Stag - Vol. 09, No. 07 - February 27, 1958

              Appoint Swanson
Editor-In-Chief
At Stag Banquet
February 27, 1958
Discussion Of O'Neill
Marks End Of Series
With Fr. FitzGerald as the
guest speaker, The Stag held its
First Annual Banquet in Feb. 6.
Fr. FitzGerald's talk pointed
out to the guests the part which
they played as members of the
Catholic Press. It endeavored to
show that the part we play may
well be small, but is neverthe­less
important. He outlined the
principles which should be the
guide of the Catholic Press as
they approach the laymen with
their views. He stressed the
need for integrity and accurate
interpretation of the news and
the need for a true representa­tion
of the facts of both Catho­lic
and world news.
At the banquet, the new Edi­tor-
in-Chief of The Stag was
named. He is Philip Swanson,
of New Haven. A graduate of
the Prep, Class of 1952, Swan­son
is a Junior at Fairfield and
a member of the Business Club.
He is an Industrial Management
major. He is also a veteran of
two years service in the Army.
Appointed as Managing Edi­tor
was Walt Naedle, Prep Class
of )954, where he was a mem­ber
of the Staff of the yearbook
and tiie Bellarmine Quarterly.
He had been a student at St.
Thomas Seminary before com­ing
to the University. He is an
English Major.
Larry Kelly, a junior, has
been named as Exchange Edi­tor.
The remainder of the Edi­torial
Staff will stay in their
positions for the coming year.
With a· lecture concentrated
on the works of Eugene O'Neill,
Rev. John W. Ryan concluded a
series of six lectures on the de­velopment
of drama under the
sponsorship of the Fairfield Uni­versity
Drama Society.
The series, which was hamp­ered
a few times by inclement
weather, received overwhelming
response from the general pUb­lic
as well as the student body.
At times, attendance was well
over a hundred persons, com­pris~
d· mostly of people from
the .' Bridgeport-Fairfield area
who have a keen interest in
drama.
Father Ryan, chairman of the
English Department, and an
eminent authority on drama,
presented the lectures on an
infoFhlal 'basis. The audience
was put well at ease with
Father's pleasant style and in­formative
deliveries. As men­tioned
in an article in The
Bridgeport Post, many visitors
commented· favorably on the
talks and were taking full ad-
(Continued on Page 8)
Bernard Lu.ckart, a junior
economics major from Bridge­port,
was elected First Vice
President of the Conn. Collegi­ate
Young Democratic Organiza­tion
at the unit's annual con­vention
Feb. 7 in Hartford. The
election of Luckart marked the
growing importance"of the Fair~
field Democrats, the. largest
delegation to the.. Trinify Col­lege
convention.
The main order of business
was the approval in committee
and ratification in convention of
the Collegiate Young Dem's
constitution. Preparation for the
State Young DeIPocrat~c Con­vention
at· Greenwleb r inlMiiy
with the purpose or' forming
solidarity behind one unit with­in
the state organization was
also considered.
Mayor James Kinsella of
Hartford talked informally the
opening night of the, meeting
on the need for youth, youth's
thoughts and purposes, in the
Democratic Party. Mr. Kinsella
is one of the youngest mayors
in Hartford's history.
At a banquet in the Hotel
Bond the next evening, former
Congressman Thomas Dodd ad­(
Continued on Page 8)
Shown at the recent scientific conference at Yale University in
New Haven are, L. to R.: Mr. Sanders, Connecticut Commissioner
of Education; Fr. McMahon, Catholic Transcript; Fr. Joseph D.
FitzGerald. S.J.. of Fairfield, and Fr. Hesburgh. President of
Notre Dame University.
Father Joseph D. FitzGerald, S.J., President of Fair­field
University, was a member of the group of leaden
in the fields of Education, Industry, Advertising, Sci­ence,
Engineering and the Communications media
who were called together for a conference held at Yale
University on February 3rd and 4th. .
The meeting brought together$:
the top men in each of these L kha El d VP
fields and all those in this area uc rt ecte
to whom the meeting would be Of State Young Dems
of special interest. It was under
the joint auspices of The Presi­den's
Committee on Science
and Engineering, and The. Wil­liam
Benton Foundation, and
was one of many which are to be
held in various areas of tJ1e
country this year. Its theme was
"America's Resources to Meet
the Scientific Challenge."
The meeting had an opening
address by James D. Killian, Jr.,
the President's Advisor on Sci­ence,
who set tone of the meet­ing,
which had been called to
emphasize to educators, indus­trialists,
and media persons as
well, the need for better pre­paration
of our young pe0ple
for careers in the scientific and
engineering fields, and to try to
raise the conception of the merit
of these fields iI'l the eyes of the
public. It stl"essed the need for
more and better preparation of
our country's youth in the basic
sciences and in mathematics.
Killian struck out at the popular
belief that the student should be
entirely free to pick and choose
courses of study for himself, and
placed before the educators the
job of reconstructing their edu­cational
systems to meet this
need. .
(Continued on Page 8)
CONFERENCE AT YALE
CITES EDUCATION NEEDS
Published by Students of Fairfield University, Fairfield,'Conn.
Exclusive to the Stag
Val IX - No. 15
KOREAN TRAITOR TRAIL THEME
Francis O'Rourke, president of the Drama Society,
in an exclusive release to the Stag, announces that the
male leads in the group's major production, Time Limit,
will be played by Bob Carroll, Frank O'Rourke, Don
Loughman, Larry Washburn and Dave Barrett. ~he
production, under the direction of Mr. Robert Emench,
will be presented Saturday, May 10, at the Shakespeare
Festival Theater, Stratford.
