SUBSCRIBER'S ADDRESS Vote In Calliope's THE COWL Poll PROVIDENCE VOL. XXXI, No. 17 PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R. I., APRIL 24, 1969 TWELVE PAGES Kennedy Tops Balloting For Branch Duties Lecture Series United States Senator Ted Stir Controversy Kennedy topped the balloting for speakers to be invited to ap• A certain amount of contro• Army made the final choice on pear in the Providence Forum versy developed within the the branch assignments. Lecture Series during the 1969- ROTC Department last week Col. Hevenor explained that 70 school year. With 1,077 stu• when the branch assignments what may have led to the com• dents and faculty members vot• for seniors showed that ap• plaints was the fact that in re• ing, more than 40%, Senator proximately one-third did not cent years only one or two stu• Kennedy appeared on more than receive any of their three dents did not get their branch two thirds of the ballots, re• choices. choices. ceiving 675 votes. According to the figures re• The seniors in ROTC make The ballot provided an op• leased, of the 101 seniors in three requests, according to portunity to vote for five names ROTC, 31 did not receive any priority, for a branch assign• among the 35 nominees pro• of their choices and of this ment (L e., Transportation, Ad• posed by the Lecture Committee number, 27 received infantry. jutant, Infantry, etc.), and they of which Father Shanley is the The controversy arose be• are sent to the Department of chairman. Write-in opportunity Tag Dag proceeds contribute to Big Brother's picnic, where cause most of the students ex• the Army. was also provided but no pro• last year little brothers won the egg fight. pected to get one of their three With the requests, the ROTC posed lecturer received a sig• choices for branch assignments Department sends the individ• nificant number of votes. because the offices in ROTC had ual's records, which includes The "top twenty" in the always assured them that they his college major, grades, and voting follows: Sen. Kennedy would, an informed student performance in ROTC, and also (675); Bob Hope (572); William Fund Drive Set source said. states whether it concurs or not Buckley (470); Lyndon B. John- When the students protested with the choices. The Depart• son (366); Sen. Muskie (293); the assignments, meetings were ment of the Army makes the Mayor Lindsey (279); Julian set up with both the students final choice. Bond (227); Hubert H. Hum. For Thursday and Col. Hevenor and Maj. Col. Hevenor said that the phrev (210); Dick Gregory Richard Drenzek of the ROTC ROTC Department was notified (204); Very Rev. Charles Schil- By MICHAEL RYBARSKI the club is not necessarily to Department. some time ago that the Army lebeeckx, O.P., (189); George get such stirring effects, but At these meetings it was ex• would require about 25% of the "I wanna go home! I wanna Plimpton (173); Sen. Fulbright rather to try to make life a plained to the students that the ROTC graduates for the Infant• go home!" the little boy began (162); Prime Minister Trudeau, policy which had been ex• ry. He also said that the stu• to cry. "Billy, you know you little bit easier to live, a little Canada, (161); Hal Holbrook plained to them previously was dents were notified of this. can't go home, but your Big bit more meaningful, a little bit (142); James Baldwin (141); that the Department of the (Continued on Page 3) Brother is coming up this after• more fun, for the children at Eric Hoffer (134); Mrs. Martin noon." Slowly, very gradually, the "Center." Luther King (123); Werner Von the tears began to cease. The The Providence College Youth Braun (102); Sen. Brooke (98); Guidance Organization (the Leonard Bernstein (80). slightest glimmer of a smile began to creep across the freck• club's official title), tries to do Coffee House Opening Negotiations will begin im• this mainly through the use of mediately with the top vote led face. a one-to-one relationship be getters. It is the expectation of This is, in capsule, the pur• tween a boy at the Center and the committee to have five pose of the Providence College his Big Brother. As stated pre• Features Student Talent lecturers booked for the "50th Big Brothers. To try whenever viously, the emphasis in the club Anniversary Year," 1969-70, be• possible to change tears to is more on effort than results fore the end of this school year. smiles on the faces of under• — the important thing is for With the preferences of stu• privileged little boys at the the Big Brother to try to help dents established through the Patrick O'Rourke Childrens his