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EDITORIAL BOARD Up Front by Ed Kelly 1981-1982 Doavnstoavn byTim Downs Sports Review Editor Ladies and gentlemen (especially circuit than the much-lauded men. USC HAS..jUSl WII-l-THIS COACH GO C31U-, WHA.T WOULD 1'0 HA\IE. TH~ CAR ladies), welcome to this year's The women though, operating with Ed Kelly SCORED ANOTlI"1E=. ~ THE.IWO-F'OINr 'rOU 00 IF't'OU WEPE pv~vPlO IN Tl-ILSCOACHING THe:: (3A.CK Scholastic "Sports Review." Those of out the century of tradition to fall HAS F TlE.? when the entire sports issue was a audience.... review of football-and those watch Naturally, however, a sports edi GENERAL MANAGER ing closely last year saw a change tor at Notre Dame cannot abandon Clay Malaker to the coverage of all sports. Well his football coverage . . . the good folks, this year it's all sports again, 01' football review is still alive and Culture/Fiction Editor but there's a new twist, for in the well, albeit in capsulized form. But jane Zwerneman center ring this month are women's for the men as well as the women ., sports! (Ladies, please • . . hold the athletes, 1981-82 was and is a year SI. Mary's Editor applause.) Is this a mad embracing of building and rebuilding, and in Elizabeth Bradley such a case it is often ,best to let of Title IX? A desperate attempt to 12-1 shift the focus away from the un the athletes speak for themselves. Copy Editors fortunate football team? No; it's an For the most part, this issue does a;;;;_;;;;;:=:::;:;;;;;;;';;;;;::~"'C:=;';i';;~1981 Universal Press Syndicate. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. anniversary. After ten years of par just that, most of the articles hav Dan McGrath Mark Bustamante ticipation (and little coverage), the ing been written by the participants. spotlight is shared at last by the ... Without further delay, therefore, Notre Dame (and the longer-run Scholastic once again presents - Advertising Manager ning Saint Mary's) women, who by something different in a sports re Brian Graham Notre Dame Football: The Rainv Season now have proven themselves to be no view. by Mike Dorociak less competitive in the college sports Distribution Manager Randy Radti Without a doubt, many fans of they lost. Similarly, Notre Dame was penalty. Indeed, losing can be a college football, including armchair at one time this year ranked #1 in form of winning if it is treated right. Business Manager coaches and subway alumni alike, the country and look what happened. Notre Dame's season reminds us Pat james thought Gerry Faust could have To be honest, I did not think my that to really appreciate the sun used a getaway car of his own to jinxing ability carried that type of shine sometimes we have to experi Layout Editor escape many of the situations he weight. But if I did jinx the football ence a little rain. Now I know what Mike Mulligan found himself in as first-year head season, just think of the strategy many of you are thinking-that the coach at Notre Dame. As the foot Faust could use. He could .send me football season brought us a torren Art Editor ball powerhouse of the Midwest, if over to study at U.S.C. for a year or tial downpour-but who will say Tamera Mams not the nation, Notre Dame encoun two, that should be enough to help that the season was not enjoyable? tered its first losing season since dampen their football program. I for one am thankful I was given Staff 1963, while much attention focused Yet, I will have to admit, I have the opportunity to root for Notre Beth Healy, Alyson Hritz, Barbara Stevens, on the former Moeller mentor. Yet, heard more logical explanations as Dame, win, lose, or draw, and I Bryan Cashman, Jim Wasilak, joe Hildener, when we stop to think, the pressure to why Notre Dame had an off year. think most of us are grateful for Karen Trappen, Beth DeSchryver, Ducan placed on today's football coaches is Meyers, jim Rickert, Allen Brenzel, Scott For instance, many have placed the the same. Rappold, Bill Muller, julie Wodarcyk, Mary amazing. All of the traditionally big blame on Faust's inexperience and The important thing is that we be Sloan, Greg Bachhuber, Tim judge, Bill schools, Notre Dame, U.S.C., Ala his complicated offensive system, lieve in Notre Dame, and that belief bama, etc., have established a win is our best insurance for the con Mans, Bob Vanderheide, Mark Boennigh while others have said that defen hausen, Donna Teevan, Charles Van Rav ning tradition to which their grid tinuing success in athletics and aca enswaay, Tom Wrobel, Dan Bell, Michael iron leaders must adhere. If they do sively we could not stop the big play. demics. The next time somebody Meeks, Michael Marz, Daniel Ferris, Philip not, then we, as fans, automatically However, I believe that we can sum comes up to you and says, "Hey Allen, Pat Pitz look for someone or something to up the season without any excuses or what happened to Notre Dame last blame. explanations. Notre Dame is a school year?" simply tell him, that he must As an ardent Notre Dame fan, I that goes far beyond a losing season, be a nonbeliever. For it is the be too had an explanation for our be a missed field goal, or a ten-yard lievers who are true Notre Dame low par year in football. Somehow I jinxed the whole season. Now this simple explanation was not evident Letters to the Editor pain, no gain." CREDITS until I realized that as a high school senior, my football team suffered To the Editor: We will all rise to the occasion, Illustrations: I'm sure, and support the players through its only losing season in the As a suscriber to Scholastic (and p. 1, Laura Stover; p. 25, Brian McLaughlin; school's history with a dismal 2-7 whether they are ranked ,first or p. 28, 29, Catherine Gunning; advertising, a subway alumnus) I find your record. Aliter I graduated, the team fifty-first. And then we will no Sven johnson articles enjoyable, even when they went on to finish second in the state longer have to endure the snide re are "off the beaten path." Photos: the following year. Consequently, the marks from certain journalistic Now, a little commentary on the p. 1, 4, 5, courtesy of Dome; p. 2, 11, 32, way I look at things as a college Notre Dame Football and Basket jackals (who shall remain name Mike Mulligian; p. 3, 30, Chris Barlock; senior, Notre Dame's losing season ball teams' lack of success this less) who revel in our present dis p. 6, 7, courtesy of Beth Bradley; p. 8, 30, was entirely uncharacteristic. As year. A temporary detour will not comfort. 16, Bob Wade; p. 9, Cheryl Ertelt; p. 11, soon as I graduate, the team will be deter Coach Faust or Digger from Sincerely, 13, john Reynolds; p. 14, 15, Dion Rud nicki able to go places. Now do not take their winning ways. Those legions Norm Beznoska, Jr. this for granted. Two years ago, my of fans have to remember, "No Strongsville, Ohio Adivsor: high school team was ranked #1 in Fr. Mario Pedi, O.S.B. the state. The weekend I went home, Blair Kiel calls the shots

