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• Performs logarithms, trig'onometrics, hyper'bolics, powers, roots, FEATURES reciprocals, factorials, linear regression, mean, variance and standard deviation. • Features an algebraic keyboard with dual function keys that increase 6 From Indiana to Creativity Missy Heard the power of the SR-51 without increasing its size. • Three user accessible memories permit storage, recall, sum, product operations. 10 ISIS Student Gallery Richard G. Landry • Preprogrammed to provide 20 often used engineering conversions. • Random number generator, automatic calculation of permutations, 13 Portrait of Two Ladies: A Tableau Barb 'Frey & Melanie jorgensen automatic percent and percent difference computation. • Us'er selected fixed or floating decimal point. • Calculates answers to 13 significant digits and uses all 13 digits 16 Whf!n Notre Dame Was Active Mike Sarahan in subsequent calculations for maximum accuracy. • Computes and displays answers as large as :±9.999999999 x 10"" and as small as:±l; x 1O~"". 22 Midwest Blues: An' American Festival • Automatically converts answers to scientific notation when calculated answer is greater than 10 10 or less than 10-"'. ' • Features bright 14-charader display-l0-digit mantissa with sign, 27 The Secret Players Bill Delaney 2-digit exponent with sign. ' • Display provides overflow, underflow, error indications. 28 The Catholic Sport Brian Doyle & John Delaney • Lightweight, fully portable . • Rechargeable batteries or AC operation. • Full year warranty. 29 Runners and Lovers Mike Palmer • AC Adapter/Charger included. '\ Love is a giving thing. REGULARS Illustrations: Tom Pauli us. 4 Gallery Anthony Chifari Photographs: Ed Brower10, 11, 20(2), 27, 30 / Bill Delaney 28, 29/ Courtesy of 8 jottings 'Michelle Quinn Notre Dame Art Gallery 6, 7 (2) / T, Paul- ,·12 ',Perspective GaryZebrun ius 3 (2), 13, 24 (2). , . ,20 In Order of Appearance judy Robb, Marianne Murphy Cover: photo-line coriversions by Tom, ,Paulius from original photos by Ed Brower. '21 Week in Distortion Dan Lombardi 30 Last Word Sally Stanton

Editor Staff Sally Stanton Thomas J. Waldoch, Anne White, Dave Beno, Ron Rundstedt, John Kenward, Dave Art Director Dreyer. Leo J. Mulcahey, Mike Sarahan, Chris Meehan, Mike Feord, Mark Hopkins, Bob Tom Paulius Gilroy, Rich Nugent, Dan Adler, Richard G. Landry, Paul Starkey, Susan Grace, Dan Production' Manager Lombardi, Rhonda Kornfeld, Barb Frey, Mark Luppino, Gary Harden, Christie Herlihy, Annemarie Sullivan Paul Hess" John Delaney, Judy Robb, Sean Mclinden, J. Peter Delaney, Jim Romanelli, Managing Editor Paul Barickman, Bernie Valenti, Kareri Caruso, Jim Ryan, Ed Lecuyer, Cary Gerber, John Phelan Moira Keating. Mary Ann Chambers. John' Bartone, Andee Gotuaco, Randy Cashiola, $149.95 News Editor Kate Bernard, Mike Palmer, Marianne Murphy, Melanie Jorgensen, Maureen Reynolds, Bill Gonzenbach John 'Feeney, Mark Amenta, Missy Heard, Julie Runkle, Chip Scanlon, Brian Doyle. Culture Editor ONE OFTHE Robert Baker Assistant Art Director Keeps ake® The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and editors of Scholastic MANY MODELS Kathy McElroy Assistant Production 'Manager and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the University of Notre Dame, its AVAI LABLE AT Steve Slater . administration, faculty or the student body. Box 90, Syracuse, N. Y. 13201 ' Sports Editor Bill Delaney Second-class postage paid at Notre Dame, Ind. 46556, The magazine is represented Please send new 20 pg. bOoklet, "Planning Your Engagement and Wedding" plus for national advertising by National Educational Advertising Services, 360 Lexington full color folder and 44 pg. Bride's Book gift offer all for only 25k I Business Manager Kathy Salzer Avenue, New York, N" Y. 10017. Published fortnightly during the school year except Assistant Business Manager during vacation and examination periods, Scholastic is printed at Ave Maria Press, Notre Name' ______~ ______Joarine Toeniskoetter Dame, Ind. 46556. The subscription rate is $5.00 a year and back numbers are available Circulation Manager from Scholastic. Please address all manuscripts' to Scholastic, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. Addressi ______--...:. __..:...... :.... ______Kevin Murphy Photography Editor All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic. Ed Brower Ci~'----~~------Hammes Notre Advisory Board copyright © 1975 Scholastic- / all rights reserved / none of the contents may be repro State __..:.... ______--,- __--,-_ Zip __..:.... __..:.... ____~ __..:.... Ronald, Weber, Carl 'Magel; Ed Sanna, duced without perf!1ission., Madonna Kolbenschlag, 'Bro, Charles, Find Keepsake Jewelers in the Yellow Pages or dial free 800-243·6000. Dame 'Bookstore McBride, C.S.c., Richard Conklin Texas Instruments electronic calculator' Scholastic Volume 117, No.5, November 7, 1975 SR-51A Notre Dame, Indiana

Editor Staff Sally Stanton Thomas J. Waldoch, Anne White, Dave Beno, Ron Rundstedt, John Kenward, Dave Art Director Dreyer. Leo J. Mulcahey, Mike Sarahan, Chris Meehan, Mike Feord, Mark Hopkins, Bob Tom Paulius Gilroy, Rich Nugent, Dan Adler, Richard G. Landry, Paul Starkey, Susan Grace, Dan Production' Manager Lombardi, Rhonda Kornfeld, Barb Frey, Mark Luppino, Gary Harden, Christie Herlihy, Annemarie Sullivan Paul Hess" John Delaney, Judy Robb, Sean Mclinden, J. Peter Delaney, Jim Romanelli, Managing Editor Paul Barickman, Bernie Valenti, Kareri Caruso, Jim Ryan, Ed Lecuyer, Cary Gerber, John Phelan Moira Keating. Mary Ann Chambers. John' Bartone, Andee Gotuaco, Randy Cashiola, $149.95 News Editor Kate Bernard, Mike Palmer, Marianne Murphy, Melanie Jorgensen, Maureen Reynolds, Bill Gonzenbach John 'Feeney, Mark Amenta, Missy Heard, Julie Runkle, Chip Scanlon, Brian Doyle. Culture Editor ONE OFTHE Robert Baker Assistant Art Director Keeps ake® The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and editors of Scholastic MANY MODELS Kathy McElroy Assistant Production 'Manager and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the University of Notre Dame, its AVAI LABLE AT Steve Slater . administration, faculty or the student body. Box 90, Syracuse, N. Y. 13201 ' Sports Editor Bill Delaney Second-class postage paid at Notre Dame, Ind. 46556, The magazine is represented Please send new 20 pg. bOoklet, "Planning Your Engagement and Wedding" plus for national advertising by National Educational Advertising Services, 360 Lexington full color folder and 44 pg. Bride's Book gift offer all for only 25k I Business Manager Kathy Salzer Avenue, New York, N" Y. 10017. Published fortnightly during the school year except Assistant Business Manager during vacation and examination periods, Scholastic is printed at Ave Maria Press, Notre Name' ______~ ______Joarine Toeniskoetter Dame, Ind. 46556. The subscription rate is $5.00 a year and back numbers are available Circulation Manager from Scholastic. Please address all manuscripts' to Scholastic, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. Addressi ______--...:. __..:...... :.... ______Kevin Murphy Photography Editor All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic. Ed Brower Ci~'----~~------Hammes Notre Advisory Board copyright © 1975 Scholastic- / all rights reserved / none of the contents may be repro State __..:.... ______--,- __--,-_ Zip __..:.... __..:.... ____~ __..:.... Ronald, Weber, Carl 'Magel; Ed Sanna, duced without perf!1ission., Madonna Kolbenschlag, 'Bro, Charles, Find Keepsake Jewelers in the Yellow Pages or dial free 800-243·6000. Dame 'Bookstore McBride, C.S.c., Richard Conklin Mexico is not cacti on a desert plain. Nor is it a strip of beach in Acapulco. It is people. ' .• That my year there would be captured in photographs such as these was, therefore, virtually inevitable.

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4 NOVEMBER 7, 1975 5 Mexico is not cacti on a desert plain. Nor is it a strip of beach in Acapulco. It is people. ' .• That my year there would be captured in photographs such as these was, therefore, virtually inevitable.

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4 NOVEMBER 7, 1975 5 what is known as his Second Taos Period, that Higgins turned to land scapes. At this time he also began two additional series, the still life and the model, many of which are Indians both sleeping and waking. With these subjects, he used pastel From Indiana to Creativity colors and a more delicate brush stroke. One of the most unusual compo sitions created in the 1920's is Hig .\~y Missy Heard gins' Circumferences. It shows us one of his rare departures from his Victor Higgins, whose work is training. In fact, it wasn't until he studied the old masters. His paint New Mexican environment. It is the currently on display at the Notre was nine, while playing hooky from ings were of the European' school representation of a great battlefield Dame Art Gallery, is one creative school, that he met his first art dimmed colors, academic figures and between 1914 and 1919, the Mediter figure with whom many students teacher. This teacher, an itinerant picturesque landscapes. !:Ie returned ranean and, Western Europe. How here might identify. He was born sign painter, supplied Higgins with to the United States before the out- ever, his perspective is one of an in 1884, in Shelbyville, Indiana-in his first paints, his first art lessons . break of World War I, somewhat astronaut. We find ourselves look the real Midwest. He was fifth in . and the overwhelming desire to at disillusioned with European adven ing down on a battIe 'of the sky with a large Irish Catholic family of nine. tend the Art'Institute of Chicago. tures. nature's shapes, colors and textures The Higgins exhibit, which opened In 1899, when he was fifteen, Harrison again sponsor;ed him on fighting agaiiist one another. October 26, displiys the major works Higgins left Indiana to study at the another art expedition, this time The creation ot'some of America's of this Indiana-born artist who pri Art Institute of Chicago. He studied to the new art colony in Taos, New finest watercolors was achieved by marily worked out of Taos, New there for ten years, working at odd Mexico. It was there that Higgins Higgins in the 1930's. They had mountains 'are' obscured by even their detail, tiny brushstrokes and Mexico, until his death in 1949. The jobs to support himself. He re met some of the most creative ar more life and motion than his' oils. darker winter clouds; the gigantic jewel-like colors. They are, the exhibition, arranged jointly by the ceived his first break in 1910, when. tists of the time: O'Keeife, Marin They were full of brilliant colors aspect' of the'two-clouds and achievement of an individual who Notre Dame Art Gallery and the his works attracted the attention of and D. H. Lawrence, to name a few. and primarily represented the land mountains--':"dwarfs the tiny funeral when searching for the comprehEm Indianapolis Museum of Art, is the art patron Carter H. Harrison, a He began to work toward~ the de scape: But it was during this period in the foothills. sion of his' environment finds it and first retrospection of this American former mayor of Chicago. Harrison, velopment of an indigenous Ameri that Higgins painted his great In the 1940's, during the last can now paint for the sake of paint artist's paintings and will run then, financed four years of travel can art form. But first, he had to est oil,. Winter Funeral. Though it years of his life, Higgins. painted ing. through December 21. and study. in Europe for Higgins. abandon the traditional European does represent a funeral in a snowy the group of small panels called the Victor Higgins died in August, Higgins had no rigorous early During" this period, he mainly academic style he had developed in pasture; it ,. is . the storm-choked "Little Gems." These measure 1949. It was not until this exhibition, his foreign travels. mountains that 'attract immediate roughly 10 by. 20 inches and repre over 25 years after his death, that Another major problem he suf attention. The tops of huge dark sent small oil landscapes, delicate in we have begun to examine his con~ fered from at 'first was a tendency tribution to American art. It seems toward the romantic that seemed to only fitting that two Indiana mu affect most of the artists in the seums have initiated this examina Southwest. In his First Taos Period, tion---.:.the Art Gallery here until the he discovered the beauty of the end of December and following this American Indian, the colors and the exhibition, a' two-month showing in unbelievable landscape. Yet most Indianapolis~' The' exhibit has al of his subjects were from the Taos ready increased national interest in Pueblo,' following the creative tra Victor Higgins; several prominent dition set by his fellow artists. The institutions in the Southwest have paintings of this period, such as the recently made bids to share it after BeiLd Worker and Juanito and the its presentation in Indiana. Finally, Suspicious Cat; were well-received Victor Higgins' is in the national by audiences in New York and Chi spotlight. ' cago. With this style, Higgins won The art of the Southwest is per':' nine prizes in competition between haps the most indigenous to the 1915 and 1920. Despite his success United States. For many famous with his work, he wanted to paint artists who came to Taos"this period for the sake of painting and not of their careers was mainly. transi solely for the purpose of romantic tory. But for Victor Higgins, it was illustration. Higgins was interested a lifetimedevotiori. So; in order to in bringing to his subjects a basic discuss American art, we must first simplicity. This search for the basic examine the works of Higgins. We along with brilliant color character may discover that his talent was one ized his painting until his death. of the foremost of all American It was in' the 1920's, during artists.

6 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 7, 1975 7 . what is known as his Second Taos Period, that Higgins turned to land scapes. At this time he also began two additional series, the still life and the model, many of which are Indians both sleeping and waking. With these subjects, he used pastel From Indiana to Creativity colors and a more delicate brush stroke. One of the most unusual compo sitions created in the 1920's is Hig .\~y Missy Heard gins' Circumferences. It shows us one of his rare departures from his Victor Higgins, whose work is training. In fact, it wasn't until he studied the old masters. His paint New Mexican environment. It is the currently on display at the Notre was nine, while playing hooky from ings were of the European' school representation of a great battlefield Dame Art Gallery, is one creative school, that he met his first art dimmed colors, academic figures and between 1914 and 1919, the Mediter figure with whom many students teacher. This teacher, an itinerant picturesque landscapes. !:Ie returned ranean and, Western Europe. How here might identify. He was born sign painter, supplied Higgins with to the United States before the out- ever, his perspective is one of an in 1884, in Shelbyville, Indiana-in his first paints, his first art lessons . break of World War I, somewhat astronaut. We find ourselves look the real Midwest. He was fifth in . and the overwhelming desire to at disillusioned with European adven ing down on a battIe 'of the sky with a large Irish Catholic family of nine. tend the Art'Institute of Chicago. tures. nature's shapes, colors and textures The Higgins exhibit, which opened In 1899, when he was fifteen, Harrison again sponsor;ed him on fighting agaiiist one another. October 26, displiys the major works Higgins left Indiana to study at the another art expedition, this time The creation ot'some of America's of this Indiana-born artist who pri Art Institute of Chicago. He studied to the new art colony in Taos, New finest watercolors was achieved by marily worked out of Taos, New there for ten years, working at odd Mexico. It was there that Higgins Higgins in the 1930's. They had mountains 'are' obscured by even their detail, tiny brushstrokes and Mexico, until his death in 1949. The jobs to support himself. He re met some of the most creative ar more life and motion than his' oils. darker winter clouds; the gigantic jewel-like colors. They are, the exhibition, arranged jointly by the ceived his first break in 1910, when. tists of the time: O'Keeife, Marin They were full of brilliant colors aspect' of the'two-clouds and achievement of an individual who Notre Dame Art Gallery and the his works attracted the attention of and D. H. Lawrence, to name a few. and primarily represented the land mountains--':"dwarfs the tiny funeral when searching for the comprehEm Indianapolis Museum of Art, is the art patron Carter H. Harrison, a He began to work toward~ the de scape: But it was during this period in the foothills. sion of his' environment finds it and first retrospection of this American former mayor of Chicago. Harrison, velopment of an indigenous Ameri that Higgins painted his great In the 1940's, during the last can now paint for the sake of paint artist's paintings and will run then, financed four years of travel can art form. But first, he had to est oil,. Winter Funeral. Though it years of his life, Higgins. painted ing. through December 21. and study. in Europe for Higgins. abandon the traditional European does represent a funeral in a snowy the group of small panels called the Victor Higgins died in August, Higgins had no rigorous early During" this period, he mainly academic style he had developed in pasture; it ,. is . the storm-choked "Little Gems." These measure 1949. It was not until this exhibition, his foreign travels. mountains that 'attract immediate roughly 10 by. 20 inches and repre over 25 years after his death, that Another major problem he suf attention. The tops of huge dark sent small oil landscapes, delicate in we have begun to examine his con~ fered from at 'first was a tendency tribution to American art. It seems toward the romantic that seemed to only fitting that two Indiana mu affect most of the artists in the seums have initiated this examina Southwest. In his First Taos Period, tion---.:.the Art Gallery here until the he discovered the beauty of the end of December and following this American Indian, the colors and the exhibition, a' two-month showing in unbelievable landscape. Yet most Indianapolis~' The' exhibit has al of his subjects were from the Taos ready increased national interest in Pueblo,' following the creative tra Victor Higgins; several prominent dition set by his fellow artists. The institutions in the Southwest have paintings of this period, such as the recently made bids to share it after BeiLd Worker and Juanito and the its presentation in Indiana. Finally, Suspicious Cat; were well-received Victor Higgins' is in the national by audiences in New York and Chi spotlight. ' cago. With this style, Higgins won The art of the Southwest is per':' nine prizes in competition between haps the most indigenous to the 1915 and 1920. Despite his success United States. For many famous with his work, he wanted to paint artists who came to Taos"this period for the sake of painting and not of their careers was mainly. transi solely for the purpose of romantic tory. But for Victor Higgins, it was illustration. Higgins was interested a lifetimedevotiori. So; in order to in bringing to his subjects a basic discuss American art, we must first simplicity. This search for the basic examine the works of Higgins. We along with brilliant color character may discover that his talent was one ized his painting until his death. of the foremost of all American It was in' the 1920's, during artists.

