Special Edltlon«Graduatlon 1979 VOLUME 61, NUMBER 15 SUNDAY, MAY 27,1979 RDHAM UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK PAGE 2 THE RAM, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1979 OK, WAKE UP... MIDNIGHT SNACK TIME! * J, , I ...AND A BUDWEISER. BALONEY SANDWICH! LEMME ALONE... WAS JUST ABOUT TO MEET THIS DYNAMITE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE... LETS GO... WHAT'RE WAITING f WAKE WHY PO YOU THINK FAT GUY!!! ))% THEY CALL 'EM TASTEBUPS,ANYWAY? KING OF BEERS* WATCH THE TASTEBUDS (IN ACTUAL COMMERCIALS) ON "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE/" ANHEUSER-BUSCH, INC • ST LOUIS THK RAM, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1979 PACK3 2400 To Graduate Today At Rose Hill, LC After the guardboothshave grand marshall of the exercis- graduate degrees from Ford- been whitewashed, the hedges es. The deans of all the ham College; 200 from the trimmed, the elm trees lining schools, the board of di- College of Business Adminis- Edward's Parade pruned; af- rectors, and the honorary de- tration; 100 from the School ter all the rush to pay overdue gree awardees will sit on the of General Studies. In addi- library fines and fees for "Terrace of the Presidents," tion, the Graduate School of long-forgotten deferred ex- and the front doors of Keat- Religious Studies and Re- ams; after the relatives have ing Hall will be opened for ligious Education will award been cajoled and the little the annual lest of their hinges. approximately 80 masters de- brothers and sisters bribed in- grees, and the Graduate to complacency, it might Dr. Paul Reiss, the execu- School of Arts and Sciences rain. And the 8,000 of you tive vice-president of the Uni- about 180. Also, the Gradu- sitting on the big green lawn versity, will be the master of ate School will award a num- may have to run for cover. ceremonies. He will do the in- ber of doctorates. As the Only joking. The National troductions for the various newspaper went to press, the Weather Service said mid- deans and other introducers, Registrar had not yet tabulat- week it looks like a hot and including Mr. George Doty, ed their final number, but it sunny day for Fordham's chairman of the trustees, who was estimated that it would 134th Commencement today. will in turn welcome com- fall short of last year's 70. Seated together for their last mencement speaker Zbigniew The new doctorates will join session of Fordham speech- Brzezinski, national security the faculty on the terrace dur- making, 2400 degree recipi- advisor to President Carter. ing the ceremony once the de- ents will be led down the aisle According to the Regis- grees have been bestowed. by Dr. Paul Levac, dean of trar's Office, approximately National Security Advisor Zbiginiew Bryevnski the summer session and the 600 people will receive under- —Jim Dwyer Your leverage is k Buy Fordham College? This is You By Eric Pluue and fifty-nine have a cumulative average of of age, from New York City, who commutes like you? 3.5 or better, and one of them is probably a to school and was graduated in the top 20 Here is a statistical portrait of the average All of the statistics were taken in interviews good friend you took courses with and al- percent of your high school class. You're a 1979 Fordham College graduate. with Richard Waldron of the Admissions Of- ways lucked out better on tests and papers. biology major with an okay gpa—between You, the average graduate, are a white fice and Nancy Neville, director of Institu- Now, do you recognize this character? You 3.0 and 3.49. male of about 21 or 22 years of age. In the tional Research. 1979 graduating class, there are 685 students, should. You're a white male of 21 or 22 years More important, would you hire someone of whom 426 are men and 259 are women. During the past five years, however, there has been a trend toward a greater proportion of women. For example, in 1976, the gradu- ating class consisted of 524 males and 225 fe- males. New Curriculum For FC Ahead The majority of the graduating class is also The Class of 1983 will have a slightly <JiJ- take-. Distribution courses are courses within science, mathematics, foreign' languages and white. Approximately 17 percent of the class ferent curriculum from that taken by today's a discipline that the student selects to fulfill fine arts. is composed of minority groups. About 9 graduates. requirements in that subject. Cultural enrich- Enrichment courses are four-credit courses percent are Puerto Ricans and 8 percent are The new curriculum was adopted by a ment courses are courses beyond the distribu- taken during junior and senior years. They black. The