Stag - Vol. 11, No. 12 - May 13, 1960

              Stag Names Tad Dowd Personality Of Year
VOL. XI -, NO. 10 Published by Students of Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn.
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May 13, 1960
Festival Queen
Melican Elected NFCCS Treasurer As NE
Region Takes Strong Civil Rights Stand
Robert Melican, for mer _ _ _ _ _ _ urged a study of discriminatory
NFCCS Junior Delegate from Resolution on Interracial Justice clauses in federal aid to educa-
Fairfield, was elected Regional StTathees soiftuaAtiomne:ricaIn ththeree Uenxiitsetds tion with the ultimate goal be-
Treasurer at the 14th annual racial discrimination. Non-white ing an NFCCS national resolu-
Congress of the New England ~~g;:nd~~~?~~l~~et~:i~n,Ci~~r~d tion to protest advocating ap­Region
of the National Federa- social rights by virtue of this dis- propriate revision.
tion of Catholic College Stud- crTimheinaptiroinnc. iples involved: Racial Among other business trans-ents
at Providence College. In discrimination in many particular acted was a well received pro-other
elections, Thomas O'Here minastnayncmesorveioclaotnesstitjuutsetsicev, ioalnatdionins posal for a revision of the re-ron
of Providence succeeded of Christian charity. gional commission system dif-
Fairfield's Donald St. John as Therefore, we, the students of ferentiating commission regula­Regional
President, while Eliza- W:ti:~f ~~8~;~go:-e~~onc~~h~h~ tions according to subject mat­beth
Magee and Sandra Shaw College Students, recognizing the ter. Final action, including
nationwide existence of racial dis-of
Our Lady of the Elms were crimination, condemn any such structural revision, will be tak-re-
elected Regional Vice Presi- vdiioglnaittiyo.n of human rights and en at Uie forthcoming Summer
dent and Secretary, respective- We condemn such discrimlna- Council.
ly. tory practices in organizatio~s The delegates were addressed
professing themselves to be Ca- h C
Of special interest to Fair- tholic. at t e ongress Banquet, May
field students was the unani- We, as students, condemn racial 7th, by Rev. Robert F. Drinan,
discrimination in the realm of ed- S.J., Dean of the Boston Col­mous
adoption of Fairfield's ucation, such as biased admission
resolution on inte'rracI'al J'ustI'Ce, anWd esuturdgeenltochaol,ussitnagte paonldicinesa.tion- tlhege Law. Schfoiol, w.ho1 spo..ke o.n
presented by John Faulkner. In- al legislators to initiate positive e commg nanCIa CrISIS In
cluded in full in this issue, it is m.easures which will lead to ra- Catholic elementary and sec- Cia1 J.Ust·Ice, andwIe pde ge our ondary education and its impli­to
be publicized as widely as support of these measures.
Possible and introduced at thI'S We deeply sympathize with fel- cations in Church-State rela-sum.
mer's National Congress in lroewprissatul defonrts atwtehmo pthianvge tosufefexreerd- t'I'Onsh'IpS. Th"IS IS one aspect f 0
Louisville. cise their rights by peaceful pro- the National Federation's pro­tiness,
t amndarcphiecsk,etilnugn.ch counter sit- gram for the coming year, a
Another resolution of consid- We endorse the principle of study of the problems of plural-erable
importance was one pre- peaceful resistance, while refus- ism in American society.'
0. b C ' ing to condone violent methods
sente y .O.L.E. which point- of protest. The Regional Family Life
ing out an area of discrimina- We recommend that those shar- Commission was again seated at
tion in the National Defense ipnagtrtohneagaebovtoe bceolirepfosraretifounsse tchoenir- FaI'rfield under the chaI'rman-
Education Act of 1958, whereby trolling local units, which violate ship of Gerald McCarthy. Other
t 0. t 11 justice by practicing racial dis-s,
u en s are a owed a cancel- crimination. ' Fairfield students attending were
~tion up to 50% of their loan We commit ourselves, as stu- outgoing president Don St. John,
at a 10m 1 0. d' h dents, to attack racial discrimina- YO year y e uctIon, w 0 tion wherever possible, and to Pall1 Ziegler, Robert Mel~can,
enter public (as distinguished work toward social justice. John Faulkner, and Richard
from priva,te) school teaching, - - - - - Lucey.
Artie Cra'wford
Named Captain
At Sports Smoker
Artie Crawford, six-foot-four
junior, was elected captain of
the Fairfield University basket­ball
team. This was announced
at a sports award smoker which
was heLd on the F'airfield cam­pus.
Crawford, the team's lead­ing
rebounder and scorer, was
also presented with a "most
valuable player" trophy by the
Ignatian Council, Knights of
Columbus.
A large turnout of students
paid tribute to the team, whose
17-9 won-lost 'record, coupled
with the annexation of the Tri­State
championship, marked the
most successful record yet com­piled
by any Stag squad. Craw­ford
was also presented with a
certificate of honorable men­tion
of the Catholic College All
America squad.
Harry Hyra, captain of this
year's team and a member of
the senior class, accepted the
Tri-State trophy on behalf of
the team. The squad won the
title in a play-off game with the
University of Bridgeport, after
both had compiled ,8-1 league
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Psych Major Due Next Year;
Rev. McGrath Chairs ,Dept.
.Starting in September, Fairfield University will
offer to eligible students the opportunity to major in
Psychology. Tpe newly formed department, under the
leadership and guidance of Fr. T. McGrath, S.J., is the
latest addition in the field of majors at the University.
The purpose of this new field:!) .
'of concentration is two fold: g ra vel y needed," stated Fr.
to prepare men for acceptance Thomas McGrath S J h'-
to graduate school, and to ac- man. ," ., Call'
c.ommodate the st'u. dent who de- "Psych0 oIgydepen0.s upon
smes a deeper kr:ow~edgeofthe the concept of th TIl ,t 0.
human personalIty m order to e . a ure an
b 0. h · It 1 0. h essence of man ,and WIthout good
roa en IS eli ura an u- thO k' thO t
T t 0. 1 f th m mg on IS aspec , one can­mam
Ies aspec s '~n a so or e not have 'a good concept. No one
'student who deS.Ires to supple- but a man t ral.ne0. WI'th soun0.
m. entanother.allIe.d field of ma- Ph1'loso.phica1 an0. 'ttu..,eo1ogl.Ca1
Jor concentration WIth a better . . l' bl f h
0. t d·' f h b prmclp es IS capa e 0 suc an
uhn e. rs an mg {) u rna n e- un0.ertakm' g."
aVlOr. . In addition to Fr. McGrath,
~he fiel?- o:ffers a 24 credIt the new department will be
maJor, whIch [lS preparatory and comprised of a professor of
~ompulsory for graduate school, Ph.D. rank, who will be teach­m
~ontra~t to the.usual 18 cre~it ing full time and an experi­maJor..
EIght, varrous. cours~s m mentalist who will be a part
the field are offered mcludmg a time member 'of 'the, staff. The
full year of lab. staff will be selective in ac-
'The Administration is fully cepting students' for the course
behind me, since this is ,an area and a B avemge is needed by
of social science and a place those who plan to major in Psy­where
Catholic influence is very chology.
JOE MOYLAN
A well-prepared and technic­ally
sound symposium was pre­sented
in Gonzaga Auditorium
on April 27' by the Canisius
Academy. The occasion was pro­duced
in honor of st. Peter Ca­nisi
us, 'Doctor of the Church.
The first discussion was that of
senior James Masi, a physics
major, on "Life in Outer Space."
While Mr. Masi's talk would
have benefitted from a presenta­tion
of more convincing evi­dence
for of the possibility of
the actual existence of such
"life", his presentation was in­teresting
and well delivered.
Joseph Moylan, class of '60
and a Pre-Medical student, then
turned the attention of the audi­ence
to the problem of "Popula­tion
in the Future." It was of
interest to note that the solution
which Mr. Moylan established
preference, would seem to be
one' that necessitated a "one­world"
government (e.,g. joint
conservation of natural re­souJ:
1ces, joint and rational usage
of immigration, and the close­ness
of the nations of the world,
politically, to reach a common
solution). In his delivery, Mr.
Moylan was perhaps a bit con­scious
of the limited time. Audi­ence
'attention was well treated
with the speaker's soundly con­structed
remarks.
The closing discussion, that of
"Graft in the United States,
was conducted by junior Joseph
Charlow, Jr. This speech was
outstanding in its thorough con­creteization
by example. Deal­ing
with an extremely difficult
topic, one that involves thin but
important distinctions, Mr.
Oharlow provided a' rewarding
intelleotual engagement with
the problem.
Theological
Langiappe
Page Two
And do you wonder why we work ourselves into such a
lather over a single letter? Or are you annoyed at our harsh­ness
to Mr. Callaghan? Or, even more, do you consider our
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We were requested for a public apology. Yes, one is needed.
We apologize for the printing of Mr. Callaghan's statement and
his letter-reply. But, we are attempting to cherish the right of
the student body's free expression in THE STAG. The interview
statement was issued, the letter was received; we had no choice
but to print them. The same will hold' for the future.
There is a virtue called charity. There is .also a virtue known
as just anger. But, most of all, there is a limit to tolerance of the
misconceived and false.
We had hoped to avoid using this space for answering letters
to the editor. Unfortunately, due to the seriousness of the situa­tion,
this is no longer possible. In the usual letter section, you will
find the note of Mr. Callaghan. Please read it carefully before
you continue with this editorial.
Our comments on Mr. Callaghan's statements will follow the
consecutive order of paragraphs of his letter.
1. We await a letter from this faculty member stating his
views and reasons supporting same. Otherwise, well, what is not
considered fun by philosophers!
2. We must also require proof that THE STAG violated free­dom
of expression. It would also be helpful if the "Daily 'Worker"
charge (i.e. possessing Communistic ideology) is proven; with, of
course, the "special emphasis".
3. Yes, Mr. Callaghan, you were asked because you were a
leader in a campus, Catholic organization and also due to the fact
that you were chairman of a committee concerned with Catholic
Action (which necessitates knowledge of Catholic Social prin­ciples).
The supposed differentiation between personal and in "the
name of the Knights of Columbus" is treated in numbers 5 and 6.
5. No, Mr. Callaghan, here you have erred. "... a view con­trary
to yours, Mr. Editor..." Are the views you expressed, in
the April 8th edition, of THE STAG, merely contrary to ours
(being Mr. Editor) ??' Allow a quotation from Mr. Callaghan's
central statement: "It is the policy of any company that has been
able to build a chain of stores around the country to maximize
profits, not to attempt to break down norms that people have
been accepting for years. Granted, the store does have obliga­tions
to society, but not so severe a nature as to warrant a hind­ering
of business". Your latter sentence, Mr. Callaghan, is con­trary
to all sound political and social philosophy, from Plato to
Aquinas-and included here is the social doctrine of Christ­and
even far beyond Aquinas. Your former sentence pathetically
typifies the blind conformity to established "norms that people
have accepted" that is plaguing, if not corrupting, modern so­ciety.
And what about moral obligations. Shall the sacred dignity
of man-endowed by God-be ignored in the interests of good
business? Do maximized profits require that a fellow human be­ing
is to be treated as an inferior, as a second ·class citizen? If
they do, the hell with maximized profits!
Unfortunately, it was impossible for anyone to set up Mr.
Callaghan. He had already accomplished that himself.
6. May we always "pick on" that which we believe to be
false and harmful. As regards the last sentence of the sixth
paragraph, (since we are printing the letter as received) the
last set of quotation marks should be removed. As Christ is not
scripturally quoted as saying "those ... etc... hell', and since
Mr. Callaghan is merely stating a proposition, there is no justifi­cation
for the quotation marks. Whether or not the somewhat
simile holds water, we leave to the Freshmen logicians.
"Or maybe we should look at this from a Catholic view­point."
In number 3, we stated that Mr. Callaghan was inter­viewed
because of his position in Catholic groups. And if those
in Catholic groups do not have a knowledge of Catholic prin­ciples
and values, why who will? (Pardon the rhetorical mark.)
Mr. Callaghan seems to hold for a radical difference between
speaking personally and speaking officially for the K. of C. But,
are not both these viewpoints Catholic (i.e. based upon Catholic
.principles)? It surely cannot be said that when speaking as a
Catholic, there is something that prevents one from presuming
that these statements would be in agreement with K. of C. prin­ciples.
Nor should the reverse case apply (speaking officially
recognized K. of C. principles and not presuming that they are
Catholic). We refuse to believe that K. of C. members are schiz­ophrenics.
And, if we are to accept Cardinal Gibbons' words
(i.e. "... Catholic men ... in the foremost rank of benefactors
of humanity."), we find it difficult to believe that such men are
ignorant of Christian principles-particularly, the social prin­ciples
of Christ. Nor can we conceive that these principles are
ignored! by members of the K. of C. Thus, the supposed differ­entiation
cannot logically exist.
7. "It was rather evident that your general criticism was a
direct attack against the K. of C." Was it really? Where is the
evidence to prove this charge?
8. Where in our previous editorial did we criticize "the work
of such an organization"?
Thank you, Mr. Callaghan, for the praise "an enemy of the
people", but being acquainted with the Ibsen work, we are
aware that we are not worthy of such high esteem.
May 13, 1960
Pres.: Louis Parent
V.P.: Paul Rudd .
