-..------., THE OBSERVER sc vol. II, no. XLVII University of Notre Dame March 1, 1968 News In Brief: Smither's Hat In Ring Elect Chairmen The second organizational ca­ St.Mary's SBP Race Develops cuses for the 1968 Republican Mock Convention are scheduled BY FRAN SCHWARTZBERG other aspects of student government. She part of the candidates, is that the SMC for 7:00 and 8:00p.m. Sunday, sees her year's absence not as a handicap student does not feel that she is a part of Mar. 3. States listed alphebetic­ Two new candidates emerged late Wednes­ but as an asset. "We lived in a community the government. Davis added "She must be ally from Alabama to Missouri day night for SMC Student government posi­ which was very close to idea. Though -1 made to realize that it is the individual will meet in O'Shaughnessy Hall tions. They are Suzanne Smither, a junior · realize that 1500 students may not be able student who holds the power. All she has to at 7:00. The remainder of the , English major from Arlington Va. and Mary to attain the same degree of unity and do is use it." state delegations will meet at Kennedy, a physics major from South Bend, freedom as Angers' forty-five, there are - the later hour. Permanent dele­ Ind. Smither will oppose Therese Ambrusko, certain learning experiences which can be gation chairmen and representa­ previously announced SBP hopeful. Kennedy applied to this campus." 'Day Dogs?·' tives to the platform, rules, cre­ will oppose Sally Stoebel for the vice presi­ Smither views the roll of next year's dentials, and permanent organ­ dential slot. student government as a crucial one. "We ization committees will be elec­ Smither, present chairman of the ND- will be concerned with the Statement of C'mon, Te·d I . ted at these meetings. Student Rights and Responsibilities which The following letter was sent to I believe could eliminate the petty frustra­ Fr. Hesburgh by six offcampus officers J OEO Honors tions which distract so many students. When after the University president referred ND this is odne, the SMC student will be free to the offcampus students as "day to define her role as college student and as dogs" in a recent interview. The Office of Economic Op­ a woman." Dear Father Hesburgh: . portunity has awarded the Uni­ - Kennedy~ a Dean's List and Superior We, the undersigned, members of versity an Urban Service Award student, has served this year as chairman - various off campus organizatio.ns, wer.e for working to "alleviate the pro­ for the formulating committee of Student quite distressed to read your comments blems of the poor in America's Academic Rights. Commenting upon her concerning the off campus students, cities." The University is among last minute decision, she said, "It really as published in the February 23 issue the first to receive the newly wasn't a last minute thing. I had been con­ of the Scholastic. We consider it not Dame~s ur­ created award. Notre sidering it for quite sometime, but was wary only inaccurate, but also, uncompli­ ben poverty projects are under of the job; it seemed so time consuming." mentary, indeed, insulting, to label the the direction of the Center for Annouricemeni" of the new candidates off campus students as "day dogs." the Study Man in Contemporary caused comment from many of the pre­ In our collective experiences, we have Society. viously committed candidates. Junior Sally never heard the term "day dog" used Romney Backers Davis, running unopposed as Academic Com­ as a description for the off campus missioner feels that the lack of competition student, but we are aware of its un­ Go To Rocky is discouraging. "Students either feel aliena­ pleasant connotations. ted from student government or they feel The Notre Dame Students for Implicit in your use of the term that it is ineffective. I would rather believe I Romney in '68 are now support­ is that the off campus student merely they feel alienated because this can be ing Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of Suzanne Smither attends classes and returns to his little corrected by better communication on the New York, according to Chair­ SMC free University, returned this year from hovel to study or to "party." While man Mike Kelly. The decision a sophomore year in Angers, France. As a part of the officers and a greater delegation this might be true of a certain number to support Rockefeller for the member of SMC's Academic Commission, she of authority." - of the off campus students, it is by no GOP nomination was made after has been involved in Free University and General concensus of opinion, on the means a valid generalization. Romney announced Wednesday Off campus students are involved that he was withdrawing from the in every phase of student and univer­ race. Mardi Gras Committee sity life such as student government, Kelly said that the decision campus publications, Student Union, was made because he felt that the Honor Council and many, many Gov. Romney would now work Still Counting The Cash other organizations, In the general area to convince Gov. Rockefeller to By TOM EHRBAR reportedly well handled and attended. of South Bend-Notre Dame relations- enter the race. Gov. Rockefeller The gambling tables have been torn down For five days at Stephan Center the on the person.al level-it has been th~ was one of Gov. Romney's stron­ and the mini-skirted visitors have departed. gambling instincts of Notr' Dame students work of the Off Campus Judicial Ad­ gest supporters. Only last week, Notre Dame's Mardi Gras, "the nation's were tested and bested. The Carnival reached visory Board which has been most instrumental in improving them. If all Kelly received a letter from Gov. third biggest college weekend" _!las closed its peak Saturday night, then as the odds the . above is not contributing to the Rockefeller in which he accepted for another year. Although the final as­ dropped so did the attendance. All booths the position of Honorary Chair­ "university as a whole," then we do J sesment of profit won't be completed until were winners, but clearly topping the list not_ understand the meaning of the man of the Notre Dame group Friday, the consensus of the Mardi Gras in appeal and success were the Teddy Bear for Romney. word "contribute." staff is that the festivities netted a solid stand, Alpha Phi Omega concessions, and "I will do everything possible Exactly what has the University to help Rockefeller get the nomi­ financial success, passing last year's total St. Mary's booth. done to encourage participation in nation both at the Mock Conven­ of about $35,000. The Teddy Bear booth, a wheel-of-fortune university life by the off campus tion here, and at the Republican The return from the carnival itself, which operated by the Mardi Gras committee, was student? Parking lots are off limits or convention in Miami," Kelly said. reached $15,800 last year, is estimated by an added and highly J.>Opular feature this overcrowded. Communication of on Kelly intends to assist Jim Business Manager Jim Dean to be a slightly year. St. Mary's, as usual, depite a poor campus events or happenings is non­ Franczek, Rockefeller's Mock higher figure this year. Raffle ticket sales, showing Monday night, led the organizational existent except by telephone informa­ tion services. And unreasonable restric­ Convention Campaign manager, which have drifted in sporatically since groups. SMC spokesman Molly McNerney tions on types of housing for the off in any way that he can. He said Christmas Vacation, probably will show an credited their success as simply "having that he will attempt to hold the campus students are levied. It is true overall increase. The winner of the raffle, the best dealers and card players." Michigan delegation to a first that services for the off campus student ballot "favorite son" commit­ and a new Riviera was Mr. Brendan Flynn Mike Collings, chairman of the Indian­ have been improved, primarily through ment to Romney. He has told of Arlington Heights. The student prize, a apolis Club booth, explained how the various the efforts of student government, but supporters in other delegations 1968 Corvette, went to freshman James booths fit into the whole Mardi Gras scheme. they are still woefully inadequate and however, to vote for Rockefeller. Sheahan, 407 Cavanaugh, of Bellvue, Wash. After a hall or club had been granted a booth un derfinance d. The Marvin Gaye and Stone Poneys' by the Mardi Gras Committee, they were One fmal point concerning off cam­ Anointed Speak Concert, with some last minute shuffling supplied with lumber and cloth. They then 'pus students should be made. Many The Student Union Academic (Ann Bogan replacing Brenda Holloway) create their own set-up and tables were students like living off campus. A Commission will present the sec­ was labled, "a moderate success" by Social arranged; accomodating poker, blackjack, great number of students live together, ond of its facutly poetry readings Commissioner Tom Nelson. Nelson also com­ and over-under. Dealers were recruited and find despite stat~ments otherwise, enjoy Sun., March 3, at 8:00 in the mented on a particular joke by Marvin stratigies formulated. Once the carnival op­ ~ the advantages of living and meet­ Memorial Library Auditorium. ing with other students. Thus, even if Gaye which was not at all well received. ened each group was provided a starting Prof. Charles Matz of the SMC the University could eventually pro­ Nelson agreed that it was "in poor taste" but fund of cash-$50 per day. The winnings faculty and Dr. John Matthias vide facilities for all fourteen hunqred of the ND English Dept. will contended that although the performer had were consecutively handed in at the conclu­ undergraduate off campus students, it read original works. Mr. Peter apparently miHead the audience, he still, sion of each session of gambling. 