O'neal's: a Cafe' for the LC Opera Buffs
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U.S. Postage PAID VOL 57 NO. 23 Bronx, N.Y. Permit No. 7608 Non-Profit Org. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22,1975 Finlay seeks Campus Council new period votes to disband by Kevin Hayes Executive Vice President Paul of leadership Members of the Rose Hill Reiss said that if the council is to by Joseph Palenchar Campus Council last night at- survive at all, its mandates must tended their first meeting of the be significantly modified. Reiss Fordham is entering an era of semester—and perhaps their last noted that non-academic matters presidential leadership which meeting for all time. are frequently of the most demands collegial cooperation, By a near unanimous vote (28- concern, and might make a not "pressure group" politics, 3) the Council accepted a better charge to the body than according to University resolution by United Student responsibility for academic President James Finlay. Government President Jim areas. The vice president also Speaking before ap- • Buckley calling for the body's noted the size of the body might proximately 400 faculty at dissolution through faculty and better be reduced, perhaps to Sunday's annual Faculty Con- the point of having only standing The Maroon student referenda. vocation, Finlay warned against PROFESSOR HENRY BOLZ: was awarded a Bene Merenti Passage of such referenda, to committees available to deal special interests unwilling to medal for 20 years service at Fordham at Sunday's Faculty be taken as soon as possible, with certain problems as they sacrifice some personal gains or Convocation. would dissolve the council arise. independence for the common placing undue reliance on Finlay said the University's constitution. No subsequent Buckley agreed the council good. government aid for financial financial situation is approval by the University's was cumbersome in its present He reiterated Executive Vice salvation. "The precarious "noteworthy." Board of Trustees would be form, and suggested the for- President Paul Reiss' call for the financial situation of the State of The Carnegie report stated required, according to the mation of five committees to deal maintenance and further im- New York threatens both the that universities in the United present bylaws. with various campus matters, provement of teaching ef- direct and indirect funding from States will face an era of slow or. Buckley cited the coundTs including alumni and community fectiveness" as Fordham's the state which has been For- zero growth and that their steady decay over the years of relations, financial aid, some highest priority. Finlay, dham's margin of survival for the principle task will be the its existence, where it went from academic matters, and physical however, urged the faculty not last six years," he said. "management of decline." Finlay discussing "matters of great problems. However, he did not to consider such a call as an Finlay also cited bureaucratic said that Fordham has increased importance to parking put his suggestions in the form of encroachment upon faculty overkill as a threat to University its support from private sources, problems," and concluded the a motion, adding he would prefer rights and privileges. He pointed leadership. He said an af- has begun long overdue main- body "has come as far as it can students and faculty to approach to New York City's current firmative action report, which tenance, and has maintained a go-" the administration with ideas for financial debacle as an example consumed thousands of ad- faculty whose salaries are rising Originally chartered during a "successor" to the council after of what happens "when the re- ministrative hours, was sub- faster here than at comparable the days of student unrest to it had been abolished. evaluation of performance is mitted to the federal govern- institutions. formulate Rose Hill academic Ron Schaffer, a representative resisted, change is fought" and ment on July 1. 1974, but has Fordham, he said, is the politics, the council has seen from the College of Business special interests predominate. never been acknowledged. "At "eavy" of many institutions in its most of its responsibilities Administration, concurred on Finlay also cited a statement this rate," he charged, "by 1980 sophisticated budget delegated to" the various college the multi-committee suggestion, from the President of the the number of regulations will management techniques. councils. Fordham College Dean but insisted they would need real I riversity of Cincinnati, who exceed the number of colleges In a one hour ceremony Robert Roth attributed the legislative authority to be said over 500 governance and universities in the United