Sec.: Bob Berchem
Treas.: Steve Dempsey
CARDINAL KEY OFFICERS
Rev. Willi~ J. Healy,
S.J., Dean of the Univer­sity,
was recently asked by
one of our reporters whe­ther
the dean's list privi­leges
would go into effect
next year. Fr. Healy said
that two students had come
to him with a verbal ap­peal
of this nature, and he
had asked them to put ~t in
written form. He remark­ed
that they have not re­turned
to see him. since
then. (d. F. Abbate's arti­cle
on this topic, located on
Page 5.
rank of the benefactors of hu­manity."
Many of the faculty mem­bers,
both religious and lay, of
this university are members of
the K. of C. as well as a good
portion of the student body. I'm
afraid that when you criticize
the peo,ple of such an organiza­tion,
you stand alone, Mr. Edi­tor,
an enemy of the people.
To become a Knight of Co­lumbus
is certainly an honor
that every Catholic man should
fall upon his knees and pray to
God for. And who knows, Mr.
Editor, someday, you too, may
be worthy 'enough to enter into
the ranks of such great men as
a Knight of Columbus..
Bob Calla,ghan
P.S. The foregoing comment
was my personal view and does
in no way even imply those of
Ignatian Councilor the Knights
of Columbus.
DEAN WAITS
speeches (for that is what they are) gusts that are more at home
in Union Square?
The 13th of May was the feast day of St. Robert Bellarmine,
patron of the University. From an article in AMERICA, May 7th,
entitled "Tribute to St. Robert Bellarmine-Patron of Intellectual
Life", we have gleaned a sentence. "In the Collect of the Mass
for his (Bellarmine) feast day, she (the Church) directs us to'
beseech God, through the intercession of S1. Robert, that 'we may
grow in the love of truth'."
In our shoutip.g "Arise, Defend, Get in the fight, etc.", moved
by a perhaps too-rushing, searching love, we have been too harsh
to your ears. But, can you not s~ that with so many hordes of
silent men, standing fallow around! ns, waiting for a truth, how
itchy we grow to rouse the world up, and bring you with us on
a loving search ... yes, even on a crusade!
To the soon departing seniors, we give a wish of good luck
and a thought of gratitude; thanks for your many contributions
to the riches of Fairfield University. THE STAG hopes you have
a rewarding journey.
Then there is the list of people we would like to commend
and congratulate: Fr. J. L. Bonn, S.J., on the twenty-fifth an­niversary
of his priesthood; The Young Dems, newspaper and
its editor for his stand on the N.D.E.A.; Father Caffrey, S.J. and.
John Creed for their fine work on intramurals; and the Student
Body, on general principles.
In reference to our past comment on Mr. K. Dubuc, while
we would emphasize number 6 in our reply to Mr. Callaghan, we
would retract and apologize for our analysis of his statement. lie
did not directly state that he considered Southerners inferior and
under dissimiliar moral obligations.
Bearing in mind: (1) Bishop Shehan's remark at the May
Mass that the purpose of a university is to educate; and (2) the
general basis of Fr. W. Kenealy, S.J., stirring lecture on racism;
We wonder if, as they are entering the local Woolworth, Kresge,
or Grant five-and-ten, the students will have been educated to
reflect a moment. Yes, May 17th was the sixth anniversary of
the Supreme Court Decision against segregation. What will you
do about it?
from the other three, "set up"
on the front page with the pur­pose
of being "knocked down"
on the editorial page. If a per­son
differs with your opinion,
Mr. Editor, must he literally be
placed in front of your firing
squad to be liquidated?
Judging from the tone of your
newspaper, you pick on .two
people who do not agree with
you as though you were the
voice of 1200 screaming Fair­field
U. students. Just how many
do stand behind you, Mr. Editor,
the 20 or 25 who picketed, and
the lone f.aculty member who so
majestically was quoted as say­ing,
"those who do not raise
hell usually go there?" Or may­be
we should look at this from
a Catholic viewpoint. Christ
said, "those who live by the
sword die by the sword," and
so "those who raise hell, shall
see hell."
This is secondary to the em­barrassment
that you caused to
me before my brother Knights
for the way you misrepresented
my comment. I do not have any
power whatsoever to use the
name of the Knights of Colum.
bus in voicing mY opinion. To
do such a thing would leave no
alternative than to resign my­self
or suffer ignominious cast­ing
out of the Knights of Co­lumbus.
I therefore expect of
you, Mr. Editor, a public apol­ogy,
as I know any good Cath­olic
gentleman would do.
It was rather evident that
your general critkism was a
direct attack against the K. of
C. What do you have against the
K. of C., Mr. Editor? I would
like to remind you that the
activities of the K. of C. do not
end on this campus as practic­ally
all other organizations do.
The K. of C. has been termed
by many Popes and other hier­archy
of the Church to be "the
strong right arm of the Catholic
Chur<:h." With over one million
Knights in America their
strength is well pointed out by
Cardinal Gibbons' words, "The
K. of C. are Catholic men who
take their place in the foremost
JFXW
THE STAG
A Public Letter, submitted to
the Editor for publication.
To Br. Bob Call a g han and
Brother Kenneth Dubuc,
This letter concerns s tat e­ments
made by members of the
Ignation Council of the Knights
of Columbus, concerning picket­ing.
I, asa member of this
council, wish to apologize to
the readers of the STAG. The
opinions of Mr. Callaghan and
Mr. Dubuc may reflect the views
of the "solid majority", but they
do not reflect the spirit of the
Knights of Columbus. As
Knights, we were told that the
foundation of our organization
is Charity. How aptly expressed
was this virtue of charity by
Mr. Callaghan and Dubuc!
Thank you Mr. Callaghan for
telling us that one can use any
means to achieve an end; and
to you Mr. Dubuc for elevating
my "lack of understanding."
Last of all to you, the readers,
my sincerest apolegies.
Fraternally yours,
Brother Jack Doyle
BELlGERENT BARD
Michael T. Kiernan, News
Editor of THE STAG, insists
that we announce the publica­tion
of one of his poems in the
summer anthology of the
A!merican College Poetry So­city.
I~~t~,TE~~~of The S'••,
It has been recently stated by
a Jesuit priest of our faculty,
teaching in the philosophy de­partment,
that he would rather
show a stack of pornographic
literature to someone visiting
Fairfield, than one single copy
of The Stag. At first I had re­servations
about such a state­ment,
but after reading your
last issue I can logically draw
no other conclusion.
Of course the faculty member
was making such a statement
about the grammatical mistakes
in The Stag, not the material
content. Yet, as I stated, what
he said in the last pamgraph
was positively true, but carried
the wrong representation of the
actual meaning. A very easy
and simple misrepresentation
that could have been construed
the wrong way.
If this past issue is anything
of a sample of what the stu­dents
of Fairfield University can
expect from you in the coming
year as Editor of The Stag. then
I question your competency to
such a position. Your last issue
violated the basic rule of Ameri­can
journalism, freedom of ex­pression.
Your newspaper, with
special emphasis to your editor­ial
section, was probably typical
of the Daily Worker at its peak.
Such a distortion of facts and
opinions should never be per­mitted
to appear as the "voice"
of a Jesuit, Catholic college.
About two weeks before the
outc.ome of the last issue of The
Stag I was honored (?) with a
request to express my opinion
on the problem of college stu­dents
sympathetic picketing of
Northern stores. I was informed
that various campus leaders in
Catholic organizations such as
the Soladity, K. of C., and
N.F.C.C.S. were being asked to
comment on the picketing ques­tion.
And so, by my position as
chairman of the Catho Act.
Comm. of the Knights of Co­lumbus.
I was asked my per­sonal
view on the subject.
Upon taking a view contrary
to yours, Mr. Editor, I found
that my comment was separated
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Editorials
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May 13. 1960 THE STAG Page Three
SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL LECTURES SCHEDULE
May 10.-Gonzaga-8:30 P.M.: Thther John Ryan, 8.J., discussed
Anthony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, and The Winter's Tale.
May 17-Gonzaga-8:30 P.M.: Father J. L. Bonn, S.J. to discuss
The Tempest.
May 24-Gonzaga-8:30 P.M.: Mr. Malcolm Black (Administr­tor
of American Shakespeare Festival Academy) to discuss
"Shakespeare And the Modern Audienae."
Before us on the desk is a pamphlet entitled "Why New
Yorkers are for Nixon." Aside from the fact that most of them
aren't, it is a pretty depressing bit of literature. It is divided
into three separate peans of praise for Nixon, Ability, Courage,
and Experience.
Ability: this section says that Nixon has worked his way
up from the bottom ,and lauds his performances in the elections
of 1946 and 1948. We wonder why they didn't mention the smear
campaign that he waged against Jerry Voorhees, the cam,paign
that has been called the dirtiest since the New Deal.
Courage: This section gives him the title "statesman", re­fers
to the Checkers broadcast, and says that he bravely fac'ed
"Communist mobs" in South America. We wonder how a man
who classes Lincoln as a "skillful political operator" can be
called a statesman, why Murray Chotiner was not mentioned,
and why no proof was cited that the mobs were Communist.
,Experience: this section refers to Nixon as Eisenhower's
"good-will Ambassador." We wonder how much good-will is
spread by a man who's very visit produces a rash Qf rock throw­ing
by our allies.
We feel that the office of President is too important an office
to entrust toa man who won his first office by a campaign of
slander, ·a man who is hated throughout South America, a man
who has 'alined himself with those policies which have lost us
friendship and respect in the all-important Middle East. While
we realize that it may be just the exegencies of office that have
kept the Vice President from expressing a truly original poli.tical
philosophy during the past eight years, we cannot be sure of
this. And in this time of crisis, when inventiveness and incisive­ness
are high on any list of qualifications for a president, we
dare not ,elect Richard Nixon.
The case of the Democr,atic front-runner, John F. Kennedy,
is somewhat different. He is in theory ,a Catholic -and,as such,
his political philosophy should be somewhat akin to ours. On
the contrary, it is either 'So muddled and inconsistant as to be
nonexistent or so watered-down as to be unpalatable.
Consider his Easter Sunday telegmm about the National
Oounoil of Churches and the Air Force pamphlet. Lord knows
that we've had enough of the witch hunts, but to declare that
Protestant Ministe,rs should never even be questioned as to their
loyalty seems a bit extreme. We are almost tempted to believe
that Senator Kennedy is in this stand, his stand on school busses,
his stand on an Ambassador to the Vatican, and his marked
absence from the senate during the recent Civil Rights Debate,
attempting to please certain religious groups. Weare almost
tempted to believe that.
We are -almost tempted to believe that the author of "Pro­files
in Courage" showed ·a certain lack of that virtue when he
failed to vote on the McCarthy censure.
We ar.e almost tempted to believe .that a man who eim di­vorce
his religious life from his performance of political func­tions,
with the amount of facility that _the Senator claims, is
perhaps not at all strongly principled.
We 'are quite certain that Kennedy has so speedily abandoned
principles to expediency in his overlong campaign that he is not
the man we want as President.
Noted Jesuit From New York
Province ,Speaks On Education
Exerpted from "THE DOLPHIN", the student body paper of
Le Moyne College, is the following statement of Fr. Daniel
Berrigan, S.J. Fr. Berrigan is of poetieal, as well as priestly,
The cut regulation system has fame. "The student vocation is to the fulness ·of Christian wis­recently
been rather 1 i v e'l y dom; he is, prof.essionally, friend to the truth. The function of
topic of discussion here at Fair- the teacher is to reduce, patiently and cheerfully and with
field. Seeking to. further explore respect for the talent and ideal of the individual, the roadblocks
this question, the STAG clip~ which man naturally puts up to an acceptance of his own future.
ping staff went to 'work and pre- I would say that these roadblocks are, from wi.thin him, inertia
sented the following condensed and immaturity; and his society, the materi·alistic grab-game' that
copy from "The Heights", the is being played all around him for the gadgets and trifles and
student body news~aper of Bos- tail fins that are so beloved of the organized adolescents. If
ton C~llege.. The Is~ue of the the teacher can bring .a student to a suspicion, however dim and
paper IS Apnl 29th, 60. I unfounded, that this game is not worth playing, 'and hardly
"THE HEIGHTS learned ... worth dignifying with the name 'human life', he will at least
from a tho r 0 u gIll y reliable have won a round in the fight; and in this fight, winning a round
source ... , that a new re,gula- is above par."
tion on class att~ndance is un- "Then on to the second (round). The second is .the really
del" consideration by academic exciting and Christian one. It C'onsists of a study of one's own
authorities in A&S (arts and situation in his culture and church; of the larger image of man
sciences). The new policy, if that history opens before him, of the world of the imagination
adopted, is expeded to place the that great literature invites him to, of the emerging world com­responsibility
for class attend- munity which is forming, largely without Christian sympathy
ance in the relationship between and help, but forming none the less, and in forming, claiming
the individual studient and the ,the future world. The whole positive teaching process might
individual teacher. be summed up as a deepening of consciousness. Most people -
Fr. William Casey, Dean of to keep with ou~ metaphor ----:- fight this to th~ de.ath, because
A&S confirmed this' report . . . to be aware has ItS own penaltIes'. It means walkmg mto a world,
He ~dmitted . . . that both he largely childish, determinedly selfish, and still continuing to be
and the chairmen of all the de- one's self, trying like a manful Christian to make these values
partments in A&S are in favor available."
of such a policy. 'Such a move
would be designed for the stu- Another Ed.etor.eal dent's benefit, and would be in-troduced
for this reason only,' e e •
he declared. 'By treating the stu­,
dent 'as a mature individual, the
College would naturally expect
that he, in return, would be
motivated to a more m·a t u r e
performance in his col leg e
work.' When questioned con­cerning'
any h arm f u I effects
which an elimination of the ad­ministration-
enforced class at­tendance
requirement mig h t
have. Fr. Casey said that he ex­pected
'that a period of adjust­ment
would certainly be re­quired.'
