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SUBSCRIBER'S ADDRESS Football Rally Raymond Circle THE I PROVIDENCE COWL 10 P.M. Thursday I COLLEGE TEN PAGES PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R. I., OCTOBER 30, 1968 VOL. XXXI, NO. 6 Scholarship Committee Spilka Explains Traits To Revamp A réévaluation of the award• Of Faulkner's Compson ing of scholarships and finan• Last Thursday evening Mr. cial aid is being planned by cording to Mr. Spilka he is try• Mark Spilka of Brown Univer• the Committee on Scholarships. ing to bring "Christ alive." sity lectured on The Sound and Father John Peterson, O.P., Quentin's attraction to death the Fury: "Quentin Compson's is actually his yearning for his who succeeded Father Edward Universal Grief." Halton, O.P., as head of the grandfather's world — that of committee, has the immediate He pointed out that some the Old South, of bright uni• task of conducting a review of critics dismiss Quentin as a forms, of values like honor and the procedures currently in ef• neurotic. On the other hand, pride, of qualities like chival• fect at the college with regard Irving Howe has called him a ry. In other words, the modern to financial aid. "morally aware person." age is Quentin's adversary. Louis Mumford, Mr. Spilka In this process of review, the Like Joyce's Stephen Deda- noted, said that "the advent of scholarship committee will be lus, Quentin is an antihero. In the mechanical age meant the concerned chiefly with locating his stream of consciousness he death of the spiritual age." and updating existing informa• is searching for timeless veri• ties. The tragedy of Quentin The character of Quentin is tion for each sponsored schol• Ralph Paglieri offering noteworthy comments on PCMIP is that he is trying to live the that of the anti-hero, a pathetic, arship and grant provision in program. addition to simplifying the ap• timeless, innocent, loving and unprincely Hamlet, a Clyde Bar• plication forms for financial emotional perspective of his row. His suicide which is an aid. In these areas, the com• PCMIP-Valuable Experience for younger brother Benjie, yet (Continued on Page 7) mittee will attempt to automate Benjie is only a three year old procedures as much as possible child. through computerization. For Quentin, the family his• Students in Fields of Study tory becomes a nightmare. Un• Federal Agencies This year the committee will like Stephen Dedalus, Quentin begin a special program empha• The Providence College Man• He will have first hand knowl• has no wise father or loving sizing the identification of agement Intern Program held edge of corporate management mother. Instead, his father is qualified Negro scholarship can• an open seminar on October 25 practices in an area closely re• pessimistic and says "no battle Stage Career Day didates. Father Peterson hopes to explain its purposes and to lated to his major field. Also, is ever won" and "victory is an Federal Career Day was held to develop a Project 25 arrange• he will be given a chance to interest students in participat• illusion of philosophers and on Monday October 28 in the ment similar to the program use classroom theory in practi• ing. fools." Later, when Quentin Alumni cafeteria annex. The currently in use at St. Peter's cal experiences. breaks his pocket watch, he is College in New Jersey, in which The essential role of PCMIP purpose of this event was to is to find a place of responsi• To the employer, the program actually attempting to reject expose students to Careers in twenty-five Negro students are his father's fatalism and pessi• assisted for admission, academi• bility and challenge for an in• makes available highly qualified government and to give them tern in the corporate structure candidates who have been mism. He wants to throw off the opportunity to talk with cally and financially, each col• the sense of hopelessness, he is with a goal toward allowing the screened to fill his need. Those representatives of various gov• lege year. ever searching for personal se• intern to observe, study and interns who are hired may be ernment agencies. Present plans also call for curity in an alien world. Ac- participate to the best of his (Continued on Page 8) the committee to devote in• Several of the agencies repre• ability in a business atmos• creased attention to the number sented offered job opportunities phere. of service veterans who are to students regardless of thier eager to begin or continue their Presently the organization is field of concentration. college education. serving as a common ground The Social Security Adminis• WDOM Features Licht tration, for example, offered Both these projects, the iden• where prospective business em• opportunities in Research, Pub• tification of Negro scholarship ployers and students may find lic Administration, Electronic candidates and