Stag - Vol. 21, No. 09 - November 12, 1969

              Vol. 21 No.9 Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn'eeticut November 12, 1969
Xerox President Addresses
Annual Progress Dinner
Dick Gregory Speaks Of
The Big Job Facing Youth
licensing of firearms. "One
needs a prescription to buy
medications but no license i~
needed to buy a gun!"
Youth's 'BIg Job'
Mr. Gregory noted that the
struggle against capitalistic con­trol
is a "big job" facing Amer­ica's
youth but it can
be made into a easier one if
they become "unified and or­ganized
and address their griev­ances
directly to the capitalists."
He implied that the youth of
this country is capable of con­lrolling
and affecting the econ­omy.
Their grievances can best
be shown to the capitalist socie­ty
through massive boycotts of
the major industries in America.
This could produce a greater
nation-wide influence than would
striking or rioting.
The Central Intelligence
Agency received extreme criti­cism
from Mr. Gregory. "The
CIA is the biggest threat to
America today . . . we'll look
around one day to find that we
no longer have a country." The
reason for this attack was the
apparent ineptness that the
Government had shown in its
dealings' with the drug traffic
across the Mexican boarder.
(Operation Intercept). In its at­tempt
it completely hault the
traffic of marijuana into the
United States, the Government
had failed to tighten the lid on
the heroin smuggling Which, ac­cording
to Mr. Gregory, is com­ing
inlo this country unchecked
and at a low price."
Throughout his talk, Dick
Gregory was extremely critical
of the Establishment in Ameri­ca
and its apparent unwilling­ness
to accept change. He was,
at the same time sympathetic
toward America's youth whose
job he felt it was to struggle to­ward
the improvement and
change of the social and econ­omic
systems in the United
States.
IndoctrinaUon in School.
Mr. Gregory also felt that
the educational systems in A­merica
were not educating its
youth but merely indoctrinating
them. "I hope the young folks
don't make the mistakes of the
'old fools'; when we were in
college we were so busy learn­ing
how to make ta living we
torgot to learn how to live ...
make the educational institu­tions
teach and give an educa­tion,
not just indoctrination.
The Presidents <of the univer·
sities) must live up to their oJ,
ligation to the younger genera­tion."
Explaining the animosity ex­isting
between the "Blacks"
and Whites in America he
stated. "Black folks in America
(ContlDued on Pace 2)
Other highlights of the third­annual
event included the pres·
entation or the university's
Medal of Merit to Mr. and Mrs.
Gilbert Larson of Easton, a re­view
of university activities and
plans by frederick Pope. Jr.
and an address on the universi­ty
of tOl1).orrow by Fairfield
President the Very Rev. Wil­liam
C. McInnes, S.J.
Mr. McColough, the president
and chief executive officer of
the Xerox Corporation, declared
that corporate action in the so­cial
and economic spheres
(Continued on Page S)
Administration and President
Nixon's November 3rd speech
on the Vietnam situation. "The
speech," he said, "addressed it­self
to the older generation who
don't go to Vietnam." Referring
to the defeated New Jersey
Referendum which would have
lowered the voting age to 18:
"You can die (in Vietnam) at
18 but you still can't vote for
it." Mr. Gregory also implied
that there was favoritism shown
toward those youth which were
in some way closely related to
the Administration. "Sons ot
important people don't go to
Vietnam . . . Dean Rusk's son
has been out of college for five
years and he hasn't left Wash­ington!"
C. Peter McColough cited
the need for cOI'p(lrations
to increasingly decentralize the
decision making process as a
means of attracting and holding
young executives in an address
to 400 business, civic and edu­cation
leaders at Fairfield Uni­versity's
Progress Dinner.
Mr. Gregory attacked the
capitalistic system in America
stating tha~ it placed too much
emphasis on profit and property
l"ights and not enough emphasis
on human rights, The lobbyists
and labor unions, he felt, had
too much control in America
and infringed upon individual
rights. He said that it was the
job of America's youth to put
the capitalists "behind" the con­stitution
and not "in front" of
it where, in his opinion, it is
presently.
He emphasized the power of
the lobbyists by mentioning the
ability of the gun and riOe in­dustry
to prevent legislation
which would have required the
university's
I~t week's
By VINCENT RAY
Last Saturday evening Fair­field.
University was host to
comedian and civil rights ad­vocate
Dick Gregory.
Speaking in the University
gymnasium, Mr. Gregory em.
phasized that the solutions to
the many problems facing
America today rest with the
youth of the country. He spends
a majority of his time on college
campuses "because the young
kids in America today are the
most honest in the history of
America. . (I) don't have to
depend on the Right-Wing pa­pers
who . . . don't give the
kids credit for their ability."
Sootal a.nd World ConflIcts
Mr. Gregory stressed that the
social and world contllcts facing
America's youth are those in­herited
from the establishment
- "the old fools." "I didn't
come to impress you, only to
inform (you) . The proJ,
lem in America is not air pol­lution
but Moral Pollution. This
is the most degenerate Nation
on earth and its youth are given
the job of giving America its
sanity back . You (the
younger generation) have a big
job ahead of you."
Mr. Gregory then cited sev­eral
aspects of the United States
government which he felt was
representative of the "problem"
facing the Nation's youth.
Nixon CrIth:.
He first criticized the Nixon
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert !.anOn, recelplents or the
Medal of Honor, speak with Fr. McInnes ufter
PN:lgrelJlJ Dl.nner.
from the white students is what
really prevents blacks from
comnig," He stated that black
students now accompany him
on his recruiting trips and that
Ron Mitchell had been especial­ly
helpful at college nights.
Perhaps the big statement
was made by the black repre­(
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Considers
Dick Gregory speaks to audience about niclal lnJutl.~ 111
last Saturday's Student Government-sponsored lecture in Ute
.".,...Iu~
Freshmen and black students
don't feel completely at home
at Fairfield - but there are
possibilities of improvement ­this
seemed to be the consensus
of the discussion at the Presi­dent's
Academy on Monday.
November 3. The topic centered
around social and academic ad­justment
of new students. Spe­cial
invited guests included Mr.
Louis Campbell, Admissions Of­fice
counselor, Bob Smith '73,
Ronald Mitchell '70, William
Brown '73, Charles Spahr '73
and Edward Kenner '73.
The black students stressed
the difficulties of adjusting to
a very different environment
when coming to a school pre­dominately
white. Basic mis­trosl,
fear, and unexpressed hos­tilities
on both sides prevented
any real interaction of the
groups. Mr. Campbell pointed
out that students have a very
great responsibility in estab.
lishing inter-racial personal I'e'
lations "since the administra_
tion is very limited in its ca­pacity
to do this."
Several of the white students
voiced dismay at the possibility
of ever "being really close" to
one another, and the black stu­dents
raised unanswered quer­ies
as to "why white students
over-react to everything blacks
do?" It was questioned "why
whites should be so concerncd
about every little thing we do?"
Mr. Campbell, a former Fair­field
sludent. also added that it
was not because the school was
rejecting black applicants that
accounted for the few blacks
on campus, but the atmosphere
Academy
Adjustment Problems
•
Peace Corps Extends
New Degree Program
P.g. Two
AdjustnwntProblems
Speach
Among the programs which
the office has Instituted are:
vocational testing, through
whose use students may make
more accurate and satisfactory
career decisions; academic
counseling, to help with the
choice of a major field; and
graduate school advising, which
is requested by many students
annually. There are plans for a
reading improvement course,
scheduled. for the early part of
the SE:cond semester, and open
to all students If space permits.
ntis program will be handled
in OO<lperation with Baldridge
Reading and Study Skills, In­corp:>
rated, a nationally-known
institution. From this, it is plain
to see that the Office of Psy­chological
Services is diversified
while maintaing the basic
theme of the Student Services
Office, of which it is a division.
Singly most important of the
activities of the Psychological
Services O1fice is the direct In­:.
erviewing and counseling of
students relative to personal,
emotional problems. Although
there is some mis-understand­ing
about this, Dr. Lucas at­tempted
to clarify the fact that
a student need not have a
great, Insoluble problem to
feel justified In asking for an
interview; he Is "welcome to
come in just to talk to some­one,"
or have "another point
of view." Neither should a stu­dent
have a fear of embarrass­ment
in an interview, as aU
information is kept stricUy con­fidential
within the office. Dr.
Phillips described one of the
vexations of the office as being
the "barrier" of suspicion and
fear of psychological assistance.
The near future holds still
more activity in the Office of
Psychologlc~ Services. Tenta­tive
plans for a group therapy
and study program are being
made, with the greatest obsta­de
being a lack of facilities at
the present time. In addition, a
re-evaluatlon of the freshman
testing program is planned.
It would seem, if a judgement
can be made based on the mut·
tiplicity of programs being In­stituted
and plans being made
and carried out, that the Office
of Psychological Services is one
of the busiest organizations on
Fairfield's campus. While this
may be true, one may be as­sured
that any problem with
which the office might deal
will be readily embraced with
a view toward its prompt reso­lution.
merican Indian and stressed. the
need for aid to the poverty
stricken areas in Appalachia
and to the ghetto areas through­out
the country.
The thirty-seven year old
comedian-eritlc spoke for ap­proximately
two hours, his
talk being interrupted by ap­plause
over sixty times. He re­ceived.
a standing ovations from
his audience upon entering and
leaving the University gymnasi-­wn.
Gregory
Psychologists Offer
Diversified Services
No....mber 12, 1969
In two rather obscure rooms
on the ground floor of Gonzaga
Hall (G-2, and G-l1) Is housed
the Office of Psychological Ser·
vi~. This office, at Its prime
effectuality this year, has a
proud history of service to Fair­field
students. It is sta1fed. at
the present by two full·tIme
psycholocists, Dr. Carol Lucas,
and Dr. James Phillips. In a
recent interview, they ouUined
the purpose of their olfice, pre­senting
a somewhat different
image of psychological services
than the average student might
expect.
cultural preparation and ftuency
in Spanish the graduates as
Peace Corps Volunteers will be
off on their Latin American as­signment.
As members of the
statl"s of teacher training insti­tutions
and/or consultants to
secondary teachers of mathe­matics
or science, they are 1m.
portant participants in the edu_
cational development efforts of
their host countries. During
their two year sojourn they
have~the opportunity to earn up
to twelve semester hours itrad­uate
credit.
Peace Corps and college otri­cials
pointed out the several
features which make this joint
program unique including: aca­demic
credit for Peace Corps
training, two fully subsidized
summer sessions totaling thirty
semester credit hours, in-depth
Peace Corps training synchron.
ized with the liberal arts and
specialized professional prepara·
tlon, Individualized program­ming,
opportunity for double
majors and supervised overseas
graduate work.
"This integrated program Is
based on our two fold <Xmvic­lion
that (1) to combine the col.
lege and Peace Cor'pS experi_
ences Is to make both more
relevant and meaningful and
the personal product more val­uable
(2) to provide much-need­ed
skilled specialist,; - mathe­matics
and science teachers _
as Peace Corps Volunteers in
Latin America Is to make a
significant contribution to all
concerned," said President AI_
.bert Warren Brown, of the
State University College at
Brockport in announcing the ex­tension
of this unique partner­ship.
(CoDtbuaed from. Pare 1)
don't hate White folks, they
just hate their racist Institu­tions."
This explaination fell
short of Its goal, however, since
Mr. Gregory did not explain
how the "Blacks" could hate
the "Racist institutions" with­out
hating the "Whites" who
are responsible for them.
