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J A I N T P E T�" E R •s C O L L E G E and Tee Pee rightly so Page 2 PAU WOW ·page 4 Volume XXXVI I November 21, 1969• 1Number 3 - "I'\, "'n c .;J On The Left On The Right Wally Greenlagh, Student Senate Representative, leads the Lee Hayes, crewman of the U.S.S. Pueblo, tells the Koreans' a�t candlelight march from St. Peter's to Journal Square on November 13. of piracy on the high seas and of the inhuman tortures that he and �•s Event kicked off three-day Vietnam moratorium which wound up with colleagues suffered at the hands of their captors. He advocated a pohcy a march on Washington, D.C. which drew 250,000. (See stories on of victory in Vietnam. (See story on page 7.) pages 2 and 3). (' Page 2 PAUW WOW November 21, 1969 English Dept. Stands Firm by Gerry Brennan Tee Pee vs. the English Department. This much publicized confrontation has caused tempers to flare and blood to boil. Therefore, in order to attain a perspective in which all points of view are brought out into focus, the Pauw Wow contracted two men, who figure prominently in the issue. They are Dr. Loren Schmidtberger, the President of the Faculty Senate and a distinguished member of the English Department and Connor -Dr. Schmidtberger then merit preferance over the Tee Pee P. Hartnett, the chairman of the indicated that the portion of the issue. English department. Senate's minutes which alluded to Dr. Schmidtberger thought it As of the moment, the fate of the recommital of the report back almost an impossibility that the Dr. Schmidtberger Prof. Hartnett the Tee Pee issue lies in the hands to the Senate Committee. issue would be on the Senate the English Department or Tee out "w e're opposed to of the Faculty Senate. Because of The reasons for this move agenda before the end of the Pee had made any new proposals, composition without content." this fact, the Pauw Wow first were, as stated in the minutes, present semester. But he Dr. Schmidtberger replied he was ln summation of the English turned its attention to Dr. simply "for purposes of making emphasized that the matter would not in a position to accurately · Department stand, he said that Schmidtberger. further evaluation and for gaining "be before the Senate before the comment on such a question. the English Department desired a With the intent of presenting assurance that the English end of the present scholastic Because of this, he then composition course complete with the facts as accurately as possible, Department would continue to year." referred the Pauw Wow directly to the content and discipline of a Dr. Schmidtberger referred offer a composition course." As president of the Faculty Connor P. Hartnett, the Chairman regularly prescribed college directly to the minutes of the However, Dr. Schmidtberger Senate, he also pointed out that of the English Department. course. Faculty Senate meeting of speculated that probably the real the situation in the Senate is by Mr. Hartnett emphatically Concerning the point that the Thursday, May 29, 1969. reason why the issue was no means a static one. Therefore stated that the stand of the English Department wanted the The recommendation recommitted was that the Faculty the possibility of a compromise English Department has remained composition course in order to presented in a report to the Senate "did not have adequate would not be out of the question. "pretty consistent". In addition, avoid teacher cutbacks, Hartnett Senate directly stated that "The time to consider the matter." Essentially, Dr. Schmidtberger he also stated that his department replied that "people losing their English Department assume the Thus the issue was reverted to felt that the basic issue involved "is committed to English jobs was not the central issue." responsibility for the composition the committee and up to the was the same one which has Composition." In his estimation, the real issue course, effective September present, that's where it has plagued the college since he began Basically, as he pointed out, boils down as to whether "the 1970." remained. teaching here; that is, money. the English Department wants a English Department is not The report also recommended He commented on the last What it basically reduces to is composition course with real competent to do what it is that: (a) there should be writing aspect by pointing out that the how an efficient course can be content. supposed to do." samples given to the Freshman in three proposals (a), (b), (c), offered under the best financial He emphasized what his He further felt that if English order to determine the writing mentioned in the above, are conditions. department has maintained all teachers were "professionally proficiency of each student. before the Faculty Senate On the prospect of proposed along is that "people must read in qualified, then they are It then additionally stated Committee. But it has not yet further investigation, he expressed connection with writing", and professionally qualified to teach that: (b) any composition course deliberated on them. that he "was not able to predict" that in addition, "people don't composition". include libracy usage; and in This lack of action on the whether the issue would be learn to write by just writing." Finally, Mr. Hartnett did admit addition it advocated: (c) further Committee's part, he attributed to reverted to Fr. Becker's Mr. Hartnett further stated that "there is a place for certain academic experimentation dealing the fact that at the present time Curriculum Committee for that it would be "inaccurate to types of writing courses such as with the important problem of there are three issues before the additional study. say we're opposed to creative writing". composition. Faculty Senate Committee which Finally when asked whether composition". Rather he pointed But he added that "there is no correlation between creative writing and teaching it." two groups and lost each other for the weekend. Everybody found a place to sleep, mostly in church basements. One guy from St. Peter's who's with the Peace Corps this semester turned his tiny apartment into a wall-to-wall barracks forthe occasion. Saturday morning it must have been fifteen degrees. We joined the march at noon; after looking unsuccessfully for the LOOK INTO Revolutionary Contingent, we decided to fall in with whoever CAREER OPPORTUNITIES was passing by, regardless of affiliation. This bunch was pretty • far out. They chanted fantastic Nixon-Agnew obscenities and got DEC. 29 & 30 into a shouting contest with a crew of sweetness-and-light-I at Robert Treat Hotel d on' t -like-the-war-because it's-not-nice people. They were Newark, N. J. yelling "Peace now," and we were coming back with "Revolution • Now." Disunity in the movement. COLD TRUCKRIDE Tsk. 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J. 07102 packs, gasmasks and helmets. We cops caught out to lunch with that old us for were underway on the longest trip yellow light and nailed counterrevolutionary, cannabis. It Hell, we figured, Your Name ___________ to Washington I've ever made, thirteen dollars. was people, a sea of people. It we're eight hours and then some, ready that's not all of the Law made you glad to see that they Home Address_ __________ for the march or seige or slaughter going to see this weekend. had all turned out, and it made lot at or whatever it turned out to be. I pulled into a dirt you miserable to think that even around At our second Howard eleventh and N streets if they brought ten million more -thirty and we broke into Johnson's ,the troopers emptied twelve (Continued on Page 8) November 21, 1969 PAUW WOW Page 3 Marcher Describes D.C. Moratorium by Mark Rowan thousands of truely peaceful another. People from all over the (Wash. D.C.) The crowds swarmed from the Washington Monument to the base of the demonstrators were ignored. "He states were united with their hill, where a P.A. system was set up at a cost of $17,000 a day. The different groups were led must have heard Agnew's speech.'' fellow Americans. Some by an assortment of flags which flared out in the stiffbreeze. The flags represented the Viet one youth uttered. "It sells "was compared it to Woodstock; others Cong, North Viet-Nam, South Viet-Nam, Canada, and the American flag flown both the his unheard answer. said there was nothing to compare standard way and upside down, the sign of surrender.