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By Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Many chiropractors advise against immunization. In 1992, 37% of 178 chiropractors who responded to a survey agreed that "there is no scientific proof that immunization prevents infectious disease" and 23% said they were uncertain.
Among the "unproven" group, 24% were American Chiropractic Association (ACA) members and 65% belonged to the International Chiropractors Association (ICA). Twenty-seven percent of the respondents said their own families had not been immunized, and 58% agreed with the statement "Immunization should never be given to people over 60 years of age." Before filling out the forms, the chiropractors were asked to read a 1979 American Public Health Association (APHA) policy statement warning that 40% of American children under age 15 had incomplete immunization against preventable diseases and that severe complications can result.
Only 14% agreed that "the chiropractic profession should fully support the APHA immunization policies for children and adults" Chiropractors who graduated before 1980 tended to be more negative than those who had graduated in 1980 or afterward.
A 1998 survey of chiropractors in the Boston area found that 30% reported actively recommended immunization, 7% reported recommending against immunization, and the rest (63%) reported that they did not make any recommendations or that they educated parents to allow them to make informed decisions. However, the way they "educated" parents was not specified.
In 1999, Dynamic Chiropractic invited readers to state whether they have immunized their children. This method is not precise way to collect such data, but the answers were still interesting. Of 140 responses, the results were:
My children have receive absolutely no vaccinations: 59 (42%)
My children received only some of the usually required vaccinations: 31 (22%)
My children have received all of the usual required vaccinations 50 (36%)
Chiropractic's two largest organizations oppose compulsory immunization. The ACA has acknowledged "routine vaccinations have been a proven and effective campaign in the control of many diseases."
However, its current policy is:
The ACA supports each individual's right to freedom of choice in his/her own health care based on an informed awareness of the benefits and possible adverse effects of vaccination.
The ACA is supportive of a conscience clause or waiver in compulsory vaccination laws thereby maintaining an individual's right to freedom of choice in health care matters and providing an alternative/elective course of action regarding vaccination.
The International Chiropractors Association (ICA) current policy states:
The International Chiropractors Association recognizes that the use of vaccines is not without risk.
The ICA supports each individual's right to select his or her own health care and to be made aware of the possible adverse effects of vaccines upon a human body. In accordance with such principles and based upon the individual's right to freedom of choice, the ICA is opposed to compulsory programs which infringe upon such rights.
The International Chiropractors Association is supportive of a conscience clause or waiver in compulsory vaccination laws, providing an elective course of action for all regarding immunization, thereby allowing patients freedom of choice in matters affecting their bodies and health.
The ICA does not acknowledge benefit and even sells a book called Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System, which contends that vaccines are ineffective and dangerous.
The World Chiropractic Alliance, a smaller group "dedicated to promoting a subluxation-free world," is also opposed to compulsory immunization for children.
State chiropractic licensing boards also support anti-immunization activities. In 2002, the boards in 40 states and the District of Columbia approved the awarding of continuing education credits for attending the Third International Public Conference on Vaccination, a meeting sponsored by the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a group that is rabidly opposed to immunization.
Chiropractors staunchly opposed the use of the polio vaccine in the 1940s and 1950s, and many still support that opposition, saying that the incidence of polio is cyclical and would have declined without any vaccination program. The fact is that since the vaccine's introduction, the incidence of polio has become extremely noncyclical. The present rate of polio is less than one hundredth its lowest level before oral immunization programs began, and public health officials have predicted worldwide eradication by the year 2000. This is one of the most dramatic success stories in the history of medical science's struggle to reduce suffering and early death. The same could be said of the vaccination program that rid the world of smallpox, a once prevalent deadly disease. Chiropractors claim that somehow this would have happened anyway. That simply is untrue.
In addition to denying the benefits, immunization opponents also magnify the risks. A small percentage of children given shots to prevent diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), and measles will experience adverse effects-most of them trivial. However, the benefits of these shots vastly outweigh the improbable harm. Where immunization programs are lacking, preventable diseases continue to cause death and disability despite improved public hygiene. Within the past few years, several states that had belonged to the Soviet Union, for example, have experienced a diphtheria epidemic due to waning of their vaccination programs.
Chiropractic opposition to immunization appears to be based on a combination of philosophy and faulty reasoning. As far back as 1889, D.D. Palmer wrote that "Vaccination is a medical delusion" and that "All sick persons, except paupers, have the right to employ whom they please to treat them. If sick persons have the above right, should not well persons have the same privilege?"
In 1906, his son B.J. Palmer wrote:
The idea of poisoning healthy people with vaccine virus . . . is irrational. People make a great ado if exposed to a contagious disease, but they submit to being inoculated with rotten pus, which, if it takes, is warranted to give them a disease.
In 1941, a group calling itself the Chiropractors' Constitutional Rights Committee published a 158-page report called "The Horrors of Vaccination and Inoculation at Work." The report stated that :There is no more flagrant imposition upon our American freedom or impending danger to the welfare of our people than compulsory vaccination," which it considered "pollution of the human blood stream." The report also claimed that 60% of the people who were inoculated would get seriously ill, that vaccination does not prevent disease, and vaccinated persons acquired smallpox more readily than unvaccinated persons.
In anti-immunization booklet published during the mid-1970s. The author, Robert T. Sottile, D.C,. claimed that all vaccines "work on the same unproven, fictitious theories and are not based on any sound, fundamental laws whatsoever." He also stated that "the Germ Theory has no scientific basis -- no more than that of the basis of vaccination and inoculation."
In recent years, the Palmers' philosophical descendent, ICA past-president Fred H. Barge, D.C., has stated:
I am a firm opponent of artificial immunization and the antiquated germ theory on which it is based. . . . I, myself, my three daughters and my six grandchildren have never been vaccinated for anything. I even try to avoid having my dogs vaccinated.
Chiropractic philosophy states that natural immunity is to be favored over any attempt to artificially immunize the body, and chiropractic's approach to health augments the body's innate immunological capacity.
Barge's statement is not merely unsubstantiated. A recent study by chiropractors found that manipulative therapy produced no clinically significant effect on five types of lymphocytes that correlate with immune-system functioning .
Pediatric Chiropractic, which is chiropractic's major pediatric textbook, states that "rather than advising the parent(s) to vaccinate or not to vaccinate, the chiropractic doctor should focus on educating the parent(s) on the subject and allow the parent(s) to make the decision they feel is most appropriate for their child." The book's 27-page chapter on these "issues" is devoted mainly to adverse reactions, contraindications, and "failures." Nothing in the chapter suggests that immunization is a good idea.
In 2002, a study of students at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) was reported to have found that negative attitudes toward vaccination increased progressively from year to year. The proportion of students who were "in favor of vaccination in general" fell from 60.7% in Year 1 to 39.5% in Year 4. The proportion who said that "vaccines should never be given to infants under 1 year of age" rose from 17% in Year 1 to 47% in Year 4. The authors noted that progressive negative attitudes occurred primarily among students who relied primarily on informal sources (visiting lecturers) rather than "core CMCC lectures." An accompanying editorial stated that the study "suggests that even in the face of education to the contrary (provided by their own professional school) and despite the policies of The Canadian Chiropractic Association, negative beliefs are still acquired or persist in a sizable minority of students." However, neither the surveyors nor the editorial writers noted how negatively the school's pediatric textbook (Pediatric Chiropractic) treats the subject.
In 2002, a postal survey of chiropractors in Alberta, Canada drew 503 responses. The results showed that 25% advised patients in favor of immunization, 27% opposed having themselves/their children immunized, and the topic of immunization arose with patients at least monthly for 36.5% of the chiropractors and at least weekly for 9.2% of them.
