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... Molarity -Page 18 VOLUME XV, NO. 21 an mdependent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,,1980 Notre-Dame Homecoming 1980 WNDU may broadcast home football games:NCAA by Mary Fran Callahan NCAA agreed to comply with the The plaintiffs who initiated the that all the required consent can dents speculated as to what was -Smior Staff Reporta Association's regulations re charges against the NC..AA are be obtained by Saturday. If occurring within the confines of stricting the broadcasting of now faced with the challenge of compliance with the cable com the conference room. Local lawyers and National ames for attendance reasons, but gaining the consent of the cable panies cannot be obtained in Barbara Ruth, a South Bend Collegiate Athletic Association if the localla wyers can get each of ~companies by Saturday- if the time for the Michigan game, then resident, explained that her attorneys reached an agreement the 40 cable companies involved upcoming Michigan game is to the attorneys hope they can husband was in Naval ROTC yesterday on the televising of to consent to granting per be televised. The attorneys, reach agreements with the com while at Notre Dame, and that Notre Dame home football mission to WNDU to televise however, were optimistic that panies in order to begin tele she used to attend the games games, by conferring for ap the games, then the NCAA will the cable companies will grant vising the remainder of the years ago. Because she rarely gets proximately one and a halfhours allow Notre Dame games to air Notre Dame permission to have regular season. an opportunity to obtain tickets, out of court. The plaintiffs who on South Bend television its games aired, but they said George Roberts, chief counsel she consequently enjoys follow brought the charges against the screens. there is only a "50/50" chance for the plaintiffs, said the agree ing the televised broadcasts. ment with the NCAA will result in a "strenuous effort" on Notre "I don't think it's fair to take Dame's behalf to get Saturday's the games off the air; Channel16 game televised. is our station and they should Crosson attributes drinking to enviroment The plaintiffs said they found televise them. I really wait for the the cable companies that they games and look forward to have contacted this past week to indicated that they were mod !em," Crosson said. "Many stu them," she said. by Kelli Flint be quite cooperative, and con erate to heavy beer drinkers. The dents arrive with well established Senior Staff Reporter sequently the lawyers are hope drinking habits. The environ ful all the companies will agree to Several spectators waiting for ment here is magnifying the Alcohol abuse is one of the allow the airing of the football the hearing to begin wore blue major issues raised by students problem rather than alleviating and gold ties, "Go Irish" buttons, it." games. and faculty at Notre Dame. Last Asked why no hearing was and tee shirts with Notre Dame year, the Department of Crosson added that the fOCUS:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::;::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: held, Roberts replied, "Because insignias. The spectators even University has poor social out Psychological Services conduct we tried to reach an agreement." followed the media out of the ed a survey dealing with student lets. "The campus never planned , Local residents and law stu courtroom and waited in a hall Notre Dame percentages were for this many students," Crosson alcohol use. The results of the dents filled the court room, way by the conference room also higher in the moderate to said. "There is an inadequate survey indicated that there was a which was equipped with a door Tor some word on the heavy drinking category for wine amount of social space, which problem with student alcohol limited amount of seating. matter. and spirits. makes the environment poor for abuse. Spectators stood against the Patricia Crosson, director of casual male-female relation According to the survey, 25.9 walls anticipating the beginning Since the fate of the televised the Department of ships." percent of the Notre Dame of - the hearing. The lawyers games now rests in the plaintiffs' Psychological Services feels that Some Notre Dame under students surveyed were moder representing both parties en ability to negogiate with Lhe there is a problem with alcohol graduate upperclassmen agree ate to heavy beer drinkers. Only tered the courtroom, conferred cable companies, further word abuse at Notre Dame. "There are 1 5 percent of the national briefly and then left to meet in a from the lawyers could come two basic causes of the prob- sample of students surveyed [continued on page 