15% of the is unlikely that they will all want to Michelson of "The Eater" fame "put on an enjoyable show." The pair of total profit of a particular booth will later move on campus. · I · will preside over the reading. Mardi Gras dances held last Friday were be returned to them for their own purposes. r I I page 2 THE OBSERVER March 1, 1968 I Minton Says: . ROTC Becomes Attractive Senior Officers Reach Agreement To Graduate Applicants By GUY DE SAPIO Each campus' quota is first filled from appli­ BY JOEL CONNELLY and in particular the issuance of Forty to 50 Notre Dame Seniors who would cantS" from those groups, junior college students a letter to the class without the have lost their college deferments in June may be having top priority. Remaining space is offered to Senior Class President Mike seniors. Minton said Thursday that a officers being informed of it. He able to go on to graduate school next fall. They The openings for Notre Dame seniors "are Wednesday afternoon meeting of asserted that there had been no have applied for enrollment in the two year Army closed" according to Stephens. Over I 00 stu­ class officers produced a clarifi­ problems concerning Senior we­ ROTC Program under a relatively unknown clause dents, including seniors, have applied and their cation of the roles of the offi­ ek, but rather "problems of com­ which permits seniors who have never taken applications are already being processed. cers. Terming the clarification a munication." He remarked "A ROTC to participate in the program while attend­ "monumental step," Minton triumvurate was not elected as ing graduate school. The students are currently undergoing a series maintained that the class govern­ Senior President." He termed According to an Army brochure: "the two of_ testing programs which must be successfully ment is stronger than ever. He a clarification of officers' fun­ year ROTC program is designed specifically to completed before acceptance. They must pass a denied that he had at any time ctions .. vital to the operations of fill the needs of junior college graduates and stu­ physical, a verbal and math scholastic aptitude asked for the resignations of class government." dents of four-year colleges who have not taken test, and a leadership training test. They also must Class Secretary Lenonard Pellec­ The clarification adopted at Army ROTC during their first two years." receive a favorable recommendation from a group chia or Treasurer Tom Godbout. Wednesday's meeting largely re­ Little known is the fact that local units may of Army officers who interview the students. This Minton said the dispute am­ flects Minton's view. It states accept a limited number of seniors who will be summer they will have to attend six weeks of ba­ ong class officers had arisen over that the President has the right pursuing graduate studies for two or more years sic training and receive the approval of officers the authority of the President, to initiate and coordinate class at a university. Few seniors have applied in the there. policy and make decisions of past because they were able to obtain deferments Col. Stephens said that a large number of stu­ policy. Another point gives the under the old Selective Service Act. dents who enroll either fail to meet the require­ President the authority to make Col. John Stephens, head of Notre Dame's ments or drop out of the program between the ND Counsels all class appointments. Financial ROTC program told the Observer: "there is an time that they apply and the following fall. matters are under the control of opportunity for a limited number, a limited num­ ''We hope that half the guys will be accepted," Wedding Game the President and Treasury. ber, of qualified seniors, who have been accepted said Col. Stephens. "F\nal approval of the applica­ Preparation Minton remarked that he at a graduate school to join the two year program. tion lies with the Fifth Army Headquarters in sought the advice of administra­ A number have been in to see us about it. Chicago ... our record (of performance) h_as been tion and student government of­ "Approval for entrance is highly selective,. such at Notre Dame that I am very hopeful." The ND Theology Department ficials on how to clear up the however ... they will have to go through the same Thirty-three to 50 per cent of the Notre Dame will present the 17th annual misunderstanding of positions. testing program as the sophomores who normally undergraduates who have applied in the past have Marriage Institute, a series of He maintained he did not ask enroll ... and their chances for being accepted are been accepted. lectures given on the four Tues­ them "to intervene in the inter­ less, because they are relatively low on the list for Beside the seniors whp applied this week, 147 days in March. The purpose of nal affairs of class government." priority of acceptance in the program." N.D. seniors will be commissioned as Second the institute is to illucidate the Minton said that SBP Chris In an interview, Col. Stephens and Col. Lavin, Lieutenants upon graduation this June. One quar­ meaning of love and sexualogy Murphy and Union Prestaetll ,the man who will succeed him on May I, listed ter of the group will have participated in the two in marriage. This service offers Mike Browning had, uninvited, the four groups of students who hold priority. year program as undergraduates at Notre Dame. the student professional views on announced their intentions on over seniors for the program: The remainder will have taken four years of ROTC four approaches to marriage. attending Wednesday's meeting 1. Students who will graduate from a two year at Notre Dame. Dr. Henri Nouwen will open in spite of his objections. He junior college and are enrolling in a four year col­ Currently, any of the 147 who request a grad­ the series on March 5 with the maintained "Murphy and Brown­ lege which offers ROTC; uate school deferment will be granted it auto­ "Challenge of Love." Staff psy­ ing invited themselves. I told 2. Sophomores in a four year college who did matically. They will fulfill their military commit­ chologist for the Pastoral Insti­ them this was not their business not take ROTC their first two years; ment after graduate school. tute in Amsterdam, Fr. Nouwen but they decided to come any­ 3. Students who transfer from a college with­ Col. Lavin, however, stated that beginning in is now visiting psychology pro­ way, so I changed the time of out an ROTC program to a college with a two May 1969, students in the undergraduate ROTC fessor at ND. the meeting and didn't inform year program; program will not be granted graduate deferments "Sex and Sexuality" will be them of the change." 