Stag - Vol. 19, No. 23 - May 8, 1968

              Cultural Festival Highlights Dogwood '68
By JAY DOOLAN
Editor-in-Chief
Focal point for the Arts and
Honors Program of the Annual
Spring Cultural Festival, this
yea r celebrating American
music, will be the presentation
of honorary degrees to Dave
Brubeck, Jazz great; Aaron
Copland, noted contemporary
music composer; Virgil Thom­son,
one of America's outstand­ing
music critics; and Richard
Rodgers, world famous compos­er.
The Program, to be held
Saturday at 2 p.m. on the out­dor
Bellarmine Terrace, is one
event of Dogwood '68, also tak­ing
place this weekend.
Cultural Festival
The cultural festival, planned
by the Special Events Com- Dave Brubeck
mittee under Mrs. A u d r e y
Thomson, has consisted of vari­ous
exhibits including movies
depicting the American music
theme.
The Junior run Dogwood
Weekend "promises to be one
of the most encompassing in
Fairfield's history," notes Thom­as
Josefiak, class president.
Centering around the Arts and
Honors Program, the weekend
will also include a formal prom,
a boat ride along Long Island'
Sound, and a Sunday Brunch
with entertainment.
Dl\ve Brubeck
The Saturday afternoon cere­mony
will include two excerpts
from Brubeck's "Light in the
Wilderness," "Forty Days," and
"Sermon on the Mount." They Richard Rodgers
will be sung by the combined
glee clubs of Fairfield, Mr.
Simon Harak, director, and
Manhattanville College, Mr.
Ralph Hunter, conductor. Inter­spersed
with the text, Mr. Bru­beck
and Alan Dawson on
drums and Jack Six on bass,
will play jazz improvisations.
Organ accompaniment will be
provided by Frederick de Haven,
noted organist and choirmaster
of Trinity Church in Southport,
Connecticut.
"The Light in the Wilder·
ness," the jazz great's first com­position
since the quartet was
disbanded, was first performed
at the University of North Caro.
lina at Chapel Hill. It consists
of 12 extensive, complex vocal
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Vol. 19 No. 23 Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut May 8, 1968
Assistant chairman Mike Madaio and chairman Tom Bligh
discuss plans for Orientation Week. Absent from the picture
Is Assistant chairman Charles Coviello.
Orientation Week
Committee Named
tration; Edward Janosko, Sum'
mer Testing Program; Emman·
uel Bartolotta, Finance!!; Don,
aid DeFronzo, Provisions; AI·
bert Mariani, Activities Dis·
plays; William Ottaviani, Sports
Night; Thomas Lynch, Junior
Advisors; 'and for the social'!
and mixers, Paul Lysaght, Ed·
ward Smith, and Larry Maher.
Thomas Bligh, chairman, said
that there will be lists posted
for' any members of the class
of '70 who wish to sign up for
any of the committees. Mr.
Bligh may be contacted through
Box 673. Also, any extracurric·
ular activity wishing to have a
display at the Orientation pro·
gram should contact Albert Ma­riani.
Mr. Bligh also said, "This
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Elects
GIVE!
MARTIN LUTHER
KING, JR.
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
sponsored by:
THE STAG and YIC
Donations Accepted
During Lunch Hour
In the Campus Center
Based on this, Mr. Griffin s3id
that a rebate would appear· to
be unlikely "without hurting
ourselves fiIutncially".
VVhen asked about a pro-'
posal that would involve reduc­ing
the rebate from next year's
tuition, Mr. Griffin replied that
it wouldn't make any difference,
because along the line the stu­dents
would have to make up
the difference somewhere in the
near future.
As corollaries to the problem
of having three in a room, Mr.
Griffin produced evidence that
showed that this year's Fresh­man
class as compared with
those of 1950-1966 turned Ll'l
the same number of A's, more
B's,more C's, and less D's and
E's. He also said that the ques­tion
of room damage would not
be considered in the same light
as it would be under the usual
two man room circumstances.
Legislators
By GEORGE BRITTON
Appears
Freshmen Rebate
Remote
The possibility· of a Freshmen
rebate for the inconvenience
of spending over six months
with three men in a room ap­pears
remote at this time be­cause
"we can't afford it," states
Mr. Robert K. GruHn, the Di­rector
of Student Services.
Mr. Griffin pointed out that
the school was posed with "a
multiple problem". Because of
the delay in the construction of
the new dorm due to zoning
difficulties, the school was
forced to lose $86,000. Com­bined
with other factors, such
as the loss of income while the
dorm was not being lived in,
and insurance policies, the total
loss to the University approach­es
close to $250,000.
No School Neglect
Mr. Griffin affirmed that thE'
students had been inconveni­enced
but added "we have been
inconvenienced too". He alsa
said "at no time was the school
negligent," or did they possess
a "lack of foresight" in the con·
struction of the dorm. "WE'
didn't want the three man
rooms either", he added. The
school was bound up in cir­cumstances
that were beyond
its control.
Association
Officers,
Student
Class
By COLIN KILEY
The Student Government elections for the class officers and for positions in the Legislature for
the Sophomore, Junior and Senior classes took pIa ce Thursday, May 2. The efforts of the Election
Committee to avoid a repercussion of the controversy involving the '68 Student Goverr.ment elections
resulted in "a fair, honest, efficient election" with a large number of the Student Association parti­cipating
in the voting.
As proposed in a publication
of the election regulations, the
numerical returns for the vot·
ing were announced. The reason
for doing this, as. stated in the
publication was, "to provide the
candidates with the opportunity
to appraise their relative suc­cess."
Class of 1969
The class of 1969 elected as
its Pl'esident Thomas Josefiak
whO received a total of 114
votes. His opponent, Frederick
Heissenbuttel, had 84 votes.
Bernard Price was elected Vice
President carrying 153 votes
while his opponents John Miko­chik
and Robert Biceglia, had
;25 and 23, respectively. Brian
Fitzgerald edged out Thomas
Keegan for Secretary by receiv­ing
99 votes to the latter's 91.
Robert Fraraccio was elected
Treasurer. The day-stUdent rep­resentative
{losition in the Legis­la,
ture was filled by Gera.ld Sabo
who ran unopposed.
Class of 1970
There was also a close race
for the presidential office in the
class of 1970 and the results
·of the voting found Robert Mc­Carthy
elected for a second
term. He had a total of 104
votes, while his opponents Allan
Pilch and John Watts finished
with 98 and 45 votes respec­tively.
For Vice President the
class of '70 elected Theodore
Keyloun who had 149 votes to
John Bashar's 64. Charles Co­viello
was elected Secretary and
Jay McLaughlin, Treasurer. The
legislative positions were filled
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By .DAVID DZUREC
Plans for the annual Freshmen Orientation week, sponsored
each year by the junior class, are getting into full swing. The
committee for the class of 1970 is headed by chairman Thomas
Bligh, and assisted by assistant co-chairmen Michael Madaio, and
Charles Coviello.
This fall's orientation period
will carry on all the traditions
of past years. Included will be
the field day with a number of
girls' colleges attending, two
mixers, orientation sports, bas­ketball
and football, and to top
it off, STAG NIGHT.
Besides these social events.
there will be testing of .the re­quired
summer reading list, the
retreat and the display of the
l\Iarious extracurricular activi­ties.
Committee Chairmen
The chairmen of the various
committee are Robert Farrin­on,
Stag Night; Peter Arroyo,
Luggage and Welcoming; Allan
Pilch, Book Seminars; Kevin
Murphy, Field Day; Edgar
Beaudreault, Orientation Sports;
Joe Coyne, Retreat and Discus·
sion; Thomas Mannion, Regis,
THE STAG
8TAl'P
May 8, 1968
forgive them for they
not what they do."
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"Father,
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NEWS: John Brennan, George Britton, Bob Burgess, Dave Burroughs,
Jim Crasfulli, Dave Dzurec, Roger Grigg, Colin Kiley, Thomas Perrotti,
Dave Reeves. SPORTS: Bill D'Alessandro, Dave Caisse, Frank caroHo,
Paul Hughes, William Pow, Steven Ryan, Edward Smith. FEATURES:
John Boland, Vincent Curcio, Richard Elliot, Peter Hearn, Stephen Kobasa,
Richard Otto. PHOTOGRAPHY: Floran Boland, Al Fisher, Richard Makse.
CIRCULATION: John Legowski, Joseph Lembo, Paul Lysaght, Bill Me­Gee.
LAYOUT: Bill Banyar. EDI1X>RIAL RESEAlKJH: Edward BeNbe,
Tim Clifford, Kevin Cosgriff.
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dead and he was overthrown in 1963. That's how tied in they are with the defense
of the national govern.'"Ilent.
There are a considerable number of people who would not want a coalition
government and, almost to a man, these are people who have benefitted somehow
from the American presence. In the military you find officers who, through black
market involvement, are making more money than ever before. They've known
war for twenty years and it doesn't make any difference if it goes on for twenty
years more or not as long as they're able to keep their family and a close group of
friends perhaps alive and' living off the fat of American aid. These people are not
about to settle for a coalition government. They only stand to lose.
Page Two
EDITOR'S NOTE: The follOWing interview was conducted with Tom Miller, a
recent lecturer, who, took a leave of absence from Yale in 1967 and spent from
February through last November in Vietnam to find mit for himself what was
taking place there.
STAG: What have our objectives been in Vietnam and have the fighting men
been aware of them?
Miller: Our avowed objectives have been, simplified: One, stopping Communist
aggression; Two, resisting the domino theory, which is very much the same thing,
excep,t that the difference would be that the latter stresses Chinese eXpdnsionism
and a' view of monolithic Communism pouring over the borders of China whereas
directly stopping Communist aggression would refer more to the infiltration of men
and arms into North Vietnam. Third, to build a viable democracy in South Vietnam.
Where t1le priorities lie no one can say including the American mission or the Statp.
Department. These are the announced objectives. I don't think we've been success­ful
in any of them.
