SUBSCRIBER'S ADDRESS Genesians COWL Debut THE PROVIDENCE I COLLEGE This Week VOL. XXX, No. 8 PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R. I., DECEMBER 7, 1967 SIXTEEN PAGES Elections Today Camera ClubMost Recent For Freshmen Michael Zimmer, Joseph Lom- Bedford, Mass. and Joseph Cause of Official Worry bardi, and Thomas Farber lead Tramontano, Providence. A photographic essay in the the list of candidates seeking foyer of Harkins Hall last week Candidates for treasurer are: was the subject of controversy to be officers of the Class of Peter Connolly, Needham, Mass.; 1971. between the Camera Club and Charles Borkoski, Water Mill, the offices of Mr. Arthur New• The freshman election is be• N.Y. and Joseph Carroll, Lynn, ton, Director of Student Affairs ing held today. Mass. and Reverend James Murphy, Itr. Zimmer and Mr. Farber, Hopefuls for social chairman O.P., Vice-president for Student fro n Livingston, N.J. and Carle are: Frank Doran, Allentown, Relations. PI; te, N.Y., respectively, are N.J.; Richard G. Clarke, Rocky tw< dorm students seeking the Hill, Conn, and David Janicki, The topic of the essay by off ce of president along with Guilford, Conn. Daniel Cassidy, a sophomore, Mr Lombardi, from East Provi• was the October peace rally in Raymond L. Sickinger of Washington, D. C. Among the de) ce. Cranston, R.I., is unopposed for scenes depicted in the display ' hose running for vice- presi• secretary. were a draft card burner, gas- de! t are: Edward Sullivan, Ar- Brian Maher, chairman of masked federal marshals hold• mc ik, N.Y.; Kevin P. Smith, Student Congress Ways and ing off crowds of demonstrators, Ne vport, R.I.; Leo Maza, New (Continued on Page 12) and demonstrators scaling Pen- tegon walls. The display was set up Mon• PC Drama Has New Look day evening, November 27. Per• mission for the exhibit, one of a series of photo-essays to be Under Bernard Masterson sponsored by the Camera Club, Camera Club display in Harkins Foyer. Dan Cassidy, author had been granted by Mr.Newton. By Frederick Day theater organization of the past, of Essay on right. —COWLFOTO by BOB HELM A minor flurry of excitement Relatively little opposition the Genesian Players are per• was caused due to the nature the display a letter, dated No• as a proper function of the arose last year when the haps justified in labeling their of the topic of the essay. Upon vember 28, which read: Camera Club should involve any Pyramid Players, Providence upcoming production of three the request of the Very Rev• "Permission for this display type of propaganda." College's drama club for a total one-act plays as "quality work." erend William P. Haas, O.P., has been granted on the grounds of thirty-six years, was declared Mr. Masterson has remarked Cassidy told the COWL that President of the College, Father that it represents a certain type he had "no intention at all to defunct. Since the club's last that, "the caliber of the writers Murphy began an investigation of photography. agree with the idea behind the production, "Arsenic and Old of these plays deserves the at• of the display. The nature and peace march." He said he went Lace," had taken place in 1963, tention of the students." Yet he "The granting of this permis• tactics of his investigation have sion is in no way to be inter• to Washington on his own initia• been sharply critiziced by those preted as aproving the validity tive and out of curiosity. He members of the Camera Club of opinions here expressed. In claimed no intention of doing who were involved. fact, the Administration regrets the photo-essay prior to his Father Murphy attached to that what was intended simply going to Washington. He "ex• pected to find (in Washington) a bunch of nuts; but they weren't all nuts, and this is one of the major points of my es• Disciplinary Board Reviewed; say." Numerous rumors arose from the controversy. The most wide• Student Participation Questioned spread was that the F. B. I. had come to the campus to investi• On November 9, a bill was matters of common concern, gate the display. Mr. Newton proposed before the Student Montague cited the following said that the F.B.I, did not come Administration Committee by statement of "Committee S" of to the campus to see the dis-- James Montague, president of the American Association of (Continued on Page 12) the Junior Class, asking the ad• University Professors: ministration for student rep• "Free inquiry and free ex• resentation on the College Dis• pression are essential attributes ciplinary Board. of the community of scholars. Fr. Sullivan Montague stated in his pro• As members of that community, posal that in recent years P.C. students should be encouraged New