Vol. 20 No. 18 Fe im.Nd Univenity, Fairfield . CoMec+icut Ma reh 3, 1969
Mariani Assumes Government Presidency
By JOHN G. LEDDY
Albert Mariani concluded a campaign for the Student Government presidency
which began in early February, defeating opponent Charles Coviello by 445 votes
to 289. Also in the running were unopposed candidates Robert Murphy, who succeeds
Donald Mcinerney as vice president, and Thomas Mannion, re-elected Government
Treasurer. The new administration began to establish itself and function
in the area of parking lot improvements by week's end.
Survey Disclo·ses
Neglect of Blacks
By DAVID 1\lcVITTIE
"As the Colonel said in Cool
Hand Luke, 'what we got here
is a failure to communicate'."
Fr. George D. Fitzpatrick expressed
this thought recently,
following a survey made by
himself and his two communication
classes. The general
purpose of the project was to
determine "how well we communicate
with one another in
this community."
The t.oplc dealt with by the
atudents concerned Fairfield
University's pollc.)' on the recruiting
of blaclc students. The
survey, which first learned of
the newly developed 15·year cur·
rlculm, wanted to find out: 1.)
how well has FAirfield University
revealed Its policy of Negro
students; nnd 2.) how well h~U"
Fa.lrfield University articulated
this policy fl) prospective blacll
candidate".
Father Fitzpatrick's students
obtained their information by
talking with the blacks on
campus, Very Rev. William C.
Mcinnes, Mr. Thomas Donohue
Mr. Ronald Bianchi, Rev.
James H. Coughlin, S.J., and
various members of the ad-
NOTICE
Effective 1\larch 24, 1969,
the following a.reas wW be
designated u tow away
zones. Unauthorized cars
parking in these areas wUI
be towed away. at the own·
er's expense.
A - Library parking area..
B - Circle in front of Canl·
slus Hall.
C - Circle in front of new
Dorm..
D - Circle in front of Re:iJ
HalL
E - Rear delivery entrance
to Loyola Ball.
F - Fire hydrant areaa.
George Moloney
Director of Maintenance
& Security
missions de p a r t m e n t The
project begun in December,
was concluded a few weeks ago
and shows some discrepency in
what the university says and
what it does, although the administration
states that it "will
accept any qualified black stu-
Continued on Page 2
CISL Elects Janson Speaker of the House
Mr. Mariani's efforts go back
to September of 1966, when he
joined the Student Government
as class representative under
the administration of President
Kevin McGovern. There followed
the terms of Michael Bocchini
and PhUip Howe.
In December of 1968, 1\farlani
decided to nm: "I think I can
win. I know the government
well, and the new Cons titution
well; I think I can make them
both work effectively."
As a candidate, he pubished
a series of articles entitled the
"Mariani Papers," outlining in
detail his ideas for reforms and
improvement. In early February
of this semester, he went to the
freshman class, winning wide
support and establishing a campaign
team. It is this class
which traditionally shows the
most interest in government
presidential elections. This past
election, the Class of 1972 turned
out in greater numbers than
the combined total of juniors
and seniors.
Inauguration
Mr. Mariani was inaugurated
in a simple ceremony last Thursday
afternoon. Afterward, he
announced the name of students
appointed to cabinet positions
on the Executive Board. Rober t
1\lurphy '71 will occupy the Executive
Chairmanship, in addition
to his duties as Student
Government vice president. Off·
campus representative Rober t
Buccino now becomes Chairman
of Off-campus Affairs. James
Ruane, Regis dorm representative
and one time president of
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Newly elected Student Government President Alber t Ma riani
is sworn in by Chief Justice Patrick McConnlr.k in ceremoniee
held last Thursday Jn the Oa ,pus Center.
Hearings Held
ACLU Law
On
Suit
By DUANE ~lcDONALD
Pre-trial hearings were held
a short while ago on the ACLU
law suit which has been brought
against Fairfield University and
several other Catholic colleges
in Connecticut.
At these pre-trial meetings,
both sides exchanged information
on their positions and discussed
preparations for the
pending suit. The American
Civil Liberties Union and the
American J ewish Congress also
asked for further documentation
from the defendants, which
also include Wilbur Cohen,
(former) Secretary of Health,
Education, and Welfare, and
Marvin Peterson, Chairman of
the Commission on Aid to Higher
Education of the State of
Connecticut.
The suit was originally filed
in District Court in New Haven
on September 28, 1968, by fifteen
Connecticut residents, in·
eluding faculty members from
the University of Connecticut,
Wesleyan University, Trinity
College, and the University of
Hartford. They are being as·
sisted by the ACLU and the
AJC, two of the staunchest opponents
of Federal aid to sectarian
schools.
Evaluation Deadline
Date March 14th
The plaintlffs allege that fed·
erally financed construction at
sectarian colleges indirectly
su pports reUglous causes since
the government money helps to
balance tbe budgets of these
schools and allowa them to con·
tlnue their religious activities.
The complaint atatea that the
grants thereby subject the tax·
payers to "compulsory taxation
for religious purposes." Tbls,
they argue, violates the firtlt
and fourteenth amendments to
the United States Constitution.
Falrfteld Senior Michael Janson, who was elected Speaker of
t he House by an overwhelming vote of 198-41, brings last
Saturday's meeting of the Connecticut Inter-Collegiate State
Legi.sJD.ture to order. Fairfield University's bill to establish a
basle lnBurance protection plan was passed by the assembly.
(Photo by Alan PU«'h)
By JOHN BRENNAN
"Without 800 returns we
would not have enough data to
validly evaluate all the professors."
stat~s Chuck Dombeck,
chairman of the faculty evaluation
committee. A total of 1435
questionnaires have been handed
out and only 473 have been
returned as of March 6th.
Asked what he thinks is the
reason for the low returns Dombeck
pointed out, "Lack of returns
I feel indicates lack of
student interest in having any
evaluation whatsoever and seriously
hampers any future attempt."
The 110 question evaluation
should have been completed
and returned last Friday.
If the additional returns are not
forthcoming, "we will not have
the evaluation."
Faculty evaluation Ia a new
thing at Falrtleld and 1\{r. Dom·
beck was "encouraged by com·
mlttee members to have the
deadline date moved ahead to
Friday, 1\larch 14th, in the hope
of receiving a. suftlclent amoWlt
of r eturns." All completed ques·
tionnalres should be sent to
P . 0 . Box DD.
Mr. Dombeck was Queried as
to his general impression of the
how the faculty has responded
to the evaluation. He replied,
"on the whole, the faculty is
strongly in favor of this gen·
ez:al and objective evaluation.
Continued on Pace 2
At the present time both sides
are arranging depositions and
gathering evidence for the case.
Due to the large amount of research
involved it is not known
if the plaintiffs will bring the
suit to trial before this coming
spring or summer.
Washington Attorney Edward
Bennett Williams, who was retained
to represent Fairfield
University, has been gathering
extensive data on the matter.
His stall' has visited each of the
defendant colleges, and has
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Campus News
YEARBOOK ON SALE
The 1969 l\lanor is on sale
every day in the Campus Center
from 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
The deadline for ordering your
copy is Tuesday, March 25th.
Your l\lanor may be reserved
with a deposit of S5 or full payment
or $10. If you are unable
to stop at the Campus Center
during these hours, drop a note
In Box A and you will be contacted.
• • •
BLACK PANTHERS
On Thursday, March 13, 1969
in Gonzaga Audtiorium there
will be a discussion with the
Black Panthers of Bridgeport.
The main speakers will be Captain
Rene Gonzales, and Field
Lieutenant Lonnie McLucas.
The discussion will be sponsored
by YIC, the Young Democrats,
the International Relations
Club, the Student Government,
and the Sociology Club.
Craig O'Connell ('69), president
of the Young Demgcrats,
has indicated that the purpose
of the meeting iS the "hope tbat
the students will get a correct
understanding of the Panthers'
program and aims." • • •
SOCIAL SCIENCE EFFORT
Students interested in con·
tributing to the Social Science
Etrort should submit their
names to Box D Mail Room by
Wednesday, March 19. The So·
clal Science Etrort will consist
of abstracts from original, in·
teresting papers submitted in
Sociology, Psychology, Politics
and Economics courses. All
names submitted to Box D must
specify "Social Science Effort." • • ••
LOST AND FOUND
Brown Key Case containing
several keys - three men's
wrist watches - a black stone
ring - these items may be
claimed in the Campus Center
Mail Room by identifying same. • • •
Discount tic.kets for the fol·
lowing plays in New York City
may be purchased in Mr. Grif·
fin's office, Xavier 106:
"Red, White and Maddox" -
expires March 16th. "Celebra·
tion" - expires March 22nd.
"The Man in the Glass Booth"
- expires March 15th. The Act·
ing Theatre of the Deaf - expires
March 8th.
• • •
MEXICAN BUS RIDE
Mexican Bus Ride, the University
Film Society's offering
on Wednesday, March 19, at
3:30 and 7:30 p.m., is 73 min·
utes of Mexican director Bunuel's
best. Unstereotyped, but
universal characters are caught
by his lens enacting the drama,
comedy, and organized passion
of everyday human life full of
schemes, hopes and fears.
The story centers around the
dying peasant mother and her
ambitious sons who, for one reason
or another, desperately seek
to control the meager estate.
Wheeling and dealing in a
comic though tragic race with
death, the good son rushes
homeward on a Mexican bus
ride with the will which his
mother must sign before death.
On his way he is distracted by
a beautiful peasant girl (played
by Lilia Prado) whose overtures
seek to dissuade him from
his original goal. The son's answer
to evil temptation and the
outcome of the story is logical
and ingenious, providing a fitting
climax for a superb regional
screen novel. "Bright and
sparking; commingled like and
death, goodness and villany
without bitterness or blame.''
Saturday Review.
• • •
PEACE CORPS
The Peace Corps has urged
students who wish to be considered
for summer trainill6
programs to submit their applications
soon, preferablY by
early April.
Last year, man students who
planned to enter Peace Corps
service in the summer after
graduation were disappointed
when their applications were
not processed in time, according
to the Northeast Peace
Corps Center in Boston.
An average of 10 weeks
passes between the receipt of
an application in Washington
and the issuanee of an invitation
to Peace Corps training.
As summer approaches, the
processing time is longer due
to the increased work load.
Therefore, many programs are
filled or have started training
before late applications can be
completely processed.
