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THE PAPER

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Publication of the A sociated Student Body College for Men University of San Diego

PRICELESS

ALCALA PARK, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 23. 1958

Vol. I. No. 2

CAMPUS HONORS POPE OF PEA CE Wearing academic regalia for the first time as a group, the entire student body of the College for Men assisted at a solemn pontifical Mass of requiem for Pope Pius XII last Tuesday in the Women's College chapel. The new academic garb, a must for future assemblies, was a gift from Bishop Charles F. Buddy, University president.

Get to Know Your Faculty By BARRY VINYARD Msgr. John L. Storm likes his job. He's the president of the College for Men and one of the best-known priests in San Diego. As a public rclationb man, he's a member of so many clubs and organizations and is so in demand as a public speaker that he seldom gets a chance to enjoy his brand- new apartment on the third floor of the library building. "I get a chance to cat at home only two or three nights a week," he says. The busy life, however, seems to agree with him, as he says, "My present position is a thrilling ex- perience, particularly since pres- ent-day education has so many in- volv ments." Monsignor Storm was raised in Altoona, Pa., and was graduated from St. Francis' College there in 1939. He got his master's degree in English from Niagara Univer- sity in 1951 and an LL.D. honori• cau1a from the ame university in 1956. Monsignor Storm has taught English and religion at St. Fran- cis', Niagara, Seton Hill and Gan- non Colleges. Turn to P. 3, FACULTY

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The Mass was offered by Bishop Buddy, assisted by the president of the School of Theology, Msgr. William A. Bergin. The sermon was preached by Fr. J. Walshe Murray, professor of philosophy. The chapel, a sea of cap and gown, was filled to overflowing by a congregation of 800 students from the Men's and Women's Col- leges and Immaculate Heart Semi- nary, together with 100 faculty members from the four campus units. In a voice of authority, Father Murray preached an 1nsp1rmg panegyric in which he likened the life of Pius, Pope of Peace, to the life of Christ, Prince of Peace. "Their lives were parallel," he said, "in that both fought for peace and both suffered conflict. Both spent themselves for the world." that peace was the theme of Pope Pius XII's first public address as Pope and his first encyclical letter. He outlined the Pope's famous five- point plan for peace, issued to the world in his Christmas message of 1939, the year he was elected. The points were: each country's right to national independence; necessity for a mutually agreed and adequately supervised plan of disarmament; the need for an in- te rnational institution to safeguard peace; protection of minorities in justice and charity; and a moral and spiritual reawakening through- out the world. Father Murray concluded by quoting the Pope's summary of his impressions of the American peo- ple after his U.S. tour as Cardinal Secretary of State in 1936-a peo- ple "so young, so sturdy, so glor- ious." Father Murray urged his Father Murray recalled

student audience to live up to this description. Assisting the Bishop at the throne were Fr. Cornelius Cronin, professor of Spanish, and Fr. Thomas Egan, secretary of the dio- cesan matrimonial tribunal. Dea- con and subdeacon were Fr. An- thony Chylewski, seminary bursar, and Fr. John Quinn, professor of dogmatic theology. The seminary choir was directed by Fr. John Gallagher, professor of Gregorian chant. DISK JOCK KNOCKS ROCK By BILL HAGEN Elvis would probably gyrate right out of his tank if he sus- pected there were some radio an- nouncers who didn't consider his records among the finer things in life. Gcntri with an i doesn't. KFSD's articulate 31-year-old "josh disky" spoke at last week's Associated Student Body meeting. Gentri is a man of integrity, one who knows that he has a responsi- bility to his listening public even though some Madison Avenue mag- nates don't agree. Fortunately for the public he works for "a station with integ- rity" in an age when integrity is a refreshing thing. Refreshing, but not nourishing. Gentri said that it could be pretty difficult keeping a family well fed on a steady diet of integrity. He doesn't want to be considered a crusader. This short, olive-com- plexioned Italian doesn't look like a crusader, at least not the MGM model. He just thinks that it will be a better thing if the public lifts its intellectual standards a little, rather than have the entertain- ment media descend to what the hucksters call "the 11-year-old mental age of the public." In his efforts to make radio a little more cultural, he refuses to play "glop," or rock and roll, which he calls a "commercialized version of rhythm and blues."

