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Volume 115. No. 11 March 29. 1974 Noire Dame. Indiana

HEADLINERS , ( '8Macheca and Lally - Off The Cuff - Talking about Student Affairs. 16 High Crimes and Misdemeanors - Clearing the Air , ,about Impeachment. Editor Kerry ,McNamara Art Director Jim Purvis" , ' ' Production Manager,' FEATURES Janet Cullen Assistant Editors , ' 4 The Way It Was -,,A journey into Notre Dame's' history Jim Gresser, Pat Roach, Joe Runde, Sally Stanton, Jack Wenke, books. Assistant Art Directors Johri Phelan, Tom Waldoch 6 Confessions of An Assistant ReCtor '-'- 'The ~easons for Sports Editor ' caring. Tom Gorn" Business Manager 13 "The Rod' and the Staff -', Father Griffin takes' a close Joe Meyer Circulation 'look at life at N.D. Frank Zaletel Faculty Advisor 14 A Question, of Christianity - Some thoughts on'the Frank O'Malley propriety of rules. , , ' Staff Paul Bolduc, Kevin Dockrell, Betsy DWyer, 22 ,Perspectives on Student Government ,- A few: glarices, Leo J. Mulcahey,Casey Pocius, Mary Siegel, at a 'turbulent past., ' , Steve Shea, Jean McQuillan, ,Eileen O'Grady, Tom Bursic, John Whalen, Katy Sullivan, 24 The Pedagogy Blues '-', The student as low man'on the Our Officer Selection Officers are looking for~ a few good college men:- ' Sean McLinden, Tara Carey, Jorge Lopez, totem pote. ' ' ,:.:' , maybe 3 out of 100-who will make good Marine officers. If you're ohe of Jack Hanzel, Fred Graver, Pat Fanning, them, we'll give you a chance to prove it during summer training at'Quan- Pat Dillon, Bill Murray, Frank Coughlin, ' T. J. Clinton, Mark Luppino, John Moore, 28 Collegiate Jazz Festival-' Try it, you'l1 like it. tico, Virginia. '-; George Sibley, Craig Spengel, Pat Hanifin, Our program is Platoon Leaders Class, PLC. With ground, air and law Dave Dreyer, Tom Pauli us ' 29 The HOJiu!coming -,The Walt~ns' it's not. options. You might even qualify for up to $2,700 to help you through college., ' Art &, Photography But if money is all you're looking for, don't waste your time. ,', Mike Budd, Ed Earle, Nan Smith, Joe Kus· The challenge is leadership. If you want it, work for it. If you've gont;' , pan, Bill Foglia, Bob McMahon, Ted Kerin show us. It's one hell of a challenge. But we're looking for one hell of a man., ", REGULARS The opinions expressed in the SCHOLASTIC are those of the authors and editors of the SCH(lLASTIC and do not necessarily represent 20 The, Week, in 'Distortion. .------,q'~ the opinions of the University of Notre Dame, I The,lIanoD'e' s • CP1.74'I, its administration, faculty or the student body. 21 The C~~~ked Rook.· Please send me information on Box 38901 ' " Marine Corps Platoon Leaders ' Ind. 46556. The magazine is represenied for 26 Coming Distractions; Los Angeles, California 90038 ,Class. (Please Print) I' national advertising by National Educational. I Advertising Services, 360 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. Published fortnightly 30 The Last Word. I Name " Age I during the school 'year 'except during vacation and examination periods, the SCHOLASTIC Address is printed at Ave Maria 'Press, Notre Dame, I I Ind. 46556. The subscription rate is $5.00 City State Zip,_~ ___ a year and back numbers are available from the SCHOLASTIC. Please address all manu- lIIustr~tions: Cover illustration by· Ted Kerin / Photo 'on 4, I School Class of ": I _scripts to the SCHOLASTIC, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. All unsolicited material becomes the illustration on 5 from Scholastic, 1929 / Photos on 9, 10 by I' Phone Social Security # I property of the SCHOLASTIC., Kerry McNamara / Photo an 19 courtesy of The Observer If you are a senior, check here 'for information on Offic'er C~n-didates Class D., " copyright © 1974 Scholastic i all rights and UPI / Illustration on 28 by Tom Paulius / Photo on29 reserved / none of the contents may be re 11 ______-----_ •• produced without permission by Wayne Zwierzynski. \ " This WWI N.D. is iniIitarized.Alistudents drillo~ the morning of Thursday,1heir free day. (Saturday is a class day.)Ori,:two Fridays of·each month,there isa formal review befo"re a colonel.: Notre Dame' boys who enter the service are givEmthe rank of lieutenant im- mediately. " ' ,'" As for discipline, this freshman cannot ,smoke a ' The #7ayIt#7as cigarette for if he is ·caught. with one; he'will be sent home. He is compelled to go, to Mass 011 Thursdays and Saturdays (and Sundays, of course). If he misses Mass he will get demerits -'- 200 and he'scaippused, for 2 weeks, 1,000 and he's sent home. But there are luxuries - our student is waited on at meals by student waiters. As an 'uppe!classman he will be able to live in Walsh, known as "The Gold Coast," in which he may have his own suite with a sitting room, living room, bedroom and bath. , " When we try to imagine the Notre Dame of the past, Contact with St. Mary's is practically nil until the our minds somehow always retilrn to Knute Rockne 1920's. Our student has probably graduated without and visions of students lying prostrate in catatonic ever meeting a St. Mary's girl. (He may have never even prayer for football victory. We think vaguely of some seen a woman here --'- there are no women secretaries o"minous padre snapping his whip at trembling boys as here until the 1940's~) As the Roaring 20's roll in, he herds them into church for compulsory Mass. But, 'Domers find that they can visit the girls across the what was it really like to be a student at Notre Dame, road on Sunday afternoons between 4:00 'and 5:30. say, 50 years ago? Let us very briefly look at the du Punctually at 5:30 Sister comes arouu"d clapping her The ,only approved place ,to take a belle from St. teams and of the players. When a player gets the ball, Lac of the late teens and early twenties- the years of hands signaling the time for leaving. The boys (men?) Mary's'is to' a' victory dance after a football game. his light comes on and the entire play may be followed war and the, years when the,nation soared in' its ,own play games, hiding in the drapes, forcing Sister to hunt These dances are' held in South Bend at the Palace by means of this marvellous device. There' are even dreamworld of recklessness and abandon.' , for them and shoo them out. RoyaL' But Cinderelhi must be home before midnight cheers at half-time (no SMC cheerleaders,' of course). Imagine the young Noter Doter of 1917 catching or'she will, if not turn into a' pumpkin, be in ' serious ... and all through the'courtesy of Western Union, and his" first view of 'this fair campus.' He steps' off the.~ trouble: " , the SAC. ' streetcar and faces the benevolent bronzed face of, In the 20's the ban on cigarettes has'vanished and 'k person very much influencing students at this Father Sorin. ,Straight ahead is, of course, the Golden compulsory Mass is only on Sundays arid Holy Days. time is, of course, the-great Knute Rockne.' Never be Dome and a few buildings to the left 'and right of it. Drinking is forbidden on campus under pain of expul fore has such a dynamic character graced this' campus. There is no O'Shaughnessy Hall and there are huge sion but 'some students manage to find their way' to Much more than a football coach, he is an inspiration. barns where the South Dining Hall now stands. There homes in South Bend to partake of the ,Prohibition Interhall athletes are sfrong, 'and ,ROCkne sometimes is no Law School behind hfm for our present Psychology, Speehil-.:..' bathtub gin., " , comes out to referee interhall football games. It is often Building was once called Hoynes College of Law. ' , , The voice of student government is first raised in from these hall teams that varsity players are chosen. Our boy is a freshman and will probably live in" " ~r.':;l~~~:..;";1 the form' 'of: the ,: Student' Activities Committee. This Another 'man' of great influence is Father ~John Corby Hall if he can afford a private room. If not, he committeepegins~iri'1922, and in '23 iS'headed bya stu O'Hara. Co riling to Notre Dame as a young priest full , will live in the Administration Building. He win have a of, zeal he' takes the position of Prefect of Religion. dent 'named John Cavanatighwho later goes on to the , . . . . - . cubicle on the third floor with his own bed and chair;' priestlloodand to the presiqency of Notrepame. Be Pope Pius X has; come out 'strongly in favor of daily , His study hall is on the second floor and the washroom cause students want more control over'their lives, they communion as ~m aid in living the Christian life and , . is in' the basement. And his shower is - BRRR - out form the SAC 'but their'demands are far frorn:;being Father O'Hara implements this belief here. It isn't side! (Would one rather live off campus?) The high, as grandiose as parietal hours;' they wish for things like strange 'for a: studerit~o receivecomnlUnion outside of school is also in the Administration Building and St;'. walkways which are not inunda:ted with water. But'it is Mass. Students'are frank in their admission of their Edward's houses the 7th,Sth, and 9tli graders whom made clear to them that the final authority rests in the need for Christ in their 'lives, they humbly admit'their Father Sorin has called the Little Princes. ' " Administration arid that, any authority given them is own- 'weakness. Father O'Hara holds their trust and " Soon our freshman finds that there is no over-, mereiy derivative. The' luIesthey draw upmus( be respect, he is their'FatJ:1er Confessor and they believe sleeping at Notre Dame. He is awakened at 6:'15 each approved by the University and'they are,: iIi' essence, a: in him.' He is definitive in his decision but not coerCive. morning because the University' believes, in military gratuity on the part of the 'Administration:, The' stu Believing -that' religion' and discipline' should be' kep,t school fashion, that a man should get up and "get his A "Minim'~ Class Room' " ,.", : dents lash ouf against thisdomimince through a pam completely separate, he' would never report "a student day going." Morning prayer is at 6:45 - classes begin phlet entitled "Revely"issued in 1923 and slipped under who misbehaves. ' at S. At the end of the well-ordered day, there is night .. "'.- the door of every student: It protests the authoritative In this brief remembrance lastly there is the bull prayer. At. 10 p.m~ the lights, gO?ut. . -.. :.". rule of the Univers'ity and the submissive'cooperation of session - those late night talks in which friendships are the sAc. " ,,' ", , , formed, ideas experimented with and difficulties hashed One- achievement, of the SAC is the obtaining of a out. Ina school in which life is totally campus-oriented Grid-Graph. On the days,of away games, students flock and totally male, bull sessions are the seeds of brother- " ;~. to the gym at50c a head to watch the game on the hood. , " ,', electrically lighted board bearing the names of both And this is N otre Da~e.... 4 , THE SCHOLASTIC ',' MARCH 29, 1974 5 " This WWI N.D. is iniIitarized.Alistudents drillo~ the morning of Thursday,1heir free day. (Saturday is a class day.)Ori,:two Fridays of·each month,there isa formal review befo"re a colonel.: Notre Dame' boys who enter the service are givEmthe rank of lieutenant im- mediately. " ' ,'" As for discipline, this freshman cannot ,smoke a ' The #7ayIt#7as cigarette for if he is ·caught. with one; he'will be sent home. He is compelled to go, to Mass 011 Thursdays and Saturdays (and Sundays, of course). If he misses Mass he will get demerits -'- 200 and he'scaippused, for 2 weeks, 1,000 and he's sent home. But there are luxuries - our student is waited on at meals by student waiters. As an 'uppe!classman he will be able to live in Walsh, known as "The Gold Coast," in which he may have his own suite with a sitting room, living room, bedroom and bath. , " When we try to imagine the Notre Dame of the past, Contact with St. Mary's is practically nil until the our minds somehow always retilrn to Knute Rockne 1920's. Our student has probably graduated without and visions of students lying prostrate in catatonic ever meeting a St. Mary's girl. (He may have never even prayer for football victory. We think vaguely of some seen a woman here --'- there are no women secretaries o"minous padre snapping his whip at trembling boys as here until the 1940's~) As the Roaring 20's roll in, he herds them into church for compulsory Mass. But, 'Domers find that they can visit the girls across the what was it really like to be a student at Notre Dame, road on Sunday afternoons between 4:00 'and 5:30. say, 50 years ago? Let us very briefly look at the du Punctually at 5:30 Sister comes arouu"d clapping her The ,only approved place ,to take a belle from St. teams and of the players. When a player gets the ball, Lac of the late teens and early twenties- the years of hands signaling the time for leaving. The boys (men?) Mary's'is to' a' victory dance after a football game. his light comes on and the entire play may be followed war and the, years when the,nation soared in' its ,own play games, hiding in the drapes, forcing Sister to hunt These dances are' held in South Bend at the Palace by means of this marvellous device. There' are even dreamworld of recklessness and abandon.' , for them and shoo them out. RoyaL' But Cinderelhi must be home before midnight cheers at half-time (no SMC cheerleaders,' of course). Imagine the young Noter Doter of 1917 catching or'she will, if not turn into a' pumpkin, be in ' serious ... and all through the'courtesy of Western Union, and his" first view of 'this fair campus.' He steps' off the.~ trouble: " , the SAC. ' streetcar and faces the benevolent bronzed face of, In the 20's the ban on cigarettes has'vanished and 'k person very much influencing students at this Father Sorin. ,Straight ahead is, of course, the Golden compulsory Mass is only on Sundays arid Holy Days. time is, of course, the-great Knute Rockne.' Never be Dome and a few buildings to the left 'and right of it. Drinking is forbidden on campus under pain of expul fore has such a dynamic character graced this' campus. There is no O'Shaughnessy Hall and there are huge sion but 'some students manage to find their way' to Much more than a football coach, he is an inspiration. barns where the South Dining Hall now stands. There homes in South Bend to partake of the ,Prohibition Interhall athletes are sfrong, 'and ,ROCkne sometimes is no Law School behind hfm for our present Psychology, Speehil-.:..' bathtub gin., " , comes out to referee interhall football games. It is often Building was once called Hoynes College of Law. ' , , The voice of student government is first raised in from these hall teams that varsity players are chosen. Our boy is a freshman and will probably live in" " ~r.':;l~~~:..;";1 the form' 'of: the ,: Student' Activities Committee. This Another 'man' of great influence is Father ~John Corby Hall if he can afford a private room. If not, he committeepegins~iri'1922, and in '23 iS'headed bya stu O'Hara. Co riling to Notre Dame as a young priest full , will live in the Administration Building. He win have a of, zeal he' takes the position of Prefect of Religion. dent 'named John Cavanatighwho later goes on to the , . . . . - . cubicle on the third floor with his own bed and chair;' priestlloodand to the presiqency of Notrepame. Be Pope Pius X has; come out 'strongly in favor of daily , His study hall is on the second floor and the washroom cause students want more control over'their lives, they communion as ~m aid in living the Christian life and , . is in' the basement. And his shower is - BRRR - out form the SAC 'but their'demands are far frorn:;being Father O'Hara implements this belief here. It isn't side! (Would one rather live off campus?) The high, as grandiose as parietal hours;' they wish for things like strange 'for a: studerit~o receivecomnlUnion outside of school is also in the Administration Building and St;'. walkways which are not inunda:ted with water. But'it is Mass. Students'are frank in their admission of their Edward's houses the 7th,Sth, and 9tli graders whom made clear to them that the final authority rests in the need for Christ in their 'lives, they humbly admit'their Father Sorin has called the Little Princes. ' " Administration arid that, any authority given them is own- 'weakness. Father O'Hara holds their trust and " Soon our freshman finds that there is no over-, mereiy derivative. The' luIesthey draw upmus( be respect, he is their'FatJ:1er Confessor and they believe sleeping at Notre Dame. He is awakened at 6:'15 each approved by the University and'they are,: iIi' essence, a: in him.' He is definitive in his decision but not coerCive. morning because the University' believes, in military gratuity on the part of the 'Administration:, The' stu Believing -that' religion' and discipline' should be' kep,t school fashion, that a man should get up and "get his A "Minim'~ Class Room' " ,.", : dents lash ouf against thisdomimince through a pam completely separate, he' would never report "a student day going." Morning prayer is at 6:45 - classes begin phlet entitled "Revely"issued in 1923 and slipped under who misbehaves. ' at S. At the end of the well-ordered day, there is night .. "'.- the door of every student: It protests the authoritative In this brief remembrance lastly there is the bull prayer. At. 10 p.m~ the lights, gO?ut. . -.. :.". rule of the Univers'ity and the submissive'cooperation of session - those late night talks in which friendships are the sAc. " ,,' ", , , formed, ideas experimented with and difficulties hashed One- achievement, of the SAC is the obtaining of a out. Ina school in which life is totally campus-oriented Grid-Graph. On the days,of away games, students flock and totally male, bull sessions are the seeds of brother- " ;~. to the gym at50c a head to watch the game on the hood. , " ,', electrically lighted board bearing the names of both And this is N otre Da~e.... 4 , THE SCHOLASTIC ',' MARCH 29, 1974 5 "