Applications and Peace Corps
information are available on
many campuses from the Peace
Corps liaison. The nearest
Peace Corps office is in Hartford
at 1380 Asylum Avenue
06105, Phone (203) 244-2457. • • •
OFFICER SCHOOL
A selection team for officer
candidates will visit the Fairfield
Universi1y campus on 10
and 11 March, First Lieutenant
Charles D. Barber, team leader,
announced today.
The team, from U.S. Army
First Recruiting District Headquarters,
Fort George G. Meade,
Md., will interview interested
students at the Campus Center
between 10:00 and 3:00 for the
Army College Option Program
for Officer Candidate School.
Under this program, qualified
persons may apply for a written
guarantee of attendance at an
Army Officer Candidate School.
College seniors may apply any
time during their final year and
complete their processing while
still in college.
Following graduation and enlistment,
qualified young men
complete Basic Combat Train·
ing (BCT) and Advanced Individual
Training (AIT), each
eight weeks in duration. Then
they begin 23 weeks of OCS itself.
Upon successful completion
of these three phases of training,
they are awarded commissions
as second lieutenants with
a commitment to serve two
years as commissioned officers
in the Army.
The three officer candidate
schools are Infantry OCS, Fort
Benning, Ga.; Artillery OCS,
Fort Sill, Okla.; and Engineer
OCS, Fort Belvoir, Va.
Persons interested in this pro-gram
are urged to talk to a
member of the selection team,
or see their local Army recruiters,
whose names and addresses
are in the telephone
book.
March 12, 1969
Summer Work Program
To Be Offered in Europe
On March 4th, the University
of Bridgeport sponsored a luncheon
on behalf of the Fairfield
County Hospitality Committee.
The meeting was called to form
a conunittee and propose a selection
process for this summer's
student exchange work program
under the auspices of the United
States Travel Association
(USNSTA).
The USNST A is providing for
five students from the Bridgeport
area an exchange work program
in Great Britain and Ireland
this summer. Any college
or high school student, even
though not currently matriculating,
between 18 and 25 years
of age may apply to work in
either of these countries. The
place of work is usually in a
department store, hotel, or office
and lasts 6 full weeks. The
salary depends upon the type
of job but it usually averages
about $30.00 a week. Travel to
and from the country is pro-
On March 18, 1969, In
front of the fireplace In the
Campus Center, the third In
a series of Alumni Career
Semlnan will be held. The
topic for cllscusslon with a
Fa.lrlield AlumnUI will be the
Stock Market ud oppor·
tunltles for career work In
it. Refreshments will be
served aftenvardl. The Semi·
nar start& at 7 :SO p.m.
Everyone Is Invited.
vided by the USNSTA.
A -chartered flight will leave
from N.Y.C. at the end of June
and will return in earlY September.
The student, for the
sum of approximately $5.00 per
W;?ek, will room and board with
a family near his place of work
and have a unique opportunity
to meet people and to exchange
cultural values and ideas. It
should be noted that this program
does not Include any type
of opportunity to do classwork
in an overseas Institution.
This summer work program
is an USNST A pilot project involving
20 students from 4 communities
in the United States.
Between April 30 and June 30,
the 20 selected students will be
provided with an opportunity to
meet as a group four times in
each of their respective communities.
Hopefully, these socials
will lay the foundation of
future lasting friendships within
the group. On arriving in England
or Ireland, the students
will be guests of the local student
activities union and they
will be provided with guided
tours of the capital city and
hosted to a number of other
different social and cultural
tunctions.
Government Holds
Project Birth Meeting
Any interested student should
contact Mr. Vytautas Kasinskas
N.S.J., at the office of the Assistant
Dean of Student Services,
Loyola 108 between 1-4
p.m. or telephone 255-1011, Ext.
423 or 280 for more information
and applications. All applications
must be submitted no later
than March 31, 1969, to Mr.
Kasinskas.
About fifty students, mostly Black Students
freshmen, turned out at the
Campus Oenter last Sunday for
an organizational meeting of
the executive branch of the
Student Government. The event,
titled "Project New Birth,"
featured the newly ln.augerated
p-resident, Albert Mar1a.nl,
and the heads of the various
executive departments.
Immediate Plau
At the beginning of the meeting,
President Mariani spoke
or the immediate plans of his
Book Store
Expulsion Sign
By GEORGE BRITTON
News Editor
In a response to a sign that
was posted in the front of the
Bookstore that read "Warning!
Shopliters Face Expulsion!",
The Stag queried Mrs. Brown,
the manager, as to the nature
and the reasoning behind the
admonition. Mrs. Brown indi·
cated that the sign was put up
by the personnel that works in
the bookstore. She neither approved
nor vetoed the action.
She also indicated that the
threat of expulsion was an
empty one and there was no
certainty of an expulsion for any
student apprehended for stealing.
The sign had been on dis·
play for three days prior to the
questioning. It was promptly removed
a.fter the interview was
completed.
Evaluation
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Any criticism has been directed
against specthc questions rather
than the form of the evaluation
as a whole. Right now we are
canvassing the faculty for suggestions
on the improvement of
the evaluation." Dombeck pointed
out that "the faculty shows
more interest than the students."
administration: "The first thing
we want to get done is to get
the new constitution ratified.
We also want to speak with
the Administration about getting
the activities fee on the
tuition." He then introduced his
executive branch chairmen,
who each in turn explained the
functions of his committee to
the assembled students.
Inter-collegiate Week
Will.iam Provost, S o c i a 1
Chairman, announced tentative
plans for an inter-collegiate
weekend with Manhattanville
College. Treasurer Thomas
Mannion announced that "contrary
to c.ampus rumor, the
Student Government is solvent.
We do have some funds to
work with in the next months."
Mr. Mannion then asked for
11 student with accounting experience
to volunteer for the
post of Student Loans Chairman.
At the end of the meeting,
after all the committee heads
had spoken forms which were
passed out to students wishing
to join the executive branch.
(CellUJlaed frOm Pap 1)
dent. Furthermore, money is
no problem. However they have
done very little recruiting in
schools where there are black
students."
The two communlcatlons
~lasses not only discovered that
the new 5-year curriculum had
not been publicized, but tha.t
the a.dmln18trat1on had not
yet d ls c u s 1 e d the new
policy with ~ adm.ls8lons of·
fioe, Fr. Fitzpatrick posed the
question: "Shouldn't the facul·
ty ha.ve been consulted In some
way before the plan was announced
f" Father went on to
disclose that "the two section•
of Business Oommunlcat1ons
181 were able to learn o1 the
new recruiting system a full
month before It was announced
to the general faculty.
One more fact that was obtained
from the study deals
with the total lack of concern
for the problem by the majority
of white students on this campus.
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March 12, 1969
Fr. Burns Views
By RIC BAKER and
PAUL CUNNINGHAM
ED. NOTE: The following Interview
concerns the opinions
ot Rev. VIncent Burns, S.J .,
head of the Fairfield University
Theology Department, about
the requirement controversy
and the Importance of Theology
in the education process.
Stag: What is your feeling
concernin&' Theology In the
eurrlcuium?
Fr. Burns: I feel that theology
or religious studies at any
rate should be in the required
core curriculum for any Liberal
Arts College or any college
proposing to give something
more than a technological education.
In other words, it is
impossible that a man could be
educated, that is, exposed to
the great ideas of Western
Civilization without being exposed
to the religious ideas
thereof.
Stag: Do you feel that the
end result could be achieved if
the present requirements were
lessened?
you have to talk in terms of the
whole context and if one says
"theology must be reduced
even in the present set up", I
say "no.'' Theology should be
maintainP.d; it should be revised
constantly; it should
change to meet what is evident
to the real needs of students.
This is what we are trying to
do, and we are hopefully
getting help from students.
One of the difficulties is that
a lot of the students are just
"agin'' Theology. They don't
want any, so it is rather irrational
to talk to them. If they
are willing to accept the first
premise, that they are not
really educated liberally without
a decent exposure to the
religious thought of the West
and the meaning of religion for
all mankind - assuming a
serious course and not a "hot
air" course - then they really
haven't gotten the liberal arts
education that they came for,
and they are being cheated.
If they are willing to sit
down on this basis and talk
about it, we can make a great
deal of progress, even if we
maintain the present system.
But I don't think we are going
to. The present core curriculum
is going to change, but I don't
know when.
Stag: There are many requirements
In other fields. Why
do you fe~l that your department
is one that has been
singled out by the students to
reduce requirements?
F r. Burns: I think because
they associate it with forced
feeding of religion, and in so
far as this is true, they are
correct; but it shouldn't be this,
and in my estimation religious
stuches and theology should not
he a forced feeding, an indoctl'inn•
ion. These subjects
sho\.~~ be stua:ed academically
ai'cl, if' they an: indoctrinatio:.,
Vietnam:
T H I STA6 ,.,. n., ..
Theology As 'Force Fed·'
thea I >H:rce t~at they 1-~ve nr.1
place in the curriculum.
As far as I know, the Theology
courses at Fairfield are
not indoctrinal. They are information,
and that is part of
the formation of the total basic
education of men. Because t!!is
is a Catholic college people
tend to focus the idea of
Catholicism and Christianity
with the Philosophy and Theology
Departments. And this is
erroneous, it seems to me. Maybe
a generation ago it was all
right, but such an analysU. is
inaccurate today.
My principal point is th 1t
you just can't knock ouc The·
ology because you don't like it.
The prejudice among students
against it is very strong and
the teacher senses this in the
classroom. It is not the
students' fault.
To the extent that this is
just the same more of religious
training they have had for
eight or twelve years, and they
don't want it - I don't blame
them one bit. They do nave
the data of the faith that they
are going to make up thei.r personal
minds about. They have
enough information from that
point of view.
But do they have a profound
enough insight into the meaning
of religion- Probably not.
This is what Theology as an
academic subject and as a serious
science could give you.
So it has a practical value
besides being the presentat ion
of the way and method in
which Western man has
thought about God. I think it
would be a great pity for students
to reject it entirely and
not to take it, even because
have no religion. This has
nothing to do with it.
Stag: What Is being done in
your department concerning
the area of required courses?