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to see Africa, to know unbearable NEVERTHELESS, NOMORE heat, to sleep in watch of mosquito regiments, to spy an un timid tribe. I wanted to swim in a full~fledged ocean, to submit myself to currents, to spill forward and back in· the by Michelle Quinn spray, to search for pearls and sea shells. Other dreams I had as well. Michelle Quinn, a sophomore and have wine with guests. Best of could melt your insides through and They were closer hopes, I suppose, psychology and English major from all your work went beyond the through. She satt>esideine. Her' for they were no lesser. I wantedto New York, has been writing short house. To accomplish it, your gift knees, half-bared by the hem of her wear a soft' blue nightgown to bed fiction for lour years. She is cur was a sparkly pick to please colored housedress, touched perpendicular to and pedume to the movies. I wanted rently chairwoman of the Sopho bicycle. This was the first I could my thigh. Perpendicular - a de to know if Presbyterians had sex- ' more Literary Festival. call my very own. Always before, , lightful word, the worthiest remem tons or meet the person, whatever, Meg and I shared the Green Disaster. brance of last spring's 'math. I they called him, who rang the bells , ,I leanediny eyes upwards to the I took the stairwell two steps .at turned my head toward her. I stared, from the peak of their church in window. Already, Grandma came to a time till I had approached the final couldn't think of words to say early morning. I'd want to ring bells the sill and pronounced my name. landing. Grandma's home was on. what was my mind's speaking. . instead of vacuuming rugs. It must My toes wound, round· the metal, the third level smack even with the , Mother. kept insisting childhood . nearly,be time to return home. pulling the kickstand to position. tops of city corner trees. The door would soon behind me be. Enjoy Grandma: upped herself and went There now, the milk bottles at long was partly open. Grandma didn't every moment, children, it will long to the wall: I sipped hot chocolate last were silent. Goodness, they could appreciate the racket of a.fist pouiid pass you by and your moments in so as not t6 cry. Turning around, her for his laughter that she would breath. Just E'nough of her into the start a commotion the moment I ing wood. She said if you put to , spending imagination's reality will hand cupped slowly. Clasping the send him a letter soaked in loneli- open bits of the instrument and the jerked pace the slightest. This . the effort of expelling such energy , . come to pleasant recall. Adulthood piece she sat again. The harmonica ness. She'd rant at the stupidity and softest, sweetest songs could play. morning they clattered ceaselessly to climb those damnable stairs, she is a fine, exciting life but you'll never lifted to her lips, she set her hands wonder at the necessity. She cried She played Mr. Daniels' song for as I pedalled' to complete towning. had no right or inclination to refuse know again the glories of a child's to play. . . , " . "even. My Grandma, strong woman, all the people she came to love. The _ Once, Grandma told me the story;'" . cried: Mr; Daniels got lost. I'm hard thing, she says, is not'to crush Saturday was errand day in the your company. afternoon. Mother never dwelled , ' . l' ..' house. Everyday was someday; your Grandma knew I'd come. Some upon such matters. Only, whenever It was a' gift from Mr. Dariiels. Mr; , puzzled as to how groWn men' can your beloveds. Give to their open~ part in,it written beside your name how, when~ver the queer thoughts we got iiin our heads to want the DanielswasilOtGrandpapa.Gra:nd~ go and lose themselves; but then I ' ness your gentle living. Then be on the inside of the, oblong kitchen came to me, I'd come by to sit them ways of older years, she'd pause in papa was her everrilost love, Mr. don't try hard, even in social studies, silent as they play. " cabinet. Ever since I was so high out with her. I could figure finding . tendings and remind us so .. ! didn't Daniels washer youngest. Grand- to understand the war. For her' , Grandma'S playing ceased. She my name went along with the rest. her in the Closet. Caroline's Closet: know childhood could be peeled and rna says a woman always gives her birthday he sent the'harm'onica. placed 'the harmonica in my lap. I In younger, less tall days it was Admit One! she'd say when Twas left behind, forever. EspeCially the . love to men, though inen seldom He sent it as his sorig. Packaging didn'(watch her face. Her song was Charlie's duty to inform me of my tiny. This, she called the porched forever part. I certainly wouldn't know it; I remember her saying a poor, and Mr. Daniels having made done. I didn't want to know. She chores. Saturdays;werenot my own room. It kept her treasures; all of believe it. woman cherishes a difficult life. it without 'the proper glues at hand, hadn't breathed 'a word, still I under till lunch had been set out. them. The Closet stores recipes in a Grandma took my hands in hers. Without your asking, it' entails a the harmonica arrived intwosepa- stood her telling. I had the instru ; I've been 14 for an entire month woven holder, books in a cupboard An older way could be made agree heap of trials with a load of mis- rate pieces. Held jointly an unsettled ment. My time to handle the gift now. In many homes age is a with warbled glass panes, the awe able. Many chums were muddling connections. Too, a man once or noise blew through. ' had come. number. In ours though, it is a some piece of self-done tapestry lay through what they c~lled maturity. again ritight share your living. So Grandma" says she crushed the Ididn't want to make the strains, position. Fourteen meant you were atop the uppermost shelving. I'd call it a firs't-rate mess. They it was with Mr. Daniels.' song. Her harmonica did not wan~ to to' discipline forms, to free the im almost an adult, (which meant you. , The chair sighed a sad huff as I could gasp or giggle at the precise It was war then, Grandma said. function for someone else.. Mr. perfections. The gift now belonged to weren't ever, ever to wallop the ' sat. I knew I could let the thoughts' social moment and expect the there Mr.Danielsserved in a military Daniels meant for her to handle it me. I left then, with the bottles, and boys even when they did behave in~ come now. Her right hand firmly tofore muted' applause to tumble capacity.'Grandma never knew what ' as gently as Grandma.Ioved him. the bicycle; and the piece. Lunch tolerably). With .fourteenship you gripped the pot which warmly let forth for them. Surely, I too had sort exactly, only, it kept ihemfar; , To get a pleasant sound,- her lips would soon be done with. My day could at holiday time sit at table through thick hot chocolate that dreams of grown-up years. I wanted far apart. She'd become so wanting had to tm~over where to whisper had begun.

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abDut it, and it is this very rugged bilitating in character: the lack is clear that there are SDme members 'ness which is at Dnce a delight and Df faculty and student invDlvement Df the art department, bDth students a burden. Certain types Df art blend in the wDrkings Df the gallery. At and faculty, who. are determined to. extremely well into. the Isis space: the beginning Df the year, Dnly fDur see that Isis remains a viable fDrce. large canvases and, as demDnstrated graduate students and Dne under Fr. James Flanigan, C.S.C., chair in a shDwing prDduced earlier this graduate assumed entire respDnsi man Df the department, nDtes that year, ceramic pieces., But SDme bility fDr the difficult, time-cDnsum the "' gallery, serves two. functiDns wDrk simply dDes nDt fit: medium ing task" Df interiDr renDvatiDn, as which the main gallery in O'Shaugh size canvases tend to' wallDw in the well as the DrganizatiDn and prDduc nessy Hall wDuld be hard-pressed to. large ,space ,between pillars, and tion Df ShDWS. MDre students have fulfill. First, and mDst DbviDusly, certain geDmetric designs clash with since becDme invDlved in the Isis, the Isis prDvides an Dpportunity fDr the pattern prDduced by the brick particularly in respDnse to. the Dnset student artists to. ShDW their' wDrk walls and SiD ping rDDf. ' Df the first undergraduate exhibi in a distinctly prDfessiDnal setting. so. Df To. CDunteract this phenDmenDn, tiDn of the year, which Dpened ND In dDing, it allDws the staff the the Isis staff has· set up false walls, vember 3, But there is' still a nDtice main gallery to. devDte mDre atten which at Dnce break up the large able absence 'Df 'active invDlvement tiDn to" its DWn cDllectiDn. SecDndly, and equally' impDrtant, the Isis, gal rDDm into. a ~ number Df smaller Dn the part Df the faculty, who. cDuld areas, and. prDvide a surface upDn cDntribute much simplY because Df lery, in the wDrds Df ~r. Flanigan, "brings' art in frDm the Dutside fDr which to' hang "prDblem" wDrk.. Yet their experience. this Dn'e achievement, hDwever suc ,Carey attributes this apathy in Dur Dwn art students, ,fDr a shDrt periDd Df time, and a little mDre in, cessful, is by no. meims cDmprehen part to. last year's pDDr Drgimiza fDrmally than the.main 'gallery, is sive, and it i~ nDt an Dverstatement tiDn and publicity, and in 'part to. the able to. dD." In this sense, the Isis ~o., say that there are still a great unit system" a prDgram Df ,inde serves a vital pedagDgical functiDn number of key.. aesthetic difficul~ies pendent sttidyin which graduate and and is, in areal and undeniable'way, yet to' be. DverCDme. As a result, says undergraduate students wDrk es irreplaceable. Perhaps Fr. Flanigan Carey, "all Df Dur energies ,have, been sent'ially Dn their' Dwn, under the gDing tDward making [the Isis] guidance Df a faculti advisDr, with describes the situatiDn most pre Dn cisely when he states, "[withDUt the mDre Df a gallery space than just a whDm theycDnfer a regular basis. Isis gallery] there wDuld be a stDne wall.Dnwhich to' put things BecauseDf the lack' Df structurally up; ,we want to' create a space in impDsed interactiDn amDng large vacuum.'" which artists can actually, get a cer numbers of students and faculty, The Isis gallery is Dpen every weekday during the SChDDl year taindistance frDm their wDrk." iSDlatiDn and nDn~invDlvement are naturally reinfDrced and perpetu between the hDurs Df 1-3 p.m; Open Adding ',to' the difficulties pre ings are frDm 7:30-9:00 p.m., and sented' by the sheer physical design ated. Despite these grave difficulties, it the public is always invited. Df the Isis is the prDblem Df limited financial reSDurces. Until this year FDr sDme; the wDrd ,cDnjures up Df architecture . students, who. CDn astrDus seaSDn: the number Df ex- the Dperatingbudget Df the gallery images Df a; tDrtuDusly. bad ana verted the, Dnce-IDcker rDDm into. ,hibitiDns was .greatly reduced, gal ~cDnsisted Df $1,000 allDcated by the gram describing SDme ,student Dr a cleaned, painted area in which to' lery hDurs were. decidedly erratic Cultural Arts CDmmissiDn. An inde ganizatiDn, Dr perhaps the name, Df display the different pieces _they had and publicity fDr ShDWS was, Dften terminate amDunt was dDnated; by an DId alumnus-turned-patrDn-Df-the cDmpleted' while studying in RDme sparse and inaccurate.,' the art department thrDugh its visit arts. All: diligent studentsDf the in 1969. Afterwards, the space was Richard· Carey, a graduate art ing artists prDgram, a cDDperative classics know Dtherwise. ' Bullfinch used DccasiDnally by members Df the student and teaching assistant who. venture in which the art department nDtes that the Egyptian gDddess Df art department, and by, visiting is presently the directDr Df' Isis, and, Isis ~ gallery, share in the CDSts fertility to' whDm the title ~efers "is artists who., were cDntacted ,tDD late sums up the matter succinctly: Df prDducing ShDWS and seminars de represented in ,statuary with the to. be included in the main gallery's "Last year the gallery. cDmpletely vDted to. cDntempDrary art. veiled head, a symbDI Dfmystery." busy schedule Df events .. It was nDt fell apart." In particular, aside frDm II ' This year, under the directiDn Df On the NDtre Dame campus, she is until 1972, hDWeVer, that the gailery the prDblem Df pDDr DrganizatiDn, represented by an impDsing black first fell under fDrmal management; little Df thesDrely needed physical Chris MahDn, CAC chairman, the budget was raised to. apprDximately and-white sign hung Dn the west in that year, an art student name'd imprDverpent . Df the wDrking area $2,000 annually. HDwever, this is end Df the DId fieldhDus~; A dDDr Chris ~ Gregory assumed respDnsibil was actually accDmplished and, al to' the right leads into. a small ante ity' as the directDr. Df Isis. With th()Ughadvanceirients', have been hardly enD ugh mDney needed to. exe rDDm, the ceiling black; the wall~ funds DbtainedfrDm the" Cultural made,this year, much mDre needs to. cute the· required. imprDvements; black with tan canvas panels., On Arts CDmmissiDn, he D~ganized what be dDne. FDr, as a structural unit, the CDst Df simple maintenance is, by itself, demanding." FDrtunately, the . nDrth wall, ,a glass pane set was to. ,becDme a, mDst active and the. gallery is sDmewhat Df a'twD- Df abDve the lintel Df a white, dDDr successful seaSDn. ,At times there headed dragon. " ' , nDtes Carey, the staff the main annDunces, in black letters, the was an Dpening fDr a new ShDW It is a huge white rODm, with an gallery in O'Shaughnessy Hall has destinatiDn: Isis. The stUdent art every week. Enthusiasm ran high, DId, cracked cement flDDr painted been extremely helpful 'in lending gallery. nDt Dnly within the art department, grey, and white stuccO. brick walls display stands and Dther, pieces Since 1970, the Isis gallery has but also. amDng a great number Df with brick suppDrt pillars. The which the Isis wDuld Dtherwise have attempted to' serve the University's faculty and students within the Uni ceiling is almDst rustic in appear to. build Dr purchase. '- need fDr a space devDted to' the versity as a whDle. Gradually, ance; its expDsed rafters have been HDwever, there is anDther prDb shDwing Df graduate and under thDugh, interest began to. taper Dff, painted -white, as well as the frame lem frDm, which the Isis suffers, a graduate artwDrk. It began first culminating, in the 1974-75 SChDDI Df the rather dilapidated skylight. prDblem that is far remDved frDm as the undertaking Df a small grDup year, in what might be termed a dis- In all, the area has a rugged quality finances, but which is just as de- 11 10 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 7, 1975 I------~~~~~-_~~~~~ __~-~_~~~c~~~~~~~~_

hirity: today we are alone. Whether seventies, years of public boredom ;. " . ,Physical traits seemed less con we are at sea or moving in our pri-and 'private anxiety, when many of 'If you do. not go' through' , ~~ted.tothe Notre, Dame woman vate steadfastness does not alter our us move in stupors because we are it is possible than an air of intellectual snobbery '.basic solitude. As the poet' Rilke not committed to our hearts' 'de to live worthily and aggressiveness. One Saint ,Mary's has written, "weare solitary." ~ires'; because, for some, these are woman, described the typical· Notre If Rilke is correct, how shall we " years· both of public and private . to maintain your attitudes Dame coed as, '~someone who is espe7 :confront our solitude? Alone we are mediocrity; because there are many ,to hold your position cially good in ,evE;rythhig and she 'as', easily vulnerable to the prophet people who have already given in, to . to die bravely . '" " lets you know it.~' of fantastic doom as we are to the the hollowing out of their minds, , In relation M appearance, the stu~ ailesthesiologist of habit. How can hearts and social desires. Whether but· much will blin'd: you ; , . dents were askeq if they could distin we preserve and, spark our imagi~ we all join the queues of these al much will evade you,' guish.a Saint Mary's woman from a ,native capabilities in a solitary ready dull ghosts, or, whether we at what cost who knows? Notre: Dame, woman. , Most :0£ t~e ,world, a world of opposing' extremes . create within our solitudes a clearer, Notre ',;J)aIlle _students' and ,about -"- compressing itself into silence more pleasing. confidence in our The door itself ' half Saint Mary's stl)dentssaid they or breaking into trivialityf'That imaginative capabilities is a choice makes no promises. .. could tell the two apart tho,ugh many solitude which kindled Rilke's imagi- we should make' soon. It is only a'door~ '" quaUfied '. this by adding [that their nation is snuffing ours out. It may be. apparent by now that classifications had never been backed . I think we must all ask ourselves I do believe we are solitary and, that by proof~ ,"Oh, IllY God, ; yes!", re-

12 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBEU 7, 1975 13 .Portrait of Two Ladies: , ", ~ ·,ATableau'

