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Debates acceptance of CUNY students Fordham weighs proposal by Rosemary McManus Fordham presently has ap- dards. Also, many of the eligible Fordham University is proximately 200 extra places in students may choose to enter "carefully considering" par- its School of General Studies and specialized programs which ticipation in the Commission on 140 places in the Liberal Arts Fordham does not offer, he said. Independent Colleges and College day program. In ad- The plan will be advantageous Universities' proposal to accept dition, there is an undetermined to Fordham as a boost to prospective City University number of seats in the Graduate enrollment by allowing eligible students next fall, according to School of Arts and Sciences. students to attend the Rev. Jeff Donnelly, assistant to According to Donnelly, University tuition-free. the president. however, Fordham would However, Furdharn's support of PaulKeane The plan calls for the ad- probably set a much lower the plan is also bas'-d on the ABRAMS: The burough president criticized the city's decision to close nearby Fordham Hospital, and declared a Bronx health mission of approximately 23,000 number in order to insure no desire to accommodate city emergency at a rally Monday night. undergraduate and graduate decrease of admissions stan- students to 36 private univer- sities in the metropolitan area in City to review decision order to prevent further cut- FC Council rejects backs in the financially on Fordham Hospital distressed City University pre-Christmas finals system. by Fred Malley The Fordham College Council memht-r Lou DeioK FC '77, -aid at the distances they will have to Undergraduate eligibility Bronx Borough President rejected a proposal on November that highly motivated students travel to obtain hospital care if would be limited to New York Robert Abrams declared a health 21 to revise the academic and high quality teaching would Fordham is closed. City residents from families with emergency in the Bronx Monday calendar to establish a pre- nut lower Fordharn'? standards if It was an old and feeble woman, a net taxable income of $8000 or night and denounced the city's Christmas exam schedule. the revised schedule was ap- though, who brought the entire less. New York City would plan to close Fordham Hospital The 21-11 vote reflected the proved. Dejois and other s-.udent audience to its feet when she supply $750 of the tuition costs to while a spokesman for the Health doubts many teachers had aired members said students who broke into tears and cried out attend a private university, and and Hospitals Corporation said in earlier discussions on the delay in studying for finals until that she could not afford to the remainder would be sub- the city would review the effect pre-Christmas exams just before exams would do so travel to the proposed North sidized by an increase in the decision because of an out- would have on the quality of regardless of the exam schedule. Central Hospital. The closing of Tuition Assistance Plan and pouring; of public protest. education. Dean of Fordham Council members generally Fordham, she said, would spell federal BEOG grants. All par- College Robert Roth stated his Speaking at a public hearing agreed that a revised calendar her death. Immediately after she ticipating colleges would pre- opinion that such a compressed attended by more than 600 would be convenient for both spoke, electricity filled the air as determine the number of spaces schedule would not allow Bronx residents, at Theodore students and faculty. However, 600 voices chanted "Don't close which could be filled under the students enough time to Roosevelt High School, Abrams according to Philosophy Fordham." plan, employing their normal assimilate, adapt, and familiarize professor Vincent Cooke, con- was the first of over 50 speakers admissions standards. themselves with the course to condemn the decision of the Charles J. Benslcy, speaking for veniences, likes, and dislikes Fordham's support for the material. city's Health and Hospital the Corporation's Board of should not become a real focal proposal, said Donnelly, is The question of quality did not Corporation Board of Directors. Directors, said the Board would point of discussion when con- contingent upon the University's deter the College of Business sidering the quality of student Declaring that "Fordham review its decision in view of the public protest at the meeting. ability to choose a "realistic Administration from voting to education. Hospital is a critical element of number" of city residents who establish pre-Christmas exams a An aide to Robert Abrams, Communications professor New York City's life support could participate without being few weeks before the Fordham when questioned, revealed that Donald Matthews said too much system," the borough president forced to lower its own admission College council decision. The new the borough president has no class time is already lost because blasted the board's decision to standards. Also, Fordham would CBA schedule for exams is statutory powers to declare a of the number of tests and close Fordham, Morrisania, and only consider the plan if the city optional this semester, but it will health emergency. The borough quizzes administered during the Van Etten Hospitals. is willing to pay the $750 per be officially installed next year, president's statement was meant course of a semester. The speakers, including clergy, student, and if "no further according to CBA Dean Robert to convey the desperate state of Roth added that pre- Bronx politicians, doctors and limitations are placed on par- Senkier. health services in the Bronx, he Christmas exams will continue to other members of the com- ticipating colleges." At the meeting, student be discussed through the year. munity, expressed their outrage said. Fordham pre-med: The trials and tribulations by Diane Lore schools they had been accepted to, "Unless they let Last year a record 43,000 pre-med students ap- us know, we have no way of compiling accurate plied for the 15,000 places available to freshmen in statistics," she said. the 114 U.S. medical schools. Only one out of every There is also no sure way to predict how pre-med three students were accepted, according to the students will fare from year to year. Sr. Monica Association of American Medical Colleges. explained: "There are so many variables in- Rightly labeled the "med-school crush," the fluencing an admissions committee- grades, test scores, recommendations. It is just not a predic- reasons for it vary. A secure job, prestige and an table thing. You cannot promise a student if he opportunity to serve others are some of the does certain things he will be accepted to medical possibilities that await the successful pre-med school; you can only tell him he may have a better >iudent. chance of being accepted." What of the Fordham pre-med student? What She noted that Fordham has maintained an •ttfect has the "med-school crush" had on Fordham 'open admission" policy for pre-med students • any iTe-med students and the University's ability to freshman can be admitted