51 _ No. 39 Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. 232 Friday, October 31,1969 24% cast ballots No change' wins in ROTC vote by Jim Knickman Oniy 1,022 students voted in the refer- The poor turnout in voting was unex- The USG poll showed that 68% of the T:c ROTC and recruiting referendum endum. This number represents 24% of plained by USG officials. A boycott of students sampled were in . favor of a t«iiils released last night show that 53% the R.osc Hill undergraduates and a 40% the referendum which was organized by change in ROTC status. Jack Breschard, ( students who voted are 'in favor of turnout was needed to make the referen- the Committee to Abolish ROTC was, who organized the poll, claimed at the t uum umding on the student senate. however, suggested as one reason for the ROTC remaining on campus" in its pres- lime that it was more accurate than a ent state. A USG senate resolution passed last low voting percentages. referendum because it polled an object- Tlic referendum results also back mili- spring demanded that "The administra- On the ROTC status question, 15% of ively chosen, representative sampling of •tary and non-military recruiting on cani- tion sever the contract between Fordham those voting were in favor of ROTC all the colleges. University and the United States military •IUS by large majorities: 72% approved being completely removed from campus The referendum results released yester- armed forces recruiting and 91% sup- as soon as possible." This will, therefore, and 32% favored giving it "the same day showed that 61% of the voters also ported both government agencies and remain as the official USG policy, since status as any other extracurricular activ- favor "continued discussion of the status business corporations recruiting. 40% did not vote. ity on campus." I of ROTC and recruiting on this campus." These percentages contradict the re- Turnout by School: sults of a random-sampling poll conducted No indication was made, however, as to USG Fordhnm College, G60; Thomas More College, by the USG public relations department, what form of discussion should be con- 209; College, of Business Administration, 145; which released its figures last week. tinued. School of Pharmacy, 7; Kensule.-.i, 1; ROTC and 2. Status of ROTC for Academic Year '69-70: Please Check one: Should ROTC be allowed to Recruiting retain its present status on campus? 538 52.8% Should ItOTC have the same status as any other Reiss, some faculty propose extra currlculur activity on campus? 303 32.3% Should ROTC. be entirely removed from campus? 178 14.9% parity on Senate committees 3. Status of Recruiting on Rose Hill Campus 1969-70: Yes or Xo The University Senate Commission was constitutional committee. A. Should business corporations be permitted presented with two new proposals on the Discussion of the proposals centered to recruit on campus? Yes 923 91.5% powers, .membership and committee mainly around the question of whether No 85 8.5% structure of the proposed senate at its the constitution should enumerate some B. Xon-militury governmental agencies should meeting Wednesday night. of the specific powers of the senate as be permitted to recruit on campus? USG President Bill Toppeta suggested, or Yes 914 91.1% No 89 8.9% Submitted by commission chairman Dr. Paul Reiss, and several members of the simply state, as in the Reiss proposal, C. Military organizations should be permitted that "The formulation of University to recruit on campus? faculty delegation, respectively, the two proposals were in substantial agreement policy shall rest with the University Yes "25 72.3% No 278 27.7% on the major issues of membership and Senate, subject to the powers of the 4. Do* you favor continued discussion of the sta- .Somrn.itte.es,. Both cajied .for, ..faculty .stu-.. Board of Trustees." tus or ROTC aniVKecrultiDJ; on this fiaraptts? - dent parity on the executive commit- Yes 598 60.6% No 389 39.4% Toppeta suggested a delineation of "at tee, the committee on commitees and the least some of. the powers" so that the senate would not have to "spend its first year or two deciding what it can and cannot do!" Fordham College Dean Foppeta seeks student trustees George McMahon noted that an attempt was made by the functions sub-commit- Student Spokesman William Toppeta's Board—that of age differences between that the meetings be open on all except tee of the commission to enumerate the proposal for student representation on the Trustees and students, and that of a "confidential matters," and that a period powers, but was discarded in favor of the the Board of Trustees will be presented "lack of communication and credibility." be set aside for public comments at the broader statement. at the second meeting this semester of Currently 26 seats out of a possible beginning of the meeting. the Board's Student Affairs Committee. 