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Thursday, November 20,1980 Volume 62 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY,* NEW YORK Number 28 Stephens' Contract Two RH Not Renewed For '81 Students

by Richard Dooley and Chris Keating put myself in the picture [of coaching fully Assaulted The University did not renew second-year time at Fordham]. I don't feel at all that I've by Leslie Mantrone football coach Jack Stephans's contract for been mistreated. the 1981 season, the Athletic Department an- Two Fordham University female students "As of now I'd like to be in football," were attacked by a man with a knife Saturday nounced last Tuesday. Stephans said he Stephans said. "But I have to do what's best would not coach in any capacity at Ford ham evening on the corner of Webster Avenue and for my family. If I didn't have two children 193 Street. One woman was slightly injured in next year. to be concerned about, it would be different." the struggle. "I wasn't fired, but I wasn't rehired," said Concerning his relationship with Rice, Ste- The pair, who wished to remain anony- Stephans. "I didn't resign." phans said, "I didn't have that much contact mous, were assaulted after leaving the Lan- Stephans added, "Fordham's was the most with Dave Rice on a day-to-day basis. We tern Bar on 194 Street to go to the Eldorado enjoyable coaching job I've had. 1 have no didn't agree all the time." Cafe on Third Avenue. According to one of regrets whatsoever. I have no complaints. 1 Senior tricaptain Ted Vitale said "Ste- the women, "We left the Lantern and walked don't want to create a controversy here." phans backed Rice in everything he said. He down Decatur [Avenue] and then down 193 The Athletic Department's statement re- didn't knock the man once. He said to the to Webster.... We were on the side by the leased Tuesday stated that "due to a Univer- players, 'Don't knock Rice.' I heard him say Fotmer Coach Jack Stephans deli [The College Delicatessen] right where sity decision to change the status of the head that." the construction was. This guy ran up behind football position, Jack Stephans will not re- Vitale added, though, that "he [Stephans] ball because we love it," said one underclass- us.. .really fast and tackled us from behind. turn as coach of the Rams next year." Athlet- would come out at practice and complain. man on the team. "It's really upsetting. Then he picked me up off the pavement ic Director Dave Rice was unavailable for There was some conflict there," Vitale felt. We're doing something special for the school around the neck." comment Wednesday. Junior Bernie Flynn agreed with Vitale. but no one in the administration seems to Her friend, whom the attacker grabbed by When Stephans was initially hired two "Rice and Stephans obviously didn't get care." the arm, attempted to speak with him in years ago, the position of football coach was along," he said. In an interview before the With reference to Stephans's departure, Spanish. "I just thought that if I could get part-time. Now, according to the statement, announcement concerning Stephans was Vitale said, "I felt I lost my best friend after him to talk I could reason with him," she "Fordham has decided to make the head made, Rice said he did not feel that friction that game [the Rams' season finale against said. "He just said 'shut up, come with me, I football position a full-time, twelve-month existed between him and Stephans. "Coach Wagner College, after which it was rumored have a knife,'" the other student added. appointment with coaching and other Athlet- Stephans, as 1 know him, is a terrific man. I that Stephans had coached his final game]. The attacker, described by the woman as a ic Department-related assignments." have a terrific rapport with him." The total memory is going to be gone. You're short, round-faced hispanic man in his late "It's impossible for a part-time coach to Many of the players expressed disappoint- not going to see the same atmosphere and I'll twenties, dragged the women away from give any athlete the attention he deserves," ment at Stephans's departure and blamed the miss that more than anything, Webster Avenue toward the basement stair- Rice said Tuesday. Fordham administration for the team's 3-6 "When Rice resigned before the 1979 sea- way of an apartment building on 193 Street. Stephans said, "If the full-time job was record. son [he is the former football coach], he said "When he [the attacker] ran up I thought it offered, I wouldn't be able to take it. 1 never "We're just a bunch of kids playing Xoot- Continued on page 5 was someone I knew just goofing," said one of the women. ".. .it wasn't until he was dragging us back... once he started taking us down the steps [that the two realized he was not a friend]." 'Inside Job' In 555 Apartment Robbery "I couldn't see the steps," the woman who was being held by the neck said. "I said 'I can't walk this way.' He was pulling me back- we do, however, visitors will only be buzzed smile and the guard will let you right in. ward [down the steps]. I pulled my head out in after it has been okayed by the resident. There were plenty of people that were leaving [from under his arm], I kicked him irra very A suite in the dormitory at 555 East 191 We also want to implement the use of resi- the building even as I reported the robbery to sensitive place. I don't know what that did to Street was robbed last Thursday evening, A dent stickers on ID cards." Courtney said, the guard. I clearly remember two guys that substantial sum of money and jewelry was however, he doubts the intercom-visitor sys- him. Then I started to run toward Decatur." looked like anything but students. The securi- The other woman, who was left alone with stolen in what campus security and New York tem would have been of much use in this case ty guard should have checked IDs of those City Police officials have described as an "in- because he assumes it was an inside job. the attacker, said, "I was trying to think of that were leaving." everything I was told to do. I thought of side job." "The quickness with which the thief stole the Cooke's suitemates all feel uneasy about The victim, Fordham College senior Lor- goods and then disappeared has caused us to screaming, of tripping him. I just could not their safety since the robbery. "It is frighten- think of anything to do. raine Cook, said she was in her suite washing believe it was a resident of the building," he ing to know that someone could have come in at approximately 8 P.M. while two of her said. and done everything so quickly. It makes us "I was almost down the stairs with him," she continued, "and I knew I just didn't suitemates were in their bedroom with the Cook disagrees, saying, "I think it is some- all nervous. People don't really think about want to be down there with him by myself. I door closed. The suiteroom door, however, body from outside. All someone has to do to these things until it happens, but it is some- tried to grab the knife away from him. I real- was unlocked. Cook said she heard keys jan- get in here [555] is knock on the door and thing we have to be careful of." gling and knew that someone had entered the ly don't even remember what happened. All 1 apartment, but had no reason to suspect any- know is I got out of there." thing unusuat. Former Track Coach Takes Action: Meanwhile the first woman who had brok- Cook then "went into my room from the en away decided to go back to assist her bathroom and noticed that my jewelry box friend. "1 turned around to go back to her," and wallet were open and the picture on my ' the woman said. "Her hands were all cut dresser was overturned. All of my things had Fordham Hit With Lawsuit up." Together the women ran back to the been rummaged through." The thief took Lantern where police and an ambulance were $62 as well as two college rings, a high school summoned. ring, other rings and a watch. by Chris Keating ministrators for breach of contract and def- The woman whose hands were cut was tak- Cook said she woke her suitemates and in- Former Fordham University head track amation of character. en to North Central Bronx Hospital, where formed them of the robbery, then ran to the and cross country coach Thomas Byrne is The suit stems from Byrne's removal as she received several stitches on her hands. lobby to alert the guard on duty, Patrolman suing five current and former University ad- coach in May 1979 after nine years of service. Both women feel that robbery was not the Carlos Beltran. The 48th Police Precinct was "I was totally shocked, totally bewildered," motive of the attack. "The guy did not ask us also alerted. The other girls reported the theft said Byrne. "I was given no warning. I had for jewelry," said one woman. "He didn't to Resident Advisor Frank Canovatchel, who just been informed of my duties [for the next say anything about money," the other noted. searched the roof and basement, but found season] one month earlier." Byrne said his Police officer James Carley of the 52nd nothing. Campus security responded in contract had been renewed earlier that year. Police Precinct, one of the officers who re- about 20 minutes. The police arrived at about Athletic Director Dave Rice, who fired sponded to the call, said, "Two attractive 9:00 P.M. and took statements from all three Byrne, said, "The track program had basical- girls walking that dead section... that's not women. ly hit rock bottom. A coaching change had to the healthiest or the smartest thing to do. Walking the streets in that area.. .is not too According to Police Detective Daniel be made for the program to get back on its careful." Donahue, the investigation has been official- feet." ly closed because no eyewitnesses were pres- Byrne said he is still "totally astounded, "It probably sounds stupid," the injured ent to identify the thief. "All that we're able perplexed, annoyed, embarrassed, and cer- woman said of herself and her friend travel- to do right now is computize the jewelry iden- tainly professionaly hurt" by his firing. ing alone late at night, "but I've done it so tification and supply area pawnshops with Byrne is suing for breach of contract on many times and nothing's happened. I guess 'hat information," said Donahue. "It's a ter- the grounds that Rice orally rehired him for you have to expect this sooner or later if you rible loss for the poor girl, but some of the the next academic year on April 10, 1979 and live around here. I guess we weren't as care- jewelry had inscriptions that may help to find then fired him on May 22, 1979. University ful as we could have been." g Executive Vice-President Paul Reiss, how- Her friend recounted a conversation she Concealing the security protection in the | ever, said, "He [Byrne] had no contract at had with a detective while at the Precinct building, Director of Security Thomas Court- § any time with the University. We had no House looking through the mug shot files. n°y .sa'd, "The ideal security plan can't be | commitment to keep him on." "He said he thinks the guy would try it again Put into effect in 555 because we don't have a Byrne said, "He [Rice) had just informed ... possibly not in the exact same spot. "it intercom system completely set up. Once Athletic Director Dave Rice "I'd really caution people," she said.* 2 / THE RAM / THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1980

