of American
colleges including: a student voice
in the administration's academic
policy, students' approval of the
non-academic contents. of their
college transcripts, and the free­dom
to invite and hear any per­son
of their choosing..
The N.S.A. has been moving
in the direction of an ultra-liberal
political structure. It still provides
a student government information
service and represents the joint
interests of its members.
The l1ise of student action on
this campus with the keynote of
"intellectual activism" makes con­sideration
of the N.S.A. neces­sary.
Student.c; have an obligation
to ponder the merits, the de-
. and the long-range effect
or me!!10ersnIP. ~Il;-';~ ""'1'" '~1!IUI'y
changmg org'an~zaboncould have
at Pairfield University.
Thanks
Letters to the
Editor
To the Editor:
We would like to register a public
vote of th'anks to Peter Burke of the
Class of '69 for the fine job .he did of
organizing. the Junior Class. Orientation
Party of last Fridaynight.:,All arrange­ment,
contacts, and invitations were
halldied successfully- by him, and they
prl?vided a well-managed,. " enjoyable
evening for all. _. Our_final thanks bQth
to him and the entire class at this' clos­~
event 'of Orientation '67
Sincerely,
Fred .~e~nbutteI, Chalnnan
BOI O'Malley, Asst. Chalnnan
Orientation for the CIaaa of "71
Action
• • and Nationalizati'on
Student
•
Page Two
If the members wish to be­come
a political. movement, we
As the past academic year
came to a close, a group of stu­dents
calling themselves the· Stu­dent
Action Movement promised
to offer an answer to the indif­ference
and complacency on our
campus. But the group has fallen
prey to its worst enemies - in­activity,
bureaucracy, and lack
of "Communication.
We feel that at the heart of
S.A.M.'s problems lies a lack of
identity. Under thE. banner of
"liberalism," the group has di­vided
into two factions. One ad­vocates
the fullest student invol­vement
in the college's decision­making
apparatus, with the
Movement acting as a democratic
representative for th~ student
body. The other wants the move­ment
to support "liberal" nation­al
political issues. Thus the move­menthas
been diverted into a
struggle of semantic.s. and a fear
to take the initiative in 'ither
,.H..,,~tion. .
In 'the past few years Fairfield
University ha.s been growing•.
There has been an in.crease in the
physical plant itself and in the
number of students and faculty
members. Lectures, art exhibits,
and concerts are now a p·art of
community life. This year's ath­letic
schedules ar~ worthy of any
.major college in the East. Also of
importance is that the nationwide
trend, of student interest and ac­tivity
on and off the campus, h·as
made its appearance at Fairfield.
Student Gov't, F.U.C.A.P., Stu­dent
Action Movement, Y.I.C., as
well as' individual student par­ticipation
in "demonstrations" are
all realities of this college com­munity
life. As our University
continues to expand, this trend of
student involvement will prob­ably
expand with it.
The theoretical ultimate of stu­dent
involvement is the National
Student Association. Last week,
THE STAG devoted a lengthy
, tn thp N.S.A. to better
acquamt tne s 'v'
field with this organization. Ac­tually,
Fairfield University has al­ready
reached a stature greater
or equal to many of the three
hundred member colleges of the
N.S.A.
Now is the time for the indivi­dual
student to give some thought
to the possibility of Fairfield's be­coming
a member of the N.S.A.
It should be a student decision,
reached only after serious con­sideration.
What makes this issue even
more pressing is the growing in­volvement
of the N.S.A. in "civil
rights," the war in Vietnam, and
academic freedom and student
rights. There is a proposal pres­ently
being considered to split
this group into two corporations
- one to deal with. educational
affairs, the other to organize poli­tical
activity..
Just this past summer, the
N.S.A. Congress approved a mili­tant
stand in favor of black pow­er.
It sees black power as the
"unification of all black people in
2-5 P.M.
Obsolete
acceptance is suprisingly high,"
commented Mr. Smith.
Turned Loose
Speaking on the subject of
actual organization Mr. Smith
recalled, "At first I thought it
was going to be the most bur­eauc~
atic organization in exist- •
ence. I found out later that
its organization is so struct­ured
that it makes an individ­ual
work. Upon entering the
countries we were turned loos'e
to search out the people and
places where our work was
most valuable and necessary."
Adaption and concern have
internally structured the or­ganization.
The members, de­pending
upon the country in
which they are stationed, live
on a meager but reasonable
budget. "The Corps cannot get
involved in party politics; its
work concerns people on a
person to person basis. The
work involves the basic prob­lems
of daily life and is there­fore
on a much closer, though
lower level.
Always A Need
In searching for qualified re­presentatives
in this branch of
the foreign service the board
has found that 96% of the peo­ple
who enter are college
graduates. Eighty-five percent
enter graduate school after
completion of their enlistment.
It would seem as though the
Corps acceptance is limited to
college graduates but Mr. Smith
noted "there is always a need
for people with strong technical
and agricultural skills."
Of the fifty-eight nations with
which the Corps is concerned
the greatest accomplishments
have come in Brazil and the
Latin American nations. In a
sense this is the actualization
of the Good Neighbor Policy
Continued on Page 7
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dence and underlying support
which has convinced the world
that the Corps is sincere in
its attempts. It 0 per ate s
through the invitations of var­ious
countries seeking aid. It
is therefore a reciprocal under­standing
of good will and as­sertion.
Economic Support
Mr. Smith stated that "work
in the Corps is half sponsored
by the United States and half
by the host nation. When the
host cannot afford the necess­ary
economic sup p 0 r t the
United States intercedes with
larger contributions.
The enterprising facets of the
Peace Corps are not monetary
but social. Its motto of helping
others help themselves is a
strong and sincere one.
"Previously business looked
upon the Peace Corps volun­teers
as 'beards' or 'risks.'
Now grants fro m private
corporations, loans, and general
To
The rewards of the Peace Corps are explained by several volunteers
Goal:
Law School Test
Dates Announced
The Law School Admission
Test, required of candidates for
admission to nwst American
Law Schools, will be given at
more than 250 centers through­out
the nation on November II,
1967, February 10, 1968, April
6, 1968 and August 3, 1968. The
test, which is administered by
the Educational Testing Serv­ice,
was taken last year by
over 47,000 candidates whose
scores were sent to over 160
law schools.
ETS advises candidates to
make separate application to
each law school of their choice
and to ascertain from each
whether it requires the Law
School Admission Test. Since
many law schools select their
freshman classes in the spring
preceding entrance, candidates
for admission to next year's
classes are advised to take
either the November or the
February test.
The morning session of the
Law School Admission Test
measures the ability to use lan­guage
and to think logically.
The afternoon session includes
measures of writing ability and
general background. A bulletin
and facts concerning the work
with which he is i:wolved.
"The Peace Corps is rapidly
trying to make itself obsolete,
he said, and al! the members
look forward to the day when
there will never be a need for
such organizations."
The nucleus of the Peace
Corps is centered in the indi­vidual
who enters into the
work. The volunteer is sub­jected
to the most vigorous'
and intensive study before he
becomes a working member.
Power of Involvement
As Mr. Smith commented,
"The unit feels that a person
entering wants the reponsibility
at a young age, for the labor
and the time which it consumes
lasts virtually twenty-f 0 u r
hours a day. A member feels
that he is part because of the
power of involvement."
Though it has been necessary
to operate the program by
means of a system of trial and
error, there is enough confi-
Corps'
ment ,in college is ideally a
result of critical and independ­ent
thought. The study uI>­holds
the theories that the
Catholic college's inability to
effect any significant religious
impact on its students is due
in great part to the means to
the end, the manner of presen­tation,
and also that these
means are ineffective because
they are traditionally oriented.
The research was conducted
among the undergraduate pop­Continued
on Page 5
By EDWARD CASTIGLIONE
Not very long ago a collab­oration
was established between
a concerned government and an
energetic youthful population
within the nation, an organiza­tion
which has been referred to
by John Gunther as "the most
fruitful contribution of all for­eign
policies undertaken by the
United States."
