La Salle Magazine Spring 1973 La Salle University

La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Magazine University Publications Spring 1973 La Salle Magazine Spring 1973 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle Magazine Spring 1973" (1973). La Salle Magazine. 145. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/145 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in La Salle Magazine by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SPRING 1973 Meet America's Youngest Mayor The Great Coed Experiment Vietnam: A Real Peace? Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/lasalle171973unse A QUARTERLY LA SALLE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Volume 17 Spring 1973 Number 2 Robert S. Lyons. Jr.. '61. Editor Joseph P. Batory, '64, Associate Editor James J. McDonald. '58. Alumni News ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Robert J. Schaefer. '54. President Joseph J. Sweeney, '54. Executive Vice President Joseph Gindhart, Esq., '58. I'ice President Gerald P. Ginley, '54, Secretary John McNally. '64. Treasurer La Salle Magazine is published quarterly by La Salle College. Philadelphia, Penna. 19141, for Ihe alumni, students, faculty and friends of the college. Editorial and business offices located at the News Bureau. La Salle College. Philadelphia. Penna. 19141. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Penna. Changes of address should be sent at least 30 days prior to publication of the issue with which it is to take effect, to the Alumni Office, La Salle College, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141. Member of the American Alumni Council and Ameri- can College Public Relations Association. CONTENTS THE GREENING OF A MAYOR 1 Political writer John P. McLaughlin, '59, talks with Tom Maloney, '64, the youngest mayor of a major American city. VIETNAM: IS THERE HOPE 4 FOR PEACE? Several factors will eventually determine the effectiveness of the recent cease-fire agreement, according to La Salle's Southeastern Asian expert Kenneth L. Hill. A LETTER TO IRELAND 7 Coeds have been a significant part of the college for three years now. A progress report by Dr. Minna Weinstein, a La Salle historian and frequent contributor to this magazine. THE MAC CHAMPIONSHIPS 10 Charles F. Sibre's camera captures some of the highlights of the first "showcase" event at the Joseph Kirk Memorial Pool. THE EDUCATION EXPLOSION 12 One of the most dedicated alumni groups to be found has been quietly helping La Salle's Education Department make some innova- tive changes. AROUND CAMPUS 15 R. Buckminster Fuller delighted a La Salle audience with a recent lecture. A report on this event plus other sundry campus news items. ALUMNI NEWS 19 A chronicle of some significant events in the lives of La Salle alumni plus profiles of some interesting graduates. CREDITS: Front cover design by John J. Boyle; back cover, inside back cover, and pages 1,7, 13, 14, Lawrence V. Kanevsky; 5, Wide World Photos; 22, Gray & Rogers, Inc.; all others by Charles F. Sibre. THE GREENING OF A MAYOR By John P. McLaughlin Wilmington's Thomas C. Maloney '64 pulled off two major upsets to become the youngest head of a major city in America. Now he faces all the nerve-wracking urban problems. J. he two questions most frequently asked about the Vietnam cease-fire is—will it work and, if not, what will be the con- sequences. Unfortunately the question is difficult to answer because there are so many complex factors and the written agreement is in certain respects seriously defective. As with any treaty, however, the written document is less important than the intentions of the governments involved. What we do not know is whether North Vietnam is willing to settle for less than it originally wanted, namely, a united Vietnam under one government. Nor do we know how the Saigon government intends to cope with the Viet Cong who have fought so long for a Communist victory. Of course, the wishes of the North and South Vietnamese governments must be tempered by the needs of the global powers. The endorsement of the cease-fire by Soviet Russia and VIETNAM: China can be crucially important. If the two Communist governments are unwilling to support a resumption of hostilities, that should be sufficient to dissuade North Vietnam from launching a large scale attack against South Vietnam, al- IS THERE HOPE though a low level of conflict can be expected to continue for some time to come. The claim that North Vietnam has remained relatively in- dependent in the Sino-Soviet dispute and can therefore deter- FOR PEACE? mine its own policies is less important than the fact that Rus- sia and China have provided the North Vietnamese and the By Kenneth L. Hil Viet Cong with massive military and economic assistance. If it is true that Vietnam's unification is less important to China and Russia than their desire to improve relations with the United States, this choice will greatly influence Hanoi's policies. Some commentators have expressed hope that the Vietnam cease-fire agreement may work at least as well as the agreement ending the Korean conflict. However, the dissimilarities between the two situations are more important than their similarities. There may be different interpretations concerning the legal nature of Korea's dividing line but time has helped legitimatize the division and the 38th parallel is accepted on a de facto basis. Although Korea remains as a "high potential" tension area, certain diplomatic rules have been established and although these rules are more implicit than explicit they do act as guidelines that policy makers may follow. In Vietnam the 17th parallel remains a source of major con- troversy and indeed much of the "Vietnam debate" in the United States has centered around the largely irrelevant question of whether the 1 7th parallel is a "temporary demarcation line" or a de facto boundary. The one obvious major defect in the January Vietnam cease-fire agreement is that it still leaves unanswered many questions that the 1954 cease-fire agreement either ignored or dealt with inadequately. Indeed, the link between the two can be seen in Article I of the January agreement which states that "the United States and all other countries will respect the in- If China and Soviet Russia insist that Hanoi adopt a more moderate posture there may then be a diminution in the im- portance of military means. If the North Vietnamese government cannot use their full military might in the South it may welcome the opportunity to rebuild its devastated country. What can the United States do if North Vietnam seriously violates the cease-fire agreement. Under no conditions would • r t \ . ?r I VIETNAM (continued) The war has been incredibly costly to North Vietnam dependence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Viet- one example) will begin to disappear as we disengage from nam as recognized by the 1954 Geneva Agreements on Viet- Vietnam. Our urban problems will be with us for some time nam." If that provision had been adhered to there would not to come. have been a resumption of hostilities. There is also some hope that the cease-fire agreement will work because it will be accepted by the North Vietnamese. The idea that the North Vietnamese can go on fighting for \_>anada's Foreign Minister, reflecting on his nation's sad ex- years and years because of their unity and dedication is one of perience as a member of the 1954 International Control Com- the great myths of this tragic war. The idea that every North mission, has characterized the January agreement as a "closed Vietnamese is willing to endure endless sacrifices for an end- circuit system." By this he meant that Communist complaints less period of time is, of course, nonsense. Even if we assume about cease-fire violations would be supported by Communist that the North Vietnamese have been one hundred percent nations and denounced by non-Communist nations and com- correct and that the United States and South Vietnam have plaints lodged by the Saigon government would probably be been totally at fault one must still ask about the incredible rejected by the Communist participants on the International costs of war to North Vietnam. Control Commission. The latter, composed of Canada, Indo- For more than ten years the North Vienamese have invest- ed heavily in their conflict with the South. Their casualty list nesia, Poland and Hungary, is responsible for implementing the cease-fire agreement but unfortunately the Commission is appallingly long. Their country has been systematically their operates on the unanimity principle and is therefore doomed bombed, economy shattered, their economic develop- to failure. The Commission recently completed its first full ment arrested, and for these terrible costs what have they scale field investigation of fighting near the central coastal achieved? President Thieu remains in power. There will be no port of Sa Huynh. A split vote prevented the Commission coalition government. The Communists have made few politi- from filing a report. cal gains in South Vietnam. If the Communists should succeed Will the January 1972 cease-fire agreement work? The an- in gaining control over South Vietnam they will do so only as swer of course must be ambivalent. The cease-fire agreement a result of a military, not a political, victory. is not a peace settlement and we can expect continued ani- President Nixon send American combat troops back into mosity between North and South Vietnam and frequent mili- South Vietnam.

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