4. Students, attending a four year college with­ upon request. In 1970, graduate deferments for the subject of Dr. Mary Steichett Regarding the relations be­ out a program, who wish to commute to take the ROTC students will be granted on a selective, Caderone's lecture on March I2. tween Student Government and program at a nearby campus. competitive basis. Dr. Calderone was Medical Dir­ class government, Minton said ector of Planned Parenthood Fe­ "I don't want class government deration of America for 12 years. to be under the control of those Her Manual for ContraceJ?tiVe people. They were elected to gov­ Practice is considered the most ern the student body as a whole. comprehensive medical textbook The class officers are much more in the field. capable of handling class aff­ The moral aspects of marriage airs . . . I don't dispute their will be discussed by Professor right to look into class matters, Louis Dupre of Georgetown on but if they wanted to talk to us March 19. Reporter Frank Wess­ they should have called us to a ling will speak from an objective meeting, rather planning to come viewpoint on "Love: Encounter uninvited to one of ours." and Response" on March 26. Following the clarification, Students attending the four Minton remarked "Right now we lectures will receive a certificate all seem to be in total agreement. from the Marriage Institute ful­ There is no love between my sec­ filling the Church's required Pre­ retary and treasurer and myself, but we have put aside our dif­ Dry and fusty scholars, we don't need -seeing something.you do take effect. Nuptial instruction. The cost for you. Retail is a fa~t·pact>d world with If you're a doer, our Exe(•utive the series is one dollar and tic­ ferences. Now there will be no the emphasis on action. We net>d tht• Training Program is S{'t up just for kets are available at the Theology more lack of communication." brash young dot>rs with the quickt>st you, and offers fast promotions and His view was backed up by a vote thinking minds. And what do we offer intrf'ases; the bettf'r you are, the fast­ Department or the Bookstore. all this soaring young talent? At Gim~ Pr tht>y come. Talfmted young execu~ of confidence at Wednesday's All lectures will be held at 8:00 bPls, we otft•r a jGb situation in whit·h tin•s have more than doubl<•d their be­ p.m. in Washington Hall. meeting. your ideas translate to immediate ac­ ginning salaries within five yPars. You tion; you'll see just how effective your will find, as thf'se young executives idea was by tht• rt>sults it gets. havt>, that opportunities in Manage~ So you write great copy for a ment, MPrchandising, Sales Promotion, sale of hand-carved ivory elephants­ Control, and Pt•rsonnel only outline the will the customers stampede for the many av('nUl'S for exploration whiiP bric-a~brac department? At Giml>Pls, you art~ a member of our Executive you know thP next day. You•re a buyer Training Program and later in your and select the most swashbuckling rwrmanPnt assignment. thigh-high boots-are they all snatched Thf're is room at the top for you up in a week? You set up a far-out in all of these divisions because the window display, supervist> a new pro­ Gimbt'l Corporation is growing enorm­ cedure for salesclerks- and is each ously, nf'eds nt•w tal<•nt constantly. effective? Will it move people and get SchNiule an intervif'w appointment inside their hf'ads and make them want with our campus rf'cruiter; we'll be to buy? That's where thE" real satisfac­ glad to meet you and te-ll you more tion of retailing at Gimbels com~s in about our Executive Training Program.

52577U5.3\NO. ~~EI~S ~NEWYORK 272·2966 THE I OBSERVER page 3 Faculty Senate Arranges Topic Committee Breakdown

The long proposed Faculty the Administration . Senate has become an existing . Heading the Committee on reality with the election of per­ Faculty Affairs is Professor Joh­ manent officers and enactment eph A. Tihen, Department of of a set of bylaws. Under Prof. Biology. His committee is re­ Edward J. Murphy of the Law searching faculty welfare and School faculty, newly elected compensation. The Committee chairman of the body, the Sen­ on Student Affairs is led by the ate has organized three standing . Rev. Ernest J. Bartell, C.S.C., committees dealing with three Department of Economics. areas of University life: adminis­ tration of the University, Faculty Bogle Forms affairs, and student affairs. According to its Constitution, McCarthy the Faculty Senate is conceived as an assembly through which Headquarters the faculty can exercise a collec­ tive and independent voice in the Dr. James Bogle of the Gov­ Mr. Fred Syburg, left, will direct Chuck Perrin and, Judit~ Muench in a Notre ~arne­ governance of the University. Its ernment Department, Chairman Saint Mary's Theatre production of Luigi Piran?ello s .Ennco IV, scheduled for stx per­ recommendations and conclu­ of Hoosiers for a Democratic formances in Washington Hall. Performances wtll be gtven at 8:30p.m. on March 1, 2, sions will be based on free and Alternative, has announced plans 1, 8, and 9, and a 2:30 matinee will be presented Sun. March 3. open discussion. Prof. Murphy is for a major convention in India­ optimistic that the Senate will polis March 15-16. The conven­ perform a service for the Univer­ tion, aimed at mobilizing anti­ Parietal Hours Stir TMH Request sity. Johnson sentiment among India­ By TIM O'MELIA Riehle said, "parietal hours should all-just a voice." He stated that the 62 members na Democrats, will feature ad­ University President Fr. Theo­ of the Senate were elected by the be uniform throughout the cam­ Concerning Richard Rossie's dresses by U.S. Senators Vance dore Hesburgh, C.S.C. was re­ individual colleges and each Fac­ pus. I know of no university in ideas of student participation on Hartke (Dem., Ind) and Eugene quested to submit a written ra­ ulty Senator represented ten fac­ the country which allows halls the University Academic Council McCarthy (Dem., Minn.). tionale of his opposition to pa­ ulty members in that college. He to legislate major rules such as and a proposed joint Student­ Hoosiers for a Democratic ietal hours by the Student-Facul­ said that most of the actual work parietal hours." He did say that Faculty Committee on Evalua­ Alternative, preparing for the ty Committee on Student Life would be done by the standing actual determination of parietal tion and Experimentation, Fr. convention and primary, has es­ Tuesday. The Faculty Senate committees and that chairmen of hours might be made jointly by McCarragher said jokingly "If tablished a headquarters in South had requested the written ration­ these committees had been selec­ the students, faculty and admin­ they don't be careful we'll put Bend to run McCarthy efforts ale due to the lack of communica­ ted. istration. someone from the Faculty Sen­ for Indiana. The headquarters is tion with the students, and their Professor Paul C. Bartholo­ A-sub-committee report on ate iri the Student Senate. There manned largely by Notre Dame misunderstanding of the ration­ mew, Department of Government and St. Mary's students. Notre dining halls made two recom­ is an alpha and an omega to ale. mendations at the meeting. They and International Studies is chair­ Dame faculty members Dr. Mich­ student participation." He said Chairman of the Committee recommended that suggestion bo­ man of the Committee on Ad­ ael Francis of the Government that he has never participated Rev. Charles McCarragher was xes be placed in the dining halls ministration. Items submitted to Department and Dr. John Houck in a Student Senate meeting also commissioned by the Com­ and that dining hall committees his committee include the cut of the Management Department but that "The people who built mittee to invite several lawyers be formed for each dining hall system, the grading system, the have been instrumental accord­ this $100 million plant shoufd to the next meeting. Several with one student from each hall calendar year, and methods of ing to Bogle in the planning of have a say in what goes on." of the Faculty members of the serving on the committee. promulgating policy changes by the convention. committee thought the lawyers Professor James Carberry rec­ Bogle has in the last five weeks should be consulted because pa­ ommended that students in the built HDA into an organization rietal hours might violate the Lagging Cash-flow Masters in Business Administra­ of better than 6500 statewide. Indiana state law on lascivious tion Program conduct a project Commenting on the convention conduct. · study of the 14-meal plan, cater­ Student Gov't plans, Bogle said Wednesday Dean of Students Rev. James ing services and cost estimates. "This movement has grown from Riehle, C.S.C., said he did not When questioned concerning Problem pratically nothing. The conven­ believe the parietal hours res­ the students' views on the Gen­ tion, plus its presentation of a olutions passed by the General eral Assembly of Students Fr. According to Student Body holds that Student Government's platform, will mobilize Democra­ Assembly would be effective. McCarragher said it was a good Treasurer Tom Goundrey "a tight financial status is excellent. The tic sentiment throughout Indi­ His main objection was hall idea for students to express an cash flow" is responsible for his reason for his warning and con­ ana and point out even more determination of parietal hours. opinion on everything "but that's "warning" against over-expendi­ cern is his attempt to keep a clearly the need for an alternative ture of Student Government cash balance of $3000. to the Johnson Administration." '71 