31 are filled on the Board. Dean Louis Spadaro, of the Graduate Howard Seitz, a New York lawyer, who School of Business, noted that the two The request will be made by Toppeta The proposal also asks for non-stu- is chairman of the Student Affairs Com- proposals in effect represented a "referral at next Wednesday's meeting in the dent membership on the Board. This mittee, will preside at the meeting. Other of the issue of parity from the senate to Campus Center. would include "members of academic members of the committee are Dr. the very important committees" and In his proposal Toppeta calls for "at communities and members of the New Philomena Marsicano, Franklin Williams, York City community," and Fordham urged that the faculty take time to K'ist two students on the Board." One and Rev. Donald Monan, members of consider the matter. each would be elected from the Rose faculty members. This would "decrease the Board, Dr. Martin Meade, vice pres- Hill campus and the Lincoln Center alienation and tension on the campus," ident and dean of students, Dr. Martha Professor Nicholas Falcone, a mem- campus to represent both graduate and according to the proposal. Gonski, the associate dean of students, ber of the faculty delegation replied that undergraduate students. The students, Another point in the proposal calls for and Michael Sheahan, the executive "Those of us on the faculty delegation '•y law, would bu at least 21 years of age open meetings of the Board of Trustees. secretary of the Board. who have presented this proposal submit 1 'KI ik'clcd for a two year period. Top- At present, the Board meetings, held four it with sincerity and seriousness." i'ta said that student representation times a year, are closed and no minutes The meeting will be hold in the CC The proposal is likely to be an issue at V(H;1(I solve two problems of the current are printed for distribution. Toppeta asks 234-235 at 3 p.m. tonight's Faculty Senate meeting. "69 Homecoming ©tiers
Homecoming weekend is officially kicked-off tomor« vow at the start of the Fordham-LSU football game. Besides Saturday's grid action, lliis year's fall social weekend includes the annual Miss Fordham Contest, a. parade of floats and the traditional Harvester dnnce< For the first time in nvmy years, there will be no con* cert in the gym on Friday night The Harvester, a semi-formal dance sponsored by Genesis, will begin at 9 p.m. in the gymnasium. The Scott Richards Orchestra will provide music lor the more than 800 couples expected. The theme this year is "Pumpkin Seed." Six girls and one guy, Robert Schultz, arc in the running for the Miss Fordham Crown. Voting is taking place in the Campus Center lobby and the winner will be crowned at half-time of the football game. Furdhain's number one Rnnis will meet I.SU from New Orleans on Jack Coffey Field at 1:30 p.m. The football team hasn't lost a homecoming, gama since 19G6. "'•"' »M1N(, •si). Tim unbeaten, untied, luiwor.sl ii.wn Kmi't «'» '•» •> >••••••••••••••••*******« Roundup Laennec to sue University The Laennec Conference, an or- a report." against it. A lot of students dwi ganization for pre-med and pre- Mazzatto explained that Laen- want to stick their neck- out • Hurolil R. Metralf, D.?on of Students of the University of Chic- nec's general council, composed of He added that "juniors Inwm ago's Gradual.-. School of Business, will be available Monday in CC dental students, "is in the process tiie chairmen of the conference's been .recommended yet" an(| at room 236. He will discuss his institu.ion's entrance requirements, pro- of filing suit against Fordham committees, had voted to "see a afraid that faculty monitor' •grams-o! study, financial aid, and other related subjects. University for damages in excess lawyer and take a lawyer's ad- would give students bad i-ocorn-1 Interviews with Dc-jn Metcalf can be arranged through Mr. cf 5100,000." vice", but since "it was not unan- mendations because of tln-ir ™ Thomas F. Gallajlier, Director of Placement. imous, we decided not to disclose port of the suit. • Philosophy mcjor- will meet today at 12:30 in CC 234 to dis- According to a letter sent, to any names" for fear of faculty Dr. Edward Aiello, ciinmi/J cuss the new advisory system and other pertinent issues that will help The Ram, the charges stem from retribution. the pre-med advisor, was unaware | re-structure the department for the following semesters. what the conference terms "the He added, "I consider this suit of the proposed action hut Friday at 2 p.m. and returns that Sunday at noon is S12. gross misrepresentation which too drastic, I think we should he didn't understand the basis • • Paul Boutelle, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor, tile University has perpertrated work within the system." for it. "I don't know what they're I will debate Phil Pannell of Fordham Students for Lindsay today at on the pre-medical students". An unidentified spokesman for getting in an uproar about, he I 12:.