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Valverde s views As is often the case, there are usually two sides to every story. And the NFCCS is controversy is no exception. The following article represents Tom Valverde's point of view. These statements were completely voluntary on Mr. Valverde's part and were not the result of any alleged pressure by the FOGHORN. Any inferred conflict between the editor and Mr. Valverde is based on the issues, and should not be construed as personal in nature. By RICHARD BARNHART FOGHORN Contributing Editor "The purpose of NFCCS," Tom Valverde said yesterday, "is to present information and programs through which students and student leaders can arrive at some s elected N kind of understanding and cooperation on important issues." The NFCCS Regional President yesterday forwarded his views on "what NF is and what it can become" in an "attempt to clear up gross misunderstandings of its functions." "In my association with the National Federation of Catholic College students, I have not seen it operate as an overpowering, super-organization trying to impose its will on the student governments of the member universities," Valverde said. He pointed out that it is because of this inherent fear of being told what to do that many university legislatures do not par ticipate more fully in the organization. "There have been proposals before the Student Legislature to turn NF into an informal confederation on the regional level," Valverde stated. "But by definition NF is already a federation, not a super-organization," he added. Turning to the current contested proposal forwarded at Monday's legislature meeting that two members of the legislature be appointed NF delegates, Valverde said this would create more problems than now. "The members of the legislature, if they were to devote the time to their student body office that it requires, would have no time for their NF office," he said. "The people who are appointed would very likely have little enthusiasm for their jobs; would go to the meetings, sit and vegetate, and not take an interest in the programs presented." Valverde stated that the junior and senior delegates should be elected by the students directly. "Even if the members of the upper table of the legislature were appointed as representatives they would not have been elected by the entire student body but only by their class," he added. The Regional President then claimed that he thought it would be "unfortunate" for USF to be cut out of the "storehouse of information" that NF maintains on the national level. "The elected senior delegate keeps an active file of the findings of NF study groups on liturgy, Maryology, and so on Hiat the appointed delegate would not be interested enough to keep," he (said. It is not possible at the present time to have the NF delegate position an elected office at USF. Valverde pointed out that Bill Macchi, USF's last delegate, abolished this position in 1959. Macchi made no provisions for an unelected position and from this void has arisen the proposals before the legislature for making it an appointed office. SAM f RAH coghotzn Wednesday, October 12, 1960-Vol. 25, No. 10 'THE CITY'S FOURTH DAILY' All-American 1954-1960 SfeolSl SK 1-31 18, 3119 Dean views in formal NF; 'dues' due back USF's Dean of Students expressed disapproval with the present NFCCS regional set-up at last Monday's Legislature meeting, and at the same time offered a possible plan to create a future organization more informational in character and informal in nature. S.J., THE DEBATE to ervd all debates (Nixon and Kennedy included) will be recreated in Campion Hall auditorium this Friday and Saturday evening when the curtain goes up on the College Players' production of "The Rivalry." Pictured above, ready to lash out on the 1858 Senatorial campaign trail, are Dan Ritter and Dennis Kennedy as Stephen "Little Giant" Douglas and "Honest Abe" Lincoln, supported by a cast of thousands. The Rev. Francis Moore speaking to the legislators, said that "NF" should be nothing else than a "confederation of Catholic colleges" — a body which would meet together and "benefit by one another's experience and ideas, and put them to use on their own campuses." The Dean said that the regional NFCCS in the past was a "bureaucratic super-organization." "The regional officers tried to tell (the Catholic colleges) what to do," he said. Fr. Moore said that he would like to see the student leaders of the various campi as delegates to the regional meetings, and suggested the possibility of having the student body presidents of the 11 campi rotate as president of the NFCCS region. The Dean also said he felt that the Freshmen who had paid to join the NFCCS "club" on campus should have the opportunity to give the money back. He called the collection of dues "completely idealistic and impractical." The legislature ratified this feeling by unanimously passing a motion which directed the Board of Student Control to make available to the Freshmen class the opportunity of refunding the $152 collected by Don Hengehold during registration. BSC Chairman Fred Reno reported that the money will be returned to Hengehold, who has the names and addresses of the Freshmen, and that Hengehold will in turn mail the money to the various students. The BSC will supervise, Reno said. Gaviota head notes campus Literary void Behind the scenes Players plan 'Rivalry' By GEORGE DEVINE FOGHORN thespian As raucous drums rumbled stage manager Dennis Percy tried to outshout the clamor at Monday night's dress rehearsal of "The Rivalry." "Dan, how soon'll you be ready?" he hollered into the crowded basement dressing room marked "Actors." "About five minutes," mumbled Dan Ritter, who was denting his cheek with a grease pencil. "Well Lincoln's not ready yet either," Percy muttered in a moment of relative quiet, "so I guess we'll start at 8:15." With a fresh haircut, and a few drops of sweat tangled in his mustache, director John Collins bubbled into Campion Hall Auditorium at 8:10, trying to confer simultaneously with actors, musicians, technicians, and the now frayed stage manager. At 