The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1963 Page: 1 of 4
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Freshmen Man Barricades
Bonfire Draws Near
The St. Mary’s University an-
nual homecoming activities will
take place Friday, Dec. 6 and
Saturday, Dec. 7.
Events will begin to roll Fri-
day night at the Grand Ballroom
of the Granada Hotel where the
homecoming dance and the selec-
tion of the homecoming queen
will take place. Steve Walsh,
chairman of the dance for the
ing of floats will take place at
9:45 and the parade will com-
mence at 10 am. Runners from
various organizations will carry
the ceremonial torch, used in
igniting the bonfire, during the
parade. Also joining the milling
throng will be several high school
bands.
Students will gather around
the bonfire site at 6:30 pm be-
hind the gym and Student Health
Center for the annual conflagra-
tion and pep-rally. Bonfire chair-
man, Jim Lytton, has announced
that work on the bonfire has al-
ready begun and that guards will
be stationed to prevent tres-
passers from causing a repetition
of the pre-bonfire bonfires of the
past two years. The bonfire this
year has been designed by a
special student bonfire designing
team and will be constructed
mainly by freshmen with the
“assistance” of upper classmen.
VOL. 47
The
San Antonio, Texas
Interfraternity Council, has an-
nounced that bids for the dance
may be obtained for $3.50 per
couple including ‘refreshments.”
The dance will be from 8 to 12
midnight with two bands alter-
nating through the evening.
On Saturday morning, campus
organizations will participate in
the homecoming parade through
downtown San Antonio. “All or-
ganizations participating in the
parade should have their cars and
floats at the Municipal Auditor-
ium by 9 am,” urges Bill Rex,
chairman of the parade.
As in the past the student
council is furnishing blue and
gold crepe ribbons to those organ-
izations needing a final touch of
decoration on their floats. Judg-
First StMU
culty residence. He was 81 years
old.
The ministers of the requiem
mass were Very Reverend James
A. Young, SM, celebrant; Very
Reverend Louis J. Blume, SM,
deacon; and Father Charles Bla-
sen, SM, subdeacon. Master of
ceremonies was Fr. William
Wightman, SM. Thurifer and
acolytes were Bros. Jim Rogahn,
Ken Straubinger, Arne Koch, all
SM’s.
Bro. Paulin entered the Society
of Mary in April, 1899. He re-
ceived a bachelor of science de-
gree from the University of Day-
ton in 1910, a licentiate from the
University of Fribourg, Switzer-
land, in 1912, and a PhD from the
University of Texas in 1928.
Bro. Paulin was an instructor
in physics at St. Mary’s from
1912 to 1928 and was instrumen-
tal in converting St. Mary’s
from a high school-college com-
bination, to a full-time college in
1927.
From 1929 to 1949, Bro. Paulin
was inspector of schools for the
province of St. Louis. In 1950 he
was transferred to Chaminade
College, Hawaii, where he stayed
until December, 1962, when he
returned to St. Mary’s in retire-
ment.
Bro. Paulin would have com-
pleted 65 years in the Society of
Mary in April. He celebrated his
golden jubilee in 1949 and dia-
mond jubilee in 1959.
Burial was held in the brothers’
cemetery on campus.
Dean Dies
A solemn high funeral mass
was celebrated for Bro. Eugene
A. Paulin, SM, in Reinbolt chapel,
Saturday, Nov. 16. Bro. Paulin,
first dean of St. Mary’s died
Wednesday, Nov. 13, at the fa-
JUDGE ARCHIE BROWN addresses the gathering of alumni at the Annual Awards Dinner held in Alumni
Gym, Saturday, Nov. 9. Winners of the awards were Henry B. Gonzalez, Brig. Gen. Joseph J. Cody, Col.
Carl Crane, Henry Guerra, Leo Donahue and A1 “Pop” Sturchio. The main address of the evening was given
by General Cody.
Belated Start
Annual Gets New Lease on Life
Tri-College to Feature Mexican Dancers
The Tri-College Council will
present the ARC A Folk Dancers
on Dec. 2 at 7:30 pm in Thiry
Auditorium, Our Lady of the Lake
College. The donation will be
$1.00 a person.
ARCA (the Spanish initials for
“art” and “charity”) is a Chris-
tian Art Center located in Mor-
elia, Michoacan, Mexico, which
seeks to answer the challenge
that the rapidly developing soci-
ety of Mexico presents in the
world of art and communications.
It is dedicated to the promotion
of truly good Mexican Art.