little brother, to try to show poll, the committee will now Center. Eradicating tears, of him someone cares. And one work out a schedule of lecture course, is not the highest aim of soon learns that success comes appearances according to the the club, but that is the ideal a lot more often than one would availability of the most popular result of the work and cannot hope to expect. It's not because lecturers during the coming always be achieved. The real the Big Brothers are specially school year. emphasis therefore throughout trained, or specially sacrificing either. There are no martyrs in the club — you don't have to be. Financial Aid Report Shows It takes surprisingly little to improve the life of a boy when he has so little to begin with. Cut in Government Grants Taking him out for an ice cream cone, to the college for dinner, (Ed. Note: The following is In Rhode Island and through• or to a basketball game, these the text of a report by Father out the nation, a serious situa• are little things, but when they John Peterson, head of the Prov• tion has developed in the area are interjected into a life which idence College office of Fi• of student financial aid. The Of• has nothing else, they soon be• nancial Aid in response to the fice of Education is informing come major highlights. It's recent cutback in funds for stu• colleges that the federal gov• really hard to believe how much dent aid by the federal govern• ernment can afford to provide happiness a twenty cent ice ment). only one-half of the funds in• cream cone can buy. stitutions need to continue the U.S. STUDENT AID IS $353 But more important than the adequate administration of MILLION SHORT OF NEEDS sort of special things a Big three major programs, namely, FOR 69-70. Brother can do with his little the National Defense Student Coffee House was put in shape through the efforts of hard• That announcement prompts brother, is just the simple act Loans, Educational Opportunity working volunteers. this statement. of the Big Brother coming at Grants, and the College Work- —COWLfoto by Arthur J. Mendonca Until recently, the education• least once a week to see his Study Program. little brother. This one-to-one al opportunity of an academical• By JOHN ARCHER prior to the official opening at relationship, this chance to be ly qualified student has not Since most colleges depend In response to student re• 7:30 p.m. According to one stu• a brother to someone else, this been controlled by his lack of heavily on government support quests for an improved social dent, "The coffee house is well is the basis and the strength of life "here at the college," Jay financial resources. This idea to supplement their own spend• overdue and a big lift in the the club. It is difficult to see Ryan approached our new, dedi• was basic to the program of fi• ing, the implications of this social life here at P.C." how just going up once a week cated and cooperative Vice- nancial aid provided for stu• federal underfunding are both Working diligently over East• can really affect a child, but in president for Student Relations, dents at Providence College. critical and curious. Critical, er vacation, Gary Diomandes many cases this visit, once or Father Francis Duffy, O.P., and But now that concept is being because some academically qual• and Mike Kennedy, '70, and Ed twice a week, is the only thing within one month the Provi• challenged, and unless a change ified students will be unable to McCoy, '69, began the transfor• which the child has to look dence College Coffee House be• of mind happens in Congress, continue in college next year, mation of the lower basement forward to. Sort of lost in the came a reality. Father William lacking adequate financial re• of Raymond Hall into a warm some students reading this copy community and the necessary Paul Haas, O.P., President of sources to do so, and others, and pleasing nautical atmos• of the Cowl won't be in college impersonality to the center, the the College, attended the rib• phere. The Genesian Players in September. This is not an ready to begin undergraduate Big Brother is the only one per- bon cutting ceremony on Fri• not only donated many of the empty prophecy. It is a matter study, will be deprived of the (Continued on Page 5) day afternoon, April 18, 1969, (Continued on Page 10) of fact. (Continued on Page 7) 2 THE COWL, APRIL 24, 1969 David Susskind Offers DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE: Reflections on Youth A GIANT STEP FORWARD Last Thursday evening, Mr. "The Student Committee on power to the Committee on Dis• In succeeding Mr.