This program, formally known
as the Peace Corps, has been
an undertaking wherein not only
American members participate
but reciprocate in an agreement
between host countries, most of
which are non-European na­tions.
Misconceptions
Gerald Smith, a Fairfield
graduate of the class of 1965,
previously in the service of the
Corps and now a service trainee,
spoke about the misconceptions
Peace
• • •
This year's United Nations ;Day for the Bridgeport area will
be observed next Tuesday, October 24. That evening. Abdul
Rahman Pazhwak. Afghanistan's pennanent representative
to the United Nations and former president of the General
Assembly will speak in 'Gonzaga AudItorium at 8 p.m.
The ambassador has been a member and chairman of numer­ous
UN committees includine: the 1963 UN Fact-Find1ng Mis­sion
to Vietnam to examine the relations between the Govern­ment
of the Republic of Vietnam and the VIetn:trnese Buddhist
community.
UN Speaker Here Tuesday
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Reveals
By MIKE COLLINS
"Almost everyone involved in
American education is aware of
the current dialogue and de­bate
on American Catholic ed­ucation.
Does it have a specific
contribution to make? If so,
is it actually making it? Why
or why not?" These were some
of the questions upon which
considerable light has been
shed in a study conducted by
Rev. Mr. Leo F. Fay, S.J., here
at Fairfield during the past few
months.
Radical Changes
The findings revealed that
radical changes must be insti­tuted
in presenting religion on
Catholic campuses, largely be­cause
students are at an age
when criticism or rejection of
tradition and conservatism is
strongest. Catholicism's close
Identification with authoritarian
tradition, partiCUlarly in Its
presentation, has seriously im­paired
its Impact on the majori­ty
of students. The study also
shows that the tendency to
criticize or reject tradition is
likely to be more acute for
three sub-groups within this
student group:
1) students from homes of
higher socia-economic status,
because they have experienced
independence and democracy in
the family environment;
2) students whose personali­ty
structures are low in au­thoritarianism,
since they criti­cize
and reject what they have
received from parental authori­ty;
and
3) students whose academic
average is high, since achieve-
Survey
Theology's Format
Needs Radical Change
Pege Four THE STAG October 18, 1967
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By Richard C. Elliott Jr. and
Richard C. Otto
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'68 Liberal Dilemma
In November, 1968, the great American ~lectorate will go
once more to the polls and exercise their democratic rights in the
election of a new Commander in Chief and President of the
United States, pretty much in that order. This_ election is critical
to the future of internal politics and foreign policy. It may well be
the crudble in which the future of the liberal capitalist democracy
will be determined, yet it is degenerating into :l contest of nebu­lous
peace promises. This must not be allowed to happen. The
war, though crucia1, is S1imply not the only issue. The urban
violence of the summer has made it abundantly clear that the
establishment must also put up or shut up in terms of its roWng
cities and politically and economically disenfranchised minorities.
In V1iew of these prdblems, the election of a Republican on
the basis of vague promises of peace would be a serious mistake.
President Johnson, it would do us well to remember, was a peace
candidates in 1964. Moreover, the total 'perspective might see us
ending the war in Vietnam only to create internal problems of
greater magnitude. A Republican president will doubtless carry
into office with h!m a Republican House of Representatives. That
august body, with its newly revived coalition between Republicans
and Southern Democrats, is sufficiently reactionary. It needs no
additional strength.
The solution seems obvious: dump Johnson in 1968. But
never has renomination been refused to an incumbent president,
so it seems an inevitability of party politics that LBJ will be the
Democratic candidate. This presents the American liberal with an
almost insoluble politica'l dilemma. He may gamble on the peace
promises of a Republican but he will also gamble and have to
accept a less than progressive internal policy. In this case, the
revolution may end in Vietnam and begin in our streets. Or he
can opt for Johnson's war and a moderately liberal internal pro­gram
with no funds to back it but basically good intentions.
The real solution was third party politics, but since the
radicals failed so miseralbly at the Conference for New Politics
in Chicago last month, this is a dead issue. We are left to work
within the party. Their failure is to be lamented, if only because
the electorate will not be offered a meaningful alternative. The
liberal democrats, therefore, seem to have no choice but to set
precedent by making an attempt to dethrone LBJ. For our part,
if the real Robert Kennedy would only stand up. we would be
glad to support him.
plored in long, searching, silent
scenes or ..hort telling dia­logues.
And here the ful'lest
drama of the film is found as
human minds weigh inhwnan
duties and act in varied ways.
A great part of the film is
concerned with physical street
action: daylight murders, bomb­ings,
mob protests, and military
counter~perati.ons.These scenes
were shot on location in the
Algiers' Casbah using the pop­ulation
as actors, but the au­thenticity
goes beyond that. The
mass demonstration scenes are
excellently controlled; but more
important, the less massive pre­sentations
of individual terror
acts, in which realism is more
elusive because a single subject
must be well defined in the
midst of a crowd, are faultless.
The fine directing and not too
difficult script bring the non­professional
acting to a high
level. The one noted actor, Jean
Martin, plays the paratrooper
commander who is charged with
quelling the rebellion. The
man's dilemm:l is to find honor
for his troops, already demoral­ized
by the Indochina fiasco, in
an impossible situation, and
also compromise his own high
scruples with the means he
must use to perform bis duty.
Intellectually it is the most
subtle proMem of the film and
Martin stands to it well.
The "Battle of Algiers" is a
pounding, gripping exercise in
human drama. It is a political
film that studies the objective
existential man in relation to
events, and not a subjective
idea of a "moral" man in rela­tion
to events. For this reason
it is all the more instructive.
individualism) .correspond ex­actly
to those of the ~haracters
they portray. The professor tells
us that the demonstration is
supposed to rehabilitate the
criminals and to teach us, the
audience (who are supposed to
be the auditors of the lecture)
a lesson about the mistakes of
past society. In other words, the
play might as well be called
"Son of MaratiSade". There
is even a trick ending in which
the criminal actor playing Ar­thur
is really killed in order to
make a disparaging comment on
the society of 2169, just as in
"Sade" there is a real revolution
to make a disparaging comment
on the society of 1808 (and by
extention of today).
"Aftl'r the Rain," like "Mar­atiSade,"
is constructed ac­cording
to the theories of Bre­cht,
who believed that plays
should teach lessons and make
their audiences constantly a­ware
of their design to do so
through the use of antitheatri­~
al devices. If drama were a
pure rhetoric, Brecht might
have been a master theorist,
and plays like "After the Rain"
and "Marat/Sade" great plays.
But it isn't, he wasn't, and they
aren't.
A Victory
dramatic event of that long ago­nizing
war, the Italian director,
Gillo Pontecorvo, chose to use
emotionally charged individual
actions. The pressures of the
entire war, on both the Alge­rians
and Frenchmen, are fo­cused
to this one setting, one
relatively short time span, and
one group of finely drawn char­acters.
The disadvantage of
such an historical approach is
the loss of scope and a balanced
grasp of what the particular
issues in Algeria were and how
they were eventually solved.
But in return, in the "Battle
of Algiers," we receive an over­poweringly
eloquent, almost
universal statement of how and
why men operate when faced
with the tremendous instability
of a nationalist revolutionary
period.
The lack of passIon on the
part of the film's makers, many
of whom are Algerian, in film­ing
these very passionate events
is commendable. Terrorism and
fighting terrorism ,generally
forces the men involved to put
some sort of abstract duty be­fore
basic human considera­tions.
The attempt to justify
such duties on film can too
easily degenerate into some sort
of slanting; Pontecorvo doesn't.
He gives amazingly objective
consideration to all sides. We
watch Algerian women plant­ing
bombs in cafes, OAS mem­bers
planning counter-terrorist
activities, or the last remain­ing
revolutionaries, as they are
slowly being trapped in corners
of the Casbah, deciding whether
to hold out to the end, or sur­render
and avoid further need­less
destruction. The thoughts
of these people are well ex-cereals
and sent it round the
world to prove that "Man Can
Live on Glub Alone").