Thursday, November 20 muters — please drop off your cans at Faculty Cinevents presents this week's film, \ashvi//e, to Memorial Hall Room 427. continue the country theme, tonight at 8:00 Tuesday, November 25 P.M. in Keating 1st All students with IDs are Cultural Affairs presents The Philadelphia Story welcome at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. Bus leaves at Special Events sponsors a •Games Night " Come "WAG kut% off Comrrver 6:15 P.M. from the Campus Center, watch Fordham students pla\ Family Feud, American Age presents Howard Moreland speak The Roommate Came and others Admission "Botch Cassiiu} and. the £onda»¥e kt'4," ing on the secrets and dangers of the H-bomb is free and games begin at 9.00 P M in the at -°i* Keating I**, feft There will be a slide show demonstration. Ramskellar All students are welcome. >. Campus Center Ballroom,"12:30 P.M Friday, November 21 -12 come 4o-si-do i^cor partner w» Cultural Affairs puts tickets on sale for The Nut- Pre-Medical Students interested in nursing —Miss cracker Suite. TvVo performance dates: Decem- Maria J. Cranato, representative from Colum- cafetena to the square dance music ber 4 and 6. Tickets on sale 1:30 P.M in Cam- bia University School of Nursing, will discuss £'ta LoM'tt andtW pus Center Lobby. Columbia's BSN and MS program today at 200 P.M. in the Resource Room of Keating 302 Alpha Mu Gamma will hold its Annual Thanks- Complex For further information, contact the I**- SA-TURMT,NOVEMBER 22*5 giving Dinner-Dance, tonight at 7:00 P.M. at Rev. Daniel J O'Brien, Pre-Medical Advisor Alex & Henry's Roman Cardens. All invited to join in our celebration. Students interested in nursing are encouraged «MVtme*«> w to attend AMPBS (Association of Minority Pre-Health and The Undergraduate English Association presents dinner in tht cafeteria Biology Students) will hold a meeting to discuss medical school admissions and Sum- King Lear at 430 P M and 700 P M as part of f'/joJ -the the William Shakespeare Film Festival in ru mer Fellowship programs, today at 12:30 P M Keating Little Theatre All students with IDs ni Alice's Violin," in Dealy Hall, Room 206. All interested stu- are welcome dents are welcome. Weekend Activities Committee kicks off Country Asian Culture Association will hold its Annual Weekend with the movie Butch Cassidy and Thanksgiving Foods Sampling and Lecture the Sundance Kid. tonight at 8 00 P M in today at 12:30 P.m. in the Campus Center 229 Keating 1 st. All students with IDs are welcome All are welcome to attend, Weekend Activities Committee in the continuing CBA'82 Student Government will sponsor the spirit of Country Weekend v\ ill sponsor Square Thanksgiving Olympics. Scheduled events Dancing, tonight in the Cafeteria at 9.30 P.M. include the Football Throw, Foulshooting, All students are welcome "Hot Shot" Basketball, "Shap Shot" Hockey, Saturday, November 22 and Swimming Races. Contest will be judged Weekend Activities Committee continues Coun- by CBA'82 varsity athletes. All are welcome to try Weekend vt ith a Southern-stvle dinner in LIST EVENTS FREt LIST f VENTS I-REE enjoy the Olympics today from 12:30 P.M. to the Cafeteria from 5 to 7 P M and the country LIST EVENTS EREt LIST EVENTS EREE 2:30 P.M. in the Lombardi Memorial Center sounds oi Gary Bertz and Alvce's Violin, Note: If you are not a Lombardi member and followed b\ County Line in the Ramskellar at LIST EVENTS fREc LIST EVENTS EREE plan to participate, sign the sheet in the CC 9:00 P M All students are invited to come out LIST [V I-RFI- I K.T FfsiTS bRbbi Lobby for free admission. and have some country fun LIST £v FS S FREbi Gaelic Society will hold a meeting today at 12:30 LIST ACTIVITIES P.M. in the same old place. All interested Fordham Rugby Club VS Old Maroon Rugby Club LIST. [\ , S i-Rtr today at 2:30 P M All students interested in students are welcome. LIST n going are advised that the bus will leave from AND EVENTSI SbRtt The Dante Society will hold a meeting today at in front of the Campus Center at 1 30 for LIST b* |Q S FRbb, 12:30 P.M. in FMH 419. Members and non- Randal Is Island Come out and support the LIST [^ YOUR GROUP •IWS IS FRfct| members are welcome. (In fact, you don't team LIST n j SFRtt have to be Italian to join!) Sunday, November 23 v SPONSORING Marketing Society will hold a general meeting Fine Arts Committee presents Philippe Lefebvre. LIST E • S FREE! today at 12:30 P.M. in FMH 216. All members organist at Chartres Cathedral in a concert LIST b* It ,S FRtE- are asked to attend; yearbook pictures will be v AT NO CHARGE accompanied b\ the Bronx Arts Ensemble He LIST E IS FREE taken. 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by John Houseman there was no one-to-one contact between her Most of the students who took part in the and the students," added Laura McWilliams. speed reading course offered on the Rose Hill The instructor, Judy Winters, is a reading campus this semester are dissatisfied with the specialist and certified school teacher. She quality and results of the program. denied reports from many students that she Of the 33 students who paid nearly $300 to told them during the first class that she had enroll in the System 2000 course, only 16 were never taught or studied the System 2000 still attending the weekly classes when the method before. program ended on November 13. Several of those said they intended to seek full refunds A company official was cautious in de- of their payments because they failed to triple fending Winters' qualifications. She said their reading speed as the course promised. Winters had taught the course once before "It stinks! It's not worth the money," said and taught from the manual "only to make Patricia Sequeira. "If it worked, half the sure she didn't leave anything out." class would not have dropped out." Sequeira Other complaints included that there were and most of the other students charged that too many students in the class and that the the program was oversold when it was adver- teacher had trouble controlling the large tised in newspapers, leaflets and sales presen- group. Both Winters and Margolis expressed tations on campus in early September. They concern about the size of the class, but neither Registrar John P. Clohessy signed up with high expectations and came was able to do anything about it. away disappointed, she said. "We wanted to have two classes but there 'Name Wai Overlooked' "Their campus sales pitch creates unrealis- were no extra instructors available," Margo- tic aims," said Chris Sciales, one of those lis said. Winters, who said she personally seeking a complete refund. "Their represen- volunteered to teach a second class, pointed tative said that the skills would be usable in to Fordham as the reason the group was not time for midterms and she made it sound like split in half. "Fordham should be more co- Athlete Dismissed In '79 it would come like magic. But if you ever in- operative," she said. "We pay them $100 a by Chris Keating University registrar John Clohessy said, corporated these skills into your study habits, night for the nine nights we use the class- Although The Ram reported last week "It's such an easy thing for us to catch a per- you'd fail." room. If we broke the class in two, they that Fordham football center Frank Mauro son who is not registered. He slipped by be- "They tell you they will teach you new would charge us twice as much because we was declared ineligible for not being regis- cause he was unique to the team for being in methods of note-taking and studying, but would need two classrooms instead of one." tered for1 classes this semester, Athletic Di- General Studies." they are useless for regular coursework,*' said But class size was only one of the prob- rector Dave Rice now states that Mauro had Clohessy added that "it is possible" that Paul Koltovich. lems, according to the students. They also not been registered for classes for the past other student athletes might not be regis- The salespitch which attracted many of the questioned the teacher's qualifications, the year and one half. tered. "We're checking the football, soccer students and has since left them disillusioned practice of rating students' comprehension "He was academically dismissed from and men's swimming and water polo teams," and angry was delivered by Elizabeth Margo- using reading material most of them had read General Studies in July of 1979," said Rice. he said. lis, a college sales representative for System before in their regular courses, and the Sys- "His name doesn't appear anywhere." Rice Rice said that Mauro signed a National 2000. "I believe my presentation about the tem 2000 advertising~techniques which left then said, "His name was overlooked on the Collegiate Athletic Association student affi- program was fair and honest," said Margolis many of the students feeling that they had list of registered students somehow. It was a davit in 1979 and again in 1980, attesting that after hearing of the students' complaints. "If been cheated. "They could teach you their human error." he was eligible. "He swore up and down and students are impressed with my enthusiasm, method in one class; the rest is just expensive Mauro played nearly two full football sea- in writing," said Rice, "that he was a stu- it's because I believe in the course.'' practice," said Fordham sophomore Giovan- sons without being registered for classes. In dent." Margolis also contends that System 2000 ni DelliCarpini. 1979, he played the full season and was Rice called the NCAA and reported the vi- instructors are "exceptionally qualified" to Ed Sanossian was more adamant. "This is named to the ECAC New York-New Jersey olation. "The NCAA said they recorded teach speed reading, but the students dis- the third year they have offered this course Division III All-Star team. The 1980 Ford- things like this every day," said Rice. "Viola- agree. "For $300 you expect to be taught by on campus. If they come back next year, I'm ham football guide states that Mauro was an tions at other schools, like erasing transcripts someone who masters the System 2000 meth- going to go to those registration meetings and "All-East" candidate and was "majoring in, and giving under the table, are a lot heavier od, and this teacher certainly did not," said warn people not to expect much out of this sociology." than this." Sciales. "She taught from the manual and program," he said. RH In ROTC Film Mario Biaggi by Maria Calisi N.W. Ayers Advertising Co., which han- Last Friday the United States Recruit dles all the Army's movies, filmed Veronica Is Named Command used Fordham's Rose Hill Cam- Carter, a senior at Lincoln Center and an pus as the setting for a United States Army SMP officer, at Rose Hill's most "collegiate- recruiting film. looking" spots, such as Keating Hall, Ed- Man Of Year According to Captain John Negron, en- wards Parade, Freeman Hall, and Duane rollment officer for Fordham's ROTC, "The Library. by Edward Kessclman Army likes to use Fordham's campus because "I enjoy ROTC. If I didn't, I would have Congressman Mario Biaggi was named of its collegiate look, but that's secondary to dropped out long ago. I enjoyed it so much "Man of the Year" last Monday by the" Fed- Fordham's reputation. The University is that I'd like to go into active duty after I eration for Italian-American Unity in a cere- widely recognized, nationally as well as inter- graduate," said Carter, who feels that the mony in the Leon Lowenstein Building on nationally, for its quality education and qual- film is "a very positive portrayal of Ford- Fordham University's Lincoln Center cam- ity educators. ham." pus. The FIAU sponsored the affair and "The film shows the army's broad educa- According to Negron, "The film, which is awarded Biaggi with a plaque. tional program: ROTC, ROTC scholarships, expected to be released in April, will be Before 300 students, friends of Biaggi, and VAP (Veterans' Educational Assistance Pro- aimed at high school students. It will be< University administrators, Steve J. DeLorenz, gram), and so on. But the Fordham segment shown nationally and internationally—wher- founder and president of the Federation, be- of the film deals with the Simultaneous Mem- ever there are recruits. Other segments of the gan the event by reading Biaggi's achieve- bership Program (SMP). SMP officer trainees film were shot at West Point and at Prince- ments and then introducing the speakers. are enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves or in ton University." The film is good publicity They included Rev. James C. Finlay, S.J., the National Guard, and will be utilized as for the University because Fordham's name president of Fordham University; Rev. officer understudies," explained Negron. will be up front wherever the film is shown." George McMahon, S.J., vice-president for administration; George W. Shea, dean of the College at Lincoln Center; and members of the executive board of the FiAU. Finlay called the Congressman "a great friend of Fordham" and pointed to Biaggi's Hew Publications On Campus lifetime of public service and hard work in the area of higher education. by Robert Ponichtera early as the end of October if the 1350 copies and encouraged the publication of the book- FIAU Executive Vice-President Peter Le- The 1980 Maroon and What Fordham Stu- were not individually produced. let. Loughran conceded that it was "a one- pore informed the audience that Biaggi was

