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-~-f- . - - - ~.- - .:::- ...... ------==- -.:2 --- Editor Dave Satterfield Managing Editor Bob Southard SCt10L!\)T ( Art Director Vol. 121, No.3, October 19, 1979 Jim Hofman Notre Dame, Indiana production Manager The Nazz Theresa Rebeck News Editor lisa Hartenberger sponsored by ND Student Union Fiction Editor Tom Balcerek FEATURES Copy Editor 5 Black Studies: Cloaked in Confusion Chuck Wood Anthony Walton 8 In the Heart of the Atom Phyllis Washington Culture Editor Greg Solman 10 "Why Me?" Joe Camarda Sports Editor . Tom Westphal 12 The Journey Back . Libby Kennedy St. Mary's Editor 23 Women at ND: 7 Years of Struggle Cathy Wisniewski Kari Meyer Layout Editor 26 Ice-Cold Optimism Brian. Beg/ane Clay Malaker Photography Editor Ken McAlpine- REGULARS .'. Business Manager 100 Center .. Bankamericard Pahl Davis 4 Perspective Steve' Hilbert Mishawaka, IN 46544 Master Charge Advertisement Manager Kevin Murphy Phone 255-3438 E-Z in-store Financing 14. Film Rich Marcello Hours: 9-12 Wed. & Thurs. Distribtuion . Manager Jerry Murphy 16 Gallery Eileen O'Meara 9-12 Fri. & Sat. Undergraduate Advisor 18 Books Mark Rust Everyone welcome! Bernie Valenti Greg Solman Tom' Clark No admision charged! .- 20 Fiction 28 Music Tim Gulstine Staff Tom Krueger John Maddog Muldoon, Don Schmid, Chris John ThC?rnton Stewart, . Mary Leavitt, Donna Teevan, 30 The Last Word Dave Satterfield Cathy Wisniewski,' Pat Worklan, Jim Sommers, Michael Diaz, Ken Scarbrough, Maryellen. Bradley, Chuck >Wood, David N. Randall,' Keith Caughlin, Steve Burkart, " Rick Keppel; 'Brendan Brown, Dodee Car r------~1 ney, Michael"Meisch, Ed Wimmer, Rich I ,Scholastic . '.1 Marcello, Tim' Tedrik, Lee' Smoien, . Tom Satisfaction .1, LaFortune Student Center I Krueger, Ann Bridget Clarke,. Cecelia I. Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 I· Susan Labriola;; Betsy Spinelli, Tom II O'Toole, Phyllis Washington,Kev}n,Paulson Gratitude I'I PII ease send ...... years of Scholastic I , . . . ··I·at $7:00 per year to: t . Gra tifaction IN' I '1" arne .... ;...... ;...... ~..... I Credits'" The opinions expressed in Scholastic those of the authors and editors of Scholastic Front Cover: McAlpine. ~re K~'~' and do not necessarily represent the opinions ofthe entire 'staffand: editorial board of You can earn these with very little I Address ...... : ...... ::.;~.;...... I Scholastic or. the University of Notre Dame, its.' administration, faculty, or the' student I I Back Cover: Katie O'Meara.' ' difficulty. Just give your parents I . I body. ", or ·friends a subscription to Scholastic, I: City ...... ~ ...... :...... I Illustrations: Jim Hofman, 9, 21, 23; Paul Monardo,28. :.' The magazine is represented for national advertising by National Educational Advertising and we guarantee they'll love you for it. I'. . I ServiCes and CASS Student Advertising, Inc. Published fortnightly during the school year I'. State .... ; ...... Zip .. :.. :...... I Photographs:Eileen O'Me~ra, 3, 11,12, 24; except during vacation and examination periods, Scholastic is printed at Ave Maria Press, L ______....,...:... __...;...:...- ____.;.... ______l Ken McAlpine, 5, 30; Publicity Photos, 14, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556 .. The_subscription rate is $7.00. a: year and back issues are available from Scholastic.)lease address all manuscripts to Scholastic, Notre Dame, Ind. 15,18,19; Scholastic Archives, 26. .. . 46556. All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic• copyright © 1979 Scholastic / all rights reserVed / none of the contents may be repro- :: Advisory Board Jim Winters; Mario Pedi/ Edward Fischer: duced without permission. ' .

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. ,;. .,.-.. " Editor Dave Satterfield Managing Editor Bob Southard SCt10L!\)T ( Art Director Vol. 121, No.3, October 19, 1979 Jim Hofman Notre Dame, Indiana production Manager The Nazz Theresa Rebeck News Editor lisa Hartenberger sponsored by ND Student Union Fiction Editor Tom Balcerek FEATURES Copy Editor 5 Black Studies: Cloaked in Confusion Chuck Wood Anthony Walton 8 In the Heart of the Atom Phyllis Washington Culture Editor Greg Solman 10 "Why Me?" Joe Camarda Sports Editor . Tom Westphal 12 The Journey Back . Libby Kennedy St. Mary's Editor 23 Women at ND: 7 Years of Struggle Cathy Wisniewski Kari Meyer Layout Editor 26 Ice-Cold Optimism Brian. Beg/ane Clay Malaker Photography Editor Ken McAlpine- REGULARS .'. Business Manager 100 Center .. Bankamericard Pahl Davis 4 Perspective Steve' Hilbert Mishawaka, IN 46544 Master Charge Advertisement Manager Kevin Murphy Phone 255-3438 E-Z in-store Financing 14. Film Rich Marcello Hours: 9-12 Wed. & Thurs. Distribtuion . Manager Jerry Murphy 16 Gallery Eileen O'Meara 9-12 Fri. & Sat. Undergraduate Advisor 18 Books Mark Rust Everyone welcome! Bernie Valenti Greg Solman Tom' Clark No admision charged! .- 20 Fiction 28 Music Tim Gulstine Staff Tom Krueger John Maddog Muldoon, Don Schmid, Chris John ThC?rnton Stewart, . Mary Leavitt, Donna Teevan, 30 The Last Word Dave Satterfield Cathy Wisniewski,' Pat Worklan, Jim Sommers, Michael Diaz, Ken Scarbrough, Maryellen. Bradley, Chuck >Wood, David N. Randall,' Keith Caughlin, Steve Burkart, " Rick Keppel; 'Brendan Brown, Dodee Car r------~1 ney, Michael"Meisch, Ed Wimmer, Rich I ,Scholastic . '.1 Marcello, Tim' Tedrik, Lee' Smoien, . Tom Satisfaction .1, LaFortune Student Center I Krueger, Ann Bridget Clarke,. Cecelia I. Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 I· Susan Labriola;; Betsy Spinelli, Tom II O'Toole, Phyllis Washington,Kev}n,Paulson Gratitude I'I PII ease send ...... years of Scholastic I , . . . ··I·at $7:00 per year to: t . Gra tifaction IN' I '1" arne .... ;...... ;...... ~..... I Credits'" The opinions expressed in Scholastic those of the authors and editors of Scholastic Front Cover: McAlpine. ~re K~'~' and do not necessarily represent the opinions ofthe entire 'staffand: editorial board of You can earn these with very little I Address ...... : ...... ::.;~.;...... I Scholastic or. the University of Notre Dame, its.' administration, faculty, or the' student I I Back Cover: Katie O'Meara.' ' difficulty. Just give your parents I . I body. ", or ·friends a subscription to Scholastic, I: City ...... ~ ...... :...... I Illustrations: Jim Hofman, 9, 21, 23; Paul Monardo,28. :.' The magazine is represented for national advertising by National Educational Advertising and we guarantee they'll love you for it. I'. . I ServiCes and CASS Student Advertising, Inc. Published fortnightly during the school year I'. State .... ; ...... Zip .. :.. :...... I Photographs:Eileen O'Me~ra, 3, 11,12, 24; except during vacation and examination periods, Scholastic is printed at Ave Maria Press, L ______....,...:... __...;...:...- ____.;.... ______l Ken McAlpine, 5, 30; Publicity Photos, 14, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556 .. The_subscription rate is $7.00. a: year and back issues are available from Scholastic.)lease address all manuscripts to Scholastic, Notre Dame, Ind. 15,18,19; Scholastic Archives, 26. .. . 46556. All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic• copyright © 1979 Scholastic / all rights reserVed / none of the contents may be repro- :: Advisory Board Jim Winters; Mario Pedi/ Edward Fischer: duced without permission. ' .

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. ,;. .,.-.. " by.Steve H~lbert I have 'to get this paper done by Well, aren't they automatic if you· No way, what are you, some kind tomorrow morning. " ; , , go to Notre Dame and attend church of Communist or something? ., ~' . . Why?> regularly? What about your duty to your- Well, the professor doesn't accept' They don't have to be any 'l1Wre self? ' , '. late papers, and I have to get a good than that? Nothing truly personal? Well, I guess I come before my grade in the class. Well ... I don't see any reason country, but you see America is for Why? why I really need them, I still get' the individual. Everyone can go out Well, I guess so that I can gradu my job if it appears that I have', and pursue his own' happiness. So, ate high in my class and go on to them. I think I might have' them, I can take care of myself pretty Black Studies: " ;. law school. anyway, because I kind of know well. Why? ' what is right and wrong. Like I Would you go to war? So I ,can go out in the world and know ,that you're not supposed to No way. I'd go to Canada. make money and succeed. go to bed with a different girl every What about your country?, Why? ' night because you could catch some- Well, I just don't think that there Cloakecl Well; isn't that what you're sup thing. Plus, ,Mom said it was is any such thing as winning w'ars posed to do? wrong. I'm supposed to treat girls: anymore. All it would mean is, my

I don't know, is it? ','like I would want my sister to be death. . .' .' ~ • I' .' Well, my father did and now he treated. I also know other things Would you die for something that lias a nice house and a Mercedes like you shoulan'tmurder anybody. you believe in? Benz. That is one of the Ten Command- Yeah, I think so. Olt, I see. Is that important? ments. I learned them for a test in Do you believe in America? You're confusing. me. Sunday school. Besides, you would You're damn right I do! .... I go to jail for at least five years see your point ... but I still think I think it would be safe to say for it. ' America is great. that the average Notre Dame stu How far can you tOke this anal- Don't you ever tire. of chasing dent has never severely lacked for ogy of what is right and wrong? after·things all the time? . .' physical comfort. I also think that Don't you actually know fOr your- Yeah, sometimes, but everybody each student has some idea of how self? is caught up in it, and if you stop to 'attain that comfort, and that is I guess I do, kind of. to think about whether or not to some extent the reason why he's Think about it. Is it wrong to ' what you're doing is' right, you'l(get by Chuck.Wood here. I, however, want to ask if he have an overabundance of material behind in the chase. I gotta win." knows why he strives to achieve goods when you know that there are . Do you? . ~ ,this 'goal. It seems that we are in starving people in the world?' Of course. What kind of fool ques- . "Black Studies Program." by the. committee. That these same specific proposals included, the hir an unusual, position in that we have Oh, yes, definitely. . ' , tion is that anyway? If you aren't Those who have seen these words questions are still being asked after: ingof black faculty members, the never lacked for anvthinCT ".,,,t~ ..;"l. What about the beautiful house' trying to win all the time, then you o~ an office door on the, third floor of nine years is indicative of the con creation of financial-aid, . packages It also seems that we are in a posi and the Mercedes-Benz? Do you won't achieve what you're sup O'Shaughnessy have probably won fusion alluded' to by Mr. Blackwell. suitable for minority students, ,and tion to 'sit' baCK auu .u.u.. ~_vu( really need them? Could you live' posed' to. dered 'exactly what this· , phrase ,.The confusion is primarily 'a, re more aggressive recruitmenL.of·mi- right and wrong, since we are not 'l1Wre 'l1Wderately and perhaps help Are you supposiu!' to achieve covers. Mr. Edward Blackwell,' the sult of, the different ·ways the pro nority students., """ caught up in the great struggle to out someone whO is' starving? these things?' Interim., Director of' the Black gram is viewed by different, sectors , The Administration acted on these "give our children all those things But that's different, because I, , Yeah, I guess it isa pretty hyped Studies Program and' Director of of the.faculty and Administration. specific proposals, and qthers, to the we never had." 'We have. And to top , would have worked'for'that house up,' screw-you regularly? What about your duty to your- Well, the professor doesn't accept' They don't have to be any 'l1Wre self? ' , '. late papers, and I have to get a good than that? Nothing truly personal? Well, I guess I come before my grade in the class. Well ... I don't see any reason country, but you see America is for Why? why I really need them, I still get' the individual. Everyone can go out Well, I guess so that I can gradu my job if it appears that I have', and pursue his own' happiness. So, ate high in my class and go on to them. I think I might have' them, I can take care of myself pretty Black Studies: " ;. law school. anyway, because I kind of know well. Why? ' what is right and wrong. Like I Would you go to war? So I ,can go out in the world and know ,that you're not supposed to No way. I'd go to Canada. make money and succeed. go to bed with a different girl every What about your country?, Why? ' night because you could catch some- Well, I just don't think that there Cloakecl Well; isn't that what you're sup thing. Plus, ,Mom said it was is any such thing as winning w'ars posed to do? wrong. I'm supposed to treat girls: anymore. All it would mean is, my

to expand the program into a serious much time to Black Studies, the de commitment is actually a result· of nent Director of the Black Studies When asked about the future of academic discipline but someone who partment in which they work may the very practical issues of a limited Program will provide a clear indi the program, Dean Charles stated would manage it." see them as being slack in their budget, and student support for the cation .. : of the University's stance that she prefers to wait and see Why is there an apparent lack of duties. - program. vis Ii vis Black Studies." what proposals the Committee on commitment to the idea of Black and Stewart concurred, saying,"A "Notre Dame is not presently at The process, as explained by Dean Black Studies submits before she is ethnic studies as a valuable and per teacher's major allegiance must be the stage' of budgeting new depart Charles, involves two steps. Because too specific about the future; Her tinent academic discipline, especially to his or her department." This is, ments or radical changes in existing of the present structure, a. place for caution, reflects her interest in, not at a University that speaks so often in part, a matter of pride in one's departments or programs," sheob a candidate must be' found within damaging the potential for construc of broadening students' knowledge work, but it is also a matter of sur- served. The fact that the program' one of the departments of .the Col tive proposals and change.. The pro of humanity? Professor James B. . vival. Thus, many teachers are not has been continUed as a second lege The selection of a new Director .gram is a valuable part of. the Col Stewart, who became the second able' to spend as much time in de major while many established major is, therefore, contingent ;upon . the lege in Charles' eyes; she also al Director of Black Studies in the fall veloping the program; there is not programs have been reduced to con ability to find someone most able to luded to the difficulty, however, of of 1975, sees the problem as sufficient internal control of the centrations, like communications, or help the program grow and to fill an imposing upon students by telling grounded in the way these programs courses that are cross-listed in the· entirely eliminated, like education, opening as a full-time teacher. While them what is or is not valuable. So, began. "At its outset," he stated, program. The fact that these quite possibly suggests the nature this situation . itself may be neces her hope' is that the program's "Black Studies was seen primarily courses are cross-listed is a mani of the support for Black Studies. sary, it will put the new director in future structure will enable the stu as a way to appease black and other festation of this problem, since the Charles also said that the "pressure" the same dilemma as the past direc dents to judge it more thoroughly. supportive students. In many ways, program cannot become a visible to create changes within budget con tors and; faculty. members have Scott wonders if the Administra this view still persists. This view is, area of study. These are all reflec straints would have to come from a always experienced. Scott states, tion and the College will be.ready to perhaps, more prevalent here than tions of the present "inhibitive" large cross section of the student "The contract is with one depart fully support the development of the at many other universities and col structure of the program. If there body; "Of course, this may' unfor ment, not two." While some depart program to the state described by leges with similar programs." Stew had been steps taken to restructure tunately be a 'chicken and egg' situ ments do take into account the needs . Dean Charles. Obviously, he hopes art is familiar with the develop the program in light of these diffi ation in which a large number of stu of Black Studies, many have "little they will, but based on past experi ment of Black Studies on a national culties, it would have supported the dents may not be attracted' to the or no concern or ability for evaluat ence, he can do little more but wish basis through' his position on the rhetoric' concerning a broad and program until it has a stronger ing efforts and duties to Black that the program will be supported Executive Board of the National pluralistic. educational approach structure and a less' tentative ap Studies. This can put those of us in iIi becoming "more viable, more Council for Black Studies. which is espoused by the University. pearance," Charles admitted. volved in the program at a less com visual, and more vital." Though he has not been content to All· three directors, Scott, Stewart At the present time, the Dean and petitive level in' relation to other Finally, Stewart thinks that real be "merely a manager," Stewart has and Blackwell, agree on this point. all interested parties are waiting to faculty in our respective,depart improvement may occur, but he not been able to concentrate on In fact, Stewart. decided to resign . see what recommendations come ments. This is most severe at times doubts that it will be in the imme nurturing the scholarly dimension of last year because he 'did not think a from the Black Studies Committee. of tenure evaluation." . diate future. He will not be here to the program. He has been caught up commitment to this iestru.cturing Mr. Blackwell cited the critical ques Scott was not himself, applying see what happens firsthand; he in a vicious cycle in which the pro was forthcoming. This is a striking tions as being: this obserVation directly to the pros leaves the University at the end of gram must show itself to be impor parallel to the reasons Scott gave for 1. Does the University want a Black pects for. the new· Director, for per this academic. year to become.Direc tant as an intellectually valuable resigning four years earlier. Studies Program that is strong, haps the committee will recommend tor of Black Studies at a state uni area of study in order to acquire the Dean Isabel Charles, the Dean of innovative, and capable of foster that this ambiguity be cleared up for versity in the East; He thinks im commitment of financial and aca the College of Arts and Letters, dis ing valuable research in ethnic -, the Director, _if not for all the fac provement here. will continue to be demic resources it first needs if it is cussed these issues at length. She . studies? ulty involved in the program. Per slow because, as' he states, '.'The pro to evolve into such a program. sincerely feels that the College and 2. If yes, is the University willing I haps the University will adopt such gram here still has to catch up with In separate interviews, both Scott the University have given :ample to provide the institutional and a recommendation. Whether this or most such programs. at .• other. in and Stewart' agreed that the most support to the program: She has, financial resources necessary? similar .recommendations are made stitutions .' that have effectively acute sign of' this cycle is the however, also recognized the· dis Blackwell added that such, full' de and acted upon, Blackwell is hopeful passed the survival test." dilemma that the Director and Black satisfaction of the past directors and velopment hinges on the person that there will be improvements in "Black, Studies Program." ." Studies faculty members face when many of the faculty members and selected as the permanent Director the form of a. clearer understanding . -Even now, these are more than relating their departmental respon students involved in the issue. She and his ability 'to act on the existing of the program's relationship to the just words ona door for those who sibilities to their work with the pro is concerned with understanding problems and needs; The importance College of Arts and Letters and its give their support to the idea and gram: Scott's opinions' on this their views; this is why she ap of this aspect of the committee's departments. and the program's value of Black Studies; as well as matter are very strong. He feels pointed a committee to investigate duties was highlighted by Stewart ability to foster serious' research ethnic studies in general. It remains - that working with Black Studies, at the problem as well as to designate in his letter of resignation submitted and publication in Black Studies to be seen whether these words will the leveh·equired to help it mature a new permanent director. She to the Provost in July. He asserted; scholarship.. He feels that, at this be given' sufficient support· to mean adequately, often counts against pointed out; however, that what may "The process by which the Univer point; anything outside of stagnation much more to a larger number of these teachers. If they devote' too be viewed as an attitudinal lack of sitychooses to appoint ... a perma- would be im'iinprovement. people throughout this university. D

