San Francisco Foghorn

              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
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Wednesday, October 12, 1960-Vol. 25, No. 10
'THE CITY'S FOURTH DAILY'
All-American 1954-1960
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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
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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.
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