These eight very Englishy
people, led by an intellectual
named Arthur, are primarily
concerned with the type of so­ciety
they will have. They start
off with an autocracy headed by
Arthur, who eventually deter­mines
that they should have a
theocracy also headed by him­self,
as the god Arthur. After
a while though, when he decides
that being locked up in a throne
room in his god costume is too
hot for words, he announces
that he is only possessed by the
god Arthur at certain intervals,
and rips off his costume with
great relief.
Trouble arises when Arthur
tries to have a baby sacrificed
to the god; someone realizes
how crazy the whole thing is
and kills him. Had this been all
there was to the play, it would
have quite sufficed. Unforunate­ly
though, it is a play within a
play, for it is actually a demon­stration
illustrating a history
lesson in the year 2169.
A professor narrates the ac­tion
before it occurs, and the
actors are all criminals whose
character flaws (like doubt and
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"Battle of Algiers"
The terrorist action in the
city of Algiers in 1956-57 was
both an advance and a setback
for the Algerian National Lib­eration
Front in its long war
for independence from French
colonial rule. Holding the city
in terror for over a year was
a dramatic achievement which
brought the Algerian situation
to world attention; also the
c 0 u rag e and organizational
methods of the rebels forced
the French authorities to prac­tices,
particularly that of tor­ture,
which raised serious mor­a'l
controversies 'both in the
Army and back in France. On
the other hand, the numerous
bombings and unavoidable kill­ing
of innocent civilians was not
good pUblic relations; and in
the final analysis, the battle of
Algiers, which ended with the
gradual uncovering and destroy­ing
of all the NLF pockets by
French paratroopers, cost the
nationalist movement a large
loss of men and complete or­ganizational
breakdown in the
capital.
In recreating this one highly
By Vincent Curcio
When I go to the theatre, I
do not go to be taught a lesson
which has a moral, but rather
to be shown a situation which
has a point. Because John
Bowen's new comedy "After the
Rain" at the Golden Theatre
adamantly refuses to do the
latter and just as adamantly
insists on doing the former, it
is an unsucceb-sful play.
This situation is a pity, for
"After the Rain" contains some
engaging material which could
easily have made a fine play
had only the author just let
his material speak for, which
in the theatre means present,
itself and have done with it;
but he insists on schematizing
the material through narration
for pedagogical and polemical
purposes, and in so doing, does
in the very real dramatic life
of the play.
"After the Rain" concerns it­self
with the eight survivors of
the great flood of 1969, who owe
their privileged status to the
fact that they were on a cruise
sponsored by Glub Breakfast
Foods, Inc. at the time of the
deluge (it seems that Glub
loaded up a small boat with its
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Established by Austin Ripley,
a recovered alcoholic, Guest
House has a recovery rate of
82 per cent, one of the highest
in the world.
Following the movie, the Rev.
J. Joseph Ryan, S.J., a profes­sor
of philosophical psychology
at New York's Fordham Uni­V'ersity
and a recovered alcohol­ic
and Guest House graduate,
will speak on the treatment of
the total person which Is the
therapy of Guest House.
An amiable discussion with Fr. ,McInnes followed one 01
the events at last year's Father·Son Week'md. This year's
expanded weekend. scheduled for Nov. 4 and 5. will be high-
. lighted by a football game against St. John's, and a "college
bowl" game between fathers and sons.
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stein, and Edward Viola.
Paul Anderson and John
Brennan, candidates for one of
the three day-students seats and
the representative. at - large
seats, respectively, will be un­opposed.
Class Ofticers
The candidates for the presi­dency
of the Class of '71 are
Bruce Howard, James Ruane
and Andrew Soleys. Real Bour­gon,
J'ames Stratondakis and
Robert Weingartner will run
for the vice-presidency. Timothy
Geoghegan and Patrick Long
win vie for the position of sec­retary
and Christy Pontillo and
Jay Walder are candidates for
the treasury.
A silent vigil urging the
American Government to in­crease
peace efforts to end
the death and suffering in
the Vietnam War will be
held tomorrow afternoon
from S to 4 p.m. on the lawn
across from Gonzaga. "This
will give all members of the
Fairfield Com m u nit y a
chance to voice their desire
for peace," noted William
Luddy, one of the partici­pants.
Peace Vigil Tomorrow
A motion picture and talk
dealing with the recovery of an
alcoholic priest will be pre­sented
at 8:30 p.m. this Satur­day
in Gonzaga Auditorium, ac­cording
to the Rev. Joseph E.
McCormick, S.J., superior of the
Jesuit community at Fairfield.
Both the film and the talk,
which are being conducted as
a benefit performance for Guest
House, are open to all students.
Tickets may be obtained from
the chairman, Mrs. Wanda Mc­Padden,
by calling the Universi­ty
number, 255-1011.
The color film, "The Deepest
Shadow," produced by the Na.­tional
Broadcasting Company,
depicts the plIght of the priest
trapped by the disease of alco­holism
and the program of re­covery
available to him at
Guest House, Lake Orion, MI­chigan.
Guest House, established
15 years ago, is the world's only
lay-operated recovery home for
alcoholic priests.
Movie Depicts Plight
Of Alcoholic Priest
THE STAG
Study
students before coming to col­lege
than after a year or more
of attendance.
Thirdly, students of a higher
socio-economic status wHl be
less likely to accept traditional
religion. Fourthly, students
whose personality structures
are minimally authorital'ian are
minimally religious, and, final­ly,
students with high academ­ic
averages have low responces
to authoritarian traditional re­ligion.
The findings therefore lend
empirical support to the theory
that the means of transmitting
Christianity through conserva­tive
traditional teaching are
being rendered completely in­effective
among the majority
of college students.
trip to another era, walk down
Fifth Avenue to 70th Street and
the Frick Collection. This col­lection
is probably one of the
finest, small, individual collec­tions
in the world, in the pre­Internal
Revenue days. The
mansion itself is reminiscent
of 18th Century French archi­tecture
and quite beautiful. The
collection includes works by EI
Greco, Holibein, Titian, Gains­borough,
Reynolds, Turner,
Constable and Rembrandt. Ad­mission
is also free.
After all this art a sna·ck at
the Central Park Zoo at 64th
Street is a refreshing, inexpen­sive
and surprisingly enjoyaJble
way to recuperate. The restau­rant
consists of a snl1'ck bar
with hot meals, sandwiohes,
and refreshments and a beer
garden, alII run by Horn &
Hardart, whose automats in
themselves would comprise a
graduate course in humanity.
On the concert scene Friday
night will see Jefferson Air­plane
at Hunter College on Park
Avenue and The Butter,field
Blues Band at Town Hall on
West 43rd Street. Otis Redding
and Carla Th'.)mas will perform
Friday and Saturday at the
Vi'1lage Theatre, Second Avenue
and 6th Street. On Oct. 'l:T,
Buffy Sainte-Mal'ie will perform
at Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln
Center.
Theology
Questions
The first part of the ques­tionnaire
included questions on
the student's academic average
and family environment and
background, plus a few basic
statements on the Church
with which the students could
agree or disagree, such as "The
Catholic Church is basically a
hierarchy of authority."
The second part sought opin­ions
about certain aspects of
Catholic higher education as
experienced by the students
and about some social and p0­litical
questions. The student
had a choice of five responses
to this set of thirty-nine state­ments:
strongly agree, agree,
(with reservations), undecided,
disagree (with reservations),
and strongly disagree. Typical
questions were "Confession, in
its present form, is not a profit­able
personal experience and is
almost meaningless," "People
should give up luxury items in
order to give money to those
in need," "Prayel' before and
after class is only an empty
ritual and should be dropped."
Hypotheses
Five hypotheses were sub­stantiated
rendering the find­ings
quite conclusive. First of
all, there is no positive rela­tionship
between receptivity to
the religious means of the col­lege
and effective Christianity.
Secondly, relig,ion has a sig­nificantly
greater impact on
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ulation of the university as
well as the majority of the stu­dents
admitted as freshmen for
this year.