F r. Burns: Well, the number
of available electives will hopefully
be increased. There have
been certain basic difficulties
not concerned with the electives
so much as with our shifting
man-power and the control
of registration. These two
things have made it very difficult
for us in the past to offer
a vt:ry broad program. Hopefully
this year we can control
registration and we can offer
a much broader series of electives
to be chosen from. It
seems to me that practically
two or three years ago we offered
thirteen electives and
only six were chosen. Th1s
year we had eight. Next year
we will be offering more
courses in Jewish and Protestant
Theology a n d m o r e
courses in Catholic Theology
and Scripture.
My basic point about the
electives is that if the set up
remains the same, it is curriculum-
wise, then I can't see
how we can justify cutting
down Theology merely because
it is Theology. That's just giving
in to the prejudice.
I think it's the job of the
faculty as educators not to be
favoring their own subjects, as
ngainst other subjects, but to
make sure that the core curriculum
that is offered to students
has given them the kil' 1
of background that they neeci.
It seems to me that the
Catholic committment to edu
·:!ation is not merely the safeguarding
against hostile coercion,
but really it is to make
man as fully man as possible,
at least that is the opportunity
I am interested in giving.
Stag: WUI there be any
course change in the coming
year?
Fr. Burns: Well. I don't
know whether it will be for
next year or not. This is a
problem and I do sympath .t.e
with the young men who a ~e
in school now saying, "Somt.thing
does have to be done
about revision, but by the time
revision is ready, I 'll be out
of here.'' Maybe it will be
ready for next year, but I
doubt it. I think 1970 will be
the first real change.
In my department, we are
talking about revising the basic
freshman curriculum. Well,
there is no changing it if the
whole core curriculum is going
lo change. If they don t move
on it - we'll change right
away. If they're moving, we'll
set up a program that will be
meaningful in the context of
the total curriculum change. In
view of a long range program,
we will probably get down to
six obligatory courses plus several
optional ones. This is what
I think is going to happen and
I see no way out of it.
You must have the understanding
that you're not merely
rejecting Theology; perhaps
they'll set up the core curriculum
in areas such that you'll
have to take several hours in
one area - the history of
Western though t, religious
thought, and so forth; the history
of eastern thought, religious
thought and so forth.
It would seem now they're
putting religious study into all
the state universities and all
the big universities that never
had religious sudies before.
Fr. Burns: Well, I think this
exposure is possible without
having insistence upon as many
required hours in Theology as
we do now. This is a possibility
- understand, it is something
that in principle is possible. The
working out in detail is the
important thing. If someone
were to say "The exposure and
training and understanding of
the great religious ideas of the
Judaeo-Christian tradition can
be achieved in three, or six, or
nine hours and therefore Theology
requirements should drop
to three, or six, or nine hours"
- I'd say that this is a rather
bland, unproved statement.
This would all have to be
worked out and if we were to
say that in the present curriculum
structure as it is now
that it should be changed, I
would say "no". If you simply
change and reduce Theology
and maintain the present curriculum
structure, all you are
saying is that theology or religious
studies is of less importance
than it has been traditionally
thought to be in
terms of. numbers of required
hours, and you are therefore
downgrading religious studies.
This is a very dangerous thing
to do.
'Once We're Gone, We're Gone'
This has always been one of
the major hassles between the
Jesuit system of education and
non-Jesuit in this country -
for example, the representatives
of Boston College years
ago disputed with Harvard representatives
as to whether a
young man should be able to
choose everything he wants or
to be held to a core curriculum.
The Jesuits held out for a core
curriculum, and Harvard went
the other way. Now Harvard is
back to a core curriculum and
we're swinging the other way.
But we should be much more
in tune witb the needs of the
times - these are the students
of the future and this is a very
serious thing. I think most
people here are aware. The curriculum
committee is meeting
every other week. The people
are really interested in revising
and doing a god job of revising
the curriculum. This is "over
and above the call of duty."
They want to get it done as
fast as possible. I don't think
that these revisions can be
ready for next year.
On the other hand, there is
a revision of the core curriculum,
and I forsee that this is
not only necessary but actually
it's happening. There is a curriculum
committee in the faculty
that is working very hard
to revise the core curriculum
and it may well be that in the
revised curriculum, the hours
devoted specifically to Theology
or religious studies would be
much less than they are now.
I don't see how you could have
much less than six and get a
meaningful introduction to a
basic theological method or
basic understanding of what
religion is or what it means.
So it is conceivable that if
the core curriculum is revised
into an area study, then there
would be no obligatory studies
in Religion or Theology as
such. You might have philosophy
of religion to fulfill the
Liberal Arts need.
So in order to talk more
m~aningfully about reduction
By JAN SATTEM
To a tota.llty of approx.bnate·
ly slxty Wldegraduates and two
interested citlzens of the coWlty,
Mr. Kenneth S. Armstrong ad·
dressed himself in Gonzaga Au
ditorium on Thursday last. After
a lengthy delay the proceedings
finally began.
Mr. Armstrong displayed two
films entitled "Vietnam: A Reappraisal,"
both dealing with
the conflict in Southeast Asia
and its effects upon the people
there. The films were neither
pro nor con but simply factual.
Evolutionary Development
The speaker emphasized the
evolutionary development of the
attitude of the American GI's
in Vietnam. Mr. Armstrong
stated that, previous to the last
two major offensives by the
North, the position held by the
GI's was that the war was "a
necessary job, even though a
most distasteful one." They
were largely "in favor of the
Allied Forces.'' However, the
TET offensive "destroyed many,
many illusions." By the summer,
"this euphoria had disappeared
- the illusions were
gone."
Mr. Armstrong spoke of the
American Chiefs of Staff as previously
being "overly optbnistic."
They had "never taken off
their rosy-colored glasses." This
attitude soon spread to the five
o'clock correspondence confer·
ence between the Chiefs of Staff
and newsmen held in downtown
Saigon. This meeting came to
be known as the "five o'clock
follies."
Mr. Armstrong is currently
employed by the Cleveland
Plain Dealer as a correspondent,
and since 1961 he has made annual
trips to South Vietnam.
He stated that our main reason
for being in Vietnam was in
defense of the "domino theory.''
Although this hypothesis has
come under fire in the United
States, Mr. Armstrong made it
Cootlnued on Pace 'I
Kenneth S. Armstrong, who spoke in n Student Government
sponsored lecture last Thursday on Vietnl\m,
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On I mlitfc- r c-n r(\
Bc~ides the capital campai)!n, the American Civil Liberties
~Inion suit, and the outside world. the biggest issue Fairfield faces
:t<: a college community is ~tudent indifference. It is the indifference
of thc s tudents toward those things determining their lives which
is crippling this campus. I suppose for one reason or another
c,·cryonr becomrs indiffC'rC'nt or even cynical before leaving this
uni\·C'rsity. This is a trend at most schools, but what arc its roots
on this campus?
After Jh·in..: h l'~·l' <o~· a wh:lC', onC' begins to fc<'l the discontent,
unrr<:t. and unconcern for anything on this campus except that
whtrh conc,•rns personal gratification. The term used to refer to
those who exhibit this attitude is "typical Stag." Some have insi~
t ed that the •·typical Stag" could be changed by challenging him
t 1 C'xamine Fairfield Uni\'crsity and confront the administration
on student issues like parietals and dress. There have been a
number of changes wrought by this tactic, whereby a small group
of students arou!'c student interest and concern on a specific issue.
But these n'O''<'t:l <'nts arc dead. I he days of mass d('mo:,~ tratirm
like the dress confrontation of last year are dead. Look around
and you will see that the acti\'ists arc no longer active and seem
not to care or are no longer here. It appears they are a victim of
what they were trying to fight - indifference, but I think their
v:rw is that the "typical Sta~" cannot be changed, and it is not
w ).'th trying to change anything around her:! any more. Sure. you
will find flyers under your door, but these are an outgrowth of the
old :•~ tiY i ·~t rro,·~mc-rts :md <r" fl'r cllfTn"r ;·l :--:-· o--s a ' t: .. ,. · '\.
But. I am afraid, this mO\·cmcnt will die like a fire with no fuel
bC'forc the C'nd of the semester.
I f<'<'l that the maior brecdC'rs of indifference on this campus
arc the social life or lack of it. the Student Government or lack
of it nne! thr administration. In a society where the trend is for
malc and female equality, an all male campus, isolated from
e\'l'ryday female contact except for a few secretaries and young
frmalc tcarhers, is a d!"ab place. The result is a psychological if
not ph~·!;ical y<'arning for female company. Since there is little or
no rrr:ular female con•act, the studl'nt becomes discontented with
thl' fact that "girls don't exist on this campus." This social situation
is the underlying fa~tor of nil discontent on this campus.
Thr second mnjor hrcrdcr of discontent is the Student GovC'mnwnt
m· lack of it. The gm·C':·nmcnt is to he run by the students.
few thC' ~tud<'nls and wi:h the studrnts; howcvcr, the onc gcnl'ral
ii11Jll'c•s<:inn of th<' Student Go\'C'rnmt•nt is that it docs n·>t exist.
11 roll<'cls ;wti\'ities f<'t's anc! givrs the money to all clubs and
Ol'!::lnizal ion~ on campus whic·h as\< for it. but has managed to
losr a total of eighty-five hundrcrl dolla~ on c.onccrts ovrr the past
p •:n·. OnC' would hav<' 1<1 look ,. 'l'Y hard to find something genuine
th<' gO\'C'rnnwnt has acromplishrd !;incc September. The fact that
tlw :.:•1\'C'rnmrnt has proved incapable of performing anything
,,. ll''hwhilP lt•ads to d~pa ir that anything can be done to change
tlw gn,·<'rnnwnt or work through it to change the school. The big,
t::P<:t pmbk m facing Mr. Mariani is the reorganbwtion, rc-estabJi
c;hmC'nt anrl promo! ion of the J::O\ crnmcnt as a viable and nrxible
organization capable of prcse:11ing studrnt views and ini'iating
<·h:lll:.;<'. (Snmrthing whirh the govrrnmcnt has never really done
since• ils incC'pl ion). It is an in· mC'nsc job and it is improbable but
nnt impossible that this can bC' accomplishC'd in a year. However,
It is impossible for any one pC'rson to acc:>mplish these aims. Mr .
Mariani will only be as successful as those who work in the govcrnmr
nt arC' as enthusiastic and dl'dicatl'd to sec it improve. It
will he thr sum total of everyone's action<: which will change the
government and thus restore confidence and hope that things can
be changed on campus.
