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NOVEMBER 17, 1966 Speaker Ban Safe; ASP Censure Bid Killed by Senate BY MIKE IRVINE Executive Neu·s Editor Notre Dame's controversial on both counts by a vote cf 24-10. speaker's policy remained solid The Senate did however make as ever Tuesday night, after stu- one concession to ASP: a re- dent senators buried a conserva- worded motion, avoiding censurirrg tive motion in committee and de- McCarragher by name, will be molished ASP's liberal thrust by a reconsidered next week, better than two to orre vote. Confusion played no small role in The conservative cause, enun- the ultimate demise of the ASP dated by Stay-Serrator Pat Dowd, attack, as newly elected senators would have preserved the campus began questioning parliamentary from speakers "whose ultimate in- procedure and details of suspend- tendon is merely to foster their ing the rules. Calm was finally own causes." Dm~ct·s motion also restored by a patient recital of requested reasons from the Ad- the rules by Student Body Vice ministration. should it decide to President Bob Moran. ban a particular speaker. ASP's points were seen by most A protracted debate ensued re- student government officials as volving around a quartet of per- somewhat moot. This, they say, sonalities denied speaking pri- because the criterion for refusal of vileges by the University in the the two priests came from Bishop past. They are: Hugh Hefner, edi- Albert Pursley, of the Souti)Bend- tor and pub lis her of Playboy maga- Fort Wayne diocese. Pursley was zine: Fr. Gommar De Pau"'· sus- acting on can orr law, which forbids r r1decl priest and leader of the a man to speak from the pulpit Catholic Traditiorralist Movement; when he has been silerrced by his Fr. William DuBay, another sus- bishop. Notre Dame, then, was pende.J priest and Presiderrt of the merely bowing to canon law. American hodet atiou of Priests, Hefner and Roberts, on the other and Oral Roberts, evangelist and hand, were rejected on the basis faith-healer. of simple value judgments, made. After discussion and notatiorr imposed and enforced by the Uni- that in the past three years only versity administrat~\ln +1+!""~ ....... --·-·•...,.••,.,-.t;#.t!ill!l!l.lf ~·· •• ' four of 300 speakers had been ~~~~~~~!@? quashed. Stay Sene; tor Ron Messina d moved that the motion go to the I • Senate Academic Committee. A ns I e "\. '!, ~ • ' ,' relieved Senate quickly agreed, • • • .. ,. : Thus was Dowd's measure con It's the week of One and the Ob .,.; .,. '\;.?.... • ~ ,... server Sports staff has compiled signed to committee, where it will an eight page section of news, ALL WEEK LONG • The students have been chanting it, writing it on their desks, talking it, be discussed at length and ln detail. thinking it, and finally Alumni Hall has lit it up --- ND No. 1. And altho it might be premature, notes, names, players, and even Senate observers saw this as a a map to assist the weary Michi no one can short circuit the hopes of the 7000 students who have waited 17 long years for Notre move to give the Senate an oppor gan State traveler. See the pull Dame's return to the pinacle of football fame. tunity to pass or; the Academic section, page 7. Freedom Policy. That policy is He's listed as a Vice- Prei corrsidered by many as weightier dent. but many feel he's the man Stay-Hall Vote Before Christmas than Dowd's contentions. who rurrs the campus and this week As expected, the real fireworks he's the Observer's Man in the Notre Dame students will be Stay-Hall, and to work out pro the practical effects of a switch developed later in the meeting with News, page 2. polled on the University Stay-Hall posals for introducing tnore Stay to Stay-Hall, but also the under the introduction of ASP's Supposed system, sometime before Christ Halls next year." lyirrg prirrciples ..." "If President Johnson doesn't ·•censure" motion. Co- authored errd the war we're all going to be mas. according to Jim Cavnar, McCarragher has given this Necessity dictates that the stu by ASP politicos Paul Higgins and Student Government Hall Life Co Committee complete jurisdiction dent bodv be allowed to corrsider slaves." General Hershey? No, Laurence Broderick, the measure Bernie Miller an eighth grader at ordinator. over student activities concerning arrd vote on the issue before C...nrist scored Fr. Charles McCarragher, future Stay-Halls. Cavnar says he mas. Creation of newly approved Perley Elementary in South Bend. Cavnar said that both the re Vice President for Student Affairs, Observer staffer Tom Sowa has to Stay-Halls will require immediate ferendum procedure and thqse sch hopes have the cooperation of any as "infringing" on student rights similar committees of other or administrative efforts, arrd the Bernie's interesting story, page 17. eduled to be polled are still under to free speech. ganizations. Stay-Hall Committee hopes to keep The story of a St. Mary's girl consideration. After Thanksglving, the Stay this issue out of secorrd semester Bigf,Iins denied that cerrsu ring Me who likes to be al.