Dry Spell Grips Notre Dame

O n The Inside Calendar Survey . page 2 Academic Code page 5 THEserv/ng the notre dameOBSERVER - st. mary's community Vol. IX, No. 2 JJtednesdajr^ugusM8^19^ Directive outlaw Dry spell grips Notre Dame by Terry Keeney If the university did not change its policy toward News Editor underage drinking, Macheca said, both the university and the individual student could be held liable under Dean of Students John Macheca ruled current Indiana law for violating drinking laws. Monday that students under 21 years of age Macheca described a case last Sunday in which 137 will not be allowed to consume alcoholic persons, involved in a customary Amish ceremony, beverages on campus. were arrested and charged an average of $49 each for The directive was issued to comply with serving alcohol to minors. two recent Indiana Court decisions that Brother Just Paczesny, vice president for student regulate sale and service to minors. affairs, concurred with Macheca’s assessment. The directive outlawed all hall and “ The ogre is the sta te ,” said Paczeny. “ If we can get section parties and outlined enforcement the state to change we’re in good shape. We had no procedures against underage drinkers that choice but to go back on the regulations we had last run as high as an assessment of $50 for y e a r.” serious violations. Coming in the wake of two recent Indiana court The ruling by the dean of students extends only to decisons, the directives by the Dean of Students are an those circumstances of underage drinking in the attempt to comply with those decisions whch extend residence hall “which the hall staffs either know or legal liability for underage drinking to anyone who has should be aware of.” Macheca said that under many knowledge of its existence. circumstances the hall staffs can and should be aware of underage drinking. In the two-page statement to rectors and hall staffs Macheca wrote, “By virtue of our responsibilities to “If something is so conspicuous as to be obvious to the state, the institution and the students, we will not any reasonable person that you have an abuse of only respect the law but also confront those who don’t. alcohol and if we have good reasonto believe there is a Our rules and regulations, as well as our procedures violation of university rules , we have a right and must be consistent with the laws of the State of In obligation to become involved,” he said. diana.” The ruling leaves some area for students under 21 to drink alcohol. Macheca admitted that under certain The directive is a complete reversal from last year’s circumstances rectors and RA’s cannot be expected to drinking and party guidelines which allowed underage know that minors are drinking. drinking in moderation. Macheca argued that the “ If a student is in his room and is not 21 years old and university had no choice in abolishing underage drinking a beer,” he said, “there’s no way I can be drinking because of the new law expected to know that.” In the two-page statement to rectors and hall staffs Both Macheca and Paczeny emphasized that the new Macheca wrote, ruling will be enforced on a hall-to-hall basis. Staffs in ...If we can get the state to chage we’re in good each hall will be asked to establish enforcement shape. We had no choice but to go back on the “We’ve looked at every alternative and everybody policies for members of that hall. Only those in regulations we had last year.” (photo by Zenon Bidzinski) we’ve talked to feels we don’t have any choice,” cidents which are serious or occur outside the Macheca explained. residence hall will be handled on the University level. (continued on page 3) Football suspensions- no criminal matter “Any other student is not going to suffer such adverse publicity,” Parseghian by Tom Drape added. Editor in Chief Roger Valdiserri, Sports Information Director, said the issue had been — and handled through the adminsitration and not the athletic department. Greg Corgan “Responsibilityfor any details released was taken by the university ad Sports Editor minsitration,” Valdiserri said. The university did not release the names of the six students involved. The nameswere releasedby an assistant St. Joseph County Prosecutor from an un Six Notre Dame Football players were suspended from the University for at signed complaint si filed by an 18-year old South bend Woman alledging rape. least two semesters during the summer session. The offical university The complaint was withdrawn the next day. statement said the action followed, “a serious violation of University rules.” John Macheca, Dean of Students said that he too could not comment on the In separate statements, yesterday, Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh, University details of the case due to the univerisyt’s confidentiality policy. president and Ara Parseghian, head football coach, emphasized that the Macheca explained