Confessions of an Assistant Rector

I once knew a child-man of twenty fragile years There are several roles that are ascribed to the grounds, stich an understanding must be rejected. Yet, such a life is most often difficult. One con named Tom. 'I 'met him one day in a shared smile. In position of Assistant (Associate) Rector. At one Faculty colleagues suspect that I am merely mad sequence is that many of one's relationships tend to be this smile and others, one recognized a spontaneous extreme lies the conception of the Assistant (Associate) for living on campus. Yet, it is important not only to one-sided. To put it another way, there are many sense of playfulness that is best represented by Zorba's Rector as a sophisticated janitor and emergency prob tell them that they are wrong, but also to carefully among us whose use of the word "friendship" refers dance on the beach. With him, one seemed able to lem solver. Both of these conceptions, in and of them articulate the reasons. To be a Rector or Assistant to only a sense of pleasure or utility. Thus, one lives penetrate the conventions of age and sterile roles. He selves, are debilitating. In the janitorial category one (Associate) Rector ,is to stand for the human things with the soul-filled tension of Philemon who discovered enabled many people to rediscover the forgotten child performs functions such' as unlocking doors and trying while living in a hall in which ethics often does not the eternal problem of a Christian living in a world within. In. a way, through Tom, I myself rediscovered to accomplish physical hall improvements. Yet, to proceed beyond calculated self-interest justified in which maintains other values. Thus, as much' as one is a sense of play that was somehow left behind with accept this as the role model is simply to confuse ends terms of rights: One has the right to be a monster-a ' able, one strains to be an alter Christus. One attempts my belief in Santa Claus.' I found once again the and means. The problem-solving model is closer to crass manipulator of men/women for pleasure or to be generous, especially to those who reject such myriad of wonders that can occupy a warm, slow-mov reality, at least in terms of my experience. All too profit-as long as he/she does not disturb the social generosity as ridiculous, absurd or disguised pater ing afternoon by the lakes. One can only become often it seems that one spends most of one's time peace in a major, visible way. Otherwise, it seems, nalism.' In a sense, one teaches in such actions that the acquainted with a flower, dazzling and arresting in its quieting drunks, ending pimp wars (even between all is permitted. One lives in the vortex of' an unmiti Cross is truly the nexus of not only the relationship fertile beauty, in merely one afternoon; friendship halls) and occasionally talking to confused "heads," gated pleasure principle that is often driven by various of God to man, but also of men to each ather. Given takes patience and time. ,Tom could define the term the suicidal and/or the depressed. While all of these, passions to where its tyrannical whims burst forth. the tragedy of all love-including the Divine:-this is tree; not from the dusty perspective of dictionaries, things are important, crucial for those who dare to the most important teaching. but from· the knowledge of a swinger on branches. publicly call themselves Christians, they lack the" Yet, there are many stories of open-handed gener Yet, one sensed that beneath the smile lurked an vision required to help to direct a hall to a common; osity, especially between roommates, which make the There really is no reward for this except that in omnipresent loneliness and a spirit that was troubled. accepted and articulated end. One is often too ,busy, foregoing wane in comparison. I once knew a junior personal moments of forsakenness, strength comes; and One sensed that he felt like a left-handed person living responding to inanities such as water fights to even in Fadey who halfheartedly attempted suicide. Though one lives in a new way. One realizes that there are in a .right-handed world. As I found out later, Tom think about such things. The situation is like that Psych Services helped, it was really the manifest, senses to the tenD. "life" which are only hinted at by the never felt that he was loved by. his parents. His father of an excellent fire department which is terrific at gentle affection of his roommate that allowed him to best of poets. was remote, a veritable pater. absconditus. He. was putting out fires with a minimal loss of life and prop win through the lonely, dark nights. Such things are submerged in his work, and the necessity to succeed erty, but has no fire-prevention. program (or a shared more common than one would think, but they are Tom learned to live because others loved him. He expressed in terms of martinis and suburbia. His understanding of why such a program is nece~sary). often greatly overshadowed by the crude and crass had friends who squandered themselves for the sake mother, due to this, was herself lonely, for she thought Another extreme position is orie that I have often aspects o,f hall life. of the beauty which he denied was in his soul. Though that she had married' a .flesh-and-blood man.. So ,she heard voiced by undergraduates. It is to the effect he screamed and kicked, and shouted about free- grasped Tom as the token. of an all-too-infrequently .• that the Rector or Assistant (Associate) Rector is the To be an Assistant (Associate)' Rector or Rector is dom and paternalism; he grew as they did. celebrated communion. Yet, Tom almost desperately local agent of a far-removed, tyranni'cal, adminis to stand open to other men and women as a public, All of them, together, won through the pain, loneliness wanted to be held and played with by his father; But tration. This view is often expressed in statements friend. It is to teach that the paradigm of human and suffering. Tom put his parents behind him, work always, always, intervened like a demanding extra such as "It's your hall." Though such an understanding, togetherness is not utility but generosity; not self- accepted arid returned the friendship of others and member of the family. The father, being a demanding provides a readily acceptable basis for discipline (from , interest but a squandering of the self. It is to befriend began to shine as a man of the excellences. In many man himself, 'seeIlled always to set the highest of an.undergraduatepoirif of view), it actually represents men and women who need such a relationship to grow, ways, he begimto live the da'nce of Zorba on that beach. goals for Tom. ,Even at twelve, Tom feltas if he was a misunderstanding. Rules, ,are not' applied for their., . to become, in a shining way, what they are. In the' struggling for a Nobel Prize. Achievement was as own sake from a· position of lofty, Zeus-like power; nexus of such relationships, people challenge each F~-1ti:~·~:'~~~g,;j:r;:;~~-~:~-::~'an';~1;~X:'i~1·;:-:1 sumed. Kind, gentle, encouraging words were usually they are applied to particular flesh"and-blood· persons. other to strain· every nerve, to agonize, to live a life of L.. )ey: MicliaelM elody. was' nG:»iedA~sistanf Rec~6r .~,; 'I absent; one sensed that they were always the result The most important criterion of decision is the individual manly /womanly excellence (virtus, areter. The limit ("o/Howard 'Halnhis pastjaltAn''Instiuctor.ini'''A . of slips, never the manifest token of affection. ' and not the pseudo sanctity of an abstract principle. ing case is'to burn oneself out in the quest for such' 1~;: t'heCollegiat~ 'Sem'i;l(~rProgra1n> Mike'iS'PreSe;it~:;:1 Tom came to Notre Dame. ,He won through the Thus, such a view really makes rule-enforcement' more . manliness/woinanliness~ In the case of the bodily' t'}JiI. fi?ti8h~ny'his d~gtordrii8~er.:tCl:tkJ1ijor the ~G:oV~:':j debilitating loneliness often enshrined in hall life and difficult, for it subtly subverts the principles upon', excellences, this is adequately represented by Pheidip he learned to dance. .' .. which decisions are actually based, and it invites" pides. At its best, an entire hall could conceivably . tc~':~~~:~li:ez:t~~~:~t:·,~~L~.~__ {_~:~~.~~{~~,}~~:i ·i;:;j misunderstanding. Regardless though, this understand- recognize this and begin to shine as some skyscrapers ingreally'represents an invited paternalism, and it .. ,: reflect the sun. Such a hope, perhaps' only realized in establishes an "us against them" mentality. On these .. speech, keeps one' on campus. .

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'------_.__ ._-- An Interview think the job will only be partially done. I don't find very often that students are lacking in good will, but I think t~ey're lacking in understanding, and in part that's our problem,. to convey our problems to them. tative or developmental model is lost to so many people Scholastic: So in other words the problem is one of because they don't see what happens; There are many Macheca and Lally: communication. Somewhere between discipline and af cases you could cite, where you could see and under firmation. your role as affirming gets lost. People don't stand how you got from point A to point G, which often see what you term the "rehabilitative" quality of would be a final decision .. Most of our work, actually, your. discipline. For example, how is one "rehabilitated" is done after a decision is made; you work with some by being tossed out for a semester.. But we've heard body coming off a decision, especially if it's a tough Off the Cuff from talking to other people that that rehabilitative decision, tough on him.. You try to keep him from model· can and does work in cases. becoming bitter, or you work with him to .show him that what you're doing is hopefully for his own good. Scholastic: Do you feel that the social situation has im edge, at least in terms of not allowing it. So we saw l\lacheca: In a disciplinary case, you get into a very But these are the kinds of things that you. just cannot proved in any way since you took over? How do you that as something very necessary, ·to have a rule that personal situation, especially the way we've approached get out and air in public~They're very personal kinds of feel after almost a year in the Student Affairs Office? reflected what the actualities of the situation were. And disciplinary' problems~ We try to be as totally informed situations. It's much like anybody who's dealing in a .then we felt that there are social events which involve as we can about the situation or the incident, about the developmental relationship where he. cares about an l\lacheca: It'll.vary depending upon what your view alcohol which are appropriate to a university campus individual who's involved in that incident, and we look individual and would like to make him a better person point is, arid what your expectations. are of the social and appropriate' to the kinds of residence halls, the to many different sources for our information. We may by virtue of always having someone to teUyou that situation. I would say that, depending on who you talk kinds of facilities, the kind of life-style that we have on talk to other students. We've had cases where the presi you've made a mistake when you have. Here hopefully to, they might feel that there has been an improvement this campus. That's what we began to work toward. dent of the hall has been involved, in terms of the in we can work together to understand our strengths and or that there hasn't been. It also gets down to what Now what happened that caused a lot of. confusion was vestigation as well as the adjudication of a problem. weaknesses. your expectations are with regard to social life. I would the whole Sorin incident. What people failed to realize Also the R.A.'s and the Rector are brought into it. So like to feel.that the University can make a commen with it was that that whole .thing happened under the you get a situation where you're working with where a Lally: I've given a lot of thought to your question, be surate commitment to social life, and I don't mean just original rules, last '.year's rules, before the new rules person is, what his strengths and weaknesses are, and cause it puts you in a particular dilemma. That is, parties; as· they have made to the kind of commitments could come out; and we were very much concerned that where he is in his own personal development. Now whatever punishment or penalty accrues to a particular that Notre Dame makes; a commitment to excellence in we would have problems in the beginning of the year, the problem is: that you can't just go. shouting those offense is really coming off a value stance on the part academics and athletics. We can make commitments to because we wanted the SLC~and the Administration of kinds of things' from forums or· talking publicly about of an educator or an administrator, depending on how, the social area as well, especially as part of the evolu- the University to have some sense. that what we were an individual's ,degree of maturity, :.or a problem he you want to see us. We'd like to see ourselves as educa tion involving coeducation.: . doing had some significance, that we weren't just mak has, with alcohol or with drugs: or with his emotional tors. I' don't' suspect that, at the given time that you ing a paperwork change; that we weren't just changing life. Now granted,. all cases don't wind up being so nail someone with a particular penalty; they're going to Scholastic: Parties seem to really have posed a dilemma a rule that nobody pays any, attention to, but that deeply personal that they get into these kinds of prob be very grateful for it. That just isn't going to happen. this year. On'one hand, being that Notre Dame is such there was going tobe a significant difference, and there lems. ' But what you're doing is' digging into an' indi " ~ Most of our educational processes have been ab a residential campus, we all acknowledge that parties was a reason to change the rule. So we had to, from vidual's total being, ~md trying to make a decision that stractive, intellectual, overly theoretical, and have not .are really in many ways the focus of campus life.. On the standpoint of good faith,and mutual respect, try to takes this.in to consideration as well as the good order asked for any other investment on the part of the stu~ : the other hand, they've also been a focus of a lot, of live within the existing rules, hopeful that the rule of the University and· the upholding of the rules and dEmt but:that he produces intellectually~ What we're campus problems. Now at the beginning of the year, would be changed. But that original Sorin incident kind' the behavioral expectations of this community. And the saying is:'that,as. educators here at Notre Dame,some there was a, fear that the Office. of Student Affairs, in . of exacerbated the. whole understanding and began problem is that you just 'can't make public comment, of the things that we feel are important are goiiig to. an attempt to solve the problems of parties, was,going what a lot of people refer to as paranoia. and that's where the relationship between the rehabili- involve personal investment, on our part as well as the to sort of put the damper'completely on parties. There's :"-:'...... 1:":C'·'~·~· . r""":; ',.: ,"'".' students'. And I think it's good that students hold ad~ some hope that there's a sort. of middle ground, and . Lally: I think we let the student~ know that we wer~ ,: r' . ministrators to the values they represent. In other (. I'm really not sure if we've quite figured out what .the going to try something new; and we learned that very I:;" words, I can't· just simply represent values to. you. I middle ground i~; , ' often your intentions can't be. conveyed just as weil as '-'''''< ,L have to have inculcated those values in'my own' life. ' you tl!ink. The students bring a lot of goo,d· will and Otherwise I've got no business; talking to you. . ".", l\lacheca: ,Well, one.of the things-there ,was a suspi a lot of needs to the whole social situation here, and in .' cion' that there would be changes made, Just because trying to be responsible from our end for the mainte Scholastic: From a student point of view, there's a real there. had been a, reorganization jn Student .Affairs. nance of the good order. of the University, and .the problem with suspension, :if a record of it goes on the And, interestingly enough, Father Lally and I, both, people in this community, we:ve, I think, failed some- . student's transcript.: It's the, kind of thing' that could from , the. beginning, have emphasized the area' of times to appreciate the'facLthat:we're not always y.eFY follow you for the rest of your life, especially when you student responsibility in social activities; but with the well understood. I think the continuing dilemma is to apply for a job .or some'thing. Once the suspension is emphasis on responsibility, not just freedom. Now,you bring the students to engage in. and be concerned with over and the student is hopefully rehabilitated, is there had a situation where there were abuses. There's no our common problems,. to say. to them not., "We. will a possibility of having the record of the suspension re- question that there's a' concern on this campus for the devise rules and standards whereby yourpart'ies will.be moved from the.transcript? . abuse of alcohol as a problem. Some people you talk to run',' but. instead to say "Here ' are 'our concerns .from will ~ay it's the biggest' problem we've got here, the ourpoinf of view as administrators." . Naturally our attitude toward alcohol and the insensitivity to it as a social concerns 'are going to be different from the stu: potential personal problem, not just necessarily as a dents'. ' But we're saying, "Would you help .us ,solve community problem. So we felt that the rules that we these'common kinds of problems" in'stead of saying, had made it very difficult for us to take any kind of an "Well, this is the package that" we'r~ going to lay on active role in· trying to improve the situation, because you and that you're going to have to live with." I think· .. "; they said you couldn't do any of these things. So there we've conveyed, some of that, but ~ also think that wasn't any way that y~>u could get involved in a pro 'we've been misrepresented in terms of those concerns. gram that dealt with a problem that you don't acknowl~ , ,Somebody has to be responsible forQur concerns, or'I