% in CC 236. According to the students of Laennec, in speaking of the suit stated. "No student ever came to I • Director of Financial Aid Michael Scarpelli wishes to remind the organization, the University noted "a lot of students are me with a real protest," he ;dd«d, f the 1400 New York State residents who have not as yet applied for has stated in one of its cata- schalar incentive awards to apply before the Dec. 1 deadline. logues, "Students who wish to The mailing address for the award is University of The State fulfill the requirements for en- of K.Y., State Education Department, Regents Examination and tering medical or dental school American Age slates Scholarship Center. 800 North Pearl Street, Albany, N.Y. 12204. will bo under the direction of the Committee on Medical Stud- ies, which conducts regular inter- Evers, Badillo visits views with these students, exam- Two prominent politicians come to Fordham's campus next week, I ines their progress from semester as New York political leaders await the returns in the city's imtjor- f to semester, and evaluates the tant mayoral election. quality of their work." The stu- dents claim this is "a blatant Civil rights leader Charles Evers will address students on dec-1 lie." tion eve in the third American Age lecture of the semester. Evers f was elected mayor of Fayette, Mississippi, last spring, becoming the LAST CHANCE TO According to T :iy Mazzatto first black mayor in the South. The brother of slain Mississippi! president of Laennec, the Com- NAACP leader Medgar Evers, the Democrat is expected to irate | mittee en Medical Studies is "in some comment on the New York campaign. MEASURING and the process of being re-struct- ured." He added that it was dis- Evers was a supporter of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy's solved this summer, "when it drive for the presidency last year and has been widely eovem! iul was most needed." He went on to the national press and television since taking control of the city I ORDERING say that this year an advisor has government in Fayette. been provided for the pre-med Evers will speak in tiie Campus Center ballroom on .Vjmia.v| students, but "you have to go to afternoon at 2:30 p.m. him. They don't follow you ... Bronx Borough President Herman Badillo will speak in another | FRIDAY, NOV. 7 The catalogue leads you to be- American Age sponsored lecture on Friday. Badillo is a frwju lieve they do", he said. visitor to Fordham, having participated in the October 15 anti-wstl Mazzatto was not able to dis- moratorium here. 10:30 to 2:30, CC235 close the name of the firm hand- Badillo, who ran a surprisingly strong, though losing, rac ling the case, but added that he the Democratic mayoral primary last June, may comment on th:| thought a Laennec member had election results and his future political plans. Badillo was not $10 deposit required gone to the ACLU sometime last candidate for re-election as borough president. weak. "When the final papers The first Puerto Rican to hold major elective office in New York I are drawn up, he'll probably give City, Badillo has endorsed Mayor Lindsay for re-election over his own I party's nominee, Mario Procaccino. ~ Badillo is considered a prime contender for statewide office in| the future.
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Is'taif and their guests Sunday. area in which they are likely to Revs. Harold Mulquccn and Shaking at the annual Con- achieve pre-eminence" in drawing William Finley received their I vocation of the Faculties, the 57- up these five-year master plans, second medals, while Revs. Philip ar-old Jesuit stressed the need lie also cited the need to be "cri- Carey, Joseph Costanzo, John I fur what he called "productive tical and sure" in the hiring of Leonard, Joseph O'Neill and El- I scholars," noting that "no doubt new faculty members. bert Rushmore were presented I we have yet to achieve an across Calling for increased coopera- with twenty year pins. I the board level of research and tion between the various schools Also honored were Charles • publication" to complement the and departments of the Univer- Hickey, Rita McDonnell, John 1 teaching level. sity on both campuses, Father Reddy, Albert Romano and Ed- PRESIDENT WALSH: stresses need lor research and publication at In order to facilitate the in- Walsh stated, "the lines between ward Walsh. Convocation of the Faculties. 