Xavier University Exhibit All Xavier Student Newspapers Xavier Student Newspapers 1965-02-12 Xavier University Newswire Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) Follow this and additional works at: https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper Recommended Citation Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio), "Xavier University Newswire" (1965). All Xavier Student Newspapers. 2175. https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper/2175 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Xavier Student Newspapers at Exhibit. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Xavier Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Exhibit. For more information, please contact [email protected]. •.;;.;:p._:11elf• T • lf; T'"'"l·~;r~,._.,'-lT • • L''bl""'lf~,,-•~· !,.. ....... ,. ... ,.,,; ;.._,,' '-~ ·''-.J , .;;..:..y : ' avler ems CINCINNATI, OHIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1965 TEN CENTS No. 13 '°'· XLIX . ·~ I SCUM PROTESTS 'DIRTY KISS' A11ti-Smut Group To Petition: For Ohio Legislative Action By BOB RYAN News Executive Editor The Student Committee to Upgrade l\fovics launched a re­ newed offcnsi\'C Thursday against what a 1;pokcsman dcsnibcd as "llw increasingly blatant tumescence of Hollywood" and anno11ncccl that it is carrying its war against obscene motion pictures to the Ohio lcgislaLure. "WE WILL PETITION the , legislatu1·e to revise and clarify the Ohio criminal statute against this trash," David W. Cook, Xav­ ier senior and chairman of SCUM, slated yesterday, The decision was made In the wake of a report by City Man­ ager William Wichman that local authorities cannot prevent exhi­ bition of the United Artlst.11 pro­ duction, "Kiss Me, Stupid." In a letter to Cincinnati City Coun­ cil, Wichman stated that the con­ -Nct11s (Ryan.I Photo troversial movie is in "poor taste" but Is "not actionable in 'Pollg The Pistol' Seeks· Gena Wlaile St11dents Seek Ban eourt under the obscenity law." Actress Kim Novak (left) crawls ovet' a bath~ _(right), studies student petitions seeking to ban Wichman's report came in re­ room floor looking for a· -diamond which d1·opped the controversial film on the gi·o\lnd it is obscene. sponse to 5500 petitions asking o~t,.of· "i-ier navel in a scene ·fl'oin ''Kiss Me, Stupid." governmental intervention to halt D~le Schmidt,· clerk of Cinriinnati City Council- (See story) > exhibition of the film in Cincin­ nati. The petitions, signed by CHAIRMAN COOK local high school and university "A -titanically dirty joke , •• students, were filed with City Sports Editor Wallace Gets Top News Post; Council by SCUM representatives called Climax, Nevada. Directed on January 27. by Billy Wilder, th e leading Succeeds, Gardiner,, First Evening Chief Cook disclosed that 2500 addi­ couple is played by Kim Novak . Terrence J.-- Wallace, an tional signatures have been ob­ and Dean Mal'lin. tained since the original petitions ~nglish ~najor from Cleve­ It has been banned in :Mil• land, Ohio, has been named were filed and that the letter of waukee. protest is still circulating. to Rucceed Hubert .i. Gardi-. SCUM members initially pre• ner as editor-in-chief of The The SCUM statement -reads, in part: "We feel that ti.is film, be­ sented their protest to Joseph. -Xavier News, Rev. Thomas Alexander, manager of the Al­ _cause of its crude and suggestive G. Savage, S.J., faculty ad­ bee Theatre, 5th and Vine Sts., visor to the publication, an­ dialogue, its leering treatment ol marital and extra-marital sex, where the film is scheduled to nounced Thursday. run th r o ugh next Tuesday, and its prurient preoccupation - The. 20-year-old junior will with lechery, constitutes a real Alexander told them-petition9 or not-the movie w o u l d be take over the editorial reins threat to the already decllnin1 shown as planned, Dissatisfied Monday. moral standards of the American . WALLACE joined the News people. Therefore, we students with the reception, SCUM then registered the complaint w"f;h. stall in 196~ as a sports reporter ask you not to allow this bald­ City Council and picketed the and was appointed sports editor faced condonatlon of Immorality theater for two days. last September. He is a 1962 to be shown in Cincinnati. Albee officials then cautious­ ·graduate of St. Ignatius- High~ " 'Kiss Me, Stupid,' is one ot ly p 1 a c e d a ten-foot "adults School, Cleveland, w h e_ r e he the dirtiest major film produc­ only" billboard in front of the served as sports editor of The tions ever made in America. It marquee and refused admission ·Eye, a student journal. He was HUGH GARDINER TERRY WAI.LACE has been described as 'crude and - also -sports editor of the Ohio The first shall be last? ••• Vows hi.gh caliber ••• unbelievably dirty,' as a 'sordid to several high school students whose ages were questioned