8 THE SCHOLASTIC MARCH 29, 1974 .9 J, An Interview think the job will only be partially done. I don't find very often that students are lacking in good will, but I think t~ey're lacking in understanding, and in part that's our problem,. to convey our problems to them. tative or developmental model is lost to so many people Scholastic: So in other words the problem is one of because they don't see what happens; There are many Macheca and Lally: communication. Somewhere between discipline and af cases you could cite, where you could see and under firmation. your role as affirming gets lost. People don't stand how you got from point A to point G, which often see what you term the "rehabilitative" quality of would be a final decision .. Most of our work, actually, your. discipline. For example, how is one "rehabilitated" is done after a decision is made; you work with some by being tossed out for a semester.. But we've heard body coming off a decision, especially if it's a tough Off the Cuff from talking to other people that that rehabilitative decision, tough on him.. You try to keep him from model· can and does work in cases. becoming bitter, or you work with him to .show him that what you're doing is hopefully for his own good. Scholastic: Do you feel that the social situation has im edge, at least in terms of not allowing it. So we saw l\lacheca: In a disciplinary case, you get into a very But these are the kinds of things that you. just cannot proved in any way since you took over? How do you that as something very necessary, ·to have a rule that personal situation, especially the way we've approached get out and air in public~They're very personal kinds of feel after almost a year in the Student Affairs Office? reflected what the actualities of the situation were. And disciplinary' problems~ We try to be as totally informed situations. It's much like anybody who's dealing in a .then we felt that there are social events which involve as we can about the situation or the incident, about the developmental relationship where he. cares about an l\lacheca: It'll.vary depending upon what your view alcohol which are appropriate to a university campus individual who's involved in that incident, and we look individual and would like to make him a better person point is, arid what your expectations. are of the social and appropriate' to the kinds of residence halls, the to many different sources for our information. We may by virtue of always having someone to teUyou that situation. I would say that, depending on who you talk kinds of facilities, the kind of life-style that we have on talk to other students. We've had cases where the presi you've made a mistake when you have. Here hopefully to, they might feel that there has been an improvement this campus. That's what we began to work toward. dent of the hall has been involved, in terms of the in we can work together to understand our strengths and or that there hasn't been. It also gets down to what Now what happened that caused a lot of. confusion was vestigation as well as the adjudication of a problem. weaknesses. your expectations are with regard to social life. I would the whole Sorin incident. What people failed to realize Also the R.A.'s and the Rector are brought into it. So like to feel.that the University can make a commen with it was that that whole .thing happened under the you get a situation where you're working with where a Lally: I've given a lot of thought to your question, be surate commitment to social life, and I don't mean just original rules, last '.year's rules, before the new rules person is, what his strengths and weaknesses are, and cause it puts you in a particular dilemma. That is, parties; as· they have made to the kind of commitments could come out; and we were very much concerned that where he is in his own personal development. Now whatever punishment or penalty accrues to a particular that Notre Dame makes; a commitment to excellence in we would have problems in the beginning of the year, the problem is: that you can't just go. shouting those offense is really coming off a value stance on the part academics and athletics. We can make commitments to because we wanted the SLC~and the Administration of kinds of things' from forums or· talking publicly about of an educator or an administrator, depending on how, the social area as well, especially as part of the evolu- the University to have some sense. that what we were an individual's ,degree of maturity, :.or a problem he you want to see us. We'd like to see ourselves as educa tion involving coeducation.: . doing had some significance, that we weren't just mak has, with alcohol or with drugs: or with his emotional tors. I' don't' suspect that, at the given time that you ing a paperwork change; that we weren't just changing life. Now granted,. all cases don't wind up being so nail someone with a particular penalty; they're going to Scholastic: Parties seem to really have posed a dilemma a rule that nobody pays any, attention to, but that deeply personal that they get into these kinds of prob be very grateful for it. That just isn't going to happen. this year. On'one hand, being that Notre Dame is such there was going tobe a significant difference, and there lems. ' But what you're doing is' digging into an' indi " ~ Most of our educational processes have been ab a residential campus, we all acknowledge that parties was a reason to change the rule. So we had to, from vidual's total being, ~md trying to make a decision that stractive, intellectual, overly theoretical, and have not .are really in many ways the focus of campus life.. On the standpoint of good faith,and mutual respect, try to takes this.in to consideration as well as the good order asked for any other investment on the part of the stu~ : the other hand, they've also been a focus of a lot, of live within the existing rules, hopeful that the rule of the University and· the upholding of the rules and dEmt but:that he produces intellectually~ What we're campus problems. Now at the beginning of the year, would be changed. But that original Sorin incident kind' the behavioral expectations of this community. And the saying is:'that,as. educators here at Notre Dame,some there was a, fear that the Office. of Student Affairs, in . of exacerbated the. whole understanding and began problem is that you just 'can't make public comment, of the things that we feel are important are goiiig to. an attempt to solve the problems of parties, was,going what a lot of people refer to as paranoia. and that's where the relationship between the rehabili- involve personal investment, on our part as well as the to sort of put the damper'completely on parties. There's :"-:'...... 1:":C'·'~·~· . r""":; ',.: ,"'".' students'. And I think it's good that students hold ad~ some hope that there's a sort. of middle ground, and . Lally: I think we let the student~ know that we wer~ ,: r' . ministrators to the values they represent. In other (. I'm really not sure if we've quite figured out what .the going to try something new; and we learned that very I:;" words, I can't· just simply represent values to. you. I middle ground i~; , ' often your intentions can't be. conveyed just as weil as '-'''''< ,L have to have inculcated those values in'my own' life. ' you tl!ink. The students bring a lot of goo,d· will and Otherwise I've got no business; talking to you. . ".", l\lacheca: ,Well, one.of the things-there ,was a suspi a lot of needs to the whole social situation here, and in .' cion' that there would be changes made, Just because trying to be responsible from our end for the mainte Scholastic: From a student point of view, there's a real there. had been a, reorganization jn Student .Affairs. nance of the good order. of the University, and .the problem with suspension, :if a record of it goes on the And, interestingly enough, Father Lally and I, both, people in this community, we:ve, I think, failed some- . student's transcript.: It's the, kind of thing' that could from , the. beginning, have emphasized the area' of times to appreciate the'facLthat:we're not always y.eFY follow you for the rest of your life, especially when you student responsibility in social activities; but with the well understood. I think the continuing dilemma is to apply for a job .or some'thing. Once the suspension is emphasis on responsibility, not just freedom. Now,you bring the students to engage in. and be concerned with over and the student is hopefully rehabilitated, is there had a situation where there were abuses. There's no our common problems,. to say. to them not., "We. will a possibility of having the record of the suspension re- question that there's a' concern on this campus for the devise rules and standards whereby yourpart'ies will.be moved from the.transcript? . abuse of alcohol as a problem. Some people you talk to run',' but. instead to say "Here ' are 'our concerns .from will ~ay it's the biggest' problem we've got here, the ourpoinf of view as administrators." . Naturally our attitude toward alcohol and the insensitivity to it as a social concerns 'are going to be different from the stu: potential personal problem, not just necessarily as a dents'. ' But we're saying, "Would you help .us ,solve community problem. So we felt that the rules that we these'common kinds of problems" in'stead of saying, had made it very difficult for us to take any kind of an "Well, this is the package that" we'r~ going to lay on active role in· trying to improve the situation, because you and that you're going to have to live with." I think· .. "; they said you couldn't do any of these things. So there we've conveyed, some of that, but ~ also think that wasn't any way that y~>u could get involved in a pro 'we've been misrepresented in terms of those concerns. gram that dealt with a problem that you don't acknowl~ , ,Somebody has to be responsible forQur concerns, or'I

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cal needs, ripping off another individual in terms of that they simply say, "Well, I don't think there's any Lally: Well, you know, Edward Kennedy, from what I them,to. If I were a student and I were being judged by interpersonal and intersexual relationships. This is thing wrong with running stark naked across the north understand, was suspended from Harvard for getting my peers, I would expect them to have more sympathy quad." And when you listen to him, you become con someone to take a Spanish exam one time. I think that's with my point of view than I would the guy upholding what bothers me the most; and also the insensitivity to it. So what we're saying is that to make a mistake, to vinced the guy's basically in "good will. And nobody ,>" a matter of public record. But I don't think it need the values. And they didn'thire me to represent student do something 'urithinkingly and somewhat instinctively doubts their good will; but they're wrong, they're really necessarily dog a man to thepoint.where any kind of views. They hired me, I hope, to uphold some values which is self-gratifying or self-indulgent. or just plain wrong. They're wrong because there are a lot of other success is just unwarranted. The flip side of living in a that they think are important. Now I can go easy on a selfish, you can do these kinds of things without realiz people who have different sets of values and are of culture that lets you choose your own values is that it's guy when I think that there are a lot of factors in fended by it. a permissive culture that doesn't nail a man for the volved which mitigate the circumstances. John and I ing it. And part of our job is to say, "Stop and look at what you're doing. What are you saying about yourself rest of his lifetime. You can't ask us to waive what a have felt all the time that the bind isn't really with the and your values by your actions?" And so, in confront Scholastic: You read.my mind. I was just going to ask man did, here at this University. Now frankly, we very number we let go, who are very many; but it's the;oc you about streaking. seldom suspend anybody. I don't know where anybody casional guy that you feel you"have to go hard on, ,for ing, I often use the analogy of the Knight of the around this place thinks that all we do is boot, people really important reasons. That's the crunch decision. Mirrors in Man of LaMancha where the Knight con fronted Don Quixote with "This is what you are" and Lally: Well, the thing I feel about streaking is, I don't out right, left, .sideways and, forwards. We're' engaged Now we've waived more. guys tJ:1rough this place, and want to overreact, but I'm not going to sit here and in many more rehabilitative models than suspending established good relationships, I think, with goodly made him see himself. I think what we're saying in 'our daily rap sessions in the halls, what we feel we're all watch the whole neighborhood go goofy with a bunch , people. Nobody has come around and asked us about numbers of stUdents that have come to our office. So we about and what kinds of Christians we are is one thing, of guys running around naked. . those particular cases. I've been waiting for them to do don't really feel that we're bad guys. If you can nail us it because I think we'll look pretty good,when we finally on any single thing, it would be that we've been really but what our actions say about what we really are is where we really come to the test. And the actions some lUacheca: The other thing with streaking is that it's not get around to having someone look into it. too soft, as far as the values themselves go; I feel,that just an isolated thing, as Terry pointed out. It is of way, at least; deep down I feel that; times result in bringing you up to this office. And when you come up -here to this office because of certain ac fensive to other people -and it has, in some instances, tions, these actions are indicative of values. And that's, become very hurtful of other people. We've had some Scholastic: What values in 'particular are you talking guys who have chosen to act out far beyond the idea about? when we try to (!onfront on a value basis. I'm married; I have a wife. I screw up and my wife of just going from one building to' another. And that's not streaking, that's something else entirely. I have re Lally: I think the abuses students have for one another says, "What are you doing?" I've got somebody who's going to tell me when I'm not being the kind of person ports of actually obscene and indecent behavior on the in terms of ripping, one another off; whether in terms she knows I should be, or that she knows I would want part of guys streaking. And they weren't necessarily of ripping students off of their reputations, the kind streaking at the time. This is a whole different thing of rip-offs that accrue when someone is simply after to be. But who's telling any of you what you're doing right arid wrong? Do your friends tell you? That's one than just streaking. Some people say that anyone who financial' gain, .the kind of thing where students sell thing about the student peer group; they will' not con streaks has some basicinadequacles. I don't know one,another defective stuff, or run a party that is, in whether I'd go that far, because there are the join-in fact, just a bilk-off; the kinds of things where students front each other on values, because what it really gets down to is that in many instances they don't care kinds of mentalities.' " , are not conscious of the particular rights of other stu enough to get into that kind of a hassle, that they're dents to want privacy, to want a decent place to live; going to tell you when your values are slipping or are the kind of wanton destruction of property that really less than what they should be. And that's why;it's not impinges upon students"rights to live in a decent place; an easy thing to do. That's why our jobs are as 'difficult the attitude here that makes students cheat and do as they are, because we're confronting on values. We're things that are pretty disreputable, though it's hard .• : Part .~f our job is to say, "stop and'iook ' ' telling people, "You haven't gotten your thing all to really to affix responsibility for that.' (Wlia:t we're really concerned with is) how the stu gether yet, even though you thought you did." And at what you're'doing: What are you saying sometimes that's,hard to listen to. ' Scholastic: Well, then let me ask about:them. dents treat one another, how. the Administration treats about yourself and your values by· your ac'· the students, and frankly> sometimes, how students Lally: See, I think the thing that I understand in terms l\Iacheca: But you can't really comment like that on treat the Administration:- I get pretty pissed off at tions?", .' cases. However, there is a possiblesituation.where some being misinterpreted and misuderstood when the people of values is that, for the value' to have some meaning students might volunteer to have their cas~s put up as involved don't really make:'a hell of a big effort to find for :you, it also has to involve some self-investment. And students are not conscious of the fact that you . study cases. We have one guy who has indicated that out what I really had on my head. I think that's an in really have to be self-invested in the value for it to as a possibility; But we just don't know yet. We haven't justice. I think to deal in 'caricatures" to deal in in have any 'meaning. It's got tohavesomemeanirig for ironed out all. the wrinkles. It's a very interesting case, nuendoes, to misrepresent, is a worse sin in some in- . you to invest iIi it, but you, in a sense, become what Scholastic: It almost seems like the curre~t ver~ion' of though, and has a lot of positive things to say. But it's stances than going out and getting drunk, although I you -have given yourself to. What we want to do very swallowing goldfish. not sure yet. think going out and getting drunk isn't so great either. often is engage in a non-incarnational model of educa- We could count orithe fingers of one hand the stuff Lally: But there's a little larceny involved in all that, Scholastic: Do you see the possibility of making greater .' tion which lets you just simply' reflect and intellec that we've dealt with first semester thatwe'd call really at least in the one instance of streaking where I caught use of, say, the student judicial board or perhaps a sort serious stuff. ' tualize and move .away from the kind of involvement the streaker. The guy did -it for one simple reason; he of student court for disciplinary cases? ' that says,'''Yes,I not only know what the values are as far as being' represented, but I also invest in them. did it for twenty-two dollars. Now, we talk about rip l\Iacheca: The biggest thing that Isee-is 'the selfishness ping off the place but, in fact,' this is people' ripping Lally: Well, students are not given to levying the kinds _of young people· (now, of course, older people are I become those values in a sense." And that's an im off each other's .dignity for money.. of penalties that will uphold the values which we con portant part of this thing because, in a sense,the Uni s,elfish, too) when~ their actions are motivated by their Nothing would make me happier than to see people sider important. Students are very conscious of their versity can no longer depend on the family or the I own personal interest,whether it's ripping off the tele around here force each other to be conscious of set rights and they ought to be. Sometimes you find your school to have given you any values before you come phone company, .. whether it's just convenience because values and live according to them. If the students could self in an adversary position vis-a-vis the value being here. Now, that's a surprising kind of statement, but it ,. they want to, do it their way as opposed toa way that do this all by themselves, God bless them. I'd close up upheld with the students that students themselves are mirrors what's happened in the larger society that we makes sense, to a, community in which they live, arid shop and go back' into, parish ministry or something. simply not willing to support. And I wouldn't expect even when it's with regard, to other people, their physi- live in. People come to tis with so many different values ' . . '-

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" to the Dean of Students' office. Streaking, for example, was recently designated a University Offense. It didn't use to be a University Offense, and the rector could handle it. Now, each case of streaking should be referred -The Rod to the Dean of Students. (Streakers of Keenan, the But sinc~that isn't a reality, it's our job to try to get ten dollars we fiiIed you wasn't deterrent enough. We across that values are something we all can and must and will renegotiate penalties in the morning.) share. ' EARN UP TO, $1500 a sch~ol year hanging posters' If I knew there was more wisdom at work in the gray, grizzled heads of Dean Macheca and Terry Lally' on campus,' in spare time. Send name, address; phone l\lacheca: Sexuality is another big thing we have to The'Staff than there was in the senile noggin of the rector of dealwith.You can get· together with a groupof seniors, and school to: Coordinator of Campus ,representa Keenan, consulting with his staff, I would be willing to see even such an ordinary pastime as breathing desig and ask them how many times they've heard someone tives, P',O.Box 606, Ann Arbor, MI 48107;C~If(313)' give a defense of monogamy or of pre-marital chastity,' Rev. Robert Griffin nated as a University Offense; and would'insist that stu and they'll probably say, "Never." But it's important to 662-5575. dents settle under the Dome like hall fellows of the emphasize that we're talking about values, not rules. Dean's office. But I think that the Dean of Students, for And that's something we all have to share. all his good will -:-and it is immense - is as capable of As one of the senior people working in the residence error as the rest'oJ us. That is why a number of rectors, Scholastic: Do you have any pllinsfor changing or ex" halls at Notre Dame, I have lived long enough to 'speak out of their own sense of pastoral responsibility and panding the .office of Student' Affairs? ' honestly about the doubts I have, or the misgivings I personal concern for offending students, feel that most EXECUTIVESUIT·E' feel, in the affairs of God or of me~. In September, forms of rule-breaking should be handled within the l\lacheca: Well, if you try to operate in a rehabilitative I wrote in a Scholastic article of myhopes for the year; ," hall. They feel they must protect their students from model that's something that takes an awful lot of time of my belief that Notre Dame was at the point of a forms of discipline that are less prudE!llt or rehabilita and' work. So we're hoping to' expand, the 'office. We're new kind of awareness of itself, and its responsibilities, tive than they think their own to be., (This was the presently interviewing with the hope of ,finding a as a Christian community. Now, in March, I am year, it was hoped, when there would be no us and woman to hire as an Assistant Dean of Students. And troubled by the way that things are going. Because I them between the dorms and the Dome.) she' wouldn't just be here to handle woinen's 'cases. feel obliged to be honest, I take the risk of making a I regret being critical of the processes and ~ecisions There's rio question that' a woman would provide us fool of myself by commenting on situations I probably by which the Dean of Students' office mustwork; but with a different outlook, perhaps a fresh approach. And only half understand .. ,But fools, as well as the wise some tensions are' healthy tensions. For myself, I need naturally women on campus would probably find a Socrates; can be silenced with a cup of hemlock.', to speak publicly about ma:tterS that I have been woman easier to relate to. ,In my own beloved,Keenan; it has ,been a peaceful thinking and mentioning privately; I have such a , ' We're also looking towa~d a closer working'relation year, thanks to a fine staff and hall residents I am proud healthy respect and admiration for the ways in which" ship among the Student Affairs staff; between the Ad of., (Keenan Hall's president; Charlie Cardillo, must '. Terry Lally and'John Macheca have cared about ' ministrators and theRectors'and the R.A.'s,etc. We're be the',best hall 'president since the founding of the students, and how they have worked to help'them looking for all involved, ~o 'share the commitment to University.), The' year, in, many: ways, has been, one of : interveniJlg' with police departments;' for example, 'on' value-oriented education, because it's something that the best of my" campus life. But I am aware, within behalf of students whohavEnand~d in'jail -:- that I am takes a lot of time and dedication. I can't overempha~ the hall and outside it, of campus unrest over the loss, , tempted to' be silent with'niy misgivings. ButI'can~ size, for example, the role of the R.A. in this whole thing. , this year,' as last,:of :large numbers ,of juniors and; not alWiysbe exhortingstudents'to'live the'godlier, , He's our link to the students. I've been having the halL ,seniors who, are being forced' off campus. As a rector more commurial'life,'without sometimes admitting to " staffs, one hall at a time, out to my home for, dinner, who watched and waited for three years while his,hall,' them that the campus they live on is not paradise. _ ' so that we can get to kilow each other aspeopze.' Be deveioped from a freshman dorm, to' a freshman-sopho There are other, more cosmic problems in campus cause that's so important if we're going to;work too. ~oredorm;, to a freshman-sophomore-junior dorm,,;" life than the 'ones I mention' here, but I don't wanno gether well. If you bring a caring dimension to disci-, until that happy year when we had our first group of: involve myself in a ,discussion of parietals~ ':rlle'~taff ',', pline, it takes a lot 9f time. ' seniors living in Keenan :-:- as a rector who has under~ , in' Keenan tries to enforce the parietal regulations. But : ,Before you choose a career, , go~esu~h an experience, i cannohvatch the forced de , ',' consider what'snoi iii it for YOli' if in addition to the"violation of the norms provided ' Lally: Naturally, in interviewing for that new'Assi~tant parture of large groups of upperclassmen, who could ' f~r women's visitation, students alSo engage in actsA( Decisions ~ade 'in flophouses ~ay ~ot' b~ cover~d be setting a style and tone, of leadership in the hall, Dean of Students, our primary 'concern is that it be: by' sexual intimacy ,(which I regard as unwise; ~nd'poten~ the financial editors, but they're aUeast as important someone good,' someone w.e can work well with. We'd without a strong sense of resentment., I wish that~the tially self-harmful), quietly"and privately, behind', prefer that it be a woman for a' riumber of 'reasons: It's to the persons involvedas those ,made in prestigious University would do something practical about this , offices. Perhaps helping with 'truly significant decisions ciosed doors, I don't see how any member of a hall " 'not just tokenism, though she will' serve as sort of a situation, like building a new dormitory. staff, no matter how deep his concern, can 'prevent this ,Is fod/ou. A growing number of young people today , Another kind of restlessness I have felt centers , syinbolof how we want to be equally attentive to the 'are 'more attracted by a Jifework than a lifestyle: Find' mischief wIthout behaving like a house deteCtive. , needs of the women on campus. ' ' aroun'd'ihe~ffice,of theDean of Students. Mr. john out about the good things that are happening around-· 'Speaking for my~elf" I feel I would, make a very poor, ' Macheca'and Fr. ,Terry Lallyare dear, good men; and ' I think our other biggest goal now iscommunica the country. Let us mail you our free newsletter' for,~' house detective. ' , '. ' ' ' , tion~ We want to get across to the students just what t count both of,them as friends; Terry, in fact, is one' young people interested in social action and religion. , 'I hopeth~'rumorisnot trlIe that says t~e 'security,' we're doing andwhy~, ' Just send name and address'to Word One, Room 49" of my'clos~st associates on campus. But I hav~ b~en 221 West MadiSon Street, Chicago,IIIinois 60606. disturbed, as the ,students have been disturbed, forces are keeping a head ci?untofthe parietal violators l\Iacheca.: That's why we look forward to interviews and about the amount of decision-making that ,goes' leaving the dorms, between three o'clock and eight' " things:': like this. We want to, communicate with the on inJheir ,office. As, a responsible priest with a -: ' o'clock in the morning. I don't mind it so mu'ch as my' students, to let them know what we're doing and think responsible ,staff, I feel that I can direct the merry- ":; dog; DarbyO'Giil,' minds'.it. 'Hf?feelsthat such secre~ scrutinies are not only an a~ministrative, co~mentary,' ing. We' can't' really get anywhere if no one around "THE ',CLA·RE,TIANS-- making'of my students at the parties they give, wi~hout on the efficiency of the hall staffs' and rectors; but al~o , here understands what we're all about;,: A Roman Catholic Community of Priests and Brothers" help from those zealous administrators,John and Terry., , " If I fail at this; 'I' am willing to accept their admonish- ~", upon himself as a watchdog'., "". , ' , ments~If I fail consistently at this, I am willing to ~ " , Darby wanted ~e to sar: if there are such keepers, surrender to them my job. ' of the vigil,' gumshoeing around,' he never said he /': Moreover, 1: am annoyed at the list of offenses, desig didn't love them. The cocker spaniel is wise enough nated as University Offenses, which should be referred_ to know that'it pays to be nice to policemen. 13 12 THE SCHOLASTIC MArtCH '29, 1974 ,

