ND Replaces Price University Cuts

... Joe Evans, page 8 VOL. XIV, NO. 2 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary’s WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1979 State Department suggests Hesburgh Notre Dame President Fr. Clark, former Iowa senator who Theodore M. Hesburgh is one now coordinates refugee affairs of five candidates the State for the White House; Barbara Department has recommended Jordan, former Texas congress to replace U.N. Ambassador woman and now a professor in Andrew Young, according to a the University of Texas Law report by The New York Times. School; and Sol Linowitz, one The article quoted administra of the negotiators of the Pana tion officials who said that they ma Canal treaties. expect President Carter to Hesburgh is in Vienna as quickly name Young’s succes co-chairman of the U.S. delega sor. The officials said that, tion to the U.N. Conference on since the U.N. General Assem Science and Technology for bly reconvenes next month, it is Development. He was out of his important to name a replace hotel room last night, and could ment so Senate confirmation not be reached for comment. could take place soon after He is the first Catholic priest to Labor Day. hold the rank of American Yesterday these students started their semester with a prayer at the Grotto [Photo by Mike Hesburgh has previously turn ambassador. Big/ey], ed down permanent posts in the The goal of the 12-day confer administration. He has turned ence is to find practical ways to down similar appointments in transfer scientific and technical other administrations includ know-how from developed to ing the directorship of NASA lesser developed countries. ND reaches goal, plans new dorm under President Lyndon John Specifically, the delegates will son and head of the Office of examine ways to strengthen the by M ike Shields The balance of the endow The five new chairs have Economic Opportunity under scientific and technological cap News Editor ment, which will be paid over not yet been filled, Francis President Richard Nixon. acities of the developing na a three-year period, will be said. “Recruiting is a several The Times said that the State tions, restructure access to Committments to the Cam earmarked according to these year process. We won’t speed Department sent its reccomen- scientific knowledge and tech paign for Notre Dame have priorities: research and publi it up and sacrifice quality.” dations to the White House. nical expertise and improve pushed the University’s fund cations, $1.5 million; visiting He said a governing board Included with Hesburgh were: financial support for and coordi raising drive over its $130 scholars, fellows, and student composed of the eight endowed Donald F. McHenry, the num nation of current scientific and million target and paved the assistance, $1.5 million; libra ber two man in the U.S. technological activities within way for the construction of a ry and resources,$1 million, [continued on page 3] delegation to the U.N.; Dick the United Nations. new undergraduate dorm. and institute operating expen The drive benefitted greatly ses, $1 million. by an anonymous donor’s $7 The Institute’s faculty will million committment, which include three existing chairs- will finance the new dorm, the C.R. Smith Professorship ND replaces Price and by a $10 million grant in Business Administration, the from the John and Helen Kel Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie By John McGrath head of the University Housing Texas at Austin. logg Foundation of Chicago. Professorship in Government Senior Staff Reporter Office, it was announced Mon H eppens appointment follows The latter will endow the Uni and International Studies, and day. Heppen said he plans to a decision made by the admini versity’s Institute for interna the William and Dorothy Fr. Michael Heppen, current assume full control of the office stration this spring to return the t i o n a l S t u d i e s . O’Niell Professorship in Edu director of Student Accounts, Sept. 7. Price has accepted a Office ofHousing to jurisdiction Vice-President for Public Re cation for Justice. will replace Edmund Price as position with the University of of the Office of Student Affairs. lations and Development James During Price’s one-year term of W. Frinkwould not release any office, the Housing Office had information about the donor, To economize been placed under the Office of but said he is not an alum Business Affairs. nus. Price had been the object of The new dorm will allow the University cuts considerable controversy earli University to admit 500 more er this year after the possibility women, but it has not yet by Mark Rust Many housekeepers, according to Daley, did of a housing lottery to ease the been decided whether the new News Editor not understand why the services were being overcrowding situation on cam dorm will house women or men. curtailed. “At first they thought they were pus existed. The new admissions will boost A cutback in University housekeeping services getting more work to do. I’ve had two or three Although he termed his new the undergraduate student results from an Administrative decision made meetings with them to explain that they were assignment very challenging, body from 6,800 to 7,300. last January to save money and increase the actually going to do less work.” Heppen said he anticipates no Notre Dame now has 1,585 wages of housekeepers. That decision reflects The maids will, in fact, have 20 percent less major problems with the hous women undergraduate stu what could become a growing trend in depart work under their new cleaning schedule. Usin ing situation. He pointed to less dents. ments across campus, according to Donald Planner Hall as an example, Daley explaine crowded conditions this year The $10 million Kellogg Dedrick, director of Physical Plant. that the maids, each of whom previously had and theproposed construction of grant, the largest single grant Maids who once cleaned a student’s room cleaned one and a half floors five days a week, additional dorm space as evi ever made to the University, every day will now provide the same service will now clean three floors twice a week. This dence of his optimistic outlook. will help the newly-named twice a week. The service consists of basin represents a decrease of one and a half floors “I’m open to any system they Helen Kellogg Institute for cleaning and trash can emptying. cleaned per week per maid. (students) want,” Heppen said, International Studies examine No housekeepers will be layed off as a result of Attrition among the housekeeping staff has “but I really think the system the role of non- governmental the decision, according to Junior Daley, Interior proceeded so rapidly since the administrative that Housing came up with last forces in international relations, Mainenance supervisor. The University decided decision in J anuary that the Interior Mainten year was good.” according to Michael Francis, last J anuary to forgo the replacement of those ance Department has already reached its target Although he explained that he director of the Institute. He housekeeping employees who die or retire, of 58 employees, down from 80 in January. had not been fully briefed on stressed the growing role of thereby saving wages which can later be added Although talk about unionization among the the housing situation yet, Hep economic developments, tech to the paychecks of the other employees. housekeeping staff was rampant last semester, pen credited the Housing Office nology and such agencies as “We want our worker’s wages to be commen both Dedrick and Daley agreed that the move under Price with easing some of the Catholic Church and multi surate with those of other workers in the area, ” to decrease services and increase wages had the difficulties the University national corporations in interna Dedirck said yesterday. He added that although nothing to do with the unionization issue. Four experienced last year in regards tional relations. he did not have the figures readily available, he south ouad housekeepers, interviewed yester to housing. Francis said that half the believes that the wages will now be commen day and prefferring to remain anonymous, share “I think things are better this grant will endow the five pro surate. this view. year because of the improved fessorships in the fields of Dedrick observed that inflation is creating The housekeepers all mentioned that they had procedures the Housing Office developmental economics; the havoc within administrative budgets all across heard “grumbling” among the students after developed last year, particular philisophical and theological as the country, and most institutions are seeking to the services cutback announcement. According ly the way they went through pects of government and in avoid raising already high room and board costs. to Daley, this is “natural.” the reservation lists early,” ternational relation; science or “ Cutbacks in services are bound to be the trend “I’m quite sure the students are not going to be Heppen said. “At any rate, last technology and society; socio- and it is either that or increase fees. That is happy about it, but I understand that we are one year at this time, I remember logy-anthropology; and inter something we want to avoid at Notre of the few universities left that still have maid people were lined up down the national law and human rights. Dame, ” Dedrick said. services,” he said [continued on page 7] Wednesday, August 29, 1979 - page z ‘Mein Kampf sells slowly in German BONN WEST GERMANY (AP)- W est Germans can bily “ Mein Kam pf’ for the first time in 34 years, but they have shown little interest in the book in which Adolf Hitler outlined his Nazi philosophy.

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