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THE HILLTOPPER
Austin, Texas, Friday, February 14, 1964
Six Pages
Number 10
Price Ten Cents
Volume 48
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Panel Discussion Set
St. Edward’s Hosts
Brotherhood Week
Inside Info
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Competent Panel Covered
Canal Zone Crisis Adeptly
Father Ashley, ex-Red
Will Lecture Monday
Poetry by the editors
Editorials on sex and
The ancient ceremony of blessing with ashes, reminding men
of the penitential season ahead, was performed several times in
the University chapel on Ash Wednesday. Here Father M. John-
ston, OP. after the 4:30 pm Mass.
leading up to the present situa-
tion.
The economic aspects underly-
ing the crisis were presented by
Armando Castillo, who proclaimed
Panama an “economic colony of
the US,” since Panama receives
most of her imports from the US
and must sell most of her exports
in the US. According to Mr. Cas-
tillo, Panama receives 21 million
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Panel members listen as Luis Luis, a junior from Kansas City.
Missouri, makes a point in the recent ILAC panel discussion,
“Crisis in Panama”. Other panel members are, left to right, Major
Raymond Flugel, instructor in social sciences; Armando Castillo,
Managua, Nicaragua; Robert Slaughter, Laredo, Texas; Luis,
Brother Fabius Dunn, CSC, chairman of the division of social
sciences.
On Controversial 'JB'
Library Extends
Weekend Hours
The Library has extended its
hours this semester as follows:
It will be open as usual Monday
through Friday 8 am to 4 pm and
6 pm to 10 pm, and (strictly tenta-
tively), Saturday and Sunday from
9 am to 10 pm. This action was
taken so that students could more
effectively use the weekend for
studying.
Father Ashley will be the guest
speaker at a faculty meeting at
5:00 pm in the lounge of the Uni-
versity dining hall, the meeting
will be followed by a buffet sup-
per at 6:45 pm. The 8:00 pm lec-
ture entitled "Christian Liberal
Education” is open to the entire
student body as well as any other
interested persons.
ST. EDWARD’S © UNIVERSITY
Banquet Feb. 20th
The National Conference of
Christians and Jews will hold the
Catholic conference in the Dining
hall of St. Edward's university
Thursday, February 20. The pur-
pose of the banquet is to promote
interfaith understanding among
Christians and Jews.
The guest speaker for the eve-
ning will be Mr. Tom Reavley, a
prominent Methodist layman from
Austin. The master of ceremonies
will be Dan Crowley, district man-
ager of the Southern Union Gas
company and prominent Catholic
layman. Mr. Crowley is also the
new president of the Austin
chamber of commerce. It is noted
that in a true spirit of ecumeni-
calism, the ladies have been in-
vited to the banquet also.
By Martin McLaughlin
Crisis in Panama was the topic
of the panel discussion sponsored
by the International Latin Ameri-
can club on Sunday, February 9.
Moderated by Robert Slaughter,
the panel consisted of Brother
Fabius Dunn, CSC, chairman of
the division of social sciences;
Major Raymond Flugel, instruc-
tor in social science; Luis Luis, a
student from Kansas City, Mis-
souri; and Armando Castillo, a
student from Managua, Nicara-
gua.
Giving the historical situation
leading up to the present crisis,
Brother Fabius explained that
the United States, by a treaty
in 1903, paid Panama 10 million
dollars for the Canal Zone and a
rent of a quarter million dollars
tones, students are urged to read
this highly controversial work,
which has only recently been con-
demned by a Jesuit priest.
The panel will consist of Dr.
Karsten Harries, assistant pro-
fessor of philosophy at the Uni-
versity of Texas; Brother Romard
Barthel, CSC, chairman of the di-
vision of the physical and biologi-
cal sciences at St. Edward’s uni-
versity; Brother Edmund Hunt,
CSC, chairman of the division of
the humanities, also of SEU; and
students Frank Zuik, a junior
English major from Cleveland,
Ohio, and Brother David Landry,
CSC, a sophomore social science
major from Long Beach, Califor-
nia. The discussion will be moder-
ated by Mrs. Strom.
Copies of JB are available in
University bookstore. In addition,
Mrs. Strom has offered to loan
several of her copies if others are
not available.
raised to a half million dollars
per year. From Panama's point of
view, the situation was undesir-
able. “It created a state within a
state” and split the country in
half. There was the omnipresent
economic inequity between the
“Zonians” and Panamanians. Fi-
nally, during World War II and
after, the surge of anti-colonial-
ism struck Panama.
By Larry Gries
According to Mrs. Elisabeth
Strom, assistant SEU librarian,
Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer
prize-winning play, JB, will be the
object of a panel discussion on
February 26, 1964. The play will
be discussed for its philosophical
implications rather than for its
literary content and make-up. Be-
cause of its philosophical over-
Brother Joseph Cain, CSC,
chairman of the Committee on
Speakers and Programs has an-
nounced that the Very Reverend
Benedict W. Ashley, OP, ST
Praes, of the Aquinas institute,
River Forest, Illinois, will address
the student body at 8:00 pm on
Monday, February 17, in the Uni-
versity dining hall.
