The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus .-r^-r-"j^^^i^ r CO NOTRE DAME gMlMll —f :s3 C3 3> CO may 1966 June nra0clmr>uni« Reunion time, June 10-11-12! Most of you know the enjoyable weekend the Class Reunion brings. The major factor in its success is your attendance. Re­ member this year the first Continuing Education program de­ signed specially for Alumni, coming just before the Reunion Weekend, June 9-10. "The Population Problem" is one of the most urgent modem areas of discussion. You are expected to know the best opinions in the field. Be sure to read in this issue about GRAD, the new alumni placement program established by the College Placement Asso­ ciation. This computerized central plan seems to us here at Notre Dame, and on your Alumni Board, to move the solution of the placement of alumni far ahead of any schedule an individual institution might set up. Rev. Louis Thornton CSC is equipped to give Notre Dame Alumni full cooperation in utilizing this new plam. The 43rd Universal Notre Dame Night is history. It set new < records for number of Clubs observing the occasion, and for Q campus speakers appearing nationally. Our sincere thanks go to the hundreds of Club officers and committees who made this one of the outstanding events in Notre Dame Alumni history. UND P3 Night has grown since forty Clubs—most of them brand-new— itiet in 1924, .into its present major public relations contribution H to the University through some 125 meetings held throughout the O US and abroad. With the strengthening of the Alumni Office Z staff, this occasion will take on even more significance in the immediate years ahead. As we near the Alumni Association Centennial—^1968—our major segments are beginning to show encouraging strength: Clubs, spearheaded by UND Night; the Classes, highlighted by the reunions and the "Class Notes"; the Annual Alumni Fund, focused now through the personal Class Agent Program; and the magazines, the ALUMNUS and INSIGHT: Notre Dame, which speak editorial for themselves in enthusiastically This mosazine is published bi-monthly by the University of received improvements of format Notre Dame, Notre Dome, Ind. Entered as second-class motter Oct. 1, 1939, at the post oirice, Notre Dome, Ind., under the and content. In addition, the new actolAog.24, )91Z comment Continuing Education Program and the new Placement Program (GRAD) promise great sen'ice to Alumni of the future. But most of all, the University of Notre Dame seems to be on the brink of its dreamed-of destiny. Its accelerating oppor­ tunities have already challenged the imagination and the sup'- port of all Alumni and friends. The indicated expansion of these opportunities wiU require every strength that every phase of the Alumni Association program can develop. - Tangible effort has already been marked by tangible reward. JAMES E AtMSnONG '25 The realization of the imminent stature of Notre Dame in the EDITOe JOHN t THUUN '59 educational world will increase the length and -shadow of every MANAGING EDITOt Notre Dame man. !fc r. MICHAEL BASQE 6& EDITOIIAl ASSISTANt Iff UUCE HAIIAN '49 mOTOGtArHEt EOWAID E. HBtlMANN <?^ ^Z(<f't^<fM^ A«T CONSUITANT JAMES E. MUlmr M7 til rtnUC INFOIMATION JOHN H. JANOWSn -51 nooucnoN cootnNATOt '^I^ y^ wet* ' •<- "^"^ 7 ^ ,-> f'S/ ~-*=5* c^clar point ND weekend \ 10 new placement service for alumni 14 Class reunions in sixty-six 34 1966 UND nigtit \ / ^ ^ A % \ I w ^ 17 \ ALIMNI ASSOCIATION lOARO OF DIRECTHS ACADEMIC AFFAUS 735 NORTH 57 AVE. iMcnBniM ADMISSIONS OMAHA, NES. 6«I32 W. lANCASTEt SMITH 'SO 10S0 N GtEEN BAY ID. VnUlAM a KAVANAUGH '27 H0NO«A«Y RESIDENT. - lAKE FOBEST, IlL <0045 MEcms n iiH 3445 OIOWAY ST, hLW. THOMAS P. CAJNEY'37 WASHNGTON, DC. 20016 MESIDENT . BEITBANO D COUGHUN, M.D. "Sft JOSEPH H CASEY '32 STUDENT AFFAIRS 19965 BtlARCUFF WIUIAM F. ICEIW«4, a. '40 BEtTBAND D. COUGHUN, M,a '26 BUDGET not EMiUE ST. yiCE-PSESIDENT DETROIT, MICH 48321 16 THOtNDElL Dt GKEN lAY, WIS. 54301 WllllAM V, CUDDY 'ij ', ST. lOUIS, MO. 63117 THOMAS W CARROLL "51 - VICE-PSESIDENT : 17 CARLTON RD KHAIO A. lOSENTHAL '54 WIUIAM V. CUDDY '62 HUTCHINSON, KAN 6750J HE«BE«T M; SAMPSON '{0 ' - . 