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RnmVfRSRRY ISSUf v Vol. XL~ NO.~)..? GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON, D. C. Friday. May 15. 1964 Extravagant Festivities StorteA-BIIIIDutll~s College's Junior Prom Crellte Compus PIIRIC; ••• .Highlight Senior Week Nostosi SlIves tile Doy To Be University Wide The Anniversary Ball will A rousing time coupled with a wee bit of solemnity will be held tomorrow night from be the tone of Senior Week which will run from June 3 to 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in two ball June 8. To get the group in the swing of things, on Wednes i rooms at the Sheraton-Park I day the College will have a stag party at Ferguson's Farm in Hotel off Connecticut Avenue. I Maryland, which will attract most of the class. The food and A slight difficulty arose last I beer will be free and bus transportation will be provided. week when more tickets were sold I Not getting a chance to re- than the main ballroom of the hotel I cover, the College seniors will could accommodate. However, Mr. EC Juniors Probe Donald Buckner and Nick Nastasi, have a boat ride the next day representing the Anniversary Ball For General Tempo with Phil Flowers and his Committee were able to secure an additional, smaller room adjacent Of Student Feeling band. providing ~he music. to the Grand Ballroom to seat an WIth the arrIval of the additional limited number of at Members of the junior class parents of Friday, social activities tendants. of the East Campus have been will calm down for a formal dance Dulce circulating questionnaires cov to be held on Copley Lawn. Larry I Elgart and his orchestra will pro Music will be provided by Lester I ering academics, athletics, vide the entertainment. The par Lanin and his orchestra. A junior I alumni and administrative ents will again be called on Sat accounting major in the School of urday to provide supervision for Business Administration, .Jerry \ policies at Georgetown to all the cocktail party to be held at i. "~::' Friedlander, has also written and .JOHN CALLAGY 1 undergraduates in the Schools of Indian Springs, Maryland. On arranged the theme song of the .JIM FAULKNER 'j Foreign Service and Business Ad Sunday, the Baccalaureate Mass evening, the Amargo Dulce. :; ministration and Institute of Lan At the last meeting of the University Social Events will be held at 10 a.m. on Copley The song, translated ,"Bitter guages and Linguistics. Committee a tentative decision was made to change the i Lawn. The Mass will be for both Sweet," made its debut with the 1 The idea originated a few Campuses and the seniors will at Junior Prom into' a University-wide social event. l months ago when Hank Durand, tend in cap and gown. The College The Prom, which has been traditionally a College spon 1 president of East Campus Class of will then continue the evening with i '65, formed a committee to investi the Tropaeia Night Awards. sored function, would be directed by a committee whose ~ gate the tempo of student opinion R.O.T.C. commissioning will take membership would be divided .equally among the College, ~ on the East Campus with respect place on Monday morning, the 8th, the East Campus, and the j to the various phases of Univer- with graduation in the afternoon. Nursing School. The chair 1sity life. Dedicat~d Spirit Marks , .Journey Inn manship would be placed on Favorable Response Similar activity will be taking Ci.U. Chapter Progress a revolving basis. James place on the East Campus. Wed Faulkner, who was elected to ( Durand and his group then con nesday' the 3rd, there will be a stag For JFK library Fund i tacted members of the East Cam party at the .Journey Inn. The the post of Prom Chairman j pus faculty and administration to Boat Ride with the College will be by Jim Giammo by the College Class of 1966, would :~ find out their opinion on the mat on Thursday with the Senior Prom The Georgetown University remain Chairman for the revised :: ter. "Most of them responded fa being held Friday at the May Prom. ;i vorably," Durand claims. flower. Fred Perry and his orches chapter of the National Stu Faulkner, who had no previous ;1 "Many of the faculty and admin tra will provide the dance music dents Committee for the John knowledge of the change, spoke of '; istration officials were extremely with the parents invited. F. Kennedy Memorial Library it as a surprise, and said that '/ helpful in advising us as to the he would "have to change many Saturday, there is tentatively ended its fund campaign for of the plans" that he had already "~type of questions we should ask scheduled a barbecue. Sunday, the and the wording of the questions," the proposed Boston, Massa made. The change was the result :1 Dean's cocktail party will start the of