F.U.' Puts Fitz out to Pasture

Vol. 'htlNo. 23 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, p.C. Sunday, April 1, 1973 F.U.' Puts Fitz Out to Pasture ,. -c.,~_ r Cl!n't Return Here, ,7}':: " ~. '.' G town Veep Says ," : by Nicolo Macchiauelli The priest's allegedly hostile at- Former Academic Vice-President titude towards R.O.T.C., his op the Rev. Thomas R. Fitzgerald is in position to President Nixon's Viet an occupational limbo. The Fairfield nam policies, his "cooperative" Board. of Directors voted Friday to attitude towards homosexual "send him back to Georgetown." groups and his interest in academic Fitzgerald was named Fairfield reform were cited by Morriss as University President early this examples of Fr. Fitzgerald's "lax semester and left his Georgetown approach to a truly Catholic edu position last week. He broke down cational system." on the phone wb.en contacted by a The Morriss article was reprinted reporter this weekend and com- in the Transcript next to an plained he didn't "know what to editorial that declared that the do." educator was "unfi t to be Presiden t The Fairfield directors voted to of a Catholic campus." ... - "discharge Fr. Fi tzgerald from his "Fairfield University already has Fr. Fitzgerald would be president of this beautiful university if he hadn't been fired. (Photo by Frank duties as President of the University lost much of its uniquely Catholic Skuthers) because he will not take a firm character," the editorial said. "Such Henle to Fight Again stand to halt the creeping secular- films as 'Cabaret' and 'Boys in the ization of the campus." The direc- Band' are shown freely in campus tors cited an attack against the new buildings and restrictions against president last month in the Catholic immoral activities have been lifted. Transcript, the newspaper of the Fr. Fitzgerald has shown no interest O'Boyle Purges Henle Connecticut Archdiocese of Hart· in restoring Catholic discipline; in by Frank Morriss Board of Directors into emergency Christian Morals and Ethi~. Ryan ford. fact, he may be expected to Tuesday afternoon saw the final session and promised to hold them has appointed Ms. Val Okie as his In an article written recently by accelerate the downward slide breakdown of the Henle regime as until they approved the move. "Hatchet Person." Catholic Standard columnist Frank towards modernism and spiritual the Swiss Mafia of Patrick "Cardi "I'm not trying to force them to Morriss, Fitzgerald was labelled "a polychromism." nal" O'Boyle seized the office of accept me," O'Boyle snarled, "but "Who else could I have chosen," member of the 'new breed' of The attack against Fitzgerald University President the Rev. R. J. they aren't getting any booze until Ryan stated, "after the job she did Jesuit thinkers who have been was taken up in other Catholic Henle, OFM, follOwing a week-long I get a unanimous vote of con on those obnoxious students who responsible for the secular attitude newspapers in the region, including (Continued from Page 8) of universities like Georgetown." the Diocese, of Providence's Catho- seige. fidence." - _____________________________ lic Visitor. "Fitzgerald is openly "I've had this planned for At last report, 75% of the Board years," stated O'Boyle, "I just had of Directors had succumbed to the sympathetic with radical student to get out from under that Pope DT's. movements that don't care a whit person in Rome. He had no O'Boyle refused to comment on Gorda Too Lenient about moral theology," the Visitor imagination and was just stifling reports that he planned to -seceed editorialized. me." from the Church and name himself The Fairfield Board of Directors O'Boyle promptly called the as "Defender of the Faith." With G. U. Students said it agreed with the criticism He did state, however, that by Dick Tracy However, powerful conservative levelled against Fitzgerald and said "Rome obviously isn't keeping the Director of Protective Services elements in the administration it would look elsewhere for a new faith. They've been running things Bernard Gorda has been fired by opposed his policies, and with the president. "We've had some lousy G.u. Zeitung so loosely that students even know Vice-President for Planning and departure of his only friend in the presidents before," one member of about sex!" Physical Plan William Miller for administration, Academic Vice· the board said this weekend, "but "How low can you get?" he alleged leniency with student of President the Rev. Thomas R. this Fitzgerald fellow takes the Folds After concluded. fenders. Fitzgerald, S.J., informed observers cake." O'Boyle's ill-fated predecessor, Gorda received notice Saturday said his future was not bright. There is little chance Fr. Five Years Fr. Henle, OFM, originally held in that his "services would no longer Gorda survived by only a few Fitzgerald will be allowed to