preceding his speech, Finlay Council's decline not to inherent significant. weaknesses, but to the organizations on the Cincinnati States." awarded the University's Bene development of these alter- The council's elections com- campus "are tearing apart the Contrasting Fordham with a Merenti medals to faculty who native, and superior bodies- Roth mittee will now set up the institution and making orderly pessimistic report by the Car- served Fordham for 24 or 40 guidelines and processes for the administration impossible." negie Commission for the said he "couldn't see much but years. parking" for the council to do. referenda. Finlav also warned against Advancement of Education, (Continued on page 7) O'Neal's: a cafe' for the LC opera buffs It is just past eleven thirty, the cabs, the fountain, and the Patrick O'Neal is a rather well- -d the last ovation for the subway, cross the street, and known actor on stage and 'metropolitan Opera's "The Siege spend the balance of the evening television, having appeared in no :' Corinth," with star Beverly at one of the area's famous night- small number of Doris Day j'.:!s. has been heard. spots, O'Neal's Baloon. movies, and the cafe has a ihe crowd spews out on the Practically in the shadow of reputation of being a popular i.-ge Lincoln Center plaza, some Fordham's intown campus, spot among other stars as well. 'cppir.g to sit at the outdoor O'Neal's is a glass'enclosed cafe Often, in fact, Beverly Sills "--"tain. Others run into waiting at the base of the Hotel Empire. stops in at her chosen "favorite its. and an endless number Legally prohibited from calling table," either before or after the ^appear into the earth, their itself a "saloon," O'Neal's was show. The manager proudly calls -«r;s in hand. founded eight years ago by the the opera star "our best •X;-Tr,e. however, will pass by O'Neal brothers, Pat and Mike. customer." Also, Joanne Woodward, the actress, Peter Martin, the American ballet star, newsman Jim Jensen, and Al Pacino twho doesn't come in as much as he used to) are regular O'Neal's customers. Michael Moriarty, whose performance as Edward II at the LC Shakespeare Festival, and subsequent appearance in the movie "Report to the Com- misioner" earned him acting O'NEAL'S MURAL: a eatoHol wall mural is painted at the acclaim, "was a nobody" when he worked at O'Neal's. entrance of the cafe, On the right is tit-owner Patrick O'Neal. Whether or not he was though its bar, glass enclosed actors, and the cafe's manager discovered by Lincoln Center sidewalk cafe, and other rooms reports many customers came in producers as he served them would hold a good crowd, just to watch the painter at coffee Is no? known, but most work. One of the bodies in the present employees at the cafe location, business is booming as mural, coincidental!/, b that of are balk*, dancers or opera opera and theater buffs stream co-owner Michael O'Neal. singers, working for extra in to enjoy spinach salad, the With dancing waiters, ap- money. Dressed in their colorful? house specialty, or a famous pearances of stars, moderate to re<\ tee-shim with an "O'Neal's" "baloon burger." high prices, and even a pot of written across the chest, they A Urge coiorfui wail uiuf&i fr~"h cat flcr-ver; at every table, supposedly oilen provide "free greets diners and drinkers as O'NeaTs is Lincoln Center's entertainment" to patrons by they step into O'Neal's. The avant-garde restaurant, where ATMOSPHERE: trwi ewt ftawer* adtora every t*W« at tkc dancing or singing at the tables. mural, painted during business people come to discover actors, r-p=isr O'Neal'* S«k~a sw LSscsSs O'Neal's does not s*em like a hours almost three years, depicts and actors come to be large place rrom i\\t <mtsids, many ballet dsc-c^? *n<i th»*ter discovered. It Sounds Incredible BUT EVELYN WOOD GRADUATES CAN READ JAWS IN 41 MINUTES At That Speed, The 309 Pages Come Across With More Impact Than The Movie. In Living Blood, You Might Say. You can do it, too. So far over 550,000 other people have And mark this well: they actually understand more, re- done it. People who have different jobs, different IQs, member more, and enjoy more than when they read slowly. different interests, different educations have completed the That's right! They understand more. They remember more. course. Our graduates are people from all walks of life. They enjoy more. You can do the same thing—the place to These people have all taken a course developed by Evelyn learn more about it is at a free speed reading lesson. Wood, a prominent educator. Practically all of them at least tripled their reading speed with equal or better com- This is the same course President Kennedy had his Joint prehension. Most have increased it even more. Chiefs of Staff take.