The following are the cast in~>-------------­the
order of appearance: T/Sgt. "germ warfare," and collabor­Charles
Baker, Dave Barrett; ated with the enemy by lectur-
2nd Lt. George MilWler'l,l' FranFk m, g on Commum.sm to h'Is fel -
O'Rourke; Lt. Col. I lam : low prisoners. He admits that
Edwards, . Larry Washburn, he is guilty and offers no
Sentry, NICk DePaola; 1st Lt. d f
Mike Livingston, Jack Kelly; e ense.
Capt. Gus Jablonski, Paul Zieg- Time Limit is also the story
ler; 1st Lt. Steve Wardell, Joe of a zealous judge advocate of
DeCicco; 1st Lt. Peter "Zip" a stateside Army post who is not
Walden, Don Zucco; 2nd Lt. satisfied with the plea or the
"Boxer" Mueller, Tom Morri- evidence. He insists on finding
son; 2nd Lt. Phil Garland, John the motive. The play is in many
Warburton; Col. Kim, Martin ways a mystery melodrama, and
Dee; Major Harry Cargill, Rob- before the final curtain falls on
ert Carroll; Maj. General 'Jo- a shattering scene, it becomes
seph Connors, Jr., Bill Margiot- evident that the defendant's
ta; Prisoners of War, Charles motive is revealing and per­McCann,
Frank Smyth, David plexing. The action of the play
Norton, Henry O'Hagan. takes place in the judge advo-
The three-act play, written cate's office and a Korean pri­by
Henry Denker and Ralph soner of war camp.
Berkey, was originally present- This will be the Drama So­ed
on Broadway by the Theatre ciety's second major production.
Guild, and starred Arthur Ken- Last year the' group put on a
nedy. splendid performance of Wou.k's
Time Limit is the story of' an The Caine Mutiny Court Mar­American
major in the Korean tial. Since then it has partici­War
who is about to be officially pated in one-act play festivals
charged with treason. It is a at Manhattanville, Holy Cross,
matter of record that he went and Ford1:l.am University, and at
over to the enemy, made pro- the National Catholic Confer­paganda
broadcasts concerning ence at Marymount.
... And A Good Time Was Had
By All At Longshore Formal
Theatre Group Presents Cast
For "Time Limit" Production
On Friday evening, Feb. 14, some 350 couples drove
through the tunneling elms to the Longshore Country
Club house where Fairfield's Carnival dance was held.
Outside the main entrance they were greeted by glis­tening
block ice carvings of the. school name.
Entering the lobby theyfound~>-------------­the
bustle of a coat checking, floor urging all to join in the
ticket-giving crowd. Bouffant festi~ities.
net dresses .mingled with bl~ck Throughout the evening, in
dres.s tuxes m the melee of .bld- passageway or at table, history,
ge~tmg and table fi n dIn g. philosophy and English teachers
Frlend~ were. greeted and mu- saw their students and met
tually mtroduced. their dates on a far different
Emerging on the' dance floor, level than C 101 or bio lab.
one saw the many couples swirl- In the middle of the occasion
ing in the continuous motion of the announcement of the Carni­fox
trot, lindy, and two-ste. val Queen was made. The voice
Chich Chicetti's bouncing music of Phil Guerin, M.C., cut
went out above the ever-filled (Continued on Page 9)
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Page Two THe STAG February 21, 1958
P.K.P.S.
W.N.
All Letters to the Editors
Will Be Published
FEATURE EDITOR
Bill Lavery
BUSINESS MANAGER
Bob Kaulbach
especially for the day students.
In former years it was neces­sary
for day students to come
earlier than usual to attend
Mass before the first period. Of
course, under the new regula­tions
governing the Eucharistic
Fast, a student can eat his usual
breakfast, attend Mass and re­ceive
Holy Communion, and
still have' ample time to have
lunch in the Loyola cafeteria.
During the first semester, the
12:10 Mass has been regularly
attended by many students and
members of the lay faculty, but
an increase is expected during
the Lenten season. At this time
of year we hear a lot of talk
about "giving up" various little
pleasures as a means of mortifi­cation.
Fairfield men have an
excellent' opportunity to carry
on a positive program of self­sanctification
through attend­ance
at daily Mass.
Day 01 Recollection
Scheduled By K 01 c
On Sunday, March 2, 1958, the
Ignatiim Council, Knights of
Columbus, will conduct a Day
of Recollection in McAuliffe
University. There will be no ad­mission
charge but all those
planning to attend are asked to
sign in the Dean of Men's office
before Friday, February 28th.
The program will begin with
Holy Mass at 9:00 A.M. and
will terminate after Benediction
at noon. The schedule includes
confessions, Mass, breakfast ip.
Loyola, talks (name of priest to
be posted at a later date) and
reflection, recitation of the
Rosary, and Benediction.
Unless we all make some
positive effort to take time out
and plan a personal program for
the forty-day Lf,bten season, it
will come and go and we will
be left without having done
what was always virtually in­tended.
It is the hope of the
Council that these few short
hours on March 2nd will afford
every student with just such an
opportunity. Plan now to get
started . . . don't wait until
Good Friday!
All Knights are particularly
urged to attend.
