Stag - Vol. 02, No. 07 - December 14, 1950

              Vol. II-No.7 Published By Students Of Fairfield University December 14, 1950
Causes Of World Crisis, Solution
Stressed By Arnold Lunn, Lecturer
By JAMES J. DINNAN
On Thursday, December 7, Berchmans auditorium
was the scene of the second of the Bellarmine Lectures
of the 1950-1951 school year. Choosing as his topic,
"Will Europe Survive?" Mr. Arnold Lunn presented a
talk stressing the causes of the present world situation
and the only solution to the problems confronting man­kind
today.
Under the talented direction of
Mr. Simon Harak, the Fairfield
Glee Club has been preparing
diligently for this program, and
has expanded its already exten­sive
repertoire to include many
classical selections. For its first
solo appearance of the evening,
the Glee Club has chosen a va­riety
of popular selections,
among which is found the per­ennial
favorite of Rudolph Frim­aI,
Song of the Vagabond. The
famous works of Richard Rod­gers
and Oscar Hammerstein,
III will also be represented on
this section of the program as
the club sings two melodies from
the Broadway hit "Oklahoma":
The Surrey with the Fringe on
Top and the famous title song.
Following intermission, the
club will make their second ap­pearance
of the evening, and
will blend in song to celebrate
the joyous Christmas season. To
this end, the Club will sing the
immortal Gruber melody, Silent
Night, Holy Night, and will sub­sequently
present the Praetorius
melody, Lo' how a Rose e'er
blooming. The Fairfield Univer­sity
Gle'e Club will culminate
their offerings by joining Mr.
Saidenberg and the Connecticut
Symphony Orchestra in present­ing
the religious selection, Jesu,
Joy of Man's Desiring and in
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Public Affairs
Prepares Bills
The Public Affairs Club has
been working on bills to be sub­mitted
by their delegates at the
Intercollegiate Student Legisla­ture
at Hartford this spring.
These proposals include:
1. A bill to modify the state
laws which presently prohibit
bazaar raffles.
2. A bill to establish a sepa­rate
state mental hospital for
young patients.
3. A bill establishing a system
of compulsory health insurance
for Connecticut citizens.
4. A bill to outlaw publication
of a pornagraphic or crime-sug­gesting
nature.
The Executive Council of the
C.I.S.L. met at Trinity College
in Hartford on Sunday, Decem­ber
9. Representing Fairfield at
this gathering were James Conk­lin,
'51; John McNamara, '51;
and James Aspinwall, '52.
In the absence of John Rey­noud,
club president, Vincent
Nemergut has been serving as
acting chairman.
Chairman Ross
Urges Gift
Suggestions
Suggestions for a gift to be
presented by the first graduating
class to the University are now
being sought from members of
the Senior Class. The Chairman
of the Class Gift Committee,
Rudy Ross, has distributed
blanks on which each Senior is
to record his suggestion, in an
effort to learn what his Senior
classmates consider an appro­priate
gift.
Mr. Ross has emphasized the
fact that the gift will long re­main
as a public mark testifying
to the calibre of the Class of '51.
To date the response of the
Senior Class members in sub­mitting
their opinions has been
very poor. As THE STAG went
to press, only six suggestions
had been submitted.
In urging his classmates to cor­rect
this situation, Chairman
Ross wished to remind the mem­bers
of the Senior Class that
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Glee Club Guest Soloists
'With Connecticut Symphony
On Friday, December 15, at 8:00 p.m., in the Klein
Memorial hall, the Fairfield University Glee Club again
will appear as guest soloists in the second concert of the
Connecticut Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Daniel Saiden­berg,
director of the orchestra, has again invited ,the
Fairfield University Glee Club to participat'e in a con­cert
devoted primarily to the heralding of the Christmas
season through melody.
Mr. Lunn saId that though the
foreign policy of both England
and the United States could not
have been worse had it been
under the management of high
school students, we should not
waste time arguing to see if this
country or that country was the
cause fur bringing on the present
situation. The main cause for
the pres~nt crisis can be traced
back to the "heresy of indiffer­entism"
Df the last century,
which had as its culmination our
error of trying to deal with Com­munism
which is merely "the
political form of atheism." This
movement has no standard of
morality, for to the Communist,
only that which helps to bring
about he "world revolution" is
moral.
The matrix for the present
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MR. SIMON HARAK
Italian Club
Elects Officers
For Next Year
At its meeting on December
5, 1950 the Italian Club elected
its officers for the coming year.
Thomas Vitelli ('52) was elect­ed
president. Assisting him in
his office is the vice-president­elect,
Arthur Sapienza ('53). The
positions of secretary-treasurer
and publicity chairman are filled
by George Thomas ('52) and
Leonard DeRosa ('53) respec­tively.
The Italian Club is open to any
student who is interested in the
Italian language and culture.
Enrollment in one of the Italian
classes is not a requisite for
membership.
The comb'i"ned Glee Clubs of Fairfield University and St. Joseph
College at the joint concert December 7.
