Calm Amidst Controversy Page 2 Thursday, December 2,1976 the Ram on the Road: Be Wise at the Wheel Too Much for the Other Guy

Calm Amidst Controversy Page 2 Thursday, December 2,1976 the Ram on the Road: Be Wise at the Wheel Too Much for the Other Guy

U.S. Pottagt PAID VOL. 58 Bronx, N.Y. Permit No. 7606 NorvProflt Org. NO. m % AM THURSDAY, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK DECEMBER 2,1976 by Maria Basile "Alger Hiss doesn't look guilty. He will be appealing, and extremely convincing," Scheckton, chairman, "What happened orv warned author Philip Nobile, who has campus helped educate the students. There researched the Hiss "mystery" since 1973. was no need for us to publicize the event." "He does not n?ed acquittal; he needs Nedelka scheduled a press conference vindication." Monday, at 10:30 a.m. in room 234 of the Alger Hiss wan convicted in 1950 of Campus Center. Reporter Doris McMillon perjury for denyiig he had passed State and a 3-man film crew from WNEW-TV Department docunents to Whittaker Cham showed up promptly. "I don't believe bers, then senior 3ditor of Time magazine, somebody came," Nedelka said. Clips were and spent three and one-half years in televised on Channel 5's 10 o'clock report Lewisburg Federe 1 Penitentiary. Now age Monday evening. 72, and pipe in hand, he says with a Nedelka stated that "since Mr. Hiss' grandfatherly smil , that he does not want to release from prison he (Hiss) has been write his memoirs because, he says, such a playing the role of a martyr." Since practice is "presunptuous." September, he said, the Republican Club's Maybe he feel; memoirs might disclose position has been "Distorted and enlarged to some part of his past he would rather not the point that reports of campus violence reveal. Reams of research by other authors and threats on Mr. Hiss' life were being about Hiss' life, however, are already linked to us." available in countless newspapers and It was because of such rumors that Scheckton said he decided to allow only magazine articles ind in bookstores, because those questions submitted prior to the Hiss' desire for a' solution has not diminish- ed. lecture and screened by a panel to be directed to Hiss. "I didn't want domination Sunday's New York Times reported that of the questioning," he stated. Tony Hiss, Alger i 35-year-old son who is a Nedelka said the Republicans felt such an writer for The N< w Yorker magazine, will "unprecedented move was an insult to the publish a book on his father, Laughing Last, intelligence of the student body." When Hiss next February. In it is notedan F.B.I, report read Monday about the planned format in that two jurors who voted to convict Hiss last week's Ram, he said, "I like questions," had relatives wor <ing for the F.B.I., which to which Assistant Dean of Students Lynn the prosecutors" ;ept quiet." The elder Hiss Budd immediately replied, "I think we'll said the book- was a "gift of love" from his open it up for questions." Scheckton latei son. said he had previously intended that if the A classmate o Woodrow Wilson and a crowd, which exceeded 800 people and secretary to Justi e Oliver Wendell Holmes, packed the Campus Center, were orderly, Hiss was Assistar t General Counsel of the he would allow direct questions. Agricultural Adju ;tment Administration, the Libelous "fact" sheets and flyers were New Deal age icy created during the distributed without any attribution, and Hundred Days of President Franklin Roose- plastered with questions asking, "Why is velt's first term in Washington. He served as Fordham subsidizing Red treason?" and counsel to the Senate Committee to stating that "Hiss is communist," and Investigate the Mi nitions Industry, known as "Communism is Jewish." Another leaflet the Nye Commit e from 1934-35. was distributed by John W. Bugler, of Hiss entered the State Department and Bainbridge Avenue who wrote he had acted as Secreta y of the Dumbarton Oaks "taken pains to research this epic in depth," Conference, wqere the outline for the and concluded Hiss was a Communist. He United Nations was prepared. Although printed excerpts of legal testimony and a officially designa ed Secretary of the Yalta bibliography of eight books that does not Conference, at which were settled issues include Hiss' own book. One person he relating to the L nited Nations, he says he MarkKullk quotes is Louis Budenz, former Communist was "chief cook and bottle-washer." official who was managing editor of The At the San Fr incisco Conference on the Daily Worker. After he had renounced United Nations, jhere the U.N. Charter was Communism, Budenz was assistant profes- drafted and sign id, Hiss acted as Secretary Key Points Made By Hiss