Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 122, No. 06 -- February 1981

Editor Chuck Wood SCHOLASTIC Managing Editor/Business Manager jim Sommers Vo1.J22, No.6, 1980-81 production Manager Notre Dame, IN To The Editor: Clay Malaker Layout Editor Tina Terlaak FEATURES Faust's, Leadership pray every night in dorm chapels, Copy Editors Our Call to Eucharist Donna Teevon Paul McGinn attend Mass, and reach out to Christ Daniel Moore 4 South Bend: A Pleasant Surprise with their whole hearts. Unfortu To the Editor: To the Editor: Art Director I feel privileged to continue the nately though, when they get back 8 Photo Essay . .. ~inter at the Zoo I found Mr. Zuehlke's article, "A Michael Gazzerro Sue Thornton introduction of the campus' newest to their rooms they are unwilling to Call to Eucharist" (Scholastic) De and Botanical Gardens leader Gerry Faust as begun in the share Christ with their roommates, Photography Editor cember '80), to be very thought Eileen O'Meara Eileen O'Meara article, "Faust and Notre Dame's with the people next door, or with provoking. I thank Mr. Zuehlke for 10 Photo Essay: South Bend People Football Future" (Scholastic) Febru the many lonely freshmen. News Editor providing me with the incentive to 14 The Music Box: A Welcome Alternative Mike Mlynski ary, '81). The article quotes Faust as saying, catch up on some basic Eucharistic Andrew Zwerneman "Players will give 120 per cent on I look to Faust as a twofold theology. The following is a discus Fiction Editor 15 How Much Do You Know About South Bend? Ima Taunee leader. His enthusiasm and coaching the field, I guarantee it, but I also sion of some of those reflections Mark Traverso promise you they'll be quality young ability will definitely lead the foot made after reading his article. Per Culture Editor 18 Dorothy Day and Notre Dame Dr. Julian Pleasants men off the field." It seems clear ball team, but I look forward to haps it would be beneficial ·for Mr. Ken Scarbrough Faust's reviving the spirituality of that Faust has given his pledge to The Outcasts are Back Mary Pigott Zuehlke to consider the following: Sports Editor 21 the Notre Dame student body. I be develop the lives of his players .on We are indeed called to Eucharist and off the field. Beyond that, I hope Tom O'Toole The Right to Life: Where They Stand Ed Kelly lieve he is well-qualified in both and all which that call implies. We 24 categories. he can develop the spiritual lives of are called to join in the heavenly St. Mary's Editor the students as well. He can do so Mary Pigott As a former high school athlete, I banquet; to participate in the mys by his example as a family man, his appreciate Faust's emphasis on "fun teryof the Risen Lord; to enter into Distribution Manager enthusiasm as coach, and his open REGULARS damentals: detail, discipline, organi the new creation. The Church is His joe Pheifer faith as a Christian man. ation, and efficiency." As a com body, we are his point of entry into mitted Christian, though, I see the In conclusion, the article mentions the world. . 2 Letters Faust's saying, "There's so much need for these same assets in devel We do not answer our call to Eu Mark Traverso tradition here· that I just want to 12 Fiction/Traveling oping a deeper and more open spir charist by making some private de add to it, not take anything away." ituality at Notre Dame. As a Catho votion out of the daily reception of Tom O'Toole I think Faust can give a lot to Notre 22 Sports/HoW We Lost Patsy Coash lic university, Notre Dame should Communion, but rather by daily liv Dame. He knows what it takes to definitely have more to offer than ing out the full implications and ob 26 Gallery Chris McCrory add to tradition. It takes hard work, national championships. Made to ligations which Communion in the think about the value of Christianity, enthusiastic leadership, and it takes 28 Books/Escaping with Graham Greene Lance Mazerov faith in God. Faust thinks Notre Eucharist demands. Our call to Eu most students will admit that a life charist does not ask that we confess Chuck Wood in Christ is the finest life to live. Dame is "phenomenal." Well, repre Staff 31 Last Word senting Notre Dame, I think Gerry to some great unworthiness, but that You may be asking what this has Cathy Chopp, Denise G~ether, L~is Ken: Faust fits in perfectly. we recognize the beauty and worth to do with coach Faust. Well, the of all humanity and diligently work nedy, Bill Kolb, Teresa Relch~rt, MIke ZUSI, article stated that Faust has a repu Mark Sullivan, john Davenport, Dan Sincerely, for the protection, preservation, and tation for "developing individuals of acceptance of that worth in all Kevsal, Mary Link, Shelly Hendricks.on, the finest caliber." I can attest to this Jim Mysliwiec '82 people. Lizann Welk, jeny Kucenic, Shea WatkinS, fact by my friendship with Harry Susan de Carvalho, Barbara Bridges, Anne The Eucharist is made present not Barsanti, Ed Kelly, Peg Boeheim. Oliver, one of Faust's Moeller gradu only by the actions of the priest, but ates. Harry's faith in God was plain The Last Word by the faith of the whole community. to see after his miraculous field goal It is not only a reflection of that Front Cover which won the Michigan game last To the Editor: community's faith experience, but a Chris McCrory, Eileen O'Meara, Delia fall. Harry is a fine individual and Your "The Last Word" article in primary means of intensifying and Thomas, jennifer Byrne, judie Mengel a good example of the type of men the December '80, issue of Scholastic strengthening that experience so that Faust can produce as coach. was especially touching to me in it can be lived out in our daily lives. As coach, as leader, Gerry Faust two ways. First as the son of a We are called to Eucharist, but in Back Cover has a fundamental Christian charac father (now dead some six years) a much broader sense than Mr. Bob Wade ter trait-willingness to share his toward whom I felt the same way as Zuehlke's article implies; in a much faith in God with others. He sees no you do toward your father, I regret more radical stance, a much less se Photographs obstacles in putting his faith in God that I never had the sense to tell him cure posture. Our call to Eucharist at the center of his personal life, his so. Second, as the father of a seven p. 8, 9, 14, Sue Thornton; p. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, . The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and edito~s ~f Scholastic is not only a call to sustenance, but 24, Bob Wade; p. 25, Mary Anne Hughes; idea of the family, and his job as teen-year-old daughter and a fifteen a challenge as well; not merely a call and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire staff and edItOrial board of head football coach at Notre Dame. year-old son, your' words were espe p. 23, 26, 27, Chrissy-P?? McCrory; p. 10, Scholastic or the University of Notre Dame, its administration, faculty, or the student to nourishment, but a call to growth; 11, Eileenie-Lou O'Meara. If Gerry Faust can win the respect cially poignant to me. You have, in not a passive partiCipation in ritual body. of the varsity athletes as effectively my opinion, exhibited a great deal of activity, but a dynamic interplay The magazine is represented for national advertisi~g by National Edu~ational Advertising as he has the students' respect, insight. Congratulations on a moving with the whole of creation. The call Illustrations Notre Dame will certainly retain its Services and CASS Student AdvertiSing, Inc.' Published 1!10.nthly dUring the sch?ol year and well-written piece. to Eucharistis a call to the responsi- -. p. 18, Tina Sipula enthusiasm for football. In addition, except during vacation and examination periods, ScholastiC. IS prmted at Ave M~rla Press, bilities of living the Christian life. Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. The subscription rate is $7.00 a year ~nd back Issues are Faust's open dedication to the Lord Yours sincerely, available from Scholastic. Please address all manuscripts to Scho.lasllc, Notre Dame, Ind. may encourage students to openly Morton S. Fuchs Sincerely, Advisory Board 46556. All unsolicited material becomes the property of ScholastiC. share their Christian lives· with each Professor of Biology Mike Hay. Elizabeth Christman, Mario Pedi, james copyright © 1981 Scholastic / all rights reserved / none of the contents may be repro other. As Christians, marty students Robinson, Doug Kinsey duced without permission. 2 3 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 4

local playhouses, Sandra Warfield au I ditioned for the Metropolitan Opera in 1953. In the two years from the signing of her contract, Sandra War field moved from a peasant girl in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro to La South Bend, Indiana--- Cieca in Puccini's La Gioconda and finally as leading role of Ulrica in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. Deciding to leave for Europe with A Pleasant Surprise her husband, Sandra Warfield re ceived a position at the Vienna Staatsoper where she again played the character of Ulrica. After the by Paul R. McGinn Vienna episode, she moved to the Zurich Opera where she played the part of Katherine in Martinu's pre miere of Greek Passion. Before her Though many Notre Dame stu the 1980-81 season. To be held at includes Vaughn Williams' "Fantasia return to the United States with Mc dents consider South Bend a verit the Morris Civic AUditorium these on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for a?le . entertainment wasteland, the Cracken, Sandra Warfield toured performances include an app~arance Double String Orchestra"; Richard Italy, Germany, Great Britain and ii ~tty Indeed provides some outstand by Barry Tuckwell, an eminent :;Ii Strauss, Concerto Number One iri E Yugoslavia and recorded "Duets of ': ~ng cultural activities. Considering ~rench Horn player, and a joint re Flat for French Horn and Orchestra Love and Passion" with her husband Its population, South Bend provides CItal of tenor James McCracken and :1 Opus 11; and Stravinsky's Pet~ for London Records. a more than adequate variety of mezzo-soprano Sandra Warfield. The Morris Civic Auditorium rr:uchka. A Melbourne, Australia, na Returning to America in 1963, i symphonic, artistic, and dramatic Barry Tuckwell appears Saturday tIve, Tuckwell is the only French I eyents. Included among these func March 28. His scheduled repertoir~ Sandra Warfield made her debut as .i horn player in the world to have established a career as a soloist in Saint-Saens, as well as a perfor Dalila in Saint-Saens' Sam,son et II tI?~S . are presentations of the Music mance of Strauss' Til Evlenspiegel. II DIvIsIon of Indiana University at stead of maintaining an orchestral Dalila with the San Francisco Opera "~I McCracken began his career in ,I South Bend, the South Bend Sym seat or holding a professorship. Each Company. In 1968, Sandra Warfield Gary, Indiana, where he sang in his 'I P~O?y Orchestra, the South Bend year, Tuckwell makes close to rejoined the Metropolitan Opera CIVIC Theatre, the wide range of two hundred appearances, traveling high school's Gilbert and Sullivan Company and in the 1971-1972 sea I events at the Century Center and the 200,000 miles in the process. His tal operettas. During his tour with the son, sang Sam,son et Dalila with her ,I Navy, McCracken joined the Blue :1 many small art galleries located ents take him to every major music husband to fulfill a much-cherished J throughout the city. center in the world, and to such Jackets Choir as a soloist. On en dream. Sandra Warfield's new career couragement from an officer, Mc The Music Division of the Indiana little-known areas as Brunei and consists of operatic performances Cracken sought an operatic career Uni."ersity at South Bend sponsors Sarawa. throughout the United States and upon discharge. After singing in var.I~us concerts, recitals, and com After playing with the Victoria includes many joint recitals with some Broadway musicals and per !letr?ons throughout the year. Held and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, James McCracken. forming limited operatic numbers, In e~ther the Campus Auditorium or Tuckwell went to Grea:t Britain, McCracken signed with the Metro Overseeing the South Bend Sym RecItal Hall of the university, the where he first joined the Halle Or phony Orchestra this year is music performances usually commence at chestra, the Scottish National Or politan Opera. Four years of minor roles failed to encourage McCracken director-conductor Herbert Butler. 8:1? p.~. Music student concerts this chestra, and finally, the Bourne Through Butler's efforts, the orches spnng Include the Wind Ensemble mouth Orchestra. By 1955, Tuckwell who left for Europe in 1957. The turnaround of McCracken's career tra has become a well-respected addi (March 12), the Philharmonic Or was a soloist of the London Sym tion to the cultural mainstream of chestra (March 13, 14'; with the phony where he remained for thir came when he received the part of Bacchus in Richard Strauss' Ariadne the Midwest. After receiving his South Bend Symphonic Choir on , teen years. In 1968, he began his solo bachelor's and master's degrees from May?), an.d the Jazz Ensemble (per career by performing all of the solo auf Naxos for the Vienna Staatsoper. After building a strong reputation in the School of Music of Indiana Uni for:nmg ~th the Penn High School horn parts of Wagner's Ring of the Europe, McCracken returned to the versity, Butler served as the con Sw~n.g ChOIr April 8). A piano com Nibelungs at Covent Garden. Metropolitan Opera for a rarely seen ductor of the Western Michigan Uni I>et~t~on (March 20, 21, 22), a com Since the Covent Garden appear versity Symphony Orchestra. Since pOSItIOn recit~l (April 21), and a ance, Tuckwell's repertoire expanded second debut in 1963. James McCracken's first star per that time he served as a guest con chamber mUSIC recital (April 28) to include the horn concerto works ductor with a few of the local sym round out the students' season of Wolfgang and Leopold Mozart, formance at the Metropolitan was the leading role in Verdi's Othello. phony orchestras before receiving Musical arrangements by Ejnar Richard Strauss, Weber, Telemann, his present position of associate pro Krantz, Piano (March 17) Celia Beethoven, Saint-Saens, as well as To most critics, McCracken's debut was no less than stunning as "the fessorat Western Michigan Univer Weiss, Piano (March 27), th~ Ches many others. Critics term Tuckwell's sity. playing "bel canto elegance" and . very walls' trembled" and as "he ter String Quartet (April 11, 12) The greatest cultural attribute of and J~mes Lawson, Bass (April 24) cite the "silken sheen" of his tone. tore down the house." One critic in the Stuttgarter Nooh . Recordings have also brought the City of South Bend is the Cen- compnse the faculty-sponsored events , tury Center, located downtown, on for the spring 'semester. richten stated: "If the hunter from fame and accolades to McCracken. Kurpfalz had been able to play like His rendition of Othello for EMI the banks of the Saint Joseph River. The university also plays. host. to A mammoth three-'story structure, it the South Bend Y:outh Symphony Tuckwell; the deer would have died Angel merited a Grand Prix du from ecstasy." . , .. Disques and a performance of Don serves as the home of the' Midwest (Mar.ch 8),. the South Bend Sym Pops and contains the Warner' Art p~on~c ChOIr (March 20, 21), the Thehusband-and-wife team of Jose in Bizet'sOarmen won Deutsche James McCracken and Sandra War Grammophon a Grammy Award in Gallery for large exhibitions; the Michlana Area· Composers Recital Women's Art League Gallery for (March 22), and the South Bend field come to South Bend May. 2 to .1974. intimate showings; the Art Center Recorder Society (April 14). . render selections from soine of'the Sandra Warfield began her musical Inc., for instruction; Discovery Hall, In its forty-eighth season, the most popular oratorios of all time. career selling peanuts, popcorn, and Included in the night's display is hot dogs with her concessionaire fa an industrial museum; the 718-seat South Bend Symphony plans two Bendix Theatre; and 25,000 square performances for the remainder of Verdi's overture to IVespri Siciliani, ther in a Kansas City, Missouri, selected pieces of Puccini, Bizet, and park. After playing small parts in feet of convention floor space. Next 4 5 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 Chamber Music Competition will ing to display his artistic abilities, ", ", ~" . ~".