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fans, no matter what the outcome. went on to dominate Louisiana State, finally took the lead in the fourth With only 59,075 seats in the Sta earning a sound victory 27-9. The quarter behind an inspiring, 30-yard dium, we do not have any room for victory made Gerry Faust the 22nd run by co-captain Phil Carter. The the nonbelievers. out of 24 Notre Dame head coaches student body, once again glued to Above all, the final score on the to win his first game at the school. their T.V. sets, if not at the game, scoreboard cannot take away from Despite all the excitement generated could sit back and watch- the defense the memories, experiences, and en on the field, Faust still managed to go to work with only_ 2: 57 remain joyment that we have had during the find his wife after the game and give ing in the game. Yet, Purdue man 1981 football season. her an all-important victory kiss. aged to crack the Notre -Dame de In light of this, I would like to From Notre Dame Stadium, the fense, scoring on a 7-yard pass play offer a brief game-by-game recap of Irish, now ranked as the number-one with only nineteen seconds left. Ex the year, a year that gave us many team in the nation, traveled to Ann citement mounted as Purdue, behind highlights, but also many disappoint Arbor, Michigan, where they would by one point, decided to go for all or ments. meet a tough Michigan squad which nothing by attempting a two-point It could not have been better con many preseason predictions held to conversion. It was the same play, ditions for a season opener: excite be the nation's best. The results were run to the other side, and the same ment was in the air, the weather less than pleasant for the Irish. A 71- result. Purdue pulled off a shocking was friendly (a warm 80 degrees), yard scoring strike from Michigan upset over Notre Dame, 15-14. A and Gerry Faust and the rest of the quarterback Steve Smith to speed dejected. Irish ballclub was to return Irish squad were going to experience ster Anthony Carter provided the home the next week to face Michigan the thrill of running through the only scoring of the half, as most of State. tunnel as they kicked off the begin us who left the T.V. set at halftime With Phil Carter hurt in the first ning of a brand-new season. Facing were still confident of an Irish vic a young LSU team, the Irish jumped quarter, Greg Bell came in against tory. However, the Wolverines took Witnesses of Notre Dame's last Miami. At the Air Force Academy off to a quick start, forcing a fumble the Spartans and did more than his ND-USC series that the Trojans de command in the third quarter, and 1981 home football game against the Gerry Faust obtained his last win of on the third play of the game. From job. In fact, _he worked overtime feated the Irish four straight times. the game was never close after that, Georgia Tech Yellowjackets, were the 1981 season, 35-7. The game there, Blair Kiel connected with picking up 165 yards in 20 carries, Notre Dame's last win in the rivalry as Notre Dame went down in defeat fortunate enough to see the longest however proved to be a tough battle Larry Moriarty for N.D.'s first only to leave the game in the fourth came in 1977 when Dan Devine's 25-7. Indeed, this was a contest touchdown pass in Notre Dame's his for the Irish, much tougher than the touchdown of the season. It was quarter with a hip pointer. The de eventual national championship team where many Irish fans yearned for tory-a 96-yard scoring strike from score reflected. The contest was a Kiel's first touchdown pass at Notre fense prohibited Michigan State from switched to their green jerseys at some of that old magic that had pro Blair Kiel to Joe Howard. If that personal milestone for consensus All Dame and Moriarty's first touch earning a single first down in both halftime. Yet, I will have to admit, pelled the Irish past the Wolverines was not enough to get the blood American Bob Crable as he eclipsed down of his career. Tim Koegel, who the first and fourth quarters, and al this game marked some very good, in previous years. pumping, Kiel hit Howard again the old Notre Dame record for most was to share the quarterback spot lowed them only _8 first downs the hard football. Remarked Faust, "To Moving on to face the Purdue with a 58-yard pass in the second tackles in a career which was for with Kiel for most of the season, whole day. It was good to be home, day our team came of age." The Boilermakers at West Lafayette, quarter good for another 6 points. merly held by Bob Golic. Indeed, contributed a 6-for-7 passing day, in Notre Dame found themselves over as Harry Oliver added his first two game was even at the half, as both field goals of the year to give the teams were unable to score. Even Veteran Tim Koegel came in to re Crable was a mainstay of the Notre cluding a touchdown throw to Dave confident, and as a result, they Dame defense all year, wherever the Condeni, his former high school Irish a sound 20-7 victory. The only during the third quarter, Notre Dame place Kiel and threw two touchdown learned a hard lesson. Strongly passes of his own. This was the last ball was, you had a good bet that he teammate under Faust. The Irish favored to win the game, the Irish Michigan State scoring strike came responded to a U.S.C. score with a on a 63-yard pass play. The big play 5-yard run by Phil Carter. But the game for the senior players and was nearby. again hurt Notre Dame, something it Irish, repeating a problem they faced senior fans and of course it brought At Beaver Stadium in Pennsyl would do all season. all year, could not quite match their back many memories gathered vania; the Irish were about to meet rivals. U.S.C. broke the tie with a throughout their four-year stay a ranked opponent for the fifth time Although I could not attend the 26-yard touchdown run in the fourth here at Notre Dame. In any event, in ten outings, Penn State. It was Florida State game because of a the finale at Notre Dame Stadium going to be a classic matchup-Joe wedding, I did manage to bring a quarter. The game ended when a late scoring drive engineered by Blair left us with a good feeling as the Paterno in his 16th season at Penn pocket radio to the church. After Kiel fell short. Irish trounced the Yellowjackets State against rookie coach Gerry all, it was the first meeting between 35-3. Faust who had struggled through an the two teams, and I wanted to say If there ever was a cure for Notre Dame's midseason slump this year, it Notre Dame then took to the road unpredictable year under the Dome. that I was a part of it. However the for its last three games of the season Only thirty-one seconds into the con Irish _ could never get untracked, could have been the Midshipmen from Navy. After losing the last two playing Air Force, Penn State, and test, Penn State was on the score- managing only 38 yards of passing (cont)d on page SO) the whole day,and only successful games at home, Notre Dame was in 1 of 14 third-down conversions. able to blank Navy 38-0, making it A Notre Dame score in the fourth the third straight shutout the Irish quarter was not enough, as Florida have placed over the Midshipmen. At State rallied to break a 13-13 tie and the forefront of the victory was a earn a 19-13 win. In the process, the new name to many Irish fans-Joe Seminoles became only the third Howard. The talented freshman team since 1943 to win their first dazzled the crowd with a reverse game in Notre Dame Stadium, along touchdown in the first quarter, only with Missouri (1972) and Clemson to keep the crowd on their feet with (1979) .. a 52-yard touchdown gra:b from Blair Kiel in the second quarter. All After a week off, the Fighting in all, Howard took in 5 passes for Irish returned to the Stadium to con 115 yards. Teammate Blair Kiel also tinue their fierce rivalry with the enjoyed his finest day at the Irish Trojans of Southern California. Al helm, completing 13 of 23 passes for though it turned out to be one of 225 yards and two touchdowns. Tony N.D.'s best games of the season, the Hunter, replacing the unfovtunate Irish unfortunately came up short, loss of tight-end Dean Masztak, also falling to Southern Cal 14-7. It was caught a 27-yard touchdown pass at An inspiring run by Co-captain Phil Carter the first time in the history of the tight end. Harry Oliver, going for one more 4 SCHOLASTIC JANUARY, 1982 5 $ fans, no matter what the outcome. went on to dominate Louisiana State, finally took the lead in the fourth With only 59,075 seats in the Sta earning a sound victory 27-9. The quarter behind an inspiring, 30-yard dium, we do not have any room for victory made Gerry Faust the 22nd run by co-captain Phil Carter. The the nonbelievers. out of 24 Notre Dame head coaches student body, once again glued to Above all, the final score on the to win his first game at the school. their T.V. sets, if not at the game, scoreboard cannot take away from Despite all the excitement generated could sit back and watch- the defense the memories, experiences, and en on the field, Faust still managed to go to work with only_ 2: 57 remain joyment that we have had during the find his wife after the game and give ing in the game. Yet, Purdue man 1981 football season. her an all-important victory kiss. aged to crack the Notre -Dame de In light of this, I would like to From Notre Dame Stadium, the fense, scoring on a 7-yard pass play offer a brief game-by-game recap of Irish, now ranked as the number-one with only nineteen seconds left. Ex the year, a year that gave us many team in the nation, traveled to Ann citement mounted as Purdue, behind highlights, but also many disappoint Arbor, Michigan, where they would by one point, decided to go for all or ments. meet a tough Michigan squad which nothing by attempting a two-point It could not have been better con many preseason predictions held to conversion. It was the same play, ditions for a season opener: excite be the nation's best. The results were run to the other side, and the same ment was in the air, the weather less than pleasant for the Irish. A 71- result. Purdue pulled off a shocking was friendly (a warm 80 degrees), yard scoring strike from Michigan upset over Notre Dame, 15-14. A and Gerry Faust and the rest of the quarterback Steve Smith to speed dejected. Irish ballclub was to return Irish squad were going to experience ster Anthony Carter provided the home the next week to face Michigan the thrill of running through the only scoring of the half, as most of State. tunnel as they kicked off the begin us who left the T.V. set at halftime With Phil Carter hurt in the first ning of a brand-new season. Facing were still confident of an Irish vic a young LSU team, the Irish jumped quarter, Greg Bell came in against tory. However, the Wolverines took Witnesses of Notre Dame's last Miami. At the Air Force Academy off to a quick start, forcing a fumble the Spartans and did more than his ND-USC series that the Trojans de command in the third quarter, and 1981 home football game against the Gerry Faust obtained his last win of on the third play of the game. From job. In fact, _he worked overtime feated the Irish four straight times. the game was never close after that, Georgia Tech Yellowjackets, were the 1981 season, 35-7. The game there, Blair Kiel connected with picking up 165 yards in 20 carries, Notre Dame's last win in the rivalry as Notre Dame went down in defeat fortunate enough to see the longest however proved to be a tough battle Larry Moriarty for N.D.'s first only to leave the game in the fourth came in 1977 when Dan Devine's 25-7. Indeed, this was a contest touchdown pass in Notre Dame's his for the Irish, much tougher than the touchdown of the season. It was quarter with a hip pointer. The de eventual national championship team where many Irish fans yearned for tory-a 96-yard scoring strike from score reflected. The contest was a Kiel's first touchdown pass at Notre fense prohibited Michigan State from switched to their green jerseys at some of that old magic that had pro Blair Kiel to Joe Howard. If that personal milestone for consensus All Dame and Moriarty's first touch earning a single first down in both halftime. Yet, I will have to admit, pelled the Irish past the Wolverines was not enough to get the blood American Bob Crable as he eclipsed down of his career. Tim Koegel, who the first and fourth quarters, and al this game marked some very good, in previous years. pumping, Kiel hit Howard again the old Notre Dame record for most was to share the quarterback spot lowed them only _8 first downs the hard football. Remarked Faust, "To Moving on to face the Purdue with a 58-yard pass in the second tackles in a career which was for with Kiel for most of the season, whole day. It was good to be home, day our team came of age." The Boilermakers at West Lafayette, quarter good for another 6 points. merly held by Bob Golic. Indeed, contributed a 6-for-7 passing day, in Notre Dame found themselves over as Harry Oliver added his first two game was even at the half, as both field goals of the year to give the teams were unable to score. Even Veteran Tim Koegel came in to re Crable was a mainstay of the Notre cluding a touchdown throw to Dave confident, and as a result, they Dame defense all year, wherever the Condeni, his former high school Irish a sound 20-7 victory. The only during the third quarter, Notre Dame place Kiel and threw two touchdown learned a hard lesson. Strongly passes of his own. This was the last ball was, you had a good bet that he teammate under Faust. The Irish favored to win the game, the Irish Michigan State scoring strike came responded to a U.S.C. score with a on a 63-yard pass play. The big play 5-yard run by Phil Carter. But the game for the senior players and was nearby. again hurt Notre Dame, something it Irish, repeating a problem they faced senior fans and of course it brought At Beaver Stadium in Pennsyl would do all season. all year, could not quite match their back many memories gathered vania; the Irish were about to meet rivals. U.S.C. broke the tie with a throughout their four-year stay a ranked opponent for the fifth time Although I could not attend the 26-yard touchdown run in the fourth here at Notre Dame. In any event, in ten outings, Penn State. It was Florida State game because of a the finale at Notre Dame Stadium going to be a classic matchup-Joe wedding, I did manage to bring a quarter. The game ended when a late scoring drive engineered by Blair left us with a good feeling as the Paterno in his 16th season at Penn pocket radio to the church. After Kiel fell short. Irish trounced the Yellowjackets State against rookie coach Gerry all, it was the first meeting between 35-3. Faust who had struggled through an the two teams, and I wanted to say If there ever was a cure for Notre Dame's midseason slump this year, it Notre Dame then took to the road unpredictable year under the Dome. that I was a part of it. However the for its last three games of the season Only thirty-one seconds into the con Irish _ could never get untracked, could have been the Midshipmen from Navy. After losing the last two playing Air Force, Penn State, and test, Penn State was on the score- managing only 38 yards of passing (cont)d on page SO) the whole day,and only successful games at home, Notre Dame was in 1 of 14 third-down conversions. able to blank Navy 38-0, making it A Notre Dame score in the fourth the third straight shutout the Irish quarter was not enough, as Florida have placed over the Midshipmen. At State rallied to break a 13-13 tie and the forefront of the victory was a earn a 19-13 win. In the process, the new name to many Irish fans-Joe Seminoles became only the third Howard. The talented freshman team since 1943 to win their first dazzled the crowd with a reverse game in Notre Dame Stadium, along touchdown in the first quarter, only with Missouri (1972) and Clemson to keep the crowd on their feet with (1979) .. a 52-yard touchdown gra:b from Blair Kiel in the second quarter. All After a week off, the Fighting in all, Howard took in 5 passes for Irish returned to the Stadium to con 115 yards. Teammate Blair Kiel also tinue their fierce rivalry with the enjoyed his finest day at the Irish Trojans of Southern California. Al helm, completing 13 of 23 passes for though it turned out to be one of 225 yards and two touchdowns. Tony N.D.'s best games of the season, the Hunter, replacing the unfovtunate Irish unfortunately came up short, loss of tight-end Dean Masztak, also falling to Southern Cal 14-7. It was caught a 27-yard touchdown pass at An inspiring run by Co-captain Phil Carter the first time in the history of the tight end. 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be 'attributed to the new Angela One day, while some of the girls Athletic Facility. Although I have were doing drills, I asked a few of never experienced being short the other girls if they had seen the changed, it is great to be at an all UCLA vs. USC women's volleyball women's college where the only com game on television. The girls' eyes petition for courts is from other lit up and twe started to talk ex women's sports. The fan support citedly about how thrilling the game could use a boost, but the varsity was. After a while, I realized that I volleyball team and sports teams in got so 'carried away talking about general give opportunities for stu the game that I had forgotten about A Decade of dents to build character and friend the girls doing drills. I had to quickly ship. This is one of the main objec change the drill to relieve them. I •• tives of varsity sports at Saint can't believe how excited I got when Experience Mary's. Therefore, remammg a my brother was flipping the chan Division III team and giving no vol nels (like always) right before leyball scholarships is adequate to Christmas Eve Mass and found the achieve this objective. The academic match in progress. The match was excellence of Saint Mary's draws complete with cheerleaders and a women with many talents and many packed sports arena. This showed me with enough athletic talent to insure that others can find volleyball just competitive teams. as exciting as football. The way the crowds were cheering, you would Coach Terri in action have thought that they were watch by Theresa WaIters ing the Comeback Kid throwing a winning touchdown to Kris Haines. Have I been playing voHeyball for volleyball played like that before, People recognize the gracefulness of ten years? No wonder my knees are and 1 was delighted at their surprise many football maneuvers (outstand and enthusiasm. Of course, they es to call plays. Words of encourage ing catches and runs), but not many giving out. As my mother says, ment, especially to players who are "Who would ever have thought that pecially liked the spikes and dives. people realize that volleyball is also "down" because they made a bad hit, a very graceful sport. Someday I'd shy, skinny-legged, seventh-grader, However, volleyball is much more are very important. I will never for .-- who didn't even like talking on the than ,this. If the forearm pass is not like to see the excitement and grace get the effect these words have. For fulness of volleyball captured in slow phone, would be coaching a girl's to the setter, the setter cannot set such diverse people, coming from middle .school volleyball team?" I the spiker and the play is not effec motion like football is. This, I be dissimilar backgrounds, to obtain a lieve, would help people grqw in have learned a great deal by par tive; it isn't a crowd pleaser. That's common goal requires communica ticipating in this sport over the what I enjoy and what is so exciting appreciation of the sport and the tion and the putting aside of all dif~ players. 0 years. . about volleyball: the challenge of ferences to play the game. Yes, I succumbed to peer pressure. playing together like clockwork, the Besides teaching me a lot of volley Everyone has heard of the detri accomplishment of a play well exe ball 'Skills, my ·coaches have taught Terri Walters, a seni01' Biology ma mental effects of peer pressure. From cuted. valuable characteristics. How a vol jor, is captain of the Saint Mary's taking that first drag of a cigarette High school proved to be tough leyball player 'can be strong and in Volleyball Team and coaches the to that first drink, peer pressure has years for volleyball. I learned pa timidating on the court without los Trinity Academy Girls' Volleyball always been understood as a perni tience from gathering splinters and inga lady-like countenance is a trick Team. This is her first contribution cious enemy. If peer pressure was of from relating' to another coach. which one can pick up. Persistent to Scholastic. any benefit to me, it was in seventh These years also taught me initia firmness in dealing with the adminis The Trinity Eagles heed Terri's words ... tive. Even though I did a lot of grade when two of my friends de tration to get more meal money, "Move! Do not let the ball hit the floor!" cided to tryout for the first-year bench-sitting, I made sure I sat close better transportation, etc., is also a volleyball team. So, of course, I tried to the coach where she could see I lesson learned. , out too. We all made the team and was ready .to go in anytime. I've seen the varsity volleyball Now I coach a middle school vol then began the team-learning .ex I have learned that power volley program at, Saint Mary's develop leyball team. I have experienced perience. We were expected to re ball is a fun, graceful sport which rapidly. I remember my freshman many of the joys and frustrations I frain from cigarettes and alcoholic demands skills, concentration, quick year being on a very easygoing team am 'Sure my former coaches have drink and practice during our free reaction, discipline, and communica which played straightforward volley experienced. Why did my coach time; so; who had time to get into tion. The loss of concentration dur balL I look iback in surprise to see cringe when the ball hit our floor . . trouble? A strict, gruff, but popular ing a game is less than graceful and that we had a winning season. The once ,in a game? Why did she roll her .- gym teacher took on the challenge is costly. One distraction, causing a next year a new coach was hired eyes when I missed my serve? I of coaching us. We knew what was loss of eye to ball coordination and Who had a lot of experience playing listen to myself yell the same things expected of us, and we learned the therefore a loss o{J, reaction time, volleyball. From this point on there that I heard from my coaches: "You ba~ics quickly - forearm pass, set,' can result in an easy point for the were many new strategies, tech can't get 'any points unless you get spIke, serve, etc. - so quickly that at opposition. Discipline and self-con niques, and a new coaching philoso your serve over the net . . . MOVE! the end of our eighth-grade season trol is required not only in main phy to be learned. Being a member DO NOT let the ball hit the floor! we were city champs. taining concentration but also in the of this team was more demanding ... Here we go!" The ability to What a difference from recreation rigorous training. Volleyball is fun, than the previous year's team. Then, coach at the level of the players and gym class volleyball where basket but at times it is just plain hard during the off-season, players had to have the corresponding expecta ball players slam-dunk the volleyball work and requires endurance. I re the opportunity to increase their tions is a trick in itself without hav over the net and call it a spike! member praying on the way to prac skills and experience by playing a ing to unify the varied talents into TIPVB - This Is Power VolleyBall. tice many a time asking the Lord to United States Volleyball Association a winning team. I ,found myself This past season, some friends from give me the &trength, skill and con club volleybaU team which played in wanting to teach them all I 'know Saint Mary's and Notre Dame came centration to survive another prac tournaments on the weekends. about volleyball and realized the to watch the SMC-ND volleyball tice. Communication with teammates The rapid development of varsity many details of the game. There is match. Obviously they hadn't seen is also important. Signals are needed volleyball at Saint Mary's can also so much to remember! Terri Walters 6 SCHOLASTIC JANUARY, 1982 7

