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by Phil Bosco grievance against some authority The Student Life Council met felt to be abusive; it is an appeal yesterday afternoon at 3:00 in to a public sense of equity, with the Center for Continuing Edu­ the hope that publicity will cation to discuss off campus cause embarrassment sufficient housing and a report from the to bring redress." Serving the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College Community Demonstration Committee that When a demonstration was set up last December. becomes violent, however, " .. .it VOL. Ill, No. 113 TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1969 Richard Rossie, in his last has changed entirely; it is no SLC meeting as Student Body longer a demonstration." President, introduced the follow­ Describing the situation that ing resolution on off campus exists at Notre Dame, the report housing: says: Senate installs McKenna "Students authorized to live "If Notre Dame is really 'a by Marty Graham engage in activity contributing priated funds shall be used for off campus shall be permitted to place where all the great ques- Phil McKenna and Fred Ded­ to 'a substantial disruption of the benefit of 'any applicant' live in housing of their own tions are asked,' it is bound to rick were installed as the new the administration of the insti­ convicted by any court of gen­ choosing. Students under 21 be an independent and disputa- Student Body President and tution .. .' In the enforcement eral jurisdiction of a crime invol­ shall be required to have paren­ tious place, often alarming to Vice-President at last night's ving the use of force, trespass or tal permission to live in appart­ those who support it, since the Student Senate meeting. the seizure of property under mcnts or other housing which wealth that subsidizes universi- The Senate also approved a the control of an institution of requires the signing of a lease or tics is often held by persons and proposal by outgoing Student higher education. Unlike 504, it other legal documents. The Uni­ enterprises representing conscr- Body President Richard Rossie makes no provision for notice versity shall be in no way vative interests. Demonstrations that Notre Dame's Student gov­ and a hearing." responsible for the financial can and do place the administr- ernmcnt back the National The major ground for the suit agreement entered into between ation between two distrustfull Student Association's suit is that "the statutes constitute a a Notre Dame student and a groups. Though it is probably against various pieces of federal violation of the right of free resident of South Bend. This tempted at times to call down a legislation which cut off finan­ speech, freedom of conscience, recommendation should take plague on both their houses, the cia! aid to demonstrators. and freedom of assembly, as effect immediately." administration must try to In a letter addressed to guaranteed by the First Amend­ It was made clear that the explain and advocate the inter- Rossie, a prominent Washington ment of the Constitution." opening phrase of the resolution, ests of both groups to each law firm, representing the NSA, In his farewell address to the "Students authorized to live off other. In so doing, it cannot stated that the major provisions Student Senate, Rossie thanked campus ..." meant just that. It afford any overly sensitive and which the NSA attempts to chal­ everyone for the support which applies only to those students protcctivc concern for the Notre lcnge. These proVISIOns are was given to him over the past who either because of their class Dame 'image'. We must not be section 504 of the Higher Educa­ year. He also stated that the status or academic standing, arc tcmptcd to speak out of both tion Amendments Act of 1968 student government is beginning required by the University to sides of our mouth, presenting and section 411 of the Depart­ Ex-SBP Rossie to gain a stronger voice in the live off campus or have their the University on the one hand mcnt of Labor and Health, decisions concerning campus approval to do so. as a bold and venturesome place Education and Welfare Appro­ of this statute, the institution policy, but a still stronger voice Rossie's resolution was then in which to search for the truth, priations act of 1969. must afford the student or is needed. voted upon and passed unani­ and on the other as a boy's The letter states, "Section employee notice and opportu­ After taking office, McKenna m~usly by the Council. finishing school." 