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'THE
'
.
VOLUMES NUMBER
10
.
MARIST COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE,
NEW YORK 12601
FEBRUARY
13, 1969
Students
Attend
Afro
Conference
by
Laurence Basirico
Three Marist College Students,
·
meeting but the organization of
A u s t in
Ra n d o 1 p h , Ken
·
nation-wide effort.· He also told
. Thompson and Murray Milligan,
of
·a
strong
militant feeling
·
·attended a meeting at Howard
express~d
by many of the
University,
dealing with,the
speakers.
.
-
The Executive Board and Members of BABA met recently to
discUS5
black culture and history
education
at
Marist.
formation of a Black University
The
.direct
result of these
or TABU,- Towards A Black
-meetings
on the Marist campus
University. The three students
can· be seen
in
the formation of
contacted Bro. Cyprian Rowe,
-
B a b a , a n e w
c a

p u s
who is presently involved with
organization dealing with the
_
the African Studies program at-
·
education of. Marist students in
Howard,
who
gave them
Black history and culture and
·
assistance· while they were at the
·
'
the furthering of Black interest
four day meeting.
.
on c:impus.

This
large-scale meeting of
black people from all over the
.country included speakers such·
·
as
.
Stokely
Carmichael,
Dr.
Onwachi and Ron Karanga.
It
was a type of organizational
.
meeting. to organize the aims of
·
·.
Concert
-
.
Planned
the
·
ma'ny different
factions
A new student organization,
within
the Black Movement ... the
Hudson
Area
College
There was strong emphasis on
·
Council (HACC) will sponsor a
the Black economic power or
concert
on May 9 featuring
BI
,
k
o
·


·
1

F
·
d.
Black enterprises. The success of
Buffet
St.
Marie
and The
.

C
.
rg a 1·11a
IO
n O
,- e
these efforts is seen now
in
Critters. HACC is composed of
.
. .
_
·
·
.
·
-_
Ill
McKissick
Enterprises
and.
six
colleges;
Marist,
Good
Housemaids
Inc. Housemaids
Counsel, Mount Saint Mary's,
by Tom Buckley
itsel4._a
relatively
young
Ladycliff, Dutchess and Vassar.
company
started
by one
It's
c~chairmen
are Terry
The Swahili word Baba has
The aims of Baba, as outlined
Baba was mainly organizational.·
woman,has now grown into the
Mooney and Pete i-ortorici, both
become the name of the newest
·in
the
first
.
meeting, is to• Membership was enrolled and
millions.
·

