Stag - Vol. 20, No. 24 - May 07, 1969

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Vol. 20 No. 24 Fairfield University, Faimeld, CoMedicut t.Aey 7, 1969
Freshmen Orientation Chairmen Robert Buccino and JobD
Fallon discuss plans for the clau of 197S's welcoming.
(Photo by Flaher)
Freslnnen Orientation
ChairiDen Appointed
By DAVID DZUBEC
The recent appointment of
John Fallon and Robert Buc­cino
as co-chainnen of the an­nual
freshmen orientation has
given depth and organizational
experience to the preparations
for Orientation '69. Mr. Fallon
is vice-president of the Cardin­al
Key Society and a member
of the Student Government
-Legislature. Mr. Buccino is on
the Executive Council of the
Student Government and an
active member of the Fairfield
University Playhouse.
Mr. Fallon and Mr. Buccino,
both members of the class of
1971 have already selected the
various committee chainnen,
to insure an early start and a
thorough job. Mr. Fallon placed
the major stress saying, "We
orientation sports, and the
much heralded Stag night.
Obalnnen
The committee chairmen are:
Opening Day: James Ruane and
Christopher Daly; Registration:
Patrick Long; Book Seminars:
Gary Dayon and David Dzurec;
Intramurals: Michael Mastro­monaco
and Mark Frazer; Field
Day: Robert Murphy, Timothy
Geoghegan, and Charles Dom­beck;
Spiritual director: Bruce
Howard; Extracurricular dis­plays:
Michael Schultz; Mixers:
Joseph Kuntz; Talent Show:
Robert Langdon and William
Wilson; and last but not least,
Frederic Baker is Financial
chairman.
Any member of class of '71
wishing to work during orienta­tion
is asked to sign the list in
Fr. Henry Murphy's office in
the gym or contact Bob Buc­cino
Box 1258 or John Fallon,
Box 1610.
Salute To Black Culture
Scheduled For May 25th
Falriield University's llfxth
annual spring festival wDI sal­ute
Black American Culture
during two weeks of acti'rities,
culminating with the Arts and
Honora Program to be present­ed
on Sunday, May 25.
Significant Contributions
In announcing the spring
festival, Thomas J. Donohue,
vice-president for university re­lations
pointed out that "this
year's festival as those that
have proceded it pays tribute
to individuals and groups who
have made significant contribu­tions
to American culture."
"In acknowledging these in­dividuals,
Fairfield University
hopes to provide a fuller under­standing
and appreciation of
the cultural contributions made
by the Black American to his
society."
At last year's festival, Fair­field
presented a salute to
American Music, as exemplified
by Virgil Thomson, Aaron Cope­land,
Rkhard Rodgers and
Dave Brubeck, Shakespeare,
Dante, Monteverdi's operas and
Spanish culture have been
themes for previous festivals.
The highlight of the Black
Arts Festival will be the Arts
and Honors program, which
will be held on May 25 on the
university's picturesque Bellar­mine
Terrace overlooking Long
Island Sound.
James Ea:l Jones
.J~ Earl Jones, recent re­cipient
of Broadway's "Tony"
award for his portrayal of Jack
.Jefferson in the "Great White
Hope," will headline the pro­gram
wdth a d.nunatic poetry
reading.
The Billy Taylor Trio will
perform a selection of jazz
numbers. Winner of Downbeat
magazine's award for best
pianist in the first annual
Critics Poll, Mr. Taylor has­charmed
audiences as an ar­ranger,
author, composer and
lecturer.
Gordon Parks, widely ac­claimed
for his outstanding
photo-journalism which has ap­peared
regularly in Life maga­zine,
will deliver the principal
address at the afternoon's fes­tivities.
Other outstanding personali­ties
who will perform at the
Arts and Honors program in­clude:
Olantunji and his Drums
of Passion with a company of
dancers, mQsicians, and sing­ers;
Dan Watts, publisher-edi­tor
of Liberator magazine and
founder of the Afro-American
Research Institute; and the
Bridgeport Gospel Singers.
The two weetc tribute to
Black American Culture wll1
also feature displays of out­standing
Negro Art and two
evenings of cinema. verite offer­ing
outstanding'. prize winning
documentary films.
An exhibit of photo essays
by Gordon Parks from Life
magazine will open on May 11
in . the . University's . Campus
· Center Oak Room Art Gallery
and will continue through May
29.
On May 17 the Harlem
Children's Art Exhibit, which
was part of the "Harlem on
My Mind" exhibit at the Met­ropolitan
Museum of Art, will
be displayed in cooperation
with Household Management
Inc. of New York City.
The film festival opens on
May 12 in Gonzaga Auditori­um
with "No Vietnamese Ever
Called Me Nigger," the story
of two Negro soldiers returning
home from the war and the
problems they encountered.
This showing will be fDllowed
by an open discussion with film
maker David Lolb Weis.
The movie "Sunday on the
River" by Gordon Hitchens and
Ken Resnick, depicting Negroes
as human beings having a &aod
time, will also be shown.
"In the Company of Men" a
new psycho-dramatic -story of
hard core unemployables and
white supervisors by noted
documentary filin maker Bill
Greaves, will open on Monday,
May 19 at 7 :30p.m.
There will also be a showing
of "Black Panther'' about the
training and general program
of the Panthers with interviews
with Huey Newton and Eld­ridge
Cleaver.
A discussion of these films
will follow with Clayton Riley,
drama critic of Liberator, a
Black monthly magazine.
Tri-Partite Proposal
Passed By Council . want the incoming freshmen to
feel a part of Fairfield Uni­versity.
We want to show the
freshmen that we are interested
in them."
Both c h a i r m e n hope to
streamline the orientation and
make it not only an enjoyable
time but also one during which
the freshmen can acquaint
themselves with Fairfield and
the sundry aspects of college
life.
DoriDitory Council
Plans F oriDulated
By GEORGE BJU'ITON
News Editor
On Tuesday, April 29 at
3 :30 p.m. the fourth session of
the Tri - Partite University
Council was held. The main
issues of concern were the role
of the Jesuit, both in faculty
and administrative positions
and the question of a binding
University Council.
then made by Mr. Donovan that
the University Council members
vote to decide whether or not
they would consider themselves
a binding body in all matters
taken up in the future. Dr.
John Barone, Vice-President of
Planning, objected to the mo­tion
-on the grounds that such
a proposal should be returned
to the various constituents of
the three Univesity segments
before any concrete action
could be finalized in this re­gard.
Mr. Barone suggested in
the form of a motion that the
Council members seriously look
into the ideals behind a bind­ing
body, and that the Council
should pus}) towards making
itself a · regulatory body. Mr.
Barone added that the various
people would review the motion
might want to add people to
the Council; notably he suggest­ed,
would be the faeulty who
may want the Academic Coun­cil
represented on the Council.
The motion was put to a vote
Innovation
Many innovations will high­light
this year's orientation.
Most committeJ;!s will have two
chairmen instead of one to give
each aspect of orientation more
depth. Also, instead of the stu­dent
run book seminars, all
faculty members are being con­tacted
to direct the discussion.
This will allow for students and
faculty to meet on a semi-foJrm­al
seminar basis before the
typical formal classroom lec­ture
situation.
However all the traditions of
t.he past will remain. These in­clude
the field day with many
women's colleges, two mixers,
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By THOM PERROTTI
"The long range intent behind
the formation of a Dormitory
Council is 'to try to set up a
house system under the direc­tion
of a Jesuit-in-residence.
This decentralization plan will
allow each dorm to become au­tonomous
in governing its af­fairs."
The words of James Ru­ane,
member of the Student Life
Committee of the Student Gov­ernment,
concerning the imple­mentation
·of the Dormitory
Council System.
A permanent couucU system
wll1 be established in Septem·
ber. There wll1 be five eouncU.,
corresponcling to the number of
dorms. Each wDI be headed by -
a JeiRllt prefect and compoeed
'
of memben of the Student
Legi8lature. Mr. Ruane explain·
ed tha.t this system depends on
the ratification of the new con·
stitution which provides for the
election of representatives on
the condition of geographic lo·
cation.
The curious nature of the
legislator's dual role was defined
by Mr. Ruane in this manner:
"As legislators, they will make
the laws which will be applied
to dorm life, and as council
members they will enforce ob­servation
of these laws and act
as a judicial body if any prob­lems
arise." He went on to ex­plain
that the dual role would
allow the representative to be
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Dennis Donovan, '70, pro­posed
that in future elections to
the Council that Jesuits be e;:­cluded
due to their split al­legiance
between the faculty
and the J esuit order. Fr. Vin­cent
Burns, S.J ., defended the
Jesuits and their uncontested
ability to serve effectively on
tripartite committees. Fr. Bonn
indicated that above all other
considerations he was loyal to
himself.
Other discussion continued
that related to the past month
and a half of disputes and
confrontations with the admin­istration
over the changes in
social code. Another motion was (Ccllltlllued OD P ... I)
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THE STAG May 7, 1969 •
More Letters to the Editor
Continued from Pag-e 6
has no limits. When this is not realized,
when this evolutionary process ceases
in stagnation, then he is no longer a
man, he merely vegetates, and the Spring
will bring a blossom which is a beauti­ful
thing at first sight, but will fade into
the Fall, with only the illusion remain­ing.
V. ~ en the following Spring arrives,
the plant will not only find itself with
one blossom, but with two; at first it is
surprised, but then realizes that it has
been pruned and watered down by the
chief gardener, who is fulfilling his role
perfectly. The next Spring the plant finds
itself with two plus one blossoms, and
thinks how symbolic .it must look -
three flowers in one plant!
One day the plant sees the chief
gardener, who is always around trying
to get the feel of things, and he keeps
in touch. The plant asks him rather in­quisitively,
why other plants have more
blossoms than he; the chief gardener
replies that maturity comes with age, .
and that when you are older' and have
weathered life you will see that it is all
not a flowering, but, I dare say, a de­flowering
also. That seems to be a real
down to me, the plant answers shock­ingly.
Well, replied the chief gardener
timidly, in a way you're right, but life
somehow springs eternal. But where
does it come from, ·who determines
whether I can live or die? Well, I do,
said the chief gardener, I always keep
a live garden good.
After the chief gardener left, the plant
thought, isn't _it wonderful to be alive
and in such loving hands; this is . real
living - life is a precious thing.
The chief gardener saunters away con­tentedly:
Well, its' worked again\ these
kid gardener's gloves are wearing thin,
I'll have to pick up another fitted pair
before next Spring . . . I wonder if the
plant will want another blossom then?
Well, there's plenty of time for pruning
it. It all takes time.
lay Critchley '69
Anonymous Helper
To the Editor:
For many weeks I've wanted to write
this note but I never kne~ quite what
to say. I still don't, but I simply must
say something.
I was on a train going from Phila­delphia
to Hartford, Conn. the day of
the bad snow storm - Feb. 9th, I think.
My trip took 21 hours and I spent most
of it standing on the platform between
train cars.
