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NEWS POTPOURRI SPORTS Students slam tuition hike ... page 5 Cuckoos and Unlucky Lady .. page 3 Ush's 1975 All-pro squad. page 4 Thinking - criticizing ...... page 6 Sheehe discovers America ... page 2 · Dayton beats Xavier ..... page 4 .Directs Mu 1/igan to meet with students Board of Trustees approves tuition raise

By MARY ANN BUESCHER necessitated by a substantial deficit and $345 for other dorm residents, as the Board, raised the question of ministrators. M.n.-ng Editor for the upcoming year, the result of well as a $10 increase per year in how often the Vice-presidents and Conaton also asked Fr. Mulligan A tuition increase for the 1976-77 · rising costs in all areas oft he U niver board costs. · other administrators met with stu why the New.t was no longer being academic year of $140 per year was sity's routine maintenance, a $400, Provisions were made for a stu dent leaders to discuss current issues. sent to parents. Mulligan explained one outcome of a meeting ofXa vier's 000 miscalculation in the cost of dent report to be given by three According to Conaton, two such· his reasoning behind his decisions, trustees on December 18. The Board Phase I of the O'Connor Sports students at the March meeting ofthe meetings had been proposed during citing the facts that no other univer of Trustees meeting also discussed Complex, a $75,000 per year Board of Trustees. Reports are now the fall semester of 1975 by the Presi sities to his knowledge had such a other issues pertinent to student in operating cost for the complex, and given by representatives of various dent of Student Body and the editor policy of distributing the newspaper terests, including presentation of an allotment of $350,000 for faculty areas of the University, such as Stu of the News. Both suggestions to the to parents and that this policy had student reports to the Board, and staff salary increases. Other in dent Development. The new President had been turned down. An only been in effect fora year before it meetings of student leaders . and creases in student costs for the up proposal would provide for a stu agreement was reached by the was terminated. The Board theri re Xavier Vice-presidents, and the coming academic year which receiv dent report to be given which would trustees that such meetings should be quested, at the suggestion of Chair~ restricted distribution of the Xavier ed the trustees' approval include an present student suggestions to the held at intervals during the school man Fletcher Nice, that the Board of News. increase in housing costs to $340 per Board for their consideration. year to facilitate better communica Tru~tees members be placed on the mailing list of the News in. the future. The tuition increa~e was semester for Brockman residents Michael Conaton, a member of tion between student leaders and ad- Afro-am Senators n-ation discuss theme of. - from experience. -&He·•ing thai:· - son, wrote _a young Penn sovereignty should reside in the sylvania educator, is "too well finances,. people they were out to prove to informed to be misled, too vir-· Black Week themselves and to the rest of the tuous to "be corrupted." evaluations world that free men could No less important in our By DALE PENN By RAY LEBOWSKI . Nn... St•H Writer govern successfully. But the lifetime, when the pace of life New88t•ttWr.tt• . success of their experiment, for the individual is quickening A report on the progress of "Nation building: the time is now" they thought, clearly rested on and society is becoming steadily the quality of education and on more complex, is our founding proposed student evaluations of ~the theme for the 1976 recognition teachers was the major topic of dis of Black Awareness Week here at free and open dissemination of fathers' imperative that in knowledge and criticism. (Jividuals pursue activities and cussion at the December IS meeting Xavier. Beginning Monday, of Student Senate. February 2 and running through According to our founding live lives that are meaningful to fathers the whole society stood them. Central to our founding Tim Lynch and Senator Julie Sunday February 8, a series of O'Donoghue, the major workers on cultural, educational, artistic, fathers' concern ·was the worth of the individual. Similarly, the project, told the Emery Board historical, and political presen Room audience that the Administra tations will be made available to the Guest contemporary Americans should not confuse economic tion is unlikely to release the results Xavier community. of itS own evaluations, despite last On Monday and Tuesday, there Column success with human dignity. Revolting against routine, crass week's University Senate vote in will be several black male and female by Roger Fortin, Ph. D. favor of such a release. historical displays on campus and a materialism, a too-structured or too-mechanized society, in The evaluations consist of thirty display of what the Black Awareness to profit by an investment in objective questions and a comment Week committee calls "The Best of dividuals should be encouraged education. The degree of op to lead lives that make sense, to section. Most subjects are covered, Ebony." This will be a pictorial pression in any society, they the major exceptions being review of Black history done by see with their own eyes, to feel argued, will ever be in propor with their own senses, to come Chemistry, Biology, Classics, and Ebony, a recognized leader in Black tion to the knowledge and Computer Science. Lower division news and photo-journalism. to know their own_ thoughts, to refinement of the people. In reflect on their own experiences and basic courses are the focal p.oint, The Spook Who Sat Bv the Door, dividuals should be encouraged since the primary purpose is to help a film based on the best-selling novel and others', and to act out their to think and act for themselves. acquired wisdom and prin freshmen and sophomores in their of the same name by For the f fathers, the course and instructor selections. poet/ playwright Sam Greenlee, will ciples. To be sure, every generation Tara McDowell and Greg Byrne be shown Wednesday, February 4, in objected that the short time remain the University Theatre. Admission has the_ responsibility of reex amining its national heritage. ing in this semester precludes dis will be free to Xavier students. tribution until