1 crease in research, Father Walsh all segments of the University I announced that there will be un- must increasingly be blurred." He specified but substantial salary proposed increased emphasis on Freshman voting to end today I increases for faculty, that "finan- interdisciplinary and interschool Icial aid for graduate students programs, adding that the Uni- Balloting ends this afternoon slates. There are also five gate are: Donald Beschle (Inde- I will definitely be increased this versity could "capitalize on its in the Fordham College and independents seeking office. pendent), James Connolly • year," and that the University geographical advantages" by set- Thomas More College freshmen The presidential candidates (Freshman), Frank Dunn (Con- elections. j "will allocate some funds for re- ting up cooperative programs are Robert Casper (Spirit of '73), sensus), and William Welsh I search" as well as relying on With other area institutions such Eleven girls are seeking seven Gerald De Meo (Independent), (Independent). I grants gained through the Office as Columbia, New York Univer- posts as delegates from the Class Kevin Deary (Unity), • Timothy Robert Basilico (Consensus) j of Research Development. sity, and City College. of 73 to the TMC Students Hackett (Consensus), John and Peter Curry (Freshman) Jackson (Freshman), and Wil- are running for the position of Father Walsh, in his first for- In his speech, Father Walsh Senate. They are: independents liam Wagle (Independent). Social Coordinator. jmal appearance before the assem- explained the current financial Ruth Cullen, Maria Corritori, John Buckley (Consensus), The candidates for .Academic Jnled faculties since his appoint- situation of the University, not- and Barbara Valente; The Richard Kull (Spirit of 73), and Affairs Delegate are Richard •nient as president last January, ing that at the end of the year, Forum Party, which includes William O'Connor (Freshman) Danzig (Freshman), Edward | noted that while undergraduate the administration now foresees Dawn Cardi, Catherine Maraziti, are seeking the office of Secre- Fagan (Consensus), Joseph J teaching is "still the center of "perhaps a modest surplus" in Eileen Pedietti, Elaine Piccolom- tary-Treasurer. Franceski (Independent), and lour academic universe . . . the the operating budget. But the inij and Rosemary Rosso; and The candidates for USG Dele- Mark Guay (Unity). 1 undergraduate is merely one of president warned that "to stand Liz Colacuicio, Janice Morelli, I the responsibilities" of the Uni- still in university life today is to and Pat Pascocello, who use a I versity. regress," and stated "there is an flower as the symbol and name Restating a proposal he made urgent need that we establish of their party. •to faculty at departmental meet- priorities and all join together in The Fordham College elections SENIORS lings last spring, the president rational planning" for Fordham's are shaping into a much more •called on "all departments and future. complicated r a c c. Nineteen candidates for five offices are distributed among four parties, SIGN UP TODAY CB4 nominates 79 for 'Who's Who' two of which are running full The College of Business Hill campus are: Eduarde FOR YEAR BOOK •Administration has nominated Masferrer, Joseph Dawson. 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Oct. 31, 1969 • THE FORDHAM RAM « Page I Established by the students of Fordham University in 1918 A reasonable demand "Student power" was never intended to the student affairs committee which is in be equated with "student supremacy" and existence now can hardly be termed a con- it is unfortunate that those who assume cession to students. the task of university governance have yet Students do not want votes and repre- to realize this obvious distinction. sentation for .the sake of power, per se but When students finally awoke to their are asking for a voice in matters which responsibilities within the university, and concern us. Realizing that parity on the began to make initial attempts at being trustee board is hopeless, we ask now for heard, their rationale for demanding a the opportunity to have at least two stu- voice was rebuffed automatically and dents meet with the Board as equals and termed presumptious. have some role, however slight, in estab- Obviously, the role of the student in lishing university policies. the university has widened considerably The different needs and attitudes of the since the first feeble attempts at recog- students on the two Fordham campuses necessitates that both be represented sepa- The commutl nition. Any concessions given us in the meantime, however, have been achieved rately on the trustee board. Since five seats only haltingly, and the attitude of the remain and other seats will be vacated as administration seems more an attempt to soon as some terms expire, there is no ques- placate than to acknowledge. tion that sufficient room is available for stu- The question of student involvement dents. Some critics of student