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VOL. Ill, No. 110 THURSDAY, MARCH 27, I960 Trevino named assistant by Glenn Corso Trevino also commented, “We. red. Dennis Clark, the new are cooperating with the out­ Both men were reluctant to Student Director, yesterday Tim O’ Meilia named editor-in-chief of the OBSERVER. going commissioners and we discuss any definite plans they announced the appointment of The editorial board of the want to learn from any mistakes had for the Union, since they Holliday, also a junior, from Tito Trevino as Assistant Direc­ they have made over the past had not appointed any of their O BSER VER yesterday appoin­Kettering, Ohio, said, “Now that tor. year.” commissioners. Clark did com­ ted Associate Editor Timothy we have achieved daily publica­ “ I am very pleased with my Clark and Trevino stated that ment on some improvements in O’Meilia to the post of Editor- tion, our aim will be to improve appointment,” Trevino said after they plan to have a financial SUAC. in-Chief. O ’Meilia immediately our coverage, expand it, espec­ he learned of Clark’s announce­ planning commission, which “Some of our lectures will be appointed managing editor Don ially in the area of St. Mary’s ment. “I feel Denny and I can would review last year’s Student on a seminar type basis, we Holliday to the post of execu­and to diversify into other work very well together.” Union Budget, and learn where might even be able to bring it tive editor. areas.” Trevino has been active in and how the deficit was incur­ down to the hall level,” he said. The editorial board, com­ Luking, a history major grad­ student activities. The past year posed of an equal number of uating in J unc, is the third editor he was Assistnat Commissioner students and faculty members, of the paper which was created for the Student Union Academic including the OBSER VER'S in November of 1966 following Commission. He also worked on Turnbull still leads present editor-in-chief William the folding of the VOICE. The the Sophomore Literary Festi­ Luking, made the decision last O BSE R VER began daily publi­ val. St. Mary’s Student Body Pres- minds of many of the voters. night. cation this year under Luking’s Commenting on Trevino’s idcntial candidate Susan The totals were: O ’Meilia, a junior from Palm editorship. appointment Clark remarked, Turnbull increased her lead over Susan Turnbull 38 36.3% Bay, Fla., said, “ 1 want to em­ “Tito will be a very effective opponent Barbara Curtin in the Barbara Curtin 19 20.0% phasize the appointment of Hol­ “The daily publication of the assistant director. We plan to second O BSE R VER straw poll Undecided 38 43.7% liday as executive editor. Withpaper this year has been an cooperate very closely in the although the number of unde­ The individual classes were the tremendous growth of the almost heroic effort by a group Union. We are looking forward cided voters increased. weighted according to the pro­ paper into a daily, running the of people including present exec­ to a very good year.” It is significant that the poll portion of the student body in O BSE R VER has become a two- utive editor Paul Schroeder, Hol­ Commenting on the appoint­ was conducted prior to last each class. That explains why man job. Don and I will be liday and O ’Meilia,” Luking said. ments of Student Union Com­ night’s Open Forum, which saw identical vote totals for Susan working closely in further ex­ “ Schroeder has been especially missioners Clark said, “ We will each of the candidates present Turnbull and undecided result in pansion and improvement of the helpful in publishing the paper’’ interview all the people who her platform to the entire St. different percentage totals. paper.” applied for commissioner posi­ Mary’s student body. The undecided voters in both tions. I hope to announce them The number of undecided the sophomore and freshman over the weekend at the very voters rose to a phenomenal classes both totalled in excess of latest.” total of 43.7 per cent, an in­ 50 per cent, a rise over Tues­ Both men stated quite expli­ crease of 2.5 per cent over Tues­ day’s results. citly that they planned close day’s poll. Miss Curtin’s totals Miss Curtin and Miss Turnbull cooperation with the outgoing dropped some six per cent com- polled identical amounts in the Student Union officers. ared with her previous totals. freshman, while Miss Turnbull Clark said, “We are working However the unusually large carried the other three classes with the previous Student Union number of undecided voters handily. people to smooth over the trans­ makes a reasonably accurate The OBSERVER polled 95 ition. We want to learn from prediction of the race impos­ St. Mary’s students, slightly them. They have been very wil­ sible. The Open Forum is expec­ more than Tuesday’s 90. The ling to help us.” election is slated for Friday. ted to resolve the issue in the New Executive Editor Don Holliday. How many women friends do you have?