The average fighting man is pretty thoroughly inculcated with the idea that if
we' don't stop them in Vietnam then tomorrow we'll have to stop them in Honolulu
or San Diego, or wherever it might be. The thoroughness to which this premise is
accepted is pretty frightening and if you ask a G.!. out in the field, "What are y;U
fighting for?" That is liable to be the line he'll give you. If you keep at it YOU'll
probably find a great deal of frustration and an intuitive sense that this may not be
an accurate representation of the threat. A lot of guyS nnally boiled it down to,
"Well, I'm here because my president sent me here and my duty is to get myself
back alive." It boils to a very immediate kind of justification for what they're doing
which is perfectly human and a perfectly understandable thing. '
STAG: Do the South Vietnamese people, on the whole, feel gratified by the
presence of Allied troops?
Miller: There is a real ambivalence on their part caused by a basic lack of
understanding of why we are there. If we have failed to make it clear to the
South Vietnamese why we are in South Vietnam it stems in part from the objectives.
The objectives and the priority among the various possible objectives that have
been mentioned has been confused enough that it really has not been made clear to
the South Vietnamese "Yhy~,we're interested in being there 500,000 strong and main­taining
this war.
One of the interesting side-effects of American presence has been the very
pronounced improvement in the general health level of children throughout the COUll­try.
The people are able to respond to that sort of thing. Then they ask "Why do
they turnaround and just shoot this innocent old man who was the village vener­able?"
or "Why do they bomb the village out of the blue?" These things may not
be pre-meditated (and I'm pretty much convinced that they are not pre-meditated)
but when you have an on-going repetition of accidents like that they're interpreted
as pre-meditated acts. It confuses them, frightens them, and makes the over-all
relationship between Vietnamese and Americans very difficult.
STAG: Is there as much support for the Saigon government as Thieu and Ky
claim or does the NLF rank as a political equal alongside of the allies?
Miller: Thieu and Ky before I left, could not really claim anymore viable sup­port
than the other side, if as much. I would however, be reluctant to say that the
Vietcong have, numerically, a greater support than in the Saigon regime. I think
the mass of the people are in this kind of apathetic middle ground who just want
the war to end on any terms. They have no interest in the Vietcong. Whoever
happens to be in town is their leader for the day and they'll do anything they say
simply to ge.t along as easily as possible.
The Saigon government was claiming that their support had risen from a figure
of approximately 25 to 60 per cent around the time of the elections. That figure was
pure make-believe. What it meant was that perhaps 25 to 30 per cent additional
people had been moved out of Vietcong controlled areas forcefully. But to say that
they were then supporting the Saigon government is a gross exaggeration.
STAG: How would the people of South Vietnam view a coalition government?
Miller: I'm going to take people as meaning the general mass of people and I
don't think they care whether it's coalition, Saigon; Uncle Ho, or anybody else. You
can still find people out in the countryside who don't even realize that Diem is
Activities Fee Increase
A Look At Vietnam
The up~oming referendum on the student Activities Fee repre­sents
a crucIal test for the new Student Government. Since most of
the government's power is based on its income, an increased Activities
Fee will help make the government a more viable force on campus,
Th~ failur~s o~ the past Student Government dramatically point
out the ImpracticalIty of a five dollar fee. The sad lack of interesting
speakers on campus, the collapse of the student loan program and the
Mardi Gras fiasco are only the largest of the many government short­comings
that can be traced directly to the lack 'of funds.
~n increase of ten dollars for example, would mean a govern­m.
ent Income of over twenty-four, thousand dollars next year - pro­ylded,
of. course, that every student pays his fee. The only way to
Insure thIS would be to add the fee to the tuition bill.
At a time ~he~ the student body demands a deciding voice in
matters that prImarIly concern them, a student government that is
financially dependent on the administration is intolerable. The ques­tion
now being asked of the students is obvious - Do you want an
effective student government?
Money alone will not solve the government's problems. It needs
the help of a student body already frustrated by past failures and
embittered by administrative opposition. We hope that President
Howe will give the student body reason to believe that his government
can be responsible.
Increased power also requires the services of a more serious and
effective legislature. We have confidence'in both the ~sident and
legislat?re and. feel certain that they will ~how a new responsibility
that WIll regam for the government the confidence of the entire
student body. Is it really the government that must prove its respon­sibility,
or is it the student body? Tlle. quibbling must end now if we
are to have effective leadership.
The choice is yours.
Senior Week Chairmen
Announce Events Schedule
Page Three
being handled by the Cardinal
Key Society, and the University
is taking care of Class Day.
Mr. William Leary is moderator
of Senior Week.
Mr. Kelly summed up what
to expect this way, "The best
of entertainment will be pro­vided."
Pinkman, Marketing Club modo.
erator.
Mr. Parker, a resident of
Bridgeport, became the eighth
recipient of this annual award.
On the faculty at Fairfield since
1965, Mr. Parker has taught at
Hudson College, Bangor, Maine
and was a teaching fellow at the
University of Massachusetts in
1968. A graduate of American
International College, Mr. Park·
er has an M.B.A. from the Uni·
versity of Massachusetts and is
presentiy working toward a
Ph.D. at Fordham University.
The award recipient is a mem­ber
of the National Association
of Aceountants, Bridgeport
chapter, and is a member of
this chapter's board of directors.
He is a member of the Amer­'
lean Association of University
Professors.
Thursday, June 6, 1968
Graduation Reception (In Campus Center).
Senior Party (Food, Entertainment ana
Alcoholic Beverages.) (Site undecided as
yet).
Friday, June 7, 1968
Barbecue (At the Pond).
Commencement Ball (In the Oak Room).
Saturday, June 8. 1968
Parents' Registration (In Campus Center).
Class Day (In Gymnasium).
Buffet (In Campus Center).
Parent-Date Dance (In Campus Center).
Sunday, June 9, .1968
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR SENIOR WEEK
1- 4 p.m.
9p.mAa.m.
3- 5 p.m.
8-12 p.m.
Graduation.
12- 2 p.m.
2- 4 p.m.
4- 6 p.m.
9 p.m.-1 a.m.
A life memberhsip in the Marketing Club is presented to Mr.
William R. Parker. Assistant Professor of Accounting, by Mr.
Rudolfo J. Chiari '68 president of the club as Fr. Coughlin,
S.J. and Fr. Mcinnes, S.J. look on.
Marketing Club
Awards Parker
Date Dance, Bob McCann, John
O'Keefe and Art Kenney; Buf­fet,
John Gilsenan; Publicity,
John Kisselica and John Mc­Donough;
Tickets, Bob Ritz;
Finance, Jack Higghls; Accom­modations,
Bob Shea; and Pro­visions
Consultant, Mar t y
Crean. Parents' Registration is
The Collegiate Marketing Club
at Fairfield University, on be­half
of the American Market­ing
Association, has given its
annual honorary life member­ship
award to Mr. William R.
Parker, assistant professor of
accounting at Fairfield.
Educational Contributions
The award, given to Mr.
Parker for his "outstanding con­tribution
to education," was pre­sented
by Mr. Rudolfo J. Chiari,
president of the club and a
senior from Panama City, Pan­ama.
Also in attendance at the
presentation ceremonies were
,Fairfield University's president,
the Very Rev. William C. Mc­Innes,
S.J.; the Rev. James H.
Coughlin, S.J., academic vice­president;
and Mr. Thomas J. F.
"Just as Free"
THE STAG
The brief question and answer
period centered around the ra­cial
problems of Fairfield Uni­versity
and on the American
"system." Mr. Harris ended the
evening by asking once again,
that we all be free and let thosl'
around us, black and white, be
just as free.
to be conscious of the effect
they have on society and the
racial issue in their choice of
occupation. He asked that stu·
dents, in choosing a career, do
not become a part 01 "American
institutional greed," nor that
they join a destructive struggle,
but rather we build something
new in struggling constructively.
By ROBERT BURGESS
Preparations for :Senior Week 1968 are now in full swing as ~aduation approaches. senior
W,eek Co-Chairmen, Tom Kelly and Kirk Walker have announced the schedule of even. for June
6-9, Senior Week.
Mr. Kelly also announced that
the package deals for Senior
Week will cost $22 and will be
on sale one week only, May 5
to May 13. Tickets will be on
sale individually.
The Parents-Date Dance will
be held both upstairs and down­stairs
in the Campus Center.
·The Al Madison Orchestra will
provide the entertainment in
both areas. The band for the
Commencement Ball has not
been decided upon as yet.
Accommodations on campus
will be available for girls and
members of the class who live
'Off campus.
Committee Chairman
Committee chairman aside
from Mr. Walker and Mr. Kel­ly
include: Graduate Reception,
Tom Wisnieski; Senior Party,
Jim Dirksen and Dave Madej;
Barbecue, Frank Mandanici:
Commencement Ball, Jack Cro­nan
and Paul chenet; Parent-
Kenny Kessler, ia militant black activist; Dr. Robert Cook, a
Yale professor of sociology; Mrs. Dolores Horn of the Dixwell
Legal Rights Association; and Fred Harris, President of the
Hill Parents Association of New Haven field questions at
recent Black Power Forum.
Mr. Harris was sharply con­trasted
by the violent, angry
militarism of. Mr. Kenny Kess­ler.
He was sick, as he put it,
of seeing his brothers beat up
and stepped on. He wasn't going
to march anymore, but he was
not going to let "whitey" get
him. He issued a stern and seri­ous
warning, a warning that
he was going to fight, and if
someone got in his way, he
wouldn't hesitate to shoot.
Mr. Kessler was particularly
incensed over an incident of that
afternoon at a New Haven high
school, where a speech by the
mayor became a shoving match
in which several young students
were seriously injured by police·
men. Mr. Harris commented
tIiat, "it's one thing to push me
around, but when you start
messing around with little kids.
then man, you'd better watch
out!" His fight, he continued,
was here in America, and he
would fight until "they" got him.
