Social Action Program Outlined to Fight Injustice by Bob Mader the People and How Adequately It 1976, Deardon Explained

...... -------------------------------~-- ~--~ l Social action program outlined to fight injustice by Bob Mader the people and how adequately it 1976, Deardon explained. Campus Editor fulfills its pastoral mission. American culture and the teach This phase also hopes to examine ingsof the Church must test each The Catholic Church's Bicen the experiences of Catholics in other before any plan for social tennial Program to combat social their communities and find out ministry can begin. injustice "must involve the full what hopes Catholics have for the "To put it more precisely, if we community of the Church if it is to Church in the future. are to have a Catholic dialogue succeed," John Cardinal Dearden "Briefly put," Dearden stated, there must be a testing of the said last night. "the listening -learning phase is a experience and opinions of the The Archbishop of Detroit data gathering process. If done community by the normative outlined a two part social action well, it should provide a sampling teaching of the Church," Dearden program of the Catholic bishops of of what our people are thinking and said. America in his address to the what they are experiencing each The bishops intend to develop " Catholic Committee on Urban day." teaching document and a plan of Ministry <CCUM) conference. pastoral action" during the Detroit ''Basically, our plan for the Second phase: pastoral actio.a meeting, the Cardinal said, in American Church has two order to begin social change. dimensions," the Cardinal said. The reflection-response phase of "The Church, then, not merely "We can speak of a listening the Bicentennial Program will be a proclaims but is itself an agent of learning phase and a reflection sifting of the data obtained in the social justice. Social injustice is response phase." first phase resulting in a plan of not something we read about in Deardon explained the listening pastoral action and social textbooks or hear denounced in learning phase, implemented th ministry. pastoral letters. Social injustice rough national hearings and parish This phase will extend through takes the human shape and lives discussions, as an attempt to the national consultation on liberty among us," Dearden said. i discover how the Church lives with and justice at Detroit in October. (cQ.!1Jinued on page 1) Jo~n Cardinal Dea.rdon explains that parish discussions and pastoral achon are needed If the full Church community is to succeed in com batting social injustice. (Photo by Chris Smith) Reactions mixed on univers1ty of nofre dome - st mory's college new graduate policy Vol. X, No. 42 Thursday, October 30, 1975 by Maureen Flynn Senior Staff Reporter Members of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology have voiced both praise and criticism for reorganization of the new graduate program and the approval of a new departmental policy on teaching loads and credits. Comments ranging from "disastrous" to "very promising" have been directed at the graduate program scheduled for im plementation in the spring semester. Under regulations passed last May in an executive session of the faculty, the program of graduate studies will be re-structured as team-developed seminars in four "core" and four "specialty" areas. Seminar offerings will alternate on a yearly basis and a limited system of electives will be offered by individual faculty th ree semesters out of every four. One department member, who preferred not to be named, listed the pros and cons of the seminar structure. "The student really profits," he said, "by getting two or three different views of a problem. We hope this will generate ideas among the students," he explained. "Instead of spoon-feeding them one professor's viewpoint, the presentation of different opinions will make them use their brains more." "My experience with seminars," he continued, "has been that some work and some don't. The student will get no more out of it than he puts in." In any class, the professor noted, "student input is just as important asthe professor's output." Randy Haefner holds the pumpkin head which won for two at the Boar's Head Restaurant. other prizes him Most Outstanding {first prize) in the First were given to Kathy Knue and Marian Toth for Most Despres sees graduate improvement Annual Stanford-Farley Pumpkin Carving Contest. Original, Kathy Robinson for Most Studly, Jill His prize, which was awarded even though the Truitt and Scott Dentz for Most Feminine, and Dave Department Chairman Leo A. Despres sees the new program as pumpkin covered Haefner's own head, was _dinner lazzeri who won the Booby Prize. a great improvement over the present system. Currently and in the (Photo by Chris Smith) past, he explained, each professor decided which courses he would like to offer on a graduate level. Because of the nearly equal numbers of faculty and graduate students (24 to approximately 35), • professors offered courses on a rotating basis over a three or four year period. Most ND students rece1ve aid "How can the graduate student plan his schedule of studies," by Kathy Mills scholarships total 911 and are and not the principal from an Despres asked, "when he doesn't know which courses will be of valued at $1,077,268. Outside fered from one semester to another?" Senior Staff Reporter endowment," she pointed out. scholarships, valued at $999,510, "For example, on an .