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THE RATTLER
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1969
Orientation Hodgepodge
—
Coffee House Plug
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This orientation jazz ain’t occidental
This orientation jazz ain’t
occidental -- it’s all been
planned! And furthermore, its
benefits rain on all of us non-
freshmen. Orientation is our
chance to check things out
with the innocence of new stu-
dents, to explore and poke
around in the adventures of
college life without losing
face.
As for freshmen, for whom
this issue is especially writ-
ten, orientation may last a
few years. Like, inyour senior
year you decide that you should
run for Student Government
prexy and you discover that
GPA doesn’t stand for General
Pardon and Absolution but
Grade Point Average.
Then, at St. Mary’s, prac-
tically the only way for college
to round out and mean some-
thing full, is to JOIN (that
ominous verb.) Organizations
caulk the components of our
University and could make
this place move.
Prayer In Space
In 1965 Madeline Murray
O’Hair won a supreme court
decision to ban prayer
from public schools. In
1968, even before the
APOLLO 8 astronauts return-
ed from their Christmas voy-
age to the moon, Mrs. O’Hair
was re-organizing her anti-
prayer offensive to ban prayer
in space. She did it in 1965—
she can do it again in 1969.
In view of this, a group of
concerned citizens for prayer
who call themselves P.P. (for
Prayer Power) are organiz-
ing their already belated stra-
tegy to check the OHair of-
fensive.
Since 1961 and because of
the ban on compulsory pray-
er, P.P. morale bas been low.
Therefore, their plan is not
to resist Madeline O’Hair’s
prayer ban in space “head
on” for fear of an O’Hair
victory. P.P. plans to settle
for a compromise: a modified
ban on prayer, thereby not
entirely yielding to the ath-
iest’s movement. P.P. forces
will try to convince Mrs. O’
Hair that expanding her ban
on prayers to outerspace is a
presumptuous move on her
part, and that such a ban is
totally unsuitable to the pray-
ing people of America.
LOVE THY ENEMY
Without giving her a chance
for rebuttal, the Baptist fac-
tion of P.P. will immediately
remind O’Hair that she is an
enemy of P.P. and this there-
fore makes her susceptible to
the “love they enemy” doc-
trine.
If the Baptist’s love for
Madeline O’Hair proves to
find her undaunted, the Meth-
odists will then lay their pray-
ers “on the table”. They will
voluntarily allow all of their
prayers to be banned from
space with the exception of
the “Our Father who art in
heaven, etc. ...”
Assuming that Madeline
O’Hair again finds this com-
promise unsuitable, the
Catholic faction will then in-
tervene. They will suggest that
since their version of the “Our
Father ...” is shorter, their
prayer should be used in the
place of the protestant ver-
sion.
Then there is the Tri-Pray-
er Plan. This is essentially
the same as the previous plan
except that three “Hail
Mary’s” will take the place of
the Lord’s Prayer. This
scheme, devised by the Catho-
lic faction of P.P., would al-
low Mrs. O’Hair to ban all
prayers in space with the ex-
ception of three “Hail
Mary’s”, which could only be
recited in the stratosphere.
This plan would be an incon-
venience for non-catholic as-
tronauts, who would find it
difficult to recite three Hail
Mary’s with the rapidity nec-
essary for a fast moving
spacecraft traveling through
this layer of the atmosphere.
This plan would either call
for additional training for non-
catholic Astronauts, or a pos-
sible modification in the flight
plan which would prolong the
time a spaceflight would re-
main in the stratosphere.
One group of P.P. people
feel that a compromise is
totally unacceptable. They feel
that if sufficient pressure is
applied to O’Hair followers,
immediate victory would await
P.P. Their plan is to colla-
borate with the Jehova’s Wit-
nesses by having the Witnes-
ses re-schedule dooms-day
closer to the present date by
about 5 or more years. Such
a plan would not be incon-
venient for the Witnesses
since their “dooms-day date”
is subject to change from time
to time.
The going will be rough for
these praying people, and even
if their plans prove to be un-
successful, they will give
Madeline Murray O’Hair as
much P.P. as possible. F.P.
Photographers Needed
Photographers interested in helping with the yearbook or
the campus newspaper should attend a meeting to be held
on Wednesday, September 17 at 6:15 p.m. in the RATTLER
office, upstairs in the University Center. Some salaried
positions will be offered by Richard Heller, editor of the
Diamondback, and by Noeli Lytton, editor of the RATTLER.
Both editors admit that there is an urgent need for skilled
photographers.
Writers Requested
To quote William Randolph Hurts, “What America needs
is more newspapers like the RATTLER!’ If this comes as
a startling revelation (as it came to us), the proof is in the
reading (or the writing). Some of our more articulate
reviews have been:
Phallic Post: “. . . only a group of crypto-maladroits
could come up with something like this ...”
