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Vol. 125, No.3, November, 1983 Notre Dame, IN 46556 . FEATURES 8 The Observer us. Notre Dame: A Look at What's Behind the Controuersy Kathleen Doyle

I I The Observer Story: The Administration's View Jim Basile

/1 The Observer Story: The Observer's View Jeannie Euch and Laure/·Ann Dooley

14 The Observer Story: An Editorial

. 15 Soccer at SMC Michele Dunlap THE HUDDLE OAK ROOM 17 Thoughts on the Day Sharon Houk CAFE Abuid Amaro 239-7157 239-7518 .24 A Cliche .25 Social Justice: Christian Transformation of the World Professor Janet E. Smith

.27 Student Political Apathy: Why? Mary Isphording

.28 Things Haue Changed Since 1970 Kerry Temple ACE 3.2 The 1984 Election and Notre Dame Ed Colbert HARDWARE ~-, 34 The Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame Barbara Steuens

REGULARS TRADITIONAL ITALIAN CUISINE Kathy Curran ACE IS THE PLACE Ph. 277-0578 .2 The First Word ...... ___W_ITH THE HELPFUL HARDWARE MAN 1703 South Bend Ave. [1 Mi. East of Notre Dame] 4 Scholastic Notables Keuin Donius, Patty Brennan

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It Bucatini Con Broccoli. Pizza .2.2 FictionlThe Donor's Tale Mary Ellen Am • sandwiches FREE PARKING Jim Ganther Lunch - Dinner - Carry-Outs 36 The Last Word FRONT & REAR Complete Wine and Cocktail Lis! 219 DIXIE WAY Closed Sunday & Monday NO. IN ROSELAND Reservations Accepted The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and editors of Scholastic and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire staff and editorial board of Scholastic or the Univer· sity of Notre Dame, its administration, faculty, or the student body. Copyright © 1983 Scholastic I all rights reserved I none of the contents may be reproduced without permission.

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Vol. 125, No.3, November, 1983 Notre Dame, IN 46556 . FEATURES 8 The Observer us. Notre Dame: A Look at What's Behind the Controuersy Kathleen Doyle

I I The Observer Story: The Administration's View Jim Basile

/1 The Observer Story: The Observer's View Jeannie Euch and Laure/·Ann Dooley

14 The Observer Story: An Editorial

.27 Student Political Apathy: Why? Mary Isphording

.28 Things Haue Changed Since 1970 Kerry Temple ACE 3.2 The 1984 Election and Notre Dame Ed Colbert HARDWARE ~-, 34 The Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame Barbara Steuens

Be 272-7535 6 ND Focus/Dean Roemer and Father Van Dauid Guffey

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EDITORIAL BOARD Announcing: 1983·1984

EDITOR·IN·CHIEF The First Word James S. Ganther GENERAL MANAGER Thomas M. Sapp

ST. MARY'S EDITOR Kathy Curran Photo Editor Fiction Michael P. leary Contest by Kathy Curran My rooming relationship with Brianne was short News/Sports Editor St. Mary's Editor lived because I am a hopeless case. I will never be able Kevin Donius to sing in the showers. I cannot foresee myself putting on nice clothes upon awakening. I do not anticipate Culture/Fiction Editor Get your short stories I have always admired people who are productive being able to leave breakfast without supporting Co laurel Ann Dooley and other writings in the morning. Those who can awaken without a lombia's coffee growers. booming alarm, shower and brush their teeth, and together for I salute morning people because they are happy Copy Editors clean their rooms before 8: 00 are always a step ahead Scholastic's contest during the day-when it is light enough to see and ap Kathleen Doyle of everyone else. They can run two miles while even preciate smiles. They are in concert with nature. They Janet Drobinske early next year. my dog is still sleeping. They can hold intelligent con are not given coffee mugs which read, "It's not easy versations with one another while digesting their well for a night person to work days ... It's not easy for Art Editor balanced breakfasts. They can sit attentively while a night person to work, period!" I pity night-owls Keevie McCarthy their professor rambles and their classmates jerk their we have a lot of fun but we are the southpaws of the nodding heads. They can manage their time so well working world. . Advertising Manager that they are able to read The Tribune thoroughly be Jeannie Euch . fore dinner. They are organized. They are efficient. I have no profound messages this time - no words In my book, they defy physiological reality. I can of wisdom to share which were gained from my work experiences in blueberry patches (or in Nifty Thrifty Business Manager not comprehend how some people can wake up in com Jim Dever plete control of their senses. Athletes have to warm up Budget Bakery, for that matter). This issue of the for a while before a game; don't humans have to orien Scholastic is a bit on the "heavy" side already, so my column will not further that. Anyway, I cannot think of Distribution Manager tate themselves for a few hours before they can face Stephen Busk a day? Or at least receive some kind of a stimulant any thought-provoking ideas this late at night. If I were (like 8 ounces of liquid caffeine)? Morning people a "morning-person," I would get up tomorrow and write Advertising Staff must be superhuman. this over a glass of orange juice. Unfortunately, my Reginald V. Daniel. Rich Cameron My mother is a prime example. Somehow she man theory that I work best under pressure is coupled with aged to make breakfast for my entire family, find all another-I think most clearly after the sun has set. I Production Staff of our missing socks and shoes, and sewall of our ripped wish I were different. 0 Joe Krumenacker. Maura Mandyck. hems before the car pools began arriving. Dad made Sharon Houk. Diane Emard. Fred Zim· it to work; Mary to college; Peggy and Ann to high merman. Kathy McGarvey. Joe Dant. school; John, Patty, Tommy, and I to grammar school; Jim Keyes and she Shelley Jenny, and Timmy to Mass - all dressed 'and fed.' Our home was miraculously rolling Scholastic Magazine: before sunrise because Mom is a morning person. Advisory Board I really want to be like my mother. It is -too time Dr. James McDonnell consuming to stumble back to my room almost every Prof. Elizabeth Christman Don't wait to get your copy at the newsstand, get morning because I forget to bring my towel to the Mr. Michael Garvey it by mail. showers. It is degrading to have to ask people what Prof. Marjorie Kinsey r--~------~------, day it is if they call before 10: 00 a.m. It is dangerous Prof. Robert Schmuhl I NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC to sleep through mid-morning fire alarms which blast : NOTRE DAME, INDIANA 46556 outside my door. It is humiliating to be known as the I R.A. who met the parents of the girls in her section Photo Credits: I Mike leary, p.2. 3, 8.9. 10, II, 13; I . . in a bathrobe. I Please send me a subscription to Scholastic . 16, 36;Chas Phillips, p. 4. 5. 26; I honestly have tried to convert. Nothing works. I for years at $9.00 a Year. I even tried sharing a room with my two-year-old niece John Compare,' p; 7. 15.27; Greg Ab· I am enclosing $ Cash this summer. Every morning at 6:00, upon hearing bott. p. I 7 , 2 I, 33, 35, Scholastic File Check "Auntie, Up!," I would roll out of bed, change her Photos, p.26. 28; Kellogg Institute. p. clothes stumble out to the family room while. she 34.35. Name ______---- chatte~ed, and turned on Sesame Street. But within minutes I would fall fast asleep on the couch. Not even Address ~ ______~-:- _____'.:.... ______Illustrations: hearing Ernie and Bert fight could pull me out of that City ______-:- ______stupor. Jim Kiefer, p. 22; Sue Ritger. p. 17; Jim Kiefer.p. 22; Teresa Bolakowski, State ______...,- __ Zip ______p.24. ----~------~------~ 2 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 SCHOLASTIC/ NOVEMBER 1983 3

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EDITORIAL BOARD Announcing: 1983·1984

EDITOR·IN·CHIEF The First Word James S. Ganther GENERAL MANAGER Thomas M. Sapp

The Laetare Medal is the University's highest honor given to Catholics who have "illustrated the ideals of the Church, and enriched the heritage of humanity."

University of Notre Dame by Kevin Donius Saint Mary's College by Patty Brennan N ews/ Sports Editor

Juniper Press SMC Choir Concert "Payable On Return," a play writ as a leather-bound album providing ten by a graduate student in de Laetare Medal biographical information on each of The Saint Mary's College Women's velopmental economics has been se them. There have been 104 recipients Choir and the Men's Glee Club of lected by Juniper Press as its latest At ceremonies held October 21, of the award in its 100-year history. Miami University presented a joint publishing project. The student-run University President Rev. Theodore This year's Laetare Medal was concert November. in the Little publishing house selected the play by M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., dedicated the awarded to Edmund and Evelyn Theatre at Saint Mary's. Michael Varga from twelve literary apsidal chapel of Sacred Heart Stephan of Chicago for their service The Miami Glee Club, conducted by works submitted for consideration. Church to those who have been to the University while he was chair Dr. John C. Wabrick, celebrated its A story of a reunion of two college awarded the Laetare Medal, the Uni- man of the Board of Trustees. Past 77th season this year. The 80- roommates who have taken different versity's highest honor given an- winners include presidential candi member group performed selections paths in their lives, "Payable On Re nually to Catholics who have "iIlus- date Al Smith; President John F. from "Hello Dolly" and "Wildcat" as turn" goes beyond the topics of trated the ideals of the Church, and Kennedy; Supreme Court Justice . well as others. friendship and relationships to the enriched the heritage of humanity." William Brennan; Thomas P. ("Tip") The Saint Mary's Choir, comprised controversial issues of race, sex, and The chapel will contain three O'Neill, Speaker of the House of of 60 women, is directed by Dr. prejudice. Student jurists selected the bronze plaques listing the names of Representatives, and former Secre Raymond Sprague, assistant pro~ play for its appeal both to students all Laetare Medal recipients, as well tary of State Edmund Muskie. fessor of music at Saint Mary's. The and nonstudents. choir performed several numbers, including "Blow the Wind Southerly" and "If I Had a Ribbon Bow." The choirs joined at the end of the concert to sing a few "Frostiana" '! Snite Museum pieces. The concert was free and open to the public. The Snite Museum of Art is cur rently displaying the Esmark Collec tion of Currier and Ives lithographs, made up of more than 650 originals Community Service Award which illustrate the growth and assistant for special projects at change of America between 1835 and Saint Mary's College presented New Regent Saint John's Medical Center in 1880. Ernestine Raclin, chairman of the Anderson, Indiana. She also spent In those years, the lithographs Board of Directors of First Source , two years as an administrative . were found in virtually every home. Corporation and First Source Bank, Sister Kathleen Reilly, C.S.C., was assistant for finance for the Catholic Today they have been described as a the Community Service Award at the added to the list of new members of Schools Office of the Archdiocese of "preservation of the romance of Business Associates Dinner. _~ .. t~'::~'::'-;-''='~::':I~''''_:.. :::::'~!'::'':-';:'~~~::...!.J.c.;;.;:.;:.;;.._ •• the Saint Mary's College Board of Washington, D.C. '. ~.. - • • 'J America." The collection is divided . The Community Service Award is Regents earlier this month. The Board of Regents convened for . . ~~ ,,"" - . into six groupings: "American Mid presented. to an individual who dle Class Values, . Recreation and Sister Kathleen, a 1965 graduate .its first meeting of the year on makes outstanding contributions of Saint Mary's, is an administrative October 20. Education"; "Commerce and Indus through volunteer activities to the try and the Challenges Therein"; Michiana community in such areas "Life on the Mississippi/The United as business, cultural activities, educa- States at War"; "The American tion and labor. . Sporting Life"; "The American Ex Mrs. Raclin has donated her time, Potter were joined by over two pansion, Politics and Satirical Hu energy and talents to a variety of ACU-I Conference hundred delegates from various mor," and "The Four Seasons of organizations throughout the Michi colleges and universities in ACU-I Rural Life." ana area. Four stu'dents represented Saint Region XI. The students attended Guests at the exhibition will re The Saint Mary's College Business Mary's College at the Association of sessions given by professional uni- ceive a guide to the work of Currier Associates Program is comprised of College Unions - International versity personnel on campus pro- and Ives which includes 16 color business leaders in the Michiana (ACU-I) Region XI Annud Con- gramming and leadership develop- photos and opens up to an 18" x 11" community who offer advice and ference at Western Illinois Univer- ment. poster. The Snite will have the ex assistance in strengthening the bond sity. Saint Mary's will be the host hibition until January 8, when it will between Saint Mary's and the Anne Marie Kollman, Susan Miller, school for the 1985 ACU-I con move on in its nationwide tour. community. Julie Strazzabosco and Mary Anne ference.

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The Laetare Medal is the University's highest honor given to Catholics who have "illustrated the ideals of the Church, and enriched the heritage of humanity."

