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Dec. 9, 1971 E ....-culd help the university in its operations this year, Mr. Hickson replied: ··the pay freeze expired on November 13. and we are hopeful that the retroactive salaries may be paid. At the present time we are submitting a special request to the Federal Pay Board to seek recouping of retroactive pay for the 10 .....eeks ending November 13. and we expect that the board will render a general ruling regarding faculty salaries in the near future. In any eventuality. the budget will not be significantly altered ... The balance sheet shows property and assets worth nearly $32 million. This reflects an increase in total assets of $5.3 million over the previous year. About 72% of the assets are in buildings and grounds. The capital debt on the properly amounts to almost $11 million, with about half of this payable on long term loans to the government. "Since the univerSIty does not own an endowment. it must pay for its building and other assets out of operating funds. gIfts and public subSidies," Mr. Hickson stated. "It is the primary responsibility of the Development Office to seek oul philanthropic support ror ,the University through our capital fund raising. annual giving programs and solicitation of business and other organizations." stated Darrell W. Ryan, director of university relations. under whose supervision the Development Office operates. The largest single item of income to the university was represented by tuitions and rees. Over 63% of all operating revenues were received from this source. with the remainder derived from grants. auxiliary enterprises (mainly room and board) and governmentsupported student financial aid. The chief expendiwre of funds was for instructional purposes. 36% of all operating expenses .....ere devoted to that category, with another 18% going to auxiliary enterprises. Plant maintenance. administratIon. student financial aid programs. and student services were the next largest items of expens<:. The financial plight or private colleges and universities has received growing publicity in recent months. A recent report by Professor William Jellema. research director of the Association of American Colleges. indicated that the average private college had operated at a deficit in 1969-70 of over $131.000 - even worse than had been originally predicted. Prof. Jellema warned that "some 365 of the nation'S private colleges and universities may be ready 00 close their doors by t981 unless immediate aid is forthcoming." He noted that in addition to running at a deficit and in spite of effo;is to improve their liscal position by more efficient managemeot, "operations have been curtailed. (Continued on Page 71 business and finance. "to the implementation of management systems which prOVide better control of our spending, the cooperation of the Divisions in utilizing these systems. and the realization of additional nontuition income from outside sources. "In order to continue this trend," Mr. Hickson continued, "we found it necessary 00 increase tuition for the current year. which will permit the university to operate in the black. even with a budgeted 10.6% faculty salary increase that had been agreed upon last spring. It is, however. as important to keep other sources of income rising as it is to keep expenses down if a balanced budget is to be attained this fiscal year," he warned. Asked whether me pay freeze • UNIVERSITV • I FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT THE Campus Songsters to Perform Sunday The chorus made Its debut lasl spring when It performed a contemporary setting by Westport's Gay Mebegan of Franck's "Paris Angelicus." with English lyrics and jazz accompaniment. The chorus. comprisedtlf 40 Fairfield co-eds. is directed by Andrew Heath of the university's Music Department. The Madrigal Society will present "'Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella"; "Joseph Dearest. Joseph Mine": Michael Praetorius' "Lo. How a Rose E'er Blooming": "The Annunciation." from Brahms' '''Marienlieder'': "The Carol of the Russian Children": the traditional "What Child Is This"; and a Kentucky ballad. "The Cherry Tree carol." featuring tenor soloist Paul Klein. The society was begun last February when a group of faculty members decided to form a singing group. with Mr. Heath serving as music director. The group subsequently has expanded with voices drawn from throughout the area. The society has built a repertoire of sixteenth and early seventeenth century English and European madrigals, and is planning a spring madrigal performance. Area members of the Madrigal Society include sopranos M~s. William Moffitl. Easton, MISS Nancy Tyrrell, Westport, and Dr. Mariann Kent, or Fairfield's Department of English: altos Mrs. C. Michael Thornburg. Fairfield, and Mrs, Leila Lenagh, Westport: tenors William Moffitt.. Easton. Paul Klein Weston. Rev. C. Michael Thor~burg of Fairfield's Department of Theology, and Rev. Joseph C. Devine. S.J., Department of Religious Studies at the university: and basses Dr. R. James Long. Department of Philosophy. Dr. Richard Regan, Departmenlof English, and Dr. Edward Dew. Department of History and Politics, all with Fairfield l'niversity. Vol. 2, No. 13 fairfield's newly formed Women's Chorus and Madngal Society will present a public program of Christmas music for area residenls on Sunday. December 12. featuring madrigal music from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The university's Women's Chorus and its Madrigal Society will offer carols, and the chorus will perform Benjamin Britten's celebrated "Ceremony of Cards." at 4 p.m. in the Campus Center Oak Room. At 7 p.m. that evening a mass will be celebrated in the university's Loyola Chapel. with appropriate music of the season being offered. Harpist John Senior III. of Fairfield. and sopranos ancy Siowick and Adrienne Micei. will be featured in "Ceremony of Cards_" The Universily completed the 1970-71 fiscal year with a small operating surplus. according 00 the official auditors' figures released. today. The report. by the auditing form of Charles Bo.utati and Company. reveals that for the 12 months ending June 30. 1971. the University's income was $7.304,186 and it expended $7.%39,479 for its operations. The net balance of $64.707 was applied to the payment of previous debts on operations. For the previous year the university had recorded an operating loss of $419.000, on total operating expenditures of $6.1 million and revenues of $5.7 million. "The turnaround from an operating deficit to a surplus was due," according to John M. Hickson. vice president of Audit Says University In The Black After 1970-71 AItTIST PAUL NONAY - dito'sptI lIOIDe of his wort at the opening of his art show JastSuDday in the Oak Room. Pow T.rJIOlIl "When the people realJzed what was going on they were really upset..·· says Callahan. adding that it was just that kind of thing which suggests we are giving instead of sharing. The people of Appalachia. by and large. are very proud, despite their impoverished conditions. he notes. This winter's trip was scheduled to be the largest of the year, but only 15 or 16 students expressed any interest in it. according to Callahan. Regardless of the poor turnout. the senior who hopes to join either VISTA or the Peace Corps after graduation does not think that student interest is waning. "We never have any trouble finding people to make these trips. This year's problems was caused, I think. by poor publicity and the fact that many students have to work over the holidays." be said. interaction with the people. as much sharing of cultures as we can possibly achieve." In the past., success was often measured by the number of trees cut down or amount of brush cleared for some short-handed farmer. Work willi GleDmary In addition. this trip will try to integrate as many other cullural activities into the daily schedule as possible. Volunteers and residents often gather to share musical interests. for instance. "Everything we do will be aimed at treating these people as peers. We have got to get rid of the Savior complex." contends callahan. When in Kentucky. Fairfield students work through the G1enillary mission set up there. Brother AI Bebm will be directing this winter's projects with the assistance of callahan. Pat Delaney '72, and Ray Degennaro ·n. Callahan explains that only because of the trust that the people in Vanceburg have developed in that mission are students from here readily accepted.. He recounts an incident which occurred during a spring trip four years ago which caused relations to be strained for some time. A New York l.v. film crew appeared in Vanceburg following up a tip thal college students would be giving up their spring vacation to work there for the people. Students to Head for Appalachia St. Mike's Prof. to Speak Here By Tlmothy Graee Another group of Fairfield students .....iIltrek to Vanceburg, Kentucky during the midsemester break this year, but according to group leader Jim Callahan '72. the main thrust of this winter's expedition will be radically changed. Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern Kentucky's Lewis County, Vanceburg's underdeveloped community has been the site of many social action trips for Fairfield students during spring and winter vacations over the past five or six years. CbagiD, A. Anil. Callahan, who has played a key role in both the organization and running of these sojourns during the past three years, explains that. in previous years, the emphasis bas always been placed on bow much we can "give to these poor people; or how much we can do (or them." 14 undergraduates and two graduate students will be in Vanceburg from January 1-7 trying to change the trip's theme from "giving things to the people to sharing things with them," says the senior from Brockton, Mass. "We still plan to perform some manual labor in a cooperative housing program as well as pUlling the finishing touches on a farmhouse we are reconstructing for me volunteers to live in. but, our main interest is working with as opposed to working for the people of Lewis County.. , "Our emphasis.·· he adds. "Will be aimed toward as much On Deeember 9 at 8:00 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Room, me Philsophy Academy will present the second in its series of guest lectures. Speaking will be John J. Hanagan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont. In his lecture, entitleiJ "The Search for a Meaningful God," Professor Hanagan will analyze some contemporary conceptualizations of Deity - in particular those based on Blondelian Phenomenology tDewart and 8aum) and Whileheadean Process Philosophy (Hartshorne). In the context of this analysis. Professor Hanagan will proceed to reinterpret the spirit of Aquinas' approach to the problem of God. stressing the role which pre-reClective religiOUS experience plays in the development of the "five ways." Adiscussion period will follow in which both faculty and students are encouraged to participate. Professor Hanagan received his B.A. in Philosophy from Providence College and his M.A. from the University of Detroit where he was a Graduate Teaching Fellow. He pursued graduate work at the University of Toronto where he is completing his doctoral dissertation on the Development of the Doctrine of Relation in the Thirteenth Century_ While at Toronto he was an Honour's Tutor in the HislOry of Mediaeval Philosophy. Professor Hanagan currently teaches in the Department of Philosophy at SL Michael's College (Winooski). He is well known for both i~teresting and stimulating lectures - a fact recognized by his students in twice honoring him with the Faculty Appreciation Award. PAGEt THE UNIVERSITY VOICE December 9, 1971 Oberlin President Seeks Change Bard's "Midsummer" Tonight New Di'ectory Adds Sinplidty to Phone BlUes additional fellOWship studies in Italy and Holland. His work has been shown in 25 group exhibits in Italy, Rumania, Hungary, Germany and the United States, and he has had 12 one-man showings here and abroad. Mr, Nonay is also the winner or many prizes for his works, among them the Connecticut Academy Prize, Ford Foundation Purchase. and the Eastern States Art E1hibit Prize. Ezamples of his work can I)e fOllnd in such outstanding art collections as the Conover-Mast, Permanent Collection, New York; the Westport Permanent Art Collection; the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Spl'"inrfield, Massachusetts; and the Museum of Art. Science and Industry, Bl'"idgeport. among others, The Fairfield University ezhibit will contain Nonay drawings, paintings and collages, and all works on display will be for sale to the public. Gallery hours will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m, daily through December 19. Reading like a cross between a Sons of Erin membership roster and the membership list of the United Nations, a new book bas found its way onto the Fairfield campus, It's the new compact 1971 Fairfield University telephone direclOry, which lists everything and everybody you might want to call on the administrative and faculty staffs, and there isn't a Smith to be found anywhere in it. The easy-to-use book includes a comprehensive rererence on how to get "Ma Bell's" equipment to do what you want it wdo. For instance, if you should want to call off campus within the Fairfield. Bridgeport, Westport and Trumbull dialing areas, all yOll need do is dial ..g" to reach Bell's equipment, and then the seven-digit number. If you should want to call elsewhere in Connecticut or the Northeast., it gets a bit more complicated, Simply dial the switchboard ·"0"- identify yourself and the campus phone number rrom which you are calling, and ask the operator for a WATS line to the area you wish to call. If you fail to complete the WATS call, notify the switchboard immediately so that the charge will not be allocated to you. For calls inside Connecticut, dial "I" plus the seven digit number, and for calls outside the state dial "1" plus the area code and the seven digit number, Calls on campus are made by simply dialing the three digit number listed in the left-hand column of the directory. At night, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m., all incoming calls are handled by the Security Department dispatcher. He will process them and inform you of the extension number to dial to reach your party. WATS line calls during the same period can be made by calling the Security dispatcher on "558", and he will inform you or the number to dial to connect with your long distance call, From 11 p.m. to 8 a,m.. oncampus dialing and local of(campus dialing is handled on a normal direct dial basis. This and other handy information can be found in the first rew pages of the new university directory; all the caller need do to avoid the "that darned phone syndrome" is use it. No",ax Displays Art in Oak Room Show Covering governance of the college, President Fuller said, "It is wrong for students to pass through an educational ':~~t~ a~bo~~in