scholastic Vol. 120, No. 11, April 20, 1979 Notre Dame, Indiana You've got a good head lage you serve cari adopt a on your shoulders. A nice new habit: eating everyday. place to live. You've got a de­ You came to the Peace Corps cent job, or at least it's going to give and you've gotten. FEATURES to be someday. Maybe you've You've learned a language. even got a couple bucks in the Discovered a new culture. 4 Nuclear Power: Two Views Kenneth Goodpaster bank. And plans, you've got Found out about life: theirs. plenty of them. Life is just a Yours. Morning has become John Lucey bowl of cherries, right? Ex­ an adventure again. Sure, the 6 Tears and Joy: Frank O'Malley David Kubal cept it's not. Something's . hours are long and hard and missing. And you're begin­ the bread is lousy. But some­ 8 Faces and Tombs William O'Brien ning to come up empty. Get­ times, putting bread in some­ ting out of bed used to be one's mouth can be more re­ 18 Yaz: A Major League Domer Mike Kenahan easy, now it's not anymore. warding to you than all the . 21 Awareness: Latin America Dave Gill And you've begun to look at bread in your pocket. yourself, right to the inside, The Peace Corps is alive 26 Tennis Is His Racquet Jim Trausch and you're asking, is that all and well. 27 Building a Firm Foundation Bill Scholl there is? Well, it's not, you Join the Peace Corps. know. Not even close. Call toll free: 800-424-8580. There's the Peace Corps. Or write the Peace Corps, Maybe it'll be teaching Box A, n,.,...... FICTION nutrition. Or building a Washington, c..~ce Ernest Sandeen schoolhouse. Or clearing a D.C. 20525. Corps 12 Poem: To Frank O'Malley field so the people in the viI- Cockroaches, Scientists Think, 14 The Sail Tom Balcerek . May Be The Major Survivors 22 Waiting for the Dough Chuck Wood Of A Nuclear War. Give us this cJay, Radiation and contamination from' nuclear REGULARS weapons would make the world our daily bread. Photographs: uninhabitable Jason Joyce, 4; Scholastic Archives,. 7; 13 Perspective Theresa Rebeck for the rest of us. Sports Information, 18, 19, 20j Jim Klocke, 26. 16 . Gallery Jane S. Cutter Our country has twice directly threatened Artwork: Marganta Cintra the Russians with nuclear weapons. Scholastic Archives; 3, 10, 28j Mike Cant-­ MarY Beth Perfett And now we're building more sophisticated, well,15. more accurate missiles and warheads Front Cover: ,25 Perspective Lisa Hartenberger that will make a first strike of military . Mike Cantwell ,. 30 Last Word Jake Morrissey targets appear feasible Back Cover: and attractive. The Pentagon claims that we could Theresa Rebeck . "survive" a retaliation _ . and win a nuclear war. Editor _ Staff . Sounds absurd, doesn't It? John Morrissey Cynthia Dykhoff, Keith Caughlin,Anthony Walton; Eileen Durkin,"Eddie Holden, Clay Managing Editor' Malaker, Tom Lucid, Greg Vansueh, Kevin McCarthy, Mary Clare Toffanetti,' Bill Scholl, Only the roaches are smiling. Theresa Rebeck. jim Trausch, Mike Walsh, Greg C. Gregory, leo j. Mulcahey, Dave Mayernik, Sean F. Art Director Faircloth, Paul Hurley, John Bondaruk, Michelle Gerard, Dodee Carney, Paul Mullaney, Mike Cantwell lou Severino, Joe Carey, jason joyce, Paul. Mortenson. . FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION Production Manager Box 271, Nyack, New York 10960 Bernie Valenti News Editor, I'm concerned abouf survival. Hall Representatives: Send me: Elizabeth Donovan - Eddie Holden, Mark Sniegowski, Sean Berry, Brad Engelland, Keith Caughlin, Ann Culture Editor Gleason, Sonia Chopko, Bill Swift, ,Craig Smith, Kevin Courtois, Glenn Killoren, Dave o More Information on the new weapons Dave Satterfield Bartish, Lisa jaquez, Mike Szkrybalo, john Ryan, Mary Fran Welch; John Cuckovich, systems and the arms race Sports Editor Greg G.Gregory, leo J. Mulcahey, Davetv1ayernick, Dan letcher. ' Mike Kenahan .. OA disarmament petition Fiction' Editor o Ideas for what I can do on campus Tom Balcerek Copy Editor , The opinions expressed in. Scholastic are those. of the authors and editors of Scholastic Name ...... Bob Southard Layout Editor . and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire staff and editorial board of Lisa· Hartenberger Scholastic or the University of Notre Dame, its administration, faculty, or the student ,b~~ . . AddreSs ...... Zip •••.... ; .. Photography, Editor ~ . Phil johnson Business Manager ~~~ A Public Service of This Newspaper & The AdvertiSing Council Kimberlie Gumz The magazine is represented for national advertising by National Educational Advertising Advertisement Manager' , Services and CASS Student Advertising, Inc. Published fortnightly during the.school year Marcy Weigle except during vacation and examination periods, Scholastic is printed at Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. The subscription rate is $5.00 a year and back issues are Advisory Board available from Scholastic. Please address all manuscripts to Scholastic, Notre Dame, Ind. Elizabeth Christman, Mario Pedi, Thomas 46556~ All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic. Werge, Thomas jemielity, john Miriam . copyright © 1979 Scholastic / all rights reserved / none of the contents may be repro- jones"S.c., Edward Fischer. duced without permission. . 2 SCHOLASTIC' APRIL 20" 1979 3 scholastic Vol. 120, No. 11, April 20, 1979 Notre Dame, Indiana You've got a good head lage you serve cari adopt a on your shoulders. A nice new habit: eating everyday. place to live. You've got a de­ You came to the Peace Corps cent job, or at least it's going to give and you've gotten. FEATURES to be someday. Maybe you've You've learned a language. even got a couple bucks in the Discovered a new culture. 4 Nuclear Power: Two Views Kenneth Goodpaster bank. And plans, you've got Found out about life: theirs. plenty of them. Life is just a Yours. Morning has become John Lucey bowl of cherries, right? Ex­ an adventure again. Sure, the 6 Tears and Joy: Frank O'Malley David Kubal cept it's not. Something's . hours are long and hard and missing. And you're begin­ the bread is lousy. But some­ 8 Faces and Tombs William O'Brien ning to come up empty. Get­ times, putting bread in some­ ting out of bed used to be one's mouth can be more re­ 18 Yaz: A Major League Domer Mike Kenahan easy, now it's not anymore. warding to you than all the . 21 Awareness: Latin America Dave Gill And you've begun to look at bread in your pocket. yourself, right to the inside, The Peace Corps is alive 26 Tennis Is His Racquet Jim Trausch and you're asking, is that all and well. 27 Building a Firm Foundation Bill Scholl there is? Well, it's not, you Join the Peace Corps. know. Not even close. Call toll free: 800-424-8580. There's the Peace Corps. Or write the Peace Corps, Maybe it'll be teaching Box A, n,.,...... FICTION nutrition. Or building a Washington, c..~ce Ernest Sandeen schoolhouse. Or clearing a D.C. 20525. Corps 12 Poem: To Frank O'Malley field so the people in the viI- Cockroaches, Scientists Think, 14 The Sail Tom Balcerek . May Be The Major Survivors 22 Waiting for the Dough Chuck Wood Of A Nuclear War. Give us this cJay, Radiation and contamination from' nuclear REGULARS weapons would make the world our daily bread. Photographs: uninhabitable Jason Joyce, 4; Scholastic Archives,. 7; 13 Perspective Theresa Rebeck for the rest of us. Sports Information, 18, 19, 20j Jim Klocke, 26. 16 . Gallery Jane S. Cutter Our country has twice directly threatened Artwork: Marganta Cintra the Russians with nuclear weapons. Scholastic Archives; 3, 10, 28j Mike Cant-­ MarY Beth Perfett And now we're building more sophisticated, well,15. more accurate missiles and warheads Front Cover: ,25 Perspective Lisa Hartenberger that will make a first strike of military . Mike Cantwell ,. 30 Last Word Jake Morrissey targets appear feasible Back Cover: and attractive. The Pentagon claims that we could Theresa Rebeck . "survive" a retaliation _ . and win a nuclear war. Editor _ Staff . Sounds absurd, doesn't It? John Morrissey Cynthia Dykhoff, Keith Caughlin,Anthony Walton; Eileen Durkin,"Eddie Holden, Clay Managing Editor' Malaker, Tom Lucid, Greg Vansueh, Kevin McCarthy, Mary Clare Toffanetti,' Bill Scholl, Only the roaches are smiling. Theresa Rebeck. jim Trausch, Mike Walsh, Greg C. Gregory, leo j. Mulcahey, Dave Mayernik, Sean F. Art Director Faircloth, Paul Hurley, John Bondaruk, Michelle Gerard, Dodee Carney, Paul Mullaney, Mike Cantwell lou Severino, Joe Carey, jason joyce, Paul. Mortenson. . FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION Production Manager Box 271, Nyack, New York 10960 Bernie Valenti News Editor, I'm concerned abouf survival. Hall Representatives: Send me: Elizabeth Donovan - Eddie Holden, Mark Sniegowski, Sean Berry, Brad Engelland, Keith Caughlin, Ann Culture Editor Gleason, Sonia Chopko, Bill Swift, ,Craig Smith, Kevin Courtois, Glenn Killoren, Dave o More Information on the new weapons Dave Satterfield Bartish, Lisa jaquez, Mike Szkrybalo, john Ryan, Mary Fran Welch; John Cuckovich, systems and the arms race Sports Editor Greg G.Gregory, leo J. Mulcahey, Davetv1ayernick, Dan letcher. ' Mike Kenahan .. OA disarmament petition Fiction' Editor o Ideas for what I can do on campus Tom Balcerek Copy Editor , The opinions expressed in. Scholastic are those. of the authors and editors of Scholastic Name ...... Bob Southard Layout Editor . and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire staff and editorial board of Lisa· Hartenberger Scholastic or the University of Notre Dame, its administration, faculty, or the student ,b~~ . . AddreSs ...... Zip •••.... ; .. Photography, Editor ~ . Phil johnson Business Manager ~~~ A Public Service of This Newspaper & The AdvertiSing Council Kimberlie Gumz The magazine is represented for national advertising by National Educational Advertising Advertisement Manager' , Services and CASS Student Advertising, Inc. Published fortnightly during the.school year Marcy Weigle except during vacation and examination periods, Scholastic is printed at Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. The subscription rate is $5.00 a year and back issues are Advisory Board available from Scholastic. Please address all manuscripts to Scholastic, Notre Dame, Ind. Elizabeth Christman, Mario Pedi, Thomas 46556~ All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic. Werge, Thomas jemielity, john Miriam . copyright © 1979 Scholastic / all rights reserved / none of the contents may be repro- jones"S.c., Edward Fischer. duced without permission. . 2 SCHOLASTIC' APRIL 20" 1979 3 Goodpaster •.• Lucey •.. ,N uclear Power: Two' Views citizens. The Man of Uncommon Sense then invited The main difference between coal ash and nuclear . ' his visitor to assess the enriched list of alternatives by reactor wastes, other than their relative volume, is, of such criteria as "moderation" and "stability." The course, their degree of radioactivity. ,Most serious are visitor was amazed, if not a little confused, though the fission products, the isotopes produced when the , he had to acknowledge that his tribe had been having U-235 (or Pu-239) nucleus fissions, releasing energy. additional difficulties with other tribes regarding both The laws of nature require that the most intensely grapevines and grainfields - and that there was radioactive isotopes are also the most short-lived, and growing impatience at the borders on the part of poor vice versa.' The longest half-life (the time required peasants (some of whom actually found ways of using for one half of the atoms originally present to undergo booze for incendiary weapons!) .. decay) among the fission products is about thirty years. The visitor returned to his home and explained to When the 500- to 600-year period required for fission his tribesmen that they really should consider a differ­ products to decay to negligible levels has passed, the ent kind of path into the future: a more beautiful path, radioactivity of the waste will be due entirely to plu­ and one which in the long run led to renewal, harmony tonium and other transuranic elements. But the level with nature, and justice. His tribesmen could not un­ of radioactivity then present 'will be no greater than derstand. They became angry and called him a traitor. that of naturally occurring radioactive ores such as He had failed in his mission and had begun to question uranium. If, the Alcaut0l1 Dream. They wanted supplies: He came Five hundred years is a long time. we wish to home questioning, demand! A drunken brawl ensued' insure that the radioactivity from nuclear reactor during which the representative was killed. Eventually wastes is not released to the environment during that the. tribe ran out of conventional booze and' poisoned period it should be sequestered in a geologically inert themselves, on ,ah unconventional but very modern environment. Bedded salt deposits appear to be a by Kenneth Goodpaster by John Lucey replacement. " , reasonable storage location. Many suitable sites have been identified and a demonstration facility is cur­ ,This little allegory is, of course, like all allegories, There once was a tribe. Its members' were known The prime concerns of the public with regard to' rently under development in New Mexico. The tech­ something of a caricature. Alcohol and electrical en­ as Alcoholics Autonomous (Alcautons for short). Dur­ nuclear power are safety, both of the operating plant nology for reprocessing and ultimate storage is avail­ ergy are not the same. But perhaps the main lines of and of other components of the nuclear fuel cycle, and, a able and has been for years. Its' commercial develop­ ing times of plenty their spirits were high. But they critique of energy policy are atleast implicit here: ,a, fell on difficult times when technicians in their num­ to a lesser degree, the relative cost and availability of ment is delayed, not by technological problems, but po­ critique of what has been called the "hard path" into ber (in a moment of rare sobriety) discovered that the nuclear power for some reasonable period in the future. litical decisions (or the lack of them). our energy future. This path is characterized by capital stocks of beer, wine, and whiskey were running low. In, normal operation it is difficult to imagine it more Today'seconomics seem to favor nuclear power over intensive, centralized, high technology' methods of en~ They sent a representative to seek policy advice to the benign source' of energy. The radioactivity released' to ergyproduction (electrification, pressure on oil, gas, coal. What about tomorrow's? Man of Uncommon Sense who lived on a nearby island. the environment in normal operation of a nuclear plant Commonwealth Edison projects that coal-fired elec­ coal and especially nuclear power). By contrast, a "soft The Alcauton representative described his problem to is less than that from ac~mparable fossil-fueled plant. tricity will cost about 15 to 20 per cent more than path'.' would, emphasize decentralized production, con~ the Man of Uncommon Sense. The Man of Uncommon (Coal' deposits normally contain such ,radioisotopes as nuclear electricity. Commonwealth Edison' has' the servation, .. renewable resources and alternative tech­ Sense listened. The problem was described as insuffi­ radium, thorium and uranium.) Even the' most· dedi­ largest nuclear generating capaciy of any U.S; utility nologies(solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, etc.). cient alcohol supply - dwindling resources, need for cated opponent of nuclear power" will agree, that, like generated by its nuclear plants was 1.31 cents per alternative kinds of intoxicants in view of a, deteriora­ the little girl with t~e curl on her forehead, "when she We seem faced with a criticaU:hoice between thes~ kilowatt hour. The utility's most efficient coal-fired tion' of the "conventiomil" reSerVes. The Man of Un­ was good, she was very, very good." ~ two paths, as our society, enters the 21st century. And plants produced power at an average cost of 2.09 cents common Sense, considered dealing ,with his visitor's, It is the balance of the nursery rhyme that op­ it is important, I think, to keep in mind that the choice per kilowatt hour.. Experience at other power plants problem within, the terms of its definition: checking ponents stress, "when she was bad, she was horrid." is in fact a choice among broad strategies. Like the has been comparable. ' out data on decreasing supplies, imports, unconven­ How likely are nuclear plants to be "bad"?, If bad, Alcautons, we run the risk of~efining our ((problem" Development of the breeder reactor, which has been so as to blind ourselves, to, the larger options. Nuclear tional sources. He even considered telling the visitor how "horrid"? ' ' ! • curtailed by the Carter administration, would extend about options that had apparently been overlooked The best available answer to the question is given , fission power, with breeders' in itS wake, beyond all of these uranium reserves' substantially. In the breeder completely, such as LSD, cocaine, and heroin (together in the Rasmussen Report. (Professor Norman C. Ras­ its obvious and recently dramatized hazards must be the isotope uranium-238, which does not fission, is con­ with risk-benefit analyses of each). mussen .of MIT, January 1975.) The study involved seen as part of a pattern of hard path thinkin~: Reacto~ , verted to plutonium-239, which is' an excellent fuel safety, udispo~al" of high-level radIoactive waste prod­ But the Man, of Uncommon Sense decided not to 70 man-years of effort and an expenditure of ·about material. An alternate breeding cycle involving the ucts, weapons llroliferation ,hi a plutonium economy, do these things; He pointed out instead that the four million dollars. conversion of thorium-232 to fissile uranium-233 is and other social and economic considerations have to be problem as the Alcauton'.had described it was not the , . Although the Nuclear Regulatory Commission also being investigated. The possibility of large-scale seen as. part of this pattern for intelligent analysis and real problem at all. In fact, he surPrised his visitor recently rescinded any implicit endorsement of the re­ commerce in plutonium-239 has been given as the resp,onse. T~eeMile Island serves to put us on notice' by pointing out that the tragedy was that the Alcautons port's 12-pageExecutive Summary, the report is still reason for the, Carter administration's reluctance to that, the psychic and, economic', risks of' nuclear elec­ saw the "problem" as supply problem. He sug­ th~ best available nuclear safety study. The report's pursue. this option.' It should be noted, however, that a: tricitY,have been underestimated. One can surely be gested that being alcoholic was a more serious problem estImate of one reactor core meltdown in 20,000 reactor . there is enough ur~nium-238 already in storage above.:. forgiven for wondering.' whether the answer lies in than, being short 'of b90ze. years of operation has neither been provediiordis­ ground' as residue of the uranium enrichment plants proved. The, fuel at Three Mile Island did not melt and stillnlOreelaborate Umd expensive) te~hnological con- to fuel a breeder reactor economy for several hundred As you ca~ imagine, the conversation' deveioped in tainments. ' , no injury to the public resulted from that' accident; , -, years. , " , a dramatically different direction from the direction in The' chances of injury or death from reactor accident The deepest signals from' such events relate to eri~ " If the nation wishes to continue its economic growth which it might have developed, if, the issue had been are roughly the same as being struck by a meteOr. ' ergy strategy, not energy:tactics. The logic of the hard it must do so by increasing its capacity to generate and left in the hands of the visitor. ' For now the list of If the, operation of a nuclear reactor is not itself path is a logic which, is driven by questions of means. use energy efficiently. Conservation; while it may post­ alternatives included at leaSt one entirely neW-branch dangerous, say, its opponents, then surely its, wastes The logic of the soft path questions both ends and pone increases in energy demand; cannot be the total . on the deCision-tree: a branch which included with-, are. ~ey. represent "an intolerable legacy for genera­ means and is on that accoun~ more enlightened., Hard answer to our' energy needs. drawal, detoxification, and a return to more humane , t~onsyet unborn" if opponents of nuclear power. are to path choices, and especially the: nuclear choice, seem to Some sources of energy . which have been discussed, ways of lubricating the emotional lives, of the Alcauton ' , be believed. " : ' , " ': .. ," ,', commiL us to exporting our co~ts to fu~ure generations notably hydropower, are nearly fully developed, with (continued next page) , (continued next page) (continued on page 29) (continued' on page 29)

4 SCHOLASTIC APRIL' 20,- 1979 5 Goodpaster •.• Lucey •.. ,N uclear Power: Two' Views citizens. The Man of Uncommon Sense then invited The main difference between coal ash and nuclear . ' his visitor to assess the enriched list of alternatives by reactor wastes, other than their relative volume, is, of such criteria as "moderation" and "stability." The course, their degree of radioactivity. ,Most serious are visitor was amazed, if not a little confused, though the fission products, the isotopes produced when the , he had to acknowledge that his tribe had been having U-235 (or Pu-239) nucleus fissions, releasing energy. additional difficulties with other tribes regarding both The laws of nature require that the most intensely grapevines and grainfields - and that there was radioactive isotopes are also the most short-lived, and growing impatience at the borders on the part of poor vice versa.' The longest half-life (the time required peasants (some of whom actually found ways of using for one half of the atoms originally present to undergo booze for incendiary weapons!) .. decay) among the fission products is about thirty years. The visitor returned to his home and explained to When the 500- to 600-year period required for fission his tribesmen that they really should consider a differ­ products to decay to negligible levels has passed, the ent kind of path into the future: a more beautiful path, radioactivity of the waste will be due entirely to plu­ and one which in the long run led to renewal, harmony tonium and other transuranic elements. But the level with nature, and justice. His tribesmen could not un­ of radioactivity then present 'will be no greater than derstand. They became angry and called him a traitor. that of naturally occurring radioactive ores such as He had failed in his mission and had begun to question uranium. If, the Alcaut0l1 Dream. They wanted supplies: He came Five hundred years is a long time. we wish to home questioning, demand! A drunken brawl ensued' insure that the radioactivity from nuclear reactor during which the representative was killed. Eventually wastes is not released to the environment during that the. tribe ran out of conventional booze and' poisoned period it should be sequestered in a geologically inert themselves, on ,ah unconventional but very modern environment. Bedded salt deposits appear to be a by Kenneth Goodpaster by John Lucey replacement. " , reasonable storage location. Many suitable sites have been identified and a demonstration facility is cur­ ,This little allegory is, of course, like all allegories, There once was a tribe. Its members' were known The prime concerns of the public with regard to' rently under development in New Mexico. The tech­ something of a caricature. Alcohol and electrical en­ as Alcoholics Autonomous (Alcautons for short). Dur­ nuclear power are safety, both of the operating plant nology for reprocessing and ultimate storage is avail­ ergy are not the same. But perhaps the main lines of and of other components of the nuclear fuel cycle, and, a able and has been for years. Its' commercial develop­ ing times of plenty their spirits were high. But they critique of energy policy are atleast implicit here: ,a, fell on difficult times when technicians in their num­ to a lesser degree, the relative cost and availability of ment is delayed, not by technological problems, but po­ critique of what has been called the "hard path" into ber (in a moment of rare sobriety) discovered that the nuclear power for some reasonable period in the future. litical decisions (or the lack of them). our energy future. This path is characterized by capital stocks of beer, wine, and whiskey were running low. In, normal operation it is difficult to imagine it more Today'seconomics seem to favor nuclear power over intensive, centralized, high technology' methods of en~ They sent a representative to seek policy advice to the benign source' of energy. The radioactivity released' to ergyproduction (electrification, pressure on oil, gas, coal. What about tomorrow's? Man of Uncommon Sense who lived on a nearby island. the environment in normal operation of a nuclear plant Commonwealth Edison projects that coal-fired elec­ coal and especially nuclear power). By contrast, a "soft The Alcauton representative described his problem to is less than that from ac~mparable fossil-fueled plant. tricity will cost about 15 to 20 per cent more than path'.' would, emphasize decentralized production, con~ the Man of Uncommon Sense. The Man of Uncommon (Coal' deposits normally contain such ,radioisotopes as nuclear electricity. Commonwealth Edison' has' the servation, .. renewable resources and alternative tech­ Sense listened. The problem was described as insuffi­ radium, thorium and uranium.) Even the' most· dedi­ largest nuclear generating capaciy of any U.S; utility nologies(solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, etc.). cient alcohol supply - dwindling resources, need for cated opponent of nuclear power" will agree, that, like generated by its nuclear plants was 1.31 cents per alternative kinds of intoxicants in view of a, deteriora­ the little girl with t~e curl on her forehead, "when she We seem faced with a criticaU:hoice between thes~ kilowatt hour. The utility's most efficient coal-fired tion' of the "conventiomil" reSerVes. The Man of Un­ was good, she was very, very good." ~ two paths, as our society, enters the 21st century. And plants produced power at an average cost of 2.09 cents common Sense, considered dealing ,with his visitor's, It is the balance of the nursery rhyme that op­ it is important, I think, to keep in mind that the choice per kilowatt hour.. Experience at other power plants problem within, the terms of its definition: checking ponents stress, "when she was bad, she was horrid." is in fact a choice among broad strategies. Like the has been comparable. ' out data on decreasing supplies, imports, unconven­ How likely are nuclear plants to be "bad"?, If bad, Alcautons, we run the risk of~efining our ((problem" Development of the breeder reactor, which has been so as to blind ourselves, to, the larger options. Nuclear tional sources. He even considered telling the visitor how "horrid"? ' ' ! • curtailed by the Carter administration, would extend about options that had apparently been overlooked The best available answer to the question is given , fission power, with breeders' in itS wake, beyond all of these uranium reserves' substantially. In the breeder completely, such as LSD, cocaine, and heroin (together in the Rasmussen Report. (Professor Norman C. Ras­ its obvious and recently dramatized hazards must be the isotope uranium-238, which does not fission, is con­ with risk-benefit analyses of each). mussen .of MIT, January 1975.) The study involved seen as part of a pattern of hard path thinkin~: Reacto~ , verted to plutonium-239, which is' an excellent fuel safety, udispo~al" of high-level radIoactive waste prod­ But the Man, of Uncommon Sense decided not to 70 man-years of effort and an expenditure of ·about material. An alternate breeding cycle involving the ucts, weapons llroliferation ,hi a plutonium economy, do these things; He pointed out instead that the four million dollars. conversion of thorium-232 to fissile uranium-233 is and other social and economic considerations have to be problem as the Alcauton'.had described it was not the , . Although the Nuclear Regulatory Commission also being investigated. The possibility of large-scale seen as. part of this pattern for intelligent analysis and real problem at all. In fact, he surPrised his visitor recently rescinded any implicit endorsement of the re­ commerce in plutonium-239 has been given as the resp,onse. T~eeMile Island serves to put us on notice' by pointing out that the tragedy was that the Alcautons port's 12-pageExecutive Summary, the report is still reason for the, Carter administration's reluctance to that, the psychic and, economic', risks of' nuclear elec­ saw the "problem" as supply problem. He sug­ th~ best available nuclear safety study. The report's pursue. this option.' It should be noted, however, that a: tricitY,have been underestimated. One can surely be gested that being alcoholic was a more serious problem estImate of one reactor core meltdown in 20,000 reactor . there is enough ur~nium-238 already in storage above.:. forgiven for wondering.' whether the answer lies in than, being short 'of b90ze. years of operation has neither been provediiordis­ ground' as residue of the uranium enrichment plants proved. The, fuel at Three Mile Island did not melt and stillnlOreelaborate Umd expensive) te~hnological con- to fuel a breeder reactor economy for several hundred As you ca~ imagine, the conversation' deveioped in tainments. ' , no injury to the public resulted from that' accident; , -, years. , " , a dramatically different direction from the direction in The' chances of injury or death from reactor accident The deepest signals from' such events relate to eri~ " If the nation wishes to continue its economic growth which it might have developed, if, the issue had been are roughly the same as being struck by a meteOr. ' ergy strategy, not energy:tactics. The logic of the hard it must do so by increasing its capacity to generate and left in the hands of the visitor. ' For now the list of If the, operation of a nuclear reactor is not itself path is a logic which, is driven by questions of means. use energy efficiently. Conservation; while it may post­ alternatives included at leaSt one entirely neW-branch dangerous, say, its opponents, then surely its, wastes The logic of the soft path questions both ends and pone increases in energy demand; cannot be the total . on the deCision-tree: a branch which included with-, are. ~ey. represent "an intolerable legacy for genera­ means and is on that accoun~ more enlightened., Hard answer to our' energy needs. drawal, detoxification, and a return to more humane , t~onsyet unborn" if opponents of nuclear power. are to path choices, and especially the: nuclear choice, seem to Some sources of energy . which have been discussed, ways of lubricating the emotional lives, of the Alcauton ' , be believed. " : ' , " ': .. ," ,', commiL us to exporting our co~ts to fu~ure generations notably hydropower, are nearly fully developed, with (continued next page) , (continued next page) (continued on page 29) (continued' on page 29)

