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Y.1320 1 j The Scholastic SCHOLASTIC Oct. 11, 1968 / Notre Dame, Indiana / Vol. 110, No. 4 EDITORIAL THE RESIDENCE UNIVERSITY / William Cullen 8 A NEW FEATURES "RESIDENCE UNIVERSITY" AND "CHRISTIAN Sound COMMUNITY" / Father Theodore M. Hesburgh .... 15 THAT'S VERY INTERESTING, FATHER, BUT WE WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTION / Thomas Payne 18 THE RESIDENCE UNIVERSITY: "LONELINESS, ISOLATION A NOW AND SOCIAL AWKWARDNESS?" / Bill Sweeney ... 20 Sound BEING A SHORT HISTORYE OF THE REBELLIOUS DAY DOGS / John McCoy 23 ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN, HOME AGAIN, STUDENT / Charles Wordell and Thomas Henehan 24 WOULD YOU WANT YOUR BROTHER TO MARRY A BARAT GIRL? / Kathy Carbine and Joel Garreau 26 WSND's HOMECOMING QUEEN 1968 28 AND WHAT OF THOSE WHO DWELL IN HOUSES OF Fall Fun CLAY / Tony IngrafFea 30 THE 51ST STATE OR HOW WE WON THE WAR BABY / Festival Phillip Kukielski 33 DEPARTMENTS LETTERS 6 IN PASSING 10 Progressive ON OTHER CAMPUSES 12 Rock Music Ed/tor-m-c/i/ef / WILLIAM CULLEN Manoging Editor / TIMOTHY UNGER Aisociafe Editors / JOEL GARREAU, THOMAS HENEHAN, TONY INGRAFFEA. MARTIN MdNAMARA Art Director / DAVID HESKIN Copy Editor / JOHN DUDAS Photography Editor / DENNIS MALLOY Art Editor / RICHARD-RAYMOND ALASKO Sports Editor / WILLIAM SWEENEY World news Contributing Editors / FRANK BLUNDO, KATHLEEN CARBINE, THOMAS PAYNE Business / PETER MclNERNEY and sports Circu/ation / TIMOTHY SCHLINDWEIN Public Relations / RICHARD LAVELY Faculty Advisor / FRANK O'MALLEY Contributors / JAMES FULLIN, PHILLIP KUKIELSKI, RICHARD MORAN, STEVEN NOVAK, KATHLEEN SHEERAN, JOHN WALBECK Campus news Writers / Perry Aberii, George Arkedis, Marilyn Becker, Edward Bocik, James Boland, Thomas Booker, Barry Breen, Kathy Callan, James Coburn, Adrienne Coyne, Michael Fallon, David Finley, Joseph Furjanic, Kathy Gibbons, Burke Giblin, Cynthia Golan, Terry Goodwin, Maureen and sports Gore, Donald Graham, Len Groszek, Robert Haight, Mark Hannahan, Lynne Hauck, Robert Keefe, David Kennedy, Robert Mendes, Larry Mulcahy, Timothy Murphy, John Norton, John O'Hara, Michael Schaffer, Robert Search, Mark Seeberg, Raymond Serofin, Douglas Simon, Jody Tigani, Joseph Tynan, Robert Vadral, John Zipprich. 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The subscription rate is $5.00 a year (including all issues and the FOOTBALL REVIEW). Please address all manuscripts to the SCHOLASTIC, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556. AH unsolicited material becomes the property of the SCHOLASTIC. October 11, 1968 letters The SCHOLASTIC welcomes letters spelling and the vulgar pun using regrettable evidence. from its readers on all topics of cur Rossie's and Luking's names, the ref John Norton rent concern. Letters should be ad erence to the "owies" from the 421 Zahm dressed to William Cullen, Editor- Grotto kneelers, etc., ad nauseam) in-chief; Scholastic; Notre Ba'tne, are all ploys which he probably still CHASING SHADOWS Indiana, 46556. uses on his high-school students. I EDITOR: considered such actions insults to my "I am an invisible man. No, I am intelligence when I was fourteen not a spook like those who haunted THE KEEN EDGE years old and I'm surprised that he Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of EDITOR: thought he could get by with them your Hollywood ectoplasms. ... I I enjoyed Mr. James Swann's in an open letter to a group of uni am invisible, understand, simply be letter in your October 4 issue. It was versity students. cause people refuse to see me." Elec a very clear, cogent, well-reasoned He takes a "take it or leave it" tion year is upon us again, and for and articulate destruction of Mr. attitude on four out of his nine the first time, I will be able to vote Rossie's platform and the entire pro points under his REACTIONS. His for a presidential candidate. Like gram of the more radical elements stance is "Notre Dame — Right or the protagonist in Ellison's Invisible at Notre Dame. I have often thought Wrong" and it seems as if the stu Man, I feel invisible — almost ne what Mr. Swann wrote, but I've dent body had enlisted. We are in glected by the choice at the polls — never been able to hone my argu dentured for four years to an insti as most Afro-Americans have been ments to the keen edge he showed. tution more important than the in made to feel since their emancipation I applaud him. dividuals within it. His language from slavery. Only recently, have I also want to applaud your ef may be pretty effective at intimidat we, as a whole people, begun to be fort to capture the Non Sequitur of ing high-schoolers, but all the locker- visible. It has taken boycotts, dem the Year Award vdth a really ex room oratory in the world can't deny onstrations and riots to produce ef cellent job of attempted character- that problems do exist on this cam fect. But it would appear that our assassination. Unfortunately, any pus. Swann either blames these prob visibility is again wearing thin. As one who reads Mr. Swann's letter lems on the students or refuses to evidence of this, examine for your and has a mind open enough not to acknowledge them. He becomes self the main attraction at the box reject it automatically will see your ludicrous as he implicates Rossie, office this November. comments for what they are. Luking and Cullen with "students In one corner of the ring, we have J. Stephen Noe '71 whose grade point average is not too the Republican hopeful, Richard good." The Senior Honors Essay and Nixon. If his acceptance speech was EDITOR: Collegiate Scholar Program probably any indication of what he would ac Three cheers for James Swann's didn't exist in his day. tually do, then he would, in my letter in the October 4 issue of His letter reflects his basic style in opinion, get the black vote. His re SCHOLASTIC. handling a problem he can't cope marks on poverty, unemployment in John Cullen (no relation) with; he employs insult, denuncia the ghetto and the urban problem tion and blanket accusation. He demonstrate a keen awareness of the PUERILE DEROGATIONS urges the student leaders to use evi fundamental problems blacks face. EDITOR: dence to back up their grievances, But, his actions leave something to As one who has experienced James yet there is no hard-and-fast evi be desired. How is he to effect ade Swann as a teacher in Boylan Cen dence in his letter, aside from the quate solutions in these areas, es tral Catholic High School in Rock- fact that Pope John was a farmer. pecially with the kind of allies (Sen ford, ni., I feel that I may be able Some of his statements are blatantly ator Thurmond and others from the to cast some light on the character, false — he says things haven't Southern camp) he has been embrac or at least characteristics of the "changed that much since you ar ing along his victory route? Will we author of the letter entitled "Don't rived on campus." Things have get a duplication of the results of Get Laid." changed quite a bit (for the better) that infamous deal which gypped He neither smokes nor drinks, he since I arrived here last year, largely Tilden out of the Presidency in wears white socks with suits, he through the efforts of men like Ros 1876? Will we face another sacrifice keeps his hair closely cropped, he sie, Luking, and Cullen. of my brothers in the South in order has a large family (there were seven Mr. Swann is playing out of his that this candidate might achieve children in 1965), and his favorite ball park. A philippic like this might his political aims in other areas? food is spinach sprinkled with lemon cow the kids in Aurora or Rockford, From this, one can only conclude, juice. One of his favorite topics of but it only serves to enflame those as Jackie Robinson did, that Nixon's conversation is that of his days with whose thinking has gone above the vision does not register as far as the a Chicago White Sox farm team. Be sheltered parochial environment Negro is concerned. fore. becoming an administrator he which he is stridently trying to pre By far, I believe the black man's was a basketball coach. He is, in serve. The three whom he denounced best hope can be found with Hubert short, the type of man to whom par simply want the university experi Humphrey, the Democratic candidate ents feel they can entrust the de ence to be an enriching experience; in the corner opposite Nixon. Why? velopment of their adolescent chil Swann wants a four-year retreat. Simply because he is the best of a dren. Mr. Swann's family are lovely peo bad lot. (This is not meant to be Yet it may be that he has been ple and he is a piUar of the com complimentary.) Many of the plat dealing with adolescents for too long. munity but he doesn't know what's forms of the "Great Society" con The puerile derogations (i.e., the mis happening here. His letter stands as cerning poverty and solutions to the The Scholastic urban problem could have been put points should not be expressed. I uation," as proposed by Mr. Mandel. into effect had it not been for the do feel, however, that these should Finally, if Mr. Murphy is familiar Vietnam war. This can still be done be limited to people who truly are with Marxist thought and criticism if Humphrey decides to make a seri concerned with the constructive he knows that Marx's concept of ous effort (one not based on pride) growth of our country. ah'enation has by no means been to end the war, and then, ask Con Michael A. Fogarty exactly defined, and that it is still gress to reappropriate the defense 230 Breen-Phillips the subject of rigorous debate among funds (half of 25 billion dollars) Marxist scholars. There are no more into use here at home. But, as of AN INEXCUSABLE MYOPLl grounds for Mr. Mandel's optimism now, his campaign statements indi EDITOR: than for Mr. Murphy's theoretical cate that a peace settlement is far This letter concerns the article, pessimism, but I, too, would opt for off. Consequently, if my brothers "A Socialist Scholar," which ap optimism. Who wants to be histor do root for Humphrey, I would ad peared in last week's issue. ically alienated for the rest of his vise them not to get their hopes high I commend Mr. Murphy for not life? thinking their visibility will be in resorting to the blatant, unwar Leo Lensing creased. ranted criticism employed by several In the third corner sits George students against Charles Zagarell. 72 ailNDTES A YEAR Wallace of the American Indepen However, I feel that his objections EDITOR: dent Party. A long-time oppressor stem from the same sort of prejudice. Leaving the library today, I was of the black man, he now has the It seems that too many Notre Dame impressed by the number of students audacity to claim "Negro support." students persist in reacting to labels walking along the increasingly The only rationale I can offer for like "Marxist" and "Communist" marked diagonal across the library that is this: he is trying to draw according to notions formed in the lawn (from the door toward B-P). the vote of people who are conserva post-McCarthy days when the Com Now, I .realize that one of my fellow tives, but are not racists, whose con munist was established as the su liberal arts jocks might have enter science might bother them if they preme bad guy. tained such obnoxiously pastoral voted for a racist candidate. In es Admittedly, it may be true that thoughts as, "Alas, the lawn will sence, he makes this claim to appease Mr. Murphy's motivations are not so render itself less aesthetically pleas the minds of those conservatives base, but they are tinged with a ing when it is mercilessly dissected (and even liberals) who might feel closed-mindedness, which remains by a paved path." But being firmly too guilty to vote for him otherwise. all too prevalent on this campus. conditioned by my year in Science, I As for his stand on "law and In turning aside Mr. Mandel's proceeded systematically to analyze order," I have only to repeat what example of dehumanization in Amer the situation and to attack it em that visible brother, Dick Gregory, ican life, Mr. Murphy concludes that pirically. said: " 'Law and order' is only an Mr. Mandel considers students "po I first decided that the motive other way to yell nigger." In this tential revolutionary 'detonators' to underlying the choice of this path sense, the black man is very much be used for his own private ends." must be that of minimizing time visible to George Wallace. And he He goes further and allows that this wasted en route to the library, with has recently (since the Democratic is "more sinister and cynical" than the larger design of increasing life's Convention) expanded this concept calling someone "the corned-beef and efficiency. I then measured the sup to include many dissident whites. cabbage man." ply of lifetime conserved by this Thus, this election year, the black Here Mr. Murphy assumes that method. My findings are as follows: man might as well be a phantom, ex Jilr. Mandel is not true to the articu isting but not seen very clearly or lated goals of Marxism. How he 1) Time to walk, at the brisk worth very much in American so concluded that Mr. Mandel had pace of an efficient student, ciety. There does exist a fourth cor deviated from the Marxist's ultimate a) the two legs of the ner to the political ring, but to strive purpose of bettering the human con triangle 51 sec toward it would only mean phan dition to a position of revolution for b) the hypotenuse 39 sec toms chasing shadows. So, what private ends should be beyond any 2) Time saved/trip to & from have we left? one reading the article. EJven his the library 24 sec Al Dean vocabulary ("sinister and cynical") 3) Average number of betrays either a lack of objectivity visits/week to library —.6 AD^HERTISING REFORM or a basic human mistrust or, per 4) Total time saved/year EDITOR: haps, a natural antipathy towards (6) (24) (30) = You claim that the SCHOLASTIC is Marxism. 