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... -' of maintaining security, discipline, and the orderly oper preface to the code says it well: "It is this mutual love ation of an educational institution." It is obvious that and service that give those of us at Notre Dame our in an emergency, for instance, a fire when the student shape and identify as a Christian community." Without is away, a university official would have a legitimate it we are merely a mob of people hanging on to an right to' enter. organizational skeleton. Yet there is little mutual love But the waiver is much broader than that, and it is lost between the student body and the administration. interpreted by the same administrators who do, the The administrators may be men of integrity but a large entering. It is, in actuality, a legalization of arbitrary segment of the students thinks they are arrogant oli invasion of privacy. Further, the forced choice between garchs. They point to such things as the handling of the waiver of rights or the wilds of South Bend "might the Lewis Hall incident, the railroading of the new seem t~ hint of coercion." And since the only way to calendar (nearly stymied by a few dedicated students) prove a'violation of the rule is to catch people in the and the suspending of the Dillon student, and say that act, precisely this kind of enforcement is essential if the only way that the administration responds to them the rule is to mean anything. is to shaft them.... This is exaggerated, but it is diffi This enforcement again contradicts both Vatican cult to love someone you think is an arrogant oligarch. II and the administration's'own declaration. The Coun 'Judging by its actions, for we have nothing else to cil, in its document on the Church Today affirmed the judge it on, the administration has used unchristian "growing awareness of, the exalted dignity proper to methods to shore up what it must see as a failing min the human person, since he stands' above all things, and istry. It has lost faith in its ability to persuade students his dghts and duties are inviolable. Therefore there of the truth so it resorts to unchristian coercion~ It has must be made available to all men everythin'g necessary lost faith in the students so it must violate their Chris~ for leading a life truly human such as ... the right to tian rights. It has lost faith in a Christian co~munity Not~e Dame h~s long, held to its essential Catholic Christ's example in its statement' on Religious Free protection of privacy.. ' .." The administration, in its so it runs the University as a not-so-benevolent dictator principles and its ideal of,a Christian community. Bu't dom: "The truth cannot impose itself except by virtue preface to the 'code seems to agree, claiming to be ship. To preserve a narrow Catholicism it has started now, in the name of defending the principles of a Cath of its own truth, as it makes its entrance into the mind "respectful of the individual's rights to human dignity to sacrifice a broad Christianity.' Notre Dame has lasted olic university; the administration is violating the prin at once quietly and with power .. '. for of its very na and freedom," and saying that' "Notre Dame is not in many years 'and 'it will last many more. But if it lasts ciples of a Christian university. This is the clear im ture the exercise of religion consists before all else' in terided to be a coercive place;" as a place where a faithless administration perpetually port of the recent' Dillon Hall affair, only the latest in those internal, voluntary, and 'free acts whereby man But it is not the unchristian rule or its unchristian contends with a sullen student body over shreds of prin-, a series of battles over the administration's proper sets the course of his life toward God.' No merely enforcement that is the most' damaging; it is the fact ciples, will it really be Notre Dame? authority. The administration violated the principles human power can either command or prohibit acts of that' these are indirectly' contributing to ,the destruc to which it is pledged in three ways: the rule itself im this kind." This injunction applies not only to govern tion of a Christian community at Notre Dame. The pat hanifin poses religious belief by coercion; the enforcement ments but to religious bodies as well which "ought at violates the human dignity and the Christian rights of all times to refrain fr.;om any manner of action which the students; and such actions destroy the mutual trust might seem to carry a hint' of coercion or persuasion essential for a Christian community. " that would be'dishonorable or unworthy... " The point· It might be argued that the University,' as a com is brought home in the document on education which munity ~edicated to certain, ideals, can expel anyone affirms .the "sacred' right" of youth to "weigh moral for refusing to accept those ideals. It might even be values with an upright conscience and to embrace them argued that in refusing them the person cuts' himself by personal choice." Because this right ~ests on human off from the community and the l!niverslty is'merelY nature the Council pointed out that it . "continues to making it official. But our community has many, non 'exist even in those who do not live up ,to their obliga Catholic, and even non-Christian ,members and tolerates tion of seeking the truth ,and adhering to it." considerable dissent - as is proper for a great univer Not only does the rule v.iolate Christ's example and sity. Only certain actions come under this "love it or the pronouncements of ,the 'Council, it violates' the' leave it" philosophy. administration~,s own commitment stated' in the, preface The distinctions between public and private matters to the new judicial code that announces that "a Chris are important here as well. Some say that premarital tian community cannot lorce_!Doral conviction~' o'n any: sex, even behind locked doors' and' between consenting one. But it can hope to establish a climate in which adults, should be prohibited because of its 'effect on the those moral convictions, nourished by 'intellectual spiritual quality of the University. But such arguments gr:owth, are developed in a' Christian' way:" Forced which can point to no specific violation of anothe; exile from this climate, then, would hardly be condu specific ind,hridual's specific rights leads too easily to a cive to moral development.. state wh~re "everything not forbidden is mandatory." The 'enforcement of this unchristian rulels also un Of course, ,the administrators should be concerned about christian. True" the University' does have the legal these things, but their, concern should be expressed by right to enter 'our 'rooms because of the waiver we had persuasive counselling, not by coercive thou-shalt-nots. to sign to get a room at all. 'Ac'cording' to 'our room Certainly if b~ing Christian means' being ChristliKe;' ,contracts "the University reserVes' the right t6'. . . this' rule isno~ Christian. Vatican II recognized enter rooms without a' searc~ warrant for the pUz}Jose

14 ,THE SCHOLASTIC MARCH 29; 1974 15

: I of maintaining security, discipline, and the orderly oper preface to the code says it well: "It is this mutual love ation of an educational institution." It is obvious that and service that give those of us at Notre Dame our in an emergency, for instance, a fire when the student shape and identify as a Christian community." Without is away, a university official would have a legitimate it we are merely a mob of people hanging on to an right to' enter. organizational skeleton. Yet there is little mutual love But the waiver is much broader than that, and it is lost between the student body and the administration. interpreted by the same administrators who do, the The administrators may be men of integrity but a large entering. It is, in actuality, a legalization of arbitrary segment of the students thinks they are arrogant oli invasion of privacy. Further, the forced choice between garchs. They point to such things as the handling of the waiver of rights or the wilds of South Bend "might the Lewis Hall incident, the railroading of the new seem t~ hint of coercion." And since the only way to calendar (nearly stymied by a few dedicated students) prove a'violation of the rule is to catch people in the and the suspending of the Dillon student, and say that act, precisely this kind of enforcement is essential if the only way that the administration responds to them the rule is to mean anything. is to shaft them.... This is exaggerated, but it is diffi This enforcement again contradicts both Vatican cult to love someone you think is an arrogant oligarch. II and the administration's'own declaration. The Coun 'Judging by its actions, for we have nothing else to cil, in its document on the Church Today affirmed the judge it on, the administration has used unchristian "growing awareness of, the exalted dignity proper to methods to shore up what it must see as a failing min the human person, since he stands' above all things, and istry. It has lost faith in its ability to persuade students his dghts and duties are inviolable. Therefore there of the truth so it resorts to unchristian coercion~ It has must be made available to all men everythin'g necessary lost faith in the students so it must violate their Chris~ for leading a life truly human such as ... the right to tian rights. It has lost faith in a Christian co~munity Not~e Dame h~s long, held to its essential Catholic Christ's example in its statement' on Religious Free protection of privacy.. ' .." The administration, in its so it runs the University as a not-so-benevolent dictator principles and its ideal of,a Christian community. Bu't dom: "The truth cannot impose itself except by virtue preface to the 'code seems to agree, claiming to be ship. To preserve a narrow Catholicism it has started now, in the name of defending the principles of a Cath of its own truth, as it makes its entrance into the mind "respectful of the individual's rights to human dignity to sacrifice a broad Christianity.' Notre Dame has lasted olic university; the administration is violating the prin at once quietly and with power .. '. for of its very na and freedom," and saying that' "Notre Dame is not in many years 'and 'it will last many more. But if it lasts ciples of a Christian university. This is the clear im ture the exercise of religion consists before all else' in terided to be a coercive place;" as a place where a faithless administration perpetually port of the recent' Dillon Hall affair, only the latest in those internal, voluntary, and 'free acts whereby man But it is not the unchristian rule or its unchristian contends with a sullen student body over shreds of prin-, a series of battles over the administration's proper sets the course of his life toward God.' No merely enforcement that is the most' damaging; it is the fact ciples, will it really be Notre Dame? authority. The administration violated the principles human power can either command or prohibit acts of that' these are indirectly' contributing to ,the destruc to which it is pledged in three ways: the rule itself im this kind." This injunction applies not only to govern tion of a Christian community at Notre Dame. The pat hanifin poses religious belief by coercion; the enforcement ments but to religious bodies as well which "ought at violates the human dignity and the Christian rights of all times to refrain fr.;om any manner of action which the students; and such actions destroy the mutual trust might seem to carry a hint' of coercion or persuasion essential for a Christian community. " that would be'dishonorable or unworthy... " The point· It might be argued that the University,' as a com is brought home in the document on education which munity ~edicated to certain, ideals, can expel anyone affirms .the "sacred' right" of youth to "weigh moral for refusing to accept those ideals. It might even be values with an upright conscience and to embrace them argued that in refusing them the person cuts' himself by personal choice." Because this right ~ests on human off from the community and the l!niverslty is'merelY nature the Council pointed out that it . "continues to making it official. But our community has many, non 'exist even in those who do not live up ,to their obliga Catholic, and even non-Christian ,members and tolerates tion of seeking the truth ,and adhering to it." considerable dissent - as is proper for a great univer Not only does the rule v.iolate Christ's example and sity. Only certain actions come under this "love it or the pronouncements of ,the 'Council, it violates' the' leave it" philosophy. administration~,s own commitment stated' in the, preface The distinctions between public and private matters to the new judicial code that announces that "a Chris are important here as well. Some say that premarital tian community cannot lorce_!Doral conviction~' o'n any: sex, even behind locked doors' and' between consenting one. But it can hope to establish a climate in which adults, should be prohibited because of its 'effect on the those moral convictions, nourished by 'intellectual spiritual quality of the University. But such arguments gr:owth, are developed in a' Christian' way:" Forced which can point to no specific violation of anothe; exile from this climate, then, would hardly be condu specific ind,hridual's specific rights leads too easily to a cive to moral development.. state wh~re "everything not forbidden is mandatory." The 'enforcement of this unchristian rulels also un Of course, ,the administrators should be concerned about christian. True" the University' does have the legal these things, but their, concern should be expressed by right to enter 'our 'rooms because of the waiver we had persuasive counselling, not by coercive thou-shalt-nots. to sign to get a room at all. 'Ac'cording' to 'our room Certainly if b~ing Christian means' being ChristliKe;' ,contracts "the University reserVes' the right t6'. . . this' rule isno~ Christian. Vatican II recognized enter rooms without a' searc~ warrant for the pUz}Jose