4 SCHOLASTIC APRIL' 20,- 1979 5 it also wounded., Such a drama is own educational opportunities in the -of Catholic' thought-not. the one which we know little about. To Boston area at that time. In fact, Catholicism of the parish and dio­ be sure, it has something to do with after graduating, according. to the cese, the political religiosity which the nature of knowledge. But it also same article, he planned to return Edwin O'Connor, one of his students, has to do with the mystery of the there, to Harvard, with the idea of satiriZed in his novels. That is, he pedagogical relationship, as well as, preparing himself as a literary discovered at the University a mode of course, with the teacher. himself. critic. After having been designated of thought and belief which had its It is as a teacher of significant valedictorian and graduating flrst sources neither in America, nor Tears and Joy: power. that Mr. O'Malley continues in his class, however, he remained Rome, nor Dublin but rather in the to engage me. at Notre Dame on a teaching assis­ modern, Catholic Renascence; par­ tantship, completing his Master's in ticularly, in those French thinkers It seems obvious that he did not 1933. He was then appointed an in­ and artists associated 'with the Frank O'Malley enroll at Notre Dame primarily for structor of English and History at Renouveau Cat1wlique who taken scholarly reasons. In 1928 theUni­ the age of 24, the youngest member together represent a renewal of versity had none. of its present-day of the University faculty. Five years Catholic· thought and art in the academic prestige. It was not until later he was offered the opportunity twentieth century, a reinvigoration the fifties, under' the guidance of to return to the East, to Princeton, with beginnings not only'in Aquinas, Theodore Hesburgh, that it began to as a University Scholar, to work for Pascal, and Newman, but also in conscientiously seek such prizes, a his doctorate. He decided rather to philosophical and literary Mod­ change of direction that Mr. O'Mal­ resign the appointment, "to con­ ernism. ley himself abetted by participating tinue," as he explained, "~ecessary It· was only after Mro' O'Malley in the workings_of the Woodrow work at Notre Dame," a work which joined the faculty, nonetheless, that Wilson and Danforth foundations occupied him the rest of his life. he became aware of, or at least by David Kubal and gaining numerous fellowships His doctorate was not conferred began to respond to, the influence of for his students. Indeed his success until 1971, when Notre Dame gave the Renascence. In fact, as an un­ One did not become Frank O'Mal­ half years on campus, I had caught On reflection I would like to think . in this effort was phenomenal, and him an ·honorary LLD, addressing dergraduate he had sat under G. K. ley's student simply by registering only glimpses of him, usually rush­ that he appointed me an associate he was often quoted as saying his him in the citation as "our beloved Chesterton, a visiting professor, for his courses. One was chosen. My ing away, late for a lecture, always editor because he had read the free favorite pastime was "writing letters Frank O'Malley." noted for his Francophobia and his "election" occurred, for no reason bareheaded, even during the worst verse and stories ·that I had begun to of recommendation." Still, in the The' other and the more serious prejudice against Continental· Ca­ apparent to me at the time, midway of the South Bend winter, his fad­ slip under the doors of Sorin's base­ t\yenties, while the University had reason for his initial as well as his tholicism. His Master's thesis was on in my junior year at .Notre Dame. ing red hair flying, his light trench ment rooms. More than likely,' how­ gained national recognition through . ultimate choice, the very key to an Bishop Lamy, the French missionary I was just then becoming serious coat whipping out behind him. In ever, he suspected I had some knowl­ Knute Rockne's football teams, it understanding of his person, his who had served as' a model· for in my studies, beginning to develop my eyes, if he was rather awesome, edge' of practical journalism, gained understood itself first as an institu­ mind, and his power, was that Notre Bishop La Tour in Willa Cather's an earnest regard for books and he: was also decidedly odd, an eccen­ from 'my work on the Scholastic, tion of Catholic apologetics,. draw~ Dame represented a center-or more Death Comes for the Archbishop.. ideas. I had arrived at the Univer­ tric who taught an honors course of and that I might help ,to save the ing a large number of its students accurately, the possibility of a center While this interest remained a part sity with little notion of the life of freshmen, whom he referred to as Juggler from the "underground," or from the Chicago area, an identity the mind, wanting rather to become the creme de la creme, as well as at least to publish it four times a that was' still evident when I was a journalist, and had· joined the classes in "The Philosophy of Lit­ ,year, thus guaranteeing its Univer­ an undergraduate. Mr; O'Malley, on Scholastic, then a weekly newsmag­ erature" and "Modern Catholic sity subsidy-which was, in fact, the other hand, was a brilliant young azine, to which I gave most of my Writers.". He was also associated what happened. . scholar, eventually achieving-or so time, learning to count out headlines with the student intellectuals and Whatever his motive, the effect of the myth goes-the highest scholas­ and to write simple sentences. I had poets, those dwelling in the base~ his recognition was decisive: his ap­ tic average in the history of the also become eagerly involved in cam­ ment .rooms of old Sorin, who pub­ pointment confirmed me in a direc­ College of Liberal Arts to that time. pus politics and had been rewarded li~hed one another in the Juggler and tion in which I' had been moving His' record, even in an age of· in­ with the chairmanship of the Soph­ never returned the manuscripts. At with little confidence. Hissubsequent flated grades, may still stand. The omore Cotillion, my "spoils" for sup- . the time, he himself lived in one of care, his love of the life of the mind, challenge he set for himself, at any porting the winning party. My class­ Sorin's tower rooms, a bachelor who and his passionate dedication· to the rate, is rarely assumed in the pres­ work, was uneven and recognized as had never left the University after vocation of the teacher, moreover, ent. During the second semester of such. At the beginning of my junior entering as a, freshman in 1928; shaped and sustained' me, along with his senior year, for example, he took year, and at the last moment, I had. almost thirty years before. He was a multitude of others, until his death nine courses, including six in litera­ decided on a major in English rather one of those lay faculty members, in 1974. And yet because he was a ture and one each in Latin, Greek, than one in journalism,persuaded once familiar figures at Notre Dame, teacher of such cogency, his influence and' Philosophy. His average was by' my roommate'that the former who took rooms in dormitories and remaIns problematical. For' Mr. above 97.' was more respectable. devoted their lives to stu~ents. Cer­ O'Malley did not merely direct his According to a profile published .' Given these credentials I was non­ tainly there was no one in my own students, at least those who accepted in theSc1wlastic in his senior year, plussed to' learn through a friend Chicago background (except a Bene­ his "election." Rather, he entered he selected Notre Dame, first of all, that Mr. O'Malley had selected me, dictine monk, also redheaded, who their lives,' and demanded to be en­ because it was "cosmopolitan rather without my having applied for the had tried at school to convince me gaged. The ensuing drama was of than provincial."·If there was any position, as an associate editor of the of the literary merits of P. G.Wode­ deep and lasting consequence; for it irony behind that remark,; it is not Juggler, the prestigious, if then house and Margery Sharp) 10 ex­ was not only carried on in the joy of apparent from the article. To regard -foundering, student literary quarter­ plain Mr. O'Malley, an "Easterner'; discovery but it wai;' also undergone a parochial university in South Bend, ly. I was taken aback, first oiall, be­ from Clinton, Massachusetts, and an in the pain entailed in his particular Indiana, as "cosmopolitan"·' may cause I did not know he was even, intellectual who was also something vision of history arid reality. So if simply reveal a" poor Irish Cath­ aware of me. During my two and a of an aesthete and an ascetic. the engagement often led to growth, olic's comparative assessment of his Frank O'Malley (1909-1974)

6 . SCHOLASTIC ApRIL 20, 1979 7 it also wounded., Such a drama is own educational opportunities in the -of Catholic' thought-not. the one which we know little about. To Boston area at that time. In fact, Catholicism of the parish and dio­ be sure, it has something to do with after graduating, according. to the cese, the political religiosity which the nature of knowledge. But it also same article, he planned to return Edwin O'Connor, one of his students, has to do with the mystery of the there, to Harvard, with the idea of satiriZed in his novels. That is, he pedagogical relationship, as well as, preparing himself as a literary discovered at the University a mode of course, with the teacher. himself. critic. After having been designated of thought and belief which had its It is as a teacher of significant valedictorian and graduating flrst sources neither in America, nor Tears and Joy: power. that Mr. O'Malley continues in his class, however, he remained Rome, nor Dublin but rather in the to engage me. at Notre Dame on a teaching assis­ modern, Catholic Renascence; par­ tantship, completing his Master's in ticularly, in those French thinkers It seems obvious that he did not 1933. He was then appointed an in­ and artists associated 'with the Frank O'Malley enroll at Notre Dame primarily for structor of English and History at Renouveau Cat1wlique who taken scholarly reasons. In 1928 theUni­ the age of 24, the youngest member together represent a renewal of versity had none. of its present-day of the University faculty. Five years Catholic· thought and art in the academic prestige. It was not until later he was offered the opportunity twentieth century, a reinvigoration the fifties, under' the guidance of to return to the East, to Princeton, with beginnings not only'in Aquinas, Theodore Hesburgh, that it began to as a University Scholar, to work for Pascal, and Newman, but also in conscientiously seek such prizes, a his doctorate. He decided rather to philosophical and literary Mod­ change of direction that Mr. O'Mal­ resign the appointment, "to con­ ernism. ley himself abetted by participating tinue," as he explained, "~ecessary It· was only after Mro' O'Malley in the workings_of the Woodrow work at Notre Dame," a work which joined the faculty, nonetheless, that Wilson and Danforth foundations occupied him the rest of his life. he became aware of, or at least by David Kubal and gaining numerous fellowships His doctorate was not conferred began to respond to, the influence of for his students. Indeed his success until 1971, when Notre Dame gave the Renascence. In fact, as an un­ One did not become Frank O'Mal­ half years on campus, I had caught On reflection I would like to think . in this effort was phenomenal, and him an ·honorary LLD, addressing dergraduate he had sat under G. K. ley's student simply by registering only glimpses of him, usually rush­ that he appointed me an associate he was often quoted as saying his him in the citation as "our beloved Chesterton, a visiting professor, for his courses. One was chosen. My ing away, late for a lecture, always editor because he had read the free favorite pastime was "writing letters Frank O'Malley." noted for his Francophobia and his "election" occurred, for no reason bareheaded, even during the worst verse and stories ·that I had begun to of recommendation." Still, in the The' other and the more serious prejudice against Continental· Ca­ apparent to me at the time, midway of the South Bend winter, his fad­ slip under the doors of Sorin's base­ t\yenties, while the University had reason for his initial as well as his tholicism. His Master's thesis was on in my junior year at .Notre Dame. ing red hair flying, his light trench ment rooms. More than likely,' how­ gained national recognition through . ultimate choice, the very key to an Bishop Lamy, the French missionary I was just then becoming serious coat whipping out behind him. In ever, he suspected I had some knowl­ Knute Rockne's football teams, it understanding of his person, his who had served as' a model· for in my studies, beginning to develop my eyes, if he was rather awesome, edge' of practical journalism, gained understood itself first as an institu­ mind, and his power, was that Notre Bishop La Tour in Willa Cather's an earnest regard for books and he: was also decidedly odd, an eccen­ from 'my work on the Scholastic, tion of Catholic apologetics,. draw~ Dame represented a center-or more Death Comes for the Archbishop.. ideas. I had arrived at the Univer­ tric who taught an honors course of and that I might help ,to save the ing a large number of its students accurately, the possibility of a center While this interest remained a part sity with little notion of the life of freshmen, whom he referred to as Juggler from the "underground," or from the Chicago area, an identity the mind, wanting rather to become the creme de la creme, as well as at least to publish it four times a that was' still evident when I was a journalist, and had· joined the classes in "The Philosophy of Lit­ ,year, thus guaranteeing its Univer­ an undergraduate. Mr; O'Malley, on Scholastic, then a weekly newsmag­ erature" and "Modern Catholic sity subsidy-which was, in fact, the other hand, was a brilliant young azine, to which I gave most of my Writers.". He was also associated what happened. . scholar, eventually achieving-or so time, learning to count out headlines with the student intellectuals and Whatever his motive, the effect of the myth goes-the highest scholas­ and to write simple sentences. I had poets, those dwelling in the base~ his recognition was decisive: his ap­ tic average in the history of the also become eagerly involved in cam­ ment .rooms of old Sorin, who pub­ pointment confirmed me in a direc­ College of Liberal Arts to that time. pus politics and had been rewarded li~hed one another in the Juggler and tion in which I' had been moving His' record, even in an age of· in­ with the chairmanship of the Soph­ never returned the manuscripts. At with little confidence. Hissubsequent flated grades, may still stand. The omore Cotillion, my "spoils" for sup- . the time, he himself lived in one of care, his love of the life of the mind, challenge he set for himself, at any porting the winning party. My class­ Sorin's tower rooms, a bachelor who and his passionate dedication· to the rate, is rarely assumed in the pres­ work, was uneven and recognized as had never left the University after vocation of the teacher, moreover, ent. During the second semester of such. At the beginning of my junior entering as a, freshman in 1928; shaped and sustained' me, along with his senior year, for example, he took year, and at the last moment, I had. almost thirty years before. He was a multitude of others, until his death nine courses, including six in litera­ decided on a major in English rather one of those lay faculty members, in 1974. And yet because he was a ture and one each in Latin, Greek, than one in journalism,persuaded once familiar figures at Notre Dame, teacher of such cogency, his influence and' Philosophy. His average was by' my roommate'that the former who took rooms in dormitories and remaIns problematical. For' Mr. above 97.' was more respectable. devoted their lives to stu~ents. Cer­ O'Malley did not merely direct his According to a profile published .' Given these credentials I was non­ tainly there was no one in my own students, at least those who accepted in theSc1wlastic in his senior year, plussed to' learn through a friend Chicago background (except a Bene­ his "election." Rather, he entered he selected Notre Dame, first of all, that Mr. O'Malley had selected me, dictine monk, also redheaded, who their lives,' and demanded to be en­ because it was "cosmopolitan rather without my having applied for the had tried at school to convince me gaged. The ensuing drama was of than provincial."·If there was any position, as an associate editor of the of the literary merits of P. G.Wode­ deep and lasting consequence; for it irony behind that remark,; it is not Juggler, the prestigious, if then house and Margery Sharp) 10 ex­ was not only carried on in the joy of apparent from the article. To regard -foundering, student literary quarter­ plain Mr. O'Malley, an "Easterner'; discovery but it wai;' also undergone a parochial university in South Bend, ly. I was taken aback, first oiall, be­ from Clinton, Massachusetts, and an in the pain entailed in his particular Indiana, as "cosmopolitan"·' may cause I did not know he was even, intellectual who was also something vision of history arid reality. So if simply reveal a" poor Irish Cath­ aware of me. During my two and a of an aesthete and an ascetic. the engagement often led to growth, olic's comparative assessment of his Frank O'Malley (1909-1974)