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! •• •>- i" ' -. . COLUMBIA PICTURES Presents A RAY STARK Production CHEVY CHASE GOLDIE HAWN CHARLES GRODTN * IN "NEIL SIMON'S SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES" A JAY SANDRICH FILM ROBERT GU1LLAUME Muse by MARVIN HAMLISCH &.eo/.-.e Producer ROGER M ROTHSTEIN Production Designed by GENE CALLAHAN PG| j D.-eaor of Proicyazr., DAVID M. WALSH w-tier by NEIL SIMON rfO tMTHIM.•» wr it IUITMUFWemait» .ced ey RAY STARK o-rectec by JAY SANDRiCH Conning This Christmas THE RAM / THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1980 / 5 EWSBRIEF Football Rams Lose Coach Fifxpatrick Continued from page 1 have done any better." by Bob Tulini that we'd be lucky if we win a game next sea- The Rams played three teams that were son," Vitale said. "That led people to believe Rev. Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, S.J., professor ranked in the top ten in the nation in Division he was against us, though no one knows for of sociology at Fordham University since III, including Albany State, Wagner and de- sure." 1948, celebrated his golden jubilee in the fending champion Ithaca College. Other Flynn added, "You won't'find a football Society of Jesus last Sunday at a 3 P.M. mass Ram opponents who fared well this season player who'll say it was Stephans's fault. He in the University Church. included Hofstra, which finished at 8-2, and received no scholarships and no cooperation. In his 32 years at Fordham, Fitzpatrick has the Met Conference champion Pace Univer- Rice just forgot about the recruiting after he played a major role in the University's sity. stopped coaching." development, as well as contributing to the Kelly said the traditional football banquet In response to these allegations of a lack of civic and religious life of New York City, the Rev. Fitzpatrick will not be held this year. "It's another slap cooperation, Rice insisted that "everything is United States, and the Roman Catholic in the face from the Athletic Department," commitment to human and scholarly devel- the same budgetwise, except for scholarships. Church in this country and in Latin America. he said. opment, Fitzpatrick is the founder of Ford- The recruiting, scouting and travel budget is Senior defensive end Don Johann said, Fitzpatrick was born in Bayonne, New ham's Sociology Department, and served as the same as it was before." "The crux of the matter lies with the people Jersey on February 22, 1913, He entered the its first chairman from 1959 until 1964. He With reference to those who felt he forgot who dictate the policy to Rice. Finlay doesn't Society of Jesus on August 14,1930 and has written over 50 scholarly articles and about the program, Rice said, "Obviously, really care. But every homecoming he wants received a bachelor's degree from Woodstock several books and is also a cofounder of the they couldn't think much about me if they to ringihe victory bell. It's kind of ironic. It's College in 1936. After earning a master's Institute of Intercultural Communication of say I forgot about football. The coaches are absurd.. from Fordham in 1941 and an S.T.L. from the Catholic University of Puerto Rico. He responsible for recruiting, not me. I don't re- "There's been a lot of good things ruined Woodstock in 1944, he got a doctorate in has lectured at universities throughout the cruit anybody." at Fordham," Johann added. A lot of it sociology from Harvard University in 1949. United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and doesn't make sense. And that's the way Highly respected and admired for his deep Brazil. "The Athletic Department wasn't hurting Father Finlay wants it." us any, but they really weren't helping us," Johann continued, "I'd like to see Ford- Vitale said. "All the sports were supposed to ham get its act together. Every time they get be one big entity, but football seemed so dis- something going athletically, they blow it. Manic Depression Wins Bowl tant from the Athletic Department this year." Dave Rice told me once that Fordham's ath- Kelly praised Stephans's determination. letic policy is to be mediocre in all sports, ex- by Margaret Grottola for Fordham." "He had so much spark in him," he said. cept for men's basketball, because of finan- Manic Depression, a team of four Ford- Manic Depression emerged as the winner "Any coach who could work under these cir- cial reasons. That's why football wasn't el- ham University juniors, captured the Cam- from 28 participating groups, four of which cumstances had to have spark or else he'd be evated and why baseball, track and women's pus Activities Board Special Events Commit- they competed against directly. Special in the grave." basketball have had troubles." tee College Bowl championship by a score of Events Committee Chairman Tony Turner Vitale also praised his coach. "I have so McGloin said, "They don't do anything 210-165 over Brain Matter yesterday in the saw this event as "a definite success since so much respect for the man," he said. "The more for the football players. People are Campus Center Ballroom. many students participated on short notice." players and coaches are number one in his afraid to talk. They think Rice will get back Winning team members Joe Barry (FC'82), Paula Gilcreast, assistant director of student mind. He'll try and do anything for us. He at them. It's gone too far." Steve Brennan (FC'82), Denis Conroy activities, called the College Bowl "a good cared about you as an individual first and a "I can't be proud to wear a Fordham (FC'82), and Gerry Rieger (CBA'82) an- opportunity for students to expand their player second. He tried to help us as best he sweatshirt after the way they tossed around swered questions ranging from logic to Greek learning experience outside the classroom." can and that's the most you can ask from a the football program over the past two mythology. According to Conroy, "Biology coach." years," said Kelly. gave us the most problems since we didn't Fordham will send the winning Manic "Stephans loved Fordham," said senior "I am in charge of excellence on and off anticipate a concentration of questions in this Depression team, along with a team of all- Roger McGloin. "He thought that we were the field," Rice said. "Excellence prevails in area." stars to be chosen at a later time, to the the most intelligent group of people that he this department." Conroy revealed that "a few beers at the regional competition. Gilcreast, who reinsti- ever coached," According to the Athletic Department's local bar prepared our team for success." tuted the college bowl idea to Fordham, When Rice was told that some players felt press release, the search for Stephans's suc- The Manic Depression team members, explained that the winning team at the that Stephans was their best coach since high cessor will begin shortly. however, may form a study group as they regionals will then move on to the national school, he responded, "But we lose. We're "If anyone should be a full-time coach it prepare to meet approximately 30 teams in finals in Florida. Turner said, "Seeing the used to winning. We like to win. That's our should be one of the present assistant coach- the regional competition on February 7 at team that won ami the all-star team we will business." es. Why should there be a complete throwout Temple University in Philadelphia. Barry choose later, Fordham will have a very good Senior Matthew Croke said, "With the of the whole staff? I think Rice owes it to the said he and his teammates "want to do well team to send to Philadelphia." schedule we had this year, no coach could staff to ask them to apply for the job."

he turned me into an Ail-American." DeRi- Scholarship Cancelled enzo said Byrne "wasn't responsible at all for The poor records of the track teams in 1978 the demise of the track team. Byrne Sues University and 1979 led to Byrne's dismissal. Byrne claims the bad records were the result of the $1 to $2 Million Suit University decision to cancel all track schol- A biology and chemistry teacher at Fordham Continued from page 1 In his nine years at Fordham, including arships, which made Byrne encourage many Prep since 1966, Byrne filed suit papers in me of my duties one month earlier." He three years as assistant coach and six years as promising athletes to leave Fordham. Manhattan civil court in early July. Accord- claims Rice had told him in a letter to begin head coach, Byrne developed three Ail- From 1976 until April 1978, Byrne said, the ing to Reiss, the suit is in the range of one to recruiting immediately and to hire an assis- American relay teams, two individual Ail- track team had 11 full tuition, room and two million dollars. No trial date has been set tant coach. Americans, and 16 All-East or AU-IC4A board scholarships. Byrne said in April 1978 and Byrne would not release the amount of "Since my firing, I have spoken to Mr. \winners. the administration "suddenly and without damages he seeks. Rice on three separate occasions," said The team was ranked 26 in the nation in warning" cancelled all future scholarships The five defendants named in the suit are Byrne. "On every occasion, Mr. Rice denied November 1977. "If our basketball team was with no indication of when they might be Rice, Reiss, University President Rev. James that he fired me. He said the decision was ranked 26 in the country, we would have returned. "After I had done all my recruiting C. Finlay, S.J., Public Relations Director forced on him." week-long celebrations," said Byrne. they told me I could not give scholarships to Robert Brown, and former Sports Informa- the incoming freshmen," said Byrne. Byrne said he also received written and oral He said Fordham ranked in the top ten in tion Director Michael Roche. Byrne said the statements from higher administrators deny- the IC4A's three times in six years. Fordham Byrne had also recruited some outstanding University might also be named a defendant. ing they had forced his firing. According to had "never gotten in the top ten in cross international runners and they had been ad- University attorney Joseph Spain did not Byrne, Rice sent him a letter in December country before," he said. mitted to Fordham. The recruits were then think a comment on the case would be appro- 1979 and finally admitted he had fired Byrne. -In indoor track, Fordham's 1973 two-mile informed in April that Fordham was not priate. He did say, however, it is "superflu- "I fired him," Rice said last week. relay team won the National Collegiate Ath- awarding scholarships. ous for Byrne to sue the administrators in- Byrne is suing the University for defama- letic Association championship. The 1975 in- Byrne said he knew what the consequences volved as well as the University." Reiss add- tion of character because he claims the of- door two-mile relay team placed second in would be when he encouraged his runners to ed, "It is the University, primarily, who is be- ficial Fordham press release on his firing was the NCAA championship. The team also transfer. "I knew'that my program would ing sued. Since the University fired him, he suffer, but I felt conscience bound that these "false, malicious, and deliberate." Byrne "tied Princeton for the fastest time in the hasn't much of a choice." athletes needed the best athletic philosophy would not reveal the content of the press re- world" that year, Byrne said. Reiss went on to say, "The University po- and cooperation possible." lease, but said, "It has caused great profes- John Jurgens, a member of the 1973 cham- sition is well supported and we don't have sional embarrassment to me and personal pionship relay team, said, "He was a very Three members who transferred became any expectations other than if the suit is embarrassment to my wife and five chil- good coach. Under Byrne, we consistently standouts for other universities. Colin Mc- pushed, the University position will prevail." dren." Byrne said, "The defamation is that went to championships." Clive left Fordham for Cornell and last year Byrne said he debated for a long time be- they say track and field has declined under Another former member of that team, won the outdoor Ivy League championships fore filing the lawsuit. "I have a long, friend- in the one-mile and three-mile runs. Bill my leadership." Marcel Phillips, competed in the 800-meter ly connection with Fordham," he said. "I Thierfelder, now a senior at the University of The New York Times published a two- run for France in the 1976 Summer Olympics don't want to embarrass the University." Maryland, has highjumped 7'3". Byrne said Rice said Byrne had a "love-hate relation- paragraph article on July 15, 1979 concerning in Montreal. He said Byrne "was a very ded- icated and good coach. He did a lot for my Thierfelder is currently "the number one ship" with Fordham. Byrne's firing. Based on the press release, straddle highjumper in the United States." this article states that Fordham, whose career." He added, "No one has been able to After firing Byrne, Rice hired Steve Lurie, do better at Fordham than he did. It wasn't Jim DeRienzo, who transferred to George- who served as head coach for 14 months be- "track and field stature has suffered in recent town, placed fifth in the 800-meter run in years, has dismissed Tom Byrne." his fault the program declined." fore resigning suddenly three weeks ago amid In the 1975 Penn Relays, Fordham's four- this year's United States Olympic trials. An controversy. (The Ram, October 30, 1979) Byrne said he has not received any coach- Ail-American half-miler while at Fordham, ing offers since he was fired. The negative mile relay team broke the American collegiate "I want people to