Stag - Vol. 20, No. 13 - December 11, 1968

              Vol. 20 No. 13 Feirii-'d University, Fairfield, CoMacticut December II, 1968
Tuition Increased
Hike Affects All
By DAVID DZUREC
News Editor
$200;
Classes
The Board of Trustees of Fairfield University recently announced an increase
in the tuition from $700 to $800 per semester effective in September of 1969. This
increase will affect all students returning next September, not just the incoming
freshman class of 1973.
suit filed against Fairfield had
no effect on the tuition, the in-crease
had been under consider-ation
for quite some time.
NEW COSTS AT FAIRFIELD FOR 1969·70
Enrolled Tuition Fees R&B ·.rotaJ
Fairfield 1,660 $1,600 $25 $1,000 $2,625
COSTS AT OTHER SCHOOLS ~OR 1968·69
Amherst 1,200 $2,125 $50 $1,075 $3,250
Boston College 6,330 $1,600 $ 5 $1,050 $2,655
Columbia 2,700 $2,100 $54 $1,100 $3,254
Harvard 4,900 $2,000 $1,240 $3,240
Holy Cross* 2,300 $1,700 $20 $1,130 $2,850
Middlebury 1,410 $2,000 $101 $1,000 $3,101
St. Louis Univ 5,100 $1,600 $20 $1,020 $2,640
* Announced $200 tuition increase and a $70 room and
board increase for 1969-70.
The $200 increase will raise
tuition from $2400 to $1600,
while room and board will re­main
at $1000. Together with
the $25 Health Fee charges the
total cost of attending Fairfield
will be approximately $2,625.
Chief Cause
In a letter sent to the parents
of every freshman, sophomore
and junior, Mr. Arno C. Zeyn,
Director of Operations cited
"steadily increasing costs of
providing education at Fairfield
University" as the cause for the
rise and "the increase in faculty
salaries and other operating
items" were noted in letter as
the chief causes.
able to be run. "The situation
was carefully examined by the
Board of Trustees and the pos­sibility
of holding off the in­crease
for another year con­sidered.
However, the increase
was deemed necessary for next
year," Mr. Zeyn said.
The Capital Campaign pres­ently
in progress will help to
alleviate the growing financial
problems but an increase in tui­tion
is · still necessary.
Cautious Reaction Evoked
By Amendment Passage
By JOHN LEDDY
The administration is aware
of the fact that the increase
would cause increased financial
burdens on the students and
their families. "Every consider­ation
will be given to alleviate
any unusual financial hardship
which may be incurred and no
one will be forced to leave
school because of this increase,"
Mr. Zeyn noted in his letter.
T~e student body endorsed a key reform in their government last Wednesday,
approvmg an amendment to Article Six of the present Constitution. The final tally
in the referendum, reported by Secretary Albert Mariani, was 387 to 130.
Increase Inevitable
In a recent interview Mr.
Zeyn, who called the increase
inevitable, stated that Fairfield
has no endowment where as
many other private schools do
and that tuition is the only
means by which the school is
The change in the Constitu-
No Effect
He also noted that the ACLU
Church Irrelevancy
NAPR Lecture Topic
tion, which removes Adminis­trative
veto power over any
future legislation, including the
proposed Constitution, has evok·
ed cautious reactions from
members of the university com­munity
Fr. William Mcinnes,
S.J., Fairfield University Presi­dent,
brought up these ques•
tions when interviewed before
the results of the a111endment
were announced: "What do the
students want to accomplish by
the amendment? How are they
going to go about making fu·
ture changes?" He emphasized
the need to define those areas
in which the Student Govern­ment
wants greater powers. "If
these areas can be defined,
(through a process that is not
merely a 'unilateral agreement
by the students'), then they can
Tomorrow night at 8:00 in the ground floor lounge of the New
Dorm, Fr. Allen E. Carter, Vice-President of the National Associa­tion
for Pastoral Renewal, will speak on that organization's strug­gle
to update what they feel to be an increasingly irrelevant
Catholic Church.
The National Association for
Pastoral Renewal was founded
two years ago as an organiza­tion
of religious and lay per­sons
dedicated to a continuation
of the renovation of the Roman
Catholic Church which was
begun by V a1ican II. Since then,
its membership has risen to
over 3000 lay and religious and
the organization has concerned
itself primarily with the ques­tion
of optional celibacy in the
Roman rite.
In a previous interview w.ith
The Stag, Fr. Carter has ques­tioned
the propriety of trying
to work within the present
structure of the Church saying,
"I do not believe that the lay­man
should spend his time and
efforts trying to saitctify and
save the present bureaucratic
structure of the Church." He
went on to say that "The struc­ture
as we have it today leaves
really little or no room for
many men to live a fully in­spired
Christian life."
He has publicly criticized the
Church's emphasis on worldly
success. "The church of the fu­ture",
he said, "must not be the
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To All of the Members of the Fairfield Academic
Community:
May I extend to all, prayerful wishes for a joyous
and meaningful Christmas.
For many this holiday means laughter and fun. a
season of good times and a vacation from school. We
should remember, however, that for many others in
the world it means sadness and sorrow, a season in
which poverty becomes stark in a world that knows
little real peace.
May I ask you, therefore, to remember in your
charity and your prayers all of those to whom Christ­mas
does not bring either material blessings or peace.
Through your concern, the Christ of Christmas may
come to them - and to you.
The peace and love of Christmas to all.
(Rev.) William C. Mcinnes, S.J. --·----------··-·-·-··--· ... ------
be autonomous in those areas."
Valld Contract
Father Mcinnes believes that
the present Constitution is a
valid contract, rejecting the ar­gument
that it was made under
duress. Is the amendment there­fore
a breach of contract? "It
appears to be. The present Con·
stitution is an agreement gov­erning
the mode of conduct of
one segment of the academic
community. If the advocates of
the amendment can prove it
was made under duress, and
not freely, they might have an
argument."
Student Government Presi­dent
Phillip Howe, who has
vdiced opposition to the amend·
ment in the past, said that "any
of its proponents would have a
hard time proposing exa~tly
those areas . in which the
government should be autonom­ous;"
he suggested that this
topic be put to the University
Council.
Power Exercise
Mr. Howe was asked if he
thinks that the amendment in­creases
the power of the legis­lature:
"I dont' see where it
does They haven't 'lde­quately
exercised the power
they have now " Does he think
amending the Constitution uni­laterally
represents a breach of
contract? "Yes, I do," he re­plied;
"that was my original
contention. The claim that the
original contract was made un­der
duress is pure bunk."
Mr. Howe said that he favor­ed
a reform procedure by which
the Student Government passes
resolutions on what is needed,
so that be could take such pro-posals
to the Administration di­rectly.
Skeptical
Mr. Rober t K. Griffin, Dean
of Student Services, was skep­tical
about any move tow:lrd
autonomy by the students:
"There is no area of student
life that does not affect the en­tire
university community. If
you have a community with
three segments, what one area
does has to have an effect on
the other two."
Sophomore James Ruane, the
proponent of the amendment,
denied any radical move toward
autonomy. "The Student Gov­ernment
is not trying to separ­ate
itself from the university
community The amendment
merely establishes the student
body as an independent state
within a coalition of indepen­dent
states." He also cited the
need to define those areas in
which the students should have
the final say
Redefine Concepts
The purpose of the amend­ment,
said Mr. Rua.ne, "is to
redefine the concept of Student
Government at this school
to give tbe students the ulti­mate
say in those directions
which concern them." He em­phasized,
however, that "in
Continued on Page 9
IN MEMORIAM
THE STAG, in unison with
the entire Fairfield communi­ty,
expresses condolences to
the family of Thomas J. F.
Pinkman of the Business De­partment.
Mr. Pinkman met
an accidental death over
'Thanksgiving vacation.
Campus News
EUROP~ TRIP
There will be a preliminary
meeting this evening at 7:30
in Can. 103 of those interested
in the trip to Europe that will
leave on or about June 1, 1969.
The leader of the trip, Profes­sor
Czamanski, will discuss all
pertinent issues that will be
of interest to the students and
further the arrangements for
the finalization of plans. There
will also be a lecture, illustrat­ed
with slides and a film, given
by those who took a similar
trip two years ago.
There are this year two separ­ate
itineraries: The student
may either visit the German
Federal Republic, F r an c e,
Switzerland and the neighbor­ing
countries; or the German
Democratic Republic (East Ger­many),
Poland. Denmark, and
the Soviet Union (opti.onal).
The first trip will cost approxi­mately
$600.00 and the Eastern
European tour $585.00. Also, all
German students can receive 3
credits for the German Civiliza­tion
and Culture course at a
leading German University. For
those students who wish to
work in Germany, an enjoyable
position can be obtained with
the Mannesmann Steel Company
in Duesseldorf.
All interested students are
urged to attend this preliminary
meeting tonight.
• • •
T A.W REPRESENTATIVE
Dale Swanson has been ap­pointed
campus r epresentative
for the Law School Placement
Service.
He was selected for the posi­tion
from several qualified ap­plicants,
according to directors
of the natkmal guidance pro­gram
in Hartford, Conn. The
Law School Placement Service
names only one student repre­sentative
on each major cam­pus.
The Law School Placement
Service is designed to help the
pre-law student decide where
he will apply to law school.
As the Law School Placement
Service representative, Mr.
Swanson will be responsible for
the distribution of explanatory
materials to students here who
are planning to apply to law
school. • • •
SUMMER JOBS
Students looking for summer
jobs can now get help from the
American Association of College
Students.
In response to requests from
college students throughout the
country, the Association has
prepared three booklets listing
o11ranizations interested in hir­ing
college students for sum­mer
employment. One booklet
lists jobs available in recrea­tion
and resort areas. The second
booklet deals with jobs in busi­ness
and industry. Information
on more than 25,000 jobs with
the federal government ls in­cluded
in the third booklet.
The booklets may be obtained
by writing: Summer Jobs,
American Association of College
Students, 30 N. LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois, 60602.
There is a $2 service charge
to cover the cost of printing and
handling for each booklet. Re­que$
ts should specify which
catalog is desired: recreation,
business or government
• • •
LAW SCHOOL GRANTS
Scholarships worth $3,000 for
each year of law study have
been established at the Uni­versity
of San Diego School of
Law for students from certain
eastern Catholic Schools, in­cluding
Fairfield. Each Chancel­lor's
scholarship comprises a
$1,200 a year tuition remission
and a $1,800 in cash payment.
The law school will offer two
Chancellor's Scholarshi~s for
1969. Any person graduating
from Fairfield in June of 1969
is eligible for a Chancelor's
Scholarship for entrance to the
day division in the fall of 1969.
It is anticipated that the reci·
pients will score in excess of
650 on the LSAT morning exam
and have a B average in under­graduate
work.
