Welcome Week Festivities Entertain Returning Students
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server Thursday, August 31, 1978 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and st. mary's Vol. XIII, No. 3 Notre Dame, Teamsters await Labor Board ruling by Mike Ridenour had several developments over the Staff Reporter summer including a second unfair labor practice charge against the Notre Dame and Teamsters Local university less than a week after 364 are waiting for a decision from the first was settled. the National Labor Relations Board A settlement was reached bet (NLRB) concerning the size of the ween the university and the NLRB bargaining unit that will vote on the in which Notre Dame was forced to issue of unionization. post 20 notices next to employee The decision. according to Mike time clocks. The notices state that Lawrence. assistant business rep Notre-Dame will not interfere in the resentative of Teamsters Local364, workers' rights to unionize. The is expected to be made at any time. notices were a result of a settle Phillip Faccenda. general counsel ment in an unfair labor practice for Notre Dame, stated "We want complaint filed last October. all the employees to vote on The second unfair labor practice unionization if there is an election, charge occurred when the Team while the Teamsters want to have sters became upset with a letter certain units vote. This is the sent to food service employees decision that the NLRB will make." from Thomas Bull. director of Notre Dame". Faccenda cont personnel. The letter, dated July inued, "does not want the Team J. said the Teamsters' appeal of sters on campus." He added "If delaying the posting of the notices Welcome Week activities continued with an outdoor picnic on the quads. See story below [Photo the workers are unionized there is until school reopened "is an addi by Doug Christian] no question that it would affect tional roadblock by the Teamsters students' tuition." and is causing problems. These problems could hurt vou." Lawrence countered "The lowest paid employees should not be The NLRB refused to issue a Welcome Week festivities forced to subsidize the cost of complaint and the Teamsters have tuition of students at Notre Dame." till Sept. S to decide if they will The labor dispute, now a year old, appeal. entertain returning students New student affairs VP by Marcia Kovas ding, complete with sausage and restless, with little homework to do polka at 8 p.m. Saturday at Stepan and only taverns to visit. About 2.200 Notre Dame and St. Center. The officers created Welcome Wolvlear replaces Paczesny Mary's students urged the country Bill Roche, student union direc Week at a cost Of about $6,000. and blues band Appaloosa for an tor, is "ecstatic" about the student "We'll profit a little from the films spend time around campus "to by Mark Perry encore Tuesday night, and more turnout at the events, and thinks Sleeper and Young Frankenstein learn a lot about what students' Staff Reporter than 1,500 underclassmen kicked the enthusiastic response genera showing tonight, and the film "Oh needs are.'' off "the first annual Welcome ted will turn "Welcome Week" God' which ran Monday and Tues Week" to the tune of a fiddle into an annual event. dav, but we won't break even for A 1945 alumnus of Notre Dame, Monday at the St. Mary's square the week. " he said. Fr. John_ L. re- Van Wolvlear was born in Welcome Week is the brainstrom Va~ Wolv~ear, dance and bonfire. "But the response to the Appa- cently app01_nted v1ce-pres1dent f?r Escanaba, Michigan and grew up of the student union officers, who A punk rock band, Screams, will .loosa concert,'' he used as an student affairs at N_otre.Dam~, sa1d in Grand Rapids. He joined the wanted to schedule events early in perform on the South Quad on the year to motivate student spirit. example, "was worth the fifty he IS s_hll trymg t_o Holy Cross Preparatory Seminary yest_e~d~y th~t Friday, and the week long activities cents the student union had to pay famJ.hartze himself w1th the_ Um- in , and three years later Roche planned the week when 1938 will culminate with a Polish Wed- per person who attended." v~rs1ty before he can assess h1s role entered the Holy Cross novitiate. students were generally bored and with the students at Notre Dame. He took final vows in 1947 and was 56 need rooms Van Wolvlear, who was named to ordained in Sacred Heart Church at replace Bro. Just Paczesny over the Notre Dame in 1949. summer, said, "I have been im Housing situation remains tigh.t pressed by the students that I have He taught and was rector of met so far. They have put you at Cavanaugh Hall until 1954. From open for those on the waiting list this year in order to create a social ease instead of on the defensive. 