THE COWL, OCTOBER 23, 1963 Plans Drafted Dorm Weekend

Subscriber's Address FESTIVAL '63 SATURDAY

VOL. XXVI, No. 5—EIGHT PAGES PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R. I., OCTOBER 23, 1963 10 CENTS A COPY Thirty-three Chosen for Who's Who By FARRELL SYLVESTER Providence College today announced thirty-three seniors to be listed in the 1963-64 edition of "Who's Who among students in American Universities and Col• leges." Those honored and their con• political science; Michael J. Mc- leges and universities in the centrations are as follows: Jef• Intyre, mathematics; Vincent United States. frey J. Beane, mathematics; W. Melillo, business manage• Among criteria employed to Bernard J. Casey, political ment; Gerald J. Mussari, busi• select those nominated are the science; William H. Clendenen, ness management; Allan S. student's scholarship, his partic• history; Peter J. Conn, English Noonan, NTH-biology; James M. ipation and leadership in his Francis J. Darigan, political O'Connor, history; Charles J. college extracurricular activi• science; Francis J. Devlin, politi• Petrillo, economics; Bertrand J. ties, and his usefulness to the cal science; John R. Dubois, eco• Pinard, political science: David College during his years here. J. Rabadan, education-social nomics; John Eagleson, humani• The national Who's Who" studies. ties; Robert W. Fiondella, politi• foundation maintains a place• cal science; John R. French, Jr., Also Joseph M. Reihing, eco• ment service for those seniors modern languages; Joseph S. nomics; Robert L. Rosati, NTH- who seek future scholarships Kendy, Jr., political science. chemistry; David W. St. John, and employment. The number Also Peter B. Kennedy, eco• political science; Bernard J. selected this year is proportion• nomics; Joseph T. Krzys, math• Satkowski, political science: ate to the total number of col• ematics; Paul A. Lamarine, John C. Seelinger, political leges and universities registered science; Farrell Sylvester, politi• as members. cal science; John R. Thompson, Rev. Joseph L. Lennon, O.P., Jr., economics; Albert J. Tinson, Dean of the College, announced Alpine Country Club economics; Robert K. Walsh, in releasing the list that certifi• humanities; Bruce G. Wilbur, cates will be presented to the Selected as Setting NIH-biology; Thomas P. Zim• "Who's Who" seniors by the merman, chemistry. Very Rev. Vincent C. Dore, O.P., Students recognized each year College President, at a cere• For PR Cord Dance by "Who's Who" are selected mony to be held in he near The Fourth Annual PERSH• from approximately 750 col• future. ING RIFLES Cord Dance, spon sored by Company K-12. Provi• dence College, will be held on Friday evening, Dec. 6, 1963, at JAMES MEREDITH the Alpine Country Club in 'Castro Is Cancer' Cranston, R. I. The dance, Plight of the American Negro which is formal and non-floral, will last from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Says Ambassador Tickets are $5.00 per couple. Co-chairmen of the dance are "If the United States is cut tional values now have no value To be Topic of Meredith Speech Leo Lennon and Douglas Mulli- off from Latin America, it will at all." By Pete McGuire gan. C. Martin Abbott is ad automatically become a second- In the speech, Senor Rojas "I was sure that if I were that the lecture will begin visor. Music will be provided rate power." With these words, emphasized that the conspiracy killed, somebody else would promptly at 10:45 in Alumni by the Mike Gilroy Quartet. the former Cuban ambassador in Latin America, with "Cuba take my place someday," said Hall and will be followed by a This year the Cord Dance is to Great Britain, Sergio Rojas, as its center," "challenges the James Meredish at the end of question and answer session for open to all members of the described the degree to which United States and you." He the University of Mississippi students and faculty. The lec• R.O.T.C. Brigade at Provi• our security is endangered by stated that Communism and riots. Meredith, who won world ture will be open only to Provi• dence College. Arrangements Castroism, before some 1500 PC Castroism are "a cancer which renown as the first negro stu• dence College faculty and stu• have been made with the Caro- students at the first lecture in is spreading across the con• dent to enter racially segregated dents and invited guests of the lan Club for persons attending the distinguished speakers' tinent." He further stated that "Old Miss," will be presented by College. Admission for students the Cord Dance to gain a $5.00 series sponsored by the Student "the cancer in Cuba is affect• the P.C. Student Congress on will be by Activity Book 14. reduction on the price of the Congress. The lecture was pre• ing the security of the United October 28. In closing, Mr. Musari said, Dorm Weekend ticket as both sented last Thursday morning States even if you don't believe James Meredith, one of ten "Mr. Meredith will certainly affairs fall on the same week• in Alumni Hall. it." children, was born in Attla prove to be a most interesting end. Ambassador Rojas described He outlined the progress of County, Mississippi. After grad• and informative speaker. He Highlighting the dance will the Cuban revolution as one the "26th of July Movement" uation from high school, he en• possesses first hand information be the induction ceremonies for that has "broken all traditions," and revealed that the Cuban listed in the Air Force and was on the plight of the American the new members of PERSH• and has proven that the Organ• revolution was not based in the discharged with the Good Con• Negro and is most capable of ING RIFLES and the selection ization of American States is poorer classes, but rather in the duct Medal in 1960. He attended expressing himself to the au• of a Cord Dance Queen and her "not an effective body." The middle-class. The former senior college for two years and in dience." court. former foreign officer for Fidel officer in the Cuban revolution• 1962 attempted to transfer to Castro asserted that "this is a ary movement drew an analogy the University of Mississippi. He continent in which the tradi• (Continued on Page 3) was denied admittance. The United States Government, hav• ing established that the only Dorm Weekend Format barrier to his entrance was his race, ordered that he be ad• mitted. Framed by Committee His arrival on campus set off The weekend of Dec. 6, 7, formal dance and buffet in Ray• a wave of riots among students and 8 has been set for the mond Hall on Friday night. and townspeople that threat• twenty-seventh annual Dorm With the buffet from 7:30 p.m. ened to overwhelm Mr. Mere• Weekend. The co-chairmen of to 8:30 p.m., dancing will begin dith's guard of United States the three-day event, Tom Rogers at 8 p.m. and extend until mid• Marshals. It was necessary to and Frank Devlin, stated that night. "We have decided to use army troops to restore order "this year's Dorm Weekend make this dance semi-formal in and Meredith was provided with promises to be the best in re• order to enable more students a guard of marshals for the en• cent years, and, as the plans to attend the weekend. The ab• tire school year. He graduated now stand, it will be one of the sence of a formal at the week• from the University in 1963 and best social events of the year." end will decrease the cost for intends to continue his educa• Tickets will be priced at fifteen each student attending by about tion, possibly at a Washington dollars per couple, and will be $10," the co-chairmen pointed law school. payable in three installments. out. Mr. Meredith will speak on A tentative format has been On Saturday afternoon, there his ordeal at Oxford, Mississ• planned, and certain variations will be a casual "twist party" in ippi and the role of the Negro from recent Carolan Club week• Aquinas Hall with dancing Former Cuban Ambassador Sergio Rojas, is welcomed to student today. ends have been instituted. The from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Re- PC by Al Tinson as Gerry Mussari, speakers committee chair• Jerry Musari, chairman of weekend will begin with a semi- (Continued on Page 2) man, looks on. the Speakers Committee, noted 2 THE COWL, OCTOBER 23, 1963 Plans Drafted Dorm Weekend ... (Continued from Page 1) noon. Frank Locastro and Paul For Ring Dance freshments will be provided by Lamarine will handle Friday On the Carolan Club. The party nights arrangements, and Ed will finish at 4:30 p.m. in order Sowa and Art Parrin will take The At Alumni Hall to allow those at the weekend care