return the Tombs, reportedly escaped be required as of now." He has not days the recent shake up in the to his old position at Georgetown. by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Thursday and fled to safety in returned to his office and his home administration by the Archdiocese "It would be, well, disappointing to Allegemeine Luftwaffe Zeitung, Southern New Jersey. His escape phone has been disconnected. of Washington. In the beginning of those who had hoped to succeed a weekly undergraduate newspaper was masterminded by Thomas R. Gorda, a veteran of the Loyalist a major program to "clean up" the him," according to Acting Aca here, will discontinue publication Fitzgerald, TSF, recently ousted Brigade in the Spanish CiyiI War lower administrative levels, Miller demic Vice·President the Rev. for financial reasons. President of Fairfield University. and an outspoken advocate of U.S. announced Gorda's resignation Aloysius Kelley, S.J. "I personally Zeitung was founded five years The two have started a resistance recognition of the People's Re yesterday. (Continued on Page 27) ago by Baron Stepan von Picinski as movemeQt known as "The Re public of China, became security a radical journalistic alternative to sistence" .and vow revenge. director in November 1971 after The HOYA, which von Picinski O'Boyle denied rumors that he Vice-President for Student Develop regarded as a conservative publica had received tactical support from ment Dr. Patricia Rueckel recom tion. Von Picinski styled himself the Nixon administration, labeling mended that the Security Police Neueskanzler und Fuehrer and used the story as a "fallacious lie." , make its image more pleasing to the his editorial position. to preach a "The fact that my guards carried student body. Gorda was selected confused philosophy of land re M-16's and drove Sherman Tanks is as top cop at Georgetown because form, radical economic policies, completely coincidental," O'Boyle he had long been identified with and sloppy layout. stated. radical student causes and repre As the pUblication gained sup· The Nixon administration did sented "the new police officer of port, it changed to a tabloid format send a congratulatory telegram, the seventies," administration and- was published on a weekly however, and has purportedly ex sources said at the time. basis. Von Picinsky was fired from tended official recognition to the Gorda immediately initiated a the top editorial position and the O'Boyle dictatorship. The recogni major program to revamp the paper moved to the right with the tion was extended contingent upon security department, changing its appointment of Reinhart Neue O'Boyle's anuIIment of Dick name to the Georgetown Service to komf as Obergruppenredaktur of Nixon's marriage to Thelma Patricia Protect the Best Interests of the the publication. Ryan. Nixon has sought the anul StUdents. He instructed his officers In the meantime, The HOYA lment because "Thelma" has failed to "discreetly ignore" violations of adopted a left-wing editorial stance to give him a male heir. University drug policy, set up a with the election of Bernadette - In his first official pronounce special office to provide a constant Savard as Editor-in-Chief last year. ment, O'Boyle re-opened the In flow of information to campus The Rosa Luxembourg of campus quisition, naming Edmund G. newspapers and opened the campus journalism, Ms. Savard was a target Ryan, IOOF, as Third Executive to 10,000,demonstrators during the of a campaign of violence sponsor- Vice President for the Elimination recent anti-Nixon inaugural pro· Dr. Rueckel recommended that the security force improve its image. (Continued on Page 31) of Vice and the Protection of tests. (Photo by Maurice of Paris) Page Two California Dreaming stoned out of my head/by K.J. Koenig I was sitting around with a lot of my friends late last month relating to humanity and talking about what a rip-off Tricky Dick and Spiro are, when we all decided what is wrong with the world. Now a lot of guys and chicks think that Nixon is what's wrong with the, world, and one dude whe writes for the Voice thinks that McGovern is what's wrong with the world. Some people think student government is what's wrong, and some think we're all a bunch of Joe Hoyas. Some of us are into the enternal turkey shoot, and others are into false community. These are the reasons offered for what is wrong in the world. Bullshit. What is really wrong is that we haven't got our heads together. Like, we all have to get our heads together The Student Senate moves quickly to avert a crisis. (Photo by Stuart Barry Garfinkle) if we expect to know where it's at. Since we discovered this truth, we set about trying to find the best way to get On Q'Boyle, Takeover our heads together (my friends and I, God help us).

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