4] conference room. Local resi- sometime later today. News Brie~ Friday, September 19, 1980 -page 2 by The Observer and The Associated Press Inside Friday Walkouts still plague Poland. Although the communist A tale ofblood and bureaucracy country survived one of the most crippling strikes of the '-.. decade, lingering unrest still exists in a number of cities. Warsaw television reported 16 struck businesses and sources It was the ~oice of one crying out in the said walkouts had shut down the Katowice streetcar system and wilderness. a bal-l/bearing plant in Kielce. It was unclear whether the 16 Mark Kelley, off-campus commissioner, sat in Mark strikes were the beginning of a new wave of unrest or i:he my office smoking cigarettes, slumping into the residual effects of the old, which began easing with settlement weary posture of frustration and acceptance. ''I'll Rust of strikes in Gdansk, Szczecin and Silesia last month. Those tell ya Rusty, it's bull--- t," he was saying. Managing Editor settlements granted workers the right to strike and set up The leader of his chosen turf had entered upon a independent unions. I )etails on the strikes were sketchy but the foreign turf, less hostile but, in its own subtle way, workers were believed to be pressing demands for higher pay, far more insidious. Mr. Kelley had confronted the 1m proved working conditions and in some cases the removal of land of bureaucracy. "That's why I need to have a meeting with off unpopular local supervisors. Out there in the promised land of off-campus campus students... and they have to show up. We Kelley's constituents were being beaten, stabbed need to have an attitude of cooperation, both in and robbed. But there was no burning bush not being obnoxious and in keeping ourselves around to divinely intercede. So he took the next safer by not being stupid." best route: the "norMal channels." As ofTuesday, And that's where the University comes in. In 1 An explosion was reported early yesterday at a Titan II missile the normal channels weren't working too well. order for Kelley to have a simple meeting a variety silo in Arkansas hours after Air Force officials discovered an "Here's my problem man," Kelley continued. "I of bureaucratic hurdles must be cleared. By apparent fuel leak and spotted "smoke" billowing from the silo, need to get hold of everyone off campus. So I go to yesterday at least one- the Registrar's list of a police dispatcher said. About 100 people living within one the registrar to get a list of names and labels. They names- had been. But the attitude Kelley says he mile of the silo in this sparsely populated area of central aren't ready. Then I try to reserve a room for a encountered in attending to the rest of the Arkansas had been evacuated last night after the "smoke," meeting: no luck, everything is either booked or mundane dificulties- red tape, ignorance and thought to be vapor from leaking fuel, was discovered. A 'not usable for that type of gathering'." indifference- remain. dispatcher at the Van Buren County Sheriffs office, who "Then," Kelley continued, "I needed money for Now Kelley is not Moses, and oi-[ campus is not declined to give her name, confirmed there had been an publicity and to get started with this house alarm the promised land. The fact that 67% of the senior explosion, but said no further details were immediately thing. But Student Government won't make · class lives there may indicate many view it as such, available. · · money allotments for another couple of weeks. and that in itself is dangerous. Weekend parties at Paul (Riehle, Student Body president) got me a which the hosts get blinded and are oblivious to little cash to work with, but I'm already out of strangers entering their house are parties better that." left unhosted. Beer is not milk ;md honey, and no The problem of finding solutions for off campus burning bush is going to lead intruders and crime is no easy task. Much talk is made in intimidaters away from trusting, bourgeois stu The drug, Resperine widely used to control high blood dents. pressure, causes cancer in animals and may pose a similar risk to collegiate circles of "the real world," as though And, finally, it doesn't take a prophet to cry out humans, according to the National Cancer Institute. The tests, that entity is something which exists apart from "Beware" concerning a situation so obvious and in which animals were fed the drug for 103 weeks, do not prove the presumable fantasy of university life. That close to home. Then what does it take? That is not that reserpine causes cancer in humans. But they indicate it is "a view, like much of what we receive in college, is an .easy to answer. What doesn't help is an impersonal potential risk to man," the institute said.