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Editorial St. Mary's to receive Observer next year? I I I 1 It has been decided by The Observer editorial board that unless the St. Mary!s student body pays the mandatory fee l of $3, The Observer will not be distributed to the St. I Mary's campus in the Fall. Over 95 percent of Notre Dame students pay for The Observer, while less than SO percent of the St. Mary's students have paid for this publication each year. Only once, in 1973, did the St. Mary:s subscription percentage exceed SO percent. It occurred m .. February 1973, and only after The Observer susp:n~ed circulation to St. Mary's because of the low subscnptton rate. It is this editorial board's decision that St. Mary's should finally pay for The Observer as Notre Dame does_ or simply not receive it. For too long Notre Dame has earned the financial burden for St. Mary's. The Observer has been justifiably criticized in the past for a lack of St. Mary's coverage within its pages. This lack of coverage, however, is entirely due to a shortage of St. Mary's reporters, rather than any malicious intent of ours to keep St. Mary's coverage at a minimum. Despite frequent recruitment drives, only a handful of St. Mary's students have been willing to write for The Observer. To add to an already difficult situation, the St. Mary's reporters we do have have been confronted with t_he frequent refusals of St. Mary's officials to talk openly wtth them on the issues we try to cover. Furthermore, SMC administrators have skirted our continued requests for office space on the St. Mary's campus. The Observer feels strongly that unless St. Mary's cooperates in part by at least paying for this newspaper as Notre Dame does, it should no longer receive it at all. It is In this, the ND-SMC production of Godspell, the contagious smile." The play appears tonight and our intention to continue St. Mary's reporter drives and, not-so-tall Sean Coleman gives a performance tomorrow at 8 pm, in Stepan Center. by increasing the size of the St. Mary's staff, increase the which Observer critic Dave Rust describes as • [Photo by Mark Ricca] amount of St. Mary's coverage. But only after a successful "propelled by a fine light voice and a powerfully response to a reportorial drive will we be able to upgrade the SMC coverage. It has been suggested by St. Mary's officials that, granted we conduct further reportorial drives and possibly add some SMC professors to our advisory board (which we Hughes' will found ;ntend to do), the fee will either be mandatory or we will only be obliged to deliver as many issues of The Observer as are paid for by St. Mary's students. Our position, SALT LAKE CITY AP - A hand­ being of sound and disposing mind tor in the document. Dietrich had however, is this: unless this newspaper is equally written document purporting to be and memory, not acting under said earlier that he knew Hughes the will of the late Howard R. duress, fraud or the undue influ­ had prepared and signed a will, supported by both Notre Dame arid St. Mary's, it should Hughes was delivered to a Nevada ence of any person whomsoever leaving much of his fortune to not be distributed to both campuses. A partial distribution court clerk yesterday. and being a resident of Las Vegas, research and the Mormon Church. to St. Mary's does not justify the presumption, written More than half of th -estate was Nev., declare that this is to be my Hughes surrounded himself with under our masthead, that we are a Notre Dame and St. left to medical research and chari­ last will ... " Mormons during his last years of Mary's newspaper. We would be forced to become a table institutions, according to the The document leaves "one seclusion. Notre Dame newspaper exclusively, to remove the St. document, and the rest was left to fourth of all my assets to the The document was included in a Mary's women from our editorial board and to omit all St. Hughes' .two former wives and two Hughes Medical Institute in Miami series of papers delivered to the two other individuals. No over-all · one-eighth to be divided among the Clark County clerk in Las Vegas. A Mary's coverage completely. figure on the value of the estate University of Texas, Rice Institute Mormon spokesman said the Our hope is that St. Mary's officials will finally include was given. of Technology, Houston, University Church did not know if the will was the $3 subscription fee on the Fall bill, as has been the An envelope containing the pur­ of Nevada, University of California, "a hoax or not." practice at Notre