.
of whom are students at Marist.
organization~ on the campus of promote academic and cultural_ the. aims of the organization
There were
·tt.i':':·-~eP.t.in~
.. or
T
h e
p u r p o s e
o f t h e
.
Marist
·.
CoUege.·
This
new endeavor at Marist and in the were set forth. The president of
speeches a' day. at Howard arifr·-
0
--multi..-..'5!'~1'S.Ore,ti.
concert
is to
iL
....
;:'.,·:-·•·,-Wgan+.z_a!~~!l:-'•is,
bea~~--,hr~,~en,-c0lllU?,,Unity;to.:ad_minister,,~o'?fal,
..
J:l.i!.l!a,.
Mr.:.'(hqmpson
__
expressed;." .. ~u_s!int,.··
Ra~4olph,,_
..
hone.
.~f.
_th,e defray. -:osts.
so-:'tliaf:ltc
--~~.Sl!l--
,;-,.,i,'•
-·,·.,
1nompson-- aFPres1dent···,with ·•functions'and to further ennch
·
the
hope, that
Baba:
·could
Maus
·
·students:-
w o attended
·
·
·
·
·
·
A. u s
t
~
n'
R
a n
d
o
1
p h , the life
..
of .the Black student on become an integral part of the
the meeting, expressed the fact
V1ce-Pres1dent, Ronald Pearson, the Marist Campus. The dues pe; community and would be able
that· it was not simply ~riother
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Secretary, and Jeff McDaniel, year have been tentatively set at t o b e inf
1
u en ti a
1
as
a
Treasurer ..
It is the product of five dolliµ-s per year payable by representative
of the
black
the eff?rts of_the Black sjudents
the
fi!st
quarter
of each students on campus.
of Manst. to educate the student
acadenuc year. Baba's plans for
The
organization
of Baba
body in the Hi~ory and culture
··
the future are currently cent~red seems to be a result of the new
of Black people.
,
in the educative
·
rather than black movement towards a black
The letters BABA stand for social endeavors. They plan to: university
encompassing the
B 1 a c k
A
f"r
o -
~ ~
e r i ca
!1-
bring speake~ to Marist to, talk e.n.t.ir.e.c
111
o!!'u!!!'nt'!!!ry!!l!'I
. .._ _____
_
Brotherhood Association· and 1s on Black History and culture.
EDITORIAL
also
.
the spelling of the Swahili Also in its early stages are plans
word for father. Membership in for courses in Black History,
NEXT WEEK:
Bab~ is open to all stu,dents of culture a?-d literat~re.
.
·
BLACK
STUDENTS
Manst College.
The first public meeting of
·
·
-
·
·
ON CAMPUS
-New·-core
Modified
by Brian Flood
Changes
in the new core
requirements were decided upon
this week by the APC in the
areas of-Philosophy and History.
Brother
Brian
Desilets,
Chairman
of
the
-APC,
announced that for "the sake of
uniformity"
the Philosophy
requirement for those majoring
in Business
and Economics,
which was stated as six credits in
the February
7
issue of "The
Circle," has been altered to nine
credits. The History requirement
has been lowered from twelve to
nine. credits
for Economics
majors and from nine to six for
those majoring in Business and
the Natural Sciences.
No other alterations in the
new core have been made by the
APC to date.
The next undertaking of the
APC will be the initiation of a
detailed study of the curriculum.
The study is expected to take
about a year and a half.
Presently
I
Brother Desilets
does not foresee another plenary
session
as a result
of an
agreement made at the APC
meeting of Friday, January
31.
The faculty voted unanimously
to give the APC the power to
make .. minor modifications" in
the new core.
Regular meetings of the APC
are held
each Friday._
Clayton
Expresses
Thoughts
on Marist
.
by Woody
Joining
the
faculty
this
.
st"udents.
In the
exchange
semester is Dr. Marcus Clayton,
program,
the Georgian based
associate
professor of Paine institution, also involved -some
College
and member of the
students
to accompany
Dr.
Marist-Paine exchange
.program. ·c1ayton
in
his
enterprise .. The
Dr. Clayton is now teaching
actual program was fqrmulated
philosophy courses to day and by Dr. Cashiri and Mr. Wade of
night division students.
Marist, and Dean of Instruction
This very amiable professor
Ellis Rece and Lenard Dawson
who takes a serious interest in of Paine.
his subject is ready to invite
Dr. Clayton is acutely aware
anyone to discuss their opinions
o f t h e
r
i s i n g s t u d en t
on
.
philosophy with him. In participation
in politics and
interviewing Dr. Clayton one carefully notes the changes that
finds a genial tone in some of his have
affected
many college
p ers
p
ectj.ve
looks
at our· campuses. Recounting the times
institution.
of his undergraduate
and
One of the first impressions graduate
·days
at
Emory
that he received on
his
arrival to University and U. of Georgia he
the college is its general sense of recalls the segregated policies of
community.Dr.
Clayton, being the universities along with
_the
blind, appreciates the cordiality
then recent memory of a Jewish
of the faculty along with its quota system, which have now.
willingness to introduce him to
·
been eliminated.
some of our colleges customs.
Current trends in the academic
When asked about the value of revolution were also on the mind
exchange program Dr. Clayton
of Dr. Clayton as he cited some
was very responsive. Being a ideas he hopes to bring back to
professor of philosophy at Paine Paine with him. Among these
is
for ten years, he felt it would be the possibility of presenting
an excellent
opportunity
to
more detailed and specialized
broaden
his
teaching experience
area
courses
to the philosophy
with both social and academic
department there. One such area
dimensions.
is
Twentieth Century Philosophy
Paine College, an affiliate of which the professor is presently
the
Methodist
Church,
is
primarily
attended by black
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SkauGranted·Ph.D.
by Philip Glennon
Mr. George H. Skau, chairman
·
of the Department of· History
and
.
Political
Science .,_has
recently received his doctorate
from St. John's University. The
-topic
of Dr. Skau's dissertation
was Woodrow Wilson and the
American
Presidency: Theory
and Practice.
The
dissertation
analyzes
Woodrow Wilson's concept of
the American Presidency as he
wrote
about
it
during
his
academic
career,
and then
.compares
Wilson's theory with
his
performance
as President.
While· Wilson's ideas on the
American
Presidency changed
over the years,
.
his Darwinian
view
of
the
American
constitutionai
system and
his
appeal for responsible leadership.
remained constant.
In domestic
aff$S through
his
leadership of
his
party, the Congress
·
and the
nation
President
Wilson
implemented
·
his
concept.
In
f or!!ign
·
affairs Wilson, many
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·
Coach
Ron Petro p~nts
Bill Gowen with the game ball, after the
co-captain
Gowen scored
his
1000th
point
in
the
Marist
victory
OTer
W. Conn.
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PAGE 2
THE CIRCLE
FEBRUARY 13, 1969
EDITORIAL
LETTERS·
TO THE
EDITOR
I
On
Faculty
Help
A
Local .Gu'tu
As in the previous edition which denounced much of the liberal
arts core
as
being irrelevant or absurd, this issue will suggest a few
possible solutions to this abiding enigma. •
·
· .
The Circle woulq like' to comment on a few thoughts of Paul
Goodman (noted author of Compulsory Mis-Edut;ation and Growing
Up
Absurd) expressed in his critical article "Thoughts on Berkely ."
It is almost striking at fll'St to realize that college students
throughout the nation are demanding reform from administrations
in the areas of academic freedom." Goodman writes, "Students want
to extend the concept of Academic Freedom from the 'Lehrfreiheit'
(freedom of professors to teach according to their lights) to include
"Lemfreiheit' (freedom of student~ to .ask for what they need to be ·
taught, and
if
necessary to invite teachers, including advocates of
causes)."
·
Some progressive faculty ,members with undergraduate support ,
should be able to regain perrogatives that were formerly lost to the
administration, e.g., discipline. Core courses in the humanities might
be better communicated if the teacher did not have to operate under
the limits and designs of the course.Teachers might refuse to handle
apnormally large classes· forcing the college to hire more specialized
faculty. Another possibility might be that teachers would refuse to
give grades in their core· subjects,
so· as to derive more student
·participation than competion.
·
.
Generally
undergraduate
attempts at alleviating some of
unnecessary burdens imposed by the core, getting a education
befitting more a free man than a slave, must have strong faculty.
backing since students are transient. Progressive teachers who are
thoroughly familar with the subject matter and are ·against some of
the approaches of the core will have· to do the behind the scene.
fighting. Only through .teacher support
·can
we hope to- overcome
establishment inactivity and double-talk.

'
On Election
'69
Last year the 1967-1968 Circle experimented with an "Election
Spec~al" that appeared the morning_ of .!!•!'i.-'*'?!.ion, endorsing
candidates moments before th_e~
1,oU.,·
opened.; The move, although
irutj,~t~d-with--a--r,ood
dealsincerity, met with ~iudent disapproval , · ·-
r,....,-·•••-
--~-~--.'!.\~-~1:
1
or
this
and certainly other more importi.nt reasons, thisyear's
,.
I
.
I.
r
I
(•
f
t
f
r
r
r
staff plans to study the election with more depth and hopefully
more clarity.