A "Religious" Objection
In September 2000, the Syracuse Herald American reported that the mother of 5-year-old girl Victoria Turner was suing the local school district for denying her daughter's entrance into kindergarten. The lawsuit claims that the district is violating the child's constitutional right to religious freedom. The mother states that she belongs to the Congregation of Universal Wisdom, which preaches that injection of any medication or other man-made substance would violate the sanctity of the body. The school superintendent had determined that the mother's beliefs were sincere but not part of a legitimate religion -- that a similar case in another school district had revealed that the "Congregation of Universal Wisdom" had been formed by a chiropractor, required no real training for its ministers, and did not provide religious services or other regular contacts with its members.
Information about this group is distributed by Walter P. Schilling, D.C., who identifies himself as its Secretary-Treasurer. The documents he distributes state that the Congregation of Universal Wisdom is a "religious order" that was incorporated in New Jersey in 1975 and has a total membership of "4,423 Souls" in 24 states, with 2,427 members in New Jersey, 1,255 in Florida and 409 New York . To join, families must state the name and birth date of each family member and include a dated statement that they will aspire to live by the group's tenets. The "customary donation" for a family lifetime membership is $75, with an additional $12 for postage if express mail is desired. "Official notification of your family enrollment as well as a statement regarding our stand on immunization" is sent upon receipt of the letter and donation.
The group's "religious tenets" express fundamentalistic chiropractic theory in religious terms. The mother has followed these tents since 1990, the same year she began working as a chiropractic assistant. The tenets state that "the ministry will be constituted by those sufficiently trained in the art, philosophy and theology of the laying on of hands to the vertebrae" and that "the laity . . . shall be composed of those seeking spiritual and physical health combined by unequivocal adherence to the principles of the Congregation and the laying on of hands on their vertebrae." They further state that the use of medication-whether by ingestion, injection, application, or inhalation-is a sacrilege.
Despite all this, in March 2000, the U.S. District Judge issued a preliminary injunction permitting Victoria to continue to attend school until he decides the case after a full trial.
Responsible Voices
Robert Anderson, M.D., D.C., believes that chiropractors "tend to evaluate all things medical in symbolic terms as hostile and harmful." In a paper tracing the history of chiropractic opposition to immunization, he concluded:
Conservative chiropractors base their opposition to immunization upon imperfections in vaccines that relate to the efficacy, safety and necessity of immunizations. Further, they persist in a belief that chiropractic spinal manipulation provides an alternative method for achieving immune status. This belief has not been subjected to testing in clinical trials or laboratory experiments, and thus becomes a matter of belief rather than of scientific verity. A refusal to advocate or submit to vaccines serves conservative chiropractors as an understandable cultural symbol, but it is a symbol with sinister health costs to those who translate it into non-immune status in a world otherwise still hostage to disease-producing organisms .
Consistent with this, Craig E. Nelson, D.C., suggests that "it is precisely because opposing immunization sets chiropractic apart from medicine that makes this position so attractive to some chiropractors. . . . By opposing immunization, chiropractic ensures that it will not become assimilated into the health-care mainstream". Lon Morgan, D.C., has urged his colleagues to support immunization against whooping cough (pertussis). Randy J. Ferrance, D.C., M.D., has urged his colleagues to "do what is right and let the facts, not our historical chiropractic theology, guide our advice." Noting that "anti-vax" chiropractors often advise periodic spinal adjustments as a substitute for vaccination, Ferrance and Stephen Perle, D.C. have branded this approach as "illogical and completely unethical." But outspoken articles of this type are uncommon in chiropractic publications.
In March 2000, Cheryl Hawk, D.C., Ph.D., a researcher at Palmer College, candidly acknowledged that her profession "has not historically emphasized the areas of knowledge from which prevention methods evolved" and that:
Furthermore, a vocal proportion of the profession openly, completely, and without reservation opposes the most widely accepted and documented preventative procedure available: immunization. They do this even though the risk of serious complications from the most well established immunization is . . . minuscule .
In April 2000, the medical journal Pediatrics published a detailed report on chiropractors and immunization. The authors, two of whom were Canadian chiropractors, concluded:
Because early chiropractic dogma eschews both the germ theory of disease and vaccines, adherents can reject the overwhelming scientific evidence that vaccination is a highly effective methods of controlling infectious disease because this does not conform to Chiropractic's "major premise." However, not all antivaccination chiropractors fit into this category. Some may have been unduly influenced by the antivaccination literature, while others may have rejected it for less than altruistic reasons: for example, there may be a financial advantage in maintaining a health care practice that is totally distinct from medical care. Whatever their reasons, antivaccination chiropractors and the methods by which some disseminate their views are a continuing source of embarrassment to their more evidence-based colleagues.
Regardless of the reason, opposition to proven public health measures is irresponsible and can cause serious harm both to patients and to our society as a whole. Attitudes toward immunization offer a way to measure whether rank-and-file chiropractors wish to practice as cultists or scientists.


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Hua Li movements were that of a seasoned veteran of the martial arts world; not only graceful in their execution, but agile and quick. He split a smaller rock in half with his chop of his hand and then drew out a long sword, continuing like the yesterday, to swing his arm in a circular motion, mimicking the motions of two intertwined swords. Today was an auspicious day, and as Hua Li switched to practice yet another stance he found himself wondering whether he would meet another practitioner of the arts somewhere in the field of rocks. Those with skill tended to attract one other, or he had heard people say.


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Chapman State Park
Preserved in 1998 by the State of Maryland's Program Open Space (POS), Chapman State Park stretches from the Potomac River to Mattawoman Creek, in western Charles County. The park is a dramatic reminder of the great woodlands that once cradled the Potomac tidewater region.
Visitors to Chapman State Park enjoy a journey through time, to Southern Maryland's pastoral heritage, finding mature forests, rare plants, and bald eagles frequenting the skies above. Park visitors also discover the Mt. Aventine Mansion: the historic home of the prominent Chapman family, who were closely tied to the families of our Founding Fathers George Washington and George Mason. As one stands in front of the Chapmans' grand estate, looking down the Potomac River and Virginia shoreline, enjoying one of the most striking view sheds in the region, our colonial history inspires the imagination.
For several thousand years before the arrival of Europeans, Native Americans inhabited the area that is now Chapman State Park. In 1608, Captain John Smith passed here on his exploration of the Potomac River. During his riparian voyage various tribal settlements were identified, and maps of the area dated 1673 still showed Native American longhouses where Chapman State Park is now.
However, by 1750, with plantations becoming increasingly common along the Potomac River, Nathaniel Chapman acquired this land, then known as Grimes Ditch. Nathaniel Chapman was a prominent colonial businessman. He was also a friend and business associate of both the American patriot and Founding Father George Mason and Augustine Washington, father of George Washington. The 165 years that followed the Chapman acquisition of Grimes Ditch brought an engaging history that included a tidewater plantation, a large and lucrative shad and herring fishery, the construction of the familys Mt. Aventine manor, the gripping drama of the Civil War, a post-war farm, a Hungarian horse farm, and eventually the creation of Chapman State Park.
Chapman State Park Land Unit Plan
View the Chapman State Park Land Unit Plan.
Pet Policy
- Pets are allowed in Chapman State Park.
Mt. Aventine Mansion:
The Chapman family occupied its Mt. Aventine mansion until 1914, when the family estate was sold. This grand manor house was built by Nathaniel Chapmans great-grandson, Pearson, around 1840, after a fire damaged the original house near the river. The antebellum mansion, which commands a prominent overlook and spectacular view of the Potomac River, was appended to a small stone cottage dating to the late 1700s. Todays structure includes several additions.
