Messina, Murphy and O'dea Priming As 3-Way SBP Election Clash Nears

,..... NOTRE DAMB COLLECTION VOL. 1, NO.7 UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME MARCH 2, 1967 Messina, Murphy and O'Dea Priming As 3-Way SBP Election Clash Nears RONALD MESSINA CHRISTOPHER MURPHY DENNIS O'DEA Tonight, M'arch 2, three of "next year's Stu guarded by the Student Senate Campaign Commit candidates flashy commurucation, they Will no dent Body Presidents" will make a final inspec tee. The most restricting guard on the candidates doubt make their whistle stop bunk tobunkvisita tion of their gear, their glare, and their grasp is a $150 spending limit on literature. tions to the dorms in an effort to postulate on the before embarking on the 12 day campaign charge The spending stricture encompasses all publi old: academic freedom, parietal rules and cars for the Student Body Presidency. For on March city posters, ads, and radio spots paid for by ·the and the new: the NSA-ClA and Notre Dame, the 15, there w'.ll be oni.y one. cancidate and o~ backers of the candidate. Vio Old Post Office and Student Union., . Seriously running for the SBP job are three lation of this spending budget will resuit in Acad~inic Freedom is clo;:;e to the heart of junior Government majors: Ron Messina, Chris official scratching of a candidate. Morrissey's senator Ron Messina who not so Murphy and Dennis O'Dea. Not so seriously run That budget is a direct result of last Year's long ago at a meeting of the Student Senate re ning is "Wild" Bill Miller of the South Dining campaign in which Rick Dunn reportedly spent linguished his post as Academic Freedom chair Hall sheds. $800, Jim Fish $500 and Lenny Joyce $2~i for man to Action Student Tom McKenna, Action Unlike. campaigns of the past, which have turned campaign expenditures. Student Party Vice presidential candidate. into financial fiascoes, the 1967 election will be Although the spending clause will inhibit the (Continued on Page 3) Stanford's Draft-Resisting SBP Senate Applauds NSA Rep; Visiting Here, Then Maybe Jail David Harris, a bearded, soft Selective Service Sy::.teru dues not Hears Fisht's Union Proposal spoken draft-resistor and up until recognize this type of opposition as Moran pointed out that NSA has ceived informationfromNSA which a week ago President of the Stan valid for CO. This fall Harris BY MIKE DeNIRO and DENN\' MOORE recently been concerned wi.th the helped establish the Honor Council, ford student body will visit Notre rejected his 2-S classification. He the Community Services Program, Dame March 15 for a lecture is currently I-A. During a prolonged, sometimes repeal of the LSD and mariJuana laws, a change in the draft system, and this spring's Course on seminar on Selective Service and lf he is anything, Harris cer bitter session Tuesday night the and a halt to the bombing in Teacher Evaluation. Fish then tainly is not orthodox, as he him Student Government Senate heard the Viet Nam War. His trip is Vietnam. He alleged these acti introduced Parliament. being sponsored by The Observer, self quickly admits. In a story a verbal crossfire over continued membership in NSA and saw for the vities violated the NSA constitu Parliament was concerned in cooperation with the Notre Dame about the NSA Congress this Sep mainly with Moran's statement that Americans for Democratic Action tember, Harris was quoted by first time some details of the tion which states that the organi zation shall ''not take part in any "a student is one who studies," and the National Educational Te TIME magazine as saying, "it's Fish Student Union plan. and therefore ~ student organiza:" hard to find anyone farther left Definite action on both matters activities that do not affect the levision network. student.'' · (Contmued on Page 4) Harris' Notre Dame appearance, was postponed until next week at than I am." Moran questioned the worth of Thus it was that Harris' elec the earliest. There was feeling the services of the NSA. He called tion to the presidency of the nor among some Student Government the grant by the National Institute mally conservative Stanford stu leaders that a vote on NSA might dent body came some what as a be avoided altogether. This would on Mental Health for a study on shock last spring. Yet his majority be the case if no Senator spon student stress ''pacification Insi-de .... was such as to make him, as one sored the Young Republican money.'' He quoted Fish as saying II For the first time in many yea.L·s, "the NSA will probably lose funds student put it, "the obvious backed pull-out proposal. a Sophomore has announced his from the Department of Health, choice." Along these lines SBP Jim Fish candidacy for the