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7 6 SCHOLASTIC' OCTOBER 19, 1979 Despite the rumors that Notre radiation source was turned off, Dame students generally hear about which in this case happened to be the Radiation Research Building, the Linac, Dr. Schuler opened the atomic bombs are not being made heavy iron door to the experimen there, radiation does not leak from tation room, pushed away the iron the brick walls, and there are not gates, and assured me that it was thirty-four underground floors. One perfectly safe to go in. He pointed asks, what is going on there? Re out a few of the instruments and ex searchers are studying the effects plained the experiment. Then, we of radiation on all kinds of matter, left the room and he closed both ranging from living organisms to doors so that we could watch the metals. They study these reactions researchers perform the experiment. in the attempt to come up with the Bolts of energy at about a billionth energy sources for the future. of a second bombarded the chemical Sounds simple, huh! Guess again. sample. Two men recorded the re One glimpse .at the elaborate elec sults of the experim'ent by using I tronic ·equipment that the re electronic devices with information I searchers use to test the materials fed into them by computer. The would impress anyone. The Radia computer, 'actually carried out the tion Research Lab here at Notre experiment and analyzed the data IN . Dame is noted for' having some,of from it.. · A curve appeared on' the the most sophisticated facilities in computer screen shQwing the results the world for, radiation research. with each point on the .curve repre Some of ·the radiation' facilities in senting two-tenths of amicrosec~ clude six Cobalt-60 sources, which ond. "That was a relatively slow are radioactive isotopes of cobalt. experiment," Dr. Schuler remarked. THE These· sources are used for gamma "The lab has been .very important radiation studies. One of the Cobalt- for looking at events that occur in 60 sources is a cobalt cave. This cave very short times. We have special is enclosed by walls four and a half facilities here for examining chemi feet thick and sheets of Plexiglas cal reactions for times in the order HEART for observation windows .. The radia of a billionth. of a second." tion level inside the cave is very The lab is perfectly safe to work t.:.' high, so high, in fact,. that no one in provided that the people using the ',.' can enter the'cave: A control panel facilities take the necessary, precau outside of the cave allows research tions. The instruments. are not OF ers to control, the experiments. In hazardous, but flashing red lights addition to . the, cobalt sources,. the mounted outside the'labs where the lab also owns six lasers which are experiments are being performed'in used as radiation sources. dicate when the machines are on. ,Other instruments used for experi The lab also uses an interlock system mentations are.eledron accelerators, as a safeguard. For example; in the THE among which are a Linac, a linear room where the oxidationexperi accelerator, and' the Van de ,Graaff ment took place, an extremely, loud accelerators, spectrometers, spectro alarm' goes off when' the iron doors photometers, and a number of· other and gates are closed in order to warn useful experimental facilities. One anyone that may still be inside. Dame graduate students, working is jointly funded by. the National after the war, to find out more about ATOM of the accelerators is painted to look Then, the flashing light goes on. The there.. Many of the researchers are Bureau of Standards and the Depart- radiation by 'studying the effects of like a football. '. Dr. Schuler, the di machine can.only be turned off from on short appointments for ayear or ment'of Energy. "The data center," it oJ? all types of matter. It began. rector 'of the Radiation Research an outside control panel.' If, some two from places such as Chile, Israel, Dr. Schuler commented, "is the prin- in the basement of the old chemistry Lab, says that it is the "biggestfoot one were to open thedocir while the Portugal, Poland, Taiwan; Scotland, ciple operation of its type in the building. When it became larger, it ball on campus." It measures ten feet machine was on, it would automat Japan, . Nationalist China, . Argen country. We have very elaborate was moved to,Nieuwland Hall. But long .' and it is autographed by the ically turn itself off. tina, India. and Paris, with degrees. computerized systems within the as the' department expanded, it current tri-captains' of the football Monitoring badges' are also· worn fn physical chemistry, organic chem-' labs, processing the data as it comes needed more room. The Atomic team. Two of the four Van de Graaff when people working with radiation istry, biochemistry, physics and, elec- off the experiment.': ,. Energy Commission took the respon- accelerators here on campus. are 10- sources, are conducting, experim!,!nts. , trical .engineering. -Although Notre. Dame operates, sibility of building a larger facility cated in the Radiation Research Lab. The film badges' detect.. the presence Specialists are also; needed to run and staffs the' Radiation Research on campus in 1963, not as a reward by Phyllis Washington· The other two belong, to the physics of radiation since it :cannot be seen, the glass Shopi.where all kinds of Lab, it is a: government-funded op-to Notre Dame, but as a move to department which was a' "pioneer" smelled or felt. A shadow appearing glass tools, are made including spe eration. The lab has been operating _ establish a center where growth and in the 1930's in the· development· of ,on, the badge would indicate a. dan- cial utensils for specific experiments.' on a budget of over one million dol- knowledge of radiation chemistry " the early accelerators,' Notre Dame gerous level of radiation.<:~" '. The lab' also has' mechanical and lars 'a year from the Department of could be furthered. Notre Dame was has more Van de Graaff accelerators :, There are all types of people work electrical. shops. as well, as .drafting Energy" formerly the Atomic Ener- the first university in America to than :any, other laboratory in, the ingin the Radiation Research Lab. and photographic· facilities. gy Commission, since October of provide formal training In the area country.. ,,; About ninety to one hundr'ed people . The data center; another area of '. '1977.. The $2.2 million building was of radiation chemistry and when the, During our recent interview, Dr. make up the total staff there, and the lab, is internationally known for . .originally built, on the campus in ,building was put up, it held' the Schuler and I visited one of the labs slightly over half of those are re its collection, storage, evaluation and 1963, mainly because of .the work reputation for being the biggest cen where an experiment to oxidize Ni+ 2 search associates and assistants distribution of radiation chemistry that had been done"iil-radiation ter in the world for research. Today, to Ni+3 was in process. "Ni+3 is a from various parts of the world, as data. The center was established as chemistry here since 1949. But, the with. the help of the Department of very unstable oxidize-stated nickel," well as many parts of the United part of the National Standard Re actual. radiation chemistry' depart- Energy, it remains the largest center he said. First making sure that the States. There are also fifteen Notre ference Data. System: (NSRDS) and ment was fo~nded in the late 1940s, of its type in the wQrld; 0 8 '·-·',"i SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 19, 1979 9 Despite the rumors that Notre radiation source was turned off, Dame students generally hear about which in this case happened to be the Radiation Research Building, the Linac, Dr. Schuler opened the atomic bombs are not being made heavy iron door to the experimen there, radiation does not leak from tation room, pushed away the iron the brick walls, and there are not gates, and assured me that it was thirty-four underground floors. One perfectly safe to go in. He pointed asks, what is going on there? Re out a few of the instruments and ex searchers are studying the effects plained the experiment. Then, we of radiation on all kinds of matter, left the room and he closed both ranging from living organisms to doors so that we could watch the metals. They study these reactions researchers perform the experiment. in the attempt to come up with the Bolts of energy at about a billionth energy sources for the future. of a second bombarded the chemical Sounds simple, huh! Guess again. sample. Two men recorded the re One glimpse .at the elaborate elec sults of the experim'ent by using I tronic ·equipment that the re electronic devices with information I searchers use to test the materials fed into them by computer. The would impress anyone. The Radia computer, 'actually carried out the tion Research Lab here at Notre experiment and analyzed the data IN . Dame is noted for' having some,of from it.. · A curve appeared on' the the most sophisticated facilities in computer screen shQwing the results the world for, radiation research. with each point on the .curve repre Some of ·the radiation' facilities in senting two-tenths of amicrosec~ clude six Cobalt-60 sources, which ond. "That was a relatively slow are radioactive isotopes of cobalt. experiment," Dr. Schuler remarked. THE These· sources are used for gamma "The lab has been .very important radiation studies. One of the Cobalt- for looking at events that occur in 60 sources is a cobalt cave. This cave very short times. We have special is enclosed by walls four and a half facilities here for examining chemi feet thick and sheets of Plexiglas cal reactions for times in the order HEART for observation windows .. The radia of a billionth. of a second." tion level inside the cave is very The lab is perfectly safe to work t.:.' high, so high, in fact,. that no one in provided that the people using the ',.' can enter the'cave: A control panel facilities take the necessary, precau outside of the cave allows research tions. The instruments. are not OF ers to control, the experiments. In hazardous, but flashing red lights addition to . the, cobalt sources,. the mounted outside the'labs where the lab also owns six lasers which are experiments are being performed'in used as radiation sources. dicate when the machines are on. ,Other instruments used for experi The lab also uses an interlock system mentations are.eledron accelerators, as a safeguard. For example; in the THE among which are a Linac, a linear room where the oxidationexperi accelerator, and' the Van de ,Graaff ment took place, an extremely, loud accelerators, spectrometers, spectro alarm' goes off when' the iron doors photometers, and a number of· other and gates are closed in order to warn useful experimental facilities. One anyone that may still be inside. Dame graduate students, working is jointly funded by. the National after the war, to find out more about ATOM of the accelerators is painted to look Then, the flashing light goes on. The there.. Many of the researchers are Bureau of Standards and the Depart- radiation by 'studying the effects of like a football. '. Dr. Schuler, the di machine can.only be turned off from on short appointments for ayear or ment'of Energy. "The data center," it oJ? all types of matter. It began. rector 'of the Radiation Research an outside control panel.' If, some two from places such as Chile, Israel, Dr. Schuler commented, "is the prin- in the basement of the old chemistry Lab, says that it is the "biggestfoot one were to open thedocir while the Portugal, Poland, Taiwan; Scotland, ciple operation of its type in the building. When it became larger, it ball on campus." It measures ten feet machine was on, it would automat Japan, . Nationalist China, . Argen country. We have very elaborate was moved to,Nieuwland Hall. But long .' and it is autographed by the ically turn itself off. tina, India. and Paris, with degrees. computerized systems within the as the' department expanded, it current tri-captains' of the football Monitoring badges' are also· worn fn physical chemistry, organic chem-' labs, processing the data as it comes needed more room. The Atomic team. Two of the four Van de Graaff when people working with radiation istry, biochemistry, physics and, elec- off the experiment.': ,. Energy Commission took the respon- accelerators here on campus. are 10- sources, are conducting, experim!,!nts. , trical .engineering. -Although Notre. Dame operates, sibility of building a larger facility cated in the Radiation Research Lab. The film badges' detect.. the presence Specialists are also; needed to run and staffs the' Radiation Research on campus in 1963, not as a reward by Phyllis Washington· The other two belong, to the physics of radiation since it :cannot be seen, the glass Shopi.where all kinds of Lab, it is a: government-funded op-to Notre Dame, but as a move to department which was a' "pioneer" smelled or felt. A shadow appearing glass tools, are made including spe eration. The lab has been operating _ establish a center where growth and in the 1930's in the· development· of ,on, the badge would indicate a. dan- cial utensils for specific experiments.' on a budget of over one million dol- knowledge of radiation chemistry " the early accelerators,' Notre Dame gerous level of radiation.<:~" '. The lab' also has' mechanical and lars 'a year from the Department of could be furthered. Notre Dame was has more Van de Graaff accelerators :, There are all types of people work electrical. shops. as well, as .drafting Energy" formerly the Atomic Ener- the first university in America to than :any, other laboratory in, the ingin the Radiation Research Lab. and photographic· facilities. gy Commission, since October of provide formal training In the area country.. ,,; About ninety to one hundr'ed people . The data center; another area of '. '1977.. The $2.2 million building was of radiation chemistry and when the, During our recent interview, Dr. make up the total staff there, and the lab, is internationally known for . .originally built, on the campus in ,building was put up, it held' the Schuler and I visited one of the labs slightly over half of those are re its collection, storage, evaluation and 1963, mainly because of .the work reputation for being the biggest cen where an experiment to oxidize Ni+ 2 search associates and assistants distribution of radiation chemistry that had been done"iil-radiation ter in the world for research. Today, to Ni+3 was in process. "Ni+3 is a from various parts of the world, as data. The center was established as chemistry here since 1949. But, the with. the help of the Department of very unstable oxidize-stated nickel," well as many parts of the United part of the National Standard Re actual. radiation chemistry' depart- Energy, it remains the largest center he said. First making sure that the States. There are also fifteen Notre ference Data. System: (NSRDS) and ment was fo~nded in the late 1940s, of its type in the wQrld; 0 8 '·-·',"i SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 19, 1979 9 .\ the same neighborhood, still un Ironically, the solution is just as obviously concerned when he visited ble whisper. Just as panic was set changed, a hub of crime. simple. Many other schools also ex me. With his ability and the Uni ting in a nurse entered my room I can't believe stUdents can feel perience a problem of accommodat versity's power, however, the off and reassured me that I would be secure there. Apparently, though, ing off-campus students. They sim-' campus student should be provided O.K. Another shot of morphine and the benefits outweigh the alterna ply and safely solve their problem with adequate security. the pain subsided once again. My tives. Because of the housing and by providing university-subsidized After the incident, the University mind and eyes were wandering and social structure at Notre Dame, only housing areas where students live further expressed its concern by I began to check out my new quar off-campus living enables a student among students, in either apart providing my mother with a feeling "Why ters. Pretty wild, I thought, look to do as he pleases without the ment complexes or in blocks where of responsibility for my well-being. at all those electronics! I felt wires threat of being fined or forced from the university has purchased the The University set up meetings with attached everywhere, and before I his home' for an infraction of a homes and resold them to landlords students and administrators, acted fell asleep I felt confident that if Du-Lac bylaw. Rules for the resi who rent only to students. Theoreti as a liaison with the county legal nothing else I' had the advantage of dent hall student are agreed upon cally, this is not ideal because any office and provided, my mother with Me?" the best technology available. before the student signs his con affiliation with the university in a place to stay for three weeks. We Upon waking up some eight hours tract, and he is made aware of quiet fringes upon the feeling of inde always' felt that the school was later, I was greeted by a group of hours and party procedures. This pendence that a student gains when there to help. Throughout my con doctors, nurses and interns. They seems fair enough, because if a stu~ finding and renting his own house valescence and throughout the sum by Joe Carmarda seemed concerned with the swelling dent doesn't agree or can't seem to completely on his own. It is, though, mer I was kept informed of Uni in my nec~. X-rays and blood tests follow these rules, he can always a much better alternative than being versity liappenings. When I re were taken; and before I could relax move off campus. But what kind of shot because you forgot to lock your turned to school, Dean Waddick I realized I couldn't breathe. When alternative is. that when he has to door while you were at home. aided me in completing my schedule. Finally, the paper was finished. It in five minutes 'the police were there. one of my monitors signaled this to' choose between living an individual Father Hesburgh, while visiting Now that I'm back in school was ten o'clock and I decided to First there were two, then five, then the nurses they had me signing a life-style or being secure? me in the hospital, expressed to my again, I am anticipating gradua read my psychology in the comfort twenty. The' paramedics arrived form within moments, and soon I The crime statistics for the stu... friends and me that there is a tion. The real world will be fun of my room. Normally, I would next. was lying face up in'the operating dent neighborhood off campus are definite problem in South Bend and and hopefully safer than my last have remained downstairs and lis By this time it began to hurt and room. overwhelming. _Break-ins and rip that there should be a solution. The taste of it. On October 15, the of tened to the stereo while I read; but painkiller was out of the question A tracheotomy was performed and offs are as common to an off-campus solution he suggested was stricter fender was brought to trial. If he that lUxury disappeared about two until ,my condition stabilized, so a %-inch-in-diameter tube was in student as blowing off classes. The gun control. This, I suppose, could. is convicted, he will spend two to months earlier, in the middle of the they said. The questions started serted into my trachea and the, reason,is very simple: students, be be accomplished through lobbying four years in jail. I won't start ram night. And since I was sick and tired coming: ,"Who was it?" "What did other end was attached to an oxy cause ,'of ' their income status, are and the implementation of effective bling about justice. The courts work of listening to Billy Joel on FM, I he look like?" "What kind of gun gen pump which enabled me to forced to live in a low-rent district. legislation. It would seem, though, in strange ways. I am just thankful decided I would get more accom was it?" "Who was it?" "Who was breathe. Low-rent districts also attract those easier, more efficient, and swifter that I'm still alive to write about plished in silence. I had just read it?" "Who was it?" I just wanted Much of th~ initial trauma ended individuals who would rather steal a to treat the problem as a university it. 0 the first paragraph when I heard to fall asleep and wake up to realize when my mom arrived and greeted stereo than buy one, or steal, a problem rather than as a national Joe Camarda is a senior Economics the front door creak open and the ' that it was all a terrible nightmare. me with a smile that only a mother stereo, and sell it to support their problem. Father Hesburgh is a fan major, now living in Sorin. He will wind chimes above it start clanging. I could!l't close my eyes for fear could give. All of a sudden I was habit. tastic .university president. He was graduate in December. "Hmm, who could that be?" of never: reopening them. As long her little boy again, and there was' "Who's there?" I boomed as I- as I remained conscious I knew I nothing the two of us COUldn't over trotted down the stairs expecting was alive. On the way to the hospi come. She, was there every day for to meet two friends. As I moved tal I asked God's forgiveness and five and a half weeks, sometimes down the stairs and the overhang asked for all the help he could sixteen hours a day. My friends 'also no longer obstructed my view of the give me. rose to the occasion, taking care of living room, I could see a figure Being in the emergency room was my mother and insisting on' getting scampering out the door. While still just like a scene out of "Emergency me -anything and ", , everything I on the landing, two steps from the One." Everything was sterile,white needed. floor, I encountered another figure and stainless steel, and there were As time went on, the staph in about three feet from the door. Be lots of people running around get fection that the bullet wound had fore I could react, the figUre reached ting things. Given a strong pain caused subsided. The' efforts of the into the pocket of his knee-length killer, I became very relaxed. It doctors, 'nurses arid countless hos': coat and produced a small, silver, was tlien that one of the nurses told pital staff members' paid off. My toy-like gun. He aimed, I ducked, me that there was a contingent of prayers and those' of' family -and he fired. It all happened so quickly, students who would like -to see me: friends were realized;"I was released' in less than three seconds. While the Wow, I' thought, I forgot about from the hospital smiling and forty shot rang I clutched my 'throat' and everyone, all- of' my friends,' my five pounds lighter to recover in watched the man, bolt' out the family. I was feeling relatively good Fort Lauderdale for two months. door. Not quite sure' exactly what then but they must have been in a When I returned home I was fat and had just happened and not feeling panic. I was told that Dean Roemer suntanned. any intense pain, I, with the aid of had called my parents and explained , Now,' some tim months after my adrenaline, flew up ten stairs. My to them what hadhapperied. Within "accident" I still ask," "Why me?" housemate, Rick, and his girlfriend, the next two hours I reassured After being brutally' attacked "in Patti, met me at the top of 'the everyone I was fine, extremely your own home, it'seasy'to become stairs. They begged me to remove lucky, but nevertheless I had con very philosophical -about life and, my hands from iny>- neck to' see vinced myself I would be out of the even' bitter. about some aspects of what, if anything,' the noise' had hospital in time to finish finals. been;' - - life. Time has· mellowed the bitter~ I 'I firially dozed -off and woke up ness away but' ~1Ot' the reality' of . "Joe, -you have a hole in your' to find myself flat on my back in the what happened. Although the inci I neck,", Rick' said almost, calmly. intensive care unit. The pain in my dent now seems'like the nightmare' ! '- While Patti insisted that I not panic throat was outrageous; As I tried to Thad hoped it would be, the realities and -tried to make me comfortable scream fora shot of pain medicine, are still all too real. Every time I I on the floor, Rick, in - a shocked I realized'that I could not produce go out to enjoy the social-life at frenzy called' the 911 number. With- any sound above an almost inaudi-, Notre Dame, I end 'up going 'through 10' OCTOBER 19, 1979 11 SCHOLASTIC .\ the same neighborhood, still un Ironically, the solution is just as obviously concerned when he visited ble whisper. Just as panic was set changed, a hub of crime. simple. Many other schools also ex me. With his ability and the Uni ting in a nurse entered my room I can't believe stUdents can feel perience a problem of accommodat versity's power, however, the off and reassured me that I would be secure there. Apparently, though, ing off-campus students. They sim-' campus student should be provided O.K. Another shot of morphine and the benefits outweigh the alterna ply and safely solve their problem with adequate security. the pain subsided once again. My tives. Because of the housing and by providing university-subsidized After the incident, the University mind and eyes were wandering and social structure at Notre Dame, only housing areas where students live further expressed its concern by I began to check out my new quar off-campus living enables a student among students, in either apart providing my mother with a feeling "Why ters. Pretty wild, I thought, look to do as he pleases without the ment complexes or in blocks where of responsibility for my well-being. at all those electronics! I felt wires threat of being fined or forced from the university has purchased the The University set up meetings with attached everywhere, and before I his home' for an infraction of a homes and resold them to landlords students and administrators, acted fell asleep I felt confident that if Du-Lac bylaw. Rules for the resi who rent only to students. Theoreti as a liaison with the county legal nothing else I' had the advantage of dent hall student are agreed upon cally, this is not ideal because any office and provided, my mother with Me?" the best technology available. before the student signs his con affiliation with the university in a place to stay for three weeks. We Upon waking up some eight hours tract, and he is made aware of quiet fringes upon the feeling of inde always' felt that the school was later, I was greeted by a group of hours and party procedures. This pendence that a student gains when there to help. Throughout my con doctors, nurses and interns. They seems fair enough, because if a stu~ finding and renting his own house valescence and throughout the sum by Joe Carmarda seemed concerned with the swelling dent doesn't agree or can't seem to completely on his own. It is, though, mer I was kept informed of Uni in my nec~. X-rays and blood tests follow these rules, he can always a much better alternative than being versity liappenings. When I re were taken; and before I could relax move off campus. But what kind of shot because you forgot to lock your turned to school, Dean Waddick I realized I couldn't breathe. When alternative is. that when he has to door while you were at home. aided me in completing my schedule. Finally, the paper was finished. It in five minutes 'the police were there. one of my monitors signaled this to' choose between living an individual Father Hesburgh, while visiting Now that I'm back in school was ten o'clock and I decided to First there were two, then five, then the nurses they had me signing a life-style or being secure? me in the hospital, expressed to my again, I am anticipating gradua read my psychology in the comfort twenty. The' paramedics arrived form within moments, and soon I The crime statistics for the stu... friends and me that there is a tion. The real world will be fun of my room. Normally, I would next. was lying face up in'the operating dent neighborhood off campus are definite problem in South Bend and and hopefully safer than my last have remained downstairs and lis By this time it began to hurt and room. overwhelming. _Break-ins and rip that there should be a solution. The taste of it. On October 15, the of tened to the stereo while I read; but painkiller was out of the question A tracheotomy was performed and offs are as common to an off-campus solution he suggested was stricter fender was brought to trial. If he that lUxury disappeared about two until ,my condition stabilized, so a %-inch-in-diameter tube was in student as blowing off classes. The gun control. This, I suppose, could. is convicted, he will spend two to months earlier, in the middle of the they said. The questions started serted into my trachea and the, reason,is very simple: students, be be accomplished through lobbying four years in jail. I won't start ram night. And since I was sick and tired coming: ,"Who was it?" "What did other end was attached to an oxy cause ,'of ' their income status, are and the implementation of effective bling about justice. The courts work of listening to Billy Joel on FM, I he look like?" "What kind of gun gen pump which enabled me to forced to live in a low-rent district. legislation. It would seem, though, in strange ways. I am just thankful decided I would get more accom was it?" "Who was it?" "Who was breathe. Low-rent districts also attract those easier, more efficient, and swifter that I'm still alive to write about plished in silence. I had just read it?" "Who was it?" I just wanted Much of th~ initial trauma ended individuals who would rather steal a to treat the problem as a university it. 0 the first paragraph when I heard to fall asleep and wake up to realize when my mom arrived and greeted stereo than buy one, or steal, a problem rather than as a national Joe Camarda is a senior Economics the front door creak open and the ' that it was all a terrible nightmare. me with a smile that only a mother stereo, and sell it to support their problem. Father Hesburgh is a fan major, now living in Sorin. He will wind chimes above it start clanging. I could!l't close my eyes for fear could give. All of a sudden I was habit. tastic .university president. He was graduate in December. "Hmm, who could that be?" of never: reopening them. As long her little boy again, and there was' "Who's there?" I boomed as I- as I remained conscious I knew I nothing the two of us COUldn't over trotted down the stairs expecting was alive. On the way to the hospi come. She, was there every day for to meet two friends. As I moved tal I asked God's forgiveness and five and a half weeks, sometimes down the stairs and the overhang asked for all the help he could sixteen hours a day. My friends 'also no longer obstructed my view of the give me. rose to the occasion, taking care of living room, I could see a figure Being in the emergency room was my mother and insisting on' getting scampering out the door. While still just like a scene out of "Emergency me -anything and ", , everything I on the landing, two steps from the One." Everything was sterile,white needed. floor, I encountered another figure and stainless steel, and there were As time went on, the staph in about three feet from the door. Be lots of people running around get fection that the bullet wound had fore I could react, the figUre reached ting things. Given a strong pain caused subsided. The' efforts of the into the pocket of his knee-length killer, I became very relaxed. It doctors, 'nurses arid countless hos': coat and produced a small, silver, was tlien that one of the nurses told pital staff members' paid off. My toy-like gun. He aimed, I ducked, me that there was a contingent of prayers and those' of' family -and he fired. It all happened so quickly, students who would like -to see me: friends were realized;"I was released' in less than three seconds. While the Wow, I' thought, I forgot about from the hospital smiling and forty shot rang I clutched my 'throat' and everyone, all- of' my friends,' my five pounds lighter to recover in watched the man, bolt' out the family. I was feeling relatively good Fort Lauderdale for two months. door. Not quite sure' exactly what then but they must have been in a When I returned home I was fat and had just happened and not feeling panic. I was told that Dean Roemer suntanned. any intense pain, I, with the aid of had called my parents and explained , Now,' some tim months after my adrenaline, flew up ten stairs. My to them what hadhapperied. Within "accident" I still ask," "Why me?" housemate, Rick, and his girlfriend, the next two hours I reassured After being brutally' attacked "in Patti, met me at the top of 'the everyone I was fine, extremely your own home, it'seasy'to become stairs. They begged me to remove lucky, but nevertheless I had con very philosophical -about life and, my hands from iny>- neck to' see vinced myself I would be out of the even' bitter. about some aspects of what, if anything,' the noise' had hospital in time to finish finals. been;' - - life. Time has· mellowed the bitter~ I 'I firially dozed -off and woke up ness away but' ~1Ot' the reality' of . "Joe, -you have a hole in your' to find myself flat on my back in the what happened. Although the inci I neck,", Rick' said almost, calmly. intensive care unit. The pain in my dent now seems'like the nightmare' ! '- While Patti insisted that I not panic throat was outrageous; As I tried to Thad hoped it would be, the realities and -tried to make me comfortable scream fora shot of pain medicine, are still all too real. Every time I I on the floor, Rick, in - a shocked I realized'that I could not produce go out to enjoy the social-life at frenzy called' the 911 number. With- any sound above an almost inaudi-, Notre Dame, I end 'up going 'through 10' OCTOBER 19, 1979 11 SCHOLASTIC June 1, 1978- broken. ,pelvis, .punctured lung" and ,.to my bed. I violently bit her on the and sistersptit aside all their activi It was ten minutes to' five on a numerous other injuries, the main hand, drawing blood. As a result, ties and devoted a good portion of Thursday afternoon. I had to be at one was the cut I received 'on the she:quit her job. I was a model. their summer sitting at the hospital work, bartending, 'at 5:00 and my entire right side of my head, which patient. . . with me and then helping me get younger brother was trying his best exposedand,bruised the brain. (Can It wasn't until a month after L .around and adjust when I got home. to get me there on time through the you imagine going through life tell- was home when I started to realize There was no question in their minds rush hour traffic. He pulled iri the ing people you had, at one time, that some things should not be said with what had to be done. One of turn lane and waited for the traffic severe brain damage? Well, thilt's in front of my parents. My older the family needed their' support on Coliseum Drive to let up a bit. It another story.) brother and sisters would just look greatly, so everything was put aside did for a second and he gunned our Because of the broken pelvis and at me" shake their heads, and say to devote all their attention to that new Chevette across the street. But i paralysis on'my left side, I could not' "Just wait." Now I know what they one person. Who, at the time, was Journey a second wasn't long enough.' A walk by myself until the end of meant. I think I was a bit too loose me. I can't say enough about each pickup truck was just· feet away I August. The doctors said that it was with my tongue. I have no more person and his patience, especially, from us when we were only halfway 'I doubtful I would ever walk normally secrets of the past 21 years. in caring for me. I could go on and across. again, but my family and I had other, It was' in . October, after two on about the time and love that was ideas. Even with my messed-up "months at home that things began there for me when I needed it so Back ", 5 weeks later- mind, I knew something was wrong to click and I realized that some badly, but I really can't put it into July 4, 1978 ' when I realized I couldn't stand up thing was seriously wrong by my words. Something was wrong, but I didn't to get something unless' someone being there, doing nothing. The doc I, can't say enough about: my . , by Libby Kennedy quite know what. I was in a bed, was in the room to help me. That tor said then that it would probably frierids, either. The day after my unable to get. up, . and people kept got to be very frustrating, so I did be another six months before I could accident, my parents called three of coming in and asking me how! was~ my physical therapy exercises e\!'ery. handle being in a "college atmo~ my friends throughout the country. Nurses and doctors seemed' to be day to try ,to gain some semblance sphere,"- so why didn't I just take it By the end of the summer and omnipresent; constantly taking my .of normality. It was aslow process easy, and go the following year. But throughout the fall, I heard from temperature, giving ,ine pills, etc. I but each day I would be able to do once I knew what happened, and more friends than I ever could have remerriber; vaguely; being in a something, however slight, that I realized there was the chance that I imagined. It was unbelievable, the . wheelchair and being taken to 'a couldn't do 'the, day .before. It can could improve, I was determined to number of' people who 'thought room where I had to walk between be funny now,' wheri I think of, how come. back in December. So, I ,did enough just to write and say they parallel bars. I couidri't'do It; I excited I ,was"to learn' to' sneeze, my exercises and practiced sounding were thinking of, me. Most didn't didn't understand where I was or cough, and do all the' other little normal and somewhat intelligent know the ,extent of my injuries but why I was there. SoTwould jUst go everyday thirigs I had always taken again. The end of November I went still offered any help' that was to sleep, thinking that 'if I 'could, for' granted. '.' into, the hospital again for six hours needed. People I had not'seen 'in Iwould like to ,wake iri my own, bed But because of the brain injury, I of psYchologicaltesting. Two weeks years sent their love and coricern. at home,and find this had just been neverfullyrealized that this wasn't later, I got a letter from my doctor It's just too bad that it took such an a bad dream. . the way I had always been. ,(Thank saying I could come back to school accident to make me realize how for Three days. later, I'was·allowe'd to heaven for small favors!) I was still conditionally. That was all I needed. tunate I was in knowing that people go home and my journey' back to progressing mentally;'but I 'felt the I came back for what would have cared.about me. But it did happen frustration of' a child who' can't do been my second semester' of my and I couldn't help but learn so 21-year-old sanity began. . much by.it. ". '.' , Sounds like' a dramatic movie what he wants:'" , " senior year, but I got through it, and There were some things, that did script, doesn't it? But it wasn't. It After two weeks, ,when I got out improved greatly in the process. I did happen last year and it has taken of intensive care; the doctor said it did have a few handicaps; there were not turn out for the better, but they was .' questionable whether' I' would the obvious physical ones, such as, a were taken in stride, with'the good these past fifteen months for me to things outweighing them. 'Such as, realize it is over.. Since it did' hap get much of my mind back. (I had limp and double vision, and the not pen, I am so thankful for my life and an excellent doctor, by 'the way. so-obvious, such as the complete there were some' people, at home all the people who are a part of it. Head of Neurosurgery at ,Bowman numbness of the.right side of my and at school, who really. couldn't' The accident made' me realize who Gray School 'of Medicine. Not bad, body arid a very poor memory: The handle me in any other way, than eh?) They said I would have to start' one. "handicap" that most kids here how I was before the acciden(They really cared about me and (they were nervous and really couldn't be always say it in hooks and it is true) thinking asa child arid slowly pro- couldn't quite handle (for obvious how precious life and all it encom- ceed,to the a'ge I am now; but that reasons) was the medication I was around me until I had straightened passes is/It is a shame that I had to I could start with the mentality of required to take for over a year., The up a bit. I understood this ,but I be that close to death to really ap any age. (I like to think I'm back stipulation with these pills was that still couldn't accept it. ' (I couldn't preciate all that I have. Life is short now, but my, family' still questions I could drink no alcohol while taking be all good!) ,I gained so many more friends and learned much and I was lucky enough to be given that!) When 'I first began~talking, them. For some reason,' it. took the chance to see this. I'll never stop I was around ten years old., I would a while for people to realize. that I about those who stayed by me. realizing how fortunate I was to just :ramble on about friends, kids: I was having a good time even if I , Now, here I am, back at school have the family and friends I had. hadn't seen 'in .years, so' .whoever wasn't having a beer. The inability for my final semester in college. Yes, (Do you get the idea now of the in was ,with ine would know how ,old I to,drink was such a minor drawback a lot has happened these past fifteen tensity of this experience?) I have . was.' Since we had lived in different after all that happened. . months, events that I would never never been one to be very expressive states, whoever was with me would ',' .I've got glasses now, I'm off the want anyone to go through, but I of, my feelings, ,but this accident ask where I was and they could .tell . medication, my memory' is improv can't help but feel. that good has how much I had progressed.. I did ing, and I can live. with everything come . from it.. I. appreciate ,my made me much more open, and aloi family, my. friends, and' my • life, less inhibited, with my feelings and this for two weeks, talking to anyone else. This all took just a little over who wouldJisten to me. I had every- a year and I really can't end this much more than I thought possible. thoughts. This can be both bad and And that appreciation doesn't less good,butthe benefits of being open' one .who carrie near me at Baptist until I tell what the main reason far outweigh the disadvantages. Hospital knowing everything (and I was for, ,as the, doctors say, "my en; it just grows as time goes by. 0 I got home ,from the hospital and mean everything!) I did from· the miraculous comeback." . Libby Kennedy is a senior' Engl~h· , my recuperation began.' The first time I, was ten years old., It was That reason has to be the people thing that needed ' work "was the worse than "This is Your Life" be- who were with me throughout this major at St: Mary's. She will grad ~ate with a B.A. degree December.· physical side of the injury, with the cause I literally left-nothing out, whole ordeal. I don't think I can say in. mentalinjury slowly mending in the good. or bad. I had no inhibitions. enough .about . my,"family at this months to come. Although I had -a As an example, a nurse once tied me ' point.' My parents and six brothers