they were accepted, the biggest single complaint This is the fourth of a five part series on 2734 students who were accepted by Notre Dame, coeducation at Notre Dame by Barry Breen andwas “The lack of women students.” Princeton lost 43% of its best applicants largely because of 1550 students actually enrolled. That is, 43% of Jim Pelligrin. the absence of women students. Even more the students accepted by Notre Dame chose to Erom an admissions point o f view, I think important in the long run, Princeton researchers enroll in other universities. Why? That is a it is obvious that Princeton would be conducting a survey of high school students question for our admissions department. more attractive to able boys if it were discovered that 80%' of the most gifted high school When asked “How many good people do you coeducational. Having visited large think we are losing because Notre Dame is numbers of secondary schools and all-male?,” Mr. Joe Mulligan of Notre Dame’s interviewed hundreds of boys, / sim ply Admissions Department replied that no good state it as a fact that able, sensitive boys answer could be given to this question, simply take it for granted that they will sit in class with girls. Princeton loses one third because Notre Dame docs not send out a questionnaire to those applicants who decide o f its admitted students to other colleges. These students are all too often the very against coming to Notre Dame. The lack of a reply card system is a serious enough blunder on the people we want most. There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that coeducation part of the Admissions Department, but their is very much a factor in their decision not apparent ignorance of the reasons why good to attend Princeton. students turn down Notre Dame is inexcusable. Nearly h a lf of Notre Dame’s accepted applicants Director o f Admissions, Princeton enroll in other universities, and no-one has taken Today’s students not only prefer coeducation; the trouble to find out if sexual segregation is a they expect it and demand it as a necessary part of factor in their decision. their educational experience. Fewer and fewer But isn’t it possible, or even probable in the students arc willing to put up with sexual light of adm issions experience in similar segregation as a necessary part of their life style. institutions, that the biggest single reason why This new awareness on the part of students has students decline enrollment at Notre Dame is “The seniors believed that “the fact that a university has some very disturbing implications with regard to lack of women students?” Isn’t it possible, or even both men and women greatly increases its university admissions. probable, that each year Notre Dame loses a larger attractiveness.” Able, sensitive high school As a result of its recent research in this area, and larger percentage of its best applicants because students do indeed take it for granted that they Princeton realizes that it is in serious admissions it is not a coeducational institution? The fa c t is will sit in class with members of the opposite sex. trouble as a result of sexual segregation. Of the that more and more of the best high school seniors If a u n iv ersity cannot provide such an 425 men identified in 1968 as the “best” of demand and expect coeducation. As long as Notre environment, they will go somewhere else to find Princeton’s applicants, only 181 (43%) chose to Dame excludes women from its community, it will enroll. On the basis of reply cards sent out to it. (continued on page 4) those applicants who declined enrollment once But what about Notre Dame? In 1968, out of PAGE 2 THE OBSERVER THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1969 on the bench and on the fairways on the campus... thurs., march 27

Plimpton recounts adventures Basketball banquet Seminar on motivation ‘O ne does survive these the finish and I did just that, of his foursome continued down Ray Meyer, head coach at A one-day seminar on the forays into where one should right behind the winner. The the fairway and Arnie stepped to DePaul the past 25 seasons and hiring, training and motivating not be.” This statement poor fellow had to put on a the tee. Notre Dame cage captain of the disadvantaged will be held explained George Plimpton’s finishing kick.” Plimpton was Plimpton shouted up at him 1936-38, will be the featured today in the Center for “personal magnitude,” as one exposed in the press tent as an to stop and Arnie peered down speaker today at the annual Continuing Education, under the girl put it, that attracted a near illegal contestant. at him with the “ look of a Irish basketball banquet in the sponsorship of the Michiana capacity audience to Stepan last George gleaned the experience businessman sitting at his desk Monogram Room of the Convo Chapter of the American Society night to hear him speak. from which he wrote O ut o f w ith th e odd feeling that Center. for Training Development. Plimpton, the fifth speaker of My League from a brief something has moved in the the Sophomore Literary Arts pitching stint against the best bottom of his wastepaper Poetry reading Trip is on Festival, is the author of the hitters in baseball. After getting basket.” Arnie allowed him to St. Mary’s English Depart­ Brian Moore, Chairman of the national best sellers: O u t o f M y the first batter and Willie Mays hit. ment, under the direction of Mr. New Jersey Club European trip, League, Bogey Man, and