Gary 'Zebrun, a senior English if our creative resources' have been in' the beginning, uncert. the subject of intelligence, former' Notre Dame students and And if weare solitary, a desperate be the hope of all of us in the seven think YOU,' can. answer ,these ques was painting her fingernails at the women from both schools considered one professor recollect earlier en- movement toward' community will ties. Then,' once we gain a private tions correctly, read on. time of' the interview.) Some felt the average Notre Dame student to counters with the political shadiness not do. Nor can reverting back to stability through ol)r sharper imagi One of the, first things. a . Notre there was a noticeahle .difference in be smarter than the average' Saint of the sixties; marked, as today,' by an idealistic activism, as marked the native eyes, we may· begin the Dame or Saint ,Mary's woman is ex~ the a'ctions of Saint. Mary's and Mary's student. A, freshman from 'a ,rhetoric of concealment and con- sixties, satisfy our solitary 'desires. greater work 'of' social interaction. posed, to as, she begins ,her: life in Notre Dame women in the presence Saint Mary's commented that, : "it tradiction. '" Though,many political changes were But today the campus is too quiet . college, is the ,legendary (if not yet of men-the Notre Dame woman seems. like everyone over there . .Today th~: campu~. du lac is quiet. accomplished in the sixties, such as Sometimes it is still as death. In traditional) rivalry, between the fe appearing more comfortable in her majors in pre-med.''' Notre ,Dame It is at times,' in fact, still as death... the gradual admissions of our shams place of the dullness 1 have nothing males who live' on this side of, the home territory. Another Notre Dame women often felt that their: classes The causes of the move from aCtiv- in Vietnam, the growth of· disillu concrete to offer, because; in order road versus, the o!1es who ,live on student, a sophomore, said she could were more difficult than those at ity to non-invoivementare compli- sionment that drifted iri atter the for a true change to arise, we must that side. Yet the actual quality and always' identify someone from Saint Saint Mary's though, Saint ,Mary's cated and by no means easily pin- age of "Love and Woodstock" should seek out, as' Rilke once did, a "cou extent of the rivalry is vague. In an Mary's, "There's a look in her eye students disagreed .. They ,resented pointed. Clear explanations may be prevent another flood of chaotic rage for the most' strange, 'the most attempt'to investigate: this ,question', like she's on the prowl." The ma- lost. For many students the seven- . idealism. And the political reap singular and the most' inexplicable a number, of interviews were con ties mean developing a firm intel- pearances of conservatism and cor that we may encounter." About this d~cted with women,: at each school. lectual ,foundation." Others" are' in- ruption, such as anti-busing and I am' reminded of· a ,poem by ,The most obvious stereotype found terested in ,purchasing tickets for Nixon's past regime;' will' guard Adrienne: Rich, "Prospective Immi in the conversations, was one of ap comfortable careers. And then there against our trip back into sixty no~ grants Please Note": pearance.· The, descriptions given in are students seeking ~ blend ~f ac~- talgia. For, the disparity between the first paragraph. are exaggerated demics and human· experience. Some the real and the hoped for would be Either you. will but many seemed. to think ,not far people here age into uncertainty; too unbearable this time. Nonethe , go through this door from the truth. The. image of, the others draw up blueprints. These less, because we are human and' or you will riot· go through. - :'SMC. ,chick" flaunting, excessive extremes. of bewilderment and in- sometimes frail, we need in the jewelry, and makeup.in order to win fallibility at once 'are clashing to seventies something to hold on to, a If you go through' ., a Notre Damema!1 was well~known ,cause a .general ~ppearance of in- confidence beyond rigid determin there'is always the risk at either school. A general stereotype 'capacitation on the campus in these ism, but, something firmer than the 'of remembering your name.' of the Notre Dame woman; was. a dull, inactive seventies., confusions of our unacted desires. little: harder 'to,dedu~e' though :~os~ In the separations between unim- And if we are solitary we must Things look at you-doubly attributed ,a more bqokish .person aginative 'dieha~dsand earnest- ro- gain confidence, first of all, in our and you must look back ality to her-she .acted intelligent mantics there is one universal simi- private actions. These are the dull and let them ,happen.. even.if she wasn't. hirity: today we are alone. Whether seventies, years of public boredom ;. " . ,Physical traits seemed less con we are at sea or moving in our pri-and 'private anxiety, when many of 'If you do. not go' through' , ~~ted.tothe Notre, Dame woman vate steadfastness does not alter our us move in stupors because we are it is possible than an air of intellectual snobbery '.basic solitude. As the poet' Rilke not committed to our hearts' 'de to live worthily and aggressiveness. One Saint ,Mary's has written, "weare solitary." ~ires'; because, for some, these are woman, described the typical· Notre If Rilke is correct, how shall we " years· both of public and private . to maintain your attitudes Dame coed as, '~someone who is espe7 :confront our solitude? Alone we are mediocrity; because there are many ,to hold your position cially good in ,evE;rythhig and she 'as', easily vulnerable to the prophet people who have already given in, to . to die bravely . '" " lets you know it.~' of fantastic doom as we are to the the hollowing out of their minds, , In relation M appearance, the stu~ ailesthesiologist of habit. How can hearts and social desires. Whether but· much will blin'd: you ; , . dents were askeq if they could distin we preserve and, spark our imagi~ we all join the queues of these al much will evade you,' guish.a Saint Mary's woman from a ,native capabilities in a solitary ready dull ghosts, or, whether we at what cost who knows? Notre: Dame, woman. , Most :0£ t~e ,world, a world of opposing' extremes . create within our solitudes a clearer, Notre ',;J)aIlle _students' and ,about -"- compressing itself into silence more pleasing. confidence in our The door itself ' half Saint Mary's stl)dentssaid they or breaking into trivialityf'That imaginative capabilities is a choice makes no promises. .. could tell the two apart tho,ugh many solitude which kindled Rilke's imagi- we should make' soon. It is only a'door~ '" quaUfied '. this by adding [that their nation is snuffing ours out. It may be. apparent by now that classifications had never been backed . I think we must all ask ourselves I do believe we are solitary and, that by proof~ ,"Oh, IllY God, ; yes!", re-