A prospective student may
apply for a Chancellor's Schol­arship
by sending the San Diego
School of Law a letter with or
following his application for ad­mission,
announcing his inten­tion
to apply and setting forth
his qualifications. He should
also arrange to have two facul­ty
members send the Law
School detailed recommenda­tions
on his behalf. • • •
BUSINESS STUDY
Several students in the busi­ness
department are doing a
research study on advertising
effectiveness, with special em­phasis
on shotgun advertise­ments.
Anyone who OWns a shot­gun
and is willing to fill out a
questionnaire may do so by
contacting Jim Reme in Regis
138 or through box 1281.
• • •
KENNEDY ''72
"Kennedy 72" buttons and
bumper stickers are available
at Box 1772, Regis 425 or
through Kevin McAuliffe per­sonally.
Caf Head Complains
About Wasted Food
By DAVID MC VITTlE
"They're the best group of
guys - I've never had more co­operation".
This was Mr. Robin·
son's appraisal of Fa.lrfleld stu­dents.
Mr. Robinson is in charge
of Specialized Ma.na.gement at
the university. the service that
handles the cafeteria and the
SD&Ck bar.
Wasted Food
The only possible complaints
held by Mr. Robinson dealt with
the great amount of wasted
food and the pratice of leaving
trays on the tables. He stressed
that this practice of not clear­ing
the tables cuts down on tte
number of students who can be
seated in the cafeteria. Another
drawback of this practice is the
poor atmosphere left to the stu­dents
following those who have
left a half-eaten meal on the
table.
OonUnued oa Pap t
THI STA. December II, 1968
Biafra Analysis
Living With Genocide
By RICHARD ANmONY
(CPS) The news media, after giving the Nigerian war some attention duling
the summer and earlyfall, have by now more or less let the matter drop. The stories
that do turn up tend to be about minor military encounters or the latest estimates of
the number of Biafran starving each weelc. Gone are the multi-page, color photo
spreads that brought home to Americans what starving children really look like.
Among politicians interest in
the Nigerian war, never very
high, seems to have fallen to
a new low. Even those thought
of as enlightened aren't talking
about it anymore. Neither
Nixon nor Humphrey so much
as raised the subject of Biafra
during the campaign. Of other
majOr political figures only Ted
Kennedy, who made a fine
speech about the plight of the
Biafrans in September and has
made a study of the refugee
problem created by the war,
has tried to keep the issue
alive. Recently he sent letters
to Nixon and Johnson urging
them to assist relief operations
in Biafra.
It would be nice to suppose
the indifference of politicians
and news merchants is a reflec­tion
of their callousness and
corruption but that is clearly
not t he case. The fact is that
most Americans just don't care
about what's happening to the
Biafrans. As it is, the small
minority of Americans who care
very deeply about the Biafrans
find themselves unable to have
any influence on U.S. policy be­cause
their number are so few.
The war, however, continues
unabated and, in fact, shows
every prospect of grinding on
until there have been massive
new waves of starvation in
Biafra. Very likely it will end
when the will of the Biafrani
has been broken by the lack
of food that those who are
still alive will be physically in·
capable of fighting.
This may be the probable
outcome of the war, but opin­ions
vary about what a desir­able
outcome would be. One
opinion is that the sooner the
Nigerian federal government
achieves a victory, the better.
This position is the one held,
for example, by African o;pe­cialists
in the U.S. State De·
partment. In the absence of a
Nigerian victory, these officials
say, they can't recommend U.S.
assistance for the Biafrans un­less
they get the approval of
the Nigerian government in
Lagos.
Such approval is about as
likely as the Kingdom of God
on earth, as the State Deparl­ment
people well know. They're
committed, however, to the con­cept
of a unified Nigeria, and
apparently aren't willing to per­mit
the reality of mass starva­tion
in Biafra to interfere with
that particular il!usion.
The government did recently
set up a special task force,
headed by Under Secretary of
State Nicholas Katzenbach, to
deal with the Biafran problem.
This is important, especially
since it may make Biafra the
subject of public discussion
a g a i n. Preliminary reports
about the task force, 'tbough,
indicate that it won't be doing
anything to relieve the suffering
in Biafra until there has been
a Nigerian victory. In other
words, the task force is a ,vay
of making the government aP,-
Placement Schedule
EDITORS' NOTE: The interview schedule printed below Is
the list of companies who will be present on campus during the
second semester. It is released by the Placement Office.
JANUARY
7 Hartford Insurance Co.
8 G. E. Credit Corp
9 U.S. Rubber Co.
10
13
14
30
31
Eastman Kodak Co.
All State Insurance Co.
State National Bank
Johnson & Johnson
RCA - Computer Systems & Sales Program
FEBRUABY
4 I. B. M.
5 Aetna Life
5 Conn. State Personnel Dept.
6 Proctor & Gamble
10 Walter S. Robbins
12 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
13 The Bassick Company
18 Travelers Insurance Co.
19 Humble Oil & Refining Co.
20 U.S. Public Health
21 Swift & Company
26 N.Y. State Dept. of Civil Service
27 International Harvester
28 Commercial Union
4 Kemper Insurance
5 DuPont
6 John Hancock
MARCH
11 American Can Company
12 Lipton Tea Company
13 Pfeizer Lab
14 Army & Air ·Force Exchange
18 Arr:erican National Red Cross
19 Internal Revenue Service
20 Metropolitan Life
21 Olin Mathieson-Winchester Western
28 Chase Manhattan
APRIL
22 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
February April
10 Marine Corps
11 Marine Corps
pear to be concerned without
its having to take the step!>
that must be taken immediately
if the Biafrans are to have any
chance of survival.
Unlike State Department of­ficials,
though, there are many
people whose first and only ma­jor
concern in the war is that
the Biafrans be saved, yet who
agree with the Department on
the need for a Nigerian victory
These people are sincere, but
they're avoiding the one un­avoidable
conclusion about the
war that the Biafrans have de­sided
to fight on as long as they
can.
They believe that the Nigerian
government intends to kill their
race off. Legalists may iind
some reward in trying to de­termine
whether the Nigerian
policy fits the legal definition of
genocide. For the rest of us, it
is more realistic to try to un­derstand
why the Biafrans feel
the way they do.
17 Navy Air
18 Navy Air
Some of the reasons for their
determination are rooted in the
ancient hostility between the
lbos - the majority people of
Biafra - and the Hausa 'lnd
Fulani peoples of northern Ni­geria.
The strength of these an­cient
hostilities can't be easily
guaged by Westerners. Others,
though, are of more recent ori­gin
and these are readily com­prehensible.
In late September 1966, a
massacre of Ibos began in
northern Nigeria. It came in
the wake of a military coup
that put Northern officers in
power. and was inspired by
Northern leaders, who played
·On the non-Ibo populace's .envy
of the Ibos' success in govern­ment,
business and the profes­sions.
When it ended in October,
an estimated 30,000 lbos had
been slaughtered, and a mass
.exodus of the surviving lbos
Continned on Page 8
December II, 1968 T H I S T A.S Pege Three
PPM Receive Standing Ovation;·
Paul Talks About The Group
By PATRICK K. LONG
Managing Editor
Those who attended last Thursday's Peter, Paul and Mary Concert were im­pressed
by the group's outstanding performance which drew fivP. standing ovations
from the crowd during the over two hour performance. In an attempt to discover
what the personality behind the group was, The Stag conducted an interview with
Paul before the concert.
Instrumentation
Although Peter, Paul and
Mary still perform on stage
with just acoustic guitars and
bass backing them, their re­cordings
utilize the widest range
of instruments. Concerning this
change from their earlier days,
Peter commented, "What we
used to simply play on guitars
we now find we can better ex­press
with other instruments."
Recording Stndlo
Paul explained that he had
recently completed the building
of an eight-track studio in the
basement of his home and
hoped to do much of his re­cording
work there from now
on.
He also revealed that the
group is currently working on a
new album entitled, "Peter,
Paul and Mommy." Composed
of children's songs written by
Peter, the album is scheduled
for February release.
Tangible Agreement
Since Peter, Paul and Mary's
beginning in the Bitter End
Cafe in Greenwich Village in
1961, many groups have t:ome
and gone, breaking up because
of squabbles amongst members
of the group. Paul felt that
Peter, Paul and Mary stayed to­gether
because "We agreed
about some very tangible things
in the beginning and in most
cases they have held up to­gether.
The disagreements that
we do have usually bring about
a greater strength in the group,
because they result in what­ever
we are or do."
Continuing his tttoughts on
the group's recent move to
heavier instrumentation, Paul
noted, "We usually like it whe~
we do it, but later we think that
perhaps it might have been pro­duced
better On our last al­bum
"Late Again" I am only
fully pleased with the produc­tion
of four of the songs."
Biggest Thrill
Asked what he thought was
the biggest thrill that he has
had in the seven years since
Peter, Paul and Mary began,
Paul responded, "Singing to­gether
- that's how it all
started."
Paul conceded that in the
grind of a concert tour that
"traveling becomes a drag," but
he quickly added "but meeting
people doesn't."
Although many groups get
tired of singing their "hit songs"
over and over again and only
use new material in their con­cert
performances, Peter, Paul
and Mary always do a full com­plement
of all their songs.
Asked about this, Paul re­sponded:
"Songs take on a new
meaning everytime you sing
them, "Blowin in the Wind"
has always had significance first
with the civil rights, later with
the peace movement and now
with the grape boycott."
Bond Prophesies
Poor Nixon Rule
By RIC BAKER
Arriving two hours and fifteen
minutes after the scheduled
time of 7 p.m., Julian Bond
addressed a crowd of about
2,200 persons in the gymnasi­um.
Mr. Bond's late arrival was
due to an airline foulup.
Mr. Bond, the twenty-eight
,Year old Georgia state legislator
who received national promin­ence
at the Democratic Nation­al
Convention, made an off the
cuff style speech which lasted
thirty minutes. Mr. Bond was
introduced to the assembly by
Dr James F Farnham of the
English Department.
Anti-Nixon Address
Analyzing what can be ex­pected
In the next four years
under President-elect Richard
Nixon, the "former used car
salesman from California," Mr
Bond could not see any quick
change taking place in Vietnam,
and his domestic outlook was
that the next administration was
likely to "turn back the clock
for a number of black people."
He maintains that the United
States is to be "ruled by a
man, we (the black community)
did not want and did not vote
for."
Commenting on the Vietnam
war, Mr. Bond feels that it
"feeds particularly on our (the
black) community." He also ex­pressed
his viewpoint that in
Vietnam there are integrated
fox htzj}es, yet at home there is
a great amount of difficulty
caus-ed in trying to bring about
integrated class rooms."
Black Capitalism
In response to President-elect
Nixon'.s proposal of Black capi­talism
to rectify the conditions
existing in ghetto areas, Mr.
Bond believes that such a policy
would only r esult in "changing
white exploitation to black ex­ploitation."
Nothing that the
unemployment rate among
blacks is forty percent and that
twenty-five percent of those em­ployed
earn a weekly salary of
less than sixty dollars a week,
Mr Bond feels that the major
emphasis must be directed so
that the bla-ck man realizes
what he is. He feels the "hol­low"
civil rights, devoid of
economic rights, are tantamount
to slavery.