haO~os~~ institution functions in political and fiscal terms." He said that Oberlin has an obligation "to discover and test new forms or gov~rnance through which authority and responsibility are shared by all members or the community," In another area. President Fuller reported that Oberlin will seek "to prOVide for the periodic self-renewal or the members of its learning community." Such steps, he said, should include eliminating required student withdrawal for academic reasons, as well as a new sabbatical policy for all faculty and staff members, FollOWing his immigration to this country from Hungary, internationalll acclaimed artist Paul Nonay 0 Weston did a stint as a house-painter with a Stamford construction firm, and he has since piled up an impressive list or American artistic credits to add to those earned in Europe. A \loide selection of Nonay's prolific artistic output will go on display. beginning with a public reception for the artist, on December 4 at 4 p.m, in Fairfield University'S campus Center. Listed in "Who's Who in the East" and "Who's Who in Amel'"ican Art", the works of Nonay have been described by art critic William Fatula as "instilled with an immediately identiCiable uniqueness ." having an embossed, third dimensional effect which adds perspective and engrossing interest. "Conceived primarily as paintings," he says, "the subjects acquire a sculptured characteristic reminiscent or time-«oded tablets and ancient icons with the artist's deft collage and meticulous assemblage. _ "The delicate patterns or textiles fashioned Into creative designs acquire a massive solidity and depth of imagery with the artist's encrustation technique, "His sensitive use or colors lends pleasing-to-behold appeal ... Hungarian-born Nonay received his art training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, and later studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Germany, doing Sllake.peare Campaay, provWIa& "1M f.Unl ate of 1M Slaaknpeareu lezl 011 fum.." bcladed ill lIle east are David Waner, ud Dtaaa RIU· M admi"" cbr,e 01 U' trill be dar'Je4 10 def y 1M e..x.p.mte of 1M A moden fUm rndit_ of William SUknpeare'. "A M....mmer N '. Dream" will be .,.. e4 by 1M Eqll'" Deparlmsl '-'P' a' 7:. p,m, ia Gouqa A"ltoriua, Directed by Peler UaU, 1M fUm appIin ehlemporary ctaeaaalk &eebl..n Ie 1M players af nile a.yat making the student responsible for all final decisions regarding his education. He said he feels that preproressional training the liberal arts - is still valid for most students and he advocates continuing the strong and intensive major but not requiring it. "What is important," he said, "is lO study something in depth in order to be able to recognize what does constitute a real understanding or anything." The Education Commission, the president reported, will ask for "a whole set of new problemoriented or thematic programs, which would complement ezistinll: departments, in such areas as human development, inter-arts, science and sociely, environmental science, brain· modeling, ACro-American and Asian studies, etc," job, and 34 percent of the housewives hold down jobs. in order to support the "American dream," Dr. Anderson's paper for HECUS is part of the organization's continuing research inlO area needs, and to help in the planning of the greater Bridgeport area's future, HECUS member organizations are Bridgeport Engineering Institute, Fairfield University, Housatonic Community College, Sacred Heart University, an'd the University or Bridgeport, "The fact that dope addiction is as high in Brentwood as in Brooklyn gets lost in the whir of rotary lawn mowers," he says, "That a third of the weUare recipients are women whose husbands have deserted because they couldn't juggle three jobs and 'meet all the payments," Dr'l Anderson notes, is handled "respectably... And, he points out, less than half of Brentwood's men are working one 4O-hour per week job. Fifty-five percent of the men are either working extensive overtime or a second "Looking ahead a decade or so, I can imagine a college community that mirrors the world's peoples and cultures, in numbers roughly proportional to their presence on earth, Such a college would be the rirst oneworld living learning community. Its rate might predict mankind·s." PresideDt Fuller. who is one of 20 student and faculty commissioners of Oberlin's reform • studying Education Commission, reported that the body will propose further moves in the college's trend toward Oberlin, Ohio - (I.P.) - Robert W. Fuller, Oberlin College's 34year- old president. recently called for major revisions in the college's enrollment, curriculum, and policies', Essentially, these changes would rurther develop trends already under way on campus. President Fuller addressed some 1.500 members of the college community at a meeting in Finney Chapel. To extend Oberlin's commitment to cultural diversity, made in the 1960's, President Fuller asked that the college's faculty, starr, and student body renect the national population in percentage or minority-gr6up members. Oberlin's current minoritygroup enrollment is about seven percent. The president and the • faculty-student Committee on Special Educational Opportunities recommend that this rigure be doubled in the next two to three years, and has determined that the financial support to individuals which this would require is within the college's means, "A culturally diverse community is a better educational environment," said President Fuller, "for all its members, or whatever racial and cultural backgrOllnds. Report to HECUS Anderson Sees Suburban Future CAMPUS BEAUTIES - Fairfield co-eds modeled winter fashions carried in local shops at the secood aMuII fashion show sponsored by the girls residence hall council. They are, from left to right Susan Yales. Clair Gillen, Cindy SChultz. Kathy Morrissey. Mildred Bruno, and Karen Geary. By 1980 over 80 percent of the naLion's population will be in the suburbs and paying dearly for it. according to Arthur L. Anderson. assistant professor of Sociology at Fairfield University, Fairfield, ConnectiC1Jt. His prediction C()mes in a report compiled for the Higher Education Center for Urban Studies \HECUSI, a c(lnsortium of nve southwestern Connecticut institutions of higher learning, headquartered in Bridgeport. Connecticut. Since 1870, he says. there has been a steady trend to suburban living, with the nation's cities serving as way-stations to the "American dream," To the city dweller, suburbia is a goal and the city-line a moat, Dr, Anderson notes. Once there, the newcomer says, "Now that I'm across, pull up the ladder," Dr. Anderson's paper analyzes the relationship between New York City and its suburbs, His hypothesis is that the relationship between the city and its suburbs is one of complete interdependency, though also one of antagonism, The author points out that urbanization is one of the most momentous changes in our recent social organization, and has been brOllght about by the transition of our population, when the society changed from an agricultural to an industrial economy, Per capita farm output, he points out, has risen dramatically. As recently as 1954 one U,S, farm produced enough food to sustain only 18 people, whereas in 1970 the same farm's average output could sustain 44 people due to increased technology in farming methods. Consequenlly the trend to suburban living began by farmers moving to metropolitan areas, with city dwellers beginning to build their homes in areas which were once farmland, Dr, Anderson says, "The suburbanite's departure from the city represents a reaction against 'urbanism' and a search for a new life style· a life style which was first established in American society by the old Protestant upper class at the turn of the century," He also points out that the suburbanite is strongly opposed to any regional planning that will threaten his class interests, ..Any regional planning proposal that wOllld incorporate New York City into the tax structure of the suburbs is resisted to the point of violence," he says. "While New York City and its suburbs stand in symbiotic relationship to each other - the upper middle class relies on the City's jobs and the entire Island relies on the City culturally" - it is basically an antagonistic relationship, Play Review SHE LOVES ME CAPSULE Goal: 3 Years and a Good Education DOES SHE LOVE ME? - asks playhouse slar Robert Unkel as he reads a letter from his unknown lover. PAGE 3 •In easily made him the leading figure of the play. And he had a hard time establishing that prominance in the face of the volatile Mr. Maraczck. Mitchel Syp's smooth VOlce. clever accent and sweepmg gestures along With hiS ability to be sombre yet dignified make his song "Days Gone By" the most memorable of the show_ The rest of the music In the play is rather forgettable. with a few bright spots like Clerk SiPOS' (William Graham I philosoph)' in "Perspecuve". "don't lose your job." Although not radio show tunes. the music of SHE LOVES ME is pleasant and frequent. .....hich is what a musical is all about. The play SHE LOVES ME had its Broadway opening m April 1963 at the Eugene O·~ell Theatre under the direction of Hal Prince. It is based on Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszo·s 1936 romantic comed\' PARFUMERIE. . Bea drop You're welcome 24 hours a day. For Coffee An' DONUTS ~ On The Circle play .....ould end much too soon. Finally the face-to-face meeting is set. Both parties are nervous all day, getting on each others nerves on the job. BUl the evening is a disaster. Finally. the Christmas spirit wins out as George admits that he is the allegedly fat. bald and aged "Dear Friend." There are numurous sub-plots which prOVide song material more than real action on stage, and make the play somewhat long. Mr. Kodaly. a Maraczek clerk. complica'tes the life of Miss Ritter. played by Brenda B1issel. She is forever falling for his soft. romantic line even after he has stood her up time after time. Student Cast Composed primarily of students, the cast is active and energetic on stage. while faltering VOiceS and inaudible I)Tics often detract from the performance. Miss Conlin's voice stood above the rest. while Mr. Unkel's poise and composure By Larry Halloran Agoinst the competition of losing-basketball thrillers, "big" hockey games and frantic preparation for exams, SHE LOVES ME began its eightperformance run at the Fairfield University Playhouse last weekend. The play will be seen again tonight. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Curtain time is 8:30 p.m. Tickets are available. The story of t.....o mail-order lovers' fateful meeting. SHE LOVES ME musically charms its way through a very simple and unoriginal plot. George Nowak, played by Robert Unke!. has been writing to his lover for some time - a lover he has never met. "Oear Friend'·, as George is known to his female parcel·post partner. is dutifully answered by Miss Amalia Balash. portrayed by Maureen Conlin. No Secret Neither of them seems to be able to figure out what everyone else on stage and off knows from the beginning - the two .....ork in the same shop. a parfumerie owned by one Mr. Maraczek. At one point, two shop clerks comment that Miss Balash and Mr. Nowak fight so because "They like each other." His observation is countered with "Even if we told them. they'd never believe us." If they did believe him. the High Court Bars le.hearing The u.s. Supreme Court has turned down a petition for rehearing a suit seeking to halt government funds for construction at four churchrelated colleges in Connecticut. The colleges are Albertus Magnus in New Haven. Annhurst in Woodstock. Fairfield University in Fairfield and Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport. Subsequently. the plaintiffs asked the Supreme Court to send the case baclt to a lower court for a ruling on whether the four. colleges themselves are sectarian or secular in character. They based the petition on an earlier a-4 Supreme Court ruling that they said indicates if a college has a sectarian character as a whole. it isn't eligible for government aid. It was that request for a rehearing that the Supreme Court turned down Tuesday. THE UNIVERSITY VOICE secure a cross section of the class. He hopes there will be 20 students in that seminar. The composition of the second year seminar is largely undecided. Presently. the only students who will be: guaranteed a place will be those who will continue with the three-year CAPSULE Program. The remainder may be: selected or the seminar may be left to open enrollment. The success or failure of the program will depend largely on ....llether an individual student is equipped (or personal growth in six years instead of the normal eight. Will the student who has completed high school and colle~e in six years be indiVidually matured and prepared 'to meel the responsibilities which face him upon graduation'? This question A politics major, Richard remains, Canel says. "I see CAPSULE as a testing ground for new concepts in education that if proven successful can be: utilized on wide spread basis for the good of the entire community." CAPSULE .....as begun at Fairfield Prep in the summer of 1968 under the direction of Michael Yfolfer and assisted by Robert Sylvester. The students who participated in the program were given a specified time to comprehend a certain amount of material and they .....orked al their own speed. Competition for grades was eliminated since individual evaluation were submitted instead of marks. The objectives of the program were to teach students ho..... to learn and to prOVide the opportunities and encouragement that are conducive to learning and to human gro.....th. One of the problems in organizing the program at the university was arranging for professors for CAPSULE. Mr. Regan said that the university could not afford to give "that big a piece of a professor to that small a group." Professors at Fairfield are required to teach three classes. To have a professor commit 1/3 of that load to a group of 14 students would be too much elitism. according to Mr. Regan. The students m the seminar have not experienced any alienation or feeling of elitism. Anna Albertini says that she isn't treated any differently by other students. "In the two regular courses I lake, there is no feeling of alienation," the freshman slates. Richard Canel says that people get the \\.Tong idea when they find out that he is in the seminar. He said. "They automatically think that you're in the threeyear program, and some of us aren't:' The only problem with the CAPSULE semjnar from the student view is the work load. Michael Arnold, a four-year student here who was in the Prep CAPSULE says, "The seminar requires a lot of work, about four to five books weekly." "There is a lot of reading," says Brian Askew, "upwards of seven books a week sometimes." Brian, who is planning to complete college in three years says that the work is much more demanding than it was at the Prep. Mr. Regan observes that