Stag - Vol. 15, No. 05 - November 13, 1963

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Research Opportunities Given
To Undergrad Chern Majors
The Chemistry Department of Fairfield University has
made its selections for the chemistry major upperclassmen
who will participate with financial support in the depart­ment's
research activities during the academic year and
summer of 1963-64. According to Dr. John A. Barone,
Director of Research and Graduate Science, the four stu­dents
who have received appointments are Paul Scott a
senior from New Haven; Kevin Dorsey, a senior from Ri~er
Edge, New Jersey; James O'Connor a· senior from New
Haven; and Philip Geohegan, a .Jur:ior from Bridgeport.
PennWarren at FU~Nov.l8;
BellarmineSeries Revamped
Scott and Dorsey will be tak- -
Lecture Series
The Bellax:mine Lecture Ser­ies,
under tne direction of Fr.
Johnson S.J., has assumed a
new role. Under. its new head­ing
of the Bellarmine Series,
the committee is to assure a
ing part ln the department's c • I unde~graduate research parti- arnzval Opens At Longshore cipahon program, sponsored by
the National Science Foundation rY7 • h V l
with a yearly budget of $7,ooo. ·"" zt .r orma Prom January 31 Paul actually started research ·
this past summer in the part
of the program under the super­vision
of Dr. Barone. He is
working on the synthesis and
properties of fluorinated ana­logs
of histidine. These com­pounds
may be of interest both
in the study of cancer anti­metabolites
and of mental re­tardation.
Kevin Dorsey has .
begun work in a program to
study excess energy in photo­lysis,
under the Rev. Robert
E. Varnerin,. S.J ., Ph.D,, which
was initiated two years ago with
the help of ·a contract from the
Air Force Office of Aerospace
Research. These two appoint­mer.
ts have the unique advan­tage
of offering the student
almost maximum freedom in
individual study and independent
research. The government pro­vides
all expenses for the re­search,
minimal financial as­sistance
to the participants dur­ing
the academic year, and a
full grant-in-aid d uri n.g the
summer to serve in place of a
salary which could have been
earned.. Both students plan on
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· The Winter Carnival Com­mittee
has announced the sched­ule
for the Weekend which will
take place on January 31, Feb­ruary
1 and 2, 1964. The Car­nival,
held during semester
break, will incorporate several
new ideas and activities.
Friday evening, a formal
Prom at the Longshore Country
Club will begin the Carnival
activities. Immediately follow­ing
the Prom will be a skating
party at Greens Farms Rink
in Westport.
Saturday will see an Indoor
· Picnic in the afternoon and a
dance in the evening. Enter­tainement
at the Picnic will be
of a Rock 'n Roll nature but
announcement has not yet been
made regarding the dance .en­tertainment.
Sunday events include a Com-·
munion Breakfast in the morn­ing
and a Concert in the after­noon.
With the Concert, the
Winter Carnival will officially
come to a close.
Details of the events, in­cluding
entertainment and
speakers will be announced in
Rally Honors Bowl Team
MEDAL, BOWL, AND CARD OF MERIT which were presented
to the Varsity Scholars between scrimmages at rally.
l'':Urfield's thrice victorious
College Bowl Team and their
moderat0r-coach, Father Don­ald
Lynch, S.J ., received a
s tanding ovation Monday even­ing
during exercises commem­orating
the 'University's su-b­cesses
on the G E College Bowl
television series.
A ten minut e inter-squad
scrimmage served to give the
student body a preview of our
Fr eshman Basketball Team.
Freshmen Charlie Phillips, Jim
Brown, Bill Boyd, Bill Palmer,
carl M~nendez and co 11 e g e
Bowl captain John Kappenberg
impressed the audience with a
flashy performance. Kappen­berg
was on the line s ubstitut­ing
for Jim Brown. This time
it was a foul shot, as opposed to
a toss-up for the varsity schol­ar.
Following the scrimmage,
Bowl team members Horvath,
GreBer, Kroll and Kappenberg
were presented with s i 1 v e r
bowls which are a gift from
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the next issue of the STAG. 1
CARNIVAL - COUNCIL
The Carnival Committee, with
George McGinn '64 as General
Chairman, operates in cooper a­tion
with the Student Council.
For this reason those students
who possess Activity Cards are
eligible for a $2.00 discount on
the package deal.
"To make 'the Carnival a
complete success," said Mc­Ginn,
"we need the cooperation
and participation of all students.
We would like toemphasize that ·
the Winter Carnival is not only
for upperclassmen, but the
entire student community."
-See Picture on Page 8
Council Kayoes
TV Regulation
Student Council representa­tives
voted two weeks ago to
defeat a motion by Leo Paquette ·
'65 regulating the use of tele­visions
at lounges in <;>onzaga
and campion. At the same
meeting a motion by Paquette
calling tor a Student Council
Calendar eliminating all meet­ing
announcement sigris ·rrom
campus bulletin boards was
tabl~Q. {or reconsideration.
The television debate arose
when the Junior delegate pro­posed
that the set -in Campion
be made available to students
wishing to view news and cul­tural
programs, and the set in
Gonzaga be devoted to the pre­rogatives
of sports fans. The
Loyola television would have
been unaffected by the motion.
O_'l;njons, r~flected by merr.­bers
of the Council were that
not enough complaints had been
lodged to support passage of the
motion~ Although the motion
was defeated, council president,
James Davidson '64, replied
"Yes" to the question, "Is it
a role of the Student Council to
take action which benefits the
organization of the whole school
by satisfying student groups,
_whether or not extensive com­plaint
has been lodged?"
In accepting me 'motion to
create a Student Council Cal ­endar,
the representatives
-would increase to three the
number . of social and academic
calendars published within the
University. The Council made it
clear that the motion involves
only meeting announcements
normally published on bulletin
boards, and does not affect
the publicity campaigns of any
organization. However, the
minutes state the calendar "will
be the only nottce allowed on any
school bulletin board. ''
In other action, the Council
discussed and passed a motion
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programme of academic as weli
as artistic events.
••central to this new func'­tion,"
stated Fr. Johnson, "is
the coordination of activities
proposed by the Series with
various clubs and organizations
on campus. In attempting to
avoid confusion of dates, and
a jammed calendar, the var­ious
clubs and organizations
on campus should inform the
moderators of the Bellarmine
Series of their programs. Suc­cess
in this coordinating will
depend on the cooperation of
both faculty members and stu­dents.'
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Fr. Johnson added that "While
the individual clubs will retain
their initiative in sponsoring
guest speakers, the Bellarmine
Series has been entrusted with
the new role of initiating artis­tic.
as well as academic pre­sentations."
In regards to
this coordination, the Theology,
Philosophy, Psychology, Soci­ologydepartments,
and the Men­del
Club have already approach­ed
the Bellarmine Series mod­erators.
Having already presented a
program by Dr. Erik Von Kue­hnelt-
Leddhin on october 140
the Bellarmine Series has
scheduled the following events.
Moira Walsh will lecture to­night
prior to the presentation
of "La Dolce Vita." She will
speak on the symbolism in con­temporary
films, as applied to
"La Dolce Vita.''
On December 7, the Bell­armine
Series wlll present its
first musical endeavor in .. a
concert presented by the wat­erbury
Phil!Jarmonic Orches­tra.
Under +he directi9n of
Mario DicEicco, ~<the o~chestra
will present a highly selective
programme embodied in the
music of Von Weber, Mozart,
Beethoven, an Bonn."
The series also hopes for a
future engagement of Dicecco,
when he will present an ex-
ROBERT PENN WARREN
Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert
Penn Warren, will deliver a
lecture on his own poems at
Fairfield University Monday,
November 18, at 8:00 P.M. in
GQnzaga Auditorium. The lec­ture
will be the second in the
Bellarmine Lecture Series this
year. Admission is free.
Mr. Penn Warren graduated
from Vanderbilt University and
received his M.A. at the Uni­versity
of California. He was
awarded a Bachelor of Letters
degree at Oxford where he was
a Rhodes Scholar.
In 1946 he was ·awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for his novel
All the Kings Men. He also
received a Pulitzer Prize for
poetry in 1958. Among the many
novels and bo::>ks Mr. Penn War­ren
has written are: John
Brown: The Making of a Martyr
(1929), Thirty-six Poems (1935),
At Heavens Gate (1943), World
Enough and Time (1950), Band
of Angels (1955), and The Cave
(1959). He also edited Under­standing
Poetry (1935).
Penn Warren is a member
of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. He has been
_a profess::>r at yale since 1961.
Junior Day Schedule
Junior Day, November 23, will
include a rugby game,- an indoor
·picnic, a concert and a dance.
The rugby game, against Holy
cross, will begin the activities
of the day. Subsequent to the
game, the picnic, with enter­tainment
provided by . the Mis­fits,
will get under way at
Coleman Hall in Fairfield.
The Four Coins, currently
on a tour of colleges and night
clubs, will present a concert
Saturday evening at 7:15. The
concert is open to all s tudents
and is priced at $2. 00.
At the dance following the
concert, the Eddie Palma Quar­tet
and the Azures - a Rhythm
and Blues group from the Amy
label - will provide continuous
music. The Eddie Palma Quar­tet,
who will also appear in
concert with the Four Coins .
has just completed a" success~
ful" engagement at the Embers
nightclub in New York. For
those who present their con­cert
stubs at the dance the
price will be $.50. The dance
alone is priced at $1.50.
The package . deal, which is
available for J u~ors only, is
$5. 00. . According to Junior
Day e:!1airman, David Wright
'65, the package deal represents
1;1 $1.00 saving. Wright also
urges an to buy their tickets
early to insure a r eserved seat
at the Concert.
FROSH VOTE
Freshman elections, to e­lect
class officers will be Nov­em'Jer
22. Election Chairmen
J ohn Bradford '64 and Kevin ·
Ahearn '66 stated that the nom­ination
sheets can be otained
at the Dean of Men's office
in Xavier or at the Office o(
Admissions from November 13
until the 15.
The sheets, with a minimum
of twenty signatures mus t be re­turned
by Friday.
The chairmen emphasized
that the elections ar e for class
officers only. There is no se­parate
election for Freshman
Student council representatives
but the class officers automati­cally
assume the positions of
class representatives.
Page Two
CAMPUS
PERSONAUTY
By ED SCHUCK
As chairman of the Winter
Carnival, George McGinn is
going to gear the entertainment
towards the students rather than
the public.
George, a senior from cana­da,
lives in Westmount, Que­bec.
He graduated from Loyola
High School in Montreal and
while there, George was a mem­ber
of the Drama Society, a
Sodalist and a member of the
football team.
GEORGE McGINN '64
While at Loyola he was a
class officer. G eo r g e has .
brought this quality of lea<1er­ship
to Fairfield. During his
Sophomore year he was class
president, and since, he has
served as chairman on five
different committees.
In his junior year he was
Registration Chairman for the
Freshman Orientation Pro­gram,
Assistant · General
Chairman for the Dogwood Fes­tival
and Assistant G·e n e r al
Chairman for the Senior Par­ents
Weekend.
This year George was Gen­eral
Chairman of the Father ­Son
Weekend and he is pre­sently
General Chairman of the
Winter Carnival.
Other services are render­ed
to the school through his
participation in the Glee Club
and the cardinal Key Society.
Despite his many activities,
George maintains a B average.
He is majoring in Economics
and .after graduation he plans
to go to graduate school for his
Masters in Business Adminis­tration.
THE STAG
OPINIOJV POLL
The Question: Do you think
the Fairfield Rugby Club should
have University sponsorship?
KENNETH WATERS '65 - I
definitely think the Rugby Club
should have University spon­sorship,
bec:~,use club members
are now using their own funds
for travel and equipment. It
should be made a v arsity sport
when the club proves itself.
ALLAN SULLIVAN ' 65 - I
think the University should pro­vide
travel expenses and uni­forms.
I am not in favor of
making it a varsity sport ·how­ever,
because it is a club as
much as a sport, and a good
deal of the fun involves the
social life, and we like to choose
opponents ourselves.
GERALD CHISHOLM ' 66 -I
think the Univer sity should def­initely
give financial support
to the Rugby Club. However
it should not be made a varsity
sport until it becomes better
unified and organized. The
ideal plan would be to proceed
as Fordham did, ·giving the
Club financial support for three
years and then making it a var­sity
sport.
JOHN MALIN ' 66 - I think
the University should support
and sponsor more organized
sports. The Rugby Club is a
start. The more organized
and University - supported
sports, the greater the spirit
of the school. More sports
will also help make a name
for the school.
JAMES MITCHELL '67 -
Since Fairfield does not have
a football team, they should at
least sponsor a contact sport
which provides almost the same
outlet for energy and fun. Since
Rugby is relatively inexpensive,
the University should at least
provide transportation for the
intez:ested young men, also be-cause
of the growing inter­collegiate
popularity of the
sport.
ALEXANDER DRAFFAN '67
- I think all University sports
should have the sponsorship of
the University. If they win
they will bring honor to the
University. Al~o, if the club
had University sponsorship
ther e would be mor e publicity,
and therefore more spirit
among the student body and the
team itself.