New Coalition
Maintaining that both begging
and armed combat would prove
ineffective in producing a just
and ordered society, Mr Bond
called for a new coalition which
would bring about an "end to
slogans and rhetoric." Such a
coalition would encompass all
the views of the political spec·
trum "inCluding the demonstra-tions
in Chicago, the supporters
of Wallace, those dwelling in
the slums, on college campuses,
the Spanish-speaking and poor
White communities, as well as
the Black and White middle
class." Such a coalition could
start to bring about the reali­zation
of the many promises
which have been made. If, how­ever,
these promises were not
Continued on Page 9 Julia.n Bond speaks to capacity crowd in recent appearance.
Various Facets of Drugs
Discussed At Recent Forum
By DAVID McVittle
".Marijuana is probably the most used drug on this campus," stated Sergeant
Frednck Campbell at an open forum r ec ently held in the Oak Room. Sergeant
Campbell, detective on the Fairfield Police Force. joined Dr. John J. Boitano and
Dr. Ralph S. Welsh, professors in the psychology aepartment here at Fairfield for
this discussion on drugs. '
As the opening speaker, Dr. the users:" Reasons enumerated juana had less potential danger
John Boitano explained to the by the professor as to why the than other drugs, but that it
large audience exactly how the youth used drugs were, "as a was still unpredictable. His
various drugs affected the brain way of protesting or expressing main aversion to the taking of
and body of man. He empha- their dissatisfaction with so- drugs was that, "it reduces our
sized the danger of death from ciety" and in general, he said, ability to understand and adapt
the over use of barbituates "they are very angry kids." to our environment and lessens
which, as depressives, can slow. the :possibility of becoming ere-down
the body's functions to As to the effects of ·drug ative."
the point of death. The Fair- usage, Dr Welsh informed the
field professor also mentioned audience that many users de­alcohol
in the category of drugs, veloped neurotic disorders and
but qual,ified it as not having that they were "fouled up peo­the
same potential as other ple." He did admit that mari­At
the end of the prepared
talks, the audience kept the·
speakers busy with questions
for nearly an hour
drugs. Concerning LSD, Dr. ---------------------------
Boitano discussed its extreme Dr. v.,·sher Ap~no,·nted potency and unpredictability. L' • r
N arcotlcs Squad
Following Dr Boitano, Sgt.
Campbell discussed the laws
here in Connecticut regarding
the distribution or possession of
drugs. Sgt. Campbell explained
that the distribution of narcot­ics
is punishible with five to
ten years imprisonment. The
posession of the same drug
would incur a penalty of one
to ten years. Sgt. Campbell, dis­satisfied
with the lack of a nar­cotics
squad in Farifield, quoted
that, "the drug use rate has
increased tremendously in the
last three years." Concerning
this step-up in drug usage, he
stated, "50 to 60 per cent of
high school and college students
in the area have used or ex­perimented
with marijuana at
one time or another."
Drug Society
Last to speak was Dr RaWh
Welsh, who discussed the so­ciological
and psychological as­p.
ects of drug usage. He re­marked
that in our "drug So­ciety"
it is ihe "intelligent, com­petent,
reliable kids tbat are
'World Order' Editor
Dr Betty Fisher, Assistant
Professor in the English De­partment,
has recently been
named Managing Editor of
"World Order" magazine. The
appointment was made by Edi­tor-
in-Chief Dr Firuz Kazemza­deh,
Russian History Professor
at Yale. Dr. Fisher joined the
"World Order" staff in the
Spring. Other members include
Yale Romance Linguistics Pro­fessor
Dr. Howard Garey, Co­Editor;
Negro author Glenford
E. Mitchell, Layout and Pro­duction
Editor; and Negro poet
Robert Hayden, Poetry Editor.
"World Ordex:;" :published by
the National Spiritual Assembly
of the Baha'is uf the United
·States, is a quarterly "intended
to stimtil:ate, inspire, and serve
thinki~ people .in their search
to find relationShips between
contemporary .life and contem­porary
:religious teachings and
philosophy." Its articles, poetry,
book reviews, and editorials
deal -with a broad range of so­cial,
ethical, historical, esthetic,
and religious problems. They
are written by men and women,
Baha'i or not, who are seeking
to understand and do something
about the human condition.
Contribntros
Recent contributors include
the former Canadian Prime
Minister Lester B. Pearson; re­nowned
Orientalist at Rome
University Dr Alessandro Bau­sani;
Assistant Professor of
Negro history at Yale Univer­sity
:of Massachusetts Dr Darnel
Jordan, and Negro poet Robert
Hayden. An article by Mr. Ru­dolph
Landry of Fairfield's En­glish
Department will appear in
the Summer 1969 issue.
Born in New Mexico, Dr.
Fisher attended The University
of New Mexico and received her
B.A. degree from Harding Col-
Continued Oil Pace 8
Theatre
By Stefan Kobua
Ten thousand blessings upon all that's here,
for you've turned me a likely gaffer in the
end of all ...
THI STAe
-J. M. Synge
For many reasons, I will desist from writing a dramatic essay on Philadelphia,
Here I Come!, even though it does raise a question as to whether one can separate
an outstanding performance from what is, at best, a 1Diilor play. Still, I will refrain.
But lam afraid that I handicap myself overmuch by doing this, merely because I
have· always· thought myself more gifted at polemic than at praise, and to .find the
proper adjectives may prove difficult. ---------------------------------------------------- Let me start by saying that
the Fairfield University PlaYers
come very close to acting as an
.:nsemble in this production. Put
very simply, they work well
With each other, and withou1
such a unity this play might
well have dragged them dawn
one by one. Certainly, a mh:ro·
cosm of their entire effort is
found in the interrelationship of
the two major characters: ·
But as to individuals; anyway.
One might tend to underesti­mate
the importance of Mrs.
Mollie Oliver's role, but that
may be only because she plays
it so well. She is truly the c;up­l_)
brting actress, while lending
the play a continuity it might
:riot· otherwise have. And Mrs.
.'Vera Myers is Medea a decade
after, with all the absurdity
~d sincerity of the lumpem·
bourgeoisie.
There are also two students
who, after minor and mostly un­distinguished
roles in previous
productions, have .finally come
into their ~wn. William Thomp­son
performs a triumph~t mer­ger
of the degenerate aristo­cratic
intellectual, and John
Stone is outstanding as S. B.
O'Donnell, one of the truly lost
generation; the aging man who
has memories, but all the wrong
ones.
Thomas Zingarelli. I also
promised myself to refrain from
saying a word about him, t1nd
so I shall. :But go and see him,
damn it! (I shall hate myself
for having written that.)
Now, to say something critic·
al. The staging of the confron­tation
between Senator Doogan
and Gareth O'Donnell was over­ly
macabre, but that was the
fault o! an otherwise successful
stage design. The "Irish flav­our"
of the production turns
;our at certain points, but a
struggle for authenticity can do
that. What else is there? I fear
that I am returning ta the text
·of the play itself which, as a
whole, is much less than the
sum of its parts. It is a proven
technique of Broadway critics
to end their reviews with a
quote from one of the audience.
Following in this fine tradition
then, I would refer to a com­ment
that the next play pro­duced
here should be a "hap­pier"
one. I wouldn't go so far
as to agree with that, but I
would say that it should be a
better one. After all, these
people are rather good(slc).
Fraternity Holds Biafra Benefit
Featuring Student Attractions
In an effort to raise money for the starving children in Biafra, the Delta Sigma
Phi Fraternity of Fairfield will present a benefit concert on Thursday, December
12 at 8:00 p.m. in the Campus Center Oak Room.
The program will feature ---------------------------
three student attractions: the giving benefit performances for original concept in instrumental
Spontaneous Generation, Thorn
Perotti, and the 0 plus 6, who
are donating their proceeds to
the Biafra fund.
.Spontaneous Generation
The Spontaneous Generation
is a folk grq1,1p composed of
students from Fa~rfield and
M~atblnville College in Pur­chase,
New York, The group
which appearert on. WOR radio
in New Yor\( this past-s1;1mmer,
has toured East Coast colleges
the Youth Interracial Council
and other worthy organizations.
Thom Perotti, a sophomore
from Fairfield University, is a
solo folk guitariSt, who has per­formed
his program of contem­porary
songs at the Newport
Folk Festival.
0 Plus 8
Comprised of five Fairfield
students and two University ot
Bridgeport students, the 0 plus
6 jazz-pop group presents an
SHIRTS '2
entertainment.
The 0 plus 6 is an offspring
from the original groups which
initiated the highly successful
jazz movement in the Fairfield­Bridgeport
area last year.
The donation for the concert
is $1.00 and all proceeds from
the concert will be used to pur­chase
food to be shipped to the
Ivory Coast of Africa.
4th thru 6¢
10th ''"
December II, 1968
The Fairfield~
Merry-Go-Round
By ROBERT MURPHY
Last Thursday night Peter, Paul and Mary, one .Jf the na­tion's
most popular concert attractions, played to a half-filled
Fairfield Gym. Why? The Student. Government, who sponsored
the concert, was responsible for the gross management of the
affair The fa.ilure can be attributed to a number of things. The
tickets were not sold well enough in advance and the publicity
was practically nonexistent. Schools in New York, let alone the
area colleges, didQ.'t even know a concert was being held. The
vast sources of the mass media weren't even tapped. The Student
Association stands to lose one-third of its present treasury on one
concert because of the disorganization of .the Student Government.
If the students are to even attam any form of autonomy the
body which by definition ought to govern the autonomous Stags
must be radically reformed now. The plan for the Student Govern­ment
to run a modified Yale Coop could work only with an efficient
organization. The bureaucracy that now exists in the government
defeats any good that it might try to do. A school the size of Fair­field
does not need the large government it now has. A smaller,
more E;fficient government could handle the problems and pro­grams
with less difficulty and with less time wasted.
A municipal form of government would serve the purposes of
the Student Association much better A board of fifteen represen­tativ~
s elected by the student body could act as both executive and
legisiative branches of government. In addition, three officers
would head the board - a president, secretary and treasurer.
Members would be elected at large with no more than four from
any one class and three from any one dorm. Five members would
be elected in October, five in January, and five in April. The of­ficers
would b~ elected with the January board members. The
president of the government, who is also the chairman of the
board, would be allowed to have a staff of his own choice and
whose number he would decide.
Two other branches would be needed to round out the govern­ment.
First, a dorm council composed_ of students from each dorm
would set rules and regulations for the dorm life and would J?unish
all infractions. The rules and regulations would be subject to ap­proval
of the board of directors. Appeals and fines or punishment
imposed would also go to the board of directors. Second, there
should be an inter-club council that would set up the social calen­dar
for each semester. The council would conduct all s.ocial events
that are held on campus and approve those held off campus. The
proceeds from on campus events would go to the govex:mnent
treasury and then dispersed to campus organizations through vote
of the inter-club council. Every club in the school would be entitled
to have a representative on the council. All money bills would go
to the board of directors· for approval. •
Under this type of arrangement all r~sponsibility would rest
in lhe board of directors with the two sub-councils handling jobs
that would be too cumbersome and time-consuming for the board
to handle. The board would represent the students with one voice
and on:! body The bungled up mess we have now would end. It
is t::'ue that the government would be more selective and the jobs
twice as hard as before, but it would be much better than many,
people doing practically nothing.
