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Oa The Inside t'"ood co-op ...page 3 Auto thefts ...page 11 serving the notre dame - st. mary's community Vol. IX, No. 57 .Thursday, December Senior Club fate discussed by Valerie Zurblis Staff Repo"er Dean of Students John Macheca, Assistant Vice President of Student Mfairs Father Terry Lally and Dr. Robert Ackerman, Director of Student Affairs said Wednesday the purpose of the Senior Club was to provide a clean place for seniors to gather and socialize. "Any member of the senior class should feel free to go there alone or with a guest who is 21," said Macheca in an interview with The Observer. "The club should be a sustantial place for the senior class, something that they can take pride Flanner or Grace may be in." For example, Ackerman said thatstudentsfelt there was no place to sit and talk on campus. Upstairs in the club a section was provided for women's dorms next year socializing. It was pointed out that the nature of the place by Paul Young and Hall, about 244 in number, woUld be transferred next had changed from last year due mainly from Terry Keeney year to one of the two towers. The returning residents student complaints. "Students came to us with from either Flanner or Grace numbering about 500 their complaints and we responded to their University Housing Director Fr. John Mulcahy would be moved to Farley. The difference in num­ <:oncerns," said Lally. yesterday proposed converting either Falnner or bers in the two halls would be resolved by seniors "People with a higher notion of what a Senior Grace Halls into a women's dorm to a{!commodate an graduating and the non-admittance of freshman into Club should be decided not to open their doors to additional200 to 300 women expected on campus next Farley for one year, Mulcahy said. the march. It's an example of something year. Under Mulcahy's plan Farley Hall would Mulcahy noted the advantages of choosing one of studentshaVlut time into something and wouldn't become a men's dorm again. the towers as the sixth women's dormitory. let it be used for something other than for what it In a letter to resident hall rectors, Mulcahy said "The towers would make excellent women's dorms was intended," said Ackerman. that this proposal was only one of several alternative .as they would require practically zero in renovation On the dismissal of manager William "Butch" solutions to the problem of housing a larger women's fees, excepting perhaps the addition of a laundry Smith, Macheca commented that certain enrollment. room," Mulcahy said. responsibilities were to be performed and if they Final decision on the matter rests with University He also cited the large number of beds available in weren't the internal structure must be recon­ Presidnet Fr. Theodore Hesburgh with the advice of Flanner or Grace as a factor in planning future sidered. "It was a personnel thing and personnel the Officers of the University. women admissions. changes shouldn't go to length in a newspaper," Brother Just Paczesny, vice president for Student Mulcahy noted that the decision to admit 380 fresh­ commented Macheca. · Affairs and an office of the University, emphasized man women next year is the source of the housing Macheca said that Student Mfairs did that the conversion of Flanner or Grace is only one problems. According to Mulcahy, of 125 senior something for the seniorclass that they had in­ solution currently being considered. women graduating this year only 75 are living on dicated they wanted done with their help as "Fr. Mulcahy merely gave possible solution s and campus. Thus the university must find about 300 beds beginning. In order to reach that goal, policy he was seeking ideas from hall staffs on this matter," for the new women students next year. decisions had to be made. "It's important for Paczesny said. "In no way have we come to a final seniors to know what we're trying to do," he decision on this matter." Five-year coeducation plan said. Lally said the newly appointed co-managers, Best option According to Sr. John Miriam Jones, assistant to Jim Sweedyk and Jim Shanahan, would do a the provost, the goal of the five-year University good job. "They understand what kind of club it The conversion of Flanner or Grace into a women's coeducation policy is to have a female enrollment of should be," said' Lally. dorm is favored by Mulcahy as the best among three 1500 by 1976. Cureently 1,138 women are enrolled as Ackerman interjected, "Ideally, the senior options he believes open to the University. undergraduates. club should be for seniors only. No un­ According to Mulcahy, the other two options are to Jones said that although there has never been derclassmen should be admitted." He explained force women to move off campus by including them formal talk for a sixth women's dorm, university that it would be unfair if a freshman girlto