On R.O.T.C. Request the Executive Council of the Posal That Would Establish "The Army R.O.T.C
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Vol. LVII, No.4 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. Friday, September 21, 1973 ExCo Delays Decision On R.O.T.C. Request The Executive Council of the posal that would establish "the Army R.O.T.C. Director Col. School of Foreign Service Tues Departments of Army and Air Albert Loy and Air Force Direc· day delayed a decision on aca Force Reserve Officer Training tor Lt. Col. Charles Karczewski . demic credit and departmental under the supervision of the Dean requested academic credit and status for Army and Air Force of the School of Foreign Service." departmental status for their units R.O.T.C. units. The proposal also called for the after a July decision of the Foreign Service Dean Peter council to approve "a minimum University's Board of Directors. Krogh appointed a sub-com of six credits of free electives The board ruled that R.O.T.C. mittee to study the issue. The toward degree requirements for instructors could not be on active sub-committee will report its students who satisfactorily com duty while teaching full-time. findings to a mid-October meeting plete the requirements of the The 1970 R.O.T.C. report of the Executive Council. respective programs" provided which led to revocation of credit Krogh appointed Professors that there are academic courses prohibited the University from Karski, Herdeck and Wasowski, which meet the following stan granting academic credit to R.O. Betty Krob (SFS'74) and Joseph dards: T.C. courses as long as instructors Farkas (SFS'76) to the sub-com • The courses are open for were serving on active duty while mittee. credit on an equal basis to all teaching. Krogh, chairman of the Ex students of the University. Loy originally asked only that DEAN PETER KROGH BETTY KROB ecutive Council, presented a pro- • The courses may be taught credit be restored for certain by civilian instructors if qualified department courses. "The deci military instructors are not avail sion to request departmental To Begin Fall '74 able. status probably came from second • Military instructors must floor Healy," Betty Krob said. hold at least a master's degree and "It would grant R.O.T.C. the related experience in the general structural opportunity to inte subject area to be taught. The grate into the academic realm of GU Sponsors Germans chairman and faculty of the the Universi ty ," she added. department and the dean and "There wits an obviously nega by Mark von Hagen sities throughout the country," German universities are facing consultant faculty of the School tive feeling at the meeting," Ms. Executive Educational Vice Fr. Ryan said. their most critical overcrowding in of Foreign Service will review the Krob added. President the Rev. Edmund G. The pilot program calls for architecture, biology, chemistry, credentials and interviews of the Ouestions Raised Ryan, S.J. announced Sunday a universities in Missouri, Michigan, physics, pharmacology and instructors before acceptance. pilot program that eventually Washington, Texas and the Dis psychology . • The Committee on Stan· "Several professors and stu would bring as many as 30,000 trict of Columbia to place 500 The students will return to dards and Student Academic Pro dents questioned the rationale for German students to Georgetown German students as juniors. The Germany after two years to take grams will determine and periodi· making R.O.T.C. a department of and other American universities. students must be profiCient in an examination. If successful they cally review the courses to be the School of Foreign Service." The Student Exchange Pro English and qualified to enter the will receive a degree similar to an awarded credit. Karczewski and Loy cited the American baccalaureate degree. "interdisciplinary nature" of the gram (STEP) will help to alleviate university system in Germany. 1970 Removal a serious university overcrowding The students will come from The students admitted to foreign service school as most problem in the Federal Republic four German lAender- Baden Georgetown would not increase Krogh noted that the motion closely offering an environment of Germany. Some 40,000 quali· Wuerttenburg, Bavaria, Rheinland enrollment. The number would be was "responsive to the ..,easons for R.O.T.C. education. fied high school graduates (abitur Pfalz and Schleswig-Holstein. All within the regular projection for behind the removal of credit from ienten) in Germany cannot con four lAender have Christian transfer students. R.O.T.C. in 1970." (Continued on page 6) tinue their education because Democratic governments. there is not enough space at Ger "Georgetown has had very man universities. good relations with Christian "Dr. Christian Schwarz Democrats in Germany," Fr. University Facing Suit Schilling decided last year that the Ryan said. "We were