NEWS EDITOR
Dick Cummings
SPORTS EDITOR
Larry Lessing
EXCHANGE EDITOR
Larry Kelly
Junior Bermuda Trip
Mass Attendance Urged
MANAGING EDITOR
Walter Naedle
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
William Keish - Paul Nagy
According to usual procedure,
Father opened the informallec­ture
for group discussion and a
question period. This informal
manner employed by Father had
great appeal to the audiences
and was used with overwhelm­ing
success.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Philip K. P. Swanson
During the penitential season
of Lent, the Sodality of Our
Lady on campus is making a
special effort t~ increase attend­ance
at the 12:16Mass in Loy­ola
Chapel. The celebration of
Holy Mass during the fourth
period is a great convenience,
Leading the way once again
with new deas, the Junior
Class, with its Bermuda trip, has
apparently struck upon success.
Although some were, at first,
shocked to think that such a
venture was being planned, it
seems that there are more sun­shine
and surf lovers on the
Fairfield campus than many be­lieve.
At present there are fifty
people making the trip which
is scheduled for the Easter va­cation.
Traveling by Pan American
Airlines the group will leave
Idlewild Airport at ten o'clock
on Monday morning, April 7th.
After a three hour flight, the
group will proceed to "live it
up" on the sandy beaches of this
British island. Four guest-houses
have been exclusively reserved
for the Fairfielders and, in ad­dition
to lodging, they will also
receive daily breakfast. Some of
the houses also serve free cock­tails
in thee vening. The return
flight will leave Bermuda at
eight on Friday night, April 11.
The most surprising part of
the trip is the cost. The total
price for the entire trip is an
unbelievable $127. This can not
be matched anywhere.
Reservations have not yet
been closed, however, and there
is still room for seven more va­cationers.
Arrangements can be
made by contacting any of the
Junior Class officers. Final pay­ment
must be made by March 7.
Boosters Award Trip
On Friday, February 14th, at
the Junior Post Carnival Party
which was held at Mary Jour­ney's
Inn, Miss Alice Ambrose
was chosen to act as the repre­sentative
of the Junior Bermuda
Booster Club. Mr. Robert Pitt,
Registrar, chose Miss Ambrose's
name from a list of the club's
300 members.
As a representative of the
club, Miss Ambrose, who is em­ployed
in Mr. Tartaro's Public
Relations Office, will accompany
the group of Fairfield University
students who are going to Ber­muda
during the Easter vaca­tion.
She will be entitled to a
round trip ticket plus 5 days
lodging in Bermuda.
The choice pf a representative
from among the club's mem­bers
was the highlight of the
Junior Party which also em­ployed
various other novelties
in order to make sure that a
good time was had by all.
Worcester Festival
(The following is a review
from the Worcester Republican
of Feb. 16 by columnist Walter
Smith):
" 'The Rising of the Moon,' a
delightfuf bit of Irish blarney
by Lady Gregory, was easily
the most successful piece of
theater yesterday at a play fes­tival
sponsored by the Holy
Cross Dramatic Society in the
college's Fenwick Auditorium.
"And it is with some pleasurli
that this reviewer can praise
one of the play's actors, a col­lege
student and an amateur as
were all the actors in the festi­val.
"Francis O'Rourke, who por­trayed
an Irish revolutionist
just escaped from prison, show­ed
evidence of a real comic tal­ent.
Of course, he is a long way
from a professional but he was
master enough of his role to ex­ploit
most of the humor inher­ent
in it.
"The play consists of a talk
thick with the brogue between
the escapee and a police ser­geant
who is blocking his way
to freedom. The humor crackles
out of conversational by playas
the escapee, playing on the ser­geant's
good feelings convinces
the man to let him go."
The next prodnction of Drama
Society will be a presentation of
"Time Limit" in May, for which
final auditions were held this
past week.
~ N_e_.w_s_B_ri_e_f.s..... 1
Lectures To Continue
By popular demand, Rev.
John W. Ryan, S.J., has con­sented
to extend his lecture
series on the development of
Drama which was presented
under the sponsorship of the
Fairfield University Drama So­ciety.
On Thursday evening in
Room 101, Canisius Hall, Father
delivered the last in the series
of lectures by concentrating on
the works of Eugene O'Neill.
Despite hazardous traveling
conditions, a capacity crowd fill­ed
the lecture room to hear
Father Ryan's learned presen­tation.
He gave a clear analysis
of O'Neill's style and offered a
scholarly criticism of several of
his noted works.
EDITORIALS • • •
"Behold. we are going up to Jerusalem. and all things that
have been written through the prophets concerning the Son of
Man will be accomplished:'
In this Lenten season. it behooves us all as Catholic College
Students to endeavor to make a special effort to do penance f01
our sins and to walk the Way of The Cross with Christ. that we
may dwell with Him as does the good thief.
A positive means to this penance is to pray the Rosary daily
and to attend Mass with the Sodalists. These arrangements havf"
been made to help the students to fulfill their Lenten duties.
and will prove a means to sanctification.
What a group of intellectual delinquents from Princeton
pushed forward to represent modern musings in that LIFE
article of Feb. 17! It's hard to believe that after discussing the
history of thought in all its varied forms from Pythagoras to
Camus, and debating the present-day applications of the world
to man as college men do, the Princeton group should come to
such feeble, dim-witted mouthings. Princeton has a tradition
dating back to colonial days, a college town atmosphere, a high
percentage of resident students, a nominally distinguished fac­ulty;
and yet the Princeton-LIFE statements would be consid­ered
sick, flat, animalistic if uttered at our young university.