GO GO GIRLS '71 funds. Goundrey issued verbal Because of accounts owed to He also cited Notre Dame as warnings to Student Government Student Government by students being a center of McCarthy sen­ officials in December explaining and student organizations thr­ timent from the time of the Sen­ Tear Down the Fieldhouse that requests for expenditures ough the use of Student Govern­ ator's announcement of his cha­ Homecoming Hop Hullabaloo would be examined with greater ment and Student Union ser­ llenge of President Johnson for scrutiny in the future. This ver­ vices and a period of heavy the Democratic Convention. bal warning was followed by a cash outlays corresponding with Saturday Admission: $1.00 written directive in late January. a period of virtually no income, March 2nd '71 Key Club: $.75 According to Goundrey his scru­ Goundrey has found it hard Union Wants tinizing policies are not any more to maintain the cash balance at Demolition begins: 7:30 rigid than before. He termed his the desired $3000. You statement a warning against Treas. Goundrey points out Newly appointed Student abuse. that last year's Student Govern­ Union President Rick Rembusch Goundrey is scheduled to ap­ ment left office in debt while announced today that the Union pear before the Student Senate there is a good chance there will Groove to the Music of: is accepting applications for po­ when it meets next week with a be a funds surplus at the end of sitions with the Union and its Dowagiac's "The Delian League" full financial report. Goundrey his tenure. three commissions. Students are needed to fill salaried and non­ The Soul Sound of "Bill Hurtz and the STARTS FRIDAY salaried jobs with the Union's Magnificent 7" OPEN: 6:45 Academic, Social and Student South Bend's "Mass Confusion" Services Commissions. Rem busch I. U. 's "Wine and Roses" said that a complete list of vacant positions would be available next week. I 0 college and area girl's schools invited The Observer is published three times weekly during the colleJe Special guests: semester except vacation periods by·-the students of The University The N.I.T. bound FIGHTING IRISH ... ofNotre Dame. Subscriptions may be purchased for $7 .SO from The AUDED ATTRACTION- LIFELINE TO VIETNAM, Observer, Box 11, Notte Dame, Ind. 46SS6. Second clw postap •71 ______GO GO GIRLS -----'71 TIMELY COMMENTARY BY BOB CONSIDINE paid, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. page 4 THE OBSERVER March 1, 1968 THE OBSERVER An Independent Student Newspaper

EDITOR -IN -CHIEF

PATRICK COLLINS

OUNDED NOVEMBER 3, 1966 NOTRE DAME, INDIANA To War, Or Not Iri. glancing toward the political sector, one of the most important frustrations of our generation has been impotency to seemingly affect its views upon the governmental processes. Even given the vote, the decisive political battles seem to be resol­ ved far distant from the individual voter. The cries issuing forth from the increasing number of demon­ ~- strations against the war and for civil rights have been met only with increased troop buildups in --- both Vietnam and our cities. ----- But this is an election year. It brings with it the one media that all politicians respond to - votes. And in this particular year, the mass of voters are discontented. They are sick of war, riots, poverty, inflation - and most of all, of politics. And they dread the spectre of being offered a choice between two men who say essentially the same thing, once •.•• BECAIJSE THE puaLJClTY WOULD BE UN9ECOM)Nc;, FoR A one has sifted through the rhetoric and subtracted c;R,E.AT UNIYER SITY ON 11fE MQyE. AND B~5to.5S, TffE t1PN tf4- points for time and place of each statement. They ISTRATION ~NOWS THAT TH~Y LET STUDE~TS HAVE G!RL.S do not trust most potential statesmen. Last time tr: t N TH~fR ~00tt1S ,,_.L, lft~ Tl ME, THE TEM.PTATrOH WOUL p BE they opted for the man who would never send Am­ G ~EAT TO TA~E ADVAHTA6E OF THE S!TVATrON. WH£RtA S tF erican boys to fight in Asia. 7 And in this election year, Notre Dame, as usual, T.,EY ARt ONLy ALLOWtD THts PRIVtL~Gfi o~cE oR is holding its Mock Republican Political Convention. TWice., WHAT COULD HAPPt:N? And it is one of the first in the country. It is being watched closely by both politicians and the nation­ al press. Huntley and Brinkley will come to fill Dennis Gallagher~------John Davidson's shoes. Only they will not be film­ ing the football team or recording the victory Best Of All Possible Worlds march. They will be listening to what we say. - It would be nice to view the Mock Convention as the year's biggest mixer, supplemented by a mass prediction of who the Republican Party is going to What precisely do you want to do? Do you spend time with your wife and kids and friends want to go to graduate school and spend the next than reading law books or writing up the big nominate in the heat of Miami, in the face of a three years or five reading the minor poems of contract. But the corporation (or the Ministry of much hotter war. The problem is that this year's William Collins (which happen to be the only Public Propaganda or the department) is not election is going to be close, and even the Repub­ kind he wrote)? Or do you want to go to Vietnam really going to understand. licans have no idea who they will nominate. The and become one of the x num­ Society deals with individuals sometimes and only viable prediction at this time, for most state ber of young men that we will it may even have a respect for individual dignity. proudly sacrifice to make the But there are still going to be times when people delegations in the smoke-filled rooms, would be world safe for bald eagles? collectively can't really see people one by one. chaos. The Republican Party is sure neither of who There is a good possibility The government figures it's worthwhile to lose can beat Johnson or of what position should be that at least part of the time .05% of its population defending a supposedly taken on the war. They will be looking to things you don't want to do anything strategic point. For the society, it's not a crip­ like this. The well-ordered ma­ pling loss. Unfortunately people don't die by 1 like mock conventions. chine that turns out a proper percentage points. They die one by one. One by It is therefore important that the Mock Conven­ number of fates for all of one their massive personal existence is annihi­ tion be more than a social gathering. It must take a society's needs may not be lated. stand one way or another on the issue of Vietnam, breaking down precisely, but it is starting to So you feel bad. You wonder if there is enough for it pervades every other qmstion, both foreign creak. If there are a lot of times when you think space left in the world to let you become what of yourself as a doctor or lawyer or business you want to be. You resent the attempt to make and domestic. To nominate Romney; Rockefeller, or executive, there are also times when you say, you fit into a category. You want to be free. You Percy would be to say essentially nothing. Since "This is not happening to me. I want no part of' want to make it on your own. his statement last week reaffirming a basic commit­ it." Now it's vaguely possible that alienation is ment to the immediate Johnson policy on Vietnam, On the theory that we cannot all become the result rather than the cause of existentialist Governor Rockefeller has eliminated. himself as a guitar players and at least some of us are not philosophy. Maybe it would be a good idea to going to do precisely our thing, the question real alternative. We would express our support of concentrate on developing habits of mind which becomes what kind of compromises do you make. will make the pegs fit the holes they're sup­ an expanded war policy by nominating Reagan or If you can't be Keats or Bob Dylan, will you posed to go into. Think positively. Say your Nixon. We would indicate our desire for modified settle for being Willy Loman? prayers and the pledge of allegiance. It will all disengagement by selecting Lindsay or Hatfield. Probably you won't. Even though you believe be worked out for you. In a strange way, the Notre Dame Mock Repub­ your parents are good people who have struggled For life is a lottery in which certain Chairmen hard all their lives to get by, you want something lican Convention is under a moral obligation to af­ of the Board and Chairmen of the Party (with more. If your father has made his bundle by the acquiesence of the multitudes of nonpeople firm the American people's right to an alternative riding the backs of certain people, you at least next year on Vietnam. We may not all be Republi­ in their various societies) apportion your slot and will always be honest and fair. If your parents teach you to love it. You have your dreams have merely put up with each other, you are cans but we are Americans. And in this time of na- but they have their work that needs to be done. tlonal' upheaval and political confusion, we have the going to find a love that means something, that responsibility to ourselves, our nation, and to the will endure. There comes a time when it becomes pain­ What will it take, Republican Party to state who should be running fully apparent that the claims of the society and To whip you into line, against Lyndon B. Johnson. To act on other princi­ the individual have difted apart so that the as­ A broken heart, ples, be it ourselves or the Republican Party, would sertion of one is a denial of the other. If you've A broken head? gotten involved in the love ethic, you're going to It can be arranged, be the biggest mock of all. Only who would then It can be arranged. laugh? start figuring that it's more important that you March 1, 1968 THE OBSERVER page5 Chris Jarabek Pat Collin s.