$8 million The solution to this problem, Despres stated, was either to create number 887. ROTC scholarships, a graduate school faculty or develop a seminar system. Fifty-five per cent of the un endowment, we can spend only dergraduates at Notre Dame are numbering 389, are valued at approximately $320,000 per year." ''It would be foolish," he argued, "to waste the resources of the $1,187,086. department"' by having a graduate faculty "when we have so receiving some form of financial McCauslin also said the amount aid this year, according to a available from these endowments many very bright assistants and associate professors." Describes funding The seminar system, Despres stated, "encourages the in preliminary report from the Office fluctuates each year since the of Financial Aid and Scholarships. returns on the investments change. volvement of almost two-thirds of the department in the graduate McCauslin said University program and allows us to utilize all our intellectual resources." A total of 3,763 students are Corporations contribute a minor collectively receiving $7,696,772, administered scholarships are part of the scholarship money, The definite rotation of courses, said Despres, also allows the funded by endowments and con graduate student to plan his course of studies over a two or three an all time high, in financial according to McCauslin. assistance. The average amount tributions. The contributions, she "Over the last five years, we lost year period. noted, come mainly from in The new system will limit the number of areas covered by the each of these students receives is a great majority of corporation $1,411. dividuals interested in the scholarships because the boards of graduate program, Despres noted, "but it will allow us to focus on University. areas of strength.' June McCauslin, director of the directors in the sixties didn't want Office of Financial Aid and "Normally," she stated, "it's an to give to individual students," she interested alumnus who has Graduate program too small Scholarships, explained these explained. figures represent all types of enough money to contribute or who "Companies also used to employ triggers off someone's interest in Another member of the department, who preferred to remain financial assistance available to scholarships as a recruiting students. the University." device, but they found this was not anonymous, said it is a "form of madness to put so many resources Many endowments come from into the graduate program. The department presently services These include University too successful. Imagine the adiministered scholarships, ROTC people who will money to Notre decrease also has something to do about 1200 undergraduates, including more than 100 majors,"the Dame. professor observed, "while the total number of graduate students scholarships, state scholarships, with the economy," she added. National Merit and National The values of the scholarships in residence is about 35." funded by the University's en Two factors considered The faculty member further charged that the "disproportionate Achievement Scholarships, bank loans, federal grants and aid from dowment range from $10,000 to commitment of faculty to team-taught seminars shortchanges $1,000,000, McCauslin noted, All University-administered undergraduate instruction." other sources outside the (continued on page 4) University. although one is worth $8 million. scholarship awards are based on University-administered "We can spend only the interest (continued on page 41· - 2 the observer warld briefs B-ball tix available next month LONDON <AP)- A bomb exploded Wednesday night inside an Italian restaurant in a fashionable London district. Scotland Yard by Don Reimer Busick noted that many students tickets. He pointed to the great said at least 17 persons were injured. Staff Reporter may have lost the reciepts from savings over a regular season t There was no warning before the explosion, which came hours . ! last spring so a student I.D. will be icket and the fact that it many be after police detained eight persons for questioning about the latest Student ba~ke~ball tickets w11l sufficient t~ obtain the tickets. difficult to obtain tickets for in outbreak of bombings in London. probably be .d1str1bu~ed on Nov: 19 · Each ticket must be signed for dividual games. MADRID, Spain CAP) -Generalissimo Francisco Franco talked or 20 accordmg to Mlcha~l Bu~lck, when it is picked up. Students The student saves $1.70 per ma.nager of the athletic · ticket ·picking up m th t' k t with members of his family Wednesday, officials said, as attending office.

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