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The Foghorn Apologizes
Robert C. MacKenzie, assistant professor of political science was misquoted in
last week's FOGHORN and points out
the errors in a letter to the editor. The
FOGHORN apologizes for these mistakes
on page three.
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An Odd Ball
The class of 1959 hosts its Senior Ball
at the Mira Vista Country Club tomorrow night and it promises to be a real
strange one as indicated by its theme.
Find the theme and all the pertinent
data as released by Frank Trumbower,
below.
Vol. 50, No. 18
AllAmerican 1954-1958
Friday, February 27, 1959
Telephones: SK I -3118 — SK I -3119
Prep writers
convene here
EDITOR SCHNEIDER SUPERVISOR FERDON
Duo of dignataries to address delegates
160 young journalists from fifteen high schools and seven
junior high schools will be on campus tomorrow as the second
annual San Francisco High School Press Convention convenes
here.
The convention is sponsored by
the FOGHORN and the San Francisco News. Warren Hinckle, FOGHORN Managing Editor, and
Charles H. Schneider, Editor of
the News, are co-chairmen.
Supervisor John Ferdon will be
among the speakers at the convention, which features a contest to
determine the best high school
newspaper in the city, special
workshop sessions, and lectures by
professional journalists.
Beginning Saturday morning
at 10 o'clock, the meeting will
conclude Saturday evening with
an Awards Banquet in Phelan
Hall,  followed  by  the  movie.
"The Seventh Seal," in the auditorium of the Liberal Arts Bldg.
Schneider   will   chairman   the
Welcome session scheduled to begin at 11:15 a.m. in the Gleeson
Library lecture  room.   Speakers
include Rev. Richard Mulcahy, S.J.,
dean of the College of Business
Administration;   Mr.   Thomas   A.
Rowe,  executive  director of the
San Francisco Youth Association,
and Jerry Finnigan, FOGHORN
Editor.
Immediately following the welcome session, delegates will hear
a debate: "Resolved,' Journalism
Schools Provide the Best Preparation for a Newspaper Career." The
debaters will be (pro) Al Corona,
sports writer, San Francisco News;
and (con) George Murphy, staff
writer, San Francisco News.
The afternoon session will be
divided into three sessions. At 1:15
delegates will have their choice of
two lectures on news writing and
editing.
The afternoon session will be divided into three periods.
Speakers include Charles Einstein, Examiner columnist; Phillip
Hughes, USF director of public relations; Beth Buchard, San Rafael
Independent-Journal news editor;
and Joe Bodavitz, San Francisco
Examiner staff writer.
Awards will be made by Charles
—Continued on Page 4
Revolutionary language
program adopted here
Electronic lab
method radical
learning change
A radical change in the University's language require
ments will be instituted beginning with the 1959 Freshman
class, Rev. John F. X. Connolly, S.J., University president,
announced yesterday.
Under the new system, an attempt will be made to solve
a weakness in the American educational system, Father Connolly said. One of the criticisms of the American system often
advanced has been its failure to turn out college graduates
who are capable of understanding and conversing in a foreign
language.
In the new setup, students in the Colleges of Arts and
Science will be required to demonstrate the following skills
to fulfill the language requirement:
1. Ability to read and comprehend a normal prose
passage.
2. Ability to write the Foreign Language and translate from English a normal prose passage.
3. Ability to speak the Foreign language with a pronunciation readily understandable to a native, on nontechnical matter.
4. Ability to understand the spoken language of a
Seniors host odd Ball
A Celebration
In Honor of The
Fact That
February Had Bnt       •
Twenty-Eight Dayi
This Year
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is the theme of this year's Senior
Ball, to be held tomorrow night
at the Mira Vista Country Club
in El Cerrito.
"Why was such a theme
chosen?" Ed Griffin, senior
class representative, was asked
yesterday.
"Why, indeed?" Griffin replied. "A better question would
be 'Why not?' Why not have a
dance with an unusual theme
for a change?   We have had
plenty of dances with themes
such as 'Dancing in the Dark,'
or 'Stardust,' but I'll bet there
naver was a dance theme in the
entire 104 year history of USF
that   was   anything   like   this
one."
"Besides,"   the   pudgy   senior
continued, "there are plenty of
reasons why we should celebrate
February's having only twenty-
eight days.   If February didn't
have twenty-eight days, it would
be leap year, arid the fact that it
isn't,   is  reason  anough  to  be
happy.