The structure was enlarged around 1860, expanding its east-west axis. The Mt. Aventine Mansion is a two-story, common bond brick structure, with lower flanking wings. A cedar lined lane provides the approach to the manor house.
The house currently consists of 8 fireplaces, 5 bedrooms, 6 ½ bathrooms, a front parlor, a dining room, a main kitchen area, a warming kitchen area, and 2 offices. There is also a basement under the main part of the house. The central hall with two wings architecture makes it one of the best examples of antebellum homes in Southern Maryland. As such, Mt. Aventine was added to the National Register of Historic places in 1996.
From 1914, when the Chapman family sold its estate, until the 1990s, there were various owners of the property including the Countess Margit Bessenyey, who owned the property from 1954 1984. The Countess was the late wife of the Hungarian ambassador to the United States and an avid equestrian. She used the Chapman property as a stud farm for Hungarian thoroughbred horses. Chapman State Park still includes the barns, stables, and a riding arena installed by the Countess.
Mt. Aventine Open House - The Friends of Chapman State Park host an open house on the second Sunday of each month between April and October. These open houses feature guided nature walks, history presentations, and childrens activities.
The habitats of Chapman State Park vary from flooded wetlands to cactus-studded dry sands, illustrating the variety of the coastal plains natural heritage. Significant biodiversity thrives here, with over three dozen state-rare species of oaks, a globally rare snail, wetland animals, native cactus, bald eagles, and much more. The parks many forest types include oak-hickory terraces, steep ravines, bottomland woods, and a rare shell-marl forest which is rich in calcium-loving plants reminiscent of mountain habitats. Over 1,000 acres of forest interior grant sanctuary for dozens of species of birds, protecting them from predators that hunt more open spaces. Chapman State Park also boasts several trails, 2-miles of Potomac shoreline, miles of streams, shaded wetlands, fertile pools where amphibians breed, sunny meadows, and a large impounded marsh.
- Potomac River Trail This hiking trail doubles as a service road that joins the original Chapmans Landing Road to the Potomac River. The 0.6 mile trail roughly marks the boundary between a dry sandy woodland (to the northeast), and a more moist, richer forest (to the southwest).
- Marsh Trail This marked trail branches off of the Potomac River Trail, and meanders through a fertile bottomland woods that contrasts the sandier woodland along the Potomac shoreline. The 0.7 mile trail leads to an unusual scrub-shrub marsh which is separated from the Potomac River by a narrow spit.
- Coastal Woodlands Trail This clearly marked, 1-mile trail joins the Potomac River Trail to make a 1.5 mile loop. The trail runs through various habitats, including a terrace gravel forest and a coastal oak forest, to eventually run along the Potomac shoreline.
- Birding In 2009, Chapman State Park was designated as an Important Bird Area by the National Audubon Society. For information on self guided birding opportunities in Charles County visit: www.dnr.maryland.gov/outdooradventures/birdingcharlesco.html
- Fishing - Fishing is permitted from shore. Species include largemouth bass, sunfish, catfish, white and yellow perch, carp and hardhead. A Chesapeake Bay Sportfishing License is required.
- Hunting - Designated areas of Chapman State Park offer managed and in-season hunting opportunities. For specific information refer to the Maryland DNR Guide to Hunting and Trapping or call 301-743-5161 for current seasons.
Hunters may enter / remain on park property outside of the regular posted hours provided that they are engaged in legitimate, authorized hunting activity. - Pets - Pets are permitted in the state park.
The Friends of Chapman State Park, Inc., in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources, Maryland Park Service, help maintain and operate Chapman State Park. For volunteer information contact 301-743-7613.
Points Of Interest
- Historical points of interest nearby include: Thomas Stone National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/thst/index.htm,
Fort Washington National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/fowa/index.htm,
Dr. Samuel Mudd House http://www.somd.lib.md.us/MUSEUMS/Mudd.htm,
and the Port Tobacco Court House http://www.mdmunicipal.org/cities/index.cfm?townname=PortTobacco&page=home - There are several scenic flat water canoe routes in Southern Charles County. For information about the Potomac River Water Trail visit: http://www.baygateways.net/general.cfm?id=19
- Nearby Public Lands: Smallwood State Park; Purse State Park; Chapel Point State Park
To Visit / Directions:
Chapman State Park is located at 3452 Ferry Place in Indian Head, Maryland.
From the DC area:
DC Beltway (I-695) to Indian Head Highway (Exit 3) MD Route 210 S
Continue on Route 210 for approximately 10 miles to the light at Bryans Road (stay straight)
From Bryans Road - Follow for 1.1 miles to Chapmans Landing Road Veer right off the highway
Continue for 1.6 miles to the entrance sign - on your right
The driveway gate is usually locked. Visitors are encouraged to park in the small designated area just outside the main gate and enter using the Walk-In Gate to the left.
Contact information: This is not the physical address of Chapman State Park.
Chapman State Park
c/o Smallwood State Park
2750 Sweden Point Road
Marbury, MD 20658
Chapman Info...
Chapman State Park
3452 Ferry Place
Indian Head MD 20640
Contact Chapman
Smallwood State Park: 301-743-7613
Hours of Operation
Sunrise to Sunset
Certain activities are permitted outside of the regular park hours (e.g. fishing, boat launch, hunting where permitted). Please check with the park before your visit if you plan to engage in an activity which requires you to be in the park before or after the posted hours.
Contact the Park Service
- Toll Free: 1-800-830-3974
(Annapolis Office) - Reservations: 1-888-432-2267
- Park Watch: 1-800-825-7275
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WEST RUTLAND Helena M. Jarrosak, 86, died March 24, 2013, at her home.
She was born in Rutland, Feb. 7, 1927, daughter of Reginald J. and Bertha (Duprey) Roberts.
She was a graduate of Rutland High School and attended UVM, majoring in psychology.
Helena was a member of Rutland American Legion Auxiliary, West Rutland American Legion Auxiliary Unit 87, VFW Auxiliary, Rutland County Licensed Practical Nurse Assn., and Beta Sigma Pi Sorority in Rutland.
She was employed by Tambrands, Inc. for 36 years, retiring in 1986.
Surviving are a daughter, Ann Marie Jarrosak and her partner, James Pickett of Wallingford; her grandchildren, Jeffrey Kent, Mathew and Gregory Phelps; great-grandchildren, Zachary, Nicholas, Allen, Ryan and Elijah; many nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her husband, Peter Jarrosak in 1985; a daughter, Patricia Kent and her husband, John both in 2007; two brothers, Joseph Roberts and Donald Roberts; and two sisters, Mary Phillips and Patricia Roberts.
A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, April 1, 2013, in the Clifford Funeral Home.
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Kilwin's, Sarasota, Florida
I went to Florida for Easter Break. Which was quite a while ago. Haha sorry. I stayed with my dad's friend and he sort of treated me like a kid (even though I'm almost 21), because he always brought me to ice cream shops after dinner.
My favorite place was Kilwin's because it has TONS of sweets! It's not just a random ice cream place that literally just sells ice creams - this one sells fudges, chocolates, candies, and much much more. I loved it!
Kilwin's have about 30 different ice cream flavors. I got my favorite ice cream flavor EVER, Moose Tracks, even though it's not called that way there. I forgot what it's called. Heheh. But it was equally good, nonetheless.
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I'll add drawings here anyone is welcome to include their drawings ideas as well!
maybe something like this http://solsylva.com/cnc/rack_pinion.shtml
http://www.techno-isel.com/tic/Catdas/Gantry3.htm very useful link with good components
I'm in the dark as to what kind of parts should be designed first, but if you can throw together a couple of sketches I can start modeling.
