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Irish stain 3 No. 1 titles Add UCLA, Michigan Tech to casualty list; see below and page 8 On The Inside Little Big Screen ... page 5 Mardi Gras Costume Ball ... page 2 Vol. VIII, No. 61 serving the notre dame - st. mary's community Monday, January 21, 1974 Irish cagers do it: ND 71--UCLA 70 by Vic Dorr possible. Wooden's line-up, which and 11 rebounds. "I knew we could Sports Editor included All-American Bill Walton, make a game of it if we stuck with played its game cooly and un it, and we did. Who would have thought it flappably, and not until Notre "I was just trying to do what I do possible'? Dame's John Shumate leapt out of best, and all I asked during the Who would have thought that a crowd to pull down the rebound of game was that I not lose con Notre Dame could trail UCLA by a last second tip-in try (That was fidence in myself or my team 17 points in the first half and then the greatest rebound I ever got," mates. I knew we had to have rally in the final20 minutes to hang bubbled Shumate in the victorious faith." a 71-70 defeat on the previously Irish locker-room) did the spectre But faith alone wasn't enough to unbeaten Bruins? of a streak-ending defeat descent offset the Bruins' awesome first Who would have thought that upon the poised, confident Bruins. half shooting display. The Uclans Notre Dame, still down 11 points But there were believers-both shot 70 per cent from the floor with 3:22 remaining in the game, on the Irish bench and in the ACC during the first 20 minutes, and could outscore the Bruins 12-0 capacity crowd of 11,343. One of with 6:02 remaining in the half during the final moments of the them was Digger Phelps, the Notre found themselves leading by 17 contest to give UCLA its first loss Dame coach. points after Bill Walton bounded in 89 outings? "We never quit," he said. "We over Shumate to drop in a lob-pass And who would have thought that were down 11 when I called time basket. Dwight Clay and Gary Brokaw, a out (with 3:22left to play) and we But Walton's score triggered an duo which has successfully worked had to make some changes. We Irish spurt, and some four minutes Gary Brokaw's 24th and 25th points bring its magic on opponents such as went with our press, putting (Ray) later Shun1ate beat Walton inside Notre Dame within one, 70-69. Marquette, Pittsburgh, and Ohio Martin back in instead of <Billy) to cut the spread to seven, 39-32. State, would be able to dazzle John Paterno. The kids never quit, and Billy Paterno's 25 footer cut it to Wooden's defending National it happened for us. For 88 other five with 49 seconds left in the half·, Champions in similar fashion? coaches including myself, it was a but at string of four unanswered Who would have thought it great win. free throws sent UCLA off at possible? Certainly not Wooden "And it was especially so for halftime in possession of a 43-34 himself. "We certainly didn't Notre Dame--for everyone in lead. figure to lose with three minutes to volved from the coaches, team, Phelps changed the offensive go and we up by 11 points," he said. school, alumni, and everyone else. complexion of the game at half I'm sure a lot of people around the time by electing to go with his But they kept at us, and they country were rooting for Notre "speed team "--Brokaw, Clay, deserve a tremendous amount of Dame today. It's only human Martin, Shumate, and Adrian 1 credit for their play. We lost a nature to want to see the Bruins Dantley--but the Irish made no little of our drive and played &little beaten." attempt to alter their man-to-man j tqo conservatively at the end, but Another believer was Shumate, defense. Notre Dame's man-to-man defense who made several contributions "Why should we change?" asked 1 hurt us, their players really hurt beyond his last-second, game Phelps afterwards. "There's not , us, and their crowd really inspired ending rebound. "It's the greatest much you're going to do about a 70 them." feeling of my life," said Shue, who ~ (Continued on page 8) _Nor did the Bruin players think it finished the game with 24 points John Shumate surrounds the final rebound, and the celebration begins. Student Union gets a new director Dwight Clay launches the game-winner. ••• see page 3 (Sports photos by Joe Raymond.) ' 1 1. the observer Monday, January 21, 1974 warld Masked ball. We've Moved Now Conveniently Located in Badin Hall carnival Next to the Barber Shop briefs Open 8am-6pm, Mon.