4320 sec 72 min a liberal, progressive publication Anyone who has read and studied dedicated to worthwhile reform both Marx should be impressed by his zeal The inescapable conclusion of on campus and in the activities of for alleviating human misery. To these data is that everyone should our country in general. However, it automatically suspect one of his walk across the library lawn. By seems to me that a magazine with adherents of political intrigue for starting tomorrow, we can each still goals such as these would refuse to personal gain is to exhibit an inex save 68 minutes and 12 seconds by aUow someone as demagogic and cusable myopia. Perhaps, even more June. The more people walking the bigoted as George Wallace to pur important in this case is Mr. path, the sooner it will be paved, and chase advertising space for any Murphy's failure to seriously con after that we will save even more price. sider the value of "a social ex time. I am not saying that other view plosion creating a revolutionary sit R. W. Sacoff October 11, 1968 Editorial The Residence University What one notices above all else in this issue of the Scholastic is the harsh incongruity between Father Hesburgh's optimistic idealism concerning a com munal residence university and the urgent, pressing reality of all of the other stories on this same subject. Father Hesburgh's rambling article on page 15 and Bill Sweeney's carefully researched piece on page 20 don't seem to be talking about the same place, and yet they are. Mister Sweeney and the other authors describe what seems to us to be the critical problems facing the future architects of a communal residence uni versity. Some of the undesirable physical conditions of life on campus are the first, most obvious problems which they mention. Forced doubles, lack of ade quate social and commercial facilities, an unneces sarily inhibiting disciplinary system, halls that are like 100-room resounding boards—all of the students already know about these problems. But they also suggest some other difficulties which lie more deeply imbedded in the fabric of the Uni versity. They claim that Notre Dame is a sexual ghetto at which the normal processes of social evolu tion do not take place. They suggest that loneliness and isolation do take place, much more frequently than the communal experience of hall life. They claim that the present campus environment stifles individuality and fosters the conformity, the sameness which is perhaps Notre Dame's most serious defici ency. They go on to describe other problems, too complex to be outlined in this editorial overview. In the face of these doubts, our off-campus authors have described how they have found a more accept- 8 The Scholastic able way of life outside of the campus environment, 3) students are eventually given full power to as free and responsible members of the South Bend decide how they will live and how they will solve community. They don't look upon themselves as "day- the environmental problems that now exist. This dogs"; in fact, they refer to us who live on campus means complete student autonomy concerning as the more unfortunate group, calling us "dorm- their non-academic existence on this campus. dogs." Many have found a more satisfying, liberated Ideally, the Tri-Partite Board should, if at all pos existence outside of the long shadow of the Golden sible, dissolve itself at the end of this school year, Dome. They would never come back. after having established a workable system of We think then that Father Hesburgh's optimism student-run structures for regulating and improving about a communal residence university is unjustified. student life. In the near future, eighteen-year-olds The most basic conclusion that we all came to in will have the right to vote; in the near past, they working on this issue was that the present form of the have had the duty of dying in Vietnam. While residence university has failed to establish an atmo studying at any universtiy, they have both the sphere of community at Notre Dame. We believe right and the duty of freely and responsibly at that community can become a valid objective at this tending to their private lives. University only if One knocks quietly, politely, on a door for only 1) all members of the Administration disavow so many minutes, for only so many years. Then, if their functions as disciplinarians and engage in one gets no response, and if one feels he has a right the pastoral work for which they were ordained, to what is behind that door, he breaks it down. and for which they are now sorely needed. We do not intend to break down the door, be 2) arrangements are made to house professors cause we love and respect what Notre Dome can be. and their families on campus, in closer contact We are, however, still waiting for a response, a spe with students, who admire and respect them, but cific response from Father Hesburgh regarding the who cannot now know them well enough to problems presented in this issue. It is not enough for benefit by their intelligence. The last thing Notre the President of this University to say vaguely, "I do Dame needs is another half-empty chapel—^why have my point of view," and then claim that further couldn't some of the SUMMA money have been specificity would "prejudice the outcorhe of the con allocated for a faculty housing project? "But that versation." It seems to us that Father Hesburgh should hasn't been done before, there are no precedents be the main participant in this conversation, since he is in The Great American Universities!" Who cares? far and away the single most important figure on this Why can't Notre Dame be the first to initiate campus, and can, among other things, prejudice any such a project? outcome of the Tri-Partite Board simply by vetoing it. — William Cullen October 11, 1968 in passing HE evening started auspiciously sive program of student services. The Double Helix, which explains enough. The small group of The program includes a life in his joint research on the DNA TASP members huddled in one corner surance system and L.P. album molecule with Francis Crick, of the Student Center got the club which would offer 40- for the student. Watson hoped to word that the party successfully 80% discounts. There will be a rectify incorrect public opinion weathering the challenge of the Job Placement Corps in which that scientists were not Off-Campus Independents, had graduating students can fill in serious about their research, won all five off-campus seats. questionnaires which will be fed to and to abate the fears of Pete KeUy, party chairman, hungry computers. And there's nongeniuses who felt doomed to popped out of the counting room more, folks: a quasi-Campus-Pac failure in lieu of brain power. with more good news — two seats in to be distributed amongst the Dr. Watson was highly favorable Morrissey. But from there on, common folk; a travel service for to a shortened educational the news turned gloomy. Returns international daytrippers—carriage period, to earlier specialization, came in from Lyons and Farley. round trip from New York to and to multiple pre- They were to provide four ASP London for $200 plus a $1.50 professional studies. seats; they gave the party only membership fee. N.S.A. also Speaking about current DNA two. The situation then went from operates an Alliance for Campus research today. Dr. Watson bad to worse. Stanford, Cavanaugh, Talent in which N.S.A. acts as said that the main area of con Zahm came in, and, as expected, agent to procure entertainment for centration is on virus-cancer delivered their conservative campus social commissions at a research. While genetic flow Senators. 2% kickback rather than the protein synthesis, and The group in the corner had usual 10-15%. A three- bacterial viruses are under grown by this time, and con year-old program offers a Cultural careful observation, Watson said gratulations were passed around, Film Festival which includes a that the major challenge for mixed with condolences for the student film series for $60. scientists at his Cold Spring losers. A very interesting glass of Finally, the N.S.A. is trying to Harbor Clinic, Long Island, "Ginger Ale" also made the rounds. coordinate an International Student New York, is the transference of The people in the corner began to I.D. Card which would offer "huge" studies from bacterial to mammalian count the seats the party had, then, discounts on everything from clothes cells. This study, done by men on added what someone called "fellow to cars. The purpose of all this the Ph.D.-M.D. level, has been ham travelers" to the number. Bill is largely ulterior. N.S.A. must pered by the drastic cutback in Beyer, who managed the party cam pacificate the ordinary, apathetic federal aid and the draft. Con paign, didn't join the counters. student to look benevolently on tending that many human problems Instead, he sat down and wrote out them so that they might introduce won't be settled by going this brief statement: more controversial programs with to the moon, Watson said that half "I wish to apologize to the Senate out encountering hostile troops. of his students at Harvard will be candidates of the Action Student drafted by the end of this Party. I still feel that their views AMES DEWEY WATSON, a native- year. These factors, coupled with are correct, proper, rational and born Chicagoan, shared the 1962 scant public interest in above all shared by the majority of JNobel prize in physiology scientific developments, have cre the students at Notre Dame. The and medicine with biologist ated a cog in the machinery fault for defeat in their bid for a Francis Crick and biophysicist, set in motion by the Eisenhower majority lies entirely with me and Maurice Wilkins. Watson, working Administration. Despite the fact with the campaign techniques I with Crick, a Britisher, devised a that research must be done used." model of the molecular structure in private due to its fundamental By the time he was through, it of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). nature, Dr. Watson felt that was all over. The crowd had Their work, based on research done the scientists, as well as doctors, broken up, and just a small group by Wilkins, broadened the had a responsibility to create lingered to watch the last returns understanding of the DNA molecule public interest through literature come in from conservative B-P. which carries genetic information and public appearance. The adders were still there, and re from one generation to the next. mained cautiously optimistic. The Dr. Watson received his ITH the Convocation Center ASP had elected 14 Senators to add degrees from the University of nearing completion, the ques to their one Stay Senator. About Chicago and the University Wtion of what is to be done with the eight of the others are considered of Indiana. He is currently a Fieldhouse becomes a topic of liberals so, in the words of one professor of biology at Harvard discussion. Putting aside person, "We have at least 20 votes, University, where he has the nostalgic arguments for the and probably 23 of the 45, in favor been in residence since 1961. Fieldhouse, people connected with of Richard's programs. At least Dr. James Watson is living club sports can stiU find many we've gotten that much." proof that a scientist need solid reasons for the not have his head buried in the continued use of it. One natural HE National Student Associa sand to be successful. In an advantage is that the Fieldhouse tion, not renowned for their interview last week with the can be used as it is right now. Tover-the-board operations, is student press, Dr. Watson The track would be put presently proselytizing an aggres- sEud that he wrote his book, to good use in off-season running, 10 The Scholastic Great x.iag. GOIS ftwi .C'sah men - and the open area would allow the club teams to sharpen early spring execution — otherwise impossible due to the cold weather. Up until now, all early spring workouts were conducted in the stadium, under adverse conditions. Another obvious asset is the vacated locker-room space, which would relieve over crowded facilities now used. Bob McGrath, president of the Boxing Club, pointed out that to a large extent, the recreation at Seen in passing tliis week: Snoopy Notre Dame is athletic. And the lobbying against Rossie; Dr. Wat packed-tight conditions of the son doodling; the Notre Dame man "Rock"' show the need for another at work; a monstrous ogre worthy t«j*' student athletic center. of Quixotic attack; a traffic jam ir;^ Perhaps the best argument for keeping the Fieldhouse was