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/ ( Bowl ticket allotment 5* short of student demand by Diane Wilson was small, Busick said that it is Senior Staff Reporter consistent with past years. In the 1975 Orange Bowl, the last major At. 10:15 a.m. yesterday the last bowl Notre Dame participated in, of the student tickets for the Cotton the amount of student tickets taken Bowl were sold according to Mike from the total Notre Dame allot Busick, ticket manager. When the ment was 18 percent. This year’s tickets ran out there were still 100 student ticket allotment also repre % students in line whose names were sents 18 percent of the total amount put on a waiting list in case any of Cotton Bowl tickets alloted to. P more tickets become available. Notre Dame. Busick stated that it was “ser iously doubtful’’ that there would Since this allotment appears ..to. be any alumni tickets left. He be insufficient to meet student added that there would probably be demand, Busick commented that such a demand that there would be there will probably be a change of a lottery. policy in the future. While he has Busick explained how the lottery no idea what this change will would work. Friday after the mail entail, he said it would be made is opened and the applications before Notre Dame participates in counted, all applications received any more bowl games. After this, so far will be shuffled together. game has been played, Busick said, From these applications will be a committee will get together and drawn out those who will not get study the situation and discuss tickets. Presently Busick does not ways to eliminate such problems in Mara Newman and two St. Joseph County police representatives lectured on rape prevention to a know how many people will lose the future. He concluded, how crowd of interested students last night in Carroll Hall at SMC. See story on page 3. [Photo by Greg their tickets in the lottery. ever, that nothing can be done Trzupek] While this year’s ticket allotment about this year. fcThe Observer an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and st. mary's . Vol. XII, No. 62 Thursday, December 6, 1977 Constitution ratification by Kevin Walsh ment of three new people to the posed by the committee is the McLean, include expansion of the procedure would require that any- Senior Staff Reporter Board of Commissioners. Replac establishment of a Student Union Board of Commissioner’s powers petition contain the signatures of ing the three Student Life Council Steering Committee which will as well as clarification of the 200 students rather than the pres An ad hoc Constitution com members, ousted as a result of a replace the present Student Union mechanics of its meetings. ent requirement of 15 percent of mittee, appointed by Hall Presi recent Board of Trustee action, will Board of Directors. The Steering In addition, the Student Union student body signatures. A new dent Council (HPC) Chairman J. P. be the Student Union director, Committee shall be composed of has been delegated more power one-week time limit is proposed by Russell and agreed upon by Stu another person elected from the the SU director, SU comptroller, over their own operations, while the committee. For referendums, dent Body President Dave Bender HPC, and the newly-created Judic and three SU commissioners to be the Board of Commissioners has the committee recommends that Tues.night submitted a proposal to ial Co-ordinator. * elected by their fellow commission been empowered with the ability to the Board of Commissioners be the HPC to ratify the existing The new position of Judicial ers. check the act ons of the SU. forced to act upon a student Student Government Constitution. Co-ordinator is a result of the Also, the newly-proposed Consti The committee’s proposal also petition within two weeks after the Labeled “an ambiguous and creation of the Judicial Council. tution requires that all elections for calls for the keeping of accurate presentation of the petition. outdated document” by Bender, The co-ordinator, formerly selected hall presidents be held before records by the Student Government According to McLean, there will the previous constitution, adopted by the student body president, will March 15. This would allow for the treasurer and comptroller. These be a closed meeting of the ad hoc in the fall of 1972, is set to undergo now be selected by the Judicial selection of a Judicial Board chair records shall be available for committee this Friday to discuss several changes if the proposals of Council. The co-ordinator’s duties man by April 1 and would also inspection upon the request of any and examine suggestions brought the three-member board are include assisting students in viola standardize hall election pro