1955 to 1956 he served as assistant by Marcia Kovas before the semester is out. and recreation space. Support and cooperation h11-ve been superior and assistant principal at Many of the freshmen living in He notes that while Holy Cross excellent.'' Notre Dame High School in Niles, Notre Dame transfers and off the make-shift bedrooms, lacking and Carroll Halls may have more campus students won't get a room in closet space and minus sinks, recreation room, Grace and His main concern, Van Wolvlear Illinois. In 19.59 he received his on campus until the 56 men and would prefer to stay in the lounges, Flanner are overcrowded. added, would be "for the growth M.A. in school administration from eleven women living in Grace, which tend to be a little larger than Although the University pains to and development of the students. DePaul University, and for the next Flanner and Lewis study lounges the average double room, accord admit 400 extra women when the Discipline will be used as a way of eleven years was assigned to the are assigned permanent housing. ing to Price. new women's dorm is built, it has learning, adjusting to being an University of Portland, where he But director of student housing, "Freshmen living in lounges wit limited the women's enrollment to adult.' 'He also said that he plans to served in a variety of positions. Edmund Price, predicts rooms will get the first room assignments 1551 for the past three years. The because the other men and women women still comprise just a little living in dorms needs the lounges under 25 percent of the under for study space," said Price. graduate enrollment, said Assis Some of the freshmen are com tant Provost, Sister John Miriam plaining because they aren't Jones, and that is not a factor in the getting straight answers from the housing problem. housing office. Maria Carbon, a Only 25 more freshmen were freshman living in a Lewis lounge, admitted for the 1978 school year. hasn't unpacked her clothes from "not enough to affect the housing boxes, because "sometimes they situation," said Price. "Notre tell us we're moving in a week, Dame could not cut enrollment to sometimes we hear we'll live here solve the housing oroblem. but for the year." may have to resort to lotteries to Price is unwilling to make a select students to live off campus if definite committment to students a new dorm is not built in the next seeking on campus housing. He few years. says he cannot predict when rooms ''There is no solution to the will open. Some of the freshmen housing problem," he said. "The are living in R.A. rooms this year, office of admissions can only and most of the sixteen women who estimate, based on statistics, how were assigned to live in the "Farley many students will enter Notre Hotel" will live there for the year. Dame," Price added. The overcrowding problem resul We accept students based on ted from more upperclassmen elec estimates, and have to use lounges ting to stay on campus, and the as back up accomondations when university mandate that freshmen the estimates are off. "The live in a dormitory. Price calls admissions office has to accept attention to the Student Union more students than it can house to 56 freshmen are still awaiting permanent housing assignments. Off campus students and proposal which eliminated housing compensate for those who drop out transfers will not receive a room until these students are placed. [Photo by Doug Christian] for thirty men in five dormitories of the enrollment," Price said. Thursday, August 31, 1978 2 the observer --- ---New York Supreme Court stays ,....News Briefs jailed Times reporter's sentence Farber, accompanied by execu- a day fine levied against the Times HACKENSACK, N.J. [AP] tives and lawyers for the Times, was stayed. New York Times reporter Myron said he believes he will be vindi- Times publisher Arthur Ochs Farber was released from jail cated of contempt for not turning Sulzberger said, "We are gratified Ambassador's son abducted yesterday after the State Supreme over his notes on a widely publi- that the New Jersey Supreme Court Court stayed his indefinite jail cized murder case. has decided to release Myron sentence pending an appeal of his The court stayed all civil and Farber and grant us the hearing we MEXICO CITY AP- The son of -the Mexican ambassador to the contempt conviction. criminal penalties against Farber have so long sought." United States was kidnapped Tuesday night by gunmen who "I'm delighted to be out," and the Times pending an appeal The Supreme Court took jurisdic- attacked the car in which he was riding, police said Wednesday.