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.---:T:-o-m---:M:::-cK-::--e-n-na___:__:__ Pins, Miniatures, SMC But Now Do Something Every now and then, when people to worry about. But certainly there must around Notre Dame get depressed because: be some two or three people who are It Is Winter Either girls aren't by nature political Administrators don't seem to understand, idealistic enough to try and bring some Our present day society is suffering beings, or else SMC is a real den of apathy professors seem unreasonable and because change to that lifeless campus across the from a chronic disease capable of comple­ fellow students don't seem to care. But road. tely incapaciting her every vital function. We want later hours and we want cars all they have to do is h"op a shuttle bus Perhaps it is unfair to chastise the The ailment is called Perpheralism Am­ on campus and we want to be able to sign and go to the land of peasant living ac­ SMC girls for their lack of inteFest in ericanus. It's symtoms are showing up in out anytime for anywhere and we want cross the road. Student Government. Maybe St. Mary's our government's foreign and domestic

to have a Free University and a teacher- 1 Now, no one is quite is truly one of the greatest places on earth. policy. It has rendered the United States course evaluati•)n and a statement of stu- sure of the exact enroll­ But you couldn't prove it by the girls incapable of dealing competently with dent rights. And of course everyone will ment at St. Mary's College, you meet at the Senior bar, or the girls many problems abroad and particularly at rush out to help bring all these projects but it doesn't really make who go around constantly babbling about home. about, right? any difference. For all the their week-end encounters. 1 Wrong. girls are pretty much the The mere fact that the students ova- The United States government uses the Instead we have all eight same and unfortunately, there let a "fink" judicial system govern standard political measure of "stop-gap­ candidates for Saint Mary's what they are is not the their social life is emblematic of their ping." They consistantly hit the outer re­ Student Government Exe- type of girl you would 1 lack of courage in attempting to work gion of the problem, never taking time to cutive Board officers unop- want to take home to out a reasonable system of self-discipline consider the underlying principle which posed the night before no- mother. and self-government. But as far as we fostered the public out­ minations close and the The vapidness of the SMC girls is best know the only type of self-discipline break. The prime example Legislature declaring in a illustrated by the students' lack of en- which an SMC girl exercises these days is is the present approach heated session that they thusiasm for the upcoming Student Body whether or not to change the sheets on the urban dilemma - the will recommend that those President election, in which up until a her bed. And we kind of doubt whether riots, the relocation, the students already announced day ago had eight people running unop- she does that. housing. be inducted into office without election posed for the eight key positions in their Our criticism of SMC here is not in- Last summer the holo­ and the senators scrambling out on a Student Government. tended to be made in a self-righteous caust hit many American cities. It was ugly, destru- · """'"' ....,_ final campaign to dru.m up candidates and We can understand that the average tone. Notre Dame has its share of prob­ ctive and deadly. After De­ a few more hopefuls declaring themselves· St. Mary's girl is content with the rules !ems with student responsibility. The dif­ troit, everyone was con­ up for a race and the election as originally and regulations thrusted upon her by the ference is that Notre Dame has some cerned. Why, the President even estab­ slated grinding on. administration. And we can understand people who are dedicated enough to make lished a committee to study the problem - that girls have a lot of things like mar- an effort to resolve those problems. And a committee sadly lacking in urbanologists. Rah. The crisis has been solved and riage, lavaliers, pins, miniatures and stuff those people will never be unopposed. SMC can sink back into its characteristic Tom Br•·sl•·n But now it is winter. The impoverished lethargy. Contentment and complacency don't roam the streets. They are too busy have been going hand in hand. And if you trying to keep warm, too busy trying to look carefully, you just might see a little In A Word find employment to buy clothing and life in the student corpse ...just maybe. fuel, too cold to sweat and become dis­ The mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl­ ly proceeded to fill it in very slowly with gusted with the stench in which they vania would not risk refering to his little It doesn't have to be this way of course. a leaky fountain pen as I orally answered live. Nobody is too concerned at the domain as "Fun City." Decades ago it the questions he squinted off the form. moment, and those that are want bigger The current Student Government has boomed as the heart of the anthracite It was only when he blurted out and better riot control. They are arming dropped most of the previous campaign region in the northeastern section of the "Party affilliation?" that I uneasily hes­ "possies," national guardsmen, and U.S. restrictions and a high-powered push for state, in the grasp of beautiful green itated. It was not so much suddenly sum­ troops. "Just let those black bastards mountains smoothed by the ages and power could be engineered. It remains to ming up one's political beliefs in a word, try something. We'll show 'em who runs sprinkled with lakes. But now the mines - be seen whether any of the candidates will or even the condensed panorama of Am­ the city." Our countrymen have missed recognize the po'ssibility and utilize it. are depleted, and a decaying town of about erican political history, or local and nat­ the substance of the problem. All the a hundred-thousand continues to thwart ional issues, or family tradition that people judge and understand is public death by only a ftlm of political innova­ focuses instantly in one's mind. action. They see it, feel it and immediately Rumor has it that Therese Ambrusko tion and industrila activity. has been aiming for the presidency since The little city does not have the over­ One might wonder if it is not time for resort to supression. They don't ask the her sophomore year election as president whelming problems of a major urban cen­ a new political party · to arise in this why. They are merely concerned with the of her class, and that her position as chair­ ter, but neither does the action: the jobs country. Of any time in our history, with now. the war in Vietnam and the many-sided man of the due process division of the the industry, the culture, the arts. thP urban crisis and all the problems that This summer the attention of America committee formulating the statement of excitement. ihe politicians in power have appear frustratingly unsolvable, the nation rights was another logical step toward the usually been Democrats. will again be focused on the ghetto. The appears now ready to need and accept a cities will burn and the politicians will presidency. Certainly her experience has They have best been able party that could combine the best sides to muuence me groupmgs howl. Time will run a cover story des­ kept her in touch with the workings of of liberal and conservative thinking of Irish, Poles, and Italians cribing the inhuman living conditions that student government. into a different approach to