Details revealed in ND/NLRB settlement by Mike Ridenour representing the Teamsters. Staff Reporter The agreement stipulates that Notre Dame terminate its contract Details of a tentative agreement with SAGA Inc. by July 1, he said. between Notre Dame and the The. University signed on SAGA National Labor Relations Board late last October at the height of (NLRB) were disclosed yesterday the groundskeeper controversy. by Mike Lawrence, spokesman for Another point of the agreement Teamsters Local 364. says Notre Dame “ w ill not subcon­ The five-point agreement, settl­ tract any work or threaten to ing an unfair labor practices charge subcontract in order to discourage made by the NLRB against Notre support or membership in Team­ Dame, calls for the University to sters Local 364.” terminate its contract for food The third point mandates that services with SAGA, Inc. and to the University “ will not lay off or restore the Notre Dame Food threaten to lay off or otherwise Services to its former position. discriminate against the employees Lawrence said he received the in order to discourage employees information yesterday by phone membership in a trade union.” from an attorney in Indianapolis [continued on page 8] ND security accused Two ND students by John Gruesser “ All the information I've gathered squads—three male officers and indicates their (the Security of­ one female. After entering the 24 Th Two students were assaulted and ficers’) actions were not justifiable. hour lounge, the officers told the one was arrested by Notre Dame I think the whole situation could male students to leave the hall. is the Security in an incident outside have been avoided, ” Johnson Harsh words were exchanged Badin Hall last Saturday at 3 a.m. stated yesterday. between the four male students The incident, involving 3 male The students involved in the and the Security officers. By the last issu Security Officers and 5 male stu­ incident said the trouble began time the students were outside, a dents, followed a disturbance in when four Badin residents and shouting match had developed of the Badin’s basement. Notre Dame their four male friends entered the between one student and a Security Security Officers, called by the east entrance of the hall. They officer. A friend of this student Badin monitor, led the students were making noise and two of the was passing by, saw the shouting Observer outside. male students were carrying beer, battle, and intervened. A shouting match and scuffle a violation of University policy. The passerby was thrown to the ensued in which two students, one The hall monitor confiscated the ground and struck on the head with of them a passerby, were struck by beer and told the students to go a long aluminum flashlight by an a Security Officer. into the 24 hour lounge, the officer, the students said. Have a One student was handcuffed, students said. The monitor then As two other Security officers threatened with formal arrest, and went into the television lounge were going for their nightsticks, taken to Security Headquarters. across the corridor from the 24 hour the remaining three students summer, ND Security and Dean of Students lounge. One of the students pressed against the officers in an James Roemer refused to comment momentarily blocked her exit from effort to restrain them on the matter pending further the lounge. [continued on page 71 investigation. The students then moved into Observer Insight: One of the assaulted students is the 24 hour lounge and closed the considering a lawsuit against the door-a violation of Badin Hall University and the Security Of­ policy-and made a good deal of CLC emphasizes dorm life ficers involved in the incident. noise. At that point, the monitor Phillip Johnson, Student Govern­ called Security and waited at her by Kathleen Connelly would be taken care of by the At their March 17 meeting the ment security commissioner, inves­ station. Senior Staff Reporter Off-Campus Commissioner in Stu­ Board of Trustees accepted the tigated the incident this week. Security responded with two dent Government. social space proposal which con­ On Oct. 21, 1977, the Notre The CLC, in accordance with the tained specific directions for the Dame Board of Trustees voted to by-laws adopted at its first meet­ renovation of residence rooms in abolish the Student Life Council ing, is composed of six rectors, Howard, Fisher, Pangborn, Sorin, (SLC) and replace it with the three from the North quad and and Morrissey. Campus Life Council (CLC) as three from the South, and four hall These were determined to be the proposed by former Student Body vice-presidents, two from the North dorms with the least available President Dave Bender. quad and two from the South. social space and the most feasible When Bender took office on Also included on the Council are building situation for correction of April 1, 1977, he immediately set the Student Body