In· order to impl'ove our lot we must start at the bottom and
rebuild our organization, replenish our treasury (at no cost to the
s ' uden~s), and then demand the power that such a reorganized
government could yield.
How about being a
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December II, 1968 THE STAS
Music
The Beatles Play
By BRUCE SCHAUBLE
(THE BEATLES - The Beatles - Apple Records SWBO 101)
"The Beatles" is a spontaneous musical auto biography, a veritable "magical
mystery tour" through the minds of The Beatles, viewing the world through their
eyes and listening to other musicians through their ears. It starts with a trip to the
U.S. (S.R.) and closes, after a long journey, with a lullaby straight from Disneyland.
Along the way, the Beatles
present several of the best
songs, from any point of view,
which they have yet produced,
including "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da,"
"While My Guitar Gently
Weeps," "Blackbird," "I Will,"
and "Yer Blues." Many of the
other songs, which have been
put down by some reviews as
being trite, unimpressive, or
pretentious, have nonetheless a
distinctive value in their own
right, that is as expressive of
the intellectual atmosphere in
which The Beatles operate.
"The Beatles" lacks the for­mal
artistic value which char­acterizes
most of The Beatles
most recent work (specifically
Sgt. Pepper) . It nevertheless
succeeds, quite impressively, on
another level entirely. "The
Beatles" does not actually at­tempt
to put itself across ac;
"art" at all. This is a crucia1
point which has been missed
by many of the revi~ws I have
Books
seen so far. The problem lies
not in the songs themselves, but
in the minds of reviewers ..vho
evidently want to have their
rock and read it too. As John
puts it, "Everybody says w~
must do this and that, but our
thing is just rocking .
That's what this new record is
about." This is then an album
less to be interpreted than mere­ly
enjoyed (as we might have
gathered from "Glass Onion,''
a tongue-in-cheek imagistic
guide for eager interpreters).
The album derives its justifica­tion
not from its artistic pro­foundity,
but from its personal
immediacy.
Since this is the case, evalua­tion
becomes, for this album
more than for the Beatles pre­vious
ones, an essentially per­sonal
endeavor. If you like it,
you like it. If you don't, no
amount of third level criticism
nn my part is going to convince
you to change your mind. Look­ing
at it objectively, the albun1
certainly cannot be faulted for
a lack of musical or intellectual
variety. Musically, there are
country, folk, rock, blues, elec­tronic
collage, and other lesser
elements. Intellectually, al­though
the dominant mode is
the Beatles' ever present skep­tical
satire ("Back in the
U.S.S.R.", "Bungalow Bill,"
etc.), there is still room for,
among other things, unabashed
sentimentality ("I Will.") The­matically,
the album is virtually
universal, with love, sex, pow­er,
patriotism, and the quality
of modern life all receiving sa­tirical
treatment. But the basic
spirit of the album is the spirit
of play. As John puts it, "We're
all just coming out of a <>hell,
in a new way, kind. of saying:
remember what it was like to
play."
The Narrowing 'Frontiers'
By Stefan Koba.sa.
(Frontiers. Volume III, Issue 1, 1968.)
To review a literary magazine is to put one's self in the position of suffering
for others' sins. In other words, the critic is asked to conserve the energy of pros­pective
readers by expending his. Eclecticism of the worst sort, I am afraid. Very
well, then, you may insert the following asterisks in your table of contents.
Michael Schmuecker has pub-lished
a truly dine piece of short
prose. One only wonders whe­ther
he has anything left to
write. That leaves us with a
certain anticipation, however.
As the major contributor in
terms of quantity, David Arn
has had the odds of success fall
in favor of two of his poems,
"Dusk" and "Hippopoteneuse"
(the latter is the more mean­ingless,
and, therefore, perhaps
the better). Richard Cunning­ham
writes in terms of a uni­versal
autobiography which he
knows only too few would ever
a.dmit to being conscious of. As
for the rest of the poetry, read
it all and see what it is to be
a novice in lyricism. Remember,
too, that "Camp is a John :M:on­tagnesi."
A word on the selection from
Daniel Turner's drama. I think
it is a mistake for a playwright
to have his play, or a part of
it, printed before it has ever
been performed, unless it is a
translation of another work o1·
poetry, neither of which Mr.
Turner's play is. The only prob­lem
here is that I am not 3.t all
sure whether the above criti­cism
applies to Mr. Turner's
work. He has attempted to write
within · the demands of Aris­totelian
tragedy, which means
that he has not written a play
at all. Which means that he
should have written poetry.
Which means
And if one is interested mere­ly
in photography, one need not
go beyond the cover. It is quite
fine technically, and thematic­ally,
also, given the title of the
magazine. Otherwise, the photo·
graphs serve only as fillers, and
the artificial posing of a c;top
sign has to be at least less in­teresting
than a picture of the
same sign in its natural en­vironment.
To conclude. Over the past
few years, a certain aura of
doubt and deceit has surround­ed
the University literary mag­azine.
New Frontiers, of which
the present magazine is a much­bastardized
offspring, was one
of the finest college publications
in the East. It included works
of noted poets from outside the
university community as well
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as writing from the faculty.
There was, let it be modestly
said, a certain amount of re­nown
attached to the whole en­terprise.
That all has disap­peared
entirely, and we are left
with a twice-yearly collection
of literature which is decidedly
provincial (more than that,
since even the faculty is pre­vented
from contributing), and
which does not even have the
power to improve itself. Stu­dent
participation and all that
aside (and from the dearth of
material in the magazine, such
considerations are not difficult
to eliminate), it has always
seemed apparent to me that a
literary publication such as this
should share a universal com­position
as well as a universal
appeal. The magazine should
be an exercise in art and litera­ture,
not in self-congratulation.
The fault for all this lies neither
with the faculty nor with the
students, except in their pas­sivity.
Obviously, we are left
with the third and last integral
part of this institution, the ad­ministration.
I mention them
only so that I might offer my
congratulations. You have suc­ceeded
so well in destroying so
much. Too well. Too much.
What does it matter if the
other be the God of truth,
if he is the God of the ab­surd?
-Donoso Cortes
New Directions
Statistics indicate as best they !:an that there are close to 100
million guns of one type or another in the U.S., and that over 25%
of Americans are gunowners. To update an old joke, this m.ust
infer that 1.25 of the Lennon Sisters is now packing a gun.
One of the companies that makes a healthy profit on this
trend is the Matte} Corporation. In this Christmas season alone.
it will get inlmeasurably richer peddling toys of pathological viol·
ence to unsuspecting children and their even less suspecting par
en ~ s. But rather than criticize these patriotic Americans for keep.
ing the economy healthy and keeping us ready for the imminent
invasion of San Diego, I thought it only fair to suggest how their
advertis2ng catalogue should look in the future. For one, guns as
a sole source of revenue is like waiting for the Depression. For
another, I think diversified stock would deflect criticism. Third,
more sophistication is needed, for today's kids are more alert than
we were and might demand social value. Future ca~gues might
look like this:
• • •
SHOO~·TO·KILL!
Here it is, kids. The official game of the Chicago Pig De­partment
- excuse us, that should be Police. You've seen it ad­veriised
on such shows as "Mace the Nation," "Beat the Press,"
and "Ronald Reagan Presents Sermonette." Imagine yourself
clearing a ghetto of the darkness threatening our land, armed
with your Midget Mauser and a can of MiniMace. Don't miss it.
kids! Comes equipped with a club for whenever big gatherings
are held. Split to your store right away! Comes equipped with
paranoid Mayor who will back you up no matter what. It's f'
riot! It's a gas! It's "Shoot-to-Kill!"
VIET VET
Remember the old comics - Sgt. Rock and the Combat-Happy
Joes of Easy Co.? Guns roaring "Budda-budda-budda-kapow-ka­pow?"
Japs dying with shrieks of "Aiyee!" and Krauts with
"Ack!"? Well, you can have 'em all back with "Viet Vet." Earn
a Ned Napalm citation by razing the town you're supposed to
liberate. Learn how to cut off the ears of dead VC, and be one of
the guys. Experience the ecstasy of hurling a North Vietnamese
officer out of a helicopter at 300 feet. Don't worry kids, it's all
right: remember, the enemy commits atrocities!
QUELL·A·CAMP118
Now it's your turn to enforce law and order, kids. Imagine!
Anarchists in our institutions of higher learning and the presi­dent's
called you in. What can we give you? Oh, the usual: Guns,
knives, spears, pitchforks, hand grenades, bazookas, Molotov
cocktails, ground-to-ground missiles, and a Hal-Karate instruction
sheet on how to wipe out all the reporters and cameramen. Also
a can of Right Guard to torture a prisoner, assuming you don't
fracture his skull right there on the front steps of the library.
ZAP-A-CITY
New from the makers of "Whlp-a-IDppie."
Follow your new President's example; have an arms race.
We've got a hydrogen bomb for you, freshly hijacked from a B52
on the ocean floor. Sorry about its dampness.
SPACE MACE
Won't be long now, kids. Space wars! Pretty groovy, huh?
T.hink of the crazy-looking people we can enslave, assuming we
d1dn't wipe out their civilizations years ago by sending probe
rockets full of bacteria to their planets. This isn't The Invaders
or 2001, it's the real thing! So don't pass the buck! Roger?
SHOCK·YOUR·BLOCK
You say you asked your mommy for a Colt .45 for Christma~
and she crossed you up by buying a horse? Well, don't you put
up with it! Immobilize her with nerve gas, one of the many fea­tures
of "Shock-your-Block," the toy that makes quicksand
boxes obsolete. And the next time Daddy belts down eight martinis
at lunch, comes home, gives Mommy a fat lip, and asserts his
virility by kicking the dog's teeth 1n while you watch, you can stab
him with Punjii Paradise, our new top-secret, curare-tipped bam­boo
spike!
• • •
This column is dedicated to all those who will eat rats and
not turkey on Dec. 25. Also the esteemed head of the Treas­urer's
Office. May he spend a Christmas free from his late partner
Jacob Marley. Slight apologies to the Harvard Lampoon.
Our Glorious
Continued from Page '7
knees, unfrocked, and handed
over. 'When all these thing~>
were done', says Schopp, a
fiercely hostile witness., 'he said
not a word except in a menac­ing
way,' 'Perhaps your fear in
passing judgment on me is
greater than mine in receiving
it". On the 17th he was burned
alive in the Field of Flowers
with a gag on his tongue. (Ed.:
To prevent blasphemy while
burning.) Schopp records that
when the crucifix was offered
to him, 'he turned his face aside
in disdain'. His ashes were
scattered to the winds. On 7
August 1603 all his writings
were placed on the Index." Rob­ert
Cardinal Bellarmine affixed
anchor signature to both the
death and proscription edicts.
