The Cowl in the F.B.I

The 1919 Cowl Established in 1935 VOL. LVVI, NO. 32 PROVIDENCE COLLEGE • PROVIDENCE, R.I. March 8, 1989 Child Expert to Reveal His Psychiatry Dr. Robert Coles, professor of At Harvard, Dr. Coles teaches in psychiatry and medical humanities the Medical School, the College, at Harvard University, will deliver the Business School, the Law an address at Providence College School, the Graduate School of on Wednesday, March 15. The Education, and the Kennedy talk, an event in the President’s School of Government. He is also Forum on Culture and Values, will a research psychiatrist for the Har be delivered at seven o’clock in vard University Health Services. Lecture Hall III of Moore Hall. Originally intending to be a The lecture is open to the public pediatrician, Robert Coles was en without charge. couraged to become a child His topic will be “ The Moral psychiatrist by William Carlos Life to the Young” , which is the Williams, physician and poet. The subject o f one of his recent books. literary aspect of his scholarship He has also written The Political has been manifest in much of his Life o f Children (1986), and is cur writing, including studies of rently studying the spiritual life of Walker Percy, Flannery O’Con children. He was awarded the nor, James Agee, Elizabeth Among the approximately 700 Seniors who attended the 89 days party last Friday were from left to Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his multi Bowen, and George Eliot. right, Debbie Herlihy, Sharon Fry, Murphy Peng, Christina Burrows. volume work entitled Children o f He attributes the origins of his C risis. documentary child psychiatry to his Other recent works by Dr. Coles experiences in New Orleans in 1960 include Dorothy Day: A Radical during the turbulence associated Tower Nomination Possibilities D e v o tio n , and Simone Weil: A with the desegregation of elemen Modern Pilgrimage. He is the tary schools there. His interests in author o f 38 books and more than social justice are reflected in his Grow Dim as Senate Debates 900 articles, reviews, and writings and his affiliations. He is by Maryann Pallante The former Republican Senator, monographs for periodicals, a consultant to the Appalachian Nunn also stated that even if launching a media campaign to Tower foreswore alcohol, many in newspapers and anthologies. He is Volunteers, and a member of the The controversial nomination of a contributing editor to several National Advisory Committee on overcome Senate doubts about his the Senate are concerned with past John G. Tower by President Bush fitness for office and allegations of journals including T h e N e w Farm Labor, a member of the Na financial ties to the defense in for Secretary of Defense has pro his drinking problems, made a Republic, The American Poetry tional Sharecroppers’ Fund and a dustry. Immediately after he ven to be the first of many poten pledge of sobriety on national Review, Literature and Medicine, member of the National Organiza resigned from the U.S. Arms Con- tial battles with the Democratic- television. “ I hereby swear and and The New Oxford Review. tion for Migrant Children. trol Negotiating delegation in controlled Congress. Late last undertake that if confirmed, dur Geneva on April 26, Tower, by week, the Armed Service Commit ing the course of my tenure as September, was working as a con tee voted in opposition to the Secretary of Defense,” Tower sultant for defense contractors such Dominican Priest nominee 11 to 9, largely on the stated,“ I will not consume as Martin-Marietta (A missile and basis of confidential allegations beverage alcohol of any type or large rocket manufacturer). His made in a Federal Bureau of In form.” consulting company rendered ser Revitalizes Faith vestigation report involving their Continuing with his effort to vices to half-dozen major military former colleague’s drinking habits, strengthen public relations and de contractors and was paid more A Washington-based Dominican Western St. Thomas Aquinas financial dealings with military Foundation (WESTAF). WESTAF fend himself from accusations of than one million dollars in two priest has decided the time has contractors, and sexual behavior. facilitates the practical application alcoholism. Tower appeared on years. come for dramatic action. With the strong support of Presi of St. Thomas’ teachings to con "ABC News- This Week With Nunn claims, “ Tower provided “ We seem to be more ready to dent Bush, Tower began a public temporary problems. David Brinkley” he confirmed, "I them with classified information on accept the necessity of breath than relations effort to salvage his A native Californian, Fr. Bart have never been an alcoholic nor the implications of arms control the necessity of truth,” claims Fr. nomination. A senatorial debate says that St. Thomas’ philosophical dependent on alcohol.” When negotiations dealing with future Bartholomew de la Torre, O.P. was held early this week regarding and theological analyses of reality describing his drinking habits of product development.” “ Christian philosophy is the full his personal life which has been are stimulating even today, more the 1970’s, Tower confessed,“ I did Tower states that he advised development of common sense, us subject to intense controversy bet ing the Catholic Scriptures and than 700 years after Thomas’ drink too much" and called himself clients on the political climate and death. ween the White House and Senate “ a pretty good scotch drinker” in never based his judgment on Catholic tradition to sound the Democrats. “ It is significant that Vatican II those days. “ I haven’t touched classified information or used such alarm when common sense has “ The President has not lost one - called by the Church precisely to scotch in twelve years,” he con knowledge to advise a company on made a mistake.” iota of confidence in John Tower analyze human problems from the tinued,"Now I only have a glass of what weapons to manufacture. He Arguing that there is a “ critical or in his capacity to serve as point of view of God’s own wine with meals or an occasional denies giving any clients classified need” to re-acquaint human socie Secretary of Defense,” Whitehouse ty with that “ central wisdom” guidance - explicitly and repeated- martini.” information. spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater said. Senator Nunn, who led the White House officials accuse from which Western society See DOMINICAN When the Senate of Armed Ser sprang, Fr. Bart has established the Armed Services Committees vote Nunn and other democratic Continued on page 3 vices Committee opposed John against the nomination expressed Senators of wanting to humiliate Tower’s nomination for Secretary concerns. He claimed that there the new President. of Defense due to allegations stated was no “ breaking point” between Not only accused o f alcoholism Inside the Cowl in the F.B.I. report involving the the 1970’s when Tower and the leakage of classified infor nominee’s personal life, the stage acknowledged a drinking problem mation, the nominee has faced un; What’s Going On? was set for a major battle in and his position today as a ★ See TOWER Congress. nominee. Continued on page 3 A brief summary o f world events inside. See News. Health Department Issues “Red Alert” to Avoid Possible Measles Outbreak Bon Jovi Live! Coverage o f the star’s by Fr. J. Stuart McPhail, O.P. ly complicated by middle ear infec are considered to be immune and tion and/or bronco pneumonia. not susceptible even if they have no latest show. 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Islamic Scholars Fear Rushdie Crisis Will Reinforce Anti-Muslim Prejudice For Mohammed, an Iranian stu stand why the Muslim world is of them steer the nation clear of dent at the University of Idaho, the fended, there will be a rise of op Western influences in the policy fears and riots and controversy position to Islam in this country,” vacuum after the war with Iraq, about novelist Salman Rushdie’s predicted Seyyed Hossein Nasr, which ended in 1988. book “ Satanic Verses” seem far and Islamic professor at George He pointed out the European removed. Washington University. community’s withdrawal of its While in 1979 the 50,000-some Many Muslims maintain diplomats from Iran in protest of Iranian students then studying in Rushdie’s book blasphemes the the murder contract is exactly what the U.S. reported frequent in prophet Mohammed in the fic the Iranian isolationists want to cidents of harassment from their tional dream sequence in which fulfill “ their vision of what the American-born classmates angered Mohammed momentarily Islamic Republic should be.” by the holding of American recognizes women as saints.

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