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-:-:--:---:-:-:-:-:--::-:::-------------~S~c:rv:,;.;·,::g-tfih;;e;-NN:o~t~;:;e;-r.DameVol. IV, No. 56 _ and Sa{nt M_ary ·.~ College ('ommuni~J' Thursday, December 11,1969 HHH chief speaker at Indian Confab by Bro. Patrick Carney professors who would like to Mr. Bruce has said that he will of the problems faced by the youngsters about their culture have members of the Indian be here if he doesn't have to Indian which is often over and lore. For the convenience of When the students return to community lecture to one of testify in Congress. If he cannot looked, Jesse Sixkiller will speak the Notre Dame students, Alice the campus following the their classes. There has not yet make it, he will send one of his on the topic "Problems of Urban Lewndorf will do the inter Christmas holidays, they will be been enough time for replies. associates. It is hoped that the Indians." Mr. Sixkiller represents preting. joined by a newly appointed representatives of the Indian na the American Indians United of The rather dynamic poet The more formal events will tions will be able to interact professor. No, not a Notre Dame Chicago and will consider the Ortez will add some readings on open on Monday evening, Jan publicly with the men from the professor, but Hubert difficulties faced by Indians who Thursday. uary 5 at 8:00. Professor Peter Bureau of Indian Affairs. Humphrey, former are interested in continuing their At the conclusion of the Michelson formerly of Notre In an attempt to add a facet education. Other thant this, the vice-president of the United Dame and presently teaching at week's activities, Ned Hatathli, States who will be here to take main thrust deals with life on President of the Navajo Com the University of Wyoming will the reservation. part in the Indian Conference. munity College, will add his be the featured guest. He will Four more speakers will take Humphrey's address in Stepan remarks. The significance of Mr. read from his recently published part in the final two days of the Center at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Hatathli's presence can be seen Indian Anthology. Kurtz also sessions. These include Gene January 6, will highlight the from the fact that he will be said that Fr. Hesburgh might Crawford, Leonare Springer, four-day conference seeking to judging the student response officially open the conference if John Dick, and Simon understand the plight of the with an eye to approving the he is in town at the time. Ortez. Dick is a Medicine Man American Indian. proposed exchange program who does not speak English. He between his school and Notre All other activities will take In addition to Humphrey, a has been given a grant by the Dame. This is one of the main place in smaller groups to allow number of Indians will make government to teach Indian goals of the Indian Conference. for more interaction between their appearance on Tuesday. the speakers and the audience. Most will remain on campus for These other programs will take two days. the form of either talks and dis Junior Parents Weekend cussions in the Library auditor Law and government are the ium or addresses to individual major interests of the first classes. three- Bob Burnett, Reuben Snake, and Shirley Witt. They strives for realistic view will conduct small symposiums by Don Ruane hand to present a "realistic in the library throughout the view" of their field. day. "This is the only time during The weekend will officially o their four years here that such pen at 4 p.m. on the thirteenth, Burnett has a background of an event will be offered to the being a lobbyist for the Indian when parents may register in the juniors and their parents," said lobby of the Center for Con peoples in Washington. The Jim D' Aurora as he described other end of the problem is tinuing Education. When the the Eighteenth Annual Junior parents register, they will receive represented by Snake who Parents-Son Weekend, which served as a member of Project weekend packets, accom will be held on March 13, 14, modation lists and tickets for Head Start for some time. An and 15. thropologist Witt, although not the Presidential reception Satur "The weekend, "according to day afternoon. an Indian, has specialized in D'Aurora, "has been more of a On Saturday morning, a "ma labor relations and is a noted public relations weekend in the jors presentation" will be given advocate of "Red Power." past, but it should be more of an by the various faculty members. On either Tuesday or Wed educational experience." This The talks will be given in various Jim D' Aurora Bill Kurtz nesday of the first week of year the juniors will attempt to locations to be announced. A students who live in halls with January, the committee hopes to have their parents relate to their Hall Fellow luncheon will start out the program. This affair will Chairman Bill Kurtz an have Louis Bruce, Commissio son's major field of study and at II : 15 in the halls that have nounced yesterday that he had naire of Indian Affairs from be highlighted by a special the issues he must face. the Fellows program. An alter mPnu. _ contacted the heads of each de Washington, D.C., to present the D' Aurora noted that there will nate luncheon will be served in partment asking if there were government's side of the story. A discussion of topics and is be members from each major on the South Dining Hall for those sues relevant to campus life will be held from I: 15 to 3:15 Satur day, under the direction of Peter Burke. D' Aurora listed the fol Summa collects S45million in two years; lowing major topics to be discus sed: 1: The status of ROTC on 40% earmarked for faculty development campus. This is the first of a two part series on was to continue the endowments in date: SUMMA. 2: The effects of the Co-ex SUMMA. It is writ/en by Observer Staff continuing three-year programs. The SUMMA campaign began in 1967 program. Reporter Mike Mooney Colleges and universities across the as a five-year program, planning and 3: The positions and hopes of The .words on the title page of the nat ion were subjected to intense promotion req!Jiring the first year, actual campus minority groups, par project booklet read "A comprehensive examination by- the Foundation as to fund-raising the remaining four. The ticularly the Black groups. Program to generate $52 million in their qualifications for participation. At program was ambitious in more than its 4: New changes in different a support for the Development of the the conclusion of the investigation, Notre $52 million goal. It came directly on the reas of student life. University in depth and the achievement Dame, along with four other institutions, heels of two previous campaigns whcih The highlight of the weekend of its highest priority goals 1967-72." For was invited to join in Ford's Challenge had jointly raised a comparitively smaller will come Saturday night when many current Notre Dame students, this program, as the project was called. $46 million. Moreover, the burden of the the Presidential dinner will be public relations prose and the $52 million Through Challenge I, begun in July of campaign was to be carried by men less held in Stepan Center. This din total is the full extent of their knowledge 1960 the University raised $18 million than twenty years out of Notre Dame, ner, which will last from 7:30 of "SUMMA-Notre Dame's Greatest from:friends and alumni, the total coming since 70% of all alumni have graduated till 10 p.m., will feature Uni versity President Theodore M. Challenge." to $24 million with the addition of the since 1950. These men, actually just But the project is much more than PR maximum Foundation grant. Challenge II establishing themselves in their Hesburgh and Junior Class Pres prose of even the flat $52 million goal. It began in 1963 and raised $22 million professions and with still-growing ident Barry T. Doyle as speakers. is, again in the words of the booklet, an with the addition of the Ford's $6 families, would seem to be less inclined to A special Mass for Juniors and attempt to "chart the direction in which million. contribute to their alma-mater than any their parents will be held at 8:15 the University is going in the next five Challenge III was to have begun in other group. a.m. on Sunday in Sacred Heart Church. At the same time, con years, years which arc really critical for 1966. Before it was started, however, a Luckily for the University, these temporary Masses will be held in Notre Dame." change in the administration within the negative aspects had only a negligible, if SUMMA actually began in the late selected hall chapels. A com Ford Foundation cancelled the program any, effect on the project. Perhaps the 1950's with the inauguration of a funding entirely. The Ford Foundation now most heartening aspect of SUMMA has munion breakfast is scheduled project supported by the Ford from 9:30 to 10:30 in the North assists universities only on the level of been the response of alumni and friends. Foundation. The Foundation had a plan Dining llall. A noted speaker, specific programs, not in general The average alumni gift has risen during to encourage development programs of possibly Dr.