trusteeship still remains to be settled here at Fordham, may argue that, with the current state of as evidenced by the University Senate dead- Fordham's finances, seats would be better locks and now, with the continued request occupied by more affluent and successful for student membership on the Board of businessmen who could donate and raise Trustees. money for the school. This reasoning only The student trustee request will un- further raises the issues of priorities and *f start seeing a lot of kids doubtedly be answered with the traditional importance, and the worth of a student rhetoric, describing the traditional role of trustee can hardly be judged in budgetary Fordham jackets around o'\ the trustee in the University structure. But terms alone. in a new tradition, one which students have The student spokesman will propose a Street, and I feet a spirit iht helped to found, these answers can not be plan for student trustees and open meetings sufficient. at Thursday's session of the student af- We're really a commuter; Trustees and administrators can no fairs committee. The request is in no way longer ignore the basic issue—that a uni- unreasonable, and we only hope that the there's so many of us." versity should be a communal decision- entire Board addresses itself to the need, making and educational unit, and that such and moreover, the indisputable right of stu- a community cannot be fostered in a dent trustees, in light of the primary ob- by Barbara Gibbs Frank Delustro U»| bureaucratieally run structure. Mandates jectives of the entire University commun- freshman year . . . two can no longer be accepted from above, and ity. For John Emery, the day is roughly 15 from Queens. After a!j minutes old by the time he makes his car: "I couldn't take ill way from F-house to an 8:30 class. At people to get here. I've ( the same time, Vicky Tryer and Ai Man- anyone who can taki- ill narino have been on the road for almost two hours. They are two of approximately For those who drivel Our silent partners Hardly less discouraging. I 4000 Rose Hill students who commute to ! class, students for whom the sheer logis- formidable obstacles A much derided and often vilified ele- only life. The lack of dorms dictates that tics of getting to Fordham shape the way a neat thousand spaces! ment of the Fordham community—the com- the great number of commuters will pre- they see the University, times as many cars cuf muter—is featured in today's Ram and the vail for quite some time and as this grows Antoinette Capridioni i attention represents our slight attempt at increasingly evident, the future of student For the commuters, a complex routine Washington Hois;lits, a > analyzing something which everyone knows participation at Fordham will have to be of buses, trains, and transfers stands bc- away, she says, "I can •' must exist—the commuter mentality. shared more equally. tvveon breakfast and the first class, be- for a parking ^i1 »•'• "I tween the last meeting and a chance to Quantitatively a greater part of the The "commuter mentality" (removed right at 8:30." University, the commuters have unfortun- as it is from the "Fordham all and every- fix a snack and relax at home. Vicky lives ately always taken a relatively silent posi- thing" thinking- which envelops many of in Trenton, New Jersey — roughly 70 "I stack 'em in < tion, when compared with the involvement miles from Dealy Hall — and catches the 'em," commenlnl .1 !'-! those on campus) has much perspective to 6:21 train between Chicago and New ca of boarders in student politics and extra- offer the University. Their problems and pointing to a lin.- "f 'i curriculars. All the ills of the University York. The distance she travels is hardly '110 pai-king' strip. "Tivy opinions are often ignored, but blame can typical of Hie average Fordham commu- 3 have at one time or another been blamed partially be placed on those who ignore I figure it's liell.r Him on commuter apathy, while at the same ter — but the time is. Ai lives well within miss class. They ""' • anything at; Fordham but classwork and the limits of New York City — Brooklyn :l k time, the University seems unable to find the cafeteria. on this lot or i"iil.l ; some place to put them, as can be evidenced — and spents exactly as long in transit just not enough -M >•<'• by the back-up of cars on Southern Boule- We acknowledge the commuter and his as the D train crawls and stalls between vard every morning. specific difficulties and differences, but we one local station and the next. The pictuv.1 ai.:'-:"'- lihysical plant Mi-. •' Admittedly, boarders .have shown more also urge that he recognize the place he Ruth Cullen, versity affairs, but as many commuters a balance between University addict and from that borough, elaborates: "I hardly plaints than l.i-i yi' remarked, Fordham often becomes their cafeteria card-player. ever get a seat until 59th Street. Then couple. I Kuess -lii'li'iii-- I .just sit there and try to read; it's a bis at judRintr cx'rtly \U-,'ii w i^t" ol time " won t h,i\o ll) ''