There were many college students on
the train from various places in New
England. Most of them wailed and whin­ed
about their discomfort. Few of them
offered their seats to older persons, who
were obviously getting sick from stand­ing.
But there was one other young man,
a boy from your school who very quietly
did as much as it was possible to do to
help those who were beginning to really
suffer. When we dinally got to New
Haven, limping in with a burned out
engine, the station was a mass of bodies,
lying on the floor, leaning on the walls,
people everywhere. Your boy le~rned of
a place where food was available about
eight blocks away. He asked for volun­teers
to go with him for coffee and food.
Two girls offered. The three braved the
blizzard and brought back as much as
they could carry.
Needless to say, I survived, but I was
astonished at the lack of ability of young
people in a crisis. There were many
who were hopelessly crying. So, your
young man stood out and many of us
took notice of him.
I didn't ask his name, but I wanted
to tell you that you are fortunate to
have him.
Sincerely,
Ruth ·B. Beck
(Mrs. Carl W. Beck)
Active Participation
To the Editor:
Concerning the sit-in conducted in
Canisius Hall last Tuesday evenlni and
continuing into the hours of Wednesday
morning the Student Government main­tained
a position of quiet support for the
demonstrators. I feel, however, that this
support in the future must again be aug­mented
by active · participation and or­ganization
by the Government whenever
possible. This lack of participation last
week was not due to an unwilliniJ1ess
on the part of the Government, but to
a disenfranchisement on the· part -of the·
radical (the word is overused and o~
scured) "element," if you will, on cam­pus
This is unfortunate.
The Government must not be plagued
by iear of stepping across old boundaries
set by less ambitious men that previously
held their post, but so must this "ele­ment"
I speak not be concerned about
the maintenance of a radical identity
;>n or around campus by disdaining unity
with the Student Government. Each
group must realize the need it has for
the other and that the two need not re­main
mutually exclusive. This "element"
represents a needed phalanx to express
the anger and frustration of the student
body to the faculty and administration
and the Government must present means
by which this frustration can be effec­Hvely
relieved to those in a position to
do so.
Even a cursory look at the facts would
indicate that the Government has more
closely aligned itself with this group as
a result of a political progression from
right to left in its most recent history.
Although I feel that for many reasons
this shift from right to left is perhaps
in~vitable, I don't feel it can be done
arbitrarily. Because of this, I imat urge
that what I bel:eve to be the 1aat pos­sible
moderate ~pproach left open to us,
the tri-partite concept of university liv-ing,
be at least probed as a potential
avenue for equitable student participa­tion
in the power structure of this uni­versity.
The concept is a good one. As
always its success depends upon the
moral responsiveness of those involved
in its implementation. If we are again
disillusioned, it is not only the preroga­tive
of the Government to change its
stance, but its duty to adjust itself to a
tenable position from which they can
effectually represent the students and
initiate change. Until then it is also the
duty of any minority group on campus,
black, white, or otherwise, to continue
to demonstrate their grievances by any
method that d;>es not fail to recognize
the Government as the duly elected rep­resentative
of the student body nor pre­vent
(I did not say inconvenience) any
member of the academic community
from exercising his individual rights.
From this dissent, effectively coupled
with dialogue, only an increased aware­ness
of the problems can issue.
We must look back to the lesson of
the last few weeks and realize that any
group acting as individuals merely tend
to fragment our strength, but acting co­operatively,
even if on different fronts,
we present a viable force that must and
will be reckoned with.
Dennis M. Donovan '10 • • •
Thanks Expressed
To the Editor:
I take this opportunity to thank all of
those who helped to make the visit of
the Russian philosophers so successful.
I especially want to publicly thank Mr.
Jerry Sabo, senior, who did an outstand­ing
job as translator, Mr. Alan Pilch,
president of the Philosophy Academy,
and Mr. Peck of the Public Relations
Department for the fine articles which
appeared in the Sunday Post and the
Town Crier.
Joseph G. Graul
Philosophy Department
Campus News Small Minority in Legislature
Blocks Reform Bill Passage NFS. GRANT
Fairfield University has -been
awarded a grant of $8,360 by
the National Science Founda­tion
to support an "In-Service
Institute in Mathematics for
Secondary School Teache£5" it
was announced by Dr. John
Barone, University vice-presi­dent
for Planning.
The grant, which will be con­ducted
under the direction of
Professor Robert E. Bolger of
the mathematics department,
marks the ninth 'consecutive
year of continuous support of
the institute by the National
Science Foundation.
Under terms of this grant,
35 qualified high school mathe­matics
teachers will be able to
study tuition free in the disci­pline
of abstract algebra. These
$ credits may be applied to a
Master oi Ans degree ir1 Edu­-~
ation or to a Sixth Yea!' Cer-
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Failure to return these itemc;
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Tri-Partite
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and was passed unanimously.
Mr. Paul Davis interjected
with an amendment to the bill
which indicated the Council's
desire to see all "relevant"
committees of the University to
be restructured along the lines
of a tri-partite system. Mr.
Davis defined "relevant," as
those committees or bodies
which affect the life of all three
segments of . the University on
this campus. An exception he
noted, "would be the Dormi­tory
Council." This amendment
was added to the bill and also
passed unanimously. All fac­tions
agreed 'to formally sub­mit
the resolution as soon as
possible to the people whom
they representd, and report the
result in a meeting to be held
thia month.
By JOHN G. LEDDY
A minority group In the Stu­dent
Legislature continued to
block passage of the social code
compromise passed overwhelm­ingly
by the student body April
24th. Juniors Robert Carpren­ter
. and Donald Malone, and
senior Wllliam O'Brien gave
speeches, asked for roll calls,
and made continuous points of
order during last Thursday's
drawn out session, effectively
postponing official student rec­ognition
of the regulations that
have been in effect these last
two weekends.
No Quorum
Two other measures on the
agenda, Robert Murphy's pro­posal
for pre-examination read­ing
and James Cunningham's
attempt to set a date for class
officer elections never reached
the floor, because, after three
hours, the assembly lacked the
necessary quorum.
O'Brien was the first to
argue against passage of the
compromise, pointing out that
the lengthy document read to
the legislators at the beginning
of the meeting was not the
same agreed to by the student
body in the gym_ and that the
ccmpromise coutamed no pro­visir:
r· f ;r "• ..:-al ~ t~ ciEnt power
<tt Fu1rfield."
/
Corporation Power
Mr. O'Brien cited Dean
Coughlin's talk with students
sitting-in in Canisius April 28th,
during which he allegedly de­clared
that the Corporation
woulrl continue to exr>r.:.ise ul­timate
power in student related
areas. This position said the
representative, makes the com­promise
"horribly ludicrous."
Donald Malone then called
for committee study of the
document so that it could be
presented in a revised form for
a student referendum.
Robert Carpenter protested
the alcohol clause in the com­promise
which states that
"there are to be no containers,
whether full or empty, in sight
of the dormitories;" such a
clause, he felt, could be inter­preted
many ways.
Rise of Skepticism
Passage of the compromise
was once again postponed, as it
was immediately after the stu­dent
body voted in the gym. At
that_ time, an infonnal poll
among legislators revealed that
compromise opponents number­ed
less than a third of the
Legislature. Since, then their
ranks have swelled with the
rise of skepticism over the
value of the agreement.
Dennis Dono\-an '70, of the
University Council, tl>en rose
to urge the legislators to accept
the concept of a binding tri­partite
body. "The tri-partite,"
he said, "would be best in
theory, . . . and is the best ap­proach
to University living."
Tri-Partite
Mr. Donovan added that a
binding tri-partite would eli­minate
the need for a Student
Government on campus, an .
eventuality which he f e 1 t
"would be just as well, wit­nessing
the activities here to­night."
The Legislature lm e e t i n g
simply broke up afterwards, as
there were not enough mem­bers
present to adjourn of­ficially.
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John Stone makee a point to OMey McB.alfh* In the Play·
house's production of "Pa:ntagletr.e," whlcb opena a two week
run Friday night.
Role Of Philosophy
Discussed
On Tuesday evening, May 13,
at 8:00 p.m. in the Oak Room,
The Fairfield University Phil­osophy
Academy will present a
public debate (Fairfield Style).
The issue for debate is the
role of philosophy in the curric­ulum
of the college of arts and
sciences. Does it have any role?
Does it have the most import­ant
role? What is the nature of
its role? How does it fulfill that
role?
A public debate (Fairfield
Style) is a debate where the
issues are raised and briefly
sketched out by four members
of those present and particii?at­ing
and then the matter is
opened to all those present and
participating. After the initial
four presentations of ten min­utes
each, no participant is al­lowed
more than five minutes
at the microphone in any
Tuesday
single increment. If prepared
statements are brought, and
everyone is invited to do so,
it is advisable to keep them
segregated into chunks of under
five minutes.
The Philosophy Academy is
presently negt>tiating with one
member of the general faculty
who believes the role of philos­ophy
shouid be expanded, with
another member of the general
faculty who believes that all
philosophy should be dropped,
alDng with a student who be­lieves
the present system is
best and still another student
(philosophy major) who be­lieves
the program should be
reduced to three required hours.
When _ contracts have been
signed and bonus monies be­stowed,
the names of the ini­tial
participants will publicly
be announced.
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'Pantagleize ' Set To Open
T h ~ S T A &
Friday Night At Playhouse
An avant garde version of
Michael dP. Gheldernde's "PIUl­tagleize"
will open on the FQ.ir·
field University Playhouse
stage on Friday evening at
8:SO p.m.
Depa.rture
Playhouse director Robert G.
Emerich's decis·ion to present
"Pantagleize'' represents a de­parture
from the traditional
classical drama such as "A
Taste of Honey" in order to
reach into the realm of "mod"
interpretations.
''It is remarkable to realize
that this play was written in
1929 since it incorporates mod­ern
ideas far in advance of the
time, which possibly explains
its recent popularity," Mr.
Emerich noted during a recent
rehearsal.
"We have the special advan­tage
of being able to use the
script translated and adapted
by Dr. Samuel Draper whose
familiarity with the ideas and
concepts of Ghelderode are
clearly evidenced as superior
to other English versioru;.
We also have the good for­tune
to have the extra-ordinary
genius of Mr. Al Raymond who
has written original music and
lyrics for the Fairfield Unher­sity
production," he added.
.Not Dull
The playhouse version will
attempt to parody a veat deal
of what has come to be regard­ed
as avant garde in contem­porary
theatre. Although it
may prove somewhat confusing
to the audience, Mr. Emerich
guarantees "it will not be a dull
evening."
Oakie McKnight will appear
in the title role to headline a
veteran cast. Andi Arthur,
William Thompson, Leonard
Butler, Thomas Zingarelli,
Christopher Scanlan, Russell
Panczenko, John Stone, Rich­ard
Tourvill and Ted Drab are
among regulars returning to
the Playhouse stage.