University of Notre Dame by Kevin Donius Saint Mary's College by Patty Brennan N ews/ Sports Editor

4 SCHOLASTIC/NOVE:t\1BER 1983 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 5 I I. r! ! Focus c Focus Dean Roemer and The Holocaust Revisited: Father Van: In a class all its own as students The Student Senate is a forum for examine the historical and present

students to debate important issues end, Professor Meyerhofer enlists the give some thought to what implica mer leads to some misconceptions. frequently but are not practical or by Kelly O'Shea help of actual Holocaust survivors. tions the Holocaust has for human "The end result of the (U.S.) Senate in keeping with University values. ity today. The fact that man has by David Guffey From the Crematory flue These people come into the class and is legislation. The end result of their "For instance, I don't know how A Jew aspires to the Holy One. tell of their own experiences with proven himself capable of such atroc (the Student Senate's) work is a res- many times we have studied getting And when the smoke of him is gone, the concentration camps and the ities in the past suggests that he Among the most publicized groups olution which says 'the consensus of laundry machines in men's dorms. His wife and children filter through. atrocities that occurred there. could also perform them in the at Notre Dame is the Student Sen this group is that this particular' It's the pumping systems that make Above us, in the height of sky, Students seem to think that this is future. How should this realization ate. After their weekly meetings are course of action ought to be pur- it too costly and impractical yet it Saintly billows weep and wait. the most meaningful part of the class fit into our vision for contemporary society? What warning signs must covered by The Observer, the topics sued.' The resolution then carries has come up every year, I think, God, .wherever you. may be, for them. They experience the pain discussed by the Senate often be only the weight of that group." since I came in 1978." There all of us are also not. of these survivors firsthand, rather we look for in the future in an at come topics of discussion everywhere There is also a tendency to equate Clearly, there is no legislative role than indirectly through a written tempt to avoid another holocaust? Are there miniholocausts occurring from hall council meetings to tables the power of the Student Senate with over student affairs issues belonging -Smoke by Jacob Glatstein text. They listen as the survivors in the South Dining Hall. Often that of the CLC. "Because the Stu- to the Student Senate. However, it is recall the events that previously the now in the world? What should be done about them? These are just a things proposed, however, are never dent Senate meets more often and not a group. wholly without a role. This poem is but a sample of the students could only read about. The few of the questions that students implemented into action or policy. receives more publicity, it is often Several resolutions originating in the type of literature a number of Saint real pain that these survivors suf will wrestle with during and after This has led some to ask, "What is perceived as a more powerful group." Student Senate have been success Mary's students are reading this fered now and then forces the stu the role of the Student Senate at Dean Roemer continued, "Only the fully implemented. Both Father Van dents to realize on an emotional level their. Holocaust class. It is hoped semester. Why should a class focus that by finding answers to these Notre Dame?" Recently, I talked CLC could send resolutions to Father Wolvlear and Dean Roemer acknowl on such grim writings? What does that the Holocaust did occur. It af with Father John L. VanWolvlear, VanWolvlear's office." And stilI the edge those successes, such as im fected real people, not .just strangers questions students will become more this poem mean? The poem was informed realistic participants in to C.S.C., Vice-President of Student recommendations of the CLC (as provements in the D6 parking area, written by a prisoner of a Nazi con in a faraway place. Affairs and James A. Roemer, Dean with the Senate) are resolutions, not lighting on Stepan courts and It is this realization the Professor day's world. These women and men centration camp. The class studying must be the ones to see that in the of Students abo'.lt that question. legislation. benches on campus. the piece is St. Mary's Holocaust Meyerhofer wishes to promote in his future smoke comes only from burn According to both Dean Roemer A recent controversy developed The Student' Senate also controls class. students. He feels it. is part of his and Father VanWolvlear, the Stu when the Student Senate passed a allocation and some appointments of This is the second year Saint moral and ethical responsibility as a ing wood. 0 dent Senate in its present form was resolution proposing that the Knights leaders of Student Government· ac Mary's Professor N. J. Meyerhofer professional to make sure that people created by students as a forum for of Columbus be allowed to rent out tivities. "This," VanWolvlear com has offered the class. It is offered do know the Holocaust occurred, that students to debate or discuss issues party space to outside groups for mented, "is probably their greatest jointly by the modern languages and it was not a figment of someone's of importance. Says Dean Roemer, activities including alcohol. Accord- and most successful role." sociology departments. The class imagination. This may seem like a "They created themselves and so ing to Dean Roemer, "The Student Both Dean Roemer and Father provides its students with an over rather unnecessary quest; after all they can debate anything they newspaper wrote an article the next VanWolvlear indicated that the Stu view of the Holocaust, its history everyone knows the Holocaust oc want." Many resolutions brought us day that said the Student Senate had dent Senate is a group whose role is and· development .. The course also curred. But this is not so. There are by the Senate deal with issues out passed a resolution ·making it pos- often confused because of its struc attempts to integrate this historical a group of university professors side the "umbrella of the Office of sible for the Knights of Columbus to ture. However, as an advisory group appreciation of the Holocaust into a called the Historical Revisionists who Student Affairs." These are' not lease out their facilities for alcohol and as an administrator over Student meaningfllli understanding of man's claim that in fact the Holocaust handled by the Campus Life Council parties. Anyone who read the article Government, the Senate has had suc Ii-ever occurrecf They claim it was or Father VanWolvlear. condition as it exists today. said, 'great, it's been done.' cesses in shaping a role for them- In its study of the Holocaust the just a fiction made up by some With issues that do involve student "The next day I wrote a letter selves and thus, the student body of class uses a text as well as original Jewish supporters to malign the affairs, the Senate acts as an advi saying you can't do that." Dean Roe- Notre Dame.· 0 literature written by Holocaust vic Nazis. Meyerhofer feels that because sory body to the Campus Life Coun mer clarified, however, that he had tims. It is hoped that these materials the movement is led by academic in cil (CLC). If resolutions are passed not vetoed the resolution; "I just will afford the student an intellec tellectuals pe6ple may allow it an by the CLC they are sent to the said, 'you have got to take that res tual understanding of the Holocaust. amount of credibility. His class is a Vice-President of Student Affairs for David GUffey is a senior A mencu". olution to. the CLC.' " But Professor Meyerhofer hopes to reaction against the revisionists and review within seven days. Studies major from Mount Carroll, Illinois. He is an R.A. in Holy Cross give his students more than just a their work. The Holocaust did occur, There is a tendency to think of Even issues that pass through the cognitive understanding of the hor and mankind had best not forget it Kelly O'Shea is a St. Mary's student the Student Senate in terms of the Hall. This is hiS first contribution to CLC can be rejected by the Vice Scholastic. rors that occurred in World War II, lest a similar incident occur again. from Elk Grove Village, IllinoiS. ThiS senates of state and national govern President of Student Affairs, Father he wants them to leave his class with Professor Meyerhofer also hopes is her first contribution to Scholastic. ments. This according to Dean Roe- VanWolvlear. Some issues reoccur a deeper understanding. Toward this that the course will help students to 6 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 7

; =ft' I I. r! ! Focus c Focus Dean Roemer and The Holocaust Revisited: Father Van: In a class all its own as students The Student Senate is a forum for examine the historical and present students to debate important issues end, Professor Meyerhofer enlists the give some thought to what implica mer leads to some misconceptions. frequently but are not practical or by Kelly O'Shea help of actual Holocaust survivors. tions the Holocaust has for human "The end result of the (U.S.) Senate in keeping with University values. ity today. The fact that man has by David Guffey From the Crematory flue These people come into the class and is legislation. The end result of their "For instance, I don't know how A Jew aspires to the Holy One. tell of their own experiences with proven himself capable of such atroc (the Student Senate's) work is a res- many times we have studied getting And when the smoke of him is gone, the concentration camps and the ities in the past suggests that he Among the most publicized groups olution which says 'the consensus of laundry machines in men's dorms. His wife and children filter through. atrocities that occurred there. could also perform them in the at Notre Dame is the Student Sen this group is that this particular' It's the pumping systems that make Above us, in the height of sky, Students seem to think that this is future. How should this realization ate. After their weekly meetings are course of action ought to be pur- it too costly and impractical yet it Saintly billows weep and wait. the most meaningful part of the class fit into our vision for contemporary society? What warning signs must covered by The Observer, the topics sued.' The resolution then carries has come up every year, I think, God, .wherever you. may be, for them. They experience the pain discussed by the Senate often be only the weight of that group." since I came in 1978." There all of us are also not. of these survivors firsthand, rather we look for in the future in an at come topics of discussion everywhere There is also a tendency to equate Clearly, there is no legislative role than indirectly through a written tempt to avoid another holocaust? Are there miniholocausts occurring from hall council meetings to tables the power of the Student Senate with over student affairs issues belonging -Smoke by Jacob Glatstein text. They listen as the survivors in the South Dining Hall. Often that of the CLC. "Because the Stu- to the Student Senate. However, it is recall the events that previously the now in the world? What should be done about them? These are just a things proposed, however, are never dent Senate meets more often and not a group. wholly without a role. This poem is but a sample of the students could only read about. The few of the questions that students implemented into action or policy. receives more publicity, it is often Several resolutions originating in the type of literature a number of Saint real pain that these survivors suf will wrestle with during and after This has led some to ask, "What is perceived as a more powerful group." Student Senate have been success Mary's students are reading this fered now and then forces the stu the role of the Student Senate at Dean Roemer continued, "Only the fully implemented. Both Father Van dents to realize on an emotional level their. Holocaust class. It is hoped semester. Why should a class focus that by finding answers to these Notre Dame?" Recently, I talked CLC could send resolutions to Father Wolvlear and Dean Roemer acknowl on such grim writings? What does that the Holocaust did occur. It af with Father John L. VanWolvlear, VanWolvlear's office." And stilI the edge those successes, such as im fected real people, not .just strangers questions students will become more this poem mean? The poem was informed realistic participants in to C.S.C., Vice-President of Student recommendations of the CLC (as provements in the D6 parking area, written by a prisoner of a Nazi con in a faraway place. Affairs and James A. Roemer, Dean with the Senate) are resolutions, not lighting on Stepan courts and It is this realization the Professor day's world. These women and men centration camp. The class studying must be the ones to see that in the of Students abo'.lt that question. legislation. benches on campus. the piece is St. Mary's Holocaust Meyerhofer wishes to promote in his future smoke comes only from burn According to both Dean Roemer A recent controversy developed The Student' Senate also controls class. students. He feels it. is part of his and Father VanWolvlear, the Stu when the Student Senate passed a allocation and some appointments of This is the second year Saint moral and ethical responsibility as a ing wood. 0 dent Senate in its present form was resolution proposing that the Knights leaders of Student Government· ac Mary's Professor N. J. Meyerhofer professional to make sure that people created by students as a forum for of Columbus be allowed to rent out tivities. "This," VanWolvlear com has offered the class. It is offered do know the Holocaust occurred, that students to debate or discuss issues party space to outside groups for mented, "is probably their greatest jointly by the modern languages and it was not a figment of someone's of importance. Says Dean Roemer, activities including alcohol. Accord- and most successful role." sociology departments. The class imagination. This may seem like a "They created themselves and so ing to Dean Roemer, "The Student Both Dean Roemer and Father provides its students with an over rather unnecessary quest; after all they can debate anything they newspaper wrote an article the next VanWolvlear indicated that the Stu view of the Holocaust, its history everyone knows the Holocaust oc want." Many resolutions brought us day that said the Student Senate had dent Senate is a group whose role is and· development .. The course also curred. But this is not so. There are by the Senate deal with issues out passed a resolution ·making it pos- often confused because of its struc attempts to integrate this historical a group of university professors side the "umbrella of the Office of sible for the Knights of Columbus to ture. However, as an advisory group appreciation of the Holocaust into a called the Historical Revisionists who Student Affairs." These are' not lease out their facilities for alcohol and as an administrator over Student meaningfllli understanding of man's claim that in fact the Holocaust handled by the Campus Life Council parties. Anyone who read the article Government, the Senate has had suc Ii-ever occurrecf They claim it was or Father VanWolvlear. condition as it exists today. said, 'great, it's been done.' cesses in shaping a role for them- In its study of the Holocaust the just a fiction made up by some With issues that do involve student "The next day I wrote a letter selves and thus, the student body of class uses a text as well as original Jewish supporters to malign the affairs, the Senate acts as an advi saying you can't do that." Dean Roe- Notre Dame.· 0 literature written by Holocaust vic Nazis. Meyerhofer feels that because sory body to the Campus Life Coun mer clarified, however, that he had tims. It is hoped that these materials the movement is led by academic in cil (CLC). If resolutions are passed not vetoed the resolution; "I just will afford the student an intellec tellectuals pe6ple may allow it an by the CLC they are sent to the said, 'you have got to take that res tual understanding of the Holocaust. amount of credibility. His class is a Vice-President of Student Affairs for David GUffey is a senior A mencu". olution to. the CLC.' " But Professor Meyerhofer hopes to reaction against the revisionists and review within seven days. Studies major from Mount Carroll, Illinois. He is an R.A. in Holy Cross give his students more than just a their work. The Holocaust did occur, There is a tendency to think of Even issues that pass through the cognitive understanding of the hor and mankind had best not forget it Kelly O'Shea is a St. Mary's student the Student Senate in terms of the Hall. This is hiS first contribution to CLC can be rejected by the Vice Scholastic. rors that occurred in World War II, lest a similar incident occur again. from Elk Grove Village, IllinoiS. ThiS senates of state and national govern President of Student Affairs, Father he wants them to leave his class with Professor Meyerhofer also hopes is her first contribution to Scholastic. ments. This according to Dean Roe- VanWolvlear. Some issues reoccur a deeper understanding. Toward this that the course will help students to 6 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 7

