Wildcats Open Season Saturday At Quantico by Bob Lorkin Villanova's Wildcat thin dads Penn State and Manhattan will open their outdoor season at will both be at full strength for the Quantico Relays on Satur- the meet. Powerful Michigan State along with Ohio State will day April 15. In their annual de- lead the Big Ten entries, while but of the spring season, the El- Morgan State, Duke and Mary- mm liott will test their men team land will lead the Southern dele- VOL. 36 No. 19 VILLANOVA UNIVI lANOVA, PA. APRIL 19. 1961 strength against the foremost gation. NY Trip college and athletic teams in the ^'Operation Abolition'' East. The following week, Villanova will travel to Randall's Island Testing its muscles for the for the Queens-Iona Relays and Attracts Record Cro\vd first time outdoors Villanova on April 29, the 'Cats will de- will limit its individual efforts fend their long held mile relay "Operation Abolition," the Conservative point of view, but brief the while concentrating on the relay crown at the Penn Relays in highly controversial anti-Com- Lewis' address and im- pact of the film itself succeeded events. Perennial rivals, Morgan Philadelphia. May 12 the tables munist film presented as the will be reversed as the Mainlin- in arousing most of the latent State and Manhattan will pro- year's first Student Council ers will get a chance to revenge anti-Communist sympathy of vide the competition in the mile Forum, scored a significant suc- last year's loss, hosting the Ma- the audience. relay while St. John's will join rines of Quantico. cess on campus last week. The Liberal opponents of the the Jaspers as the major hurdle With the movie, the Council HUAC attempted to offset the favorable effects of the glm and in the Wildcat two mile relay as- presented a brief lecture and Mugler Succeeds speech by advancing a carefully extensive question and answer pirations. The Mainliners will pre-arranged argument in the also enter the 440 yard and four Chase As Sports period by Fulton Lewis III, for- form of questions. Their argu- mile relay along with the sprint mer research analyst for the ment was that the HUAC spon- Publicity and distance medleys. Head House Un-American Activities sored the documentary film as part of a "last-ditch effort." "Villanova is a growing uni- Committee (HUAC) who is Photo by M!k« Pottore Raemore Anchors Mile (Continued on page S) versity and much can be done currently on tour with the film. Richie Richman Villanova's sophomore first basemkii pulls his foot off the bag after making The 880 yard relay team will by the Athletic Publicity Office the touch. This action occurred in the Brandies Game which VJllanova 6-1. "Operation Abolition" Con- Won The umpire in the return to defend its title again Usual Maudlin Mood background is Dan Smeddy of basketball fame. to present the school in a true cerns the riots, purportedly this season. Last year with Bob picture to the public as the under the direction of known Absent In New Lynx; Raemore running anchor the Cat Nine Outshines school grows." Thus spoke K. Communist agitators, staged by Kraft JNI^amed To Succeed 'Cats turned the trick in 1 :26.2. Sales Set For 1 college students in May Stanley Mugler, former Jazz San Fran- Four Straight Rivals; The mile relay unit will be out cisco, Cal., during hearings of Critic and sportswriter of the Vince Kirk and Michael Wes- Severance the HUAC on May 12, 13, and 14, Pitching Staff As Head Coach to improve on their second place ley, co-editors of the Lynx, an- Holds Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 1960. finish. nounced that the spring edition Villanova University continued its penchant for making last Tuesday, as he succeeded Film Scrutinized Amid all the recent upheavals of the Lynx, the campus literary headlines in unorthodox fashion Neither of 'Cats sprinters will in Athletic with the naming of Jack Joe Chase as Athletic Publicity Opponents of the film con- and epochs the De- magazine, will go on sale May 1, Kraft, local high school coach and oflScial, as head basketball be entered in dashes. Indoor partment of the past semester, Director of Villanova. tended that under the technical Mother's Day of Junior Week. coach. The announcement standout, Frank Budd will forgo only one factor has remained came last Friday and the 40 year direction of Mr. Lewis, the film's The cover by Joe Ruggeiro old St. the 100 yard dash for the next somewhat steadfast, the win- Joseph graduate was given a 3 year contract. Financial editors distorted the importance will be displayed on campus bul- few weeks. He will anchor the ning ways of the Villanova var- terms were not disclosed. and violence of the riots to letin boards two weeks in ad- Villanova sprint medley team sity baseball