as a pre-med student and prepare students for medical school? can apply to medical schools if they meet the "n the whole, over the last two years, it would minimum math and science requirements. •'•t-m Fordham pre-med students have not fared As a result of the med-school crush, several "•"lly in their applications to medical schools. Many colleges throughout the country have begun to -'udents have been accepted at three or more limit the number of pre-med freshmen admitted or American medical schools, but accurate statistics set mandatory grade-point average for students •«> difficult to compile once the student leaves who want to apply to medical schools. f ordham. Laennec, the pre-med society, together with the While weeding out undergraduates who are pre-med counseling program, have tried to compile medical school material may be one solution to the statistics but have not been completely successful. medical school crush and may spare students from Biology professor Sr. Monica Kevin, coordinator of being rejected, many, for obvious reasons, question PRE-MED STUDENTS: Face an uphill battle for acceptanceinto the pre-med advisory program, urged students to its fairness. med-sch»ols, and are judged by data ranging form test scores to interviews to personality. 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Page 2-THE RAM-Wednesday, December 3,1975 Mugger flees Fordham to test after scuffle brighter lights with student Fordham will attempt to in- Physical Plant. Director Robert A knite-wielding intruder crease security on the Rose Hill Mahan said, ''the next step is to mugged a freshman co-ed near Campus by revamping the replace the whole set of lights." the Fordham Prep parking lot outdoor lighting system, Vice- The order for the four lamps Monday night, but eluded President for Student Affairs campus security forces after he will take six weeks to arrive, William Crawley stated Mahan stated, "sometime in cut the girl's hand during a brief yesterday. struggle. January." When the four lamps The University has ordered are tested together for an "in- The victim said she was four new high-pressure sodium leaving Hughes Hall at ap- terlocking" lighting effect, lamps, with improved refracting Crawley said both he, Mahan, proximately 7 p.m. when she glass panes, to be placed upon passed a Puerto Rican male who and Director of Security Thomas existing lampposts fixtures at an Courtney will decide on any was entering the campus estimated cost of $720. through a gaping hole in the additional lighting. As Crawley "If we aren't able to stated, "If they work, we're fence behind the prep building on upgrade the existing fixtures by BETTER LIGHTING: The University is investigating new cam- going to get them all." Southern Boulevard. pus lighting in an effort to protect students at night. changing the light source," The alleged assailant held a The total cost of either placing knife to her throat, the victim •the bulbs and transformers in said, and searched her coat Students vote to abolish RHCC the one hundred existing lamps pockets for money. She or buying new b "..,,,.• altogether, Students voted to abolish the procedures by which the screamed and put up a struggle was held because of scheduling according to Mahan, would be when the mugger cut her campus council in a referendum referendum was held. Arouh said conflicts. He admitted that about $20,000. fingers. held last week by a vote of 149 to that the Council election pollwatchers had not been Crawley said spotlights will be, According to the co-ed, the 5, but the faculty must hold a committee had not discussed a present but pointed out that a used to illuminate the residents' attacker lost his balance during referendum producing the same date to hold the referendum and referendum is not a regular parking lot, the scene of an the struggle, allowing her to flee decision before the council can that poll watchers with opposing election. He asserted that no attempted rape nearly thre weeks ago, and the cobblesti.. and scream for help. A security officially be dissolved. viewpoints had not been present politicking took place at the polls guard on campus heard her road running from Fordham'f at the polls to oversee the and that he had sent Arouh a screams, she said, and brought One member of the Campus Third Avenue entrance to the her to Fordham Hospital where Council election committee, balloting. There may be a conflict letter through the campus mail Administration Building. she received seven stitches. Harry Arouh, has questioned the of interest, he said, because the the week before the voting However, M"' an said that he chief organizer of the referen- stating the dates and time of the had not been ask./, to make any dum, Jim Buckley, had also been election. plans on "B" lri,. Watergate reporter the one to originally propose the abolishment of the council. Arouh also said that he had not Reiss to attend forum to lecture Tuesday been given adequate notice as to Executive Vice President The topics include the Over a year has passed since reports on the Watergate storv when the referendum would take Paul Reiss will appear at the University administration's the Watergate scandal toppled gradually implicated the White place. United Student Government's willingness to work with former president Richard Nixon. House officials and the President second town meeting of the students to prepare another Yet the memory of the sabotage himself. Members of the election semester, this Friday at 12:30 and political spying that oc- ' Bernstein is a 32-year-old committee also include faculty course evaluation booklet, p.m. in the Campus Center curred in our nation's highest journalist who began his career members Frank Borchardt of whether student tuition will be ball room, according to USG offices lingers on. Washington as a copy boy for the Washington Modern Languages andRaymond used to aid the construction of Post reporter Carl Bernstein, Star before joining the Post. He Administrative Assistant Paul Cunningham of the history the Lombardi Memorial complex, who with Bob Woodward, was was virtually unknown as an Sullivan. department. General Studies and whether the University will instrumental in linking the investigative reporter before The USG senate voted lower its academic standing to Watergate break-in to a much students Catherine Durda and working on Watergate. Monday night to send Reiss a list attract more students during larger undercover operation, will Rolando Gomez, CBA '76, are on The two reporters co-authored of topics which he will address in economic hard times. be this semester's final American the best-selling book All the the committee. Age speaker on Tuesday , President's Mew, the explanation a 15-20 minute speech before a Student Elections Committee Reiss will also explain the December 9, at 12:30 p.m. in the of their uncovering the web of question-and-answer period. Campus Center ballroom. political espionage that shook the Chairman Jim Buckley said that Sullivan said he expects the role and scope of his new Bernstein and Woodward's nation. no election committee meeting town meeting to end at 2:30 p.m. executive position.