Poetry readings, dance and mu­sical
performances will be
given on Sunday from 3 to 5
p.m. Also, a sculpture work­shop
.has been set up where
visitors can watoh guild mem­bers
at work.
Want to see what New York
was Hke at the turn of the
century? The Whitney Museum
on Madison Avenue and 75th
Street is displaying sixty-4ive
works by outstanding artists
with the development of New
York as their theme. Also on
exhibit are eighty-nine works-­oil
and canvas collages, collage
drawings, metal collages, and
aluminum sculptures by Con­rad
Marca-Relli. Admission is
free.
At any time the Whitney is
an interesting gallery. Original­ly
it -was located next to the
Museum of Modern Art but
has since moved uptown and
has caused quite a controversy.
The building, architecturally, is
radica'l. The few windows are
not arranged in any geometric
order. The entrance is by way
of a drawbridge type walk that
overlooks a sculpture garden.
The Museum houses one of the
world's foremost collections of
American art, catel'ing espe­cially
to the young, avant-garde
artists. Its shows are often con­troversial
and very popu'lar.
For a change of pace, and a
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October 18, 1967
DANCING
Friday & Saturday Evenings
SING ALONG WITH
Gid Granville
at the Piano
By RICHARD DOWNEY
New York this week is in
the midst of the Culturl1'1 Show­case
Festival, another attempt
to convince residents and visi­tors
alike that this really is
Fun City. The Showcase, New
York's first city-wide outdoor
sculpture exhi'bition consists of
twenty-eight giant pieces of
sculpture by such contempo­raries
as Calder, Liberman and
Nevelson. Their work has been
set up in various parks, plazas
and building setbacks' from
City Hl1'1l Park to Columbia
University. A special collection
of sculpture by the Sculptors
Guild is on view in Bryant
Park between Fifth and Sixth
Avenues on 42nd Street, behind
the New York Public Library.
Open-Air Sculpture Colorful
Page Sik THE STAG October 18, 1967
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FINANCIAL COMMITTEE
Committees will invite the no­minees
to become active candi­dates
and file their credentials
with them no later than Novem­ber
20.
3. The 15 committees - com­prised
of over 200 college and
university professors and deans
- will screen all records of
candidates in their region, in­vite
the most promising to in­terviews
in January.
4. Following the interviews,
the selection committees will
draft lists of those most highly
recommended and those for
whom they would recommend
honorable mention. These lists
will be circulated to all gradu­ate
.schools in the United States
and Canada and to other fellow­ship
granting agencies.
Dr. Kurt Hirschhorn, Human Geneticist.
MARYMOUNT
Dr. Abraham Maslow, Existential Psychologist.
at
A SYMPOSIUM exploring the fre'ij,dom of man
in the electronic age. , . at Marymount College"
Tarrytown. N. Y.•.. Produced by the students
of the Departments of English, Philosophy, Bi­ology
and Psychology.
Fri. night - Bonfire & Folk-Sing .25
An Intellectual & Social Event
FOCUS:
Keynote speaker, Friday, 8 p.m. Dr. Kenneth
B. Clark, Prof, of Psychology, CCNY.
Sat. noon - Luncheon 'Happening', $ 1.50
Sat. night - Dance & Beer, .75
Round-tabl& talks, Sat. afternoon.
OCTOBER 20-21
the humanized - ­mechanized
man
Speakers on Sat. morning
Robert Johann, S.J., Author and Philosopher.
Ralph Ellison, Novelist.
Direct grants of Woodrow
Wilson Fellowships for flnt
year graduate study are ex­pected
to be made to 50 can­didates
OD the Designate List
from Canadian colleges aDd 100
from United States colleges, ac­cording
to Sir Hugh.
The mechanics are these:
1. All college teachers in the
United States and Canada
stimulated by the Foundation'~
Campus Representatives, are
being invited to nominate by
October 31 those students who
have the potential to become
faculty colleagues. They send
their nominations to the chair­man
of their region's Woodrow
Wilson selection committee.
2. The Regional Selection
Foundation Seeks
for New Program
Wilson
Funds
A CONVENIENT STOP
FOR YOUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES
An experimental program,
seeking to unlock both private
and public money available for
graduate fellowships for pro­spective
college teachers, will be
set in motion by the Woodrow
W II SOD NatioDal Fellowship
FoundatioD this year. At the
same tbne, the FoundatioD
again will ofter 200 dissertatioD
fellowships to enable studeDts in
the humanities and social sci­ences
already in graduate school
to complete their doctoral stu­dies
"with all deliberate speed."
Both programs are made pos­sible
through a two-year, $2.4
million grant from the Ford
Foundation, announced recently
by Sir Hugh Taylor, dean emeri­tus
of Princeton University's
Graduate School and president
of the Woodrow Wilson Nation­al
Fellowship Foundation.
E,mploying Techniq.ues
Employing techniques for
identifying top talent for the
college teaching profession that
it has refined over the past
22 years, the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Founda­tion
will use the Ford Founda­tion
grant to:
1. Designate, through its es­tablished
selection committees,
1000 young men and women in
the United States and Canada
best qualified as potential col­lege
teachers, as well as identi­fy
another 1000 winners of
Honorable Mention.
2. rAward 100 first year gra­duate
fellowships to candidates
from United States colleges and
universities and another 50 to
candidates from Canadian insti·
tutions.
3. Establish a program of 200
annual dissertation fellowships
in the humanities and social sci­ences
to graduate students who
are able to complete their doc­torates
in four years after en­trance
into graduate school.
Sir Hugh expalined how the
new program would operate:
Top Candlates
Through its 15 regional selec­tion
committees, the Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation will choose 1,000 top
candiates as Wodrow WilsoD
Designates. The names of those
deemed to merit graduate fel­lowship
support, together with
a list of those recommended for
Honorable Mention, will be for­warded
by February 15, 1968,
to the deans of all graduate
schools in the United States and
Canada, many of whom have
already pledged to make offers
of financial ~-sistance to the
selected candidates.
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BLOOD BANK
The annual Blood Bank, spon­sored
by the K of C, the C.K.S.,
and Alpha Epsilon Delta, will
be held November 8-9 in the
Campus Center. To avoid con­fusion
and inconvenience donors
will be aJble to sign up for ap­pointments
prior to the Blood
Bank.
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ress of the last few years, have
brought us face to face wi'th
more intractable barriers still:
the great inequality of oppor­tunity
that exists in jObs, hous­ing,
and education."
"TOPS IN TOWN"
90 Kings Highway Cutoff
Fairfield, Conn.
According to Financial Com­mittee
Chairman Larry Czja­kowski,
no bills will be consid­ered
without this infomnation.
Katzenbach
hopes to greatly increase its
membership this ~·ear. AH old
and new members, eJq)eriE!nced
chess players and beginners
alike, are welcome to attend
the meeting. Faculty members
with an interest in chess are
also cordially invited to attend
Those students with chess sets
are requested to bring them.
Eventually the club hopes to
arrange intra-mural and inter­collegiate
tournaments, have
area chess personalities as
guests, and elect new officers.
The following infonnation
must accompany all bills pre­sented
to the Student Govern­ment
for financial assistance:
- Budget for the coming
year.
- List of al'! club or organi·
zati()n m6Tlbers.
- Statement of how the re­quested
funds will be used.
- Complete financial state­ment.
Pays Tribute
Father McInnes noted that
the progress dinner "pays trib­ute
to those who have worked
so hard during the past year in
establishing the foundation upon
which Fairfield's future growth
and development will be buillt."
Other speakers on the agenda
included the Rev. William C.
Mc'Innes, S.J., and Richard
Joyce Smith, a University
Trustee.
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FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT
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There will be a general or­ganizational
meeting of Fron­tiers,
Fairfield's literary maga­zine,
this afternoon at 3:00 in
Gonzaga Ground 12.
Any student interested in­terested
in writing or manage­ing
is invited to attend.
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CHESS CLUB
The Fairfield University Busi­ness
Club will hold its first
meeting this afternoon at 3:30
in Regis Lounge. Mr. Donald
Cook, Director of Placement,
will speak on "The Function of
the Placement Office."