'But,' he ,added, 'educa­tion
at the college level is: not
for immature persons'."
In the same issue of "The
Heights", an editorial, entitled
"The Outdated, Obligation", of­fered
the following additional
remarks and analysis. "The most
distasteful feature of enforced
class attend·ance is the complete
lack of confidence which such
a policy places in both the stu­dents
and the faculty: the stu­dent
is pr:esumed incapable of
judging for himself the advis­ability
of spending an hour of
time in a classroom, and the
teacher is presumed incapable
of stimulating a voluntary in­terest
in his subject mat t e r.
Classes can very easily tend to
become mere rituals, performed
under coercion, and in suchan
atmosphere the intellect is not
inclined to respect the know­ledge
it is' forced to absorb.
When a stifling spirit of con­formity
pervades a campus, as
254 Jesuit educational leaders
pointed out in their 'a n n u a 1
meeting last week in Chicago,
intellectual curiosity and initi­ative
are inhibited. And, what
is most disconcerting, this takes
place at that stage in an indi­vidual's
life when he should be
stimulated to undertake the
boldest intellectual adventures.
"The cut system is 'a misap­plication
of democratic princi­ples.
It presupposes that all stu­dents
have been created equal,
but on an extremely low level
of intelligence, with the, resl,llt
that they are unable properly
to structure the means of their
goals. It refuses to admit the
possibility of :a student's being
able to learn in five minutes
from a book what he must put
Continued on Page 11)
.Another Jesuit
School Rechecks
Cuts; F.U. Next?
Of
Picketers
• • •
Fordham Joins SUm Ranks
Jesuit College
A borrowed item of interest: Fordham University students
have also joined the picketing fight against stores which practice
radal discrimin-ation in the South (i.e. lunch-counters). This
news is relayed to us by way of "The Fordham Ram", the
student-body newspaper of that university. Those students par­ticipating
in the picketing offered the following sample state­ments:
"It would be hypocritical of us just to talk and not do
anything about injustices·. What good is just talking about
Christian charity?" "I'm here because of the hypocritical com­mercial
policy of many institutions who practice tolerance in
the North and discriminate in the South." The store-manager
of the picketed Woolworth stoDe stated: "When something has
been going on for over a 100 years, how can you change it
overnight?" And from a sidewalk observer: "It's just llke the
thirties. This kind of movement has to originate with students.
It's been f.ar overdue."
An editori·al in the RAM, entitled "Your Problem", had
these further sentiments to add. "Northern college students
have extended their sympathy and, in some cases, their financial
support to the Southern Negro students participating in the
lunch-counter (sit-in) strikes. Within the past two months,
hundreds of these Negros have been arrested on flimsy charges.
What they have actually been harassed and j.ailed for is resent­ing
second-class citizenship ... We owe it to these courageous
Negro students and to ourselves to show such discrimination
morally insults us ... Such action (i.e. the picketing), both here
and elsewhere, has smashed the label of .the 'silent generation'
... In their own way, these picketers have undermined the wor­ship
of (such) nihilism."
"Each ... student who clings to the doctrine that this sit-in
strike does not conaern him must now question his (own)
honesty. The action of these pickets should spur each student
to examine his thoughts and attitudes ·about fellow students in
the South who plant their feet against the tide of fulfilled po­litical
promises and carefully executed delaying tactics . . .
The price we have paid for such human ne'gligence (i.e. discrim­ination)
is. fearful. We must not be willing to continue paying."
Thus, it would seem that Fairefild University pickets are
not alone in the Catholic-and-Jesuit-school camp.
Caryl Whittier Chessman is dead, Some of us helped to
murder him by our indifferen,ce to the intolerable nature of
the penalty that he was forced to pay. A few of us perhaps
thought about it. A few of us may have made a decision, posi­tive
or negative, on our attitude toward Caryl Chessman. Most
of us were indifferent.
Indifference has become almost the hallmark of our gener­ation.
It is not a hallmark of which we can be proud. When that
vapor rose, hissing, twisting, insidiously seeking out his nostrils
and ,his gasping mouth, most of us didn't care. It is a rather
terrible comment on our society that Caryl Chessman shou'Id
have been eXiecuted in the manner in which he was. It is in­finitely
more shocking that we should think so little of it. Some­thing
which should have shocked us, something which should
have created an emotional-intellectual turmoil even in the
groves of academia, perhaps especially in these groves, failed to
do so.
L'Osservatore Romano, commenting on his case, said that
Chessman had to pay"... a penalty that no law has ever pro­,
vided for any crime: tha of ·a· death sentence to be carried out at
an indefinite da,te." Most of us remained indifferent.
Feeling abroad was so strong :about Chessman that the State
Department had to ask for a stay of execution because there
might be "embarrasment" on Ike's trip otherwise. Some of us
read the article in Life about it. Others looked at the pictures,
hoping perhaps that his alleged crime would be described. No
one got really worked up.
In another 'age, the case of Caryl Chessman would have
been a rallying point for youth. There would have been groups,
and individuals, on both sides of the question. There would
probably have been articulate, and even vociferous discussion
of the question. There would have been at least recognition
that the problem of Caryl Chessman existed. The men '. and
women who marched for Sacco and Vanzetti might conceivably
have found the fate of Caryl Chessman to be as interesting as
an intramural softball game. We evidently didn't.
'When Caryl Chessman spoke his last words, "I am not
guilty," we shrugged, There was perhaps some almost sadistic
curiosity, nothing more.
How is it possible that we should be so incalculably callous
toward human life? It is not too surprising that ,the more abstract
elements of justice should not route us out .of our comfortab,le
lethargy; it is completely incomprehensible that violent death
administered in one 'of the cruelest ways possible (by a state
which no longer has on its books the law which was allegedly
broken) ,should make no, impression.
Albert Camus said that, "The death penalty is to the body
politic what cancer is to the individual- body, with perhaps the
single difference that no one has ever spoken of the necessity
of cancer." A second and more profoundly dangerous difference
is that, the patient whose individual body is being torn apart
by cancer is not indifferent to it, while the members of the body
politic that is disease-ridden by the unspeakable horror that
took place in California go smugly on their ways, unaware that
they are rotting. G.S.
VARIANTS
Page Four THE STAG May 13, 1960
F. J. Abbate
Hutchins On Colleges
Mr. Robert M. Hutchins, for­mer
chancellor of the Univer­sity
of Chicago, in an article in
none-other-than "McCall's Mag­azine,"
has spotted what is per­haps
a dangerous facet of Amer­ican
higher education. He writes
as follows: "Almost every col­lege
and university in the
United States is seeking to raise
enormous sums. If the primary
aim of a college or university
has to be to gain the support of
people who have money, and if
the prevailing view is that peo­ple
who have money will sup­port
only the most conventionaI­and
undisturbing institutions
(plus researC'h designed to
lengthen our lives and shorten
those of our enemies), then it
is not surprising that American
colleges and universities have
become places in which the
young ·can 'be accommodated
until they can go to work ­with
medical schools and insti­tutes
of nuclear physics attach­ed."
(The bracketed phrase is
that of Mr. Hutchins.)
Young Dem'S Attack
NDEA Loyalty Oath
In the April issue of' "The
Appeal," the publication of the
Young Dems. of the University,
an important and controversial
stand has ,been taken. In quot­ing
the Democratic Advisory
Council, and in emphasizing
that body's position, the Young
Democratic Club of Fairfield
University has come out in
favor of the withdrawal of the
oath of disclaimer now required
under the scholarship program
of the National Defense Ad.
Also noteworthy, is the well­'
written serial article by Mr.
Petry on "Party Lines, 1960."
OnA
And Finds Doves
BISHOP ON
SEGREGATION
SCHOLARSHIPS
Two University seniors have
been awarded substantial grants
for further study in the field of
French.
Joseph Annunziata is "await­ing
final approval from Was!h­ington"
on a Fulbright Scholar­ship
for study in Paris, France.
The gmnt will include tuition,
books, room, board and travel
expenses. Mr. Annunziata is
also the recipient of a teaching
assistantship from the French
government to teach English in
a Parisian lycee. This French
government grant would include
a Fulbright grant defraying
travel expenses.
George Rouleau, will study
at George Washington Univer­sity,
Washington, D.C. under
the aegis of a three-year Na­tional
Defense Fellowship. A
pro,gressive grant, ($2,000 - first
year, $2,200 - second year,
$2,400 - tJh~rd year) it leads to
a doctorate in French.
A tinge of melancholy usually makes a concurrent entrance
with the "time when a young man's fancies turn to." Perhaps
it is the flowing fields of escarole, the sight of 'an officer of the
Campus Police standing at an elevation of 180 feet, commanding
a broad view of Long Island Sound, as he tries to calculate the
speeds 'of oncoming cars with his eyes. Today I feel sorry for
everybody. I feel sorry for the man who brought a bottle of
Facciamarra's Homemade Joy Juice to the Dogwood Festival,
thinking that Prohibition was still going on. I feel sorry for
Canadians who have to pay ten cents more per paperback, with
the American price printed plainly on the cover for their quiet
eyes to see. I feel sorry for the man in the street, for the psy­chological-
necessity-of-causality theory has never crossed, his
mind - and, besides that, he's in the 'street.
But there are things more close to my -heart than these, a
noble reader who has so graciously condescended to pick up and,
read this piece 'Of poppycock. And one of these is the question
of attitudes and status symbols on the college campus. Fifty
years ago, if a man graduated from college, he had really done
something. In most cases, he kne,w it, society knew it, in fact
everybody knew it! He had reached a totally different level of
living as he walked around with his degree tattooed on his chest.
But today, with more then ten times as many men coming out
from under the halls of ivy, society scarcely turns its head to
take a second look.
All right, so society's wrong! But this does not necessarily
mean that we should answer it on its own terms. Granted that
the typical average forefather got no better education than
any modern coward, does this have to impell J'Oe College to
start talking in terms of wall-to-wall wives and thinking that
his degree is some kind of hereditary legacy entitling him to
a throne in the Court of the Social E,lite? (I can hear illusions
shattering - can you hear the pieces falling on the tear­drenched
ground?) In most cases, Joe College has a good deal
more to go before he becomes any different kind of person; if,
in fact, he ever does become ,a different kind. The great modern
fallacy sees man acting as if he has a stake in the aristocratic
class, and thus becoming one of it.
As I said, society's all wrong. But you are never going to beat
"them" if you play the game according to their rules. By "them"
I do not mean society as a unit, but what society thinks socially
is - making society not one bit better than society! (The latter
society, that is.) So you see the point.
One of the electronic devices
making great contributions to
the field of medicine is the ana­log
of a TV set. The device is
called a sanguinomet'er; it is, in
effect, a closed-circuit TV sys­tem
which can make a blood
count in seconds by scanning a
blood sample and feeding the
findings into a computer for
analysis. ,'Dhe machine is of
great importance from the
standpoint of saving time and
simplifying la1b procedures. The
principle it employs could also
be extremely important. A de­vice
employing the same prin­ciple
could play a big role in
cancer detection. Cancer cells
are usually larger than normal
ones, and this difference in cell
size could be readily detected
by the very sensitive scanning
tubes. Thus a' device of this
type could conceivably furnish
a quick, sure way for cancer
detection.
Another field in which the
unlikely combination of medi­cine
and electronics has pro­duced
great results is in the
field of cytology, the study of
cells. Until an electronic device
was made, living cells were in­visible
because of their trans­parency.
To make them visible,
the cells had to be stained, and
staining . usually kills them.
Thus, the most potentially in­formative
research - eX'peri­ments
observing the behavior
of living cells - was impossible.
This inability to observe living
cells at work could have been In reference to Catholics and
disastrous, to cancer research, segregatiOon, the ,Bishop of Lit­since
cancer is a phenomenon tIe Rock, Ark., Bishop Albert
intimately connected with the Fletcher, published! an "Elemen­mechanism
of cell production, tary Catholic Catechism on the
and therefore involved the ob- Morality of Segregation and Ra­servation
of living cells. The cial Discrimination." Among the
problem was solved by a team statements of the Bishop in that
of RCA engineers and scien- publication were: "Segregation
tists from the Rockefeller In- as we know it in Arkansas is
stitute for Medical Research. immoral." The habit of racial
'Dhey developed an apparatus in segregation is a vice and can be
wlhich cells were 'illumined' by a grave moral offense "when
invisible ultra-violet light of the act of racial prejudice com­three
wavelengths. 'Dhis invis- mitted is a serious infraction of
ible light is translated into vis- the law of justice or charity."
ible red, green, and blue light Catholics may nOot be members
by specially designed TV tubes, of organizations ','w h 0 s e pur­and
this translation into visible pose is to continue segregation
l~g~t makes the workings of as we know it ... because by
hvmg cells observable. Iso doing, they are promoting a
(Continued on Page 11) system which is unjust."
If you've ever seen one of
those documentaries on televi­sion
exposing the sinister be­havior
of psuedo - physicians,
you've undoubtedly noticed that
as a rule the healing quarters of
these quacks are filled with wild
looking gadgetry, which is sup­posed
to bring about miraculous
cures electrically. So usually,
the mention of electricity in
medicine conjures up visions of
occult, and phony medicine.