In addition to the Friday
night opening, "Pantagleize"
will be presented Saturday,
Sunday and Thursday through
Saturday of the following week.
Festival To Present
Black Documentaries
Two prize-winning documen­tary
films will be presented in
conjunction with Fairfield Uni­versity's
Festival of Black
American culture.
Monday, May 12, 7:30 p.m.,
Gonzaga Auditoriwn:
"No Vietnamese l1=ver Called
Me Nigger,'' is the story of two
Negro soldiers who return
home from the war. wid the
problems they pncounter In
hunting for jobs and places to
live ... 58 mlnute film showing
I follow" by aadleuce d1aJoJue
with Ule AliP &INWt~r, V.n14
Lolb Weit.
"Sunday on the River" ii nei·
ther racieJ nor non-racial, but
a lucid rep>rt on Negroes as
human be!np having a good
time. Sowsd track IU'l'(l.nged and
sung by George Tipton and
composed of Negro spiri~.
work-songs, and children's
rounds. A 30 minute film by
Gordon Hitchens and Ken
Resnick.
Monday, May 19, 7:30 p.m.,
Gonzaga Auditorium: "In the
Company ot Men" is new psy­cho-
Q.ramatic story of hard core
unemployables and white super­visors
by noted documentary
film maker Bill Greaves.
"Black Panther" is observation
of training and ten-point pro­gram
of the Black Panthers
with interviews with their lead-rs,
Huet NewtQn and Eldridge
Cleaver.
Discussion of these films will
be. conducted by Clayton Riley,
film and drama critic of Liber­ator,
black monthly magazine.
Elections for class officers i.e. President, Vice­President,
Secretary and Treasurer from the
classes· of 1970, 1971 and 1972 will be held Wed­nesday,
May 14 from 9 :00 a.m. to 3 :00 p m. The
polling place will be located in the Campus Center
near the Student Government bulletin board.
Government President Discusses All those who want their name to appear on
the ballot must be members of the Student Asso­ciation
of Fairfield University. He must present a
petition with the following requirements.
Social Regulations Compromise
By JOHN ROBERTO
The compromise in the soclal
reulatlons of April 2' waa the
main point of dlscussion durlDg
a STAG interview with Presi­dent
AI Mariani. Most of the
student body have been brought
up to date with the past few
weeks' events, but "where do
we go from here remains a
question." Pre&ldent Mari&Dl
outllnetl a few baalc pointa of
departure from the COIDpro­mise.
Tbe Tri-Partite board
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00011istlog of four faculty mem­bers,
four students, a.ud four
members of the admludatration
met on Monday ,April 28, to
continue dlacussing student re­forms,
both academic IUld so­ciaL
Last week the Executive
Board of the Student Govem­ment
met to complete the Con­stitution.
Alto last week three
other IP'OU~ met - the Stu­dent
Government, Student Ser­vices
committee, and the Facul­ty
Student _ Life coJDJDitree.
Action baa begun on all phases
of the student's lite.
President Mariani further ex­plained,
"The events of the past
few weeks have weakened the
old taboos surrounding the uni­versity.
We are just beginning
to make headway. There is
more to come." One of the most
important points resulting from
our interview was that the re­forms
of the past weeks for
"Booze and Broads" on campus
were only secondary to a fa1·
greatel' po;nt - Student Sov­ereignty.
The rights of the stu­dent
on campus should be and
ZDUSt lx: heard. This is the main
coucem - to make the sturtent
body a W1Uied voice speaking
tor ~ Wben the students
Ulldn Alllariabi ~t as a uni·
tied body, tlten there can be
extended parietals, limited l'>y
the vote of the student. Mor~:
will come :·Ust as soon as every­one,
including the admin;slra­tions
sees that the Fairfield
University student is mature
and he knows how to go about
seeking reform.
Continuing, President Mari­ani
emphisized, " Consolidation
is a key word for us. We must
begin now to consolidate for
next year with a prime interest
on passing the constitution.
With a set basis, extended re­forms
will soon come. We are
now cleaning-up the loose
ends." A referendum is forth­coming
which will let the stu­dent
deci'l~ on the fees for next
year. "The more we have to
work with the better next
year will prove to be," ex­plained
Mr. Mariani. The stu­dents
will also elect class of­ficers
this year. The year's fin­ances
are now being computed.
Arrangements and financial aid
for clubs are being decided
now. So by no means is the
student government Wld their
president sleepi·ng. This is
plenty cf work to do and a& AI
Mariani concluded, "We are just
beginning."
Said petition shall contain:
a. the name of the petitioner
b. the class from which he seeks election
c. the office for which he seeks election
d. the signatures and printed names of
( 1) for the office of President or
Vice-President at least twenty­five
( 25) electors from the peti­tioner's
class
(2) for the office of Secretary or
Treuurer at least ten (10)
electons from the petitioner's
elau
Said petition shall be received in the Student
Government office no later than Midnight, Wed­nesday,
May 7. Any signature of any elector which
appears· on more than one petition for the same
office shall be held in'lalid for all petitions for the
same office on wkich it appears.
The names of all those meeting the require­ments
stated above shall be posted along with the
respective offices for which they have applied. This
list of candidates shall be posted on the bulletin
board of the Student Government no later than
Friday, May 9.
Deuit Gallagher
Ele~tion.t Co~U~ittee Chairman
Strawberry Fields
Strawberry Field& Forever
Once upon a time there was a kindergarten which lay lowly
on the banks of that land named Conn-Job. The prince and ruler
of the land was a good man, a Christ some said, or wished at
lealit. HP would talk with his people, teach them the Way and
lead them ,n prayer to the Gods of the future. He was the kind of
prince that all of the other kindergartens in the land wanted. No
one really ever knew why He had chosen to rule over Fragilefields.
One day the sandbox revolutionaries cam~ to Fragilefields.
The people called for protection, but the prince said that all lands
had to have someone who wanted to break all the toys. Revolu­tionaries
are healthy for us, he said, smiling with his cheeks, and
Fragilefields can't be sick. The prince smiled because he knew
that everything works out in the end.
Now, the sandbox revolutionaries started lighting small fires
in the castles, and all of the people would go chasing fairies. No
one really knew what the fairies looked like, but they did know
that they were there. Anyway, early in the spring, the Jackal,
who was the most notorious of the now organized Sandbox Revolu­tionaries
of Sickland, was starting a grass-roots movement. He
started planting seeds in all of the boxes in the kindergarten. Still,
the prince looked down from his jet and knew that all would be
weJI, in the end at least.
Suddenly the SRS'ers were agitating and calling for reform in ·
the kindergarten. Demonstrate and agitate, screamed the SRS'ers,
and we'JI make Fragilefields a better place to live and study in.
Few people were isltening but the "Sandbox Boys," as they were
now called, kept squaking and breaking toys. The prince was be­coming
angry and sometime he wondered about the end.
Well, it was spring and all · of the little seeds that had been
planted began to grow. The little plants began to sprout all over
the land -they were called sick plants. You know how contagious
sick plants are, and soon all of the people in the land were in­fected
in one way or another. The prince was horrified. He called
on the Minister of Health, Minister of Defense, Minister of Picture­taking,
and the Minister of Dog-chain. The People of Fragilefields
have caught the disease he cried.
The Griffith, a famous and even mythologized servant of the
prince, took the banner to lead the fight against the people's
disease. A disease like that could mean the end: the end of the
prince, the end of the Ball and Great Days. New castles would
not be built in the land if people on the outside heard about the
disease. The Griffith knew everything that the prince and Fragile­fields
stood for, so, with his lion head and his lamb body he went
out to chew up those sandbox revolutionaries.
Now, this was Fragilefields; and Griffiths only kill revolu­tionaries
in one way, they wear them out. But he could not win,
for alas, aJI of the people had the disease and there was no cure.
This is a new disease, he cried to the minister of Dog-chain, what
can we do?
Well one day, and it was in the middle of the end, of April
that is, the people got together and screamed about horrible things
that they would do to the prince. So, in a funny way they burned
the prince and chased all of his servants to other lands, but only
for a little while because the people of Fragilefields were rational.
So, just like the prince said, it all works out in the end, the end
of princes anyway
Leonard Ruskin has signed The Monkees
Dionne Warwick, Sam & Dave, Janis Joplin'
Ric!iie Havens, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Steve &
Eyd1e, The Bee Gees, 5th Dimension and Peter, ·
Paul and Mary for the 1969 Forest Hills Music
Festival which gets under way on Saturday, June
21 at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium.
The Monkees- Micky Dolenz, David Jones
~nd Mike Nesmith -make their only appearance
m the East on June 21 to start the season. The
balance of the schedule includes:
June 21-The Monkeq
June 28-To be announced
July 5-To be announced
July 12-Dionne Warwick- Sam & Dave
July 19-Janis Joplin- Richie Havens
July 26- Blood, Sweat and Tears
Aug. 2-Steve & Eydie
Aug. 9-The BeeGeea
Aug. 16-The Sth Dimenaion·
Aug. 23 ....._ Peter, Paul 6 Maey
. Tickets for all concerts may be ordered by
mall. sent to the Forest Hills Music Festival. 11
Station Square, Forest Hills, Long Island, New
York. __
THE STAG
Cinema
- a film by D. A. Pennebaker
The people came and listened
Some of them came and
played
Others gave fiowers away
Yes they did
Down in Monterey : ••
- the Animals
(CPS) - The Montery Pop
F_'estival was a h~gh pomt in
the ongoing history of hard
rock that, considering the
Miami Doors indecency and
the Palm Springs riots, may
never be achieved again. Mon­terey
was a sort of Newport
West, with beautiful people
grooving on the grass to what
they knew was an important
happening, the beginning of a
cultural revolution.
D. A. Pennebaker's masterful,
hand-held camera technique
captured that experience to
rene.w the memory for those
who were there and to make
those who weren't wish they
had been. The film is currently
making the circuit of campus
and big-city avant-garde 111m­houses,
bringing out the freaks
and straights alike.
As the theatre lights dim,
Monterey Pop explodes on the
screen with Janis Joplin doing
'Combination of the Two," a
musical · background for the
titled spread over a collage of
colors and scenes. The intra
fades out, to shouts of prepara­tions
for the festival, a chroni­cle
of what made it happen.
A cool chick, waiting for the
show says, "We heard a lot ...
all together . . . it's just gonna
be too much . • . the vibrations
... you know." She was right,
and you know.
Here is Mama Cass, the fat
Mama Cass that is no more,
looking like an overweight Tiny
Tim in drag; whatta nose. The
set was shot at night; the
colors are outasight. California
Dreaxnin' •.•
"Once you enter, you cannot
leave," drones the ticket-taker.
Who would want to? On stage
is Canned Heat, then Simon and
Garfunkel bathed in red light
feeling groovy . . . "life is
lovely, all is groovy." Light
show• effects pour from the
screen during Hugh Masakela's
instrumentals. Gracie Slick and
the Jefferson Airplane, and then
Janis again.