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An Old Game That Hasn't Changed

by Kathy Ray

-What is that thing? and balL Sports such as baseball in Indians were dangerous. The players -A field hockey stick. America, lacrosse in Canada, polo wore no protective clothing and they -What's field hockey? in Persia, and cricket in England all would block the paths of their op -It's a game similar to ice hockey, include a common history. They ponents with their sticks. The game but played on a football-size field. seemed to have developed from the often became an uncivilized event -Why are you wearing that short instinctive desire of men and women which resulted in many injuries. Af 1981 Notre Dame Field Hockey Team skirt? to strike an object with a stick. ter the game was over, however, the -You mean a kilt? Well, it's our In addition, ball games were participants became friendly again uniform. thought to be effective as religious and took part in a feast to celebrate to better control the game and de players in the world. The popularity ing field hockey has been making -What is this game all about ceremonies. Hockey was first played the match. crease the number of injuries. Two of the game has grown rapidly in many close friends. When I first ar anyway? as a serious ritual with vast magical Present-day field hockey began in of the earliest restrictions included other parts of the world and field rived as a freshman, I was glad I had -It's a lot like soccer in its posi connotations. The course of the ball England and is similar to games a penalty for raising the stick above hockey is now the second most popu something to get involved with right tioning and strategy, with eleven and the result of a competition were which were often played in the one's shoulder and the removal of lar team sport for men with· soccer away, because I immediately had a players on each side, and the purpose believed to influence nature, the pro British Isles. In particular, shinty any player who hit another with the as the leading favorite. In the group of friends apart from classes is to score goals. ductivity of the fields, and the rising from Scotland and bandy from Wales stick or the hand. United States, however, field hockey and the dorm. There is a special kind -I've never seen it before, is it and setting of the sun (which was are ancestors of the game. Hurling Fie,ld hockey became more popular is believed to be exclusively a wo of trust and friendship that grows new or something? ... represented by the hockey ball). though, which is the national game and clubs began to form all over man's sport and has not developed out of playing on a team with peo It seems as if I have that con Field hockey was also popular of the Irish, is the true source of field England. Yet each club played ac 1]0 quickly as a men's game. ple. When you live together, suffer versation with dozens of people at with the American Indians, who hockey. Hurling was a very rough cording to its own individual rules. The sport of field hockey has defi together, laugh together, and win Notre Dame every field hockey sea played the game initially as part of game in which men would "hurl" or Therefore, the Wimbledon Hockey nitely undergone many changes since together, you really get to know a son. When asked why I started their ceremonies. One legend of the drive the ball as hard and fast as Club defined a standardized set of it was first played by primitive men person. playing hockey, I could only answer Vichita Indians states that primitive possible. rules in 1883. Thereafter the game nearly 4,000 years ago. Changing Over the past three years, I have that it had always been around when man crea ted the tools for field Many British men quickly became became one of great accuracy and and raising the level of play have had many opportunities which I I was growing up. Then I began to hockey from his own body. After skill. Furthermore, there was a sub been very important goals of hockey would not have had if I were not a wonder when and where this mys others acquired the skill, they split interested in field hockey. Soon government officials feared that the stantial reduction in the size of the associations everywhere. member of the field hockey team. terious game started and how it be into two groups, which are thought stick which helped to control the In particular, I have experienced Coming from Maine, I had never came the game it is today. to be the first hockey teams, and game would interfere with men's skill as archers which was vital to roughness and possibility of injury many changes in the field hockey seen the Midwest. Each year during I was really surprised to learn that played in their first contest. during the game. This change was program over the past three years, October break, the team travels and The field hockey games of the the national 'defense at the time. The experts believe field hockey began game was banned from Britain and important in making stickwork an which have improved the level of plays a number of games on the in Persia in 2000 B.C. It is supposed I I playing would result in a fine and essential feature of the game's pre play. An important change is the road. Freshman year we took a that man found an antler with a three years of imprisonment. Play cision and speed. movement of games from grass to ferry to Mackinac Island, Michigan, curved end or broke a limb from a ing hockey meant so ml!Gh to these Enthusiasm for the game ex astroturf, making the game faster and on the way home stopped at tree and used them to hit rocks as men, however, that even those pen panded from England to other coun and requiring new, more controlled Gino's East in Chicago for his fa hard as he could. This belief was alties did noi~a.eter them from the' tries. Field hockey was first played skills. In addition, practices now in mous deep-dish pizza. Sophomore strengthened when, in 1922, a relief game. The ban was repeated until by women in England in 1887 and clude weight lifting as part of our year we visited St. Louis, Missouri, dating back to fifth century B.C. finally the sticks were destroyed. Af thirteen years later in the United regular training. The team is now and rode around rthe Gateway Arch was discovered on an ancient wall. ter firearms were invented, archery States. During these early years, also holding indoor practices during in a tiny elevator. The relief portrayed two men hold was no longer a part of the defense women were required to wear long the winter and attending various There is definitely more to field ing hooked-shaped sticks playing a and tqere was no potential harm in skirts, tight corsets, and baggy hockey camps in the summer to pre hockey than lifting weights and type of hockey game. playing hockey. sleeves. As the styles changed, the pare for our faH season. practicing drills:' Most team mem The. name, hockey, describes the length qf their skirts was slowly This past year has been our most bers must admit that some of the The game continued to be uncon shortened to a more comfortable one, successful season since field hockey most memorable times of the season hooked form of the stick which is an trolled and players were completely important characteristic of the game. enabling women to achieve higher became a varsity sport five years were spent on the bus, in the hotel, uninhibited on the field because there levels of skill. ago. We had a winnfng season with or out to dinner during trips to away The. English supposedly borrowed were no rules. The desire to win be the word from the French word, The Olympic Games included field no seniors on the team making next games. This past season was high came stronger and opponents were hockey for the first time in 1908, al year look very promising. We played lighted by two major trips. hoquet, which means shepherd's frequently seen hitting each other crook. though the United States did not in Division II and found that our The first trip was to a field hockey with the stick to prevent a pass or a send a team untH 1932. Over the only tough competition was against camp . in Sauk Valley, Michigan, The origin of field hockey is re shot on goal. lated to the fact that prehistoric man years men's teams in India, Pakistan, Division I schools which recruit where a two-day tournament was Many changes in the game gradu and Germany have distinguished scholarship athletes. enjoyed many games using a stick Kathy Ray ally took place. Rules were added themselves as the best field hockey One of the best things about play- (cont'd on page 19) J 8 SCHOLASTIC JANUARY, 1982 9 'I" I

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smiles as he devotes his attention to Mention the word "fencing" to Women's Basketball his twenty-three-month-old daugh- an average Domer. His immediate ter. ' images will most liltely be those Besides players and coaches, many of old pirate movies: swashbuck other people contribute (the entire ling swarthies swing scimitars. staff, including managers, trainers, The imagin?.tion turns to Errol the chaplain, families, Varsity Flynn, as Robin Hood, charging up Crowd and fans), and all have be and down staircases in the grand The come more like friends than mere castle, swinging from the chande Jump Ball, co-workers. liers until the wicked Prince John Experiences on road trips play a is ultimately skewered by the hero big role in uniting a team like ours. in green. An alternate picture com So many things happen on a trip. monly painted is that of two gentle men in spotless white uniforms Rational Athlete The excitement of leaving: packing Center Court nice clothes "real" shoes. Bumpy calmly attempting to poke each bus ride: dozing' in seats. Air- other, all while gently speaking un ports bustling past porters intelligible French as befits gentry curious questions, "Are you girls in of their standing. In reality fencing a choir?" "No, we're cheerleaders." is all this and more. In every bout Plane ride: fights for a window (between two fencers, a match be by Scott Thomas seat stewardess imitations ears ing between two teams) there is by Jenny Klauke pop pass out gum landing. Fin more excitement than in any movie, addition, there are rules limiting ally in a new city: plush hotel new as well as more courtesy, ,concentra has transformed itself into a dance They pair up randomly. Under come a step of victory to lead us up tion and active mental work than like series of thrusts, lunges, parries when touches can be scored. For roommate jokes unpack team example, either fencer may attack neath the boards, Schoothie takes to the final goal-the NCAA tourna meals lots of carbos. Back to in almost any other sport. and ripostes as graceful as a pas de Ruthie and Skippy guards Missy. Up ment in March. The art of fencing is poetry in deux from Swan Lake. first. However, if the attacker misses hotel room darkness thinking his target, he can not immediately top of the key, Hebbers covers Susan Although we have the ability to about the game nervous stomach motion. Alphons Beitzinger says For the sake of the layman, a attack again. In essence, he must let while T.M. takes Janice. Carrie, Jan unite when playing ball, our team don't forget shoes meet in lobby. "Poetry embodies fundamental word about the three weapons used. and Lala stretch out under the bas encompasses an incredibly wide truths." Fencing also seems -to em The first is called a foil. This weapon the other fencer attack him. After Bus ride to arena: huge foreboding defending himself he is then per ket as they eagerly await their turn. range of personalities. There are: building stomach tightens... body a fundamental truth of human has evolved from the fighting sword Mary Joan sits at the scorer's table existence. This truth is the ultimate of the seventeenth century, similar mitted to attack again. These re the boisterous rowdies and the sweet Locker room, before the game: setting the time clock overhead to dichotomy of human relationships: to those used by the French muske strictions encourage intense concen innocents, the quiet reflective types silence Dianne tapes her ankles dot a bright green 3:00. Debbi grips the most basic instinct of personal teers. The original object was to kill tration on exactly what is happen and the joking comedians, the intel pull on the blue and gold walk to the ball in her hands. As soon as she survival coupled with the human or mortally wound one's opponent by ing during the bout. The situation lectuals and the students who the floor bright lights stretch releases it, the clock runs and each struggle, the "ten and two" drivers need to express one's inner self piercing a vital organ. The idea has must be analyzed and a course of bounce ball feel leather shoot player gives up her individuality to and the racetrack maniacs, the Barry through art. Fencing is chess on your been carried through somewhat, as action decided upon in a fraction of around scrutinize opponents ease become a teammate, working Manilow and the Ricky James fans. feet: developed from the sword evidenced by the rules for the foil, a second. If the wrong decision is nerves. Back to locker Xing and smoothly with the others. A medley fighting skills needed (in days of limiting the area upon which touches made, the opponent scores . . . 250 However, one characteristic that all Oing on the blackboard strategy of shoe squeaks and thumps fills the yore), for mere surviva1. Kill or be (the term for legally stabbing an years ago he would have died for the twelve members share is sensitivity. goals gulp water. Jog to gym air, frequently pierced by breathy Perhaps this common trait is the killed was the watchword, yet this opponent) can be scored to the torso, same mistake. bigger crowd warm ups drills calls of: "Pick right." "I got her." key to our motivation and blending bloody necessity of Homo sapiens excluding the arms and the head. In As civilization progressed, man confidence time flicks down "Rebound." "Outlet." Occasionally, a of skills on the court. We all sense turned to a more rational ( ?) method 10: 00. Again to the locker room triumphant yell of "Piece!" or a need to improve and feel an inner of solving disagreements: the duel. starting matchups pep talk Hail "Ball!" rings out, followed by a sud hurt on days when we just can't Although some of these altercations den race down court for a well-exe "get it together." Mary "Let's Go!" burst out resulted in fatalities, when fighting together introductions cheers. cuted (or a muffed) fast break. Ever-present to snap us out of with swords, the winner was the Our final huddle: "Defense!" This action describes one of the these sluggish times are coaches Di "gentleman" who drew the first many drills that the Notre Dame Stanislao, Knapp and Murphy. Their This is it, the moment that every blood. A scratch anywhere on an Women's Basketball Team practices knowledge of the tiny technicalities thing has built up to. Now is the opponent was enough to win. From daily. Called the "shell," this drill, of the game amazes us all. They wiH time to display the result of many this chivalric concession evolved the like the others, demands concen,tra instruct us to adjust our body posi combined efforts. Running, early second weapon: slightly longer and tion, hustle, and teamwork. Success tion on defense, bring our follow morning weight lifting, one-on-one heavier than the foil, it is the epee. in basketball totally depends on through just a little higher when baseline, "suicides," "truck and trail The rules for this weapon limit teamwork. All the individual talent shooting, or pound the ball in when ers," spri'l1ts, shooting, defensive neither the location on the body in the world is wasted if it is not dribbling. Among coaching staffs, drills and even the intense shell drill upon which touches may fall nor the correctly fused with others. Now, this attention to detail distinguishes have each prepared us for this one time (in terms of attacking and de in the middle of our season, we have the great from the mediocre. Each game. fending oneself) during which they combined for a successful record of coach, like each player, has a unique ... eyes determined muscles relax may be scored. 9-3. A year of Division I experience personality, but all three care deeply hearts beat faster . . . toss up! 0 . The third and most dangerous for the upperclassmen and the addi and devote themselves fully to their weapon is the saber. As the name tional talent of six freshmen make profession: basketball. Like us, implies, this has evolved from the ii this a more hopeful season than last their differences <:rop up away from sword of the same name used by the year (10-18). This time around we the court. For example, after pre cavalry. Unlike the foil and epee, have already beaten such teams as paring a seven-course dinner for Jenny Klauke' is a sophomore on with which a touch may be scored Northern Illinois, University of "her girls," one coach amuses us and Notre Dame's team who hails from touches with a saber may be scored Pennsylvania, Missouri and Mar herself with a five-inch-tall rubber Glenview, Illinois. She has been tm with the tip or the edge, using either quette and look forward to the tough gorilla named Walter and the other able to play for half the season a thrusting or slashing motion. Any T•. compstition of Michigan, Ball State, tells humorous stories about family (sidelined with a stress fracture) part of the body above the waist is ,I'r Illinois, South Carolina, DePaul, and vacations and eating oysters for the and thus had time to' 'write this a fair target. Michigan State. Each game must be- first time, while the third coach article. Jim Thompson parries Twila Kitchen's thrust (cont'd on page 13)

