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. "the delicate balance" between the FBI and the CIA. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger proposed a stringent At that point, he said, Kissinger said the other half consumer nations will be m a of the U.S. plan, development energy austerity and develop of alternative energy sources, ANNAPOLIS, MD UPI- Several midshipmen at the U.S. Naval ment program for oil consum position to negotiate long-term ing nations Monday that he said oil supply agreements with the will require equal concentration Academy were detained by federal agents Monday for allegedly producers at prices below the and cooperation. using marijuana at a house off academy grounds. could break the oil producers' pricing cartel within two years. inflated levels of today -and The academy said "five to 10 midshipmen" were denied liberties the producers will be glad to The United States intends to after being taken into custody by agents of the Naval Investigative have them. generate $500 billion for capital Service and U.S. marshals during a Sunday raid of a rented house Unveiling the strategy the investment in energy sources in the Annapolis area. A " small quantity" of marijuana was United States will formally Kissinger said the U.S. over the next decade, and the seized, the academy said. propose to fellow oil importing proposals were flexible and he federal government will by nations in Paris Wednesday, anticipated cooperation among itself invest $10 billion in a Kissinger told a National Press the 16 nations of the newly research program rivaling the NEW YOHK lfPI -The latest Harris Survey released Monday Club luncheon the key to formed International Energy Manhattan Project which deve indicated that the public's estimate of how well President Ford is succes:; is keeping the price of Agency ! lEA) consumer coop loped the atomic bomb, he said. doing his job has fallen to a new low. oil high within individual Prative when it meets. The poll, taken between January 16 and 20 showed a 60 per cent consuming nations by taxes, It also will propose cre:!tion negative response, to the question: "How would you rate the job import quotas or tariffs. But it appeared far from of lEA machinery for the President Ford is doing." "In order to bring about eerta in that western industrial international exchange of ener- Harris said 36 per cent of the replies were positive while adequate investment in the nations, already suffering from gy technology. four said they were not sure. developmPnt of conventional nuclear and fossil energy sources, the major oil import ing nations should agree that an campus t:aday they will not allow imported oil to be sold domestically at prices which would make these new sources non-competitive," 9 am-1:30pm- registration, free university, also on wed., student Kissinger said. govt offices HP said that success in In the MINI-MALL at TOWN & COUNTRY Shopping Center 1 pm- ladies of nd, card party, university club stringently damping oil demand and consumption while new 2:30- 5 pm - registration, free university, student govt offices fuels are phased in would ·'exert powerful pressures on ALL SKI 3:30pm computer course, lntro to fortran, 113 comp center the inflated price" now levied by the Organization of Pe troleum Exporting Countries 4:30 pm - lecture, beta-alanine metabolism, melanization and Michael J. Loux, associate Preceding the translation by professor of philosophy at the Loux are two essays. One deals University of Notre Dame, is the with Ockham 's ontology while the ERRATUM author of a new translation of Sl'cond focuses on his theory of In yesterday's article con Summa Logicae, considered by supposition. While introductory, cerning the North Quad Party, Sue many scholars to be one of the they incorporate a controversial Swiatek was erroneously quoted as most original and influential inh;rpretationof Ockham which is being Farley Hall's president. mPdieval texts in logic. The book, intended to suggest a continuity Donna Crowley is the current "Ockham 's Theory of Terms," is between his philosophy and the president. and has been quoted as printed by the University of Notre work of contemporary analytic such in previous articles about this DamP Press. philosophers. event. Origmally written in Latin by An associate professor of The Observer is publiShed dally William of Ockham, the most philosophy at Notre Dame since during the college semet~ter except prestigious philosopher of the 14th 1968, Loux was the 1974 recipient of vacations by the students of the ct>ntury. the new book provides a the Father Charles E. Sheedy University of Notre Dame Md St. eompr{'hPnsive introduction to his faculty award for excellence Mary's College. Subscriptions key !hemPs of ontology and may be purchased for $9 per in Arts and Letters teaching. He is semester ($16 per year) from The philosophy of language. Ockham tf1e author of "Universals and Observer Box Q, Notre Dame, is rPgardcd as the founder of Particulars" and of several Indiana 46556. Second class !\:om ina !ism. the school of thought scholarly articles in philosophy postage paid, Notre Dame, Ind. that dl•nics that universals have journals. 