Quakenbush reveals plans It's almost An Tostal time! by Joe Staub A free concert outdoors will provide music through Staff Reporter the evening. There will be a most unusual object contest. a Find-your-mate contest, and a Funcathalon, i:loh Quakenbush. chairman of the 1976 An Tostal in which a variety of amazing feats demand the best of Executive Committee, announced preliminary plans for contestants. A dunking booth will feature campus this year's spring festival. The event will run from celebrities, and a phone booth stuffing contest rounds Thursday April 22 through Saturday April 24. the first out the cvenin,g. week after students return front Easter break. The highlight of Thursday will be the Mr. Campus An Tostal starts in the dining halls with an Irish lunch contest. The various contestants, representing their on "Gentle Thursday." consisting of green food. halls, will be judged by their performance in the Balloons will be distributed and ladies will be given the eveningwcar, swimwear and talent competitions. opportunity to buy tlowers for the persons of their Frivolous Friday choice. Frivolous Friday will feature a giant sackrace, an egg There will he a trivia contest, the Trivia Bowl. and a toss. a jcllo toss. a water balloon duel, a car-stuffing jacks-vs.-girl~ basketball competition. The semifinal contest. a wet clothes race, and a keg toss. · rouud of the Bookstore Basketball Tournament then One of the festival highlights is Friday's impersona­ determiues which four teams will tight it out for the tion contest, in which contestants can imitate anything championship. or anybody, living or dead, ranging from egg beaters to Gentle ThursdaJ sports announcers to old ladies from Little Silver. Montana. For informatiou of any kind about the On Thursday night An Tostallaws go into effect. For impersonation contest, call Mary Mulvihill at 8148, or a yuarter, An Tostal jailers will throw the person of .Juli Pcllcticri at 4217. your choice into jail. The prisoner can either bribe his Friday night the Amateur Hour will showcase talent way out for SO el'nts or submit to being a target in the of any sort. Prospective contestants can call Mary pie- throwing contest. (continued on page {) WHAT AN AIM! Mary Seigel demonstrates the new An Tostal Assassination service, better known as "Pie in the Eye, Inc.," on chairman Bob Quakenbush. For a small fee, you loo may have a pie delivered to the face of your favorite victim on Sunny Saturday. fPhoto by Chris Smith) -------------------- Teamsters may strike ARLINGTON HEIGHTS. II. (AP) Also at issue arc additional - Early results of weekend voting mileage pay for long-haul drivers by 400,000 Teamsters indicated and cost-of-living adjustments. overwhelming authorization for a In Detroit, where members of strike that could bring the nation's Local 299's cartage division voted trucks to a halt, union officials said 898 to 24 and steel hauling division umversily of nofr e dame sf mary ·s college yesterday. members voted 160 to 18 to Vol. X, No. 108 Monday, March 29, 1976 Bargaining in the trucking talks authorize a strike, truckers predict­ was suspended late last week until ed almost unanimous rejection In memorial program tomorrow but both industry and nationally. union sources were hopeful of a Long-haul drivers of Local 337. settlement before midnight Wed­ also in Detroit, spurned the offer qq nesday when the current National to I. while construction site Team­ Hesburgh praises black lawyers Master Freight Agreement ex­ sters of Local 24 7 voted 38 to 5 pires. against the offer and for a strike. tion m America. Carpenter said. The pact covers drivers that Members of St. Louis Local 600 "There has been change, much move nearly 60 percent of the followed suit. turning down the change. but there is still a long way country's manufactured goods. offer by a margin of more than 9 to to go." Rank-and-tile truckers meeting I, union ofticials said. at union halls across the country, Although the government Js In an emotional speech, George however. were expected to turn certain to seck a Taft-Hartley D. Arnold, Senior Labor Relations down what they consider a meager injunction for an 80-day cooling off Specialist ot: the Bendix Corpora­ industry offer of 85 cents more an period in event of a walk-out. some tion. South Bend division. echoed hour and an $11-a-week hike in Teamsters said wildcat actions the speeches. dreams and philos­ fringe benefits over 39 months. were possihle. ophies of the Rev. Martin Luther Industry and union negotiating King. Jr. Arnold was the keynote teams. headed by Teamsters Pres­ Fitzsimmons. up for re-ch:ction at speaker of the program. ident Frank E ..Fitzsimmons and the union's June convention. has Arnold made reference to Wash­ Trucking Employers. Inc. president committed