On The Inside A stronauts page 2 Ruckelshaus page 6 serving the notre dame - st. mary's community Vol. VIII, No. 116 THE OBSERVER.Monday, April 29, 1974 Major shakeup? Find MitchelLStans Faccenda refuses comment innocent of charges By Tom Drape Rev. James Shilts, will be stepping down from his Editor-in-Chief By JOHN PRYOR Nixon received the news of position to assume the assistant directorship of NEW YORK (UPI) — In a the acquittals while he was Dr. Phillip Faccenda, Vice-President of Student Moreau Seminary. trial without precedent in conferring with aides Alexander Affairs, issued a “no comment” Friday to reports Shilts confirmed this appointment last Friday. American history, former M. Haig and Ronald M. Ziegler that he will resign from his position at the com­ The changes add to the already vacant position of Nixon Cabinet members John at Camp David. The official pletion of this school year. Associate Vice-President made available by Fr. N. Mitchell and Maurice H. White House statement of His resignation, purported to be part of a major James Flanagan with his appointment as chairman Stans were found innocent comment was brief: “The shakeup in Student Affairs, appears to be awaiting of the Art Department. Sunday of all charges they used President is very pleased for acceptance by the Board of Trustees at their May 10 Dr. Faccenda accepted the position of vice- their power to defraud the U.S. the two men and their meeting. president in March last year after temporarily government while raising se­ fam ilies.” Brother Just Paczescy, presently Rector of maintaining the office since the spring of 1972. cret political campaign funds. Mitchell and Stans were Alumni Hall, is believed to be succeeding Faccenda In addition to his work in Student Affairs, Fac­ Mitchell sighed audibly, Stans accused of trying to impede an as V-P of Student Affairs according to informed cenda had also retgained his position of senior wept and the two embraced investigation by the Securities sources. counsel to the university. His status in this regard their lawyers when a pretty, and Exchange Commission of However, when contacted, Paczescy stated that has also been left unannounced. dark-haired jury foreman softly Vesco in exchange for his he was unaware of any such appointment. Faccenda, an attorney by profession and for­ spoke the words it guilty” a $200,000 cash contribution, In other changes, Kathleen Cekanski will be merly a partner in a LaSalle Street law firm in total of 18 times the charges Vesco was also indicted as a replaced as Rector of Breen Phillips. Issueing a Chicago, is a 1952 graduate of Notre Dame in were read off. co-conspirator but is a fugitive statementlast night she stated, “I will not be the mechanical engineering. A 1957 Loyola University The two men who ran from justice living in Costa Rector of Breen-Phillips Hall next year, but I will of Chicago law graduate, he first came to Notre President Nixon’s 1972 re- Rica, where his home refused have another job which I am not free to discuss at Dame in 1967 as a special assistant to the president. election campaign had been to accept phone calls seeking this time.” He was recently appointed to head of the South charged with conspiring to his comment on the verdicts. Current Director of Off-Campus Residence, Bend Crime Commission. block a federal investigation of The government alleges Vesco international financier Robert looted $224 million from four L. Vesco in exchange for overseas mutual funds. $200,000 cash donation and then The acquittals included one lying to a grand jury about overall count against each man their dealings with Vesco. of conspiracy to defraud the HPC asks no parietalsThe nine men and three government by a series of women jurors, who deliberated efforts, maneuvers, talks, 26 hours since getting the case phone calls and destruction of by David Kaminski Howl suggests that a functional compromise Thursday night, apparently did records, not believe the testimony of Staff Reporter onthe issue would be for the SLC to leave parietal There were also two counts hours as they are on weekdays but lift the ours on former White House Counsel John W. Dean III, the against each of obstruction of In an April 25 letter to the Planning and Policy weekends. justice and six more counts Committee of the Student Life Council, the Hall government’s key witness and chief accuser of President against each of lying to the Presidents Council has called for the elimination of indicting grand jury. parietal regulations on campus. **********★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Nixon in last summer's nation­ ally televised Senate Watergate Testimony was taken from The HPC proposes a two-point plan to replace the President Nixon’s brothers Do­ current