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VOL. V,NO. 63 Serving the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College ('ommunity MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1971 Funds denial called discrimination SBP supports charges by Fred Schaefer later, the letter was returned to recipient for my fund." He went him by Koch, with the comment on to say that the lhiversity, Last night Dave Krashna, Stu "Nuts! You are probably a not he, administers the fund. dent Body President, made bum!" concerning his participa Werner went to Brother Kier charges of "blatant discrimina tion in the SAR. He also remark an Ryan, then director of Finan tion" in the scholarship denial ed that, "You are a radical or cial Aid and Scholarships, and case of senior Jim Werner. you would put your Zip code :->n. was assured that academics is the Werner was recipient of a If I were you, I would not only criterion in the removal of scholarship funded by Mr. Carl accept any more money from a scholar;hip. Koch. Last spring, 1-Je wrote a the Koch fund." During the summer, he re letter to his donor informing When contacted last night, ceived a letter dated July 3 from Ryan stating that his scholarship him of his progress at Notre Mr. Koch admitted that he had Dave Krashna and Jim Werner at last night's press conference Dame. In his remarks he in written the comments. He did was being revoked because of his cluded a list of his activities, say, however, that "I have at no .fai'l.ure to maintain a 3.00, one among which was the Students time been in contact with the of the stipulations of the schol Carl Koch at no time communi Financial Aid and outlined prob Against Racism. University concerning the suit arship. Werner has a cumulative cated with the University specif lems he was facing and how he Approximately three weeks ability of James Werner as a average of 2.548. ically regarding James, or re intended to resolve them. Werner alleges that another questing that scholarships be un In 1970, Werner did not sup student on the Koch scholarship available to students involved in ply an explanation after he had itas an average similar to his, certain social or political activi received the , warning letter. Article challenges but still holds the grant. ties. Thus, the decision to relieve Ryan then wrote "We do not Ryan also wrote, "We also him of the scholarship in no way have any information to justify must recognize the unfavorable was initiated by the donor." the poor grade point average reaction you have given to the On July 31, Ryan wrote an which you had for the Fall 1969 donor of this award who is other letter to Werner further semester.. .In your case, over and Sheedy refutation keenly concerned with the recip explaining the action. He noted above the academic require ient's achievements." that in the Spring of both 1969 ments, the scholarship is one An agreement was reached be However, in November, Fath and 1970 a letter of warning was which is closely observed by the tween Notre Dame and Saint er James T. Burtchaell, Universi sent due to his failure to main donor, and I do not have to Mary's trustees concerning an ty provost, wrote a letter to tain a 3.00. In 1969 Werner had enrollment ratio of 3: I accord Werner's parents, stating, "Mr. (Continued on page 3) ing to remarks made by Rev. sent a letter to the Office of Neil G. McCluskey in an unpub lished interview conducted be fore Christmas. Annexation expected to fail This is in direct contradiction by Cliff Wintrode • to the statement made by Rev Charles Sheedy in Thursday's Mayor Lloyd Allen's proposal some of the Council members The educational institutions Observer where he denied such to annex the properties of the yesterday afternoon, which' fear that annexation will bring an agreement was ever made. University of Notre Dame, St. included two of the undecideds, possible pressures from city "Part of the agreement last Mary's College, and Holy Cross was expected to be the final residents to tax them for servic-es year in Key Biscayne and part of Junior College will almost offensive for either side. provided and threaten their what I pushed for for many Rev. Neil McCluskey, S.J. certainly be defeated tonight at The battle lines between the • tax-exempt status. years was that in return for not the South Bend Common universities and the city have going co-educational on its own. increase enrollment to a I :3 Council meeting . been clearly drawn. Allen claims Father Theodore M. Hesburgh . . that is, the girls who would ratio with Notre Dame in return University forces need only to that the annexation of Notre has said that taxation of private come to Notre Dame would be for Notre Dame not going co-ed capture one of the three Dame is "essential to the future educational institutions will through St. Mary's . . . St. on its own. straddler's votes to deny Allen's growth of the city." The mean the doom of such Mary's would agree to expand to Observer reporter Dave bid for annexation. university says annexation institutions. a ratio of three to one ... "Mc Fromm interviewed Rev. Mc The latest count shows tl.at would benefit no ne. Cluskey said. Cluskey along with Rev. Sheedy, there are four Council members Notre Dame has threatened see editorial page 4 who is Chairman of the Co definitely against annexation, Allen claims that the tax court proceedingp rl the EducationCoordinating commit two definitely for annexation, rebates the city would receive Common Council decides Rev. McCluskey, who is Dean tee and Mr. Phillip Faccenda, and three "leaners and for the· increased population will favorably on annexation. Director for the Institute for Vice-President and General fencestraddlers." Five votes are make annexation beneficial to Studies in Education at Notre Counsel for a story on coeduca needed for passage of the the city. Thl.' Council will meet on the Dame and a St. Mary's trustee, tion that was to appear in the measure. fourth floor of the City-County also said that this expansion of Wednesday December 9th edi One of the three "leaners" has The university contends that Building tonight at eight o'clock. enrollment was "only a first tion of the Observer. Due tc said that he "always leans costs for university services will 225 spectators will be allowed step." space limitations the story wa~ against annexation." Two weeks make annexation- a burden to inside the Council chambers and Rev. Sheedy's remarks as re held out and with the issuancf ago he voted in the majority the city. Annexation will also 75 spectators will be allowed in ported in Thursday's Observer of the Park-Mayhew report wa~ against a proposal to annex a harm the smooth relationship the lobby inside. The limit has was that there is no understand believed to be outdated. Thf tract in Clay township. that now exists between the been set to protect the crowd-in ing between Notre Dame and St. story, which was filed for back- A university presentation town and the university say Notre the case of a fire or other Mary's such that St. Mary's will (Continued on page 8) before an informal meeting of Dame officials. emergency. -~ ------·-·-----
THE OBSERVER. MONDAY. JANUARY 25. 1971 Poll to be taken at SMC by Jeanne Sweeney in every way she could forum of all the students may present to the Acting President, Miss Tracey, said that she has possibly be held, Miss Tracey Sr. Alma Peter, a final statement SMC News Editor a group of students working said. to consist of recommendations The St. Mary's members of with Sister M. Immaculata, the All statements from the area fully accepted, those not ac the Coeducation Co-ordinating Dean of Students, who will meet must be returned to Miss Noel cepted, and a list of alternatives. committee, headed by Miss Eliz with the Student Affairs com by February first. On February On March 13 a final statement abeth Noel of the English de mittee to discuss the report and 13, the SMC task force of the will be presented to the SMC partment, have set up a task its implications for the students. Co-ordinating committee will Board of Trustees for discussion. force to collect and compare Miss Tracey and Carol Hen meet with members of the NO At the March 21st joint meet judgements at SMC on the co ninger, the Academic Affairs Co-ordinating committee, who ing of the Executive committees education report recently filed commissiOner, are separately will presumably be following a of the SMC and ND boards of by Rosemary Park and Lewis formulating their own com similar plan for ·dissemination, Trustees at Key Biscayne, the ' Mayhew. ments. After both groups con study, and feed back. final statement will be present Miss Noel, who sees her func clude their discussions, an open Then on March first they will ed. sten for tion on the task force as essen tially one of tabulation, has con he sounds tacted members from each area Crossroads of the community for their re love ... actions, recommendations, and criticisms of the Park-Mayhew Where do you hear them? report. Psych Bldg use in air; She explained that she had In a plea for help from sent letters to such people as someone who needs it? In a dialogue between students and ad ministration members, the the Establishment? In a talk faculty, department chairmen, law program continues session for a marriage-on-the the student government presi rocks? At a Catholic Mass dent and the chairman of the conducted in an Episcopal Faculty Assembly. Miss Noel has of California at Berkeley. Prior be divided into the college status