Refreshments will be served
after the meeting.
The Fairfield University Chess
Club will hold its fir-st meeting
of the new academic year to­morrow,
at 3:30 in C-102.
Under new moderator Profes­sor
Robert Bolger, the club
October 18, 1967
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Controversyl
Tonight
at 8 p.m.
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l\1r. J. Byron Collins
Will Interview a
Common Law Marriage
Couple
ranked player from St. Franc18
of Brooklyn, only to lose in split
sets 6·4, 5·'7, 6·3.
The doU!bles team, consisting
of Brian Fitzgerald and Gary
Cochran found themselves on
the wrong end of a tight match
with a team from Lehigh. Hav­ing
lost the first set 6-2, Coch­ran
and F1itzgerald made a
turnabout and beat their op­ponents
by the same score. Le­high
won the match in the last
set 7-5.
Continued from Page 10
themselves and together with
a tough line, the Beach Boys
present a formidable club.
Campion 2 had a big week
winning three g,ames and ac­cumulating
35 point'S in the
process. The team is quarter­backed
by Jack Heffernan. 0p­erating
with a trademark he
made famous last year, a band­aged
knee, Heffernan is decep­tively
fast. He throws with
deadly precision and ends Greg
Rauscher, Ed Lamb, and George
Wrobel only sharpen his accu­racy.
It will take a superlative
defense to keep Campion 2 off
the scoreboard.
The action in many games up
to this paint has had players
wondering whether the title
"touch" is a misnomer. This is
partly due to evenly matched
games which in turn are re­flected
by the standings. No
freshman team has yet estab­lished
itself as a commanding
power. Most of the other clubs
have also battled to retain an
even record.
However, two possible dark·
horses are Campion 3 and Re·
gis 3. The Campion team is
presently 3 and O. WhOe not
yet meeting :J, real challenger,
they are fast and have an ex·
ce~tionally quick secondary
(seven interceptions in one
game last week.)
Regis 3 has one loss, a tough
one to Campion 2, but is stUl
a contender. They have an
enonnous front line and should
get better offensively as the sea­son
progresses.
Gonzaga 1 also looked im-'
pressive this week by routing
the fratemity team 35-2. The
scoring onslaugh was led by
"Snaggles Sindt" who scored
twice, and John Walsh, "Fatty
Mahr," and Bob McCarthy who
tallied once each.
Goal
to beat the University of Con­necticut's
nwnber one man Bob
Briton 12-10 in a preliminary
contest. However, after suffer­ing
severe leg cramps he was
eliminated by a player from
Oneonta.
Jack McKenna, competing in
the second singles spot, played
an excellent match. McKenna
fought back lI.gainst the second
The progress of the seminars
is to be rerorted frequently to
the Central Committee along
with reading lists for each
course so that eventually the
committee can compile bro­chures
with course descriptions.
Great Success
The general consensus of
o pin ion after Wednesday's
meeting was that it had been
a great success both in its ac­complishments
and in the large
nwnber of students and faculty
who attended.
Robert Ruddock '69 com­mented
that, "The meeting
showed concern and it showed
that we can come up with a
curriculum of pertinent courses
which for various reasons would
be impossible to include under
our present establishment. The
Free University is the first
meaningful and demonstrative
contact outside the classroom
between the students and the
faculty at Fairfield.
Test of Students
"The Free University is a test
of the students' sincerity in
their criticism of the 'status
quo' ", stated one faculty mem­ber.
It will be interesting to
see how many will expend the
time and energy necessary to
prepare for fruitful discussion,"
Final registration and the col­lection
of the 25 cents per
course fee took place on Mon­day.
Classes begIB officially Oc­tober
23.
Corps
Free University
Peace
The tennis team ran into a
stone waH at Rider College this
weekend and were overcome in
the first round of the 196'7
E.C.A.C. Tennis Championship.
The apparently strong Fair­fi~
ld team drew difficult op­ponents
in the initial matches
and could advance no farther
in the tournament. First singles
player Steve Smith was able
Continued from Page 1
Church in the Modern World,
Contemporary Art, Literature
in the '60's, Hwnan Rights, Po­litical
Trends in Western Eu­rope,
and Civil Disobedience.
The students 'at Wednesday's
meeting also elected a Central
Committee of five members to
coordinate the university's var­ious
seminar groups and to act
as a representative of the uni­versity
to the administration.
Central Committee
Elected to the Committee
were Bruce Schauble '69, Sec­retary;
Royal Rhodes '68, Trea­surer;
William O'Brien '69 and
Michael Janson '69, Faculty­Student
Relations, and Walter
J. Petry of the History Depart­ment,
as advisor to the Com­mittee.
The free university's first se­mester
will begin Monday,
October 23, and wUl continue
for six weeks. The Central Com­mittee
has advised that indi­vidual
seminars meet twice per
week for classes of ninety min­utes.
The classes will Ite con­ducted
like seminars with an
allotted time for both lectures
and discussion periods.
Guest Lectures
The committee also advised
that guest lecturers from the
faculty be invited to speak to
the seminars, but it was stress­ed
that each individual group
should ultimately determine its
own method of conducting
classes.
(Incidentally, you may never know the complete an­swer
to Pitt the Elder's shaving habits, but of one thing
you can be positive: no matter how often he shaved and
no matter what blades he used, he never enjoyed the
shaving comfort that you do. I am assuming, of course,
that you use Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades, a
logical assumption to make when one is addressing col­lege
men-which is to say men of perspicacity, discrimi­nation,
wit, taste, cognizance, and shrewdness-for
Personna is a blade to please the perspicacious, delight
the discriminating, win the witty, tickle the tasteful,
coddle the cognizer, and shave the shrewd.
(I bring up Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades be­cause
the makers of Personna Super Stainless Steel
Blades pay me to write this column, and they are in­clined
to sulk if I omit to mention their product. I would
not like to see them unhappy, the makers of Personna,
for they are fine ruddy men, fond of morris dancing and
horne brewed root beer, and they make a blade that
shaves closely and cleanly, nicklessly and hacklessly, and
is sharp and gleaming and durable and available both in
double-edge style and Injector style.
(And from these same bounteous blademakers comes
Burma-Shave, regular or menthol, a lather that OI~t­lathers
other lathers, brother. So if you'd rather lather
better, and soak your whiskers wetter, Burma-Shave's
your answer.)
But I digress. We have now solved the problem of
maturity. In subsequent columns we'll take up other is­sues,
equally burning. Since 1953 when this column first
started running in your campus paper, we've tackled
such thorny questions as "Can a student of 19 find hap­piness
with an economics professor ~f 90?" and "Should
capital punishment for pledges be abolished?" and "Are
room-mates sanitary?" Be assured that in this, our 14th
year, we will not be less bold.
* * * © 1967, M.. Shulman
The makers 01 Personna Super Stainle.. Steel Blade.
(double.edge or Injector) and Burma·Shave (regular
or menthol) are plea.ed (or apprehen.ive) to bring you
another year 01 Max Shulman'. uninhibited, uncen­.
ored column.
THERE ARE NO BAD TEACHERS;
THERE ARE ONLY BAD STUDENTS
The academic year has only just begun and already
one thing is clear: you're not ready for college.
What, then, should you do? Should you throw up your
hands and quit? I say no! I say you must attack, grapple,
cope! I say America did not become the world's leader in
motel construction and kidney transplants by running
away from a fight!
To the question then: You say you're not ready for col- Continued from Page 3 enlist; Yale and Harvard send
lege. You're too green, too naive. You lack maturity. of past years. The Corps as nearly ten-per-cent.
