The Hilltopper (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1964 Page: 1 of 6
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THE HILLTOPPER
ST. EDWARD’S
UNIVERSITY
Austin, Texas, Friday, December 4, 1964
Price Ten Cents
Volume 49
Six Pages
Number 11
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Students Will Vote
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On Tower Lighting
By Mike Dow
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Christmas Semi-formal
Features Lavish Decor
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Mr. Francis Shows SEU
How To Appreciate Art
Writing IV Symposium
Seeks Role Of Cinema
Former University Pres.
Dies At The Age Of 93
Second Retreat
Set for Dec. 6
Bergman’s highly-rated film was
chosen as the second offering in
the Writing IV Art Film Festival.
It concerns the themes of rape,
revenge, and retribution found in
a Scandinavian folk song.
The unique format for the sym-
posium calls for immediate audi-
ence involvement achieved by ad-
dressing the opening questions to
the floor. From this beginning, the
audience will, during the whole
discussion, form an active third
vertex on the triangle including
moderator and panel.
St. Edward’s students will have
a chance this coming Monday to
vote on whether or not they want
the tower on the Main building
lit. The vote will take place in
the foyer of the Library building
from 8:00 am till noon on Decem-
ber 7, a majority of the votes
cast deciding the tower-lighting
issue.
active discussion the next even-
ing, including a resume of The
Virgin Spring.
The “Personalities” warm up for their Saturday night appear-
ance at the St. Edward’s Christmas dance.
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(Mrs.) Elisabeth Strom introduces professor William Francis,
who spoke on the development of one’s ‘vision’ of art.
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By Paul Barabe
The Virgin Spring, acclaimed
as one of the greatest movies of
director Ingmar Bergman, will be
shown in the University dining
hall Sunday, December 6, at 7:30
pm. There will be a symposium
immediately following the show-
ing.
By John Kaczmarek
The semi-formal Christmas
Dance, to be held this Saturday,
December 5, at the Commodore
Perry hotel, will feature a Blue
Crystal motif.
This lavish soiree will be noted
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This format will serve to aug-
ment the purpose of the discus-
sion—to engender the growth of
thought in the student body on
the film as art and to stimulate
the desire to explore further by
supplying a foundation for under-
standing the contemporary
cinema. Aiding this purpose, there
will be circulated on Saturday,
December 5, a list of four ques-
tions designed to help the stu-
dent form a conceptual basis for
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take for granted, for example, the
color of the sky, are actually sub-
jects of incomparable beauty. The
“ordinary” aspects of a city were
painted by the artists mentioned
above, but these painters went
beyond the “usual seeing” and
looked deeply at what they saw.
Likewise, if we, too, can train our
sight to perceive the beauty in
all we see, we will understand
art as it should be understood;
we will become artists.
Father Joseph Maguire, CSC,
the 14th president of St. Edward’s
university, died late Tuesday, De-
cember 1, at Holy Cross House,
Notre Dame, Indiana.
Father Maguire first came to
St. Edward’s in 1919 as head of
the chemistry department and
became vice-president of the Uni-
versity in 1921, a position he held
until 1932. Father Maguire, pre-
vious to his coming to St. Ed-
ward’s, had been vice-president of
the University of Notre Dame.
Father Maguire became president
of St. Edward’s university in 1934
and served in that position until
1937, when he returned to Notre
Dame.
Born in Blythe, England, Fath-
er Maguire was the oldest mem-
ber of the Congregation of Holy
Cross, at the age of 93. Father
Maguire was one of the last re-
The idea of having our tower
lit was initiated in an October 16
editorial in The Hilltopper. In the
editorial, Mark Walter, editor-in-
chief, stated that the student gov-
ernment of St. Edward’s should
take up the tower-lighting pro-
ject. Acting on the suggestion at
their October 18 meeting, the Stu-
dent Activities council, headed by
president Bernie Yun, directed
Nick Lejeune, senior class presi-
dent, and Dave Wright, senior
class senator, to look into the cost
Panel members are Brother
Simon Scribner, CSC, professor of
English; Brother Dunstan Bowles,
CSC, assistant professor of Eng-
lish; Krandall Kraus, junior hu-
manities major and managing
editor of The Hilltopper; and
Richard McIntyre, sophomore hu-
manities major. Moderator will
be senior humanities major Frank
Zuik, Hilltopper feature editor.
The Nova-Cor method involves
discussions rather than retreat
conferences. The attendants de-
liberate on topics such as: Chris-
tian love, selflessness versus self-
ishness, marriage, sacrifice of
Christ and sacrifice of self in
realization of personal vocations.
The second Nova-Cor retreat
for St. Edward’s university stu-
dents will be held this Sunday,
December 6, and will last until
Tuesday, December 8, at the Saint
Joseph’s retreat house in San
Antonio. Our Lady of the Lake
college will also participate, the
two schools each sending a cer-
tain number of retreatants to this
Cursillo-modeled retreat.
In conjunction with the lecture
by Mr. Francis, two films were
shown: “Art in Our World,” and
“Art in The Western World.”
and feasibility of lighting the
tower.