George Thomas Heads
Eng. Teachers Board
George B. Thomas, professor
of Methodology in the Graduate
School of Education at Fairfield
University Preparatory School,
was elected President of the
Connecticut Chapter of the Na­tional
Council of the Teachers
of English at their convention
Friday, October 25 in west
H·aven. He has been vice-presi­dent
of the chapter for the past
two years. Mr. Thomas was
installed by past-president Dr •.
Leonard Joll, retired curricu­lum
consultant in English and
Reading for the Connect! cut
State Department of Education,
and now professor and director
of Elementary Education for the
University of Hartford.
Mr. Thomas, educated at
Fairfield Prep and Fairfield
University, received his mas­ters
degree in 1955. He has been
a Prep faculty member for 12
years and is also moderator of
·the school's dramatic society.,
He belongs to the Holy Name
Society of St. Stephen's Church,
Trumbull, and lives with his
wife and 5 children at 49 Bunker
Hlll Drive, Trumbull.
I Schwab Lecture Part of B.B.R.I
Mr. John L. Schwab, Presi­dent
of John L. Schwab Asso­ciates,
spoke on "MJdern Man­agement
Techniques and the
Small Manufacturer" last Wed­nesday.
Mr. Schwab f i r s t gained
prominence during his early
days with the Headquarters
Manufacturing Engineering Di­vision
of the Westinghouse
Electric Corporation, where he
was a co-originator of the now
famous .Methods-Time Meas­urement
systems which is rec­ognized,
accepted and publish­ed
th.-oughout the world as a
basic too 1 of the scienti­fic
management profession. He
is co-author of the textbook
METHODS-TIME MEASURE­MENT,
(McGraw-Hill, 1949).
The lecture is part of the
Administrative Management
Techniques course sponsored
by the Bureau of Business Re­search
of Fairfield University.
Psych. Majors Enter Grad. Study
The lectures of the Bureau
of Business Research are de­signed
to improve administra­tive
management techniques of
the small manufacturer (one
employing less than 500 peo­ple).
The program has been
planned for the person in a
decision making position who
may: a) have considerable ex­perience
in one or two phases
of business but who desires to
broaden his knowledge and
training in determining sound
overall policies or b) have re­sponsibilities
for all phases
of management but who ordi­narily
is not able to take time
to view their operation from a
purely management position, or
c) for others who wish to up­date
or to further their over­all
knowledge and training in
business management fields.
There lias been an increas­ing
number of students taking
'psychology on an undergradu­ate
level at Fairfield.
But the int'erest does not
stop there. For the student
seriously considering a career
in psychology, there follows
intensive graduate work.
In the graduating class of '63
thirteen psychology majors
were placed in gr aduate schools
throughout the country. One en­tered
the service, and three
did not apply for graduate work
but entered immediately into the
business world. Our lastyear's
psychology majors rece ived
nineteen acceptances in fifteen
different graduate schools.
Three members of last year's
class received tuition scholar­ships
and fees of $1800. each,
and one received a fellowship
of $1200. Thomas Nucifora,
of the class of '62, was accept­ed
at four topflight graduate
schools of psychology, a n d ·
finally took an Assistantship
($1500.) at Fordham University.
Following is a list of last
year's students and the gradu­ate
schools from which they
received acceptance.
Joseph Magyar -Xavier Uni­versity.
Robert Foy - American Uni­\'
ers ity; George Washington
University; Durham University,
England.
Patrick Toomey- Northeast­ern
University.
Dominick Torrillo - Purdue
University.
David Ulizio ·- University
of Bridgeport; Springfield Uni-.
versity; Northeastern Univer­sity.
Paul Schauble - University
of Buffalo.
William Keegan - Boston
University.
Thomas Mara - Connecticut
College for Women.
Daniel Smothergill - Florida
University.
Thomas Nucifora '62- Ford­ham
University; Miami Univer­sity;
University of lllinois; Uni­versity
of Michigan.
Activity Cards
Offer Discount
Effective Nov. 1, a 3 1/2%·
discount on all paperbacks
books is being given to holders
of student Council Activity
Cards, at the University Book
Store. This discount·eliminates
the State sales tax; .. according to
Fr. Duffy, manager ofthe Book-·
store.
· With this and other savings
from the Activity Cards, there
should be no reason for not
supporting the student govern­ment.
CCUN To Hear
John MacVane
Fairfield's chapter of the
Collegiate council for the Uni­ted
Nations (CCUN) will have
John Mac vane, chlef A. B. C • .
u .N. correspondent as a guest
lecturer in Gonzaga A uditori­nm
November 17 at 7:30 p.m.
The speech is co-sponsored
with the Bridgeport A ssocia­tion
for the UnitedNations.Mac
vane's talk w111 be followed by
a question and answer period.
Macvane, who was a radio
correspondent in Europe during
the second world War, is the
only u.S. newsman who was on
the scene at the raid of Dieppe ·
in 1942 and was the first jour.,.
naUst to land in France on
D-Day, June 6, 1944.
The lecturer became a re­porter
for the U.N. in 1945
and joined A.B.C. (American
Broadcasting Company) in~953.
November 13, .1963
The World Mission ]
At the Vatican Coucil n one
of the first and most impor­tant
subjects considered has
been the Missions· and their
essential relationship to·. the
Church. The first Chapter of
the Schema de Ecclesia treated
the Missions as an organic
member of the Church's nature.
Cardinal Rugambwa sum­marized
the feelings of many
Council Fathers by saying:
••The point should be stress­ed
that the missionary function .
of the Church is the same as
that of the Incarnate Word,
namely the evangelization of the
world."
Reference is made to mis­sionary
work, but the text is
silent regarding this evangeli­zation
which is the essential
function of the Church. The
task of the Church is the same
as that received by the Son
from the Father. The scheme:
seems to suppose that the
Church is already a completed
reality, whereas it is still in
the process of organization and
development. Consequently,
there is not enough emphasis
on the missionary aspect of
the ChurJ;:h not so much with
reference lo the missionary
apostolate in the ordinary sense
. of the word, but to the mission
of the Universal Church.
The Church today is present
everywhere in the world and is
:;, missionary Church even when
the faithful are in the majority.
Hence the Church must re­gard
herself as missionary al­~
ays and everywhere; ·
The idea many of the Coun­cil
Fathers wish to convey is ·
that the Church is in a state
of mission and that every mem­ber
of the Church has a re­.
sponsibiUty to spread the word
of God by person or support.
Since only one-third of the world
is Christian, the Fathers feel
this proves the vast amount Qf
work that must be done in the
missionary field.
JESUITS INFLUENCED
If these proposals are accept­ed
by the council, the Society
·of Jesus will probably feel its
influence most.
While identified mostly with
education~ the Society of Jesus
is actually the largest Mission­ary
Order in the world. From
the beginning of the Order,
the Jesuits have been extremely
interested in the Missions and
have received numerous calls
from various Pontiffs to un­dertake
work in all parts of the
world. More than 1300 Ameri­can
Jesuits are engaged in Mis­sionary
work. Breaking this
down, it means that every 7th
Jesuit from the United States
is on the Missions. If one con­siders
the total number of Je­suit
missionaries in all coun­tries
of the world, every sixth
Jesuit is on the Missions. 1
The Society of Jesus has
eleven Provinces in the United
States. In addition to their own
Universities, Colleges, High
Schools, Retreat House~ . and
. Parishes, each Province has
been assigned a Mission. In
the cases of some larger Pro­vinces
more than one mission
area ·has been ·designated. The
New England Province has the
Island of Jamaica in the West
lndies and does educational
work in Baghdad Iraq. There
are also a number of New Eng­land
Jesuits still in the Ph111p-.
pines, in the Caroline and Mar-.
·shall Islands and in Sofia Uni­versity,
Japan.
Financially, the Missions
must find support from their
home Provinces. This means
free will offerings collected in
churches, schools and other·
smaller contributions that come
·from generous souls. Fre-quently,
the relatives of Mis­s
ionaries have to run card
parties and advertize the need
of the Missions. ••Jesuit Mis­sions"
the mission magazine,
is another source for donations.
In recent years, the mis­sionary
technique has been to
educate as far as possible with­in
the mission area. This in­volves
more money for the
construction of buildings and
proper staffing for the schools.
However, it is the only sure
way of deeply spreading the
Faith. Leaders must be raised
up in these various lands that
are now called 'mission areas',
so that the natives will event­ually
have their own priests
and hierarchy. Responsible lay ·
leaders must likewise be train­ed
to carry on the Church's
work and make it an institution
of that country rather than a
transplanted super-imposed A­merican,
German or French
Catholic Church, The long range
plan of every true missionary
is to make it possible for the
people of the country to even­tually
take over completely and
leave future missionaries free
to go elsewhere.
LAY MISSIONS
One great boost to the Mis­sions
during the past few years
has been the generous Lay Mis­sionary
programs inaugurated
in different parts of the United ·
States. College graduates spend
one or two years teaching i'n
the schools, helping out with .
Christian Doctrine and in some
cases, serving as Nurses in·
Hospitals. This can prove a
real sacrifice to these lay men'
and women who give a year
or two of their lives when con­fronted
with problems such as
·Graduate School and m111tary
service.
The New England Province.
has set up a program for tain­ing
prospective candidates for •
this Lay Missionary Program.
The same basic program is in'
effect at Boston College, Holy
Cross and Fairfield University.
A two hour seminar is given
once a week during the second
semester. After Graduation in
June a ten day concentrated·
course will be given for all
the chosen candidates from the
three colleges.
THE. SAFE WAY to stay alert
·without harmful stimulants
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alert with the same safe re­fresher
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working or studying, do as
millions do ... perk up witl::
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Another fine product of Grove Ubor1tories. ·
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November 13, .1 963
Council Selects
Forum Members
The Student Council convened
on October 2tl, to select six
members for this years Aca­demic
Forum. From the sixteen
candidates, one was chosen
. from each of the Sophomore
· Junior, and Senior classes, and
three members were chosen
at-large.
Seniors Dale McNulty and
Richard Law 1 e s s were re­appointed.
S en i or s Michael
Curley and Robert Anderson,
Junior Thomas Scopp, and Soph­omore
James Cah111 filled the
remaining positions.
The purpose of the Forum is
to give students and faculty the
opportunity do discuss in­formally
various aspects of the
academic llfe. The students on
the Forum were selected on
the basis of a thorough know­ledge
of the overall academic
picture and an awareness of
general student feeling in par­ticular
areas.
THE STAC '
Wes.tport Playhouse Offers
Discount Rate To FU Students
The Westport Country Play­house,
now in its first Fall
season of production, has an­nounced
a special dis co u n t
ticket offer for Fairfield Uni­versity
students and staff
members. The discount tickets,
which are avilable in the Loyola
Dean of Men's Office, are pric­ed
at $1.50. Upon presentation
of the coupon at the box office or
by mail, the bearer is entitled
to this reduced student 'rate for
the f o 11 owing performances:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
evenings at 8:30 p.m.; Saturday
at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 7:30
p.m. The coupon offers the best
available seat in the theater for
each particular performance.
In the three remaining weeks
of the Fall season, the Play­house
is p r e s en t1 n~r "The
jStrangers" , starring Cornelia
·otis Skinner and Jane Wyatt
!and "Threeperiny'Opera" star-·
ring · members of the original
cast.
"The Strangers", ' with its
star-studded cast directed by
carmen Capalbo, will continue
,until Sunday, November 17.
"The · longe~h run musical in
t h e at r i c a 1 history", K u r t
W_eill's ''Threepenny Opera'',
wtll close the Playhouse Fall
season with a two week run -
Tuesday, November 19 thru
Sunday, December 1. Scott Mer­rill
as MacHeath and Nancy
Andrews (co-star with · Sid
'caesar in "Little Me'' ) will be
among the per for rners of this all
star casta
The Westport Cou.ntry Play­house
is located on the Post
Road in Westport and is easily
accessible :1y car, train or bus.
For tick e :: information call
227-4177.
University's Honor Societies
Reward Scholarship, Action
The F air f i e 1 d chapter of
Alpha Epsilon Delta, interna­tional
pre-medical honor so­ciety,
Is planning a dance a'nd
will also sponsor talks by the
dean of two medical schools.
The funds from the dance will
be used to send delegates to
the convention at Lehigh Uni­versity.
Alpha Sigma Nu the Jesuit
honor society and the Fairfield
. University Honor Society, pri­marily
schol as t 1 c organiza­tions,
have announced no plans
as yet.
Alpha De lt a Epsilon• s pur­pose
is to encourage excellence
In premedical scholarship, to
stimulate appreciation of the
importance of pre- medical edu­cation
and to promote co-op­eration
a n d contact between
medical and pre-medical stu-
. dents and educators.
students in medical and dental
schools.
Alpha Sigma Nu, the national
Jesuit honor society has as its
purpose to recognize scholastic
excellence by nominating a se­lect
few from the University
for membership each year. Fr.
Scully, S.J., Faculty advisor,
referred to the society as the
Jesuit equivalent o! Phi Beta
Kappa.