Radio Club
Discusses Topics
Of Current Interest
St. Joseph Club Thrills Audience
In Debut With Fairfield Glee Club
At the end of Fairfield University's first Glee Club
concert of the season last Thursday nitght, December 7,
approximately 800 people joined together in a spon­taneous
-thunder of applause for the combined Glee
Clubs of Fairfield University and St. Joseph's College.
The Fairfield Glee Club, un­der
the direction of Mr. Simon
Harak, opened the concert with
a program of popular songs and
spiritual favorites such as the
Rodgers and Hammerstein fav­orites
Oklahoma and Surrey
with the Fringe on Top, Lo, how
a Rose e'er Blooming by M.
Praetorius, Song of the Vaga­bond,
by Rudolf Friml, De Ani­mals
a Comin', and an enter­taining
variety of others.
An enthusiastic audience call­ed
for an encore after they had
heard the Glee Club's renowned
Octet's rendition of Sophomoric
Philosophy and Sing Me a Chan­tey
with a Yo-Heave Ho, and
the comical Rigoletto Quartet
was presented.
The second part of the con­cert
was presented by 100 fe­male
voices of St. Joseph Glee
Club, under the direction of Mr.
Moshe Paranov. The entire Club
brilliantly rendered such songs
as Brahm's The Lord is Our
Fortre:s and Around the Gypsy
Fire, and a varied selection of
popular, spiritual, and classical
pieces.
The Chansonettes, a choral
group within the Glee Club,
sang All the Things You Are and
I Want to be Ready. The entire
club then rendered The Skaters'
Waltz and Wanting You. Miss
Jean Collins was featured in a
rendition of Agnus Dei. As an
encore, the St. Joseph Club sang
Comin' Thru the Rye and finally
their Alma Mater as the audi­ence
stood in their honor.
The combined Glee Clubs
ended the program with the joint
presentation of two songs, The
Heavens are Declaring by Bee­thoven,
and Heavenly Light by
Kopylow-Wilhousky.
The excellence of the St. Jo­seph
Glee Club was admired
even more enthusiastically as
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The student who wishes to
be well informed on current
topics such as National Health
Insurance, Inter-racial Justice,
and the Internationalization of
Jerusalem would have done
well to have listened to recent
broadcasts of "FAIRFIELD UNI­VERSITY
INTERPRETS THE
NEWS." For one presentation,
Father Gabriel Ryan, S.J. and
Mr. John Meaney discussed Na­tional
Health Insurance. Mr.
John Heckler and Mr. Robert
Fitzpatrick formed the student
panel on the program. On the
following broadcast, Inter-racial
Justice was viewed by Mr.
James P. Vail, with a student
panel cosisting of Rudy Giran­dola
and Harry Marmion. In the
most recent presentation, Father
Francis Sarjeant, S.J. was heard
with Eugene Magner and Em­manuel
Ondeck in a discussion
of the Internationalization of
Jerusalem.
National Health Insurance
Mr. Meaney presented facts on
the system that is currently op­erating
in England that cares for
the physical well being of the
English people. The system is
not Socialized Medicine, accord­ing
to Mr. Meaney, it is a pro­gram
of National Health Insur­ance.
All who can afford it must
contribute to the plan whether
they choose to use its services
or not. Social and economic con­ditions
that have existed in Eng­land
and still do exist have made
this plan necessary. There are
18,000 of England's 21,000 doctors
taking part in it. The poor and
middle-class are pleased with
the plan, while the rich dislike
it. The rich resent sharing their
family doctors with the poor
especially when they have to
pay part of the cost of that
sharing.
Father Ryan discussed
voluntary health plans that we
have in the United States. Gov­ernment
interference, said Fath­er
Ryan, would not be limited
to administration in all prob­ability.
This would present seri­ous
oroblems to the medical pro­fessfon
and· also to the public as
well. Though various voluntary
plans should be extended as far
as possible, such extension would
be far from sufficient. We could
advocate a system of public
health insurance which would
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. December 14, 1950
MAKE-UP DEPARTMENT
James Dinnan, '52
James Doheney, '52
Joseph Iacuone, '52
Ralph Mastrangelo, '52
Richard McCormick, '52
Conrad Sternschak, '52
Stanley Turski, '52
Thomas O'Neil, '53
Robert Demshak, '54
Richard Haup, '54
ART DEPARTMENT
Richard Lindstrom, '52
Conrad Sternschak, '52
John Saracino, '54
PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
Francis McGouldrick, '52
Jolm Malakie, '53
Joseph Pander, '54
Walter Zackrison, '54
ST. JOSEPH
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Mr. Paranov announced that the
concert with the Fairfield Glee
Club was their first appearance
in an off-campus concert.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT
Francis Prior, '51 . . . . . . .. Editor
James Aspinwall, '52
Michael Russo, '53
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lish a literary magazine by the
end of the year, but a great deal
of suitable material would have
to be composed and, of course,
the membership would have to
be increased considerably.