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Wednesday, December 3,1975-THE RAM-Page 3 Postscripts* Editorials Pssssst... Cathy Carson There is a dangerous rurnor circulating within Fordham University A questionable endeavor that threatens to sever the lifeline of the community's strength and drastically limit the future,of individuals who believe it to be true, i came to know of such rumor quite by accident one day as I overheard The Commission on Independent Colleges the plan, a tuition-free education would two students who were relaxing, seated at the base of the statue of and Universities' plan to place prospective inevitably involve, some expense to the Charles Brockden Brown. To pass the time, One said, "What are you City University students tuition-free in participating institutions. A university such going to do when you get out of .chool?" To which the Other replied, independent colleges would undoubtedly as Fordham, which already derives almost "I don't know. I'm not sure I'm ready to face the Real World have some advantageous effects both to the 90 percent of its costs from tuition, probably though." students and the participating universities. could not afford to subsidize the students I leaned closer to hear more, then butt in - "Do you mean to say that The dangers inherent in such a move, without a resultant increase in tuition. Fordham is not the real world?" They chuckled at my naievete and however, make it at least a questionable Furthermore, there is a danger in pre- one replied, "Are you kidding? Of course it's not everybody knows this place is endeavor. determining the number of students who a fantasy-land." They turned away, uncomfortable with my will be accepted under the plan. It will be a Fordham, in lending at least conditional strangeness - and left their spot. difficult task for Fordham to decide the support to the proposal, is justifiably The Real World? Haven't I been living in the real world for the last maximum number of students it would considering the increase in enrollments twenty years? I was struck by a sense of futility, nothingness. admit under the plan while at the same time Is it the unreal world because I am free here to experiment with which could result. Furthermore, it is maintaining its own admissions standards. my life • and some force is going to make me stop when I graduate? Or providing students the right to a college Once committed, the University is leaving because I can do what I want to do without worrying about certain education who might otherwise be denied it responsibilities? Is it because students as a whole feed on society itself open to the possibility of admitting because of current fiscal problems in the instead of contributing materially to it? Or is it the unreal world unqualified students. City University. because students feel "no place" - not adults and not children? It is also unlikely that the Regents Task Who started this malicious rumor? Why do students seem to feel it The increase in state tuition assistance Force will accept the plan, given the cost to is some joke that is being played on the outside world? They laugh, which the plan calls for would, in addition, both the state and the city and the op- but I think the joke is on us. benefit all students attending private position of City University officials. In an In Youth and Social Change, Richard Flacks states, "William Braden writes, 'the parents in effect will tell the young, "we'll universities. However, it is extremely attempt to bring public and private in- pretend to be shocked and dismayed. Just stay out of jail and don't stitutions into closer contact, therefore, unlikely that New York State could afford get pregnant. And when we're ready for you • we'll let you know.'" any TAP increases, given its reported CICU has actually alienated the public City Flacks goes on to say, "each society and culture institutionalizes a budget gap of $700 million. Thus, even if the University with an infeasible and costly moratorium for its young that coincides with post-adolescent ap city agreed to pay $750 per student under plan. prenticeships and adventures." So • society, with the help of our parents, is sending us here to keep us out of the way for awhile until they're ready for us. That's it ... everyone is trying to drive me insane by making me believe it is not real! What I'm doing is of no value and school is only play time. What I learn is futile work; 1 am CICU proposal barred from bringing my experiences into the Real World. K'untinm <1 rrum pnq' 1' plan to solve the City Univer- cost to the city. Society, American society, sticks these four years between high residents prevented from at- sity's fiscal problems. Donnelly Instead, they support a plan to school and the job world to postpone our adulthood. Again, Flacks tending school without tuition admitted, however, that the task elicit $60 million of state funds states that college is one of the many "psycho-social moratoriums as a because of the proposed $55 force