of Saturday afternoon. In keeping with custom estab• to attend the basketball games, Other committee chairmen for lished several years past, the both freshman and varsity, in Dorm Weekend are: tickets and Aisle junior class will hold the an• the evening. publicity—Dick Maguire; deco• nual Ring Dance on Dec. 13 in Saturday evening will high• rations—John McMahon and Alumni Hall from 9 to 12. Ac• light the first home basketball Mike Sullivan; invitations—Jeff cording to class president Bob game of the season. In this con• Beane and Joseph Twaronite; By Paul Ferguson Piragglia, a good band will be test, the Friars will meet St favors—Joseph Reihing and Bob secured for the event, and re• Francis of Brooklyn, one of the Boronski; and maintenance— The junior-sponsors of "Fes- tention. You have never seen freshments will be served. NIT entrees of last year. Bob Newman. John McGregor tival '63 have claimed that this a group like this before. For High point of the evening On Sunday morning, there is serving as the treasurer for event will be another "first" for lack of a better word, I chose will be the blessing and dis• will be the traditional Com• the Weekend committee, and Providence College. Judging by to call their style "backwoods tributing of the rings by a mem• munion-Breakfast. Mass will be Pat Gallagher as secretary. the rate of ticket sales, by the blues." There are two of them. ber of the administration. In celebrated at 10 a.m. in St. Jo• enthusiasm generated both on One plays the washtub bass, the past, the Rev. Vincent C. seph's Chapel with breakfast to '"There is always need for this campus and on other col- while the other plays the guitar Dore, O.P., President of the Col• follow in Alumni Hall cafe. workers, and anyone who is still lege campuses, and by the in- and sings. lege, has performed this cere• Information concerning sale interested in pitching in and tensity of the publicity cam- To satisfy visually as well as mony. of tickets and band commit• giving the various committees a paign, I must agree wholeheart- vocally, there are the Chatter- Piragglia feels that the class ments will be forthcoming. hand in their work is more than edly. tocks from Pembroke. This recognizes that the Ring Dance The co-chairmen also an• welcome. There is a lot of prep• But even more important group is composed of ten lovely is a "simple, but very symbolic nounced the chairmen of the aration to be done for this than the fact that "Festival '63" ladies and two guitars. Musical• affair." He concluded saying various committees. Individual Weekend, and all Carolan Club is an innovation, is the fact that ly, they are very well balanced, that widespread interest and at• committees have been set up members are asked to help." it also promises to be an eve- but if they could not sing a tendance is expected. for the events to be held on stated the co-chairmen. ning of good, solid entertain- note, it would be worth it just ment. By no stretch of the to sit and watch them. imagination is this an amateur Paul Wilson and Roger Mason show. The talent lined up for sing work songs of the "John this program should shame any Henry" type. Both play the alumnus of Ted Mack. guitar with equal skill and both Perhaps this is an exaggera- have voices of similar quality. tion. However, I have seen some of the groups that will appear Regina Perry is a soloist with this weekend and was very im- a pleasant voice and good pressed. Fortunately, there are presentation. She comes from no carbon copies of the Kings- Simmons College. ton Trio or Peter, Paul, and Unfortunately, I have not Mary. Each group and each in- heard the remaining groups, but dividual has a unique style so the committee members seem to that every taste should be sat- think they are pretty good. isfied. These include J. C. Synott, Bar• The Non-Such River Singers bara Norris, both soloists, Allan hail from Maine and sing in Sullivan and the Other Two, and the bluegrass style. For some the Frontiersmen. reason I never associated Maine Rendering judgment on these with bluegrass, but these three people will be: Lou DeFusca sing it with such ease, you from MGM; Fred Falanga from would swear they were just out Warner Bros.; Robin Scott from of the hills of Tennessee. WPRO; and Mr. Frank Hanley Ted and Lissa presented for from our own English depart• one of their audition numbers ment. a child's nursery set to music, Of those that I have heard, "Winken, Blinken, and Nod." the Non-Such River Singers, Ted Ted is a mellow baritone, while and Lissa, and the Jackhammers Lissa, about the size of a but• should be the outstanding per• ton, possesses a soprano voice formers of the evening. But re• as clear as crystal. gardless of the winner, "Fes• For a change of pace, the tival '63" promises variety and Jackhammers from Babson and entertainment. It will be well Brandeis should draw some at• worth attending.

By Jim Becker William Golding's "The Lord the action, the subtle, allegori• of the Flies" at the Avon cal aspects of the book are not Cinema. The theme of the "Lord clear in the film. The signifi• of the Flies" is that evil is in- cance of many symbolic objects herent in the soul of man. and remain submerged. The natures that the endeavors of civilized which the various characters society are hampered and de- represent are brought out weak- stroyed because of this imper- fection. To demonstrate his (Continued on Page 3) theme, Golding constructed a parable about a group of Eng- Pardon me if I sound as if the lish school boys marooned on a executive position I've landed desert island. The boys, after a JOE MARTIN rational attempt at organization, ORCHESTRA deals with the whole future of gradually revert to total It does. savagery. Party Tailored Musical the world. Although director Peter Groups Certainly, there's no organization today conduct• Brooks succeeded in making an PAwtucket 24587 ing more vital business than the business of the almost literal transcription of United States Air Force. And very few organiza• tions that give a college graduate greater oppor• tunities for responsibility and growth. As an Air Force officer, you'll be a leader on the HONDA Aerospace Team—with good pay, a 30-day paid MOTORCYCLES vacation each year, educational opportunities. Rhode Island's Newest and Most Modern Dealer How can you get started? For many, the best way Immediate delivery on all model* is through Air Force ROTC. But if you missed out on AFROTC, or if there's no unit on your campus, Service on all makes, factory trained mechanic, no down you can still apply for Air Force Officer Training payment, easy financing, insurance available at low rates School. This three-month course leads to a com• Open from 9 am, - 8 p.m. mission as a second lieutenant in the United See our display at Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. States Air Force. Main Office HONDA OF PROVIDENCE,INC. For more information about Air Force OTS, see 854 Taunton Avenue, East Providence your local Air Force representative. 4382020 U.S.Air Force THE Cowl, OCTOBER 23, 1963 3 Pershing Rifles MEMO FROM THE EDITOR: Plan to Solicit Recent articles and editorials in the University of Rhode Island newspaper have Funds for UF both reassured and alarmed me. The for• At the meeting of the Persh• mation of a new political party, Asess, ing Rifles on October 15, the members organized themselves has stirred a bit of controversy at the into teams to solicit for the United Fund. Kingston campus by urging withdrawal from The members of the Pershing the National Student Association. This Rifles heard an address by John Simmen, president of the reassures me. On the other hand, The Industrial National Bank, and 1963 campaign chairman for the Beacon, URI's student newspaper, sup• United Fund. Very Rev. Vincent C. Dore, O.P., president of ports NSA and urges continued affilia• Providence College also ad• dressed the members on the tion. need for the United Fund and the aid the PR's would give It is difficult for me to understand this organization. The member• ship also saw a movie on the the stand taken by The Beacon on NSA mem• United Fund. Professor R. R. Baxter, professor of law at Harvard Law bership. In an editorial in the issue of School, expounds upon the United States police toward the World Court. October 16, it is charged that withdrawal Rojas . . . from NSA would "deprive students ... of (Continued from Page 1) an active part in the development of and Harvard Law Professor Speaks to describe the Castro-led revo• lution. He stated that the Cuban