6 . SCHOLASTIC ApRIL 20, 1979 7 of his life, at least insofar as it power, circumscribed as most of ing fully with' civilization was also, Merton in Seven Storey Mountain, the modern apocalypse by follow­ Rather, he attended more to the mod­ touched upon the idea of the mis­ them were by class and religious at­ if not ignored by his students, muted which appeared in 1948, Mr. O'Mal­ ing the example of Merton and join­ erate views of Newman, Guardini, sionary and the importance of tra­ titudes that allowed little room ,for in its effect by their own preoccupa­ ley in the articles, urged· a religious ing the monastery. Whether the tra-. and Josef Pieper as, he began call­ dition in culture, it. was given a the mind and the imagination. 'In tions, by the manner' of his life, rather than a political response to dition is apocryphal or not, it is ing for a spiritual renewal within broad, intellectual basis as well as a short, he left them, ,to use Lionel lived, as it seemed; !nearly in seclu­ a civilization enervated by, war. certainly true that through his lec­ civilization, a renascence carried out modern pertinence when he was in­ Trilling's phrase, "sentient and free," sion, as well as by hi~ intensity as he Through those years his, "texts," so tures and the example of his life, he through the right pursuit of hu­ troduced to contemporary European beyond the dictates of their own described the apocalyptic visions of to speak, were Blake's line, "The could move his students in that di­ manistic studies and the work of the Catholic thought. That introduction culture. tlle Moderns.' . I tygers of wrath are wiser than the rection both in the late forties and teacher. And instead of pronouncing' took place at firsthand in the'mid­ ,. Between ,1944 a'nd \1950, a time in horses of instruction"; and Bloy's during the fifties. on "the goring and ganging and * * * smashing of modern man and mod­ dIe and late thirties when, the uni­ If Mr. O'Malley's Christian Mod­ which he himself appeared drawn statement, "There is only one sor­ . Yet by the middle of the latter versity, under the presidency· . of ernism, as one might define it, on the toward one side of the dialectic, to row-and that is-not to be of the decade a significant change took ern existence," for example, as he John, O'Hara, later. the Cardinal basis of his early writings for The an extreme arid negative judgment saints." His metaphors were bor­ place in his own thinking as he at­ did in an earlier lecture, "Present of Philadelphia, began to' invite a Review, was a complex idea that of the possibilities of life in culture, rowed from The Wasteland. And tempted to restrike a balance of Turning Points in American Life," variety·. of writers' and thinkers gave equal weight ,to the claims of Mr. O'Malley explored those moderp while he expressed certain reserva­ idea. Beginning in 1954 with the he spoke with approval of Newman's from Great Britain and the Con­ the self and to those of thecommu­ visions, the subjects which formed a tions concerning Bloy's and· Ber­ essay, "The Culture of the Church," unwillingness to despair in natural tinent as visiting and as regular nity, his articulation of the impera­ core of his lectures': in a series of nanos's absolutism. and condemna­ followed by a lecture, "Teaching man and his refusal to be "tragical­ faculty members. Withthisdevel­ tives of the individual as opposed articles for The Review of Politics. tion of, the mediocre, for example, in the Twentieth-Century Power ly tormented." Still what he .wrote opment, Notre Dame itself, estab­ to bourgeoise and totalitarian power The titles themselves give us a no­ he .was willing to pardon their want World," which he first gave to a of Guardini might be used to de­ lished in 1842 by a French religious structures appealed more directly to tion of his message: "The Evange­ of flexibility and affection in light Danforth· Conference in 1957, and scribe his "new" voice, raised in order, the Congregation of Holy his students' sense of entrapment, lism of Georges Bernanos"; "The of their awesome truths, and because which he adapted for various other the hope of Christian humanism: Cross, was reaffirming its own roots their vague feelings of restriction Plight of the Soul" ; "The Waste.:. they were, like Kafka and Blake, occasions, and by articles on New­ "Throughout, his 'expression, . . . there [was] '. always an apocalyptic in European: Catholicism. Among associated with families, neighbor­ land of William: Blake"; and "The "the champions of. the sou!." At one man and Guardini, he turned to ,the undercurrent; or at' least there the many who came to South Bend, hoods, and the Church.' It was for Passion of Leon Bloy." These essays; point he celebrated Lowell's lines, problem of American education and including, Shane Leslie,'· Arnold this reason that Stephen Dedalus, for together with those he published in "What can the dove of Jesus givej to the idea of the teacher, an almost [was] notinfrequently the radiance Lunn, Christopher Hollis, Robert example, was one of' their literary other journals, notably' "The Blood You .now ~ut wisdom, exile?" Ac­ exclusive preoccupation during the of apocalyptic turns and tones." Speaight, Desmond Fitzgerald, heroes, despite Joyce's irony which of Robert Lowell" in -Renascence, cording to tradition, many of his last twenty years of his life~ The It was. during this period 'that I Charles Du Bois, Yves Simon, and they' stubbornly overlooked. Mr. were very much at one· with the, students at this' time,-a .. unique change hi his thought, nonetheless, enrolled as his student and sat in Maritain, was Waldemar Gurian, O'Malley's own insistence' on .' the Zeitgeist of the postwar world: period at the University because the was essentially one of direction and both of his yearlong, lecture who together with Mr. O'Malley evils of asceticism and perfection­ they revealed a powerful attraction campus was populated by war veter­ emphasis. ,He never dismissed the courses, "The Philosophy of Litera­ founded The Review of Politics in ism and on, the necessity of engag- to the ascetic life. Like Thomas ans-responded to' his advocacy of criticism of the modern prophets. ture," where the subjects ranged 1938. Indeed, Waldemar, Gurian and ;" .. ' The Review of Politics go a long by William O'Brien : way, toward accounting for Mr. . }. O'Malley's decision to remain at Notre Dame as, well as explaining At his reception of the Charles with the names of souls were as classes away with a mission,' and some .who spoke to him of the men will b~ layinghruid~ b~ YOll, the source of his thought. Gurian Sheedy Award for excellence in ' unique as the faces lined so different­ always a missi6u"th,a(fit. their con- .. temple, of the noble masonry and and' persecutirig you; they will" , himself represented a model of the ; teaching; Frank O'Malley' spoke 'ly, then it made sense to, conclude, joiried'personalities. He simply iden- . the offerings which adorned it: give you up to the synagogUeS, Catholic intellectual who partici- •. about tombstones. Those who're- as Frank did that day, that everyone tified a group vocatio'n: Those who to these he said, The days will aUdto Prison, anddrag'youirito' pated in the whole life of the membered his not infrequent apoc- has his or, her own door to Paradise. . responded became, as years went on, .' corrie when, of all this fabric you, 'thepresellceofkings and gov­ :C . "friends of the work." Theyremem~ ... ,. coritemplate~ not one stone will be 'ernors on my' account; that will' Western mind, embodying a way of ,alyptic leCtures" on "last"., .1hings Those of, his students who .bene­ " . thought and action that was truly ; were not surprised by the image-::- fited from Frank's generous respeCt ber,wlth'"gratitude,;wordS'Frilnk" 'left on another; it will'rulbe : be' your opportunity for making cosmopolitan, extending beyond: but anyone would have marvelled at for their own ,·~way'~.knew·that,he wrote in' The.Reviewofpolitics· in,thrown down~ And theyaskedhirri, . the truth known.' Resolve; then, America to include the major con- 'what he did with· it that afternoon: .' was, in his own way,' inviting them, 1954:' ., .' , .' ...•.. Master, whenwilltlus be? What "not toprepare'yourmannerof cerns of civilization. Besides, he re- :He began by saying he remembered into.ahallowed circle of faith, hope, eWe know that we tItust re~ain; '., sign will. be gJven, when it is soon 'answering beforehand; I' will give.'; vealed the means by which one ; the· faces '. of his students and' the and love whose center held firm even ':that we 'must work and strive in . to t>e accomplished? Take care, ... >yoti:such 'eloquence and such:, j wisdom ··as aU; your adversaries' .. ' could bring traditional religious· lines on theirfaces~linesas unique 'in the.contemporary,nuclear'waste­ ,the best,\vaysopentous, liye.;~ . he saId; that you do not allow 'any- thought .to bear upon the modern . as the Course of the, students'" liveS land. People 'who accepted that,in­ .;withbrigb.1: and ungrudging'readi- '., Olieto'deCeiveyou~.Maiiywill . > shall not be able to withstand, '. world, incorporating the cogent anal- ;'frombirth,todeafu and the n'anles vitation,beeame,:,as" Fr: ',' Sheedy ., ness in.:the midSt6iour present;," comemakiriguse of my mime;' 'ortoconfute;Youwill be,giveIi:. ysesof Modernism with Revelation ;thatoneday would be etChed on reminded'those:,'who came,from :~"painful history, in the history that, ,theY.will'say;.Herelam,thetime' "up',by parents and' brethren and and Thomistic philosophy and the- ~their tombstones: ' . , across the land for Frank's funeral .' is,' as theJiturgy.makes"clearto , . is close: at hand; do notturn ',. kinsmen' and: friends,: and some,: . ology. In some senses he stood at the ;, Frank never found death to 1;>etheand, to walk with him to his' tomb­ .. us;amysterious Jumble,-an im-;' , >aside after ,them. And when you ~, ::ofyou will beputtodeath;all the : beginning of Mr. O'Malley's mature ,forbidding, forrriidable enemy of life . 'stone, "friends of the work." Solitary : perfect and entangled thing that ,. hear of wars: and revoltS; do not' ',,:world WiU,be:hating,'you·be.:., " : thought, a mode of perception and ;'that troubled so many of ' his con~ as Frank was--:-:-and no, one will ever , wilLnotberectifiE!d, with thegoodbeahU'med bY:it;.s'uchthlngs . " 'cause you bear myname;'andyet j interpretation which the latter was ,: temporaries. ,He constantly reminded say it better than ·Ernest Sandeen~ , . .\,:wh~fseparated from the. dis- , : rriiisthappen first, 'but,the end' : , no hair of your head shall perish.. able to work out between the two ;. his students that there are things in he' literally: called., ,into .. ' existence ,-:; ,turbing;chaff,' until the worldis .. , will' not,comeair at 'once. Then he > IUs by endurance that you will: forums of the classroom 'and The : life to beshimned far more': mean- communities:theWranglersj "the . done~So;no matterwhatcon-,," . . told them, Nationwiliriseinarlns " ; secure possession of your, ' ;,., Review, the one ,enriching the other. ; ness, callousness, deceit, irreverence, Jl1ggler;theBookmen,'the Brownson :':fusionSi frustrations and persecu- ,againstnation, and 'kingdom: ' " , . souls." 0 .",:"WiZZiU.m OiBrienis an:Ass~; sided, then,not only in his genius, :. or contaminate a place. So perhaps Frank's eye for, the dnvisible link . ' " endurance ofChristians,'themar-" 'great earthquakes in'this region or ciiLte Professor: iri:the TheOlogy, but also in the nature of' his ideas, ;; it was natural for Frank to think of which bonded the students who hap- veiousendurarice told byCill~ist 'iIi that, and plagues and'famines;and" . , Departriient.Amonghis : work is ' -. ones which questioned his students' .' tombstones as doors, opening to Par- pened 'into:,his '·freshman English " the TWenty-First Chapter of the." '.' sights of terror. and~eat:por~ :' . ,- the book Stories to the Dark'," if ,'Gospelof St. Luke: '~There were" ., .• tents from'heaverl;'BeforeaU tlus, (PaulistPress,"1977);' , "" sectarIan values and which con­ l adise.And tombstones engraved class' was: uncanny. 5He sent ,his' < • • .' • ~ ," ,."". ' • • '. • • ..."- • , , • ferred on them, i~ the process,' a new 8 SCHOLASTIC APRIL 20, 1979 9 of his life, at least insofar as it power, circumscribed as most of ing fully with' civilization was also, Merton in Seven Storey Mountain, the modern apocalypse by follow­ Rather, he attended more to the mod­ touched upon the idea of the mis­ them were by class and religious at­ if not ignored by his students, muted which appeared in 1948, Mr. O'Mal­ ing the example of Merton and join­ erate views of Newman, Guardini, sionary and the importance of tra­ titudes that allowed little room ,for in its effect by their own preoccupa­ ley in the articles, urged· a religious ing the monastery. Whether the tra-. and Josef Pieper as, he began call­ dition in culture, it. was given a the mind and the imagination. 'In tions, by the manner' of his life, rather than a political response to dition is apocryphal or not, it is ing for a spiritual renewal within broad, intellectual basis as well as a short, he left them, ,to use Lionel lived, as it seemed; !nearly in seclu­ a civilization enervated by, war. certainly true that through his lec­ civilization, a renascence carried out modern pertinence when he was in­ Trilling's phrase, "sentient and free," sion, as well as by hi~ intensity as he Through those years his, "texts," so tures and the example of his life, he through the right pursuit of hu­ troduced to contemporary European beyond the dictates of their own described the apocalyptic visions of to speak, were Blake's line, "The could move his students in that di­ manistic studies and the work of the Catholic thought. That introduction culture. tlle Moderns.' . I tygers of wrath are wiser than the rection both in the late forties and teacher. And instead of pronouncing' took place at firsthand in the'mid­ ,. Between ,1944 a'nd \1950, a time in horses of instruction"; and Bloy's during the fifties. on "the goring and ganging and * * * smashing of modern man and mod­ dIe and late thirties when, the uni­ If Mr. O'Malley's Christian Mod­ which he himself appeared drawn statement, "There is only one sor­ . Yet by the middle of the latter versity, under the presidency· . of ernism, as one might define it, on the toward one side of the dialectic, to row-and that is-not to be of the decade a significant change took ern existence," for example, as he John, O'Hara, later. the Cardinal basis of his early writings for The an extreme arid negative judgment saints." His metaphors were bor­ place in his own thinking as he at­ did in an earlier lecture, "Present of Philadelphia, began to' invite a Review, was a complex idea that of the possibilities of life in culture, rowed from The Wasteland. And tempted to restrike a balance of Turning Points in American Life," variety·. of writers' and thinkers gave equal weight ,to the claims of Mr. O'Malley explored those moderp while he expressed certain reserva­ idea. Beginning in 1954 with the he spoke with approval of Newman's from Great Britain and the Con­ the self and to those of thecommu­ visions, the subjects which formed a tions concerning Bloy's and· Ber­ essay, "The Culture of the Church," unwillingness to despair in natural tinent as visiting and as regular nity, his articulation of the impera­ core of his lectures': in a series of nanos's absolutism. and condemna­ followed by a lecture, "Teaching man and his refusal to be "tragical­ faculty members. Withthisdevel­ tives of the individual as opposed articles for The Review of Politics. tion of, the mediocre, for example, in the Twentieth-Century Power ly tormented." Still what he .wrote opment, Notre Dame itself, estab­ to bourgeoise and totalitarian power The titles themselves give us a no­ he .was willing to pardon their want World," which he first gave to a of Guardini might be used to de­ lished in 1842 by a French religious structures appealed more directly to tion of his message: "The Evange­ of flexibility and affection in light Danforth· Conference in 1957, and scribe his "new" voice, raised in order, the Congregation of Holy his students' sense of entrapment, lism of Georges Bernanos"; "The of their awesome truths, and because which he adapted for various other the hope of Christian humanism: Cross, was reaffirming its own roots their vague feelings of restriction Plight of the Soul" ; "The Waste.:. they were, like Kafka and Blake, occasions, and by articles on New­ "Throughout, his 'expression, . . . there [was] '. always an apocalyptic in European: Catholicism. Among associated with families, neighbor­ land of William: Blake"; and "The "the champions of. the sou!." At one man and Guardini, he turned to ,the undercurrent; or at' least there the many who came to South Bend, hoods, and the Church.' It was for Passion of Leon Bloy." These essays; point he celebrated Lowell's lines, problem of American education and including, Shane Leslie,'· Arnold this reason that Stephen Dedalus, for together with those he published in "What can the dove of Jesus givej to the idea of the teacher, an almost [was] notinfrequently the radiance Lunn, Christopher Hollis, Robert example, was one of' their literary other journals, notably' "The Blood You .now ~ut wisdom, exile?" Ac­ exclusive preoccupation during the of apocalyptic turns and tones." Speaight, Desmond Fitzgerald, heroes, despite Joyce's irony which of Robert Lowell" in -Renascence, cording to tradition, many of his last twenty years of his life~ The It was. during this period 'that I Charles Du Bois, Yves Simon, and they' stubbornly overlooked. Mr. were very much at one· with the, students at this' time,-a .. unique change hi his thought, nonetheless, enrolled as his student and sat in Maritain, was Waldemar Gurian, O'Malley's own insistence' on .' the Zeitgeist of the postwar world: period at the University because the was essentially one of direction and both of his yearlong, lecture who together with Mr. O'Malley evils of asceticism and perfection­ they revealed a powerful attraction campus was populated by war veter­ emphasis. ,He never dismissed the courses, "The Philosophy of Litera­ founded The Review of Politics in ism and on, the necessity of engag- to the ascetic life. Like Thomas ans-responded to' his advocacy of criticism of the modern prophets. ture," where the subjects ranged 1938. Indeed, Waldemar, Gurian and ;" .. ' The Review of Politics go a long by William O'Brien : way, toward accounting for Mr. . }. O'Malley's decision to remain at Notre Dame as, well as explaining At his reception of the Charles with the names of souls were as classes away with a mission,' and some .who spoke to him of the men will b~ layinghruid~ b~ YOll, the source of his thought. Gurian Sheedy Award for excellence in ' unique as the faces lined so different­ always a missi6u"th,a(fit. their con- .. temple, of the noble masonry and and' persecutirig you; they will" , himself represented a model of the ; teaching; Frank O'Malley' spoke 'ly, then it made sense to, conclude, joiried'personalities. He simply iden- . the offerings which adorned it: give you up to the synagogUeS, Catholic intellectual who partici- •. about tombstones. Those who're- as Frank did that day, that everyone tified a group vocatio'n: Those who to these he said, The days will aUdto Prison, anddrag'youirito' pated in the whole life of the membered his not infrequent apoc- has his or, her own door to Paradise. . responded became, as years went on, .' corrie when, of all this fabric you, 'thepresellceofkings and gov­ :C . "friends of the work." Theyremem~ ... ,. coritemplate~ not one stone will be 'ernors on my' account; that will' Western mind, embodying a way of ,alyptic leCtures" on "last"., .1hings Those of, his students who .bene­ " . thought and action that was truly ; were not surprised by the image-::- fited from Frank's generous respeCt ber,wlth'"gratitude,;wordS'Frilnk" 'left on another; it will'rulbe : be' your opportunity for making cosmopolitan, extending beyond: but anyone would have marvelled at for their own ,·~way'~.knew·that,he wrote in' The.Reviewofpolitics· in,thrown down~ And theyaskedhirri, . the truth known.' Resolve; then, America to include the major con- 'what he did with· it that afternoon: .' was, in his own way,' inviting them, 1954:' ., .' , .' ...•.. Master, whenwilltlus be? What "not toprepare'yourmannerof cerns of civilization. Besides, he re- :He began by saying he remembered into.ahallowed circle of faith, hope, eWe know that we tItust re~ain; '., sign will. be gJven, when it is soon 'answering beforehand; I' will give.'; vealed the means by which one ; the· faces '. of his students and' the and love whose center held firm even ':that we 'must work and strive in . to t>e accomplished? Take care, ... >yoti:such 'eloquence and such:, j wisdom ··as aU; your adversaries' .. ' could bring traditional religious· lines on theirfaces~linesas unique 'in the.contemporary,nuclear'waste­ ,the best,\vaysopentous, liye.;~ . he saId; that you do not allow 'any- thought .to bear upon the modern . as the Course of the, students'" liveS land. People 'who accepted that,in­ .;withbrigb.1: and ungrudging'readi- '., Olieto'deCeiveyou~.Maiiywill . > shall not be able to withstand, '. world, incorporating the cogent anal- ;'frombirth,todeafu and the n'anles vitation,beeame,:,as" Fr: ',' Sheedy ., ness in.:the midSt6iour present;," comemakiriguse of my mime;' 'ortoconfute;Youwill be,giveIi:. ysesof Modernism with Revelation ;thatoneday would be etChed on reminded'those:,'who came,from :~"painful history, in the history that, ,theY.will'say;.Herelam,thetime' "up',by parents and' brethren and and Thomistic philosophy and the- ~their tombstones: ' . , across the land for Frank's funeral .' is,' as theJiturgy.makes"clearto , . is close: at hand; do notturn ',. kinsmen' and: friends,: and some,: . ology. In some senses he stood at the ;, Frank never found death to 1;>etheand, to walk with him to his' tomb­ .. us;amysterious Jumble,-an im-;' , >aside after ,them. And when you ~, ::ofyou will beputtodeath;all the : beginning of Mr. O'Malley's mature ,forbidding, forrriidable enemy of life . 'stone, "friends of the work." Solitary : perfect and entangled thing that ,. hear of wars: and revoltS; do not' ',,:world WiU,be:hating,'you·be.:., " : thought, a mode of perception and ;'that troubled so many of ' his con~ as Frank was--:-:-and no, one will ever , wilLnotberectifiE!d, with thegoodbeahU'med bY:it;.s'uchthlngs . " 'cause you bear myname;'andyet j interpretation which the latter was ,: temporaries. ,He constantly reminded say it better than ·Ernest Sandeen~ , . .\,:wh~fseparated from the. dis- , : rriiisthappen first, 'but,the end' : , no hair of your head shall perish.. able to work out between the two ;. his students that there are things in he' literally: called., ,into .. ' existence ,-:; ,turbing;chaff,' until the worldis .. , will' not,comeair at 'once. Then he > IUs by endurance that you will: forums of the classroom 'and The : life to beshimned far more': mean- communities:theWranglersj "the . done~So;no matterwhatcon-,," . . told them, Nationwiliriseinarlns " ; secure possession of your, ' ;,., Review, the one ,enriching the other. ; ness, callousness, deceit, irreverence, Jl1ggler;theBookmen,'the Brownson :':fusionSi frustrations and persecu- ,againstnation, and 'kingdom: ' " , . souls." 0 .",:"WiZZiU.m OiBrienis an:Ass~; sided, then,not only in his genius, :. or contaminate a place. So perhaps Frank's eye for, the dnvisible link . ' " endurance ofChristians,'themar-" 'great earthquakes in'this region or ciiLte Professor: iri:the TheOlogy, but also in the nature of' his ideas, ;; it was natural for Frank to think of which bonded the students who hap- veiousendurarice told byCill~ist 'iIi that, and plagues and'famines;and" . , Departriient.Amonghis : work is ' -. ones which questioned his students' .' tombstones as doors, opening to Par- pened 'into:,his '·freshman English " the TWenty-First Chapter of the." '.' sights of terror. and~eat:por~ :' . ,- the book Stories to the Dark'," if ,'Gospelof St. Luke: '~There were" ., .• tents from'heaverl;'BeforeaU tlus, (PaulistPress,"1977);' , "" sectarIan values and which con­ l adise.And tombstones engraved class' was: uncanny. 5He sent ,his' < • • .' • ~ ," ,."". ' • • '. • • ..."- • , , • ferred on them, i~ the process,' a new 8 SCHOLASTIC APRIL 20, 1979 9 ],

ing that the profession of the teach- century humanists." All too often Your season here is over and, in from Plato to existentialism, and Gerard Manley Hopkins and he pro­ the College of Arts arid Letters, said, er is first of all a vocation, that the the teacher of the present, he went truth, it requires no ceremonious "Modern Catholic Writers." Normal­ ceeded to correct my' "aesthetic." "But he did not love [his students] act of education could begin. That on, "by ignoring order and the habit words to conclude it. Still I have ly he would lecture twice a week in After the lesson, suffering from his because they were gifted; The effect act for him was one which made it of order," and the moral dimension come here and I have said what I each course, both of them accommo­ outspoken chastisement, I left him was the other way around. His love possible for the student to become a of knowledge, "living himself in the regard as appropriate and honest dating some one hundred .students, in haste and anger. The next morn­ and concern conferred gi~tedness." person; It was, moreover, the funda- darkness of disunity" has "none of words knowing· that they cannot while the third scheduled hour was ing, however, before his lecture, he The specific source of th1s creative mental cultural and political act the priceless enlightenment of unity be entirely adequate. We shall all used for the meeting of the collo­ ~nally in~ walked out from behind the podium power is .probably and without which all other gestures to offer." Like Matthew Arnold be­ go away now-but I shall remem­ quia. That is, he divided each class and came into the body of the hall, explicable. Yet it has everything to and programs are baseless. If the fore him, he realized that there was ber you. And I hope that you will into groups of ten, designated a something that I had never seen do with his idea of the teacher. AI': apocalypse were imminent, if the comfort available in knowledge, in remember, at least, my very last leader, and sent us off to discuss him do before, to return my lighter though Mr. O'Malley never under­ life of the community, that is, were an order of "fresh ideas," an ease words which tspeak with all my the readings. For many of us the which I had forgotten the previous estimated the importance of infor­ to become completely externalized from the discontents that can de­ heart (and out of my obscurity colloquia provided our first experi­ evening. He did not say a word, only mation and knowledge in the making and politicized, it would be accom- stroy the modern mind. If a teacher and unworthiness to you in this ence of teaching, a profession we smiled with a kind of warm delight. of a teacher, he understood that the plished because the schools and uni- cannot or will not' offer that conso­ your present wonderful moment later entered. Often my particular I may have been misinformed, he teacher must first tend to his own versities had first lost sight of their lation, he commits an outrage upon of achievement and promise): I group would meet in a local raths­ seemed to be telling me, but I was moral being before he could pre­ mission, had forgotten what it is to the person of the student. That was hope that time will never trap you keller where he would occasionally neither stupid nor wrong. His ges­ sume to carry out· his work. Nor teach, and had defined it merely as a for Mr. O'Malley the unforgiveable or the world triumph over you. I visit us, refuse to be recognized, ture, of course, was also an apology. was' he vague about this require­ function of spreading information, sin. hope that you will be happy! I listen intently for a time, and then It was this particular quality of ment. In "Teaching in the Twentieth of inculcating skills, and of prepar- All of this he offered us in his hope that you will be happy for­ disappear. care, which we experienced as his Century Power World," he spoke ing careerists: highly developed lectures. He also, ever! But I ask you only to con­ reverence for us, his willingness to Part' of our fascination in him quite particularly about the neces­ of course, consoled us personally. sider that the happiness of human anow us our errors, while holding us consisted' in just this "fugitive" sity of cultivating an attitude of Still, I am convinced, what made And there is no better example of his , existence is sometimes sorrow and responsible for the subject matter, contemplation; of opening oneself quality. He would slip into his class­ Mr. O'Malley a truly great teacher "affection for us than his last lecture "suffering ... ~ room, for example, deliver his lec­ and, above all, his ardent belief in to the "fact of the nature of things was his ability to console. Basic to of the year, "The' Vast, the Gen­ the value of our half-formed ideas, ture, and then leave without having and persons"; of learning "an asceti­ this power was his profound under- eral Question," a ritual he observed And then he was gone. I looked for which permitted us to perform be­ asked for or answered any questions. cism of the intellect, and ... of. the standing of the pains entailed in late for at least twenty-five years, in him over graduation weekend to yond what seemed our capacities. As Nor did' anyone, except his fresh­ will"; of realizing the significance adolescence as well as his cogent which he spoke to the graduating offer my gratitude and farewells. one of his students wrote after his men, ever have an "appointment" as of community; of the need "to con­ sense of the tragic nature of life. He seniors in "The Philosophy of Liter­ But this time I could not find him, death: "Most often his' stUdents such with him. Indeed whenever he serve and to develop the virtues of himself, of course, revealed a quan- ature" class. The title of the lecture having to be satisfied with a quick would respond to his encouraging was actually seen on campus, he was reverence and patience"; and, last­ iity .ofpain to us in his vision of was taken from one of Virginia glimpse, of him' in the academic concern and begin to work at the ly, of the responsibility 'of meditat­ in flight,' seemingly' either pursued history and reality. And insofar as Woolf's letters which she wrote im­ procession. edge of their ability. Sometimes or in pursuit. After a while, when ing "seriously about the finaI rela­ his own melancholy and need ,to mediately before committing suicide. During the last years of Mr. their very being would seem to tion of our existence, our relation to we knew he would permit it, we withdraw influenced us, he weakened Her question was "What is the mean­ O'Malley~s life, the drama that had change." At his funeral Mass, would seek him out in the late after­ God." It was only in the relentless our capability· to relate to a world ing of life?" If it was somehow an always characterized him continued Charles Sheedy, the former dean of noons at the bar of the now-demol­ pursuit of these ideals and in assum- which was very different from his. innocent question for him to ask, it to an inconclusive end., On the one ished Hoffman Hotel where he would But that was not what he finally was also one that we in our youth hand; he dreamed of immeasurable hold a kind of court. But often he wanted to tell us-nor did he wish us, were paiticularly' preoccupied with. distances, in the form, of "Christ would escape us, and we would to hide out in any hole and corner. I do not wish to lay stress' on his College," a utopian academy, which spend the' evening searching him And because we' did not always lis- 'answer, although it is of utmost im- he described in an essay in' the ten to the entirety of his thought or ' out. If ,we were fortunate to find portance to any final understanding Scholastic in 1971. . On the other, him, and he was free, he would buy to his most important message, de- ,of him. That answer resided' in his he was deeply involved, at least emo­ us dinner. , With him at' these times lighted as, some of us were to Christian faith, an order of ideas tionally, and.intellectually, with the we began to learn of the pleasures indulge our feelings of anxiety and . and beliefs which was for him the student unrest and rebellion which of cocktails, oysters, and medium­ alienation, pains, in fact, that we had only alternative to a world, which had Vietnam as its focus. The idea rare steaks. never really earned, .w,e. must take had caught up and destroyed Vir­ offoundingsuch a college was prob­ much ~f the responsIbIlIty for any" ginia Woolf, a writer for whom he In trying to remember these meet­ :ably only a half~serious one; yet it ings, which continued ,after gradua­ woundmg. ' had' the greatest respect and sym;. was a vision that appeared to have tion, when we returned to tell ,him He did not consider the act of pathy. What I specifically remem~ ~ome basis in reality. There was sad stories of graduate school, I consolation as merely one option ber of that June evening in 1958 as talk about a gift of land from Ii. rich found I could. not recall what he available to the teacher, but rather' I followed his minute description of family; and it was a concept which talked about. Part of the reason for as one of his major responsibilities." her .final madness and death was a he spoke about for years. But if the my ,failure was that Mr.' O'Malley As he said in "The Teaching Func- quiet fear building in me, a trepida­ college was to be in the world, it was never did say much· outside the lec­ tion of An American University," tion attendant upon my· sense of an to be decidedly not of ~ the world. 'I ture hall. Not only was he naturally "a teacher has to try to unify and ending as I was leaving Notre Dame. And; if, his dream of. a Socratic, It Christian community embodying his il reticent with' students, but he also not to scatter. He has to be conscious was all compounded by an un­ I! believed that a teacher must listen of the need and the aspiration of the usual hush in the hall. There was no ideal of the teacher was not purely Ii to the young without interrupting in mind to be freed in unity. Today a scratching of pens or fluttering of an intellectual exercise, it was more il. order to allow them to talk 1heir teacher has 'as one of his responsi- notebooks as we 'listened, mesmer­ of an act of criticism-perhaps re­ Ii way to knowledge, to liberate their bilities the saving of,' the student's ized by his final words, said directly flecting his ambivalence about the :1 own intuitions. The only time I saw mind from the multitudinousness of to us: growing sophistication and impor­ :1 . him "hold forth" at one of these the' twentieth century-the terrible tance of Notre Dame in theaca­ :i11 . sessions was at my expense. He had weakening distractedness in modern A special knowledge,' then, is demie community, along with the misunderstood me to be champion­ civilization that has tormented m~my yours and should be strong in you, attendant dangers to' theUniversi­ il ing, the Beat poets at the expense of of our nineteenth- and twentieth- and you must make it prevail. ty's teaching function-than it was rl ~ l ., 10 , SCHOLASTIC APRIL 20, 1979 11 " Ii 'I ],