-Fri, 9am-4pm Sat. to highlight -All types of Shoe Service and Accessories Downtown WASHINGTON <UP I)--The House Mardi G·ras Judiciary Committee will make some key Free Pen or Pencil for Everyone decisions this week that may determine the by Pat Flynn prospects for impeachment of President Staff Reporter Nixon--including how it will obtain con fidential material and what charges to "When Mr. Bilbo Haggins of Bag eliminate. End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy first birthday with a party of BEIRUT <UPD-The Iraq News Agency special magnificence there was said Sunday that Arab oil-producing countries much talk and excitement in are expected to resume normal production of Hobbiton."(From J. R. R. Tolkien.) petroleum and to cancel their embargo on The theme of Mardi Gras '74 is shipments to the United States in view of the the Master of Middle Earth, taken Egyptian-Israeli troop disengagement ac from The Lord of the Rings trilogy cord. of J. R. R. Tolkien. Events to embody this theme will indude an SAIGON <UPl)--Chinese MIG fighter opening costumes ball entitled "A bombers and marines mounted an all-{)ut long expected party" from the first attack Sunday against Vietnamese positions chapter of the first book of on the disputed Baracel Islands in the South Tolkien 's trilogy, and booths at the China Sea, capturing all three Vietnamese Mardi Grasearnival created with a bases in only 20 minutes, the Saigon Com look to middle-earth. mand said. Mardi Gras will begin with the The attack gave the Chinese complete Costume Ball party, Thursday, control of the Paracel archipelago, located Jan 31, from 9:()0-12:00. Tickets 200m iles east of Vietnam's central coast and will be $2.00 per person or $3.'?5 per 200 miles south of China's Hainan Island. couple and will be on sale Monday through Thursday this week at the WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Pentagon plans dining halls. On the following to drop a record $92.6 billion 1975 budget on night there will be a concert at the the doorstep of Congress a week from Mon Athletic and Convoca1tion Center, day-a figure that could set of an explosion music provided by the J. Geils Band. On that same Friday af under the Capitol dome. ternoon, the Mardi Gras carnival will begin from 3:00-7:00. The carnival will bE~ held every day following that Friday, through an campus taday Sunday, February 10. Saturday, Feb. 4 from 3:Q0-6:00 and 7:()0- 10 am-5 pm--art exhibit, don vogl-the recent 12:00 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 4 from graphic works of notre dame's professor of 3:00-8:00 p.m.; Monday thru graphics and painting, o'shag art gallery, free Friday, Feb. 5-8, from 7:()0-12:00 7, 9:30pm--foreign film festival, "le bourgeois p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 9; S:OQ-12:00 gentilhomme", eng. aud., free and Sunday, Feb. 10, 1:00-6:00. 7:30 pm--mexican-american lecture series, Prices for the carnival will be fifty TAEKWONDO "internal colonialism and the plural socieyt," cents per night Monday thru by dr. rodolfo stavenhagen, faculty loung, Thursday, seventy-five cents per mem. library night Friday and weekends ex free cepting the last day, Sunday Feb. 8 pm--concert, "an evening with joni mitchell" 10 when all admission will be free. ace, $4.50 & $5.50 Construction of booths for the carnival and other apparatus will begin this Tuesday, Feb. 22, and end next Tuesday Feb. 29. Steve Boy, chairman of the Mardi Grasstated that the purpose of the event is two fold. First, to raise money for Notre Dame charities such as: CILA, '~4~'"'.: ... ~ .., ''.'. Where do MONYmen come from? MECHA, Neighborhood Study •. m~·Jl.*'~l~Ji\',.~····y<$<tl 0 .;,.,~ From many walks of life, Help, and Sr. Maria's Day Care like graduating from N.D. Center. Second, to provide the student body with entertainment DONG SIK KIM Bob Roemer graduated from Notre Dame In during a slowpoint in the social calender of the second semester. HEAD INSTRUCTOR: One of the 1973 and was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates Boy also urged all students who immediately and assigned to their Class A had sold tickets for the Mardi Gras highest black-belts in the world club in Niagara Falls. While at Notre Dame, to turn the money in immediately, Bob majored in management and captained to their section leader , hall rector +KOREA NATIONAL MASTER INSTRUCTOR the '72-'73 Irish baseball team. As his first or Mardi Gras representative. +INTERNATIONAL MASTER INSTRUCTOR minor league season came to a close, he +UNITED T.