Let us, for lack of space, look at just one of the Kerouac-line
spokesmen. Writer NO.2 of the Unsilent Generation (an indirect
conservatism to be sure), held that the development of a positive
personality based on intelligence, a sense of public responsibil­ity,
and a deep-rooted commitment to basic humanistic value,
is the mark of the new American leader and his own weapon
toward success. It is a personality founded foremost on confi­dence
in oneself, belief in the infallibility of one's judgments,
and disregard of the intellectually inferior proletariat. It is a
person supremely sure of his untapped, untested, trusted, and
trapped capabilities, which confidence is the vitalizing, motivat­ing
force encasing the intellect and the will. But the confidencE
of this type of Princeton man is ever outward seeking, never
inward searching; for chaos would surely result from the intro­spective
discovery of lack of principle, failure of development,
abyss of conclusions.
There is no fundamental concept of individual worth, reo
sponsibility to humanity, realization of an End to be attained.
There is only the second step, the hope, the want to advance, the
need to succeed - no first step consideration of true human
capabilities and values, no thought of a third step of the reason
for the urge to action. There is just the high-school freshman
will to make the varsity, clothed in bliss that the corporatio:
interviewer was as much on the personality ball as he that
ethereal self-ignorant, self-assurance is the key to the control
of the mediocre masses.
The intelligence of the positive personality is dormant about
the real issues of self-control, will to love in degrees, perfection
of the total humanity, adjustment to circumstances, balancing
enjoyment. The sense of public responsibility is subjectivist
when the Jones are to be forgotten in the climb toward society,
and the individual judgment is to be final. The deep-rooted com­mitment
to basic humanistic values tends to be a farce if the
influence of the Church to 1500, adopting Hebrew theology an'
Grecian philosophy and fostering the Renaissance, is to be for­gotten.
If the Church is nil after 1500 also, then all reaction tc
it from Calvin to Tillich is to be dismissed, and Western human­ism
becomes the lone Ivy fad of Zen Buddhism.
The refutation may be radical, but equally radical is thought
that overlooks development of the human struggle from the
wonderings of Prometheus through the soul-searching of Augus
tine and Milton to the over-evident reality in symbolism of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Start out on your own, Charlie; but we've got a lot of the
answers already, here to be practicalized.
The other writers were frustrated personalities, self-sorrow
ing, self-consoling, making the everyday adjustments of life <
tragedy to rival at a surface level the ponderings of Hamlet, bu
draped in the tinny language and penetration of Polonius. Th/
Western introspective, ego-centered eye. is ever present, but
ses only the flesh, only what the flesh needs and the eye cries,
"Want, want! give me, give! take, take!" Ignorant of any de­velopment
in thought which is the .reassurance of the Fairfield
man in his philosophical statements, devoid of a realization of
the practical struggles of today - belief in God as master v,
man or state as master, corruption of republicanism into social
ism, difficulties in living normally in Suburbia - afraid of th.
from history's dawn struggle of man to understand the Fi:
Principle, there stand these Princeton men.
Concerned like Joe, the grocer, with making money, like Al
the salesman, with success, these writers in LIFE are just clean~
shaven, well-mannered Zeros. Because they toss out real respect
for oneself, consideration for the next guy, realization of an End
they're different, though, and because their weapon is position
and prestige, they're dangerous. The new American leader, the
product of democracy paper-tethered, the Princeton spokesman
of the Sick Fifties is, in all reality, of Catholic sanity, a vicious
bore.
February 27, 1958 THE STAG Page T~ree
(The Reader's Digest)
1260 Main St.
BRIDGEPORT
Ethical
Pharmacy
* * *
The Men Who Came To Dinner
It happened on a Vermont
weekend. As thle party was
breaking up, I said goodbye to
one of the guests, a sad-faced,
elderly man who kept us laugh­ing
all through dinner and for
several hours afterwards. After
he left, I asked my hostess,
"Who is that man? He's the
most entertaining fellow I've
ever met."
"Why, I really don't know,"
she said. "He came to fix the
furniture this morning, and he's
been here ever since."
(The Reader's Digest)
presidency, maybe."
The manager looked thought­ful.
"I guess that lets us out,"
he answered. "You see, we have.
12 vice-presidents alreday."
The ex-louie waved a hand
nonchalantly. "Oh, that's all
right," he said, "I'm not super­stitious."
* * *
* * *
(The Reader's Digest)
(The Reader's Digest)
McTavish was the proud own­er
of a new cash register. One
day when an old friend came
into the shop and bought a six­penny
cigar, the customer
noted that McTavish pocketed
the money instead of putting it
into the drawer.
"Why not ring it up?" he
asked "You'll be forgetting it."
"Oh, I'll not forget it," re­plied
the Scot. "I keep track in
my head until I get a dollar,
and then I ring it up. It saves
the wear-r- and tear-r- on the
machine."
The personnel manager ask­ed
the youthful ex-lieutenant
what business ex-perience he
had. "None," was the reply. "I
just got out of college when
the war started."
"Well, what kind of job do
you think you could handle?"
"Oh," breezed the applicant,
"something executive. A vice-year's
Carnival are called for.
First, hold the formal on the
second night. This would eli­minate
the frantic rush for those
girls who must come from a dis­tance.
An informal get-together
would make a more relaxed
and pleasant start. Second,
don't sell tickets with quite so
much abandon. Third, explain
to the students that a jazz con­cert
is a concert in the same
sense that one by the Philadel­phia
Orchestra is, albeit more
informal. Fourth and most im­portant,
don't try to cut cor­ners
on such important items as
the band. The dismal dischords
produced Friday n i g h tare
ample argument against this.
it Freshman Peers Hazily Into The Business Whirl
The Work;ngs ·Of A Weekend The man at the bar finished
I; his second glass of beer and
turned to ask the manager 0'£
By GEOFFREY STOKES the place, "How many kegs of
At the conclusion of their first college weekend, beer do you sell here in a
the bO"eneral feeling among freshmen seemed to be, week?"