Dick Gregory stressed equal
and humane rights for all mln­ority
groups not only the
"Blacks" in America. He crW­cised.
the exploitation of the A-and
express
P. Weieker,
lnmI tile (th
DJatrict Will
Oak Room at
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THE STAG
News
Rep. Lowell
,,"-0
CoagreuJoaaI
apeak In tbe
7:30 Friday,
The officials of the Peace
Corps and the State University
of New York College at Brock­port
announced. completion of
arrangements for continuing
and extending the unique Peace
Corps/College Degree Program
to admit a fourth group of can_
didates in June, 1970. The
members of the first contingent
completing the fifteen - month
program whieh combines the
upper division undergraduate
education with Peace Corps
preparation are now serving on
bi-national educational develop­ment
teams in the Dominican
Republic; the second group is
now serving in similar assign­ments
in Peru and Honduras;
the third group is now In the
academic year phase of this
joint project and is slated for
overseas assignment In Latin
America In August, 1970.
The candidates will be select.
ed from the ranks of students
in good standing at an accredit·
ed college who are completing
their sophomore or junior year
by June, 1970. Those selected
will be able to eam an A.B. or
B.S. degree and. be elilible fO!'
a Peace Corps assignment in
one academic year flanked by
two sununers of fully subsidized.
and Integrated academic courses
and Peace Corps training. They
are expected to major In mathe­matics
or the sciences; those
who have completed their junior
year prior to entrance Into the
program have the opportunity
for a double-major.
At the end of the seeond sum­mer
armed. with the degree, a
teaching license, in-depth cross
urged to attend
their views.
LIBRARY HOURS DURING
THANKSGIVING RECESS
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 25
8:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26
8:30 am. - 4:30 p.m.
TIiURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27
Clooed
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.rn.
SAnJRDAY, NOVEMBER 29
Clooed
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30
6:00 p.m. - U:OO p.m.
Campus
main reward. Applicants must
maintain a 2.2 Q. P. and have
no more than one D each se_
mester. They are required to
fill out a general information
card and write an essay on
"Life at Fairfleld in Relation to
the cardinal Key Society." This
is followed. by a spectus period
during which each candidate
takes part in the Key's activi­ties
and participates in a ques­tion
and answer session with
members of the organization.
This period lasts two and one­half
months with the final ini­tiation
ceremony scheduled for
April.
The reasoning behind this
selective process is not snob_
bishness but rather an effective
method which enables the Key
to choose the "right kind of In­dividual"
Mr. Bartolotta added,
''The Key's size could easily
jwnp to over 100 members, but
only thirty or forty would par.
ticlpate. That's why we screen
out those who have little in_
terest and limit ourselves to
sixteen members from each
dass.
Empbulze service
The .Key has been changing
a non-eommlttal appearance by
'taking political 'stands "when
the issues were significant."
They still emphasize service
over agitation and are highly
respected in their views by both
the Student Government and the
Administration.
The cardinal Key Society In­vites
anyone from the faculty,
student body or administration
to contact them if help of any
kind is needed. They can be
reached at 259-0114 or through
P. O. Box C.
VIETNAM roRUM
A Public Forum will be held
on the topic: "Vietnam; the
problem of securing an honor­able
Peace."
This Vietnam Forum will be
held at Fairfleld University in
the Oak Room of the CampuS
Center on November 12 at
8:00 pm.
The University stresses that
this will be an "open forum,"
designed to encourage a c0n­tinuing
public discussion of the
grave problem of securing a
peaceful solution to the war in
Vietnam. Citizens in the com­munities
of FaIrfield County are
parietals at its legislative meet­ings.
While no conduslons were
reached at the Academy: _ all
present felt that a continuinlt
analysis of the limits of life at
Fairfield was necessary, and
that all groups would have to
face up to problems honestly If
any improvements were to be
made.
The next meeting of the Presi­dents'
Academy will be held on
November 17. The topic for dis­cussion
will be eurriculum
changes.
Group
Community
'Key' Student
Services
By BEN CAPELLE
''The Cardinal Key Society is
ava:lable to anyone in the FaIr_
field community who can use
us," emphasized Manny BaTte>­lotta,
president of the organiza·
tion which fonns the service
backbone of Fairfleld Univet·
sily.
EdideDt; COIIItrtbutioas
Already this year the con­tributions
of CKS are evident.
They have printed. and distrib.
uted red desk blotters to each
student, have served. as ushers
at Bellannine series lectures
and have given tour of the cam­pus
to prospective freshmen.
Presently, they are assembling
a student directory which Is ex·
pected to be completed within
three weeks. They plan to flll
further ushering needs at vari_
ous lectures and h.»ne basket­ball
games and will Mganize
several culture trips which will
be open to all students. In addi­tion
they will participate in
several functions with the local
Red Cross chapter and will su­pervise
senior week activities.
Social Side
This service group also has
a social side which shows itself
at their mixers, parties and an­nual
banquet.
Presently "the Key" has forty
members - 11 sophomor6, 14
juniors and 15 seniors - who
meet regularly in the Campus
Center. The officers are Mr.
Bartolotta, president; John Fal­lon,
viee-.presldent; Joe Krajd,
secretary; and Tom Dybick,
treasurer.
Those who wish to apply for
membership undergo a long but
practical initiation period. CKS
is interested. In service to others
with self_gratification being the
(0.'. • tr- Pap 1)
sentative who saki: "we can
answer all the questions you
want. but until you ask your­self
what you are going to do
yourself, it won't mean any­thing."
Or the summary that
said: "the black man wants to
feel as comfortable as the
white man on this campus.
That Is what he means by in­tegratlon."
The Freshman observation of
life on campus centered around
the priority of interests estabo
llshed by the upperclassmen.
They did not feel that the em­phasis
on social life, especially
beer and parietals, was ap­propriate
for student council in
the light of other needs of the
students, especially academic.
The freshmen representatives
found the teachers adequate
and interested individually in
their students. They felt, how·
ever, that courses should be
more flexible, with more semin­ars
and fl.eld work. They felt
that a strong social conscious­ness
was not in evidence among
the students and that there
should be much greater involve·
ment in social service programs.
'Illey also felt that the student
government should spend more
time debatinit curriculum than
Xerox President's Address
City School Administrator
Addresses Local Meeting
Chance Seen Of
'Conveyor' Draft
There will be a meet­ing
of the news staff of
The Staa today at S :30
p.m. in the Stal office,
those with birthdays early in
the year (persons born in ()(>
tober, November or December
might never be subject to the
draft), the conveyor belt would
be less equitable than a lottery,
under which one of the year's
365 days woUld be picked at
random ~ all 19-year-olds
born m that date made draft­able.
v_wv
Both approaches to procuring
military manpower would re­duce
a person's draft vulneJ'o
ability from seven years to one,
making him draft tree at age
20, both would deter college
students, placing them in the
pool of draftables for one year
after graduation, and both
would deter graduate students
until they have completed the
(u11 academic year.
who Is assistant dean of the
Georgetown Univenlty Law
center, served as muter of
ceremonies.
Musical entertainment was
provided by the Bensonians and
Campus Minstrels of the uni­versity'.
Glee Cub.
the night nurse know what is
wrong and who is sick. There
have ~nsome questions as to
why such a measure Is neces-
'''''.
Mary Kirk, R.N., the resi­dent
nurse at Fairfield, stated
that the reason for this change
Is the many minor calls made
late at night. There Is only one
none on duty at night, and
there ls no way for her to be
sure that someone Is really sIck
without this telephone confir­mation.
Understandably, the
nurses do not feel like opening
their doors to anyone.
Miss Kirk also said that the
nurses are satisfied with the
security police on campus. The
Infirmary is checked on once an
hour by a watchman, and she
feels that this Is adequate. Also,
she said that there are no nar­cotics
in the infirmary, and,
therefore she Is not afraid of
a robbery.
It Is the opinion of Miss Kirk
that the In.flrmary has provided
more than adequate care to the
student body in the past, and
that the Infirmary statr is try­ing
to maintain thIs standard.
The statr, consisting of five
nurses, a resident nurse, and a
doctor, has already treated ap­proximately
1,700 students this
year. Many medications, such
as antibiotics, are dispensed
without cost. '!be infirmary ran
a bill for these medications of
over $12,000 last lear. She be­lieves
that this change in office
procedure -is a sound one, and
that it should not hinder the
services of the infirmary.
WASHINGTON - (CPS) ­M
proepecw 4Im1D1ab tbat
both legb1&Uve branch.. wW
.... the admlnlatWloa'. lottery
draft propoeal by the end of this
year, CblLDCN IDcreM6 that
PreaideDt Hbon wlll lloaet by
exeeutlve order .. "CODveyor
belt" S)-.tem 01 Iaductloa. ID
-.rly 19'70.
Prime A.p Group
Under this fonn of conscrip­tion,
19-year.olds would be
made the "prime age group"
for draft calls with their Habil·
Ity to the draft limited to one
year. Age would determine the
order of Induction. A person
whose 19th birthday fell during
January would be called up be­fore
a person with a 'February
birthday.
Since it discriminates against
By JAMES HURLEr
Recently a procedural change
went into effect at the school
inftrmary. After eleven o'clock.
a student who wants medical
care must have his resident ad­visor
call the lnftrmary and let
Infirmary Installs
Procedural Changes
mission of women to the Col­lege
of Arts and ScIences in
Septemeb;' o( 1970, a new de­gree
nursing program, the com­pletion
of the Bannow Science
Center by January o( 1971, the
successful resolution of the ma­jor
law suit involving federal
construction grants, expansion
o( urban affairs programs pos­sibly
into a graduate school and
extending university govem­ance
to all sepnents of the
community.
In the tl.nal address of the
evening, Fr. McInnes stressed
the new mood on college cam­puses
today.
"Students not only are look·
Ing out in activism but are tum­ing
In: therefore, cannot be
judged by style alone. They act
in groups but live as individu·
als; therefore, cannot be judged
by collective nonns.
New leadership must be
based on this confidence 01
adults rather than on fear. We
must be able to support and
cn::O:lrage individuals. We must
be able to accept leadership
that looks at the consequences
of actions rather than ce0801"'­ship
of deeds. We must be
willing to share rather than to
dictate. When this type of
leadership occurs, we wilt have
real progress." The President
concluded.
The Invocation wu given by
Rabbi Jonah GewIrtz, universi­ty's
Jewish chapialn from Beth
Israel and SharIs Israel Syna­gogues
in Waterbury. The Rev.
James H. ~ S.J., aca­demic
vice-president, pronounc­ed
th ebenedictlon.
David J. McCarthy, Jr., a
Fairfield Univendty alumnus
THE STAG
many American Indians stili
live today. He said that this
district's six elementary schools
have all been condemned by th~
Health Department, whlle all
still remain open and over<
crowded. "One of them is nine­ty-
two years old. We've been
trying to i'ive it to the city as
a monument."
Mr. McCoy's description of an
art class In whtch the teach·
er's principle activity was that
o( reading the New York Times,
drew Incredulous laughter from
his audience. "The kids would
drop little bags of paint out the
window, I think to hear the
beau~y of the sound; then came
patio colorlni'. with all kinds of
paint being thrown out of the
window. And by the time these
kids got to design! ..."
The Supervisor's closing re­marks
consisted of another aJ1.
cry attack on the white estab­lishment
and Its token e8'orts
toward the alleviation of the
educational problems o( New
York City blacks. Asked about
decentralization, he described
it as a fraud which has only in­creased
the powers of the
School Superintendent, and as
another word to be looked up In
the dictionary. He repeated his
fears of bloodshed: "U January
1st gets by without blood in
the streets, itll be the most
miraculous thing In 1969."
local level, McColough said.
