Vol
JI No.
7
MARIST COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE,
NEW YORK
March 30
1
1966
Teach-in
"In"
Professor
LeWinter,
Father Barrigan, Mike Fedlkck, and Professor
Lynd at
informal,
meeting during Teach-in.
Students Fast
For Viet-Nam
An
eight-day
f.ast
protesting
U.S.
action in Vietnam
is end-
ing
for New .Eng.land
college
st-udents.
At
Wesleyan University in
Middletown,
Conn.,
about
40
students drank
coffee
and orange
juice
during the
fast to keep
up
their strengJI tor the eight days.
~This
sort
of
p~otest
doesn't
alienate people who
would
be
angered
by unshaven beab1iks
carrying signs," one of the fasters
told reporters.
"This
is a demonslration of
personal
commitment which
is
neither
fun
nor easy," said
an·
other,
Bryan
Hammarstrom.
Hammarstrom,
a
freshntan,
helped organize the
fa&t
at
Wes1eyQ.11.
The fosters, meeting only at
mealtime to
drink
orange juice
and discuss the
war, generally
agreed the protest was a success.
In a
statement
of purpose, the
Wesleyan students opposed es-
culation of the war and called
for peace negotiations including
the National Liberation Front.
"We see a trend in our
country
that frightens us," the statement
read, "a notion that America
must determine the course of the
world,
no matter what that
means, no matter what the end."
At Amherst College, about 70
students abstained from meals.
Many of them even refused or-
ange juice and vitamin pills.
A-
bout 10 plan to continue for the
full eight days.
Several students from the
University
of Massachusetts,
lrioity College>, the Hartford
Colegc
for Women, the Univer•
sity
of
Hartford, and the Univet-
sity
of
Connecticut
were a1so
fasting.
In Washington, 35 professors
from Catholic University signed
an
open letter to
President
John-
son disagreeing with the Admin-
istration's
policy
in
Vietnam.
In a
paid advertisement in the
Catholic Standard they said
"the
war
our country
is
waging
in
Vieb1am
is
not an instrument of
justice and. is not
such
as to aid
in the construction of desired
world order."
The ~~b,mant ~upported
:,.nd
acknowledged the President's
ef-
forts to end the fighting includ-
ing the
temporary
halt in bomb-
ings. It went on to favor U.S.
negotiations with the National
Liberation Front and to allow
them "their due place in the
formation
of
a provisional
South
Vietnamese government, a nec-
essary antecedent to any Geneva
-type conference."
The letter was sponsored by
the Movement for Peace and
Freedom in Vieb1am, and ad hoc
committee of Catholic Univer-
sity students and faculty mem-
bers.
The students of Marist
College wish to express their
deepest sympathy to Dick
Plaza on the death of
his
mother on March
16,
1966.
On 'Camp' Campus
by
Ed
Lowe, Charles Dunn, Mike Esposito, George Menendez and Jim Morrison
On Tuesday, March 22, 1966,
strangers to Marist
College
cam-
pus
witnessed
the birth
of
what
promises to
be
the beginning of
a new and exciting era
in
the
school's history.
Al.)ptoximately
1,500 students, faculty members,
dignitaries, and i11terested cit-
izens thronged to the new Stu-
dent Center to hear speeches and
debates by such notable person-
alities as Ambassador John
Lodge,
Prof. Staughton Lynd,
Rev.
Daniel
Berrigan, Rev.
A.J.
Muste, the Hon. fohn Murphy,
the Hon. Joseph Y.
·
Resnick, and
others. Later in the evening, re,
taxing
entertainment was
-pro--
vided by three
student
folk
groups (The
Three
0£
Us,
Me
and Him, and the Frobisher Bay
Volunteers), and a famous Amer-
ican protest folk-smger,Mr.
Ton,.
Paxton.
Because of lack of available
space, closed-circuit
televisions,
supplied by audio-Visual
Coro.
of
Albany, w~e plla~d throl,lgh-
out the building, a-nd the speech.
es and debates were
piped
through
the public-address sys-
tem
for the
benefit of
those
mem-
bers of the
Ad
Hoc Committee
required to remain in
the offices
on
the lower level.
The
Comnrlttee, headed
l;>y
l'rof. Oswald LeWinter and Mr.
William
Morrissey, was founded
as a
possible method of chan-
j)
1nn11
1rr
·
r
J
J!
il £.CJJilD
1) Dr. Timothy Leary, who lect-
ured here lwo years ago, was
sentenced to 80 years
in
prison
for smuagling
.m..arijuana..
Nice
try
psychol~gy dept.
2,)
A wealth of ioformatJon can
be found in the Browsing
Lib-
rary
in
Champagnat
Hall.
3) Will the Brown Derby offer
better "advisors" for the Crew
team than we ha. ve at present?
4) Will Mike F-eddeck accept
the democratic rtominati.on far
Governor of N. Y. on his Marist
College work?
5)
About those p afotings
in
the
Art Gallery ....
6)
ls
it true that a more sedate
and less fun loving librarian
will
be appointed aftel' the discovery
of the iibrary orgy?"
7) Does Father Driscoll,
Mar-
ist's own
"Chopper
Chaplain",
have a new
write.r
o.r did he
scrap his standard line,
•Tm
glad
to see all you
strangers
back
::..1
church today"
which
was miss-
ing from
the
Jun:ior }ling Cerc•
mony March 20.
nelling the sociai committment
of
the student body
into
positive
action. Expenses w.ere covered
by
corrtiibutions by
the
student
body,
the individual classes, and
the
Colle~e Administration.
The Viet Nam
Debate
repre-
sents
only one of the goals of
the
Committee, which
is
also
~
soring
a
lecture
in
Anrll by
~
noted
Soviet historian.
The
Com:
,nittee
also nlans to .sponsor other
lectures
.and debates on intema~
tionaJ
telations on the
Marist
Camous, to
be
held
some time
.in
then~
future.
Father Daniel
Berrigan,
S.
J.,
renowned for his continued
_pro-
tests
against " . . .
Americans
.in
Viet N1111l" limited
his
speech
to
three
.main
points:
He considers the
military
build
-
ups
and conflicts of the
United St.ates
throughout the
world
as
"adventures" that have
placed our
country in a position
in
which it
-does
not belong. He
does
not support the Viet Cong
at
all,
but believes
that the war
is a
war
against
the Vietnamese
people,
a
"merciless struggle",
and a
form
of
re~ive justice.
According
to
Father
Berrigan,
the
interests of the common oeo-
ple
of
the
world
are sevetely
handicapped
by
all
forms
of mil-
itary involvement. He said that
the goods
of
the
arms
race
be--
long
to
the
world's poor, conclu-
c
C
D
Expands
The
Confraternity of Chris-
tian Doctrine
program
has
'ex-
panded at
Ma:rist
College during
the past year. Fonnerly .release
time religious instructiou classes
for public school students were
taught
by
the
student
Brothers.
'11.w.