next semester. Lynch Art is the message on Thursday, as And during this Bicentennial year groups of people will face said that now is the onlv time to ade Black American books and art quately cover this semester's courses. works are displayed and sold the world together, affirming their capacity to bring their Treasurer Steve Cox presented his throughout the day in lobbies of the monthly financial report to Senate. University Center. Several local and national ideals to better frui tion. But above everything else, He noted that although all allocated nationally recognized artists and amounts are deducted from photographers will be on hand to there should be a time when an individual faces the world available funds, there will inevitably present to the public a collection of be return, such as Haunted House diverse art. For interested friends of alone, concerning himself reverently with his own life. and Social Committee receipts. the arts, a lecture on the history of Other revenues also will be added to Black art in America and problems There is anarchy in individual lives. Americans have been the fund - directory and freshmen facing contemporary Black artists registry receipts, ID. card retake will be presented at I p.m. in the careless about their resources, careless in financial· matters, charges, and film committee returns, Terrace Room. totalling $879.11. Africa comes to Xavier all day as most practical education is one and shamefully careless in stan which touches the individual dards of public and academic Most allocations for the rest ofthe we host the annual Mini-Expo (Ex year have already ~en made, with position) on Friday. African and directly and touches him deep integrity. In keeping with the ly. Learning for its sake alone rich educational ideals of our $819.20 left, plus any returns and Afro-American wares such as loan repayments. The President's jewelry, wood~arvings, clothing, was not enough. Rather they founding fathers, individuals wanted to implant. in the minds should aspire to know their own Discretionary Fund, created without precious stones and metals, and ac- Senate approval, can make loans of . cidentals from the world over will be of young people the principles mind and take care in fur of virtue and liberty that would nishing it. They should aspire to up to $50, $100 maximum each offered for sale from 10 a.m. till 8 semester, for emergencies. inspire them . to act as com bec.ome "too well-informed to l.m. Georgia State Representative Pa-ul Peterhans reported that :Julian Bond will speak at 8 p.m. in passio~te, independent huma·n · be misled, too virtuous to be -beings .. The well-educated .per- corrupted." · Afro-am to page 8 Sen•tora to P-si• 8 , .. Commentary ·;. · ·: --uy Larry Sheelie

compiled by Joyce Schrieber were ever to be involved in an acci Richard Wagner, vice president of the Cincinnati Reds, Inc., has dent. I can't imagine a more in been named general chairman of the 1976 Musketeer Annual Athletic glorious or precarious position to be Appeal of Xavier University. Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds third Sheehe discovers America? perched on. baseman, is serving as honorary chairman. Cincinnati area co Findlay, for all its faults, at least chairmen of the appeal who will direct volunteer solicitors are Joseph offered an actual bus station. Later L. Rippe of Arthur Young&. Company, and Roger F. Thesing, presi on in Lima we would wonder where dent of Thesing & Company,lnc. This is the 19th MAAAcampaign; Siinon and Garfunkel ·probably are understandably reluctant to the on-coming passengers had didn't know how close they were to share their seat with a stranger, so funds are \L'Ied, in part, for athletic grants-in-aid. waited. That stop was a gravel yard ••• the truth when they wrote the words, everybody either takes the aisle seat "they're all· gone to look ·for or uses it as their baggage rack. I that could have been a parking lot A committee called together by the YWCA of Cincinnati is making for any of the neighboring final plans for observing a new state holiday honoring Dr. Martin America." -Americans are a people wasn't about to stand all the way to businesses. Luther King, Jr. On January 19th beginning at Fountain Square at on the move; constantly in search for Cincinnati, so I inconvenienced the As we wheeled our way into II :30 a.m .. with music, and a proclamation ceremony at noon, the peo something. suitcase of a middleaged black. Wapakoneta, the conversation ple assembled will form into lines for a "Memorial Walk" up Vine and John Denver, on the other hand, woman near the back of the bus. west on 6th Street. At the Convention Center, 1:00-2:00 p.m., 2nd was probably suffering delusions naturally involved Neil Armstrong, Floor North, a program including speakers, music, dramatics will from a Rocky-Mountain-induced The bus departed and we were on the first man on the moon and the center on the oppressed, emphasis on non-violence, and reliance on high when he lamented the dearth of our way. Twenty minutes out of town's most famous son. However, I'll always remember the town for its youth and building leadership. social activities in Toledo, Ohio, on a Toledo, we stopped in Bowling ••• Saturday night. · Green. BG is a pretty little town and bus stop. It was a little homestyle It has been two months since Mrs. Betty Ford's last dithyramb, and My travels for Xmas vacation the home of a state university of the restaurant specializing in "chicken Susan Ford remains quiescent; but on November 26 the President's found me in Toledo fora weekend.lt same name. While enviously obser and rabbit in a basket." youngest son, David Ford, volunteered a few nincompoop paragraphs was no trouble at all to keep one's ving BGSU's physical attractions, I Sidney was the next stop on the to the Ford Family Chrestomathy. After stating disapproval of his self entertained on a Saturday night. came to the realization that this par7 tour. Sidney is your typical looking father's 1976 candidacy he magnaminously added that "If that's I might add that Sunday presented ticular bus was what we in the little Midwest town. It has a nice lit what he wants, he's done enough for me that all of us will go along with no particular problem either. In fact, tle town square and neat rows of lit it." David is studying "rodeo skills" under the tutelage of Mr. Casey Toledo was far more