Am I doing this right?
There's a great concept for a statically determined linear slide in this document, Figure 6a. http://alexandria.tue.nl/repository/freearticles/605520.pdf Unfortunately the document is in Dutch, but I didn't want to "steal" their drawing.
The basic idea is that you want to fix a cart in five degrees of freedom, which you do with five roller (skate?) bearings. The four on the left and the one on top on the right. The two bearings on the bottom are mounted on a rather thin plate, so that they push the other five onto the guide.
This means the straightness of the cart is only derived from the left tube, you could even position the second tube a few degrees off without any harm done.
Hm, I haven't calculated it but you're right that straightness was the first thing I was going for. I wonder if those eBay dovetails are any good.
That's a very generous offer, unfortunately I can't seem to find the Hong Kong new ones, they only have linear ball bearings. (I assume you mean those slide bearings in dovetail shape right?)
Again I had to educate myself... had to search for these dovetails to follow the conversation...
found this:
now I know what they are! :)
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Good. I can do more CAD on the weekend.
Just tell me if you need any of the orthogonal drawings.
Can you give me dimension pointers?
- What diameter screws?
Barring any, I'll make the blocks 3/8 in thick, proportionally wide and 5 in long. Should be done in an hour or 2.
Good. If you have anything else, throw it my way! I have some time off tonight and CAD is pretty relaxing to me :p
There's one thing I don't get though... you want to squeeze the gib with those 7/32 screws, but the pressure is all going to be on the corner of the screws, no? Unless you're thinking about making notches in the gib, or something else...
Pardon me if some questions are stupid, but I've only *used* milling machines in the past (and not extensively at that), not *designed* them :p I'm reading up on the topic but as you said, there's not an incredible amount of information sharing among machinists ;)
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I'm pleased to have the cover story in this week's Metroland, about the Berkshire/Pioneer Valley band Bella's Bartok. (Metroland, for ausländers, is the alt-weekly for Albany and the New York Capital Region.) I knew I'd seen them in various situations—playing in the parking lot, at a Halloween party, in a friend's living room—but didn't realize I also saw their first-ever gig, at a Summer Solstice Festival (that's how we do it out here.)
For the interview, I caught up with them backstage at Pittsfield's Colonial Theatre (after attending a different show, Larry Chernicoff's Miniature Orchestra, a few minutes away) and then over at Mission Bar and Tapas, on a night where the person in charge of the CD player got a little 80's-happy.
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Kishi Bashi is the name for the solo work of Brooklyn, N.Y.'s K Ishibashi, who's become one of the go-to violin players in the world of Indie music, touring and/or recording with of Montreal, Regina Spektor and Alexi Murdoch, among many others.
Also a founding member of the Indie/Synth Pop group Jupiter One, Ishibashi's own material is an expansive brand of Art Pop, featuring looped, symphonic strings and voices mixed with magnetic, layered Electronic/Dance sounds and slanted Pop melodies, harmonies and structuring. The end result is laid out gorgeously on Kishi Bashi's compelling debut full-length on Joyful Noise Recordings from earlier this year, 151a, coming off like a strange but compelling mix of Andrew Bird, Smile-era Brian Wilson and of Montreal.
Kishi Bashi performs a free show at Mayday (4227 Spring Grove Ave., Northside) tonight. The show starts at 9 p.m. with New York acid Folk Rock troupe Tall Tall Trees.
Click here to listen to/purchase 151a. And below is a stunning live performance of Ishibashi playing new album track "Manchester" for The Wild Honey Pie's "Buzzsessions."
Tonight's the big night for local fans of The Afghan Whigs, as the reunited rockers host a homecoming concert at Bogart's in Corryville. If you don't have a ticket, try an online reseller or hit up the Short Vine scalpers because the show sold out instantly. There are, however, still tickets available for the Whigs' New Year's Eve show at Bogart's (click here). Another one of Cincinnati's greatest musical exports, Wussy, opens tonight's show (the band has been doing several dates with the Whigs on this first leg of the band's U.S. tour).
CityBeat previewed the Whigs' return with a cover-story package in our issue out last week. Click here, here and here to read up on the group, then click below for a playlist of Whigs music videos. And check this space tomorrow for a full report from the show.
UPDATE: According to the Bogart's Facebook page, doors open at 7:30 p.m.; the show starts at 9 p.m. (previously stated showtime was 7:30 p.m.).
• R. Ring, the duo project from Kelley Deal of Dayton's The Breeders and Northern Kentucky's Mike Montgomery of Ampline/thistle fame, performs a free show tonight at Shake It Records in Northside at 7 p.m. The in-store is in honor of the twosome's debut official release, an orange-vinyl 7-inch single from Misra Records. Check out the single's "Fallout and Fire" below and click here to listen to R. Ring's live session for Daytrotter.
Click here for even more live music events in Greater Cincinnati tonight.
American Ska legends The Toasters perform a free show tonight at MOTR Pub in Over-the-Rhine. Showtime is 10 p.m. and — sorry, kids — you must be 21 or older to get in.
The band was one of the leading inspirations behind the "third-wave" Ska explosion of the '90s, but the band actually began 30 years ago, influenced by the 2-Tone Ska movement in the U.K. The Toasters blend of NYC Rock and 2-Tone made them cult heroes in the Ska underground, as did the band's D.I.Y. approach; founding member (the sole one in the current lineup) Robert "Bucket" Hingley formed the influential Moon Ska Records in 1983 to release his own albums, as well as those by acts like Mustard Plug, The Slackers and Hepcat. The label's various compilations also gave a boost to up-and-coming, non-Moon acts like Less Than Jake and No Doubt.
Here's The Toasters' first music video, for the tune "Radiation Skank" off of the band's debut release, 1985's Recriminations EP (which was produced by British singer/songwriter Joe Jackson; he is to The Toasters what Elvis Costello was to The Specials).
And here is "Modern World America" off The Toasters' 2002 release, Enemy of the System.
Indie rockers The Kickback come to MOTR Pub in Over-the-Rhine tonight for a free show. The band formed just a few years ago in Chicago, where brothers Danny (drums) and Billy (vocals/guitar) had relocated from South Dakota. So far, the band has put out just one release — the Kill Fee EP, a mix of live and studio cuts — but its shimmering, winding brand of Indie Pop is said to really come alive on stage; The Kickback's live show has been lauded by The Chicago Sun-Times and other outlets for its explosiveness, while Rolling Stone, You Ain't No Picasso and other pro listeners have heaped praise on Kill Fee. Fans of The Walkmen, The Strokes, French Kicks and Pomegranates will delight in The Kickback's slanted but rocking style. The Yugos (MOTR's Artist in Residency for October) also perform.
Here's Kill Fee's great track, "Sting's Teacher Years."
Saturday night at Northside's Mayday is the debut of the Cincy Psych Fest, a multi-band event inspired by the popular Austin Psych Fest, a six-year-old event that showcases the current state of Psychedelic/Garage Rock and Pop, led by artists like The Black Angels, The Warlocks and Dead Meadow.
The Cincy Psych Fest is the brain child of Laura Dolan, Laura Skaggs and creative local commercial arts enterprise We Have Become Vikings. The team has assembled a great first-year lineup of national, regional and local acts inspired by the sounds of '60s Psychedelia and Garage. The fest will present bands on Mayday's indoor stage as well as on an outdoor, second-floor stage. Tickets are $10 (advanced ones are available through ticketfly.com here) and the fest begins at 6 p.m.
Here are some samples from the various artists. Click the band name for more info on each.
The People's Temple (Lansing, Mich.)