Such action cannot be taken
successfUlly by centralized top
management "too removed to
react and too isolated to under·
stand."
The Xerox executive said cor·
porations have grapp!ed on a
large scale wi th social and ec0n­omic
problems in the 1960's.
Some issues pinpointed were ur·
ban education, environmental
pollution and widening of the
"gap" that bars minorities from
participating in the American
mainstream.
Medal of Merit
In presenting the Medal of
Merit to the Larsons, Fr. Mc­Innes
cited the continuing ad·
vice, guldanCi!, encouragement
and material ald provided· by
these two tine people as Fair­tield
has moved ahead with
its development.
'~ Larsons have enabled
this University to take a giant
step forward through their
capital gift in honor of Mrs.
Larson's father, Rudolph F.
Bannow, to support the constnl­tion
of our new science build­ing,"
the Jesuit noted.
Put and Futon
In discussing the past year,
former State Senator Pope
pointed to the openings of the
library, utility facility and
computer center operation, a
five year degree program for
the culturally disadvantaged,
the initial graduates of the unL
venlity'. head start type pro..
gram, and the flnlt major Capi­tal
CamP&iln as some of the
signiftcant accomplishments at
the university.
Among the programs current­ly
belnj: developed are the ad-
Mr. McCoy described the
conditions at Franklin K. Lane
High School, which has suf­fered
repeated incidents o( vio­lence
within the past months.
"It is located in a white com·
munity, which means that the
black students must be bussed.
It Is 150% utilized, having al­most
triple sessions . . . Last
year 700 black students were
kept out (or three months. We
could a:et no definite answer
from the establishment as to
just what the situation was.
They would make statements
like 'you are not the students'
parents, so why are you con­Ci!
rned?; 'These are conJldential
matters, you cannot Interfere.'
This thing was not rectifted.
until one of the so-called 'Uncle
Toms' got Into court; . . . we
tina1ly got the answer 'We made
a mistake, it will be rectified.'
... I predict that there wlll be
blood in the streets of Brook­lyn
before the end of the year."
He cited a three un raid by
'New York's finest.' on a
Brooklyn College dormitory'
producing the arrest of twenty­three
black and Puerto students
who were then held at "twenty­tive
thousand dollars each." He
did not mention the charges, If
any. He s~e of Harlem and
Bedford Stuvysant as two "re­servations"
confining their in­habitants
in the same way that
es."
(CoatlDued from Page 1)
should tiow from the young ex­e<:
utlves on the scene.
''rhere's absolutely no doubt
in my mind that the etre<:tlve­ness
- both economic and s0­cial
- of corporations in the
1970's will be directly related
to how much freedom of decls·
ion they allow their own people
at the point which most inti­mately
feels the impact of that
decision"
McCoIough noted that busl·
ness must attract and keep
young men and women because
of the ''urgent des~ for change
and for responsibility that
much of today's youth possess-
He said that a sometimes in­teresting
job and various cor·
porate benefits alone are insuf­ficient
Inducements because
they already are assured. Lack
of authority to act on special
issues that concern a corpora­tion
and its young employees
jointly lead to a "borini' pros­pect"
for young executives, ac­cording
to McColough.
"The only alternative open to
the corporation," the Xerox
chief declared., "is to heavily
decentralize the decision·mak­ing
process and to cluster
around it young people who are
wlWna: to seize the opportunl·
ties It presents, both for ful­fillment
and, of course, for fail­ure
as well These are the pe0­ple
who can leed corporations
toward new forms of social im­pact
while simultaneously un­covering
new forms and direc­tions
for enterprise itself."
Corporate action Is most valu­able:
and effective at the neigh­borbood,
comunlty or other
Novomw 12, 1969
By JOHN a. LEDDY
Rhody A. McCoy, Supervisor
of the Ocean-Hill Brov.rnsville
Experimental School district,
and fiery spokesman for reform
of the New York Oty School
')'Item addressed a sparse and
predominantly black crowd at
Brld&eport's lQein Memorial
Auditorium last Friday. He in­cluded
in his hour long speech
an attack upon the '"white ell­tabli&
hmeDt" whose indiffer·
enoe, opposition, and corruption
are the alleged root cause of
the decay of the New York City
School system.
Mr. McCoy's address was the
highlight of the "Annual A­ci'Yeyement
Week" of the Rho
UpsUon O1apter of Omega Psi
Phi, an international fraternity.
Previous to the introduction of
the guest speaker. the Citizen
of the Year award was present­ed
to Clarence T. Williams,
Deputy Director ot the Neigh­borhood
Services Department of
Bridgeport. and the fraternity's
Omega Man of the Year' was
presented to William Jackson,
a CYO director and founder of
the black Community's news­paper
·'Harambee."
The controversial Ocean-Hill
administrator then stepped to
the podium, dressed in a aharp­Iy
cut blue suit and putring in­termittently
on his pipe. He
immediately proceeded to des­cribe
the system he worked for
throughout New York Oty's ed­ucational
crises in the 1968-69
school year, sprlnkllne: his ad­dress
with many accounts of
hardship swrered by the par­ents
and childr~:'l of O<:f'an-Hill
Mr. McCoy described his dis­trict
u rife with inetricicncy,
corruption, and exploitation,
perpetrated by "the eltabllsh­men"
and at the cost of "a de·
cent education for black child·
ren." '''nlere is not an institu­tion
.•. that has not put its
ftD&ers into OceaJ1.HilI so as to
keep those people so divided as
to be unable to do anything."
yet the experimental syatem be
described as "a symbol of hope
to many people" because of Its
aDil'Y insistence on cormnunity
control. a movement born of the
teacher's strike two summers
qo and persisting today.
Turning to the topic of inte­&:
ration, Mr. McCoy dismissed
the concept as an "illusion",
which "the Supreme Court can
not even enforce." Using a
method he was to repeat many
times throughout his address
and in the question and an­swer
period that followed. he in­vited
his audience to look up
the word in the dictionary to
see it tl::e definition had any
relevance to actual oonditions.
''1bere's only two kinds of 10­tearatlon,
two ways to approach
this; either the whites are iCing
to move into the black neii'hbor­hoods,
in which case they
should have their psychIatric
records examined because they
are crazy, or the blacks are
goin&: to move into the white
neighborhoods, which the white
establishment just isn't loing
to let happen." He described
the conseq~t result on edu­catkm
as COllStItutin&' the de
facto system which prevails in
rna.ny parts of the north. in­clud1n&
New York City.
LEITERS TO THE EDITOR
'age Four
i
Logic Power
To the Editor:
I would like to conunent on John G.
Leddy's column. "Toward an Academic
Conununlty," in the November 5 issue of
the St.ae-
In the article Mr. Leddy refers to the
Oak Room lectures and I appreciate
that Mr. Leddy recognizes that the
Philosophy Department runs a series of
lectures yearly. But if. as Mr. Leddy
says. "An average of ten or lifteen stu·
dents" attend the lectures then his com­plaint
is directed at the students and
not the lecture program. It is refresh­ing
to hear a student speak about the
failures of students.
At one point Mr. Leddy writes:
"Twelve english credits, twelve lan­guage
credits, twelve social studies
credits ... And then of course. there's
our litUe Fairfield special, fifteen credits
in philosophy and twelve in theology."
Had Mr. Leddy studied logic and ra­tional
thinking he would have noticed
that twelve credits in theology is not
special for one gets twelve credits in
english, twelve language and twelve
social studies credits. So I presume
thai it is not the twelve credits that
makes Iheolcgy spt'cial. is it th~lI th:.-ol­ogy
that is special? Perhaps. But theol­ogy
is a legitimate discipline so it ob·
viously should have a role in a university
and especially in a university founded
by the Jesuits. It wculd seem then. that
what is really special is the fifteen
credits in philosophy. Mr. Leddy should
have pointed this out and would have.
had he used good logic..
Toward the end of _the article Mr.
Leddy has the applicant goirg '(" r.~an­hattanville
for the reu:>ns dted. Un­fOltunately,
Mr. Leddy has the applicant
going to the wrong coUege. At the A­merican
Philosophical Association Meet.
ing in Washington D.C.' last year, Mo­ther
Clark of the PhilOSOPhy Department
at Manhattanville expressed admiration
for what Fairtleld is doing in philosophy
with such a strong departmcnt.
For Ito IItron,,"'r lIIleral arts unlverslt)·
Joseph G, Graul
• • •
Clarifications
To the Editor:
I would like to make some c1arilica­tions
on last .....eek·s editorial concerning
the Legislature;
1. In the editorial you say that in the
pal;t the Legislature has neither been
strong or kno.....ledgeable. You then say
that this problem can easily be rectilied.
You say that the following should be
implemented "immediately"; "new legis­lative
members especially the Freshmen
should have ample time prior to their
first official meeling to stUdy Parliamen.
tary Procedure instead of being handed
a book of Robert's Rules minutes before
they entered the meeting," In the first
place, there was a full week between the
electiOn and the first otricial meeting.
secondly it is the DUTY of the Legisla­tors
to kno..... standard parliamentary
procedure before they run for office _
it is a qualilkatlon of office. Thirdly it
is not the duty of the Executive Branch
to insure that the Legislators know Par.
liamentary Procedure. In fact any such
aid to the Legislature could be inter­preted
as being unconstitutional because
of the Implied separation of powers. Be­cause
ot extenuating circumstances (the
high percentage of new members) the
rules were distributed by the ExCi:Utive
Branch. This Is a first for the Stud'!nt
Government. and it occurred not "im­mediately"
but a week before the edi­torial.
2. You then go on to say that: ·'thls
(the distribution of Robert's RUles) can
THE STAG
be easily affected as Mr. Mariani p:lS.
sesses copies penned himself on the es­sentials
of Parliamentary rule. To dis·
tribute the copies would have required
little effort,"
Research would have shown the fol·
lowing;
There were twenty (20) copies of Ro~
crt's Rules Revised in the Government
Office Storage Closet (not in my pos­session).
There are tiftY-three (53) Legis.
lators. We therefore had to make new
stencils so that all the Legislators could
have copies. The b:xlklet is eighleen
pages long. It was given top priority a
week In advance, and it took the three
office workers three hours a day for live
days to get the copies out even for the
meeting. It required MUCH effort
3. You finally say lhat the new Legis­lators
arc at the mercy of the experi·
enced ones for the election of new of·
ficers. This is true only if the new Legis­lators
have done no research on the
people who are in the Legislature and
who might become olTlcer material.
As an added safeguard there is a pf'1;
vision in the Constitution which enables
two-thirds of th:! members of lh:: Legis­lature
to remove their otrlcers for any
reason including unfamiliarity during
elections.
I would be very hesitant to write off
this Legislature on the basis of its t1~st
meeting. The first meeting of all organ­izations
arc usually confused. On the
basis of the second meeting, the mobil­Ization
of the Residence Hall Coundls
(the on-campus Legislators) and the ac­tivity
of the Stending Committees; I
would say that there is a lot to look
forward to in the seventh session of the
Student Legislature. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Albert J. Mariani, President
• • •
Reproach
To the Editor:
On Saturday night, November 8. I and
another board member of The StaC at·
tempted to interview Dick Gregory after
his speech. We were told by Mr. Charles
Coviello that Mr. Gregory could not be
interviewed on the gym floor because he
had to leave immediately for New Dorm
Lounge to address the black students
- alone. My collr-ague and I prepared a
fe..... simple questions and waited out·
side the lounge for over an hour. When
the meeting broke up, we .....ere intro­duced
to Mr. Gregory by his host in
Westport who had waited outside with
us. Mr. Gregory brusquely rejected us,
saying he had been open to interviews
on the gym floor right after his speech,
that he had not been approached, and
that he YIOUld not let himself be inter­viewed
so late. He immediately Ie:"t.