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Francis A. Malyszka. 51
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Charles E. Black, '52
BUSINESS MANAGER
Robert Steele, '52
NEWS DEPARTMENT SPORTS DEPARTMENT
George Dirgo, '51 } Co Ed·t Bernard Beglane, '52 Editor
FranCIS Woods, '52 - I ors George Birge '51
George Baeher, '51 Harley Black: '51
James Evrard, 51 James Doheney, '52
Thomas Flaherty, '51
George Garofalo. '51
James Dinnan, '52
Edward Sperry, '52
Paul Sullivan, '52
Raymond Yuskauskus, '52
David Phelan, '53
Robert Demshak, '54
Richard Haup, '54
FEATURE DEPARTMENT
William Curnin, '53 . . . . . . .. Editor
Bernard Mallon, '51
Martin Nigro, 51
Francis Philbin, '52
Neil Topitzer, '53
John Welch, '53
William Brown, '54
EDITORIAL DEP~RTMENT
John Relihan, '52, Nicholas Rosa, '52
TYPISTS
Joseph Iacuone, '52
Richard McCormick, '52
Robert Demshak, '54
Richard Haup, '54
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
William McGrath, '52
Thomas O'Neil, '53
Foyer-Writesl1op
Seeks Memhers
THE STAG
Most major colleges and uni­versities
in America sponsor a
student publication, either quar­terly,
semi-annually, or annu­ally,
to foster any literary tal­ent
in undegraduate students.
Its backbone is usually a dis­cussion
group that criticizes con­tributions
and "weeds out" those
worthy to be printed in the lit­erary
magazine.
A start in this direction has
been made at Fairfield with the
organization of The Foyer-Write­shop,
under the guidance of
Reverend Arthur MacGillivray,
S.J. The aims of the group are
the ~ame as outlined above, to
develop writing talent and to
present the best efforts in a liter­ary
magazine, if genuinely good
and sufficient works are com­posed.
Any type of composition is
encouraged; short stories, essays,
sketches, satires, and poems. The
club now numbers about seven
members and more are desired
if the applicants expect and are
willing to submit serious efforts
for discussion by the others at
each meeting. The Writeshop
holds these meetings about every
three weeks, with the next
scheduled for January 5, the first
Friday after the Christmas re­cess.
Father MavGillivray said that
he'd like to see our school pub-countries.
The church's opinion
on matters of world peace has
been ignored even more in mod­ern
times, due to the fact that
the statesmen of the world are
not willing to admit that the
Church was right all the time
in her stand on Communism.
Thus Mr. Lunn said that Europe
is faced with the crisis of another
world war which cannot be
solved by arms alone, but by a
religious revival of Christianity.
Amid this world of confusion
the Catholic can be consoled by
his Theology. According to Mr.
Lunn, the Catholic can be of
great assistance in spreading
this needed religious revival, but
unfortunately many are unin­formed
and fearful of speaking
of the Church in the presence of
non-Catholics. This situation
must be remedied at once for,
Mr. Lunn said, the moder~ Cath­olic
is faced with either of two
alternatives-"he must be either
an apostle or an apostate."
All Is Not Lost
ARNOLD LUNN
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world crisis, according to Mr.
Lunn, was in the Paris Peace
Conferences, the Treaty of Ver­sailles,
and the League of Na­tions,
which were at least ag­nostic
if not atheistic in their na­ture.
Mr. Lunr. said that there has
been a complete disintegration
of the human personality and a
loss of culture which any civili­zation
suffers when it turns to
the secularism which we have
today. The United Nations is al­ready
heading down this road
of secularism, and unless it rec­ognizes
the absolute necessity for
admitting God to the world
problems, it also will be doomed
to failure.
European politics can never be
harmonized until the United
States and the other great na­tions
realize the tremendous in­fluence
the Pope and the Catho­lic
Church in general have over
the peoples of these European
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Just about now, we are supposed to be welcoming
back our fighting men from Korea. The police action
by the United Nations' forces was to be finished and a
United Korea was to be established. But for our tradi­tional
friends, the Chinese, this might have been true.
Whose oversight was it that none seemed to think
that our traditional friends, the Chinese, now under
red Mao, would not jump at the Kremlin's command?
How could more than a million Red Chinese troops ad­vance
to their positions before the attack without our
intelligence service being aware of it? Are we going
to barter Korea for peace as we bartered Czechoslovakia
with the Germans?
Many questions will constantly be raised. We have
faced many of them little more than a decade ago, but
then with a less dangerous foe, This foe is now our ally.
Somewhere, somehow, someone in our government
must have learned something about Russia's inconstancy
in world affairs. On one side of ,the world they shout
for peace, while on the other they support aggression
and yvar.
Yet, instead of welcoming back the G.I.'s from
Korea, we are now preparing for the induction of mil­lions
into the Armed Forces. Instead of the expected
peace, we await grimly another and more terrible war.
Can a full scale war be averted?
Perhaps it can. At the present, there is now what
seems more than a mere possibility the question of full
scale mobilization. If it comes, and it appears as though
it will, young men· from all ranks of life will be re­ruired
to serve in our armies. The expected effect at
Fairfield will be terrific. Pradically all non-veterans
in the school over twenty-one have been classified as
I-A. The educational deferment at present is for the
ccmpletion of a school year. The Seniors )Il'ay find
themselves, both veterans and non-veterans, graduating
into the Armed Forces.