Mondo Drag (Davenport, Iowa)
Outer Minds (Chicago)
Heaven's Gateway Drugs (Ft. Wayne, Ind.)
Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor (Detroit)
Here are the Cincinnati bands on the bill:
The Harlequins
Ohio Knife
Cincy newcomers Children of The Emerald Fire (featuring fest organizer Laura Dolan and an all-star local music crew featuring former members of Pernicious Knifs, The High & Low and many other local groups) are also performing, as is The Tongue & Lips:
Adding to the trip will be DJ Blythe Shadburn and Doctor Robert's Ocular Odyssey's Psychedelic Light Show.
Find info on all of the performers and more at cincypsychfest.com.
Boston's Barrence Whitfield & the Savages have returned to Cincinnati in a big way this week. The R&B/Soul-rockin' crew has several local ties, including employing prolific locally-based drummer Andy Jody on the skins. The group also features Peter Greenberg of pioneering Boston band DMZ (as well as The Lyres) and groundbreaking Cincy Garage rockers The Customs (fellow Custom Jim Cole records with the band but doesn't play live). The Savages recorded two albums in the '80s; their 1985 Rounder Records release, Dig Yourself, was their last until the group's recent reunion activities.
"I met Peter at The Customs reunion in 2008, drummed for them the following year, which led to him contacting me to record Savage Kings upon the reformation of the original Savages," Jody says about his initiation into the band.
The Savages are in town to record a new album, returning to Ultrasuede studios, where they recorded Savage Kings.
"We decided to record here, partly logistics and partly in tribute to King Records," Jody says, "and it was the same studio where The Customs cut (their trademark tune) 'Long Gone.' "
Last night, Whitfield & the Savages debuted some of the new material at Shake It Records. Shake It, the label, released the Savage Kings in the States; The Customs' "Long Gone" single was the first release on the Shake It imprint.
The Savages will be warming up for recording this weekend with a two-night stand (Friday and Saturday) at The Comet in Northside. Both shows are free and kick of at 10 p.m. (Friday a DJ warms things up and Saturday Customs-inspired local rockers The Long Gones fittingly open the show). Click here for more info on the band. Below is a live clip filmed in Paris last year.
And here's a clip (with performances and interviews) from the band's earlier days when they were featured on the BBC.
Experimental Indie/Art Pop/Hip Hop band Why? performs its first local show since the release of the group's stellar fourth studio album, Mumps, etc., earlier this month. The band — which helped build the awesome Anticon label — plays downtown tonight at the Contemporary Arts Center for an 8 p.m., all-ages show. Tickets are $14. After tonight's show, Why? gets back on the road for a tour that'll take them all over the U.S., then overseas for dates in Prague, Croatia, Italy, Germany and Israel, among other countries.
Here's a great music video for the Mumps track "Strawberries," filmed in Northside during the most recent 4th of July parade. The vid was directed by Scott Fredette (an accomplished video artist and also a founder of Indie Pop foursome Culture Queer) and Alex Parks.
The band members also participated in a series of videos about the making of a Why? documentary by "DIY filmmaker Gerrek Reid," aka hilarious Cincinnati native and on-the-rise L.A. comedian Andre Hyland. Check the very entertaining and often hysterically funny "Documenting WHY?" web series below.
UPDATE: Tonight's CAC concert is SOLD OUT.
Formed in 1978, Classic Punk band Social Distortion reached the height of its fame in the late '80s and early '90s. The band has seven studio albums beginning with its iconic Mommy's Little Monster. Although there has been over a dozen ex-Social D members, the group — known as a touring juggernaut (sometimes at the expense of making new music) — has maintained a lineup that has been fairly consistent for the past decade.
CityBeat caught up with rhythm guitarist Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham in anticipation of Social D's current tour. The group performs at Bogart's on Saturday (Oct. 13) night and will surely wow fans new and old.
CityBeat: I know Mike (Ness) has said in the past we won't have to wait seven or eight years for a new Social D record. Are you guys working on new music right now? How is that coming along?
Jonny Wickersham: In a perfect situation we would love to get a record out sooner than we have been putting them out. I don't know that it looks like it will happen real soon. We have been really busy touring the last couple of years. As far as new material there are always new songs in the works. We will work on them at sound checks and rehearsals. When it comes time to get serious to put a record together, the songs that stick in our minds are the ones that are the best stuff and they typically make the record. We will finish it up. We will see. Conceivably we can get together and start really getting serious in the beginning of next year and have a record to follow shortly after that. It has to feel right. I have always felt it is a good thing not to rush records. I know that people like to see a record come out on a certain schedule with bands, but it is also good to evolve a little bit as people and as a band in between albums.
CB: You spend most of the time as a touring band on the road. Do you ever write down the tour stories or keep mementos from the tour to remember them all?
JW: I have never been a big journal keeper or anything like that. I don't. Certain stories definitely do stick in your mind but not really.
CB: What current music or music you are listening to right now is currently inspiring you?
JW: You know what a really great record is, the new Hot Water Music Record, have you heard that?
CB: No.
JW: I have been listening to a lot of that in my car.
CB: Good driving music?
JW: Oh yeah. It is such a great album. It really is good. I also like the Drive By Truckers a lot. I don't listen to a lot of new music to be honest. I listen to a lot of old Blues and stuff and old Rock N Roll.
CB: From your standpoint, what are the characteristics that make a good Social D song?
JW: I would have to say a good riff and a good lyric that is poppin'. You can't go wrong with a good lyric. You can try to stretch that a bit, not just stay with our formula as a band. We have a different division of sounds with the band. We are not trying to re-invent sound in an extreme manner or anything but it is good to try to mix it up. I am hoping in the future, in the stuff coming up, we can do that and re-visit some of the earlier stuff.
CB: We are heading into a critical election year. Ohio is a crazy place to be during this whole thing. Do you guys have any political views or support for any of the candidates?
JW: Well, I am going to vote for Obama and hope for the best.
CB: What is the worst job you have ever had?
JW: I don't know. I had a job at the Orange County jail once a long time ago. We had to cut the bunks down from three bunks to two and carry them all out to the loading dock and get them out of the jail. Any job where you are locked up is not a great job. I had so many jobs growing up. I started working in construction fields at a really young age because where I come from that is just what you did when you got to the age of going out to get a job, try to get a construction trade. I have also worked at Carl's Jr. and Burger King as a teenager and neither one of those jobs lasted more than a couple weeks. I have worked as a stagehand. I have worked in an Art Department building sets for film production. Those are cool jobs. I really liked the Art Department work. Any job that anybody could have at this point is a good job is kind of how I feel. I definitely never want to think I am beyond any kind of work. You never know what is going to happen in life. There are times where being able to get any job is critical for you.
CB: Do you have any scars?
JW: I have a scar on my upper leg. When I was a little kid, me and a couple friends built this bicycle Motocross track on a dirt lot by our house in our neighborhood. We went out and worked really hard with shovels and built this really cool track and the enemy kids down the street, who were our nemesis, came over one day when we weren't there and totally ruined our track, kicked in all our berms and jumps and trashed it. So we went down the street where they had built this really shitty tree fort that was like three stories tall off the ground into the tree. We went up there and we started hammering at it, we brought sledgehammers over and we started bashing in their tree fort. The stupid thing on our part was that we started on the bottom and climbed up to the next level and up to the next level. We were breaking this tree fort apart and we were way up at the top and the thing collapsed. I fell and my leg got clipped up on a nail. It ripped my leg open so I have a scar. I have a bunch of other scars too.
CB: What is the last thing you do before you go to sleep?
