server mary's Vol. X. No.26 university of notre dame - st. college Monday, October 8, 1975 Reaction to Burtchaell report Affirmative Action stirs dissent by Maureen Flynn distribution of women and ethnic minorities fellowships," Stewart commented, "Is not·~· St-nior Staff Reporter across institutions and not merely with the necessarily an improvement if you treat ':i aggregate success of job search activities." Notre Dame's own experience with the Afro- f'aculty members reacted this weekend to "If persuasive lobbyists were able to American Fellowship Programs as relevant ~ If[ University Provost Fr. James T. Burt­ convince policy makers to liik at relatively data." chaell's testimony before the Department of meaningless aggregate figures," Stewart . "Monetary commitments," Stewart Labor Fact-Finding Hearing on Contract stated, "then those institutions with a continued, "will not produce results in the .., · Compliance by Institutions of Higher smaller degree of 'social responsibility' absence of strong supporting activities from ' Education. would be able to shift compliance costs to within the institution." In his testimony Wednesday, Burtchaell the socially responsible." "Again," Stewart said, "the socially criticized affirmative action procedures for Stewart added, "It is not clear as to who is unresponsible would be able to shift training the hiring of women and minorities as often to be included in the category 'available' costs to the socially responsible by main­ unreasonable. women and members of minority groups." taining an environment where racist and Citing a recent Carnegie Council study, He noted that a currently employed in­ sexist activities continue discouraging Burtchaell said "there is no significant dividual is not necessarily unavailable. "If potential matriculants." supply of qualified women or ethnic any of the 'employed' minorities and women The reporting procedures of the Af­ minorities unsuccessfully seeking ap­ are in fact 'underemployed' in their current firmative Action Program, Stewart noted, pointments at cqlleges and universities." positions," Stewart stated, "the content of "serve to ferret out conditions .. At present," Burtchaell stated, "we do 'available' is also questionnable." which ... produce a revolving door syndrome, not have a problem of equal employment In his testimony at the hearing Wed­ whether these conditions eminate from . opportunity so much as one of availability." nesday, Burtchaell urged the federal entry level barriers or from more indirect · Mislt-ading Ht-ports government to "put its dollars where its means of discouraging lengthy associations executive orders are" by funding special with particular institutions ... " In a letter addressed to Burtchaell, fellowships, restricted to women and As examples, Stewart cited "strategies Professor .James B. Stewart, director of the minorities, on the undergraduate and like delay, which would allow the adept Black Studies Program, noted that "a graduate levels. Administrator to show significant recruiting central concern of Affirmative Action if the "Government provisioning of activity without actual hiring." The can­ didate. Stewart said, "would be forced to accept offers from institutions which Four students named process applications more rapidly." Visiting professorships and one year contracts encourate turn-over of women and Council sets members minority faculty members, Stewart noted._ Women Faculty at Universities by John Chestnut matters relating to academics at Notre Staff Ht-porter Dame and is the final interpretor of all academic decisions." said Gassman, Professor Carole Moore, chairperson of a~.III!IM•,...-• Academic Commissioner. faculty committee on women's affairs, also The Screening Committee for the The Council meets at least once a semes­ named turn-over among women and Burtchaell Academic Council appointed four new ter in a closed session chaired by Fr. minorities as a major problem. Moore, who Hesburgh, president of the University .. At heads the committee of the American "but it's not just the money. Why should a members for the 1975-76 academic year, last woman stay where every day is an uphill Friday. thesesessions an agenda is brought forth, Association of University Professors discusses and voted upon. Decisions <AAUPl, noted that the number of female battle to justify her existence as an The new members are, Joseph Fiorella, a educated woman?" junior, College of Arts and Letters, Robert required simple majority vote, and faculty members at Notre Dame has Panof£. a junior, College of Science, and Bill .Hesburgh has the power to veto. A petition dropped for the past two years. "A woman is more likely to go to a larger Bula. a senior. College of Engineering. of 10 members is needed to be placed a topic "We have more women in the tenure urban campus, where she can find more l<:ach college selected three candidates the on the agenda. track," Moore stated, "but we have fewer em_otional and professional support," Moore sat d. from the applications received. Each This year. according to the academic