Theology Seminars Offered by College

" \ Vol. XLIX, No.2 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday, September 29, 1966 'District Fine Arts Commission Approves Library ~ , Disagreeing Votes ,:Fr. Davis Outlines By Saarinen, Walton Fail To Block Plan by Gerard McCullough News Editor (:' c:..?~!.~~~,~,~~o t:.~,l!.~!, ;, The District Fine Arts Commis ~, the Dean of the College, in a speech time consuming, a Clerk should, in sion approved Georgetown Univer ~: prepared to welcome the parti- each instance, place in his hands sity's controversial plans for a new cipants of the Second Annual Col- the transcript and read to him the $6 million library. A 4-2 vote in : lege Student Leadership Confer- other data of information which I favor of the library's design re I ence, analyzed two of the most have mentioned. The University moved the last legal obstacle to !r important issues before the student Register of Faculties, Staff, and construction. ~ body. The Dean commented on the Students should never be tl'ans The Commission, which must ap II! subjects of Confidentiality and Uni- m~tted to no~-.Universi!y ~ersonnel prove all new architecture in the II.! versity Speaker policy. WIthout exphcIt authvrIzatlOn from capital, was the last of three groups ,~ In recent weeks the most contro- this office." It was further noted to accept a revised plan for the versial issues ~~ong .student lead- tl;at without the explicit permis library. The Fine Arts Commission, \t ers and admmIstratlOn members SlOn of the student concerned, that the National Capital Planning Com ~ was the confidentiality of student student's transcript may not be re- Counsel planned at Georgetown Law Center, recipient of recent Ford mission and the Board of Zoning !I' files. The files which are kept in leased from the office to any in- Foundation Grant. Appeals had all denied approval for ~' the various Deans' offices contain vestigator. e the library because they felt its ~)) materials on each student who is Father Davis noted that "Father F d F d t Geft location-on the Potomac palisades ~ attending or will attend George- Fir ,gerald ~ssure.d me: .. that in or oun a Ion 1 where the old tennis courts are Ij'l town. They contain generally aca- a . :mversatlOn WIth MIke Brennan would obscure the Georgetown sky , demic information and recommen- or this matter it was decided that E t d L P line. Ii dations. These files are begun with there is still room for discussion X en s aw rograDl The .design which won approval II the first lett~r that a prospective a.nd sugge~tions. in ,~he implementa- included slight modifications in the "'/ Freshm~n wntes when seeking an b0n of t~IS polIcy. The Ford Foundation has connection with the Neighborhood height of a penthouse atop the 80- I· applicabon form. In talkmg on the subJect of the awarded $600,000 to the George Legal Services in the District of foot-high, 200,000 square-foot struc r A question has arisen in the past lj niversity's Speaker Policy, Dean town University Law Center to Columbia, "will relieve the com ture. i, few weeks over the availability of ravis expressed the desire to see continue and expand the Center's munity of the burdensome problem The exterior of the library will il· these files to outside investigators. concrete guidelines for policy and Legal Internship Program. presented by indigents in need of be of an aggregate of concrete and Many companies and most govern- procedure hammered out in the The Legal Internship Program, legal services in civil matters," grey crushed stone to blend better " near future. He stated that this begun in 1960 with a gift from an Dean said. ' with the spirit of Healy and Copley I'i too is an area that must be open anonymous donor, enables young He also said the new two-year and with White-Gravenor across to frank discussion. He noted that: ~tr law school graduates to gain ex program will. allow more young the iawn. The main entrance to the lv, "Nothing can be gained by re- perience by representing poor crim law graduates to. partiCipate in the structure will be from Healy Lawn '.'' gretting or rejoicing in the fact of inal defendants. The Program has program. Georgetown's legal in and will enter on the third floor 'I' ' (Continued on Page 8) been financed by the Ford Founda terns have represented more than which is largely devoted to refer tion since 1963. 