may choose rather to adopt already appropriated for City sanctioned delay of adult functioning." All this time, I've been trying million cutbacks in City a plan with different priorities, University, although the city will to grow and now a red light flashes, "Not yet - wait until we're ready University financing, Donnelly such as cutting back the City be unable to match the money. for ybU."It follows that there are many,more aspects of my culture claimed. "We (Fordham) don't University's graduate programs This would allow the City which are thus unreal simply by virtue of the fact that they are need a great boost in without any effect on un- University to operate close to its transition periods. Childhood, adolescence, raising children (you look enrollments," he said. dergraduate admissions. present capacity without the forward to them growing up), ascension in the job world (you wait for In addition, the across-the- Furthermore, City University possible 40 percent cutback in the one Big Position), and old age (it's all over) are thus not real. board increased in TAP would representatives on the joint enrollment. There is no validity to the idea of growth itself, of stages and tran- help all state residents, Donnelly Regents Regional Coordinating According to Donnelly, sitions as the ultimate reality. It stems from the growth of an in- noted. Council have opposed the plan however, New York State is dustrial, capitalistic society based on individual achievement. CICU will present its proposal because it will bolster enrollment unlikely to accept the City I realize the origin the of rumor, but I fail to see why such a today before a special Regents at independent colleges in the University plan without the negative concept would have mass appeal. It negates activity Task Force set up to devise a metropolitan area at the partial city's matching funds. in University life. To realize this as an integral part of the men- tality at Fordham is to explain the cynicism, the escapism, anti- intellectualism, and most of all, the sense of worthlessness and alienation the campus pulsates loudly and nervously. Why would people encourage school to be a non-event, merely an apprenticeship for something beyond? Perhaps it is a belief that there IS something beyond, when in fact, there is only more of the same. But maybe students do not really want to feel this way. The ob session with the memory of the sixties, when students realized there is nothing beyond, provides an answer. It is longing for a time when college became an event - youth, a constituency - and it all became real. There was solidarity, and people were united. The seventies saw DAN BRENNAN the loss of that community which brought a step out of "I'm Editor•in-chief someplace" to "I think I'm on my way to someplace." The rumor - the malicious foolery society plays on our minds, must be squelched. To assume that it is true is to assume that adulthood ROSEMARY MCMANUS TOMSHEPPARD can be measured in external terms; a job, family, money, financial Executive Editor Business Manager independence. It is to say that if I don't conform to that mold, then I have not grown up. It presumes that I must at some moment, stop exploring and start living ... ughhh! To stop experimenting when I Politic*! Affair* Editors Ron Hill Joseph Palsnchar am just learning the tools for participating in life! Assistant Edftcx Tom Mtlsr Imagine if we pretended that college is the Real World. We can Lincoln Center KsvinHayas form a community - even care about it if we like. They'll all laugh. Assistant Editor CharllaKelly .* knowingof course that we are only playing. But then - we'll spring the Actdamlci EdHor Cathy Carson ultimate joke on them ... when we graduate, we can pretend that Assistant Editor Ruth laa Assistant Editor Diana tore every moment in our lives is important. They won't mind; at worst,
Campui Affilrs Editors they'll think we lack drive, purpose and ambition. But we'll know that Rose Hill Maria Baslla we're beating them at their own game. We can disregard the value of
Lincoln Center Kar»n Roonay individual achievement and care instead about community, and the Assistant Editor Jail Dorsch power to initiate a "reportable event" at any given moment. We can Sports Editor Tom Canavan have fun creating something. While they think we're still playing. *[ Altitun! Sports Editor Ernie Palladino will find unity, self-worth, and the forbidden happiness at "just ArtsEdrlot Jim Nadalka living. As we grow older, we can join with youth and remember that Assistant Am Editor Peter Denlti they are just as viable, just as valid as ourselves. We'll pull the wool Pastures Editor Mike Hill Assistant Feature! Editor Maurwn Corrlrjan over their eyes as we pretend that everything we do is important meaningful. Wouldn't that be funny? Photography Editor Joe Spinosa At the risk of upsetting those who started the rumor, I will P'lSS°n Graphic) Editor Delrdre Costa another. Pssssssst... I'm here, you're here - nothing is ever g«inH to be more concrete than this, and we can live recognizing our im- Page 4-THE RAM-Wednesday, December 3,1975 portance. But don't say it too loudly, it might start something Chieftains attract enthusiasts