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a manner that made an audit im possible to perform. Burke suggested that "two policy changes be considered. 1) The uni The Observer vs. Notre~DaDle: versity should no longer collect the subscription fee. 2) The university charge a fair market equivalent rent A Look at What's Behind the Controversy for the space and utilities used by all business entities on campus. "Other possible alternatives would be," according to Burke, "a reduc Burke also wrote that "The cir tion in the current subscription fee" culation of the newspaper ... entices ... "and/or a continuation of advertisers who provide even more current policy after the establish revenue to cover 'costs.' " Burke ment and implementation of fiscal cited the following financial abuses, policy and a twice yearly public quoted from his letter, all later audit." found in the audit: At the same time that Burke was -personal use of the delivery van seeking to "trim the fat from the -payment of three students to budget" of The Observer) Michael paint the newsroom Monk, 1982-83 editor-in-chief, An -a loan made to a staff member thony J. Aiello, 1982-83 business Editor's Note: The following series as a down payment on a car. It is manager, and Eric Schulz, 1982-83 my (Burke's) understanding that of articles begins on the cover of this controller were seeking from the The Observer is entitled to use the month's Scholastic. Because of our Officers of the University of Notre vehicle while the $1000 loan is Dame and Saint Mary's College a printing deadlines, we are only able to outstanding. present the "Observer vs. Notre "slight increase in student fees from -substantial pay increases for Dame" story as of November 9, 1983. $5 to $6 per semester for the publi each editorial board position over cation of the paper" which would the past 4 years result in a $16,000 rise in our Burke wrote that his first choice (Observer) revenue each year which in curbing the questionable Observer will enable' us to better meet our practices was to have an audit own expenses." This request took Cornposition Editor Carole Clarke performed. Louis Cohen, director of the form of a letter which was sent pasting copy on the front page. Internal Auditing, informed Burke to the Officers of the University and that he had attempted to perform included an outline of financial the editor-in-chief, the business Student Activities." Van Wolvlear an audit on The Observer in the past problems and a copy of the 1982-83 manager, and the controller. When further stated that "The fiscal but that records were kept in such Observer income statement. one of these three is issued a check, operation of The Observer lacks After receiving this proposal the the other two are required to sign continuity" and that "in order to University asked The Observer to it. Forty-one checks totalling grant additional funding ... we feel Father Hesburgh and David Dziedzic undergo an audit to which editor-in $13,274 with only one signature were that a change in financial account and portions of two of the letters chief David Dziedzic agreed. found. Three of the checks were ability is in order," but "be assured they have exchanged. Internal Auditing made last signed by the payee only. that the University policy regarding ...... -., summer an examination of The -The previous (1982-83) editor your editorial and journalistic free - Observer for the current fiscal year in-chief, business manager, and con dom of the press will not change." up to May 31, 1983. The audit, com troller received frequent payments Dziedzic, O'Hare, Szilvas, Van pleted by William F. Mc~(inney, from the general accounts. From Wolvlear, McKinney, McDonnell, assistant director of internal audit December, 1982 through March, 1983 and Cohen met soon after the Fall, ing, was released July 1, 1983. Copies they also received bonuses'from the 1983 term began. The budget system were sent to Alexander Szilvas, general accounts and payroll ac was presented to The Observer at controller, Daniel O'Hare, business count. In May, 1982 they also paid that time. manager, Reverend John Van Wolv themselves for painting the news At a meeting of The Observer lear, C.S.C., and Thomas Mason, room. general board on August 29, 1983 vice-president for Business Affairs. Van Wolvlear first suggested that the budget system was presented and The internal audit of The Observer the newspaper be placed on the discussed. The board decided not showed a deficit of $7206 as well as University budget program in an to place the newspaper on the budget the following items quoted from the August 4 letter to Dziedzic. His unit system. On August 30, 1983, audit report: letter stated that "We strongly Dziedzic sent a letter to Van -a formal budget was not pre recommend to you that The Observer Wolvlear which indicated the board's pared for the year's operation be placed onto the University's Bud decision. -a loan of $1000 was issued to get Unit Control System." This Van Wolvlear replied in a Sep the systems manager, Bruce Oakley, included the preparation of a yearly tember 2, 1983, letter that Dziedzic's for a car loan in September, 1982. budget, monthly printouts of all letter "really disappointed" him. Interest-free payments of $100 were activity deposits for each type of His letter continues, "You and your due the first day of the next ten advertising, all receivables, all staff evidently did riot consider being months.. expenditures, including payroll, of assistance to the Observer staffs -Observer procedure is to have etc .... Management salaries would who will succeed you. In no way two signatures on each check. Three ~E.roposed by the student board for will your people be able to regularize persons are allowed to sign checks: approval by Student Affairs and an accounting system for future SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 9 . ~ . , ~ . . . . .

staffs. Coming under the University for the Officers' next monthly formalize existing standards. The granting operational editorial in Budget Control System would give meeting. charter will stabilize The Observer's dependence to The Observer over the you more time to concentrate on On Thursday, October 6, Margaret internal structure and will provide past decade is there for everyone improving the content of The Fosmoe, managing editor, O'Hare, a system for the dismissal of general to see." Observer." and Dziedzic met again with Van board members and the impeach Hesburgh also wrote that the only Van Wolvlear's letter continued Wolvlear, Mason, Faccenda, as well ment of the Editor-in-Chief. problem that he saw that had yet "We have adequate proof that ou~ as Reverend David Tyson, C.S.C., 3. To prepare an accompanying to be discussed was the method of system of accounting works and Reverend Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., accounting procedures manual which Observer accountability for the adequate proof that The Observer's and Reverend E. William Beauchamp, will be followed by succeeding money that the University collects doesn't. In no way do I question C.S.C. The matter of The Observer's . Observer administrations. and gives the paper to spend. He the integrity of the present or past accountability and Observer reluc said that the University system business managers of The Observer tance to participate in the University should be "agreeable" to The but I do question their ability to Budget Unit Control System was "The board decided not Observer and that he had "asked establish a sound accounting system discussed. The Observer was told Father Dave Tyson" his "Executive which will be adhered to year after at that meeting that any further to place the newspaper Assistant, to meet with" Dziedzic year." appeals would have to be directed on the unit budget to work on the problem. Hesburgh A subsequent meeting was held toward Father Theodore Hesburgh, added in a postscript that he September 29, after the University C.S.C., University president. system. On August 30, requested that Student Body Presi Officers held their monthly meeting Dziedzic wrote Hesburgh on dent, Brian Callaghan, be present on September 27, with Dziedzic, October 19, 1983 presenting The 1983, Dziedzic sent a let at the meeting between Tyson and Van Wolvlear, and McDonnell in Observer proposal which stated that Dziedzic. attendance. It was at this meeting "In order to maintain its indepen ter to Van Wolvlear The Student Senate held an open that Dziedzic was informed that dence and integrity as a newspaper, which indicated the forum meeting November 7 with student fees of approximately The Observer believes that strict student government members and $70,000 would be cut off if The internal control and third-party board's decision." Dziedzic in attendance. Dziedzic Observer did not deposit all of its accountability are necessary. There answered questions about the Uni versity's request that The Observer funds into university bank accounts fore, The Observer will enact the 4. To form an Alumni Board of join the University Budget Unit and if it did not join the budget unit following measures to insure finan Directors. The board will consist system by January 1, 1984. No cial accountability both internally of former Observer general board Control System. 0 mention has been made of the and externally": members who are now professional Kathleen Doyle is a junior English $17,600 collected by the Saint 1. To implement all of the sug journalists and businessmen. The major from Harrisburg} Pennsyl Mary's administration for student gestions from the Internal Audit . board will meet twice annually and vania. Kathleen is a copy editor at Father David Tyson} a.s.c.} sits in Observer fees. report of July, 1983, and to prepare will be the ultimate governing body Scholastic. his office in the Administration Build Dziedzic, on October 3, 1983, wrote monthly Income Statements which of The Observer, ing. a letter asking to meet with some will be made available to the or all of the officers of the Univer University. 5. To hire a University-approved sity, but was not put on the agenda 2. To prepare a charter which will external Certified Public Accountant to perform an annual audit of all Observer financial activity. The Observer Story: 6. To have the Observer Alumni Board of Directors meet annually with a representative of the Univer The AdDlinistration's View sity to review the audit report. 7. To begin to pay rent and "Why should The Observer feel that it is special?" utilities fees for the LaFortune office space. University response was to demand by Jim Basile auditors presented." At that same The next day, October 20, Dan meeting of April 20 the issue of an that The ObserVe?' enter the Univer O'Hare, the Observer business man Churchill once commented that, editorial advisory board was pre sity Budget Unit System. The ager, was terminated from that posi "It is better to be making the news sented Father John Van Wolvlear, Observer responded that such an tion by editor-iil-chief David Dzie_ than taking it; to be an actor rather vice president for student affairs, action would negate their status as i:. dzic. O'Hare was one of three than a critic." It appears that The present at the meeting with McDon an indep::mdent newspaper and Observer general board members to Observer} Notre Dame's student ndl and Observer editor-in-chief jeopardize their editorial indepen vote against the Observer resolution newspaper, has taken Churchill's Dave Dziedzic said that, "Dave dence. which was later presented to Hes advice. The Observer} usually the re seemed to have no problem with the Father David Tyson, C.S.C., burgh. Alex Szilvas, Controller, and porter of campus news, has become advisory boarcl." McDonnell said, Executive Assistant to Father Hes Scott Bower, Photo Editor also a major campus news story itself. "We even suggested some names burgh, asked, "What does The voted against the Observ~ proposal. j The Observer is the lead actor in a and Dave agreed to them." Observer mean by independence? We Two other board members abstained confrontation with the University When the results of the audit came collect $70,000 a year for them from from the voting. administration concerning the through several problems were found the students. As a management Hesburgh's reply was dated newspaper's financial operations and with The Observer's financial opera professor I see no way that this is October 27 and The Observer printed editorial practices. t:ons. The Observer has since taken independence. If a Notre Dame the letter in its November 1, 1983 Last spring The Observer asked steps to remedy some of these business major thought that this was edition. In his letter Hesburgh told the University to increase the stu problems. financial independence he would not Dziedzic, "What you want is very dent fee it collects for The Observer. The University, however, wanted receive his degree. We cannot col simple: editorial independence to the Dean of Student Activities James more drastic action. McDonnell said, lect money from th~ students and McDonnell said that, "As a condition "We were shocked by the results of then not be able to account for what extent that you are free, except in happens to it.', The University the event that you do something for the fee increase, The Observer th~ audit. I find it incomprehensible submitted to an internal audit by the that a student organization using a insists that a move to the Budget outrageous. On this point, there is Unit System would not threaten no need for discussion. I believe University. The Observer agreed to quarter million dollars a year makes cditorial independence. Tyson the action of the administration in implement any recommendations the no pre-expenditure budget." The SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 11 , • ..r " • . , ' , , . :

pointed out, "The move would not Van Wolvlear said, "They have quality of the paper and help the Unit Control System and deposit give us any more control over The our word on their editorial indepen students to have a more fulfilling all funds into University bank Observer than we have now. All we dence. What more can we do?" learning experience. 1(:- are asking is that they use standard accounts by January 1, 1984, student The Obse?'ver presented a counter . "Since we have no' journalism fees would no longer be collected. ized accounting techi1iques and be proposal for an alumni board to department," Van Wolvlear said, "an financially accountable." The reason given was that the audit oversee Observer finances. The advisory board seems a logical step' made apparent financial problems McDonnell echoed Tyson, "We are administration rejected the offer. to assure a quality paper and a good under the present system beyond living in an age of accountability. Tyson pointed out, "First of all, that learning experience for the stu Every organization on campus must the scope of student capability. would do nothing to standardize dents." The Observer did not operate on have a budget. I don't see why accounting procedures which is what McDonnell, citing a case involving a budget during the 82-83 school The Observer feels it is special." we need. Secondly, a board made the University of Nebraska news year nor did it maintain adequate Van Wolvlear pointed out, "Father up of Observer alumni would not paper pointed out that if student I documentation of its financial trans Hesburgh does not intend to use the necessarily be impartial." funds are collected by the university budget to control The Observe?.. He actions. The results of this were to finance the newspaper then the pointed out in the audit. "We do has given his word that they have university must have some type of complete editorial independence." not argue the need for account "What does The Observer advisory board or else it is liable ability," said Dziedzic, "but as a The Observe?' responded that they to be sued for any irresponsible 1 newspaper, it is most important that did not feel they could trust the mean by independence? action by the newspaper. As of now, administration. McDonnell said, we run ourselves. To turn over however, the University is noLin money, not only University collected "Frankly, I am surprised that The We collect $70,000 a year sisting upon an advisory board. money, is totally unacceptable to Observer would write that there is One thing the University does mutual mistrust between themselves for them from the The Observer." demand is that The Observer come and the administration. As far as In an effort at striking a mutually students. . . no way is this under the Budget Unit System. If I am concerned the mistrust is one agreeable compromise, keeping the The Observer does not come under by The Observer sided on the part of The Observer." above premise in mind, independence. " January 1 all University funds will Tyson said, "I have been amazed general board submitted a proposal be cut off. Tyson said, "If they don't at the vehemence and venom of the to Father Theodore. Hesburgh, Uni agree I don't see that we have any whole thing. We can do no more versity President. Positive action McDonnell said, "The' counter~ other option but to cut them off. than give The Observer our word. was taken to rectify the problems proposal is unacceptable because We owe the stUdents accountability They must trust us as human beings. evidenced by the Internal Audit this should be handled within the for their money. I don't want this Report. The Observer has be~n If The Obs81'ver mistrusts the community. The Observer should be thing to drag out and I will push administration so much and thinks operating on a budget and has I.n responsible for its finances in the for as speedy a resolution as stituted a double entry accountmg we are a bunch of liars then there same way that any other student possible." D is nothing we can do. I wonder if procedure. Three new positions have publication is." . been created to divide the handling they know that Father Hesburgh The University, though not de has often defended the editorial of funds and to eliminate possible manding, is suggesting that The future misuse. It is preparing both independence of The Obse?'ver Observer have an editorial advisory against outraged parents and alumni Jim Basile is a sophomore from . a charter and a procedures manual board. McDonnell said, "This board and is requesting the formation of even after outrageous personal could be picked by The Observer Philadelphia, This is his first contri attacks upon him and other members bution to Scholastic. an Alumni Board of Directors to News editors Jeff Harnngton and and would not have editorial control. review all aspects of The Observer's of the administration." The goal would be to increase the Mal'Y Healey examine copy displayed financial operations. The Observer on the computer. has agreed to hire a third party Certified Public Accountant to per The Observer Story: form an· annual audit. Finally, the cussion however, the consensus of editor's "boss." The Observer feels paper has offered to pay rent and the general board was that an. that it has filled this role under the utility fees to the University. The internal solution was more conSIstent auspices of the proposed Alumni The Observer's View Observer will institute all of the with the paper's goals and with Board of Directors. above they have said, to assure the standard journalistic procedures. The University claims it will not "continuity" the University desires "The way newspapers work," ex intervene in editorial policy and while C'maintaining its integrity and plained Dziedzic, "is that ~here are offers its word in writing to insure ·this. Dziedzic held that .The Observer fiy' Jeannie -Euch and student rate increase to cover in A problem does exist. The $7,000 independence as a newspaper." two basic wings: the publIsher and cannot operate on trust and ques Laurel-Ann Dooley creased production costs. Sparked deficit is indisputable. While the Father Hesburgh, however, has the editor-in-chief. Decisions are tioned the University's motives and Is it possible for the voice of the by this and information passed on to issue stems from financial grounds, rejected these efforts at compromise .. made between the two of them based i i students to freely express itself in the University by Student Body In his October 27 correspondence on money and content; they go hand understanding of a newspaper's i: however, The Observer board feels operation. He referred to the Sep the face of the administration when President Lloyd Burke, the Univer the roots penetrate much deeper than he stated that on the issue of in hand. If a big decision comes i tember 12 letter from Father Van that same administration holds the sity conducted an audit and found the dollars and cents of the audit. j accountability, "there is no room to a newspaper to send someone Wolvlear. Paragraph one states purse strings of its operation? The many cases of financial mismanage for negotiation." to Lebanon, for example, and th.e The current debate began on August "coming under the University Budget Observer thinks not and it is this ment and irresponsibility on the part 4 with a suggestion from Father While The Observer is not totally editor says the coverage is essentIal Unit Control System would give very point that has created a major of the 1982-83 Observer board. This John Van Wolvlear, Vice President financially independent now (the to uphold the integrity of the news you more time to concentrate on issue on the campus of Notre Dame. ultimately led to the University's for Student Affairs, to join the University collects student funds as paper while the publisher says 'hold improving the content of The The following is an attempt to relate "Budget Unit Control" proposal and Budget Unit Control System as a well as provides rent-free housing on that's a lot of money," the fight Observer." The Observer's position in this the struggle between the adminis solution to The Observer's problems. for Observer operations), The exists within the paper." Commented Dziedzic, "Father Van debate. tration and the newspaper. Dziedzic By the end of September this had Observer does have complete control Dziedzic intimated that once under seems to imply that our business In March of 1983, editor-in-chief and his staff stepped into office turned into an ultimatum. According over all advertising revenue and all Budget Unit Control, this struggle manager also writes the articles in of The ObserverrDavid Dziedzic with the task of answering to the to Dziedzic, he was told at a SepteI1f expenditures. This, Dziedzic pur would implicitly exist between the (acting on the advice of former accusations of the University while ber 22 meeting with Jim McDonnell, ports, is the key to a publication's University and The ObserVe?' an~ The Observer and this simply isn't editor Mike Monk and business man upholding the integrity of The Director of Student Activities, and editorial independence. The Observer could affect editorial content. DZIed true." ager Tony Aiello), put in a request Observer as Notre Dame's only "in did not immediately dismiss theUni zic does not argue the need for some The second and longest paragraph Father Van Wolvlear that if The of the letter, DziedZic continued, to the University for a $l/semester dependent student newspaper." Observer did not go under the Budget versity's proposal. After much dis- one to act as publisher, as the 12 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 13

