Stag - Vol. 19, No. 09 - November 15, 1967

              'Paternalistic' Tone
Of Weekend Notice
Provokes Protest
November IS, 1967
dissatisfaction with the admin­istration's
"paternalistic at.
titude."
By JAY DOOLAN
4n emotional response to an
official Homecoming Weekend
Dotice provided the basis for a Formal Apology
spontaneous demonstration in- Mr. Bianchi, in an effort to
volving over 200 students. Re- calm stUl~ept dissent, addressed
sentment was caused by a state- tqe crowd and formally apolo­ment
issued by Mr. RonaJ,d J. gized for the tone of his state­Bianchi,
Dir~tor of Resident ment. He emphasized, how­Students,
dramatizing the COD, ever, the fact that the rules
sequences for those students could not be changed since they
who planned to "beat the sys- we r e regulations explicitly
tern for the Weekend and get stated in the StUdent Hand­away
with as much as possible." book.
Irate students shouted their After answering questions of
demands for explanation of the ~t\!dent concern in the areas
"sarcastic" presentation of the such as handbook changes and
Weekend's rules for over two campus dress, Mr. Bianchi
hours On the back steps of agreed to speak with stUdent
Loyo Jr-..J.:I;all. Many used the leaders.~ ~tlJ'.')~E.I'Jm'~t~~t
situation as lr'-spriT'gb2r::~fi-fo-would provide for "more ration-air
other grievance;; and overall al discussion."
Fairfield University. Fairfield. Connecticut
Mr. Ronald Bianchi is put on the spot as he replies to 'the demands 'of ,the crowd at last Wed~­nesday's
protest rally. Over two hnndred students, including Student Government President
Michael Bocchini (at Mr. Bianchi's right), turned out to air their views on the statement is·
sued' just a few hours earlier.
Vol. 19 No.9
War
By BILL BERTIER
Not AutQnomous
ComrrHmting on the students'
demands for more liberal regu­lations,
Mr. Bianchi explained
that "Fairfield students are not
completely autonomous while
they are here" and that "they
are subject to Fairfield's rules."
He criticized the demonstra­tors
for their failure to provide
altern,atives for the rules. "Both
negative and positive aspects
must be studied, not just indi­vidual,
subjective, or Whimsi­cal
judgements."
A former Marine lieutenant,
Mr. - Carl W. Walker, who
served in the Da Nang area of
Vietnam from June, 1965 to
March, 1966, will present his
ideas against the war in an
open forum tomorrow in the
Campus Center Oak Room at
3:00 p.m.
The 27-year-old graduate of
the University of Illinois, who
majored in history, attended
the Marine's Officer Candidate
School after graduation and is
presently a member of the Viet­nam
Veterans Against the War
which has been described by
Continued on Page 7
Mob Rule.
"The Student Government
must provide chanels of com­munication,"
added the Resi­dents'
Director. Planning to
work more closely with the
Government in the future, he
blamed the rally with its "mob
1".11e" on the "ineffectiveness of
Continued on Page 7
Mr. Carl W. Walker
Viet Veteran to Speak
Tomorrow Against
lished with EQUAL vote in the
decisions" that would be reached
on the questions mentioned
earlier and any other issues
which might be brought before
it.
Enhance Structure
Would this change the exist­ing
"power structure" on cam­pus?
"No" said Kister. "Such
a body would represent an ad­dition
tq the power structure to
hopefully enhance it."
Kister emphasized that, "The
power given to the students
will become a.s powerful as the
logic they can express within
this Tri-Partite Body. If the
consensus is a logical one then
the Administration must right­ly
consider it.
Tri-Partite Body
Gallarelli, S.J., and Michael
Mullin, '68, initiated the drive.
The Tri..Partite Body would
consider such diverse issues as
educational policies, academic
events on campus, dormitory
conditions, development plans,
the implementation of a com·
mon code of conduct and food
services.
Benefit Students
How will this benefit the stu­dents?
Kister stated that, "This
would give the students much
more of a voice in policy mak­ing"
and that the conclusions
reached by a body would be "as
binding as the logic makes it."
Kister pointed out that the
Tri-Partite Body could achieve
better results than the Student
Government in matters that
would affect the whole Univer­sity
because, as he put it, "The
Student Government is more of
an intrinsic affair than a diplo­matic
one."
Under the proposal each
group - student, faculty and
administra-tion - would send
three representatives, each with
one vote, to the Tri-Partite
Body. At the same time each
group would "continue to oper­ate
in their present realm of
influence which is intrinsic to
each." That is, the Student
Government ~md the Academic
Council would continue to be
the governing body of their re:
spective groups while the Ad­ministra-
tion would continue to
administer University policy.
Perhaps the most important
point concerning the actual set­up
(the particulars are by no
means definite) is that -the Tri­Partite
Body "shall be estab-
Mar
Urged for
"to make recommendations to
the Corporation concerning de­cisions
which are solely appro­priate
to it."
The formal proposal was re­leased
by Ralph Kister, '68,
who, together with Fr. George
Mr. Bocchini commented
the Committee had partially
lost sight of the necessary
efforts to "do away with the
preambles and catch-all phrases
which dictate regulation of
one's private life." He explained
that the new Handbook was to
be something concise and readi­ly
understandable by the stu­dent.
However, the Committee
had been caught up in particu­lars
rather than concentrating
on the underlying spirit.
"What is the sphere of In­fluence
that the nniversity has
over the individual student?"
Mr. Bocchini was concemed
with the Administration's over­emphasis
on the "reputation of
Fairfield" in regulating dorm
students. "Students liVing off
campus are members of the
University and free of these
rules, while the dorm student
is being persecuted." This di­chotomy
becomes especially
clear with events surronnding
the Homecoming regulations
Continued on Page 7
Vote
By BILL LUDDY
Discrepancies
New Handbook
Equal
The formation of a Tri-rar­tite
Body at Fairfield Univer­sity
has been proposed "to rep­resent
the adlninistration, the
faculty, and the s1Udent body"
on several specific purposes
designated to such a body and
Student Government Presi­dent
Michael Bocchini is pres­ently
investigating discrepancies
in the overall presentation of
the Student Handbook. When
the final draft was submitted
for approval, the Handbook
Committee felt that it would be
greatly Improved and clearer.
Since formal publication, how­ever,
they have fonnd It to be
nnsatisfactory and that "the
spirit of the 'little red hand­book'
is still there."
"Nothing was changed to the
best of my knowledge . . . in
fact, we gave more to the stu­dent
than he asked for," noted
Mr. Robert Griffin last week.
He expressed confidence in the
agreement with the Handbook
Committee on difficult points of
contention in the rules them­selves.
"The old rules were
made more stringent intention­ally
so that the special priv­ileges
v'ould be more attractive.
The Committee knew this and
agreed to it."
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Communication: A Two Way Street
were offered to Mr. Bianchi prior
to the protest. The Student Gov­ernment
must collect cogent ar­guments
and information on im­portant
issues in the future.
One encouraging note was the
presence of Student Government
President Michael. Bocchini, who
showed his concern by coming
from his off-campus home to me­diate
and act as a student spokes­man
in the post-rlemonstration
talks with Mr. Bianchi. However,
we find his WVOF statement that
"we now have the Administra­tion's
back to the wall," appal­ling,
as well as an idle boast. We
must feel that this derogatory
statement was made to preserve
an image, since he partially re­tracted
it in a later private inter­view.
We must urge him to stir
the Student Government out of
its complacency and work to pre­vent
any future breakdown in
student-Administration dialogue.
final exam, to adequately judge
the student.
One of the gravest violations of
academic justice is the "disap­pearing
elective." If ~ student
elects a course of a. certain de­scription
and dimension he should
be taught the commensurate ma­terial.
It is not the exercise of
academic freedom for a professor
to teach "what he wants" if a stu­dent
has elected to be taught in a
specific area.
It is hoped that this non-indict­ment
will be considered by the
some who are guilty of many of­fenses
and the many who are
guilty of some offenses. To those
who are guilty of none, it is to be
considered a thankful commenda­tion.
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apparent but at the same time
THE STAG feels that the demon­stration
was necessary and did
get results. The remaining ques­tion
is why was this necessary
and what more concrete results
could have been realized had the
students an effective means of
representation prior to this ex­pression
of protest?
THE STAG strongly believes
that while Mr. Bianchi shares
blame for lack of communica­tion,
the Student Government is
at least equally at fault. The Leg­islature
has been stagnant to date
and representatives continue to
represent no one but themselves,
exerting no effort to feret out
student opinion on important is­sues.
Delegated student power is
not being utilized and channels
of communication have remained
closed. It is of worthy note that
no alternatives to weekend rules
Marked
Further liberalization is on the
horizon but will come after all
students can voice their opinions
through rational, logical chan­nels,
not when a certain few in a
crowd shout their individual,
whimsical notions of justice. By
attempting to force their will on
the Administration, they are
guilty of an even greater disserv­ice
to their fellow students.
The fallacies of this protest are
generated concerning further lib­eralization
of weekend reg­ulations
and other disciplinary
measures now employed by the
Administration. In view of the
liberal changes in the new Stu­dent
Handbook and further prog­ressiveness
in regard to this
Homecoming Weekend, we find
it incredible that some should sug­gest
i m m e d i ate I y effective
changes in Universit.y policy.
THE STAG staunchly defends
the students' right to demon­strate
and must congratulate
those who came out to do so last
Wednesday night. At the same
time we feel .obligated to point
out certain pitfalls of this demon­stration
in particular.
Unfortunately, the results of
the protest were minimized by a
lack of organized leadership. This
lack of representative spokesman­ship
turned the "leadership" over
to those who screamed their ques­tions
the loudest. AJ; .it turned
out, these vociferous few were
more concerned with rabble rous­ing
rather than fruitful discus­sion.