This is vintage Janis, with
the old group. Already an oldie­but-
goodie; she's got a different
group now. But there's Sam
Andrew, the "big brother,"
backing up sister Janis, mama
janis. The camera zooms in
close, her face quivers. Cut to
her feet, stomping against the
stage . . . "like a ball and'
chain." The audience--around
you in the theatre---joins the
crowd on film in applause.
The Animals do "Paint It
Black" and then the Who talk
about "Our Generation," ex­ploding
at the end by chopping
away at the stage with their
axes. Sanity returns. The Grate­ful
Dead. The late Otis Red­ding,
one of the film's high
points . . . "Everybody gotototo
shake" . . . I've Been Lovin'
May 7, 1969
You." Applau.u again tor this
dead muter.
Insanity B.iain, this time Jimi
Hendrix. WU4 'Ibini. He
somersaults bold~ his ;uitar,
humps the .,.... aqueezet out
lighter fluid ~ the ax, lii:hts
it.
would like to know. The Shan­kar
set ends, and with it cries
for "more, more ... " And the
film ends, and with cries of
'more, more ... "
Back to normal witJt Ravi
Shanker, anodser high point.
His sitar soUJ141 play as scenes
drift across the toezeen. In the
crowd, you tee people you
know, or think you know, or
Some film critics would say
that the work leaves something
to be desired as a document­ary,
but it says more about
young people and their music,
their life than any Hollywood
flick has ever said. See it. You
don't even have to be stoned to
dig it.
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;[)ogwooJ ' 69
Dogwood '69 Queen Kathleen Gaynor and her escort
1\fark Abalan '72.
Photos By Jim Rcmc
Sir
Letters to
~ee You ·In September
To the Editor:
I would like to say a few things here
because in discussing the events of the
·,vcck of April 26th with my friends and
f ~ !low students we discovered that we
D.f!reed on several things. One, is that
? a irfield is a middle class school with
!'.~i d lc cl:tss values. If any one has
drmb'o, about th is look back over your
l:~ c:.tl dc r o.nd try and figure out why
ther ~ had t o be a big hassel and con­frrmtntion
0\·er trivial matters of drink­bg
and pa r ietal hours.
·::w ,,-!h)]" stri kf' situa ti o:-~ probes hack
:-::emor ies of last year's radio bulletin
4 'While students on other campuses pro­test
the war in Vietnam, students on
the F airfield Univer sity campus see fit
t·• pt'<)tt'<t t h0 wraring of sn()r t<; ;,.~ l<,ts
and ties." This in my estimation had that
little-boyish air about it just as the call­ing
!or a str ike over liquor and parietals.
If Fairfield students are little boys as
~orne think, dismiss these outbursts as
tantrums. However, if you think Fair­field
students are responsible enough to
~o over and fight an unjulltiftable war
then begin to appreciate their concern
for change even if the middle class bal­ance
scale !s upset.
Several hundred students packed into
an auditorium and shouted obscenities
berause they were frustrated. They were
a roused because they were fed up with
attempts at dialogue with the administra­tion.
Just when they thought they had
finally succeeded in communicating with
tho ,1clmini!'tr:1ti•:c hod'.' t~" wind was
let out of the balloon. The situation was
like one of those times you try to get
a point across to your l)&rentJ. They
listen and nod their head in agreement
hut it all g<>E's out the other ear since
beforehand they know what 11tand they
take- usually conservative. 'nlus, when
It came out_ that the dialogue which
never had begun In the first !)lace had
~ndPd, Whispers Of the Strike SUddenly
became cries.
Apparently some began to picture a
fine middle class Catholic institution in
hea dl ines with Harvard, Cornell, and
CCNY. However, the s'tuations and cir­cumstances
at Fairfield do not at all
parallel what has happened at these
other institutions. While to some degree
at all these institutions there has been
T H E
the Editor
the student-administration communica­tion
problem, Harvard, Cornell, Colum­bia
etc., have focused on something oth­er
than the institution - society. Per­haps
it is college idealism which makes
students think the univer sity can solve
society's problems. What outlets are left
- Kennedy and McCarthy are gone. Now
conservatives are worried that these col­lege
kids are ready to overthrow any­thing
and everything. They have no
worries - Nixon will soon put the clamp
on this. But what has happened at these
other places seemingly has no relevance
to what happened at Fairfield.
The whole thing at Fairfield was &
Mickey Mouse a ffair. Students who urged
a strike to show faculty-student unity
advocated no violence. The administrs.­tion
apparently acting on rumors de­clared
a holiday to afford a cooling off
period. The cooling off period was neces­sitated
by the fact that students were
sick and tir ed of administrative
smoothies. However, once again students
decided to listen to a compromise pro­posal.
When a majority accepted this
proposal it appeared that everyone would
be happy and the party would begin. I
do not think thic; is the situation.
Many !eel that this was the first foot
in the door as far as communication
and privileges go. A large number do
not think this is so. They !eel that this
compromise was a candy bar instead of
a big meal to keep the little boy happy.
Why did students stand up and cheer
!or a man they were just days before
screaming obscenities about ? This would
make some extremely fickle and hypo­crites.
I think it is because most were
afraid to rock the boat. There is nothing
wrong with this but most are under
the impression that the tri-partite dream
and the first foot ·in the door idea will
not fizzle. Right now all sorts of rumors
are flying around that will soon be si­lepced
by summer. Right now ·students
are confused about the administration
and who to trust. See you in September.
Colin KUey '71
• • •
Victory
To the Editor:
Life is a precious thing; ideally it is
an evolution of both mind and body,
together. When man realizes' ~his he Is ·
on the road of freedom, a freedom that
ContinuP.d on P~e 2
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May 7, 1969 THE STA6
Who ReallY Runs This Place
......
TWL sets of developments were brewing last week. One was
ostensibly a healthy trend - the University Council ratified a pro­posal
making all university committees tri-partite in makeup. But
there were less beautiful things happening. There was an abortive
sit-in at Canisius. Word was leaking out that one of the points in the
compromis~ forbade alcohol from the Campus Center - eliminating
any possibility of beer mixers, a point which might have interested
those who supported compromise on the social demands for the sake
of quick gratification. Rumors were also afloat that the Tri-partite
Board, thrown in as a concession in the compromise package, might
never meet because complications had developed over what, if any,
real power might rest with it.
If these fears prove real, the compromise will have proven to be ·
more of a disaster than the most pessimistic predictions. Further, more
strident confrontations may be not only inevitable but necessary. And
so we wish to articulate a realizable goal which should mold student
thinking, shape all future student initiatives, and become the ultimate
objective of all student activity on this campus.
The Corporation Muat Be Reconstructed
What is the Corporation? It is the quintessential ruling body of
this university, consisting of six Jesuits (two of whom are the Presi
dent and the Academic Dean) who choose their own successo_rs and
exercise veto power over all campus affairs. This fact is not widely
known. but it should be widely publicized. Most schools are run by
their Trustees; here they are glorified fundraisers. Most schools that
are run by Corporations allow for democracy; Yale's Corporation
consists of elected alumni, Harvard's Board of Overseers is chosen
the same way and wields limited power under the Harvard Corpora­tion,
which is run much like ours. All in all, our Corporation as it
now exists is an anachronistic, antidemocratic aberration. It must be
dealt with.
The implementation we desire is, while allowing the Jesuit Order
its current prerogatives of choosing its own members of the Corpora­tion
in its own way and granting it rights of de jure ownership, ex­panding
the Corporation to include six students and six faculty. All
twelve rotating (as opposed to permanent Jesuit) members would be
chosen by the students and faculty together as one body, in line with
the principles of "one man, one vote." And unlike our recently-disre­garded
proposal for student trustees, we intend to campaign for
this one.
Behind this innovation lies a basic philosophy on what the three
segments of a university are there to do. An admi_nistration serves the
post of quartermaster - it admits personnel, handles and raises
funds. represents the University to the outside world·, and har..dles
the logistics that permit its faculty and students to carry on dynamic
experiments in education. But if the administration makea the univer­sity,
the students and faculty are the university - it will go only so
far as the teachers' reputation and the student..c:;' worldly success will
take it. To deny these two elements their rightful place on an omni­potent
body like our Corporation is akin to compelling a neurosurgeon
to take his orders from an intern.
But the present setup of Fairfield represents an attempt at just
that. The faculty are employees - more annoyed than accom :, ~ o­dated.
The students are customers - more intimidated than under­stood.
The President and the Academic Dean. the two moRt frequently
criticized administrators on campus, can defer "to the Corporation"
- which is in turn anchored by their presence and dominated by
their personalities, in the classic case of a vicious circle.
We do not wish to attack the University Council's move; on the
contrary, we endorse it. It is all the progress Wf' have, ~nd we wi"h
to see the most made of it. But we qualify our optimism. F1or 0ne. tri­partitism
tendg to be viewed as a panacea for all our problems. But
simpli~tiC' goJutions are the first to fail. As it is bPing- institute(! hel"e.
tripartitism is blatantly ignoring the fact that the thrf'<' c:<':rmf'nts of a
univPrsitv have their own spheres of influence over which they must
exert indisputable control. For the students. dormitorv f"lisc~plinf' is
clc>arly onf'. This is why the faculty should not have heen consulted
when thf' demands were first made- it would hav0 hE-en pusillanim­ous
::tnd humiliating. This is why the faculty was no more qualified to
nwrliat<> thP cli!:pute than the students would he to s<>ttle ::t sal~rv
fight. or why the faculty and studPnts together cannot rneni::tte the
arlministrRtion's legal dispute with the AmPrican Civil Liberties
TTnion On the other hand, a junction of interests means that the fac­ulty
should have been consulted before a strike. as thev were. It
me::tns thRt cumeulum reform ought to be a ioint stud(mt-facultv
venturP Abov• all. it means that no administration is ever qualified
to dominate all spheres of influence. ·
Tripartltlllu is an enviable concept, but it will not be viable un-less
it starts at the top, with the Corporation. It will be a frivolous
failure if it is being proposed, as is entirely possible, as yet one more
ruse to smother student demands and needed revamping in a sea of
meaningless words, disauised as "rational discourse." Tripartitism
must be embodied in the Corporation, and not become a plaything
for it. Faculty and students must begin to run this school and cease
to serve it.
We shall push this plan, urge the faculty to support it, press the
Student Government to adopt it as top-priority policy, and we urge
that it be on any student's mind who ever again dreams of confronta­tion
without a real cause.
Calendar Change Needed
It is of the utmost importance that the Academic Council con­sider
and approve the revised academic calendar. For the past three
weeks the calendar change has been on their agenda, but as of yet
the Council has neglected to move on it.
We find it understandable that the Council has given priority
to other matters, however, we urge the Council to consider this change
at its next meeting.
Dean Coughlin has stated that a change is possible for next year.
Such a change is contingent upon immediate faculty approval if it is
to be implemented for the _'69-'70 academic year.