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. . In the business of getting to and from In the effort lo overcome their aca- right to bo here; this is my life. I'm sur- years, you get tired of them, you find new school, none of the commuters interview- demic and social problems, many com- rounded by other people with the same interests. It's good to get a taste of the ed felt that his marks had suffered. Ac- muters find that they eat and sleep at problems, the same pressures . . . it's world." cording to Vicky Tryer, "I keep a much home, but live at Fordham, Al Manna- better this way." tighter schedule—I read on subways con- rino sums it up: "I have about one friend Bonnie still travels in to the Bronx stantly. There's no leisure to watch peo- in Brooklyn. The major part of my life Other students deny that distance every day, and has chosen to stay in vari- ple!! have \o budget my'time here care- is here; home is where I eat and study." makes them any less a part of the Univer- ous extracurricular activities. For others, fully, too, because I don't have much, sity. Ann Corrigan, a TMC freshman who the dissatisfaction goes deeper. Another access to the library." An eventual move tries to find rides from her home in senior who moved away, comes in for Westchester, says, "A lot of kids com- classes and leaves again. As she explains, And Jerry Casper of Bergenfield, N.J., Underclassmen particularly miss the mute and have just as far to go. I figure "I've lost interest in social life entirely; looks up from a book in the cafeteria and identity with the University that seems to that when I get my car, I'll spend less my main interest in Fordham is grad- explains, "I can study here with all this accompany the dorms. More than any- time coming than some kids who live off- uating. It's not that I didn't like the dorm noise — but it's out of the question at one else, they speak of eventually moving campus and walk." — but I'm tired of it. Fordham isn't the home. I have two sisters." closer to the campus. "I accept commut- whole world — it's just a tiny part of it." m ing for now — but only because I'm sure Of her daily, ride from Trenton, Vicky But when staying for a mixer or lec- I'll move here next year," says Ruth Cul- Tryer says, "I start seeing a lot of kids A residential philosophy? Ikil ture involves ^making supper and possibly len. "If it weren't for that hope, I'd never in Fordham jackets around 59th Street, tb sleeping arrangements ahead of time, a feel a part of Fordham." and I feel a spirit there. We're really a Fordham at Lincoln Center seems to commuter often finds his social life prac- commuter school—there's so many of us." have settled on its identity as a commuter tically non-existent. Robert Bogdanski One who has moved in is Marilyn Schil- school. But Rose Hill has not, leaving one drives, each day from Warwick, N.Y., 65 ler. For the first semester after trans- Financial priorities prevail administrator to wonder whether it is not fcoft milos upstate. He has to "head right out ferring to Fordham, she commuted from "a commuter's school with the philosophy Why do they do it? For an overwhelm- IN, most days," and feels the lack: "I can't Jackson Heights, a project totaling three of a residential college." The commuter, ing majority of commuters, the decision stay for evening activities, and it's the to four hours daily. "I detested the actual at least, can cite what he views as a is a financial one. Few combinations of social part I miss the most. When I get process of commuting; I want to ba curious bias toward the one-fourth of the tolls and tokens can match the prohibi- home, I'm tired ... I don't do as much treated like a human being," she says. student body living on or near the cam- tive Bronx rents or rising cost of food, 6t]s as if I only lived a couple blocks away." "It's draining — by the time you get to pus. Lectures and meetings invariably by- items which many families can absorb jujir school, you're exhausted. You get home at pass him, and with the 4-4 schedule he in the home. When this is added to the |c|v Don Yanitelli, a freshman from Nanuet, 7 or 8, and all you can think of is eating often spends only three or four days a tightness of loans and the shortage of N.Y., says, "It's more difficult . . . it's and sleeping." week on campus. Rare indeed is the in- pretty bad. You don't get to know what's on-campus housing, the commuter finds structor who takes into account the 15 to, going on or meet people so easily as Last January Marilyn moved into 610. his way dictated. 