"Thirty-five," the manager
"Sure, it was nice, but was it warth it?" In spite of the answered with pride.
success of such individual efforts as the Vets Club party "Well, I've just thought of a
and the informal dance, two of the affairs were gener- way you can sell 70."
The manager was startled. ally considered to be a waste of time. In fairness tc "How?"
the committee it should be mentioned that only one of "It's simple. Fill up' the
these was their fault. S>--------------Iglasses."
The formal dance was hope­lessly
oversold. There was little
room to move from table to
table, still less for dancing. As
for the band, the many fresh­men
who signed the petition
which their Student Council
representatives circulated could
say, "I told you so." Unfortun­ately,
being able to see that you
were right and that a rather
nebulous "they were wrong"
was little help in enjoying the
event.
The jazz concert should have
been a sparkling success. The
committeeman who thought of
getting two groups is to be con­grulated.
It· was unfortunate
that the audience's attitude
spoiled the afternoon. The total
lack of applause after several
brilliant solos brought a let­down
to the. playing of the
combos. The hand clapping was
caused by either rudeness or ig­norance,
neither fault is partic­ularly
attractive.
Some suggestions for
During the past two months
the Sodality of Our Lady of
Fairfield, under the capable
leadership of its prefect, Bob
Dorin, has worked tirelessly to
acquaint parishes throughout
the state with Sodality.
As an example, on January
12, Jack Seery, Bill Gallagher,
Ralph Marcarelli, and Bob Dorin
travelled to New Britain to ex­plain
the Sodality way of life
to a group of high school boys.
On February 11 Sandy Capria
and Phil Calcina delivered
talks that dealt with the teen­age
dating problem. This was in
Stratford at St. Theresa's, Lord­ship.
On the same program Ray
O'Keefe, Desi Sullivan, Larry
Washburn expounded on the
advantages of Catholic educa­tion.
Rodian Palazij, Ray Mar­tin,
Fred Miller, and Paul
Cervoni gave up some of their
time on Friday, February 13, to
acquaint the people of St.
Marks, Stamford, with Sodality.
Prefect Dorin recently an­nounced
two new programs un­dertaken
by the Sodality. Un­der
the direction of Sacred
Heart Committee chairman Jim
O'Connell, membership in the
Apostleship of Prayer is begin­ning
to swell. Also, a five-man
committee has been appointed
to secure pledges for daily Mass
attendance during the Lenten
season.
Last weekend twelve Sodal­ists
reoresented Fairfield Uni­versity-
at a workshop at Boston
College.
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Page Four THE STAG February 21, 1958
Youll be sittin'on top ofthe world when you change to 1&)1
Light into that tiM ILiveModern flavor
JOHN F. CALLAN, Jr.
U. B.
AT THE ARMORY
FAIRFIELD
me e t s
ers on the second floor north
and the first floor south of Loy­ola.
The voting on the above
measures will take place at the
next session of the Council.
With all the matters at hand
taen care of, President Carroll
closed the meeting with a
prayer.
game. Unfortunately, weather
conditions prohibited a bonfire
and the police departments of
Fairfield and Bridgeport both
prohibited a motorcade. But
despite these setbacks, the spirit
shown at the game was excel­lent.
Mr. Scanlon introduced the
following motion: "That the
president should be granted the
power to make decisions in mat­ters
that require immediate ac­tion
and attention with the res­ervation
that if the act is a con­tinuous
one, that is, one extend­ing
over a certain period of
time, the Council may vote on
his decision, either accepting or
rej ecting it."
Other business that was intro­duced
at the meeting was a bill
proposing that awards be made
to the Intramural Champs in
football for 1957. Also discussed
were the condition of the show-
DORM DOINGS
By BOB McCARTHY, '59
The most recent meeting of
the Resident Council took place
on Monday evening, February
10. As usual, President Carroll
opened the meeting with the
Council prayer. After the at­tendance
was taken and it was
noted that Messrs. Devine, Mur­ray,
O'Keefe, and McCann were
absent, the Council passed on
to the matters at hand.
It was decided that from now
on the students would select
the movies that they would like
to see from the list of those
available, and make known
their choices to their delegates
The list of available films will
be posted on the bulletin board.
Mr. Gelston made his report
on the pre-ga.!lle festivities
scheduled for the last U.B.
its drawbacks, Gunther reports.
Great gaps exist in the know­ledge
of even the best educat­ed.
"The Russians are the most
ignorant people in the world
about affairs outside their own
country," he writes.
He detects a possibility that,
in its eagerness to educate the
great mass of its citizens, the
Soviet government may eventu­ally
loosen or change its struc­ture.
"Once a class is created
which is taught to think, par­ticularly
in scientific terms," he
writes, "it will sooner or later
begin to think for itself in other
fields."
The article, "Russia Rings the
School Bell," is condensed from
Gunther's new book, "Inside
Russia Today," published by
Harper & Bros.
(The Reader's Digest)
"Tops in Town"
GREEN COMET
DINER
Achievements As Well
As De/ects 0/ Russian
Eductaional Complex
Cited By John Gunther
90 Kings High....ay Cat-Ott
Fairfi.ld, CoDa.
Tel FO 8-9471
The average twelfth-grade
Russian student has a better
scientific education than most
American college graduates.
That's the observation of world
traveler John Gunther, who re­cently
returned from a tour of
Russia.
Soviet emphasis on science
demands gruelling effort from
pupls, Gunther reports in the
March Reader's Digest. Every
student preparing for college
must take ten years of math,
four of chemistry, five of physics
and six of biology.
The Soviet child attends
school 213 days a year, as
against 180 in the United States.