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" .. ' . ~ " - - . -~----~-~~---~~~-----~~-• devoted itself entirely to discussing the content of the paper with re peated specific references to articles found in this semester's Observer: "Such blatant cofmection of editorial and financial policy, even if only meant as a suggestion, is exactly what The Observer will not tolerate from the administration." Despite the "questionable" mo tives of the administration's ulti matum, The Observer general board is nonetheless willing to cooperate. Soccer at SMC Recognizing the responsibility of accountability, changes have been made. The only point that The I Observer refuses to negotiate is the ?epositing of all funds in University

colleges will be invited; of these five sure have had to put up a fight. &7he Observer has will be chosen to participate in the There must really be something ex by Michele Dunlap tremely special about this game. on a event. This is to introduce St. Mary's begun operating name into the soccer arena, and These women have learned fast Never underestimate the power of how to develop their skills in this budget and has instituted a St. Mary's woman. This may be an show that they are a developed and competitive club. In addition to game. This is evident in that both old cliche, but it has been justified the "A" Team and "B" Team hold a double entry accoun repeatedly by the women of the St. developing their skills in soccer, they have had to develop many other the top position in their respective ting procedure. Three Mary's Soccer Club. Alma Fallon leagues. The Soccer Club is very and a few of her friends are some of skills in order to make this club a success. much "on the ball," one might say. new positions have been these St. Mary's women that should They have learned how to be asser never be underestimated. They could Soccer is thought to be a relaxing and hassle-free sport. It has proved tive, competitive and still remain as created to divide the almost be considered the founders of a positive representative of the the club. Their limitless efforts re to be none of these for the St. Mary's handling of funds and to women. .They are in a business of St. Mary's community for South sulted in the club, members, games Bend. 0 and, even the coach. These women having to market their club for eliminate possible future recruited a majority of the members funds and solidity. The opening week misuse." on the team and gained some essen of the season the team had to pro tial donations for the team's exis duce $700 solely for league fees. tence. Other necessary expenses include balls, uniforms, goals and care of the ba~k accounts. It is precisely this After recruiting ended there was a high-spirited and talented group of field. All the time and equipment are pomt that the University insists volunteered and donated. What a upon enforcing. Dziedzic remains women athletes. The majority of this group had very little soccer selling job these women have done. fi~m: "it would be difficult to operate They are also trying to establish' wIthout one third of our incoming experience. The conversion of this group of soccer misfits into a club themselves as a solid and capable revenue (collected student fees) club so that in a few years St. Mary's however, we would find a way.'" that could compete with top colleges was the product of John Akers, the College will convert the Soccer Club ~ccountability is definitely the head coach of the Soccer Club. into a varsity sport. As if this is primary aspect of this multifaceted not enough to worry about, last year Issue, but it is the student body Assisting Coach Akers this year are Bill Varanka and Tom Gibbons, two the league that St. Mary's competed to which it is owed-the student in introduced a new rule. It stated body that financially supports The seniors at Notre Dame. John Akers has had plenty of experience with that every member had to be at the student body for whom C?b.serv~r, soccer. He has played for many least nineteen years old. St. Mary's It ~s ~rIt~en. For this very reason, years and has coached at the high very young club would have lost edItOrial Independence is crucial to school level. His main interest is three quarters of its members. The Observer general board. The i building a very strot):g competitive Rather than giving up and deciding O~server is, and wants to remain, the club. Next year the "A" Team will it was too time-consuming to protest, ~Olce .of the students. Said DZiedzic, I ~, begin competing with intercollegiate they petitioned the new rule and We Just want to continue operating received an omission of this rule for Michele Dunlap is a St. Mary's stu as the students' newspaper." teams. They are also sponsoring the 0 first annual St. Mary's Indoor Soccer all college students. For a group of dent from Omaha) Nebraska. This is Invitational in February. Twenty girls just out there to have fun they her first contribution to Scholastic. J ea,;nie Euch is a government/ALP A I :naJor from Hartland) Wisconsin. She tS currently the. Advertising Manager of Schola~tic. Laurel-Ann Dooley is an A merwan Studies major from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is currently the Oulture/Fiction editor of Scholastic.

14 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 15 devoted itself entirely to discussing the content of the paper with re peated specific references to articles found in this semester's Observer: "Such blatant cofmection of editorial and financial policy, even if only meant as a suggestion, is exactly what The Observer will not tolerate from the administration." Despite the "questionable" mo tives of the administration's ulti matum, The Observer general board is nonetheless willing to cooperate. Soccer at SMC Recognizing the responsibility of accountability, changes have been made. The only point that The I Observer refuses to negotiate is the ?epositing of all funds in University

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Cinema Thoughts on the Day The Right Stutl-or is it?

I by Sharon Houk "The Right Stuff is packed full of the stuff that A common sentiment this time of year seems to be the desire to start moviegoers lap up, particularly in the present 1 over. As college students, we have t the tremendous luxury of being able age of sagging nationalism." to start over at the beginning of every semester. I often wonder about all the people who don't have semesters. I'm curious as to what by Laurel-Ann Dooley not featured as many mistakenly Such utter abandonment of sub allows them to feel that they can Culture/ Fiction Editor believe, adds an element of time tlety and sensitivity taints an other start over. liness that will undoubtedly pun Clad in cowboy hat and boots, a wise sound film. Perhaps the pro Perhaps I should start over. In many into the theatre. The common ducers were out to get the younger the middle of the semester, our solitary figure gallops on horseback ly heard accusation that the movie across the Arizona desert. Suddenly, movie audience, as the mentality it biggest question might ~e how to . is no more than a John Glenn for often appears to be geared for is that adjudicate these exigenCIes. That IS, appearing before him outlined in the President publicity maneuver, how glowing goldness of the setting sun, of a Bambi fan. If not, they gravely how do I get through this mess I've ever, is simply untrue. The character underestimated the intellectual level gotten myself into? How?o I c?pe? looms a newly developed Air Force of Glenn has no more than five major jet. The old meets the new with a of the American adult. Now coping is a very nIce thIng, scenes, and certainly does not come This is not to say that The Right and we should be thankful for the flourish of symbolism and special recall what it is you're supposed to day because our eyes and minds are across as a sure-fire presidential Stuff is an entirely worthless piece ability to cope. Sometimes copin? is effects, and The Right Stuff begins. candidate. On the contrary, Glenn review. For me it means mostly glued to the biggest problem we As an American movie of the '80s, of cinematic trash that should be the best that we can do. But COpIng happen to have at the time. Bu.t is portrayed as an old-fashioned and avoided at all cost. It does provide is not living. My basic orientation making the most of the day. , it definitely has all the right ingre Father Carroll always told us we none of these problems are so bIg rather. simplistic, if not simple some entertainment, the subject mat towards life should not be, "How do dients for box-office success. Based should get up before our worries. and important that we should be minded, soul who hums The Battle ter is strong enough to be able to I solve this problem?" Whoever it on the development of the United Regardless of what time you :nanage satisfied with coping and forget to Hymn of the Republic when under resist almost any sort of treatment, was that said life was like an EE States space program, the movie out pressure (something the Glenn Presi to get out of bed, your worrIes live. lines the gradual demise of the test and several of the actors give com problem set didn't have his circuits To live means to give each day dential Campaign has repeatedly mendable performances. The Right shouldn't follow you to the shower. pilot hero and his reincarnation in straight. They shouldn't snap at your heels its full value. For me this r.1eans denied as fact). Nonetheless, there Stuff is not all wrong; wait for it to I must say that it is rather difficult the form of the astronaut. Patriotism on the way to Hayes-Healy, and to start over every time the alarm is no charismatic leader figure por find its way onto cable television. 0 to have a proper orientation towards abounds and a feeling of hard-living trayed here. clock rings. We don't need the life when you have missed sixteen above all, they shouldn't stop you adventure reminiscent of John from seeing the beauty in the day. beginning of next semester to start The special effects, as in so many morning-bird Calculus classes, got a Wayne westerns pervades the film. Each day ought to be treated as a over. People who don't have of today's movies, are perhaps the "Try It Again" on your Fluids Flags fly, triumphant ticker-tape new day. Yesterday's troubles semesters have the day just as surely best executed part of the film. Yet, exam and must come up with two parades march through the streets, shouldn't fix your eyes solely on the as we do. 0 while the cinematic effects are in term papers in the next spacecraft soar into previously un twelv~-page cracks in the sidewalk. There is no deed superb, they often serve to fur three days. Under these conditions explored regionS-The Right Stuff is ther pOint up the deficient content, reason you can't appreciate the trees packed full of the stuff that movie it is easy to view life as a problem. on your way to wing a Politics hollow dialogue, and choppy plot. And it might not seem that easy goers lap up, particularly 'in the final. All the exams you'll ever take One scene depicts the tribal rights to solve. I can't think of anything present age of sagging nationalism. or quizzes you'll ever bomb or papers of Australian aborigines who ap more enigmatic than life right before But something went wrong. Sim parently sense the presence of a you'll ever turn in late are but dust ply stated, The Right Stuff is too a punt-situation Mechanics final. NASA craft above their settlement. But even in the face of the ensured compared to the Day. long. Stretching over three hours, They therefore build a large bonfire the movie attempts to include every death of your Emil grade; or when -Whe~ I have to face that journal around which they perform some contemplating the possibility of that I forgot to do, that journal detail related, however flimsily, to sort of aborigine ritual. One has to the plot regardless of relevance. paralysis during your first oral final (which of course is due tomorrow wonder what ancient Australian cus (and you thought Herodotus was at 5:00) seems to be the biggest The result is a slow-moving, weighty tom provided set behavior for space film. What would have been a more a new punk band from Yugoslavia), factor in my existence. When it is , craft orbits. As if this was not Laurel-Ann Dooley is an American you can do better than cope. For three in the morning and I'm writing than satisfactory two-hour movie is absurd enough, the sparks from the instead a dull three-hour one. Studies major from Fort Lauderdale) me it means putting things in per a paper on a book I forgot to read, fire are then seen floating around the Florida. She is currently the Culture/ The movie does have its positive spective. I try to give .the day its I can't think of anything quite as craft as it circles the Earth, and the Fiction editor of Scholastic. full value. That means enjoying the big as that paper. And wh.at abo'!t aspects. The current presidential unexpected detachment of its heat campaign of former astronaut John scenery on my way to the GRE's. that interview? But there IS nothIng shield is mysteriously stopped. Come quite as big as the fact that you Glenn who is represented, although on now. That means appreciating a friend's company at dinner and not having' are alive. to complain about the Hungarian As easily as a day can be over Sharon Houk is a juni01' A1'ts and Noodle-Bake. Giving the day its looked so can a life be overlooked. Letters major f1'om rural Purcell full value means enjoying the quiet And it'is not somebody else's life ville) Virginia. This is her second on the way to a Friday morning that we easily overlook. It is our contribution, Emil Review even though you can't own life. We forget all about the 16 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 17. · ~ "! , . . " " r!T1.'.1;. ;1'

Cinema Thoughts on the Day The Right Stutl-or is it?