Iowa. stated by the president of the Lacrosse Club, Mike Satarino. He tells how other major college teams hesitate to come to Notre Dame because they must either pay for their motel rooms out of an often slim budget or else sleep in scattered rooms aU over the campus. Using one of the empty rooms in the Fieldhouse and installing twenty or thirty beds would solve this problem. This would place the visitors near the locker rooms and allow them to stay together rather than apart. Mr. Napolitano, head of club sports, has suggested improvements that would let the students benefit more from the Fieldhouse. He would like to see the Fieldhouse kept open later, until perhaps 10 p.m. and a staff appoint ed to keep the Fieldhouse clean. He also pointed out that there are many offices in the building that could be used for other purposes besides athletics. The status of the Fieldhouse remains as yet undecided, but until a final decision is reached either way, it will continue to be used by club sports and by indi viduals on campus. The presidents of the various clubs emphasized that these clubs represent Notre Dame in a very real way and they consider the Fieldhouse a necessity. Otherwise, perhaps the Board of Trustees can sell it to the Knights of Columbus for a couple of million. October 11, 1968 11 on other campuses wo weeks ago we reported that traveling across the nation trying and that student members be named students at Texas A & M had to show the youth that there is by student government." Tmade their choice for President, hope. He says this nation can be George Wallace (you must remem saved, if we only honor our highest HIS APPEARS to be a bad month ber it's a military school), and last laws — the Constitution of the for Student Body Presidents. week we informed you that the United States. TOn the same day as the petitions to editors of the paper at St. Francis "Let America know that this oust ND's SBP reached their goal, College, Loretto, Pennsylvania, had generation will not tolerate a the Daily Illini revealed an inter advised backing no one. morally bankrupt government. esting fact about the University of The editors of the Statesman, from "Vote for those who tell it like Illinois' Student Body President— the State University of New York at it is. Vote Peace and Freedom. he is not a student. Stony Brook, have gone them one "Gregory and Lane." Jim Komibe has been processed better. Here are some excerpts from through all the registration pro their September 27 editorial: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN cedures and is attending classes, but "We looked with horror at the faculty committee has offered he owes the university $17, and candidacy of George Wallace. No Arecommendations which — accord until he pays it, the admissions oflSce man who can say he would deliber ing to the Daily Cardinal—"should and several other administrative de ately run over a fellow human put Wisconsin ahead of any major partments will not certify him as being is fit to be President of the university in the country expand a student. United States in 1969. ing the role of students in governing Komibe, asked why he hadn't paid "Richard Nixon and Spiro T. of the institution." the §17, said, "I just don't have it." Agnew represent the style of poli The nine-member faculty com tics that governed this nation in the mittee headed by Prof. James Crow HE University of Massachusetts 1950's. It is a frightening thought (really!), offered these proposals: Student Senate voted by a wide that a Spiro Agnew could be nomi 1) "Practically complete with Tmargin at its first session to recom nated over the likes of John Lindsay drawal by the University from its mend abolition of academic credit and Charles Percy. This country in loco parentis activities ... an for ROTC courses. does not need a coalition of South- end to regulations of students' off- The vote, 21 to 12, was not sur em bigots and mid-western Hawks campus Uves and of such aspects of prising in Ught of a student poU to lead us down the road of hate- their on-campus nonacademic affairs last year which showed students de mongering, red-baiting, and killing. as hours regulations. All students siring abolition of ROTC credits by A nation faced with internal dis over age 20 and aU students under a 5 to 3 margin. sension cannot afford to have lead that age who are married or who A Senior Senator who backed the ers who say law and order but who have parental permission should be motion called the courses "seriously mean 'If you're black stay back.' able to live in housing of their wanting in academic substance and The black man is starting to move choice. academic quality." next door. If he is blocked by the 2) "Broader student participation Another senior who opposed the Agnews of this nation who wish to in various forms in practically all motion retorted by saying: "The deny him his constitutional rights, areas of University government. ROTC program has placed the mili then we will have a second civil war. 3) "Greater student self-govern tary into a proper context. It as Let us not be so naive to believe that ing authority . . . the elimination of sures civilian background for mili Agnew is speaking only for him the present Student Life and In tary training, without the rigor that self. Just ask your parents whether terests Committee and distribution you'd encounter in military schools or not Richard Nixon wasn't say of its powers among the Wisconsin and academies. ing the same things in 1952 that Student Association and smaller "We don't just sit there and pon Spiro T. Agnew is saying in 1968. student-faculty committees. der napalm. We discuss the role of "Hubert Horatio Humphrey and 4) "University discipline should the miUtary in the United States Edmimd Muskie are not as per be imposed only for intentional con power structure." nicious as Wallace, Nixon, or Agnew. duct which (a) seriously damages The Senate, however, appeared to But their time has passed. An ob or destroys University property, (b) take more kindly to the suggestion solete and corrupt political machine indicates a serious continuing of Professor Wolfgang B. Fleisch- denied the American people the danger to the personal safety of memn, who said that ROTC "should, right to vote for the man they so other members of the University like archery and choral singing, be strongly supported in the primaries. community, or (c) clearly and seri considered an extracurricular ac The rank-sind-file Democrats called ously obstructs or impairs a signif tivity." for McCarthy and the Johnson icant University function or machine gave them Humphrey. process. ASSAR COLLEGE has decided to go Humphrey represents the old lib 5) "The Student Senate should Vco-ed. To inaugurate the co eral establishment, but the New have the power to propose recom educational program, the women's Deal is not viable in 1968. mendations, resolutions or legisla college will take part in a student "A vote on Election Day for Dick tion for faculty consideration and to exchange program with Williams Gregory and Mark Lane represents which the faculty is obligated to College of Williamstown, Mass., be a call for true law and order. No respond. ginning in January. The program other men in this country could 6) "That the student voting may also include Wesleyan Uni make a claim to be so committed menabership on University com versity of Middletown, Connecticut. to justice. Dick Gregory has been mittees, be substantially increased Last November, Vassar rejected 12 The Scholastic an invitation to affiliate itself with college would concentrate on build ied in the drama and dance divisions. Yale and move to New Haven. In ing the necessary facilities to ac It has granted about 20 B.A. degrees stead, Vassar announced then that commodate the new students. to men. it would establish a separate but Mr. Bloustein said that, based on coordinate men's college in Pough- wo BAYS following the Vassar the ratio of applications now being keepsie, on the present Vassar announcement, 42-year-old received — about six from women campus. TBennington College of Bennington, to every application from men — During the summer, however, the Vt., announced that it too woiild go the freshman class of 1969 will Board of Trustees of Vassar de "fuUy coeducational" in 1969. probably include 35 to 40 male cided to abandon the coordinate The traditionally all-women's col students. college plan, and admit men directly lege is already accepting applications to the 107-year-old bastion of from men for the class of 1973. GREAT many sophomores and femininity. Edward Bloustein, college presi freshmen left the athletic de The trustees have not announced dent, said last Friday that the de Apartment ticket office at Clemson how large the college will be when cision to accept men at Bennington University last week grumbling, men are fully integrated into the was based on an increasingly strong when they learned that they would undergraduate enrollment. At pres demand from college-bound men not be able to obtain football tickets ent there are 1600 girls at Vassar. and the belief that "we can no for their dates. The Clemson Tiger Lynn C. Bartlett said last week longer deprive men of the unique reports that the athletic department that suggestions were being solicited educational opportunity Bennington allots a set number of tickets for from the faculty as to how to go provides." (Ed Note: According to dates, and this year, due to a about the incorporation of men into September's Playboy, the ratio of greater demand than anticipated on the college. Mr. Bartlett, the secre males to females at Bennington is the part of juniors and seniors, tary of the college, said he expects one to 38, which makes it some edu there were very few tickets left men will be admitted in the fresh cational opportunity). for sophomores, and none at all man class at a very early date. Men will be accepted on the basis for freshmen. The plan most likely to be ac of academic qualifications and with The Student Senate responded to cepted by the trustees is one under out quota. The college will not this by unanimously passing a reso which the undergraduate enrollment impose any "artificial parity con lution calling upon the Athletic would grow to 2400 with more cepts" to their admission, Mr. Director to make tickets available women than men. 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T IS NO SECRET that this idea of community has been hate to be conservative about the practical realization very much on my mind, both here and in the broader of these values in each succeeding age, according to Ihuman context, during the past few years. Regarding the new opportunities and challenges of each new age. community at Notre Dame, it is always easy to con This background confession is necessary if you want demn the past and to think that all ideas are suspect to understand why I still think that community is the if they didn't come to light after nine o'clock this central idea that should most concern us all today. It morning. The fact is, though, there has always been is really the central challenge of our times, in the world a strong sense of community at Notre Dame, much of political conflict that separates man from man across more than at most universities or other human insti the shrinking globe. It is the central reality of the tutions I have known. Sometimes it has been described People of God, that great new and yet old concept of as spirit that deeply attached alumni and others to this the Church. And in the university world, community place. It may have been emotional, it may have oc is the only viable reality that can respond fruitfully and curred for what some might now judge to be the wrong successfully to the deep desire for renewal and restruc reasons, but it did exist and it drew people back here turing, amid all manner of violence, confrontation, and like a magnet and they left feeling that somehow they disillusionment. were bettered by every renewed contact with the place. What does community really mean in this context? I've personally seen this exemplified not hundreds but Fundamentally, it means a hope that people who exist thousands of times, so I'm not inclined to argue with on many levels, students, faculty, administration, the fact or get excited by the frequent allegation that alumni and trustees, are capable of agreeing upon a the place is or has been all wrong. common ideal of what a place like Notre Dame can At the same time, I'm not going to say that Notre and should be, and are willing to work together in all Dame is aU right or that it cannot be much better than ways possible to make it ever more responsive to and it has been or is. I share much of the discontent with representative of this shared ideal. Specifically, it what is the reality of the world, the Church, the uni means that I don't decide what Notre Dame is or should versity, and the human situation generally today. I be, because I don't share the conviction of a well-known suppose I would differ from some of the discontented French king who said: "L'etat, c'est moi." Rather, all and hypercritical by trying to see all of these realities those who belong to this place, who are this reality of in some historical perspective. There