It is extremely difficult for Seniors, especially, to
appear nonchalant, and go about doing things in an
everyday manner. Some take the attitude, "Well, I'm
going in, so I'm going to have a good time while there's
time lett." Others take a more sober attitude and act as
though a bright tomorrow will someday appear on the
horizon.
We must take a Christian aHitude. We cannot ad
as though all were lost. Since at the present we find
ourselves students, we must for God and country do our
best. Intelligent Christian men are direly needed in
this world. Christian morals are at a low ebb in our
economy of politics. The more we, only a few from
Fairfield, can learn, the more we, that same few, can
influence the people about us, whether they be in the
Armed Services, in the government, or just our next
door neighbors.
December 14, 1950 THE STAG Page 3
In tribute to the Fairfield University Glee Club, to its d~rector,
Mr. Simon Harak, and to its moderator, Reverend John A. Mur·
ray, S.J., THE STAG salutes its members for their many hours
of diligent practice and concert presentations. The editors wish
them success as they strive for excellence in entertaining in this.
their third and most ambitious concert season.
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December ,14, 1950
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Tomorrow, we will begin our
Christmas vacation, and we don't
think that anyone is particularly
unhappy abo u t it, because
Christmas is the time of year
for parties, big dinners, dances
and the like. This year, the shad­ow
of war hangs heavy upon the
world, but still we will have our
Christmas, and we will go on
having it, no matter what is tak­ing
place in the world around
us. The words of peace seem to
have failed, and the tranquility
that greeted the Christ Child will
be missing this Christmas Eve.
rt would teem that it is going
to be up to us, and all Ameri­cans
to bring the true peace of
Chri~tmas back to the world
again.
To all the members of the
faculty, the student body, Joe,
and. eyeryop.e else at Fairfield,
thIS column wishes a very Happy
and Holy Christmas.
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In a touch football series com­pleted
last week, the Fairfield
intra-mural champions, the
Schafters dropped both ends of
a home a~d home set with their
Bridgeport University counter­parts,
the '6gers, by scores of
21-6 and 20-0. In the inaugural
contest, waged at the Alumni
Field, the UB captain, Warren
DuBois, got his club off to a run­ning
start by passing 30 yards
to Chick Harvey for the first
score of the game. He quickly
followed up this effort with a
20 yard scoring heave to Don
Glashing. Neither conversion at­tempt
was successful.
As the second half opened, the
Schafters appeared to be back in
the ball game when Connie
Sternchak grabbed Cass Burke's
30 yard toss in the end zone.
However, their joy was short­lived,
for Herbie Sendall picked
off a Schafter pass and raced
60 yards for the TD which made
the final score 21-6.
The second game, played at
Seaside Park, Bridgeport, saw a
grimly determined Fairfield hold
their bigger and more experi­enced
rivals to a 2-0 half time
lead, the score coming when the
Schafter's Gerry Altieri was Illj~~~~~
trapped in his own end zone for
a safety. In the final half, Du­Bois,
brilliant UB captain, broke
the game wide open by tossing
3 scoring passes. Twice he con­nected
with Chick Antonucci,
the first time on a 10 yard flip,
and later on a 30 yard heave
which Antonucci took on the
Schafter 20 yard line. He raced
the rest of the way untouched.
THE STAG
F.U. Loses Twice
In Touch Football
In these critical days, the
eye3 of the world are on two
vital spots - Korea, where the
United States and her allies are
trying to halt the Communist
wave, and Lake Success, where
Western diplomats are deter­minedly
butting their heads
against the great stone wall of
China. But perhaps the key to
this whole problem is in a small
town in Portugal, just 60 miles
north of Lisbon - Fatima. It
was there, in 1917, Our Blessed
Mother predicted the end of the
first World War, and the l':oming
"of another and more terrible
one" . . . "if men do not cease
to offend the Lord." T.hat war
has come to pass. She also said,
"If my reauests are'heard; Russia
will be converted 'and there will
be peace. Otherwise, great errors
will be spread throughout the
world, giving rise, to wars and
pen:ecution of the Churcl1." This
has already begun, And what
was her main request? The reci­tation
of the Rosary! We, as
Catholic college students, realiz­ing
the significance of this re­quest
of Mary, and the power of
her intercession, should turn out
in large numbers every Monday
morning to recite the Rosary in
her honor. Though soldiers and
statesmen may fail, prayer will
never fail.
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Other comment on Kon-Tiki:
Catholic World
"Absorbing reading ... No
brief review can give any idea
of the tremendous experience
that this book allows the read­er
to share in. Technically, the
writing'is fine."
The New Yorker
"The most absorbing sea tale
of our time."
Chicago News
Not even Moby Dick can match
Kon-Tiki in action or in
thrills."
San Francisco Chronicle
"Extraordinary adventurous
quality."
froths at the mouth, and had he
included an original score and
book for "South Pacific.." I
should not have been surprised.
Only a true genius could have
included so many'divergent ideas
into one sentence, ordered or
otherwise ...