The third and least brccdC'r of discontent is that thing called
thC' administration. It breeds discontent for it fails in the eyes of
thr s iudcnts and is seen as a foe to anything the student wants.
It is the administration that holds the power around here and thus
clctcrmincs what Fairfield University will be like. It changes very
slowly and those who desire the change want it now. As a result
those tryim: to change the administration b<'comc frustrated and
give up on the school. Ultimately it will be the administration
which can break this syndrome by being more receptive to change
and more cooperative with the Student Government thus improving
its image.
This discontent over social life and the lack of ability to
·change anything in the government or the school sows the seeds
of indifference. This indifference has grown to such an extent on
campus that it seems irreversible. If this is true, then Fairfield
University does not have much longer to live.
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Assistance Acknowledged
To the Editor :
We wish to gratefully acknowledge the
assistance given to us by Rev. Vincent
Burns, S.J., in allowing us to interview
him for th is issue.
After being turned down by other
members of the university community
for very adequate reasons, Fr. Burns
came to our aid upon a moment's notice,
and graciously agreed to hold a very
important interview c'oncernlng the Theology
curriculum.
It is our opinion that there are members
of the academic community who
would do well to emulate Fr. Burns' attitude
by their readiness and willingness
to make known their views as regards
the entire university community and not
to limit their occupational scope to the
classroom.
Respectfully,
Ric Baker, "71
Paul Cunningham, "71
• • •
Teacher Who Cares
To the Editor:
I would like to take this opportunity
to respond to Mr. Lish's letter in a recent
issue of The Stag.
It is my belief that Dr. Grassi is one
of the finest teachers at our University.
Unlike Mr. Lish, I have had Dr. Grassi
in class for two years in succession.
Bo'h of these experiences have been personally
meaningful and Intellectually rewarding.
The experience was meaningful because
Dr. Grassi approached each student
as an individual, and always was
available after class hours to continue
a discussion or explain a particular position.
The experience was intellectually rewarding
because a knowledge of the
subject matter was mandated by Dr.
G:-assi's teaching style. Unlike some
Fairfield University teachers, Dr. Grassi
cares too 1-:-l'ICh for th<' student to tolerate
any nonsense.
I think, pc:-haps Mr. Lish's two friends
attempted to take the easy way out
T! Mr. Lish and his friends want an
easy non-major course, I think that
they would be more successful in their
hunt if they, fi1·st find the teachers who
do not care, and then sign up for the
cour!;:'s that they arc instructing.
Thank you,
C. E. F a lr fa.x '69
• • •
Gross Demonstration
To the Editor:
A few days ago, I had the opportunity
to observe a gross demonstration of behavior
in the studE'nt dining room. Crashing
to the floor with his loaded tray between
two tables of black students, an
oafish but jovial Stag s•umbled to his
feet. brushed himself off, and cheerfully
acknowledged the cheers of his
fellow, jovial Stags. Soup, hamburgers,
coke and dishes lay spread across the
floor. The black students checked their
clothes for food stains, cased the situation,
and with a grim determination remained
in their scats amid the wr;!ckage.
I watched the jolly oaf, as he paraded
among his friends, apparently obli\.'ious
to the mess he had lett behind. Finally,
he returned to the food line for another
lunch, failing even to notify the kitchen
staff of the work that needed doing.
White racism ! Or just uncivilized stupidity?
Our pretension to learning obliges
us to )le though tful in making such
distinctions. But docs it not oblige us to
be more thoughtful in our behavior as
well?
Sincerely,
Edward Dew
Department of History & Politics
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GooD LucK, AL •
-Student Trustees
Talk is centering on the feasibility of student representation on
this university's Board of Trustees. We think such a reform is necessary
and desirable.
The Trustees meet rarely enough, and when they do, they receive
only the Administration's point of view. This is hardly sufficient
to form a coherent view of events. As for whether or not the students
should be able to vote. their inclusion is pointless if they do not. The
Trustees, after all, defer to the Corporation on all policy matters in
our rather unusual hierarchy. Reducing the students to "advising the
advisers" is unfaithful to the point of the reform.
We believe that further steps should be taken in this vein: specifically,
at least two students should be included on all administrative
committees. Such a system exists at Holy Cross, and functions superbly.
Holy Cross students are faced with a tuition hike. but know the
reasons why and had a voice in the decision. We at Fairfield have no
such voice. We insist on one before there are any more tuition rises
here.
Youth Fares
To the Editor:
The way things are going, you and
your readers are about to lose their
privilege to fly at half-fare.
For some reason, practically no one
in the country felt concerned enough
about it to file a brief with the CAB on
behalf of the students who are the users
of the cards. NSMC was the first to intervene,
followed only by the NSA and
the Campus Americans for Democratic
Action.
We cannot, however, win the fight
alone. We need your help. Hearings before
the CAB are on March 12, 1969. It
we are not successful, everyone of you,
regardless of age, will have to pay full
fare and the half-fare cards which you
now hold will be worthless.
We feel that it your readers were fully
aware of the situation, they and their
parents would want to do something
about it. The best thing to be done at
this point is to send us letters of protest
at the cancellation of the half-fare program.
We will make sure they are forwarded
to Congress, the CAB or wherever
they will do the most good.
Time is of the essence!
Very best regards,
Cortes W. Randell
National Student Marketing Corp.
Time & Life Building
New York, N.Y. 10020
A Sense Of Priorities
The Stag offers its congratulations to Albert Mariani on his hardearned,
well-deserved, and decisive victory in the contest for President
of the Student Government.
The Stag said last week that "We ... intend to be a continuing
source of support, countersuggestions, and vigilant criticism" for the
next President. And while Mr. Mariani prepares to assume the mantle
of power, we offer our first round of speculation.
The top priority for Mr. Mariani is passage of the new Student
Government Constitution. According to Mr. Mariani, the Legislature
is almost ready to offer it to the students in a referendum. That day
cannot come soon enough. We await with especially avid interest the
time when the Student Bill of Rights has been voted into reality by
the student body and unilaterally declared in effect by the President
as a prelude to, not a result of, negotiations with the administration.
The second priority is reform of living conditions on this campus.
Mr. Mariani remains optimistic that a new Handbook can be completed
by the end of the semester, so he can mount an effective stu dent
response to whatever inadequacies it might contain. It is imperative
that he succeed. We hope to soon be able to look on sign-ins,
lights-out provisions, and curfews as relics of an age that this university
should be long past. The punitive power of resident assistants
must be curbed. Before this university goes coeducational, it must
have rational parietal hours; the alternative is disaster two years
hence. If women's colleges such as New Rochelle and St. Joseph's
can make the honor systeni their basis for conduct, so surely can we.
And alcohol must be allowed on campus for all ages and classes. Let
no one hide behind t.he skirts of state law on t.his issue. Holy Cros•
and Boston Coll~ge have broken grot1nd in this area. and our situa·
tions are identical.
Third, we wish to see the Legislature resolutions on reducing
Theology and Philosophy requirements pressed hard with the Administration
so as to establish a beachhead of genuine, not piecemeal,
academic reform.
The danger confronting the President right now is that he may
become embroiled in a struggle over collecting the activities fee with
the tuition or on some other peripheral issue. We feel these needs
cannot wait to be satisfied and must be seen to first.
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By WILLIAM T. O'BRIEN
(ED. NOTE: This is William O'Brien's last column for the Stag)
"They will not give the people of our city municipal ownership
- they will not mean to do it, they will not try to do it; all
that they will do is give our party in Chicago the greatest opportunity
that has ever come to Socialism in America! We shall have
the sham reformers self-stultified and self-convicted; we shall
have the radical Democracy left without a lie to cover its nakedness!
And then will begin the rush that will never be checked, the
tide that will never turn till it has reached its flood - that will be
irresistible, overwhelming - the rallying cry of the outraged
workingmen of Chicago to our standard! And we shall organize
them, we shall drill them, we shall marshal them for the victory!
We shall bear down the opposition, we shall sweep it before us -
and Chicago will be ours! Chicago will be ours! CHICAGO WILL
BE OURS!"
The struggle at Fairfield will succeed as did the 1906 revolu·
tion in Chicago. Up:on Sinclair, for a long time you have been a
mental friend of mine. I think that if we had had a chance to
meet, we would have gotten along famously. Time, old age, and
youth prevented it. Anyway, Upton, I do have a confession to
make. I cannot get serious about it anymore. Actually, I have not
been able to be serious about it for quite a while. Yes Upton, I
have tried. Indeed, the effort has been wor<hwh-le. Fairfield University,
I feel, is a far better place as I leave it now, as opposed
to four years ago. There are far better courses and teachers, rules
and regulations. Cf primary importance however, has been the
widening of awareness of the outside world, fostered by many on
the campus.
Many of the old biases a·· gone, there is far more tolerance
of unorthodox opinion, and a !;>w students have come through the
experience as better human beings. I have seen the rise of a
secular, questioning student body and in general the beginnings
of the birth of a university. I always thought the struggle wor•h·
while because I believe Fairfield somehow worthwhile, if only for
the students within its walls. Much like you, Upton, I found a few
minds, a few hearts, and many s•omachs. Yet it was necessary tQ
uphold the image, it served a valid purpose, and once I believed
in it. It was indeed necessary to hold the torch before the blind
and to scream at the deaf. It was necessary to force the rheto:·ic
to conceive the dialectic.
The only problem, Upton, is that I feel the alienation is far
more widespr~ad now than in 1965 among the student body p:·obably
because the student body is somewhat more aware. And
Up"on as you thought the capitalistic syst0m was a d:smal failure
so I think that the Jesuits are not going to be able to survive h0re
or eventually, even in Wooster. But, I am insensitive to it all now.
I have spent my time well, I think, and have no regrets. My actions
have been infinitesimal, Upton, but not in vain. Indeed, Upton,
I was much older then and am younger than that now.
The only thing that I can say to you Upton is that I think I
understand, I think I know one more human will not go quietly
into the goodnight. That is all, Upton, nothing else to say. Thet·e
is a great deal to live wi:h, but nothing else to say. Oh yes, to all
my friends, thank you; to my enemies, if I have wronged you i ~
was not intentional and I apologize; to everyone else, goodby.
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down
the American river! . . _
Who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating
Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of
war, ...
Who howled on their knees in subway and were dragged off
the roof waving gcniials and manuscripts, .. .
