Vol. XL~, No. k '1 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday, February 27, 1964 Harvard T earn Crushed USAF Symphony System Proposal To Play Classics Pay Food By Winning GU Combo In Gaston Recital Forwarded by Business VP Tomorrow evening, Febru­ ary 28, at 8 :30 p.m., the United States Air Force Sym­ phony Orchestra will present a concert in Gaston Hall. The concert is spon~ored by the Georgetown Air Force R.O.T.C. " The program will include Beetho­ ven's Second Symphony, the over­ ture to Rosinande by Rossini, Dvorak's New World Symphony and selections from Ravel. Featured in the Ravel portion of the evening will be harpist Ser­ geant Robert Barlow, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and a former member of six major GIANT KILLER ... John Hemplemann (right) explains to Philo­ symphony orchestras. demic member how he and Bob Shrum trampled Harvard in a debate televised in Chicago last weekend. Sergeant Barlow's mastery of NO MORE TICKETS •.• will be necessary to get a meal in the the harp has taken him on a 22 cafeteria next year if the proposed pay as you go food service pro­ by Michael M. Egan, III nation tour sponsored by the State posal is put into effect. Last weekend Georgetown University's debaters made Department. On this tour, he vis­ ited Europe, Russia, and the Near 1 a shamble of their opponents in two tournaments. The Philo­ by Larry Keeshan East. He also went to Israel for A proposal for a change in the cafeteria food service :1 demic Society's team composed of John Hemplemann and the International Harp Festival in : Robert Shrum defeated a highly respected Harvard Uni- 1959. Sergeant Barlow is a promi­ has been made by the Business Vice-President, Rev. T. Byron nent arranger for the solo harp, versity team in Chicago to advance to the semi-finals of the Collins, S.J. The plan calls for the establishment of a pay­ especially popular standards. He is as-you-go system for undergraduate men students living on '1 College Television Debate Series. A freshman team won both adept at presenting both classical J a second and third place in .and popular selections. campus. (Continued on Page 9) The design was outlined last week before a joint meet- j Lynch Talk To Explore the Capitol Hill Tour?am:nt ing of the College and East ;1 'A · I e t e , sponsored by the UmversIty · merlcan magma Ion, of Maryland. Campus Student Councils by Father Collins, who is also Its Gnostic Components The victory in Chicago Insurance Gift Passed Chairman of the Food Service came as the result of brilliant by Bill Kelly Committee. It has already debate on the part of the George­ town team. The debate, held at the In Scant Senior Vote been approved by the Com­ -} ori;'i~~:; !i ~~:chHO~~~~ studios of WTTW-TV in the "windy Slightly less than two-thirds of the Senior Class cast mittee, and if passed by the Coun­ city," enabled the Georgetown team cils, will be sent on for final ap­ .1 Program at Georgetown and to move into a position where they their ballots last Monday in the referendum concerning the proval by the University Board of author of the well-known will meet the University of the annual class gift. A hundred and sixty-four voted in favor Directors. book, Christ and Apollo, will Pacific. The debate topic was, Re­ of presenting a gift to the University, while sixty-five op­ The proposal was made to meet solved: "Loyalty Oaths for teach­ the problem of rising costs in the .1 lecture on "The American ers should be abolished." George­ posed the measure. present food service pr()gram. Fa­ ~ Imagination: Some Gnostic As­ town won the toss and chose to The margin of approval was much smaller, however, ther Collins stated that these in­ .~ pects" on March 3 at 8:30 p.m. in argue the affirmative position. creases would require either a when the proposal was made Gift Committee representing the 'I Gaston Hall. Extra Effort change in the present system, or : Father Lynch was born and ed- to include an insurance pro­ class and not by the school au­ an increase in board charges for • ucated in New York City, where The tournament is being con­ gram as the form of the offer­ thorities." next year. :\ he received his doctorate from ducted simultaneously with the ing. Ninety-nine of the 233 The program was promoted by He spelled out the two alterna­ Fordham University in 1942. He regular college debate schedule. As the New York Insurance Company, tives in solving the problem. One :> has served as director of Ford­ a result, it burdens the debaters voters disapproved of the in­ represented by Terrence O'Connor would be to continue the present y ham's Classics Theatre, as editor with the extra work