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The speaker's forum referred to by ber to apply his reactions and values fun-filled activities, such as pizza Ken has by far been our most popu to the passage. By sitting down and parties, and athletic contests. This lar program. In an informal atmo discussing our beliefs on the selected April we intend to send some repre sphere, Notre Dame coaches discuss topic, weare able to reshape our sentatives to the annual FCA spring their views on the role of Christian values. Topics which have provided banquet in Chicago. In autumn we CHRISTIAN·· ATHLETICS ity in athletics. The first semester our group with valuable lessons in would like for our members to at saw football coach Tom Lichtenberg, clude discipline, temptation, thought tend an FCA retreat sponsored by h' baseball coach Larry Gallo, and bas life, friendship, and honesty. the Fellowship of Purdue Univer In addition to the Huddle/Fellow ketball coach Digger Phelps address The effectiveness of these discus sity. Our main objective is to be eM@ ship/Chapter program, the FCA ing our Fellowship. The second se sions stems from the fact that FCA come involved with community ser operactes a National Conference Cen mester features ticket manager Steve members are not hesitant to share vice work. We would like to assist I believe the Fellowship of ter in western Indiana. Besides host Orsini, track coach Ed Kelly, athletic their beliefs and views on the given . area high schools with their FCA Christian Athletes is the most ing conferences, retreats, and semi director Gene Corrigan, and hockey topic. After overcoming the initial program, in addition to visiting the effective group in America for Q nars, the NCC provides resource ma coach Lefty Smith. period of shyness and anxiety, FCA sick, the elderly and lending our passing along the influence of, terial for group meetings. These Each of the speakers has pre members realize that their remarks services for charity fund-raising Christianity. items include booklets, cassettes, and sented us with additional insights will be confidential. They do not fear drives. := -Tom Landry, concerning the relationship between exposing their true feelings and ex The future for our Fellowship ap 'biographical films. One such film Dallas Cowboys Coach stars former Irish gridder Ty Dick Christianity and ° athletics. Coach periences and are able to furnish pears promising. Our group is gradu erson, disclosing his personal adjust Lichtenberg stressed the importance meaningful insights to our group ally increasing in size, and the re ment to college life. of maintaining our individuality. He discussions. The absence of mockery sponse to our speaker's forum has As evident by the structure of the challenged us to critically evaluate and gossip alleviates any reluctancy been excellent. We have a fine group FCA national organization, the ourselves, and to re-examine our on the part of our members to par of young men and women which • :a ~~~~~ ®oo ~~~ strength and success it displays de goals and values. He realizes the in take in discussion, and therefore gives us a solid foundation to base d1 pend upon the strength and success fluence athletes have upon young creates a cordial, responsive environ future growth upon. We have ex of each Huddle, Fellowship, or Chap sters and urged athletes to dutifully ment. perienced many laughs, shared each III .II ter. Success at each of these levels accept this responsibility. "Christian A typical meeting of the FCA individual's troubles, anc;l provided ~~~W~ooOO ~~~~~ fellowship among one another. While ha' I insures a strong, well-knit organiza athletes have an opportunity to opens in prayer. After a brief busi tion. show what their Christianity means ness meeting and calendar of upcom we are far from being ideal Chris LsLa. by Dale Fronk As President of Notre Dame's to the young people who look up to ing-events report, the lesson begins. tians, we are striving to incorporate FCA, I am aware that FCA has en them." After a half-hour-Iong discussion on our faith onto the athletic field. joyed only moderate success here in In our bimonthly meetings, the the subject matter, a "popcorn" After all, getting to know ourselves, prayer, in which each member con other individuals, and Jesus Christ The national conferences exem the past. When I arrived here two program emphasis is on Bible study, While some people may dispute prayer, and discussion. We generally tributes his own little prayer, better is what· the FCA is all plify the FCA movement. Through a years ago, I reasoned that Notre Coach Landry's belief, the Fellow refer to a passage in the Bible, and closes the meeting. Refreshments oc about. 0 ship of Christian Athletes (FCA) program of "inspiration and per Dame, because of its strong athletic spiration," athletes, coaches, and tradition and Catholic background, through a manual provided by the casionally follow. does exert Christian influence in the Dale Fronk is a sophomore in the family members have the opportu would have an impressive Fellow FCA we attempt to rela-te the read For the remainder of this semes field of athletics. The FCA, now in College of Engineering. This is his nity to compete in their sport, share ship. But when I attended the first ing to our everyday lives. The ter and continuing over to next year, its twenty-eighth year, is a national thought-provoking questions pro we hope to expand our scope of ac first contribution to Scholastic. organization composed of men and in "huddle" discussions, and hear top meeting, I discovered the group con vided by the manual help the mem- tivities. We plan to include more women from the athletic community sports figures, such as Roger Stau sisted of two others besides myself. who desire to advance the ministry bach, Randy Gradishar, Don Kes I could not understand why a school of Christ in all areas of life. Apply singer, and Kyle Rote Jr., witness to of Notre Dame's stature responded ing muscle and action to the Chris their Christian faith. Two members poorly to a program which exempli tian faith, the FCA strives to of the Notre Dame FCA have had fied the very ideals of the Univer Fencing grunts. Suddenly they disengage and an opportunity to attend these na sity. calmly walk to their respective ends strengthen the moral, mental, and (cont'd from page 11) spiritual fiber of America's athletes tional conferences. Prior to my second year affiliated of the strip while listening to the with the Notre Dame FCA, I dis The art and beauty inherent in president of the bout (an umpire of and coaches. Rich McLaughlin, a junior, speaks The heart of the FCA is the Hud covered why participation had been fencing became apparent upon view sorts) decide exactly what happened highly of the personal value of at rather dismal. Time demands im -who scored and who didn't. It is, .dle/Fellowship/Chapter program. tending a national conference. "The ing a bout. A foil bout consists of The Huddle, which consists of cur posed on the Notre Dame athlete are very precise movements of the feet, despite the sport's chivalric reputa best single week in my life was spent great, yielding very little free time. tion, not uncommon to see the per rent high. school athletes, and the at an FCA national conference in arms and entire body. These move college Fellowship, which is com But FCA recognizes this and en ments, although quick, must be son who lost the touch to bang his Estes Park, Colorado. I really had courages former athletes as well as sa:ber against the floor while mutter prised of current and former ath the feeling of going to the mountain thought out thoroughly if the fencer letes, enable their members to openly current athletes, to become involved is to be successful. Mad, thoughtless ing unintelligible expletives to him to be with Our Lord. Over three . with the organization. Regardless if self. On occasion a saberman will discuss their concerns, doubts, fears, hundred others gathered together to thrusts simply won't do. An epee feelings, and faith. The common one's desire for collegfcite athletics. bout differs from a foil bout in sev dropkick his mask across the room share and grow in their faith. In fact exceeds the talent, FCA caters to the in anger, athough such is frowned bond of sports-the thrills, the dis 'Sharing the Victory' was the theme eral ways. Epee fencers generally are needs of the former as well as the upon by the president. appointments,the sweat, the pain of the conference. In leaving the taller and have long arms, while current athlete. By appealing to the In this age ()If technology, in which allows teammates to share fellow mountain, our goal was and con their bouts seem to consist of a con ship and their commitment to Jesus former athlete, we have been able duels may be fought mindlessly with tinues to be to share Jesus' love tinuous dancelike series of quick to increase participation. MX missiles, fencing is not simply an Christ. through our thoughts, words and ac and supple probings for an opening Our FCA organization is advised The next level, the Chapter, con tions, as He shared His love with the in the opponent's defenses in an at esoteric sport for a few impractical, by faculty member Ken Milani. Ken misguided diehards. I prefer to sug sists of professional ath'letes and lay world." tempt to outmaneuver. Saber fight persons. Besides experiencing Chris views his role in the organization as ing is the most vivid of the three gest that fencing is a fine-tuned art tian fellowship, the Chapter pro Freshman Michelle Lopez expressed that of a facilitator. matches to watch. The two oppo consisting of an eclectic combination vides the guiding force behind all . sentiments similar to Rich's. "For "I set .up the situations, then have nents stand at opposite ends of a having elements of great diversity the FCA aotivities, including ban the past three summers I have at the students carry out the program. long narrow strip. Suddenly, with -quick calculation, graceful dance, quets, rallies, and Super Bowl break tended an FCA national conference. In our speaker's forum, for example, out apparent reason they run toward magnanimous chivalry, and the fasts. Their most significant con Each conference has left me with an I made the contacts with the coaches, each other, colliding roughly in a primal instinct of individual self tribution, however, is assisting in insight that was spiritually and ath then had the students set up the massive tangle of arms, legs and preservation. If you would like to be sponsoring the national conferences. letically fulfilling." details." sabers, complete with yells and poetry in motion, give fencing a try.

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When initially asked to write an Some points were scored for the Arriving a day early to practice their new college life. The addition Standing 5'9", most opponents find it Although half the team is young and allticle about the Women's Tennis Irish, but unless most of the team and get settled, we found the cli of so many freshmen added in difficult to return the ball beyond her unfamiliar with college competition, Team I welcomed the idea, thinking particiRates in the tournament, it is mate in Charleston to be unlike any tensity and vigor to the team as a sweeping reach. their tournament experience helped that while relaxed on the Florida virtually impossible to earn points thing we had ever experienced be whole. Lisa Gleason, a freshman from make a smooth and successful transi beach over Christmas vacation, crea for your team and place highly in the fore. Because of the intense humid When the number-one singles spot Oak Brook, Illinois, joined the team tion into college play. The other half tive thoughts would fall into place, tournament. ity our clothes were saturated with opened up as last year came to a this year. After defeating two others has been to nationals and knows making it an easy task. Unfor Last spring, after placing second perspiration. Ideally, to, be comfor close, it was quickly filled in the fall in a hard-fought battle for her posi what it takes to win ... and knows tunately, they never came. As I re at the Regional Tournament, the en table, we would have needed a clean, by Lisa LaFratta, a freshman from tion, Lisa finally found her niche at it is no easy feat! It takes determi flect on my four years as a team tire team qualified for the AlAW dry set of clothes every time we Richmond, Virginia. Displaying great sixth singles. Often called "Gleas," nation, preparation, and confidence member however, I first think of a Division II National Tournament switched ends of the court. While strength, agility, and unequaled Lisa has the ability (and frequently in our ability. It requires much time, tournament held in Denver, Colo (for the first time) and travelled not playing, most time was spent consistency, she earned the upper uses it) to entertain the entire team dedication, and the support of our rado, after the completion of my confidently to historical Charleston, either runninK ice-cold water and most position on the ladder and re during the long, monotonous rides in teammates. But the progress of the freshman year. . . . South Carolina for a week in June. Gatorade to those on the court or tained it throughout the season. A the crowded van to away matches. past and the ambitions of the future . . . It was 10 p.m. when my match After regrouping in South Bend for cooling off in the air-conditioned freshman playing number one? What Rounding up the group of veterans make it all worthwhile. was finally called. A downpour had a weekend of practice and prepara clubhouse. But, leaving the cooled a way to begin her Irish career. and adding e:lCtraordinary depth to Returning this year to help Petro forced all tournament play indoors tion, we left O'Hare bound for some off buildings to go ~)Utside was like In addition, Notre Dame attracted the team is Cathy Schnell, from reach her goals is sophomore Pam to several nearby clubs causing long, unexpected heat and humidity, which walking into a sauna, and we grew another freshman from the south, Ballwin, Missouri. With solid strokes Fischette, from Liverpool, New York. restless delays. Since 8 a.m., for 14 proved to be almost unbearable. An attached to the indoors. Camille Cooper, number one in the and great potential, Cathy and the Combining a powerful well-rounded endless hours of waiting and watch advantage to the southern competi Despite the harsh weather condi 18-and-under girls' division in her other freshmen can use their tourna ing, one question kept reoccurring tors and especially to the host school tions the entire team played well. homestate of Louisiana. With a ment experience in their future en in my mind: "What am I doing -College of Charleston-the swelter With tough nationwide competition spring trip presently planned for deavors. After a successful fall sea here?" The match seemed to end be ing (100°) temperatures and uncom~ we placed 20th in the tournament New Orleans, we will have the op son the Irish put the rackets down fore it ever really began. I remem fortable stickiness were oppressive results, after a long and rigorous portunity to visit and spend a few for a while, but returned to the ber playing on the first court and to those from northern climates. few days. Sophomore Pam Fischette days at the Cooper home in Shreve courts in January preparing for a port, Louisiana. A rigorous schedule busy spring season and with hopes lies ahead for the team during our of winning the Regional Tournament week in the sOt;~h, including compe and qualifying the team for the tition against two schools in our AIAW Division II Nationals once own division and five in: Division I, again. all within seven days. Included on The tennis players returned not our list are: Louisiana State Univer only to the subzero temperatures and sity, Tulane, Centenary, Louisiana blizzard conditions of South Bend, Tech University, Northwestern State but also to a rigid winter schedule Notre·Dame University, and New Mexico State. which began on the first day of Although most of our time in the classes. Sharing the three' indoor New Orleans area will be spent prac courts in the ACC with over five ticing or competing, time will un other sports, the athletes must take doubtedlybe found for entertain full advantage of every minute their Women's Tennis ment (in moderation, of course) on space is available. Adding to the the renowned Bourbon Street. After fieldhouse distractions are hockey all, our freshmen have yet to be pucks slamming into the side of the Peggy Walsh officially initiated. rink, music accompanying skaters during public skating, the starting game with pleasant court cqmposure,' gun at track team practice, and Pam is strong in both doubles and by Tina Stephan more, all of which create a true singles. Junior Linda Hoyer re test of concentration. turned to the number-two singles advanced the farthest to ,the quarter-' With eight full weeks to prepare spot, and joined freshman Lisa La seeing my coach in the distance, for our trip to New Orleans, the peeking around the green curtain be finals, where she was finally defeated Fratta to form a dynamic first hind the court, probably wishing that by a player from .the University of team hikes to the ACC about five doubles teain. Also back with us for it ·was court #4 that she was watch Richmond. With one Division II Na days a week to improve their strokes the fall semester only was senior ing instead of court #1. Fraught tional Tournament play under our and gain .confidence in their game. Peggy Walsh, who graduated in De with defeat and discouragement, I belts, we returned home with newly With limited court time assignments, cember but remains at Notre Dame stepped off the ,court thinking not set goals for the following year. coach Sharon Petro runs an efficient, to do research. Peggy continues to "What am I doing here?" but that The Women's Tennis -Team has quickly paced practice session. A practice with us and remains a great there are "only three years left. to come a long way sinc~) its outset as unique combination of drills and help to the team. show this tournament what a Domer a varsity sport only five years ago. conditioning exercises keeps each in Seniors and co-captains Carol really can do!" This being the first Every year the depth as well as the dividual continuously active for two Shukis and myself also returned to time anyone represented Notre Dame overall ability of the team improves solid hours. No one is ever idle. For the squad confident in our team and at the Small College National Tennis significantly. With just one graduat every free minute there are always looking forward optimistically to Tournament, I failed to leave behind ing senior last May (and one player sit-ups, push-ups, a few laps, or some . ward a trip to the AlAW Division II ,a very impressive performance. ineligible because of the four-year other exercise to keep us busy. Plac National Tournament in northern The following year, Linda Hoyer, maximum eligibility limit), five un ing great stress on conditioning, Colorado in late May. Looking at the competing at the Division III level tried freshmen squeezed their way Petro intends to have her team in success and development of the prior of AlAW, was our sole participant onto the team roster. The upper top physical shape before' going on years, and the considerable improve Lisa LaFratta the .road. Judging from my sore ! at the National Tournament in Salis classmen's woes over the "green ment in the team this year, I am " bury, Maryland. Defending the sec ness" of the newcomers were quickly muscles, I think she will succeed! convinced that we can lead our team ond singles position, Linda earned a alleviated, though, as the freshmen Travelling the farthest to play In her fourth year as Irish tennis to a victory at the Regional Tourna first- and second-round victory before not only helped compile a 10-1 rec tennis at Notre Dame (and probably coach, Petro hopes to fulfill her goal ment, a trip to nationals, and place finally falling to a California oppo ord in dual meets and a state cham get an education too) is Laura Lee, this year of finishing in the top 10 at in the top 10. I'd like to go out in nent in the third round of play. Linda Hoyer pionship, but also easily adjusted to a freshman from Agoura, California. , the national tournament in late May. style! . 0

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14 SCHOLASTIC JANUARY, 1982 15 - r ...•.. . Gallery 'THE ARTS: A CLOS~R LOOK

'¥ Kathleen J. Farr

Sea Shells; Monotype; 11 X 14 in.; 1981.