The Center presently conducts
classes and activities in five sec-
tions of study: theater, dance,
music, literature and plastic arts.
The Dance section has the
largest enrollment of 300 stu-
dents. The department offers
classes in either of the two di-
visions, ballet or folklore. On
Dec. 2, San Antonians will see
members of the folk division.
Financed almost entirely by
donations,* a hard-working faculty
teaches 750 students on a tight
budget of only $400 a month.
Besides activities at the center
itself, ARCA maintains a scholar-
ship program which sends stu-
dents and teachers to the United
States for further education.
Claude Guerra and Randy
Smith; Richard Idar and Tony
Engbrock, and David Combs
and Ferdie Batot.
During the two-day festival,
the StMU team will be competing
with approximately 20 schools in
such events as bookreview, ex-
pository and persuasive speaking,
discussion and debate. In the in-
dividual events the persons com-
peting must be prepared to give
three expository or persuasive
speeches and be able to discuss
a book orally from three differ-
I ent points.
Two months of confusion
and indecision regarding the
fate of this year’s Diamond-
back ended last Monday, in
a final decision by the Exec-
utive council that the publi-
cation will be continued for
this school year.
This decision followed the
solution two weeks ago of a
problem that had remained in-
surmountable for five months—
the lack of a faculty moderator
for the yearbook. The position
one of the most demanding jobs
on campus—has been vacant
since Bro. Melvin Meyer, Dia-
mondback moderator for the
past three years, was trans-
fered last spring to Marynook
Novitiate.
Accepting it at last is Mr,
Charles Brown, director of the
StMU public information service.
In its action Monday, the Execu-
tive council accepted Mr. Brown’s
offer to moderate the Yearbook,
and simultaneously released a $7
thousand budget to begin work on
the publication.
FRUSTRATED STAFF
An unofficial Diamondhack
staff has been holding “fairly
regular weekly meetings,” since
the beginning of the school
year, according to Ben Sulten-
fuss, probable editor of the
yearbook, who organized the
group.
The staff has been taking oc-
casional pictures for the annual
using “a little surplus film left
over from last year,” but work
in earnest has been prevented
“by lack of funds,”. Sultenfuss
said.
“We haven’t done a tenth of
what we should have because
they haven’t allowed us to even
dip into the budget. For the last
month we have simply met and
talked: there has been nothing
else to do.”
Sultenfuss, a junior Mathe-
matics major, is frankly glum
about the effect of the two
months delay on the quality of
the annual: “Starting this late
it is going to be next to im-
possible to get out a college
yearbook worthy of the name.
Nothing can save us now but
a really big and enthusiastic
turnout in student help.”
He. suggested that “if the ad-
ministration can put that budget
money to better use, I wonder if
it wouldn’t be wise for them to
do it.”
CHAOTIC CRISIS
The chaotic history of this
year’s Diamonback crisis began
Debate Team
Engages In
Wild Duel
On Oct. 30, the debate
team from Southwest Texas
State Teacher’s College was
treated to a rather unortho-
dox (even for St. Mary’s)
welcome from the student
body. They were forced to
debate before a throng of
screaming, cap-gun shoot-
ing, whistling (the vulgar
variety) natives, who turn-
ed a normally academic for-
ensic activity into the wild-
est display of high spirits
and splendid school spirit
not seen in the moldy halls
of Reinbolt since the Grin-
gito revolt of ’44.
On November 14, the shoe was
on the other foot. St. Mary’s was
invited to come to San Marcos
to engage in a practice debate
with the Southwest Texas team.
StMU representatives were Rich-
ard Idar, Jim Lytton, Tom Nagy
and Randy Smith. The topic for
the debate was, “Resolved: That
the Federal Government should
make available an equal oppor-
tunity for higher education to all
high school graduates.”
last Spring, when Bro. Meyer
submitted a formal recommen-
dation that publication of the
yearbook be “discontinued.”
He supported his proposal by
citing “lack of student coopera-
tion, extremely limited production
staff, and difficulty in obtaining
faculty and student pictures,” as
obstacles to the production of a
yearbook “up to par with what
a college yearbook should be.”
The Academic council, meeting in
mid July to consider Meyer’s rec-
ommendation, decided to “refer
the question of continuing the
Diamondback to the Student
Council.” It was also stipulated
that if the Student Council voted
to continue the yearbook it must
provide “assurance” of “suffi-
ciently large staff, a faculty mod-
erator,” and “a quality yearbook.”