Who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism and subsequently
presented themselves on the granite steps of the
madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speach of suicide,
demanding instantaneous lobotomy, . . .
Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes!
the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof!
to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into
the street!
f rom;Howl
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Page Sia THI STAS March 12, 1969
Books
Eldridge Cleaver's 'Soul On Ice'
SoUl On Ice, by Eldridge
Cleaver, McGraw-Bill, 1968.
(CPS) - "The souls of black
folk," writes critic Maxwell
Geismar in the introduction to
Cleaver's work, "are the best
mirror in which to see the
White American."
To read American history as
r eported by most w h i t e s,
America has had unparalleled
success as a bastion of freedom,
justice, and opportunity. It is
voices like Cleaver's that reflect
the hideous shadow of a
nation that has preached one
thing and practiced another.
Frederick Douglas, the famous
19th century black orator,
knew it and in eloquent tones
put it where it's at:
''To him (the black man)
your celebration Is a sham:
your boasted Uberty, an unholy
UceDSe; your national greatness,
swelling van.lty; your
eounds of reJoicing are empty
and heartless: your denunciation
of tyrants brass-fronted
Impudence; your shouts of Uberty
and equaUty, hollow mockery;
your prayers and hymns,
your sermons and thau.bgtvlngs,
wttb all your reUgious
parade and solemnity are, to
hlm, more bombast, fraud deception,
Impiety, and hypocrisy
- a thin veU to cover up
crimes which would disgrace a
nation of savages ••• "
Cleaver's is a voice out of
the wilderness of society's
most oppressed jungle. From
its confines he has climbed to
the tops of the trees, listened,
head nodding to the beat of
faint drumbeats from afar,
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sucking in fresh breezes from
our most penetrating thinkers;
and now he confronts us with
a wild cry of independance.
His voice is matter-of-fact,
::lear, and authoritative. Describing
a day in the life of
prison inmates or the link between
oppression at home and
impresses his readers with the
neo- colonialism abroad, he
same cool logic found in Malcolm
X's Autobiography.
Eclectic Analyses
True, he is not a college
graduate, and occasionally his
lack of disciplined intellect
sends him out on some very
shaky limbs. Yet his brilliantly
eclectic analysis of the psychological
stereotype constructs of
whites, as well as emasculated
blacks, is nothing short
of the kind of self-taught genius
of Frederick Douglas or
Malcolm X. The depth of his
work will not yield, even before
such truly scientific works as
Franz Fanon's Black Skill,
White Masks.
In an age when writers'
careers are, for the most part,
controlled, directed, and manipulated
by a clique of New York
syncophants; where mediocrity
and acquiesence to the established
order are hustled into
the best-seller lists, Soul on
Ice is a strong healthy breeze
from the West Coast.
To be sure, there are serious
doubts about the efficacy of
presenting his raw talent without
giving him time to struggle
with "that same pain, that
same passion," Ralph Ellison
refers to as a prerequisite for
truly great writers. (Perhaps in
his exile, Cleaver will use the
time to devote himself to improving
his craft, and freeing
hhnseli from dependence on
white radicals as his primary
literary audience.)
His keen insight is nonetheless
devastating. W h e t h e r
cracking on James Baldwin or
Elijah Muhammad, he posseses
an intellectual, critical honesty
from a viewpoint that has,
for so long, been mislabeled
"uneducated," "low-brow," or
just plain "Negro protest literature,"
in order to compromise
its truth.
If he is at times only a medl·
ocre re-hash of what we have
read elsewhere, the totality of
the book is nonetheless valuable;
for there are so many
still "spiritually dead," who
need his rapping to get them
to ideas critics and reviewers
might have heard more eloquently
someplace else.
Sprinkled throughout are
love letters to his lawyer,
Beverly Axelrod, psycho-sociological
allegories no white scientist
would dare touch, informal
current histories, some
four-letter words. Yet his fiercely,
violent committed voice is
in itself the cry of Nat Turner,
Toussaint L'Ouverture, Gabriel
Prosser, and those thousands of
rebellious blacks through his·
tory; he has chosen resistance
to acquiescence, and he knows
span of black freedom fightersis
never very long.
No matter how much "progress"
is acclaimed by "Negro
leaders," no single black leader
strong enough to stand up to
the police and the political
system behind them has escaped
murder or jail. Slaveowners
always warned that to
educate a Negro is dangerous
- they either sicken or die,
or have to be killed. Cleaver is
the modern parallel.
He cannot go back to purposeless
destruction or Saturday
night cutting, neither can
he mute his voice or limit his
resistance to the daily oppression
that is a reality to poor
black people, up South or down.
Cinema
The book is primarilly a col·
lection of Cleaver's essays, exposing
us to his developing
talent as a writer. His sensitivity
is a fine needle, probing
the collected layers of excuse;
his skill is that of a healer,
cutting first the psychic distances
that conceal a fear of
hurt - sometimes sharp to
the quick frozen souL
One either stops to question
his own defenses, his own
layers of glib phrases and
quick rationalization to hide his
human frailty; or one puts the
book down and goes back to
manning the barricades against
anyone getting too close.
Cleaver's skill is an unpolished
gem, all the more beautiful,
all the more valuable, for having
escaped the crushing vise
of Black Muslim orthodoxy, all
the more necessary for elu~
the middle class's bumbling
caress. If his edges are rough,
they caR be honed to a finer instrument.
We hope he lives
long enough to make lt finer.
_j} Sp~ce
By WILLIAM BOROWICZ
One of the more relevant statements in the modern cinema recently arrived in
the Fairfield locale. Stanley Kubrick's famed 2001, A Space Odyaaey has broken
away from the monopolized cineramas, b ut only to be sacrileged by the local commercial
houses.
Poor sound and weak projec--
tion seem to be common in
local establishments, and in the
case of "Space Odyssey," upon
even the first viP.wing, these two
technical flaws are flagrant.
Kubrick has received much
praise for his visual accomplishment,
and it is quite fascinating
even under the adverse local
conditions. "I:he only objection
to the visual display concerns
the last section, during Kubrick's
phantasmagoria. A minute
more of cutting would have
helped here as no reason is evident
for such an extended flurry
of colors. For a short time
the scene is boring, having the
completely opposite effect of his
intriguing scenes of space ships,
flashing screens, intricate consoles
and equipment. The inexplicable
myriad of dials, buttons,
and lights should not be a
hindrance if there is no pre·
disposition against them. A certain
amount of leeway should
be given; one should allow himsell
to remain open, knowing
that this is .the ·future - man's
inevitable destiny. The same attitude
should be fostered when
we meet Kubrick's idea of God:
we may yet encounter the black
monolith.
The souQd is - either to be
listened to at the cinerama or
on the record. The sound track
is apt, to say the least. The
opening score, "Thus Spake
Zarathustra," is overwhelming.
The subsequent waltzes effected
an interesting contrast with the
intricacies of space exploration.
One also will never forget the
computer's rendering of "Daisy"
as its brain was being incapa·
cltated. But for the most part,
since nine-tenths of the film is
set in outer-space, there is little
sound. It might be helpful to
note that the ·breathing often
heard is not that of any actor.
Kubrick's intention (w h i c h
worked in cinerama) was to
make the audience a participant,
looking out through their
own helmet.
And about the story, of
course. Many have suggested
reading -the book. It's actually
not necessary, though the story
in detJtil can sureJr helihten the
experience. What Kubrick has
done has been to give a ten
million dollar prognosis of the
future. If every connection and
detail were clear, it would not
be a prognosis. The viewer is
supposed to fill in the gaps, and
Kubrick, in keeping in the
genre of science fiction, has validly
left many gaps. The major
problem is near the end, after
the computer has been disconnected
and the space ship has
begun to run wild. My interpretation
is that Keir Dullea, the
only survivor of the expedition,
has confronted the metaphysical
Being, the monolith, on Jupiter
which Kubrick believes is the
center of the universe. The
spaceman is given a vision of
"the infinite and beyond." He
returns to earth (the white
room) to attempt to convey his
knowledge to mankind. But his
task is futile and he ends up,
after several sequences representing
stages in his life, in sub-mission
to the monolith. The
scene following shows man as
a fetus with very mature eyes
set next to the earth; man,
though developed, is still a fetus
to the Truth.
It is an indisputable fact that
the cinerama productions are
totally different from the often
defective showings at local theatres
(local as opposed to major
city theatres, especially New
York). "Space Odyssey" is a
film that should have been restricted
to the cinerama thea.
tres - to do justice to its visible
and audible achievements. But
if you have not seen the film
yet, do so. It doesn't appear as
if it will return to cinerama.
And it's going to be many years
before it arrives at Fairfield
University.
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Vietnam
Conttnued from PaceS
quite clear that Cambodia,
Thailand, and Laos were all
betting their lives on its val·
idity.
When &lked to comment on
the effects that the Para Peace
talks might ha.ve in VIetnam,
1\lr. Armstrong replied that he
"wouldn't be surprised to aee
the negotiations go on tor two
or three years" (as was the
case in the Korean confUct.)
"The upshot of the talks wUl
Ruggers
Coa.UDue4 from Pap 10
lon and George Hemmer.
The backfield under Captain
Crowley is filled with speedy,
well experienced backs. Veterans
include: Steve Carre, John
Langon, Mark Feely, Mike
Kenefeck, Jerry Salomone,
Jack Maher, Fatty Maher,
Kurt Schlichting, Bill Frese.
Steve Ryan, Jim Casy, Alan
Perkins, MiJes Edwards, Dave
Fulton, Pat Burke, Bill Geraghty,
John O'Neil, Jerry Donahue,
Dennis Johnson, Chris
Grimes, Bill McCann, Tom Certo,
Chris Galvin and last but
surely not least Joe "Nice
Head" Sindt.
This weekend the "A" and
"B" teams will be playing at
Rose Hill and the "C" and "D"
teams will be at Van Cortlandt
Park. Due to St. Patrick's
weekend, many Stags will have
a fine opportunity to view the
Red Ruggers in hard-hitting
action.
Address
probably be one year before
the next military elections. It
wUI call for the VIetcong to
have some role in the elections
and in other facets."
Speaking of the eventual with·
drawal of the United States and
its effect upon South Vietnam,
he said that "eventually South
Vietnam will go. It will become
communist." Making it expressly
clear that once the U.S.
withdraws, it shall never return,
Mr. Armstrong stated emphatically.