politics. that fill the wards. Since prompted the riot but in the same para­ the depression, my grand­ And could not one say that it has been graph caution against the use of violence. Suzanne Smither, who announced late we in the Universities who have most chea­ father, a tolerant man, con­ Blood will run in the streets and police riot last night her intention to challenge ted the American people? For is it sidered it near-treason to squads will crack down. Fightmg will not true that the university communities Therese, has a fairly impressive record with vote for any Republican. continue and finally government troops represent the leading edge of American the Free University. She has always seem­ But in recent years, general will arrive and take the situation in hand. ed to push ideas as her bag, and could soeiety, and that they must supply the The riot will be quelled and everyone will dissatisfaction has swept new ideas and the new aristocracy? For conceivably claim that she could take over say how much it hurt the civil rights in increasing numbers of Republicans. too long, the members of the university with a new injection of life where Yet the people have strained to find any cause. But what will be done? Perhaps communities have been hesitant to risk there will be more special riot forces or Therese's familiarity with existing forms real difference in the results. action upon the complaints that they might end. After turning twenty-one, I had gone maybe a garrison of federal troops for have leveled at their society. They have every city. They'll temporarily stop the across the now polluted Susquehana River avoided applying what they know and It remains to be seen whether these two in order to reach the old mosque-domed believe to the blood and tears of real life violence but they won't eliminate the will take advantage of the loosened stric­ courthouse where one can register as a outside the seclusion of wooded campuses. cause. The malignancy will continue to tures on campaigning and come forth as voter of the Commonwealth. The shab­ If a new party is to arise, it must come be - bursting forth in summer, lying dor­ bily dressed, slight old man behind the political entries. It also remains to be seen from the universities. lt is in their direct­ mant in the winter, but always moving counter - the kind you know has been whether or not the general apathy that tion that the mass of decaying towns and toward its terminal point. America must there for the last forty years - clutched isolate then eliminate this growth before has characterized the student body can be possessively onto the registration form. large and turbulent urban centers have it reaches its destructive capacity. shaken. As a true public servant, he unquestioning- cast their eyes.

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Throughout the Senior Quad very sity of Notre Dame and to whom­ to pry up and around illegally!!! little gripping is being done about ever it may concern (and I'd Seat of Wisdom, pray for the food. At times someone can hope it would concern all of them. in peace and tenderness, even be heard mumbling beneath Sincerely, you and all of Saint Mary's of ned allen buckbinder his breath "That lunch was go­ To conclude, for the moment, Jim Shoemaker Notre Dame du Lac): 418 Lyons od." This relative silence is a 125 Dillon I am forced to consider locking You, F.B.I. are forcing me to my door when I am not around. live in an awkward, most uncom­ !lllliiiCIIIIIIIIIIIIC IIIICIIIIIIIIIIIICIIIIY! fortable and silly suspicion, late­ I do not want to, but you FBI'ers ly. My friends (and I know these might plant some of the stuff, say ~ TONIGHT ADULTS $1.50 :: guys are reliable, they don't fib in Elly's (our maid) mop and :: 7:00 & 9:00 CHILD 50c c a lot) tell me that some real she­ you'd take a later jump in and Dear Sir, ~ smell it and accuse us and arrest TURNED ON TEENS AND THE TEACHER 5 riff recently informed the Hall WHOHADTOT4METHEM! ~ Presidents' Council that a full us. That would not be nice or Upon arriving at Notre Dame scale raid would soon occur on just. (I want to trust my maid.) last September it quickly came ·.. . . hes L-ondon's SIDNEY the halls suspect~d of drug use. So, we will wait for you and you to my attention that the two ··· .. rned·on teens POITIER Drug control men will soon in­ should know that the rest of most voluminous gripes, next . U ., JAMES CLAVELL'S I~OOUCTIOK 0' vade with search warrants to Notre Dame knows exactly what to the scarcity of girls, were the TO SIR, WITH seek out and seize marijuana, you are up to. I guess what I have quality of the weather and the lsd, hopped up chocolate pudding pre sen ted is circumstantial evi­ food. These two topics went hand LOVE'~ECH~Oit "users" and "pushers". If the dence, but sometimes that is the in hand because of the availabil­ JiiiiiiiiiCIIIIIIIIIIIIC IIIIIIIIIIIICIIIIIIIIIIIICIIIIIIIIIIIICIIIIIIIIIIII CllllllllllllCllllt. federal cops try it, (sure it will best kind. ity of mutual adjectives. How- be "legal" but it shouldn't be) they will not be welcomed. In fact, they will be greeted (I am Pssst. positive) as foreign invaders of the only privacy we can have around here, in our rooms. They Wanna buy a revealing glimpse will be greeted as immoral tress­ passers, carrying out an unjust of student life in Europe for a buck? law. But of course I am also sure that all of the people to be raided at Notre Dame are peace­ ful, non-violent people. The worst that could happen to such FBI pryers would be a massive smear campaign, beforehand ... smearing of chocolate pudding all over their suspicious eyes. Now, although all of this in­ vasion stuffisseen,at least by me as ridiculous, some of the tactics that I sense will be employed do prompt more than a non-violent response. The force that I take is this letter to all of you: what they might do is "plant" some plants, some marijuana in some of the rooms of the guys they want to capture. Sometimes, I feel that me and my friends are guys they want to get. My evi­ dence: since I have begun draft counseling, my phone has been acting very strangely. Every time I dial, strange sounds come off, click and whiz about and then I finally get a dial tone. "Strange to relate," Jon Sherry, the guy in charge of one of those other "subversive" organizations, lives next door and his phone has 1 been acting strangely in the same way. Likewise, for Fr. David Listen. It's called Let's Go-The Student Guide to Europe, ·Burrell's phone (he's doing draft counseling) and I now discover written by Harvard students. And it's full of the real stuff. the story is the same for the pres. Like how to pour Spanish cider by holding the jug over your of the Young Democrats on cam­ shoulder and the glass behind your back. And the most successful pus. (Other guys in my hall have not the same problem with their (fully researched) ways to hitchhike in Germany. Spain. Everywhere. little black phonies.) And, of course, places to eat and sleep that only a student could love. Then, my reaction to the Take a peek for yourself. Send one little buck with coupon below. tapping or bugging is mixed: Offer good while stocks last. ,------. flattered that someone thinks 0 h. By the way. If you do TWA, Dept. 208, P.O. Box 25, Grand Central Station, N.Y. 10017 that what I am doing as coun­ ·d t t d ' Here's my check to TWA for $1.00. Quick. Send me my seling is important enough to d eCl e tO ge a S U ent S-eye- Let's Go-The Student Guide to Europe in a plain brown wrapper. keep for posterity; insulted that view of Europe, you'll fly there someone feels he has the "right" N~me ______to listen to what I thought were on aU. S. airline, right? So my private conversations; fear­ make it T~TA. The airline that Address------less, for no matter what I say, ·knows Europe like a book. CitY------State-----Zip Code--- such evidence cannot be used against me (and of course, I, Need further info on travel My travel agent is'------somewhat gliding with the whole in U.S. or toE u rope? Check rotten and unjust System (Selec­ your travel agent. Or your tive Service and beyond) never do break the law); yet, amazed TWA Campus Rep: that administrators (and I would Tim Meskill at 232-8801. upupandaway~ imagine that some of them know) of this fine, Catholic University ~------'Service mark owned exclusive! b Trans World Airlines Inc. •

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The Fire Next Time

