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SUBSCRIBER'S ADDRESS BC Game THE COWL This Sunday PROVIDENCE VOL. XXXI, No. 18 PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R. I., APRIL 30, 1969 TEN PAGES Proposal Amended Congress Scraps Plans For Student Referendum A number of unexpected de• concluded before the Christmas from December 20 to January velopments have forced the stu• recess. 26. dent congress to scrap its plans The proposed calendar change, Amendment for a student referendum on the introduced at a February 3 At last Monday's meeting of proposed calender change. meeting of the 1968-69 Congress the newly elected congress, how• The referendum, originally by Ralph Paglieri was unani• ever, Paglieri's calender change scheduled for Thursday and Fri• mously approved by that Con• proposal was amended to re• day of this week, had offered gress. According to the pro• duce the length of the semester students a choice between the posal, the first semester exam break. The feeling was that it traditional school calender and period was scheduled from would be more reasonable to a revised calender under which December 13 to December 20, shorten the semester recess by first semester exams would be followed by a semester recess a total of 12 days, thus advan• Joe Raffa, organizer of NAC, explains goals to members. cing the beginning of second —COWLfotn by Frank Toiler semester classes. In doing so, the dismissal date for second semester would be advanced ac• Non-Violent Action Comm. Mr. Edward Bren nan Named As cordingly, and classes would end in mid-May. This amendment has in turn Forms To Seek Changes New P C Peace Corps Liason encounted difficulties. The Rev. '"We won't take over Hark- said Raffa, SDS "renders itself Thomas Peterson, O.P., Dean of ins . hopefully," promised ineffective." On May 1, Edward Brennan, assess trainees and evaluate Studies, has indicated that there Joe Raffa at last Tuesday's or• The constitution of his new of the Psychology department, them for Peace Corps com• would be certain problems in ganizational meeting of his Non- NAC states its purpose as be• will replace Richard Deasy, a mitments. He analyzed the advancing the second semester Violent Action Committee. At• ing "to unify and combine the member of the history depart• trainee's psychological capabili• dismissal date since the gradua• ment, as Peace Corps liaison on ties to handle the job and to tended by about forty persons, elements of our society seeking function in a different society. tion date for seniors is set by the meeting served to introduce progressive change and as a the PC. campus. agreement with the governor of According to Mr. Deasy, the This work brought him and the NAC as "a radical, liberal or• means of profiting from the er• trainees to Iran for a month. Rhode Island. This date would ganization seeking to create po• rors of previous liberal organi• capabilities of the liaison, which therefore be exceedingly dif• litical and social action involv• zations." While stressing NAC's facilitates the processing of ap• Mr. Deasy commented on his ficult to change, according to ing students, professors, work• autonomy and freedom from plications by students interested own three year term as liaison Fr. Peterson. It would affect ers and others who strive for "national dictators" Raffa stated in the Peace Corps, will be in a Cowl interview. "My own the schedules of local and state social, economic and political that seven national members greatly enhanced and extended service has operated in a tran• (Continued on Page 3) freedom." would have to be registered on by the previous experiences Mr. sitional period between the the P. C. campus. If organized, Brennan has had with the Peace establishment of the position by This non - militant radical Dr. Henry Rosenwald and its ex• movement, already active at the group plans to recruit more Corps. "His intimate acquaint• black students, publish litera• ances with the operations of the tension, now under Dr. Bren• Trinity and U. Conn., is a step nan," he stated. Plan Announced to fill the void left by the ture on vital social issues and organization and his direct con• alienation of SDS. Most stu• hold demontstrations "if neces• nections with the personnel at In the past, Mr. Deasy has For Student Role dents reject SDS, Raffa ex• sary." the national offices of the Peace plained, not because of its ends, At the same time Raffa ex• Corps in Washington should of• control in college, but its pressed the idea that the col• fer greater services to interested In Policy Making means. SDS takes an issue and lege's administrators cannot be students," said Dr. Deasy. builds to a confrontation, e. g., alienated by the organization. Last summer, Mr. Brennan A plan for placing student taking over a building, wherein "We can't throw out the Dean, worked for eight weeks in Ver• representatives