Later I learned from a black stu,lent
inside that Mr. Coviello and several
other whites had been in attendanC'f!
and that my colleague and I probably
could han' been admitted .....ithout
problems.
When a national personality such ..
Mr. Gregory visits a campus and is not
formally Interviewed by the newspaper,
somethIng is drastically wrong. Besides
my Implicit criticism of certain people
mentloried above, I must also reproach
my Stac' board coUegues for not in­fonning
my colleague and I who. if
an)'OJ1C, was covering Mr. Grq:ory or
reserving interview time in advance.
This necessitated my colleague and I
acting in an unprepared and spur-of-the­moment
fashion when we arrived at
the speech and dis~red this atate
of affairs.
KeYIa lleAulUI'llI
One More Time
To the Editor;
From a few of the many commmts I
received about my letter to the tditor
last issue, it seems there were rome
people distressed over my use of a
certain four letter word. The word. by
the way to all you distressed people, v'as
intended in its literal meaning, and ..... sa
not used in a VUlgar sense. I found it
interesting to note that those who ol~
jected to its usc, not only did not Uk~
"Easy Rider", nor did they know the
meaning of the infamous four letter
word which is so prevalent a part 01.
their vocabulary. (Its meaning, by the
by, is taken from the first fuur letters of
what It stands for - For Usurping
Cardinal Knowledge), Thus, maybe I
should have stood "Whores aren't meant
for usurping cardinal knowledge". in­stead
of being short. concise. and to the
point - the essence of good journalism.
To all distressed people - take a
compoz.
Once Uterally yours,
DOli
• • •
AProtest
Letter to the Editor:
I am a member of the class Of 1970,
and in my four years at this university
I have developed an unfortunate syn­drome,
one that has infected me with a
sense of pride in this institution. That
pride encompasses the fine faculty of the
English Department which is affording
me an eXC1!llent education, the in­numerable.
oo-opcratlve participants in
this school's athletic programs, who
have facilitated me in sports reporting
for this journal, and the enriching per­sonal
relationships that I have been able
to consummate. as well as many other
Intangible benefits that ha\"e been pivotal
in my maturation. Perhaps for these
reasons I have been delinquent in volc·
Ing my objections to the increasingly
irresponsible tenor of this newspaper.
For that delinquency I castigate myself,
but for the laxities .....hich compel me to
speak now I castigate this newspaper
and especially Its editors.
I will concede to you, gentlemen. the
fact that there are problems in this
community. Howe\'er, I think that you
have more oClen than not created issues
that didn't exist consequently wallow­ing
In a sensationalist "yellow journa­lism."
Superseding this issue is one that
derives from it and Is inherently hyPo-­critical
Amidst your destructive (rather
than constructive) criticism, one faDs
to note even the most remote elTort at
Introepection. For not even the most
perfunctory seU-analysls would have
perpetuated the now common place In·
clusion of vulgarities In your pages. Be­fore
)'(ll.l tell me that I am prudish or
that I am betraying a sheltered. ~
chial background let me state that my
objection is not particularly concerned
with the relat!\'e merit of such language.
but l'"dther with the lack of journalistic
taste that it lmpUee. If you ~ ewell
a single reader .....ith this degenerate' in­clination,
then you are out of line.
gentlemen.
More futile than this blatant faux pas
is the justification for It. One of your
editors told me that this was eonunon
practice at all universities. Assuming
this to be true (and I find such an ...
sumption to be very presumptuous). I
reply, "So what?" Many universities
have higher suicide rates than this one.
but that doesn't make me want to tie
a slab to my ankle and slip Into the
pond. I was also further enlightened
when I .....as told that the "Village Voice"
indulges itself in a similar manner. Why
not tell me to rob banks because Bonny
and Clyde did!
For those of you who are sc:m.ehow
unacquainted with the specific Jncldences
with which I take Issue, I would ask
November I
you to refer to Mr. John Leddy's erud­ite
column "On Campus" appearing in
the October 1. 1969 edition of the Stag.
Your appetite thus whetted, I would.
ask you to refer to Joseph Valerio's
''The Flame" and Douglas Menagh's re­velatory
letter to the Editor, "Last Time
'Easy Rider'," in the November 5, 1969
issue. If the editors feel lhat good
journalism dictates the unmitigated re-­presentation
of all letters received, then
they are laboring under a serious mis­conception,
which would suggest that a
faculty moderator be sought to avoid
. futur<! problems that the indiscreet ex-ploitation
of autonomy has perpetrated.
I had considered withholding my ar­ticle
as a sign of protest. However such
negative means remain as a last resort.
There are too many deserving sports
personalities on campus to deny them
the weekly exposure that I try to give
them. I can only hope that this letter is
a positive means of expurgating this
newspaper. If it proves inefrectual I
would ask these of you on the staff who
share my views to withhold your articles
from subsequent Issues, as I wiJl do.
This wculd be regrettable. albeit ~
sary. Perhaps this very issue of the
Stag makes a farce of this letter. I
would rather hope that this issue makes
this letter unnecessary, for that would
imply a reversion to good journalistic
taste.
When I joined this publication I was
informed thal it aspires to emulate
the New York Times. Gentlemen, if you
can show me one example In the New
York Times of the vulgarities found re­cently
in the Stag I wiII gladly buy you
a year's subscription to that journal or
if you chOOse, to the "Village Voice."
BUI Warnke.n "70
• • •
SPORTS EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr, Val_
erio's oohunn, "The Flame." of Nov. 5.
1969, merely included a state.ment (rom
ThomlUl Krenn, Pre8ldent of the Fair·
field University Ru~by Football Club.
• • •
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Obscenity" ought
Justly to be defined as "the pretense that
cerlaln .....orda may not exist-" And whUe
UTtte Stac" meekly d1sdalms credit for
IO\'entlng the fiendish expleth'es Mr.
\\'arnken recoils (rom, we uphold print.
Ing them. If they are le.....d. 110 Is the
htuIl3.D condiUon. To report it, anaJ)'u
It. and Impro\<e It, a newspaper must be
honest about all of It. U It prelMlme:s
IbJ readers are lit to read aome wo""
but not others, It .la a. dlshonMt sham
playing with· fire. It is not reporting
reallty, It Is defending an established
vlewpoini·ln this case org.nl~ed reo
IIgion, It Is not mformlng the masses. It
Is programmlng them. U one's moral
Abel' is so weak that It collapses upon
reading co·loquJa.llsrns (or basic human
fuctlOll.S. then that person's problema CO
much deeper than the wonJl; tilts paper
prints. So clearly. ao moral or jouniaU.
tie pod 18 derived by baan" f,...
print words which u.I!lt Ia mea's ~
and mouths, now and ever.
As for a Mode....tor. we already have
OD6 - the U,S. Supreme Court, which
has laid down explleit guidelines on libel
(in N.Y. Times v. Sullivan, 1964) and
obscenity (In Ralph O~bul'4"'s 1968 eon.·
vlctlon) which naturally preveat &by
adventures In renuilHl poor tute on 01U'
p....
As for ''The New York 'I'lme8." itll
slogan, "AU the Newa that's FIt to
Print" now II&IIIctloq doctorlac' adv...
Uaementll for "'Sister Georce" .,.,.. '"'I'be
L1berttne" &Del tamper:laC with ~otc.
of Clete Boyer beIq' ka.ed at bat ~
a Ilrl Ia a m1DIskII1. A pelWoat l)j' reeeId
luues of "'TIme" and "Newsweek" will
put '''I'he Tlme:s", "The Star". and "The
Voice" 111 a calmer perspective.
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school's prime source of income and outlay respectively ought to be
reason enough. At stake is the right to know, and where institutions
are involved. this is surely one right that could be cHlled indispe~
able.
THE STAG
Mr. Arno Zeyn was until recently Director of Financial Opera..
tions here at Fairfield. He has suddenly left. Was he fired '1
The University has saved more than $30,000 by curtailing maid
service. What was the money diverted to?
Since the money was diverted from student welfare, why hasn't
it gone towards parking lot lights or pavement behind the gym?
Mr. Thomas Donohue recently released figures on the progress
of the Capital Campaign. Were they a meTe rephrasing of st:1Ie fig­ures
that indicate no real progress over the last six months?
What explains the mercurial rise of Mr. John Hickson in the ad­ministrative
and financial realm of this university?
Last December, it was announced that faculty salaries were the
main reason for an increase in tuition. Do faculty pay raises take up
only 20% of the increase? What did the money really go to?
Has the Financial Aid Office misplaced $150,000?
Have 80 students been forced to leave school because of un­reasonable
cutbacks in financial aid?
Was 82% of all financial aid given to the incoming freshmen?
Or was it $115,000 out of $190,OOO?
Is the New Dorm - nameless for four years - going to remain
so because no donor can be found for whom to name it?
At Fairfield, a famous game is played by all. It is called "the
rumor game." The Questions asked above have been passing through
the rumor mill for up to several months in some cases. Some have a
ring of truth to them, and it certainly seems that Fairfield is heading
toward some sort of financial scandal.
The one viable solution to this potentially ugly situation is the
perusal of the Administration's financial ledgers by proper repre­sentatives
of students and faculty. It is not unheard of in universities,
and we urge adoption of resolutions to this effect at the next meeting
of the Student Legislature and general faculty.
The alternative is recrimination and scandal. If the conjecture is
baseless, it can be refuted openly and through proper channels. If it
is not baseless, it should not remain a secret. At stake is more than
the shaky financial status of one little, beleaguered university, al.
though the fact that student tuition and faculty salaries are this
The Right To Know
~. 1969
Nixon Plays For Time
For a speech that called for dramatic peace overtures, President
Nixon's aimless plea for time that has already run out coupled with
oveTt moves back to "the old Nixon" has left us disappointed and
unimpressed.
Mr. Nixon could have proposed a cease-fire. Given Mr. Nixon's
own definition of the war as a face-saving rearguard action, a halt to
casualties would be an affirmation of humanitarianism over the
macabre. Nor does the U.S. stand to lose much diplomatically or even
militarity by a mere proposal.
Mr. Nixon could have set a public timetable for U.S. withdrawal.
There is always the chance Hanoi would merely wait for us to leave,
but the status QUO is such that Hanoi can do so anyway: they have
fought us to a stalemate, brought our weary people almost to the
breaking point of immediate withdrawal, and placed Mr. Nixon in the
position of having to withdraw by November, 1972 or lose his job.
Certainly when Mr. Nixon publicly commits us to withdrawal and
publicly tells Hanoi a reduction of violence will hasten that with­drawal,
he is already encouraging them to wait and be silent. A time­table,
if publicly stated, would offer us these latent advantages. First,
it would fulfill the Communist condition that we leave before negotia­tions
become substantive while preserving our national honor. Sec­ond,
we have a precedent that shows it will work - President John·
son reduced the bombing unilaterally, but only to the 20th parallel,
and Hanoi came to the peace talks despite their demand that all
bombing cease. Third, Hanoi could refuse to talk only at the loss of
world favor - which has sustained them thus far. America's allies,
and perhaps even the Soviet Union, would in all likelihood come to
our diplomatic rescue if Hanoi stalled. Fourth, it could speed a settle­ment,
because Saigon would have to broaden its base, come to terms,
or fight on alone - if it thought it could. Fifth, the U.S. would be as­sured
of its own "peace with honor" no matter what, and American
anguish would lessen as the fixed date drew near.