The Faix:field U n i v e r s 1t y
Honor Society was formed as
an inducement in extra curricu­lar
activities; and to give recog­nition
to students outstanding in
these areas. Seniors who have
obtained an 85 average and 20
activity points may apply.
council KO's
Continued from Page 1, Col. 3
Page Three
Vatican Council Discusses
Introspection Of Laymen
By WILLIAM J. BURNS
Renewal seems to: be the
password for the twentieth cent­ury
Church of Christ. With the
advent of the Ecumenical coun­.
cil, the modern catholic has
turned more and more inward
to examine himself and the
'nature of his Church. Suddenly
an awareness of his own out­dated
attitude has exploded into
areas of liturgy, scripture and
even dogma. Truly, this must
appear a critical revolt to the
casual observer, but to the
more concerned its prompts the
question: Why?
The situation within the
Church during the past hundred
years certainly has not been one
of chaotic dissatisfaction. Most
catholics were not unhappy and
distressed about an unintelligi­ble
Mass or the absolute hier-archy_
of authority which allowed
them little vqice. The seeds of
self-examination then are hard­ly
·evident in the pre - conciliar
Church .
The impetus for the present
so'ul-searching, however, has
come from the realization after ·
400 years of the shamefl.Jl di­vision
of Christianity. Reunion
viewed hie et nunc, is not seen
as an impossible goal. In fact
it is part of the Church's mis­sion.
Therefore she is respon­sible
in charity to do every­thing
possible to achieve it. The
most obvious way to smooth the
road to reunion is a re-exam ­ination
of the nature of the
Church to distinguish the es­sentials
which cannot be com­promised
from the accidental
attributes which, through non­essential,
have burdened the
conscience of the sincere Prot­estant.
In the next few weeks
then, an attempt to review sev­eral
of the progressive move­ments
within the council shall
be made, keeping in mind pri­marily
our goal of reunion
through renewal.
First, however, it might be
pertinent to discuss the very
nature of the Ecumenical coun­cil.
There is little clearly de­fined
and authoritative principle
concerning the exact place of a
council within the Church. A
more cogent explanation, how­ever,
stems from a considera­tion
of the nature ofthe Church,
at least, in the most modern
view. ·
More and . more, the term,
"people of God" is applied to
that Body loosely defined as
Church. ' ·People of God' con­tains
an aspect that Is comehow
lacking in such a term as
"Mystical Body."
Now the emphasis has turned
from the attitude that holiness
and truth are passed down ex­clusively
from the pinnacle of
a graduated hierarchy in such a
way that each time it is trans­mitted
some of its power is lost
until the low man on the totem
In the past 1t has helped In
.. ~ommunity affairs, as T .B.
·drives, Cancer fund, etc., how­ever
it is a scholastic organi­zation
first, and a service or­ganization
second. .
by Junior Class president, Mat
DeLuca, that the Council lend
'its moral support to last week's
Bladder Ball contest with Ford-
------REV. ROBERT E. VARNERIN, S.J. ------ Continued on Page 'i, Column 1
A ccordlng to Dr. Ross, facul- .
ty advisor, having a chapter
·of Alpha Epsilon Delta on cam­pus
gives the University na­tional
recognition, and Is a
valuable aid In placement of
CHEM. DEPT.
Continued froru Page 1, Col. 3
entering graduate school in Sep­tember.
James O'Connor will act as
'a part-time research assistant
to Dr. Barone on his cancer
research program funded by the
National Cancer Institute of the
U.S. Public Health Service with
a budget of $6,774 for its fourth
year of operation. A stipend will
be paid for the research and
Jim will be full-time research­er
during the summer after
which he plans on enterinl!:
graduate school. Phil Geohe­gan
will be involved in the same
research program as O'Connor,
hut his personal financ:lal sup­port
will come from a $1,000
special grant to the Univer­sity
by the connectic ut Wom­en's
Auxiliary of thE> Veterans
of Foreign Wars, given to aug­ment
the National Cancer Insti­tute
funds.
In the past, Dr. Barom~ did
most of the experimental work
in the cancer Institute projed
and any assistants (as opposed
to theN. S. F . partic:ipants) had
to stay in the same partieular
area. Although he had hopE>d
that the studPnls would take a
scholarly interest In that area
of the work, they often seemed
satisfied to act as J.echni<:al
assistants rather than junior
colleagues. As a result those
participating In the National
Science Foundation Program,
w h e r e lnd e p e n d e n I' e w a s
stressed, heeame more sdenti­fkally
rnaturf'. Because of this
fad and the fad that with Dr.
ham. Despite the request for
. moral support only, the Council
failed to accept the motion by
acclamation. In a statement fol­lowing
the meeting, DeLuca
said, "I was amazed that there
was any opposition to vote
against such a motion.''
The representatives also ac­cepted
a motion by Paquette
.that the Council have a College
Bowl Week, with special time
devoted to team members and
-their coach. At a basketball
rally Monday, several campus
organizations presented the
team and coach with silver
bowls commemorating their
service to the University.
Barone· s appointment as Direc­tor
of Research and Graduate
Science for the University, he
shall be spending less time In
the laboratory during the aca­demic
year, it is expected that
the m ode of operation f o r
O'Connor and Geohegan will be
much the same as that of the
N. S. F. participants and that
the sc~holar ly development will
occur equally in both programs.
Ever s 1 n c e the first chem­istry
majors at Fairfield be­came
seniors (1953), the De­partment
has f'ncouraged re­search
on the part of under­graduates.
U n t i 1 a 19[;9 Re­searc
~ h Corporation · •s eed
money' ' grant to Dr. Barone
no flnanc:ia1 support was avail~
able. The University provided
the supplies and the students
performed their research
studies without rE>muneration
ThP idea was that this wnsti~
tuted a type of honors program
hefon• any geueral lluiversity
program was available. It was
this Idea that lE>d the Natloual
Scienc:e Foundation to advan<:P
fund the program for a thrPe­year
period in 1 !JGO, and this
Continued on J>agt> !l, Column 3
Rev. Robert E. Varnerin, S.
. J., prefecting on the fourth cor­ridor
of campion Hall, has an
engaging personality capable of
making one feel perfectly at
home and relaxed.
Boston, Massachusetts Is his
home. A graduate of Boston
English High, he joined the So­ciety
In 1943 and was ordained
in 1957. In 1954 he received a
Ph.D. in chemistry from the
Catholic University of America.
Tertlanship was fulfilled in
France previous to coming here
in 1959.
As a member of our Chemis­try
Department, Fr. Varnerin
has done research initiated by a
United States Air Force con­tract
and a National Science
Foundation grant. He is the
director of our C he m is t r y
Equipment Program which is
also under a N.S.F. grant. Be­sides
teaching chemistry to the
juniors, Father gives a course
to high school teachers at the
N.S.F. Inservice Institute.
Participating in an act i v e
clergy dialogue group in this
area, he partakes along w i t h
other clergymen both catholic:
and Protestant, in discussions
of various religious problems.
Father varnerin is the Chair­man
of the Graduate Scholar­ship
Committee at the Univer­sity.
He said that the commit­tee's
main purpose is to aid
students in getting fellowships
and assistantships. They try to
arouse an interest in graduate
study. Juniors are "lined up
and thinking·· so that by senior
year they are oriented to grad­uate
work. In this year's senior
class, there is already one con­fir
rned assistantship.
The committee consists of
eight members. Started about
seven years ago, it is '·a body
of expet·ience and knowledge"
assisting students in any way
possible to attain graduate re<~­ognitlon.
REFERENCE
POINT
As the first to recognize
that young men wanted
more than mere size differ­ences
from fat.h e t·'s and
small boys' elothing ...
Rogers Peet has long set
the standard for the .voung
man's ex press ion of incli­viduality
and good taste.
You get what you want and
need at Roge rs Peet .. . with
full ass)trance that ~·o u have
paid reasonable prices for
honest qualit.v. It makes a
difference . . .
Oil/' t•.rt·lusirt• unl.urn/.,fll,llitlt·r
sui ts, fn1111 $1i0. Willi,.,.,,,,
fro 111 $711.
Ec·.unenkal Council
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Page Fou r THE STAG November 13, 1963
Editorial Commenltiry LETTERS . TO
But We Have Promises To Keep
THE EDITOR .
A Poem For Peter?
1963, from February to June, was
a period when students and faculty
worked, sometimes together, some­times
in separate camps, in an effort
to comprise ground rules for a game,
popular in college parlors, called
"How To Solve Student Personnel
Problems.''
STAG editorials on Committment
and Compulsory Mass served to crys­tallize
and reflect upon the various
proposals as they arose. The new year
for the students at Fairfield has seen
the rise of co-operation on campus.
We have carefully noted the areas in
w.hich student-faculty ·personnel is
harmonizing.
However, an area which has had
little of the light of active participa­tion
shone upon it is that of atten­dance
at Mass by the upperclassD?en.
Student · interest in disposing of
compulsory Mass attendance ran at
fever pitch in Spring, 1963. From all
corners of the campus came students
who agreed, almost una voce, that if
the administration did away with the
requirement, then they would go to
Mass more often.
The pledges were insincere. Stu­dent
inactivity in two months of this
semester has proven the embarras­sing
fact that the vast majority did
not mean what they said, and actual­ly
refused to face the real issue. What
tenor of harmony is this? In a 'world
which is daily becoming more ·aware
of Catholics as the People of God,
and in a world in which the Pope is
fast becoming a model for interna­tional
diplomacy are we, Catholic
University attendees, not a potential
microcosm of the whole of Church
life?
The student who last year asked
for freedom was not honest with
himself or with his constituents. The
request was not for the freedom to
attend Mass, but rather it was for
the freedom NOT to attend Mass.
Involved in the spirit of co~opera­tion
i~ the freedom to accept respon­sibi
l itie~ of a mature nature, not to
reject them. The extreme of the free­dom
the students requested is the
freedom to do as he pleases, and that
is no kind of freedom for today's
world. The students should seek,
now that they are free to seek, to
enhance the meaning of the Mass in
their lives and the life of the campus.
We believe in independent inquiry
into the nature of our responsibility
and in the free acceptance or rejection
of the committment we are asked to
make. We do not believe in freedom
from the natural law.
In order to be totally dedicated,
the Catholic students must assent to
the committment freely, BUT we
should make up our minds about our
participation in the life of the Church
one way or the other.
We are either going to face the
issue with sincerity of feeling and
truthfulness of thought or we are
not. We should at least decide to
decide.
With so few at Mass it would be
unfortunate to learn that so many
Catholic students have already de­cided.
To The Editor:
I s aw a s hrunken starving scepter
Standing ·bent w~th the weight of years
Attempting to hold aloft a net
With knarled and rheumatic hands.
The rock on Which the Church of God
Was built is strong and hard and lasts
Through eons of suffering and scourge.
It never falters, it never cracks, it stands
Steadfast and strong against the storms
Which nightly beat upon its breast.
The Church of God is mighty massive,
Muscular structure of men, built upon
a rock.
It is youthful, vibrant, alive and vital
There is no disease in its perfect body
There is no flaw in its foundation.
It is built upon a rock.
" Thou art Peter, and upon this rock
I will build my Church"
I saw a shrunken starving scepter
standing bent with the weight of years
Attempting to hold aloft a net
With knarled and · rheumatic hands.
Peter?
FRANK J . CUNNINGHAM ' 66
Variation On A Racial Theme Health Week Thanks
During this past summer many of
us became aware of the encumbrances
under which the Southern Negro
must live. These conditions were
brought to light by the protest dem­onstrations
which occurred in many
areas of the South. In following the
reports of these demonstrations and
the ensuing arrests we were struck
by the irrationality of the attitude
of many Southern whites toward the
Negro. We asked ourselves how in
this advanced age can one group of
human beings treat other human
beings in such a way?
This question we feel should lead
us to a consideration of the racial
situation in the North and our rela­tionship
to it as Christian students.
Have we considered the rationality
of the enforcement of racial segre­gation
in housing and job placement
as it exists in the North?
The President in his speech to the
nation on civil rights called the ra­cial
struggle a moral issue. John
XXIII in Pacem in Terris has said,
" racial discrimination can in no
way be justified." The evidence for
The Great Chain Of Letters
The following editori al is from the
Boston College "Heights" . we re-print it
here and now .due to the r ecent popularity
"the chain letter s cheme" has gained at
Fairfield.
POSTAL FRAUD
Since September, a number of chain
letters involving United states Savings
Bonds have been circulating on this cam­pus.
Working on the familiar principle of
all such schemes, these letters promise
hundreds of dollars in return for the
purchase of three twenty- five dollar bonds.
Early this week, the editor of the B.U.
News called the Heights to tell us that
several chain letters had reached the B.U.
campus and that the names on these
papers were those of B.C. students. Ob­viously,
the matter has gotten out of hand.
We feel that the B.C~ people involved
in this matter should be made aware of
R.I.P.
Please remember the following in your
prayers:
The Uncle of WUliam Dubois •67
The Uncle of Edward ' 66 and WUliam '65
Schuck
Grandmother of Timothy Rabbitt •67 .
Aunt of Kevin Davidson •66
Gr andfather of Robert Re ynes •65
the fact that all chain letter schemes,
.including those involving savings bonds,
which use the mails to facilit ate their
purpose, are considered by the Post Of­fice
Department as violators of the Postal
lottery and fraud laws. Investigations are
made of these matter s, and if post al of­fi
cials think that there is a violation of
the fraud and lott~ry statutes, the matter
is referred to the Department of Justice
for possible prosecution.
