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...Catholicism that such men fashioned could no longer be contained in strict cloisters. Gradually, the Maryland campus became more relaxed. Then, in 1969, Woodstock abandoned its country retreat altogether to move to New York City's clangorous, ecumenical Upper West Side, where its students could live cheek by jowl with rabbinical candidates and Union Theological Seminary's liberal Protestants. They would also be able to minister to the whole polyglot, polycaste world of the Secular City, and that they did-tutoring in Harlem, working in the U.N., in drug clinics, in mental health, with the aged. Last week...
...Chosen by Arrupe to survive: Cambridge's Weston College, Chicago's Bellarmine School of Theology and the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. Sentenced to die: the Jesuit theologate at St. Louis University, which will be resurrected as a theological graduate school and non-Jesuit seminary, and Woodstock, which may not survive in any form...
...Woodstock? For one thing, geography: the Jesuits had to sacrifice one of two schools in the Midwest, one of two in the East. For another, the Woodstock experiment had been broadcast as a failure even before it really got off the ground-principally by ex-Jesuit Garry Wills in an acerbic 1971 piece in New York magazine. Wills' article (currently a chapter in his book Bare Ruined Choirs) was made even more damaging by the accompanying photos of seminarians lounging en deshabille. It undercut Woodstock's hopes and image at a crucial time...
Wills contended that the New York move hurt Woodstock academically. But Woodstock's president, Teilhardian Scholar Christopher F. Mooney, points out that the school was received enthusiastically in New York's academic community. It retained such luminaries as Theologians Avery Dulles (son of John Foster Dulles) and Walter J. Burghardt (one of the two U.S. members of the papal Theological Commission). This year 130 students from Union Theological registered for Woodstock courses, and the school was building close alliances with Columbia University's history and religion departments...
Whatever the reasons for the decision, the action did not seem to be a disciplinary one. The Manhattan version of Woodstock was admittedly a haven for many and varied lifestyles. The residences, scattered along 1½ miles of the Upper West Side, housed the studious here, the activists there. Beards and long hair vied with modest sideburns, turtlenecks and slacks with cutoffs and bare feet. Some places became crash pads and beer-and-coffee houses for local activists (a number of the Woodstock Jesuits were active Berrigan antiwar allies). More than a few of the many visitors were young women...