Dame. Once that cooperative effort has ported will was delivered to the one-sixteenth to the Mormon "Jerry Cahill, director of press been made, The Observer can work to upgrade its St. Clark County clerk by Jeus Christ Church, one-sixteenth to establish relations, said an envelope with Mary's coverage and to improve what has often been of Latter-day Saints Mormon, one a home for orphan children, one­ papers was delivered to the clerk of the beneficiaries. sixteenth to the Boy Scouts of by Wilfred W. Kirton Jr., counsel termed the last visible and sustaining link between the two The document, dated March 19, America, one-sixteenth to be div­ for the Church of Jesus Christ of campuses. We are wholeheartedly in favor of doing so. 1968 - two years before the late ided among Jean Peters of Los Latter-day Saints Mormon. Our own financial situation, however, has forced us to ask billionaire left Las Vegas - was Angeles and Ella Rice of Houston, The envelope had been delivered the same of St. Mary's as we have received from Notre release by church officials here. one-sixteenth to William R. Lum­ to the church headquarters here, Dame all along--namely, the revenue needed to continue The lined sheets were yellow mis of Huston, one-sixteenth but Cahill said officials did not this publication. with age and stained. Melvin Du Mar of Las Vegas." know how or by whom. "The It read, in part: "Last will and Noah Dietrich, Hughes former circumstances surrounding the de­ ; testament. I, Howard R. Hughes, right-hand man, was named execu- livery frankly puzzle us " he said. In Commencement is 131st Today's by Marianne Shulte The 131st Annual Commence­ Halls. Senior Staff Reporter ment weekend will officially open Actual graduation ceremonies with a lawn concert on Friday May will begin at noon in the Memorial Observer 14 by the University band at 6:30 Library Auditorium with the distri­ After four years of sweat by p.m. on the Memorial Library Mall. bution of diplomas to the graduate The football team stages a preview parents to meet tuition costs and by The musical "Godspell" will also division of the College of. Business of next seasons action in tomor­ students to meet the demands of be presented by the ND-SMC Adminstration. Distribution of row's Blue-Gold game, see page 9. professors. parents of graduating Theatre at 8 p.m. in Stepan Center, Bachelor's and Master's diplomas students will again be coming to for which tickets may be purchased will start at 1 p.m. in the ACC and Notre Dame for the weekend of in advance. may be attended by onlythe grad­ May 14-16 to see everything except Activities on Saturday, May 15 uates themselves. Seniors, do you remember you first their sons and daughters receive will include ROTC commissioning The graduates will march from concert at Notre Dame? On page their diplomas. in the Athletic and Convocation the south to the north dome of the 12. Reminisce. As in recent years, recipients of Center, Phi Beta Kappa installation ACC with thek diplomas in the Masters or Baccalaureate degrees in the Memorial Library Audi­ Academic Procession at 1:30 p.m. will not receive their degrees torium, and a University Reception Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. of the Father Griffin and David O'Keefe individually during the commence­ by the Officers of the University in National Urban League of New wrap up this year's Features on ment · cermony. Due to the size of the Center for Continuing Educa­ York City will deliver the Com­ page 12. Observer the graduating class, only Doctor of tion. The Academic Procession of mencement Speech to the grad­ Philosophy degrees will be confer­ graduates at 4:45 p.m. in the ACC uates and their parents and friends red individually at the Commence­ will be followed by a Baccalaureate following the Academic Procession. ment Exercises. Mass. The Valedictorian of the Class of Father Griffin and David O'Keefe All other diplomas will be distri­ Following the cocktail party and wrap up this year's Observer buted privately, immediately prior buffet supper in the ACC, for which 1976 has not yet been announced. Features on page 12. to the Academic Procession pre­ tickets must be . purchased in The Law School Diploma Cere­ ceding the Commencement and advance, a concert by the Notre mony will conclude the weekend Conferring of Degrees Ceremony. Dame Glee Club will close the activities at 4:30p.m. in Washing Notre Dame's Student Union is in At that time these degrees will be evening activities of Saturday. ton hall.

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