Yol. XLIV, No. 23 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday, May 9, 1963 ,: Dance Boat Ride Head Fr. Collins Reveals Ne", Officers Elected; ~ 1.. A '1 sew 'k d New Building Plans StU et Th '4 nnua prIng ee en For Future Dorms uppor nl y erne At 1 :30 last Thursday af­ ternoon Father T. Byron Col­ lins, S.J., made public the . ,. designs for two new Campus dormitories. The dormitories are a part of a long-promised building program. The plans call for a men's dorm, ." ·,·ccommodating four hundred and " _ ~rty Georgetown gentlemen, to J~ be constructed on the Lower Field .' .. between New North and the Jesuit Cemetery, and for a women's dorm , accommodating 336 Georgetown ',. ladies, adjacent to St. Mary's. The planned date for completion of these buildings is autumn of 1964. Groundbreaking will begin . ... early this fall. { WHEEL AND DEAL . • appears to be the aim of the Spring From the Terrace NEW DEAL . The victors of the class contests for the pres­ idency and representation are, bottom row, left to right: Ed Shaw, Weekend committee. Bottom row, left to right: Mike Silane, .Jim The men's dorm will be con­ Bryan, Gene Bennett, .Joe McGowan. Top, left to right: .Jack Mitchell, Dave Clossey, and Brendan Sullivan. Top: George Thibault, .Jack structed on a terrace, cutting slight­ Callagy, and Barry Smyth. Ed Coletti, Charles Carozza, Tom Capotosta, .John Dono.van. ly into the adjoining hillside. Under by Steve Hesse the terrace, hidden from public by Herb Kenny view will be a maintenance garage. In last Thursday's class elections 16 Georgetown gentle­ Beginning tomorrow night at McDonough Gymnasium, The first floor or terrace floor of the sophomore class of the College will present the annual this dorm will contain a formal men were elected to class offices for the next academic year. Spring Weekend. Chairman Gene Bennett and co-chairman lounge, similar to the one in Copley, Filling the highest positions in the several classes were: i· "Bear" Bryan have been working since Christmas vacation (Continued on Page 10) Class of '66, Ed Shaw, president, and John Callagy, Student .. to assure a successful weekend of fun and dancing. Council rep. Class of '65, Dave Clossey, president, and George The weekend begins Friday night with a dance lasting S CHId F· al M · Thibault, Student Council rep. ~ • from 9 :00 until 1 :00. This • • 0 S 1n eet1ng; In the senior class Barry "'Off- Dorm Shortage Solved year's theme is "Around the Smith will be Student Council i As Students Move Off, -:~rl~'f~:rEi!:;~e;:ay~;' ~~~. Faculty Conscience rep. and Brendan Sullivan, Lauds president. { Need For Dorms Cited world" will be portrayed in by George Thibault Shaw, 'an AB student from El­ . ," murals placed on the four Last Sunday evening the 1962-63 Student Council held mira, New York, and this year's by Ed Coletti walls of the Gym. These will de­ its final meeting before the changeover session that will take freshman Student Council rep. ran !.,.. During the coming school pict a Paris cafe, the New York on a platform calling for more con­ - skyline, Po.lynesia, and an Arab place on May 12. Most notable among the details which structive student criticism. He re­ year, about 950 undergradu­ camp. Music will be provided by concerned the Council were final reports by three of the ceived 175 out of 330 ballots cast 1 ates, not including dayhops or Fred Perry and his orchestra with Council's most active committees, and the passage of two in a four-man race against Eric r. women students, will live off an intermission program of folk Menoyo, Pat Carone, and Gus singing by Don Leace. The dress resolutions commending Georgetown faculty members for Motta. .. /" Campus. Of this number, ap­ for this affair is semi-formal. active work on social ques­ mittee. Both Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Callagy, an AB (Classical) stu­ proximately 650 have will­ Boat Ride dent from New York City, defeated ~ . The Saturday afternoon boat tions of concern to the George­ Scheye provided less tangible, but . ingly succumbed to. the lure o.f off­ town student body. Edward Leary, 166 to 156, when .., Campus living while' the Qther 300 ride, another traditional event, will no less enco.uraging, indications of 59 of John Stanfo.rd's Vo.tes went comprise the dormitory waiting list. require more casual apparel. The Committee rep 0 r t s were student interest, and faculty and to him on the second ballot. As the situation now stands, 344 ride will last from 2:00 until 6:30, read and submitted by Marc administration responsiveness in present freshmen, 230 sophomores, and dancing will be to the music areas of student problems. All of Sic Semper Tyrannis and 150 juniors are