·
At the moment three candidates have thrown their hats. in the
ring; Joseph Francese, Daniel McCleary, and Steven Nohe. As it
looks now, the battle
will
be between Francese and Nohe -
undoubtably a tough, friend-losing t.one. McCleary appears as a dark
horse, with everi darker chances
01
succeeding with Hulett as his
campaign manager.
' It
would be unreasonable, at this moment, for the Circle to lean
toward any one candidate at this moment. However, by March the
choice of who to vote for (or against) should be reasonably clear. At
that time we will endorse a candidate.
With only a week of campaigning, it is doubtful that the
candidates will be able to respond (in print) to our editorial decision.
However, the Staff is scheduling a "meet the press," hopefully on
the eve of election week. At this time members from within and
outside of the Circle will question the candidates in an open seminar.
Rather than debate among themselves, the candidates will have to
respond to face our questions and those floored from the audience.
We hope to raise questions that will demand well-informed,
precise, an intelligent candidates to answer them. Perhaps fire from
the Circle will result in a clearer picture of each candidate as
· president.
For More
Of
Les
Electing a vice president to the Student Government is a
·consideration to be taken most seriously, especially after the '68-'69
experience of "leadership."
, The major consideration that should pervade the constitituents• ·
minds is the liability of a president's inability to continue in office ..
Although t~e possibilities of a student government president talcing
ill while in office are remote, the possibilities of his being incapable
of leadership are not. This
is
clearly in evidence today.
However, MOTH was fortunate to have elected Les Lombardi as
their Veep. The constitutional responsibilities of the vice president
are more-or-less (no pun intended) restricted to the organization of
campus clubs and the blood bank drive. In these respects Lombardi
bas
fulfilled his commitments. . To date he
has
called seven
mandatory meetings with club presidents, and the blood drive
is
succeeding.
In
addition, he
is
the sole officer who is available,
as
promised, in the student government office.
When leadership
is
failing. it
is
hoped - if not expected - that one
strong government member will respond. Lombardi did. He took on
tasks that had been delegated, but not enacted, to other Student·
Government officers or their appointees. For example, Lombardi
shouldered the task of publishing the Student Directory, which is
the immediate responsibility of the Secretariat - a presidential
appointee who has failed to produce. Another example - President
Hulett was directed to appoint two SG members to the King
Committee. After Hulett failed to do
so,
Lombardi took to the task
by working on the Committee himself.
There are other examples of the initiative of our present V.P., but
what remains for us to ponder is not his accomplishments but the
reminder that the office of vice president can be most effective, and
perhaps the only saving qualitf ~f_a.f~g
student government.
·
.
,._
Dear Sir:
I have just managed to obtain
a copy
of . your interesting
nuJ\}ber of 19 December, and
would like to comment on one
article to which you gave
Page
One prominence.
You announced that two
public-spirited
citizens have
volunteered to help staff,. for
one hour each week, a Draft
Counseling Servic.e on the Marist
campus, thanks to the efforts of
. TAC. Knowing how progressive
and
broad-minded
our local
gurus.
are, I am a bit surprised
that
they did not think of
rounding out their Counseling
Service by inviting me to serve
along with Messrs Schalk and
Stover. I have no doubt that
these gentlemen, whom I do not
know,
· possess
impressive.
qualifications for their task of
advising their juniors how best
to
fulfill
the obligations of
. citizenship.
Let it be known,. however;
that right here at Marist, on
campus four days a. week, there
is available in my person a
friendly guide and advisor who
has had perhaps more first-hand
experience
with the military
service than most others of our
community. Mr. Schalk taught
at M.I.T.? I taught and advised
cadets at West Point for ten
years, during my two tours of
duty there. Mr. Stover was at
Vassar? I have two daughters
there now - their older
sister
is
Vassar '62.
Of
course,
there
is an
embarrassing
asp_ect to my
involvement
in this
draft
business,
a rather
personal
thing,but I might as well confess .
- I
A VOIDED-THE DRAFT! I·
volunteered.
; . Since
I
was ·
married, it wasn't_ simple, and 1-
h ad
to have the
written·
permission of my . wife. Gosh,
how
square
can you get?
Anyway,
over
a period of
twenty-one
years, I had the
highly educational experience of
being on the Aimy Team, of
which I am proud still to be a
member (retired).
Since I have not been asked by
TAC to join their Counseling
Service, I think I'll just swallow
my disappointment and set up
shop on my own, over here in
209 Donnelly. Let all interested .
members
of
the
Marist
community
know that those
having questions relating to the
military
services which Mrs.
O'Brien's
office.
and Mr.
Mortensen cannot answer are
cordially invited to drop in and
talk the problem over with me.
I haven't been to Canada for
years,
though,
and · am
completely
ignorant
about
conditions in Sweden, except for
what I see now and· then in the
New York Times.
Yours truly,
Edward· H. Germann
Associate Professor
LT COL, AUS (Ret)
Another Star
Letter to
the
Editor:
· I personally find it pleasurable
to discover within myself the
desire to comment on
an
article
in the 31 January issue of The
Circle. I want to congratulate
the
editorial
staff and Mr. ·
Vincent
Buonora
for the.
concern and charity which
has
been exlul>ited in dealing with
changes
within
our campus
community
and within the
Church.
Mr.
Buonora's
article,
«Institutional
Darwinism"
(31/1/69), attempts to explain
many difficult
issues
which
are
being
faced
by members of the
people of God, both individually
and collectively. But I fear that
there
is an unintentional
oversimplication in making th~
issues
particularly
American.
This
is
true of the issues
raised
in
the article dealing with the
hierarchy.
Church structure,
ecclesiastical authority, celibacy. ·
and
the
transitional·
Marist
Brother. The Spirit which moves.
the hearts of men has not been
limited to the American
scene;
it
is a ground-swell
which is
international.
·
named by
Mr.
Buonora are his
examples:
Tom Dooley and
Thomas Merton. Tom Dooley
is
an example of the layman who
chooses to lead a celibate life;
Thomas Merton illustrates the
decision to change status from
layman to contemplative priest
in a religi~us community.
.
It would be too easy for a
member
of
the
English
Department to comment here on
Frost's "Road Not Taken," or
even on Tom Dooley's favorite,
"Stopping
by Woods on a
Snowy Evening."
I
refrain from
reflecting on either. In place I
offer
for your consideration
Robert
Frost's
"Choose
Something Like a Star."
It
may
help to understand the position
of men who do make a free,
personal
commitment to· the
Mr. Buonora seems to imply
that if the traditional European
influence
is
sloughed off . by
either the· Church or by the
Marist Brothers, in the United
States or elsewhere, we will be
left with something which is not
the Church of Christ or the
· Marist
Brothers of Marcellin
Champagnat. The only choice
which he seems to offer to the
Brothers-
is to retain
the
traditional
image or · to be
absorbed "into the main stream
of the
American
capitalist
society ... " I find that the
author poses a question, moves
on to answer
it,
and then negates
the answer he has offered.
. religious life or to the celibate
life
as
laymen.
·It
may help to
understand why a man in life
If there
is
validity to the
statement made by the author
that ". : .celi~acy as a way o'f life
is beaµtiful,"
and if the
examples of men . ennumerated
are valid examples of such a·
choice, then we do have the
distinctive ''life style" which
evolves from something other
than European tradition. It is
evidence of a free, personal
choice to love the many through·
dedication to Christ.
It
is
a
commitment made by- men to
innervate the lives of ,many,
rather
.
than to propagate the
lives of a few. The two men
. can become so enamored with
the Christian . commitment as. to
make it the very heart of his ·
existence.·
It ·
might· ev~n say
something about ·. the questions
which the people of God are .
trying to answer in their own
, -human way. The decision is
beyoµd the question of what is
good; it is a question of what is
best for each man. Read Frost,
and try to understand why some
do ch~ose something like a star.
Peace.
Stephen
L.
Cox, fms
Editor's
note: The following
lines .from
Frost are those
referred to by Bro. Cox:
"O Star (the fairest one in sight),
We grant your loftiness the right .
To some obscurity of cloud -
It
will not do to say of night,
.. Since dark is what brings out your light.
.,Some mystery become!! the proud ...
Bµttobewholly-tacitum-
., -.;· ._..
;,,+" ·
:c,•,
.. ;
fo
ybiir reserve is not allowed, ·
Say something to us we can learn
By heart and.when alone repeat.
Say something! And it says "I bum."
But say with what degree of heat.
Talk
Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.
Use language we can comprehend.
Tell us what elements you blend. ·
It
asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob
is
swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star
To stay qur minds on and be s~~d_.
My Word!
New Orleans Math conference
tells .
us
where the college
is
heading.
Dear Sir:
, .
We were appalled· that 100
We'd like to complain about ..
Y,ears
of research on geometric
the total collapse of moral values surfaces
seem to have been
at Marist. · Page one of any treated
rather
casually and
publication cannot be expected lightly in the Circle. article on
to · give. us the
bright and . the q>nference~ To be ·sure, the
cheeriest news we'd -like. in this . Russians will treat the data more
changing turbulent· world. But
perhaps the picture taken at the
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•ctRCLE
Editor-in-Chief .............. ·--············-··························Paul Browne
Managing Editor ....... _
............................. Patrick McMorrow, fms
Sports Editor ......... a••·--·····--·········-'····················Joseph
McMahon
Feature Editor .................................................... Joseph Thorsen
Photography Editor ....................................... John LaMassa, fms
Circulation •..................... : ..................................... David DeRosa
Financial
Manager ···-·············································Thomas Bagar
News
Staff:
Tom Buckley, Nick Buffardi, Charles
Clark,
Phil Coyle, Richard
Dutka, Phil Glennon; Jeremiah Hayes, Anne Berinato, Otto
Unger,
Bob Miller , Brian
Flood
Feature Writers:
Tim Brier, Vincent Buonora, Vincent
Begley,
Richard
Gorman,
Richard
Bruno
·
Sports Staff:
William
Baker, Joseph Gebbia, Joseph Nolan, Joseph Rubino,
Ro~
Sullivan,
Roger
Sullivan,
Joseph Thorsen, George Bassi
Layout:
John
Rogener,
fms, Tom Tinghitella, fms
Typists:
Lamena:
Basirico,
Bob
Gunke
Photographers:
Fred House,
Kerin
Buck)ey, fms, Tom
Tmghitella,
fms, Daniel
Waten, fms, John Pinna, fms .






















































































