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t THE 1969 CARD INAL Volume THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA WASHINGTON, D.C 1970 The"Seniors" Section was prepared by the 1969 CARDINAL Editor & Staff. All other sections here gathered together in perma nent form are the work of the 1970 CARDI NAL Editor & Staff and were completed dur ing the 1969 Summer, Autumn, and Winter. The academic year itself began on Sep chairman of the Board ot Trustees, an established a local chapter under the initial tember 18 with other questions burning be nounced at a press conference in late Janu impetus of John MacAloon. Events sides the theological. Foremost among them ary. The ecclesiastical schools would also be On Monday morning. October 14. stu was the search for a permanent Rector for a full part ot the University, he said. dents and faculty awoke to find, in front of the University. Father Whalen had assumed The theologians and the president search the Social Center, a small booth with a sign Academic year 1968-69, at least from a the post in an acting slot on October 16, were the two continuing threads ot melo abo\ e it reading "Keep Biafra .Alive." news point of view, came across like a pre 1968. In March a blue-ribbon search com drama that stretched throughout the aca The booth was the first signal of a month- mature baby—two months too early. mittee was appointed by the Trastees to demic year. The rest ot the year unfolded long campus drive to collect money for the On July 29, 1968, Pope Paul VI issued find candidates tor the position ot perma something like this. beleagured little secessionist country in his Encyclical Humanae Vitae. The follow nent Rector. The committee was chaired by Students returned to campus in tall to Africa. The drive, calling itself "Operation ing day a group of American theologians— Cardinal Cody ot Chicago. Two college discover that the Committee on University Outrage," was headed by junior Peter then 87, now over 600—issued a statement presidents, a college vice-president, and Planning had set up a task force on student Colasante. A tiny office in .Albert Hall be disagreeing with much of the Papal docu three faculty members comprised the rest life under the direction ot Rev. Russell G. came the center of operations for the na ment. of the Committee. Fuffino. The task force hoped to completely tionwide drive. Colasante quit the group in Many of the leaders of the dissenting However, as October 16 rapidly ap analyze the character of student life on spring, and Mike Barkley. head of the theologians resided at the Catholic Univer proached and, more importantly, as the last campus and project the needs the Univer Catholic Peace Fellowship, took it over. sity of America. Among them were Rev. Board meeting before Father Whalen's sity would have in terms ot facilities, ad For a month, the campus was kept alive Charles Curran, Rev. Robert Hunt, Rev. term expired was slated for September 27, ministrative organization, and personnel by the tiny band of students running Oper Daniel Maguire, and Rev. David Tracy. the Committee had yet to even meet. during the next decade. ation Outrage. On Sunday, October 20. a The dissenters provoked Cardinal The Trustees came and went without any The Task Force had much promise, but, large group marched in front of the Na O'Boyle, who doubles as chancellor of the official announcement ot what they had tor a variety ot reasons, including disorgan tional Shrine to make the peaceful Shrine University. He held a meeting with the CU done to rectify the situation. The University ization and student apathy, the vision was pilgrims aware of the suffering and starva theologians on August 20. The purpose of was forced to read about it in the Washing never realized. Finally the report was pre tion in Biafra. On Friday. October 25. a 24- the meeting, the Cardinal said, "was to ton Post the following Monday. The Trus sented under a new chairman. Father Joseph hour "Lifeline Vigil" began at noon on the gather the facts and opinions of all mem tees had appointed Brother Nivard Scheel, Moody, about six months late. Mall (the real one). On Sunday. November bers of the School of Sacred Theology and Father Whalen's assistant, as CU's second While the Task Force was a bright light 24. a symbolic toodless banquet was served the department of religious education." acting Rector. His term of office was indefi to return to, other University actions over in the Mayflower Hotel by the Biafra Following this meeting with the theolo nite—until a permanent Rector was found. the summer were not. The administration group. gians. Dr. Carroll Hochwalt, after incessant The Search Committee was not going to unilaterally decided to suspend maid and October seemed to be the month to pressure from Cardinal O'Boyle and other meet, it turned out, until November 14. linen service in the dormitories, even spawn causes and excite the campus into a like-minded Trustees, convened