Inheren,t Violence
The final speaker was Dr.
Robert Cook, a professor of so­ciology
at Yale University. Dr.
Cook spoke at some length of
the inherent violence in the
American tradition. He gave ex­amples
of what were; to him,
American attempts at genocide
in the handling of the American
Indians and the Hawaiian na­tives.
He spoke further of how
we all share the guilt in this
"institutional racism" by our
support of, or lack of supervi­sion
over, the various institu­tions.
We authorize violence in
Vietnam, we allow the police to
buy the equipment for "riot
control," and we vote for men
who, if not open racists, are
non-committal on the question.'
Dr. Cook then spoke of the
nature of American poverty and
its solution. He pointed out that,
although blacks suffer most
from this poverty, that Appa·
lachian whites, victimized by
the death of the coal industr~·.
are just as poor and just as
frustrated. He warned students
May 8, 1968
Legal Looting
Continuing on the subject of
looting, Mr. Harris detailed
what he called the "legal loot­ing"
of the black community
by white slumlords and ghetto
businessmen - high food prices,
exhorbitant rent rates, bad
maintenance, and second-rate
primary and secondary schools.
As he pointed out, the only time
the white community became
seriously concerned about this
type of situation was in a crisis
situation - as with the riots, or
white concern over Vietnam,
which he attributed to the fact
that the draft began to threaten
white students.
Mr. Harris concluded by ask·
ing those present, and all
whites, to do just one thing:
"take a long look at yourselves,
and then be yourselves while
letting me be myself."
Violent Militarism
The moderate militarism of
"Tired of MarchiDg"
Mrs. Horn was followed by
Mr. Fred Harris, an eloquent
and persuasive speaker. He bE>­gan
by explaining the back­ground
of the Hill Parents As­sociation.
But he then proceed­ed
to show the nature of Amer­ican
racism and its all-pervasive
influence by examples from his
own personal experience. In so
doing, he very carefully explain­ed
how this racism led to the
black militant movement. As
Mr. Harris put it: "I don't want
to be violent, but every time
I'm non-violent, I get my head
bashed in; and I'm getting tired
of marching."
But perhaps the most impor­tant
points Mr. Harris raised
were within the questions he put
to the audience: "WhY," he ask­ed,
"are the Catholic Church.
and specifically the Knights of
Columbus, racist organizations?
Why does Fairfield, a Catholic
college, have only thirteen black
students? Why are the Catholic
mayor and police chief of New
Haven overt racists?"
Mr. Hards did not qOe8tion
the church alone. He went on
to question the American sys­tem
of values, which he found,
not without cause, to be warped.
"A human life is worth more
than anything material in the
world - yet the police have
shot twelve-year old kids for
stealing a case of beer during
a riot."
By KEVIN BRADY
"I just want to be free," was the keynote of a Black Power Forum held last
week at F'airfield. The Forum, sponsored by the Young Democrats, features as
speakers: Mrs. Dolores Horn, of the Dix well Legal Rights Association; Mr. Fred
Harris, president of the Hill Parents Asso ciation of New Haven; Dr. Robert Cook, a
Yale professor of sociology; and Mr. Ke nny Kessler, a militant black &£tivist.
.In a short talk, the opening
speaker, Mrs. Horn, challenged
those present, and students
everywhere, "to become aware."
Speaking of the various ways
in which students around the
world have used their power
and influence, she called for us
to practice brotherhood and kill
racism by actions as well as
talk. Mrs. Horn concluded by
pointing out the need for people
to work in the ghettos this sum­mer.
Black Power Plea-­"
I WantToBeFree'~
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1580 POST ROAD. FAIRFIELD
By STEFAN KOBASA
Boys!
From The Critic
Across The Board
"Turn back, 0 Man"
-from a Protestant hymn
It is perhaps unfair to write a criticism of a dramatic work
. still "in progress." All plays, hopefully, are meant to be produced.
not merely read, but in this particular case a few comments would
not be out of place, even if they apparently result in literary
euthanasia.
In the prologue to Chiaroscuro, a christening for a new theatre
or a joke for an old theatre, it is announced that there will occur
a tearing down of "barriers" . . . but whether these are walls of
reality or illusion, we are never quite sure. It probably doesn't
matter all that much. Mr. Berrone's technique of bringing repre­sentatives
.of the "common man" up out of the audience is remini·
scent of certain Jacobean attempts to create an aura of involve­ment.
Or is this to impress upon us the fact that only the down­trodden
minorities of any sDciety are real, whereas the so-called
"usurers" and "slum lords" are mere !figments of our imagination?
This question is unanswerable since "our" representatives of the
persecuted on stage are so completely assumed into the action that
the prologue appears, in retrospect, irrelevant . . . while remain­ing
stylistically perhaps the most effective scene of the play.
It is obvious that Mr. Berrone has read Moliere, Yeats, and
Tom Stoppard; and that he possesses a fine sense of the theatrical.
We even have hints at a stylized form of theatre in the stage
directions, and that may very well be the direction in which
modern drama must move. Unfortunately, none of these influences
are' brought into relationship with one another. They could very
easily be plucked from the context of the play itself with little
lessening of what was originally a distinct lack of dramatic effect.
There maY be a real need for a truly modern morality play,
one which has its avowed goal in prompting to revolutionary action
far outside the theatre precincts. It seems to have been Mr. Ber­rone's
intention not only to convince us of his ethical precepts and
his knowledge of the nature of contemporary society, but, through
the use of satire, to elevate these things. above the level of preach­ments.
Satire, however, is a transitory, subtle, sort of bitterness,
and it has here used Mr. Berrone far more than he has used it. It
is many times a form of cDnceit to demand that symbols be blessed
with greater obscurity, or that biting humor be more heavily
veiled, but when an intermission if far more comic and symbolic­ally
valuable than the play itself, well, even the most humble of
men would ask these things.
Are we asking too much? Should we be satisfied, at least,
with low-keyed attempts at bawdiness and the presence of an in­terracial
couple (as part of the script?) on a Fairfield University
"stage?" But the evening's proceedings were emphasized in terms
of the 'first part of the work's subtitle, "a christening for a new
theatre." It would be more in accordance with the play itself to
emphasize the last part, "a joke for an old theatre." A theatre so
old, in fact, that if Lincoln had been in attendance, he probably
would have shot himself.
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this production. Karen Seaman,
Ralph Shove, James Smith and
Edward Del Vecchio were all
most effective in smaller roles.
The leading lady, Marjorie
Rivingston, has a lovely voice
which she put to excellent use
in song after song; her acting,
however, left something to be
desired: it was serviceable, but
,stolid. Since so much of the
burden of wading through the
plot falls upon Maggie, she must
be very strong and tight, quali­ties
which Miss Rivingston's
only occasionally possessed. She
let the pace lag rather often,
which a three hour show can't
afford.
A word must be said for the
costumer, Minerva Farrell, who
has outdone herself in her mag­nificent
designs for this produc­tion.
Praise also must be given
to musical director Gregory
Horton, who has done a superb­ly
polished job with both the
singers and the orchestra.
If you want an evening of
pleasant 1 i g h t entertainment
with a touch of old fashioned
charm, "Walking Happy" is
your ticket.
Cinema
Or take the delicate portrayal
of the moods of Benjamin in his
days and nights of suave co-­habitation
with the secretly be­deviled
Mrs. Robinson. What
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Recall the opening scenes of
the film, for example in which
Benjamin, the young hero, is
sitting inconspicuously in an air·
liner. All the visible evidences
pronounce the scene legitimate
and righteous, both aesthetical­ly
and socially serene. Then af­ter
a number of seconds, Paul
Simon's song of quiet despera­tion
'Sounds of Silence" is su­perimposed
upon the senses of
the movie-goer and the illusion
of congruity is broken. And by
the time the camera turns its
focus to the easily descending
suitcase on the ramp amidst the
fashionable airport terminal, the
question has been distinctly: Is
reality more genuinely the calm
expediency of the airport pro­cess
or the formless ambiguity
of the classic folk-rock tune?
There are several major
dance numbers in this show
that have been stunningly chore­ographed
by the director, Mr.
Robert Emerich. I found it
nothing short of amazing that
such big, lively, inventive num­bers
could be done on so small
a stage. The dancing is indeed
one of the high points of the
evening.
In addition to the fine chore­ography,
Mr. Emerich has given
his actors some fine direction.
Tom Zingarelli was a sheer
joy as the gangling Will Mos·
sop, performing the difficult
part with an easy, irresistible
grace. To the audience he was
like popcorn: we just couldn't
get enough of him. Richard For­syth
blustered around beauti­fully
as the cantankerous fa­ther.
As Mrs. Hepworth, the
,Society matron from whom Mag·
gie borrows the money to set
up' shop with, Joyce Payne al·
most stole the show: it was as
if the ghost of Edna May Oliver
went walking out especially for
The music by James Van
Heusen and the lyrics by Sam­my
Cahn are in the slick Broad­way
tradition, providing rousing
company numbers like "Walk­ing
Happy," charming patter
songs like "How Do You Talk
to a Girl" and smooth solos like
"I Don't Think I'm in Love."
By GLENN GRAMIGNA
The integration of music into popular dramatic forms has too often served re­cent}
y.more thoroughly as a c~mpliment t 0 e~otion than as an expression of its po­tentialIty
and depth. An occaSIOnally com pellIng chord to underscore the inclina­tions
of ~ pair o~ lovers or remind one of the grandeur of a patch of scenery is the
most WhICh audIences can usually expect from the majority of cinematic effects
With the coming of "The .
Graduate" directed by Mike is considerably more than mere-
Nichols with songs by Paul Si- ly another commercially orient­mon,
we finally see the begin- ated look at the uninhibited ten­ning
of an exploration into all dericies of frivolous suburban­the
extensive possibilities, which ites. Instead, like Bob Dylan's
original approaches to the use songs, or Salinger's novels, or
of modern music in the cinema Albee's plays, it is a ruthless
might bring. And the results attempt to discover and pro­have
been sUfficient1y appear- claim the very roots of reality
ing both to further the experi- itself. And it is only in this con­ment
and to enhance the charms text that the inclusion of the
of an inherently conspicuous and songs of Simon and Garfunkel
compelling work of art. can be understood.