And in 1945, Robert Bellar­mine
became patron saint of
this University.
Living The Spirit
Christmas is a time of love, peace, and understanding.
What do we know of love when we allow our young men to be
sent to a foreign land to kill and be killed.
When will wt learn about love?
What do-we know of peace when some of us, disguised as the
great peace-makers, intentionally taunt police, while others condone
terror tactics to deny a whole people of their legal and moral rights.
When will we learn about peace ?
What do we know about understanding when many of us struggle
for change solely with allegiance to personal beliefs, unwilling to
compromise. And what _about those in authority who, rather than
welcome positive activism, intentionally frustrate it either by ignoring
concrete proposals or by using familiar stall tactics.
When will we learn about understanding?
Talking of love, peace, and understanding at Christmastime is
meaningless unless we sincerely try to live every day of our lives
according to these principles.
We are a country led by monetary concern, a movement led by
a new self-righteousness, a university led by indifference on the one
hand and frustration on the other.
Things will not and cannot change overnight, but we can begm.
We cannot hope to find the spirit of Christmas in others if it is not in
ourselves. Living this spirit of Christmas every day will be a positive
step that each one of us can and must take if we are to really change
this world.
We would ask you, then, to make this Christmas very different
from those you have known in the past. Don't just think good. Do
good. ·
So, this being the present st aff's last issue of this year, we take
this opportunity to thank the entire student body and members of the
faculty and administration for bearing with us, and wish all a spirit­ually
rewarding and very Merry Christmas.
Progressive Victory
On December 4, the proposed Constitutional amendment en­abling
student enactment of the new Constitution passed by 3 to 1.
The S~ag hails this heartwarming victory for student progressives.
The vote was unusually significant. The weather was harshly
~ /tJve a
dwell alwa
inclement, and the referendum stood alone on the ballot. Both factors
failed to discourage a healthy turnout of 31%, signaling deep stu­dent
interest. Similar elections at Columbia last week drew only 15%.
Moreover, the 3-1 margin matched precisely the 21-7 vote in the
original legislature motion. This should settle beyond all doubt the
question of whether the legislators speak for the students. We com­mend
people like James Ruane, proposer of the amendment, and AI
Mariani, who handled its publicity, and all others behind Amend­ment
Six, who have made "working within the system" a ·slogan the
sensitive student can be proud of, not repelled by.
As for the losers, we welcome them to join a new coalition
dedicated to restructuring Fairfield. The conservative minority is em­barrassingly
out of step ·with student opinion, and any further at­tempts
to delay or defeat either the Amendment or the Constitution
must be construed as a sinister attempt to thwart the student's vital
interests and defy their expressed will.
Minimum of Planning
Fairfield students were treated to a rare and exhilarating eve­ning
of intellectual and cultural enlightenment with the dual ap­pearance
of Julian Bond and Peter, Paul, and Mary last Thursday
night. The Bellarmine Series must be congratulated for obtaining the
articulate Mr. Bond, one of the .few leaders to emerge from Chicag-o
with both reputation and head intact. The Student Government must
be congratulated for Peter, Paul, and Mary's appearance, who were,
in theatrical lingo, simply "boffo."
However, the site of the Bond appearance was shifted with what
seemed to be caprice. The crowd was herded across campus rather
like cattle not once, but twice. If plane delays cannot be blamed,
poor planning can.
Peter, Paul, and Mary were justly annoyed at having to perform
well beyond contract time, while the concert may have flirted with
financial disaster due to almost nonexistent publicity. Neither Bond
nor the folk trio were kept abreast of each other's parallel arrange­ments.
Two such first-rate events should never have been scheduled for
the same night in the same place, anyway. Such <'Yents of cultural
importance require the maximum in careful coordination, but it was
obvious to those who attended both events that this was at a minimum.
~~.;...r. .;..11;.;.'..;.1.;..;96;..;.8_ ___________________.. .;...,;TH E S T A 5
Part II
Our Glorious Heritage
By EDITORIAL BOARD
Having looked at ourselves al­ready,
The Stag probed into his­tory
to find some information
on the man for whom Fairfield
is named, St. Robert Rellar­mine.
Robert Bellarmine in his life­time
(1542-1621) took his mind
to great heights. He shared an
affinity for puns and the poor,
for a command of Hebrew and
combath1g heretics, and attain­ed
a great reputation at the
Gregorian College. His works
inclurle The Seven Words, The
Ascent of the Mind to God, The
Lament of the Dove, all devo­tionill,
and the polemical Dt>.
Controversiis, which included
his views on Church-state sep­aration
in the section De Laicis.
But there are other stories in
his life.
In England, his views in De
Laicis convinced King James
that the Catholic minority was
a conspiracy, and after engag­ing
in debate with Bellarmine
he held him indirectly respon·
sible for the Gunpowder Plot.
The ensuing anti-Catholic hys­teria
was so great that the Eng­lish
Church suffered a status
of permanent inferiority. Sam
Johnson wrote of Bellarmine's
views with public approval:
"The Pope is invested with all
the authority on heaven and
earth All princes are his
vassals . He may annul
their laws at his pleasure .
He may depose kings if the
good of the Church requires it
. . . The Pope is God upon
earth."
In France, reaction to his
views spurred on the movement
toward Gallicanism and absolu­tism
as a defense against Rome.
Soon after the murder of Henry
IV, an anonymous infighter
wrote of Bellarmine, with the
tacit approval of Regent Marie
de Medici: "This precious Car­dinal,
this sophistical dunder­head,
this blood-sucker of
princes, this reptile with hooked
teeth, would cram his pontiffs
with ambition to possess the
whole world and reduce every
nation to their sway. The pages
of his book are as dangerous
as the drooling slime of a mad
dog." Nor was Bellarmine al­ways
in papal favor: his work
was briefly on the Index and
an unsuccessful attempt to mol­lify
a Jesuit-Dominican dispute
over grace saw him transferred
out of Rome.
Bellarmine's stand on Gali­leo
rates notice. He was vague­ly
familiar with the Copernican
theory, but shied away froin
embr~cing it because it meant
too radical a change. As he
explained. "(Contrary to Gos·
pel, mathematicians) vociferate
and clamor in our ears, just as
if they themselves had meas­ured
the size of the stars, that
it is impossible for the stars to
fall upon the Earth, for even
the least of the fixed stars i11
so much bigger than the F.arth.
that the Earth could not nn.o­sibly
receive it if it werP tn
fall. To these assP"Jerations of
the mathematicians we might
oppose the opinion of St. Basil
the Great, St. John Chrysos­tom,
St. Amt>rose, the most
learned St. Augustine, and very
many others, who hold that,
with the single exception of the
Sun, the Moon is bigger than
any of the stars, from which it
follows that the Earth mwt be
much bigger than any of them,
for even the mathematicians ad­mit
that the Moon is much
smaller than the Earth. Still,
such an argument would not
keep the mathematicians quiet."
Another time he said: "Many
years ago I had a discussion
with Vimercati, the celebnted
philosopher, about the number
of the celestial spheres. Person­ally
I was convinced that there
were eight of them anrl no
more, but I found it impos~:ihl11
to win over any of the~ a~o~­tronomers
to my opinion he­cause
they all persisted in clirur­ing
to the observations of "Riu­parchus
and Ptolemy, AR if the,..
were articles of faith." v .. t an­other
time he sermonizelt on
the subject: "Men are so like
frogs. They go open-mouthed
for the lure of things which do
not concern them, and that wily
angler the· Devil knows how to
capture multitudes of them."
The famous Giorgio de Santil­lana
documents Galileo's 1616
censuring as a case of Bellar­mine,
liking Gallleo and fearing
the truth of his thesis, allow­ing
himself to be manipulated
by wily associates in the Italian
Inquisition for fear of Aris­totle's
being discredited. Gali­leo
agreed to a disclaimer in
Bellarmine's office which was
later used at Galileo's 1633
trial, parts of which either Gali­leo
forgot or were altered. Bel­larmine
was not alive to com­ment,
and Galileo was broken
- a crime still on th~ books.
Perhaps ttois quote from one of
Bellarmine's sermons explains
explains his actions: "Freedom
of belief is pernicious."
Most interesting is the fate of
Giordano Bruno, a molder of
Spinoza, disciple of Coperni~us.
and firebrand apostate who was
dungeoned in 1592 but held out
for seven years. Santillana
writes "it took . . . Bellarmlne,
the great Jesuit consultant of
the Inquisition, to pin him down
at last on eight propositions
that he was challenged to ac­cept
or deny, without further
comment." As for Bruno, his
biographer Jack Lindsay writes
"We may assume that he was
tortured. Campanella was tor·
tured twelve times, the last
time for forty hours. During
torture a notary took down the
words of the anguished man;
if the latter remained silent,
torture was reapplied. Early in
1599 Bruno was examined by
the Congregation, who included
the learned Jesuit Bellannlne
who denounced the Copernican
theory and persecuted Sal'pi and
GalUeo . . . On February 8,
(1600-Ed.) he was delivered to
the secular arm for burning.
Schopp, a recent convert, wit­nessed
the passing of sentence.
Bruno was forced down on his
Continue~! on Page 5
II The Other Side I
By Laurence Prud'homme
The issue of co-education has once again become a headline
as it was announced that this university will open a School of
Nursing by 1970. The reasons given by the Administration seem
logical and well thought-out, and I am in favor of such a move.
The last time co-education was an issue, a couple of years ago,
I was against bringing girls to this campus. I had come to Fairfield
because it was an all-male college and I was primarily interested
in an education. I probably would have graduated before women
were admitted anyway, and of course, there was tradition to be
considered.
But that was back in the days when the typical Stag drP.ssect
neally, was well-mannered and friendly and Fairfield was referred
to, once in a while, as "the Catholic Iv:y League," and "the NL,tre
Dame of the East." The Dean of Resident Students could even put.
up a notice to remind the few that it was time for a shave and
a haircut.
Most recently, however, we have been experiencing a trend
on this campus of more angry and bitter people (not that the""E'
aren't some things to be angry about) and more and more students
appear slovenly for the sake of, it seems, looking slovenly. The
food service has had to put on extra help just to carry out trays
that are left behind. Dormitory activities have taken on a new
flavor and things that used to be infrequent violations are quickly
becoming problems of major proportion. It has only been f·mr
months now that the "jacket and tie" rule was dropped and I've
been asked several times already this semester what I was doing
with a jacket and tie on. (Luckily, I was just doing my own thing).
It is hoped that with the integration of women, as students,
into our campus life, there will be a return to the romping, stomp.
ing, beer-drinking, neatly dressed, gentlemanly, friendly Stag.