Homework assignments requir­ing
from four to six hours'
work daily are not uncommon.
Being accepted into college is
probably the most important
single event in a Soviet citizen's
life, Gunther feels. The univer­city
graduate inevitably wins
honor and financial rewards ­often
much sooner than our own
graduates. All that the non­graduate
can hope for is a man­ual
or clerical job on a farm
or factory.
Moscow University, complet­ed
in 1953, is the city's proudest
building, Gunther writes. It is,
except for the Eiffel Tower, the
tallest structure in Europe. Its
cost, $750 million, was greater
than the total combined endow­ments
of Harvard Yale and
Princeton.
University standards are se­vere,
but there are many in­ducements
for the student. He
is paid by the state to go to
college and can earn substan­tial
bonuses if his work is con­siderably
above par. In addi­tion,
he is exempted from mili­tary
service.
Careful planning has paid off
for the Soviet government, Gun­ther
writes. Of all students en­rolled
in Russian colleges, 65
percent aim for science degrees,
as against only 10 percent in
the United States.
But impressive as it is, the
Soviet educational system has
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the Campus
On and Off
progress
ideal time would be during as­sembly
at orientation week.
When Fr. Mahan and Fr. Lyons
are finished, then the clubs
could take over the rest of the
program.
2) Hold the activities display
at a later date. Most Freshm~n
agree that if the activities dis­play
were held some time in
OctOber, they would be more
interested and rady to join in
the activiti~s. It stands to reason
that they have had more time
to think and realize how large
a burden their schedule can
take.
3) The clubs should send rep­resentatives
to meet the Fresh­men
and talk to them about the
clubs. It would be very easy to
do this with the resident stu­dents,
but again it would be dif­ficult
concerning the day stu-dents.
.
4) Open all clubs for admis­sion
of new members at the
close of the first semester. This
would definitely bring new
members into the fold.
One of these solutions alone
might not be the answer, but
some combination might prove
to be very effective. It is obvi­ous
that cooperation is needed
by all concerned, the clubs, the
student body, and the adminis­tration.
At least one thing is
positive, we have taken a major
step in correcting the faults of
our activities system. We can
thank the Student Council for
bringing the issue to the fore­front.
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Freshman Apathy
In Joining Clubs
CAMPUS
CHATTER
By TOM O'CONNOR
THE "EVOLUTION" OF
THE PARENT
By BRIAN LAWLER '61
At the last Student Council
meeting there was a lengthy dis-
One of the most unusual of cussion on the failure of Fresh­natural
phenomena, one which men to join extra curricular ac­most
of today's science men tivities. Aft e r interviewing
overlook' too, is that which oc- many Freshmen, the general
curs in 'the parents of today's opinion seems to be that they
teenager between senior year in don't know much about what
high school and senior year in is done in the various clubs.. It
college. is true that the clubs put on
The beginning of this "meta- a good activities display during
morphosis" is even further back orientation week, but that is
than this, however. Its true the last that is heard about
origin is in our very childhood. them. They should spread their
Then it is that our parents are propoganda a few steps further.
supreme wisdom to us. We ac- It must be agreed that dur­cept
their decisions unhesitantly ing the first week, a Freshman
and they are never wrong. Then has too much on his mind to
we begin to see that we, too, become very interested in any
can acquire knowledge. After a of the campus organizations.
brief period of what may inaptly The average Freshmen knows
be called "learned servitude" very little about what is done
we yearn to make our own de- in a club, and by the same to..­cisions,
and when we do we ken he is not very interested.
see that we come to decisions Someone should stimulate this
which put us in conflict with interest. He must look out for
our parental directors. These his studies first, because that is
conflicts are resolved quite his prime objective for coming
simply because we, at this time to Fairfield University. The
at any rate, accept their posi- typical Freshman tends to be
tion as being correct, if not be- over-cautious at first; after all,
cause of their experience and he has three more years in
greater knowledge then because which to make his decisions.
they simply are our parents.
Most Freshmen are inclined Jo
Then a change begins to oc- join their area club, but this
cur. As we grow older and a is as far as they plan for the
trifle more "worldly" our par- present. While the Business
ents seem to lose their previous Club and the Glee Club have _
sharpness, they don't seem to be many Freshmen members, most
able to see what the good things of the other clubs are very low
of life are. The time has come in Freshmen numbers. The rea­to
asser't our own independence son for this is the lack of
and make our own decisions. knowledge of the clubs. Believe
From this point on our parents it or not very few Freshmen
seem to change before our very know anything at all of the
eyes, they become more and International Relations Club
more "Victorian" in their out- and the NFCCS. The lack
look and it soon becomes neces- of ambition of the part of the
sary to reject their authority Freshmen is only a minute part
and guiding hand completely, of the answer; more informa­and
it is with this attitude that tion on the part of the club
we leave high school and enter plays in college life is needed.
college. Now we not look to
anyone for advice or counsel, "The Freshmen show very
we are capable and soon to be little initiative!", is the familiar
educated "men of the world." cry of the club organizers. I
feel that I have sufficiently dis-
And so it is we enter college proved this theory, but what
and are exposed to the ideas can we do to correct the pres­and
ideals that have come down ent situation? The answer
to us over the ages. We absorb could well lie with one of the
them as best we can and soon following:
we have a base, however incom-plete
it may be, upon which we 1) Eliminate the activities dis­can
feebly try to evaluate the play during orientation week.
ideas of others and of ourselves. In its place allow each club DRINK PEPSI representative a five minute
It is at this point, when we talk to all the freshmen. The
truly have some knowledge, Ii'i.i..iiiiiiiii..iiiiii.oiii~~~~~~~~~iiiiii"';~~";";~;;"~;;"~~";'~~j
that we are stunned with the
observahon that our parents
have suddenly ceased to degen-erate
in mentality and are now
on the road back to normality.