Kathy is a senior at Notre Dame. She will graduate with her B.F.A. in May.

" The Two of Us; ,Monotype; 11 X 14 in.; 1981. I

(~~ My most recent and most suc~ssful monotypes have dealt with the still life art form. I 1 The still life enables me to bre~k the objects down into value patterns in which my main interest lies. My development is continuing along this line, searching for an overall unity in composition through the abstraction of form.

This concept is at the center of most of my work. Apples on Shelves; Six Coffee Cups; Monotype; 11 X 14 in.; 1981. Monotype; 14 X 11 in.; 1981. 17 16 SCHOLASTIC JANUARY, 1982 - r ...•.. . Gallery 'THE ARTS: A CLOS~R LOOK

'¥ Kathleen J. Farr

Sea Shells; Monotype; 11 X 14 in.; 1981.

Kathy is a senior at Notre Dame. She will graduate with her B.F.A. in May.

" The Two of Us; ,Monotype; 11 X 14 in.; 1981. I

This concept is at the center of most of my work. Apples on Shelves; Six Coffee Cups; Monotype; 11 X 14 in.; 1981. Monotype; 14 X 11 in.; 1981. 17 16 SCHOLASTIC JANUARY, 1982 , ' ...... -- .

from a few points to win a match, We wanted desperately' to beat Saint vinced that we were good. But we or come to lose by only one or two Mary's; we had lost to them twice did not do well, losing in the first points. What we were looking for our first year, and once already this and second brackets. We did not play ward to most was our first home season. We beat IUPUI and finally well, either individually or together game on September 30. We were looked impressive in front of a home as a team, and most frustrating of going to play a tri-match against crowd. Against Saint Mary's, how all, we didn't know why. Indiana State, a tough Division I ever, we did not play well and lost Volleyball is very much a team school, and St. Joseph's. The two the match in two games. We were sport; there are no stars, no indi Up other teams played first and then we extremely disappointed with our vidual standouts. All six players got on the court against Indiana selves, and were upset that we would must work together to execute a State. Everyone on the team was not get the chance to play them play. We were a close team: every excited, and we were confident that again until next season. one got along well and remained en Volleyball Grows we were going to show everyone how Our playing during the season couraging throughout the long prac much better we were than last year. would go up and down. In one quad tices and rough games. Many of us We had brand-new uniforms which matcli, during the week of midterms, learned that part of being on the included "bun huggers" and a brand we arrived late and had only 10 min team was to sit on the bench and new team. Yet sOIllehow this excite utes to warm up. Yet, we beat all cheer, watch the other team, or re by Jan Yurgealitis ment shifted into nerves and we lost three teams and swept the match. alize that you may only be playing to Indiana State 15-0, 15-5. The In other matches we lost when we the front row and sitting out while Among women's sports at Notre Spring training began after break picked. Five players returned from knew we could have played much someone else played the back row Dame, volleyball has risen very high whole thing was over so fast we for those planning to tryout. It was the first-year team, and seven new couldn't figure out if it was our team better together and individually. for you. -and very fast. As a club sport, very difficult to get "psyched" additions made up our young team Our season was also highlighted Varsity sports offer important they had no coach,. no money, and out on the court. Most of our fans to ?'O. through all the hours of jump of two seniors, one junior, three left after that game, and we then by a trip to upstate New York over opportunities for students at Notre often not even six players who could trammg and weight lifting knowing sophomores and six freshmen. This October break. We were traveling Dame. I learned how to lose, see im travel to appear on the court. Yet proceeded to beat St. Joseph's and the season didn't start until the mid new team was much more skilled in looked impressive. The whole ex with the women's field hockey team provement, and win and acknowledge people like Kathy Dages and Debbie dle of September. We did push each dividually than our first team, and to play colleges in Syracuse, Roches accomplishment. Although we didn't ROI?o remained dedicated, and in the perience made us want to play hard other, and once we were back in the task of combining individua'l er and better, so that we could prove ter and Ithaca. We found the com accomplish everything we wanted to sprmg of 1980 women's volleyball shape, we vowed we'd stay that way. skills into a team effort was ahead. petition in the east to be fairly tough, this past year, we did improve from was declared a varsity sport as of to everyone---most importantly our Dedication was the key element that Most people have played volleyball home fans-that we really were and came out of the trip with only the year before, and each of us has the 1980-1981 academic year. Sandy kept most of us working hard over at one time and consider it an easy one win and three losses, again feel her own memories and achievements Vanslager, who had volunteered her good. the summer. We were given assigned and fun game. Yet those who watch Our chance arrived the following ing that we hadn't played up to our to look back on. Although I won't be time to help coach the club the year workouts that took about two hours competitive volleyball realize the potential. Our one win did come in back next year, I know those who before, was hired as the coach. While week on a Friday evening. We had a day. Players planning to return game involves specific skills of serv a good-sized crowd filling the pit: Rochester where the Alumni Club will be, and women's volleyball at w?~~n's basketball was moved up to ~long with the recruits, were to maii ing, passing, setting and spiking. many were football fans who had came out, in full force, to watch and Notre Dame will be something that DIvIsIOn, I status, given scholarships m weekly reports of times, number Many of us who played the first year cheer for us. Another highlight of athletes will want to be a part of, and became the number-one sport as come for the Michigan State game of skills performed, and descriptions did not possess all of these skills the next day. Many of our parents the trip was a visit to Niagara Falls. cmd Notre Dame will be proud of. 0 far as money put into the program, of our weight programs. After work and had spent much of the seaso~ After October break, we looked to volleyball was declared as Division were there, including my own who ing eight hours a day, two hours of learning them. But this year the new had never seen me play even though ward our state tournament Novem II and instantly became number two. a volleyball workout in the hot sum scholarship players came with skills ber 13-14. It was held in Valparaiso, Jan Yurgealitis is a Senior Finance The first year of varsity competi they had devoted many hours help mer was not that easy to get excited mastered in high school, while those ing me with my summer workouts. and the tournament was double elim major from RochesterJ New York. tion is tough for any sport, and our about. of us from the first-year team had ination. We went with great expec She is also a member of the womenJs thre2 wins and 19 losses proved this Also, we were playing Saint Mary's, The 1981-1982 season began very improved considerably. along with IUPUI, at Notre Dame. tations and hopes of doing well, con- varsity volleyball team. correct. Yet, the first season was one optimistically. Team members and Once the season began, all of the of achievement, both for the players recruits came back to school five hours put in seemed worth it. Our and for the team. After going days early to begin three practices first four matches were played away, through a week of tryouts, the team a day. Once school began, general and after each one we saw ourselves was picked, and three weeks of prac tryouts were held and a new team improving, as we often fought back near the base of the falls, ate lunch Notre Dame with their hockey tice began. Next, seventeen matches in the tower overlooking the falls, stick in hand. One of the greatest of which only three were at home' Field Hockey and took hundreds of pictures. That things about playing the game here ~nd a state tournament were packed is that those who do play hockey (contJd from page 9) evening, we travelled to Buffalo, mto two short months. The campus New York, where the co-captain's feel lucky to be in a Midwestern soon learned that there really was a held. We stayed in barracks and parents had hot lasagna waiting for university that offers it. The game women's volleybaU team, and at our ate in a big dining room with all the us. Our spirits were dampened when is so new to the Midwest that it last home game, we had a crowd that other teams, some traveling all the we had two games, one in the rain is exciting to meet someone who filled the pit in the ACC who had fun way from Kentucky. The weekend and mud and one in the snow, two knows about the game and who clapping, cheering and yelling as we took place early in the season and days in a row. No one seemed to shares the same love for the sport. served and spiked the ball. was. an excellent opportunity for us mind, however, even when we found The history of field hockey illus After a long and somewhat frus to begin to gel as a team both on out the showers were cold after the trates the many changes that the trating season, it was time to plan and off the field. game. We had become a much closer sport has undergone in the past. for next year. Scholarships were The most exciting trip was during team during the week, everyone un Some things never change though, given to the program, and recruiting October break when we traveled to derstanding one another a little more and I can't help thinking that those was done by Coach Vanslager.. Try upstate New York. Playing nation and just enjoying being together. prehistoric men must have felt the outs were held, and by March two ally ranked hockey teams· such as Field hockey is still considered same way I do. For as long as I've girls had been awarded scholarships Colgate and Syracuse University was· primarily an Eastern sport, prob played field hockey, I have always and four recruits planned to attend very chal1lenging, but we realized the ably because it was' first played in experienced the same challenge of Notre Dame in the fall. But the level of play that was attainable with Philadelphia and at small New competitive athletics, the same pain signing of scholarship athletes the right individual and team skills. England colleges. Most of the play during practice, the same satisfac threatened those of us planning to The trip was not all work though. ers on our team are from the East, tion after winning a close game, and play next year, even with two girls but each year more women from the same joy of celebrating a victory graduating. One of the greatest days was spent Volleyball enthusiast Jan Yurgealitis in Niagara Falls. We rode a boat other parts of the country come to with teammates and with friends. 0 18 19 SCHOLASTIC JANUARY, 1982 , ' ...... -- .

In order to study this competition made. The scalper knows that there is probably well-off; ticket prices, going on before the game, I surv:eyed aren't many tickets available and for buyers at the Inn, are a very scalpers in different places,at dIffer that people are excited about seeing insignificant percent of the to~al ent times, for all six ho~e football the game. He will then jack up the amount of money spent on the trIp. games. I found that prices often price of his tickets. Buyers come to For these reasons, the price of a g.a. ticket will be closer the ..~~I varied significantly bec~use of the such games prepared to pay high~r ~o Need Two!" different set of circumstances in prices. They, too, know supply IS scalper's maximum price, making the volved. (A few times, this empir low and demand high. Morris Inn a profitable place to sell tickets. ical research even became profitable The opposite circumstances are Green Field, on the other hand, by Philip Allen as I realized that I could buy a present for low-quality games such ticket in one spot and sell it in an as Navy; scalpers and buyers both is probably the best pla~e for a. po other for a profit;) Having done expect low ticket prices. Usually, tential buyer to find low tIcket prIces. Editors Note: Going into a pep rally Anyone who has been to a Notre this, I realized that there were two Made up of alumni who live close last semester, I felt sorry for some Dame football game will know that both buyers and sellers come to the sets of circumstances that affected game with a fixed idea of what the enough to drive to Notre ~ame f~r guy who was begging pitiably for ticket scalpers also make the pil the day, the demand for tI~kets m the prices for tickets. price of the ticket should be. ~ two tickets. I got a good ragging from grimage and are as common as pot The buyer of' tickets is obvIously the parking lot becomes a bIt more my friends when we left the rally, bellied alumni and tailgaters. Ticket scalper will tell himself that he w~ll concerned with finding out where not sell his tickets below a certam elastic. Alumni here will feel .less and the same guy was aggressively scalpers are a vital cog in the ma and when to buy tickets at the low obligated to pay exorbitant prIces, announcing that he had two tickets chinery of Notre Dame football minimum price, and a buyer will est possible price. However, the predetermine a maximum price be since this will probably not. be the for sale. This article is not 'meant games, peddling their surplus tick:ts buyer's demand is often inelastic. only game they come to thIS year. to condone or aid and abet such to those who are without. The prIce yond which he will not pa~. I ~a~l Since other people tailgating around A buyer has traveled some dista~ce the gap between the scalper s mm~ actions or any scalping activity. the scalpers charge (and the price them are in similar situations, ~ey to see a football game, and watching mum price and the buyer's maXI Philip Allen -C.W. people are wiUing to pay) is deter are not likely to bid up the askmg the game on t~levision is not usu~lIy mined by Notre Dame's opponent, mum price the "bargaining zone." an acceptable substitute for bemg The price of the ticket will fall some price for tickets. Prices will f~ll Football games at Notre Dame where the tickets are being sold, and closer to the buyer's desired level In in the stadium. where within this zone. Buyers, while still looking for tick are, to say the least, unique events. at what time the tickets are being the bargaining zone. Thus, ?reen Scalpers, who would like to sell at ets, are not yet nervous about find I doubt many other college campuses sold. The unique factors which the Whether th~ price will be closer Field is the best place to buy tIckets ing them at a good price (or finding ND environment enforces upon the high ticket. prices, also have a to the buyer's or the seller's price is have quite the respect and rever for the game. them at all). For this reason, the ence for their football teams as do price of the tickets can also cau~e slightly inelastic de~and (pressl!re, determined by whose demand is the Around the stadium the combina: price of tickets at this time flo~ts Notre Dame students and alumni. some variance in expected economIc that is, to sell their tIckets sometIme greatest. This bargaining zone may before the game starts). Most scalp tion of these two groups of alumm closer to the middle of the bargam Such a simple event as coming outcomes. The basic laws of supply shift up or down, depending. o~ who and visitors makes the com~etition back to school for a football game and demand apply, however, they ers at Notre Dame football games the opponent is. The prOXImIty to ing zone. are not professionals, and are not between buyers and sellers a bIt com Demand heats up on both sides at becomes the equivalent of making create different optimum circum the buyer's or seller's p:ice (a m?ve plex. It seems that most of the Mor a pilgrimage to the Holy ~and. stances for both buyers and sellers. at the games simply to turn a profit ment within the zone) IS determmed about an hour before the game. for the day; these scalpers will sense ris Inn crowd does not go to the .sta Scalpers are more anxious about sell by other factors, such as place and dium. until just before game tIme. a prevailing price and attempt to time. ing their tickets at some profit be Usually, the Morris Inn crowd ~l fore it gets too late. Buyers sense sell their tickets at this rate or a The three usual places where little above. They do not, however, ready has their .tickets. So whIle the coming of game· time, and want ticket exchanges occur are the Mor their ability to pay higher prices to make sure they are not crowded want to be stuck holding tickets af ris Inn the parking lots, and the ter the game has started. They raises ticket prices some, it does not out by other buyers. The scalpers, itself. While I don't . must try to sell the tickets they have stadiu~ thi~k quite reach the level !ound at the however, usually have a slightly many scalpers or buyers realIze It, Morris Inn. The alumm from Green lower demand Since they may feel at some safe time before the game, the place where the scalping takes at a reasonable price. Field help to keep the ticket price they can hold out longer. This high place can make a difference in the down, but not quite as low as the er demand on the side of the buyer . The first factor which enters into price. The reason for this. is the prices in the lot itself. Thus, the raised the price of the ti.ck~t clos~r the price of a ticket is the opponent fact that certain people consIstently stadium is a moderate area for both being played. A highly ranked op to the seller's price. ObVIOusly, thIS gather in the same place, game after buyers and sellers, with prices is the optimum selling time for ponent, or an old rival of Notre game. Older alumni, for e~ample, floating closer to the middle of the scalpers. Dame, will make the game more ex gather mainly at the MorrIS Inn. bargaining zone. citing and more desirable to s:e. They may be staying at the Inn or At game time, the desire ~f the While the place where the t~c~et Such a raised desire causes an In going there for a few drinks at ~he scalpers to sell increases drastIcally. is sold is important in det7rmI~m.g crease in demand for tickets. Of bar. Green Field, the large parkI~g Since most scalpers are also fans the price, the time at WhICh It IS course, those who may think about lot is generally occupied by taIl who are going in to see ~e ~ame, scalping may find it more valuable gating alumni and visitors, includ sold plays an even greater role. '-':'he they want to get rid of theIr tIckets three times I picked for surveymg to see the-game themselves. than to ing the younger ND crowd. These in order to get into the stadium. For scalpers were: two hours . before sell a ticket for a pr()f!t. This causes two groups combine, obviou~IY, at the good games - such as U.S.C., F.S.U. a low supply of available tickets. stadium, especially immedIately be . the game, one hour before ~e. g.ame, and L.S.U. - the supply of tickets and game time. While ,at md~vIdual This is why the. U.S.C. game, a fore game time. is low at game time, while the de times,· prices varied accordmg to mand on the buyer's side has de game against a highly ranked rival, For a scalper, the Morris Inn offers the place at which ycke~s were be creased only slightly. For this rea- commanded such a high price for the best crop of potential high-pay a g.a. ticket ($33-$55). A low-qual ing sold (as explame? m the pre . son prices decrease, but only by a ing ticket buyers. Most of the aIUl~ vious paragraphs) prIces .also var small amount. At other· games -: ity opponent, such as Navy; has the ni and visitors staying at the MorrIS opposite effect on ticket· prices. The ied among the different times. such as Navy or M.S. - demand has Inn have traveled a good distance ~o demand for Navy tickets goes down; get to South Bend. This makes theIr At two hours before the game, decreased sharply by game time and supply is only .lowered by .a The prices in this graph represent average ticket prices in differ~nt and since more people would rather demand for tickets almost complete both scalpers and buyers are so~e sm~ hav~ money than see a boring game, . amount. The ticket price WIll agaIn places, at different times, for all six home football games (I tned ly inelastic. If they need tickets for what relaxed. Two hours seems lIke supply goes up, causing a very low plenty of time to either buy or sell go down. Buyers will fin~ !he best to get the scalper to come down as far as possibl: bef?re record the game, they will. do ~lm?st any prices at game time (provIdmg sup ticket price ($13.50-$20). . thing to insure theIr trIP IS not a tickets. While scalpers don't seem ply is above zero) for eiother case. ing his price). Each entry was obtained by surveYI~g fIVe s~a!p~rs For a determined scalper, such an failure. Also the scalper is lucky to purposely withhold tickets for a at a certain place and time, adding these five entries and diViding opponent 'as U.S.C. presents an op because anyone who would travel a more profitable hour, ~ey a~e not (cont/d on page 31) that number by five. . portunity for a large profit to be long distance to see a football game overanxious to sell ImmedIately. 21 20 SCHOLASTIC JANUARY, 1982