1 -:-1,:1 i : Gallery

"Images of Clay" By Kathleen Musial

Kathleen Musial is a senior BFA candidate at 8t. Mary's College. Kathleen is primarily a ceramist. Her paintings are a two-dimen sional interpretation of her Oil 9" x 12" "Jewel" experiences with clay.

Oil 3' x 4' "Up or Down"

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"Images of Clay" By Kathleen Musial

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; i I'm happy, • 1 I for the moment . I'm not lonely. We talk. Poetry We laugh. You are funny, nice. ., A Potpourri of poems and poets I am happy . Then the face from around campus ... In the crowd The face that shatters all hopes Untitled of a pleasant future hear That face Untitled the rain was my future falling Your features, suddenly lightly Illuminated now this Reality is viscious dreamily by the weekend and even my dreams dampening movie's light, disintegrate my hammock bring back into nightmares and cares sharp Upon Reading Plato's Symposium memories yesterday dripping of your we drank too much tequila Drenched with sweat, I sat in a bar in uneven shining hair In the world's armpit, we laughed and we danced and we played puddles cheeks the part of the Young New Jersey, near the eyelashes ... And drank philosophy. and the Wreckless stairs the morning and splashing sun suddenly those nearby buds A man wearing a tequila bottle hitting each Like an oxygen mask i want no more tequila with all i need in our bed Stopped breathing of life's from the window To ask, "What is the nature of love?" your smile abundance from the heart in the corner of the room ... As he was in no position for dialogue a smile to remember in water forever You shift in your seat (in the theatre) And I can't speak very well cool, cool you rustle About that formal business because, you see, rainwater i will soon be sober next to me I let him sample my own formula, is plenty wrinkling Which contains no poetic immortality and afraid that brings ~ ! by Dalia Sidabras our sheets ... But desirable death. life it is all the same to me to flowers my attention and me "Love is rational acknowledgment is drawn back to the Of the willingness to die by Joseph Holterman nice stranger For the object of said love Mavoureen in the Further, because God's love is seat beside me . The true object and source of ~ove, The snow falling in drifts of angel hair powder How was Any stranger can be your lover And I'm reminded of a girl blowing bubbles in the white sugar fields, the movie? As you sacrifice yourself to God." wonderful Blessing them with the sweetness of her breath just wonderful He shook his head. And 'suggested that I try sobriety, And loosing them on the coldness of the world. by Lisa Fitt But I won't stop drinking Philosophy, And I remembered how they floated into the sun-speckled sky For it condemns me To purposeful death in love. and burst in forty rainbow colors against the snow. by Thomas J. Berry by Joseph J. Dolan

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, • L ~ __ ------~ ------.-----~- - of some Sonya person's physical attributes written on and not give the cause up entirely. Ws a wonder my it) and a woman (who came remarkably close to fitting boss can go through this embarrassing interrogation the legendary Sonya's description). The wall offered week after week. little comfort as I squeezed up against it. I scanned Sent once again to the benches I had to lie in wait the room, and as I did so it struck me that I wished next to those waiting-room mercem:ries for still the room had b2en dimly lit. The daylight was another call. I felt glaringly conspicuous in the waiting unbearably bright as it reflected off the white ceiling, room-like a prize-winning Holstein in a motley herd walls, floors, and benches, and the other donors were of cows. grotesquely revealed in a most magnified dimension by Much to my surprise, when the call actually came such radiant light. Personally I would have preferred I was led into a doctor's examining room. I was re the vagueness of shadow. Two of the donors, seated lieved. I would much rather withstand the needle in The Donor's Tale a few benches in front of me, were involved in a heated, private and not force others to endure my discomfort. barely controlled verbal dispute; I'm dead sure if one Hopefully my plasma would be processed much more of them hadn't been called to the desk that I would quickly in this private room than if taken in the ward, have perished in a private riot. Perhaps they were so that a deserving person might receive the benefits donating plasma in compensation for how much of my gift as soon as possible. they'd drawn from others in their short hoodlum lives. I gave the doctor my most appreciative smile as I daresay that the $7 per pint paid for plasma wasn't h~ entered the room, lay back on the table and held my going to be donated to their favorite charity. I huddled left forearm out toward him. I had debated about which there, suddenly paralyzed with the thought of would arm to submit to the I.V. tube, and I came to the be killers seated a mere 10 feet from the corner in conclusion that the hand that holds my fork is essential, which I had trapped myself. Mentally I gauged how so my left arm would be my choice. I had also con many steps it would take me to reach the door. sidered wearing long sleeves to cover the wound during Most of the other donors were old, tired and haggard my afternoon at work, but I was sure I'd be much looking-dressed in a potpourri of colors, textures too warm. and eras. No doubt their $7 was going to be liquefied Imagine my insult when the doctor informed me immediately, into a bottle of "Ripple." My God! I tried by Mary Ellen Am that he had a few more routine questions to ask before to fathom what would happen to a surgical patient I could join the other donors-in the ward! Continuing, having the likes of their blood pumped into a vein! If he asked me if I had ever had hepatitis, and I replied not physical, then moral, depravity would inevitably (truthfully, I might add) that yes, I had had hepatitis set in as a complication. Heaven only knows what when I was young, as a secondary infection stemming filth has been dissolved into the blood streams along The building isn't located in a really "bad" section from mononucleosis. Well, that doctor looked me right skid row. I thank the Lord that Providence has kept in the eye and said, bold as brass, "We get addicts and of town but strolling along Forbes Avenue at night me on my reducing diet for the past two decades without benefit of escort is not wise. Plasma donations drunks in here all the time looking to make a few I.' someone will be buoyed by the years of good food extra bucks, and we have to turn every last one of i are taken in the former office space on the first floor, and nourishment wIllch is the foundation of my though the filth on the street-front window is hardly them away for the same reason-exposure to hepatitis. I, plasma's purity. I have no sympathy for those who Don't go feeling bad though. I'm sure you didn't get indicative of sterile conditions. One can only hazard have no respect for themselvE!s, and after today I'd a guess as to what lives in the apartments above the hepatitis by shooting up with a dirty needle now, did I: say there are quite a number of them. If only blood you? I'm afraid your file goes into the reject pile any r· plasma center. I was willing to overlook my surround could be analyzed for common decency! i ings, however, and continue with the ordeal-if Jackie way, there just isn't any guarantee that your blood is After twenty minutes spent with the dregs of O. manages to survive the experience then certainly pure ... it's kind of like myoId daddy's cows; all the humanity, I was called back to the counter. At last, I too could make a small contribution for the benefit best grain, tending and pastures; and the cows' milk is my mission was getting somewhere! From where I of mankind. (Jacqueline Onassis reportedly donates W~ 0 blood as of,ten as is medically permissible in her efforts stood anSwering questions I could see into the actual donating room. What an intricate jungle! Tubes, bags to "help those less fortunate thim" herself.-The "Star," and polished metal tables stood or hung everywhere. 'Aug. 24, 1981.) Who knows? Maybe my own plasma will save a governor's, or even a senator's life someday. Through that very door is where the liquid source of life's sustenanc~ is transferred from the hearty and Regardless (more or less), I mustei'ed my courage robust to the struggling and weak. I 'felt my heart (I'm not fond of needles) and marched headlong swell like the dough of myoId mother'S' sweet bread, into the waiting room. I wasn't exactly sure what I had and I felt good. , been expecting to find, but there certainly weren't any bandages, or doctors, or equipment around. In That feeling was immediately swept away an,l:! re fact, the room was rather bare, filled only with long placed with indignation! I shudder to think what sorts Vlhite wooden benches and a single counter with a of people must try to sell plasma if the screehing receptionist at work behind (she may not have even questions have to be so demeaning. No, I am not a been a nurse-sometimes those things are difficult to member of any of the identified groups believed t13 judge). I was instructed to sign in on the "new donors" cc.rry AIDS.... No, I am not presently addicted to list and handed two laminated documents to read while alcohol or drugs, ... No, I am not pregnant, suffering awaiting my turn. Turning back toward the benches from unexplained "night sweats," or experiencing dizzy I couldn't decide exactly where to sit-the occupants spells ... no no no no NO!! Wouldn't you suppose of the benches looked as if they were awaiting a Salva that the receptionist would be grateful to be screel1ing tion Army hot lunch, not in line, to donate life-giving someone who obviously was not hiding anything about plasma. Upon further consideration I turned back her condition? Hardly!! I was treated as everyone to the receptionist (I was positive now that she wasn't else had been-the recipient of a battery of rapid, Mary Ellen Arn is a business major from Glenshaw, a real nurse) and told her that I could only be mechanical questions spoken in a monotone. Naturally Pennsylvania. She is a junior, and this is her second spared from the office for an hour and could I possibly it was a struggle to keep my overriding purpose in mind contribution to Scholastic. be taken right away to hurry the process along. I read the documents while seated in a corner be tween a wall (which was endowed with a poetic eulogy

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, . ..', - .' ,- , '. . "",, -,' " '. " . . ' " .' '. " . . ',.' . '.. . . . of some Sonya person's physical attributes written on and not give the cause up entirely. Ws a wonder my it) and a woman (who came remarkably close to fitting boss can go through this embarrassing interrogation the legendary Sonya's description). The wall offered week after week. little comfort as I squeezed up against it. I scanned Sent once again to the benches I had to lie in wait the room, and as I did so it struck me that I wished next to those waiting-room mercem:ries for still the room had b2en dimly lit. The daylight was another call. I felt glaringly conspicuous in the waiting unbearably bright as it reflected off the white ceiling, room-like a prize-winning Holstein in a motley herd walls, floors, and benches, and the other donors were of cows. grotesquely revealed in a most magnified dimension by Much to my surprise, when the call actually came such radiant light. Personally I would have preferred I was led into a doctor's examining room. I was re the vagueness of shadow. Two of the donors, seated lieved. I would much rather withstand the needle in The Donor's Tale a few benches in front of me, were involved in a heated, private and not force others to endure my discomfort. barely controlled verbal dispute; I'm dead sure if one Hopefully my plasma would be processed much more of them hadn't been called to the desk that I would quickly in this private room than if taken in the ward, have perished in a private riot. Perhaps they were so that a deserving person might receive the benefits donating plasma in compensation for how much of my gift as soon as possible. they'd drawn from others in their short hoodlum lives. I gave the doctor my most appreciative smile as I daresay that the $7 per pint paid for plasma wasn't h~ entered the room, lay back on the table and held my going to be donated to their favorite charity. I huddled left forearm out toward him. I had debated about which there, suddenly paralyzed with the thought of would arm to submit to the I.V. tube, and I came to the be killers seated a mere 10 feet from the corner in conclusion that the hand that holds my fork is essential, which I had trapped myself. Mentally I gauged how so my left arm would be my choice. I had also con many steps it would take me to reach the door. sidered wearing long sleeves to cover the wound during Most of the other donors were old, tired and haggard my afternoon at work, but I was sure I'd be much looking-dressed in a potpourri of colors, textures too warm. and eras. No doubt their $7 was going to be liquefied Imagine my insult when the doctor informed me immediately, into a bottle of "Ripple." My God! I tried by Mary Ellen Am that he had a few more routine questions to ask before to fathom what would happen to a surgical patient I could join the other donors-in the ward! Continuing, having the likes of their blood pumped into a vein! If he asked me if I had ever had hepatitis, and I replied not physical, then moral, depravity would inevitably (truthfully, I might add) that yes, I had had hepatitis set in as a complication. Heaven only knows what when I was young, as a secondary infection stemming filth has been dissolved into the blood streams along The building isn't located in a really "bad" section from mononucleosis. Well, that doctor looked me right skid row. I thank the Lord that Providence has kept in the eye and said, bold as brass, "We get addicts and of town but strolling along Forbes Avenue at night me on my reducing diet for the past two decades without benefit of escort is not wise. Plasma donations drunks in here all the time looking to make a few I.' someone will be buoyed by the years of good food extra bucks, and we have to turn every last one of i are taken in the former office space on the first floor, and nourishment wIllch is the foundation of my though the filth on the street-front window is hardly them away for the same reason-exposure to hepatitis. I, plasma's purity. I have no sympathy for those who Don't go feeling bad though. I'm sure you didn't get indicative of sterile conditions. One can only hazard have no respect for themselvE!s, and after today I'd a guess as to what lives in the apartments above the hepatitis by shooting up with a dirty needle now, did I: say there are quite a number of them. If only blood you? I'm afraid your file goes into the reject pile any r· plasma center. I was willing to overlook my surround could be analyzed for common decency! i ings, however, and continue with the ordeal-if Jackie way, there just isn't any guarantee that your blood is After twenty minutes spent with the dregs of O. manages to survive the experience then certainly pure ... it's kind of like myoId daddy's cows; all the humanity, I was called back to the counter. At last, I too could make a small contribution for the benefit best grain, tending and pastures; and the cows' milk is my mission was getting somewhere! From where I of mankind. (Jacqueline Onassis reportedly donates W~ 0 blood as of,ten as is medically permissible in her efforts stood anSwering questions I could see into the actual donating room. What an intricate jungle! Tubes, bags to "help those less fortunate thim" herself.-The "Star," and polished metal tables stood or hung everywhere. 'Aug. 24, 1981.) Who knows? Maybe my own plasma will save a governor's, or even a senator's life someday. Through that very door is where the liquid source of life's sustenanc~ is transferred from the hearty and Regardless (more or less), I mustei'ed my courage robust to the struggling and weak. I 'felt my heart (I'm not fond of needles) and marched headlong swell like the dough of myoId mother'S' sweet bread, into the waiting room. I wasn't exactly sure what I had and I felt good. , been expecting to find, but there certainly weren't any bandages, or doctors, or equipment around. In That feeling was immediately swept away an,l:! re fact, the room was rather bare, filled only with long placed with indignation! I shudder to think what sorts Vlhite wooden benches and a single counter with a of people must try to sell plasma if the screehing receptionist at work behind (she may not have even questions have to be so demeaning. No, I am not a been a nurse-sometimes those things are difficult to member of any of the identified groups believed t13 judge). I was instructed to sign in on the "new donors" cc.rry AIDS.... No, I am not presently addicted to list and handed two laminated documents to read while alcohol or drugs, ... No, I am not pregnant, suffering awaiting my turn. Turning back toward the benches from unexplained "night sweats," or experiencing dizzy I couldn't decide exactly where to sit-the occupants spells ... no no no no NO!! Wouldn't you suppose of the benches looked as if they were awaiting a Salva that the receptionist would be grateful to be screel1ing tion Army hot lunch, not in line, to donate life-giving someone who obviously was not hiding anything about plasma. Upon further consideration I turned back her condition? Hardly!! I was treated as everyone to the receptionist (I was positive now that she wasn't else had been-the recipient of a battery of rapid, Mary Ellen Arn is a business major from Glenshaw, a real nurse) and told her that I could only be mechanical questions spoken in a monotone. Naturally Pennsylvania. She is a junior, and this is her second spared from the office for an hour and could I possibly it was a struggle to keep my overriding purpose in mind contribution to Scholastic. be taken right away to hurry the process along. I read the documents while seated in a corner be tween a wall (which was endowed with a poetic eulogy