In light of the favorable student opinion that does exist for the
calendar change, we ask the Academic Council to recognize the ur­gency
of this matter and to act on it accordingly.
A.
b.
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''DON'T TREAD o.a ME ! ·•
••
W~t,CJ. _Moll if •~ t
PLURIBUS UNUM
Thill Side of Paradise
A day ID Qle Ute of . • .
·Buzzing, fllllni a dark room was ign~red by two unstirring
bodies. Mechanically, an ann reaches up and a hand slapped the
alarm clock button shut. The sleeper in the far corner mumbled
feebly "wake me up in five minutes" to the figure now sitting on
his bed. The fiiure moving from bed to closet muttered obscenities
the whole time about his lack of night's ·sleep while he put on his
jer6ey and frayed dungarees. Walking across the room to the body
which had not yet stirred, h~ poked him awake. The pleasure that
he derived from waking him from sound sleep was short-lived -
his roommate chuckling, declared an academic holiday. Thus the
waking up routine was over in a few short minutes and another
academic day had begun.
Next door the waking up was a more meticulous process.
Eyes opened widely as the body jwnped from the bed and moved
to the shower. Later while this body stood in front of the mirror I
a hand guided a buzzing razor which lifted last night's hairs from
the face. The toothbrush sped over teeth. The body entered the
room and it was at this point mind and body began to ponder the
day's work. The mind began its morning exercise. While hands
knotted the tie, it worked out the day's time budget. Here, the
waking process ended.
The scene in the classroom was almost as monotonous as th<.:
morning rising. Buddies sought each other out to see what was
lined up for the weekend. The 9:10 bell the professor entered with
attendance book in hand and his eyes passed down the aisles. They
rested for seconds while his mouth formed a frown on those with
dungarees and no socks. However, this did not last for long since
his eyes moved to the front where three sport jacket and tie elad
students sat. He exercised his wry sense of humor with these three
each day and these three pleased him with their smiles while the
rest ignored him.
Opening his notebook, the first described morning riser began
to wonder if he would be able to stay awake the duration of the
class. Already his eyes kept closing but suddenly fluttered open
just before he fell asleep - this prof's monotone was that over­whelming.
While his eyes scanned the room he saw his bud,dies
contronted with the same problem - wardin~ it off by doodling,
letter writing or day dreaming (the usual). Deciding that this
lesson was irrelevant and could be picked up by reading the book
he understood the task of trying to occupy his mind for fifty min­utes.
One could sense this general reaction to the monotone and
the monotone apparently sensed the general indifference. He di­rected
his attention to the attentive few in front rows who nodded
in agreement with anything he said. He seemed satisfied enough.
The student looked at his desk top to see if there were any new
additions to the gratfitti and witticisms which covered it. There
wasn't, except for one carefully printed in pen which amused him.
"Tomorrow is cancelled due to lack of interest." While he spent
the most of the class mulling over which beer blast he should hit
this weekend, there appeared one highlight in the class. He and
his buddy happened to glance at the clock at the same time -
sheer amazement resulted - the hours which seemingly have pass­ed
in their minds have only been minutes - it is only 9 :20. The
two now look like they are going to die. Eventually the class
came to an end and groggy students filed out. A transformation
begins.
The prof stood at his desk while students <filed by, several
stopping and joking with him. Seconds before the bell rings for the
beginning of class, sl9wly and coolly the prof took out a cigarette
and asked for some opinions on the strike at Harvard. Those same
students in the class before, slowly came out of their stupor and
soon the teacher faced a barrage of questions. Sensing that there
must be something relevant here if hands had perked up that fast
- he decided to open the floor to questions and comments. It be­came
obvious that there would be no lesson taught so he sat back
and listened to students argue back and forth. This exhibited a
more comprehensive knowledge of twentieth century society and its ·
ideals than he could have imagined from them. However, several
students in the front (one - the second described riser) looked­irritated
and disgusted. What relevance did a college strike have
to do with the Afnerican revolution? Preparing last night's home.
work was a waste. Deeply perturbed he scribbled on his desk since
everyone was listenini to hiJ neighbor.
TomorTow Is cancelled due to lack of lotere..t.
Ma 7, 1969
By Dr. George Wald
All of you know that in the last couple of
years there has been student unrest break­ing
at times into violence in many parts of
the world: in England, Germany, Italy,
Spain, Mexico and needless to say, in many
parts of this country. There has been a great
deal of discussion as to what it all means.
Perfe-ctly clearly it medns something diffei·­ent
'jn Mexico from what it does in France,
and something different in France from
what it does i., Tokyo, and something differ- .
ent in Tokyo from what it does in this coun­try.
Yet unless we are to assume that stu­dents
have gone crazy all over the world, or
that they have just decided that it's the
thing to do, there must be some common
meaning.
I don't need to go so iar afield to look for
that meaning. I am a teacher, and at Har­vard,
I have a class of about 350 students -
men and women - most of th~m freshmen
and sophomores. Over these past few years I
have felt increasingly that something is ter­ribly
wrong - and this year ever so much
more than last. Something has gone sour, in
teaching and in learning. It's almost as
though there were a widespread feeling that
education has become irrelevant.
A lecture is much more of a dialogue
than many of you probably appreciate. As
you lecture, you keep watching the faces;
and information keeps coming back to you
all the time. I began to feel, particularly this
year, that I was missing much of what was
coming back. I tried asking the students, but
they didn't or couldn't help me very much.
But I thin k I know what's the matter,
even a little better than they do. I thin k t hat
this whole generation of students is beset
with a profound uneasiness. I don't think
that t hey have yet quite defined its source, I
think I understand the reasons for their un­easiness
even better than they do. What is
more, I share their uneasiness.
* What's bothering those students? Some
of them tell you it's the Vietnam War. I
think the Vietnam War is the most shame­ful
episode in the whole of American his­tory.
The concept of War Crimes is an
American invention. We've committed many
War Crimes in Vietnam; but I'll tell you
something interesting about that. We were
committing War Crimes in World War II,
even before Nuremburg trials were held
and the principle of war crimes started.
The saturation bombing of German cities
was a War Crime and if we had lost the
war, some of our leaders might have had
to answer for it.
I've gone through all of that his­tory
lately, and I find that t here's - a·
gimmick in it. It isn't written out, but I
think we established it by precedent. That
gimmick is that if one can allege that one
is repelling or retaliating for an aggression
-after that everything goes. And you see
we are living in a world in which all wars
are wars of defense. All War Departments
are now Defense Departments. This is all
part of the double talk of our time. The
c.ggressor is always on the other side. And
1 suppose this is why our ex-Secretary of
State, Dean Rusk-a man in whom repeti­tion
takes the place of reason, and stub­bornness
takes the place of character-went
to such pains to insist, as he still insists,
that in Vietnam we are repelling an agres­sion.
And if that's what we are doing-so
runs the doctrine-anything goes. If the
concept of war crimes is ever to mean any­thing,
they will have to be defined as cate­gories
of acts, regardless of provocation.
But that isn't so now.
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THE STAG
A generatt•o n tn
I think we've lost that war, as a lot of
other people think, too. The Vietnamese
have a secret weapon. It's their , willingness
to die, beyond our willingness to kill. In ef­fect
they've been saying, you can kill us, but
you'll have to kill a lot .of us, you may have
to kill all of us. And thank heavens, we are
not yet ready to do that.
Yet we have come a long way - far
enough to sicken many Americans, far
enough even to sicken our fighting men. Far
enough so that our national symbols have
gone sour. How many of you can sing about
"the rockets' red glare, bombs bursting in
air" without thinking, those are our bombs
and our rockets bursting over South Viet­namese
villages? When those words were
written, we were a people struggling for
freedom against oppression. Now we are
supporting r eal or thinly disguised military
dictatorships ·all over the world, helping
them to control and repress peoples strug­gling
for their freeoom.
But that Vietnam War, shameful and ter ­rible
as it is, seems to me only an immediate
incident in a much larger and more stub­born
situation.
* Part of my trouble with students is that
almost all the students I teach were born
since World War II. Just after World Wa.t II,
a series of new and abnormal procedures
came into American life. We regarded them
at the time as temporary aberrations. We
thought we would get back to normal Amer­ican
life some day. But those procedures
have stayed with us now for more than 20
years,_s~ nd those students of mine have
never known anything else. They think those
things are normal. They think we've always
had a Pentagon, that we have always had a
big army, and that we always had a draft.
But those are all new things in American
life; and I think that they are incompatible
with what America meant before.
How many of you realize tha~ just before
World War II the entire American army in­cluding
the Air Force numbered 139,000
men? Then World War II started, but we
weren't yet in it; and seeing that there was
great trouble in the world, we doubled this
army to 268,000 men. Then in World War II
it got to be S million. And then World War
II came to an end, and we prepared to go
back to a peacetime army somewhat as the
American army had always been before.
And indeed in 1950 - you think about 1!J50,
our international commitments, the Cold
War, the Truman Doctrine, and all the rest
of it - in 1950 we got down to 600,000 men.
Now we have 3.5 million men under
arms: about 600,000 in Vietnam, about
3~0,QOO more in "support areas" elsewhere in
the Pacific, about 250,000 in Germany. And
there are a lot at home. Some months ago
we were told that 300,000 National Guards­men
and 200,000 reservists had been special­ly
trained for riot duty in the cities.
I say the Vietnam War is just an immedi­ate
incident, because so long as we keep
that big an army, it will always find things
to do. If the Vietnam War stopped tomor­row,
with that big a military establishment,
the chances are that we would be in another
such adventure abroad or at home b2fore
you knew it. * As for the draft: Don't reform the draft
get rid of it.
A peacetime draft is the ~ost un­American
thing I know. All the time I was
growing up I was told about oppressive
Central European countries and Russia,
where young men were forced into the
a1·my; and I was told what they did about it.
They chopped off a finger, or shot off a dou-pie
of toes; or better still, if they could
manage it, they came to this country. And
we understood that, and sympathized, and
were glad to welcome them.
Now by present estimates four to six
thousand Americans of draft age have left
this country for Canada, another two or
three thousand have gone to Europe, and it
looks as though many more are preparing to
emigrate.
A few months ago I i·eccived a letter
fro:n the Harvard Alumni Bulletin posing a
series of ques tions that students might' ask ·a
professor im·olving what to do about the
draft. I was asked to write what I would tell
those students. All I had to say to those stu­dents
,,·as this: If any of them had decided
to evade the draft and asked my help, I
would help him in any way I could. I would
feel as I suppose mcmiJers oi the under­ground
railway felt in pre-Civil War days,
helping runaway slaves to get to Canada. It
wasn't altogether a popular position then;
but what do you think of it now?
A hill to stop the draft was recently in­troduced
in the Senate <S. 503). sponsored
by a gr::Jup of senators that ran the gamut
from McGovern and Hatfield to Barry Gold~
water. I hope it goes through; but any time I
find that Barry Goldwater and I are in
agreement. that makes one take another
look.