504 would have colleges with- nity for a hearing. stated that the "stress of next An ad hoc committee was set Students complain that draw federal aid from any of "Section 411 provides that no year's senate will be on the work up by the SLC to meet today to administrators arc " .. deceptive- their students or employees who part of the government appro- of senate committees." discuss the Dean of Student's ly agreeable to their propos- directive. The members of the als ... " and that major reforms in Th $ d S committee are SBP Phil student affairs have been "grudg- 0 u an bid farewell to Ike McKenna (who officially re­ ing. last-minute concessions places today), Rev. Ernest before the threat of adverse pub­ WASHINGTON (UPI)- Four abreast, they waited an pccts, placing a wreath at the Bartell, C.S.C., and Dean of Stu­ licity." Mourners by the thousands, in­ average of 45 minutes to enter casket. Later Italian Prime Mini­ dents Rev. JAMES Riehle, The report states that demon­ cluding heads of state and high the rotunda where the flag ster Mariano Rumor, Australian C.S.C. McKenna said last night strators " ... have too often acted school students from Iowa to draped coffin lay on the black Prime Minister John Gorton and that he will be pressing at to­ as if they alone had any moral Florida, passed by the bier of catafalque which once cradled Canadian Prime Minister Pierre day's meeting for a new directive integrity. Others in the Univer­ Dwight D. Eisenhower yesterday the body of Abraham Lincoln. Elliott Trudeau made ceremonial that will require only freshmen sity understandably resent the as the dead former President lay Middle aged Gl's who had mourning appearances. to live on campus. arrogance implicit in this right­ in state in the capitol rotunda. served under Eisenhower's com­ Former President Johnson re­ A report from the Demonstra­ eousness." Leaders of the world wen mand in World War II were turned to Washington from tion Committee was submitted The Student Life Council will ushered in and out without dif­ repre~ted. At one point, a Texas for the first time since to and read by the Council. It continue discussion of the report ficulty to pay their respects. The blind man was led by an escort Nixon was inaugurated Jan. 20. was submitted by Rev. James at their next meeting on Mon­ rank and file of the people stood describing the scene. Through By coincidence, it was one year B urtchaell, C. S.C. day, April 14, at which time patiently in line despite chilling the hours, hundreds: of high to the day since he startled the The report described demon­ resolutions will probably be temperatures to bid farewell to school students in town for the nation by announcing he would ·trations as " ... a public show of drafted. "Ike." Easter period tours passed by in not seek re-election. He and Mrs. groups. Johnson paid a condolence call No official count was kept on Mrs. Eisenhower that lasted McKenna makes two new posts but by noon EST, newsmen esti­ half an hour at midday. by Chuck Jackson mated that as many as 40,000 The only other surviving A nnounccments made last The new Research and last night by the two new had filed through the rotunda. former President, Harry S. night by incoming SBP and Development post to be student government heads Interspersed in the steady pro­ Truman, had his wife Bess tele­ SBVP Phil McKenna and Fred occupied by John Zimmerman is included the enlistment of the cession of people were the visits phone Mrs. Eisenhower from Dedrick included appointments specifically designed for the Afro-American Society, the ISO, of the dignitaries that began their vacation home at Key for student government offices main tainance of long term and the Hall President's council Sunday evening when French West, Fla., to express his regrets as well as the establishment of research on university topics, in an advisory capacity to the President Charles DeGaullc sa­ he could not attend the funeral. new posts. including co-education and the new student government. luted his World War II comrade The 84 year old Truman, a Slated to be the three most University Senate. Representatives from each in arms. military spokesman reported, important posts in the new As Ombudsman, Jim Smith organization arc chosen from Shortly before noon, South sent word he was "saddened by student administration arc those will act as a "trouble shooter" within that organization. V ict namcse Vice President the fact they could not come to of Executive Coordinator, for students receiving complaints Student Government Nguyen Cao Ky paid his res- Washington." Research and Development, and and at the same time acting on positions remaining to be filled Ombudsman. Students these as much as possible. include that of academic Affairs appointed to these offices arc, Black student Dave Krashna, and NSA Commissioners. The respectively, Larry Landry, John newly appointed as Human two, according to Dedrick, will Zimmerman, and Jim Smith. Affairs Commissioner, was hopefully be filled before Easter. Other appointments include chosen for his hard work in the John Coughlin as Treasurer, recent NSA Conference on Ike's brother sick -··· ·-·; Dave Krashna as Human Affairs White Racism and because he is .