Church? also asked Mother M. Olivette Psych Building in Doubt to joining the Saint Mary's facul of the applying students; these You'd be surprised. Whalen, Chairman of the College The future use of the Psych ty in 1969, he taught at Florida bulletins will be color-coded: The sounds of love are Board of Trustees, for any com ology Building has not been de State University, Standord and yellow for Arts and Letters, blue everywhere - anyone can ments on the report with re cided upon, according to Rev. Centre College of Kentucky and for Business Administration, hear them. If they listen. ference to those aspects which Jerome J. Wilson, Vice President ~erved as director of church mu orange for Science, and green for The Paulists listen. But, concern the Sisters of the Holy of Business Affairs, and Rev. sic for several chruches. Engineering. like everything in life, the Cross. James T. Burtchaell, University things that matter most are Getting student opinion on Provost. Law Program Continues Thanks to Y AF the hardest. the report was Miss Noel's only Administration plans call for It isn't easy being a Paulist. problem because unlike the fa the Biology Department to move The Law School's year-around In response to two shipments But then, the best things in culty, who are reached through all its facilities except for ani program in London, England,
MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1971 7H6 O&rERVDl _PAGE 3 JObS for '71 gradS: New st~tistics ~e~uce hope; show nahonal h1r1ng cutbacks by Greg Rowinski 1971's graduates. The factors pus visits," reported the Bureau The Bureau's figures bear out with Doctoral degrees face stir Though actual percentages of include cutbacks in employer in a memo to Administration the first statement. From Christ fer competition than Bachelors placed students are not yet avail visits and decreased hiring officials on January 12. The mas 1970 to the present, 18 or Masters. The Placement able at the Placement Bureau, quotas for those employers with release also told of a continuing major employers have cancelled Bureau's figures indicate the other contributing variables pro campus representatives. "general reducation in hiring planned visits to the campus. same situation on this campus. vide a less than glowing picture "We are now in a flurry of quotas for our January, May, From August I, the chncef On t}le other side of the scale, of the employment situation for employer cancellations for cam- and A11gust graduating classes." lations have numbered ;f.2, or the hiring of Arts and Letters roughly 22% of the 376 employ graduates in on an upsurge, ers originally scheduled. according to Willemin. Com The situation is similar to that panies are after looking fer at all the nation's universitie:;. It those with backgrounds in the is, in the words of the Bureau's Humanities, Willemin said, with Director, Richard Willemin, "a particular likings for those with tight employment situation." He strengths in a combination of feels that Notre Dame is in a fields, rather than specialists. ''fair position, comparatively Forced into belt-tightening by speaking" since some employers the economy, companies have nave r.<:.pr~ssed special interest i" acted to eliminate some "corpor obtaining its graduates. How ate fat", the Bureau's memo ever, he added, "if the employer said. These companies, instead isn't hiring, he's not hiring any- of turning to the college grad uate market, are looking inward. 0 bserver I nsig~·li: They have chosen to fill gaps in the corporate structure with re where." s!tUff!ing of available manpower, Figures taken from "The Re eliminated marginal management . .eM port on Recruiting Activity" and middle-echelon employees, indicate that Notre Dame r1ear!y and asked for greater output on parallels the national averages of all levels. Thus, the squeeze is l visiting and hirhg cutbacks. put on what was formerly the 21% fewer visits are being made pool that management looked this year with 23% fewer plan to-the college graduate. No Asian Studies program at ND ned hirings than last year. The The Bureau, the College Place annual survey of employer inter ment Council, and other obser However, it is possible to re been interested in a program for Accvrding to Dr. George ests is compiled by 1he College vers still contend that there is no ceive an Asian Studie's Asian Studies. As brought out Brinkley, chairman of the de Placement Counlil from reason for panic. Willemin said Certificate, he said. Similar to by Dr. Brinkley though, Ur. partment of Government and questionnaires sent OUL to com an upturn in early 1971 would the Latin Studies Certificate, it Niemeyer's course will cover not International Studies, there are panies. alleviate the situation by the end