12 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 19,1979 13 June 1, 1978- broken. ,pelvis, .punctured lung" and ,.to my bed. I violently bit her on the and sistersptit aside all their activi It was ten minutes to' five on a numerous other injuries, the main hand, drawing blood. As a result, ties and devoted a good portion of Thursday afternoon. I had to be at one was the cut I received 'on the she:quit her job. I was a model. their summer sitting at the hospital work, bartending, 'at 5:00 and my entire right side of my head, which patient. . . with me and then helping me get younger brother was trying his best exposedand,bruised the brain. (Can It wasn't until a month after L .around and adjust when I got home. to get me there on time through the you imagine going through life tell- was home when I started to realize There was no question in their minds rush hour traffic. He pulled iri the ing people you had, at one time, that some things should not be said with what had to be done. One of turn lane and waited for the traffic severe brain damage? Well, thilt's in front of my parents. My older the family needed their' support on Coliseum Drive to let up a bit. It another story.) brother and sisters would just look greatly, so everything was put aside did for a second and he gunned our Because of the broken pelvis and at me" shake their heads, and say to devote all their attention to that new Chevette across the street. But i paralysis on'my left side, I could not' "Just wait." Now I know what they one person. Who, at the time, was Journey a second wasn't long enough.' A walk by myself until the end of meant. I think I was a bit too loose me. I can't say enough about each pickup truck was just· feet away I August. The doctors said that it was with my tongue. I have no more person and his patience, especially, from us when we were only halfway 'I doubtful I would ever walk normally secrets of the past 21 years. in caring for me. I could go on and across. again, but my family and I had other, It was' in . October, after two on about the time and love that was ideas. Even with my messed-up "months at home that things began there for me when I needed it so Back ", 5 weeks later- mind, I knew something was wrong to click and I realized that some badly, but I really can't put it into July 4, 1978 ' when I realized I couldn't stand up thing was seriously wrong by my words. Something was wrong, but I didn't to get something unless' someone being there, doing nothing. The doc I, can't say enough about: my . , by Libby Kennedy quite know what. I was in a bed, was in the room to help me. That tor said then that it would probably frierids, either. The day after my unable to get. up, . and people kept got to be very frustrating, so I did be another six months before I could accident, my parents called three of coming in and asking me how! was~ my physical therapy exercises e\!'ery. handle being in a "college atmo~ my friends throughout the country. Nurses and doctors seemed' to be day to try ,to gain some semblance sphere,"- so why didn't I just take it By the end of the summer and omnipresent; constantly taking my .of normality. It was aslow process easy, and go the following year. But throughout the fall, I heard from temperature, giving ,ine pills, etc. I but each day I would be able to do once I knew what happened, and more friends than I ever could have remerriber; vaguely; being in a something, however slight, that I realized there was the chance that I imagined. It was unbelievable, the . wheelchair and being taken to 'a couldn't do 'the, day .before. It can could improve, I was determined to number of' people who 'thought room where I had to walk between be funny now,' wheri I think of, how come. back in December. So, I ,did enough just to write and say they parallel bars. I couidri't'do It; I excited I ,was"to learn' to' sneeze, my exercises and practiced sounding were thinking of, me. Most didn't didn't understand where I was or cough, and do all the' other little normal and somewhat intelligent know the ,extent of my injuries but why I was there. SoTwould jUst go everyday thirigs I had always taken again. The end of November I went still offered any help' that was to sleep, thinking that 'if I 'could, for' granted. '.' into, the hospital again for six hours needed. People I had not'seen 'in Iwould like to ,wake iri my own, bed But because of the brain injury, I of psYchologicaltesting. Two weeks years sent their love and coricern. at home,and find this had just been neverfullyrealized that this wasn't later, I got a letter from my doctor It's just too bad that it took such an a bad dream. . the way I had always been. ,(Thank saying I could come back to school accident to make me realize how for Three days. later, I'was·allowe'd to heaven for small favors!) I was still conditionally. That was all I needed. tunate I was in knowing that people go home and my journey' back to progressing mentally;'but I 'felt the I came back for what would have cared.about me. But it did happen frustration of' a child who' can't do been my second semester' of my and I couldn't help but learn so 21-year-old sanity began. . much by.it. ". '.' , Sounds like' a dramatic movie what he wants:'" , " senior year, but I got through it, and There were some things, that did script, doesn't it? But it wasn't. It After two weeks, ,when I got out improved greatly in the process. I did happen last year and it has taken of intensive care; the doctor said it did have a few handicaps; there were not turn out for the better, but they was .' questionable whether' I' would the obvious physical ones, such as, a were taken in stride, with'the good these past fifteen months for me to things outweighing them. 'Such as, realize it is over.. Since it did' hap get much of my mind back. (I had limp and double vision, and the not pen, I am so thankful for my life and an excellent doctor, by 'the way. so-obvious, such as the complete there were some' people, at home all the people who are a part of it. Head of Neurosurgery at ,Bowman numbness of the.right side of my and at school, who really. couldn't' The accident made' me realize who Gray School 'of Medicine. Not bad, body arid a very poor memory: The handle me in any other way, than eh?) They said I would have to start' one. "handicap" that most kids here how I was before the acciden(They really cared about me and (they were nervous and really couldn't be always say it in hooks and it is true) thinking asa child arid slowly pro- couldn't quite handle (for obvious how precious life and all it encom- ceed,to the a'ge I am now; but that reasons) was the medication I was around me until I had straightened passes is/It is a shame that I had to I could start with the mentality of required to take for over a year., The up a bit. I understood this ,but I be that close to death to really ap any age. (I like to think I'm back stipulation with these pills was that still couldn't accept it. ' (I couldn't preciate all that I have. Life is short now, but my, family' still questions I could drink no alcohol while taking be all good!) ,I gained so many more friends and learned much and I was lucky enough to be given that!) When 'I first began~talking, them. For some reason,' it. took the chance to see this. I'll never stop I was around ten years old., I would a while for people to realize. that I about those who stayed by me. realizing how fortunate I was to just :ramble on about friends, kids: I was having a good time even if I , Now, here I am, back at school have the family and friends I had. hadn't seen 'in .years, so' .whoever wasn't having a beer. The inability for my final semester in college. Yes, (Do you get the idea now of the in was ,with ine would know how ,old I to,drink was such a minor drawback a lot has happened these past fifteen tensity of this experience?) I have . was.' Since we had lived in different after all that happened. . months, events that I would never never been one to be very expressive states, whoever was with me would ',' .I've got glasses now, I'm off the want anyone to go through, but I of, my feelings, ,but this accident ask where I was and they could .tell . medication, my memory' is improv can't help but feel. that good has how much I had progressed.. I did ing, and I can live. with everything come . from it.. I. appreciate ,my made me much more open, and aloi family, my. friends, and' my • life, less inhibited, with my feelings and this for two weeks, talking to anyone else. This all took just a little over who wouldJisten to me. I had every- a year and I really can't end this much more than I thought possible. thoughts. This can be both bad and And that appreciation doesn't less good,butthe benefits of being open' one .who carrie near me at Baptist until I tell what the main reason far outweigh the disadvantages. Hospital knowing everything (and I was for, ,as the, doctors say, "my en; it just grows as time goes by. 0 I got home ,from the hospital and mean everything!) I did from· the miraculous comeback." . Libby Kennedy is a senior' Engl~h· , my recuperation began.' The first time I, was ten years old., It was That reason has to be the people thing that needed ' work "was the worse than "This is Your Life" be- who were with me throughout this major at St: Mary's. She will grad ~ate with a B.A. degree December.· physical side of the injury, with the cause I literally left-nothing out, whole ordeal. I don't think I can say in. mentalinjury slowly mending in the good. or bad. I had no inhibitions. enough .about . my,"family at this months to come. Although I had -a As an example, a nurse once tied me ' point.' My parents and six brothers