~" him a truly diverse musical back- theme shows. Recently the Women's the showing requires that the work " (\... ..' .' . . ground. Guest appearances include again be held in the Bendix Theatre '~\"\~r' ~~ Art League Gallery played host to be 8%Xll and that the artist pay a .. ""'.. ~,~". ~ the South Bend Symphony, the Min- the monographs of Notre Dame's of the Century Center this year. As .. '\.. '\.."-:. '. nesota Orches!ra, the Boston Pops, one of only two national chamber $5.00 hanging fee. The showing ex ,",~" ~'~. ~ Douglas Kinsey. pects to attract many enterprising . . ' . '...,," and. the NatIOnal Symphony. His Scheduled February 28-April 5 are music contests, the Fischoff competi '.. musICal scores have been used by tion attracts some of the nation's artists from the area and give a dis historic quilts from the Indianapolis play area without the anxieties of a '. '" ... , ZOOM and NOVA: he also worked Museum of Art. As a part of Indi finest musicians to South Bend this . , " "'.... and played under Arthur Fiedler as February 28-March 1. John de judged contest. In the smaller gallery ~ ana's cultural past, this quilt exhibi of Aquinas, the color photographs of .... "'~.'" well.as directing and arranging the tion circulates throughout the state Lancie, director of the Curtis Insti , ,~mus~c for the off-Broadway show, tute of Music, along with violinist local man, Keith Gates, will be dis in an effort to build an appreciation played. April 4-April 19, Joan Gal . "". Berl~n to Broadway with Kurt Weill of the woven arts. April ll-May 10, Urico Rossi of the Indiana School of ~ The Warner Art Gallery, located Music and pianist Beveridge Webster lagher, an M.F.A. from Notre Dame, the Women's Art League Gallery will will present pencil abstracts, works on the ~econd level of the Century hold an exhibition of the photo of the Julliard School of Music will """. Center, IS devoted to exhibitions of a judge the contest. which involve the use of such nat graphic works of Gary Cialdella, a ural objects as twigs and stones. In " ~ regional, national, or international prospering artist from Kalamazoo, Also in the South Bend area lie a flavor. As the gallery possesses only few small art galleries devoted to the small gallery, Kathy Reddy's Michigan. pastel creations will be exhibited. five hundred permanent pieces. War As a center for cultural develop regional or thematic showings. ner relies mainly on traveling shows Among these are Gallery Aquinas, Coming April 25 through May 9 are ment, the Century Center is also the paintings and drawings of local ar loaned pieces, and art competitions: home of the Art Center. As a com Artwurks Gallery, and the Isis Gal The appearance of the gallery is no lery. Hoping to fill a need for dis tist Janet Steinmitz. Entitled "In munity center for the public experi Collaboration with Myself," the show l~ss than excellent, for it is tech ence of art, the Art Center. sponsors play area and studio space for area n~cally and aesthetically well-de artists, Gallery Aquinas was founded presents the artist's conceptions of classes, workshops, and seminars to her different personalities. A pho sIgne~. The lighting and background further the appreciation of art in the as an artist cooperative. Gallery techmques afford the viewer an ele Aquinas has become the most recog tographer, Ruven Sanderfore, also area. Weekly course offerings include will display his works. g~nt view of the displays and give drawing, watercolor, oil painting, nized display space of exceptional hIm a true appreciation of the works. works by the leading artists of the The Artwurks Gallery, owned and photography, printmaking, sculpture, operated by Donald and Irenke Through March 1, the Warner Gal ceramics, jewelry, metalsmithing, Michiana region and beyond. As an lery is sponsoring an exhibition of art center, Gallery Aquinas con Horning, devotes itself to the finest commercial art, art appreciation, and examples of contemporary art pieces Ind~ana artists entitled, "Hoosier combined media. Each semester, stantly seeks proposals for new show ArtIsts: Family and Friends." Among ings of progressing artists in all in all media. Besides a fine perma these fourteen-week courses are nent collection, the gallery regularly th?s~ displayed are: Robert Indiana, media forms, including all arts and taught by local art teachers, most of hosts groups of artists or traveling WIlham Chase, Daniel Garber, Otto letters endeavors. Sponsored by whom hold permanent art instruc shows which the Hornings deem to Stark, and J. C. Steele. Many of these workingmen and -women, Gallery tion positions in the South Bend be high quality. An example of the paint~rs. studied under European im Aquinas is open Saturday and Sun area. quality of these productions is an pressIOmsts c:>f the early twentieth day from 12 to 5 p.m. Another facet of the Century Cen exhibition on display through March century and returned to their native Showing February 21 through ter is Discovery Hall, devoted to the 22. "Contemporary Containers with s~ates to display .their acquired tech study of local industrial history. March 8 in the large display area of mques. the gallery is Ruth Sinclair. An art Asian Accents" includes four clay Tracing the industrial growth and artists, Barbara Takiguchi and Ted March 8-April 12, the Gallery pre expansion of the area, Discovery teacher from Elkhart, Sinclair spe cializes in paperworks of sculpture, Lobinger of California, Randy Ben sents a collection of the works of Hall presents the machines, products, jamin of illinois, and New Yorker ~hotographer Alfred Steiglitz. Known and philosophies which brought painting, and prints. During the same time period, Rebecca Schroeder Martin Klaus. Each production of m most circles as the father of mod South Bend into the twentieth cen the artists is in some way affected by e?I photography, Steiglitz is respon tury. Presently under renovation, of Chicago will display her oil paint ings. An open art exhibit, entitled Asian forms, glazing, firing, or brush SIble for the recognition of photogra Discovery Hall plans to reopen in the stroke techniques. Items such as tea phy. ~s . an artistic expression. The spring of 1982. "8%Xll," will be held March 14- March 29. Open to any. person wish- jars, image plates, vases, scarab exhIbIt mdicates the artist's meticu The Joseph Fischoff National beetle jars, and bowls are featured lous . c.hoosing of deeply moving and in materials of porcelain, stoneware, senSItIve events and of his care to bamboo, crystalline porcelain, and reproduce those occurrences as truth raku fired ware. fully .as po~sible. Steiglitz's photo- The Century Center Truly, South Bend provides a vast gra~hIC gemus lies present in each assortment of cultural diversions; to of hIS close-up or distant shots,' as he deem the city devoid of culture is to to the Athletic and Convocation mance in the United States in over a captur~s !he essence of the moment. Center, the Century Center stands as hamper one's own cultural growth, year. ~s SteIghtz wrote in a 1923 exhibi as much lies beyond the shadow of the largest enclosed meeting place in Born with only ten percent of ~IOn cat~log, "Art or not art that is the area. the Dome. For some, South Bend re normal sight, Fest, who first studied Imm~terIal, there is photography. I mains a distant entity. For others Winding up its 1980-81 season under his father, was a conductor contmue on my way seeking my own Sunday, April 26, the Midwest Pops who have come to appreciate the cul and co~cert pianist in Germany. truth ever affirming today." ture of this city, South Bend is very presents Ma~fredo Fest, a superior G:aduatmg from the University of .on. April 18, the Twelfth Biennial much a part of everyday life. 0 keybo~rd artIst from Brazil. Touted RI~ Grande do SuI, Fest built a repu MIchIana Local Art Competition a. Latm America Festival, the eve tatIon as a jazz star in the Sao Paulo t~kes place. Competition and exhibi Program Biographies: Barry Tuck- mn~ pl~ns to be a survey of the area.. After cutting five albums in tIOn artists from the South Bend well, James McCracken, Sandra faSCl?atmg m~sic and rhythm of BrazIl, Fest moved to the United area plan to display their works in Warfield, Herbert Butler, Man BrazIl, Ar~entma, Mexico and CUba. States. Calling Minneapolis his home the forms of painting, prints and Ac.compamed by Rich Wolff on bass fredo Fest, and Newton Wayland. Fest now tours the world as th~ sculpture. ' , Norman Dorothy. Alfred; Steiglitz, ~Itar and Alejo Puveda on percus leader of the Manfredo Fest Trio Complementing the Warner Gal Volume 3, The History of Photog SIOn, Fest combines American jazz Arranging the· score for the per music with the models of Brazilian lery is the Women's Art League Gal raphy. Millerton, New York, Aper formance is the Pops conductor lery, located on the Center's third ture Inc., 1976. popular music. This date in South Newton Wayland. In his first yea; Bend marks the trio's first perfor- level. As a small gallery, it is most "Noteworthy." Today in Michiana. as conductor, Wayland, brings with commonly used for one-man or one- The Artwurks Art Gallery Volume 1 (December, 1980), p. 3. 6 7 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 Chamber Music Competition will ing to display his artistic abilities, ", ", ~" . ~".~" him a truly diverse musical back- theme shows. Recently the Women's the showing requires that the work " (\... ..' .' . . ground. Guest appearances include again be held in the Bendix Theatre '~\"\~r' ~~ Art League Gallery played host to be 8%Xll and that the artist pay a .. ""'.. ~,~". ~ the South Bend Symphony, the Min- the monographs of Notre Dame's of the Century Center this year. As .. '\.. '\.."-:. '. nesota Orches!ra, the Boston Pops, one of only two national chamber $5.00 hanging fee. The showing ex ,",~" ~'~. ~ Douglas Kinsey. pects to attract many enterprising . . ' . '...,," and. the NatIOnal Symphony. His Scheduled February 28-April 5 are music contests, the Fischoff competi '.. musICal scores have been used by tion attracts some of the nation's artists from the area and give a dis historic quilts from the Indianapolis play area without the anxieties of a '. '" ... , ZOOM and NOVA: he also worked Museum of Art. As a part of Indi finest musicians to South Bend this . , " "'.... and played under Arthur Fiedler as February 28-March 1. John de judged contest. In the smaller gallery ~ ana's cultural past, this quilt exhibi of Aquinas, the color photographs of .... "'~.'" well.as directing and arranging the tion circulates throughout the state Lancie, director of the Curtis Insti , ,~mus~c for the off-Broadway show, tute of Music, along with violinist local man, Keith Gates, will be dis in an effort to build an appreciation played. April 4-April 19, Joan Gal . "". Berl~n to Broadway with Kurt Weill of the woven arts. April ll-May 10, Urico Rossi of the Indiana School of ~ The Warner Art Gallery, located Music and pianist Beveridge Webster lagher, an M.F.A. from Notre Dame, the Women's Art League Gallery will will present pencil abstracts, works on the ~econd level of the Century hold an exhibition of the photo of the Julliard School of Music will """. Center, IS devoted to exhibitions of a judge the contest. which involve the use of such nat graphic works of Gary Cialdella, a ural objects as twigs and stones. In " ~ regional, national, or international prospering artist from Kalamazoo, Also in the South Bend area lie a flavor. As the gallery possesses only few small art galleries devoted to the small gallery, Kathy Reddy's Michigan. pastel creations will be exhibited. five hundred permanent pieces. War As a center for cultural develop regional or thematic showings. ner relies mainly on traveling shows Among these are Gallery Aquinas, Coming April 25 through May 9 are ment, the Century Center is also the paintings and drawings of local ar loaned pieces, and art competitions: home of the Art Center. As a com Artwurks Gallery, and the Isis Gal The appearance of the gallery is no lery. Hoping to fill a need for dis tist Janet Steinmitz. Entitled "In munity center for the public experi Collaboration with Myself," the show l~ss than excellent, for it is tech ence of art, the Art Center. sponsors play area and studio space for area n~cally and aesthetically well-de artists, Gallery Aquinas was founded presents the artist's conceptions of classes, workshops, and seminars to her different personalities. A pho sIgne~. The lighting and background further the appreciation of art in the as an artist cooperative. Gallery techmques afford the viewer an ele Aquinas has become the most recog tographer, Ruven Sanderfore, also area. Weekly course offerings include will display his works. g~nt view of the displays and give drawing, watercolor, oil painting, nized display space of exceptional hIm a true appreciation of the works. works by the leading artists of the The Artwurks Gallery, owned and photography, printmaking, sculpture, operated by Donald and Irenke Through March 1, the Warner Gal ceramics, jewelry, metalsmithing, Michiana region and beyond. As an lery is sponsoring an exhibition of art center, Gallery Aquinas con Horning, devotes itself to the finest commercial art, art appreciation, and examples of contemporary art pieces Ind~ana artists entitled, "Hoosier combined media. Each semester, stantly seeks proposals for new show ArtIsts: Family and Friends." Among ings of progressing artists in all in all media. Besides a fine perma these fourteen-week courses are nent collection, the gallery regularly th?s~ displayed are: Robert Indiana, media forms, including all arts and taught by local art teachers, most of hosts groups of artists or traveling WIlham Chase, Daniel Garber, Otto letters endeavors. Sponsored by whom hold permanent art instruc shows which the Hornings deem to Stark, and J. C. Steele. Many of these workingmen and -women, Gallery tion positions in the South Bend be high quality. An example of the paint~rs. studied under European im Aquinas is open Saturday and Sun area. quality of these productions is an pressIOmsts c:>f the early twentieth day from 12 to 5 p.m. Another facet of the Century Cen exhibition on display through March century and returned to their native Showing February 21 through ter is Discovery Hall, devoted to the 22. "Contemporary Containers with s~ates to display .their acquired tech study of local industrial history. March 8 in the large display area of mques. the gallery is Ruth Sinclair. An art Asian Accents" includes four clay Tracing the industrial growth and artists, Barbara Takiguchi and Ted March 8-April 12, the Gallery pre expansion of the area, Discovery teacher from Elkhart, Sinclair spe cializes in paperworks of sculpture, Lobinger of California, Randy Ben sents a collection of the works of Hall presents the machines, products, jamin of illinois, and New Yorker ~hotographer Alfred Steiglitz. Known and philosophies which brought painting, and prints. During the same time period, Rebecca Schroeder Martin Klaus. Each production of m most circles as the father of mod South Bend into the twentieth cen the artists is in some way affected by e?I photography, Steiglitz is respon tury. Presently under renovation, of Chicago will display her oil paint ings. An open art exhibit, entitled Asian forms, glazing, firing, or brush SIble for the recognition of photogra Discovery Hall plans to reopen in the stroke techniques. Items such as tea phy. ~s . an artistic expression. The spring of 1982. "8%Xll," will be held March 14- March 29. Open to any. person wish- jars, image plates, vases, scarab exhIbIt mdicates the artist's meticu The Joseph Fischoff National beetle jars, and bowls are featured lous . c.hoosing of deeply moving and in materials of porcelain, stoneware, senSItIve events and of his care to bamboo, crystalline porcelain, and reproduce those occurrences as truth raku fired ware. fully .as po~sible. Steiglitz's photo- The Century Center Truly, South Bend provides a vast gra~hIC gemus lies present in each assortment of cultural diversions; to of hIS close-up or distant shots,' as he deem the city devoid of culture is to to the Athletic and Convocation mance in the United States in over a captur~s !he essence of the moment. Center, the Century Center stands as hamper one's own cultural growth, year. ~s SteIghtz wrote in a 1923 exhibi as much lies beyond the shadow of the largest enclosed meeting place in Born with only ten percent of ~IOn cat~log, "Art or not art that is the area. the Dome. For some, South Bend re normal sight, Fest, who first studied Imm~terIal, there is photography. I mains a distant entity. For others Winding up its 1980-81 season under his father, was a conductor contmue on my way seeking my own Sunday, April 26, the Midwest Pops who have come to appreciate the cul and co~cert pianist in Germany. truth ever affirming today." ture of this city, South Bend is very presents Ma~fredo Fest, a superior G:aduatmg from the University of .on. April 18, the Twelfth Biennial much a part of everyday life. 0 keybo~rd artIst from Brazil. Touted RI~ Grande do SuI, Fest built a repu MIchIana Local Art Competition a. Latm America Festival, the eve tatIon as a jazz star in the Sao Paulo t~kes place. Competition and exhibi Program Biographies: Barry Tuck- mn~ pl~ns to be a survey of the area.. After cutting five albums in tIOn artists from the South Bend well, James McCracken, Sandra faSCl?atmg m~sic and rhythm of BrazIl, Fest moved to the United area plan to display their works in Warfield, Herbert Butler, Man BrazIl, Ar~entma, Mexico and CUba. States. Calling Minneapolis his home the forms of painting, prints and Ac.compamed by Rich Wolff on bass fredo Fest, and Newton Wayland. Fest now tours the world as th~ sculpture. ' , Norman Dorothy. Alfred; Steiglitz, ~Itar and Alejo Puveda on percus leader of the Manfredo Fest Trio Complementing the Warner Gal Volume 3, The History of Photog SIOn, Fest combines American jazz Arranging the· score for the per music with the models of Brazilian lery is the Women's Art League Gal raphy. Millerton, New York, Aper formance is the Pops conductor lery, located on the Center's third ture Inc., 1976. popular music. This date in South Newton Wayland. In his first yea; Bend marks the trio's first perfor- level. As a small gallery, it is most "Noteworthy." Today in Michiana. as conductor, Wayland, brings with commonly used for one-man or one- The Artwurks Art Gallery Volume 1 (December, 1980), p. 3. 6 7 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 · r..