One such person was wholly
abusive to the point of shoving
Mr. Bianchi, and we must believe
that he in no way represented his
fellow students.
The gathering was denied any
constructive discussion due to vici­ous
heckling and sporadic ob­scenity.
Such manifest immaturity
evoked only pity from sincerely
interested demonstrators.
We must also question the emo­tional
mentality of the protesters.
It was discouraging to note that
once the prevalent party atmos­phere
subsided, a significant por­tion
abandoned the demonstra­tion.
THE STAG further believes
that while students were justified
in demonstrating in reaction to
Mr. Bianchi's provoking state­ment,
they were unrealistic in
their immediate demands follow­ing
his apology. A "we want
everything now" attitude was
Student demonstrations are
nothing new at Fairfield. How­ever,
that which took place a
week ago tonight was engulfed
in a bizarre atmosphere of sin­gular
circumstances. Th~ spark
was the familiar lack of com­munication
between students and
Administration, ironically initi­ated
by the Dean of Resident
Students, whose job centers
around just this.
Mr. Ronald Bianchi made sev­eral
poor judgments in his deal­ings
with the student body last
week, the first being a poorly
phrased restatement of Home­coming
regulations. Though inno­cellUy
issued to further inform
and protect the students, faulty
technique in the public notice in­advertently
infuriated them, and
justifiably so.
Mr. Bianchi compounded prob­lems
when he chose to address
the spontaneous demonstration
protesting his statement. While
THE STAG sympathizes with his
duty to mend any hurt feelings, As a follow-up to last week's must remain the foremost factor
we feel that any apologies should Editorial (0 F MEN AND in grading. The established norms
have been made either by anoth- GRADES) THE STAG would like for a University dictate this, and
er public notice or through dele- to give voice to common, student, allow for it. It is perfectly under­gates
from the student body. In- faculty, and administration, oh,,-...st-8-r.d~~ a small group of
stead, he allowed himself to be servations on the anpJi-~ of upperclassmen, in a given major
_maJlipl!lated by the crowd, a sit- FairfieldJJti.tversity's evaluating field of study may all perform
uation which by its very 1l~w(Not intended as a general well in the same course; it may
destroys any opportunity for ra- indictment, it is hoped that this even be expected. That a large
tional discussion of pertinent compendium of facts and ideas class of freshmen or sophomores
issues. Furthermore, he lost stu- will crystallize some of the prob- should all receive A's and 8's is
dent respect, continually identify- lems of the academic section of totally disallowable.
ing himself with the protesters by our community. A major examination is an op-his
constant references to "we" . . ". portunity f.or a student to demon-can
or cannot do thl'S or that. The splnt of om' 4 POint, 5 st rat e h'IS knoIwde ge, not a
letter" system is an "overall" view chance for an instructor to "trip-of
the student's ability. Some up" the exam taker. Regardless
members of the faculty continue of the comprehensiveness of such
to use a strict numerical average an exam, a professor needs sev­for
determining a student's worth. eral marks, independent of the
But a seventy cannot be trans-lated
to a C, nor eighty to a 8. C
must indicate that a student made
the expected average attainment
for a course, while 8 must mean
above a v era g e or superior
achievement. This not only affords
a broader statement of a student's
abilities, but prevents him from
being tempted to "compute his
average," for example, to an 80.4,
and then feel cheated that he did
not receive a 8 grade.
Some teachers have set "stan­dards"
from which they feel they
cannot, in conscience, deviate.
When these "standards" become
so out of line with the intent of
the grading system that injustices
occur, then the conscience of the
University demands that these
teachers be reprimanded or
replaced. This is just as applic­able
to the "very lenient" as well
as the "overly striCt'i professor.
Some faculty members claim that
they "don't give A's." Others
claim that they "don't give E'a/'
The nature of the course of study
and the students in it will resolve
any dilemmas here. What must
be considered immoral, however.
by a student who is paying for a
professional evaluation of his
work, is the teacher who arbi­trarily
predetermines the number
of each category of grades that
will be given in a course.
The integrity of a professor
Realism &Drama Acclaimed
In Latest Sculpture Exhibit
THE STAG
Concert
ment and training, Uniroyal
Consumer Products, Nauga­tUCk;
Mr. Albert E. Johnson,
director of personnel develop­ment
at Bloomingdale's, New
York; Mr. Martin Moomjian,
vice-president of operations
with the Lafayette Bank and
Trust Company, Bridgeport;
and Mr. C. Donald Cook, di­rector
of Placement-Personnel
here. Mr. William R. Parker
educational director of th~
Bridgeport Chapter, National
Association of Accountants, will
moderate the panel discussion.
Mr. Parker is also faculty mo­derator
of Fairfield University's
Business Club.
National Sculpture Society.
Under commission, Mr. Blei­feld
sculpted a 10' by 7' 6" high
and low relief plaster work en­titled
"The Coming of the Mes­siah"
which was mounted at
the entrance to the Vatican pa­villion
at the 1964-65 New
York World's Fair. A part of
this piece is on display at his
Faictield exhibition.
...
Admission for Fairfield Uni­versity
students with an Activi-
. ties Card is $3.50 and $4.00 for
all others. Tickets can be pur­chased
in the Student Govern­ment
office between one and
four.
Promoted by Bud Fillippo,
the concert is being run in con­junction
with the local radio
station, WICC. Vinnie Roberts
one of their announcers, will b~
MC for the night.
• Gov't In
"The Legacy" by Stanley Bleifeld
Added
8:30 p.m. in the University gym.
Tickets for the event are
selling at a rapid pace. Over
600 tickets have been pur­chased
so far, primarily by
people outside the University.
All seats are reserved and the
best are quickly being taken.
Government treasurer James
Magenheimer stressed the im­portance
of students' purchas­ing
their tickets soon before
they are completely sold out.
The business clubs of Fair­field,
Sacred Heart and Bridge­port,
in cooperation with the
Bridgeport Chapter, National
Association of Accountants, will
sponsor a finance careers semin­ar
tomorrow from 3 to 5 in
Gonzaga Auditorium .
Panel members will speak
about opportunities in the field
of finance that may be available
to both liberal arts and business
orientated students. In addition,
each panel member will pre­sent
career opportunity infor­mation
to the students.
Panelists
Panelists will be Mr. Donald
E. Milot, supervisor of employ-
Gregory Award and the Tiffany
Fellowship in 1965.
Born in Brooklyn, New York,
Mr. Bleifeld studied art at the
Barnes Foundation and received
his Master of Fine Arts degree
at the Tyler School of Fine
Arts at Temple University. He
was named a "Fellow" of the
Tyler school in 1964 and, a
year later, was elected to the
Business Clubs Unite
In Panel Tomorrow
Groups
The Strawberry Alarm Clocks,
who recently soared to fame
with their "Incense and Pep­permint,"
and the Pickle Bro­thers
have been added to the
list of star-studded groups per­forming
here in concert Mon­day
night.
They will join the Beach Boys,
Soul Survivors and Buffalo
Springfields, performing in the
Student Government concert.
The show starts promptly at
New
Weston's Stanley Blelfeld,
who is !mown as "s, realist
sculptor working in the tradi­tion
of Rodin and Donatello and
the poetic idioms of Rembrandt
and Medardo Rosse," opened a
one-man exhibit at the Campus
Center Mezzanine Gallery last
Sunday.
The exhibit, sponsored by the
Carlson Foundation, will be
open daily from 1 to 4 p.m.
through November 21.
Critical Acclaim
Artist Bleiofeld, whose works
"are modeled with a sensitivity
and sensuality which rise above
their instinctive sources," has
received much critical acclaim
for "the humor and compassion,
realism and drama" which are
found in his bronzes.
The New York Times has
said of him: "Mr. Bleifeld has
done more than touch the past
- he has eagerly embraced it.
His small bronzes present a
feast of fine modeling, shrug­ging
the light across shoulders
and limbs with impressive fa­cility."
The Weston artist, who has
displayed his works across the
country both in one-man shows
and group exhibitions, has re­ceived
several awards includ­ing
the Albert C. Barnes Foun­dation
Fellowship, the John
tries to give the student bare
essentials and an apparatus by
which to work." Fr. McInnes
defined the Free University as
"an extension of learning for
students beyond the formal cur­riculum."
In this respect, Fr.
James Coughlin, dean, noted
that "no curriculum can cover
everything relevant."
The University president felt
that the formation of the Free
University reflected a minority
and noted that should it at­tempt
to become a mass move­ment,
it would then become
ideological. In relation to this,
when questioned as to whether
its formation might have been
a reaction by the students to
the intellectual confinement of
some" courses in the curriculum,
Fr. McInnes posed these ques­tions:
"Is the viewpoint of the
group better than that of one
person? Is one teacher better
than twenty..five teachers?" He
noted that answers to these
questions would vary according
to circumstances.
$10 and $5 prizes going to the
second and third place winners
respectively.
Judges for the contest are
Mr. Kolakowski of the Modern
Language Department, Mr. Leo
O'Connor and Mr. James
Shields of the English Depart­ment.
Mr. Powers stressed that stu­dents
must overcome their hesi­tancy
to sulbmit crea'tive work.
"The contest," he reiterated,
"is open to all students, not
just superstudents. No student
should feel that the competition
is too great."
The idea of running a literary
contest was originally proposed
by Government president Mi­chael
Bocchini who was ap­proached
by students wishing
to encourage competition in the
arts as well as athletics. It was
then arranged that these manu­scripts
would be forwarded to
Frontiers, the student literary
magazine.
ments Fr. Callahan. "We can
help as far as know-how is con­cerned
but can also tend to
dominate a discussion."