req'lires a year in an Oriental just Asia, but also such arc:rs as no plans for an Asian Studies The technical majors seem to of the year. The situation is language, 12 hours in courses the Middle East. Program at Notre Dame., al be the hardest hit. Engineering, "heartening" in one way, ac concerning Asia, and an essay on Another strong possibility for though there will be some new science, mathematics, and other cording to Willemin, in that "the Asia. next year is a course in element developments in this area by technical graduates face the well-qualified are still being Brinkley gave credit to stu ary Chinese. One of the leaders September, 1971. greatest cutbacks, followed by sought." Because the employers dents enrolled in the Japan for the language course is Jim Though Dr. Brinkley expres business and non-technical grad can be more selective, he warn foreign studies program of the Thunder, a junior. He said that sed hope in starting an Asian uates, according to the Report. ed, the less-qualified must look Certificate idea. He said a num to get the course, I 0 students Studies Program someday at The Report estimates a 37% hard, contact a good number of" ber of these students last year are needed. He said four are Notre Dame, he felt there was decrease, as opposed to an 18% employers, take less time than requested the Government de little chance of it at least in the already sigPed up for the course, cut in business-oriented employ would normally be allowed him partment to offer something next few years. He said there are b"ut was confident that others ment. Those in high-level science to decide, and possibly take ·an too rna ny obstacles at this time about Asia. In response, the de would also sigh up. and engineering are the most offer that he might not accept partment offered the certificate. to seriously consider the pro Thunder announced a meeting affected. In most fields, those under less strained conditions. gram. He said that four had expressed for all those interested in taking "To create an Asian Studies intention of obtaining the certi Chinese next year will be held _Program, there would have to be ficate, but that none have been on Wednesday night at 7:30 in a significant expansion of granted yet. the R athskellar. Don't Miss the language studies as well as The Government department courses in other areas. The uni head also mentioned that there versity is not prepared to expand is a possibility for September of like this." a faculty member being hired to Coolest Thread The chairman of the Govern teach in Asian studies. He said ment department also said there no decision would be made on an: very few university courses this until this spring, however. f!ilw offend in the field of Asian In addition to this, .the depart ~w Sale Studies. He commented that ment will. offer a course next At there is only one Oriental fall in Easter Political Thought. f!ii/fony language - Japanese - offered, The course will be taught by Dr. and that history courses in the Gerhart Niemeyer who is pres flletlin!J are;1 are rare. ently a professor in the department and who has long Scholarship refusal
Mrs .. Werner, and said, "It has 1,:._'untinued fro/11 -Page I) been repeatedly alleged that the remind you of the unfavorable University removed James' SOUTH BEND, INDIANA impression you· 1have made on scholarship because of his social 2210 MIAMI STREET PHoNE 289-3012 Liin. '~ I r I j ; l I involvements. The allegeation is lle;thert ~dfferechVemer a Na unfounded and, frankly, obno ti;.mai Defelri.se';St\Ment Loaih and vious." He maintained that aca 1 . Univer~'ify jbb;·whith' was ac demics are the reason the schol-, cepted. arship was not renewed. Over 100 years ag we Werner went to Krashna, and Werner still claims that he was invented "The Tiffany Pants 25o/c off together they went to Father discriminated against. He said Setting" for engagement Theodore Heshurgh, University last night that he knows of "at rings which has been President. The case was given, by least two other Arkansas stu- Hesburgh, to Burtchaell, Univer . dents who haven't maintained a standard ever since. Shi rts 20o/c off sity Provost. 3.00, but kept their scholar Now, in addition, On September 30, Burtchaell ships." we introduce the wrote to Werner·,• sayi-ng. that his "We want an honest, clear cut •New Tiffany Setting" Sweaters 33o/c inves-tigat~0n of me matter show explanation," Krashna said. He off designed by ed no evid!¢rtcllielf distrimination continued, "We tried to keep on•tlhe part of't~W. Uhiversity. from exposing this, but we have Donald Claflin. We~·ner!s' l~atents·then wrote gone through the 'due process'. I Rings start at $295. Outerwear 25o/c off to llmtchaell, and claimed that spoke with Father Hesburgh the scholarship was removed be twice, Jim and I together have cause of their son's social in spoken with Father Burtchaell volvement. On November 30, several times. We feel we deserve TIFFANY &CO. Burtchaell replyed to Mr. and an explanation." CHICAGO Open Daily 12 .. 9 PM 1 he Observer is published daily ·during the college semester except 715 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE vacations by the students of the University of Notre Dame and St. TEL: (312) 944-7500 • ZIP: 60611 Mary's Colleg~ Subscriptions may be purchased for $8 from The Saturday 10 .. 6 PM Observer, Box 11, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. Second class postage paid, Design Copyrighled 1971, T.& Co. Notre Dam ------~