}'ear,
however;
ttte program
has been eicpanded to include
anyone interested in teaching
religion.
The classes taught in-
clude
fifth
graders
to
twelveth
year stuqents with an \lVerage
class time
of
half an hour meet-
ing once
.a
week o.n a day agreed
upon
by
the
local
pastoI a~d
school authorities.
Marist students teach in com-
munities ranging from Wappin'..
gers Falls to Arlington and
Hopewell Junction to Highland.
Presently, there are more than
thirty
lay
students and
Brotbers
involved
fo the teaching pro-
gram.
·
Anyone
desiring
further
in-
fonnation
concerning possible
openin~ for
the
Fall 1966 sem-
ester should contact Bto. Mar-
tin
Lan~,
director
of
the pro-
gram or
13ro.
Francis
McSw.eeney
at Fontaine Hall, coordinator of
the 'Orogram.
ding that this military involve-
ment is contrary to the interests
of
two-thirds
of
the
world. It .is
against the American
_people be-
cause it plunges them deeper
in-
to a false
illusion of
themselves,
and it
js a
burden to American
youth
because
Jt blocks his
im-
mediate
future by uresen'ing him
with
a
choice between active
participation and
tot.u
estrange-
ment.
Finally, he states that the
war
in
its
substance
is
immo,;al.
Fa-
ther Berrigan cited three .reasons
:why
~ch
a
war
i,s
uniust in
Christian eyes: First
1
a Christian
cannot condone the Viet struggle
in
ljght
of
tb.e
methods of tor-
ture employed by
our
forces.
Secondly,
he
holds that the South
Vietnamese people nave been
ruled by
American
"_puppets•
since
the Diem regime. and that
this
coru;titutes
suppression of
hwna-n lib"1rti~,
And
lastly
1
the
war
is
.immoral simply because
innoc..-ent
people are being killed
to that of the
Viet
Cong
·by
American
forces ( four to one).
This, he
stated,
'"is
intolerab!e
to Christians."
Protessor
Staughron
Lynd,
who
recently
returned fr-om
an
unauthorized
visit
to
Hanoi,
spoke last week at the Marist
Coilege Teach-In
on
Viet
Nam,
An
extreme
:Pacifist,
Professor
ProfeS&Or
Staughton Lynd
as
he
'?'14resses students during Teach-
m.
Lynd
clearly stated
his
_position
on the
Viet
Nam crisis when he
said: "No Christian should
take
part in the war." He considers
our
position
.in
Viet
Nam as
im•
mor.al. 13asfog the early part of
.his
speech on
this
point, .Prof
es~
or Lynd rondemned the many
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VIETNAMESE
continued from
page
l
instances of atrocities committed
in
th
e
effort to
conquer the
North Vietnamese
.
Like Father
Berrigan
.
the
fact
that the Viet
Cong
are
perfonning
the
same
acts does not interest him, the
only
thing
that
should be consid-
ered is the moral value- of our ac•
lions. He substnntjated his opin-
ion
with
a
letter
that,
be received
from
a
young Marine stationed
in
Viet
Nam
.
Professor
Lynd
holds
that the
instances
of
bra-
tality
the soldier alluded
to
were
ample proof of the barbaric as•
pects
of
this
war.
These statements were follow-
ed
by
the
aecusation
that the
war was
cot
only
lmmaral, but
illegal. President
Johnson,
ac--
cording to
Prof
Lynd, involved
the
U
.
S
.
in
the war
without
the
complete and open
authorization
of Congress and
the
public
.
Jn.
deed,
in
a
recent poll,
the vast
majority of the Amerlcnn people
did
not support
th.e
War
in
Viet
Nam
.
Professor
Lynd
likened the
American public
to
a passenger
train
racing
downhi11 without
brakes
;
hardly
the
best position
for the spokesman of dcmocra tic
action.
Professor
Lynd
also attacked
the
escalation of the war. The
C
hristmas bomblng pause
,
in
Pr
o
fessor
Lyod's
opinion,
show•
ed
hopes
fo1
negotiation.~
with
Pel;in
g.
but the Un!led States,
co1'trary
to Johnson
'
s
statement
th
at
we
"will
lcJJock
on any door
fo·
peac
e," used the time
to
build
up forces in South
Vfet
Nam
.
This
ls
the ma.in reason for Pro-
fessor
Lynd's accusation of the
United States'
escalation
To sum up,
Prof-eiisor
Lvnd
made many ti1teresting.
if
contro-
versia1
statements
conceming our
position in Viet Nam.
It
is
his
oope
that the American people
wll1 wake up
in
time
to correct
an obvio\lS wrong.
.Ambassador
John
Lodge s:lid
much in n short time. 1-te
snid
much
b~use he illdn't h
a
ve to
make excuses• for rumself or for
his government
•
or to express
his
guilt or sorow
for the state
of
affairs
in
South Viet Nam
.
~ixon says we should stop apol-
ogizi:ng for this war
.
I
agree
with
him
.
"
All too often
we
tend
to
look
at
this
war objectively. But bow
valid
.is
this?
Every one of us who
is
eligible
for
the
draft
may
be
the next
to
set foot on South
Vietnamese
soil
or the next to
receive honors
"oost-mortem,,.
"We
are
in
a wail" And be this
a declared war
or
not.
the men
dying
aTe
just
as
dead,
And
to
protest the
American nolicv
in
South Viet Nam would be to
•make a mockery" of these men.
Why this war? To nrotf'ct - to
protect
the
people of South Viet
Nam from the power
oE
Com-
munism
that
is
attempting
to
infiltrate
their
homeland; and
to
protect
the
world
&om
World
War
ill.
We
cannot
negotiate,
because, £or
the United
States
to negotiate would .see the hopes
of
a.
Eree
South
Viet Nam become
nothing more than
dreams.
And
•. .
.
has America the
rlght.
.
.
to
negotiate
a settle
m
ent that
would destroy
that
nation?"
I
should
bo_pe
not
By defending Viet Nam, the
United States
stands for freedom
to
all
nations
in
southeast Asia.
The United St.ates
also
stands
for
freedom,
be
it
in peace or
war,
to
every American.
This
war
is
a
necessary war
to
protect
the people
of
South Viet
Nam,
the people
of southeast
Asia
and
the peoole of
the
United
States
,
To
back
down.
to
negotiate,
would
assure
the \.iotory
of
Com-
mnni.mJ in one more count11•
.
And for Communism to
win
would
be
for freedom
to
lose.
And we
,
the
symbol of freedom,
oonnot
afford
to
looe
~
a1wthin,:l
The teach-in included a de-
bate
by
Joseph
Y.
Resnick, and
John
M.
Murphy,
Congressmen
Crom the ~th and 16th Congt8$•
sional
Districts
,
respect:hrel
y.
There
was
also
a lecture
by
Charles Wiley, and
internation
-
ally
know
free-lance
news
agent,
who has traveled
extensively
through-out Viet Nam.