Most dangerous was his attempt to set Americans at each others
jugulars. His persistent warnings about our first wartime defeat are
illusory. The American people need to be told that Vietnam was a
mistake, not a defeat. \Ve won every battle and suffered no Dien·
bienphu. We did not win because to Americanize a guerrilla war on
the Asian mainland without popular backing is hopeless. And we have
tasted reversals before - in the War of 1812, Korea, in our 1919
campaign inside the Soviet Union rarely mentioned in the history
books. And World War I was a plastic victory. Perhaps Mr. Nixon
got to his point when he said "only Americans can do that {defeat
America)." Presumably, the Moratorium will be held responsible by
Mr. Nixon and Middle America as scapegoats should South Vietnam
go under.
Then there are the inflammatory steps Mr. Nixon and his MepJUs.
tophelian Attorney General, John Mitchell, are taking against the
November 15 March. No more than 50,000 may march; they must
stay on the Mall; all who come on Pennsylvania Avenue will be dealt
with by police and National Guard; permits are being denied; and
Congo Allard Lowenstein predicts Mr. Nixon will force violence as a
result. It is to be hoped that Mr. Nixon will see very soon that he is
not presiding over some docile banana republic held together with
tanks in the streets and cheap talk from the pulpits of power.
Page Six THE STAG November 12, 1969
ty Gritty Dirt Band, a tumultu­ous
town celebration and par­ticipation
in Lee Marvin's wed­ding
night, and a funny se­quence
in which Marvin intro­duces
a young Canner to the
evil pleasures of saloon and
prostitutes, Paint Your WaCOD
is generally bulky and slow un..
der Joshua Logan's direction.
The musical, however, especial­ly
for Lee Marvin fans, might
be worth a look when it arrives
later on the I~al circuits. How­ever,
at the' present reserve
prices. which average around
$3.50, Paint Your Wagon isn't
nearly worth the bread. The
musical goldmine of '69 It just
Im'L
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A CONYENlENT STOP
FOR YOU. FRIENDS
AND .ElATIVES
.... , ............. c......
tions of Miss Sontag's theory
that any attempt at interpreta­tion
of a work of art must in­variably
be thwarted by the
artist if his composition· is to
remain pure and natural. In­deed,
the participants in the
meQllge .. quatre assiduously
defy analysis but they continu­ally
suggest mood and sensa­tion.
Like the young couple, the
viewer is Inexplicably drawn
into the Insane lives of the
mysterious writer and his capri­cious
wife. The violence is al­ways
cerebral, the characters
are purposely arcane and the
story intentionally ambiguous,
but the movie, as a Whole,
manages to evoke a broad spec­trum
of visceral responses. The
older couple are perpetrators of
a strangely methodical insanity
that simultaneously isolates and
Crees its victims from the ener­vating
sterility of modern
Swedish society.
The very uncertainty that
gives the ftlm Its unique texture
15, conversely, its most glaring
weakness. If no conclusions are
meant to be drawn then one
might wonder why this vague
tale was recorded in the first
place. Ambience and ambival_
ence are inadequate substitutes
for analysis and understanding.
Nonetheless, it Is an auspicious
directorial debut for Miss Son­tag
whose future films will hope­fully
provide a context in which
"Duet for Cannibals" may be
clarified and judied.
BRIDGEPORT
MOTOR INN
THE BLUE BIRD SHOP
1lI0 POST ROAD
FAIRRElD, CONNECTICUT
Soci.1 S...io".ry .nc! En9rIYin9
a Th.nb9i"in9 C.,d,
batches the wild and greedy
gold plot which eventually sinks
the town The music, although
not as memorable as other Ler_
ner and Loewe scores such as
My Fair Lady and Camelot, Is
diminished by the lack of sing­ing
ability among the leads. Ex­cept
for an Interesting tune or
two ("I was Born Under a
Wandering Star") from Lee
Marvin and Harve Presnell's
strong delivery of 'They Call
the Wind Maria:' no one shows
the ability to really sock a num­ber
across.
Except for moments of
sparkle such as an early and
rousing appearance by the Nit-
The story 1.s set in Sweden
where a young radical couple
are slowly hurled into the cha­otic,
surreal world oC a mJddle­aged
leftist writer and his net1I'
otic, voluptuous wife. A series
at pSycho-sexual games ensue in
which the older couple gradu­ally
break down the younger'.
psyc.hic defenses and devour
their cool rationalism. The
games, themselves, are both al­luring
and appalling; there is
never really either a victor or
a victim since the contestants
seldom realize that they are
actualJy competing.
Both the characters and the
events seem to hang suspended
in a time-less, spare-less milieu.
They are never fixed or gr0und­ed
by any concrete reference
to social, political or temporal
reality. The two couples are,
perhaps, celluloid personiflca-
By KEVIN KELLEY
Dcliberately and eclectically,
Susan SonJag's first fUm, "Duet
for Cannibals" weaves a puzz­ling
pattern of psychological
violence and manipulation. Miss
Sontag, who is best known for
her critical essay, "Against In­terpretation",
has carefully tul­filled
all her own stringent pre­requisites
lor film-making. Al­though
the movie bears subtle
fleeting resemblances to the
styles of the two d1reetors she
most admires (Robert Bresson
and Jean-Luc Godard) "Duet
Cor Cannibals" is striklngly in­novative
In both form and con­tenL
The poignant matter-of­ractness
typical of Bresson and
the jump-cutting stacatto char­9.
cteristlc of Godard's nervous
camera-work are both evident
in the movie; but Miss Sontag's
work never degenerates into a
derivative and fashionable con­glomeration
of ideas and tech·
niques. In her essays on various
directors, the writer turned
movie-maker has argued con­vincingly
for a set of purely
filmic aesthetics that owes n0­thing
to either literature or
dramL In her first attempt,
Miss Sontag succeeds in using
cinema as cinema. Few, if any,
literary devices are present in
the film. The dialogue Is honed
to Its sharpest essentials - the
metaphors and similes are vis­ual,
not verbal. The style Is
closely correlated to the plot
in both Its open-endedness and
ambivalence.
Susan Sontag's
'Duet For Cannibals'
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Eastwood's life (this 15 a wife­sharing
partnership) try gal­lantly
to complement the
raunchy mining City of No
Name with the picture of a
game woman ready to adapt her
virtue to the ways of the wilder­ness.
However, her singing is
also forgettable and the best
that can be said about her act­ing
Is that she is a little better
than Clint Eastwood. Again,
Miss Seberg's best scenes are
when the unthwartable Lee
Marvin is drooling all over her.
In Pa1Dt Your Wacon'. favor
15 some of the best art and set­direction
and wide-screen moun..
tain photography ever put on
film. Technically, from the
booming stereophonic sound to
the historical accuraey of the
reconstructed mining sites to
the sweeping physical panora­mas,
Paint Your Wagon is un­matched.
The s a I 0 0 ns and
whore-houses are filled with a
good supporting cast headed by
Harve Presnell as "Rotten
Luck" Willy and R;ay Walston
as the Scott.ish prospector who
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Jean 5eberg as the woman
In both Lee Marvin and Clint
from Fl5tful of DoUan and The
Good, the Bad, and lhe Ucly,
is totally wooden and ineJl"ective
as Marvin's prospecting partner.
Eastwood's un1Iinching stilrness,
which passed. for glamorous
cool and toughness when he was
surrounded by the brilliant, un­ending
violence of the Italian­Western
epics is embarrassing­ly
unmasked In Paint Your
WagOD to expose a classic non­talent.
Indirect humor is added
to the picture as Clint East_
wood has to stand around try­Ing
to fake a real emotion here
and there, and bear up as he
watches Lee Marvin steal every
scene from him and practically
push him off the screen. His
musical nuinbers die due to his
less than mediocre voice and
the fact that, whether he is
singing on a stroll through the
woods ("I Still See Elisa") or
crooning in the saloon ('Gold
Fever"), the uninspired diree­tlon
of Joshua Logan only ac­centuates
his natural stiffness.
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By JOHN STONE
Paint Your Walon is the new motio 11 picture musical playing to reserve seat
audiences at the Loew's Slate 2 in New York and, locally, at the Cinema 1 in Or~
ange. Based on the Lerner and Loewe Bro.adw~y musical, this film attempts to re­create
the brawling atmosphere of the California Gold Rush of 1849.
Lee Marvin heads the large
cast as Ben Rumson, a wander­ing
prospector whose greed for
gold-dust is matched only by
his passion for whiskey y,'hich
he satiates with a steady al­coholic
diet. Unfortunately, in
trying to carT)' this spectacular
saga on his back, Marvin Is
haunted by the too-vivid mem­ory
of his academy award-win­ning
performance in Cat. Ballou
and the minimal support he gets
from Clint Eastwood and Jean
Seberg in the other major roles.
The mugging, steady boozing,
and verbal tirades of Lee Mar­vin
begin to lose their appeal
as the memory of his Oscar­winner
sweeps back and we re_
alize that' this all too-familiar
characterization cannot, alone,
support three hours of musical.
Marvin's singilli' voice, h0w­ever,
is appealing In an off-beat
sort of way, reminding one of
a musical version of the low,
gravelly tones of the late sen.
Everett Dirksen.
Clint Eastwood, once again
wearing the trade-mark of his
1Iat, wide_brimmed cowboy hat
November 12, 1969 THE STAG Page Seven
the period to close out the
Gael scoring.
Fairfield had many chances
to score in the final period but
they were thwarted 'by either
their own disorganization or the
outstanding. goaitending of
Iona's Jim Billon. Blllon con­tinually
came up with the big
save to stop another Stag at­tempt.
However, Guy LaFlam­me,
who with Marty Vierling
were the only outstanding Stag
skaters, scored an unassisted
goal to end the game.
Score Deceptive
The score didn't accurately
give evidence of who really
dominated play. The Slags had
many more shots on goal,
though most were from too far
out to do any damage. Iona,
unlike their hosts, were able to
capitalize on the oppositions
miscues. The Iikeliehood of
Fairfield's repeating as division­al
champs depends on their
ability to handle Iona In fu­ture
contests.
A highlight of last night's
game was that entire contest
was taped by WNBC-TV. The
tape will be condensed Into a
four minute segment to be
shown at a la~er date on the
Six O'Clock News. Friday, the
Stags will try to get into the
win column at home versus
Farmingdale. Last year Fair­field
won via a forfeit, so noth­ing
can be said of Farmlng~
dale's personnel. The Stags will
play In the nightcap of a hockey
twlnbill which starts at seven
o'clock at Wonderland of Ice
with UB taking on Stonybrook
in the opener. Like last week,
tor those stUdents without trans­portation,
the Student Govern­ment
will provide a bus.
MonahaD Scores
Paul Billon upped the count
to 4-1 when Rizzo capitalized
on another defensive lapse by
picking off a Stag pass right in
front of the net. He dropped it
back to O'Hare who put the
puck past a well screened Fair­field
goalie. Fairfield got a
marker back when ace Jimmy
Monahan scored with the help
of Guy LaFlamme, on what had
to be .one of the few good plays
the Stag~ executed all evening
Iona scored again when Pete
Costello blocked Don Boucher's
point shot and outracer the red
defensemen to the puck. The
Gael decked the goalkeeper out
and laced the disk into the va·
cated net. Saul Lukawish lit
the red light for Iona late in
error.