46556. any rt'ality apart from the in dividual thmgs signified by the universal or general term. Production Meeting St. Mary's hosts lecture series All nite editors, asst. nite Saint Mary's College will host the first presentation of a new editors, and layout staff- Science of Creative Intelligence ~ lecture series to be held in the Notre Dame community. Law student Robert Carsello will Newcomers welcomed give the first presentation Tuesday night in Madeleva Hall at 7:30. The lecture is being presented by the Student's International rmeting in Meditation Society for the purpose of informing the Notre Dame community about this rapidly O~erver developing field. office Hundreds of students have taken the course in Transcendental Meditation in the three years the oru,anization has been represented 7p• m. -rJ.l0 m· ght""""' ...... campus. Tuesday, February 4, 1975 the observer 3 Coming March 2 Tennessee Williams opens Literary Festival by Brian M. Clancy brave and very difficult play ... an ad Tandy. venture in drama." Staff Reporter In 1969 Williams was awarded A list of Williams; other important the Gold Medal for Literature by the Tennessee Williams, considered by works includes Summer and Smoke, American Academy of Arts and Letters many to be the greatest living Thl" Rose Tattoo, Orpheus Descending, and the National Institute of Arts and playwright in the English language, Letters. will open the 1975 Sophomore Literary Sweet Bird of Youth, and Suddenly Last Festival with an appearance in Summer. Eight Mortal Ladies The permanence of Williams' works Washington Hall Sunday evening, Possessed, a book of his short stories, is evidenced by the numerous revivals March 2. will be released by New Directions this of his work. Streetcar Named Desire spring. and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof have been re Since winning the New York Drama produced in New York, Washington and Critics Circle Award for The Glass Williams has also played a major role London, and particularly flattering was Mt>nagerie in 1945, Williams has been in American cinema. Many of today's a production of Cat at the Shakespeare one of the most illustrious and imitated most celebrated actors and actresses playwrights in the American and gained their first fame from Wiliams' Festival in Stratford, Connecticut. English theatre. He received the plays. Marlon Brando's performance Another important revival of Williams' Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for Streetcar as Stanley Kowalski in Streetcar made work was the much heralded television Named Desire and again in 1955 for Cat an immediate impact. Elizabeth prod~ction of The Glass Mena_gerie, on a Hot Tin Roof. Both of these plays Taylor, primarily known as beautiful starrmg Kathryn Hepburn and Michael also won the Drama Critics Award, as former child-actress in the early 1950's Moriarty. did Night of the Iguana in 1962. attained a new identity and a new career as Maggie the Cat in Cat on a Notre Dame sophomores have triEd Out Cry, one of his most recent plays, Hot Tin Roof. Others whose careers to get Williams to speak at the festival TENNESSEE WILLIAMS is scheduled to open the 1975 has been described by Clive Barnes of vaulted after appearing in a Williams' since its beginning in 1968. This year's Sophomore Literary Festival March 2. (Photo by the New York Times, as "a moving play include Elizabeth Ashley, Richard success is due to the efforts of Professor Bruce Paulson Courtesy New Directions Publishing play about the convolution of madness Burton, Ben Gazzara, Burl Ives, Karl Ken Moore of the Department of Corp.) and the fantasies of reality ... a very Malden, Paul Newman and Jessica Sociology and Anthropology. ]FK's assassination finally exposed by film By ROBERT MACKAy evidence which indicated the The film also shows two men third shot hit then Gov. John Oswald's supposed position in Central Intelligence Agency Groden said were shooting at Connally of Texas in the the window of the Texas Bank CHICAGO WPil - Robert was involved in the Kennedy Kennedy. One was behind a shoulder. Depository would have hit Groden. a New York photogra- assassination. pedestal on a grassy knoll in The fourth, shot from behind, Kennedy at a different angle pher and optical specialist, Groden showed a film at a front of the motorcade. The he said, hit Kennedy in the than any of the wounds he displayed Monday a film news conference here which he other man is also in front of the head and then the fifth hit received. version of the John F. Kennedy said was a blown-up version of motorcade, under a low tree, Kennedy in the front of the Gregory said more evidence assassination which he said the Abraham Zapruder film, and his head is visible on the head and lifted him backwards. will be released in the next proves that Lee Harvey Oswald the only film of the actual film. Groden said he is "The shot from behind that three or four weeks on the "had nothing to do with the assassination. He said the film carrying a rifle, but it is hard hit him in the head and then assassination. assassination." was the property of Time Inc. to distinguish the "rifle" from the one from the front were "We are going to announce "As many as four, possibly but refused to say how the film the tree branches. Both are fired in less than one-eighteenth totally the lies perpetrated on five" persons were shooting at was obtained. blurred in the film. of a second," Groden said. the American people and the the president. Groden said. Gregory, in a statement, said Gregory said he, Groden and He said a bullet fired from world," Gregory said. Kennedy was killed in a the film was suppressed for 11 Shoenman will leave for Wash motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on years because "it was limited ington Saturday to take the film Nov. 22, 1963. Oswald was io excerpts and still photo- to the Rockefeller Commission N 0 W APPEARING