For the STAG to print any
article of such calibre is not only
an imult to its readers but also
tends to degrade and bring ridi­cule
upon the school which the
STAG represents.... It is the
duty of the Editors of the STAG
to guarantee that no future is­sue
carry such a damaging ar­ticle
. . .
MARTIN J. TRACEY
LIFE IS SHORT COLLEGIANS!!!
Why not devote it to God as a
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In Club Activities - At Camp
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Our Readers Say:
Gentlemen:
... For a man who seemingly
sets himself up as a paragon of
literary excellence, Comrade
Nicolai has reached the depths
of journalistic trivia. His article
(is) more like the ravings of a
dipsomaniac than a rational,
ordered report ...
... In a- rambling and loosely
formulated sentence, Mr. Rosa
states Mr. Heyerdahl's theory,
calls it unorthodox, assigns mo­tives
for his choice of craft, re­lates
a few ancient Inca legends,
Gentlemen:
... The parrot which feasted
orr the "Kon-Tiki's" radio anten­na
was no more electrified than
I when I finally digested Mr.
Rosa's Polynesian clambake. The
initial sentence signaled intellec­tual
indigestion immediately.
Once committed I struggled
through, only to rise cramped
and lethargic. The gas has now
di:sipated but the pain lingers
on!
The source of my malaise is
traced back to chef Rosa's abhor­rent
concoction of rancid sen­tence
structure and over-done
comments bespattered with
poorly mixed enthusiasm. The
student who fought his way past
the initial garbled sentence and
held his breath long enough to
survive the sentence-paragraph
explaining Heyerdahl's theory
might well feel exhausted ...
Perhaps Mr. Rosa is elated that
he waited three years to read
"Kon-Tiki." ... He might have
favored this student more if he
had waited three more years be­fore
submitting the review to
this paper.
HAROLD F. MULLEN, '52
To the Editors
Gentlemen:
During the past year I fol­lowed
the STAG with moderate
interest. In fact I think that as
a satire on college newspapers it
ranks with the Columbia Read­er's
Digest and Harvard's traves­ty
on the Daily News. However,
in a recent issue there appeared
what was facetiously referred to
as a book review. This particu­lar
"review" will probably win
for the STAG and its author and
perpetrator (for I seriously feel
that this constitutes an open ag­gression
against anyone who has
even followed Louella Parson's Gentlemen:
occa,ional references to a great I am ,truly interested in the
book) an award from the Phed- STAG. I have offered to work on
erated Philistines, whose consti- the STAG Saturday mornings
tution furthers such things ... and I intend to do everything I
Kon Tiki mayor may not be the can to help publish a newspaper
book of our generation, but it at Tepre~entative of a a liberal arts
least deserved better treatment college. "The STAG can become
that was seen fit to give it, a good publication only when
Yours very respectfully, the men of Fairfield realize that
H M BRIDGEWATER they are in college and stop try-
. -'--- ing to imitate this high school
Gentlemen: and that prep school. The STAG,
I would a,sume that a self- instead of becoming better, how­style
critic of so many articles ever, has become progressively
that have appeared in this news- worse until the November 30
paper ,hould have produced a issue has finally become utterly
literary work that would have repulsive and di()gusting.
surpassed all others. Instead his The issue in question was no
single effort in Engli,h composi- worse than any other issue ex­tion
was immature, grammatic- cept for one article. For a' man
ally incorrect, and completely who attempted to be a super­disorganized
. . . the author pedagogue and instruct not only
would do well to undertake a me but the entire staff of the
course in simple journalism. STAG in the proper way to pub-
Respectfully yours, Ush a college newspaper to even
JOHN A. MIOLENE wbmit his review of Kon-Tiki
is astounding. .
The report ... on Kon-Tiki
has left me utterly confused and
amazed at the horrible lack of
common sense, much less liter­ary
taste, of the editors of the
STAG.... May I suggest that
you print quotations from any­where
rather than such illiterate
trash as Mr. Rosa's. . . . Mr.
Rosa has not displayed the requi­site
ability to write for even the
STAG.
... I do not want to make the
STAG a literary pUblication but
I think it should strive for three
qualities: first, good £nglish,
then, reserve, and finally, dig­nity
...
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battle with the Educators, who
led at the half and continued to
dominate the lead until the last
five minutes of play. Joe Kehoe,
Jack Moffett and Jim Homa kept
it close but it was Roger Blain
who provided the winning tal­lies.
He hooped four charity
tosses and a field goal to insure
the triumph. I~iiiiii:============
Those who witnessed the New
Haven game saw a close, excit­ing
battle all t-he way. New Ha­ven
came up with a smooth ball
club, as they outplayed Fairfield
the first half and most of the
second. Their key players were
Frank Samuelson a master from
the outside, and Ted Vartelas
a good all around shot. To the
acute observers, Fairfield was a
much better ball club, but they
just couldn't click that particular
night. New Haven led at the half
34-32.