14 ,THE SCHOLASTIC MARCH 29; 1974 15

: I dicial activities. That is, they are devices designed 'to The American Constitution is a high crime, of course' and contrasts with a simple resolve an essentially political question: shall this per The word "impeachment" -is found in our Constitu- misdemeanor. ~/High Crimes son continue to hold this office· to which he was elected tion seven times. In spite of the seeming logic of these observations, . or appointed? It uses a political forum: the Congress. Article I; Section 2, Clause 5: the history of our legal language turns them all on their And, upon conviction,· its sanction is political: removal "The House of Representatives ... shall have the collective head. Raoul Berger, the Harvard Law Profes and from office and disqualification from further office: The sole Power of Impeachment." sor, provides us with his scholarship on the matter in judicial coloring of the proceedings is genuine enough. . Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems (Harvard The House of Representatives hands down the articles Article I; Section 3, Clauses 6 and 7: University Press,1973). . of impeachment while styling itself "the grand inquest "The ,Senate shall have· the sole Power to try all Misd'emeanors'~ of the nation." This is often described as being the 'Impeachments. When' sitting for that Purpose, At the time when, the phrase "high crimes and "equivalent of an indictment" from· a grand jury.:_The 1 they shall be in Oath or Affirmation. When the misdemeanors" is first met in the proceedings Senate then becomes "the high court of impeachment," President of the United States is tried, the Chief , . against the Earl of Suffolk in 1386, there was in conducts a "trial" and renders 11 "verdict." Furthermore, 1 Justice shall'. preside: And no p'erson shall be con fact no such crime as· a "misdemeanor." Lesser the Chief Justice of the United States presides. victed'withoutthe concurrence of two thirds of the 'crimes were prosecuted as' "trespasses" well into If Richard Nixon were· to be removed from office But, regardless of the trappings, the process' forum, Members' present. the sixteenth century, and only then were· "tres through the process of impeachment, Gerald Ford would question and sanctions remain essentially political. "The "Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not ex passes" supplanted by "misdemeanors" as a cate become President of the United States. On the 15th of . critical focus should be, therefore, not on political ani tend further than to removal from Office, and dis gory of ordinary' crimeS. As "trespasses" itself April, 1970, Mr.. Ford, then a Congressman, proposed mus, for that is the nature of the beast, but on whether qualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, suggests, "misdemeanors" derived from torts or the impeachment of Supreme Court Associate Justice Congress is proceeding" within the limits of the Con..; Trust or Profit under the United States: but the private wrongs; and Fitzjames Stephen st~ted in William O. Douglas. _He made a speech on the floor of stitution; Justice Story noted that impeachment was Party' convicted shall nevertheless be. liable and 1863 that "prosecutions for misdemeanor are to the the House of Representatives concerning its power _to "a proceeding purely of a political.nature. It· is not so subject to;Iridictment, Trial, Judgment and Punish- Crown what· actions for' wrongs. are to private impeach. In his now-famous speech, he defined an im- much designed to punish an offender as to secure the niel1t, acco,rding to Law." persons." In addition, there!0.re, to the gap of 150 peachable offense as . .. . . state against gross.,official misdemeanors:" . years that separates "misdemeanors" from "high whatever, a majority of the· House of Representa Article II; Section 2, Clause 1: misdemeanors," there is a sharIifunctional division tives consider!, it~ to b~ at a given moment, in his The English Background _ "The President ... shall have Power to grant Re- between the two. "High crimes andmisdemeanois" ,. - tory; . ~ . whatever ... [the Senate] considers to American law, of course, is the child of English law. · prieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United were a category' of political crimes against the , •be sufficiently serious to require removal of the We take the concept and procedures of impeachment States, exceptin cases of Impeachment." . ., state, . whereas "misdemeanors" described criminal " .' .. ' -. - .. ", ". accused from office . .-. " _.. -. . . .. from the English, too. But, here, the debtisowed'to' sanctioris for private wrongs. An intuitive sense Few, if any, scholars would concur with this broadest Parliament; not the common law and equity courts. ': Article II; Section 4: of the difference is exhibited in the development of "broad" definitions. Fewer yet would adopt that nar The British recorded impeachment trials as ea'rlY ';The·President, Vice President and all civil Officers of English law, for though "misdemeanor',' entered rowest of "narrow" views which requires an indictable as the fourteenth century. The King, often the adver of the United States, shall be removed from Office into, the ordinary criminal law, it did not become offense for impeachment. What is an impeachable of sary of the Parliament, was unimpeachable.. But, his on Impeachment for, and. Conviction of, Treason, the criterion of "hlgh misdemeanor".· in the. par~ fense? ministers were not. Commons could show its displeasure · Bribery; or other high Crimes -and Misdemeanors." liamentary law: of impeachment., Nor did either · . ',- - . ". ~ .. ". - To- address ourselves to this question, we must first of the King's policies by impeaching those who carried "high crimes" or "high misdemeanors"· find their understand what an impeachment is and is not. ·them out.· Parliament also. used this weapon against the Arti~le ill, Section 2,~lause 3: way into the general criminal law of England. As corrupt: (Francis Bacon, the-giant of the-philosophy of "The Trial cii:'all Crimes, except in cases of Im late as 1757 Blackstone could say that "the first and Impeachment Itself -- science; was removed from the office of Lord Chancellor 'pe~chment, sha~l be -by jury: .. ." principal, [high misdemeanor] _is the Jru:il-a

16 . THE SCHOL~STIC MARCH. 29,,1974 - 17 dicial activities. That is, they are devices designed 'to The American Constitution is a high crime, of course' and contrasts with a simple resolve an essentially political question: shall this per The word "impeachment" -is found in our Constitu- misdemeanor. ~/High Crimes son continue to hold this office· to which he was elected tion seven times. In spite of the seeming logic of these observations, . or appointed? It uses a political forum: the Congress. Article I; Section 2, Clause 5: the history of our legal language turns them all on their And, upon conviction,· its sanction is political: removal "The House of Representatives ... shall have the collective head. Raoul Berger, the Harvard Law Profes and from office and disqualification from further office: The sole Power of Impeachment." sor, provides us with his scholarship on the matter in judicial coloring of the proceedings is genuine enough. . Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems (Harvard The House of Representatives hands down the articles Article I; Section 3, Clauses 6 and 7: University Press,1973). . of impeachment while styling itself "the grand inquest "The ,Senate shall have· the sole Power to try all Misd'emeanors'~ of the nation." This is often described as being the 'Impeachments. When' sitting for that Purpose, At the time when, the phrase "high crimes and "equivalent of an indictment" from· a grand jury.:_The 1 they shall be in Oath or Affirmation. When the misdemeanors" is first met in the proceedings Senate then becomes "the high court of impeachment," President of the United States is tried, the Chief , . against the Earl of Suffolk in 1386, there was in conducts a "trial" and renders 11 "verdict." Furthermore, 1 Justice shall'. preside: And no p'erson shall be con fact no such crime as· a "misdemeanor." Lesser the Chief Justice of the United States presides. victed'withoutthe concurrence of two thirds of the 'crimes were prosecuted as' "trespasses" well into If Richard Nixon were· to be removed from office But, regardless of the trappings, the process' forum, Members' present. the sixteenth century, and only then were· "tres through the process of impeachment, Gerald Ford would question and sanctions remain essentially political. "The "Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not ex passes" supplanted by "misdemeanors" as a cate become President of the United States. On the 15th of . critical focus should be, therefore, not on political ani tend further than to removal from Office, and dis gory of ordinary' crimeS. As "trespasses" itself April, 1970, Mr.. Ford, then a Congressman, proposed mus, for that is the nature of the beast, but on whether qualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, suggests, "misdemeanors" derived from torts or the impeachment of Supreme Court Associate Justice Congress is proceeding" within the limits of the Con..; Trust or Profit under the United States: but the private wrongs; and Fitzjames Stephen st~ted in William O. Douglas. _He made a speech on the floor of stitution; Justice Story noted that impeachment was Party' convicted shall nevertheless be. liable and 1863 that "prosecutions for misdemeanor are to the the House of Representatives concerning its power _to "a proceeding purely of a political.nature. It· is not so subject to;Iridictment, Trial, Judgment and Punish- Crown what· actions for' wrongs. are to private impeach. In his now-famous speech, he defined an im- much designed to punish an offender as to secure the niel1t, acco,rding to Law." persons." In addition, there!0.re, to the gap of 150 peachable offense as . .. . . state against gross.,official misdemeanors:" . years that separates "misdemeanors" from "high whatever, a majority of the· House of Representa Article II; Section 2, Clause 1: misdemeanors," there is a sharIifunctional division tives consider!, it~ to b~ at a given moment, in his The English Background _ "The President ... shall have Power to grant Re- between the two. "High crimes andmisdemeanois" ,. - tory; . ~ . whatever ... [the Senate] considers to American law, of course, is the child of English law. · prieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United were a category' of political crimes against the , •be sufficiently serious to require removal of the We take the concept and procedures of impeachment States, exceptin cases of Impeachment." . ., state, . whereas "misdemeanors" described criminal " .' .. ' -. - .. ", ". accused from office . .-. " _.. -. . . .. from the English, too. But, here, the debtisowed'to' sanctioris for private wrongs. An intuitive sense Few, if any, scholars would concur with this broadest Parliament; not the common law and equity courts. ': Article II; Section 4: of the difference is exhibited in the development of "broad" definitions. Fewer yet would adopt that nar The British recorded impeachment trials as ea'rlY ';The·President, Vice President and all civil Officers of English law, for though "misdemeanor',' entered rowest of "narrow" views which requires an indictable as the fourteenth century. The King, often the adver of the United States, shall be removed from Office into, the ordinary criminal law, it did not become offense for impeachment. What is an impeachable of sary of the Parliament, was unimpeachable.. But, his on Impeachment for, and. Conviction of, Treason, the criterion of "hlgh misdemeanor".· in the. par~ fense? ministers were not. Commons could show its displeasure · Bribery; or other high Crimes -and Misdemeanors." liamentary law: of impeachment., Nor did either · . ',- - . ". ~ .. ". - To- address ourselves to this question, we must first of the King's policies by impeaching those who carried "high crimes" or "high misdemeanors"· find their understand what an impeachment is and is not. ·them out.· Parliament also. used this weapon against the Arti~le ill, Section 2,~lause 3: way into the general criminal law of England. As corrupt: (Francis Bacon, the-giant of the-philosophy of "The Trial cii:'all Crimes, except in cases of Im late as 1757 Blackstone could say that "the first and Impeachment Itself -- science; was removed from the office of Lord Chancellor 'pe~chment, sha~l be -by jury: .. ." principal, [high misdemeanor] _is the Jru:il-a

16 . THE SCHOL~STIC MARCH. 29,,1974 - 17 , , unmistakably "political" crimes, lends them a shn George Mason of Virginia, known as the Father of the Ritter was removed from office. What did the seventh ilar cOnIlotation' under the maxim noscitur a sociis Bill of Rights, argued: article charge? First, a restatement of the first six [the meaning of a word is or maybe known from articles' charges. Second, the charge that: the accompanying words]. No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should, be continu~d: Shalf. any The reasonable and probable consequence of the In sum, "high crimes and misdemeanors" appear man be above justice? Above all, shall that man be actions or conduct of Halstead L. Ritter, hereunder to be words of art confined to impeachments, with above it who can com'mit the extensive injUstice? specified or indicate<:i in this article since he became out roots in the ordinary criminal law and which, When' greaCci-imes [are]' committ~d, [I am] for judge of said court, as an individual or as such so far as I could, discover, had no relation to punishing the principal as well' as the coadjutors judge is to bring his court into scandal and disre whether an indictment would lie in the particular . . . Shall the man who has practiced corruption pute, to the prejudice of said court and public con circumstance. ' and by that means procured his appointmeniin the fidence in the administration of justice therein, and first instance, be suffered to escape punishment by to the' prejudice of public respect for and confi Legislative Intent: Framers of the Constitution repeating his guilt? - ' dence in the Federal judiciary, and to render him unfit to continue to serve as such judge. ,The provisions for impeachment made in the Con .. . . .,'.' stitution of the United States all find their purposes in Impeachment was,provided forby a vote of 8-2, but our Anglo-American history. The respective powers of the impeachable offenses were redefined. Treason and Judge Leon R. Yankwich wrote in a Georgetown the House and Senate'are the legacy of the prerogatives bribery were grounds agreed to by all parties. 'Edmund Law Journal article in 1938 that of Commons and the House of Lords. "Although English Randolph suggested adding "abusing his.power." Col. impeachments did not require an indictable crime they Mason again spoke: ' ',' ", ' ,', This ruling definitely lays down the principle that were nonetheless criminal proceedings because con even though upon specific charges amounting to viction was punishable by death, imprisonment, or Treason as" defined in the Constitution, will not legal violations, the [Senate] finds the accused not heavy fine." (Berger, p. 67) The American approach reach many great dangerous offenses: .. Attempts guilty, it may nevertheless, find that his conduct was 'to "de-criminalize" the proceedings by sharply to subvert the Constitution may not be treason as in these very matters was such as to bring his limiting the sanction' to political consequences. Having above defined. ' was found to have been drunk on the bench and to have office into disrepute and order his removal upon done so, they could in good conscience allow for possible used profanity in the courtroom. The next convicted that ground. criminal indictment for the same actions without the He moved to insert "or' maladministratiOll" after the judge was W. H. Humphreys.' He was charged with double jeopardy (of ,the Fifth Amendment) applying. word "bribery.;; Madison countered,:"So' vagUe a term acting as'judge'in a Confederate state - and was tried Conclusion, The British monarch had once pardoned a peer whom will be equivalent to tenu're dunng the pleasure of the by the Senate during the Civil War! These two cases From an analysis of the language of the Constitu the House of Commons had' impeached, but the Lords Senate." Mason, withdrew the motion and substituted provide little guidance to us due to their uniqueness. tion in its legal and historical context, from a study of had not yet tried. To forestaJf any such "mischief," the "high crimes and' misdemeanors," borrowing from the The last two cases do give us some insight. the drafters' stated intentions, and from a review of framers of the Constitution' explicitly forbad it in English Parliamentary history that he knew so well. In 1912, Judge Robert W. Archbald was impeached the Congressional precedents, we can see that "high Article II. If they had not, civil officers would be little, Use of this language impiied a carry-over of the English and convicted. He was charged with accepting money crimes and misdemeanors": ,concerned with the prospect of impeachment, and the , concepts of the non-c~iminal nature of the offenses from wealthy parties (who did not have cases before 1. does not mean an indictable crime,' either felony power of Congress would be thus blunted. The sep required, the requirement of graveness and seriousness him), speculating in the coal business, and accepting or minor violations. . aration of the function of accusers and the functions of of the offense, and the political nature ofthe process. ' money solicited by his clerk from attorneys who prac 2. does not give the Congress unlimited power of , . ' jury makes obvious procedural sense. The two:thirds ticed in his court. His com~uct, though,was not seen removal, Mr. Ford notwithstanding, but rather, Senate-vote requirement lessens the prospect of capri The: Precedents , as criminal but rather "exceedingly reprehensible and has a definitely delimiting meaning. cious removal and of a faction's denial of the executive's In'American history,:there have been twelve federal in marked contrast with the high sense of judicial ethics 3. does require a "political offense" which must mandate. impeachments. Only' four persons have been' convicted and probity." It is clear that the Senate removed him be serious. This could include abuse of office, ne Currently, there is much concern that impeachment and removed from office.' They were all' federal judges'. for his unethical behavior. glect of duty, unethical conduct bringing his office will somehow "destroy" the Presidency. But, clearly, Of the other eight, some resigned before trial. The most In- 1936, Judge Halstead L. Ritter was impeached, into disrespect, and violating the public trust. convicted and removed from the bench of the, federal the impeachment process was planned by, the Constitu famous impeachment is, of course, 'that of President Copyright ©. Dennis ,J. Owens, 1974. Published here district court in Southern Florida. Six of the' seven tional Fathers concurrently with their planning of the Andrew Johnson.'But, his trial was such a shabby p6~ with the permission 'of the author and the Notre Dame articles of impeachment adopted cited such offenses as Presidency' and the Executive Branch.' Furthermore, litiCal action that, it provides' few legal' guidelines. It Journal of Legislation. impeachmEmt was,just as clearly, aimed specifically at might be noted that none of the elev~n articles 'delivered splitting fees with a former law partner from a case the President. against him involved ari offense against the Constitu in which Ritter gave judgmerit to the partner's client, Dennis Owens is a second-year l

