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SUBSCRIBER'S ADDRESS THE COWL I PROVIDENCE I COLLEGE VOL. XXX, No. 17 PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R. L, APRIL 3, 1968 EIGHT PAGES Big Brothers Ready Campus Politics a Circus, For Tag Day Drive Big brothers, distinguished Warwick Cinema. Each year the Electoral Reform Needed usually on this campus by sit• club has expanded its program By MARTIN McNAMARA or seven posters apiece, were: dormitories. The Congress camp• ting beside enthusiatic, little PC at the Center, and this has con• As of six o'clock last Monday Barry Flynn, '69; Matt Kiely, supporters at basketball games, tinually caused a greater need aign regulations"specifically pro• evening, April 1, seventy candi• '70; Tom McDonough, '69; Paul hibit the placing of campaign will be recognized in a different for funds. For example, this year dates for various student offices J. McShane, '71; Kevin Mirek, way Thursday, April 25, when the club has bought wrestling posters in dormitory buildings. on this campus had affixed '70; Michael Rybarski, '71; Ray However, the dormitories this they will be holding cannisters mats for its boxing and wrestl• some 289 campaign posters to Sickinger, '71; Stan Sowa, '70 in their annual "Tag Day" fund ing clinics and has added the past Monday eventide were vir• the interior of Harkins Hall. and Ned Sullivan, '71. tually alive with handbills pasted drive. All day long members of purchasing of a block of tickets Not counting the dozen posters the Providence College Youth to a basketball game to its pro• Armed thus with the figures to walls, to windows, and to stacked more or less neatly on I rode the campus political anything else that didn't move. Guidance Organization (or. gram. Next year the club ex- the long table under the Con• gress social calendar or the remains of a poster a sloppy vandal left hanging in the rear stairwell, that's still an average of about four posters per candi• dates. Of course, statistics can be deceiving. Some candidates ex• hibited but a single poster And John J. Kenny, '69, a candidate for Student Congress representa• tive, placed 19 posters in Har• kins. Kenny, in fact, led a select group of ten candidates who felt compelled to exceed the limit of five posters allowed to each candidate in Harkins by the official election regulations. The other offenders, displaying six LITTLE BROTHERS" Richard Warner and Steve Paige simply, the Big Brothers) will pects to use part of the treasury Congress be planted on the campus re• in its scholarship program for FATHERS Mark Heath and William Folsey avoid decapitation by questing donations for next Children Center (or former Electees sagging posters in Harkins Rotunda. year's activities at the Children's children) students at Provi• In Meagher and McDermott dence College, Rhode Island bandwagon over to Guzman Hall Center. to apprise Brian Maher of the Halls alone, twenty-four posters School of Design, and technical Air Views were prominently displayed on Although basically function• schools in the area. fact. Mr. Maher, Chairman of ing one-to-one relationships with In the Student Congress elec• the Student Congress Ways and behalf of Frank Belloni '70, the little brothers, the big Again, the primary purpose tions held Thursday, March 28, Means Committee, assured me while twenty-two bore the name brothers require funds to sup• of the club is to provide indi• the four executive offices of that he and Congress President of Barry Flynn '69. Others whose port their many group activi• vidual attention to each boy at the Congress were swept by Edward Dunphy would remove violation total made double fig• ties. Since last year these ac• the center — not so much for members of the Junior Class. the illegal posters from Harkins ures were Pete Benzie, '70 and tivities have included a picnic guidance as for friendship, not Daniel J. Ryan, running unop• before the evening's end. Eric Roth, '70, each of whom in May at Lincoln Woods, a so much for the big brother's posed, was elected President of Picking up the valuable as• carded fourteen infractions. Communion breakfast in Novem• satisfaction in "doing his thing" the Congress. In the Vice-Presi• sistance of COWL News Editor Posters placed on dorm room ber, the "Friar Bowl" football as for the little brother's hap• dential contest, Jay Ryan re• Bill Buckley as fellow witness doors were not counted, since it game in December, a little piness. The results are mani• corded 634 votes to 449 for his to the fact, I moved on to the (Continued on Page 4) brothers' retreat in February at fested in some of the boys when opponent, sophomore William Dominic Savio's, the St. John's they refuse to run from the Connolly. Skip Cimino was basketball game in February, Center on one day because their elected Secretary of the Con• and a movie last week at the (Continued on Page 4) gress by a 655-433 margin over sophomore Daniel