the changes in our society, a society that Revolution was "like a water• On Promotion of International Law melon—green on the outside, is also composed of students." What The By MATTHEW BLENDER but totally red on the inside." Beacon fails to take into consideration About 45 people gathered in neutral meaning of internation• Describing Castro as a power the Guild Room of Alumni Hall al law. 2) Codification of inter• maniac. Senor Rojas predicted is the fact that, as students, we comprise that "Castro is on the way out." last Thursday night to hear national law. 3) "Keep up Professor R. R. Baxter of the He stated that it is his hope a division of society which has its own Harvard University Law School East-West dialogue on inter• that the "co-operation and speak on "What Can be Done national law." friendship between Moscow and particular problems. What NSA fails to to Promote the Rule of Law in the White House will be priced International Affairs." The lec• Professor Baxter also spoke on Castro's head." do is to sufficiently discuss these prob• ture was sponsored by the St. about the role of international lems. Rather, NSA dedicates far too much Thomas More Club. law in the event of general dis• armament. He said that an in• time arguing those problems which arise Professor Baxter explained ternational police force would On the Aisle... there is already a good founda• be necessary with a political in the political sphere. National and tion for international law but body to direct it and a means of (Continued from Page 2) ly through a number of epi• that there are many problems settling international disputes international problems should be dis• sodes. Viewers not familiar with which must be overcome such would also be necessary. He stressed the fact that there the book would not understand cussed by NSA, but not to the extent where as the suspicion of the new na the construction and import of tions toward international law were many problems in this they completely dominate the spectrum of area such as the need for in• these episodes and would find which was mainly formed while them confusing and anti-cli• they were still colonies and the spectors and their powers and resolutions at the annual NSA Congress. fields of operation. "These mactic. All the adventure and reluctance of most nations, the things will mean limitations up• suspense of the book remain in• United States included, to give on the sovereignty of the tact, however; and this, alone, It is sad indeed when a group meets in up any sovereignty. Professor United States," he said. makes the film worthwhile. Baxter said that international The acting, by untrained Eng• Indiana, passes resolutions "in the name law favored no one nation or lish school boys, is remarkable group of nations and that it is, Professor Baxter concluded of the students of the U. S. ," and while by stating that all of these prob• There is a sincerity and involve• for the most part, neutral in lems must be approached with ment that is hard to describe. it represents, in truth, only a small por• character. "International 1 a w coolness, rationality, a full un• The photography of the frantic provides a common meeting derstanding of the implications, "kill the beast" dance graphi• tion of the nation's student community. ground ... to settle small or and, most important, a sense of cally conveys the emotionally medium sized problems," he perspective, that is, we must charged atmosphere. The back• I am not here taking issue with the res• said. realize that what is bad now ground music, based on a haunt• olutions passed at the Congress, although Professor Baxter gave three might be good in the future. ing Kyrie Eleison, enhances the proposals which would help symbolism of the main theme they leave something to be desired, but promote international law. 1) An informal question period brilliantly. Educate new nations as to the followed the lecture. On the whole, the film is rather with the preponderance of politi• worthwhile; but it suffers from an attempted compromise of cally oriented resolutions in the NSA symbolic and literal elements. codification of policy. Campus Barber Shop Peace Corps The Beacon contends that NSA "is de• voted exclusively to serving the needs of 3 Barbers On Oct. 28, Andrew Bell, a member of the University American students." This statement is Division of the Peace Corps, "We Hare the Scissors with the College Education" will meet students desiring highly disputable. In my estimation, information on the Peace 8 TO 5 MON. THRU FRI. Corps. Mr. Bell will be avail• either it is a clearcut misrepresentation able from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. in CLOSED SATURDAY ALL DAY the Language Department Of• by both The Beacon and NSA or both of these fice. Room 6, Donnelly Hall. organizations have a total misconception Andy Corsini. Prop. Mr. Bell is a 1955 graduate of Providence College. of the "needs of the American student." While NSA is potentially a worthwhile student group, as it now stands, it is no The COIN-UP more than a useless and irresponsible richards clothes LAUNDR0MATE 141 Weyboitet Street, Providence, R. I. melting pot for outspoken students who In Eagle Park Jerry De Maria, '64 is available to PC gentlemen 381 Admiral Street wish to voice their views on national and on Thursday evening from 6:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. Reminds you that its facili• international issues which are, for the and on Saturdays from 9:00 A.M. - 6:00 P M. Drop ties are available 24 hours most part, wholly outside of the student in, say hello, and look at the finest clothes ever a day. Including Sundays. designed, and priced for the collegian's pocket Wash a 16-lb. load for 30c community. book. and dry for a dime. FRANK DEVLIN The Cowl, October 23, 1963 Students Abroad Mike Conlon Relates Editorially Speaking Experiences in Germany By Dick Cole

(Editor'* note: This b (hr Commenting on Uvlng rondl- first in • series of articles by Uons. he observed thai bis ac Dick Cole. In subsequent commodaUons were not aa a weeks will be prrwitrd ob plane with American standards, K-rratioru nude by Provi but were, nevertheless, quite dence College students who sufficient. The farmhouse he have worked overseas during lived at had no hot water or the summer vacation.) modem toilet facilities, bet guished lecturers. Next Monday morn• "You couldn't buy experi• food was generally favorable. Last Thursday, the Student Con• ence " "It was an education in An average meal consisted of gress of Providence College sponsored ing- the second speaker will be presented itself." "You really broadened bread, potatoes, and same meal, the first in its new series of distin- in Alumni Hall — James your outlook on things." usually teal. ham. or wurst These are some of the com• Conlon was particularly im• ments made by Providence Col• pressed by the high regard the lege students who spent this German people have for Ameri• past summer in Europe as mem• cans, especially President Ken• Meredith, bers of the ASIS (American nedy. "I didn't know DeGaulle Student Information Service), wis there until I read about It. who, as we see it, will give what could every one of the approximately 1500 A private non-profit organiza• but everything was Kennedy," tion. ASIS offers three pro• he said "At one hotel I stayed well be one of the most enlightening students who attended Ambassador grams known as Safari I, Safari (and controversial) of speeches ever Rojas' speech left Alumni Hall with a II. and Safari III All three at, I walked up to the clerk to guarantee the student a Job. but aak what my bill was The clerk given here at PC. more refined sense of the problems in told me it had already been Latin America and the duty of the U.S. the latter two provide more ex• Mr. Meredith has undergone an pensive accommodations and paid When I asked who paid to "demand" the halt of Communist it. he replied. "Kennedy!" ordeal the likes of which few, if any, of benefits. takeover. With the coming lecture by us can conceive. The prejudice and Mike Conlon, a Junior politi• In addition to their admira• James Meredith, the utudents of PC can tion for Americans, Mike found hatreds to which he has been forced to cal science major, visited Ger• gain a more intimate knowledge of many. "I went to Germany for that the Germans were an ex. submit constitute a national disgrace. tremely nationalistic people. problems confronting us and hitting several reasons," Mike stated. In order that we might have a better "First of all, 1 enjoy the lan• They could not understand why closer to home — civil rights. guage and felt I could put my Kennedy was not the law of grasp of conditions in the South and two years of college German to the land What men who ran might be exposed to the experiences of The Cowl has no doubt that over use by visiting Germany itself. Germany had said had been un• such as Mr. Meredith, the SC has I also hoped to gain experience questioned. 