PAGE 4 MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1971 THE OBSERVER 'RNNEXRT1 DH AIIIII.IJI •• I ...... _._...., GI.EII I. CORSO. <or.a.Gief JOHN E. KNORR. Executi¥C Edhor
IRUCE RIECK. Businell Man•p
IOTRE DAilE. IIDIAIIA McCluskey and Sheedy--A Grim Contradiction
In his deplorable statementofsupportfortheequallydeplorable Park--Mayhew proposal, the Rev. Charles Sheedy said that there was no "agreement or understanding" between Notre Dame and St. Mary's to raise the present male-female ratio to 3-1. The word came almost exactly one month after Rev. Neil McCluskey, S.J ., the Dean Director for the Institute for Stuedies in Education at Notre Dame and a St. Mary's trustee said in a taped interview with the Observer that exactly such an agreement had been made. That's a pretty grim contradiction. Steve Lazor It's a grim contradiction because it means that the University isn't going to play honest with us on the issue of coeducation. It's a grim contradiction because it indicates a certain contempt for our intelligence, and a certain secure belief that stud~nts will be ready to take any statement, any rewrite of history In the City and any outline of the future without reacting anyway stronger than indifferently. And it's a grim contradiction especially because it appears to i n d i c a t e t h a t t h e Ad m in i s t r a t i o n w i II I i n e up b e h i n d t h e h o r r e n d o us Wh•t Is the Re•llty of the City Park-Mayhew report. The possibility exists, of course, that Father McCluskey was lying when he To speak of the idea of city is to call to mind the most universally said that the agreement had been made. If he was, the Administration should devised form of social human living. The modern and obviously It reactionary idealist associates the term with notions of abundant have said so, then and there. did not. commerce, famed educational institutions, centers where arts and But somebody is lying. Why? craft_s can flourish, and places where wide avenues are lined by Was there an agreement, once made and now breached, to raise the spaciOus parks. To suggest that anyone who holds these views has his male-female ratio in lieu of legitimate coeducation? If so, why was it breached? head in the past is merely to say that he is not allowing his brain to receive the impulses sent to him by his senses from right here in the Was it because of a defensive desire to completely control its own admission present. policy that asserted itself within the St. Mary's administration after the agreement was made? Or if it wasn't, what was it? Without a doubt, these feelings are unpleasant: the eye knows the confusion of sign ~nd billboard and the whirling disarray of traffic; the Whatever it was, it wasn't a misunderstanding. The men were tqo highly ear knows the d1ssynchronous mesh of horn and engine and cash placed, and the issue too important, for it to be that. Rather it appears that it register; the hack knows the ache of concrete; our taste and olfaction was a calculated attempt on the part of the Notre Dame Administratwn to play know the smells. politics with this very important issue in order to satiate a growing sense of What our senses are telling us is that the city has become a grotesque. It IS a place no longer fit for man because he is a creature whose senses insecurity that surrounds both institutions and says little for the leadership they not only are integral parts of his personality but whose senses actually are both alleged to exemplify. serve to integrate his personality. The information they send him determmes much of what he does and is. (An elbow in the ribs for * * * example, is not something one can usually ignore.) Thus when' the Father McCluskey said in the same interview that senses are handled so violently in the modern city we can only conclude . what Father Hesburgh wants, what I want, and what most members ot the that there is an inward violence being done to the soul. board want is not simply a sharing of the classrooms, the labs, and the library, This question of how the city affects the human soul is not measurable in quite the same way as its effects on the body. If we wish but also a sharing of the living conditions." It would be encouraging indeed if to as~ t_his question, though, our answer can come only by degrees of Father Hesburgh and the Board of Trustees were as sensitive to what the assoCiatiOn, some perhaps subtle, others rude. students want as Father McCluskey. Up to this point, there has been no indication that they are. Wh.t H ...pens When the Cltr Is Built Within the Mind
