---------------- ----- ------ -- ----- , , .Turner Fund -page fJ VOL. XVI, NO. 23 an mdependent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1981 Reagan seeks mutual trust with Soviet Union UNITED NATIONS (AP)- Presi­ out its own problems, and "any dent Reagan, in a letter to Soviet other approach would have serious President Leonid. Brezhnev that was consequences for all of us." reported here yesterday. said the Rca~an was critical of a Soviet United States is prepared to arms buildup and warned a~ainst "establish a framework of mutual Soviet intt·rvention in Poland, fis­ respect" with the Soviet Union. cher said. Howcvn. the lcttn dear­ Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei ly could set the stage for improved Gromyko, addressing the United Na­ relations with •he Soviets following tions General Assembly. told the nine months of uncompromising delegates his country desired criticism. "normal businesslike relations with Gromyko. in his formal address to· the United States." the General Assembly, said "The Reagan struck his conciliatory Soviet Union has not sou~ht nor is it tone in the letter to Brezhnev on the scckin~. confrontation wth the eve of a meeting at the United Na­ United States of Amnica." tions between Secretary of State Hut Gromyko also denounced Alexander M. HaigJr. and Gromyko what he dt·scribcd as "attempts by to prepare for formal negotiations to certain quarters in Western restrain deployment of missiles in countries ... to shake loose the Europe. socialist foundations of the Polish The text of the letter was not State." He dcdarcd Poland would expected that Duarte, a Notre Dame alumnu5 released, but State Department remain "a firm link in the common President Ronald Reagan meets in the Oval would ask for more American military and Office at the White House Monday with El Sal­ spokesman Dean Fischer provided family of the countries of socialism." financial support to bring democracy ·to his reporters with a statement that he As Gromyko spoke. ll.N. security vador's President jose Napolean Duarte. It was country. (AP Photo) said was based on the letter. He guards closed ~atcs and two dozen reported that Reagan said, "To police oflkers lined a restraining Improve campus life achieve better U.S.-Soviet relations. wall to prevent about c;oo pro­ the United States is fully prepared to Afghan demonstrators from break· discuss with the Soviet Union the in~ into the compound. A CLC, Student Senate act together entire range of issues dividing the megaphone was shattered as police two countries." wielded nightsticks to hold back the dents a place to go with any sugges­ the rectors are the ones who have Fischer said the letter was sent dt·monstrators sur~ing toward the By SHEILA SHUNICK tions about student affairs, was the actual day-to-day contact with Monday and delivered in Moscow wall. News Staff needed. Thus, the student senate the students, their input is very im­ yesterday. Tht· demonstrators said they wnc was formed last year. portant. He reported that Reagan said protesting the Soviet military inter· On October 31,1977, a Campus This year, Murday hopes that the See CLC, page 3 Poland should be left alone to work vcntion in Afghanistan. Life Council was authorized bv the CLC and the Student Senate can Board of Trustees of the Univ~rsity · begin to work effectively together in of Notre Dame. Its purpose was to an effort to make ND "campus life" provide "an authorized forum better. Students could bring As volunteers where students, faculty, and ad­ proposals to the senate, where thev ministrative personnel could dis­ would be either passed or rejected. cuss matters affecting student affairs Those issues the Student Senate and make appropriate recommenda­ Senior citizens group ranks first deems viable would then pass on to tions directly to the Vice-President the CLC. If the CLC agrees with and for Student Affairs." passes the issue, it would then pass By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Today Mrs. Feick volunteers ht·r time at a local hospi­ In tht· past, the CLC has not been on to Fr. Van Wolvlear, Vice­ Associated Press Writer tal coordinatin~ visits to the skk by ministers, priests that productive. According to Don President for Student Affairs. who and rabbis. She lets them know when parishioners arc ill Murday, Student Body President, has the power to approve or veto it. WASHINGTON ( AP) - If the generation that came and suggests when to visit them and their fa milks. "nothing ever got done." Various If an issue is vetoed, and the senate is of age in the '70s was the "me" generation, the genera­ When she heard about the hospital's program, in Oc­ student affairs were discussed in the still in favor of it, it can be appealed tion now approaching age 