FEBRUARY 13, 1969
THE.CIRCLE
PAGE 3
Part II of a series
BITS
AND
PIECES
by Les Lombardi
Thoughts·
on
·.Pacifism·
This
article has been in the
In order to maintain our blood
of you who found a few pages
making
since my promise in coverage for over 1200 Marist
mixed up,
I'll
explain. In order
November
15th
edition
to faculty, students, staff and their·
to save the Council $1S0.00 the
devote some time to Student
families, we must collect over
Directory
was collated
by
Government· affairs. First and 300 pints· per school y~.
The
student
volunteers.
I hope,
' •At
the·outset of this article,
I was to step outside and settle it
foremost on my mind
is
the next
drive
is
scheduled for
forgiving a few human errors,
bY:
Floyd Alwon
would like to point out that my· the good old American way.
l
Marist Blood Bank. Contrary to
:Thursday,
February 27th from
the Directory will be of
use
to
last arti1,le was not credited due told him that
I
refused to step
popular opinion
I
did not form
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the
you for the remainder of the
to an error on the part of tlie outside or to remove the button.
the bank and it's not paying my Fireside
Lounge. Each drive
school year.
editor.
As
it turned out, perhaps·
If he wanted
the button
tuition.
It
was initiated by
·tast
involves hours of preparation.
Now that the lottery system
more students read. it because it removed then he was going to
year's Student Council in an Registration alone takes days
has proven registration
can
be
was not credited. Who knows? have to do it
.himself.
I might
attempt
to· provide
blood
and then there
is
the actual
easy, we are now preparing to
As Richie Havens says, "Tell me sound· a little courageous now
coverage for the entire student
collecting of the blood on the
enter new fields. In any case
what's the use of singing this thatit'sallover,butiassureyou
body,facultyandstaff.
27th
of
February.
The
studentcooperationseemstobe
song? Some of you are not even· that I was shaking inside; I kind
Presently we are attempting to. Community
Blood
Program
the key to rapid and successful
listening." In this week's article,· of liked the teeth that I showed.
register every student, faculty Mobile Unit
is
dispatched from
registration.
Each class was
we will examine a few more of He did rip the button of my
and
staff
member.
Each
New York City along with
a
r!"gistered with more than an
the very complex and yet simple sweatshirt, but then that's all
commuter student should have physician,
a staff of nurses,.
hour to spare on registration
·
aspects of pacifism.
·
that he could
.
have
·
done.
It
received a form through the mail registrars, and medical assistants.
day. Now that we've adjusted to
I have often been asked
-if
I wasn't all that he wanted to do,
during
semester break. Each These thirty people treat you
this method, it's time for a
, ·were
a total pacifist. The most but it
_was
all that he could do,
resident
student should have with
great
care,
so
if
you
change.
·
lionest answer that I can give to
for
it takes a rather insane .nan
been approached by a student registered
·
to give on Thursday,
With the Student Government
this question is to respond by to hit someone who refuses to
on his floor who represents the Feb. 27th, please show up. If
elections
rapidly approaching
stating that I am striving to be a fight back. By playing his game,
Blood Bank. The faculty and you didn't register yet, please do
one must remember that our
•·
pacifist in much the
'same
way hitting
him
back, I would only
staff have also been sent notices so immediately because all of
campus clubs and organizations
that..Kierkeigaard was striving to have
encouraged him in his
through campus mail. The forms the money or insurance in the·
will also be subjected to major
be a Christian. I too find myself ignorance. By not playing his
are returning slowly but surely. I world
is
valueless if the right
turnovers in power. In various
wishing to harm someone, and game,
I
forced him to realize at
must point out that you do not type of blood
is
not available
meetings
with
the
club
·
·must
often stop to ask myself
.
leasf momentarily that violence
have to donate. a pint of blood when needed for surgery or in an
presidents there seems to be a
why I see this particular person. was stupid. Later on he ended
to register. Each form gives you emergency.
If there are any
lack
of
interest
in club
as a threat." Generally, I have
.
up
_apologizing
and returned the
three options:
further questions on the Blood
membership.
The same few
found that the threat exists only peace
button
to me.
·
His
I.
To donate a pint of blood Banlc, please feel free to contact
groups seem to just merely keep
in as much as I am· willing to rationalization for his behavior
on Feb. 27th.
me.
the ball rolling. Well, in March
succumb to the selfish forces of
.
was that he had a friend who
2.
To donate a pint on a later
Besides
mailing out blood
these
guys are going to be
·
·
·
my
ego. After swallowing a little
·
was killed in Vietnam.
I
told him
date.
forms during semester break,
I
turning the ball over to someone
·
of· the
traditional
pride in pari of the rationalization for·
3. To not be included in the· also was engaged in assembling
else and elections are the best
suppressing
my
violent
mybehaviorwasthesameashis.
bank.
theStudentDirectory.F<;>rthose
time to voice your opinion in
tendencies,
.
I have found that In fact, who in America doesn't
which way you ,·,ant your club
there exists
a
far greater pride in know someone who was killed in
I p
·