After nearly the whole first
period had elapsed, Iona notch­ed
their first goal with Bob
Rizzo slipping a loose puck into
the Fairfield net. The Gaels
scored again, this time only
14 seconds before the end of
the session. The Stags domino
ated positional play during the
period and the whole game, but
they lacked the organization to
finish off their plays and pick
up their own rebounds.
Marty Vierling put the Men
in Red on the board early In
the second stanza on an unas­sisted
goal. This was as close
as the Stags were to get. Iona
then got a two goal spread
when Bill Chatterton picked up
a lose puck which Steve Daur
badly misplayed. The Fairfield
goalie should have moved the
puck to the corner but he let
it sit in front of him and the
Iona star capitalized on his
at Fairfield was ranked sixth
in New England. They hope
they can equal or better this
mark in the coming year.
By STEVE DAUR
The Fairfield hockey team
learned what maybe a very val­uable
lesson Friday night. That
lesson Is that the defense of
their divisional crown will not
be as easy a task as they
thought. The Stags lost a tough
6-3 game to now division lead­ing
Iona In Fairfield'S home
opener before a good partisan
crowd at Wonderland of Ice.
This 1\lesday Coach McCarthy's
men journey to Long Island to
play Adelphi and then return
home this Friday to host Farm­Ingdale
with game time at
9:00 p.m.
Fink outon
college food.
Chuga Garners 1st lona Offense Powers Gaels
A!~C~LLESa~,~~we~~!!~ Over Fairfield Sextet 6-3
The Fairfield fencing team The Stags were represented
participated in its first meet of in the saber department by
the year last Sunday and the Derry Chuga whose 5-1 reco~d
foilers can be justifiably proud was good enough for first place
of their showing. The event, the honors, and by Greg Goosens,
A.F.L.A. Individual Foil com· a promising freshman In his
petition, was held at the New first meet who went Q.6 barely
Haven Y.M.C.A. and represent- losing two of the decisions.
ed were Yale University, Fair- Raleigh Places FUth
field and several independent Brandishing foils were Ladd
squads from New York and Raleigh, senior who placed fifth
New England. in the finals and Frank Carol-
The two types of swords used 10, also a senior who reached
in the tournament were foils the semi-finals with a 5-4 work.
and sabers. The difference be. sheet. They were supported by
tween the two lies mainly In John Lukach, '70, and Ken
what Is considered the valid at· Alexander, '72, who posted 2.3
taching part of the blade. With and (}4 rerords respectively.
the foil only the tip may be used The next meet for the Fenc­to
score a point and the thrusts ers is against Brandeis College
are generally head-on. In the on Saturday, November 22nd
saber division, the tip and edge at two p.m. In the Fairfield
of the blade are utilized and Gym.
the style of fencing contains Last year the Fencing team
American Red Cross
Cites Prisoner Abuse
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The American Red Cross
today urged a massive expres­sion
of indignation over the
treatment of U.S. prisoners held
by the North Vietnamese. It
called on the American people
to write direct to the president
of the Democratic Republic of
North Vietnam to express con­cern
about Hanoi's failure to
give captured U.s. military per­sonnel
the benefits of the Gene­va
Conventions.
According to latest Depart­ment
of Defense figures, 413
Americans are known to be
prisoners of war and 918 others
are missing and believed cap­tur<
d.
Publlc Outcry
Pointing out that the North
Vietnamese are signatory to
the Geneva Conventions, Red
Cross national headquarters
here said such a public outcry
might do much to ensure that
American prisoners wll' receive
the humane treatment called for
in the ConventivfiS. It urged
that appeals be addressed to:
Office of the President
Democratic Republic of North
Vietnam
Hanoi, North Vietnam
An airmail letter weighing
less than one·half ounce takes
25 cents in postage, the Red
Cros! said.
Intercesalon
Meanwhile, the American Red
Cross is continuing to urge Red
Cross societies in all parts of
the world to intercede in behalf
of the U.S. prisioners with the
Red Cross Society of North
Vietnam and to ask that their
respective governments take
similar action with the North
Vietnamese government.
In an American Red Cross·
sponsored resolution passed
without dissenting vote by 77
governments and 91 national
Red Cross in Istanbul last
month urged that all prison­ers-
of-war be given the bene­fits
and protection of the Gene­va
Conventions,
The Geneva Conventions call
for all prlsioners to be promptly
identified; afforded an adequate
diet and medical care; permitt­ed
to communicate with other
prlsloners and the "exterior";
promptly repatriated if serious­ly
sick or wounded; and at all
times be protected from abuse
or reprisals. The Conventions
also state that a neutral Inter­mediary,
such as the all-Swiss
Int~rnational Committee of the
Red Cross, be given free access
to prisioners and their places of
detention.
Intramural All-Stars Cited;
Rain Shortens Playoffs
Gridders Defeat Stamford 36-0
FU Ruggers End 5-5 Fall Season
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first round of the playoffs. The
t h r e e remaining victorious
teams wJl1 then draw lots to
see who gets the bye, as two
teams will battle it out to de­termine
a semi-final winner.
After that the .school champion­ship
game will take place. Fol­lowing
Fairfleld's own "Super
Bowl," there will be an ail­star
game between the Ameri­can
and National Leagues.
The alI.star selections by The
Stag and the Intramural selec­tion
committee:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pat McCarthy, Beach
Terry Saechl, RJ
Don Salamone, R3
Kevin Smith, PKT
Bob Weir, C4
Larry Maher, Beach
Ed Breaudreault, Beach
Ted Martens, RJ,
Mike Yates, C2,
Mike Holbrook, Beach
Nell Bohannon, ND2
Frank Vitolo, Beach
Pat Shambach, C4,
Gary Blow, Beach
Mike Perna, ND2
Dennis DeAngelis, ND4
Bob Lockwood, ND2
• Ed Boucher, C2
Jack McGinty, R3
Bob Maggi, Beach
.• Captain.
AMERICAN LEAUGZ
Tom Denning, ND3 QB
Chuck Dombeck, DSP QB
Dave Closter, ND3 B
Ken Lanifero, NDI B
Dave Pagoda, 1.2 B
Larry Dunn, OSP F
Bill Barrett, ND3 TE
Rich Thielebeule, NDI SE
Mark Govoni, BAK E
Ed Salkoski, OSP C
Bob Weingartner, ND3 L
Steve Plrlllo, R4 L
Bill Ottaviani, ND1 L
Joe Magallnskl, OSP L
Jim Close, ND3 L
Fred Rapcyznski NDt LB
BllI Doerrner, BAR DB
Fran Neary, R4 DB
Kevin Regan, DSP DB
• Tom Bligh, ND3 K
• Captain.• • •
• • •
MVP _ AM~CAN LEAGUE
DAVE CLOSTER
ND'
Dave, who plays only on of·
fense at his halfback position.
has to be the key to the "Ro­Ho's"
seoring stlccess, and,
therefore, their Impressive t().{)
record. Dave makes the ND3
offense go, as his kick-otr and
punt returns, as well as his
draw plays and screen pass play
drive the opposition crazy, not
to· 'mentlon his deadly sweeps.
Dave made Tom Denning's life
as ND3's quarterback much
easier by his great versatility
in the ND3 backfield.
l\IVP _ NATIONAL LEAGUE
LARRY MAHER
Fab1ield Beach
Larry, who plays both ways,
sparkplugs the Beach offense as
he led the league in both pass
receptions and touchdown
passes. Also, while playing on
defense, he was second to only
C2's Boucher in pass interce~
tlons, as his nne play highlights
a very strong Beach defense.
Larry's all around and untiring
aggressive play makes him sec.
only to no one in this league.
• • •
through a hole in the ND2 de­fensive
line for the score. The
eonverslon failed, and ND3 led
6-0 fairly early in the contest.
Unbelievably, though, ND2 car-­ried
the play for the rest of the
afternoon. As ND3 seemed con­tent
to protect their 6-0 lead,
ND2 drove smartly downfield
to the ND3 six_yard line on
passes trom Billy Freese to
tight end Jim Sulllvan and side­line
passes to Dan Uliman.
Cutrignano Outlltandlng
The game was mostly tied up
between Tom Denning's (ND3
quarterback) passes, which
were being knocked down by
the :r>.'D2 defense, and an in­consistent
ND2 oJl"ense, which
sputtered at the crucial m~
ments. Bob Castrlgnano played
an excellent game for ND2,
catching numerous F r e e s e
passes, and intercepting two
Denning aerials to boot, as the
game ended 6-0 in favor of
ND3.
Meanwhile, In a mud Infested
field, Fairfield Beach simulta.
neously knocked oft NDt by the
same score, 6-0. Only in this
game of extremerly hard hit­ting
and vicious play, the game
ended In a ().{) tie at the end of
regulation play. Neither team
really threatened throughout the
contest, as the teams seemed
more interested In beating each
other's brains out than scoring.
Every time NDt or the Beach
began to move the ball, a cosUy
penalty (usually a personal
foul) nullllled the drive. In any
case, with only a minute left
in the sudden-death period, and
with darkness falling upon all,
the Beach managed to intercept
a Fred Rapcyz.nskl pass near
the NDI ~yard line.
Muon Msuled
After two Pat McCarthy
aerials failed, the nifty Beach
quarterback, on third down, hit
Beach halfback Jackie Mason
with a game winning touch·
down pass. As the Beach boys
mauled Mason In the ned zone,
NDI walked off the field very
sadly, and one of the hardest
hitting Intramural games ever
seen here at Fairfield was over.
In last week's only other
game, the PKT Fraternity sur.
prised once beaten R3 by tying
them 6-6. This enabled Fairfield
Beach to move back into first
place in the National League
permanently.
RJ, lacking the fire they had
last week In their 12-0 upset
win over the Beach, had many
scoring opportunities, but they
always just missed on four se~
arate occasions, before RJ
quar~erback Franl: Schultz hit
Jack McGinty on a ~yard
touchdown bomb. Their 6-0 lead
looked good until fairly late in
the second halt, as the PKT
quarterback threw a wild ball
into a pack of players standing
in the RJ end zone. Miraculous­ly,
the ball bounced 01T the hand
of RJ defender Terry Sacchi
Into the waiting arms of a
Maroon shlrted Phi Kappa man
for a PKT score. The game,
despite RJ's desperate last ditch
efforts In almost near darkness,
ended in a 6_6 tie.
RS Meets D.S.P.
This week RJ will play the
D.S.P. Fraternity to finish the
THE STAG
By GARY MARZOLLA
This past week marked the
beginning ot playoff competi.
tion in Intramural Football. Al­though
the schedule was short­ened
by the rainy weather. both
the "Ro-Ho's" from ND3 and
the boys ffom the Beach man­aged
to post respective wins
over ND2 and NOl.
In the ND3-ND2, "Ho-Ho"
linebacker Mike Ryan managed
to pick off a Billy Freese side.
line pass and retum It to the
ND2 3-yard line. From there,
ND3 halfback Dave Closter
managed to plow his way
at the end of the third period,
the Stags led 29-0.
The last and ftna1 period was
all Fairfield's as two drives
were stopped within the UConn
l()·yard line. Coach O'Toole was
substituting freely now, but a
Bobby Piazza Interception gave
the ball back to the Stags on
the UConn JO-yard line. Two
passes from Muller to Mike
Dougherty, who showed some
fine running after his recep­tions,
brought the ball to the
UConn to-yard line.
Falr1Ield Poun It OD
Then BlUy Chlove, former
team manager eonverted to
halfback, burst through lor five.