We can see now, perhaps after
a few bruises and burns, that
they weren't "Victorian" at all.
Our outlook is tempered, we are
able 'to see that someone other
than ourselves may have some­thing
constructive to say. It may
even be that they have some­thing
intellegent to say, dia­monds
in the rough so to speak.
The reverse trend goes on and
on, and after a year or two we
obtain a little knowledge and
dear old Mom and Dad become
more and more "worldly" until
finally we come to the day when
we have finished 0 u r formal
education and we are ready to
go out into the world.
Then it is for the second time
that a profound 'thought crosses
our minds. Maybe our parents
never changed at all, maybe the
"evolution" was in us, not in
them.
By GEOFFREY STOKES
From This Corner
Give To The Missions
This column should be read in an "old philosopher'! type
voice, it might help it somewhat.
"You say you were watching your girl's train whip through
Fairfield on its way to Bridgeport station?, and she wouldn't talk
to you because you didn't meet her there? and the guy you were
supposed to double with broke his leg and couldn't get his car?,
and you have only two studs, and one black sock?, and your
rented cummerbund won't quite reach around you?
Is that what's troublin' you, Cousin?"
"You say that Mom sent up Dad's tux?, the double breasted
one that he wore to his high school prom, and Dad played foot­ball,
but you play the violin?, and your shoes are too small?,
and anyway they're brown with white shoelaces?, 'cause your
roommate just walked out with your black ones on?
"T" that what's worry.in' you. Inmate?"
"You say that you couldn't find your table?, and once you
found it you couldn't find the dance floor?, and once you found
the dance floor you couldn't get on it?, and your girl kept asking
embarrassing questions about who the band leader was?, about
why the band leader was?"
"Is that what's botherin' you, Bunky?"
"You say nobody told you that you needed that little stud
to get into the jam session?, and you couldn't hear the band
because of the clapping?, and the clapping was off beat?, and
if you wanted to hear Night Train you could've listened to Alan
Freed?, and you left early to play the "Chosen 6" records and
hear what they sounded like?"
"Is that what's buggin' you, Elvis?"
"You say that your girl was wearing open toed shoes?, and
she was sneezing?, and she wouldn't talk to you again?, and
there were no chains in the car?, and you didn't make the station
in time to get the train?, but it didn't make any difference be­cause
the train wasn't running anyhow?, and your girl's mother
wouldn't believe you?, her housemother wouldn't believe you?
and Father McCormick still won't believe you?"
"Does that get your dander up, Fellah?"
This is the season of the year when many of us begin to ask
"what am I doing here?" "Do I really belong?" (Actually, this
attitude pertains to all the seasons). To eliminate some of thE
doubt and confusion. I have consolidated the best of all the
psychological testing 'programs, and have come up with the fol­lowing
exam. The first section is English Comprehension, other
sections will be in subsequent issues. So, go to it fellows
with a Rah! Rah! Hip! Hip! Goola! Goola! (Students of other
universities may substitute -their own gutteral chants).
Note: Author hereby waives all liability.
College Psychological Testing Service
Part I. English Comprehension
Arrange the following sentences so that they make sense.
1. Me, books, burn, for, convertible, Brigette, yahoo.
2. Study, won't, girl, drink, I, work.
3. Phooey, arts, liberal, on, technician, T.V., be.
4. Live, laugh, flunked, I, did, quit.
5. Money, where, tuition, I, haven't, get, out.
Identify the source of the following quotations:
1. To be, or not to be, so what's the question?
2. Shut the door.
3. When the hurly burly's done, we'll play some of Garner.
4. Death be not proud, for I passed.
5. Bwana, bwana, what gives?
6. Voluminous, what does Cory like for dessert?
Out of the following list of words. select the words which best
complete the poem below:
1. Catharsis
2. Herring
3. Gee!
4. Epistomological
5. Shoop-de-doo
6. Ontological necessity
Flower, , blooming bright,
In the stillness of the night.
How can bloom at night?
Maybe I'm a little tight!
Read the following passage, keeping the context clearly
mind, then answer the following questions:
Sally loves Ezekial, but Ezekial is in love with Eunis. Eunis,
however, has a crush on the butcher who is suing Ezekial for
non-payment of his meat bill. Ezekial claims that he is a vege­tarian,
and has been living on cooked carrots for the past year.
In a fit of anger, Sally sets her parakeet on the butcher, who is
thereby devoured while reciting a Horatian ode to Eunis.
1. What was the psychological, motivating force behind the
parakeet's fury?
2. Who cares?
3. Where was Abner while all this was going on?
3. Does Esmerelda take tranquilizers?
5. Where do you get the uptown bus?
6. Who wrote "J'accuse?"
7. What do you want to be when you grow us?
I hope this test has been of some help to you, since it is of
absolutely no value to me. Watch for the next issue which will
contain an enlightening exam in mathematics.
Please- Don't Eat the Daisies.
by Jean Kerr. Doubleday, $3.
Reviewer: Joseph Monahan
May I.take lhis Dpportunity
to name my particular choice
for Wife and Mother of 1958
Most Deserving of a Care Pack­age?
She is Mrs. Walter Kerr,
soon to be better known in her
own right as Jean Kerr; and
the record of her tremendous
struggle against the nearly in­surmountable
odds cast against
her by Everyday Life is re­counted
in this slender volume.