Dr. Edward Dew and Dr.
Evangelos Hadjimichael recent­ly
spoke to the seminar on
Revolution in the Third World.
The two-hour session began
with some preliminary remarks
by the speakers and then was
opened for discussion to all
those present. Mr. Janson, one
of the members of this seminar,
noted the need for increased
f a cuI t y participation, since
"They form an integral part of
this endeavor."
Fat her William McInnes,
president, felt that, "the Free
University has demonstrated in­creased
participation and dial­ogue
of students and faculty in
a worthwhile endeavor." "In it
students have assumed leader­ship
in treating certain topics.
Through it, students have taken
the initiative to explore beyond
the classroom."
When questioned as to the
possibility of supplementing
University courses with those
in the Free University to en­hance
the curriculum, the Uni­versity
president felt that this
was overstating the situation.
Acknowledging that the Free
University was doing "a neces­sary
job" and is proving "an
interesting experience," he ex­plained
that "the curriculum
On the weekend of De­cember
loS, Rev. Albert Red·
dy, S.J., will conduct an Ex­periment
in Ohristian Think­ing
and Llving, to be held at
a Retreat House in Darien.
Those interested In attending
should contact Ed Williams
in Gonzaga SIS for details
before the Thanksgiving holl­day.
University Seeks
Faculty Interest
By COLIN KILEY
With last minute entries due
tomorrow, the stlident literary
contest has met with differing
responses in' its two categories.
In poetry, chairman Tad
Powers has received many en­tries.
"In this field the response
has been fabulous - competi­tion
is keen." The prose cate­gory,
however, has had fewer
entries, all of them short
stories.
"I'm hoping for a good last
minute response," explained
Mr. Powers. Many students who
have expressed interest in the
contest have yet to submit
manuscripts. They will be ac­cepted
through tomorrow in
Box 1240.
Sponsored in conjunction with
the Student Government, the
contest offers prize money for
the best creative pieces: $40
for first place in the prose field,
$20 for second place. First place
poetry will receive $25, with
Mixed Reaction Marks
Gov't Literary Contest
By GERALD SABO
"The student response has
been good," commented Michael
Janson, a member of Fairfield's
Free University, "but we would
like to have even more faculty
participation. They have the ex­perience
and knowledge that
would be helpful to us."
The Free University formally
began sessions approximately
a month ago. Since then, some
of the original seminars have
been incorporated into the five
following: Vietnam, Black Pow­er,
Drugs and Hippies, Revolu­tion
in the Third World, and
the Christian Church in the
Modern World. Others have
simply been dropped.
"n has been and continues
to be an experiment to see
whether and where there is a
student demand," elaborated
Father William Callahan, a
member of the seminar on the
Christian Church in the Mod­.
ern World. "It is like a scien­tific
experiment, where you
don't know the results until
after its completion, and then
only after examination."
This seminar of nearly twen­ty
who are in regular attend­ance
has used Vatican II's Con­stitutions
on the Church and
on the Church in the Modern
World as background material
for discussions. The partici­pants
have also read the Feb­ruary
10, 1967 issue of Com­monweal
concerned with God
and are presently discussing
Michael Novak's Belief and Un­belief.
"The reading list, like
the seminar itself, has been a
corporate venture,'" noted Fr.
Callahan. "At the end of each
session, we discuss ibriefly the
following week's reading selec­tion;
thus far, We have never
had any trouble in reaching
unanimity."
Other faculty members in the
seminar include Father Robert
Varnerin, Mr. Walter Petry,
and Father Bent. "We are both
an asset and a problem," com-
November Is, 1967
More
Free
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Czech Out The ITrain
cause of it Arbuzov has, likc
Chekhov, apotheosized banal
life into moving art.
One reserv:1tion about "The
Promise" must be held, how­ever:
at the end, the play gets
on a soapbox; one of the char­acters
suddenly becomes a
raisonneur and exhorts the oth­er
characters to join with him
in changing their lives, which
they all promptly do. Suddenly
the play, in this turn, descends
from the level of drama to that
of an illustrated socio-moral les­son,
which is unfortunate.
William Ritman, in his fourth
excellent set design for the cur­rent
season, has provided a
Moscow apa~tment superbly il­lustrating,
t h r 0 ugh detail
changes, the alteration from
the starkness of the war yea~s
to the chintzy affluence of the
post war years; Thoran Mus­ser's
lighting is a beautiful com­pliment
to it. Eileen Atkins,
Ian McKellan and Ian McShane
do full justice to their roles
under Frank Hauser's fine di­rection.
, •
The goodness of the play lies
in the fact that its plot is not
simply a plot, but rather a
theme, of how the cautiousness
that comfort engenders can de­stroy
all that is truly worth­while
in life. Action gratuitous
to this theme is at a minimum.
A character in this play ~annot
place a board between the oth­er
two characters or pretend to
have a wound in his arm with­out
its having some relation to
the play's statement of what
these people's lives are, and
what they, being so, mean. If
this were not so, the events of
"The Promise" would comprise
the dullest play on the face of
the earth; but it is so, and be-
·n . , I~romtje
deserted apartment (belonging
to one of the boys) in Moscow
in 1942; they help each other
to keep body and soul together
for a while before the war
breaks them up. They meet
again in 1946 at the beginning
of maturity, at which time the
girl decides to marry one of the
men, causing the other's de­parture.
It is when this third man
returns in 1959 that they all
face the facts that they are
neither personally happy nor
professionally successful, and
decide to take chances in all
areas of their lives, lest they
betray "the promise" they had
as youths,
Theater
-Flicks
By VINCENT 'CURCIO
Watching A.lexsei Arbuzov's
"The Promise," a Russian play'
which has achieved great in­ternational
fame and has at
last come to Broadway, is to
see the ghost of Chekhov hov­ering
still over Russian drama.
Great silences and mournful
monologues, broken by giddy
outbursts and toned by half
heard music from other rooms,
give the play its rhythms in
true Chekhovian fashion; little
joys, gentle comedies, and the
thwarted ambitions of at last
wasted lives give the play its
substance, just as they do in
Chekhov. Of course Arbuzov
has his own stylistic devices,
some good and some not; but
this lovely play's success is due
mainly to Arbuzov's assimila­tion
of Chekhov's artistry into
his own.
The title "The Promise" re­fers
to the brilliant futures in
both public and private life
which seem to belong to three
starving war adolescents, two
boys and a girl, who meet in a
III
Look
because of any unique absurdity
in his situation, but because of
those universal comic possibili­ties
which he happens to en­counter.
Closely Watched Trains.
is a very funny film, and has a
sure place in the film repertory
of the human comedy.
Another
Onward we shall surge to Rome's walls
And through logic and faith destroy the halls
Which echo in the Errors of Leo
And the grandeur of pompous regal shows ­Until
the pope has fled to Peter's chair in prayer.
But do You care, dear Lord?
"I care as much as on the air
A bird would stamp his foot
And cry - Give me - my reason, Life."
~nd throughout the globe,
Each religious order we shall revamp
And take away its autocratic stamp.
Each bishop shall flee unless kept by popularity;
His mind and soul are the people's concern,
Not his robes and his office of sterile fern.
We shall humanize away the structures of the church
And give to Christianity a new inner-life rebirth.
But, dear Lord, do not laugh nor weep
Nor decide to forget and fall asleep!
For we have not forgotten this ·church!
We shall forward it in its democratic search.
We shall all resound in the Human call,
"Catholics, unite your hearts and mind!
The walls of the Vatican must fall!"
Catholicism shall be the union of the spiritual Christ.
Never again the body politic of a medieval fief.
Christians' shall stand "invisible as music
But as positive as sound."
We shall be free in communal participation.
Our new democracy with Christ shall be our humanization.
By RALPH KISTER
Awake dear God! Leave all and listen
As we look about this maze of Christ,
This garden of systematic contrition,
With so many positi'ons under the crucifixion
That those who seek heaven through this structure must
be sworn
To the service of fools forlorn.
"DEMOCRACY WITH CHRIST - OUR HUMANIZATION"
off. Milos never becomes dy­namic
- he is not meant to be.
Re emerges as a character true
to life, a spontaneous and undi­rected
but slow and humble in­dividual.
Though he draws the
sympathy of the audience, he
draws their laughs as well, not
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ambition and aggressiveness
that he almost always waits for
a push before acting. His naive
curiosity and resolve lead him
into many comic and some dan­gerous
situations. He envies and
imitates his older co-worker
whose calm, suave, and always
successful approach is very at­tractive
to the young boy. He
plods ahead, failing constantly,
totally devoid of super-human
qualities, and yet quite believ­able
and quite funny.
However, there is a war go­ing
on. The Czech villagers are
affected in much the same way
as were the French peasants in
Rene Clement's For bid den
GHlDes, who were alble to argue
over a stolen chicken while
bombs fell a village away. The
villagers worry about their jobs
and their cows, and do not com­prehend
the enormity of the
conflict. Even the occurrence
of its horrors is no shock, for
their hearts are not sensitive
to shock. Because of this, the
film is a comedy throughout.
Each event fits, even the end­ing,
which is matter of fact
rather than tragic. Only refined
,civilization senses tragedy.
Throughout the film, Men­zel's
direction is supeI'b. He
views e a c h incident with
warmth and patience. This pays
simplicity is a new work from
Czechoslovakia, Jiri Menzel's
Closely Watched Trains. When
Hitler's troops overran that
country in 19.38 the albIe-bodied
men were put to work by the
Reich in military and civilian
positions. For these men, ·the
war was the arena for both.
potential heroism and potential
brutality,
The hero, Milos Hrma, is a
boy-becoming-a-man who has no
everyday opportunity to devel­op
either potential. He is given
the job of train dispatcher at
the station in his small home
town. The station is never busy,
and he has much free time to
pursue his mQ.~t immediate end,
which is to prove his manhood
with the aid of his cute and
willing girlfriend.