But, today, if you were to
step into one of America's larg­er
hospitals (Boston General
Hospital, the site of medical­electronic
experiments con­ducted
in conjunction with
M.LT., for example) you would
see just such wild looking elec­tronc
'gadgetry,' only now per­forming
such real and invalu­able
tasks as making extremely
rapid blood counts, pinpointing
tumors deep in the recesses of
the brain, curing those tumors
without recourse to surgery, and
without destroying adjoining
cells in the process. Nowhere is
the process of mutual coopera­tion
for mutual advancement
more evident than in the case of
two sciences which at first
glance seem poles apart - elec­tronics
and medicine.
ScienceWorlds Our Man Stanley Reports
Weeping Abbate
JAZZ '60
And y,et Another Editorial
By E. WELLINGTON ANDERSON
Ornette Coleman. Ornette Coleman. Remember that name;
for it belongs to the possessor of the most radical voice in modern
jazz today - and perhaps the most important in modern jazz
history. •
Whether youn~ (28) altoist Coleman's far-out ideas, discon­cerning
pitch, rhythm and chord structure are as far-reaching
and important as he would like everyone to believe is a question
that divided a majority of the jazz critics.
In talking to a group of these critics' who have just listened
to the Coleman Quartet (with Don Cherry, another radical, on
B-flat trumpet) one might hear such diverse statements as:
"He'll. change the entire course of jazz." "He's a fake." "He's a
genius." "I C'an't say; I'll have to hear him a lot more' times."
"He has no form." "He swings like HELL." "I'm going home to.
listen to myoId Benny Goodman sides." "I like him, but I don't
have any idea of what he's doing."
To be specific, I shall quote a little of what has been written
on the subject of Ornette Coleman's music by 'a few of our most
respected jazz critics. One, J'ohn S. Wilson, jazz editor of THE
NEW YORK TIMES in reviewing Coleman's "The Shape Of Jazz
To Come," had this to say: "Coleman can come as something
of a shock to the normally attuned ear because his arrival has
not been prepared in gradual stages (as, for instance, the arrivals
of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane were). Coleman seems to
have gone directly back to the basic foundation set up by Charlie
Parker, and to have shucked 'off the surface derivations which
have been accumulating on it for 15 years, and to have taken
off from this bare-bone launching pad in his own direction."
Yet, in direct contrast, another noted jazz critic, John A.
Tynan, has written: "Coleman's playing suggests an intense de­sire
to do to jazz what Charlie Parker did in the middle 1940s.
But wanting isn't having - and Coleman is far from being a
reinC'arnation of Parker."
Dom DeMicheal, critic for DOWNBEAT, in rating the album
three out of a possible five stars, wr'ote of "Tomorrow Is The
Question": "To SHY this is a strange ,album is an understatement
of Coleman's conception; and if it's anything, this conception
is astonishing. Coleman is almost certain to create a furor and
start the biggest controversy since Thelonious Monk ... His
wild, incoherent solos on "Toniorrow", "Tears" and "Mind" are
marked by extremely bad intonation 'and sloppy execution."
Dam DeMichael, critic for DOWNBEAT, in rating the album
having been forced to take a positive stand on Ornette Coleman's
merits-o,r lack of them. As for myself, I also have formed an
opinion, though not so definite as Messrs. Wilson, Tynan and
DeMichael, on the subject 'of Ornette Coleman. Those of you
who read these pages regularly (indeed, I hope there are some)
will remember my having gone on record quite early "pro Cole­man";
"... he is not only an altoist who will become a major
contributor; he already has arrived as a man to dig - and right
now!" - THE STAG, January 22, 1960.
Having heard Ornette Coleman in person several times
since last J,anuary (the last being about three weeks ago at the
Five Spot in-the-Village), my initial impression hasn't much
changed - I like his playing (though not his "plastic" tone); I
still don't understand what he's doing; and I still think it much
too soon to determine just how much of "a major contributor"
he will be.
The Catholic War Veterans (presumably the veterans of a
"Catholic" war) are at it again. Their newest attack on individual
rights concerns academic freedom. In particular, it includes agi­tation
for the dismissal of an instructor in the State University
on Long Island for assigning 'a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
They have been aided in this minor-league Crusade by Represen­tative
Steven Derounian (R-N.Y.), who said that the assigning
of "A Coney Island 'Of the Mind #5" represented a concerted
undermining of Christianity in the schools.
The poem, which has been reprinted and discussed in such
august journals as LIFE, is the retelling of Christ's passion in
the contemporary idiom. The passage to whiC'h most of the criti­cism
has been leveled follows:
"Him just hang there
'on His Tree
looking real Petered out
and real cool
and also
according. to a roundup
of late world news
from the usual unreliable sources
real dead."
Aside from the fact that I fail to see how the assignment of
one poem, however anti-Christian that poem might be, can pos­sibly
constitute a concerted undermining of Christianity, it seems
that the 'agitation by a Catholic group against it is a severe self­indictment
for cultural inferiority 'On the part of that group.
The fact that the Catholic War Veterans publicly proclaim
their inability to read, would be of little interest to us but for
the fact that 'any group which carrier the term "Catholic" in
their name is frequently assumed by the secular press (and such
journalistic abominations as the TABLET) to be speaking for
at least a sizable minority of Catholics. This is regrettable but
true and should cause even such fearless organizations as the
Catholic War Veterans to look before they etc.
On to the poem itself. Many people may find it rather re­pugnant;
just ,as many people find the us'e of any hip phrase un­attractive.
Others may believe the application of argot to Christ
(Continued on Page 12)
May 13. 1960 THE STAG Page Five
,Dean's List Privileges
Impetus to Sc,holn.rship:
When'the modern student takes ,a good look at educational
institutions he finds that, in general, achievements go unre­warded.
And he also discovers that a great many colleges in the
country have established formal organi2)ations to- accommodate
specifically those students who have reached a noticeable degree
of academic distinction. These ,are not to be confused wirth Dean's
Lists, for they are something over and 'above the system which
simply recognizes the fact that so-and-so has a certain average
and therefore places his IlJame on an honor role for all to see.
In fact, in seve,ral centers. ~>----------------
I
DORM COUNCIL
Since the end of the Easter
vacation, the activities of the
Resident Council have been
highly inadequate. In a recent
interview with its president,
Tom Ryan, the blame was plac­ed
on the lack of interest dis­played
by the dorm students. It
seems that nothing has been
presented to any member of the
council by the students and as
a matter of fact, there has been
no bill introduced since Decem­ber.
"If we don't have anything
to work with, we can't act on
it. The cry is that the Resident
Council hasn't done anything;
you haven't given us anything
to do. You say we are apathetic
to your wishes. We say you are
the ones who are apathetic as
evidenced by the· indifference
displayed."
Mr. Ryan also disclosed that
there will be no block party
this year due to financial diffi­culties.
The main reason is that
only 54% of the dorm students
have paid their tax. At present,
the council funds are in excess
of $90. The cheapest block party
ever run cost $200. Consequent­ly,
this year's event can not be
held. For the same reason, the
council has also had to elimin­ate
the annual awarding of
council keys.
Regarding the elections of
next year's officers, Jack Doyle
the current Vice-President, will
hold them the first or second
week of October.
In conclusion, Mr. Ryan re­marked,
"We would like to
thank those who have helped
the council during the past year
and we hope that next year will
bring a renewed spirit of co­operation
among all parties
concerned."
here at Fairfield, students have
begun to realize that putting
one.'s name on a list is not only
not enough impetus to scholar­ship,
but is too transient a thing
'imd d'oes not seem to be enough
of a reward to fit the nature of
the job accomplished.
Recently a few students poll­ed
the campus in an effort to
discover just what the student
body thinks should be the, re­ward
for a student's outstand­in
g scholastic achievement.
Some of the choices offered were
as follows:
(1) the privi1ege of taking an
extra course without 'additional
fee.
(2) a rebate of tuition for the
fonowing semester.
(3) the privilege of taking a
comprehensive test in an elec­tiv,
e not carried, with full credit
for the course given to those
students who achieve outstand­ing
grades.
(4) the privilege of unlimited
cutting of classes.
(5) a letter or pin signifying
academic merit.
Before discussing the exact
purpose of the poll and the na­tureof
privileges in general, let
it be said that the top two
choices were almost unanimous­ly
endorsed. The second two
were chosen by the great ma­jority;
the last hardly at all.
But the order of preference is
not as important as the more
obvious fact that the ,students
do I1eaiize that some privilege,
or some thing, should be given
for distinguished grades.
Having established at least
that much, we can turn to the
question of why- the poll was
given - in short, what the re­sults
really sho-uld mean. And in
this regard it is well to note
that the suggestions offered to
the student body were merely
suggestions. The real point of
the whole process was to see
how much genuine spirit exists
for a real academic reward pro­gram.
In other words, given the
possibility of some formal pro­gram
for scholastic achievement,
who would be interested? It
,goes almost without saying,a
project of this sort being gear­ed
to the long view and probab­ly
taking quite a bit of time for
implementing, that ther,e is very
little room for selfishness in
maturely considering this kind
of program. The school must
come first, boola-boola 'as it may
sound. If this smacks too much
of altruism for some p e 0 pIe,
then let us be glad it is only
some people.
Again the Desults of the poll
can be viewed asa basic indica­tion
of the student body's atti­tude
toward scholastic distinc­Hon
as a whole. What does it
mean to have your name placed
on the Dean's List? Is this mean­ing
worthy of preservatio-n? Is
scholastic distinction s u c h a
"big deal" anywhy? Thus the
sugg,estions offered act e d as
sounding boards for some ideas
which are right at the bottom
of people's thinking.
One may object at this point
(having had all he oan possibly
take) that treating student ideas
is this speculative and almost
sociological manner is equiva­lent
to labeling the whoLe thing
as a philosopher's dream. This
is certainly not the case - it
seldom is. But getting it out of
the realm of idea and adapting
it organizationally is the task
of the stu den t body itself.
Neither are interested students
working against fantastic odds.
There has been definite interest
shown in administrative circles,
according to the word of Fr.
George S. Mahan, S.J. Fr. Mahan
has stated that nothing would
give the Administration more
p1easure than seeing that stu­dents
are working for such a
worthwhile end as a pro-gram
for recognition of a ca d e m i c
achievement. The f'act is un­equivocally
clear that one must,
however, propose something be­fore
that something can be acted
upon. And it would be well to
note again that monetary ideas
must be checked at the door.
Although many students favored
rebated tuition, we should not
condemn the general attitude as
capitalist. We can justify it on
the grounds that it was one of
only a few suggestions put forth.
Granted that everything said
so far has formal cer,titude, the
question is, "Where do we go
from heDe?" I would like-read­er
permitting-to climb o-ut on
a limb at this point and urge
anyone reading this article (and
genuinely interested) to stimu­late
more people into thinking
along his line, to- organize and
approach the administration and
inquire about possibLes and ac­tuals.
In short, to take some
definite action. Privileges are
one thing; but as this article has
tried to show there must be
something more basic, more uni­fying
than reward for the sake
of self. If there are people who
would rather, say, organize a
society for those achieving scho­listie
merit, than find them­selves
a few dollars ahead on
tuition, this can turn into a
worthwhile effort. If not, then
the limb I've been out on these
last f'ew sen ten c e s has just
broken - and it was nice talk­ing
to you. From the cross s'ec­tion
taken, it appears as if the
idea can work. However, it can­not
move itself to 'action.
I would like to thank John
Vaitkus for his valuable help in
"sounding out" the student body
and in general pro-viding the
impetus for this article.
Fred J. Abbate
Student's Work
Exhibited
Sophomore Donald Preziosi is
currently exhibiting one of his
paintings at the Young Painters
of Connecticut Jur~ed Exhibit at
the New Canaan Public Library.
The painting, entitled "Roman,
Greek, and Jew", was one of
roughly thirty paintings accept­ed
from artists between the
ages oI 18 and 26. The jury of
acceptance was composed of
Elsa Schmid, Henry La Farge,
and Wallace Rosenbauer. The
exhibit will run through May 9.
NEWS NOTES •..
At a, recent ill-attended meet­ing
of the Business Club, Inc..
the slate of officers for the forth­coming
year was selected. Nam­ed
to the board of directors
were the following: Josepp.
Gabriel, President; Ralph Oken­quist,
Vice - President; Edward
Jablonski, Treasurer; Wesley
Paulson, Corresponding Secre­tary;
Robert Balcerzak, Record­ing
Secretary. and Clement A.
Lamb, Publicity Director. Dur­ing
the present semester the
club invited Mr. Rossetti of
Aerosol Techniques, Inc. to de­liver
two lectures, the first be­ing
concerned with Quality Con­trol
and the second with Pro­duction
Control. The club also
held three dinner meetings,
chiefly at Fairfield's Turf Club.
Plans were also laid to raise
funds for t:he development of
the Investment Program, a
plunge into the purchase of
stocks.
The Public Affairs Club, un­der
the tutelage of George Tol­mie,
recently sponsored a lec­ture
in Gonzaga Auditorium.
The speaker, M. A. Vellodi, is
at present the First Secretary
of the Indian Delegation to the
United Nations. Student attend­ance
was of such a magnitude
that the audience, en masse,
retired to a classroom in Cani­sus
to hear Mr. Vellodi. The
club also featured a series of
four films in the Second World
War. The officers for next year
will be elected before finis is
written to the present scholas­tic
year.
The Canisus Academy of Fair­field
has announced its execu­tive
board for the upcoming
year. The presidency is to be
filled by Joseph Charlow, the
office of vice-president by An­tanas
Saulaitas, secretariat by
E. Wellington Anderson, and
Robert Jorlett as treasurer. The
club culminates its activities
each year in its Symposium,
this year presented in April.