'1 18 THE SCHOLASTIC I MARCH 29, 1974 19 f I l.~ ___ - , , unmistakably "political" crimes, lends them a shn George Mason of Virginia, known as the Father of the Ritter was removed from office. What did the seventh ilar cOnIlotation' under the maxim noscitur a sociis Bill of Rights, argued: article charge? First, a restatement of the first six [the meaning of a word is or maybe known from articles' charges. Second, the charge that: the accompanying words]. No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should, be continu~d: Shalf. any The reasonable and probable consequence of the In sum, "high crimes and misdemeanors" appear man be above justice? Above all, shall that man be actions or conduct of Halstead L. Ritter, hereunder to be words of art confined to impeachments, with above it who can com'mit the extensive injUstice? specified or indicate<:i in this article since he became out roots in the ordinary criminal law and which, When' greaCci-imes [are]' committ~d, [I am] for judge of said court, as an individual or as such so far as I could, discover, had no relation to punishing the principal as well' as the coadjutors judge is to bring his court into scandal and disre whether an indictment would lie in the particular . . . Shall the man who has practiced corruption pute, to the prejudice of said court and public con circumstance. ' and by that means procured his appointmeniin the fidence in the administration of justice therein, and first instance, be suffered to escape punishment by to the' prejudice of public respect for and confi Legislative Intent: Framers of the Constitution repeating his guilt? - ' dence in the Federal judiciary, and to render him unfit to continue to serve as such judge. ,The provisions for impeachment made in the Con .. . . .,'.' stitution of the United States all find their purposes in Impeachment was,provided forby a vote of 8-2, but our Anglo-American history. The respective powers of the impeachable offenses were redefined. Treason and Judge Leon R. Yankwich wrote in a Georgetown the House and Senate'are the legacy of the prerogatives bribery were grounds agreed to by all parties. 'Edmund Law Journal article in 1938 that of Commons and the House of Lords. "Although English Randolph suggested adding "abusing his.power." Col. impeachments did not require an indictable crime they Mason again spoke: ' ',' ", ' ,', This ruling definitely lays down the principle that were nonetheless criminal proceedings because con even though upon specific charges amounting to viction was punishable by death, imprisonment, or Treason as" defined in the Constitution, will not legal violations, the [Senate] finds the accused not heavy fine." (Berger, p. 67) The American approach reach many great dangerous offenses: .. Attempts guilty, it may nevertheless, find that his conduct was 'to "de-criminalize" the proceedings by sharply to subvert the Constitution may not be treason as in these very matters was such as to bring his limiting the sanction' to political consequences. Having above defined. ' was found to have been drunk on the bench and to have office into disrepute and order his removal upon done so, they could in good conscience allow for possible used profanity in the courtroom. The next convicted that ground. criminal indictment for the same actions without the He moved to insert "or' maladministratiOll" after the judge was W. H. Humphreys.' He was charged with double jeopardy (of ,the Fifth Amendment) applying. word "bribery.;; Madison countered,:"So' vagUe a term acting as'judge'in a Confederate state - and was tried Conclusion, The British monarch had once pardoned a peer whom will be equivalent to tenu're dunng the pleasure of the by the Senate during the Civil War! These two cases From an analysis of the language of the Constitu the House of Commons had' impeached, but the Lords Senate." Mason, withdrew the motion and substituted provide little guidance to us due to their uniqueness. tion in its legal and historical context, from a study of had not yet tried. To forestaJf any such "mischief," the "high crimes and' misdemeanors," borrowing from the The last two cases do give us some insight. the drafters' stated intentions, and from a review of framers of the Constitution' explicitly forbad it in English Parliamentary history that he knew so well. In 1912, Judge Robert W. Archbald was impeached the Congressional precedents, we can see that "high Article II. If they had not, civil officers would be little, Use of this language impiied a carry-over of the English and convicted. He was charged with accepting money crimes and misdemeanors": ,concerned with the prospect of impeachment, and the , concepts of the non-c~iminal nature of the offenses from wealthy parties (who did not have cases before 1. does not mean an indictable crime,' either felony power of Congress would be thus blunted. The sep required, the requirement of graveness and seriousness him), speculating in the coal business, and accepting or minor violations. . aration of the function of accusers and the functions of of the offense, and the political nature ofthe process. ' money solicited by his clerk from attorneys who prac 2. does not give the Congress unlimited power of , . ' jury makes obvious procedural sense. The two:thirds ticed in his court. His com~uct, though,was not seen removal, Mr. Ford notwithstanding, but rather, Senate-vote requirement lessens the prospect of capri The: Precedents , as criminal but rather "exceedingly reprehensible and has a definitely delimiting meaning. cious removal and of a faction's denial of the executive's In'American history,:there have been twelve federal in marked contrast with the high sense of judicial ethics 3. does require a "political offense" which must mandate. impeachments. Only' four persons have been' convicted and probity." It is clear that the Senate removed him be serious. This could include abuse of office, ne Currently, there is much concern that impeachment and removed from office.' They were all' federal judges'. for his unethical behavior. glect of duty, unethical conduct bringing his office will somehow "destroy" the Presidency. But, clearly, Of the other eight, some resigned before trial. The most In- 1936, Judge Halstead L. Ritter was impeached, into disrespect, and violating the public trust. convicted and removed from the bench of the, federal the impeachment process was planned by, the Constitu famous impeachment is, of course, 'that of President Copyright ©. Dennis ,J. Owens, 1974. Published here district court in Southern Florida. Six of the' seven tional Fathers concurrently with their planning of the Andrew Johnson.'But, his trial was such a shabby p6~ with the permission 'of the author and the Notre Dame articles of impeachment adopted cited such offenses as Presidency' and the Executive Branch.' Furthermore, litiCal action that, it provides' few legal' guidelines. It Journal of Legislation. impeachmEmt was,just as clearly, aimed specifically at might be noted that none of the elev~n articles 'delivered splitting fees with a former law partner from a case the President. against him involved ari offense against the Constitu in which Ritter gave judgmerit to the partner's client, Dennis Owens is a second-year l

'1 18 THE SCHOLASTIC I MARCH 29, 1974 19 f I l.~ ___ - Week in Distortion

1. in search of more excitement. 1. accosted passers-by on the South Quad. 2. in a fruitless attempt to avoid Observer reporters. 2. used the goalposts to smash down Mr. Macheca's ":'\ 3. wh~le waiting for something else to happen. door. ' 4. which was a "clear and immir{ent danger/' 3. ,vowed to replace Father Burtchaell. 5. which brought tears to' the eyes of spectators. 4. was (were) caught by the rector in violation of 6. whic~ resulted in the loss of a football ticket; parietals. 5. possessed by demons, left for Georgetown the next 1. Finally, students expecting to move off campus morning. 2. To top. the whole affair, the entire population of 6. decided to write a st,ory for, the Scholastic on the ,'Breen-PHillips ' , ' matter. ' 3. In conciusiori, the entire basketball team I'm sick of writing Week in Distortion. ' 1. Father Flanigan, local energy czar 4. At the close of the festival, noted author Norman , Congratulations! 2. the' mysterious, Brother Gorch Mailer ' " . " ' " I'm also sick. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, 3. R.' Calhoun Kersten , 5. In addition, all the University trustees You have just written your first campus news story! but I have a cold and a: sore throat, and next year's 4. 'the latest heir to the Abowd publishing empire" 6. At the close of the Mass, Darby O'Gill" Father Grif A few more tries and the Wall Street'Journal mightlE~t rookie Week in Distortion writer was supposed to come 5: hl1l1dreds of rioting coeds, lookingforT.,J. Clinton fin's pet cock~r spaniel you write an article on Notre Dame., up with his debut article but didn't. So, this week, you 6. noted scientist Mark Frisse '.' get to write Week in Distortion yourself. Just pick eleven digits from one to six and write your story by 1. played a Notre Dame Band record ba~kwards and the numbers. Dice can be used to guarantee random heard the following: ," ',' ness., : 2. released a secret 'jist pf student's names with the comment ", ' " , 3. satin silence while a voice from heaven spoke, saying Here we go: 4. published an Observer editorial to the effect that 5. received a message from outer space cl~iming that 1. Fifty naked, screaming students 6. ,said, in the voice' of Mercedes McCanmridge 2. Dean of Students John Macheca 3. University Provost James T. Burtchaell 1. "Naked is beautiful." , 4. SBP candidate Ray Capp 2. '~We only:want to help' you, whether you want help 5. ,N.D. Security Chief J; Arthur Pears, or not." , ,'C , 6. Scholastic writer T.J. Clinton' 3. "I'm only in search of a little power." ~ (: ,.' 4. "You gave him your body!" :' 1. streaked full speed through the Huddle yesterday. 5; ."This, is the New Age of Decadence." :

2. made headlines by announcing, a :new unwritten 6: "This is my beloved Son, in whomTam'well pleased." :.< University rule. '3. plotted to replace th~ Holy Trinity.: 1.Bystanders '" 4, plastered the ,campus with tasteless posters. 2. The St. Joseph County Police Force ANSWER TO,LAST'PROBLEM' 5. smashed down the door to a student's'room late last '3. The men in th'e,:white jackets '," ,,' 1;'Q-B3 (A mutate,' six mates being changed by the key.) night. , 4. A noted administrator and his secretary ,_ . ", .. - . 6: received a record number of obscene phone, calls and 5. Michael CarL Goetz and, three, unidentified girls from St. Mary's ~ , " ,," bomb threats last week~ : GEOFFREY'MQTT-SMITH . . 6. The Notre Dame Glee Club .' ~ , . . . 1. Meanwhile, lost in the steam tunnels," i • , Chess, Revzew 2. When contacted by reporters in the White House files , 1~ strove:vainly to! control,the crowd ;,1935 3. Later, on a'throne iriSt. Peter's Basilica ". :: 2. wen:i'nOIlplussed " " , , ' 4. Afterward;, in a smoke-filled La' Fortune retreat 3. "rode, the ' elevators, in the library'all, day' ',- .... 5. Simultaneously, at the St. Joseph County Jail' 4. had fun at spring football practice' ' " 6. Somewhat later, in the torch-lit depths of the ::icience ,.5., skinny-dipped' in the Library reflecting pool Q.uaiterly offices "', , 6. sang the Victory ,March

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SOLUTION IN NEXT ISSUE' I , 20 :THE, SCHOLASTIC MARCH 29,1974 21 I i I . ! 1- The '67 elections produced Chris Murphy whose ac Perspectives on tion program fizzled when he took a full-time job as a , ' traveling salesman for the University's money-raising

/ project, SUMMA. He was followed by Richard Rossie with a strong program of willingness to confront the ad Student Governrnent ministration and alumni "in' any way necessary." The John Barkett won the narrowest election in recent SLC began by passing the first parietal hours and re memory on a platform of communication with the ad laxed drinking provisions. (A few years before Hes ministration. He communicated quite well with the ad burgh had threatened to throw out 2000 students and ministration but hardly at all with the students. Wide 14 rectors before he would allow parietals.) Hesburgh spread' dissatisfaction with do-nothing pooh-bahs re sulted in the election of unwilling King Kersten and the The'recent student body elections, focusing on the Chancellor-President system with Hesburgh as Chan- announced the "15-minute rule" in February of '69- bread and circuses Oligarchy. His court saw itself a;s a administration's actions against student rights, have re- cellor and a layman as President. The climax came ,demonstr:!ltors blocking free access would be given 15 service organization and student apathy continued, un vived the possibility of a return to the strong, rights- when a student government committee drew up a minutes,to disperse before ID's were collected. affected by the brief blowup over, the Lewis Hall inci oriented student governments of the past. Yet everyone "Declaration of Rights and Grievances" which de- The rule was used the following November during agrees that the radicalism of the Sixties is dead, leav- nounced the administration policy of-in wco parentis the term of Phil McKenna, who was elected on a plat dent. Last year's el~ctions were utter chaos, with three ing a void in the student strategy book. Still, a look at (that has been around quite a' while) and called for 13 form of getting student equality in the University com constitutions, two general elections, 14 candidates, one the crises and tactics of the past may suggest something reforms including fre~dom of off-campus students to munity. Dow and CIA recruitment was: blocked and 15 minutes after a warning, ID's were collected from non-candidate, (Kersten), ,and a brief period of martial for the future. rent apartments, cars ~for seniors, 24 hours of 'elec- law. Out of it all came H-Man Etienne. His term has Back in the "good old days" of 1960 students were tricity in the halls, one or two priests in each hall everyone insight, including one student who wanted carefully guided by the fatherly administration. Curfew solely for spiritual guidance, allowing women in hall to be recruited. Ten students were suspended. The been marred by administration attempts, particularly with the calendar and judicial rights, to return to the was at 10.00 p.m., lights-out (no eiectricity was pro- lounges, a tripartite judicial board and abolishment of racial question became crucial as the University and the vide d) at 11:00, and morning Mass check three times a curfew. student government tried to decide how to deal with good' old days of in wco parentis. Except for a strong week at 7:30 a.m. Coats and ties were required, cars This document was'considered so radical that when 'the influx of black students. but losing battle organized by Academic Commissioner were forbidden, specified areas of South Bend were off- the Scholastic tried to print it the magazine was sup- , Dave Krashna became the first black,SBPanda Chris Nedeau on the calendar, the Etienne regime has limits on pain of "grave penalty," and the student press pressed for a while and forbidden to print anything month later the Cambodia invasion and Kent State been generally inactive in mobilizing student support. But ,the recent SBP elections offer some' hope' of was never to question the "wisdom oithe administra- controversial. All seven editors and 'the faculty advisor killings fueled the high point of student radicalism at tion." The rules had been substantially the same for resigned in protest and a secret committee of' student Notre, Dame. Over the pleas of Hesburgh, Krashna reversing the trend toward apathy and despair for decades and the administration looked forward to many government officers replied by passing out mimeo- called a student strike, and classes, were replaced by change. Pat McLaughlin's election, based on emphasiz more such happy decades. graphed copies of the Declaration in the dark of night. demonstrations and teach-ins: The period was marked ing student rights, offers some hope" but the 'hope ,is The first cracks in the monolith came with the With national attention focused on the battle both sides by disaffection with the University as well as the na darkened by the failure of half the student body to vote. Great Corby Hall Riot when several hundred furious retreated; censorship was quietly dropped. tion: the Scholastic called for Hesburgh to resign and Further tactics for change remain very much a but disorganized students made an assault on a symbol After two relatively quiet years Lenny Joyce, the be replaced by it younger man (one suggestion was question mark. The governments from '66 to ~70 gained of thenot-so-benevolent paternalism. Early the next founder of ND's own SDS, began the "great radical Fr. Burtchaell) and a poll showed a large segment of their biggest' reforms by mobilizing a student' body, year 19 students, most Woodrow Wilson;'nominees, period" in the'elections of 1966. The Dunn-Fish contest the graduating class felt that Notre Dame ~ad failed which while moderate compared to many others was far subtly threatened to release an 80-page critique of stu-' .,had fallen,into trivialities so Joyce.organized the Popu- , them socially and intellectually., , more radical than our present group is. Barring' ex dent life to the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. The " !ar Frorit Party uniting the SDS with the YAF, and in The emotional peak of the days of rage could not be treme and unlikely reaction by the administration (it is administration loosened up slightly, dropping lights- a week-long moneyless campaign rolled up 30% of the maintained for 10ng,the'70~'71 year began the decline moving in small steps now) we will not see the chance out, compulsory Mass attendance, and off-limits areas. vote, even after the right wing had split when it looked into apathy. The Princeton plan for a two-week break for such tactics again. McLaughlin hopes to be able to work through the present political system, particularly The next year, '62::'63, administration retrenchment as if he would' win. Both opposing candidates adopted at election timetolet students get into politics was de the SLC, with faculty support for change. But the chief produced the "winter of our discontent." Massive food his "17 Theses" which demanded a . wide range of stu- feated; half the students did not even vote: But the de danger of this approach is fights were only for starters. SBP Kevin Hart's pro- dent rights and the creation of a student union to bate did produce an interesting statement bi Fr. Burt- come-Iet-us-reason~together' that the SBP may (as happened to Murphy and Bar posal for stay halls, with all four classes mixed to- handle service projects.' Before the year's end the chaell in a Scholastic interview: ' . kett) be cut off from his' popular support and end by gether, was supported by many administrators but re- curfew was dropped, o-c students could have cars and jected by Hesburgh, who compared himself to Lincoln rent apartments, and rules' on women and 'liquor were I ,view the recess as essentially a fall vacation working for, rather than with the administration. What must somehow develop is a system of "creative ten and spoke of moral courage. Meanwhile the Scholastic tacitly relaxed. The new SBP, Jim Fish, began thestu~ '. which is conveniently scheduled to coincide with the was taking an independent tack, even calling for a dent union.' period of peak political activity ... any decision of sion," of checks and balances, in which cooperation can exist along with occasional political tangles to maintain In November of '67 Robert Sam Anson took over the , this scope must be made by the entire University, a balance between separate parts of the same commu dying Voice and resurrected it as the 'Observer. The that is by the people who make up the University, both faculty and students. It is up to the.individual nity. paper quickly gained a radical reputation and when on -pat hanifin the spur of the' mome!1t, Anson l-:eprinted a members of the University to vote for or against a Ber~leY' fall vacation.' ' ' Barb article using the word "screw," another censorship crisis erupted. This timeit was Fish's student govern ment that wanted the muzzle but the attempt finally _, failed and the Observer went its merry way. ' ,