"Once we go, we're
gone."
Boy Scout Unit
Mr. Armstrong spoke of
the "Revolutionary Development
Teams" as a form of "super Boy
Scout unit." They are a positive
force working in Vietnam in the
area of land reform, (an area,
so far, neglected by President
Thieu.) These RD teams involve
themselves in improving roads,
expanding schools, growing tea,
and also education in other diversified
fields. These teams apparently
have had such an im·
pact on the morale of the natives,
that the Vietcong and
North Vietnamese have come
to regard them as extremely
detrimental to the cause of the
North. For this reason, the RD
teams must be accompanied by
U.S. forces when they are performing
their educational tasks.
Mr. Armstrong appeared at
Fairfield University as a guest
speaker in a lecture series sponsored
by the Student Government
and expressly at the behest
of Mr. Charles Coviello.
THE STAG Pege Seven
Mariani Elected President
(Continued from Page 1)
the Class of '71, was appointed
Chairman of Dormitory Affairs.
Rober t Dohn '70 is the Chairman
of Academic Affairs.
Sophomore Ken Barletta., coauthor
with Ruane of the academic
reform-minded issues of
the Radical Middle, is now
Chairman of Student· Faculty
Affairs. John Leddy, a sophomore
class representative, is
Chairman of Student-Administration
Affairs.
The new president appointed
as his Social Chairman Wllll.orn
ACLU Suit
(Continued from Page 1)
aided in drawing up an appropriate
defense for each institution.
Williams is now virtually
ready for the trial.
After the case is decided by
the Connecticut courts, it is assumed
that the defeated party.
will petition that decision to the
United States Supreme Court
where it will most likely be accepted
for consideration.
Mr. Thomas Donahue, VicePresident
of University Relations
stated that it may well be
two to three years before the
suit is definitely decided. He
also strongly emphasized that
the outcome of the case is of
deep concern not only to the
colleges directly involved, but
also to all sectarian institutions
throughout the country, in this
day of especially rapidly rising
operational expenses and great
increases in the need for new
building construction.
Provost '70, and John \Vard '70
as Chairman of Inter-Collegiate
Affairs. Freshman Thomu Sobocinski,
who was instrumental
inthe circulation of the "Mariani
Papers" during the campaign,
is the Chairman of Communications.
Mr. Mariani appointed
his election-time opponent
Charles Coviello to the chair.
manship of the Executive Student
Affairs department.
Parking Lot
Albert 1\Ia.rlani's first act as
president was to approach Stu.
dent Services Dean Robert
Grlffln on the long standing
problem of the rear rYJD park·
lng lot. The AdmJnJ.straUon's
stated policy 1n th!a controversy
has been that the paving of t.h'
area, which l.s deelgnated Jr
otr·campus commuter ·parklr t:,
would only Impair the lnstalla·
tlon of plumbing for the new
science bullding to be bullt In
the vicinity.
President Mariani and Off·
campus Affairs Chairman Robert
Buccino suggested as an alternative
that the parking lot be
covered with a layer of gravel.
Off-campus committeeman Robert
Langdon reported that Mr.
Griffin "didn't make any promises,"
but said he would discuss
the proposal with the Maintenance
Department.
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Beach A, C 3, And Regis 3 1 Undefeated In Hoop Play Ext·r a... Points OJ:IIBONSON
By BILL WARNKEN
Entering its fifth week of
play, the intramural basketball
season finds its league championship
races more clearly defined
as the contenders in each
division have begun to assert
themselves.
Campion 3 (5-0) is perched
atop League A, one-half game
in front of Beach A (4-0). Regis
3 (4-0) completes the undefeated
triumvirate and is in sole
possession of first - plb.ce in
League B. Regis 1 and Fairfield
Beach B are both 3-1, one
full game behind.
League A
Beach A continued to coast
and still seeks a challenging
opponent, which they are unlikely
to encounter Ul'ltil the
Campion 3 or Regis 4 squads
battle them. The latest Beach
romp was over Loyola 3 (0-5)
by a 69-17 score, eclipsing by
one point their best previous
defensive effort of the season.
The decision wa~ never in doubt
as the score stood at 32-5 at
half. Tom Crowley led all scorers
with 16. Bob Pavia (13),
Jack Zorski (12), and Bill Granata
(12) also reacned double
figures.
In ·the week's most crucial A
contest, Campion 3 upended Regis
4, 59-46, to give "The Best"
(3-1) their first loss. Mike Harris
(16), Pete Yaros ~15), and
Bob Doss (11) led the smooth
Campion 3 attack, which steered
them to a 28-23 half-time
lead. Bill Barrett had 16 for
the losers, while Bob Turner
and Tom Denning contributed
12 and 10 respectively.
CS P ressed
Earlier in the week, Campion
3 was givet. a scare by neigh-
. boring Campion 2 (2-2) who
finally succumbed 47-42, after
staying even for the first half,
which ended at 21· all. Mike
Harris scored 23 to pace C3
while George Vuttero had 12 for
C2, which played all but the
first six minutes of the game
without backcourt ace, Jack
Whitaker, who was ejected by
an official.
Regis 4 also notched an earlier
victory, when "The Best" defeated
Loyola 3, (0-5) 78-29, setting
the season's record for
points scored. Bill Barrett had
24 and Bob TUrner 16 for the
winners. Hawk Fiscella led the
frosh with 10.
Donovan Nets 82
In the other League A titlts,
the highlight was provided by
Dcn•~is Do;!OVar! who t:Jrncd i .
a tremendous 32 point effort for
the PKT (2-1), in their 52-27
win over Loyola 3. Donovan
made 12 of 14 free throws in
addition to his 10 field goals,
while establishing the campaign's
-5ingle-game high. Rich
Gaita led L3 w!tfi 10. By virtue
of this performance Donovan
shares the league scoring lead
with a 20.3 average.
Keeping pace with Donovan
was backcour1man, Ed Wargo
of the BAK (2-1), who scored
28 points in tht>ir 76-30 win over
the DSP (0-4), to up his average
to 20.3. Wargo converted
14 field goals, most of which
came on the end of fast bre·aks.
Mark Govoni, scoring inside,
had 18, while Woodie Long
addeo 13. Chuck Dombeck neteo
13 for the losers.
In the two other A games,
Regis Ground (1-2) outlasted
the DSP, 42-31, and "-Gonzaga 1
edged Gonzaga 2, 36-32. Dan
Wilcox led RG with 18 while
Mark O'Donoghue had 16.
Chuck Dombeck again had 13
in a lvsing cause. G1 (2-2) was
led by Ted ·Martins with nine
points- while Don Solomone had
19 for '}2 (0-3).
League B
Regis 3 conunued to lead
League B by breezing past Regis
2, 59-37. The backcourt duo
of John O'Neill ctnd Jim McAnally
divided 34 points evenly
to lead the running attack. "Jersey"
Joe Bronson led R2 with
15.
In an earlier game, R3 routed
New Dorm 3, 71-41, as five men
scored in double figm·es led by
McAnally and Bob Weingartner
with 16 each Jim Fitzpatrick
had 14 for ND3.
Rl Trlwnphs
Regis 1 maintained its share
of second place in a hectic
game with ND2 (1-2) with the
score tied and less than two
minutes to play ND 2's Craig
Greiner was on the line for one
shot. Before he took it ND 2
asked for .l time-out. A technical
foul shot was alloted Regis
1 when the scorer informed
the officials that ND 2 had run
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After Greiner missed nis foul
shot, R1's Bob Gallopo calmly
dropped the technical to grab
the lead and R1 held on to win
44-42. Ken Hojnowski paced Rl
wi:h 15 points and numerous
rebounds. Phil "The Fly" Stahlman
added 14, seven in the last
six minutes. Ozzie Pisarri had
15 and Tom Kickham 11 for the
losers.
Beach B kept pace by dump.
ing ND 3, (1-3), 55-31. Bob
Goodh1an and Jim "Phlenge"
McAuley "had 12 apiece for the
victors while Ed Beaudreault
added 10. Mike Madaio had 12
for ND 3.
Macauley Nets 15
Regis 2 (3-2), chalked up two
wins, sandwiched around their
loss to R3. The "Fellas" beat
Gonzaga 3, 45-40, as Brian
"Hump" Macauley scored 15.
Bill Frese had 15 for winless
G3 (0-3). Regis 2 then topped
the Havis Medwicks C2-3), 52-
44. Jim Martin had 14, while
Ed "El Ralpho" Becker threw
in 13, and Macauley added 11.
Joe Cavallaro (17), Lou Laccavale
(13) and Ed Parniawski
(12) led Havis.
New Dorm 4 (2-1) topped
Campion 4 (2-3), 50-42, as
George "The Shot" Wrobel
scored 16. Al Parkins had 11
and Tom Kren 10, while Joe
Maher led C4 with 16. C4 then
rebounded to beat Loyola 2
<1-3), 41-29, as Rich <13) and
Tom (10) Thielebeule scored 23
points between them. Bob Harrison
had 11 for L2.
League C Commences
The newly-o r g a n i z e d C
League, consisting of extra
players from teams already existing
in either the A or B
leagues, began play last week.
The Royals (2-0) lead the early
play as they won by forfeit
over the Rangers (2-1) and defeated
the Goldie Trotters (1-1)
34-31 behind Danny Tartaglia's
10 points.
The Goldies came back with
a 47-29 drubbing of the 76ers
(0-2), as Tom Ravener had 11
points. The 76ers other loss was
to the Rangers, by a 38-33 tally.
Bill Doerner had 14 and Pat
Henry 12, for the "Baby Baggers."
The Rangers also knocked off
the Warriors (0-1) in overtime,
33-27, by scoring all six points
in the extra session from the
free throw line, while shutting
out the Warriors. Pat Henry
took game honors with 16.
In other C games: the Knicks
(1-0) topped the Lakers (0-1)
32-23 as Bob Barbeau had 11
points, the Bucks (1-0) beat the
Supersonics (0-1) 33-21 behind
the slick performance of Frank
"Teflon" Vitolo (16), and the
Bullets (1-0) beat the Celtics
(0-1), 44-38 as Ullman and Brennen
had 10 each.