is a continuity to Notre Dame, must, each according to his competence, human history — it is not circular — and I strongly wisdom, and position, take an authentic part in con adhere to Teilhard de Chardin's intuition of seeing the stantly renewing the ideal. This means a continual con constant upward sweep of human evolution — even cern on the part of aU for creating a vital community though it is often characterized by occasional false of thought, expression, and action. It is not something starts and dips of frustration or even despair. What that begins today, for Notre Dame does have a history, this means is that I'm on balance an optimist, hope a past, a present and, hopefuUy, an even better future. fully a progressive, a liberal where human social and Continuity, in our day, best resides and is revitalized institutional progress is concerned, and a conservative in the community, despite the obvious obstacles that when basic human values are involved, although I would tend to disintegrate rather than unite aU who are a October 11, 1968 15 living part of Notre Dame. sure, for the faculty, alumni, Trustees, and the ad I would now like to outline some of the positive and ministration, too, believe it or not. negative factors of the situation facing our realization If we have all of these things going for us, what of community today at Notre Dame, as I see them. then is our hang-up? Why isn't community here all that we would like it to be? Well, first of all, we are First, the positive. in full evolution, verging at times on revolution, and 1. The very problems we face push us towards the new structures are of very recent vintage — most community as never before. Despite all of the dif originating within the last year and a half. We still ferences of personality, age, experience, function, opin have to make them work. Those that are under way, ion, conviction, and temperament that characterize the the Board, the Faculty Senate, the Alumni Board, are thousands who are Notre Dame, I take it that all are working extremely well, if you're willing to discount agreed that we can live and work and grow together— a few growing pains. The Faculty-Student-Administra if we have enough sense to forge a community of tion Committee (or Council or Commission, however it thought and action. comes to be called) is about to begin, and I have high Mr. Edmund Stephan, the Chairman of our Board hopes for its successful operation, too. We still have of Trustees, put this well in his statement of last May a few snags with the student judiciary, but this should 15: "A deep conviction was expressed [in the Board be fully operative soon. hearing of May 3 with students, faculty, and trustees] One of the most important new endeavors, because that Notre Dame must continue to strive to build a true it is at the heart of the University's pvirpose, is the community that is united in its commitment to basic current University-wide effort at curriculum reform. human values, that such an undertaking is especially I have been greatly heartened by the student effort to important in view of the violence and ahenation that estabUsh a structure that parallels at every level the are so characteristic of today's world. A true com faculty structure, to insure student inputs at every level. munity is not one in which everyone agrees with every If this is successful, it could well lead to much greater one else on every subject, but it is one in which the student participation in the academic structures of the basic purposes of the institution are shared and re University. This latter is mainly a faculty decision, spected by the constituency and in which discussion, as it should be, but at least there is now an opportunity and, indeed, debate are conducted with mutual respect, for showing positively what students can contribute to tolerance, and civility." the academic segment of the University community. 2. We have in recent years made positive moves in This is all to the good, at the moment, but what restructuring the University so that the personal in of the negative factors? Tlaese are mainly a set of at volvement, necessary to any authentic community, can titudes that I shall mention as briefly as possible. take place. Above the Presidency, a Board of Trustees, 1. The good-guys, bad-guys syndrome. Let's admit largely of laymen in the spirit of Vatican n, has been that there are good and bad, relative terms since no established. The new Faculty Manual and Faculty one is all good or all bad, in every segment of the Uni Senate have given much more voice and involvement versity community and probably always will be. Writ to all of the faculty, especially in the basic academic ing off any one segment, students, faculty, administra policy matters of the University. The first act of the tion, Tixistees, or alumni, would be a monumental over new Board of Trustees was to confirm this basic re- simplification. If I didn't see much more good than sponsibihty and new structure of the faculty. The bad in every segment of our community, I wouldn't alumni, in addition to their traditional Board, now have want to belong to it and work within it. St. Paul had the Alumni Senate made up of all the Presidents of a great saying: "Don't be overcome by evil, but over our more than one hundred alumni clubs throughout come evil by good." Or you may prefer Faulkner's the country. There are few alumni groups in the coim- statement on man in a world beset by evil: "Man will try that contribute annually the equivalent income of not simply endure, he will prevail." forty million dollars endowment. They are interested 2. The "it won't work" syndrome. Maybe it won't. not only in giving but in contributing to the total life of But we can try. We might even try harder, like Avis, the Notre Dame community as wdl. They also belong. if we remember what. St. Paul said about love (the real The students, despite the constant reorganizational glue of any authentic community): "Love is always changes of recent years, do now have a viable form of patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never student government and service that enhsts the dedica boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it tion, generosity, and intelligence of many hundreds of does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes students each year, from hall section leaders to Presi no pleasure in other people's sins, but dehghts in the dent, senators. Cabinet, and Student Union and court truth; love is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, officials. The administration is no longer administering and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come in a vacuum. We do have a structure that reflects a to an end." We can make it in forming a true com concern for collegiaHty on all levels. It's not the easiest munity here, if we all do the truth in love. way to administer a university (Winston Churchill said 3. Final syndrome: "The whole place is rotten; the best form of government is dictatorship tempered destroy it and start over." If anyone reaUy believes by assassination), but it is the best way to achieve this, he need not destroy it, it will destroy itself. As real community — if it can be made to work. I am for starting over, we all have to do that every day, but confident that it can, so here is another positive if we believe in Notre Dame, as many of us do, we do factor, although structure alone won't do it. it within the community. Again, our Chairman said it 3. Whatever anyone says, Notre Dame is blessed well in the document quoted above: by an enormous amotmt of composite good will and "The Board must also aflBrm that its Ad Hoc Com generous collaboration. The Student Body has an mittee was greatly impressed by the intelligence, good enormous vitality (some say too much), a basic sense will, and dedication of practically everyone participat of fair play (abuse anyone imfairly, even me, and you'll ing in its hearing. This gives the Board the highest see), and a commitment to make Notre Dame outstand hopes for the future of an increasingly significant and ing in every way. The same can be said, in full mea meaningful society at Notre Dame, provided that the 16 The Scholastic If iff' many, often apathetic, are willing to join the presently dialogue with everyone. To. do this meaningfully, we active few and to work together, intelligently and re do have to know our own faith and traditions and sponsibly, for the ultimate good of the whole com culture. munity. If this is not possible in an academic com 5. The community wiU not be realistic or appealing munity, committed to the search for meaning and without a more important feminine influence than now relevance in life and learning, then the broader human exists. This is why I favor strongly girls' cluster col family would have little hope." leges here, and the new initiatives of the Ladies of So much for my basic ideas on community at Notre Notre Dame, our faculty wives' association. Dame. The editors, and maybe some of you, may be 6. Residentiality has long characterized some of disappointed that I did not say more of the nuts and the best universities in the world. However, proximity bolts, the particularities of our community here. I am in living is not enough. A positive climate conducive to not trying to duck the tough questions, and I do have community living is more than residentiality. my own point of view, but I would like to get the con 7. Civility is the hallmark of a university com versation going without prejudicing the outcome. How munity — especially civility in discourse among the ever, here are a few headlines that bear on the realiza members, openness to one another, personal respect for tion of a great university community, as I see it. each other's basic human dignity, ability to live with 1. It should be Catholic, with a large and small different opinions without the all-too-current intoler "c," or profoundly Christian, if you prefer that. ance that shuts off, even violently, anyone who dis 2. The above is not possible without vital and agrees. Freedom cuts both ways. sophisticated theology on the highest intellectual level 8. To be all of this, community exacts its price. and a meaningful liturgical experience as a living Community is no substitute for personal and individual manifestation of community. responsibility. There will always be those who corrode 3. The community should also manifest its vitality a commimity and its values by the whole panoply of in myriad forms of service to our fellow men, inside dishonesty, vulgarity, selfishness, boorishness, or any and outside the community, especially to those in great thing else that is unworthy of our better hopes. When est human need. this happens, someone has to speak for the community 4. The community should also be ecumenical, open and it cannot always be someone else. It may have to all true human values from whatever source. It to be you. If we all help establish the values of a good should not be a ghetto, intellectually or spiritually. community, we all are responsible to uphold them, or Persons of aU cultures, races, and religions should be else they become empty rhetoric. Community supports, welcome here. We, of all people, should be willing to but community must also be supported. • October 11, 1968 17 That's very interesting. Father, but we would appreciate it if you answered the question. by Thomas Payne This issue of the SCHOLASTIC is a failure — at least acterized by the rancor of the confrontation. in part. Tlie editorial meeting which planned it con The irrelevance of Fr. Hesburgh's "few words" to ceived of it as an examination of the tradition tJiat any discussion about the University current among the Notre Dame be a residence university. TJie relevance student body is illustrated by the number of times he of this tradition to the "new Notre Dame" Jias been sets up and knocks down straw opponents. Through seriously cludlenged by tlie increasing popularity of out Fr. Hesburgh's survey of student opinion at Notre off-campus living, and tlie editorship of tlie magazine Dame, there runs a little group of extremists who re thought tJiat it was high time tJiat tlie tradition be ject Notre Dame's past as radically perverse and want significantly debated and discussed. Fr. Hesburgh was to start over from scratch. In the first paragraph, Fr. invited to participate in the discussion and debate, and Hesburgh says that he is not inclined "to get excited by it is unfortunate tliat his contribution to it falls short the frequent allegation that the place is or has been of being significant. all wrong." No one should be inclined to get excited over the allegation for it is far from frequent and AST YEAR "moral ambiguity" brought the campus to has never been advanced in any serious, reasoned dis the brink of crisis. In preceding years the cause course on the University. Those few who say "the Lof the trouble has been described as "a communications whole place is rotten; destroy it and start over," need gap" or a "pastoral gap" or whatever term in vogue no refutation from the President of the University for to indicate that the Administration and student body common sense itself refutes them. are not reaUy in touch. A large