enjoyable than tle houses. It also has lots of alleys. I Tibbs, "former world's champion cowboy." any place that I was to see on the know, because our driver seemed to ••• following Monday. prefer them to the main roads. It was The residence halls will remain open over the semester break. Any . On Monday, it was necessary for fitting, then, that the Sidney bus stop student who will not be residing in the halls during the second semester me to return to Cincinnati. Since I was located: :in an alley, too. I must vacate his or her room before noon on Tuesday, January 20, had caught a ride with friends to couldn't help but draw the connec 1976. Toledo, I had the choice of either tion between Sidney's alleys and the ••• sewers of Paris'; as unlikely a pair of Friends of due process were distraught when on November 26 a hitching or bussing my way back. It was a cold day and freezing rains tourist attractions as one might ever California jury found 'Lynette Alice Fromme, a leading feminist in imagine. tellectual, guilty of an attempt to assassinate the President. She will were forecast, so I reluctantly agreed to be bussed. By the time we got to Piqua, the appeal. and the constituency of conscience is wondering when Marlon · sun was beginning to set. At this Brando will act. My reluctance stems from my past association with the bussing com point, it didn't matter; all little towns ••• were beginning to look alike. There In Oakland, California, a jury awarded $4,300 to Mrs. Eula pany in question. For t~o summers, I worked the night shift at a Down were people standing in the aisles by Wrights, 47, whose buttocks became lodged in a bus emergency exit, now, · and two teenage Army "exposing them to public view" and causing her "an emotional upset." town Cleveland bus terminal. I load ed and unloaded busses and often business had affectionately termed a prospects . were cackling inanely ••• about getting to see the "big city," The Contemporary Arts Center will present the Cincinnati r.tanned the baggage counter as well. "milk run"; it would find every little Dayton! Chamber Orchestra in a series of four concerts, the first to be held I've seen some strange things in bus podunk town between Toledo and January 4th at 2:30 p.m. Conducted by Paul Nadler the concert for . terminals and most of them Cincinnati. Between Dayton and Piqua stands strings and woodwind will perform pieces by Mozart, Bartok and (shudder) ride the busses. · I tried to oc·cupy myself with the Troy. If the mythical Helen had Brahms. Other concert dates are January 25, February 29 and April4. As I entered the Toledo terminal, I Sports section of the Toledo Blade, called this Troy "home,'' those 1000 Programs for each concert will be available at the Center. Admission cringed and felt the urge to turn but the passenger in front of me ships wouldn't have bothered to sail. for each of the performances is $1.50, $1.00 for students and 75¢ for around and walk right back out. I made;this difficult as he changed the After what seemed like forever, we CAC members. probably would have, had I not been posit~~n of his reclining seat about finally arrived in Dayton. I never ••• accompanied by two of my friends. every· 30 seconds. I guess he didn't thought I'd be glad to see Dayton, .1 ' A dog has been named one of 1975's "Outstanding Educators of The terminal was not a happy place. reali~~ that it's almost impossible to but was. There's somethjng Ameri~a." The dog, Oliver, a 60-pound, shaggy-haired black poodle, The building itself was grimy and be cp_mfortable on a bus. "homey" about neon lights and con was g1ven the honor by Fuller and Dees Marketing group, Inc., cold, but the people were what really My seatmate, meanwhile, couldn't crete jungles where the wildlife walk publishers of "Outstanding Edll('ators of America," who told Oliver in upset me. · restr~in an occasional giggle at the the streets. a letter announcing his award that "only a selected number of men and In those two summers that I work sig~•. of my paper being mangled The last leg of the journey seemed women are nominated by their school officials to be included in the ed at the Cleveland terminal, I saw a repe~tedly. This started us talking. interminable. lwas betting that we'd ~war.ds prog~am ea~h year." Oliver was nominated by his master, Un lot of people. There were winos, She, was black, about 35, and on her make one more stop at Sharonville. IVemty of W1scons1n-OshkostJ Chancellor Robert Birnbaum. "There junkies, prostitutes, dealers. Old way from Detroit to spend Xmas in I'm glad to say I lost. Once I spotted are some organizations which use careful screening of individuals and people, poor people, and sick people Cin~innati with her mother. We were Tri-County, the bus couldn't move hav.e some academic honor attached," said Birnbaum, who apparently were abundant. Black people were an unlikely pair, but we kept a run fast enough. · dec1ded that Fuller and Dees was not one of them. Birnbaum sent the predominant. You don't see these nins. commentary going for the next As soon as we arrived in Cincin firm some biographical material on Oliver, saying the dog was a doc people at the airport. In fact, you five" hours of the trip. nati, I bounded to my half-asleep t?ral can~idate in animal husbandry and had published several ar don't have to see them at all if you The bus stopped in Findlay for a feet and scurried my way to the first ticles. Ohver could not be reached.for comment, but a spokesperson lead a protected suburban lifestyle. IS minute rest. Apparently, Findlay friendly sight of civilization: a for Fuller and Dees insisted that its award was not going to the dogs. But once you've seen them, you .saw us coming years ago. This place Skyline Chili parlor. ••• know they're there. They're there sold everything but picture post And that 's the way it was .. ; Mr. Herbert McGienchey became the most recent victim of the and you won't soon forget the looks cards of desolate Northwestern Ohio on their faces. They're tired, hungry, On, my journey to look for post-Watergate morality when a .judge barred his election for ward 'n mid winter. This traveller's mecca America, I realized that it was there leader upon hearing that Mr. McGlenchey just before his election downtrodden, angry or anguished. ·exploited every possibility; even the all along; I just didn't recognize it. changed the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania voting place to a moving bus, Not many are smiling. restroom facilities cost. Jtorace Greeley can head West; let unbeknownst .to· his opponent. Otherwise; the November elections Once I had resigned myself to my They had us on that one. All the Swallows return to Capistrano ~vealed n