20 hours a week that many students must boarders. Oh, you can — but it's pretty Now, she says, "the University really be- Others, however, commute by choice. spend in subways and traffic jams. And gradual." longs to me; I'm a part of it. I have the there is the impossibility of getting a flint Bcrnndino Devine, a TMC senior, spent two years in 010 and College View, a few cheap meal around Fordham, and the yards from her classes. This year she atrocities of a gangland cafeteria that by fll' moved back to New Milford, N.J. — 1'k its physical setup discourages social inter- hours away via bus and subway. She action. makes the trip willingly, as she explains, for mnnv reasons: "I didn't want to waste For the present at least, the identity another loan, especially sineo a lot of my must be worked out by each individual. friends have already graduated." But memories of the dorms and parking "But I also think this is partly due to lots that were to be, and the prospect of a being a senior — you kind of outgrow budget thaw at some future date, will having college make Up your whole world. force Rose Hill to re-examine its identity After going to the same things for three •—and to build accordingly stack in everiatvhere i can put 9emJ Ocf. 31, 7969 * THE FORDHAM RAM • Page 5 Women's Liberation plans actions The newly-organized Women's solution for Women is to be- interested," commented MH Liberation Group has been come politically active." .Foley. In the past, she continued, •protesting the Miss Fordham Membership in the organi- "girls did not know wtmv to contest during the past week on zation is now approximately 15, express," their opinions on worn. the grounds that it "deprives but people have been "genuinely en's oppression. women of personal dignity." The group has set up a table in the Campus Center and is Lindsay sweeps Dem poll distributing literature accord- New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay won re-election this \w. k ing to Thomas More College by a landslide margin in a mock election sponsored by the caniiw senior Janet Foley, spokesman Democratic Club. Out of the 190 votes cast in the club's public opinion for the group. Sally Barker, a poll, Lindsay gained 62%, trailed by John March! with 17% and Don,. TMC sophomore, reported that ocrat Mario Prooaccino with 16%. Marchl is the Republican-Conscm- Robert Schultz, a Fordham Col- tive nominee and Lindsay is running on the'Liberal and Independent lege senior received approxi- party lines. Four percent of the voters cast blank ballots and there ON SATURDAY NIGHT mately 60 votes for Miss Ford- were two write-ins. ham in a "protest write-in." When the tabulation was limited to New York City residents, It sounds like the whole musical ball of wax! however, Lindsay's lead dwindled to 47%, versus 26% for Marchi and 7:06 PM WOODY'S CHILDREN Miss Foley noted that the 21% for Procaccino. Democratic Club President Robert Nolan, CBA Robert Sherman goes folk with a fee fei fiddlei o. organization will establish a '70, attributed Lindsay's success to his anti-war stand and "personal day-care center for the children charisma" rather than his ability to govern the city. Nolan, a Procac- 8:06 PM THE BOSTON POPS of students and- campus work- Arthur Fiedler and pops go to classics. : cino-backer, said "They ignored the ineptness and'inefficiency of tho ers. This service, she stated, -is • Lindsay administration," citing the school strike, and the 1966 sub- 10:06 PM THE WORLD OF JAZZ directed against "the main op- way strike as examples. John S. Wilson gives;authority to Chicago hot pression of women," which is Most students who participated in the poll singled out law and and New Orleans cool. "economically based." Women order as the most important campaign issue, although 58% of tho are generally paid less than men Procaccino supporters named crime and narcotics as the number one ' Bill Watson is alive, well and still for similar jobs, she explained. unpredictable on WQXR. issue. "College girls are removed Asked to rate the effectiveness of several state and national poli- from the economic aspects" of tical leaders, the students felt that Mayor Lindsay, and Senator Jacoo male chauvinism, Miss Foley told Javits, Edmund Muskie, and Edward Kennedy were doing a good job, The Ram. The purpose of the while Governor Nelson Rockefeller, President Richard Nixon, and 1560 AM 96.3 FM day-care centers is to "bring the Senators George McGovern, Charles Goodell, and Barry Goldwatcr problem down to the material won fair ratings. Governor Ronald Reagan of California was smA.4 level." But she added that "the out as doing a poor job. THE SONS OF CHAMPUN HAVE CHANGED THEIR NAME TO THE SONS. Sunday Inter-Fraternity Football League Results; Sunday) October 26 Alpha Kappa Psi—6; The forms wliicli vie crmtc caress our mbids And tliey'Utake its past this place which lives Ziy time Phi Eta Pi—0. And the forms we are creating today • Are the forms which we will besotnc day Andttte good games are the flowers of ourmixili Forever t love you f . ts»; ...qptbackyard Time never stands still — and neither does a Paulist. Issues arc raised, conflicts ap- pear and the world changes, hit 1 in , the Paulist is always part of the new . . , blending the best of flic old with the hope and prom- ise of the future. Because one of the major char- acteristics of tile 1'aulisl is !