JW: Well it depends. Turn out the television if I have been watching the television. I don't always watch TV at night. Sometimes I do. If I am on the bus on the tour, I listen to music on my iPod. The last thing I do is turn that on and I usually fall asleep listening to a record. Then I have to wake up and pull the headphones off and fall back asleep. If I'm reading a book, close the book and turn out the light. It can be one of many different things.


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Felix Baumgartner is shown inside his capsule as he ascends in preparation for his record-breaking jump October 14, 2012.
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An Austrian daredevil plummeted into the record books today (October 14), breaking the mark for highest-ever skydive after leaping from a balloon more than 24 miles above Earth's surface. Add one more feat: Going supersonic.
Felix Baumgartner stepped into the void nearly 128,000 feet (39,000 meters) above southeastern New Mexico Sunday at just after 12 p.m. MT (2 p.m. ET, 1800 GMT), then landed safely on the desert floor about 20 minutes later. His harrowing plunge shattered the skydiving altitude record, which had stood for more than 50 years, and it notched a few other firsts as well.
During his freefall, for example, Baumgartner became the first skydiver ever to break the sound barrier, which is about 690 mph (1,110 kph) at such lofty heights. And this happened on a special day—today is the 65th anniversary of the first supersonic airplane flight, which was piloted by American Chuck Yeager in 1947 aboard the Bell X-1 rocket plane.
"I know the whole world is watching now, and I wish the world could see what I see," Baumgartner said just before the leap. "And sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you really are."
Preliminary results of the jump showed Baumgartner spent about 4 minutes and 20 seconds in freefall (a record without a drogue parachute). His maximum speed was 833 mph (1,342.8 kph), said Brian Utley, an air sports official watching over event.
The jump's top speed was thus Mach 1.4—considerably faster than the speed of sound.
Applause and cheers erupted in a post-jump press conference as Utley relayed the good news.
About the only glitch during the jump was a problem with the faceplate heater in Baumgartner's helmet, which the skydiver and his Mission Control team worked on during the hours-long ascent. They ultimately decided to proceed with the jump despite the heater glitch, and later Baumgartner reported the heater was working.
While in freefall, Baumgartner went into a spin briefly, but was able to recover and go into a controlled descent. He said his visor was fogging up during the dramatic descent. After the daredevil fell toward Earth for more than four minutes, his parachute deployed and applause erupted from his Mission Control.
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Baumgartner's mission—called Red Bull Stratos, and sponsored by the Red Bull energy drink company—also set the record for highest-ever manned balloon flight, officials said. Project officials touted the skydive as a "space jump," calling it a "Mission to the Edge of Space."
The officially recognized space border is actually higher, however. Most experts generally regard space to begin at an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers), or about 327,000 feet.
One of the many folks congratulating Baumgartner today is doubtless Joe Kittinger, who set the previous altitude mark of 102,800 feet (31,333 m) in 1960 while a captain in the U.S. Air Force. Kittinger serves as an adviser to the Red Bull Stratos mission and communicated with Baumgartner during his ascent from mission control on the ground. [Extreme Skydive From 120,000 Feet Animated]
"I couldn't have done it any better myself," Kittinger radioed Baumgartner as he descended under parachute.
The 43-year-old Baumgartner is a veteran thrill-seeker, having leapt from some of the world's tallest buildings and soared across the English Channel in freefall with the aid of a carbon wing. But he said today's historic jump should do more than just etch his name in the record books.


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The NCAA and NBA are finally having it out. After years of "will they or won't they" and "are they or aren't they," the two most important organizations in American basketball are gearing up for a sustained fight. It's a fight which if not diffused quickly could lead to radical changes in how basketball operates in this country and how players are developed. These changes will make many people unhappy. This post is about why I hope this fight is not diffused quickly.
The fight started with President Mark Emmert's comments about the NBA's 19 year-old age limit that requires basketball players to spend a year doing something:
"I happen to dislike the one-and-done rule enormously and wish it didn't exist. I think it forces young men to go to college that have little or no interest in going to college."
NBA Commissioner David Stern had a rather pointed response:
"A college could always not have players who are one and done. They could do that. They could actually require the players to go to classes. Or they could get the players to agree that they stay in school, and ask for the scholarship money back if they didn't fulfill their promise. There's all kinds of things that, if a bunch of people got together and really wanted to do it, instead of talk about it."
Let's quickly get one thing out of the way: both men are correct. There are a group of athletes who, but for the age limit, would be in the NBA. They are in college because they decided that college basketball was the best alternative. And the NCAA, conferences, or schools could adopt any number of policies designed to fight the effects of the one-and-done rule. But neither really addresses the other. You still have athletes who would rather not be in college and it is still not the NBA's problem.
This fight is unlikely to go away because conventional wisdom says each group needs the other. Operating a U23 developmental league on the scale of Division I would be impossible for the NBA on its own. And if the NBA removed the best players from college basketball, interest would drop some amount. Both of these facts are true, but both are also irrelevant.
The NBA does not need to operate a developmental league at the same level of the NCAA, with full rosters of NBA-age players, additional facilities, and another administrative staff. The NBA simply needs to operate cheaper youth teams (at least two, one for high school freshmen and sophomores and one for juniors and seniors) and expand rosters using development slots at below the current minimum salary to make teams large enough to support a reserve league. Youth and reserve teams would leverage existing infrastructure, drastically cutting development expenses. Broadcast partners and sponsors, especially shoe companies, might pay for the entire project.
There's also not great evidence that college athletics needs a steady supply of would be pros to be popular. College baseball has reached record levels of revenue and popularity at the same time MLB clubs were throwing so much money at kids to not go to school that it became the central issue in the new collective bargaining agreement. The same goes for college soccer, which continues to grow despite MLS shifting money to its own developmental system.
If this were the end of it, the answer would be simple. One quick meeting between Emmert and Stern and aside from fending off the conspiracy theorists, the issue would be settled. The outcome would be a different type of early entry system, one that used all or parts of the MLB, NHL, and MLS systems. But this needs to be a knockdown, ugly drag out fight because of something the two men agree on. First President Emmert:
"If you want to become a professional athlete, there's no better place to go generally than to come to one of our schools to develop your skills and abilities."
And Commissioner Stern:
"For our business purposes, the longer we can get to look at young men playing against first-rate competition, that's a good thing."
Both make the assumption that college athletics is the best way to develop and evaluate future professional athletes. I can concede that it is the best system in existence in the United States at the moment. But the best possible? Far from it. At the risk of beating a dead horse, developing future pros is not a high priority of the NCAA. If you look at the NCAA's rules, it's much easier to conclude that the rules are designed to prevent athletes from becoming professional athletes rather than to help them. Some examples:
- Athletes are limited to a maximum of 20 hours per week of training. But during the season, that 20 hours has to include games, each of which cuts into training by 3 hours.
- During the offseason, athletes are limited to just eight hours of training. Skill instruction is further limited to just two hours of those eight. For long portions of the year, no training can be required at all.
- Athletes are generally prohibited from even requesting additional skill instruction because of the way the NCAA has defined voluntary activities.
- Athletes are required to pursue an academic career parallel to their athletic one, which takes away from the time and energy they can devote to improving.
- Staffing and recruiting limits make evaluation and selection of athletes with the most potential to be pros more difficult.
- The NCAA operates (or allows to operate) national championships that become the primary focus of a coach's job, rather than developing future professional athletes.
All of which makes it curious that the NBA has chosen to outsource its development when an organization with completely different priorities is the best alternative. In fact, far from simply taking advantage of a free service, the NBA once looked to invest directly in the NCAA as a development system, according to Stern:
"Years ago I said to the NCAA, I've got a great idea. We'll insure a select group of basketball players. And that will make them more likely to stay in school, because they won't feel the loss of a big contract. We'll designate a pool and those lucky enough to be drafted and make money will pay us back, and those that don't, it's our expense."