Winter at Potowatami Zoo and Botanical Gardens

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Winter at Potowatami Zoo and Botanical Gardens

photos by Sue Thornton

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people to get to know because Mario We had beaten Kennedy during the get real boring so I usually help the season and were up about eight on guys by answering the phones or likes to hire college girls when they are on their breaks. He says the them at the half. I hadn't gotten ~n ' sweeping the floor. :r don't make yet but Morris was looking real tIred much money on the weekdays but young pretty faces bring i~ more people. Aside from the waItresses so I thought I might get a chance. once in a while Mario will come back Well Kennedy started to get hot in in a good mood and everybody w~ll though I don't get a chance to see many women. It's tough working. ' the second half and they cut the lead have a good time. He'llibe hummmg to five and then two. When they tied and chewing that fat cigar and he'll weekends all the time. I used to thmk that once I got out of school and had it up their bench was jumping up ask Dave if he's heard the one about and down and the ten or twenty fans the waitress who likes to roll in the some time it would be easier, but there just aren't many girls I'm they had behind .the bench were dough, and Dave'll say no and Mario waving those damn green pompons. will tell the joke and we'll all laugh, interested in. Besides, my car smells like pepperoni all the time. We hadn't lost at home all season so even though we've heard it a thou the crowd was getting pretty quiet Then he might ask I'm not planning on staying here sand times before. by the time Kennedy had gone three I suppose I like working the week have to take off for a couple games a out and bought beer cups. Then on me if Marcie is still writing from forever though. I see this job as just ends best, especially Friday nights. week. It was good though because I the day of the contest he got to work temporary until something better up Parsons was having an awful California. I always feel funny and he looked pretty tired and Mario's gets real busy on Friday didn't start work until six and early, which he never does, and talking about Marcie because I know turns up. I'm a hustler and I know I ga~e coach told us to suck it up and do nights. The two little rooms out front practice was always over'by that watched out the window all night as that Mario thought that me and her can travel right up the ladder. But are always packed and they're time. But he never minded letting me the city was buried under a foot of I ·don't mind driving because like I the job. They were still up by two were the real thing. Whenever we with about three minutes to go so usually standing three deep at the off, just so long as I worked hard for snow. He took it real bad. The streets would come in after a game he would said I've been picking up some pretty bar. During the summer they set up him. Mario's clever when it comes to were closed and the contest was fancy tips and with Dad being laid they call time out to set up a stall. sit down and talk to us, even if it Coach needed a quick lineup and he some tables outside and those fill up business things and I told him that called off and Mike was cussing and was busy, and buy us a C?ke or off we can sure use it at home. Plus right away too. Mario-we call him I wanted to learn it all. The first day all, but I figure we got a break something. We were gettmg along knew that I was quick and I was Mr. Forano when it's busy-Mario I 'Started work he takes me aside and because Giovanni's was using three sitting next to him with my legs real good and the next thing I know bouncing back and forth so he put says that a good night is when they says, "Ray, this job is just like drivers at the time and we were only she's moving off to the West Coast stand three deep at the bar and there basketball. All you have to do to be using two. Since then Mario has with her folks. The last letter I got me in, "You guys have got to want,!t is a thirty-minute wait for a table. good is hustle." Always the philoso- changed the boundaries some-- now. You've got to work like do.gs. from her she said she's getting Well we were hustling and fightmg married to some guy in real estate. I think she helped me get my head through the picks and the cro~d was getting real loud but we stIll . together about basketball more than couldn't get it away from them. WIth anything else. I never really got to . . I'm a hustler and about thirty seconds left I just know her until senior year but I reached out and slapped a guy so he Traveling guess she was sort of sweet on me I know I can travel would have to shoot the free throws. back then and she'd sit in the front That guy was shaking so much there , row behind the bench every game was no way he could make the shots. :: and scream like hell for Coach to put right up the ladder .. But the rebound came away long and ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=~~~~~m~m~~~~~~~~~~~~m~~ me in. Coach was a stubborn one and -=-----===-=-~=--====~=====-=D==-=~ ____ = __ =a_=_=_ , right back into his hands and the ~-m---= ___ ~m==-~==m~m--E===_= __ ====_=~~=~_~ ____ ==J he pretended like henever heard her. clock was down to fifteen seconds Oh I'd play some every game but it and they still had a two-point lead wa~ always for four or five minutes and ·the ball. But just then Parsons early on and then I'd sit for the.rest by Mark Traverso of the game. It bothered me a little, went and slapped it away and we had the ball and a chance to tie. the not playing much, because I , Coach called time and we set up a figured I was as good as the rest of play for Parsons and Marcie reaches Those nights can get pretty crazy. pher Mario is, even while he's chew them 'and I hustled more. Even it's fun being around a restaurant "expanding business" as he calls it Parsons who was the best player over and slaps my back and I'm The waitresses are all busy getting ing on the end of his cigar and giving so we had to add a third driver. The where I can see a lot of people and ready to run through a brick wall. drinks and pizzas and trying to I ever piayedwith, even he thought I me those pay-attention-or-else dark new guy's' name is Bob. He's been should be a starter. . . once in a while even run into an old Everything went just as planned and hustle tips with their "yes sirs" and eyes. here a couple months now I'd guess, friend. Parsons got the ball with six seconds "yes ma'ams" painted all across their We go with three guys on most and he's been doing pretty well. He Some of the guys used to sit down The other night one of the wait left and he took that soft jumper of faces. In back the phones ring right nights. Next to me Mike's been knew that he was moving in on a at the end of the bench and tell resses came back talking about this his from the corner and the ball off the wall and Mario is there delivering the longest, about two great team working with me and jokes and clown around and look at big handsome guy in the corner looked in all the way but on the way screaming and hollering to get the years. We've been together on Friday Mike, and he was a little nervous at the cheerleaders. But me, I'd nudge booth. So Mario takes a walk out down it caught the front of the rim orders out on time. But I don't mind nights for a long time, and between first, but we helped him right along. right in there as close as I could to there and he comes back all excited and kicked out. I had been hustling because the busier it is the more I'm us we, figure we've carried more Bob's sort of the quiet type and I coach so that when he needed some and says it's Scott Parsons. "You in .there and the ball kicked off right out on the road and the more money pizzas than any two drivers in the know what he means when he says body I was the first one he'd see.. remember Scott. Best player Wesley into my hands and I was all set to I make. On a good night I'll deliver city. Mike is a good driver-not as that he likes delivering. He's got a Sometimes it would work, somebIlles ever had." And he tells everybody lay it right back in when I felt ' . to maybe thirty-five or forty houses. good as me mind you---'but he has all wife and kids and all and he works it wouldn't. , about how we should have -gone someone else tugging at the ball. A .great night is forty-five, and once the streets memorized and he's, real at the warehouse during the day, so I'd get down a little bit and some downstate our senior year except Well that ball was mine and the I even hit fifty-three. But then I've fast at making change. And I've driving gives him a little time to be of ·the guys told me I should just quit Parsons had 'a bad game against game was ours and so I pulled as been here for three years and I'm the ,never seen anyone so damn proud of by himself. ,There's something nice the team, with having a good job and Kennedy in the Sectionals. And . hard as I could and I looked and it best driver that Mario's got. . being a good driver as Mike is. He about getting: away from the noise all. But I'd say no, .that I liked work Mario gets that look in his eye" like was Parsons who had followed his I was lucky because Mario took to even went so far as to challenge the and confusion of the kitchen and but basketball was in my blood and he's disappointed all over agam and own shot. The ref saw. it too and he me right from the start. He was a drivers from Giovanni's to a contest doing some serious thinking. In the I wanted to do both. he looks at me and says because I 'blew his whistle and signaled travel basketball fan from way back and I one time. Six hours on a Fri¢lay car, with the city alllit up and the After a while some of the wait wason the team I should tell the ing and we lost the ball with one was playing on the Wesley High night, most deliveries. (we all had to radio-down iow, :I feel real relaxed. resses will start to wander back, story. Now some of the guys working second left and the little .green team at the time. :I had never keep our tickets), for a keg of Bud. Some nights they have ball games on those without any tables, so we'll that night went to Wesley ·and they . pompons were waving around and worked before during the season, but They set it up two weeks ahead and the radio so the time goes by fast. . have to clean up our act. Most of the remember the game, but a few of the I felt real tired. 0 as I I seeing was a senior needed the Mike, he got so excited that he got On the weekdays I spend 'a lot of girls are a lot of fun and they'll girls seemed real interested and' extra money. Mario was good enough .' the old Chevy tuned up and lined up time in the kitchen. There's never sometimes party with us after work. Mario had got me going 'so I said, to hire me eVfn though he k,new I'd people to .call in and he even went many deliveries and sometimes it can There's always a lot of new faces and what the hell and started in on it. 12 13 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 4

Don Nace Questions: One way to beat the blues (winter, eventually replaced by an open and sible. The setting is large enough to school, or whatever type you have) relaxed outdoor sensation. satisfy the more eminent bands and Q: Where can you find botanical gardens, boa constricters, wild buffalo, is to check out some live music. To The thirty-foot-high ceiling is the audience catches the act in a day, the main place to do· this is in painted a dark blue to allow the small familiar and friendly atmosphere. wallabies, lions and tigers and bears? . Mishawaka at the Music Box. It is lights scattered in it to appear as Most people who come to the M. B. even easy to find; right on Misha stars. A fiery comet streaks across are between twenty-five and thirty Who is the mayor of South Bend? waka Ave. Since its opening on the sky-no kidding. Anyway, all five. Nace also pointed out that peo Q: October 31, 1980, it has attracted the tables have a clear view of the ple much older than this have been prominent jazz, blues, and country large stage which is set three feet frequenting the place. It is also re Q: Could 'you direct a visitor to: the Police Station? the Historical Museum? musicians. off the ground. A two-tiered balcony freshing to hear that more women The Music Box is a versatile es which seats over fifty people also than men are found there on the Aquinas Art Gallery? the Airport? tablishment; it provides more than offers an unobstructed view of the weekdays. On the weekends it tends just musical entertainment (though stage while providing more intimacy to even out. (Nace said they keep Q: Why is the configuration of trees at Bendix park so unusual? music now dominates the present than the main-floor seating. Rhythm close track of this in case you think .1 scene there). A local theater group filled patrons have plenty of room to anyone's making it up.) What color is the diSuvero on the river near Century Center? is scheduled to present stage plays. dance. No one "should feel like they're Q: The management is trying to book Two hundred and fifty can com being hustled" is the message from II some comedy acts. The large kitchen Where can you find farm fresh vegetables, home made noodles and bread, ~ I fortably watch performances though the management. It is a place where Q: and seating arrangements make it the capacity is four-hundred. Accord .people can meet and talk. There Ii possible to have banquets, receptions, ing to Nace: "If people don't feel should be no pressure-and rarely is and fresh rabbit? and private parties. There are even comfortable then we're not accom -of being eyed solely for the easy , .? "teen" dances on the first Sunday of plishing our goal." pickup. Nace wants regular cus Q: Do you know what county you re In. !I each month. However, the atmosphere should tomers; for that is where the money Drinks and cover charges .