involved in surance plan. The other 134 and Rollins Miller, Jr. It calls for system as it is, with the exception :: of Thought, and has lectured in gathering debate material for a the purchase of an insurance policy approving seniors secured passage that quantity controls would be the United States and Canada on new subject every two weeks, since by each member of the class. Part of the project. placed on the amount of food and the theology of the imagination. the TV debate topics have been an­ of the dividends from the policies beverages given. This still would While at Georgetown from 1956 to nounced only two weeks before the According to Senior Class Presi­ will enter a class fund under the dent Brendan Sullivan, -the pro­ necessitate an increase in board 1961 he was Director of the Honors debates are staged. The victory trusteeship of the Gift Committee. charges for next year. Program and lectured on the rela­ over the Harvard team is a per­ gram adopted by the seniors is It is hoped, Sullivan indicates, that tion between philosophy and the fect example of what was required unique in two ways. "It will be "in ten years this fund will amount An Alternative literary imagination. of the debaters. On the question of beneficial to the individual student to approximately $180,000, the use The other alternative would be Father Lynch has written on as well as the College, and the use of which will be determined by the to switch over to a pay-as-you-go (Continued on Page 8) I' subjects ranging from the meta­ of the gift will be dictated by the Committee." system, which from the student's I physics of Plato to the place of All other benefits of the insur­ viewpoint, would allow him free­ " imagination in the popular arts. ance, including the option to pur­ dom ()f choice in his meals, and · Two of his books, The Image In­ chase an extra $70,000 regardless from the University's viewpoint, dustries and Christ and Apollo, of health, will remain in the hands would provide a financially sound and the series of television pro­ of the policy owner himself. Thus system of service. This alternative grams on the imagination which each senior will have the oppor­ was recommended by the Food he wrote for "The Catholic Hour" tunity to obtain a considerable Service Committee to the Student have been widely acclaimed by amount of security at reasonable Councils. 1 critics. He is now editor of a new rates while still presenting a fully Snack Bar , series of books called The Diary deductible gift to the school. Physically, the plan calls for con­ i' of Religion and the Arts and will Pierce Butler, chairman of the version of the present N on-Resi­ i'soon publish a new book, Images Committee, is making arrange­ dent Cafeteria into a snack bar. '; of Hope. ments with a local bank to prepay All cafeteria facilities would then '- Father Lynch is now a member the first year's premium for those be centered in what now is the :' of the Jesuit community at St. in financial difficulties. By this Boarders' Cafeteria. Peter's College in Jersey City. means, Butler states, the Commit­ There would be two types of caf­ A recent article in Time maga­ tee hopes that the maximum num­ eteria service offered. The first · zine says of the noted Catholic ber of students will be able to par­ would be what is called the "Budg­ '. scholar, " ... theologian Lynch, in ticipate in the program. et Line" system. In the Budget short, is an existentialist. But ex­ The idea of the insurance policy Line, special discount prices would istence does not lead him, like program originated last year when be offered, amounting to 20 per Sartre, to nausea, but, like David, Mr. Miller proposed the plan to cent off the regular service prices. to dauce before the ark." REV. WILLIAM LYNCH, S.J. BRENDAN SULLIVAN the Class of 1963. (Continued on Page 9) Page Two rHE HOYA Thursday, February 27, 1964 Editorials: Philodemic The HOYA congratulates Bob Shrum and John Hempel­ Letters To The Editor • • • mann for their victory over a scoreless Harvard team on the mid-western television tournament last weekend. Their out­ mium. When these schools are in­ merely a iootnote to the scholastic standing performances were only the latest in a consistent Blossoms vited, the coaches and debaters will achievement of that College. The record of proud successes which have spread Georgetown's remember the stiff competition past few years have witnessed, on To the Editor: they faced; but, most importantly, the part of the administration, an good name throughout the nation during this 175th Anniver­ On February 14-16 the Philo­ they will remember Georgetown's attempt to slowly integrate the sary Year.