intensive lobbying on the part "i Durand continued. The junior cited afternoon rolling and a dinner in chusetts institution two day ago, j Mr. Richard Miller, Assistant reaping over $250 from about 1000 of newly elected East Campus New South in the evening will have President, Jim Ethier, who feels Dean of the School of Foreign .JERRY FRIEDLANDER students and faculty members. i the Tropaeia awards to round out that "the present trend is towards j (Continued on Page 19) the program. Concert Band during its recent In charge of the GU committee University-wide functions if for trip to New York. It was also per were chairman Pete Garcia (C, no other reasons than they offer a formed at the Immaculata Junior '65), publicity director Joe Solari more enj oyable and organized Prom on April 25 at the Shoreham (C, '67) and executive secretary time." The Nursing School, which i.; Hotel. It is the first original mu Wayne Cyron (C, '67). was represented at the meeting by sical composition written by the Jean Fee, also felt that a Univer Georgetown junior. Co-chairmen sity-wide Prom would be more ad ~ In charge of creating and exe Garcia and Nick Nastasi, Pres vantageous, and as a result they cuting the decorations for the ball ident {}f the Yard, were co-chair surrendered their right to have a was Earl C. Hargrove, nationally :1" men of the campaign for all the separate Prom. 1, , recognized interior designer. He is Universities of the district. They The change is one in a series . well-known in Washington for his were appointed about a month ago of decisions by the Social Events work on the Pageant of Peace by Carl Allen, director of the li Committee that have changed pre f Celebration and numerous Cherry brary committee in the Boston vious functions that were under Blossom Festivals. headquarters, upon the recommen the control of the College into Uni 'L Inside the foyer and before- the dation of the Georgetown faculty versity-wide social events. ! ' stairs which lead down into the and administration. John Callagy, president of the ballroom will be a three-dimension College Class of 1966, has stated ":1 al replica of Georgetown's main The schools in the vicinity which that he will ask the committee to gate, through which the arriving participated in the movement were reconsider its decision. He feels I~' '~', couples will walk to be greeted by Imm ac ulata Junior College, that there are special mitigating Georgetown Visitation, Trinity, ;~ the hostesses and directed to ushers circumstances that the College, at who will conduct them to their Dunbarton, Catholic University, least the Class of '66, should re '?l Marymount, George Washington, table. tain control, or at least be allowed American and Howard Universi The U-shaped balcony which a larger share of the profits than ties. overhangs the stairway end of the the one-third that they would be main ballroom will be decorated Each school had been designated allowed under the new arrange- (Continued on Page 19) (Continued on Page 10) ment. Page Two rHE SOYA Friday, May 15, 1964 Editorials: Round-up " Experimentation: Action On Monday, May 18, at 8:30 p.m. Form For The Future in Gaston Hall sophomore classics It must be agreed by all parties involved that the When we consider the image created by the events of students will present their own ver- Experimental Corridor has been a success. An SPO critique sion of a play by Plautus, the of the QPI's of the Corridor'S residents shows that there has the 1963-64 academic year at Georgetown two slogans, rep Roman dramatist, entitled Pot of resenting opposing attitudes which contribute to the main Gold. Translated by the students been no significant change in the academic standing of the stream of Campus life, come to mind. "Wisdom and Dis themselves, the comedy will star students as compared to the residents of prefect-regulated College students in the Plautus corridors. While this in itself does not atest to the success cvoery for a Dynamic World," is the ideal motif of the Uni course, along with Nursing Schooi versity's year-long Anniversary celebration. A less official, students Teri Gaynor, Kathy Fla- of the Corridor, it does answer objections based on the age- but yet strongly felt, ensign was displayed several weeks herty and Lorane (Babe) Grocki. 'old ideal that a life regulated by an external regimen is An editorial which, appeared in most conducive to successful academic pursuits. ago by College students picketing a meeting of the Student I America a while ago stated that More important than this, however, are the intangible 1'1 Council: "175 Years of Tradition Unhampered by Progress'." "In Catholic universities across the Considering the progress of Georgetown analytically, United States the natives are rest- results.