With Moffett connecting for
three sets, the "Stags" pulled
ahead, 52-51, with but three min­utes
to play. Another New Ha­ven
foul shot tied it up. Blain
then sank two fouls, but the lead
was short-lived, as Samuelson
connected for the Elm City five,
knotting the count at 54-54. This
set the stage for Blain's game
winning scores.
Fairfield vs. Providence
At Providence, the pro-Friar
crowd, saw the "Stags" immedi­ately
take charge, but Provi­dence
finally prevailed, 81-61
Jack Sullivan and Joe Miko
paced the visitors to an 11-3
lead in the first four minutes.
Again, Blain was the "Stags"
point-producer. He poured 14
markers through the hoop in the
first'half, to put Fairfield at only
a three-point deficit at half time,
42-39.
Midway in the third quarter,
his services were lost due to an
ankle injury. This, with Kehoe
on the sidelines because of a
stomach ailment, proved to be
too much for the '''Men in Red."
Providence went on a 21 point
scoring spree, raising tlie tally
from 48-46 to 69-46, before Fair­field
connected. F.'r.om this point
on, there was no doubt as to the
outcome.
Varsity Splits In Four ·Games
Fairfield University's varsity
basketball team continued its
unbeaten skein at home, defeat­ing
Concordia College and New
Haven State Teachers College,
but dropped two frays on the
road in recent games. The Stags
were victims of Brooklyn Col­lege
and Providence College,
bringing the season's record to
three wins in five outings.
Fairfield vs. Brooklyn College
An off-form Fairfield suffered
their first defeat of the current
season in a game against Brook­lyn
College. The final tally was
63 to 49. Mike DiTomasso, pre­cision
range-finder for the oppo­sition,
proved a serious threat to
the "Stags" as he racked up a
total of 22 points. Fairfield's ace
for the night was Roger Blaine,
who meshed 21 markers, of
which seven were free tosses.
After a poorly contested first
half, the "Men in Red" played
improved ball during the second
half as they closed the 16 point
half-time gap to nine with seven
minutes remaining. This was as
close as they were able to push
for the balance of the game.
As has been the case in previ­ous
game's, the "Stags" were a
disappointment on the foul line,
as they hit on only 13 of 26 at­tempts.
Fairfield vs. Concordia
In their second home victory,
the "Stags" trounced the Con­cordia
quintet from Bronxville,
N.Y. 67 to 37.
Bobby Markovic and Joe Ke­hoe,
tallying 11 points each, set
the pace during the first half and
finished up as high scorers for
the evening. The play was fast
and the field goals frequent, with
Fairfield running up 20 points
before the opposition could score
a single field goal. The teams
left the floor at half time with
the tally resting at 35-15 in Fair­r.
eld's favor.
The game, which gave Coach
Jim Hanrahan an opportunity to
use all 15 of his men, saw only
two who were held scoreless.
Fairfield vs. New Haven
Fairfield edged a surprisingly
good New Haven Teachers squad
58-54. The "Stags" had a tough
I ntramural Cage
League Opens
The 1950-51 Intramural Bas­ketball
League opened earlier
this week with the F.G.A.C.
team playing the Reef Road
Reapers, and the Shrimps taking
on the Dominicans. The league
is made up of six teams, with
the Accountants, and the Philo­sophical
Five rounding out the
competition. .
Father John D. Crowley, Di­rector
of Intramural Athletics,
hopes that several more teams
will enter the competition so that
two sections may be formed.
This arrangement would facili­tate
the series of playoff games •
that are planned to determine
the championship five. Father
Crowley also announced that the
league will continue until March,
when the playoffs will be held.
Some games will have to be post­poned
because of inclement
weather, but every effort will be
made to play out the full sched­ule.
The captains of the various
teams are Dick Byrnes of the
F.G.A.C., R. Page of the Ac­countants,
John Adams of the
R e e f Road Reapers, Max
O'Meara of the Philosophical
Five, Tom Kelly of the Shrimps,
and M. Fenton of the Domini­cans.
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coming indoor meets in New
York and Boston. Tom Loricco
and Ed Convoy have already
signed up, but Perrault is anx­ious
to hear from others, so con­tact
him pronto, tracksters.
The National Association of
Inter.collegiate Basketball, of
which Fairfield University is a
member, has set the dates for the
championship tourney, held an­nually
at Kansas. It will begin
March 12 and conclude March
17. Who knows, but with a good
year, the "Men in Red" might be
in Kansas at that time.
The Eastern Catholic Intercol­legiate
Athletic Conference,
which our school is most anxious
to join, has nine colleges in its
basketball league. If the group
decides to permit freshmen in
competition, Fairfield will be­come'
members, bgt not until
then, as we have to use fresh­men
for two more years before
being able to come into our own.
Of the nine schools entered in
the basketball league, two are on
the Stags schedule-Iona of New
Rochelle, New York, and St.
Peter's of Jersey City, New Jer­sey.
Still talking of the Catholic
conference, the association held
its first cross country meet at
Van Cortland Park, New York
City, on the day of the big storm
that swept this part of the coun­try.
Varsity winner was Seton
Hall College of South Orange,
New Jersey, while the freshmen
championship went to Provi­dence
College of Rhode Island.