~,-~. Commissioner, Judicial "hard-working and very W ASIIINGTON, (UPI) Mil­ Coordinator, Gary Mcinerney, competent." ton Eisenhower, brother of the and to the position of Public SBVP Fred Dedrick revealed late President, was admitted to cf Relations, Ed Davey. the reason for choosing Gary Walter Reed Army Medical Cent­ Larry Landry, filling the post Mcinerney for Judicial er yesterday "for observation." of Executive Coordinator will Coordinator because he "has a A hospital spokesman was un­ act to enforce the decisions good grasp oft he legal system at able to give details of Eisen­ made by the SBP and SBVP. Notre Dame." hower's ailment, but the mana­ According to Dedrkk, Landry New "PR" man Ed Davey was ger's office at the Washington was selected for the position described as an "energetic, Hilton Hotel said the 69 year old because "of his comprehensive hard-working person, who'll do a president emeritus of Johns knowledge of student more than adequate job as Hopkins University complained government and because he Public Relations man." of not feeling well and asked to The Observer will resume publication Tuesday, April 15. works well with people." Additional policies announced be hospitalized for a checkup. In the meantime, we'll see you in Lauderdale. PAGE 2 THE OBSERVER TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1969 in Free University • Ideology, Tactics studied 1n Radical Studies Program

A Radical Studies Program Maoist ideology and will be tive elite. action. It will include the keep­ aims of the Radical Studies Pro­ has now been set up as a new taught by a South Bend member Students will work individual­ ing of order and defense against gram is to set up a course in course of the Free University. of the Communist Party. Chris­ ly for the most part, in areas of hecklers and police harassment, Women's Liberation. This course The program includes the Ideo­ tian Radicalism will include a particular interest to themselves. and self-protection in physical will consider differential pay, logy, Independent Study, and study of Christian radical The course on South Bend will civil disobedience situations. problems of discrimination Tactics of Radicalism and has thought and action in the twen­ involve individual and small The program will hold an against women, and male been introduced to the Free tieth century. • group investigation into the so­ open house every Friday at 8:00 supremacy. University by Junior Tim Me­ The University in Society and cial and economic structure and PM at the St. Francis House. On Students who can be contac­ many occasions a significant Ca­ Carry. a course on South Bend, Indiana relationships of St. Joseph coun­ ted about the Radical Studies Marxism and Christian Radi­ will be taught under the heading ty and its city. tholic radical will speak. This Program are Don Hynes, John calism will be studied as part of of Independent Study. The Uni­ A study of the Tactical Group Friday will be the first meeting Kraniak, Laura and John the Ideology of radicalism. The versity in Society is a coordi­ will be the main attraction under of the Christian Radical Course. Dotson, George Koszis, Fran One of the more important Course on Marxism will be a nated program into research of the Tactics of radicalism. This Maier, and McCarry. survey of classical Marxian poli­ social, political, and economic program will survey the physical tical thought, with consideration interests and connections of and tactical aspects of both of neo-Marxian, revisionist, and Notre Dame and its administra- non-violent and violent direct Breen -Philips vandals captured A group of disorderly stu­ records were destroyed and frag­ dents who ransacked the base­ ments of glass fouled up the Alumni Club selected Senior Bar ment lounge of Breen Philips machine. A pool table, pur­ Hall early Sunday morning were chased three days ago was also The results of the referendum dent. The Juniors voted over­ ni Club was because of the apprehended yesterday. damaged. The pool cues were by the Junior class on next whelmingly for the present site "trouble that arose frequently at Both the Hall President and broken, the felt was torn and year's Senior Bar were of the Alumni Club to be used off campus bars." ·Moving the the Hall Judicial Board Chair­ one of the brackets was cracked. announced Monday by Jack again next year. Louies, the bar back off campus would be man refused to disclose the Several hall lounge chairs also Crawford, Jr. Class Vice Presi- other laternative, lost by a mar­ "just