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THE OBSERVER. VOL. 1, NO. 4 ___________________________________ UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME__________________________________ _____________ DECEMBER8, 1966 Hesburgh’s Board Kills Apartm ents For Off-Campus BY PAT COLLINS A six-man board ofTrusteeshas Apparently the greatest advan­ voted down the proposed apartment tage taken by the on-campus stu­ living for off-campus students, The dents is in the judicial boards Observer learned today. where some students have been The Board which included Uni­ given monetary and off-campus versity President Fr. Theodore penalities for acts which previous­ Heshburgh and Vice-President Fr. ly were punishable by expulsion. Charles McCarragher, reasoned The Board, however, did not cite the decision on the basis of two any ‘injustice’ in the Judiciary allegations: Board set up by Jeddeloh and the That the on-campus students have unsatisfactorily responded to Oft -Campus Commission some the new responsibility entrusted in four weeks ago. them by the University. Off-campus students still com­ That the off-campus apartment plain that they are not getting construction would endanger the their share of the responsibility success of the construction of two dished out by the University last new high-rise dormitories, now summer when the Administration under consideration by Adminis­ decided to drop many of the re­ tration officials. Norman Jeddeloh, the Off-Cam­ strictive on-campus rules. pus housing Commissioner said Many embittered off-campus “ In a way it was a good thing . students were somewhat pacified Fr. Simons (Dean of Students) when the Administration agreed to thought that he had the approval perm it them to own and operate of the Board and that all that was cars. Nevertheless the off-cam­ needed was a formulation of the pus students feel they have come judicial board. If the story had not out on the short end of justice, broken (see Observer Vol.l No. 1) except, of course, those now liv­ he probably would have gone ahead ing in apartments. and approved the apartment living without the approval of the Board.” Yesterday, Simons denied Jedd- loh’s assertion. “I thought that there was a good argument for off- campus apartments, ’’said Simons,. Inside... T1IE LONG SEASON COMES TO AN END IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - The strain and pres­ # Observer editors probe the age sure of the season is evident as Head coach Ara Parseghian pauses to collect his thoughts be­ “ Ithought if the judicial board was old problem of the purpose of a fore the press in the locker room. It was a season of many rewards and many heartaches forl'arse formed we would have a good argu­ university and the part to be played ghian and The Irish Eye, pg. 12, recounts why. ment. But they interpreted this as saying that if the judicial board is by its students. See “the challenge formed the legalized apartments that money can’t buy” page 7. would follow. They jumped the • New York Senator Robert Ken­ gun.” nedy predicted a general uproar After Strike, Berkeley Still Seethes Jeddeloh noted that his committee if the President bungles the Viet had a decent argument against the Nam issue. And the stalemate BY LENNY JOYCE Board’s second tenet, but that there appears to be wearing the fuse of up the table. A Miss McBurnie come out the worse for the scuffle. the concerned. The Observer calls Berkeley, California -- Crack­ was nothing he could do about the on- said she was sorry, but no, we Brent was also immediately ar­ for action on the editorial page. ling across the plaza at Berkeley, campus situation. couldn’t. She said the University rested for assualt and battery, • Although the actual organization bounded on the one side by his­ has a special arrangement with the “I am not casting any asper­ with Phillips bringing the charges. is not listed on the FBI subversive toric Sproul Hall Administration sions,’’said Jeddloh,” I would prob­ government, so the Navy table was By this time Vice-Chancellor list, Students for Democratic Soc­ Building, scene of the major 1964 ably do the same thing if I we re liv­ alright . .” William Boyd arrived on the scene iety have been blamed for the un­ sit-in, and on the other by the Stu­ ing on campus. But the fact that the When Mrs. Goldstick and others and was presented with four de­ rest on many college campuses, in­ dent Union, was a vital unity and set up the table (in consultation mands by the demonstrators. Judicial Boards have been giving light penalities and students have cluding Notre Dame. Observer re­ purpose among the huge group of and participation with student 1. We be perm itted to set up an groups) campus policemen de­ been