Moreover, the Treasury Department has
instructed all issuing agents to reject ap­plicati0<
1S for purchases of savings bo;1ds
when the applicant states, or when the
agent has reason to believe, that the ap ­plication
is made in conn ectio:~ with a
chain letter scheme.
Anyone receiving one of these letters
should realize that their involve ment could
result in serious t rouble.
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Issue of November 27, 1963
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raCial equality should be apparent
to all. ·
We feel that as students we should
examine our attitudes and actions in
the field of racial justice in view of
both our Christian faith and our in­tellectual
development. Can we as
mem hers of a Church whose Founder
· taught the eauality of all men and
who!'e last pope re-emphasized this
te::~ching and as intellectually develop­Pd
men practice racial prejudice in
any form? If we do. we do violence
to our Christian faiUJ and our in ~
tellect.
To The Editor:
I would like to thank everyone who
contributed their time and efforts to the
Health Week. A large amount of liter­ature
was distributed, and everyone agreed
that the movies were excellent.
In particular 1 I would like to extend my
appreciation to the administration for
making the facilities readily available; to
the faculty for their cooperation; and to the
members of the Cardinal Key Society and
Mendel Club for giving up their time.
It is hoped that the '!Tine»> test, can­celled
because of a conflict in schedule,
will be given in the spring. This will
be subject to the desire of the students.
Once again, my thanks to everyone who
helped and participated.
Sincerely,
ARTHUR PALAMARA,
Co-chairman
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familiar fables
Dav1d s.. Aurandt
The point of last issue's "nameless ant" story was quite
clearl¥ confor~ity, Despite the fact th3:t the word and the
discussion of its meaning is worn to exhaustion, I think it
is important because of the unrealized implications it may
have for every future man and his future society. I do not
mean to beat the dead horse of conformity-individual­beatnik.
The problem of man as an individual is not the
black and white of whether to accept complete absorption
into the group (the squares) or to reject entirely any identi­fication
with the crowd (the beatniks). Those who reject their
society would call themselves "in" people1 but the group
they flee from also claim "in-ness" • .And tnose who abhor 1
-conformity band together in well organized mobs - all
alike. We could go on and on in circles of mutual contra­'
diction, but it would serve no purpose other than to point
. ~p man's effort and need to belong and yet be himself. I
suppose this has been going on since the very first family
huddled together in the cave.
Today, however, there are many unique factors that meri
must deal with, and this is where we find that "c~nfo_rmity"
~anllQ.t ~- put off as a chiche that most of us find unpleasant
or boring. Now, when I speak of these "unique factors•• I
know that many have already .occurred,running throughout
history; but' the fact is that they were not then as they are
·today. Years of development in man and his society have
perhaps carried many old ideas and customs with them, but
,they are not the same in our age. The spirit of our age is
truly unique, and whatever it has of the old is not the same
because of the age's uniqueness. Scientific and technological
. advances is the most obvious factor, but there is alsc
'today a greater social concern from desired ••status" to
the development of a new science: sociology. This new
!science as well as unequalled progress in psychology and
1biology point to the great· concern men have now for
'themselves - greater than at any other time in history.
1Institutions of learning lean closer and closer every day to
.the mere technical schools where a young man receives
:necessary means to higher wages but never scratches the
:surface of the nature of his own existence1 that of aU around .
him and the relationship between the two. Tne arts have never
;been so fashionable or so widely patronized and supported
, among the middle classes. Morals have never been so identi­fied
with what is customary and accepted. There are many
more factors involved and many more elements characteris­tic
of our age; but these are sUfficient to the moment.
Now, perhaps, can 'be seen the difficulty of a man in his
unconscious desire to belong and the antithetic need to be
. himself. The problem is not black and white: does he reject·
or yield. It is how does he fit himself as a part into the whole
and still remain an individual part. And the disaster that
befell our little ant of last issue was that he sacrificed him­.
self unknowingly to superficial invol vemerit. This is the worst
kind of conformity because it kills the whole individual. Al­_.
though this was only one element, as I say, the science
!fiction writers and the preachers of doom may not be far
,wrong. They all seem to predict a future for man that will'
.ally him more closely to the ant and to the anthill. Because
of the particular factors in our age, they say, it is possible
for us to melt into a machine-like efficient ana perfect mass
identity. They warn against the elements of our present day
that would tend to develop in us instincts, tropisms when we
!!hould be ••intellecting" and ••rationating".
It seems more possible now that men may evolve to the ·
,perfect instinctive and machine-like efficiency of the ant,
and conformity is a tendency that is helping the possibility
to reach actuality. True, it is only one factor; but it is
'important and not to be considered in the worn and tired
.sen,se of the beatnik. It is a matter of the near-unconscious ·
'self-identity with the completely superficial.
Because of the spirit of our age man seems to be more
than ever in danger of total involvement with the purely
superficial. He grows away from self-identity and cannot
hope for the proper relationship with the things outside of
himself, because he has swung the balance too far to one
side. · ·
Granted that we are social beings and that we have social
obligations; granted too that we are individuals and have
. similar self obligations, what cannot be forgotten is a
proper balance of the· two. A concrete example of this un­balance
is the contemporary concern for " s tatus". There
are many others; but this is enough to demonstrate the
possibility that man may evolve to ants helped along by
conscious or unconscious yield to complete self- involve­.
ment with the superficial. Doctor Erich Ftomm thinks the
answer is love. our age has many ideas on the subject, but.
U certainly needs a re-evaluation of its concept of this type
·of conformity and involvement. Love seems to be God's
·answer too. I think they may have something.
Manor Finishes Taking Single & Club Photos
Business Manager, B. J.
Clairmont, announced that all
individual senior and faculty
photographs and the group act­ivity
photographs were com­pleted
last week by the Van­tine
Studios of Boston, Mass.
Group photographs were taken
at Berchmans and Bellarmine
Halls, the pond, and the play­house
to add variety to the year­book.
The Manor is offering an ex­panded
underclassmen section,
candid shots, and a history of
each class.
· Clairmont also stated that the
advertising subscriptions drive
and yearbook orders have ended
for seniors but will be con­tinued
to the end of the month
for underclassmen. Any Sen­ior
who wishes a yearbook1 but
has not ordered- one• shOuld
contact-Jaff cnatrmoot-lD cam-pion
308. A five dollar deposit
for the yearbook is requested.
The .balance will be paid in
February.
Clairmont also reported that
the general layout has been
completed and the opening sec­tion
and division pages have
been decided upon. The layout
of the Senior section has been
determined.
The advertising campaign is
being managed by Gerry Mag­ner
•64 who is in charge of
local advertisements and Frank
Souman •64, who deals with
out-of-town firms doing busi­ness
with the University. Don
Pijar '64, ·Bill Kearns '66 ana
Pat Hurley •64 are assisting
the advertising managers.
Fr. Egan, s. J ., has taken
the position of moderator for
th Manor Uils year.
--- ------
THE STAG.
At the November 6th meeting
of the Knights of Columbus
Fraternal Activities Chairman,
Lou Krodel, presented thl
Knight of the Month A ward for
September to Rich Meehan.
RICHARD F. MEEHAN '65
Meehan, who is beginning his
second year with Ignatian Coun­cil,
. is the present Recording
Secretary of the Council. Dur­ing
Freshman Orientation Week
he chairmaned the Knights of
Columbus booth for the Activi­ties
Day display. Through this
booth a large number of Fresh­men
will enter our council in
December. Rich is also active
on the Public Relations and
Membership-Insurance com­mittees.
* * * 'f.he Ignatian Bulletin is now
in the process of being re­vamped.
Striving for a more
polished form, the next issue
will be professiqnally printed,
and will be distributed to the
three hundred alumni Knights
of our council. Herb DiMeola
'64 has been named the new
editor with Andy Wasniewski
'65 as co-editor. Layout Editor
is Jim Malley '65., and art work
will be handled by' ·Bob Maz­zochi
'65. Anyone interested in
working on the IgnatianBulletin
should contact one of the new
editors.
* * * A Fraternal Party will be
held on Saturday November 9
at the South Pine creek Fire
Station in Fairfield. Details will
be announced on the bulletin
boards.
* * * A raffle will be held before
Christmas to raise funds for a
Christmas party for underpriv­leged
children int he Bridgeport
area. Andy Wasniewski ' 65 will
chairman the raffle, which will
have a table model radio for
first prize and a turkey for
second prize.
* * * Interviews of candidates fo'r
the December degrees will be
held during the week ofNovem­ber
18th. Allperspectivecandi­dates
must submit applications
before November 15th. Anyone
interested in becoming a Knight,
who has not been contacted,
should see Tom Connors '64 in
Loyola 121.
* * * The next meeting of Ignatian
Council will be a regular busi­ness
on November 2oth at 7 p.m.
in Canisius 201.
* * *
I· The Draft And You! I
President Kennedy's execu­tive
order exempting married
men from the draft is an es­pecially
heartening one. Pre­viously,
only young fathers had
been exempt, and with this new
order similar hardships have
been acknowledged for those
who are not fathers yet, but
merely husbands.
THE SPECTRUM,·(StateUni•
versity of New York, Buffalo)
also would recommend that this
liberalization be extended to
other persons-namely, those
men who gtve two. years of
serVice fo the eountry In the
Peace Corps.
~NTERNATIONA~
. DATELINE
"As the world shrinks and
nations jostle one another, far
neighbors become important.
Correct and rapid information
about them is at a premium."
VIETNAM: THE COUP
It only took one turbid day to
release . the enmity that had
:>een building up to a terrifying
::limax in South Vietnam for
the last six months. When it
was all over, the President,
N go Dinh Diem, and his brother,
Ngo Dinh Nhu, lay dead, re­portedly
murdered by his own
rebelling troops. Leadingthose
troops and now the new head
of state in this strife-torn coun­try
is Lieut. General Duong ·
Van Minh, 47, a big, burly,
French-trained veteran.
Amassing troops just out­side
of Saigon, Minh sent the
first wave of marines near the
airfield at 1 p.m., . Thursday,
thereby letting rebel pilots take .
-off on strafing missions. Meet­ing
with only scattered rests-
. tance, the rebels took over
police and navy headquarters.
The fiercest fighting centered
around the palace, where
Diem's diehards carried on a
tank battle. Diem fled with his
brother to a Catholic Church
in Cholon, a suburb south of
Saigon. Shortly afterwards,
however, the pair were found
by rebel . soldiers and were
shot en route to Mlnh's head­quarters.
THE REACTION
Probably most shocked and
stunned by the revolution is
Mmme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, Sister­in-
law of the deposed Diem.
She would have concluded her
21-day tour of the U. s. the
week of the coup. .Asked if
she would seek asylum in the
U. s. Mme. Nhu cried out,
trembling with anger, ••Never!
I cannot stay in a country whose
government stabbed me in the
back."
Meanwhile, washington offi­cially
denied any assistance
was given to the coup by the
U. s. In most diplomatic cir­cles,
however, the opposite · is
~!!'reed since it would be fool­hardy
for the u. s. not to take
part when so many m_illions of
*
American dollars were tied up
in Vietnam. This seems to be
true for U. s. diplomatic rec­ognilton
of the new government
see.ms imminent. In direct
opposition to this would be our
government's policy of not rec­ognizing
governments attained
by violent revolutions in the
Carribean and· South America.
A good guess is that there was
some sort of pre-arranged a-greement.
.
. WEST GERMANY
Another new head of govern­ment
also appeared recently,
but this takeover was entirely
bloodless. Ludwig Erhard, a
. r,otund finance wizard, has in­flerited
the Chancellorship from
'conrad Adenauer who has held
this position since the set-up
of West Germany after the war.
Immediately, the new chancel­lor's
problems shifted from fin­ancial
to international ones.
First and foremost is the prob­lem
of America's changingpol­icy
in regard to the number of
its divisions in Germany. De­fense
Secretary McNamara· ha~
announced his intention of re- .
ducing the number of troops
in Germany, but, at the same
timel increasing our fire-pow­er
w th more advanced weapons
and fast transporting of troops
to Germany in ·case of emergen­cy.
To demonstrate the work­ability
of this policy, the Pen­tagon
staged the widely heralded
••Operation Big Lift," which
hauled the entire 2nd Armored
Division from Texas to West
Germany in less than 2 days.
The thinking behind this strat­egy
is that it's just too expen­sive
to have six combat-ready
divisions hi Europe. Every
division costs some $75 million
a year.
u. S.ArmystrengthinEurope
reached a peak in late 1961
with 270,000, since then it has
been cut by 22,300 and troops
are now returning at the rate
of 1.000 a month. All this
finaglmg wlth defenses gives
- tne sensitive -We-st. Germans tn.,
shakes. They share' the longest
border in Europe with the Com­munist
bloc and any shift · in
East-West relations is intensi­fied
in the Bonn government.
