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 by Jeanne Sweeney volved in looking for houses and chose their rooms before the selection of rooms as usual but of room selection." soliciting for friends to live with Housing Office marked off to allow fcor a certain number of The room charges will not The process of selecting a them off campus. rooms for the freshman class. freshmen to live in a particular increase in the coming year and room for the upcoming years Since there is still a possi hili ty Sister Immaculata explained that section. They will not mark off if Augusta Hall is used, it will be begins tonight with the class of of having a shortage of rooms if this resulted in some areas such specific rooms for the freshmen, comparable in price to the '7 I drawing their priority num the number of off campus as certain parts of Regina Hall but require that a certain num- rooms in Holy Cross. bers. The actual selection of the requests do no increase, Sister consisting of only freshmen with her live, for example, on a The class of '71 will select rooms has been postponed until Immaculata and the Director of no upperclassmen. certain floor. their rooms on April 23rd, the April 23rd when next year's Housing have been looking into This undid all of the college's seniors begin the choice of Susie Way, president of the class of '72 on April 27th and other possibilities to house the plans with the orientation group 28th, and the class of '73 on rooms. sophomore class, said that after girls. One such possibility is the because student advisors and 29 With next year's large fresh speaking with Sister Immaculata r--A-'-p_r_il___th_a_n_d_3_0_t_h_. ____ Convent's Augusta Hall which, if group leaders were not living man class, a shortage of room she realized that "it was logically one section were rented, would with the freshmen. space has opened up to seniors and reasonably the only way provide room for thirty-eight Next year the group leader the possibility of living off they can choose." She did not girls. But this plan still has not and student advisor program will campus. Although the Director feel that the procedure was that you been finalized. It will be con be combined and the student of Housing has only received unfair. sidered by the Board of Trustees advisor will live with the fresh seven requests for living off this weekend. men. Sister Immaculata said there campus with their parents per A change from last year's Sister Immaculata explained will be 35 student advisors who mission, Sister Immaculata, the room selecting procedure will that since most of the student will he living in all four build the Dean of Students, emphasized mainly involve the class of '72. advisors would be juniors it ings, Holy Cross, Regina, Le that many other girls arc in- Last year the juniors and seniors would be impossible for the Mans, and McCandless. She said clillrch student advisors to pick rooms "it i~ my hope to put some unless they know where the freshmen in McCandless next fresh men will be living. year." Norling writes book Sister Immaculata emphasized Sr. Immaculata commented that the class of '7 2 will still on the emotional climate of the ld have a wide choice of rooms campus around the time of room Arc revolutions worth the of their reforms is often too although they would r_eserve wor selection. She said "Our rooms price? What causes national high. "Too much blood is shed some sections for freshmen. The are superior and everyone should character'! Is anything inevit and too many of the old ills procedure would be to follow not be caught up in the emotion need a better tomorrow. able? An attempt to grapple simply reappear in a new guise with these and other lessons of or are replaced by things even Help us- in lifting history has produced "Timeless worse. Too many opportunities man ... even high enough Problems," recently published are provided for fanatics and to touch God. hy the University of Notre Dame butchers," Norling points out. The Trinitarians Press. -"What causes National Char of prom Garrison, Maryland 21055 Dr. Bernard Norling, associ acter?" The proverbial "fiery Set sale bids ate professor of history, organ Spanish soul" is largely a myth, I sought my Soul, izes his book around six fre Norling suggests, and is certainly The second sale of bids for be "heavy" and "very psychede but my soul r couldn't quently-asked questions, and not the product of heredity or the Tri-class prom will be held lic," said Stepic. I sought my God marshals historical examples nature. Rather, national charac from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. on but my God eluded me. from ancient Rome to modern ter is formed by geographical Thursday, April 16, in room 2D At present, cold-war politics in an at tempt environment, historical experi of the LaFortune Student Cen committee is having difficulti to provide general answers. The ence, and deli berate indoctrina ter. in their attempts to secure black lone of the book is set by the tion. The semi-formal prom is lights for the dance. Stepic said dedication, a quote from Ladis -"The Cultural Conditions of scheduled for the first of May that they are willing to rent t las Farago pointing out "History Achievement" concludes that from 9 p.m. until I a.m. in black lights for two dollars would not be what it is, the the law governing the appearan Stephan Center. According to apiece from students. record of man's crimes and ce of geniuses in history are Greg Stepic, who is directing the follies, if logi~: and decency either nonexistent, or undis preparations, thirty-eight bids governed its events and great covered. Norling notes that such have been purchased. The bids, decisions." factors as adequate wealth, pub which sell for ten dollars apiece, The major issues with ten !a lic interest in the arts and the include two Grand Prix tickets. live conclusions drawn from absence of a strong revolution Stepic would not reveal the extensive historical examples, ary ideology seem to allow source of music for the affair, include: cultural excellence, hut certainly but did say that it had been -"Illusions in History," Chap do not guarantee its appearance. selected. He listed the theme as ter I considers the myths, Norling is also the author of "Chances Are." Decorations will Collegiate Diamond Importers philosophies, predictions and "Towards a Better Understand present doctrines that have shaped the ing of History," and the recipi- .JF======i r course of more concrete events. ent of the 196l:! 