WHO'S INEUGIBLE?-Pioneer mascot Jack Burro and friends take part m extra-curricular activity o.t Balboa Stadium home- coming celebrations. From left, Joe Mountain, Barbara Jordan,

Ralph Kost. Jack is bridled.

'Active' Students Need '(' Average standards and proper propor- tion between curricular and Full-Scale Visit * To .insure high academic \ * *

extra-curricular work, all stu- dents engaged in extra-curri- cular activities must maintain a grade average of C. This announcement came last week from Fr. Russell Wilson, dean of Arts and Sciences at the College for Men, University of San Diego. A weekly grade report, he said, will be required from all instruc- tors to "advise the Administration of the academic progress of those men who arc giving extra hours for the success of school organi- zations and programs." Involved are 128 students: ath- letes and actors, joiners and jour- nalists. Grade reports will be returned to the Admissions Office every Wednesday. The method by which a grade is determined "is left to the t~acher's discernment," Father Wilson said. "cumulative." For example, if at the end of the first five weeks of a semester a student has a good grade in some subject and then does badly in the sixth week, his grade at the end of the sixth week will not be the grade for that week but for the whole period of six weeks. An overall cumulative C aver- age is the minimum standard grade that every student should main- tain, the Dean said. "Any 'active' (extra-curricular) student who falls below this mini- mum standard," he declared , "will be considered ineligible to parti- cipate in extra-curricular activi- ties until his cumulative weekly grade again averages C." Last week's score of ineligible was six. He explained that the grade report would be

For Accreditation Is Recommended A full-scale visit by an accredit- ing committee of the Western Col- lege Association has been recom- mended for the College for Men, University of San Diego. The recommendation, made to the Association's Commission on Membership and Standards, came from the two-man team that held a preliminary visitation of the Col- lege last week. Members of the team were: Dr. Mitchell P. Briggs, executive secre- tary of the Western College Asso- ciation; and Dean Raymond A. Rydell, member of the WCA Com- mission on Membership and Stand- ards. Dr. Briggs was formerly Dean of Instruction at Fresno State. Dean Rydell is Dean of In- struction at San Fernando Valley State. Their report said that on the basis of their preliminary visit they recommended that the WCA Commission on Membership and Standards "approve a request from the College for a formal accredita- lion survey." "We further recommend," the report continued, "that such a sur- vey be made soon enough to permit the report of the visiting commit- tee to be considered at the spring meeting of the Western College Association.'' The visitors expressed their "sin- cere appreciation" to the Univer- sity President, Bishop Charles F. Buddy. and to other College offi- cials for "their hospitality, coui·- lesies and cooperation m our visit."

MSGR. STORM

Pup in Doghouse; Alligator Tanked most Parkers are, crept home their knowledge that Father Spain one 2 a. m. with two baby alli- himself, a dorm resident, had a gators, a gift from partying playful little pet pupp)', affection- friends. Her Manhattan apart- ately known to Father Spain as mcnt being fresh out of bay- "Tammy" and to the students as The Veep, however, assured the tle creatures into her bathtub students that Tammy would soon "the Veep's Bassett bitch." ous, she dumped the dear lit- By JAMES DEAN Dorothy P ark er, litte- decalogue included a ban on "pets rateuse and bonne vivante, as of any type." Their surprise stemmed from

Gentri with an i spoke of his training and education ("there's a difference") by the Jesuits of Fordham. He told a couple of jokes at the Jesuits' expense, while

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be out of his apartment and in the doghouse, a modern Spanish Re- naissance doghouse on the Veep's patio. Then along comes an alligator, an orphaned 7-inch alligator found tanked in the bathtub of Apart- ment 1301C. The name is Charlie. His owner, name discreetly with- held, says Charlie doesn't come under the ban against pets. Char- lie isn't a pet, he says, but a po- tentially vicious monster. "Anyho,v," says the o :vner, "there's no cause for worry. Char- lie won't be fully grown until I'm graduated, some time around 1984."

and went to bed. Noonish she arose and found that her colored maid, Lulu, had left her a scrawled message that read: "Dear Ma'am: I quit. I quit on account of I don't like alligators, even in bathtubs. I'd have mentioned this before but I didn't think the question would ever come up. Lu1u ." The alligator question came up this week at the Men's College new apartment dormitories on Goshen St. Summoned for a conference on rules and regulations by Fr. Wil- liam D. Spain, the administrative vice-presiden t, students were sur- prised to learn that the dormitory

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