But it was not made clear
what kind of “assurance” was
wanted, or how the Student
Council was to give it. And
Council feeling on the matter
was expressed by its moderator,
Bro. Ralph Thayer, who said
that “it is not the function of
student council to assure or
maintain a yearbook.” In its
Oct. 17 meeting, the council
voted “approval” for the idea
of continuing the yearbook, and
set up a Diamondback “co-
ordinating committee,” but
warned that “the student coun-
cil does not wish to take full
responsibility for the publica-
tion.”
But even before the council was
informed of its duty to assure a
qualified Diamondback staff, a
staff of fifteen had begun week-
ly meetings. The difficulty in the
following weeks was the unex-
pected one of fiding a moderator.
The co-ordinating committee made
sporadic efforts to recruit one,
but in vain.
There matters rested until
Mr. Brown volunteered for the
position. Though little of the
“assurance” demanded of the
Student Council had been pro-
vided, the decision was appar-
ently made that a moderator
was enough.
ARCA DANCERS from Mexico will be featured at OLL on Dec. 2.
This topic will also be de-
bated on Dec. 6, when St.
Mary’s debate team will again
travel to San Marcos for the
Southwest Texas Teacher’s Col-
lege Forensic Festival. The
teams for the festival will be:
Tom Nagy and Jim Lytton;
HR Features
German Talk
Dr. Ludwig H. Mai, Dean of
St. Mary’s University Graduate
School and Director of the In-
stitute of International Rela-
tions, announced yesterday that
the Institute is sponsoring a
special guest speaker Wednes,-
day, Nov. 27th, at 9:00 am.
The speaker will be Dr. EI-
friede Mueller from Stuttgart,
Germany. Dr. Mueller will
speak on either European In-
tegration and Atlantic Partner-
ship or on the Federal Republic
of Germany—An Integral Part
of the United Europe in the
Making, subjects on which she
is considered an authority.
The public is encouraged to
attend this talk which will be
held in Chaminade Loupge.
An Emphatic “No”
Council Rejects NS A
The Student Council overwhelmingly crushed a motion to affiliate St. Mary’s with
the National Students Association (NSA) in its meeting of Thursday, Nov. 8.
The action to affiliate, proposed to th e council by Wayne Cox, went down in a
lopsided vote of thirteen to three.
No support for Cox’s motion
—which Cox himself opposed—
was expressed in the long debate.
But many voices were heard in
favor of postponing a final coun-
cil decision until student opinion
on the matter had been consulted
via referendum, and it was on
this question that most of the
discussion was centered.
The Council consideration of
the issue began with a report
on NSA by Bill Haley, chair-
man of a committee appointed
to investigate the organization.
Haley reviewed the arguments
which he said were “commonly
voiced both pro and con NSA.”
He listed the pro arguments as
“the services NSA renders in of-
fering scholarships to foreign stu-
dents for study in this country,
and to American students for
study and travel abroad, its serv-
ices in providing information to
students and student councils,”
and the fact that “NSA is the
only available structure for a na-
tional student organization in
America.”
Haley saved the con argu-
ments for last, and spent twice
Belka Speaks
At SEA Meet
The Louis J. Kocwiek chapter
of the Student Education Asso-
ciation held its first meeting on
Tuesday, Nov. 12, in Chaminade
lounge.
Bro. Marion Belka, SM, chair-
man of the education department,
spoke on the three existing teach-
er certification laws in the state
of Texas. Bro Belka also em-
phasized the great need to re-
cruit more teachers of quality.
The chapter is in the process
of setting up a program at Vic-
toria Courts Community Center.
The club will offer speakers on
how to study.
The SEA is a professional or-
ganization designed to produce
more qualified teachers for to-
morrow. Panel discussions will be
held at future meetings on Dr.
James Conant’s new book, “The
Education of the American Teach-
er,” and other topics pertinent in
today’s educational system.
The officers of the club are:
Rick Dieterle, senior math major,
president; Jamie Lynn Gutherie,
senior history major, vice-presi-
dent; Beulah Gayoso, junior his-
tory major, secretary; and A1
Miller, senior history major, treas-
urer.
HR to View
New Europe
The Institute of Interna-
tional Relations will hold its
fifth lecture of the 1963-64
lecture program, Friday,
Nov. 22, at 7 pm, in Rein-
bolt Auditorium announced
by Dr. Ludwig H. Mai, dean
of the graduate school. The
public is invited.