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For human affairs, but if it is not example: • Who's who in the college conser bonus offer employed with calcula lion and Whtrn ~011 pUIChllltr an~ COl vation movement-how to apply their trn Letters Editor: I have just returned from J:stening to Mr. Claude Brown Campus Opinion and as I think back to what I have just witnessed, my admira tion for him has turned to resentment. :::::::::::::::~=~=~=~=~:~:~:~:::~:::::~:::::::::::::~:::~:::::: Edited by Glen Corso Mr. Brown created a master The following column was written hy ex-Student Union Academic piece in his writing of Manchild Commissioner Pat McDonough for the Observer. Due to the recent in the Promised /,and, if he controversy surrounding the Academic Commissions program, I [eft actually authored the work. He it appropriate to ask Mr. McDonough to set forth the philosophy portrayed a picture of a hard that the commission attempted to follow this year. working black in the slums of ~------Harlem, starting with three ------~·---=-- strikes against him, who pro gressed to a college graduate and The final weeks of the 1969-70 Student Union Academic a person to be greatly respected. CommisFirm have proved to be most interesting and controversial. Was this the same man I have Much second-guessing has occurred with both students and faculty just finished listening to? I do as the year's events are viewed in retrospect. However, undoubtedly, not believe so. Dave Bach impetus for criticism was provided by the announcement and Mr. Brown displayed a defi subsequent appearance of William Kunstler, March 22. In this nite lack of class, I firmly believe column, generously donated by the Observer, with the transition of he could have expressed his Spiro strikes again administrations at hand, it might be worthwhile to examine some of views of Renaissance II in the the intracacies of the Academic Commission as a basis for same manner of speech which he evaluation. used in the beginning of his talk Pat Dowdall, having observed the trend established by former Spiro Agnew was in Des Moines again Monday night, five months about the book. I know his to the day after his speech blasting the news media. This time he Commissioners Chuck Nau and John Mroz, upon assuming his duties vocabulary is not limited to a year ago, saw need for an expressed philosophy: a rationale behind talked about the quality of college education. It was another Agnew gutter talk, but one would have blockbuster. The main targets were open admissions and quota the direction in which the Commission moves. The purpose of the thought so during the latter part systems in admitting freshmen. Academic Commission has been perceived by all of us to be: to fill of his performance amid belches, the extensive void once present in the University-type learning Agnew claimed that by lowering admissions standards to increase and shouts of black supremacy. minority ,enrollment the universities were at the same time lowering process in providing a spri'lgboard for intellectual stimulation Mr. Brown is a great story through expression of contemporary thought in the form of lectures, the value of a college degree. The vice president specifically teller, which he brought out in criticized the University of Michigan for what he called a surrender conferences, symposia, and films. Pat, and I upon succeeding him in the belittlement of George Wash December, saw this purpose best fulfilled by instilling a to militant black students who demanded a I 0% enrollment by ington, Thomas Paine and Amer 1973. He compared that to the open admissions policies adopted by topic-oriented philosophy--concentration on subject matter, and ican History. Was this used not personalities. This approach was generally adhered to Italian universities at the demand of rebellious students. simply to cut down the white He called diplomas issued by such institutions "Bargain basement throughout the year. population? The necessity for a budget cut for Student Government - Student diplomas" and said that "today Italian employers advertising for I wonder if the great Howard Union normally would have impeded a schedule of top speakers in a college graduates are careful to specify that the degree must date University is proud of Claude non-election year. However, we ajjplied strict budget control, and back to 1967." Brown for his views. I suppose a our philosophy facilitated presenting some fifty-two events by virtue Agnew also said that he is in favor of expanded educational school of the type which pro of the fact that less money was required to contract scholars in opportunities for the deprived, but said that this was not the way to fesses atheism as the only stance various fields than headline grabbers. Resulting from this an go about getting them a better education. The way he proposed was to take on religion and hires already-beginning trend for public figures to view invitation to Notre expanded preparatory and compensatory education before teachers to profess Christ as a Dame as an honor and having their names added to the list. admission to make unqualified students qualified. "blue-eyed, blond haired, sisified The procedure of obtaining people to appear at Notre Dame, At the very least it can be said that Mr. Agnew appreciates the faggot," would love to have overall, is theoretically simple, but pragmatically hard, and value of an early education. Because many minority students were Brown help in the destruction of sometimes frustrating, work. Spring appointments are followed by deprived of a decent education when they were young, they might America's ideals, and the birth executive board meetings where