And indeed there are choices in getting
rid of the draft. I think that when we get rid
of the draft. we must also cut back the size
of the armed for·ccs. It seems to me that in
peacetime a total of one million men is sure­l.
v enough. If there is an argument for
American military forces of more than one
million men in peacetime, I should like to
hear that argument debated.
* There is another thing being said closely
connectea with this: that to keep an ade­quate
volunteer army, one would have to
1<1ise the pay consideraoly. That's said so
positively and often that people believe it.
I don't think it is true.
:rhc great bulk of our present armed
forces arc genuine volunteers. Among first­term
enlistments, 4!J percent are true volun­teers.
Another 30 percent are so-called "re­luctant
\'Olunteers," persons who volunteer
~1nrler pressure of the draft. Only 21 per­CC'nt
arc draftee5. All r~ -enlistments, of
course, are true volunteers.
So the great majority of our present
<Irmed forces are true volunteers. Whole ser­\'
ices are composed entirely of volunteers:
the Air Force for example. the Submarine
Scn·ice. the Marin2s. That seems like pro:>f
to me that present pay rates are adequate.
One must add that an Act of Congress in
19.fi7 raised the hase pay throughout the ser­,
·iccs in three installments, the thi1·d install­ment
st ill to come, on April 1, 1969. So it is
hard to understand why we are .being told
that tP maintain adequate armed services on
a \'l:luntcer basis will require large in­ucase.,
in p;,y: they will cost an extra $17
'billion per year. It seems plain to me that
we can get all the armed forces we need as
1·olunteers. and at present rates of pay.
nut there i ~ something · ever so much
i>i;.(ger ~ncl m"rc impor tant than the draft.
Tile bigger thing, (If course, is what CX·
l'rl'sirlcnt ElsC'nlwwc•r \\':JI'Il ecl us of. calling
1t t h c 111·1 ~·I tar~· ·J. nd usiri.a l complex. I am sad
·" ·'"Y that 11·e must hegin to think of it now
a., the m i l i tary-indu s trial ~ labo r union com­plex.
What· lwppen ~ d under the plea of the
Cold War was not ahne that we huilt up the
first big peacetime anny in our history, but
we in :<tJtution alizr·d it. We built, I suppose,
the higgc"t gnn·mmcnt building in ou r his­tory
t•• run it. and we institutionalizC'd it.
being reprinted courtesy of the Boston Globe.
May 7, 1969 THE STAf
0 PC$ d & a a a 'I t&"•
•
search of a future
I don't think we ran Jive with the- pr;:sent
military establishment and its $80-100 bil­lion
a year budget, and keep America any­thing
like we have known it in the past. It is
corrupting the life of the who)e country. It
is buying up everything in sight: industries,
banks, inv~stors, universities; and lately it
seems also to have bought- up the labor
unions.
* The Defense Department is atv.>ays broke;
but some of the things they do with that $80
billion a year would make Buck Rogers en­vious.
For example: the Rocky Mountain
Arsenal on the outskirts of Denver was
manufacturing a deadly nerve poison on
such a scale that there was a problem cf
waste disposal. Nothing daunted, they dug a
tunnel two miles deep under Denver, into
which they have injected so much poisoned
water that beginning a couple of years ago
Denver began to experience a series of earth
tremors of increasing severity. Now there is
a grave fear of a major earthquake. An in­terEsting
debate is in progress as to whether
Denver will be safer if that lake of poisoned
water is removed or left in place. (N.Y.
Times, July 4, 1968; Science, Sept. 27, 1968).
Perhaps you have read also of. those 6000
she ~ p that suddenly died in Skull Valley,
Utah. killed by another nerve poison - a
strange and, I believe, still unexplained ac­cident,
since the nearest testing seems to
have betn 30 miles away.
* As for Vietnam, the expenditure of fire
power has been frightening. Some of you
may still remember Khe Sanh, a hamlet just
_ south of the Demilitarized Zone, where a
force of U.S. Marines was beleaguered for a
time. During that period we dropped on the
perimeter of Khe Sanh more explosives than
fell on Japan throughout World War II, and
more than fell on the whole of Europe dur­ins
thr years 1942 and 1943.
One of the officers there was quot-:!d as
having said afterward, "It locks like the
world caught smallpox and died." (N.Y.
Times, Mar. 28, 1968).
The' only point of government is to safe­guard
and foster life. Our government has
become preoccupied with death, with the
business of killing and being killed. So­called
Defense now absorbs 60 percent of
the national budget, and about 12 percent of
the Gress Nati-onal Product.
* A lively debate is beginning again on
whether or not we should deploy antiballis­tic
missiles, the ABM. I don't have to talk
about them, everyone else here is doing that.
But I should like to mention a curious cir­cumstance.
In September, 1967, or about 1 ~
years ago. we had a meeting of M.I.T. and
Harvard people, including experts on these
matters. to talk about whether anything
c:ould be done to block the Sentinel system,
the deployment of ABM's. Everyone pres.­ent
thought them undesirable; but a few of
the most knowledgeable persons took what
seemed to be the practical view, "Why fight
about a dead issue? It has been decided, the
funds have been appropriated. Let's go on
frnrn t hpn•.' '
Well, fortunately, it's not a dead issue.
An ABM is a nuclear weapon. It takes a
nuclear weapon to stop a nuclear weapon.
And our concern must be with the whole
issue of nuclear weapons.
There is an entire semantics ready to
deal with the sort of thing I am about to
say. It involves such phras~s a-; "those are
the facts of life." No- these are the facts of
death. I don't accept them, and I advise you
not to accept them. We are under repeated
pressures to accept thine,s that are presented
to us as settled - decisions that have been
made. Always there i$ the thouaht: let's go
on from there! But tha. time we don't see
how to go on. We will have to stick with
those issues.
We ar.e told that the United States and
Russia between them h&ve by now
stockpiles in nuclear weaponi approximate!)'
the explosive power of U tons of TNT tor
every man, woman and chil4 on earth. And
now it is suggested that we must make
more. All very resrettable, of course; but
those are "the facts of life." We really would
like to disarm; but our new Secretal')' of 0..
fense has m~de the ingenious proposal that
one must be practical. Now is the time to
greatly increase our nuclear armaments so
that we can disarm from a position of
strength.
*
I think all of you know there is no ade­quate
defense against massive nuclear at­tack.
It il? both easier and cheaper to circum­vent
any known nuclear defense system
than to provide it.· It's all pretty crazy. At
the very moment we talk of deploying
ABM's, we are also buildina the MIRV, the
weapon to circumvent ABM's.
So far as I know, with every~hing work­ing
as well as can be hoped and all foreseea­ble
precautions taken, the most conservative
estim~tes of Americans killed in a major nu­clear
attack run to about 50 millions. We
have become callous to gruesome statistics,
and this seems at first to be only another
gruesome statistic. You think, Bang! - and
next .morning, if you're still there, you read
in the newspapers that 50 million people
were killed.
But that isn't the way it happens. When
we killed close to 200,000 people with those
first little, old-fashioned uranium bombs
that we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasa­ki,
about the same number of persons was
maim~d. blinded, burned, poisoned and oth­erwise
doomed. A lot of them took a long
time to die.
That's the ~ay it would be. Not a bang,
and a certain number of corpses to bury; but
a nation filled with millions of helpless,
maimed, tortured and doomed survivors
huddled with their families in shelters, with
guns ready to fight off their neighbors,
trying to get some uncontaminated food ·and
water.
A few monthli ago Sen. Richard Russell
of Georgia ended a speech in the Senate
with the words: "If we have to start over
again with another Adam pnd Eve I want
th~m to ?e Americans; and I want 'them on
th~ <:~ndhnsent and not )n Europe." That was
a m e tates s~nator holding a patriotic
sp~ech. Well, here is a NobtH Laureate who
thmks that those words are criminally in­sane.
(Prolonged applause.)
How real is the threat of full s_s:ale nucle­ar
war? I _ have my own very inPxpert idea
but reallZlng how_ !itt!<:! I know and fearfui
~hat I may be a little paranoid on this sub­Ject,
I take every opportunity to ask reputed
expe~ts . I askea that question of a very dili­tmgmshed
professor of government at Har·
vard ~bout n month ago. I asked him what
sort of odds he would lay on the possibility
of full-scale nuclear war within the foresee­ab_
le future. _"Oh," he said comfortably, "I
thmk I can g1ve you a pretty good answer to
that question. I estimate the probability of
full-scale nuclear war, provided that the sit­uation
remains about as it is now, at 2 per­cent
per year" An:vbody can do the simple
calculation that shows that 2 percent per
year means that the chance of having that
~ull-scale nuclear war by 1990 is about one
m three, and by 2000 it is about 50·50.
* I think I know what is bothering the stu-dents.
I think that what we are up against is
a generation that is by no means sure that it
has a future.
I am growing old, and my future so to
speak is already behind me. But there are
thuse students of mine who are in my mi1_1d
always; there are my children, two of them
now 7 and 9, whose future is infinitely more
precious 'o me than my own. So it isn't just
their aenerttion~ it'a mine too. We'r' all in it
toaether.
Are we to have a chance to live? We
don't atk for prosperity, or security; only
tor a rea&Oniblt chance to live, to work out
our de~ti n~ in peace and decenc)'. Not to go
down 1n h11tory aa the apocalyptic genera­tion.
And it iin't only nuclear war. Another
overwhelming threat is in the population
explosion. That has not yet even begun to
come under control. There is every indica­tion
that the world population will double
beforP the :rear 2000; and there ii a· wide·
spread expe~tation of famine on an unprece­dented
scale in many parts of the world. The
experta; tend to differ only in their estimates
of when those famines will begin. Some
think by 1980, others think they can be
staved oft until 1990, very few expect that
they will not occur by the year 2000.
That is the problem. Unless we can be
surer than wt~ now are that this seneration
has a future, nothing else matters. It's not
good enough to give it tender lqving care, to
supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it ex­pensive
educations. Those things don't mean
anything unless this generation has a future.
And we're not sure that it does.
I don't think that there are problems of
youth, or 5tudent problems. All the real
problems I kno.v are grown-up problems.
*
Perha)Js you w iii think me aitogdher ab­surd,
or "academ1c", or hopelessly innocent
- that is, until you thi_nk of the alternatives
- if I say as I do to you now: we have to
get rid of those nuclear weapons. There is
nothing worth having that can be obtained
by nuclear war: nothing material or ideolog­ICal,
no tradition that it can defend. It is ut­terly
self-defeating. Those atom bombs rep­resent
an unusable weapon. The only use
for an atom bomb is to keep somebody else
from using it. It can give us no protection,
but only the doubtful satisfaction of retalia­tion.
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a
balance of terror; and a balance of terror is
still terror.
We have to get rid of those atomic weap­ons,
here and everywhere. We cannot live
with them.