know my record," said outdoor record. According to Track and DeRienzo won the gold medal in the half- Byrne. "I don't want people, having read the Publicity in the New York Times article "is a mile run in the 1978 United States-Russia- devastating statement to one's coaching abil- Field News, Fordham's 1976 four-mile out- Steve Lurie story, to wonder or imagine how Canada triangular meet. bad the previous coach before Steve must ity." door relay team was rated ninth in the nation in the indoor distance medley. "Things happen behind closed doors at have been. I kept quiet for two years, but Fordham achieved this success while Byrne Fordham," said DeRienzo when reached by now I wanted to clear the air." A Successful Record was the head coach. "There was not an telephone near Washington, D.C. "They de- "Fordham's reputation has been hurt Byrne's record at Fordham was a successful NCAA medal winner in any sport at Ford- cided to drop the scholarships without telling enough over the past years in athletics," said °ne. In his first five years as head cross coun- ham from 1954 to 1973." Byrne said. "From us or asking our opinion. Compared to what Byrne, who has been associated with Ford- try coach, from 1973 to 1977, the team had 1973 to 1977, track was the only team that the program was under Byrne, it has totally ham for the last 24 years as a high school and an overall record of 37-12. "No five-year went to any NCAA national championships, gone down the drain. Everybody has trans- college student, coach, and teacher. "It is Period in the history of Fordham cross coun- made the finals, and scored." He added, ferred." very unfortunate that Fordham's name must lrV matches those," he said. "No coach "Since 1977, there has not been an NCAA fi- DeRienzo added, "Byrne was an excellent be injured once again in the name of ath- w near my record." nalist in any Fordham sport." coach. When I was just a mediocre runner, letics." 6 / THE RAM / THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1980

Any normally self-reflective person who reads often must at some time wonder whether spending large amounts of time reading is a worthwhile activity. Yet THE RAM we should beware the deep strain of anti-intellectualism R at Fordham before we are ready to come to conclu- Paul Mastroddi EdHor-in-Chief sions. Too often on my way to read a book 1 run into Herman Eberhardtl*0!*6!^ people of that sentiment. "Your life seems boring. You RickMarsico should have more fun," they say, conjuring up images Carolyn Farrar of all the fun that is going on at Fordham—just out- side the horizons of my experience. Our lives are haunt- ed by what they are not—yet at my better moments I don't give into such feelings. At such times 1 feel drawn away from all that. When demon fun is not around to haunt me 1 feel no overwhelming desire to go our and increase the number of my aquaintances. Such impulses are infantile. Let Problems In Athletics us work rather at keeping in touch with our old friends, lest we find ourselves cut off from the past; let us "Jam in charge of excellence on and off the field,'Excellence prevails in this Department." work rather at developing a perfection in our own lives — Fordham University Athletic Director Dave Rice that will merit friendship. The question worth addressing is what place should "Fordham's reputation has been hurt enough o ver the past few years in athletics. reading have in our lives? It is possible to imagine — Former Fordham University Track Coach Tom Byrne someone becoming so engrossed in the world of lit- erature that he constructs no more than a fantastic Whom are we supposed to believe? Over the past three weeks THE RAM has learned much about escape from life, in the infinite space of symbolism. the way Dave Rice runs the Athletic Department. We have seen him plan to file suit against the There is the character in J.K. Huysman's Against Na- University for a relative!) minor reason, hire a track coach whose previous employment record would ture, Due Jean des Esseintes, who becomes just that seem to make him unfit for the position, admit he was not aware that a football player had played infatuated with artifice, and just that disenchanted two seasons without being registered for classes, involve the University in a lawsuit over his handling with society that he shuts himself off from it and im- of the dismissal of another track coach, and fail to renew the contract of a football coach who could merses himself in the possibilities of imitation, not as hardly be blamed for this year's losing season. Based on this information, we would have to agree the essence of truth but as a method of avoiding truth. with Tom Byrne and sa> the Athletic Department is hard!* living up to the excellence Dave Rice Toward the end of the book des Esseintes begins tak- claims for it. ing his nourishment through enema only because he consider a party men Let's look more carefully at the facts. When Steve Lurk resigned as track coach on October 23 had become bored with the banality of ordinary food. honesty in one conversJ amid much controversy, we reported information ib&at Lark's past whkh made us wonder why Rice Such, of course, is the perversion of art. Art in its To drink with frier} proper place should not rob experience of its meaning, had hired Lurie in the first place. Lark's past rn-p*©?nM*t record «as hardly illustrious. He had activity as we can engj but point to the value of the moment, and show us the traditionally draws gi never held a coaching job for more tfena two yt*n~ Li Lt"4 be «as hired to his first University hard and soft of its textures. Although it is true that events on campus. It s coaching position by Seton Hall, aad them «*»t u< Mt.iikiru.ffl Cotfflefe. After two years at Manhattan books can take us away from what is most important— he left to become full-time track a.md mass CO**CPI ra«Ki it Americas University. There, while social lives and experience—it is also true that most of presiding over a program which fo-lded after esgi-t ra^attei. foe btctme th-e ssibject of great controversy. us have much to pare off before we begin cutting back According to an article in the H'aihingJ&r! Sisr pabfebed <,bortl> after the program folded, runners on the time spent reading. on the team said, "Lurie has been gaiir> of.. .profanity, akwfoess. frequent tardiness at practice, The time people at Fordham seem most unwilling to ridiculing his athletes publicly, ordering them to return early from Thanksgiving and Christinas part with is the time spent partying. At Fordham suc- vacations without providing adequate time for arrangement* to be made, talking behind their backs, cess of parties is too often measured in terms of size and telephoning a sick member at 11:30 P.M. and lecturing him for four hours." The most serious and the number of people who inebriate themselves. 1 charge against Lurie reported in the Washington Star, however, was he "threatened to take away the grants of runners on full or partial scholarships." Nine members of the track team went as far as to Free Plight- write a letter to the athletic director demanding Lurie be fired. The university student newspaper published three articles on the Lurie controversy and eventually called for his dismissal. And yet Rice hired Lurie, saying he was the most qualified of all the candidates for the job. Rice also said he was not aware of the article in the Washington Star. Information so blatantly available Can I here Be could have been uncovered by even a cursory investigation of Lurk's past. A responsibility of an athletic director is to be thorough in his hiring practices. Lurk's hiring indicates Rice was derelict in his duties. It came as no surprise when after a little more than a year amid much of the same type of controversy that followed him out of American University, Lurie resigned. Next comes the story of Frank Mauro. Rice was unaware that for two years one of the starting Alter f he Libri players on the football team was not registered for courses. The fact that this could happen indicates Rice does not keep a close watch over the academic well-being of his charges, or at least the members of the football team, and this worries us. It was a day like any other day. As usual I had plenty That's not Christma| It is highly unlikely that any Fordham athletes, and especially football players playing on a weak of work to keep me busy, but I took some time off at for a while. 1 mean I'rr or so I thought. I didn Division HI team, will continue to play their sport professionally. It becomes imperative, therefore, night to see Othello with a friend. Imagine my surprise when we left Keating Hall and found snow on the in other people and fij that their academic interests be looked out for by their coaches and the athletic director. An excellent ground. myself. athletic director would have made it a point to be well informed about the academic status of athletes. "It looks just like Christmas," said my friend, as he You see it all over. In this case, Dave Rice was not well informed. Although Sports Information Director Larry Baldwin hit me with a snowball. (To digress for a minute, I home and the stores \ has indicated the Athletic Department will take strict measures to insure that situations such as the would have fought back but my aim isn't as good and I one of the saleswomen! one involving Mauro will not recur, we ask why these measures were not taken earlier. couldn't get my snowball to stick, so I passively agreed "I've just about finl Then there is former track coach Tom Byrne's suit against the University for breach of contract with his observation. Believe me, it's easier.) she said. "Ihavetodol and defamation of character. We wonder why Rice would fire a man only one month after he made it But, you know, he was right. The calendar may have November 28 until Def clear to him that he would be coaching in the upcoming season. We also ask why the Athletic read November 17 but it felt like Christmas. The erable." Department's press release concerning Byrne's dismissal seemingly made no mention of Byrne's branches of the trees were covered with an icy lace; So that was her excellent record while he was at Fordham and overemphasized the negative aspect of his tenure as snowballs were flying between Martyr's and Queens' Christmas anymore, jtj coach. Courts (with R.A.'s frantically trying to write up any- nel. 1 really felt sorry only a spectator in the The Byrne situation is complicated, and the full extent of Rice's involvement is still to be determined. one they could recognize); the Christmas season had arrived. was so preoccupied \ For example, Rice's role in cutting the track team's scholarships is unclear. This unexplained cancel- While we bypassed the snowball fight and walked doing the same thing v lation of the scholarships is what sparked the demise of the track team and the downfall of Byrne. It around to the back of A-House, I started thinking 1 guess everyone ass is also possible, although it has been denied by administrators and Rice, that Rice was acting on about Christmas. "Oh no," I thought, "1 haven't things. A friend of IT instructions to fire Byrne. even started my Christmas shopping, I have two big vision commercial lo Most recently, Rice failed to renew the contract of head football coach Jack Stephans. The official term papers and exams are in a month." No city side- riding on a razor, 1 k statement of the Athletic Department says a full-time coach is desired, and Stephans would not fit walks dressed in holiday style, no one-horse open idea, I really do. But into this role. Although many football players said they liked Stephans, Rice said, "We're used to sleigh. They came later, but those nasty thoughts came earlier. Who says yen winning. We like to win. That's our business." This indicates to us some sort of dissatisfaction on the first. thing? part of Rice with the job Stephans has done. This, in fact, may be the cause of Rice's failure to renew People will probab Stephans' contract. Granted, the football team did have a 3-6 record this season, but did Rice really can hear it now. "Wl comes too soon as it is believe any coach could have led a team with Fordham's personnel to a winning season when facing a It shouldn't be a chor schedule of Division III powers? Rice himself admitted when he left the football team two years ago trating aspects of the s the football team would have great difficulty winning. like appreciation we i We have two questions about Rice's handling of the Stephans affairs. Should he be as concerned narrowminded judgml with winning as he seems to be? Fordham athletics should be dedicated primarily to developing all the doesn't. (I always anj potentials of its athletes, not just the potential to win. And was it fair for Rice to expect Stephans to fore anyone can disag lead the team to a winning season? Our guess is that if Vince Lombardi himself had led the Rams this What it all comes f year, he would not have led the team to a winning season and would have suffered the same fate as self. That's really Stephans. round. It just seems el In the midst of all of this, Rice's plan to sue the University for scratching the bumper of his car I've heard so many pi while towing it from an illegal parking place indicates a pettiness on Rice's part. This seemingly small ward to Christmas will Don't get me wronr incident could have been quietly handled by Rice through the administration. here is academies (real Finally, it must be recalled that the aura of controversy is not new to Rice. Past allegations covered much as you can ml by THE RAM about Rice include overspending his departmental budget by $30,000 in one year, importantnottolo.se] placing football players in the School of General Studies, and allowing athletic department personnel There's an over-uM to use department vehicles for private use. goes, "1 never let sch These are some considerations. While we are not ready to pass judgment on Rice, we do feel there tion." Maybe it's.