by Maureen Corrigan stand it then, after a featw beers . Avery Fisher Hail concert Brothers, who seem to en- throughout their first set and The concert's finish which was Certain people in this world Why are you playing that stuff courage the blatant stereotype of then, blessed intermission! delayed by a reluctant encore, definitely lack a finer sensibility. now anyway?" the lusty Irishman (clad in Lincoln Center audiences, even if was again accompanied by a Witness the dullard who in- "One hundred Fordham people regulation Aran sweater) who they are largely composed of swell of applause and then came truded upon me during a somber can't be wrong," I boldly replied, likes to sing into his Bushmills, Irish Bronxites sometimes need the inevitable separation of the afternoon as I was listening to a "and that's about how many of us the seven Chieftains present a a bit of "stimulant" in order to classes. Although united for a newly released album, Chieftains will be at the Chieftains concert more subdued image of serious erase their inhibitions, at any time by the common heritage tonight." 5. musicians interpreting rate, the audience returned after and/or love of traditional music, "All that Irish music sounds "Wadaya mean a hundred traditional folk music in classical the break, ready to join in, not as it still remains that blood, or the same," he shouted. "Don't Fordham people can't be wrong? arrangements. Selections from disinterested spectators but as music, is thinner than one's bank you get bored hearing the same They're here aren't they?" (that their recent albums will form the participants. Paddy Maloney of roll. The lace curtain Irish were song over and over and over? It's however, is another article background score for Stanley the Chieftains began by in- whisked homeware in cabs and driving me crazy." altogether). Kubrick's latest film, Barry troducing a set of Kerry limos while the Bronx Irish I managed to smile This issue is irrelevant to the Lyndon. "shlides" which was the im- hustled into the D train. Caught benevolently - what could one enlightened gathering who Liner notes from the Chief- promptu signal for the dancers in socially somewhere in the expect from a connoisseur of assembled at Avery Fisher Hall tains' first album in 1959 the house to surface. The aisles middle, our crowd rumbled back Bruce Springsteen? last week for the Chieftains' only proclaim "Every tune is played of Avery Fischer Hall were to the Lantern in the '64 sedan He launched a final salvo. "At "official" New York concert- they as you would hear it in a country instantly blocked with whirling where Gene-the-Bartender's least you could save it till St. had previously appeared at the kitchen or village pub." Lincoln kicking bodies. Some performers birthday celebration was in full Patricks Day. I could maybe Bottom Line. Unlike the Clancy Center is clearly the antithesis of were obviously masters of the swing (free beers for all!). Gene every Irish pub I've ever been in. art of Irish step dancing while made his late entrance in a blaze It contains a selfconscious others were obviously carried of glory (and fisherman's arrogance within its glass arches away by the spirit (s) of the sweater) since he too had been at and Chagall murals which was moment. Those of us who were the Chieftains' concert. And so, stubbornly intimidating to the less gifted, made amends by the night predictably melted into contingent of Fordham fans who clapping in rhythm to the music a haze of barroom crowds, noise drove up to it in a '62 push button of the tin whistle, pipes, harp and and smoke. Staring solemnly into control Valiant. Limousines and bodhran drums. This joyous my glass of Schaeffer - ah, for a minks abounded of course and frenzy was subsequently quelled Smithwicks! - I reflected that drinks (no Guiness) were $1.50 in into a mood of awed appreciation between the exuberant finale of the main lounge. in response to the melody, "Mna the Chieftains concert and the As the concert began, I na Eirran" (which will regretably neighborhood pub atmosphere of strained for the obvious parallel serve to accompany Ryan O'Neil the Lantern, perhaps New York between it and the recital of as he cavorts across the heather is not, in some respects, all that traditional Irish music I had in Kubrick's film). different from Sligo after all. attended this summer in Sligo, a town in the west of Ireland. EMPEROR JONES AND HAIRY APE: The two University Certainly the trappings were Drama Department plays, directed by Dr. David Davis will run vastly different. Sligo boasts of through Saturday, September 8 at Lincoln Center. Highlighting one town hall which is the hub of KILLARNEY ROSE BAR Emperor Jones are the stellar sets by Michael Massee, featuring a jungle, zoo, and prison, with a balcony for Hairy Ape. The cost- all social