(yes, not be valued above the music. Nace comes from in hard times. He wants Name three South Bend high schools. you somehow have to be twenty-one) must find quality performers. He to treat people like friends instead Q: I' are reasonably priced. Admission isn't having many problems with of customers. More P.R. work is done ranges from $2 to $6 depending on that these days. A major reason by customers and a mailing. list than Q: Who designed the Century Center? the group, of course. Two different II why groups and/or their agents are by large-scale advertising. You even year-long club membership plans are now calling N ace for bookings-it is get a free pass to another show if Q: Identify the cultural activity which has replaced: a fire station; Hoffman's money-savers for dedicated patrons. booked several months in advance you have a just gripe against the Ii "Attitude Adjustment Hours" bring is that the Music Box occupies a entertainment. Auto Painting; Kamm's Brewery; a church. I down the price of beer and wine. prime position between Chicago and i Nace claims he's "in it for the long They are not serving liquor yet due Detroit. Bands traveling between term." Let's all work for that. The How can you get to Chicago for $3? to the difficulty in obtaining a li these cities can conveniently fill a area cannot afford to lose another Q: cense. If you're hungry, snacks and couple of dates on their schedules. place that promotes communion on light meals are available: pizza They are also pleased with the treat various levels. The sharing of blue Q: Why is our fair city called South Bend? chicken, egg rolls, etc. ment they receive at the M. B. Nace notes or small talk in a music club is Don Nace, the owner/manager does not like to pressure the per important for many of us. I remem (actually he leases the building), has formers in any way. As a: result, ber Vanessa Davis (a young blues 'ldAr~ qddsof 'lS dql tried to create an outdoor atmo many shows have gone beyond the singer from Chicago) singing "one sphere in the converted theater; the time limit specified in the contract. kiss . . ." at Vegetable Buddles UI PUdq dql Ioqlnos S! l! ~dlOqS qlnos dql d'5[Bl ~ldl~d:)UBa dql .'ld~UdO 00l ;ql building was the North Side Theater Another advantage is the high-qual shortly before it closed last summer s which closed down in the late '60s. ity sound system, a' permanent fix and I doubted that the second kiss '.tU~nBD s'5[ln.M.llY dql 'dllBdq-L :)!A!O PUdg qlnos . uosuqo f, Hqd . UOl~U!qf .M "People don't expect this atmosphere ture soon to be improved! would be shared while I was in . 'ABIO 'UBpBW'S,qddsof 'lS 'AdIHI 'SUlBPY "d'! .AlunoO qddSO lS when they walk in; it really opens Most of M. B.'s patrons enjoy up South Bend. Ah, maybe it will. D 'dpBSB~ up for them." It is the opposite of beat country music or blues. The ~ (dBUl ddSr ld'5[lBW SldUllB.I dql ~d.8uB10 .dAOqB Uloll ~'3:)lyg'3:afl.LS" Vegetable Buddies smoke-filled dark Jump'n the Saddle band typifies the ness for those who remember that. former and Son Seals/Luther Allison Mike Mlynski is a Senior English PBdlOl PdluBId dldM. Sddll dql ~ (dBUl ddS) ~lUdlBd ld~OlI .'5[lBd FUlBlB.M.OlOd If one uses some imagination, the the latter. But rock and jazz book major This is his first contribution to pretentiousness of the plastic trees ings are common. N ace strives to Scholastic. :SldM.SUV arid old-fashioned street lights is bring in national acts whenever pos- 14 15 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 3 Scholastic South Bend Questionnaire The Music Box We have all heard the moans and groans from Correct Answers: students about how Notre Dame is a social wasteland Five or less: You are the type of student that finds I and South Bend a cultural void. Well, we will not. try ~o South Bend a bore. Wake up and smell the coffee. change your questional opinion about the former m ~hIS A Welcome Alternative Six to eight: Your have some potential. . issue, but the latter is a diffeernt case. Hope~ully, thIS issue will help inform you of many alternatives to Nine to eleven: Incredible performance! Have a drmk at the Anchor Inn on us. by Mike Mlynski campus blues. . In the quiz below, see how many of the questIOns you Twelve: No fair: you are a townie. can answer. No peeking!

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i But not all of the students were ideals of St. Francis than the Catho not even put posters on the boards on like that. In their own lives and lic Worker house of hospitality, vol campus. That would make it a public DOROTHY Dil Y families, if not· in their apparent untary poverty, sharing the very life talk. So we had to rely on postcards aspirations, many were still close to of the poor? to all the people we thought would the people and the problems that It is a tribute to the power of be interested and could announce it I Dorothy wrote about. I saw The Dorothy's journalism that we could in class. and Catholic Worker on a student's desk make up our minds ,to start such a Even with that handicap, several and found that his mother collected project without ever having seen a hundred showed up and were thor clothes regularly for the New York Catholic Worker house or having oughly captivated, so much so that NOTRE.DAME house. Another student came from met Dorothy Day or Peter Maurin. we knew we had people we could a small farming community and After we had made up our minds count on for help. ND president Fa planned to go back there. He told to start such a house, we did make ther Hugh O'Donnell spoke with her by Dr. Julian R. Pleasants me I had to go to hear his professor, some visits to existing houses in privately and gave her a contribu Father Leo R. Ward, C.S.C. From Toledo, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phila tion. Faculty began collecting money him I learned what Catholics were delphia, and New York; Nory Mer to help the house get started. Father Dorothy Day received Notre doing for social justice since he was dzinski spent part of the summer Michael Mathis agreed to act as a Dame's Laetare Medal in 1972. Was already investigating it himself and of 1940 at the Catholic Worker farm chaplain for the house, and in his that all? Was it just a recognition writing about it. in Easton. But it was with a sense deceptively simple way worked be from the outside, and a belated one Father Ward introduced me to of deja vu. So well had Dorothy hind the scenes to see that the idea at\: that? The connection between Willis Nutting after class one day. A described the life of a Catholic would be well received by religious Notre Dame and Dorothy Day is little while later I walked north of Worker House of Hospitality in the authorities. much older and closer than a 1972 Notre Dame through what was then paper, so well had she prepared us It was Dorothy's birthday, Novem award. There was a time, 1941-1944, called the bird sanctuary, crossed for its people and its problems that ber 8, when she was here. We had a when Notre Dame was actually part Judy Creek at Juniper and walked we could probably have managed on list of South :Send subscribers to The of her Catholic Worker movement, into a microcosm of, the kind of that alone about as well as we Catholic Worker) and one of them through a South Bend House of world that Dorothy Day hoped to managed anyway. operated the Rose Marie tearoom. Hospitality for men out of work. Dorothy Day bring about the 2% -acre homestead In the fall of 1940, our moment of There we celebrated her birthday, I can tell you about it because I of Willis and Eileen Nutting where truth had arrived. When and how with the students who were in became a middleman between the Father John Cavanaugh, Vice address. For twenty-five cents a year values could be regained that were could we get started? It was then volved, with Father Leo R. Ward, University-students, faculty, staff, President of the University, gave the I subscribed, and have never been the as lost to the usual academic as to that Dorothy said she would come Willis Nutting, Father Mathis and administration and alumni-and the first opening sermon that I heard at same. men who needed help. ND. It was on the twenty-fifth chap-. In my first year of college, at the The first issue of The Catholic ter of St. Matthew: the last judgment Norfolk Division of William and THE Worker hit the streets on May Day would be entirely concerned with Mary, I found other students, Pcrotes of 1933. When I came to Notre Dame the works of mercy. In his own tants, who had heard of DOl'othy in 1937, there ~ere already people mind, Father Cavanaugh had re Day. I met a Jewish student who had at Notre Dame who knew of the solved the problem of how to recon even visited the New York house. Catholic Worker movement and wel cile pursuit of academic excellence Surely a Catholic college would be CATHOLIC WORKER comed Peter Maurin on his occa with concern for the needy. He astir with such ideas. Therefore I sional stopovers here. These were would later demonstrate it more went to Notre Dame in 1937 hoping people whose own ideas on subjects vividly in the march for civil rights to find and read all the books Doro the urbanized worker. He in turn and speak at Notre Dame to get others whom my present memory like the dignity of work, the values at Selma, Alabama. thy recommended (along with major knew other faculty families who support for a house in South Bend. cannot recall. From that high point of rural life, and the possibilities for It was with high hopes of finding ing in Chemistry at the University sympathized with the concerns and It seemed such a fine and obvious of warmth and idealism we descended cooperatives and credit unions gave people like that, that I came to Notre made famous by Father Nieuwland). approach of Dorothy Day and The solution to our problem. to the harsh reality of slogging them an immediate rapport with Dame in 1937. I had been subscrib Yet I was hoping especially to find Catholic Worker: the Corbetts, Has Initially, however, it turned out to through the snows of December to ideas expressed in The Catholic ing to The Catholic Worker for over people to talk to about The Catholic leys, Rauchs, Sullivans, and also Fa be a problem in itself. ND of 1940 find an appropriate place. It turned Wor7cer. These were people whose a year before I came here. Those, Worker and its ideas, people who ther Philip Moore and ¥ather Ray was ambivalent about Dorothy Day. out to be a twelve-room flat at 403% sense of social need was always ·part you will remember, were Depression could help me decide what even aca mond Murray. He also introduced me People were already saying what Chapin Sf. The area had once been of their awareness of persons; a days. Roosevelt was introducing un demic and professional people could to the budding liturgical movement they said even more as time went the downtown of South Bend, but type of integrity Dorothy Day exem precedented changes in his own dra do about those ideas. at Notre Dame, directed by Father on, that she was a saint. But The was now a transitional area with plified so well. matic fashion. The Holy Cross Sisters' It wasn't easy. ND of South Bend Michael Mathis,~.S.C. It was a Catholic Worker was still against blacks moving in along one side, and The two Father Wards, Leo who taught me in high school used was not the N.D. (Norfolk Division movement in which the radical idea Franco, and an anti-Franco Notre with the remains of a Polish and R(ational) and Leo L(iterary), were a new series of religion texts em of William and Mary) where the stu of lay participation in the liturgy Dame professor, Francis McMahon, Hungarian business district on the putting their writing talents to work phasizing the social encyclicals of dents could stage a one~day rally seemed to go along with the radical was already in hot water over his other side. on these same ideas. Prof. Willis the Popes. Yet it seemed that no against the Franco regime in Spain. idea of lay leadership in the social stand, and some of his students were We were fortunate that the busi Nutting was exemplifying the dig Catholics were concretely doing any ND of South Bend thought Franco mission of the Church. already in cold water (the lake or nessman directly underneath us was nity of manual labor and the values thing for the unemployed or the was a savior of the Church. I later There was also a flourishing Third the shower) for defending his posi an ND pharmacy school graduate. of rural living on his little home employed poor. discovered that among Catholic jour Order of Sf. Francis at Notre Dame tion to their fellow students. He was Ladislaus Kolupa, and ,until " stead north of Notre Dame and writ I came upon The Catholic Worker nals, only The Catholic Worker and in those days. For those who may Besides, there were still people his death a few years ago, he was " ing about it as well. That was where by a rather unlikely route. Our Commonweal opposed the Franco never have heard of such a thing, it who regarded any concern for the ND's oldest living alumnus. "Ladi" Peter Maurin would stay on his ND Sunday Visitor, at that time the regime. ND students, at least those is a strictly lay group with rather poor and the workers as an indi-' had to be a saint to put up with visits. Frank O'Malley was already epitome of a diocesan paper, had an in the cheap halls where I lived minimal requirements for member cation of Communist leanings, de some of the hazards of our presence shaking up his first generation of ad for a new magazine called The ($693 a year for room, board, and ship which nevertheless opens people spite the fact that The Catholic above him. Once, water ran all over Catholic college students with the Catholic Digest. Here I thought was tuition) had been sent there at great up to the ideals of St. Francis as W or7cer's program was about as far his prescription table after rats a chance for an overview of what they might affect their own lives. It from centralized authoritarian com same wild writers who had influ sacrifice by their parents so that chewed a hole in our lead plumbing. was happening in the Church for they could rise successfully in the was in that group, especially after munism as it was possible to get. . Another time his drugstore was enced Dorothy Day toward her own social justice. In the first issue I re present society, not so they could I met fellow student Norbert Mer In any case, the Notre Dame ad burglarized, and it turned out that radical Catholicism: Leon Bloy, ceived, the first article was entitled reform the present society. They dzinski, that the idea developed of ministration was glad to have her someone had cut his way into the George Bernanos, Paul Claudel, Niko "Primitive Catholicism in New York were trying to escape the problems starting a Catholic Worker house in talk, 'and would give her a room and store from our back stairwell. lai Berdyaev, writers she constantly City." It described The Catholic of the workers, not to share and South Bend. In twentieth-century meals, but they did not want the out But some other neighboring busi quoted in the paper. Worker) and gave its subscription overcome them. America, what seemed closer to the side world to know about it. We could nessmen were not so self-sacrificing. 18 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 19 " ,