The investigation showed that
the tower could be lit for $500, and
Bernie Yun quickly sent a pro-
posal to Brother Raymond
Fleck, CSC, president of St. Ed-
ward’s, recommending that the
University light the tower. The
Student Activities council offered
to provide the needed $500 if the
administration would return- $250
to SAC over a two-year period.
The $500 is to come out of the
$1,000 SAC had left over from last
year’s budget. Brother Raymond
readily accepted the proposal, and
the tower will be lit if the ma-
jority vote needed is received
from the students this Monday.
There are plans for three flood-
lights to shine on the roof and
four spotlights to illuminate the
inside of the tower. The new light-
ing should effectively put St. Ed-
ward’s on the nighttime map.
as unique on the merits of deco-
ration alone. Several beautiful
gold chandeliers, adorning the
ceiling of the Colonnade II room,
will emanate a blue tinge. The
tables will be embellished with
flowery white tableclothes, and
each table will be decked with a
dimly lit chimney lamp, from
which will radiate a glowing blue.
Two tall Christmas trees will lend
a holiday atmosphere to the ball-
room. The decorations are fur-
nished by Leet’s Rental service.
Walter Galloway and the Per-
sonalities will furnish the music
and an electric piano backed by
drums and three guitars will be
featured.
The chaperones are to be: Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Pesoli, Mr. and
1 Mrs. Tom Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs.
Ted Paulisen and Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Goss. All faculty mem-
bers are invited to this festive
occasion.
This festive event is sponsored
by the sophomore class in con-
junction with SAC. Steve Pedro,
SAC Social committee chairman
and Al Cisneros, sophomore class
president, will handle all arrange-
ment.
The occasion will be semi-
formal; coats, ties, and cocktail
dresses will be the proper attire
for the bacchanalia.
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Some of the topics to be
discussed will be the modern
adaptation of the two Greek
tragedies in comparison and con-
trast, and a discussion of The
Virgin Spring as allegory.
Admission charge for The
Virgin Spring will be 25c.
maining Congregation members
who had personally known the
Very Reverend Father Edward
Sorin, CSC, the founder of St.
Edward’s university and the Uni-
versity of Notre Dame.
As head of the chemistry de-
partment at Notre Dame from
1897 to 1920, Father Maguire
taught many noted students.
Some of his more famous stu-
dents were the late Father Julius
Nieuwland, CSC, the developer of
a formula for the formation of
synthetic rubber, and the late
Knute Rockne, Notre Dame’s
famous football coach.
Funeral services for Father
Maguire were held today at 3:30
pm in Sacred Heart church on the
University of Notre Dame cam-
pus. Father Maguire was buried
in Community cemetery at Notre
Dame.
“Art is a form of communica-
tion. The only common denomi-
nator in art is man, and even as
man is a complex being, his cre-
ations are highly complex. We do
not like all of the people we meet,
therefore, how can we expect to
like all of art—when art is the
creation of people?” “Involved in
the ‘seeing process’ of looking at
a painting are such elements as
size, purpose, media, subject,
color, line and shape. An im-
portant part of a painting is its
effect on you. Does it cause you
to think? If it does, then the
painting achieved its purpose.”
The film was chosen as a fitting
precursor of the Writing IV sym-
posium on the cinema as a con-
temporary art medium. The stu-
dent body has had the chance
recently to view the adaptation of
Eugene O’Neill’s “Mourning Be-
comes Electra,” and Jules
Dassin’s “P h a e d r a," both of
which are taken from the Greek
tragedies of the same name. They
will then be better prepared to
take the active part which the
experimental symposium offers
them.
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By Andre L. Guerrero
A journey exploring the mean-
ing of art was taken Wednesday
night, led by Mr. Bill Francis,
associate professor of art at the
University of Texas. Those for-
tunate enough to attend the art
program, sponsored by the Fine
Arts Exhibit Chairman, (Mrs.)
Elisabeth Strom, were guided
through the aesthetic wilderness
of contemporary art and shown
the way to an understanding of
what art attempts to do.
Mr. Francis used the theme,
“The City,” in presenting his pro-
gram, which was entitled “Learn-
ing to See.” Augmented by the
showing of color slides of the
works of such artists as El Greco,
Dufy, Utrillo, John Marin, Monet,
Mondrian, Ben Shawn and De
Chirico, Mr. Francis showed how
different artists interpreted the
subject of a city. From impres-
sionism to surrealism to the
metaphysical school—the manner
in which various painters were
inspired to preserve their feelings
on canvas was examined. By try-
ing to “see through the eyes of
the artist,” the audience was
shown that there is much more to
art than “meets the eye,” at first
glance. Many of the things we
Dave Uhlik, freshman in teach-
er training from Rocky River,
Ohio and Byron Hingle, sopho-
more humanities student from
Port Sulphur, Louisiana, reported
that, “those of us who took part
in the November Nova-Cor
gradually and unconsciously found
ourselves actually becoming a
family in all phases—working,
playing, and praying together.”
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