activity and doubles as 2495 Webster Ave. uming is always elaborate, sometimes appropriate, and always center of local government in the surprising, and both plays have some good performances - though daylight hours. The Sligo music one half block South of Fordham Road as one-act plays, they are surprisingly long. Pictured here are lovers evidenced their ap- SPECIAL Wednesday Night 7 • 9 P.M. the two stars, Joe Abel and Denzel Washington. preciation of that concert by $1.00 Pitcher of Beer rowdy whistles, whoops, and a riotous stamping of their Med school collective feet. The local curate, /Continued from page 1) at one point, was forced to in- letters of recommendation and The fierce competition among terrupt the ovation with a plea what faculty members say - the pre-med students has also that the audience contain their "soft data" versus the "hard produced an obsession with enthusiasm for fear that the aged data" of grades and test scores. grades and Fordham is not an floor boards (corroded by the exception. Dorm lights that burn We consider the applicant's fffiOlSK infamous Irish damp) might personality and whether he or all night before every organic collapse. chemistry test are proof of this. she is a 'well-rounded' person. And one pre-med sophomore But, she conceded, what The mood of Lincoln Center's who grumbled about spending all students already know, "unless concert was slightly more his spare time in the lab, ad- we meet the student, grades are reserved. mitted "it's the only way." the first and only criterion we A deserved share of applause Besides grades, medical school have to go by." encouraged the Chieftains applicants submit results from the medical school apptitude test, MCAT. Most schools want a minimum of 450 score out of a Add these words to your basic vocabulary possible 600. now, whether or not'you're planning a trip Fordham follows the standard, to Mexico soon. somewhat intricate, recom- iinendation procedure. A pre-med SPANISH ENGLISH junior asks for five letters of chocho childish old man recommendation from any gargarizando gargling faculty member. The five letters are submitted to one of the dozen sacamuelas quack dentist faculty members on the bulla soft coal University's Committee for manteca lard Medical School Recom- pantufla bedroom slipper mendations. After a personal interview with the student and Here at Jose Cuervo, we believe considering the previous five recommendations, the com- an informed consumer is an mittee member drafts a student informed consumer. recommendation which is sent to the medical school. Deluged by applicants with 4.0 indexes, medical school ad- mission committees would like to look beyond grades. Arlene Marks, director of admissions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where many !''<>rdhani students apply, says lnt' admissions committee JOSE CUEKVO'TEQUILA.80 PROOF wighs all applications equally. IMPORTED AND BOTTLED BY C 1975, HEUBLEIN, INC . MAR il-OKD, CONN. "We Pay a lot of attention to WEDNESDAY, December 3,1975 THE RAM-Page 5 CAB CALENDAR
CINEVENTS: presents A Night at the Opera, one of the MIMES & MUMMERS: We need tech crew, lighting tiniest Marx Brothers flicks ever with Harpo on harp, people, publicity crew, painters, etc. Stop by at Collins at Wednesday, Dec. 3 12:30 any day or call Ext. 659. Chiio on piano, and Groucho on the couch. 12:30 pm in U.S.G. TUTORIAL SERVICE: Now offers tutors j MINORITY PRE-MED STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: Keating 1st. n subject matters ranging from the Humanities to th , Committee Meeting at 4:30, Collins 302. SECOND CAMPUS TOWN MEETING: sponsored by ( Natural Sciences.For further info contact Elio Eng, p.o CHARISMATIC PRAYER MEETING: Liturgy. 7:30 USG featuring Exec. Vice Pres. Paul Reiss who will Box 572 or call evenings, Ext 235 or Ext 123. pm. Prayer, 8:30 pm. Thomas More Chapel. Open to all. speak on his Vole in the University. He will discuss KARATE CLUB: Karate lessons every day in the gy BASKETBALL: Fordharn vs Yale. S pm Away. .icademies and Fordham's financial status. All are invited m at 12:30 by Black Belt instructors. SCIENCE AND MATH CLUB: Sylvia Hunter from Black to this open discussion at 12:30 pm in CC Ballroom. ALPHA EPSILON DELTA: Those who are interested in Studies Dept. of Fordham L.A.C. will speak on Medicine RAINBOW SIGN COFFEEHOUSE: presents Danny joining the new chapter of this national pre-med society and Politics. 3 pm, Rm. 526. Ka'ib. noted blues guitarist and founder of the well-known at Fordham are asked to leave their name, address, and S PI C A: First field trip will be a visit with astronomers Blues Project. After the concert an auction will be held phone no. in Box 794. at the Drew University Observatory. « here you receive 80 percent of the sold price of your FORDHAM VETERANS CLUB: Meeting at 5:15 5:45. axvis. Handmade crafts may also be sold at the Crafts Rm. LL 603 Lincoln Center Campus. Join Now;.'