The involution of the film, as
most readers have probably~.ob·
served for themselves, concerns
the lamentable fate of a propel'
young graduate of a prestigious
eastern college who returns to
California to find himself ima­ginatively
seduced by the ener·
getic wife of his father's asso­ciate.
He cooperates with the
lady only to find himself exten­sively
attracted by her youthful
daughter as well. Eventually, hE'
forms a preference for the
younger one only to be rejected
by her, since she subsequently
discovers his additional ac­quaintance
with the family. In
the end, in a scene which many
sages have called melodramatic,
he physically rescues his young
lady from the possession of a
superficial suitor immediately
after the completion of marriage
vows between them, and spirits
her off to a conveniently situ­ated
bus and presumably to a
life of more conventions than
her mother had enjoyed.
Nevertheless, "The Graduate"
Music
Exploring
Theater
A Snapp,! 'Walking JJapp,! '
By VINCENT CURCIO
. "Wa~king Happy," one. of the hi~ musicals of the 1966-1967 Broadway season,
IS n~w beIng .done at the FaIrfield U~llver.3ity Playhouse. The show is not a great
musIcal, but If well done can be a dIverting entertainment. I had a load of fun at
this production.
Roger O. Hirson and Ketti
Frings wrote the book for the Altogether it's quite pleasing to
show, which is based on the the ear.
old English comedy "Hobson's
Choice." It deals with a 30 year
old. spinster, Maggie Hobson,
who is the manageress of her
tyrannical father's bootshop;
she decides to marry her fa­ther's
best bootmaker, the shy,
awkward Will Mossop, and go
into business with her husband;
the complications involve bring­ing
Will Mossop out of his shell
and getting the father to accept
the situation. This book is the
show's major difficulty: it is
much too long (the show runs
almost three hours) and wan­ders
all over the place. How­ever,
it does have some funny
scenes along the way and pro­vides
for good song setups.
Fairfield students working diligently clearing underbrush. in Appalachian fann.
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THE STAG
$5,000 grant pending before the
State Department of Communi­ty
Mairs. The University pro­vides
all facilities and guaran­tees
a four year college scholar­ship
to Fairfield if the student
meets the basic entrance re­quirements
of the University."
At full operation there will be
one hundred and thirty boys in
the program. It is a unique or­ganization
in that it is the only
one which continues for six
years, beeins in elementary
school and guarantees a college
scholarship.
at a distance, yet a Northerner
would not readily be welcome
to move in. They've seen enough
"do gooders" and they want to
keep things as they are. The
poor white have a certain pride
and dignity which won't allow
them to accept "charity." The
Negroes are reserved and only
of late are they being stirred by
the younger ones.
And now having seen this
rural poverty one is forced to
compare this with the Urban
situation. In the cities with
hundreds of thousands of people
crammed together in the slums,
there's a vast loss of hope, not
common to the mountain folk.
One can't have a feeling of
dignity or pride in a place
where something of humanity
is missing. Still much attention
is needed for this Applachian
region - they still live in
shacks; they still gather wood
for a fire.
All of the high school boys
who are part of the program are
enrolled in college preparatory
courses with four boys receiving
a four year scholarship 'at Fair­field
Prep. The basic aim of
the program is beginning to be
realized and that is "to make
college a reality for these boys"
observed Mr. Bianchi and "to
encourage and help them attain
their goal."
The
.f' •
Living. _Among
. '
EI)ITOR'S NOTE: The fol-lowing
is a personal report of
writer David R. Burroughs'
trip with other' students to
App3Jachia.
May 8, 1968
.diffel'ent than suburbs of New
York or New Jersey. In one of
these sections lives Fr. Byer,
the pastor of Hazard's only
Gathol'ic church which has a
cong!egation of 172.
During the week of -April 14,
25 _university students ana 15 - Fr. Byer along with three
prep 'students were experiE!ncing Benedictine nuns, run the
life in·Appalchia. The trip was church, and a school and do
independent of school sponsor- extensive case work. It was one
ship, although the plans for the. of these sisters who guided us
trip-were made by. Mr. Bianchi through the hollowS" and moun­,
of the University and Fr. Louis tainside' communitie~.These wo­of~
tlie··Ptep.. ,The 'local'krjights men are well received anywhere
of Colimibas don'ated the; $1100 in' the county as they had pre­for
a charter bus and departure viously run a hospital for the
was' Easter Sunday evening. poor.
After an 18 hour bus ride we All day we traveled by car,
arrived in Manchester, Ken- on foot - over single spaced
tucky, and were met by the foot bridges and railroad tracks.
town's pastor, Fr. Walters. The Orie town we came to had a
purpose of this venture was present population one-tenth of
soon capsulized when Father an- its past population. The reason
nounced that we could start for the exodus was the closing
,working in the church's jungle of the coal mines. Thousands
forest whenever we were ready. left; many are still leaving.
,Well after a few minutes, some The' present method of ex­:
of us left Manchester for Haz- tracting coal is by strip mining.
ard. The actual work there was This horrendous process leaves
minimal and so there. was"m'0~ exposed hillsides for hundreds of
opportunity to see the area. A feet at a stretch. Nothing is
third group went to London,. done to keep tons of earth from
Kentucky, .to do some painting occassional1y sliding down. The
'md s.ome f~rming on the church appearance is one of a new
lands~ ,," ~,.~;;.' .•"t. road being built along the hill-
In London fh'e pamfWasend- . side. . .
less and so were the .buildings. Near the end of our stay in
Ouf ~~f.Vi~)ielcis.plbudy yvea't!J.er L,·Itazm.:~ we met a Negro man
{vas:tl:u:e,atEming ,the work, but 'W~lO has a college degree. Some
?ur ~;;n were able :to carry on: years back (he is 52) he had
There was even some time for worked as an electrician in a
~ squirrel shoot. As the squirrel coal mine, which has since
shooting.' season was over, only moved from the area. He cannot
one squirrel'met death, with geewQrk in Haz·ard now, unless
another one, receiVing minor he wants to be a janitor. Oddly
J • .l' i . '·:Jl • enougli; . he's probably better
wo.unJ~' r,c. :.' ,j "..:. Hazard, which is just west of read than most of the white
HE1'U JQr,. Certain, il?: a small townspeople.
valley. ,town of 500 residents, The people of these toWns
most of whom are white. ·The have varied reactions as to
neighborhoods surrounding the' meeting strangers. Most of the
coIIUher.cfiil'centers'are not'very white: .town's folk are friendly
I'"~; ~. -. • ".:'l 7r r;
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-eb'~!t1 "f<,,';, H.'~': Hl;j'.I',,·f'By'JOIIN BRENNAN
""The' Falrfjeld.ohUnft:irilltY Recre'a.tion8J. Study Technique (FURST) Is the only one of its kind
(I I- ~ ,:-' f ~ 0"\. • ~
in t9f country," aec~rdin'g to Mr:Ronald B~nchi, its director. The originator of the program was a.
Brl~eP9rt school psyc~ologlst, Mr. Fredrick Esposito. He saw that students were leaving school
be(;a.use they were unable to adjust to the compe tition and pressures of education due to their soolal
and, economic background. ,It was through the eft orts, of Mr. Esposito, Father Mcinnes, and the
Br,idgt:pon Board of Eclucation ~t tile program was started in 1965.
Origirial1y the program began j --::-::-;------------------------
With'>,iii!i1y, seventh grade'boys... 'give 'focational advice in their
from'th~ ;~inner City:; in.o~ridge_~ r~pe.ctive fields.
1 ,,-""-- ' :;J ... ~ - '.~
POrt. '(The ·.'Inner~Cityisa term. . The program is run in con-used
to _refer to the poverty junction with Fairfield Prep
stricken and ghetto area of any with the boys coming here in
city.) The students are chosen 'the winter for twenty-1ive Satur­~
ho' show a "significant level of days to attend study techmque
native aiblity" and because of . clqsSes. During the summer the . ~ . '"' _ \ J d..;.1_ _ •
their environment it "would ne-. . three youngest groups Will com-gate
"tlieir chancesl of i£Gingto 'mtJnicl!te' from their homes to
to college. the University but the oldest
ThIs will be the fourth sum- group will be living on campus
mer of operation and tlle pro- and earning a salary supervising
gram has. grown to ·one hUndred, and· teaching sports to the
bbys::Howevell FURST. {i.;a six' YQunger groups "in order to
V",;; _ .. ~. \. ' .... J..;.' '"$:, .) ~ ~ i ~ 1 , •• "
ye~t) gJlg~avorli pegin):lipg u with l,i q.J~~}o.p. leadership qualitles,
elementary $chool anw continu- b l\nd, (.~Jlow them to earn some
b1g:tlirol!lglf higll school. It aims "money. There will also be a
at bringing disadvantaged .stu- number of University students
dl:!Dts "from Bridgeport and who will supervise and counsel
teaching them the basic skills the boys.
in English, math science' and College Scholarship
reading. cThe boys are also given TIle program is financed by
a battery of 'profile tests in three separate grants with
order to determine where their $23,000 from the House and
ability lies and to-helpthen; .o~_E~on~mic Opportunities pro­developing
it. Men from various gram, 8,500 from the Bridgeport
professions come to campus and Board of Education and a
Page Six THE STAG Mav B 1968
F Awards Banquet
Open To Students
Another popular class of animals is the periphera-a
shadowy category that borders often on the vegetable.
Take, for example, the sponge. The sponge is definitely an
animal. The wash-cloth, on the other hand, is definitely not.
