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i**"*^ Page 20 • THE VILLANOVAN • March 18, 1970 Super Saturday Turns Sour sooner or later in the VILLANOVAN: Cagers ElitnincUed hy Su Bonaventure Coming A wide range of interviews with campus and national figures; fearless \:^ >.'•: .:. Cat Thinclcuh Finish Second in NCAA and/or fascinating feature articles; announcements on the agenda of springtime activities planned by various campus organizations (Moratorium, 'Cats Second Liquori Environmental Action, Reality Construction, Etc.). Extensive coverage of Senate election candidates and results. J in East Beaten yt By ROGER HALEY By JACK BREMMER More information on the Gathering of Many People to be held at Valley Xast Saturday Villanova's hope- Senior captain Larry James ful basketball season came to a — the con- Forge Park on Sunday, April 19th as a fitting completion to Villanova's crushing close when the wildcat sat dowtt dejectedly at clusion of the two day NCAA simply fell apart against an im- indoor track championships. A pressive St Bonaventure club in Earth Week Activities. over, offering con- the championship of the eastern friend came on the mile relay regionals of the NCAA in Colum- gratulations asking what was wrong. bia, South Carolina. After puting victory and And, advance warning: our annual Parody Issue will appear on campus feel- together a string of 10 victories Larry's reply epitomized the ings of his teammates and enroute to the finals, which April15th. his own team spirit. All he said included a great effort In the semi- lost the meet." Larry finals against Niagra, the 'Cats was, "We had run five quarter miles in failed to establish any semblence the space of twenty-seven hours, of their running game due mainly to the fact that the Bonnies were winning his a<vn individual NCAA 440 title, anchoring the mile re- controlling ttie boards at both ends of the court. Hie 'Cats who had lay team to victory in 47.6, leg of previously delt the Brown Ihdians and running the quarter the relay in 47.8 their only set back of the year distance medley seconds. He also recorded a 48.9 were eliminated from the NCAA tournament by a second time trial 440, before VItt 97-74 score. AMOV his AM winning In 48.3 sec(mds for However, any hope that St third straight NCAA title.. An hour Bonaventure could capture the Na- VOL. 45, NO. 23 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY, VILLANOVA, PA. TUESDAY. MARCH 24. 1970 and a half later, he anchored the tional title soon disappeared in the mile relay team of LamotteHyman, Villanova game since their great Photo by John Considlne Govan, and Hardge Davis Ail-American center Bob Lanier GETTING PSYCHED - Team and Wildcat mascot meet at midcourt just prior to game against Niagara, Greg Why buy retail' . when you can gel if at the in tiie time for the fastest was lost for the season when, with after having been introduced to Carolina Coliseum crowd. same 9 minutes left to play, he fell to the qualifying time of the trials. All to the floor injuring the ligaments Nigger" tiiese accomplishments were for- Priest as "White floor in a tangle-up with Chris in his leg. The accident definitely gotten for the moment as the 'Wholesale Shop' Ford. The play in which Lanier the fault of which Merman Fifth in East was not Ford the favored injured his leg occurred when a realization came that By MIKE VANNELLA some newspaper articles have at- Kansas Uhiversity team had lowed their white partshloners^ttr rationalizes its 1 0,000 PAIRS SPRING St Bonaventure's player Mike Kull By J.C. PETTERSON years Eastern swimming has been actions from the tempted to imply. triumphed 27' 1/2 to 28 for the Racists have called him a "white the suburbs. Fr. Groppi is ooe pulpit every Sunday kocked Ford off balance when Lan- The wildcat mermai, coached totally dominated by Yale Uhiv. morning. In commenting about the game nigger^', some of his religious and this year no exception. team title, a title that is won by priest who did not flee; nor did BELLS ARE ier and Ford were going for a re- by confident Ed Geisz, traveled was And so, James Groppi refuses coach Jack Kraft said it was the superiors would like to silence The Eli*s their 8th ^straight team effort. Kansas' team effort he construct a white enclave in TIMi TO bound. Ford fell against Lanldr»s to Hanover, N. H. last weekend won to be bound by NOW BUY him. And he faces five separate the restrictions of (Continued team titlebeating out the strong included a two mile world record, the city. Instead, he adapted leg causing the big center to f^ on page 18) to compete