Provincial has affirmed that the basic pro• to develop the capacity for At an election held at the tection available to citizens critical judgment and to engage Dominican House of Studies in Scene from Albee's "The Zoo Story." "... people can't al- should be available to all stu• in a sustained and independent Washington, D.C., the Very Rev. ! ways have the things they want." Jerry (Ed Caron, '70, right) as dents charged with infractions search for truth." Father Kenneth C. Sullivan, i the lonely long-distance runner winning a slice of life from the of College regulations. This has O.P., was elected Provincial of t secure Peter (Will Rogers, '68, left). Feeling that the student will included most of the rights of benefit from a share in such the Province of the St. Joseph. due process, he said. He added: responsibilities, Montague, fur• This Dominican Province en• its disappearance created no purposely refrains from men• "To the extent that the Col• ther stated that, "to this end, compasses the entire eastern Ueit void at the college. tioning the outstanding creden• lege administration has insured we are supported by the Ameri• sector of the United States. tials of many of his actors, as Though Providence College these rights and thereby reaf- can Civil Liberties Union's Father Sullivan, a 57 year old well as his own experience as a his been known as a liberal arts fimed the essential dignity of statement on 'Due Process In native of East St. Louis, Illinois, prominent area director. cfUege since its founding in the student as a person we are Disciplinary Cases'". graduated from Providence Col• many areas of the arts Nine students from this col• 1519, most grateful. However, in an In reference to a review by lege in 1931, two years after today are missing — specifically lege, along with one actress effort to insure this dignity in such a board he said: "After entering the Dominican Order. from Rhode Island College, 3 allege dramatics. a fuller measure, we do petition ample note, such a hearing He made his first vows and did make up the casts for the plays. The Genesian Players have the College administration for should be held by a faculty- his theology at the Washington, In "A Slight Ache," written 1 bten formed this year by a student representation on the student committee, or if the D.C., House of Studies. On by the widely acclaimed Harold 1 small group of students dedi• College Disciplonary Board." student prefers, by a faculty June 10, 1936, Father was or• Pinter, Kenneth Frame, '71, por• cated to starting an active committee." dained to the priesthood in St. drama club on campus. "Identi• trays Edward, the pseudo-hus• The bill proposes that two Montague concluded his pro• Dominic's Church in Washing• fying the Players with the old band who confronts a strange students, a junior and a senior, matchseller, portrayed by Henry be selected by the executive posal by citing a statement of ton. He then served for nearly I^ramid Players," according to twenty years in two New Jersey Mr. Bernard Masterson, director Royal, '70. committee of the Student Con• the United States National Stu• parishes, Sacred Heart in Jersey of drama for the group, "would Frame hails from Hollywood, gress with the approval of the dent Association in its hand• City from 1936 to 1942 and St. unquestionably be a grave in• Florida, where he starred as Congress and that any student book, "Codification of Policy," Antoninus from 1942 to 1956. justice to this group in their Mortimer Brewster in "Arsenic appearing before the board be concerning such representa• given the alternative of review tion: In 1957 he was was appointed } attempt to recreate some form and Old Lace." A member of "Students should be permitted to St. Pius Church in Provi• of theatrical professionalism at the Thespian Players, he held by faculty members only. Stating that the aim of the to establish and participate in a dence, where he was pastor o» PC." membership in the National bill is "a College community in judicial system which will cre- until 1965. Then he was sent to ol Regarding themselves as com- Dramatic Society at McCarthy (Continued on Page 12) which students participate in (Continued on Page 12) (Continued on Page 4) oletely distinct from any other THE COWL. DECEMBER 7, 1967 'Caesar', Bach Festival Fr. Haas Speak Are Minor Successes To Education C The Educational Association to allow his strength to f Under the direction of Dr. liardi on violins, Shirley Adams of Providence College opened It is a constant contron By Rolfe Marchessano on the cello, William Dinneen "How many ages hence shall Louis Pichierri, the orchestra this year's activities with a talk with what you are yourself.