Boston Buckley; “. . . the voice of the suffering and the
afflicting ...”
Tijuana Reefer: “. . . incredibly slanted, too biased,
definitely 'yellow press’ ...”
If you want to become a member of this elite corp of
redundant philosophers, we need photographers, sports
reporters, typists, artists and cartoonists, reporters, and
good writers. Please put the following application in mail-
boxes around the campus or bring them by the RATTLER
Office. Our next meeting will be Monday, September 17, at
7;00 p.m. in the upstairs University Center. See you there.
HELP SAVE US FROM MEDIOCRITY
Join the Rattler
NAME _
ADDRESS_
PHONE_
POSITION DESIRED.
Every organization, and the
university in general, needs
this influx of freshmen.
They're practically outsiders,
the best critics, the best op-
timists, the best crusaders,
the best mob, occasionally
the best lump of apathy be-
sides seniors and indubitably
the best__(fill in
your own conclusions).
Our new Student Service Fee
seems the best path of two
on an inevitable price hike.
This way my cash isn’t lump-
ed under the academic sound-
ing head ‘Tuition.’ I can watch
it administered by committees
through published reports, and
I know how I benefit from its
use because the services are
itemized and readily available
if I want to use them.
AH, FREEDOM
If you work inside one of
these services, the change is
remarkable. Though the
trouble and time is increased,
so is the responsibility and
freedom of management. This
system provides trust and
true involvement in the ad-
ministration of these serv-
ices. However, we’ll wait to
see the repercussions of its
enactment.
Brother Tom Treadaway,
an incredible and saintly man
can hardly be forgotten by
those who came in contact
with him. His death early
this summer recalled to us
his services to St. Mary’s and
his value to students. In his
memory the RATTLER staff
will try to emulate his dedi-
cation in serving St. Mary’s.
And remember RATTLER
readers, September 17 is the
worldwide commemoration of
that famous day in 1941 when
Sir Elmo Schwartz crossed
the Sahara Desert with a
wagon train of 22 trained
wallaby babies. N.L.
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SHE: Psst... did you slip her that
bogey $20 bill?
HE: Just a personal protest against
The Student Service Fee.
V ✓
I KNEW I Shouldn’t have had break-
fast before paying my tuition.
I OUR MAN ON THE SCENE §
(The American Way-Pollute the Bay!
By PAT CUNNINGHAM
It may have been no con-
incidence that fog shielded
blue San Francisco Bay from
the eyes of English and Span-
ish navigators for a hundred
years. Some celestial force
probably foresaw the coming
of man and wanted to post-
pone it for a little while.
Perhaps there was some hope
that Eastman would speed up
production of color film, so
that some permanent memory
of what used to be might fil-
ter down to blind, asthmatic
progeny.
San Francisco Bay covers
an area of several hundred
square miles (with its inlets
and tributaries) of the West
Coast, and provides excellent
sheltered harbor facilities for
commercial fishermen, lux-
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EAT AT
Don Jose’s Restaurant
1045 Bandera
PLAY AT
Zoo
Brackenridge Park
Broadway at Museum
N. St. Mary’s Street
WATCH AT
Cinema I & II
Daddy’s Gone A Hunting
North Star Mall
DANCE AT
Pusi Kat
120 Villita St.
Downtown
BOOZE IT AT
Kangaroo Court
211 E. River Walk
At River Downtown
ury liner and transports, as
well as placid waters for plea-
sure boats. There is a re-
markable human tendency at
work here, though.
We see it at work in the
children around us. Give them
a small stream, gurgling hap-
pily and peacefully on its path
toward the ocean, and they
will erect a small but effective
dam. Give them a pond, and
once they are bored with sail-
ing their boats on it, they will
fill it in, creating levees,
dikes, peninsulas and its own
industry.
AMERICAN ROULETTE
This geographicParkin-
son’s law works inexhorably
on the Bay. As people move
in, industry crops up. San
Francisco is the West Coast
headquarters for publishing
companies, fishing concerns,
electronics and aerospace
industries, a sizeable defense
industry, research and de-
velopment, and innumerable
support and service organ-
izations. As a result, more
people move in, creating an
unbelievable housing short-
age. And so, between that
great and ominous fissure (the
San Andreas fault) and the
great but shallow Bay crowd
the homes and factores.
Since no one wants to live
atop the fault, the builders
fill the Bay.
San Francisco, San Jose
and Oakland (along with the
nultifarious feifdoms between)
have thus been moving closer
and closer toward one another,
walking on water, so to speak.
The prospects for such a
change are economically quite
pleasing. Move another five
million people into what is now
the San Francisco valley,
dump more municipal garbage
into the two streams that now
make up the San Francisco
river, and presto, instant Los
Angeles.