that any re-admission proceedings would be the same as suspensions did not involve a criminal matter. any other student. Main criteria for re-admission will be academics and The incident occurred on July 3 in Stanford Hall and resulted in the suspension discipline. of six student athletes. Five other students were placed on one year probations. “Their primary hurdle will be to overcome disciplinary problems.,, Macheca Their names were withheld by the University. said. As with any other student, Macheca added, they will have to demonstrate An investigation by John Macheca, Dean of Students, resulted in the suspension real desire to return. of defensive ends, Ross Browner and Willie Fry; offensive halfbacks Dan Knott An estimate of the six students chances for readmission would be be possible and A1 Hunter; and strong safety Luther Bradley and Roy Henry, reserve until their re-application, Macheca said A fair and complete evaluation could quaterback. not be made until then, he said. The official university statement, released July 25, stated that a university policy of confidentiality in disciplinary procedures was being respected in not releasing the university rules violated. Fr. Hesburgh referred consistently to the confidentiality of each student in volved. “The situation was handled exactly the same for thesesstudentsas any other students.” Hesburgh said. Calendar survey In his statement, Parseghian said that the six were suspended because they had a girl in their room after hours constituting a parietals violation. “After a person is apprehended for violating a university rule, no matter who he is, the same penalties are to be imposed,” Parseghian said. “Further, this should go as a forewarning to anyone else. ’’ ...See page 2 According to university judicial procedure, each student involved was given the choice of appearing before the judicial board or the Dean of Students. All chose the Macheca’s office .Their final appeal was made to Fr. Hesburgh. Suspended dismissal for a period of no less than one academic year was determined by Fr. Hesburgh after the six students appealed to him directly. New academic code Parseghian was also permitted an appeal on their behalf to Hesburgh. The dean’s recommendation had been expulsion. Parsegian does not feel the penalty was totally commendable. “They treat all students alike by there are other considerations. The same penalty doesn’t ...See page 5 always result in the same consequences,” Parseghian said. 2 the observer Wednesday, August 28, 1974 world Survey shows Students dislike calendar by Fred Graver dar. briefs and A1 Rutherford determine student reaction of the In the course of last year’s calendar as each minor - change Observer Editors debate over the calendar, Father occurs. A second poll will be taken Burtchaell, provost of the after the October break to In an Observer survey of 280 University, stated that “If people determine how stuedents were, MIAMI (UPI) - A 74-year old woman, Mrs. Madelyn Pratlaw, was students conducted yesterday 88 aren’t satisfied next fall, we’ll able to adjust to the new vacation bound over to a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges of at per cent of those polled favored know about it.” One of the ob in mid-semester The third poll will tempting to smuggle $350,000 worth of cocaine into the country. reconsideration of the current jectives of this poll is to make be conducted toward the end of Academic Calendar. public student feeling about the the semester, to gain an over all MANHEIM, Germany (UPI) - In what officials called one of West The poll, which included a calendar. viewpoint on the calendar, and to Germany’s worst prison scandal, 11 guards have been arrested on random sampling of up The results of this poll comprise gather suggestions for im charges ranging from manslaughter to illicit sex and liquor traf perclassmen,sought to ascertain the first part of a three part poll provement or change in the ficking, State justice minister Traugott Bender said Tuesday. the student’s feelings about the which will be conducted by the calendar. present calendar situation. Observer during the semester to BELFAST (UPI) - A premature explosion in an apparent Irish Of the students who were asked OBSERVER CALENDAR SURVEY Republican Army bomb factory killed one man and injured two whether the pre-Labor Day start others Tuesday in the border town of Newry, a British army affected their summer earnings, 68 1. Were your summer earnings affected by the spokesman said. per cent answered yes and 32 per cent answered no. pre-Labor Day start? YES 68 per cent NO 32 percent BERKELEY, Calif. (UPI) - Shotgun blasts fired into a crowded Among those students who after hours club early Tuesday killed one man and wounded four claimed a loss in summer ear others, including heavyweight boxer Thadeus Spencer.

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