in the Eastern Sea- white morality. To di^mands for Princeton and Dartmouth squads a 1-2-3 shot put finish and per- court trials in the near future. his parish to the needs of his board Intercollegiate Swimming black non-violence, he answers: sonnal bests for other Kansans But all this is secondary to James predominantly black parishioners, Championships at Dartmouth Col- which finished second and third DUNGARES BELLS Groppi, because he a rat bite is vilence; an aban- respectively. Fourth place went in the field events. They believes using it as a platform for civil lege, The ten maa squad paced doned building Is violence; a tene- is doing what relatively few of STRIPS to Navy followed by Villanova and needed them to beat the Villanova he rights activities, and thereby by triple winner Tom Aretz, con- — ment flr^s Is violence; economic Harvard, Wildcats. his fallow clerics are doing aroused the anger of many white DRDs Pair cluded the 3 day, 18 event meet exploitation is violence; and psy- CORDS 5000 The team effort of the twelve practicing Christianity. Fr. Grop- Catholics. with a respectible 5th place finish. The spotlight was stolen from and defended his philo- chological destruction is violence. TWILLS this team struggle however mail Villanova Indoor track team pi explained This 5th place finish marked by But James Groppi is angry, too. By the same token, stealing is not was made up of many outstanding s(^hy of Christianity at the field- fine performances by the squad the outstanding performances of He is angered by a white society^ RAYONS evening in a theft; it is restitution. And white Villanova's West individual performances also, not house last Wednesday but seems to have marked the end German Olympic which imposes stiffer penalties alarm over the destruction of lecture sponsored by the Theology pro- BASKETWEAVE stars Tom Aretz and Olaf only Larry's which was character- of the season for the team. The Von for traffic violations than it does perty by blacks reminds Groppi His and Her', Schilling, who won 4 of the 13 ized by Coach Jumbo- Elliott Departments JEANS reason is that the university says for the psychological destruction of the British reaction to the Bos- Roocns individual events. Aretz easily as the "gn^eatest performance Pve it can afford to send the six m order to understand Fr.Grop- of children. He is angered by a ton Tea Party. CHECKS STRIPES qualified the ever seen." IC4A champ Andy qualifiers to Utah for the National as most outstanding pi's position one must realize that, white culture which seems to at- swimmer of the meet winning O'Reilly ran two excellent BBO's, AS a priest, Groppi feels that PERMANENT PRESS Championships. Tliis seems to by during the past several decades, tach more value to property than Yt's (jif is wcOf one event each of the three days both earning him All-Am- his Church should be in the arena be unjust in the light of Mr. Aretz's while blacks have been moving into to human life. He is angered by ALL SIZES AND COLORS boy s belli, while erican titles. His individual of action. Since racism is a di- 3 victories that rank him in the Olaf won his 200 freestyle the inner cores of large cities. a white church which practices speciality. half pitted him against Wis- rect contradiction of Christ's top of the nation. Perhaps next Catholic parishes have often fol- racism in parish schools and then consin's Wlnzenried, the^ teaching, the Church should be a year swimming will gain added Thursday afternoon Olaf quali- Mark Western Shirts Buccon»M>r Shirt' fied top contender for the title. In most militant civil rights group. funds so that the team can enjoy 1st in the 500 freestyle with Body Shuts Ruffled Shuts 6.50 the If this causes racists to leav9 the the same benefits that the other a time of 4:50.49 and co-captain final lap, Wlnzenried and O'- Transparent SI Floral Shirts Church, all the better, says Groppi, major sports enjoy, Frank Hartye qualified 8th with a Reilly were one-two respective- 4:56.48, ly and remained so to the because they had no business being TTiis meet brings together the The finals saw Olaf tape with O'Reilly only seconds there in the first place. Navy Blue Denim Striped Bells $5.50 finest swimmers in the East and drop to 5th and Frank to 10th. .4 & Tom (5:11.85) and Bill back in 1:52.1. The next day he Another one of those is used as a warm up for the NCAA Ba^e Ih his parish, Gr(H>pi applies his Wet Look Vests S13.75 ran the opening half mile leg of championsh^s which has been set Geoghegan (5:11.90) just missed COFFEE HOUR things! philosophy on a concrete level.