SLC Election Plans Discussed by Senate by Pat Dermody and Corresponding Addresses
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VOL. IV, No. 109 Sc1Ti11g the ..\'otrc l>a111e a11d Saini Man· 's College ('r•n:muni/1' WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1970 SLC election plans discussed by Senate by Pat Dermody and corresponding addresses. Senators, Tom Thrasher, Russ planning some course of action, ment Secretary. The Student Senate met last These forms may be picked up Stone, Pat Weber and AI Giriffri of which he is unsure, he should Candidate's will be restricted night to discuss plans for the after 6:00 pm today in the da. Senator Weber is also elec seek the advice of Chairman from actively campaigning until approaching Student Life Student Government office. tion commissioner. The rules Winings, Commissioner Weber, noon Friday, April 17, 1970. Council election. The election They must be returned to the suggested if any candidate is or contact the Student Govern- The election will take place at will he held on Thursday, April office by I I: 00 am Friday, April the noon and evening meals on 23, with representatives being 17, 1970. April 23, in the individual halls. chosen from the districts of the Off campus ballotting will run undergraduate student body. A list of candidates will be from 9:00a.m. to 7:00p.m. on The districts will be the south posted inside the Government the same day. Quad, the north Quad, with the offke one day after nominations Also last night, Senator Ed outlying dorms composing the close. Changes or corrections can Crawford moved to propose a third district. only he made through Mark bill to prohibit the usc of l~a~.:h candidate will he re Winings, Chairman of the Elec go-carts on campus, but was quired to present an official tion Committee. The committee informed by President Krashna nomination petition composed will be composed of Chairman that his proposal should first he of one hundred fiJII signatures Winings, and the four Stay placed in committee before a decision could he reached. Apollo coming back .as Following this ~BP Krashna announced that the Consti tu tiona! Revision Commit tee Aquarius rockets fire will hold an open hearing SPACE ( 'hNTER, llouston earth. Under normal circum tonight in the Amphitheater in ( l!Pl) stances, the Aqu<Jrius would LaFortune in order that all ideas The astronauts fired Apollo h<Jvc been jettisoned before they concerning the future and 13's lunar lander rocket last headed hack to earth. direction of the Student night aiming to put thcmsrlvcs Had it not been for the Government may be aired. The on a precise path tow<Jrd a Aquarius on this trip, however, hearing will be open to the Pacific Ocean splash down the astronauts would have died. Student body and all interested hiday. 1: nginecrs studied data They used the little lunar lander students will be given a chance from the crippled space craft to as a sort of a lifeboat, utilit.ing to express their views. sec how accurate the maneuver it's oxygen and power, after a was. mysterious explosion knocked "That was a good burn," out the electrical current abroad ground control told the space their command ship, Odyssey, Trustees stall llicrs. and spilled part of their life The emergency splashdown giving oxygen. Once again yesterday, the area for the pilots Jaml~S i\. The astronauts faced some Lovell, John l.. Swigert, and potential problems back on Board of Trustees of Notre hed W. Haisc is about (l()() earth. Officials in the splash Dame did not release its ration miles southeast of Pago Pago in down a rea kept a worried watch ale on the future of parietal American Samoa about I pm hours. The announcement, on tropical storm Helen' now The Senate finalized the plans for the SLC election during its initially expected last Monday, 1\ST l;riday. 24 7 miles south west of Pago meeting last night. Tension knotted the flight Pago, near the spot the astro- April 6, may be released today. control room at Houston just nauts are to land. before the burn. Flight Dircdor Before firing the rocket blast ( ;enc K ran/. made the rounds of to line themselves up for theM • •t lhl' crowded room. checking Pacific. Ol·ean splashdown, the I norI y each control panel to determine space pilots wh1pped around the students get money whether all was "go" for the hack side of the moon and were by Cliff Wintrode Money an applicant would Ryan reported that this year maneuver. slung back toward earth by the earn from a job while at school The 4 minute 24 second blast seventy-four black students here pull of lunar gravity. Notre Dame's first bowl is also included when consider was triggered at 9:40 PM, and are receiving financial aid for an appearance in forty-four years ing funding financial aid for during the tense moments, The