ing that the profession of the teach- century humanists." All too often Your season here is over and, in from Plato to existentialism, and Gerard Manley Hopkins and he pro­ the College of Arts arid Letters, said, er is first of all a vocation, that the the teacher of the present, he went truth, it requires no ceremonious "Modern Catholic Writers." Normal­ ceeded to correct my' "aesthetic." "But he did not love [his students] act of education could begin. That on, "by ignoring order and the habit words to conclude it. Still I have ly he would lecture twice a week in After the lesson, suffering from his because they were gifted; The effect act for him was one which made it of order," and the moral dimension come here and I have said what I each course, both of them accommo­ outspoken chastisement, I left him was the other way around. His love possible for the student to become a of knowledge, "living himself in the regard as appropriate and honest dating some one hundred .students, in haste and anger. The next morn­ and concern conferred gi~tedness." person; It was, moreover, the funda- darkness of disunity" has "none of words knowing· that they cannot while the third scheduled hour was ing, however, before his lecture, he The specific source of th1s creative mental cultural and political act the priceless enlightenment of unity be entirely adequate. We shall all used for the meeting of the collo­ ~nally in~ walked out from behind the podium power is .probably and without which all other gestures to offer." Like Matthew Arnold be­ go away now-but I shall remem­ quia. That is, he divided each class and came into the body of the hall, explicable. Yet it has everything to and programs are baseless. If the fore him, he realized that there was ber you. And I hope that you will into groups of ten, designated a something that I had never seen do with his idea of the teacher. AI': apocalypse were imminent, if the comfort available in knowledge, in remember, at least, my very last leader, and sent us off to discuss him do before, to return my lighter though Mr. O'Malley never under­ life of the community, that is, were an order of "fresh ideas," an ease words which tspeak with all my the readings. For many of us the which I had forgotten the previous estimated the importance of infor­ to become completely externalized from the discontents that can de­ heart (and out of my obscurity colloquia provided our first experi­ evening. He did not say a word, only mation and knowledge in the making and politicized, it would be accom- stroy the modern mind. If a teacher and unworthiness to you in this ence of teaching, a profession we smiled with a kind of warm delight. of a teacher, he understood that the plished because the schools and uni- cannot or will not' offer that conso­ your present wonderful moment later entered. Often my particular I may have been misinformed, he teacher must first tend to his own versities had first lost sight of their lation, he commits an outrage upon of achievement and promise): I group would meet in a local raths­ seemed to be telling me, but I was moral being before he could pre­ mission, had forgotten what it is to the person of the student. That was hope that time will never trap you keller where he would occasionally neither stupid nor wrong. His ges­ sume to carry out· his work. Nor teach, and had defined it merely as a for Mr. O'Malley the unforgiveable or the world triumph over you. I visit us, refuse to be recognized, ture, of course, was also an apology. was' he vague about this require­ function of spreading information, sin. hope that you will be happy! I listen intently for a time, and then It was this particular quality of ment. In "Teaching in the Twentieth of inculcating skills, and of prepar- All of this he offered us in his hope that you will be happy for­ disappear. care, which we experienced as his Century Power World," he spoke ing careerists: highly developed lectures. He also, ever! But I ask you only to con­ reverence for us, his willingness to Part' of our fascination in him quite particularly about the neces­ of course, consoled us personally. sider that the happiness of human anow us our errors, while holding us consisted' in just this "fugitive" sity of cultivating an attitude of Still, I am convinced, what made And there is no better example of his , existence is sometimes sorrow and responsible for the subject matter, contemplation; of opening oneself quality. He would slip into his class­ Mr. O'Malley a truly great teacher "affection for us than his last lecture "suffering ... ~ room, for example, deliver his lec­ and, above all, his ardent belief in to the "fact of the nature of things was his ability to console. Basic to of the year, "The' Vast, the Gen­ the value of our half-formed ideas, ture, and then leave without having and persons"; of learning "an asceti­ this power was his profound under- eral Question," a ritual he observed And then he was gone. I looked for which permitted us to perform be­ asked for or answered any questions. cism of the intellect, and ... of. the standing of the pains entailed in late for at least twenty-five years, in him over graduation weekend to yond what seemed our capacities. As Nor did' anyone, except his fresh­ will"; of realizing the significance adolescence as well as his cogent which he spoke to the graduating offer my gratitude and farewells. one of his students wrote after his men, ever have an "appointment" as of community; of the need "to con­ sense of the tragic nature of life. He seniors in "The Philosophy of Liter­ But this time I could not find him, death: "Most often his' stUdents such with him. Indeed whenever he serve and to develop the virtues of himself, of course, revealed a quan- ature" class. The title of the lecture having to be satisfied with a quick would respond to his encouraging was actually seen on campus, he was reverence and patience"; and, last­ iity .ofpain to us in his vision of was taken from one of Virginia glimpse, of him' in the academic concern and begin to work at the ly, of the responsibility 'of meditat­ in flight,' seemingly' either pursued history and reality. And insofar as Woolf's letters which she wrote im­ procession. edge of their ability. Sometimes or in pursuit. After a while, when ing "seriously about the finaI rela­ his own melancholy and need ,to mediately before committing suicide. During the last years of Mr. their very being would seem to tion of our existence, our relation to we knew he would permit it, we withdraw influenced us, he weakened Her question was "What is the mean­ O'Malley~s life, the drama that had change." At his funeral Mass, would seek him out in the late after­ God." It was only in the relentless our capability· to relate to a world ing of life?" If it was somehow an always characterized him continued Charles Sheedy, the former dean of noons at the bar of the now-demol­ pursuit of these ideals and in assum- which was very different from his. innocent question for him to ask, it to an inconclusive end., On the one ished Hoffman Hotel where he would But that was not what he finally was also one that we in our youth hand; he dreamed of immeasurable hold a kind of court. But often he wanted to tell us-nor did he wish us, were paiticularly' preoccupied with. distances, in the form, of "Christ would escape us, and we would to hide out in any hole and corner. I do not wish to lay stress' on his College," a utopian academy, which spend the' evening searching him And because we' did not always lis- 'answer, although it is of utmost im- he described in an essay in' the ten to the entirety of his thought or ' out. If ,we were fortunate to find portance to any final understanding Scholastic in 1971. . On the other, him, and he was free, he would buy to his most important message, de- ,of him. That answer resided' in his he was deeply involved, at least emo­ us dinner. , With him at' these times lighted as, some of us were to Christian faith, an order of ideas tionally, and.intellectually, with the we began to learn of the pleasures indulge our feelings of anxiety and . and beliefs which was for him the student unrest and rebellion which of cocktails, oysters, and medium­ alienation, pains, in fact, that we had only alternative to a world, which had Vietnam as its focus. The idea rare steaks. never really earned, .w,e. must take had caught up and destroyed Vir­ offoundingsuch a college was prob­ much ~f the responsIbIlIty for any" ginia Woolf, a writer for whom he In trying to remember these meet­ :ably only a half~serious one; yet it ings, which continued ,after gradua­ woundmg. ' had' the greatest respect and sym;. was a vision that appeared to have tion, when we returned to tell ,him He did not consider the act of pathy. What I specifically remem~ ~ome basis in reality. There was sad stories of graduate school, I consolation as merely one option ber of that June evening in 1958 as talk about a gift of land from Ii. rich found I could. not recall what he available to the teacher, but rather' I followed his minute description of family; and it was a concept which talked about. Part of the reason for as one of his major responsibilities." her .final madness and death was a he spoke about for years. But if the my ,failure was that Mr.' O'Malley As he said in "The Teaching Func- quiet fear building in me, a trepida­ college was to be in the world, it was never did say much· outside the lec­ tion of An American University," tion attendant upon my· sense of an to be decidedly not of ~ the world. 'I ture hall. Not only was he naturally "a teacher has to try to unify and ending as I was leaving Notre Dame. And; if, his dream of. a Socratic, It Christian community embodying his il reticent with' students, but he also not to scatter. He has to be conscious was all compounded by an un­ I! believed that a teacher must listen of the need and the aspiration of the usual hush in the hall. There was no ideal of the teacher was not purely Ii to the young without interrupting in mind to be freed in unity. Today a scratching of pens or fluttering of an intellectual exercise, it was more il. order to allow them to talk 1heir teacher has 'as one of his responsi- notebooks as we 'listened, mesmer­ of an act of criticism-perhaps re­ Ii way to knowledge, to liberate their bilities the saving of,' the student's ized by his final words, said directly flecting his ambivalence about the :1 own intuitions. The only time I saw mind from the multitudinousness of to us: growing sophistication and impor­ :1 . him "hold forth" at one of these the' twentieth century-the terrible tance of Notre Dame in theaca­ :i11 . sessions was at my expense. He had weakening distractedness in modern A special knowledge,' then, is demie community, along with the misunderstood me to be champion­ civilization that has tormented m~my yours and should be strong in you, attendant dangers to' theUniversi­ il ing, the Beat poets at the expense of of our nineteenth- and twentieth- and you must make it prevail. ty's teaching function-than it was rl ~ l ., 10 , SCHOLASTIC APRIL 20, 1979 11 " Ii 'I a social goal which he would have . ever actively pursued; What he said Perspective by Theresa Rebeck about Waldemar Gurian in 1955 ap­ plied even more so to himself: "Notre Dame was his place, since the thirties the center not only of \ Picture, if you will, Mega Tech crease for the '79-'80 school year. steam pipes which have tended to his fascination but of his existence; " \ Institute. It is the prototype of the Now, speaking realistically, that flood studios and ruin projects. all the actualities and possibilities American science-technology in- won't even cover the rising cost of After neglecting the building for so of the University were close to his To Frank O'Malley, stitute; everyone on the faculty printing, so it can be technically long, the Administration finally de­ heart and conscience." (1909-1974) holds Ph.Ds and three-fourths of considered as a budget cut. At a time cided to tear it down and move the If Mr. O'Malley had reservations them have won the Nobel Prize at when the Engineering Department Art Department out to safer ground. concerning the students' rebellion in What have you done? You lie sostill . least once. The average student had and the Chemistry Department are So where do they put the potters and the sixties, he saw the justice of you strain belief in our mortality. their cause and spoke in an address We can't believe the body of your ghost, a 790 on the Math SAT's. This insti- bestowed with huge, sparkling-new the painters? In the old Chemical at the Notre Dame Peace Observance lithe and fleet, has now_b~en exorcised. tution is, a very prestigious place to facilities, the hopeful writers and Engineering Building-that is, as in January, 1973, of how the "young study; high school seniors are poi- editors of Notre Dame are scroung- soon as the Chemisty and the Chem­ mind is wonderfully' conscious of Our scholar gypsy, you haunted the conscience soning each other over the limited ing for pennies to hold together their ical Engineering Departments move freedom." Yet he was deeply upset of ali our paths and corridors, .' ". positions in the freshman class. All publications. into their newer, safer, more up-to- by ,the release of the. "instincts of you sharpened with light the shadow that .was cast of them want to be great scientists Is this an absurd comparison? I date facilities. cruelty and brutality." And while onwhat we yearned,for in dome and spire. ' . and engineers, so Mega Tech Insti- don't think so. The chemists and the My point is simply this: Arts and looking' forward in hope to "a new tute is the place to go. engineers are getting new facilities Letters students have their labs, too, age of the spirit," he told the stu­ You ~hri~t~ned writers ~f indiscreetly' Mega Tech Institute is unusual for because it is important for ,them to and they are every bit as essential dents: "We are not to seek for sal­ visionary ~ords, the baptized reasons other than its highly quali- know their ways around a modern, as the chemist's. The writer needs a vation in self-righteous cliques or and unbaptized alike, while awed fied faculty and~ brilliant student well-equipped lab. It would be ridicu- publication,' the actor needs a stage, claques; nor by withdrawaHrom the multitudes of the young looked on. body. Mega Tech'Institute has no lous for a chemistry major to apply the artist needs a studio. Notre Dame laboratories. It a totally theoreti- for a' job without having had such has these, but they are underfunded, tasks with which our present, pain­ ; , is ful history now confronts us." You gospelled four decades of rich and poor men's cal institution, based 'on the premise laboratory experience" but by the insufficient, or unsafe. I understand Still" it was around then, about a sons showing them where the soUl is.- ' that practical. experience is unneces- same token, it would be just as ridic- the Administration's concern that year before his death, that Mr. And each day you kllotted them thongs to whip sary.When asked about this unusual ulous for an English or communica- . the science laboratories are all mo'd­ O'Malley requested a sabbatical for the money:changers froIll the temple door. ' policy of education, the President tions major to apply for a.newspaper ern and the equipment is the' best; the first time in his life. The need of the Institute, Dr. X. Peri Mentor, job without a portfolio of articles. I'm not' knocking that. ButScholas­ to create and maintain distances be­ When did you first surmise that yours commented, "Our kids are so bright, Practical experience is even more tic has been fighting for the funds tween himself and that which he must be the gift of loneliness? .' they don't need to bother with sim~ important for the hopeful journalist; to buy a typewriter that types .with loved was .great,' perhaps at last .When did you discover. that he . pIe things like laboratory techniques. . in most cases, their prospective em- some degree of reliability for three overwhelming. Driven, at least par- who' is loved by all iS"loved by no one? We figure they can learn that kind ployers will not even ask for. their or four years now. Who decided "that tially by the disease that killed him, of stuff when they get out into the . college transcripts. They don't care the engineering student and his or his alcoholism, he felt he had to get Foreknowing,'as you did, such cost of 'spirit. engineering firms and research lab- about your GPA, they want to see her needs were moreimportant'than how did you decide? Or' did you?' . '" away, for the time being, from the oratories; We're giving them a good, what you've written, what you've the English student's? When was University. How can a man, a: mere mari, decide solid .baCkground, we're teaching had published. this decided? " to make nothing but himself his own?' In the spring of 1974, Mr. O'Mal­ them to think in scientific terms. The dearth of funds and interest Maybe I should just shut up and ley collapsed in his rooms in Lyons Their job experiences will teach. hits more than the student publica- transfer to some nice little Liberal Hall. After lingering briefly, he died There w~re days we scarcely could endure them the rest.'; " tions at Notre Dame. How long has Arts College where they like English the furY of that indifferent love ' . in St. Joseph's Hospital in· South Sound pr~tty stupid? I'll say; the Notre Dame campus been with- . majors. Maybe I never should have ,. that'smiled or glowered in your eyes. Bend. He is buried in the community there isn't an engineering firm in the out a respectable theater? For years, come here in the' first. pI8.ce. But I cemetery at Notre Dame,his grave country that, would touch a graduat- Washington Hall has existed in a came to Notre Dame under .the im­ ,Forgive us ifwe fourid it hard just. apart from the rest, placed at ing senior who, didn't know· how to shocking state of disrepafl.. Until re~ pression that I was ,coming to, a un,i­ . 'to quite forgive in you your relentless the'perimeter where'it can be easily control a pressure valve. And what cEmtiy, every technical assistant .versity, an institution ,which em­ uriders~anding of yourself. ., seen by passing students. The final research laboratory would want a approached the building with fear braced all disciplines and, v~ued words are' Ernest Sandeen's: chemist. who COUldn't perform a .. and trepidation, certain that any them for their individual importance. Brit we sal~te y~u nowas the~ . titration? It's just a stupid idea, a. second now the light board or the I liked the idea of a place',where with love, across no.greater distance stupid philosophy of education. It's electrical systems would short out many people with vastly,. different But we salute you now as then: . than you always kept; ilnmaculate ' with love, across no greater distance a stupid. philosophy of education and blow the place to smithereens:' concerns could come and create a and warni; between yourself arid us. . which Is unfortunately taking root Currently, a somewhat 'halfhearted~ ,community. I hesitate to give up this than you always kept, immaculate . ",'~Ernest Sandeen' and warm; between yourself and us. at the University of Notre Dame in effort is being made to patch the vision. because I don't think it's an regard to the College of Arts and place togetheragain~ but only after impossible dream. ". o We thank p,rofessor Sandeen lor allowing Scholastic Letters. long delays and years of paper shuf- '. But recently, questions 'conti~ue to to reprint this piece> .' " Recently, the editorial boards, of .' fling. in the Administration Building. ' cross my mind: Is the girl who lives University-funded student publica- Then there's the AIt Department. down the hall more important. than tions met with John Reid,and Mario Their, plight is fairly self-evident. me because she likes to mixchemi­ PedL of Student, Affairs to discuss For years" the art' students have, cals and I like· to write articles? next year's budgets.· Student Affairs prowled around the Fieldhouse, en- Father Hesburgh" you' spoke. up in . 'Prof. Kubal,· a former. O'Malley had received, a mandate from Busi-, .. joying a simple, underground exis- defense of the Liberal Arts education student, is a currently a college Eng­ ness Affairs stating that. no budget ·tence in spite of leaky roofs, faulty a few months ago.. What do you lish profeSsor in California. was to receive more than a6%in-,heating, and annually exploding think?[J • 12 : SCHOLASTIC : APRIL 20,1979 13 a social goal which he would have . ever actively pursued; What he said Perspective by Theresa Rebeck about Waldemar Gurian in 1955 ap­ plied even more so to himself: "Notre Dame was his place, since the thirties the center not only of \ Picture, if you will, Mega Tech crease for the '79-'80 school year. steam pipes which have tended to his fascination but of his existence; " \ Institute. It is the prototype of the Now, speaking realistically, that flood studios and ruin projects. all the actualities and possibilities American science-technology in- won't even cover the rising cost of After neglecting the building for so of the University were close to his To Frank O'Malley, stitute; everyone on the faculty printing, so it can be technically long, the Administration finally de­ heart and conscience." (1909-1974) holds Ph.Ds and three-fourths of considered as a budget cut. At a time cided to tear it down and move the If Mr. O'Malley had reservations them have won the Nobel Prize at when the Engineering Department Art Department out to safer ground. concerning the students' rebellion in What have you done? You lie sostill . least once. The average student had and the Chemistry Department are So where do they put the potters and the sixties, he saw the justice of you strain belief in our mortality. their cause and spoke in an address We can't believe the body of your ghost, a 790 on the Math SAT's. This insti- bestowed with huge, sparkling-new the painters? In the old Chemical at the Notre Dame Peace Observance lithe and fleet, has now_b~en exorcised. tution is, a very prestigious place to facilities, the hopeful writers and Engineering Building-that is, as in January, 1973, of how the "young study; high school seniors are poi- editors of Notre Dame are scroung- soon as the Chemisty and the Chem­ mind is wonderfully' conscious of Our scholar gypsy, you haunted the conscience soning each other over the limited ing for pennies to hold together their ical Engineering Departments move freedom." Yet he was deeply upset of ali our paths and corridors, .' ". positions in the freshman class. All publications. into their newer, safer, more up-to- by ,the release of the. "instincts of you sharpened with light the shadow that .was cast of them want to be great scientists Is this an absurd comparison? I date facilities. cruelty and brutality." And while onwhat we yearned,for in dome and spire. ' . and engineers, so Mega Tech Insti- don't think so. The chemists and the My point is simply this: Arts and looking' forward in hope to "a new tute is the place to go. engineers are getting new facilities Letters students have their labs, too, age of the spirit," he told the stu­ You ~hri~t~ned writers ~f indiscreetly' Mega Tech Institute is unusual for because it is important for ,them to and they are every bit as essential dents: "We are not to seek for sal­ visionary ~ords, the baptized reasons other than its highly quali- know their ways around a modern, as the chemist's. The writer needs a vation in self-righteous cliques or and unbaptized alike, while awed fied faculty and~ brilliant student well-equipped lab. It would be ridicu- publication,' the actor needs a stage, claques; nor by withdrawaHrom the multitudes of the young looked on. body. Mega Tech'Institute has no lous for a chemistry major to apply the artist needs a studio. Notre Dame laboratories. It a totally theoreti- for a' job without having had such has these, but they are underfunded, tasks with which our present, pain­ ; , is ful history now confronts us." You gospelled four decades of rich and poor men's cal institution, based 'on the premise laboratory experience" but by the insufficient, or unsafe. I understand Still" it was around then, about a sons showing them where the soUl is.- ' that practical. experience is unneces- same token, it would be just as ridic- the Administration's concern that year before his death, that Mr. And each day you kllotted them thongs to whip sary.When asked about this unusual ulous for an English or communica- . the science laboratories are all mo'd­ O'Malley requested a sabbatical for the money:changers froIll the temple door. ' policy of education, the President tions major to apply for a.newspaper ern and the equipment is the' best; the first time in his life. The need of the Institute, Dr. X. Peri Mentor, job without a portfolio of articles. I'm not' knocking that. ButScholas­ to create and maintain distances be­ When did you first surmise that yours commented, "Our kids are so bright, Practical experience is even more tic has been fighting for the funds tween himself and that which he must be the gift of loneliness? .' they don't need to bother with sim~ important for the hopeful journalist; to buy a typewriter that types .with loved was .great,' perhaps at last .When did you discover. that he . pIe things like laboratory techniques. . in most cases, their prospective em- some degree of reliability for three overwhelming. Driven, at least par- who' is loved by all iS"loved by no one? We figure they can learn that kind ployers will not even ask for. their or four years now. Who decided "that tially by the disease that killed him, of stuff when they get out into the . college transcripts. They don't care the engineering student and his or his alcoholism, he felt he had to get Foreknowing,'as you did, such cost of 'spirit. engineering firms and research lab- about your GPA, they want to see her needs were moreimportant'than how did you decide? Or' did you?' . '" away, for the time being, from the oratories; We're giving them a good, what you've written, what you've the English student's? When was University. How can a man, a: mere mari, decide solid .baCkground, we're teaching had published. this decided? " to make nothing but himself his own?' In the spring of 1974, Mr. O'Mal­ them to think in scientific terms. The dearth of funds and interest Maybe I should just shut up and ley collapsed in his rooms in Lyons Their job experiences will teach. hits more than the student publica- transfer to some nice little Liberal Hall. After lingering briefly, he died There w~re days we scarcely could endure them the rest.'; " tions at Notre Dame. How long has Arts College where they like English the furY of that indifferent love ' . in St. Joseph's Hospital in· South Sound pr~tty stupid? I'll say; the Notre Dame campus been with- . majors. Maybe I never should have ,. that'smiled or glowered in your eyes. Bend. He is buried in the community there isn't an engineering firm in the out a respectable theater? For years, come here in the' first. pI8.ce. But I cemetery at Notre Dame,his grave country that, would touch a graduat- Washington Hall has existed in a came to Notre Dame under .the im­ ,Forgive us ifwe fourid it hard just. apart from the rest, placed at ing senior who, didn't know· how to shocking state of disrepafl.. Until re~ pression that I was ,coming to, a un,i­ . 'to quite forgive in you your relentless the'perimeter where'it can be easily control a pressure valve. And what cEmtiy, every technical assistant .versity, an institution ,which em­ uriders~anding of yourself. ., seen by passing students. The final research laboratory would want a approached the building with fear braced all disciplines and, v~ued words are' Ernest Sandeen's: chemist. who COUldn't perform a .. and trepidation, certain that any them for their individual importance. Brit we sal~te y~u nowas the~ . titration? It's just a stupid idea, a. second now the light board or the I liked the idea of a place',where with love, across no.greater distance stupid philosophy of education. It's electrical systems would short out many people with vastly,. different But we salute you now as then: . than you always kept; ilnmaculate ' with love, across no greater distance a stupid. philosophy of education and blow the place to smithereens:' concerns could come and create a and warni; between yourself arid us. . which Is unfortunately taking root Currently, a somewhat 'halfhearted~ ,community. I hesitate to give up this than you always kept, immaculate . ",'~Ernest Sandeen' and warm; between yourself and us. at the University of Notre Dame in effort is being made to patch the vision. because I don't think it's an regard to the College of Arts and place togetheragain~ but only after impossible dream. ". o We thank p,rofessor Sandeen lor allowing Scholastic Letters. long delays and years of paper shuf- '. But recently, questions 'conti~ue to to reprint this piece> .' " Recently, the editorial boards, of .' fling. in the Administration Building. ' cross my mind: Is the girl who lives University-funded student publica- Then there's the AIt Department. down the hall more important. than tions met with John Reid,and Mario Their, plight is fairly self-evident. me because she likes to mixchemi­ PedL of Student, Affairs to discuss For years" the art' students have, cals and I like· to write articles? next year's budgets.· Student Affairs prowled around the Fieldhouse, en- Father Hesburgh" you' spoke. up in . 'Prof. Kubal,· a former. O'Malley had received, a mandate from Busi-, .. joying a simple, underground exis- defense of the Liberal Arts education student, is a currently a college Eng­ ness Affairs stating that. no budget ·tence in spite of leaky roofs, faulty a few months ago.. What do you lish profeSsor in California. was to receive more than a6%in-,heating, and annually exploding think?[J • 12 : SCHOLASTIC : APRIL 20,1979 13 I shut it quickly for fear that the waters will come The stillness of the boat begins to bother me and rushing into the boat. Then I open it more slowly to I imagine myself moving along at an awesome speed Fictioll find that no.water enters the boat at all. I look through in a vehicle on wheels. The hands are on me again and the round hole at the water undisturbed and suddenly 1 shiver at their touch. Noises of all sorts pick at my find myself compelled to dive in. Down I plunge, brain. A long high-pitched whine looms above all. The through the perfect circumference. gulls must be screaming overhead. I shout at them, As I sink, I feel no wetness and I can breathe "Leave me alone." This breaks the commotion some­ \ freely. I hear my wife's voice in the distance, muffled . . what but my delirium rages on. 1 close my 'eyes and The by the waters. "1 tried to wake him twice this morn­ hold the sides of the boat tightly wondering why I ing." would daydream so perversely. And when I open them, "He's breathing heavily," says a man with a deep I find everything intact. With' cupped hands I take .\ authoritative voice. cool water from the ocean to splash my face. Re­ i Sail 1 fight the water, frantically endeavoring to get freshed, 1 lie back once more in the motionless boat. back to the boat resting at the top, but.l can make The sun shines brightly as the waves beat a steady no progress. The ocean has become a blank. My arms rhythm on the side of my boat. I feel a certain tran­ and legs flail wildly to no avail. My presence in the quility as the sights and sounds of this moment blend water makes no difference. Letting myself go 1 find into a buzz. I am almost asleep when I hear the deep that I am somehow rising to the top. Through the voice again. "Oxygen," it says. hole in the boat I appear, once again in the sunlight. I lean forward slightly and look into the eyes of a The wind has died down considerably and the sail of gull perched on the rim of my boat. He snickers and my boat feels no pressure: Too much has happened. My flies away. "Clamp," the voice says as the sounds of by Tom Balcerek mind begins to wander as I lie back in the boat again, busy hands and busy metal fill the air. I place my head staring at the sun. I imagine cold .hands on my body, back on the wooden pillow as a cold metal feeling pokes A steady wind passes silently through the air as very good. The sun has escaped the clouds again and touching my forehead, chest and eyes. Someone pulls at my gut. A vision of men and women clad in white the ocean ripples below. I see no land. The wind now it, has my eyes. ,I'm seeing it,' and the longer I carefully on my left eyelid. These thoughts start to surrounds me as 1 lie in the boat. I shake off the streams freely, zipping here and there, puffing occa­ look, the larger it becomes. Its gaseous tentacles are bother me and I shake them off in disgust. I wet a thought and wonder why 1 torture myself so. I stare sionally. It presses itself and leans against the sail of visible now and they appear to reach into the water. finger with my" tongue and hold it up to check the di­ at the sun as the steady rocking continues. Soon my sailboat in the sun. Many things are here, but I 1 tum my head away for a second and ,upon my return rection of the wind only to find that there is none. The everything becomes white. cannot see them, many things are in the wind. "They to the sun 1 see that it has resumed its original size in boat is sitting still on, the ocean, rocking gently from Finally, the wind kicks up again, much stronger are all one. My sailboat is simple, the product of neces­ the sky. I know now that it is gaseous. I suppose side to side. than before. The boat creaks as it regains motion and sity; and I, its occupant, a happy man. 1 always knew it, but never realized it. Now I realize I feel as though I want to sleep, so I adjust my body the sail is fUll-blown. I jump to my feet immediately There is no more. There is no less. I can stare at it, and as I stare once more, it is growing enormous accordingly. . Eventually overwhelmed by restlessness, to face the wind. 1 feel it through my whole being. the' sun forever without blinking, and my eyes do not again. The fish doesn't like it. He scoots along the 1 shift from my fetal position on the floor of the boat This makes me laugh giddily and as it continues my hurt. I can feel what is happening at the bottom of the floor of the boat and fits himself under my slightly and lie flat on my back. My head rests on a wooden thoughts are displaced by pure feeling. I am free. ocean as it wells, up through the currents and is refined bent knee. 1 stand up and avert my eyes from the sun, plank across the bow as I stare at the sun and day­ A steady wind passes silently through the air as the along the way. The wave I feel at last is subtle ecstasy. returning it to its normal size. The fish flops fran­ dream. A strange' feeling enters my awareness. I feel ocean' ripples below. There is no land. The wind I watch the sail and see the wind. I open my mouth tically below me. 1 give it back to the ocean. as though I'm being jostled about and hanCned. I keep streams freely, zipping here and there, puffing occa­ and taste the air. With a strange tightness in my chest, I turn around my eyes open to certify reality, but the feeling does not sionally. It presses itself and leans against the sail of No horizon. No land and no horizon. Water. Only in the boat, the sun now over my left shoulder. I wear go away.. Rubbing my eyes, I slowly put an end to it. a sailboat in the sun. Many things are here but unseen, this and never that. Never that. Sail, boat, water. Sail, it on a strap. Beautiful gulls glide lazily in a playing A splinter of wood from the inside of the boat makes many things are in the wind. They are all one. The boat, water. Sail, boat ... field of deep blue spotted with white. Their winged a good toothpick, something for me to chew and sailboat is simple, a product of necessity; and its oc­ "C'mon, Oliver, up! You heard'me, up!" motion controls the scene. I aspire to join them and, mangle while I wait for the wind. cupant, a happy man. 0 "Let me sleep," say I. 1 do, touching them occasionally and eventually petting "Up," says my wife. them as they fly. "You know what happened last time, you almost "Oliver," . says the lady. "Oliver," says' my wife. lost your job. And peanut butter for breakfast? Tacos' "You've got to get up now ... Oliver?" on the nin. Will tnat happen again, will that happen ? "Oh, pretty bird," say 1. "Feathers, feathers." Get up, Oliver." "Oliver, you're dreaming," whispers Marcia.: I hear "Let me dream," say I. that and sit up abruptly in my bed: My head spins. "I've pressed your suit and your breakfast is on "1 don't feel well today. I'm not going to work. I'm the table." sick." And as I say it, 1 find that I really am sick, tight I roll over, away from the screaming lady:' I can and woozy. I lie back down and drift away. Sleep feel the sleep drug cruising my brain once again asher comes willingly again to. me. It starts in my eyes voice is slowly assimilated by the pillow. The heavy and... ., feeling is padding the inside of iny head and the .voice ' Back out on the boat' 1 hum along with the wind. is gone: The gentle motion of a small fish catches my It is a beautiful song that I hear. My right hand hangs eye so I remove'it from the water and stroke it. The limp' over the side of the boat· feeling the flux' of the fine rainbow scales meet my fingertips as the fish looks water with all five fingers. As 1 reach down deeper, up at me and smiles. 1 smile back. The wind is shifting something enters my hand. 1 clasp it tightly and with­ 'so I adjust the sail, knowing not why. Nowhere or draw it from the water. It'is a long archaic key like everywhere is my destination. 1 play it by ear: Sitting one to the attic of a Gothic church. InscI-ibed on the back, 1 watch the clouds play games with the sun. key are the letters A andZ. 1 search the boat for a There seems to be a disturbance; no, my mistake. keyhole.and find it soon, right below my feet. 'Inserting The fish wants to dance and I allow it.' He's not the key and turning it, I find that the door opens easily. 14 , SCHOLASTIC APRIL 20, 1979 15 I shut it quickly for fear that the waters will come The stillness of the boat begins to bother me and rushing into the boat. Then I open it more slowly to I imagine myself moving along at an awesome speed Fictioll find that no.water enters the boat at all. I look through in a vehicle on wheels. The hands are on me again and the round hole at the water undisturbed and suddenly 1 shiver at their touch. Noises of all sorts pick at my find myself compelled to dive in. Down I plunge, brain. A long high-pitched whine looms above all. The through the perfect circumference. gulls must be screaming overhead. I shout at them, As I sink, I feel no wetness and I can breathe "Leave me alone." This breaks the commotion some­ \ freely. I hear my wife's voice in the distance, muffled . . what but my delirium rages on. 1 close my 'eyes and The by the waters. "1 tried to wake him twice this morn­ hold the sides of the boat tightly wondering why I ing." would daydream so perversely. And when I open them, "He's breathing heavily," says a man with a deep I find everything intact. With' cupped hands I take .\ authoritative voice. cool water from the ocean to splash my face. Re­ i Sail 1 fight the water, frantically endeavoring to get freshed, 1 lie back once more in the motionless boat. back to the boat resting at the top, but.l can make The sun shines brightly as the waves beat a steady no progress. The ocean has become a blank. My arms rhythm on the side of my boat. I feel a certain tran­ and legs flail wildly to no avail. My presence in the quility as the sights and sounds of this moment blend water makes no difference. Letting myself go 1 find into a buzz. I am almost asleep when I hear the deep that I am somehow rising to the top. Through the voice again. "Oxygen," it says. hole in the boat I appear, once again in the sunlight. I lean forward slightly and look into the eyes of a The wind has died down considerably and the sail of gull perched on the rim of my boat. He snickers and my boat feels no pressure: Too much has happened. My flies away. "Clamp," the voice says as the sounds of by Tom Balcerek mind begins to wander as I lie back in the boat again, busy hands and busy metal fill the air. I place my head staring at the sun. I imagine cold .hands on my body, back on the wooden pillow as a cold metal feeling pokes A steady wind passes silently through the air as very good. The sun has escaped the clouds again and touching my forehead, chest and eyes. Someone pulls at my gut. A vision of men and women clad in white the ocean ripples below. I see no land. The wind now it, has my eyes. ,I'm seeing it,' and the longer I carefully on my left eyelid. These thoughts start to surrounds me as 1 lie in the boat. I shake off the streams freely, zipping here and there, puffing occa­ look, the larger it becomes. Its gaseous tentacles are bother me and I shake them off in disgust. I wet a thought and wonder why 1 torture myself so. I stare sionally. It presses itself and leans against the sail of visible now and they appear to reach into the water. finger with my" tongue and hold it up to check the di­ at the sun as the steady rocking continues. Soon my sailboat in the sun. Many things are here, but I 1 tum my head away for a second and ,upon my return rection of the wind only to find that there is none. The everything becomes white. cannot see them, many things are in the wind. "They to the sun 1 see that it has resumed its original size in boat is sitting still on, the ocean, rocking gently from Finally, the wind kicks up again, much stronger are all one. My sailboat is simple, the product of neces­ the sky. I know now that it is gaseous. I suppose side to side. than before. The boat creaks as it regains motion and sity; and I, its occupant, a happy man. 1 always knew it, but never realized it. Now I realize I feel as though I want to sleep, so I adjust my body the sail is fUll-blown. I jump to my feet immediately There is no more. There is no less. I can stare at it, and as I stare once more, it is growing enormous accordingly. . Eventually overwhelmed by restlessness, to face the wind. 1 feel it through my whole being. the' sun forever without blinking, and my eyes do not again. The fish doesn't like it. He scoots along the 1 shift from my fetal position on the floor of the boat This makes me laugh giddily and as it continues my hurt. I can feel what is happening at the bottom of the floor of the boat and fits himself under my slightly and lie flat on my back. My head rests on a wooden thoughts are displaced by pure feeling. I am free. ocean as it wells, up through the currents and is refined bent knee. 1 stand up and avert my eyes from the sun, plank across the bow as I stare at the sun and day­ A steady wind passes silently through the air as the along the way. The wave I feel at last is subtle ecstasy. returning it to its normal size. The fish flops fran­ dream. A strange' feeling enters my awareness. I feel ocean' ripples below. There is no land. The wind I watch the sail and see the wind. I open my mouth tically below me. 1 give it back to the ocean. as though I'm being jostled about and hanCned. I keep streams freely, zipping here and there, puffing occa­ and taste the air. With a strange tightness in my chest, I turn around my eyes open to certify reality, but the feeling does not sionally. It presses itself and leans against the sail of No horizon. No land and no horizon. Water. Only in the boat, the sun now over my left shoulder. I wear go away.. Rubbing my eyes, I slowly put an end to it. a sailboat in the sun. Many things are here but unseen, this and never that. Never that. Sail, boat, water. Sail, it on a strap. Beautiful gulls glide lazily in a playing A splinter of wood from the inside of the boat makes many things are in the wind. They are all one. The boat, water. Sail, boat ... field of deep blue spotted with white. Their winged a good toothpick, something for me to chew and sailboat is simple, a product of necessity; and its oc­ "C'mon, Oliver, up! You heard'me, up!" motion controls the scene. I aspire to join them and, mangle while I wait for the wind. cupant, a happy man. 0 "Let me sleep," say I. 1 do, touching them occasionally and eventually petting "Up," says my wife. them as they fly. "You know what happened last time, you almost "Oliver," . says the lady. "Oliver," says' my wife. lost your job. And peanut butter for breakfast? Tacos' "You've got to get up now ... Oliver?" on the nin. Will tnat happen again, will that happen ? "Oh, pretty bird," say 1. "Feathers, feathers." Get up, Oliver." "Oliver, you're dreaming," whispers Marcia.: I hear "Let me dream," say I. that and sit up abruptly in my bed: My head spins. "I've pressed your suit and your breakfast is on "1 don't feel well today. I'm not going to work. I'm the table." sick." And as I say it, 1 find that I really am sick, tight I roll over, away from the screaming lady:' I can and woozy. I lie back down and drift away. Sleep feel the sleep drug cruising my brain once again asher comes willingly again to. me. It starts in my eyes voice is slowly assimilated by the pillow. The heavy and... ., feeling is padding the inside of iny head and the .voice ' Back out on the boat' 1 hum along with the wind. is gone: The gentle motion of a small fish catches my It is a beautiful song that I hear. My right hand hangs eye so I remove'it from the water and stroke it. The limp' over the side of the boat· feeling the flux' of the fine rainbow scales meet my fingertips as the fish looks water with all five fingers. As 1 reach down deeper, up at me and smiles. 1 smile back. The wind is shifting something enters my hand. 1 clasp it tightly and with­ 'so I adjust the sail, knowing not why. Nowhere or draw it from the water. It'is a long archaic key like everywhere is my destination. 1 play it by ear: Sitting one to the attic of a Gothic church. InscI-ibed on the back, 1 watch the clouds play games with the sun. key are the letters A andZ. 1 search the boat for a There seems to be a disturbance; no, my mistake. keyhole.and find it soon, right below my feet. 'Inserting The fish wants to dance and I allow it.' He's not the key and turning it, I find that the door opens easily. 14 , SCHOLASTIC APRIL 20, 1979 15 Gallery 1