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My first reaction to the film of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the before) tells McMurphy "They're Cuckoo's Nest was that it was good, working on you, the same way they but still somehow disappointing. I worked on my old man." Director was pretty sure why I felt that way, Milos Forman and writers Bo Gold but I went back and saw the film a se man and Larry Hauben are more in cond time just to be sure, and wheri tent on telling the story than on deal the movie seemed to have improved ing with what's below the surface. the second time around, I was Forman very effectively com positive what was wrong. Any time a municall!s the idea that the setting movie is made from a good book, the isn't exactly the kind of place where movie is going to suffer by com you'd spend a summer vacation; the parison. (On the other hand, it seems film doesn't make insanity cute or at to be pretty easy to make a good tractive as in the overly romantic movie out of a fairly lousy book. the King of Hearts. The mainly unknown actors who play the patients make very convin cing loonies. Too much improvisa tion by actors. doesn't usually work (Robert Altman's films are an excep tion) because it frequently becomes too repetitious, but seems more ap propriate when the actors are sup posed to be nuts. And Nicholson is just excellent. I promised myself that I would try to avoid'going overboard with superlatives in describing his performance, so I'll just say that it's impossible for this man to make a outstanding recent examples being wrong move. His scene with Dr. both Godfather films and Jaws.) But Spivey (played by Dean Brooks, the after wiping out my initial disap actual head of the Oregon State pointment, I realized that Cuckoo's Haspital where the film was shot) Nest is definitely one of the best films shows that Nicholson has as' much of the year. ,, , ·; Jack Nicholson as insane asylum inmate Randle Patrick Me MUI'phy defiantly bucks the authority of the head effect on the performance of his Looking at the movie on its own nurse in "One Flew Over :the Cuckoo's Nest." fellow actors as the director does. terms, it does manage to. hit most of There is a moment in the scene where the high points of the book. Ra11dle. powerful Nurse Ratched, the woman he tries to .;enuade the patients that strongly emphasized in the book. Nicholson swats an imaginary bug Patrick McMurphy (Jack in charge of this particular ward. It his position on this should be theirs The Combine which the Chief (the on t~ desk and the doctor gives an Nicholson) manages to get takes a little too long for this conflict also; he has a need to be in charge. book's narrator) fantasizes as run- approving look that is so good it has transferred from a prison work farm to get going in the ma:o. possibly He wants the game played his way ning things in the ward, as weU as in ·to be seen to be believed. I was slad to an insane asylum where he figures because Louise Fletcher's perfor and complains that the nurse likes "a society outside, is not directly men- therewasnotraceofMcMurphyua he can cr~ise through the last mance is a bit too restrained, but rigged game;" McMurphy doesn't tioncd in the film. Kesey puts his savior figure i.n his performanCe and months of his sentence for statutory once McMurphy starts trying to have the insight into .himself to see views of what's wrong with America at times he goes out of his way to be rape. McMurphy quickly becoines a chanae the Ward schedule so that the that what he would like is the power into the Chiers fantasies about the unsympathetic. Still, in spite of Jack dominant figure in the ward and the patients can watch the World Series, to be doina the rigging instead of be-· Combine and its restrictions on Nicholson's overwhelming presence, patients begin to a~mire him for his. the tension between him and the Big ina rigged against. men's freedom. The idea is hinted at . if I had to choose the movie or the rebellion against the · rules; both Nurse besins to increase. Mc Unfortunately for McMurphy, he in the film when the Chief (played book for some kind of artistic time written and unwritten, and par Murphy is shown to be almost as is cauaht in a conflict which he can't very convincingly by WiD Sampson, capsule, I'd vote to preserve Kaey's ticularly for his lack of fear for the power-hungry as Nurse Ratched as . possibly win; a situation that is an Indian who has never acted book. -Mark Doyle

·.. unlucky Walker (a~ ~lways-grinhing would put such a sloppy piece of ment: he prepares to throw a About that ending. Actually, there Burt Reynolds), and desperated' Kib · film-making on the screen. · Molotov cocktail and it slips from have been three. The original. which by (Gene Hackman with his jood · There's an arrogance to this pro his hand during his backswina. was filmed according to the script, old reliable potato face). . ject I don't like. Apparently the film Gene Hackman supplies, along had Minelli ruminating on her They join forces . to complet,e a makers believed that the public with God's gorgeous ocean, the only adventure years after the death of rum-running deal begun by Mine,lli's · would be sufficiently impressed with consistent pleasure in "Lucky Lady." Reynolds and Hackman. late husband. They deliver 500 c~ the antics of Gene, Liza, and Burt When he grabs MineUi in the cabin That endins was scrapped by of hooch from Baja to San Diego, that it wouldn't care if the story of their boat and tells her he's Donen and 20th Century Fox as too fight off the Coast Guard, net $30,- made sense. desperate to stay with the gang, you downbeat. So last fall Reynolds and 000 and celebrate with a holiday in a Unfortunately, MineUi, who's at believe him. And the gang is given a Hackman flew to Rome (where swank hotel. And that looks like' the center stage most of the film, has reality because he believes in it. Minelli was shooting a musical with end. We should be so lucky. , trouble acting. Her lines are stiff,she · Hackman is the only non-theatrical her father) and