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longed for the freedom their anger :1 would bring. She wanted to clear the air and then get on with the "Yes Ma'am" Chip said, and ran living. Two months was long off to a group of boys playing soccer enough. with an aluminum can. Mary Ann returned to her room "OK." She was going to be brave. and put the last of her belongings in Daddy called her his little trooper Getting On the suitcase. The guard's keys when she was hurt and refused to rattled again as she leaned against The Exchange cry. She walked the periphery of the the doorway, waiting. Mary Ann lot. One end of the yard was closed zippered the suitcase and took one by a decaying cinder-block wall with more look in the mirror. She. Program an aluminum shed that reeked of smoothed the pleats in her skirt. urine or something dead. Beyond the by Beth Healy How nice of her mother to buy her a chain-link fence on the adjacent side "coming out" skirt. Mom is ready for an overgrown lot gave final resting ((The son said to him) (Father) I have a new beginning also-dressing the steel drawer close. She saw that she soiled doll in new clothes. She moved by Sheila Beatty place for two battered windowless sinned against God and against yOUj car bodies and ,assorted junk: a would always remain part of the his towards the door. The adrenaline I no longer deserve to be called tory of this place. As long as her She looked out the back seat galloped, a mustang on open range, broken umbrella, a naked, idiotically your son,} The father said to his pumped through her heart and head. smiling Baby Tender Love that name remained in the drawer, she She heard it beating in her ears, "I'm window at picket fence whiting by. and stopped to snuff the air, whinny servants: (Quick! bring out the finest could never remove herself com Above, telephone wires dipped and ing high and snorting horse heavy. missed a plastic arm and most of its going home." She blew a mocking robe and put it on him j put a ring pletely from the Center, or her kiss to the tiny room saying, "Fare rose, separated, drew close, snapped She owned the wild expanse, head yellow nylon hair, retread strips, on his finger and shoes his feet. iron pipe joints and Coke, Mountain on crime. It would follow her. well forever!" and brushed past the together as a pole intervened. high and eyes wild and ears back, Take the fatted calf and kill it. Let "You may go now, Miss Turner. Sometimes summer-full oak tops ran free forever, until the recess bell Dew and Shasta Grape cans. Next to guard to the hall, her first steps to us eat and celebrate because this son Good luck." Mary Ann closed the freedom. blocked the continuity, so she would rang. it fencing guarded a bare earth yard of mine was dead and has come back where a Ibla'ck toddler tricycled office door. Her heart leapt like a climb down their venerable breadths The Impala smoothed forward to life. He was lost and is found.' puppy just freed from his leash. Yet, and play running games. She would around ,car parts, dog manure and again, passing Monte Sana Avenue's Then the celebration began.)} the sounds of her footsteps Two months earlier Mary Ann had race at 35 mph the grass strip clothesline poles. Perpendicular to as gracious lawns and comfortable Luke 16:21-24 echoed off the'walls, her fear rose entered that room, screaming and between road and sidewalk, dodging homes. She took out some loose leaf the barrier stretched the school sobbing as she hit the bed. The door buildings, where children were push again. Beyond these surroundings, trunks, post boxes, leaping cars that and penciled her best approximation Mary Ann Turner watched the had locked behind her, locking her waited at stop signs in her path. of wild horses-the Black Stallion ing inside-the bell had rung. in in the name of justice. Though Inside, as she 'sat down along a toothpaste foam swirl in the white Tiring, she put her chin on the front reared, Black Minx faced wind on a sink. She reached for a paper cup, she never denied her crime, Mary seat top, plopped elbows on either bluff regally, Flame raced out of wall in the back, some black girls Ann hated her sentence for what it side. fiHed in her area. filled it with water and swished it control-it was hard to draw with thrqugh her teeth. She spat once had done to her family; She could "Mommy, how long till we get "0000, kin I platt 'chor hayer?" such railroad track bumps. She again. There, all clean. No leftover handle her punishment, but not there?" looked up. They had descended into Once she understood, she dared theirs. They had to handle the Mommy turned down Mr. Reinke's not refuse. Tingles ran over her lunch anywhere. Her reflection in downtown Augusta. Wong's Food the mirror said, "You look tired shame, the stares and rumors. She'd morning march-to-school radio Market dilapidated on one side, some scalp as cool deft hands with dark never meant to wrong them. She'd program, and inclined her head to knuckles and pink corrugated finger there kiddo. You aren't supposed to old black man with a lost expression look tired today." Her last night at never meant to wrong anyone, it had the eleven-year-old. and grey stubble waited outside a nails gently tugged the soft length just happened. into cornrow. , the Center had been restless. She'd "'Bout twenty minutes honey." window-barred liquor store. They The party had been fun. Beer and "Leave tossed all night in the hesitancy and "Get over on your side, Sheila," passed a few houses on cinder blocks, her hair alone, Valencia. pot abounded. Her indulgence had pushed her year-younger brother. ,Class, be quiet." apprehension of today. She wanted chickens scratching underneath, more than anything to get out, to dulled her senses and reasoning. She She went back to her window. A Cadillacs gleaming in front. On one After Mrs. 'McCloud finally calmed go home. I ' ...... ~. ' hadn't even questioned her boyfriend freckled counterpart with long porch a fat black lady in pink foam the 'children, she spent the morning assigning seats, giving out books, The guard's keys rattled at the when he'd suggested they "borrow" mousy-blond hair reflected back; curlers and overstretched polyester the neighbors' stereo since they vacant blue eyes, in oval setting, bookcovers and learning her door. "Mrs. Butler wants to see you, the safeguarded Center, she re pants stood by a ripped .screen door. Miss Turner," said the face in the mained confused and unsure. were away for the weekend. He had round-ended nose, small mouth The Impala pulled into the Georgia students. emerged tentatively from whizzing At ten everyone rushed out for small wire window. Mary Ann's What would going home be like? reassured her that they'd be right Savings and Loan parking lot, across stomach fell to her toes. She'd only What would happen? Her mother, back, nibbling at her ear and pulling suburbia. There went Senator from her new school. break. Sheila went to a corner of Holley's house; Susan Warne lived the yard, where chain link met 1-..,,"., Tn ".0<> M,..~ Rllt1pr' on!,p' bp.fore, father, brother? She didn't want to her out the door into the dark down that street; the Brothertons "Well, first big day! Chip, lock the cinderblock. Looking across to the when she'd come in. She felt she was face them. For the past two weeks night's chill. and Billy Cartwright 'lived down this door. Sheila, would you carry my tricycler's yard, she heard ,a squeak bemg ev!luelIhled all over again. Her Mary Ann had planned and re The two had darted across the road. grade book and these workbooks?" at her feet. A mangy black kitten knees shook as she entered the hearsed this first reunion. She'd street to the Barders' backyard A traffic light stopped the Impala The ,gutters were littered with mewed in the sodden trash and Director's office. A bispectacled, prepared answers to their "How where they slit the back screen and in front of Saint Mary's. Her friends soggy pink sno-cone papers, empty leaves between the building and a prudish face looked up. "Miss Tur Come?"s and "How Could You?"s. unhitched the dining room window. were filling the sandy yard she once wine bottles, cigarette butts, sodden few inches of a space to the fence. ner," her croaking voice said, "these She'd built up her defense even to She remembered his kiss as he played in. Some raced up and down rags, Now-o-Later cellophane wrap She could.not reach in to help it; past months have not been easy. We the point of blaming them in part hoisted her through the opening and the big kids' slide; she had loved the pers and patches of something like it seemed stuck. Her throat hurt hope you have learned something. for her mistake. If they'd been then climbed in himself. They crept way it squashed like an aluminum wet toilet paper. A robin soared in the back, tightening mercilessly We don't wish to see you again. stricter, enforced curfews and across the room and there in the can as she laughed down. They see above, then fell, settling among until she cried. She sobbed quietly, Understood ?" screened her friends, none of it corner, spotted the stereo. Un sawed on the toys from which she pigeons picking in the trash. They hot saltiness ran down her cheeks "Yes, Mrs. Butler," she replied would have happened. She expected plugging the component, Ken had swung her legs up high and entered the driveway to young black around to the corner of her mouth rubbing her sweaty palms on her and awaited their wrath. It had grabbed the turntable and left Mary yelled, "Farmer Brown, let me down, children yelling, playing chase on the so she could taste her sorrow, down skirt. Mary Ann thought back on the been building up for two months now Ann to take the two speakers. Out and I'll give you . . . a winged asphalt lot, older ones talking in her chin, and under. lectures, workshops and counseling. and she was ready. She reasoned side they heard shouts and taunting horse, no, a faery wand, no ... groups. They walked to the grey two Her mother was coming. She "Yes ma'am. I won't be back. Ever." that once they had fought, cried and cries from their friends as engines three more wishes!" Beyond, boys story facades- dried her face on her forearm. Her. "Good," Mrs. Butler replied. She ,screamed, they would be able to start started. The two crept back to the stole a forbidden British Bulldog "There's your building, children. mother held her, and Sheila buried opened the file drawer and placed forgiving and eventually, she hoped, open window, unaware that the next 'scrimmage (teachers said it was too I'll see you here at break time, her face in the refuge's wait. Mary Ann's manila folder in among forgetting. Then she could really door neighbors had called the police rough), on the field where she had all right?" "Mom, the children!" o the others. Mary Ann watched the start again. In a large way, she to break up the party. Their buddies JANUARY, 1982 24 SCHOLASTIC 25 · - . ~ . .