But Milos is innocent. In fact
he is the epitome of adolescent
innocence: wide-eyed, candid,
awkward. He is so lacking in
PilULNEWMaN
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Virginia Woolf once wrote
an essay on the art of biography
in which she challenged biog­raphers
to write the fictional
life of a common man, who
would have ~o great historical
impact but who would never­theless
be an engrossing char­acter.
If literature has not re­sponded
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Two successful social
weekends have already
been held at the Univer­sity.
The talented chair­ment
of the remaining
weekends should insure
continuation of this
trend.
train, but there they are again,
menacing. The townspeople at
last decide to accept Claire's
offer, and set up a trial for
Schill.
He agrees to accept their
judgment as true justice for
himself, though what it will be
for the townspeople he cannot
say. They try him and kill him.
Claire leaves the town with the
coffin as the townspeople stand
looking like death in their new
.fillery.
mores 5:15 - 6:15; Frosh 6:00 ­7:
00.
Informal dress includes shirts,
slacks, shoes, socks.
Dress Regulations
Discussed TomorrDw
A recommendation that tM
Campus Center Rules Commit­tee
look into the possibility of
changing the dress regulations
for dinner will be discussed at
tomorrow night's Legislature
meeting.
Another bill, not on the offi­cial
agenda but expected to be
brought up from the 11001', con­cernS'
finances for the Fencing
Club. Still in corrunittee, it pro­poses
a $250 grant and a $200
loan for the club.
Tomorrow night's meeting
will take place at 9 p.m. in the
Oak Room and is open to all
students.
Concert Tonight
The CKS is sponsoring buses
to tonight's performance of
Bruckner's UTe Deum" and
Stravinski's Fire Bird Suite at
Bushnell Memorial Auditorium.
Tickets for the concert, given
by the Hartford Symphony Or­chestra,
can be purchased for
$1.50 in the Campus Center
lobby or Campion 323 or 324.
Buses will leave in front of
Loyola at 6:00 p.m.
the Playhouse
Compromised
Campus News
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lover, Schill, as justice for the
indignities she suffered. The
townspeople are horrified at
first, telling Schill that they
will never accept.
Gradually, they begin buying
on credit and making sly digs
against him. He comes fright­ened
and goe<; to the various .
town leaders to get protection
from them, but they offer a
strangely menacing consolation
which frightens. him all the
more. He tries to escape by
Handbook Corrections
Mr. Robert Griffin and Mr.
Ronald Bianchi have pointed
out the following corrections
and clarifications in the new
Student Handbook.
In the Handbook there is a
sanction codification for alcohol
and drugs. Following this there
is an area concerning' the
safety of students. The sanc­tions
on alcohol and drugs do
not apply to this area as it
may appear in the Handbook.
Mr. Bianchi stated that each in­cident
which endangers the
safety of others would be in­dependently
judged.
The following are the cor~
rected dinner hours:
Mon. - Thurs.: Seniors 5:00 ­6:
30; Juniors 5:00 - 6:00 Sopho-to
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A 'Visit'
Finds
Seniors John Tabellione and Tony Labesky.
"The Visit," a play by Fred­rich
Duerrenmatt, has !been se­lected
as the first production of
the year by the University
Playhouse.
Opening night of the show is
Thursday, November 30. Five
subsequent performances have
been scheduled for Friday and
Saturday, December 1 and 2,
and the following Thursday­Saturday,
December 7-9.
Tickets for "The Visit" are
now available at the Playhouse
at $1.75 for students, $2.75 for
others. Curtain time fur all per­formances
is 8 p.m.
Following is a brief summary
of the plot:
Madame Claire Zachanassian,
fabulously wealthy, returns to
the town of her birth, Gullen,
a middle European city which
has fallen on evil days. The
townspeople hoPe that she will
restore their former prosperity
and she announces that she will
do just that, at one condition:
that they give her justice in
exchange.
It seems that years previous­ly
she was thrown out of Gul­len
after she had become preg­nant
by her lover, Anton Schill,
who had trumped up a phony
court case against her proving
that she had slept with other
men. After her conviction, she
had no other choice but to be­come
a prostitute. Now' sh'e
wants to buy the life of her
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sanctioning a student for an
act which he committed off
campus. They feel that, "stu­dents
come to Fairfield search­ing
for a free intellectual com­mitment
and should be allowed
to take a public stand on issues
which they consider to be im­portant
to themselves. These
catch-all phrases hinder the
student's personal convictions."
Daily Discussion
Members of the Student Gov­ernment
meet daily with Mr.
Griffin to discuss these difficul­ties.
Mr. Bocchini commented
that it is hard to point out
these specific "attitudes" in the
handbook. "For example, the
intent of Special Privileges was
to ~tablish them as rights. It
would not be a question of re­verting
to the "real rules' when
a student was guilty of a viola­tion,
but rather a punishment or
curtailing of rights."
It is in the areas where a
privilege is "covered" by a
statement of principles or the
"right of review" clause with
which the Committee is con­cerned.
They hope that much
of this wlll be changed in the
near future through discussion
and hard work on the part of
a members of the University.
Tone
so specific that it can't be ap­pealed
or reviewed." He felt
that explaining each rule and
sanction was unnecessary. "The
student is asked to conduct him­self
in a reasonable and ma­ture
manner so that we don't
have to spell everything out."
Second Semester Change
The Handbook Committee
concluded that the particulars
in the handbook could be
changed by second semester
where necessary. "We won't
get these general underlying
principles c han g e d because
there is a lack of discussion
about them."
The big problem here, ac­cording
to the committee, is
the possibility of the University
ordinator of the organization,
"There is a relatively high pro­portion
of former Marine lieu­tenants"
included in the mem­bership.
The event, which is being
sponsored by the faculty Com­mittee
for M')ral Involvement
in Vietnam, will be comprised
of an opening statement by Mr.
Walker f()llowed by a question
and answer period.
According to Mr. Canning
seven students are being, held
responsible for the, disturbanc:'
and must appear before, the
Student Court. "Does the ad­ministration
always have to
have a scapegoat?" he ques­tioned.
Answering charges against
the Government's ineffective­ness
to provide for student re­presentation
in negotiating for
Weekend rules, President Boc­chIni
insisted that "the Week­end
was not handled directly
by the Government. The Week­end
Committee sent two peo­ple
to see Mr. BianchI before
the regulations were issued, but
the Government saw him when
the rules came out."
Improper Manner
"The way the rules were com­municated
was done in a very
improper manner," he stated.
"This will result in better com­munication
between Mr. Bian­chi
and the Student Govern­ment
in order to stop things
like this from happening."
"The riot was ineffecive," con­cluded
Mr. Bocchioi, "for it
put Mr. Bianchi's back against
the wall, not the administra­tion's."
He stressed the possi­bility
of "backlash" resulting
from the "so-called immaturity
of the students."
Meal Tickets
Lunch and!or Dinner tickets
are availa:ble in Canisius 114
for those students who com­mute
or who live in off, campus
boarding homes. These tickets
will be honored in the Campus
Center Dining Hall during reg­ular
dining hours throughout
the school year.
Lunch at S5c for a single
meal, $4.25 for 5 meals and
$8.50 for a ten meal ticket.
Dinner at $1.25 for a single
meal, $6.25 for 5 meals and
$12.50 for a ten meal ticket.
A lunch or dinner ticket is
also available for guests.
Continued from Paee 1
last weekend.
Rights Defined Soon
Concerning the rights of the
students Mr. Bocchini believes
that they must be defined soon.
"We don't want to demand
something that isn't ours, es­pecially
in light of the growth
of Fairfield; but it appears that
the University may be surpres­sing
our personal rights and
hindering both its own growth
and ours." He noted that this
is one of the important issues
that the Constitutional Com­mission
will work on, a student
Bill of Rights.
Commentmg on the concise­ness
of the new Handbook Mr.
GrUrin stated that, "Nothing is
Continued from Page 1
delegated student leaders."
"This weekend is no different
from any other, except that it
is more lilberal," concluded Mr.
Bianchi.
One of the student demon­stration
organizers, Etnile Can­ning,
believed that the "demon­stration
pointed out to the ad­ministration
that the humor of
the University has changed.
Students reacted like a pressure
cooker to let administrative of­ficials
know that the water was
bolllng."
One Member
Mr. Canning commended Mr.
Bianchi for answering the dem­onstrators'
questions as "one
member of the administration,
who will stop and talk to stu­dents."
He hoped Mr. Bianchi
realized that the dialogue estab­lished
was representative of stu­dent
opinion.
While commenting favorably
on Michael Bocchini's attempts
to organize the crowd's con­fusion,
he criticized both the
administration and Stu den t
Government for "working on
two different planes." "The
Government spends time com­plaining
afterwards, instead of
negotiating before. Something
must be done now to set-up
rules for future Weekends."
Continued from Page 1
Dr. James F. Farnham as a
"loose union of individuals
united under an obvious cause."
Dr. Farnham pointed out fur­ther
that the organization is not
one with an abundance of rules
and regulations. It started
rather recently with six vet­erans
of the Vietnamese war
and, as of November 4, the
membership had risen to 54 vet­erans
who are "unified accord­ing
to an idea and not accord­ing
to an institution."
These veterans feel that the
involvement of the United
States in Vietnam is contrary
to the law of natural self-de­termination
be,cause we are sup­porting
"a dictatorship, a ty­ranny."