scores of names are suggested. The now be judged unfit by normal standards. And Agnew wants to help of a black nation. criterion as basis for suggestion lies in the consistency with the them, which is nice. . overall philosophy, and relevance to the particular program planned, Mr. Brown, I disagreed with But I think Mr. Agnew's remarks belie an attitude that is and the field, teaching, or ideas in which the person is engaged. This many things which you stated prominent in the entire Nixon administration. He recognizes that is followed by a summer marked by hundreds of letters and c<..,s tonight, especiall; that you are there are problems. But he hopes to ignore the sy mptons and treat resulting in refusals running I 0-1 over acceptances. As agencies tend one of the leading black intellec the causes. With time everything will work out all right. It is time for to absorb a great part of any honorarium, they arc avoided whenever tuals of today. I t'link you a "benign neglect." possible, and a more direct, personal approach is maintained. Here cheated your audier.::e severely Perhaps everything will work out all right. But maybe the the skills of people like Mike Lynch, Bob Lasalvia, Greg Murray, Pat by using the Sophomore Liter symptoms will become acute before the cause can be treated Dowdall, Bill Kurtz, Steve Novak, Steve Steiner and others came ary Festival for a biased report properly. into play in impressing upon potential lecturers the integrity of our on the black situation, thereby The recent controversy over bussing and freedom of choice seems program. depriving us of your literary to indicate that the problems won't work themselves out. Southern Political leanings were recognized, of course, but were not even knowledge which we had hoped schools, any schools for that matter which have de jure segregation, within the list of priorities. Moreover, it is largely coincidence that to acquire. I can only say that I have had 16 years to set up a system for school desegregation. In mar~ (pardon the expression) "liberals" than "conservatives" was deeply disappointed in both many cases this just hasn't developed. That attitude of the appeared. All invitations arc extended in the same manner: more you and your performance. administration seems to he that it is remarkable that the southern often than not, it is the speaker who calls the shots, including the James E. Hayes schools have gotten as far as they have in only the 16 years since context of his speech. We did, however, discover that there does Brown vs. Board of Education. actually exist a limited number of available "conservative" thinkers. Editor: The fact is that neither treating symptoms or causes by themselves But. again, our explicit goal was to avoid a solid list of political I just read in the newspaper will solve the problem. Both must he treated. Reduced admissions speakers. Disappointments are numerous: Frank Borman, Frank that you are sp,onsoring another standards are one way of getting academic prestige for members of Shakespeare, Hubert Humphrey, and as I write this column, Alan queen contest-for the Grand minority groups. It is not a cure-all, but it will help. And once the Watts, all .. were scheduled and cancelled at late dates; Spiro Agnew, Prix. I must object to these students are admitted they should be given extra attention. Robert Fwch, Barry Goldwater, Daniel P. Moynihan and many continued queen contests that If the vice-president is willing to give aid before admission to others were unavailable; and William Buckley requires a $3,000 fee. you sponsor for the degradation college, he. should be willing to give attention while in college, so Regardmg the Spack v. Fortas discussion, I felt that the budget of woman. The contests would that there IS not a drought of capable minority scholars. allowed for the appearance of one, not both, and eventually decided not be particularly disgusting if criterion other than mere f~cial on Spack, after an inconclusive poll, on the basis of potential gate Executive Editor: Dave Stauffer features were considered. Cer receipts and student interest. Business Mgr.: Bruce Rieck The appearance of William Kunstler was, in my estimation, a rare tainly the worth of a human Campus Editor: Glen Corso being is more than their external News Editor: Steve Hoffman opportunity to present a much sought after, extremely relevant, and The opinions expressed in the features. What about the follow Associate Editors: Cliff Wintrode, contemporary figure who identified with youth perhaps more tnan editorials, news analyses, and ing criterion: intelligence, hu Ann Conway, Jeanne Sweeney anyone previously appearing. In presenting a very logical, rational, columns of THE OBSERVER are Sports Editor: Terry Shields man warmth, a concern for solely those of the authors and and well-received lecture, Mr. Kunstler drew in excess of 3,500 Features Editor: T.C. Treanor fellow human beings, notable editors of THE OBSERVER and people to Stepan Center where no disorders of any sort occurred, Photography Editor: Mike Murphy achievement in significant activi do not necessarily reflect the reflecting ·the integrity of the student body in which I had Night Controller: Harrison Chung ties. If your queen contests views of St. Mary's College, the confidence. Concerning both the Spack and Kunstler lectures, we Night Editor: Rich Smith cannot accomodate such criteria, University of Notre Dame, their felt it necessary to break precedent, and charge $.50 per person in Layout Design: Marty Tieber administration, faculty, or then I would suggest that you Layout: Marilyn Becker, Anne order to ensure the stability of our budget. student bodies. Summarily, we feel we, if not completely accomplished the drop them. Therese Darin, Mike Bridgeman, Dan purpose of the concept of the Academic Commission, have taken a J. Patrick Dowdall Shaw big step forward. James E. Met·t.ger Headlines: Rich Smith WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1970 THE OBWlJIER. On the other side of despair by T.C. Treanor tered the meatball, the decline is a constant source of