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~. . mystery of a soul that knew no movie. But, remember, it is a very ffilm: Apocalypse Now and Brian~ Then faith and no fear, yet strug independent scene as it stands, gling blindly with itself. and the mere combination of many great scenes does not make a movie And so with Heart of Darkness great. - as a basis, Coppola and Vietnam The part of the movie that is the Hawk John Milius set out to adapt most problematic is the ending. This the story. They turned Kurtz into is mostly due to Brando's interpre a renegade Green Beret colonel who tation of Kurtz. Brando arrived for operated as a God. to native head filming in the - jungle 80 pounds hunters out of an Angkor Wat-style overweight. In order to camouflage temple against guerrillas. The nar this, he requested that his scenes be 'I rator (who is named Captain Wil filmed in the dark. Thus,· his pres lard by -Coppola) is a special -ser ence is reduced to a voice which vices officer who is commissioned certainly is not _his strong point. to travel up the river to "terminate His mad scenes are mumbled, lisped Kurtz with extreme prejudice." and. just downright. uninteresting. APOCALYPSE NOW, like Con-' The· key to the end of the movie is rad's novel,' is supposed to be a that Brarido is not any crazier or journey towards some kind of un , more. godlike than Duvall's swash derstanding of primeval, passion. "buckling air cavalry colonel and Conrad explains to us from the be fanatical surfer, who sacrifices ginning that Kurtz is some kind of men's lives for absurd reasons like surfing. , - The _i movie is finished. And, yes, various scenes and especially the tion to play God -to' primitive na extension of the narrator and it is the man and his millions are now ending are supposed tci transcend tives. In the movie's original form this that makes the story work so In effect, Duvall's character is the parted, maybe never to be reunited, the "Vietnam issue" and give -us a the narrator and Kurtz were tci be well. But the film fails to establish by'the village are six feet high and only interesting one in a movie even in eternity. Such is the melo universal _ statement on morality. played by the same actor.' . any connection whatsoever between Lieutenant Kilgore is a surfing nut. filled with emotional zombies. Mar tin Sheen's Captain Willard,· the dramatic intensity that APOCA However, what we have received is a The reason is this: the narrator Kurth and Captain Willard, and be He attacks the village in amazing LYPSE NOW has brought with its -conglomeration of visually stunriing eventually realizes that' he is just as cause of this 'it seems to move in an fashion. He has a loudspeaker sys . audience's point of view reactor to arrival on the screen. scenes from which _ there is great capable of moral savagery as Kurtz. arbitrary fashion through those tem hooked up in his chopper, and all the violence during the movie, Francis Ford - Coppola's 31-mil difficulty in drawing moral conclu In the words of Conrad's narrator: visualiy stunning scenes to an arbi he plays a piece from Wagner dur has nowhere to go dramatically or lion-dollar _Vietnam War epic took sions. The difficulty arises because, trary end. ing' the attack in order to psyche his psychologically. And let's not even four y~ars in the making and gath though the scenes are powerful, the There was llOthing' either If Coppola had made five or six men up. Once the choppers land, he talk about Brando's 1.5-million dollar travesty. ered so much attention along the characters are not. Not a single above him or below him~ He shorts out of scenes in the movie, orders a few of his men to "hit the way, that never- before has the re character in the movie has any had kicked himself loos-e of the they all would have been master surf" (now remember the battle is And so there is absolutely no lease - of a movie been so eagerly depth. This is especially true of earth . . . his soul was mad. pieces. For example, in the movie's still going on). So here are these human development or interaction, anticipated. Was the wait worth it? Marlon Brando's character Kurtz Being alone in the wilderness, most powerful, scene, we are intro guys surfing while everyone else is no growth or enlightenment in Well, the movie is better than most ... ah, but I am getting ahead of it'had looked into itself, and by duced to Lieutenarit Colonel Kilgore getting their brains blown out. And APOCALYPSE NOW. It's as if of the year's 'blockbusters: Moon myself, first a little background. heavens! I tell you, it had gone (Robert Duvall), who is a flamboy then, just when you think things someone had spent $31 million to raker, TheIn-Laws, Alien and Dr~ APOCALYPSE NOW is loosely mad. I had-for my sins; I sup ant 'air cavalry colonel who leads have calmed down, a group of fight film a circus. But even with all of 'i cula, just to name a few. But in the based on Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of pose-to go through' the ordeal ' his chopper against a Viet Cong er planes napalm the village. Mr. its flaws, it is still better than most i final analysis, it falls short of being Darkness, which is' a story of 19th of looking in to myself.- No" elo controlled village at the mouth of Duvall's wild colonel reply is, "I movies. You should probably see it. i a great movie. - century colonialism - in Africa. -, It quence could have been so with the river. He has 'two reasons for love the smell of napalm in the You might even find that it's all i The problem is this: Mr. Coppola tells of a narrator's journey up a ering to one's belief in mankind doing this. First, Captain Willard's morning . . . the smell of gasoline it's cracked up to be. I wish I I promised us - a movie about, the river to find an ivory trader named as his final -burst of sincerity. ,patrol boat needs access to the river. smells like victory." This scene is , had. D atrocities _of -Vietnam through which Second, the waves,that hit the beach probably worth the admission to the -Rich l\farcello jl Kurtz, who succumbs to the tempta- . .'. I saw the inconceivable jIflontp ~!'tfJon's pseudo-messiah of Monty Python's best. ;- of ,life) you should be forewarned, flection? latest film endeavor "Life of Brian" The movie attempts to find a condemned the movie (they've been In all, "Life of Brian" is a very LIFE OF BRIAN wh 0 ' s ,only rule 'is "Why don't you' "bright side -of' life" in a day; when desperately trying to keep their funny movie. In it, - the Monty , Ahem; all -just work things out for your- all was seemingly dark; when ston hands in the condemning business Python clan lynches the standard This'is my theory which I am selves?" . _ ings, mass- crucifixions; and' throw since the end of the infamous "for-' conventions ,of -the "biblical epic" about to relate. . . . It's not bad advice, really. The ing people to the lions- were the -en bidden books iist" era). I gather film ,genre in their_ usual crazy, in - Way back in time, among the case against Monty Python, though, tertainment events of,the day.' His that most of the, Bishops who saw genious;, sometimes_very silly, way. flotsam and -jetsam cif the petulant has been argued thusly: "But they torians have said that during the life the movie (if, indeed, any of them Believe me, Pontius Pilate never had prophets, ~nd amid the -people who don't seem to have any reverence for of Christ, over thirty other "mes really did) were probably embar, it so rough. did feast upon the lambs -and the anything." Well, that mayor may siahs" were being proclaimed' (the rassed at having to hold back their It is' also, I might add,' slightly sloths ;andcarp -and anchovies and not be true. It may just be that they quotation marks -are for them, riot laughter in much the same way that irreverent, and if you are 'grotesque orangutans and breakfast cereals feel that their jobs as' comedians are Him). With life as 'such,'it's .little Pilate's guards, in one of the movie's ly insulted by the rather casual and fruit bats, and huge, enormous simply to make people laugh. Which wonder people were -turning to reli funnier scenes,' had ,to suppress use of the more numinous objects Ii impressive bags of pretzels, and they generally -do. Sometimes hys gion . . . but the question; remains theirs. - ' , ' of worship, I would suggest you see Apocalypse 'Now instead.' As II blancmanges and small; brown spots terically. why would anybody turn to Brian? , 'Upon thoughtful'- reflection, Py of - industrial resin-possibly creo Their -latest film saga is not as - A fair question, and one that I'm thonesque humor might seem overly suredly, most people, will not be' in sote-and vast bowls full of' pus; funny as their masterpiece "Monty not certain' I'm prepared to answer; infatuated with surface discrepan sulted or demythologized by this ,II in that land of many Spanish In Python and the Holy Grail," but But in any event, the Catholic hier cies in people (you know, lisps" stut film. You might not even grow hair quisitions _ imd cheesemakers and then, theirs is hybrid comedy to be archy (and other religious groups) tering, hairlips, nose picking,.mental on your' palms. - I Bruce's, there lived a man called gin with, and even the, cockney don't want you to find out. retardation;' etc.). But,then, who Besides, I 'always was a sucker I Brian. . . . _ crazies' worst would still rank con The Bishops (who traditionally says that any kind of comedy is for a movie with a happy ending. D Brian. Brian Cohen, the reluctant siderably higher than' 'Hollywood's have not looked on the bright side supposed to inspire thoughtful re- -Gregory Solman I 14 , SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 19, 1979 15 Ii I~ Ii .\ 1------~-~~-~~--~~-"-----~-_,-----c_