the only problem in student adjustment to the humanities seminar was for those students drafted from the freshman class. He pointed out that the CAPSULE seminar was these six students' first experience with any type of seminar approach to education. As to the future of the program, Mr. Regan hopes to be able to personally screen the incoming freshman class when they are here for intervie.....s in the Spring. thereby hoping to Each student is required to meet with the professors on a tutorial basis at least one hour a week in addition to the regular seminar meetings. "Presently. the seminar is good," comments Mr. Regan, "The students are receiving~he approaches of four disciplines as well as tutorial sessions." major who is participating in the CAPSULE seminar states, .. It is good and I'm learning a lot." A Prep CAPSULE carry-over, Brian Askew declares. "The program here is even more than I hoped it would be." The professors involved in the seminar are also enthusiastic about it. According to them, the seminar lends itself to personal interaction between students and teachers. By Callaany.Buxton Joyce Lasln! An experiment in interdisciplinary seminars as an approach to college academics is now in prOKl'ess at Fairfield. Under the direction of Richard Regan of the English Department. CAPSULE (Creative Approach Performance in Secondary and University Level Education) has begun its first year at the university after having completed the high school phase at the Prep. The CAPSULE Program on the university level is an attempt to see if interdisciplinary approaches to learning and the use of summers will make it possible for a sludent to complete the requirements for an undergraduate degree in three years instead of the usual foof. and emerge with a good educalion. The objectives of the program are to try to coordinate a studenfs high school and college education to avoid much of the overlapping that occurs in these two levels of learning. The seminar is the heart of the CAPSULE Program. There are fourteen students ..... ho participate in the rirst year seminar, five .....omen and nine men. Eight of these .....ere in the Prep CAPSULE, Only six of those eight are continuing in the threeyear frame.....ork. The other six students in the seminar were drafted from the present freshman class after an interview with Mr. ReJtan. The first year semmar is a humanities seminar which meets twice weekly for two hours at each session. It equals core requirements in English, History, Philosophy and Religious Studies and is the equivalent of three courses. Mrs, Marianne Kent, Mr. Walter Perry. Dr. Lisa Perkins and Mr. John Engler respectively are the professors who teach in the seminar. This semester, Mr. Regan has also done some teaching but plans to serve only in a tutorial capacity for the seminar next semester. The second year seminar, worth six credits, will focus on the social sciences with the American culture as a base, Science will be the concentration of the third year (three credit) seminar with the summers being spent in fine arts and language culture programs. By annually diminishing the CAPSULE seminar equivalency, tlJe participants will be free to select courses in their major as well as general electives. Participant reaction to the humanities seminar is enthusiastic. Kathleen Costello, a mathematics major says. "I have learned so much in such a short time, and I feel that the whole experience has been quite rewarding.., Similar comments were made by Richard Canel. a Prep CAPSULE graduate who is a foor-year student here. .. I personnally find the University CAPSULE program to be extremely challenging and stimulating." Ricbard continues, "The concept of interrelating four disciplines within the scope of the seminar process makes a lot more sense than baving four different courses with little or no connection between them as is usually the case." History major Michael Arnold says that he really enjoys the seminar and the school in general. Anna Albertini, a psychology December 9. 1971 PAGE 4 THE UNIVERSITY VOICE December 9, 1971 Lisa PerkiDs Presuppositions On Prospero And Faculty Participation Prospera, they tell me, was a Duke with every right to rule. His people didn't seem to have any objection to him either; but he got so deeply involved in his books that he just forgot to notice while his brother took over. When he looked up from bis books, there he was on a desert island, and he had to use very powerful magic to get back where he belonged. Now the faculty is a little like that. We are so immersed in our books that we don't seem to notice that the "bipartite" traffic court is now assembling for the express purpose of towing our cars away if they don't like the way we answer their tickets. That court could be a tripartite court, remember? We had a chance to get some faculty members on that tribunal to make sure that not too many of our cars got hauled off the campus. It's a long walk home for a good many of us, and it might be worthwhile to make another try at putting some of our own on the board that makes the decisions. As a matter of fact, we don't seem to notice, publicly at least, that one of our own members is in the process of being hauled off the campus without benefit of little red tickets. I try to find people to present the faculty point of view on the case of Dr. Caffrey, and they tell me that they can't write on the Caffrey case for the newspaper, because the President has requested that publicity be avoided because it interferes with Due Process. So the faculty, it seems, has taken a vow of silence. But only the faculty has done this; the last long piece on the Caffrey case that I read in this newspaper was President McInnis' statement of his side of the matter, and last week I found out that the students feel perfectly free to sound off on the subject all they want, using whatever hilarious misreadings of John Dewey's philosophy and misunderstandings of religion and academic freedom appear to suit their purposes. Only faCUlty lips are locked. I find this situation rather strange, since "due process" is in no way observed as long as Dr. Caffrey does not have a contract. How is it that only the faculty can be cajoled into keeping their opinions to themselves, while "due process" does not impose silence on any other sector of the University? I like my books too, and I fervently hope for the day when the faculty can keep to reading and writing and teaching, while the administrators do the "governing," insofar as any has to be done in a university. But that day is apparently not yet; I strongly suggest that unless some members of the faculty know some pretty powerful magic, we should move immediately to secure a place on a Tripartite traffic court. Remem~r, if you let the cars be taken away, you may be next. same ilk, then my God (He too may be a communist), wbo is not a communist? This discredit on the part· of Mr. Bove, who dares to can blmself a conservative, could be nothing but a plot - by the communists, of course. How do we deal with these conspirators who are dead set against everybody. Maybe "none dare call this treason," but the John Birch Society, and its extension on this campus, Mr. Bove, are commitiDg acts of outrageous ideological paranoia. They jesl More important, they act as their leftist counterparts in each moronic charge they make against the system. Oh, something else. If Mr. Bove would avail bimself of the New Testament (be might want this one on the Index of Books), he would find the most shrill of communist doctrine that exists in literature. Does that mean that all Catholics are communists? Undoubtedly so. You New Yorkers may remember the 1966 Mayoral race between John V. Lindsay, and William F. Buckley, Jr. The John Birch Society (jolly good chaps that they are) immediately jumped to the aid of Buckley. As it turned out, Mr. Buckley refused their support; so, the Birchers gathered together in a rally, whose title was "Et tu, Bill?" (original). This political suicide was no doubt designed to cost Buckley the election· another example of the obvious communist inclinations of the John Birch Society. You see, then, as rocksolid conservatives fighting to death against conspiracy against the government, we have no choice but to brand Mr. Bove a communist and hope he immediately is subpoenaed before the House Committee on Internal Security. We could resurrect Senator McCarthy, and add another bag to his pile of targets. Et tu, Bove? Joseph lIaslen Joseph Kern Application to mail at second· class postage rates is pending at Fairfield, ConnecticuL The U.ivenlly Voice is the campus'newspaper published every Thursday during the academic year by Fairfield University. Opinions expressed herein in no way renect the official position of the University. Subscriptions are available at a yearly rate of $6.00 and may be obtained by writing to the editorial office located in Loyola Hall. Fairfield University Fairfield Conn"OM30. . Edltor,iD~"ief: Timothy Grace FutlU'e Editor: Lawrence Halloran Spon. Editor: Robert Blair Photography Edllor: Gordon Andrew Ba.iDes. MaUler: William Good ....to_yS..." George Ahlmeyer, John Altavela, Gordon Andrew, John Bussmann, Howard Rolle, Robert Saloomey, Bob Boggio/Margie Gall8lher News Staff: Bob Byrn, Kathie Enright, Mike Farrell. Cory Giacobbe, Mary Mullen, Kathy Riordan, Alicia Vel~uez. Feat.re Siaff: Cathy Buxton, Mary Donnarumma, Anton Hebenstriet, Jt;tyce Lasini, Deborah Murphy, Suzanne Seretti, Ed McKeon, Greg Guydish, Lorraine Lecesne, PatChesser. . Sperts Jerry DiPM!:tro, Tom F'"aranda, Jesse Heap, Gary McCarthy, Debbie Mongillo, Tony Miscus, Frank Cberichello, Gabe Cbericbello, Tom DeMatteo. unity among themselves and also provide a force necessary to benefit others, by working in cooperation with the following aims stated in the Commuter Club constitution: to stimulate participation between the commuting student and the community of Fairfield Univel'"Sity in social. political. athletic and academic activities: to provide information to Fairfield University of social needs in the Fairfield County area in order to formulate some type of organizational ~roups that will act to assist In the remedy of some of the immediate social ills." If the Commuter Club is not supported. a long overdue opportunity will be foresaken and the tendency for the commuter to be an estranged member of Fairfield University will be strengthened. The Commuter Central Commitlee. a nine-man committee which will govern the Commuter Club. has spent much time and effort to found a Commuter Club to counteract the detachment of such a large portion of our University. All are encouraged to attend the first meeting of the Commuter Club. which will be announced shortly. Sincerely, Dale Esposito Bove. ACommuist'? Recent developments on the political batUefield of Fairfield University show us the unusual finaglings of one Nicolas Bove. Supposedly, as he alludes, the threat of communism is a dangerous one. Indeed, it has shown itself so subUy in the pulpit, classroom, and even in "Joe's Corner Grocery Store" (oranges are almost red, you know). Mr. Bove has assumed himself to be, as most Birchers inevitably do, the savior of American Society - a kind of "don Quixote" of the political right. If Mr. Bove would allow us, we have somewhat of a reputation of being political conservatives, so we would hope that we would oot be branded communists also, but we too are concerned with the state of American society. We find this undercurrent of p-ropaganda, at least, frustrating. Undoubtedlr, when the communists tried to fluoridate the water, no one lifted a (inger in defense cavities, trenchmouth, pyorrhea, and the like - that is, all except for the John Birch Society. Robert Welch and bis entourage of eminenUy qualified braintrust of caodymakers felt sure that this, and other such actions, were propagated br. "the scoundrels on the left... ' and., of course, could go unnoticed. If Earl Warren, and now they tell us, Warren Burger, are both agents of the communists, and indeed, the team of Hasten-Kern is of the A Communist? To the Editor: In his bitter personal attack on Prof. Walter Petry in last week's Voice, Mr. Stephen O'Brien showed a shallow, paternalistic viewpoint of one who is completely oblivious to the presence of God to other men. We have come a long, stran~e way down when our "Catholic commitment" sparks the disrespect I found in his letter. No, Stephen, we are not listening to you, or Ignatius, not when you speak in the context of personal batred. You seem to have more respect for the words of a long dead visionary (whose vision at last begins to fade) than you have for the life of the men around you. But perhaps that is the result of "the Catholic commitment (which) remains aBd will remain the same." I never knew Santa Claus to be blind though. Patrick Delaney '72 Personal Attack Tenure Dear Editor: In the editorial OIl this page of Nov. 11, I said that if a university Is cburcb related aDd is governed by a board of trustees with the understudiag tbat tbe university seeks to promote that religioa thea the board bas the right to require adbereoce to its purpose in this regard." This statemellt bas substantially c:banged iathe last year. The A.A,U.P. statement OIl academic Freedom and Tenure now bo5ds that "most cburcbrelated institutiODS 110 longer need or desire the departure from the: priDciple of academic freedom implied in the: HMO Statement aDd we do DOt BOW endorse sucb a departure." This important revisioa was made in Irl'O aDd I was DOt aware of Its e.zisteDce UIlW DOW. SiDce the purpo:se of my editorial was to promote u.nderstaDding of tenure ill our university I bope this correcUorJ will be DOted. Perhaps tbe discrepancy betweell the two statements will provide even anotber aspect to consider in the Caffery case. Sincerely, Karen Porco '74 Reports, "Academic Freedom and Teaure, 1940 Statement of Principles and Interpretive Comments" A.A.U.P.BulletiD 56:3 pg. 323. Commuters -----Letlers---- Parking To the Editor: As a fuJI-time paying student at Fairfield UDiversity I believe that there are certain rights that should be allo~ 10 each studenL A cue in point is the way the uDiversity is handling the parking problem. The problem uists for both commuters aDd resideDt studeDts a.like. As far as resideat students are coocerned, this is their bome for 9 months out of the year. SiDce when do you have to pay 10 keep a car at your borne? For the commuter be bas poyed 12000 to rome to """"'Part and parcel of that money should be the rigbt to part your car and attend classes. U the purpose of the sticker is 10 collect money then they are going about it the wrong way because they only collect the dollar once. If they want to charge somebody they should charge the visitors comiDg into the university. This would solve two problems: 1. It would serve to collect revenue for the university. 