Low Turnout Beats Reform, Const. Court Battle Results

SPECIAL ELECTION ISSUE i I -.~ Vol. LN., No. 17 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. Friday, February 26, 1971 ~,-.".--- by Fred Langbein experience in other collegiate re Vice President for Student Life sidence halls" and also at least one Dr. Patricia Reuckel yesterday re Jesuit per house. leased a housing plan for The increased room rates (in 1971-1972 featuring varied room almost every case, an increase over rates, based on the type of accom the flat $275 per semester) are modations and the introduction of due to "inflation and increased women to Harbin Hall. salary costs for the nonacademic The report also cited an increas personnel who maintain the build ed housing shortage for the coming ings." The most expensive rooms academic year and a continuing will be those singles on 4 th St. Last week's student government referendum - which failed to draw the required 40 percent of the search for additional dormitory Mary's at $375 per semester. New undergraduate student body - became the center of a Student Court dispute which resulted in confusion for space. South, Darnall and Harbin, which Senatorial candidates. (Photo by Kent Bond.) The report announced new ar are air-conditioned, as well as the rangements for two co-educational Copley rooms with private baths dorms, Copley and Harbin, delineat (first four floors, plus 508, 509, ing only a proposal for one cluster 530, and 531) will cost $325 per Low Turnout Beats Reform, of women to two clusters of men semester. on each floor of Harbin. In addi Rooms in St. Mary's, 5th tion, the plan calls for a new Copley and McDonough; singles in housing staff for these two dorms. Maguire, Loyola and Old North; Const. Court Battle Results This staff will be comprised of and 2nd Loyola, which is air "married couples or persons with conditioned, will be rented at by Art Wheeler necessary 40 per cent level by 74 Court ruled unanimously in favor $312.50 per semester. All rooms in Although the majority of voting votes. 1,336 (83 per cent) voted for of Thornton's position. It decided vintage buildings that are neither students voted to revise student revision, 241 voted against revision, that to participate in an election is Inside singles, air-conditioned, nor with government, the turnout for last and 31 voted for neither choice. to actually vote at a polling booth, private baths (New North, Old week's undergraduate referendum A further complication arose registering either a yes, no or Weekend Anti-War Con- North, 3rd and 4th Loyola, 3rd failed to exceed the 40 per cent when Joe Combs (Coil. '71), on abstention. Combs had argued that Maguire and Maguire 401, ISH and requirement stipulated in the behalf of "Thomas O'Brien et al.," students could participate by boy ference at CD p. 3 4th Healy) wiIl continue to cost Constitution. A subsequent appeal brought suit against President Mike cotting the election. Jim Carroll Graduate STudent Newslet $275 per semester. to the Student Constitutional Court Thornton, representing student (SFS '72), chairman of the Court, ter results in controversy Thus far, details concerning failed to obtain validation of the government, in order to obtain explained that the reasoning behind room selection and room allot refereridum. validation of the referendum. the decision was based on the over quality, goals .....p. 3 ments still remain in the hands of The retention of the 40 member Combs argued that a referendum reading of the Constitition, the Eugene McCarthy gives '68 House Councils, but results and Senate necessitated the postpone requiring a 40 per cent turnout and interest of the framers, and the use decisions are expected to be an ment of the filing and election a majority decision of that 40 per of the word "participate" in the campaign memorabelia to nounced within the next week. dates to February 23 and March 1, cent would require in effect a 20 Constitution. GU p. 2 The Housing Plan also announc respectively. The revision proposed per cent favorable vote for adop 'Common Cause' under ed projections for the admittance in the referendum would have tion. He then proceeded to argue of 1,100 freshmen this year and an reduced the number of student that even had the needed 74 votes Buck Resigns takes grass roots renewal increased number of transfer stu senators to 16 and moved the all been negative, the question of America ~P: 9 . dents. These factors and the de election date to as late as March 15. would still have been overwhelm signation of the International Stu Only 1,608 (38.2 per cent) of ingly passed. He added that this Housing Post SPEClAL. dent House as a residence solely for the 4,205 registered undergraduate system "unduly burdens the foreign students, it said, have made students voted in the referendum. students voting