to go.
knowing-that I can control and· the latest of· America's moral
fl
erspectl Ve
The usual inactivity in the
direct' my moral growth.
atrocities?
·
Student
Council
office has
theoretical
in the
above
"eye for an eye" is not the
an abundance of noise from the
'
Probably
I
have been a bit too
Christ long ago told us that an
B
·11·
·1
(
1, 0 0 0)
GO
we n
.
recently been compensated by
·
paragraph and will now try· to highest
degree
of moral
two publications down the hall.
demonstrate
the
power of perfectibility. He suggested and
The CIRCLE is eagerly preparing
non-violence
by example.
commanded that we return good
A milestone
in
Marist College long jumpers from the outside.
to produce a great "Election
Strangely enough, I am not too for evil. To live according to the
Basketball was reached last week Another of his better games was
Special" and perhaps they will
convinced that
.
pacifism
·
is
the principle of returning good for
·as
co-capt Bill Gowen became
the Western Conn. game last
try a new approach this year.
mostpractical,moralpositionto
evilimpliesastrongbeliefinthe
the third-"ball-player
ever to
week in which he scored his
The·
office
of the
1969
follow. Because of a deep hatred power of the good. We must
accumulate 1,000 total points in
1,000th
.point.
He scored
22
REYNA RD is attempting
for hypothetical
'situations
(my
·
convince
ourselves that this
his varsity
.career.
points to lead the team and had
~hrough eve~ means possible to
poor mother and gidfriend were abst~act good will triumph. For
Bill,
who never played in high
·
the crowd roaring on every shot
mcre~e their sales. Anyone who
.
.
hypothetically·
raped about me
1t
alr~ady has on numer_ous,
_
school,. )las. been a, starter ~9r
__
l:).~_ma_<,l:e,
...
.
.
..
..
. ...... -,.
,
~to~s
~
the yearbook office ca!l
twenty times in my talks·at'•the'
'occasions,
the example etted
.
three years
011
the varsity squad.
Late in the. first
half,
needing
easily
see that the staff
JS_
..
high schools and
will
probably. above being only one
.of
these.
As a sophomore, Bill scored 313
one point for 1000, one of his
working hard to produ~e the
be hypothetically raped
·when
I
The triumph does not seem to
points for a 12.5
.average
(second
teammates missed a free throw
best yearbo~k that ~fanst has
go before my draft board also), come in the form of material.
on the team), to go along with
and Bill hustled over to grab the
ever seen. Wit~ the atd of. Bro.
I'll
give a real
_life
situation that rewards, but rather in a much
156 rbs. As a junior, Bill sported
rebound in the corner. First he
Stephef!
Cox s pre~entation~
confronted
me
-the.
summer more
significant
way.· The
the highest average on the team,
looked for someone to pass to,
arts_ se~a.r,
the entire s!af~
1S
before
I
left for Europe>
triumph comes in thinking that
20.5. Bill was forced to bear the
but with everyone in the gym
subJectmg itself to a sacnfic~g
I was at a bar located in the what
You do is morally
brunt of the rebounding load yelling for
him
to shoot, he
work-study
program. Unlike
white,
middle
class,
Irish, satisfying: in knowing you have
also although he was only 6
,2".
finally conceded and his long
other work-study programs t~e
conservative
section of Bay not settled for that wlµch is
Go~en
however
had 233 jump shot was good, bringing on
only monetary regard they
will
Ridge Brooklyn with· a friend· considered
expedien~
b~t
rebounds
for an 'average of a five-minute standing ovati~n.
receiv~ is your support of sales.
from Upward Bound when this searched
for that which
18
almost 11 per game.
His
predecessors
rn
Startmg
off with a $2,000
white,
middle
class,
·
Irish, human. You will feel a greater
-This year, though, a better
accomplishing
this
feat, have
deficit
from last year's S'.fP
conservative, big drunk came up sense of self fulfillment.
balanced squad has taken a
lot
been Fred Wiess (1059); and
(Senior Travelogue and PhoIS),
to me and started staring at my
I would like to end this week's
of pressure off Gowen and as a John Murphy
(I
160). Should
this
year's
staff _needs the
peace button. Believe me when I article with a beautiful quote
result he has not had to force his Bill
.
continue to score at· his
support of every Manst student,
tell yo~ that he was big, strong,
·
from· !,labandranath Tagore! a
shots nor has he had to rebound
present rate, he will easily wind
faculty and staff member to
and mean looking- one of tqose twentie th
·
century•
·
I
nd ian as m~ch. However his total of up second on the list and has an
pr9duce a book representative of
Big Bad. John types. He told
_me·.
philosopher - poet.
.
244 points (13.6 p~r game) and
outside
.
chance
of passing
every aspect of life at Marist.
that no one.wears "them peace
.
"I thank God that I am not
161
rebounds
are
still
Murphy.
Buy or order your copy today.
·
buttons
iri this. place,'~ mel!ning 9ne of the great wheels of
impressive.
--------------
·
The yearbook you save
will
be
of
·course 'that
he was frustrated
power, but that I am one of the
.
Gowen,
who possesses the
c1·ay·
tOfl
FROM
1
your own
since
he
.
could
.
never· really· little flowers that are crushed by
finest shot on the team, has,
"'--;.._ __ . _______
_
unde·rstand
college
kids.
l
·
it."
over his career, hit on
44%
of his
PEAS
&
CARROTS
FROM 4
·
·
I t · d
t
1 ·
h t th
7
<
lee.
turing to classes.
·
b tt
st
d
t
d h
·
7
<
The professor holds his
_A.B.,
naive Y ne
.
o exp am w a
e
y
O
GA,
shots from the field and 74% of
peace
u on
oo
1or an
e
·
·
his free throws.
told me to take it off;
I said that
.