himself to a "no con­ ington Irving's legendary charac­ William G. Mcintyre, currently tract, no work·· posture but also is ter. Rip Van Winkle: "The most differ by 90 cents in hour salary, under pressure to arrange a set­ striking thing about Rip Van Wink­ sources say. tlement to compensate for mem­ le was not that he slept twenty The employers' package bers' money losses due to inllation. years. but that he slept through a amounts to a 20 percent increase in revolution." Arnold continued. The average Teamsters member. wages and benefits over 39 months union sources say. lost SO cents an "People tind themselves through but Teamsters. demanding $1.75 great periods of moral change. hour in 1974-1975 because of an II hike in wages and $17 more in cent an hour cost-of-living ceiling People arc sleeping through a pension and health-welfare bene­ revolution taking place today." To in the 1973 contract. For that tits. want an increase of at least 30 reason. a cost-of-living rlause has remain ''awake'' through the revo­ percent over three years. Wages lution, Arnold advised, "We must been a critical bargaining point, for truckers now vary from $7.18 to with Teamsters demanding no cap continue to affirm the immorality of $7.33 an hour. racial segregation. We must make on the allowance. clear that we are through with -~ ~~ ~: ·~ 1 ~·t·· segregation now, henceforth, and r~ 1i'- ~- ...'' ""· '"1 ,Jt. '1li1 forevermore." Academic Council to meet Rev. M.trtin luther King, Sr., called for thought, sense and ability Arnold has participated in some to solve .America's race problem last night. (Photo by Chris Smith) thirty-five programs honoring the bJ John Pandolfl Committee would be appointed by hJ Edward Rosini stood in the middle of two opposing late Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. Staff Reporter the Executive Committee in such a Staff Reporter forces: complacency and bitter· He has shared the speakers plat­ manner as to ensure substantial ness. King, Link said, took the form with such notables as Rev. The Academic Council will meet continuity from year to year in its Fr. Theodore Hcsburgh called path of an extremist. Link rciterat· Jessie Jackson. President of Opera­ this afternoon at 3:00 p.m. for membership. the late IJr. Martin Luther King "a cd the words of King: "The tion P. U.S. H .. Rev. Theodore Hes­ consideration of two issues. The second proposal concerning great martyr for human rights" in a yucstion is not whether we will be burgh, C.S.C., and most recently The tirst is a proposal from the the termination of the Department f11,•morial program in honor of King extremists. but what kind of ex· Mr. Arthur A. Fletcher, Deputy Executive Committee of the Coun­ of Graduate Studies in Education Sunday evening in Sacred Heart trcmist we will be." Assistant to President Ford for cil to establish a Standing Commit­ was placed before the Graduate Church. Link's message for black law urban affairs. tee of the Academic Council on the Council which has given the meas­ The presentation was organized students was to "be creative Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., Academic Manual. The second ure a vote of unanimous approval. by the Midwest Regional Black extremists with the law. work closed the presentation with a item to be discussed will be a An associated proposal to transfer American Law Student Association harder, prepare more, and win the moving speech reflecting upon his proposal to discontinue the De­ the program and faculty of counsel­ (H.A.L.S.A.l with members from case; and when an administrative trying times during his life. He partment of Graduate Studies in ing psychology to the Department thirty-tivl' law schools in the Mid­ body will not budge. work and pray spoke of his wife's and son's Education. of Psychology was referred to the western area. until it budges. When one is a assassinations, and quickly retort­ According to the proposal to College Council and approved by a Hesburgh stated that the black creative extremist." Link proclaim· ed, "I refuse to stoop low enough establish a Standing Committee of unanimous vote. lawyers of America arc going to be ed. "that dream, that vision, will to hate anybody ... anybody who the Council this committee should University Provost James T. "the champions of things ahead." become a reality." hates is blocking traffic ... don't you be charged with two things: Burtchaell, in his own letter to the He added that the people of the Charles E. Carpenter, third year hate anybody. I am every man's I) to receive and consider all Academic Council said that United States should spend their law student at Notre Dame and brother." The elder King said that proposals for changes in the Man­ "should the Academic Council lives as best they can so that they B.A.L.S.A.