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r:,'BIQ~ 8,,;11' ly, administrative action is calculated for the good of fessors, on the other hand, are awful not for lack of .: '" ,.'. ":>. ''''I r . ~ .' ~i :.' ~, ' students. Confusion arises when the stUdents might knowledge. Ph.D.'s generally kllOW their business. Grad hold diverse interpretations of the' good. Also a trans uate school comprehensives require a certain high aca L.i~~~;i~~,:: ~'J,:~~,:~;~.;:.L.:~;i"'>;" ';~ ,.~~jy;:;~~jj formation of the oppressed lot of the student -=-=- what demic proficiency. Poor teachers, therefore, manifest vise on the teacher - a veritable yoke - grows in A few years ago, I read an essay entitled, "The Stu~ ever manifestation the oppression might assume - is their deficiency'by their inability to respect and com creasingly constricting. The tension, inevitably, 'for the dent as Nigger." I forget the author's name; nor can unlikely insofar as stUdents have a high lev~lof endur municate to stUdents. It is in such circumstances that untenured professor is between devoting more time to I recall with precision the evidence - a marshalling of ance. If stUdents are often victims, they are also stoics, 'victimizatIon occurs. A power game ensues; a student teaching as an art or undercutting class preparation impressions rendered' as fact - which indicted teach brought up to believe in the rainbow notion of future feels oppressed, beleaguered, and .'withou'. recourse.-I time by _writing great scholarly tomes for publication ers as slaveholders and comforted students as the uni~ dividends. have suffered such straits only a few times,I spent to help assure tenure. Also, from a student perspec~ versity's most oppressed majority. Although few con Nonetheless, essays like "The Student as Nigger" are my freshman year elsewhere and escaped the crunch tive, personal experience and the experience of friends crete statements yield to memory, I remember reading fun to read. Although such pieces are doomed to fail as of calculus, science, modern language; literature and indicate that, for those intent upon entering graduate the piece with a profound sense of exhilaration. There tickets for revolution, they can indeed point, with pro composition, lab, and psychology all in one semester. or law school,. such mechanical criteria as graduate or ,was a whisper in the wind that a messiah might arrive found precision, to a. very real problem in our educa~ Even so, my few agonizing courses were few too many. , law boards often become a debilitating bludgeon; they bearing a system of deliverance, guaranteed to move tional system which can only begin to be solved among I recall feeliiig alienated, doubting my self-importance, are no longer merely a measure of how well one re the student. beyond the reach of a mad professor's the individuals involved .. No matter what policy an experiencing a pervasive depression stemming from my sponds for three hours on an -arbitrary set of, questions whimsy. I' discovered the essay while rebounding off administration 'engenders 'and attempts to inculcate re inability to please a professor who. criticized with a but, instead, become a profoundly important knife which a first-semester sophomore-year paranoiac stroke diu- garding student life and academics, the measure of a hammer rather than,a handshake, -' can serve very easily to amputate - often undeservedly , ingwhichoneof my teachers seemed to reek sadistic university is the ability of teachers to educate students Gratefully, the overwhelming, ii1'oportion of teachers ---, a qualified student from the graduate or law school pleasure from returning my .weekly papers bearing and the students' ability to educate themselves and one that I have taken have been extremely fine, not merely of his or her choice. The result in such cases is that such epithets as "damn fool," "go'back to first grade," another. The classroom, after all, is the focal point'of by being "well-versed in their field" but, more important, three hours can undermine four years of excellence. '~this is the' worst yet." Damnation; demotion, and academe. The question of whether a student is victim by reaching out and touching the humanity of each stu Thus victimization - student or professor as oppressed apocalypse came cheap that year.' It was the time of ized depends largely upon the relationships whichfornl dent. A teacher who, tyrannizes is not a teacher but a - results when false or relatively unimportant criterion academic dread and what better medicine than to read between stUdents and teachers. " , ' tyrant. Teachers should lead students to discover new prohibits the more human elements to be the priority. ' "The Student as Nigger." The oppressed achieve a rush One need not look far to find negativity. There are worlds" and, in so doing, learn -more about themselves . And so,' as members_ of' the university - or; more of pathetic righteousness when informed by an angry always perverse teachers wh'o announce with'a stark not merely as scholars but as people. Somehow, the best basically, members of human society --.:... the question young Writer that many, others share similar agonies businesslike demeanor the' virtual impossibility of any teachers tend to "teach" themselves as individuals and boils down to the age-old problem of proper and pre arid the r~volution 'is doubtless at hand. Indeed, de student to get higher than a "B" in a particular test or are most successful when, the subject taught comple cise perspective. It is a question akin to gaining the liv'eranceflashes like a mirage after every jeremiad be- course; there. are the so-called educators to whom the mentstheir personalities. In such cases, the students world and losing the soul. In matters of apparent num ginning with "and furthermore; .." , . . . . '. education of students' is a necessary poison enabling find that education, is most valuable in light of what ber - a student is virtuous if he gets an "A-" or At this point, it is safe to assume that' the student such scholars to continue uncovering burled truth so' remains after, the grade is received -:- that is, did a better, for example -:- it' would bid well' for many. to academic revol\ition wili not' see fruition before the that obscure 'ice cubes of knowledge might pack frozen particular course make one a more sensitive, knowledge~ look beyond the mesh of number arid see it all as fun Second Coming. For it"students in the sixties waged a bookshelves in academic world which, for them; is arctic able human being; or, did the course merely fulfil a damentalbut relative. Numerical criteria are' funda revolution ,in political consciousness .. againstgoverri at best; and: there are, of. course, 'those' teachers who requirement;, did classroom contact with a particular mental' because knowledge is important; good marks mental policies in Vietnam, then their successfully look upon stu,dents with disdain and disrespect, appar professor make an important contribution to a student's should be a precise measure of academic achievement. recognized presence must be attributed to the reality of ently, unable to divine a kinship humanity.' 'Last year, life as an example of the humane scholar to whom This fundamental quality, however, bestows a responsi a clearly, di,fferentiated opposition. The psychology a friend'of mine overheard a professor utter, "l'Ukill teaching is a vocation rather than a job; or, _did class bility on the teacher, to be fair. Number is relative, of revolution is always an extension of them~agctinst-us. a freshman someday." '., , room contact with .a'teacher make a student cringe, certainly, beCause a good life does not hinge totally on A student revolution in America, however, is impossible , It, is, however, a,n absurdity to wrail for any length grateful that a semester 'of boredom and drudgery is an "A" or a "C" but a student's outlook and self-esteem for, the opposition falls under. the amorphous umbrella of time against terrible teachers .. Like bad weather, over?' ' may, be profoundly, influenced by the spirit with which of "administrative authorities." Compiexitymounts they will always be around. Graduate schools will eon * * * a teacher bestows a grade. " .when tpe autho~ities are both for. and against~ General- tinue to "turn out" a ceitciin ratio of dilettantes. Bad _ It is inescapable, to conclude that the thrust of the teachers are as wides'pread as bad doctors are as wide twentieth century is" toward, systemization,' machine spread as bad auto mechanics and so on. Yet while domination and computer organization., Universities , auto mechanics 'are a blight ins:o!ar as they simply do share the characteristics of the century. As the crunch not know a' brake shoe from a horseshoe, 'college pro- for teaching positions grows tighter,and t~ghter, the

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' ...... - : r"-::--""'~"'-'~':-:-::'''''-'-~' .' -,------. -:.-:-.-,. ;'-:~~--,;-~~~~""::. ''''I r . ~ .' ~i :.' ~, ' students. Confusion arises when the stUdents might knowledge. Ph.D.'s generally kllOW their business. Grad hold diverse interpretations of the' good. Also a trans uate school comprehensives require a certain high aca L.i~~~;i~~,:: ~'J,:~~,:~;~.;:.L.:~;i"'>;" ';~ ,.~~jy;:;~~jj formation of the oppressed lot of the student -=-=- what demic proficiency. Poor teachers, therefore, manifest vise on the teacher - a veritable yoke - grows in A few years ago, I read an essay entitled, "The Stu~ ever manifestation the oppression might assume - is their deficiency'by their inability to respect and com creasingly constricting. The tension, inevitably, 'for the dent as Nigger." I forget the author's name; nor can unlikely insofar as stUdents have a high lev~lof endur municate to stUdents. It is in such circumstances that untenured professor is between devoting more time to I recall with precision the evidence - a marshalling of ance. If stUdents are often victims, they are also stoics, 'victimizatIon occurs. A power game ensues; a student teaching as an art or undercutting class preparation impressions rendered' as fact - which indicted teach brought up to believe in the rainbow notion of future feels oppressed, beleaguered, and .'withou'. recourse.-I time by _writing great scholarly tomes for publication ers as slaveholders and comforted students as the uni~ dividends. have suffered such straits only a few times,I spent to help assure tenure. Also, from a student perspec~ versity's most oppressed majority. Although few con Nonetheless, essays like "The Student as Nigger" are my freshman year elsewhere and escaped the crunch tive, personal experience and the experience of friends crete statements yield to memory, I remember reading fun to read. Although such pieces are doomed to fail as of calculus, science, modern language; literature and indicate that, for those intent upon entering graduate the piece with a profound sense of exhilaration. There tickets for revolution, they can indeed point, with pro composition, lab, and psychology all in one semester. or law school,. such mechanical criteria as graduate or ,was a whisper in the wind that a messiah might arrive found precision, to a. very real problem in our educa~ Even so, my few agonizing courses were few too many. , law boards often become a debilitating bludgeon; they bearing a system of deliverance, guaranteed to move tional system which can only begin to be solved among I recall feeliiig alienated, doubting my self-importance, are no longer merely a measure of how well one re the student. beyond the reach of a mad professor's the individuals involved .. No matter what policy an experiencing a pervasive depression stemming from my sponds for three hours on an -arbitrary set of, questions whimsy. I' discovered the essay while rebounding off administration 'engenders 'and attempts to inculcate re inability to please a professor who. criticized with a but, instead, become a profoundly important knife which a first-semester sophomore-year paranoiac stroke diu- garding student life and academics, the measure of a hammer rather than,a handshake, -' can serve very easily to amputate - often undeservedly , ingwhichoneof my teachers seemed to reek sadistic university is the ability of teachers to educate students Gratefully, the overwhelming, ii1'oportion of teachers ---, a qualified student from the graduate or law school pleasure from returning my .weekly papers bearing and the students' ability to educate themselves and one that I have taken have been extremely fine, not merely of his or her choice. The result in such cases is that such epithets as "damn fool," "go'back to first grade," another. The classroom, after all, is the focal point'of by being "well-versed in their field" but, more important, three hours can undermine four years of excellence. '~this is the' worst yet." Damnation; demotion, and academe. The question of whether a student is victim by reaching out and touching the humanity of each stu Thus victimization - student or professor as oppressed apocalypse came cheap that year.' It was the time of ized depends largely upon the relationships whichfornl dent. A teacher who, tyrannizes is not a teacher but a - results when false or relatively unimportant criterion academic dread and what better medicine than to read between stUdents and teachers. " , ' tyrant. Teachers should lead students to discover new prohibits the more human elements to be the priority. ' "The Student as Nigger." The oppressed achieve a rush One need not look far to find negativity. There are worlds" and, in so doing, learn -more about themselves . And so,' as members_ of' the university - or; more of pathetic righteousness when informed by an angry always perverse teachers wh'o announce with'a stark not merely as scholars but as people. Somehow, the best basically, members of human society --.:... the question young Writer that many, others share similar agonies businesslike demeanor the' virtual impossibility of any teachers tend to "teach" themselves as individuals and boils down to the age-old problem of proper and pre arid the r~volution 'is doubtless at hand. Indeed, de student to get higher than a "B" in a particular test or are most successful when, the subject taught comple cise perspective. It is a question akin to gaining the liv'eranceflashes like a mirage after every jeremiad be- course; there. are the so-called educators to whom the mentstheir personalities. In such cases, the students world and losing the soul. In matters of apparent num ginning with "and furthermore; .." , . . . . '. education of students' is a necessary poison enabling find that education, is most valuable in light of what ber - a student is virtuous if he gets an "A-" or At this point, it is safe to assume that' the student such scholars to continue uncovering burled truth so' remains after, the grade is received -:- that is, did a better, for example -:- it' would bid well' for many. to academic revol\ition wili not' see fruition before the that obscure 'ice cubes of knowledge might pack frozen particular course make one a more sensitive, knowledge~ look beyond the mesh of number arid see it all as fun Second Coming. For it"students in the sixties waged a bookshelves in academic world which, for them; is arctic able human being; or, did the course merely fulfil a damentalbut relative. Numerical criteria are' funda revolution ,in political consciousness .. againstgoverri at best; and: there are, of. course, 'those' teachers who requirement;, did classroom contact with a particular mental' because knowledge is important; good marks mental policies in Vietnam, then their successfully look upon stu,dents with disdain and disrespect, appar professor make an important contribution to a student's should be a precise measure of academic achievement. recognized presence must be attributed to the reality of ently, unable to divine a kinship humanity.' 'Last year, life as an example of the humane scholar to whom This fundamental quality, however, bestows a responsi a clearly, di,fferentiated opposition. The psychology a friend'of mine overheard a professor utter, "l'Ukill teaching is a vocation rather than a job; or, _did class bility on the teacher, to be fair. Number is relative, of revolution is always an extension of them~agctinst-us. a freshman someday." '., , room contact with .a'teacher make a student cringe, certainly, beCause a good life does not hinge totally on A student revolution in America, however, is impossible , It, is, however, a,n absurdity to wrail for any length grateful that a semester 'of boredom and drudgery is an "A" or a "C" but a student's outlook and self-esteem for, the opposition falls under. the amorphous umbrella of time against terrible teachers .. Like bad weather, over?' ' may, be profoundly, influenced by the spirit with which of "administrative authorities." Compiexitymounts they will always be around. Graduate schools will eon * * * a teacher bestows a grade. " .when tpe autho~ities are both for. and against~ General- tinue to "turn out" a ceitciin ratio of dilettantes. Bad _ It is inescapable, to conclude that the thrust of the teachers are as wides'pread as bad doctors are as wide twentieth century is" toward, systemization,' machine spread as bad auto mechanics and so on. Yet while domination and computer organization., Universities , auto mechanics 'are a blight ins:o!ar as they simply do share the characteristics of the century. As the crunch not know a' brake shoe from a horseshoe, 'college pro- for teaching positions grows tighter,and t~ghter, the

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' ...... - : SPEAKERS lUONDAY (1st): Ward-Phillips Lectures: Robert Scholes (Brown Univ.), "The Future of Fictional Criticism." Library Aud., 4 :15 p.m. ~erspective Series: Anthony Quinton (New Col lege, Oxford), New Biology Aud., 8:0.0. p.m. , . TUESDAY (2nd): Coming Distraetions Ward-Phillips Lectures: Robert Scholes (Brown Univ.), "A Genre Whose Time Has Come," Library Aud., 4 :15 p.m. "South Africa: Peaceful or Violent Change." EXHIBITIONS: Moderator: Prof. James Bellis (Sociology). Partici FILMS: l\IONDAY (1st): O'Shaughnessy Gallery: pants: Prof. Alek Che-Mponda (Government), Dorothy Miner Memorial Exhibition: A Selection of Prof. Cassidy, Prof. Peter Walshe (Government). "The' Godfather," Washington Hall, 7 :0.0. & 10. :0.0. p.m., $1.0.0. Late Medieval a~d Renaissance Manuscripts from 7:30.-9:0.0. p.m., Black Cultural Arts Center, No. 2AA the McNear Collection. Through April 14. La Fortune. International Film Festival: "Smiles of a Summer l\IUSIC: Night" (Bergman, 1955), 7:0.0. & 9:0.0. p.m., Engi Todd Walker-Photography. Through March 31. SATURDAY (30th): Paul Jenkins, color field painting. Through April 14. WEDNESDAY (3rd): neering Aud., free. English subtitles. Gary Bartz, "Black Perspective i~' Transition," An Eastern Sculpture from the Collection of Lester Ward-Phillips Lectures: Robert Scholes (Brown Experience in A~rican Jazz. Stepan Ctr., 8:30. p.m., TUESDAY (2nd): Wolfe. Through April 14., Univ.), "Structural Fabulation," Library Aud., 4 :15 $2.0.0.. ,..' p.m. "The Godfather," Washington Hall, .7 :0.0 & ,10. :0.0 p.m., $1.0.0. Radecki Galleries: Perspective Series: Anthony Quinton (New College, SUNDAY (31st): Graphics of Leonard Baskin, Laus Pictorum. 'Oxford), New Biology Aud., 8:0.0 p.m. ' Rare Earth, ACC, 730. p.m. Tickets $5.50., $4.50., FRIDAY (5th): Through March 31. ' Music Forum: ,.Dana' Spencer. Little Theater $3.50.. Graphics ,by Samuel Chamberlain, opens April 1, (SMC), 4:30. p.m. "Two Lane Blacktop," Engineering Aud., 8 :0.0. & St. Pierre Ruffin Ch.ib-sponsored concert, 4:0.0. p.m., 10. :0.0. p.m., $1.0.0. through April 3D. ,"Reflections on Our Permanent Revolution," Little Recital Hall, IUSB. Theater, 8:0.0. p.m. SATURDAY (6th): YWCA Art Gallery: , "Frontiers of the Mind," (film), room N1D5 IUSB, WEDNESDAY (3rd): , Paintings by Anthony Lauck, CSC. Through April noon. "Two Lane Blacktop," Engineering Aud., 8:0.0. &. ND, ~lee Club, David Isele, conductor. Washington 10. :0.0 p.m., $1.0.0. 30. Hall; 815 p.m., free. THURSDAY (4th): South Bend Art Center: Ward-Phillips Lectures: Robert Scholes (Brown THURSDAY (4th): High School Art. Opens March 31, through April 21. Univ.)""The Good Witch of the West" Library Student Recital: Aimee Beckman, soprano: Little Ross Brown~culpture. Opens March 31; through Aud., 4 :15 p.m. ' Theater (SMC), 8:15'p.m. April 21. "Collegiate Jazz Festival, Symposium. (Call 283- Spiritual Concert: Andrea Crouch and ~he Dis . 3797 for details.) ciples, Morris Civic, 7 :0.0. p.m. Tickets $4.50. in l\loreau Gallery ,~dvance, $5.50. the day of the concert. Upper l\loreauGallery FRIDAY (5th): Hammes Gallery' Ward-Phillips Lectures: Robert Scholes (Brown FRIDAY (5th):. Se'nior Comprehensive Shows,' through April 1. Univ.), discussion period, Library Aud., 4:15 p.m. Gospel Concert,' Morris Civic; 7:30. p.m. Tickets Annual Faculty-Student Show, all media. Opens ,Perspective Series: ,Anthony, Quinton (New Col April 7, through April 3D. lege, Oxford), Faculty Lounge (Library), 3:30. p.m. .' $4.0.0., $3.50.. Concert Series: 'Barrington High School Concert Choir, Little Theater, 8:15 p.m. Moreau Photo Gallery: SUNDAY (7th): , ,Collegiate Jazz Festival, Stepan Ctr. Friday nite, Edward Eai-le and Robert Kinca,id: Photographs , William Lattimer, South Bend Art Center Lecture $3.0.0.; all sessions' (Fri. 'nite, . Sat. day, Sat. nite) and Serigraphs. 'Opens April 6, through April 3D. Series. .' $7.0.0.: . .oTHER DIVERSIONS: WEDNESDAY (lOth): ,,' , ' SATURDAY (6th): SUNDAY (31st): "Multiply ... and Subdue the Earth," (film), room Collegiate Jazz Festival, Stepan Ctr. Saturday day "One .Man Show-Portraying Mark Twain," Wash~ N1D5 IUSB, noon. 'session, $2.0.0.; Saturday nite session, $4.0.0.; all ses ington Hall, 8: DO p.m. , sions. (Fri. nite, both Sat.) $7.0.0.. FRIDAY (5th): SUNDAY (7th):' I Harlem Globetrotters, ACC, 8 :0.0. p.m. Tickets $4.50. Choral Mass: SMC Collegiate Choir, Hol~. Cross $3.50., $2.50.., : Junior College. I -rick gering TUESDAY (9th): ' Madeleine Schotz, violinist, ~i.ttle Theater, 8 :15 p.in.