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, . ..', - .' ,- , '. . "",, -,' " '. " . . ' " .' '. " . . ',.' . '.. . . . A Cliche by Abuid A. Amaro $ocialJuslice: As I was walking with my grandfather through the extension of his farm

a thunderstorm started, and before you knew it, .' ,.... . '. ' ", was upon his land.

Thunder and lightning everywhere

was the result of this event ChristiariTransforrnation.. .' .. ": ' ',' "" '.- . ·ofthe. - ,. ··World·.. . Trying to equate itself with the thunders my valiant heart beat so rapidly that it was difficult to know which sound was the body, which was the skies.

I was about to run for the farmhouse when I watched the face of my grandfather. He was so quietly at ease that he seemed out of place in the noisy atmosphere. by Professor Janet E. Smith priately assuming the leadership role aspire to the demanding but reward Out of curiosity I asked my grandfather in this pressing moral issue; admin ing code of morality taught by Christ if he were scared. Certainly, in any age there has istrators, professors, and students to through the Church. He asked back, "Are you ?" been a vast disparity between the gether are helping the teaching office It is often tempting to downplay My silent gaze at the lightning, not very far away, values of "the world" and the values of the Church, the bishops, to spread the unpopular truths of Christianity: answered this question for me. of Christ. Ours is no different. Al the witness of Christ and the strength If one speaks the truth, one often "Don't worry, son. It is natural," he said. though we like to think that man of the Catholic tradition by challeng loses one's audience. In the first part kind has made great progress, the ing the world with informed zeal on of St. Thomas More's Utopia a con But if it W2re so natural why wasn't he scared? appalling gap between rich and poor this topic. versation takes place ab':Jut the diffi My grandfather had a good reason in most countries, the oppression of Other teachings of the Church de culties of giving advice. More, in this that I will share with you, political and religious freedom in serve the same concentrated and dialogue, counsels the use of tact and only if you promise to pass many, the worldwide legalization of zealous promotion. For instance, too indirection, but a character named this wisdom on. abortion, the increase of violent few Catholics have understood the Raphael argues that such a method crime--to mention a few examples Church's teaching on justice in the is likely to water (lawn the force of My grandfather said: "Son, these storms are -indicate that we are not making workplace, which finds dangers in one's advice. RapJ',ael argues that as dangerous for me as they are for you, much progress in .the eradication of both capitalism and socialism. U.S. any advice that c0unsels anything bui.: in my case the fear is gone. evil-the task to which Christ calls Catholics should not blindly accept unconventional is likely to be ill I :10 not fear the thunder because the lightning us beyond all others. A Catholic uni the "doctrine" of society that maxi received - and also observes that that it announces is already gone. versity has a special obligation-in mization of profit is the highest goal most good advice is likely to be un I do not fear the lightning deed has as its foremost obligation of business, or simplistically assume conventional. He explains his posi because I don't know where it might fall. the promotion of this task in the that abolition of private property tion by using Christianity as an For that reason son, manner consonant with its nature: example: I simply do not fear any storm." will solve all social ills. Several papal a Catholic university has as its spe encyclicals set out the principles for cial province the task of developing ensuring justice in the workplace If we're never to say anything R£fi~cting on his wurds, I stayeci with him. Watching the skies, the light and the sound young intellects so that they might and deserve a close study by all who that might be thought unconven understand the truths of the Faith VIas fun now. will be leaders in the economy. Few tional, for fear of its sounding and the ways of the world-and then 'Before I knew it the storm was gone. Catholics, too, realize that many of ridiculous, we'll have to hush up, become bearers of love and justice, We walked to the house. the social ills of society today were even in a Christian country, prac This time two very secure men were going bacl{, the true fruits of Christianity, to a "prophesized" by Pope Paul VI when tically everything tha t Christ. where once a child and an old man had gone out. world achingly in need of Christ's he clearly and courageously enunci taught. But that is the last thing redeeming power. We see an en ated the moral truth that artificial He wanted. Didn't He tell His Abuid Amaro is a senior Arts and Letters major from couraging example of a university birth control is wrong and thus will disciples that everything He had Puerto Rico. This is his first contribution to Scholastic. carrying out this duty in a course inevitably lead to much social evil, . whispered in their ears should be presently being taught at Notre such as divorce, abortions, and lack· proclaimed on the housetops? And Dame--a full course is being offered of respect for women and children. most of His teaching is far more to explain and promulgate the recent Catholics wa'ste their patrimony at variance with modern conven pastoral of the American bishops on when they neglect these teachings tions than anything I suggested, war and peace. Catholics are appro- and fail to challenge the world to except insofar as His doctrines A Cliche by Abuid A. Amaro $ocialJuslice: As I was walking with my grandfather through the extension of his farm a thunderstorm started, and before you knew it, .' ,.... . '. ' ", was upon his land.

Thunder and lightning everywhere was the result of this event ChristiariTransforrnation.. .' .. ": ' ',' "" '.- . ·ofthe. - ,. ··World·.. . Trying to equate itself with the thunders my valiant heart beat so rapidly that it was difficult to know which sound was the body, which was the skies.

I was about to run for the farmhouse when I watched the face of my grandfather. He was so quietly at ease that he seemed out of place in the noisy atmosphere. by Professor Janet E. Smith priately assuming the leadership role aspire to the demanding but reward Out of curiosity I asked my grandfather in this pressing moral issue; admin ing code of morality taught by Christ if he were scared. Certainly, in any age there has istrators, professors, and students to through the Church. He asked back, "Are you ?" been a vast disparity between the gether are helping the teaching office It is often tempting to downplay My silent gaze at the lightning, not very far away, values of "the world" and the values of the Church, the bishops, to spread the unpopular truths of Christianity: answered this question for me. of Christ. Ours is no different. Al the witness of Christ and the strength If one speaks the truth, one often "Don't worry, son. It is natural," he said. though we like to think that man of the Catholic tradition by challeng loses one's audience. In the first part kind has made great progress, the ing the world with informed zeal on of St. Thomas More's Utopia a con But if it W2re so natural why wasn't he scared? appalling gap between rich and poor this topic. versation takes place ab':Jut the diffi My grandfather had a good reason in most countries, the oppression of Other teachings of the Church de culties of giving advice. More, in this that I will share with you, political and religious freedom in serve the same concentrated and dialogue, counsels the use of tact and only if you promise to pass many, the worldwide legalization of zealous promotion. For instance, too indirection, but a character named this wisdom on. abortion, the increase of violent few Catholics have understood the Raphael argues that such a method crime--to mention a few examples Church's teaching on justice in the is likely to water (lawn the force of My grandfather said: "Son, these storms are -indicate that we are not making workplace, which finds dangers in one's advice. RapJ',ael argues that as dangerous for me as they are for you, much progress in .the eradication of both capitalism and socialism. U.S. any advice that c0unsels anything bui.: in my case the fear is gone. evil-the task to which Christ calls Catholics should not blindly accept unconventional is likely to be ill I :10 not fear the thunder because the lightning us beyond all others. A Catholic uni the "doctrine" of society that maxi received - and also observes that that it announces is already gone. versity has a special obligation-in mization of profit is the highest goal most good advice is likely to be un I do not fear the lightning deed has as its foremost obligation of business, or simplistically assume conventional. He explains his posi because I don't know where it might fall. the promotion of this task in the that abolition of private property tion by using Christianity as an For that reason son, manner consonant with its nature: example: I simply do not fear any storm." will solve all social ills. Several papal a Catholic university has as its spe encyclicals set out the principles for cial province the task of developing ensuring justice in the workplace If we're never to say anything R£fi~cting on his wurds, I stayeci with him. Watching the skies, the light and the sound young intellects so that they might and deserve a close study by all who that might be thought unconven understand the truths of the Faith VIas fun now. will be leaders in the economy. Few tional, for fear of its sounding and the ways of the world-and then 'Before I knew it the storm was gone. Catholics, too, realize that many of ridiculous, we'll have to hush up, become bearers of love and justice, We walked to the house. the social ills of society today were even in a Christian country, prac This time two very secure men were going bacl{, the true fruits of Christianity, to a "prophesized" by Pope Paul VI when tically everything tha t Christ. where once a child and an old man had gone out. world achingly in need of Christ's he clearly and courageously enunci taught. But that is the last thing redeeming power. We see an en ated the moral truth that artificial He wanted. Didn't He tell His Abuid Amaro is a senior Arts and Letters major from couraging example of a university birth control is wrong and thus will disciples that everything He had Puerto Rico. This is his first contribution to Scholastic. carrying out this duty in a course inevitably lead to much social evil, . whispered in their ears should be presently being taught at Notre such as divorce, abortions, and lack· proclaimed on the housetops? And Dame--a full course is being offered of respect for women and children. most of His teaching is far more to explain and promulgate the recent Catholics wa'ste their patrimony at variance with modern conven pastoral of the American bishops on when they neglect these teachings tions than anything I suggested, war and peace. Catholics are appro- and fail to challenge the world to except insofar as His doctrines Student Political Apathy: ~ Ii il': i! '. Why? "i; , ! 'ii "How could this have happened to me? How could I, a former political activist and hell· '-raiser, have sunk so far into the void of ignorance and apathy?" by Mary Isphording