70 might be called the "thee" tober I 972, "I thought to myself. I thought, 'Oh, this is council, but their results were never to the provost and if necessary to the generation. just for me.' When I joined up I knew that was the job seen by the student body. Some sort president. By the thousands, older Americans arc flocking to for me. of organization that would serve to According to Murdav, the rectors give of their time and talents as longer lifcspans lead "To me it's a great joy. I tell you honestly, I go to ~·ork unite the student body, giving stu- are the pivotal part of the CLC. Since more and more people into the ranks of the retired. with the grt·atcst ofplt-asurc. I don't know what 1 would Now a decade old, the Retired Senior Volunteer have done. God help us if that RSVP ever folds up, me Program boasts more than 319,000 people, aged 60 and and a million others." over. who each year donate more than <;7 million hours RSVP volunteers around the country - lawyers, Dillon student sustains of their time. teachers, carpenters, d()(:tors, hricklayers and so forth The organization W ... ,,,~ . - receive no pay for their efforts, at It-ast not in money. will celebrate its EDNESDA YMtWii But the federal government spt·nds about S27. 7 mil· bodily injuries in fall lion a year to administer the program. That's about SH7 a year per volunteer, or 4H cents per hour worked. ~:;:2:~;,~t:~~~;~ i~r~;j;;:~:::::::;*~f F 0 C US The Reagan administration has proposed a modest By MICHAEL SCHIERL mediately notified campus security. planned activities inc rca~·· in next year's RSVP budget, to S2R 7 million. News Staff who in turn called for an ambulance. Campus security and the ambulance for this week's an- Dr. Harold Gunn, 61, a retired Detroit spct·ch pat· nual RSVP convention here. About 60 senior volunteers hologist, said his interest in counseling troublt-d young Dillon Hall sophomore Chris Gus­ were on the scene within minutes are expected to attend. men is sustained by the success stories. taf.o;on fell from the balcony of his according to Uri tis. For one elderly man or woman, the attraction to He recalled one particular youth, a small boy who third floor room Monday morning. Dillon Hall Rector Father Daniel volunteer work is to try to share the joys of a long life, was picked on by his peers and had been shuffled be· He is reportedly in fair condition Jcnky, who accompanied Gustafson for another it's helping ease the pain of death. For tween foster parents and grandparents most of his life. and good spirits following initial to St. Joseph's Hospital, said "Gus thousands it's a rewarding chance to help both others With Gunn's help and encouragement, he enrolled in a treatment for a broken ankle and remained conscious the whole time and themselves. job training program, earned a high school cquivalt:ncy two injured vertebrae. even though he was experiencing "I enjoy everything about being an RSVP volunteer. diploma and now hopes to enter college. The accident occurred at about tremendous pain." Jenkv indicated that Gustafson was taken ·immediate­ Being needed is the big reward. And it helps keep me "There may not be any money in volunteer service I 0:4S when Gustaf.~on, who had young at 81 years. It makes me feel like a useful citizen," but this is a reward money can't buy," Gunn said. been studying on the balcony, at­ ly to the x-ray room while "I gave said Lois Wayland of Omaha, Neb., who tutors disad­ Among the senior volunteers scheduled to attend the tempted to re-enter his room them the necessary information and vantaged youngsters. RSVP convention is 77 year-old Donald Mortlock of through the window. The actual fall called his father." Another volunteer is Mary Feick, 8 I, of New Haven, Laurel, Del. was witnessed by two other Dillon Dr. Bernard Vagner performed Conn., who remembers the despair of a relative who Mortlock retired I I years ago from a job as an in­ residents, Dave Me Avoy, his surgery on Gustafson's ankle later in died of cancer in 1972. surance auditor in Buffalo, N.Y., and moved to Laurel roommate and P.j. Vritis, a first floor the day. The ankle. which was :vtrs. Felek explained that her sister-in-law "was very where he founded the I ,000 member Indian Rive; resident whose room is directly broken in three places, required the low and wanted to talk to somebody outside of the fami­ Senior Center. below Gustaf.'ion's. insertion of pins. ly. You see, at that time we didn't want to talk about Mortlock said he started the center because he was Uritis, who heard a scream and Gustafson is soon tq,be placed in dying." just not inclined to spend the rest of his life in a rocking noticed something fall pa'it his win­ trat·tion for two compacted, cracked A young Roman Catholic priest befriended the chair.