*
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MARLBORO* PARLIAMENT* ALPINE
PHILIP MORRIS* PAXTON *
'November 13, 1963
Policy Statement Issued By Student Council And Cardinal Key Society
Government is ultimately de­pendent
on each student. Yet,
on the other hand, the govern­mental
position is most auth-·
oritative and responsible for
each of its members in so far
as they have the ability to dil'-
ect officially the activity of ·
the entire Student Association.
The CKS is likewise com-,
posed of students, but its mem­bership
is determined within·
the structure of the organiza­tion
itself. In t h is way the
Key is responsible to the s i uu'tmL·
body for its activity, yet the '
. students are not directly re­sponsible
for Key policy. The
responsibility of the Key mem­bership
rests in its purpose,
namely, "to foster loyalt~ and
In recent months a conver­sation
piece for student bull
sessions has been the not so
defined relationship of the stu­dent
Government to the Cardi­nal
Key Society. Sporatic but
valuable hours of discussion
have resulted in concern and
interest in this vital area of
the student community. The
intention of this article is,
through comparative analysis,
to attempt a clarification on
this matter.
- -_Father Rooney Eyes Potential In Government -
Both the Student Government
and the Cardinal Key Society
justify their existence only in
view of the needs and desires
of the entire student body. Each
has its nature, the purpose of
serving the student in order to
foster his development in ac­cord
with the goals of a cath­olic
college. Yet, both groups
are distinct in their purposes
and areas of concentrated ef­fort.
Each is designed to com­plement
and aid the other in
the management of students af­fairs.
Student Government consists
of students voted into a posi­tion
of superior authority for
the purpose of initiating, leg­islating,
co-ordinating and often
times adjudicating student af­fairs.
The student body is re­sponsible
for the activity of
these representatives, and be­cause
of this, has the right to
remove any one of them from
office. In this light Student
An alumnus at a certain Jesuit
college was talking at an under­graduate
banquet. In recalling a
certain event of his own college
days there he said! ~'As I ~e-:­member
· it, the Jesuits were_in
power that year." The reason
for the responding laughter is
obvious.
No Jesuit institution is a
democracy. It is a community of
scholars and students with the
ultimate and total authority re­siding
in the Rector or Presi­dent.
But this does not mean that
this Rector is an autocrat. Being
a wise man he delegates great
gobs of his authority to admin­istrative
officers such as deans,
treasurers, heads of depart­ments.
Nor does he stop there.
He extends this delegation fur­ther
to the student body, through
the medium of a student coun­cil
or Student Governm~nt, in
those areas which fall Wltnm
. student competence.
For my own part I believe
that as wide powers as the
traffic will bear should be thus
delegated to the students in this
way. They are here to be edu­cated.
How can they ever learn
initiative, responsibility, ·how
to deal with their fellow men,
and the ups and downs and ins
and outs of politics (good and
bad), save by the exercise of a
certain amount of good self­government,
and democratic
procedures. This is as much a
part of the educative process as
the academic courses of the
curriculum.
The new Student Government
constitution, with its triple
division into legislative, judi:.
cia! and executive branches can
provide ample opportunities for .
growth in the ways just de­scnoea.
It 1s not intended to
put the · Administration out of
business nor the faculty in,
jeopardy of their lives or limbs .
It has · as its purpose to supply
·an excellent educative force Uiat
will give the student body a
chance to become continually
more adult through the intelli­gent
and responsible use of the
authority it will grant to them
within the field of their rights,
duties, competence and activi­ties.
In its own way the new Con~
stitution should do for Fairfield
what the College Bowl triumphs;
did in theirs. It should result inJ
a better Fairfield, one whose.
students will be mentally alert,
emotionally mature and self­sacrificingly
energetic in the
face of the self-government it
will grant them.
The Church is calling for an
active, intelligent, committed
laity. This is one way· that we
can prepare Fairfield men 'to
answer that call.
Rev. Richard L. Rooney, S.J.
THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
SALUTE: PETE WILDE
Almost 90,000 telephone customers in and around Haver­hill,
Massachusetts, rely on. the supervisory ability of a
man few of them will ever meet. He is Pete Wilde (B.A.,
1960), Assistant District Traffi c Superintendent for New
England Telephone in Haverhill.
It is not unusual for a man of Pete's ability to rise to
such a promotion as swiftly as he did. Pete had made an
impressive start on an earlier assignment in Fitchburg
where he was responsible for the service rendered by nearly
150 telephone operators. The capable job he did in Fitch­burg
earned him a chance for further training, a good raise,
and his latest promotion.
Pete Wilde, like many young men, is impatient to m·ake
things happen for his company and himself. There are
few places where such restles_sness is more welcomed or
rewarded than in the fast-growing telephone business.
BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
devotion ... to plan, sponsor and
conduct all such affairs, activi­ties,
and events as are calcu­lated
to increase such school
spirit; •.• to provide opportuni­ties
ai).d encouragement ... and to
demonstrate by force of ex­ample
the attitude and spirit
consistent with concept of a
'Catholic College Man' •••. " The
cardinal Key Society is an or­ganization
which functions for ·
the benefit of the school, but in
a completely different fashion ·
from the Government.
From this brief outline we can ·
determine that the studentGov- •
ernment necessarily assume a
position superior to all other
student body organizations. TWo ·
conditions create this situation:
1) the student 'body is the source
and ultimate judge of Council
activity, anct, 2) the work of
the Council affects ALL areas
of student concern.
The Cardinal Key Society, on
the other hand, has a position
of great prominence on the cam­pus
because of its vital pur­pose.
Its scope of activity is
more specialized and its exist­ence
more self-sufficient than
the Gove-rnment's. Because.it­is
responsible for a particular
aspect of student life (i.e. gen­eration
of spirit through ser­vice),
not the totality, and be- .
cause it exists with a lesser
degree of student responsibili­ty,
the CKS assumes a position
subordinate to the Government,
yet a necessary and beneficial
one.
student dialogue on the re­lation
of the Government to the
Key is based entirely on the
past performances of both or­ganizations.
The fact remains
that neither . have completely
fulfilled or complied with their
purposes. There has been a ,
tendency for each in recent
years to deviate from their in­tended
s cope. The mistakes
have been made and recognized.
Now each group has taken sub­stantial
steps in the right direc­tion
to re-orient itself to its
proper role on the campus.
The Car dinal Key Society,
under its new moderator and
officers, is undergoing a r e ­turn
to its purpose of service
and spirit gener ation service
through activities. The new
per spective introduced this
year has caused unprecedented
enthusiasm within the ranks of
the Key that has already mani­fested
itself externally.
The Student Government too
is commencing what promises
to be a year of diligent effort
to complete its new constitution,
initiate original proposals of
greater magnitude and raise
its standards of r esponsibility
in the legislative and coordi­native
order. If the new con­stitution
is accepted in the sec­ond
semester, Student Govern­ment
will more closely than
ever before approach the ideal
of the students' representative
body.
We hope this brief view of
these two activities has been of
some assistance to you in de­fining
what exactly each of us
is, and can be. We suggest
now that you observe closely
the work of both the Student
Government and the Cardinal
Key Society. Appraise what
their functions do for the school
presently, and evaluate what
they may do in the future.
James D. Davidson
Charles Bialow::~s
.
Davidson's
S.C. Address
This University is presently
in a profound and historic per­iod
of transition. Conscious­ness
of the vast alteration has
capitivated the student mind
and transformed the once med­iocre
mentality into one of self- ·
confidence. Revitalizing pro­grams
of activity are surround­ing
us with their conspicuity.
To these trends the s tudent body
has responded willingly and fav-
Continued on Page 8, Column 4
Davidson's Address
November 13, 1963
L-~...........,R,--EF_!_!_:_~:---e~._ . _._~_N:--5--_I
The political opinions which one holds may often be
tempered by his views of certain historically important
events. There are few political opinions which do not
involve ideas about past events. Thus one's views about
· American politics may be influenced by his views of the
origins of the American Republic or the Revol_ution which
brought it into existence. One may agree With Charles
Beard's interpretation that , the Constitution is a document"
designed by the rich to oppress the poor or with Robert
Brown's interpretation that the constitution was for the
general welfare of all and r eceived widespr ead support
from the people. Both views will definitely influence his
political views. ·
One of the most important events in the economic history
of the world was the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth ·
century. support or hostility towards the capitalistic system
in its then relatively pure form may profoundly influence
attitudes towards capitalism in its contempor ary form .
The generally accepted view of historians about the .rise
of capitalism is that there are so many negative points at­tendant
upon the rise of capitalism (such as increased pover­ty
a lower standard of living a poorer working class and
inhuman living and working ~onditions) as to make the
value of this relatively pure capitalism dubious to say the
least It is not the purpose of this, article to defend pure
capit~lism for such a system has never existed, but rather
to raise fn the reader 's mind some doubts about the ac­cepted
interpretation of the Industrial Revolution.
we are told that the Industrial Revolution had a harmful
affect upon the workers that their position deteriorated as
a result of the factory system. This does indeed seem
plausible when we contemplate the successful farmer sud­denly
rushed into an industrial society where he is merely
an employee and is no longer his own master. Who will C:leny
that he is now in a less desira~:?.le position? But we cannot
be satisfied with this simple analysis of such a complex
problem. We must remember that the r omantic literatu~e
of the time idealized the lot of the farmer and domestic
worker and deprecated that of the industrial worker. Is this
all the evidence at our disposal? What of the evidence of
economics? Who will consider that dur ing this time that
the worker s ' real wages rose, that is, his total p~r c hasing
power for goods and services increased? IS it not tmporta~t
that real wages were at their lowest among the domestic
workers and not among factory employees? WhD of those
who criticize the capitalistic system no end has taken
the time to read the reports of the Royal Commission
and the committees of Inquiry which provide ample evi­dence
that it was not in the steam powered factories, b~t
rather in the small workshops that conditions were at their
worst? · .
Some may admit that the rise in real wages was sub­stantial
but counter with the argument that the quality of
life deteriorated while the quantity of goods increased.
The poor housing and unsanitary conditions will be cited
as evidence that labor 's lot had worsened. From our
viewpoint it cannot be denied that the s ituation was deplor~­ble.
However, there is debate as to whether the condi­tions
were worse before or after the Industrial Revolu­tion.
But the question here is not ~o much who had it
worse it is a question of who was r esponsible for the con­dition~
. Engels, speaking of the coQditions in M~ches~e!:.._
""' England i ~ _1 8 4~'- state~ that_ " .e v:e t:yth~~ wh i ch here
arouses horror and indignation is of recent origin, bel~ ngs
to the industrial epoch.'' Has anyone stopped to _c~nsider
what were the problems of building and maintammg the
towns? The cbief problem seems to be the quality of the
goods used Ashes and other inferior goods were used for
bricks. But it must be remembered that those who built ·
these makeshift dwellings were not capitalists but work~
ingmen who borrowed money to build several houses, sold
the houses paid off their creditors and repeated the same
process. The government encouraged the. use of cheap
roods by the heavy duties it levied on such Imported goods
as timber This is true especially in England, a nation often
cited in d.iscussions of the •horrors of early capitalism•.
Even with th·e 'iise of cheap goods few of these builders
made money and the rate of bankruptcy was high. Those
who complai~ about the unsanitary conditions should di~ect
more of their ·cdticism to the state which shut out light
and air by taxing windows. The blame for unsanitary con­ditions
rests rightly on those who by taxing bricks and tiles
discouraged the construction of drains ~d no! on the ~n­dustrialists
who manufactured the iron pipe without which
town life would have been unhealthy to say the least.
The evidence leads to at least one necessity: that the
views now held about early capitalism need to be re­examined.
A re-examination might lead to the realization
that conditions were better tha!l has been accepted (The
Standard of living rose during the Industrial Revolution),
and that some of the €Viis attributed to the Industrial
Revolution might well be attributed to some other source.
The tax on windows, for example, might well have accounted
for poor ventilation . .
-==--Ecumenical Council--
Continued from Page 3, Col. 5
pole the layman, is left strip­ped
~f all dignity. Rather this is
the age of the Layman. It is the
people of God called together for
the glory . of God, who invest
+h. ~ir comb'ined powers on their
n.- nisters in order that these
might represent their joint in­terests.
.
The clearest examples of thi.s
representational aspect of tl'ie
priesthood are the presidental
prayers of the Mass. In these the
priest sums up the intentions of
the congregation and then that
body answers "Amen. '' Yet this
is not Amen which means "All
right if you want me to pray
for that I will" but rather the
assent 1of the people of God
that me utterances of the priest
have truly been the summary of
their intentions.
Bearing this concept of re­presentational
powers in mind,
then the council cannot be
viewed as a conference of the
more important membersofthe
Church. It is the representation
of the entire Church of Christ.
It is the people of God joining
together to evaluate themselves
in the light of the situation of
the times. It is the people of
God called together to renew
themselves to the essentials of•
the Spirit of Christ. It is the
people of God preparing them­selves
to achieve their mis­sions.
· ":HE STAG
REVI-EWS
YEAS FOR YUM YUM
Now if you don't know what
Yum Yum is (and I'm pretty
sure mosf of you don't), you
might be interested in finding
-out. If so, get down to your
local theater to see David
Swift's ''Under the Yum-Yum
Tree," a swift comedy star­ring
that jack of all trades,
Jack Lemmon. And guess what!
Shirley MacLaine isn't in it!