His best shooting performance
ii~~!~si~yn~ Ph.D. from Emory
.it
wasn't bothering anyone and
of the season was in the second
th
·t
·
h
h
·t
if
h
.
Dr. and Mrs. Clayton reside
in
.
·
a
·
e was a
·
ypocn e
e
If
you
can
instruct
jt,
Dowling (Adelphi-Suffolk) game
~
...
thought
we were fighting in.
when he shot
9
for 9 from the Augusta, Georgia with their our
·v·
t
f
f
d
I
ldn't
write
the Circle,
C857
children - all of whom are mrls
.
1e nam or ree om. wou
·
floor, most of them· coming on
.,..
take it off. His .logical response
____________
ranging in 3:g~ f~o~ one to
IO.
·.·concerts
FROM 1
entertainers might
·
be engaged,
and

also
.
to reach a larger
audience.
·
·
HACC was formed in order to
r~vitalize the
social
and cultural
atmosphere
on the
Marist
campus
and
others
in the
Mid-Hudson area. It's. ~ltimate
goal
is
co-operation between the
member colleges. so. that the
combined effort might produce
larger and more attractive social
and
t:ducational
possibilities. All
mem-ber
coJieges
made
a
commitment
of twenty-five
dollars to the council treasury.
AT HOME
The cost for the concert which
is being
shared by all the
member colleges
is
$3S00. for
Buffet St. Marie and $1 S00 for
·
The Critters. Each act will run
for' approximately an hour and
.
ten minutes.
The concert will be held in the
Vassar College Chapel which
holds. 1900 people and will run
for approximately three hours.
The success of this concert and
·
other activities of the council
will mean. a regular schedule of
·
events, ranging from the social
to the educational next year.
Southampton,
SAT.
8.P
.M.
Skau
FROM 1
times
acting
Jike a prime
minister, was able to lead or
diminate the Congress until his
last two
years as
President. Then
the
single
minded
Chief
Executive was frustrated by a
number of factors, including the
Newtonian
balance
and
countervailing forces within the
American constitutional system.
Wilson's concept of presidential
leadership and his successes and
setbacks as President have serves
as guidelines to his successors in
the White House.
Dr.
Skau
received
his
B.S.
from Manhattan College and his
M.A. from Niagara University.
He has been teaching at Marist
since 1963 and
.
has served on
numerous
committees
and
various
academic
positions.
Among
these
are American
Studies
Committee, Financial
Aid Committee, and
Physical
Plant Committee. Presently he
is
on
the
Faculty
Policy
Committee,
King
Committee
and F.D.R. Planning Committee.
LETIERS
FROM2
seriously.
When the Western world faces
the imal threat of Communism,
who will hurl the enemy back?
Will the young man leering into.
the camera (at right) with the
mug of beer in his fist be at the
front?
Or will
this
playboy
be
closeted
with another bunny
studying new surfaces at another
Math conference in another
sin
spot?
0
the times, • the ways!
Deliver
us
from
eTil
and lead us
not into temptation. Amen.
Pessimistically,
Mr. and
Mrs. James
M.
McShane
&.
Family
.. An old-fashioned, decent and
square American family - and
proud of
it!"
P.S. The next step on the road
downhill
will be four-letter
.
words,
like the formerly
illustrious
CARDINAL
at
the U.
of
Wisconsin.
High School of Philadelphia, and
they sounded very interested in
the ole campii (some of them
stayed on the sixth floor Leo
and I learned that they were
third
in the
nation
last
year ... so I presume the feeling
of
interest
is
mutual)
•.
.. Speaking of crews, the group
from
the Booster Club that
worked on the Spiked Shoe Club
mixer last Friday night really did
an excellent job - I'm sure the
track team will appreciate it.
The profits are enough to finance
the sending of relays to some of
the Indoor invitational meets
between now and April ... It is a
very unfortunate situation that
the Spiked Shoe Club has to be
run by the athletes themselves;,,;.
were
there
more interested
non-runners, ala Charlie DiSogra_
the founder of the club, ther!'
would be no problem such as
that
which
occurred Friday
when five of us were competing
in the Garden Invitational
...
I
think
the mixer showed two
things
to all those·
who
constantly knock the activities
on campus.:,_.,,Some
of the clubs
do fulfill a good purpose, and
·
with proper planning and a littfe
CO-Operation, a successful
social
event
is
not impossible ..• And
.
now, for
this week's quiz
question,
is the
Athletic
Committee
Still
alive?
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PAGE 4
THE CIRCLE
FEBRUARY 13, 1969
HOOPSTERS
CONTINUE
TO ROLL,
WRESTLERS
ROMP
TWICE
I
.