For this reason they
feel that they must condemn
the American program in
Southeast Asia.
Many members of the Viet­nam
Veterans Against the War
are now students and the mem­bership
continues to grow.
According to Jan Crumb, co-
'Paternalistic'
So Champert, his face a study in epidermal elegance,
rushed next door with his little pigskin dirigible. But
Graffa, alas, had run off, alas, with a bush pilot who spe­cialized
in dropping limes to scurvy-ridden Eskimo vil­lages
(fruit-chuter).
,Champert, enraged, star,ted kicking his little pigskin
blimp all over the place. And who should walk by just
then but Jim Thorpe, Knute Rockne, Walter Camp, and
Pete Rozelle! '
They walked silently; heads down, four discouraged
men. For weeks they had QeElD trying to invent football,
but they couldn't seem to find the right kind of ball. They
tried everything-hockey pucks, badminton birds, bowling
balls, quoits-but nothing worked. Now seeing Champert
kicking his pigskin spheroid, their faces lit up and as one
man they hollered "Eureka!" The rest is history.
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FOOTBALL FOR SHUT·INS
At next Saturday's football game while you are sitting
in your choice student's seat behind the end zone, won't
you pause and give a thought to football's greatest and,
alas, most neglected name? I refer, of course, to Champert
Sigafoo& '.
Champert Sigafoos (1714-1928) started hfe humbly on
a farm near Thud, Kansas. His mother and father, both
named Walter were bean-gleaners, and Champert became
a bean-gleane~ too. But he tired of the work and went to
Montana where he got a job with a logging firm. Here the
erstwhile bean-gleaner worked as a stump-thumper. After
a month he went to North Dakota where he tended the
furnace in a granary (wheat-heater). Then he drifted to
Texas where he tidied up oil fields (pipe-wiper). Then to
Arizona where he strung dried fruit (fig-rigger). Then
to Kentucky where he fed horses at a breeding farm (oat­toter).
Then to Long Island where he' dressed po.ultry
(duck-plucker). Then to Alaska where he drove a dehvery
van for a bakery (bread-sledder). Then to Minnesota
where he cut up frozen lakes (i~e-slicer)..Then to Nev~da
where he determined the odds m a gambhng house (dlCe­pricer).
Then to Milwaukee where he pasted camera
lenses together (Zeiss-splicer). . .
Finally he went to Omaha where he got a Job m a tan­nery,
beating pig hides until they were soft and supple
(hog-flogger). Here occurred the event that changed not
only Champert's life, but all of ours. .
Next door to Champert's hog-floggery was a moormg
mast for dirigibles. In flew a dirigible one day, piloted by
a girl named Graffa von Zeppelin. Champert watched
Graffa descend from the dirigible, and his heart turned
over, and he knew love. Though Graffa's beauty was not
quite perfect-one of her ~egs was shorter t~an.the other
(blimp-gimper)~she was:',nonetheless raVIS~mg, what
with her tawny hair and h,~r eyes of Lake LoUise blu~ and
her marvelously articulated haunches. Champert, smlt~en,
ran quickly back to the hog-floggery to plan the woomg.
To begin with, naturally; he would give (~'raffa a pres­ent.
This presented problems, for hog-floggmg, as we all
know, is a signally underpaid ,profession. Still, t~ought
Champert, if he had no money, there were two thmgs he
did have: ingenuity and pigskin.
So he selected several high grade pelts and stitched
them together and blew air into them and made for Graffa
a perfectly darling little replica of a dirigible. "She will
love this," said he confidently to himself and proceeded to
make ready to call on Graffa. .
First of course, he shaved with Personna Super Stam­less
Ste~l Blades. And wouldn't you? If you were looking
to impress a girl, if you wanted jowls as smooth as ivory,
dewlaps like damask, a chin strokable, cheeks fondlesome,
upper lip kissable, would you not use the blade that
whisks away whiskers quickly and slickly, tuglessly and
nicklessly scratchlessly and matchlessly? Would you not,
in short, dhoose Personna, available both in Injector style
and double-edge style? Of course you would.
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November IS, 1967
Foundation studying the effect
of chemical lesions on the brain.
A publication is soon to be re­leased
concerning the research
which he has done. In addition,
Mr. Keselica i5: a member of
the Knights of Columbus, the
Homecoming Committee, the
Psychology Club, and was re­cently
nominated for a Wood­row
Wilson Scholarship. After
graduation, he plans to con­tinue
his studies in psychology
at either Cornell, University of
Rochester. or Johns Hopkins.
Although no pecuniary re­ward
or scholarship is con­nected
with this fellowship, Dr.
Ronald Salafia, assistant pro­fessor
of psychology, said that
it is a "great indication of suc­cess
in the field of psychology,"
that it should help greatly in
being accepted into a top grad­uate
school.
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By Patrick Long
What are the effects of chem­ical
lesions in the brain? For
answering this question and for
his excellence in psychology at
Fairfield, senior John Keselica
was awarded a fellowship from
the New England Psychological
Association (NEPAl at its an­nual
convention held recently at
Trinity College in Hartford.
The NEPA annually gives out
fellowships to students in the
New England area who have
shown a superior interest and
knowledge in psychology. Each
school is asked to nominate two
students and then the NEPA
selects the ten fellowships on
the basis of a high academic
average and outside activities.
Mr. Keselica more than quali­fies
in both these areas. Last
summer he worked in a re­search
team at the Rockefeller
Keselica Receives
Psych Fellowship
THE STAG
JOHN KESELICA
cated musIcIans who have
brought new and exciting
sounds dnto the world of jazz
for more than a decade. There
is nothing that they cannot do
musically and they have come
the closest to uniting so called
serious music and jazz. Their
music is extremely complicated,
soulful and very swinging all
at the same time. Listening to
thein is a pleasure and an ex­perience
whdch no seriously in­terested
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The most outstanding quality
of the Modern Jazz Quartet is
their ability to play ballads and
make them interesting. It is the
ballads that separates the jazz
improviser from the jazz
drudge. It is possible to swing
a ballad forciJbly enough to in­vest
it with the appearance of
jazz feeling, but in the process
much of its balladry is dissi­pated.
Or, if the inherent pret­tiness
in a ballad is too care­fully
-retained, the effect may
be more funeral than jazzlike.
The Modern Jazz Quartet keeps
the balla'ds balladic and pla1s
them as jazz at the same time
and so succeed where many
others fail.
The Modem Jazz Quartet is
made up of a group of dedi-
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If there is one thing which
distinguishes jazz from other
musical forms it is its diversity.
The artists who play jazz range
from the highly educated and
refined to the self taught and
home spun. This diversity gives
jazz freedom and a broad field
of expression which is unmatch­ed
in any other type of music.
Diversity also gives jazz life,
for there are few outstanding
jazz groups which play like any
other group other than them­selves.
Many jazz groups have an
almost constantly changing per­sonnel,
but the Modern Jazz
Quartet, led by John Lewis has
had the same personnel for over
ten years. John is the musical
director of the Modern Jazz
Quartet and ';ts piandst. He is a
classically trained musician and
a fine writer. Milt "Bags" Jack­'
son is the group's vibraharpist
and is probahly the finest jazz
vibes player on the scene today.
"What makes Jackson so out­standing
is his ability to com­municate
emotion, an ability
which many call soul. The other
members of the group are Con­nie
Kay on drums and Percy
Heath on ba:.-s. Both of these
men are individuals of great
artistic talent and when com­bined
with Lewis and Jackson
they make up one of the finest
groups 'in jazz today.
The music of the Modern
Jazz Quartet is unlike that of
any other jazz group. At times
the music they produce is so
close to Baroque music that it
is impossi1ble to tell the dif­ference,
except for the instru­ments
'making the sounds. But
they also possess a swinging
ability which few groups can
matcb. And further, they play
as soulfully as anyone around.
The sound which they create
gives the impression of being
very tightly structured and is.
However, within this closely
knit structure they improvise as
much as or more than any oth­er
jazz group.
Having been together for
such a long time, and it is a long
time when you consider that
jazz -is only a little over twenty­five
years old, allows the musi­cians
an even greater freedom.
1'his freedom comes from the
fact that each musician knows
the talents and abilities of the
other so that no matter in what
direction the one may go the
others can follow. Thus there
is really no one leader of the
quartet, but each musician is
the leader when he is playing
his solo part. The music they
produce therefore is intricate;
and if one is to understand it,
you must listen closely. There
is no time when their music
is not alive, it is constantly in
November IS, 1967 THE STAG.
Letters to th,e Editor
Page Nine
Chris Daly '71
• • •
Senior Provoked
To the Editor:
Too few incidents on the Fairfield
campus will prompt a senior student to
jeopardize his comfortable unconcern for
schoolish controversy. This reluctance
to "become involved" may well be ex­plained
by a familiar psychological
theory claiming repeated attempts re­sulting
in failure lead to apathy.
Be that as it may, I fiind THE
STAG's November 2 editorial sufficiently
provocative to take exception to the
rule.
To the Editor:
As Homecoming Weekend has come
and gone many freshmen are no doubt
wondering why a freshman float did not
makp an appearance in Saturday's pre­game
parade. The only evident answer
lies in the fact that there was a definite
lack of interest in the project. Many
frosh voiced interest in the float to their
student representatives yet few demon­strated
active interest when the time
came to build one. There were two meet­ings
in Loyola lobby last week concern­ing
the float. At the first meeting less
than twenty freshmen showed up, the
second meeting failed to prodUce half
this number. I realize most of the fault
lies with the class government in fail­ing
to spark participation in the project,
but the members of the class of '71
must also share the blame. How can
our slogan be "'71 has just begun," if
after eight weeks we have yet to begin
anything.
