Social Action Program Outlined to Fight Injustice by Bob Mader the People and How Adequately It 1976, Deardon Explained

Social action program outlined to fight injustice by Bob Mader the people and how adequately it 1976, Deardon explained. Campus Editor fulfills its pastoral mission. Am erican culture and the teaeh- This phase also hopes to examine ingsof the Church must test each The Catholic Church's Bicen the experiences of Catholics in other before any plan for social tennial Program to combat social their communities and find out ministry can begin. injustice “ must involve the full what hopes Catholics have for the “ To put it more precisely, if we com m unity of the Church if it is to Church in the future. are to have a Catholic dialogue succeed,” John Cardinal Dearden “ Briefly put,” Dearden stated, there must be a testing of the said last night. “ the listening-learning phase is a experience and opinions of the The Archbishop of Detroit data gathering process. If done community by the normative outlined a two part social action well, it should provide a sampling teaching of the Church,” Dearden program of the Catholic bishops of of what our people are thinking and said. America in his address to the what they are experiencing each The bishops intend to develop “ Catholic Committee on Urban day.” teaching document and a plan of Ministry (CCUM) conference. pastoral action” during the Detroit “Basically, our plan for the Second phase: pastoral action meeting, the Cardinal said, in American Church has two order to begin social change. dimensions,” the Cardinal said. The reflection-response phase of “ The Church, then, not merely “We can speak of a listening- the Bicentennial Program w ill be a proclaims but is itself an agent of learning phase and a reflection- sifting of the data obtained in the social justice. Social injustice is response phase.” first phase resulting in a plan of not something we read about in Deardon explained the listening- pastoral action and social textbooks or hear denounced in learning phase, implemented th m inistry. pastoral letters. Social injustice rough national hearings and parish This phase will extend through takes the human shape and lives discussions, as an attempt to the national consultation on liberty among us,” Dearden said. discover how the Church lives with and justice at Detroit in October, (continued on page f) John Cardinal Deardon explains that parish discussions and pastoral *T h e action are needed if the full Church community is to succeed in com batting social injustice. (Photo by Chris Smith) Reactions m Obsuniversity of notre dame Vrver $ college new graduate Vol. X, No. 42 ^^^^^Ttm rsday^ctobeM 0^975^ by Maureen Flynn Senior Staff Reporter Members of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology have voiced both praise and criticism for reorganization of the new graduate program and the approval of a new departmental policy on teaching loads and credits. Comments ranging from “ disastrous” to “ very promising” have been directed at the graduate program scheduled for im plementation in the spring semester. Under regulations passed last May in an executive session of the faculty, the program of graduate studies w ill be re-structured as team-developed seminars in four “ core” and four “ specialty” areas. Seminar offerings will alternate on a yearly basis and a limited system of electives will be offered by individual faculty th ree semesters out of every four. One department member, who preferred not to be named, listed the pros and cons of the seminar structure. “ The student really profits,” he said, “ by getting two or three different views of a problem. We hope this w ill generate ideas among the students,” he explained. “Instead of spoon-feeding them one professor’s viewpoint, the presentation of different opinions will make them use their brains more.” “ My experience with seminars,” he continued, “ has been that some work and some don’t. The student w ill get no more out of it than he puts in.” In any class, the professor noted, “ student input is just as important asthe professor’s output.” Randy Haefner holds the pumpkin head which won for two at the Boar's Head Restaurant. Other prizes him Most Outstanding (first prize) in the First were given to Kathy Knue and Marian Toth for Most Despres sees graduate improvement Annual Stanford Farley Pumpkin Carving Contest. Original, Kathy Robinson for Most Studly, Jill His prize, which was awarded even though the Truitt and Scott Dentz for Most Feminine, and Dave Department Chairman Leo A. Despres sees the new program as pumpkin covered Haefner's own head, was dinner Lazzeri who won the Booby Prize. a great improvement over the present system. Currently and in the ( Photo by Chris Smith) past, he explained, each professor decided which courses he would like to offer on a graduate level. Because of the nearly equal numbers of faculty and graduate students (24 to approxim ately 35), professors