Judy's Crimes: Q: All the Eight Departments Are in the Division of Student Affairs
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. .Bengals VOL. XV, NO. 107 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint many's MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1981 Dean Rice Margaret Atwood outlines closes Lit Festival discipline By BILL LESTITIAN serious and the light sides of male- News Staff Kathleen M. Rice, dean o f student female relationships in "True Romances." affairs at Saint Mary’s, was inter Canadian poet and author Mar viewed recently by O bserverrepor w Miss Atwood addressed the sub garet Atwood commented, "As time ject of torture in “Notes Toward A ter C onnie Cooriey. goes on, I find 1 have to make up less Poem That Can Never Be Written.” and less, although it seems like I She described the physical torment make up more and more. " and mental anguish which a tortured Miss Atwood, who bases her person endures. A member of Am writings on actual events, addressednesty International, Miss Atwood a capacity crowd in the Memorial stressed that torture and oppression Library Auditorium on Saturday, the appear widespread in the world but final day of the Sophomore Literary that “the American people fail to Festival. realize this. " The poet/writer read a selection Describing herself as an optimist, from Bodily Harm, a book which Kathleen Rice Miss Atwood con- eluded her she finished writing last week. In this presentation by reading several selection, Miss Atwood used bold lighter poems including “Variations Q: How long have you been dean language in stating her disapproval On The Word Love" and "Variations o f students, and what is the role of of pornography. On The Word Sleep." the dean at Saint Mary’s? Miss Atwood also read several A: My title really isn't clean of stu selections from Two-Headed Poems W hen asked to describe her self- dents, it's dean of student affairs. I a work published in February. She image, she responded, “People came to Saint Mary’s in August of focused on love in “The Womanproject upon me their image of what 1976, so this is my fifth year. Dean of Direct from the Keenan Review, the band "Waiting for Now" put Who Could Not Live With Her a poet should be. It bothers them Student Affairs is a senior office posi on a phenomenal performance in their spot during the Saturday Faulty Love" and on the brother that I am not eccentric and they tion so that I report directly to the night show at the Nazz for its competion winners, (photo by John hood of man in “All Bread. " Miss At think up descriptions of me that president. There are eight different M acor) wood also examined both the make me poetical. " departments and each department has a director. I am in charge of the division of student affairs. I have aMurderer executed very hroad job and of course dis cipline does fall Into the area of stu dent affairs. Judy's crimes: Q: All the eight departments are in the division of student affairs. What do these departments pertain By LINDEL HUTSON being "built like Dick the Bruiser." to in aspect o f student affairs? Associated Press Writer He was a brawler, Judy said of his father. He carried a knife and was very A: This all pertains to the extra proud of his many scars and used to talk about how tough he was. His mother curricular life of the student. We A blinding snowstorm blotted the landscape the day Steven T. Judyhad disappeared. know that a lot of educational op arrived at the century-old Indiana State Prison — a “hell hole," he called it, aSociety failed Steven Judy, says Mrs. Carr. "Our system helped nurture portunities exist outside of the class place where he didn’t “want to spend the rest of my life.” this, helped turn him into a murderer,” she says. “You know a 12 year-old room. Most of student life exists On that cold February day, Judy believed he had arrived home for life.boy who attacks a woman needs help .” outside of the classroom. Our main Although he asked to die, he never thought he would be executed for the About 6 a.m. on the morning of April 28, 1979, Terry Lee Chastecn, purpose as a division is to support murders of a young Indianapolis woman and her three children, ages 2,4 anddescribed by a friend as “very beautiful," about 5 feet-7, with long blonde the academic enterprise, nurture 5. hair, was driving her three youngsters to an aunt’s home before reporting to the spiritual development of the stu “People don’t want it,” Judy said of the death sentence. “They cry for it,her job at Marsh Supermarket on Lafayette Road. dents and to facilitate the growth of but later they don’t want it. People are so divided on it they can’t come to anShe had a flat tire on Interstate 465 on the west side of Indianapolis. The the students in all areas for life We agreement ” -------------------------------------------------- car trouble forced her onto the shoulder of the southbound lane of 1-465 just do that through the programs Judy, 24, a misfit by his own admis- AY north of the 1-70 westbound exit. Her red 1978 Ford Granada was found campus ministry offer. We learn a lot sion who has been in and out of jails I tlV /llU r t I abandoned there later with a flat tire in the trunk. from students and hope vice versa. A since the age of 13, was wrong. § K Police theorized that someone stopped to help her change the tire and lot of students view the dean of stu He was executed in Indiana's aging, possibly tampered with the car to make it inoperative. The motorist then dent affairs primarily as a judicial straight backed electric chair — made offered Mrs. Chasteen and the children a ride. board and don't realize there are all of wood salvaged from the gallows — at 12:12 CST this morning. SeeJUDY, page 3 these other departments included. All attempts to halt it appeared futile without Judy’s help, and he has We see our roles as educators. One refused to provide it. “What’s the use of spending the rest of your life in of our main institutional goals is to prison?” he said. prepare young women to meet the Asked what he would miss most in prison, Judy laughingly responded, realities of contem porary life. O ur “W omen." Pulitzer winner Hecht division is based on principles of Women have been the subject of his most violent attacks. He testified good decision making. during his murder trial that he was arrested for accosting girls at In Q: The administration takes dis dianapolis’ Manual High School. presents mon ciplinary action against students He said he has committed “12 to 15” rapes because he couldn’t control living on-campus who break the himself. By DAVID RICKABAUGH storm in the city and war in Viet rules. What about those living off- Carol Emig testified that in 1970 Judy, who was 12 years old, raped her, campus who break the rules? Senior Staff Reporter Nam. stabbed her more than 18 times, then struck her four times in the head with a Hecht, a native of New York City, A: Off campus students are hatchet. During that testimony, Judy asked to leave the room and one juror citizens of the city Jof South Bend and Pulitzer prize winning poet An obtained his masters degree at became ill. The jury was excused for about 20 minutes. certainly have to abide by the rules thony Hecht read various selections Columbia University in 1950. The As a consequence of that attack, Mrs. Emig underwent brain surgery andof his work in the Memorial Library poet began teaching in 1947 at of the city, and the regulations of the open-heart surgery for a stab wound in the heart. She lost a finger when apartment complex in which they Auditorum on Saturday, the last day Kenyon College in Ohio. He even struck with the ax. She suffered loss of memory and had to take lessons to live. If the city rules are violated, the of the Sophomore Literary Festival. tually settled at the University of relearn how to talk. off-campus studejits have to face the Hecht’s selections ranged from Rochester as the John H. Deane For the Emig attack, Judy was confined at age 13 to Central State Peniten- justice system of the city. dramatic monologues to light Professor of Poetry and Rhetoric. tury for three years. Within two years, he was treated and released on Q: -4 s an approximation, about parodies. Hecht’s published collections of “convalescent leave” to the custody of Robert and Mary Carr, whom hospital The dramatic monologue how often do you have to deal with poems include: Summoning of officials described as good foster parents. “Transparent Man” revealed the students who break the rules? Stones (1954), The Seven Deadly Judy was then 16. He was released from Central State despite a recomreflections of a man dying from A: I personally do not deal with Sins (1958), Struwwelpter Verse: A mendation that he be sent to a juvenile prison. leukemia. Poem ( 1957), Millions of Strange students. The department deals with Authorities argued over which institution should keep him, said Carol The poet also told a humorous these students' through the judicial Shadow s (1977) and The Venetian Hill, a staff mem ber at Central State. “You have a lot of, It’s not my respontale of a man applying for a grant Vespers (1979).