Jack Lemmon is in top form
·in a part having more comic
potential than. say, his role in
:"Irma LaDouce." Playing Ho- ·
gan,_ a handsome, suave, man­,
of -the-world lecher, Lemmon
-delivers his lines with a
naturalness · rarely seen in our
contemporary American come­:
dians. Hogan is the landlord .
iof Centaur Apartments; and he
.rents exclusively to gorgeous,
'unmarried girls. So, pert co-ed
Carol Lynley moves in with a.
roommate, a commodity not :
usually tolerated in Hogan's
establishment • .Worse yet, the
roommate is none other than
·Dean Jones, someonenowtotal­
·ly despised by Lemmon. It
seems that Jones and Lynley
are to live in the same apart-
. ment under purely Platonic con­ditions,
s e eking " character
compatability.''
c_ _ _H_?~an 's_~!!~It~ to kee.E_~~
looking collegian Jones away
from Miss Lynley as much: as
possible (for his own advan- .
tage) provide the comic main­springs.
~ Ril!~~~~sti~
·quence .. Tn which Lemmon has
1roubles with a roof-"walking'cat
at night is reminiscent of Har­old
Lloyd. Paul Lynde, playing'
the handyman who idolizes .
Hogan, adds to the mirth with
his array of hysterical facial .
contortions.
There are other actors, of
course, but they inust take a
back seat to Lemmon and Lynde.
Jones and Lynley are just two
more clean cut All-American
types. Miss Lynley's intoxica­tion
scene is about her only
. one of any value. Veteran Imo­gene
Coca has a minor r ole as
the housekeeper of the apart ­ments
which gives her no oppor­tunity
to display her talents.
- Yum Yum is-a delicate suo­ject
morally treated in that
· IH>gan is painted a pitiful r~l!!h~r­d
han a landable char act e r.
There are a few showers "Un­der
the Yum Yum Tree", but
the fast and lively pace saves
. the picture from getting wet.
DAVID BANNON
."STRANGERS AT -WESTPORT PLAYHOUSE"
by W1lliam zavatsky
The action in 11The Stran­gers,"
by Andrew Rosenthal,
·pivots about Minnie Fallon, a
wealthy widow who since her
· grandfather's death has engi- .
nee red both the operation of the
burgeoning Fallon Flour mill
and the lives of two of her
three daughters, "M", married
to Bert GurQee, and "C," mar­ried
to Hank Waldo.
When the third daughter, the
, widowed Wynn, r eturns after
years of continental job­hopping,
Minnie attempts to gain
sway over her, too. The se­.
cond act which might be called
••Revelahons," exposes the
Machiavellian methods the old
woman has used to maintain
power and, most important to
·her, family unjty: she subsi­dizes
Bert•s mistress to pre-
. ve"t a divorce that would ru:>t
only split the family, but lead
Berl:, who has been running the
mill after a stroke has para-
. lyzed Minnie's legs, to leave
town; she has hung together
«C" and Hank's loveless mar­riage
with money; and sM has
also investigated Wynn's laison
with a French painter, tired to
buy him off, and is conniving
to merge the once-attracted
Wynn and Hank.
When, in the final act, Wynn
fully learns her mother's
· schemes, she refuses her of­fer
of a country house - and
indirectly, Hank - and leaves
for Europe and her married
Frenchman; ••C" has decided
to leave Hank, and "M" vows
to force her mother to cover the
mistress• checks. The last
scene - Minnie's symbolical
struggle to rise from her wheel­chair
- is ambiguous. She
slumps down before the portrait
of the grandfather whose lust
for ascendency she has inherit­ed,
and says: ' 'I'll do it later,''
Do What? Remove the painting,
and all that it signifies_._ or at­tempt
to regain the fallen and
dangling reins of mastery? _
superficially, a play like
"The strangers" seems little
more than a slickly-acted, so­phisticated
comedy - drama.
cornelia Otis Skinner, aEi the
hardened, worldly mother, is
appropriate and fully in com­mand
of a demanding role. Miss
wyatt overplays a bit, but is
generally good. As the cold,
remote "C" c onstance c um- ·
mings is pathetic and, when
required postitively lethal. A
young adress, Penny Fuller, is
very impressive and completely
believable. carmen Capalbo,
the director, has fashioned a
swift uncluttered stage from
autho'r Rosenthal's well-con­structed
script.
On the technical level, the
play is a virtuoso performance
. in the art of the popular, ••for­mula"
play. The domineering
rrfother, the calculated" shock"
dialogue, the overdone sex­jokes
the geometrically com­plex
1«love" - relationships,
all have become the trappings
of ~n artist playing to the pit.
Sex, normal and abnormal, mo­ral
and immoral charges
through the drama like an elec­tric-
wheel-chaired drunk down
a cr owded hospital corridor .•
And it is this atmosphere
- the veiled philosophy \\11 ich
Continued on Page 8, Column 3
FOLK SONG
PATHFINDER·
With the present state of folk
music in this country it is
refreshing to see new trends
and clean interpretations of old­er
sounds come forth. A prime
example of this is the album,
"The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan",
put under the Columbia marque.
It is a visible proof that real
folk music and new apd honest
interpretations are still alive. ·
Maybe now the so called fo lk
tunes of the rock and rollers
and the "teen-age hoote­nannies
' ' (ugh) will continue de­generating
into the nothingness
they so r ichly deserve.
With this album Bob Dylan
takes a position, richly meri_ted,
high in the ranks of Amencan
bards. His work has been ap­proved
by such notables as Joan
"Baez, The Little Sandy Review,
P.P. & M. and the "King" Woody
Guthrie. His style is an effective
mixture of bluegrass, blues, and
a touch of tradition. The most
familiar song is Dylan's own
"Blowin' In TheWind" which he
sings in a style quite different
from that of p . P. & M. Another ·
·one familiar to many is " Don't
. Think Twice, It's All Right.''
Dylan does not apply the love
song interpretation which is
' common. While the entire re ­cord
i-s worth-while both to the
listener and the avid fo lk buff,
two other songs strike me as
· particularly important and well
done. These are "Masters Of
War" and "A Hard Rain's A- .
Gonna Fall " . They have to be
heard and heard several times
to l::e appreciated.
All told, the record should be;
enjoyable to most anyone ex­cept
the " radical right " . It is
a must for any student of fo lk
music, even if Dylan does not'
come from the city and we hear
him through such "commer­cialism"
as a phono g r a ph
record.
DAVE FRESCHI
Page SP.ven
ALBEE ADAPTS
SAD
SAD CAFE
' 'This is a stor y of love'',
s aid the nar rator. And so it
was - the love among three
people who are as unbelievable ·
as the play' itself •. ·In an at:..
tempt to put carson Mcc.uiie~ ;s
·novelette, '' The - Billaa onhe
Sad Cafe" on stage Edward
Albee is at a loss for a medi­um;
either by action or the use
of poetic language. We are not
at an suprised that Mr. Albee ·
chose to do this adaptation be- .
cause for him the theatre is
a synonym for provocativeness.
In an attempt to make a most·
unreal love story feasible he
;ives us an incredulous rendi­tion.
One feels like an outsider
the moment he sees the set,
which is made up solely of a
delapidated cafe 'supported' by
two shoeless townsfolk. In this
Southern setting you iilmostex-,
pect the char acters to be strict- ·
ly " corn cob pipe and apple
c ider " . With the entrance of
·Miss Amelia (Colleen Dew-hurst)
ones suspicians ar e sub­stantiate
d. This domineering
·woman is master of herself and ·
all those around her. Miss Dew­hurst
fits the role perfectly;
bolli in stature and in delivery.
Unfortunately the character it­self
.is lacking.
- Ma.rviii M:asey .(!:ou_ .A_~tq~io).
Hie .. towl\>5 '6lack sheep, mends·
his ways so that he can marry
Miss Amelia. She consents to
wedlock and then proceeds to
deny him his rights as a mar- :
ried man and finally tosses him
out of her cafe. He ex it s :
s creaming for revenge.
One summer ·s ·nlgnt ainiaget
toddles i nto ... town and Mis s ·
·Amelia's heart. Michael Dunn,·
who portrays this shrewd little
fellow is a fine actor. seeing
that Miss Amelia is fond of,
him he takes advantage of her :
in every respect. Sever al years
later the husband r et u rns.
Words are spread between the
lover's which winds up in a
spr awling fight on s tage in which
both par ties are appr opriately ·
greased with fat. The midget
·has been fas cinated with Mar­vin
ever since he retur ned and ·
rides off s tage on Marvin' s :
shoulders. _ . .... _
' --·-:rile- loves · shared here are
most weird. There is a mix­ture
of love and hate with no :
·clear distinction. If their loves
fo;· each other were at an.
altruistic their actions were·
directly opposite to their feel­ings.
Is it love? Or just an
indescr ibable bond of affection
between three pitiful souls. The
message of the play is truly
traumatic but hardly reaL
---R. -M. Mergardt
Lecture Series
Continued from Page 1, CoL 4
position demonstrating the
function of :various instruments
in the orchestra. _
on March-4,the poet Sister
Madeleva will be the guest
speaker, and will discuss her
own poetry. She is an English
professor at St. Mary's Col­lege
in Notre Dame, Indiana.
She is also assistant editor of
'•Jubilee."
As part of the Spring pro­gram,
Fr. William Kenealy, a
professor at Boston College
Law School, will present a lec­ture
on the' •Racial Revolution.''
The Bellarmine Series is
planning a musical evening in­cluding
solos by outstanding
virtuosos on the violin and cym-balom.
_
The Spring program also will
include a lecture by John 0'­Gara.
Mr. O'Gara is the con­tributing
editor of Common­weal
magazine and is presently
reporting on the Vatican Coun­cil.
The Chorale of SouthportEp­iscopal
Church has also been
invited to complete the Spring
Calendar.
Any club that wishes to in­form
the Bellarmine Series
concerning the i r upcoming
events should notify either Fr.
Thomas A. Johnson or Fr.
o 1 i v e r E. Nickerson, the
Faculty mJderators.
flag• Eight
ONION PATCH
Leott~ .
·- -.
This is about the dilemma o( secular colleges, and the
dilemma of Catholic Colleges.
Not too Ion~ ago I attended an interracial conference at
Columbia University. Those who came to the meeting, three
hundred in all were students from a cr oss-section of colleges
in the northe;n United States: Ivy league colleges, private
girls schools, state universities, and a very few Catholic
colleges. These students saw an urgent need to do something
about the racial ghettos in our Northern cities. They were
bright energetic ambitious young people whose enthusiasm
was t~mpered whh a realistic attitude. Above all they had a
spirit of individualism, seeing something that was wrong, and
wanting desperately to do something themselves to correct the
situation.
They talked of revolution; they talked of social change; they
talked of brotherhood, of human relations, of love. They showed
a willingness that few of our complacent students show. They.
• were, indeed, " having it out with themselves."
They talked of justice. They talked of freedom. They ~alked
of the human family. They talked of love. And what they said
almost rang true. Almost.
This was their tragedy. Our tragedy. They talked of love.
And they almost had a concept of what love is. Almost. Here,·
I thought to myself, we have found the lost generation. A
generation searching, searching Jar and wide, but never quite
knowing what it is they seek . What potential these students had,
what idealism, what self sacrifice. And yet I wondered, ''Will
this be their tragedy, to wander all their lives?"
Perhaps for the first time I realized, despite all its short-·
comings, the value of a truly catholic-orientated education.
I recalled all the old lessons, and thought of what a fantastic
bearing they have on the quests of our society. And I wondered
what it would be like to wander through life groping, searching,
and maybe never finding something I could not, or was afraid
to.
This brings us to dilemma number two. For despite what
I thought of these students I knew that their lives would be
much more meaningful than the lives of countless past graduates
of our particular type of institution, the Catholic college. These
students would be brought up in an environment filled with
personal challenges, questions, radical opinions, and a .sense
of the individualistic approach. Perhaps somewhat of a Jungle
environment at times but an environment far better than the
stifling mediocrity, ~hich ·has so typified Catholic college
graduates in the past.
I began to wonder, when will the final marriage take place,.
so that a man can have the best of both worlds. It's not im­possible,
you know. In fact I've recently thought that this will
come about sooner than we think. This has been my special
dr eam for my Univer-sity, Fairfield, because here we do not
have to cater to all the stifling, senseless "tradition~" th ~t
tie us down. Here, I thought, I can be really free to beCatholic.
And this is why I've felt that we, above anyone else, have the
ingredients for an education to surpass anything in existence
today.
I hope and pray that I am right. I hope that we, as students ·
and as instructors will have the strength to resist the pressures
of conformity and mediocrity. If we don 't, who on ea:th wil_l?
Quote of the week: " The surest way to corrupt a youth is
to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike
than those who think differently ." - Friedrich Nietzsche
THE STAG
RALLY
Continued from Page 1, Col. 2
several campus organizations.
They also received proclama­tions
of the Student Council
naming the week of November
10-16 "College Bowl Week"
at the university.
Freshmen and Sophomores·
looked on while Davidson intro­duced
Mr. Jack Madden, s. J.,
"the Y.A. Tittle of the intra­mural
set," to the juniors,
seniors, faculty and guests.