Fairfield Dying!
Since school began this year, there
has been increasing concern over the
internal problems of Fairfield Univer­sity.
Though the school suffers from a
most fatal malady, both reformers and
reactionaries have devoted their efforts
to petty and trivial issues.
I say that the school suffers from a
fatal malady, and it does, for it has for­saken
commitment to its explicit duty
of education. Student and faculty
apathy, the harassing nature of dormi­tory
and academic regulations, the ridic­ulously
high percentage of worthless
courses - all are only symptoms 01"
deep-rooted decay.
Yes, gentlemen, decay - for although
Fairfield is a new school, it has aimed
itself not at a quest toward the future
but at the perpetuation of the already
tried and true (and dying). The modern
world is chaotically striving, but Fair­field
is sentimentally complacent. And
complacency is the antithesis of educa­tion.
The brave new world, for better or
worse, is increasingly upon us. Fairfield
University refuses to recognize its ex­istence,
and instead offers a poor excuse
for a true education. This excuse, to
those who accept it, will inevitably lead
to disillusionment and its successors
frustration and impotency. This excuse
is the deception, and the problem, of
Fairfield University.
Sincerely yours,
.John D. Boland
Tu the Editor:
A Lt'tter to the ('ulllmwlity
Gentlemen:
I should request you to kindly convey
my appreoiation to Reverend McInnes,
the President of Fairfield University, for
affording me the opportunity of visiting
Fairfield's beautiful campus and my
heartfelt thanks to everyone connected
with the University who received me so
hospitably.
I am looking forward to seeing you
again. With best wishes and personal
regards,
Yours sincerely,
R. Pazhwak
Ambassador
Permanent Representative
of Afghanistan
to the United Nations
I was deeply impressed by the com­munity's
and your university's efforts
which enabled such a notable celebra­tion
to take place and the spirit of co­operation
and interest which prevailed
throughout.
It is my sincere belief that contacts
of this nature will bring us closer to the
day when all men will live in a world
at peace with justice for all. In par­ticular,
I am confident that the eff~rts
which you and your associates have
made will serve to further cement the
traditional ties of friendship and the
cordial relations which exist between
the peoples of Afghanistan and the Uni­ted
States.
welcol7le which you, as host of the
Bridgeport United Nations Day celebra­tion
which was held at your beautiful
university on Tuesday, October 24th, ex­tended
to me as a representative of my
country, Afghanistan, and of the United
Nations.
To the 'Editor:
Re: Reverend Mahan,
I should like to thank you for your
graeious hospitality and the very warm
U.N. ~hassador
Expresses Gratitude
There is a group of "hard to please"
individuals who have been waiting anx­iously
for a well-written, carefully con­ceived
article to appear in THE STAG.
With a few happy exceptions, notably
the jazz and theatre features, they have
been kept waiting.
Richard Elliott and Richard Otto have
provided this disconsolent crowd with a
grea t source of relief. Their column,
"The Activist," demonstrates not only a
rather professional grasp of U.S. poli­tics
but also a superior command of the
English language, an ability to write.
The members of the Editorial Board
are quite correct in labeling "The Ac­tivist"
"a good example of the violence
of words." Messrs. Elliott and Otto fit­tingly
provided violent feeling in a sit­uation
that called for it. They have
substituted wit for dullness, logic for
dogma, virility for impotence. More im­portantly,
they have attempted to inter­ject
some semblance of rationality into
a time of madness.
To dismiss this column as .being full
of "poor taste, word manipulations and
cliches" exempHfies not the anti-intel­lectuaJ.
ism they have accused Elliott and
Otto of but an aintellectualism (sic). A
peculiar mentality these men have, and
I hope, will continue to attack (sic).
Sincerely,
Jack McKenna '68
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held down considerably the
league's most dangerous scor­ing
weapon. .Cas e y cam e
through defensively, however,
intercepting 3 of the 5 stolen
L3S passes. L3S came close a
few times, once reaching the
ten yard line of their oppon­ents,
but the beachboy defense
strengthened and proved more
than equal to the test.
In the two contests on Wed­nesday,
C4 tied R3 6-6, and G3
whitewashed L2N 27-0. Camp­ion
4 had to come from behind
to tie R3. QB Gene DeSalvo
overcame early difficulties and
threw a TD bomb to Steve
Ryan, who produced a great
catch. Later, C4 tied the game
as QB Bill Senter completed a
five yard pass to Matt Behm.
Jim Gallagher and Ed Smith
combined defensively, late in
the game to stop a R3 rally
on the five yard line. In the
Gonzaga 3 rout, QB Fred Noon­an
threw four touchdown
passes: one each to Jerry
Blouin and Ed Williams, and a
pair to Dean DeAngelis. In com­pletely
overpowering the fresh­man
tea m, G3 continually
struck for long ya'rdage on end
runs and power sweeps, a
novelty in a league where all
yardage has been g a i ned
through the use of the pass.
Thursday, winless G2 for­feited
to C3 and received it's
dishonourable discharge from
the league. In the last contest
of the week; G1 shut out R1
14-0, behind the effective play
of prefects John Walsh and
John Hall. Hall led the strong
defense with two interceptions.
Larry Marr struck first for G1
as he intercepted a pass at the
ten and ran in for the score.
John Wa,lsh reached paydirt
later on a six yard pass from
QB Marl'. Following the kick­off,
on R1's first play from
scrimmage, G1 lir;leman Tom
Ferrigno added the team's last
points with a safety.
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fered two tough losses to drop
'it's record to 4-3-1. Campion 4
lost and in it's final game tied
to finish with a 5-3-1 slate.
Regis 3 won and tied to push
it's record to 4-2-1. Finally Gon­zaga
3, with a win, proved
themselves the team to over­come
as they now show a 5-2
record.
League B Action
In Monday's encounters, Re­gis
Ground defeated Campion 4,
2-0, and Regis 3 overcame Re­gis
4, 6-2. Regis Ground's win
over C4 came on a faulty hike
from center landing in the end
zone for a RG safety. Unable
to get their offensive unit
rolling, C4 was constantly in
in their own territory and
forced into punting situations.
.John (Burns) Magno starred
defensively for C4 contributing
two key interceptions. In the
Regis 4 - Regis 3 contest, Brian
(the Kunz) Hanlon, R3's speedy
defensive back, intercepted a
pass on the 15 yard line and
tock it over for the game win­ning
TD. Matt (Panther)
Parzych scored R4's safety.
Sleeper Stings IW
Tuesday's action was high­lighted
by Campion 2's 13-0
shut-out win over R4. Using a
very effective 4 or 5 man line.
C2's excellent pass coverage
gave the "strobe" to R4. With
all scoring done in the second
half, C2 scored on a long sleeper
pass play, Heffernan to Jay
Cincotta. This got C2 on the
scoreboard, and that's what
counts whether it's a "garbage
play" or not. Later, after a
Doug Asper interception, Ed
Lamb received a short TD pass
from Heffernan, who next threw
to Wrobel for the conversion.
PKT High Spirited
In another clash, Loyola 3
North defeated winless PKT
8-0. Scoring for L3N were D.
Barry on a 40 yard pass from
Dan Juffney, and Steve Leone
who added a safety. Defensive
backs Lockwood and Long aided
the L3N cause with two inter­ceptions
apiece. Although PKT
hal> not won and probabaly
won't, enthusiasm never lessens
on this team representing the
university's Ion e fraternity.
PKT has proven to be worthy
competition this year and is
one of the big reasons for the
success of the expansion in the
intramural league.
Fairfield Beach Skirts Upset
In the third game on Tues­da~',
League A leader Fairfield
Beach barely escaped defeat in
edging L3S. In the only scoring,
a bad hike from center into the
end zone resulted in a Ffld B
2-pointer. Following their game
plan to the end, L3S used
double coverage against star
pass receiver Pete Casey. This
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THI: STAG
Plans
Schedule
A meeting of the Hockey
Club w1U be held tonight at 7:30
in Regis lounge.
campus support from the Phi
Kappa Theta fraternity, the
Football Club and the Ru~by
Club who have promised to
match a percentage of the funds
donated by the student body.
Tony Hartigan, class of '69
is president of the club. The
vice-president is Tony Daur,
also of the junior class. Co­founder
of the Hockey Club and
secretary treasurer is Phil Mil­ler,
class of '70.
The club plays its home
games and holds its practices
at the Crystal Ice Arena in
Norwalk.
By MATT BEllM
While Fairfield Beach and
Campion 2 captured their di­visional
crowns with victories
over Loyola 3 South and Regis
4 respectively last week, the
fight continued for second place
and the play-off berth.
In League A Regis 1 lost to
lower it's record to 4-3-1, while
Gonzaga land Campion 3 each
won to boost their records to
4-2 and 4-3 respectively. In
League B action Regis 4 suf-winning
streak that was over
a year old.
Columbia A's Fall To Appear
The Fairfield Rugby Club had
the misfortune of bearing the
consequences of the irrespon­sibilty
of the Columbia Rugby
Club on Sunday. As part of the
successful Homecoming "Week­end,
the Ruggers took the field
at 2:00 p.m., only to wait, along
with a large and patient crowd,
for an entire hour, before it was
finally realized that the unre­liable
club would not show. The
Columbia RFC has not even
considered it necessary to pro­vide
the Rugby Club with an
explanation of its actions and
an inquiry is now being con­ducted.
Club president Chris Grlliuert
stated that "on behalf of the
delinquent Columbia RFC, the
Rugby Club sincerely apologizes
for all the inconveniences and
disappointments involved over
the unannounced "cancellation"
and is grateful for the large
aowd which was nevertheless
present."