anxiety as they wait 111e first of a two part story. and hope that some fine day they Zap Corni x arc not recommended for too .... but alas .... MEATBALL doesn't people with weak stomachs. Nor are work that way." they recommended for people with weak Crumb reverses Mcctuehcn. In minds. "Meatball," the Message is the Medium. R. Crumb - officially or unofficially, For the greatest and most specific he's known hy no ol her name - is an characteristic of the effect of "Meatball," underground artist and one-time is that it's vague. It .:hanges one's life, one greeting-can! designer who went commer is assured. It is powerful. But what it cial about three years ago and who has, actually does is never too clear. And, since I hen, pi.:ked up .:onsiderablc follow Crumb suggests, thus it is with all ing. The following is the result of four searches for the anodyne; when it comes; .:omic books called "Zap Comix." nobody knows it. But in the comic book AI least they look like comic books. world -·as in the world of all man ufac Cartoon people with talk balloons popu tured illusion, where things are pictured late the pages·. The cover is glossy paper; as they should he and not as they really smiling, happy people jump around the arc, Crumb the artist can easily circum page. Talking animals act and read. vent this truth in deliberate ambiguity. But it's not the same thing at all; and Crumb uses this device again to create it's never funnier than when it's dread "city of the future;" a nightmare world fully unfunny. Other comic hooks sell sold through the magic of illusion. The illusion; Zap sells reality. Other .:omic city features plastic cars, plastic streets, hooks sell sugar; Zap sells hitter chocolate plastic buildings (specially designed to w11 h the same smiling enthusiasm. prevent accidents from being painful); Crumb warns us what we're in for in warm snow for C:hristmas; eternal tele· the first cartoon of his first issue, issue vision; Fantazoom, a device which no. 0. "Mr. Skctchum is at it again!" manufactures any illusion desired upon proclaims the head as four malformed command (and a twenty-five cent shadows yell "yip pie" under an eggdull deposit); adroids that fornicate or fight sun. wars as desired; baby~itting robots; A cartoonist sits before a drawing "foam plastic blobs," which "undulate hoard and says, "That's right! I'm hack!! slowly in and out and soothing, sweet And with cartoons that are better than music plays." A robot-run dump trunk ever! Zap' comics will contain all the comes once a year to take all the "old latest in humor! Audacious! Irreverent! stuff" and put it into a machine which Provocative! You bet! And just chock full grinds it up into "new stuff." Crumb's Four of Zap's most famous characters from left to right: two row- Mr. Natural and illustration shows, along with an old of surprises! Every page will be jam Flakey Foont. Bottom row - the artist himself and Angel Food McSpade. packed with thrills and laffs!" Obligingly, house and a few old cars, a man's leg a clown springs out of his tie and goes boy. "And he's waving to us from all the mother." Subsequently, a machinist who being thrown into those machines. "foot!" Another plastic toy walks across way over there! Must be miles! Isn't that frequently had nightmares about the But that's not the way that most of us a panel, making a face at the outside. amazing?" Satisfied, he turns around and H-Bomb was hit by a meatball and now will go, says Cru mh. In his next-to-last The cartoonist walks over to a window, says with a wide-open grin, "See what I "spends all his lime answering letters and panel, some old gaffer bends over a golf ki.:ks aside a Mad magazine, and looks mean? Things like that are happening all phone calls from people wanting specific hall. He looks up, and beads of out. "As you can sec." he says, pondering the time in these comic strips ... Wow! details" What the questions or details are perspiration appear as he sees three the cosmos, "My studio is high up in a Don't miss a single issue!" Yes, Mr. is never explained. downs with a pil~ approach. "Yes," skyscrappcr ... l I mm Ill... What's that dot Skctchum is at it again: using his magic to More people got hit, including Ber Crumb writes, "Everything will be out there'! Let me zero in on that dot create the trivial; hut not the absurd. trand Russel and Kim Novak; investi beautiful, but we'll still have to regulate with my telescope! It's so tiny! But you "Meatball" was the feature story of gations launched; arrests made. The Head population growth. So when you're 65 never can tell about a thing like that! Just that issue; the story of the side dish that of the Yale Sociological Studies Depart they'll come looking for you with a as I thought ... it's moving ... "lt's a kid!" changed lives. The story hegins in Jersey ment warned that "meathall must be pie ... not just an ordinary pie!!" In the lie focuses in on the dot; and through City where a particularly unpleasant stopped." (Head has, of course, a double next panel, they turn- the pie over and what has been described as the "magic of middle-aged woman was hit by a meatball meaning; drug symbolism abounds.) face the reader. "A cyanide pie!!" comics" brings forth a smiling, waving and transformed in.to "America's favorite Finally, on Tuesday it rains meatballs in celebrates Crumb. "What a way to go!!" Los Angeles for fifteen minutes, hitting One clown honks a horn and another says thousands. Since then, the incidence of "That's all, brother," by way of emphisis. meatball had declined, though. Crumb And that, my friends, is Zap. And that Zappa and the Mothers in LA ends his little story-essay showing a is also despair. sweating middle aged man in an easy Tomorrow, Observer reviewer Treanor Frank Zappa has announced the tem appeared with the Mothers. He expressed chair; then a sly, winking meatball. "For explores Zaps 1, 2, and 3, and looks into porary reconvening of his Mothers of his gratitude to the Philharmonic for many of those who haven't yet encoun- another Cmmh creation, Despair. Invention for a special concert in conjun making