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a freshman that everyone goes hit straight back to the pitcher at was best for his son. Immediately through. He especially didn't like eye level. It waS hit with such force he let it be known that his son the discipline here, when we had all that it almost took the pitcher's would sign for no less than $100,000 the old things that we don't have head off. "He just had enough time and a guaranteed education. Mr. anymore." to turn his head, so the ball struck Yastrzemski had the help of Fr. Joe Yaz: A Major League As Yaz remembers, those "old him on the back of the neck. He was Ratkowski, a friend of the family DOIll~r things" were that "we had to attend knocked cold, and two weeks after who lived in Brooklyn and who, Mass three times a week. And, of he 'still had the stitches from the through his association with a lot course, we had restrictions two mid­ ball imprinted on his neck." of the Dodger players, knew his by Mike Kenahan nights a week and the other times Even back then Yastrzemski was baseball. According to Gibbons, it you had to be in your room by ten a dedicated athlete. Gibbons re­ was Fr. Ratkowski who told' Carl's "He was very lonely. He didn't son were not an athlete. "His par­ yaz learned practically everything o'clock, with lights out at ten too. I members that "Yaz wanted to stay dad not to let his son sign for any­ like it here at first He didn't like ents were very closed-minded." he knew about baseball from his think it's changed a little since after practice a lot. I used to hit thing less than six' figures. the South Bend weather, and he In truth, the real· deciding factor father, who' played until he was 40 then." him fungoes 'and pitch batting prac­ As the summer of '58 approached didn't like the discipline." So began, was the baseball scholarship; with,; years old. Yaz played all nine posi: Things weren't too bright for Yaz tice ,to ,him. He even tried to talk the bidding for Yaz's professional according to Jim Gibbons, the col­ out it Yaz probably would not have' tions in high school, but he was on the 'athletic scene either. Back me into letting him pitch in the baseball services;' got heavier and lege career of one of Notre Dame's been able to attend any college. His most frequently found in the infield. then freshmen were not allowed to scrimmages. He loved to pitch." heavier. Fourteen of the 16 clubs most successful student-athletes. His father was a potato farmer in He was a very versatile athlete. Al­ play varsity sports. So, Carl had to There wasn't much Yaz couldn't made offers of one kind or another. name - Carl Michael Yastrzemski. Bridgehampton, Long Island. It though only 5'11" and 175 Ibs., Yaz settle for the frosh team, one that do when it came to the game of base­ "After my freshman year I went That's right, the present-day cap­ wasn't the most prosperous liveli­ played quarterback and halfback on didn't even have a schedule of games balL The only advice that his coach all over the place, traveling all over tain and superstar of Major League hood, but the family lived comfort­ the football team and was a high­ nor' uniforms to play in. ','We just had to share with him was that "he the country working out with differ­ Baseball's Boston Red Sox was once ably. scoring guard on' the basketball used to work out and play the var­ tended to drag his back leg too ent teams," Yaz recalls. a student at Notre Dame. Not many Yastrzemski had built a reputa­ team at Bridgehampton High sity, once in a. while, and that was much; he didn't keep it down. Other The Yankees, a personal favorite people know this fact, and even tion as an excellent ballplayer, even School. As a senior he won the it." Gibbons says that this was than that he just knew baseball." of the Yastrzemski clan, made, an fewer know the details surrounding before his arrival at Notre. Dame, basketball scoring championship of pretty much an insult to Yaz's abil~ But baseball wasn't Yastrzemski's Yastrzemski's days under the Gold­ from his experience. playing semi­ Suffolk County, averaging 34 points ity. "He was used to playing good whole life at Notre Dame. He was en Dome. professional baseball during the per game. baseball. When he got here he had an avid handball player and became Even ,Yaz himself is a little hazy summer. Yaz' father, Carl Michael, So, in the fall of 1957, Notre nothing." addicted to playing bridge· in his on the subject "It was a long time Sr., played on the same team as his Dame inherited another in a long Yaz did not have much contact spare time. And, of course, there. ago, a very long time ago," he con­ son. Once the two of them hit line of superb high school athletes with the legendary varsity coach, were his studies. yaz originally ma­ ceded when asked to recall his days back-to-back homers in a game. Mr. that have graced its campus. But, Jake Kline. "I only talked to him a jored in physical education but at Du Lac. It seems the best source Yastrzemski was an excellent ball-' as many of those stars soon found couple· of times. The only time I'd switched over to business, ,concen­ of information on campus'right now player. He had offers to play in the out upon their arrival, it took more see him was when we played: the trating in management, and market­ concerning Yaz' stay at Notre Dame big leagues when he was younger, than athletic ability to survive at varsity.". However, Kline was once ing in what was called back then is his former freshman baseball and but back then he opted to run a Notre Dame. Yaz, according to Gib­ quoted as saying that "Carl kept "the College of Commerce." basketball coach,' Gibbons, who cur­ farm and raise a family. He was bons, found his first year at Notre after me to let him' at least practice When asked what he remembers rently holds the position of Director content enough to play semi-pro ball Dame quite a challenge. "He went with the varsity. Finally, I let him most about his days at Notre Dame, of Special Projects. with his son. through the same kind of things as hit against some varsity pitching." Yaz responded ,that it was the peo­ But for all concerned it was very Gibbons, as the freshman basket­ ple. "The place is great but it's the long ago indeed. Yaz enrolled at ball and baseball coach, was the one people that made it special. I met Notre Dame in the fall of 1957, be­ who spent most of his time on the some real close friends out there." fore most of the current population diamond and on the hardcourt with Three of these friends he still keeps at ND were even born. His' parents Yastrzemski. The former' coach ad­ in' close contact, with:, Bill McMur­ always wanted him to. attend a mits that "Carl was head and trie, a teammate of Yaz's on the Catholic college, and, since Notre shoulders above everyone else in freshman squad and probably his Dame was considered the best one terms: of baseball talent and apti­ best friend back then; Fr. Glenn around, that was their choice. tude. ' He' used to knock the cover Borman, prefect of religion and rec­ Gibbons relates that Yaz had "an off the ball." tor of Breen-Phillips Hall, Carl's incredible devotion to his parents" Gibbons, a '53 ND grad who ruso freshman dorm, and, of course, Jim · and even though he had thoughts starred in baseball and basketball, is Gibbons. . about attending a good baseball fond 'of relating two experiences ~ile Carl was keeping occupied school, like Duke or Miami, what his that help to describe yaz's baseball in the northern. woods of Indiana, · parents wanted was law to him. prowess. He says that one day dur­ the major league ,scouts were begin­ Yaz says. that the decision to at­ ing an intrasquad game yaz hit a ning to make their moves. Basing tend Notre Dame wasn't that diffi­ . ball "at least 450 feet. He hit it their judgement on Yastrzemski's cult. "As a kid, growing up on Long over the right centerfield fence. The semi-pro play they knew that he Island, I followed football and I was ball landed in the football field while was a blue-chip player, and the · a big Notre Dame fan. I always the team was practicing,' soaring, all sooner he was playing professional I ,wanted to go there and my parents the way over a goalpost." Another ball full time, the better off one of I always wanted me to go there." Gib- incident that Gibbons recalls shows their clubs would be. _bon~ says that Carl's dad always the "deadly" power that yaz har­ Yaz was lucky in that his father listened to Irish football games, and ~ II nessed with his bat. "One day.he hit . acted as his agent. He was a very II that he would have chosen Notre the hardest line drive I've ever seen capable and shrewd businessman in Ii Dame over other colleges even if his Coach Gibbons gives Yaz a few pointers hit in my whole life." 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a freshman that everyone goes hit straight back to the pitcher at was best for his son. Immediately through. He especially didn't like eye level. It waS hit with such force he let it be known that his son the discipline here, when we had all that it almost took the pitcher's would sign for no less than $100,000 the old things that we don't have head off. "He just had enough time and a guaranteed education. Mr. anymore." to turn his head, so the ball struck Yastrzemski had the help of Fr. Joe Yaz: A Major League As Yaz remembers, those "old him on the back of the neck. He was Ratkowski, a friend of the family DOIll~r things" were that "we had to attend knocked cold, and two weeks after who lived in Brooklyn and who, Mass three times a week. And, of he 'still had the stitches from the through his association with a lot course, we had restrictions two mid­ ball imprinted on his neck." of the Dodger players, knew his by Mike Kenahan nights a week and the other times Even back then Yastrzemski was baseball. According to Gibbons, it you had to be in your room by ten a dedicated athlete. Gibbons re­ was Fr. Ratkowski who told' Carl's "He was very lonely. He didn't son were not an athlete. "His par­ yaz learned practically everything o'clock, with lights out at ten too. I members that "Yaz wanted to stay dad not to let his son sign for any­ like it here at first He didn't like ents were very closed-minded." he knew about baseball from his think it's changed a little since after practice a lot. I used to hit thing less than six' figures. the South Bend weather, and he In truth, the real· deciding factor father, who' played until he was 40 then." him fungoes 'and pitch batting prac­ As the summer of '58 approached didn't like the discipline." So began, was the baseball scholarship; with,; years old. Yaz played all nine posi: Things weren't too bright for Yaz tice ,to ,him. He even tried to talk the bidding for Yaz's professional according to Jim Gibbons, the col­ out it Yaz probably would not have' tions in high school, but he was on the 'athletic scene either. Back me into letting him pitch in the baseball services;' got heavier and lege career of one of Notre Dame's been able to attend any college. His most frequently found in the infield. then freshmen were not allowed to scrimmages. He loved to pitch." heavier. Fourteen of the 16 clubs most successful student-athletes. His father was a potato farmer in He was a very versatile athlete. Al­ play varsity sports. So, Carl had to There wasn't much Yaz couldn't made offers of one kind or another. name - Carl Michael Yastrzemski. Bridgehampton, Long Island. It though only 5'11" and 175 Ibs., Yaz settle for the frosh team, one that do when it came to the game of base­ "After my freshman year I went That's right, the present-day cap­ wasn't the most prosperous liveli­ played quarterback and halfback on didn't even have a schedule of games balL The only advice that his coach all over the place, traveling all over tain and superstar of Major League hood, but the family lived comfort­ the football team and was a high­ nor' uniforms to play in. ','We just had to share with him was that "he the country working out with differ­ Baseball's Boston Red Sox was once ably. scoring guard on' the basketball used to work out and play the var­ tended to drag his back leg too ent teams," Yaz recalls. a student at Notre Dame. Not many Yastrzemski had built a reputa­ team at Bridgehampton High sity, once in a. while, and that was much; he didn't keep it down. Other The Yankees, a personal favorite people know this fact, and even tion as an excellent ballplayer, even School. As a senior he won the it." Gibbons says that this was than that he just knew baseball." of the Yastrzemski clan, made, an fewer know the details surrounding before his arrival at Notre. Dame, basketball scoring championship of pretty much an insult to Yaz's abil~ But baseball wasn't Yastrzemski's Yastrzemski's days under the Gold­ from his experience. playing semi­ Suffolk County, averaging 34 points ity. "He was used to playing good whole life at Notre Dame. He was en Dome. professional baseball during the per game. baseball. When he got here he had an avid handball player and became Even ,Yaz himself is a little hazy summer. Yaz' father, Carl Michael, So, in the fall of 1957, Notre nothing." addicted to playing bridge· in his on the subject "It was a long time Sr., played on the same team as his Dame inherited another in a long Yaz did not have much contact spare time. And, of course, there. ago, a very long time ago," he con­ son. Once the two of them hit line of superb high school athletes with the legendary varsity coach, were his studies. yaz originally ma­ ceded when asked to recall his days back-to-back homers in a game. Mr. that have graced its campus. But, Jake Kline. "I only talked to him a jored in physical education but at Du Lac. It seems the best source Yastrzemski was an excellent ball-' as many of those stars soon found couple· of times. The only time I'd switched over to business, ,concen­ of information on campus'right now player. He had offers to play in the out upon their arrival, it took more see him was when we played: the trating in management, and market­ concerning Yaz' stay at Notre Dame big leagues when he was younger, than athletic ability to survive at varsity.". However, Kline was once ing in what was called back then is his former freshman baseball and but back then he opted to run a Notre Dame. Yaz, according to Gib­ quoted as saying that "Carl kept "the College of Commerce." basketball coach,' Gibbons, who cur­ farm and raise a family. He was bons, found his first year at Notre after me to let him' at least practice When asked what he remembers rently holds the position of Director content enough to play semi-pro ball Dame quite a challenge. "He went with the varsity. Finally, I let him most about his days at Notre Dame, of Special Projects. with his son. through the same kind of things as hit against some varsity pitching." Yaz responded ,that it was the peo­ But for all concerned it was very Gibbons, as the freshman basket­ ple. "The place is great but it's the long ago indeed. Yaz enrolled at ball and baseball coach, was the one people that made it special. I met Notre Dame in the fall of 1957, be­ who spent most of his time on the some real close friends out there." fore most of the current population diamond and on the hardcourt with Three of these friends he still keeps at ND were even born. His' parents Yastrzemski. The former' coach ad­ in' close contact, with:, Bill McMur­ always wanted him to. attend a mits that "Carl was head and trie, a teammate of Yaz's on the Catholic college, and, since Notre shoulders above everyone else in freshman squad and probably his Dame was considered the best one terms: of baseball talent and apti­ best friend back then; Fr. Glenn around, that was their choice. tude. ' He' used to knock the cover Borman, prefect of religion and rec­ Gibbons relates that Yaz had "an off the ball." tor of Breen-Phillips Hall, Carl's incredible devotion to his parents" Gibbons, a '53 ND grad who ruso freshman dorm, and, of course, Jim · and even though he had thoughts starred in baseball and basketball, is Gibbons. . about attending a good baseball fond 'of relating two experiences ~ile Carl was keeping occupied school, like Duke or Miami, what his that help to describe yaz's baseball in the northern. woods of Indiana, · parents wanted was law to him. prowess. He says that one day dur­ the major league ,scouts were begin­ Yaz says. that the decision to at­ ing an intrasquad game yaz hit a ning to make their moves. Basing tend Notre Dame wasn't that diffi­ . ball "at least 450 feet. He hit it their judgement on Yastrzemski's cult. "As a kid, growing up on Long over the right centerfield fence. The semi-pro play they knew that he Island, I followed football and I was ball landed in the football field while was a blue-chip player, and the · a big Notre Dame fan. I always the team was practicing,' soaring, all sooner he was playing professional I ,wanted to go there and my parents the way over a goalpost." Another ball full time, the better off one of I always wanted me to go there." Gib- incident that Gibbons recalls shows their clubs would be. _bon~ says that Carl's dad always the "deadly" power that yaz har­ Yaz was lucky in that his father listened to Irish football games, and ~ II nessed with his bat. "One day.he hit . acted as his agent. He was a very II that he would have chosen Notre the hardest line drive I've ever seen capable and shrewd businessman in Ii Dame over other colleges even if his Coach Gibbons gives Yaz a few pointers hit in my whole life." 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sue his business degree. He took omore Literary Festival and the theater as literature," said Dragun classes in the off-season, and most Spanish faculty ~f the Modern Lan­ to explain his concept of the Experi­ of the time he had a lot of catching guages'. Department. In 1976 Jorge mental Theater. "We must think up to do as the fall semesters usu- about theater as a scenario for an \ . Luis Borges appeared in the Liter- ally started before the season ended. . ary Festival, and his visit aroused action, and then bring in all elements This took its toll on iaz, and the a strong interest in Latin American which are valid for that action. To burden became heavier ~~en in Jan­ .writers and literature which brought bring the action in contact with the uary, 1960, he married and started a commitment. from the .Literary people." . to raise a family. Soon Carl had two Festival to attract additional con­ William Oliver .has received the kids to care for, and the task'of com­ temporary South American writers. New York City Writers Conference pleting his education became .. "a real "The commitment was made," re­ Stanley Award and the Dial Press chore." But he kept his promise to marked Dr. Albert LeMay, a pro- Award for his writing. He will speak his parents that he would complete · fessor in the Modern Languages on the tendencies, trends, and the in­ his college education: Department, "and with a lot of help novative ~pirit that distinguish dra­ Unfortunately he wasn't .able to from the Student Union there has matic Latin American literature and complete it at Notre Dame. By 1963, been a. follow-through with this production of the last fifteen years. Carl had logged about three years' action. "The Experimental Latin American worth of study at Du Lac. ,But the "It is necessary to bring recog­ Theater is a very important body of combined tasks of trying to be base­ Awareness: nized Hispanic artists to the Notre theater that is not imitated," he ball superstar, family man and stu­ Dame community," said LeMay in noted. "Dragun's work is an original dent almost wore him out. ,In 1964 explaining the reason and nature of and vital part of modern theater, he decided to opt for a college closer the lecture series. "We need to know and his Stories To Be Told is one 'of to his new home of Lynnfield, Massa­ more about our neighbors to the the most influential pieces of prO-: Yaz and Carpin hitting the books in Breen-Phillips chusetts. He; chose Merrimack Col­ south and to the north. American vocative .theater. He· makes, in a lege in North; Andover, Mass. It universities," he reasoned, "can no strong way, important social and po­ initial offer of a $40 thousand bonus, cation too, the whole deal was wasn't long. before he finished his longer neglect what's going on po­ litical statements." then hiked it to $45 thousand. Carl, scrapped. studies and earned· ,his . degree in Latin litically and culturally in Latin Critic Schmidt summarized Dra­ Sr. just laughed at them. The Giants Finally, when Yaz returned home business administration. America and Canada. The Spanish gun and his work by saying: "He and Dodgers entered in on the bid­ on . Thanksgiving break, he and his ,Yastrzemski's relationship· with faculty is committed, the Literary has been able to achieve his dramatic ding and soon just about all the father were invited to Boston. Gib­ Notre Dame hasn't been the smooth­ America Festival is committed, and the Uni­ intent without relying on elaborate clubs joined in the affair. bons says that "the long and short est or the most typica!. As Gibbons versity, is committed to Latin . visual effects, and, at the same time, The Detroit Tigers tried to use the of the. affair was that both Carl Sr. explains, "Carl's years here were so America." . he has managed to bring cinematic Notre Dame family connection to and Carl Jr. liked Boston and·they disjointed. He wasn't able to develop Osvaldo Dragun, one of the most 'techniques,'such as' the' fiashback, to haul in Yaz. John McHale, a Notre really liked;'Bots'Nekola, the Red strong relationships as. most full­ distinguished figures in contempo­ the stage' without falling into the ex­ Dame alumnus" was the general Sox scout who spotted Yaz and was time stUdents were. able to do. Thus, rary Latin American theater, was cesses . to which a less mature manager of the Tigers at that time. trying to sign him. "Bots'really got it was tough for him to have a feel one of the many innovative Argen­ dramatist might be victim. Above This lure almost worked as Yaz was to be a friend of the family, and the for the place and to become attached tinian playwrights who broke with all," Schmidt remarked, "Dragun once quoted as .'saying, "I almost Yastrzemskis liked' .that." like most stUdents ordinarily be­ traditional and conventional .theater · must be credited with creating vir­ played with Detroit." . Also, Nekola hinted to Carl's dad come." in the 1950s. This .generation cre­ tually a new dramatic.genre, repre­ With the help of Fr. Ratkowski, that. the baseball owners were con­ As Yaz admits, "I lived off cam­ ated and, developed the most impor­ sented by Stories To Be Told." Carl's dad managed to narrow down sideringa new rule change at the . pus in those, fall semesters. So, tant movement of Argentina's mod­ Through the efforts of LeMay and the choices to two clubs - Phila~ upcoming winter meetings. The rule, really, outside of going to classes and ern theater, the Independent Theater the Student Cultural Arts Commis­ delphia and Boston. The· Phillies which was' implemented later that that I didn't have too muchassocia­ Movement, also known as the Ex­ sion, the series will progress even offered Yaz $60 thousand' to sign year, made' players who' received tion with' the schoo!." perimental Latin American Theater. further when Carlos Fuentes will then increased it to $80 thousand, over a $4 thousand bonus subject to . Today, Yaz does not regret the Dragun is the winner of the Cuban speak to Notre· Dame students and arid then finally hiked the price to a reentry draft after one year in decision to attempt to finish,his edu­ Casa de las Americas prize in litera­ faculty on November 1, ;1979. $95 thousand with a $7 thousand big the minors. The Yastrzemskis did cation at Notre Dame. "Without a. ture. His best· and most important Fuentes, hailed as Mexico's greatest -league contract. Carl's father turned not like this idea at all. doubt it was the right decision. I en­ by Dave Gill play, Histopara SeT contadas (Stories living writer, ranks' in stature and them down because they refused to So, on November ·28, 1958, Carl joyed it on the whole, even with all To Be Told), is done entirely with­ reputation as one of the m'ost signifi­ pay for Carl's' remairiing'years of Yastrzemski signed with the Red the rules and regulations." A series of lectures by noted Latin out stage setting, and four act'ors play cant writers of all time in uriiversaI education. To Carl Sr. education Sox. The contract called for' a $108 . ; Although yaz has not been back American' authors :. continues this all the roles.· They combine panto~ letters. Am'ong his best~known.works ·always came first. thousand bonus, a' two-year Triple-A to the campus in six years,' he says, month with the appearance of Os­ mime, dialogue, and ,direct com:" are Aura and The Death otArtemio After rejeCting Philadelphia in the contract of $5 thousand per year, "I still follow all, the sports, no .valdo Dragun, an internationally munication with the audience. Ac- Oruz, the latter internationally re- summer of '58 Yaz returned to plus the rest of his college expenses. doubt about that. And McMurtrie acclaimed Argentinian.' playwright, · cording to critic Donald L. -Schmidt, '. ceived as one of the most· universal Notre Dame and began his sopho- By signing a pro contract Yaz had and Gibbons keep me informed as to and William I." Oliver, professor, StOries To Be Told explores; iIi a · works t'o come from Latin,America. · more year of. studies. Gibbons viv- to forfeit his grant-in-aid and be­ everything . going . on there. So I critic, and writer from. the Univer­ · symbolic way, "the predicament of "We're hopeful," . stated LeMay, · idly recalls that the pressure of the came ineligible to play varsity ball pretty .. much stay' up .with 'the I sity of California at. Berkeley. On modern man in a society. that has ."that Fuentes' visit will permit us to bidding was weighing heavily oIi at NotreDame.Yaz finished out his schoo!." And according to Gibbons, April,25, 8 p.m. in the Library Audi~ · lost its human values. ,.The impact' · bring' other Latin Anlerican . writers Yaz. Meanwhile, Cincinnati with fall semester that year arid in' the Carl even "goes nuts" whenever he torium, 'the two writers will discuss · of each of these stories is heightened .to campus so they.can share their Gabe Paul at the helm, entered in on spring of 1959 he was assigned to hears that the football or basketball the' ExperimentaiLatinAmerican' both by its brevity and by the lack artistry." Some of tilose Latin Amer:­ the bidding·,late. Paul reportedly the Raleigh, North Carolina, Capitals team has lost -·themark of atnie Theater and other current trends in of visual setting. Together, . these ican writers include Gabriel Garcia offered Yaz $125 thousand but when' of the Class B Carolina League. Domer, if there ever was one. And Latin American literature. . qualities sharpen the. focus on the Marquez,author of 100 Yearso!Sol­ Carl's father tried to get $150 thou­ , Carl returned to Notre Dame a sure sign that CarLYastrzemski is . The 'lecture series began as·. a co­ basic human confiict." . itude, and Julio Cortazar, who wrote sand to ensure Carl's brother's edu- three times after turning pro to pur- still with his alma mater in spirit. 0 operative venture between theSoph- , "We' must stop thinking about Hopscotch and Blow Up. 0 20 , . SCHOLASTIC APRIL' 20, 1979 21 - sue his business degree. He took omore Literary Festival and the theater as literature," said Dragun classes in the off-season, and most Spanish faculty ~f the Modern Lan­ to explain his concept of the Experi­ of the time he had a lot of catching guages'. Department. In 1976 Jorge mental Theater. "We must think up to do as the fall semesters usu- about theater as a scenario for an \ . Luis Borges appeared in the Liter- ally started before the season ended. . ary Festival, and his visit aroused action, and then bring in all elements This took its toll on iaz, and the a strong interest in Latin American which are valid for that action. To burden became heavier ~~en in Jan­ .writers and literature which brought bring the action in contact with the uary, 1960, he married and started a commitment. from the .Literary people." . to raise a family. Soon Carl had two Festival to attract additional con­ William Oliver .has received the kids to care for, and the task'of com­ temporary South American writers. New York City Writers Conference pleting his education became .. "a real "The commitment was made," re­ Stanley Award and the Dial Press chore." But he kept his promise to marked Dr. Albert LeMay, a pro- Award for his writing. He will speak his parents that he would complete · fessor in the Modern Languages on the tendencies, trends, and the in­ his college education: Department, "and with a lot of help novative ~pirit that distinguish dra­ Unfortunately he wasn't .able to from the Student Union there has matic Latin American literature and complete it at Notre Dame. By 1963, been a. follow-through with this production of the last fifteen years. Carl had logged about three years' action. "The Experimental Latin American worth of study at Du Lac. ,But the "It is necessary to bring recog­ Theater is a very important body of combined tasks of trying to be base­ Awareness: nized Hispanic artists to the Notre theater that is not imitated," he ball superstar, family man and stu­ Dame community," said LeMay in noted. "Dragun's work is an original dent almost wore him out. ,In 1964 explaining the reason and nature of and vital part of modern theater, he decided to opt for a college closer the lecture series. "We need to know and his Stories To Be Told is one 'of to his new home of Lynnfield, Massa­ more about our neighbors to the the most influential pieces of prO-: Yaz and Carpin hitting the books in Breen-Phillips chusetts. He; chose Merrimack Col­ south and to the north. American vocative .theater. He· makes, in a lege in North; Andover, Mass. It universities," he reasoned, "can no strong way, important social and po­ initial offer of a $40 thousand bonus, cation too, the whole deal was wasn't long. before he finished his longer neglect what's going on po­ litical statements." then hiked it to $45 thousand. Carl, scrapped. studies and earned· ,his . degree in Latin litically and culturally in Latin Critic Schmidt summarized Dra­ Sr. just laughed at them. The Giants Finally, when Yaz returned home business administration. America and Canada. The Spanish gun and his work by saying: "He and Dodgers entered in on the bid­ on . Thanksgiving break, he and his ,Yastrzemski's relationship· with faculty is committed, the Literary has been able to achieve his dramatic ding and soon just about all the father were invited to Boston. Gib­ Notre Dame hasn't been the smooth­ America Festival is committed, and the Uni­ intent without relying on elaborate clubs joined in the affair. bons says that "the long and short est or the most typica!. As Gibbons versity, is committed to Latin . visual effects, and, at the same time, The Detroit Tigers tried to use the of the. affair was that both Carl Sr. explains, "Carl's years here were so America." . he has managed to bring cinematic Notre Dame family connection to and Carl Jr. liked Boston and·they disjointed. He wasn't able to develop Osvaldo Dragun, one of the most 'techniques,'such as' the' fiashback, to haul in Yaz. John McHale, a Notre really liked;'Bots'Nekola, the Red strong relationships as. most full­ distinguished figures in contempo­ the stage' without falling into the ex­ Dame alumnus" was the general Sox scout who spotted Yaz and was time stUdents were. able to do. Thus, rary Latin American theater, was cesses . to which a less mature manager of the Tigers at that time. trying to sign him. "Bots'really got it was tough for him to have a feel one of the many innovative Argen­ dramatist might be victim. Above This lure almost worked as Yaz was to be a friend of the family, and the for the place and to become attached tinian playwrights who broke with all," Schmidt remarked, "Dragun once quoted as .'saying, "I almost Yastrzemskis liked' .that." like most stUdents ordinarily be­ traditional and conventional .theater · must be credited with creating vir­ played with Detroit." . Also, Nekola hinted to Carl's dad come." in the 1950s. This .generation cre­ tually a new dramatic.genre, repre­ With the help of Fr. Ratkowski, that. the baseball owners were con­ As Yaz admits, "I lived off cam­ ated and, developed the most impor­ sented by Stories To Be Told." Carl's dad managed to narrow down sideringa new rule change at the . pus in those, fall semesters. So, tant movement of Argentina's mod­ Through the efforts of LeMay and the choices to two clubs - Phila~ upcoming winter meetings. The rule, really, outside of going to classes and ern theater, the Independent Theater the Student Cultural Arts Commis­ delphia and Boston. The· Phillies which was' implemented later that that I didn't have too muchassocia­ Movement, also known as the Ex­ sion, the series will progress even offered Yaz $60 thousand' to sign year, made' players who' received tion with' the schoo!." perimental Latin American Theater. further when Carlos Fuentes will then increased it to $80 thousand, over a $4 thousand bonus subject to . Today, Yaz does not regret the Dragun is the winner of the Cuban speak to Notre· Dame students and arid then finally hiked the price to a reentry draft after one year in decision to attempt to finish,his edu­ Casa de las Americas prize in litera­ faculty on November 1, ;1979. $95 thousand with a $7 thousand big the minors. The Yastrzemskis did cation at Notre Dame. "Without a. ture. His best· and most important Fuentes, hailed as Mexico's greatest -league contract. Carl's father turned not like this idea at all. doubt it was the right decision. I en­ by Dave Gill play, Histopara SeT contadas (Stories living writer, ranks' in stature and them down because they refused to So, on November ·28, 1958, Carl joyed it on the whole, even with all To Be Told), is done entirely with­ reputation as one of the m'ost signifi­ pay for Carl's' remairiing'years of Yastrzemski signed with the Red the rules and regulations." A series of lectures by noted Latin out stage setting, and four act'ors play cant writers of all time in uriiversaI education. To Carl Sr. education Sox. The contract called for' a $108 . ; Although yaz has not been back American' authors :. continues this all the roles.· They combine panto~ letters. Am'ong his best~known.works ·always came first. thousand bonus, a' two-year Triple-A to the campus in six years,' he says, month with the appearance of Os­ mime, dialogue, and ,direct com:" are Aura and The Death otArtemio After rejeCting Philadelphia in the contract of $5 thousand per year, "I still follow all, the sports, no .valdo Dragun, an internationally munication with the audience. Ac- Oruz, the latter internationally re- summer of '58 Yaz returned to plus the rest of his college expenses. doubt about that. And McMurtrie acclaimed Argentinian.' playwright, · cording to critic Donald L. -Schmidt, '. ceived as one of the most· universal Notre Dame and began his sopho- By signing a pro contract Yaz had and Gibbons keep me informed as to and William I." Oliver, professor, StOries To Be Told explores; iIi a · works t'o come from Latin,America. · more year of. studies. Gibbons viv- to forfeit his grant-in-aid and be­ everything . going . on there. So I critic, and writer from. the Univer­ · symbolic way, "the predicament of "We're hopeful," . stated LeMay, · idly recalls that the pressure of the came ineligible to play varsity ball pretty .. much stay' up .with 'the I sity of California at. Berkeley. On modern man in a society. that has ."that Fuentes' visit will permit us to bidding was weighing heavily oIi at NotreDame.Yaz finished out his schoo!." And according to Gibbons, April,25, 8 p.m. in the Library Audi~ · lost its human values. ,.The impact' · bring' other Latin Anlerican . writers Yaz. Meanwhile, Cincinnati with fall semester that year arid in' the Carl even "goes nuts" whenever he torium, 'the two writers will discuss · of each of these stories is heightened .to campus so they.can share their Gabe Paul at the helm, entered in on spring of 1959 he was assigned to hears that the football or basketball the' ExperimentaiLatinAmerican' both by its brevity and by the lack artistry." Some of tilose Latin Amer:­ the bidding·,late. Paul reportedly the Raleigh, North Carolina, Capitals team has lost -·themark of atnie Theater and other current trends in of visual setting. Together, . these ican writers include Gabriel Garcia offered Yaz $125 thousand but when' of the Class B Carolina League. Domer, if there ever was one. And Latin American literature. . qualities sharpen the. focus on the Marquez,author of 100 Yearso!Sol­ Carl's father tried to get $150 thou­ , Carl returned to Notre Dame a sure sign that CarLYastrzemski is . The 'lecture series began as·. a co­ basic human confiict." . itude, and Julio Cortazar, who wrote sand to ensure Carl's brother's edu- three times after turning pro to pur- still with his alma mater in spirit. 0 operative venture between theSoph- , "We' must stop thinking about Hopscotch and Blow Up. 0 20 , . SCHOLASTIC APRIL' 20, 1979 21 -