Finally, frosh back John Lynch
carried the last five for the
score on a pretty run. Vespia
returned ,0 good form as he
eonverted the point after touch.
down. The final score was 36-0.
Although the University of
Connecticut was by far not one
of the better teams the Stags
have faced, the fact remains
that Fairfield University reeord­ed
It first shut-out and broke
the school scoring reeord for
one game. The Men In Red ex­ecuted
well, despite the mud,
not fumbling once, blocking
crisply, and not having any
passes intercepted. The smaller,
though quicker, UConns were
just simply mauled, much in
the same manner as Fordham
did to FU way back in Sep­tember.
Hopefully, as further
proof of the Stags good play,
they will now be able to go out
and whip New Haven College
next Saturday afternoon at New
Haven.
played excellently all season
long. They have displayed espe­cially
tine husUe and team­work.
It should also be noted
that they provided fine replace­ments
for the injured "A" team
week after week.
Five wins and five losses isn't
a successful season for the rug­by
team at Fairfield. But many
players have gained "A" line
experience this season which
can only help -to strengthen the
team in the Spring. Many in­jured
"A" players will return
in the Spring and the ruggers
are eagerly looking forward to
Improve on their- 5-5 record of
this Fall.
extra points from a wide angle
were missed, making the score
&-3.
Manhatta\ now held oft' sue­cessfully
all further Fairfl.eld at­tempts
to score. And so the
game ended with Manhattan up
6-3 in a well played and exciting
game.
Ra.rn "A',,, Defeated
In an excellently refereed
"B" gtUne, John O'Neil and
Dave Reeves provided the scor_
ing punch, with a try each and
Chuck rkmnbeck added the
points-after that made the dif­ference
in the 8-6 Fairfield vi~
tory over the Fordham "A"
team. The "B" Rugers have
line, and then rushed back aJ..
most to his own goal line as he
let fly with a 4()..yard bomb
which landed in the anns of
Mike Kenefick who was playing
at the flanker position. Although
Mike had three uConn defend­ers
near him, he beat them all
as he raced the final 45 yards
for his second seore. This 83
yard Muller to Kenefick pass
play was by far the most spec·
tacular offensive play for the
Stags this season. Once again,
FairleJd's Vespla kicked true,
as Fairfield brought a 23-() lead
Into the lockerroom at the half.
The second-half of the game
was much slower and duller
than the first-half, as the field
'condition was almost unplay­able,
and the red-shlrted Stags
were now black as the mud just
covered the ironmen from head
to toe. The Stags now c0n­centrated
on defense, as every
time the uConns got the ball
they either fumbled It awa,y or
the Stags intercepted a uConn
pass.
Towards the end of the third
quarter, though, Van Muller
started the Stag ''vIctory ma­chine"
rolling again. Once
again, following another UConn
fumble, Muller began using
Marshall and Devanney on runs,
and throwing short cross passes
to converted tight end to Mike
Dougherty.
MrlU Score. TD
Muller finished the drive by
throwing a 2O.yard touchdown
pass to "Crazy" Willie Mraz
standing all alone in the end
zone. Vespia finally missed an
extra point, as the mud was
too thick to kick through. Thus,
STRETCH: Red ~er Ben Harnmerb&c;ker beatA h.I.t 0p­ponent
to the pllt'5kln durlnC a line.out. Stags bowed to Manhllt·
taD 6-S and ended their llUIJOn with a dlsappolntlnc" 5-5 mark.
(CoatLnued from Page 10)
the Manhattan three-quarter
line but instead of running out.
side for a pass kicked into the
hands of Jones who again
boomed the ball down the val­ley
to mid-fteld.
Soon after Krenn and King
combined to block and grab a
Manhattan kick near the far
sideline. They then got the ball
to wing Steve Ryan who ran
20 yards before being stopped
ten yards short of a try. Jim
Casey scored Fairfl.eld's only
try on a similar play started by
Bill Schmeising. Unbelievably,
It was Casey's first try in four
years of rugby at Fairfield. The
(Ooatlnoed from Patte 10)
Vespla was good, and the Stap
led 7_0.
8tap Score Safety
After the kickoff, the defense
held, and on fourth down, Jer­ry
Hildenbrandt and John Mo
rlarty rushed through to block
a UConn punt. The ball wound
up In the visitors' end zone, but
was eovered by UConn for a
Fairfield safety Instead of a po$­sible
Stag touchdown. Thus, the
first quarter ended with the
Stags ahead 9-0.
In the second period, the
O'Toolemen began driving from
their own 4O-yard line. Van
Muller, employing an effective
running game, brought Fair­field
down to the uConn 13.yard
line with some tine running by
Bullet Devanney, Donnie Mar­shan,
and :Mike Kenefick. Mike
carried the final 13 yards for
the score on a very fine eounter
run ott' right tackle as he went
into the end zone almost un­touched.
Vespia's eonversion
was true as Fairlleld began to
pun away 16-0.
Following the kickoff, the
blue-shlrted visitors mounted
their only offensive threat of
the day. The drive stalled on
the Stag to-yard line as the
Bluemen fumbled it away.
Muller" 83 Yard TDP
As Van Muller came In to
lead the offense, he had that
sneaky look on his face. Even
though the Stags were on their
own t7-yard line after reeover.
ing the tumble, and that Muller
had to operate in the middle of
a pool ot mud, Van faked beau­tifully
to two backs tnto the
November 12, 1969 THE STAG Page Nine
SPORTS PERSONALITY THE FLAME
Basketball Tix On Sale
Get Together
Wolfe's goal was critical. The spirited skaters from
Connecticut were up "sky-high" for the home opener
and they undoubtedly out-played their visitors from
New Rochelle, New York. But for all their hard work
Fairfield was down 2-0 when they should have been
winning. The Stags were unable to capitalize when
they had a man advantage and, as a result, they ap­peared
to be quite flat when the second frame began.
But Marty Vierling's goal five minutes into the period
really fired-up Fairfield. Two minutes later Bill Chat­terton
increased the Iona lead to 3-1 and the Stags'
spirit was once again stolen a moment later when Pat
Billon put the game out of reach and Iona up by three
markers, 4-1. After Jimmy Monahan brought Fairfield
back to a two-goal deficit. the Gaels scored a brace of
goals in the final 1 :02 of the second period. Thus the
score was 6-2 Iona as the final period began.
, Stag FaN Hailed
A funny thing happened at the start of the third
period. With Fairfield down by four goals and the vic­tory
surely wrapped up for the visitors the Fairfield
fans gave their team an arousing standing ovation and
dug their old "Let's Go Stags" chant out of the moth
balls. The StaKs scored the only goal of the last period
when Guy LaFlamme banged one past John Billon and
they never gave up. There was hard contact and hustle
throughout the game and Fairfield was soundly beaten
by a superior foe. They had nothing to be ashamed of
and their fans appreciated this fact. Fairfield Univer­sity
sports fans are very knowledgeable, They can tell
when a team or player is not putting out their utmost
effort. When this hapnens the Stag fan will walk out
on his team in disgust: There was no cause for this to
occur last Friday night and the encouraging turnout
stayed till the final whistle.
Now many people may think that this Stag team,
like all the others this year save Cross Country, is just
an overconfident bunch of athletes but they're wrong.
Chuck Frissora is a striking example of a talented ath­lete
caught in November's overlay of football and
hockey. Frissora plays both sports and obviously he
cannot perform at his best in bath arenas, Secretly he
must be waiting for the football season to end so he can
fully concentrate on hockey, "We're not playing to-­gether,"
he said after the lona game. "We have the
most potent offense in the league but it was the first
time our defense played together." When Chuck and
his teammates do get together this year the Stag sextet
should defend their Western Division title in the Mero-­politan
Intercollegiate Hockey League. Steve Daur, the
flamboyant Fairfield goalie, said, "No doubt about it,
we'll come back." The Stags are too good a team to
wallow in mediocrity. They belong on top and they
should finish the season in the playoffs.
By lOSEPH VAl.ZIUO
Sports .........
The Fairfield Unive~ity sextet opened its 1969-70
home season on a sour note last Friday evening before
a roaring partisan Stag crowd at the Wonderland of
lee. The lona Gaels were the party spoilers as they had
little trouble disposing the Stag six by a 6-3 count. The
victory left the Gaels with a perfect 5-0 mark while the
Stags absorbed their second straight defeat of the
young season.
Led by a strong sophomore contingent, Fairfield
was rudely upset in their opener, 7-5, by Queens Col­lege.
Jimmy Monahan, the most glamorous player to
ever put on a pair of skates at this Jesuit college, scored
all five Stag goals. Against lona, the Men in Red knew
they would have to be at their peak to win. However,
the Stags were at a distinct disadvantage in their home
opener. Fairfield was playing its first game at full
strength against the formidable Gaels and it is amazing
that they came as close as they did to scoring what
would have been a titanic upset.
Fairfteld Dominates Action
]n the opening 15 minutes of action Fairfield dom­inated
every aspect of play except the all important
statistic - the score. &b Rizzo got the first rona goal
at 9 :47 of the first period as he shoveled the puck past
Stag goalie Steve Daur. The Stags then kept the puck at
the mouth of the rona goal for the next five minutes,
but lona's brilliant goalie, John BiIlon, refused to swal­low
the rubber pellet. Then with 34 seconds remaining,
the Gael offense began to converge on the Stag net.
With a mere 14 seconds left in the first stanza Bill
W'olfe put the rona sextet in a commanding 2-0 lead.
been the most sensational one,
but Bill looks to the trip to St.
Joseph's as the most meaning·
ful. "Beating St. Joe's at the
Palestra made the entire sea­son.
Everybody down there lov­ed
Coach Lynam, they were
really pulling for him. So while
we wanted to win for the school
and for the team, we mainlY
wanted to win for Mr. Lynam."
The trips are not without
their sight-seeing opportunities.
While at Niagara Bill and some
of the players went at night to
see the Falls. They managed to
cross to the Canadian (horse­shoe
falls) side, guided by the
spectrum of colored lights. Otto
comments: "When you pass Into
another country like that, you
feel as though you've left part
of yourself behind." So they
left part of themselves behind.
'20 Taxi Fare
On another trip, Ottaviani,
Schoenbeck, and Di Drio had
to take a cab from the 287 in­terchange
on U.S. 95 to La
Guardia, when DiOrio's car
blew up. "G. R. B. (Bisacca)
got out of sorts when he receiv­ed
the $20 taxi bill."
Just to make sure things did
not get too dull, Tom Finch
managed to open a 30-stlch cut
In his lip while prepping lor
the 51. Francis game in the
"Mosque." Otto was enlisted 10
rush Finch to the hospital and
spent two hours there waiting
ror him. .
Otto's plans for next year in­clude
labor relations work in
Framingham, Mass. The gov­ernment
major has spent the
past six summers working con­struction
In his hometown,
Mansfield, Mass. He worked on
underground telephone cables
and spent the last .five weeks
01 this past summer battling a
case of "swamp rash."
Basketball Outlook
Looking forward to the 1969.
70 hoop campaign Bill says,
''We can go as far as the team
wants to go as a unit. With
teamwork - a 12-man team­......
ork - we cannot only have a
good season but serve as a ral­lying
force for the student
Completing this interview at
five o'clock on a Friday after_
noon, after Otto had spent the
entire week attending the bas­ketball
squad, this reporter ask­ed
him how he f1n~ the time
for all his duties. ''You just
have to love the game," he an­swered
Just then the soccer
coach, James Kuhlman, stepped
into the office, ''You'll be with
us at seven tomorrow morn_
ing? We have to leave at 7:30."