2. The amount of traffic coming through the university would be cut considerably. For I know in many cases where the university is used as a thoroughfare for Fairfield residents. So the solution is this: Each student should be allowed free access to parking facilities on campus. He should receive a sticker on payment of his tuition to put on his car, attesting to the fact that his is a member of the Fairfield community. Eacb visitor should be charged a nominal fee for entering the university. This would serve 10 both reduce traffic and produce income for the university. M. Knight Commuter '73 The proposed constitution for a Commuter Club was passed al lhe last Studenl Legislature meeting by a comfortable majority. With the passin/;!: the Commuter Club constit·", the gound work is laid for U' , "sed and meaningful commuter participation at Fairfield University and in the outside Fairfield Community. However. the support of the commuters and other students on campus is needed for the successful implementation of our mUlual aims. The members of the Commuter Club can achieve a easy enough to sketch the general guidelines. He should certainly have become acquainted with the development of his culture and its great literary and artistic works. To develop a critical stance toward his culture he should be able to approach it from another by one or more foreign languages handled with ease. Students who have read virtually no Shakespeare, have no idea why the political party system developed in America, and are unable to read a simple foreign newspaper are not yet prepared for higher education. Equally important is a proficiency in the sciences. A knowledge of the behavior of the physical world in at least one of its major aspects, and competence in the mathematical means to express reality are crucial. A student with this type of preparation is qualified to undertake the kind of higber education he deserves. The student who is not so qualified and is unwilling to acquire the preparation probably does not belong in collere. ROBERTLCOX The role of higher education is nol merely to continue secondary education in giving a general knowledge of the world nor is it to train individuals for jobs. The former need not lake sixteen years (e.ven twelve may be too long), the latter can be done far more efficiently elsewhere. The university seeks to develop a critical understanding of one's culture and the external world, but to do so implies intellectual work resting on the basis of a high level of general education already attained. The quality and content of previous education are thus of great impOrlanc.e to the university faculties who presuppose certain knowledge and skills in their students. Most essential (but often lacking) is the ability to read, write and speak one's own language with precision and sophistication. The level of the student's ability to comprehend and use the language determines the level at which he can absorb and communicate knoWledge. Although the exact content which may be presupposed in the student's education is variable beyond this essential basis, it is -----------------~-----------_..._..._.-- '----------------------- By RoItert By~---' THE UNIVERSITY VOICE PAGE. proposals. and witholding of stale licenses from private clubs that discriminate against minority groups. 85% of the non-attorney members in the House and 74% of the non-attorney members in he Senate also voted against the CCi..U positions. the article said. But the educators. in the eyes of CCLU. did better. "Ooly one QCCUpational group-academic or those in education·related fields • voted for the CCLU position in a majority of issues • 75% in the House and 61% in the Senate, the article noted. When Governor Meskill was asked on a TV interview recently about his feelings towards the CCLU, he was reported to have said. according to the article: "I do not have a high opinioll of the CCLU and I question their selectioo of cases. ' 1275 Post Rd. opposite Fairfield Post Office Health Foods Macrobiotics High Prolien Organic Groceries exams. D. For minority sludents (academic qualifications waived): 1. The Ignatius Loyola Gold Cup - Awarded as an in~ntive to any student who wishes to enter the Jesuit order. Presentation made only upon ordination. F. For faculty members only: I. The Gold Watch (donated by the teacher evaluation committee I - Presented to the professor who is most often found to be late for class. Agold leaf calander will be awarded to the teacher who cuts the greatest number of classes. 2. The Citation of Merit for Action Beyond the Call of Duty (presented by the Academic Council) - The most coveted and treasured of all faCUlty prizes. Granted to the faculty member who is ranked "most hated by his students". Traits to be looked for in possible candidates include a low rating on the teacher evaluation and a high percentage of denunications in the free Press. E. For both professors and students: 1. Endurance Awards: a. The Rudolph Bannow Sterling Silver Microscope . Given to the student or teacher who lasts through an entire lab period without falling asleep. b. The Lihrarian's Achievement Award - Acrystal miniature of the Nyselius Library to the scholar who can read for the longest time under a buzzing lighL _.*111II.__ Open 5 p.m. Westport • Mltlord Connecticut State legislators from only one occupational group - academics - received applause from the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union for the way they voted in the last General Assembly. Lawyers. on the other hand. had the worst CCLU recor-d commenting on an unsigned article headlined ,.Attorney Members of State Legislature...have weak Civil Liberty Voting Records" which appears in the November issue of the CCLU house organ Slate Chairman Donald Holtman states "It's obvious that few of the attorneys in the General assembly really understand the principles upon which our democracy is based." Holtman added that the lawyer lawmakers. by their actions "chip away at the Bill of Rights.•, Seventy-nine per~nt of the attorney members of the State House of Representatives voted against the CCLU position on a majority of key issues, including removal of criminal sanctions from the state's abortion law, abolition of the death penalty. a test of the constitutionality of war, invasion of privacy by wiretapping, and a one-year residency requirement for welfare recipients. In the 36 member Senate, 69% of the 13 lawyer members voted against CCLU positions on wiretapping, weUare residency B. For students with a Q.P_ average above 2.S: 1. The Robert Bellarmine in Exile Memorial Scholarship· A lour-year. full~tuition schoiarship good at any school other than Fairfield. The recipient of this prize' must agree to transfer immediately. Should his Q.P. at another college fall below 2.S, however. he may return to Fairfield. C. For all students: l. The Pathetic Man Trophy (donated by the Psychology ClubI . To the student who can demonstrate the most convincing mental and physical collapse on the final day of examinations. A valid breakdoYi11 shall be defined as one which has been brought about solely as the result of protracted periods of study. On the appointed day a trained team of experts from the Biology and Psychology Departments will be present to differentiate true collapses from feigned attacks. 2. Fraud of the Term Certificate • Presented to the student .....ho complains the most about unfinished work. but gets the least done. 3. Crammer Extraordinary - A titular honor bestowed on any scholar wbo successfully completes all the assignments given during the t.....o .....eeks between Thanksgiving and CCLU Praises Prof. average lower than 2.S: I. The Friend of the Dean's Award (donated by Fr. Coughlin) • In recognition of the student who has done the most to keep the gradetlistribution low. in The Middle Honoring the Scholar Unfortunately the report overlooked the fact that the socalled legal party. the CPUSA, was (I) an important part of the international Communist apparatus: (2) it was directed by the Communists in Moscow; (3) its leaders openly proclaimed that they intended to use the academic profession to help overthrow the United States Government. This shocking report was printed in the Spring 1948 issue of the AAUP's Bulletin. Defends Reds In 1953. the AAUP CQndcmned all legislative investigations of Communists. During the 1956 AAUP convention, Washington University was condemned because ils administration fired two Communist Professors. The AAUP then proceeded to censure sIJ: other institutions for firing individuals who had refused to deny. under oath. Communist affiliations. In 19S8. the AAUP instituted its annual AleJCander Meiklejohn award (named in honor of a nOLOrious Communist fellow traveler). In 1962. Arthur Fleming won it for allowing Gus Hall. chairman of the U.S. Communist Party, to speak at the University of Oregon. Attacked by Sidney Hook Even Sidney Hook. a very liberal professor from NYU. has commented that the AA p's special committee on Academic Freedom and Teoure in the Quest lor National Security: &GeIOll to advocate a polley wllieb seemiagly SUa"ts thae • collegl! Is act..Uy lailial ID Its educaeioGal d.ty .Blen members of tbe Communist Parey are teadlol 00 Campul. A statement such as that coming from a very distinguished liberal professor in the academic world reveals quite an insigbt into the true nature of the AAUP. I .....ould like to emphasize that the AAUP is not a Communist organization and that not all of its members are Communists. It is obvious, however. that recently it has seemed to defend Communists and fifth amendment pleaders at every tum. It has used the pious cry of "academic freedom" to defend those who openly seek to pervert education and use it as a weapon to destroy America. I seriously wonder whether an organization such as this should be worthy of the respect it seems to hold among some of the faculty members of Fairfield University. aHilialioa with that parey ID aod of itself should DOl be regarded as justifiable reason for exclusloDs (rom tbe academic professioo. basis for his own approach to learning, will be orrered during the Spring 1972 semester. In addition to these courses, the program will include interdisciplinary seminars, such as the one on the future. These are designed so that students can pursue specific problems in depth and are open to all undergraduate students. regardless of whether they are enrolled in the Innovative Studies Program. Beginning next spring. 30 students in good standing who have accumulated fewer than 30 hours of credits will be admitted to the program each semester. Admittance is based on an essay artd interview. "Participants in the program will not be chosen on the basis of their previous academic records, but rather on their seriousness of intenl, intellectual competence and awareness of the issues relevant to the program and themselves," Professor Norman Leer. coordinator of the program, advised. Because a major goal of the program is that courses should be generated through close interaction of faculty and students. a committee of faculty and students will govern the program. So loog as tile CommuDist Parey In tile Uaited States is a lela I political party, The lask of the CommuDist Party must be first aDd foremost to arouse tbe classconsciousness aDd eo orgaolle tbem iato tile Amerlcao Federatloo of Teachers. Especial anention must be paid to secure sud action with tbe AAUP. Especial attention was. indeed. paid to the AAUP. Observe the Jollowing report issued by a special committee of the AAUP in 1947. Many teachers today .....ould do well to heed the preceding quotation. In 1940. a similar report was published which defended academic freedom and reiterated the responsibility which such freedom entailed to professors. The AAUP and tbe Commuaist Party In the meantime. ho.....ever. the AAUP had attracted the attention of the Communist Party. Writing In The Communist ("The SChool's and the People's Front." May 1937. pp. 432-433). Richard Frank stated: Chicago, 111. - (l.P.)· Students at Roosevelt University are looking into the future as part of a special innovative seminar. Entitled "Visions of the Future." the seminar. which was developed at the request of students and planned with their assistance. is being orrered for the first time. It is part of Roosevelt's new Innovative Studies Program. an experimental program designed as an alternative to the traditional methods and curricula of edu.cation. Because the Innovative Studies Program emphasizes self· directed learning, the student will receive credit for this course by creating a project that defines his own vision of the future. The Heart of the Innovative Studies Program is the core sequence of four courses required of aU students electing the program. These courses, which will be team·taught by two faculty members. are seminars which introdu~ the student to the major fields of study: humanities, social sciences and natural scien~s. The first of the four core courses, "Introduction to Learning," designed to help the student develop a philosophical Decfrober9,1971 One School's Vision. With the first semester rapidly drawing to a close and scholarly competition keener than ever before, the Dean's oHlce has announced that it will award a limited number of academic prizes to deserving teachers and sludenls. In Fr. Coughlins' words, "These awards will serve as an impetus for both students and professors to strive (or even grealer perfection in that noblest of professions, studying. I think that ifs about time that we separated the true scholars from 0>" phonies." To qualify for one of the awards you need not have paid your Student Government Activities Fee or AAUP dues. In fact those who have not paid stand a better chance of winning. The catagaries and prizes are as BEDROOM SCENE - crowded dormitory conditions may have follows: (orced this move to the great outdoors. A. For students with a Q.P. $f~«-The Conservative Comer:::::~~;;:;~~y.:::::"~:::::.,,,-:::::x:::::=:::::::::::::::::::-«,.x::::::xz: * x I Fairfield and the AAUP ii ~, N°hl JIo ;\ ';««:::::::::::::-X«·~,::::X::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~,*:::::::::::::::~-::::::::::::::::-.::::::::::m*::::::::::.::. Ie 0as. Ye~: The recent Caffrey controversy confronted our academic community with the diHicult questions of academic freedom and academic tenure. Probably the most important organization in the middle of this controversy is the American Association of University Professors. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded in 1915. As of 1970. the AAUP has had as its main con~rns academic freedom and academic tenure. Academic Freedom The following is an eJC~rpt from the first major statement on academic freedom issued by the AAUP in 1926. No teacber may claim as bl' rigbt tile privilege of dlscusslag iD bis clasuoom controversial topics outside bis OWl! field of study. Tbe teacher is morally (emphasis mille) booDel Dot to take advantage of bis posllioo by htrod.dag iDlo tbe classroom provocative discusioDS of irrelevant subjects DOl witbia die field of "is slady. I must say that even I could agree with such a sentiment.