Mr
Remjc:k
~
an inventor
by
trade.,
was
elected
to
Congress
in
1964
.
In
December
,
1965,
he
traveled at
his
own expense,
to
Viet Nam
in ordeT to
5cc
tl.ic war
at
firsb
hand
.
He supports Presi-
dent Johoson
,_
s position
in
Viet
Brother Linu., Foy, 8111 Morressey, Ambassador John Lodg
e
and
P,ofesso, LeW
l11te,
pose for plu,tog,apher
during
la.rt
Tuesdm/ s
Teach-in
Nam
and bllsically feels
that
the
end result Will be drawn .from
American civil action Congres..,;-
man Resnick stated that no war
is
moral, but he said that action
in Viet Nam .is
partly
justified
by
a look
llt
the atrocities com-
mJtted
by
the Viet Cong,
~d
the Viet Minh and
the
National
Liooratton
~ront
before them.
Even though war is immoral,
the
UnJted States
has
a
moral
committment bo the
people
and
government of South Viet
Nam
to
help over-throw the
Viet
Cong
in
their
bid
to inf.iltrate the South
Vietnamese government.
The
Congressman concluded
by
say-
Jng.
"'l
support the 'President's
position because
it
is
the
fastest
road
to
peace, a jurt and lastfng
peace
.
"
In his support of
Congressman
Rmnick
'
s statements, and in re-
buttal to Prof. Staughton Lynd
of
)o.le, Cong)'essman Murpny
,
a man
with
a vast background
in
military
conflicts,
eodor&ed
such action a$
air
$tnlces on
North Viet
Nam.
He
al.So
east
some doubt
upon
Prol.
Lynd's
figure.,
in the area ot
s
u
ppOTt
of
the
war given
by
the American
people
.
He stated that
only
5%
of bis constitunnts
protest
the
wnr in Viet Nam. He then
went
oo
to
cite other
instancei;,
docu-
mented
by
fact
,
of
the support
given
in
Congress to
President
Johnson s stand
in Southeast
J\sia
.
The Congreffllan looks
hopefully towa.rcls a final victory
in
Viet Nam
1u a result of con-
ventional warfare
.
Mr. Wi
l
ey
,
a
former newsman,
has seen mort of the current
t-rouble
-
spots
of
the
world.
lie
was imprisone<i £or eight days
by
Premier
Fidel
Ca.,;b'o's secret
police while a
correspondent
in
Cuba in 1960. He
has
been
to
Viet
Nam
twice.
where be bas
traveled extensively
.
Mr. Wiley,
an advocate
of
the war
in
Viet
Nam.
brought out what he called
the "dorolnal
theocy,"
which
states the idea
of depicting the
strength
of
the
United Staes.
which, has kept
South
Viet
Nam
from being oomplete
l
y overrun
by
the Viet
Cong.
He called the
conflfct an •tn..su
rr
ectiona:ry
wa~,•
the
continual offensive of the
Viet Cong
end
the continual
de-
len!h
e
of
the
South Vietnamese
government
and the United
States in Viet Nam.
After
his
I
ectuw, Mr
.
Wiley
took
part
in
an impromptu
de-
bate
with
Cenef'al
Bernard Yoh
of
Nationalist China.D
•
rek
Mills~
and Robert B.
Dennis,
both
pro-
fossors at Pratt
Institute in Now
Yory City.
.. Cenei-al
Bernard
Yoh,
a
free..
lance trecdorn tiglller,
teels
that
StudenL.s
who
are Jnterested
fn
writing,
proofreading,
typ-
ing, or other work
for
The
Cfrcle
for next year please
leove your name in
room
167C
or contact Ed
Lowe
in
room
424C
or
Ja.ck Roche
in
room
71SC
.
the problems
in
Viel Nam are
not strictly limited to one coun-
try
alone •
they
are much
deeper
.
much broader:
·we in
the tree
world tend to over-cimpU.y
the
problem." He stressed tne f11ct
that
we
all
try to
fit
the
Amei-
ican-Vietnamese difficulties into
set
frames.
But the forces of
Communism
al;'e
mucll more
complex
than
this
s1mple
"square
peg in
a
square hole"
soluHon.
General Yob
compared
these
over-simpifylng
indMrlual'I
to
do·,es and bawh. The
doves
seek
total
peece but off er no sol-
utions
in
the attainment of
this
_peace ( aoept
by
handing Viet
Nam over
lo
t~
Viet Cong.
which
would
give us the
right
to
say
that
the
Communists
were
right
all aloog).
The hawM,
on the other hand, reall7.e that
Communmn
mwt be stopped
through the
tot:al
annihilation
of
the Viet Cong forces. General
Yoh
feels that
this altem_ative
is
too
extreme
in
the
other
dfrec-
tio.n. Weapons are
!mportaclt
but
only
£or defonsj\-e purposes.
Commun.Ism c;1n
never
be
de-
feated
by
offensive warfare
.
"'I
am a firm believer
th.at the
world
will
not
have
peace ..
until the people under Commu-
nism
a.re free."
And by being
free
General
Yob
implied
that
these
people must
have the
chance to clioose their own fate
and
mold
their
own
future.
contintl8d
on
page 8
by Tun
Slattery
~tie Point
Beha:bilitation
Hospital
1n
Beacon
is
the scene
ol a
seemingly
impossible
pnr
ject
for a group
oI
Mar.ist
stu·
dents who
will
endeavor
to teach
Englii;h to Vietnamese veterans.
These soldiers are
pantlyzed
from the waist
down and
,
f
w:
the
~ost
part
,
are
confined
to wheel~
chairs. Because of this physical
dir.ability, they will find adjust
-
ment
to
normal
life
in
Viet
Nam
r1lther difficult.
As
part
of
the
Clllture of
their
people. individ-
ual, handice,pped in
any
way
are
treated
with
contempt The doc-
tors at Cutle
Point
wish to
in•
struct these veterans
in
ll$efu
I
trades
in
which a handicapped
person might
be
employed. The
major setback
to
this
program
is
the langua~
bani.er
.
Technical
skills
in
which
these .men may
find a place reqtlire, at
Jea..,;;t, a
oon.versatil>mu
lcnowlfdge
of
English, because
the terminology
required
for
their future work
has few,
if anv,
Vietnamese
equivala.uts.
Students
from
Marlst have volunteered their
services towards this end
.
Tea.chin!!: sessions,
which
will
be.srin short!v.
will
ooosist
0£
one
hOUr
of simnle
COTIVel"Sl\tion
be-
tween
student
and patient.
In
the in,ittal stne:e, technif11.1~ su"'lt
as
word-nfohire
as.~ocfatinns
will
be emnloved
in
O"'rler to build a
loundatf on
r-or
future mastery
ol
the language
.
TI-IREE FROSI-I ST
AGE
WALKOUT ON COUNCIL
Three newly-elected Freshman council members have r
e
signed
&om
-
their positioQS
on
the Student Council
.