«» are many problematic issues arising from the Athletic Department which indicate Rice's direction of More than hall ol I it as anything but excellent. The margin for improvement is large, and we suggest Rice begin to takes place outside I reduce that margin. We also ask University administrators to take a closer look at the record and in the technical side c practices of the Athletic Director when his contract comes up for renewal. essentially innocent a; of the end of the ' THE RAM / THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1980/7 ding & The Seduction Of Loneliness ; Michael Sweeney long as we titillate it with mindless company. Such fear concept of refinement. is devastating, and paradoxically is escaped only when Such is taking life too seriously, I am warned by the faced up to. same fellow who thinks my life is boring. But I take There are, perhaps, many much more valuable ac- life no more seriously than many people take the tivities than reading; charity may be said to be one of World Series and I put no more thought into the way I them, but what most men consider to be charity I spend my experience than most people put to the way consider a waste of time. And it is not generosity I lack they empty their pocketbooks. Such measures seem not ' but merely a capacity for wisdom that is accessible to too extravagant to me. most men. Not long ago 1 helped clean up 191 Street. Although it is possible to spend too much time read- With a platoon of shovels and rakes we swept the mud ing, for most of us it would be wise to error on the side back off the sidewalks—but perhaps we should have of extravagance. In a culture that values action first, let it lie, attending first the gutters of our own minds and then perhaps book learning, it does not seem likely and all the long-neglected corners there. that we will allow books to pull us away from life. I mean not to criticize any particular work of charity Yet it would be silliness to blame society for the for surely they serve a purpose, but I do ask what mo- seduction away from reading, or to blame anyone for tivates us to such charity? Is it the greatest good we the all-leveling conformity that runs not only through seek, the greatest implementation of our faculties? Or Fordham but through this whole country. De Tocque- rather is our charity in the name of human warmth, vil'e recognized the American tendency to conform in really a perfunctory whitewashing of much deeper the early 18th century and it has been with us ever problems? since. What the great social force amounts to—the It takes all my energies merely to do nonviolence to force that drives millions of Americans to wear the my grocery shelves. How can I but do a mediocre job same color jeans every morning—is not the result of cleaning the South Bronx? But the way we eat reveals scheming industrialists, governors and educators lull- the way we spend our lives. What we eat illumines not ing us into quietude, but merely our tendency to give so much our need for nutrition and enjoyment, but the in to the fear of loneliness. It takes great will and approach a level of alone that large amounts of time are being wasted, and impulse to fill our mouths with something—anything. strong imagination to overcome such pressure—great times are rare. it cannot be merely apathy that drives people with Most of the food we eat at social gatherings goes enough to take a walk alone or strong enough to lift ost as important an ritual regularity to the bars, elbows sticky with beer through an incalculably lengthy manufacturing process; the cover of a book. but the Ramskellar spilled on the counter, and the digital clock above the the end product of which is not more complicated than As for me, the great portion of my time is not spent ds than the cultural bartender knocking off the minutes—but it is rather an a mixture of wheat, salt, and sugar—fried to a monot- in books, but rather the opposite is true: most of my us by these priorities underlying fear of loneliness that remains dormant as onous crunch. To eat such food is to do violence to the life is twittered away in detail. Men deal in herds of cattle to put shoestrings on their feet, Henry David Thoreau once said. On what little time I do spend on books I place greater value than on all my busy-ness. The question is not so much whether reading books has value, for what makes us afraid to read books is too often what makes us afraid to really live life. The question is, rather, does life itself have value. I prefer to live that answer rather than argue it.

yourself. —LETTERS TO THE EDITOR— A lot of people seem to be under the impression that school and real life don't mix. You know whom I le mean—those who spend their semester in the library until absolutely everything has been done. So many of Lincoln Center Sculpture them may have the grades, but that's it. And think about it, all kidding aside, is it natural? To the Editor: symbolizes man's yearning for the Infinite, but still You'll see that there's something inside of people If what follows seems too enthusiastic or exaggerat- only insofar as this is grasped in its existential circulari- that prevents most of us from leading that kind of life. edly positive, please take into account that mine is the ty and its omni-dimensional critical tensioning. At the You see examples all the time. Last year, to name one, zeal of the newly converted. same time, the Ladder motif resonates at a different [olyn Farrar the first big snowfall of the year came on a Thursday, I had at first ridiculed the sculptures of David level and turns our thoughts to the "within," to the I was pretty upset shortly before exams. The library was packing stand- Stromeyer when they were placed on the Lincoln mysterious cavern of the mind which depth-psychology to be that pragmatic, ' ing-room-only crowds, but when it closed at 11:00 my Center Plaza. They then seemed to me like so much is only now beginning to understand. quality when I saw it friends and I braved the storm and made it to the Pub. rusty boiler plate. I agreed when a friend of mine And so it goes. Any one of the four works could licularly annoying in Although the Pub was pretty crowded it promised to quipped that they reminded him of remnants of the provide an inexhaustible topic for meditation—and be a quiet evening because, of course, we all had work Maginot Line. even prayer, in its psycho-dynamic-artistic nuance. ly I went shopping at to do. But all the wisecracks and the sophomoric laughing I am pleased that these works will be with us for . I started talking to Anyway, when it closed at 1 A.M., most of the are now far from me. I not only have begun to appre- quite a long time—under mid-Spring. But I fear that ny things together, crowd was still there. By the time we made it outside of ciate the subtle beauty and the great depth of the works the very gift of a long, intimate, loving relationship hristmas shopping," the Campus Center there was the biggest snowball (not too hard an achievement, after all, for even a with them will make the inevitable parting all the more i locked in here from fight I've ever seen going on outside. Naturally, we got moderately educated person), but I also see a profound difficult. How does one say good-bye to a beloved Believe me, it's mis- right into it. link between my own discipline of philosophy and the friend, a lovely Presence? It was such a release. A hundred people going abso- genius of the works themselves. In view of this, 1 urge the Student Governments of >on. It wasn't even lutely crazy, rolling around in the snow. It lasted for Philosophy, alone of all disciplines, deals with each Campus to circulate a referendum among all the I the end of the tun- about twenty minutes, only to be continued in front of essences and values. Other studies "talk around" an undergraduates which, if agreed to, would authorize ry that she would be Martyr's Court. For that period of time there was no object; but philosophy can penetrate its inner essence the University to charge an extra dollar per credit in : season because she tension, no worry, only Fordham people really enjoy- and lay bare its innermost value, aesthetic or ontologi- activity fees in the Spring registration, on a one-time rk. Yet here I was, ing themselves. cal. Let me employ philosophy, then, and sketch some basis. We could then try to get a matching grant from ork. Now I'm not saying that the Christmas spirit is per- of my thoughts about Stromeyer's masterpieces. some corporation. All the monies collected would I All four of the sculptures are an artistic celebration ensure that the four works become a permanent part istmas with different sonified in a snowball fight; that's only an example. When I see the tele- What I am saying is that it was a healthy expression of of the ironnessafiron. Defiant, stubborn, rooted in of Fordham's lanscape (with time divided between the hat has Santa Claus "I'm sorry, I've had it." No matter how full of good heavy inertial qualities, iron is simultaneously restless two major campuses). ristmas." 1 like that intentions these people were, something in them need- and fluid in its microscopic "inner life." Iron pro- I am excited by the thought that, even as Athens was we should start ed a break. You know the feeling; you' just want to claims what a Heidegger would call (admittedly by a the center of classical culture, as Florence was of the loo much of a good say, "Check please," and move on. There are other pun but, still, with a world of meaning) the irony of Renaissance, so New York City—and, specifically, ways to ventthat frustration, though, and the holiday Being: the bitter-sweet relationship between the "in- Fordham—may well become the dynamic center of the to me about this. I season is the perfect time for such a release. being" and the "out-being" of things-for-conscious- best of the 20th Century. Although the word may ness. A somewhat similar concept, I concede, has been "shing it? Christmas New York City can really be a catharsis during the sound strange to our ears, I dare to predict of Fordham elaborated by certain modern Chinese thinkers in their Id of attitude is that? holidays. From the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade an imperial grandeur—rising above the mediocrity and distinction between the zwin-ta-tse and the zwan-at-sse •« out only the frus- to the green and red lights decorating the Empire State insipidity of so much that passes for profound thought principles. |he essence, the child- Building, Manhattan undergoes an almost mystical or heroic action or beautiful art. (• Does that kind of transformation. Since our Bronx location puts us so Each individual work on the Plaza, moreover, Dr. William A. Mapa Iny situation? No, it close, there's no reason to miss it. Think about it— articulates an aesthetic essence on several levels. My College at Lincoln Center \n questions fast be- there's the Rockefeller Center tree, the wonderful favorite of the four is what I have termed "Jacob's Associate Professor of Philosophy Ladder." Here the artist with a kind of holy audacity window decorations in the department stores, and a 1 time for your- general feeling of contentment. Just walking down la,1 applies all year Fifth Avenue will put "Rudiments of Calculus" on a Phcablc now because different plane of existence. Take advantage of these THE RAM welcomes letters to the editor ™w can I look for- Three Cheers things and remember that a feeling of inner peace ning?" shouldn't be restricted to thirty days at the end of the on its news and features, columns, and editorials. Letters should be typed, signed, To the Editor: 'e main reason we're