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for the RAF. not deities .. when each of us "A pretty history for an American demythologizes his own ties between 93ooks:OfCruel Shoes, Cruel Fathers clubman," Wolff reflects. "Its fault parent and child. Reviewed by Greg Solman is that it was not true." Wolff's criticisms of his father In reality, Duke Wolff, had he not seem acceptable to us because he ..... ,;;;!~~ by Geoffrey Wolff/Random House been in many ways so loveable, seems somehow remarkably de 215 pages/$12.95 would certainly have been detestable. tached and honest when writing He was' a man constantly in debt, about him. Wolff is not preachy or There is but a single prerequisite and forever moving to stay ahead didactic; he neither confirms nor for utmost interest in Geoffrey of his creditors. He wrote false re condemns, forgives nor forgets, Wolff's latest book, The Duke of sumes and faked and lucked his way admires nor admonishes in any rigid I.f Deceptionj at one time, at least, one into sometimes very responsible jobs. sense. There are even shades of re need only to have loved a parent. He was in many ways a remarkably morse in his having left his father Wolff, successful novelist and book good father, but mostly always a bad in Europe alone for the last years of critic, has done something vogue in husband. What the Duke was escap his life, and the biography/auto a unique way. He has searched his ing-aside from himself-has very biography may even be seen as ca own American "roots" and found, to much to do with the relationship he thartic for Wolff. "I had felt betrayed his dismay and confusion, that be had with his father, The Doctor: by my father, and I wanted to be neath the' bitter, ornate green and How hard it must have been to tray him," he recalls. rich, fertile topsoil, there lay below grow up under the measuring gaze But, above all, Wolff is gentle be roots that were decayed and rotten. of that father! from the beginning, cause he probably can't help seeing Wolff's father was a confidence my father heard talk about the some "Dukishness" in himself: man,and the lies his father told him best of this, the best of that: the Then she left me ((forever," as were' grandiose indeed. Duke Wolff, best neighborhood, school, auto she said. I stood on the Ponte when' in the right mood, talked of mobile, minds, family. And if Vecchio at three in the morning his rather gentile education at Groton Jews with educations and without and contemplated suicide. The fol and Yale and the Sorbonne's Ecole accents were better than Jews with lowing morning I skipped out on D'Aeronautiques (which, of course, accents and without. educations, my bill at the Excelsior, took the doesn't exist); then; .. not to be out couldn't it follow that best of all sleeper to Paris, met some Ameri done by anyone at one of the ·posh. was to be no Jew at all? can Pals and had a devil of atime. country. clubs to which he belonged It's a complex world, the one be Then, I spent the spring holidays (and joined by virtue' of borrowed tween fathers and their sons. In with them in Spain for six weeks, money), there were also war stories. much the same way that Bergman following the bulls, o/'course,. tell~ The Duke had many times para examined mother/daughter relations :ingthe Smith College Junior-Year chuted behind enemy lines during in "Autumn Sonata," Wolff, too, has Abroai1eTs' we were older than we World War II. He had been a test sifted through the strange psycho were, which the girls pretended to pilot 'and, in service to her majesty logical menopause that occurs when believe. . we do not laugh; had he been wear with his pen. Chaucer colored the the qiIeen, had' been a fight~r pilot' all 'of 'us find that our parents are Like father, like son? 0 Reviewed by Mark Rust ing an' arrow through his head, the Western world's memory of medi opposite might have been the case. eval times with his tales. " Martin In Monty Python we don't laugh drivels. by Steve Martin / G. P. Putnam's at the visual jokes solely because And this is' the second lesson. tJV{usic: Sons / 125 pages / $6.95. they are visual; they are funny be- Words are not meant to be used From Zappa's Studio, ... Steve Martin's most recent (and cause they are satire. A courageous injudiciously. There is something only) book to- date, Cruel Shoes 'knight may slay, limb' by gory, about reading this book in hard Joe's Garage, the fourth Frank prove the politicians right, Zappa accessible and melodic than usual. (Putnam's, $6.95), appeared early" blood-spurting limb, a medieval back. that emphasizes this lesson. Zappa album of 1979, also figures to goes at length into the sleazier side Whether it is deserving. or not, these this summer: it is a thin volume of man-monster in Monty Python. But Included in my plans for an ideal be the most commercially successful. of the music business in the songs· two qualities should help, along with short shorts, lavishly bound and the' humor derives from a sense of life is a scenario that goes some The album, part one of a projected' "Crew Slut," "Wet T~Shirt Nite," the song titles, to push this album singularly unfunny. What Mr. Mar~ satire in which such Old, English thing like. this: I wake up at the three-part rock opera; succeeds" be- and the immortal "Why Does It Hurt over the top and into ·the collections tin does so. well in person and on < literary characters as' Grendel in' crack of whenever I feel like it, be cause •it integrates the different When I Pee?" Of particular interest of non-Zappa cultists. 1·1 ' 0 television plays weak in the written Beowulf are called ,to mind, and come gradulilly cognizant of the sun genres of. Zappa's work better than . to our community is a number called -John Thornton medium, and this suggests two very such heroic qualities as persever pouring into my immediate sur anything else he has done s9 far. "Catholic Girls," Zappa's follow-uI> valuable lessons t6 the reader who, . ance in battle are called in for ridi roundings (a large suite in a posh Avant~garde musician; pointed social to Sheik Yerbouti's "Jewish Prin _~ .. ...:. !., Tt.t • ..' • otherwise, . might rightfully . feel . cule. In Monty Python, the topic hotel)" devour a' room~serviced critic, crude comic, Zappa has pro-' cess"; Zappa suggests that Catholic cheated out of six dollars and ninety- is the subject; with Mr. Martin, the breakfast of eggs Benedict and duced a body of work ranging from . girls learn more than their cate-" ·Sch·olastic~:,:.:·· :;:.: five cents. topic is the prop. fresh strawberries, relax with cof comedy music, hard rock and 1950's. chisms at CYO functions. The song's The first of these lessons -- and • Props and artifice do not belong fee, cigarette and morning paper, music to modern jazz and classical thrust is lame, however, -for "Jewish . ." .~,.M u;ic~ ..~;".~,',.::~~,' perhaps the least important -' re- in the world of. the written word, and then, eventually, pull myself up music. All of these genres (with the : Princess" is a vicious characteriza flects on the nature of Mr. Martin's ,and we immediately recognize it as to a massive oak desk, choose care exception of classical music) can be ·tion of a specific type, whereas· it is,. comedy; it is visual rather than fraudulent. This may be the source fully one finely sharpened pencil found living cut-to-cut in surprising . obvious that a group as large as .' ." .. '.,Sur,vey. cerebral. The incongruous gags and of the reader's nagging feeling of . from among the many arranged up harmony.. "Catholic' women" defies character- . Likec 'anold . familiar> song,. ludicrous mimicry, titillate on. sight . di$comfort as he plods through the right in their marble holder, and Joe's Garage is a parable warning ization.·· . . Scholastic Music SurVey continues but, when written, inspire no more 125 pages. The word is a sacred place its tip squarely to the first of. unscrupulous governments .who, The music that holds. all of the , on:' Con'sult the lastissue,ofScho';; than a perplexed interest.' Where a _ 'thing, and nonsense written for the line of the virginal legal pad, upon in an' .attempt to win votes,will·. satire, together is a tasty blend of 'lasticfor instructions ,011' !loW-you: group such as Monty Python uses sake. of nonsense, bound and mar can vote;' , ...... : > c•• ' .~j.~, .. ::', .'< which I write meaningless drivel trample upon any rights of the citi~ jazz, blues, and rock,'with Zappa's visual' absurdity to simply reinforce . keted in the same way valid literary that is sure to sell, reinforcing my . ·Here's a little'incenHveforall, zens; in'this case, they have declared . inventive·' guitar .work showcased 6f' 'you'insane :'cono' 'lip'-types. their satire, Mr. Martin relies en- efforts are shared with the public, expensive hotel habit. All of this I music to be the root' of all evil, and,. throughout;, While it retains the com 'oui: tirely on the visual. He talks about· must be exposed and placed in its shall do, provided I don't fall back .there. >,:,;. .•. ...:., '. -; ..... outlawed· it. Joe, the leader .of· a' . plexity, . strange time changes and .:, 'At this 'poirit irithe'standings; "My Uncle's Metaphysics," or "The proper category: drivel. God spoke asleep; garage band" commits' the crime' of bizarre' instrumentation that Zappa Gift of the Magi Indian Giver" and light. Homer enshrined heroic deeds Is that normal? 0 . playing music. Then, almost as if to is famous for, it is nevertheless more· dis9P"fs'~~1}ning::~: I::> . . .. 0' , 18 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER·19, 1979· 19

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"Hey Urbanski. Hey man, like, wake up." It was "You're always saying I'm going to get hurt. You the voice of his foreman calling him. "Like you really were bound to be right eventually." took a lump on your lid, dude. Good thing you had "I just wanted to warn you." your hard hat on." He opened his eyes and looked . "I think you have a death wish for me.. I've had it I around quickly to see several of the men standing over with you and your dreams!" him. "Are you all right man?" He didn't respond and "Yeah? Well I've had it with you." She 'suddenly r!, they helped prop him up against the side of the trailer. produced a chain saw from her purse. "We're getting a doctor." "Hey, what are you doing?" "Good." He sat with his back to the trailer and his "Cutting you down to size." She started the motor eyes shut tight. and began to approach him. "Hey man, something wrong with your eyes?" "You're crazy! Help! Nurse!" He began frantically "The light hurts them." ringing the call button. . "That:s cool." "It's about time you learned the power of dreams." He didn't open his eyes again until he was safely He was yelling at the top of his . lungs, but no' one in the ambulance. ,At the hospital he was examined heard. As the chain flashed in front of his face, every and admitted for tests. He spent most of the afternoon thing went black and he was back again in the peace- drifting in and out of sleep. He wasn't to be tested ful embrace of unconsciousness. ' ' . .' until the next day.. During visiting hours that night his * ... * .* ,* ;' * * wife came in to see him. "Hey Urbanski: Hey man, like, wake up." It was "You look awfully pale dear." the voice of his foreman calling, him. "Like you' really "Yeah, I took a pretty good shot on the old bean." ·took a lump on your lid, dude. Good thing you had your "I told . you to be careful. I just knew you were hard hat on;~' . , ~. "Hey Man, what gives?" it was Jim, Urbanski's' fortunately for both of them,' the worker on' the going to get hurt today." As he opened his eyes he screamed; "Oh my God! foreman. ' . fortieth kriocked his lunch box over. He was out one "You and your damn dreams! I wish you'd just It's starting over again! :My God, no!" , "Not much. How're you doing, guy?" . meal, and, after describing a near-perfect arch . and shut up about them." "Hey, take it easy, Urbanski. We're getting you ·to . "Hey man, I'm cool as usual. But what's eatin' you,' sailirig end. over end down forty floors, his chicken leg "Well, I was right though. You did get hurt." a doctor." '. ' dude? Old lady giving you a hassle?" , struck Urbanski squarely on the head, knocking him '. "Yeah. She had another one of her damn dreams unconscious. last night. This time she dreamed I'd take a fall from * * * * the 35th so she made me promise her I'd ask to work' · "Hey Urbanski. Hey man; like, wake up.'" It was the ground crew this morning." the voice of his foreman calling him. "Like you really "Man, that is one weird broad.;' . took a lump on your lid;dtide., Good thing you had your "You're 'telling me? I tell her not to pay attention hard hat on." When he 'opened his eyes and focused, -.' to those dreams, but she won't listen. She says they all he could see was a giant fly head wearing a hard show her -the fiitureor something: I don't know how hat. "Are you all right man?" He was' amaied, he had anyone can make so much of a stupid dream. It's just never seen a fly talk before. But. before he could be- her damn imagination." . . , come frightened; everything began' to spin and he was ." "Well, dude, you're in luck, anyway. Roberts isn't ,sucked back into the whirlpool of darkness ... coming in today and they need someone to help on the .- * l(. * * * * . ground crew this morning. I'll tell them to take you , "Hey Urbanski. Hey man, 'like, wake up." It was for today. That cool?" . the voice of his foreman calling him. "Like you really . "Yeah, that's' great. It should shut up my wife, at took a lump on your lid, dude. Good thing you had your least.' Thanks a lot." . ' . · hard hat on." As he opened him eyes; he could see sev~ .. "Hey, it's cool, man. I gotta split, I'm due upstairs. • eral of the men standing over him.· "Are you all right Catch you later, dude." . man?" He nodded slowly and they helped prop'him up '''Okay.. Thanks again guy." against,the side of the trailer: ,"We're getting the doc- "It's cooL" tor.'" .. " .', . ,'. .. .. I Urbanski didn't mind· working: on the ground as' a "I'm' okay, I think. :I've jus't got one' hell of a " charige of pace,. butas a. daily assignment, it got boring: · headache." He was beginning ,to remember' the fly He would begin to miss 'the feeling of the steel beams .' head he had seen. , . ; under his' feet, knowing they were' all that stood be- ' '''Hey man, what's the matter?" "; tween him and'a350-foot drop. It was exhilarating for ~'Huh ... ?' Oh, nothing.,: I was just: remembering him. It gave him a' feeling of power to be so far , a dream I had while I was 'unconscious. I dreamed I . above' the crowd that it was impossible, to pick out woke up and Jim here looked like a huge fly." .; " individuals. .From. up there,. everyone was equally in "Well, I act like a fly sometimes, but Ldon't usually significant, just a speck on the pavement;" . look like one." With that he started walking ,up the ; Working on the ground did have its advantages. side of the trailer. ; . ," ; '. . . . ' For one thing.. it gave. his nerves a break., Working " "Hey; cut that out. It's not funny." Then he began , day after day up there could wear a guy down. For to sprout fly wings. AlI'the men were turning into flies another, he enjoyed seeing the workers' scrambling' on before his eyes. Thek.heads',took 'on that; hideous the girders overhead. Just like human flies, he thought. blue-green metallic sheen and.their, eyes bulged out in His'morning on ~he ground' went smoothly and un- ; '. all. their' multifaceted .' horror.'; ',' They started. flying eventfully. It was at noon that his trouble began. He . around him and the last thing he saw was one'of them . :. , ,was sitting by the trailer eating his lunch while forty circling ,over his head, laughing hysterically. stories up,.,another worker was doing the same. Un-t' "* *' *' ',* * :',: *,:.