The top ten scorers in the A
and B leagues are:
Dennis Donovan, PKT . . . 20.3
Ed Wargo, BAK ......... 20.3
Bill Frese, Gonzaga 3 .... 17.3
Ozzie Pfsarri, New Dorm 2 17.0
Bill Barrett, Regis 4 .... 17.0
Bob Turner, Regis 4 .... 14.0
Jim McAnally, Regis 3 . . 14.0
Tom Crowley, Beach A . . 13.75
G. Wrobel, New Dorm 4. 13.33
Mike Harris, Campion 3 . . 13 0
Mark Govoni, B~ . . . . . . l~-0
NCAA tournament play began in Raleigh, North Carolina,
Saturday afternoon with Davidson · defeating Villanova 7!>-61 ancl
St. Jofin's overcoming the Princeton Tiger 72-63. Both:games were
strikingly similar in that they were team efforts overcoming
superb individual efforts. Howard Porter and John Hummer must
be mentioned as the stars of the afternoon but they were also ·the
losers. In the Davids'On-Villanova encounter, Davidson traiied
thr~ugh most of the contest but Mike Malloy and Doug Cook kept
Villanova off the offensive boards and; with a streak of 1 for 9
from the fie!d in ·the second half, erased a five point. ttclicit" to
build a 53-49 ·lead.
Howard Porter was devastating from the outside but he wasn't
:ts cffootiv& o1'l tlie boards as foul trouble kept him from being- the
aggressive rebounder that he is. In ·fa.!t Villanova fans would
probably tell you that Porter's foul trouble which benched him for
about six minutes in the second half cost the Wildcats the game.
Not so, Davidson's overall balance produced a convincing victory.
Davidson wears down a team with an uncanny ability to stay close
and then burst ahead at some point. Davidson never lost its poise
as Dave Moser and Wayne Huckle directed a well disciplined
attack which forced Villanova into multiple defensive errors.
Defense is the trademark of Villanova basketball but Davidson
repeatedly wrecked the zone with good shots. Frank O'Hanlon
and Frank Gillen played creditably for the Wildcats as they
minimizecl the effectiveness of Davidson's full court press. Porter
s::o::-ed 23 p:>ints and received a standing ovation after he fouled
out with less than a minute to go.
In the second contest, St. John's forced Princeton into early
mistakes tak:ng an 11-2 lead, but then Jeff Petrie banged home
some long jump shots convincing the crowd that the _game would
'be no runaway. St. John's looks like a playground team on offense
with a considerable amount ot' free-lancing with one-on-one situations
thei:· main olfensive threat.
Joe DePre repeatedly drove by Petrie for layups and he consistently
hit on a patented turn around jump shot in close. Mike
Warren cudcd Petrie in the first half but Petrie won the first halt
with some phenom~nal shoot.mg. John Hummer, at 6-7, consistently
forced Redmen forward Ralph Abraham under the basket and
Long John whistled 28 points through the cords with a variety of
hook shots and wheeling moves under the hoop.
Carmine Calzonetti directed the St. John's attack and his
three point play with 6:53 left erased Princeton's 6nly lead. St.
John's reeled six more points to ice the game with about two
minutes left. Petrie was held to one field goal in the second half
to finish with 15 points.
Boston College crushed Duquesne 92-73 last week and the
Eagles are now 20-3 for the season. Duquesne meanwhue advanced
to the Eastern Regionals in the NCAA tournament with a convincing
victory over St. Joseph's Saturday night in Kingston,
Rhode Island.
BC, along with South Carolina, should do well in the NIT
Tournament which opens this week at Madison Square Garden.
BC has reached its peak with the Duquesne win and a 27 point
win over Detroit. Bob Cousy would like nothing better than to
bring the NIT championship back to Bosttm in his last year as
head coach of the Eagles.
Frank Magaletta (44), the high-scorer for Falrfteld, Ia fouled
as he t ries a lay-up against the Golden Grlftlns from Caolalua.
Bru,ketOilU story on page 10. (Photo by .Jim Berne.)
Merc:h 12, 1969 TMI tTAe
SPORTS PERSONALITY SIDELINE VIEW
By .JOSEPH VALERIO
Sporta Editor
He was sitting on a table with
his sprained ankle in the whirlpool.
He seemed cheerful, but
it was a front. Coach James
Lynam entered the training
room and talked to his hampered
team captain, James
Brown. The two leaders of the
Fairfield University basketball
team then joked about weight -
Jimmy Brown's weight. Th,.
laughter was forced.
It is difficult to pin-point the
reasons for the disappointing
10-16 log recorded by the 1968-
69 Stag five. As bead coach,
James Lynam must assume a
great bulk of the responsibility.
The lack of defensive talent
hurt the Stags terribly this past
winter. But, of prime importance,
Jimmy Brown could not
reach the heights he achieved
in his first two seasons of varsity
ball. Therein lies the story
of this University's cagers.
As a sophomore during the
1~5 campaign, Brown averaged
21 points per game as a
6-4, 200 pound guard. The Stags
compiled a respectable 14-10
mark that winter, but everyone
realized it was only a rebuilding
year.
Greatest Season
The following year, Brown
averaged 18 a game in leadini
the cagers to their greatest season
ever. Although they captur·
ed 19 of 24 contests, the Stags
failed to get an invitation from
the N.I.T. It was truly a terrible
disappointment.
"The highlight of that season
was the westward swing," the
senior economics major recalls.
"We beat Duquesne, Xavier,
and St. Francis." Then in the
final game of that memorable
season, Fairfield destroyed rival
University of Bridgeport, 111-
60. Earrer that year the Stags
blew a 28 point lead to the
Purple Knights and lost by one
point. But the big story in that
game was Coach George Bisacca
suspending his entire startIng
line-up, save Brown, since
they missed a curfew.
Also in that exciting season,
Patrick Burke, a cage legend at
the Jesuit college, died.
"After his death," the softspoken
Brown notes, "there was
a quiet determination on everybody's
part We tried to play
well, put everything together.
But we didn't make the N.I.T.
and we were disappointed."
Kennedy Officiate
However, the pressure of the
basketball season caused Brown
to incur academic difficulties.
Therefore, from January 1967
through October 1968 Brown
served in the United States
Army P r e s i d e n t i a 1 Honor
Guard. Last June he officiated
at Robert Kennedy's funeral.
Upon dismissal from the
Army, Brown re-entered Fairfield
and was immediately elected
team captain. But the Jim
Brown who thrilled Stag fans
countless times in his younger
years was now 25 pounds heavier.
He was, as a result, slower
and not able to manipulate his
rugged frame to the utmost of
his talents.
Nothing went right for the
team this year. In their second
gnme of the season they lost to
a rinky-dink team called Fairleigh
Pickinson in ovet1lme.
By SHAUN· D. BABBINGTON
I.
I ·have held oft long enough. In a variety of articles 1 have
written in the past Issues ·of The Star; there has appeared · Arm
recognition of the Rugby Club, the dubious distinction award to
the Fairfield fan, a plea for a boost for the baseball team, and a
castigation of the entire university through our basketball team.
I have waited and waited. For what? F or the Hockey· Club to
fold due to lack of support and the traditional falling action crt
around here called "apathy." But the hockey team surprised me. ·
. Hockey team? What hockey team? In the beginning of the
winter season I asked the same question. The answer to the-above
queries is the Hockey Club of Fairfield University representing
the university as the most potent sports endeavor to be seen around
here in a touthe of years. Do not confuse what I say. By potent
I mean that these guys are winners, and by winners I mean not
just winners in the sense of game winning, but winners in the
sense of having positive ideas and inclinations. Most certainly they
have won games (a 15·5 won-lost record), but most important is
the fact that the club has endured small gates, little recognition
from The Stag in the outset, and little or no monetary support
from the student body.
I was talking to a member of the team early last week about
the immediate success of the team. He informed me that, contrary
to what I considered "immediate" success, the struggle of this club
has been long and arduous - by no means a picnic. It bas been
facilitated hy concern and competition, time and work. I asked
the team mer.1ber, aren't these the characteristics of a winner?
Sometimes, was the reply.
I would like to point out the fact that each of the members
of the Hockey Club supplies his own equipment - skates, sticks,
helmets, etc. Much like the ruggers I mentioned some months ago
- only more expensive.
These guys cleserve a lot of credit. They have brought credit
to the university. They possess a noticeable austere regard of control
off the icc. Like all sports clubs and varsity teams on campus,
the Hockey Club has a distinguishing characteristic. Grim
determination.
The m()mber of the teB.Jr with whom I spoke did not cry on
my shoulder about lack of support, or lack of money, or the like.
So I will not cry on yours.
Freshmen 5 Stuns
St. Thomas More
Captain J.im Brown works against his Georretown opponents
b a 76·72 deieat to the Jesuits from D.C. (Photo by Reme.)
By FRANK AR~IADA
The Fairfield Uruversity
top. Bill Half led all scorers
with 25 points.
After that game the Stags wal-lowed
in mediocrity but their
attitude never dimmed It is a
credit to Captain Brown, team
leader, that he was able to keep
the spirit of the team "up"
during a dismal season.
"We were inconsistent and I
was personally disappointed,"
Brown explains. "I lost 10
pounds this season due to a
diet and additional exercise,
running, but I couldn't lose
more. Our team's attitude,
though, was good."
Parent-to· Be
Brown and his wife of 13
months, Suzanne, live in West
Haven. They are expecting a
baby this summer, before Jim
graduates in August. Upon
graduation he anticipates a
career as a social worker or
public relations man.
Two years ago Jim Brown
flunked out of this university.
With determination and effort
he will graduate this summer.
The man has gu1s. He should
not be underrated as a basketball
player because of his senior
year. Jimmy Brown was a
fine ballplayer this past winter,
but he was not as great as he
was a few years back. This man
is a success though, since he
had the guts to come back and
acknowledge his limitations.
Therefore, if for no other reason,
Jim Brown was one of the
finest men to play basketball
on this campus. He thrilled us
all. We must thank him for
tllat,
Basketball
Continued from Pace 10
victories over St. Joseph's,
Vermont, Iona, So. Conn., and
Canisius, as well as in the
tough losses against St. Francis,
Villanova. and St. Peter's.
Gibbons led the Stags in free
throws (85.2%) and scored a
school-record 15 free throws
twice, versus Vermont and
Iona.
Another peak should be
reached next season when
Frank Magaletta assaults Bob
Hutter's school scoring record
of 1,315 points. Magaletta has
893 in two seasons, 469 this
year for u 19.1 aperagc. He'll
need 423 to set a new mark.