sor of economics at Fordham in the 1940s. General. In 19' 7, he resigned from the During his visits on campus, a taxi drive State Departrn nt to become the third #..fj,€ fcQarthy era is, in a J«IJ«, a misnomer. McCarthy was a johnny-come-lately. He didn't begin the era, and away from his Manhattan apartment. Hiss President of the Carnegie Endowment for iididnofendieilhnim." lectured Monday in Dr. Bruce Andrew's International P< ace created by Andrew political science course, U.S. Foreign Policy Carnegie in 191). • "McCarthy was not a man ol coniiictions. He did what seemed opportunistically useful to a politician. He was a Formation, which campus press reporters Hiss' book, in the Court o/ Public rather odious fellow." were not premitted to attend. Hiss also Opinion, published in 1957, told his side of spoke in Dr. Douglas Houston's course, • "It's poetic justice that the name of an ugly man has been applied to an ugly period." the case which as divided many prominent History of the Cold War, in the history people. Among those who believe Hiss is • "Resistance to the McCarthy era came about largely through ridicule. There'] nothing a demagogue fears more." department yesterday. guilty are Willia F. Buckley, Clare Booth Philip Nobile. who wrote an article in Luce, and Will am Randolph Hearst, Jr. s 'Truman was partly responsible lor the spread of McCarthyism. No Democrat can out red-bait a Republican, and Harper's magazine on conflicting books Those who wou d pronounce Hiss not guilty he shouldn't lry...Truman injured his own administration." recently published about Hiss, was invited to include Lillian h ellman, Arthur Miller, and speak Tuesday to communications professor American Comnunist Gus Hall. « "/ doubt tht cold war con be successfully resurrected. I hope Jimmy Carter doesn't appoint James Schlesinger to Ray Schroth's American Journalism class on Hiss' three-clay visit Monday through a high position in foreign affairs. He would have some interest in stirring cold war drum beats." 'How to listen to Alger Hiss." Wednesday at Fordham, the fifth of fifteen Nobile said that "as Nixon fell, Hiss rose," • "// the Humpty-Dumpty fall of Richard Nixon has (wen beneficial to my fight for vindication, it has (wen even schools he will vsit through May, 1977, was and "suddenly now Hiss is considered more beneficial to tht whole country." not immune fron controversial discussion. innocent.!' The day before, Hiss had said "it When Fordham's Young Republican Club • "/ will move to owrhirn my conviction lor perjury next spring on the basis of newly-acquiredFBldocuments." could've been worse," if Nixon had remain- President Larry Nedelka learned in Septem- ed in office. "We could have become ber that the American Age Lecture Series 9 "When one is struggling lor one's own vindication, one ii tempted to hope ihtre are larger issues involved. I don't fascist." Proceedings which allowed Hiss' had arranged Hiss' visit for $2500, his think it would be appropriate for me to emphasize possible beneficial larger issuts. I'm satisfied to stand on the re-admission to the Massachusetts bar in organization d«cided to research the His; narrow point (hat / want the record cleared, that I want full vindication." August. 1975—the first time that state's case to infor n students of the facts highest court ordered the reinstatement of a The club's • "/don'fieemyiWfai oilier." surrounding the controversy. disbarred lawyer—did not consider the trial itself, Nobile said, but "his living a distribution of question-and-answer fact 0 "I do not mean to say that Wittater Chambtrs' motive for destroying me uxii homosexual love spurned. My com- sheets prior to Hiss' major lecture/panel plaint is that we were not allowed to present his homosexuality as a valid consideration for the jury." blameless life since then." If Hiss is guilty, discussion Tuesday, actually helped the he's been lying about his innocence for the American Agt committee. Said Frank 9 "/jyn'( My that I oppose Commimiim. /don't agree with communist principles enough to join tht party.pas"t 25 years." continued on page 3 Calm Amidst Controversy Page 2 Thursday, December 2,1976 The Ram On The Road: Be Wise at the Wheel too much for the other guy. you become the by Bill Schmitt other guy." This is the third in a series of "courses' As preparation for really bad rush hours, that compose the special interdisciplinary Goldberg recommends that drivers experi major. Commuter Studies. ment with alternate routes. Try them on Courses good days so you know them for the bad CS 10001 Introduction to days. Also listen to radio traffic reports, and Commuting trust them. 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