year. Cheers for Dr. Michael Collins (Viewpoint: A s important to put as So that's my soapbox for the week. Take it as you and not exceed 300 words. The editors Fordham Story, The Ram, Nov. 13) for telling it the will. And even if you do wind up studying on the last way it is. ta books. reserve the right to edit letters to fit pro- day or exams or picking out presents on December 24, An education is something you seek for yourself. Samuel Clemens that make sure you get a little of the spirit in before then, duction requirements, and to refuse pub- ? True, there are people with doctorates who are driving °' with my educa- okay? lication of letters deemed to be libelous : cabs and college graduates who are unemployed, but it's so true. In Quite Early One Morning, Dylan Thomas writes or in poor taste. Address: THE RAM, no matter how rough the going in life gets, an educa- g<: experience" of a child's Christmas in Wales. He says, "One Christ- tion is something no one can take away from you. ';lobc so caught up Box B, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, mas was so much like another.. .that 1 can never re- Diane Lore a' cv<-'n something so 10458. member whether it snowed for six days and six nights FC'77 Monies just a mark when 1 was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days tu l Education Editor, Staten Island Advance ' «e sight of and twelve nights when I was six." 8 / THE RAM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1980 Newman's Slide Show Musical With Comedy Dance Dance by Pat Catterson, sponsored b\ i| . b> Maureen Dillon lc Fine Arts Committee on November 14, ^ [ "Where are a:: of the significant parts for t highly original and perceptive express;, women?" asked Ph-Hi; Newman :r< The ot Madwoman of Cental Pan: Wen at Lehman contemporary life. A slide show and a tilm accompanied the routines, choreographed h> College's Center ior the Performing An- on Catterson, all of which centered on modern November 14. He: answer is the play itself, womanhood. which she wrote with director Arthur Lau- rents in 19"S to •'create he: OAT. opponuni- Though harshly realistic in themes. ihe ties." works are somewhat abstract. For example, Amy Spencer portrays Betty Jean, a dissatis- It is a nearly autobiographical musical fied housewife who, dancing on an ironing comedy, in which New mar. relates the trial? and tribulations oi juggling the role's of wife. board in her bathing suit, fantasizes that she mother and actress. Along the way she makes has won the 1981 Miss American Beamy a scries of lists of what she has to do bin ne^ - Pageant. In another, Renee Wadleigh is er follows them, and tries to justify to herself Wanda, a waitress who solemnly drags upon her desire to succeed in all three areas. her cigarette before furiously tap dancing for Inevitably, the character suffers frorr. a her customers. modem-day supers* err. an complex. He: The slide show, Esther Jane, seems a result daughter, insisting that she :s underprtviiegect of the 1960's acid trips. Dressed elaborately and unloved (stop calling rr.e •"Mommy dear- in a multicolored dress and with painted im- est") is represented by a badgering knock on ages on her body, Catterson dances upon a the bedroom door. Newman handles these windowsill, apparently imagining herself as a scenes quite well, considering (since it is a bird. The audience was held in suspense while one-woman show > that at some points she :s her inevitable suicide approaches, with slides speaking to thin air. that are cleverly arranged to form their own The most humorous parts, however, are dance patterns. her song parodies. When auditioning for a The film Routines makes a rather strong part in ap!a> she comments that the l>r:cs sti- statement against marriage. A woman, re- fle her. and then belts out "A Woman Is a turning to a typical kitchen, acts rather un- Sometime Thing." Later, when suffering typically when she loads her groceries into ihe from a loss oi self, she sings "Amnesia." sink, covers them with soap powder, and wherein she m:m:;>.s fellow female artists. goes to"eat Cool Whip beneath the kitchen ta- "Clang.c'ang. clang, went the trolley Ring, ble. And, during these bizarre activities, the ring, ring went the be:' 1 think I'm Judy voice of a nagging mother-in-law is audible Garland And Liza Minneln as well:" in the background. In Newman's own words. "It's primarily A major part of the production was sound entertainment, but there is an Independent as well as sight. There was foot stamping, certainty behind the subject matter." The clapping, poetry recitation, silence, and even show is a success in that it's an enjoyable the traditional musical accompaniment rang- night of fun. and doubly because it repre- ing from Brahms to Janis Joplin. sents Newman's personal success at doing An overall casual air marked the presenta- what her mother predicted back in he: for- tion, which was highlighted when Catterson tune-teller days: "You'll sing ana dance and paused after a tap dance routine and said, make the people happy." "Just let me catch my breath," which added The Royal Winnipeg Ballet will be appear- to the enjoyment of the evening. Although ing November 20-22 at Lehman College. For her routines may seem sloppier than ballet those interested, a buffet dinner is offered and less dramatic than Martha Graham, they for weekend performances for S-6.95 with a make for an amusing and enlightening show. great selection of food, so why not make a It is too bad that-only ten other students be- night of it? Phyllis Newman in 'Madwoman' sides me were there to enjoy it. 'Quick Change' And 'Frimbo' fall Short

b> Steve Romagnoli informally sit at the stage's edge recalling his Dressed tike a middle-aged punk, complete father's vaude\i!lian fame as a "quick with sparkled shin and a matching bright change" artist and tell of his own subsequent blue pinstripe suit, Michael McGiveney will incorporation of that an. Quick Change, now showing at the Bijou Theatre, stars Michael McGiveney in a solo performance that attempts to keep alive this unique family tradition. Claiming to be the only living "protean." or quick-change ar- tist, in the world, McGiveney's iilusionary talents of changing from one character to an- other by lightning-fast costume changes off- stage (3-6 seconds) make his claimed original- ity easily justifiable. In different short skits of varying set de- signs. McGiveney dashes offstage via trap- Deborah May and Richard B. Shull in 'Frimbo' doors, windows, closets, su. and returns as a different character in new costume. than red." He insulted the audience with world's greatest railroad buff is to whom the One skit adopted from Dickens's Oliver nonstop barrages of grating humor. When title is indebted. Twist, in which McGiveney portrays Bill the Indian proclaimed, "Life ain't easy for a A one-track plot (sorry) that entails Frim- Sykes, Fagin. Dodger and Nancy, is his best Sioux named Boy," ihe audience clearly had bo's travels around the world exclusively via performance. In an instant he transforms enough and was not subtle in subsequent re- railroad is a circular adventure that begins from the bald, ragtag, bearded, old Fag:.r. to and ends in Grand Central. a long-haired Nancy decked out in a f! owing To a solo performer like McGiveney, the An 11-piece jazz band on stage plays dress. The transitions, both smooth and ex- en-err, that come-s from a good audience is through the 17 numbers relating Frimbo's traordinarily fast have him exit from one almcs: like another actor and thus vital to the bouts with love, women, and trains, all inter- door and enter from another as a new char- performance. Today the sophistication of the mingled in an array of utter ridiculousness. acter. audience is much more than that of vaude- While some good performances can be McGiveney the protean, however, is only ville's heyday. Maybe Quick Change would found in the conductor, Larry Riley, and a just that, and in no way can his acting be have worked then, but for today McGiveney female trio of Pattie D'arcy, Leona Johnson deemed successful, as the novelty of the illu- had better hire a new scriptwriter, or just let and Cass Morgan, all other attempts (espe- sion wore down, so did the overall perfor- Quick Change rest in peace. cially by Richard Shull as Frimbo) are overtly mance. Possibly, the blame can be in part a horrid. The Contessa, Deborah May, a typi- resultant of a truly horrendous script. cal Marlena Dietrich type, like Frimbo, em- In a scene entitled "Shoot-Out at Belle's Another novel production, and I wince, can bodies a sort of obnoxiousness that mans the Saloon," Black Bart declares, "I'm gonna be found playing at our very own Grand Cen- show. fill him with so much lead he's gonna drop tral Terminal. With permission of the Metro- Although artistically derailed, the play IS Michael McGiveney in 'Quick Change' faster than Chrysler stock" and later in a re- politan Transit Authority, Frimbo, a train- an imaginative vehicle that could have IW feiral to an American Indian, "Better dead iaspired musical starring Richard Shall as the good. Too bad Frimbo was not. THE RAM / THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1980 / 9

by Mitchell Kaufman Despite its complexity and varied perform- questions became even more disturbing in the aftermath of a couple of concerts, one on difficulties, Richard Strauss's Die Frau m each coast, which apparently sounded dis- oitne Schatlen has enjoyed considerable artis- tressingly similar to that unfortunate Liebe- tic success in its American performances of Nilsson Opera stod. Only in her stunning Met Elektras of recent years. An imaginative, mystical Met last winter did Miss Nilsson effectively regain production bowed during the opening week her form, though even here a ten-minute of the new house in 1966, and it remains im- warmup period was necessary, and some pressive. Met performances of Frau have also slight lapses in her formerly rock-solid into- served to showcase the talents of Leonie Unusual & Fascinating nation were evident as well. Miss Nilsson's Rysanek, Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry, and San Francisco performance of the Dyer's Karl Boehm. What has always been missing The Dyer's Wife is a decidedly down-to-earth Wife would seem to fall vocally somewhere in from the Met's performances of this opera, (as well as in some of the big Verdi vehicles), girl as compared with the line-up of goddess- parts which Flagstad never even attempted. between the Elektras and the concerts. It is, however, is a truly first-class portrayal of the es, princesses, and warrior-maidens that are In certain respects—gleaming high register, as we had been told, a towering conception. I ail-important part of the Dyer's Wife. The Miss Nilsson's usual stock-in-trade. I do not raw power, and dramatic intelligence—it may have always loved Miss Nilsson's way with role, although shorter and perhaps ultimately find the sound of a valkyrie especially appro- well be that Miss Nilsson has been unsur- Strauss, perhaps even more than her Wagner, less strenuous than those of Salome or Elek- priate coming from the throat of a "Dyer's passed in this century. Therefore, when she and her mastery was evident throughout. In tra, presents just as many vocal challenges Wife," and Miss Nilsson has never been one sings, expectations are naturally higher than her spoken passage, in her feel for the lilting for a high-powered dramatic soprano. So it to alter her vocal color very effectively to suit for any ordinary singer. Miss Nilsson is 62 Straussian rhythms, in her henpecking of was not surprising when Birgit Nilsson, the different characters (as evidenced by her years old. When she understandably finds it poor Barak (as in her imploring cries of pre-eminent dramatic soprano of our era, tri- Salome, which, no matter how hard she tries, ever more difficult to meet those expecta- "Barak, Barak," upon his being served a umphed in this role all over Europe following sounds almost exactly like her Isolde and tions, I believe her still to be superior to any mickey), Miss Nilsson made the role her own. her departure from the United States some Bruennhilde). But since this type of voice can competitors in the roles she sings. That this is Yes, there were many passages, particularly five years ago. A taped broadcast of the San at least do full vocal justice to the music of so, despite a clear vocal decline on the part of high-lying ones—of the type Miss Nilson Francisco Opera on WNYC-FM, Wednes- the Dyer's Wife, I can hardly object. The Miss Nilsson, does not speak well for the used to negotiate with almost defiant ease- day, November 12, featuring Miss Nilsson's state of this particular voice, however, is not present state of singing. that emerged very wide of pitch. But there first assumption of the role