The following is the all-opponents
team, picked by The
S!ag:
freshman cagcrs wound up the
season with a victory at home
over St. Thomas More on
March 3 and a loss away at the
hands of Prividence last Thursday,
giving them a 13-10 mark
for the season.
St. Thomas More's only previous
loss was to Providence
and in the early minutes of
the game, the Stags looked like
just another patsy. At one
point in the first half, the
Chancellors led by 17 points.
Coach DiJulia then set up a
full court zone press that cut
the lead to nine at the half,
42-33.
Haft Bags 25
In the second hali, Fairfield
outscored St. Thomas 21-1 during
one stretch to take the
lead and extend it to 12. The
Ch:1>1cellors came back to c·ose
the gao to two but the Stags
momentum early in the half
was too much and the final
score read 72-70. Fairfield on
Player Team Position Year
Calvin Murphy Niagara Guard Jr.
Jarrett Durham Duquesne Guard Jr.
Bob Lanier St. Bonaventure Center Jr.
Ed Siudut Holy Cross Forward Sr.
Howard Porter Villanova Forward Sop h.
Honoable 1\lentlon:
Player Team Position Year
Jake Jones Assumption Guard Sop h.
Tony Barrone Bridgeport Guard Sr.
Terry Driscoll Boston College Center Sr.
Elnardo Webster St. Peter·s Forward Sr.
~rr Lewis St. ;Fran<rili Forward Sr.
The frosh Stags closed the
season at Providence in a
make-up game which had been
previously snowed out. Led by
Bud Wilkins, the Friars took
the lead early and maintained
it throughout the game. At the
half, Providence led 40-26.
Wilkins scored 35 to lead all
scorers while Tim Barnes was
top man for Fairfield with 20.
Again lack of height gave tbe
opponents the edge as Providence
won 81-55.
Hockey
Cond.llued from Page 10
first series the divisional finals
will start ·on either March 21
or March 24. If the series
starts on the 21st it will start
at Bridgeport otherwise the
first game will be played at
Riverdale.
BRIDGEPORT
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FOR YOUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES
Just 6 Minutes from C•mpus
Cagers End Disappointing
Season With 10-16 Record
Rout Canisius, 90-78,
F oT Final Victory
Tom PureeD sinks & jump shot In t.be Stags 90-'78 win over
Oanlsius. J. C. Dennis (SO) .eems to guide the ball, In the
~rs final victory of the season. (Photo by Jim Reme.)
By BILL WARNKEN and
GARY MARZOLLA
The Fairfield Stags closed
out a disappointing season with
two road losses, sandwiched
around a resounding home victory,
to finish the 1968-1969
season with a 10-16 record.
On Saturday, March 1, the
S t a g s engaged the Purple
Eagles of Niagara at their
fieldhouse and were soundly
beaten 99-75. Dimminutive Calvin
Murphy, a 5-10 junior allAmerican,
led the Eagles with
39 points, on 16-38 and 7-11
shooting. Mike Samuel (18),
Steve Schafer (14), and Bob
Churchwell (11) supported
him. Churchwell and Samuel
also had 14 rebounds each.
The Stags fell behind early
and trailed 47-33 at hal!. Frank
Magaletta led Fairfield with 19
on 8-18 and 3-4 shooting. He
also had a teamhigh 11 rebounds.
The Stags shot 38.5%
from the field, compared to
46.2% for Niagara.
Beat Canlsllll, 90-'78
The Stags then closed out
their home season with a solid
perfonnance in downing the
Golden Griffins of Canlsius College,
90-78. The Stags started
hot and lead 14-6 after four
minutes as Frank Magaletta
and Rick Sanabria had six
each.
Fairfield opened the lead to
Stag Skaters Defeated;
Prepare For Play-offs
By STEVE DAUR Lions. with the Stag defensemen
caught up ice, came in on
goalie Steve Daur on two-onone
break. Daur seemed to stop
the shot but it managed to
sneak through his pads for the
first Columbia score. The period
ended with Stags on the
short end of a 1 to 0 score.
or Columbia play off. These
teams will play a best of three
series. The winner will then
meet Fair~d for the right to
play the winner of the Eastern
Division for the league. Depending
on the length of the
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31-18 as Wayne Gibbons and
Jim Hessel ran several fast
breaks on pitchouts from Sanabria,
Magaletta, and Mark
Frazer, a trio which gave the
Stags a 25-13 edge in first-half
rebounds. The closest the Griffins
could pull was 35-27 with
3 :42 to play and the Stags held
a 46-33 half-time lead.
Wayne Gibbons, scoring 10
points in the last 8 minutes,
bod 14 and Magaletta and Sanabria
had 13 and 11, respectively.
Stags PuU Away
In the second half the Griffins
came out hot and closed
the gap to 61-53 with 13 minutes
to play. The Stags then
scored 5 in a row, 4 by Magaletta
to sprint to a 66-53 lead,
10:58 from the end. The lead
climbed steadily to 76-56 with
7:07 to play. The biggest lead
of the game was 80-57 with
5:56 to play as Sanabria made
two free throws. On some hotshooting
by Tony Masciello,
the Griffins made the final tally
90-78.
The balanced Stag scorin~
was led by Magaletta (22)
and Gibbons (21). Sanabria
added 19 and Frazer 13. Captain
Jim Brown was sidelined
by a sore ankle and made only
a token appearance in his last
home game as a Stag, scoring
a free throw. J. C. Dennis, also
making his last home appearance
netted six. Masciello led
the Griffins with 22.
Providence Routs
The Stags ended the season
on a sour note, dropping a
92-63 decision to the Providence
College Friars, in Providence.
Jim Brown came off the bench,
and despite the persistent
ankle, poured in three long sets
to pull the Stags even at 16-16
after they had trailed at the
outset
Vic Collucci, sharpshooting
Friar soph, promptly bit two
and the Friars were on their
way to a 32-19 lead, amassed
with 6:57 to play. The lead
widened to 50-32 at half as
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Collucci had 20 in that first
stanza.
The second half was all down
hill as the Friars opened the
lead to 80-50 with 5:34 to play.
Collucci was high with 24,
while his soph backcourt mate,
Jim Larranaga had 20. Ray
Johnson (6-7) dominated the
boards. Rick Sanabria led the
Stags with 16, while Mark
Frazer bad 10.
New Facee
Looking forward to the 1969-
70 season, the Stags will number
three new opponents among
their 26, and will play 16 home
games as opposed to 11 this
year, (The Stags were 5-6 at
home, but 5-10 on the road.)
St. Leo's, American and East
Carolina will be dropped next
year in favor of Hofstra (away)
and two undetennined squads.
The Stags will be looking to
correct the weaknesses that
have plagued them this season,
most notably foul trouble up
front and defensive lapses. Any
help from the incoming sophs
will probably be provided by
the backcourt combination of
Bill Hafl' and Bobby Kelly with
Tim Barnes up front. The senior
nucleus of Sanabria, Magaletta,
Hessel, and Gibbons, plus
junior, Frazer should give the
Stags a well-experienced starting
unit
Jim Brown will graduate this
year and he will be missed. He
provided the fans with one of
the most thrilling moments of
the year, when he registered
his 1,000th career point against
St. Leo's in the Stag gym.
GlbboDS MVP
For Most Valuable Player of
the year, The Stag nominates
junior guard and team quarterback,
Wayne Gibbons. He contributed
most notably in the
CoDUnaed oa Pace t
The Hockey Club captured
the Metropolitan Intercollegiate
Hockey Association's western
division title, on the merits
of its outstanding 15 and 5
record. This is one of the best
team efforts Fairfield University
has seen in a number of
years. The title was clinched
by the virtue of a 1 to 0 forfeit
win over Fanningdale
Agricultural College of Long
Island.
The second period was rather
on the dull side with Columbia
still holding the better
of the play. At the ten minute
mark Columbia scored in a melee
in front of the Stag goal.
The goal was a rebound off the
glove of Fairfield's defense.
Fairfield then countered with
a goal a minute later with
the help of Jim Monahan and
Ted Sybertz. The Stags fought
back but the period ended with
the sco!"e 2 to 1 Columbia.
Ruggers Face Fordham Old
February 28th the Stags suffered
an unexpected setback at
the hands of the Lions of Columbia.
The final score was 3
to l. Columbia, a team which
has come quite a ways since
the Stags trounced them 12-0
back in November, came up to
Bridgeport knowing that they
had to win in order to stay in
the running for a playoff spot.
They overcame a lack of ability
with their desire and hard
play. Fairfield, on the other
hand, didn't really take the
Lions very seriously and they
paid t.or it.
LloDS Score
~arly in the first period the
Fairfield carried the play to
the Lions in the third session
but with a little less then four
minutes left in the game Columbia
iced he game with almost
a duplicate of its second
goal.
Play-offs Set
The Stags now have earned
the honor to sit tight and wait
while CCNY Wtd either Ionll
Maroon In Saturday's Opener
By BILL GERAGHTY
The Fairfield Rugby Club
after an impressive fall season
opens their spring schedule
Saturday against Fordham Old
Maroon. The ruggers, well remembered
for their outstanding
victories against Columbia Old
Blue and Villanova, are out to
revenge their only regular season
loss to Manhattan R.F.C.
This spring season consists of
away games against Old Maroon,
Georgetown and Villanova.
The home games are Drew
University of Pennsylvania,
f o r d h a Ill ll.nd Ml\nhattan
R.F.C. The season is highlighted
by an Easter tour in Bermuda
against Notre Dame. Holy
Cross, Harvard and Brown.
· New Field Wlll Open
The spring seasl)n will also
be marked by the opening of
the new rugby field on April
26th against the University of
Pennsylvania. This day will
also see a return of many of
the old ruggers for an alumni
game.
The club under the admirable
leadership or co-captains
Tom Crowley and John Q.
Murph;r has s~en one of th~
best pre-season turn-outs ever.
Practically all veterans are
back for another season with
many new prospects especially
from the Class of '71
Murphy Dlroota
Serum veterans under the
unique command of Q. Murphy
include: Beef Smith, Bill Connolly,
Tom Kreen, Jack Zorski,
Paui Baseirco, Bob Manning
George Langley, Bear Sweeney,
Bruce Klastow, Frank Santulli,
Bill Schmeising, Tom Klng,
Mondo F1anagan, Chuck Dombeck,
Bob Godfrey, Brian Han-
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