They saw business affected by shab the Depression was still going on in felt ill at ease going to a parish bily dressed characters standing in many places. They all ran up against church. Father Mathis arranged for the street outside their shops, wait the same problem. Once they got a us to have Mass there, and the Holy THE OUTCASTS ARE BACK! ing in line for a chance at a free job-how did they get a place to stay Cross Brothers made us a collapsible meal. They worried because there and eat until they got paid? Besides, altar, while Brother Boniface took by Mary Pigott were blacks in our dinner line and the police had a policy of running care of supplies. Again we had to among the thirty-two who slept there people out of town if they had no emphasize that attendance was not I walked into the publicity office, ever in. What separates them is their different. I love the different frames at night, and that was on the wrong address, threatening to jail them. required, but it turned out to be so sat down and waited for Adri. I individuality. I saw something in of reference everyone works from. side of Chapin. So local business, Also, how did these people get a job fascinating that some came out of slowly pulled my yellow legal size each person that was completely dif Regina grew up on a farm in Indi with some sympathy from ethnic if their clothes carried the look of curiosity. Father Mathis, Father pad out from my backpack and at ferent from what my expectations of ana, but she's an inspired actress. clergy, started legal proceedings to failure? John Cavanaugh, and Father Louis the top of the first page wrote them were. They look at the world Annie was Miss Drill Team Minne make us move elsewhere. Father ND students took care of the latter Putz came down early on. There'was "Outcasts - Women's Improvisation differently from other people and sota, but spends hours working for Mathis worked his quiet magic again, problem. The Third Order of St. a lot of participation, and we read Group." I was not sure exactly what they're funny. When I came here to the Democratic party and all of their giving our case to Paul Butler, for Francis people carried out clothing out everything in English (since the was going to fill the rest of the page. St. Mary's I thought I had to fit the most libera:1 causes. Kathleen used mer national Democratic chairman. drives on campus, spearheaded by priest was still doing it all in Latin). I wrote, "The Outcasts are nine mold. Then I realized the mold is to jump roofs in Detroit, but she's The case never came up. Father one of them named Mark McG.rath. Then we had our regulars: Father women who do improvisational com self-inflicted. It doesn't exist. I even content to sit at home on a Saturday invited Bishop Noll to visit us. He He is now Archbishop Marcos Mc John Burke of the Math Department edy," but then I crossed it out be went on a date. Yes, my freshman night listening to Al Jarreau. You came late in the evening, stepping Grath, C.S.C., of Panama, a leader in and Father Leo R. Ward. Father cause it seemed so bland and boring. year I went on a date. He took me to were a juvenile delinquent." over prostrate forms sleeping on the the social concerns of the Latin Ward was an early experimenter Adri bustled in smiling, sat down, a graveyard." "Wait," I said, "before you go on floor for lack of beds. The bishop left American hierarchy. We opened a with facing the people at Mass, and swung her feet up to rest on the "What did you think about it? think of something to say for every us a donation but more importantly clothing room, and men switched he did not hesitate to interrupt the desk and immediately started talking The date, I mean," Iasked her. one else so it'll be fair." disposed of any clerical opposition from the skid row to the college look Mass to show what he was doing and about the Outcasts. As entertaining "I thought, 'doesn't he want me "They won't mind," she said. that might have remained. overnight. - explain why. Our men may not have as this rambling rapid-fire speech seen among the living?' Then I "What was another of your ques We had hoped for a lot of regular The ND administration came to known it, but they were in the avant was, I realized that it would be very thought the whole thing was boring tions?" student volunteer help at. the house, our rescue on food and bedding. garde of the liturgical renaissance. difficult to transcribe onto the legal and stupid. Put this in. Say that the "Is it funnier on the outside?" I but ran up against a relic of ND Older-style ND double-deckers went After the U.S. entered the war, pad which was reSting on my knees. Outcasts don't blame anybody. We asked her. paternalism. Students were not al to Chapin St.· Father Cavanaugh ar there was first a surge in numbers "Adri," I interrupted, "I thought don't have any bones to pick We "Yeah," she answered, "it's in lowed ,to go south of Wayne or west ranged for us to' pick up leftover coming to· the house,. and then a de of three questions. Listen-Who are aren't anti-anything." spiring. It's funny because it's not of William, and we were both. They food from the dining ha:1ls, and the cline as the war boom absorbed the the Outcasts, What have they been "We're anti-mold," I interjected. like everyone in the group is' close had to get special permission, and dining hall personnel went out of unemployed left from the Depression. cast out from and Is it funnier on the "We just notice things different in friends, we're not a clique, but we while this was always granted, it their way to help us find it and load Those now left at the house were not outside?" the world and we talk about it in love each other. The event brought posed an obstacle to casual dropping it in our $15 Model A pickup. We so much the immediate victims of a She stared at me blankly. public," she continued. "Another us together. It's the kind of thing in and becoming interested. We had the reputation among our clien failed economic system, as the vic "Has a nice ring to it, don't you thing I noticed that sepa,rates the some people try to find their whole did not become a center of Round tele of having the best coffee coast tims of their own problems, such as think?" I asked. Outcasts is that they don't watch lives: being able to work in a group Table Discussion as Peter always to-coast. We usually had a sufficient alcoholism. These were no less de "Yeah, yeah, it's good, O.K., all TV." without feeling inhibited. Olivier wanted, and our house lacked the quantity of food but often in odd serving of our concern. Perhaps the right, here, how about this-" She "Adri, no one watches TV these says it isn't any good unless you gracious touch that Dorothy always combinations, since we got what was best lesson Dorothy Day taught the took a deep breath. I clutched my days," I informed her. love'everyone on the stage with you. wanted, and that Saint Mary's stu least popular among the students. world was her love for the "unde pen tightly and tried not to look at "Yes, they do," she screeched, All the influences· I've had were see dents might have given it. We took What did we have to offer the even serving" poor. For generations the her large glass rainbow-colored clip "people don't go out to the bars until ing teams work together." , care ,of ,!basic physical needs primar greater spiritual needs of our men desire of many people to help the on earrings. Add then continued her 11: 00 on Fridays because they watch "Adri," I said, "you're beginning ily, feeding up to 150 at a meal and off the road? Regrettably, we hadn't poor had been paralyzed by their lively rambling speech .... Dallas. Anyway, the thing about the to sound like an interview in the sleeping at one time about seventy. enough time to give them the friend fear that they might be helping the "I don't think the Outcasts were Outcasts is that they know they're (Oont'd on page 30) Later, we reduced the, number to ship they needed, especially since we "undeserving" poor, those who had thirty-two, the number we had beds didn't get all the volunteer help we helped create their own poverty. for, on the. advice of those who ran hoped for. We did want them to have Dorothy showed that their needs the houses in Toledo and Detroit. We religious opportunities available, but might be ,the greatest of all. What had an attempted knifing at the we had to do this with great delicacy, they especially needed was a friend. house, and they warned us that there because the traditional "mission" We also discovered that what alco were physical limitations on how which these men were ·expecting holics generally needed were friends much you could crowd people with from us, exploited their physical need who ,were ex-alcoholics and we were out, creating more stress than they in order to force them to listen to not. could handle. . . religious services. At the. Salvation In any case, the need for the At first we met those physical Army and the like, they had to go to house declined, and financial support needs with the help of the money services to .get a meal and a bed, and for it seemed to decline even faster. collected by the faculty, collecting if they wanted to stay on longer, Nory went into the service and sent leftover food from town businesses they might have to "get religion" or back most of his $50-a-month pay and buying what we had to. Dishes, "spill their guts," telling of their check. I should mention that pacifism pots and pans, and bedding were col former wicked ways and how they sort of grew in The Oatholic Worker. lected by local women like Lucy wanted to reform. We did have night It was not prominent when we en McCullough, still active in such con prayer, or read something out loud, tered the movement, and about half cerns. St. Vincent de Paul and Holy but only after they had eaten and of us in the movement did not be Name Society people helped to reno been assigned abed, and after con come conscientious objectors. This vate the apartment for its new pur stant reminders that they did not was a new idea for Catholics and had pose. Once word got around of our have to come, and that we were not to grow on us. Besides, I am still not impressed with people who wa:1ked sure how nonviolence would have place, however, the numbers coming ; were soon too much for our re in for dinner with rosaries around stopped Hitler. At any rate, after a : sources. The war in Europe had their wrists. bout with pneumonia in late 1943, I '! created a local boom (the U.S. was It turned out that Sunday Mass had to close down SS. John and not yet at war). People were coming was a real problem for that minority Paul's Hospice in early 1944. From top/eft to right: Regina Pratt, Annie Patterson, Mimi Commons, Adri Trigiani, Kathleen Maecio, here from all over to find work since of our men who were Catholic. They (cont'd on page 30) Katie Willson, Angela Wing, Mary Pigott, Anne Slowey 20 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 21 &

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III Tom O'Toole .,,·11 by lI! And who, you ask, IS Patsy ing "cheated") up with such no As usual when a dedicated coach 'II Coash? Why, a tennis player, by ticeable tennis prodigies (or "brats," and determined athlete get together, II gosh, a girl who not only played whichever you prefer) as Susy the extra practice pays off, and Patsy First Singles of Saint Mary's the Jaeger. took third place in the Division III past two years, but won the Division While in high school Patsy "had First Singles competition despite her ill singles title in the process. a blast" while blasting opponents summer layoff. Thus, with the help Though she is the closest thing we've with a 76-2 record. She was so popu of a coach who was a friend, tennis had to a professional tennis prospect lar and respected at her high school became important in Coash's life on either campus, even a tennis buff that when she had a fallout with the once again. She courted the game like myself knew little of her fame, coach and quit the team, the princi seriously that summer with hopes of and that was only through the little pal made the coach apologize. "She another great season. She came back -clippings all of her "0 and 0" (tennis (the coach) wouldn't though, so they to find her friend Ginger gone, how jargon for a two-set shutout) con made her resign. She eventually ever, and her game. was never quite \ quests were getting in The Observer. wound up in an insane asylum. No, the same. But even my one year of ND junior really. So I don't think you should Saint Mary's .does not keep its ten varsity tennis experience was enough mention her name." nis coaches forever, and in 1980 Oak for me to know that anyone who The tell-tale tennis player told me man was replaced by Sandy Fry. Fry wins at "love" that often has got to how she had decided to give up com hid behind the facade of "teamwork" be pretty special, so I decided to petitive tennis in college and con and virtually ignored Patsy's plea check it out. centrate on studies, and in this vein for additional, more talented compe It was on the first day of finals she chose Saint Mary's. It. was the tition. Forced to dally through the week that I finally got a chance to right vein, all right, but The Kala season, rallying with the far inferior chat with Patsy. I was a little leery mazoo Kid had no idea how vain the fifth and sixth singles players, Patsy at first, figuring I'd be interrupting academic ideal can truly become resolved to make the best of the the intense competitor tearing apart once one enters college. But at Saint situation and win one for her team a textbook or something. Instead, I Mary's, one soon finds out. mates, who had always been under found the petite blonde lolling in "1- remember when I was being standing and sympathetic to her spe front of a television set tuned in to interviewed before coming to Saint cial situation. a soap opera off the Holy Cross Mary's and the Director of Admis Though by her own admission she lobby. She was very pretty and was sions was going over my records." played pitifully, Patsy won the first one of those persons who never Patsy reminisced. "She was noticing singles title and placed second in quench her star's thirst for competi really tried to appreciate the posi old Saint Mary's College should be seemed to stop smiling, and I couldn't that I had lettered twelve times in doubles with the help of Maureen tion, and Co ash's athletic endeavors tive effects a nose-to-the-grindstone come a jock haven like its cousin help thinking that a find like this, three different sports, and she asked (Blond Mo) O'Brien. All told, Co ash were reduced to running and rac load of studying can have on one's across the lake. But there is always whether she plays tennis or not, is a me if it was true, and I said yes. I only lost one singles match the en quetball. Finally, it was Sharon soul, especially when one is done the special case, and I fear that the very rare thing anywhere. I asked thought she was going to give me a tire season, the lone loss coming Petro, Notre Dame's all-purpose with it. True, I did find Patsy taking Belles will always be a bunch of her how her finals were going, and compliment, but instead she scowled when she was plagued by a sprained coach (both women's tennis and bas time out to watch General Hospital athletic "patsies" if they do not learn when she was going home, and she at me and said, 'Why weren't you wrist (which she nevertheless re ketball coach at one time), who tried on the usually tension-crammed first to accommodate an occasional ace said "fine" and "Saturday," but that using all that free time to study?' fused to use as an excuse). In fact, to line Patsy up with some Notre day of exams, but I think this can be like Coash. she was flying to Florida instead. "A I thought she was kidding, so I the only reason Patsy gave that the Dame men players, but it was too excused as preparation for her fu As Patsy puts it, the once "big nice break from South Bend," I re smiled." Needless to say, no one season didn't pan out better was late. Patsy felt that Saint Mary's just ture career in nursing. Of course, fish in a small pond" will miss the plied, but instead of agreeing with smiled back. Fry. "The coaches on the OTHER didn't seem to really want a top I do not mean to suggest that sweet personal atmosphere she found in a my common comment, she shook Nevertheless, Coash kept her reso teams helped me more with my notch tennis player, so she trans small school setting when she be her head, and then shattered the lution to attend Saint Mary's, and game than she did. The woman had ferredto a place where her talent comes just another "little fish in a dream. "But I'm not coming back," still intended to hit many books and zero motivation." would be appreciated. And I must big pond" at a tennis hungry school she smiled happily. "I'm transfer few balls that fall. But the tennis So after two seasons of tennis, admit Patsy's choice, the University ten times the size of Saint Mary's, but ring." With those last two words bug, a virus that all· former top play Patsy proved to herself and to the of Southern Florida, sounds perfect it is, at least for now, the only way what I had thought to be too good ers can never quite shake, began to Saint Mary's faculty that. she could for her. For there she could pursue that her specialty can render its to be true once again was. plague her terribly. When Saint handle both studies and sports suc not only nursing and tennis to the proper "service." "Saint Mary's has Though quite tempted to end the Mary's coach Ginger Oakman asked cessfully at the same time. After best of her abilities, but also her to get out of the dark ages about interview right there, the Holy Spirit her to go out for the team, Patsy winning her titles, she finally was fiance, who just happens to be play athletics," Coash concluded. "They saw me through my moment of dis jumped at the chance. Although able to walk across campus free ing and studying there also. have to realize there is more to continuity and the conversation con Patsy had played little competitive from' stares at her racquet and Now some may argue that a player college than studying." tinued. Coash discussed much of her tennis that summer, Oakman could tennis dress during a time of day like Coash would never really be "More to college than studying!" tennis life, beginning at age nine easily tell that she was far more when· most are decked out in books happy with the quality of competi I gasped, for one could not have in an excellent program in her home skilled than the best of the other and monogram sweatez:s. "They (the tion at a school the size of Saint dreamed of a more shocking state town of Kalamazoo, where for six Belles, and the only way Patsy would admission directors) don't even ask Mary's, and was bound to leave ment from a Saint Mary's woman on years coaches drilled her with drills truly excel was through practicing why I'm not .studying anymore." eventually. Yet she was perfectly the first days of finals. Surely I must such as rallying back and forth one with top-flight competition between And when she smiled, they now had content with the way things were have been mistaken. But she didn't hundred times in a row, as many as matches. Oakm~n did her best to ob to at least TRY to smile back. c' run her freshman year, and it was answer my echo. She didn't have to. ten times in all. Later, after these tain such players for her star to hit But if the social picture was im more out of a feeling of total neglect For there was something in her skills were "drilled" into her, she against, often relying on area pros proving, the tennis scene surely of her talents the next year that smile, her wink, and the way she took to the summer circuit and and Notre Dame's men's team to wasn't. Fry stiil was doing little in Patsy lost respect for the system. walked a way which told me she "hooked" (more tennis jargon, mean- keep her on her toes. the way of finding quality players to Others may' reason that Patsy never probably was right. D 22 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 23' -- -- • ! , ,