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Title | University Voice - Vol. 02, No. 13 - December 09, 1971 |
Date | December 09 1971 |
Description | The University Voice, the official student newspaper of Fairfield University, was published weekly during the academic year (September - June) and ran from Oct. 1, 1970 - May 11, 1977. |
Notes | A timeline for Fairfield University student newspapers is as follows: The Tentative, Nov. 7, 1947 - Dec. 19, 1947; The Fulcrum, Jan. 9, 1948 - May 20, 1949; The Stag, Sept. 23, 1949 - May 6, 1970; The University Voice, Oct. 1, 1970 - May 11, 1977; The Fairfield Free Press & Review, Sept. 10, 1970 - Apr. 24, 1975; The Fairfield Mirror, Sept. 22, 1977 - present. |
Type of Document | Newspaper |
Original Format | Newsprint; black-and-white; ill.; 11 x 17 in. |
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Date Digital | 2010 |
Publisher | Students of Fairfield University |
Place of Publication | Fairfield, Conn. |
Source | Fairfield University Archives and Special Collections |
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Identifier | UV19711209 |
SearchData | Dec. 9, 1971 E ....-culd help the university in its operations this year, Mr. Hickson replied: ··the pay freeze expired on November 13. and we are hopeful that the retroactive salaries may be paid. At the present time we are submitting a special request to the Federal Pay Board to seek recouping of retroactive pay for the 10 .....eeks ending November 13. and we expect that the board will render a general ruling regarding faculty salaries in the near future. In any eventuality. the budget will not be significantly altered ... The balance sheet shows property and assets worth nearly $32 million. This reflects an increase in total assets of $5.3 million over the previous year. About 72% of the assets are in buildings and grounds. The capital debt on the properly amounts to almost $11 million, with about half of this payable on long term loans to the government. "Since the univerSIty does not own an endowment. it must pay for its building and other assets out of operating funds. gIfts and public subSidies," Mr. Hickson stated. "It is the primary responsibility of the Development Office to seek oul philanthropic support ror ,the University through our capital fund raising. annual giving programs and solicitation of business and other organizations." stated Darrell W. Ryan, director of university relations. under whose supervision the Development Office operates. The largest single item of income to the university was represented by tuitions and rees. Over 63% of all operating revenues were received from this source. with the remainder derived from grants. auxiliary enterprises (mainly room and board) and governmentsupported student financial aid. The chief expendiwre of funds was for instructional purposes. 36% of all operating expenses .....ere devoted to that category, with another 18% going to auxiliary enterprises. Plant maintenance. administratIon. student financial aid programs. and student services were the next largest items of expens<:. The financial plight or private colleges and universities has received growing publicity in recent months. A recent report by Professor William Jellema. research director of the Association of American Colleges. indicated that the average private college had operated at a deficit in 1969-70 of over $131.000 - even worse than had been originally predicted. Prof. Jellema warned that "some 365 of the nation'S private colleges and universities may be ready 00 close their doors by t981 unless immediate aid is forthcoming." He noted that in addition to running at a deficit and in spite of effo;is to improve their liscal position by more efficient managemeot, "operations have been curtailed. (Continued on Page 71 business and finance. "to the implementation of management systems which prOVide better control of our spending, the cooperation of the Divisions in utilizing these systems. and the realization of additional nontuition income from outside sources. "In order to continue this trend," Mr. Hickson continued, "we found it necessary 00 increase tuition for the current year. which will permit the university to operate in the black. even with a budgeted 10.6% faculty salary increase that had been agreed upon last spring. It is, however. as important to keep other sources of income rising as it is to keep expenses down if a balanced budget is to be attained this fiscal year," he warned. Asked whether me pay freeze • UNIVERSITV • I FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT THE Campus Songsters to Perform Sunday The chorus made Its debut lasl spring when It performed a contemporary setting by Westport's Gay Mebegan of Franck's "Paris Angelicus." with English lyrics and jazz accompaniment. The chorus. comprisedtlf 40 Fairfield co-eds. is directed by Andrew Heath of the university's Music Department. The Madrigal Society will present "'Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella"; "Joseph Dearest. Joseph Mine": Michael Praetorius' "Lo. How a Rose E'er Blooming": "The Annunciation." from Brahms' '''Marienlieder'': "The Carol of the Russian Children": the traditional "What Child Is This"; and a Kentucky ballad. "The Cherry Tree carol." featuring tenor soloist Paul Klein. The society was begun last February when a group of faculty members decided to form a singing group. with Mr. Heath serving as music director. The group subsequently has expanded with voices drawn from throughout the area. The society has built a repertoire of sixteenth and early seventeenth century English and European madrigals, and is planning a spring madrigal performance. Area members of the Madrigal Society include sopranos M~s. William Moffitl. Easton, MISS Nancy Tyrrell, Westport, and Dr. Mariann Kent, or Fairfield's Department of English: altos Mrs. C. Michael Thornburg. Fairfield, and Mrs, Leila Lenagh, Westport: tenors William Moffitt.. Easton. Paul Klein Weston. Rev. C. Michael Thor~burg of Fairfield's Department of Theology, and Rev. Joseph C. Devine. S.J., Department of Religious Studies at the university: and basses Dr. R. James Long. Department of Philosophy. Dr. Richard Regan, Departmenlof English, and Dr. Edward Dew. Department of History and Politics, all with Fairfield l'niversity. Vol. 2, No. 13 fairfield's newly formed Women's Chorus and Madngal Society will present a public program of Christmas music for area residenls on Sunday. December 12. featuring madrigal music from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The university's Women's Chorus and its Madrigal Society will offer carols, and the chorus will perform Benjamin Britten's celebrated "Ceremony of Cards." at 4 p.m. in the Campus Center Oak Room. At 7 p.m. that evening a mass will be celebrated in the university's Loyola Chapel. with appropriate music of the season being offered. Harpist John Senior III. of Fairfield. and sopranos ancy Siowick and Adrienne Micei. will be featured in "Ceremony of Cards_" The Universily completed the 1970-71 fiscal year with a small operating surplus. according 00 the official auditors' figures released. today. The report. by the auditing form of Charles Bo.utati and Company. reveals that for the 12 months ending June 30. 1971. the University's income was $7.304,186 and it expended $7.%39,479 for its operations. The net balance of $64.707 was applied to the payment of previous debts on operations. For the previous year the university had recorded an operating loss of $419.000, on total operating expenditures of $6.1 million and revenues of $5.7 million. "The turnaround from an operating deficit to a surplus was due," according to John M. Hickson. vice president of Audit Says University In The Black After 1970-71 AItTIST PAUL NONAY - dito'sptI lIOIDe of his wort at the opening of his art show JastSuDday in the Oak Room. Pow T.rJIOlIl "When the people realJzed what was going on they were really upset..·· says Callahan. adding that it was just that kind of thing which suggests we are giving instead of sharing. The people of Appalachia. by and large. are very proud, despite their impoverished conditions. he notes. This winter's trip was scheduled to be the largest of the year, but only 15 or 16 students expressed any interest in it. according to Callahan. Regardless of the poor turnout. the senior who hopes to join either VISTA or the Peace Corps after graduation does not think that student interest is waning. "We never have any trouble finding people to make these trips. This year's problems was caused, I think. by poor publicity and the fact that many students have to work over the holidays." be said. interaction with the people. as much sharing of cultures as we can possibly achieve." In the past., success was often measured by the number of trees cut down or amount of brush cleared for some short-handed farmer. Work willi GleDmary In addition. this trip will try to integrate as many other cullural activities into the daily schedule as possible. Volunteers and residents often gather to share musical interests. for instance. "Everything we do will be aimed at treating these people as peers. We have got to get rid of the Savior complex." contends callahan. When in Kentucky. Fairfield students work through the G1enillary mission set up there. Brother AI Bebm will be directing this winter's projects with the assistance of callahan. Pat Delaney '72, and Ray Degennaro ·n. Callahan explains that only because of the trust that the people in Vanceburg have developed in that mission are students from here readily accepted.. He recounts an incident which occurred during a spring trip four years ago which caused relations to be strained for some time. A New York l.v. film crew appeared in Vanceburg following up a tip thal college students would be giving up their spring vacation to work there for the people. Students to Head for Appalachia St. Mike's Prof. to Speak Here By Tlmothy Graee Another group of Fairfield students .....iIltrek to Vanceburg, Kentucky during the midsemester break this year, but according to group leader Jim Callahan '72. the main thrust of this winter's expedition will be radically changed. Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern Kentucky's Lewis County, Vanceburg's underdeveloped community has been the site of many social action trips for Fairfield students during spring and winter vacations over the past five or six years. CbagiD, A. Anil. Callahan, who has played a key role in both the organization and running of these sojourns during the past three years, explains that. in previous years, the emphasis bas always been placed on bow much we can "give to these poor people; or how much we can do (or them." 14 undergraduates and two graduate students will be in Vanceburg from January 1-7 trying to change the trip's theme from "giving things to the people to sharing things with them," says the senior from Brockton, Mass. "We still plan to perform some manual labor in a cooperative housing program as well as pUlling the finishing touches on a farmhouse we are reconstructing for me volunteers to live in. but, our main interest is working with as opposed to working for the people of Lewis County.. , "Our emphasis.·· he adds. "Will be aimed toward as much On Deeember 9 at 8:00 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Room, me Philsophy Academy will present the second in its series of guest lectures. Speaking will be John J. Hanagan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont. In his lecture, entitleiJ "The Search for a Meaningful God," Professor Hanagan will analyze some contemporary conceptualizations of Deity - in particular those based on Blondelian Phenomenology tDewart and 8aum) and Whileheadean Process Philosophy (Hartshorne). In the context of this analysis. Professor Hanagan will proceed to reinterpret the spirit of Aquinas' approach to the problem of God. stressing the role which pre-reClective religiOUS experience plays in the development of the "five ways." Adiscussion period will follow in which both faculty and students are encouraged to participate. Professor Hanagan received his B.A. in Philosophy from Providence College and his M.A. from the University of Detroit where he was a Graduate Teaching Fellow. He pursued graduate work at the University of Toronto where he is completing his doctoral dissertation on the Development of the Doctrine of Relation in the Thirteenth Century_ While at Toronto he was an Honour's Tutor in the HislOry of Mediaeval Philosophy. Professor Hanagan currently teaches in the Department of Philosophy at SL Michael's College (Winooski). He is well known for both i~teresting and stimulating lectures - a fact recognized by his students in twice honoring him with the Faculty Appreciation Award. PAGEt THE UNIVERSITY VOICE December 9, 1971 Oberlin President Seeks Change Bard's "Midsummer" Tonight New Di'ectory Adds Sinplidty to Phone BlUes additional fellOWship studies in Italy and Holland. His work has been shown in 25 group exhibits in Italy, Rumania, Hungary, Germany and the United States, and he has had 12 one-man showings here and abroad. Mr, Nonay is also the winner or many prizes for his works, among them the Connecticut Academy Prize, Ford Foundation Purchase. and the Eastern States Art E1hibit Prize. Ezamples of his work can I)e fOllnd in such outstanding art collections as the Conover-Mast, Permanent Collection, New York; the Westport Permanent Art Collection; the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Spl'"inrfield, Massachusetts; and the Museum of Art. Science and Industry, Bl'"idgeport. among others, The Fairfield University ezhibit will contain Nonay drawings, paintings and collages, and all works on display will be for sale to the public. Gallery hours will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m, daily through December 19. Reading like a cross between a Sons of Erin membership roster and the membership list of the United Nations, a new book bas found its way onto the Fairfield campus, It's the new compact 1971 Fairfield University telephone direclOry, which lists everything and everybody you might want to call on the administrative and faculty staffs, and there isn't a Smith to be found anywhere in it. The easy-to-use book includes a comprehensive rererence on how to get "Ma Bell's" equipment to do what you want it wdo. For instance, if you should want to call off campus within the Fairfield. Bridgeport, Westport and Trumbull dialing areas, all yOll need do is dial ..g" to reach Bell's equipment, and then the seven-digit number. If you should want to call elsewhere in Connecticut or the Northeast., it gets a bit more complicated, Simply dial the switchboard ·"0"- identify yourself and the campus phone number rrom which you are calling, and ask the operator for a WATS line to the area you wish to call. If you fail to complete the WATS call, notify the switchboard immediately so that the charge will not be allocated to you. For calls inside Connecticut, dial "I" plus the seven digit number, and for calls outside the state dial "1" plus the area code and the seven digit number, Calls on campus are made by simply dialing the