Images and appearances are a heck of a thing to write about when
they are really just a facade. And a few other schools have been
unsuccessful in bringing in a handful of female students as a good
influence on the rest of the campus. But we don't bave that much
to lose and quite a bit to gain if going "co-ed" brightens the cam­pus
up. I'm sure that we could live with an improved image, even
if it is a facade.
'!f• S...n
GRASS ROOTS
"The Buq- of Birth Control"
The Catholic Church and the United States have much in
common. Unfortunately, the wisdom of our forefathers in separat­ing
church from state was not as all-inclusive as it them seemed.
The church and America, although divorced on a legal level, ~till
mingle merrily on matters of faith and error. Both harbor an
ins~nsitive disregard for the outcasts of society (religious and
secular). The government perpetuates the ghetto, ignores the
enraged, abandons the needy and mindlessly plummets into the
depths of chaos. The church unconsciously endorses famine, expels
dissenters, stifles human nature under a plastic bag of doctrine
and then solemnly wonders what went wrong. Both the Pope and
the President are floating adrift in time, they issue decrees and
promulgate laws that either arouse our ennui or provoke thinly­muffled
gufflaws.
"Humane Vitae" may someday rank second only to Galileo's
"heresy" when an historian compiles a list of the most glaring
examples of haughty gnosticism. I'm afraid that even the rampant
rationalizing that frequently emanates from Vatican City may be
at a loss to dispell the fatalistic mood of Westminster lecturer,
C. P. Snow: " . the local famines will spread into a sea of
hunger The usual date for the beginning of local famines is
1975-1980. Many millions of people in the poor counrties are
going to starve to death before our eyes." One of the most p~ac­tical
means of preventing internecine starvation is "a reduction
in population increase throughout the worlcl." Meanwhile, the Pope.
like any successful politician, displays his love for babies and his
unreserved approval of motherhood. Paul seems almost as adept
as Neoro when it comes to passively fiddling.
Here, in America, where sex serves the function of deity-in­residence,
a handful of courageous young priests have been un­cremoniously
slapped down by the Mayor Daley of the Cathol:c
Church. Cardinal O'Boyle. They have been ardently, if ineffec­tively
backed in their objection by that roving rebel, Eugene Mc­Carthy
Are we witnessing the .emergence of an underground
church? Hopefully. If these priests and their suddenly not-s:r
uptight middle class allies remain unintimidated by the gusty
b_lusteri_ngs of some of the church's living relics, then I may pns­stbly
be tempted to once again consider the church's activities as
meaningful and pertinent. The bishops' council's recent endorse­ment
of selective conscientious objection may be regarded with
restrained optimism as a sign that Catholii!ism is finally beginning
to. stir from its lumbering stupor of the past. A permanent, un­bridgable
schism within the ranks of Catholicism at this p:>int
seems about as unlikely as the emergence of a fourth political
party. However, there is reason to hope that from the ashes ~his
encyclical has left in its wake there may arise a phoenix-faction
that is not rooted in spiritual affairs to the extent that the "Ugly"
fact of human frailty is discounted.
Why the uproar, why the disdain, why the dismay? It may be
that the church has asked its flock once too often. to sublimate
mortal pleasure to the arbitrary judgments of the ruling erte.
Religious martyrdom and ascetic self-flagellation ar~ now happily
regarded by most Catholics as quaint, dangerous exercises that
vanished centuries ago. The Pope has ordered the young male
Ca:holic in Brazil to assiduously forego the most vital escape from
the daily torment of his existence. The Pope has established his
own brand of tokenism by sanctioning rhythm. Yet, is not thE'
rhythm method, in itself, an obstruction in nature's path? Tht:
advent of the pill, which unifies pleasure and population control.
more than any minority invective has caused Catholics to thumb
thei~ noses at their spiritual shepherd. Birth control, like charity,
IH'gms at home and no papal edicts are posted on bedroom walls.
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Biafra:
Continued from Pag-e 2
to the Eastern region now
Biafra was underway
That massacre is one source
of the Biafrans' determination ,
another is their belief that the
Nigerian forces make a prac­tice
of executing male Ibo cap­tives.
• There have been peristent re­ports
of such executions. These
reports have received little
notice in the American press,
largely because it's very hard
to document them - reporter:;
are usually excluded from battle
zones. Evidence is not entirely
lacking, however.
In an article in the Septem·
ber 12 issue of the New York
Times Magazine Lloyd Garri­son,
one of the reporters who
has covered the war for the
Times, said there is evidence
that captive Ibo males had been
slaughtered in Nigerian assaults
on 10 different cities in Biafra.
Learning
He named the 10 towns, and re­ported
that the death toll re­sulting
from the mass execu·
tions had been in the thousands.
A Roman Catholic priest who
worked in the Biafran town oi
Asaba says that 800 Ibos had
been executed after Asaba was
captured by Nigerians. He said
the Ibos were ordered to dig
the trenches where they were
to be buried. Then the Niger ian
forces opened fire and killed
their captives.
Finally there is the matter of
the blockade. At the outset of
the war in July 1967 the Ni·
gerian government claimed that
a "swift, surgical" military op·
eration would force the Biafrans
to capitulate in short order. Al·
most a year and a half later
the Nigerians, aided by gener·
ous infusions of military sup­plies
from England, Egypt and
the Soviet Union, have man·
aged to reduce the territory
held by the Biafrans to about
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one-tenth what it was at the
s!art of the war, but they
haven't been able to win the
war As a r esult the blockade
has become the central element
in their ass11ult.
Up to now the blockade has
been the direct cause of some·
thing like one million deaths in
Biaf~a. but it has failed to bring
a Biafran surrender.
In the next few months, how
ever, that may change. The
blockade is likely to result in
hundreds of thousand of addi­tional
deaths, and thus may ac·
complish the mass've reduction
in the population of Biafra that
is apparently necessary for a
Nigerian "victory " The reason
a new death-wave appears fm·
minent is quite simple - the
Biafrans are about to run out
of all food supplies.
Until recently the Biafrans
suffered mainly from a short•
age of protein foods. This meant
that the heaviest toll in lives
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With Genocide
was exacted among very young
children, who have an especial·
ly great need for protein.
Now, however, relief officials
in Biafra report that tJ:!e Bia
frans are rapidly using up their
supplies of yams, the primary
carbohydrate food in the '!rea.
According to projections by of·
ficials the yam supplies will be
exhausted this month or nE'xt.
When they are gone adults will
be just as vulnerable as chi!·
dren. Dr Herman Middlekoop,
the respected head of the World
Council of Churches rE'lief
operation in Biafra, has predict­ed
that a half-million Biafrans
will die in December Only a
massive relief operation could
forestall starvation on this scale.
Such an operation is not in
prospect.
These facts about the Biafran
situation, of course, can't con·
vey the torture that each in­dividual
victim of starvation
suffers before the end, or the
fear that is the constant lot of
the Biafrans who have survived
until now They do, however,
make certain conclusions pos­sible.
First, genocide is being com­mitted
in Biafra. There may be
no way to prove this legally,
but the facts are plain enough
to permit us to use this word.
One million Biafrans - mostly
Ibos have died of other thau
natural causes. Most of ~hem
have not been soldiers, or at
least have been non-combatants.
at the time of death. They are
victims of genocide.
Second, the Nigerian leader­ship
is clearly implicated in
this crime, but responsibility
for it extends well beyond the
boundaries of Nigeria, and in­deed
of Africa itself. Among
Western governments, there
have been two primary re­sponses
to the Biafra situation.
some governments have sup­plied
arms; the rest have :lone
virtually nothing. Under the
circumstances both responses
are criminal. When the crime
is genocide everyone is impli­cated
to some extent, except
for the victims themselves.
Beyond that, what is_ needed
now is action rather than recri­mination.
Some of the Biafrans
can be saved, but not without
massive infusions of food and
medical supplies. The U.S. Gov­ernment,
for one, is in a posi­tion
to provide these necessi­ties,
but it won't do so unless
Americans can exert strong
pressure for such action. Put­ting
pressure on the Govern­ment
is not an easy task, as
peace groups have discovered
over the years, but it now ap­pears
to be the only way con­cerned
Americans can try to
save the Biafrans.
Lecture
Continued from Page 1
amount of real estate under the
papal fl.ag, bank accounts, or
stocks and bonds or efficient
offices, but it must be PEO­PLE
imbued with the know­ledge
and, above all, the spirit
of the Gospel. I firmly believe
that Christ himself would find
it very difficult if not impossible
to live his way of life in the
structure today."
Following Fr. Carter's talk
which will be sponsored by The
Stag, there will be an informal
question and answer session.
Refreshments will be served.
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Amendment .Passage Food Waste Complaint
Continued from Page Z Maggi informed the Stag that
it was because of the wasted
portions of ice cream t hat this
rlessert was t e m p o r a r i I y
stopped. He also said that once
dur ing this per iod a number of
students broke into the freezer
and before it was closed fiteen
cases were stolen. Despite this
waste and any undesir able inci­dents,
Mr Robinson s tated that
there are no "insurmountable
difficulties."
is that they don't waste the
Continued from Page 1 food.''
making these decisions, faculty
and Administration viewpoints
must be taken into considera­tion."
In concluding, Mr. Ruane
stated that the members of the
Student Court should be the
ones to ~terpret the scope of
any new legislative power:
"Aren't they the ones that wlll
ultimately uphold the rights
stated in the (proposed) Bill of
Rights, and ultimately define
the power of the Student Gov·
ernment?"
Amendment Suit
In reference to the topic of
judicial interpretation, it ap­pears
that Minority Leader
James Cunningham plans to sue
for reversal of the amendment
ratification through Student
Court action . The Student Cov­ernment,"
he claims, "is guilty
of enacting into law, as a Con­stitutional
amendment, not only
an ambiguous law, but also one
with contradictory wording."
He is referring to an apparent
error in the wording of the
amendment which was prest>nt­ed
in the referendum: "The fu.
ture Constitution . . . once
ratified (by the Legislature)
must be approved by 50% plus
one of the members of the Stu­dent
Association voting, in order
Appointment
Continued f rom Page S
lege in 1958. She held a teach­ing
assistantship at The Univer­sity
of Arkansas where she re­ceived
her M.A. degree in 1960.
She was then appointed a teach­ing
assistant at The University
of Wisconsin, where she com­pleted
work on a Ph.D. in Medi­eval
English Literature in 1965.
She has taught at Duquesne
University and The University
of Nebraska, and joined the En­glish
Department of Fairfield
University in the Fall 1967, as
an Assistant Professor of Medi­eval
English literature.
Independent Religion
The Baha'i Faith is an inde­pendent
world religion with fol­lowers
in 311 countries. Its
teachings revolve around three
basic principles the oneness of
God, the oneness of religion,
and the oneness of mankind. Its
Prophet-Founder, Baha'u'llah
(Glory of God), reaffirms the
spiritual teachings of past pro­phets.