IJDpressive Record
Next week Fairfield's A and,
B teams entertain M.LT. by the
pond, and the C team travels to
Hartford to play the Boston
Rugby Club. Fairfield's impres­sive
season's record Shows the
A's with a 3-2-1 record with
95 points for and 36 against.
The B's have a 4-2-0 mark
and an amazing 71 points
scored, against 19 allowed, while
the C's are 2-1-0 with 28 points,
against 11 allowed.
Slated
Canisius
Coaches
Bus
To
The Student Government
Is sponsoring a bus to Buf­falo
for the FlUrfieid - Can!­slus
basketball game on the
second of December.
The round trip price w1ll
be ten dollars, the mlnlmum
cost of any transportation to
Bu1falo.
In order for the bus to be
hired, foorty-five students
must sign up before Thanks­giving
vacation. For further
information and reservations
inquire in the Student Gov­ernment
o:lfice.
Quarterback Burke has run for
several touchdowns and long
yardage 'on his "end sweeps.
Both coaches, expressing a
great desire in returning next
year, hope to improve even
more on this year's fine show­ing.
They feel Fairfield is cal}­able
of even a better year with
more experience and the riding
out of the small mistakes which
prove so costly in any sport.
With the added assurance of
many returning players the
coaches are even more hopeful.
But in regard to positions, "No
one has a set position" said
coach Curtis, and Huston add­ed,
"You will have to earn the
job you get."
In their first year as coaches,
both Curtis and Huston accom­plished
an astounding feat that
has enlivened fall sports on
campus. They have also given
pride to thirty five ballplayers
and a greater conception of the
art of football.
Continued from Page 1%
Larry Conners, Kevin O'COn­nell,
and Pat Burke, who made
a host of tackles in that series.
The retreating Red was forced
to resort once more to a kicking
game, but 'Knots' Fulton and
Bob Shea kept bailing Fairfield
out of serious trouble. But it
wasn't long before Columbia
got their third and final score
to ice the match and break a
The Fairfield Hockey Club,
unner the direction of' Coar.h
Tim Conway, formerly a var­sity
playe.r at William's College,
again hopes to establish a suc­cessful
playing schedule.
Last year the hockey club
played four semi-pro teams and
tallied a 4-1 win against White
Plains. This season the club has
schedul~ Lehigh from Bethle­hem,
Pennsylvania, and possible
games versus Iona, Trinity, As­sumption,
and Villanova. A com­plete
schedule is to be announc­ed
within the .next few weeks.
The largest impediment ob­structing
the growth and suc­cess
of the sport, which has
had good response from skating
students, is the need of finan­cial
aid. There has been some
Hocke...y Club
Activer Ice
Page Ten
Continued from Page 12
been just great and we both
have the same ideas and work
together in all team matters."
Right from the start Coach
Curtis made it clear what· he
wanted from his team: "It is
hard work and it demands a lot
from ali, but it will be worth
it in the end." Together Curtis
and Huston have shown what
hard work will do and have
succeeded in giving Fairfield a
fine football team.
Working on a new offense
and defense from last year,
both coaches give much of the
credit to the team. "They have
shown they want to win by
their hard work and team ef­fort."
Commenting on who has
done a fine jdb, they could not
pick out one man alone but
said evryone has been out­standing.
As for the big threat
"Any time Brian (Burke) turns
the corner it has the makings
of a big play," says Curtis.
Football
Continued from Page 1%
mined senior took off on a sweep
around end and seemeQ headed
for substantial yardag~, but he
falt.ered in mid-stride and was
nailed by a jarring tackle. He
left the field under his own
power and was rushed to the
hospital.
Halas took over again, and
played admirably, but it was
clear that the offense missed
Burke. On the second play a
mix-up on the snap caused a
fumble which Providence re­covered
on the 18.
Blitzing Defense
The defense, recognizing the
enormity of its task, responded
superbly'through the resfof. the
third 'and: fourth quarters
Frieary and Granata -swarmed
all over -the quartel'back on
virtually every play, while
Csenger, Hanhard,Ketterer;
Praskac - dlld Sack w~e also
playing the game'-Of-._'their lives;
T9 compensate for the savage
blitz, Providence switche9, to a
s,hot-gUn formation wh.ich the
Stagsquic)cly nullified by a
zone defense and the -fact that
Granata and Frieary were still
pouring through. The Friars'
offense was also kept -off-bal­ance
by _the tremendous pres­sure
punting of Howie Emond,
who had a 62 yard kick to liis
credit. ,
After. one ProvIdence _threat
was stymied by an bitereept­tion
-by J ohil Langan. the
Friars began .to"march, agam.
The play In: the Une bordered on
wiirlare .as the tenSion niouilted.
Fliially; a break came as the
FafrJield line Jarred tJie-ball
loose from:' the' Friars' ballCar­rier;:
with LabeskyandPraskac
simultaneously Smothering n.
Halas then directed the Stags
Dna beautiful ball-control drive
as - blocking ,by Balthasar and
JacobS paved the way. Time
ran out on 'the young freShman
quarterbac~ with the ball on
the Providimce 'half-yard line.
The wlldly exciting co~t
brourcht a fitting close to a sea­sOn
-of which everyone connected
,with the Fairfield Football Club
has a right to be proud, 'as the
Stags concluded the campaign
with two straight victories for a
4-2 1lnal record.
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PLAYBACK SPOR'r~ PERSONALITY
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himself running the hurdles
last year due to the cindermen's
lack of depth, but by his own
admission Norm is no Hayes
Jones.
Hailing from West Haven,
Conn., the 6-2 210 lb. tackle is
also the Vice-President of the
New Haven area club. A quiet,
easy-going personality, Norm
has impressed all his acquaint­ences
with his steady attitude
and determination for success.
A Math major, Norm plans to
attend grad school after his
graduation from F.airfield.
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year's 0-5-1, Norm attributes
the change to the new spirit
and discipline which was in­fused
into the squad by the out­standing
coaching staff, and the
switch from a "high school"
offense to the pro attack which
the two mentors have insti­tuted.
No one has displayed
more spirit, been more dedi­cated,
or adapted himself to a
new system better than Norm.
Balthasar will also be a tri­captain
of the track squad this
spring. A specialist in the
weight events, Norm also found
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And quite a success it has
been. The squad's 4-2 record is
a significant reversal of last
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Tackle is a thankless posi­tion.
I~ requires brute strength,
quick reflexes and tremendous
stamina. The tackle sets up
head-on with the heavIest,
strongest members of the de­fensive
line. It is strictly a
man-to-man, game-long contest
of pushing and containing. Bal­thasar
has performed this rug­ged
assignment flawlessly for
the Stags this fall.
After considerable prodding,
Norm's teammate" were ef­fusive
in their praise of him.
Jim Garrity kiddingly states
that it is Norm's philosophy of
"It's not whether you win or
lose, but how you look" that
has made Norm what he is.
Tony Labesky cite" Balthasar's
leadership example, calling him
an inspiration with his "con­stant
chatter" and praising him
as being "very strong in calis­thenics
and one-on-one drills."
In the final analysis, however,
they stressed the fact that Bal­thasar's
stable anchoring of thE'
offensive line has been an es­sential
factor in the Stags'
success.
By ROBERT SILLERY
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SERVICE
The Fairfield offense struck
like lightning this year. Long
touchdown runs and passes
were the prevalent factors in
every Stag win. However, the
linemen who opened the gaping
holes in the enemy line or pro­vided
the quarterback with the ,
time needed to pick up a deep
receiver, have received little or
no part of the glory. This is
the eternal plight of the line­man.
In the final analysis,
though, they are perhaps the
most essential part of the team,
and the most important of
those unsung heroes for Fair­field
this year was tackle Norm
Balthasar.
Four football seasons ago, a great man, Mr. Paul
Barnes, conceived a big idea: intercollegiate football
at Fairfield. The concept was too large for the campus
and the would be club had to wait a year while diligent
people scoured the area for funds.
The administration haggled over the idea and set
a precautionary $5,000 as the sum needed before they
would permit a club to be organized. It took two years
to raise the money, and less than 500/0 of this was ac­quired
from the student body. Approaching clubs,
leagues, and institutions in the Fairfield-Bridgeport
area, Mr. Barnes and his friends finally obtained the
financial assistance required.
Last year, the first season of gridiron action, was
all but a monetary failure. Two events occurred in that
first campaign. The team lost, and there was no student
support. No matter what order these twin misfortunes
were viewed, future prospects seemed dim.
Prospects were as dim as Roosevelt Stadium
where, in the murky light, eleven Fairfield fans saw
the Stags succumb 32-0 to a huge, partially post-gradu­ate
J ersey'City State lineup. Things were as dishearten­ing
as a 6-6 tie with St. John's, a game in which victory
eluded the team in the closing seconds. The fans didn't
come to the games, the players didn't come to the prac­tices,
and the record was 0-5-1. So what was this about
a future? Mr. Barnes appraised the situation. "We
have just enough money to begin next season."
Next season ended this past Saturday. Two things
were apparent. The team could win. It won four big
times displaying an unprecedented comeback. Secondly
the fans began to wonder if all of a sudden the sickly
brain-child of a, few determined students had not blos­somed
into a primary contributor for spirit on campus.
This was not true at first. Against lona, the Foot­ball
Club groped through four quarters and 'walked off
the field beaten 35-6. They had entered the game with
__~ golden hopes and a surprisingly arrogant attitude, al­though
they had not had a single scrimmage. Those
who had played last season, and the few fans who had
watched, had visions of that by-gone disaster.
Somewhere on the team, whether with the coaches
or with the seniors who didn't want to leave an infant
carcass where so much potential la:-;, a spark was ig­nited
that regenerated throughout the rest of the 'sea­son
which would not let the club team die.
