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THE COWL Lower Library PROVIDENCE I COLLEGE SUBSCRIBER'S ADDRESS Robert Rogers Craner Art Exhibit THE COWL Lower Library PROVIDENCE I COLLEGE VOL. XXXII, No. IS PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R. I. MARCH 4, 1970 Eight Pages Crawford New Editor, Buonaccorsi Is Exec. James Crawford, a junior which will offer students a History Education major, has greater public voice. The pri• been named editor-in-chief of mary objective of the Cowl will the Cowl for the 1970-71 aca• be to promote student interest demic year. at the College." A resident of Westbrook, Richard Buonaccorsi has been Conn., Crawford is the present chosen as the Executive Editor assistant sports editor of the and will be in charge of formu• Cowl. He joined the staff in his lating editorials along the sophomore year in a reporting guidelines established by the capacity after having served as five-man-editorial board. the sports editor of his Xavier High School newspaper. William Miller and Neil Mac- Crawford feels that his major Neil will be managing editors task as editor, in addition to in charge of the page opposite serving on the editorial board, the editorial page. This page will be in the administrative is used to express opinions Roy Clark (1) ponders a question, while Congress President, Ralph Paglieri, and protester functioning of the paper. other than that of the Cowl Steve Oleksyk, (r) look on. Concerning possible improve• editorial board. The rest of the ments of the paper Crawford staff will be named in the next states, "We hope to add some few weeks when Crawford as• new and inventive columns sumes control. Marra, Parillo Resign As Congress Disrupted By BILL MILLER claimed to be the beginning of on the parietal issue. The un• The planned order of business a "rump congress-in-exile," signed letter was passed off as of the Student Congress meet• senior Roy Peter Clark came out "bordering on the irrational." ing was delayed for more than strongly against the compromise The final subject of debate three hours Monday with a dis• introduced at what one student was a letter to be sent to Roger ruption of eight students who called a "secret meeting." The Pearson of the English depart• came out for the resignation of Rump congress then proceeded ment which demanded an the present Congress members. to stand in a three hour debate apology be made to the Con• against members of the Con• gress. The incident stemmed When the emotional fiasco gress. from an article in Tuesday's was over and the smoke cleared, Providence Journal in which Mr They also issued a formal Richard Marra, '72, and Stephen Pearson was quoted as saying statement of their intentions Parillo, '71 had resigned. The that the parietal demands were and policy which stated that the group which disrupted the meet• those of "a minority of the stu• student power struggle at Prov• ing claimed to be speaking for dent body." The letter will be idence College had been themselves in demanding that sent; the proposal having been "seriously undermined by the the Congress consider a new passed by a vote of 18 to 6. pernicious perfidy of the Stu• "swing to the left to balance There was debate about the let• dent Congress towards the stu• the position of the Congress to ter in which senior Geof dent in their recent compro• where it was before last Gneughs, speaking against the mise." They further stated that Wednesday's compromise." In proposal, questioned the logic Newly Appointed Cowl Editor, Jim Crawford. they could no longer tolerate speaking for the group, which of trying to answer every reac• "such cowardly capitulation." tion to the Congress' position Also participating in the disrup• on parietals, although he agreed tion and the debate were seniors that Mr. Pearson was "a buf• Eric Roth, Steve Oleksyk, Joe foon." Edmundson, Frank Belloni, and Virginia Woolf Seminar FeaturesMik e Trainor. The meeting ended Monday with the "de facto" situation It wasn't until eleven o'clock still in effect. It is up to the in• Opening Set that normal order was rein• dividual dorm governments to stated. President Ralph Paglieri implement the situation in their Libby, von Braun reassured the Congress that that respective dorms, however, this the disruption represented by will be done with the full back• This Friday Two eminent space scientists, age of ancient mineralogical, no means a majority of the stu• ing of the Student Congress. Dr. Willard F. Libby from archaeological, and prehistoric dents and that although the de• bate was long, the incident The Geneslan Players' sec• UCLA and Dr. Wernher von plant and animal remains. He should be put in its perspective. ond semester production