Orientation Issue Established in 1935 1919 1984 ORIENTATION ISSUE No. 3 _________ PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R.I. JUNE 20,1984 PC Welcomes Class of 1988 PC Selected R.I. Raises For Drinking Age On July 1, 1984 (he legal age to Peterson’s consume alcoholic beverages in the state of Rhode Island will be rais­ Guide ed to 21. The bill passed into law earlier this year is an effort to combat Providence College has made drunk driving deaths. another leap up the ladder of Legislators in Massachusetts, academic excellence. It was only Connecticut, and New York have two years ago that PC jumped to tried similar measures but so far very competitive status in the their efforts have been Baron’s College Guide. This spring unsuccessful. it was announced that PC has now The law is expected to bring a been selected to a position in the ex­ few changes to the Providence Col­ clusive Peterson’s Competitive lege community. Colleges. The fate of the PC Rathskellar Peterson’s Guides published this Providence College assembled at the Civic Center for its 66th graduation exercises. is to be debated at an upcoming third edition of Peterson’s Com­ meeting of the organization that petitive Colleges. Peterson’s is manages it, the Club 21 based at Princeton and publishes The Role of The Cowl at PC Corporation. career and education reference The corporation is chaired by materials. You are holding in your hands section contains special sections for to express its opinions on variobs Joseph Brum of the Alumni office, This current'edition, which in­ one of the most influential the four classes and the various aspects of Providence College and while Fr. John McMachon O.P., cludes Providence College, profiles mediums of your college career. clubs to keep their members in­ to offer suggestions and possible Fr. John McGreevy O.P., Fr. what it considers to be the top 302 This is The Cowl, and it is the formed. And finally, the News sec­ solutions. Frahcis Duffy O.P., Robert colleges and universities in the source of information for the Pro­ tion contains investigative reports The center of the paper is the Stiepock and student Daniel country. vidence College community. The on the good and not-so-good things Arts/Entertainment section. Since McMorrow ’85 serve on the com­ The schools represented in the Cowl is distributed weekly that go on in the PC community. The Cowl comes out on mittee. Another student is to be guide must have consistently more throughout campus on Wednesday The next section of the paper is Wednesdays, Arts/Entertainment voted on at the upcoming meeting. applicants, with above average afternoons. It is also mailed to the Editorial section. This is your is an ideal guide for the upcoming Although nothing at all has been credentials, than they can accept. parents, alumni, and friends in­ section of the paper. It is the forum weekend. This section is a determined, several things have Together with 27 art and music volved with Providence College. in which to express your ideas on preview/review/commentary guide been suggested. schools that have highly selective The Cowl recently won a First subjects from parietals to nuclear of movies, books, concerts, One is that the Rathskellar acceptance rates, this group of col­ Class rating from the American devastation. This section can be records, theatre productions, and return to its original format. When leges represents 10 percent of all Scholastic Press Association. This nothing without your contribution. any other forjn of entertainment. American institutions of higher The other purpose of the Editorial puts it in the same class as the ★ See COWL, page 2 ★ See DRINKING, page 2 education. school papers from'Seton Hall, section is for the Editorial Board Karen C. Hegener, the editor-in- William and Mary, and chief of Peterson’s Guides, stated Northwestern. that there were several primary fac­ There are many facets to The tors considered in balance, with no Cowl, and each section of the one single factor outweighing the paper has something to pique your others. interest. The News section covers The first of these is the number all the events that happen on cam­ of applicants applied in com­ pus or in the campus area. It also parison with the number accepted. covers the city news which affects Another factor is the number of the PC student. There is also a incoming freshman who scored smattering of national and interna­ i(See GUIDE, page 2) tional news which affects students and their environment. The News PC campus comes alive as students begin to move in. Olympic Torch Passes Through Providence On the evening of May 9 many been a part of the torch relay is