Paper o u t on p o p -u p s, he was Paper Lion, the book that Randall Ackley, will present a has announced that the club’s L ion. promptly shelled for a “few catapaulted him to national po etry reading by Howard quota for the trip of 50 students Plimpton revealed that his doubles and triples . . . and one fame was based on his stay in McCord, today at 6:30 p.m. has been filled and that the trip first foray as a rank amateur into of the longest home runs ever hit the Detroit Lions training camp. in the Little Theater. is definitely on. the world of sport occurred in Tiger Stadium.” He headed George’s game time consisted of when he was a Harvard for the showers in a state of shell five plays in which he drove his sophomore and was required to shock. team from their own twenty to SMC holds run in the Boston Marathon as Bogey Man was written as a their own five. The epitome of an initiation stunt for joining the result of three pro-am golf his ineptness occurred when he by Carol White H arvard L a m p o o n . “ I was tournaments he participated in. was dropping back to pass and An underflowing crowd of 25 2) Completion of community allowed to enter 100 yards from His most dreadful moment fell down without a hand being interested students discussed government. “Presently” , Sue occurred when he was playing in laid on him. said, “the term community the foursome ahead of Arnold Future books include one campaign issues with five government is hypocritical and P alm er. G eo rg e, from an relating his experiences playing student government candidates in St. Mary’s coffeehouse last should no longer be discussed. W.C. Fields elevated tee had hit his drive pro basketball (which he has night. Open forum questions Students deserve and should fifty yards into a thicket of done with the Celtics) and pro Is Coining! were directed promarily at the demand authority to make bushes and while he was looking hockey (“I can’t skate. The only decisions which affect their lives. for his ball, the other members position 1 could try is goalie.” two presidential candidates. Responses however flowed Miss Curtin stated that the THE SMC freely from the other difference in her platform would u n c o n te s tc d office seekers: be mainly in emphasis. ATTENTION ENGLISH DEPT. future Vice President, Academic One area of significant Affairs Commissioner, and difference between the two POETRY SERIES S tudent Affairs Council candidates concerned the ALL presents such noted poets asrepresentative, Beth Driscoll, autonomy of SMC. Pam Carey, and Karen Weller. To the hypothetical question John Berryman Basically the two candidates of a co-ed Notre Dame, Miss GRADUATING Ned O’Gorman demonstrated little difference in Curtin stated that regardless of their presidential objectives. Helen Chasin Notre Dame’s future, St. Mary’s Two areas of importance would would retain its identity. Miss STUDENTS and TONIGHT take priority with Miss Turnbull: Turnbull saw a dim future for Howard McCord 1) Greater flexibility in SMC in the event of Notre Dame academic affairs, meaning more gaining girls, “ I’m afraid we’d will give a recital in the LITTLE liberal entrance requirements, become a third-rate school,” she THEATER at 6:30 pm greater personal decision in said. •These lectures are presented at no cost curriculum, and more student Miss Driscoll disagreed, MEASUREMENTS Howard McCord to the student influence in academic councils. claiming that St. Mary’s has will be taken much to offer as an independent institution. “We’re small she I’m sorry about your said, that’s what makes us for special. At SMC there’s a rapport parade, sir. I guess I in student-faeulty and student-student relations that is lost in a larger institution.” splashed on too An interesting idea came from COLLEGIATE Miss Cary who proposed that much after shave.” g Notre Dame and St. Mary’s set up a yearly resident exchange CAPS program. Both the presidential candidates are in favor of diversifying the SMC student and body by accepting girls of varying social, economic, and racial backgrounds. GOWNS Tuition, increased living expenses, demonstrations, and off-campus housing were other areas of agreement. Off - campus regulations TODAY Father James Riehle C SC. /' Dean of Students, announced in a directive yesterday that there March 27 will no longer be a grade point cut-off forcing students to live off campus. An administrative official said that the cut-off was dropped between becausy the new dormitories will be able to accomodate all pres­ ent off-campus students if they 9:00 - 4 :0 0 wish to live on campus. Present juniors will still be permitted to reside off-campus. Even the might of the military can't protect you if you’re not Those sophomores who wish to careful how you use Hai Karate® After Shave and Cologne. One live off campus will be allowed to continue providing they have at the w hiff and females get that “ make love not war" look in their a letter of parental permission. eyes. So to maintain military discipline and keep your uniform All present freshmen and the NOTRE DAME intact, we put instructions on self-defense in every package. incoming freshmen will be re­ Just in case it comes down to hand-to-hand combat. quired to remain on campus. The only exceptions are married BOOKSTORE Hai Karate-be careful how you use it. students or those who live with their families in the South Bend 6)1969, Leeming Division. Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., New York, N Y. area. THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1969 THE OBSERVER PAGE 3 The M Clarification rejecting one of the more potent With good reason did Editor: Vaciline ads), nothing approach­ they once ban the likes of THE WORLD TODAY I am writing to clarify what ing the hard-core pronography Ulysses, and now Flaming Cre­ seems to be a point of some of the “ Molly’s Blooming Iris” atures for the stakes are higher: confusion on the St. Mary’s cam­ of the Revlon Eyelashes adver­ if Notre Dame men could under­ pus regarding my position on the tisement would besmirch the stand their sexuality, where student government presidential august pages of the Observer. would we get the energy to fuel Nixon requests surcharge extensionrace. Unfortunately, this confu­ But on March 26 we were con­ our pep rallies, the drive for the fronted with a tasteless and high­ that crucial touchdown, or the WASHINGTON (Ul’l) President Nixon asked Congress yesterday sion was furthered by the edi­ ly offensive corruption of a perverted desire which substi­ to extend for at least a year the 10 per cent income tax surcharge. torial which appeared in the passage from Joyce’s Ulysses tutes a ROTC gun, posture and He also promised to submit tax reform proposals by next month, March 21st issue of the SCHO­ (ironically, itself once banned as attitude for the honest use of and the White House said he was considering asking for increased LASTIC. “pornography”). phallus, postition, and love. social security benefits. Let me emphasize first that I But in all fairness we should But the women have been left Congressional leaders expressed support for continuation of the originally had no intention of consider whether the piece has out. If the ads show a shinier car surtax past its scheduledJune 30 expiration dale, but some said any publicly supporting or endorsing “redeeming social value.” The with more tailpipes and softer such action should he coupled with a cut in spending. either candidate. I am a candi­ Madison Avenue man plays first cushions, what male could be “Taken together,” Nixon said in a message to Congress, the surtax date for the vice-presidency and to the male: drool over the interested in an honest and na­ and his forthcoming tax reform proposals “will produce the strong am not campaigning for a Presi­ woman’s body and buy the car tural female, herself long-oppres­ budget urgently needed to meet the inflationary threat.” dential candidate. However, un­ behind her; don’t love your sed by repressive education and The President also asked for continuation of the 10 per cent fortunately, rumor now has it woman, buy the womb on mass culture? federal excise tax on telephone calls and the 7 per cent excise levy that I am supporting Susan wheels, climb inside and drive it. Timothy J. MacCarry on automobile sales-both of which are scheduled to expire June 30. Turnbull. I must say that this is absolutely false. Susan Turnbull VC put off decision on direct talks is definitely a qualified candi­ PARIS (UPI) Apparently resitant Viet Cong negotiators date with whom I’m sure I could Wednesday put off for 24 hours their critical decision on whether to work quite well. However, if any accept the Saigon government’s offer to hold direct, secret peace voter chooses to consider which talks with the National Liberation Front. candidate I consider better quali­ The Viet Cong, believed torn between a conciliatory and a hard fied, with which candidate I ■ auto © line, announced it would wait until Thursday to disclose its decision could better work, or which on South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu’s surprise offer to candidate I would more soundly hold private negotiations with the NLF in Paris. support, that candidate is Bar­ bara Curtin. leuropeJ dept. Viet Cong officials in Paris had said earlier a decision would be STUDENT/FACULTY GRANT Program announced Wednesday. But a spokesman for the NLF, The Viet Beth Driscoll Cong’s executive branch, said later his delegation would wait until Special rates in European overseas travel for purchase, lease, & rentalof cars. For after the formal Vietnam peace conference session to be held Tasteless ad? details and brochure write: University Thrusday morning, to make known its stand. Editor: Grant Dept., Auto Europe, 1270 Second One would think that after .Avenue, New York, New York 10021. Ike remains in critical condition your recent tour de force in WASHINGTON (UPI) Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower “journalistic responsibility” (i.e., remained in “critical” condition at Walter Reed Army Medical Center yesterday while doctors worked to reverse the heart ailment that threatens his life. In a brief mid-morning medical bulletin, the doctors said that “evidence of congestive heart failure persist despite the fact that all appropriate therapeutic measures are being utilized.” The inability of the 78 year old Eisenhower’s heart to pump enough blood to give his body an adequate oxygen supply was discovered March 15. Since then, his doctors at Walter Reed apparently have been unable to reverse the condition. The bulletin said Eisenhower “slept comfortably through most of the night” and continued to enjoy brief visits by members of his family. Pilot recommends Cuban agreement DALLAS (UPI) The pilot of a Delta Air Lines DCS jet which Tuesday was hijacked to Cuba said Wednesday it may take a hijacker return agreement between the United States and Cuba to stop such seizures. The jet, carrying 114 passengers and crew, landed in Dallas at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday after a brief stopover in Miami on its return from Havana. Passengers were rerouted to their destinations on other flights. liltII “ I don’t have any idea what to do about prevention of future hijackings, but possibly if the government could reach an agreement with Cuba to return the hijackers it would stop,” said Capt. William Wood, the Delta pilot. 