remaining 1 percent are from comfortable margin last week in a faculty tion and core courses which a student chooses. are divided into several areas, including lit- other minority groups, including Asians and referendum. It provides a 5-3 format (five erary, social, and ethical and religious con- native Americans. courses at three credits each) for the first two Freshmen are required to take six core sciousness. The number of major courses is You probably entered Fordham College years, and places less emphasis on the sci- courses, two each in philosophy and English determined by the individual departments. immediately after high school and finished ences and foreign languages. and one each in history and theology. These Thus, the student must take 36 courses and the curriculum in four years. Only a small Courses are divided into five categories: specific courses are taken by every student. accumulate 124 credits in order to graduate. percentage of students have taken any time core, core area, enrichment, major courses, Sophomores then fulfill core area require- The average graduating senior took 32 cours- off in between. and electives. Core courses are specific cours- ments by selecting unspecified courses within es and needed 128 credits to graduate. You also know the score by now—you're a es in a subject area which the student must the disciplines, such as physical science, life native New Yorker. Approximately 70 per- cent of the graduating students are from Manhattan or one of the other boroughs. Twenty percent of that figure are from the Bronx. Only 5% of the students are from surrounding areas, such as Westchester or Long Island. Twenty-five percent are from out of state. The great majority of out-of- staters are from New England or the Mid- Atlantic area. The percentage of commuters, as opposed The General Studies to campus residents, reflects the large num- ber of students from the metropolitan area. The average graduating student is probably a Alumni Association is commuter. Statistics show that 60% of the students are commuters and 40% are resi- dents. You're not that dumb either, ranked, as is happy to welcome the you were, approximately in the top 20 per- cent of your high school graduating class, and scoring between 525 and 550 on the SAT's. But getting into Fordham was not Class of 1979 as new that big a deal: about 70 percent of all ap- plicants are accepted. And about 70 percent of the people who chose to come here stayed; members, and wishes the rest dropped out. You've also spent a lot of time in Larkm Hall, since you're probably a biology major. In the graduating class of 685, 129 students them the best of luck are biology majors. Communications comes in a close second in popularity with 124 ma- jors followed by psychology with 68 and in the future. political science with 67 majors, liconom.es takes 5th place with 47 majors. You also have only one major. In the class of 79, there arc 742 students with one major and 58 with double majors. The grades you got here reflect the national trend towards rising average grade. Approx- imately 268 students have grade point av- erages'betwen 3.0 and 3.49. There are 168 with gpa's between 2.5 and 2.99 am 82 stu- dentsbetween 2.0 and 2.49. One hundred PAGE 4 THE RAM, SUNDAY, MAY 27,1979 By Pat Borzi When I first sat down to try to figure out what I was going to write in my final col- legiate column, I drew a blank. What could I write that wasn't like anything any other sap- py senior wrote a few days before gradua- The Borz-Eye View of Some tion? Nobody wants to read about the bars again, and we already have a sports col- umnist in this issue. Then, while cruising the campus in search of a typewriter to compose this on, it hit me. Birds And Brains And What about a column of mini-Fordham Pro- files? Not the usual ones, but little capsule observations of people I've interviewed or dealt with in my four years here. All right, so it isn't such an original idea. But try it, you might like it. Besides, it'll probably be more More Than A Few Beauts interesting than our graduation speaker.... Without any more silliness, here goes: Bill Crawley, .ex-Vice-President for Stu- dent Affairs: His office reminded me of Mor- dor, the dark land of the lord of the Rings trilogy. The curtains, the paneling, the fur- niture—everything suggested blackness. It al- so seemed he wore black every time 1 inter- viewed him. Crawley was a tough interview because you could never gel a definite answer out of him. During a 30-minute discussion in January, 1978 about the firing of basketball coach Dick Stewart, Crawley would not reveal a single fact leading to the decision.