arrested for the assassination graphs that failed to show the investigating the CIA. and was himself killed in the important points of the film and Groden said at least six Dallas police headquarters by a its implications." bullets were fired at Kennedy, BLITZ bystander, Jack Ruby. The film, enlarged and shown not three as the Warren Dick Gregory, a political in slow motion, showed Presi- Commission investigating the · activist. said the film "will dent Kennedy being hit in the assassination had concluded. AND change the destiny and fate of head. Groden said the film The first shot missed the the world and I know save shows the force of the bullet President and hit a street curb, LISTEN (Sl·n. l Ted Kennedy's life." pushing Kennedy back and to he said, and was later removed Last week Gregory and Ralph his left, indicating he was shot by the FBI. He said the second Schoenman. an assistant profes- from the front and not from the shot was fired from behind and sor of philosophy, said they had back as was originally thought. hit Kennedy in the back and the :;:~:~~:n~:~:~x:;~~:;;;:::~~~~:,:n,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:::::::,:,:;:,:,:::::::::::::::::::::,:,:,:,:,:,:;:,:,:;:,:,:,::~,:~~~~~:~~~::,:,::~;,:~~~;t:~~;:::~~~~~~:::~~~~,:,::::. •S Hall and kitchen facilities on each floor. ~Sfru/a~NO COVER CHARGE TUES.WED-THURS Lewl Sr. John Miriam Jones, assistant to the on U.S. 31 bttween lliles. So. Bend-frM Parkin&-683-4350. provost, said that, although the Lewis "Graduate housing on this campus has rooms will be converted from singles to been a hand-me-down. Residentiality is doubles, they are large enough for two not as essential a priority for graduate students. students," Gordon explained. "One of the things we are doing is to No decision after 1976 double the space of Lewis Hall," Jones said. "The rooms are beautiful and Burtchaell explained that the University spacious." has not set any admission quotas for Paczesny concurred that the Lewis women after 1976. "We have purposely rooms are comfortable especially com avoided planning enrollment ratios," he pared with male dorms. said. "It's comfortable for two; it's too large The University has not set these ratios for one," he said. "They are certainly because of its inexperience with co larger than some of the doubles the guys education, uncertainty about the effect of have to live in." the economy on admissions, and concern Lewis Hall was constructed in 1965 over the future of Notre Dame's relation through a $1 million grant from the Frank with St. Mary's, Burtchaell said. J. Lewis Foundation. The hall is named "We literally have not sat down to · after Lewis, a Chicago businessman and discuss women's enrollment after 1976," philanthropist. Burtchaell said. "Let's not make plans Burtchaell said that the Lewis Foun when we might have to undo those plans," It was t\16 \<.in' dation had agreed to change the status of · 6 o' (na · · he explained. \t(t\ d cruistn. the hall to allow undergraduate women out an d According to Burtchaell, no decision on residents. . oinQ s\63. V women's admissions after 1976 will be "Their reaction was positive," Burt 9 nd plavtn made until next year. chaell said. Although the University was ~t cool. I\ was Lewis facilities under no legal obligation to consult the t\16 ti(t\6 ol Lewis family, "we thought it was the your \il6. Students moving from Badin to Lewis proper move to make. There was nothing tne ti(t\6 ol will have better facilities, to legally binding," Burtchaell said. A(n6rican Gralliti Rutherford to be managing edi Edison & St. Rd. 23 February 4 and '5 For Appt. 272-7222 Al Rutherford, a junior finance major from Madison, New Jersey, Three shows each night: 6, 8, 10 has been named the new managing editor for the observer. He replaces Marlene Zloza, who Engineering Auditorium retired at the end of last semester. Rutherford has worked for the Observer for the last two and a half Admission one dollar, years as a reporter, night editor and special projects editor. Cinema 75 patrons free _:::4':__ __t:....:h~e'------"o~b=-=s'--'e=-=--r-'-v--=e'-'r'------T-'-u=esdav. Februarv 4, 1975 0-C Housing Guide now ready for distribution by Marv Pat Tarpey Maureen Power of the Notre Dame renting, msurance policies and further service to the students. standard lease drawn up by the Staff Reporter Legal Aid Society and Tom Wilson, verbal agreements. It also They have an established code to University to meet the needs of the The Off-Campus Housing Guide also of the off-campus housing examines landlord rights, noise follow in evaluating the house or student," Tallarida said. It is set has been completed and is now office. violation, evictions and the apartment. It is a new system up according to the rights of the available for distribution, ac Tallarida said the booklet deals University Lease. devised to minimize the problems renter, proprietor and the laws of cording to Fr. Thomas Tallarida, basically with the landlord-tenant Tallarida stated, that as it students often come across in Indiana. director of off-campus housing. relations as they apply to the Notre stands, "the law concerning renting a house, Tallarida said. The Off-Campus Housing Guide The purpose of the guide, Dame student. It also relates the housing favors the lessor to the Houses have been inspected by can be obtained at the Housing Tallarida said, is "to make the Jaws in a general language which lessee." Many of the present laws Bob Morgenthaler, assistant Office in the Administration students aware of the Indiana can be