News Scrapbook 1956-1959

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THE PAPER

Page 2 Athletes Academic R UTGERS University's senior tailback sensation, Billy Aust in, the nation's second highest offensive gainer last year , said recently, "At Rutgers, football is a part of college, not college a part of football." This is not the story at some colleges throughout the country. For some, King Football has become a ballyhooed extravaganza that is now Big Business. For these colleges, recruiting alumni badger and bargain with high-school stars and promise plush packaged deals-clothes and convertibles, sinecures and swindle sheets. Rutgers wasn't thinking along these lines when it helped invent the gridiron game in 1869. And neither is the Univer- sity of San Diego today. Yet the student sports editor at San Diego State College, in mourning his school's football weakness and de-emphasized program, wrote recently in his Aztec column that USD athletic director Bob Mccutcheon "sees football in its true light-Big Time Business." Apparently the State student editor is not aware of USD's stiffening entrance requirements, not aware that 104 out of 239 applicants were rejected this year because of poor grades. Apparently he hasn't talked to USD Booster benefactors who, because of poor academic grades, have had to discourage high-school football stars from applying to USD for athletic scholarships. Our athletic roster contains the names of some of the school's best students-C. G. Walker, Ken Leslie, Bill Clarke, Tim Wilbur, Merle Reed, to name a few. The very name "athletic scholarship" implies that a student is both athlete and scholar. A boy with athletic prowess has a right to use his physical talents to help him pay for the education of his intellectual talents. But his athletic gifts are a means to an academic end. He must preserve this scale of values. He must maintain his status as a scholar.. That is why we hearti- ly endorse USD's academic eligibility requirements for all athletes. community singing, wood shop or advanced highway cour- tesy. It means philosophy. It means history, literature, lan- guages, mathematics, science. It means education. Not all colleges subsidize aspiring athletes to play under pretense of going to college. Many great American insti- tutions of higher learning are graduating students whose manly characters have been nurtured and molded by foot- We said "academic." That doesn't mean folk dancing, of the sexes.

October 23. 1958

Fifth Colu1nn By PAUL BURTON

We sent our star reporter , Sophomore Arboreal, to cover a convent ion of apes this week. We wanted him to go out on a limb and nut out some of the missing links that might help people understand t he pre-election monkey bus- iness in t he United States. This was his tale: The world 's apes got together to solve the problems ca used by t he world's people, who had made monkeys of themselves t rying to create a just and lasting peace. Some of the delegates were most pessimistic. One ape co nten- ded that some apes meddl ed in the affairs of other apes too much as it was, and he didn't favor a ny meddling. Ile was wha t people called a "reactionary. " Anoth r delegate said he had e nough trou - ble minding his own busin ess and didn't propose to take on an y other ape's problems. He was dreadfully "Isolationist." Most uncooperative of all was an ape who maintained t hat you couldn't make a good banana pie out of anything but good bana nas. Hence you couldn't make a g ood world of apes out of anything but good apes. This ape was very re- ligious. He was called a " Funda- mentalist," because he co uld n't seem to overcome t he old -f ash- ioned idea that in the divine order of things one came before a mil- lion. Thereby Han&'• The first order of business was the selection of a chairape. Ther e was quite a lively debate over whether to elect the candidate with the whitest hair (who un- fortunately was conservative) or the candidate with t he highest forehead (who was fresh out of a progressive school and hadn't yet learned to think). Well, they ended up by electing a compromise chairape on the grounds that he had the longest tail and therefore the greatest pull. Moreover, he was the least like a man and the most like a n ape, which was a noteworthy q ua l- ification, or so they t hought. But, being an ape and having nobody better to ape than man, he set u p committee meetings instead of prayer meetings, and that 's wher e trouble really began. The first hassle was over t he wording of a resolution a bout gov- ernmental investigations. Some delegates were surprisingly wor- ried about communism, simply be- cause the followers of th is politi- cal party were trying to take over the armed forces, the schools, t he churches, the press and t he world in general. These delegat es were all in favor of governmental in- vestigations as part of t he ma- chinery for stopping Commun ists. Barrel Load But wiser apes prevailed, point- ing out that an investigation was an invasion of privacy and a n in- fringement of civil li berty, wh ich should be pr ivi leges reserved en- tirely to the Commu nists. One uneducated ape co uldn't make head or tail of t his way of t hinking, so he was labeled "anti- intellectual." Another said he per- sonally was prepared to go a long with the eggheads a nd sig n a n y- thing, but he was bother ed a bou t how he could represent his district since he didn't know v,hd her h is constituent apes bac k r.0 111 <' wou ld agree with the vari ous 1·csolutions. All the a pes laughl'd at this hir,- j oke, and the convention r cc.,sscd for nuts. (To Be Cont i11 uetl)