Next we come to the arthropoda, or insects. Most people
find insects unattractive, but actually there is exquisite
beauty in the insect world if you trouble to look. Take, for
instance, the lovely insect poems of William Cullen
Sigafoos-Tumbling Along with the Tumbling Tumblebug
and Fly Gently, Sweet Aphid and Gnats My Mother
Caught Me. Mr. Sigafoos, alas, has been inactive since the
invention of DDT.
Our next category is the mollusca-lobsters, shrimp, and
the like. Lobsters are generally found under rocky projec­tions
on the ocean bottom. Shrimps are generally found in
a circle around a small bowl containing cocktail sauce.
Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades are generally
found at any counter where Personna Super Stainless
Steel Blades are sold.
I mention Personna Blades because the makers of Per­sonna
Blades pay me to write this column,. and they are
inclined to get edgy if I neglect to mention their product.
Some get double edgy and some single, for Personn~
Blades come both in double edge style and Injector style.
Mind you, it is no burden for me to mention Personna,
for it is a blade that shaves quickly and cleanly, slickly and
keenly, scratchlessly and matchlessly. It is a distinct pleas­ure
to shave with Personna Blades and to write about
them but sometimes, I confess, I find it difficult to work
the commercial into a column. Some years ago, for ex­ample,
I had the devil's own time working a Personna plug
into a column about Alexander the Great. The way I finally
managed it was to have Alexander say to the Oracle at
Delphi, "Oracle, I have tasted all the world's pleasures,
yet I am not content. Somehow I know there is a joy I have
missed." To which the Oracle replied, "Yes, Alexander,
there is such a joy-namely Personna Blades-but, alas for
you, they will not be invented for another 2500 years."
Whereupon Alexander fell into such a fit of weeping that
Zeus finally took pity and turned him into a hydrant ..•
Well sir, there is no question I sold a lot of Personnas with
this ingenious commercial, but the gang down at the
American Academy of Arts and Letters gave me a mighty
good razzing, you may be sure.
But I digress. Back to biology and the most advanced
phyllum of all-the chordata, or vertebrates. There are
two kinds of vertebrates: those with vertical backbones
and those with horizontal. Generally it is easy to tell them
apart. A fish, for instance, has a horizontal backbone, and
a man has a vertical backbone. But what if you run into
a fish that swims upright or a man who never gets out of
the sack? How do you tell them apart? Science struggled
with this sticky question for years before Sigafoos of
M.L1: came up with his brilliant solution: offer the crea­ture
a pack of Personna Blades. If it is a fish, it will refuse.
If it is homo sapiens, it will accept-and the more sapient,
the quicker.
And now you know biology. And now, for the fourteenth'
time, aloha.
* * * @1968, Max Shulrna
The makers oJ Personna, The Electro-Coated blade,
have enjoyed bringing you another year oJ Old Max.
, From us too, aloha.
FROM THE HALLS OF PROTOZOA
This column, normally a treasure house of twinkly quips
and slapdash japery, has now been appearing in your
campus newspaper for fourteen years, and if I have
learned one thing in these fourteen long years, it is not to
try to be funny in the last column of the semester. With
final exams looming obscenely close, you don't want jokes;
you want help. ,
So today, foregoing levity, I give you a quick cram
course in the subject you are all flunking. I refer, of
course, to biology.
Biology is divided into several phylla, or classes. First
is the protozoa, or one-celled animal. Protozoa can be
taught simple things like bringing in the newspaper, but
when shopping for pets it is best to look for animals with
at least two cells, or even four if your yard has a fence
around it.
MaJloy and Lynam
The football and rugby clubs
have also been invited to par­ticipate
in this Students Gov­ernment
sponsored affair, run
under the auspices of the Dorm­itory
Affairs Committee.
Mr. Jerry Malloy, an ex
N.B.A. official, will be the main
speaker for the affair. Mr. Mal­loy
is a famous raconteur well
known for his wit and interest­ing
commentary as a speaker
at sport dinners. Fairfield's new
varsity basketball coach, Mr.
James Lynam, will also be on
hand to comment on his hopes
and plans to bring Fairfield fur­ther
along as a major power in
basketball.
upon and is sustained by his
cultural system. Our culture is
categonzed by. mass mvolve­ment
in media.
The Group for the Study of
Para Communications, which is
composed of several members of
the University's G r a d u ate
School of Corporate and Politi­cal
Communications has de­signed
this program in order to
create an awareness within the
the individual things which he
has experienced on the subcon­sciousness
level.
In order to defray the costs
of producing this experience,
an admission fee of $1.00 for
non-students and $.50 for stu­dents
will be charged.
It is hoped that as many stu­dents
as possible will attend to
honor those men who have con·
tributed to Fairfield's athletic
accomplishments.
University Receives
Science Grant
The National Science Founda­tion
has awarded Fairfield Uni­versity
a $20,570 grant to sup­port
an In-Service Institute in
Science and Mathematics for
Secondary School Teachers' ac­cording
to Dr. John A. Barone,
University vice president for
·planning.
Under the direction of pro­fessor
Robert E. Bolger of the
University's mathematics de­partment,
the institute marks
the eighth consecutive year of
support by NSF of Fairfield's
In-Service Institute, founded in
1961 by Dr. Barone who was
then on the faculty of the Uni­versity's
Chemistry department.
The recent grant will enable
80 qualified high school math
and science teachers to study,
tuition free, in the areas of
linear algebra, modern physics,
radiation and modern biology.
News
The Varsity F Awards Banquet will be held on Thursday,
May 16, in the Campus Center Cafeteria at 7:15. Besides the Var­sity
F athletes, the catered steak dinner will be open free of
charge to members of the student body who wish to contribute
their regular meal for the banquet.
All Varsity F athletes will be -----------­honored,
and inducted into the
Varsity F Club. Acocrding to
Mr. Bisacca's' office, in addition
to the annual M.V.P. award in
basketball, there also is to be
initiated an M.V.P. trophy in
every varsity sport. Again the
senior varsity athletes will be
awarded plaques to commemo­rate
their years of athletic en­deavor
at Fairfield.
Scholar Athlete Awards
The program will also be ex­panded
by the addition of
scholar athlete awards to be
presented to varsity athletes
who have accumulated a high
scholastic average. The annual
William Wallen Award, for the
athlete most respected for his
behavior and example of char­acter,
will also be presented.
MASS MEAL
No food will be served to­morrow
evening when the Group
for the Study of Para Com­munications
presents "The Mass
Meal" in the Campus Center
Oak Room at 8 o'clock. Rather
there will be an engaging study
of man's relations and experi­ences
with the mass media.
The curious title was derived
by the group from the proposi­tion
that the individual feeds
* * *
three movies in the University's
lineup of events for its fifth
annual Spring Festival. The
screening will take place in
Gonzaga Auditorium at 3:30 and
7:30 p.m.
that are faced by government
officials and what legal steps
-are taken when a youth goes
wrong.
Panelists and Topics
Topics and panelists for this
program are as follows: "Draft
and Narcotics - Legal Impli­cations"
Howard Owens, At­torney,
Owens and Schine:
"Suburban Crime, Cars and
Liquor" Patrick Carol, Lieuten­ant,
Fairfield Police Depart­ment;
"Poverty and Narcotics"
Tisdale, Executive Director, Ac­tion
for Bridgeport Community
Development; "Juvenile Court
System", Judge Margaret Dris­coll,
Juvenile Court; and moder­ator
for the program, James P.
White, Jr., a 1964 graduate of
Fairfield and an attorney with
the Bridgeport law firm of
Clancy, Kenney, Flynn and
Ford.
Campus
"STATE FAIR"
The Twentieth Century-Fox
film "State Fair" will be shown
twice today as the second of
Cinema Music
Continued from Page 4
more conventional expression
such as the usual personal pro­nouncement
or physical contor­tion
could more profoundly sum­marize
his feelings in the inter­val?
Only an expansively mal­leable
form such as music could
match the circumstantial trans­positions
of the sequence with
its own extra-actual possibilities
to concisely express all the guilt,
disdain, exultation and humor
of such an episode in a poignant
ten or fifteen minute scene.
The effect of all of this is to
fashion a realm of imagined re­ality
in distinct revolt agaiD3t
the aesthetically and morally of­fending
usual one until the in­dulgently
improbable chase
scene in the end seems no more
impossible than the spiritual
ideals of the mind are non-ex­istent.
And even more impor­tant,
to considerably expand the
poetic powers of the motidn pic­ture
in this age of its increasing
dominance.
PHI KAPPA THETA
On Monday, April 22, Phi
Kappa Theta installed the new
officers recently elected by the
brotherhood. Replacing former
President John Csenger '68 is
Frank Olah '69; replacing form­er
Vice-President Bernie Moule
'68 is James Barrett '69; re­placing
former Corresponding
Secretary Frank Olah '69 is
Barry Brady '70; replacing
former Treasurer Edward Bari­us
'68 is William Lucas '69; re­placing
Pledge Master Joseph
Staneck '68 is Tom Franko '69.
The new officers will head the
Fraternity's forty-eight mem­bers
during the year 1968-1969.
• • •
Students will be given an opportunity to learn from first hand
experiences what other youth today faces in the courts on the draft
and narcotics, and what problems the police have with youths in
suburbia.
Fairfield University, in co­operation
with the Bridgeport
Bar Association, will hold a
lecture discussion period on
Tuesday, May 14, 1968 at 8:00
p.m. in the Campus Center Oak
Room.
Give - and - take
Panel members will present
brief talks on the problems of
"Draft and Narcotics - Legal
Implications"; Suburban Crime,
Cars and Liquor"; Poverty and
Narcotics"; and the "Juvenile
Court System" which will cover
the types of cases handled. The
floor will then be opened to
questions by the students. Em­phasis
is on the answering of
these queries which usually re­sults
in a lively give - and - take
between the students and the
panelists. It hoped that this
communication will enlighten
the student as to the problems
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slugged out three hits to trail
Finch who had four. Castrignano
and Reeves both added a pair
of singles.
an even par 72. A bogie on the
18th cost Lawrence a sub.par
round, Coia lost his first match
of the season to Gil Pratt of
CentmJ.
