Raid Surprises 26 by Art Ferranti the Police to Have Been on the Premises Outside for up I Ho Paddy Wagon and Two Cars of the Police
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On The Inside SMC candidates an nounce ...page 3 Student Advisory Council report ...page 4 Vol. v ii No. 105 THE OBSERVER serving the notre dame Mondav, lor„, „„ Arrested at Nickie's Raid surprises 26 by Art Ferranti the police to have been on the premises outside for up I ho paddy wagon and two cars of the police. A plain Executive Editor to a half hour before the officers entered the bar. A few clothes officer appeared to be in charge of the situation Twenty six Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s/Students students escaped out the back door before the police and one officer watched the van. It had been estimated were arrested a t 1:45 am Friday at Nickie’s, a bar at covered it. to he the biggest crowd seen at Nickie’s. Thursday iiL’8 N. Eddy SI. near the campus, by members of the Two officers sifted into the crowd and quietly sur night is usually the busiest night for the bar. South Bend Police Department. veyed the situation. Two more officers stayed at the Some students attempted to let the air out of the tires The bar was immediately closed and'the students front door and checked identification as the students of the police ears while a few others at times unlocked processed and hooked at the South Bend police station. left. The girls in the bar were the most visibly the van’s door. The attempts resulted in the two Those able to post the $50.00 bail were released by 11:00 disturbed and many were crying. disorderly conduct arrests. When students who were am the same day. Sixteen males and ten females (all St. Mary’s arrested left the bar they covered their faces Twenty four of the students were charged with being students) were caught. The Alcohol Beverage Com reminiscent of Mafia arrests, placed their hands on •’minors in a tavern.” a misdemeanor, and two with mission (ABO had nothing to do with the arrests or the their heads, raised their arms in a victory salute, or disorderly conduct. All were booked for court ap raid itself, said the police spokesman. reacted passively. All were cheered by the throng pearances. A police spokesman said the raid,called a Outside in the street in front of the three building outside. “typical check” by an officer, was “on the spur of the complex that comprisesNickie’sone of the more highly A police request to clear the street was ignored and moment.” due to complaints. successful bars catering to Notre Dame-Saint Mary’s resulted in a group of students chanting the Notre The raid began quietly with some witnesses claiming students patrons crowded the street and surrounded name Victory March. It ended quickly. Finally, two more squad cars one with a dog drove up and the plain clothes detective ordered everyone off the streets. The crowd soon broke up at about 2:00 am. Approximately forty students (male and female) showed up at the South Bend Police Station to bail their friends out. Much of the money had been raised during the raid. Notre Dame Halls and representatives of St. Mary’s also put up bail. The students were finally released as late as 11:00 am at the City Jail on the $50.00 bail. Due to the swelling number of concerned students in the police station, all were asked to leave at 2:45 am. The arrested students will appear in court Tuesday morning. Fines and punishment will be set by the judge. The arrested students were asked to give all their personal items (belts, watches, etc.) to the police at the station. The girls were allowed to keep theirs. They were questioned, photographed (with numbers), fingerprinted, and returned to the cells. The girls, quickly transferred to the City Hall, were released between 5and Ham and the boys later. The cells at I he Police Station accomodate 12. The sixteen male students had to share one cell. They were not told their rights and were officially declared arrested after they had been placed in the cell, said one student. Another said that some were not allowed their one phone call. A hard roll and coffee composed their breakfast They have all decided to plead guilty and pay •whatever fine the judge selects. However, the two arrested for disorderly conduct, reputedly so charged for letting the air out of eight tires, have been said as intending to plead innocent. As for N ickie’s itself, the owner was unavailable for comment. It was open the following night. A SI Mary’s student arrested in the raid said that the girls were told that St. Mary’s would not take any further disciplinary action. The Observer contacted Fr. Richie, dean of students, Friday concerning .Students found thpir visit to Nickie’s abruptly police Twenty-six ND-SMC students were arrested, university action. Fr. Riehle said that he did not know interrupted