assured of of Johnny and the HUlTicanes o.f O'Brien of the Honor Code these committee reports will be Dave Clossey, sophomore vice rooms on Campus, while the wait­ "Red River Rock" fame. The boat Committee, Randy Maloney of the available in the Yard Office for president this year ,and an AB gov­ will dock for two hours at the ing list is made up of 150 fresh­ Campus Facilities Committee, and anyone interested in the details of ernment major, defeated incumbent Marshall Hall Amusement Park Tom Scheye of the Academic Com­ Vince Gallagher, 200 to 108. Clossey men, 101 sophomores, and 76 jun­ the work accomplished. iors. Rev. Jo.hn Devine, S.J., Direc­ near Mt. Vernon, where the band mittee. Mr. Maloney's report cited called for a united class effort in will continue to play. The Spring tor of Student Personnel, attributes many concrete benefits, such as Commendation meeting the many responsibilities the large waiting list to the fact Weekend committee reminds all the improvements in the Copley assumed for the coming year. that "living on Campus has be­ who are planning to attend the Recreation Room, that have re­ The first commendation reso­ George Thibault, an AB pre­ come more popular." Father De­ (ContinUed on Page 9) sulted from the work of his com- lution concerned the work of Dr. med philosophy majo·r and member vine indicated that the fact that Thomas McTighe, Dr. George of the HOYA Staff, defeated Ber­ the SPO has received 120 more ap­ Farre, Dr. Donald Penn, Dr. Rocco nie Zidar by a margin of 72 votes. plications for roo.ms this year than , Porreco, and Mr. Joseph Jeffs in Thibault from Chittenango, N. Y., it- ;...'::.:1 last year and this poin.ts up opposition to the proposed repeal voiced optimism at the prospect of the need for the proposed new of the public accommodations law working in the revised Council, dormitories. in Montgomery County. This again saying that remedies for problems , ;'\ 1 A smaller group of incoming in University life will be enacted j ~~'. freshmen than that of the last few posed to the Council the questions more efficiently under it. years will help increase the living of integration, and of the legiti­ space available for the upper macy of the Council's action on Senior President '<.,.,;. .. ! ""', classes. The foulth floor in New social issues. Despite the warnings Sullivan, the new senio.r presi­ South has been set aside as an ex­ of sophomore representative Tom dent and this year's junior vice perimental corridor for those stu­ Puuken that the Council is per­ president, is an AB government tl , dents who have a cumulative QPI haps getting carried away in its major fro.m Providence, Rhode Is- 1 • of 2.75 o.r better and have decided "'\ ~ sudden concern in these moral and (Continued on Page 10) (Continued on Page 8) political questions, the Council "~I'. passed the resolutions by an 11 The HOYA wishes to ex­ to 9 margin. Bob Shrum of the With mixed feeLings, we press sincere appreciation to Philodemic spoke for the affirma­ t: Courier photographer Skip tive. anno1£nce that this is the last Warren, whose cooperation Dr. Bipartisan full issue of The HOYA for I, ," throughout the year, and es­ pecially last Monday night, The second resolution praised Dr. the year. There will be, how­ ~~ has made the job of photog­ Lev Dobrianski of the economics ever, a spring sports supple­ " raphy on the HOYA quite a department for his authorship of ment next week. bit easier. "COMMONWEAL" ... is the subject of sophomore representative To.m Pa1fken's sincere forensic at Sunday'S Council meeting. (Continued on Page 10) f ~.t , Page Two THE HOYA Thursday, May 9, 1963 Year's News Marked By Itnprovem.ent 1_ Letters To The Editor J. some sore of substance to be an­ In Cut-Systetn, .!\~~9-em.ics, Journalism. Vulga? alyzed-in short the tyPe exem­ Since today's issue of The Twenty sophomores have' been livan, Rev. Hunter Guthrie, S.J., To the Editor: plified by the aging classics master .• HOY A marks the blessed end sentenced to join our foreign com­ Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, Sen. Abra­ I feel obliged to raise several in Rattigan's "The Browning Ver-. patriots in Fribourg, Switzerland. ham Ribicoff, and Rev. George objections to the unfavorable cri­ sion." of our annual journalistic ef­ Rev. George Dunne, S.J., has de­ Dunne, S.J. The HOYA, in a gra­ tique of Mr. Harrington's play The second point, "tastelessness," .. fort, a general review of the signed several international stu­ cious bow eastward, reviewed two "The Asses" contained in the May is a more serious accusation. Bath- *. highlights of the year could, dent programs: the Peace Corps, lectures in the Walsh Series: Am­ 2 HOYA review of the Journal.