12 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBEU 7, 1975 13 sitting in the dorms on weekends the images of both totally up to hear the attitude that they were in college the road viewed them. All the stu . Mary's woman. It is this stereotype, date-oriented and rich. From the in mainly to achieve an "M.R.S." degree dents at Saint Mary's thought the terviews it appeared that the Notre while the Saint Mary's women hop say. Each freshman class inherits the . in turn, that isa ,foundation for stereotypes and often the bad feel with education being purely acci- Notre Dame coeds saw them as a much of the hostility Saint Mary's Dame male has found it more enter to the parties. The interviews represented here ings that accompany them. The stu dental. Many women interviewed are possible threat where men are con women hold for those at Notre Dame. prising to please both groups of cover only a small portion of the dents see each other and talk to in professional fields of study with cerned. As one woman put it, "We're The Notre Dame interviewees were' women by telling each the other's opinions of each student body and do gether even less. Parties or. other plans to continue their education seen as invaders in their territory at a bit shaken by the question, "How faults, no matter how fictitious. not exhaust the range of feeling at social events are the most frequent after graduation from Saint Mary's. parties and the library." Most Saint do you think Saint Mary's women Both Notre Dame and Saint Mary's either school. It may not be safe to meeting grounds, and in these cir The reason for the students' choice Mary's women felt the Notre Dame view you?" Most admitted that they students believe the "myth" that a generalize on such a random sam cumstances the situation is as often of schools offered some surprises. coeds believed that all Saint Mary's had never thought about that side feud is going on between them is pling. Yet, a predictable pattern of a confrontation as an introduction. Most of the Saint Mary's women said . students wanted to go to Notre Dame of the story. A general consensus told them by the men they know. responses became apparent through Classroom acquaintances seem to they selected SainJ:.Mary's because' but were not intelligent enough to finally developed which included the Because very few women know any out the interviews. Except for an have more substance, and clubs or of its small size and the' fact that it thought that they were seen as more women from the other school, it is occasional vicious character or one organizations co-sponsored by both is an all-women's institution. They intellectual. Notre Dame women also the men that carry many of the im who was exceptionally indifferent to schools are helpful in breaking down seemed to like the freedom and indi predicted that Saint Mary's· students ages, stereotypes and hostilities the whole situation, those who re the communication bamer. -A Notre viduality that.is allowed to develop see them as: very competitive and which are understood to exist. without, the competition that often None of the women contacted were sponded came up with quite similar Dame coed related an enlightening aggressive. This last generalization experience that she had this semester occurs in the presence .of men. Many arose from the' notion that. "to stay blind to the important role the answers. There was little seething hatred while taking her first course at Saint had. family ties with Saint Mary's on top" a Notre Dame woman must Notre Dame male plays in their re from either side; the harshest atti- Mary's. On the first day of class a and. severat cited an interest in a be able to beat the best' (or close to lationships/with female students special program as a reason for their living on the opposite campus. Some woman entered who was,to this stu the best) in" the forin of the Notre dent, the personification of the Saint decision. Dame man. Most felt-that this pla openly expressed their belief that it Approximately one-third of the is the Notre Dame men who invoke Mary's stereotype. She was wearing tonic rivalry was blown" out of pro a fashionable dress, her hair was girls interviewed at Saint Mary's had portion, so that too often the Notre the feud . between the two female applied to Notre Dame. Those who student bodies. The reason given was piled high and her makeup was Dame woman' was pictured' as so overdone. The Notre Dame woman were accepted 'at ND usually chose cially sterile. the male's'-' "precious ego" which, to attend Saint Mary's because it had according to them, loves to be flat was amazed' when a month later she Women "at Notre Dame also sensed discovered that this fashion-con a better program ,in their major. that Saint Mary'swomeri'think they tered by having several women The size of Notre Dame also dis fight to gain his affection. This be scious woman was not from Saint put on airs. Notre Dame women are" "WE'RE Mary's but from Notre Dame. '.. . couraged many of· the Saint Mary's attributed with a feeling of suped lief was inferred by one Saint Mary's women: the University seemed much woman when she stated, "The idea Another woman interviewed at ority-':'apparently adsing from' the Saint Mary's informed us, that' she too large for them to develop the fact that they are at Notre Dame. is implanted that 'they' [ND women] THE BABES, type of personal relationships they are, the enemy." was a member of the marching band. One Notre Dame sophomore"ex She emphasized the~any'fine friend wanted. A small Catholic women's pressed' it in this way: "I suppose Proximity may be the difference THEY'RE college with the adv~ntages of hav that decides how a woman is viewed ships" she had made with Notre Dame they 'think we believe 'we' are better women in the band and stated that it ing a large university nearby was than them because we go here." by the men at Notre Dame. These THE BRAINS." the perfect arrangement in the eyes differing outlooks do not please many had given her an entirely' new per~, , Ah-'-but for' the most' pressing spective onfeinale attitudes at 60th of many at Saint Mary's-:"fthe best get in,. In truth, some Saint Mary's topic: the Notre Dame men and how of the Saint Mary's or Notre Dame schools~ -<' ' •.••. of both worlds,';, .' as one woman students did apply to Notre Dame, they treat the women 'from each women. Most Saint Mary's students put ·it. ' . . said they would like to be able to be Most of' the women . interviewed ,.but the majority of the student body school. Both Notre Dame and Saint. from either Sai~t Mary;s or Notre Many Saint Mary's '.at Saint Mary's chose that school be seen. as a friend, too, instead of ,al-. wom~~stress~d Mary's women seemed to think that Dame could' find ; ~o profound basis the .high acad~micrating of. their cause of its particular characteristics waysa~ a date. Sometimes;' it was tlie Notre Dame m'en are interested for a dislike" of the. women from college and felt' many Notre Dame and offerings and, not because of a said, they. feel like pretty objects in Saint· Mary's students as . dates across the 'road. Compliments' .were r women' wouldn't find ifase~lsy as '~ejection fro~ Notre Dame. used for exhibition - possessing no while Notre Dame women are viewed bestowed froni. each side and snide they think. As:6neSaint: Mary's stu- .: The following classic story which . mind, intelligence or feelings. In de as buddies arid pals. The feeling was remarks were 'held at a minimum. dent said, "Notre Dame girls seem so ' Is' floating:around the Saint Mary's scribing her interactions with Notre tudes, that "could be attributed to ~ . tha( since the men and women at, Many times . the women expressed superior, ,but if' Notre Dame 'didn't ca~pus seems to ~ typify the Notre Dame men, one Saint Mary's student either group seemed more a defen Notre Dame are with each other on frustration at the situation between take girls' they'dbedght:here!';: . ; ,Dame women's analysis of the Saint an . everyday basis that their rela said, "It's just all Social City~Fri sive snobbishness than any true hos day and Saturday nights." tility. Often the interviewers were the schools, holding that the obvious In The'majodty ,of:' Notre D.ameMary!s ;woman;acco~ding to several tionships are often more infellectual separation, of the two groups of !I women., interviewed :p~cked:Notre ';'~,Saint Mary's stude'nts.' A Notre Dame Complaints rose from across the made to answer more questions than than ones' the men inight:form with women invited hostility and rivalry. Dame because of its good academie •... , senior ,was asked to the Senior Bar the Saint Mary's women. This was road too. "I'm sick of being one of they could" ask, simply because the women were curious about the other. "I, don't know who's" jealous of reputation and because they wanted'. ;,c;in'e S~hirday night., In getting ready bluritly expressed in the words of a the guys," stated a Notre Dame school's· responses and attitudes. wh"om," 'said one. Saint, Mary's stu-, to go to a coe~ucationa~ university. 'shepu~ on a nice. pah'of jeans, a Saint 'Mary's student: "We're the woman. Most of the women at Notre Several,· of those question-ed were dent in, referen~e to the so-called Many had famIly eonne,ctions • 'v.ith', :,shirt, scarf, blazer and a pair of hoop babes,they're the brains." Dame felt good in terms of the close, hesitant to answer at all,feelingthey feud. . .' .'" " Notre ~ame, usuap~ a father,or /;earrings along with,her, usual. array An investigation 'of' the men's friendly classroom relationships they had insufficient background to ex And there is a subtle irony in the ,brother m the alumnI ranks. Most of,' of je'lVelry;While there, as· she was actions and conversations led to a have with many men but expressed press any opinion on the,matter: existence of this rivalry: 1975 the Notre Dame. women i?t~rviewed .. taiking,to her date, a friend came up major discrepancy. Notre Dame men frustration and disappointment at had never, conSIdered Samt Mary's." behind her and remarked "You're a never being considered. as a date. " All this leads to a conclusion (or has:.beendesignated ,by, the .United have told 'Saint' Mary's women that Nations, ,as International Women's because of what they considered' its:poor ,imita'tion of a SMC chick." they would" just,: as soon come over"" Notre Dame women explained that quasi-conclusion). Stereotypes are of limited .equcational opportunities: StoriesJik~,this are not rare and the average man" never thinks to or ten drawn out ofa -lack of first-hand Year. In this era, of the recognition to their" college 'for companionship, of women's rights and the persistent They~elt the Universi~y offere~ a .their effe~t,·if taken seriously, can while conversely telling the Notre . doesn't want to date that friendly, information . about. a subject,' and more mtenseand . varIed selectIon only be one'of common: bitterness smart coed who sits beside him every this seems to be demonstrated in the imagery, of the sisterhood. of all fe Dame women'· a: ,similar' tale. They males,' it ,. seems., signs can still be of programs:, . , ., jUs this' type of action and attitud~ have siIggested: to the Notre 'Dame Monday; Wednesday and Friday. Be case at hand. The limited contact be seen of: the_ age70ld c?nfrontation of .. Each, group of. students wasa,~Ked' which hnplants .the,stereotype at cause of. this, many Notre Dame tween the women from Saint Mary~s wom~n that tliey treat Saint Mary's woman ,against woman overman. how they thought the women across tiibuted to the ""typical'" Saint women like tlieirstereotype: daffy, women, sometimes find· themselves and,those from Notre Dame leaves 15 14 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 7, 1975 sitting in the dorms on weekends the images of both totally up to hear the attitude that they were in college the road viewed them. All the stu . Mary's woman. It is this stereotype, date-oriented and rich. From the in mainly to achieve an "M.R.S." degree dents at Saint Mary's thought the terviews it appeared that the Notre while the Saint Mary's women hop say. Each freshman class inherits the . in turn, that isa ,foundation for stereotypes and often the bad feel with education being purely acci- Notre Dame coeds saw them as a much of the hostility Saint Mary's Dame male has found it more enter to the parties. The interviews represented here ings that accompany them. The stu dental. Many women interviewed are possible threat where men are con women hold for those at Notre Dame. prising to please both groups of cover only a small portion of the dents see each other and talk to in professional fields of study with cerned. As one woman put it, "We're The Notre Dame interviewees were' women by telling each the other's opinions of each student body and do gether even less. Parties or. other plans to continue their education seen as invaders in their territory at a bit shaken by the question, "How faults, no matter how fictitious. not exhaust the range of feeling at social events are the most frequent after graduation from Saint Mary's. parties and the library." Most Saint do you think Saint Mary's women Both Notre Dame and Saint Mary's either school. It may not be safe to meeting grounds, and in these cir The reason for the students' choice Mary's women felt the Notre Dame view you?" Most admitted that they students believe the "myth" that a generalize on such a random sam cumstances the situation is as often of schools offered some surprises. coeds believed that all Saint Mary's had never thought about that side feud is going on between them is pling. Yet, a predictable pattern of a confrontation as an introduction. Most of the Saint Mary's women said . students wanted to go to Notre Dame of the story. A general consensus told them by the men they know. responses became apparent through Classroom acquaintances seem to they selected SainJ:.Mary's because' but were not intelligent enough to finally developed which included the Because very few women know any out the interviews. Except for an have more substance, and clubs or of its small size and the' fact that it thought that they were seen as more women from the other school, it is occasional vicious character or one organizations co-sponsored by both is an all-women's institution. They intellectual. Notre Dame women also the men that carry many of the im who was exceptionally indifferent to schools are helpful in breaking down seemed to like the freedom and indi predicted that Saint Mary's· students ages, stereotypes and hostilities the whole situation, those who re the communication bamer. -A Notre viduality that.is allowed to develop see them as: very competitive and which are understood to exist. without, the competition that often None of the women contacted were sponded came up with quite similar Dame coed related an enlightening aggressive. This last generalization experience that she had this semester occurs in the presence .of men. Many arose from the' notion that. "to stay blind to the important role the answers. There was little seething hatred while taking her first course at Saint had. family ties with Saint Mary's on top" a Notre Dame woman must Notre Dame male plays in their re from either side; the harshest atti- Mary's. On the first day of class a and. severat cited an interest in a be able to beat the best' (or close to lationships/with female students special program as a reason for their living on the opposite campus. Some woman entered who was,to this stu the best) in" the forin of the Notre dent, the personification of the Saint decision. Dame man. Most felt-that this pla openly expressed their belief that it Approximately one-third of the is the Notre Dame men who invoke Mary's stereotype. She was wearing tonic rivalry was blown" out of pro a fashionable dress, her hair was girls interviewed at Saint Mary's had portion, so that too often the Notre the feud . between the two female applied to Notre Dame. Those who student bodies. The reason given was piled high and her makeup was Dame woman' was pictured' as so overdone. The Notre Dame woman were accepted 'at ND usually chose cially sterile. the male's'-' "precious ego" which, to attend Saint Mary's because it had according to them, loves to be flat was amazed' when a month later she Women "at Notre Dame also sensed discovered that this fashion-con a better program ,in their major. that Saint Mary'swomeri'think they tered by having several women The size of Notre Dame also dis fight to gain his affection. This be scious woman was not from Saint put on airs. Notre Dame women are" "WE'RE Mary's but from Notre Dame. '.. . couraged many of· the Saint Mary's attributed with a feeling of suped lief was inferred by one Saint Mary's women: the University seemed much woman when she stated, "The idea Another woman interviewed at ority-':'apparently adsing from' the Saint Mary's informed us, that' she too large for them to develop the fact that they are at Notre Dame. is implanted that 'they' [ND women] THE BABES, type of personal relationships they are, the enemy." was a member of the marching band. One Notre Dame sophomore"ex She emphasized the~any'fine friend wanted. A small Catholic women's pressed' it in this way: "I suppose Proximity may be the difference THEY'RE college with the adv~ntages of hav that decides how a woman is viewed ships" she had made with Notre Dame they 'think we believe 'we' are better women in the band and stated that it ing a large university nearby was than them because we go here." by the men at Notre Dame. These THE BRAINS." the perfect arrangement in the eyes differing outlooks do not please many had given her an entirely' new per~, , Ah-'-but for' the most' pressing spective onfeinale attitudes at 60th of many at Saint Mary's-:"fthe best get in,. In truth, some Saint Mary's topic: the Notre Dame men and how of the Saint Mary's or Notre Dame schools~ -<' ' •.••. of both worlds,';, .' as one woman students did apply to Notre Dame, they treat the women 'from each women. Most Saint Mary's students put ·it. ' . . said they would like to be able to be Most of' the women . interviewed ,.but the majority of the student body school. Both Notre Dame and Saint. from either Sai~t Mary;s or Notre Many Saint Mary's '.at Saint Mary's chose that school be seen. as a friend, too, instead of ,al-. wom~~stress~d Mary's women seemed to think that Dame could' find ; ~o profound basis the .high acad~micrating of. their cause of its particular characteristics waysa~ a date. Sometimes;' it was tlie Notre Dame m'en are interested for a dislike" of the. women from college and felt' many Notre Dame and offerings and, not because of a said, they. feel like pretty objects in Saint· Mary's students as . dates across the 'road. Compliments' .were r women' wouldn't find ifase~lsy as '~ejection fro~ Notre Dame. used for exhibition - possessing no while Notre Dame women are viewed bestowed froni. each side and snide they think. As:6neSaint: Mary's stu- .: The following classic story which . mind, intelligence or feelings. In de as buddies arid pals. The feeling was remarks were 'held at a minimum. dent said, "Notre Dame girls seem so ' Is' floating:around the Saint Mary's scribing her interactions with Notre tudes, that "could be attributed to ~ . tha( since the men and women at, Many times . the women expressed superior, ,but if' Notre Dame 'didn't ca~pus seems to ~ typify the Notre Dame men, one Saint Mary's student either group seemed more a defen Notre Dame are with each other on frustration at the situation between take girls' they'dbedght:here!';: . ; ,Dame women's analysis of the Saint an . everyday basis that their rela said, "It's just all Social City~Fri sive snobbishness than any true hos day and Saturday nights." tility. Often the interviewers were the schools, holding that the obvious In The'majodty ,of:' Notre D.ameMary!s ;woman;acco~ding to several tionships are often more infellectual separation, of the two groups of !I women., interviewed :p~cked:Notre ';'~,Saint Mary's stude'nts.' A Notre Dame Complaints rose from across the made to answer more questions than than ones' the men inight:form with women invited hostility and rivalry. Dame because of its good academie •... , senior ,was asked to the Senior Bar the Saint Mary's women. This was road too. "I'm sick of being one of they could" ask, simply because the women were curious about the other. "I, don't know who's" jealous of reputation and because they wanted'. ;,c;in'e S~hirday night., In getting ready bluritly expressed in the words of a the guys," stated a Notre Dame school's· responses and attitudes. wh"om," 'said one. Saint, Mary's stu-, to go to a coe~ucationa~ university. 'shepu~ on a nice. pah'of jeans, a Saint 'Mary's student: "We're the woman. Most of the women at Notre Several,· of those question-ed were dent in, referen~e to the so-called Many had famIly eonne,ctions • 'v.ith', :,shirt, scarf, blazer and a pair of hoop babes,they're the brains." Dame felt good in terms of the close, hesitant to answer at all,feelingthey feud. . .' .'" " Notre ~ame, usuap~ a father,or /;earrings along with,her, usual. array An investigation 'of' the men's friendly classroom relationships they had insufficient background to ex And there is a subtle irony in the ,brother m the alumnI ranks. Most of,' of je'lVelry;While there, as· she was actions and conversations led to a have with many men but expressed press any opinion on the,matter: existence of this rivalry: 1975 the Notre Dame. women i?t~rviewed .. taiking,to her date, a friend came up major discrepancy. Notre Dame men frustration and disappointment at had never, conSIdered Samt Mary's." behind her and remarked "You're a never being considered. as a date. " All this leads to a conclusion (or has:.beendesignated ,by, the .United have told 'Saint' Mary's women that Nations, ,as International Women's because of what they considered' its:poor ,imita'tion of a SMC chick." they would" just,: as soon come over"" Notre Dame women explained that quasi-conclusion). Stereotypes are of limited .equcational opportunities: StoriesJik~,this are not rare and the average man" never thinks to or ten drawn out ofa -lack of first-hand Year. In this era, of the recognition to their" college 'for companionship, of women's rights and the persistent They~elt the Universi~y offere~ a .their effe~t,·if taken seriously, can while conversely telling the Notre . doesn't want to date that friendly, information . about. a subject,' and more mtenseand . varIed selectIon only be one'of common: bitterness smart coed who sits beside him every this seems to be demonstrated in the imagery, of the sisterhood. of all fe Dame women'· a: ,similar' tale. They males,' it ,. seems., signs can still be of programs:, . , ., jUs this' type of action and attitud~ have siIggested: to the Notre 'Dame Monday; Wednesday and Friday. Be case at hand. The limited contact be seen of: the_ age70ld c?nfrontation of .. Each, group of. students wasa,~Ked' which hnplants .the,stereotype at cause of. this, many Notre Dame tween the women from Saint Mary~s wom~n that tliey treat Saint Mary's woman ,against woman overman. how they thought the women across tiibuted to the ""typical'" Saint women like tlieirstereotype: daffy, women, sometimes find· themselves and,those from Notre Dame leaves 15 14 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 7, 1975 stUdents destroyed their' draft cards. , 'self provided one of the m()st notable to cease and desist what the Uni The spokesman for, the six, James radical, quotes in, the history of versity ,viewed as illegitimate dis l, ,: Douglass, assistant professor in the Notre Dame activism. He challenged sent. At the end of the time limit, non-violence program, declared:, the University on its role in society however, the students continued to and called the University "a func block' the entranceways, and Riehle :When By our actions here today . tional digestive tract fed by the began to collect identification' cards and by our continuing to spread' foundations and tax grants to shit in accordance with the Hesburgh '; ,: " ' ,"i the truth of resistance and civil out agents to keep the vicious beast plan. disobedience to, a 'law of death, stalking the world." The University took tentative ac 'Notre' i we hope that we can return Another participant, Sister Joanne tion against 10 students, expelling America to the path of life ... Malone (a visitor to campus and five and suspending the others. These \ one of the DC9 who poured blood stUdents immediately, became known D'ame, The commitment to, life is a con- on the Dow files) indicted the Uni- as the "Notre Dame 10." " <,:.' sistent theme in the expressions, of versity as a center of violence. She ,But the University took other ac Notre Dame activism. ,/ said, "The violence is here, like in tion as well. It went to court and The Observer, in its editorial on Father Hesburgh's, office and the obtained an injunction prohibiting 'W'as the day's' activities, felt' the atmo- Placement Office ,where ' 'decisions interference with the interviews. sphere'.on campus' was undescrib- are made about who lives and who This, in effect" handed control; of able: "It was feeling, pure feeling." dies." discipline .in the matter over to, the But a student, TimQ'Mielia, saw the These and other, deep-seated re St. Joseph County Sheriff and sub significance of the. day in more spe- actions to the war and to the Uni jected offenders of the University's cific terms. For him, it was a sign versity carried over into the actions injunction to arrest.' that there was, after all, something of the protestors, making the Dow Students, however, were defiant new on campus, and he saw that ' CIA demonstration the most dis in the face of such tactics. About : by Mike Sarahan, "something new"as~an "extraordi- ruptive of the protests on campus. 75 students returned to the Admin nary hope in the' future of human- The CIA recruiter, left the campus istration Building the next morning kind.;' In that one day, he related, 'after being frustrated in his efforts 'This the secondo! a two~part intent on stopping the interviews is he had gained a respect for Notre ,to interview students; the Dow rep series on student aetivismat Notre from taking place. A confrontation Dame. .",. Dame as more than a place of "great ,resentative was hampered as stu between. police and, students was rhetoric." , 'dents blocked entrances to the averted only when the,' recruiting 'Think you've :sentyour . child to But if the campus came out of Placement Office., A reported 100 agents chose to leave, the, campus its experience with the October" students crowded the hallway in one of two nice, \ quiet Catholic to avoid agitating the students fur moratorium feeling, uplifted, it was front' of, the office," and leadership schools to receive an education? ' ther., A relative calm then returned quickly brought to its feet and to was not apparent. to campus. harsh realities. Notre Dameactivism Into that confusion stepped i: The; Obseh,,~r' pos'ed this question The Dow-CIA controversy, was went'to Washington for the No- Father James Riehle, the Dean of t() :the'parerits of studentsret'urning not to be settled for another month. vember moratorium, and 12 mem- Students" and' he invoked Father to campus in tIie fall of 1969." "Well The Notre Dame 10 appealed their bers of the Notre Dame-Saint Mary's Hesburgh's 15-minute rule for the stop a moment and consider this," suspensions' and expulsions, charg-, community were 'arrested 'at the first time. Under the terms of. the it told them.' Consider the 1968-69 ., ing the" Vniversity ,with complicity " Pentagon' where they were offering rule, students were' given a 15-min~ y'ear. Consider Notre Dame and its dent, and Fred Dedrick, student: marched to' the ROTC· building in corporate crimes and, stressing , a peace Mass. ute period of" meditation in which their own ~ moral innocence. activists. " " body vice president, among its first where cros~es were' placed . as a ' And back on' campus, ,students 1968-69 was an important year members. The group anticipated' memorial to Notre Dame students, were preparing for the return of the in ,the history of activism at Notre action along a broad front of issues,: and their' lines stretched' fro'm the Dow-CIA recruiting teams' in mid Dame, ,the starr" explained. There including' racism, the presence of main quad to the Rockne gym. There ~ovember. The Coalition' for Po was the Dow-CIA protest with its ROTC' on campus and a number' of was certainly: dissent.·' . litical Action held open meetings, 'Itl three-'day sit-in; "and there was the others, and its first substantive ef But'there wasatHrmation :as well. and the key question discussed was J, pornography conference incident-':':' forts were toward 'planning the Brian McInerney,'one of the founders whether the 'protest should be dis I, a 'snowball throwing, mace-spray Notre Dame observance of the Octo-, of theCoaiition"for Political Action, ruptive 'or non~disruptive, violent or I ing conflict' between stUdents' and bernationwide moratorium 'against explained .: the implications' of the non-violent. Students demonstrated j l police. And' 'there 'was a' general the war.' march on the ROTC 'building, which their militancy by, deciding that, in awakening of 'students to' what was The Observer found ,'out' exactly l he' called'tIie "Silent Peace Walk." f the event Father Hesburgh's15- " gain on' around the: Yes, '68-'69 what kind of year it was to be on According .. to ,McInerney, the stu minute rule was. invoked, students,. was 'quite • a year, The Observer October 15 for the moratorium set dents 'would walk to the protest I would not disperse' and would con'-' l- mused. It wondered: what will'69- a tone, which' carried ,through 'the ' carrying' black banners as' signs of front the, Administration directly. '70 bring? entire year.' Thedaybrought with it mourning, but . as they turned from The hypothetical, became the real f 't:, an outpouring' of dissent· and affir the building at the end of the cere~ the following afternoon. Theianswerwas' nof long in com~ mation' that far surpassed any, pre mony, those in the . lead would raise Students gathered atthe"Admin ing:Studentsconverged on' South vious demonstration: .. bright 'ba'nners,' ','symbolizing a istrationBuilding for the 1:00 pro~ Bend that fall with plans and be~ . There was ,dissent. The day's ac turning from death towards life.'" test., Aw organizer' of the activists, gan to put them into effect. ' tivities saw an estimated 2000 stu Affirmation was also to be' found Tim MacCarry, had spoken of the IIi summer strategy sessions, the dents' protest the' war by--,partici in the central activity of the day rally as a "cleansing of the temple," student Coalition 'for, Political Ac~ pating ih teach-ins and marches ,in the Resistance Mass held in. front and it was clear that emotions were tion had been formed, and it claimed South Bend and on' campus; At one of the library. At the' Offertory of at -a high pitch., , Phil 'McKenna, student body presi- point· in; the' afternoon,' students the Mass, two i professors and four That.· afternoon,; MacCarry him- 16 " SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER :7" 1975 17 stUdents destroyed their' draft cards. , 'self provided one of the m()st notable to cease and desist what the Uni The spokesman for, the six, James radical, quotes in, the history of versity ,viewed as illegitimate dis l, ,: Douglass, assistant professor in the Notre Dame activism. He challenged sent. At the end of the time limit, non-violence program, declared:, the University on its role in society however, the students continued to and called the University "a func block' the entranceways, and Riehle :When By our actions here today . tional digestive tract fed by the began to collect identification' cards and by our continuing to spread' foundations and tax grants to shit in accordance with the Hesburgh '; ,: " ' ,"i the truth of resistance and civil out agents to keep the vicious beast plan. disobedience to, a 'law of death, stalking the world." The University took tentative ac 'Notre' i we hope that we can return Another participant, Sister Joanne tion against 10 students, expelling America to the path of life ... Malone (a visitor to campus and five and suspending the others. These \ one of the DC9 who poured blood stUdents immediately, became known D'ame, The commitment to, life is a con- on the Dow files) indicted the Uni- as the "Notre Dame 10." " <,:.' sistent theme in the expressions, of versity as a center of violence. She ,But the University took other ac Notre Dame activism. ,/ said, "The violence is here, like in tion as well. It went to court and The Observer, in its editorial on Father Hesburgh's, office and the obtained an injunction prohibiting 'W'as the day's' activities, felt' the atmo- Placement Office ,where ' 'decisions interference with the interviews. sphere'.on campus' was undescrib- are made about who lives and who This, in effect" handed control; of able: "It was feeling, pure feeling." dies." discipline .in the matter over to, the But a student, TimQ'Mielia, saw the These and other, deep-seated re St. Joseph County Sheriff and sub significance of the. day in more spe- actions to the war and to the Uni jected offenders of the University's cific terms. For him, it was a sign versity carried over into the actions injunction to arrest.' that there was, after all, something of the protestors, making the Dow Students, however, were defiant new on campus, and he saw that ' CIA demonstration the most dis in the face of such tactics. About : by Mike Sarahan, "something new"as~an "extraordi- ruptive of the protests on campus. 75 students returned to the Admin nary hope in the' future of human- The CIA recruiter, left the campus istration Building the next morning kind.;' In that one day, he related, 'after being frustrated in his efforts 'This the secondo! a two~part intent on stopping the interviews is he had gained a respect for Notre ,to interview students; the Dow rep series on student aetivismat Notre from taking place. A confrontation Dame. .",. Dame as more than a place of "great ,resentative was hampered as stu between. police and, students was rhetoric." , 'dents blocked entrances to the averted only when the,' recruiting 'Think you've :sentyour . child to But if the campus came out of Placement Office., A reported 100 agents chose to leave, the, campus its experience with the October" students crowded the hallway in one of two nice, \ quiet Catholic to avoid agitating the students fur moratorium feeling, uplifted, it was front' of, the office," and leadership schools to receive an education? ' ther., A relative calm then returned quickly brought to its feet and to was not apparent. to campus. harsh realities. Notre Dameactivism Into that confusion stepped i: The; Obseh,,~r' pos'ed this question The Dow-CIA controversy, was went'to Washington for the No- Father James Riehle, the Dean of t() :the'parerits of studentsret'urning not to be settled for another month. vember moratorium, and 12 mem- Students" and' he invoked Father to campus in tIie fall of 1969." "Well The Notre Dame 10 appealed their bers of the Notre Dame-Saint Mary's Hesburgh's 15-minute rule for the stop a moment and consider this," suspensions' and expulsions, charg-, community were 'arrested 'at the first time. Under the terms of. the it told them.' Consider the 1968-69 ., ing the" Vniversity ,with complicity " Pentagon' where they were offering rule, students were' given a 15-min~ y'ear. Consider Notre Dame and its dent, and Fred Dedrick, student: marched to' the ROTC· building in corporate crimes and, stressing , a peace Mass. ute period of" meditation in which their own ~ moral innocence. activists. " " body vice president, among its first where cros~es were' placed . as a ' And back on' campus, ,students 1968-69 was an important year members. The group anticipated' memorial to Notre Dame students, were preparing for the return of the in ,the history of activism at Notre action along a broad front of issues,: and their' lines stretched' fro'm the Dow-CIA recruiting teams' in mid Dame, ,the starr" explained. There including' racism, the presence of main quad to the Rockne gym. There ~ovember. The Coalition' for Po was the Dow-CIA protest with its ROTC' on campus and a number' of was certainly: dissent.·' . litical Action held open meetings, 'Itl three-'day sit-in; "and there was the others, and its first substantive ef But'there wasatHrmation :as well. and the key question discussed was J, pornography conference incident-':':' forts were toward 'planning the Brian McInerney,'one of the founders whether the 'protest should be dis I, a 'snowball throwing, mace-spray Notre Dame observance of the Octo-, of theCoaiition"for Political Action, ruptive 'or non~disruptive, violent or I ing conflict' between stUdents' and bernationwide moratorium 'against explained .: the implications' of the non-violent. Students demonstrated j l police. And' 'there 'was a' general the war.' march on the ROTC 'building, which their militancy by, deciding that, in awakening of 'students to' what was The Observer found ,'out' exactly l he' called'tIie "Silent Peace Walk." f the event Father Hesburgh's15- " gain on' around the: Yes, '68-'69 what kind of year it was to be on According .. to ,McInerney, the stu minute rule was. invoked, students,. was 'quite • a year, The Observer October 15 for the moratorium set dents 'would walk to the protest I would not disperse' and would con'-' l- mused. It wondered: what will'69- a tone, which' carried ,through 'the ' carrying' black banners as' signs of front the, Administration directly. '70 bring? entire year.' Thedaybrought with it mourning, but . as they turned from The hypothetical, became the real f 't:, an outpouring' of dissent· and affir the building at the end of the cere~ the following afternoon. Theianswerwas' nof long in com~ mation' that far surpassed any, pre mony, those in the . lead would raise Students gathered atthe"Admin ing:Studentsconverged on' South vious demonstration: .. bright 'ba'nners,' ','symbolizing a istrationBuilding for the 1:00 pro~ Bend that fall with plans and be~ . There was ,dissent. The day's ac turning from death towards life.'" test., Aw organizer' of the activists, gan to put them into effect. ' tivities saw an estimated 2000 stu Affirmation was also to be' found Tim MacCarry, had spoken of the IIi summer strategy sessions, the dents' protest the' war by--,partici in the central activity of the day rally as a "cleansing of the temple," student Coalition 'for, Political Ac~ pating ih teach-ins and marches ,in the Resistance Mass held in. front and it was clear that emotions were tion had been formed, and it claimed South Bend and on' campus; At one of the library. At the' Offertory of at -a high pitch., , Phil 'McKenna, student body presi- point· in; the' afternoon,' students the Mass, two i professors and four That.· afternoon,; MacCarry him- 16 " SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER :7" 1975 17 In a statement issued by the 10 notable examples are these: Notre on November 24, their representa Dame was the information head tive Gary McInerney.countered the quarters for a national economic University's claims and established boycott in which, as spokesman the basis for the defense of, the 10 Rick Libowitz put it, students would as follows: "put a dent into the system respon sible for this war." And also, a We were accused of "obstruct concerted canvassing effort of stu- . ing the life of the University." , dents produced over 20,000 signa . We did not obstruct that life, but ~,'tuni!s'supporting Father Hesburgh's rather affirmed" the life of a statement on the war. Christian University. Hesburgh himself looked on all this May activity and was pleased. The students steered away from In a national television. interview solely technical issues and attempted he suggested: to'discuss moral issues throughout Maybe we should say "Thank their appeaL .. .'-; The Appeals Board hearing the God, that young Americans have which followed were critical ones On May 4, Kent State was the case responded favorably to . the that tender a conscience, and may in the life of the University. scene of tragedy when National students' point -of view because it . they always keep it." The revived spirit of the students Guardsmen shot four students. On based· its -own, findings not only on was evident on Friday, May 1. Under the same day, Notre Dame staged the technical issues but also on the But it appears that the strike and the direction of a student, Mike a massive rally, but theadministra students' moral commitment,·, The the related efforts of May, 1970, were Shaughnessy, the campus was to tion was clearly side~by-side with Board concluded in its judgment of actually the last flaming of the ac celebrate Free City Day. For the the students on this campus. Father the affair that "we can find no rea tivist passions of' students, for the day, students were encouraged to Hesburgh assumed the leadership son to doubt (the students'): mo Notre Dame "conscience" was not leave the formal education system role of the protest, in fact, telling tivation,their good faith, their act to speak' so vocally again. and take' time . to reflect on the the students and the nation that ing in' accordance with the spirit . Perhaps it was too hard to stay course of their education, to judge there comes a time when "moral of Jesus Christ and with the spirit tender, too easy to' harden, but in it and to discuss reforms with fac righteousness is more important than of academic community.'" any case, it was clear when students ulty and students. empty victory." came back in the fall of 1970 that The students might seem to have Along more militant lines, the Newly elected Student Body Presi times had changed. Old spokesmen been vin'dicated. in their actions; Coalition· for' Political Action had dent Dave Krashna took his lead were curiously silent, and no. new then, . but the final decision' rested, planned a demonstration that after from the Free City'people and called voice of 'the students arose even not with the Board, but with Father noon to present demarids at the for the cessation of classes. In an though the war dragged on. Riehle, making him both the insti trustees' meeting. CPA leaders had emotional address, he urged the stu And the year came and went gator and the ultimate arbiter of the so reacted, to the panty raid by exam dents to "stop, look and listen and as if activism had never been a part charges. So while the Appeals ining the place of men and women absolutely say stop to the education of the Notre Dame experience. Ob Board found the Administration to in the University, and most of their we're getting at this time." server columnist· Dave' Lammers have been negligent in not taking demands aimed at limiting "sexism" A strike was initiated on campus gave the 1970-71 year its appro steps to avoid a confrontation, "and on campus; that day, and after a meeting of all priate eulogy: while it publicly doubted Father , But what is significant is that the the strikers, it was determined that Riehle's recollection of the events, it leaders . intended to present their classes would continue· to be boy The year rolls out in coitsiderable could only make recommendations, views in person, and trustee meet cotted until May 15, but students quiet, a liquid progress of days and and Riehle suspended all 10 for the ings had never before been open to were urged to stay on the campus nights, signifying nothing, meaning first semester. the general student body. The stu for that time. While many other nothing. ' Second-semester activism natu dents did not meet with the full universities closed their doors to rally began with a great deal of at board,' but after a shouting match students, fearing unrest, Notre And so' it .goes. , tention directed toward the Place with two trustees and 'a room-to Dame, as a group, was to take time In the major events of these years, ment Bureau and. its dealings with room search of the'Center for Con to' think over· and question and act the years of student activism, stu- corporations in the aftermath of the ,tinuing . Education, 30 students, upon the moral and political issues ".dents came face to face with some Dow-CIA protests. First, ·the Stu pounding on' the door of the meet which had again surfaced. very basic questions of the human dent Life Council, at its February ing room; forced the board to cut A new' direction for education was condition. Their answers have had meeting, decided to ban the CIA short its session. The students', take- surely at the heart of the strike ac a .significanteffect on their own from recruiting on campus. . over; of the CCE -completely eclipsed tivities; Striking students inaugu lives. Six·members of the Notre Next, the Coalition for Political the Free' City Day program. rated the "Communiversity," and in Dame community have discussed Action organized a week's program 26 were "guilty. of racial discrim much interest. . And after its Com With student activism on the rise, its informal classes students, faculty, these effects in the October issue of to make students conscious of cor ination, discrimination against wom plicity Week, the Coalition for Po national- events intervened to give Administration and persons from Notre Dame Magazine. porate wrongdoings and to make en, conflict of interest in defense litical 'Action was . out .of .the news Notre Dame' its greatest, but last, the 'surrounding community joined But their answers should also ex the Placement Bureau more selec- contracts or other injustices." for several months.' 'The only major surge of dissent and moral outrage. in, posing questions of compelling tend· further. They.. should affect --tive in the company that it kept. The But after a good beginning, ac controversy on campus until the end President Nixon announced the in national 'and personal, interest and those who might still remember the action was prompted by the Coali tivism wenf into one of its periodic of April was. the' An Tostal panty vasion of Cambodia by United in responding to them. questions. And those. who are to tion's finding that 17 of' 31 cor declines .. Two students tried to stir raid. Statestroopson·April 30, 1970, and But students operated outside the learn of them. And" those who will porationsscheduled to interview up opposition to the war with a new May 1 came as something of an the move enflamed campuses across classroom' setting as well in their recall ,"the time when Notre Dame students between February 16 and organization, but-it did not generate explosion of activity--'-and the weeks the nation. May "education." 'Among the more was active."