They are Floyd Alwon
and Step
h
en Cwm,
both
class
Rcpresc,ltatives,
i\lld
Neil Bisbee,
the
Reoonlmg
Seccewy.
Thls action was token on the
_part
of
these
council
memb,m at
the
request
oI
th~
Freshman
class, The
Freshman els..;,
decid·
ed
to put
forth this request to
the council members at a meet-
ing;
that
was held
on the
night
befor
e
cl
c:c
tio1D
.
The
Ult:eliug
Wll$
under the direction of Will-
iam
Dalton
,
and
was
su})POrted
almost
totally by
the
class
mem•
hers.
The nteding was presented
8$
having a
two-fold
purpo~
'?;
£mt,
as a protel against the
Election
Lolltnllttet:,
aua ~nc:l,
1.0
gen•
enne emnu.srasun tor Ule oommg
election~
.
The c,ass as a
who1e
te!t
tnat
the fob of publicwng
the eiectioru was not 11and1ed
as
welJ
as
it
coll.Id or shouJd
have
been. Many
inembeb
ot tue
c1a.ss
wno had initially intended ,o run
for office we.re not aware
of
the
necessary procedures to follow
,
and wete not aware
-of
the dead-
lines
for
certain ri;iquircm
e
nt.s
which must be fulfilled, such as
the deadlme date for the
s
ubmis•
sum
01
their
deroratioo of candi
-
dacy,
or the final date upon
which their nom1ntttion
~,1t,011
s
were due
.
Ricbartl
Cam.
Com
·
missioner
or
the
F
,a-
tic
I [ ~
Com
-
-
mittee stated
that
all
of
the re
•
quirements wer-e
f
ul!illed
in ac•
corda.nc:e
with
the Co~titntion,
that several black
and
yellow
sign,
announcing
the deadline
dates were posted
in
the donn.i•
tories and in
Donnel
y
Jiuilding
,
and that he personall
y
felt
that
llllyone interested
in
runuing was
given
sufficient notice
of
the
dection
and
its
requirments.
He
also said that
anyone
wnh
con-
structive
cr~1~m
would
b
e
beard
.
To
gin
i
other Freshman a
chance to d
e
e.arc
their
candid-
acy, and to nllow them
to
com-
pete
against the three
memb
ers
who ba-ve-resigned, the
class ask-
ed the.se men to
step down
.
It
was
in
no way a
condemnation of
their services
which
have
been
re,1dered
in
the past.
Undcrsmndlng
this,
the
three
oouncil members
asked
about
their Teaction
to
the
me
e
ting
Floyd Alwon
:
"While
my
re-
signation was
not
compul
s
ory
,
I
am leavin~ the office open for
any
member of my cl,{ss
who
wishes to oppo&e me, beca~ 1
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THE CIRCLE
Page 3
March 30. 1966
S1
~U
DENT PARTICIPATION
_
F
.M.S~
PRO
&
CON
FATHER
&
SON
JOIN
COUNCIL
By Brother Jack Kelly
Is the student brother
011
campus a re,igious first ,md student
second. or is he
a
studeot first aud religious second? This distinction
has beeo made by several people, and I don't think it's valid.
Speaking
for
myself, I believe a brother is a Chrt~tian first, and
if
that calls for praying then he prays;
if
it
calls for playiug then he
plays. but he can't be dissected.
"'If
I
.un a
student at Mari~t College, then
I
should have the
prhiliges ot a stud.mt, such
as
voting for student council candid-
ates, or even running as a candidate." This is all well and good but
I douht that vou will find ten student brothers who knew any of
the candidate~ well enough to vote for him in the last election. As
far
as
running for office goes, a student on this campus, who
is
a
brother. is just as capable of ho
l
ding an office, as any of those who
110w
occupy one; i1ot because he is a brother but because he is this
particular individual, who possesses these particular qualities. Yet,
the functions of some
of
these offices have little or no relation to
•the life of a brother on this campus. The problems that arise in
the dorms just don ·t effect
him.
The brother bas the right
as
a student to enter into the various
activities
on
campus, but does time or his schedule allow for this?
Rising at 5:15 A . .\l., the brother begins his day with morning
prayer
,
meditation, mass, breakfast and employment
,
followed by
morning classes, lunch, Rosary, afternoon classes, study, recreation,
evening prayer and supper
,
after which he has about forty-five
minutes free. An hour of religious study succeeds this, followed by
evening prayer at 8:45; nine to eleven is left open for study. This
schedule doesn't allow time for the various lectures, activities and
clubs which the brothers are involved in.
Revolution! This is the only possible way to overcome tht:,,c
obstacles; evoiution just won't do. But, where will that lead
u
s: "To
know how to free oneself
is,
nothing; the arduous thing
is
to know
what to do with one's freedom
.
"
The way "the brothers'' are referred
to
by some people
,
you
'
d
swear we were some sort of species.
I
am an individual, flesh and
blood, body and soul, who is a Christian, a member of society, a
student nt Marist College, and Marist Brother. My principle pur-
pose in life
is
to try and make my life more meaningful for myself,
and
if
possible to effect others by
it.
Two weeks ago
l
wroce an article for
The Circle
presc1,ting an
exagerated look at my semester i11 a seminary.
It
was
not intended _to
be an accurate p
i
ctur~ of the school day or of the students daily
behavior. Since
I
ink·nded
110
malice or disrespect the
r
eaction to
the article on the part
of
some individuals on campus was and still
is a surprise
to
me.
It
has been htought to my attention that
some me
m
bers of
the
cOllege community interpreted the article
in
que.,tion to
be
a
slur,
an attack, a condemnation of Saint Philip Neri and the students
who attend the school. Since nothing could be further from the
truth and since I regard the School of Saint Philip Neri and
its
saideilts
so highly,
1
feel compelled to write again.
The
school
of
Saint
Philip Neri needs no defense since its
accomplishments during the past twenty years speak for themselves.
As
of
September
1965
nine hundred graduates
of
this
one year
preparatory school
have
been ordained and fourteen hundred
alumni
are now studying in seminaries throughout the country.
Men from eighteen to .forty-five come from every part of the
continental United States
at
the reguest of their Bishop or seminary
rector
.
Every student has been rejected by a seminacy fo
r
acedemic
reasons resulting from a lack of/or deficiency in Latin
.
This
common bond seems to overpower each student and fosters a spirit
of hatemalism that 1s unknown even
In
a mafur
.,.,,uimuy.
"Work one hundred percent, pray one hundred percent, and
leave the rest to God"
is
probably the best way
to
express the stu-
dents creed. Studies, were hard but never overpowering; rules were
strict but never domineering; the day was long but never boring.
We rose at 7:00
A.M.
Breakfast and morning prayers begun
at 7 :30 A.M. Classes begailt at 9: 10
A.
M. with two hours of Latin.
In the semester
I
was there, we finished high school Latin I and
Caesar
'
s Gaelic Wars and still had time for a week of review. Fol-
lowing Latin classes we attended community Mass and then had
lunch. English class began at 12:00 P.M. and ended at 1:00 P.M.