the concert possible through the ction with the Los Angeles Philharmonic offering of its services, and for having the Orchestra and conductor Zubin Mehta to courage to share stage with his band. he performed in Pauley Pavilion at the In preparation for the concert The University of Southern California. Los Mothers and Zappa will be performing a Angdes. May 15th. series of "obscure warm-up engage Zappa, who disbanded his infamous ments" over Mother's Day Weekend, at ru.:k group about nine months ago after New York's Fillmore East, May 8, 9 and building it into the foremost of the at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, iconoclast rock bands, announced the May I Oth. The group would not however rt·grouping at a press conference held at become involved in a road tour situation the Los Angeles Music Center at which as Zappa emphasized the dates were Zappa, Mehta (Music Director Philhar "strictly to get our chops up to the L.A. monic),Ernest Fleischmann, (Executive concert." Director of the Music Center) discussed details of the unprecedented combined The demothballing of the group will performance which is to he presented as also be utilized in conjunction with the part of the Music ('enter's four concert filming of "Uncle Meat", Zappa's full Con tempo '70 series. length Cinemascope stereo documentary on the Mothers and their relation to the The program will he divided into three pop phenomenon. Sequences to be lensed parts, the first consisting of the Orches in April will be integrated with extensive tra's performance of I mmohiles 1-4 by already existing footage on the group in Mel Powell and lntegmles by Edgar live performance, and rare collected film Varcsc. In the second Zappa and the on pop's early era. Mothers will perform Zappa scored inter Apart from the Mothers, Zappa is pretations of the I ntegrales and an ad currently performing and recording with ditional piece. Following intermission, the players featured on his recent f. the final presentation will feature the Bizarre/ Reprise album, "Hot Rats". The Mothers and the L.A. Philharmonic simul group has a second album in production taneously inter-changeably conducted for the same label, to he titled "Chunga's by Mehta and Zappa performing excerpts Revenge". The quintet which was con ceived by Zappa as "an opportunity for i from Zappa's 2\li hour original composi tion "200 Motels". the players involved to. creatively blow In his fourteen years of composing, their brains out", makes r~re appearances Zappa noted that this would be the first at unpredictable intervals, most recently The ICE CAPADES Show will be at the Convo tonight, Thursday, opportunity he has had to hear any of his in Los Angeles at Bill Graham's Olympic orchestral music performed by a full Auditorium concert and at the University Friday, and Saturday. orchestra, as in the past it has been of Southern Californis; upcoming at thL necessary for him to hire all players who Community Theatre in Berkely, April 18. PAGE 6 711E OBSERfl.llt WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1970 "Good burn" sends Apollo on return (continued from page 1) booster and got a picture of the will have flown a mission of no relaxation at all, as far as that tanks of the moonwalk back other nations, including Russia, mishap by accident. about 142 hours. goes, from now until splash," packs. are parties to the International The photo shows the S4B said flight director Glynn Lun- Convention on the Rescue and winging toward a crash landing Water, the life stuff of man ney. Return of Astronauts which on the moon, with the spaceship and spaceships, is one critical Lunney said based on the To raise fun went into effect in 1968. appearing as another faint blip concern for the aborted Apollo expected uses of the spacecraft, The convention provides for below and to the left of the 13 flight. Borrowing a page from tradli Apollo 13 should be able to land tional political practice, the member nations to render aid to command ship. "with still about 12 or 13 hours astronauts as "envoys of man- The command ship is sur Space Agency officials said Nutting for President backers of water left." kind" wherever they should rounded by a "halo" cloud of yesterday they were confident will hold a Fun-Raising Dinner land. oxygen 25 miles wide. enough water was aboard the And, he said, there was tonight at 119 Mill Street, at Saulietis said he could not disabled spaceship for the astro- sufficient drinking water. 6:30p.m .. A Space Center engineer dis The moon lander,-now the Dr. Nutting will speak at the closed yesterday he had a confirm an explosion aboard the nauts ride home. spacecraft, but said the release lifeboat of astronauts James A. dinner, which will feature camera equipped, 16 inch tele "We have projected the con Lovell, Fred W. Haise and• Jack spaghetti and meatballs. Anyone of oxygen obviously was very sumables ... and we have a plan scope trained on the Apollo 13 L. Swigert-stores water for desiring tickets is asked to call sudden. for carrying out the rest of the mission when what appeared to drinking, cooling, fire exting 4675, since no tickets will be The Apollo 13 astronauts mission, but there is going to be be an explosion rocked the uishing, and refilling the water sold at the door. spaceship. have at least 20 hours of extra Indulis Saulietis, an engineer oxygen for their flight home with the Space Agency's guid despite the breakdown in their electrical system. Commission plans revealed ance and control section, said he "We have the oxygen situa by Anne Therese Darin ' actually was monitoring the tion in pretty good shape," said In fulfillment of her campaign sions would be appointed by her without an occupant's permiss flight of the A polio's S4 B promises, SMC Body (deadline: April 24). They ion," she stated. Merlin Merritt, an expert in Stude~t ~n======ii=H electrical and environmental President Ann Marie Tracey would serve as non-voting mem- "Oftentimes, students leave announced plans to initiate six bers of her cabinet~ for vacation with radios on, systems in the lunar lander. commissions