1,700 persons accused or convicted ence, catalogue, and reading rooms. Faculty Seminars Until this year, legal interns of criminal or juvenile cases in the The upper floors will be stack areas , ' were awarded one-year fellowships District during the last five years. and will also provide graduate II'" Highlight College to take care of their living costs Thirty-nine interns have particip study facilities. On lower floors I' and expenses while counselling the ated in the program. will be room for expansion, parking I , Frosh Orientation poor. Dean Paul R. Dean of the Dean said the program "has had space, storage, and space for much i For four hundred and three Col Law Center announced last week a profound impact upon the ap of the building'S heating and air lege freshmen, the final phase of that the new grant will enable the proaches, techniques and attitudes conditioning equipment. academic orientation came to a Center to extend two-year fellow of other assigned and retained University spokesmen have ar close on Tuesday with the College ships to legal interns. counsel in criminal cases." gued that the view of the Healy Student Council's faculty-led orien During the first year, Dean said, As early as 1962, President Ken Building spires would not be hamp tation meetings. The seminars were legal interns will represent poor nedy praised the program, saying ered by the new library. They also the direct result of a comprehen defendants in criminal cases while it "represents a significant contri pointed out that Georgetown has sive study of Georgetown's fresh taking a graduate course in trial bution to the cause of even-handed to show progress on a library by man orientation program, con advocacy at the Law Center. justice for rich and poor alike." next year to retain its Middle ducted during the 1965-'66 academic In the second year, he added, the The Program has also won praise State's accreditation. year by the College Council's Aca legal interns will concentrate on from the .Judicial Conference of the In last week's voting, Commis DEAN DAVIS demic Committee arid later incor civil matters. They will represent District of Columbia, the National sion chairman William Walton, a porated into the election platform poor criminal defendants and ac Capital Area Civil Liberties Union, Washington artist, and Mrs. Aline ment agencies seek information of Yard President Mike Brennan. quitted defendants in civil cases. the Western Electric Fund and sev B. Saarinen opposed the new library 'concerning an applicant's back On this survey a large cross The new "civil law" phase, in eral U.S. Supreme Court Justices. (Continued on Page 9) ground and his record while in section of students from every college. class and department were asked Father Davis, in speaking of the to present their opinions and ideas rights of students, commented espe for improvement of the new stu cially on the matter of confiden dent orientation program. One of tiality. He stated that "the Univer the l:esulting suggestions called for sity in the past has not been un a return to the "faculty-led sem aware of its obligation to respect inars" of former years, but with this right. Indeed, it was principally new emphasis on faculty student for this consideration that a few dialogue and general academic years ago it forbade required psy information, rather than on a long chological tests for incoming fresh list of summer readings. This men., Most recently, when student year's meetings were organized leaders raised questions as to the under Academic Committee Chair t ' accessibility of student files to out man Charles Schaffer and Faculty '/ side governmental investigators ,! Relations Chairmen Bill Woodward I the University administrators ap~ and Roland Marcotte with the gen r preciated student concern and acted eral assistance of Dean of Fresh to allay the fears of the students." man .John F. Burgess. Schaffer's I' Father Davis stated that he had letter to the faculty explained the i{ received a communication from the two-fold purpose ~f the program: 1i, \ office of the Academic Vice-Presi "to give the stUdent some un dent stating in part: "1) If an confused, honest answers about , authorized Government investigator what will be required of him in requests it, he may be shown the the classroom and to provide some , " Georgetown transcript of grades. neutral ground outside of class He may also be furnished such for the presentation of the faculty information as date of birth and point of view." place of hirth, plus home addresses. Conducted in groups of from ten Model of the University~s proposed new library, just approved for construction. He should not, however, have ac- (Continued on Page 8) - Photo by Louis Checkman <D 1- 1 i" \. ~ •. ~-. t· ..' " I ! Page Two rHE H.O,YA .. , '., . Thursday,. Sepfember.~,29;1966 '.':':f.' .\.:"'V lems tha:t face us today in relatio;n to our b~liefs. T~r'Ough;tlie, use·:~f First!: E'nd6wed:ChairEve:t ~ modern !.'literature F;ath~r: Kelly. " hopes to point out the difficulties of the contemporary believer and . non believer in his efforts to sort Established inrharmac~lpgy out the meaning ·of :his existence.

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