Lewis Hall Goes to Undergrad Women Badin Hall Will Become Temporary Grad Residence

Ou The Inside Tennessee Williams ••. page 3 ·Dean Shaffer resigns .•• page 4 serving the notre dame - st. mary's community Vol. IX , No. 73 Lewis Hall goes to undergrad women Badin Hall will become temporary grad residence by Terry Keeney hall this year, the possibility is there," News Editor Paczesny concluded. Burtchaell proposed reverting to a ~r~de point average system for determmmg Lewis Hall, a graduate women's dor students to move off-campus. :i mitory since 1965, will be converted to an "I think all the trouble over room picks undergraduate women's hall this fall UNIVERSITY PROVOST Fr. James T. Burtchaell announced came after we started the lottery," Burt 0 semester, Fr. James Burtchaell, chaell said. Lewis Hall as the next undergrad women's dorm. In a. press ~ ~~ university provost, announced yesterday. terence yesterday Burtchaell stated Badin women Will mov Badin Hall will become the temporary Apartment plans unclear Lewis. residence for women graduate students for the 1975-76 academic year. In fall 1976 Plans for constructing a new graduate Badin will revert to an undergraduate apartment complex are unclear. In ~heir residence upon completion of a proposed statement issued yesterday the officers Campus residents housing complex for graduate students to stated, "We are currently exploring the be constructed at an undisclosed site. possible construction of an on~ampus Plans for coeducation and housing for residential complex for unmarned ad women after 1976 were not discussed. react to change vanced students. Our target date for Burtchaell noted that the number of occupancy is the fall of 1976," the report women to be admitted after 1976 has not stated. been decided. by Pat Hanifin New Lewis Hall residents will No site for the apartments has been Staff Reporter selected. Burtchaell proposed the com have to pay more for their rooms Badin residents to Lewis plex be located immediately north of the than they did in Badin, according Immediate reaction to the to Fr. James Burtchaell, University Village, an apartment complex planned exchange of populations Under the plan prepared by the officers for married graduate students, or east of University Provost and Sr. John of the University, Badin residents will between Lewis and Badin Halls Miriam Jones, assistant to the Cartier Field. from residents of the two halls was move into Lewis next fall. The capacity of Funds for construction of the complex provost. Lewis will increase from 143 to 286 beds by primarily negative though some of are not 1 immediately available. The "I presume that the cost will converting all the single rooms in Lewis to the women thought the proposal rise," Jones said, "since Lewis is a report of the Officers stated that no money might work out. doubles. exists in the Plant Fund. Government new hall in the same class as "Our expectation is that the number of The announcement came with no Grace and Flanner while Badin is loans at low interest are not available. warning to the women of Badin and students returning to Badin would be just Burtchaell noted that endowment funds an older and less expensive dorm. the right number to be housed at Lewis the initial reaction there was I have heard that the difference must first go toward academic priorities. "blood-curdling screams" ac Hall," Burtchaell said. Burtchaell noted that the University is between the towers and Badin is After Badin women have been given the cording to senior Susan Nord about $50 a semester," she said. seeking a source outside the university for strom. opportunity to move to Lewis, women from the funding. Some residents of the hall were other residence halls will be allowed to One freshman who will move to less distrubed, particularly after "If a new source could turn up then that Lewis next year commented that move. Procedure for such transfer will be would be perfect," Burtchaell said, they had absorbed the initial handled by the office of Student Affairs when the news came over the impact of the news. "especially one interested in education of radio, residents were "screaming, and have not been announced. graduate women." Gallagher commented, "the Badin Hall will be adapted to all single crying and beating on the wall." solution appears to be just. The Once the apartments have been funded Badin rector Helen Gallagher rooms to accommodate 100 graduate they would be self-financing. Funds for taking of another men's hall for women next fall. Burtchaell estimated had no advance warning either. women would be intolerable and operation would be drawn from tenant "My reaction is one of total sur that Badin will be sufficient to house all rent. unfair. I deeply regret the taking advanced women students seeking on prise," she said. "The associate