Student Body Not affiliated with any of the was letting it be known after the Education, and Welfare and its Vice Presidency. But alas! there traditional left-wing groups, meeting's end that he would be tax exempt status." He saw this as are two juniors Tom McKenna Harris was one of 30 student body looking into the possibility of an indication that the amount of and Tom Holstein, to challenge the presidents invited to the State campus-wide election of delegates money Notre Dame receives from precedent. Read the story of the Department recently for a personal to the NSA Congress. This has been NSA will diminish in the future. SBVI's page 2. briefing on the war by Dean Rusk. a particular grievance of NSA He concluded witn a plea lor· • Once more the Collegiate Jazz His was also one of 100 signatures foes in the past. some interested senator to intro Festival, hosts the best in college on a letter from student body During the NSA debate itself, duce a motion thatStudentGovern Jazz, rhythme and blues ... bip bop presidents across the nation which Ken Moran, senior English major ment should withdraw from NSA. diddley bop bip poh poh bop di do protested the current conduct of and leader of lthe Young Repub Fish politely started the applause bop, page, 4. the Vietnamese war. licans' drive to withdraw from when Moran had finished •. • Knights of Columbus, the Irish which will be fUmed by NET as Last summer at the NSA Con NSA, presented his views, and was Fish blasted Moran• s contention :ttmrd of the off-season has been part of a documentary, may well gress, Harris led a radical walk opposed by Fish and Steve Par that a student organization should lusted as sponsors of the 1967 be his last before the public for out from the • 'liberal caucus" liament, member of the National not be politically involved. He Bengal Bouts. The Bouts will some time. .lf his application for when it became apparent that Advisory Council of NSA. quoted from a letter from Father remain the same except the TKO conscientious objection status is NSA's resolution on Viet Nam Moran rehashed the points he Hesburgh to the effect that thinking of the Knights... well almost the rl!jeeted by Selective Service, he would be somewhat mild. Harris made in a recent scholastic ar and political activity are part of .;arne, See page, 12. could spend years in a federal had been specifically pushing for ticle, which charged NSA was a education. Said Fish: "students • The sad and melancholy story of prison. a condemnation of President John politically orientated body, and are as much citizens as people "The Death of Him" is presented that a student organization has no In a telephone interview from San son's moral character. Thisposi twenty-five years old and out of in its true spine-tingling, vivid1 Francisco this week, Harris said tion failed to pass the NSA Con place in politics. Moran portrayed school.'' tear-jerking sentimental detail, by he was willing to go to jail for his gress, but did have the effect of NSA as constantly presenting Fish pointed out that besides the author specially commissioned beliefs. He has based his appli making Harris the acknowledged leftist viewpoints, and quoted Fish the NIMH grant and the pled~ to write it, page, 7. cation for CO status on philoso leader of NSA's ultra-left wing (in a Time magazine article) as Jor next year's International backing this stand, ~~:,. phical objection to all war. The faction. Forum, Student Government re- -~ 'I '•' PAGE 2 THE OBSERVER MARCH 2, 1967 Soph Dowd Enters VP Race tradition With McKenna And Holstein the pants Although the parameters of the job of chairman to ''alleviate some wants to make a lot of personal job are presently somewhat un of the friction that has been present meetings, giving the voters a clear, three students are preparing in the past.'' However, he feels chance to see his program. their material as they stand ready that the SBVP should be a standing Representing the Action Student to seek the Student Body Vice member of all committees and not Party and running in conjunction Presidency. The three listed as just the coordinator. with Dennis O'Dea is junior Tom Dowd says he's running because McKenna. He and O'Dea are of a sincere desire to give some running together ''because we thing to Notre Dame. He feels agree on basic policies." Also, that the position of vice presi McKenna cited the proposal in the dent would permit him to do more Union bill that calls for future than he could in any other area. campaigns to be run on a ticket He feels a "pride in being a Notre basis as a reason for his combined Dame student" and thinks that, for participation.

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