POLITICAL APATHY. What do fore. There's always "I'm so busy tant it is to vote." I must have "not you think when you see those words? with school that I don't have time registered to vote" stamped across "Who cares?", right? Me too. to be informed on the candidates and my face or something. I wasn't always this way. In high have been modified by ingenious over the world-our faith (1 John one's own soul; as advocates of so issues" which leads right into "it's It really is kind of sad that we preachers .... 'We'll never get hu school, I was a big political activist pointless to vote· if I'm not in have gotten so apathetiC, though. 5:2-4). cial justice we are demanding that who couldn't believe that people of man behavior in line with Chris others live in accord with the will of formed." And, of course, there's the. When the prof who gave us the quiz voting age could be so ignorant and standard "I'm just one person and I tian ethics,' these gentlemen must As this passage indicates, in order God; we must foster justice and on the first day of classes presented have argued, 'so let's adapt Chris apathetic that they would neither can't do anything about the way us with the results and most of us to promote social justice, it is not goodness and obedience in our own know who the candidates were and tian ethics to human behavior. sufficient to teach only the social hearts first. College students should things are, so it doesn't matter who had failed, he reminded us that we Then at least there'll be some and ethical teachings of the Church. certainly be attempting to combat what the issues were, nor bother to I vote for or even if I vote at all." are the "educated elite." If those of connection between them.' But I These teachings grow out of cen the less than fully Christian ele vote on them. I was positive that I I can't. say that these excuses are us who are supposedly being edu can't see what good they've done. ments on their own campuses as well would always be well informed on unreasonable; I use them all the time ca ted to become the new leaders of turies of study and prayerful medi every candidate and issue and would They've merely enabled people to tation over the redemptive act of as fighting evil hemispheres away; myself. our society neither know nor care sin with a clear conscience. . . . such activities at Notre Dame as the register to vote even before my 18th But i'm still not sure why I'm so about our politics and government, Christ. A prayerful study of scrip birthday so I could begin the exer ture and Church doctrine will help attempt to curb excessive drinking, apathetic. I don't know whose fault who will? If we are the future of Any Catholic institution seeking cise of my voting rights as soon as it is. Some people blame the apathy our country, what kind of future us to remember that Christ never to monitor University investments possible. the respect of the world is very sus promised us justice or happiness in and to give generously to charitable of the youth today on' the disillu will our. country have if our attitudes ceptible to the danger which More this world-rather, He promised us causes, are favorable signs of Chris Well, that was two years ago. On sionment we experienced growing up don't change? humorously depicts in this passage, tian zeal. Christians must be radiant the first day of classes this semester, in the era of Watergate, ABSCAM, Well, I doubt this article has in suffering. This suffering, though, is one of my profs gave us a pop quiz for there is a strong temptation to examples of Christ's love and selfless~ and other such scandals. Other peo spired you to run out and register not to be the result of a passive ac comprised of questions such as "Who adjust the teachings of Catholicism ceptance of evil, but is to be the ness-for only then' can we expect ple blame our apathy on the idea that to vote and collect all the informa to the "sophisticated" reasoning of product of an active resistance to to effectively advance the work of are your state's senators?" and we are spoiled: all the fighting for tion you can on current events and the secular world rather than to stick evil. This is a resistance which will saturating this world with the love "Name your home district's repre voting rights went on before we were personalities. It hasn't even inspired to the real task of Catholicism: the rarely require violence but will al . and justice Christ promised all His sentative to Congress." I couldn't born, or at least before we were old me that much. But at least I'm transformation of the souls of men ways require self-sacrificing love; children. D answer either question. I could have enough to appreciate it, so we take beginning to care that I don't care, in accord with the teachings of one cannot be motivated out of hate made some reasonable guesses, but these rights for granted now. and that's a step in the right direc Christ. This requires not that we for one's enemies but must love them I really didn't know the answers.At I think there is some truth to this. tion. D adapt ourselves to the world but that and desire their conversion. And least I did know the name of our Just how much those who had to we adapt the world to the ideals of Christian suffering differs from all vice-president, which is more than I fight for the right to vote value that Christ-an act that today is often can say for some lllembers of the right was made abundantly clear to othe): suffering in that it is not to be class. . called "practicing social justice~" St. a suffering grudgingly endured, but me when I worked at the polls on John has given us the prescription one. embraced in graceful hope. Only Then, to make matters worse, the first floor of Augusta Hall during for how this is to be done: love and hope can sustain a Christian when I was home for break my. dad the May primary elections a couple in the struggle against the unending mentioned something about getting years ago. Nuns came to vote in an absentee ballot for me so I can We can be sure we love God's evil of this world. wheelchairs, blind, deaf, often unable Expecting successful transforma vote in the very important upcoming to pull the levers in the booth them children if we love God himself Ohio elections (don't ask me what and do what he has commanded tion of the world and, ultimately, har selves. But the right to vote meant mony with the world are two of the the issues are). "But Dad," I said, so much to them that they went to us; this is what loving God is "I can't vote-I'm not registered." keeping his commandments ; and mistakes to which Christians in their physical extremes to exercise it. I his commandments are not diffi fight for social justice are prone. An Professor Janet E. Smith has taught The look of utter disgust on his face saw this kind' of appreciation again cult, because anyone who has been other is believing that the injustice ill the Program of Liberal Studies at only deepened my embarrassment. last week when I was in Washington, begotten by God has already over committed by others-by institutions Notre Dame since the fall of 1980. How could this have happened to D.C., gazing at an exhibit depicting come the world; this is the victory --is worse than the evil existing in me? How could I, a former political the suffragette and youth vote move activist and hell-raiser, have sunk so ments in the National Museum of far into the void of ignorance and Natural History. A woman about 60 apathy? I suppose there are a)ot of or 70 years old was looking at the Mary Isphording is a St. Mary's stu reasons, or at least excuses, for such exhibit at the same time and said to dent from Cincinnati, Ohio. This is behavior which we've all heard be- me, "Don't ever forget how imp or- her first contribution. SCHOLASTIC/NOVEMBER 1983 27 Student Political Apathy: ~ Ii il': i! '. Why? "i; , ! 'ii "How could this have happened to me? How could I, a former political activist and hell· '-raiser, have sunk so far into the void of ignorance and apathy?" by Mary Isphording

by Kerry Temple Associate Editor) Notre Dame Magazine

It wasn't just what the student than the undergraduates do, want I grew up while freedom fighters said that bothered me, but that he more outside-of-work interaction with marched through Mississippi, while didn't seem to think anything was them. blacks rioted in urban ghettos, while wrong with it. What he said was: These trends are regrettable for a war raged in Vietnam, while the "When I got accepted to Notre Dame, couple of reasons. One is that they presidency was brought to its feet I never thought I wouldn't get the job run counter to what learning at a during Watergate, while hippies took I wanted. Without a doubt, a Notre university is all about - not voca to the streets. American society was Dame degree is a ticket to success. tional training but a community of erupting, blowing apart at the seams. But when I didn't have a job 'by the scholars asking, testing, exploring; There were countercultures and sub end of my senior year, I thought my questioning, but accepting nothing cultures. Social mores were shat four years had been a waste of time." (not even the tenets of their faith). tered. Drugs became common. Our This skewed view of the purpose of a Second is that these trends deviate music became anthems of a chang college education did not come from from the Notre Dame tradition ing world - all we needed was love one of those much-maligned business close student~faculty relations, learn and peace. majors; but from a student in the ing for learning's sake. These were revolutionary times. Program of Liberal Studies. Things have changed since Sep We wore our hair long an:d our jeans A few days later a young woman tember 1970 when I stood as a fresh patched. We trusted no person over student told me that she felt good man in Farley Hall's basement and 30, no organization larger· than a about her four years at Notre Dame; heard hall leaders· advise: : "Don't commune. We strove to be "relevant" Her only complaint was that she worry about grades or what you're and "down to earth," and rebelled hadn't had much interaction with the going to do when you get out of here. against the Establishment and all faculty outside the classroom. They Notre Dame is full of good people. So authority. Defiance was the order of were hardly accessible, she said, and if you're faced with a choice of the day; challenge - do not per always seemed too busy to talk with studying or being with those people, petuate - the status quo. students. get out of your :room. Most of what Notre Dame was not spare'dthese These were not isolated incidents. you learn here will not be. learned collisions. There were rallies and A number of students have told me from books." draft card burnings. Classes· were as much, and colleagues here at the In the early 1970s Notre Dame canceled. Students set fire to the University have expressed concern really did seem to be a community ROTC building. The '60s had been a with what is happening beneath the of scholars. It probably came closer time of upheaval within the Univer dome. The students, they say, are too to being areal university then than sity community as students won . career-minded. ,The student body's at any time in its history --:- for many hard-fought battles for independence . homogeneity thwarts the real learn reasons. _ Student publications waged lively .ing that diversity of opinion brings. Of course, the times were different wars with administrators and stu Faculty members give students low then. I was startled the other day dent government gained a real voice marks for intellectual curiosity and when a student had riot heard about in University affairs. Restrictions on eagerness to explore new ideas. The the bombing of Cambodia, the Kent hall life were loosened. students criticize the faculty for not State murders. the riots at the Demo These struggles of liberation - in being available to talk informally. cratic Nation~l Convention in Chi society and at Notre Dame- created Other observers say the pressure to cago. He was not born when Presi an environment primed for learning. publish and do research handicaps dent Kennedy was killed in 1963. By the early '70s the angry, destruc the faculty's teaching performance. Those shots ignited a revolutionary tive and negative forces were fading; Even the graduate students, who age in which every stone was over the winds of change had blown the work more closely with the faculty turned. windows open. An air of excitement

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by Kerry Temple Associate Editor) Notre Dame Magazine

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Good thru Dec 83 permeated the quads and corridors. Finally, and significantly, the Catho losing something in our quest to be Notre Dame was on the threshold of lic Church, a monument to tradition, like "our peer institutions." BIG@ wItt {!lnlnnial 'Menke llhnts£ , its dream to be that place where all stability and authority, was strug Amid these concerns - sympto the philosophical, theological and so gling through its own identity crisis matic of most graduates looking LUMBER CENTER cietal questions could be asked and in the wake of Vatican II. Mean back at their first decade as an alum pursued in a spirit of intellectual while, everything was up for grabs; nus-is a belief in the place. But at $1.000FFT~:!~d~ and moral inquiry. Students chose the questions wide open, the answers the core of that belief is the recogni courses, not to improve their mar uncertain. tion that what makes Notre Dame OUR SPECIALTY Limitl ketability, but to explore subjects It was an exhilarating time to be special is the generous number of they wanted to know more about. We young, free and idealistic. It was a good people here. While the Sacred OVEN-BAKED per person really could, we believed, forge a fun time to be in school. It felt as if Heart bells have tolled for too many new, more humane world. students and faculty were partners giants in the past 10 years, there are • ARMSTRONG CEIUNG TILE • POWEll TOOlS APPLE PANCAKES Many of the residences had a "hall on a voyage of discovery. We, like still plenty of good people here to • CABINETS . • LUMBER u.s. 31 North in Roseland .' • PlYWOOD • HARDWARE (Across from the Holiday Inn>-272 c7433 Ope(l7 days a week at 6:00 am fellows" program in which faculty students of all generations, were share a cup of coffee, to talk about • OlYMPIC STAIN. • PlUMBING' • PANEUNG ElECTRICAL SUPPUES came into the hall and led discussions products of the times. The pendulum, life and God and what it means to be AND MUCH, MUCH MORE •.. on faith, literature, politics and hu which had swung dizzyingly left, human. These are the ultimate ques manism. Dialogue with faculty was was dropping back toward normality tions, the ones which form the con We make "doing n yourself' ~ The original the hallmark of a Notre Dame educa by my senior year in 1973-74. We text of each person's life, the ones 'EASY V." . clown-delivered tion; there were ample opportunities were fortunate to have been students against which all actions are mea II balloon for relaxed conversation, even de then - before the pendulum went so sured. There is no better time to ex ~./0 bo~quet bate. We carried the issues into late far righi.,before conservatism be plore the roads over which these O~ night bull sessions where the ques came the norm. questions will take you than your tions seemed all-absorbing and the Society and student life today seem four years at Notre Dame. For earn ~e~. need for answers urgent. boring in comparison. The place est inquirers there may be no better Other ingredients spiced the stew: doesn't seem as lively; the dialogue place. [J Notre Dame's governance was trans doesn't seem as charged. I wonder ~~l ferred from a religious order to a lay sometimes if we take ourselves too 272-6500 board; it was an experiment that seriously, if administrators don't get Mr. Kerry TempZe is the Associate 125 DIXIE WAY NORTH provoked questions of institutional a little too uptight, if students .have Editor of Notre Dame Magazine and ROSELAND identity. The University also went lost a creativity and a real sense of a former student at the Dome. In coed which lent diversity to the edu what college should be about. I addition to his work at ND Magazine, cational mix and prompted questions wonder if the reality is drifting he is a frequent contributor to Today relati~g to changing sexual roles. further from the image and if we're in Michiana.

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by Ed Colbert Though other organizations on to Bill Borg, Chairman of the Notre dents about the Republican Party The Democratic Socialists of Amer concerned with the well-being of campus may have some political in Dame College Republicans, his group and the Republican candidates. ica are a third campaign-oriented farm workers in America. This group With 1984 still two months away, tent, at least five groups manifest plans to participate in the national "Education on being a Democrat, political group. The national group is is responsible for sponsoring the politicians, legislators, businessmen, their existence on politicians and is project. This project consists of a what it means to be a Democrat is led by Michael Harrington, and Libby/Campbell's boycott. and even students are already pre sues. These five can be split into two massive petition drive for the release the essential purpose of the Young works for a new ideology, a new The political groups all seem to paring for the election year. Political categories: campaign-oriented politi of Russian political prisoner, Yuri Democrats at Notre Dame," said Jim order. The group is relatively small have one common goal: education. analysts around the country have cal groups, and single issue-oriented Balovlenkov. Balovlenkov wishes to Malackowski, chairman of the Young on campus, but sees itself as a legiti The members of these groups are ac started making predictions about Re political groups. The College Repub join his family in America, but the Democrats on campus. The Young mate alternative to the two estab tive and eager to be involved in the publican reelection, Democratic chal licans, The Young Democrats, and Soviet government has not yet al Democratics have a membership of lished parties. election and with the major issues of lengers, and third-party chances. Is The Democratic Socialists of Amer lowed him to leave. On November 16, one hundred and five, with thirty to Political groups concerned with is the day. They are also anxious to ex sues and platforms are beginning to ica are all concerned with electing a the College Republicans will partici forty active members. Its main ob sues are also found at Notre Dame. pose other students to their own po take shape in meeting halls through candidate suitable to their parties' pate in a nationwide fast: a sym jective, other than educating, is to One such group is the Women's litical organization. 0 out the United States. The Univer platform. FLOC (Farm Labor. Or bolic gesture protesting Balovlen assist in the state, local, and Presi Caucus, a group of twenty to twenty sity of Notre Dame is certainly not ganizing Committee); and the Wom kov's detention. In the past, accord dential elections of 1984. The Young five women who are trying to edu oblivious to the fervor that is begin en's Caucus, however, are each con ing to Bond, the College Republicans Democrats of Notre Dame operate cate the University about women's ning to sweep this country. Several cerned with one particular issue. The have sponsored a pro-Polish Solidar out of a national organization of issues. According to Mary Ellen political groups on campus are mak College Republicans boast a mem ity campaign, and an anti-unilateral Young Democrats, and their main Sternitzke, Director of Publicity for ing preparations for the election bership of 210, of which 60-70 are freeze campaign. However, the most project is the mock election scheduled the group, the members are not all year, and are planning to take an active members. The group works in important actions the group will take for the spring semester. The purpose feminists, but are concerned with active role in the election process. coalition with the C.R.N.C. (College this year are helping to reelect' a of the mock election, traditionally reaching and educating this predomi Other political groups at Notre Dame Republican National Committee), Republican President, electing a Re run by the party that is not in power, nantly male campus; Planned for the view 1984 as an important year be which is a structure for all College publican Congress, and especially is to expose the students of Notre year is a lecture series with female cause issues concerning them are Republican groups .. The C.. R.N.C. aiding in the campaigns of state and Dame to the candidates and to the faculty members, and a lecture on sure to be exposed during the cam sponsors a national project on which' local Republ~cans. The group's main major issues. Malackowski says, "We planned parenthood, as well as a paigns. all the local groups work. According goal on campus is educating the stu- have in the past, and will in the right-to-life seminar. Ed Oolbert is a senior Arts and Let future, try to reach all students and FLOC is also a one-issue group on ters major from .Ionia, Michigan. expose them to the Democratic prin campus. The groups consisting of This is his first contribution to Scho ciples." twenty to twenty-five members is lastic.