concerning student "People complain that stu- windows open, live pets running "We should have enough to OLINDA affairs at last night's student dent government doesn't get wild, and record players on." complete oxygen requirements assembly meeting. involved," claimed Miss Tracey. Representatives .eported a for about 165 or 170 hours of VEANN "We decided we'd like to "The problem in the past has possible misuse of this right flight," he said. work on drugs, public relations, been a lack of initiative in illustrating their point with the The three astronauts, if they •sex education, co-education, stu- responsible organization. For removal of a "Send A Girl to splashdown Friday as scheduled, dent rights, and off-campus example, on the co-education Boys' Town" poster from a ~~~~~~~=~ questions," Miss Tracey explain- issue, ND students researched student's door for no apparent ed, "since nothing definite has proposals and presented them in reason. been done on these issues. Notre a report to their trustees." In trying to find a solution to Freshmen Dame approached us for cooper- "On the other hand, five of us the problem, senators suggested ation and coordination of differ- at SMC helped at ND with the that hall representatives propose ent commissions such as those research but there was no an amendment at their next General Program of Liberal Studies presently under SSO, Student comparable organization in SMC meeting restricting the hall direc Union and cabinet positions that student government to follow it tor from entering a resident's Notre Dame has and those we through, 'she continued. room without accompaniment Meet Your Major Night plan to initiate." "Our idea would establish by a member of hall govern- After a discussion in the commissions of our own, so that ment. assembly, Miss Tracey, in con- we can research, legislate, and Jane Sheehy then reported on 7:30PM 204 O'Shaughnessy sensus with the assembly, said then follow through," added a meeting held by Sr. Immacula- that chairmen for these commis- Jean Gorman, SBVP. ta on recently composed hall -~------~~~~~~~~------~~~~~~~~~~~~.Wedn ril15 Other action at the meeting constitutions. centered Dn a review of room "Sister suggested that we STUDENT UNION ACADEMIC COMMISSION rights and hall constitutions. would save time and expense by In answering representatives' writing one hall constitution, complaints that "hall directors This constitution could be enter on pretese of checking amended by each hall to adapt it items such as faulty circuits, but to its own needs," she explained. then proceed to get you on From this discussion on hall everything .. scotch tape of the constitutions stemmed a debate walls, matching furniture, .. " on to what extent hall councils IS INTERESTED IN ALL THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO Miss Gorman reported on a have the right to legislate on hall WORK ON VARIOUS PROJECTS DURING THE NEXT YEAR. conference she had with Sr. matters. In response to debate, JUST LEAVE YOUR NAME, NUMBER AT WHICH YOU CAN BE Immaculata, dean of students, the assembly passed two mo on the issue. tions regarding hall directors' REACHED, AND WHATEVER THOUGHTS OR IDEAS YOU "According to Sr. lmmacu- status on its council. HAVE (OR DON'T HAVE) IN THE ACADEMIC COMMISSION lata, because of sanitation, and Hall directors or their dele OFFICE, 4TH FLOOR LA FORTUNE, OR SEND THESE TO other dangers, hall directors have gated representatives will be JAMES METZGER, BOX 427, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, 46556. the right to go in a room non-voting members in an advis ory capacity on the council. Senators also voted that dis crepanciet between hall directors and councils would be brought to the student affairs committee, composed of administration, fa culty, and students. INTERESTED IN WORK/STUDY INTERNSHIP presents FOR FALL 1970 SEMESTER Nathaniel Tarn Poet and Anthropologist Anselm Hollo Poet and Translator 7:30PM Tonite \Vashington Hall Meeting Monday, April 20th 8:00PM, Rm. 204 O'Shaughnessy to discuss details in preparation for •autoo advanced registration'. 1europ,,@ STUDENT/FACUlTV GRANT Program For further information contact: Special rates in European overseas travel for purchase, lease, & rental of cars. For Urban Studies Office 1details and brochure write: University 103 Memorial Library Grant Dept., Auto Europe, 1270 Second 283-1112 New York, New York 10021. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1970 THE OBSERIJER. PAGE 7 MANAGE Vietnam action continues *AMERICA* SAIGON (UI'I) Montagnard mander of South Vietnamese border in the "parrot's beak" attacked a regional forces militia next year? tribesmen trained by U.S. Army troops in the highlands, said last salient 33 miles morth west of outpost a quarter of a mile from Green Berets stormed up a weekend he expct:ts another Saigon early Tuesday and the frontier. Ca 11 8357 or 1185 hillside yesterday and recpaturcd assault on Dak Seang. an outpost taken Sunday by The two Green Beret camps North Vietnamese fort:es besie Editor named are situated in jungles where the Jeanne Sweeney yesterday ging Dak Pek. Communist bonlt:rs of South Vietnam, was appointed SMC News Editor gunners fired more mortar shells· Cambodia and Laos meet In the Monday night Dillon activity as a necessary factor in a Hall presidential elet:tion, incum suct:essful campus-wide student THE OBSERVER NEEDS bent Bob Galgan won an over government. whelming mandate to serve his Earley, a junior physit:s major second term as hall president. from Garden City, New York, saw the hall president as a link A SECRETARY Galgan pulled ~09 votes. betwe611 the t:oming Student Opponent Tony Early placed Forum and the hall members. Call 7471 , 6896 second with 55 votes. A large Earley mentioned Big Brother turnout of voters, 76.6% of and Neighborhood Study Help or Dillon's 34 7 residents came to as possible activities on a hall the polls. level. Write : THE ·oBSERVER Galgan, a junior pre-med Galgan copped 78.5% of the major from Palos Heights, llli- total of the hall vote. Earley c/o Business Manager nois, ran on a platform of • drew 20.6%. continuing in the same style and The president termed his Box 11 direction of his present Admini- victory "phenomenal" and saw stration. it as a mandate to push harder This past year Dillon saw a for continued progress in making ret:onstrut:tion of the hall coun- Dillon the finest hall on campus. cil, an improved hall financial system, a well organized orienta Even Polynesian STUDENT UNION SOCIAL COMMISSION Needs tion for hall freshman, a com puterized room selection and a dancing at America resurgent:e of hall pride. Galgan emphasized greater HELP partidpation in all levels of hall this weekend!!! Homcoming and Mardi Gras CREATIVE PEOPLE FOR I.e. Choir NEW IDEAS. EFFICIENT PEOPLE FOR SUCCESS. Black Culture Show Promotion IMAGINATIVE PEOPLE FOR PLANNING ADVER· Admission Free TISING, LAYOUT AND Thurs. 