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, L In a statement issued by the 10 notable examples are these: Notre on November 24, their representa Dame was the information head tive Gary McInerney.countered the quarters for a national economic University's claims and established boycott in which, as spokesman the basis for the defense of, the 10 Rick Libowitz put it, students would as follows: "put a dent into the system respon sible for this war." And also, a We were accused of "obstruct concerted canvassing effort of stu- . ing the life of the University." , dents produced over 20,000 signa . We did not obstruct that life, but ~,'tuni!s'supporting Father Hesburgh's rather affirmed" the life of a statement on the war. Christian University. Hesburgh himself looked on all this May activity and was pleased. The students steered away from In a national television. interview solely technical issues and attempted he suggested: to'discuss moral issues throughout Maybe we should say "Thank their appeaL .. .'-; The Appeals Board hearing the God, that young Americans have which followed were critical ones On May 4, Kent State was the case responded favorably to . the that tender a conscience, and may in the life of the University. scene of tragedy when National students' point -of view because it . they always keep it." The revived spirit of the students Guardsmen shot four students. On based· its -own, findings not only on was evident on Friday, May 1. Under the same day, Notre Dame staged the technical issues but also on the But it appears that the strike and the direction of a student, Mike a massive rally, but theadministra students' moral commitment,·, The the related efforts of May, 1970, were Shaughnessy, the campus was to tion was clearly side~by-side with Board concluded in its judgment of actually the last flaming of the ac celebrate Free City Day. For the the students on this campus. Father the affair that "we can find no rea tivist passions of' students, for the day, students were encouraged to Hesburgh assumed the leadership son to doubt (the students'): mo Notre Dame "conscience" was not leave the formal education system role of the protest, in fact, telling tivation,their good faith, their act to speak' so vocally again. and take' time . to reflect on the the students and the nation that ing in' accordance with the spirit . Perhaps it was too hard to stay course of their education, to judge there comes a time when "moral of Jesus Christ and with the spirit tender, too easy to' harden, but in it and to discuss reforms with fac righteousness is more important than of academic community.'" any case, it was clear when students ulty and students. empty victory." came back in the fall of 1970 that The students might seem to have Along more militant lines, the Newly elected Student Body Presi times had changed. Old spokesmen been vin'dicated. in their actions; Coalition· for' Political Action had dent Dave Krashna took his lead were curiously silent, and no. new then, . but the final decision' rested, planned a demonstration that after from the Free City'people and called voice of 'the students arose even not with the Board, but with Father noon to present demarids at the for the cessation of classes. In an though the war dragged on. Riehle, making him both the insti trustees' meeting. CPA leaders had emotional address, he urged the stu And the year came and went gator and the ultimate arbiter of the so reacted, to the panty raid by exam dents to "stop, look and listen and as if activism had never been a part charges. So while the Appeals ining the place of men and women absolutely say stop to the education of the Notre Dame experience. Ob Board found the Administration to in the University, and most of their we're getting at this time." server columnist· Dave' Lammers have been negligent in not taking demands aimed at limiting "sexism" A strike was initiated on campus gave the 1970-71 year its appro steps to avoid a confrontation, "and on campus; that day, and after a meeting of all priate eulogy: while it publicly doubted Father , But what is significant is that the the strikers, it was determined that Riehle's recollection of the events, it leaders . intended to present their classes would continue· to be boy The year rolls out in coitsiderable could only make recommendations, views in person, and trustee meet cotted until May 15, but students quiet, a liquid progress of days and and Riehle suspended all 10 for the ings had never before been open to were urged to stay on the campus nights, signifying nothing, meaning first semester. the general student body. The stu for that time. While many other nothing. ' Second-semester activism natu dents did not meet with the full universities closed their doors to rally began with a great deal of at board,' but after a shouting match students, fearing unrest, Notre And so' it .goes. , tention directed toward the Place with two trustees and 'a room-to Dame, as a group, was to take time In the major events of these years, ment Bureau and. its dealings with room search of the'Center for Con to' think over· and question and act the years of student activism, stu- corporations in the aftermath of the ,tinuing . Education, 30 students, upon the moral and political issues ".dents came face to face with some Dow-CIA protests. First, ·the Stu pounding on' the door of the meet which had again surfaced. very basic questions of the human dent Life Council, at its February ing room; forced the board to cut A new' direction for education was condition. Their answers have had meeting, decided to ban the CIA short its session. The students', take- surely at the heart of the strike ac a .significanteffect on their own from recruiting on campus. . over; of the CCE -completely eclipsed tivities; Striking students inaugu lives. Six·members of the Notre Next, the Coalition for Political the Free' City Day program. rated the "Communiversity," and in Dame community have discussed Action organized a week's program 26 were "guilty. of racial discrim much interest. . And after its Com With student activism on the rise, its informal classes students, faculty, these effects in the October issue of to make students conscious of cor ination, discrimination against wom plicity Week, the Coalition for Po national- events intervened to give Administration and persons from Notre Dame Magazine. porate wrongdoings and to make en, conflict of interest in defense litical 'Action was . out .of .the news Notre Dame' its greatest, but last, the 'surrounding community joined But their answers should also ex the Placement Bureau more selec- contracts or other injustices." for several months.' 'The only major surge of dissent and moral outrage. in, posing questions of compelling tend· further. They.. should affect --tive in the company that it kept. The But after a good beginning, ac controversy on campus until the end President Nixon announced the in national 'and personal, interest and those who might still remember the action was prompted by the Coali tivism wenf into one of its periodic of April was. the' An Tostal panty vasion of Cambodia by United in responding to them. questions. And those. who are to tion's finding that 17 of' 31 cor declines .. Two students tried to stir raid. Statestroopson·April 30, 1970, and But students operated outside the learn of them. And" those who will porationsscheduled to interview up opposition to the war with a new May 1 came as something of an the move enflamed campuses across classroom' setting as well in their recall ,"the time when Notre Dame students between February 16 and organization, but-it did not generate explosion of activity--'-and the weeks the nation. May "education." 'Among the more was active."