8:14 Collins strode out onto the improvised debate platform, enunciating, "May I have your attention, please!" to bring the cacophony to a murmur. After apologies for the long wait, he traded questions and answers, gave a few instructions, and disappeared into the wings. The assemblage returned to a variety of pastimes: Tom Clishan played "A Boggy Day" on the piano, Gene Fracchia and Theo O'Connor lounged on a porch swing downstage right; Don Cima and Dick Harper swapped anecdotes from previous productions; Yolanda Cheli trotted in, sat down, slowly lit a Kent, kicked off one shoe, and waited impatiently. At 8:27 Collins popped out from the wings. "Okay — improvisation actors, get your signs and get set!" Then he jumped around the house holding last minute huddles and gesturing in all directions. At 8:33 the house lights blinked on and off. "Hold it, Paul," Collins shouted, "You've got your grid lights on!" Finally, at 8:35, the rehearsal was under way, as Collins whispered about the theater checking on Joyce's costume, Phil's makeup, the light lavender spot on the train scene, and the innumerable —Continued on Page 2 The editor of the USF literary quarterly sang the belle- tristic blues yesterday, and his lament was not exactly poetic. "Gathering material at USF for a literary magazine," Kevin Starr editor of the Gaviota, the university's creative writing publication, t said, "is, if I may be trite, like pulling teeth." The 20 year old English major did not attribute his difficulty to a lack of literary talent at USF. "The problem is finding those who write and write well," he said. "USF is not a centralized school. It groups itself into Phelan Hall residents, day students, and evening division students," he said. "To find writers one must work through these three amorphous groups." Starr said that to date contributions for the fall 1960 edition of the Gaviota had been quite poor. "As it stands, the magazine will be written by those same people who contributed to last year's edition," he said. "And that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid — the popular conception that collegiate literature is produced by a small clique of arts and craftsy bohemians who hack out obscure short stories in between falling upon the thorns of life, dying, and bleeding." The editor stressed that he wanted this year's magazine to have a concern with immediate themes. "I want the Gaviota to reflect an artistic treatment of the life that all of us live," he said. "For that I need contributions from everybody, not just the perrenial literati.'' Starr said that the deadline for the first edition of the Gaviota was the end of October. "Leave your contributions at the FOGHORN office," he said. Special Events Today — Columbus Day. Holiday for state employees. • Friday — Football. USF meets San Benito at Hollister. Mixer after game. USF invited. College Players. "The Rivalry" opens. Campion Hall Auditorium. Cala premier. brought to you courtesy of Delmas & Delmas FINE JEWELERS makers of your school ring
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Transcript | Valverde s views As is often the case, there are usually two sides to every story. And the NFCCS is controversy is no exception. The following article represents Tom Valverde's point of view. These statements were completely voluntary on Mr. Valverde's part and were not the result of any alleged pressure by the FOGHORN. Any inferred conflict between the editor and Mr. Valverde is based on the issues, and should not be construed as personal in nature. By RICHARD BARNHART FOGHORN Contributing Editor "The purpose of NFCCS," Tom Valverde said yesterday, "is to present information and programs through which students and student leaders can arrive at some s elected N kind of understanding and cooperation on important issues." The NFCCS Regional President yesterday forwarded his views on "what NF is and what it can become" in an "attempt to clear up gross misunderstandings of its functions." "In my association with the National Federation of Catholic College students, I have not seen it operate as an overpowering, super-organization trying to impose its will on the student governments of the member universities," Valverde said. He pointed out that it is because of this inherent fear of being told what to do that many university legislatures do not par ticipate more fully in the organization. "There have been proposals before the Student Legislature to turn NF into an informal confederation on the regional level," Valverde stated. "But by definition NF is already a federation, not a super-organization," he added. Turning to the current contested proposal forwarded at Monday's legislature meeting that two members of the legislature be appointed NF delegates, Valverde said this would create more problems than now. "The members of the legislature, if they were to devote the time to their student body office that it requires, would have no time for their NF office," he said. "The people who are appointed would very likely have little enthusiasm for their jobs; would go to the meetings, sit and vegetate, and not take an interest in the programs presented." Valverde stated that the junior and senior delegates should be elected by the students directly. "Even if the members of the upper table of the legislature were appointed as representatives they would not have been elected by the entire student body but only by their class," he added. The Regional President then claimed that he thought it would be "unfortunate" for USF to be cut out of the "storehouse of information" that NF maintains on the national level. "The elected senior delegate keeps an active file of the findings of NF study groups on liturgy, Maryology, and so on Hiat the appointed delegate would not be interested enough to keep," he (said. It is not possible at the present time to have the NF delegate position an elected office at USF. Valverde pointed out that Bill Macchi, USF's last delegate, abolished this position in 1959. Macchi made no provisions for an unelected position and from this void has arisen the proposals before the legislature for