of Braun of NASA will take part also made a notable contribu• tion to the technique of meas• "Who's Afraid of Virginia in the Fiftieth Anniversary The disruption and emotional• 300 Coeds uring faint radioactivity in all Woolf" will open this weekend Lecture Series' two-day science ism of the students seemed to be living matter and participated in the Friar's Cell, located in seminar on March 4 and 5 at the culmination of frustrations in the development of atomic the basement of Stphen Hall. Providence College. created over the pareital issue Participate in energy during World War II. Performances are scheduled Dr. Libby, a Nobel Prize in that the students are "tired Dr. von Braun, recently ap• of compromising to conces• for March 6, 7, and 8, all of winner and presently the Di• Demonstration pointed NASA's Deputy Asso• sions." They yielded for what which will be held at 8:30 p.m. rector of the Institute of Geo• By MDXE DONAHUE physical and Planetary Physics ciate Administrator for Plan• was hoped to be the last time Performances are also sched• In open defiance of Provi• ning, will conclude the science when they proceeded to pass a at UCLA will open the seminar dence College rules, approxi• uled for the following weekend seminar and the Fiftieth Anni- proposal extending the deadline at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, mately 300 young ladies en• on March 13 at 8:30 p.m., versity Lecture Series at 8:00 for Fr. Haas to respond on the March 4 at Harkins Auditorium, tered the dormitories Saturday March 14, 6 p.m., and March 15 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, at compromise, of last Wednesday with a lecture on "Space Chem• night to protest the parietal sit• at 8:30 p.m. Alumni Hall with a lecture on until this Friday at noon. istry." uation on the P.C. campus. "Education in the Spage Age," The drama, written by Ed• A professor of Chemistry at Also brought up at the meeting which will include a twelve Coming in buses from Salve ward Albee, will feature John UCLA, Dr. Libby was awarded was a letter which has been sent minute film and various color Regina, Albertus Magnus, and Archer '72 as George, James the Nobel Prize for Chemistry lo the homes of certain students slides of the Apollo moon mis• Cardinal Cushing and in car• Haag '73 as Nick Williams, and in 1960. He served on the and student leaders from a sions. loads from Regis, RIC, and Mt Bonnie Smith, a student at the Atomic Energy Commission group called "Students for a St. Joseph College, the girls Roger Williams School of Nurs• from 1954-59 and from 1960-62 Responsible for developing Decent Society." There was no entered en masse under Stu• ing, as Martha. The Rev. Leo and has taught at the Univer• and launching NASA's large discussion on the contents of dent Congress direction for R. Pelkington, O.P., will direct sity of Chicago and Columbia space vehicles, Dr. von Braun the letter, read by sophomore what promised to be an inter• the play. University as well as UCLA. came to the United States from Edward Kelly, which question• esting affair. ably alluded to the "command• Tickets for all performances While at Chicago, Dr. Libby Germany in 1945, under con• Floor parties, held in Chapín, ments of God" While it comical• are priced at $1.25 for students invented an "atomic clock" tract to the U.S. Army. He di- Stephen, Joseph, Guzman, Aqui- ly slashed at the student's stand and $2 for non-students. technique for determining the (Continued on Page 6) ( Continued on Page 6) 2 THE COWL MARCH 4, 1970 'Rump' Action is Deplorable Last Monday's Student Congress we feel that any student (no matter how meeting was disrupted by a group of radical) has the right to make his about 10 students who claimed that their opinions heard. But we cannot condone intention was to present a radical posi• the disruptive nature of their approach ; tion on many of the issues facing the and we call into question the wisdom college in its current crisis. Condemning of proposing the resignation of the cur• the recent compromise of the Student rent Congress. Congress, these students proposed a At this particular stage of the philosophy of encounter with the admin• crisis, there is a greater need for stu• istration, and made a formal proposal dent unity than ever before. We can ill that the present Student Congress re• afford disruption within our own ranks if we are to have any hope of attaining sign and make preparations for the real participation in the policy making election of a new Congress. processes of our College. The COWL The COWL can agree to some of the urges all students (day-hops, dormies, points made by these "radicals," es• radicals.
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