Father Ashley, a former card-
carrying member of the Commu-
nist party, became a convert to
Catholicism while studying at the
University of Chicago. Father
Ashley received his PhD in phil-
osophy under Dr. Mortimer J. Ad-
ler at that university. In addition,
Father Ashley has a PhD in
sociology from the University of
Notre Dame.
At present, Father Ashley is the
regent of studies for the Chicago
province of the Dominican order
and also president of the Pontifi-
cal Faculty, located at River
Forest, Illinois. Father Ashley is
the author of several texts on edu-
cation, one of which is used as
part of the logic program at St.
Edward’s (Arts of Learning and
Communication). The St. Xavier
plan for the reorganization of the
entire educational curriculum
from grade school through college
was originated by Father Ashley.
Panamanian Demands
In 1953, according to Brother
Fabius, Panama had three griev-
ances: (1) they wanted the rent
raised from a half million dollars
(2) they decried the unequal com-
petition between the Zone and
Panama and (3) they wanted
equal pay for Panamanian and
j American workers doing the same
job. By 1955, a settlement had
been reached in all three griev-
ances.
Unfortunately, Brother Fabius
asserts, “a series of diplomatic
blunders” by the US after the
Suez crisis in 1956—notably Secre-
tary of State Dulles' remarks on
complete US sovereignty over the
Panama canal and the forced ab-
sence of a Panamanian delegate
at settlement talks on the Suez
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dollars for her exports and pays
125 million dollars for her im-
ports, giving a balance of pay- |
ments deficit of over 100 million :
dollars.
Mr. Castillo also says that Pan-
ama “is at the mercy of the US
Federal Reserve system,” since
there is no paper money in Pana-
ma and American dollars are
used. The monetary system of
Panama is not as elastic as that
in the US and any minor fluctua-
tions in the US could have catas-
trophic effects in Panama.
Only 3.5 per cent of the land
of Panama is arable and the de-
veloped land of the Canal Zone is
greatly coveted by the Panamani-
ans, who claim that the land is
not vital to the security of the
canal.
Politics Complicate Situation
Luis Luis, in presenting the po-
litical situation, noted that both
the US and Panama are facing
national elections this year and
therefore the heads of state must
come to an agreement that will
satisfy the public. That is, they
must not make concessions that
would injure the national pride in
their respective countries. He sug-
gested that one of the causes of
the present situation is Commu-
nist infiltration in the high
schools and universities since
1952. President Chiari of Panama,
he asserts, must get tough with
the US or the Communists will
gain influence, and if they do the
powerful national guard of Pana-
ma may depose Chiari.
The strategic and economic as-
pects of the canal with regard to
the international situation were
presented by Major Flugel, who
said that in recent years there
has been a decline in the strategic
value of the canal due to (1) the
development of air power, (2) a
two-ocean navy and (3) the fact
that larger ships cannot navigate
the canal. However, he also states
that in the Cuban crisis of 1962,
26 ships moved from the Pacific
through the canal in a matter of
hours, enabling Cuba to be block-
aded quickly and more effectively.
He also noted that our world-wide
commitments require that we
“control the canal and the area
around it.”
Any solution concerning the
canal must be, he affirms, in ac-
cord with the strategic require-
ments of the US, the national
aspirations of Panama, and US
ideals of peaceful settlement. It
must also alleviate the economic
disparity that exists between Pan-
ama and the Canal Zone, and it
must be an agreement that would
be satisfactory in an election year.
Following Major Flugel’s talk,
the discussion was opened to the
audience. Members of the Catholic
Lay Mission corps from Panama
and two St. Edward’s students
(Panamanians) were present, but
these sources of information were
scarcely tapped. Much of the dis-
cussion centered around whether
the fomentive Castroites and
Communists or the wealthy Pana-
manian aristocracy, neither of
whom have much to do with the
canal, were more to blame for
the crisis.
ILAC Club Dance
Planned for Sat.
The ILAC club of St. Edward’s
university will sponsor a dance
from 7:30 to 11:30 pm Saturday.
February 15. “Los Latinos,” an
eight-piece band that played for
the Latin American week dance,
will supply music ranging from
the “waltz” to the “cha cha cha."
The evening will begin with din-
ner at 5:00 pm, then from 6:30 to
7:15 pm there will be entertain-
ment in the Doyle hall recreation
room. Intermission entertainment
will be supplied by SEU students.
Invitations have been sent to
Our Lady of the Lake college and
Incarnate Word college, both of
San Antonio; Newman hall and
St. Mary’s of Austin have also
been invited.
Several committees have been
formed to make tomorrow night a
big success. According to Rene
Greenwald, president of ILAC.
Jorge Esparza and Carlos Rodri-
guez are in charge of decorations;
Mike Richie has scouted for the
entertainment; refreshments will
be handled by Emilio Sada Paz:
Ben Prieto, in conjunction with
SEU Public Relations, has taken
care of advertising the dance;
and Fernando Garcia will collect
admission charges.
higher education ..............p. 2
Results of and comments
on the SAC religious
survey ...... ............. .... p. 3
Zelsmann on SEU’s
chances for the BSC
crown ...... p. 5
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