This will be the first of two
sessions devoted to a discussion
on Europe today. Dr. Mai will
introduce the program with a
discussion of “The Division of
Europe.”
Guest speakers will be Hon.
George Elliot, Houston, consul
general of Belgium, and Dr.
Edward Taborsky, professor of
government, the University of
Texas. Elliot will speak on
“The European Community and
Belgium” and Dr. Taborsky on
“Development in Eastern Eur-
ope.”
Dr. Taborsky, a native of
Czechoslovakia, fled Eastern Eur-
ope shortly after the Communist
take-over in 1948. He was assist-
ant to Eduard Benes, last presi-
dent of a free Czechoslovakia.
as much time on them. He be-
gan with the objection that
“NSA might have little or no
effect on the individual stu-
dents,” but he reserved most
of his emphasis for the charge
that “NSA is a predominately
liberal organization, and most
of its resolutions are in conflict
with the foreign policies of the
United States government.” He
submitted as an example of
NSA’s “very partisan slant”
the organization’s provision of
scholarship opportunities for
“Ghanian students who were
political enemies of Kwane
Nkruma, the left wing dictator
of Ghana.”
(Haley, asked by Rattler editor
Tom Harrell if he had “read all
of the NSA resolutions,” replied
that he had not. He was then
asked if he had seen “most” of
the resolutions. His reply was
again negative.)
Debate from the floor began
in earnest when the motion to
affiliate was presented. Opposi-
tion to the motion itself was un-
animous throughout the debate.
A major' theme of the opposi-
tion was voiced by Earl Gradley
who questioned whether “NSA
would do anything for the stu-
dent body to justify its cost, or
whether it will prove as ineffec-
tive in reaching and informing the
students as NFCCS.”
Wayne Cox reiterated the
political objection to NSA:
“This organization is extremely
liberal in its political positions,
and it cannot possibly claim to
represent the students of Amer-
ica ; it is a purely political
group, and there is no point in
denying it.”
A final objection, raised by
Steve Takas, was that “We have
enough problems to occupy our
attention here on campus, without
getting involved in some national
affiliation. If St. Mary’s can’t
organize itself internally, and
solve problems like that of the
yearbook, why should we join
NSA and tackle national prob-
lems ?”
But interspersed throughout
the anti-NSA arguments, and
dominating most of the discus-
sion, was the question on wheth-
er to put off the decision and
refer the issue to a student re-
ferendum.
Jim Hufstetler broached the
proposal for the referedum, sug-
gesting that “it would be wiser,
instead of deciding this point
within this very limited group, to
consult the students, and find out
their position. I don’t think the
council has the right to decide so
contested an issue as this by it-
self.”
Retorting to this, Wayne Cox
argued that the council was in
the position to make a more “in-
formed decision than the students
would be in a referendum.”
Last word went to Sam Bu-
chanan, former RATTLER edi-
tor, who denied that the coun-
cil was adequately informed.
“Our committee report on NSA
is incomplete,” said Buchanan,
“even Mr. Haley has admitted
this. Neither the opponents nor
the supporters of NSA have
really fully and formally pre-
sented their case before us to-
night. The council cannot make
an informed decision until all
the information is at hand, and
the chaotic quality of this de-
bate shows very clearly that
all the information is not at
hand.”
He pointed out that “if we had
a referendum, both sides would
be forced to present complete
and documented evidence for or
against affililation, and that is
what we have to have before we
can pass judgment on this issue.”
The calling of previous ques-
tion, however, forced voting on
the direct question of affiliation,
and the referendum issue died
with the predictable defeat of
Cox’s motion.
Council consideration of NSA
at a close, Bro. Ralph Thayer,
council moderator, made the fol-
lowing statement: “This issue
has now died thirteen to three.
There is a small group of stu-
dents that has been trying to
ram NSA down our throats.
We haven’t had a single con-
vincing argument all night as
to what we would get out of
this orgaization, and I don’t
think every trivial issue that
comes up should be submitted
to referendum.”
Bro. Thayer, an outspoken
opponent of StMU membership
in the National Student’s As-
sociation, continued: “If this
NSA question ever comes up
again, Mike (Dipp), you will
get a letter from me.”
YOU’VE GOT YOUR CRUSTY NERVE! I AM NOT
BOWLEGGED . . .
Trinity University cheerleader quizically considers Rattler
photographer during last Saturday’s College Day pre-game
rally at Alamo Plaza. The College Day event featured a horse
race (in which StMU Rattler Club came in second), a basket-
ball game and an inter-college dance.
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