FRIDAY (12th): Foghat, Morris Ch~ic,' 8 :0.0. p.m. Tickets $5.0.0. in advance, $5.50. day of concert. I 26 THE SCHOLASTIC I MARCH 29, 1974 . 27 .L~ SPEAKERS lUONDAY (1st): Ward-Phillips Lectures: Robert Scholes (Brown Univ.), "The Future of Fictional Criticism." Library Aud., 4 :15 p.m. ~erspective Series: Anthony Quinton (New Col lege, Oxford), New Biology Aud., 8:0.0. p.m. , . TUESDAY (2nd): Coming Distraetions Ward-Phillips Lectures: Robert Scholes (Brown Univ.), "A Genre Whose Time Has Come," Library Aud., 4 :15 p.m. "South Africa: Peaceful or Violent Change." EXHIBITIONS: Moderator: Prof. James Bellis (Sociology). Partici FILMS: l\IONDAY (1st): O'Shaughnessy Gallery: pants: Prof. Alek Che-Mponda (Government), Dorothy Miner Memorial Exhibition: A Selection of Prof. Cassidy, Prof. Peter Walshe (Government). "The' Godfather," Washington Hall, 7 :0.0. & 10. :0.0. p.m., $1.0.0. Late Medieval a~d Renaissance Manuscripts from 7:30.-9:0.0. p.m., Black Cultural Arts Center, No. 2AA the McNear Collection. Through April 14. La Fortune. International Film Festival: "Smiles of a Summer l\IUSIC: Night" (Bergman, 1955), 7:0.0. & 9:0.0. p.m., Engi Todd Walker-Photography. Through March 31. SATURDAY (30th): Paul Jenkins, color field painting. Through April 14. WEDNESDAY (3rd): neering Aud., free. English subtitles. Gary Bartz, "Black Perspective i~' Transition," An Eastern Sculpture from the Collection of Lester Ward-Phillips Lectures: Robert Scholes (Brown Experience in A~rican Jazz. Stepan Ctr., 8:30. p.m., TUESDAY (2nd): Wolfe. Through April 14., Univ.), "Structural Fabulation," Library Aud., 4 :15 $2.0.0.. ,..' p.m. "The Godfather," Washington Hall, .7 :0.0 & ,10. :0.0 p.m., $1.0.0. Radecki Galleries: Perspective Series: Anthony Quinton (New College, SUNDAY (31st): Graphics of Leonard Baskin, Laus Pictorum. 'Oxford), New Biology Aud., 8:0.0 p.m. ' Rare Earth, ACC, 730. p.m. Tickets $5.50., $4.50., FRIDAY (5th): Through March 31. ' Music Forum: ,.Dana' Spencer. Little Theater $3.50.. Graphics ,by Samuel Chamberlain, opens April 1, (SMC), 4:30. p.m. "Two Lane Blacktop," Engineering Aud., 8 :0.0. & St. Pierre Ruffin Ch.ib-sponsored concert, 4:0.0. p.m., 10. :0.0. p.m., $1.0.0. through April 3D. ,"Reflections on Our Permanent Revolution," Little Recital Hall, IUSB. Theater, 8:0.0. p.m. SATURDAY (6th): YWCA Art Gallery: , "Frontiers of the Mind," (film), room N1D5 IUSB, WEDNESDAY (3rd): , Paintings by Anthony Lauck, CSC. Through April noon. "Two Lane Blacktop," Engineering Aud., 8:0.0. &. ND, ~lee Club, David Isele, conductor. Washington 10. :0.0 p.m., $1.0.0. 30. Hall; 815 p.m., free. THURSDAY (4th): South Bend Art Center: Ward-Phillips Lectures: Robert Scholes (Brown THURSDAY (4th): High School Art. Opens March 31, through April 21. Univ.)""The Good Witch of the West" Library Student Recital: Aimee Beckman, soprano: Little Ross Brown~culpture. Opens March 31; through Aud., 4 :15 p.m. ' Theater (SMC), 8:15'p.m. April 21. "Collegiate Jazz Festival, Symposium. (Call 283- Spiritual Concert: Andrea Crouch and ~he Dis . 3797 for details.) ciples, Morris Civic, 7 :0.0. p.m. Tickets $4.50. in l\loreau Gallery ,~dvance, $5.50. the day of the concert. Upper l\loreauGallery FRIDAY (5th): Hammes Gallery' Ward-Phillips Lectures: Robert Scholes (Brown FRIDAY (5th):. Se'nior Comprehensive Shows,' through April 1. Univ.), discussion period, Library Aud., 4:15 p.m. Gospel Concert,' Morris Civic; 7:30. p.m. Tickets Annual Faculty-Student Show, all media. Opens ,Perspective Series: ,Anthony, Quinton (New Col April 7, through April 3D. lege, Oxford), Faculty Lounge (Library), 3:30. p.m. .' $4.0.0., $3.50.. Concert Series: 'Barrington High School Concert Choir, Little Theater, 8:15 p.m. Moreau Photo Gallery: SUNDAY (7th): , ,Collegiate Jazz Festival, Stepan Ctr. Friday nite, Edward Eai-le and Robert Kinca,id: Photographs , William Lattimer, South Bend Art Center Lecture $3.0.0.; all sessions' (Fri. 'nite, . Sat. day, Sat. nite) and Serigraphs. 'Opens April 6, through April 3D. Series. .' $7.0.0.: . .oTHER DIVERSIONS: WEDNESDAY (lOth): ,,' , ' SATURDAY (6th): SUNDAY (31st): "Multiply ... and Subdue the Earth," (film), room Collegiate Jazz Festival, Stepan Ctr. Saturday day "One .Man Show-Portraying Mark Twain," Wash~ N1D5 IUSB, noon. 'session, $2.0.0.; Saturday nite session, $4.0.0.; all ses ington Hall, 8: DO p.m. , sions. (Fri. nite, both Sat.) $7.0.0.. FRIDAY (5th): SUNDAY (7th):' I Harlem Globetrotters, ACC, 8 :0.0. p.m. Tickets $4.50. Choral Mass: SMC Collegiate Choir, Hol~. Cross $3.50., $2.50.., : Junior College. I -rick gering TUESDAY (9th): ' Madeleine Schotz, violinist, ~i.ttle Theater, 8 :15 p.in.

FRIDAY (12th): Foghat, Morris Ch~ic,' 8 :0.0. p.m. Tickets $5.0.0. in advance, $5.50. day of concert. I 26 THE SCHOLASTIC I MARCH 29, 1974 . 27 .L~ • "

Starting on Thursday night next week and stretch ing into the wee hours on Sunday morning, one of the nation's most unique and best-respected college music The director calls it "a hilarious comedy" but it is festivals will be happening on the Notre Dame campus. sometimes difficult to see the humor in Harold Pinter's For the sixteenth straight year, the Collegiate Jazz The Homecoming, being presented this weekend by the THE HOMECOMING Festival will be bringing to Notre Dame some of the Notre Dame-St. Mary's Theatre. The work of Pinter best amateur and professional jazz musicians in the is frequently placed in, the category of absurdist / country for more than twenty hours of the best jazz theatre, yet probably ."realist" is a, better term. It is music you're likely to find. ' this brutal realism that director Richard Bergman has CJF ~74 will be the latest in a long line of festivals maintained and perhaps even heightened. The ND-SMC that have built a solid music reputation: perennially re production stresses the natural dimension of acting, viewed in New York, Detroit, and Chi-town, and the giving full vent to the savage, yet always human, situa subject of articles on the American Downbeat and tions of Pinter plays. British Melody-Maker magazines as well." It· brings The Homecoming tells of a son's return to his lower together the, best... .', ' '. class home after six years away teaching college. The This year the twenty college bands. participa:ting play was' originally set in England, but Bergman has were chosen from nearly twice as many recorded audi , "Americanized" it and the transition comes off rather tions, and' include' groups that 'have done professional well. Teddy, the eldest son, brings home with him his work in the jaZz' field:. The Judges are chosen' from the wife Ruth, whom his family has never met before. The best professi()llal ,jazzmen ,in the business, purposely family consists of his two brothers, Lenny and Joey, chosen to bring in 'all realms of the diverse jazz spec his uncle, Sam, and his father, Max. These four are trum. This year they include such young talents' as sax locked in a circle of mutual hatred, presided over by ,player Billy Harper and trombonist Bill Watrous, and Max, who wielding his cane, maintains his shaky disci veteran. drummer Roy Haynes" whose credits include pline over Lenny and Joey, one a pimp and the other work with such greats as Miles Davis and John Col- a small-time boxer and small-time stUd. Their mother, trane. . . ' , called by Max "a stinking slutbitch" died several years The weekend starts on' Thursday night with a free . previously, after imparting to the boys "the moral code jazz symposium in the library auditorium. . . a perfect , they live by." When Teddy brings his wife home with chance to become familiar with the kind of music that'll him they assume she's a whore, and as it turns out, she be played all weekend, if you aren't already, and to is. Max and his two youngest sons make passesat her hear the professionals talk about their trade.' Then on while Teddy stands by disinterestedly. Eventually they Friday night the music begins, with the college combos make an arrangement with Ruth so that she stays; pay playing twenty-five-minute sets on Friday ,night, Sat ing her way "on her back" as Teddy leaves, returning urday afternoon, and Saturday riight. Late on Saturday to England and their children. ' night the "judges .will present awards for the' best solo The play is plain and straightforward, with no and' combo performances, and then get together for frills, and derives its power from the interaction of the what ought to be the highlight of the festival: an',un ch~racters. Max and his sons, are people of perversion rehearsed jam session of their own. forever clashing until they discover Ruth, a fixture for The atmosphere in Stepan Center ought' to' be a - AZZ. . . their home they can all agree upon., On the way to listener's dream. The ElectroVoice company has do~ the "happy" ending there is a lot of humor, most of it nated a custom-designed sound system that ought to of a' fairly grim variety. It: comes from Max's seeming mak~ the S:ound'as good or, better than anY'Convo'con conception of his" wife as :·two women, one' a ,saint and cert.Chairs for sitting and floor :space' for blankets, 'plus tlie'oth,era whore, and from Lenny's unctuous ,patter, an invitation· to bring, whatever you like to help enjoy andiastly from uncle Sam's death, which is rendered the evening, and to let the performers know when you as hilarious· by the other characters' reactions to it. like what they're doing, should ma,ke things good imd . , ,Max,j:ilayedby Mark Swiney, is a' hateful old man, relaxed~ In the words of theXestivalchaimmi1;' Ken .zz!· whose by-play\vith Sam (Dan Dailey) is the hit of Lee, "You could be deaf and still have a good time:" . ~.- the show. Paul Korth as Lermy and.Chris Ceraso as Tickets will be on sale between now and festival time Teddy give forceful presentations, as'do Cliff Fetters as. at the C.A.C. Student Union office'on fourth-floor i.a Joey and Diana S'haheen as.Ruth; whose constant wig-. Fortune, ,one to, four in the, afternoon;. and at Boogie changing highlights, her whoring 'syndrome. Coupled' Records 'and Pandora's. 'Cost 'for the Thursday night z'·,. with some incredibly funny directional touches added symposium is free; Friday night session $3.00, Saturday by Richard Bergman, the whole show is a potent mix . afternoon $2.00, and Saturday night (with the Judges' ture of' perversion and humor. Many thouglit from its Jam) .$4~OO •. A ticket ,for .the whole weekend','twenty , title that The Homecoming was to, be the presentation hours of music, costs seven bucks (which ain't bad • of the pilot show for "The Waltons." Nothing could be' !lext to some other N.D. musical events). .,' further from the truth. . , So put away your Elton John records for a little I -george sibley while nexfweekend and try,(m same jazz. You might decide you' like it. .' ,' ..• ' . • : " ' .,',' .. -:::, , --.:..pat roach

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, '"" / "Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!" , , -Melville rl d u The time grows short: The persistent afternoon sun melts the unwek6me, snow, and that long-dreaded Mon day morning now lurks in the offing-that morning II when my musings will for the last time be hacked out on a typewriter and rushed down to the press. There is too, much still to be said-too many people. to thank [I -too many last-minute protestations to be made. Where to begin? I could go on for pages thanking II Ii people, but they all know who they are; and it is per~ il-' haps more important that I take this last opportunity 11- II ~ to speak in their name, to say one last time all the things we have stood for, all the hopes we have nour Ii ished and the fears we have harbored. II We have operated all year under the assumption l! ,5 that. our words can have meaning and effect; that, as Ii II Hannah Arendt said: I i r However much we are affected by the things of the I world, however deeply they may stir and stimulate us, they become human for us only when we can dis IiI, cuss them with our fellows. i We have spoken because we believe that it is our com i I mon discourse, our conscious interchange of ideas, criti cisms, fears and hopes which brings us together. Nat I urally this discourse is often not a pleasant one. But I we are a community with many' unpleasant problems, I problems which must be dealt with in these pages. At it time where an overzealous administration, a complacent' f?-culty, and an apathetic student body combine, to II :: -" crea te . a stale and unproductive mix; it is surprising' Ir11-- and a bit ludicrous to discover an article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal singing our praises as FREE POSTER! if we were' some hot," new municipal bond issue. I It is because the situation is such, because all is not The· Glenm~ry Home Missioners are looking for a well at Notre Dame, that we must continue to talk; to i "call 'em 'as we see 'em," 'to stick our necks out. As I few goodmen and women who believe in people. have said before, we have no assurance that our opin ions ~ill be wise, our analyses trenchant or our cdtiques Share your life with the people of the South and well founded. But if we were to keep silent for fear of Appalachia as a Priest, Brother or Sister. I error, we would have no right to be here. * ·If * Our words like feeble arrows fly off into the world o Send for poster. around us, often to be lost, often to, go unnoticed. But o Send information about Glenmary Home Missioners. still we speak, still 'we implore, still we protest, and L GLEN MARY, Room 43, still we hope-for we know that our discourse, however ',' :"." Box' 46404, Cincinnati, Ohio 45246 stunted, is what will ultimately draw us together in unity and understanding. NAME ____~------~------Peace and farewell. ADDRESS CITY______kerry mcnamara AGE _____TELEPHONE,_-'- ______'--- ______--'-

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':.. - - ~ ," / "Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!" , , -Melville rl d u The time grows short: The persistent afternoon sun melts the unwek6me, snow, and that long-dreaded Mon day morning now lurks in the offing-that morning II when my musings will for the last time be hacked out on a typewriter and rushed down to the press. There is too, much still to be said-too many people. to thank [I -too many last-minute protestations to be made. Where to begin? I could go on for pages thanking II Ii people, but they all know who they are; and it is per~ il-' haps more important that I take this last opportunity 11- II ~ to speak in their name, to say one last time all the things we have stood for, all the hopes we have nour Ii ished and the fears we have harbored. II We have operated all year under the assumption l! ,5 that. our words can have meaning and effect; that, as Ii II Hannah Arendt said: I i r However much we are affected by the things of the I world, however deeply they may stir and stimulate us, they become human for us only when we can dis IiI, cuss them with our fellows. i We have spoken because we believe that it is our com i I mon discourse, our conscious interchange of ideas, criti cisms, fears and hopes which brings us together. Nat I urally this discourse is often not a pleasant one. But I we are a community with many' unpleasant problems, I problems which must be dealt with in these pages. At it time where an overzealous administration, a complacent' f?-culty, and an apathetic student body combine, to II :: -" crea te . a stale and unproductive mix; it is surprising' Ir11-- and a bit ludicrous to discover an article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal singing our praises as FREE POSTER! if we were' some hot," new municipal bond issue. I It is because the situation is such, because all is not The· Glenm~ry Home Missioners are looking for a well at Notre Dame, that we must continue to talk; to i "call 'em 'as we see 'em," 'to stick our necks out. As I few goodmen and women who believe in people. have said before, we have no assurance that our opin ions ~ill be wise, our analyses trenchant or our cdtiques Share your life with the people of the South and well founded. But if we were to keep silent for fear of Appalachia as a Priest, Brother or Sister. I error, we would have no right to be here. * ·If * Our words like feeble arrows fly off into the world o Send for poster. around us, often to be lost, often to, go unnoticed. But o Send information about Glenmary Home Missioners. still we speak, still 'we implore, still we protest, and L GLEN MARY, Room 43, still we hope-for we know that our discourse, however ',' :"." Box' 46404, Cincinnati, Ohio 45246 stunted, is what will ultimately draw us together in unity and understanding. NAME ____~------~------Peace and farewell. ADDRESS CITY______kerry mcnamara AGE _____TELEPHONE,_-'- ______'--- ______--'-

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