>ne. Ann Van "We've been assured by Fathe. Hall Committee w11l !ni.riate a campus politics. Carragher was the point nf the Huysse is Observed by her room McCarragher that the Stay-Halls sweeping publicity and information Accordirrg to the report issued by motion, bur the impression per mate Barbara Rybak, page 15. will not be created unless the stu program. Hopefully, the campaign the corrUTiittee, only active student sisted, abetted in part by WSND He doesrr't have a chair, a three dents vote for it. •· said Cavnar. will outline Stay-Ball's every as support of a Stay-Hall can assure news stories stressing • 'censure." piece suit, or white hair. But he The Committee, headed by Jack pect, informing students of Stay its success. The c0mmittee feels Whatever the iment, the ASP does have a blue and gold uni Balinsky, was formed to investi Hall's pro's and con's. that studems who are fully in measure also demanded that the form, a snazzy little submarine, gate the proposal. In a report submitted to Me formed about the Stay-Hall pro Senate invite the four outlawed and the votes of hundreds of stu "It's purpose," Cavnar said, ''is Carragher, the Committee an gram arrd still sanctiorr it, will speakers at their "earliest pos dents. He's the top prof, and Ob to inform the student body of the nowlced: "The goal of such a probably be positive-minded mem sible corrverrierrce." server reporter Gary Morrow advantages and disadvantages of campaign is to bring out not only bers of any Stay-Hall community. The senate politely rebuffed ASP gives the proof. Page 6. ''Resist HUAC,'' Liberties Union Tells Colleges Special to The Observer The American Civ1l Liberties Union this week HUAC intends to exterrd its investigation to other subpoenas." called on 900 college and university presidents universities, obviously this cominues as a real The Urriorr letter urged that "at the very least, across the nation vigorously to resist any future arrd overhanging threat.'' institutions may be expected to pursue the quite suponea by the House Co.nmittee on Un-American The ACLU's call for opposition to the Com orthodox and risk-free procedure of seeking to Activities for the membership lists of campus mittee's "violatlorr of the guarantees of the First have the subpoenas quashed!' But, the group organizations critical of U.s. policy in VietNam. Amendment" came after the subpoenas were added, if that effort fails, it "is incumbent upon The civil liberties group plea came in the wake issued last summer at the two universities irr the urriversitv to assume whatever risks are irr of the HUAC's subpoenas of membership lists ar conneL· tion .._. i th the HU AC' s probe of peace groups volved in a norr-compliance (with the subpoenas): the University of Michigan arrd at the University opposirrg American particlpat!orr in the Viet Nam for the alternative is to shift to its students the of California at Berkelev last summer which the war. University of Michigarr authorities delivered risk of invasion of their their rights under the ACLU tf':rmed "one of th~ most ser!nus breaches lists containing 6fi names drawn from three or First Amendment." of academic freedom of student!:' in re<:I:'!1T decades. ganizations -- arr affiliate of Students for a Demo The ACLU declared that the infrinfZ,ITlent of aca not excluding thl" McC~rthy .;:-a." cratic Society, a Committee to Aid the Vietnamese, demic freedom involved in the subpoenas of stu In a letter to the heads ot colleges w'to are and a 1-.JCal chapter of the W.E.B. DuBois Club. dem membership arrd officer lists as "so 'ler members of the American Association of Colleges, The Union noted that "these lists were serrt nicious arr attack on academic freedom that, if the Union's exec-utlve director. John de .T. Pem without first advising those named so that they at called upon, it is prepared to lend legal assistance berton, Jr .. and its Academic Freedom Committee least might have had the opporttmity to seek legally to its resistance." chairman, Professor Samuel BerrJel, warrreJ that to enioin the university from complying.'' A second step urged by the Civil Liberties the HUAC's subpoena ac-tion is "a definite tl! rear At the BerKetevcampus of the University of Uniorr was the organization of "studem-faculty to academic freedom," addmg that "it asserts California, the subpoenaed membership list in committees to set specific standards of confiden the intimidatin~ power of arr official investigatirrg cluded the signature of at least orre sruderrt who tiality re~arding student and faculty information." body armed with compulsory process.'' w .1s subpoenaed to appear at the HUAC's August The group referred to its own policy position that The Committee's subpoenas impelled il!e lfnion lwa "ings.