The task of each member is to
compose a paper t:he best of
which are composed into this
Symposium. A predetermined
topic, this year the Eccumenical
Movement and its ramifications,
is also delved into by the mem­bers
in frequent discussion
groups.
The Mendel Club has had a
very active second semester. A
social held in connection with
St. Vincent's School of Nursing
was deemed a success by all
concerned. In the field of lec­tures
the Mendel Culb had a
representative from.UpJohn Co.,
who discussed the application of
chemical knowledge to the
pharmaceutical field and Dr.
O'Looney, a Bridgeport surgeon,
who lectured on the Malfunc­tions
of Kidneys and Postopera­tive
Treatment of War Injuries.
Also on their agenda was Dr.
Weinburg of Norwalk who
spoke on Tranquilizers and Oral
Contraceptives. And to Ed Don­ovan,
president, who asked to
be mentioned, Hi there, Ed!
Th annual combined banquet
of the Mendel and Chemistry
Clubs will be held on an as yet
undetermined date. before the
end of the year. A unique me­morial
fund as been set up by
the Mendel Club to perpetuate
the memory of. the late Fr.
Wilkie, S.J. The purpose of the
fund will be to provide highly
qualified men to deliver timely
lectures on campus.
The Society for the Advance·
ment of Management recently
elected Joseph Charlow to take
the helm. The vice-presidency
(Continued on Page 11)
Work,er Has Duty
To Join Unions,
States Speaker
On Sunday, May 1st, the cam­pus
unit of NFCCS sponsored a
lecture by not e d liberal and
Ca'tholic journalist, Mr. John
Cort. The lecture, unfortunately
conflicting with events of the
Junior Weekend, received an at­tendanc,
e of approximately 18
people. Mr. Cort devoted the
main part of his formal lecture
to ,~he Sodal Action of the
Church, both clergy and laity.
He drew concretized examples
largely from the field of Labor­Managiement
relations, concen­trating
on the Catholic Worker
movement and the A.C.T.U.­both
groups centering their ac­tivity
on the corporea~ works
of mercy. As rights of the work­er,
Mr. Cort (paraphrasing the
policy. of the ACTU) 1 i s ted:
right to a job, a living wage,
just prices of the goods he con­sumes,
to organize in union, to
strike and picket for just causes,
and to obtain decent working
hours and conditions.
Among the obligations of the
worker, the speaker named the
following: a fair day's work for
his pay, striking only after other
means of obtaining justice had
been exhausted, the duty of the
worker to join unions, to avoid
violence, respect property rights,
establish equality and democ­racy
within the un ion sand
eliminate any forms of class­war.
These 0 b 1i gat ion sand
rights listedar:e aimed at the
concept that the worker be­comes
a sharer in the company,
r,ather than a mere wage-earn­er,
Mr. Cort stated. The formal
lecture was concluded with the
speaker's paraphrasing Matthew
25: 31 to 46.
In an informal discussion, Mr.
Cort dwelt on the complacency
among Catholics and the diffi­culties
of social reform.
LOS CIERVOS ES,pANOLES
PLANS TRI.ANNUAL BOOK
The Spanish Club of the Uni­versity,
"Los Ciervos Espanoles,"
is preparing a literary magazine
to be published at the end of
this term. The magazine is to
be called "El Cardinal" and will
contain book reviews 'of cur­rent
Pan-American publications,
translations of Spanish stories
and poems, as well as original
composition in Spanish. The or­ganization
is working on a new
translation of Don Quixote, to
be published a few chapters at
a time in each issue. "El Card­inal"
will be a tri-'annual maga­zine.
On and Off
the Campus
DRINK PEPSI
Met Club Speaker
On May 2nd, the N.Y. Metro­politan
Club presented color
film displaying the wonders of
New York State. Following the
m 0 vie presented in Gonzaga
Auditorium, Mr. Walter Holmes
Assistant Controller of the Cit;
of New York and top public­relations
man for N.Y. Control­ler,
Lawrence Gerosa, delivered
an entertaining lecture devoted
to praise of N. Y. City, the diffi­culties
of financing a big city
govlernment, and praise of Mr.
Gerosa. Mr. Holmes defined the
funcUonof public relations as
"educating the people to the
truth." Among other interesting
statements made by the speaker
w,ere: "If the city is not sound
financially, it will n eve I' be
sound morally or socially." "We,
the people, always like to see
the power (governmental)
spread around a little."
FLYBOYS
R.ecently, the United States
Air Arm sent an information
team to the university. The
group was headed by Command­er
R. A. AIlan 'Of the Floyd Ben­nett
Naval Air Station, Brook­lyn,
N.Y. The group's purpose
was to discuss the Naval Avi­ation
Cadet Program with the
students. The N.A.C.P is a U.S.
N a v y pilot training program
open to junior college gradu­ates.
Candidates must be be­tween
the ages of 18 and 25,
singLe, male cit i zen s of the
United States, and in good phy­sical
condition. Upon completion
of training, candidates are com­missioned
Ensigns in the U.S.
Naval Reserve and designated
Naval Aviators.
'63 COUNCIL REPS.
Hughes, McCarthy, Slattery
and Westerfield.
Page Six THE STAG
1960
May 13. 1960
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The Metropolitan Club of
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"Spring Dreams," last Fri­day
night in the gym. The
"Velva Tones" provided the
musi'c for the annual affair.
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Congratulations
and
Cordial Good Wishes
THE CLASS OF ~60
From Friday, April 29th to
Monday, May 1st, the Class of
1961 presented the 1960 Dog­wood
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tival was expanded from previ-ous
years in that it included
the most spectacular (and prob­ably
most financially disastrous)
show ever held on campus.
The weekend began Friday
night with the Formal Dance at
the Fairfield Inn. At this dance,
Miss Geraldine Janek of Man-hattanville
College was chosen
Queen of the Dogwood Festival.
She was escorted by Mr. John
Murray of the Class of '61. Fol­lowing
the formal, the dance
moved en masse to Holy Trin­ity
Hall in Bridgeport, where a
post-formal party was held.
In what was probably the
most eventful picnic ever held
on Sherwood Island, the week­enders
sang, danced, drank,
ate, played bongos, played vari­ous
other games, and generally
relaxed. When the sky wasn't
cloudless it was orange and
white silk and there was limbo
music in the air.
Saturday night brought jazz
to the campus (see E. W. An­derson's
article Next Door) and
the audience walked away to
the various parties swinging.
Sunday morning's Commun­ion
breakfast featured Dr. Ross
of the Biology Department
speaking on Catholic Attitudes
toward Evolution.
Rain failed to' dampen any­thing
but the ground; and the
weekend came to a formal close
at the jazz concert featuring
Eli's Chosen Six. The afternoon
was remembered for the danc­ing
of Miss Angela DiPhillipo
and the trombone-dodging of
the notable Miss Cunningham.
YOUNG DEMOCRATIC CLUB
, Under the leadership of Presi­dent
Robert Sherwin, eight
members represented the Young
Democrats of Fairfield Univer­sity
at the State Convention,
held at the Hotel Mohican in
New London, Conn. The con­vention
took place on the 7th
and 8th of May. One of the
principle topics that was dis­cussed
was birth control. The
Fairfield delegation operated a
Kennedy information booth for
the Connecticut Kennedy-for­President
Club.
Youth Band Do:gwood ,Festival
Reaps Fun~ Frolic~
No Finances
SENIORS!
If Seniors would be interest­ed
in subscribing to The STAG.
in order to receive the paper
during the school year, 'SO·'SI,
They should lea.ve their names
and home addresses at the Dean
of Men's Office anytime be·
tween now and graduation,
Brown, the Newport Youth
Band brought the hard art of
swinging to a level that I had
begun to think was inhabited
solely by the bands of Basie,
Ellington and Johnny Richards.
Using a "book" consisting
mostly of up-tempo arrange­ments
with accent (though not
overly so) on his soloists (not­ably,
Benny Jacob-EI, slide
trombone and Andv Marsala.
alto saxophone), Brown has
done an amazing - nay, fantas­tic
job in molding this young
group into what is truly one of
the most promising bands
around in the time of what is
cautiously being thought of as
the Big Band Revival.
Marsala's alto is definitely
the most important voice in this
band. Having broken everyone
up at Newport in 1958 at the
age of fourteen. young Andy is
clearly the "old man" in ability.
though certainly not in physical
years.
On "Darn That Dream" and
"It Could Happen To You" he
proved himself quite able, and
at times even displayed the ma­turity
of a soloist who has care­fully
absorbed his influences
(probably Johnny Hodges, Can­nonball
and Phil Woods) to now
release his own voice. It's no
wonder that GeoI1ge Hoeffer
(Associate Editor, "Down Beat"),
in last year's International Jazz
Critics Poll, voted for Marsala
as "New Star'" on alto.
Thus, although the Newport
Youth Band as a whole proved
a bit too powerful for these
ears, the excellence of Carmen
McRae and the Newport solo­ists
more than made the event
a musical success and one that
certainly shouldn't have been
missed.
ning was Fr. Boussan, chaplain
of the Crusader Council. Out­going
Grand K n i g h t Peter
Grimes was presented A Past
Grand Knights pin and an en­graved
mahogany gavel as a
gift of the, Council. Also hon­ored
at the Banquet were the
newly appointed chairman of
the Six Point Committee.
At the recent Installation of
these new officers, the following
were put into office.
Grand Knight, Kenneth Dubuc
'62; Deputy Grand K n i g h t,
Theodore Arnold '62; Chancelor,
Robert Callaghan '61; Recorder,
Joseph Distinti '61; Treasurer,
James Czarzasty '61; Advocate,
Henry O'Hagan '61; Warden,
John O'Leary '62; Inside Guard,
Francis Hendricks '62, and Out­side
Guard, J. Barry Coyle '62.
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LOYOLA CHIMES TO
RING AGAIN (DAMN!)
Carmen followed "Comes Love"
with the hauntingly lovely "The
More I See You". For me, this
was the highlight of the eve­ning.
"Three Little Words"
found her swinging again, in an
Anita O'Day vein, though not
as deeply.
After a well taken "time-out"
to introduce her accompanists,
another Gershwin tune, "Porgy,"
was the vehicle for the McRae
voice. This too was nicely done.
After the applause subsided,
Miss McRae moved to the key­board,
accompanying herself on
two numbers ("Bill" and "Per­dido").
On the latter, she facile­ly
demonstrated 'a truly swinging
piano, with chord sequences
hinting (though vaguely) of
Bobby Timmons influence.
When the audience finally let
a tired Carmen McRae leave the
stage, it was obvious that she
had had a "ball" and, more im­portant,
had demonstrated a
quality seldom seen in the im­oersonal
world of modern jazz
~ that is showmanship.
The second half of the con­cert
had an accidental bit of
sadism in it. The excellence of
the experienced Carmen McRae
and her trio did nothing so well
as to show UP the weaknesses
of the young Newport band.
The band seemed to have had
;nsufficient rehearsal and there­fore
was noticeably rough and
overly loud. Although they ex­hibited
a very good, smooth­sounding,
reed section, the brass
left something to be desired,
especially when riffing behind
the soloists.
Nevertheless, this group of
youngsters, (to use a cliche)
"went down SWinging." Man,
did they swing! At times, under
the nne direction of Marshall
The long-silent Loyola chimes
will once again ring merrily
out over this campus "nestled
in the rolling countryside of
picturesque· Fairfield County,"
due to the generosity of Igna­tion
Council, No. 4203 Knights
of Columbus.
A check to cover the repair
bills was presented to Rev. Fa­ther
Rector, president of the
University at the Council's fifth
annual banquet held recently
at the Hitching Post Restaurant
in Bridgeport.
Past Grand K n i g h t Peter
Grimes made his special awards
for outstanding work to Broth­ers:
Arthur O'Leary, Rob e r t
Shay, Daniel Browne, Robert
Callaghan, and present Grand
Knight Kenneth Dub u c. The
special Grand Knight's Chap­lain's
Award was given to Rev.
Fr. T. Everett McPeake, S.J.,
chaplain of Ignatian Council.
The guest speaker at the affair
was Mr. WiUiam Spillane, Past
Grand Knight of C r usa d e r
Council, College of the Holy
Cross. Special guest of the eve-
WATERBURY OFFICERS
O'Brien Movei Monk
By E. W. ANDERSON
The first in what is hoped to
be an annual series of JAZZ ON
CAMPUS concerts was held at
the University's gymnasium last
April 30. Financially, (due large­ly
to student apathy) it proved
to be somewhat disastrous; mu­skally,
however, this reviewer
found it to be eventful and
quite rewarding.
The concert opened with the
Newtones. These are eleven
pretty girls. JAZZ ON CAM­PUS
began some thirty minutes
later when lovely songstress
Carmen McRae first came on
stage.
Noticeably disturbed by the
over~bright lighting and 1!he
rather poor acoustics, Miss Mc­Rae
opened with an uneventful
"Someday," followed by a not
too brilliant "Stardust." After
this, however, if anything was
troubling her, it certainly didn't
reflect in her singing. From the
moment she swung into Gersh­win's
"They Can't Take That
Away From Me" until some
sevently minutes later when she
closed with a rollicking "They
All lJaughed," Miss McRae was,
without qualification, great!,
and everyone there knew it (if
enthusiasm is any sign of
approval).
