NEWS & VIEWS:
Deedy, John
VIEWS & VIEWS Racism & Georgetown In 1966, it was a goose-stepping "Nazi" cheerleader with a soldier's suit and "Sieg Heil" hoyas. This year it's a bed-sheet banner unfurled at a recent basketball...
...The cheerleader had appeared at past Georgetown games, he observed, and would appear at some future ones-though not again at an NYU game, particularly, it seemed, one played in Madison Square Garden...
...not the side door to the New York Public Library, Yup...
...Father William J. Sullivan, S.J., dean of the divinity school and an opponent of the...
...Not Grand Central...
...Then, as now, the incident has over-spilled the campus...
...At a recent game with Dickinson College, a banner appeared via a window high on the east end of McDon-ough Gymnasium reading, "Thompson, Nigger Flop Must Go...
...The person (or persons) responsible had fled...
...Arms and the Man A participant in the Vin-nell Corporation/U.S...
...The incident itself, however, refuses to flee...
...Henle, SJ., as "despicable," the work of a "bigoted kook, a stupid fellow...
...This year it's a bed-sheet banner unfurled at a recent basketball game branding the coach a "nigger flop...
...Odds and Ends - A community with a dilemma: Hiawatha, Iowa, is saddled with a Richard M. Nixon Elementary School...
...The school board has been petitioned to rename the school in honor of Abraham Lincoln, "a great President, and, in turn, remove the name of a President who resigned office in disgrace...
...How in is porn...
...Boys would be boys-or so the attitude seemed to be...
...Then, as now, the place is Georgetown University...
...At a team press conference, Felix Yeoman, freshman forward and spokesman, eloquently defended Thompson as a person who placed first things first...
...Now, unlike then, the Jesuit administration is deeply and genuinely shaken-an indication, perhaps, that some events of the 1960s have not been without sensitizing effect...
...The Washington Post quoted Thompson as labeling the incident "unfortunate, because people and other universities can say, 'Look at the problem they have at Georgetown.' They're safe because they're afraid to deal with the problem...
...offering...
...We are not mercenaries," he told the New York Times, "because we are not pulling the triggers...
...He told each of us before we signed a grant-in-aid to GU," said Yeoman, "that he would only promise us one thing-an education...
...Defense Department $77-million arrangement to train Saudi Arabian troops to protect oilfields denies that he and his 3,000 colleagues are mercenaries...
...Item 50-down for 2/12/75: 42nd St...
...The matter "was not settled on the merits of the issue but because of pressure and the prerogatives of presidential authority," Sullivan charged...
...Another, with a more exact grasp of the English language, said: "Maybe that makes us executive mercenaries...
...Louis University ["Shaping the End of a Divinity School...
...In fact, he told us, 'if you don't want to work hard, don't come here!'" But Yeoman also struck an ominous note: "Let us caution a certain element that our patience is growing short...
...Louis University voted to abolish the SLU School of Divinity and merge its programs into an undergraduate-level department of theology -an action which Ms...
...As I think about it I have to feel that it's a sickness in our society, that hiring a black coach caused this...
...Louis & Divinity A postscript to Margaret M. Carlan's article on St...
...Asked why the trustees had agreed with O'Connell, Sullivan commented: "The major reason for sacrificing theological education is [the board's] unwillingness to face the fact that they made a serious error in choosing that man as president...
...not the Ford Foundation building...
...He fingered SLU president, Father Daniel C. O'Connell, S.J., as culprit...
...A special subcommittee had unanimously voted to keep a separate school of theological study...
...In enough to make it into the New York Times crossword puzzle...
...not Bryant Park...
...There's none of that flabby attitudinizing this time around over the racist act aimed at John Thompson, the former Providence College and Boston Celtics star, who is in his third year as basketball coach at Georgetown...
...A search was conducted behind the gym after the incident occurred, with no results...
...Who pulled the stunt is not known...
...A community with a conscience: Clermont-Ferrand, France, rejected ITT's bid to sell street lights to the city because "of the active participation of ITT in financing the coup in Chile, which has established a fascist regime there bordering on Nazism...
...The student newspaper, The Hoya, bristled at the qualification, saying editorially that it "tarnished his reply...
...St...
...Rather it has opened up the question of "racism" on campus...
...merger, resigned as dean and as SLU faculty member in protest to the decision...
...He labeled the trustees' vote "an imposition of [O'Connell's] personal authority...
...As for Thompson, he's sad and he's hurt, but magnanimous...
...Better not to beard the lion in his own den...
...It added, however, "our thinking is that the vast majority deplore this sort of attack upon Thompson...
...Cowardly, without the guts to stand up and be counted...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...We train people to pull triggers...
...1/17/75]: The board of trustees of St...
...Father Henle declared, "The fool will not be pursued...
...Immediately the act was blasted by Georgetown president, Father R.J...
...In 1966, the antics of the "Nazi" cheerleader were defended by the Jesuit director of student personnel...
...Ironically, a column in the same issue of The Hoya was commenting that "what this episode does not demonstrate is just how pervasive racist feeling is at Georgetown...
...In 1966, the memory of Nazism was obviously neither too tragic nor too recent that it could not be reduced at Georgetown to quaint joke or sports ceremonial...
...Porn...
...Car-Ian predicted would speak volumes about the theological poverty of the Catholic Church in the U.S., should it come to pass...
...O'Connell assumed the university's presidency last July...
...In an apology to coach Thompson and the team for the insult dealt them, the representative of the Black Student Alliance, Fred Baylor, spoke on behalf of the total black community at Georgetown and "some of the white students on this campus...
...What counts to me," he told the Washington Star-News, "is that Father Henle put himself out on a limb by hiring me...
...But, hell, Georgetown should be commended, not criticized...
Vol. 101 • March 1975 • No. 16