v.: (Defensively) I have not been floating. I have been v.: Look, it says something! N.: - the time; yes, you've said that before. Well, preparing for a stable future. . .. I have been waiting now, what do you suggest? N.: Message ex machina, heh? for the Dough! V.: (Thinks • •. hard. Brightens • •. an idea.) We could V.: (Ignores comment by Nottolhere. Moves his lips (Pause. Nottolhere, ignoring Vaurien, contemplates the tell jokes! , silently, reading to himself. His lace brightens . . • an tower again.) \ idea!) O.K. I'll be him (Points to statue.) You be us, and N.: (Cynically) It is amazing the way you keep com­ N.: What is that? I i I'll start with this (holds out paper). ing up with these brilliant ideas. But with your jokes, I the time would pass more slowly, I dare say. En Attendant L'Argent V.: What, the Dough? Even you must know ... N.: But I still don't know who he is. (Points to statue) / f _. V.: (Ignores N.) Two rabbis are walking ... N.: No, no, no, not that. What is this thing we are I V.: (Straightens up, smooths his clotMs, becomes or looking at? . President of the School. Reads from paper) If you don't N.: (Turns on V.) Does it always have to be rabbis know who I am, you must be living on Mars. and Jewish mothers? Don't you know any other kinds of V.: It's a tower, I would say. Yes, it's definitely a tower jokes? . Waiting for the Dough of some sort. N.: (Catching up, plays along now) Well, I'm sorry, sir, but yoti give the impression of never being here: V.: (Patiently, begins again) Two Holy Cross Fathers N.: (Annoyed) I can see it's a tower. I am attempting are walking out of the synagogue, and one says' to the V.: My child, I am afraid that is an egregiously, mis­ to discover what kind of tower it is. other ... taken impression. You may not realize it, my boy, but I V.: I was simply ... (Mocking.Nottolhere) attempting spend well over fifty-nine point eight percent of my time N.: (Grabs V. by the collar) Very funny! to discover some way to keep the conversation going. here, 'and I ... Trying to pass the time. And besides, why should I know V.: (Pushes N. away.) Well, if you don't like my sug­ by Chuck Wood any more about that tower than you do? I only go in N.: (Pretending anger and indignation) Don't patron­ gestions, you think of something. ' there if it will help me get the Dough; it very rarely ize me, padre. You're supposed to be helping me develop N.: '(Thinks) O.K. You be us, and this time I'll be a A walkway. A tower. A statue. Midafternoon. does, actually. as an adult, not treating me like a child. president, the student President. Ready? Two young men are under the statue. One, Vaurien, sits V.: My dear boy, people will be treating you like a N.: (Throws up his hands in disgust) You and your V.: You just want to get back at me for setting you up up against the statue's pedestal. The other, Nottolhere, child throughout your life, no matter how mature you precious Dough. That is all you evertalk about, all you before. So no thank you. paces, looking at the tower. Vaurien glances up at think about, I dare say. Everything you have done is may be. I am of the, opinion ·that we should provide you Nottolhere, speaks. based on your expectation of how it will help you get the with the opportunity to acclimate yourself to this state N.: But you must! Dough. There must be more! of affairs. Vaurien: Will you please sit down? Your pacing and V.: Who do you think you 'are, tE~lling me that I must? thinking makes me weary! V.: (Not at all bothered by th.e criticism, thinks . .• N.: There's nothing about that in the brochures! What N.: (Straightens up, smooths his. clothes, becomes Stu­ hard. His face brightens • .• an idea!) We could play happened to broadening my horizons and expanding my N~ttolhere: I will sit "down when the time presents itself.: dent President) I am your representative, your Presi­ games!. That would pass the time. consciousness? I keep asking myself. "When are they Presently, I am attempting to figure something out. But going to start broadening my horizons?" I didn't come dent. now, thanks to you,. I'v~ lost it. Where was I? N.: What? here just because the Sack Race Team won the National V.: (Decides to play) WeIll didn't vote for you. Vaurien: When? Championship, you know! V.: Games. Everybody plays games around here. I'm N.: That is your problem. I represent you neverthe­ N ottolhere: When what? surprised you haven't noticed that. V.: My son, I appreciate your position. ButT think you should attempt to appreciate the need for certain rules less. V.: When were you wherever it was you were asking N.: . (Confused, mumbles) Games? Such as ... ? in order to. . . . where you were? V.: Well then, let's see a little representation. What V.: What? N.: (Defiantly) Well, what if I just ignore the rules,I did you have in mind? ' N.: (confused) Back then,before now ... I should don't like, huh! What about that!? ' , " think. N.: (Louder) Games such as ... what? N.: (Clears his throat) Well ... in order to establish a V.: (Smiles) It's been tried before, my boy. But try if better understanding of your needs and to ameliorate V.: How long before now? V.: Well ... Well ... I know! You could pretend to be you like, abolish something. It will be no action of mine, relations with the Administration. . . . . " N.: (Exasperated) I was hoping you knew. If I can't. us, and I could pretend to be him. (Points to statue) but the reaction, or lack thereof, of your fellows that V.: Yes, yes? count on you to pay attention to. me,on whom can I will be your doWIifall. . . N.: I cannot say as I like that idea very much.... count? (Pause) Some time ago I was on the verge of N.: ... I think we should have a forum. N.: (Indignantly) What do you mean? figuring something out, and now ... V.: Or you could be him! V.: (Shrugs) Fine with me: Will he be there? (Points V~: (Excited) T remember! You were wondering about V.: Well, they won't be so bold as to admit to agreeing N.: I cannot say as I like that idea.much either. I to statue) that tower ... or the statue, I can't remember which. with the rule, but their very inertia: will speak for itself. would not know how to begin. I know very little about (Stands to join Nottolhere) Yes, I believe you were N.: Of course. He wants to know how we feel. (As Moses. N.: (Truly angry) You think you're so damned clever! really ontosomething. . ' himself) (Realizes he is getting mad at V. and not -the School Now go away. V.: (Throw~' up his hands' in disgust, suggestive of N.: (Smiles) It's coming back to me now ... (Frowns) . President, stops playing) Oh, this is getting us nowhere. V.: 'WHAT? I recall that you were no help whatsoever! You just sat NottOlhere's earlier. motion.) Not Moses, the other one. I'm going! there and watched me struggling with my thoughts. . . . Read the plaque on the pedestal. N.: (Whispers) G~ away ... so you can come in ... V.: (Still playing) If you insist on throwing these for the Forum. . V.: And it was a good fight too. (Chuckles, Nottolhere N.: (Reads) "Moses, or perhaps the School President." temper tantrums, young man, I am afraid I'll have to ... does not laugh. Vaurien becomes more serious.) And as (Pause) Well that does shed new light on the situation. V.: If you insist. (Walks away) (PaUse. N. waits/or N.: (Shouts) Don't you know when to stop!? I am not far as not helping you, you know i see no reason to tax I . am afraid, I know' even. less about him than . about V. to return. Long pause. N. begins to whistle~as if In)" brain any more than necessary. Just getting through Moses. playing anymore! (Pause) You set me up and made me to a dog.) is enough work for me, thank you. look like a fool! ,', (They both stare, puzzled, at the statue. Slowly one hand - . '. N.: Vaurien, where are you? (Beat) Vaurien! N.: Well; you have been content to simply float through of the statue opens, revealing a piece of paper. The V.: (La:ughs softly) Yes,I did, didn't I? (Beat) Well, this episode since it began. (Turns away trom Vaurien) paper falls, Vaurien catches it.) '. , anyWay, it passed-' . V.: (Returns slowly.). Where were you?

22 . ' SCHOLASTIC APRIL 20, 1979 23 - v.: (Defensively) I have not been floating. I have been v.: Look, it says something! N.: - the time; yes, you've said that before. Well, preparing for a stable future. . .. I have been waiting now, what do you suggest? N.: Message ex machina, heh? for the Dough! V.: (Thinks • •. hard. Brightens • •. an idea.) We could V.: (Ignores comment by Nottolhere. Moves his lips (Pause. Nottolhere, ignoring Vaurien, contemplates the tell jokes! , silently, reading to himself. His lace brightens . . • an tower again.) \ idea!) O.K. I'll be him (Points to statue.) You be us, and N.: (Cynically) It is amazing the way you keep com­ N.: What is that? I i I'll start with this (holds out paper). ing up with these brilliant ideas. But with your jokes, I the time would pass more slowly, I dare say. En Attendant L'Argent V.: What, the Dough? Even you must know ... N.: But I still don't know who he is. (Points to statue) / f _. V.: (Ignores N.) Two rabbis are walking ... N.: No, no, no, not that. What is this thing we are I V.: (Straightens up, smooths his clotMs, becomes or looking at? . President of the School. Reads from paper) If you don't N.: (Turns on V.) Does it always have to be rabbis know who I am, you must be living on Mars. and Jewish mothers? Don't you know any other kinds of V.: It's a tower, I would say. Yes, it's definitely a tower jokes? . Waiting for the Dough of some sort. N.: (Catching up, plays along now) Well, I'm sorry, sir, but yoti give the impression of never being here: V.: (Patiently, begins again) Two Holy Cross Fathers N.: (Annoyed) I can see it's a tower. I am attempting are walking out of the synagogue, and one says' to the V.: My child, I am afraid that is an egregiously, mis­ to discover what kind of tower it is. other ... taken impression. You may not realize it, my boy, but I V.: I was simply ... (Mocking.Nottolhere) attempting spend well over fifty-nine point eight percent of my time N.: (Grabs V. by the collar) Very funny! to discover some way to keep the conversation going. here, 'and I ... Trying to pass the time. And besides, why should I know V.: (Pushes N. away.) Well, if you don't like my sug­ by Chuck Wood any more about that tower than you do? I only go in N.: (Pretending anger and indignation) Don't patron­ gestions, you think of something. ' there if it will help me get the Dough; it very rarely ize me, padre. You're supposed to be helping me develop N.: '(Thinks) O.K. You be us, and this time I'll be a A walkway. A tower. A statue. Midafternoon. does, actually. as an adult, not treating me like a child. president, the student President. Ready? Two young men are under the statue. One, Vaurien, sits V.: My dear boy, people will be treating you like a N.: (Throws up his hands in disgust) You and your V.: You just want to get back at me for setting you up up against the statue's pedestal. The other, Nottolhere, child throughout your life, no matter how mature you precious Dough. That is all you evertalk about, all you before. So no thank you. paces, looking at the tower. Vaurien glances up at think about, I dare say. Everything you have done is may be. I am of the, opinion ·that we should provide you Nottolhere, speaks. based on your expectation of how it will help you get the with the opportunity to acclimate yourself to this state N.: But you must! Dough. There must be more! of affairs. Vaurien: Will you please sit down? Your pacing and V.: Who do you think you 'are, tE~lling me that I must? thinking makes me weary! V.: (Not at all bothered by th.e criticism, thinks . .• N.: There's nothing about that in the brochures! What N.: (Straightens up, smooths his. clothes, becomes Stu­ hard. His face brightens • .• an idea!) We could play happened to broadening my horizons and expanding my N~ttolhere: I will sit "down when the time presents itself.: dent President) I am your representative, your Presi­ games!. That would pass the time. consciousness? I keep asking myself. "When are they Presently, I am attempting to figure something out. But going to start broadening my horizons?" I didn't come dent. now, thanks to you,. I'v~ lost it. Where was I? N.: What? here just because the Sack Race Team won the National V.: (Decides to play) WeIll didn't vote for you. Vaurien: When? Championship, you know! V.: Games. Everybody plays games around here. I'm N.: That is your problem. I represent you neverthe­ N ottolhere: When what? surprised you haven't noticed that. V.: My son, I appreciate your position. ButT think you should attempt to appreciate the need for certain rules less. V.: When were you wherever it was you were asking N.: . (Confused, mumbles) Games? Such as ... ? in order to. . . . where you were? V.: Well then, let's see a little representation. What V.: What? N.: (Defiantly) Well, what if I just ignore the rules,I did you have in mind? ' N.: (confused) Back then,before now ... I should don't like, huh! What about that!? ' , " think. N.: (Louder) Games such as ... what? N.: (Clears his throat) Well ... in order to establish a V.: (Smiles) It's been tried before, my boy. But try if better understanding of your needs and to ameliorate V.: How long before now? V.: Well ... Well ... I know! You could pretend to be you like, abolish something. It will be no action of mine, relations with the Administration. . . . . " N.: (Exasperated) I was hoping you knew. If I can't. us, and I could pretend to be him. (Points to statue) but the reaction, or lack thereof, of your fellows that V.: Yes, yes? count on you to pay attention to. me,on whom can I will be your doWIifall. . . N.: I cannot say as I like that idea very much.... count? (Pause) Some time ago I was on the verge of N.: ... I think we should have a forum. N.: (Indignantly) What do you mean? figuring something out, and now ... V.: Or you could be him! V.: (Shrugs) Fine with me: Will he be there? (Points V~: (Excited) T remember! You were wondering about V.: Well, they won't be so bold as to admit to agreeing N.: I cannot say as I like that idea.much either. I to statue) that tower ... or the statue, I can't remember which. with the rule, but their very inertia: will speak for itself. would not know how to begin. I know very little about (Stands to join Nottolhere) Yes, I believe you were N.: Of course. He wants to know how we feel. (As Moses. N.: (Truly angry) You think you're so damned clever! really ontosomething. . ' himself) (Realizes he is getting mad at V. and not -the School Now go away. V.: (Throw~' up his hands' in disgust, suggestive of N.: (Smiles) It's coming back to me now ... (Frowns) . President, stops playing) Oh, this is getting us nowhere. V.: 'WHAT? I recall that you were no help whatsoever! You just sat NottOlhere's earlier. motion.) Not Moses, the other one. I'm going! there and watched me struggling with my thoughts. . . . Read the plaque on the pedestal. N.: (Whispers) G~ away ... so you can come in ... V.: (Still playing) If you insist on throwing these for the Forum. . V.: And it was a good fight too. (Chuckles, Nottolhere N.: (Reads) "Moses, or perhaps the School President." temper tantrums, young man, I am afraid I'll have to ... does not laugh. Vaurien becomes more serious.) And as (Pause) Well that does shed new light on the situation. V.: If you insist. (Walks away) (PaUse. N. waits/or N.: (Shouts) Don't you know when to stop!? I am not far as not helping you, you know i see no reason to tax I . am afraid, I know' even. less about him than . about V. to return. Long pause. N. begins to whistle~as if In)" brain any more than necessary. Just getting through Moses. playing anymore! (Pause) You set me up and made me to a dog.) is enough work for me, thank you. look like a fool! ,', (They both stare, puzzled, at the statue. Slowly one hand - . '. N.: Vaurien, where are you? (Beat) Vaurien! N.: Well; you have been content to simply float through of the statue opens, revealing a piece of paper. The V.: (La:ughs softly) Yes,I did, didn't I? (Beat) Well, this episode since it began. (Turns away trom Vaurien) paper falls, Vaurien catches it.) '. , anyWay, it passed-' . V.: (Returns slowly.). Where were you?