together they filmed Instead the characters link up im reads them broadly, ·and we~re characterization in the film. · a whiinsical ending that showed the mediately in order to cram the '!!ast reminded she's an actress reciting As for director Donen, he has not trio still together in bed at age 70. half of the film with boat chases and dialogue. so much presided over chaos as he That was scrapped because the gun. battles galore as the East Coast Reynolds hams it up too much for has been ·smothered by it. The net make-up jobs were so awful. The mob tries· to squash the independent my taste, especially in a film that is impact· of "Lucky Lady" is a few film currently is playing with a West Coast whiskey smuggler. spending a fortune trying to recreate sood times, a lot of spectacular neutral, we've-run-out-of· film con What a mess! Here's a picture that "Lucky Lady" is· served to us the '30's. There's no reason for Burt sunsets, and a story that ends with a clusion .. cost 512.6 million, and two weeks chunk-style. The picture flirts with a to grin his'70's personality through gunpowder-filled exasperating con Unlucky, this "Lady." before it opened it didn't even have three-way love affair that is every scene. He has one fine mo- clusion. -Steve Bedell an ending. You'd think it was made developed as far as a PO rating can by the Defense Department. handle a menoge a trois, which isn't The confusion extends to the en very far. Then it's back to the boats tire production of "Lucky La4y," as the poorly edited story jumps time thus clouding beautiful Gulf . of sequences and logic. California scenery, a fine perfor Ttiere•s a two-minute montage Sugflr -,~Spice mance by Gene Hackman, one good backed by a s~t lyric, which is sup comic bit by Burt Reynolds, and posed to give us the idea that Liza three or four funny lines of dialogue. and Company have hit it rich in a ' "Lucky Lady" is the overproduced series of rum-running adve.ntures. Reading Road at ·victory Parkway tale of three down-and-out Minutes later, however, we're ask Americans scrambling about in Ti ed to believe that one gunbla!lt wipes juana, Mexico, 'in 1930. There's gar out their fabulous fortune; I'm sur ish Claire (Liza Minelli in a hideous prised that director Stanley Done'n OPEN. EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK reddish-blonde wig), . ~lip~y-~o- ("~i~~in: j.n _!he Rain". "Charade") FOR YOUR DINING PLEASURE LAW SCHOOL DELICIOUS SANDWICHES OR is difficult to get into. The Law School Admissions Test is one of the most crucial factors determining one's COMPLETE DINNERS acceptance to or rejection from law school. A good score on the LSAT is a must! · .We offer you the opportunity to take part in two full days of systematic analysis of all phaies of the LSAT. DROP IN AFTER THE MOVIE Increase your score by participating in this compre OR AFTER THAT LATE. hensive preparation. For information, write or call now. WEEK-END DATE. LSAT METHODS, Inc. 11465 Springfield Pike Suite 6 Cincinnati, Ohio. 45246 WE SERVE CINCINNATI'S FINEST PANCAKES AND WAFFLES. (513) 772-1110 WHY NOT ENJOY A RELAXING SUNDAY MORNING BREAKFAST :~ WITH US. JUST 5 MINUTES FROM ALL XAVIER PORMITORIES. Flyers shoot down Muskies

80-71, XU stands· at 5-5 / Saturday night. Ron Laker, the target. put the R_ig X out to a 31-21 By TOM USHER ·other senior listed on the roster, was lead. Then Dayton ripped off eight USH'S 1975 NFL ALL-PRO SQUAD Sport1 Editor cut or quit before the Dctroif trip. unanswered points, six coming on Last year's scouting report on the depending on who 'YOU listen to. foul shots to narrow the X lead to 31- OFFENSE Team Hgt. Wt. Age College Dayton Flyers read: "Stop All Nick Daniels filled in for Plunkett at 29, with 2:28 left in the half. Daniels American candidate Johnny Davis, forward, and "Wildman" Stan Mc· then took ·charge for. X. and the (Cin.) ~I 193 24 San Diego St. WR Ike Curtis and you stop the Flyers." This year Coy answered the bell in Daniels' Musketeers went to the locker room WR John Gilliam (Minn.) ~~ 195 30 S.C. St. Xavier shut off "Johnny D.," usual spot at guard. Plunkett didn't with a 36-33 lead. TE Charles Young (Phila.) ~4 238 24 usc holding him to 12 points, but dis enter the·game until the 7:53 mark in Thanks·to Dayton's 6-5 Paxson, a T Ron Yary (Minn.) ~5 255 29 usc covered there are actually others on the first half. freshman from Dayton Alter, and T Dan Dierdorf (St. L.) 6-3 280 26 Michigan U.D. who can.score. This was the McCoy came out firing with three Leighton Moulton, the Flyers out G Conrad Dobler (St. L.) 6-3 255 24 Wyoming · case last Saturday night at the U.D. long-range jumpers, which scored X 18-6 to open the second half. and the game was technically in G Joe DeLamielleure (Buff.) ~3 245 24 Mich. St. arena where freshman Jim Paxson the icebox; _Erv Giddings, who cash ~2 253 27 So. Oak. St. C . Jim Langer (Mia.) ed in ·12 points. provided nine of HB O.J. Simpson (Buff.) ~I 212 28 usc these in the second half to frustrate FB Franco Harris (Pitt.) 6-2 230 25 Penn St. the Muskies. QB Fran Tarkenton (Minn.) 6-0 190 35 Georgia X.U. came out in a man-to-man defense, but shifted into a 1-3-1 zone early in the first half. X stayed with DEFENSE~ _____Team Hgt. Wt." Age College this zone, tintil Moulton's nine field goals over it drew Xavier out, late in DE Jack Youngblood (L.A.) 6-4 255 25 Florida the contest. DE L.C. Greenwood (Pitt.) 6-6 245 28 Ark.AM&l\ Whitfield and Daniels were X's DT Otis Sistrunk (Oak.) 6-4 255 27 None orily bright spots. Whitfield ·won DT Curley Culp (Hous.) 6-1 265 28 Arizona St. game high honors with 2.1 points, 13 MLB Jeff Siemon (Minn.) 6-2 230 25 Stanford coming from the charity stripe. OLB Jack Ham (Pitt.) 6-1 225 26 Penn St. Daniels netted 18 on eight field goals the Muskies. OLB Andy Russell ·(Pitt.) 6-2 225 33 Missouri and two free throws. Haarman CB Emmitt Thomas (K.C.) 6-2 192 32 Bishop and senior Leighton Moulton each Meanwhile, Gary Whitfield was finished with 14, but being in foul CB Mel Blount (Pitt.) 6-3 205 27 Southern dropped in 20, to pace Dayton to an. penetrating the Flyers' man-to-man trouble hampered his effectiveness. 80-71 triumph over the Musketeers. X now stands 5-5 on the season S Jake Scott (Mia.) 6-0 188 30 Georgia defense every time down, drawing a For the fourth game in a row, U D. foul almost every time. Dale with the Hawks of St. Joseph's of S Paul Krause (Minn:) 6-3 200 35 Iowa Mike Plunkett saw limited action. Haarman scored six in the first half, Pennsylvania coming into Schmidt P Ray Guy (Oak.) 6-3 190 25 So. Miss. Plunkett, a two time X.U. MVP, is all on long bullseye jumpers. This, Memorial this Saturday night. The K Roy Gerela (Pitt.) 5-10 185 27 N. Mex. 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Pope puts faith in 'youtb To think is to criticize