Strangers to night streets, winter's city airs, and traffic lights blinking red and green from dry cables, the frozen gray suggests to us that we hav,e walked this square before, have known it before in a thousand dry impersonal places. We think we've been this place before, moved this way when passing long dead nights through deserted cities, travelling .;old on gray_ streets, hearing weary buildings issue calls to vacant alley~ ; and neon bulbs' cool whispers m the eyetess streets. We think we've known this place before, met this strangeness with open eyes from roofs of tall buildings, looking down to where roads appear and disappear as gray strips indistince of gray roofs and the fray of walls. We know this is a twilight city, trapped between the light of dusk and light of dawn, changed only slightly with the sweep of gray air and highlighted occasionally by some small light of strong color too large or too bright to be grayed out. We are not shaken by this strange gray; it does not jolt like cold wind on stone, does not burn light the fire of a winter sunset, does not sound and resound in the dead of a deep night. This gray pervades, is no concentrate, is the dull hueless tinge of winter sky dropped like dusty curtains before the eye; a gray that comes to rest on the backs of hapless mice and lost papers winded to unimportant distances. This gray is no cousin of the eye or phenomenon of night or day, nor is nei!htfr of the city alone nor of that which is not the city, nor of the: earth, nor of the clouded sky; this gray is haze that shrouds our dreams, rolls like fog through our imagination, is the impalpable juice our mind becomes when we reach sleep. J ill 1 ..... , Headlines: Joe Abell The 3:00 Club Controller of the Night: Rich Smith NEIL~NI Night Editor: Don Ruane Also: Corso, Treanor, Lammers, &c. Layout: Buzz Wintrode MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1971 PAGE 5 ICTUS edftor replies to Daniel V.
Dear Editor: is, or better, what it is trying to be - to perience and knowledge into hopefully a "personal torment" over life; what we do I am very .sorry that the reviewer of clarify a few of the points that Daniel and handful of decisions that will shape our have are the reflections and expressions Ictus in your Friday (January 22, 1971) probably many others found so useless lives into loving vessels of suffering ser of a few people ~truggling to work edition could not find much that was and repetitive. vice to one another's salvation. If you through their own agonies and mis worthwhile in our last issue. The stories The editors of the magazine bear no happen to have an affinity for "bags" and givings. There are indeed repeititive as ·and articles in -Ictus 5 seemed to move illusions of saving this society, especially "slots" then I guess you might shade us a only human life can be, and it is with him to a response entirely contrary to the through the printed word ..... if we were bit toward non-violence, but I will insist these unpretty and frustrating accounts sort we had hoped the magazine would so nefariously idealistic you can believe that you not, in the witty attempt to take that the reader must search for his own engender. I am uncertain that any precise that we would publish more than four Ictus lightly pass us off as a myopic and soul's image, painfully molding it into the conclusions can be made from this; per times a school year. We have tried to frothing band of scab-tickers and raving suffering flesh and spirit that he knows it haps, the failure lies within both us and refrain from the mistakeable notion that neurotics. If the students and faculty of must be. We are creative in the mournful the reviewer. But, in any case, such is not we can transform (politically, spiritually, Notre Dame so choose to ignore us for passionate sense, perhaps just beginnin~ the essential reason for my responding to or otherwise) the campus "masses," a this kind of reason then it will be their to understand what it means to live oii you: Daniel V's dissilusion with Ictus 5 is very ugly word used often by som any in loss, just as it is their regrettable loss to the thread's edge, finally deprived of the more than merely one individual's private the