* I _think w_e·ve reached a point of great
dec1s1on, not JUst for our nation, not only for
all humamty, but f_or life upon the Earth. I
tell my students, w1th a feeling of pride that
I hope they will share, that the carbon, ni­trogen
~n~ oxyg~n that make up 99 percent
of our . hv1~g substance, were cooked in the
de~p mtenors of earlier generations of
dymg s~ars . Gathered up from the ends of
the umverse, over billions of years ev­entually
they came to form in part the' sub·
stance of our sun, its planets and ourselves.
Three billion years ago life arose upon the
Earth. It seems to be the only life in the
solar system. Many a star has since been
born and died.
About two million years ago, man ap­peared.
He has become the dominant species
on th~ Eart~. All other living things, animal
and plant, hve by his sufferance. He is the
c.u~t?dian of life on Earth. It's a big respon­Siblhty:
The th~)Ught tha~ we're in competi­tiOn
w1th Russ1ans or w1th Chinese is all a
mista~e. and trivial. Only mutual destruc­tion
hes that way. We are one species, with
a world to wm. There's life all over this
universe, but we are the only men.
Our business is with life, not death. Our
challense ii to give what account we can of
w~at becomes of life in the sol~ system,
th1s corner of the universe that is our home
and, most of all, what becomes of men ~ all
men of all nations, colors and creeds. It has
become one world, a world for all men. It is
only su~:h a world that now can offer us life
and the chance to go on.
Paqe Ten T Hi STAG
The Dormitory
(Contlnued frwn Pag-e 1)
more aware of the desires of
his constituency.
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In reviewing cases of misde­meanor,
e~ch member of a coun­cil,
-including the Jesuit prefect,
will have one vote. In the case
of a He vote, a lay-prefeet wm
be abls to east one vote. The
~U. then, will decide on a
grGC~er sanction. Cases of a
..-e 5erious nature, however,
wa1 be subject to .review by the
JUPr authorities. . ·
Concerning the appolntment
of prefects, the councils will be
a.ble to screen applicants. The
unmate decision 1n this matter.
however, will be made by the
otflce of the Dean of Resident
Students. The councU will also
be able to recommend at any
Ume the removal of a prefect
who has proven himself unjust.
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For the time being, the Ex­ecutive
Board of the Student
Legislature and some members
of the Legislature are acting as
an "ad hoc" Dormitory Council.
The temporary council, has been
set up to enforce observatian of
drinking and parietal laws until
the end of the year.
On April 21st, three Fairfield
University students towed the
line, along with 1,127 other
starters, for the 73rd annual
trek from Hopkinton, Mass. to
the Prudential Center Plaza in
downtown Boston, a distance
of 26 miles, 385 yards .
Freshman Bob Pontone fin­ished
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Phil Mulry finished in 420th
spot with a time of 3.34 while
Sophomore cross-country run­ner,
Joe D'Angelo, finished
under 500 in 3.44.
Highlights of the jaunt in­cluded
the initial 30-45 second
walk after the gun went off
due to the large crowd of
runners pressing at the start.
By the time the three Stags
could run, the leaders were
well out in front and placing
was immediately discounted by
our three hopefuls. D'Angelo
walked the last three miles due
to leg cramps but managed tn
sprint the last 100 yards to the
ch2ers o: a group of girls from
one of the local colleges in the
area.
P.ontone slowed down con­siderably
over the last four
miles, again due to cramps in
the thigh and calf muscles. At
one point within the last f.ve
miles, he was dismayed to find
"an effeminate-looking guy
pass him. It later turt)ed out
that this "guy" was the New
England AAU cross country
champion, Women's Division
who bested him by four min­utes.
Mulry commented in true­Rugger
fashion, t h a t t h e ·-·
oranges and orange-juice at the
various aid stations would have
tasted better and been more
usdul with some thing stror.g­er
in it.
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Stag Nine Aiming
For Winning Mark
(Oontblued from P~~ee 12)
error. Hock Castrignano had
three hita apiece. The former
also scored two runs and 4rove
in two. In all, Fairfield got 14
bits.
Next the stav faced St.
Joan's of New York. The Red­mea
four hit Fairfield, 2-0, to
give the Stags jleir seventh
setbaCk. Jim Tully sttrted and
went the distance losing a heart­breaker.
The left hander gave
up only one earned run on 7
base hits.
Southern Wbw, '7·8
On May 4 Fairfield lost a
make-up game against Southern
Connecticut State College 7-3.
Gibson was the starting pitcher
for the Stags and was strong
but errors scored five unearned
runs, enough for the wi·nning
margin. Gibson pitched 7 in­nings
and Rick De Amore pitch­ed
the eighth.
The Stag scoring started in
the second when Lanifero
singled to score Granata. Nor­man
drove in a run with a
single and in the eighth hit a
solo homer for Fairfield's last
score.
Injury prone Fairfield lost the
services earlier in the season of
Tracktnen
(Continued from Page 12)
points. He finished strong in the
event as evidenced by his 10:41
time.
Bill Moriarty threw the jave­lin
161 feet to capture the other
first place.
Before the Conference Track
Championship on Saturday the
Stags have one final meet with
Hofstra. One thin~r is sure,
whatever the outcome, Cdlach
Nick Giaquinto has surprilsed a
few people with this year's rec-ord.
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pitcher Bob Gibson for almost
a month and now has lost its
two top hitters indefinitely.
Right fielders Bob Giusti, a .400
hitter who was leading the
Stags in RBI's and runs scored
is out with a shoulder separa­tion
incurred in the Bridgeport
game, while catcher Tom Finch,
hitting above .350, was hurt in
the St. John's game.
Linksmen
(Continued from Page 12)
their surprising defeat by New
Haven with a resounding 7-0
victory over Central Connecti­cut,
at the plush Grassy Hill
Country Club in Orange. The
Stags were led by "Hungry"
Jack McConachie and Jim
"Froggy" Andrews, who both
had 2 over par rounds of 73.
The resUlts of matches were:
"Hungry" Jack McConachie de­feated
Chuck Matazewski, 1 up;
Ted "Hawk-eye" Coia defeated
Anthony Zigato, 6-5; "Gross Ot­to"
Kammerer defeated F . Cre­dowitz,
1 up; "Dirty" Dan Tar­taglia
defeated Richard Dexter,
4-2; Dave "Puppy" DiLeo de­feated
Gerald Agostinucci, 1 up;
Jim "Froggy" Andrews defeat­ed
Norman Kloc, 8-7; John "Big­Boat"
Lebedewitch defeated
Samuel D. Biskus, 1 up.
This week the linksmen will
compete in New England Tour­n~
ent in Williamsport, Mass.,
May 9-10. Next week the Stags
will play in the Metropolitan
Tournament in Port Washing­ton,
Long Island, May 14-15.
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By PATRICK K. LONG
This year has been full of surprises for Fairfield
University athletics - ranging from the football and
basketball teams' dismal records to the startling suc­cesses
of the hockey and cross country combines. But
no athletic team has stunned Stag athletic followers
like this yea(s track team;
Returning from last year's catastrophic 0-7 record
th2re sE.en:ed to be no cause for hope for the thinclads.
The team had lost the services · of valuable graduates
Bill Cibulsky, Norm Balthasar and Bill Garrity and the
always-steady distance man George Train had decided
not to run. A season-opening 110-40 shellacking at the
hands of Southern Connecticut lent little support for
optimism.
A strange thing happened in the second meet
agair.st Jersey City State, however. After the members
of the 440 relay team had clandestinely agreed to "take
it easy" on the exchange of batons thinking they were
going to lose anyway, much to their own dismay they
won. It was the first time that Fairfield had won that
event and it psyched up the whole team as they went
on to demolish the Penn Relay-bound Jersey team.
Since then the team has gone on to post an im­pressive
6-2 record, defeating Marist, Brooklyn College;
New York Tech, New Paltz and Oneonta in addition
to Jersey City State.
The harriers have overcome poor facilities and a
dearth of student interest to become a · respected team.
Their potential was best exemplified· at the Brandeis
Relays where they finished fifth out of twenty schools.
Because of lack of depth, each athlete is forced to
compete in three or f.our events, forsaking individual
times for team victory. Excellent distance runners like
John O'Rourke and Mark·O'Donoghue compete in the
mile, half-mile and two mile in each meet and can
only run for personal achievement twice a year - in
the Brandeis meet and the College Track Champion­ships.
The backbone of the team is the always depend­able
J. C. Dennis who has won the high jump, long
jump and triple jump in every meet he has participated
and has also placed in the 100 yard dash the two
times he ran that event. The other senior .on the team.
weight-man John Mezzanotte, has consistently placed
in the shot-put and discus.
The only junior on the team, Bill Martens, is a
story all in himself. Martens came out for track for the
first til"e in his life last year and it soon became ap­parent
to everyone that he was no ordinary runner.
Although troubled by poor starts last year, he proved
himself a premier quarter-miler, culminated by his 50.7
'victory in the Brandeis Relays. This year, with improv­ed
starts, Fairfield's own "burner" has gotten off in
first at the beginning of the race, never to be caught.
' The bumper crop of sophomores has been the
nucleus of the team. O'Donoghue and O'Rourke have
consistently placed in three events each meet. Running
the taxing 440 yard hurdles for the first time in his life,
Bob Landmesser has steadily improved in each meet.
scoring points in the hurdles as well as the javelin and
mile relay. Quarter-miler Colin Kiley and weight-men
Bill Moriarity, Frank D' Amato, and Tim Geoghegan
have each played a role in the team's successful season.
The class of '72 has pr:oduc~d the first genuine
hurdler in any one's recent memory at the school. E<}
Goodwin's prowess in this event was proved by his
strong third place finish at Brandeis and his victories
in the 120 yard high hurdles in most of the dual meets.
Sprinter John Reid and quarter-miler Justin McCarthy
have helped the team in both rEtlays and individual
events. Bill Rogers looks like J. C. Dennis' heir appar­ent
in the long and triple jumps as is Ted· Martens in
the discus.
Losing only two athletes through graduation, the
track team should be able to approach next year's sea­son
with a much more .optimistic attitude and perhaps
begin the building of a track tradition at Fairfield Uni­versity.
A little help from Athletic Director George
Bisacca in the way of improved fac~lities (e.g. a tartan
track) and scholarship athletes co\lld go a long way
now that the track teaP-1 has proved themselves winners.
T t c STAG
By JOSEPH VALERIO
Sports Editor
When James "Skip" Bolger
was a senior at St. Michael's
High School in New York, the
Fairfield University baseball
team managed only two vic­tories
in 19 outings. This spring,
though, the Stag nine is flirting
with their first winning season
in the young Jesuit school's dia­mond
history. Even more im·
portant is the very real pos­sibility
that the Stags may earn
an at-large bid to the NCAA
baseball tourney. This is the
goal of Skip Bolger and his
teammates.
Skip was a talented south­paw
hurler in high school but
he incurred arm trouble in his
freshman year at Fairfield.
Hence, Bolger moved to the out-
, field and he has been the Stags'
left-fielder for the past three
seasons.
New Hitting Style
As a sophomore, Skip was
anything but a soph sensation.