Pope Paul VI's Christmas message, with its praise for youth's rejec The man of intelligence is always praised; the man of in tion of the "emptiness" of modern society and the "specious wisdom" tellect is sometimes often praised.~. but he is also often look of earlier generations, must have dismayed many of his older hearers. ed upon with resentment or suspicion. -Richard Hofstadter For them, the emptiness seems to be on the youth's side. It is the Anti-Intellectualism in American Life young people who are challenging and rejecting, and who often seem to be floating in a value.less vacuum. How can they be praised for It is almost as safe to assume that an intellectual of any dignity is turning the world back toward religious values? Yet the Pontiff prais hostile to his community, as it is to assume that his community is ed them for exactly that. hostile to the intellectual. The special quality which makes an intellec tual of him might almost be defined, indeed, as an extraordinary "There you are," said the Pope, ''young people, in whose capacity for irritation, an almost pathological sensitivity to the pricks generations is unmasked, almost with subversive impetus, the ex and stings of societal stupidity and shallowness. He differs from the posure of the specious, at least insufficient wisdom oft he generatiens rest of us mainly because he reacts sharply and in an uncommon that preceded you -the generations that inoculated you with the in manner to phenomena which leave the rest of us unmoved, or at sanity of war for power, of materialism as the only justice, of pleasure most, merely annoy us vaguely. He is, in brief, a more delicate fellow as a confused attitude toward the higher duties and destinies of life." than most. Therefore, he takes to intellectual endeavor, which is at once a criticism of society as i~t is, and an attempt to transform it. What is startling about the Pope's message is that it is full of hope, ( more hope than we are generally accustomed to. And the older So much for the theory of it. The more the facts are studied, the generation surely cannot say that it is misplaced, or argue, that the more they bear it out. It is almost impossible to find any trace of an in · wisdom of their generation was "sufficient." If youth has found tellectual who was not actively hostile to his ~ommumty. many of their beliefs false, it is because they were false .. They have From Dante to Tolstoy and from Shakespeare to Mark Twain, the produced war, misery, disillusionment, emptiness. And in turn that story is ever the same. Names suggest themselves instantly: Goethe, emptiness, in the Pope's words, has engendered an "intimate and Shelley, Byron, Milton, Thackerey, Blake; Einstein, Dickens, Plato, powerful longing" in young people-made them "the. foreseen and Socrates, Balzac, Christ, Rousseau, Cervantes, Swift, Dostoevsky, yet predestined hearers of the secret and determining wor:d." ·· Carlyle, Moliere, Mill, Pope -all bitter critics of their time and na tion, most of them piously hated by the contemporary bootlickers T oday's youth may ·seem to be rejecting everything, seeking a and company men, some of them actually fugitives from rage and negative minus quantity that it caDs "freedom"-what seems to their reprisal. parents to be an absence of responsibility, of duty, of direction; Yet ·what it keeps unquenchably alive is the hope for something better; a Dante put aU of the patriotic Italians of his day into Hell, and desire for some rea~ty that will stand up under the_ searing acid of showed them boiling, roasting and writhing on· hooks. Plato painted cynicism. It is always easier, .of C()~se, to reject than ·to construct. the. politicos of his ·day. as unbalanced · powermongers. Cervantes And the proposals t.hat youth offers "~ay not be the best ones. devastated the Spaniards. Shakespeare's heroes were foreigners and • ,. • • • > his clowns Englishmen. Goethe was in favor of Napoleon. DickeiiS But if we believe at all in "the good," then we must believe that it is made such grotesqueries of British society, that the British have been · what lasts and that it is what will remain and be recognized - and trying to live it down ever since. Swift, having finished the Irish and followed- after its imitators have ~en found ~antingand discard the English, proceeded to finish the whole human race. ed. . . -S.B. . Xavier University claims to be a hub of inteliectual commerce, a 1merchant of ideas and men of ideas. Yet outside the classroom, this "commerce" too often consists mostly of trade in conventional rot- \gut and the gibberish of 100-percenters. Take for example, the cen Definition· sorship of the Xavier News by Fr. Mulligan. Or the Xavier student who slides along on cake courses and pass-fail electives and leaves Xavier University is that institution of Catholic education which, . college no more enlightened than when he came in. in a world facing massive starvation, in a nation caught up in severe · ~vier has no reason to exist if it stifles criticism and radical in recession, in a society condemned by the Pope for. its empty , quiry, the stock-in-trade of a truly intellectual institution. materialistic values, ja~ks up its yearly tuition by 7. 7% due to a $400. • The fact that the University Senate favored a "free flow ·of ideas" at 000 blunder in the construction of the Albatross Sports Center. This, ' the cost of offending some people is a good sign and a plus for Xavier. at atime ofacademic crisis for the faculty and financial crisis for the ' Now, the beginning ofthe Bicentennial New Year is a good timefor· student body. It is as if a starving man, set before a banquet prepared Xavier to encourage vital criticism and inquiry, even li 1t 1s .sen by master chefs and covering a table an acre long, should stay his directed. It is. this inquiry. which is at the core of both the United , stomach by catching and eating flies. -S.B.. States as a free society and Xavier as a center of intellectual life. -S.B.