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Recent surveys have shown that the 3. The Irish Guard and score two touchdowns, two extra average Notre Dame student's A. Pulls on sweep plays. point conversions, one on a running S.A.T. scores have slightly increased B. Marches out in front of the play, kick two more field goals in amidst a definite decline in scores band. the second half. The total number at other colleges. While intelligence C. Works in the main security of points scored divided by the num levels remained on the upswing, the , gate. ber of points scored by the offense, nation's so-called number one stu . D. Is a new' brand of antiper~ multiplied by Steve' :Niehaus' dent body' has experienced a sharp spirant . sold . at . the book weight is equal to: (You have decline in the famed . Notre Dame store. five seconds). spirit. In view of. ,this startling evi~ A. O. dence, the following evaluation, the 4...... runs this University '.no B. 1.2 X 103• On a typicalFriday morning be tained his college track team. Pro- 1948. Here he, has taught under N.D.S.T. (Notre Dame Spirit Test) matter what ...... :.. , .... says.' C. an imaginary'number. fore a: home football game, the Law . fessor Broderick's love. of sports, graduate geology. and it, is to his has been compiled to see just how A. Father Hesburgh, Father D. an Irish dream. S(!hool lounge is transformed from especially football, led him to be students that he gives, most of the much of. that. fighting Irish blood Burtchaell: E. no answer, . dividing by 0 is an a haven of quiet chatter to a . teem come known. as "Notre Dame's credit for. inspiration for his book, you possess. B. The students, Dean Roemer. undefined operation. ing throng of enthusiastic Notre number-one fan," with his presence Stone: Properties,. Durability, in C. God, the student body. Dame rooters. It is here that the on the sidelines a tradition.in itself. Man's Environment. , Notre Dame Spirit Test D. Football, Digger Phelps. Read the following selection care !'Chief," as. he is fondly referred to In a faculty resolution, the Dean Winkler has just returned from Don't look at the test questions E. Money, anyone. fully and answer the following ques by .. those familiar . with the almost and faculty of the Notre Dame Law Salt Lake City where the Geological until you are told to· do ·so ..The tions: legendary figure, conducts, his tra School stated, ,"John J. Broderick Society of America presented him rules are self-explanatory. .Each , "Notre Dame has always been 'a ditional , pep, rallies '. which • draw has become an indispensable part of with their, annual Best Publications correct answer is worth five points; coach's dream-a campus without law students, alumni, and~ curious · the spirit and climate of: the Notre Award. Prior to its release in 1973, a blank space is worth zero points coeds' or fraternities; with auto bystanders", all attracted by, the Dame Law School ... NO.one within Winkler had been working on the and an incorrect ·answer .is worth matic suspension for. the use of aleo sounds of the. Chief's personal stu 'memory has touched so many minds book for .10 years and he says, it is minus five points. Hopefully this hoI; with tight disciplinary. regula dent band, which features a variety 'and hearts, or endeared himself to now a "scientific. best-seller." Stone will discourage haphazard guess~ tions that make it almost impossible I of instruments, ranging ,from kazoo so many students ---.-: not only law weathering has long been a sour,ce ing, but: since there· are ,no wrong for an .athlete' to get, out of condi to trumpet. . students, ,but students all over the of. fascination to i)r. Winkler and answers 'given, all' answers are cor tion; with a religious program, de , Professor John ~'Chief~' Broderick · campus." some ,of. the examples used in :his, rect. (We understand that there signed to produce spiritual health of .theNotre Dame Law School re book are from the N.D. ,campus. are still a few flaws in this test but and peace of mind. That's the way ceivedhis nickname when he served In offering suggestions for im you' must realize that no' aptitude Notre Dame was (what it still pretty as an instructor in 'the, Naval officer Almost everyone pursues some proved conservation of stone, Wink test of this sort is perfect.).· Any,. much is)' and the way Rockne in training program at. Notre Dame hobby or avocation during his ler reveals not, merely a scientific one caught cheating will be forced tended· to' keep it. He fought any during World War II. " . leisure. hours. However, to sustain but also a personal concern. Richard to serve as tackling dummy. for the intrusion that threatened masculine A summa cum laude graduate of the life processes, something is Jahns, Dean of the Geological De Irish' football 'team.. The test is not habits and outlook. His basic speech Washington and, Lee; where he, was needed to afford us a little income. partment at' Stallford University, timed and you have 3 minutes before' for outside dinner' groups was the also a .member of, Phi. Beta,Kappa, When these two, business and plea writes of Winkler's book that his in we will be around to collEict. them. wholesome influence of athletics: on the Chief returned to his native. New sure, coincide, as they have in the terest borders on "genuine personal Good 'luck! Pencils. up .. ; Begin.~ a sane American life and the danger York to earn his law degree from ,case of Dr. Erhard Winkler of the affection for commercial . stone;" of. our young people softening up." St. John's University in 1935. After Earth Science Department,' a most' just as he enjoys "the look and feel CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER:, '. spending a few years affiliated with fortunate synthesis is attained. of a polished granite panel," "he Every Notre Dame fan knows that: 7 .. This passage would lead' one to a . New York City firm .and later in Dr. Winkler, a' ge'ology professor, suffers a. bit from the sight of a 'A. ',There is more 'spirit in",the think that, Knute Rockne was:; his own private practice, Professor enthusiastically recalls in 'thick rusty, corroded cornice." , stands than on the field. A. ·thegreatest football coach of-.r Broderick returned to' Notre Dame German accent ' that his, interest in Spending. so much time!'in the B.There are more spectators on ... his time;~' ' to· teach at'the invitation of Dean the field of, geology was aroused' in field" has cultivated other outdoor the field than in the stands. B. a leftist radical. Manion in ,1947. , ' the, first grade in Vienna..As interests in Dr. Winkler, such as C. Notre' Dame' spirit comes in 'In the pursuit of. academic excel · Winkler admits with an impish glint sailing, swimming and kayaking pints and quarts. 5. Notre Dame's starting quarter C. a male Chauvinist. lence, Professor. Broderick has been in his eye, "I have a love life--my which he enjoys with his wife and i, 'D. Noaleoholic beverages areal back is D. a member of campus ministry~ an innovator from the beginning, of research!", He attended the, Uni .children. Also. he can he seen riding lowed'in the stadium. A. Joe Montana; : E. dean of students.'

his.teaching career; He was among versity of Vienna where a professor his bike ,("my muscle ,Mercedes") E. The concession stands sell ex B.' Rick Slager. ' :-;- the first to advocate awarding, the asked him. to, conduct field trips across campus, but you have to look . cellent mixers. C. Both of the above. Your time is, up.. Pencils down, degree of ,juris" doctor (the equiv (what he terms 'as "geological en- fast to catch, him because :he pedals D. Neither of the above.,· yes THIS MEANS YOU! Please pass Ii

alent of a ·Ph.D.) to law: school ,tertainment") through the sur with: gusto! ", 2; The fight song was written by E. A Devine mystery. 'your answer sheets in before leav -Iiil :, . - graduates. rounding countryside... Later ' he ,.The professor's plans for the fu , •. , A., Father. Sorin. ' ing.Your scores will be compared However impressive his intellec;-, taught as the equivalent ofaT.A. ture include .continued research. It :: B., Chopin. 6. The fighting. Irish score ,three to ,those of a fixed reference group il will be interesting to note what new tual accomplishments" the' Chief '.has 'at the Vienna Institute '. of Tech ,C. ,KnuteRockne: . touchdowns" miss one extra point of 1948 and the results will.be 11 also been· an. avid sports enthusiast nology until he came to· America fruits his love life--research-:-will D. Shea and Shea;' conversion, . kick one field goal and posted' in the lobby of the Huddle II'I since his college days, when he cap- and the University of Notre Dame in . yield.'. ,~ E. '.Two intoxicated leprechauns. make two safeties in the first half next July.• II 20 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 7, 1975 21 II I! ------_.. -----~----.------

II il Midwest Blues:

Arbor they wanted $30 for a three might not, but ideally that is what here is this 65-year-old bluesman An American Festival day pass for their blues festival. You we are trying to do. It was tried saying that he's too skinny to play just can't touch anything for that two years ago with little success, football but I'm always on your side. price. $1.50 for Hound Dog Taylor, because first of all it didn't have We've just had fantastic audiences why that isn't even the cover you enough publicity. every festival. 'A lot of the artists, could pay to see Hound Dog in a Scholastic: What is the opinion of Otis Rush and Big Walter in par club in Chicago. That's part of the the blues artists themselves, of the ticular, are difficult at times. reason why it lost money. situation of the festival? They are Otis is often too polite, to the point The following interview is with they had lost so much money in electric set with Mann Slipscomo and The next year we decided we coming from the black areas of where he makes you feel uncom Perry Aberli, a graduate student in 1970; $35,000 due to incredible mis Little John with Jimmie Rogers. would go back to the festival Chicago, be it the south or west fortable: that's the problem with government and coordinator of the management and politics. There were A just really super lineup; with format - two nights. We had side, or even from Gary to play him, but once he gets into things, Midwest Blues Festival, 1976. Perry people like John Sinclair running Guy and Wells, and the Wolf and Roosevelt Sykes, Houston Stack before an audience that is composed when he becomes open and effusive, has been coordinator since 1971 and the festival, and they tried to make Muddy Waters you have the three house came back, this time with largely of white, middle-class col once he starts playing, you really has come to know many of the per ita kind of politically motivated af top blues acts in the country, except Joe Willie Wilkins / and the King lege students. Do the artists exhibit can enjoy him. He's mo'ody in' the formers personally. fair and plus the fact that Goose maybe with the exception of B.B. Biscuit Boys. The first time Houston any' apprehensions about making sense that if you ask him if the Creek Rock Festival was held right King. It was just a' superb show, came it was alone, the second time an appearance? sound 'system is okay" or if the Scholastic: What about the history outside of Detroit that same week plus the fact that it was the last per with the group, the King Biscuit Perry: Well, mostly, they really get mikes are in order, he just says that of the festival itself and some past end. So the decision was made not to formance of Fred MacDowell.· Boys, brought up from Helena, excited about it. It's a big event for it's all perfect. Son Seals is easy highlights? This is the fourth Mid hold a festival in 1971. It was really We've had that happen to us a Arkansas. Hound' Dog Taylor fin the majority of artists and they en to get along with, there's never any west Blues Festival? nice from a blues freak point of view, couple of tim'es, it's sort of ironic; ished up the set Friday night. On joy it a lot. They know that they're problems with him. He is very inde Perry: Strictly speaking, this is the because the only people that' at a couple of people will play at Saturday night there was Shirley going to be well received, and they pendent, you just have to'tell him fourth. Actually, before there is the tended were blues freaks. The rock Notre Dame Blues' and that will Griffith with Yank Rachel and J. T. that it's time to go' on at this time; Midwest Blues, there' was in 1970 festival cut into the gate, so they be the last time they'll ever play. Brown, Son Seals, and Mighty Joe and 'do this long a set. I' generally a small two-day festival that was lost a lot of money that way. By It ,happened with Fred Mac Young and Coco Taylor. That was don't go in there and say, "Well this held in Stepan and put together by Ann Arbor not having a festival in Dowell in 1971. He finished at just a really fantastic show. ,is a' boogie audience,' if you play a , Bob Brinkman, Cultural Art Com 1971, I got together with Brinkman, Notre Dame, and he was sched Last year' was technically Mid lot of boogie you'll get them really missioner for that year. He called telling him that this was our uled to play at Wisconsin and can west Blues III, we didn't count excited." I feel that the artists will up' Dick Wadderman, who is the chance; we can start a festival here, celled out; he went home and he the series of concerts as a fes play what they want to play. Blind blues manager in the country, at get it established, and maybe we died in July the year following. That tival. We went back to the one John Davis I've never met, soIdon't least by reputatiori among the art could do it as a regular thing. We was the, first Midwest, Blues, the night format because the Com know how he's going to be to deal ists in the country. He called Dick went ahead and planned it for three year before was, just a blues fes misslOn was saving money for with;· I don't think. he should be and told him he' wanted a two-day days, and as it turned out, it ~as tival, it didii't even have a name. second semester to bring a big name very difficult. Albert King I've also festival and gave him a price range the largest ,blues festival in the The next year the emphasis in the concert right before the CJF, Herbie never met, but I've seen' him a and said could you deliver me ,a nation that year. Cultural Arts Commission was on Hancock, so that part of our money couple of times and a friend of mine package? Wadderman put together Financially, we took a bath, culture, dance and drama being the went to the Hancock concert.. The went to Chicago and was talking to a two-night festival and it had Fred not in the sense that Ann Arbor highlights of that; year. I had a budget for the blues was cut back, his manager, and apparently Al MacDowell, Otis Rush, J. B. Hutto, did, we lost maybe three to four really hard time explaining to the and the fact that we had as good bert's pretty easy to get'along with; and Jimmy' Dawkins; Hound Dog thousand on it, a quite moder Commissioner that the 'blues is a a festival as we did just amazes me. Martin, Bogan' and" ,', Armstrong Taylor, and Lightning· Hopkins. ate figure. For the Student cultural phenomenon, most of the Last year we had Fenton Robill again I haven't met but my wife has Publicity on this festival was poor; Union we have here at Notre Dame Commission tended to regard it as a son, Big Walter Horton and Muddy talked with' their manager several it consisted of sheets of mimeo in compared to the one at Michigan in kind of degenerate rock music and Waters. That . about brings it up to times on the phone and they seem formation on the festival and these Ann Arbor, it becomes quite a large not truly a cultural form at all, so date. This year we're going back to , Perry Aberli to be very ,likeable people and prac were put up in the Huddle, around figure. Part of the loss was because as a result there was no set blues the two-day format because we tically willingto~, bend over back campus, and maybe four or five we had the Sunday misplanned, a festival, but we were able to put on really believe that if we are to es tend to enjoy themselves immensely. wards to accommodate you. hundred people showed up. It was Sunday afternoon in Stepan Center four or five miniconcerts.We did tablishit here at Notre 'Dame as a ,People that handle the artists like Muddy Waters was kind of aloof really good, the Lightning Hopkins just didn't work out right, and of four shows.in Washington Hall, we festival,rather than a concert, it has Bob Kester and Bruce Iglar say that in . a certain way, or character. performances were filmed, by ~ET course the weather was a factor; it had'Shirley Griffith, Hound Dog to' be done over a two-day period, iheirshows'here are the best sets I can' remember when he came and 'later used in a half-hour docu was a beautiful fall day, a strange Taylor, 'Big Walter ,Horton and over 'a: weekend. Hopefully, if it con that' these people have ever seen in' 1971, someone' came running mentary on Lightning Hopkins for occurrence for the South'Bend area, Carey Bell, and Houston Stackhouse. tiriues, and I hope it does, it will them put on. I've had that compli~ out to me and said that his car Public Broadcasting. so that cut into the gate. As it They were all well· received but 'become more' ot a festival. I look ment about the festival many times. is' outside, so I went to the back So I went to Brinkman after turned' out Friday 'night we had again "the blues ,festival did lose for the', possibility of having the . Thert~'~something about this place room. The back room generally that and told him I've' just been Fred MacDowell, Carey Bell, Eddie money. Part of that is the attitude artists coming in on Thursday night, that the artists really enjoy arid resembles bedlam, kids are running to our festival here and been to Taylor, Homesick James and of the people' who generally run comirig to classes on Friday, talking they get up for doing the festival. around, guys are screaming at Ann Arbor for theirs ; I've 'been Howlin' ,Wolf. The Saturday night Cultural Arts. It's one of that we're in Lit classes, Black culture classes, I can't explain it because I don't each other, 'bottles are being into' blues for a while, and that we had' Shirley Griffith, Little riot in this for the sole purpose of or: even some seminars all Friday really u~derstand why.' I have some passed around, the artists' are I'd like to' run the festival next Brother Montgomery, Otis Rush making money, and at the same.time afternoon. On 'Saturday, it would tapes' of Hound " Dog Taylor's' per playing 'cards; and there doesn't ·year. Bob ended up being Cultural and Muddy Waters. And Sunday we the idea that .we can't charge stu ,be feasible to' have meetings with formancein 1970, he's' screaming, seem to' be much sense to' what's Arts Commissioner the next year. had' Buddy Guy and Junior Wells dents too much. Admission for the artists, maybe in LaFortune, yelling at the crowd, "I'm back going on backstage; and Muddy That year Ann Arbor decided' not and they came out and did an acous Shirley Griffith, was just a dollar, similar to the CJF setup. That might again, I love it here! Notre Dame, just walked in the door and this to produce a blues, festival because tic set; then, finished up with an and when you consider that at Ann start happening next year, or it I love you!" It's amazing because great quiet fell over the place. Every- 22 , SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER, 7, 1975 23 body sort of walked to him v~ry ,.,-" coming in for the festival. Knowing :;... clair's lines is obviously a mistake. it looked like early in the summer quietly and shook his hand, inquired Scholastic: How about some back that he would not be out until early that with Jim and Amy out there to about his health;.it was just . after ground on Fenton Robinson; is he December, but then in September we review the festival in Living Blues his automobile accident. And Muddy on a true parole, or just a tempo found out that he would be released and going' on with the lineup that just. sat down and. started, playing rary reprieve? November 2nd and available for the we've got Friday night, which is cards, and that seemed, to be a sig Perry: It's a true parole; well first festival. pretty solid, Fenton will make one nal that everything was all right. of all, the background of it: Fenton He's' been practicing while in effort to pretty much blow every He had. to be the only artist 1 ever was in an accident about four or jail; they let him have a guitar; body off the stage, along with the saw the' other artists being .... very five years ago; He was driving down he's been practicing, so that it's not fact that Otis Rush is the climax defferential towards.: He, just really the Dan Ryan Expressway after like he's going to be rusty when he for Friday night. (Fenton at one commanded a respect. The first playing at a club, and as he relates gets out. This was the first place, time gigged with Otis as a backup thing he asked me was,· "Where's the story, a trucker passing him the. first major college appearance man, and whenever this sort of sit my dressing room?" 1 said that ,this pushed •his car on the shoulder, he had ever had, and the fact that uation occurs, it becomes a headcut - .~~.. is: it. He looked at me, and 1 told where there was this woman outside Bruce could go to them and say, ting scene.) Fenton will come out him there was a divider we could her car changing a tire with' no "Look, I've got these people down at and, playas best he can and put pull across the room, but he '. said, lights or anything on, so he just Notre' Dame interested in him and the screws to Otis to make him look "No, don't worry about it." Every~ wiped her out.. He was charged with they're really willing to give him a like a fool if he plays a mediocre thing went back: to, ,normal. .,' involuntary manslaughter and the job in November. So it's not like set and disappoints people; or else That, was the one extreme,. the police also accuse'a. him of drunk he's going to hit the streets and be force Otis to really work at it. other extreme was' Jimmie Rogers, enness, . although a breath analyzer unemployed; he's got plenty of jobs There's an outside possibility': that and Buddy Guy and Junio~, Wells. test was never. taken'. He appealed lined up." That,' too swung some we can' convince Fenton,' to . come Jimmie was just, as incredibly out~ it 'and kept on' appealing it. He bounces in his favor, so to speak. out. and jam with Otis to close Fri going in that he practically crushed '\.::. never told Bruce about it. (Bruce Scholastic: The fans could almost day night, which would be dynamic. me on stage; he just grabbed me and Iglar runs Alligator records, and look for enough new' material for Scholastic:· Could you explain' some hugged :me; he's just a huge guy; picked up Fenton and made his an album or two. . of the styles in this year's festival, He. had .just received probably one album for him). Fenton was just Perry: I'm pretty sure we COUld. He and maybe classify the artists· as of the longest standing ovations in too'paranoid about it and thought also won't have a regular band with either, . let's say, delta " blues; Chi the festival. But Buddy and Junior • that if Bruce knew he had these kinds him, 'since he hasn't been playing: cago blues or the like?' are just crazy, that's 'about the only of hassles,' he might not go with He'll probably go out to the West Perry: It's going to be hard to say thing you can say about them. They side and pick up some of the people because most of the artists we have , ... :-" him on the label. were backstage and had been drink So; two' or three weeks after that he's played with in the bars this .' year are postwar Chicago ing, and they were chasing each Midwest Blues 'last year,' 1 got regularly, which 1 think will be bet artists, ·primarily. With the excep-' other . all'. around the back room. a call from . Bruce and. he I said ter in composition than the band he tion of perhaps Blind John Davis, That's just how the artists are; You \, that Fenton wasgoing to jail; all the brought last year. The band he and Martin Bogan· and Armstrong, would expect them to be very, well ! appeals had been exhausted; Fenton brought last year wasn't bad, . but who . are two of the most' unique after all. you've heard about the had received. an order to basically he had;a nephew or cousin who was acts that we have ever had here. blues artists, the changes. they've turn-himself over to the authorities: playing electric piano, just doing You're going to get a lot of what is ' been. through, you'd expect them to He' was' in the County Jail for a basic chords and that. It really known as· "string-squeezing," with be rude or aloof or indifferent to the while, then sent down to Joliet. On didn't do much for anybody. It was this Albert King style of blues. With whites that are around at the fes the basis of a letter that'l wrote Fenton alone that held things to Fenton . and Otis Rush, they are tival.But that hasn't been the case, for 'Bruce and· 1 think he got· a gether.. obviously working out of the back they. are generally .very friendly. couple of other letters from' col~ ·1 was really impressed with ground of a lot of influences. There's' . And that's why when we were talk leges and Bruce's own track record his set last 'yearand 1 felt a lot: of a lot of background that's at play; !i' ing about Ann Arbor before, 1. ob with Blues artists, plus the fact 'that other people were. Another thing you get the influence ofE.E.· King, .,II jected to Sinclair's injecting politics since the accident Fenton had' be that we've got going for us; and I'm although it's not that much, but still ,I in 'the whole thing because while come a practicing Black Muslim; sure Fenton is going to take ad present. It's hard to pick out the :\ II obviously for Sinclair, a blues artist The framework in. which they exist are out 'and out political protests he doesn't drink, smoke or even eat vantage of italong with the chance principal country blues artists; that .I would be, a. person whose political and go about 'their everyday life is songs like "Korea Bl~es" kind of meat. His behavior within the prison to get some exposure: people like are responsible: The' early' Muddy II plight would be very great in terms one in which' politics' doesn't play .a precursor' of Ute late sixties. F:'or was that of a model prisoner, which Jim' and;Amy O'Neill who run Liv Waters is certainly' playing a role II of exploitation, there would be a lot that. big" oLa role, or at least con mats like "they shot my brother, in nearly cost him his life. He thought ing Blues' magazine are coming' in in the type of blues they· perform. i! of: views there. The. bluesmen . are sCiouslyit ~do~sn't . playa, role." So Korea andnow .. Uncle Sam wants his life was in danger, remember for the' festival. Five or six other With • Otis Rush, Magic Sam played probably the most-:I don't want to get up and write liner notes for me." There are a few exceptions like that there.': were prison riots in important names from the minor a role; Buddy Guy is certainly in Ii to use '.'innocent'! because that makes an album or ~im" article about the those which tend to prove the rule Joliet in which he refused to get blues labels in Chicago will be com flue·ntial. them look like children' and that political undercurre~tswithin blues that politics' doesn't liave much to involved:' Some of . the inmates ing in; Bob Kest~r and his wife, With Fenton 1 am pressed to find sounds like a racist statement. But music, by and large, is silly~ There do with blues music. Biuesmen are started passing the word that Fen from Jazz Record Mart, Bruce Kap 'some influences, but T-Bone Walker I " they don't care about. politics-they are a couple instances in which blues basically '~m apoiitical group so that i ton had inforIned on the riot and lan from Flying Fish might be com is a very dominant influence in his i are apolitical in: a certain sense. artists have ,.written songs which to try to ,do. somethIng along' Sin- he was getting really paranoid. So ing in. There's quite a few people style. Most of the people that you're ! I ! Ii II q I: 24 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 7, 1975 25