making it an appointed office. SAM f RAH coghotzn Wednesday, October 12, 1960-Vol. 25, No. 10 'THE CITY'S FOURTH DAILY' All-American 1954-1960 SfeolSl SK 1-31 18, 3119 Dean views in formal NF; 'dues' due back USF's Dean of Students expressed disapproval with the present NFCCS regional set-up at last Monday's Legislature meeting, and at the same time offered a possible plan to create a future organization more informational in character and informal in nature. S.J., THE DEBATE to ervd all debates (Nixon and Kennedy included) will be recreated in Campion Hall auditorium this Friday and Saturday evening when the curtain goes up on the College Players' production of "The Rivalry." Pictured above, ready to lash out on the 1858 Senatorial campaign trail, are Dan Ritter and Dennis Kennedy as Stephen "Little Giant" Douglas and "Honest Abe" Lincoln, supported by a cast of thousands. The Rev. Francis Moore speaking to the legislators, said that "NF" should be nothing else than a "confederation of Catholic colleges" — a body which would meet together and "benefit by one another's experience and ideas, and put them to use on their own campuses." The Dean said that the regional NFCCS in the past was a "bureaucratic super-organization." "The regional officers tried to tell (the Catholic colleges) what to do," he said. Fr. Moore said that he would like to see the student leaders of the various campi as delegates to the regional meetings, and suggested the possibility of having the student body presidents of the 11 campi rotate as president of the NFCCS region. The Dean also said he felt that the Freshmen who had paid to join the NFCCS "club" on campus should have the opportunity to give the money back. He called the collection of dues "completely idealistic and impractical." The legislature ratified this feeling by unanimously passing a motion which directed the Board of Student Control to make available to the Freshmen class the opportunity of refunding the $152 collected by Don Hengehold during registration. BSC Chairman Fred Reno reported that the money will be returned to Hengehold, who has the names and addresses of the Freshmen, and that Hengehold will in turn mail the money to the various students. The BSC will supervise, Reno said. Gaviota head notes campus Literary void Behind the scenes Players plan 'Rivalry' By GEORGE DEVINE FOGHORN thespian As raucous drums rumbled stage manager Dennis Percy tried to outshout the clamor at Monday night's dress rehearsal of "The Rivalry." "Dan, how soon'll you be ready?" he hollered into the crowded basement dressing room marked "Actors." "About five minutes," mumbled Dan Ritter, who was denting his cheek with a grease pencil. "Well Lincoln's not ready yet either," Percy muttered in a moment of relative quiet, "so I guess we'll start at 8:15." With a fresh haircut, and a few drops of sweat tangled in his mustache, director John Collins bubbled into Campion Hall Auditorium at 8:10, trying to confer simultaneously with actors, musicians, technicians, and the now frayed stage manager. At 8:14 Collins strode out onto the improvised debate platform, enunciating, "May I have your attention, please!" to bring the cacophony to a murmur. After apologies for the long wait, he traded questions and answers, gave a few instructions, and disappeared into the wings. The assemblage returned to a variety of pastimes: Tom Clishan played "A Boggy Day" on the piano, Gene Fracchia and Theo O'Connor lounged on a porch swing downstage right; Don Cima and Dick Harper swapped anecdotes from previous productions; Yolanda Cheli trotted in, sat down, slowly lit a Kent, kicked off one shoe, and waited impatiently. At 8:27 Collins popped out from the wings. "Okay — improvisation actors, get your signs and get set!" Then he jumped around the house holding last minute huddles and gesturing in all directions. At 8:33 the house lights blinked on and off. "Hold it, Paul," Collins shouted, "You've got your grid lights on!" Finally, at 8:35, the rehearsal was under way, as Collins whispered about the theater checking on Joyce's costume, Phil's makeup, the light lavender spot on the train scene, and the innumerable —Continued on Page 2 The editor of the USF literary quarterly sang the belle- tristic blues yesterday, and his lament was not exactly poetic. "Gathering material at USF for a literary magazine," Kevin Starr editor of the Gaviota, the university's creative writing publication, t said, "is, if I may be trite, like pulling teeth." The 20 year old English major did not attribute his difficulty to a lack of literary talent at USF. "The problem is finding those who write and write well," he said. "USF is not a centralized school. It groups itself into Phelan Hall residents, day students, and evening division students," he said. "To find writers one must work through these three amorphous groups." Starr said that to date contributions for the fall 1960 edition of the Gaviota had been quite poor. "As it stands, the magazine will be written by those same people who contributed to last year's edition," he said. "And that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid — the popular conception that collegiate literature is produced by a small clique of arts and craftsy bohemians who hack out obscure short stories in between falling upon the thorns of life, dying, and bleeding." The editor stressed that he wanted this year's magazine to have a concern with immediate themes. "I want the Gaviota to reflect an artistic treatment of the life that all of us live," he said. "For that I need contributions from everybody, not just the perrenial literati.'' Starr said that the deadline for the first edition of the Gaviota was the end of October. "Leave your contributions at the FOGHORN office," he said. Special Events Today — Columbus Day. Holiday for state employees. • Friday — Football. USF meets San Benito at Hollister. Mixer after game. USF invited. College Players. "The Rivalry" opens. Campion Hall Auditorium. Cala premier. brought to you courtesy of Delmas & Delmas FINE JEWELERS makers of your school ring |
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