The Griffin: volume 15, issue 01 - Sept. 26, 1947

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Familiar Landmark Soon to House Business and Social Studies
With the opening date for the Delavan building .set tentatively for the middle of Xovemher, nece.ssary alteration.s there are being m.shed to meet the deadline. The struc¬ ture, whieh \va.s formerly Si.sters Hospital, has long heen a Buffalo landmark, and was pureha.sed last spring hy. the college for an undiselo.sed sum, to accommodate the rec¬ ord enrollment of veterans seeking an education at the Main street buildings. Fresh¬ men and Sophomore Husine.ss and Social Studies will have cla.s.ses there, according to present plans.
Father William McLoughlin, S.J., recently appointed head of the new college building has announced that the building will he a complete educational plant in it.self. Its physical makeup will incluile 1.5 cla.ssrooms, completely equipped, a cafeteria for JIOO and library and research facilities.
While the main oflices of all academic departments and extracurricular activities wfll remain on the eampu.s, all will have extension olfices in the annex. Other features will include di.scu.ssion rooms, debate halls and .seminar rixims. The outstanding feature will Im: a Little Theatre equipped with the most modeni apparatus for the study and practice of the drama.
Lawyer Hits Attack On Vets' Education
Mr. Seeberg Questions Charge Of Illegality in State's Action
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War Service of Dean Rewarded By U, S. Navy
Father John W O'Sulli-, van, .S.J., wa.s reixMitly .sig¬ nally honorc-tl uiKin the nre- -u-ntation of a citation from the l*SN Uureau of Xavy IVrxmnel   for   meritorious
{K-rsonal   > e r v i e e   to   the United StAtrv .NavT dursne World \X*ar   II   llus was tfic third  such ; award    Faikr    received     Previous \ Awa;dj were pre^nted by tlie Civil i .Actoftiulics    Autfiorsty    and    the .Army Au Forces j
llse preicnta'ion, m.Adc at the CoUctjc durmg tbe Sc-T..Trfr. w-xs sii^ncd In* Vtcc .Ad.tu.-al Louu Den- ficU xnd WAS rtudc h Lieut-Cmilrs joiin R Stacy and Ftcd Davmo. Fijfier O'Sullivan was m charge of tk Navy's tiight training pjogro-m Xi the College xnd also acted as civilian adviw*: to tfic United Siatrs War l>cpa:tn>cnt Father in¬ augurated and ptonrercd tbc rfighl tramt.'ig oi enlisted men of the Bullalo Afea at Cantwus and pro- ces.sed those 2<fO local men wfw were toptlight aviators during tbrc war, known as tk "Bulfalo Ikvnib- ert,"
===== I      The following letter, originally intended as an answer to Sept. 26. 19^7 ; a letter written hy iienry Adsit Bull and printed in the
Courier-Express Mail Bag Colunm of Sept. 4th. has so far gone unpublished.  It is printed'
Academia Sends Challenges
11k L'nivcrsity of Syracuse xnd the United S<ates .Mttitaty .Academy at West Kvmt will k anwng tliosc invited to debate Canisius College this ytrat. it was announced after a n>eetinc of mcxlerator and cvihccrit of ik Academia on Wednesday. Sept l?th Twenty niemkrs of tbe old club still remain and twenty-live new candidates were scheduled for tryouis on Sept. 22nd
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here in full for ihc mlormation ol Camsius students and alumni.
Thus far in the cose of Henry .Adsi: Bull vs. Canisius College xni the Scale of New York, two de¬ cisions have been reached both in favor of New York and Canisius Tncsc suits would noc only serious¬ ly hi.^i:scf tk educational program xz Canuius College, but they also constitute a cfullcngr to veterans' rights.
The first decision, made bv lusticc IsLidore Boolcsteio in .Al¬ bany, denied the plea for an in- junaion to stop •wx>rk on the Delav-an .Atuicjc. The next ruling bv Justice .Alger Williams in Buf¬ falo dismissed the cast entirely.
Logically.   tfie>e   two   decision-^ •^hxild    fuvc    bcm    suthcieit    tr demonstrate  how   tk  govcm.ment felt  in the matter.    However, the I parties  prosecuting   the  cose  Iuve | now   prrscntcd   an   appeal   to   the 1 .\rrcHatc Division arid a new- rul- \
(Fl» Note: .i ionplele and detailed afiaxyds of ihe h:st<>ff of the faie arid iti present stains will appear m the next isfste oj the Gruh.v.)
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B-ar!aJo Ci^cricr-Eipfrss, 'SS  .Mam Street. Burfak^  \^ New   York.
Dear Sir:
I read wtih a cv«i-»idefabic ariK-'cnt ol sn:efc-»t she letter or Hcntv .\d^h Bull. pctShs.ScJ tn vcHit .Mai! Ki^ Col- u-im CO Thcts<bv. ScpJcRihcf 4:h. I WAS ia!cfe.»!cd nv<{ ccih because I am a ptacUcin^< alto.-ncv. hut kvau>c 1 ani a veteran of World Vl'ar II. an alum¬ nus oi Canisius Cohcjcc. and not of the Rtunan Cath\>lic persuasion.
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Plans Program
Edward |. Schw-endler. Canisius College Sodality Prefea and Presi¬ dent of the Student Spiritual Coun¬ cil, emphasized "he spiritual -work of the Sodality as its prinury ob¬ jective in tk Qrst meeting of the Coimcil which was held on Tuesday evening, Septemkr 16, ar tk Col¬ lege.
It was decided further that regular Sodal it) meetings will be held on Tuesday evenings at 7:45, kgitming September 30. The So¬ dality- wdl recite one decade of the Rosary twice each day during Octokr at the altar behind the Science Building at 8:35 A.M. and 12:45 P.M. Weather not permit¬ ting outdoor exercises, they will k held in the auditorium during the same hours.
SPIRITL^AL COLNQL {Continued on page -i. coL 5)
Plans Made for Wider Activities In Frosh Debate
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Sopbotnores— Septemkr .sO^ October 1-2
Freshmen— October 7-9
With over six hundred new- stu- utnts to choose from, this year's Freshman debating team can be one of the outstaning organizations in tk College. .Among the many new- plans of Moderator Mr. Sicvers, S.J., are those that will pattern the organization after the Senior Aca¬ demia. Ever)- opportunity will k provided for each member to be¬ come adept in public spca.king and debate.
Debating within the group will predominate as the most frecjuent activity, although other debates with fival school teams xtc king plan¬ ned.
Application blanks have ken placed in the library and tryouts will k given to ill applicants. Those who are successful in the try- outs will then k notified by mail as to the time and place of future meetings.
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