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"Stay away from me, all of you." He was backed up your experience. That is, of course, if it's all right with against the side of the trailer like a cornered animal. your doctor." . ,5(ID!,H~fL "Just stay i>ack and don't move until the doctor gets He made the appointment and the next day he was .' • ~~Y Women atND here." standing in the psychiatrist's outer office. ',,- "Okay dude, it's cool. Take it easy." "Come in, Robert, come in.. How are you doing When the ambulance arrived, they sedated him these days?" and took him to the hospital. He was examined and "I feel fine sir." admitted for tests. He slept fitfully all day under the "You no longer feel like Dorothy in the Land of Oz?" effects of the medication. Whenever he woke up he "Pardon me?"" ;.'. " had attacks of extreme anxiety. After several days, "No more attacks of anxiety? No more fear that Seven Years he finally began to show signs of relaxing. Since there the world'will dissolve into a dream? Hm?" was nothing wrong with him physically, he was sent "Not too much anymore, sir. You see, my boss wants home for bed rest .. me to return to working the gird~rs. I think I'm ready His mental condition indicated that he had had a and all I need is your okay." . nervous breakdown. His doctor recommended· he take "Well, Robert, I think you're fit. But before you an extended vacation as soon as he was stable enough. go, I'd like to have a little talk with you." of He and his wife spent a month in Hawaii, and since it "All right sir.'" '. . was for medical reasons it was partially paid for by his "First of all, you went through a very traumatic insurance. Upon their return,Urbanski was almost his experience. To have all of your conceptions of reality old self. He was still a little edgy, but not nearly as shattered, not once, but three. timeS',is something that bad ashe had been immediately after the accident. He not many people could even survive, let alone with their was finally okayed for'a return to work., sanity. You were lucky, Robert, but you haven't gone Struggle The morning of his return, he seemed a little worse through this without some· psychological scarring. than he had been lately. He seemed especially con There will always be a fear within you now, though deep cerned for some reason about seeing his old co-workers in your subconscious, that reality may not be ... well,. again. Naturally, he was restricted to low-stress jobs real. You will have this fear that at any moment the and he was not allowed to work in the superstructure. whole thing may break down and you .will find it's been As time went on, he became more and more at ease, just another dream. This doesn't mean that your dorsal though he still suffered occasional mild attacks. Even lombard will sclatulate dorfning upnik botfig tually, his boss called him in for a talk. He said that schuple... " they were glad to have him back at work and they "Stop it!" breathy Wisniewski were glad he was doing better and was there any way " ... lupulata gamnosity tremula ..'." , ' he could return to working the superstructure. "Please stop!" "You go to Notre Dame? Are you at Notre Dame first began as a plan on SMC' campus be made into a "Well, sir, I'd have to be okayed by my doctor." " ... sapudortinal castigatus mordavid... " sure you don't mean St. Mary's?" to merge St. Mary's and Notre men's' residence hall for Notre "Then by all means go see him. You see, we're short The figure of the psychiatrist was melting before Undergraduate women of Notre Dame. The. Administration commis Dame students. . of hands up there and we could sure use someone of him slowly turning into a puddle on the floor. The Dame have been sparring with these sioned Drs. Lewis B. Mayhew. and In March of 1971, the Trustees of whdle room was beginning' to dissolve. His chair was questions for over seven years. Rosemary Park to " ... examine the both institutions met in Palm sinking into the carpet,' the walls were closing in, the Since women were first admitted relationship between' the University Springs, . Florida, .to discuss the na ceiling was falling, and he was screaming endlessly. as regular undergraduates in Sep of Notre Dame and St. Mary's and, "-~-~----~--'~--~"~-----~--"~-:--"'--~---'''~~-l ture of coeducation. Their reCom * * * * * * tember of. 1972, Notre Dame has in their judgment, to recommimd mendation was the unification of the "Hey Urbanski. Hey man, like, wake up." It was undergone a metamorphosis; a what they thought was best for the two schools and, in most cases, a lin Retrospect: ,:.' ", , j transformatiorithat most feel has the voice of his foreman calling h~m. . . . 0 two institutions." The report came total merger. . . .-, . !, ', .. '" ,.' . , '. '.. 1 been one of particular importance out in January of 1971 and muong L". On this, the eve of Southern., California weekend,' "1 -Tom Clark is a senior 'government major. from Problems arose' soon after the in view of .the' changing role of its most important .recommenda~. ~ In Retrospect offers twollIeces of nosta1.gia:~once~ing:1 decision:' Professors worried, about Pittsburgh, Pa. This. is his first contribution to women.in society.·And, as society tions were the following: (If St~ 1 past games. The first is from the 1926.PIgskm prevIew.. ! Scholastic. the effect on their courses through has struggled with a changing view Mary's College should' become St. merger of departments. They were ; .The Irish ha.d not yet played USC in football: ;, ."., ';, 'J of women, so has Notre Dame; In' Mary's College in the University of I . "So ambitious have the Irish become that even cruel I also concerned about their own pro the past seven years, women under Notre Dame;, (2) there should,be a fessional status in the new. depart : December holds something in store for them;. The first,! graduates and faculty have changed' I week 'of tha.t chilly period will find the irish jCllirneyiiig:l sharirigin the members of· the ment.The financial differences be-' from a novelty on campus to an in Board of Trustees and (3) most de tween the two schools was a major t .to' LOs Angeles,'where'on December 6' they will_cla.sh .• ,'.i tegral part of student life at Notre with the University of Southern California;.touted astllel partments,should be merged.: .... difficulty; how to calculate room, f " As. I. lie. an. t~bed: Dame. Student opinion Of. the Park-May ; best on the coast. Many sport experts haye already,~ i board, tuition, student activity fees,' : gazing' tiredly at a. " In the late 1960's and early 1970's, hew report was generally. negative. . laundry, etc. One of the most' nota 1 agieed that if Notre Dame and California w~n~ a~theirl red,.tack,pinchin[Jinto the men of Notre Dame pushed hard ; gaines previous to the'December6 dash;that.contesL The Student' Body President in office ble differences between the two 1 . :thewall, my index., . . for coeducation. College students at the time, Dave,Krashna, summed schools .was . in regard to, the rules ;. will absolutely decide the nationalcharnpionship." .:;1 :.fingerconjures yOu: '.' during this time in our nation's his , Proving, as always, that things change,and yet'- i up general stUdent opinion when he and regulations. It appeared obvious describesAhe gentle cUrve tory' were very vocal with their said he was surprised that Park 'and that major changes would. be in f they stay the saine. The Irish won, 13-12:, . "1 of your nose, ...... " .. , ." . opinions. Numerous articles and edi Mayhew"... had the nerve to do volved 'and solutions to these pro~ r " In'1929, a 'Scholastic writer romanticizedabout a ! the mittedsoft1tess of your cheek, torials appeared . in The Observer L scene we were allla.ter to see in the movie "Knute 1 absolutely nothing in their report." lems seemed hard to come by. . .. fine,delicate'tTacery '. pressing for an end to the all-male Consequently, " various student As students generally know today, (Rockne: All-American": " " .. ',' . 1 like,lit spider silk" .' !. ' "What Coach'Knute Rockne, who had been brought l Notre Dame tradition. Men wanted proposals emerged; one of the more the merger between the .two schools . which'sadly fails to, .' ':: . women to be a part. of the Notre interesting was one by a student did not materialize. St. Mary's. arid ~ in on,awheel~cot,Jooking wanandtired,saidto hiS'j iriakeftesh your presence" t loyal band of warriors we do not ,know,: but he must , Dame experience and they were not from Stanford Hall. It consisted 'of Notre Dame remained independent 'aiuZ 'falls slowly;' darkening' to be dissuaded. "co-exchange residency." This pro institutions, each' with. their indi l have inspired them with just a fewwordswhichsprung ,;', ':,' " ::- on,t,othe' bed like old cord, ' The Administration finally. began posal set forth the idea that Stan f from his heart andsoul." .... >', ...... ' ,..; "':'::"j ohn Thornton vidual identities. Notre Dame, how I to take active steps into the pos ford Hall be converted to a woman's ever, was now steering for a new l:: 'Evidently,'onething that hascllanged Isspor~~~~:,: 1 .'~' .'. ,.. :';..:..,' : v' •• ,0. .••• ',' • .j Ii sibility of coeducation in late residency hall for SMC stUdents and dimension to the identity-women. , tyri!~~~:c~ Or:...h~~· i~ 'L ~':':'""''::''_'~"~~'';~'''"~N_~~; ___ ~-,,:j ~';"_;A-o~~~ .. ~.~~_: .... ,.~~ .... ~_.::~:~~ .. _~_'_';. ~~ ~~~._ ~.-;".~'~..:~~.:..-~~~,,, ~:~~.: .•~~~~_~;~ 1970 and early 1971. Coeducation that the north wing of Regina Hall An Advisory Committee for Co- 22 ScHOLASTIC OCTOBER 19, 1979 23 education was formed in 1972 and dents at Notre Dame, there ap ficult. Sr. John says that' despite ation" -after having been re pus Ministry now includes two been significant. Many problems, was asked to report on the introduc peared an obvious need for addi these difficulties, efforts are indeed fused tenure. Whether the women women, Ms. Sally Luna and Sr. Jane however, still remain. The social tion of coeducation to Notre Dame. tional women on the faculty. Both being made to bring, more women were denied tenure as a' result of Pitz, among its staff. ' ' space available for stUdent inter- This report became known as the men and women need female pro to faculty positions. discrimination or due to their 'lack Lighting across campus has been action remains a myth. We need a Malits Report, named after Sister fessional role models and with Once a woman, comes here as a of qualifications, the courts" will drastically improved in many dan- career-counseling program available Elena Malits, C.S.C., who chaired women present in the student body, faculty member, there are other dif ultimately decide. , gerous, areas" thanks to the "flash- to both men and women. We need to the Committee. There were three this need became quite evident. ficulties involved. The Evaluation It should be emphasized that wom light walks" of Sr. John and secur- be aware of the many compromises major concerns of the Malits Com Both the Malits Committee and Committee surveyed the women on en on the faculty find many positive ity. There are still areas where involved when both partners in a experiences among their male col mittee:, counseling and administra the Evaluation Committee felt there the faculty and found that many r more light is certainly needed, but relationship have a professional tion, orientation, ' and residence was, and still is, a pressing need for suffered some " ... sense of isola I leagues ,and students. The report safety has improved since 1972. career. halls. The Malits Committee made more women, in professional posi tion, frustration, even . anger: Some said that women faculty find satis In addition to these small, yet It appears that the immediate various recommendations to the tions at Notre Dame. As of this fall, feel a lack of male support for them faction in " ... their unique contri significant, changes, there have needs of women have been funda University in preparation for wom there are 99' women on the faculty selves as persons and' as profes bution to 'normalizing' this tradi- been a number of academic changes mentally satisfied. What remains en coming to Notre Dame. at Notre Dame, approximately-12% sionals. There are male colleagues tionally male University.": . as well. Course offerings now in- is the improvement in areas of in There were 125 women in that of the total faculty. This is a slow, who seem neither to, take them seri Normalizing the University has clude"Women in Medicine," "Wom- teractiori between men and women: first class in September of 1972. but significant' increase since 1972. ously as, professional equals nor to been, and still is, a tremendous en in the Bible" and many dance attitudes, 'expectations and stereo According to Sr. John Miriam One area of improvement is in the appreciate the vicissitudes of their task. One way of accomplishing classes. These classes are open to types.' This is true for women as Jones, Assistant Provost, the first number of women in the Adminis positions. Accordingly, a number of this task has been to admit more both men and women and seem to well as men. Women at Notre Dame few months were quite an experi..; tration. As of this Septpmher. there women expressed a sense of inse women~ undergraduates since 1972. reflect the need for students to see have, obviously normalized a pre ence. Sr. John recounts reports of are four ,women administrators. curity about th~ir professional situ The University now has a quota of how women have directly and in- viously unrealistic example of stu women students being singled out They are Sr. John Miriam Jones, ation." 400 women, which it admits every directly been involved' in vitally dent life. Coeducation reflects in class and asked for'!the woman's S.C., Assistant Provost, Dr. M. Tenure has lately become some year. Since this quota was estab important areas. ' societal living; one cannot help but view" on topics not requiring such Katherine Tillman, Assistant Pro what ofa problem as well. Present lished,' the number of women "at Women's' Athletics has increased benefit from such an experience. At a view. In an effort to include vost, Dr. Is'abel Charles, Dean of ly, there are six tenured women at Notre Dame 'has been 'fairly con- astronomically, mainly thanks to Notre Dame,' men and women can women in class, sometimes faculty the College of Arts and Letters, Notre Dame. Last year five women stant. ' ' the hard work and determination work together side by side 'in: the members singled women out; at this and Dr. Kathleeri, Weigert, Assis , were among those faculty members This norm, much to the satisfac of the' students and their advisors. laboratory, struggle, together' over time, Notre Dame women did not tant Dean of the College of Arts who were considered for tenure. The tion of ' students and faculty is about The sports page of The' Observer philosophy problems and let loose want to be singled' out as novelties and Letters. tenure cOInmittee decided, through to be changed. Beginning with the now includes many noteworthy together at a pep 'rally or' dorm or freaks. It was enough to be one Such advances are not so perva a system that is somewhat compli completion of the two new dorms; items concerning women's sports party. We see each otlier as equals of 125 women in a population of sive in other faculty areas. Notre cated, not' to give any of these 500 more women will be added to whereas in the eady semesters of and can enter society knowing each 6,000 men. They wanted to become Dame employs one woman profes women tenure. One of the women the University enrollment over a coeducation, men's sports totally other as equals. We ,women of Notre 'students of Notre' Dame, not a sor, nine associate professors, arid , refused teriure had already started a four-year period. ' , dominated the sport section. ' Dame no longer' feel so consistently woman among men at Notre Dame. 43 assistant professors. The remain discriminatory' action suit, against Where these women will' be Various committees of women defensive as did the women' of Women were definitely a novelty ing faculty consists of Instructors, the University; she added', "retali- housed has been a concern to both have been founded since 1972, only 1972; we do riot have to prove our on campus. Television, newspaper Library' Faculty, ,Professional, Spe meri and women. If only one of the to disband as ,their functions be- selves worthy of Notre Dame. Per~, and magazine reporters flocked, to" cilllists and women in 'Special Re~ dorms is complete by year's, end,' came unnecessary. Today one com- haps most importantly, men and the campus seeking a woman's view search.' " " then women will definitely be mittee remains: The Women's Ad- women grow here' together. Co on how it felt'to bea part of a for There are a number of difficulties housed in the new dorms. These visory Council. Made up of repre- , education has come, a long way at merly all-male' institution. Sr. John in finding qualified women, bringing women, will be inconting freshmen, sentatives from different parts of Notre Dame and has brought Notre feels that as a result 'of all this ex them to Notre Dame and keeping transfer 'students, and, women who Notre Dame life, these women meet' Dame a long way. "Let's not' stop posure and special attE~ntion, the them here. Finding the nght woman elect to move' out of their present regularly to advise Sr. John on' here. " D women became somewhat resentful. for a specific position is, at best; a dorms. ' " matters that concern the women of Women" she said, in an' effort to difficult problem. The availability of If both new dorms are complete,' Notre Dame. She also receives' in , Cathy Wisniewski, a junior biol become less noticeable and more'''a qualified women to teach" in the however, plans include moving the put from them regarding decisions ogy major, would like, to ,especially part of Notre Dame," became ag areas oi engineering and business, men housed in one of the towers to she must' make. thank Sr. John Miriam who helped gressiveandbegan to talk and act for example" is 'extremely 'low. This the dorms, and ,women, will be One of the most significant tremend.ouslywith the article. The more like "the 'guys." Women 'is primarily due.to the tremendous housed in the vacated tower. There changes in the role of women at wOmen' of Notre Dame all aWe her wanted so much to be a normal part opportunities'available for' women are no plans to transfer stUdents Notre Dame is perhaps the least a great, deal. ' ' : of Notre Dame life that' they sirn-' in these areas" iinmediately fol out ,of' their present dorms unless it obvious. In the first few years of II ply gave up, some of the desirable lowing graduation from college. is of the nature so described. coeducation, there was always the characteristics Notre Dame wanted Women 'do not generally pursue The move to admit more women "First Girl Admitted to ROTC" or II and needed from them.' ," ' ,higher education because of these is of great significance to Notre the "First Woman Named to Dean's "Since that fateful first 'semester immediately, lucrative job, openings. Dame student life. Women will be Post." Women were, again, singled ! of: women on campus, giant' steps Consequently, the availability of come more prevalent on campus, a out on the basis of their sex. Last 1 have been taken to normalize stu women with Ph.D's in business and more accurate reflection of the ratio' year, Rosemary' Mills' became Edi- 1 ,in society. The' gradual 'change is ' tor-in-Chief of The 'observer. She 1 dent life; After tlie Malits Report in engineering is quite low. , 1 1972, the first forinal report on the . Secondly, the women must be beneficial for the University in that became the' first, Notre Dame J alteration in 'academic and social woman to hold such a position. ,i current status 'of' coeducation at able to relocate' to the South Bend :1 Notre Dame was published in 1977. area. Often this coriflicts with fam- life can be made without too much She was competent, qualified and The report fr6nithe Committee to , ilyconsideration's' such 'as in a mar difficulty. " " " obviously willing' to hold such a Evaluate: Coeducation consisted of riage or with children. Many times Progress has definitely been made position. With a minimum of fan- surveys, findings and recommenda a woman must let a' career oppor in terms of accommodating campus fare, Rosemary Mills assumed a tions, all of which concerned the tunity slip, by for other priorities life to the,addition of women. A prominence in Notre Dame student well-being of both men and women she has set for herself.' " , gynecologist is now available to the life. Hopclully, a sign for our times. at Notre Dame. ' '" . "For 'these reasons, 'fiIlinga posi~ women of both Notre Dame and St. The improvements at Notre Dame , With the advent of women' stu:: tion with a wom~ncan be quite dif~ Sr. Joh'Y!-Miriam 'Jones, S.C. ' Mary's on a' l.lart~tiirie basis. Cam- since the arrival of women have

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'24 , SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 19, 1979 25 education was formed in 1972 and dents at Notre Dame, there ap ficult. Sr. John says that' despite ation" -after having been re pus Ministry now includes two been significant. Many problems, was asked to report on the introduc peared an obvious need for addi these difficulties, efforts are indeed fused tenure. Whether the women women, Ms. Sally Luna and Sr. Jane however, still remain. The social tion of coeducation to Notre Dame. tional women on the faculty. Both being made to bring, more women were denied tenure as a' result of Pitz, among its staff. ' ' space available for stUdent inter- This report became known as the men and women need female pro to faculty positions. discrimination or due to their 'lack Lighting across campus has been action remains a myth. We need a Malits Report, named after Sister fessional role models and with Once a woman, comes here as a of qualifications, the courts" will drastically improved in many dan- career-counseling program available Elena Malits, C.S.C., who chaired women present in the student body, faculty member, there are other dif ultimately decide. , gerous, areas" thanks to the "flash- to both men and women. We need to the Committee. There were three this need became quite evident. ficulties involved. The Evaluation It should be emphasized that wom light walks" of Sr. John and secur- be aware of the many compromises major concerns of the Malits Com Both the Malits Committee and Committee surveyed the women on en on the faculty find many positive ity. There are still areas where involved when both partners in a experiences among their male col mittee:, counseling and administra the Evaluation Committee felt there the faculty and found that many r more light is certainly needed, but relationship have a professional tion, orientation, ' and residence was, and still is, a pressing need for suffered some " ... sense of isola I leagues ,and students. The report safety has improved since 1972. career. halls. The Malits Committee made more women, in professional posi tion, frustration, even . anger: Some said that women faculty find satis In addition to these small, yet It appears that the immediate various recommendations to the tions at Notre Dame. As of this fall, feel a lack of male support for them faction in " ... their unique contri significant, changes, there have needs of women have been funda University in preparation for wom there are 99' women on the faculty selves as persons and' as profes bution to 'normalizing' this tradi- been a number of academic changes mentally satisfied. What remains en coming to Notre Dame. at Notre Dame, approximately-12% sionals. There are male colleagues tionally male University.": . as well. Course offerings now in- is the improvement in areas of in There were 125 women in that of the total faculty. This is a slow, who seem neither to, take them seri Normalizing the University has clude"Women in Medicine," "Wom- teractiori between men and women: first class in September of 1972. but significant' increase since 1972. ously as, professional equals nor to been, and still is, a tremendous en in the Bible" and many dance attitudes, 'expectations and stereo According to Sr. John Miriam One area of improvement is in the appreciate the vicissitudes of their task. One way of accomplishing classes. These classes are open to types.' This is true for women as Jones, Assistant Provost, the first number of women in the Adminis positions. Accordingly, a number of this task has been to admit more both men and women and seem to well as men. Women at Notre Dame few months were quite an experi..; tration. As of this Septpmher. there women expressed a sense of inse women~ undergraduates since 1972. reflect the need for students to see have, obviously normalized a pre ence. Sr. John recounts reports of are four ,women administrators. curity about th~ir professional situ The University now has a quota of how women have directly and in- viously unrealistic example of stu women students being singled out They are Sr. John Miriam Jones, ation." 400 women, which it admits every directly been involved' in vitally dent life. Coeducation reflects in class and asked for'!the woman's S.C., Assistant Provost, Dr. M. Tenure has lately become some year. Since this quota was estab important areas. ' societal living; one cannot help but view" on topics not requiring such Katherine Tillman, Assistant Pro what ofa problem as well. Present lished,' the number of women "at Women's' Athletics has increased benefit from such an experience. At a view. In an effort to include vost, Dr. Is'abel Charles, Dean of ly, there are six tenured women at Notre Dame 'has been 'fairly con- astronomically, mainly thanks to Notre Dame,' men and women can women in class, sometimes faculty the College of Arts and Letters, Notre Dame. Last year five women stant. ' ' the hard work and determination work together side by side 'in: the members singled women out; at this and Dr. Kathleeri, Weigert, Assis , were among those faculty members This norm, much to the satisfac of the' students and their advisors. laboratory, struggle, together' over time, Notre Dame women did not tant Dean of the College of Arts who were considered for tenure. The tion of ' students and faculty is about The sports page of The' Observer philosophy problems and let loose want to be singled' out as novelties and Letters. tenure cOInmittee decided, through to be changed. Beginning with the now includes many noteworthy together at a pep 'rally or' dorm or freaks. It was enough to be one Such advances are not so perva a system that is somewhat compli completion of the two new dorms; items concerning women's sports party. We see each otlier as equals of 125 women in a population of sive in other faculty areas. Notre cated, not' to give any of these 500 more women will be added to whereas in the eady semesters of and can enter society knowing each 6,000 men. They wanted to become Dame employs one woman profes women tenure. One of the women the University enrollment over a coeducation, men's sports totally other as equals. We ,women of Notre 'students of Notre' Dame, not a sor, nine associate professors, arid , refused teriure had already started a four-year period. ' , dominated the sport section. ' Dame no longer' feel so consistently woman among men at Notre Dame. 43 assistant professors. The remain discriminatory' action suit, against Where these women will' be Various committees of women defensive as did the women' of Women were definitely a novelty ing faculty consists of Instructors, the University; she added', "retali- housed has been a concern to both have been founded since 1972, only 1972; we do riot have to prove our on campus. Television, newspaper Library' Faculty, ,Professional, Spe meri and women. If only one of the to disband as ,their functions be- selves worthy of Notre Dame. Per~, and magazine reporters flocked, to" cilllists and women in 'Special Re~ dorms is complete by year's, end,' came unnecessary. Today one com- haps most importantly, men and the campus seeking a woman's view search.' " " then women will definitely be mittee remains: The Women's Ad- women grow here' together. Co on how it felt'to bea part of a for There are a number of difficulties housed in the new dorms. These visory Council. Made up of repre- , education has come, a long way at merly all-male' institution. Sr. John in finding qualified women, bringing women, will be inconting freshmen, sentatives from different parts of Notre Dame and has brought Notre feels that as a result 'of all this ex them to Notre Dame and keeping transfer 'students, and, women who Notre Dame life, these women meet' Dame a long way. "Let's not' stop posure and special attE~ntion, the them here. Finding the nght woman elect to move' out of their present regularly to advise Sr. John on' here. " D women became somewhat resentful. for a specific position is, at best; a dorms. ' " matters that concern the women of Women" she said, in an' effort to difficult problem. The availability of If both new dorms are complete,' Notre Dame. She also receives' in , Cathy Wisniewski, a junior biol become less noticeable and more'''a qualified women to teach" in the however, plans include moving the put from them regarding decisions ogy major, would like, to ,especially part of Notre Dame," became ag areas oi engineering and business, men housed in one of the towers to she must' make. thank Sr. John Miriam who helped gressiveandbegan to talk and act for example" is 'extremely 'low. This the dorms, and ,women, will be One of the most significant tremend.ouslywith the article. The more like "the 'guys." Women 'is primarily due.to the tremendous housed in the vacated tower. There changes in the role of women at wOmen' of Notre Dame all aWe her wanted so much to be a normal part opportunities'available for' women are no plans to transfer stUdents Notre Dame is perhaps the least a great, deal. ' ' : of Notre Dame life that' they sirn-' in these areas" iinmediately fol out ,of' their present dorms unless it obvious. In the first few years of II ply gave up, some of the desirable lowing graduation from college. is of the nature so described. coeducation, there was always the characteristics Notre Dame wanted Women 'do not generally pursue The move to admit more women "First Girl Admitted to ROTC" or II and needed from them.' ," ' ,higher education because of these is of great significance to Notre the "First Woman Named to Dean's "Since that fateful first 'semester immediately, lucrative job, openings. Dame student life. Women will be Post." Women were, again, singled ! of: women on campus, giant' steps Consequently, the availability of come more prevalent on campus, a out on the basis of their sex. Last 1 have been taken to normalize stu women with Ph.D's in business and more accurate reflection of the ratio' year, Rosemary' Mills' became Edi- 1 ,in society. The' gradual 'change is ' tor-in-Chief of The 'observer. She 1 dent life; After tlie Malits Report in engineering is quite low. , 1 1972, the first forinal report on the . Secondly, the women must be beneficial for the University in that became the' first, Notre Dame J alteration in 'academic and social woman to hold such a position. ,i current status 'of' coeducation at able to relocate' to the South Bend :1 Notre Dame was published in 1977. area. Often this coriflicts with fam- life can be made without too much She was competent, qualified and The report fr6nithe Committee to , ilyconsideration's' such 'as in a mar difficulty. " " " obviously willing' to hold such a Evaluate: Coeducation consisted of riage or with children. Many times Progress has definitely been made position. With a minimum of fan- surveys, findings and recommenda a woman must let a' career oppor in terms of accommodating campus fare, Rosemary Mills assumed a tions, all of which concerned the tunity slip, by for other priorities life to the,addition of women. A prominence in Notre Dame student well-being of both men and women she has set for herself.' " , gynecologist is now available to the life. Hopclully, a sign for our times. at Notre Dame. ' '" . "For 'these reasons, 'fiIlinga posi~ women of both Notre Dame and St. The improvements at Notre Dame , With the advent of women' stu:: tion with a wom~ncan be quite dif~ Sr. Joh'Y!-Miriam 'Jones, S.C. ' Mary's on a' l.lart~tiirie basis. Cam- since the arrival of women have