of Badin from a personal viewpoint The facility would be open for both men rector and myself were completely campus housing. Burtchaell noted that and women advanced students. but I see it as a feasible plan." Badin will accommodate about 45 more unaware of any suet. plan until it Badin Hall President Ceil The completion of the new apartment was announced this afternoon." students than needed, based on figures of complex could free Carroll Hall, a hall for Prinster called the plan "on the Lewis Hall residents who have returned to whole a good decision although men graduate students on the extreme Moving into doubles the hall over the past -three years. west of campus, for undergraduate some people will have to make Room and board costs for living in Lewis sacrifices." She argued that it was students in 1976. In addition to complaints against will be higher than for Badin, Burtchaell "With the eventual restoring to the not as disruptive as many other noted. Exact differences in room charges the total lack of warning many of plans might have been. undergraduates Carroll Hall may be about the women disliked the idea of will be determined by the Office of the Vice the right size to accommodate the men "The hall has calmed down since President for Business Affairs. moving into doubles. Most of the the first news," she said. "Now desiring to live on campus," Burtchaell Badin rooms are singles and the said. people are almost in mourning, but Lottery for men women are not used to living with a they can think rationally and see roommate. Some expressed fears Gordon praises plans that it doesn't mean the hall will The decision to increase the bed space that the rooms, being converted split up." for women may make unnecessary a singles, would be too small. Nordstrom, who admitted that Dr. Robert Gordon, vice president for The location was another lottery for men desiring to remain on advanced studies, praised the plans for a the decision will not directly affect campus. Brother Just Paczesny, vice complaint. "Lewis is much further new grwduate housing compl~x. her as a senior, said that she president for Student Affairs, stated that, away from the center of things thought it was only fair that "What I see coming out of this deciSIOn IS than Badin is," one woman though the decision on a lottery must be something I've been pushing for since I "woman are moved instead of men made by the Housing Office, it may not be commented. Another was worried for a change." came in (1970)," Gordon said. about the security lighting around used this year. Gordon noted that the problem of (continued on page 6) "It is very possible that we may not have the hall. graduate housing on campus ~as not had a lottery this year," Paczesny said. "It is as high a priority as housmg for un possible because we would expect .a cer dergraduate students. tain number of male students to hve off campus. Since we are not taking a male (continued on page 3) Co-ed Chronology LATE 1960's-Decision for coeducation made. FEB. 8, 1972-Badin and Walsh chosen as new women's dorms for 1972-1973 academic year. FEB. 28, 1972-Plans for merger with St. Mary's College finally scrapped. , . SEPT. 2, 1972-365 women register m Notre Dame s first year of coeducation. , DEC. 17, 1972-Farley and Breen-Phillips halls chosen as women s residences on the North Quad for 1973-1974 academic year. Lyo~s designated for female occupancy during the 1974-1975 academic year. SEPT. 4, 1973-835 Women undergraduates register for 1973-1974 academic year. AUG. 27, 1974-1140 women undergraduates register, with Lyons hall now a women's residence. FEB. 3 1975-Lewis Hall chosen as a women's undergraduate residen~e for the 1975-1976 academic year. Approximately 1,300 women undergraduates expected for 1975-1976. Badin Hall to be converted to a graduate women's facility. AUG. 1976-Further women's housing changes? number of women LEWIS HALL has been selected as a residence for undergraduate women. Lewis, a dorm for women undergraduates? religious since 1965, will house 286 women undergrads next fall. 2 the observer Tuesday, February 4, 1975 Kissinger unveils strategy warld briefs WASIIINGTON UPI- Vice president Nelson A. Rockefeller said Energy program proposed Monday the relationship between the CIA and the FBI was "part of the total picture" of his commission's investigation into charges that the intelligence agency spied illegally on Americans. By STEWART HENSLEY an embargo and to use the inflation and recession, would But talking with reporters after the commission's fourth weekly UPI Diplomartic Reporter price as a weapon will be be willing to undergo that meeting, Rockefeller would not go into detail about what he termed WASHINGTON (UPI) greatly diminished." degree of economic austerity.

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