VOLUME 60 NUMBER 29 us ^ PAID WEDNESDAY, Bronx, N.Y. Permit No. 7608 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK DECEMBER 13, 1978 Non-Profi. Org. w IL ffl ••it. I»A(;K 2 THE RAM WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1978 CONGRATULATION! TO THE RAM You're not a kid anymore* (Bui, then, at 125 years neither are we!) Ollicers 1978 1979 Fordham College Alumni Association Joseph J. Mansfield '?9. President Je,wne t Connoii> 4S, 1st Vice President Directors Fordham University at Lincoln Center • New York, N.Y. 10023 Frank 0. McNally '56. 2nd Vice President Ed*ard F Rover tii. Jro Vice President 1976-1979 1977 1980 1978-1981 Ex Olticio Philip A Bossett e>5. -Jfh Vice President EugcneF. Co'nyjn 61 Laurie DeGregone 76 Thomas L. Doyle M.D.'46 Robert J. Roth, S.J. Dean HotwtJ Reiily *2, ;•«•> V.-oe John E Gould 66 Michael Stanlon'54 John F. Louyhran 54 Past President ei. J' ?0. Michael J.Muilamey 63 Robert P. Wheian'44 John L. Lumelleau 74 Richard H. 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THE RAM WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1978 PAGE 3 ''/' 1968 A New Campus and a New Religion: Secularism byJimDwyer protesting their investments in the Union of South Africa. incorporation and legal independence from the University The last of $25 million was being spent on building Ford- Sixty faculty offered draft counselling, and a forum was for the Jesuit community, and urged that some of the more ham's new "intown" campus at Lincoln Center in early staged, entitled: "How To Be A Conscientious Objector.' dramatic symbols of the University's religious tradition, 1968, and the University was gearing to fill the space with Another forum, entitled "Is Marriage Obsolete?" preceded including prayers before class and crucifixes on the wall, be exciting faculty, innovative curriculum, and a new sort of by a few weeks an advertisement placed in The Ram by ABC toned down or eliminated. The report smote the Jesuit student. Before the year was out, the innovative curriculum seeking couples engaged to be married between March 23 community and a faculty hearing on the matter was the was scrapped, Margaret Mead was hired to develop the and July I to receive a free honeymoon, cash, and prizes for occasion of Rev. Qeuntin Lauer's assertion that a secular Social Sciences Division, and 300 students were enrolled in a appearing on the first productions of "The Newlywed university would be "a denial of all Fordham has been for state of slight awe and thorough confusion, as the down- Game." 128 years." town Registrar waited for students to call him before releas- The treatment of love and marriage and related topics by The preceding spring and summer were the stage for ing course and registration information. the new film The Graduate, was termed "plastic" by a violent drama in the struggles for the presidency, civil rights, "Trends in Contemporary Music" {featuring the music of contemporary Ram reviewer. andpo wer. Death by bullets for Robert Kennedy and Martin : the Beatles, Vanilla Fudge and the Doors), and "Black The Ram, by the way, was suspended by the director of Luther King stilled two of the more inspiring figures of the Power" were among the courses offered in the spring of student activities for financial reasons. The suspension was time. George Wallace rallied thousands at Madison Square 1968 at the Rose Hill campus's Free University. As the first held during the spring recess. Garden. Jack Newfield and Joel Oppenheimer led a Paul women residents ofSpellman Hall moved into their private Ralph Nau Muhammed Ali and Jacqueline Grennan O'Dwyer for senate teach-in at Fordham. Police rioted at '• rooms, The Ram published a 40 page commemorative issue spoke on cam, ; in the spring. A former nun and president Columbia University during a protest \{the same night that for its 50th anniversary. The Fordham College Alumni of Webster Ct. ?ge, Grennan urged Catholic higher educa- $600 in damage to Spellman Hall was incurred during a bought 17,000 for their members. tion to "make its move" and rid itself of Church control. panty raid). Students were beaten bloody in Chicago during "We would like the students to look upon us as friends," "Fordham has the chance to become the greatest University the convention, and troops were called to the boiling streets said the manager of the new campus security force, the Iona to come out of the Catholic tradition, "she said. of Detroit. New York's shirt-sleeved WASP mayor, John : Bureau of Investigation, later known as IBI. That spring IBl Leo McLaughlin, the Jesuit president of Fordham, vowed Lindsay, walked through black ghettoes and talked guards minded the students as they watched Arlo Guthrie, to "break any molds" to make his school into a great one. problem-solving. It was quieter here than many places. the Union Gap, and the Chambers Brothers perform in the New York State was helping in the process by offering state Rose Hill gymnasium. aid to higher education (Bundy money) that the University Johnny Bach, who was leaving the gymnasium after years desperately needed, but was ineligible for under the state as Fordham's basketball coach, commented, "Athletically, Blaine Amendment, which said no financial aid could go I felt like I was living with a corpse... They're not 18 years from the state to religious institutions. behind the times, they're 35." After posing the question, "What must Fordham Univer- A t the spanking new Madison Square Garden, Knick sity do to achieve equal parity before the law with non- rookies named Frazier, Bradley and Jackson struggled sectarian private universities?" McLaughlin received in the through to a captivating if not totally successful season. fall a 265 page answer from Walter Gelhorn, a Columbia Two Fordham students, track men, refused to visit the professor of law commissioned by the Gerli Foundation to new Garden for a New York Athletic Club meet, sayingthat answer the question. His basic answer was to make all the exclusive admissions \ policy of the club constituted appointments at the University by academic authority, racism. rather than religious, which meant the Jesuit provincial Racism charges were flying on campus, too. Recruiters could no longer appoint the president. The changes suggest- fiom Chase Manhattan Bank were picketed by students ed in the report included creation of a lay board of trustees, Media Mystic Will Return to Toronto Anthropologist McLuhan Calls It Quits Margaret Mead 5 March 1968—Dr. Herbert Marshall the Humanities to Fordham. That chair McLuhan, Fordham's $100,000 Schweitzer resulted in a legal problem that is. still un- Hired For LAC professor, will leave Fordham next semester decided. to return to the University of Toronto. In January, 1967, the State Board of 26 March 1968—Anthropologist Dr. Mar- McLuhan's decision was disclosed Sunday. Regents approved the nomination of garet Mead will arrive at Fordham's Lincoln Rev. Leo McLaughlin, University presi- McLuhan to fill the Schweitzer chair. The Center campus with "a free hand in develop- dent, announced that the author of Under- education department was to be left with the ing the program and building a faculty for it," standing Media and The Media is the Mes- job of working out a suitable contract with according to Rev. Arthur A. Clarke, dean of sage will be appointed a visiting lecturer and McLuhan and the University. the new liberal arts college. consultant to the communication arts Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, Dr. Mead will serve as a consultant until program. however, stopped negotiations by ruling that September, 1969 when she will become a full- The move caught university officials by the contracts violated the New York state time professor and chairman of the Division of Social Services. surprise. "Until last week," commented Mr. constitution's Blaine Amendment. Lefkowitz Robert Kidera, vice-president for University contends that the Blaine Amendment barred In explaining Dr. Mead's duties, Father relations, "1 thought he was going to stay. It any state aid to universities "wholly or in I larke told The Ram that "she will have more was quite a surprise." part under the control or direction" of any than her own field to plan for" since the social science division also includes sociology, poli- McLuhan's salary in Toronto, according religious denomination, including any aid tical science, economics, and social psycho- to one source, was below what he receives at that would "enhance the reputation" of the university.