warm bodies in the classroom, serving as candidate was interviewed by the Academic commissioner, the Council will discuss role models." "Notre Dame must create a more sup­ Council's Screening Committee composed student representation to the council. At The comparatively low salary scale at portive atmosphere of acceptance and of Fr. Lawley, Ed Byrne, Stan Cardenas, , present there are only seven students on the Notre Dame is partly to blame, Moore said, (continued on page 3) Wendy Duffy, Auggie Grace, and Mike council of 70. (;assman. The Academic Council will Other topics to be discussed are the honor ('onvcne for its first meeting of the year code, the student-teacher ratio in the sonw tinll' this month. College of . Business Administration, Hesburgh seeks amnesty The Council is made up of 70 members academic credit for participation in including the University's president, vice­ publications and radio stations, and the prl'sident. provost, and assistant provost, sophomore curriculum in the College of study for Rights Center nwmhers of the faculty, department heads, Science. by Hobert Jacques ts located on the campus in the Law and seven members of the student body. In previous uears the council has dealt !-.'taff Heporter Four undergraduated, the academic with topics ranging from the academic Building. Donald Kommers, newly appoint­ commissioner, and representatives from ealender to the tenure of teachers. Last l'd director of the Center, said he would year the Council was instrumental in The amnesty study which Fr. Theodore welcome such a study. He stated, "It would the Graduate, Law and MBA schools make add an international dimension and human up the student representation. returning the University to a post-Labor M. Hesburgh, University president, "'The Academic Council is a strong voice Day opening date, increasing the flexibility recently called for <Observer, Sept. 22) is focus outside of the U.S. beyond civil rights in the academic lives of the students here at in the freshman curriculum, and benefits still not definite. concern for ethnic minorities in this Notre Dame. The Council deals with all for part -time faculty. According to Hesburgh who will travel to country." Washington, D.C. next week, the He added that, even though the study and documents and papers from the recently its nature are still indefinite at this time, dissolved amnesty board, upon which the study would be placed on the agenda for Hesburgh served, along with funding from the board meeting this Thursday and given CIA death plots exposed the Ford Foundation will probably be 'consideration. granted to Notre Dame. Once the more that 1,000,000 pages of The study will be conducted under the papers are received, they will be auspices of the Center for Civil Rights which microfilmed, organized, and indexed in a WASHINGTON (AP> -There were both Pike, who heads the House Intelligence computer retriever. This will be done under plots and attempts to kill Cuban Premier committee, had noted that the CIA erred in the direction of Bill Balentine, an in­ Fidel Castro by the Central Intelligence its prediction there would be no Middle East formation analyst for the Center. Agency over the span of three presidencies, war in 1973. The process by which this task will be the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Colby responded that the agency did make accomplished was developed at the Center committee said Sunday. a mistake in that case, but noted that the for Civil Rights to handle the 1,000,ooopages Appearing on ABC's "Issues and An­ CIA doesn't operate a crystal ball. of documents which Hesburgh accumulated swers," Sen. Framk Church, <D-Idahol, Colby called for responsibility in the in­ during his seventeen-year association with said the plots and actual attempts on Castro vestigations of the CIA, saying that there the US Commission on Civil Rights. stretched from the administration of Dwight must be a decision "between sensation and Hesburgh donated his papers to the Center Eisenhower through that of Lyndon B. safety, between publicity and_protection." when he left the board. Johnson, including President John F. The system is called "Civil Rights Int­ Kennedy. But Church said his committee Asked about covert operations on his eractive Specification .Information has no hard evidence that the three broadcast appearance, Colby said the System"< CRISIS l. Its development started presidents were aware of the attempts. agency is in complaince with the law passes in 1974 when funds were donated by the CBS Earlier, CIA Director William. E. Colby last year requiring that actions beyond Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the said that when Rep. Otis Pike, <0-N.Y.,l latter also bequeath in the establishing grant intelligence gathering be approved by the to the Center in 1973. challenged the agency to cite one time it had president and reported to six congressional CRISIS allows a researcher to determine warned the nation of possible attack, he had committees. through a terminal, which works on the forgotten the Cuban Missile crisis.