2300 students will flow into Alumni which would aid me In pre• brought James Meredith to our campus. "They appreciate U. S aid. Hall next Monday morning. What we paring for work in international but don't want an awful lot of law." The Cowl feels certain that each and do it. They realize, though, as the Conlon applied in early Feb• situation is now, that they need ruary and, having the necessary the military." language requirements, was ac• cepted by ASIS on March first. Not only are they proud of Wonder He decided to work for eight their nation as a whole, but weeks and then spend four they loved the beauty of Its weeks travelling through Ger• natural features. Mike recalls. about is how many of the faculty 38 faculty members braved that dan• many. "I would come back from a will be in attendance at the Mer• ger. Or could the non-attendance be weekend trip around the coun• "I worked in a small town tryside and they would ask me edith lecture. Of the approximately 150 credited to none other than the usual called Hanstatten, doing kalk- how it was Then they would faculty members, both religious and lay, disinterest and (that nasty old word) werk (chalk work) in a factory. describe the beauty of what I "It was hard work," he said, apathy? had seen. I knew what I had here at the College, no more than 25 "but when the Germans saw I seen, but in their love for Ger• laymen and thirteen priests were A better faculty attendance at the was willing to pitch in, they ac• many they couldn't keep from present for the lecture by Ambassador cepted me." expressing themselves." next lecture would do much toward in• "When you worked, there was Rojas. Possibly the faculty has its rea• creasing the morale of the SC and the never an idle moment." The One point that inevitably sons for not attending the first in the students in general. These lectures are men who worked along with came up was the war. The gen• SC speakers* series. However, it is dif• Mike ranged from about 45 to eral opinion of those he talked not confined to students. The faculty 65 years of age. As he ex• to stated that It was a good ficult to understand what valid reasons members also are welcome. pressed it, "I really can't im• thing that Germany lost. Now they could have. Could the faculty's agine Americans doing this the nation has been divided non-attendance be blamed on the fear The new speaker's program is quite heavy, dirty work. Physically and the Germans feel that this an improvement in the intellectual air these men had to be in top con• may be a blessing "When Ger• of involvement in controversy? Some dition. They worked hard and many is united," Mike said, here at PC. Speaking of they played hard. Kidding "they foresee troubles, national• around, they would tots huge istic as they are. The can see rocks at one another." the evil In too much power in In the beginning, Mike die hands of a few." thought that the hospitality the Improvements As Conlon reviewed his trip, Germans gave him was merely he mentioned several factors their way of "being nice to a which he believed made it such foreigner." But after a while how about the auditorium in Harkins an enjoyable experience." Work• The walls, floors, ceiling, and stage are they turned out to "be tremen• ing with the people, you meet Hall? all badly in need of a face-lifting. With dous." Invitations to dinner on different terms than a tour• often came two and three nights the fiftieth anniversary of the granting ist and a foreignor. Working The halls of our administrative a week. "It somehow became a of the College charter approaching, side by side with Europeans Is building have been cleaned up. Now, chore just keeping up with the only real way to get to wouldn't it be appropriate to give a little them," be said. what about the auditorium? Visitors know them." from other colleges, young ladies com• thought to sprucing up the auditorium ing to PC mixers, students — all of in Harkins Hall? these are usually shocked by the shabbi- Besides the sad condition of the ness of the interior of the auditorium. auditorium, there is also a

Providence College Providence, R.I. FRANK DEVLIN-Editor-in-Chief Problem Executive Editor, Peter J. Conn Managing Editors: Bill Joyce, Farrell Sylvester in regard to the entrance to the cafe• the College to supply some type of bulle• Business Manager: Jerry De Maria teria in Alumni Hall. It is difficult to tin board for the Alumni Hall cafeteria, Feature Editor: Michael J. McIntyre justify the sorry state of the window some central depository for the numer• between the doors to the cafe. The un• Associate Editor: Raymond Lajeunesse News Editor: Romeo Blouin ous announcements and posters now kempt and cluttered condition of that Sports Editor: Joe Reihing entrance leaves something to be desired, affixed to the window or lying about on Photography Editor: Vin Boles the floor? Copy Editor: Paul Ferguson would it be too difficult for the SC or Circulation Manager: Charlie Reidy THE COWL, OCTOBER 23, 1963 5 Exchange of Letters with NSA (Editor's Note: the following fairs, education and civil rights, is affiliated with the American letters are the results of a one would find that these par• Council on Education, the Coun• Memo from the Editor printed ticular areas far outnumber in cil for Basic Education, the On Campus withMax Shulman in the October 2 issue of The quantity the particular political United Nation's Economic, So• (Author of Roily Round the Flag, Boy* Cowl concerning re-evaluation issues you refer to. cial and Cultural Organization of Providence College member• and Barefoot Boy With Cheek) The statement, "In my estima• Committee, nor at any point in ship in the National Student As• your Memo, do you indicate the sociation.) tion we would derive more benefits from non-affiliating. work that we are doing in the Dear Sir: Not only do we gain no bene• South, with our Southern Hu• HAPPINESS CAN'T BUY MONEY With reference to the Memo fits from NSA, but we are also man Relations Project and the From the Editor appearing in lending our support to an or• consequences it has had in the With tuition costs steadily on the rise, more and more under• the October 2 issue regarding ganization which displays noth• South for facilitating social graduates are looking into the student loan plan. If you are Providence College's affiliation ing but irresponsibility (and at change. At no point in your editorial do you consider the in• one such, you would do well to consider the case of Leonid with the United States National times, ignorance)" is one that is Sigafoos. totally unsupported by fact. No ternational activities of the Na• Student Association, the state• Leonid, the son of an unemployed bean gleaner in Straight• ments in the third and fourth one can question, I feel, the re• tional Student Association, paragraphs of your Memo are sponsibility of the National Stu• which have proven to be of ened Circumstances, Montana, had his heart set on going to patently untrue. dent Association's stand on the great benefit to the interna• college, but his father, alas, could not afford to send him. entire question of civil rights, tional student community. You Leonid applied for a Regents Scholarship, but hia reading Your contention that the dis• in the field of education, and conspicuously leave out all the speed, alas, was not very rapid —three words an hour —and cussions at the National Stu• the stand of the Association on aid the Association gave to the before he could finish the first page of his exam, the Regents dent Association's summer Con• student welfare and cultural af• Algerian students in their fight had closed their briefcases crossly and gone home. Leonid then gress are primarily confined to fairs. You have produced no for freedom against French applied for an athletic scholarship, but he had, alas, only a single the abolition of HUAC, Con• factual statements to back up colonialism, You left out the athletic skill—picking up bee bees with his toes—and this, alas, servatism vs. Liberalism and your charge. Again you have support that the Association is other political affairs is false. now