The green-eyed athlete tried to
be a power hitter, but he wound
up with only a .240 batting
average and one home run. Last
spring Skip choked up on the
bat and began taking hard
swings. Due to this new strat­egy,
the 5-8, 150 pounder hit
an impressive .312. This year
Skip is batting over the .300
mark and he has already belted
his third career home run.
Since Bolger began going for
the base hit and not the long
ball, the baseball team's play
has steadily improved. Like his
teammates, Bolger is confident
that the diamondmen will finish
with at least 13 victories which
would give them a .500 season,
the school's first. "We should
finish .500," Skip said last
week. "We stopped Manhattan's
seven game winning streak and
beat tough LIU, 11-9."
However, the Stags dropped
a heart breaking 2-0 decision to
St. John's last Friday which
may have ruined their chances
for an NCAA bid. "You don't
need an impressive record to
get into the NCAA, you have
to beat the good teams," the
mild-mannered Bolger notes.
"We've got to beat the name
schools."
Giusti Through
With the season a little more
than half over, though, it would
take a monumental task for the
Stag nine to earn an NCAA
bid, for the Stags lost their
leading hitter, Bob Giusti, for
the duration of the season.
Giusti separated his shoulder
and his loss has affected the
team's spirit. "Our morale was
a littlP !Jroken," Bolger explains,
Uoot we have a solid hitting
line-up with a strong bench.
(Ken) Lanifero and (Ed) Viola
are good hitters, but pitching is
our weakness."
Still this spring Coach Don­ald
Cook has fielded his best
squad ever. Cook is recruiting
heavily from the New York
area while Pete Di Orio, the
trainer and freshman coach,
surveys the New England area
for baseball talent. Also, the
energetic mentor has arranged
an attractive southern trip for
the team. "We played real good
ball on this year's ·southern
trip," Skip recalls. "My biggest
•ge Eleven
A'ITENTIVE: James ''Skip" Bolger listens to last minute
instructions from coach Donald Cook. (Photo by Reme)
thrill was beating Rollins twice
last year in Florida. This year
we scrimmaged the Cincinnati
Reds. farm team."
A business major .who will
enter the Marine Reserves after
graduation next month, Skip
would like to eventually work
in the financial district. But, for
the present, the amiable Bolger
enjoys sports and girls. "There's
this girl from the Bronx," Skip
relates, "it takes up a lot of
time."
As the Campion 4 prefect,
Bolger's popularity has soared
like the baseball team's play.
If Skip Bolger and the rest of
Coach Cook's troops can dupli­cate
their first-half season per­formance
over the :final dozen
games, the Fairfield University
baseball team will post their
first winning season in the
school's history. Skip Bolger OP­timistically
states, "this might
be our. year."
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ennis Sets 2 Track Re·cords
Trackmen Wi Four;
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COLIN' KILEY
Fll*lcl'a traek team opened
a f .. eyea last week when it
four victories to its vic­ar
eolumn. The team's present
•2 reeord came at the expense
of Brooklyn Tech, New York
Tech, New Paltz and Oneonta.
'nte Stags thus far have turned
the tables since last year they
went without a single victory as
Jtenior J. C. Dennis set two
school records in the broad
jump and triple jump.
'lbe trianaular meet with
·~ ed New York fea­ture4
5Ul Martens and Dennis
who ~bined to give Fairfield
Ave aNt places. Martens, forced
to 10 out fast from start to
fiJUsh, produced his best time of
the seuon in the 440 with a
50.1 second clocking. Aecelerat­lni
the entire 220. Martens nip­ped
the Brooklyn sprinters at
the blah line.
DeJt.DiJ. 1n addition to his
fin1s 1n the high jump, broad
jump and triple jump set a new
sehaol record in the latter with
a leaJ of 44 feet 10 inches.
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O'Donoghue's first in the two
mile was most satisfYing.
O'Donoghue, ·who did not fare
well last year, ran one of the
best races he has run to give
Fairfield a much needed five
(Continued on Page 10)
RED RUGGERS ROUT: 1\fike 1\eneftck (far rlcbt) battles
for possession of ball as Stags Beef Smith (far left) and J ack
Zorski close in. Unbeaten Stags ripped Fordham Rams. 1S·S,
and meet Manhattan ruggers Saturday. (Pboto by !Berne )
Stag Golfers
Drop First
By DAVE DILEO
The Fairfield University Golf
team split a pair of matches
last week, losing to New Haven
College 4% to 2%, and defeating
Central Connecticut 7-0. The
loss to New Haven was the
first setback of the year for the
Stags, whose record now stands
at 4-1.
In the New Haven College
match, played at the East Moun­tain
Golf and Country Club in
Waterbury, John McConachie
had the best round of the day
for Fairfield, a 76. However,
he was defeated by Jim Gra­bowski
of New Haven by a
scores of ~2. Grabowski took
medalist honors for the day
with a round of 70.
In the other matches Sal Bo­cuzzi
(N.H.) defeated Dan Tar­taglia
2-1, Dave DiLeo defeated
Jim Pallman (N.H.) 4-3, Jim
Andrews defeated Anthony Re­bello
(N.H.) ~2. Jim Stanley
(N.H.) defeated Kevin Kammer­er
one up, Gerry Dambrowski,
(N.H.) tied Ted Coia, and
Reginald Rowland (N.H.) de­feated
John Lebedevitch 1 up.
Slap Blaak Central
The Stags botmced back from
Fairfield's other big scorer (Continued 011 Page 10)
was John O'Rourke. O'Rourke
captured first in the mile by
runnift8 the distance in 4:38.
O'Rourke's kick from the 110
mark enabled him to overtake
the Brooklyn miler just ten
yards from the tape. O'Rourke
then came back to take third
place in the half-mile and sec­ond
in the two-mile.
The rest of Fairfield's scoring
was rounded out by Ed Good­win
in the hurdles, John Reid
in 100 yard dash, Bob Land­messer
and Pat Lor.g in th~ 440
hurdles, Tom Purcell in the high
jump and John Mezzanotte and
Frank D' Amato in the shot put.
Ruggers Rip Fordham 13-3;
FaCe Manhattan Saturday
New Paltz Upeet
Host New Paltz offered stiff
competition and excellent facili­ties
to Fairfield and Oneonta
in the trianglular meet held
there last Saturday. Previously
undefeated New Paltz displayed
remarkable enthusiasm. The
meet was close and eventually
was decided by the last event of
the day - the discus.
F airfield's ten first places
were responsible for the edge
ove:- New Paltz. Oneonta wa<;
never really in the meet but
took important places from
Fairfield and New Paltz. When
Fairfield's mile relay team of
Landmesser, Justin McCarthy,
Martens and Colin Kiley finish­ed
s econd, Fairfield had a lead
of 1 ¥.! points. Freshman Ted
Martens tossed the discus far
enough to take first in the event
and Mezzanotte put the clincher
on the meet by taking second.
Dennll SetB Mark
The other highlight of the
meet was of course, J . C. Den­nis.
He set the broad jump rec­ord
with a leap of 22.8 and then
proceded to break the record
in the triple jump for the sec­ond
time in three days. He
jumped 45 feet.
While O'Rourke and Martens
captured their first places, Mark
By BILL GERAGHTY
The Fairfield Ruggers added
another victory to their season
record against Fordham on Sat­urday.
The Ruggers beat Ford­ham
13-3 and kept the record
of never losing against Ford­ham
since the initiation of the
club in 1963.
Q. Murphy opened up the
scoring by pitching the ball off
on a line-out near the goal line
and dove into the end zone for
a try. Bruce Klastow, through
fine pursuit, kicked the ball into
the end zone and fell on it to
add another three points.
The backfield showed their
running ability with many fine
movements. John Langan show­ed
Fordham his power by run­ning
through them for a try.
Tom Krenn added four points
with two kicks.
Stag Nine At Central Today;
Bob Giusti Lost For Season
By FRANK ARMADA
The hard-hitting baseball
Stags will travel today to Cen­tral
Connecticut State College
for the first game of the season
between these two teams.
After an 8-1 loss to Bridge­port
on Monday, the Stags beat
Fordham and Hartford by iden­tical
7-2 scores. Bob Gibson
went all the way for his third
victory of the season, a seven
hitter. It was Gibson's first
start in over three weeks but
it looks as though the Gibby is
back to head Fairfield's mound
corps again. He got a lot of
hitting support from his team­mates
who produced 12 hits.
The Stags began the scoring
in the second when Tom Finch
singled, s tole second and went
to third on an error which gave
Stan Norman first base. A field­er's
choice scored Finch and a
wild pitch scored Norman who
had stolen second and moved
to third on the fielder's choice.
Ed Wargo . who had reached
sttfely on the fielder's choice
stole i econd and scored on two
successive wild pitches.
Bolger Starts Rally
The Stags made it 6-0 in the
third. Skip Bolger started the
rally with an infield hit. He
stole second and scored on Bill
Granata's single to left. Finch
followed with a triple to score
Granata and later scored on a
wild pitch.
Fairfield's final run came in
the sixth when Bolger singled,
stole second and crossed the
plate on another Granta single.
Stags Settle Iaaue
Against Hartford, Dan Wil­cox
started and pitched 7 in­nings
in which he allowed 7
hits and one unearned run. He
got the victory when the Stags
scored 6 times in the bottom
of the seventh.
Wargo led off the big seventh
with a single. Jim Tully was
called to pinch-hit for Wilcox
an came .through with another
single. Jim Hock drove both in
with another one base hit to put
the Stags ahead by one. Then
Fairfield broke the game wide
open when Bob Castrignano,
Bolger, Granata and Butch Az­zara
followed with singles.
In the bottom of the eighth
the Stags scored their last run
on a single, two walks and an
(Continued oa hlfe 10)
"B'•,. SJauchter, SO-l
The "B" team overwhelmed
Fordham by the score of 30-5.
Dennis Barry made an inside
cut to score. Kevtn Regan scor­ed
two tries and Pete Yaros
added another. Joe Sindt ran
around end and with a bUl"6t of
speed scored in the corner of
the end zone.
Willis Reinke showed the
serum's speed by scoring on two
runs up the middle and Tom
King also scored. Chuck Dom­beck
scored with two kicks and
Mark Baldwin also showed his
toe talent with a kick.
The "C" team played St.
Francis Prep on Sunday and
fell to the Prep boys 17-3.
John O'Neil was the only one
to score for the Red by a fine
pass from carl Sachs. St. Fran­cis
was in excellent shape and
showed the "C" Ruggers their
speed and push in the serum.
''D'•" WID, 1!·11
The ''D" game against St.
Francis ended the afternoon
with some exciting moments in
the second half. Fairfield was
down, 3-0, at the half, but ral­lied
back to a 12-11 victory and
a few caustic remarks with the
St. Francis fans.
This Saturday the Fairfield
Ruggers play the Manhattan
Rugby club. A victory would
give the Stags their ·first unde­feated
season.