evi­ choreographed much of the Providence College students went dent is the story of Fritz Schilgen, ceremony, dropped her hand, and into downtown Providence to cheer a 29-year-old engineer who had Schilgen sprinted out the gate, as the Olympic torch passed qualified for the German Olympic down a series of steps, and onto the through the city. training squad in 1932, but missed stadium track. selection for the final team bound Only then did he realize that Carrying the Olympic Torch for Los Angeles. A medalist at the Riefenstahl had given the signal Few ceremonies in the Olympic German track and field champion­ much too soon. The band was still Games are more suspenseful than ships and the world student cham­ playing Beethoven’s Ninth, though NEWS—The drinking age has been raised again in the arrival of the Olympic flame in pionships in the 1,500 and 5,000 Schilgen had been told that he the stadium during the opening meters, Schilgen instead was would be given the signal once the Rhode Island. See story on this page. ceremony. As the last runner in a chosen to carry the torch in 1936 music had stopped and total silence long relay across continents and because of his “ aesthetically pleas­ descended on the stadium. Schilgen EDITORIALS—The importance of student involve­ oceans carries the torch into the ing” running style. As he stood remembers, “ I slowed down, but ment at PC on page 3. stadium, the impact on athletes and near the east gate of the Berlin did not stop. I was uncertain what spectators alike is tremendous. The Olympic Stadium, waiting for Leni to do, whether to continue on, stop crowd falls silent in the seconds Riefenstahl to give the signal to and wait for the band to finish, or FEATURES—40 fun facts for frosh...find out prior to the appearance of the last start his run, he saw 100,000 spec­ turn around and go back. The what’s what on page 5. runner, only to erupt in a whirl­ tators inside the stadium applaud crowd made up my mind for me. wind of sound as the runner final­ the assembled athletes. Finally 1 was greeted by such a roar of ap­ SPORTS—Friar Fever...Catch it! Story on page 8. ly appears.. Riefenstahl, who was in charge of proval that I realized no one knew That a special drama has always the official Olympic film and * See TORCH, page 2 Page 2 the right to rekindle the sacred fire medals, to carry the torch into the City on May 7. 1984. The next ★ TO R C H , at a local temple. There was only stadium at Helsinki. Sergei Belov, morning Gina Hemphill, grand­ ★ COWL one torch per relay, and it was a member of three Soviet Olympic daughter of Jesse Owens, and Bill from page 1 passed, baton-style, from one run­ basketball teams and the first non­ Thorpe, grandson of Jim Thorpe, continued from page I, track and field athlete to carry the that I was not yet supposed to be ner to the next. More cultural than embarked with the torch on the final torch, ran into Lenin Stadium on the track. So I kept running athletic, these contests were usual­ first of nearly 15,000 kilometers There’s a lot to do in Providence ly held at night. in 1980. Ron Clarke, who carried across North America. Before the if'y o u know where to find it. around the track while the band the Olympic flame in 1956 because finished the ‘Ode to Joy.’ It was the Humanity’s fascination with fire Olympic flame arrives in Los Arts/Entertainment will be there to he was Australia’s most promising perfect touch, and probably much has not changed in the intervening Angeles on July 28, it will be car­ keep you up-to-date on what’s young runner, later competed in more dramatic than the original centuries. Today the torch relay ried through 33 states and the happening. the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games script would have been.” symbolizes the return of the Olym­ District of Columbia by 4,000 run­ Features is the personal section pic Games and the revival of Olym­ and established world records in Schilgen took part in the first ners drawn from communities of our paper. It deals with the in­ celebration of that which has be-i pic ideals. Each of the past nine the 5,000 and 10,000 meters. along the route. dividual personalities that make up The 1964 torch relay was notable come an Olympic tradition. The torch relays has had its own special As it crisscrosses the continent, the PC community, be they stu­ 1936 torch relay was the brainchild touches: in 1968, for example, the for several reasons. The flame first the 1984 Torch Relay will be more dent, professor, staff worker, or traveled by airplane from Athens >f Organizing Committee member torch followed the route to the New than a ceremony—it will be the administator.