giving the students of the aroused only fleeting enthusiasm among the coaches. said, "several notable institu• And then—happy day I—Leonid learned of the student loan Let me quote to you some of tions of higher education in the Portuguese colonies of Africa in plan: he could borrow money for his tuition and repay it in the titles of resolutions passed United States have declined to their fight for freedom. at last summer's Congress: affiliate themselves with the easy installments after he left school I Southern Educational Issues, United States National Student Your editorial is perhaps Happily Leonid enrolled in the Southeastern Montana Col• Academic Freedom Violations, Association, and several others more significant, not for what Basic Policy Declaration on Stu• have come to the conclusion it says, but for what it does not dent Welfare, Basic Policy Dec• that membership in the Associa• say. As an officer of the United laration on Academic Freedom, tion is not worth it." You have States National Student Associa• the National Service Corps, only noted two schools which tion, I believe it incumbent Students Role in Affecting Leg• have disaffiliated. You have not upon the student press to ex• islative Activity, Cultural Af• shown anywhere in your Memo amine carefully the issues in• fairs, Goals and Practices in from the Editor where the Uni• volved, and to weigh carefully Higher Education, Tax Relief versity of Michigan, in which a the information available. This for College Students, a state• referendum was called for, you have not done, and it is on ment on National Security and stayed in the Association. You this point that I call you into Civil Liberties, a statement on also left out New York Univer• account. Tuition Free Higher Education. sity and the University of New Indeed, if one counts up the Mexico. Sincerely yours, number of topics in the area of Joel Sharkey student welfare, international You fail to note anywhere in National Affairs student cooperation, cultural af• your Memo that the Association Vice-President

Dear Sir: I can only express amazement country's African provinces, I lege of Lanolin and Restoration Drama and happily began s object for many reasons, the In regard to your letter of at NSA's positions on HUAC, college career that grew happier year by year. Indeed, it be• Oct. 9, I, as editor of The Cuba, Spain, Portugal, the Cun• primary of which is that this came altogether ecstatic in his senior year because Leonid met Cowl and author of the Memo ningham Amendment, and the aid is given "in the name of to which you object, feel it McCarron Act. Those resolutions the students of the United a coed named Anna Livia Plurabelle with hair like beaten gold binding upon me to reply in which you have passed in the States." For, the NSA does not and eyes like two sockets full of Lake Louise. Love gripped kind. For, what you so gratui• area of student affairs are also represent even half of the col• them in its big moist palm, and they were betrothed on St tously stated, I can just as quite shocking. Your policy leges in this country. NSA has Crispin's Day. gratuitously deny. resolutions concerning "academ• approximately 391 member-col• Happily they made plans to be married immediately after You stated that my state• ic freedom," the theory of "in leges as of May, 1963, but there commencement—plans, alas, that were never to come to fruition ments in the third and fourth loco parentis," and the student are well over 1200 colleges and because Leonid, alas, learned that Anna Livia, like himself, paragraphs of the Memo were press are, for the most part, universities in the United was in college on a student loan, which meant that he not only patently untrue. Then you pro• repugnant to my concepts of States. How can you justify had to repay bis own loan after graduation but also Anna student rights. Your resolu• declaring that you are repre• ceed in an attempt to refute livia's and the job, alas, that was waiting for Leonid at the tions would have unbridled free• senting "the United States stu• my contention that the discus• Butte Otter Works simply did not pay enough, alas, to cover sions at your Congress are "con• dom given to the students of dents?" our country, many of whom are both loans, plus rent and food and clothing and television fined, for the most part, to . . . repairs. political affairs." By the quali• not mature enough to recognize Your closing paragraph shows Heavy hearted, Leonid and Anna livia sat down and lit fying phrase "for the most the concomitant responsibilities. a large degree of ignorance on part," I think that I made it If such resolutions do not dis• your part in regard to college Marlboro Cigarettes and tried to find an answer to their prob• quite clear that I do not feel play NSA's irresponsibility, my newspapers. Where space is lem—and, sure enough, they did! I do not know whether or NSA to be exclusively con• background in semantics has limited, the editor must confine not Marlboro Cigarettes helped them find an answer; all I know cerned with politics. However, profited me nothing. For, if himself to generalities and ab• is that Marlboros taste good and look good and filter good, and the list of resolutions, which NSA is not irresponsible, either stract from the particulars, in when the clouds gather and the world is black as the pit from you included in your letter, I do not grasp the meaning of the hope that his readers will pole to pole, it is a heap of comfort ar-d satisfaction to be sure the word "irresponsible" or you do some investigating. This par• bears me out in my contention that Marlboros will always provide the same easy pleasure, have found a new meaning for ticular editor did "examine that NSA is primarily inter• the same unstinting tobacco flavor, in all times and climes and ested in those affairs which are that word. carefully the issues involved." Having weighed all the evi• conditions. That's all I know. so intricately woven into the Leonid and Anna Livia, I say, did find an answer—a very political fibre of our nation. Your references to my state• dence, my verdict was guilty— simple one. If their student loans did not come due until they How can you class the resolu• ments concerning the with• that NSA is guilty of gross ir• tion concerning "Students' Role drawal from and rejection of responsibility, of misrepresenta• left school, why then they just wouldn't leave school I So after in Affecting Legislative Activi• NSA by college throughout the tion, and of dereliction of duty. receiving their bachelor's degrees, they re-enrolled and took ty" and "a statement on Na• country can easily be answered. Very truly yours, master's degrees. After that they took doctor's degrees—loads tional Security and Civil Liber• The contention that I "left out and loads of them—until today Leonid and Anna Livia, both ties" as non-political topics? New York University . . ." as Frank Devlin aged 87, both still in school, hold doctorates in Philosophy, a college which has chosen to Editor-in-Chief Humane Letters, Jurisprudence, Veterinary Medicine, Civil The Cowl The NSA codification of poli• remain in NSA can be an• A) This is a list of institutions Engineering, Optometry, Woodpulp, and Dewey Decimals. cy for 1962-63 contains no less swered. A majority of the stu• of higher education which Their student loans, at the end of the last fiscal year, than twenty resolutions which dents voting in a referendum amounted to a combined total of nineteen million dollars—a at NYU (Washington Square have rejected affiliation are almost purely of a political sum which they probably would have found some difficulty in Branch) elected to withdraw with NSA: nature. Of the others passed, repaying had not the Department of the Interior recently de• although pertinent to students, from NSA, but its student gov• Purdue University clared them a National Park. Max Shulman™ many of them are concerned ernment failed to act. Concern• George Washington Univer• with the political sphere (e.g., ing your statement that I "have sity * * * resolutions in regard to "Issue only noted two schools which College of the Holy Cross Fordham University You don't need a student loan—just a tittle loose change— Oriented Political Parties and have disaffiliated" in my Memo, to grab a pack of smoking pleasure: Marlboros, sold in all I have included at the end of University of Kentucky the University Community" and fifty states in familiar soft pack and Flip-Top box. "Higher Education and the this letter a more thorough list University