Also, February's ending tomorrow means that there are
four months left till graduation. If we're going to have a
dance on the last day of February, what better event is there
to celebrate?"
Senior Class-President, Frank
Trumbower, when he could get a
word in edgewise, commented,
'Besides being an unusual dance
from the point of view of theme,
•the Senior Ball will be different
in that there will be two bands,
Walt Tolleson!s dance organization, and Dale Alstrom's jazz
combo, playing at the same time
in different parts of the club.
"We have rented the entire Mira
Vista Club for the dance and decided to provide two kinds of
music to suit the dancers' moods
during the course of the evening.
"Mira  Vista  has  been  the
scene   of   several   successful
USF dances in the past," Trumbower said, "and all who have
been there know that it is an
ideal spot for the Senior Ball."
Located   in   El   Cerrito,   the
Country Club is about half an
hour's drive from San Francisco.
Bids for seniors are $2.00, and
$2.50 for other classes.
Fee
hike
soon
$30,000 loan
fund awarded
The University Scholarship Committee received a $29,860 allocation last week from the United
States Office of Education's Divi
sion of higher Education for'the
establishment of a student loan
fund, Rev. John H. Martin, S.J.,
Committee Chairman announced
yesterday.
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and universities in the country au
thorized to receive part of a $6
million grant from the 1958 National Defense Education Act.
"The National Defense Education Student Loan Program was
established by Congress to help
students who are in "good academic standing" and who have a
"financial need," Father Martin
said. "Loans are limited to full
time students," he added.
Under provisions of the Program, students must be making
'good and normal progress toward
a degree and willing to take the
oath of allegiance, in order to qualify for a loan.
Priority of loan applications is
given to students who intend to
teach in public primary or secondary schools;  Other students
whose applications will receive
special consideration under the
Loan Program are those who indicate superior ability in science,
mathematics, engineering or in
modern foreign language," the
USF official said.
Father   Martin   explained   that
students may borrow up to a maximum of $1,000 in a single year, but
no student may receive more than
$5,000 during the course of his college career.
Repayment of the loan must .begin one year after a student terminates his education. Payments are
to be made in ten equal installments to the college or university
administering the loan," Father
Martin said.
Library hangs
student's work
A series of photographs on the
Mass by Robert Lawhon, USF
sophomore, will be displayed in
Gleeson Library from March 1st
until 10th.
Lawhon, a political science major, has won the National Amateur
Newspaper Photography Contest
in 1957 and the Nevada State Amateur Contest, action division, in
1956.
The idea for his display came
from a "Life" magazine article on
"Bishop Sheen and the Mass"
(March 7, 1958). Rev. W. Egan is
the celebrant of the Mass in Law-
hon's pictures.
non-technical nature.
In commenting on the reasons for this change, Father
Connolly pointed out that although the study of foreign Ian
guage has always been a part of most universities' requirements, usually these requirements have been expressed in
terms of courses or credit hours.
The USF program will be based on the final examination.
The student may petition for the final at any time,
and if he exhibits proficiency in the four skill-areas, the
requirement will be completed.
"We are interested primarily in the quality of achievement, not in the quantity of units," Father Connolly remarked.
The new system will allow the student to proceed at his
own level of ability.
"Reasonable proficiency"
The unique system was the result of a study by the University's Language Department, under the chairmanship of
Dr. Luigi Sandri, of the problem of language education. The
department agreed with the Modern Language Association's
recommendations that students should have a "reasonable proficiency in the use of at least one foreign language," and determined "reasonable proficiency" to include understanding,
speaking, reading, and writing of non-technical matter.
The key istrument in the USF venture will be the
new Electronic Language Laboratory, under the direction
of Fr. P. Carlo Rossi, S.J. Constructed at a cost of
$40,000, the lab will bring about a change in the manner
of teaching language courses.
Students will attend class only two hours per week, in
stead of four, but will spend four hours per week in the labor
atory, two hours of which will be under the supervision of a
member of the Language Department
Dual turntables allow the student to listen to the master
record as many times as he thinks necessary, to repeat and
record on his student record until he has perfected the understanding, speaking, reading, and writing exercises of each
lesson.
Individual instruction
In order to give the maximum individual instruction, sectional control allows the instructor to monitor and intercommunicate with any individual booth.