think nothing's changed lady, we'll he wriggled free and grasping her then the friendship. Where were the now darted to their cars to escape days until her return. Somehow it gleaming smile as she pushed open just see. I'm going to be there now. suitcase, took her hand and led her arguments? The anger? interrogation and breathalizer tests. just never seemed right. the car door. She is waiting. Miss That'll change things, won't it? Mary up the walk. "Let's go inside." Mary Ann suddenly felt very silly, Ken climbed down first and Mary Often. Mary Ann wished they Alan seemed to read her thoughts Ann felt the blood rising in her Mary Ann walked up the sloping like a little girl receiving Christmas and announced, "-She's been waiting Ann handed out the speakers. He hated her. She wanted them to re- cheeks. You lie so, Mother, she raged. driveway half wanting the concrete presents in July. She wasn't sup- then disappeared around the corner lease their shame and lash out in for an hour and fifteen minutes." You know things have changed. She to split open and swallow her. Her posed to have all this yet. Her guilt "I am going home," the young to hide them under the front bush. anger and disappointment. She had turned to the window. brother's head bobbed just beneath flared again. "Please put me down," Suddenly she'd heard, "Hey man, imagined them abandoning her and woman sighed. "It'll be OK." "Yes, it's just the same," the smile her chin. Does he remember that she said dryly. The huge arms cut it out ... Stop, I was just. ..." kicking her out of the house. She "You sure are M.A., and it'll be said again. I never came home? she wondered. obeyed. She stood there gazing at great. Now take it easy and don't She craned her neck out the window Vlould have done it herself. After all, Passing the supermarket, Mary Does he know what happened? Of them like they were three outer- worry. You are one lucky girl." to hear and was instantly blinded she deserved it. "I guess my due time Ann began to recognize the neigh- course he does, it was in the paper. space creatures she'd never even Mary Ann turned to give Miss by the crude light which now will come," she'd said to herself, like borhood. A new pizza restaurant Did his friends tease him about his imagined existed. The silence Alan a quick hug. Strong hands focused on her face. She was caught. a rabbit waiting to be hunted down stood on the corner, probably where criminal sister? How had he ex- thickened. pushed her back as if to say, "Get "Stop right there, young lady. You're by the pack. the gang hung out now. The plained her mistake? It didn't seem "I've prepared your favorite along now." Mary Ann grasped her coming with me." "Ken," she'd Jonhan's place was up for sale and to matter much to him now. He dinner, Mary Ann. Steaks, baked suitcase and turned in a trot to her !I pleaded. Her only reply was the Mary Ann turned the hall corner a few new cars lined the driveways. seemed happy and yet Mary Ann potatoes, salad and lemon pie, dear." waiting mother. Knowing Miss Alan " following two-month nightmare. and moved from her confinement. As her mother pulled to a halt at could not really see why. Her mother's words cut the quiet. She realized, as she passed the dining stood there watching, she turned :1 Mary Ann was driven to the sta- the stoplight, Mary Ann saw home. She pulled her hand from his as "If you want; I'll take you to your and waved. "Thank you and I'll see tion and booked for breaking and room and workshop areas, that she The modest two-story house they neared the front door. Don't new room," suggested Timmy. "We I was also moving towards reestablish- you on Thursday. Your office. It's i:!' entering and burglary. Her parents crowned a small hill. The grass was patronize me, she thought angrily. redecorated the whole thing. Hope going to be alright, I promise." had shown up an hour later expect- ing the justice she owed her parents. neatly mowed and tulips bloomed I'm sure you don't even want to you like pink and green." :1 Nearing the car, she stopped. " ing to find some mistake and raving At last she felt she would receive her around the maples. Although the touch me. She stared at him, search- Mary Ann blinked unresponsively. Ii Her mother moved from the front about their good daughter. When punishment, for she would no paint seemed faded and the basket- ing for his hatred. Timmy responded Timmy grabbed her hand and began they realized there was no mistake longer be protected by the Center's of the vehicle to welcome her. Mary ball net hung in shreds over the by opening the door for her and to lead her up the stairs. She said Ann saw two months of pain and that even good girls steal walls. Then she would really be free. garage, it all !looked so clean, the smiling. nothing, looking over her shoulder in brimming in her eyes. Or was it joy? stereos, she remembered how their windows shimmering in the spring Mary Ann stepped through the total disbelief. Her mother shrugged She COUldn't tell the difference, just eyes pierced her in disbelief and sun. "Wow," she sighed. "It looks doorwa.y. Her father's huge form and turned to the kitchen. Her their heads shook with shame. Mary wished it would go away. Her so nice." filled the hall. He stepped from the father's eyes climbed the stairs i! mother had greyed. Has it been that Ann was tried, found guilty and She'd never meant to wrong, The engine silenced in the drive- shadows into the muted sunlight of behind them. They are trying to sentenced to two months at the long and hard, she wondered? Em- way. "Shall we go in?" the smile the living room. Mary Ann felt confuse me, she thought. them. She'd never meant to bracing her daughter she cried, Cleveland Juvenile Detention Center. asked. extremely small and weak. Her eyes Timmy flung open the bedroom wrong anyone, it had just "Welcome home. I'm so glad to see She remembered the judge, a stern, Mary Ann looked at the front door fell to the floor as she mumbled door, singing "TA DA. How do you you." Mary Ann shivered beneath balding man, who pronounced her happened. with apprehension. "I guess so," she meekly, "Hello, Daddy." like it?" The setting sun played her touch. , She'd forgotten how in- sentence and then mumbled some- chuckled, trying to act natural. "I "Hello, Mary Ann," his bass voice across the fields of pink and green credibly soft, like rose petals, her thing about "spoiled brats" that don't want to stay cooped up in this resounded. She felt him near and wildflowers that papered the walls. I' mother's skin was and how sweet II insist on stealing. He too had shaken Heading for the door, she walked car for the rest of my days." soon his shoe tips squared off against A carpet of sea-foam green lay at II his head saying, "You've got a tough she smelled. "Hi, Mom," she said her feet. So nothing has changed, 'I through a tunnel, leaving her past "No, I'd say you've been cooped lesson to learn, young lady." timidly. "It's good to see you too." huh? i. behind in the darkness. Miss Alan, She pulled away from the embrace up long enough now, don't you' l At the Center she had served her her probation officer, met her at the and looking to the car asked, "Could think?" her mother answered, open- "Timmy, could I be alone for a bit II Everything was out 'of order. I r time, undergoing workshops, re- end of the hall. After signing the we please get out of here?" ing the door and getting out. before dinner?" I habilitation lectures and counseling. release documents, the two of them As they pulled from the parking Mary Ann shot her a hot, indig- First came the fight, then the He looked at her, not sure she was She had limitedly continued her passed through the glass doorway, nant glare. It's true. You do hate serious. "But you've been alone so Ii studies and hoped to graduate from lot, Mary Ann looked over at her friendship. Where were the outside where Miss Alan had asked mother. She wore an almost silly me. Why even let me come home? long," she heard his eyes say. He Westbridge High in December. Her her mother to wait. Leave me there then. I know I've arguments? The Anger? then answered, "OK, if you want. parents had often come to visit her smile, like a girl that just got kissed I The afternoon sun warmed Mary in the schoolyard. She didn't say caused you shame. Don't take me ... See you soon?" She nodded. till during the period. They never ~ll Ann's cheeks. What a gorgeous day anything and kept her eyes fixed on back. Her head spun in anguished Mary Ann moved to the ruffled brought anger or disappointment, to be going home. She descended .: the- road. Mary Ann imagined her a confusion. The hour of confrontation hers in the limited space of her bed and flopped face down on the ii although their disbelief still radiated the stairs deliberately' as if trying approached. She wished she could coverlet. She lay there for a long 11 china doll, painted with,a silly smile vision. Two thick hands slipped from their eyes. Sometimes Mary to feel the hard stone through her (I and posed behind the wheel. She shrivel up and never have to face under her armpits and she felt his time, trying to sort out her con- ~ : Ann wondered if they even realized shoe soles. She descended to free- remembered the last time she'd been them again. muscles flex as he lifted her up fusion. Nothing has changed? that it was their daughter confined in dom and the March wind greeted ~I in a car. The beer-bellied cop had Mary Ann started as the car door against his wide chest. "It's wonder- Everything has changed. My room. the two-story building. They often her, brushing the hair from her worn a similar smile and had said opened. "Hey, sis, it's great to see ful to have you home, daughter," he My house. My family. They have all ~I seemed to look at her as if she was shoulders. As the door closed behind ~. nothing. At least this car was not you," a young voice said. An arm said tenderly. "We've missed you." changed. Why aren't they like I someone they'd met in the super- them, Miss Alan's hand squeezed her separated by a grill and a .CB didn't reached around her neck and two Mary Ann felt her heart beating in expected them? They aren't even market and not their own flesh and shoulder. "Well, lady, this is it. !I blare signals like fogh9fns in the moist lips touched her cheek. her throat and she reached her arms yelling yet. Let's fight. Let's get it blood. They'd talk of such trivial, You ready?" . silence. Mary Ann's eyes turned also "You look good, Mary Ann. Were around his barrel-shaped torso. "Oh, over with. Why don't they? A knock normal things - the thawing spring, "I guess so," Mary Ann replied. they good to you there?" She glarea interrupted her thoughts. "Come in," her brother's basketball team. Such to the road. I missed you too." "I couldn't have picked a more at the twelve-year old. "What did she responded, flipping over onto her conversation seemed to her so ab- "Hey, Mom, hoW'S everything at His beard itched her cheek though beautiful day to do it." She smiled you expect," she wanted to shout. back. Her father entered. normal and unreal in that place. up at the brilliant lemon in the sky. home?" she asked, just as she'd asked she dared not move. He just held every other time they'd visited. "I wasn't in any concentration her there almost determined never to "Mary Ann, are you about ready Mary Ann imagined the horrors of How many times she'd gazed out the camp, dummy." He just stood there, to eat?" he asked hesitantly. He admitting to family and friends that small window of her room, longing "Just fine, dear," the smile replied. let her go again. Her mother's thin, smiling hesitantly. soft hand reached up and touched shuffled across the sea-foam green their daughter was indeed serving to feel the sunshine or taste the rain. "Just as you left us. Nothing has Mary Ann cleared her throat her arm. Glancing over her father's towards her bed. Silence bounced time, was indeed a thief. She'd often Even in her most fanciful moments, changed at all. We're so glad you're nervously. "Hey, Timmy, how are shoulder, she saw Timmy by the off the wildflower walls. seen her grandmother's face as she she'd never imagined the day to be coming home." you ?', She got out and hugged her door, smiling. She felt limp. She'd listened. Yet her parents remained so clear and bright, to smell so clean. What do you mean nothing has "We are so pleased to have you brother. She hung onto him as if supportive and never shared these Across the asphalt parking lot a changed since I left? Do you think lost control. The hardened front finally home," he stammered search- trying to squeeze all the innocence horrors. Perhaps they figured she horn trumpeted as if to signal I'd believe you've carried on just she'd spent so long trying to build up ing for the right words. had enough pain and felt they could victory. Through the tinted wind- like before, what with your daughter and love out. "It's nice to be home," melted around her. Everything was only remain faithful and count the shield Mary Ann saw her mother'S sitting in a prison? Well, if you she whispered. After a few seconds out of order. First came the fight, (cont'd on page 31) JANUARY, 1982 26 SCHOLASTIC 27

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i .' . Poetry ;,!.'·I ,r , I . The premature May morning, I! speckled with secret charms flickers softly. ' Discoveries are found in misty shadows. Familiar shades dimly penetrate dense fog. With nowhere to land, misplaced Worn bike rubber knew,this road. songs of delight echo in the Scuffed Keds, tired Peters,plans___ . stillness. for forts Streetlight's glow fades into the sighed atop those crunching leaves. black walls of dawn. My heart was stitched to a purple D;:tds puffed home: the pedestrian Eruptive is the aviary of morn. haze, . . sole lq1ew each. speckled slope. the tailors said I used the wrong ./ The Dead End sign a welcome The dawn of understanding / diamond, ' . thread. • ' / materializes as the morning. So I chiseled a laugh from pink whispered of warm kitchens Awakened knowledge perceives marble, only to us. the distinctions. framed it in gold. A happy bubble, burst now, Simplicity uncovers ambiguities because my car won't fit in the I The sculptors sneered that the that obstruct one's path. marble was flawed, last driveway i I To erase unwarranted ill desires. I,! the gold impure.. on the left. To elucidate unknown destinations. My love wound sharps, and flats Selfish thoughts impudently force I around my greying hairs, ...... ' opinion into the mind's dis .too much vIbrato, cut the singers. course. So my soul cried itself in watercolors' Then unique colors and impres- never for the painters to see. . sions unite. . . by U:athleen Johannsen Anxious stillness becomes expectant repose. by Mary Frances DeCelles

Passage Through Hell You fal~ through a maze of half recognized fears constructed in childhood's mind half-formed sentinals with bloodied visages. Demented features, bodiless, chase you down fiery corridors while hideous gargoyles snicker. Ahead distortions weave in the bloody glare, Hunched over his dirty, oid sneakers grotesque yet somehow familiar a little boy crouches. ' you reach for them and feel only the burning of your skin. They are. the results of long hours Omnipresent figures with eyes of of joyful play in mud and dirt. fire . dance among the hungry flames His bright, eager. eyes look out of his grubby face with sheer shrieking, laughing determination. and beckoning; they begin to circle, enclosing, His chubby little fingers are inadequate. in his struggle. you strike out at the smirking He appears to have too many; glossy faces. Turning to run you see mirrors They stumble over each other; Long laces tangle his efforts. the red reflections, and hear the gargoyles laugh But he doesn't mind aU that much. as you sink into the fiery pit, He hums a simple tune of his own while his fingers slowly work: God cries. by Kathleen Johannsen Something made-up; Something his own. by Mary Frances DeCelles

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! i .' . Poetry ;,!.'·I ,r , I . The premature May morning, I! speckled with secret charms flickers softly. ' Discoveries are found in misty shadows. Familiar shades dimly penetrate dense fog. With nowhere to land, misplaced Worn bike rubber knew,this road. songs of delight echo in the Scuffed Keds, tired Peters,plans___ . stillness. for forts Streetlight's glow fades into the sighed atop those crunching leaves. black walls of dawn. My heart was stitched to a purple D;:tds puffed home: the pedestrian Eruptive is the aviary of morn. haze, . . sole lq1ew each. speckled slope. the tailors said I used the wrong ./ The Dead End sign a welcome The dawn of understanding / diamond, ' . thread. • ' / materializes as the morning. So I chiseled a laugh from pink whispered of warm kitchens Awakened knowledge perceives marble, only to us. the distinctions. framed it in gold. A happy bubble, burst now, Simplicity uncovers ambiguities because my car won't fit in the I The sculptors sneered that the that obstruct one's path. marble was flawed, last driveway i I To erase unwarranted ill desires. I,! the gold impure.. on the left. To elucidate unknown destinations. My love wound sharps, and flats Selfish thoughts impudently force I around my greying hairs, ...... ' opinion into the mind's dis .too much vIbrato, cut the singers. course. So my soul cried itself in watercolors' Then unique colors and impres- never for the painters to see. . sions unite. . . by U:athleen Johannsen Anxious stillness becomes expectant repose. by Mary Frances DeCelles