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'24 , SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 19, 1979 25 among league goaltenders last season , John Schmidt and Jim Brown saw Humphreys, a left wing, led the team with a 4.395 goals against average action in 38 and 37 games, respec in shorthanded goals last year with while posting an overall mark of tively, last year as freshmen and five, two in one period. 4.77. In the process he saw the third were teamed together most of the Certainly a key to the Irish offense highest amount of playing time by season. Schmidt led all Irish blue last year was the play of the four an Irish goalie, starting 29 games liners in scoring with 26 points, freshman forwards - Dave Poulin, and appearing in 32. while Brown ranked fourth with 12. Jeff Logan, Jeff Perry and Bill Roth "We worked the daylights out of John Cox, Paul Gagnon and Greg stein. All four skated regular shifts Dave last year,'" says Smith. "He Kania round out the Notre Dame de from the opening period of the sea came through in outstanding fash fensive corps. Gagnon, a junior, and son and adjusted quickly to the rapid ion, though, and I really don't know Kania, a sophomore, saw limited ac pace of the WCHA. With a year's by Brian Beglane where we would have been without tion last year while Cox stepped in experience, all four sophomores will him. He is a very quick stand-up to replace Lucia and played in 21 be looked to for bigger and better goaltender and we look to him for games. He should provide the Irish things this season. ' continued improvement. We hope to with vast experience as the seventh Poulin enjoyed one of the most . When you watch. Notre Dame juniors combine with a host of very competitive league, though, and be able· to spell him this year and defenseman . the task we have before us is by. no outstanding seasons ever for a Notre hockey. coach Lefty Smith lead his sophomores to form the. core of this keep him well rested." Only one of the top nine forwards Dame freshman. The 5-11, 175-pound team through practice, you can season's. club .. The going may have means an easy one. The main reason Smith hopes to from last year's club graduated. gotten a little rough last year with "But let's face it. We had a pretty center tied the record for most always be sure to catch him smiling be able to relieve Laurion is the That was captain Steve Schneider, . points in a season by an Irish fresh or joking with the players. A quick so many young skaters, but the expe good year last season and return arrival of freshman Bob McNamara, eight of our top nine scorers from third leading scorer. The eight re man with 59 while leading Notre one-liner or a joke about a missed rience gained. should pay ripe divi a 5-10 goalie out of Toronto. Mc turnees scored from 23 to 58 points dends for Smith. that club. Improvement will be the Dame in scoring. He finished fourth pass-something to keep things Namara, son of former Toronto last season. With continued improve in the balloting for rookie of the light. . "As we look to this season, we key. Our people must play to their Maple Leafs' goalie Gerry McNa ment the Irish offense could find it~ This season,. however, Smith don't face the question marks we did full potential, and we have to avoid year while also meriting honorable mara, is considered one of the best self one of the most formidable in mention on the Denver Post all doesn't need to crack 'any jokes to last year," says Smith, entering his the injury jinx. If we do that, we netminders ever to come out of the 12th year at the Notre Dame helm. feel it is realistic for us to challenge the country. WCHA squad. keep smiling at practice. All he has Toronto area. With his quick reflexes Senior captain Greg Meredith ,will to .do is look down the lineup, and "Last season we had to start from for the top. We are very optimistic Perry is another player who im and knowledge of the game, Mc~ be the nucleus of the Notre Dame proved himself considerably over the Smith has plenty of reason to smile. scratch at many positions, but this and look forward to this season." Namara will be looked upon to share . Sixteen of the top 20 skaters, in year we' have many players return Half of the goaltending situation attack. The 6-1, 205-pound right summer months. He is most adept at the goaltending burden. wing finished second on the team in cluding eight of the nine leading ing and know who can do what. is set. Freshman netminders, seemed, One of the strongest positions for digging the puck out of the corner. scorers, from last season's 18-19-1 "Overall, we have excellent to set a trend in the WCHA last year, scoring with 28 goals and 22 assists Logan's greatest asset is his the Irish this year could be on the for 50 points and just missed the club, return. .That young squad speed-our best ever-good size and and Notre Dame goalie Dave Lau blue line. No one graduated from the , speed. The 5-10, 175-pound left wing finished fifth in the Western Colle good strength. We should have more rion ranked among the best all sea defensive corps, and with John Cox WCHA goal-scoring' title. An out is especially effective' on the break giate Hockey Association with a depth on offense with a more effec son. The scrappy, 5-7 native of Inter stepping in to replace Don Lucia standing student, Meredith is just and once scored two goals within six 17-14-1 record. Eight seniors and tive fourth line. The WCHA is a national Falls, Minn~, finished 'sixth midway through the. season, Smith as smart a player and will be looked seconds last season. actually will have seven experienced upon to provide the overall leader Rothstein, a left wing, adds defensemen to call upon. ship for the Irish this season. s~rength to the Irish forechecking John Friedmann ranks as the only "With a healthy season we expect corps and should add speed up front. senior on the defensive corps this' Greg to make a serious 'run at the With Dick Olson leaving for the campaign. The 6-1, 200-pound na WCHA goal-scoring title," praises junior leagues and the graduation of tive of St. Paul, Minn., comes off his Smith. "He is a potential All-Ameri three senior forwards, there will be best year, scoring 22 points, and will can. Greg is an outstanding leader, four openings in' the Irish offense. A be looked upon for continued im with excellent offensive. capabilities combination of returning players provement. He was voted most im and is an integral part of our power and freshmen should more than ca proved player last year by his team play. He also is very capable as a pably fill these few holes. mates. defensive forward, though, and plays Junior Mark Sicoly is a leading The probable partner with Fried regularly when we are a man. short. candidate for the fourth center posi mann once again will be junior Don We expect big things from Greg this tion . while senior Matt Dubois and Lucia. Lucia was forced to sit out season." " sophomores Pat Devine and Dan the second half of last season due to Centering for Meredith should Collard will vie for the wing posi academic difficulties and appeared in be senior Ted Weltzin, an out tions. only 15 games. " With his return the standing stick handler who tied for Four freshmen will make their Irish will have one of their most reli fourth in scoring last year with 43 presence felt, however, and two are able defensive tandems restored. points. The product of Moundsview very likely candidates to see exten The most recognized of the Irish High School in St. Paul, Minn., tied sive action on the forward line. John i for the lead in assists with 31 and ]. defensemen is junior Jeff Brown Higgins, who can play on either side, schidle, brother of NHL'defenseman will be a key to the Irish attack as a and Kirt Bjork, a left wing-center, Jack and a veteran of international playmaker. should vie strongly for regular duty. competition. The 6-2, 200-pound Rounding out' the list -of top se Rex Bellomy and Mark Doman may native of East Amherst, N.Y., niors will be co-captain Tom Mich - see action as well. merited honorable mention on. the alek. A master in the face-off circle, "All of our players worked hard Denver Post all-WCHA squad last the 5-9, 165-pound center tied Welt conditioning themselves over the year and also was voted outstanding zin last year with 43 points. Michalek· summer," concludes Smith. "I can defenseman by his teammates. also fOrIns one 'of the WCHA's most . not stress enough, however, the im Scott Cameron' rounds out the effective penalty-killing units with portance of improvement for our group' of junior defensemen. 'The Kevin Humphreys. team-we must keep aware of that 6-2, 205-pound stalwart blue-liner Humphreys, the top returning at all times. We do have the quality saw action in 33 games last year and junior forward, likely will repeat as and the quantity coming back, but accumulated 83 minutes in penalties, a regular linemate of Michalek. Both with the WCHA you just can never something he hopes to cut down on he and Tom are highly respected by tell. So long as we remain healthy, this season. every power play in the league. we remain very optimistic." 0 26 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 19, 1979 27

(."'" iz among league goaltenders last season , John Schmidt and Jim Brown saw Humphreys, a left wing, led the team with a 4.395 goals against average action in 38 and 37 games, respec in shorthanded goals last year with while posting an overall mark of tively, last year as freshmen and five, two in one period. 4.77. In the process he saw the third were teamed together most of the Certainly a key to the Irish offense highest amount of playing time by season. Schmidt led all Irish blue last year was the play of the four an Irish goalie, starting 29 games liners in scoring with 26 points, freshman forwards - Dave Poulin, and appearing in 32. while Brown ranked fourth with 12. Jeff Logan, Jeff Perry and Bill Roth "We worked the daylights out of John Cox, Paul Gagnon and Greg stein. All four skated regular shifts Dave last year,'" says Smith. "He Kania round out the Notre Dame de from the opening period of the sea came through in outstanding fash fensive corps. Gagnon, a junior, and son and adjusted quickly to the rapid ion, though, and I really don't know Kania, a sophomore, saw limited ac pace of the WCHA. With a year's by Brian Beglane where we would have been without tion last year while Cox stepped in experience, all four sophomores will him. He is a very quick stand-up to replace Lucia and played in 21 be looked to for bigger and better goaltender and we look to him for games. He should provide the Irish things this season. ' continued improvement. We hope to with vast experience as the seventh Poulin enjoyed one of the most . When you watch. Notre Dame juniors combine with a host of very competitive league, though, and be able· to spell him this year and defenseman . the task we have before us is by. no outstanding seasons ever for a Notre hockey. coach Lefty Smith lead his sophomores to form the. core of this keep him well rested." Only one of the top nine forwards Dame freshman. The 5-11, 175-pound team through practice, you can season's. club .. The going may have means an easy one. The main reason Smith hopes to from last year's club graduated. gotten a little rough last year with "But let's face it. We had a pretty center tied the record for most always be sure to catch him smiling be able to relieve Laurion is the That was captain Steve Schneider, . points in a season by an Irish fresh or joking with the players. A quick so many young skaters, but the expe good year last season and return arrival of freshman Bob McNamara, eight of our top nine scorers from third leading scorer. The eight re man with 59 while leading Notre one-liner or a joke about a missed rience gained. should pay ripe divi a 5-10 goalie out of Toronto. Mc turnees scored from 23 to 58 points dends for Smith. that club. Improvement will be the Dame in scoring. He finished fourth pass-something to keep things Namara, son of former Toronto last season. With continued improve in the balloting for rookie of the light. . "As we look to this season, we key. Our people must play to their Maple Leafs' goalie Gerry McNa ment the Irish offense could find it~ This season,. however, Smith don't face the question marks we did full potential, and we have to avoid year while also meriting honorable mara, is considered one of the best self one of the most formidable in mention on the Denver Post all doesn't need to crack 'any jokes to last year," says Smith, entering his the injury jinx. If we do that, we netminders ever to come out of the 12th year at the Notre Dame helm. feel it is realistic for us to challenge the country. WCHA squad. keep smiling at practice. All he has Toronto area. With his quick reflexes Senior captain Greg Meredith ,will to .do is look down the lineup, and "Last season we had to start from for the top. We are very optimistic Perry is another player who im and knowledge of the game, Mc~ be the nucleus of the Notre Dame proved himself considerably over the Smith has plenty of reason to smile. scratch at many positions, but this and look forward to this season." Namara will be looked upon to share . Sixteen of the top 20 skaters, in year we' have many players return Half of the goaltending situation attack. The 6-1, 205-pound right summer months. He is most adept at the goaltending burden. wing finished second on the team in cluding eight of the nine leading ing and know who can do what. is set. Freshman netminders, seemed, One of the strongest positions for digging the puck out of the corner. scorers, from last season's 18-19-1 "Overall, we have excellent to set a trend in the WCHA last year, scoring with 28 goals and 22 assists Logan's greatest asset is his the Irish this year could be on the for 50 points and just missed the club, return. .That young squad speed-our best ever-good size and and Notre Dame goalie Dave Lau blue line. No one graduated from the , speed. The 5-10, 175-pound left wing finished fifth in the Western Colle good strength. We should have more rion ranked among the best all sea defensive corps, and with John Cox WCHA goal-scoring' title. An out is especially effective' on the break giate Hockey Association with a depth on offense with a more effec son. The scrappy, 5-7 native of Inter stepping in to replace Don Lucia standing student, Meredith is just and once scored two goals within six 17-14-1 record. Eight seniors and tive fourth line. The WCHA is a national Falls, Minn~, finished 'sixth midway through the. season, Smith as smart a player and will be looked seconds last season. actually will have seven experienced upon to provide the overall leader Rothstein, a left wing, adds defensemen to call upon. ship for the Irish this season. s~rength to the Irish forechecking John Friedmann ranks as the only "With a healthy season we expect corps and should add speed up front. senior on the defensive corps this' Greg to make a serious 'run at the With Dick Olson leaving for the campaign. The 6-1, 200-pound na WCHA goal-scoring title," praises junior leagues and the graduation of tive of St. Paul, Minn., comes off his Smith. "He is a potential All-Ameri three senior forwards, there will be best year, scoring 22 points, and will can. Greg is an outstanding leader, four openings in' the Irish offense. A be looked upon for continued im with excellent offensive. capabilities combination of returning players provement. He was voted most im and is an integral part of our power and freshmen should more than ca proved player last year by his team play. He also is very capable as a pably fill these few holes. mates. defensive forward, though, and plays Junior Mark Sicoly is a leading The probable partner with Fried regularly when we are a man. short. candidate for the fourth center posi mann once again will be junior Don We expect big things from Greg this tion . while senior Matt Dubois and Lucia. Lucia was forced to sit out season." " sophomores Pat Devine and Dan the second half of last season due to Centering for Meredith should Collard will vie for the wing posi academic difficulties and appeared in be senior Ted Weltzin, an out tions. only 15 games. " With his return the standing stick handler who tied for Four freshmen will make their Irish will have one of their most reli fourth in scoring last year with 43 presence felt, however, and two are able defensive tandems restored. points. The product of Moundsview very likely candidates to see exten The most recognized of the Irish High School in St. Paul, Minn., tied sive action on the forward line. John i for the lead in assists with 31 and ]. defensemen is junior Jeff Brown Higgins, who can play on either side, schidle, brother of NHL'defenseman will be a key to the Irish attack as a and Kirt Bjork, a left wing-center, Jack and a veteran of international playmaker. should vie strongly for regular duty. competition. The 6-2, 200-pound Rounding out' the list -of top se Rex Bellomy and Mark Doman may native of East Amherst, N.Y., niors will be co-captain Tom Mich - see action as well. merited honorable mention on. the alek. A master in the face-off circle, "All of our players worked hard Denver Post all-WCHA squad last the 5-9, 165-pound center tied Welt conditioning themselves over the year and also was voted outstanding zin last year with 43 points. Michalek· summer," concludes Smith. "I can defenseman by his teammates. also fOrIns one 'of the WCHA's most . not stress enough, however, the im Scott Cameron' rounds out the effective penalty-killing units with portance of improvement for our group' of junior defensemen. 'The Kevin Humphreys. team-we must keep aware of that 6-2, 205-pound stalwart blue-liner Humphreys, the top returning at all times. We do have the quality saw action in 33 games last year and junior forward, likely will repeat as and the quantity coming back, but accumulated 83 minutes in penalties, a regular linemate of Michalek. Both with the WCHA you just can never something he hopes to cut down on he and Tom are highly respected by tell. So long as we remain healthy, this season. every power play in the league. we remain very optimistic." 0 26 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 19, 1979 27