The University adopted this particular type of laboratory
because it allows each student to reach his potential in the
shortest possible time, Father Connolly said. Some may require only a semester or slightly more to reach sufficient proficiency that they can pass the language examination; others
may require a longer time. In either case, the student may proceed as fast as his ability or aptitude permits.
Beginning September, 1959,
tuition at the University of
San Francisco will be raised
from $250 to $300, it was an
nounced this week in a letter
to the undergraduates by Rev
John F. X. Connolly, S.J., Uni
versity president.
Father President attributed the
necessity for this raise in tuition
to the University's continued cur-
ricular and physical growth, and
the ever increasing costs of operation.
"Although our Office of Development is working diligently
to win increasing support from
alumni, friends and the business community, the principal
and continuing source of our income must be tuition," Father
Connolly said.
"In fact, we have been reminded
in recent months by several large
individual and corporate supporters that parents and students,
direct beneficiaries of the University, must be called upon to
bear their share of the increasing
cost of education." he added.
The President said that even
with this raise, tuition at USF will
"remain the lowest for comparable   institutions   in   California."
Some comparable figures with
the Universities are: Santa Clara,
$700; Loyola, $600; College of Pacific, $750; Occidental, $900; Pomona, $1,000; and Stanford, $1,005.
The tuition hike will "enable the
University's administration to plan
for improving the quality of our
educational offering.
"Improvement of faculty conditions by providing such opportunities as sabbatical years, lessening of class load, additional
benefits such as better retirement plan and hospital insurance will enable the University
to attract able teachers and retain experienced professors," the
Rev. Francis J. Callahan, S.J.,
Development Director said.
Greater operating- funds will
show up in such diverse University
functions as improved service in
the Placement Office, better operation of Gleeson library, and accelerated purchase of books for
student and faculty use.
Library seeks
Su
books
Speaker cites Red gains
Dr. Bernard Kronick, chairman
"f the political science department
of the University of Santa Clara,
cited the Soviet Russian advantages in world political, economic
a id scientific fields in a lecture
entitled"Breakthrough in Foreign
Affairs," Monday evening, sponsored by National Federation of
Catholic College Students.
Kronick considered each "Breakthrough" the Russians have made
since the 1917 revolution.
He cited two examples of this
Russian penetration: the 1928 depression and the launching of
Sputnik. "During the depression,
he said, "the Russians gave the
impression to the outside world
that no depression existed in their
country. This was done by letting
the tourists see only certain sections of Russia.
"The launching of Sputnik,"
he said, "gave the Russian prop-
sored   by   the   special   events
agandists their best opportunity
in a decade to blast the educational   and   scientific   development of the world."
Dr. Kronick also said that the
trend toward cultural and tourists
exchange   tends   to   soften    the
American attitude toward Russia.
He said, "it gives the Americans
the idea that the Russians enjoy
an ice cream soda as much as do
the Americans."
"This lecture was an historical
background for the lecture on
the Berlin crisis which was spon-
Committee," BillMacchi, Senior
NFCCS Delegate, said.
"NFCCS' International Relations
Cjmmission sponsored this lecture
and is planning a March lecture
at  Notre   Dame  by  the   German
Consul General in San Francisco
on the current situation  in  Germany," he added, "to which the
public is invited."
Fast action by University officials may have garnered the 100,000 volume Sutro Library
collection for USF and the city of San Francisco.
Upon formal commitment by Rev. John F. X. Connolly, S.J., University President, USF is
willing to prepare 20,000 square foot on the roof of Gleeson Library at a cost of from $75,000
to $100,000 to house the collection, which is valued at $2 million.
The plan was discussed at a
meeting in the Capitol office of
Senator J. Eugene McAteer (Dem.,
S.F.) Tuesday.
The present number of Gleeson
Library volumes (94,000) will be
doubled if the library receives cus
tody of the pending addition.
As a result of the meeting in
Senator McAteer's office, Robert
Harkness agreed to remove the
Donnelly Bill from the Legislature's calendar.
The Donnelly Bill was introduced
at the request of the Department
of Finance to transfer the collection to the University of California.
The University of California immediately filed a counter proposal
to br;ng the books to Berkeley.
USF was represented at the
meeting by the Rev. William J.
Monihan, S.J., USF librarian.