The course was closely related to the Latin studies and stressed
grammar and syntax. Four days a week we had classes in our sec-
ond language, French or Greek, and two days a week we had
a.
Theology course which stressed the study of the sacraments. As
electives we could choose either communications, a study in methods
of preaching, or music appreciation, a survey of classical composers
which included visits to see the Boston Sympliony.
In addition, a
number of students took courses in Philosophy at Boston College
.
After classes most of the students got in some recreation or
relaxation. Dinner was served at 5:00
P.M.
and was followed by
rosary and the Litany of the B
l
essed Mother. Mandatory study
period was observed from 6:45 until 9:45
P.M.
all
noise ceased
and silence was observed. Lights went out at 11:00 and the day
w
as
over.
By
.Brother Pat Sullivan
by Phil Pensiero
There has been a great aeal ot meL"tings, formal and informal,
going on discussing the apathy or activism of the students, as
well
as tne taculty. There
has been plenty of dialogue over the past
year and it is now
n
ecessary before the school year
ends
that the,e
be some tang,bie result of all this
talk.
Que9tioifs have been raised
over uncontested governments seats, lack of attendance at cu,tural
get-togethers, such
as
exhibits and plays, the irregu
l
arity and poor
writing of the scha«>l paper,
ana
also the obscure communication
which exists between
Jay
students and student brothers. One
further question put
up
for thought and action
•is,
"Are the br-0thers
rdigious first or students first?" '"'What
is
the purpose and effect of
having them on campus? ..
Nepotism has been revealed
in
the 1£vcning Division Student
Council; however, there
have
been no complaints received to
date.
The student brother is .supposed
to
be
a
leader, for
h
e
will
guide thousands of boys as a teacher. Yet
it
is only in the past
year,
with the Teacher Education program hat he will have some prep-
aration for his life's work. Nonethe
l
ess, on
the
campus little leader-
ship qualities are IT)anirested by the studen
t
brother among his
peers,
religious or la.y. ls this
•
apathy or has he been -prohibited from
acting in some of the college activities?
l'm not sure
.
The brothers
arrive at the college
as a class and leave as a class; not often does
one stand out.
Donald
R.
Gemmel and Mich-
ael
N.
Gemmel
are
a father and
son team who sit
in as
represen.
atives to the
E'l-iening
Division
Student Council. Don ( the ta-
ther)
is a
Business major and ex
-
pects to finish his nndergraduate
work in 1970. Mike ( the son)
is a Math major and has a target
date
of
1968
for
completion
of
his
undergraduate studies.
Mike
is a
transferee to the Evening
Division from the Marist College
Day Division.
There is also
the point that the student brother can do
little
with the lay students- outside of class or oocasional athleuc events.
The student brother knows little of the activities
of
a resident
student, yet they live only
a
h
u
ndred yards apart.
Then
again,
little is known of
what goes on in the brother's residence.
Is -there an essential diffetence between a lay student
and a
student brothe
r
?
If
there
is,
is freedom or the degree
of
it,
that which
causes the difference?
I
don't know for sure,
I
freely chose the relig-
ious life professing vows of poverty, cbasity
1
and obedience to
Christ.
The lay studen
t
fr
.
eely chooses the married
state,
to
have children,
-and to use his abilities as wel
l
as he can in
the
business world. This
is
a difference which seems
pretty basic to me. Through a different
orientation in
the one Christian life, one follows Christ
fo
a
more
inten9e manner than the other.
If
there
wer-e
not this difference,
the
number of lay studetits in
he
school system would
increase.
The effect of the student brotl1er
on; campus seems
very
small.
FROSH
STAGE
WALKOUT
conti
n
ued from page
2
He is prohib
i
ted from votin{r because he failed
to
pay a twenty-five
dollar activity fee, though he
is
called upon to plow snow
off
the
roack, fix pipes,
m
ainh!.in the college's
trucks and cars, and set the
stage for graduation. Where
is
the balance? These area
few
of
t
h
e-
more prominent joh. undertaken
hy
the student brother Ior which
he
r
eceives no pay, nor does
he
expect ti'>
be paid for
such
work, no
r
does
he desire to
be-
paid
.
feel
it is the desire of
a large
portion
of
my class. Although
the elections were not publicized
as well
as they could have been,
·
'
·
the Election Committee suffic-
iently advertjsed for any cand-
idate
who
sirtcerly desired to
obtain
this position."
Stephen
Curto: "At first
I
thought that there was
a great
lack
of
interest on the part of
the
Freshman class in the Smdeut
Council.
I
was
then surprised to
find
out how many students
were really interested, as evi•
denced by the class meeting.
Ju
this kind of election was what
I
really wanted,
l'm
in
full
sup-
port of it."
In
a collep;e,
a.:n
exchange of ideas is vitally
necessary. Ile
wno
refuses to speak or -even to listen
does
nothelong.
If
there
is
a
worth-
while idea or complaint
to
be made
let it be known by
a
ll.
If
anyon
e
feels
he
has a contribution
to
malce concerning the srudent
b
rother
-
lay
studeot relationship, let
him
spea'k
out.
Several -ehanges are in the
wind regarding
M
arist
'
s
physica
l
layout
,
While they
are
all in the
tentative stage of development,
and very little definitely can be
said about any of tbem, there's
a
very good chance that many
will
come
to pa.~s.
Here's
a sum
-
mary of
a
few of the planned
alterations,
The most unpo•
,
tant project in
the.
works is the addition of a
third
floor to Donnnlly
Ho.II
.
Th<a>
College
is
asking the Federa
l
Government, under the Higher
Education Act of
196.5,
for a
grant of $900,000 to construct
it.
together with additional funds to
furnish the new rooms. Marist
submitted its plans on February
15; now it's up to the Govern
-
ment to decide how much they're
going to grant us,
jf
anything.
The plans call for a circle of
classrooms around the circum•
frence of the buliding; inside
this, there will be another circle
composed of faculty offices and
lounges. There
will
be
passage
-
ways between these faculty
rooms, connecting the classs
rooms with the main corridor,
which
will
run in still
_a
third
circle next to the faculty offices.
Inside the main corridor, to-
wards the center of the building,
there will be another circle of
Wrnltiition
tacu!ty
otlices. Nothing
will
be
built over the present lecture
halls and library.
Several smal1er chang_es have
also
been
proposed. They wQµld
entail the following moves. 'fhe
bookstore would move to Cham-
pagnat, next to the Jlathskeller.
The p
r
,$ent bookstore would
be-
come
the
language lab, and the
bookstorl' supply -rooms would
be
given to Bro. Adrian
fo-r
lib-
Iary
m,c,
Tl,i:,
vfflce- "~"c;,e in
Lower Donnelly would becom.e
an Audio-Visual Center and/or
the Teach-er
'
~ Education Head-
guarters. The area
by
the vend-
ing machines, include classroom
157, would be given over
to
the
Psychology Depart;ment for a lab
and offices.