of New Hamp• Cold War"). of those who have withdrawn shire from and who have rejected Tufts University As to my accusation that NSA NSA affiliation. Gettysburg College "displays nothing but irrespon• University of Virginia sibility (and, at times, ignor• As to aid given to Algerian Note: this list is not com• PubtUhed Itch Full Week of School During the Academic Year ance"), I can say no more than plete) students in "fighting French by Providence College, River Avenue and Baton Street, Providence IS, that I harbor a personal disap• colonialism" and support now B) This is a list of institutions H. I. seoond Oua PoxMge Paid at Providence, R. I. proval of NSA's actions on being given to students engaged of higher learning which many issues. In the first place, in fighting Portugal in that (Continued on Page 6) 6 THE COWL, OCTOBER 23, 1963 R. I. Committee Formed AED Will Introduce Prizes to be Awarded Ten New Members By Literary Magazine For Drafting of Goldwater Into Alpha Chapter By ROBERT MacDONALD A statewide Draft Goldwater tion. which is affiliated with the On Thursday, Oct. 24, ten Rev. Robert L. Walker, O.P., Hall, opposite the game room for President Committee has national Draft Goldwater Com• new members will be initiated moderator of the Alembic, has door. The Editor-in-Chief. Dave been formed in Rhode Island by mittee, is "to channel the en• into the Rhode Island Alpha announced that once again this Grace, stated that works may be year prizes will be given for submitted at any time but that a group of leading Rhode Island thusiasm found in the Rhode Chapter of Alpha Epsilen Del• business and professional men. Island area for the nomination the best works printed in this they should be typed and Dr. Forrest McDonald, profes• of Senator Goldwater as the Re- ta. The ceremonies will take college literary magazine. A double spaced "The Alembic" sor of history at Brown Univer• publican presidential candi place at 6 p.m. in the Guild total of $100 will be given in he said, "is an organ by which sity, is chairman of the group. date." He said that "in the near Room of Alumni Hall. prizes, $20 for both the best anything which the students short story and the best poem. write will be printed if it is An outgrowth of the Gold- future, house - to - house can• The initiates are: Robert J. $30 for the best essay and for well written All expository water for President Committee vassing will begin." Baumer, Paul J. Coppola, Ray- the best play. works should be up to date and of Rhode Island, this organiza• the writer should have intimate tion met last night at the Colony mony Connolly, Kevin Crowley, Richard Gendron, Thomas Holl- Speaking of the manuscripts knowledge of what he is writing Motor Hotel. Among the di• about." rectors of the group are Dr. Mc• Kent County Club stein, Joseph L'Annuziato, Rich• that have been submitted for Donald. William Wishart of the first issue of the Alembic. ard McCauley, Peter Nigri, and Father Walker said. "We re• Warwick; Don Overman of Pub• To Sponsor Dance Victor Tuma. All are members lishers Research Corp ; Robert ceive mostly stories and poems, of the junior class. K. Rockwell of Rockwell Asso• Recently, the Kent County many of which are poor in both English Department Club held its first organizational style and content. Expository ciates, Providence; and three Following the initiation will student leaders — Kevin Crow• meeting of the year. The newly prose of quality would especial• Plans to Form Club be a meeting and a lecture by ley of PC, Daniel Joy of UR1, elected officers are: Paul De- ly be welcome as well as short and Mark Stull of Brown. Fusco, president; Ron Lavalle, Richard Bushie, assistant toxi- stories and poems. This would To Study Fine Art vice president; Pete McGuirl, cologist for the Rhode Island include essays of a critical na• Dr. McDonald stated that the treasurer; and Gerard Archam- ture concerning literary sub• Under the auspices of the purpose of the new organiza- bault, secretary. Department of Health. jects, and also politics, social English department of Provi• In addition to its initiation problems, and religion. We dence College, a new club will During the last meeting, this week, AED will also spon• don't want a high-brow, intel• be formed at an initial meeting plans were discussed for the lectual magazine but simply a to be held on Tuesday, Oct. 29, coming year. The first event of sor a dance which is open to the entire student body. To literary magazine to encourage in Room 311, Harkins Hall at NSA Letters... the year will be an "Interdigi- student writing." 7 p.m. tation Dance," to be held on be held on Friday evening in (Continued from Page 5) Friday, October 25. at the Cliff the Garden Room of -the Shera- The purpose of this club, have withdrawn from affilia• House in Rocky Point. Dancing ton-Biltmore Hotel, this event "Another problem is that which is to be called "Arts and Letters Club." is the study and tion with NSA: will be from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. is priced at $3 per couple. students are not willing to re• enjoyment of the fine arts, NYU (Washington Square Tickets are still available from write their works. An essay can Future plans call for a hay- be improved with a relatively centering on the consideration Branch) — (referendum ride, ski trip, and a Christmas members of AED. Music will small amount of rewriting." of literature. All those who are not acted upon by stu• dinner-dance in conjunction be provided by Ralph Stuart's interested, regardless of their dent government) with the Providence and Black- Band from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.Th e Alembic office is located concentration, are invited to at• Ohio State University stone Valley Clubs. on the first floor of Aquinas tend. Canisius College Indiana University Stonehill College University of Oklahoma Bates College (Maine) Now five kinds of Chevrolets for all kinds of people! Hillyer College (Conn.) University of Bridgeport University of Kansas Vanderbilt University Northwestern University University of Texas Universitj of Nebraska

C) This is a list of other non- affiliates: Brown University Iona College (New York) Georgetown University St Bonaventure University Syracuse University University of Massachusetts

(Note: These lists are based partially on NSA membership list as of May 1, 1963.) Veritas Veritas, the PC yearbook, has announced an extention on the deadline for activity sheets for the senior section of the 1964 yearbook. Activity sheets may now be placed in the box provided in the rotunda until October 30. The editor. Joseph Krzys. has also announced that more activ• ity sheets will be provided this afternoon It is asked that all those seniors who are veterans put the branch in which they served on the activity sheet.

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Grid Teams Remain Undefeated; NOTES Pace Intramurals Manhattan Gets Tie FROM Last week, (he first full week ran for a third tally as he over• Maintaining their status as an of Intramural grid activity, end• came an inspired Metropolitan undefeated team, the Freshmen ed with three Massachusetts defensive unit. harriers battled out a 28-28 tie teams on top of the standings. Joe Twomey threw for two Western Mass., the power in touchdowns and ran for one in with Manhattan, while defeat• the league, registered two wins, leading the Boston A mauling ing teams from Iona, 17-46, and The Patriots stayed even with of Jersey A, 32-0. Farleigh Dickinson, 15-50, last Western Mass. in the league In other games last week. Saturday at Van Cortlandt Park standings by posting victories Blackstone Valley took New SP0RTSDESK in New York. Flashy Bob over Metropolitan A and Pine Haven 18-0; Waterbury 13. By William Joyce Tree Club. Boston A. in third Cranston 6; Boston B tied New Powers took first place In the place in league standings, took Jersey. 6-8; Cranston held on three mile contest with a time There is a lamentable and depressing" situation de• an easy victory from Jersey A for a 7-0 victory over Hartford; of 16:08, barely beating team• veloping*. The venerable and happy burgomasters of In the Western Mass.