United States will request average amount of $2,360 and a netted the university $210,000 minority students Ryan said. ground control continued to foreign governments to render total of $174,780. He did not "appropriate assistance" to the for minority group scholarship have the figures on financial aid assure the crew: "You're looking grants and programs Father He was unable to state a good!" Apollo 13 astronauts if needed, for other minority group Hcsburgh announced Monday. specific number of financial aid The pilots used the descent the State Department said yes applicants who would be helped students. terday. The university grossed engine of their Aquarius moon $340,000 from the New Year's by the $160,000. lander to maneuver themselves The Unites States and 42 More than one hundred Day Classic, but $130,000 was The turn down rate of appli (mntinued on page 6) minority students have applied into pOiition for their return to eaten up by the cost of trans cants who decline to come here for financial aid for next year. porting and maintaining the and the amount of money received from the federal govern Of these at least 90% are black team, coaches, and marching students. Puerto-Ricans, band. ment are the two variables Mexican-Americans, American $50,000 of this sum will be causing the uncertainty said Indians, and Spanish surnamed set aside for salaries of personnel Ryan. students comprise the remaining connected with the black studies applicants. program, which is scheduled to The $160,000 will be pro· begin next fall. rated over four years, so $40,000 will he the critical sum Ryan said offers arc made when figuring the number of with the knowledge that m;.llly Father Joyce hinted Friday applicants who can he helped. of the st udcnts contacted will that a black studies director has The university assumes that a decide not to come to Notre been chosen and part of the student with no financial help at Dame. $50,000 will go toward his all from his parents will need salary. The name of the possible $3,150 a year for school. The director was not revealed. student is expected to earn at After the initial group of applicants have been notified of The remaining $160,000 is least an extra $400 during the possible assistance, and told the slated for supplementary fund summer. ing of financial aid for minority university whether they would students and will be parceled out come, the next group of appli Last year the university as four year scholarship grants. cants will be sent notil·e of ·received $40-$50,000 in possible aid. cduc<~tional opportunity grants Brother Kiernan Ryan, Chair of which 75'fr. lwvc to go to man of the Committee on students whose families earn less The scholarship office had a Financial Aid and Scholarships, than $6,000 a year. general idea of the amount of said yesterday the extra funds This money plus money from Cotton Bowl money and they will be pooled with monies national defense loans, a possible have already sent out financial obtained from education oppor school job, and other sources assistance offers tn st udcnls with tunity grants, national defense plus the applicant's own finan this money in mind. The dead loans, and other university <.:ial position will determine how line d<!te for these applicants is F1daer Edmund Joyce funds. far the $160,000 will go. May I. PAGE 2 • Snyder gives reading SLF.. environment," focused his "Regarding the Wave", written ... by Dan O'Donnell remarks on the ecological in honor of his wi·fe, Snyder Con temporary theorist-poet problem; the relation of man to explored various traditions in Gary Snyder presented a reading his environment and the need Western civilization which of his latest works before a near f or a tota 1 restructunng· o f man ,s contrasted, most unfavorably, capacity audience last night in value system toward it. Snyder with Oriental culture. Washington Hall, as a part of this characterized the poet as a With his second cycle, "Songs week's Sophomore Literary "critic in opposition to what we of Clouds and Water", Snyder Festival. call civilization and definitely examined the relation of man to Snyder prefaced his readings Christianity, a servant in the his "mother; the earth goddess." by citing the problems of the field of the muse, nature the He termed the ecological respon- writer in today's ·society and great goddess." sibility "not a heavy one, but a expressed "dismay at the ml!lti- beautiful one." A type of sophisticated tude of things that we cannot In this cycle, Snyder discussed impressionism, Snyder's poetry , accept." He pointed out poilu- the need for "communionism lacks connections and formal tion and the imprisonment of between creatures at every level sentence structures while relying f political and cultural enemies, of the "food chain".