The
old
caf
eterla
area would become the new
Biology lab, with the Chemistry
and Physics departments split-
ting the o
l
d Biology lab between
them. Finally, Adrian l.ounge
wo~d become an office area.
The
Bunness
0:-fice,
Registrar,
.
Recorder, Bro
.
Ailus, and Mr
.
Pa~·elco would all
be
loc.ited
,
there, among others.
These are some o! the pro-
posed changes in Marist's phy-
sical set-up. Nothimz's certain as
yet, but we certainly should
be
seeing some of them in the near
futnrl'!
Neil Bisbee: "l have resigned
fr<.>m
my position on the Student
Council because
a
large number
of
my
fellow students indicated
th.at they Ielt they had been de.
nied the opportunity to
run
by
insufficient advertising
of
the e-
lections. Althou1?h
I
am not in
a-
gr~ement with tlrese sentiments.
I have resigned and reopened
the
candidacy to assure myself
and my
Ielluw
~luU.<>.uU
lhal ju;,-
tice was done in the ca
m
paign."
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THE
CIBCLE
March 00, 1966
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M
ARIST SP
E
AKS
Two years ago there was a rumor flying around about an article
in the "New. York Times" having announced that
if
Marist CoUe~e
would continue to grow as it had been, a short ten years would
earn
it
the reputation of a ''miniature Harvard." True or false, the
story never got anywhere, simpiy because nobody believed it WeU.
to quote a rather university accepted moci,
.
·t
American poet, ~Tne
Times They Are a'Changin'," and heaven help the Marist that lags
behind. But, apparently, heaven's he
l
ping, for a sudden onslaught
of causes and effects, actions and reactions, and libera
l
s and con-
servatives have begun to open up and opera
t
e on the college's here•
tofore unnurtured wounds.
The origin of the inward. outward. and upward movement is
obscured now by the passing
·
months.
It
may have been Frank
Kosik's first condemnation of the entire body. It might be the en-
thusiasm, imagination, and initiave of Dr. Oswald LeWinter com-
bined with the interest, investigation, and consequent anguish of Br.
Daniel
Kirk.
But why bother with origins? At the moment, the
combination of aU three
has taken the entire community out of
a twenty")'ear collegiate nap, and it would be a wise move on the
part of the student body to make sure that it doesn't crawl h
:-
ck
into bed. Once out of the bunk, it or he or they or maybe WE can
force ourselves out of the room·, that comer of the campu~ w~
'
ch
we, too, have been condemning it all with something akin to "Who
gives a damn," and realize the excitement of changin' times.
Dissatisfaction exists to be taken advantage of. With dissatis-
faction comes disagreement; with disagreement. rlehate; with del-i<1te,
a cause;
with
a cause, courage
;
with couraf(e, a foi;ht; and with fight
comes pride - - pride in the victor for havin~ won, and in the loser
for
having fought well. Marist can have this pride. There are so
manv vanta~e points from which to beiz:in: the food, the chaplain,
the bookstore
,
the faculty, the admin
i
stration, the cut system, the
comps, and on
and on .. ,
Why limit dissatisfaction's e,.-pression to a late, local, m-called
"bull-session?" What's the purpose? What
is
the ourpos"'? There's
one around here somewhere. Find it, Marist, because without it
you're a big nothing. And there's no room in life for nothing.
J\OOUt
tile teach-in:
wuwt
Obvious
l
y the biggest in.euectual
event ever to lut our ioveiy campus,
it
showed Marist
s
~s.uuen
t
apatnyN
hounds that 1ack ot interest and initiative cannot be the
30.l
e
source
ot
whatever problems
we
have. The Ad Hoc
Uomnutfoe
neec
s
htt!e praise trom any outs1aer.s, as
.viarcn ~.
ltltJd,
m
toto,
was
more o!
a
tribute to their &forts than we could ever give theIIL
L
ast
report$ Jrom
J
im Monison
and
t.eorge
·
Ge1ter say
that
most
of
the more involved
members
dragged _themselves through forty or
more consecutive welcing hours. Congratulations to Freshman class
president,
Jim
Brady, who supplJed
last
m.lnute arrangements by
rounding up
lo.5
frosh volwiteers, inclading ushers, parking lot
attendants, and messengers. Some of these '6ikrs worked
all
night
( 3
/
21/00)
seeing th.at these important details were taken care of.
Not everything ca-n be praise, though, for
we
noticed that
during
the
course of the big event, a number of Marist intellectuals
tried listening to the speakers
from the
pool room. Guess you could
call
it
typical of- the modem
Amerfoan
student's continued attemp
t
to ac:complish as much as possible ( business and plea
s
ure) in one
silting
.
Nice tty,
fellas,
but
we
wondered whether or not the sound
of
the game actually
enhance<l
th(\
echo
from afar of the speakers.
Well ...
it
was- a
teach-in,
and
we
do have
a
system of r~_ponsible
attendance.
Mr. Milton Teichman, a devout Jew, cancelled
his afternoon
literature dass saying that "a teach-in isn
'
t an everyday occurence
around hcrrc." lie
llbv
IJltmtionec.l that
it
we>uld probably
be
of
greater educational benefit to the members of his class. Dr. Kosik,
who has this thing about Jews on campus, apparently thought that
his daily soliloquy would be more valuable. So who's the better
Christian? Better yet: who's the better educator?
On what turned out to be a not so typicnl Tuesday morning,
Dr. Ozwald LeWinter and a small grouo of students sat 11uietly
sipping coffee in the Rathskeller. The conversation, ce
n
tered around
student interest
,
hit upon the subject of teach-ins, and the idea of a
Marist Teach-In on Viet Nam saw the first light of ex'stanr-e. Fifteen
minutes later, one thousand dollars had been pledged and the search
for top-name speakers was begun. Throup;h personal contacts and
the contacts of th.ese contacts, names like John David Lodge, Staue;h.
ton Lynd, and
A.J.
Muste rose to the surface. Within two days,
Richard Nixon, Dean Rusk, and others were talking about •our
teach-in"; a tribute to the gargantuan undenaking of a "small time"
college.
Uommittees were formed. and with a nucleus of eight or ten
men, over one hundred students donated their services. Publicity,
finance, correspondence, communications; all had to be taken care
of and students, were found who were willing to carry these tasks
out.
The original aim of the teach-in was to give opposing views
of the situation in Viet Nam, but hawks soon began to outnumber
doves.
In an e£J:ort to eorrect this problem, Dr. LeWin.er and William
Morresey, on a
very
limited budget. caught
a
train late
.in
the even-
ing of March
16
for
Washington
D.C.