8:00PM- 2nd floor LaFortune Contact: Jim Porst COORDINATION OF PUBLICITY. Socia] Commission FROM CLARKSVILLE, MISSISSIPPI Box 427 /'res en ted by Student Union PAGE 8 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1970 Sailo.rs seek fourth championship by Terry Shields and placing fifth (out of 17 Indiana Regatta and the Ohio The club has been led by and Carbondale, Illinois for a teams) in another. Weslyan team race. ND placed Commodore Chuck Taylor, a Observer Sports Editor race with Southern Illinois. Notre Dame is a member of fifth in the Boston Dinghy Cup. junior, and Ron Dorazio is The ND club will be busy on Going unnoticed over the past the Midwest Collegiate Associ The club is composed of 55 second in command. Other men each weekend of the spring and few weeks, but nonetheless win ation and its quest this year is to members, including eight girls who qualify as the more ex its efforts should culminate in ning at a satisfactory rate, is the cope a fourth straight champion from SMC, and many of these perienced sailors are Rich Doyle, the Midwest Championships at Notre Dame Sailing Club. The ship of this region. people are utilized for one Mike Morrissey, Kevin Hoyt, John Carroll in Cleveland and club has competed in three This season the Irish have won regatta. A regatta consists of the George Gaw, Tom -5alack, John the National Championships in "varsity" regattas, winning two two of these regattas, the Irish sending two boats (A&B, Hildebrandt, Tom Willison, Tom Madison, Wisconsin. this has no significance for they Barry, Greg Powers, Tim Flood There is also a "monotype are of equal importance) to and Bill Dowe. These men race" for the National Champ JIM MURRAY represent the club and each boat switch off during a regatta ionship. This involves only one compete in a number of races. taking turns as skipper and crew. man to a boat. The best Irish The team with the lowest This weekend the Irish will hope for this is Doyle. composite score (i.e. having the travel to three different sites to The freshmen in the club have lowest number of finishes) is sail against some outstanding followed the upperclassmen's declared the winner. competition. The feature regatta The Fuzz example quite well. In their only In the individual races of a will be in Annapolis, Maryland regatta only two members of a for the John F. Kennedy Mem regatta of the season thus far, team can compete in the same orial Cup. The other two scenes they took top honors. This came in the Notre Dame Freshman boat. Their official titles are of battle will be Columbus, Ohio of Sports Invitational in March. skipper and a crew, even though for the Ohio State Invitational this is only one man. (!!) 1978, t..o.s Angeles Times • When you think of the 1969 World Series, perhaps you will want to recall a lifetime .222 hitter who batted seven points below that Austin IS officially second for the season suddenly hitting .455 with one homer (his third of the NEW YORK (UPI)-All Amer Maravich in 31 games hit 522 and 138 free throws while season his seventh of his life) and three runs batted in. icans Austin Carr of Notre Dame field goals and 337 free throws Humes scored 733 points in 24 Or, 'you may prefer to remember. heretofore clumsy outfielders and Rick Mount of Purdue for I ,381 points. games. Humes' scoring was done playing the outfield as if it were a trapeze. You may even prefer to ranked secol)d and third, respec Mount scored 708 points in by 278 field goals and 177 free think of it as the time Baltimore froze at the controls and crashed. tively, in the national college 20 games, hitting 285 field goals throws. But, baseball clinicians, those who take the games home and put scoring race, the National Colle them under a microscope, will be more interested in the influence of giate Sports Service Bureau re a team which never fielded a fly, hit a curve, stole a base or threw a ported Saturday. slider--the umpires. The Hoosier pair averaged Should Shag Crawford have thrown Oriole manager Earl Weaver 73.5 points a game between out of a game which was to go into extra innings and be decided by them with Carr hitting at a 38.1 the kind of a play ball clubs keep managers around to get justice on? point dip and Mount rifling Should Shag or umpire Lou DiMuro have called pinch hitter J. C. away at 35.4. However, Pistol Martin out on that crucial play for a) running on the wrong side ot Pete Maravich of Louisiana State the retaining line to first base; or b) throwing his arms up in the air University won the title with a to interfere with the pitcher's bid for an out? 44.5 point average. Shouldn't DiMuro also have followed that caroming ball into the Another Hoosier, Willie Mets dugout or, failing that, have disallowed it as evidence on the Humes of Madison, but playing play where it supposedly hit bmtter Cleon Jones-since the ball was basketball at Idaho State, placed out of his sight long enough for them to have painted a mustache on fifth with 30.5 points per game. it? Fourth spot went to Dan Issei of The episodes serve again to prove that baseball's shortest supply Kentucky. Issei tallied 33.9 today is not .300 hitters but .900 umpires-not homers but points per contest. non-homers. lt proves again Bill Klem 's old assertion that the least Carr, a