, After having followed "They
Can't Take That Away From
Me" with an interesting inter­pretation
of Erroll Garner's
"Misty," Miss McRae reached a
peak (which only slowly dimin­ished)
with the lightly swinging
"Comes Love" in which could
be detected a great many Sarah
Vaughan-like phrasings. These
were, however, so well inter­woven
into the McRae style
that the result proved excellent.
Selecting her songs wisely,
Carmen McRae 'Great' Despite Lighting, Acoustic Failings,
Recently, the Waterbury Club
elected new officer,s for the year
1960-61: Donald Ciampi (61),
president; John Vaitkus (61),
vice president; Joseph H. Leves­que
(62), recording secretary;
Ned Mencio, treasurer; and Roc­co
Pugliese (61), corresponding
secretary. Anthony SC'acco (61)
will act as publicity agent.
At the last function of the
year 1959-60 the newly elected
officers will conduct the tradi­tional
annual senior farewell
dinner dance. This dinner will
take place in the early part of
June.
Highlighting the club's func­tions
will be the annual F'air­field
University Glee Club Con­cert
in Waterbury, the source
of providing -a deserving Water­bury
High School graduate with
a scholarship to Fairfield Uni­versity.
This year's scholarship was
given to Pasquale Perillo.
On May 5, Bob Monk complet­ed
his term 'as president of the
N. Y. Metropolitan Club by pre­siding
over the elections of of­ficers
for the forthcoming school
year. The articles in the Met
Club constitution concerning
the election of officers were
read and the nominations be­gan.
Jim O'Brien '61 was elected
to serve as pre ,s ide n t, Pete
Houser '61 as Vice-President,
Brian Slayne '61 as Treasurer,
Moe Ross '61 as Publicity Direc­tor,
John Moor:l~ '62 as Record­ing
Secretary -and Dom Torillo
'63 as Corresponding Secretary.
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One of the many appreciable
facts about Mr. Simon Harak's
relationshrp with his glee club
is that he considers his men as
co-performers. His m u sic a I
familiarity and professional in­timacy
with Fairfield's' eighty­five
glee club members is not a
trade secret but a sincere rap­port.
This year, Fairfield took
first place in the Catholic Inter­collegiate
Glee Club Festival.
The striking thing is that, in
a sense, Mr. Harak has to dir­ect
a different club each year.
Each club has its own character­istic
and Mr. Harak said this
year's club is noted for its
strong determination. The club
took in thirty freshmen without
weakening its strength. Mr.
Barak said that early in the
season he felt a great year com­ing
because last year's club end­ed
the season on a high mental
plane. The winning of the tro­phy
was a strong factor because
it acted as a target. He also said
that this combination of our
men and the strong desire to
beat a top glee club made a
terrific spirit.
Mr. Harak commented on the
Festival victory itself by saying
that Fairfield's glee club is ,rated
among the top in the· country
and the victory was the cul­mination
of that feeling. He re­called
how his first glee club at
Fairfield made up of veterans
gave the roots to the club's
desire and determination. Con­sidering
the possibility of vicc­tory
having a swelling effect on
the club, Mr. Harak said that
the club would not be in danger
of this because it respects its
dignity and clings to its ideal.
He said the Festival victory was
a deserving prize to the men
after years of intangible ap­plause,
and it was the something
the men needed to put them
albove the ranks of the amateurs.
Next season is in Mr. Harak's
mind also.. He will naturally
keep his successful pattern of
training which includes mental
discipline and approach.
Mr. Harak did not want to
forget that if it were not for
F-ather Murray's ability to or­ganize
and contain all the above
things, the glee club would be
nothing.
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GLEE CLUB ELECTION
The Glee Club officers for
next year: Pres., S. Dempsey;
Vice-Pres., E. Kane; Sec., C.
Cofini, and Treasurer, R. Bitar.
JIFFY LAUNDROMAT
SEAC ELECTS OATES '61
STATE PRESIDENT
Michael Oates '61 has been
elected State President of the
Student Education Association
of Connecticut (SEAC). As presi­dent,
Mr. Oates will preside
over SEAC's executive board,
representing members of student
pedagogical chapters through­out
Connecticut's colleges and
universities. The honor carries
with it a two week trip to Los
Angeles, Cal. for the National
Education Association's conven­tion
(June 26 - July 5) all ex­penses
paid.
He is an active member of
the campus chapter, serving on
the editorial board of the
group's newsletter, THE EDU­cAToR.
The Fairfield University Alum­ni
Association honored Glee
Director Simon Harak and
Basketball coach George R.
Bisacca for their work in spread­ing
Fairfield's name, at the an­nual
Alumni Communion Break­fast,
held in Loyola Hall, earlier
this month.
Bronislaus Orlowski, alumni
president, presented Mr. Harak
with a missal, and Mr. Bisacca
with a plaque. The University
Glee Club, under M'r. Harak's
direction took top honors in the
recent Catholic Intercollegiate
Glee Club Festival held at Fair­fie1d
recently.
The basketball team coached
MT. Bisacca concluded its most
successful season in the history
of the school, winning 17 games
while losing nine. The team
won the Tri-State League title,
and got as far as the regional
NCAA Small College tourna­ment.
GHOSTS REAPPEAR
The '60 - '61 catalogue of the
University is hot off the presses.
Many beneficial improvements
in curricula are noticable. But,
~wouldn't you know it?) New
Frontiers is again mi'ssing from
the student adivities section;
and those ever-blooming myths,
the Radio Club and the Ama­teur
Radio Society, continue
their non-existent reign.
FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE
G. Stokes, editorially connect­ed
with New Frontiers, stormed
the office of the STAG and
shouted all sorts of 'interesting
news items. Among the an­nouncements:
Although there
will be no "third issue of N.F."
during this school year, an issue
is planned for "early" in the
next ('60 - '61) school year and
that the deadline is being held
open for all and any creative
work (essays to poems) until
June 15. If Mr. Stokes leaves
the University campus before
that time, material is to be mail­ed
to himself (G.S.), 36 Oak
Ave., LaI1chmont, N.Y. Some­thing
about term papers was
also mentioned.
POET INVADES
Challenging and e n t e r i n g
man y universities throughout
the nation, poet 1. L. Salomon
reoently encountered Fairfield
University. During the regular­ly
scheduled "American Lit."
course, the poet entered, pre­ceded
by Fr. Ryan, S.J., and
Mr. A. Riel, the "Lit." course
instructor. After an introduction
by Father Ry.an, Mr. Salomon
proceeded to read works from
his recently pliblished collection
"Unit & Universe," give 'a short
biography of his life, and man­aged
to sell a number of copies
of that same volume.
RUSSIAN 'CLUB
SPONSORS TWO
FACULTY SPEAKERS
The Russian Club of the Uni­versity
recently sponsored a lec­ture
by Mr. Petry, University
history instructor, on the topic
"Music in Russia." The speaker
conoentrated his talk on the
Russian' Nationalist composers.
He then continued to examine
the prominent role of the Rus­sian
composers in the interna­tional
music world; and the re­lationship
of these artists and
their works to the social and
political milieu of their nation
at the time of their writing.
The club was organized only
this year ·and is composed large­ly
of members of the academic
Russian class, but is open to all
students interested in Russian
culture. In April, the group pre­sented
Dr. Buczek, another
member of the University facul­ty,
who spoke on "Poland's Re­lationship
with Russia."
Officers of the Russian Club
are Paul Best, President; Rich­ard
De Angelis, vic.e-president;
Jack Leary, secretary ,and Mich­ael
Smerznak. treasurer. Mr.
Wolfe Czamanski is faculty ad­viser
to the group.
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CLASS
ELECTION RESULTS
O'Hagan Dons Buskins
To I...ead Thesbians
The Drama Society held their
elections last week and the fol­lowing
men were e 1 e c ted to
office: Henry O'Hagan, P.re­sident,
John O'Regan, Vice Pre­sident,
Gene Honan, Secretary,
and John McCall, Treasurer.
The society will hold its an­nual
banque't May 25, 1960 in
Bridgeport. All those who par­ticipated
in the play and are
active members of the society
will be invited.
As for future plans for next
year, the society will either put
,on a comedy or a few short one
act plays to give all members
an opportunity to participate.
There is also a possibility that
ther,e may be a theatre built on
campus, in the near future.
The speeches have been given,
the signs torn down, the ballots
counted, and the ,slate of officers
has been named for each of Fair-field's
upper classes next year.
(There is one exception, but we
will come to that latter.) Elec­tion
Day was Thursday, April
27th, and 385 students cast bal­lots
- 185 Sophomores and 200
Freshmen.
In the class of 1961, there
were no eLections necessary. By
the time election day had ar­rived,
there was only one c'an­did'ate
for each office. The pre­sident
of this class for next year
. is ,again Joseph Cannizarro. Mr.
Cannizarro served as president
during this past year, and his
unanimous election indicates the
class' satisfaction with his fine
w 0 r k. The Vice-President is
Gerald O'Keefe, famed chair­man
of the 1960 Dogwood Fes­tical.
Daniel Kiely was eLected
the secretary of the cJ.ass, and
Ned Mencio, treasurer.
It is in the Class of 1962 that
we have the "exception" men­tioned
above. This c las s has
~lected three of its 'officers, but
is presently without a President
for the coming year. Mr. Lou
Zowine, after nominated un­oontested,
deemed it necessary
to resign the post, thus bring­ing
about the current situation.
He, too, was president of his
class during the past year, and
his work can also be illustrated
by the fact that he was unani­mously
re-elected. W. Fitz­gibbons
took the second run.
Dan B row n e was re-elected
vice-president of the class. Wil­liam
Sangiovanni, who served
on the Student Council during
the past year, was elected sec­retary,
and Dave Jones, treasur­er,
an office he filled this -past
year.
The Class of 1963 e 1 e c ted
Frank Mastrapasqua president
of its sophomore year. Thomas
Leonard was elected vice-presi­dent,
Nicholas Macarchuk (of
basketball game), to secretary,
and Anthony Palladino, treas­urer.
FRESHMAN COPS NFCGS
JUNIOR DELEGATE SLOT
FOR SUMMER SONNETISTS
The Poets' Club of Chic,ago
has announced its 7th annual
sonnet contest. Entry means as
follows: send one unpublished
Shakespearean s'onnet, 3 copies,
double-spaced, bearing title of
sonnet. Enclose a sealed enve­lope
containing title of sonnet,
your name and address. No son­nets
returned exc,ept to winners,
who retain all rights. Prizes are'
$20, $10 and $5. Deadline is Sep­tember
15th. Send to Miss Isa­belle
Gillespie Young, 848 Sun­nyside,
Chicago 40, Illinois.
A freshman broke a nine-year
precedence with his election as
FaiDfield's Junior Delegate to
the National Confederation of
Catholic College Stu den t s
(NFCCS). Richard Lucy, a
chemistry major from Bronx­ville,
N.Y., ran uncontested, ac­cording
to Robert Melican '61,
Region Treasurer. His position
was confirmed 'at a Student
Council meeting held last week.
Three-month course leads to a
commission as a Second Lieuten.
ant. If you are graduating this June,
you may be eligible for admission to
the new Air Force Officer Training
School. Successful completion of the
three-month course wins you a com­mission,
and a head-start on a bright,
rewarding future in the Aerospace
Age.
The School is open to men and
women college graduates with cer­tain
technological and administrative
skills. If you are selected for the
School, you will receive Staff Ser­geant
pay while a trainee. Gradu­ated
officers may later apply for ad­vanced
training and graduate study
at government expense. Male offi­cers
may also apply for flight train­ing
as pilots or navigators.
For the career-minded young offi­cer,
the Air Force way of life can be
stimulating, exciting and full of
meaning. He will be serving himself,
his family and his nation. This is the
Aerospace Age. I t is a time when a
career in Air Force blue has so much
to offer the young man or woman
who qualifies.
The Air Force is seeking only a
select group of college graduates for
admission into Officer Training
School. However, we'd be happy to
send detailed information to any
senior who is interested. Just write:
Officer Training School Informa­tion,
Dept.SCL04. Box 7608,
Washington 4, D.C.
There's a place for tomorrow's
leaders on the US Aerosp:ce Team. • •
AIr Force
Page Ten THE STAG May 13, 1960
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without asking, do you
(A) charge him rent? (B)
get a roommate who
isn't your size? (C) hide
your best clothes?
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When a girl you're with
puts on lipstick in public,
do you (A) tell her to
stop? (B) refuse to be
annoyed? (C) wonder if
the stuff's kissproof?
If you were advising a
friend on how to pick a
filter cigarette, would you
say, (A) "Pick the one
with the strongest taste."
(B) "Get the facts, pal­then
judge for yourself."
(C) "Pick the one that
claims the most."
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks" means
(A) better teach him old ones; (B) it's hard to get
mental agility out of a rheumatic mind; (C) let's
face it-Pop likes to do the Charleston.
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Folksing Plans Set
Plans for the second annual
Newport Folk Festival were
disclosed by the Board of Di­rectors
of the Festival. Slated
for June 24-26 at Freebody
Park, Newport, Rhode Island,
a number of top folk artists have
already been signed for the
event. Among those appearing
will be Pete Seeger, Odetta,
Leon Bibb, the Clancy Boys
and Theo BikeI.
Last year's series of programs
were considered experimental
by President of the Board of
Directors, Louis L. Lorillard,
whose idea it was to present an
all folk music series of concerts.
The programs were so success­ful
that the Folk Festival ap­pears
to be on its way to be­coming
a permanent fixture of
the summer scene.