...... BY TOM CONDON This, for better or worse, will probably the group, but as a last minute compro­ be the last time this annum that this col­ mise, did endorse the rather innocuous umn refers to an editorial in Commonweal statement by the National Board. Of this magazine. However, the March 1 issue of Woodwar\1 comments, "The New York said journal comments on a subject that Alumni club has· nothing to be proud of." . has been a concern of these pages; namely, Commonweal concludes that while ma­ the committee of Notre Dame alumni ny members of the NY AC were "hurt that has asked the New York Athletic and confused" by the attacks on their Club to come clean on the charges of club, protesting that they consistently racial discrimination in its membership support integrated competitions, they are policies. in fact supporting the "Church of Sports," First, I might briefly review the situa­ what Woodward calls "the largest organ­ tion. The Negro boycott of the NY AC ized religion in America," and a choice must be made between this and Christ­ ianity. There are certain other aspects to this situation. If there are going to be private clubs, it seems that there must be certain criteria for exclusion. People like Wood­ ward are not telling clubs what these re­ Games, a prestigious track meet, prompted quirements should be, just that race c a group of Notre Dame alumni to form should not be one of them. It is rela­ These four Irish seniors will be playing their last regular-season games tomorrow a committee of ND graduates to support tively obvious that these standards should against Creighton in the Fieldhouse. They are (clockwise, from upper left) Jim the boycott, and more importantly, to involve themselves with personal integ­ McKirchy, Brian Keller, Tony Vignali and George Restovich. ask the NY AC to explain its membership rity. But race? One need only look at policies, which apparently exclude Negroes certain of the exemplary Negro students and most Jews. If the club either failed on this campus and ask himself how in to comment or acknowledge racial dis­ conscience he could deny them member­ God Save crimination, the committee would urge ship in a club. · alumni members to resign and others to Also, this situation is symtomatic of boycott all NY AC functions until the one with far more severe repercussions. policy changed. If people like those in the NY AC and The Fieldhouse The committee was formed by Ken­ New York ND club, successful people, do neth Woodward, Religious Editor of New~­ not become aware that the black citizens Roaming around the Notre Dame sports the 200 prospects who arouse the staffs week magazine. Woodward first sought a of this country are being denied self­ world: greatest interest are invited to the campus statement from the National Board of the respect and self-determinism, the black As a famous statesman (named Jerry for a weekend. On May 17, coaches be­ ND Alumni Association against racial people may again resort to violence, a Gross) once said, "It just makes your gin to sign their boys to National Let­ segregation and clubs that practice it violence for which they are only partially heart want to bust out of your rib cage" ters of intent, a binding legal document. (not specifically the NY AC). The Board culpable. If the big man don't care, there to think they're going to raze the hallowed The staff has a maximum of 33 full did make a statement against segregation, is going to be trouble. 70-year-old Fieldhouse this spring. grants-in-aid to award. But this year, for but said nothing about clubs. But with ample pressure from sentimen­ instance, 27 football players came on full With regard to alumni clubs, there ap­ Woodward then asked for support from talists and ROTC officers, perhaps the grants and four on partials. A full grant pears to be a rather flagrant incongruity many of the more than 2,000 alumni in structure could be spared. Why not shift covers room, board, tuition and books, between the Christianity they learned at the greater New York area. Also, he ROTC headquarters to the Fieldhouse? but not the $15 per month spending good ol' ND and their lack of action on hoped that the New York Notre Dame It would give the soldiers a much better money permitted by the NCAA. The extant social injustices. If this continues, Alumni Club would absorb the function and more central location. They could gift can be revoked only for academic or one had better join his club quickly if he of his committee. The New York ND convert the boxing room, fencing room disciplinary violations, not because of intends to enjoy it. Before it burns down. club has not absorbed the function of and lockers into classrooms. Better still, injury or poor athletic perforl]:lance. they would have a large, all-weather fac­ Ara is a big asset in recruiting. "To ility for drills. call him a good recruiter is actually un­ The Fieldhouse could serve the Univer­ fair," says Coach Tom Pagna. "He is Minor Sports Wrap up sity in other ways. Railway Express could himself, very direct." Former captain continue depositing trunks there each Rocky Bleier says, "I remember when BY MIKE PAVLIN September. With some work on the floor, I met him during my senior year in it could be made adequate for indoor foot­ high school. When I came into his office, SWIMMING weekend to take on Air Force Academy. ball practice on rainy days. Its primary he shook my hand and told me flatly The Irish. swimmers closed out their Friday and Saturday contests are sche­ value, however, lies in its capacity to what I'd get. He said not to expect more dual meet season Thursday with a spark­ duled. Last Sunday, Notre Dame defeated house pep rallies. under the table. I was really impressed ling performance. Breaking one varsity and Northern Illinois, 4-2. * * * with his sincerity." three meet records, Notre Dame defeated * * * While football players are condition­ Director of Sports Publicity Roger SAILING Central Michigan 62-40 to end the cam­ ing themselves currently by running up Valdisseri says, "If Ara walked in here paign at 5-6. Mike Davis, Joe Diver, Tom The Notre Dame Sailing Club journeyed and down the Stadium steps 15 times right now and asked me to come to Notre Hock and John May shattered meet and to New Orleans for a Mardi Gras regatta each day, the coaches proceed with Dame, I don't know how I could say no." Irish marks in the 400-yard freestyle last weekend. The Irish took second place, their big off-season job - recruiting. On the other hand, the staff is hindered relay with a time of 3:22.5. Other meet finishing three points behind Tulane. The chore actually goes on year-round by what Coach John Ray calls "Public records fell to the Notre Dame 400-yard as names of some 2,000 prospects pour misconceptions. People think we get ev­ freestyler Vince Spohn, and two _Central * * * BASKETBALL into the Rockne Building offices. The ery Catholic boy we wnat and that we Michigan swimmers. John Cox won both Irish basketball will end its tenure in list is reduced initially by academic re­ give 60 to 100 scholarships per year," he diving events for the Irish. the old Fieldhouse tomorrow afternoon quirements. Notre Dame demands that explains. "The~e things just aren't true. when Notre Dame takes on Creighton. * * * its prospects have. a 2.0 high school av­ Other people tell boys they have to be WRESTLING The freshman teams will hit the hardwood erage and meet the normal standards of super-athletes to play at Notre Dame. The Notre Dame wrestlers evened their at 12:30 for a preliminary game. the Freshman Year Office. They take Coley O'Brien as an example season mark at 4-4 by drubbing Illinois Jay Ziznewski, 6'6" reserve Irish cen­ Ara's eight-man staff divides the coun­ of a fine quarterback who doesn't play Tech 27-6 in the Fieldhouse on Tuesday. ter, suffered a broken bone in his foot try geographically to consider those boys regularly for us. But it's not like that Keith Giron upped his dual meet record during a practice session last Monday. who qualify academically. Each man con­ at every position. Besides, Coley's pro­ to 7-1 with a third-period pin. Other The injury will sideline Ziznewski for the centrates on approximately five states. bably better known than 80% of the Irish winners were Mike Duell ( 130 lbs.), rest of the season. Irish captain Bob Coaches visit most of the prospects who nation's starting quarterbacks playing in Gary Ticus {137 lbs.), Frank Caito (145 Arnzen was one of 48 college and univer­ are within a 500-mile radius of ND. Then, reserve here and he's happy doing it." • lbs.), Jim Hansen {152 lbs.), Tim Pas­ sity stars selected to compete in the saro (167 lbs.), and Mike McCoy (heavy­ 1968 Olympic Basketball Trials. weight). The grapplers host Illinois at Meanwhile, the NIT has selected half of 7 p.m. today in the Fieldhouse. its 14-team field. Besides Notre Dame, * * * St. Peter's, Long Island, Army, Fordham, HOCKEY Oklahoma City and Duquesne have accept­ • The Hockey Club travels west this ed berths.