See you after the first of the
year. Best wishes for a happy
and holy Christmas and New
Year.
The basketball game origin­ally
scheduled with Arnold Col­lege
last Monday was moved to
a later dat-e in order that the
Milford school might be able to
meet Siena College. January 30
has been selected as the new
date, and since it occurs during
the mid-term recess, it will af­ford
everybody an opportunity
to travel to nearby Milford and
take in the contest.
Harry Marmion, native of New
York and high scorer of the jun­ior
varsity basketball combine,
has been named captain of the
squad by Father Kinsella, the
coach; Father has, in addition to
his other tasks, found time to
coach the jayvees, and is doing
right well. His charges have won
two straight without tasting de­feat.
With regards to those who are
wondering who is the captain of
the varsity basketball team,
Coach.Jim Hanrahan has decided
not to select a season captain,
but will go along with the con­vention
of naming a captain for
each game.
It seems that the idea of class
bowling leagues, innovated by
John Miko of the Senior Class,
has spread throughout the
school. The sophomores are the
latest to fall in line behind the
seniors and juniors. It is the
hope of this writer that some
freshman will take charge of be­ginning
this activity among his
classmen, so that a round robin
playoff may be conducted at the
end of the season to decide a
school champion.
Coach Bill Perrault is anxious
to enter as many members of his
track team as possible in the
The Store For
Young Men
By BERNIE BEGLANE
FRED REICHERT, Mgr.
951 Main St. Bpt., Ct.
"What's today, my fine fello~v?"
"Why -.- Christmas Day!"
Yes, at last, Christmas! The day when jollity reigns.
The day born of shining dreams and solid work, of
careful planning and glorious giving, of grand ges­tures
and special thoughtfulness. The day when
worries flyaway and big joys come crowding in
... the day we've lived a year for, the day of days
-MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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(Continued from Page 1)
December 15 is the last day on
which suggestions will be ac­cepted.
Mr. Ross urged serious
consideration of the matter.
All suggestions should be
placed in the box located oppo­site
the Registrar's Office on the
main floor of Xavier Hall.
At .the risk of being looked
upon as a radical infected with
modern religious indifference, I
have a few hundred words to
say about "Catholic Poetry." In
the first place, is there such a
thing? At one time I was naive
and uncultured enough to believe
that poetry was poetry, art was
art, the distinction depending
upon certain inherent qualities
in the work which placed it
upon an exalted level and not
upon a superficial label placed
on it. However, the more I read
Catholic magazines and saw the
poetic emotions therein, I be­gan
to wonder about some of the
more mundane poems I had
read. Were the non-Catholic
poets all wrong because they had
chosen to write about Creation
rather than the Creator?
I don't think so. In fact it is
fairly safe to say they have en­joyed
a far greater measure of
success than any of the religious
"poets." What is the answer? It
could possibly be found in the
quality of some of the religious
suffusions that are ground out
by the hundreds of religious
presses all over the world.
"Oh little buttercup, In you I
see the Creator smiling at me
... etc."
I may be abnormal, or per­haps
entirely· devoid of ·an aes­thetic
sense, but when I look
at a buttercup that is precisely
what I see prescinding from the
harmony of its form. You know
I am not quite irreligious either,
but for some reason in the pat­tern
the sun traces through a
stained glass window, I do not
discern the intricate workings of
the Creator's infinite mind, 'be­cause,
as I believe, His Mind is
infinite and we ca.nnot compre­hend
it. However, possibly the
worst' type of this "poetry" is
characterized by wild lament­ings,
mad ravings and joyous
screaming over something like a
piece of dirt which was beneath
a cobblestone which a donkey
passed over, which some donkey
was once led by Saint Joseph,
He, Saint Joseph, who was so
superior to maudlin sentimental­ism
and artificial verbiage, must
certainly be gravely disturbed
over the state of religious poetry.
We must be charitable and as­~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Isume that the people who write
.. this drivel are inspired with an
exalted emotion but lack either
the talent, technique or educa­tion
to express it poetically. If
they are thus inspired, however,
I fervently wish they would keep
their emotions, ho}Vever exalted,
out of the realm of rhyme and
meter unless they have that rare
ability to treat of some facet of
religion without being mawkish,
or on the other hand, too coldly
logical.
I am inclined to agree with
st. Paul that now we see God
darkly, as if through a glass and
it is rather hard to become base­ly
sentimental about the Trinity.
The Catholic Church could well
do without those who turn the
cultured away from the Church.
There is no reason to harp
about the Cafeteria. Instead of
complaining, the student is ad­vised
to accept the situation ra­tionally
and bravely and act
sanely.
Is fresh air a requisite for res­piration?
Seniors have been in­haling
cigarette smoke and car­bon
monoxide for years with
little ill effect, underclassmen
should be able to do the same.
Seniors have been· staring out
the same windows at the same
blank concrete walls for years,
why can't Freshmen acquire a
taste for concrete walls? Beauti­ful
scenery is not necessary for
a happy life.