measure of the re Fr. Hesburgh's answer to the question, "What does sponsibility for these gaps — or perhaps better, gap — community really mean in this context?" fails to sat must be assigned to the failure of the President of the isfy or to add anything new to the current discussion University to take definite stands on issues or having on what Notre Dame should be. The student body has taken them, as in the case of parietal hours, to ex known for some time that the University is a com plain adequately his reasons for doing so. munity of scholars composed of faculty, students and The student press has tried to foster discussion be Administration. We have known that "each must ac tween the student body and the Administration, if by cording to his own competence, wisdom and position no other means than by trying to obtain definitive take an authentic part in constantly renewing the ideal." statements from the Administration on various topics. The Faculty Manual, Faculty Senate and Student Life Fr. Hesburgh is correct in quoting last spring's state Commission are the fruits of this knowledge. The ques ment by the Board of Trustees to the effect that "a tion is no longer who shall renew the ideal, but how true community is not one in which everyone agrees shall renewal be accomplished. It is to this question with everyone else on every subject." The disagree that meaningful discourse about Notre Dame will be ment which win Inevitably arise in even the truest com addressed. munities can only be resolved in rational debate which Those of us who have been tempted to think other is itself impossible unless the members of the com wise, are no doubt reassured by Fr. Hesburgh when he munity know where each stsinds as exactly cmd reminds us anew that he is not a divine-rights monarch, completely as possible. The evasion of specifics can that he does not advocate a Nietzschean transvaluation only cause student-Administration relations to be char of values, that he adheres to liberal doctrines of prog- 18 The Scholastic /i ress, and that he is "on the balance an optimist." But sidering "residentiality," but what is enough? If the having been reminded of those things which most of President of the University would just tell us what he us already suspect, what more do we know of the plans thinks about these matters, discussion and debate about and goals of the man who wiU have the greatest in how Notre Dame is to achieve greatness could be taken fluence on the restructuring and renewal of Notre- up much more fruitfully. Dame? Fr. Hesburgh justifies his grandiose generalizations The closest Fr. Hesburgh ever gets to specific pro by saying, "I am not trying to duck the tough ques posals about Notre Dame is in the concluding eight tions, and I do have my own point of view, but I would articles, and this closest is still very far away. These like to get the conversation going without prejudicing articles appear to be standards of a "great university the outcome." The problem with this is that the con community" to which almost everybody could agree. versation has been going on now for a long time. It Most of us have seen the ideas therein embodied before began six years ago when John Gearen and others pro in one context or another. The desirabiUty of these posed the stay-hall system as the foundation for true goals is not in question, then, but rather how to at communal living here at Notre Dame, and urged that a tain them. We know that "a meaningful liturgical ex tripartite commission be established to control student perience" is desirable, but how is this to be achieved life. The conversation has come a long way since Gearen when so many students no longer attend Mass reg- and his associates, and its further progress wiU not be ijlarly. We know that "the community should also served by the superficial and ghb-phrased discussions be ecumenical" but how is ecumenism to be achieved of what Notre Dame should be which Fr. Hesburgh has then given the uniformity of background of most Notre offered to us. The discussion of what Notre Dame Dame students, and given the failure of the Committee should be has already reached a higher level of sophisti on Minority Enrollment to attract minorities? We cation than Fr. Hesburgh's statement, and it is a shame know that "proximity in living is not enough" in con that Fr. Hesburgh does not yet realize it. • October 11, 1968 19 The Residence University: "Loneliness, Isolation and Social A\A/k\wardness"? by Bill Sweeney The residence university as a concept and the resi students reside. Until recent years, the assumption has dence university as a reality have yet to merge. Symp been that an ideal Christian community would be im toms on tlie surface of student life seetn to itidicate mune to serious problems in student life. "For many that the residence university is falling short of the ideal years there were no signs of traumatic maladjustment Christian community. At this stage of Notre Dame's at Notre Dame," wrote Peter Schrag in Harpers (May development, it is iw./portant to reexamine her original '67). "Then, a year ago a student hanged himself in goal of becoming a residential university. The symptorns his room." As Schrag recognized, Notre Dame too of student life liave been studied by sociologists and was fast becoming involved in the same problems other psychologists closest to the students' problems. The universities have been grappling with for years. Some question to be posed is wJwther the residential uni of the symptoms are subtle, others obvious. Drinking, versity is a valid objective or an anachronistic dream. drugs, sexual maladjustment, homosexuality and alienation have become bigger problems than most people are willing to admit. They are symptoms that ERHAPS MOST BASIC to the Conditions under which perhaps Notre Dame has outgrown its Christian my a student spends his four years at Notre Dame is thology of past decades, which particular lent itself Pthe atmosphere he lives in. Last week, the Cox Com to the establishment of a solidified commimity. mission published its report on the sociological origins Structurally, the residence university has failed to of the discontent that erupted at Columbia last spring. establish an atmosphere of community and social nor One problem isolated as a long term cause of discontent mality. Halls such as Dillon and Badin parallel the was the "appallingly restrictive" dormitory accommoda above description of the older dorms at Columbia Uni tions. "Two men would be housed in a room barely versity which were judged to have "fostered rather adequate for one," reads the report, "consisting of a than ameliorated loneliness, isolation and social awk double-decker bed, one desk, one chair and one bureau. wardness." Newer haUs such as Stanford-Keenan re Naked light bulbs in corridors, scarred and battered semble cell blocks with taste and comfort of design furniture, walls and floors give the older dormitories sacrificed for financial considerations. The stereo the general atmosphere of a run-down rooming house." typed living conditions, the middle class origin of the To attempt a comparison between Notre Dame and student body, zmd the emigration off campus of creative Columbia would be inaccurate. Yet, the commission's students have combined to retard individuality among report is forcing college administrators to consider the campus students. While Father Ralph Dunn of the social and psychological environments in which their Psychological Services Center feels that conditions in the 20 The Scholastic halls have not caused conformity at Notre Dame, it problems arising out of that growth has been ignored. certainly has "reenforced the factors of conformity and The people that the new buildings were intended to ac regimentation that exist." Professor Robert Hassenger comodate have been denied an outlet for their social of the sociology department believes that many students activities. Former University Chaplain, Father Hoffman, come to Notre Dame "to buy an identity and surround considers it "highly problematic whether Notre Dame themselves with symbols Mke buttons and Notre Dame wiU remain a residential university, simply because the jackets to garnish their image." But while both agree juniors and seniors AviU not be willing to live on that conformity is a part of many students' personalities campus," before coming to Notre Dame, the hall atmosphere Essential to the establishment of a commtmity at tends more toward reenforcing conformity than foster Notre Dame is the development of the religious com ing individuality. munity. But, many admit that a community in the re The evolution of an ofE-campus culture is evidence ligious sense has not happened. "I don't know if the of a rejection of the campus environment. That the situation has deteriorated in past years," says Father relatively small number of creative people at Notre Ralph Dunn, "but it certainly has not developed." Robert Dame have chosen to move off campus is evidence that Hassenger senses a cultural change since his days as there is a restrictive element on campus not conducive a student at Notre Dame. "The faith of the students to creativity. "The old authority by which the University is no longer the point of common interest it was when could send a student off campus as punishment or I was a student. It used to be that the bells of Sacred threaten to expel him, is gone," says Robert Hassenger. Heart would ring at 7:30 and the students would fill "Since the off-campus personality is less dependent on the church for novena. This kind of atmosphere no his Notre Dame identity, he can dare the University to longer exists." While the role of the church has expel him because he is less tied down to the security changed in the direction of Christian involvement, such of a Notre Dame identity." Thus, off-campus is no efforts at Notre Dame are undertaken by only a small longer an Australia where only the criminals are sent. minority. Likewise, the clergy have become less in It has become a loosely knit community of its own. timately involved in student life. In the 30's when stu Dr. Charles of the Psychological Services Center specu dents and priests lived and ate together, a religious lates that perhaps the idea of college being a four-year community might have been said to exist. But, today static glob is changing. "Maybe what people are doing the clergy exercise little influence or presence within in their last two years," she says, "is growing up and the student body other than in administrative func seeking to live their lives in the more real world they tions. will be expected to adjust to after college." A recent study of college life comparing Notre Dame Facilities for normal social distraction have not been and Princeton referred to the "teen-age musculcuity" included in the physical construction of Notre Dame. that characterized both Ccimpuses. Likewise, the The center for social events at Notre Dame has moved Schrag evaluation of Notre Dame concluded that "most off campus as a result of the stifling prohibitions en of the students — who come from all-male high schools countered on campus. Lack of facilities is part of the — have little past experience with women. There is problem. The Senior Bar, denied a place on campus, highly visible evidence of undergraduate sexual fan attracts students away from the community for their tasies and projections, and the fear of being effeminate." social life. At the same time, the Knights of Columbus These seem to be the problems faced by Notre Dame are permitted to establish a private, fraternal clubhouse in its role as an all-male residential institution. The in the old post ofiice over pleas that it be converted for community at Notre Dame lacks women. Campus psy student use. In the past fifteen years, Notre Dame's chologists, however, do not find anything, threatening physical facilities have grown, but in a sense that in the above studies. Dr. Charles states that "students growth has been reckless. The human dimension of the seem to use the existing odds as an excuse to rationalize October 11, 1968 21 their own failures. They do not take advantage of the is whether Notre Dame is capable of retaining the opportunities they have to date." Most sexual hang-ups sense of community it once had in view of the cultural the psychologists view as a characteristic of the student changes in the past decade. The things that used to be before he came to Notre Dame and therefore the en used as common measuring sticks within the commu vironment is not responsible for creating the condi nity are now gone. "There used to be a set of stan tion. Professor Hassenger feels that "attitudes on both dards," says Hassenger, "by which a student could sides of the road have been mythologized, mainly ani judge how well he was measuring up to the accepted malism on the part of Notre Dame students and frigidity goals of the community." With the decline of athletics on the part of St. Mary's girls." as an emotional rallying point and religion as a psycho Drinking and athletics are viewed as a sexual re logical rallying point, the culture has necessarily be lease for some individuEils, but Doctors Dunn and come less solidified. "Sub-cultures now arise around