inviting trouble to return." names of the students. "We ex­ failed to escape vandalism. gin of 675 to 45. The class officers hope that it pect reparations to be made for Beer cans and litter were scat­ The management of Louies will influence the decision of the the damage," stated John Knorr, tered all over the basement offered to build an addition to University on whether to turn Chairman of the Hall Judicial floor. Some were also found the present building to be used the Alumni Club over to the Board. Payment to the respect­ outside on the ground by the Miller for the Senior Bar, provided graduate students or not. ive companies for the new equip­ north side of the building. they sign a five year contract. Another reason for not moving ment will be made either by the It is not known whether the Crawford pointed out the advan­ the bar is the amount of profits students involved or through students who were caught will Makes it tages of keeping the present that have come out of the pres­ Hall funds, he added. be tried by the Hall 1 udicial sight far outnumber the pro­ ent sight since it opened in A juke box ten days old was Board or the Campus Judicial posed bar at Louies. The reason January. A similar outcome next battered by a pool cue. Many Board. the bar was moved to the Alum- year along with the business the Right! football season brings should Iron Maidens, greatly benefit the class. He also Vietnam Peace Vigil April 12 Love feels that a "fraternity" atmos- On April 12 there will be a and several other colleges would Winnie and R.J. phere was begun this year at the twenty-four hour, nationwide be on spring break April 12. He Alumni Club and that he would peaceful vigil to express Amer- urged Notre Dame students to (PLOP) like to see a similar situation ican student opposition to the contact colleges near to where t------L-n_e_x_t..:y_e_a_r.______-twar in Vietnam. The vigil is they will be and to participate in scheduled to start on each col­ their vigils. lege campus at nine o'clock in He also said that it was impor­ the morning. tant that each person who op­ Is This Your Number? When contacted by the posed the war make an indivi­ Observer, a representative of the dual effort to participate in the coordinating committee said vigil, in order to give it the 304967 that he realized that Notre Dame desired national impact. If so, come to the Bookstore Applications lor:

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The Coup Annexation thought of someday being When Rick tells us about Editor: enrolled in a University that 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 black enrollment and white Thank you for your humor­ housed seven thousand lonely historians, I applaud him. But I Now it can be told. Besides myself, University President ~cv. ous story in Friday's Observer males. Coming from poor certainly am not "geared toward Theodore llcsburgh, the Indiana National Guard, and hal_f the N1xon concerning South Bend's plans surroundings I immediately the destruction of blacks." I am administration everyone else has been left completely 1n the dark. to annex Notre Dame and St. found a rather pleasant and barely surviving myself, and, But following 'the international code of journalism ("If you dig deep Mary's. stimulating pastime to work my recognizing that whites do enough you'll hit some dirt") I have daringly decided to break the It isn't often that one can way through school. Nightly I control almost everything, have laugh over a newspaper these story to the rest of you uninformed intcllcctu~ls. . can be found in the second floor to concentrate on knocking off days so your kindness in indulg­ Actually the whole thing is rather amazmg. It mvolves a plot, john of the Memorial Library, the ones in my way. And when ing in some witty fiction was all instigated by a subversive group infamously known as the Ch,1cago affectionately aiding and Rick tells me that there is "no the more appreciated. I am refer­ Club to destroy the Administration Building over the Easter counseling many frustrated meaning" in our physical ring specifically to the quote the Vaca,tion. The news leaked out of the Chi Club's annual meeting students. intermingling and that "blacks story attributes to Father when a drunken janitor accidentally overheard their plans to stage a feel that (their) survival is aided llesburgh: "It was disappointing Now with the threatening giant coup. The janitor, fearing for his position, quick!y raced to te!l by (their) sitting together," I to be faced with unilateral possibility of coeducation, my Father llesburgh, who happened to be m Peru at the tune (but that s must ask him to read more action on the part of the city gay life is gravely endangered. neither here nor there; and neither is