frenzied midst of their rabidly good have not shared in what the Scholastic illusory, surrogate security that has con disappointment - I would presume, as intentions. We are not "evangelists" at expresses for so many weeks of the year. tinually cluttered and obstructed much of Daniel infers, that there are many on this tempting to tattoo a silver message across Perhaps, it is the theatrical and · our lives, yet young. ca!!lpus with similar feelings of disgust for our reader's ignorant cerebrum. There threatening tone t~at repels many of our We are, at last, not seeing or demand our "corrupt society" and our personal was a time when we sought a kind of readers, but the paragraph -that Daniel V ing instantaneous change, individually or and collective inability to reach beyond crude philosophic thrust of unenlightened chose to quote in his review states much collectively, through the language and its degrading and exhhausting influences. non-violence, yet I am afraid that our to the point what we see the reader's task drawings of our magazine, Each person I would only then like to comment to ideological days have faded and we are to be: we have no answers (i.e. "philoso must will that kind of change, himself, some degree on what the magazine really now involved in the complicated process phy"), pat and simple, to offer the reader and expose his life to the thoughts, of growing and changing, sifting ex- in order to pry him lose from his own words, and aqts that he feels will reveal some kind of subjective light by which to travel. The magazine simply lives in wit ness to this kind of change, witness to a life plucked out from amont thorns and stones and made to radiate the suffering love that is only ours to give until death. Shantih, John O'Reilly, editor Jim Le•ry Ylpple Yun1en
Vacation came and I went with my family to see John Leary cop his Cub Scout Bobcat badge. I entert 1 MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1971 7HB OBSEilfiER. PAGE 7 'No gimmicks ... we just beat them' ing like this." Another woman by J. W. Findling ny-armed quarterback by the Carr wasn't the only hero this The Irish never trailed in the contest. They jumped off to an stuck a folded program in fromt Observer Sportswriter name of Thiesmann and the cre time. Catlett who played the last ative coaching of a man called 18 minutes with • four personal early I 0-3 lead and with only of him. Coach Wooden signed it, It was one of those rare Parsegian humbled the No. I fouls made life miserable for the 5:33 left in the initial period smiled, and said, "I think all days-splendid and priceless- ranked Texas Longhorns 24-11. Bruins' Curtis Rowe. The differ Notre Dame had pushed ahead these circles and free throws you when this school rises above the January 23, 1971 was still an ence in this game may have been to a 37-24 advantage, the biggest have here are for the wrong odds, rises beyond the limits of other such day. And if the sport the inspired play of John P1eick, of the afternoon. But UCLA team." belief to conquer a seemingly had changed, the feeling of the the senior from El Segundo, closed the margin quickly and Johnny Dee was remarkably calm considering the circum invincible foe. That autumn af moment had not. Notre Dame, California, who knows most of Notre Dame enjoyed only a stances. "It was one helluva win, ternoon in 1913 was such a day this time on the hardwood and this UCLA team. Although he 43-38 halftime advantage. one of the biggest ever for us. when two young men by the led by the incredible Austin fouled out with 14:20 left to UCLA tied the game at 47 We needed help in the trenches. names of Rockne and Dorais Carr's 46 points, stunned No. l play and scored all of his nine with 16:40 left to play the Today John Pleick and the etched a gridiron destiny for ranked UCLA 89-82. points in the first half, Pleick's second half. At this point things "Cat"(Catlett). came to play." Notre Dame by shocking Army As Sid Catlett said after the agressive board work and re looked bleak for Notre Dame·. But the most unforgettable thing 35-13. Another such day was game, "No gimmicks... we just markable defensive hustle Pleick and Catlett had already in the Notre Dame locker room January l, 1971 when a skin- beat them." They sure did. And against Steve Patterson ignited picked up their fourth personals. that afternoon was huge John the Irish at both ends of the But Collis Jopes sank a free Pleick sitting in the corner court.