Thornton Wilder was wilder than we like to think

The editorial writers who had the job of concocting mortuary shalfowness of the. American's smiling contentment. The Americano 1 tributes to the late Thornton Wilder had heavy weather of i~, and no has a stupendous capacity for believing that, basically, life goes on wonder. Ordinarily, a renowned American dies by inches, and there is sweetly and. untroubled; Wilder believed this to be the worst sort of thus plenty of time to think up beautiful· nonsense about him. Mote blindness. often than not, he threatens to die three or four times before he ac tually does so, and each threat gives elegists a chance to mellow and Most important, Wilder realized that all literature, to be vital, mu5t adorn their literary frosting. But Dr. Wilder slipped out oflifealmost provoke the audience into a recognition of its responsibilities, not as quietly and unexpectedly as he had originally slipped into public soothe it into narcolepsy. It must be an agent of the national con notice, and the elegists were caught napping, and thus had to effuse science. under desperate pressure. For instance, his drama Our Town portrays the life cycle of or The. common legend is that such pressure inspireth the true jour- · dinary people in a small town. The characters were ·~ust folks," cozy nalist to maketh masterpieces, but it is not so in fact. Like any other and untroubled. But beneath the surface is a disturbing senSe of literary man, he functions best when he is at leisure, and can turn blindness and shallowness, of the missed opportunities to "com- t from his scroll now a.nd then to run down a quotation, have a pizza, municate something more than weather reports." · . or look out of the wmdow. In their own ways, Xavier University and the News can also try to provoke self-appraisal in the University community and in the com The general burden ofthe Wilder memoirs was that the man was a munity at large. That is precisely and explicitly the mission Xavier is gentleman and a scholar, and in short, a typical American. Some charged with. hinted that he was the most typical American since Harding. As the English say, I find myself quite unable to associate myself with that thesis. Yet this is an easy mission to shrug off or ignore. I am sure some of the more romantic of the funeral bards will try to convert Wilder's birthplace into a log cabin, and will concentrate on the folks~ He was, in truth, almost as unlike the average of his countrymen as .reassurance of his writing, ignoring his darker warnings and urgings if he had been born green. The American gringo is an expansive for America. After all, this Wilder is easier for the public to swallow. backslapper, folksy, and contented; Wilder was disturbed by this very This Wilder has no ideas; he is not a nuisance. ·.·· .::.:::..s-.8·: ··· ·· · · · Xavlerlolewa director growled, yanking the custodian's University $75,000 a year to operate the place. budgeted was water for the Corbett Pool ... palsied hands from the valve. "I mean, you So here was X.U. in 1976, facing a $475,000 and that's where we are right now." aren't supposed to do that. It's not time yet to cost overrun. How do you think they raised "Oh, I see then," beamed McSnead Elliott. change the water in the Corbett Pool." the money?" "You mean that alii have to do is wait for 'the "Not time!" exploded McSnead Elliott; McSnead Elliott shrugged. "I dunno." next tuition increase, and then they'll be able "For your information, that water hasn't been "How does Xavier ever raise money? They to take away the garbage, and change the light changed since the pool was open. Look at that boosted tuition," the athletic director pon bulbs ... and I'll be able to use all the water I <. water. It's brown! There's crud floating on it. tificated. "Well, that was 1976. When it came want." Jehosaphat, the last time a student swam in time to do the budget for 1977, they found "No, I'm afraid not," the athletic director that water with an open cut. he died! What do some other things that somehow hadn't been said quietly. "You see, there probably isn't go you mean, not time!" budgeted-like the electric bill, and a key to ing to be another tuition increase." the front door. So, they needed more money, "Not ... not ever?" "You just can't," the athletic director in~ sisted. gently but firmly. "I'd explain it to you, and they-" "Not ever," the athletic director mourned. but it's very complicated, and it might be too "Yeah, I know Xavier won't be the same much for you." without 'em but the tuition increase simply "I can take it," boasted McSnead Elliott. "I can't go on. You must keep in mind that every may be a humble custodian, but I'll' have you time tuition went up, enrollment went down know I have a university degree." but the university's operating budget, and "Oh, that's good," said the athletic director. therefore the revenue we had to squeeze out of Pooling our resources "I went to Xavier and majored in kids, remained constant. McSnead, this year's Theology." University operating budget is in the by Tom Flynn "Oh, that's bad," said the athletic director. neighborhood of eleven million dollars. Dis "In that case, I'd better start at the beginning," tributed among the nineteen students we now have, that comes out to just over $578,000 per Nothing ever gets built 011 time or within he began, picking his way down the darkened corridor. "You see, McSnead, it's like this. student, per year. Now on top oft hat our nine budget. you can't change the water in the Corbett teen students simply are not going to accept -Cheops' Law Pool because there's no money in the budget Due to lack offunds, this is the state ofthe another five or six thou each so you can "Stop. STOP/I" screamed the athletic direc- for it." Corbett pool by 1979. change the water in the Corbett Pool." tor, running feverishly towards the .master The athletic director moved aside as an un control board. "What do you think you're "Hugh?" said McSnead Elliott. "How can "Let me try to guess this one," McSnead dergraduate in red swimming trunks padded doing?" there not be money for an iniportant thing like burst out eagerly. "They raised tuition." out of a locker room and dashed down the McSnead Elliott (Xavier '39), Custodian of that?" "You