15670 HEAITHSTONE Dl. PUa tEl AND DEVEIOPMENT MISHAWAM, INOL 46544 V1CE-P«ESIDENT , PLACEMENT AMBROSE F DUDLEY, JR. '43 JAMES E. AIMST«ONG '25 1» BAIPH AVE. 519 SUSSEX RO LEO V TUIGEOH M.D. '42 :: EXECUTIVE SECIETA«Y : WHITE FUUNS, NY. 10606 WYNNEWOOD. PA 19096 SUHE 107 CIENSHAW MEDICAl ONTEI •KCTIISTilMT;;: HEIBEIT M. SAMPSON 'iO CHARLES J. PAHERSON '47 3731 STOCnl ST THOMAS P. CAINEY "37 • ATHLETIC 73 Mr WAYNE AVE. FRAMINGHAM. MASS. 01702 lOS ANGElESt CALK. 90008 ACADEMIC FREEDOM: An Examination "Freedom is a very dangerous word. ... Of all the words in almost all the languages today, 'freedom' surely evokes the strongest re­ sponse." Thus spoke Rev. Ernan :McMullin, head of the Notre Dame department of philosophy, at the University's symposium on "Aca­ demic Freedom and the Catholic University," April 22 and 23. Jointly sponsored by the Uni­ versity's chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the Office of Academic Affairs and the academic commission of the Student Senate, the sym­ posium heard eight speakers and a number of panelists consider this "very dangerous word" in the realm of academic life. The possibilities of a conflict be­ tween complete academic freedom and the dogmatic rigors of the Catholic Church received immediate attention. "There is some contradiction be­ tween the search for academic freedom . and the assurance to all religious groups of their full right to maintain universities com­ mitted to their own moral and religious principles," said Dr. David Fellman, retiring president of the AAUP and professor of political science at the University of Wis­ consin. "K the theological commit­ ments of the institution make it impossible to observe the basic principles of academic freedom . even that is never fuUj' realized." with Callahan, responded with an then whether such an institution has Father JMcMuUin said that both stu­ "Amen" and the students in the a right to be regarded seriously as dent and academic freedoms are audience offered a prolonged ovation. a member of the family of higher essential to the learning process, but "Students are badly disillusioned learning becomes the essential care is needed to determine which by being told they are mature and issue," warned Fellman. freedoms are essential and which responsible on one hand and then The possibility of such a conflict are e.xlranoous to that purpose. being saddled with numerous restric­ was not so apparent in the address Referring to an earlier remark by tions," said Callahan. "If Catholic of Rev. John E. Walsh CSC, Notre Sister Charles Borromeo CSC, colleges don't follow this need for Dame's vice-president of academic assistant director of the graduate academic and student freedoms," affairs. "Genuine learning, valid school of theology at St. JMai-y's added Callahan, "they will lose both Ill scholarship, can only take place in College, Father McMullin said that faculty and students of quality." \ an atmosphere of free and open "students tend to confuse personal "Colleges do not collapse when inquiry," said Father Walsh. "AH freedom and academic freedom." students are given freedom," jMinch the demands of learning can be and Student freedoms — personal and Lewis asserted, "but there is a must be adhered to in a Catholic academic—received resounding sup­ tremendous fear of this on the part r university." port from Commonweal associate of the administration." After the There were definite qualifications editor Daniel Callahan who asserted failure of the "piecemeal" rela.xa- placed upon the concept of freedom that more academic freedom for tion of student regulations at Notre by Father Walsh and other speakers, students is essential to the very Dame during recent years, there is however. "Academic freedom, like survival of Catholic universities. a need for a "radical" move for all human freedoms," commented Notre Dame Student Body President freedom, contended Lewis. Walsh, "is a limited freedom and IVIinch Lewis, a member of the panel Associate professor Frederick J. ALUMNUS MAY 196iS JUNE 11 Crosson, head of the Notre Dame scholar. As we all know," Father he is working with the National General Program, offered the posi­ McKenzie admitted, "authority has Secretariat of the Cursillo movement tion that the primary function of a destroyed priests as scholars." in Lansing, Mich. university "is not instruction, but The dilemma of modern education, "As I was e.xposed to the best inquiry. Theology in college," con­ concluded Father Walsh, is "not why that Notre Dame had to offer . ," tinued Crosson, "ought not to be there should be Catholic universities, wTote Martin, "I grew farther and doctrinal instruction but reflective but rather how any institution of farther away from Christianity. theorizing." higher education in which theology Those who were thriving on the new Much the same position was is not taught can call itself a Notre Dame, on academic excellence, voiced by Father Walsh, who said university." seemed more and more to be focusing that trouble arises when the Catholic precisely on that; on the university university is regarded as an institu­ ND COMMUNITY: part of Christian university." tion . "whose primary respon­ For the former Juggler editor, sibility is to teach a given set of A Criticism "the vitality and honesty" of those doctrines, values or attitudes. The In a lengthy letter Dec. 2, 1965, "thriving on academic excellence University should never be confused Ralph Martin Jr.