three digit number listed in the left-hand column of the directory. At night, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m., all incoming calls are handled by the Security Department dispatcher. He will process them and inform you of the extension number to dial to reach your party. WATS line calls during the same period can be made by calling the Security dispatcher on "558", and he will inform you or the number to dial to connect with your long distance call, From 11 p.m. to 8 a,m.. oncampus dialing and local of(campus dialing is handled on a normal direct dial basis. This and other handy information can be found in the first rew pages of the new university directory; all the caller need do to avoid the "that darned phone syndrome" is use it. No",ax Displays Art in Oak Room Show Covering governance of the college, President Fuller said, "It is wrong for students to pass through an educational ':~~t~ a~bo~~in haO~os~~ institution functions in political and fiscal terms." He said that Oberlin has an obligation "to discover and test new forms or gov~rnance through which authority and responsibility are shared by all members or the community," In another area. President Fuller reported that Oberlin will seek "to prOVide for the periodic self-renewal or the members of its learning community." Such steps, he said, should include eliminating required student withdrawal for academic reasons, as well as a new sabbatical policy for all faculty and staff members, FollOWing his immigration to this country from Hungary, internationalll acclaimed artist Paul Nonay 0 Weston did a stint as a house-painter with a Stamford construction firm, and he has since piled up an impressive list or American artistic credits to add to those earned in Europe. A \loide selection of Nonay's prolific artistic output will go on display. beginning with a public reception for the artist, on December 4 at 4 p.m, in Fairfield University'S campus Center. Listed in "Who's Who in the East" and "Who's Who in Amel'"ican Art", the works of Nonay have been described by art critic William Fatula as "instilled with an immediately identiCiable uniqueness ." having an embossed, third dimensional effect which adds perspective and engrossing interest. "Conceived primarily as paintings," he says, "the subjects acquire a sculptured characteristic reminiscent or time-«oded tablets and ancient icons with the artist's deft collage and meticulous assemblage. _ "The delicate patterns or textiles fashioned Into creative designs acquire a massive solidity and depth of imagery with the artist's encrustation technique, "His sensitive use or colors lends pleasing-to-behold appeal ... Hungarian-born Nonay received his art training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, and later studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Germany, doing Sllake.peare Campaay, provWIa& "1M f.Unl ate of 1M Slaaknpeareu lezl 011 fum.." bcladed ill lIle east are David Waner, ud Dtaaa RIU· M admi"" cbr,e 01 U' trill be dar'Je4 10 def y 1M e..x.p.mte of 1M A moden fUm rndit_ of William SUknpeare'. "A M....mmer N '. Dream" will be .,.. e4 by 1M Eqll'" Deparlmsl '-'P' a' 7:. p,m, ia Gouqa A"ltoriua, Directed by Peler UaU, 1M fUm appIin ehlemporary ctaeaaalk &eebl..n Ie 1M players af nile a.yat making the student responsible for all final decisions regarding his education. He said he feels that preproressional training the liberal arts - is still valid for most students and he advocates continuing the strong and intensive major but not requiring it. "What is important," he said, "is lO study something in depth in order to be able to recognize what does constitute a real understanding or anything." The Education Commission, the president reported, will ask for "a whole set of new problemoriented or thematic programs, which would complement ezistinll: departments, in such areas as human development, inter-arts, science and sociely, environmental science, brain· modeling, ACro-American and Asian studies, etc," job, and 34 percent of the housewives hold down jobs. in order to support the "American dream," Dr. Anderson's paper for HECUS is part of the organization's continuing research inlO area needs, and to help in the planning of the greater Bridgeport area's future, HECUS member organizations are Bridgeport Engineering Institute, Fairfield University, Housatonic Community College, Sacred Heart University, an'd the University or Bridgeport, "The fact that dope addiction is as high in Brentwood as in Brooklyn gets lost in the whir of rotary lawn mowers," he says, "That a third of the weUare recipients are women whose husbands have deserted because they couldn't juggle three jobs and 'meet all the payments," Dr'l Anderson notes, is handled "respectably... And, he points out, less than half of Brentwood's men are working one 4O-hour per week job. Fifty-five percent of the men are either working extensive overtime or a second "Looking ahead a decade or so, I can imagine a college community that mirrors the world's peoples and cultures, in numbers roughly proportional to their presence on earth, Such a college would be the rirst oneworld living learning community. Its rate might predict mankind·s." PresideDt Fuller. who is one of 20 student and faculty commissioners of Oberlin's reform • studying Education Commission, reported that the body will propose further moves in the college's trend toward Oberlin, Ohio - (I.P.) - Robert W. Fuller, Oberlin College's 34year- old president. recently called for major revisions in the college's enrollment, curriculum, and policies', Essentially, these changes would rurther develop trends already under way on campus. President Fuller addressed some 1.500 members of the college community at a meeting in Finney Chapel. To extend Oberlin's commitment to cultural diversity, made in the 1960's, President Fuller asked that the college's faculty, starr, and student body renect the national population in percentage or minority-gr6up members. Oberlin's current minoritygroup enrollment is about seven percent. The president and the • faculty-student Committee on Special Educational Opportunities recommend that this rigure be doubled in the next two to three years, and has determined that the financial support to individuals which this would require is within the college's means, "A culturally diverse community is a better educational environment," said President Fuller, "for all its members, or whatever racial and cultural backgrOllnds. Report to HECUS Anderson Sees Suburban Future CAMPUS BEAUTIES - Fairfield co-eds modeled winter fashions carried in local shops at the secood aMuII fashion show sponsored by the girls residence hall council. They are, from left to right Susan Yales. Clair Gillen, Cindy SChultz. Kathy Morrissey. Mildred Bruno, and Karen Geary. By 1980 over 80 percent of the naLion's population will be in the suburbs and paying dearly for it. according to Arthur L. Anderson. assistant professor of Sociology at Fairfield University, Fairfield, ConnectiC1Jt. His prediction C()mes in a report compiled for the Higher Education Center for Urban Studies \HECUSI, a c(lnsortium of nve southwestern Connecticut institutions of higher learning, headquartered in Bridgeport. Connecticut. Since 1870, he says. there has been a steady trend to suburban living, with the nation's cities serving as way-stations to the "American dream," To the city dweller, suburbia is a goal and the city-line a moat, Dr, Anderson notes. Once there, the newcomer says, "Now that I'm across, pull up the ladder," Dr. Anderson's paper analyzes the relationship between New York City and its suburbs, His hypothesis is that the relationship between the city and its suburbs is one of complete interdependency, though also one of antagonism, The author points out that urbanization is one of the most momentous changes in our recent social organization, and has been brOllght about by the transition of our population, when the society changed from an agricultural to an industrial economy, Per capita farm output, he points out, has risen dramatically. As recently as 1954 one U,S, farm produced enough food to sustain only 18 people, whereas in 1970 the same farm's average output could sustain 44 people due to increased technology in farming methods. Consequenlly the trend to suburban living began by farmers moving to metropolitan areas, with city dwellers beginning to build their homes in areas which were once farmland, Dr, Anderson says, "The suburbanite's departure from the city represents a reaction against 'urbanism' and a search for a new life style· a life style which was first established in American society by the old Protestant upper class at the turn of the century," He also points out that the suburbanite is strongly opposed to any regional planning that will threaten his class interests, ..Any regional planning proposal that wOllld incorporate New York City into the tax structure of the suburbs is resisted to the point of violence," he says. "While New York City and its suburbs stand in symbiotic relationship to each other - the upper middle class relies on the City's jobs and the entire Island relies on the City culturally" - it is basically an antagonistic relationship, Play Review SHE LOVES ME CAPSULE Goal: 3 Years and a Good Education DOES SHE LOVE ME? - asks playhouse slar Robert Unkel as he reads a letter from his unknown lover. PAGE 3 •In easily made him the leading figure of the play. And he had a hard time establishing that prominance in the face of the volatile Mr. Maraczck. Mitchel Syp's smooth VOlce. clever accent and sweepmg gestures along With hiS ability to be sombre yet dignified make his song "Days Gone By" the most memorable of the show_ The rest of the music In the play is rather forgettable. with a few bright spots like Clerk SiPOS' (William Graham I philosoph)' in "Perspecuve". "don't lose your job." Although not radio show tunes. the music of SHE LOVES ME is pleasant and frequent. .....hich is what a musical is all about. The play SHE LOVES ME had its Broadway opening m April 1963 at the Eugene O·~ell Theatre under the direction of Hal Prince. It is based on Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszo·s 1936 romantic comed\' PARFUMERIE. . Bea drop You're welcome 24 hours a day. For Coffee An' DONUTS ~ On The Circle play .....ould end much too soon. Finally the face-to-face meeting is set. Both parties are nervous all day, getting on each others nerves on the job. BUl the evening is a disaster. Finally. the Christmas spirit wins out as George admits that he is the allegedly fat. bald and aged "Dear Friend." There are numurous sub-plots which prOVide song material more than real action on stage, and make the play somewhat long. Mr. Kodaly. a Maraczek clerk. complica'tes the life of Miss Ritter. played by Brenda B1issel. She is forever falling for his soft. romantic line even after he has stood her up time after time. Student Cast Composed primarily of students, the cast is active and energetic on stage. while faltering VOiceS and inaudible I)Tics often detract from the performance. Miss Conlin's voice stood above the rest. while Mr. Unkel's poise and composure By Larry Halloran Agoinst the competition of losing-basketball thrillers, "big" hockey games and frantic preparation for exams, SHE LOVES ME began its eightperformance run at the Fairfield University Playhouse last weekend. The play will be seen again tonight. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Curtain time is 8:30 p.m. Tickets are available. The story of t.....o mail-order lovers' fateful meeting. SHE LOVES ME musically charms its way through a very simple and unoriginal plot. George Nowak, played by Robert Unke!. has been writing to his lover for some time - a lover he has never met. "Oear Friend'·, as George is known to his female parcel·post partner. is dutifully answered by Miss Amalia Balash. portrayed by Maureen Conlin. No Secret Neither of them seems to be able to figure out what everyone else on stage and off knows from the beginning - the two .....ork in the same shop. a parfumerie owned by one Mr. Maraczek. At one point, two shop clerks comment that Miss Balash and Mr. Nowak fight so because "They like each other." His observation is countered with "Even if we told them. they'd never believe us." If they did believe him. the High Court Bars le.hearing The u.s. Supreme Court has turned down a petition for rehearing a suit seeking to halt government funds for construction at four churchrelated colleges in Connecticut. The colleges are Albertus Magnus in New Haven. Annhurst in Woodstock. Fairfield University in Fairfield and Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport. Subsequently. the plaintiffs asked the Supreme Court to send the case baclt to a lower court for a ruling on whether the four. colleges themselves are sectarian or secular in character. They based the petition on an earlier a-4 Supreme Court ruling that they said indicates if a college has a sectarian character as a whole. it isn't eligible for government aid. It was that request for a rehearing that the Supreme Court turned down Tuesday. THE UNIVERSITY VOICE secure a cross section of the class. He hopes there will be 20 students in that seminar. The composition of the second year seminar is largely undecided. Presently. the only students who will be: guaranteed a place will be those who will continue with the three-year CAPSULE Program. The remainder may be: selected or the seminar may be left to open enrollment. The success or failure of the program will depend largely on ....llether an individual student is equipped (or personal growth in six years instead of the normal eight. Will the student who has completed high school and colle~e in six years be indiVidually matured and prepared 'to meel the responsibilities which face him upon graduation'? This question A politics major, Richard remains, Canel says. "I see CAPSULE as a testing ground for new concepts in education that if proven successful can be: utilized on wide spread basis for the good of the entire community." CAPSULE .....as begun at Fairfield Prep in the summer of 1968 under the direction of Michael Yfolfer and assisted by Robert Sylvester. The students who participated in the program were given a specified time to comprehend a certain amount of material and they .....orked al their own speed. Competition for grades was eliminated since individual evaluation were submitted instead of marks. The objectives of the program were to teach students ho..... to learn and to prOVide the opportunities and encouragement that are conducive to learning and to human gro.....th. One of the problems in organizing the program at the university was arranging for professors for CAPSULE. Mr. Regan said that the university could not afford to give "that big a piece of a professor to that small a group." Professors at Fairfield are required to teach three classes. To have a professor commit 1/3 of that load to a group of 14 students would be too much elitism. according to Mr. Regan. The students m the seminar have not experienced any alienation or feeling of elitism. Anna Albertini says that she isn't treated any differently