Charles believe that heavy drinking is not uncharacter lesser interests such as film making," he continues. istic of any college population. While Father Dunn Thus, the mystique of the residence university has dis guardedly admits that drugs have become a factor at appeared. Certainly the community will never function Notre Dame, Professor Hassenger observes that "the with the same familial cohesiveness that characterized cult is gone from the drug experience, since it is con an earlier era. sidered the equivalent of what alcohol is for the middle The problems confronting tlie residence university class." A rise in homosexuality has also been observed are many and veiried. They range from the psychologi at Notre Dame in recent years. Some of these cultural cal to the cultural. In many ways the University has problems are new to Notre Dame and potentially dan failed to meet or correct the symptoms that threaten gerous. While it cannot be said that the conditions the concept of a residence university. The Cox Commis here have spawned the problems, there has nevertheless sion's report states that Columbia's administration been a breakdown in the community's ability to cope relied all too often on "evasive improvisation" in deal with them. ing with campus problems and that "the scale of pri With South Bend's economy on the climb, commu orities at Columbia all too regularly put the students' nity relations must be assessed in terms of the Univer problems at the bottom." Columbia can show Notre sity's future. Any decision to pursue a residential Dame much with respect to the direction it should pur university will involve conscious isolation from the sue. For example, Columbia's choice to isolate itself South Bend community. Having been in a state of from its Harlem neighbors proved disastrous. Like depression for many years. South Bend is just beginning wise, its ignorance of fundamental student problems to rebuild its community. Limited student efforts, spe also proved disastrous. What Columbia's experience cifically the Neighborhood Study Help Program, have most ought to do is to spark a reevaluation of the established a conmiitment to the South Bend area. Fur community concept at Notre Dame. The growth of thermore, most large universities have inextricably Notre Dame in the past decade has been tremendous by linked themselves to the cities where they are situated. every physical yardstick, yet something has been left Private enterprise has built much of the housing and undone. Somewhere along the way the community recreation facilities that these schools have needed. The concept of old was outgrown. If Notre Dame is to re possibilities of a larger community encompassing the gain its cohesive unity it will not be in the isolated South Bend area ought to be considered before binding community that the rhetoric of administrators has set students to an isolated campus environment. It might before us as "the residential university." Rather, it already be impossible to transplant the off-campus must be a community geared to a modern view of its community from its South Bend environment back into situation in the city of South Bend, a recognition of the a residential system. problems disrupting the community, and a feeling for A problem raised by sociologist Robert Hassenger the students who comprise that community. D 22 The Scholastic Being a Short Historye of The Rebellious Day Dogs by John McCoy RESIDENTIAL UNIVERSITY (AP) In a surprise Administration. In the meantime, many of the exiles, move last week the Administration of Residential Uni v/ho were often set upon by natives of the countryside versity attempted to regain the offensive in its long war who, as the exiles journeyed, set upon their heads with against its rebellious exiles. The first indications of the clubs and emptied their pockets, began to take matters surprise search and destroy mission were reports filter into their own hands, obtaining four-wheeled vehicles ing in from the countryside that scattered groups of the in which they could be protected from the unfriendly rebels were being driven out of their recently en natives and inimical climate. These people faced harsh trenched positions. penalties if they were caught, ranging from large fines The new policy, whose announced goal is to ferret to total banishment. the rebels out of their recently acquired castles and Finally, during the short reign of a liberal Minister back to the caves of their original exile, is seen as a of the Interior, who controls the police apparatus, the victory for the old hardliners still in the Administra possession of vehicles was recognized as legcd, first for tion. These men still cling to a police state philosophy the older exiles and a year later for all of them. This which allows the ruling cast from which the common same minister also developed a' plan for the movement citizens are excluded to govern almost the entire private of the older exiles into castles. At the time this latter life of the people. plan was being put into effect, the old Hardliners, fear This philosophy, which has been prevalent at RU ing a radical break with ideological discipline, arranged ever since its founding, went unchallenged well into for his transfer to a nonadministrative position. Despite the post war years. Then, faced with an unexpected this government shift many young rebels joined the influx in population, it was decided to force into exile older exiles in their castles. what were considered to be lower caste citizens. These The failure of the Administration to meet this open people were sent into the surrounding countryside with challenge to its authority prompted most of the exiles to promises of new housing projects which would allow expect that even the old guard officials would soon have their speedy return. In order that they not lose their to acknowledge the legality of the castles, and working desire to return to the homeland, certain hardships on this assumption they joined the rebels in droves. were to be imposed. The hopes for legalization of the castles were further buoyed this year by the announcement of a proposed The Day Dogs (a name coined later by the present coalition government which would aUow the lower commander-in-chief of RU) were to live in caves with caste a voice in the legislation under which the people communal entrances guarded by keepers who were to of RU would Uve. bolt them at certain hours, nor were the caves to have What apparently killed the prospects for legalization cooking fires. Instead the exiles were expected to walk was the old guards realization that if the young Day or ride bicycles in from the countryside each day to Dogs were allowed to live in tjie castles, the new hous work and eat. ing projects, on which construction has finally begun, At first the exiles accepted this plight, if not would stand empty. And while it is stiU possible that willingly at least passively, since it was to be only a the new legislative body, should it take office, will temporary thing. After several years, however, there legalize castles, it now appears that such a motion still being no sign of the promised housing projects, would be immedaitely vetoed by the Administration's the exiles began to lose faith in central government head, who is probably the most vocal of the old guards and make certain demands to ease their plight. The defenders. two basic demands were that they be allowed to travel Thus as the totalitarian forces strengthen their grip to and from RU, and that they be allowed to move out on the land by driving the "Dogs" back to their miser of their hovels into small castles where they might able kennels, the world is left to shake its head in sor prepare their meals and live without keepers of the row that the showpiece housing projects, part of a too entrance ways. little, too late pacification program, are being allowed As basic to human dignity as there requests were, to keep liberty and an honest peace from coming to this they were for many years denied completely by the troubled community. D October 11, 1968 23 In the Spring of this year three otherwise normal young ladies were discovered ornamenting the other wise drab interiors of three rooms in a Notre Dame Off Again, residence hall. The rest is history. For those of you without a backlog of student publications or collections of ex lihris bulls of Father Hesburgh, they were ac cused, convicted, their sentences were commuted and On Again, they faded into the splintered woodwork in a whirlwind series of events that astounded many. (See: "Three Days That Rocked Sorin's Seat." Ave Maria, June, 1968.) In the same Spring semester, however, certain stu in their majority actually enjoy drinking beer in mod dents were allowed the privilege of having full-time eration. Off-campus they can do it. An apartment— coed visitors. Besides this, these individuals were although a reprehensible occasion of sin—is a much permitted such luxuries as full cooking facilities, more ideal residence for entertaining women. private baths, automobiles, and complete freedom from A wary housekeeper could—by living with several control by rectors and prefects. As you probably others—supply room and board for himself below on- recognize, I am referring to the autonomous student campus costs and avoid all the distresses of abusive body—off-campus students. maids, a temperamental laundry service, and an in No such accommodations were made for our ill- consistent and sometimes unpalatable meal system. The fated trio. In reducing the penalties upon the three, off-campus student enjoys a greater degree of privacy, Father Hesburgh drafted a letter defending the Uni as well. Noisy hall mates can be distressing—as well versity's policy concerning the sanctity of the dormitory as quiet ones who balk at listening to full-volume bind. His approach was quite sensible and may have Jefferson Airplane music after twelve. even convinced your parents, if they read it. The letter The off-campus student is necessarily more involved drew attention to the tradition of centuries upon which in the urban tensions of the area than a dorm-dog. the University of Notre Dame is based. Crime in the streets refers to the last time you were From the medieval centers of study, Father Hes beaten—^not to a Sociology text. burgh elaborated, derives the concept of the modern The personal contacts with adults afforded by having residence university. In them the students had auton a home in which to entertain certainly broaden and omy—autonomy to devote their lives to their studies. civilize the student. As well, straight adults often are Some of these organizations were self-contained units willing to feed and entertain students. In May, an with their own skilled craftsmen, medical facilities, invitation to a McCarthy tea resulted in a meeting with small shops, and entertainment programs. Some even Scott Fitzgerald's daughter and columnist Drew Pear had laws autonomous of surrounding areas and such son's wife for me. (Not of absolute value, I realize, but luxuries as private water supplies and peace oflBcers. interesting.) One conspicuous deviance from the atmosphere at these All Notre Dame students are entitled to a South European centers both excludes Notre Dame and casts Bend Public Library card. The audio-visual department doubts upon the wisdom of holding these institutions as on the second floor lends both recordings and films to academic ideals. It is common historical fact that such card holders. schools were rife with dissent—both political and aca Having introduced off-campus life, I would like to demic. Arguments on aspects of theology sometimes furnish you with some of the negative aspects peculiar resulted in bloodshed. One must admit that few con to this mode of living. Obviously, the academy is temporary students—even majors in theology—^would always down the road. If transportation fails at nine be willing to debate transubstantiation with sabres. in the morning, it may mean an unintentional cut. Oxford, in Britain, is considered to be a magnificent While it may be more peaceful to study in an off- residential university by Father Hesburgh and a suit campus room, sometimes it is necessary to obtain able model for our school. With completion of the research materials with miles separating you from the multi-miUion doUar dorm complex on the South campus campus library. our school should, like Oxford, be able to contain almost All campus entertainments, from assigned special the entire student population on campus. Teachers at lectures to Cinema '69, require transportational ar Oxford have noted, however, that an American scholar rangements. Possibly the most enjoyable of campus —^Rhodes or otherwise—is a welcome addition to an entertainments, pep rallies—^with their stirring music, Oxford class. Somehow this British paradigm of sparkling entertainment, candid speakers and colorful the educational process manages to develop a tremen (white's a color) streamers—are almost impossible to dous sense of conservatism and detatchment within its attend. students. Possibly we might try to imitate images of In conclusion, I would like to relate a fable. Br'er this school, but to become Oxford would be a disaster Fox, having captured the