But like His predeces­sors,
He has brought social
teachings geared to the age in
which we are living. Among
them are the following prin­ciples.
the oneness of the hu­man
race; the basic unity of all
religions, unfettered investiga­tion
of truth; elimination of all
forms of prejudice, the essenti­al
harmony of science and reli­gion,
equality of men and wo­men,
universal compulsory ed­ucation
, a universal auxiliary
language; a spiritual solution of
economic problems, universal
peace upheld by a world gov­ernment.
Since moving to Connecticut
in July 1967, Dr Fisher has
been working with college-age
Baha'is and their friends in the
Greater Bridgeport area. She is
also serving as Public Informa­tion
Representative for the
Baha'is of the Greater Bridge­port
Area.
to be ratified."
Mr. Cunningham insisted that
"the Student Government can­not,
per se, ratify an amend­ment
to the Constitution, or
ratify the Constitution as a
whole The amendment
gives two different interprPta­tions
of what ratification is."
Ratification Statement
Representative Ruane's orig­inal
proposal stated that "the
future Constitution (once ap·
proved by a majority of the
Student Government) must be
approved by a majority of the
members of the Student Asso­ciation
voting, in order to be
ratified." Apparently, it was
only the referendum which con­tained
the "double ratification"
statement; however, this has
been enough to substantiate Mr
Cunningham's claim, as the
Court will meet this afternoon
to study the problem he has
brought up.
More food is wast0d here at
Fairfield than most colleges
eat," stated Mr Anderson , co­ordinator
in the cafeteria for
Specialized Management. The
great amount of wasted food is
done so needlessly "Students
can come back for Sf'conds unt;l
their knees fall off," noted Mr
Robinson, but he asked that they
not take more than they can
eat.
Smooth-Running
Bob Maggi, chairman of the
Student Government Grievance
Committee, has met with Mr
Robinson almost daily in an
effort to insure the smooth-run­ning
of the food service. Con­cerning
the management of the
cafeteria staff, Mr Maggi said,
"Mr. Robinson has bent. over
hackwards to help out . He's
doing all he can to work dif­ficuJties
out", and that "he has
been more than generous with
his time."
Innovations
The head manager also said
that the company was out to
do "the best job we can for
the guys." Along t his line, Mr
Robinson announced some in­novations
coming up soon in the
cafeteria, including a milk
shake machine, a "seconds"
line at weekday evening meals,
a brunch on the weekends, and
dressing up the snack bar, for
which he asked suggestions
from the boys. Finally, Mr
Robinson remarked, "All we ask
Bond
Continued from Page S
made good, Mr Bond could only
see doom. revolt, and destruc­tion
as a coming result.
Mr Bond, alluding to this
possible upheaval. made refer­ence
to the "r ainbow sign," a
sign of impending disaster
which he fi rs t came in contact
with as a young boy in the form
of a psalm. Mr Bond ended his
speach with these words from
the psalm
God gave Noah the rainbow
sign,
No more water,
The fire n ext t ime.
Questions and answers fol­lowed
Mr Bond's t alk in the
Campus Center Oak room.
which was also well attended.
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The freshman Stags will go
after their third straight victory
of the young basketball season
tonight when they meet Quinni­piac
College at home.
With three seconds left and
the scored tied at 69, forward
Joe Moore scored to give Fair-field
the victory over Stonehill
in th~ opener, Dec 1, at Stone­hill.
The Stags jumped to an
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In the second half the Stags
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passes that set up Stag scores.
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Guard Bill Haff led the Stags
with 19 points. mainly on long
jumpers, and was followed by
forward Pat Folley with 16.
Folley also grabbed 13 rebounds
to lead Fairfield in that depart­ment.
Next the Fairfield frosh faced
Fairleigh Dickinson, Dec. 4, in
New Jersey. With a big advan­tage
in height, Farleigh Dickin­son
controlled the boards and
blocked many Stag lay-ups.
But the fine outside shoting of
Haff and the alert passing of
Kelly made up for this to give
Fairfield the edge. Haff led all
scorers with 26 points. Kelly
had 13 as four Stags scored in
double figures.
Rebounding Strength
The lead kept changing hands
throughout the game as center
Rob Smith of Fairleigh grabbed
rebounds and blocked shots to
cool the Stags. As the second
half came to a close, however
forward Tim Barnes and cen­ter
Tom Bukowski took charge
of the boards and turned the
game around. Meanwhile, Kelly
and Haff were stealing passes
and turning them into baskets.
During one stretch, Haff scored
six straight points. With less
than 30 seconds remaining the
Stags led by six , points, finally
winning 71-69.
The Frosh Stags shot a mar­velous
80o/o from the foul line
which made up for Fairleigh
Dickinson's lead in field goals.
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cial Fairfield drive.
The slender Stag guard drovi.!
down the middle, flipped in two
free throws and set up Jim
Brown with a slick pass under­neath
to help the Stags move
to a 67-62 lead with 3:20 left.
Free Throws Decide
Then, Gibbons, dribbling on
the outside and forcing St. Jo­seph
players to foul him in ef­forts
to gain possession, calmly
converted seven free throws in
the final three minutes to nail
down the coveted win.
Down Stonehlll
In their season opener at
Stonehill College, Fairfield
jumped to an early 11-1 lead,
and was never behind. The
Chieftains from Massachusetts
hustled throughout the contest
but could not cope with the
Stags superior height or Maga­letta.
Magaletta, a dead-eye junior
forward, pumped in 26 points
against Stonehill and has scor­ed
75 in his first three outings
to lead all Fairfield cagers. fiib­bons,
the playmaker, chit;~ped
in with 15 markers while Cap­tain
Brown scored 14.
Stags Shocked
Last Wednesday, Fairfield
was rudely upset by a spirited
Fairleigh Dickinson University
five, 88-87, in overtime. The
over confident Stags trailed by
• as many as 12 against the
Knights late in the second half
before Brown's lay-up forged
the extra session.
Down 87-84 with a minute to
play, F.D.U. pulled to within
one point of the Stags via two.
foul shots. Then, with 11 '>ec­onds
remaining, Ron Kist hit a
20 foot shot to defeat the stun­ned
Stags.
Regis Four
Continued from Page 12
quarterback" Ozzie Pisarri were
held in check by the respectiw
de!ensive units. Therefore, an­other
overtime period will be
scheduled for this week to de­termine
a winner.
In the meantime, the champ­ions
of League A, Fairfield
Beach, (7-1-1), are awaiting
to play the second place Delta
Sigma Phi Fraternity men of
League B {7-0-2), while the
League B champions, Campion
3 (8-0-1), are awaiting to play
the winner of the ~ 4-ND 2
game. After these two contests
are decided, the respective win­ners
will square off to battle for
the school championship.
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Rams Fall
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and Ladd Raleigh rounded out
the sabre team with one win
each. Mikochik and Raleigh had
shown great potential in their
bouts against Brandeis.
In the foil classification, Jim
Ellsworth led the team as he
went undefeated, winning all
three of his bouts. Aiding the
team, and providing some of the
winning bouts were Mark Del­Maur.
o who won two, and Frank
Carollo who won one bout . It
was this team of Ellsworth,
Carollo, and Del Mauro which
proved most victorious as it
posted a 6-3 won-loss record,
which was high for the day.
Epee Team Strong
Rounding out, and adding
strength to the Fairfield team
was the epee team, which
showed its usual capacity for
putting forth the needed reli­able
showing. Team Coach Russ
Panczenko ended the day with
two wins and one loss.
1969 Schedule
Freshman fencer Ken Alex­ander
proved his own ability as
he also won two bouts. Jim Sul­livan
fencing second epee and
handicapped by illness was
forced to withdraw, following
the assurance of the Fairfield
victory.
Fairfield resumes its schedule
on February 1, when it fences
Trinity and Norwich Colleges in
a tri-meet. Following this, Fair­field
fences Seton Hall on
February 8, Dartmouth, at
home, on February 15 and
S.M.T.I. on February 22.
This year's schedule will be
highlighted by the Fairfield In­tercollegiate
T o u r n am e n t
<N.E.I.T.) in the gym, on
March 1, 1969.
In addition to this team meet,
three of Fairfield's varsity fen­cers
competed in an individual
sabre-epee competition held at
Yale University on Sunday, De­cember
8. This meet which was
open to all sabre and epee
fencers in Connecticut, saw
Derry Chuga take the gold
medal for his first place win.
Russ Panszenko took fourth
place in the epee decision and
Jack Mikochik coped fifth place
in sabre, amidst strong compe­tition.
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Accounting Maior!
New York State Comptroller
has proffessional auditing
vacancies. Competitive Sal­ary
Structure. Qualify!ng for
CPA exam. State residency
NOT required. Recruiter on
campus December 13. (See
Placement dirctor to sc~ed­ule
interviews.)
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SIDELINE VIEW
By SHAUN D. HARRINGTON
There is an enthused attitude around the Fairfield University
campus come late November and early December Heated con­versations
arise in the dining hall, outside classes, in the library,
everywhere to be heard. It almost seems as if someone has in­jected
adrenelin into the usually languid Fairfield Stag. He has
been in hibernation from March to early November And, although
this is an admittedly curious time for hibernation, it would seem
to hold true in many cases. What causes all this commotion, this
rebirth, this blossoming forth of discussion? Fairfield University
basketball.
Of all sporting activities in which students at Fairfield take
interest, none can come close to the basketball fever The student
following of Stag basketball may not be as large in number as
that of the University of Dayton, but no one could expect it to be.
Yet it is a strong contingent. Though there might not be a great
commotion or interest drummed up by a speaker from Prague,
or a panel discussion on drugs, or SDS, I would venture to say
there is hardly a stud.~nt who does not enter into a heated argu­ment
about the now graduated Billy Jones' missed foul shot at
the end of regulation time against St. Bonaventure's in last year's
campaign, or take pride in Larry Cirina's sparkling performance
against the amazing Calvin Murphy of Niagara. A great majority
of Stags are fans, as are a great majority of Fairfield University
students.
I often think we forget what a fan is, though Webster's New
World Dictionary of the American Language defines fan: "fan
(fan), n. (prob. fanatic, influ~nced by fancier & the fancy) (Col­loq.),
a person enthusiastic about a specified sport, pastime, or
performer; a devotee· as a baseball fan, a movie fan." Well,
around Fairfield there are basketball fans. You might have noticed
that fan is derived from fanatic, that is, overly zealous or unrea­sonably
enthusiastic. Basketball devotees around the university
seem to be just that.
Our valiant Stags lost a close one against Farleigh Dickinson
University, December 4, but they had rallied from a twelve point
deficit with only nine minutes to go to tie the game and force an
overtime period. Around this Jesuit college the game could be
heard over WVOF throughout every corridor, and a great number
of the inhabitants could be heard cheering wildly as Fairfield
registered a three point lead. However, the closing seconds saw a
stolen ball, coupled with a fine shot, shut the lid on a Stag come­from-
behind victory Those very same inhabitants, who had been
cheering wildly only a moment before were stunned, if not some­what
disgusted. "I knew we were going to lose, anyway," on('
young man said. Is this any kind of an attitude for a fan to have?