greater assist• one another. To the intern, the Data Processing, Social Insur• ance to veterans, have been rec• program provides an opportu• Candidate Airs Plans ance Claims, and Accounting. ommended this year by the nity employment during the federal government. nity for employment during the Mr. Homer B. Piatt, Regional By MICHAEL McBRIDE Recruiting Officer for 'the So• Frank Licht, the Rhode Is• cial Security Administration, ex• land Democratic gubernatorial plained that the United States candidate, appeared last Thurs• Government is the biggest busi• Drug Addiction Topic day evening on the Live Wire ness in the world, and that radio program sponsored by 87% of its employees were se• Friar radio station WDOM. lected through the Federal Serv• The two hour program was ice Entrance Examination. Of Egan's Alumni Talk marked by one and one quarter He also stated that the So• hours of commentary on the cial Security Administration At the Annual Communion suffered physically because of state and national election was service oriented and would Dinner of the Providence Col• their large intake of drugs. He scenes and a three-quarter hour interest the individual who said, "Recently, in Bellevue lege Alumni Association on Oct. interview of Judge Licht by a wants to help other people be• Hospital in New York City, I 27 in Raymond Hall, Reverend panel including Live Wire mod• cause in many cases you will watched doctors try unsuccess• Daniel Egan, S.A., lectured on erator Michael Cronin, WDOM be dealing with people who have fully to find a vein in the body the problem of drug addiction. news reporter Barry Flynn, suffered traumatic experiences of an addict in order to give such as death survival claims, He analyzed the cultural, socio• WDOM news director Vin Papi, logical, emotional, and physical him life-saving blood. Every disability claims, medicare, etc. vein in his body had collapsed and this reporter. dangers in drugs. The Department of the Navy, because of his enormous intake Licht, a former Superior also had Civilian job opportun• In order to explain to the of drugs. He had jabbed him• Court judge and member of the ities that were open to students audience the problems of drug self with a needle, filled with Rhode Island State Senate, was in almost any concentration in addiction, Father Egan, the au• drugs, four or five times a day asked why he left the security such fields as: Supply manage• thor of The Junkie Priest, for a period of about ten and prestige of the bench. He ment, Personnel Management, talked about many of his per• years." replied that as a judge he sonal experiences with drug Purchasing Psychology, Ac• could not, while speaking in Judge Frank Licht addicts. Recently he sat with a (Continued on Page 7) counting Auditors, Biology, public, say anything pro or con —COWLfoto by BOB HELM group of addicts in Marathon Computer Programmer, and concerning various aspects of House in Coventry, R. I., and He assured, for instance, that Management Analysis. the political scene because it talked with them. (Marathon there would be no increase in The Treasury had job open• House is an organization that STUDENT TUTORS may have brought the court into Blue Cross payments by policy ings for students in Accounting, disrepute. However, he felt tries to help rehabilitate drug are needed for the holders if he is elected. Fur• Business Administration, Law, addicts). "From this group," he that because of his strong feel• thermore, he explained his posi• Economics, Police Science, and said, "I learned that there is Student Tutorial Program ings about certain issues, he tion on the tax issue very con• Criminology. Among the job a culture of humanity which is The program is sponsored by could not remain silent, and he cisely, emphasizing that his in• openings which were confined roaming the streets of Provi• Student Congress, D.E.S., left the bench to express them. vestment tax would come from mainly to the Internal Revenue Dean's office and Counseling dence, desperately in need of While Mr. Licht could not ap• those most able to pay it, there• Service were : Special Agents, Center. Please submit name, money for drugs that its physi• pear for the two hours originally by protecting the less fortunate. whose main responsibility is to subject one wishes to teach cal system needs." set aside to discuss his cam• In relation to his philosophy investigate tax frauds; Revenue and where one can be con• paign, a great deal was discussed of government concerning its Agents, who audit tax accounts, In his experience with ad• tacted to the Counseling on the more critical aspects of role in social welfare programs, and Revenue Officers, who aud• dicts, Father Egan stated that Center. his platform during his stay. (Continued on Page 6) it the lesser tax accounts.

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