>'•> ability to cope with, and «l'1- come, chtm$c, he's belter able to meet the needs of modern man; he uses his own (Ann to work for Christ and is jjiwn the freedom to do so. If you've given thought to lln priesthood, find out more about the order that never stands still. Write today for an illusl^cl brochure and a summary rf our recent Renewal Chanter Guidelines. Write to; Vocation Director 'cfitketg I Room Room 100 I 415 Wi 1 New Yor/atk 59th Sire ' J srk, N.Y. 10019 • j 6 « THE FORDHAM RAM • Oct. 31, 1969 Behan:'I am Marxist, and revolutionary' .Tim u » II n n.» " " " •• " » " " •• " » " » ii II inrinni n u n ILII n,i Dominic Behan, a leader of popular belief the war in North- but they have "the same slight the outlawed Irish Republican ern Ireland is not a religious war edge that American poor whites Army, told a group of Fordham but rather a "class war." He have over black poor people." VISUAL students yesterday at Leon compared the poor Irish Catho- He cited the inequality of the Lowenstein center that "I am a lics and Protestants to the poor voting laws in Northern Ireland Marxist and a revolutionary." American blacks and whites. He and noted the "company law in ' Behan said that he supports said the Protestants have just which a man could vote as many FORDHAM violence as the only means for as hard a time getting a job or times as the number of Xcrthern Irish independence a house as the poor. Catholics nies he had." from England. He stated "I am not a civil rights man. I know December 2 and 4,1969 that the civil rights movement will fail, it will not succeed with- FUN WORKING IN EUROPE out bloodshed." A competition in photography, He continued "I am willing to destroy the government by painting, and the graphic arts violence." Behan wants the new Irish Republic made up and open to all Fordham Students, ruled by small farmers and workers. The revolutionary came to the Faculty and Administrators. United States to ask for money for guns, so that the Irish Republican Army would have weapons. He claimed that the Contact Visual Fordham, Box 584, Summer and Year Round JOBS ABROAD: Get paid, meet peo- IRA has 11,000 members in Ire- ple, learn a language, travel, enjoy! Nine job categories in more land now. Ho charged that Ian than fifteen countries. Foreign language not essential. Send $1.00 Campus Mail or come to room 433 Paisley, a Northern Ireland for membership and 34-page illustrated JOBS ABROAD maga- Froteslant leader, will attempt zine, complete with details and applications to International Society for Training and Culture, 8C6 United Nations Plaza, New of Faculty Memorial Hall. genocide on the Catholics if a York, N. Y,, a non-profit student membership organization. new revolt arises. "1H1 Jl 1* n 1111 " I " iriLli.lLJI, II—11...I1-1I ...H.-H-II ..U-U-ll—11— Behan added that contrary to to carry election returns WFUV, Fordham's FM radio station, is planning complete coverage of next Tuesday's elec- tions. Members of the station's news department will make periodic reports from the headquarters of all three New York mayoralty candidates. Sophomore Dan Reilly, head of tiro WFUV news department, said that any statements by the mayoral candidates will also be handled live. "Actuality reports" from the election headquarters are planned to augment WFUV's Associated Press'"wlre'.' The AP wire service will also be used for reports on election results from other states. Election coverage will begin at 8 p.m. on Tuesday with "a dis- cussion of the issues and con- tests" by Professors Conrad RukAvski and Stephen David of I ordinal's political science de- partment. The station plans to continue broadcasting until midnight un- less tho major offices are still '"'t decided by that time. •I'M th>j Kirl win, lias Pnmohi Moore's ID <..W i;l.-i.-.-c. nuurn It I,, Box SSI, Oun- •••''" "ii Wushincum, Nov. 15. Brim,' •-'I I..S. ttvK.j.y (jmnt? mm from Ylet- • •••'" :!:•,(! Ilk- Uiini world! Join Foltl I. Til SMC. 1" HOIK Iniil-July t.> la|t. Am:., six ••'K:1. i i-ice ap[irux. 1:60,). Kxt. -itj'J •J-l> o,i VvVmhliigiun. Nov. IS. U.S. cut ;•. \i-.tnam! KOTC out ot Kurillinm! "•u Kordimm SMC. •;!:-a\. CLUSMLT tho aHenuitivcs, Call •'••l-'-WI to volunteer. '•.•'•;i ui) Wii...li(,,B|on, N,,VI ,5. urtnj, ,,n :;M\ UOO]IS home now! Join Fordluinl H"