Figures Indicate Continued Housing Shortages Timothy Leary Prophesizes
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~-----·----- --- -- - --- Figures indicate continued housing shortages by Kathy Rosenthal Edmund Price, director of Housing, said that housing seems to mean more to the Notre and Dame student than it does to the average college student. He said, "Students here are John McDermott aggressive about their housing. It's such an important factor that it becomes over-emphasized.'' Figures indicate that overcrowding next fall will be even worse than this year's situation. Price explained that preference for on-campus housing is a national trend because Administration officials are still examining the causes of this year's overcrowding and are "campus life bas been made more attractive." He attributes the trend to two things-- costs searching for both short and long-term solutions to the problem. of off-campus living and on campus freedoms, such as mobility, food service, and closeness There are presently 1,077 seniors living on campus. Next year's freshman class will to facilities. consist of approximately 1,625 students. A maximum difference of 548 on-1-ampus beds may Hofman ~greed, saying, "The desire to live on campus runs in cycles. At the moment, exist next fall. students want to stay on campus, but conditions may change, and then they may want to It is impossible to know how many seniors will remain on-campus until housing contracts move off again." For this reason, Hofman opposes the construction of another dorm as a are turned in. This year, about 237 extra students had to be placed in the dorms. Alumni, long-term solution to the problem. , Dillon, and Holy Cross halls each added at least 30 students. Quads were made into quints Price said, ''I don't care how the over-crowding situation will be solved. Let the students and four-man suites into six-man suites. decide. But a solution has to be found and soon." Price said he had been seeking solutions Dr. Emil Hofman, dean of the Freshman Year of Studies, said that at least three times in from his fellow administrators. - the last seven years emergency housing was needed for freshmen. He added that freshmen Sr. Kathleen Rossman, rectress of Walsh Hall, has compiled a list of a!Jernatives to the overcrowding problems are usually taken care of by the fourth week of school. overcrowding situation from women rectors, administrators, and students. She stated that John Golderick, director of Admissions, said, "The problem did not originate with she does not necessarily support any one of these ideas, but said that "a combination of admissions. The problem was that fewer upper classmen moved off-campus." these ideas may be what we are looking for." He explained that the Admissions office is not over-accepting applicants. Last year, Among the ideas are: 1) a forced lottery, 2) enticement for off-campus students through Admissions was seven students under their projected total, according to Golderick. "About subsidy, 3) new cafeteria arrangements for off-campus students, 4) enticement for graduate 62 percent ofthose students who are accepted actually come here," he said. "This is much students to move off campus, 5) housing graduate or senior men at St. Joseph's hall, 6) higher than the national average of 30 percent." Golderick said that Notre Dame's housing graduate or senior men at Moreau Seminary, 7) bringing mobile homes onto the percentage may have to be adjusted next year in order to maintain an enrollment of premises of the University, 8) building Quonset huts, 9) moving fifth-year students off 1,625-1,650. [continued on page 7] CLC presents proposal regarding overcrowding by Kathleen Rosenthal done about overcrowding; and (2) and is there going to be a lottery?" John McDermott Fr. Mario Pedi, rector of St. Ed's Hall, explained that, "We can The determine if there's going to be a The Campus Life Council (CLC) subcommittee on overcrowding problem by moving the housing presented a 13-point proposal last contract date up." night at a meeting in Grace Hall. Housing contracts serve as an The discussion at the three and indicator of how many students one-half hour meeting ranged from plan to live on campus. Part of the changing housing contract dates to CLC's proposal suggested that the Observer the quality of life at Notre Dame. contracts be turned in by Feb. 1. ·n independent student newspaper ,erving notre dame and st: mary's Fr. Eugene Gorski objected to Much of the meeting focused on Vol. XIII, No. 49 Tuesday, November 14, 1978 the fact that the proposal made no this issue. Students objected to the mention of the quality of ND life, proposed date because it wouldn't saying, ",It (overcrowding) is give them enough time to find a unbearable! We do not want to place to live. continue packing them in.'' Gorski