SCALE OF VALUES DEAR SIR

Snobs & Hoods The South isn't the only part of the country that has integra- tion problems. Though we here at the University of San Diego don't suffer from racial discrimination, our social segregation is separation

I Was Wrong In a letter published in the last issue of The Paper, I said: "Pio- neer assistant coach Frank Mur- phy took the Bobcat (Montana State) assistants to Tijuana and kept them out quite late for the night before a ball game." a press conference. Later he went to Oscar's. I therefore apologize to Frank and his everloving wife. Yours &c. DON GWALTNEY Me, Too During a recent Associated Student Body meeting I, as Legal Committee chairman, ob- jected to Barry Vinyard's "moving the previous question." Confusion has resulted from the stand I took, and I hereby want to make a public apology (in the older sense) to Mr. Vinyard and give him his due. I ask Mr. Vinyard to note that I was "under extreme pressure" to keep from speaking in favor of the motion under debate. Also, we are functioning under the spirit of the law rather than under the let- ter. insofar as there are no ob- jections. Before each ruling I must therefore decide whether to rule by the spirit or by the letter. This is a difficult decision to make. However, this does not mean that the chairman of the Legal Com- mittee is thus relieved of his :-e- sponsibilities to the letter of t he law and to the constitution. Under normal procedure, Mr. Vinyard was right and I was wrong (Roberts, 29). I therefore apologize to him publicly and humbly. Yours &c. VICTOR J. ASTORGA NO on 16 This was not so. Frank didn't

The founder of the University,

our beloved Bishop, has repeatedly go with the Bobcat assistants to said that the social life of the Col- Tijuana. He went to the Bahia for

lege for Men and the College for Women should be jointly planned and well integrated and that this combined social life should offset the classroom segregation neces-

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sary to best serve the differing ball. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur are two needs of men and women students. from the U. S. Military Academy. Knute Rockne and Amos But we students have not yet put Alonzo Stagg built men at Notre Dame and the University the Bishop's idea into effect. Why? of Chicago. As a Women's College student. I have adopted the view of a mod- That's part of the fruit of football programs at those erate white Southerner: segrega- schools. If USD ultimately fields major college elevens, tion will gradually become integra- that's the type of program that will sire them.

',tion through discussion and under- standing on both sides. Hitherto, however, as a result of misunder- standing, both sides have resorted to sarcasm and name - calling. "Hypocritical snobs" is one of the printable appellations applied to us women students; men students are referred to as "hoods" and "boors." This petty bickering will get us nowhere. We on the north side of Marian Way plead for patient understanding by you on the south side. If you'll only take the time and trouble to meet a few of us individually, you'll find we are no different from any other group of college girls. We are just as aware of our mutual difficulties and we will cooperate with you to find a solution of them. Yours &c. C. W. SENIOR (Writer's name signed but with- held.-Ed.)

Why Don't They Understand?

By ROLF C. 81\llTH

No, I don't mind being a Protes- ant surrounded by the uninformed. As long as I've been at the Univer- sity of San Diego, which is basic- ally non-Protestant, I've had it easy. I get holidays and vacations when the other students are at their devotions or on retreat or hurrying to church on one of their many holy days. I eat hamburgers on Fridays and candy in Lent and I enjoy doing it. Yet they try to tel! me that these are the times that try men's souls. Then sometimes there are some really interesting or funny things that crop up seriously. The finer moral aspects of calculus and alge- bra as pointed out by a well-versed non-Protestant will open an un- limited supply of anecdotes to tell the boys. And if you haven't been introduced to the theology that can be insinuated into a speech class with little mental effort, why, your Protestant life will be as emp- ty as a P rotestant collection plate. Don't get me wrong, though. I wouldn't g o to another College even if it would take me. While I've been in Catholic schools, I've done more in the line of corporal works of mercy than a ll the Sa- maritans in the King J ames' ver- sion will ever do.

When I went to the Sisters' grade school I bought more pagan babies with my lunch money than any other kid in the school. And when I was· in a Catholic high school I used to do ·the religion class assignments for the non- Protestants there and answer for them at the roll calls the teachers had to take at student Mass on Fridays. With acts like this, I should make at least purgatory.

THE PAPER PUBLISHED Bl-MONTHLY DURING THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENT BODY, COLLEGE FOR MEN, UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO, ALCALA PARK, SAN DIEGO 10, CALIFORNIA Editor................................................................... .....Barry Vinyard &sistant Editor....................................................William Hagen Art Editor............................................................... Jame s Wargin Sports Editor....................................................Donald Gwaltney Faculty Mode rator......................................Fr. John B. Bremner Staff Reporters: Dennis Brokaw, Bob Gengler, Don Giesing, Bill Kidder, Don Koplin, Jim LaBrie, John Markley, Jack Power, Dick Shea, Rolf Smith, Bill Thomas, Bill van de r We rf, C. G. Walker, Chuck Williams

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