After defending their Metro­politan
crown, the linksters will
compete in the New England
Championship May 10th and
11th in what: amounts to a busy
schedule against formidable
foes.
Win
(Continued from Page 10)
Fairfield lashed Marist in fine
fashion. Bill Sulik and John
Lebedevitch tied for low with
77's. McConachie came through
with a 78, while Tartaglia and
Coia chipped in with 79's.
Medalist Honors
The Stags zonked Central in
a similar manner. George Law­rence
was in top form as he
captured medalist honors with
The game was assured in the
fifth when Reeves singled,
Scheiber walked and Tom Finch
drilled a 2-2 pitch for a three
run homer. The tenth run came
in the seventh when Finch
tripled and scored on Mastra­monico's
single. The game was
called after the seventh due to
darkness..
Jim Tully went the distance
for his first win of the season
against a loss. Ken Lanifero
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push across a run at a time. The
frosh scored another in the
f 0 u r t h w hen Castrignano
singled, stole second and came
home again on Tom Finch's
single.
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year's orientation personnel are
shaping up to be a real good
group. All the members of the
committee hope to make the
Orientation a success." He went
on to say, "We hope to create
an atmosphere of ease and
friendliness for the incoming
freshman class of '72."
Orientation
Frosh
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musicals for the stage, and eight
for films. The two ~et when
Mr. Rodgers entered Columbia
University and made history
there as the first freshman to
write the music for the Varsity
show.
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The Rodgers and Hart affili­ation
continued until 1943 with
the death of Mr. Hart. Among
their shows were; "The Gar­rick
Gaieties," "Dearest Ene­my,"
"Babes in Arms," "I Mar­ried
An Angel" and "Pal Joey."
Oklahoma
Mr. Rodgers then joined with
the late Oscar Hammerstein, II
and the extraordinary success of
their first work "Oklahoma,"
became part of American theat­rical
history. Produced by the
Theatre Guild in 1943, this
m u sic a I achieved a record­breaking
run of over five years
and gave 2,212 performances at
New York's St. James Theatre.
From here, Rodgers and Ham­merstein
collaborated on several
other of what turned out to be
"America's greats," including
"The King and I," "Flower
Drum Song," "South Pacific,"
and "The Sound of Music." They
also wrote the score for "State
Fair," their only motion pic­ture.
The film will be shown
tonite as part of the Spring
Cultural Festival in Gonzaga
Auditoriwn.
Aaron Copland
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to be among the greatest essays
on art of our era.
and John Renehan who had 26.
Charles Dombeck received 152
votes as he defeated Colin Kiley
who had 115 votes and Kevin
MacAuliffe who had 31. William
Barrett finished with 186 votes
to defeat Stephen Daur with 76.
For me office of Treasurer
Warner Lombardi with 160
votes defeated Mark Alexander
who had 116.
In each of his specialities he
has avoided specialization. As a
composer, he has writtten in all
forms and many combinations of
musical instruments and has
been called a musical satirist -­"
often putting over a profound
and penetrating point with an
owlish twinkle." He has written
music all his life, the most fa­mous
wor'ks being the operas
"Four Saints in Three Acts,"
"The Mother of Us All," "The
Plough That Broke the Plains,"
"The River" 'and "Louisiana
S~ory," part of which he will
conduct at the May 11 Arts and
Honors program.
Anita Gillette of Broadway
and television fame, along with
the glee clubs of Fairfield Uni­versity
and Manhattanville Col­lege
will sing a selection of
t"1.ichard Rodgers songs in th(
presence of the master himself
Miss Gillette is a regular on
the Johnny Carson television
show, The Ed Sullivan Show and
the Bell Telephone Hour. In
1966, she starred in the City
Center's production of Guys and
Dolls and currently is featured
in Woody Allen's comedy smash
hit, "Don't Drink the Water."
Fairfield Resident
Richard Rodgers, a native of
New Yor'k City and now a resi­,
dent of Fairfield, wrote his first
song at the age of 14. His first
professional collaboration began
in 1919 with lyricist Lorenz
Hart, with whom he wrote 28
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by Ronald DUkenski, Allan
Kaulbach, Emmanuel Bartolot­ta,
Robert Carpenter, Robert
Dohn, Drew Draves, John En·
gratt, Thomas Gleason, Donald
Malone, Albert Mariani, Thom­as
R'osendahl, Charles Coviello,
and Robert Quick. Donald De·
fronzo defeated Michael Me·
Verry for the At-Large repre­sentative
position in the Legis·
lature carrying 148 of the class
votes while the latter carried 97.
Class of 1971
Thomas Gugliotti was elected
President of the class of 1971.
Receiving 109 votes, he defeated
Douglas Menaugh who had 98,
Christopher Daly who had 70
May 8, 1968
(Continued from Page 1)
On April I, 1954, Mr. Cop­land's
full length opera - "The
Tender Land" - part of which
will be performed at Fairfield's
Arts an Honors Program, was
given its premiere by the New
York City Opera Company. His
works have been widely per­formed
throughout the world,
with wo\ks chosen to represent
the United States at interna­tional
music festivals and with
his orchestra music frequently
heard in England and on the
Continent.
Specialist without Specialization
Virgil Thomson has been,
from time to time and simul­taneously,
a con~ert pianist, an
accompanist, a noted organist,
a ranking choir director, a
teacher and a student, and a
conductor and a composer. He
has been a man of letters and a
critic writing daily and weekly
Mr. Copland, whose composi­tions
were first heard in the
United States at a League of
Composers concert in 1924, has
led an active life in contempor­ary
music. From 1928 to 1931
he and Roger Sessions were re­sponsible
for the Copland-Ses­sions
Concerts of American
music. He was director of the
American Festival of Contem­porary
Music at Yaddo for its
first two years and in 1941 and
1947 the noted composer made
government-sponsored good-will
tours of Latin America, appear­ing
as pianist, conductor and
lecturer in concerts of Ameri­can
music. Mr. Copland has
lectured extensively throughout
the country and for 10 years
was a lecturer at New York's
New School for Social Research.
Government Elections
movements, tracinlt a series of
meditations on the universality
of faith, with textual fragments
drawn by Brubeck and his wife
from the Gospels and Psalms.
Copland and Thomson
Aaron Copland and Virgil
Thomson, will conduct an en­semble
of 50 members of the
American Symphony Orchestra
in a performance of their own
works. Mr. Copland's wor~ will
be "The Tender Land" suite
from his opera of that name and
Mr. Thomson's work will be the
"Louisiana Story" suite from
his well known fllm Louisiana
Story.
Honors Program, Dogwood
Trackmen Sparkle At Brandeis
Tufts
Marcavage acted as the media­tor
and turned the game back to
a friendly bawky, although the
two pugilists were dismissed
from combat. Larry Conners
scored the final tally, and Frank
Allard's conversion was again
succe!>sful, as he scored his
eleventh point of the day - the
high for the year at Foodle­Doodle.
And, in the words of
Rugby critic B. Warner it was
shown once again that "You can
take the Fairfield out of Rugby,
but you can't take the Rugby
out of Fairfield."
The season closes next week
with the A's and B's against
the Old Maroon, and possibly a
C match with Manhattan.
'Frank' Santulli, Bear Sweeney,
and some last minute pointers
which Tony Labesky taught
Mark Feeley contributed to the
Red Seconds cause.
The Seconds continued to
pour it on in the last half, and
Joe Frisch ran through his Ruck
for a score ,and the wild man's
conversion was accurate to add
five more to _the column. Good
push by Tom Larkin and Bobby
Godfrey kept the Red moving,
and the result was a score by
the mighty midget Kurt Schlich­ting
Duke-city resulted between
Schlichting and a rather large
rufts player, but bulky Bob
II!
Overcome
PLAYBACI(
May 8, 1968
By WILLIAM D'ALLESANDRO
It has been just over two months since the basket­ball
season fired its last volleys at bewildered fans in
the New Haven Arena (it still stands inviting future
tragedy). ~hat ga~e seems so far back the only vestige
of recollectIOn left IS that something large and exciting
happened and after it was over people felt differently;
people would never feel the same when they came to a
F1airfield game.
Already it is just food for dim conversation about
the biggest crowd to witness a college basketball game
in C~mnecticut, about the almost and the never-really
pOSSIble efforts. Already new coach James Lynam is
building next year's team. While thoughts of basketball
slip farther from anyone's concern, the problem exists
now for the man who will shape a major portion of
athletics next year.
* *~ *
It has been much longer since the Football Club
bewildered even the most optimistic spectators with a
brilliant performance that placed them tenth among
some thirty football clubs in the nation. Nothing comes
to mind about that season, except many emotional vic­tories
and a combination of players and coaches who
created the smoothest team on campus this year.
That is just history for new president Kevin Cook
who has signed seven teams for next year's schedule
and for Coach Curtis who has already finished running
his squad through the first spring practice ever. Before
the summer is over the important prelude in prepara­tion
for next year's challenge will begin when follow­ers
will be expecting the same results from a radically
altered squad.
* * *
It was even before last season that Fairfield clap-ped
a mask on its sports publicity by failing to inform
the news media and sports services about its upcoming
athletic program that had plenty to boast about. Some­how,
perhaps because it will be that time again, this
does rankle the memory.
The job of releasing information begins as soon as
anything definite is planned for next year. That means
this summer is the crucial period for laying the ground­work
for coverage in the fall. It is impossible to make
the same mistake twice.
* * *
It has become an annual battle of polemics be-tween
students and the Athletic Office over intramural
affairs. Complications rather than communication was
the watchword when it came to gym facilities and ac­tivity
programming. Peter Maher. who has handled the
students' interest in the past will graduate and leave
the difficult problem for his eager successors.
They have already approached Mr. Bisacca in his­new
single role of Athletic Director with an assortment
of ideas concerning improvements and innovations for
next year. Readjustments and additions to the student
athletic program should be considered during the sum­mer
months so that their benefits can be achieved im­mediately
in September.