- Collis Jones, as under throw, and then on what could weeping. rated as any college forward has have been the turning point of This was no fluke. The ever been, proved that he was the game, if such a thing was Bruins' first fourteen games only a step behind UCLA's possible in this game, Austin were lemons while the Irish, on All-American Sidney Wicks. Col Carr made two driving layups lis forced Wicks into several bad that were ...hell, you saw them. the other had, met rough compe shots and led an Irish rebound . .they were unbelievable. At this tition-much of it on the road . ing corps that picked off 44-the point it was evident that this Of course, few are ready yet to same number as UCLA. Coach Notre Dame team was a cour project the Irish as a better Johnny Dee said of his big three, ageous bunch and they were not squad than the Bruins. Neverthe "I thought all along that Pleick, to be intimidated by anyone. less, Saturday afternoon Notre Jones and Catlett were in a class The last 6Vz minutes belonged to Dame was a better team than with Sidney Wicks, Curtis Rowe, Carr; he halted every UCLA UCLA' Time will tell us more-a and Steve Patterson-and today threat by scoring 15 of Notre rendezvous in Houston would they proved it." Dame's last 17 points. provide a rational verdict. But the moment is ours-all of Jackie Meehan, the clever Johnny Wooden politely Notre Dame cherishes the glory . .master-at-the-controls, played a answered questions and signed However, one man gave it digni smart basketball and, as usual, autographs outside the Bruins' ty, mystique, and brilliance. got twice as many assists as he locker room after the game. For got points. Doug Gemmell, a Austin Carr rode high on the a man who had just seen his shoulders of those who love him. mere twig amidst the sequoias of team lose only its fifth game in UCLA, practically jumped out of And one could sense that all the last 136, he was remarkably those 11,343 who saw it in the ACC twice-going above Cur at ease-a perfect gentleman who tis Rowe and Steve Patterson for person and the millions more offered no excuses, no alibis. who saw it across· the nation a pair of improbable tip-ins. "When you get whipped, it's And then, of course, there wanted to touch him because usually the other team that beats they realized that on this Satur was Austin Carr. It's already all you .. .I don't know how Notre been said about this amazing day afternoon-splendid and Dame has lost four games; they priceless-Austin Carr had be young man. Certainly, he is the sure didn't lost four games play- one against whom all others are come the Rockne of his sport. measured. Carr has had trouble Shields:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: getting started in his last three Terry games, but as he said himself, "today I was ready." So were his fellow students. Having only seen the Irish twice this season The Irish Eye and after a long holiday break, the Notre Dame student body went beserk. The ND · band planed the Victory March enough that it should be echoing It was the same feeling all over again. It was Dallas flash backed to in UCLA's ears for a long time our minds. It was that crazy, "little Boy" happiness that was maybe even until March. Asked experienced just 22 days priol"to Saturday. The unbeatable foe was what different the crowd made, conquered. For that euphoric hour or two after the game there was Coach Johnny Wooden simply no one who could say that ND was not number one. That's right Henry, it's in the hoop. replied, "the game." That "drunken with glee" feeling is gone now but the sweet memory remains. We must come back to earth even though we like to savor special victories such as Saturday's for a greater amount of time than usual. Nonetheless, things must still be put into L.eprechauns smash GAFB perspective. A nine and four record is far from the most impressive in the by Vic Dorr country even if the Irish have beaten some flashy opposition. There to very few good shots. When Observer Sportswriter showing on the scoreboard. And is still a difficult agenda that Johnny Dee's charges have to meet the Notre Dame bench was em through the entire game, Notre Dam~'s freshman before this season is a success. The Irish shouldn't let up after this ptied with 2:29 remaining, the basketball team defeated Gris O'Connor's scholarship players BIG win, moreover they should just be igniting a charge that could score was 51-23.and any ques som Air Force Base 101-65 saw only about 25 minutes of carry them to Houston or at least an NCAA bid. tions as to the eventual outcome action. Saturday, and the Irish yearlings Two more tough opponents are staring at the Irish this week. of the game had long since had very little trouble as they Throughout the final six Michigan State has not been beaten by ND for six years. Illinois can vanished. rolled to their fifth victory in minutes of the contest, the only remember their loss last year in Chicago Stadium to ND. Both would But any Irish fans who hoped eight decisions. matter still in doubt was love th