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...rule it is a bad idea to bet against bishops. Or cardinals. Especially if of an ecumenical bent. This year it would also be unwise to lay much money against Gardiner Day, who retires this year as rector of Christ Church...
...fighting broke out after a delegation of 15 law students went to call on the university rector, Dr. Ignacio Chavez, who supported the dean's disciplinary measures. Instead, the delegation was arrested. Within hours, many of the university's 70,000 students picked up clubs and bicycle chains to battle the hard-pressed campus police. City cops stood by off campus, barred by federal law from entering school grounds. Some students took over the university's radio station, while others seized major buildings on the architecturally famed campus. When night fell, a group of students broke into...
...students last week appear ready to call off the uprising. They refused to hand back the buildings until a new rector to their liking was named. They also demanded a voice in the selection of the faculty and curriculum, economic aid for poor students, and a rule that no student be expelled without a hearing. Then, the students called on 15 private schools in Mexico City, including the American and British high schools, to close down as well. The schools complied out of sympathy-or dread...
Focus of the student protest in Boston was a stiff new regime imposed on St. John's by Monsignor Lawrence Riley, whom Cushing named as rector last summer. A conservative in church matters, Riley rejected a list of outside lecturers the students wanted to hear, and reinstated the all-Latin Mass. Both Riley and Cushing ignored letters, signed by 20 senior seminarians, asking for a discussion of the changes...
...study the secular culture they will be living in after their ordination. At Chicago's St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, once among the nation's most straitlaced, students can now have their own radios, are encouraged to attend plays, concerts and lectures in town. With their rector's permission, two seminarians from St. Patrick's of San Francisco periodically tour the city's homosexual bars with vice-squad cops for a sociological survey...