junior from Washing important attribute of an umpire is eyesight--that it finishes well ton D.C., shattered most of the behind hustle, common sense, intuition, courage, honesty, control of Irish scoring records with 444 Austin Carr, Notre Dame's basketball team captain, has been your temper, and a desire for fair play. field goals and 218 free throws officially declared the second highest scorer in the NCAA for the An umpire is a guy who calls a pitch he is standing six inches for I ,I06 points in 29 games. '69-70 season. from--and then is called "blind!" by some drunk sitting in the third tier behind left field. Emmett Littleton (some suggest his middle name is really a description) Ashford is the only black umpire in the major Guerrin slapped with fine leagues--which may suggest why he's only celebrating his fifth anniversary instead of his 20th. answer why things are like they ' So it can't all be me," he ATLANTA UPI-It cost are." said. "All I did was directly say "People think," says Emmett, "that all an umpire needs is a Atlanta Hawks Coach Richie well-thumbed rule book and an ability to see without glasses. An Numerous phone calls had how I felt about it." Guerin $1,000 to vent his wrath poured in from around the Kennedy charged Guerin with umpire needs, first of all, concentration. Even more than that, he over the officiating in the first needs dedication. Umpires in baseball don't do it as a sideline. They country, Guerin said, as people being "personally accountable game of the playoffs with the who watched the game on for the conduct of your team for don't have jobs during the week as principals of high schools or Los Angeles Lakers but he still playground supervisors or stockbrokers. Umpiring is a career. In television also were complaining the remaining games of the 1970 wouldn't withdraw his threat of about the officiating. playoffs." football, you may have to give crucial calls every Sunday. In "blood" in last night's second baseball, you may have five in the first four minutes. The instant game. replay gets I 00 chances a game to show you you chose the wrong Guerin called a news confer career." ence Monday to denounce the MAJOR LEAGUES The umpire is the real charlady of sports. He should get combat refereeing in Sunday's 119-1 I 5 NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE pay. His payoff is anonymity. "If you notice him," notes Ashford, loss to the Lakers. He said East East "he is doing a bad job." Emmett, one of the last of the "there will be blood tomorrow Shakespearean umpires does not refer to the dramatic "out!" night if that's the way they want w L Pet. GB w L Pet. GB gesture, or the performance which demands curtain calls, but it." Pittsburgh 4 2 .667 Baltimore 5 1 .833 y, Detriot 3 .571 1% "notice" in the sense that news pictures may seem to contradict his *St. Louis 3 2 .600 4 When N BA Commissioner Washington .500 2 version of play the next day. New York 3 3 .500 3 3 Walter Kennedy heard <'bout it Philadelphia 3 3 .500 Boston 3 3 .500 2 An umpire gets a minimum of $1 0,000-a-year salary and a he promptly fined Guerin Chicago 2 3 .400 1% New York 2 4 .333 3 maximum of $40-a-day expenses (in New York that means taking a $1 ,000 for "conduct detrimental *Montreal 1 4 .200 2 Cleveland 2 5 .286 3% subway and shining your own shoes). Umpires never make the Ed to professional basketball." Sullivan Show, or bubble-gum cards. No one screen tests him for the Guerin's chief response to West West part of Tarzan. He is "the fuzz" of basebalL that was that "I think the w L Pet. GB The Supreme Court is wildly biased compared to an umpire. com missioner had better learn w L Pet. GB what the responsibilities of a *Cincinnati 6 3 .667 *California 5 0 1.000 "Often, I don't even know the score," admits Emmett. An umpire is 4 *Atlanta 3 .571 Minnesota 3 0 1.000 1 coach are." 4 .571 not required to know the score, just the rules. "I have had guys *San Diego 3 *Milwaukee 3 4 .429 3 In his news conference, Guer *San Fran. 4 4 .500 IY, come up to me at night and say, 'Why did you call me 'out' on the *Oakland, 2 3 .400 3 in stopped just short of accusing *Houston 3 4 .429 2 play at second?' and I say, 'Oh, was that you?'" claims Emmett. Kansas City 2 4 .333 3% Los Angls 2 3 It is a service job which does not appear to today's generation, the referees of protecting Laker 5 .286 *Chicago 5 .167 4% because you get on television with your back to the camera. There superstars Elgin Baylor, Wilt *night game not included *night game not included Pittsburgh 6 New York 4 (10 inn.) has never been an umpires' strike called anywhere but behind the Chamberlain and Jerry West. He Milwaukee at Oakland (night) said callers after the game, Chicago 5 Philadelphia 4 Chicago at .California (night) plate. No one has ever caught an ump on the phone to the mafia. St. Louis 3 Montreal 0 (3rd inn.) "But, baseball is worried. I am worried," admits Ahsford. "We including one of the Milwaukee Detriot 12 Cleveland 4 owners, called it "the biggest Cin_cinnati 2 San Diego 0 (6th inn.) Washington at Baltimore (rain) have to develop umpires the same way you develop second-basemen. San Francisco at Atlanta (night) Boston 8 New York 3 And there are no 'pheenoms' in a mask and strike indicator. 'Genius' disgrace in the history of Los Angeles at Houston (night) • is not a word that can be applied to umpiring. It has to be learned, sports." like the law. Only, you can't make an emotional courtroom "If we are going to get called argument win your case. There are no shortcuts. Just because you for those little fouls, then Baylor can hit a strike doesn't mean you can call one. I have been, and West won't finish the disappointed in young proteges. You have tolearn your trade in long series," Guerin said. hot summers in border towns. I was kept there by prejudice. But Guerin said the Hawks were they arc kept there by laziness--or impatience. There are three "very despondent" after Sun ~ things an umpire cannot be--lazy, impatient, or rich." day's game. "They'd like an
SLC Election Plans Discussed by Senate by Pat Dermody and Corresponding Addresses