The books have been ill-housed
in the basement of the San Fran
Cisco Public Library in the Civic
Center since 1923. The proposed
move from their 40-year berth
came after recent steps taken
towards the preservation of the
rare collection.
The University plan was hailed
as "fabulous" by State librarian
Carma R. Zimmerman. Under
this system, the 100,000 volumes
would remain a part of the State
Library, with USF simply providing space for the public free
of charge. The State would continue to furnish staffing, as it
now does in the present location.
The Sutro collection is "one of
the great libraries of the world,"
Fr. Monihan said. He emphasized
the collection's value as a source
for Master's thesis in any Liberal
Arts field.
The collection was the private
library belonging to Adolph Sutro,
Comstock mining magnate. He died
before his dream of a public research library for San Francisco
came to pass. In 1913, his heirs
gave the city of San Francisco the
half of his library, which survived
the 1906 fire and earthquake.
The original collection, consisting of some 250,000 volumes of
pre-1900 imprint, was one of the
largest private libraries in the
world.
The remaining 100,000 volume
collection is a library for reference
and research in most fields of history, especially in English and
Mexican history, voyages, travels,
the history of science, technology,
medicine and botany, and religion.
"I can't say enough for San
Francisco Senator McAteer, who
had sufficient political acumen
to see that the library was kept
in San Francisco," Fr. Monihan
said.
Blue Fiat blooms
with Spring
A blue Fiat sprouted from amid a bed of pansies early Wednesday morning, and Bob O'Neil, a senior from Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
was called upon to do some weeding.
O'Neil, assistant prefect on Phelan's Hall's fourth floor, was
waked in the wee small hours to move his tiny car from the midst
of a flower bed in front of the University Administration building,
where, O'Neil contends, it was planted by his "friends."
What puzzled University officials, campus police, and the husky
student, was how the 1300 pound "blue bug," locked and with
the brake on, was transplanted from its original parking spot in
front of Loyola Lodge, across campus to the Administration lawn.
; "I was afraid the BSC would give me a ticket," said O'Neil. "I've
taken precautions, now, though. I measured the elevator in Phelan
Hall and the car won't fit."
South land trek
ends road Cage
By TOM MAGUIRE
Foghorn Co-Sports Editor
Tonight Coach Phil Woolpert's Green and Gold hoopsters
go after their second straight win against the Loyola Lions
in a Los Angeles WCAC tilt.
Last Saturday USF dumped the Lions behind the sharp-
shooting of Fred LaCour and de
fensive play of Mike Preaseau by
a score of 63-59 in a Memorial Gym
conference tilt.
Tomorrow night the Northern
California quintet will be pitted
against the Pepperdine Waves in
Smogville. The Dons will be out
to.avenge a 60-53 defeat suffered
at the hands of the Waves last
week.
Woolpert is expected to go along
with the stame starting lineup he
employed in the second frame
against Loyola.
Co-captain Dave Lillevand will
fill one guard slot with smooth
sophomore Ron Cox at the other
backcourt post.
The forward positions will be
manned by jumping junior Fred
LaCour and 6-5 senior Mike Prea
seau. LaCour set a new Memorial
Pavillion record with his torrid 30
point pace against Pepperdine last
week.
Big   John   Cunningham   will
open  at the  center slot.   Bob
Radanovich, George Jercich and
Charlie Range are all expected
to see a great deal of action in
the two southern tilts.
Loyola    is    currently    holding
down fifth place in the West Coast
Atheltic   Conference   with   a   3-7
league record and an over-all 7-14
—Continued on Page 4
NFCCS Regional
Congress set
Bob Marshant, NFCCS junior
delegate, released plans Wednesday for the Sixth Regional NFCCS
Congress to be held at the College
of The Holy Names, March 8.
Eugene Burdick, co-author of
"The Ugly American," will speak
o.i "Preparation for International
Awareness." The theme will be
"The Catholic College Student
Positive Force in the International
Community," with discussion sessions and workshops planned!
around it.
Special Events
Tonight —  Basketball,  USF vs.
Loyola in Los Angeles.
Saturday night—Basketball, USF
vs Pepperdine in Los Angeles. —
High school press convention on
campus. — Senior Ball, Mira Vista
Country Club in El Cerrito. 9:30
p.m.
Sunday night — SEC movie "The
Vanishing Woman" 7:30 in auditorium.
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