Schmidt, Healey, Devlin at CONTAC

Vol. LIV., No. 14 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHING'l'ON, D.C. Thursday, February 4, 1971 Schmidt, Healey, Devlin at CONTAC by Tom Sheeran Union," and "Environmental Prob Contributing Editor lems and International Coopera Helmut Schmidt, the Defense tion." The seminars will be com Minister of West Germany, and posed of ten student delegates, a Bernadette Devlin, a Member of chairman, and experts in each field Parliament and a prime leader of from local universities and dip the Catholic minority in Northern lomatic missons. Ireland, will both speak in Gaston Other speakers listed for the Hall Tuesday at the Conference on Conference are Dr. Robert E. the Atlantic Community (CON Osgood, the Director of the Wash TAC). ington Center for Foreign Policy CONTAC is an international Research; Denis Healey, a member student conference which brings of Parliament, and likely to become together students from Europe and Defense Minister in a Labour govern America for five days of seminars, ment; and Paul C. Warnke, a former speeches, and panel discussions on Assistant Secretary of Defense. the Atlantic Community. This is In addition to his role as West Helmut Schmidt, Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany, (left) and The Rt. Han. Denis the fourth CONTAC. The first was German Minister of Defense, Healey, M.B.E., M.P., Secretary of State for Defense of the former Labour Government of the United held at Georgetown in 1965. Schmidt is also vice chairman of Kingdom will speak at CONTAC. Organizers of the Conference Willy Brandt's Social Democratic explain that CONTAC is distinctive Party. His address will be given at for three reasons: it seeks "to bring 2:30 p.rn, on Tuesday. together many of the scholars, Schmidt, who has become an Capitol Hill Lobbying Successful, public figures, and, most important important exponent of Brandt's ly, the potential leaders of the Ostpolitik, stated in the Oct. 1970 Atlantic Community;" instead of issue of Foreign Affairs that West Collins Praised for Fund Raising seeking "solutions," the Con Gerrnany/s commitment to the ferences have sought to find areas Atlantic community is a permanent of common understanding; and by Harry McFarland passed. It allows up to $5,000 per came to us with a vision and with one. He described the East-West student to be paid to each medical faith. He never faltered at the odds, finally it is organized and con dialog in a way that could also be The Rev. T. Byron Collins, SJ., ducted by students of the Edmund director for federal grants, has been school and $3,000 per student to nor did the roadblocks and diff'i used to define the purposes of be given to the dental school. culties deter him ... those who A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. CONTAC: while not "seeking new highly praised for his work in The core of the Conference will getting federal funds for the Representative Don Fuqua make up the faculty, staff, and solutions," they are seeking to find (D-Fla.), chairman of the subcorn- student body at Georgetown Uni be ten seminars, open to the public, new areas of understanding. Georgetown and George Washing which will deal with such topics as mittee to which the bill was versity owe this man more than Miss Devlin, who will be on ton Medical SChools and the "The Atlantic Community and the Georgetown Dental School. assigned, commended Fr. Collins they will ever know." campus all day as a Visiting for his work on the floor of Congressman Fuqua also praised Third World," "East-West Detente: Scholar, was recently imprisoned Before the passage of the "Medi The United States and the Soviet cal and Dental Manpower Act for Congress, saying, "Father Collins (Continued on Page 11) for her role in the bitter rioting the District of Columbia of 1970" throughout Northern Ireland last all three schools were faced with year. She will speak at 8 :30 p.m. rising debts and no way to meet Grooving with Garvin • •• The Conference has budgeted costs. For example, according to a almost $10 thousand for speakers, report by Dr. John Rose, Dean of and almost $25 thousand for the Georgetown Medical School, in delegate arrangements. The dele fiscal 1970-71 his school will run gates will stay in Washington's $2,618,000 into debt. As a result of Walsh Calls Concert 'Success' Sonesta Hotel. CONTAC is the schools' fiscal crises the schools supported by Georgetown Univer believed that they would soon have A successful rock concert was the concert were not from Secondly, he feels Georgetown is sity and by several foundations and to close. If they had been forced to held in Gaston Hall last Saturday Georgetown. He feels that the not fulfilling its responsibility to corporations. Among those con do so the hospitals of both night, with neither the knowledge