by other students. "In the two regular courses I lake, there is no feeling of alienation," the freshman slates. Richard Canel says that people get the \\.Tong idea when they find out that he is in the seminar. He said. "They automatically think that you're in the threeyear program, and some of us aren't:' The only problem with the CAPSULE semjnar from the student view is the work load. Michael Arnold, a four-year student here who was in the Prep CAPSULE says, "The seminar requires a lot of work, about four to five books weekly." "There is a lot of reading," says Brian Askew, "upwards of seven books a week sometimes." Brian, who is planning to complete college in three years says that the work is much more demanding than it was at the Prep. Mr. Regan observes that the only problem in student adjustment to the humanities seminar was for those students drafted from the freshman class. He pointed out that the CAPSULE seminar was these six students' first experience with any type of seminar approach to education. As to the future of the program, Mr. Regan hopes to be able to personally screen the incoming freshman class when they are here for intervie.....s in the Spring. thereby hoping to Each student is required to meet with the professors on a tutorial basis at least one hour a week in addition to the regular seminar meetings. "Presently. the seminar is good," comments Mr. Regan, "The students are receiving~he approaches of four disciplines as well as tutorial sessions." major who is participating in the CAPSULE seminar states, .. It is good and I'm learning a lot." A Prep CAPSULE carry-over, Brian Askew declares. "The program here is even more than I hoped it would be." The professors involved in the seminar are also enthusiastic about it. According to them, the seminar lends itself to personal interaction between students and teachers. By Callaany.Buxton Joyce Lasln! An experiment in interdisciplinary seminars as an approach to college academics is now in prOKl'ess at Fairfield. Under the direction of Richard Regan of the English Department. CAPSULE (Creative Approach Performance in Secondary and University Level Education) has begun its first year at the university after having completed the high school phase at the Prep. The CAPSULE Program on the university level is an attempt to see if interdisciplinary approaches to learning and the use of summers will make it possible for a sludent to complete the requirements for an undergraduate degree in three years instead of the usual foof. and emerge with a good educalion. The objectives of the program are to try to coordinate a studenfs high school and college education to avoid much of the overlapping that occurs in these two levels of learning. The seminar is the heart of the CAPSULE Program. There are fourteen students ..... ho participate in the rirst year seminar, five .....omen and nine men. Eight of these .....ere in the Prep CAPSULE, Only six of those eight are continuing in the threeyear frame.....ork. The other six students in the seminar were drafted from the present freshman class after an interview with Mr. ReJtan. The first year semmar is a humanities seminar which meets twice weekly for two hours at each session. It equals core requirements in English, History, Philosophy and Religious Studies and is the equivalent of three courses. Mrs, Marianne Kent, Mr. Walter Perry. Dr. Lisa Perkins and Mr. John Engler respectively are the professors who teach in the seminar. This semester, Mr. Regan has also done some teaching but plans to serve only in a tutorial capacity for the seminar next semester. The second year seminar, worth six credits, will focus on the social sciences with the American culture as a base, Science will be the concentration of the third year (three credit) seminar with the summers being spent in fine arts and language culture programs. By annually diminishing the CAPSULE seminar equivalency, tlJe participants will be free to select courses in their major as well as general electives. Participant reaction to the humanities seminar is enthusiastic. Kathleen Costello, a mathematics major says. "I have learned so much in such a short time, and I feel that the whole experience has been quite rewarding.., Similar comments were made by Richard Canel. a Prep CAPSULE graduate who is a foor-year student here. .. I personnally find the University CAPSULE program to be extremely challenging and stimulating." Ricbard continues, "The concept of interrelating four disciplines within the scope of the seminar process makes a lot more sense than baving four different courses with little or no connection between them as is usually the case." History major Michael Arnold says that he really enjoys the seminar and the school in general. Anna Albertini, a psychology December 9. 1971 PAGE 4 THE UNIVERSITY VOICE December 9, 1971 Lisa PerkiDs Presuppositions On Prospero And Faculty Participation Prospera, they tell me, was a Duke with every right to rule. His people didn't seem to have any objection to him either; but he got so deeply involved in his books that he just forgot to notice while his brother took over. When he looked up from bis books, there he was on a desert island, and he had to use very powerful magic to get back where he belonged. Now the faculty is a little like that. We are so immersed in our books that we don't seem to notice that the "bipartite" traffic court is now assembling for the express purpose of towing our cars away if they don't like the way we answer their tickets. That court could be a tripartite court, remember? We had a chance to get some faculty members on that tribunal to make sure that not too many of our cars got hauled off the campus. It's a long walk home for a good many of us, and it might be worthwhile to make another try at putting some of our own on the board that makes the decisions. As a matter of fact, we don't seem to notice, publicly at least, that one of our own members is in the process of being hauled off the campus without benefit of little red tickets. I try to find people to present the faculty point of view on the case of Dr. Caffrey, and they tell me that they can't write on the Caffrey case for the newspaper, because the President has requested that publicity be avoided because it interferes with Due Process. So the faculty, it seems, has taken a vow of silence. But only the faculty has done this; the last long piece on the Caffrey case that I read in this newspaper was President McInnis' statement of his side of the matter, and last week I found out that the students feel perfectly free to sound off on the subject all they want, using whatever hilarious misreadings of John Dewey's philosophy and misunderstandings of religion and academic freedom appear to suit their purposes. Only faCUlty lips are locked. I find this situation rather strange, since "due process" is in no way observed as long as Dr. Caffrey does not have a contract. How is it that only the faculty can be cajoled into keeping their opinions to themselves, while "due process" does not impose silence on any other sector of the University? I like my books too, and I fervently hope for the day when the faculty can keep to reading and writing and teaching, while the administrators do the "governing," insofar as any has to be done in a university. But that day is apparently not yet; I strongly suggest that unless some members of the faculty know some pretty powerful magic, we should move immediately to secure a place on a Tripartite traffic court. Remem~r, if you let the cars be taken away, you may be next. same ilk, then my God (He too may be a communist), wbo is not a communist? This discredit on the part· of Mr. Bove, who dares to can blmself a conservative, could be nothing but a plot - by the communists, of course. How do we deal with these conspirators who are dead set against everybody. Maybe "none dare call this treason," but the John Birch Society, and its extension on this campus, Mr. Bove, are commitiDg acts of outrageous ideological paranoia. They jesl More important, they act as their leftist counterparts in each moronic charge they make against the system. Oh, something else. If Mr. Bove would avail bimself of the New Testament (be might want this one on the Index of Books), he would find the most shrill of communist doctrine that exists in literature. Does that mean that all Catholics are communists? Undoubtedly so. You New Yorkers may remember the 1966 Mayoral race between John V. Lindsay, and William F. Buckley, Jr. The John Birch Society (jolly good chaps that they are) immediately jumped to the aid of Buckley. As it turned out, Mr. Buckley refused their support; so, the Birchers gathered together in a rally, whose title was "Et tu, Bill?" (original). This political suicide was no doubt designed to cost Buckley the election· another example of the obvious communist inclinations of the John Birch Society. You see, then, as rocksolid conservatives fighting to death against conspiracy against the government, we have no choice but to brand Mr. Bove a communist and hope he immediately is subpoenaed before the House Committee on Internal Security. We could resurrect Senator McCarthy, and add another bag to his pile of targets. Et tu, Bove? Joseph lIaslen Joseph Kern Application to mail at second· class postage rates is pending at Fairfield, ConnecticuL The U.ivenlly Voice is the campus'newspaper published every Thursday during the academic year by Fairfield University. Opinions expressed herein in no way renect the official position of the University. Subscriptions are available at a yearly rate of $6.00 and may be obtained by writing to the editorial office located in Loyola Hall. Fairfield University Fairfield Conn"OM30. . 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Sperts Jerry DiPM!:tro, Tom F'"aranda, Jesse Heap, Gary McCarthy, Debbie Mongillo, Tony Miscus, Frank Cberichello, Gabe Cbericbello, Tom DeMatteo. unity among themselves and also provide a force necessary to benefit others, by working in cooperation with the following aims stated in the Commuter Club constitution: to stimulate participation between the commuting student and the community of Fairfield Univel'"Sity in social. political. athletic and academic activities: to provide information to Fairfield University of social needs in the Fairfield County area in order to formulate some type of organizational ~roups that will act to assist In the remedy of some of the immediate social ills." If the Commuter Club is not supported. a long overdue opportunity will be foresaken and the tendency for the commuter to be an estranged member of Fairfield University will be strengthened. The Commuter Central Commitlee. a nine-man committee which will govern the Commuter Club. has spent much time and effort to found a Commuter Club to counteract the detachment of such a large portion of our University. All are encouraged to attend the first meeting of the Commuter Club. which will be announced shortly. Sincerely, Dale Esposito Bove. ACommuist'? Recent developments on the political batUefield of Fairfield University show us the unusual finaglings of one Nicolas Bove. Supposedly, as he alludes, the threat of communism is a dangerous one. Indeed, it has shown itself so subUy in the pulpit, classroom, and even in "Joe's Corner Grocery Store" (oranges are almost red, you know). Mr. Bove has assumed himself to be, as most Birchers inevitably do, the savior of American Society - a kind of "don Quixote" of the political right. If Mr. Bove would allow us, we have somewhat of a reputation of being political conservatives, so we would hope that we would oot be branded communists also, but we too are concerned with the state of American society. We find this undercurrent of p-ropaganda, at least, frustrating. Undoubtedlr, when the communists tried to fluoridate the water, no one lifted a (inger in defense cavities, trenchmouth, pyorrhea, and the like - that is, all except for the John Birch Society. Robert Welch and bis entourage of eminenUy qualified braintrust of caodymakers felt sure that this, and other such actions, were propagated br. "the scoundrels on the left... ' and., of course, could go unnoticed. If Earl Warren, and now they tell us, Warren Burger, are both agents of the communists, and indeed, the team of Hasten-Kern is of the A Communist? To the Editor: In his bitter personal attack on Prof. Walter Petry in last week's Voice, Mr. Stephen O'Brien showed a shallow, paternalistic viewpoint of one who is completely oblivious to the presence of God to other men. We have come a long, stran~e way down when our "Catholic commitment" sparks the disrespect I found in his letter. No, Stephen, we are not listening to you, or Ignatius, not when you speak in the context of personal batred. You seem to have more respect for the words of a long dead visionary (whose vision at last begins to fade) than you have for the life of the men around you. But perhaps that is the result of "the Catholic commitment (which) remains aBd will remain the same." I never knew Santa Claus to be blind though. Patrick Delaney '72 Personal Attack Tenure Dear Editor: In the editorial OIl this page of Nov. 11, I said that if a university Is cburcb related aDd is governed by a board of trustees with the understudiag tbat tbe university seeks to promote that religioa thea the board bas the right to require adbereoce to its purpose in this regard." This statemellt bas substantially c:banged iathe last year. The A.A,U.P. statement OIl academic Freedom and Tenure now bo5ds that "most cburcbrelated institutiODS 110 longer need or desire the departure from the: priDciple of academic freedom implied in the: HMO Statement aDd we do DOt BOW endorse sucb a departure." This important revisioa was made in Irl'O aDd I was DOt aware of Its e.zisteDce UIlW DOW. SiDce the purpo:se of my editorial was to promote u.nderstaDding of tenure ill our university I bope this correcUorJ will be DOted. Perhaps tbe discrepancy betweell the two statements will provide even anotber aspect to consider in the Caffery case. Sincerely, Karen Porco '74 Reports, "Academic Freedom and Teaure, 1940 Statement of Principles and Interpretive Comments" A.A.U.P.BulletiD 56:3 pg. 323. Commuters -----Letlers---- Parking To the Editor: As a fuJI-time paying student at Fairfield UDiversity I believe that there are certain rights that should be allo~ 10 each studenL A cue in point is the way the uDiversity is handling the parking problem. The problem uists for both commuters aDd resideDt studeDts a.like. As far as resideat students are coocerned, this is their bome for 9 months out of the year. SiDce when do you have to pay 10 keep a car at your borne? For the commuter be bas poyed 12000 to rome to """"'Part and parcel of that money should be the rigbt to part your car and attend classes. U the purpose of the sticker is 10 collect money then they are going about it the wrong way because they only collect the dollar once. If they want to charge somebody they should charge the visitors comiDg into the university. This would solve two problems: 1. It would serve to collect revenue for the university. 