And what are these complaints
we hear about having to eat
standing up? Is this proper talk
for pioneers? Digestion occurs
just as rapidly whether standing
or sitting. One could hardly de­mand
that card players play on
the floor because some selfish
student wishes to eat. It's so
much more fim to eat while
standing, holding your hot dog
in one hand, your paper cup of
ten cent coffee with its chic
wooden stick-spoon in the other;
being jostled by a gay, happy
throng; the aroma of stale ciga­rettes
wafting on the wings of
a draft.
The Cafeteria is our social
center, a place where friends
may gather and enjoy each oth­ers
company. This and not the
noise, the littered floor, the press
and smoke will be remembered
ten years hence. Only our indi­gestion
and poor lungs will re­mind
us of these inconveniences.
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Council Report
By BERNARD S. MALLON
Well, here is yow' quarter­back
again (Saturday afternoon,
not Monday morning) with more
unbiased news.
The meeting of the 28th was
quite half-hearted (the weather
or something) with some talk of -; ~
the Placement Bureau and more
about the alleged one-way stairs. . '--_.....,' ""'--~
The motion to give the STAG , . ~
editor a vote was tabled. How- ~ ~ I.i ~
ever, there was a very inter- -----...-.' \ \ "
esting discussion after the. meet - ~ . 'I ~----..-: "'r1 '~ ~ ,~'/-'-~
ingO. n December 5, Fr. Langguth ~ r, ~~, '""-='. _
."::> -;. C'__ _ ~ --. J dried the tears of the Council \ _ ,- ......~..:llt.·'1
members regarding a certain X ~e columnist, explained a g a i n ~ --- -/.Ai. 't1
where the Student Activities -'- - ~ ~~",jlT. ~
.) .., fees go (it is legihmate, men, " 5M.q<..," JU$I1UUJl
and promised concrete action on
the Placement Bureau by the SYMPHONY I RADIO
second semester. (Continued from Pl;Ige 1) (Continued from Page 1)
The STAG editor, it developed, singing with the audience the supplement voluntary plans
does not want a vote (that is carol favorite, 0 Come All Ye without supplanting them.
gratitude for you). Faithful. Inter-racial Justice
For the more mundane items: This concert with the Connec- In their discussion, Mr. Vail
there have been too many coke ticut Symphony will publicly and the student panel said that
bottles found in the parking lot. launch the most extensive season Inter-racial Justice dealt with
The Council is .looking into the in the short history of the Glee the plight of groups who are the
matter of a club room in Fair- Club. Organized late in 1947 victims of definite injustice from
field ror its own and other club with the aid of its moderator, their fellow men. In viewing
meetings. Should prove interest- Reverend John P. Murray, S.J., the natural unity of mankind,
ing. the Club has grown in the short it was professed that: (1) All
Grinding salt into the gaping space of three years and ·of men have the same spiritual ori­wounds
of the Regional Clubs, a countless practices, into one ?f gin, (2) All men also have the
somewhat caustic letter will be the best male choral groups In same physical origin in Adam
sent to them, reminding said Connecticut. It has performed and Eve, (3) All men have the
clubs that the Student Council in all of the large cities of the right to the equal sharing of the
has the legal right to make laws state, both in formal concerts earth's resources to sustain and
concerning them. A civil war is and on radio programs, as well develop life, (4) all men are in­in
the making - all we need is as performing in the Waldorf terdependent economically, so­another
Uncle Tom's Cabin. Astoria Grand Ballroom in New cially, and also politically. In
There was some news about York. This year, though the club addition the supernatural aspect
the constitution, but I am ex- has a more intensive schedule, was considered: (1) man's super­pected
home for the holidays in the prospects of a very success- natural destiny, (2) the fact that
one piece.' ful season seem to be assured. Christ redeemed and loves all
r=='--==========~~~~~~~~=====.,men, and finally (3) the call is­sued
by Christ to all men to
join with Him as members of
the Mystical Body, The Church
of Christ. Viewed from Tradi­tional
Catholic teachings, the
wrongs that are evident today
were revea.led as contrary to the
law of God. Man is not to be
denied those things intended for
him by His Creator. Any
thought, word, or deed which is
intended to take these rights
from man are a serious viola­tion
of the Law of God.
Jerusalem
A fact emphasized by Father
Sarjeant and his panel was that
the internationalization of Jer­usalem
is not a subject of minor
importance, but has a direct
bearing on the whole subject of
world peace and the value of
the United Nations as an instru­ment
for preserving that peace.
Jerusalem is a nerve center of
the world; a city sacred to some
700 million Christians, 250 mil­lion
Moslems and 12 million
Jews throughout the world. Jer-
. usalem is closely connected with
three universal religions, and
thus the. problem of Jerusalem
takes on an international uni­versal
character. To understand
its importance to world peace,
one has only to recall the Cru,
sades or the history of the Zion­ist
movement in the last fifty
years. What happens in Jerusa­lem
or a decision about Jerus­ale~,
can not only rock the capi­tols
of the world, it can set off
violent demonstrations in the
most remote villages of the
world; it can start a brawl in
the United States Senate or
Britain's Parliament.