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N.: (Becomes Student President again.) ,We were to V.: Well! have our Forum this evening. Where were you? I can't N.: Well? be expected to waste my ... Perspective V.: Well ... that certainly passed .. '. V.: (Laughs loudly) I was at Nickie's. Good times! N.: '(Almost screaming) Don't it!\ N.: ,(Throws up his hands in diSgust) Well no wonder S~y we, I niean they treat you like a child! ' V.: (Ohokes as he swallows the rest of tlie sentence. Olears his throat.) Who were they anyway?"I'm sure (V. pays no attention to N. Looks out into the. distance. I've see!! them around ... He sees two young men running toward them from op­ posite directions. The two mfien are Adi and Das.) N.: I am not sure. It becomes more difficult to tell anyone apart. We are all pretty much the same. It is V.: How very intriguing. I wonder what they're doing. hard to distinguish. who Is who from one day, to the (Adi and Das come closer, slow down, address each other next. It is hard to distinguish one day from the next, at ~he same time.) really. Each day, each week is pretty much like the one. before. It is disheartening, almost disgusting. (He cups by Lisa Hartenberger Adi: How's it going? Great! Excellent!! his hands to his mouth and shouts to the distance.) The Das: How's it going? Great!! Excellent!! days and the people in this episode are the same, only This' artiCle is a response to Paul employee by the 'employer who its purpose of degradation, reveals the names have been changed to keep us from dying of Laue1->s Perspective on rape which threatens to fire the person if his something about the essence of na­ N.: (As himself, calls to stop them) Excuse me! What bor~oin!! (Sighs, lowers his head.) appeared in the April 6, 1979, issue wishes are not met, the rape inside ture of the rapist. I cannot agree exactly is it that you are doing? of ,Scholastic. marriage where one partner does the economic system of capitalism is V.: (With feigned optimism) Don't worry, this isn't ,Adi: (Running in place) Keeping in shape. It's very­ not feel, free to refuse sexual rela­ the origin of rape, or that capitalism what real life is all about! ' tions . with the other partner, and actually requires this type of be­ Das: - Important to stay healthy and look healthy. N.: I am worried that it is (Beat) I'm going. . "Wooo" woo, baby!" a construc­ the implied rape in the request for havior. You two should 'be ashamed of yourselves. (Pokes N. in tion worker shouts;at the girl walk­ sexual favors as payment. for an Mr. Lauer asserted"... capitalism the stomach) All that flab. Besides, it keeps us 'occupied V.: (His tone a/voice should indicate that this is an ing past on ,the sidewalk. His fellow evening's entertainment. To this list, actually requires' this (type of)' be­ while wer'e- old argument.) Why are you so obsessed with talking workers snickeI" and begin to join I add the verbal harassment of, a havior toward individuals and the about how bad it is here? You go on 'and on, and then ' Adi: -waiting for the Dough. Gotta do something to---:­ in the ugly shouting and whistling. woman because she is a woman., In world." I cannot believe rape does you sayyou're going to leave but never do. (Intensely) The girl hangs her head and' tries to all these cases, rape has as its· pur­ not occur in socialist countries. True, Das:, - pass the ~ If you think it's so awful here why don't you just leave? ignore the' stares and tasteless com­ pose the degradation of the assaulted , there are no pure socialist countries, (N. turns away.) You and I both know why. You~ve 'got ments. She does not feel at all com­ person. Rape victims, it must be ob­ but America is as far from ideal N.: - time. Yes, I've heard that before somewhere. your eye on the Dough., You're just like the rest of, us, plimented; the men are not trying served, are not confined to women. capitalism as the Soviet Union is (Looks at V., sighs: Raises his eyes to the sky.) How but you complain to pass the time. (Grabs N.by the to express' an appreciation of her The purpose of rape is not sexual from ideal socialism. Ideal capital­ long, oh Lord? Howlong? shoulders and turns him around. They, stand face to physical, appearance. They are too gratification. Sexual desire often has ism is the system by which a man face. N. can say nothing, lowers his head. V~ continues.) far away to see what she even lookS veri Uttle to' do ,with rape, even in achieves wealth as a reward for his V.: (Intrigued, finally speaks up) How long have you Well, I am getting tired of hearing you insult me for been running like that? like;.they can only see that she is,a the rape of 'seXual assault. A rapist productivity and work. A man re­ waiting for the Dough. So what ~,I came}lere because woman. Mr. Lauer mentioned this . attacks all kinds of people, women ceives only what he merits .. People Das: I don't really know. It's hard to tell time when it helps get the Dough? Why else woUld anyo'ne in his situation in, his article, but I wish and children, as well as men; the do not use each other as mere' ob­ there's nothing to make one path, one hill or one minute right mind come here and stay here? Well? ' to use the example in'a slightly dif­ black, ,white, young, old have all jects 'or as means to an end. A different from- ' , " been victims of the, violent sexual healthy respect develops. for the N. says nothing.',V. lets gO,of his shoulders. Pause"dur­ ferent context. This incident, too, is the violation of another person, a assault: A rapist seekS the, degrada­ value and contributions of, the self ing which V., tired from his tirade,Sits down against the Adi:: the rest. Who can keep track of time? (StoPs tion of his victim, not sexual grati~ and others. Ideal capitalism most pedestal of the statue.) form of rape. I then intend to exam­ running in place. Scratches his head.) I never thought of ine Mr. Lauer's statement that, the flcation., certainly does not require one per­ that before. How long have we been running,Das? '" N.: (indignantly) Well, this time I ~eally am leaving. hierarchy of, capitalism, "which It is important to distinguish be­ son or group to degrade another; places one person or' group over tween the origin and the purpose of this degradation would be, in fact, Das: (Oonsiders the problem) Well ... if we knew how (He begins to walk away. Hewalk$a yard or two, another, underlies the phenomenon rape. The purpose of rape is to de.. self-defeating and contradictory. often we pased'each other within a given unit of time, stops. Sighs, shakes his head and silently returns. He of rape." grade the victim: The origin of rape A rapist intends to degrade his and assuming we could agree upon the total number of looks from V. to the statue to the toWer, sighs,' walks I The woman verbally harassed by is not' to be confused with this pur­ victim. This purpose does not indi­ times we have passed each other, we couldthen deter­ away a few feet but cannot go. He begins to pace, look­ the men is, indeed, little more than pose. illustrate the' danger ,in cate that capitalism is the origin of mine ... ing at the toiver.V. glances up at him.V.-speak8.) 'To an 'object, as Mr. ,Lauer, suggested. confusing origin and purpose, con­ the "phenomenon" of rape. The pur­ Adi: . (Breaks in) Do you always have to show off like V.: Sit down, will you? You make me tired. ':Vhy'do I These same men would not consider sider a tree. A tree may have a pur­ pose of rape does, however, reveal that? (To N. and V.) Give an Engineering major an you insist on pacing? shouting such, rude comments to pose_in making paper, but the tree something about the nature of the inch and he'll take ... I their mothers, sisters, wives,,' and did not originate for that reason. rapist. Furthermore, true capitalism N.: ,Iwill sit down. When the time presents itself. Now, sweethearts. I agree there is a fun­ The tree's usefulness in' the produc­ does not require 'the use of people . Das: Don't start picking on me again! At least I've if you don't mind, I will continue to pace while I try to damental similarity in the various tion of paper, reveals' something as a "means to an end." Nor does got some practical goals! You and your Arts and Lei- flgure something out. I was on the verge of remember- types of rape Mr. Lauer cited: the about the,essence, that iS,to say, the capitalism "require the .behavior 'of sure, where's that gonna get you? ' ,ing what it was I was figuring out, but thankS to you vIolent street rape, the, rape which peculiar characteristics, of a tree. It degradation, such as we obs,erve in I've'lost it. Now where was I? ' ' . , , occurs during wars,lthe rape of an is equally, vaHd to, say rape, with the act of rape, toward others. 0 Adi: 'I remind you that I am in the Careerism Concen~ tration and I see no reason .... Ourtain: 0' Das: Aw, forget it. We're wasting our time. I feel like :. - I'm gaining weight; Idon't~wantto end up like them. Ohuck Wood is a freshman' planning 'to major in Eco­ (Points to N. cind V. Starts to run in place, Adi joins nOmics. This is his first, contribution. He says he wrote him. They run off in opposite directions-: Pause.) , this play • .• to pass the time. 24 " ,'SCHOLASTIC ApRIL 20, ·1979 25 -

N.: (Becomes Student President again.) ,We were to V.: Well! have our Forum this evening. Where were you? I can't N.: Well? be expected to waste my ... Perspective V.: Well ... that certainly passed .. '. V.: (Laughs loudly) I was at Nickie's. Good times! N.: '(Almost screaming) Don't it!\ N.: ,(Throws up his hands in diSgust) Well no wonder S~y we, I niean they treat you like a child! ' V.: (Ohokes as he swallows the rest of tlie sentence. Olears his throat.) Who were they anyway?"I'm sure (V. pays no attention to N. Looks out into the. distance. I've see!! them around ... He sees two young men running toward them from op­ posite directions. The two mfien are Adi and Das.) N.: I am not sure. It becomes more difficult to tell anyone apart. We are all pretty much the same. It is V.: How very intriguing. I wonder what they're doing. hard to distinguish. who Is who from one day, to the (Adi and Das come closer, slow down, address each other next. It is hard to distinguish one day from the next, at ~he same time.) really. Each day, each week is pretty much like the one. before. It is disheartening, almost disgusting. (He cups by Lisa Hartenberger Adi: How's it going? Great! Excellent!! his hands to his mouth and shouts to the distance.) The Das: How's it going? Great!! Excellent!! days and the people in this episode are the same, only This' artiCle is a response to Paul employee by the 'employer who its purpose of degradation, reveals the names have been changed to keep us from dying of Laue1->s Perspective on rape which threatens to fire the person if his something about the essence of na­ N.: (As himself, calls to stop them) Excuse me! What bor~oin!! (Sighs, lowers his head.) appeared in the April 6, 1979, issue wishes are not met, the rape inside ture of the rapist. I cannot agree exactly is it that you are doing? of ,Scholastic. marriage where one partner does the economic system of capitalism is V.: (With feigned optimism) Don't worry, this isn't ,Adi: (Running in place) Keeping in shape. It's very­ not feel, free to refuse sexual rela­ the origin of rape, or that capitalism what real life is all about! ' tions . with the other partner, and actually requires this type of be­ Das: - Important to stay healthy and look healthy. N.: I am worried that it is (Beat) I'm going. . "Wooo" woo, baby!" a construc­ the implied rape in the request for havior. You two should 'be ashamed of yourselves. (Pokes N. in tion worker shouts;at the girl walk­ sexual favors as payment. for an Mr. Lauer asserted"... capitalism the stomach) All that flab. Besides, it keeps us 'occupied V.: (His tone a/voice should indicate that this is an ing past on ,the sidewalk. His fellow evening's entertainment. To this list, actually requires' this (type of)' be­ while wer'e- old argument.) Why are you so obsessed with talking workers snickeI" and begin to join I add the verbal harassment of, a havior toward individuals and the about how bad it is here? You go on 'and on, and then ' Adi: -waiting for the Dough. Gotta do something to---:­ in the ugly shouting and whistling. woman because she is a woman., In world." I cannot believe rape does you sayyou're going to leave but never do. (Intensely) The girl hangs her head and' tries to all these cases, rape has as its· pur­ not occur in socialist countries. True, Das:, - pass the ~ If you think it's so awful here why don't you just leave? ignore the' stares and tasteless com­ pose the degradation of the assaulted , there are no pure socialist countries, (N. turns away.) You and I both know why. You~ve 'got ments. She does not feel at all com­ person. Rape victims, it must be ob­ but America is as far from ideal N.: - time. Yes, I've heard that before somewhere. your eye on the Dough., You're just like the rest of, us, plimented; the men are not trying served, are not confined to women. capitalism as the Soviet Union is (Looks at V., sighs: Raises his eyes to the sky.) How but you complain to pass the time. (Grabs N.by the to express' an appreciation of her The purpose of rape is not sexual from ideal socialism. Ideal capital­ long, oh Lord? Howlong? shoulders and turns him around. They, stand face to physical, appearance. They are too gratification. Sexual desire often has ism is the system by which a man face. N. can say nothing, lowers his head. V~ continues.) far away to see what she even lookS veri Uttle to' do ,with rape, even in achieves wealth as a reward for his V.: (Intrigued, finally speaks up) How long have you Well, I am getting tired of hearing you insult me for been running like that? like;.they can only see that she is,a the rape of 'seXual assault. A rapist productivity and work. A man re­ waiting for the Dough. So what ~,I came}lere because woman. Mr. Lauer mentioned this . attacks all kinds of people, women ceives only what he merits .. People Das: I don't really know. It's hard to tell time when it helps get the Dough? Why else woUld anyo'ne in his situation in, his article, but I wish and children, as well as men; the do not use each other as mere' ob­ there's nothing to make one path, one hill or one minute right mind come here and stay here? Well? ' to use the example in'a slightly dif­ black, ,white, young, old have all jects 'or as means to an end. A different from- ' , " been victims of the, violent sexual healthy respect develops. for the N. says nothing.',V. lets gO,of his shoulders. Pause"dur­ ferent context. This incident, too, is the violation of another person, a assault: A rapist seekS the, degrada­ value and contributions of, the self ing which V., tired from his tirade,Sits down against the Adi:: the rest. Who can keep track of time? (StoPs tion of his victim, not sexual grati~ and others. Ideal capitalism most pedestal of the statue.) form of rape. I then intend to exam­ running in place. Scratches his head.) I never thought of ine Mr. Lauer's statement that, the flcation., certainly does not require one per­ that before. How long have we been running,Das? '" N.: (indignantly) Well, this time I ~eally am leaving. hierarchy of, capitalism, "which It is important to distinguish be­ son or group to degrade another; places one person or' group over tween the origin and the purpose of this degradation would be, in fact, Das: (Oonsiders the problem) Well ... if we knew how (He begins to walk away. Hewalk$a yard or two, another, underlies the phenomenon rape. The purpose of rape is to de.. self-defeating and contradictory. often we pased'each other within a given unit of time, stops. Sighs, shakes his head and silently returns. He of rape." grade the victim: The origin of rape A rapist intends to degrade his and assuming we could agree upon the total number of looks from V. to the statue to the toWer, sighs,' walks I The woman verbally harassed by is not' to be confused with this pur­ victim. This purpose does not indi­ times we have passed each other, we couldthen deter­ away a few feet but cannot go. He begins to pace, look­ the men is, indeed, little more than pose. illustrate the' danger ,in cate that capitalism is the origin of mine ... ing at the toiver.V. glances up at him.V.-speak8.) 'To an 'object, as Mr. ,Lauer, suggested. confusing origin and purpose, con­ the "phenomenon" of rape. The pur­ Adi: . (Breaks in) Do you always have to show off like V.: Sit down, will you? You make me tired. ':Vhy'do I These same men would not consider sider a tree. A tree may have a pur­ pose of rape does, however, reveal that? (To N. and V.) Give an Engineering major an you insist on pacing? shouting such, rude comments to pose_in making paper, but the tree something about the nature of the inch and he'll take ... I their mothers, sisters, wives,,' and did not originate for that reason. rapist. Furthermore, true capitalism N.: ,Iwill sit down. When the time presents itself. Now, sweethearts. I agree there is a fun­ The tree's usefulness in' the produc­ does not require 'the use of people . Das: Don't start picking on me again! At least I've if you don't mind, I will continue to pace while I try to damental similarity in the various tion of paper, reveals' something as a "means to an end." Nor does got some practical goals! You and your Arts and Lei- flgure something out. I was on the verge of remember- types of rape Mr. Lauer cited: the about the,essence, that iS,to say, the capitalism "require the .behavior 'of sure, where's that gonna get you? ' ,ing what it was I was figuring out, but thankS to you vIolent street rape, the, rape which peculiar characteristics, of a tree. It degradation, such as we obs,erve in I've'lost it. Now where was I? ' ' . , , occurs during wars,lthe rape of an is equally, vaHd to, say rape, with the act of rape, toward others. 0 Adi: 'I remind you that I am in the Careerism Concen~ tration and I see no reason .... Ourtain: 0' Das: Aw, forget it. We're wasting our time. I feel like :. - I'm gaining weight; Idon't~wantto end up like them. Ohuck Wood is a freshman' planning 'to major in Eco­ (Points to N. cind V. Starts to run in place, Adi joins nOmics. This is his first, contribution. He says he wrote him. They run off in opposite directions-: Pause.) , this play • .• to pass the time. 24 " ,'SCHOLASTIC ApRIL 20, ·1979 25 -

them a decided advantage over the teams with just one or two big guns. "Teams may be able to beat us at one or two," explains Mark, "but '\ after that we'll whip anyone at the lower seeds." Coach Fallon likened TENNIS IS HIS RACQUEr this strategy to that employed by Digger Phelps this season. Mark likes to talk at length about the collegiate tennis scene and its Building a future. "I feel the game is in real by Jim Trausch good shape. It's 'fast and exciting and, along with the nationwide ten­ What is a Californian from the test in itself. The wind makes each nis boom, is beginning to be noticed sunny, warm, and slightly crazy shot an adventure. The cold makes by the public. Ohio State and Mich~ FirIll West Coast doing in staid and snowy it impossible to ever really get igan draw -thousands of fans to their northern Indiana? If he is Mark warmed up for a match and _you matches. The game has really caught Trueblood then he is the captain of stand a' chance of pulling' some­ on at those campuses. Teams like the Notre Dame tennis team that is thing~" Nevertheless, Mark has Ohio State and Michigan have ex­ looking forWard to one of its best learned to ignore the eleml!nts and tensive facilities, both indoor and Foundation seasons and a possible NCAA bid. has been a starter since sophomore outdoors," continUed Mark, "and I Trueblood, a senior in the school year. He now feels that he is playing know that Coach Fallon and the of Business, became captain this as well as he has ever played., team would like to see Notre Dame year by the votes of his teammates. Mark is looking forward to an add better indoor courts to the al­ Tom Fallon, coach of the Irish net­ outstanding final year of tennis. "So ready excellent outside setup. tel' squad; felt this was due to the far I have played really well this , "The college game is being played "enormous respect -the team has for year. Against the big schools like at a higher and higher level every Mark as a leader and as one of the Michigan, Ohio State, and Southern year," according to Mark. "A guy , by Bill Scholl guys." Mark sees his role as cap­ California.... I've held my own and like John McEnroe is the number tain as that of a unifier, one that given some of their best players a one player in college one year and "First it is for the stUdents." Architects (AIA) Honor Award, the will keep the team close. He also real run. Actually; I've been the in­ the next year he's one of the highly These are words seldom heard when AIA's highest honor. The building sees his job as keeping the team dicator in each match of how the ranked pros. There just really is varsity sports and first-rate athletic offers stUdents three interchangeable loose and ready for each match. team will do. When I win, the team not that much of a difference be­ facilities are the topics of discussion, courts which provide playing area Mark is one of the hardest work­ wins, when I lose, well,' the team­ tween the top college players and particularly at a national athletic for' tennis; volleyball and basketball. ing members of the team. He keeps loses." Mark proved this analysis to those on the tour," added Mark. This powerhouse such as Notre Dame. It has a multipurpose area which al': , himself in tip-top shape by adher­ be sincere in a recent match against upgrading of the quality of college And to be sure, these words were lows for, gymnastics, 'fencing, exer­ ing to a strict regimen of running Wisconsin. Mark played outstanding­ tennis should help the game be­ not intended to refer to Notre cise and dance, while its two rac­ and lifting weights. Mark also workS ly in a thrilling three-set victory and cause it will bring good players into Dame's Athletic and Convocation quetball/squash courts complete the on more than just the physical as­ ,the team responded with an upset the ranks for a few years of collegi­ Center or to the Fighting Irish var­ facilities for intramural and recrea­ pect of the game. He feels that "con­ win over the top twenty-ranked Bad­ ate seasoning. - sity program. Rather, they were tional activities. centration and the mental- part of gers. Mark and the team have been Mark and fellow teammate Bob spoken by Kathleen Cordes, athletic "Angela is really one of the main tennis are just as important as a untouchable since~ "We are on the Koval will make a smaller jump into director at St. Mary's College (yes, reasons that our varsity and intra­ sound backhand or a powerful serve. right track" now," beamed Mark, tne pro ranks this summer when they do play sports across the mural programs are doing as well Because I'm not particularly big and "we're not gonna lose the rest of the they play on a satellite circuit in street), and she was referring to the as they are," says Cordes, who is in strong I have to outthink my op­ year." Europe. It is used basically for up­ Angela Athletic Facility and the her second year as athletic director. ponent and make him play my game. This team ·that is "not gonna lose and-coming pros who want to earn ever-growing list of varsity and in­ Currently, Saint Mary's lists eight This way I take advantage of my the rest of the year" is very deep points toward qualifying for a WCT tramural sports offered at the all­ varsity sports which include basket­ and therein lies its success. At quickness' and beat my opponent to tou.."llament.' While neither has girls' school. ball, field hockey" softball, swim~ the punch." " , number one is 'Carlton "Crut" Har­ grandiose plans of qualifying for a "The Angela Athletic Facility is ming, tennis, volleyball, golf and Mark, who is thin and wiry at 5'11 ris, a junior with an excellent back­ big tour event, Mark feels the trip really an excellent facility and we fencing. Approximately 150 girls and 140 lbs.,' enjoyed an outstand­ hand. Checking in at number two is will be beneficial in that "it will give try to remember that it's there for compete in the varsity program that ing high school career before com­ Herb' "Poo Bear" Hopwood, a soph­ us a chance to experience Europe the -students," says Cordes. "We Cordes feels is one of the 'best and ing to Notre Dame. But coming to omore who is a tough scrappy player and the peOple and play some tennis don't rent it out to shows and things most extensive programs in Indiana. Notre Dame was an experience in it­ who fights for every point. Nuinber against some stiff competition." of that nature very often, especially "And I'm not just talking about Mark Trueblood self for Mark; he had quite a time three is' Mark, "Hollywood" 'Hoyer Playing -tennis at a school dom­ during the school year, because we schools our own size," says Cordes. adjusting to the weather. "That first who' sports a mean backhand and inated by football and basketball want to keep it available to the stu­ In the past, and up until the con­ volleys well. ' , ' week here at ND ... I'll never for­ enthusiasts is not easy but Mark dents." , clusion of the. current school year, get it . .'. it rained for one week, The s'econd three consist of True­ and the team do a good job of, sur­ The ,Angela -Athletic Facility is a schools participating in women's straight. I felt like getting back on blood, Bob "Kold" Koval who hits viving. Mark" sees a bright future very ,modern-looking structure ,of varsity athletics have been divided the plane and going home. You guys the hardest serve on the team, and for himself and the team here in the glass and steel that first opened its into, two groups, large schools and gct some real nice weather," Mark a group of promising freshmen second half of the season in spite of doors in September 1977. Since that small schools. Saint Mary's com­ deadpanned sarcastically. headed by Hartzell and Robison. the blustery and cold climate. And time it 'has garnered several awards petes in the small school division. Mark finds playing outside in Mark feels that the depth on the why not? Mter all, he didn't come for its design, the most recent of However, beginning next year, the damp and windy South Bend a "real team at the 3-4-5 positions gives here for the weather. 0 which is' American, Institute of schools will be divided into groups 26 'SCHOLASTIC ApRIL 20, 1979 27 -

