Alumni Association Begins Hall Visitation Arms Chief Takes Strategic Stand

• • • Holography- page 5 VOL XVII, NO. 78 the indepentknt student nt.·wspapt.·r st·n ing notre damt.· and saint mary's THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1983 Alumni Association begins hall visitation By CECILIA LUCERO Association, she said. This will allow Staff Reporter the association ro develop more programs in local clubs to benefit Fostering student awareness of students now and after graduation. scholarship aid and eliciting student The summer job placement response to the long-awaited PACE program is one of these projects. repert comprise this year's focus of Truesdell describes this year's the Alumm Association's annual Hall emphasis on scholarship aid oppor Visitation Program. according to tunities as "an important Tim Truesdell, assistant director of goal ...something very.tangible." the Alumni Association. The 167local alumni clubs across Nineteen current members of the the country and worldwide have Alumni Association board. along stressed scholarship aid as one of with ftfty former board members, their major projects. Each club will conduct presentations tonight makes concerted efforts to raise in six of the residence halls to inform revenue for scholarship grants for students of the Alumni Association's students of their particular at:tivities. geographical area. The Pittsburgh The Hall Visitation Program, Club, for example, annually spon created four years ago. provides an sors a Cadillac raffle and funnels opportunity for students to realize proceeds to scholarship aid. "The Pont Neuf Wrapped" is among the art recent drawings and models by the renowned exactly what the Alumni Association The Hall Visitation Program this projects currently being assembled for the artist will run through March 20. (Photo by offers them. The Alumni Association year also hopes to spur dialogue be Christo exhibition, scheduled ro open Sunday at Paul Ciffarelli) "is not just people who have the tail tween students and the alumni the Snite Museum of Art. The collection of gaters outside the stadium," com board in response to the PACE ments Patty Dondanville, the Report. The PACE (Priorities and Alumni Association board's director Committments for Excellence) Risks nuclear escalation of student relations. Report, released by Timothy The visitation program makes stu O'Meara and his advisory committee dents aware that in four years or less in early December, evaluates the Arms chief takes strategic stand they themselves will become major problems which confront the alumni. Dondanville noted that the University in the next ten years. In WASHINGTON (AP)- President tiel e. Nations. Here to begin preparing for Alumni Association serves as an out addressing these problems, a Uni Reagan's new arms control chief has "Rather, they are intended to the hearings, Adelman did not let for maintaining a relationship versity policy for the upcoming declared that American strategic support a range of U.S. foreign policy return a reporter's telephone calls with the University after graduation. decade may be formulated. policy must convince the Soviet Uni goals, including the commitment to regarding the article. It appeared in According to Dondanville, the The Alumni Association board's on that "the United States would preserve western Europe and even the 1981 summer quarterly of Alumni Association undertakes a presentations will take place in Flan indeed risk nuclear escalation" to parts of the Persian Gulf against Policy Review, which is published strategic planning process so that ner, Breen-Phillips, Walsh, Morris counter aggression against overr aggression,"hhe said. by the conservative Heritage students "find out where we (the sey, Alumni, and Zahm Halb, tonight European allies or Persian Gulf inter Adelman, named to succeed the Foundation, a private research or alumni) have been. where we are, at 9. The Student-Alumni Relations ests. ousted Eugene V. Rostow as head of ganization. and what we can do." Group, composed of twelve student "In other words, U.S. strategic the Arms Control and Disarmament "The redibility of extended U.S. The Hall Visitation Program is one hosts, along with the hall presidents, forces do not exist solely to deter a Agency, called for new and better of. deterrence depends on the Soviet way to spur student input and ex will introduce the Alumni Board Soviet nuclear attack or an attack fensive nuclear weapons and belief that the U.S. would indeed risk plain what kind of interaction stu against the United States itself," Ken outlined a strategy that would target nuclear escalation on behalf of See ALUMNI, page 6 dents want with the Alumni neth Adelman wrote in a 1981 ar- Soviet command centers and the foreign commitments," Adelman bunkers where Moscow's leaders wrote. would take refuge. Adelman registered his ' 'pws Fighting student apathy He advocated improved U.S. spy while supporting a policy direcu ve satellites and other kinds of signed by President Carter shortly