evasive and infuriating Br'er for Notre Dame. Rabbit, was surprised by the fact that the long-eared Off-campus students have a somewhat disabused lot. rodent feared his captivity not half so much as being When on-campus housing proved inadequate to increas thrown into a certain briar patch. Convinced of the ing enrollment, students with low averages were—^and ingenuous sadism of the act, Br'er Fox flung the hare continue to be—^forced out of campus housing. deep into the ubiquitous thorny mass. Protected from In recent years, however, a large number of affable the fox by the stickers, youthful Rabbit scampered fellows with respectable grade-point averages have about, raining insults upon the head of gullible Fox. sought the benefits of true autonomy. Their particular Likewise, I am pleased to state that the mysterious reasons for living away from school can serve as argu three, the Springtime miscreants, the faded issue, are ments against the dormitory system. all living (pleasantly, I hope) off-campus by order of First evidence is a desire to escape the petty dis University discipline. D ciplinary structure which the current Administration deems necessary for order on campus. Some students by Charlie Wordell 24 The Scholastic r-^K^ The University is alive and well ... off campus. Home Again, Student Why is the "Residential University" a dead idea in contemporary Amer ica? Sent off to prepare for life in this country, a religious, pohtical and cultural polyglot, the Notre Dame freshman is taught to adjust himself to the severely limited (albeit vahd enough) milieu of Cath olic academia. Sometimes food gets a little short, They live togetliei\ and—for just a short tohile—they sometimes spirits drop. But ive're really are one big, happy family, just like Insight 77iag- learning that ive all have the same azine tells Mom and Dad. problems: landlords, the phone com But some of them get vitally interested in their studies pany, maybe a tough situation at . . . or girls . . . or football . . . or making money. And home. xoith all these different drummers leading them about, Eo lohen your ivater heater breaks they split into factions: "hippies" . . . "straights" . . . down, there is a house around the "radicals" . . . "jocks." corner xohere you can take a hot shower. And, down the block, you know you can alivays have a couple of beers and a few laughs. And then, maybe you meet a felloio ivith a quiet place to study . . . Ask and it shall be given you: Seek, and you shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened to you. Matt., VIL 7. Last year saw the beginning of the big move off the Notre Dame campus. Some of the most alienated students took a step back from the forest they couldn't see for the trees; in doing so, they put campus life into perspective. During these first few weeks of school, many jaded students developed a new enthusiasm for courses and campus life as they found an aid for their new life as adults; witness the boom in Free University enrollment seen just this week. by Tom Henehan October 11/1968 25 Would You Brother to Marry "There's a kind of inforinality that characterizes dollar campus. Sister Burke points out that there tlie climate here — we're flexible, innovative, creative. simply aren't many things you can do with dormitories, We would he bringing tliat dimension, and not tiierely classroom buildings and the like except put students 600 women for 6000 men." in them. And there isn't much of a groundswell for the —Sister Margaret Burke, President, Barat College establishing of new small residence colleges. So there may well be a problem for Barat when it tries to sell HE DIFFICULTY with establishing a formula for the its holdings, unless a group headed by a wealthy Texan future of Notre Dame is that there are unknown that is now interested in buying the campus for a Tvariables. For example, no one knows what's going to private, Protestant college can come through with the happen to our "not particularly distinguished" school money. if it attracts a new sister college that is able to get Be that as it may, if Barat should eventually come excited about the "potential" of the place only after to South Bend, they will be bringing with them at looking beyond the "unfavorable" image of the Notre tributes, attitudes and educational emphases that will Dame "boys." not be able to exist in a vacuum — without somehow Last year Notre Dame announced that it was look affecting the atmosphere at Notre Dame. ing into the possibilities of bringing a number of small The most obvious thing that Barat will bring to women's colleges to the campus. Hopefully, these would Notre Dame is over 600 female undergraduates. This, improve the social and academic atmosphere of the for connoisseurs of such statistics, will change the male- northern Indiana tundra. The first girls' school that female ratio here from the present 5-to-l to a some Notre Dame looked to relocate in South Bend was Barat what more tolerable 3-to-l. College in Lake Forest, Illinois (the administrators of This does not necessarily insure, however, wilder which are quoted above). Optimistic estimates were and more glorious mixers in the Stepan Center every made about Barat being able to hold its first South September. Barat girls have achieved something of a Bend graduation by as early as 1970. reputation as being more congenial dates than their At Barat College last week, Ted Marchese, the young Saint Mary's counterparts. And it is true that the girls (29 years old) new director of planning and program who have chosen to emphasize the social, over, say, the development of the coUege squelched that idea. He academic, plaster their rooms with such mementoes as pointed out that if the decision to come to Notre Dame "Swamp the Sooners" and "Go Irish" stickers. For the was made tomorrow, it would take Barat at least three opening of the Senior Bar one recent Thursday night, years to engineer a new academic program for a Notre eleven Barat bunnies piled into one car, drove the 125 Dame-centered campus, sell its present site, and build miles to South Bend, got their nickel beers, and re the dormitories, classroom buildings and administra turned that same night to Lake Forest for their Friday tion offices they would need at Notre Dgime. morning classes, only to cram themselves once more into And that decision has by no means been made yet, the car at three in the afternoon to make it back to anyway. Sister Margaret Burke, president of Barat, Notre Dame for the football weekend. does not see the decision being made for at least a year. However, there are those who prefer not to go this "Early this summer," she says, "the secretary of the route, finding "there's something about going down to Sacred Heart Order (which operates Barat) ordered a Notre Dame and looking for somebody to go out with study made of all educational work of the order in that's, well ..." the United States and Canada." The object of this study The point is that those girls that arrive at Notre would be to establish what institutions were worth Dame promptly every Friday night do not represent keeping, which ones held out promise for development, the entire Barat student body. And those that do en and which ones should be closed. Stressing that no gage in the "suitcase social life" are almost forced into formal discussions have been held between Notre Dame being more responsive to the advances of Notre Dame and Barat on the subject of consolidation as of right men because if they do not find a date for the weekend, now, Sister Burke said that no plans could be made for they cannot just go back to their dorms and wait for such discussions or studies until the Sacred Heart the next evening like the Saint Mary's girls can. It is Order's analysis was completed in about a year. perhaps not logical to assume that the Barat mystique Overriding all considerations, of course, is the mat will remain if Barat girls live just north of campus and ter of Barat being able to dispose of its multimillion can afford to be as selective as those at SMC. 26 The Scholastic Want Your A Barat Girl? by Kathy Carbine and Joel Garreau Another thing that might well come as something of neighborhood" in Chicago, Barat South is a project a shock to the staid Notre Dame campus is the over that has six girls living in an apartment house and whelmingly cooperative attitude that the Barat ad studying the area from political, sociological and eco ministration, student government cind faculty have to nomic standpoints. Girls also now study computer wards each other. science, biology and chemistry at the Argonne National "There is absolutely no animosity between the stu Laboratories and art majors spend one afternoon a week dents and the Administration," says Ellen Kelley, Barat at the Chicago Art Institute. Future plans include student body president. "None. Not one iota. There sending art students to New York for a semester and is such a tremendous rapport. Anyone can and does more political science students to Washington. walk in on Sister Burke just to talk to her. There is This all ties in with the emphasis on experimentation no feeling of confrontation. The attitude is 'Let's try in learning. One of the academic programs Barat is to find out the way everyone's best satisfied.' Some proudest of is its interdisciplinary efforts. For ex times they are more liberal than we are." The students ample, one course offered is called "American Intel are in the process of decorating the office of the Dean lectual Movement" and involves the history, theology, of Students with bright gold, orange and maroon cur English and art departments. Barat plans to expand tains, flowers and psychedelic posters. This contrasts this kind of effort. rather severely with the attitude of the Notre Dame Of course, not all of Barat's influence on Notre student body towards its disciplinarian. Dame will be positive. Barat's endowment is very Academically the 14-member Faculty Senate has al limited, and therefore there is not that much in the most total influence over academics and students have way of scholarship money. Sister Burke does claim three votes. And according to one professor, the at that 50 percent of the students at the college receive mosphere of that body is such that "the faculty waits some sort of financial aid. However, she adds that the with bated breath for the students to take over more money the coUege gives out is used more to establish authority, and consequently more bother." a socio-economic mix within the college than to attract And all this understanding and general lack of an high academic achievers. Therefore, there are 34 atmosphere in which power politics would thrive seems Negroes in the Barat student body, a figure propor to be taken for granted. There are students on all aca tionally five times greater than at Notre Dame, but the demic subcommittees. If there is any hassle about stu SAT scores of the students average around 500, and dent life rules, it is usually between the more con there are no National Merit Scholars in the student servative and the more liberal members of the student body. body — rarely between the students and the Adminis Further, about half of the present faculty wiU not tration. The establishment of this kind of a college move to South Bend if Barat leaves Lake Forest. This relationship right next to the situation that exists at is especially true of women whose husbands have pro Notre Dame could have interesting effects. fessions in Chicago, and others who have professional The college's orientation is neither one of with ties to the area. And it is impossible to predict the drawal into the academic womb for the sake of con makeup of the faculty that could be lured to South templation, nor one of interaction within the limits of Bend, especially because the AAUP has given Barat one homogenous setting. only a "C" rating in every category except pay for As opposed to the "residence university" concept of new instructors, in which they awarded a "B." everyone staying in South Bend to participate in the Such is the situation for Notre Dame, which would hothouse atmosphere of interaction within the confines establish a community, building upon a hothouse theory of the University, Sister Burke claims that "the first of intellectual stimulation within actual confines of the thing I'd do before I turned a spade (at Notre Dame) University. The obvious thing to do is attempt to make is buy a bus" in order to make it easier for the Barat the boundaries of the place as broad as possible by girls to get to Chicago for plays, art exhibits, and bringing several other different kinds of colleges. How concerts. ever, there is no guarantee that these new colleges Further, Sister Burke claims that Barat "plans to agree with or will go along with this bounded scheme. be many places, not just our central place." At present, If their development depends at least as much on going besides the Lake Forest campus, the school has what out to the world, as in towards the University, there is referred to as Barat South. Located in a"changing will be a serious conflict. D October 11, 1968 27 Homecoming Ann Jimieson ii'ij--,."» ^-::f^ \^4 Shahla Kaussari Kathleen Casey 28 The Scholastic Queen 1968 Liz Caldwell Linda Sue Compton Judy Coffey Stella Slipdiski 29 October 11, 1968 "And \A/hat of those who &A/e\\ in houses of clay ... 