on the policy the police arrive and polariza• no matter how much we'd like mont as a field assessment of• making committee of the col• tion of moderates occurs. Thus, (Continued on Page 7) ficer. This job required him to lege was explained to the Stu• dent-Administration Committee last Thursday. The plan, which was drawn up by the Committee on Stud• Faculty Senate to Look into ies, calls for two representa• tives, one senior and one junior, to be elected for each of the sixteen academic departments. From this group of 32, the ROTC Curriculum Changes President and the Executive Board of the Student Congress The Faculty Senate resolved the nature of the ROTC curricu• tary Science Dept. at PC have will nominate all the student last week to continue studying lum and 3) the faculty status of the rank of Assistant Professors representatives to the Study the ROTC program here to find the members of the ROTC Dept and that some of the NCO's are Committees, with no student ways of integrating other areas The major points of the con• Instructors. Concerning enroll• serving on more than one com• mittee. of study into the Military tract were that the contract is ment, he reported that PC grad• Science Dept. indefinite in term and subject to uates more than 100 officers The example given was for By a voice vote, the Senate re-negotiation "only when con• per year and there are more the Committee on Studies: passed the resolution which ditions arc significantly From the group of thirty-two altered," he said. Also, Fortin than 200 students in the basic students, the president and Ex• was the conclusion reached by course. the Academic Affairs Commit• said notice of one year is re• ecutive Board of the Congress tee, headed by Dr. Fortin. quired before termination of Concerning the curriculum, it MR. EDWARD BRENNAN would select nine names to be the contract. was reported that when PMS sent to Father Haas, who makes The bill to study ROTC was given the Peace Corps tests on Other points concerning the Col. Gideon Hevenor spoke with all the appointments to the introduced by Dr. John Hen- campus as a convenience to the study committees. contract are that it grants the the Academic Affairs Committee students and as an auxiliary to nedy on March 5, but he with• he informed them that he de• drew the bill before the report College the right to refuse the regular Peace Corps repre• These names would be in or• initial appointment to the ROTC sired to de-emphasize drill, in sentative. In accomplishing such der of preference and there was delivered. part to allow non-academic sub• Because Dr. Fortin's commit• staff or to recommend dismissal activities, Mr. Deasy stated that would be a certain proportion of personnel considered unde• jects to be taught outside of the he never received anything less of juniors and seniors, for two tee had already made its study, normal classroom time. however, Fr. John Cunningham, sirable by the College, only the than complete cooperation from seniors and one junior are to O.P., president of the Senate, PMS has the right to academic Hevenor also said that the the national and regional of• be appointed to the Committee asked that the report be pre rank, and the institution must PMS is allowed a 25% adjust• fices in Washington and Boston, on Studies. Also, Father Rich• sented. graduate 25 officers a year and ment of the curriculum at his and from the P.C. administra• ard Danilowicz, O.P., said that the basic course enrollment ex• own initiative and that students tion. He also mentioned that it was "suggested" that of the In presenting the report. For• ceed 100. tin said that the Committee was in ROTC get a total of 16 credits he received full cooperation nine men, three be from the interested in three areas: 1) the Fortin also noted that all com• and that removal of academic from Raymond Thibeault and Natural Sciences, three from nature of the ROTC contract 2) missioned officers in the Mili• (Continued on Page 7) the Student Placement center. (Continued on Page 8) THE COWL, APRIL 30, 196!) Evening Division to Feature study Aboard Course in Criticism of Films Grants For Graduate Work The fall of 1969 will see the films much more, and to appre• introduction of a movie criticism ciate the cinema more as an course at PC, to be conducted art form." "Introduction to the evenings by Miss Kathleen Karr. Cinema" will be open to all Overseas Offered For 1970 undergraduate students as well "Introduction to the Cinema" as to those people normally in• On May 1st, the Institute of verely cut and the total num• portation, health and accident will be a two semester course volved in the evening program, International Education will of• ber of grants reduced from 825 insurance and an incidental al• carrying two to three credits, and there are hopes that it can ficially open its competition for to approximately 275, it is ex• lowance.