2. The amount of traffic coming through the university would be cut considerably. For I know in many cases where the university is used as a thoroughfare for Fairfield residents. So the solution is this: Each student should be allowed free access to parking facilities on campus. He should receive a sticker on payment of his tuition to put on his car, attesting to the fact that his is a member of the Fairfield community. Eacb visitor should be charged a nominal fee for entering the university. This would serve 10 both reduce traffic and produce income for the university. M. Knight Commuter '73 The proposed constitution for a Commuter Club was passed al lhe last Studenl Legislature meeting by a comfortable majority. With the passin/;!: the Commuter Club constit·", the gound work is laid for U' , "sed and meaningful commuter participation at Fairfield University and in the outside Fairfield Community. However. the support of the commuters and other students on campus is needed for the successful implementation of our mUlual aims. The members of the Commuter Club can achieve a easy enough to sketch the general guidelines. He should certainly have become acquainted with the development of his culture and its great literary and artistic works. To develop a critical stance toward his culture he should be able to approach it from another by one or more foreign languages handled with ease. Students who have read virtually no Shakespeare, have no idea why the political party system developed in America, and are unable to read a simple foreign newspaper are not yet prepared for higher education. Equally important is a proficiency in the sciences. A knowledge of the behavior of the physical world in at least one of its major aspects, and competence in the mathematical means to express reality are crucial. A student with this type of preparation is qualified to undertake the kind of higber education he deserves. The student who is not so qualified and is unwilling to acquire the preparation probably does not belong in collere. ROBERTLCOX The role of higher education is nol merely to continue secondary education in giving a general knowledge of the world nor is it to train individuals for jobs. The former need not lake sixteen years (e.ven twelve may be too long), the latter can be done far more efficiently elsewhere. The university seeks to develop a critical understanding of one's culture and the external world, but to do so implies intellectual work resting on the basis of a high level of general education already attained. The quality and content of previous education are thus of great impOrlanc.e to the university faculties who presuppose certain knowledge and skills in their students. Most essential (but often lacking) is the ability to read, write and speak one's own language with precision and sophistication. The level of the student's ability to comprehend and use the language determines the level at which he can absorb and communicate knoWledge. Although the exact content which may be presupposed in the student's education is variable beyond this essential basis, it is -----------------~-----------_..._..._.-- '----------------------- By RoItert By~---' THE UNIVERSITY VOICE PAGE. proposals. and witholding of stale licenses from private clubs that discriminate against minority groups. 85% of the non-attorney members in the House and 74% of the non-attorney members in he Senate also voted against the CCi..U positions. the article said. But the educators. in the eyes of CCLU. did better. "Ooly one QCCUpational group-academic or those in education·related fields • voted for the CCLU position in a majority of issues • 75% in the House and 61% in the Senate, the article noted. When Governor Meskill was asked on a TV interview recently about his feelings towards the CCLU, he was reported to have said. according to the article: "I do not have a high opinioll of the CCLU and I question their selectioo of cases. ' 1275 Post Rd. opposite Fairfield Post Office Health Foods Macrobiotics High Prolien Organic Groceries exams. D. For minority sludents (academic qualifications waived): 1. The Ignatius Loyola Gold Cup - Awarded as an in~ntive to any student who wishes to enter the Jesuit order. Presentation made only upon ordination. F. For faculty members only: I. The Gold Watch (donated by the teacher evaluation committee I - Presented to the professor who is most often found to be late for class. Agold leaf calander will be awarded to the teacher who cuts the greatest number of classes. 2. The Citation of Merit for Action Beyond the Call of Duty (presented by the Academic Council) - The most coveted and treasured of all faCUlty prizes. Granted to the faculty member who is ranked "most hated by his students". Traits to be looked for in possible candidates include a low rating on the teacher evaluation and a high percentage of denunications in the free Press. E. For both professors and students: 1. Endurance Awards: a. The Rudolph Bannow Sterling Silver Microscope . Given to the student or teacher who lasts through an entire lab period without falling asleep. b. The Lihrarian's Achievement Award - Acrystal miniature of the Nyselius Library to the scholar who can read for the longest time under a buzzing lighL _.*111II.__ Open 5 p.m. Westport • Mltlord Connecticut State legislators from only one occupational group - academics - received applause from the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union for the way they voted in the last General Assembly. Lawyers. on the other hand. had the worst CCLU recor-d commenting on an unsigned article headlined ,.Attorney Members of State Legislature...have weak Civil Liberty Voting Records" which appears in the November issue of the CCLU house organ Slate Chairman Donald Holtman states "It's obvious that few of the attorneys in the General assembly really understand the principles upon which our democracy is based." Holtman added that the lawyer lawmakers. by their actions "chip away at the Bill of Rights.•, Seventy-nine per~nt of the attorney members of the State House of Representatives voted against the CCLU position on a majority of key issues, including removal of criminal sanctions from the state's abortion law, abolition of the death penalty. a test of the constitutionality of war, invasion of privacy by wiretapping, and a one-year residency requirement for welfare recipients. In the 36 member Senate, 69% of the 13 lawyer members voted against CCLU positions on wiretapping, weUare residency B. For students with a Q.P_ average above 2.S: 1. The Robert Bellarmine in Exile Memorial Scholarship· A lour-year. full~tuition schoiarship good at any school other than Fairfield. The recipient of this prize' must agree to transfer immediately. Should his Q.P. at another college fall below 2.S, however. he may return to Fairfield. C. For all students: l. The Pathetic Man Trophy (donated by the Psychology ClubI . To the student who can demonstrate the most convincing mental and physical collapse on the final day of examinations. A valid breakdoYi11 shall be defined as one which has been brought about solely as the result of protracted periods of study. On the appointed day a trained team of experts from the Biology and Psychology Departments will be present to differentiate true collapses from feigned attacks. 2. Fraud of the Term Certificate • Presented to the student .....ho complains the most about unfinished work. but gets the least done. 3. Crammer Extraordinary - A titular honor bestowed on any scholar wbo successfully completes all the assignments given during the t.....o .....eeks between Thanksgiving and CCLU Praises Prof. average lower than 2.S: I. The Friend of the Dean's Award (donated by Fr. Coughlin) • In recognition of the student who has done the most to keep the gradetlistribution low. in The Middle Honoring the Scholar Unfortunately the report overlooked the fact that the socalled legal party. the CPUSA, was (I) an important part of the international Communist apparatus: (2) it was directed by the Communists in Moscow; (3) its leaders openly proclaimed that they intended to use the academic profession to help overthrow the United States Government. This shocking report was printed in the Spring 1948 issue of the AAUP's Bulletin. Defends Reds In 1953. the AAUP CQndcmned all legislative investigations of Communists. During the 1956 AAUP convention, Washington University was condemned because ils administration fired two Communist Professors. The AAUP then proceeded to censure sIJ: other institutions for firing individuals who had refused to deny. under oath. Communist affiliations. In 19S8. the AAUP instituted its annual AleJCander Meiklejohn award (named in honor of a nOLOrious Communist fellow traveler). In 1962. Arthur Fleming won it for allowing Gus Hall. chairman of the U.S. Communist Party, to speak at the University of Oregon. Attacked by Sidney Hook Even Sidney Hook. a very liberal professor from NYU. has commented that the AA p's special committee on Academic Freedom and Teoure in the Quest lor National Security: &GeIOll to advocate a polley wllieb seemiagly SUa"ts thae • collegl! Is act..Uy lailial ID Its educaeioGal d.ty .Blen members of tbe Communist Parey are teadlol 00 Campul. A statement such as that coming from a very distinguished liberal professor in the academic world reveals quite an insigbt into the true nature of the AAUP. I .....ould like to emphasize that the AAUP is not a Communist organization and that not all of its members are Communists. It is obvious, however. that recently it has seemed to defend Communists and fifth amendment pleaders at every tum. It has used the pious cry of "academic freedom" to defend those who openly seek to pervert education and use it as a weapon to destroy America. I seriously wonder whether an organization such as this should be worthy of the respect it seems to hold among some of the faculty members of Fairfield University. aHilialioa with that parey ID aod of itself should DOl be regarded as justifiable reason for exclusloDs (rom tbe academic professioo. basis for his own approach to learning, will be orrered during the Spring 1972 semester. In addition to these courses, the program will include interdisciplinary seminars, such as the one on the future. These are designed so that students can pursue specific problems in depth and are open to all undergraduate students. regardless of whether they are enrolled in the Innovative Studies Program. Beginning next spring. 30 students in good standing who have accumulated fewer than 30 hours of credits will be admitted to the program each semester. Admittance is based on an essay artd interview. "Participants in the program will not be chosen on the basis of their previous academic records, but rather on their seriousness of intenl, intellectual competence and awareness of the issues relevant to the program and themselves," Professor Norman Leer. coordinator of the program, advised. Because a major goal of the program is that courses should be generated through close interaction of faculty and students. a committee of faculty and students will govern the program. So loog as tile CommuDist Parey In tile Uaited States is a lela I political party, The lask of the CommuDist Party must be first aDd foremost to arouse tbe classconsciousness aDd eo orgaolle tbem iato tile Amerlcao Federatloo of Teachers. Especial anention must be paid to secure sud action with tbe AAUP. Especial attention was. indeed. paid to the AAUP. Observe the Jollowing report issued by a special committee of the AAUP in 1947. Many teachers today .....ould do well to heed the preceding quotation. In 1940. a similar report was published which defended academic freedom and reiterated the responsibility which such freedom entailed to professors. The AAUP and tbe Commuaist Party In the meantime. ho.....ever. the AAUP had attracted the attention of the Communist Party. Writing In The Communist ("The SChool's and the People's Front." May 1937. pp. 432-433). Richard Frank stated: Chicago, 111. - (l.P.)· Students at Roosevelt University are looking into the future as part of a special innovative seminar. Entitled "Visions of the Future." the seminar. which was developed at the request of students and planned with their assistance. is being orrered for the first time. It is part of Roosevelt's new Innovative Studies Program. an experimental program designed as an alternative to the traditional methods and curricula of edu.cation. Because the Innovative Studies Program emphasizes self· directed learning, the student will receive credit for this course by creating a project that defines his own vision of the future. The Heart of the Innovative Studies Program is the core sequence of four courses required of aU students electing the program. These courses, which will be team·taught by two faculty members. are seminars which introdu~ the student to the major fields of study: humanities, social sciences and natural scien~s. The first of the four core courses, "Introduction to Learning," designed to help the student develop a philosophical Decfrober9,1971 One School's Vision. With the first semester rapidly drawing to a close and scholarly competition keener than ever before, the Dean's oHlce has announced that it will award a limited number of academic prizes to deserving teachers and sludenls. In Fr. Coughlins' words, "These awards will serve as an impetus for both students and professors to strive (or even grealer perfection in that noblest of professions, studying. I think that ifs about time that we separated the true scholars from 0>" phonies." To qualify for one of the awards you need not have paid your Student Government Activities Fee or AAUP dues. In fact those who have not paid stand a better chance of winning. The catagaries and prizes are as BEDROOM SCENE - crowded dormitory conditions may have follows: (orced this move to the great outdoors. A. For students with a Q.P. $f~«-The Conservative Comer:::::~~;;:;~~y.:::::"~:::::.,,,-:::::x:::::=:::::::::::::::::::-«,.x::::::xz: * x I Fairfield and the AAUP ii ~, N°hl JIo ;\ ';««:::::::::::::-X«·~,::::X::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~,*:::::::::::::::~-::::::::::::::::-.::::::::::m*::::::::::.::. Ie 0as. Ye~: The recent Caffrey controversy confronted our academic community with the diHicult questions of academic freedom and academic tenure. Probably the most important organization in the middle of this controversy is the American Association of University Professors. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded in 1915. As of 1970. the AAUP has had as its main con~rns academic freedom and academic tenure. Academic Freedom The following is an eJC~rpt from the first major statement on academic freedom issued by the AAUP in 1926. No teacber may claim as bl' rigbt tile privilege of dlscusslag iD bis clasuoom controversial topics outside bis OWl! field of study. Tbe teacher is morally (emphasis mille) booDel Dot to take advantage of bis posllioo by htrod.dag iDlo tbe classroom provocative discusioDS of irrelevant subjects DOl witbia die field of "is slady. I must say that even I could agree with such a sentiment. |
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