"The Folk Festival is like the
world series of folk music,"
explains producer Al Grossman.
"It was founded to encourage
the study and enjoyment of a
true AJmerican form of music."
Tickets, (which will go on sale
May 1st) for the Friday and
Saturday evening reserved seat
concerts are $3.00, $4.00 and
$5.00, while the Sunday after­noon
general admission tickets
are $2.00. To obtain tickets
write to the' Newport Folk
Festival Office, 200 West 57th
Street New York City, N.Y., or
the Newport Folk Festival,
Newport, Rhode Island. Infor­mation
concerning sleeping ac­commodations
can be obtained
by writing to the latter address.
33 Candidates Make
Act 0/ Consecration
Thirty-three candidates made
temporary acts of consecration
to Our Lady at Sodality cere­monies
held 1'ast week in Loyola
Chapel.
Coming after almost seven
months of instruction and coun­seling,
the ads mark the half­way
point in the Reception of
a Sodalist. A .probation period,
usually lasting until December
affords time for the individual
to consider whether he wishes
to take up the rigid duties and
responsibilities of the Sodality
Way of Life. The final act next
December binds the Sodalist for
life.
The candidate training pro­gram,
under the director of Paul
V. Cervoni, consists in weekly
talks on the Sodality Way of
Life by Rev. Richard L. Rooney,
S.J. Each candidate also meets
with a regular Sodalist to dis­cuss
more intimately the matter
covered by Father Rooney.
The eligibility of the candi­date
for consideration as a So­dalist
is based on his counselor's
evaluation of him, an interview
before the admissions board,
his committee work throughout
the year, and the recommenda­tion
of the Master of Oandidates.
Final acceptance made by the
Director, Rev. Joseph Murphy,
S.J.
Following the Loyola cere­monies,
a Communion break­fast
for Sodalists and their par­ents
was held with Rev. Joseph
Duffy, S.J. as guest speaker.
Paul V. Cervoni received a gold.
pin for outstanding service to
the Sodality.
A panel discussion, geared at
acquainting parents with So­dality
ideals was held in Gon­z
·aga Auditorium followed by
installation of the new officers
and Solemn Benediction. Very
Reverend Fr. Rector was cele­brant.
Paul Zeigler and Ray Martin
were in char.ge of the day.
O'REILLY TO
CHAIR CCD
Royston Plots Debate
Rehaul, New Talent
It would seem that the art of
public speaking and the craft
of argumentative reasoning are
not very salable commodities
at our University. But, the presi­dent
of the Debating Society,
Dave Royston, is making an
effort to remedy the situation
with plans for dub activity for
next year. In a STAG interview,
Mr. Royston stated that he does
not hope to stem completely the
overwhelming tide of difficul­ties
but that he wants to put
the' members of the society in a
position considerably better than
their present one.
Among the president's plans
are the continuance of house
debates and intramural debates
that will help members obtain
more speaking experience.
Presently, there are about a
dozen members in the Debating
Society. In previous years, the
Society was mainly operating
on a level of intercollegiate
competition. Mr. Royston feels
that his club should expand and
be 'Of more benefit to more
people.
Royston intends to campaign
for freshmen members next
year and give them a program
of instruction and training. He
wants to hold a freshman ora­torical
contest to attract stu­dents
to the society; and his
intramural debates will have
topics that are of interest to the
general student body. ,
The Society's president realiz­ed
that debating does not have
an extraordinary flavor or ap­peal.
However, he continued,
anyone interested in a law
career or in a field where a
speaking ability is a necessity,
sh'Ould have the vital training
that debating offers. He added
that anyone who calls himself
a college graduate should be
able to speak with ease in
public.
The Vice-President, Fred Ab­bate,
looked sternly at next
year's plans and stated that al­though
anyone interested in de­bating
would have to work all
year long, the Society would
provide excellent training for
speakers. Abbate, commenting
on the present situation of de­bating
at Fairfield, said that
there is a general decline in the
intellectual fiber of the college
mind, and that it would seem
it is no longer fashionable to
argue constructively.
The Sodality Council has an­nounced
the following commit­tee
head appointments:
CONFRATERNITY OF
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE: John
O'Reilly
DACTOLOGY COMMITTEE:
Robert Q. Wallace
CATHOLIC TRUTH SEC­TION:
Joseph Cerasoulo
FLOS CAMPI: Clement Lamb
LITURGY COMMITTEE:
Charles Roland.
MISSIONS: Xavier-Andrew
Sedensky (Tom Condon, asst.),
Canisius - Brian Dunn
OUR LADY'S COMMITTEE:
Frank Hendricks
PUBLICITY COMMITTEE:
Tony Saulaitas
SACRED HEART COMMIT­TEE:
Robert DeCanio
SPEAKERS' BUREAU: Ned
CoIl
S P I R I T U A L EXERCISES
COMMITTEE: Michael Oates
SOCIAL APOSTOLATE
COMMITTEE: J 0 s e p h Flatley
(working with officers)
May 13, 1960 THE STAG Page Eleven
of casual clothes, beachwear and accessories;
CHEM ELECTIONS
Recently, the Chemistry Club
(Student Affiliates of the Amer­ican
Chemical Society) held
officer elections'. The results
ate as follows: President, Rob­ert
Bianchi; Vice-President, Vin­cent
Cavalieri; Sec I' eta I' y,
George Schilling; Treasurer,
Richard Nanfeldt; Editor of
The Condensor. Antanas Saul­aitis;
NFCCS Delegate, Jay
Behr. Fr. Hutchinson, S.J., con­tinues
as the club's moderator.
IN JERSEY'S JUNE
Scholarships Offered
The International Guitar Fes­tival
will present a weekend
of guitar playing. There will be
competition' in the Classic,
Flamenco, Folk, Blues, and Jazz
fields. The Festival takes place
at Greenwood Lake (an hour
drive from N.Y.C.), and will
open on June 17th, at Brandon
House Beach.
But this isn't what we meant by "revolt"!
Fr. Houn Reigns
About nine hundred Fulbright At Nixon Banquet
scholarships for graduate study
or pre-doctoral research in 30 On May 11 the Nixon For
different countries will be avail- President Club presented its
able for the 19~1-62 academic "Prelude to Victory Banquet"
year. in Berchman's auditorium. The
post banquet program com-
In addition to the Fulbright menced with a musical rendi­Awards,
scholarships for study bon delivered by Fairfield's own
in Latin America under the In- Bensonians. Co-Chairman John
ter-American Cultural Conven- Morrison, after a brief history
tion are also offered for 1961-62. of the Nixon For President
Applications for both the Ful- Movement, introduced the Mas­bright
and IACC Awards' will tel' of Ceremonies, the Rev.
be available on May 20, the In- John L. Bonn, S.J,
stitute of International Educa- Fr. Bonn's inimitable intro­tion
announced today. lIE ad- duction of the keynote speaker
ministers both of these student culminated in the statement,
programs for the U.S. Depart- "Finally, I want to introduce
ment of State. Mr. Charles K. McWhorton who
The Fulbright scholarshipf' is from,' and tb,;s is good, West
cover travel, tuition, book,s and Virgin{a!" M1'. McWhorton, Ex­maintenance
for one academic ecutive Secretary to Nixon,
year. commenced by praising the
spirit and vigorous enthusiasm
The lACe program 1?akes one of the students who initiated
or more awar~s aVailable ~or and are carrying through the
gr,a?uate study m the ~ollowmg. movement for Nixon. He em­LatIn
A~encan cou~tnes. ACC phasized the need for dedica­sc.
holars.hI,ps codver ttr'G1lnspofrta1-1 t'IOn f t k t the 0 par y wor ers a
tIOn, tUItIOn an par la to u 1 111M M Wh t th
maintenance. oca eve. r. c or?n en
proceeded to enumerate m gen­eral
terms Mr. Nixon's position
on certain controversial cam­paign
issues. He stated that Mr.
Nixon's platform of the past and
the soundness of the principles
behind it have been proven by
the past record of Mr. Nixon's
administrative decisions.
Fr. Bonn prefaced his intro­duction
of the next speaker by
reading a telegram of congratu­lations
from Mr. Nixon, Fr.
Bonn, obviously influenced by
a myopic condition, misinter­preted
the heading to be from
"Roma Italia, Civitate Vati­cane."
Mr. Westerly Lieberly, Chief
Research Analyst of the New
Yorker's for Nixon Movement,
elaborated in greated detail
upon the points brought up by
Mr. McWhorton in his opening
address. ,He then delved into Mr.
Nixon's past political life, again
in detail, dwelling on Mr. Nix­on's
early college days to his
present position as Vice-Presi­dent.
General eligibility require­ment-
s for both categories of
awards are: 1) U.S. citizenship
at time of .application, 2) A
bachlor's degrlee of its equiva­lent,
3) knowledge of the lan­guage
of the host country suffi­cient
to carry 'Out the proposed
study project and to communi­eate
with the people of the coun­try,
and 4) good health.
A good academic record and
demonstrated capacity for inde­pendent
study are 'also neces­sary.
Applications for Fulbright and
IACC scholarships for 1961-62
will be accepted until Novlem­bel'
1, 1960. Requests. for appli­cations
must be postmarked be­fore
October 15. Interested stu­dents
who 'are now enrolled at
a college or univ;er-sity should
consult their campus Fulbright
advisers (i.e. Fr. McPeake).
Others may write to the Infor­mation
and Counseling Division,
Institute of International Edu­cation,
1 East 67th Street, New
York 21, New York or to any
of lIE's regional offices.
B.C. CUTS ...
(Continued from Page 3)
in 'a fifty-minute public appear­ance
to learn in a class. It re­fuses
to admit what any good
educator will admit: that arbi­trarily
enforced class attendance
contributes very little, to the
learning process."
"The cut system is a prime
example of the increased me­chanization
of education .. '. In
this depersonalization of the
most personal of processes, the
amount of knowledge which an
individual has supposedly ac­quired
is measured solely in
terms of the number of credit
hours he has on his aeademic
,dossier. This is certainly an in­stance
of Whitehead's fallacy of
m i s pIa c e d concreteness, for
knowledge is here put in courses,
not in knowers. The cut system
does not recognize that courses
are only artificial simplications
-within organic fields of study.
The important distinction be­tween
taking a c 0 u I' s e and
studying a subject is not made.
The mere physical presence of
a student within the walls of a
classroom is s'een as automati­cally
implying his attainment of
competence in the particular
field, while his absence from
class is usually interpreted as
proof of his hostility to educa­tion
and his pursuit of evil
ways."
NEWS NOTES
(Continued from Page 5)
is to be filled by John Bruzas
with Harold Milbauer occupy­ing
the position of secretary­treasurer.
S.A.M. took their
members this semester on a tour
of the Sikorsky plant after
which a gala banquet was held
at the Turf Club. 'I1he eminent
sneakers and reception of the
club's charter were the high­lights
of the evening. The club
plans a concentr,ated member­ship
drive which will commence
next September.
The Ma,th - Physics Club in­formed
us that its new president
is E. Wellington Anderson, vice­president
Robert Biroschak, and
treasurer Stanley Macklow.
During the second semester, it
embarked on its rocket project.
This is an attempt to set up a
static test stand for rocket per­formance
tests. The club has
a}so constructed a small digital
computer which it plans to en­large
in the future. It has held
a social this semester and plans
to have a banquet before exams
begin. The Brookhaven and Du­Pont
Laboratories were both
toured by the members. Finally,
Lieut. Douglas DeCluitt of Fair­field's
NIKE base was prevailed
upon to deliver a lecture.
Gerry Mulligan Big Band with Bob
Brookmeyer and Zoot Sims
Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Saturday Night, July 2nd
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Sarah Vaughan
Oscar Peterson Trio
Lambert-Hendricks and Ross
Tyre.e Glenn
Harry Edison
Georgie Auld
Ben Webster
Stan Getz
Cannonball Quintet
Sunday Night, July 3rd
Dinah Washington
Jonah Jones Quartet
Horace Silver Quintet
Sonny Stitt
. Shorty Rogers Quintet
Red Allen All Stars
Monday Night. July 4th
Count Baste Orchestra
Ray Bryant Trio
Nina Simone
Jimmy Rushing
Buck Clayton
Earl Warren
Buddy Tate
Emmett Berry
Dickie Wells
Anita O'Day
New port And All That Jazz· Soon To Swing Out
S.C. ELECTIONS
On May 11th, elections for
Student Council membership
were held. The results of this
well-postered campaign were as
follows: Renresenting the Class
of '61 will be E. W, Anderson,
R. Biroschak, F. Furey, M.
Maher. F. Nash, D. Royston, and
J. F. X. Warburton; next year's
Juniors, of '62, will be repre­sented
by R. Aquavia, V. Carra­fiello,
W. Ganim, S. Sullivan,
and L. Zowine.
CRAWFORD.
(Continued from Page 1)
records in regular season play.
The Smoker was sponsored
'by the Cardinal Key Society,
which presented each membe,r
of the team with individual tro­phies
and awarded Coach
George Bisaeca with a plaque
for his coaching efforts.
At the smoker, presentation
of the Newman Trophy, donated
by the Newman Club at UB,
was presented to Pat Kelly for
his stand - out performance
against UB this year.
Tom Heinsohn, fonner Holy
Cross All-American and star of
the Boston Celtics was the prin­cipal
speaker of the evening.
Edward Carr, chairman of the
Washington, D.C., Touchdown
C1ub, acted as master of cere­monies.