* * *
While the University takes a few months off this
summer, these men and several others will be forming
the style of Fairfield's athletic program for the '68-'69
season. When classes reconvene in the fall, Fairfield
should have completed its initial phase in a revitalized
sports organization.
Title
THE STAG
both shots to make the score
23-17 at the half.
Fairfield's track team came
through with what was probably
the finest performance of their
history, copping fifth place In
the Brandeis Relays.
Fairfield's fifth was out of
twenty teams overall. Ten of
the eleven men entered figured
in the scoring. Since the injury
of J. C. Dennis, the team has
been forced to strive for indi­vidual
performances rather than
dual meet victories, and several
individuals performed incredibly
well at Brandeis.
Bronze Medals
The best of these were a
4:82.2 mile by frosh John
O'Rourke, netting him third
place and a new school record.
Sophomore BiJl Martens is a
story unto himself. He has never
run track before, but turned in
a fantastic 50.8 440 at Brandeis
after 52.1 and 52.8 heats - to
also get a bronze medaL
Bill Cibulsky got second in
the javelin, Tom Purcell second
in the high jump, Jim Garrity
third in the sprints, Mark
O'Donoghue fifth in the two mile,
John Mezzanotte fifth in the
discus and the mile relay team
got third to round out the Fair­leld
track team's finest hour.
A quick score off the tap play
gave R-I their biggest lead of
the game at 8 points. But then
it was all George Wrobel and
C-2. By scoring 8 points on long
jumpers, Wrobel brought C-2
back to a one point advantage
at 30-29 with ten minutes left.
R-I had its problems at the
foul line, missing all 9 attempts
in the second half. This proved
very costly because R-I could
have maintained the lead at
the charity line.
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wining margin, Tufts battled
back for another try and missed
the conversion, to give the
Foodle-Doodle RFG a 4-3 regu­lar
season record.
The B team once again won
by an easy margin. Danny Bou­douin
and Bob Treanor worked
excellently together at fly-half
and center to set up fine move­ments,
which resulted in early
scores by Treanor and 'Zippy'
Sachs; Frank Allard converted
both trys perfectly, and also
picked up a penalty kick for
a quick thirteen point lead. All
around good play by Jim Casey,
B61;l Lutz, Bill Schmeising,
Cops
a Black Belt in Karate and
chief instructor for the club.
He was assisted by Bob Koosa,
a green belt, John Strauch, a
yellow belt, and Tom Lenzo,
club chairman.
(Continued from Page 10)
first half. This once again veri­fied
the 100% desire they have
given their miracle working
coach. Their team work almost
brought them the champion­ship
which has been eluded Gil­len
for the last 2 years.
The game was tight from
start to finish. Jay "The Ca­daver"
Smith, who has been
Gillen's sharpshooter all year,
started quickly with 3 baskets
giving R-I the early lead 9-7.
The beginning was highlighted
by cold shooting, cautious and
conservative play by both teams
and expert rebounding position
by R-I. A steal and layup by
Campbell ,gave R-I their biggest
lead of the first half at 17-11.
After Pete Smith made a tap-in
shot, Jack Zorski retaliated with
a short bank shot on which he
was fouled. R-I managed to re­cover
the missed foul shot and
Campbell scored on a crucial
15 footer. With the score 21-17,
Campbell was then fouled at the
buzzer. This proved to be very
costly for C-2 as he converted
Karate members Art Schmedlen (r) and Joe Destafano square
off whDe Bob Koosa referees.
Nine Karate Men
Achieve Promotions
Page Eight
On Saturday, March 30, 9
members of the Karate section
of the Fairfield University Judo­Karate
Club were promoted in
the rank they held in the sport.
The 9 Karateka were novice
white belts before the test. Of
the 9, 4 were advanced to the
xank of Jyu Kyu, a higher stage
of white belt. The remaining 5
members were advanced to the
rank of yellow belt, a rank
higher than white and next in
a series of ranks which cul­minates
with the Black Belt.
The 4 Jyu Kyu are: Bill Trac­ster
'70, Larry Nocera '71, John
O'Rourke .'71, and Ralph Stre­faci
'71. The new yellow belts
-are: J De Destefano, Mike Gar-rett,
John Lindsay, Dan Faber
and Art Schmedlein, all of the
class of '71.
To qualify for the rank, the
members were required to take
a written test to demonstrate
their knowledge of the Japanese
and AIDerican terms for the
various techniques. They were
also required to prove their
ability with -the Karate tech­niques
they know by demon­strating
the kicks, punches, and
blocks both alone and with a
partner.
The highlight of the test was
free fighting. Each of the Kara­teka
was required to fight 4
times. They were graded on
style, spirit and points scored.
The chief judge for the pro­motionals
was John Gagnon '69,
With about 90 seconds left,
C-2 decided to wor'k for the
good shot. A Wrobel bucket
proved good enough for the lead
35-33. Zorski tied the game with
30 seconds left. After a time out,
Grauert put in the winning
basket giving C-2 the game and
the championship.
This season was a very suc­cessful
one thanks to Pete Maher
and Bob Goodman, intramural
directors. Goodman and newly
appointed assistant Ozzie Pis­arri
promise an even more im- IStag '9' Drops Three prov,d prognun n~ year
(Contln""" ''''''' Pogo 10) """mg ""'" runs "",,,'If. Ruggers zak, Calabria and Mount. Then Fairfield's runs came In the
Coach Don Cooke's Stags saw fourth frame as they traDed 1-0.
their hopes drowned in the bot- Granata and Walsh walked 101·
tom of the tenth as left-fielder lowed by Bolger's single to right
Mike Sylvester drove in the win· presenting the next batter, Stan
ning run on a double. Norman, with a bases-loaded
Gibson took the loss, his third -opportwlity. Norman's shot to
in six decisions, for Fairfield. .third was fumbled allowing Gra·
He was tagged for eight hits nata to come in. Gillen sacriftced
and three walks. Frank Maho· to center for the Stags' last run.
ney finished the last three St. John's fought back in the
frames, giving up four hits and same inning with three runs go­-
a base on balls. ing ahead 4-2. Three more runs
Fairfield's batters clipped the in the eighth put it on ice for
opposition for 11 bits and dre\\' the Redmen.
8 walks. Bolger had two hits and right
S1. John's 1ielder Tom Bligh added an-
Lou Addonizio led his team other for Fairfield. Beman and
to their 15th win of the season Mahon-eyallowed 11 hits, .14
with a double, triple, walk, sac- walks, and chalked up three
rifice bunt, two RBI's while strikeouts.
May 8, 1968 THE STAG Page Nine
Football Club Compl(!tes First Spring Practices
E. Smith-Donohue Duo
Provides Clutch Victory
Win
singled home Castrigano who
had singled, stolen second and
taken third on a balk. After
Yale pushed across two earned
runs in the second Fairfield
erupted with four runs in the
third when. Castrigano singled
and was sacrificed to second,
Lanefero doubled, then Viola"
Lonergan and Closter singled to
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Haven brought in their ace hur­ler
who was able to strikeout
Tom Finch to end the inning.
Wednesday the Frosh traveled
to Yale where Jim Tully allowed
only two earned runs and Tom
Finch smashed a homer, triple
and two singles, highlighting
their first victory.
The 10-4 rout began slowly in
the first when Tom Finch
Yale
and Lonergan walked, Ken
Lanefero sent them home with
a clutch single. New Haven
added lone runs in the eighth
and ninth innings to run up a
5-2 lead.
After two outs in the bottom
of the ninth Jim Tully reached
first on an error. Castrignano
then reached on another error
and New Haven's Chekovsk~'
proceeded to walk Lonergan and
Viola. Ken Lanefero then drove
a smash to short but the force
at second was muffed and the
tSags were down 5-4 with the
bases loaded. At this point New
and calling him "a real pleasure
to watch."
Steve modestly states that
the best part of his game is his
steadiness, noting with a typical
Smithian yawn that "I'm not
overpowering, but I like io
wear them down with my con­sistencyl"
The tennis team has achieved
10-4 and 12-2 records in the past
two years, and much of the
credit must go to Steve. Steve
lists as particularly satisfying
team performances the three
consecutive close wins over
Providence and the second place
8howing in the Ryder Cup last
year, where the Stags went to
the finals before losing to Hof­stra.
The jackrabbit-quick senior
feels that this year's team is
"about as good as any we've
had," though the loss of Gary
Coughran hurt greatly, and the
schedule is far tougher. He ex­pects
a good showing in the
Ryder CUp, and notes that Fair_
field has reached a level of
success which is about as high
as we'll go under the present
circumstances.
Steve is a native of River
Dell, New Jersey, Ilnd played his
high school tennis at Bergen
Catholic H.S., going to the semi­finals
of the state tourney in
his senior year. A history major,
Smith is considering the pos­sibilities
of teaching, advertising
or public relations.
Rout
Tennis Leader
Fullback Bailey is set to receive a pitchout in light·contact
session.
By DAVID REEVES
A two-out, two-run ninth­inning
rally failed as the frosh
dropped their second straight
decision to New Haven Monday,
May 29. Two days later the
frosh unloaded seventeen hits
and routed Yale 10-4 for their
first victory of the season.
New Haven scored two quick
runs in the first inning on walks
and infield errors. The Chiefs
added a third in the third on a
one out triple and run scoring
single. The Baby Stags were
unable to get started until the
sixth when, after Castrignano
Fr. James Ring in setting up the
teams for the year, deciding
meet matchinrgs and aiding Fr.
Ring, who must also coach the
golf team.
Fr. Ring describes Smith as
"a real asset to the team ever
since his sophomore yearl" The
wizened sage mentor also noted
Smith's poise and ability to
come back after losing an open­ing
set, praising his ground
strokes, net play, court strategy
In the doubles, the first two
teams, Smith· Fitzgerald and
Hill·McKenna lost. This put the
burden on Smith·Donahue and
the 80ph duo prevailed 6·1, 6·1,
to 8ew up the win.