team. The signing ended the long and sometimes comical eflforts overplay the extent of Com- vance of publication. This issue while Otis Drayton, 220 yard fa- The undefeated Wildcats, to land a worthy successor to Al munist infiltration in the United will be approximately 64 pages vorite will be used in the 440. under the mentorship of Coach Severance, who retired this sea- States and the necessity for re- and will feature two conflicting indoor and Photo by Jo» McCarthy Art Mahan, ran their consecu- son after 25 years at the helm IC4A Champion, taining the Un-American Acti- reviews of Exodus, a contempor- Leon Pras, will attempt tive winning streak to four of the Wildcats' basketball team. outdoor, vities Committee as an anti- ary novel by Leon Uris. Tony Bateman represents Villanova, and Joe Breen represents Immaculata (?) at the ICG better his fourth-place finish games by crushing a strong As it became apparent that Ed to Communist weapon. Critics of Exodus Reviews convention, held at Harrisburg, while Bill Lewis, Theda Sliwkowski, Jack McAteer, and Bill high hurdles. Penn State team 9-6 last Satur- Scullin, former North Catholic in the 100 meter the film and of the HUAC con- These two reviews are written Radmacher, look on. Hammock, day. Penn State had been prev- coach, was not going to receive Sophomore Charlie tend that the Committee en- by Villanovan's who represent last year will iously rated as one of the best in the job, applicants started com- who finished fifth gages in "witch hunting" and the two conflicting ethnic • the east. ;,!•.- .,;:;•. ':? ing in and the papers then be- also compete. deprives citizens of their con- groups. ICG Convention Success; Worries about tJie supposed stitutional right to an unsullied came flooded with admissions, Cruz vs. Bragg Kirk and Wesley also an- instability of the pitching staff denials, and counter-denials as personal reputation. nounced that Frank Murphy has Villanova's freshmen, having now seem to have dwindled with one name, then another, was By 7:30 p.m., when "Opera- succeeded Bill Speers as Layout finished a highly successful in- McAteer Touts Rademacher the appearance of the encourag- tossed into the ring. tion Abolition" was to begin, Editor. door season, will now be given a Highlighted by the heated de- culata. Following the call to Anthony G. Bateman, a junior ing performances of southpaw Ironically, despite the "name" Vasey Hall Auditorium was The editors went on to say chance to prove their weight bate of irate delegates, the in- order, the Rev. Robert Welch, Philosophy major startled the Phil Fidalgo and righty Mike coaches that were mentioned, filled to overflowing with a that the poetry in this is'sue outdoors. Olympian, Rolando tricate mechanics of politics, OSA, Assistant Dean of the assembly with his oratorical Kiley. Fidalgo, the stalward of the mantle eventually fell on a crowd of students and faculty shows more artistic ability than Cruz, who cleared 15 feet three and the amicable feelings of Arts and Science division of ability. "In the opinion of sev- last year's NCAA team with an man who makes his home in members from a number of past issues have demonstrated. times indoors will be pitted individual delegates toward one Villanova, delivered the invoca- eral delegates from other 8-3 mark, recorded his first two Wayne. Kraft, at the signing, near-by colleges. The depressive mood created in against "Tarzan" Don Bragg. A Ken Mugler another, the Intercollegiate tion to the assembly. The main schools," asserted Ed McCaf- victories this season with im- was employed at Malvern Prep Jack Kraft By the time Lewis arrived, past Lynx's is noticeably absent pressive performances against '57 graduate, Bragg is still Conference on Government com- speaker of the opening session frey, a member of the Villanova where he was baseball and bas- Ken, a 24 year old Philadel- the mood of the audience was both in the poetry and short their choice and Jack Kraft, shooting for the magic height of menced its twenty-fifth annual was Gov. David A. Lawrence of delegation, "the speech was the Gettysburg and the University ketball coach in addition to offi- noticeably antagonistic to the stories. with a solid and favorable bas- 16 feet. Cruz came within a frac- phian and graduate of Southern convention in the state's capital Pennsylvania. most-talked-about, the best re- of Vermont. ciating both sports. He will con- ketball reputation, becomes Vil- tion of an inch of clearing 15 High, looks upon his new job as of Harrisburg last Thursday. Nominating the Southeast ceived, and gave the convention In the opener at Gettysburg. tinue his duties there until June lanova's first new basketball feet in Rome last summer, and Region's candidate for clerk.