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c,rr'", ;' of the past decade is· ,"good rid destiny, as evidenced by persistent' was predominantly ,mythopoetical , ",' dance." This is not hard to under attempts to regain popularity. Cur material, with lyrics by a young man stand when one considers that popu rEmtly, it's an American tour sparked named Bernie Taupin;' who was evi lar generalizations concerning 'the by his success with Russian crowds. dently ,too shy to write about any 1970s terid to include such endearing I don't know what kind of music thing remotely' personal. The album phrases as~'the 'me' decade" and Elton John is making these days, but seems to suffer for that reason, but "the age ·.of apathy." . I'm hoping that he finds the inten it is by no means devoid of good And someone recently said to me, sity of his earlier ,music. material. " with horror in his voice, "Do you For anyone unfamiliar with 'the Besides "Empty Sky," little of the realize that future generations will full range of his earlier music, there material on this album is,even acces associate, us' with the, advent of will probably be a good deal less sible. Taupin's lyrics are, often in disco?~' As if this should be a source anticipation. This person is more comprehensible and Elton John of collective shame; than likely familiar only with those croons his way through many of the Although it is true that the 1970s Elton John songs which were over songs in much the same manner that have spawned disco music, I do not popularized' or disliked on an initial Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull has think it epitomizes the decade in basis. I, would ,like " to mention ' a sung after his group's peak in popu either a musicai' or social sense. It is number of less, well-known songs larity. The lyrics of "Sails," a song probably appropriate that the most which'deserve resurrection or justify found on the second' side of Empty prominent' commercial musician of the anticipation ,I feel every time Sky, illustrate the inaccessibility of the decade has been forgotten as Elton John makes another stab at a . the album on the whole: completely as we might hope to platinum album. ,LucywaIked gently forget the 1970s. The variety of his music was for Between the damp barrels." ' . ,Who remembers Elton John? midable. Back in 1976, he had me . And cutout my eyes '.",: You 'might remember him as a wondering whether he had "musical With· the, width of her finger. gaudy little British, musician who direction" . or just went; in . every , "Said she'd guessed the number fizzled as quickly as he flared in the direction at the same time. Up until ,,: Of bales in the backroom. , " first half of the decade. ,The pattern that time, every album seemed a Rock of the Westies is by a trans of his popularity is not uncommon refutation of. the complaint,that he formed artists. In the years that these days. Lately it seems that any- always sounded the. same.:The, dif- (continued on page 30). I i , ,;: ,;, , F'oreigner'sLatest;Mindless Head, Qames . For' those of 'you wondering if noteworthy. "Dirty \YhiteBoy," the on the Telephone" a~~ thoroughly the multiplatinum successes of Fo~- new single, is easily the most solid mediocre. .' " eigner's first' two ,albums would ,go song on the LP; a convincing'cho- "The,Modern Day" is,a third-rate to the group members' heads, don't rus, solid hooks and a nice pop feel Cars imitation, which is matched in worry. Head Games" their newest work well over. the typically' relent- feebleness by Gramm's wimpy LP, confirms what I'd suspected all less thunk of the; rhythm, section. cries" of, '~I'll: Get ,Even With You.'~ along - there's :nothing' iii ,their While not riveting, it's certainly But Foreigner outdoes, itself: ~th heads at. all, anyway. If you liked pleasant, : .,,' , "Women' 'and "Blinded by Science," the mindless drive of': Foreigner "The other highlight is the sur- which, are indisputably two of, the and Double Vision, you can hear ,prisingly;adventurous, "Do ·What most worthless songs ever recorded, the, very. same: dull. riffs, progres- You Like." Imaginative, almost in- In summing up,if you liked For sions and hooks right' here. Ho hum. tricate harmonies and the acoustic eigner's first two efforts,' you'll Actually, there has always been guitar relief from the, merciless probably like this one- although a possibility, that, the talent in the heavy metal multiguifar drone help it's not quite as well crafted as its group would overcome Mick Jones' make this the best melody. of the lot predecessors. But if you liked those cliched, shlocky writing, and Lou (this,' folks, is a left-handed compli- ,albums you probably haven't read

t, Gramm's pedestrian vocals. Unfor- ment, . indeed) , and one of Foreign- this far (if you can read). If you , ,!I tunately, ; ,despite their background er's few tolerable ,breaks is thrown didn't like them, this'LP is a con in the glory days of King Crimson, in' as well., Yet, they manage: to vincing reinforcement- of your low I guitarist-keyboardist Ian ::McDon- bungle the song with pretentious yet opinion for the group. If you are ald and bassist Rick Wills do; little stupid lyrics and; incredibly bored unsure, let me assure you that :this .~ . ~ '.: . to distinguish themselves or the lead vocals from Gramm. style' of music is 'done; much more group., Even the golden touch of . As for the rest of the record; competently by other outfits. Don't .'t..it ... , ?~:";' , '.' producer Roy Thomas Baker (Cars" "Head Games" isn't bad, but is 'iIi- waste your time or money~ . : 0 Queen) can't free the group from distinguishable from about, a dozen .' ~~ .:i.~~: ... ~.;...":.~ ~ their rut. ' other, ' songs they've ;'done, while -'-Toni I{rueger Two songs may be considered "Rev' on the' Red Line" and "Love I I OCTOBER 19, 1979 29 II 28 SCHOLASTIC I, Ii I '1

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, ' by Tim Gulstine:, one who, gains commercial success ference' between his' first album, " can't, help' but become an ultimate Empty Sky,and Rock of the westiBs As 1979 wears down and the 1980s failure" but this was unjustly the was striking. Empty Sky, released loom. before us, the overwhelming case with Elton John. He seems to in 1968, was, completely removed reaction of most people to the demise have recognized the unfairness of his from the turbulence of the time.; It c,rr'", ;' of the past decade is· ,"good rid destiny, as evidenced by persistent' was predominantly ,mythopoetical , ",' dance." This is not hard to under attempts to regain popularity. Cur material, with lyrics by a young man stand when one considers that popu rEmtly, it's an American tour sparked named Bernie Taupin;' who was evi lar generalizations concerning 'the by his success with Russian crowds. dently ,too shy to write about any 1970s terid to include such endearing I don't know what kind of music thing remotely' personal. The album phrases as~'the 'me' decade" and Elton John is making these days, but seems to suffer for that reason, but "the age ·.of apathy." . I'm hoping that he finds the inten it is by no means devoid of good And someone recently said to me, sity of his earlier ,music. material. " with horror in his voice, "Do you For anyone unfamiliar with 'the Besides "Empty Sky," little of the realize that future generations will full range of his earlier music, there material on this album is,even acces associate, us' with the, advent of will probably be a good deal less sible. Taupin's lyrics are, often in disco?~' As if this should be a source anticipation. This person is more comprehensible and Elton John of collective shame; than likely familiar only with those croons his way through many of the Although it is true that the 1970s Elton John songs which were over songs in much the same manner that have spawned disco music, I do not popularized' or disliked on an initial Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull has think it epitomizes the decade in basis. I, would ,like " to mention ' a sung after his group's peak in popu either a musicai' or social sense. It is number of less, well-known songs larity. The lyrics of "Sails," a song probably appropriate that the most which'deserve resurrection or justify found on the second' side of Empty prominent' commercial musician of the anticipation ,I feel every time Sky, illustrate the inaccessibility of the decade has been forgotten as Elton John makes another stab at a . the album on the whole: completely as we might hope to platinum album. ,LucywaIked gently forget the 1970s. The variety of his music was for Between the damp barrels." ' . ,Who remembers Elton John? midable. Back in 1976, he had me . And cutout my eyes '.",: You 'might remember him as a wondering whether he had "musical With· the, width of her finger. gaudy little British, musician who direction" . or just went; in . every , "Said she'd guessed the number fizzled as quickly as he flared in the direction at the same time. Up until ,,: Of bales in the backroom. , " first half of the decade. ,The pattern that time, every album seemed a Rock of the Westies is by a trans of his popularity is not uncommon refutation of. the complaint,that he formed artists. In the years that these days. Lately it seems that any- always sounded the. same.:The, dif- (continued on page 30). I i , ,;: ,;, , F'oreigner'sLatest;Mindless Head, Qames . For' those of 'you wondering if noteworthy. "Dirty \YhiteBoy," the on the Telephone" a~~ thoroughly the multiplatinum successes of Fo~- new single, is easily the most solid mediocre. .' " eigner's first' two ,albums would ,go song on the LP; a convincing'cho- "The,Modern Day" is,a third-rate to the group members' heads, don't rus, solid hooks and a nice pop feel Cars imitation, which is matched in worry. Head Games" their newest work well over. the typically' relent- feebleness by Gramm's wimpy LP, confirms what I'd suspected all less thunk of the; rhythm, section. cries" of, '~I'll: Get ,Even With You.'~ along - there's :nothing' iii ,their While not riveting, it's certainly But Foreigner outdoes, itself: ~th heads at. all, anyway. If you liked pleasant, : .,,' , "Women' 'and "Blinded by Science," the mindless drive of': Foreigner "The other highlight is the sur- which, are indisputably two of, the and Double Vision, you can hear ,prisingly;adventurous, "Do ·What most worthless songs ever recorded, the, very. same: dull. riffs, progres- You Like." Imaginative, almost in- In summing up,if you liked For sions and hooks right' here. Ho hum. tricate harmonies and the acoustic eigner's first two efforts,' you'll Actually, there has always been guitar relief from the, merciless probably like this one- although a possibility, that, the talent in the heavy metal multiguifar drone help it's not quite as well crafted as its group would overcome Mick Jones' make this the best melody. of the lot predecessors. But if you liked those cliched, shlocky writing, and Lou (this,' folks, is a left-handed compli- ,albums you probably haven't read t, Gramm's pedestrian vocals. Unfor- ment, . indeed) , and one of Foreign- this far (if you can read). If you , ,!I tunately, ; ,despite their background er's few tolerable ,breaks is thrown didn't like them, this'LP is a con in the glory days of King Crimson, in' as well., Yet, they manage: to vincing reinforcement- of your low I guitarist-keyboardist Ian ::McDon- bungle the song with pretentious yet opinion for the group. If you are ald and bassist Rick Wills do; little stupid lyrics and; incredibly bored unsure, let me assure you that :this .~ . ~ '.: . to distinguish themselves or the lead vocals from Gramm. style' of music is 'done; much more group., Even the golden touch of . As for the rest of the record; competently by other outfits. Don't .'t..it ... , ?~:";' , '.' producer Roy Thomas Baker (Cars" "Head Games" isn't bad, but is 'iIi- waste your time or money~ . : 0 Queen) can't free the group from distinguishable from about, a dozen .' ~~ .:i.~~: ... ~.;...":.~ ~ their rut. ' other, ' songs they've ;'done, while -'-Toni I{rueger Two songs may be considered "Rev' on the' Red Line" and "Love I I OCTOBER 19, 1979 29 II 28 SCHOLASTIC I, Ii I '1

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(continued from page 29) ness. The instrumental at the con abbreviated life, with special em ,elusion of the song is somewhat re phasis on the fact that she was a followed Empty Sky, Taupin adopted. moved from this tonal settirig. It is lesbian. This biography is in con Tt1e LAST \NOQD--~- so many personas that each album reminiscent of "Come Down in trast to the biography implicit in the involves a list of characters.. His Time," the only difference being the title of the album, that of Judy Gar land, which is almost mythical. It lyrics had lost any residual tinge of use of mandolin and guitar instead It all happened on a sunny summer Sunday in is also quite different from the sym mythopoetics, as evidenced on of .the more exotic instruments. De- '70 or '71, I'm not sure, but the timeis irrelevant. It pathetic account of MarilynMonroe's "Grow Some Funk of Your Own": spite the fact that Elton John was was when we were all younger, when time was quiet life, titled "Candle in the Wind." It I looked at my watch at a low ebb when he made this and much more gentle. _It was when fishing was the is an isolated case of brutality in the It was a quarter to five . album, and in some ways because subject and the only studying involved worms, when music of Elton John. The headlines screamed that of it, the material is excellent. It four young brothers were learning things that parents I was still alive. illustrates a desperate artist reach- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road show cased Elton John at his best. From disliked hearing but enjoyed doing. I couldn't understand it. ing back for anything he can get his My brothers and I fished in Mud Creek, a small I thought I died last night. voice on. that point on, he seemed to suffer a letdown, perhaps because he was creek about as wide as a sidewalk and as deep as the The lyrics on this album are never Honky Chateau, released only six _. library reflecting pool. The creek yielded catches elevated too far above the common- months later, reflects none of the contractually obligated to release two albums yearly. In 1974, with that ranged anywhere from four inches to a whopping place, and the results are much more desperation or frustration that per seven inches. Of course, those seven-inchers were no enjoyable. meated Madman Across' the Water. the release of Oaribou, it seemed that Elton John's creative reservoir less important than any of Curt Gowdy's seven-footers. The final cut on the first side, "I Elton John had developed a knack We loved fishing and during the week Mud Creek Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of for his craft, and his band had solidi was almost dry. The man behind these songs sounds older; but a sense was our Caribbean. Robert Ford)," is the best song on fied. All of the songs are tempered But on the weekends, we went big-time. One of my the album. by a kind of serenity. "Mona Lisas of weariness rescues some of the uncles hasfotir daughters and no sons so whenever . Rock of .the Westies marks ·the and Mad Hatters" depicts a person songs from banality. "Pinky" sounds ,he needed sons, he borrowed us. And we never conclusion of eight years of intense at ease with himself despite the like another piece of female glorifi objected because he took us fishing-at a river. The musical productivity." Perhaps the adversities which he confronts in a cation until the end of the chorus, most comprehensive way toencom- chaotic urban world. The "us versus at which point Elton John hits a nice Rock River runs from northern Wisconsin down to pass music from this period will be them" mentality has never beenil note of resignation in his description the Illinois River which dumps into the Mississippi to examine those songs which seem lustrated so well as it is in the of the special girl: somewhere near St. Louis. On its way south, the Rock to embody the tone or concept of " chorus of this song: The· trial -and the error runs. through my hometown. And, as an added bonus, the album on which they are found. I thank the Lord there's people Of my master plan; there is a long concrete dam which keeps the river from Proceeding chronologically from out there like you , Now she rolls like the dice flooding during the spring thaw. With the possible Empty Sky, one comes to Elton : While Mona Lisas and Mad In a poor gambler's hands. exception of a ninety-foot concrete statue of Blackhawk, John, released in 1969. The poetics Hatters' The concept of ·an autobiographi a Sioux Indian chief, which overlooks the river, this are still there, but' a more pastoral Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers cal album saved Elton John at this dam is the most majestic man-made item in our small setting _removes this album from 'Turn around and say good morn- point in his career, or at least post community. And to four innocent kids, it's simply by Dave Satterfield the obscurity that clouded Empty ing - poned a decline in the quality of his awesome. Sky. The opening song of the second To the night. music. Captain Fantastic and the The power and beauty of the dam are stunning and we could see flashes of orange amidst the white foam, side, Sixty Years On, is emblematic For unless they see the sky Brown Dirt Cowboy, released almost the noise made by the crashing, churning water is held captive by the powerful undertow. The orange . of this album. But they can't and that is why a year after. Caribou, was infused frightening. Below the dam, the white-foam and mist flashes were life preservers and there were bodies Elton John is a lush album. Occa- They know not if it's dark outside with enthusiasm. One backward , hover above the water as the powerful uridertow of the . attached to those preservers. After about five minutes, sionally sentimental, occasionally Or light. glance enabled both Elton John and water unceasingly' and unrelentlessly swirls .. It's quite the dam released the powerless, limp bodies. Floating turbulent, it is probably a landmark Pretty elaborate syntax for a piece Bernie Taupinto find fresh material. a sight: And the fish must love it. - facedown into the calm, quiet river, it was apparent in Elton John's music because it was of pop music. , From the opening of the first song, ,There is a calm pool that sits right off to the side the canoeists were dead. the last artistic gesture he made I find Honky Chateau and the one is compelled to acknowledge a of the dam. The pool is a temporary home for many . My uncle was distrauglit. He was racing up and before jumping into the mainstream album that followed it, Don't Shoot sense of purpose underlying the _large and competitive catfish, carp, northern pike down the shore, waving his arms and screaming some- .. of pop. Me, 'I'm Only the Piano Player, to, music: and an occasional·walleye. That is why my uncle took thing about calling an ambulance or the fire department. Tumbleweed Connection was re- he almost synonymous works. Both For there's weak-winged young us fishing there. -_' - , Finally; he decided to go call them himself; As he ran leased in 1970. Excepting Captain involve a lot of carefree and enter sparrows· -- This particular Sunday was a gorgeous day; the .off screaming; my little brother said "what an. Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cow- taining songs.' Elton John and That starve in'the winter. skies _wereclear,there'was a,clean, cool breeze and asshole!" and we laughed. ~rofanity was very funny boy, this album more closely adheres Bernie Taupin were apparently hav Broken young children on the the fish were biting. My unCle was a serious fisherman. then. . to the "concept" motif than Elton ing a lot of fun. Their best material 'Wheels of the winners We were not. There is more to fishing than just Anyway, the ambulance arrived and the fire John's other works. It.is the only emerged when they adopted persons And the sixty-eight summer fes- fishing, just' as tliere is more to a football game than department arrived and a large group cif people album from which I draw a song which were remote from their own tival wallflowers - football.' He didn't 'understand that; so whenever we .' arrived to check out this "tragic" scene. During all the that- is not emblematic or even personalities, but remained believ Are thinning. ' acted uphe would yell at us and warn us that we were bedlam, my brothers and I kept fishing. I caught a huge vaguely representative. "Come Down able. Elton John is on the line with the -. wasting valuable time and he would never take us ' carp but threw it back because we didn't know how to in Time," like many of Elton John's Elton John seemed comfortable in songs I have discussed in this artiele. fishing again. So we got serious.- filet a carp. And we got bcired so we threw rocks at best; songs,' involves unusual instru- the niche he had created with Honky These songs are the crux of his , As we fished,rny older brother noticed two canoes, a turtle. _ '. .• .' . mentation. Chateau and Don't Shoot Me, etc. musical endeavors. I would love to _,with tliree people in each, heading downriver straight . I later heard that fou'r people had drowned and two' In 1971, Elton John was a frus- Conseqi:uimtly, Goodbye Yellow Brick see him expand this list in the for the dam. It was evident that they could not turn had survived the clutches of the dam's swirling arms. trated artist striving for the success Road was a surprise. A motif that -- future. He has expressed no less around; they were going to try and shoot the dam. Many people talked about the accident in the following . which he has since attained and lost. Elton John had used only once be dissatisfaction with his recent stag Our eyes focused on the canoes; we knew that this weeks. Somesaid it was tragic, some said it was Madman Across the Water was not fore, the biographical song; was used nation than anyone else, so I'm sure would he quite an event. . silly and the authorities talked of "safety measures." about former President Nixon: It in three cases on this two-record set. he's trying. If he finds just. a little The canoes came over the dam and crashed 'into Some people, who evidently weren't there, said it was was about a -multitude of. things These three songs, plus "Funeral for inspiration, I would be anxious to the churning water below the dam. Both canoes . violent. I thought it was rather peaceful. But the which. did. not revolve ,around a a FriendjLove Lies Bleeding," form see the results. 0 'tipped, and for at least thirty seconds we saw nothing accident did seem to bother an awfullot'of people. It . single concept. There is, however, a the core of the album. Although the but water. ThEm, a canoe floated out of the,undertow, never bothered me. It never bothered my brothers, . general tone to this album-it con- latter is Elton John's best work, one bent in the middle at a perfect ninety-degree angle.. either.' In fact, not much of anything bothered us veysa sense of frustration. _Under- of the three biographical songs, "All Another followed, inidentieal shape~ But there wasn'o . except rainy weather, dead worms, people who yelled' lying the upbeat tempo and exaltant the Girls Love Alice," is the most sign of canoeists. Our -entranced eyes searched along too much and fish that wouldn't bite. I vocals.of ."Holiday Inn" is a sense _ interesting. The lyrics convey a sor the _shore and 'over the calm 'water downstream-they And sometimes I think maybe that's the way to be. 1 of self-destructiveness and mindless- did and cymcal account of Alice's . . . . 0 ,. saw no canoeists. Upon careful examiriation, though, i. 30 SCHOLASTIC I'.":1 OCTOBER 19, 1979 31 Ii

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