Here is a story truly for our
time - a delicate, passionate,
humorous, heart-rending ac­count,
tearing the roof off the
Larchmont home of one of the
nation's most respected drama
critics and baring, for all to see,
the soul-searing life within.
("Ever since Gilbert was born
we had been looking for a larger
house, and we knew what we
wanted. I wanted a house that
would have four bedrooms for
the boys, all of them located
some distance from the living
room - say in the next county
somewhere.")
Here is the ultimate in family
harmony: loving attention,
THE STAG February 27, 1958
Book Review. • •
Page Six
tempered by all the solicitude
of modern methodolgy.
("We are being very careful
with our children. They'll never
have to pay a psychiatrist twen­tY-
five dollars an hour to find
out why we rejected them.
We'll tell them why we reject­ed
them. Because they're
possible, that's why.")
And oh, the wisdom of the
ages, learned in deep sorrow,
fairly overflows the pages as
one's eyes overflow with the
tears of sympathetic recogni­tion.
("When I see lists of the great
women of history, I always
want to add the name of a wo­man
who was a neighbor of
mine in Washington. She crept
into my heart forever one very
hot day when, as I was passing
directly under her window, I
heard her say, in a quiet, music­al
voice, 'Michael dear, Mommy
doesn't like you to drive your
bicycle into the piano'.")
Here is humanity - the note
of universal truth struck loud
and clear!
("If you have formed the
habit of checking on every new
diet that comes along, you will
find that, mercifully, they all
blur together, leaving you with
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February 27, 1958 THE STAG
CARNIVAL
CANDIDS
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Page Eight THE STAG February 27, 1958
"Weve Put a Speedometer on the Stars!II
Rev. William J. Healy, S.J.
Successful Senior Candidates
to the Fairfield University Hon­or
Society 2nd Semester 1957­1958:
PETER BALDETTI
PHIL CALCINA
DOM CERRITELLI
FRAN DOHERTY
BOB DORIN
LARRY FAYETTE
FRANCIS O'ROURKE
RICHARD PULIE
MICHAEL ROSSI
ROBERT SCHUMACHER
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Among the Fairfield men who
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Leaders Class this year are
H. Allen Greer, Daniel V. For­tuna,
Martin Twarins, Donald
J. Rinaldi, Raymond G. Heche,
James V. Sullivan, Michael J.
Gniadek, and William J. Kra­mer.
With a number of applica­tions
pending, Fairfield should
be well represented at Quantico
this summer.
The second program offered
by the Marines, open to college
seniors and graduates, requires
ten weeks of training after
graduation leadin~ to a lieuten­ant's
commission. Candidates in
this program can also choose I
ground or flight training with
the Marines.
THIS SPECTROSCOPE Acrs LIKE
A FILTER. IT SEPARATES THE
LIGHT WAVES -TELLS US HOW
FAST STARS ARE MOVING. OUR
KNOWLEDGE OF SPACE
DEPENDS TO A LARGE
DEGREE ON THIS
INFORMATION
YOUNGDEMS
(Continued from Page 1)
vised the convention to main­tain
the new ideas and vital
ideals which are necessary if the
Democratic Party is to succeed
in the rejuvenation it is pres­ently
undergoing, as proved by
the wors of Governol: Ribi­coff,
New Haven's Mayor Lee,
and locally, Bridgeport's Mayor
Tedesco.
Mr. Dodd is scheduled to
speak at the University in the
near future.
MARINE OFFICER
PROCUREMENT
The meeting, after the origin­al
talk, was broken up into dis­cussion
groups which dealt with
specific means of obtaining the
end result desired.
The Marine Officer Procure­ment
Team will visit Fairfield
University on March 10th and
11th to explain opportunities
available to college men to earn
commissions in the Corps.
Members of the team will be in
the Xavier Hall Cafeteria and
in the Loyola Hall Dining Room
to talk to interested students.
The Marines will discuss two
programs leading to secon.d
lieutenant's commissions for
college men. The Platoon Lead­ers
Class consists of two six­week
summer training sessions
at Quantico, Virginia. No drills
or other military activities are
required during the school year.
Members of the class may
choose flight or ground train-
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SCIENCE CONFAB
(Continued from Page 1)
John Warburton, active mem­bers
of the society, enacted
scenes from Hamlet. Father also
made good use of recordings in
several lectures to give the au­dience
a better appreciation of
the material covered.
1539 Post Road
DRAMA SOCIETY
(Continued from Page 1)
vantage of the opportunity to
hear a foremost lecturer.
The Drama Society has made
this project a major undertak­ing
for the 1957-58 season. Ac­cording
to Rev. Lawrence S.
Mullin, S.J., moderator, and
Mr. Robert G. Emerich, the
series was presented as a pub­lic
service.
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Father's first lecture, deliver- fields for the youth and to in-ed
on November 21, was on still in them the desire for at­Shakespearean
and Elizabethan· tainment of better educations in
Drama. This lecture was fol- these areas.
lowed up with a discourse on One predominant point that
European Drama. A highlight was brought out, in somewhat
of the series was the lecture
on Ibsen and Modern Drama. seeming contradiction to the
above, was that the youth of
This lecture featured selected the United States had to be giv-recordings
to illustrate points en a thorough grounding in the
made during the lecture. The Arts as well as the fund of spe­series
also presented lectures cific knowledge which must be
on the classic drama of Greece used in their particular fields.
and France and on contempor- Another point that was empha­ary
Drama. I ~ized was- that they must be in-
When Shakespeare was dis·· Idoctrinated with a sound phi­cussed,
Frank O'Rourke and losophy to guide their actions.