Some people who remember
what the Bay used to be and
what it could be again are
made uncomfortable by the
prospect.
Los Angeles, remember, is
presently written off by north-
ern California as an intran-
sigent disaster area, in-
eligible for federal recovery
funds only because it has too
much money already. The in-
comparable Sam Yorty rules
over a monstrously large tribe
of well-paid American Kama-
kazis who are literally
breathing and drinking them-
selves to death.
Conservationists of the
“Save Our Bay” organization
and the Sierra Club, backed
by no small number of Bay
area scientists and enlighen-
ed citizens, recently forced a
reluctant state legislature to
pass, and persuaded that uni-
que actor-turned-governor to
sign a fairly strong Bay bill.
The bill continues the Bay
Commission, and empowers it
to control relevant activity
within 100 feet of the shore-
line. That one-hundred feet is
where the trouble lies, for as
any mathematician knows, the
shoreline can be indefinitely
extended, as long as the ex-
tender has enough garbage and
rubbish to pour in. And of gar-
bage and rubbish, San Fran-
cisco has a plethora.
But enough damage has been
done already, in the form of
irreversible environmental
pollution, so that more is de-
manded.
St. Mandatory’s Structures Renamed
common student? The man-
in-the-caf, so to speak? Lack-
ing the sufficient colored chalk
to do the job single handedly,
and recalling that one can be
painfully Seared for such
things, I soon came to the
realization that I was going to
need help. Picking up the near-
est Campus extension, I dialed
G-O-D. On the other end of
the line, in his best telephone
voice, someone answered,
“Hello . . . Scholasticate.”
No help there.
Pressing on to the infer-
ior, I somehow found myself
riding up the up-elevator in
the Frustration Building. It
is at times like these that
one’s life flashes before one’s
By BOB WEARDEN
Having survived a short
(non-paying) stint as a campus
cop at the ROTC pep rally
last Spring, and having shortly
thereafter had a satiric (and
downright mean; play publish-
ed in the Cattler, I issued
forth from my nearby hideout
and allowed one stalk-mount-
ed eye to rove hungrily (N.B.,
Mr. Wood) over the Beautiful
Wellworn Campus of St. Man-
datory’s University. Finding
my card as yet-unregurgitated
by the Univacuum, I repaired
to said hideout, took poison pen
in tentacle, and came up with
a great idea. (The lesser
ideas, somewhat more agile,
escaped into the woodwork.)
WHY NOT?
Why not, I said to myself,
simply sort of appropriately
rename most or all of the
buildings and landmarks
around campus? Why not?
Why? Quickly dismissing such
impertinancies, I opted to
undertake the project. Within
the amazingly short space of
five minutes, and with fewer
than the usual number of fur-
tive glances out the window,
I was through. Finished.
Washed up. Combed my hair.
Put on a clean pair of Levi-
Stress jeans, and issued (once
again) forth, looking for all
the world like a thing looking
for a place to do.
How, I found myself wonder-
ing, am I going to make the
new names of our old buildings
known to one and all? The
Tho
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Opinions expressed in editorial columns are A student’s
opinion, not THE student opinion, not official administrative
policy.
eyeballs. In watching same, I
stumbled across a little-
known and long-forgotten bit
of trivia. St. Mandatory’s Uni-
versity, I seemed to recall,
has--or had—a school news-
paper. Cattler? Tattler? No
matter. I remembered the lo-
cation. Once there, I almost
Flipped. I had expected a bust-
ling newspaper office, but this
was not the case. Someone in
a brown costume said, “Bat-
tler? Sorry, son, their per-
sonnel evacuated this sector
years ago.”
Following the directions of
the man in costume, I went
past the gym and entered the
library. Horror of horrors! I
had heard harrowing stories
of our pitiftil library facili-
ties, but I urge the reader to
see this outrage for himself!
There were no books in the
entire library. Tables, chairs,
couches, pianos, televisions,
pool tables, yes. Books, no!
Choking back bitter tears, I
noted one redeeming factor:
the place was quiet. Deathly
silent. A solitary student pad-
ded silently past. I stopped
him, and he directed me to
the Prattler office, upstairs.
The editor-in-chic was there.
I told her my idea, and she
lit on it at once. So here,
through the modern miracle of
movable type, is the REVISED
MAP OF ST. MANDATORY’S
UNIVERSITY.
EDITOR.................. Noeli Lytton
NEWS EDITOR..............Frank Popper
FEATURES EDITOR............Fred Tello
BUSINESS MANAGER..........Wanda Bolton
PHOTOGRAPHERS. . . . Phil Smith, Roger Martinez
SPORTS WRITERS.....Bob Serna, Jim Spragve
CIRCULATION MANAGER.......Dave Bohlke
REPORTERS . . Stanley Whitener, Roger Rodriguez,
Danny Barrera, Lance Elliott, Ric Noll, Ric
West, Mercy Kutcher, Cindy Sandusky, Phil
Cellmer, Tim Kenny, John Moor.