student. up as last night’s HPC meeting. passed by the individual hall tion of a duLac rule, fostering cedures. Procedures for an initiative or Then, on Sunday, further discus councils. educational programs in dormi Other proposed amendments by referendum are also changed under sion will take place, as well as The committee, consisting of tories, and seeing that the judicial the committee, according to the new proposal. The initiative [Continued on page 9| Tracy Kee, executive co-ordinator boards in each hall are operational. of the HPC; Tom Byrne, student In addition, the co-ordinator, in government press secretary; and event of a question regarding the Bill McLean, a former Ombudsman interpretation of the Constitution, FBI releases Kennedy files director, proposed several new will serve as chairman of a five- WASHINGTON [AP] Two major amendments to the existing member Judicial Board Council of any Cuban government role in The material may be of greatest constitution. that will assemble to resolve the weeks, after John F. Kennedy’s Kennedy’s death. value for what it shows about the According to Kee, the first major problem. death, FBI Director J. Edgar While the documents indicated inside operations of the FBI as the change proposed is the appoint A third major amendment pro Hoover was convinced that Lee that Hoover pondered the possibil bureau handled one of its most Harvey Oswald w asjhe assassin ity of a conspiracy, preliminary important missions ever. It is a but he wondered at least briefly examination of the FBI files turned picture that has emerged only in whether Oswald had help from up nothing to disapprove the vague outline until now. Cuban conspirators, according to Warren Commission’s finding that Two hours after Kennedy was FBI files released yesterday. Oswald acted alone. pronounced dead in a Dallas hos The documents show Hoover had The files released yesterday pital at 2 p.m. EST on Nov. 22, concluded within hours after Ken show that Hoover was anxious to Hoover wrote that he had told the nedy’s death that Oswald fired the find out who had killed Kennedy, president’s brother, Attorney Gen fatal bullets. But the agency later and portrayed him as deeply con eral Robert F. Kennedy, that obtained letters, written to Oswald cerned about protecting the FBI’s Oswald was the assassin and that from Cuba, and those messages image. The documents show that he had been apprehended near the raised the perplexing conspiracy Hoover went to great lengths to Texas School Book Depository questions which linger to this day. counteract criticism of the bureau. where the shots were fired. Hoover later labeled one of the The 40,001 pages of files, weigh But on Dec. 12, Hoover confided letters an apparent hoax. ing nearly a half ton, offer a rich to his chief aides that he was The mountain of material offers tapestry of the tragedy and drama troubled by the conspiracy ques fresh clues about Hoover’s sus rippling from the gunfire in Dallas tions and was unsure how to picions of a conspiracy, but does on Nov. 22,1967. The FBI released resolve them. Reporting on a not reveal how he resolved them. It the documents, half of its total file conversation with a cetir, Hover will take historians and researchers on the Kennedy assassination, to wrote, “I said I personally believe months or even years to evaluate comply with requests under the Oswald was the assassin; that the this batch of FBI files and more yet Freedom of Information Act. The second aspect as to whether he was to come. , other 40,000 pages are due for the only man gives me great Hoover, of course, was hardly release in January. concern; that we have several alone in pondering the possibility The memos include confidential letters...written to him from Cuba of a Cuban connection. Oswald reports passed among the highest referring to the job he was going to had spoken of his admiration for officials of the government. And do, his good marksmanship and Cuban chief of state Fidel Castro they include letters from ordinary stating when it was all over, he and he had distributed pro-Castro citizens expressing outrage and would be brought back to Cuba and leaflets in New Orleans. sorrow and, in some cases, intesne presented to the chief.” Castro has denied that Cuba was intense hatred of the Kennedy Hoover continued, “We do not involved in the assassination in any family. Some documents were know if the chief was Castro and The snow and brisk air act as a reminder that the Christmas way. The Warren Commission censored to delete material classi cannot make an investigation be season is upon us. [Photo by Greg Trzupek] concluded after its inv station of fied as secret or otherwise exempt cause we have lno intelligence the case that there w s no evidence from disclosure.