Father Hesburgh usually). Soon carefully whitey's history books. before the advantages and disad­ The thought of mini-skirts and a letter fluttered into Washington, straight from llcsburgh to the We've heard those lines vantages, both to the city and long blonde hair on girls just nation's leaders. President Nixon was also informed: and his first before-like for most of two the University, could be thor­ makes me sick. What will happen reaction, after consulting with Spiro T. Agnew was to activate hundred years. The situation was oughly discussed by both par­ to the Notre Dame men that we Indiana's National Guard (which, in fact, is almost like trying to called "irrevocable" then, too. tics." have come to know and love? activate Spiro T.). Now all they can do is wait. They think they God bless you, Rick. And I doubt that I have ever They will probably take up such know the whole story, but they don't. Only I do. Maulana, too. encountered as excellent an unnatural activities as dating, llere is what has really been going on behind closed doors and Chuck Nau example of irony as the com­ dancing, kissing, fondling, and away from drunkt.n janitors. It is true tha_t _the ~:hicag~ C:Iub has I 48 Farley plaint your writer has thus put even pre-marital interdigitation. formulated strategy to overthrow the Adrmmstratwn Bu!ldmg. But in our President's mouth. Just And the most horrifying thought what everyone else is unaware of, falling somchwere within the think: the man who made "uni­ of all is that it will all be with credibility gape, is why. Student taken .. lateral action" an alumni-house­ girls. Oh well, at least I can The real reason for the Chi Club's bid for glory was because they hold word complains about always be sure of my roommate. picked up a rumor that the Young Christian Activists were in fact, in parking lot Mayor Allen's "unilateral Love and kisses, themselves pondering how to bring the downfall of the action"! Superb, superb! BJ(; IIOMO & FRIENDS A Notre Dame student was Administration Building. And the Club figured that if such a arrested Friday night, for Boy, and it is a lucky thing maneuver was contemplated by a group as obscure as the Young ransacking a car in parking lot your story was only a joke! Christians. even they wuld pull it off. Why, if it weren't, our Reverend God 131css Rick I -D. Arthur Pears, director of But still the story isn't complete. The real reason behind the Father President Chairman security, only gave out a few YCS's sudden malevolent spurt was because they heard the Young Editor: would have to assume yet pieces of information, when Republicans were scheming along the same lin~s. And the _':CS Rich Ames' letter in the another title: 1/ypocrite! contacted last night. wanted to upstage the YR 's and finally hop mto the pohhcal friday, March 2/'!th edition of "A student was arrested and Sincerely, the 0/JSHR VHR was superb! lie ballpark here at ND. (Maybe what they heard was a "foul tip.") But Thomas J. Scorza incarcerated last Friday night, the YR's were merely acting on a rumor that the Young Democrats reminded me of Ma ulana Ron for ransacking a car, in parking were trying to pull off you-know-what, and they simply hoped to Coed Revisited Karcnga refusing to cat at the lot 1-D," Pears said. seize the opportunity first and discredit their foes. And the YO's Morris Inn last year because they When asked to elaborate, or were responding to a Threat to overthrow the Dome by the Young Editor: didn't serve South Africa lobster comment further on the arrest, Americans for Freedom who were, themselves, conspiring to In reference to your series on tail real "black food." Someone Pears said he was, "unable to counteract secret plans by the Students for a Democratic Society, coeducation at Notre Dame, I forgot to tell Maulana Ron give out any other information." who started the whole thing somewhere in the House That Jack would like to voice my strongest about who owns what and Pears did state though, that Built. disapproval. I am a young whom in South Africa, but it's the student's case was, "pending the thought that counts. It sounds complicated but it's really very simple. The SDS, homosexual for whom such a downtown." Rick tells us honkics that we pressured by the brilliant ploys of SDS groups at other school~, plot would be disasterous. I am The South Bend Police were arc "psuedo-psuedos"-and, in decided the time had finally arrived for some sort of dramatic not speaking in behalf of myself also contacted, but they flatly doing so, not only mouths friend display of power. And since the Administration Building, with its alone, but also for my many refused to give out any George Wallace but outdoes him capitalistic and bourgeois Gold Dome, represented, more than intimate "friends" on the information at all. one (thus gracing us with a anything else around here, the l:"stablishment-the SDS agreed to North Quad The desk Sgt. stated that he double negative: " 'Reals' of the strike there. Ever since I was a young high was, "not allowed to give out world unite! You have nothing One particularly glib spokesman for the SDS even produced a school student at an all boys that kind of information to "Dome of Gold" speech; concluding breathlessly with "You shall school, I had cherished the to lose but your psuedoness!' "). anybody." not crucify the student body (all 20 of the SDS) upon a Dome of Gold." A shivorous frenzy raced through the group and their slanted Remember: CONTOURA'~ wheels of thinking rolled into a definite plan for action. They even with Diamonds of were considering whether the Ad ministration people should be Girl cheerleader tryouts will begin .first allowed IS minutes to cease and desist. Of course, they hadn't Ultimate beauty counted on a proposed counter-attack by the Y AF, and the week after Easter. Watch for posters. subsequently proposed counter-counter-attacks, which resulted in the activiation of the Indiana National (;uard. 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Farley Hall, after finishing faced a Zahm squad which had Sorisc pushed in the clingher for fifth during the regular season, demolished Off Campus 7-4 and Farley with :40 left. Pulling the dumped Morrissey for the Inter- 8-2. The Zahmbies led through­ goalie in the last seconGis cost hall Hoc key playoff champion- out most of the first game, but desperate Morrissey a fourth goal By Mike Pavlin, sports editor ship. The Collegians swept the Farley came back to tie the at :02. 2-of-3 game final series with 4-2 score 6-6 at the end of regula­ Both teams got the bulk of 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 and 4-3 victories. tion time. The Collegians then their scoring done early in the Morrissey won the regular sea- went on to score in the sudden second contest. At theend of Dee son title, then defeated last place death overtime and win 7-6. the first period it was 3-3. Mid­ Last Thursday night a strange frosh ball and the chance for a Cavanaugh to reach the finals. Zahm proved easier the second way through the second stanza, embarrassment came to an end. year of valuable playing Farley had a tough time getting time, losing 4-1. Farley's Stan Narkta scored the The 1968-69 basketball season by runner-up Howard, but won Greg Kaelin (Morr.) and John experience. In spite of these go ahead goal and the defenses concluded with an A wards Ban­ the deciding game 2-1 in over- McCarthy (Far.) each scored factors, Notre Dame students ruled for the rest of the way quet in the Monogram Room of time on a goal by Dick Luebbe. twice in the first final contest to continued to boo Dee and the the Convo Center. Two of the In the semi-finals, Farley knot the score at 2-2. Then Dom moves he made. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.11111111111111111111111111 finest ever to play bail at Notre Lacrosse Dame bowed out, a superb soph­ In the opinion of this writer, The Notre Dame Lacrosse omore was selected as junior Dee was castigated because he Club plays an eight game sched­ captain, and the 20-7 season's failed the students' imag" of a ule that is as demanding as any record was praised. great coach. Reflect if you will, to be found in the Midwest. For the student body, how­ and decide who you believe is a Rocky Mountain powerhouses ever, the past season will be great coach and why. John sport~ parade Air Force and Denver, and Mid­ remembered for what it didn't Wooden just won his third west champion Denison, join accomplish. With the entire straight NCAA championship By Milt Richman, UPI sports columnist blood rivals Michigan State and '67-'68 first team back and with with help from Lew Alcindor. Ohio State on the Irish schedule. the arrival of several outstanding Wooden is not a great coach 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Even with the loss of several key sophs, the Irish seemed ready for only because of that. He has defensive players through grad­ a high NCAA finish. won two other titles, one of Another Oklahoman uation, stopping their opponents But something went wrong them with a pint-sized team (tal­ TAMP A,, Fla. (UPI)-Base­ Only the other day, Rube should be one of the team's along the way. Little teams like lest man was Keith Ericson at ball's newest Golden Boy is a Walker, the Mets' coach, noticed strong points. Improvement in Butler were bludgeoned, rather 6-5). That bunch of maniacs pleasant, pink cheeked kid from Bench across the field and said the midfields has increased the than finessed, to death. Excel­ demolished teams with a Wood­ Binger, Okla., whose biggest re­ to one of the Reds' coaches: depth at that position. Stress on lent performances against St. en specialty-a blitzkrieg gently gret is that he never got to see ''There goes the first the need to control the ball and John's and Utah State were labeled "zone press". Mickey Mantle play. $200,000 ballplayer." rapid development of the newer balanced by terrible ones against On the other side of the coun­ "The closest I ever came was Earlier this spring, Bench sent players in the fall session both Illinois and Michigan State. try, Jack Kraft of Villanova last spring," says Johnny Bench, a baseball over to be auto­ point to a successful season for Creighton moved the whole bedevils foes with a complex Cincinnati's red hot 21 year old graphed by Ted Williams. The the stickmen. thing to the edge of the cliff and zone defense. Tennessee's Ray catcher from whom the Reds. new Washington manager pro­ Last season, the Irish pro­ Miami of Ohio pushed it over. Mears has been the only coach wouldn't take a million bucks in vided the signature and later duced two all-Midwest players, It is hard to find fault with a to effectively shackle "Pistol" cold cash right now. "The found out Bench had asked for dcfenseman Bob Trost, and 20-7 season, especially when it is Pete Maravich, using a "Chinese" Yankees came over here for an it. attack standout Bob Morin. the best in recent years. This defense. and Tony Hinkle has exhibition game with us but "Was that ball for him?" he Trost will be available for spot year's Irish out-shot, out-scored driven ND fans batty twice a Mickey didn't play that day." asked a newsman. "Can you get duty with the club this season, and out-rebounded their oppon­ year since Creation with his There are three reasons why it back for me? I wanna write while Morin returns as a mid­ ents. Few teams in the past have wonderfully patterned, ball­ Bench would feel more of a something else on it." fielder. He has averaged 35 goals posted back-to-back twenty-win control offense. kinship with Mantle than usually The ball was returned to a year for the last two seasons, seasons. Yet these facts were To the fan with these images exists between one ballplayer Williams and he inked the ranking him high in the nation as small recompense for the hopes in mind, John Dee fails to come and another. words: "To a future Hall of a scorer. held by the students. From the acrtoss. His teams play an aver­ Both came from Oklahoma, Fa mer for sure." The rest of the team shows a autumn of 1967 when the first age man-to-man defense. There Binger being even smaller than Johnny Bench has only one good balance of experience and optomistic reports radiated from is no regular press, no sophisti­ Commerce; Bench already is be­ full year under his belt and at his youth. Seniors Dan Brouder and the Fieldhouse until the autumn cated zone. His offense empha­ ing pegged as the brightest, most age he might be forgiven if such Len Niessen with freshman Ed of 1968 when TRUE Magazine sizes individual play with oc­ exciting prospect to hit the things as Walker said and Hoban will make strong contri­ picked NO No. I, expectations casional "swing it" from the scene since Mickey and it was Williams wrote had a tendency butions on attack. Senior Presi­ of greatness grew. And when bench. One seldom sees a pick or the ex-Yankee superstar who to make him swagger a bit. dent Mike Satarino is versatile, a set play. The student begins to triggered the baseball career of But they haven't and he performing both at attack and greatness waned and died, the wonder whether Dee is coaching Cincy's new No. I boy. doesn't. He's conducting himself midfield. Senior Frank Piel­ students placed the blame on the or merely taking statistics. Strictly by accident. the same way he did a year ago sticker and junior Tim McHugh man they felt responsible-John So the stmli>nt complains, "I was five years old and when everybody was saying big have each started for two years Dee. says Dee is incompetent, says he watching a ball game on TV things about him, too. at midfield. Waiting their turns The whole spectrum of wins the majority of his games when I saw Mickey Mantle and "I appreciate what's been said arc a large number of sopho­ unpopularity-from the "Dump because of the skill of his play· heard he was from Oklahoma," very much," he says, looking mores from last year's J V team. Dec" signs on doors to the boo­ ers. Justified criticism? Hardly. Bench recalls. "I made up my down at his spiked shoes the The club should be able to field ing during game introductions­ Yet Dee has clearly disappointed mind right there I was going to same way Mantle did when he three equally good lines, a factor must seem bewildering to a man many among the student body. be