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positive results. As one dismayed woman told Quayle, "You can't ~he fRight to compromise a human life." Quayle's 2ife: handling of the session was master ful, but when the Senator exited shaking hands and paying compli ments all around, most of our group's positive initial reaction was tem pered by this seemingly contrary stand on the issue. By contrast, Senator Richard Lugar Where They Stand swept confidently into the room, in troduced his stand on the issue, quoted with relish the text of "the proposed amendment which I co -by Ed Kelly sponsor," an amendment which has as its only moderating clause a pro vision for "medical procedures re quired to prevent the death of the mother." This performance was fol lowed by a truly all-American im promptu speech on family together Several weeks ago] twenty-nine ness and human values, in which students of Notre Dame-Saint Mary]s Lugar expressed total agreement boarded a bus and left the Bookstore with the pro-life movement. Then he parking lot] bound for a Washington] gave his regz:ets that he could not D.O.] march. It was two days after stay longer but had to attend a inaccurate. If there were fewer than type of amendment prohibiting abor the inauguration and the release of senate meeting, and left the room 80,000 people participating in ",that tion except in cases of rape and in the hostages] but the marchers were smiling, shaking hands, and well march, I'll eat my shoes. Either way, cest. This, says the pro-life group, is not coming to commemorate a happy wishing as many individuals as pos it was the biggest crowd in the eight not a true assertion of the sanctity event. Rather] the date chosen for sible. year history of the annual march. of" life, but would merely punish the march was January 22-exactly Approval of this last speech was The end of the march, however, some unborn children for the mis eight years after the 1973 Supreme universal, and a jovial mood was set wasn't the end of our efforts, as the takes of their fathers, as well as in Oourt decision proclaiming the con for the informal brunch, right there next stop for about a dozen of us vite considerable abuse of the law stitutionality of abortion. The fol in the senate hearing room. Follow was Rep. John Hiler's congressional through the loophole of false rape l(Yl)ing is an account of their trip by ing brunch, Mary A:qn Hughes, presi office. Differing from both Lugar and claims. Furthermore, conception in one of the Notre Dame participants. dent of ND-SMC "Right to Life" and Quayle, Hiler first admitted humbly rape cases is so rare that such a law C.A.M.P.U.S., a nationwide right-to that while he supported our cause, would be practically a farce. Hiler "Fourteen across: 'pismire.' What's life organization, gave an impressive he was not highly informed on the recognized this point and seemed to a pismire?" introduction of our group, emphasiz issue. Forty-five minutes later, he approve personally, but mentioned "I think it's a mountain range in ing its continuing growth and citing was considerably better informed. also his opinion that the rape-incest Asia.... " of the more enterprising students legislation, and expressed his admira the 80,000 signatures obtained by St. The forty-five minute discussion exception will probably be the form "If you'll support my attack on took advantage of the four hours of tion for the dedication of the groups Joseph County Right to Life for made Rep. Hiler aware of the four the amendment will take after con Bohemia, I'll promise not to attack free time before the march to get a such as ours which traveled so far to the pro-life petition published in the general forms that an amendment gressional haggling. He added his Munich." quick pedestrian's view of the capital, attend the march. However, Quayle South Bend Tribune (which she pre migh take. personal approval of our point of "Not on your life." while the more politically inclined disconcerted his audience somewhat sented personally to John Hiler after One is the amendment (supported view, but expressed doubts about the "Are we almost there?" among us trudged up "the Hill" to by his refusal to support actively a the march). by Sen. Quayle) that would remove outcome. Such conversations were typical of the Dirksen Senate building to meet constitutional amendment] the action jurisdication from the courts and Despite such sobering commentary, Immediately following the brunch give it to the states. Another would, the atmosphere of the march was our twelve-hour bus ride to Washing~ at the scheduled brunch with Indiana so ardently desired by the "Right to meeting, we began to assemble on ton, D.C., beginning at 7 p.m. Cross senators Dan Quayle and Richard Life" group. if passed, guarantee the right to hopeful, and with reason: this was the White House Ellipse. Fortu life of the unborn except in cases the largest response in the march's words and a tenuous game of DIP Lugar. Instead, Sen. Quayle advocated nately, the cold had moderated by LOMACY in the bus' aisle were two Once inside it was evident that legislation which would remove the of rape and incest. Still a third eight-year history, the movement is noon, and the day turned out to be (supported by Sen. Lugar) would in growing steadily, and for the first of my attempts to while away the the political atmosphere was vibrant. abortion issue from the jurisdiction sunny and downright pleasant. Min hours. Eventually, qowever, these Both Indiana senators were bubbling of the Supreme Court, thereby in clude a clause with provision for time, the party in power is favorable gling with a: boisterous crowd com protection of the life of the mother. -to the pro-life issue. Maybe not this comparatively pleasant distractions with childlike excitement over the validating the 1973 ruling and turn plete with all the colorful and noisy lost their appeal, and the pitiful fu new Republican Senate majority and -ing regulation over to the individual The fourth, the Hyde Amendment, is year, or maybe not the next, but accoutrements of any legitimate universally accepted in pro-life cir soon. . . . . tility of trying to sleep in a seat de the inauguration of a Republican state. Given the political realities, march on the capital, we listened to signed for a short munchkin led in president. The. $4.00 charge must this compromising approach, said cles. It states, simply: After twelve hours on the bus and the'impassioned speeches of pro~life nine hours in Washington, it was evitably to the stupor of travel mes- have been for the privilege of talk Quayle, is much more "practical" leaders from all over the country and merization. - ing with -the senators (it COUldn't than 'pressing for an amendment With respect to the right to life time for another twelve hours on the awaited the gathering of the full as~ guaranteed in this Constitution, bus. No one looked upon this pros Some years later (7 a.m.) I pulled have been for the food ...), but it whose chances for success are dubi sembly of marchers._ my knee out of my chest and was worth it to see firsthand the dis ous at 'best. every human being, subjeCt to the pect with relish. However, I ,was stumbled gratefully out of the bus play of political finesse exhibited Needless to say, ,the Indiana "Right Aligned behind the ND-SMC ban jurisdiction of the United States, considerably edified' in discovering into the nation's capital-and almost during the meeting. to Life" groups did not agree. Re ner (with the necessary fighting or of any State" shall be deemed, that a "pismire" is merely an ant crawled back in: it was freezing. _Senator Dan Quayle arrived in the moval of jurisdiction over, the Issue Irishman thereon), vie stepped off from the moment of fertilization, and I did finally conquer Munich. 0 Nevertheless, "march we must," so a hearing room first and fielded (I to the state level would not guar at 1:30 p.m. and made -the tradi to be a person and entitled to the number of us slipped into a con darn'tsay "answered") our ques tional circuit, ending, up at the right to life. Ed Kelly is a junior. at Notre Dame antee the constitutional sanctity of Capitol building about "two hours venient Great American Tradition tionsand _those of representatives of human life sought by the pro~life majoring in government and French. (or so they tell you at McDonald's) "Right .to Life" from all parts of groups. Instead, such action would later. Official estimates 'Put the num We asserted, to Rep. Hiler's sur This is his first contribution to ber of marchers at 50,000, but most to get some coffee, to warm up, and Indiana. Quayle began by asserting merely localize the country's abor~ prise, that the "Right to Life" Move Scholastic. to examine the day's schedule. Some his general support for anti-abortion tion legislation without securing of us agreed that this was highly ment would lobby against the second 24 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 25 ¥

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faults too kindly, as though I were Books that it had been condemned by Car chief of state to review one of later defect to Moscow. But it is a member of a clan and could not dinal Pissardo. The Pope then "re Greene's novels: "A liar, a cretin, a Batista's Cuba that provides the be disowned, while some non-Cath peated the name with a wry smile stool-pigeon ... unbalanced, sadistic, background for Our Man in Havana. olic critics seemed to consider that and added, 'Mr. Greene, some parts perverted . . . a perfect ignoramus "Suddenly it struck me that here in Escaping with my faith gave me an unfair ad of your books are certain to offend . . . lying to his heart's content . . . this extraordinary city, where every vantage in some way over my con some Catholics, but you should pay the shame of proud and noble En vice was permissible and every trade temporaries. I had become a cath The Nobel Prize for Literature, it no attention to that.' " gland . . . a spy . . . a drug addict possible, lay the true background for olic in 1926, and all of my books Besides being a way of escape, ... a torturer." Greene responds to my comedy," he says. is safe to assume, will escape Gra had been written as a Catholic, ham Greene again this year. After writing, for Greene, is also a danger Papa Doc's criticism, finally realiz Some of those vices that Greene but no one noticed the faith to ous profession. "The career of writ ing his worth as a writer. "I am enjoys are gambling, watching porno fifty years of traveling all over the which I belonged before the publi world and writing about those trav Graham ing," he says, "has its own curious proud to have had Haitian friends movies and live sex shows, smoking cation of Brighton Rocle. Even to forms of hell." On the lighter side, who fought courageously in the marijuana, and trying to sniff co els in twenty-one novels, Greene has 'day some critics (and critics as a yet to receive the Nobel Prize. In the Greene recalls the time Twentieth mountains against Doctor Duvalier, caine-it seems Greene was sold for class are seldom more careful of Century Fox sued him' for libel be but a writer is not so powerless as the price of cocaine nothing but preface to Ways of Escape, his latest their facts than journalists) refer Greene cause in a movie column he had sug he usually feels, and a pen, as well boracic powder. Though Our Man in piece of nonfiction, Green tells the after to the novels written my con gested that Shirley Temple "had a as a silver bullet, can draw blood." Havana is a parody on spying and reader that all that traveling and all version, making a distinction be that writing may not have been for certain adroit coquetry which ap Angering dictators seems to be a though it minimizes Batista's arbi the sake of art. "I can see now that by Lance Mazerov tween the earlier and the later pealed to middle-aged men." The hobby of Greene's. He writes un trary torture and imprisonment, my travels, as much as the act of books. nine-year-old actress, who had never favorably of Paraguay in Travels Greene comes to fear Batista's per writing, were ways of escape. As. I Many times since Brighton Rocle read Greene's column, was awarded with My Aunt, the only book Greene ceived social charm. "Often when have written elsewhere in this book, Greene, however, enjoys writing I have been forced to declare my in damages 2,500 pounds sterling. says he has written for the fun of it. day broke a man's body would be 'Writing is a form of therapy; some because like his travels, it is a form self not a Catholic writer but a On a more serious note, Greene Ten years later at the Organization found hanging from a lamp post. times I wonder how all those who do , of adve~ture, though he admits he writer who happens to be Catholic. writes. that there was an urgency to of American States party thrown in That," writes Greene, "was a lucky not write, compose, or paint can approached both subjects with a bit escape the boredom and depression celebration of the Panama Canal victim." manage to escape the madness, the of naIvete. "We were a generation And after the publicatipn of The he encountered during middle age. Treaties, Greene, a Panamanian dele Even the British government re melancholia, the panic fear which is brought up on adventure stories who Heart of the Matter, Greene finds "But I had no employer from whom gate, offends one of Paraguay's min fuses to acknowledge that there is so inherent in the human condi had missed the enormous disillusion . himself "regarded as a Catholic au to escape-only myself, and the only isters simply by having himself in a civil war in the making. And tion.''' The reader, however, recalls ment of the First World War, so we thor in England, Europe, and Amer trust I could betray was the trust of troduced to the harborer of Nazi war the American ambassador is repri some sound advice: Trust the tale went looking for adventure, much as ica-the last Utle to which I had those who loved me. I asked a psy- criminals. "I," writes Greene, "felt manded by John Foster Dulles for and not