Arriving late the nexl
morn
-
ing, with only
one contact,
they
began
a door pounding campaign
that soon gave
them the
title
of
the most dynamic two man lobby
in the nation's capitol. :Bypassing the usual protocol, they
gained
interviews with the aides to
the
President, the Secretary
of
State,
and with the r.epresenatives of 'many Senators. One of the
most
in-
teresting interviews
was
with
Senator lno.uy.e,
of
Hawaii. Due to an
a4ead
overcrowded
schedule, the
Sen'1tor
was
W1able
to
attend,
but
bl;:
did pass a:i
hour and a
half
cordially discussing
foreign
trade
with
our represenatives. Although the trip to Washington did
not produce a speaker, it
was
one of the most effective good will
campai~ that M-arist has ever staged. We may y.et! attain national
recognition
I
The final format of the Marist Teach-In
was
agreed upon at
approximately 4 a.m. Tuesday morning, much
to
the
relief
of
the
whole committee.
That
word
"
committee",
hy
the
way
should
in-
clude aJI those- who
h
elped in any way to make the event wnrthy
of
the sincere compliments
that
were lacing
the
campus.
These
men deserve much more than a small article in The Circle, for
throu~h
the teach-In,
thev have given
Mar~t
her greatest laural.
Gentlemen:
many
thanks!
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TliE cmcLE
TH
E CIRCLE,
the official newspaper of Mar{st
College.
oughkeepsie Campus is edited and published bi-weekly
by
an
n the interest of the students of Marist Co
ll
ege, :Poughkeepsie,
ew York
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Jitn
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Charles
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Feature Editor
News
Editor
S1'Q1'~s .Edi;tor
arry Ryan,
Copy Editor;
Pat
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eter M. Walsh,
Political Editor;
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FACULTY Af)VlSOR
Dr
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Ceorl?e Sonmer
anti
A
Cast of Thousands
LETTERS
'
!Rivet
fDay
'66
Dear Editor,
The Hudson River was
im-
por,ant even before Marist
grac-
ed its shores
.
The historic Hud-
son
valley
is
one of
nature's most
beautiful sigllts and it
is
the
duty
-of eaeh }.larist student to
take advantag~ of thjs preciOU
$
girt. This lett<'I', then. is au open
invitation to
the
student body to
join in
the
celebration
of
"1\iv1::r
Day"'.
The fostivities have been con-
scientiousl
y
plan1led by a group
of hard working
Juuiors. Guest
spealcers. have been procured
and there are pJans to honor the
•River ~Jan of the Yt'ar
"
who
will
he
choseu by
~
11011-biased
committee
.
"'River Day"
,
it is hoiwd
,
wiJJ
become
a
'°"i.>at
und
lastinit
tni
-
dition at itai'iM.
,
.\lthou~ll
many
of the students have rusl1t·d tht'
season, a hirgt' tnrn out is
t".~
-
pected for tlu.•
"
offic:iaf"
'
Q})tmi11g
of
the river
.
Th.; du te
wilJ
l>t'
anuounced. Don't m
i
ss it!
It
·
should
be
a
worthwhile exper
•
ience.
Brian Chmcv
V'lkief
fP11aiseJ
Dear Editor,
As
the recent elections fade
into
the records, both the win-
ners -and the losers have bad to
make
a re--evaluation
of
thcm-
1lelves. When interviewed, they
gave
their opinions on ~he , uture
of the Student
Covemment and
their
role
in
it. .
.
.
.
.
. . .
. . .
John Zottoli, ran u11success•
fully
for
the Vice
Preside11oy.
said in a statement for the press,
"-Bob's program for action and
Bill's
plans
for
cooperation
set
the goals for tltis y
e
ar's
Stut]1;-nt
Government-. To Bob
and BUI I
offer my
co11~atulations and
best wishe5
for success." As to
his own
futute
plans,
Mr.
Zottoli
replied that he
will
settle down
t
o his studies and other varied
interests.
Bill Urkiel, Vice-President el-
ect.
said that
his
main objective
for the present is the establish-
ment of new student~aculty real-
zation of the main aspects of
liberal arts schools. lie also wish-
e~
that
th.$
5tudent
body
take
11,
more active interest io the
work.
of the council.
Name Withheld
Cor,g1zatulatioijs
Dear Editor,
Ed. on behalf of the publicity
committee and the whole Ad
Hoc Committee, we would like
to
thank
you for your indespen-
sible nelp on last Tuesday at the
Teach-hi. Without the whole
hearted c..-ooperation of your staff
our operations would not have
been
Ill!'!
half as smoothly.
Again, special tbanks to you,
Charley, George, Tim,
Mike,
Bob, and anyone
else
we happen•
ed to
overlook
J
im
a.nd CeoTge

















March 30, 1966
General Bernard Yoh being if\teroiewed at Teach-in.
The Frobisher
Bay
Volunteers provu:led entertainment
at
Tuesday's
Teach,.ln.
~
SEMINIIRY ....
continued from page 8
The day was wisely spent, as
you
can see, and in most cases
the time before and after class was used to review and prepare for
the
following
day.
l
must admit that
I
have found the work here at
Marist harder and
the
pressures greater than at Saint Philip's.
I could
never praise
the faculty
or
students
at Saint Philip
Neri
enough
for their dedication and committment to the life they
are living. I cherish the memories I have of my semester there and
I
feel
tha~ for me it was most benificial. Then
and
now I can
truly
say
''Bonum est hie nos esse."
THE CIRCLE
Page 5
M
r
.
Dennis SfJeaks as Derek Milk
looks
on.
"'Catholic Worker"
pacifist
in
one
of
her
silent moods.
Professor LeWinter, Mr. Paxton, and
friend.













































Page6
THE CIRCLE
March
30, 1966
MARIST SLANT ON SPORTS
THEIR FAULT OR OURS?
In
the past few semesters, there has been
a
growing opinion
among our student body that the lack of scholarships and/ or
th~
coaches are to blame for our inadequac,'Y in sport Just who is at
fault? None other
than
these same people who hold this opinion.
As
for the first given reason,
-
the
lack of scholarships: Marist
is a growing school and, as we
all
know, growing has its pains.
P
e
rhaps the greatest of these
p
a
ins is the limited budget that
each department has to work
w
i
th, especially the athletic de-
partment. Their -task has been a
gr
eat one
:
expand athletic par-
ticipation with limited funds.
If
th
e
school were to have just
one
t
e
am,
all
scholarship players,
w
ould we, the student body, l;ie
sa
tisfied? Certainlv not. Yet we
ar
e the first to criticize the de-
pa
rtment that has done a re-
m
arkable job in fielding as many
varsity teams as we have-and
all
this on a budget that
wouldn't even be meal money
for
~
big-time university team.
The second reason
for
our
"supposed" inadequacy ( and I
would like to comment on this
later ) is directed toward our
coaching staff. Yet this
is
always
the case, at a large university or
a small college, when the losses
outnumber the victories. True,
our athletic staff might have
some inadequacies, but rem
e
m-
ber
the job that is theirs. They
haven't given up; doesen't
it
seem
that we have taken the in-
itiativ
e in this action.
