VOL. Ill, No. 95 Over 3000 present as McCarthy accepts award by Bob Scheuler hold that ·there is more intelligence on Last night, United States Senator campus than in the country as a whole, l·:ugene J. McCarthy was presented the on the average. It follows tlwt change first annual Notre Dame Senior Class should he the most orderly and come Fellow A ward. Senator McCarthy spoke about best on the campuses." before three thousand people in Stepan lie then turned to the draft saying, "In Center as part of the 120th Annual the draft. .. people have to make moral Washington Day 1-:xerdses. decisions every day on life ami the war in McCarthy's speech was entertaining Vietnam. This is not surprising since the and spiced with many humorous United Stales made moral decisions on comments. The St·nator co!liiiH.!nted on Germany after World War II at I he the general mood of America today and Nurcmhurg Trials." touched on some of his experiences that Senator McCarthy concluded hy John Mroz PhU McKenna reflect this mood. admonishing students to guide their lives with integrity, decency and especially willingness. "A willingness to take risks Poll shows 2-way race with your life, your person, your reputation." by Glen Corso 3.5% of the total vote, as opposed to Senator M~.-·Carthy's speech at Stepan The first campus wide straw poll, taken McKenna's .2%. Center culminated his busy, two-day stay by the 0/JSI:R Vh"R, shows a fairly tight The actual vote was taken by choosing at Notre Dame. Y cstcrday afternoon he race shaping up between John Mroz, and twenty people at random from each hall, held a news conference at the Center for Phil McKenna, with a large block of with the exception of Moreau, and St. Continuing Fducation and commented on students undecided. Joseph's. his stay. The results of the poll were extrapo­ Mroz 133 "This is my first time hack on campus lated so that each lwll received a weighted McKenna 100 since the campaign. I've been so busy I vote, according to the percentage of total Kendall 17 feel like a rented car, being left off here residents it holds. Apt 9 and picked up there. But I've enjoyed it The campus wide percentages were as McCartin 14 and I believe I will survive." follows: McHugh 9 The Senator's hectic pace was reflected Mroz 32.5% Welshman 9 in his late arrival at the press conference. McKenna 24.8% Others 15 This delay proved fortunate as the great Kendall 4.2% Undecirll"d 127 Sen. Eugene McCarthy array of television lights and equipment Apt 2.1% The poll did not include off-campus had blown a fuse. The delay permitted McCartin 1.5% students, for fear that a distorted picture "I have not been accepting many till' damage to he repaired and enabled Others 7.1% of their voting trend would come across. invitations recently," said McCarthy. "I the conference to proceed as planned. Undecided 27.8% The poll should accurately reflect the did not receive any invitations to the Commenting on Father Heshurgh's Although there is not a great spread in preferences, campus wide, though there Rcpuhlic<.~n wcll:oming parties in recent letter, Senator McCarthy said, "It's the percentages, Mroz captured every may be discrepancies within each hall. A W<.~shington," cxplaim•d the Minnc~ot<.~ quite all right for a college president to hall. except Morrissey, Fisher, Sorin, and cross check was run on the poll to senator. "And as for the Democr<.~tic lay down terms. As to whether it was Walsh. McKenna's greatest strength was in determine its accuracy. The tabulated farewell parties... well, I didn't get any of proper at this time at this campus, I have his own hall Morrissey. There he captured results from Dillon showed that the vote those cit her." some reservations." 7.5% of the total campus vote, compared was split down the middle, six to six, "The invitation from Notre Dame (Continued on page 2) to Mroz's .4%. Mroz's greatest strength with the other votes scattered. A second came at just the right moment," said was in Brcen-Phillips, where he captured poll taken the next day, showed an 8 to 7 Senator McCarthy, "and I was eager to vote in favor of Mroz. There was a come hack to Notre Dame," (alluding to corresponding drop in the number of the commencement speech he gave at SMC bill calls for Services those undecided. Notr~: Dame in 1967). Academic Affairs Commissioner.) St. The poll was also broken down into "I was happy to he the first Senior In a meeting of the St. Mary's Legisla­ Mary's commissioners arc now elected at classes, and some interesting results may Fellow instead of the l>atriot of the Year. ture last night, a resolution introduced by the same time as the Student Body be noted. In the upper