The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus mdke . J Notre Dame for all... Patriotism: Notre Dame's Ail-American Cemetery Ridge, Tradition: Scene of See story p. 3, Father Corby's Man & Moment p. 6, absolution; 4 p.m.f July 2, U.N.D. Night '63, 1863. pp. 13-26. NOTRE I DAME ALUMNUS June-July • 1963 Peoce Light, GBUyshwgt Noire Dome tAaiS, ... with Noon, June 29, 1963. M, fimuess in the Special Insert: "What RIGHT Has This Man?" Freedom on ' the Campus: See Editorial p. 2, as (jod Student Slant p. 8, Fr. Hesburgh p. 9, gives us Academic Freedom, pp. 28-45. to see the right,,," Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Vol. 41, No. 3 NOTRE OAME ALUMNUS June-July, 1963 JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor JOHN F. lAUGHLIN, 'M, Managing Editor REV. THOMAS J. O'DONNELL, C.S.C., '41, Co/umnist BRUCE HARLAN, '49, Fholographer BONNIE GAY, Sloff Writer ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers Sditoml Comment WILLIAM P. MAHONEY, JR., '38 Honorary President OLIVER H. HUNTER, '43 Prenitent JoHX P. DEMPSEY, '4:9..Fund Vice-President WILLIAM H. FALLON", '37 from your Club Vice-President PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY, '50 Alumni Secretary Class Vice-President JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 Executive Secretary Directors to 1934 JOHN P. DEMPSEY, '49 FREEDOM ON THE CAMPUS Kidder, Peabody & Co. 123 Broad St., Philadelphia, PennsyK-ania PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY, '50 LEASE READ the special insert, "What the family as the basic unit of society, and P.O. Box 5672 Right Has This Man?" Cleveland Amory as the indignant spokes­ Minneapolis 17, Minnesota P It ^vas prepared by Editorial Projects man attacking the flood of indecent litera­ WILLIAM H. FALLON, '37 160 Pelham Road for Education in an effort to bring to alum­ ture on our newsstands and magazine racks. New Rochelle, New York ni of our colleges and universities a basic These things occur while theologians seem-* OLIVER H. HU.NTER, '43 understanding ol the problem of academic to be weakening family tics, and college F.B.I., P. O. Box 23 freedom. Too often, instead of this under­ faculties seem to be protecting writing of New Castle, Pennsj-K-ania standing, institutions are faced separately at least doubtful virtue. Directors to 1965 with crises that rightly or wrongly invoke A second motive is to point out a belief ALBERT D. CASTELLINI, '24 this principle, and too often tiift results are that the true problem of academic freedom 506 First National Bank Bldg. hysteria and antagonisms. has not resided in most of the cases pur­ Cincinnati, Ohio Then please read, also, the scholarly porting to involve it. The questions of PHILIP J. FACCENDA, '51 article by Rev. John E. Walsh, C.S.C, responsibility, of authority, of good taste, •• 1510 Ogden which extends the ver}- competent treat­ of good judgment, of educational integrity, La Grange, Illinois ment of the E.P.E. project, and adapts the of religious nature, have been far more the PETER J. KER.NAN, JR., '49 problem not only to the teaching profes­ issue than the right of individuals to ex­ 661 Washington Road press their personal beliefs in the frame­ Grosse Pointe, Michigan sion but to the Catholic campus such as APAM J. WALSH, '25* Notre Dame. work of free inquir)-. Certainly, in the in­ P. O. Box 349 If my own reactions are a criterion, you stances cited, there was little of the implica­ Portland, Maine will be surprised at the recognition of limita­ tion of the real concept of academic free­ • Recently resigned under pressure of business. tions expressed in the E.P.E. treatment. dom that is supported to protect the ex­ Directors to 1966 And you will perhaps be equally surprised pert in a field from unreasonable suppres­ GEORGE A. BARISCILLO, JR., '44 by the lack of limitations at Notre Dame, sion of scholarly opinions arrived at in the fi 416 Burlington Avenue as described by Fr. Walsh. course of progress and learning in that field. Bradley Beach, New Jersey ^Ve believe the whole material is timely, A third motive is the communications PAUL I. FENLON, '19 and important, as the areas of inquiry and we receive from alumni concerning expres­ 141 Sorin Hall discussion spread rapidly in both higher sions that emanate from faculty or ad­ Notre Dame, Indiana education and the Church. ministration members. Usually the writer MORTON R. GOODMAN, '30 is in substantial disagreement. But the im­ 2415 Pilgrimage Trail No campus will be free from controversy. plication is that economic, or political views, LOS Angeles 28, California Baylor University closed Eugene O'Neill's W. LANCASTER SMITH, '50 "Long Day's Journey Into Night." The or membership in organizations reflecting ^ Dallas Athletic Club Building Notre Dame Theater chose it for its Spring these, ought to be prohibited because of the Dallas 1, Texas production. Father Hans Kung, European conflict of views with the writer. Unfortu­ Chairmen of the 1963 Committees theologian, gave a widely publicized talk on nately, the writers appear on