Okay, the answer is simple: get mature. How? Well Dralt Deferment
sir, to achieve maturity you need two things: Mr. Smith explained "was not The Corps policy concerning
a) a probing mind; the idea of the United States the draft deferment is not pos-b)
a vest. but that it was our nation itively stated, but normally a
A probing mind will be quickly yours if you'll remem- which took the first steps to- person who has served is placed
ber that education consists not of answers but of ques- wards the realization of this
tions. Blindly accepting information and dumbly concept,'. at the end of the draft defer-mt:
mo·rizing data is high school stufl:. In cOlle:~g:e1y~0~U~d~0~n~';t N(lt:~WWiW"U1n- ...;m:e:n~t~li:·:.s.t~.:M:r:.:.~S:;m~it:h~s~t:;;a;te~d~thriia~t:-~-;-~~~-,--,,-,- • _
just accept. You dispute, you push, IRILPJ:.V' - ay -. y I t I lenge. If, for insta~ce,hy:rielrprof says, "E equals three members were taken In ~amura s
S h f "It is certainly not an easy f • I mc squared," doli' Just write it down. ay to t e pro, rom the corps, but it is still
"Why?'" way out for young people; in the option of the board within
This will show him two things: many aspects life in the Corps the different communities to
a) Your mind is a keen, thrusting instrument. is much more involved and com- select who will or who will
b) You are in the wrong major. plex than service in the army. not serve.
Ask questions, questions, and more questions. That is By no means do I want to be
the essence of maturity, the heart and liver of education. mistaken or to assert the idea The principle factors to con-
Nothl'ng wI'11 more qUI'ckly convince the teachers that you that those involved in Vietnam sider before entering the Peace
<.are of college calibre. And the tougher your questions, Corps are based on sound real-h
or anywhere overseas have it
the better. Come to class with queries that dart and flas , ization of involvement with
that make unexpected sa11l'es I.IIt 0 unchart ed te'rntory. easier. It's just that Peace Corps which a member must be con-
Ask things which have never been asked before, like people are volunteers and sub- cerned. The satisfaction which
"How tall was Nietzsche?" and "Did the Minotaur have ject themselves to the work comes out of the toil, dirty,
ticks? If so, were they immortal?" and "How often did with which they are concerned." and all too basic work is the
Pitt the Elder shave 1" Perhaps one of the most in- true payment for the service.
teresting points which Mr. For those individuals who are
Smith spoke about was Fair- able to attain this satisfaction,
field's participation in the Corps. for those people who find that
"The enlistment of Fairfield's there is a wealth of self-con­graduates
is astonishingly high. tentment in helping others help
Eight per-cent of the Seniors themselves, the Peace Corps is
who graduate from Fairfield their instrument.
A fin~ effort by vers.atile Tom Willmott keeps the ball
moving down field.
Busy Ruggers
October 18, 1967
ped for the assigned mission. You'll
be trained to fly exciting aircraft.
Just examples. There are so
many more.
Wouldn't it be pretty nice to en­joy
officers' pay and privileges?
And serve your country, as well?
Also, you get retirement benefits,
30 days' paid vacation, medical
and dental care.
B. Sc, Very impressive letters.
Now, do something with them.
whitewashing. The Stags were
handicapped by Injuries to four
regulars, which forced goalie
Tom WIllmott to piay wing
while Tom Kickum moved Into
the net.
Paterson drew first blood in
the opening quarter as a corner
kick was batted around in front
of the ne1 and finally slammed
in by State. Paterson added an­other
score in the last minute
of the game to send the Stags
reeling to their sixth loss of
the year.
With the ,>chedule half com­Iileted,
it will take an amazing
reversal of form for 1Jhe booters
to salvage the disappointing
campaign. The Stags hope to
start a comeback against South­ern
Connecticut this Saturday
at home.
The Air Force is like that. They
hand you a lot of responsibility fast.
Through Officer Training School
you get a chance to specialize
where you want ... in the forefront
of modern science and technology.
Suppose, for example, you
wanted to become a pilot and serve
as aircraft commander on airplane
crews. You'd plan missions and
insure that the aircraft is pre-flight·
ed, inspected, loaded and equip-with
Bill O'Malley starting
things off with a first period
goal. There were no further
scores in the extremely fast­moving
contest until Tim Roach
continued his amazing scoring
spree in the third quarter on a
pass from Ben Hill. Stonehi'll
battled back gamely from the
two goal deficit in the fourth
period and, spurred by a bois­terous
group of fans, scored
twice to send tlte game into
overtime.
Overtime Win
Stonehill quickly worked the
baH downfield during the over·
time stanza and scored in the
first minute to hand the Stags
a heartlbreaking 3-2 loss.
Paterson State completely
throttled the 1St""" attack as
they handed Falrfield a 2·0
THE STAG
B. Sc, Those letters have an im­pressive
sound.
But they won't be so impressive
if y6u get shunted off into some
obscure corner of industry after
you leave college. Aforgotten man.
You want activity. You want to
get in there and show your stuff.
All right. How do you propose to
do it?
If you join the United States Air
Force YOU'll become an expert fast.
By ROBERT SILLERY
The soccer team, expected by
pre-season observers to be one
of the finest in Fairfield his·
tory, continued their disappoint­ing
performance this week as
they dropped contests to Stone­hill
3-2, and Paterson State 2-D,
for their third and fourth con­secutive
losses.
The pattern of nearly every
game so far this season has
been the same. The Stag boot·
ers have fought hard, moved
the ball well and kept it In
enemy territory, but victory
continues to elude their grasp,
as lack of a scoring punch has
given the always close decisions
to the opponents and not to the
Stags.
Against Stonehill, the Stags
appeared to have a sure win,
The Air Force doesn'twant to
waste yourBachelorof Science
Degree any more than you do.
Slumping Stag Booters
Bow to Stonehill, P. S.C.
Cornell· finally scored on a
penalty kick to make the score
6-3, but the Fairfield defense
came back against Cornell, and
kick blocking by Tom Crowley,
Steve Ryan, "Flush" Connolly,
and Greg Polzer kept Cornell
in their territory to preserve
the Fairfield victor.y.
Aggressive Team
The B team found an ag­gressive
Manhattan team wait·
ing for them, but hard hitting
by Bob Mlllrkavitch, Richie Gor·
den, Q. Murphy and "Org" San·
tulli discouraged the home team
until a Fairfield penalty gave
Manhattan a three·point lead.
The second half saw fine kick·
Ing by both Jack Higgins an4
"Fatty" Maher to keep Fair·
field In the running. In the
middle of the half, John Butter
picked up a loose ball and made
a sensational broken field run
to put the ball deep Into enemy
territory. Another penalty on
Fairfield gave Manhattan the
hupetus to - turn the drive and
march downfield for a quick try
and a 6·0 loss for the Red.
The C's took up right up
where their predecessors left
off last year by giving the Man-hattan
C team a 19-0 trounc­ing.
Kurt "Little Chief" Schlic­ting
started things ro~ling by
accounting for the first Red
score on a lO-yard sprint. The
"pups" didn't let up as Billy
Freese, Bob Lutz, and Ron
Broncacio scored successively
on long runs. The C scrum
stopped a desperate Manhattan
attempt for a score and gave
Bill "the cultured toe" Schmei­sing
position for a penalty kick
to make the score 14-0. The
final tally in the C team's
eighth straight win was re­corded
by Schlicting, who tied
Q. Murphy and Mike KeHy in
the sophomore M.V.P. of the
week award.
Standstill
On Sunday, an exhausted A
team took the field against a
highly favored Manhattan ball
club and fought to a 0-0 stand­still.
Fairfield amazed the spec­tators
by staying in Green ter­ritory
throughout the first half
as the Red scrum pushed Mlan­hattan
back again and again.
Next week the A and B
teams travel to New Jersey to
play Drew University for the
Ruggers' first meeting with the
highly touted Drew club.
successful in blocking many
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Continued from Page 10
our lS'li in contention. In the
second half both the crowd and
Nassau players continued to be
amazed by fierce Fairfield
tackles especially by Q. Mur·
phy, Bob Jursh, Bob Marka­vitch,
and Carl Sachs. Nassau
was the first to score, but the
B;s were not to be had so easi·
Iy. John Butter followed a Nas­sau
fumble with a series of
fly·hacks which put the ball
deep In Nassau territory, and
set up a score by Riehle Gor­den
and the successful conver·
sion by Mark Feeley to put
Fairfield ahead 5·S. However,
In the closing minutes Nassau
split the uprights with a neat
drop·kick from the thlrty.five
to take a 6-5 victory.