The Oollege Republican vs. The Young Democrat.

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Ii I' , :i i; I "Notre Dame is certainly not oblivious to the fervor that is beginning to sweep the country. Ii ! i The 1984 Elections Several political groups on campus are making preparations for the election year, and are and Notre Dame planning to take an active role in the election process." by Ed Colbert Though other organizations on to Bill Borg, Chairman of the Notre dents about the Republican Party The Democratic Socialists of Amer concerned with the well-being of campus may have some political in Dame College Republicans, his group and the Republican candidates. ica are a third campaign-oriented farm workers in America. This group With 1984 still two months away, tent, at least five groups manifest plans to participate in the national "Education on being a Democrat, political group. The national group is is responsible for sponsoring the politicians, legislators, businessmen, their existence on politicians and is project. This project consists of a what it means to be a Democrat is led by Michael Harrington, and Libby/Campbell's boycott. and even students are already pre sues. These five can be split into two massive petition drive for the release the essential purpose of the Young works for a new ideology, a new The political groups all seem to paring for the election year. Political categories: campaign-oriented politi of Russian political prisoner, Yuri Democrats at Notre Dame," said Jim order. The group is relatively small have one common goal: education. analysts around the country have cal groups, and single issue-oriented Balovlenkov. Balovlenkov wishes to Malackowski, chairman of the Young on campus, but sees itself as a legiti The members of these groups are ac started making predictions about Re political groups. The College Repub join his family in America, but the Democrats on campus. The Young mate alternative to the two estab tive and eager to be involved in the publican reelection, Democratic chal licans, The Young Democrats, and Soviet government has not yet al Democratics have a membership of lished parties. election and with the major issues of lengers, and third-party chances. Is The Democratic Socialists of Amer lowed him to leave. On November 16, one hundred and five, with thirty to Political groups concerned with is the day. They are also anxious to ex sues and platforms are beginning to ica are all concerned with electing a the College Republicans will partici forty active members. Its main ob sues are also found at Notre Dame. pose other students to their own po take shape in meeting halls through candidate suitable to their parties' pate in a nationwide fast: a sym jective, other than educating, is to One such group is the Women's litical organization. 0 out the United States. The Univer platform. FLOC (Farm Labor. Or bolic gesture protesting Balovlen assist in the state, local, and Presi Caucus, a group of twenty to twenty sity of Notre Dame is certainly not ganizing Committee); and the Wom kov's detention. In the past, accord dential elections of 1984. The Young five women who are trying to edu oblivious to the fervor that is begin en's Caucus, however, are each con ing to Bond, the College Republicans Democrats of Notre Dame operate cate the University about women's ning to sweep this country. Several cerned with one particular issue. The have sponsored a pro-Polish Solidar out of a national organization of issues. According to Mary Ellen political groups on campus are mak College Republicans boast a mem ity campaign, and an anti-unilateral Young Democrats, and their main Sternitzke, Director of Publicity for ing preparations for the election bership of 210, of which 60-70 are freeze campaign. However, the most project is the mock election scheduled the group, the members are not all year, and are planning to take an active members. The group works in important actions the group will take for the spring semester. The purpose feminists, but are concerned with active role in the election process. coalition with the C.R.N.C. (College this year are helping to reelect' a of the mock election, traditionally reaching and educating this predomi Other political groups at Notre Dame Republican National Committee), Republican President, electing a Re run by the party that is not in power, nantly male campus; Planned for the view 1984 as an important year be which is a structure for all College publican Congress, and especially is to expose the students of Notre year is a lecture series with female cause issues concerning them are Republican groups .. The C.. R.N.C. aiding in the campaigns of state and Dame to the candidates and to the faculty members, and a lecture on sure to be exposed during the cam sponsors a national project on which' local Republ~cans. The group's main major issues. Malackowski says, "We planned parenthood, as well as a paigns. all the local groups work. According goal on campus is educating the stu- have in the past, and will in the right-to-life seminar. Ed Oolbert is a senior Arts and Let future, try to reach all students and FLOC is also a one-issue group on ters major from .Ionia, Michigan. expose them to the Democratic prin campus. The groups consisting of This is his first contribution to Scho ciples." twenty to twenty-five members is lastic.

The Oollege Republican vs. The Young Democrat.

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Brazilian Economy: Growth and De velopment. On October thirteenth Dr. Edmundo Vargas, Executive Secre tary of the Inter-American Commis sion on Human Rights of the OAS talked about "Human Rights in Latin The Kellogg Institute America: A Different Perspective from the Inter-American Commis sion." The Kellogg Institute will be hold at Notre Dame . ing two international conferences this academic year, one in the fall and one in the spring. In November, there will be a conference on "Issues of Democ racy and Democratization in North ern and Southern Hemispheres." In April there will be a conference on "The Kellogg Institute is a center for interna possible relations between economic development policies and democracy tional affairs. The Institute strives to develop in the Third World with an emphasis on Latin America. This conference will also be a tribute to Albert intensive and fruitful links with Latin America." Hirschman, who is probably the most creative author on these topics and who is retiring from his position as Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., with senior members of the Institute. a senior member of the Institute for shops and conferences, and may especially for huma~s. wh~ live . in Advanced Studies in Princeton. by Barbara Stevens In spite of Latin America's grow teach courses at Notre Dame. cruelly deprived condItIO~s. !he I? scholars and exchange of faculty and stitute focuses in two dIrectIOns m by Alejandro Foxley, who is also a ing importance in the world, most Latin America is appearing in the The Kellogg Institute is not a students," said O'Donnell, "we hope professor of economics. Currently teaching institute. Although fellows its research-inward to the unive: Notre Dame students are almost news more and more frequently these to make a contribution to the intel Foxley is in Chile, where he's the completely ignorant about Latin days. As Latin America grows in im often teach courses, the Institute sity and outward toward Latm lectual:life of the University and America. The Institute tries to work director of CIEPLAN, probably the American policies, culture, and ways portance a new institute at Notre doesn't grant degrees or offer more generally to enlighten discus most distinguished center for eco courses on its own. "We are ex closely with the acade~ic ~epart of life. O'Donnell believes that the Dame, the Kellogg Institute, simul sion on views the University tries to nomics. Since 1973 the Chilean gov student's knowledge of Latin Ameri taneously gains significance. The clusively a research institute," ex rnents, especially the SOCIal SCIences. evolve." In reaching outward, the. They financially aid some of the stu ernment has prevented Foxley from can affairs could improve. "Notre Kellogg Institute, founded at Notre plained Prof. Albert LeMay, t~e Kel Institute strives to develop intensive teaching because he's well-recognized logg Institute program coo:dmator. dent groups such as ~he Stud:nt Dame has the advantage of very Dame last year after a donation from and fruitful links with Latin Amer as a democrat, and the government is diverse composition in terms of back the Helen Kellogg Foundation of Chi The main goal of the InstItute, ac Organization for Latm AmerIca ican social science institutes. (S.O.L.A.) and sponsor lectures and hostile in its dealings with those ground which makes teaching at cago, is a center for international af cording to O'Donnell "is the genera The Institute has narrowed down promoting academic freedom. The conferences at Notre Dame. T~e Notre Dame an interesting experi fairs. Operating out of several spa tion of new knowledge and excellent the aim of its research to five executive director of the Institute, scholarship about themes which we Kellogg Center will also soon begm ence. It is my hope that with the cious attractive offices on the twelfth themes. "After long discussion," ex Reverend Ernest Bartell, C.S.C., is a work of the Institute, among other floor 'of the Memorial Library, Notre consider relevant not so much be publication of working papers of the plained O'Donnell, "we· reached the Institute showing research done by professor of economics who pre things, we will be able to increase Dame's branch of the Kellogg Insti cause there is a hole in literature but conclusion that we can't learn and viously served as president of Stone fellows. interest in the Latin American re tute has decided to focus strongly, because we feel there are som~ very teach about everything, so we es hill College in North Easton, Massa gion of the world." 0 but not exclusively, on Latin Amer crucial problems for human beings, 'On the basis of the work of tablished priority lines. These lines chusetts. One of the senior fellows ica. guide selection of the fellows." The Denis Goulet (left), O'Neill Professor of Education for Justice, with of the Institute, Alexander Wilde, an . "Despite the differences between themes are: 1) Problems of democ associate professor of government, the United States and Latin America, Professors Nancy and Alfred Stepan. racy and democratization. 2) Alter was formerly Acting Secretary of we have many points in common," native economic models/ development. the Latin American Program in the said Guillermo O'Donnell, academic 3) The Church, society, and policies Wilson Center, Washington. D.C. . director of the Institute. "For exam of Latin America. 4) Human rights The Institute initiated some activi ple, we both have a strong Catholic in a broad sense (i.e., minorities and ties last year, but really began in tradition. " women). 5) Concern with the lot of full gear this year. "This year is the The Kellogg Institute consists of the poor. "The fifth line of research year for creating visions and long chairpeople, an advisory council is the backbone for the other four," range goals," observed LeMay. The headed by Reverend Theodore M. said O'Donnell. Institute has already begun realizing Hesburgh, fifteen to twenty fellows, The Kellogg Institute boasts a its visions by sponsoring impressive and members. Some of the fellows very impressive membership. The speakers and conferences. OnSep are members of the Notre Dame fac members are highly intelligent, most tember 8, 1983, Ian Roxborough of ulty who devote part of thei~ ~i~e of them have held important posi the London School of Economics and to the Institute. The rest are vIsItmg tions and have had published several Political Science spoke about Unions fellows from other parts of the works. Academic director, Guillermo in the Mexican Automobile Industry. United States, Europe, and Latin O'Donnell, also holds the Helen Kel Roxborough is 'the author of The America· (mostly Chile, Argentina, logg Chair in International Studies as ories of Underdevelopment and the and Brazil). The visiting fellows well as being a professor in the de co-author of Chile: The· State and Barbara Stevens is a junior Arts alfd spend from two months to one aca partments of government and sociol Revolution. . On October 13 Dr. Letters major from Pitman, New demic year at the Institute. T~e~ ogy. He has written several books, Werner· Baer, a professor of eco Jersey. This is her s.econd cont'ribu work on individual projects, partlcI his latest, El Estado Burocratico nomics at the University of Illinois tion to Scholastic. pate in seminars, help organize work- Autoritario,1966-1973: Triunfos, Ver at Urbana-Champaign, spoke about rotas y Crisis. The Institute chair of "The Economics Crisis in Brazil." International Development is held Baer is the author of the book The .

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posable nose-blowing equipment. Granted, owing your Personalized Hair Design for by Jim Ganther Editor-in-Ohief paycheck to the fact that sniffles are socially unaccept able is not the most glamorous way of making a living, (Men and Women Who Want to Look I spent part of the summer of 1982 as the honored but we've all got to start somewhere, right? And so I guest of the United States Marine Corps at their resort interviewed with the Sammy Davis, Jr., attitude: Yes Their Best. .. in southern California known as Camp Pendleton. Part I can! of the daily ritual for the visitors was something Three weeks later I heard from the firm in question: Visit our location at 417 Dixieway North called "PT," an acronym for Physical Torture or Per No you can't! sonal Training or something of that nature. Anyway, Was I disappointed? You bet. But I have since had In Roseland across from Wendy's PT meant getting up long before the sun with 75 other other interviews with successful results, and am con bleary-eyed midshipmen to bounce and stretch and vinced that the gunny was right: The only way to face crank out push-up after painful push-up. life is head-on, for life is like those rugged hills of After the eastern horizon became bright enough for Pendleton. Sometimes it seems that the only way to us to see potholes, we would conclude the PT session go is uphill. 0 FULL SERVICE with a brisk three-mile run up a nearby hill and back, Check C.J~h;ng Convenience POSTAL SUB-STATION STORE HOURS: and for some reason the run seemed to be uphill both· 9 AM-9 PM ways. And while we ran along, the Gunnery Sergeant -M,I.~. $20- MON.-SAT. would teach us marching songs, or "jodies." As I reca]l, Postage Stamps Parcel Post Gunny Arthur was six feet, four inches tall, 280 pounds; wilh v,llid SMC or ND ID. Registered Mail Postal Money Orders 9 AM-12 NOON: a Caribbean black. When he .said sing, we sang. As he Certified Mail Postal Cards SUN. taught us songs, he also taught us a little about life. Da~y 5 p.m. Pickup "Ain't no use in lookin' down-ain't no six-pack Sub·statlon Hours: 9 a.m.-S p.m. Mon.-Fri. on the ground!" 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat. "Lift your head and hold it high-the Navy mids are marchin' by!" The gunny's outlook on life was simple: keep your eyes off the deck and on the horizon. Think big, think .....V/SA positive, and face life head-on. I have remembered Gunny Arthur's advice concerning positive mental - 405 Dixieway North (U.S.) Roseland

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A review of Nancy's Windy 415 Dixieway North Hours: 11 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. City-the best pizza In town. (Across from Wendy's) Mon.-Sat. 277-4862

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