Fr. Gregory Green, assistant to also questioned why the University the vice-president for Student doesn't place as much emphasis on Affairs, also objected to this date. residential quality as it does on He explained that the policy of academic quality. Student Affairs is to notify those Ellen Dorney, Badin hall presi chosen as RAs before housing dent, agreed with Gorski and contracts have to be turned in while pointed out some of the specific expressing concern for those cut in ~ ~ problems, such as the overcrowd the RA selection process. Green ing situation at the dining halls and made it clear that he wants those ' •. the classrooms. "The solution to students to have an equal chance overcrowding doesn't concern just for on-campus housing if a lottery beds. It affects every aspect of the results. students' lives," she said. After much discussion and no Andy McKenna, Student Body agreement about housing contract president, commented, ''The date changes, the CLC tables the feeling of the CLC concerning the issue until its next meeting on Nov. severity of the problem is unques 27. tionable. What the CLC wants is a Throughout the discussion of definitive answer by the Adminis housing contracts and RA tration of: (1) will something be [continued on page 3] Meeting in Grace Hall, the Campus Life Council subcommittee on overcrowding presented a 13-point proposal concerning ND on-campus overcrowding. [photo by Ken McAlpine] Timothy Leary prophesizes by Mark Rust a month," Leary told the audience. so they climbed the trees and Senior Staff Reporter "Personally, I double mine three or evolved into birds." He also said four times a month. Secondly, we that the Irish showed a strong must tap everyone's nervous impulse to intellectually evolve Timothy Leary, counter-culture system." when the Dutch and British victi figure in the- 60s and self The nervous system, according mized their land "and they had the proclaimed agent of future change, to Leary's plan for understanding good sense to get out." told a Washington hall audience of He added that, because of this approximately 600 students and "selection process," there are no faculty last night that "the unbro ' .. Coutttelt -cuQtulte intelligent people left in Ireland. ken trajectory of evolutionary The second half of Leary's talk activity demands that we grow was filled with a slide show that faster, get higher, and many of us ~tgulte ttt '60 'g •• ' presented his image of the future - are going to move right up and out "High Orbital Mini Earths from this planet." the evolutionary process: is central (HOMEs)." The ROMEs, Leary Leary told his audience that to understanding ''the real said, would come as the result of a "many of you are clearly not evolution -- the evolution of people so highly evolved that ''they terrestrials" and reminded them intelligence." recognize the swarming indicators that "you can only go as far out as "There are different type.s of -- this world is too crowded and that you have gone in." nervous systems. Some of you here tells us to go up to space." His speech, a two hour and fifty tonight have nervous systems that Leary explained that once one minute metaphoric monologue on won't come off the assembly line reaches adulthood, one no longer his personal vision of evolution, until the 21st or 22nd century," can gather genetic information. He featured a 20 minute slide show Leary said. concluded that "the longer you with frequent interruptions by The evolutionary process postpone adulthood, the more "Zach;-'' his 5-year-old godchild, involves younger nervous systems information you accumulate, the who was given freedom to roam the rejecting the world of the adult more information is passed on to ' stage during the lecture. nervous systems, Leary said. He the DNA, then the RNA, and only Leary spun a theory of evolution attempted to trace the history of then can evolutionary information ary change that began with evolution by placing importance on be passed down through the fallo "organisms and amoebas" and "the genetic impulse in the pian tubes so that personal and ended with a look into "the nervous system that rejects the two species growth can take place." future." According to Leary, the main factors that inhibit growth - "Egg wisdom is the direction function of an "intelligence pollution and overpopulation." that propels us through the space agent," a term he used to descrobe Leary gave his audience histori time dimension," he said. "From himself, is two-fold. cal examples that included dino now on it is up to the woman. It is "First, an intelligence agent must saurs who "didn't want to sink in the female egg wisdom that will Dr. Timothy Leary addressed approximately 600 students in double his intelligence at least once the quicksand with their parents, decide future evolution." Washington Hall last night.