The A's came roaring back
on Saturday against Cornell
Med. School and quickly took
a 6-0 lead as "Beef" Smith con­verted
two penalty kicks. How­ever,
a bruising defensive play
by Jack Novero resulted in his
leaV'ing the game with an in·
jury, forcing the RuggeI'S to
play with fourteen men. The
Ruggers continually broke into
the Cornell bac1clield, and were
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October 18, 1967 THE STAG Page Nine
SPORTS PERSONALITY
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more points in one game than
they did a'll last season.
The Fairfield kickoff was run
back to the 33, and one play
later the gun sounded, at which
point the F a i I' fie 1 d bench
promptly went crazy. They had
every reason to as the long,
hard road to victory had finally
been traveled.
The Stags will try to keep
their "victory streak" going as
they travel upstate New York
to play Marist on Saturday.
With the confidence, pride and
cohesion which this team
showed against St. Peter's, a
better than .500 season is
thoroughly possible. The Marist
contest will be broadcast live
at 2:00 on WVaF.
Victory
By WILLIAM D'ALESSANDRO
Football
Continued from Page 10
through the fourth quarter. The
Peacocks t h I' eat e ned three
times, but "in interception by
John Praskac, a defensive gem
by Mike Kenifick on the one­yard
line and some tough tackl­ing
by John Langan, Bill Gra­nata
and Lalbesky halted the
St. Peter's drives.
"Bullet" Scores
After stopping the Peacocks
on the Stag nine, Fairfield got
moving again behind Burke.
Burke got off a long run to the
Peacocks' 46, and after a five
yard penalty, Hal Devanney
scampered around right end
and went 49 yards for a score.
Burke ran for the two points,
and Fairfield had now scored
II
Halfback Jim Garrity, one of the bulwarks of the Stag ground
attack, outdistances a Peacock defender as he skirts end.
..
PLAYBACI(
Competition is a two-edged sword. It is so in busi­ness,
in scholarship, and especially in sports. If you are
searching for success, a brand X commodity, your goal
is always tougher competition, therefore bigger re­sults
from the increasing effort. However, you natural­ly
must run the risks of competition: humiliating fail­ure,
conflicting interests, and personal limitations.
The decision at Fairfield has been to enter combat
in the Big Time. Coach George Bisacca took his bas­ketball
players on the court this past Sunday to begin
preparation for the most difficult athletic endeavor in
the University's history. The 1967-68 basketball sched­ule
is an accomplishment in itself. Already committed
to oppose sports magnates throughout the United
States. and to face the consequences of doing so, Fair­field
must now res-olve to enter the fray on equal
footing.
It is common practice amoug all athletic powers
to recruit talent in cooperation with the admissions de­partment.
Fairfield recruits talent, but with less license
from admissions.
Sec-ondly, ballplayers, who spend four months
under nearly professional l~igors, are .often placed in a
less stringent course. At Fairfield there are no depart­ments
aimed at the average athlete who instead must
perform the somewhat astounding feat of matching
talent with ballplayers who carry half the work load.
Lastly the legal grade for eligibility in the nati.on's
athletic associations is 1.6. This quality point minimum
remains the same for players throughout their varsity
years. However, Fairfield insists that its student ball­players
meet stiff requirements which will rise higher
still.
If the University wants to challenge top notch
competition, and apparently for the time being it d.oes,
then talented players with average grades who wish
to enroll must be given special consideration. Players
who are already attending Fairfield should not be sub­ject
to rigid standards that are not demanded by the
competition.
This is only fair to the whole University, athletes
and students, who want to feel on a par with Boston,
Fordham, Providence, Duquesne, and the other schools
that are engaged.
Within the framework of a good academic pro­gram,
there is also room for a good athletic schedule.
Perhaps they are both integral to the concept of a uni­versity.
Perhaps not. However, since we have presently
chosen to wield the blade of Big Time competition, in
practicality we have no course but to field the best
te'am possible.
However, Bisacca said, Sac­cone's
talents will be utilized
in his new position to the "best
interests of our entire athletic
program at Fairfield. Lou has
always been a most capable ad­ministrator
"ind his attention
to detail, so important to the
smooth-functioning of our pro­gram,
has been outstanding." .
"The demands of this year's
schedule ·and our future pro­gram
require an administrator
of his ability in this position,"
Bisacca said.
Saccone was a three-sport
star at Central High School
and later became one of the
all-tiJne athletic greats at the
University of Bridgeport, where
he held records in all sports.
He was a member of the coach­ing
staff at his alma mater and
helped launch the footbaIl pro­gram
at Notre Dame High
School in Bridgeport where his
teams were usually among the
best in Counecticut scholastic
ranks.
Bisacca said Fairfield's fresh­men
basketball coaching assign­ment
win be announced shortly.
most important ingredients any
athlete must have - sheer de­sire,
guts and hustle - a trade­mark
he also displays as a par­ticipant
in most phases of the
intramural program.
Casey possesses a vast knowl­edge
of most sports, especially
baseball, which he umpires and
instructs youth in as a coun­selor
at the Ted WiUiams sports
camp during his summers. He
himself was a pitcher and in­fielder
at St. Francis Prep in
Brooklyn before coming to Fair­field.
Jack is a finance major and
his extra-curricular activities
off the athletic field reflect his
satisfying concern with minor
business enterprise. He has been
treasurer of the Knights of Col­umbus
for two years and this
year is proprietor of the game
room. Unotl'icially, tHUs ~mown
as a money lender, loan shark
and highly successful dabbler
in the stock market. The lure
of the "buck" enables him to
sniff out a card game anytime,
anywhere.
Our young "wheeler-dealer's"
genial character and quick
sense of humor have endeared
him to his fellow classmates.
His constant preoccupation with
pecuniary matters evoke such
friendly comments as, "if you
could write off dates as tax
deductible, Jack might get
around to associating with the
opposite sex."
Although his athletic achieve­ments
wi~l undoubtedly diminish
upon graduation, there is little
doubt that Jack's unusual tal­ent
will assure him a rosy fu­ture.
He feels that either ad­vertising
or Wall Street are
beckoning, but any future en­deavors
might be best summed
up by Jack himself - "You
can fool all of the people some
of the time, and some of the
people alII of the time, and those
are good enough odds for me."
Lou Saccone
by simply following his ex··
ample," Bisacca said in lauding
Saccone's contributions at Fair­field,
"it won't be the same
during the approaching basket­ball
season not having him
working on the floor with me."
"I .want to take this oppor­tunity
to publicly acknowledge
the great debt all of us at Fair­field
feel toward Lou Saccone,"
Bisacca said. "I'm certain we
never would have achieved any
success we have without the
contributions he has made to
our program."
but did so with no former ex­perience
in any phase of the
game! This was to be an omen
of things to come.
Upon being switched to a for­ward
position after two cam­paigns
in the nets, he promptly
flashed his versatility by lead­ing
the team in scoring last
year with eight goals. Jack has
been team co-captain for the
past two years and is presently
in the process of earning his
fourth letter - a rare feat.
Presently sidelined with a
bad ank'le, the amiable redhead
makes up for a lack of excep­tional
talent with plenty of the
By PAUL HUGHES
An increasingly common
characteristic of professional
athletes over the past few years
is their ability as sought after
businessmen in the off-season.
John Casey is a rare breed on
the Fairfield campus in that he
is first and foremost an astute
young businessman as well as
a very dedicated and capable
athlete.
Jack's immediate success on
the soccer team was an excep­tion
to the rule in many re­spects.
Not only did he assume
the difficult assignment of a
starting goalie as a freshman,
The appointment of Louis
Saccone as Assistant Athletic
Director at Fairfield University,
was announced recently by
George R. Bisacca, Athletic Di­rector
and Head Basketball
Coach.