President, repre­ that problem. According to the out to fulfill his campaign promise sentatives from the Hall Presi­ proposal, the renovations will take to see that the SLC was discon­ dent’s Council and the Student place over the summer. tinued and replaced by a more Union, and two faculty members. Several other resolutons cleared effective body. These members are all required to the Council for presentation to The SLC had been established in attend the weekly meetings. Vice-President for Student Affairs. the late 1960’s as the University’s The Vice-President for Student Bro. Just Paczesny agreed to take solution to problems stemming Affairs and the Dean of Students into consideration a plan to keep from student unrest which existed attend every third meeting. Only LaFortune Student Center open at that time. at these executive meetings can twenty-four hours a day. In 1977, however, administrators resolutions be voted on. The other Paczesny asked for “ a little and students began to voice doubts two meetings are working meetings working time” to look into security about the necessity of the SLC during which proposals are discus­ requirements and other necessary since the .unrest of the 1960’s had sed and amended. arrangements. To date, there has died down appreciably. Others felt If a proposal is passed it is then been no further comment from him that University President Fr. Theo­ presented to the Vice-President for regarding the plan, which was to dore Hesburgh had delegated his Student Affairs. Thus, the CLC help alleviate the problem of the veto powers too liberally to his serves not as a legislative body, as lact of social space. adminstrators, and had rendered the SLC did, but rather as an Another resolution the CLC the SLC ineffective. advisory council to the Vice-Presi­ adopted was left over from SLC Thus, on April 14, 1977, Bender dent for Student Affairs. discussions. In conjunction with introduced a proposal to the Board The CLC did not have its first Psychological Services, Student of Trustees calling for the abolition meeting until Feb. 6. In the Affairs made available a residenti­ of the SLC and the establishment of interim, the Student Government al ity survey to give rectors an idea the CLC. drafted by-laws which were later of the character of their halls. At The main difference between the adoptedby the Council and repre­ the CLC executive meeting last two bodies is the replacement of sentatives to the Council were Wednesday Paczesny stated that five faculty representatives with six chosen. In the two months he would write any necessary hall rectors. Bender endorsed this following the first meeting the letters to encourgae the use of these surveys. 1 The first annual Pig Roast at Holy Cross Hall was unexpectedly change because he viewed the halls CLC, under Bender’s leadership, successfully obtained necessary The Council also voted to en­ postponed yesterday. Due to a slight miscalculation in cooking as the center of student life. approval and funding for a compre­ dorse and encourage University time, the pig, obtained from Farmer Brown, was burnt to ashes. The SLC had addressed prob­ lems dealing with University Vil­ hensive plan for the construction of involvement in lobbying efforts to Hamburgers and hotdogs kept those attending the affair well lower the drinking age in Indiana fed, content, and appreciative. [Photo by Sue Coliton] lage and other off-campus concerns. social space in five residence Bender specified that these preas dorms. [Continued on page 8] 2 the observer Friday, May 5, 1978 News Briefs. Human rights group obtains N ation a release of political prisoners Amnesty International (AI), the rights viokations in Paraguay. addition, the Group collected the international human rights organ­ This campaign was initiated as a signatures of over 1700 persons ization which was awarded the 1977 response to the Paraguayan Gov­ petitioning for an end to political Dean comments on tapes Nobel Peace Prize, announced ernment’s denial of all constitu­ imprisonment and for an investiga­ today that Michael Bhembe Moyo, tional safeguards to those suspec­ tion of alleged torture, often resul­ WASHINGTON |AP] -John W. Dean says former President Richard a Rhodesian citizen detained by the ted of purely political offenses. ting in death, of prisoners of M. Nixon wanted to use his White House tapes to “ blow the socks Rhodesian Government because of conscience. off me" when Dean was starting to tell federal prosecutors about Members of USA Group 43 and his political beliefs, has been Watergate activities. Dean, Nixon's White House counsel, said the of the Notre Dame and South Bend As a result of activities like those released. M r. Moyo had been of USA Group 43, the Paraguayan ' president mentioned his plans during a conversation with Chief of communities wrote over 145 letters detained without criminal charge Government has agreed to allow an Staff H R.