.' For fair. Starting time is 9 pm at St. James Church, for those who served and their friends. For info, write further info call 881-7295. Tuesday, Dec. 9 Fordham Veterans Club e o Liberal Arts College Dean, LECTURE: the Philosophy Dept. presents "The Morality ALL FORDHAM COLLEGE FRESHMEN: Come to LL 804 Lincoln Center. of Euthanasia" with Mrs. Philippa Foot, Professor of Phil. open forum at 12:30 in Keating 3rd. Sponsored by Fresh SQUASH: Fordham vs. Princeton at 3:15 pm at home. at Oxford Univ. Faculty Lounge in CC at 2:30 pm. men Student Gov't. WOMEN'S SWIMMING: Fordham \ s. NYU at home 6:00 THEMIS: Reps from Villanova Law School address Pre- MASS FOLLOWED BY DINNER: Campus Ministries Law Students at 1 pm in Keating 3rd. pm. Center, the Upper Room, 4:30 pm. Dinner, 5:30 pm. ATTENTION: Cl. '76 Pre-Law Students. Lecture on Law donation please. Invitation for either or both events. School Reference Procedure Friday, at 12:30 pm in MANAGEMENT SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: Thursday, Dec. 4 Keating 3rd. Lecture Hall. 3rd Seminar. Sponsored by C.B.A. Professor Peter WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Fordham vs.. John Jay away BIG BROTHERS INC: Recruitment meeting for anyone Kolesar, City University, speaks on "Improving the at 6 pm. interested in becoming a Big Brother or Big Sister. FMH Deployment of Fire Engines in N.Y.C." 12:00 Noon, Rm. 442 at 12:30. SEXTON COURSE: at 6:30 pm in Keating 3rd. Lecture Hughes Hall, Rm. 206. CHI RHO MASS: Liturgy and "Get-Together" in the Hall. STUDENT PRAYER MEETING: Upper Room, 1:30 pm. Upper Room at 1 pm. Refreshments served. COFFEE HOUSE: Program and Times T.B.A. Pope Aud. For further info contact Father Rushmore, S.J. Keating LAENNEC: Meeting for those people working on the F.U.L.C. 108. Newsletter. This meeting will be held after the Organic THE FORDHAM PRO-LIFE ALLIANCE: will be having PSYCH CLUB: "Invisible Walls," a film about autism. an information table in the CC lobby every Thurs., 12:30 Test. 2:30 Rm. 105 Freeman. 12:30, Dealy 103. CIRCLE K: is a total service organization. For the pm-3:00 pm. JOB OPPORTUNITIES: Mr. Shapiro of the National CINEVENTS: Sherlock Jr. 8:00 pm Keating 1st. campus, community and yourself, so check it out. 12:30 Labor Relations Board will be visiting the Rose Hill 76 GRADS: Registered representatives from First FMH Rm. 427. Campus to talk to interested students about job op- Investors Corp. will be on Campus from 10 am to 4 pm to portunities with that agency beginning July, 1976. talk about job possibilities. The presentations will be Placement Center, 2nd Floor, Administration Bldg. Rm. 9 made in Rm. 229, Campus Center 11 am; 12:30 pm and Saturday, Dec. 6 Four sessions will be held for the convenience of the 3:00 pm. Students interested in attending any one of MASS: 5 pm St. Thomas More Chapel. students: 10 am, 11 am, 12 noon and 1 pm. Students in these presentations are asked to notify the Placement Business Administration or majors in Economics, office. Spaces are limited. Refreshments will be served. Political Science, History are eligible. Interested June '76 MIMES & MUMMERS: will present Robert Bolt's A Man Sunday, Dec. 7 grads are asked to contact the Placement Office to lor All Seasons Dec. 4, 5, 6, and 11, 12, 13. 555 and CLASSICAL AMERICA: Cordially invites you to a slide reserve a place at any one of the sessions. SpelJman FREE! At 8:30 in Collins Theatre. $1.50 lecture at 3 pm. Goethe House, 1014 5th Ave. Adm. $2. TUESDAY CLUB: Lecture "Global Cooperation • U.N. Students, $2.50 Adults. Yes, refreshments will be served. "The Classical Campus," speaker H. Stafford Bryant. Structure for a New Economic Order?" Speaker, Dr. PRAYER MEETING: Prayer group directed by Fr. NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: Weekend Slide Peter Remec. 12:30 pm, Faculty Lounge. Thomas Denny, S.J. Upper Room, Inner Lounge, 7:30 , Show. Students, Senior Citizens and Children under PHOTOGRAPHY: Competition, Sale, Exhibition. Dec pm. twelve, 50 cents. Others, $1.25. Auditorium, 2 pm. 916 Judge: Dr. Roman Vishniac. Campus Center. GLEE'CLUB: Rehearsal at 4:30 pm, CC Ballroom, New MASSES: University Church, 11:30 am and 10:00 pm. Contact Fine Arts Dept. for entry form. Members Welcome! Murray Weigel Hall, 10:00 am. WOMEN'S ATHLETICS: "Yoga Classes." Mondays and CATHOLIC INTERRACIAL COUNCIL: Monthly today 11:30 in Hughes Hall 1st Floor. meeting, annual elections and Christmas social. Faculty THE COMEDY: presents "Everyman," a comedy about Lounge, 2-5 pm. Wednesday, Dec, 10 death and Beckett's "act without words 1," a comedy about life. Dec. 4-21 Thurs-Sat 8:00 pm. Sun. 4:00 pm. DA CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS: Carnegie Recital Hall Good Shepherd Church, 152 W. 66 St. N.Y.C. (One block Monday, Dec. 8 available at reduced student ticket prices. \V. of B'wayl $2.50 or t.d.f. 799-7008. AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR: today and ATTENTION: Cl '77. Lecture on Requirements for COUNSELING CENTER: Self Growth at the Counseling tomorrow at Polytechnic in Brooklyn. Bicentennial Center. We don't try to provide all the answers but we do Teacher Certification in Keating 109 at 10:30 am. speakers and exhibits open for review. From 12:00 noon help you find them through individual or group coun- on. Friday, Dec. 5 seling. Dealy Hall, Rm. 226. BASKETBALL: Fordham vs. Harvard Home 8 pm. MIDNIGHT LITURGY: Every Monday thru Thursday. Tickets on sale in the Gym. BASKETBALL: Fordham vs. Temple away 8:45 pm. Thomas More Chapel. Readings • Prayer - Brief MINI CONCERT: Leslie West, Campus Center Ballroom. RIFLE TEAM: Fordham vs. Brooklyn-CCNY away 7:30 Reflection - Eucharist. We try to start on time and finish special guest Robert Shaw. Tickets $2.00 & $3.00. pm. bv 12:30. Reserve seats only. MINI-CONCERTS DECEMBER 10 LESLIE WEST