the first quickest solution to the German American university after World problem would be to export Ger War II to accept a German faculty man students," Fr. Ryan said. member." For Defaming, Slander Dr. Schwarz·Schilling, execu The Ministers of Culture of the tive secretary of the Christian four German states are presenting Democratic Union in the state of the proposal to the federal govern· by Patrick Early "Second," he continued, "the Aetna Insurance Company, ex Hesse, visited Fr. Ryan April 13 ment. Germany has a revenue· The University is facing article described her in a deroga peelc; to take a deposition from because of an article Fr. Ryan had sharing system that would gran t $45,000 in lawsuits because of an tory manner leading people to Mrs. Bellefatto on September 24. written for Col/ege Management additional government funds to article published in the spring laugh and make fun of her." The plaintiff's attorney will recip '" January. the educational program if ap· 1972 edition of three sisters, a Sam Brown, the University's rocate with depositions from The article discussed the im proved. campus literary magazine. coordinator for insurance,said that "Conrad, other staff members of pact on American higher educa The current government of The article, written by former "the case has been turned over to three ,sisters and pPrhaps the tion institutions of a declining Germany is Socialist under three sisters editor Robert Conrad the law firm representing the President of Georgetown." lmth rate since 1961. "I noted Chancellor Willy Brandt. The (C'72), presents an interview with insurance firm which covers thp Leach, acting for ~Ir;. Bpllp· that a declining birth rate and a ministers are hopeful of approval, Mrs. Grace L. Bellefatto. "Gracie" school in cases of this type." fat to, requestpd a Jury trial. Thl' number of other factors were however, according to Fr. Ryan. Bellefatto then was a waitress in The firm, Jackson, Lasky and court has Sl:'t a ten tatlvP trial datI' ipading to a large number of" The various state governments the Peacock Lounge in downtown Parkinson, on rptainer from the for Jan. 15. vacancies in colleges and univer- and the federal government will Washington. pay the entire cost of pducating She alleges that, because of the the students in the United States. article, she was "held up to Dr. Hanna-Renate Laurien, ridicule" and was forced to leave inside ... minister of culture of the state of her placl:' of employment in Rheinland-Pfalz, is dIrecting the reaction to that ridicule. She claims that she was 'iub· Foreign Service Officer program from the German side. Jected to "libel, slander and Discusses Employment . Page 3 She will meet with Fr. Ryan and Acting Academic Vice-President conspil'8cy to defamp and invasion' the Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., of privacy," She ha~ asked thp EXORCIST Coming in November to finalize plans for court for $30,000 :n com At Christmastime .. Page 8 the STEP project. ppnsatory damagf's and $15.000 Georgetown will conduct a In punitive fines. Dissension at two-week orientation session for Arthur Leach, attorney for the McDonough Gym? ... Page 11 the 500 students on campus in plaintiff, said that the suit was August 1974. Nearly 20 students based on two points. would remain as juniors at "First," he said, "it was an three sisters magazine and former editor Bob Conrad (C'72, are President Blocks Georgetown. Others will travel to invasion of privacy in that they defendants in a lawsuit by a downtown waitress for alleged libel, Equity Tennis. Page 12 25 other American universities. did not have her consent. slander and invasion of privacy. Page 2 The HOYA Friday, September 21,1973 Shuttle Bus Runs: $10,000 In• Losses by Greg Kitsock The corporation currently is The Arlington-Alban Towers running a $10,000 deficit. Georgetown shuttle bus will run The corPOration executive also for the entire fint semester, said that "continued service despite rmanciallosses incurred in depends on ridership. the fint weeks of service. "It costs $14,895 a semester to The shuttle bus service is operate the buses. At this rate it operated by Students of George would require the purchase of $20 town, Inc., a semi-autonomous semester passes by 700 students branch of Student Government. to break even," Natale said. Executive Vice-President of the "No accurate results have been Corporation Tony Natale compiled, but about 200 students (SFS'74) said that there was "no have already signed up." truth to the rumor that the bus Natale hopes that the revised service would be dismantled. bus schedule in effect since "It is not a question of staying Monday will attract additional District firemen answered a false alarm at the Ryan Administration building Sunday night. (Photo by Rick in the black," Natale said. "In riders. Delmar) fact. it's 'practically impossible to The new schedule will accom keep from losing money.