Louis Parent, chairman of the
Key Committee which sponSOr­ed
the affair, presented Mr. Carr
with the first honorary member­ship
in the group. Presentation
of awards jackets, letters and
numerals to members of the
varsity and freshman squads
rounded out the program. Prior
to the smoker, the team was
honored at a dinner by the
Cardinal Key Society at the
Cafe Barna, Westport.
Mr. George Wein, Musical
Director of the Seventh Annual
Newport Jazz Festival, which
will take place in Newport,
Rhode Island, from June 30th
through July 4th, has announc­ed
the following program:
Thursday Night. June 30th
An Evening of Modern Jazz.
To be announced.
Saturday Afternoon, July 2nd
Rudi Blesh, Narrator
"The Stride Piano"
Dom Cerulli, Narrator
Marshall Brown and
The Newport Youth Band
Sunday Afternoon, July 3rd
Langston Hughes, Narrator
"The Blues"
Monday Afternoon, July 4th
Gunther Schuller, Narrator
arnett Coleman Quartet
Bill Evans Trio
John Coltrane
Dave Baker Orchestra
Friday Night. July 1st ,
Lou i s Armstrong All Stars WIth
Trummy Young and Barney Bi­garde
WLAND'S
Bob Biroschak
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Get ready now for the wonderful days and
Dante Academy's New Officers:
Pres.: D. Preziosi; V.P.: V.
LaBella; Sec.: R. Garofalo;
Treas.: C. Lops.
SCIENCE WORLDS
(Continued from Page 4)
Tumors deep in the brain
have always been extremely
difficult to locate and to remove.
The surgery formerly required
to locate the tumors presented
great risks of irrepairable brain
damage. Their removal present­ed
even greater dangers. Now,
by the use of radioactivity ef­fects
and electronic devices, both
diagnosis and treatment can be
carried out much more safely.
For pinpointing the tumor,
radioactive arsenic, which has
an affinity for tumors, is inject­ed
in the blood stream, concen­trating
in the tumor in about an
hour. If a scintillation counter
is moved about the head it re­cords
the tumor - 'concentrated
radiation in the form of dots
on 'Paper, with the area of great­est
dot concentration represent­ing
the tumor.
Once the tumor is thus pin­pointed,
its removal follows
the same lines. Boron, which,
like arsenic, has an affinity for
tumors, is injected in the blood
stream. The patients are then
suJbjected to neutron bombard­ment
from anatomk pile. This
collision between neutrons and
radioactive boron in the tumor
produces a shower of radio­active'
particles, called alpha
particles, whkh are fatal to
cancer cells. And since the al­pha
particles travel only a very
small fraction of an inch, the
lethal radiation is generated in­side
the tumor, and does not
damage surrounding tissue.
The electronic innovation
which seems most to have walk··
ed right out of science fiction
is the use of an electronic com­puter
as a doctor's assistant
diagnostician. 'I1he commuter is
given a store of information
relating to the symptoms of a
certain disease. The physician
feeds the symptoms of a particu­lar
patient into the computer,
and it responds with several
possible diagnosis. Now the
computer is not meant to re­place
the phys~cian's original
diagnosis at all. Its real purpose
is to supply him, from its store
of ,coded facts, alternate diag­noses
- perhaps of rare diseases
- that even the best diagnosti­cian
might have easily over­loked.
May 13, 1960
record of 4-0. Mooney has been
able to blend together Sopho­mores
and Freshmen into a
sound club, which seldom makes
a mistake. Leading the club so
far are Mooney himself in cen­ter,
Pete Ohave at short stop
and Devin Doolan doing the
chucking. The power of this
club may be seen in the win
over Dowling, 13-0, behind the
two hit pitching by Doolan.
This was Dowling's first game
and since then his team has
chalked up three straight wins
behind the pitching of curve
balling Bob Acquavia. Other
mainstays on Dowling's team
are Jom O'Connnr and the
husky one-hundeI'd and ninety
poundier, BaI1rY "Beer" GoyLe. At
present Ned ColI's team has a
3-0 record, but this team has
not seen any action against any
of the first division clU'bs as yet.
ColI's team, however, shows
plenty of promise of giving the
first place teams plenty of scrap.
With the exception of Mike
Touhey's and Bill Dermody's
team there seems to be no other
real challenge to the first divi­sion
teams.
Over six hundred men parti­cipated
in competition such as:
Tonch-football, Volleyball, Bas­ketball,
and Softball. John
Creed, himself, wishes to ex­press
his personal thanks to
"All those who helped in any
capacity, during the year, such
as captains, referees, score­keepers
and now umpires."
NO HEADLINES
THIS, PAGE
HUZZAH,
Stag trackmen had undefeat­ed
season.
IC. W. V.
(Continued from Page 4)
to be in bad taste. It seems unlikely that many critics will see in
it the stuff from which a poem becomes irp.mortal, but it s·eems
certain that readers of critical acumen, including most of those
who reviewed the first copies of the book, found in it an indict­ment
of the modern world for rejecting Him and not an attack
on Christ.
The Catholic War Veterans, like it or not, represent Catholi­cism
to a great many Americans. It is only by ·articulate opposi­tion
to them that we can make people aware that they -are not a
representative group. We should certainly make this 'opposition
known in the secularpr;ess before the issue dies out and Amer­icans
are once again Jeft with the impression that Catholicism
and Babbitry are somewhat synonymous. G. S.
It is, of course, within .the realm of
possibility that this young lady has
not been caught in a compromising
position. but that she has only drop­p€
d a cigarette.
THE STAG
With one meet to go, the Uni­versity
"thin-clads," sparked by
Capt. Paul Gallagher, are look- With the return of Spring to
ing for another successful sea- Fairfield, Father Caffrey's In-tramural
softball league began
son on the spring cinders, top- a month and 'a half of competi-ping
squads from Southern tion. The league is divided into
Connecticut S tat e Teachers, four parts, nine teams compris­Hunter
College, (oh, sweet- ing the Frosh-Soph league and
five in the Junior-Senior league.
ness!) the University of Bridge- The games are under the able
port, and Queens College. supervision of John Creed and
In a close contest at Bowen Mr. Neil O'Keefe, S.J. with in­nocent
by-standel's taking the
Field, the Stag track team Ipa.rt of the umpires.
edged the New Haven Teachers,
In the Senior division, Bill
65-62. Bob McCarthy and Pete Wallin's team with himself
Houser clinched the then-un- pitching and hitting has jump­decided-
meet by placing first ed off to a quiCk 3-0 record.
and second, respectively, in the Bill's team is' comprised of such
220 yd. low hurdles, the next to stalwarts as Mike Rinaldi at
last event. Bill Melahn and Dick third, John Murray in left and
Medve set school records in the Kevin Reynolds at short. Close
shotput and javelin. Melahn set behind with a 2-1 record is Tom
the record in the shotput with O'Brien's dub. Their only loss
a toss of 46', 5%", while Medve was 13-7 to Wallin's team. With
hurled the javelin to a 181", the addition' of Richie Davis'
2%" record. Bob McCarthy was pitching, the club has won two
Fairfield's high scorer, placing straight and seems to be able
first in the 220 yd. hurdles, sec- to challenge Wallin's squad. Of
ond in the high jump and broad the three remaining teams, Bill
jump and third in the mile, an Gersnters' and Jerry Ferris'
event in which Lou Ockey took seem to be the only ones to
first place. Capt. Phil Gallagher, give the leaders any trouble.
Pete Houser and Shaun Sulli- Tom Ryan's club has already
van followed McCarthy in received three losses. The Sen­points.
Houser placed first in' ior league, weather permitting,
the 110 yd. high hurdles, Galla- will play each other twice be­gher
won the broad jump, while fore the league ends on May 17,
Sullivan took the 2-mile run. because of exams.
Jack Barry captured the half In the lar.ger, Frosh-Soph lea-mile
stint with a 2:06.6 run. gue there appears to be only
Capt. Phil Gallagher again three strong dubs. At present
paced his team's victory, this Jim Mooney's club has a perfect
time over Hunter College, win- ----------------------------
ning the 440 yd. dash, broad Fairfield's Tennis Stags post- and Amherst. Brother John
jump .and placing in the 100 yd. ed three consecutive victories Dowd, unbeaten last season,
dash and 220 yd. dash. For the sandwiched between twin loss- has been slow to recover from
third time in a row the Fair- es to powerful Amherst as the a pre-season injury, and has
field trackstel'S shattered stand- net season reached its half-way approached peak form only on
ing school records. Gallagher mark. occasion. Nevertheless, he has
broke the old record for the 440 Fairfield's veteran power was contributed vital wins in both
dash with a 52 second sprint. very much in evidence, as re- singles, and with Denny, in the
Lou Oskey, also a decisive fac- turning lettermen Denny Dowd, doubles.
tor in this Stag victory, also set Joel Cherrytree, Paul Maguire, Joel Cherrytree and Paul
a record .in the two mile run by and Bob Melican won in both Maguire have from the St.
running it in 10:35.5 minutes. singles and doubles in breezing Peter's match on, played fine
Ockey also won the mile. Bill past St. Peter's and arch-rival tennis and contributed winning
Melahn, Jack Barry, Dick Med- Bridgeport by similar 8-1 scores. efforts consistently in the mid­ve
and Pete Houser' again won In taking .a 5-4 thriller from dIe position of the team, as has
their specialties: the shot put, Fordham, John Dowd joined Bob MeIican. Newcomer John
half _mile, javelin and 110 high Maguire and Cherrytree as O'Regan has for the most part
hurdles, with the rest of the double winners, with the latter played steady tennis in the fihal
team back of their leaders by two breaking a 4-4 deadlock singles position, while John
filling most .of the second and with their straight set doubles Faulkner and "social director"
third slots. win. Tad Do~d have added doubles
This string was decisively strength' and overall depth to
ended at Amherst as only paul the squad.
Maguire averted a shutout while The highpoint of the season
the powerful Jeffs repeated a will be the team's vis i t
pre-Easter 8-1 triumph. to West Point. Following this
Number one man Demnis match two players will be se­Dowd
has displayed top 'flight lected" to represent Fairfield at
tennis in leading the team, to its the annual- Rider Tournament.
three victories so far. Denny Last year, the Dowd brothers
swept his first three matches, were each semi-finalists in the
then turned in fine efforts in singles, and finalists in the
losing causes against Fordham doubles competition.
Not to be outdone by any of
Mr. Luce's magazine, The STAG
ha" selected senior Tad Dowd
as Campus Personality of the
Year (or should it be of the past
four years?). Among the ac­complishments
of this electric
personality are: Manager and
scout for the Basketball Stags
sWi~ging M.C. of many pe~
vallles, member of the tennis
team, jockey's agent, and pro­moter
of the fortunes of D. Grass
and com~any. If one is in a
crowd of strangers, anywhere,
and mentions the name of Tad
Dowd, it seems that, instantly,
twelve people consider you a
~ife lon~ friend. The following
IS a brIef resume of an inter­view
with Mr. Dowd.
Tad's praises: four years' edu­cation
at Fairfield has been
enjo~ble. If he had to do it
over again, The University
would still be his choice. Im­pressive
growth in school spir­it.
Fairfield "rates equally with
H.C." and is "above B.C." Con­siders
Jesuit education "the
finest." The rest: "There should
be a definite stand taken by the
administration on the cut sys­tem
so that the students can
know they stand."
By T. UNGERLAND
Reports have it that 300 Holy Cross students at­tended
'the recent baseball game in which Fairfield
was edged by the Worcester club 6 to 5 in 10 innings.
That was the 4th game this season they lost by a single
run and I think we should realize that it is no longer
c luck or coincidence. In that faJteful 10th inning a lively
group of the Cross spectators were influential in in­itiating
a rally which brought in the winning, run. A
similar rally for the Red Stags would have afforded
them la tie with Hartford (9-8), Upsala (3-2), and St.
Peters (5-4), but we simply don't seem to have the
lively spectators here at Fairfield. The ball club cer­tainly
is hustling this year, which is obvious from their
fine showing against Holy Cross, and they have the
hitters which can stay with the best teams in New Eng­land.
The games have been real thrillers (8 runs in last
2 innings to tie Hunter (11-11) so if more dorm stu­dents
and a few dayhops would, at least,attend the home
contests we can promise them an afternoon of fine
baseball. Any team which will go as far as raking and
rolling, their own ball field, as part of their work out,
is worth watching.
Because this is the last issue until next September,
I have been asked to mention something about the
sports line up in the past few months. However, rather
than revive all the old skeletons from the basketball
season, I would like to skip over the time to that fabu­lous
weekend just before Easter vacation when 4 of
the Fairfield Clubs won their respective contests. The
Baseball team defeated Providence 7-6 (sweet re­venge),
the track team on their way to an undefeated
season outran St. Peter's, the golf Iteam under the
leadership of Mike "Stretch" Low outdrove 81. Peter's
(6-3) and the Glee Club also won. Only the tennis team
had -problems (1-8) with a strong Amhurst aggregate.
Where our boys had been practicing on the cement
courts because the clay courts in the area had not
yet dried out, the Massachusetts club was completing
their 2 week Southern tour in the warm sun of Flori­da
and surounding area. However a strong ·comeback
against St. Peter's (8-1) brought a smile to Moderator,
Fr. Ring's face for the success of I1,he rest of the season.
The Track team since that weekend kept up strong
pace but the golf team has suffered setbacks from some
very strong clubs in the area, Holy Cross, Iona, etc.
We can only now hope for Ithe support of the stu­dents
-to-briil-g ail the varsity season's to successful con­clusions.
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