Father George Mahan, S.J.,
was introduced and reported
was introduced and reported
that during the 1962-63 school·
year Fairfield received 3,000
applications for ad m is s ion.
"During the five week period
the team was on nationwide TV,
2,800 applications were receiv­ed."
The rally closed with a
15-minute scrimmage of the
Varsity Basketball Team cap­tained
by Walt Donnelly and
Larry Raffe ~ ty . ---- ---· Chern Dept.
Continued from Page 3, Col. 2.
is still the general concept.
The development which occurs
is considered, along with sound
fundamental courses, to be the
best preparation for graduate
school. For example, Antony
Champ a 1959 graduate, com­pleted
'his doctoral studies in
three years at case because
he· entered with a research
fellowship which his experience
helped him to obtain. The grant
funds have allowed more
sophisticated studies to be done
at Fairfield and has permitted
them to be continued in the
summer. Up to this year, other
able and interested majors have
sought to take part in the re­search
of the various staff
members without remuneration
because they saw the value of
the program. Mr. Donald Ture­cek
(class of 1962) recently
remarked that his experience
on a prog1·am for which he re­ceived
no financial assistance
really meant the difference be­tween
success and mediocrity,
if not failure, in graduate
: school.
Continued from Page 7, Col. 3
would have the theatergoer be·-·
lieve th~t tt>ec:"' ~re normal
people, people who do no~ neeu
help - mental and spiritual
-to reorientate their pitifully
displaced values and misplaced
lives- this atmosphere offalse
normality which makes the play
an invalid statement on the
human condition, and reduces it
to the level of a clinical study
in abnormal psychology .
Winter Carnival Chairmen
THE 1964 WINTER CARNivAL ... com~ittee ~hairmen: (sitting, left ta right) W1lliam
Hoehler '64 William Hegarty '65 John Nevin ' 64 George McGinn ' 64 (General Chairman), Steve Adam'o vich '64, Jeffrey Cla'i rmont '64. Sta,n ding (left to right) Andrew Donnelly ' 64,
Peter. Garry '64, Ed Fort ' 64, Ronald Bianchi ' 64, Gerry Magner '64, Gary Titus '64•
Carlo Orlando '64,. Jos.eph Burke '66,. Kevin Gately ' 64., John Bradtorct '64,. Russ Keller ·
man ' 6li,._and EdWar<f Stone-'64. ·
November 13, 1963
dateline:
Rome has often been an occupied city. It has heard the march
of foreign troops many times since it was sacked· by_ Ala_z:ic in
410 and destroyed as an empire. Today Rome fmds Itself
assaulted by a new force of occupation. The streets no longer
'vibrate to the clamp of soldiers boots; they shudder to the
·clatter of high heels and shake at the screaming voices of middle
aged American matrons as they hurry to 'do Rome' betw~en
trains. With the Council in session, the Bishops become capta~ns
in the •new army,' hurrying around with ·the same determination
(and often as many cameras.) as the tourists. ·The generals,
of course, are the Cardinals, and even they have to hurry in
the Rome traffic. I saw one American bishop who lost his
head, his dignity, and very nearly his life when he found himself
in the middle of an intersection when the light changed. He
held on to his hat ran across the street, tripped over his
·cassock. and saved himself by grabbing a light pole only to find
himself on the same corner he left five . minutes before •
Rome is alive with excitement, speculation and false rumors
about the Council. We were able to attend a news conference
•for American reporters at the Rome Office of the N.c.w.c. At
this meeting a panel of American experts on the council, in­cluding
Father Gustave Weigel and Bishop Wright, answered a
wide variety of questions posed by the press. Two main points
of interest were the role which the layman will play in the Church
as a result of the Council, and the position which the deaconate
will assume when re-established. As one Southern reporter
asked - "Where will this deacon businc--s leave off and the
priest begin." Bishop Wright explained that the deacon would
. not be a married priest, but most likely would be an exemplary
' layman of a parish who would be raised 'to the deaconate in
order to lead services and distribute Communion in the absence
·of the priest. The deacon, he explained, .would ·most likely be
used in mission areas where priests visit isolated parishes
· infrequently. He stressed that the use of the deacon would be
largely up to the Bishops. .
. There was an amusing exchange between Bishop Wright and
'one of the reporters who asked for the Bishop's views on the
schema on Freedom of religion. Bishop Wright preferred not
to comment, . saying he could see the headline, "Wright says
Schema On Freedom Not Enough." The Reporter retorted
by saying he saw one reading, ''Wright Declines Comment on
·Freedom." _ ·
At the Council session that day Bishop Klepacz of Poland
. had addressed the Fathers on Church-State relation. He had
maintained that the interests ot the Church are often best
served by the actual separation of Church and State and the
·schema on that subject should omit its reference to the "un­.
fortunate" separation which sometimes exists. Bishop Klepac z
maintained this was· particularly important because of the en-croachments
of totalitarian states on the field of human rights.
In answer to a reporter's question, one of the priests on the
panel said the Bishop was ,referring to his native ·land, Poland.
Fr. Wiegel claimed that this was purely an assumption since,
while Bishop Klepacz referred to totalitarian states, he did not
say Poland was such a state.
we were very fortunate to be admitted into the private areas
of the Vatican in the company of Fr. John Felice, S.J., who is
director of Loyola University's extension in Rome and a native
Italian. Father Felice is well_ ~~quainted with the working of
u. ~ Vatican State and the Curia and was able to point out
important members of both bodies as they bustled p~st us. J ·
was irtterested to learn 'that many of the speeches dehvered at.
the Council are ghost written by experts on the subjects under;
discussion.
From the American College we obtained tickets to th~ con­secration
of twelve missionary bishops by the Holy F·ather.
In addition to the thrill of being able to see this ceremony,
the Council Fathers occupied the seats they use during the
sessions and we sat in the area usually reserved for Protest­ant
observers which gave us ·an excellent idea of how St.
Peter's looks during a session of the Council •.
Next Issue: A Visit To A Communist Country.
Davidson 's Address
Continued from Page 6, Col. 5 ,
or ably.
In every segment of student
community changes are ap­parent.
Physically, the school
is developing with unprecedent­ed
rapidity; athletically, through
recent additions and schedule
alterations tlr& University is
reaching new heights of activi­t
y; spiritually, rejuvenation of
the old has inspired fr esh re­.
sponse to tht! dynamism of the
Church; and academically the
students are assuming a new
pride in their efforts and the
endeavors of their associates.
This year will for years to
come be looked upon enviously
as one of drastic, yet respon­sible
change.
As the facilities of the Uni- ·
versity and the studen't body
itself develop, it is the re­sponsibility
of Student Gqvern­ment
to grow accordingly in
order to regulate, legislate,
and adjudicate effectively. Last
year, preceding and anticipa­ting
our present growth, the
government undertook the con­struction
of a new Student Asso­ciation
constitution. It is with­in
this context that the present
government has inaugurated a
revitalizing program of activi­ty.
Efficient, significant and
original projects wUl consu.
tute our work within the stu-­dent
body.
We are truly fortunate to
be attending Fairfield at this
time. It is our right to con­tribute
as much as each of us
'possibly can to the formation
of tradition. Our activity and
'initiative will channel the pat­tern
of Fair field's growth to a
great extent. We have so far
this year, and must continue
to become influential partici­pants
in this community. It is
now that each of us can take
pride in witnessing our indi­vidual
contri:bution become a
-permanent part of Fairfield's
history.
It is through the organ of
your Student Government that
each of you has the opportunity
ta accomplish your objectives.
Your representatives have been
'placed into office by you for a
par ticular purpose; and a co­operative
effort from both par­ties
will result in greater pro­duction
for the common good.
The United States National
Student Association handbook
states that: ''Student Govern­ment
derives its r ight to exist
from the students fundamental
right to express his thoughts
and opinions •.. This right should
be preserved and exercized
fully and responsibly."
That is exactly what we plan
to do!
James Davidson_ ,
PRESIDENT
November 13, 1963 THE STAG Page Nine
JUNIORS OUT-BLADDER FORDHAM, 2-1
...
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ABOVE : These gawking looking
peasants anxiously a wait to
be let out of their cage, .And
true to their tradition, they did
act like animals .
BELOW: Fellas, I don't want to
spoil your fun. But could you get
away from the ball for a min­ute;
I think my friend dropped
his contact lens.
. .
. On Tuesday, November 5th,
the Junior classes of Fairfield
and Fordham Universities met
in a Bladder Ball game here at
the university intramural field.
For many of the Fairfield play­ers,
it was their first attempt
at the game, but they displayed
sufficient bestiality to over­come
the Fordham contingent's
highly " spirited' team 2-1.
The object of the game was to
convey the ball (30 feet in cir- ·
cumference) over the opposi­tion's
goal and, consequently,
over the opposition. The game
has been described as slower
fhan football but rougher than
rugby and those who have played
both sports in the past claim
that its crazier than both and has ·
all the exhilarating effects of a
fall from a ten story window.
Despite the difficulty of the
game and the team's inexperi­ence,
the victory was well
earned and the STAG congrat­ulates
· all those Juniors who
helped bring home the win.
STAG Photos
by
Dennis Dickinson
and SPH
ABOVE: And then we saw two
guys hanging onto a Bladderball
dragging a vw.
BELOW: Here sport! 'GRAVY
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Now that the NFL is past the
half-way mark in · season play,
the prospects look good for the
New York Giants to cop another
Eastern title championship.
Under the razor sharp accur­acy
of YA Tittle's arm theJints
prove to be of superman vintage
in the air. The ground game of
Sherman's ruffians, however,
leaves much to be desired.
So far, up to and including the
game against St. Louis, Yat has
completed 124 passes of 204 at­tempts
for 1, 718 yards. This ~u­perlative
effort by the Giants'
glossy-top field general puts
him in the number one slot
among the league's quarter­backs.
contributing much to Tittle's
success story are his sticky
fingered receivers - Del Shof­ner
and Aaron Thomas. Shof­ner,
a seasoned veteran acqukr­ed
from the Rams, has been the
primary target for T-ittle's
bombs this season. With an al­most
uncanny skill of evading
his defenders, Shofner has side­stepped
past the opposition for
35 receptions thus far this sea­son
and has craddled five of
Tittle's long range missles for
scores.
For the short gain - out to
the flat or up the middle - Yat
relies on the former San Fran­cisco
49er, Aaron Thomas. Big
and .strong, 6'4" 220 lbs.,
Toomas'· maneuverability mak­es
him a valuable asset to the
Giants' attack. At the tight-end
position Thomas is a fierce
blocker and a dangerous target
for first down yardage. When the
All Pro, ,Frank G lffo r d, is
ordered to view a game from the
sidelines because of injury or
aching bones ("ageing bones"),
Thomas is called on to fill in at
the flanker back position. With
his si~e, deceptive speed and
agility Thomas-is not only built
for the position but plays it in an ·
almost flawless fashion. (With
the emphasis on youth in Giant
personnel this year Mr. Gifford
might well be enjoying Giant
·football games from his TV
chair next year).
Although the Giants' ground
attack hasn't injected any kind
,of fear into the opposition this
year, there has been a steady
improvement in their running
game which deserves some sort
of hurrah. ·
The Behemoth Backs, Alex
Webster and Phil King, hav·e
finally started to find the open­ings
in the Giant offensive line.
Webster, plagued with injury
early in the season, is now run­ning
as he did last year when
he led the Giants in total rush-.
ing yardage. King, the other
Paul Bunyan of the Giant back­field
is running around tacklers
now instead of crashing into
· them and is developing into a
valuable pass receiver.
For the most part, the G !ants
appear to be pretty well set for
the remainder of the season.
Their defense, led by Messrs.
R.obustelli, Katcavage, Patton
and Barnes, is s till rated as
one of the best in the league.
And now that the offense is
clicking on the ground as well
as in the air the outlook for
future Giant victories seems
more than probable.
The only problem the Giants
have to contend with in their
bid for the Eastern Crown is
Jimmy Brown's Cleveland In­dians.
The Giants proved that
they are vulnerable but the
proof that they can be beaten
again rests on the beefy should­ers
of the other teams in the
league. An Indian defeat may
well mean another champion­ship
for the New York Giants.
Now Pay Attention!
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Skibiak, Clisham
Make All League SPORTS PERSONAUTY
Pitcher Ed Skibiak and out­fielder
Joe Clishamof Fairfield
University were chosen to the
All League team of the Collegi­ate
Baseball League, it was an­nounced
by Larry Keefe, Pub­licity
Director of the League.
Skibiak, who graduated in June
and is now attending George­.
town Dental _School, was the
Stag's number , one hurler for
three years. Skibiak was the
winning pitcher in four of Fair­field's
five wins last season.
The fast balling right hander
also led his team in strike outs
, with 74 and had the best earned
,run average (2.44).
Skibiak was also one of the
Stag's top offensive threats.
He finished third ·on the team in
baihng with a fine .354 mark.
When he was not pitching, Skib­iak
played first base.
Clisham was the power hitter
on Fairfield's team last year.
The rugged Waterbury, Connec­ticut
resident took the home run
derby with two round trippers
for the season. As for total
batting average, he finished fifth
with a creditable .324 mark.