That's odd immediately preceding a quote where Stern says he is not concerned with the NCAA and that NBA rules are not "social programs." But even stranger is that the NBA was willing to pour money, maybe millions of dollars depending on the size and success of the program, into something it has no direct control over. The NBA is either happy with the quality of player it receives (which it isn't because it is looking for more time to evaluate) or it likes the exposure players get by playing college basketball (which is odd given the animosity of NBA fans to college basketball and the fact that the NBA is the world leader in marketing individual athletes).
Neither explanation makes sense, so something else might be at work. My gut is that the NBA has in the NCAA a convenient set of excuses for why some players never pan out and some teams never make good decisions. This role of whipping boy is one the NCAA is increasingly unwilling to play. That especially applies to accusations about policies it has no role in drafting (like the NBA age limit) or that it ignores its own rules to protect income it doesn't receive (like in the regulation of FBS football).
Thus the coming showdown. The war of words over whose "fault" the one-and-done "crisis" (both terms used loosely) is has already started. Both organizations have their next move in the works. The NBA and the union are studying the age limit with a possible move to 20 years-old and two years out of high school. The NCAA is mulling reductions in the number of basketball games and has already passed new initial eligibility requirements that may sideline for a year many of the players the NBA was looking to get extra time to evaluate.
If the current trend continues, the NCAA will increasingly move toward not being an acceptable alternative for the NBA's purposes. At some point, the NBA would have to move toward a more active role in identifying potential pros at a younger age and investing directly in their development through youth and/or reserve league teams. Not to mention a mechanism to sign homegrown players that both provides an incentive for teams to take youth development seriously but still provides a degree of competitive balance.
And much to the chagrin of partisans in this debate, both the NBA and the NCAA will be fine. College basketball was fine in the prep-to-pros era and will be fine even with more athletes heading to the NBA directly from or even during high school. And the NBA will find it is better able to develop and market elite talents on its own rather than assuming college basketball will do it for them. The tie that binds the two together, the NBA draft, will still exist but it's impact will be defined by how many players slip through the cracks in the new NBA system. But it will be of secondary importance rather than the be all, end all for many young basketball players.
One might look at all this and say it's a lot to extrapolate from two press appearances. It is. One might say I'm blowing this out of proportion. I am. In fact, I'm deliberately trying to pick this fight because it needs to happen. Because until it happens, the sport cannot move forward.
About John Infante
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The Loyola Maroon Vol. XXXI, X-259 Loyola University, New Orleans, La., March 19, 1954 No. 20 McCafferty Named Wolfpack Cage Coach Temporary Assignment Given Permanent Basis James "Big Jim" McCafferty was appointed head basketball coach of Loyola's Wolfpack on a permanent status, the Rev. Anthony C. O'Flynn, S.J., athletic director, announced.McCafferty, who succeeded the ailing Coach Tom Haggerty in late December, has been on a temporary basis since Haggerty resigned from the University. Father O'Flynn said that McCafferty's appointment begins immediately. The pair left Tuesday for the National Coaches convention and the NCAA cage finals in Kansas' City. A native of Henryetta, Oklahoma, McCafferty was graduated from Loyola in 1941 and joined the athletic staff in 1942. During the time at Loyola, he has been assistant cage coach, head cage coach (on another temporary basis in 1947), head track coach, and an instructor in the department of physical education. The Oklahoma Irishman had an 8-8 record with this year's Wolfpack. But his coaching tenure showed during the most difficult part of the Pack's 1953-54 schedule.His Wolves became the first Deep South quint ever to be invited to the NCAA basketball tournament. McCafferty has been extremely successful as a track coach for the Wolfpack. During the past several years he has developed Ray Rocker, Loyola's first Ail- American, Elmer Grundmeyer, Kenny Leithman, and Erwin Caswell—all nationally-known sprinters.During his athletic days at Loyola, McCafferty was an All-Dixie conference center on Jack Orsley's cage teams of the late '30's. SIGNING TRE CONTRACT making him the Pack's head basketball coach is "BIG JIM" McCAFFERTY, as the REV. ANTHONY C. O'FLYNN, S.J., athletic director, looks on. The contract will be renewed on a year to year basis. Book A wards Presented To 4 Pharmacy Students Book awards were presented to the four outstanding students in the college of pharmacy last night by the Women's Auxiliary of the Louisiana State Pharmaceutical Association, in the Student Lounge. The awards were presented by Mrs. Harold Mooney, president of the auxiliary. The books were given to the student in each of the four pharmacy classes who had the highest scholastic average, Dean John F. McCloskey said. Senior award was merited by Joseph Singerman, who had a 2.75 average. He i* from New Orleans and received a United States Dispensatory. Aubrey Cowl, junior from Minneapolis, Minnesota who had a 3.0 mark, received a Merck Index. Freshman honors were won by Lloyd P. Boutte of New Iberia who held a 3.0 average. His award was a United States Pharmacopeia.Winner of the sophomore award was Ronald P. Quintana of New Orleans, another 3.0 student, who received a National Formulary. Dean McCloskey said that the "Book Award Night" is an annual presentation for the Louisiana Pharmaceutical Association. Guest speakers included the Rev. Edward Shields, S.J., regent of the college of pharmacy, Dr. Edward Ireland, professor of pharmacy, Dean McCloskey, and Mrs. Mooney. True Purpose Forgotten In Rechartering Battle An Editorial The objections raised to the Student Council plan for rechartering campus organizations can only be based on misunderstanding—either of the purpose of the plan, the wording of the charter form or the actual authority vested in the Council. These objections have been heard in informal conversations on the campus, and at the Council meeting Wednesday night were presented in a formal protest signed by some 225 students. The main objections centered around the use of the word "recharter," but after hearing the viewpoints of the opposing group presidents attending the meeting, the Council defeated a motion to change "recharter" to recognize. This was within the Council's power. Any assertion that the student governing body does not have the right to recharter an organization does not have any foundation in fact. In 1947 the Council was delegated the authority to charter campus groups by the administration, and Article II of the Council's constitution in the '54 L Book stating the group's purpose reads: "To exercise general supervision over all student activities, organizations and conduct." Aa Moon Landrieu, president, pointed out at the meeting, the power to charter automatically includes the power to recharter, if the Council deems there is a need for it. And there is a need! Heretofore campus groups* have been chartered haphazardly, with little regard for whether there was need for such an organization and no checking up over the years to see if that group was fulfilling its purpose. Under the new plan every new organization applying for charter and every "old" organization having been judged as meriting recharter will be presented with an official certificate as documentary evidence of fts legal existence. The Council will have an accurate file on campus groups, and deadwood organizations will have been weeded out. Every organization judged as malfunctioning will have a chance to appeal their case before the Council. The governing body is not trying to "Get Power"—it already has the power. It is not trying to step on any toes, or tell groups that have been active on the campus for many years that they can no longer operate. The presidents are merely being asked to go through a formality of filling out a form on their group, so that those organizations existing without any purpose may be thrown out. It is unfortunate but necessary that to sort out these malfunctioning organizations the good groups must be put to some trouble and perhaps inconvenience. But it is even more unfortunate that some student leaders, from whom the Council has the right to expect cooperation rather than opposition, have not kept in mind the true purpr ie of the plan—the good of the student body as a kwhole—but have quibbled over wording. ED To Sponsor 'Family Night' The Family Night Committee of the Evening