the teller. in the summer of 1940 I used to ever aspired." Throughout Ways of . chiatrist friend of mine to arrange some pride-as I had when Papa breaking up a police riot, because, spend Saturday nights in Southend, Escape Greene refutes' the critics for electric-shock treatment, but he Doc so furiously attacked me-that Greene says, "In the eyes of the To appreciate fully Ways of Es who make too· much of the religious cape the reader should be familiar looking for an air raid, with little refused." Greene, however, did not a mere writer could irritate a dicta United States Government terror with Greene's novels; without this thought that in a· few months I symbolism they find in his fiction. have the courage for suicide. Life tor so irremovable, and a regret for was not terror unless it' came from familiarity the reader may be lost should have my fill of them in Lon Earlier he adds, "I had not been would have been so much easier, he that sad and lovely land to which I the left." After, the revolt of school y throughout most of the book because don day and night." emotionail moved, but only intellec says, if he had been a bank teller could never return so long as these children, Greene expresses his dis tually convinced; I was in the habit Ways of Escape is essentially a se One adventure takes Greene to Li planning to abscond to Latin Amer men lived." dain for journalists, a profession to ries of personal essays chronicling beria where he discovers his joy for of formally practicing my religion, ica. But because he is a writer, "it Greene also looks back with glee which he once belonged. "What the real-life experiences that the au lYing. He catches malaria and almost going to Mass every Sunday and to became a habit with me to visit on his deportation in 1954 from seemed· strange to me was that no thor has transformed into his fiction, dies. After sweating out the fever, confession perhaps once a month, troubled places, not to seek material Puerto Rico. "Life," he says, "is not report of the children's revolt ap or that would have made for good Greene.tells the reader, "I,had II].ade and in my spare time I read a good for novels but to regain the sense of rich in comedy; one has to cherish peared in Time - yet their corre fiction. The reader familiar with a discovery in myself during the night deal of theology - sometimes with insecurity which I had enjoyed in what there is of it and savor it dur spondent was there in the city with fascination, sometimes with repul Graham Greene may have seen Ways which interested me. I had discovered the three blitzes on London ... ." ing the bad days." It seems that me. But perhaps Henry Luce had of Escape before. Many of the es in myself a passionate interest in sion, nearly always with inte~e~t." Disaster proves to be a way of under the McCarran Act Greene had not yet made up his mind between says, in abridged form," have served living. I had always assumed before, The Socialist persecution of rellglOn . escape, and he escaped to disastrous become a prohibited immigrant to Castro and Batista." Greene, how 'as introductions to Greene's novels. as a matter of course, that death was in Mexico and the Fascist attack on places all over the world. He escapes the United States because he had, ever, has made up his mind: he even At the same time, however, Ways desirable. It seemed that night an Republicanism in Spain force Greene to Masaryk's Czechoslovakia while for the lack of anything else to do smuggles some clothes into the of Escape is a book about writing important discovery. It was like a: to examine more carefully the effect the Soviets parachute into Prague. at age nineteen, been a member of mountains for Castro's representa and the frustrations of writing. conversion, and I had never· experi~ of his faith on action. He discovers, He escapes to Malaya during the the Communist Party for four weeks. tives. "By that time," Greene writes, "Writing a novel," states Greene, "is enced. a conversipli before. (I had not "Catholicism was no longer primar Emergency. That, writes Greene, is Greene volunteers this information "I had finished Our Man in Havana. a little like putting a message into a been converted to a religious faith. ily symbolic, a ceremony at an altar the war much of the world forgot be at customs in San Juan. He then re I had no regrets. It seemed to me bottle and flinging it into the sea I had been. convinced by 'specific ar with the correct canon~cal number of cause it was too busy with Korea. He counts how he and two immigration that either the Foreign Service or unexpected friends or enemies re guments in the probability of· its candles, with the women in my escapes to Kenya during the Mau . officials get drunk and tour the city, the Intelligence Service had simply trieve it." Because he could not get creed.)" Chelsea congregation wearing their Mau uprisings. He recalls some ad all at Uncle Sam's expense. Though merited a little ridicule." his first two novels published, Greene This confession cannot be over best hats, nor was it a philosophical vice given to him that world leaders the United States tries to deport him One criticism of Greene's other expected his third novel, The Man stated. Much has been made of page in Father D'Arcy's Nature of today should heed: "Those who don't to Haiti, the pilot of the plane be spy novel, The Human Factor, is that Within, to be his last. Fortunately Graham Greene, the Catholic Writer. Belief. It was close:r now to death in love the African had better get out friends Greene and takes him to there is not enough violence in it. for his readers, The Man Within was Here is an occasion where one should the afternoon." of here. It's not a country for them." Havana. It turns out that the pilot Espionage is presented as relatively a "temporary success that a first trust the teller and not the tale be Some may be offended by Greene's Ironically, these three escapes pro was a Hollywood actor who had free from violence, quite unromantic, novel sometimes ,has through the cause throughout Ways of Escape Catholicism, which has been said vide no setting for any of Greene's been blacklisted a few years before. almost downright boring. Greene, charity of reviewers," though he Greene separates himself constantly often to border on heresy. Indeed, novels. Greene did not try to improve on however, insists that his intention is adds quickly, "if I had been a pub from the epithet, the Catholic Writer. the Holy Office condemned earlier Other escapes, however, Greene in this adventure with a piece of fiction, to portray the British Secret Service lisher's reader, which I became many After the publication of Brighton Greene's The Power and the Glory, corporates into his novels. Francois though he did use much of its as accurately as possible. Being a years afterwards, I would have Rocle in 1937, Greene, the story of a whiskey priest who "Papa Doc" Duvalier's nightmare absurdity in Our Man in Havana. former agent, he should know; turned it down unhesitatingly." continued to pass on life. Greene re republic of Haiti provides the back Greene is of two minds concern though he admits that some of his Greene admits even that he sup was discovered to be-detestable calls his meeting with Pope Paul VI, ground for The Comedians: Greene ing professional espionage. During material might be outdated. This pressed his next two novels because term!-a Catholic writer. Catho who had read The Power and the takes special delight in capturing the World War IT he had worked with was one piece of fiction Greene in- they deserved to fail. lics began to treat some of my Glory, despite Greene's reminder wrath of Dr. Duvalier, the only Kim Philby, the agent who would (cont'd on page 30) 28 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 29 Green (cont'd) Green (cont'd frorn page 29) 1970s on the nightly news: The Americans are only observers in In Indochina I drained a magic Greene's Indochina. It is the French tomorrow or you will never get the with practice because a writer can Greene, but it also brought back the tended to suppress; he wanted his times when he wanted to escape to children to publish it posthumously. potion, a loving cup which I have who are fighting the Viet Minh. Gen chance. It worked, though Greene re become the prisoner of his own style. do as much as possible. One escape But because he did not achieve his shared since with many retired eral De Lattre boasts, "I am return veals that he had to smoke a few A writer, he says, .does not choose pipes of opium before he could sit his subjects; his subjects choose him. to Israel during the Six-Day War purpose-there is a murder in The colons and officers of the Foreign ing now to Saigon, but I am leaving down for tea with the man who And an author develops with his perhaps sums up how Greene feels Human Factor-Greene admits that Legion, whose eyes light up at the with you my wife as a symbol that characters; he may be a different about his life of traveling and writ it may have failed as a factual spy mention of Saigon and Hanoi. France will never, never leave would become a household word in person when he finishes his work. ing: "I said to the Colonel, 'I have story. He, however, thinks that it The spell was first cast, I think, Hanoi." Less than a year later, the America during the 1960s. Ways of Escape The novelist, Greene states, works a reputation for bringing trouble succeeds as a love story. Greene even by the tall elegant girls in white proud general would be dying of must have been a difficult book for Graham Greene to alone. Ways of Escapf? must have with me,' but I didn't mean it seri sent a copy to Philby in Moscow. silk trousers; by the pewter eve cancer in Paris, dying convinced that recalled some lonely memories for ously." Graham Greene's most revealing ning light on flat paddy fields, Greene is a spy. write. Writing, he says, gets harder 0 and enlightening essay is the one on where the water buffaloes trudged French Indochina. It is a good piece fetlock-deep with a slow primeval Greene sees into the future when of personal history. It is also one gait; by the French perfumeries he writes, "I suspect my ambivalent essay where the reader need not be in the rue Catina, the Chinese attitude to the war was already per familiar with the fiction to appre gambling houses in Cholon; above ceptible - my admiration for the ciate it. What comes from this es all by that feeling of exhilration French Army, my admiration for which a measure of danger brings their enemies, and my doubt of any The Last Word cape Is The Quiet American, a novel final value in the war." One of his which did not endear Greene to the to the visitor with a return ticket: by Chuck Wood American Establishment. Greene's the restaurants wired against gre fondest memories of that tragic Indochina is a lost Indochina. His nades, the watchtowers striding place is the opium that he was smok description of Vietnam is unlike any along the roads of the southern ing at least three times a week. He Though extraordinarily sunny, this winter has been of a concern for the spiritual life. However, Christ calls thing the American public ever saw delta with their odd reminders of also recounts how he gave Ho Chi hiking boot and down jacket weather, as usual. We've Christians tobein the world but not ofthe world.) during the late 1960s and early insecurity. Minh an ultimatum: meet with me seen more blue and bright skies than is customary, so Taking a look at what I consider the more negative (cont'd next page) the February doldrums haven't been quite so .ponderous aspects of the signals students get from each other, a blanket ov~r campus as they have in past winters. there seems to be a huge commitment to escaping the Such pleasant surprises from the weather can make us tight grip of dogmatic Rules and Regulations. Our thankful. But sometimes they seem cruel jokes when the parties, conversations, and treatment of each other are warmth that the sunlight promises cannot break often such belabored attempts at being uninhibited, with the way women are always Dorothy Day (cont'd from page 20) Outcasts (cont'd from page 21) through the freeze that has clamped down on us. offensive, "of the world," that we all appear to be entertainment section of the Sunday represented in our society. I may be Snow falls without any warning, obtains blizzard . putting on so many poses. We get caught up in paper." a raging feminist, but I'm also a Later, with fellow ND graduates, my wife and I began a rural way of proportions, and stops as hurriedly as it began. Wind performing imitations of immorality. Such activities can "Yeah, you're right. O.K., how raging humanist." swathes the campus and makes our wrappings useless. obtain such high proportions that a layer ofdetachment about this. The people that are great "Careful, Adri, we don't want to life that Dorothy Day and Peter had helped to inspire, building our own People blame the Lake Effect, curse the Wind Chill starts to fall on our desire to understand our faith as made it because they had teams. sound too defensive." Factor, and wish Fr. Sorin had turned south somewhere effective and primary from day to day. Jackie Gleason always had a team "O.K. What I'm interested in is houses on an 80-acre farm east of along the line. .' .' Notre Dame. This is a project eter Of course, such detachment is not peculiar to this behind him. Mel Brooks doesn't make telling stories. I got lots of those. Because we, :far beneath the·clarity and apparent University nor does it originate with that which we . a movie without a team, Bruce When I was thirteen I walked in nally unfinished. When Dorothy Day made her speech accepting the Lae warmth in the sky, are still drenched in slush and re,ceive here. But something happens here. We take up doesn't move without his team. An the door and I said, 'Ma, there's a biting cold, some ordinary practices around here have . too quickly the mood of the times and our surroundings.. audience can tell how we feel about boy in school who I like but he tare Medal, she acknowledged that she herself had received inspiration become surprising, and intriguing to me. One encourag The promises and teachings of our Christian churches each other when we're up there on doesn't know it.' 'He'll catch up,' she ing sight that has become pleascmtly amazing since . are often seen as just so many innocuous or cruel jokes. . said. When I was sixteen I walked from Notre Dame people like Father the stage. It makes an audience ter winter fell is students at the Grotto. When it's warm, or If we students do not consider faith as the foundation: in the door and I said, 'Ma, there's a Leo R. Ward and Willis Nutting and rifically uncomfortable if they sense it's Finals time, pilgrimages to the Grotto are common of our lives it may be because this Idea is not adequately • that the actors don't like one an boy in my class who I like but he she was pleased that their and her traditions were going on in our own place. But while bathroom tile floors chill us, and frigid presented. We end up uncritically accepting the whole . other. Improvisation stresses the au doesn't know it.' She said, 'That's all treks to class annoy us, something draws many students spectrum of "modernism."Along\Vith the great strides ' right. Wait till college.' A week ago community on the land. . dience. They're a part of the show. to that place of worship and petition. of progress from which we should benefit, contemporary I called my Ma on the phone. I said, When I see what a large propor when you're improvising you gotta Now between the people and the cars passing by on systems of thought (in any age, but especially in ours) . 