yes." Mr. James M. Buck, for more STUDENT GOVERNMENT the on-campus housing shortage The referendum failed to reach the The Student Constititional than three years the University's acute. Present possibilities for Director of Housing, has resigned. ELECTION SUPPLEMENT Dr. Patricia Reuckel, vice presi (Continued on Page 11) dent for student life, announced the resignation in a memo to the Rare Document, Books Rev. R. J. Henle, S.J., University President. Fr. Henle said he "deeply appreciated the service Jim Buck Uncovered by Curator has rendered Georgetown. I hope he finds success wherever he goes." by Don Hamer I egally authorized to appraise Mr. Buck first came to George News Editor books. town from the University of Mary An original copy of the 12th The copy of the Declaration, he land, where he was assistant printing of the U. S. Declaration of said, was found in a manila folder, director of housing. Independence and two rare books along with newspaper clippings, In a special statement to The are among the latest discoveries brochures, a bronze plate and HOYA, Dr. Rueckel said: made by George Barringer, curator similar secondary material. "The "Since I accepted the position as of the Lauinger Library Special Declaration wasn't catalogued, and Vice President for Student Develop Collections. apparently everyone forgot that we ment, my personal analysis and that had it." The three discoveries thus of students, staff and other mem become additions to the growing One of the books, believed to be bers of the community have led me list of rare and valuable books and from George Washington's private to believe that the Housing Office manuscripts which have been un library, is entitled "The Natural has not always efficiently served covered since the Special Col History of Carolina, Florida and the students. lections division of the GU Library Bahama Islands." It was written "The realities of the problems has been moved into the Lauinger and published by Mark Catesby in (Continued on Page 11) building. 1731 and 1743 and is the first The copy of the Declaration of significant work on ornithology Independence, a broadside, was the branch of zoology dealing with printed by Ezekiel Russell in Salem, birds - in North America. Included Mass., sometime between July 12 in it are 220 colored engravings of and 16, 1776. Barringer explained birds, reptiles, animals, fish, insects that in July, 1776, there were some and plants. 18 printings of the Declaration, with between 2500 and 4000 The book was originally owned copies being produced. Of these, by John Custis, whose daughter-in less than 80 are known to exist law Martha was later to marry today. George Washington in 1754. Of this particular printing, only "Martha and George Washington two other copies are known to must have had the book for about exist, Barringer added. One is in the 40 years," Barringer said. "We can Essex Institute in Salem and the assume that it was included in the other is in the Harvard University Washington's library at Mount Library. He noted that the George Vernon, but was given to George town copy is in extremely fine Washington Parke Custis before the family library was broken up." Mr. George Barringer, the man in charge of Georgetown's Special condition, and when questioned as Collections, has discovered a rare copy of the Declaration of to its approximate worth, said, "I "I found the book in a box full Independence, shown in the foreground, and a book thought to have would guess that it's worth about of newspapers," Barringer added. belonged to George Washington. (Photo by J. Russell Lawrence.) $10,000," adding that he is not (Continued on Page 8) BUCK Page Two THE HOY...4. Friday, February 26, 1971 and in the McCarthyCampaign Collection returns from. Given to Georgetown Archives uttar pradesh by Charley Impaglia •••• Contributing Editor "He did a decent and honorable thing at no small political risk to delusions of adequacy/charley impaglia himself. For all his mild reasonable ness and above-thirty look he captured the imagination of you students ... he does have guts; he Gay Talesc, who sounds like a Mediterranean insult but is has reason and character; he has wit actually one of America's foremost journalists, once wrote and humanity." that failure is really more interesting than success. Observing These were the words of Dr. Thomas P. McTighe, former chair how humans react to the process of defeat is more compelling, man of the Philosophy Department, Talese tells us, than observing how the lucky few adapt to written in The HOYA Apr. 4,1968. triumph. I never actually grasped how correct Talese's theory The subject of Dr. McTighe's enthusiasm also has the word was until last week when, for one brief shining moment, former in front of his title, former ~ .~ .~.~.

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