in this country, were just as many—the phrase "O Welt in beyond criticism. Serious questions about this golden throat der Welt! O Traum im Wachen!" in Act I, was therefore of unusual interest. I have no reservations about calling Miss began to be raised last year in a telecast of a for example—that blazed forth in trium- Although the role of the Dyer's Wife is vo- Nilsson the greatest dramatic soprano in the gala from the Vienna Staatsoper which pre- phant glory. Even after her near-concluding cally tailor-made for a singer like Miss Nils- German repertory since Flagstad. Further- sented Miss Nilsson struggling her way lines in the second act, woefully off-pitch, son, it does represent a significant tempera- more, she has been unequalled in the role of through a sad, off-pitch Liebestod. After- the amazing Miss Nilsson redeemed herself mental departure for the Swedish soprano. Elektra, and mightily impressive as Salome wards, during her return to America, these with a cry of "Barak, so tote mien schnell!" that must have sent chills up the spines of many earthquake-conscious San Franciscans. This was a performance with severe technical imperfections, but it was nevertheless a per- formance conceived in, and for the most part executed with, greatness. As Pauline Viardot commented in 1850 after hearing the vocally damaged Pasta for the first time, "It is like the Cenacolo of da Vince in Milan—a wreck of a picture, but the picture is the greatest Idols picture in the world." Leonie Rysanek offered her familiar por- trayal of the Empress, a role she has been singing for something near 25 years, and she & Agents sounds as if she might be able to go on doing the part for another 25. Her voice is remark- ably well preserved, still gleaming with a youthful sheen. Her upper register is some- what shrill, but 1 have always found it so, and In Fifties it is nevertheless exciting. Furthermore, she is by Cathy Woods now more word-conscious and expressive What was it about Frank Sinatra, Buddy than in her otherwise admirable portrayal on Holly and Elvis Presley, just to name a few, Boehm's late-fifties Frau recording. Her that inspired the masses to such great devo- enunciation is still somewhat obscured by her tion? Was it a certain presence, talent, or characteristically veiled timbre, but it has "look" that separated them from the ordi- markedly improved as well. Miss Rysanek's nary entertainer and caused them to catapult voice was always the ideal instrument for to such great stardom? This phenomenon is Strauss's Empress, Chrysothemis, Ariadne, explored in The Idolmaker, a recent United and (more recently) Salome, and so it re- Artists release that examines the late 1950' s mains. Miss Rysanek, who confessed in the rock scene. broadcast's intermission interview that she The story revolves around Vinny Vaccari, loves to scream onstage, also provided some a young and gutsy Arthur Avenue Italian lovely shrieking at the appropriate moments. Her declamatory contributions ("Ich—will— who, at the age of 27, has reached a dead end nicht!") were equally hair-raising. I look for- as a songwriter and has been relegated to a ward with much interest to her forthcoming career as a waiter in Mario's, his brother's Elektra recording with Boehm. She is, as al- restaurant. Ray Sharkey brings incredible ways, a Strauss singer of great distinction. energy to his role as the songwriter who bor- rowed $10,000 from his powerbroker father Ray Sharkey sings with Paul Land in 'Idolmaker' Among the other performers, baritone to create a star out of a local saxophone play- Brenda Roberts become romantically in- more sophisticated musical style, as evidenced Gerd Feldhoff as Barak was the standout. er. Starting at a small radio station in Roches- volved in a relationship in which she learns to by a massive performance in Memphis. Mr. Feldhoff demonstrated that flowing ter, he creates the image of "Tommy Dee," play the submissive role to his domineering The conflict between Tommy Dee and legato and sweetness of tone are not incom- whose initial success, "Here Is My Love," character. Caesare adds interesting insight to the char- patible with the music of Strauss. This bari- has 14-year-old girls resorting to pen and ink Vaccari eventually picks up Caesare, a acter of an "idol." As Vinny spends more tone must be heard more often in New York to express their devotion. Vinny sells Tommy mystery performer who sold out his first con- and more time building Caesare's image, —I am sure he would be an equally fine Kur- Dee to the cover of Teen Scene and gets a na- cert before the audience heard a note. From Tommy Dee becomes more hostile toward wenal, Jokanaan, and Wolfram. I know of tional spot on Saturday Night Bandstand. the teenybopper fare that consumes the be- both of them: Eventually, in an emotion- no better baritone for this repertory today. Along the way, he and Teen Scene editor ginning of the film, we are introduced to a packed scene in which Vinny conceals his James King's once-pleasant lyrically flavored hidden ambitions with the statement "Every- heldentenor, heard here as the Emperor, has thing you do is me," Caesare succumbs to a turned a bit toneless, thick, and bee'fy. His rival offer and deserts Vinny much in the Act 1 "Bleib und wache" was mostly shout- same manner as did Tommy. ed, but he did not fail to take advantage of In the end, Vinny is left at the same home- the lyrical opportunities of his second act ap- stead piano where he began, with his mother . pearance. This was, in fact, quite powerful by his side. In this scene, he comes to the and moving. The less said about Ruth Hesse's realization that "I wasn't protecting people performance as the Nurse, the better. Suffice —1 was pushing them around." It is only it to say that Miss Hesse is a decidedly senior then that he is able to confront his fear and performer whose wide vibrato betrays her as frustration. At the very conclusion, he comes a veteran of perhaps a few too many cam- to grips with himself and faces his burning paigns. The smaller roles were all well sung, obsession when he reenters the club where he and the chorus stuck together acceptably well discovered Tommy Dee and returns as a per- through the more difficult moments. former. Berislav Klobucar, a native of Yugoslavia, The movie, which is loosely based on the made his debut as conductor. Mr. Klobucar life of Bob Marcucci, who catapulted Frankie led the augmented orchestra with a superb Avalon and Fabian to fame, is nothing more feeling for Straussian line and melody. (Sev- than a pop art attempt to explore the world eral minor cuts were made which did no dis- of media images. Ray Sharkey shines as Vin- ccrnable violence to the score.) In the score's ny, and Paul Land and Peter Gallagher are more violent moments, Mr. Klobucar whipped adequate as the two idols, but Tova Feldshuh up sufficient excitement while avoiding the wastes her acting talents in the role of Brenda timpani-pounding theatrics of Levine's Met Roberts. The soundtrack, created by Jeff Elektras. Although he perhaps lacked the ul- Barry, is a thinly disguised attempt to place timate in relaxed, plastic phrasing, Mr. Klo- 1980's music in a late 1950'ssetting. Although bucar's debut was a most auspicious one. He the ending could be a workable poignant mo- is a conductor of stature, and led a perfor- ment, it docs not fit in with the fast pace of mance which, though far from vocally per- the film. As a true rock period piece, The fect, conveyed in no uncertain terms the con- Idolmaker fails in its attempt to recreate a siderable merits of this unusual and fascinat- former era. Ray Sharkey as Vinnie Vacarriin 'Idolmaker' ing opera. A, THE ~*^-\£ LASSIFIED

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by Jonathan P. Wiles agressor, controlling the play and constantly In the ultimate defensive struggle, the in the lona end of the field. The Rams came Fordham Rugby Club battled lona to a 0-0 within a yard of scoring midway through the tie last Saturday at Van Cortlandt field. The half, biit an offside call against Fordham tie was Fordham's first in two years and the gave the ball back to lona and Fordham nev- club's record is now 4-6-1. "It could've gone er got close again. Senior Dave Palaia, who either way," said Richard Wolford. "We played a solid game for Fordham, was taken played them even." to the hospital after he collided with an lona lona took the play to Fordham early in the player. He received six stitches on the left side contest, but missed two penalty kicks for of his head and may be doubtful for Satur- three points, and after that the first 35 min- day's game against Old Maroon. 0 utes went by without either team's coming The Rams held off a late lona drive and r close to scoring. Most of the action occurred the final whistle made it official at 0-0. Soph- 5 in the middle of the field, with neither team omore Roy Anderson said, "We've played 1 able to mount any sort of offensive threat. better and we've seen them play. We know In the second half, Fordham was ihe we can beat them." "It was a good game for A Rugby Scrum Fordham," said team member Paul Greto. "We held our own against the team who made the finals in the East Coast College Rugby Tournament." Fordham's play has Rams End A Rough Season improved as the season progresses and is un- defeated in its last three matches. Cocaptain John "J.D." Doherty said, "Our season Continued from page 12 and the crowd of 1500 gave him a standing . for an average of 26.5 per game, the highest looked grim at the beginning, but it showed stingy Seahawk defense. ovation. amount since 1954, though there was no var- improvement as we went along. We still need Pacheco cited the defensive play of sopho- The Rams continued to drive, but on first sity football here between 1955 and 1963. more speed in the backs and size in the for- more Alan Knight, who "seemed everywhere and goal from the eight, Miller bulled his way wards." The other captain, Bill Stimpfle, on the field" according to the Ram halfback. toward the goal line, only to have the ball The 161 points the team scored marked the said, "Today, we were not running. Our for- "I wasn't near 100 percent," admitted jarred loose and recovered by a Seahawk in lowest output by a team since the 1975 sea- wards would go 30 yards, get stripped of the Pacheco. "From the first quarter on, both of the end zone. son, and their 3-6 won-loss record is the ball, and then their forwards would do the my legs had charley horses courtesy of Knight. "They were very physical," said Pacheco. poorest a Fordham grid team has compiled in same thing. We didn't have one continual He was small, but quick and a hard hitter. It "More physical than any other team we nine years. play in the whole game." Fordham's fresh- seemed like he was coming out of nowhere." played this year. They weren't as polished as man Richie Duprey and sophomore Pat Zacchea both made big plays in the second "The whole team was pulling for me," he Ithaca [a team that defeated the Rams earlier "I've got to give everybody out there a lot half. Duprey showed some aggressive tackling said. "But I didn't think about it until late in in the season 28-16] but they hit harder." of credit for what they did," said Vitale. and Zacchea spearheaded some offensive the game, near the end of the third quarter." A pair of other Fordham records were "It's a lot easier to hold your head up when threats, but Fordham could never capitalize. "1 had a smile on my face from ear to ear broken in the game by Pacheco. The star you're winning. We weren't bad; we just Fordham closes its fall season Saturday when they announced that he broke the rec- Ram halfback carried the ball 236 times this couldn't mesh everything together. We just when it hosts Old Maroon, a team consisting ord," said senior tricaptain Ted Vitale. "I'm season, breaking the eight-year-old mark of ran out of time." of Fordham alumni. Then it will prepare for proud of him and I'm proud of our offensive 222 set by Bill Wattiker. Pacheco averaged 26 Captains for the 1981 football Rams were the spring season. Looking ahead to the line because we're a part of it." carries per game on the year to break Watti- selected Friday by the team. Fullback Craig spring, Doherty said, "A couple of guys Pacheco's 16-yard gain in the final period ker's record of 22 set in the same year. Miller, who ran for 454 yards this year, will from the football team are expected to play brought the ball to the Wagner 33-yard line. be joined by defensive backs Bernie Flynn and we should even or improve our 6-2 rec- At that point, the game was temporarily halt- This season marked a difficult campaign and Brian Corcoran and they will serve as tri- ord of last spring." ed as Pacheco was presented with the ball for the Rams. The defense allowed 239 points captains.