a ballplayer and make the first cam up, "but all those that will prove valuable late in who has done so much in his Perhaps this past year was major leagues." things won't help me hit tomor­ games. Senior Jim Wachtel will coaching career. John Dee pro­ simply one of adjustment for Johnny Bench made it even row. That's something I have to anchor the defense. Grad Dave duced winning teams for the John Dee. For what must h::tve bigger his first year than Mickey do for myself." Lando, and juniors Jack Pierce, University of Alabanta and for been one of the few times in his Mantle did. They sent Mantle As in Mantle's case also, it was Chris Servant, Phil Eagan, and the Denver Truckers of the coaching career, Dec was faced back to the minors during his Bench's father, Ted, who helped "Curley" Freyre show the depth Industrial Basketball League . with a glut of talent. Perhaps he first season but Bench made the him most in his formative base­ available in the defense. Goalie was tempted to leave this talent All Star team last season and was ball years. Later two other ball­ Jerry Kammer returns for his When the old America Basket­ alone instead of sharpen it. named National League Rookie players, Link Curtis and Steve sophomore year as Notre Dame's ball League folded, one ol tlle At Notre Dame, the ju,ry is of the Year. Boros, did. Curtis, a teammate at last line of defense. teams on top was coached by still out in the case against John Some argued that Jerry Koos­ Peninsula of the Carolina John Dee. Dee. He has a chance fo':' a man, the Mets' 19 game winner, League, helped Johnny with his Easter sports card At Notre Dame, Dee has favorable verdict before he should have gotten the rookie confidence, land Boros with "a helped to build basketball pres­ leaves in two years, but it is up accolade, but when you consider whole Iotta things about life" tige through his recruiting. He to him. Next year he faces re­ Bench batted .275, knocked in when both were with Buffalo. For Notre Dame sports teams went to the NIT last year with a building problems and another 82 runs, hit 15 homers and set a Without getting up on any Easter means a chance to leave team that wasn't given much rough schedule. major league record for most soapbox, Johnny Bench lets you South Bend and see what the chan cc of finding Madison This reporter urges John Dee games caught by a rookie, 154, know he has every intention of real world is like. This vacation, Square Garden, much less win­ to do some serious thinking this Koosman's 19 wins come out being one of baseball's greatest the four major sports teams will ning any games. Playing with fUmmer and some serious coa~:h­ exactly the way they did-sec­ catchers ever. see action in various parts of the two guards who were second ing this fall, to polish his ball ond best. You ask him what if he country. string this year, the Irish cap­ players instead of watching If you line up all the unbe­ doesn't make it, and he stops Jake Kline's baseball squad is tured third place after losing the them, to install an offense which lievable comments made about you right there by telling you scheduled for seven games in semi-final in ovcrti111e to the mo~es toward a goal instead of Bench end to end, he could straight out: "I'll make it." eight days down in Texas, the eventual champion. waiting for a mistake in the retire right now with the biggest The great state of Oklahoma golfers play in Pennsylvania and During the past season, Dee defense. one year scrapbook in history. has never produced a President Ohio, the Tennis team plays four was saddled with an incredible John Dee has had an excellent matches in Florida, and the He has no intention of doing of the United States but baseball number of injuries: Meehan, coaching career. This writer people don't hold that against it. Track scene switches to Wil­ O'Connell, Carr. Bob Arnzen would like to see him end it at so. He's a rarity in this day and liamsburg, Virginia. age in that he can handle all the What other state has come up played the entire season on a Notre Dame in cheering instead raves. They don't go to his head. with fellows like Carl Hubbell, The Notre Dame Rugby Club fault heel. Sid Catlett missed of booing. He's succeeding at the toughest the two Waner brothers, Dizzy will be spending the Easter break job of all. Tougher yet than Dean, Mickey Mantle ... and now in Bermuda. coping with that good major Johnny Bench? Forty-five ruggers will travel league pitching. He's keeping his Besides, as the Reds' catcher to the sunny isle with the Met equilibrium and some of the says: Club. In addition to enjoying the game's greatest stars had trouble "This is better than being "Cardinal" they may also serum doing that in the past. President, anyway." a little.