Thursday night by the South Bend(staff photo by Jim Hunt) at that time. The police told the students that their parents would not be notified. < Sophomore Literary Festival Elkin and Potok to arrive today in life, he wrote his second work, by Jim Gresser prostftues, and advice on Bend Avenue. sincerity, and artistic ability are Senior Reporter Criers and Kibitzers. Kibitzers and procuring all manner of illicit wish ranoora s lias niaue special unlimited and can be appreciated Criers. fulfillments.” arrangements to sell at cost all his and enjoyed by anyone. Novelist Stanley Elkin will read In his third piece of comic fic His most recent work is the novel books. The Chosen. The Promise, from his fiction tonight as the tions, A Bad Man, Elkin tells of Leo he Dick Gibson Show which and My Name is Asher Lev. whild Festival History Sophomore Literary Festival’s ■lates the trials and tribulations Dr. Potok is in the store. main event for the day. Mr. Elkin Feldman, a department store a struggling radio announcer. In Dr. Potok, a Jewish Rabbi, has The Sophomore Literary will speak at 8:00 p.m. in the owner who is sentenced to a year in is novel Elkin best demonstrates had all three of his books make the Festival itself was conceived in Memorial Library Auditorium. s tremendous ability to say 15)87 as an entirely student prison for providing “such un bestseller list. Though his books imething very pertinent in a very organized and student funded One of the foremost American derworld services in the basement nny way. arc mainly written on the Jewish event Each spring, literary comedyj writers, Elkin’s is experience, his abundant warmth. figures are invited to visit the marked by what he calls “the of his store as abortions, drugs, Born in New York City and cam pus and participate in a week tragic inadequacy of a simplistic -esently teaching at Washington long program of lectures, readings response to life.” He writes of diversity in St. Louis, Elkin will and discussions. The list of names characters who find themselves in • speaking again on Tuesday on of writers who have attended the awkward life situations and are •literature and the Heart At- festival is long and impressive, unable to resond satisfactorily to ck He will remain on campus including Joseph Heller. Kurt them. Though he looks at his nil Friday, visiting classes and Yonnegut. Norman Mailer. Ralph characters with a masterfully scussing his work "With students. Ellison. John Knowles. Robert humorous eye. Elkin still makes Duncan. Claude Brown, Tom meaningful comments about their Potok at Papdoras Wolfe. LcRoi Jones. Gary Snyder. lives and life in general. Jcrzy Kosinski. Allen Ginsberg, In his first novel, Boswell: A Dr. Chaim Potok will also arrive and John Barth. Modern Comedy. Elkin deals with i campus today and though he the need for a response to death ill not speak until Tuesday night, In 15)85), the New York Times was and portrays one somewhat • will he visiting classes Also, prompted to say that the Notre fruitless response in the misad om :i::i(i to 4:80 p.m. today. Dr. Dame Sophomore Literary ventures of his protagonist. olok will be autographing books Festival is "unlike anything of its Covering many quests for meaning stimfevI Ikin at Pandora’s Bookstore on South Chaim Potok kind.” the observer Monday, April 2, 1973 \Yiisliinglon--Sccretary of Defense Elliott L. Richardson has defended the continuing United States bombing raids on Cambodia as on campus today necessary to keep alive the anti-communist regime of President Lon Nol and to pressure Communist forces into accepting a cease-fire as 9:30 am - conference, jungian psychology and I hey have in Vietnam and Laos. Richardson, who made his remarks higher education: lecture, "analytic Sunday on the "Meet the Press" television program, said “it would be psychology and education," by thayer very difficult" for the Cambodian government to survive without the qreene, cce world air support because of “a massive threat by well-armed , well- lecture, "vedanta and jung," by arwin organized guerrilla forces, which include forces from North Vietnam vasada, cce itself. 1-5 pm daily adoration of the blessed Washington-The Central Intelligence Agency, under James R. sacrament, corby hall chapel Schlesinger. its new director, is apparently planning to curtail some of 2:00 pm conference, lecture, "the 'new woman' briefs its old activities, notably clandestine military operations, and un dertake some new ones. These include action against political in psychotherapy and higher education," june terrorism and the international drug traffic. k. singer, CCE lecture, "jung and the young," by ian New York-Loaders of (he diverse consumer groups making up the baker, CCE meal boycott movement said that their week-long effort to drive down l: 30 4: 30 pm - visit with chaim potok, pandora's prices was off to a good start.