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------ --- - ~-- ---- --- --~ -~--------------~-~------ --------- ----·--------. university of nofre dame sf mary's college I Vol. X, No. 38 Friday, October 24, 1975 J--. Trustees hear Progress Report Committee recommends SLC conduct on-going evaluations by Maureen Flynn of May, 1975 outlines the recom women's career counselling, Senior Staff Reporter mendations set forth in that university funding of club sports The Committee on Un- original report, indicates the and the installation of a (IS th\s o\<~ dergraduate Life (COUL) current status of each recom gynecologist in the infirmary. yesterday recommended that the mendation and points out the "We do not feel and we never Student Life Council (SLC) assume n1aior areas of current concern. have felt that the COUL report is the responsibility for an on-going The May COUL report contained finished or ever could be finished,'' evaluation of undergraduate 37 specific recommendations the report states. "While we are student life. concerning the areas of satisfied with the report and its academics, coeducation, initial effects on the Notre Dame residentiality, student life and community, we are well aware finances. The COUL Progress that the report is not sufficient as it Report breaks down the status of sta11ds now." these recommendations ar "The follow-up investigations," follows: Action Already Taken the report continues, "revealed <13), Action Being Taken (6), several problems which require IS HI ree nnera Action to Be Taken (6), and No serious and immediate attention." Action ( 12). Alumni were not "OK" by the standards of James Roemer, dean of st Areas of major concern outlined udents. Roemer removed signs with 'sexual conotations' displayed by The report also names the in the COUL Progress Report ·person, office or organization these halls .. include the need for "neutral Students from Dillon Hall displayed this banner and wondered if it . whose responsibility evaluation of spaces to be used for informal the recommendation should be and would meet Roemer's standards. Roemer could not be reached for interaction between men and comment. (Photo by Tony Chifari) to whom it should be sent for women," lack of career coun further study and action. selling for all students, quantity Areas in which action has and quality of off-campus housing, already been taken include the and the need to keep tuition costs Plans for fiberboard improvement of relation~ between low. students and the South Bend In addition to these needs, ex community, more active pressed in the original COUL recruitment of minority students village presented \ report, the committee cites "a and faculty members, color-coding growing anxiety over the safety of ~ and tighter control of form 50's for women on campus ... an evaluation by Mark Murphy quantitatively and qualitatively registration and improvement of of the relationship between Notre Staff Reporter conserve limited !resources ," he John D. Rockefeller IV ioined the University Village complex. other trustees in visiting La For Dame and St. Mary's ... the Plans are currently being said. According to the Progress problem of alcohol use and abuse presented to the University for the He said that the dwelling's small tune Student Center. (Photo by Report , action is being taken now Tony Chifari) on campus" and "an urgent need on-campus construction of a dimensions andthe communal to complete the Graduate Dor for action with regard to corrugated fiberboard village to be facilities would significantly In its Progress Report presented mitory project, increase the increasing the capacity of the inhabited by Notre Dame students reduce the amount of resources to the Student Affairs Sub number of female faculty in full Placemept Bureau." in January. needed to house each person. committee of the Board of time tenure track and ad "The preliminary follow-up nas The proposal, conceived by ''The materials used to construct Trustees, the committee recom ministrative positions, and extend made it very clear that there are Chuck Canavan, a fifth year the village is made from cellulose Jmends · that "the evaluation the services of the Campus still many areas rewuiring at- architecture student working with .fiber," Sondej noted, "which is begun by our committee be con Ministry to more off-campus tention," the report concludes. Anjomark Research Inc, and AI renewable and available on a tinued and expanded by the students: "Furthermore, it is evident that Sondej of the World Hunger global scale. It is biodegradable Student Life Council, its sub Future courses of action are the task of - an on-going Coalition, will serve as a prototype rapidly and inexpensively committees and any ad hoc being determined for dealing with evaluation is too much for a for housing in the future produced, lightweight and committees it may see the need to the understaffing and over committee such as the Committtee The idea for the village originat