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HOMECOMING '78 .. Yll~ • • Trustees Committee discusses student life by Tony Pace Those committee members not Editor-in-Chief present were Jane Pfeiffer, the The Student Affairs Committee Honorable John D. Rockefeller IV of the University Board of Trustees and Catherine Cleary. discussed many aspects of student . Trustees had the opportunity to life and listened to presentations by see some of the overcrowded student government leaders at a conditions first hand during the meeting held yesterday in th£"; lunch break of the full day session. Center for Continuing Education. The CLC report, given by Two specific reports were McKenna, focused on the proposal presented on the overcrowded passed by the CLC on Monday to housing situation and on the pur­ clarify ·its purpose. McKenna an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and st. mary's pose of the Campus Life Council made the presentation in order to (CLC). A general report was made initiate discussion on the CLC. Vol. XIII, No. 34 Friday, October 13, 1978 on student life, which included However, no proposals were made, statements from student govern­ and there were no votes on the ment leaders describing their re­ matter. SlJective organizations. The steps of the formation of the The student life report also CLC were traced by the committee included a presentation by minority but Schneider indicated that the Campbell wraps-up series student representative Steve Travis board could not address itself to the asking for concerted llniversity CLC's statement of last Monday. action toward addressing the Travis asked that the University by Gregory Solman and important decision to provide ed." unique needs of minority students. reaffirm its commitment to minori­ John C. Campbell wrapped-up Nassar. with missiles and crews," "However, the language of the In the report, Judicial Coordinator ty students by addressing their his lecture series on the "Great commented Campbell. ''This summit revealed the committment Jayne Rizzo also described recent unique needs and helping them to Powers and the Middle East'' changed the direction of the whole to a settlement," he continued. "It CLC action which allows parietals then become a part of the Universi­ yesterday before a Library Auditor­ question ... it involved the (ocus of indicated that both were interested offensed to be tried by hall judicial ty model. ium crowd of about 60, ending the the great powers." All of this, in calming down the Middle East." boards. Dale Atkins, who spoke on the three-day event sponsored by Insti­ Campbell stressed, was occurring Campbell further explained that The tone of the meeting was Black Cultural Arts Council and the tute for International Studies. as a paralel to the then developing even the slight degree of detente informal and descriptive. Student annual need for funding the Black Campbell followed his previous detente between the United States shown in the summit "had a Body President Andy McKenna Cultural Arts Festival, stressed, lectures on the "Dulles/Khrush­ and Soviet Union. devastating effect on Soviet/Egyp­ described it as a "chance for some "We do not promote separatism. chev" and "Dayan/Nasser" eras At the 1972 Summit in Moscow, tian relations." positive exchange of ideas. es­ The people in this University are with yesterday's talk, which focus­ the great powers ''considered the The idea of the war, stresed pecially about the issues which different but in our diversity we are ed on Henry Kissinger and Leonid Mideast," Campbell postulated. Campbell, was to "bring about a I have arisen in the past two united.'' Brezhnew--the personalities who ''There was some concern on. the 'Great Power' intervention, and not months." Travis stated that the problem shaped the late 60's and early 70's. part of ach power's Mideast client, [continued on page 3] The residentiality report, which for minority students. at Notre "There was not as much trouble but nothing specific was discuss- was addressed to the overcrowding Dame is not success but survival. choosing personalities in this era as issue, was presented by McKenna Part of the reason for this, he there had been in others," remark­ and Badin Hall vice-president explained, is that the support ed Campbell, one of the foremost Mary Ryan. services here are not geared to the authorities of the Mideast. McKenna outlined three possible needs of the minority student. ''Though this was not as clear at solutions to overcrowding which ''Minority students don't come the beginning of the era as it was at are currently being discussed by from the same places that usually the end.'' the CLC: The possible solutions produce Notre Dame studenrs,'' he Campbell explained the Nixon are a l9ttery, with the stipulation said. He also explained that the guidelines to Mideast diplomacy, t· which, in his view, included "a I that it must be done early in the cultural background of most minor­ school yc~r. reducing the amount ity students is generally not recognition by Nixon that the exisdhg balance (of power) in the .. of storage space in the halls to regarded as equal to that of other area had to be preserved'' and that I accomodate more students rooms, students. ancf converting what is currently Margarita Garcia further crucial domestic political recogni­ I graduate housing to undergraduate explained that the problems out­ tion of the "strength of the Jewish housing. lined by Travis applied, to the community," had been made. Other solutions were put for­ Hispanic students as well as to The speaker characterized then ward, including the possibility of black students. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger subsidizing off-campus housing. Rizzo descrioed the reclassifica­ as a man who ''thought in global However, ·the committee did not tion of parietals offenses as "con­ terms" and "who put his own consider this feasible. current jurisdiction." In addition stamp on American Middle East McKenna and Student Govern­ to hall rectors and the Dean of Policy." ment Off-Campus Commissioner Students, parietal offenses may The era ·in question ended with John Fitzpatricks remarked that now be heard by hall judicial the October War of 1973, Campbell students no longer want to move off boards. The purpose of this part of said, and was "somewhat like the campus because it is no longer the report was solely descriptive. SO's period in that it was a period of economical. Other factors cited in Rizzo stated, "I'm not asking for a great events and crises.'' the decrease of students moving off response." Campbell outlined the Arab, campus were crime and transporta­ She went on to describe the Israeli, American and Russian re­ tion problems. improvements that have been actions to the events which led to The Student Affairs Committee made in the judicial process, United Nations Resolution 242. is a nine-person body and is specifically with the hall J-boards, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel chaired by John Schneider. The since_last May. Nassar, Campbell said, appealed to five other members present yester­ The meeting closed in a congeni­ the Soviet Union for more arms, day were Donald Mathews, al, relaxed atmosphere. Student and, more importantly, direct Sov­ Anthony Earley, Paul Hellmuth, Union Director Bill Roche said, "I iet participation in the form of In _honor of Saint Mary's Founder's Day these girl!i> wore the University General Counsel Philip enjoyed it and I think it was a manpower. umforms that students wore in the past. [Photo by Mark Facccnda, and Fr. 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