goin in a housing lottery or to find alternate housing on !officials have been considering housing possibilities because she was dating a senior guy. Other campus for the additional women. since last spring. freshmen couldn't get in and eventually the club Mulcahy said that the lottery for women "is a Jones argued that the conversion of another male would have to open up to the entire student body. strong possibility, an option that can and will be dorm to a women's dorm is "the least desired of Lally said that those using fake ID's were not considered." As for alternate housing, Mulcahy many solutions which won't solve many problems living up to the ideal. "We're operating the club indicated that at least "two buildings are now under and might create a few more," she said. straight but that's the way we're operating," he investigation as sources of additional space." Of the three options open to the university to house commented. Paczesny noted another option open to the women next: year (forcing women off campus, con­ Ray Capp, a committee member of the bar's university. He proposed that the university construct verting ariotehr men's dorm, or searching for renovation, said, "We didn't want another modular buildings to serve as dormitories. alternate hou~ing), Jones favors the last solution. Nickie's or Corby's. We wanted a coffeehouse­ "Another possible option is to build on university Jones believes that final decision on the question type place where you can take adateor see some land some modular building like Campus View or will be reached by January. ·She said that the Of­ friends." Crestwood sponsored by the university," Paczesny ficers of the University will consider many options to Capp explained thecommitteetried to fix the said. - solve the problem of residential availability including place up to look nice and convey the idea. They proposals to.use mobile homes to house students. also wanted to keep the crowds dow"l. Transfer men to Farley "We're at a position now where we don't really "Mter it had been opened awhile, I visited the have the money to build a new dorm and wish we club and found it dirty and filthy. The paneling Under Mulcahy's proposal the women of Farley did," Jones said. was done, things were kicked in, the curtains :=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:::=:=:=:=:=:=:=::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~:;:;:::;;::_s:~":!;!:;s.~~"8:-:::;z,.~::::::::::.o::::>,.~:::::."*.~'!..(.~:X::,..~~"8'!...~~ weren't uty and the shutters were off," Capp related. He was also surprised when Smith was dismissed. "When we were done renovating, we assumed our work had stopped and management would take over the cleaning and keeping up of place," he said. "It wasn't being done." • \ ..,. ·•e.,.,._,,, 1·Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. Mary ) Short, a Notre Dame cheerleader for two yean, Is , getting married over the Christmas break and leaving the squad. Her replacement will be Janet Corcoran. 2 the observer Thursday, December 5, 1974 House sends budget reduction warld briefs to Senate lor final approval WASHINGTON UPI -The House Education and Labor WASHINGTON <UPI) - The It was the first use of the In three separate "budget Committee Wednesday unanimously approved an House, invoking for the first Impoundment Control Act Con­ rescission" messages through emergency $2 billion public service jobs bill to combat time anti-impoundment powers gress passed earlier in the year Nov. 13, Ford asked permission rising unemployment. Congress gave itself earlier this to prevent the President from to cut funds Congress appro­ The money, to be pumped into city and state year, voted Wednesday to refusing to spend money it has priated for specific programs of governments to provide needed public service jobs, in require that President Ford appropriated. the Agriculture, Housing and areas of severe unemployment, would be authorized spend $540 million of the $657.6 Both houses must approve Urban Development and Interi­ for one year. million he sought to cut from ' within 45 days a President's or Departments and the Atomic The measure also contains provisions to broaden his budget. request to withhold or reduce Energy Commission. · unemployment compensation benefits in hard hit areas The House passed by voice · appropriated funds, or he has Besides the college housing of the nation. vote and sent to the Senate for to go ahead and spend them. funds, the House Wednesday The bill was described by committee staffers as a final action an Appropriations Congress has until the end of allowed the following cuts: "stop gap emergency one year effort to pump more Committee recommendation the current session, targeted -$4.89 million for develop- money out right away for public service jobs." that Ford be allowed to reduce for Dec.

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