durable." employ.'' crowding in the business college, on Undergraduate Life to handle ·-ed with the Coalition's desire to "Furthermore," the report the expansion of the women's alone." construct a house that would Instead of disposing waste into a states, "we recommend that the athletic program, and the The report recommends that the enable the rich to lower their sewer system it will be collected to SLC use its legislative and ad establishment of student advisory Student Life Council assume standard of living and Anjomark's prevent the pollution of wat visory powers to initiate and boards to the departments in the responsibility for following concern with providing disaster erwaysand be available for fer facilitate action in regard to the Office for Student Affairs. through with its recommendations relief housing for the poor. tilizer and heat production. Coed Housing issues considered in the original and suggests that the respon- Jack DeLine,a 1961 1 ~ graduate COUL report and to any new issues The COUL committee notes in its ~ibility to "oversee and encourage of Notre Dame and president of concerning undergraduate life." Progress Report that no action has the SLC's work" lies with "the Anjomark Research, has The committee's follow-up yet been taken on its recom Vice President of Student Affairs developed a housing unit made of report on the original COUL report mendations regarding housing, (continued on page 10), corrugated fiberboard for use in disaster relief and permanent poverty areas. DeLine's non-profit organizaton will provide all · funds and I materials for the project. The village will consist of 25-50 various structures encircling a communitycenter. The individual dwelling will have single and double occupancy with shapes ranging from tent-shaped to 'g1able roof structures. The community center will provide its inhabitantswith a dining area, cooking and food ~tor· age space and toilet facilities. Electricity will be used for light ing, heating and cooking. "Solar energy and 1methane digesters could be ideally used to produce elect\1'\C power,'' Canavan added. To use Solar Energy Canavan exp-lained that the village will serve as a protrotype Small solar stoves will be in- and working model for AnjQ'mark stalled to cook food on sunny days Research in_its developemnt of and water will be provided by disaster /relief housing. rainfall and melted snow collected "While the basic units have been in storage bins. developed and tested, this will be Sondej explained the Hunger the first prolonged use of them in .___ OIIIIJ!I _____~ - « Coalition's interest in the village an actual village environment," he said. Thomas Carney and Brother Just Paczesny heard t Affairs subcommittee meeting. (Photo by Tony project. "W~~antto build and live he student report on COUL yesterday at the .S'u~ent Chifari) in a home that is designed to (continued on page 6) Friday, October 24, 1975 2 the observer Moreau Gallery warld briefs opens exhibit NOW OPEN MORRISTOWN, N.J. <AP)- A neurologist who specializes in the this weekend treatment of coma victims said Thursday that Karen Anne Quinlan's physical condition was too grotesque to describe, but said The Moreau Galleries, Saint GENERAL STORE no physician has the right to take steps that could end her life. Mary's, opened three new exhibits The testimony was by Dr. Sidney Diamond, one of three Saturday, Oct. 18th. neurologists presented by attorneys opposing a request by Miss The shows will run until Nov. 9th FEATURING JEANS & TOPS Wuinlan 's adoptive parents that doctors be ordered to disconnect a and include: "Pots and Pain respirator to "let her die with dignity." tings", featuring local artists Jim FOR GUYS & GALS Paradis and Ed Harding, in the MADRID, Spain (AP)- Gen. Francisco Franco is showing signs of main gallery; "Wild Fibre: Soft COME CHECK OUT OUR FADED GLORY heart failure, his doctors said Thursday night. Stuffed Sculpture" by Moira Marti JEANS AND JACKETS "The chief of state has suffered a relapse and incipient heart Geoffrion in the Little Theatre failure has appeared," a statement from 11 attending doctors said. Gallery; and "Photographs" by 1621 So Bend Ave. (BEHIND LINEBACKER) The medical bulletin, the first since the 82-year-old chief of state A.W. Sperber, in the Hammes suffered a severe heart attack two days ago, opened the way under Gallery. Phone 233 - 6867 the Spanish constitution for Franco to be declared incapable of "Pots and Paintings" features continuing as Spanish ruler. ceramk sculpture and pots by Jim YES, WE HAVE PAINTER'S PANTS There were reports that his government was making efforts to Paradis. associate professor of art transfer power to Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon. at Saint Mary's, and watercolors by Ed Harding, professor of art and chairman of the graphics and ANDERSON, INDIANA <AP) A human skeleton, thought to be media division, Indiana Vocational that of an Indian and several hundred years old, has been found Technical College, South Bend.