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University and environs
Vol. 62, No. 4
October 6,  1967
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Lane
No solution yet
venting solutions to urban
problems "just don't know
where it's at," he summed up.
Lane goes after
'white America'
Urban reformers and their
methods were the targets
under attack as Dr. Ralph
Lane, Jr., chairman of the
USF sociology department,
addressed a Hilton Hotel conference last week.
Engineers, planners, and
architects attended the meeting, which was sponsored by
the San Francisco chapter of
the American Society of Civil
Engineers.
Addressing the group as the
literal shapers of urban environment, Dr. Lane said that
the fundamental problems of
cities are not being solved by
urban redevelopment and Utopian suburban towns.
While middle - class whites
flee to suburban areas, the
central city stagnates. Those
who are left in the cities are
the "residue" of society: the
aged, the socially deviant, and
the racial and ethnic minorities.
Dr. Lane was especially
concerned with the explosive
problem of minorities.
"They are tired of the empty promises of the majority
community," he said. "They
want us to accent the facts as
they are, not as an excuse for
perpetuating the status quo,
but precisely because they are
sick of the kind of Alice in
Wonderland double - talk to
which they have been subjected for so long."
Dr. Lane also attacked the
lack of honesty with which society approaches urban problems.
"They (minority groups)
want us to deliver, not more
pacifying handouts which
keep them in the recipient
status of our well-intentioned
largesse, but programs which
will provide the experience of
political know-how," he said.
A later interview amplified
Dr. Lane's point. He stressed
that society moves its minority "residue" from place to
place, putting them in temporary housing, and claiming
all the while that "this wasn't
what we had in mind for you
at all."
Throughout, Lane's talk was
punctuated with jabs at sociologists, private interests, and
the liberal white middle-class
in general. So often those in-
USF Jesuits in 'democratic/
Vatican ll-inspired confab
By Mike Williams
Foghorn Managing Editor
Taking their cue from the
recommendations of the Thirty-first General Congregation
of Jesuits in Rome, Jesuits of
the California province met at
Los Altos from September 29
to October 1 in the largest and
most democratic meeting of
the province's history.
One hundred and two voting
delegates, representing every
Jesuit college, high school,
and community within the
province, in addition to novices, juniors, observers, and
Jesuits from other provinces,
expressed their opinions on
matters ranging from the relation of subject to superior
to the possible division of Jesuit communities into smaller
groups.
In addition to president
Charles Dullea, S.J., and other observers, USF sent six
elected delegates to the meeting.
The delegates were: Richard Vaughan, S.J., dean of
arts and sciences; Edmond
Smyth, S.J., associate professor of history; Francis Buckley, S.J., assistant professor
of theology; James Corbett,
S.J., university treasurer;
Norton Herold, S.J., financial
aid advisor; and Albert Casey, S.J., professor of theology.
"This is the first time that
this specific type of meeting
Homecoming week features
happy hour and the usual
By Mike Doogan
Foghorn News Editor
The forces of homecoming
week will swing into action
Sunday and the festivities
will continue throughout the
week, according to John Cary,
co-chairman of homecoming
week.
"We are emphasizing foot-
bal homecoming because basketball homecoming will interfere with finals," said Cary.
The week will begin with a
reception for prospective
queen candidates Sunday afternoon. Alumni members will
pick five finalists from those
assembled.
Students will then vote for
the homecoming queen beginning Tuesday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at a table for this
purpose on the third floor of
the University Centre. Elections will continue until Friday and will be conducted by
the BSC.
Tuesday's highlight will be
a happy hour in Harney plaza
from 11:15 a.m. until 12:15
p.m. Music will be supplied
by the Turk Murphy jazz band
which is now appearing at
Earthquake McGoon's. This
event will be co-sponsored, as
are many of the others, by
the United Bay Area Crusade.
An all-school talent show is
in the works for Wednesday
night. The extravaganza will
begin at 8 p.m. in the Phelan
Hall dining hall.
There'll be big doings Thursday with a rally in the Hayes-
Healy parking lot. In conjunc-
toin with this is work on floats
which will be done Thursday
and Friday on the first and
second levels of the parking
structure.
The pier that was used in
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has come about." said Father
Smyth. •"What was new was
the much broader representation."
The meeting was called by
California provincial John F.
X. Connolly, S.J., to implement the urgings of Vatican
II that all segments of the
Church take a hard look at
themselves.
Father Connolly asked the
participants to observe three
requests at the meeting: to
engage in honest, "open listening," to enter into frank
open discussion, and to follow
the advice of St. Ignatius and
put the best possible interpretation on what someone said.
Although the purpose of the
meeting was entirely advisory, "the experience of democracy was very pleasing,"
said Father Buckley.
"There is a rapidly growing
consensus on the need for
much more thorough consultation of the whole province
before major new works are
undertaken," he added.
Since the meeting was an
unstructured one, discussion
centered on many suggestions. Among the major ones
were proposals for experi-
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Last week was Greek Week. Invoking
the shades of Achilles et al, USF's fraternities maintained information tables,
manned by such Spartan types as those
above, in the University Centre recreation
area to enroll prospective Achaeans. To
end the festivities, there will be a kick-
off (?) dance Saturday night in the gym.
Proceeds will go to the athletic department
to purchase parkas for the football team,
indeed a worthy cause. Admission will be
a buck a head and there will be no dress
requirement, so grab your toga and join
the fun.