I- I fi ·L"'-, body sort of walked to him v~ry ,.,-" coming in for the festival. Knowing :;... clair's lines is obviously a mistake. it looked like early in the summer quietly and shook his hand, inquired Scholastic: How about some back that he would not be out until early that with Jim and Amy out there to about his health;.it was just . after ground on Fenton Robinson; is he December, but then in September we review the festival in Living Blues his automobile accident. And Muddy on a true parole, or just a tempo found out that he would be released and going' on with the lineup that just. sat down and. started, playing rary reprieve? November 2nd and available for the we've got Friday night, which is cards, and that seemed, to be a sig Perry: It's a true parole; well first festival. pretty solid, Fenton will make one nal that everything was all right. of all, the background of it: Fenton He's' been practicing while in effort to pretty much blow every He had. to be the only artist 1 ever was in an accident about four or jail; they let him have a guitar; body off the stage, along with the saw the' other artists being .... very five years ago; He was driving down he's been practicing, so that it's not fact that Otis Rush is the climax defferential towards.: He, just really the Dan Ryan Expressway after like he's going to be rusty when he for Friday night. (Fenton at one commanded a respect. The first playing at a club, and as he relates gets out. This was the first place, time gigged with Otis as a backup thing he asked me was,· "Where's the story, a trucker passing him the. first major college appearance man, and whenever this sort of sit my dressing room?" 1 said that ,this pushed •his car on the shoulder, he had ever had, and the fact that uation occurs, it becomes a headcut - .~~.. is: it. He looked at me, and 1 told where there was this woman outside Bruce could go to them and say, ting scene.) Fenton will come out him there was a divider we could her car changing a tire with' no "Look, I've got these people down at and, playas best he can and put pull across the room, but he '. said, lights or anything on, so he just Notre' Dame interested in him and the screws to Otis to make him look "No, don't worry about it." Every~ wiped her out.. He was charged with they're really willing to give him a like a fool if he plays a mediocre thing went back: to, ,normal. .,' involuntary manslaughter and the job in November. So it's not like set and disappoints people; or else That, was the one extreme,. the police also accuse'a. him of drunk he's going to hit the streets and be force Otis to really work at it. other extreme was' Jimmie Rogers, enness, . although a breath analyzer unemployed; he's got plenty of jobs There's an outside possibility': that and Buddy Guy and Junio~, Wells. test was never. taken'. He appealed lined up." That,' too swung some we can' convince Fenton,' to . come Jimmie was just, as incredibly out~ it 'and kept on' appealing it. He bounces in his favor, so to speak. out. and jam with Otis to close Fri going in that he practically crushed '\.::. never told Bruce about it. (Bruce Scholastic: The fans could almost day night, which would be dynamic. me on stage; he just grabbed me and Iglar runs Alligator records, and look for enough new' material for Scholastic:· Could you explain' some hugged :me; he's just a huge guy; picked up Fenton and made his an album or two. . of the styles in this year's festival, He. had .just received probably one album for him). Fenton was just Perry: I'm pretty sure we COUld. He and maybe classify the artists· as of the longest standing ovations in too'paranoid about it and thought also won't have a regular band with either, . let's say, delta " blues; Chi the festival. But Buddy and Junior • that if Bruce knew he had these kinds him, 'since he hasn't been playing: cago blues or the like?' are just crazy, that's 'about the only of hassles,' he might not go with He'll probably go out to the West Perry: It's going to be hard to say thing you can say about them. They side and pick up some of the people because most of the artists we have , ... :-" him on the label. were backstage and had been drink So; two' or three weeks after that he's played with in the bars this .' year are postwar Chicago ing, and they were chasing each Midwest Blues 'last year,' 1 got regularly, which 1 think will be bet artists, ·primarily. With the excep-' other . all'. around the back room. a call from . Bruce and. he I said ter in composition than the band he tion of perhaps Blind John Davis, That's just how the artists are; You \, that Fenton wasgoing to jail; all the brought last year. The band he and Martin Bogan· and Armstrong, would expect them to be very, well ! appeals had been exhausted; Fenton brought last year wasn't bad, . but who . are two of the most' unique after all. you've heard about the had received. an order to basically he had;a nephew or cousin who was acts that we have ever had here. blues artists, the changes. they've turn-himself over to the authorities: playing electric piano, just doing You're going to get a lot of what is ' been. through, you'd expect them to He' was' in the County Jail for a basic chords and that. It really known as· "string-squeezing," with be rude or aloof or indifferent to the while, then sent down to Joliet. On didn't do much for anybody. It was this Albert King style of blues. With whites that are around at the fes the basis of a letter that'l wrote Fenton alone that held things to Fenton . and Otis Rush, they are tival.But that hasn't been the case, for 'Bruce and· 1 think he got· a gether.. obviously working out of the back they. are generally .very friendly. couple of other letters from' col~ ·1 was really impressed with ground of a lot of influences. There's' . And that's why when we were talk leges and Bruce's own track record his set last 'yearand 1 felt a lot: of a lot of background that's at play; !i' ing about Ann Arbor before, 1. ob with Blues artists, plus the fact 'that other people were. Another thing you get the influence ofE.E.· King, .,II jected to Sinclair's injecting politics since the accident Fenton had' be that we've got going for us; and I'm although it's not that much, but still ,I in 'the whole thing because while come a practicing Black Muslim; sure Fenton is going to take ad present. It's hard to pick out the :\ II obviously for Sinclair, a blues artist The framework in. which they exist are out 'and out political protests he doesn't drink, smoke or even eat vantage of italong with the chance principal country blues artists; that .I would be, a. person whose political and go about 'their everyday life is songs like "Korea Bl~es" kind of meat. His behavior within the prison to get some exposure: people like are responsible: The' early' Muddy II plight would be very great in terms one in which' politics' doesn't play .a precursor' of Ute late sixties. F:'or was that of a model prisoner, which Jim' and;Amy O'Neill who run Liv Waters is certainly' playing a role II of exploitation, there would be a lot that. big" oLa role, or at least con mats like "they shot my brother, in nearly cost him his life. He thought ing Blues' magazine are coming' in in the type of blues they· perform. i! of: views there. The. bluesmen . are sCiouslyit ~do~sn't . playa, role." So Korea andnow .. Uncle Sam wants his life was in danger, remember for the' festival. Five or six other With • Otis Rush, Magic Sam played probably the most-:I don't want to get up and write liner notes for me." There are a few exceptions like that there.': were prison riots in important names from the minor a role; Buddy Guy is certainly in Ii to use '.'innocent'! because that makes an album or ~im" article about the those which tend to prove the rule Joliet in which he refused to get blues labels in Chicago will be com flue·ntial. them look like children' and that political undercurre~tswithin blues that politics' doesn't liave much to involved:' Some of . the inmates ing in; Bob Kest~r and his wife, With Fenton 1 am pressed to find sounds like a racist statement. But music, by and large, is silly~ There do with blues music. Biuesmen are started passing the word that Fen from Jazz Record Mart, Bruce Kap 'some influences, but T-Bone Walker I " they don't care about. politics-they are a couple instances in which blues basically '~m apoiitical group so that i ton had inforIned on the riot and lan from Flying Fish might be com is a very dominant influence in his i are apolitical in: a certain sense. artists have ,.written songs which to try to ,do. somethIng along' Sin- he was getting really paranoid. So ing in. There's quite a few people style. Most of the people that you're ! I ! Ii II q I: 24 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 7, 1975 25

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by Bill Delaney going to hear are creators' of their strongest forms: it would be found Perry: You'd almost .have to add own style. They might borrow in Texas, Mississippi, and the Caro bluegrass, although. bluegrass cer The band was marching out to some things at times,but they're linas, the three main areas. Each tainly does have origins in English their practice fielcf as we came out working on their own . style. The area generating its own style so folk songs. But of course jazz comes of Alumni Hall. The' sound of the curious thing ,about Albert and Otis to speak. The Texas style could out of blues, and rock· comes out fight· song suddenly surrounded us, Rush .. is that they are both left~ be classified as the light blues, the of blues almost directly, there's no and dreams of the glory of standing handed musicians. It isn't that odd, Lightning Hopkins type and people doubt .. You c~n prove itin the sense down _on the Stadium field before but it seems like it because they're like that with an emphasis on the that a lot of the songs being millions of fans. brought chills to the only two people in the ;world singing itself. In the Delta, two done by rock artists are simply re twenty. interhall football players. that. do it;' When they learned to styles we~e produced, one of which makes of old blues tunes. But you get The lights of Cartier Field were play the guitar· nobody ever told strictly became known as the Delta after this period, country blues in now upon us. Adjusting to the arti them that you had to restring the blues, the kind of blues that Muddy the South at this time, a lot of the ficial lights proved to be a bother to guitar to .play it left-handed. As Waters, Hound Dog Taylor produce, major labels at that. time ,Would put us, forcing us to squint across the a result they both play the guitar the slide guitar style. Originally ads in the papers saying that w~ will field at our opposition. upside down. It's kind of strange they used to use a beefbone, the be recording at'such and such. a The opposition.. Howard Hall is because Albert plays backwards, type that came out of a round steak; hotel for this, week.. For a long time just another hall to many, but to but then again it shows the kind of later they found that you could break the major labels would come to the me, it was very special. I lived there creativity that he has., With Mar the neck off a gin bottle and throw it South, so there's no need f9r mi for almost three· years with many Frank Driscoll consults Bill Delaney (52). tin, Bogan and Armstrong, you have into a fire. When the fire burned gration .. After the Depression a of those on the other side. I grew a sort of holdover. of, music you down, you took it out and the rough great deal, of artists went to . leave, up with them. Now I was against ard now mounting a time-consum entire Howard defense, and nailed to don't hear anymore in blues. You'll edge had been smoothed .down by and one of .the. things that. people them. I was on the opposition. ing drive. We were all nervous the ground. But I gained five yards. hear it in bluegrass with somebody the flames. That's where the term in the blues agree with is if you look It was planned that I would quar along the sideline. We had to win. Shades of Tom Parise! like Bill Munroe; the. very old tra "bottleneck" comes from. Later a at a map of the South and impose terback the last plays of the game But then we got the ball! Thirty 'Walking back to the huddle ditional type of bluegrass. ~asically steel tube was used. The other on it an overlay of. the main rail if we· were ahead. To get ahead seconds remained before we would amidst . the bewildered cheers of what they've got is a country string Mississippi blues: involved an em ways" you see that those lines lead though, Alumni had to score, some be the victors. And then I came in. present and past hallmates, I felt band. They grow out. of groups like phasis on the actual playing of the to three major cities. First. of all thing that was a nagging problem I was actually pushed out onto that I had the world at my feet. But jug bands from Memphis in the 20's guitar, a', fairly detailed picking they lead to Chicago, second to St. throughout the season. the field, by Driscoll. He continually the huddle was something different. and 30's. Most of the, music they pattern, rather. than the sliding, Louis, and third, Detroit. And th'at's But it didn't take long for Alumni said, "Don't fumble the ball! Don't "Where did you go?" was the play is a kind of street-corner music. whining type of music you got in why those cities have become such to score. An end around for seventy fumble the ball!" That's all. No thought on everyone's mind when I They are not . really, blues men as the Delta. In the Carolinas. a lot of great urban centers of blues music. six yards' gave Alumni first blood rah-rah speech. Just a plea to hang joined my teammates. Driscoll was they are songsters. They make their people would argue that it's the ,These guys would hop freights and in the contest. We were ahead and onto the ball. Real encouragement. beyond belief. "Just follow us this living. by being musicians and en home of the guitar wizards. The leave the south, and those are the had ,the moinentum. A strong de The huddle was a weird expe time,': was all he said. I quickly hance their· money-making capabili emphasis in the Carolinas. was on places they . would end up, The fense and some poor officiating kept rience also. Everyone started talk obeyed. ties by making as many diverse speed and, technique. If, you listen job situation in Chicago during the Howard in the game, down only by ing at once, each reminding me not Another sweep was called. I cor kinds of songs as possible. So we'll to some of the Carolina artists re Depression and in the Second World eight at the half. to lose the ball. Driscoll decided I'd rectly lined up behind the center see them playing traditional blues corded in the· twenties, and they're War promised a lot. St. Louis just Then I started. to worry. This run a sweep around right end for this time. But I forgot. the play. I pieces, and even quick, melodies like playing so damn fast you.' almost happened, to be a hopping-off point. certainly was not a romp; Howard my first play. If I survived that went back to that right hole where "Sweet Georgia. Brown." They just have to check thespeed on the turn if you. weren't going to Chicago, .. had. kept themselves within a few play, I may have the opportunity of success lay. This time it was dif play anything and are very enter table. That's just how fast .those you got off in St. Louis for a while. points of beating us. Alumni couldn't doing it again. ferent. taining. Just by watching them you guys were.. Just really fine mu Another area that drew a lot: of afford . .to make any errors if they We broke from the huddle, and I was tackled by Howard Hall. can get really excited; they don't SICIans, unbelievable. The other blues artists during the. Second wanted to win. And I wasn't going started walking up to the line of Everyone associated with Howard just play music; they put on a show. forniofthe blues that we have is the World War· was Oakland, the bay to play if there was a chance that scrimmage. I found myself lining (even Father Gorski) seemed to hit They overemote. They~re hams and classic blues, people like Ma Rainey areaouL in San Francisco in the I. could blow the game for Alumni. up behind the left guard,. who does me. But I held onto the ball. Time they love .the limelight. and Bessie Smith. Blues singers armainents industry. , Howard scored.. They missed the not snap the ball.' I quickly side ran 'out, and Alumni had won a foot- Scholastic: How about a brief run like this were popping up, playing two~point conversion, and we led by stepped to the right behind the . ball game. We had beaten Howard. down,if it is possible, on the blues, . with rather sophisticated, bands, be" two. My stomach started to tight~ center before anyone was the wiser The l?tatistics were impressive: including something on their origin.? hind them in the twenties. You can't The Midwest Blues Festival, 1976, en. I told our player-coach Frank and started. to call signals; two carries for a total' of six yards. Perry: There .isn't any specific area , push, too far. back because it just happens on November ·14 and .15. Driscoll that I didn't think that I Just then, an interesting thing .·But more important was the fact where the blues came from. All that becomes cloudy and subject to spec Performers. such as Albert King, should play. His. only comment happened. There was no one over that we had gotten together to play is known.is that it is a distinct cul ulation. . Blind John' Davis, Fenton Robinson about that was, "The hell you aren't our right tackle. Sensing that this in a game which meant something tural form, that it appeared some . Scholastic: It could be said that and Otis Rush will be,' appearing. going to play!" . So I knew that I'd may be· a once-in-a-lifet~me oppor extra. Something aside from Emil, time around the turn of the century blues then, excepting jazz, is the Both two-day and one-day p~ses get my chance. tunity, I got the ball and headed for or Space Tech. We had come to in . black America. .Basically, the only true American form of music. are available. Two minutes remained in the the hole.. Five yards and a cloud· gether to have fun. game; It was still tense, with How~ of astroturf later, I was hit by the And we all did.