offered courses on a rotating basis over a three or four year period. Most ND students receive aid “ How can the graduate student plan his schedule of studies,” scholarships total 911 and are Despres asked, “ when he doesn’t know which courses w ill be of by Kathy Mills and not the principal from an valued at $1,077,268. Outside fered from one semester to another?” Senior Staff Reporter endowment,” she pointed out. scholarships, valued at $999,510, The solution to this problem, Despres stated, was either to create “For example, on an $8 million number 887. ROTC scholarships, a graduate school faculty or develop a seminar system. Fifty-five per cent of the un endowment, we can spend only numbering 389, are valued at “ It would be foolish,” he argued, “ to waste the resources of the dergraduates at Notre Dame are approximately $320,000 per year.” $1,187,086. department’” by having a graduate faculty “when we have so receiving some form of financial McCauslin also said the amount many very bright assistants and associate professors.” aid this year, according to a available from these endowments Describes funding The seminar system, Despres stated, “encourages the in preliminary report from the Office fluctuates each year since the volvement of almost two-thirds of the department in the graduate of Financial Aid and Scholarships. returns on the investments change. McCauslin said University- program and allows us to utilize all our intellectual resources.” A total of 3,763 students are Corporations contribute a minor administered scholarships are The definite rotation of courses, said Despres, also allows the collectively receiving $7,696,772, part of the scholarship money, funded by endowments and con graduate student to plan his course of studies over a two or three an all time high, in financial according to McCauslin. tributions. The contributions, she year period. assistance. The average amount “ Over the last five years, we lost noted, come mainly from in The new system will lim it the number of areas covered by the each of these students receives is a great majority of corporation $1,411. dividuals interested in the graduate program, Despres noted, “ but it w ill allow us to focus on scholarships because the boards of University. areas of strength.’ June McCauslin, director of the directors in the sixties didn’t want Office of Financial Aid and “ N o rm a lly,” she stated, “ i t ’s an to give to individual students,” she interested alumnus who has Graduate program too sm all Scholarships, explained these explained. figures represent all types of enough money to contribute or who “ Companies also used to employ triggers off someone’s interest in Another member of the department, who preferred to remain financial assistance available to scholarships as a recruiting the University.” anonymous, said it is a “ form of madness to put so many resources students. device, but they found this was not Many endowments come from into the graduate program. The department presently services These include University- too successful. Imagine the people who will money to Notre about 1200 undergraduates, including more than 100 majors,’’the adiministered scholarships, ROTC decrease also has something to do Dame. professor observed, “ while the total number of graduate students scholarships, state scholarships, with the economy,” she added. The values of the scholarships in residence is about 35.” National Merit and National funded by the University’s en Two factors considered The faculty member further charged that the “ disproportionate Achievement Scholarships, bank dowment range from $10,000 to commitment of faculty to team-taught seminars shortchanges loans, federal grants and aid from $1,000,000, M cC auslin noted, All University-administered undergraduate instruction.” other sources outside the (continued on page 4) University. although one is worth $8 million. scholarship awards are based on University-administered “ We can spend only the interest (c o n tin u ed on page 4rf the observer world briefs B-ball tix available next month LONDON (AP) — A bomb exploded Wednesday night inside an by Don Reimer Italian restaurant in a fashionable London district. Scotland Yard Busick noted that many students tickets. He pointed to the great Staff Reporter said at least 17 persons were injured. may have lost the reciepts from savings over a regular season t- There was no warning before the explosion, which came hours last spring so a student I D will be icket and the fact that it many be Student basketball tickets will after police detained eight persons for questioning about the latest sufficient to obtain the tickets. difficult to obtain tickets for in probably be distributed on Nov. 19 Each ticket must be signed for dividual games. outbreak of bombings in London. or 20 according to Michael Busick, MADRID, Spain (AP) — Generalissimo Francisco Franco talked when it is picked up.

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