-Guzman Pine Tree and the Blackstone mate Paul Harris by one second. Rhode Island, so faithful and true in the past, have be• Club battled to an 18-18 dead gun to show signs of that dreaded malady — complac• game, Mass. had little difficul• Playing under the stipula• ty moving the ball. The reason, lock; New Bedford over Boston ency. B, 7-0; New Jersey B tied Met tions of a four dual meet, each as last week, was the up to now Here it is the end of October and no signs of state• unstoppable combo of Lanunzia- B at 12 a piece; Met B and team has scored individually Prov. B played to a scoreless wide hysteria yet. A week of basketball practice has ta to Kryzs. Before Guzman against the different opponents already been completed and, as of yet, there is no evi• could regroup, Western Mass. tie; New Haven dropped Met A instead of regarding the re• dence of a movement to draft Joe Mullaney for the had coasted to a 31-0 victory. to a 14-0 defeat; New Jersey won a contest of mistakes and sults as a whole. By this ar• gubernatorial nomination. The Patriots registered two salvaged a 12-0 victory over rangement, Manhattan runners Perhaps the good people of Rhode Island have be• victories last week by dumping Guzman. come so confident that they are ready to proclaim to the the Met A team 18-0 and re• took the third, fourth, sixth, peating with a 20-2 thrashing of The standings: seventh, and eighth places, universe that the PC basketball team is among the W L T Pts the Pine Tree Club. Against thereby gaining enough to tie nation's best. They are so confident that they know that Western Mass 4 0 0 8 Mullaney's supermen will be just that — supermen. Why the Met Club, Ray Caddigan. the Friars. Placing fifth for PC the blond signal caller for the Boston Patriots 4 0 0 8 worry about performance? Do Rolls Royce owners Pats, threw two t.d. aerials and was Al Campbell, followed by worry? Boston "A" 3 0 0 6 Ray Van Epps, Mike McCarty Could there be another reason for this absence of Pine Tree 2 2 15 and Mike Eaton in the 10th, New Bedford 2 0 0 4 hysteria? It could very well be. Perhaps PC fans don't 12th and 13th places respective• Met "B" 1 0 2 4 really expect such a successful campaign as in recent ly. seasons, primarily because of the departure of Ray Haskins Rexall Blackstone 1 0 2 4 Flynn and Vin Ernst. Such logical reasoning i3 hardly Waterbury 2 10 4 By playing under the dual system, each team can get a to be expected, however. Pharmacy Bill LaVigne. President of 859 Smith Street better idea as to how it com• PCIA, announced yesterday that pared to another team; other• Gavitt is Reassured Pro v., R. I. a meeting for all those inter• wise, a team score in a multi- Frosh coach Dave Gavitt must be reassured to know "Your Prescription Center" ested in swimming will be held team contest can not give a true that his team might be the greatest frosh team in PC Thursday, Oct. 24, at 3 p.m., in Two indication of capability when annals. This is the consensus of the greatest collection the locker room of Alumni Hall. compared to the other oppon• Registered Pharmacists In his announcement he also of basketball experts in the state — the PC student ents. Usually, however, the dual body. On Duty urged participation in the sec• system does not apply to cham• ond cross-country meet which We Deliver pionship and tournament games. The clairvoyant powers of this august body are will be run on Oct. 28 at 4 amazing. Before the freshmen have had even one MA 1 -3668 Open Sundays p.m. The Freshmen record, now standing at 14 victories and one minute of game experience, they are touted as being all tie. will be put to another test but human. Experience will show that, unlike the Pope this Friday afternoon at King• speaking ex cathedra, they are not infallible. ston. R. I., when the Friars It's like saying a diamond will be a beautiful stone participate in a triangular meet —before it is cut. VINCENT'S PRESCRIPTION PHARMACY involving arch-rivals URI and Gavitt does have reason for optimism. The raw "THE BEST IN DRUGS" Brown. materials available certainly display talent; all Gavitt has to do is fit it together. VINCENT N. CIAVATTA, Reg. Pharmacist Headquarters to Main St.? 364 Admiral Street GA 1-6003 Frosh Hoop . . . "From all indications we should have a representa• (Continued from Page 8) tive PC team if we all work hard and forget about last ing around Westbrook in the season's merits." With these words, hockey coach Tom bucket. Creating one on oneEcclesto n indicates that he is conscious of the high ex• Just Great Eating! situations, moving without the pectations for his hockey team this season. ball, and developing into a unit Last year's PC six was much better than the final will be stressed. Each of the record indicated and there were few losses to speak of Economical Too! boys has his fine points and we from that club. The two major losses, Lou Lamoriello will try to employ these in game situations. and Tom Haugh, represent a tremendous loss in leader• ship, however. "Walker and Tarantapolis should work well on the fast There has been an increase in the interest shown Town Room Buffets break, with Riordan filling up for the PC hockey team and Eccleston is aware of it. the third lane. As usual, the This makes a coach's job infinitely more difficult (if combination defense will be you don't believe this ask Joe Mullaney) and Eccleston used. All are new to it and is reacting accordingly. Maybe some of the radicals ^ Sunday flsv it will take time before they have switched headquarters from Alumni Hall to North adjust to it. We expect a good Main St. ... year. There has been a great Variety Buffet deal of enthusiasm on campus about the freshman. I caution anyone in expecting miracles." <*®(i Wednesday Js*-3 Eccleston Second for Award The Providence Junior Cham• individual example has made ber of Commerce yesterday an• significant contributions to the Finest Italian Food nation's physical fitness move• SUBMARINE HAVEN nounced the winner of its award for the Outstanding Physical ment." (with wine) Tasty Submarine Sandwiches Fitness Leader in Rhode Island. Coach Eccleston has left a 1003 Smith Street The honor went to Jack Cronin, great impact on the physical "Qualltr Make, the DUference" physical education director of fitness of Rhode Island's youth MA 1-8826 the city of Providence and head over the last thirty years. Dur• =•0(1 Friday Jsv Opp. LA Bella Academy football coach at La Salle Acad• ing that time he has served as emy. A close second in the bal• teacher, coach, athletic director, Seafood Smorgasbord loting by a panel of seven principal and superintendent of judges was Tom Eccleston, schools. His football, hockey, hockey coach at PC and super• and baseball teams at Burrill- intendent of schools in Burrill- ville H. S. have all won state LA SALLE ville, R. I. championships at various times. CUSTOM TAILOR In addition he established on ©SHERATON ADOLPH DEL BOSSI, Ft Bp. The Providence Jaycees spon• amateur football program and a Cleanlnf — Preailn, sored the contest in an effort Pee Wee Hockey League for We PreM Unllormi, Black• to focus attention on the need and Bnlli the town of Burrillville. In his -BILTMORE HOTEL Rcpalrini of All Klnda for physical fitness standards as seven years as coach at PC he 1001 SMITH STREET suggested by the President's has developed his pucksters George Thomas Cullen UN 1-7930 Council on Physical Fitness. into a truly representative East• Innkeeper Providence, B. L They sought a man who "by his ern team. 8 THE COWL, OCTOBER 23, 1963 Thinclads to Meet Brown, Hockey Season Opens; URI, in State Championship By JERRY SLEVIN Kish Leads at Defense Providence College's varsity race, the Coach pointed out, but By Dick Berman cross-country team raised its their slack was picked up by record to 11-4 during the past their teammates. Barry Brown "Teamwork is definitely going to be the key to this season," commented Coach weekend, winning 3 meets, and Dick Duggan, usually PC's Tom Eccleston as he greeted thirty varsity candidates at the start of the '63-'64 while losing 1. one-two punch, were both in• hockey campaign. Headed by co-captains Larry Kish and Ray Mooney, the puck- jured. Brown strained a groin sters have a number of returning lettermen, vastly improved spares, and a crop of On Friday afternoon, Sopho• promising sophomores, all which seems to point toward a very optimistic season. more Barry Brown set a new muscle and was forced to with• draw from the race. Duggan, course record as he led the Yes, we have a good core of f Friars to victory over Spring• although able to finish the race, players to build around, but field College and Boston Uni• was hospitalized pending the they're going to have to work versity in a triangular meet on outcome of several tests he will together on defense if we ex• the PC course, The final score undertake. pect to hold down, then out- was PC 23, Springfield 42, and score the