99 by Tony Ingraffea And wliat of those people who live in houses of clay, or straw, or tenement brick? Many would send them money, provide them vnth clothing, give tliem food. CILA, the Notre.^Dame-St. Mary's Council for the In- tertiational Lay Apostolate, gives tlwse people Notre Dame and St. Mary's students, to do with as tJiey want. And invariably, Negro children in Harlem.-, Harrisburg, and Washington, want those students to do something no one Jias ever done for them — to listen, to try to understand, to Jielp tliem buy a life on loan. And Mexi cans in Tacambaro, Colombians in Gali, and Aymara Indians in Peru and Bolivia, want much the same. Tliey want the things which gift money can't buy, which free food doesn't mean, what used clothes can never say. Want to find out wlmt CILA people have meant to them? What they have vfieant to CILA people? Read on. Feel on. Project: Caii, Colombia But there are so many sad things, things I will never be able to forget. I remember especially an old man I met walking down a hill. He Wcdked by me at the end of the program as if to remind me of all the sad ness that had gone before. I was hauling dirt in my favorite wheelbeirrow, and I was cursing. The job was nearly finished, and I was hurrying, almost rimning, to get it over "with. As I was returning down the hill for another load, an old man came walking up the hill toward me. I had never seen this man before. He had a large, burlap sack full of scrap wood slung over his back, and he was walking slowly and deliberately toward me. He had small round scars all over his face, a very large nose, very few teeth, and beautiful eyes. Those eyes, eyes that wanted to talk to someone, stopped me as I ststrted to go by the His laughing face betrays a thought old man. "You are doing much good work," he said, of what Life should have been for him. smiling. "You are a good example for us." "Oh no, no es nada. It's nothing," I said, looking down the hill. His legs show scars of battles fought The old man noticed that I was hurrying, that I wanted where no young boy should ever have been. to be rid of him, and he smiled weakly and began to Above his head an eagle soars; walk on. Without saying a word, I started to hurry Beneath his foot — the only doors back down the hill. I had gotten rid of him. Then I Completely willing to receive him. stopped walking. I thought of Maria and Ignacio and Roberto, and I looked back quickly. But the old man — Michael Haggerty was gone. And I knew that I would not see him again. I almost cried that time. I made a fist and hit the wheelbarrow very hard. Then I started back down the hill. • 30 The Scholastic "And what of those who dwell in houses of clay, whose founda tion is in the dust, who are crushed more easily than the moth! Morning or evening they may be shattered; with no heed paid to it, they perish forever. The pegs of their tent are plucked up; they die without know ing wisdom." Job 4, 19-21 Project: Have, Peru Delirious with pain from the sickness that was eating her alive, the ancient peasant woman could only kiss the crucifix held in front of her by the Spanish- speaking Indian. And she could only moan between the increasingly short intervals when the pain became so intense that the only remedy was not to breathe. Outside of the death hut a girl of three picked up stones to heave at one of the scavenger dogs which constantly roamed the village. The priest asked the interpreter to see if the woman coiild summon up the strength to confess her sins, both mortal and venial. A mere formality. Above her head was a small open ing which served as a window; mixed with the stout ray of light was an infinite mass of sickness-carrying dust waiting to enter the body of another victim. From one to another she looked, and her face asked many questions. But death knocked respectively — before she received a reply; a simple glance from Love must be returned. • -^ K:.%. "... Cast in our indifference, like shells upon the shore. We can hear the ocean roar ..." Simon and Garfunkel October 11, 1968 31 Faces seen in ancient years Troubled eyes, red, not from tears. Feet that tread both day and night A struggle to live, a fight, a fight. Only the best will live to see The steps taken by "humanity." Only the v\^orst will never know How lucky they were not to go. — Michael Haggerty Project: Tacambaro, Mexico The thing that I now value most from the project is something the Mexican people gave me. I truly believe that I could not and did not give the people of Tacambaro anything close to the value of this. They showed me life. Our "affluent" society is born in painless childbirth. Our affluent society dies in an ambulance pickup, has the real blood of its lifeless body replaced by synthetic chemicals, and is placed in a lace-lined box to be told how lovely it looks. Our affluent society eats condensed, frozen, and syn thetic foods. It lives in glass and concrete structures with push-button living: razors, toothbrushes, toasters, stoves; with electric blankets and foam rubber mat tresses ; with vinyl floors; with paper flowers. It wears nylon, rayon, stay-press, and paper clothes. The people of Tacambaro eat rich, fresh, and natural foods: milk that was grass the night before, meat that was a cow that morning, vegetables and fruits that were plants and seeds the hour before, and water that, only a moment before, was part of the very earth we were standing on. The people of Tacambaro live in adobe homes with rag-and-stick mops and wood burning stoves; with handsome blankets and feather or straw mattresses; many with dirt floors and straw ceilings; with live, colorful, sweet-smeUing plants and noisy, stinking ani mals. The people of Tacambaro wear cotton and leather clothes often made by the hand-craftsmanship of a human being. The people of Tacambaro are not actors. They play no parts. They do not say what you want them to say, they speak the truth. They do not speak from the mind with its second thoughts and meanings, they speak from the heart with its love and life. They are not afraid to cry, they are not afraid to get mad. They are not afraid to be themselves. These people envy us — the affluent society — this In any two eyes sincere fact is a paradox of life. Is the answer to ALL. Mary Kay, Joe, Tom, Kathy, Emilio, and Ruthie, To see oneself in the when we drove back across the border, we stepped Eyes of a Hungry Child back — one step away from life. Q Is to know the meaning of LIFE. This being known, is never to Applications for CILA menibership will be available at slide shows on Monday^ October 14, 1:30 p.m., in Know again the Memorial Library Aiiditorium,, and on Tuesday, Thoughts through reason October 15, 7:00 p.m., in the SMC Coffee House. — Michael Haggerty Take one step closer to life. 32 The Scholastic The 51st State or How We Won the War, Baby! by Phillip Kukielski Amidst all the discussio7i concerning escalation^ de- American troops henceforth are referred to as "set escalation, -peace talks and bombing halts, the average tlers", and names like Khe San and Da Nang are American is understandably confused. A small group prefaced by the appellation "frontier fort". American of southei'n patriots have sought to end this confusion wives and children receive oflBcial encouragement to and propose a plan that would end the war in Vietnam join their husbands overseas (extension of the tour of within six months. duty to five years undoubtedly would be enough to per suade even the most reluctant to join their husbands). Pacification teams working in the interior assume the N 1960 it was the space race and the arms race that posture of modern-day Lewis and Clark Expeditions, kept the political world in an uproar until Novem President Thieu and Vice-President Ky receive mention Iber. The American people responded to challenge in press releases as "native chieftains." The somewhat and in the period of the next eight years produced murky distinction between a Viet Cong sjonpathizer enough bombs to kill the average ho7no sapiens 10 and a loyal South Vietnamese need no longer be made, times, regardless of race, creed or color, and enough as all Vietnamese are lumped under the rubric of rockets to present a parking problem for orbiting satel "natives." lites. In the current election, the three major candidates Once this redefinition of the situation in Asia has are gingerly jockeying for the poll position in the been completed, no patriotic American could in good peace race. Hubert Humphrey has suggested a bombing conscience stand in the way of statehood. Quite possi pause on alternate Tuesdays and Thursdays between bly the motion to grant statehood would be carried by the hours of 6 and 12 providing North Vietnam recip acclamation in both houses of Congress. (A little alum rocates in kind. Richard Nixon refuses comment and in a coffee cup would effectively silence any dissenting grins reassuringly, perhaps hoping that Vietnam will voice.) Once elections had been held, the newly elected go away if he takes a few more Buiferins. George governor — Mayor Daley currently enjoys top priority Wallace has been observed playing with a button on his — undoubtedly would petition Congress for assistance desk and murmuring to himself, "Just practicing, just in maintaining internal order. practicing. ..." "Natives" are given the choice of living on govern The present state of affairs has led a great many ment reservations or facing the wrath of American mili Americans to look to other than the leading political tary forces. A coalition of loyal South Vietnamese and candidates for a solution to our problem in Southeast Viet Cong forces similar to the de facto agreement Asia. Concerned Americans are meeting in small made during the Second World War can be anticipated. groups throughout the nation in the hopes of provid Military experts actually welcome such a merger. They ing their countrymen with just such a solution. Cur feel that the organizational and logistical chaos caused rently the diplomatic community in Washington is by such a coalition would effectively destroy the mili aflutter with a barrage of rumors leaked from some un tary viability of "native insurgents." The military situ disclosed southern barbershop that promises a totally ation soon deteriorates to a mopping-up exercise. new concept in American foreign policy. Informed Effective intervention by either Red China or North sources reveal that the rumors had reached such a high Vietnam seems precluded by the fact that any military pitch this past week that the President was forced to move on their part involves a direct violation of Amer interrupt Dean Rusk's afternoon domino game to peti ican internal sovereignty. tion him for further information. Even skeptics would agree that this plan takes a The logic of the plan is so deceptively simple that giant step toward creating the best of aU possible worlds. one cannot but wonder why some member of the brain The "natives" live in peace and security on military trust in our capital had not proposed a similar plan reservations, harvesting their rice and selling prayer long ago. Perhaps this is the price America must pay rugs and trinkets to the tourists. Civil war and internal for letting the intellectuals manage our government. factionalism are purged from their society and replaced According to the backers of the plan, aU that really by harmony and tranquillity. America brings the con needs to be done is to make South Vietnam our 51st flict to an honorable if slightly unjust end, but then state. Currently there are over 500,000 American citi injustice in the defense of liberty is no vice. New out zens living and fighting in Vietnam. With an American lets are provided for American-population growth and population of this size, it should be relatively simple to the development of free enterprise. More than a few organize South Vietnam as a territory under the pro major concerns have already extended temporary back visos set down by the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the ing to the plan. The draft ends; students begin to make Northwest Ordinance of 1787. By virtue of such a application to graduate school, and the American econ move, senators and representatives relieve themselves omy returns to a peacetime footing. The prospects of of the tacky problem of having to appropriate money another Vietnam are drastically reduced as nation after for an unpopular foreign war and begin to refer to Viet nation mysteriously withdraws from mutual defense nam as a "domestic" issue. treaties. (International negotiators are observed leaving American information authorities now begin a com State Department meetings shaking their heads and plete redefinition of the situation in Southeast Asia. muttering, "The 51st state. . . ."). D October 11, 1968 33 OUR FIRST TEAM WILL BE ON CAMPUS November 6 and 7 The Bell System recruiting team will interview for career positions In all locations throughout the United States. Contact your Placement Office today. m\ Bell System An Equal Opportunity Employer 34 The Scholasfic 4%. . 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