Otto just nodded alfirmatively.
I guess you do have to love the
game.
body."
Season basketball tickets for the 196~70 season are on
sale Monday through Friday In the Gymnasium Foyer. The
season ticket book costs $17.50 tor the l~ame home sched­ule.
Tickets are on sale between the hours of 2:30 to 5:30
p.m. Fairfield University students will have exclusive pur­chasing
rights on these season books until November 10th.
On November 10th the alumni will be permitted to buy sea­son
books. On November 17th the general public can pur·
chase these books. Finally, on November 24th Individual
game tickets will go on sale on a first come ftrst serve basis.
Ing on the equipment manager.
In addition to issuing uniforms,
'Otto Is ~sponsible for all equip­ment
(unlfonns, towels, balls,
etc.) before, during, and after
games. He also keeps the offi­cial
scorebook at all games. In
this latter'duty, Bill is assisted
by senior statisticians, Jim Fitz.­patrick
and Lou Catalano.
Perhaps the most Important
facet of Bill's job Is assisting
the team on Its road trips. As
would be expected many Inter.
estlng episodes have arisen
from these trips. What Otto
calls "the most famous trip"
was last season's Bu1falo jaunt
for the St. Bonaventure game.
A snow storm stranded the
team for two days In Buffalo.
Bill used the time to catch up
on some theatre, with his room­mate
Rick Schoenbeck, as they
spent both nights at the local
palaces of the lively arts. On
the third day, they left by train
at 2:30 p.m., arriving at Grand
Central Station at 11:30 p.m.
From there, Bill, Athletic DI­rectpr
George Bisacca, and Dr.
George took a cab to La Guar­dia
to pick up the three sta­tion-
wagons, left there four days
earlier. Each of them drove
back to the station and from
there headed for Connecticut.
The bleary-eyed team finally re­turned
to the campus at 5 a.m.
the next moming. Otto garner­ed
seven hours of sleep and
then began to prepare for the
evening contert with the Jas­pers
of Manhattan.
Stags Rip Jtulpers 89·11
Bill recalls the Irony of the
ensuing game: "We were a tired
team, so we went out and
romped Manhattan ·(the score
was 89--71." Rich Magdon, Ot­to's
assistant, who worked with
the frestunan team last year,
and whom Bill calls, "my num­ber
one man," remembers that
trip. "Otto's always coming and
going; he's a slave to every
team that's here."
The Bultalo trip may have
WILLIAM aTrAVIANI
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By BILL WARNKEN
In the theatre, no one but
the astute critic or the grateful
actor ever sings the praises of
the special effects men or the
wardrobe people. In the drama
that Is ath~etics, the trainer­manager
similarly remains un.
noticed. Yet both are as Integral
a part of the team effort as
their most welt.known lumin­aries.
At Fairfield, such a behind­the-
seenes man is Bill Ottaviani
The senior has spent four years
as Head Equipment Manager
and Head Basketball Manager,
and as a general assistant to
Trainer Pete DIOrio. "Otto"
came to Fairfield at the In_
sistence of Larry Connor ('68),
after spending three semesters
In an enginee:'ing course at
Southeastern Mass. Techn~
logical Institute.
Bill's first exposure to man­aging
was the result of a high
school injury. While manning
a line position on his high
school football team during his
sophomore year at Monsignor
Coyle High In Taunton, Mass.,
he suffered a head Injury. Heed­Ing
medical advice to refrain
from active competition, Otto
remained close ,to the game by
taking the manager's position.
At Fairfield, Bill has expanded
his managerial activities and Is
Involved In baseball, soccer,
and track in addition to basket­all.
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The victory raised the team's
disappointing record to ~1
with all the victories coming on
the road in a season that fea­tures
only four home games.
Yesterday, the Stags journeyed
to Brockden, Massachusetts to
play a strong Stonehill team,
and they finish the season to­morrow
at Sacred Heart Uni­versity.
the campaign knotted the score
at 2-2 as the quarter ended
Completely outpJaying St.
Peter's for the rest of the game,
Fairfield pulled It out on a
breakaway goal by Roland Cor­bin,
who played the game on a
badly sprained ankle.
but most times Jimmy Jones,
the Manhattan fullback. boomed
the ball back down the valley
to thwart the Fairfield threat.
Manhattan's only score of the
second_half came on a ~yard
penalty kick by Tom Ford.
AsIde from thIs and one other
3Q.yard Manhattan movement
engineered by ny-half Ray Corn­hill
the second-half was all
Falrfleld_
Slap MIA Opportanltlee
Only one of many long Fair_
fteld runs was good enough to
register a score. Early in the
half Q. Murphy picked up a
loose ball from a wheeled
serum, ran down the weak side
and then he kicked to the five
where It was removed from
trouble by the toe of fullback
Jones. Right after the Manhat·
tan penalty kick, serum half
Silly McCann broke through
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his desIre and he played one of
his best 30 minutes of Rugby
in the second.half.
Cruclal Polnt
This was the crucial point
in the game for Fairfield; down
two men they had to hold tho
always explosixe Manhattan 15.
King was moved to second row
and Krenn to outside center to
try and stop Manhattan. Even
though up by two men in the
serum Manhattan failed to take
advantage and the half ended
with Manhanan holding on to
its 3-0 lead.
With Barry and Murphy back
in the second half the Red
Ruggers seemed to be rejuven­ated.
They outplayed the Man.
hattan 15, and most of the ac­tion
was near the Manhattan
goal line and the spirited and
vocal Fairfield crowd. Numer­ous
times the Stag team seemed
to be on the verge of a score,
By TOM KRAZIT
After struggling for almost
three quarters against a weak
St. Peter's eleven, the Staa:
soccer team managed to put
it all together and eke out a
3-2 come-from-behind victory
In Jersey City last Saturday.
The game was marked by ex­tremely
poor field conditions
and two Peacock students who
filled in for the absent referees.
The boaters flnlnshed a ra·
ther lackluster first-half nurs­ing
a 1-0 lead on a Jack Mona~
han tally. The lead qulekly
vanished as St. Peter's struck
for two quick goals early in the
third quarter.
Condren Squares Contelt
Jim Condren's InItial ioal of
Booters Nip St. Peter's 3-2
STRUGGLING STAG: Willie Mru ftl'hbJ for yardage after catchlng a pM8. Star.
VCoRn at Stamford S6_0, Victory snapped 1I·ga1lt6 Fairfield Vnh'erslty losing streak.
"C" team lost 9-0 in a well
played game to the very experi_
enced Manhattan "D" team.
All things considered it was
a successful weekend for the
Fairfield Rugby Club. The los­Ing,
spiritless trend of the last
few weekends has been revers­ed
and should add much hope
for the important Spring cam_
paign, which includes a tour in
Wales and London over Easter
vacation.
Manhattan Scores F\rat
Manhattan opened the scor­ing
in the "A" game as second
row Billy Lee broke out of a
loose ruck and ran five yards
for the try after only six min·
utes of play. But Fairfield did
not seem to be bothered by this
as they played extremely well,
nullifying all Manhattan offen_
sive movements.
The Fairfl.eld backfield, minus
Joe Sindt, taking law boards
and Kurt Schlicting, In bed with
a virus, looked good but lacked
the quickness and experience
to mount an oII'enslve threat.
Again as last weekend. the Red
pack was excellent; by hard
hItting they started most of the
Fairfield running opportunities.
Through the entire season In­juries
have hampered the efforts
of the Stags, this game was to
be no exception. Dennis Barry
was the first to go with bruised
ribs, a favorite Fa1rfie1d injury,
as Alan Perkins and Jim Casey
will attest. Barry missed the
last fifteen minutes of the first
half, but returned to play well
In the second half. Moments
later Q. Murphy sprained. his
ankle, and like Barry left for
the N!'St of the half. He played
in the second-half heavily taped.
Although this slowed him down
physically It didn't slow down
SPORTS
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Page 10, November 12, 196
By BOB MAHER
The Falrfleld University Rug_
by team returned to the advan­tageous
confines of nostalgic
Corbett Field near the pond
Saturday, due to flooding on
Grauert Field. The familiar
hills, . old memories, and the
closeness of many spirited spec·
tators all seemed to bring out
the best in the Red Ruggers as
they played one of their best
games this season In a hard
fought 6...3 loss to Manhattan
Rugby Oub.
The exciting young Falrfleld
"S" team triumphed over a
Fordham "A" team 8-6 and the
Ina' team's hopes for victory.
For the Stags to win It was
necessary to bl'eak up Quinni­piac's
one-two combination.
Team Effort
The Stags did this. Bob
Pontone, running well on the
down-hill, placed second, while
teammate Mark O'Donoghue ran
a strong last mile to make up
150 yards on Qulnnlplacs sec­ond
man, a'nd placing third.
With the one-two combination
reduced to one-four the stage
was set. Gene Mulvaney and Bob
Kunces finished fifth and sixth
to put the Stags ahead.
The victory was secured as
Skip Waite chugged across the
finish line in 12th position. The
2-3-5-6-12 finish of the harriers
added up to 28 points, a one
point victory, and a joyful
close to a successful season.
Powerful Manhattan Edges Ruggers
By 6-3 Verdict In Season's Final Game
Stags Nip Quinnipiac
And Close 8-4 Season
Win In Mud Ends
11 Game Skid
By MARK O'DONOGHUE
On Tuesday. November 4th,
Fairfield University's Cross
Country team traveled to New
Haven for a meet with Quin­nipiac
College. The Stags won
the meet 28-29 to end their sea­son
with an 8-4 won-lost record.
The red harriers entered the
meet decided underdogs. Quin­nipiac,
earlier in the season,
had defeated Assumption Col­lege,
who a week previous had
claimed the Stags as a victim.
Quinnlpiac had also faired
better against New Paltz State
College than had the Stags.
Quinnipiac's 9OUl'Ce of stren­gth
was Its two leading winners.
These two have run consistent­ly
together throughout the sea·
son, usually placing first and
second, virtually ending oppos-
II)' QARY IlARZOI..lA.
Lut Sunday afternoon, on an
overcast and rainy day, the SUD
finally broke through for the
Falrfteld University Football
Club, as they won their ftrst
game ot the 1969 season. After
suffering six successive defeats
this year, and a total of 11
straight JOIlel including the
Stags' last five ,ames the year
before, the Men in ·Red ftnally
broke throuah as they whipped
the University of Cormectleut­Stamford
Division by a 36-0
score. The Slap' record now
stands at 1.6, with one more
game to play. It was the first
shut~t ever recorded by the
Fairfield University Football
Club.
For the ftrst time this season,
the O'Toolemen thoroughlY
whlpped the opposition in all
aspects of thl:' game. The soggy
and muddy field did not hinder
the Stags at all as they did as
they pleased all afternoon. The
uConns threatened only once,
as they ruched the Red l(}.yard
line, but the drive wu stalled
by one of slx tumbles committed
by the visitors.
The UConns tumbled on their
til'St offensive play, which was
the first play of the ball game.
FaIrfield recovered, and starting
on the UConn ~yard line,
quarterback Van Muller quickly
drove the Stags to the 10. Un­fortunately,
the drive stalled on
downs, but once again, on their
second oII'enslve play, UConn
fumbled. Donnie Marshall re-­covered
for Fairfield, and this
time Van Muller brought them
across as Harold Devanney car­ried
the last few yards for the
score. 1be conversion by Jim
(CoDUDued oa Pace 8)
Stags Whitewash Stamford 36-0;
Fairfield 11 Record~ F~rst Shutout