All h~ds are on deck to_ search
for
miS&11g
contact
lens
during final quarter of Marist's siaughter of Western
Connecticut.
·
.
·
.
Grapplers
Wreck Drew And
Lehman;
Face
Seton HaH Sat.
Faced with the possibil" y of a
.
led his charges into New Jersey
Lomitola, who did not make.
lo sing
season;
the
arist
·
and
they
came
away with
weight.
.
wrestling-team bore down
·e
..
another
smashing
win,
Jack-Walsh used a.half~nelson
last two away matches o the
clobbering Drew U., 33-10.
to. drop Drew's Pete Calvert in
year and wrecked Lehman imd
·
Johnny Eisenhardt, 123 lbs.,
1 :59. The pin was especially
Drew University.
·
.
~
started the onslaught pinning
rewarding for Walsh as it was his
Last Tuesday, the grapplers
.Drew's
captain in 5:44. Johnny
first win by fall this year.
took
excellent
advantage of_ took-advantage of a granibie roll
Bill McGarr, in his first match
undermanned Lehman, picking
and a tough ride, leading to the
this semester/.:Yound his crusher
up four forfeits and winning

pin. In the second match,
Kevin
ineffective, so he slipped in a
three
of the fiv~ contested
O'Grady p1;1t up_ a re~l batJle
Indiana hook and half-nelson to
matches. John Eisenhardt was b~fore getting pinned_ m 7: 18. pin Dwight Blum in 2: 20.
·
The
the first recipient of the home
O Grady wh? wrestles m the 130 win gave
Marist
·
its second
team's charity
putting Marist· lb: c~ass, we1~s only 120 lbs., a straight victory, 33-10.
5 0
'

distinct
disadvantage.
Pete
Marist must still win
its
last 3
upTh~
·next
two matches gave Masterson racked up a f~rfeit in
matches to
.pull
out
a
winning
Lehman its only bright spot in a the 137 lb_. clas~, p1;1ttmg the
season. However the task will be
long evening. In the 130
-
lb.
.
Poughkeepsie aggregation ahead,
made much e_asier by the fact
I 0-5
that all 3 matches will be on
n_i~tch? little _Kevin O'Grady,