know, for a Theology major you're deck toward the diving board. He leaped the. Paul O'Connor S.J. Memorial Sports "You'd be surprised," responded the pretty sharp," said the athletic director. "Well, skyward off the board, spun a graceful somer Center, peered over a stray scrap of HAPPY athletic director gloomily. "You remember along came the 1978 budget, and we still sault in mid-air, assumed a swan dive position, NEW YEAR 1979 bunting, leveling a blood- when they first went to build this place, back in hadn't budgeted things like painting lines in and hurtled towards the beckoning water. shot eye at the athletic director .. "What's it 1975? Well, back then some bright-eyed, the parking spaces or putting the sign on the There was a SPANNG!whenhe hit the stee look like I'm doing?" he said. "I'm getting bushy-tailed young accountant sat down and front of the building. So, up went you know ly crust on the surface. Skull caved in, the un ready to let the old water out of the Corbett figured out what it was all going to cost. He what. The next year, we found still other dergraduate bounced twice more as he skimm Pool so we can put fresh water in." decided it would cost just over a million bucks. things that hadn't been budgeted, like t• ash ed across the water, and finally came to rest "You can't do that!" shrilled the-athletic Well, it went under construction, and then removal, or replacement fluorescent :ight sprawled grotesquely over a ladder. director. they found out that, lo and behold, that bushy- tubes ... " "Eighteen," corrected McSnead Elliott. 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_,__------thursday's people "You've just finished four years of of any organizations, and taught a ment," he said, "finding out about problems because I was bigger than study in an institution of higher variety of courses: Manual Arts, riature, getting into its rhythm since they were." Zeno was able to spena education. So, where do you go from Agriculture, English, Math., Social the peopl~ in Papua must follow it so school breaks 'inland' in villages here?" This Spring signs bearing this Sciences and Religion. "Although I carefully." Zeno then feels his con- ·with families of students continuing query, or a variation on the same wanted to go overseas to people who tribution to Papua .was not in his own education about the coun theme, will be planted all over the had little contact with the word of presenting the facts of Christianity, try. "I basically learned how much I University. Most students will God to help them find out," Zeno but in giving the people a certain didn't know," he said, "I always answer it with continued education; said, "coming back I can see I've enthusiasm for it. gained new insights and developed a business employment or mere great respect for the people." puzzlem~nt. It is a rare individual The sc-hool at which Zeno taught who will answer "Papua, New was located at a mission station in Zeno Guinea." the bush covering a 2000 mile school However, Tom Zeno, a 1974 district. It is a boarding school of 600 Xavier graduate, did answer in this returns students with a staff of 15 Europeans manner. After four years as a com and 15 New Guineans run by the bined English-Theology major, from· Divine Word Missionaries. "The Zeno left the states to do missionary school is more associated with the work in Papua, New Guinea. He is state· ·than parochial schools in New Guinea currently back in the states and will America," Zeno said, "but we are be teaching a .course entitled somewhat independent because of "Christianity as Mission" for Xavier our isolation." Papua became an in .to teach Spring Semester: dependent country on Sept. 16, 1975 While a student at Xavier, Zeno and, according to Zeno, was well .Christian was involved in student volunteers, prepared for the change. occasionally wrote for the News, and The course he will be teaching this serve·d on a variety of levels of stu Spring developed from his· 16 Mission dent government: two years as a stu months experience as a Christian dent senator, a year as vice Missionary. "This course is my way president, and a year as president. of understanding reality," he said, "it course During his sophomore year he was can be compared to a puzzle which I voted: "Outstanding ROTc·cadet" didn't realize was a puzzle until all after which he dropped the. program the parts were together." Zeno hopes and at this same time started work to put students in contact with the ing with the Archdiocesan Mission church's religious experience Commission;. Although Zeno's first through the course beginning with a impression of the missions was that concr'ete understanding of the of an organization bent on "cultural Church. The text books to be used in destruction," he said his attitude the course repeatedly emphasize the changed with involvement in· the theme Of re-appreciating the world, commission. This involvement with Tom Zeno, a 1974 Xavier graduate, spem a year teaching in a Papua, ''looking with new ·eyes at the ·the commission, and the subsequent· religious experience." reorientation of his ·studies in New Guinea mission school and is teaching a Christian mission course in the spring. Although the course will "not be theology caused Zeno to commit an end in itself, it is aimed at students himself to some mission work. learned more from them." The students in Zeno's classes, the who want to see a continuum," ac~ "I chose Papua, New _Guinea . Among the things he learned, equivalent of an eighth-grade cordingtoZeno. "All peoplewhoex because I know no other languages Zeno mentioned "sawing straight," educational level, ranged in age from ist have a mission," he said, and English is the main language in but more importantlyenteringintoa 10-25, approximately. "We figured "irregardless of where it takes them." the schools," Zeno explained, " and new way of thinking - certainly a out that some of the students in my Zeno will only be teaching the they could use me immediately." different vieW of Christianity. "This classes were older than I was," Zeno course this semester and plans to Zeno went to Papua independently was probably the biggest adjust- said, "but it didn't cause any enter law school in the Fall.

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