26 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 7, 1975 27 The Secret Players

26 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 7, 1975 27 The Catholic Sport Runners and, Lovers

by Brian Doyle & John Delaney hy Mike Palmer

Although nearly every sport im suits iri a score; but rather the seiz Twenty-five of them meet every one of the top runners on the team, like a lot of people think; it's a lot aginable -is included among the ing of an opportunity, the outplay afternoon on the third tee of the sees some of the other reasons for of fun," he says. A few mention be Olympic, Games, there is only one, ing of one's opponent, will produce golf, course. They do a few stretch putting in the miles every day. "I ing on the team as a good' way to truly' universal sport. It's, called , a' goal. Played with a running clock, ing exercises, trying to alleviate the run ,because it gives me a goal," he meet new friends, or even as a diver soccer. It is unmatched as a means, there are no time-outs. Soccer stiffness of the muscles which were says, "and because it gives some sion from studies. of in,ternational competition, and is, requires 'a player to be durable slightly tightened by, their run early satisfaction." This satisfaction can Of the motivations, for running in reality, the only sport which can' and disciplined. ,Notre Dame's re that morning. They then depart for come when the hard work is; paid cross-country, public acclaim prob 'claim a bona fide world champion, cord may conjure visions 'of alack a training run, usually; about 10 off: one runs his fastest time. It ably is not one of them. "If you determined, every four years by the of enthusiasm, but they have played miles. Often' if ,a ,layman were to may also be simply,being in good wanted publicity, you wouldn't be winner of, the World Cup. Each well, overshadowed by one-goal de look at a stopwatch,' upon theirre physical condition. Reinhart re in this sport,'~· says second-year man nation enters a 'team in the World feats and the high caliber of their turn, he ,probably would wonder marks, ",There is a, satisfaction of Ed Kistner. This does not seem to Cup in the hopes of returning home competition. whether the course was covered by being in really good shape; running bother most of the, team, however.' with sport's most prestigious award. The Interhall sports program also foot or by racing bicycle. ten miles in 60 minutes is a great It is interesting to note that the Americans on the whole, however, features soccer, where the quality ,"They" are the Notre Dame cross feeling." majority of the team does not run at have as much interest in the World of play may not be ona par with country team, arid these harriers are Some of the team members cite a away meets, because of limits im Cup as they do in the, Pillsbury that of the club team, but where the there every day,'-rain or shine. There certain camaraderie on the squad. posed on visiting 'teams, by the Bake-Off., This position is rapidly fervor and, enthusiasm are j'ust as are no armies of managers, photog~ "We, really, enjoy the fellowship," NCAA. That does' not deter them changing. The game is maturing at intense. The popularity of the sport raphers or journalists;. only those says Reinhart. Sufferings together from working hard. As Kistner, puts every level - from youth leagues is also evident here, as each hall who" are dedicated enough to' put' in help. to strengthen ,the alliance, it, "There are 15 guys staying home to high school coinpetitionto college enters a team in both, the fall and the :miles day after day." And 90 agree several members. Although weekends; they, must like it." teams' and professional leagues the spring ,leagues. This year's fall miles, a:week is a lot,of dedication. this is also true in, ,other. sports, Again ,this basic love . of running the world's game' is fast becoming champion, Pangborn' (who defeated Why do 25 :guys join a sport ,like cross-country.; is different. The is their motivation behind the many America's. Flannerl-0 in the championship cross-country? ,With so much ,un "group of individuals" composing miles. But, also important is:.what Perhaps symbolic of' America's game) shared the spring 'title with heralded work involved, there must the harrier team, as opposed to a Steve Welch spoke, of previously - fast-growing 'importance in soccer Alumni, finishing,. co-champions be some special motivations. football or hockey ','machine," can goals. Striving for goals in ,running was the decision of Pele, the great~ after going through threeovertimes "It's a hard one to define," re have, just as much a strong fel~ gives. the participant a sense of est soccer player ever, to 'come out in ,the championship game last marks senior Jim Hurt, referring to lowship. , focus, similar to many goals in life. of retirement and help boost soccer's April. his motivation., He started running Others are .in it for additional Shooting for 10th place or better in growth in the United 'States.' His Many reasons have' been deduced in high school and has continued reasons. Jay Miranda, another top a certain race or to break 26 min express purpose in playing' for the to' explain the sudden' mushrooming with an,interest ever since, leading freshman, asserts, "I ·run ,because utes, for a five-mile race could be to his position as captain of this I'm basically competitive.'.' He ,is goals; achieving them will make the North American Soccer League's , ".'TomBernardin of soccer interest, including the New York Cosmos·was' to' place catalysis, of good, foreign players year's team. "It was something 'I quick, however, to ,point out some runner feel that all the ,miles were Am'erica on a par with other soccer campus have, increased. Soccer in was decent at," he 'reflects. "I 'felt thing else. "It's not all hard work worthwhile. i participating' in the American, game. I playing nations and develop Aineri America' was once exclusively the A very basic explanation was offered some measure ,of s,uccess: beating I can interest to where if would equal sport of the' ethnic groups, and col by, Pete Logan of the Notre Dame kids." Now, he sees a simpler rea the rest of the world's. Pele'slife, lege soccer was played only by those soccer club. He explained that, "in son for his running: he just likes especially his' childhood, underscores who had been exposed to it as chil soccer, skill is much more important , doing it. "I, enjoy doing it: as some soccer's dominance in the rest of the dren or were from an ethnic group. than size or height. Although it one else enjoys basketball," he says: 1 world: - he relates stories "of his But today, soccer attracts the typi doesn't hurt to; be a superman;' the Jim Reinhart agrees about this fondness for the act of running it 1 schooldays in Brazil when he grew cal American athlete.' em'phasis falls heavily on a' player's up 'kicking rolled up rags around Soccer at Notre Dame has grown ability to be proficient in a game, self and speaks for the rest of, the I the' 'streets, 'graduating' to oranges so much that it is possible to have not on overpowering the opponent." team. "We love to run., There are 1i and melons, never touching: a, real both an ,"A" :and a "B" team' with In other' words; the' normal player very' few scholarship guys on the soccer ball until he stepped ori the the number of players available, and can be good with'alot of practice, team. ' Most, of ·the guys'are out' I field for'Santos,'a Braziliari'profes~ cuts must be made of the hopefuls. regardless of physical stature or 'there because they enjoy it," he sional team; at the age of 16. While Though riot a varsity sport on the dimension. states. ' I children in America grow up playing level of football or basketball, soccer 'Development of' interest and· the ", This love for running itself is catch' and throwing footballs, chil as a club sport cim be compared with growing "commercial success' will basically necessary for someone who II dren' in ,the rest of the world grow the rugby and 'lacrosse' teams '- in boost soccer into am'ore prominent spends so ,much time doing it, as a \: up with soccer. dependent, proud 'and very com distance runner does. This is not to l~ spot on the American sports scene. II Soccer's growth'in America has petitive. ;;" It won't be long before ,John Q. Pub say, however, that every minute of affected the college sport: the cali~ Coach Bob Connolly's Irish boot lic knows the frontline of the World the' 10-mile runis part of a glorious ber of teams and players has risen. ers are characteristic of soccer Cup champion as well as he knows experience; there must be, other I Colleges now supply the professional players-energetic, exciting, and ex Bench, Morgan, and Rose. Until motivations to keep, him going leagues with players, and the impor ceptional hustlers. Soccer is not a then, soccer will continue its snow through the tough times, too .. ' tance and status of the game on the Steve Welch, a freshman who is I game where a' continuous drivere- balling popularity. 28 SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 7, 1975 29

, I I :'·,1' i The Catholic Sport Runners and, Lovers

by Brian Doyle & John Delaney hy Mike Palmer

, I I :'·,1' i , ,- Let your friends and family know what's going on at ND. Do you have a complaint l Send them a subscription comment or' opinion? of Scholastic magazine. Tell the world! Only $5.00 per year. by Sally Stanton NOTRE DiUlE SCIIOLASTIC NOTRE DAl\IE, INDIANA 46556 "I grow old . . . I grow old . .' /' er I wanted my application to be growing gulf between Notre Dame Write a letter to J. Alfred Prufrock considered by one school or the and Saint Mary's. First semester Please send me a subscription to SCIIOLASTIC for -T. S. Eliot other, or both. When I visited right the coexcha'nge program allowing Scholastic. before Christmas no one seemed to students to sign up for courses at ..... ' years at $5.00 a year. 'I feel my seniorhood weighing know quite what would be done with both schools was suspended, and the I am enclosing $ ...... CASH heavy on my head these days, a sod the new Notre Dame women-one of people who were here before and ...... CHECK den clump of catalogues· and half the people I talked to thought they after say there were' fewer women begun' applications. All the fresh might be put over in Grace or Flan on campus then than the year before Name ...... men in my section are freshly turned ner, since the towers would be eas when Notre Dame was- still an all Address all letters to: 18 and can use their own ID's in iest to renovate. male institutaion. Michigan: I'm legal in Indiana and There were only 350 women that The first class of women here may Editor facing 22. (The next landmark after first year-only 125 freshmen. I have been a little defensive also. I Scholastic Magazine. Address 21, I think, must be 65 and' senior suppose women in class or on cam rapidly grew tired of explaining that ci tizenshi p.) pus were almost as rare as great when I said I was going to Notre LaFortune Student Center I guess I'm in the market for a woolly mammoths in July-and Dame I meant I was going to Notre Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 City ...... rocking chair, or an afghan-blue probably provoked a similar re Dame (and not on a football schol to match my housedress-ora com sponse: fear and amazement. The arship). State ...... Zip ...... panionable African violet plant. admissions process had been billed And some people seemed· to think Perhaps it's the coming' of pre as extremely. selective and the the women were here to coeducate registration that has brought this women were labeled' geniuses by all the University, while -most of~Lus, I dollop of nostalgia into my life. It the men-and women. (I think a think, came to go to college. was,. after all, not so long ago that good number of us women looked to It was all a little confusing. Pro I saw my first Form· 50 and tried tei ourselves and knew 'we weren't the fessors and male students. would p,uzzle' out all, the attendant red geniuses, so figured our application . turn to' a woman in the class for the tape. At that point I was deluged must have smick by the committee "woman's view" as though that were with possible courses, but I had three when' someone went out for coffee necessarily some strange and exotic years to fill: now I am still deluged, in the wee hours of the morning.) beast. There was a degree of self but have only one semester. In a residential University organ consciousness that has not totally It amazes me that the time has ized around the stay hall system, dispersed yet,-,as, though we were gone by so quickly, but then, time where the hall is the main social watching ourselves to see if 'some has a way of doing that. One of its and political unit, we entered Badin thing horrible' would happen." inherent . characteristics is that it and Walsh, halls suddenly devoid of I don't think anything horrible passes . .Yet at the moment I feel as residents. We were all so new has, though women are surely' more tho'ugh I were part of a magic show: rectors, RA's, students. There was plentiful on· the quad than woolly I stand on a tablecloth, so~eone no one to initiate 'the freshmen into mammoths. gives a .quick yank,·. and suddenly hall life-in one respect' we were The most woeful casualty is not I'in' no' longer standing on a table all "freshmen." The tradition had the demise of Notre Dame's mascu cloth. The presence 'or absence of the been broken and we had to start linity, but the split in the relation cloth is all that has' changed in the from scratch.' ship between Notre Dame and Saint scenerio. In many ways we were indirectly Mary's. One' sophomore I talked to But that's not completely true. influenced by Saint Mary's. A good at the beginning of the year had Things have changed since my first portion of the transfer students came never been over to the other campus. year. . from. "across the road" 'and though . It would be nice if a new relation Freshman year was the first year some of those had taken the great ship could be created, one that did of coeducation and the first year of majority of their. courses at Notre not rest on stereotypes and second- the "unmerger.'; I remember' getting '. Dame, they still had ties with the hand information. ',' , a little card in the mail a few weeks other.school. They and their friends But perhaps I grow old. And after I had applied to' what I' had had been most caught in the un ramble on about things of no con thought would be a merged Saint merger confusion. sequence as old people do .. 'Mary's College/University of Notre . There seemed" much concern Does anyone know where 'I can Dame, asking me to indicate wheth- among the students that year at the get an African violet plant cheap?

30 "SCHOLASTIC , ,- Let your friends and family know what's going on at ND. Do you have a complaint l Send them a subscription comment or' opinion? of Scholastic magazine. Tell the world! Only $5.00 per year. by Sally Stanton NOTRE DiUlE SCIIOLASTIC NOTRE DAl\IE, INDIANA 46556 "I grow old . . . I grow old . .' /' er I wanted my application to be growing gulf between Notre Dame Write a letter to J. Alfred Prufrock considered by one school or the and Saint Mary's. First semester Please send me a subscription to SCIIOLASTIC for -T. S. Eliot other, or both. When I visited right the coexcha'nge program allowing Scholastic. before Christmas no one seemed to students to sign up for courses at ..... ' years at $5.00 a year. 'I feel my seniorhood weighing know quite what would be done with both schools was suspended, and the I am enclosing $ ...... CASH heavy on my head these days, a sod the new Notre Dame women-one of people who were here before and ...... CHECK den clump of catalogues· and half the people I talked to thought they after say there were' fewer women begun' applications. All the fresh might be put over in Grace or Flan on campus then than the year before Name ...... men in my section are freshly turned ner, since the towers would be eas when Notre Dame was- still an all Address all letters to: 18 and can use their own ID's in iest to renovate. male institutaion. Michigan: I'm legal in Indiana and There were only 350 women that The first class of women here may Editor facing 22. (The next landmark after first year-only 125 freshmen. I have been a little defensive also. I Scholastic Magazine. Address 21, I think, must be 65 and' senior suppose women in class or on cam rapidly grew tired of explaining that ci tizenshi p.) pus were almost as rare as great when I said I was going to Notre LaFortune Student Center I guess I'm in the market for a woolly mammoths in July-and Dame I meant I was going to Notre Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 City ...... rocking chair, or an afghan-blue probably provoked a similar re Dame (and not on a football schol to match my housedress-ora com sponse: fear and amazement. The arship). State ...... Zip ...... panionable African violet plant. admissions process had been billed And some people seemed· to think Perhaps it's the coming' of pre as extremely. selective and the the women were here to coeducate registration that has brought this women were labeled' geniuses by all the University, while -most of~Lus, I dollop of nostalgia into my life. It the men-and women. (I think a think, came to go to college. was,. after all, not so long ago that good number of us women looked to It was all a little confusing. Pro I saw my first Form· 50 and tried tei ourselves and knew 'we weren't the fessors and male students. would p,uzzle' out all, the attendant red geniuses, so figured our application . turn to' a woman in the class for the tape. At that point I was deluged must have smick by the committee "woman's view" as though that were with possible courses, but I had three when' someone went out for coffee necessarily some strange and exotic years to fill: now I am still deluged, in the wee hours of the morning.) beast. There was a degree of self but have only one semester. In a residential University organ consciousness that has not totally It amazes me that the time has ized around the stay hall system, dispersed yet,-,as, though we were gone by so quickly, but then, time where the hall is the main social watching ourselves to see if 'some has a way of doing that. One of its and political unit, we entered Badin thing horrible' would happen." inherent . characteristics is that it and Walsh, halls suddenly devoid of I don't think anything horrible passes . .Yet at the moment I feel as residents. We were all so new has, though women are surely' more tho'ugh I were part of a magic show: rectors, RA's, students. There was plentiful on· the quad than woolly I stand on a tablecloth, so~eone no one to initiate 'the freshmen into mammoths. gives a .quick yank,·. and suddenly hall life-in one respect' we were The most woeful casualty is not I'in' no' longer standing on a table all "freshmen." The tradition had the demise of Notre Dame's mascu cloth. The presence 'or absence of the been broken and we had to start linity, but the split in the relation cloth is all that has' changed in the from scratch.' ship between Notre Dame and Saint scenerio. In many ways we were indirectly Mary's. One' sophomore I talked to But that's not completely true. influenced by Saint Mary's. A good at the beginning of the year had Things have changed since my first portion of the transfer students came never been over to the other campus. year. . from. "across the road" 'and though . It would be nice if a new relation Freshman year was the first year some of those had taken the great ship could be created, one that did of coeducation and the first year of majority of their. courses at Notre not rest on stereotypes and second- the "unmerger.'; I remember' getting '. Dame, they still had ties with the hand information. ',' , a little card in the mail a few weeks other.school. They and their friends But perhaps I grow old. And after I had applied to' what I' had had been most caught in the un ramble on about things of no con thought would be a merged Saint merger confusion. sequence as old people do .. 'Mary's College/University of Notre . There seemed" much concern Does anyone know where 'I can Dame, asking me to indicate wheth- among the students that year at the get an African violet plant cheap?

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