This kind of temperament distresses me, because I feel we
are not only cheating the basketball team, but far worse, are
cheating ourselves. Why? Because this kind of attitude neither
connotes, denotes, or vaguely suggests a fan of any sort. A fan is
overly zealous, and, understandably, he may even feel as dis­gruntled
and disappointed as a player The difference is a true
athlete never lets up, never gives up even after a loss. The true
fan should not, either.
Certainly we are all bound to criticize Coach Lynam, or
Sanabria, or Brown, or Magaletta, or Gibbons, or any number of
the players. The fan is a fine armchair coach and a superlative
second-guesser But scathing criticism a~d giving up on the team
should be reserved for the opposition. If you want to do this, don't
pretend to be a Fairfield basketball fan. Root for UCLA or Notre
Dame, but not for Fairfield.
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By JOSEPH VALERIO
Sports Editor
He is the middleman of the
Fairfield University sports
scene. If the players have a
problem to discuss, they know
"the Colonel" will be ready to
help them solve it. A coach will
often ask the Stag's amiable
trainer for advice and he will
gladly offer his assistance.
Therefore, Peter DiOrio is prob­ably
the most loved and popular
of all the university's members.
"I like to be around people,"
the smiling DiOrio notes. "Just
before practice, when all the
athletes come into the training
room, is my favorite time of the
day They confide in you - they
hit you first with their prob­lems."
All-State Performer
The scholastic DiOrio earned
ten varsity letters at LaSalle
Academy in Rhode Island.
Young DiOrio was named to the
all-state teams as a football
linebacker and a second base­man
in baseball.
Although he won scholarships
to several colleges, DiOrio came
from a modest background and
had to earn money The chunky
trainer then served four years
in the United States Army.
During his hitch he was un­animously
selected to the all­European
Army baseball team
for he hit .368. The star out­fielder
played against such cur­rent
major leaguers as Jim
"Mudcat" Grant, Lou Johnson,
and Hal Reniff.
When his tour of duty ter­minated,
DiOrio played minor
league baseball in the Georgia
League, before moving to AA
ball in the mid-West. "But I
started putting on weight,"
Trainer Peter DiOrio displays his amiable smlle at a. recent
sports dinner. (Photo by Jim Reme.)
'•t• Eleven
DiOrio reminisces, "I was be­yond
my peak."
Brown University Trainee
"The only thing I knew was
sports, I was always around
sports, and my old high school
coach notified me of an oppor­tunity
at Brown University.
Fortunately, DiOrio became
Brown's assistant trainer for
five years while he took courses
and attended clinics in athletic
training. The highlight o! his
enjoyable stay at the Ivy Lea­gue
institution was being se­lected
as the trainer for the
United States' crew entry in the
1965 Grand Challenge Cup. Di­Orio
was also the host trainer
for the National Soccer Champ­ionships
in 1964.
While at Brown, the Stag
trainer met and married the
former Sally-Anne Brown who
was a secretary there. They
have one son, Peter Christopher.
"He's going to be a real moose;
maybe he could be the great
college athlete that I wasn't,"
DiOrio philosophizes.
Frosh Baseball Coach
Last Spring afforded the op­portune
trainer the chance to
coach the Stags' first freshman
baseball team. Although the
team posted only three wins in
eleven outings, several of Di­Orio's
protegees earned starting
berths this Fall on the varsity
nine.
"Training is my profession,
but baseball is my first love,"
the talkative Fairfield resident
states.
For DiOrio, his training room
is a home away from home.
Often he spends as many as 12
hours a day working for the
athletic department. Yet his job
affords him a great luxury· he
is the step-father of Fairfield's
athletes and he enjoys the com­panionship
of others. Few peo­ple,
very few indeed, are as
much fun to be with as Peter
DiOrio - trainer, coach, and
confidant.
BASKETBALL HOCKEY
BOSTON COLLEGE MANHATTAN COLLEGE
Home - Dec. 18 - 8:80 Away- Monday- 8:00
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Stag Five 2-1;
Stuns Hawks, 77-69
The Fairfield U n i v e r s i t y
basketball team, led by rookie
Coach James Lynam, sand­wiched
two victories around a
shocking defeat last week as
the 1968-69 season commenced.
The Stag five downed Stone­hill
College, 76~3, but lost to
Fairleigh Dickinson Univel'9ity
in overtime, 88-87 Last Satur­day
night they scored a crucial,
77~9, decision over highly-re­garded
St. Joseph's College
(Pa.). Tonight the Jesuit ::ag­ers
will open their home season
in the gym with King's College,
(Pa.), at 8:30.
Gibbons A Hero
Wayne Gibbons, a native
Philadelphian, parlayed a 22-
point scoring outburst with a re­markable
floor game and spear­headed
Fairfield's smooth-func­tioning
Stags to an upset, 77-69,
win over the previously un­beaten
St. Joseph Hawks be­fore
4,800 spectators in the
Penn Palestra Saturday night.
Gibbons was a spectacular per­former
who time after time pro­duced
the clutch plays which
turned back Hawk comeback ef­for
ts.
Lynam's Homecomlng
The Stag triumph enabled
first year coach Jim Lynam to
come out on top in his first
confrontation with St. Joseph,
where he formerly starred as
a player and last year served
as an assistant coach. Fairfield
players carried the exuberant
Lynam off the floor at the final
buzzer.
Gibbons, a junior guard,
sparked a Fairfield drive in the
<final six minutes of play which
broke a 60-60 deadlock and en­abled
the Stags to dump the
Hawks.
Frank Magaletta, who bagged
nine of 15 field goal attempts
and three fouls for 21 points,
and 6' 7" Richie Sanabria, who
hauled in 15 rebounds, were
the key contributors, along
with Gibbons, to the victory.
Stags Blow Lead
Fairfield, which led by as
many as nine points in the first
half, saw that margin wiped
out by the Hawks mid-way
through the second half as rug­ged
Mike Hauer, who register­ed
22 points, and Dan Kelly
triggered a surge which caught
the Stags.
St. Joseph finally moved in
front, 50-49, with 11:40 remain­ing
when 6' 8" Ed Leonardczyk
converted a free throw, but
Fairfield refused to wilt and
Magaletta drilled in a jumper
to give the Stags the lead once
more. The two clubs battled on
even terms for the next few
minutes and were tied at 60
when Gibbons ignited the cru-
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' Coach James Lynam made his debut at Stonehill College a
successful one. His Stag five downed the Chieftains, 76-68.
Here Lynam winces as Captain Jim Brown (58) drives past
his defender. Fairfield scoring ace Frank Magaletta (45) des­troyed
Stonehill with his game-high 26 points.
(Photos by Pat Long and John O'Connor.)
Sextet Defeats Adelphi, 4-3
By J. F. McManus
The F a i r f i e 1 d University
Hockey Club, returning to its
home ice after a poor road
showing against C.C.N.Y., de­feated
a powerful Adelphi club,
4-3. Adelphi was second in their
division of the Metropolitan In­tercollegiate
Hockey League be­fore
the defeat.
The Stag front line of Sy­bertz,
Ducomb, and Mon:lhan
were hard-pressed early in the
contest because of a strong
checking game displayed by the
Panthers. Tony Ducomb man­aged
to pass to captain Tony
Hartigan at 2 :37 of the first pe­riod,
who rifled in the lone
score of that stanza.
Ducomb Ices Game
At 7:53 of the second period,
John Miller tied the score for
Adelphi. Sybertz scored at 12:40
for Fairfield, assisted by Du­comb,
as the first line finally
began to click. Hay tied the
score for the Panthers only 27
seconds later Both goals scored
on net-minder LaFlamme were
tip-ins, as the Faii'field defense
allowed Adelphi forwards to
hang unchecked around the net.
Ducomb put Fairfield ahead to
stay at 14:21, converting a pac;s
from Sybertz.
At 8:42 of the final period
Sybertz scored his second
marker of the night, from
Monahan and Ducomb on a
power-play It was the latter's
fourth point of the night.
Players Fight
Regis Four Triumphs
Adelphi threatened when, with
42 seconds left in the game,
Miller scored his second goal
of the evening. The Fairfield
defense kept the Panthers ".Jot­tied
up for the remaining sec­onds,
and as the buzzer sound­ed,
the frustrated Adelphi squad
started a fight behind the St~g
net. No injuries resulted, and
the donnybrook ended quickly
By GARY MARZOLLA
The "Best" from Regis 4
proved to be what their nick­name
implies with their heard­fought
6-0 victory over the men
from Gonzaga 2. The game,
which lasted two days, was
deadlocked 0-0 at the end of
regulation play. This provoked
a sudden death overtime period
on the following day since the
tie had to be broken.
On the second day of play, a
desperation pass of 50 yards by
R 4 QB Ed Viola looked as if
it was heading into the arms
of G 2 safetyman, Dave "Bos­ton"
O'Connor for an intercep­tion.
But quite unbelievably,
O'Connor, who already had a
couple of interceptions to his
credit, batted the pass away and
deflected it into the hands of
R 4 flanker Dave Closter, much
to Closter's surprise. Clutching
the ball like a fullback, Closter
strove for the sidelines, neatly
avoided two G 2 pursuers, cut
downfield. skidded down the
sidelines, and with the help of
a key block by Bill Barrett,
crossed the goal line as Dave
O'Connor's desperati~n lunge
fell inches short.
Jubilant Win
lt was a jubilant victory for
the "Best" and a bitter defeat
for the frosh from G 2, especi­ally
since it was fourth down
and only 15 seconds left in the
sudden death overtime period
when the fluke play occurred.
The win gave R 4 the right to
play ND 2 for second place
in League A.
Interrupted by Thanksgiving
recess, intramurals resumed on
the first day back when R 4
took on ND 2. Once again, after
regulation play, the score was
0-0. Therefore, on the following
day, the two teams resumed
battle in the ever popular sud-den
death period. But, unlike
the R 4-G 2 game, ND 2 and
R 4 fought through two over­time
periods without scoring as
the R 4 offense under the lead­ership
of Ed Viola and the ND 2
offense guided by the "phantom
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The Stags retained their sec­ond-
place standing in the West­ern
Division, trailing C.C.N Y
by two points. Upcoming con­tests
are with Iona, Quinnipiac,
and Manhattan, as the Stags
attempt to regain first pla::e.
Fencers Nip Rams
By FRANK CAROLLO
The Fairfield Fencing Team,
after having lost a close match
to Brandeis University on No­vember
23, put forth a strong
showing in all weapons as it
edge:l Fordham, 14-13. The
meet, the second for both
teams. was fenced at the Ram
gym on Saturday December 7.
Fairfield jumped out to a
strong lead in the sabre com-petition,
as this team went un­ciefeated
in its first three bouts.
Weapon captain Derry Chuga
finished the day with two wins
and one loss. Chuga, fencing
against Brandeis in the previous
meet, showed his excellent style
and skill as he won all three of
his bouts.
Potential Displayed
At Fordham, Jack Mikochik
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