Clisham is now a senior, and
will have a chance to repeat as
an All League choice this spring.
THE COMPLETE ALL LEAGUE
TEAM
1st Base - Porada (Fairleigh
Dickinson,), and Barker (Up­sala)
2nd Base - Tracy (Seton Hall),
D.E. Ekholm (Upsala), Mar­iano
(Fairleigh Dickinson),
Goodhart ~Rider), and War­aska
(Seton Hall)
3rd Base - Monteleone (Seton
Hall), and Allen (Upsala)
outfield - Beck and Napoleon
(Rider), Sancilio (Fairleigh
Dickinson), Clisham (Fair­field),
DeAngelis (Seton Hall),
and Chichester (Upsala) .
catchers - Rankl (Upsala), and
Takacs (Fairleigh Dickinson)
Pitchers - Boyle and ,Lackey
(Rider), Steiner (Upsala), and
Skibiak (Fairfield)
Dermod Norton, an amia'!>le
athlete, is this week's sports
personality. This dedicated
junior has been a main-stay on
the cross-country and track
team$ for the past three years.
His athletic prowess stems
from his high school days when
he participated in ice hockey,
captained the track team, and
received all-conference honors
at his ~nd position in football.
"Jerry," as he fs affection­ately
known by his class mates,
can be presently seen practic­ing
cross-country, and when
Spring rolls around, he will' be
out on the cinders running the
220 yard and quarter-mile
sprints. Held down last season
by an injury, he did score in
those meets in which he ran.
Speaking of last season's un­defeated
t r a c k team w hi c h
achieved a sparkling 7-0 re­,.
cord, Jerry says "We should be
stronger this year especially in
the distance events." Last
year's Frosh are taking up the
slack that graduation left, in the·
.run for another league champ-ionship.
Talking of this year's
Frosh, Jerry has noticed good
·material but very little partie!- ·
;pation, e spec i a 11 y in cros,s ­country,
where one freshman is
the sole representative of the
class. This concerned junior
realizes that if the Frosh don't
wake up to the fact that partici­patton
and not observation
makes not only a winning team
but a successful school, the
teams of years to come will
leave something to be desired.
When asked what he would
like to see Fairfield acquire in
the sports' circle~ he promptly
an·swered that he -would · mo5.
like to see a field house here on
campus. During the win t e r
months, Jer ry runs indoor track
at the Yale Field House and
would enjoy seeing Fair fie 1 d
have one of its own, where all.
nutdoor snorts coulrl be played
during the cold months.
MEET THE FROSH
As the 1963-64 ·Basketball Season approaches, The STAG
presents this year's Freshman team. The team will be
coached by Lou Saccone and his very capable assistant
Bobby Jenkins.
JIM BROWN: 6'2", was selected to Connecticut's All State
team last year due to his outstanding play at Hillhouse H.S.
CHARLES PHILLIPS: 6'1", from Brooklyn Prep, is ex­tremely
fast and has a fine jump shot.
CARL MENENDEZ: 5'11", who played his high school ball
at St. Agnes of Rockville Center, also shoots well from
the outside, and has excellent ball control.
BILL BOYD: 6'3", from St. Augustine H.S. jn Brooklyn, is
very aggressive and a good defensive ballplayer.
AL SNYDER: 6'4", will grab a lot of rebounds and is
capable of hitting from in close. Al played at Notre Dame
H.S. of Bridgeport.
PAT SCULLY: 6'2", from St. Thomas ·Aquinas H.S., is a
good shooter and dribbler.
· NEIL GUERIN: 6'4" , who attended Southington H.S. in Conn.
has a fine shot and is a good rebounder.
These men, who are expected to alternate in the starting
positions, will be backed up by: Bill Palmer,_ 6' 1" from St.
Benedictus H.S., Kevin Sulllvan, 6'1", from New Canaan
H.S., Bill Pritz, 5' 10" , from Notre Dame H.S., Bob Foley,
6'1", from Glocester H.S., Pete Oldum, 6'0", from Hart~
ford Public H.S., and Paul Carew, 5'11" , from Stratford
H.S.
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. Though it may seem so, not
all his energy is devoted to the
athletic scene, however . Jerry
was a member of the very suc­cessful
Freshman Orientation
Committee and presently is
working on the Dogwood Festi­val.
He was inducted into the
Cardinal Key Society at the
beginning of his Sophomore year
and is also an officer in the
Knights of Columbus. Current-!
ly, he is president of the Student
Athletic Association. He is an
economics major and is looking
forward to a career in the Ma­rines
as a pilot after graduation.
This highiy respected junior
can encounter nothing but suc­cess
in the following years judg­ing
from his record of dedica­tion
here at Fairfield.
Frosh
To Play
St. Peter's
The athletic Office has an­nounced
a change in the Fresh­man
Basketball schedule for the
1963-64 season.
The team now plays St.
Peter's College frosh team at
Jersey City Armory on Febru­ary
1st. This had originally
been an open date for the frosh.
on February 5th, the team will
play Holy Name of Stamford,
connecticut prior to the Var­sity
game between Fairfield
and St. Anselm's.
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THE- SPORTS DESK
ly JEFF CAMPBELL
Junior- Senior All-Stars Defeat
Underclassmen In Mud, 7-6
The fact that a heavily partisan crowd of spec­tators
at an athletic event can influence the partici­pants
of that event is often overlooked. The spectacle
offered by a team playing inspired ball under the
din of a screaming throng is one of the most exciting
in sports. Sometimes, a ·team oi: an individual can
find that ''extra sOipething" under these conditions
and put out just little more.
Anyone who attended that "epic" struggle be­tween
the J ui:lior classes of Fairfield and Fordham
in Bladder Ball, saw an exhausted Fairfield team
inspired by the chanting of what could be conser­vatively
called a fanatical crowd of Stag rooters.
l 'he same 1s true, on a higher level, in basketball.
Basketball, the major sport here at Fairfield, is sub­ject
to the same influences as any other sport. The
player who plays well normally, plays better with a
crowd behind him. The horne crowd is always his,
but not so the crowd at another school. However,
when the facilities are available, he can have some
of the "horne " fans with him at the away ~arne . .
! 'his is the case this year. The Varsity tlasketball
team has scheduled many away games, but the facili­ties
for the student body's transportation to these
games have been increased to the point where there
is no excuse for not having a representative group at
each game.
The success of the present athletic year is likely
to be judged on the basis of what the Varsity Basket­ball
accomplishes. The team has the talent to achieve
a fine record, hut that is all the more reason for having
Stag fans at every game. When a good team is in ­spired,
they're not easily beaten.
RUGBY
The Fairfield Rugby Club, now 2-1 on the fall
season, is playing Holy Cross here, at the University
on November 21rd. This is Junior Day and the
game is expected to draw a large crowd. The STAG
urges that ·those students who are able to attend this
clash between the Stags and the Crusaders, do so.
BEAT P-ITTSBURGH!
NOV. 30
Donohue sets play in motion.
After two postponements the
All Star Intramural Game was
finally played. The J u n i o r
Senior Team, with a great aer­ial
display and a good defense
in the second 9alf, was able to
defeat the Frosh-Soph Team
7-6.
-The first half was mainly
dominated by the Frosh-Soph
Team with Its great line play,
particularly on defense. The
aggressive rushing put on by the
underclassmen caused the up-·
perclassmen to hurry many of
their passes and on one occa-.
sion caused them to punt from
their end zone. The underclass­men
drew first blood when Kev
Ahearn caught a pass in the
flat from Kev Ryan and went in
for the touchdown. The pass for
the extra point was incomplete
and the score at the half was
6-0. The secondhalfwas main­ly
composed of a tough defense
and exchanges of punts by both
sides. With tern minutes to go,
in the game the Junior-Senior
Team intercepted a pass which
put them in good scoring posi­tion.
On third down Charley
Ziegler threw a short pass to
Kev Reilly and with good faking
in the mud and a burst of speed
he went into the end zone and
tied the score.
The extra point attempt was
good and the game ended 7-6.
. . - . Magner & ~o~nelly
Cop ECAC Doubles
· Walt Donnelly and Gerry
Magner, a pair of lanky sen­iors,
combined brilliantly to
capture the doubles champion­ships
of the Eastern Collegi­ate
Athletic Conference College
Division Tournament. Fifteen
schools were represented in
the two-day tourney which was
played at Rider College in Tren­ton,
New Jersey. Donnelly and
. ..
.,Magner swept through matches
with the doubles teams of Ver­mont,
Lehigh, and Lafayette.
Nick Ovodow ·reached the sec-_,
ond round of the singles com­petition,
and Fairfield's other
representative Matt Carroll
was defeated in the first round.
Fairfield finished third in the
team competition which was won
by St. John's Universitr •
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"Page Twelve THE STAG
Ruggers Edge BRC~ 10 - 9
Afte•~ Scoreless First Period
On Saturday, November 9, the
Fairfield Rugby Club defeated
the Boston Rugby Club 10-9 at
Charles River Park in Boston.
The game was played on am ud­dy
field and it rained intermit­tantly
thr oughout the contest.
Fairfield got off to a s low
start and three Boston goals
boosted the score to 9-0 before
tile Connecticut contingent' could
get their bearings. The first
period of play ended with the
scor e remaining 9-0 in favor of
Bos ton.
The Stags r eturned to the field
for the second half determined
to get back into the game and
before too many minutes of play
had passed junior AI Sullivan
broke away on a dazzling broken
fie ld run that covered about 50
yards and gave Fai rfield its
fir s t 3 point s core of the day.
Bob Batch's conversion made
the scor e Bos ton 9, Fairfield 5.
Minutes later Ken Waters
scored another try (3 point
goal) on a long run and Batch
again converted to give Fair­fielders
a 10-9 lead. In the
closing minutes, the Stags held
on to score an impressive
come-from -behind victory over
Boston 10-9, bringing their sea­son
record to 2-1.
The Rugby Club plays Holy
C r oss here at Fairfield on
November 23, (Junior day). A
la r ~e crowd is expected to be on
SOCCER TEAM
LOSES TO NHC
On Monday, Nove mber 4th,
the Stag Varsity soccer team
played its fi rst game against
New f! aven Co llege in New
Have·n. Despite the Stags' exu­berance
and desire, they went
down to a 9-0 defeat at the
hands of a squad that had a little
too much experience for them.
It had appeared durin·g the
fir st qu a rt e r that the newly­formed
Fairfield squad was get ­t
ing the upper hand, but as it
t u r ned out, they were h e I d
s coreless for this twenty minute
period. After that, the Stags
ne ver again mounted a serious
threat.
The loss to the experienced
New Haven contingent, although
not totally unexpected, proved to
be a sobe ring experience for the
Fair fie ld team.
Newly elected Rugby Club officers: 1-r , Jeff Campbell, 1..
Doug Ciacci, Pete Fallen,
hand for this contest between
the two Jesuit r ivals .
The line up:
Forwards: Chis holm, swan-h
a u s, K e II Y, Campbell,
Bender , Fallon, R. Sullivan,
Ploehn
Backs: Ciacci, A. Sullivan1_ Wa­ters,
L'Galbo, McSherry,
Batch, Gatti
OFFICERS ELECTED
On Tuesday November 5, the
Rugby Club held ele ctions for
the post of Captain, Secr etary
and Treasurer for the 1963-64
seasons. Pete Fallon 65 was
elected Captain, Douglas Ciacci
65 was named as Secr etary,
and Jeff Cambell 65, Treasurer
Cro~s Country Team 3-3;
Looking For CTC Victory
As the 1963 Cr oss Country
season draws to a close, the
Stag thinclads look forward to
competing in the Co 11 e g i a t e
Track Conference Meet in New
York on Saturday, November
16th.
Hampered by InJUr ies and a
S]OW start, the charges Of Coach
Nich Giaquinto fought their way
back to a respe ctable 3-3 record
with a victory ove r Q u ee n s ­borough
College 27-28 on Tues­day,
November 5th.
The outs tanding team s tal ­warts
for the ye ar have been
Pete Garry, and Junior Rick
Anastasio. Soph Jim Milton, the
team's best r unner, has been
hobbled all season with an in­jury
and consequently has ap­pear
ed in only one meet.
Should the team place in the
C. T.C. meet this weekend, it
will serve to reward both the
team and Coach Giaquinto for
their efforts.
November 13, 1963
Varsity And Frosh Squads
Unveiled For 63-64 Season
Action in Monday night 's basketball scrimmage. The first
public viewing of the varsity and frosh teams. was part
of the ceremony honoring the College Bowl Team.
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The word ••varsity>• seems to be getting to Kappenberg•s
head.
A scheduled s c; r i m mage
a g a in s t the U n i v e r s i t y of
Br idgepor.t Freshman team was
postponed due to wet gr ounds.
coach Kuhlman has lined up a
match with Danbury College
for November 23. The season
for the squad ends on Novem­ber
26.
At one point in the seas on,
injuries had so depleted the
ranks of the s teady r unners that
Pete Garry ' 64, was the sole
r epresentative of the Stags
against Ad e I p h i College on
October 30th. The harried
harrier dis played tremendous
determination by winning the
meet and giving Fair fi eld the
victory
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