Graziano, Freidemann Ends DES Series while Edward Fogarty scored a 562-530 victory over Ralph Pag- lieri, '70 in the race for Treas• On 'Civilization in Crisis' North Vietnam Visitor Due urer. Last Thursday evening, March aforementioned areas. Said Dr. 21, Delta Epsilon Sigma pre• Friedemann, "The combination As Student Congress Vice- sented Dr. Zygmunt Friedemann of rises in education, affluence To Speak At PC April 25 President, Jay Ryan will serve in the concluding segment of its and leisure affected the Ameri• as the presiding judge of the three part series entitled "Amer• can culture. It opened our so• Journalist Harrison Salisbury and Siberia. student court. In this capacity, ica: A Civilization In Crisis." ciety up, made social mobility he hopes to enable the court will be the fourth and final He is the author of Behind Dr. Friedemann's speech, held possible, and, along with a sim- speaker in the Providence Col• the Lines — Hanoi, Orbit of to play a more active role in iliar trend throughout the world, student discipline. in Aquinas Lounge, was entitled lege Forum this year. China, and A New Russia? He "Conclusions: An American made possible cheerful predic• Mr. Salisbury, who is the As• has received numerous awards, Cimino, as Secretary of the Looks At Himself." In his tions for the 1960's." sistant Managing Editor of the Congress, plans to actively fol• speech, Dr. Friedemann con• low up all the points specified However, Dr. Friedemann New York Times, is most noted trasted the optimistic view noted the same trends that im• for his trip to North Vietnam in his platform. He will direct Americans of the last decade in late 1966. He had gone there his attention towards the pub• bued the optimists of the last lication of an annual Congres• held for the future with the decade with confidence also with the approval of the U. S. present state of our society, State Department and was the sional Record, which will con• moved such noted social critics tain an account of all the activ• and later drew some conclusions as David Reisman and Michael first American newsman to be from his observations. granted this permission. ities of the Congress. Cimino Harrington to warn of dangers also will work for more com• Dr. Friedemann began by that could lie ahead. They Shortly after his return from plete coverage of Congress meet• noting that in the 1950's many agreed that affluence would not North Vietnam, Salisbury trav• ings in The Cowl and promises lead to an abolition of want eled to Moscow where he had observers of American society greater advertising for meetings looked to the present decade as but rather to a so called 'frivol• formerly served as the Times' of the Student Congress. ous want." There would be no correspondent for five years. bringing fulfillment to many of Commenting on his election, the nation's ultimate goals. They rise in intellectualism; instead, While in Russia, he wrote a a contradictory trend toward series of articles assessing the Fogarty states that he "was ex• foresaw great advances in space, changes in the Russian political tremely pleased with the out• education and automation. They manipulation of man's intellect scene today. come, especially in view of the predicted a great improvement by the mass media would occur. close decision." He would like in the national standard of liv• In commenting on develop• Mr. Salisbury has also visited MR. HARRISON SALISBURY to see an on-campus drinking ing, which would result in more ments in the political system Communist China. He went including the Pulitzer Prize. proposal put into effect for stu• and better opportunities for the since the 1950's, Friedemann there in the summer of 1966 dents 21 years of age or over, individual American. These stated that "the result of mass and during this time he also Mr. Salisbury will speak at Providence College on April 25 the elimination of quarterly hopes were nourished by a gen• society here has created an went to Laos, Burma, the Hima• (Continued on Page 6) (Continued on Page 5) layan-Indian border, Mongolia at 8 p.m. in Alumni Hall. eral upward trend in all of the t THE COWL, APRIL 3, 1968 Interdisciplinary Course A move by members of the Student- literature. There seems to be infinite Faculty Board to establish a course possibilities to create an imaginative elective dealing with current social and constructive course. problems on an interdisciplinary basis is The student sponsors of the pro• presently under way. The course as it is posal have found initially, enthusiastic presently conceived would concentrate support from both students and faculty on one or possibly two topics a semester (As of Monday eleven faculty members with interested faculty members from have expressed willingness to partici• various departments rendering their pate in the program with another four• views in a series of lectures and class teen giving their support.) The whole discussions.