opposition," added BU 71. This was Springfield's These key injuries, the Coach Eccleston. added, will definitely dim the first loss in three seasons of As in the past the Friars will team's chances of winning the dual meet competition. use a predominant passing at• state cross-country champion• tack, in fact, one of the few Brown ran the 3.6 mile ship next Friday at the Univer• eastern college sextets to do so. course in 16:48, eclipsing the sity of Rhode Island. Competing As the coach remarked, "we old mark of 16:50.2 set by Art will be the strong squad from lack the 'super stars' to rely on Freeman of BU two years ago. Brown, in addition the PC and individual maneuvers on the Friars placing behind Brown URI squads. The Coach opti• ice." were Bob Fusco, 2nd, Jerry mistically added that the team's balance may give them the win• Offensively, Eccleston ex• ning combination. pects quite a bit from juniors Grant Heffernan and Rick Hexi- mer who should, in their men• tor's opinion, start to reach their potentialities. Jake Final Cut Announced; Keough, another third year man who was injured last season, is Hoopsters Still Seek reported ready to go along with class mates Dan Sheehan, Bill Warburton, Chuck Gaffney, and Guard Replacements Tom Fecteau. Other holdover veterans are seniors Capt After a week of practice, Mooney, one of the quickest Joe Mullaney has had a chance wings in eastern collegiate for a good look at his hoop• hockey, Howie LaPorte, Bruce Coach Tom Eccleston explains defensive problems to sters, and reports that spirits Norwell, Joe Meldon, and Paul PC's star backliners, Larry Kish and Frank Brander. are rising high. Speaking of DeCarlo. Some of the upcoming1 the leadership of his co-captains sophs include Jack Gately, Dan Thompson and Stone, the Coach Griffin, and Ken McGowan. said "this is great spirit. John and Jimmie are really keeping The picture at defense ap• Coach Greets New the boys alive and working." pears very bright this year with Capt Kish, regarded by many Mullaney made his final cut as one of the finest rear-guards Friarlet Hoopsters Friday to bring the number he in the East. Gaffney, Decarlo, Fecteau, and newcomer Frank "We have the makings of a Others who will see a lot of will carry for the season to Brander, to mention a few, bat• twelve. "We did that on the very solid ball club," comment• action are Dave Turbidy, a 5' 8" tle it out for starting positions. ed Coach David Gavitt as his guard from North Providence; assumption that twelve will be Brian Kelly, a transfer from freshman charges prepared for Bill Barrett, a 6' 2" forward enough to work with," he said. West Point, although ineligible the upcoming season. Leading from Stubenville. Ohio, and He is reluctant to carry more for this season under NCAA the way after the first week of John Minicucci. a 5' 10" guard than twelve since he can only rules, can be expected to keep practice are Jimmy Walker, Dec from Naugatuck, Connecticut. these backliners sharp. take that many on trips. Westbrook, Mike Riordan, and Also Paul Massey of Hamden, With Tommy Haugh not re John Hamilton crosses the Steve Tarantapolis. Conn.; Rusty Frame, a 6' 5" finish line first in a meet run Last season there were four• turning for his junior year on Walker, a 6' 3" guard from center from Zanesville, Ohio, against Tufts last week. Friar teen on the team so he could Boston, is an excellent ball and Jim Schessler, a 6' 6" cen• Harriers raised their mark to handler and shooter. Gavitt ter from New Jersey. "All of 11-4 with three victories. be fairly sure of at least ten said, "Jimmy is extremely the boys have a good chance of for practice in case some play• strong and experienced for his playing. There is still one Riordan, 5th, Dick Duggan, 6th, ers were injured or had bad size and age. He has the knack more spot open," responded Bill LaVigne, 9th, Tom Durie, schedule conflicts on particular of finding the open man and is Gavitt. Pete McLaughlin, a tough off the boards. Adjust• 6' 3" guard from Wilmington, 11th, Jim Harlow, 12th, John days. However, he always had Douglas. 13th, Don Shanahan, ing to the defense will be his Delaware, will work out with 14th, Tom Sousa, 16th, John the problem of two boys not big problem." the squad but is ineligible. He Hamilton, 17th, and George being able to travel. Mullaney A 6' 7" center from Mt. Ver• played at the University of Kneuttel, 18th. went on to say, "If we should non, N. Y., Westbrook was a South Carolina last year. teammate of Walker's in prep On Saturday, the Friar Har• have problems in the future Commenting on the over-all with injuries, I would consider school. "Dec is very quick and riers traveled to Van Cortland agile around the basket. Al• prospects of his team, Gavitt Park in New York City where adding a man or two." though thin he has strong legs said, "On offense we will work they bowed to Manhattan Col• and clears the ball very well off with the standard pivot revolv- The roster now includes sen• lege, 17-39, but defeated Iona the defensive boards, which (Continued on Page 7) Tom Eccleston College, 23-34, and Fairleigh iors Stone, Thompson, Bob helps create a lot of fast break Dickinson University, 18-45. Simone and Bill Stien; juniors situatious," replied Gavitt. Although the four teams ran the Smith Hill campus, another together, the results scored as Bob Kovalski, Noel Kinski, Jim titantic duel for the netmind- "Mike Riordan is a hard four dual meets instead of as Ahern, Don Dutton, and Jim er's job is brewing between worker. He possesses a good PC in Festival one quadrangular meet. sophomores Bob Bellemore and jump shot from far out and is Cox; and sophomores Bill Blair, John Campbell. Both need as an adequate rebounder. He The Providence College bas• Jim Benedict, and Bill Lasher. much ice time as possible to get will play the left side of the ketball team will again partici• Manhattan's Bob Sweeney pate in the Holiday Festival covered the five-mile course in During the first week of prac• back their timing dulled by the defense made famous by Lenny summer lay over. This is es• Wilkens. His ball handling Basketball Tournament in New 27 minutes and 33 seconds. The tice the team has been concen• York on Dec. 26, 28 and 30. first PC finisher was Bill La• pecially true of Bellemore who needs improvement," comment• Vigne, who was fifth. Other trating on defense and using has been away from the ice for ed Gavitt on Riordan, a 6' 2" The Friars have drawn St. PC finishers were Jim Harlow, various combinations of men in quite a while. The two will cer• forward from Great Neck, N. Y. Josephs of Philadelphia in the 7th; Jerry Riordan, 11th; John the backcourt. Mullaney said, tainly be putting out to land Riordan was a good schoolboy feature game of the 1st round Hamilton, 12th; Don Shanahan, "Those guard spots are really that number "one" jersey. player who led his team to the at 9 p.m. on Dec. 26. The other The Black and White with the semifinals of the New York opening pairings are: 15th; Tom Durie, 17th; Bob open. There's going to be a lot Fusco. 18th; Tom Sousa, 22nd; exception of graduated Captain City Catholic Championship. of competition before we decide Upper bracket—2 p.m., St Paul Foster, 25th; John Douglas, Lou Lamoriello have the team's Tarantapolis, a 6' 0" guard on our starters. No one has the Johns vs. Utah; 4 p.m., Dayton 26th; Bill Smith, 28th; George top eight scorers from last sea• from Brockton, Mass., was an vs. Villanova. Kneuttel; 31st, and Dave Kelley, edge now." Regarding the fast son's squad who accounted for outstanding high school player. 33rd. break he said, "Thompson and a total of 136 assists and 70 In the Tech Tourney he set a Lower bracket—7 p.m., Cor• nell vs. Minnesota; 9 p.m.. Prov• Kovalski are really working goals. record by scoring 51 points. Coach Hanlon explained how Prior to the first official "Steve is a good shooter with idence vs. St. Josephs. hard getting the ball out. It the team's balance enabled ECAC faceoff scheduled for quick hands. He will work well The winner of the PC game them to do so well in Satur• gives us a good opportunity to November 30 against the always on the fast break with Walker. will face the Cornell-Minnesota look at the guards who can day's meet. Several of his key tough Colby College Mules, the His passing and ball handling winner on Dec. 28. Providence complete the break." Friars are slated to scrimmage are sloppy, and he will have to beat the Hawks 83-64 in a regu• runners were injured during the Bowdoin College in Maine. be more careful." lar season game last year.