parietal regulations: (1) individual halls hearings. “The jury’s verdict by nald and Edward, his personal would set quiet-hours at which time unwanted secretary Rose Mary Woods, implication makes him (Dean) guests would not be allowed in the hall, and (2) and a host of other witnesses a liar, which makes one wonder individual halls or units within a hall could establish The text from onetime White House how many other lies he’s told,” their own parietal hours. aides, to former Republican said a high Nixon administra­ The HPC offers it suggestions at a time when the campaign officials and Vesco tion official in Washington who Planning and Policy Committee of the SLC is business associates. of the HPC letter asked that his name not be reexamining the purpose of parietal hours. The Most of them could not be used. HPC wrote its letter after each hall president reached for comment on the discussed the proposal with their hall councils. “The main purpose of the letter is to tell the SLC exhilareat?d°Uby "he' w gm ent outcome committee that we’re watching their work and and some said they felt it was a U.S. District Court Judge Lee we’re concerned that they act on the parietal Dear Committee Member, positive sign for other Water- P. Gagliardi, who had selected sisues,” said HPC chairman Bob Howl. gate-related issues troubling the prospective jurors for the 12- President. member panel by unusual “We hope that it gives them more incentive to It is the understanding of the Hall President’s Speaking to reporters amid closed-door hearings, said after deal with the issue and not to let it sit on the table,” Council that the planning and policy committee of shouts of “Fascist pig” and the verdicts were rendered: Howl said. the S.L.C. has spent several months deliberating on chants of “God Bless America” “I can’t express in words to the parietals issue. Presently the issue remains from a crowd of about 150 you the appreciation I have for cloudy in the minds of many students. Through our Parietals: 'difficult issue' gathered in front of the gray your willingness and particular- interaction with the residents in our hails, the granite federal courthouse, ly your attention in every- general sentiment is that the question has been Howl admitted that parietals is a difficult issue Mitchell said a newsman’s thing,” Judge Gagliardi said to debated long enough. In all fairness to the students suggestion that the result could the jury before dismissing it. wth many interests involved. However, he said that we feel that some action should be taken to clarify affect the trial he faces on “It is not my province to the HPC felt a responsibility to represent the the purpose and justification of parietals. The students’ interests. Watergate coverup charges-v ...... comment on the verdict. You seriousness of this matter demands immediate “most asinine.” are 12 of the finest citizens it Student body Vice President Frank Flanagan is action on the part of your committee and the S.L.C. also a member of the Planning and Policy Com­ Asked if he had been has been my privilege to mittee until his term as SLC representative from surprised by the verdict, associate with. You have been The students w ere promised a review of parietals, Mitchell smiled and said. “No here a long tim e and I am not the Flanner-Grace district expires at the end of this and as of now none has been forthcoming. We feel sem ester. way, baby, no way.” going to impose on you any that it is your obligation to consider the proposals With six other former Nixon m ore “The committee is not ready yet to actually that have been formulated by the Hall President’s consider proposals such as the HPC’s,” Flanagan' administration and campaign “Jury duty is the highest council and are supported by constituants in the officials, Mitchell next faces function in civil service any said. individual halls. The students feel the following Flanagan said that up to this time, the committee trial in Washington, D C., citizen can perform and you proposals are viable alternatives to the existing 9 accused of deeds —con- have exemplified the highest has been researching the history of parietals rules. policy in an effort to evaluate the validity of the spiracy, perjury, and obstruc- standards of that service.” tion of justice —similar to those Although Mitchell has to go current regulations. 1. No parietal regulations on campus Before the end of this semester, the committee of which he was acquitted back to court again, no other a. establish quiet hours in each hall Sunday. charges face Stans. will administer a questionnaire to about 1,000 b. students who are not guests in the hall during students in order to get the students’ real feelings quiet hours will be removed witout penalty about parietal hours.