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Continued from page 12 Queens College Loss Manus. Moran notched number 11 on a On November 10 Fordham lost to the defend- breakaway, unassisted. ing Metropolitan Hockey Conference cham- Ram goaltender Bill Andrews sparkled in pions Queens College Knights in Riverdale. A the net. "Billy played a super game," said hat trick by John Catuli and two goals by TEACHER team president Kopera. "He made some out- center Eric Mann powered Queens to the 7-4 standing saves." victory. To offset Fordham's manpower problems, Assistant Coach Steve Scheer formed a third The Rams opened up the scoring against line consisting of Bob Himmelberg, Tim Sin- Queens, the team that eliminated them in the SHORTAGE? gleton, and Kopera. This allowed the first MHC playoffs last year, as Revielle tipped in two lines to be rested and remain sharp. a Moran pass between the legs of Queens goalie Juan Melendez. Revenge was not to be Fordham Takes Second Place had, however, as the Knights answered back Career Possibilities: In the Playland Metropolitan" Tournament quickly with two goals. held two weeks ago with Manhattan, Stony At 9:25 in the first period, Grenito let loose • ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER Brook and lona, Fordham finished second. a bullet from the blue line beating Melendez • SECONDARY MATHEMATICS TEACHER In the preliminary round, Fordham defeat- and knotting things up at two apiece. With a ed Stony Brook 7-5 to gain final-round play little over a minute left, in the first, Ford- • SCIENCE TEACHER against lona. The Gaels routed Fordham 14- ham's Monahan was thumbed out on a • SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER ) and took first place. The Gaels scored four roughing call, resulting in a Queens power- goals in each of the first two periods and play goal 11 seconds into the second period. • BILINGUAL EDUCATION TEACHER drilled Kopera in the third, scoring six. "I Moran scored once in the second period • ANDOTHERS was just too tired," admitted Kopera. "I lost and again in the third, but goals by Knight my mental concentration." Rick Maier, Mann, and Catuli put the game rhe Rams were without the services of de- past Fordham's reach. tenseman Monahan and McManus, who Coach Jimmy Burns is recruiting from Come To A were ill. Sophomore Pete Revielle suffered a Boston area high schools in an attempt to concussion and McDonald got a swollen nose build a better program so the team can '"the course of the game. achieve varsity status within three years. "Careers in Education" "We have to play teams that are going to The next game will be this Wednesday, beat us 14-0 if we are going to go varsity in when the Rams face off against Upsala Col- Advisement Day division Ill,"said Kopera. lege in Riverdale. AND MEET THE FACULTY OF THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM NEED A TUTOR? GET THE BEST!! Thursday, December4th, 2-4 P.M. Room 1106 — Lincoln Center Campus Any Subject, Any Language, Any Level Refreshments Served Sponsored by the Graduate School of Education COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TUTORING AGENCY Call 280-4535 or 280-2394 Specialists in Test Ptep Avail. 12 / THE RAM / THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1980

linebacker Bill Moreno fell on it for the score. Matt Zakrzewski, who had replaced Colosimo at quarterback, kept the ball for a successful two-point conversion and the peri- Pacheco od ended with Wagner ahead 42-15. The final quarter opened on a sour note for the Rams. On second down from the Sea- hawk 34, Zakrzewski dropped back to pass, but was blindsided by a Wagner defender! Breaks The ball fluttered into the air and into the hands of Seahawk linebacker Herbie Mitchell. Wagner promptly scored after this turn- over, with reserve quarterback Paul Edwards hitting John Trankle with a 46-yard scoring Records pass. by Richard Dooley After senior linebacker Bernie Lombardi Senior halfback Juan Pacheco ran for 86 intercepted a pass at the Wagner 29-yard line yards and shattered the Fordham single sea- to thwart the visitor's drive, Fordham ac- son rushing record last Saturday, but his per- counted for its final score of the day led by formance was not enough to help the Rams, Zakrzewski, who completed five passes on as the Wagner Seahawks defeated them 56- the drive. The big play was a 19-yard comple- 23 at Jack Coffey Field. tion on which McGloin made a spectacular With about 9:30 remaining in the contest leaping catch at the Wagner 12. Three plays and the Rams trailing 56-15, Pacheco bolted later, Zakrzewski spotted senior tight end through the Wagner defense for a 16-yard Rich Kelly, who had missed several games gain. That run, Pacheco's longest of the day, this season because of a broken bone in his put him over the mark of 1057 yards Pierre hand, in the end zone for a six-yard touch- Davis set in 1977. down pass. Zakrzewski's run for the two- "It feels great," Pacheco said about break- point conversion was the final score of the ing the record. "I didn't have too great a day. game, but at least something good came out Wagner outplayed the Rams throughout of the season." Pacheco gained his 86 yards the game, compiling 506 yards of total of- on 27 carries. fense, while Fordham could manage only 275. With Saturday's performance, Pacheco The 56 points allowed by the Ram defense finishes the 1980 season with 1083 yards rush- Roger McGloin goes against Wagner was the most points surrendered in a game by ing and ends his brilliant Fordham football a Fordham team since the Rams were defeat- career having gained 2264 yards on the pitched the ball to junior fullback Craig Mil- Alonzo Patterson, who ran for 125 yards on ed by the University of Miami 75-7 in 1954. ground. ler. the day to up his season's total to 1,111, a Miller lofted a pass to senior end Roger Wagner single-season record. Other than the lopsided score, Fordham Early Deficit McGloin, who had beaten his man down the Fordham's second score came when Mc- fans must have been worrying about Pache- The Ram iell behind early and never right sideline. McGloin grabbed the pass and Gloin and sophomore Russ Middleton co, who needed only 60 hards to eclipse the caught up to the Seahawks, who increased ran for a 71-yard touchdown. Doug Savino's blocked Wagner punter Phil Morak's kick record entering the game. He had managed their chances of securing a Division III play- extra point brought the Rams to within 13-7. near the 10-yard line. only 31 on 14 first-half carries against a off bid in improving their record to 8-1 with McGloin caught four passes on the day for As the ball rolled into the end zone, senior Continued on page 11 the victory. Wagner entered the game ranked 100 yards to finish the season with a team- seventh nationally in Division III. leading 24 receptions and 414 yards. Fordham was plagued by four fumbles and But the Seahawks, who had been averaging one interception. The tough Wagner defense, over 24 points per game, rallied to score on which had surrendered only 68 points in its Hockey Rams Troubled their next two opportunities and the quarter previous eight games this season, forced the ended with the Rams on .the short end of a Rams to punt on five occasions. The Sea- 28-7 score. by Andrea Astor from defenseman Steve Fusco, sped down hawks punted only once the entire afternoon. Wagner continued the onslaught in the sec- The Wagner Seahawks nipped the Ford- the right side with the puck and poked it be- Before the first quarter was half over, ond period, scoring once on a 15-play, 80- ham Hockey Club 2-1 Tuesday night at the hind Lerning. ' Wagner had already amassed a 13-0 lead by yard drive during which over six minutes of Riverdale rink. Over the past two weeks the At 6:40 of the third, Wagner scored what effectively mixing rushing and passing plays the third period elapsed. The drive was Rams' record has been 1-3-1, bringing their proved to be the winning goal when Kopera while spotting gaps in the Ram defense. capped by a 10-yard touchdown pass from overall record to 5-3-1. momentarily lost track of the puck and Mark The Seahawks, who have only four seniors Lorusso Wright. At the start of the game against Wagner Levy put it quickly in the net. The Rams on their entire roster, were led by sophomore Trailing 35-7 at the half, things could only College this past Tuesday, most of the action grilled the Wagner goalie in the third period, Dom Lorusso. He completed nine of 12 pass- get better for the Rams. It did not turn out took place in Fordham ice as the Rams con- outshooting the Seahawks 19-11. Many of es for 166 yards and two touchdowns, includ- that way, though. Fordham did score twice, tinually had trouble clearing their zone. At their shots came in the final two minutes ing a 42-yard scoring strike to Buddy Wright, but the Seahawks scored for three more 7:26 in the first period, with Wagner's Tony when the Rams pulled their goaltender in fa- who caught five passes on the day, including touchdowns after the intermission, Pesilano in the penalty box for high sticking, vor of an extra skater, but still failed to tie two touchdown receptions. Wagner held the ball for over five minutes the Rams failed to capitalize on the power the score. Fordham's initial score came with the on its second possession of the half, driving play, which remains one of their major weak- Outstanding performances by Kopera and Rams trailing 13-0. On second and 12 from 87 yards for a touchdown. The drive ended nesses. McDonald, who helped kill penalties and was their own 29, quarterback Steve Colosimo on a one-yard run by sophomore halfback The first Wagner goal came with 1:23 left scrappy on the offensive line, highlighted the to play in the first period when Joe Glover game for Fordham. eluded Ram defenseman Sam Grenito, cut to 16—8— I Record Ends Season goalie Paul Kopera's right side and scored. Tie Southern Connecticut Although end-to-end action marked the Last Saturday, third-period scores by Mc- second period, play was not well organized Donald and Moran pulled the Rams to a 3-3 and there were many off-sides calls. The tie with Southern Connecticut. Rams once again had trouble clearing the Fordham was down by two goals only five Water Polo Bid Possible zone and Fordham penalties gave Wagner minutes into the game when Tom Monahan three futile power-play opportunities. scored an unassisted goal from the point, by Cathy Maher Bucknell 15, Fordham 6. Wagner took 16 shots on Kopera in the sec- sending a blistering shot over the goalie's The 1980 men's water polo team ended its Fordham's best effort came when the ond period, while Fordham fired 15 at right shoulder and making the score 2-1. season with a 16-8-1 record and still has a Aquarams played Brown University. In regu- Wagner goaltender Ed Lerning, who made Soon after, Southern Connecticut went up shot at a bid for the national championships. lar season, Fordham and Brown split two some excellent stops thwarting many Ram 3-1 with a tally by Mike Callan at 5:11. It This past weekend, the Aquarams hosted games and finished in a tie at the AAU In- scoring opportunities. looked dismal for the Rams until the third the Eastern Regional Water Polo Champion- door Water Polo Tournament. The deter- Fordham's first and only score of the game period, when McDonald collected a goal, as- ship and finished a strong third behind Buck- mined Aquarams squeaked by the Bruins was notched 54 seconds into the third period sisted by Kopera and right-wing Jim Me- nell University and. Loyola University. The with a 13-12 win in overtime. when center Ray McDonald took a pass Continued on page 11 Aquarams won their first game against Mis- Throughout the game, no team led by souri State by a score of 1Q-9. "Fordham was more than one goal. At 1:35 in overtime, looking more to the Bucknell game and a bid Fordham's Phil Cabasino intercepted the ball at the Nationals," explained captain Dan la- and scored the winning goal. Senior Eric nuzzi. "Our offensive attack was going the Weber led the Aquarams' scoring with seven wrong way, and this helped Missouri to have goals, senior Brian Finnety had three goals, a good inside game." With the score 6-5 at Cabasino had two goals and Mike McGarry the half, the Aquarams began to play at the had one goal. level to which they are accustomed. lanuzzi The future of the 1980 water polo team will felt that "we are a better team than the score be determined this Sunday by the selection showed." committee of the national tournament. The The Aquarams next faced the always tough nationals will be held November 28, 29 and Bisons of Bucknell University. The score was 30 at Long Beach, California. The committee never wider than two goals throughout the will consider the results of the Eastern Tour- first three quarters of play. Between 1:30 and nament, the season records and individual 3:45 of the fourth quarter, Bucknell took ad- statistics. Either two or three Eastern teams vantage of a lapse by Fordham and scored six will be selected. Bucknell and Loyola will quick goals. "I guess it was a lack of concen- probably be the first two to be chosen, with tration that caused us to play that way,"'said Fordham's only hope being if the committee lanuzzi. The final score of the game was invites three teams from the East. Steve Fuseo