They discovered that Brian Burke could run. He
picked his way past every defense (scoring twice
against St. Peter's in Fairfield's first victory) and not
until the final game, when quarterback Burke lay in­jured
face down on the grass, did everyone realize the
role he played in lifting the team from the impotent
power it was last year.
Jim Garrity became the symbol of victory. Moved
to flankerback, he electrified the crowd as he streaked
toward the end zone consistently a step behind the
nearest defender, to spark the reborn offense.
The defense was even better. They had a discovery
of their own. Bill Granata came out after the first game
and proved to be the decisive factor of many ball
games. Behind a solid front line, Granata roamed the
field sniffing out offensive plays. He usually guesse9
right. Three times against Providence linebacker Gra­nata
blew across the line to dump the quarterback and
freeze scoring threats, typifying his best efforts.
In the victories over St. John's, St. Peter's, Provi­dence
and especially over Marist, and in the heart­breaking
loss to Fordham, the Fairfield Football Club
accomplished the goal of every coach and the wish of
every! fan. They continualI;y performed at their max­imum
potential.
As a team, no one matched their balance and
unity. Marist found out that you could hit the Stags
here and there 'but you could not take away their over­whelming
competitive drive.
Although it may be possible to mention a few key
figures in this season's action, the club was really com­posed
of two units, defense and offense, and they met
the opposition head on. Only in that first contest against.
lona which afforded the transition from last season's
failure to this season's triumph, was either unit defini­tively
overcome.
Tony Labesky and Brian Burke, .involved in the
founding of Fairfield football, together with seniors
who were with the team since its founding, will be gone
next year. The mystifying reaction of the students and
the administration to the Club still remains. Whether
it will be accepted and recognized for what it is really
worth is yet to be determined.
As for the team itself, they will be in good shape
if they are able to generate the same attitude and pick
up where they ended Saturday's game, 12 inches from
a touchdown.
By WILLIAM D'ALESSANDRO
RUGGERS
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Flawless
THE STAG
Defense Shacl~les
SOCCER
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MANHATTAN
Home, Sat.
November 15, 1967
Friars
By JOHN WARD
Coaches Dick Curtis (I.) and Don Huston (r.) map tht'> SbtKS
successful strateg-y vs. Providence.
Coaches
Success
minds, the concept of "handing
it out, and not just taking it."
This has been shown in the
team's convincing victor.ies.
Both Curtis and Huston came
here knowing nothing of Fair­field's
football club. Coach Cur­tis,
who played semi-pro foot­ball,
along with Huston, started
from scratch and have shown
amply their knowledge of foot­ball
and their dedication to
Fair·field. Don a former student
at the Prep, is now taking a
year off from his studies at
Yale, where he played football
for a few years as he did at
the Prep, and is working part
time with a surveyor as well
as being assistant coach here.
In choosing this' year's team
they looked for desire in all the
boys and have worked to de­velop
it throughout the season.
"There is no substitute for de­sire
on the football field and
this year's team is the perfect
example of that," was Coach
Curtis' view on what has made
the Stags the fine team they
are. "Team effort is the name
of this squad," said Coach Hus­ton.
He continued, "All the
players are working together as
a unit and are making the
clutch play." "This is what has
made us so different from last
year. Unlike last year's team
which would fold up under pres­sure,
this year's team comes
through with the big play."
A problem which most new
coaching staffs have is coordin­ating
their roles in regards to
strategy and authority. Coach
Curtis remarks that "Don has
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Football
Six weeks ago, if someone mentioned the names Richard
Curtis or Don Huston in a conversatIon, you wculd probably be
unable to associate them with any campus activity. Now, nothing
but praise and admiration can be said. about these two men, who
have changed an 0-5-1 football disaster into a dream come true
here at Fairfield. -~---
throughout the entire contest,
the C's offensive punch was
smothered for the majority of
the match.
Defense was the keynote as
the Red, led by Larry Conners
and Bob Godfrey were called
to make hard goal line tackles
on the Old Blue. Still, by the
end of the half, it was 3-3, as
Frank Allard accounted for the
Red points with a penalty kick.
The second half started out
favorably as the C's, under the
rallying forces of Bill Schmeis­ing
and Ron Brancaccio, drove
down within scoring distance.
But Fairfield missed the go­ahead
points as a penalty kick
failed. This seemed to be the
turning point of the contest
as Columbia once again march­ed
downfield and began to do
some scoring.
Their second try was scored
despite the valiant efforts of
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Both Richard and Don, the
two new coaches for the Foot­ball
Club have put a great deal
of effort and hard work into
this year's squad, which has
been shown continually on the
gridiron each Saturday after­noon
when the Stags take the
field. Both coaches have ex­pressed
their views on coming
in second best, they don't like
and will not stand for it. They
have instilled in their players'
Credit
Lions
around the outside for a 39
yard scoring play. Crane's con­version
was perfect, and the
half ended 11-0.
Hartford battled considerably
harder in the second stanza and
most of the half was played in
Red territory, but key tackles
by Freese, Paul McGrath, and
Jan Sattem kept the opposi­tion
back until Carl Sachs
picked tip a Hartford fumble
and fly-kicked it downfield
where Tom Certo snatched it
arid brought it in for Fairfield's
second try.
With less than a minute re­maining,
Hartford put them­selves
on the scoreboard, as
their wing bulled over for the
score.
C Streak Terminated
A nine game unbeaten streak
came to an end Saturday as
Columbia Old Blue pounded the
young pups into defeat 11-3.
Forced to play one man short
sweeps of Burke and Devanney,
and with Rich Gaeta benched
with injuries, Fairfield was un­able
to muster a running threat
through the middle. On a play
which was to be significant later
on, a Burke pass was inter­cepted,
and only a saving tackle
by the quarterback prevented
a score. The play was nullified
by a penalty, but Burke was
shaken up badly on the tackle.
Burke Hospitalized
Pete Halas took over at
quarterback in the second half
and drove the Stags to the
Friars' 40 before Burke re­entered
the game. The deter-
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C's Split;
Bill Cibulsky roars in on a blitz to nail Fria :'s' quarterback.
fered by a charging lineman
who stumbled into the end
zone for a score. The kick was
good, to knot the count at 7-a11.
After a series of punts', the
Stag offense, capitalizing on
Csenger's second fumble re­covery,
drove 27 yards for a
score, with the touchdown
coming on a six yard run by
Ed Journalist. Murphy's kick
was wide to the right, and Fair­field
led 13 - 7.
Fairfield controlled the ball
for the greater part of the sec­ond
period, but the Stags hurt
themselves by two intercepted
passes and a fumble. The Friars'
defense was able to contain the
On Saturday, the B team
travelled to Hartford to play
the Hartford A team. The Fair­field
B's were just too fast, and
too fresh as they rolled over the
green team 14-5.
The Red took command al­most
immediately as twice they
penetrated deep into enemy
territory, and twice Jay Crane
split the uprights for six quick
points. The B's pushed on and
were able to control most of
the serums due to the push of
the fearsome looking duo of
props 'Org' Santulli and 'Mon­do'
Freshman. However, Hart­ford
won most of the lineouts
because of their superior size,
and if it had not been for good
tackling in the Green backfield
by Bill Cosgriff and· Bruce
Klastow, Fairfield would have
been sorely pressed in the
match.
The Fairfielders picked up a
try as Bill Freese scampered
B's,
By ROBERT SILLERY
In a savagely contested de­fensive
battle, the Fairfield
Football Club closed out their
second season in a crescendo of
glory by downing the Friars of
Providence 13-7 before a home­coming
crowd.
The victory .belonged to the
defense, which picked up the
slack from an offensive crew
whose punch has been deadened
by the loss of its spea.rhead,
quarterback Brian Bur k e,
through an injury ea.rly in the
third quarter.
The defenders ca,me through
in uncountable clutch situations
in the tension-packed third and
fourth qua.rters to hurl back the
offensive drives of the Friars,
who could not capitalize Oil
the crippling loss of Burke.
Labesky M. V. P.
The M.V.P. trophy was
awarded to Tony Labesky, who
went both ways in the final
game of his career. A trophy
could easily have been given to
any member of the inspired de­fensive
squad. Led by Labesky,
John Csenger, and Nick Pi­entrangelo,
they clogged up the
middle with an impregnable
wall, while Bill Granata, Hank
Frieary, and John Praskac put
constant pressure on the Friars'
quarterback, dropping him for
huge losses all afternoon.
Sparkling defensive gems by
Mike Kenefich, Bill Cibulsky,
and John Langan, impervious to
the pass all day, broke the back
of the Providence aerial game
to complete a superb defensive
performance for Fairfield.
Emond Scores
The Stags wasted no tinie in
getting on the scoreboard.
Howie Emond's kickoff was
bobbled around and run back
only to the 9. On the third play
from scrimmage, the gritty de­fense
brought about a fumble,
which John Praskac gathered
in on the 21. On third down,
Burke called a draw to Emond,
who broke at least three
tackles and thundered into pay­dirt.
Kevin Murphy's P.A.T.
made it 7-0.
Providence then drove inside
the Stag 3D, but the hard-hit·
ting defense forced a second
fumble, recovered by John
Csenger. This break was nulli­fied
when Providence blocked
Pierre Stansis' fourth-down
punt to take over again on the
20. However, on first down,
Mike Kenifich picked off an er­rant
aerial to give the ball right
back to Fairfield on the 8.
Lateral Pilfered
Providence finally got the
best of this incredible series of
breaks as an intended lateral
to "Bullet" Devanney was pi!-
Stags End Winning Season
With Rugged 13-7 Triumph