Division Student's Committee will sponsor a "Family Night," April 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Lounge, according to chairman Harold Legendre. "The purpose of this event ig to give each student a chance to become acquainted with his fellow students and their families," Legendre added. All students have been requested to bring mothers, fathers, wives, children, and friends to class with them on that night. Refreshments will be served and supervised movies will be shown for the youngsters. NOW THAT THE first day of Spring it quickly approaching—March 21st—more and more student* are finding Audubon Park the place to go on off-hours during the day. Here SCOOPIE MONGEAU and AUSTIN BALSER feed the ducks, who seem to know that they don't have a Lenten fast to follow. Lasting Friendship Sought Between Mexico and U.S.A. The most important phase of Mexico's quest for world friendship is that which calls for a secure and lasting friendship between the United States and Mexico, Senor Andres Horcasitas, tourist agency delegate for the Mexican government, told members and guests of the Pan Arrierican Club Tuesday night. At the lecture, the first of an annual series, Senor Horcasitas said that if this goal is realized the United States and Mexico could successfully bring about the unity of the whole continent. "I am sure that exchange of • tudents and teachers between these countries will make our peoples as friendly as I feel here among Americans." He emphasized the importance of mutual understanding. The long time resident of New Orleans added that the completion of the new University of Mexico will aid this exchange by providing the necessary accommodation facilities. As a further example of common interest, he cited Our Lady of Guadalupe. "She is our Mother. We should all look to her for guidance, for only in this way can we hope to bring peace to the world," he said. A firm advocate of a non-interference policy among countries, Senor Horcasitas explained that meddling can only lead to distrust and disunity. "This is why Mexico refrained from voting on the anticommunist resolution concerning Guatemala in the Caracas conference."Replying to Father Mullahy's question as to Masonic influence in Mexico, he answered, "the country is predominantly Catholic, the churches are filled, new ones are being built, and as a result Masonic influence is very small." In closing, he commended the Pan American Club for its job of bringing Latin and English speaking students closer together. After the speech, entertainment including two songs by John Paquette, two folk songs by Josefina Alonso, and a recitation of "Reir Llorande" by Charles Clark, was presented. Literary Editor Gives Reasons For Reading There are three reasons why people read—because they have to, because they have time to kill, as in a dentist's dTfice, or because they want to curl up with a good book, the Rev. Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., literary editor of America magazine, told students last Friday in Marquette Auditorium. Speaking to English majors and other- interested students and faculty members, Father Gardiner said that if one reads strictly for pleasure, he looks for two things: enjoyment which is the formal object of reading, and wisdom, which flows as a secondary effect."The theme of great books is that human nature is always aspiring, striving, and hoping for the best," he said. "Our reading provides an opportunity to let grow in ourselves and practice the virtue of ordinary 'human virtue'." "In America we tend to read on mass appeal, just as we buy razor blades," Father Gardiner said, emphasizing the fact that because of organizations like the Literary Guild and Book of the Month Club, the reading habits of six million people are affected in one month. The literary editor pointed out that children who are raised on a steady diet of Mickey Spillane are bound for juvenile delinquency. Rumor Quenched By Army Release All qualified graduates will be commissioned and those who had no prior military service will be called to active duty before June 30, 1955, a Department of Army release disclosed. This quenches the rumor circulated that those graduates will receive their commissions and be assigned to summer camp for just ten weeks and then placed in the reserve status. The newly commissioned officer will be sent to a Branch Basic Training School and must pass or the commission will be revoked and he will be subject to draft. Graduates may choose to be commissioned into the Air Force, according to the new releasC\ If, however, they do, they must volunteer for flight training and will remain in the Air Force for three years instead of the two years required by the Army. Harvard Law Dean Addresses Students Dean Roscoe Pound, Harvard's law school president, will address law faculty members and students of Loyola and Tulane March 25 at 11 a.m. in Tulane's law library, Antonio E. Papale, Loyola law dean, announced. The noted legal scholar who has earned the title of "Father of American Jurisprudence" is currently on a tour of southern universities, according to Dean Papale.Institute Class Registers 158 An enrollment of 158 members opened the spring session of the School of Industrial Relations, the Rev. Louis J. Twomey, S.J., director, announced. "This registration represents a cross-section of New Orleans, including: members of both labor and management, with a new high in the number of school teachers in evidence this year," Father Twomey said. Through arrangement with the Orleans Parish School Board, school teachers who have joined the Institute will receive in-service training credits for the courses. "The influence of the school has kept apace with the Institute, and many members of the staff have been invited to address representing labor unions and management, and to intermediate in disputes between the two," Father Twomey continued. The staff this semester includes: Paul Barker, Felicien Y. Lozes, Joseph P. Murphy, John P. Nelson, Edward F. O'Brien, Dr. Stephen P. Ryan, and Joseph W. Turner. Duplantier Heads Graduate Group Adrian G. Duplantier was recently elected chairman of the Loyola Law School Alumni Council.Other new officers are: FeJix H. Lapeyre, vice-chairman; and Joseph V. Bologna, secretarytreasurer.Members of the governing committee include: John J. McAulay, Edward J. Villere, Felicien Y. Lozes, James A. Comiskey, Charles L. Rivet, and Frederick J. Gisevius, Jr. The Loyola Alumni Advisory Board appointed permanent chairmen for the coming your. They are: Raymond E. Staub, finance; Joseph S. Casey, membership; William V. Redmann, student body relations; F. Winter Trapolin, auditing; and John R. Screen, publication. Father Fichter May Lengthen Muenster Stay The Rev. Joseph H. Fichter, S.J., former chairman of the sociology department, has been asked to remain at Muenster, Germany, as guest lecturer until January of next year. He has been teaching Sociology of Religion and Methodology of American Social Scientific Research since last September. The Fulbr i g h t grant was awarded lDy Dr. Joseph Hoeffner, head of the Muesnster faculty, who was impressed with the priest's methods of research employed in his latest book, "Southern Parish," published in 1951. Since he has been in Germany, Father Fichter has been directing Muenster students in a research project on urban parishes and American urban parochial units. The sociology professor received his Ph.D. from Spring Hill College in 1947 and his M.A. and B.A. from St. Louis University. He is the author of seven books and numerous magazine articles. Father Fichter is moderator of the Catholic Committee of the South, founder of the Commission on Human Rights, and a member of the Louisiana Academy of Social Sciences, New Orleans Commission on Race Relations, and the American Southern and Catholic Sociological Association. 'Antigone' Set For May 16-17 The student Thespian production of Sophocles' "Antigone" will be presented May 16 and 17, according to Billie Hover, director. Heading the cast are Mickey Glankler, as Antigone; Ted Pfister, as Creon; Melvin Graziano, as Chorus; and Al Huddleston, as Haemon. Others in the cast include Myra Monahan, Kathleen Dowling, Pinky Vidacovich, Jr., Pat Farley, Flo Fischer, Clyde Bergeron, and Tootsie Williams. One principal part has not been cast as of yet. Gloria Deßram, assisted by Mary Ann Bartholomew, is in charge of costumes. Tootsie Williams is handling publicity. The play is being produced by Miss Hover, Miss Glankler, and Pfister. Law Club Admits 4 New Members Four new members were admitted to the St. Thomas More Law Club at a*meeting Wednesday in the school of law, Pascal Calogero, president, announced. Those admitted were Mrs. Grace Tedesco, Mrs. Ann Neiderlander, Joseph DeSal'vo, and Joan Danner.Members of the club are also working on a project to obtain certificates of membership for all the alumni dating back to 1935, the date of the founding of the club. To date 150 members of the alumni have been contacted, he said. Back Spring Sports Congratulations Coach McCafferty
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