keeping beer and girls in the porter Bob Gorman gets the story gathered students. ALL the politi­ anti-draft table next to the Navy from SDS headquarters, page 2. cal tables and the quiet, yet ani­ manded that they remove the table, or get the Navy table re­ room has made it impossible to table. The issue to the students argue the first point.” • Notre Dame’s Hockey team mated, conversations were devoted moved. opens its home season Saturday to the Strike. seemed clear: students had no 2. The Administration guaran­ The Off-Campus Commissioner right to use the Student Union plans to reiterate his plea for le­ against Lewis College seeking The ostensible cause of the tee that it will not prefer charges recognition as a University var­ building while the government, galized off-campus apartment liv­ strike was the presence, in the stu­ or initiate disciplinary action a- sity sport. Sports-staffer John which is generally composed of ing later in the year when “things dent Union building, of Navy re­ gainst Willie Brent. Corrigan gives an in-depth account cruiters. At noon Wed. (Nov. 30) non-students, could and the stu­ 3. The Administration guarantee cool down and the people on campus dents had no say in this matter. get adjusted to living with the rules of the season out-look for the stick- a demonstration was called by that it will not initiate discip­ men, page 12. campus Students for a Democra­ Willie Brent, a protesting they have.” linary actions against any partici­ ® A new Christmas benefactor has tic Society. Mrs. Corrine Gold- student engaged in various gesti­ pant in or organizers of the de­ Currently nearly 300 of the 1100 culations against the Navy people, off-campus undergraduates live been discovered and is implored stick of the Berkeley Draft Infor­ monstration. by Pat Collins to shower gifts on was attacked by three members of illegally in apartments. But nei­ mation Committee told a student 4. Negotiations on legitimacy of all the Observer friends. See Col­ the football squad including Jim ther the administration nor Jedde­ newspaper, the Berkeley BARB: the Naval table begin. lins’ gift list, page 6. “ I went to the Dean of Students’ Phillips, last year’s Bear’s cap­ loh have speculated as to the fate of office and asked permission to set tain. Brent is reported to have Continued on Page 4 their students. Stay Hall And What It Will Mean For You BY JON SHERRY creased as their range expands. it. In an lengthy survey taken last more than 30% of the hall will stay hall is that it will worsen Last year something new came By including all four classes in year in the stay halls, 129 fresh­ be freshmen. In the current fresh­ the situation. This is the hardest to Notre Dame, These halls became a hall, a student is given the men were asked if they would like man halls, juniors and seniors to remedy since the student body four year residence halls as a re­ chance to draw on a greater v ar­ to have lived in another hall that moving into the hall will have has no control over the number sult of a campus-wide referendum. iety of people for his circle of year. 120 replied that they liked their choice of rooms, then cur­ allowed on campus. The ad­ An untested and controversial idea friends. it where they were. rent hall residents, and finally any ministration is forced to maintain at the time, Stay Hall has be­ Stay Hall is especially helpful in The success of stay hall and its sophomores moving into the hall. fifty to sixty percent overcrowding come an accepted and proven thing. integrating the freshmen into the marked advantages have caused the The first year of any stay hall in some halls. While the problem For too long it has been evi­ Notre Dame community. The administration to favor its exten­ has generally proven to be the can be partially eased by rear­ dent that Notre Dame has been sion to all halls on campus. An hardest. It takes time and organ­ rangement, a full solution will losing its traditional spirit. Its freshman quad is notoriously a early proposal that seventeen stay ization to build the community. not be reached until new dorms are growth from a small closely-knit “fifth year of high school” . The halls be created by administrative But after a year of experience, the constructed. To overcome the ini­ society to a major university has freshmen tend to form in small groups or to be isolated. There is fiat was withdrawn when it was tial problems that confront a hall, brought a certain inability to iden­ returning members know what is to little identification with the other explained that the success of stay be done. There is no instant solu­ it is necessary to have dedica­ tify with the larger community.

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