by University Journalism Work• piece ol realism which iS aesthet­ Gardiner, Bob Ryan-the execu­ councilmanic politics and inh'a­ the picketers. The theater man­ _1hop in 1961. ically as well as morally repul­ tive editor and a former editor­ party squabbles. Gardiner also ager refused to release attend­ sive.' Time magazine has called An active member of the So­ in-chief himself, and the entire served as adjutant to Captain ance figures to the press, but it a 'dirty joke' that 'scraped its dality, its Speaker's Apostolate, staff of The News on a job well Donald J, Vester, hims elf a observers stated that it seemed blue-'black humor off the floor and the Knights of Columbus, Xavier graduate, in the Kenton to be "about average for a 'B' done." of a honky-tonk night club.' Life Wallace cu1Tently serves as County (Kentucky) Juvenile De­ Gardiner, H, a Junior In &he magazine called it a 'titantically picture.'' .chairman of the Student Council partment. Colle«e of Buslnftlll Administra­ dirty joke, an embarrassment ta. ,Spiritual Committee. "I can think of no one on tion, was the firs& evenlnc divi· audiences, the performers, and "We will make every effort to campus more qualified to assume don student to aehieve the top the industry which produced it.'' Crusader l{ing .eontinue the editorial policy and the responsibility of continuing edftorlal poet. He Is also prob• And Time and Life are not ex­ the high caliber ot journalism to produce an effective weekly ablJ' &lie lu&. actly prudish publications.'' which has made The News the publication than Te1·ry Wallace," Loses Th~ War New resulatlona promulcated · Tl\e production, w h i c h re­ .number one college weekly in Gardiner said Thursday. "He has Richard King, WCKY morning la Deeember bJ' &be univen~t,. volves around a traveling sales­ Ohio,'' Wallace siated yesterday' the integrity, ability, and cour­ disc jockey whose cause ce!ebre B o a r d of Trustees stipulate, man-bedroom comedy th em e,. The top honor was one of tour· age to perpetuate the tradition of was the establishment of coedu• amonc other thlnp, &be editor· portrays marital cheating and -ftrst place awards presented The professional journalism estab­ eatioil at Xavier, left the Cincin­ ln-ehlef mua& be a full-time stu­ prostitution in a fictional town News by the Ohio College News­ dent In the under1raduate daJ' lished at Xavier two years ago nati radio airways~ last Friday ' paper Association at its annul!_l. dlvlllloa. The edlet followed a by Bob Ryan, Dave Cook, Alex for an unannounced reason, convention in Dayton last sp1·ing. bearln1 by a special sub-eemmU­ MacG-regor, and Alan Vonder­ His ten-month crusade to bring In announcing Wallace's ap­ &ee of Uae Welfare &Oard on News haa1·. Cook Stricken in Hall girls to the undergra6uate day pointment, Father Savage paid pollcle9 and praetlces. _ "I -am confident that he will , M1·s. Carrie Tunstall, 57, 3436 division was a "miserable ra:~ t1·ibute to the retiring editor and The retiring editor-in-chief is continue to adhe1·e to Ryan's edi­ Pleasant View Ave.,- was taken to ure," King ruled. The effort, ban­ his staff: "Under Hugh Ga1·diner, on the advertising staff at The .torial maxim-th~t the ultimate Jewish Hospital by the Life nered in limping Latin Puellae the paper'• achievements were Cincinnati Enquit'er. He was duty of an ethical newspaper is Squad Wednesday after suffering in Xavierae, d1·ew initially en­ recognized by the OCNA when awarded fi1·st· place for the "best to 'comfort the afflicted and to a heart attack while working in thusiastic response fr.om a corp• the first pface trophy was awa1·d­ news st01·y of 1964" at the OCNA afflict the comfortable in bold the kitchen of Hinkle Hall. Mrs. oral's guard of campusites, but ed. On behalf of administt·ation, convention. The award-winning· marriage with the facts - no Tunstall has been under a phy· interest eventually dwindled. .faculty, and student body, I wish piece was an interp1·etatlve ar­ matter how painCul or inconven• sician's care since suffering • King ·has been exiled to en• to thank and congratulate Hugh ticle de a l in i with Cincinnati ient.'" similar seizure last fall. virons unknown. Pare Twe CINCINNATI, OHIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1965 I News Platform For ~ ~ . 11. Progress At Xavier: ~Th~avler e Intteasecl emphasis on the ne111s ~espomibiHtv of the ind.ividttal atudent throuuh the wise admin­ "Far better lies well-told to buttress Truth!" btration ot the principle of aub­ ~diaritv. SlH'.'.'OR·lN·CHlEF •••• , ••••••••••• , •..••.•.••••••••. Hubert J. Gnrdiner, '81 i·xECUTIVE EDITOR, ....••..••.......•• , , •••• , , .Robert A. Rynn. Jr., '6b e Improvement of Ubrary re- ASSISTAN'I 'fO THE EXECU'l'lVE EDl'rOR ••• , •• , •• ,., •••• Donnn Gnlvio, '87 1earch facilities. 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