18 Jordanians killed in Israeli attack (UPI) Israeli jets attacked Jordan yesterday in a raid that Jordanian spokesmen said killed 18 civilians and wounded 25. Jordan requested the first U.N. Security Council meeting on Israeli attacks since the one that condemned the Beirut airport attack last December. The Al Fatah Arab guerrilla organization threatened reprisals against Israeli civilians for Wednesday’s raid. Israel conceded its planes had streaked into Jordan but said they attacked a commando camp and not a civilian center. At the United Nations, Jordanian Ambassador Muhammad EL El E'arra formallyrequested urgent Security Council consideration of “ continuous and grave Israeli violations” of the Middle East, ceasefire. Security Council President Karoly Csatorday of Hungary began consultations with council members on the date for the meeting. ______ATTENTION SENIORS COMMONWEALTH COLLEGE BUILDER COSTS LESS! If you have not turned 22 before Jan. 1,1969, here is what you would pay for our COLLEGE BUILDER PLAN: 10.000 Life Paid up at 65 $13.41/mo. 15.000 Life Paid up at 65 $19.56/mo. 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But the number share a great deal more with ering on the issue of coeduca­ state of mind produced by a the theatre, music, o f men who are able to each other than their sex. In a tion, Notre Dame is working a sexually segregated environment. painting, sculpture and participate in such activities coeducational environment, men great deal of harm on its present Anyone who screams “fornica­ th e d a n c e . This is makes up a ridiculously small and women could be friends. community. But in the long run, tion” every time the word important because one percentage of Notre Dame’s Ask yourself one question: a single-sex Notre Dame is “ woman” is mentioned very o f the characteristics o f total cnrollcmtn. The vast How many women friends do I doomed first to mediocrity and clearly views women as sexual the present undergradu­ majority of Notre Dame finally to a well-deserved extin­ objects, and not as whole human ate body is a certain students have nothing to fall have at Notre Dame? If you answer it honestly, you will have ction. beings. Regardless of what it "roughness” or "tough­ back on but juvenile some idea of what this place is But that is enough of the leads to in a sick fantasy world, ness” (unfriendly critics muscularity. doing to you. negative side of things. By this being together leads to friend­ have said "juvenile mus­ T h e point is that _a time it is clear to most of us that ship in the real world. cularity”) a series of sexual segregation is sickness The presence of women mannerisms or ways of operating typically that infects all of us, a sickness would also be a great help to STARTS FRIDAY that will kill Notre Dame if it is associated with a mas­ Notre Dame’s flagging cultural not eliminated. But what kind of culine society. ft *00111 All HIM life. As the Princeton Report place would this be if Notre points out: This criticism speaks directly THE CHARGE to the present Notre Dame com­ Dame were really and internally Times: Daily 6:40-9:00 On the cultural side, coeducational? What kind of munity. A small number of Sat. 7:00-9:20 the presence of women 9 THE LIGHT lives would Notre Dame students Notre Dame students do Sun. From 2:00 lead in a coeducational environ­ could be expected to participate in activities which BRIGADE a ment? stimulate more interest involve both men and women A TQNY RICHARDSON H I M PANAVISUW COLOR by f c L , , , The Princeton Report pro­ vides a good picture of certain key aspects of coeducational life: Arrangements for hous­ ing and social facilities should be such that a great many opportuni­ ties are easily available for cultural and social contacts which are not oriented toward "pair­ ing off. ” The easy, fre­ quent and diversified contacts eating toge­ ther, listening to music, participating in drama­ t i c performances, engaging in discussion groups, studying toge­ ther encouraged by such an arrangement take the form of small group, rather than two- by-two, activity. The apparent consequence is less “dating” than would otherwise be the case as well as “a partial moratorium on sex, ” while, at the same time, men and women see a great deal of one ano­ ther in a wide variety o f rewarding ways. Such a coedicational environ­ ment would obviously break down the object-to-object rela­ tionship between men and women which now exists at Notre Dame. In such an environ­ ment, women could function as whole human beings rather than sexual objects. A greater range of non-sexual relationships be­ tween men and women would be possible. In short, men and women could be friends and not simply complimentary sexual objects. Eating together in the dining Go to your bookstore. Find the Scripto display. Fill in a Mystery Tour entry blank halls, studying together, perfor­ with a Scripto pen or pencil. 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