a special Then four possible selections out of 30 though the administration had raised the bit ot activity. Besides the Biafran group, meeting of the Board on September 5. The names emerged, though the list was kept room rates in order to retain the services. the Tower jumped into the picture. In an Trustees commissioned the Academic Sen secret. Dr. John Murphy, acting dean of While much grumbling arose, no action was October 18 editorial entitled "Tickets, ate to make an inquiry into the actions of the Graduate School, characterized the taken by the students. Please," the newspaper claimed that "Stu theologians and decide whether or not they meeting as "fruitful." The University was It was also about this time that Ken dents, the very creatures the University is violated "their responsibility to the Univer guessing, though, since the secret list was Filarski, vice president of the Undergradu designed to serve, have no unfettered repre sity under its existing statutes and under made public by a Washington Star reporter ate Student Council, proposed that the SC sentative among the executive officers of their commitments as teachers in the Uni and one ot the four names was a layman— should take a new look at its structure and the University." versity and specifically as teachers of theol Dr. Clarence Walton of Columbia Univer began, as chairman of the committee, to Decrying the fact that no vice-president ogy and/or other sacred sciences." sity. All eyes turned to the Board, which examine the student government situation for student affairs had been appointed, that The Board of Inquiry was chaired by Dr. met again on December 6. at the University. the parking situation was in horrendous Donald Marlowe, dean of the School of The Board came and went with nary a In early October students were greeted shape, and that security was at a minimum, Engineering and Architecture. It spent word about the new Rector. No new word with the unpleasant resignations of Robert the Tower launched its parking ticket cam months, from October until March, sitting about the Rector emerged, in tact, until C. Belts as director of student placement paign. Students, faculty, and sympathetic through testimony from the theologians, the January 8, 1969, the day the Executive and George Stebbins as foreign student ad administrators were urged to "send your bishops, experts, and journalists. The com Committee ot the Board of Trustees met on visor. Both resignations occurred because parking tickets to the Tower," to symbolize mittee made its final report to the academic campus. The word emerged, though, not the individuals felt that the University was concern tor these failing areas. Senate in a special meeting April 1. The from the Executive Committee, but from not taking the needs of the students into On Wednesday, November 20, the report exonerated the dissenting theologians the Washington Post. The Washington Post account. Tower hosted a ticket-burning, sending 836 and castigated the Board of Trustees tor reporter. Bill MacKaye, announced that Dr. The immediate reason for the resigna parking tickets worth $4,180 up in smoke some of its actions in September. Clarence Walton would be appointed as the tions was the University's re-location of before a crowd of about 350 students, fac The report then was sent to the Board of permanent president of Catholic University. both the foreign student office and the ulty, and administrators. The campaign Trustees. The Board, however, refused to The next week the Post and the Tower an placement office from McMahon Hall, the continued until December 6 when the endorse the report. Instead, in typical fash nounced concurrently that the new Rector center ot campus, to makeshift St. Bona- newspaper called it off as Rev. G. Gordon ion, it voted to "receive" the report, refer would not be a Rector at all, but a presi venture Hall, located tar from the center of Henderson, S.J., was appointed to fill the ring it to a special committee for further dent and that a palliative arrangement tor campus activity on the peninsula between vacant vice-presidency. study. the ecclesiastical school had been worked Monroe and Michigan. Then in late November, ihe archileclure The Board, at its June 15 and 16 meet out tor the bishops. The same week that Betts and Stebbins department, the scene of much student un ing, finally did approve the section which The palliative set-up, most observers resigned saw the Academic Senate take a rest last year, flared up again. The discon stated that the theologians in no way were agree, would have placed the ecclesiastical monumental step forward in appointing the tent was led by the fifty-year architects untrue to their academic disciplines—mak schools apart from the rest ot the Univer presidents ot both the Undergraduate and angered at the restrictions imposed uf)on ing clear, of course, that this did not neces sity.

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