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during the course of a season. But Getting On (Continued) the most important thing is that I MaryAnn said nothing. She' .. ' had fun and in a nutshell that is Cu/ture Update 'looked into his eyes, something she what it is all about. A long time · had feared doing since her arrival. from now I will not remember the The setting sun played in his salt- ·as the mem losing season as much MUSIC ... lectures at the Snite · and-pepper beard and softened the ories the season gave me, and for those memories, I can always be . at Notre Dame wrinkles of his forehead. She Feb. 3 - Stephen B. Spiro, Curotor, Snite · focused. There was no longer any thankful. Museum of Art- "On Collecting Feb. 22 -Elsa Charleston, soprano - 8: 15 Prints and Drawings - 8 p.m. • disbelief or disappointment in his I guess that here at Notre Dame, p.m. - Annenberg Auditorium we can also be thankful that our Annenberg Auditorium ,eyes. His head no longer shook in $2.00 anger and shame. No, the wrinkles athletes can walk off the field and Feb. 9 - Dr. Dean A. Porter - "English Feb. 16 -Irene Schneidemonn, pianist- Gothic Art ond Architecture: around his features revealed years become students in every sense of 8: 15 p.m. - Annenberg Audi the word. With this in mind, we can Bishop John Grandisson of Exeter" of laughter. torium - $2.00 -12:15 p.m.-Annenberg · He sat at the edge of the bed and hear what coach Bobby Bowden of Auditorium Florida State said about his star played with the dust ruffle. "Mary linebacker Reggie Herring - "He ART Feb. 17 -Mr. Jack Sewell, Curotor, Orientol : Ann, it's been along time coming, Art, Art Institute of Chicogo your freedom. You know, you are doesn't know the meaning of the . at the Snite Museum of Art "Sculptural Monuments of India word fear. In fact, I just saw his and Southeast Asia" - 8 p.m. ; not only free from the Center. You grades and he doesn't know the Until April 11 - Recent Accessions: Drawings Annenberg Auditorium · are our good daughter." and Prints - Print, Drawing, , She sat up and he stretched his meaning of a lot of words." At and Photography Gallery Notre Dame our players are able to 'hand to her: Mary Ann stared dis compete on the ·field and in the class Until April 4 - Aaron Siskind's Harlem Docu THEATRE 'believingly at the long, strong ment - O'Shaughnessy Gal • fingers. This is not a fist. There will room. That is one aspect in college leries athletics which often gets over Feb. 12, 13 - A New Play - Directed by: , be no fight. She grabbed his hand Anne Patterson - 8 p.m. · and squeezed it tightly. Looking at looked, but regardless of a winning Feb. 7-March 21 -George Tisten: One Man Sainit Mary's Campus - $1.00 Exhibition - O'Shaugh. · him, she felt 'her own piercing gaze or losing season, it prevails here at nessy Galleries Notre Dame. Feb. 18, 19 - Duel of Angels - by: Jean : inelt~Freedom.had come,they had Giraudoux - Directed by: , all paid. Getting on began noyv'. , Finally, I would like to repeat Feb. 14·April 14 - Harmsen's Collection of Reginald Bain - 8 p.m. Navajo Weavings O'laughlin Auditorium-$1.00 "Yes, DaddY,I'mready for dinner.: what Lee Corso, Indiana football O'Shaughnessy Galleries coach, said explaining why U.S.C. .,It's been long enough." . was on the Hoosier schedule-"When (gallery hours:T.F, 10·4 p.m.; 5·5, 1·4 p.m.; MaryAnn Turner p.ad come home... : Closed M) i:i I took this job, I promised our fans ::'.' , ..... ::~ ,-.-! ~ . . .• __ .... __ .. OJ I'd show them a Rose Bowl team." ... at the Isis Gallery Well, this year Faust showed us a Scalping (Continued) Bluebonnet Bowl team (Michigan), Feb. 1·19 - New West Show ;'-: Beca:use of the·na.tureo! Notre-: a Libevty Bowl team (Navy), and a (gallery hours, M·F, 10·4 p.m.; Closed 5-5) , 1982, here we come! ,Dame fans, some· of my .projected i Fiesta Bowl team (Penn State/ ... at Saint Mary's i outc.omes did.not cQme to pass. When! board and most Irish supporters and disappointing. I really felt bad U.S.C.), all in one season. But I ! ND began to lose games, I thqught i better stop kidding around, or I am Jan. 29·Feb. 24 -Marilyn Bock·Tobolski I were shaking their heads. But the for the seniors. We wanted to go out Paintings - Hammes ! the demand' for tickets would de-: i Irish sprung hope into the hearts of and assure them a winning season." going to be embarrassed when Gallery ! .crease quite" a bit. Since· we '. were: its fans. On the very next set of As a senior, I will have to admit Gerry Faust shows us a National i. ranked #1, I felt those'· first few: Championship Team here at Notre Jan. ,29·Feb. 24 -Hick's Etch Print Ehibition downs the Kiel-Howard connection that I too was also a little disap - Moreau Gallery !losses to Michigan/and Purdue would: ,I, again went to work, -this time a 40- pointed. At the start of the season, Dame in the next few years-if not , be enough to make some alumni lose: next year. 0 (gallery hours: M·F, 9:30.12, 1.3; Sun., 1.3; yard pass play to the Penn State 2. expectations mounted, hopes flew Closed Sat.) . : interest This,. however, did. not. Two plays later, Phil Carter ran it in high and visions of victory molded. ; happen. While there were some vis~: , iI , i and tied the score. In the third quar At the end of the season these hopes 'ible signs of displeasure (Oust Faust; ter N.D. took the lead for the first were. gone. Granted, victory will ; buttons,etc.) most alumni stood be~; by Sven Johnson time in the game, capitalizing on a come, but unfortunately it will not Frods : hind. their team;' This 'kept the d~.: key interception by Bob Crable. For be a part of our senior year. Yet, Imand for .the· less exCiting games 1 most of us, N.D. had clinched the win what really touched me was what ! I almost up to . normal. "Thus, ticket; and were on their way. That is what Faust said at the end of the season, f prices : generally remained., at "nor-- 'I probably made it so disappointing something that we as fans should HERE COt/E~ W ~~6UJIl F~oM HE~ DdDfS! \JHAT'~ HIJ1fE1fjJ'? [ mal". levels. .' .,. ...•.. ;! SoIlTt! COIlE 'AcRosS My nOKe r",hJRR when Penn State scored in the fourth all subscribe to, " ... We'll be back. DA I'OAL. DA OIJE IJITIj f . Alumni also are in thehabitbI 1>1\ LMO FAtK·j'OUL t1~I( COM/AI -so~iJl)S r FLO'iO, afflrL~~ I /YtRl.fAlfrNl? quarter, covering 82 yards in 9 plays Notre Dame is bigger than any Off~ I)A RADIO. • selective pricing. . In'" other' words, to achieve the final victory 24-21. losing season." : tickets sold to s:tudents and those The loss hit hard and left many of I guess we can say the same for 'sporting Notre Dame embossed us shocked. us. We will be back. But this i clothing are usually priced lower, In the last game of the year, the time it will be with checkered pants, : than for a person carrying aU.S.C. Irish traveled to Miami where they 20 extra pounds, and an armload of 'banner. Most alumni would. rather were literally outplayed in every T-shirts from the bookstore. It is sad ; have. fellow l'fD fans have their aspect of the game. In the end Miami to think that this time in our lives tickets even, if the "enemy's". fan beat Notre Dame, only the second we will never recapture. It is a thrill is willing to pay more, time in 14 tries, 37-15. A couple of to -sit in the student section and root i' .". " '. ; the bright spots for the Irish were for one of America's foremost foot : Philip Allen is frorn Chicago. After Greg Bell's 98-yard kickoff return. ball teams. Despite the losing season, Senior ALPP major Mike Dorociak) : sU1'Viving thegrueZing footwm'kin and Joe Howard's 5 pass receptions I will have to admit that I rooted coming off a four-year retirement as : volvedin this research) he has re:' for 77 yards. In fact, as Blair Kiel just as hard, applauded just as loudly, a staff sportswriter) received im · turned for; the second seinester of remarked, 'The game typified our and complained just as much as any portant editorial aid from St. Mary)s i his freshman year . . This is his first season. It was up and down, steady average Notre Dame student will senior Shaun Gallagher. fJ1 i_co'lJ,tribution. to. S.cholastic .. 0 .•...

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-The Last Word------Seven Special Ni~hts To Spend With Friends by Chuck Wood choose, but the structure of the stadium he will request At Steak And Ale! is certain. To suit Falwell's tastes, there will be one section of the stadium where the seats are higher than anyone else's. The people who sit in these seats, Monday: 7 PM-Closing Falwell among them, will decide everything about Pitchers only $2.00. Shots $1.00. Hotdogs $.50 And now, the people who brought you Battle ot the the game. Daytime Drama All-Stars, NFL Superstar Bowling, With the same amount of good intention as Kung, Tuesday: A Mexican Fiesta With and Mud Miniature Golt with Dan Rather and the Falwell will take the opposite approach to the game Nachos. Margaritas. pitchers. entire staff of the CBS Evening News introduce a new as does the ecumenical theologian. With Falwell's Mexican Hotdogs. Chips & advance in -television Sports Events: The Celebrity system, the people in the high seats will referee Salsa Cruda Theologians' Tour. the game from where they sit. But their influence is Wednesday: Two For One Each week, a well known theologian will appear on to go beyond the game itself. They will also tell the All Night Long coaches how to run their practices and sports camps. the show. To make this idea work as a sporting event, Thursday: Ladies Night the producers of the show will have each theologian And this group of "High Seaters" will also be able to demonstrate how their system of belief can be trans tell the other fans how they should behave - before, Friday: 10:00 P.M. -1 :00 A.M. lated to the world of athletic competition. Then there during, and after the game. Two For One will follow a demonstration of how well the system There will be no polls or surveys in Falwell's game Saturday: 10:00 P.M. - 1 :00 A.M. would work in the real world, as members of a care because he assumes that most people agree with his Two For One fully selected professional or college team, a new one ideas. So the conservative leader feels he is simply Sunday: Lounge & Dining Room each week, try their game with the new rules. forcing people to do what they would want to do The. best way to guard Two For One or Mix and Match anyway. against breast cancer is Two of the more important stops on the tour will right in your hands. It's AllDay be the Phil Donahue Show and the University of Notre Mr. Falwell hopes the sports demonstration will be called breast self-exam Lounge Hours Dame. And one of the first participants in the tour a success to show that his real ideas will not result ination. Ask your doctor to is expected to be Fr. Hans Kung, since he is sure to in moral and political tyranny but in a Nice New World. teach you how to do it. Monday - Thursday -11 :30 - midnight enjoy a "home court advantage" at the above two stops. Fr. Kung has said ,that he will never forget the And while you're at it, ask Friday -11 :30 - 1 A.M. With the help of the Notre Dame footbaU team, network because it has enough courage to invite him. him about mammography Saturday-12:00.- 1 A.M. - a low dose breast x-ray. Sunday-4:00 - 10:00 P.M. Fr. Kung will show how easily many of his concepts A network official has stated privately that most of For more informa for reform of the Roman Catholic Church would what the network has is, CIa good sense of what makes tion, call your local 52554 U.s. 31 North 277-3766 transfer to the gridiron. This demonstration is likely to for great publicity." ACS office. be very costly, as the network will have to construct Other network officials are hoping that after the· ~ a reasonable facsimile of the Notre Dame stadium, fanfare of Kung's and Falwell's appearances, some American 1! with one major difference: ,the seats in the new theologians or religious leaders with more moderate sCancer Society I' stadium will be entirely on one level. Such a structure and sensible ideas for change will want to join the tour. will insure that everyone will literally be on equal These officials note that both Falwell and Kung speak This space contributed as a public service. Ii ground. of the need for personal relationships with God. And In a similar move, Fr. Kung will rid the game of the two men come at this idea from such the hierarchy of referees and officials; men who have opposite directions: Kung wanting to level hierarchy ~ir ~ Ii which he feels is unjust, too rigid, and legalistic, while l\icbnrb' II held these positions will share responsibilities with I ~ those who have only theorized about the rules of foot Falwell calls fOr constructing a rigid moral code " Hair Designs ball. Perhaps the most innovative aspect of this new through the legal system. brand of football will be the way the crowd participates Producers of the tour noted in private that they BIG C LUMBER were not sure how either system, when applied to rii i in the game. For even though the former officials athletics, would enhance the personal relationships of and the football theorists can talk about what the Your Complete violations are and what the penalties may be, they spectators to the sporting events; how well this reflects 417 Dixieway North have to take a poll of the crowd before a decision is each system's value to the real world is up to viewers HOME IMPROVEMENT CENTER made. In fact, the ultimate form of the game will en to decide. However, the producers are sure that both 1/2 mile north of tail a survey of the spectators to find out what they shows will attract huge crowds, because of the ex • Paneling • Paint think should and should not be considered violations tremism and keen sense of how to play up to an campus - Across audience that both of the stars share. • Lumber • Tools in the first place. from Wendy's Fr. Kung is expected to point out the close parallels And that's all the sports. news for tonig~~. 0 • Wallpaper • Shelvil1g in the area of penalties between his old spiritual stance and his new athletic one. For instance, pre • Shelf Brackets • Hardware marital sex goes along with stepping out of bounds. • Stain • Electrical Products Girls and Guys Abortion and the use of contraceptives are similar to .~ offensive interference. And many other practices which 1 Over 5000 Items in Stock surveys show many Catholics condone or are simply Delivery Service Availa.ble indifferent to, fall under the general category of 277·0734 illegal procedure in sports parlance. Fr. Kung hopes that -the football demonstration Walk-in or call for will be a success to show that his real reforms will not an appointment result in moral and ecclesial chaos but in a Brave BIG CLUMBER New Church. 125 DIXIEWAY l'iORTII-ROSELAND Rumor has' it that the Reverend Jerry Falwell will (Business 31 North) Just north of the campus be the second person to go on the tour. No one is PIIONE 272.6500 sure which sport the leader of ,the Moral Majority will ~----~--*---~----+--~I~ 32 SCHOLASTIC . . \