primary responsibility of the the area community if it does not tributing to this year's CONTAC universities would also have had to nor the consent of Vice-President University is to provide good open its concert doors to outsiders, are the Honeywell Fund, S.C. close, and D.C. General would have for Student Life, Dr. Patricia on-campus entertainment for its because in so doing the university Johnson Wax Foundation, Olmsted been forced to cut back on some Rueckel. students. blocks one means for area young Foundation, and the U.S. State services. Two local bands, Grin and Walsh maintains that it would people to "establish a cultural Department and U.S. Information Throughout the country other Crank, played to what Director of not be financially feasible to run a identity." Agency. medical and dental schools faced Student Activities Robert Dixon Concert with an expensive band for Dr. Rueckel affirmed, however, Entrance to the various speeches with the same kind of crisis have termed "a generally good crowd" Georgetown students only. Thus, that the ban on rock concerts is still will be by ticket only. Tickets will been able to turn to the state for nearly four hours. he says, to prohibit non-university in effect and that exceptions to the be available on a first come basis legislatures which were usually The concert was organized under students from attending is to ban must first be cleared through through the Student Government quite willing to help. But because the auspices of the student effectively ban all concerts. her office. and CONTAC. of their location in the District the government. One of the concert's three schools had to go to Congress, student organizers, J. Garvin Walsh where they faced opposition from (Coli. '72) said that while the the Nixon administration. concert was only a "mild financial Through the efforts of Fr. success" it was a great social Collins, Dr. Seymour Alpert, vice success. He said it demonstrated president of George Washington, that if a concert is done in the and a number of others the bill was proper manner-for example, not overselling tickets- it is possible to have an excellent concert with minimal difficulties. Walsh attributed part of the success of this particular concert to its promoter, Michael Schreibman. According to Walsh, Schreibman, '., unlike previous promoters, was not I!'i"'f/I'( only interested in the profit he was making, but in addition was interested in the enjoyment and comfort of his audience. He added that in this sense the concert was a first for Georgetown, since this consideration has not generally been given in the past, particularly as in the case of the ill-fated Traffic Concert. There is basic disagreement between Dixon and the Student Go vernment concerning who should attend Georgetown Concerts. Dixon stated that he was still somewhat disturbed by the fact Last weekend, the Alumni Board of Governors and Alumni Senate held their 121st campus convention. Rev. T. Byron Collins, S.J. that most of the students attending Story page 2. Photo by Pat Early. Page Two THE HOYA Thursday, February 4, 1971 J Alumni Seek Dialogue with Students by DOll Hamer will be an increasing emphasis on with seminar sessions in which News Editor the privatization of world dip- alumni met with students and Last weekend, Georgetown lomacy - for instance, private faculty to discuss topics of their • witnessed the return of some old businesses sending their own rep- preference. Topics ranged from the faces and some not-so-old faces; the resentatives to foreign countries. changed religious atmosphere at occasion was the 121st campus Following the discussion of Georgetown to the May student convention of the Georgetown academic issues, Dr. Patricia strike, from ROTC on campus to Alumni Association Board of Rueckel and the staff of the the drug situation, from academics Governors and Alumni Senate. Student Life Office acquainted the to parietals. Of the entire weekend, At the request of the member alumni with "changing student life it was at this point that the ship at an earlier gathering in styles." Noting the recent rise in generation gap began to make itself '. Chicago, this meeting was devoted campus social events, Robert J. felt, although even on points of '. ',' entirely (with the possible ex Dixon, director of Student Activ- disagreement some bridges of ..,. ception of the "Happy Hours" in ities, said, "The students are bring- mutual understanding were built. ... the best Georgetown tradition) to ing back a life-style that is oriented Following the afternoon's talks, ., the development of dialogue toward the campus." The Rev. Fr. Henle concelebrated a Mass between faculty, students, admin Robert K. Judge, S.J., dean of men which was prepared by the George istration and alumni.

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