Holy Cross
Earlier, the Stags fell victim
to a powerful Holy Cross team
by a score of 8-1. Brian Fitz·
gerald provided the only win in
the nUmber two singles spot.
The Stags go against U.B. away
today before entering the Ryder
Tournament on May 10th. The
Stags placed second 'it Ryder
last year, and though this tea.'11
does not look as strong as last
year's, the Stags should cer­tainly
turn in a respectable per­formance.
Personality
By ROBERT SILLERY
Steve Smith:
Sports
By ROBERT SILLERY
The Captain of the tennis
team, Steve Smith has provided
Fairfield with three years of
outstanding play and court lead­ership.
Smith has been the number
one singles player for the Stags
in all three of his varsity years
and has also assumed the rather
nebulous role of semi-assistant
coach under the hazy Fairfield
system. Smith's duties as Cap­tain
are to work with Coach
In preparation for an ambi­tious
eight-game fall schedule,
the Fairfield University Football
Club has completed its first
spring practice session under
returning coach Dick Curtis.
Curtis noted that the sessions
were geared to familiarizing
new personnel with his basic
formations. He expressed satis­faction
with the turnout of 55
and noted that his final squad
would number about forty.
Curtis stated that "the club
was born last year and has no
place to go but up." Recognition
for any new team can only come
with time and with wins, and
Curtis commented that with a
nucleus of returning lettermen
and a host of newcomers out for
the team, he plans to keep
winning. He also .noted the
difficulty of the schedule, point­ing
out that most of the teams
to be played were in last year's
top twenty.
Included on this year's slate
will be Manhattan, Seton Hall,
Fordham, Providence, Hartford,
Iona, LaSalle and Marist. Presi­dent
Kevin Cook also announced
that Fairfield has schedued a
scrimmage with the Yale fresh­men
on September 27.
Cook also stressed the im­portance
to the club of the
boosters currently being cir­culated
by club m e m b e r s
throughout the campus. The
help of the student body in per­petuating
a football club con­ceived
for their own benefit will
be greatly appreciated.
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doubles events to win, and the
Smith - Matte and Donahue­Smith
teams succeeded, but the
Hill.Regan duo went down 6-0,
6-0 to nail the Stags with the
wss.
Providence
The duo of Ed Smith and
Mark Donahue came up with a
clutch doubles win to give· the
Stags a tight 5-4 win over Provi­dence.
Smith and Donahue also
won their respective singles
matches to account for 3 wins.
Fairfield had a 4-2 lead after
the singles as Ben Hill and
Brian Fitzgerald also added on
individual wins. Steve Smith
fell victim to a 3-6, 6-3, 8-6 up­set
while John Carberry lost
8-10, 6-1, 6-3.
RUGGERS
vs
OLD MAROON
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Page T:" THE STAG
MET CHAMPIONSHIPS
Today at Rutgers
RYDER CUP
May 10, at Ryder
May 8, 1968
Golf Team Defends Met Crown Today
Netmen Prep For Ryder Cup,
Down Stonehill, Providence
John Walsh handl~s throw on close play at first.
accurate, and the score was
tie.d.
In the first half, the backfield
played especially well; in the
second half, it was the serum's
turn, and Beef Smith, bruiser
'Zoup' Krenn, and Bill Cosgriff
kept the Red in the game, and
then Jack Novero, Pat Burke,
and Jack Higgins put together
an excellent movement to give
Mike Fox perfect position for a
fly kick. Fox repeated his great
play of the previous week, by
picking up his kick and going
all the way for the tie~breaking
score. Greg Polzer converted
prefectly to give the Red the
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of Smith and Ben Hill went
down to a 10-8, 4-6, 10-12 mara­thon
defeat.
_ Monmouth
In their next meet; Fairfield
presented Monmouth with a
weakened squad and went down
to a 5-4 loss because four of the
Stags' seven starters declared
themselves unavailable for the
trip.
In singles action, Steve Smith
and Mark Donahue turned in
the only wins while Hill, Ed
Smith, Jim Regan and Rich
Matte went down to defeat.
Fairfield needed to sweep the
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By DAVID CAISSE
Fairfield's streaking golf team
defends its Metropolitan crown
in New Jersey today after pre­paring
for it by smothering 10
opponents in a row. The coach,
Fr. Ring, expects the stiffest
competition from Princeton,
which finished 15th in the re­cent
Miami Invitational, 22
strokes ahead of the Stags, who
,finished 25th.
"Excellent Chance"
• Fr. Ring says, "We stand an
excellent chance." He looks for
a score of under 320; five men
play and the best four count for
the title. Recent outstanding
performances by Ted Coia and
George Lawrence give Fr. Ring
an optimistic outlook. Cola is
once beaten and Lawrence has
turned in several excellent ef­forts.
Last week the linksmen topped
Quinnipiac and Central Conn.
by identical 5-2 scores while
goose-egging Marist 7-0. The
Stags copped the match with
Quinnipiac at our home course
in Shorehaven, Conn. Jack Mc­Conachie
carded the low with
a 76.
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The Stags defeated Stonehill
7-2 in an away match in which
Brian Fitzgerald and Rie.h
Matte each dropped only one
match, turning in 6·0, 6-1 wins.
Number one singles player
Steve Smith turned in a 4-6, 6-1,
6-1 win, and was matched by
Jack McKenna, who won in
straight sets, 8-6, 6-4 ,and Ed
Smith, who turned in a 2-6, 6-4,
6-4.
By STEVE RYAN
The Fairfield Rugby Club
finally was able to win awa~'
from the spacious pastures of
Corbett Field as they edged
Tufts 10-8 on Saturday. The Red
Seconds won their eleventh
straight as they pounded their
oponents 26-0.
Fairfield scored first as Bob
Jurcsh pounced on a loose ball
in the Tufts end-zone for three
points, and Greg Polzer's con­version
was perfect to make it
5-0. Tufts battled back and
powerful Larry Small bulled his
way through the Red backfield
for a score; the conversion was
In the doubles, Fitzgerald and
McKenna triumphed 2-6, 7-5,
6-2, as did Matte and Tony Hal'­digan,
who swept 6-0, 6-0 sets.
The number one doubles team
Ruggers Down Tufts,
B's' StreakReaches 11
By ROBERT _SILLERY
The Fairfield University tl:!n­nis
team, in preparing for the
Ryder Cup on May 10th, upped
its record to 7-3 with wins over
Stonehill and Providence and
defeats at the hands of Mon­mouth
College of New Jersey,
and Holy Cross.
By OZZIE PISARRI
There was a great climax to
the very successful intramural
program this year as C-2, with
only one loss suffered at the
hands of Lantern Point, de­feated
the amazing Gillen-men
from Regis I. 37-35.
The championship game epit­omized
the strong play of each
team throughout the season.
C-2 was led by George Wrobel,
who scored 16 of his team's 37
points. 12 in the final half. Off
the boards, it was the strength
and aggressiveness of Chris
Grauert, Al-and Pete Smith. For
R-I, it was a combination of
hustle and defense, plus some
clutch shooting by a changing
sequence of starters - first Jay
Smith, then Lou Campbell with
Jim "Chin" Grushow and Jack­Zorski
consistent throughout.
Although R-I was consider­ably
smaller than C-2, they
were able to completely domin­ate
the defense boards in the
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Jim Hock stifled a New Ha­ven
threat in the sixth frame.
with Chargers on first and sec­ond.
He s nag g e d Pekrul's
grounder, stepped on third and
fired to first baseman Walsh for
a double play.
New Haven's Wallace fanned
14 batters, walked but four and
permitted only seven men to
reach base.
Bob Gibson, though clipped
for nine hits, showed fine forlll
throughout the contest, never
losing poise in the face of sev­eral
tight situations.
Monmouth
Despite a grand slam home
run off the bat of Bill Granata
and a valiant team effort on the
part of the Stags, Monmouth
College overcame them in a 10­inning
slugfest.
The wide-open third inning
began with Mahoney's single.
Gillen reached first on an error
and Walsh I1rew a walk. Then
Granata stepped to the plate and
tallied his second round trip
shot of the season. A double by
Stan Norman and an error en­abled
him to score the fifth run.
In the second half of the
frame Monmouth retaliated with
four runs, three of them the
result of Dennis Van Dell's
three-run homer.
Tom Bligh drove in one more
run for Fairfield in the eighth
inning before the Hawks' ninth·
inning rally.
Two runs scored in the ninth
by singles from Sylvester, Snie­Continued
on Page 8
C·2!! Vin Feissler battles for a rebound U1 1DtramuraJ playons.
Diamondmen Fade,
Drop Three Straight
By GERRY TUITE
FaiI'field's Warriors on the
Diamond encountered stiff op­position
last week, suffering
three defeats in as many games
and dropping their record tro
6-9. The campaign did produce
several high points, among them
was Bill Granata's grand slam­mer
against S1. John's.
New Haven
The Chargers' cool right
handel', Dave Wallace, limited
the Stags to two base hits while
aiding himself offensively with
a booming home run to left
centerfield.
Dick O'Keefe opened up th~
scoring in the second inning,
reaching first base on a force
out, stealing second and scoring
on Cassese's single to center.
Only once did the Stags en­danger
Wallace's shutout, in the!
second frame. Skip Bolger and
Pete Gillen reached base on
walks but were left stranded as
the next two batters struck out,
and Gibson grounded out to the
mound.
Wallace's circuit came in the
fourth inning followed by a
single from O'Keeke. He was
forced at second on Casses's
bouncer to short. Ed Pekrul
then singled and both scored on
Vin Rispoli's triple to center­field.
Dennis Hurlie picked up a
base hit in the first and stole
second to no avail. Stan Nor·
man chalked up the only other
hit for Fairfield in the seventh
on a single to right field.
Campion 2 Cops Title 37-35