both sides. It is in some of these areas that there is OLIVER H. HUNTER Executive the Notre I5ame campus. He was denied WILLIAM H. FALLON Club Activities permission to speak in Los Angeles. a bona fide status involving academic free­ PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY Class Activities Closer home, and involving students, dom, and alumni should understand the JOHN P. DEMPSEY - facult)-, and administration, was the spring distinctions. Alumni Fund, Foundation & Gifts controversy surrounding the SCHOLASTIC. All factors in education, including ¥ PHILIP J. FACCENDA Admissions Ultimately, the editors and the lay faculty authority and guidance, must be admin­ PETER J. KERNAN, JR.. advisor resigned. And Father Hesburgh sent istered with judgment and integrity. But it ..Placement & Counseling a letter to all students during the Easter PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY' is my opinion that in those actions re­ Inter-Alumni Affairs vacation, redefining the relationship between ferred to, great consideration was given to PETER J. KER.VAX, JR Public Relations the students, faculty and administration. all the conditions explicit and implicit, and ALBERT D. CASTELLI.NI My reason for mentioning these instances the decisions — even though they seem —Religion & Citizenship is of course to indicate that all of us are contradictory — were justified if a proper WiLLUM H. FALLO.N AND JOHN P subject to involvement in this intellectual understanding of the whole procedure" is '•' DEMPSEY. Nominations unrest. invoked. ALBERT D. CASTELLINI Budget & Finance But there are several other motives. One I mention them to point up the impor­ PHILIP J. FACCENDA Athletics is that I am disturbed by a tendency on PETER J. KERNAN, JR Student Affairs tance of alumni understanding of this in­ our campuses to treat academic freedom as creasingly frequent subject in the academic though it were by itself something that world. We will face it even more as the precluded any further study. The result is This magazine is published bi-monthly by problems of education and religion intensi­ the Univer^ty of Notre Dame, Notre that immaterial, irrelevant and incompetent fy and overlap. We should try to fortify d Dame, Ind. Entered as second elast mat­ matter has been given undue circulation ourselves against a lack of information and ^ ter Oct. I, 1939, at the Post Office, Notre by attaching the label of academic freedom. understanding, a lack upon which prejudice Dame, Ind. under the act of Aug. 24, 1912. .And we encounter such phenomena as Wil­ and emotional excess thrive. liam Saroyan emerging as the apostle of — J.E.A. Notre Dame Alumnus, June-July, 1963 "With cAorify for all . , ." NOTRE DAME'S PATRIOTS TO BE REMEMBERED AT GEHYSBURG FIELD MASS ON SATURDAY, JUNE 29 N THE UsivERSiTi-'s 121->ear history, Notre Dame." June 29, at Gettysburg National Park, Pa. I thousands of Notre Dame men have been It is to honor those men and dramatize The Mass will be at Noon, E.D.T., at the .mobilized in military service and hundreds their contribution that more than 100 Notre Peace Light, centrally lo-ated on the Gettys­ have died in that service — "with malice Dame Clubs have already held their ob­ burg battlefield. It will be celebrated by toward none, with charity for all" — in the servances of Universal Notre Dame Night Bishop Leach of Harrisburg, Pa. His Emi­ cause of "Patriotism, Notre Dame's AU- and others are being planned. nence Francis Cardinal Spellman of New American Tradition" — a higher patriotism These tributes will culminate in a field York will give the sermon. that blends the causes "God, Country and Mass and Notre Dame outing on Saturday, Guests of Father Hesburgh for the occa­ sion will include sur\'iving relatives of Fathers William Corby and James Dillon, IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING ... (No advance fee required; just t\vo of the eight Notre Dame priests who send reservations: Alumni Office, Notre Dame, Indiana.) ser\'ed as chaplains with the .'\rTOies of the Potomac and Cumberland in the Civil War; various ranking members of the Chaplain NOTRE DAME CLASS REUNIONS will take place Corps and the -American Hierarchy; Veter­ ans .Administration chief John S. Gleason, JUNE 14-15- 16, 1963 The march is on ... to the '36, representing President Kennedy; former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, LL.D., NOTRE DAME CAMPUS for the WEEKEND beginning '61; and many others. FRIDAY, JUNE 14: Earlier, at about 10 o'clock, a new plaque will be dedicated at the statue of Father Corby on the battlefield, at the site of his General Program Class Program historic general absolution for the men of the Irish Brigade, Arranging for the plaque, REGISTRATION at the LAW CLASS REGISTRATION at the fol­ which will call attention to Father Corby's SCHOOL — All Day lowing residence halls: ties with Notre Dame, is a committee of (At Ihe general registration, a UNIT FEE of Classes of 1913 (L), 1918 (XLV), Philadelphians headed by Charles Conley, Clifford Prodehl, and William Whiteside.