classes Mroz takes I was afraid that if some of the past junior Beth Driscoll, calling for the estab­ President and Vice-President. about a third of the vote. lie picks up Under the proposal approved last night winners heard of my acceptance, they lishment of a Student Services Commis­ sharply in the freshman class. McKenna would turn in their citations." sion, was approved and will he presented the Student Services Organization runs even with him among the seniors and Senator McCarthy then turned to the before an all school convocation on Mon­ Dricctor could he given power to co-or­ juniors, but falls off among the sopho­ d inatc student service functions and stu­ Presidential Campaign of 1968. "I day, March 14. mores and drops sharply among the fresh- dent service organizations without the suffered some in the campaign hy public The Legislature's approval of her pro­ men. analysis of my character," he said. posal, however, is considered by Miss approval of the Student Body President SENIORS "l'olitics is an avocation and a Oriscoll to he "merely a recommenda­ as long as student services organization Mroz 32.4% vocation. Public office carries with it tion" to the student body referendum to policy and student government policy do McKenna 31.8% certain risks and responsibilities. Just as he held at the March 14 convocation. not conflict. Conflict would be resolved Kendall 3.0% firemen and policemen must take chances Miss Driscoll explained that "since the by the Student Assembly' Apt 0.0% as part of thrir jobs, I decided in 1968 to Student Government was abolished by Also provided in the legislation intro­ McCartin 3.2% take a chance in my profession," said rcorganizalional legislation last week, it duced by Miss Driscoll was a proposal for Others 4.4% Senator McCarthy. was decided that there would he a com­ a Student Services Comptroller who Undecided 25.3% Elaborating, he said, "At times, I felt missions board to co-ordinate St. Mary's would administer a budget separate from In the junior class, McKenna pulls like the ancient messengers who brought service commissions and their functions." the Student (;ovcrnment budget. ahead of Mroz for the only lime, among the had news. In those times, they were S ct. e d u ling problems and conflicts, It was also recommended that hoth the all categories listed. executed on the spot. Today, we arc co-operation with Notre Dame, and Student Services Organization and Stu­ (Continued on page 6) allowed a hit more time." general administration were given by Miss dent Covcrnment's budgets he approved •••••••••••••••••••••••••• Turning to the campuses, McCarthy Driscoll as reasons for establishing a by the Student Assembly. The Student • • said, "I am not going to mention how had Student Services Organization. Government budget is not currently sub­ • • Jhings arc on campus today." Heading the Student Services Organiza­ ject to this approval. : On the Inside... : McCarthy continued, "We generally tion would be a Student Services Organi­ Other recommendations made by the zation Director who would have as Legislature which will hl~ brought before • • On Vaciline's future members of her commission: the Student the student referendum of March 14 • --Thieman reviews two good • by Martin Graham Ocvclopmt·nt Commissioner, the Spiritual included one by Student Body Vice-Presi­ records, p. 5. Student publishers of the magazine Commissioner, the NSA Co-ordinator, the dent Sally Stroebel for the appointment Vaci/ine stated yesterday that they intend Social Commissioner, the Public Rela­ instead of election of the Student Body to write a letter to the Chairman of the tions Commissioner, (a newly created Secretary and Treasurer. -Kay Markle looks at the c.o., p. 5. Hoard of Trustees, Edmund A. Stephan in post), and the Academic Activities Com­ Also to he recommended to the Stu­ an attempt to bring charges against Uni­ missioner. dent Body is that the third student (the versity Executive Vicc-Pr~sident Rev. The Driscoll recommendation called Student Body President and Vice-Presi­ • -Don Hynes considers McCarthy, Edmund Joyce for his order to withold for the appointment of the Student Ser­ dent arc mt•rnbcrs hy virtue of their • p. 4. • the publishing of their magazine. These vices Organization Director and the Com­ offices) representative on the Student • • charges arc I he 1heft of property of a missioners by the Student Body President Affairs Council he elected hy the Student • • member of the University community President and the permanent members of Body and that the Academic Affairs • • : -NCAA tournament pairings, p. 8. : and the rcjertion of the editorial freedom her cabinet.