Saccone is beginning his sev­enth
year on the Fairfield ath­letic
staff. He has been the
S tag s' freshmen basketball
coach since the 1961-62 season,
compiling an outstanding rec­ord
in that capacity.
In commenting on Saccone's
appointment Bisacca said, "1
have mixed emotions on Lou
Saccone's moving up to Assis­tant
Athletic Director."
"I BJll sorry to lose hiJn as
an assistant coach, an assign­ment
in which he has turned
in a remarkable job through the
years. Saccone has been respon·
sible for developing some of the
greatest ba~ketball players
Fairfield has ever had. He al­ways
managed to get the most
out of his boys while still main­taining
a superb personal rela·
tionship with them."
"1 have learned a great deal
Athletic Office Announces
Appointment of Saccone
FOOTBALL
AT MARIST
Saturday, 2 p.m.
SOCCER
va.
SOUTHERN CONN.
Sat., Home
Page Ten THE STAG October 18, 1967
AT LAST! STAGS WIN
Stag Ruggers Kept Busy
With Heavy Schedule
A pack of Fairfield ruggers move in to help Chris Grauert
as he bulldogs a Nassau player to the turf.
the Stags, with the Pioneers
getting seventh and eighth.
With the Stags' record now
at 2-0, the team travels to St.
Peter's this weekend to face
the Peacocks, who last year
handed the Stags a 26-29 loss.
The rest of the schedule in­cludes
Queensborough Com­munity
College, Marist, and
New Paltz.
slammed across the goal to put
Fairfield on top 6-0.
The Stags quickly drew blood
again as the defense forced St.
Peter's to punt, and Tony La­besky
thundered through to
block the kick. Bill Clbulsky
smothered the bouncing pigskin
on the Peacocks' seven-yard line
to set the stage for a four·yard
scoring plunge by Gaeta and a
12·0 Fairfield lead.
St. Pete's then started to
march and, aided by a fumble
recovery and some crucial pen­alties,
kept the ball deep in
Fairfield territory. The Fair­field
defense was more than
equal to the task as the line
completely shut off the run
through the middle and the sec­ondary,
with some key plays by
John Langan and BrIl Cibulsky,
who turned in an interception
each, stopping several crucial
fourth down passes.
Peacocks Score
The Peacocks narrowed the
gap early in the second half as
they took the kickoff on the 32
and marched 68 yards in 14
plays to score. A fake kick and
run for the two points failed,
but Fairfield's margin was cut
to 12-6.
Burke Scrambles
The Fairfield offense took up
the challenge in fine fashion as
Burke engineering a 70-yard
dI'ive for another Stag score.
Four straight completions to
Jim Garrity and Kevin Sullivan
brought the Stags to a first
down on the 18. On third down,
Burke rol~ed left, evaded two
tacklers and waltzed his way
untouched into the end zone.
On the two point conversion,
Burke took a page from the
Fran Tarkenton playbook as he
faded back to pass, was hit and
trapped by a lineman, but let
loose a pass as he was faUing
which hit Garrity all alone in
the end zone for a 20-6 Fair­field
lead.
The Stag offense switched ef­fectively
to ball control tactics,
and St. Peter's could not get a
drive going un til mid way
Continued on Page 9
S.H.D., 21- 35
By ROBERT SILLERY
Gridmen Sparkle
Trounce St. Peter's
in to win with a time of 32 :30
over the five mile course. The
Stags swept the first three
places, as soph Jack Lauter
look third.
Sac red Heart grabbed
fourth and fifth, with frosh Art
Schmidlein placing sixth for
Fairfield. Veteran junior Joe
De Cresce and soph Rick Fitz­gerald
took ninth and tenth for
It was a t-eam triwnph in
every respect as the Stags
blended a grudging defense, a
relentless ground game, a pass·
ing attack which came through
when it was needed, and an in­domitable
determination and
spirit that just could not be de·
nied to fashion the historic first
victory.
The Stags struck quickly and
suddenly at the very outset of
the game. On the third play
from scrimmage, Brian Burke
rdlled to his right, turned the
corner and sped 64 yards to the
Peacocks six-yard line. Two
plays later, fullback Rich Gaeta
The first win is always the
sweetest, and the taste of that
initial triumph will linger for
quite a while with the Fah'lfield
Football Club, as they finally
put all the aspects of the game
together to (:ompi2tely outclass
St. Peter's 28-6.
Outrun
Fairfield's Cross'Country team
opened its season in surp_'ising
fashion by scoring a 21-35
triwnph over Sacred Heart and
being handed a forfeit win by
New Haven.
As usual, Fairfield's team is
dominated by f res h men.
Against Sacred Heart, Mark
O'Donahue and Jack O'Rourke
of the Class of '71 easily out­distanced
the field and coasted
Harriers
BrIan Burke, the game's Most Valuable Back, uncorks a pass
on one of his many scrambling rollouts.
By STEVE RYAN
The Fairfield Rugby Club
opened its season this weekend
with an amazing schedule of
six games ·tgainst Nassau of
the Bahamas, Cornell Med.
School, and the Manhattan
Rugby Club. The matches
started Thursday against Nas·
sau, which defeated the A's
12·0, and edged the B's 6·5.
Fine Tackling
Our A team kept up with the
touring Bahamqns in the first
half due largely to some fine
tackling by Steve Carre, Mike
Fox, and Jack Novero, and the
superiority of Pete Smith and
Chris Grauet in the line-outs.
In the second half, the loss of
hooker Billy Connelly with a
broken nose forced the Red
Ruggers to play with one man
short. Capitalizing on their
extra man advantage, the Ba­hamans
freq'lently dropped an
extra man into the backfield,
which enabled them both to
penetrate the Fairfield back­field
and to draw the Stag
wing-forwards and backs off­sides
to gain penalty kicks
which accounted for half the'
Nassau points in the game.
In the B game, Nassau kept
driving downficld, but excellent
kicking and running by "Fatty"
Maher and Mark Feeley kept
Continued on Page 8
Comes True
Intramurals
A Dream
By BILL D'ALESSANDRO
While everyone was knock­ing
each othe~ off in a parti­cularly
ruggzd week of intra­murals,
Fairfield Beach and
Campion 2 emerged as the
dominant powers of football
this season. Both teams have
a 4-0 record.
The Fairfield Beach team,
comprised of 1J'.0stly oil·campus
seniors, squee'l:ed past first floor
Gonzaga 2·0 and beat Gonzaga
Ground 8-0 last week. The team
leader is Bill Casey who does
everything well and provides
the stimulus for the rest of the
squad. Howev~r, teammates Bill
Murphy, Matt Doyle, and Dave
Callahan are no slight threat
Continued on Page 7
As Paul Barnes, with the
game ball safely tucked under
hIs arm, was escorted oil the
field on the shoulders of the
JubIlant Fairfield football play-ers,
the hOpes and dreams of
the founder of the Fairfield
Football Club and its first presi­dent
were finally realized.
After seeing the well-organi­zed,
disciplined and spirited
Fairfield team run roughshod
over a ragamuffin St. Peter's
squad, one realized how neatly
last year's situation had been
reversed. The Stags were no
longer a helter-skelter outfit
doomed to be on the short end
of the score but were a con­fident
team which dominated
the game, took advantage of the
breaks and made the Peacocks
look inept before their own
homecoming crowd. For Barnes.
this must have been 60 minutes
of pure joy.
Quarterback Brian Burk".
also instrumental in the found­ing
of the club. and who was
playing before a hometown
Bayonne crowd. was awarded
the trophy as the game's most
valuable back.
This was a victory achieved
without a huge stadium, with­out
thousands of cheering fans,
without financial incentives, and
without the electircal equip­ment
of the Big Ten variety of
football. In short, it was a
personal triumph, by people like
Barnes and Burke, President
Kirk Walker. Coaches Dick
Curtis and Don Houston, and
Tony Labesky and the rest of
the players.
With four games remaining
on the schedule, it is hoped that
the student body will now
realize that Fairfield has an ex­citing
team, s capable team,
and, finally, .\ winning team.