'Ma, there's this boy at school and tion of ND and SMC students now trust the people you're with. We the road, and the ducks holding forth on the lake, the can swathe us in cynicism and the chill of alienation. I like him, but he doesn't like me.' take part in volunteer services, espe trust each other and once you find Grotto is, objectively, not the most serene place to pray And while apostasy may not be encouraged at all, a 'Well then just wait till he's a man,' cially those very personal services that kind of chemistry it never goes on campus. So, a large part of what draws us there must lukewarm attitude toward. genuine Christian living is, she said. I learned that the most im that Dorothy Day so much empha away." be from within us, There lies inside a desire to maintain I'm afraid, not discouraged either. portant thing is loving someone and sized, I see how ideals which already "Remember Zahm?" I asked her. a .fundamental spirituality in our lives. The desire for understanding faith gets crusted over "Yeah, well, comedy is mostly in being loved. If art is truly self-ex had a home here at ND have become Students atthe Grotto surrounded by icicles and by many things. But the desire is still there; We are j pression then you gotta do things even more at home her~ because of stincts and sometimes instincts are snowdrifts, at various prayer meetings around campus, concerned about the pla.ce of Jesus and His message in that you feel. The Outcasts is my her influence on American Catholi wrong. The idea of going to a coffee and at the Eucharist during the week as well as on our lives yet we are unwilling or afraid to admit it to' grown-up perception of what I am. cism. Students who have never heard house at night sounded good for Sunday ... this is just a list of the more visible acts friends, roommates or even ourselves. If we do not learn I never fit in and I never will, but of her are doing things because she what we were doing, but, we got that represent the desire to have a firm, vital Christian to overcome that uneasiness among other Christians, somehow I'm gonna be happy. It's made us aware of other people and there and it was like trying to per base to grow on. We are looking for the personal truth . we won't have the boldness to spea.k against the actions form in a wok. It was my fault. I O.K. to be an underdog. People re their needs. Perhaps her death itself will bring others to go to her writ in the truths of dogma and Tradition which have been and beliefs' of an unchristian world. Then all that we don't always make the best admin spond to that. I always had the idea taught to us. are taught here will be but so much stra~. . . istrative decisions. But we wouldn't that for every time you cried or you ings to become aware of her, and The desire I'm talking about is further beneath the If I seem extremely negative, some of that may be hurt that that was going to give you through her, of the needs and the trade that Zahm .experience for the surface of some. people's personalities than that of .due to that part of the FebruaryIwinter doldrums which a hundrerl onportunitie~ to make dignity of others. She would like world. They were a wonderful audi others. Often,signals from our peers and our superiors clear skies cannot dissipate by themselves. So I hope someone laugh. And that's what we that. 0 ence, make sure you put that in, and lead us to bury the desire even further within. Other for the time when the heat which those skies promise. llO, C.wu LUi:h., the glue that hOlds us we learned to differentiate between students have talked with me about the way things .' can get through to us. Meanwhile, people will continue together." Walking out of the pub Dr. Pleasants is a Professor of MicrD what we did that was good and spiritual seem tobe stifled and thrust aside. Last spring to go to the Grotto, to the chapels all over campus, and, what wasn't." licity office I realized how happy I biology. a freshman said that h~ had expected more prevalent I hope, will be-more open and supportive of one "Why did you want this group to was to be an Outcast. I was also expressions of Christian ideas and concerns than there glad that I could write fast. The another; perhaps then we can learn the vitality of be all women?" I asked. seemed to be at this Christian institution. (Some may' Christianity that can break through the indifference, "Women are outcasts in a way Outcasts will be performing March 7 say that it's not the way of the real world to have much detachement, and fear .that clamp down. on us. that men aren't. I'm not comfortable in Washington Hall. 0 0 30 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 31 Green (cont'd) Green (cont'd frorn page 29) 1970s on the nightly news: The Americans are only observers in In Indochina I drained a magic Greene's Indochina. It is the French tomorrow or you will never get the with practice because a writer can Greene, but it also brought back the tended to suppress; he wanted his times when he wanted to escape to children to publish it posthumously. potion, a loving cup which I have who are fighting the Viet Minh. Gen chance. It worked, though Greene re become the prisoner of his own style. do as much as possible. One escape But because he did not achieve his shared since with many retired eral De Lattre boasts, "I am return veals that he had to smoke a few A writer, he says, .does not choose pipes of opium before he could sit his subjects; his subjects choose him. to Israel during the Six-Day War purpose-there is a murder in The colons and officers of the Foreign ing now to Saigon, but I am leaving down for tea with the man who And an author develops with his perhaps sums up how Greene feels Human Factor-Greene admits that Legion, whose eyes light up at the with you my wife as a symbol that characters; he may be a different about his life of traveling and writ it may have failed as a factual spy mention of Saigon and Hanoi. France will never, never leave would become a household word in person when he finishes his work. ing: "I said to the Colonel, 'I have story. He, however, thinks that it The spell was first cast, I think, Hanoi." Less than a year later, the America during the 1960s. Ways of Escape The novelist, Greene states, works a reputation for bringing trouble succeeds as a love story. Greene even by the tall elegant girls in white proud general would be dying of must have been a difficult book for Graham Greene to alone. Ways of Escapf? must have with me,' but I didn't mean it seri sent a copy to Philby in Moscow. silk trousers; by the pewter eve cancer in Paris, dying convinced that recalled some lonely memories for ously." Graham Greene's most revealing ning light on flat paddy fields, Greene is a spy. write. Writing, he says, gets harder 0 and enlightening essay is the one on where the water buffaloes trudged French Indochina. It is a good piece fetlock-deep with a slow primeval Greene sees into the future when of personal history. It is also one gait; by the French perfumeries he writes, "I suspect my ambivalent essay where the reader need not be in the rue Catina, the Chinese attitude to the war was already per familiar with the fiction to appre gambling houses in Cholon; above ceptible - my admiration for the ciate it. What comes from this es all by that feeling of exhilration French Army, my admiration for which a measure of danger brings their enemies, and my doubt of any The Last Word cape Is The Quiet American, a novel final value in the war." One of his which did not endear Greene to the to the visitor with a return ticket: by Chuck Wood American Establishment. Greene's the restaurants wired against gre fondest memories of that tragic Indochina is a lost Indochina. His nades, the watchtowers striding place is the opium that he was smok description of Vietnam is unlike any along the roads of the southern ing at least three times a week. He Though extraordinarily sunny, this winter has been of a concern for the spiritual life. However, Christ calls thing the American public ever saw delta with their odd reminders of also recounts how he gave Ho Chi hiking boot and down jacket weather, as usual. We've Christians tobein the world but not ofthe world.) during the late 1960s and early insecurity. Minh an ultimatum: meet with me seen more blue and bright skies than is customary, so Taking a look at what I consider the more negative (cont'd next page) the February doldrums haven't been quite so .ponderous aspects of the signals students get from each other, a blanket ov~r campus as they have in past winters. there seems to be a huge commitment to escaping the Such pleasant surprises from the weather can make us tight grip of dogmatic Rules and Regulations. Our thankful. But sometimes they seem cruel jokes when the parties, conversations, and treatment of each other are warmth that the sunlight promises cannot break often such belabored attempts at being uninhibited, with the way women are always Dorothy Day (cont'd from page 20) Outcasts (cont'd from page 21) through the freeze that has clamped down on us. offensive, "of the world," that we all appear to be entertainment section of the Sunday represented in our society. I may be Snow falls without any warning, obtains blizzard . putting on so many poses. We get caught up in paper." a raging feminist, but I'm also a Later, with fellow ND graduates, my wife and I began a rural way of proportions, and stops as hurriedly as it began. Wind performing imitations of immorality. Such activities can "Yeah, you're right. O.K., how raging humanist." swathes the campus and makes our wrappings useless. obtain such high proportions that a layer ofdetachment about this. The people that are great "Careful, Adri, we don't want to life that Dorothy Day and Peter had helped to inspire, building our own People blame the Lake Effect, curse the Wind Chill starts to fall on our desire to understand our faith as made it because they had teams. sound too defensive." Factor, and wish Fr. Sorin had turned south somewhere effective and primary from day to day. Jackie Gleason always had a team "O.K. What I'm interested in is houses on an 80-acre farm east of along the line. .' .' Notre Dame. This is a project eter Of course, such detachment is not peculiar to this behind him. Mel Brooks doesn't make telling stories. I got lots of those. Because we, :far beneath the·clarity and apparent University nor does it originate with that which we . a movie without a team, Bruce When I was thirteen I walked in nally unfinished. When Dorothy Day made her speech accepting the Lae warmth in the sky, are still drenched in slush and re,ceive here. But something happens here. We take up doesn't move without his team. An the door and I said, 'Ma, there's a biting cold, some ordinary practices around here have . too quickly the mood of the times and our surroundings.. audience can tell how we feel about boy in school who I like but he tare Medal, she acknowledged that she herself had received inspiration become surprising, and intriguing to me. One encourag The promises and teachings of our Christian churches each other when we're up there on doesn't know it.' 'He'll catch up,' she ing sight that has become pleascmtly amazing since . are often seen as just so many innocuous or cruel jokes. . said. When I was sixteen I walked from Notre Dame people like Father the stage. It makes an audience ter winter fell is students at the Grotto. When it's warm, or If we students do not consider faith as the foundation: in the door and I said, 'Ma, there's a Leo R. Ward and Willis Nutting and rifically uncomfortable if they sense it's Finals time, pilgrimages to the Grotto are common of our lives it may be because this Idea is not adequately • that the actors don't like one an boy in my class who I like but he she was pleased that their and her traditions were going on in our own place. But while bathroom tile floors chill us, and frigid presented. We end up uncritically accepting the whole . other. Improvisation stresses the au doesn't know it.' She said, 'That's all treks to class annoy us, something draws many students spectrum of "modernism."Along\Vith the great strides ' right. Wait till college.' A week ago community on the land. . dience. They're a part of the show. to that place of worship and petition. of progress from which we should benefit, contemporary I called my Ma on the phone. I said, When I see what a large propor when you're improvising you gotta Now between the people and the cars passing by on systems of thought (in any age, but especially in ours) . 'Ma, there's this boy at school and tion of ND and SMC students now trust the people you're with. We the road, and the ducks holding forth on the lake, the can swathe us in cynicism and the chill of alienation. I like him, but he doesn't like me.' take part in volunteer services, espe trust each other and once you find Grotto is, objectively, not the most serene place to pray And while apostasy may not be encouraged at all, a 'Well then just wait till he's a man,' cially those very personal services that kind of chemistry it never goes on campus. So, a large part of what draws us there must lukewarm attitude toward. genuine Christian living is, she said. I learned that the most im that Dorothy Day so much empha away." be from within us, There lies inside a desire to maintain I'm afraid, not discouraged either. portant thing is loving someone and sized, I see how ideals which already "Remember Zahm?" I asked her. a .fundamental spirituality in our lives. The desire for understanding faith gets crusted over "Yeah, well, comedy is mostly in being loved. If art is truly self-ex had a home here at ND have become Students atthe Grotto surrounded by icicles and by many things. But the desire is still there; We are j pression then you gotta do things even more at home her~ because of stincts and sometimes instincts are snowdrifts, at various prayer meetings around campus, concerned about the pla.ce of Jesus and His message in that you feel. The Outcasts is my her influence on American Catholi wrong. The idea of going to a coffee and at the Eucharist during the week as well as on our lives yet we are unwilling or afraid to admit it to' grown-up perception of what I am. cism. Students who have never heard house at night sounded good for Sunday ... this is just a list of the more visible acts friends, roommates or even ourselves. If we do not learn I never fit in and I never will, but of her are doing things because she what we were doing, but, we got that represent the desire to have a firm, vital Christian to overcome that uneasiness among other Christians, somehow I'm gonna be happy. It's made us aware of other people and there and it was like trying to per base to grow on. We are looking for the personal truth . we won't have the boldness to spea.k against the actions form in a wok. It was my fault. I O.K. to be an underdog. People re their needs. Perhaps her death itself will bring others to go to her writ in the truths of dogma and Tradition which have been and beliefs' of an unchristian world. Then all that we don't always make the best admin spond to that. I always had the idea taught to us. are taught here will be but so much stra~. . . istrative decisions. But we wouldn't that for every time you cried or you ings to become aware of her, and The desire I'm talking about is further beneath the If I seem extremely negative, some of that may be hurt that that was going to give you through her, of the needs and the trade that Zahm .experience for the surface of some. people's personalities than that of .due to that part of the FebruaryIwinter doldrums which a hundrerl onportunitie~ to make dignity of others. She would like world. They were a wonderful audi others. Often,signals from our peers and our superiors clear skies cannot dissipate by themselves. So I hope someone laugh. And that's what we that. 0 ence, make sure you put that in, and lead us to bury the desire even further within. Other for the time when the heat which those skies promise. llO, C.wu LUi:h., the glue that hOlds us we learned to differentiate between students have talked with me about the way things .' can get through to us. Meanwhile, people will continue together." Walking out of the pub Dr. Pleasants is a Professor of MicrD what we did that was good and spiritual seem tobe stifled and thrust aside. Last spring to go to the Grotto, to the chapels all over campus, and, what wasn't." licity office I realized how happy I biology. a freshman said that h~ had expected more prevalent I hope, will be-more open and supportive of one "Why did you want this group to was to be an Outcast. I was also expressions of Christian ideas and concerns than there glad that I could write fast. The another; perhaps then we can learn the vitality of be all women?" I asked. seemed to be at this Christian institution. (Some may' Christianity that can break through the indifference, "Women are outcasts in a way Outcasts will be performing March 7 say that it's not the way of the real world to have much detachement, and fear .that clamp down. on us. that men aren't. I'm not comfortable in Washington Hall. 0 0 30 SCHOLASTIC FEBRUARY, 1981 31