FACULTY ADVISER.......Bro. Arthur Goerdt
By WEARDEN
You walk through the double
doors, into the small, circu-
lar room. Your first reaction
is to glance up at the domed
ceding, twenty-five feet
above. , Colored lights shine
softly down on you. One of
several colorful banners tells
you to “Give a Damn”. A
fountain bubbles in the center
of the room. You are in the
Nowak Tower, San Antonio’s
first unpretentious coffee-
house.
Named after the late Fr. Joe
Nowak, the coffeehouse caters
to a predominately collegiate
clientele. While church-spon-
sored (run by St. Ann£ Young
Adult Club), it is far from
being saccharine. On Friday
and Saturday nights, you’ll
find folk-singing, jazz, or per-
haps a few experimental films.
Sunday nights are reserved
for discussion. Past topics?
SNCC, MAYO. Coming up?
Conscientious objector Tom
Flowers.
Nowak Tower is at Fred-
ericksburg and Ashby. Be
there soon.
Center Gets Bar
By STANLEY WHITENER
The answer to the bigques-
tion that has been pulsating
through the campus of St.
Mary’s is, “No.” Other than
that there is little to say; but
for the sake of elaboration,
candy, soda waters, potato
chips and the like will no
longer be served in the Cafe-
teria. Instead, a Snack Bar
has been installed in the Snake
Pit which should tend to cen-
tralize the “action (?)” on
campus more within the con-
fines of the University Center.
Mr. Clifford Wood, Director
of the Cafeteria, and his as-
sistant, Mr. James Tillman,
have pointed out that there
will be no carrying charges
imposed on the students be-
cause of the move and that the
“prices will be the same in
the Snake Pit as they were
in the Cafeteria.”
LUNCH PROVIDED
The Cafeteria will continue
to provide the main meals of
the day; however, a student’s
Meal Ticket will be good for
lunch only. Mr. Wood has
further pointed out that the
dorm students will be treated
to Sunday supper in the Snake
Pit, and this will take the
place of the box lunches pre-
viously given to the dorms.
Opposition to the move
came in the form of the ques-
tion, why not maintain the use
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Tri-College Mass-In
That’s right, not a dance,
a Mass. It was celebrated on
Sept 14th, 11:00 a.m. at the
Theatre of the Performing
Arts as a joint effort of Our
Lady of the Lake College, In-
carnate World College, and
St. Mary’s University. Prin-
cipal celebrant was Bishop
Steven A. Leven. Concele-
brants included Fr. Borgers,
OMI (OLL), Fr. French, OMI
(IWC), and Fr. Windisch, SM
(StMU), the respective chap-
lains.
MOVING MOTETS
The music ranged from
trumpets and tympany drums,
through motets of the 1600s
and the Renaissance, to con-
temporary pieces. For con-
gregation participation the
program included a moving
folk song by Ray Repp. Dr.
Joseph Murgo conducted the
Intercollegiate Liturgical
Choral Society of San Antonio
which involves students from
Incarnate Word, Our Lady of
the Lake, San Antonio Col-
lege, and St. Mary’s Univer-
sity. The processional and re-
sessional were led by student
leaders from the represented
institutions. Carried in the
precession were the Papal
and the American flags with
St. Mary’s Honor Guard fol-
lowing them up.
Letters to the editor are always appreciated.
Any views you’d like to share, fallacies you’d
like to propagate, rumors you’d like to start, or
wonder of wonders, criticism of the RATTLER,
dump in your inconveniently placed RATTLER
mail boxes or come to the RATTLER office per-
sonally. The staff wants this newspaper to be
something you’d be proud to line your trash can
with or even send to your favorite aunt, so write,
right?
Calendar of Events
Friday, September 19
Formal opening, school year, StMU.
8:00 - Get Acquainted Dance, La Villita
Wednesday, September 24
7:30 - "Black Orpheus,” OLL Thiry Auditorium.
7:30 - Marketing Club meets, University Center.
Thursday, September 25
"Stop the World, I Want to Get Off” (IFA)
Friday, September 26
Rev. Richard Porter (IIPA)
Wednesday, October 1
7:30 - "The Third Man” (IWA)
Thursday, October 2
"Threepenny Opera” (IFA)
Friday, October 3
8:00-Belles Benefit Dance, La Villita
Dr. August Spain (IIPA)
Wednesday, October 8
7:30-"The Magician” (OLL) Thiry Autidorium.
Legend:
(IWC) Incarnate Word College )
(OLL) Our Lady of the Lake College
(IFA) Institute of Fine Arts
(IIPA) Institute of- International and Public
Affairs
(IFACS) International Fine Arts Center of the
Southwest.
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