_j • March 1, 1968 THE OBSERVER page 7 BY!~~ Fault Is VVith The Age century dependence on logic seems to preclude a life the horrors of cybernetics will alienate a lot of people Try to run, try to hide, of love, recognition of the good, the fault is not with while others will be completely happy." As America Break on through to the other side. -Doors Don or Mike but with the age itself. Thus, they can go plunges on, building materially and crumbling moral­ beyond, living in anticipation of the future but also ly, it will finally arrive at the point where "some type "I don't in a sense want to live isolated from this content in the present. of polarization is inevitable." That is when what is society," Don Hynes says. But his blond hair is almost "A time is coming in American society," Mike says now odd becomes the norm. That is when the hippie to his shoulders, beads hang around his neck over a "when our philosophical idealism will be put to a se­ life becomes viable. black turtleneck sweater, and his home is decorated vere test. There will come a time when something like I rebel - therefore we exist. -Albert Camus. with Day-Gio. He fits the media definition; he is a hippie, someone outside. He and Mike Bowler feel that the life which should be lived in the future is more im­ portant than the life which can be lived in the present. Living for the future, they are by definition outside the present. Both are what they call "philosophical anarchists." ... They are pacifists, convinced of an order from God in themselves which can also be found in others. "If you believe in philosophical anarchy," Don says, "you don't have to tear down the government. You try to create a situation where government is unnecessary." Government becomes unnecessary when "each person looks within himself for the order which is from l.orl " So this is their life: recognition of an order from outside the material world, human relationships found­ ed on love, and dependence on individual authority instead of on man's unnecessary appendage, govern­ ment. Truth is known individually through i~adividuall methods. To the extent that a hippie philosophy ex­ ists, it exists as the overlap of single worldviews. ~ !fir Neither Don nor Mike have abandoned the hope of, by their lives, transforming a society which "falls down quite a bit ."They have not rejected the activist's The Hippies Were Too -Much ends but will not adopt his means. "The thing which is really bothering Michael and me," Don says, "is that The following article was submitted by Mike kets while others made and sold sandals. The we're not in a position to influence. It's not a matter Trombetta, a senior from California, in response spirit of brotherly love and sharing dominated of conversion but of bringing out what's there." to the cu"ent series on the hippie movement. the community. The Diggers were organized "What's there" is under a ROTC uniform as well as dedicating themselves to feeding the hungry and under a beard, a cassock or a gray flannel suit. Reach­ Following the Funeral for the Hippie in the clothing the naked through soup kitchens and ing "What's there" is difficult because "the nature of Haight district of San Francisco last fall, a much clothing drives. Free outdoor concerts were the hippie movement, where we are typified," Mike relieved society was able to claim that at long often staged in nearby Golden Gate Park. This says, "is that the altar or stage is shunned." last the hippie was dead. refreshing new group of people was living the They have not "shunned the stage" but have had The hippie may or may not be dead, but this way it wanted to live; in peace and harmony, the podium removed. The tight life they profess limits is of little importance. What is important is the bothering no one and only asking to be left their actions to near impotence until, in effect, all. reaction the hippie was able to stir from our alone. However, this was too much for society and they can do is live the life which should be lived in the so-called established society. The reaction was future, hoping that their society eventually recognizes tremendous and therefore meaningful, because THE ESTABLISHMENT. The result was an its value. Impotence in the present stems from an un­ in the face of the hippies' implied disdain a all-out propaganda and physical attack against willingness to forsake "their ideals in the present for truly well-established society would not have the community. The San Francisco Chief of Po­ lice bannoo all future concerts in the park the future," Don says. He himself is unwilling to make ~ost its poise nor would it have cried in outrage because "they were noisy", conveniently over­ the "quantitative decisions" he feels the present de­ m such a !amen table fashion as it did. The looking the fact that Kezar Football stadium is hippie questioned the basic values of society mands. a mere two blocks away. On the day when crime dons the apparel of innocence and society was unable to produce an intelligent It wasn't just the conservatives and reac­ response. - through a curious transposition peculiar to our tionaries who felt threatened. Many self-styled The movement (if it can be termed a move­ times - it is innocence that is called upon to justify liberals boiled the hippie manifestation into a itself -Albert Camus ment) began with a handful of young adults of whom almost all were college students or type of invective once reserved for witches. If The reluctance to reflect what is instead of what this were 169 2 these people would have set should be puts them in society's corner because an age graduates. This group moved into an existing slum area in north San Francisco, the Haight torches to the hippies (it is rumored that this ticking along on the basis of its logic cannot tolerate district, and established their own community. practice is still followed in the midwest). The the other extreme. "I think that total pacifism is in­ These individuals had been shocked and disil­ puritans were, as usual, haunted by the suspicion tellectually, emotionally, logically untenable," Mike lusioned by a society that "had so inflated its that s~mewhere somebody might be having a says, but he can believe without putting his finger on importance grotesquely beyond its weight and g_ood hme, and as usual, without them. the method of belief that pacifism is valid. The age, numbers" that it would require a team of For all their dirt, disease, slovenliness; for all Don says, is "relativistic," the opposite of the hippie psychoanalysts years to unravel the reasons their hedonism, clannishne~s, and undoubtedly philosophy. ' (a love-hate syndrome or just plain old-fashioned ~gomani_a the hippies had a message even though Their ideals are admittedly difficult to hold. "Every­ guilt?). These individuals are disgusted with a few bothered to respond. (A wise doctor in San day of my life," Don says, "doesn't exemplify what I society that preaches the word of God one day Francisco surmised the hippie as being "our believe." Even pacifism is something out of reach be­ a week and returns to cheating, racism, killing, consciences walking around in bare feet.") Their cause "the only person who can logically fulfill him­ and worshipping the almight dollar the rest self through pacifism is God." message was being broadcast without them saying of the week. Like the Beats, they have separated themselves a word and this message really bugged society. The first hippies quietly moved into the from the logic which carried their century to Dachau The hippie was in effect asking "what are you Haight-Ashbury District and established a real and Nagasaki, Dresden and South Africa. If twentieth doing, brother, that's so damned important?" community. Some opened shops and sold trin-

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