At
this
point
Marist's
home ground. This Saturday the
filling m for Mike Moran,. found
,
·
--
'
Jim
Tappen
just
too
big,
.
murderers
row took ov
7
r and
_
matmen will host Seton Hall.
succumbing to a pin in 1
:4 5
..
turned
a ~lose match mto a Following the New Jersey team
John Mauro then proceeded to
runaway. Bill Moody, l~? lbs., into
Poughkeepsie
will be
work
over
Pete
Masterson,
opened the_ floodgates, p~g
_up
Yeshiva on Wednesday night.
decisioning the 137 pounder,
sevei:al
.
switches to ~ail , Rich Coach Patrick's crew will close
12-6. This put Lehman on top
Kastmd1eck, _10-2. Berrue O Hare out the dual meet season hosting
for the only time of the evening
tht:n used ~s old stand~y, the
C.C.N.Y. on Feb. 22:
8-5.
'
Chinese whizze:r to
_demolish
152
.
------------
CO-:captain. Bill Moody kept
lb. Kyme Smith m
! :
3 ~. ~ob
things under control; however,
Krenn, a 16_0 lb. M;mst J~ruor,
putting in his usual execellent
kept tliepressm
on_, USlllg a
performance pinning Lehman's
double arm· bar a!1d f1gur~ four,
145 lb. grappler, Dan Pelletiiri in
on. the 1?-ead
to pm Drews Ben
3:20. Bernie O'Hare, 152 lbs.,
· _Spivack,
m
1 :26..
.
fol!owed
suit, blasting Andy
Drew s captain, Don Boyer,
Gass to the mat in 5:40..
\67 lbs;, m!1na_ged
to curb the
·
Bob Krenn wons points via
a.
slaughte!, p~g
160 lb. Fred
forfeit in the 160 lb. class. John
Wagner
m
1.57. Fre<! was called.
Lomitola ended tlie action or. on suddenly to
fill
m fo.! John
BASKETBALL
HOME ON
SATURDAY
Cagers
.
Face
Southampton
·
Sat.
Western
Connecticut
•State
rebounding was also very good
went down to defeat at the as they hit the boards for a total
hands
of our
own
quick of
72
bounds. The leaders in this
dribblers last Thursday: by 7:he d e pa: rt me n t were
Ra
Y
score of
114-73.
It
was almost a Manning-12 and Joe Scott-I 2.
basketball game until about 7½ Since moving up to the varsity,
minutes were left in the first half Scott has
really-·
been a big help
when Marist broke open the
to the other men under the
scoring and began to pull away boards .
.
steadily. All the Marist players
Of course the big story of the
saw action
and
•all
players. night was Bill Gowen's milestone
scored,
·
an indication
of a
-
in. Marist basketball history. In
balanced attack.
t_he first half of the game,
There were five men in double
.Gowen
passed the 1,000 pt.
figures
for
the Foxes; Bill barrier,
and. before
he had.
Gowen-22, Ken Thoinpson-21,
.
finished Tor the evening, Gowen
Bob Ulrich-13, Ray Manning-13, had uppe~ the total to 1,008.
and Jim Brady-I 2. The team
·
The game
·
against Stonehill
·
floor percentage was the highest
was
.'cancelled
due to the adverse
this year for the squad, a very
..
weather conditions· and because
impressive 53%. It was also the
of the heavy schedule at the end
first time this year that the team
of the season. Marist's league
has broken the
50%
barrier in
record is now 5-1 and overall it
field
goal percentage. Team post at 12-6.
,
Two Fakes Later
More Than
The
·Game?
by Joe Rubino
Bad Scenes - Every time I start
·
to get worried that Marist just
might be
·
getting a little more
class,
the
good
.old
MOTH
faithful
comes through
·and
provides a fabulous gross show
to wipe out all my worries. You
know
what
I mean.
The
B 1-o om field
game
was
horrendous, you know, with a
packed house cheering for the
home club. I mean the people
m
the stands had as much class as
the men-in-red and white on the
court.
·But
then
came the
Danbury (Western Conn.) game.
That was tremendous. The nien
in the stands put on an all-star
show.· Cheering for "Sneaks"•·
was okay, but how about such
great chants as "We want to
,
play" and
"Who-d .
you beat?",
Fabulous,
just
fabulous.
Everyone
had a great time
adding insult
to
injury. After all,
we all loved it when we got the
same treatment at Iona, so why
nor dish it out ourselves? We
slaughtered them on the court,
but was that enough? No, sir.
Not for·good old Marist. We had
to slaughter them in the stands
too. We really showed our true
colors, not all of us, but a good
many,_ I'm really ashamed of the
many who just sat there and
cheered for
Marist
while refusing
to mock Danbury ... Everyone
hates a bad loser. How about a
bad winner?
....
Slinkin-Aiound - This week's
YGBKM
Award goes out to the
group
of Marist guys who
cheered
for
Bloomfield
all
during_ the Marist-Bloomfield
game last week. (It's more than
·
the game, baby.) ... Last week I
forgot to mention that Don
Hinchey also plaY. plays for the
MMSCAC
bask°e"tball team.
(Satisfied?)
...
Has this ever
happened to you? You have just
returned from
a
varsity game at
Lourdes and are approached by
a pseudo-studier
who says:
"How was
the
game?" ... You:
"Great, just great." ... Pseudo:
"How
many
did
Kenny
·get?''
...
You:
''about
20" ... Pseudo:
"How
many did
Gowen get?" .•. You:
"Oh,
·
15
or
-16"...
Pseudo: "We won,
didn't we?" ... You: "Oh yeah,
you shoulda come; how come
you
didn't
go?" ... Pseudo:
"Ah,
I was gonnna go, but then I
figured I better start booking
it,
·
because I haven't done anything
the mat with a win in the 167 lb. -----.:-----------------,-.---------------
class. Lomitola grabbed a 9-0
Pe· a··s A· nd Carrots.
!111
year, and ... " ... Guys like
that stink ... Getting away from
sports- for a minute, what ever
happene~ to the line in front of
-
the cafeteria door? Every new
guy that gets there starts his own
line
...
Hey Gowen, how come
you never jam with two hands in
warm ups?
...
I've seen bush
teams but Western Connecticut
takes the prize hands down!
Who ever heard of a team where
the varsity manager plays on the
freshman team (can you imagine
Barry out there?) and a team
where· the freshman coach plays
on the varsity? In case anybody
fouled out on the freshman
team, the tall blond cheerleader
was
practicing
her jump
shot .... I'd like to congratulate
Carrot on his fabulous article
last
week. His style is clever and
his
jok_es were very humorous.
(Okay, I said it. Now do I get
my raise?) His title was really
clever, too, but unoriginal; he
stole it from another magazine,
•'Home
and
Garden"-
lead in the
first
.period
and
wasted only 30
seconds in the
second stanza
before
pinning
Carmine Tabacco
to
give
Marist
a 25-8 lead. Jack Walsh and Bill
McGarr won
by forfeit
in the
177 lb. and heavyweight classes,
respectively.
It
was
McGarr's
third forfeit win
in
a row. The
win pegged
.
Marist's record at
2-5.
Last
Saturday, Jerry Patrick
WRESTLING AT HOME.
SETON HALL,
SAT. AFTERNOON.
Now that Bill Gowen is the
man of the hour, it
is
fitting that
he be the first to take the
spotlight in the new feature of
the
Sports
page
-
"In
Perspective," which is designed
to focus attention on a Senior
who
has made a significant
contribution
to the Marist
athletic scene during his stay at
the Big U ....
....
By the time this issue
reaches print, the Siena game
will be a thing of the past - I
hope that the bus is better
supported
than the one that
went
to
the Iona game; it should
.be,
if the
psyche
at the
Bloomfield
game
is any
indication!.
. .
Dcin't
be
surprised
if there is a small
change
collection
soon to
purchase
a drum
for· the
by Joe McMahon
remaining S?ames - the Saga salad
bowl ~an't
last much
longer
-
.
(not with Nolan being dumped
in and out of it)
...
Did everyC>ne
.
notice at the Bloomfield game
how the golden foot of Doc
Goldman instinctively returned
the ball from out of bounds into
the arms of the ref
(I
guess he
didn't want to have to take a
lap) ... Kenny Thompson had
no trouble at all guarding his
man in the Danbury game - he
just
followed
the
"blue
sneaks" ... It looks like Bobby
Krenn
is
really coming into his
own
as a wrestler.._ after
struggling through the early part
of the season, he now has won
his last three matches in a
row ... With the recent addition
of three experienced grapplers -
Pete Masterson - 137 lbs., John
Lomitola - 167, and Hill Dourdis ·
- 177, the team should put on an
even
stronger
showing this
~a turdaY. than at their last
appearance
home on Jan.
8
when they almost upset the
powerhouse from Long Island,
C.W. Post
....
The crew team
seems
to
be getting
that
all-important imrredient. variety,
into their
workouts. They've
been playing basketbatr(at times
it could be mistaken for rugby)
to keep in shape and loosen up,
and last week they made a trip
trip to Kent High School in
Connecticut for an evening of
valuable rowing practice in the
tanks
there ...
Over
the
weekend,
Mr. Austen had a
group of rowers up from Bonner
CONTINUED
ON 3
,
... O'Reilly's article was funny
too. Especially the part where he
pretended
to
talk
seriously
about core requirements. Gerry
Tyne was disappointed that he
couldn't
find
the
punch
line
......
Observations
L
T.D."
(Good, O'Reilly, good). Do you
tell Horoscopes too?