them a decided advantage over the teams with just one or two big guns. "Teams may be able to beat us at one or two," explains Mark, "but '\ after that we'll whip anyone at the lower seeds." Coach Fallon likened TENNIS IS HIS RACQUEr this strategy to that employed by Digger Phelps this season. Mark likes to talk at length about the collegiate tennis scene and its Building a future. "I feel the game is in real by Jim Trausch good shape. It's 'fast and exciting and, along with the nationwide ten­ What is a Californian from the test in itself. The wind makes each nis boom, is beginning to be noticed sunny, warm, and slightly crazy shot an adventure. The cold makes by the public. Ohio State and Mich~ FirIll West Coast doing in staid and snowy it impossible to ever really get igan draw -thousands of fans to their northern Indiana? If he is Mark warmed up for a match and _you matches. The game has really caught Trueblood then he is the captain of stand a' chance of pulling' some­ on at those campuses. Teams like the Notre Dame tennis team that is thing~" Nevertheless, Mark has Ohio State and Michigan have ex­ looking forWard to one of its best learned to ignore the eleml!nts and tensive facilities, both indoor and Foundation seasons and a possible NCAA bid. has been a starter since sophomore outdoors," continUed Mark, "and I Trueblood, a senior in the school year. He now feels that he is playing know that Coach Fallon and the of Business, became captain this as well as he has ever played., team would like to see Notre Dame year by the votes of his teammates. Mark is looking forward to an add better indoor courts to the al­ Tom Fallon, coach of the Irish net­ outstanding final year of tennis. "So ready excellent outside setup. tel' squad; felt this was due to the far I have played really well this , "The college game is being played "enormous respect -the team has for year. Against the big schools like at a higher and higher level every Mark as a leader and as one of the Michigan, Ohio State, and Southern year," according to Mark. "A guy , by Bill Scholl guys." Mark sees his role as cap­ California.... I've held my own and like John McEnroe is the number tain as that of a unifier, one that given some of their best players a one player in college one year and "First it is for the stUdents." Architects (AIA) Honor Award, the will keep the team close. He also real run. Actually; I've been the in­ the next year he's one of the highly These are words seldom heard when AIA's highest honor. The building sees his job as keeping the team dicator in each match of how the ranked pros. There just really is varsity sports and first-rate athletic offers stUdents three interchangeable loose and ready for each match. team will do. When I win, the team not that much of a difference be­ facilities are the topics of discussion, courts which provide playing area Mark is one of the hardest work­ wins, when I lose, well,' the team­ tween the top college players and particularly at a national athletic for' tennis; volleyball and basketball. ing members of the team. He keeps loses." Mark proved this analysis to those on the tour," added Mark. This powerhouse such as Notre Dame. It has a multipurpose area which al': , himself in tip-top shape by adher­ be sincere in a recent match against upgrading of the quality of college And to be sure, these words were lows for, gymnastics, 'fencing, exer­ ing to a strict regimen of running Wisconsin. Mark played outstanding­ tennis should help the game be­ not intended to refer to Notre cise and dance, while its two rac­ and lifting weights. Mark also workS ly in a thrilling three-set victory and cause it will bring good players into Dame's Athletic and Convocation quetball/squash courts complete the on more than just the physical as­ ,the team responded with an upset the ranks for a few years of collegi­ Center or to the Fighting Irish var­ facilities for intramural and recrea­ pect of the game. He feels that "con­ win over the top twenty-ranked Bad­ ate seasoning. - sity program. Rather, they were tional activities. centration and the mental- part of gers. Mark and the team have been Mark and fellow teammate Bob spoken by Kathleen Cordes, athletic "Angela is really one of the main tennis are just as important as a untouchable since~ "We are on the Koval will make a smaller jump into director at St. Mary's College (yes, reasons that our varsity and intra­ sound backhand or a powerful serve. right track" now," beamed Mark, tne pro ranks this summer when they do play sports across the mural programs are doing as well Because I'm not particularly big and "we're not gonna lose the rest of the they play on a satellite circuit in street), and she was referring to the as they are," says Cordes, who is in strong I have to outthink my op­ year." Europe. It is used basically for up­ Angela Athletic Facility and the her second year as athletic director. ponent and make him play my game. This team ·that is "not gonna lose and-coming pros who want to earn ever-growing list of varsity and in­ Currently, Saint Mary's lists eight This way I take advantage of my the rest of the year" is very deep points toward qualifying for a WCT tramural sports offered at the all­ varsity sports which include basket­ and therein lies its success. At quickness' and beat my opponent to tou.."llament.' While neither has girls' school. ball, field hockey" softball, swim~ the punch." " , number one is 'Carlton "Crut" Har­ grandiose plans of qualifying for a "The Angela Athletic Facility is ming, tennis, volleyball, golf and Mark, who is thin and wiry at 5'11 ris, a junior with an excellent back­ big tour event, Mark feels the trip really an excellent facility and we fencing. Approximately 150 girls and 140 lbs.,' enjoyed an outstand­ hand. Checking in at number two is will be beneficial in that "it will give try to remember that it's there for compete in the varsity program that ing high school career before com­ Herb' "Poo Bear" Hopwood, a soph­ us a chance to experience Europe the -students," says Cordes. "We Cordes feels is one of the 'best and ing to Notre Dame. But coming to omore who is a tough scrappy player and the peOple and play some tennis don't rent it out to shows and things most extensive programs in Indiana. Notre Dame was an experience in it­ who fights for every point. Nuinber against some stiff competition." of that nature very often, especially "And I'm not just talking about Mark Trueblood self for Mark; he had quite a time three is' Mark, "Hollywood" 'Hoyer Playing -tennis at a school dom­ during the school year, because we schools our own size," says Cordes. adjusting to the weather. "That first who' sports a mean backhand and inated by football and basketball want to keep it available to the stu­ In the past, and up until the con­ volleys well. ' , ' week here at ND ... I'll never for­ enthusiasts is not easy but Mark dents." , clusion of the. current school year, get it . .'. it rained for one week, The s'econd three consist of True­ and the team do a good job of, sur­ The ,Angela -Athletic Facility is a schools participating in women's straight. I felt like getting back on blood, Bob "Kold" Koval who hits viving. Mark" sees a bright future very ,modern-looking structure ,of varsity athletics have been divided the plane and going home. You guys the hardest serve on the team, and for himself and the team here in the glass and steel that first opened its into, two groups, large schools and gct some real nice weather," Mark a group of promising freshmen second half of the season in spite of doors in September 1977. Since that small schools. Saint Mary's com­ deadpanned sarcastically. headed by Hartzell and Robison. the blustery and cold climate. And time it 'has garnered several awards petes in the small school division. Mark finds playing outside in Mark feels that the depth on the why not? Mter all, he didn't come for its design, the most recent of However, beginning next year, the damp and windy South Bend a "real team at the 3-4-5 positions gives here for the weather. 0 which is' American, Institute of schools will be divided into groups 26 'SCHOLASTIC ApRIL 20, 1979 27 one, two and three. Group-one Goodpaster ••• Lucey ••• schools will be those that offer up to, (continued from page 5) 100% scholarships while group-two (continued from page 5) schools will be allowed to give little prospect of expanding their capacity significantly up to 50% scholarships. Division and to the environment. The questionable justice of to meet expanding demand. Others, such as natural three, the one which Saint Mary's , such exportation should give us pause. Some swords gas and oil, though widely used in the past, have be­ will compete in, will be for schools make poor plowshares. only offering up to 10% scholarship In the end, of course, it must be the citizens (not come uneconomic as reserves become depleted. Po­ tential sources such as solar, tidal, wind, nuclear aid. the technocrats) of a society who decide on ends and Cordes sees ,the new setup as be­ means, on goals and strategies. But inevitably, the de­ breeders, nuclear fusion and biomass cannot be de­ ing a type of "saving grace" for cision made will concern future persons who have only veloped rapidly enough to make a significant contribu­ Saint Mary's. "We don't offer any the voice which we give them. Our energy future tion by the turn of the century (even later in some scholarships to our athletes, and it should be one which we can live with, but one which cases). was getting more and more difficult our children (and the children of other tribes on this The energy sources which have a well-developed to compete with the schools who globe) can live with as well. 0 technology and are economically viable to meet ex­ were giving them. It still won't be panded energy demand are coal and uranium. Both, easy because even 10% can make, as do all the other sources mentioned earlier, can have quite a difference when' it's com­ significant, potentially adverse, effects on the en­ pared to no aid at all. But the new vironment and on public health. Failure to meet ex­ divisions will' help us out,'" says Professor Kenneth E. Goodpaster teaches philosophy panding energy demands will also have an adverse Cordes, who once served as Notre courses ,in CarporateEthicsand Environmental Ethics. effect on the economy and, consequently, on the en- Dame's, first female coach when she He has 'participated for several' years in the research vironment and public health: . , ' coached the varsity women's tennis of Notre Dame's Philosophic Institute (see Values in the The question of the nation's. (and the world's) energy. team at Du Lac. Electric Power Industry, University of Notre Dame future is a difficult and complex one. It does not have The fact that Saint Mary's does Press, 1977). ThiS, month Notre Dame Press will re­ a simple solution, nor a cheap one. 0 not offer scholarships to its athletes lease his latest book, coedited with Professor K. M. is an indication of the school's desire Sayre: Ethics and Problems of the 21st Century. , to keep the varsity, as well as the John Lucey is an Associate Professor in the Aerospace intramural program, open to all stu­ and Mechanical Engineering Department. dents. "Our goal is to keep the var­ sity program open: and yet remain competitive," says Cordes. "We like

to keep it fun and active but it is not >' : ':.', ,;:. -;, ',-' an intramural program. " It's getting Crowe. "The facilities just aren't about 42% of our'student body par-' harder imd harder to' accomplish adequate and we had minimal tipicates in nonvarsity athletics." Outward Bound is a this goal but I ,think we Cando it-: practice time. I think we had a 'According to Cordes, the school of­ high-adventure trip into the wilderness. I guess only, time will tell." , . lot of swimmers who could, have fers intramural sports in volleyball, And a lot more. Everybody wants to be number really done well' if the conditions ,basketball, racquetball, tennis, swim­ one and many of Saint Mary's ath­ It's a trip that shows you what. had been' better. Also, our season . ming; softball, and track and field. you're made of. For the first time letes are no" different.", Because of was only two weeks long so.it was Co-recreational volleyball and bas­ in your life you confront yourself this there are those who . wish the pretty difficult to get in a qualifying ketball are also 'offered "with ~ the face-to-face: You learn you can do school would make more of a finan­ time." But Crowe feels the 'season • students at Notre Dame: In addition, anything you really want to do. cial commitment to the varsity pro­ did give the team a starting point the school also fields club sports, in All this takes just three weeks. gram. "I think we could draw a lot But the self-confidence you learn for the future, and'she says,things ,conjunction' with Notre' Dame" in might just last you a lifetime. more potential and develop more in­ are being done to improve the situa- • crew, sailing, and skiing. ' terest and attention if we.' offered tion. For example, the school is cur- "Weare really proud of our non­ Send me full information. some scholarships," says 'sophomore rently trying to arrange to use the varsity programs," says Cordes. Cindy SchUSter, who is currently the facilities at Clay High School, in '''Because cjf our size, we are able to Name number-one singles player on the, South Bend, for next year's season. run Angela very much like a private tennis team. But she also admits Despite the fact that Saint Mary's 'club with the students calling' ahead Street that this could detract' from the does not offer any athletic scholar- : of time for reservations;.Not many I "open,quality" that now exists with-' , State I ships it continues to act like a school schools can do that. We also' run our I City Zip I in the program. that takes its athletics seriously. The ~ cross-country skiing program on a Ellen Crowe is another Belle who Angela Athletic Facility is only one similar basis.'" , School. wishes that it were possible to up­ example; Another is its role'as host First it's for the students>That Phone grade the' program through scholar­ school for the Midwest Tennis Tour- seems to be the goal that the Belles No experience necessary. , ships but realizes that this is "yearS nament which includes the to!> two ,of 'Saint Mary's have set 'for them­ Outward Bound admits students oJany Check the courses that Interest you. sex. race. color and national or ethniC away." Crowe, a sophomore swim­ schools from each, of ,. six, 'different " selves' 'as' far, as their athletic pro­ origin. We are a nonproJIt organization. Canoeing _ Desert expeditions.- mer who haS qualified for regionals, states.. The tournament; which was gramS are. i~ivolved. 'For ,'the' mo­ Scholarships available. White water Wilderness' feels that the swimming. program won by the Belles last year, is for ment they seem to' be accomplishing rafting backpacking was not·as good as it should have schools with 3,000, women or, less that goal.' Hopefully;, that' goal will Sailing Mountaineering been this Past seaSon but that "it's and will include Notre Dame.,': ,not be lost in the shuffle"as it has Outward Bound. Dept. CA. 165 W. Putnam Ave .• improving all the time. Things really But varsity athletics ~ is not : been at so many other schools acro~s' Greenwich. CT 06830. didn't go verY.well this year," says Cordes' only concern.' "Right now, 'the country. 0 Phone toll free (800) 243·8520,

28 SCHOLASTIC. APRIL 20, 1979 29 one, two and three. Group-one Goodpaster ••• Lucey ••• schools will be those that offer up to, (continued from page 5) 100% scholarships while group-two (continued from page 5) schools will be allowed to give little prospect of expanding their capacity significantly up to 50% scholarships. Division and to the environment. The questionable justice of to meet expanding demand. Others, such as natural three, the one which Saint Mary's , such exportation should give us pause. Some swords gas and oil, though widely used in the past, have be­ will compete in, will be for schools make poor plowshares. only offering up to 10% scholarship In the end, of course, it must be the citizens (not come uneconomic as reserves become depleted. Po­ tential sources such as solar, tidal, wind, nuclear aid. the technocrats) of a society who decide on ends and Cordes sees ,the new setup as be­ means, on goals and strategies. But inevitably, the de­ breeders, nuclear fusion and biomass cannot be de­ ing a type of "saving grace" for cision made will concern future persons who have only veloped rapidly enough to make a significant contribu­ Saint Mary's. "We don't offer any the voice which we give them. Our energy future tion by the turn of the century (even later in some scholarships to our athletes, and it should be one which we can live with, but one which cases). was getting more and more difficult our children (and the children of other tribes on this The energy sources which have a well-developed to compete with the schools who globe) can live with as well. 0 technology and are economically viable to meet ex­ were giving them. It still won't be panded energy demand are coal and uranium. Both, easy because even 10% can make, as do all the other sources mentioned earlier, can have quite a difference when' it's com­ significant, potentially adverse, effects on the en­ pared to no aid at all. But the new vironment and on public health. Failure to meet ex­ divisions will' help us out,'" says Professor Kenneth E. Goodpaster teaches philosophy panding energy demands will also have an adverse Cordes, who once served as Notre courses ,in CarporateEthicsand Environmental Ethics. effect on the economy and, consequently, on the en- Dame's, first female coach when she He has 'participated for several' years in the research vironment and public health: . , ' coached the varsity women's tennis of Notre Dame's Philosophic Institute (see Values in the The question of the nation's. (and the world's) energy. team at Du Lac. Electric Power Industry, University of Notre Dame future is a difficult and complex one. It does not have The fact that Saint Mary's does Press, 1977). ThiS, month Notre Dame Press will re­ a simple solution, nor a cheap one. 0 not offer scholarships to its athletes lease his latest book, coedited with Professor K. M. is an indication of the school's desire Sayre: Ethics and Problems of the 21st Century. , to keep the varsity, as well as the John Lucey is an Associate Professor in the Aerospace intramural program, open to all stu­ and Mechanical Engineering Department. dents. "Our goal is to keep the var­ sity program open: and yet remain competitive," says Cordes. "We like to keep it fun and active but it is not >' : ':.', ,;:. -;, ',-' an intramural program. " It's getting Crowe. "The facilities just aren't about 42% of our'student body par-' harder imd harder to' accomplish adequate and we had minimal tipicates in nonvarsity athletics." Outward Bound is a this goal but I ,think we Cando it-: practice time. I think we had a 'According to Cordes, the school of­ high-adventure trip into the wilderness. I guess only, time will tell." , . lot of swimmers who could, have fers intramural sports in volleyball, And a lot more. Everybody wants to be number really done well' if the conditions ,basketball, racquetball, tennis, swim­ one and many of Saint Mary's ath­ It's a trip that shows you what. had been' better. Also, our season . ming; softball, and track and field. you're made of. For the first time letes are no" different.", Because of was only two weeks long so.it was Co-recreational volleyball and bas­ in your life you confront yourself this there are those who . wish the pretty difficult to get in a qualifying ketball are also 'offered "with ~ the face-to-face: You learn you can do school would make more of a finan­ time." But Crowe feels the 'season • students at Notre Dame: In addition, anything you really want to do. cial commitment to the varsity pro­ did give the team a starting point the school also fields club sports, in All this takes just three weeks. gram. "I think we could draw a lot But the self-confidence you learn for the future, and'she says,things ,conjunction' with Notre' Dame" in might just last you a lifetime. more potential and develop more in­ are being done to improve the situa- • crew, sailing, and skiing. ' terest and attention if we.' offered tion. For example, the school is cur- "Weare really proud of our non­ Send me full information. some scholarships," says 'sophomore rently trying to arrange to use the varsity programs," says Cordes. Cindy SchUSter, who is currently the facilities at Clay High School, in '''Because cjf our size, we are able to Name number-one singles player on the, South Bend, for next year's season. run Angela very much like a private tennis team. But she also admits Despite the fact that Saint Mary's 'club with the students calling' ahead Street that this could detract' from the does not offer any athletic scholar- : of time for reservations;.Not many I "open,quality" that now exists with-' , State I ships it continues to act like a school schools can do that. We also' run our I City Zip I in the program. that takes its athletics seriously. The ~ cross-country skiing program on a Ellen Crowe is another Belle who Angela Athletic Facility is only one similar basis.'" , School. wishes that it were possible to up­ example; Another is its role'as host First it's for the students>That Phone grade the' program through scholar­ school for the Midwest Tennis Tour- seems to be the goal that the Belles No experience necessary. , ships but realizes that this is "yearS nament which includes the to!> two ,of 'Saint Mary's have set 'for them­ Outward Bound admits students oJany Check the courses that Interest you. sex. race. color and national or ethniC away." Crowe, a sophomore swim­ schools from each, of ,. six, 'different " selves' 'as' far, as their athletic pro­ origin. We are a nonproJIt organization. Canoeing _ Desert expeditions.- mer who haS qualified for regionals, states.. The tournament; which was gramS are. i~ivolved. 'For ,'the' mo­ Scholarships available. White water Wilderness' feels that the swimming. program won by the Belles last year, is for ment they seem to' be accomplishing rafting backpacking was not·as good as it should have schools with 3,000, women or, less that goal.' Hopefully;, that' goal will Sailing Mountaineering been this Past seaSon but that "it's and will include Notre Dame.,': ,not be lost in the shuffle"as it has Outward Bound. Dept. CA. 165 W. Putnam Ave .• improving all the time. Things really But varsity athletics ~ is not : been at so many other schools acro~s' Greenwich. CT 06830. didn't go verY.well this year," says Cordes' only concern.' "Right now, 'the country. 0 Phone toll free (800) 243·8520,

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The' Last Word

by J~ke Morrissey SENIORS! Don't leave ND empty handed. He was listening to her. only lasted about a month. They I call~ home and asked for some "Yeah, well, things haven't ex­ fired me because I called in sick money. They told me to come home, actly been going badly, but they with sunstroke when all I wanted all was forgiven, provided I did haven't been that good, either, do was a day off. So, anyway, I went them one favor.. My other sister had Subscribe. you know what I mean? It seems to the beach and met my boss who 'just had a baby and would I get like everything came together, all was not thrilled with my being there. 'rid' of it for them? 'Getting rid the shit. Life was going O.K. until I told the hairdresser about it when of it' I found out was selling on the my parents threw me out of the I got back that night and he got baby market. Jesus, it'made me ' house. I usually can see things like really upset. He called me irre­ sick to my stomach. I took the baby, that coming, but this took me com- sponsible and unambitious and lazy. a little girl, back to the city. I cried . pletely off guard. One simple ar­ He was going to kick me out but I when I handed her over. I went gument and, boom, -I'm out of the calmed him down. Being kicked out back home hating my parents, but house. So I packed my bags, col- . of one place was enough. Then my I knew that I didn't have enough lected my pennies and nickels and sister horned in. She made me ask money to live 'anyplace else. So I dimes and headed for New York. I him if she could move in with us. worked at my father's gas station knew a kid who goes to NYU so I She has a job at a bank, Chase, I for a while and got some money figured I could stay with him for a think, and needed a cheap place to together, and got ready to head for while. He was kind of surprised to live. I asked the hairdresser if she California. I met this guy with a NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC see me, but I think he was glad to could move in and he, naturally, hit . ton of problems who wanted to go to NOTRE DAME, INDIANA 46556 help me· out. But his roommate the roof. This time he called me California too. He fell in love with definitely didn't want me there. I every name in the book amI kicked me, and his parents were rich so I Please send me· a subscription. to SCHOLASTIC for was just about to get the hell out of me· out too. Of course my sister married him. I don't regret it now, ...... years at $5.00 a year. there when I met this guy at this went on her merry way; and found it's just strange to think that I I am enclosing $ ...... CASH bar, who turned out to be a hair­ a place down in the Village. So would be married at all, let alone dresser at Sassoon's We :t:a.lked for there I was, hitting the streets, trying to this guy. So we started out for ...... CHECK a while and ... well ... got to know to find my sister's apartment when California. Started out is right: we Name ...... :...... each other. A week later I moved what happens? The blackout. The ran out of money in Kansas. We in with him. His apartment was goddammed New York blac~out. I were stuck there for a while, so we huge. Six rooms on the East Side. was mugged twice. Once by a guy found jobs to try to get some bucks Address ...... Rent-free. I felt like a leech, . with a knife who I smooth-talked together.... I'm sorry I didn't in­ though, so I looked for a job and into letting me go and again by this vite you to the wedding," she said found one at the reception desk at gang of twelve-year-old kids with to him, "but everything just hap­ City ...... pened so fast I didn't get a chance the Manhattan office of the Ameri­ rocks and glass, who nearly killed State ...... ~...... Zip ...... can Automobile Association, .dis­ me. They took my watch and my to have anyone there." pensing aid and assistance across wallet, with all of seven dollars in it. "I understand," he said. But he the metropolis. It was awful, but it Things were .looking pretty bad, .so didn't. ·0

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The' Last Word by J~ke Morrissey SENIORS! Don't leave ND empty handed. He was listening to her. only lasted about a month. They I call~ home and asked for some "Yeah, well, things haven't ex­ fired me because I called in sick money. They told me to come home, actly been going badly, but they with sunstroke when all I wanted all was forgiven, provided I did haven't been that good, either, do was a day off. So, anyway, I went them one favor.. My other sister had Subscribe. you know what I mean? It seems to the beach and met my boss who 'just had a baby and would I get like everything came together, all was not thrilled with my being there. 'rid' of it for them? 'Getting rid the shit. Life was going O.K. until I told the hairdresser about it when of it' I found out was selling on the my parents threw me out of the I got back that night and he got baby market. Jesus, it'made me ' house. I usually can see things like really upset. He called me irre­ sick to my stomach. I took the baby, that coming, but this took me com- sponsible and unambitious and lazy. a little girl, back to the city. I cried . pletely off guard. One simple ar­ He was going to kick me out but I when I handed her over. I went gument and, boom, -I'm out of the calmed him down. Being kicked out back home hating my parents, but house. So I packed my bags, col- . of one place was enough. Then my I knew that I didn't have enough lected my pennies and nickels and sister horned in. She made me ask money to live 'anyplace else. So I dimes and headed for New York. I him if she could move in with us. worked at my father's gas station knew a kid who goes to NYU so I She has a job at a bank, Chase, I for a while and got some money figured I could stay with him for a think, and needed a cheap place to together, and got ready to head for while. He was kind of surprised to live. I asked the hairdresser if she California. I met this guy with a NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC see me, but I think he was glad to could move in and he, naturally, hit . ton of problems who wanted to go to NOTRE DAME, INDIANA 46556 help me· out. But his roommate the roof. This time he called me California too. He fell in love with definitely didn't want me there. I every name in the book amI kicked me, and his parents were rich so I Please send me· a subscription. to SCHOLASTIC for was just about to get the hell out of me· out too. Of course my sister married him. I don't regret it now, ...... years at $5.00 a year. there when I met this guy at this went on her merry way; and found it's just strange to think that I I am enclosing $ ...... CASH bar, who turned out to be a hair­ a place down in the Village. So would be married at all, let alone dresser at Sassoon's We :t:a.lked for there I was, hitting the streets, trying to this guy. So we started out for ...... CHECK a while and ... well ... got to know to find my sister's apartment when California. Started out is right: we Name ...... :...... each other. A week later I moved what happens? The blackout. The ran out of money in Kansas. We in with him. His apartment was goddammed New York blac~out. I were stuck there for a while, so we huge. Six rooms on the East Side. was mugged twice. Once by a guy found jobs to try to get some bucks Address ...... Rent-free. I felt like a leech, . with a knife who I smooth-talked together.... I'm sorry I didn't in­ though, so I looked for a job and into letting me go and again by this vite you to the wedding," she said found one at the reception desk at gang of twelve-year-old kids with to him, "but everything just hap­ City ...... pened so fast I didn't get a chance the Manhattan office of the Ameri­ rocks and glass, who nearly killed State ...... ~...... Zip ...... can Automobile Association, .dis­ me. They took my watch and my to have anyone there." pensing aid and assistance across wallet, with all of seven dollars in it. "I understand," he said. But he the metropolis. It was awful, but it Things were .looking pretty bad, .so didn't. ·0

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