intelligence-gathet ing systems as before he left office. Developed by well as a new ground-based Harold Brown, his secretary of Hunger coalition optimistic American missile, such as the MX defense, and known as PD59, it now under development, and new called for a shift in U.S. nuclear By TIM BUCKLEY meal to the World Hunger Coali S8,045 raised last spring. strategic bomb~rs and nuclear sub strategy. Instead of concentrating on News Staff tion." At the end of the semester the Couch cited many reasons for the marines. massive retaliation. the United States money is totaled and a decision is decline in student participation. Adelman, who faces Senate con would try to deter the Soviets by Despite a decrease in student par made as to which programs the ":\1any people sign up and then tlrmation hearings in about a week, developing a more flexible nuclear ticipation last semester, members of WHC will fund. decide they don't want to par is now Ambassador Jeane R, the Notre Dame World Hunger Coalition chairman Brian Couch ticipate. Others blame hard times Kirkpatrick's deputy at the United See ARMS, page 6 Coalition expressed their optimism described its objectives. "We want here at home for their lack of inter for the success of the program. to provide education at Notre Dame est. However, the worst of times Since 1974, the World Hunger concerning the effects and here can't compare with even the Coalition has provided funds for widespread level of world hunger, best of times •in Northern India or League of Women Voters hunger relief programs in South and the students' role in alleviating sub-Saharan Africa. Still others say Bend as well as overseas. Operated this problem. We also wish to make that the amount of money donated entirely by students, this group an effort, in our own small way, at by the dining hall administration is endorses pro-choice stand provides over S 10,000 annually for curing world hunger." far less than the actual cost of stu people in Africa, South America, and In choosing the program that they dent meals." Couch feels that a con WASHINGTON (AP) - The na believe~ that the government should Asia. Their main source of funds is will fund, the WHC, says Couch, "has siderable number of studenrs refuse tional League of Women Voters, af. leave the question of abortion and the voluntary student fast program, established three criteria. First, it to participate because of this situa ter years of avoiding a stance on the other matters dealing with according to Carol Fredrick, chair must be a Christian organization. tion. issue, announced yesterday it offi reproduction to the conscience of man of the fast program. Second, this program must try toed Brother Kieran Ryan, assistant cially supports American women's each person. Registration will be held at lunch ucate as well as feed these people on vice-president of University busi right to have an abortion. League officials said the organiza and dinner today and at lunch a local level. Finally, the organiza ness affairs, conducts dining hall "The League of Women Voters tion's board adopted the position at tomorrow in both dining halls. Stu tion should be small in scale." finances. In response to these objec believes that public policy in a its meeting Tuesday, almost 10 years dents wishing to register but unable In defense of this statement tions Ryan noted, "They're getting a pluralistic society must affirm the after the U.S. Supreme Court handed to at the prescribed times should Couch said, "Groups such as CARE real good deal. Seventy-five cents is constitutional right of the individual down its decision legalizing abor contact Fredrick with their name and UNICEF maintain a giant reserve both generous and reasonable since to make reproductive choices," a tion in most situations. and I. D. number at 283-7952. of funds, while the smaller groups this is based on marginal cost. Fur league statement said. Meanwhile, the leader of U.S. "Under the program," according we support have shown direct thermore. when we're feeding 6,000 League president Dorothy S. Roman Catholic bishops said yester to Fredrick, "students sign up and results in the past from Notre Dame students, the cost of feeding an in Ridings said the league is not endors day in a statement marking the an voluntarily skip lunch on Wednes WHC funding." dividual is negligible. We never ing abortion itself. "This is not a niversary of the court action that the days from February 2 through April Last semester the program know who will break their fast, and statement that implies moral ap rul:ngon):1n. 22, 1973, has poisoned 27." She added, "For every student recorded 959 pledges, with a must assume that many will." proval or disapproval of the proce the n..:•ional conscience, "eroding m the program who skips lunch on dropout rate of 189 students, result He pointed out to the WHC, ··we dure of abortion," she said in an respect tor life and hardening hearts Wednesday, the dining hall ad ing in S6,930 in funds.

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