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Page 6-THE RAM-Wednesday, December 3,1975 Debate teams victorious he Gannon Debating Council T Among the debating awards teams of Vernazza and Martin f the Liberal Arts College is o Gannon won were individual reached the semi-finals of a enjoying a successful season that trophies to Joseph Gentile and tournament at Pace University WHYUVEAUFE began with a sweeping victory at Pat Martin for having the on November 14 and 15, thus Herbert Lehman College on highest speaker points in varsity qualifying them for the National October 24 and 25. Facing more and novice debate, respectively. Debate Tournament. WITHOUT MEANING? than 30 other teams including St. Martin and John Vernazza took The uptown Fordham Debating Too many of us are in places ing tile Gospel of Christ to the John's, Pace and Iona, Gannon first place in novice debate Society also showed winning we don't want to bo. Doing things American people. For over 100 came away with ten trophies in teams. ways at Princeton's Adlai E. we really don't want to be doing. years the Paulists have done this eight categories, including the Sometimes, it's because we can't through the communication arts- On November 7 and 8, Gannon Stevenson Memorial Tour- think of anything better to do—but books, publications, television and first-place sweepstakes trophy garnered seven trophies in a nament on November 7 and 8. that's no way to live. radio—on college campuses, in par- for having the most accumulated ishes, in missions in the U.S., in regional tournament at The A team of Joe Manso and Since you have only one life to downtown centers, in working with points of all participating teams Susquehann. a University. Th..._e live, you might as well live it with Pat Foye went 5-0 in the initial, joy . . . with a feeling of satisfac- young and old. Because we are flex- tion and accomplishment . . . and ible, we continually pioneer new rounds, and barely lost to the approaches. To do this we need University of Toronto team in the. knowledge that you are tfir/'if,', Law forum scheduled not taking. Why not decide to live dedicated, innovative men to carry the final, 3-2. With the close loss on our work. Robert J. Sheran, Chief Center campus, and a reception for the best . . . for a great purpose the A team placed second out of ... for something bigger than you To find out what road God has Justice of the Supreme Court of will follow in the Faculty are? chosen us to walk is one of the most 38 teams from American and important tasks of our life. Minnesota, will speak Tuesday at Lounge. If you want to change the di- Canadian schools. the Law School's sixth annual The Sonnett Lecture was rection of your life, you might in- Which road will be yours? vestigate the Paulist way of living. For more information on the John F. Sonnett Memorial initiated in 1970, with former CAREER The Paulists are a small group of Paulists, fill out the coupon and Lecture. Sheran's topic will be Attorney General Tom Clark as Catholic priests dedicated to preach- mail today. the "Minnesota Plan," a program the first speaker. in MINISTRY involving on-going legal in- ... in HOLY CROSS, a religious Missianttries tit Modem America community of men serving the THE struction for judges and lawyers PRINTING community of man as teachers. Name as a requirement for keeping counselors, parish priests MULIS1S Address. their standing in the legal Full Social Lin* campus ministers, ministers .Wm'Z In: community. The lecture will WIOOING INVITATIONS of social concern and overseas lii'v. Krank DcSiaiiii. C.S.I'. City_ 50% DISCOUNT missions. Room C-179 start at 8:00 in the Pope I'.U'LISTKATIIKHS State -Zip. FieeGiIti -Free Thank You Not»i i'or brochure write: •115 West 59tli Stint College Auditorium of the Lincoln AL'S INVITATION LINE HOLY CROSS FATHERS i New YorkYork,, N'.YN'.Y. 1(1011(1019 attendingattending- -Class of - 2958 Jetome Avt.. Srom. NY 10466 BOX C I B«dloid Pork Blvd N»or All Tranip 835 Clinton Avenue (213) 364-5161 Dayi.Ev.i-We.k.ndi We Laminate Diploma* on Plaque* Bridgeport, Conn. 06604 Fordham Students Al Reduced Pncel Welcomed at VERES LUNCHEONETTE Bre.iK'ast and Lunch Radio /hack FO4-9180 GOOG FCC-1 Scvicn
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