Just what can be done to rem-
dy
the present situation? The
answer lies primarily with us.
We have all heard that team
support
is
essential to a winning
club. Of the
17
losses suffered
by our basketball team, approx-
imately half were by less than
8
points. And that's without team
support ( although Lourdes gym
ls
quite small, there were many
unoccupied rows). How many
decisions could have been re-
verseil we1l never know, but one
thing is certain: support was
lacking.
This lack of support has be-
come a trademark
of
,he
Marist
· student body in all school events.
Clubs sponsor events to ha!f-
filled rooms, the crowds at our
soccer matches leave one to won-
der if Marist had a student body
over
100,
our cross-country team
wins a championship on their
own; and these are only a few
examples. Perhaps the greatest
display of student support was
evidenced that memorable last
weekend in October. Over half
of our residents had •valid"
rea-
sons for going home; those who
remained are to be commended.
They saw the greatest sports•
weekend in our school's young
history. Those
that
left then, and
those who have continued to stay
away
from
other
athletic events
up to date, well . . . they're not
worth talking _about.
Now let
us
concern ourselves
with our "varsity .. athletes. Are
they really "Varsity" both in spir-
it
and actually giving their all?
This i9 their question to answer.
Caught between growing stu•
dent critism an true team devot-
edness,
which way do they go?
John
Casserly takes a few pointers from Coach. Arold for
the
big_ crew
1
etJSon which starts April
.2.
HM HA! 3'edl
By Wally Abrams
•
- Hats off to Jim Wright who
ran the intramurall. baisketball
league. Many good
teams
- the
best we've seen at Marist - were
instrumental in making it
a
very
exciting season.
• • The volleyball intramurals are
being conducted at this writing.
The freshmen seemed to domin-
ate the initial games, probably
because of their practice in Phvs.
Ed.
However, I look for "St.
Joe's" la!.1: year's winners to come
_
out on
_
top.
- - Softball intramurals are only
a few weeks away. Disregarding
the fros
.
h teams, whose talents
are not yet to be tested,
tne
favorites are the old men of
"J.
F.K."
combined with some of
last year's "Spectre" outfit, as
well as a well grouped Soph
team headed by Jim Costa. The
faithful perennial losers are also
back, namely "The Celtics",
"Murray's All-Stars .. and ""Ine
Crust of the Earth ...
A Look At The
Weightlifting Club
by Charley Dunn
On April 2, the Amateur Ath-
letic Union
will
sanction the An-
nual Dutchess County Weight-
lifting Championship
here at
Marist. The three olympic lifts -
press, snatch, and clean and jerk
- will be jud~ed. Last year
the
Marist Weightlifting Club
won
by a
15 to
11 margin.
·
The meet will feature former
Nationals Intercolligiate Cham-
poin in the
148
lb. division
and
the Junior Nationals Champion
in the
165
lb. division, Dave
Norton. Also appearing
will
be
Ted Ritzer from Dutchess Com-
munity College who placed third
in the
165
lb. class in the state
championships.
Marist, led by captain Mike
Ward, is loolcing for another win
in this meet. The probable star-
ters for Marlst will be:
Chuck Howlett - 123 lb.
Tony M-0rrell
-
132
lb.
Rick Danowski -
HS
lb.
Mike Ward
-165
lb:
Joe Cherepowich -
198
lb.
Frank Hempton -
198
lb.
Dom Bollella -
198 IJ,.
Joe White - Unlimited
Bob Savoy- Unlimited
Appearing in an official capac-
ity will be Murrev Levin,
the
Metropolitan
Weightlifting
Chairman of the A.A.U.; Morris
Weisbrot, the National Secretary
of the A.A.U., and Rudv Sabio,
the National Chainnan
~f
the
A.
A.U. Assistin~ with the judl!ing
and
scoring
wt1I
be two members
of
Mr. Levin's committee.
An
important meet featurin~ area
chamoions comnetin~ a~ainst the
Marist
1
.v·eil!htliftinl? Club this is
one not to
be
missed.
•
Dick Fichter lines
up
shot
as
he tries
for
championship
at
M
arisl
College Pool Tournament.
REVEREND A
.
.
J.
MUSTE
SPEAKS AT TEACH-IN
continued
from page 2
One of America's most active preachers of peace is the Reverand
A.J
.
Muste. Now
in
his
eighties, Reverand Muste
has
been partici-
pating in and organizing demonstrations for over thirty years. The
most famous of his protests took place during the atomic bomb tests,
when he sailed a boat into the
Bi:kini
Atolls and delayed the tests for
thirteen days. As head of The Fellowship for Reconciliation, and
later as its secretary, the Reverand Muste has organized many protest
demonstrations, among them a peace m~ch from San Francisco to
Moscow, atom bomb protest ships in the Pacific and the Baltic. the
picketing of the French nuclear tests in the Sahara, and many dem-
onstrations at the United Nations.
The most recent activity of Reverand Muste was the organiza-
tion of the Nov. 6, 1965 Draft Card Burning in Union S(!uare, New
York City. This demonstration received nation-wide publicity be-
.
cause it was the first violation of the newly passed Federal law for.
bidding the mutilation of draft cards. The five men who burned thei
r
cards were indicted, but Muste commended them for their courage,
saying that
if
there were more card burners "it would not be possible.
for this society to wage war - a glorious day for us and mankind."
Assured and soft spoken, Reverand Muste opened
his
speech by
saying that he was not here to argue with the other speakers, but
in
the
'
hope of giving the audience a few more ideas abou •the Viet
Nam crisis. He
•
believes that most Americans have the impression
that the U.S.
is
fighting for
a
just cause and that we are pited agairu:t
our
mos~
dangerous foe - Communism. Reverand Muste holds that
this is not the point. The point is the wanton devastation that this
war is creating. He makes it clear that he does not defend Com-
munism and its violent methods of warfare, but neither does he con-
done America's disregard of their part in the destruction. We are as
responsible as they, and he uses the atomic bombing of
W.
W.II
to illustrate his point.
The audience
was
then asked to imagine their reaction
t
o C
hi
-
nese occupation of Cuba. Reverand Muste stated that if we b
e
li
ev
e
we are holding back the
,
tide of Communism, the Chinese m
ay
b
e
-
lieve that they are stopping the advance of expansionist Ameri
ca.
A
situation like this, if left alone in he Nuclear Age, can lea
d on
l
y
to total war.
The solution? According to Reverend
Muste, the first
ste
p
is
America's -abandormient of the popular concept of conflir-
\
a
nd
th
e
realization of the amoral elements of this war which mark th
e o
nl
y
route to peace. The war cannot end unless we apply the p
rope
r
moral attitude to our foreign policy. Reverend Muste's feeling
s
t
•c>-,
wards
war
can be summed up with a statement made in the b
e
ginn-
ing of his speech: "My position
is
not pro-Peking
OT'
pro-Moscow
any more than it is pro-Washington. My position
is
anti-war
an
d
1ro-mankind."


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