understood by students apply to a more rural situation, he rector of Flanner Hall. According Building. The Office plans to work statutes regarding tenants so they interested in seeking off-campus added. to Tallarida, all housing in the area through the Hall Presidents won't make mistakes in renting." housing. Regarding inspector grading, has been inspected except for Council to make available to each The guide was compiled through The guide covers topics such as the off-campus office keeps a rooms contained in private dorm a copy of the guide and the the efforts of Tallarida, Ms. inspector grading, subletting! listing of inspected housing as a dwellings. This listing is available University Lease. for viewing at the Housing Office. However, Tallarida explained I.Z. Sclrtffer leaves after 12 years Information regarding rent, "These aren't to be passed out at noise violations and evictions, is random like the Scholastic • usually found as clauses in the Magazine." Prospective renters lease. The student should be should come to the housing office 0 cs·,~grne.fnugl inf ath eearseea, dainngd .atn.ds tmh~ and specify their need for the Dean I L aw S C h 001 resl gns 1 0 1 1 1 1 guide at which time assistance portant to keep in mind that verbal will be given. Dr. Thomas L. Shaffer, dean of the University of College of St. Joseph in Albuquerque, M.M., and was agreements have no force in law, On the topic of general tenant- Notre Dame Law School for the past four years, will graduated cum laude from the Notre Dame Law School Tallarida said. landlord relations Tallarida noted resign this summer and return to teaching following a in 1961. He was promoted to full professor three y~ars "All problems that have arisen when it comes to housing a lot of year's sabbatical. .. after joining the law faculty and served as associate are usually with the students things· have to change. The Off A specialist in estate planning, Shaffer JOined the dean in 1969-70. looking for cheap housing and then Campus Housing Office has acted Notre Dame faculty in 1963 following two years as a In announcing Shaffer's decision, University running into problems," Tallarida on complaints of students against member of the Indianapolis law firm of Barnes, President Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh commented, observed. certain landlords and has kept Hickam. Pantzer & Boyd. He holds a B.S. from the "Dean Shaffer provided crucial leadership dur!ng a One method in aiding students is good relations with others whoare period in which the Law School was successful m at- the University Lease which is considered an asset to the tracting financial support for facilities improvement, described in the guide. It is a students." he said. faculty devilopment and scholarships. We are par- - -.::.:.:==::.:.._....:..:..::...-:::=~----- ticularly grateful for the emphasis he gav~ the mor~l tradition historically imbedded m the practice of law m this country and in the teaching of law at this Catholic TONIGHT!!! University." . In his tenure as the head of the Law School, which has 400 students and 20 full-time faculty, Shaffer Meeting for all the freshmen supervised a $1.6 million expansion and renovation which included a sorely needed improvement of the Jaw library. Under his direction the curriculum who wish to join the Student beyond the first year became elective and a number of clinical options became available. To a year-~broad program in London, he added summer terms m that Managers Organization city, Tokyo and at Notre Dame's main campus: In the face of enormous admissions pressure, he raised en trance criteria while also attracting more women and members of minority groups to the study of law at ACC AUDITORILM Notre Dame. The 40-year'1lld educator will be on leave during the 7 00 p M as1975-76 a visiting academic professor year to ofwrite law and at tothe teach University part-time of r:::::::::::======:: ====·==·======: Virginia. Among his most recent books have been "Death, Property and Lawyers," published in 1970, and "A Handbook for Planning and Drafting Wills and Trusts," published in 1972. As dean, he continued to teach and his off-campus lectures often stressed a humanistic approach to the profession of law, noting that private practice basically involves "helping troubled people in one'1ln'1lne situations." Shaffer is the seventh dean of Notre Dame's Law DR. SHAFFER will resign soon to take sabbatical and School, which is the oldest law school under Catholic 1each at the University of Virginia. auspices in the nation. Ford predicts slow economic recovery to present problems By H l('JIAHD JlliGIIES budget deficit for the fiscal On Wall Street, the momen 't1Pl Business Writer year would reach a peacetime tum that produced record President Ford's prediction high of $52 million. trading and record price gains Monday of an 8 per cent "The Federal Heserve togeth last week carried over into unemployment rate for the next er with other central banks is Monday on the New York Stock two years and even higher intervening and will intervene Exchange. prices this year indicates a as needed to maintain orderly The Dow Jones industrial slower economic recovery than foreign exchange markets," was ahead 4.15 at originally anticipated. said Fed Chairman Arther three hours of brisk In another development, Burns. sharply lower auto industry t•arnings were signaled by the $5.6 million loss by American 1\lotors in the last three months of 1974. The President's bleak outlook for the economy indicates administration economists now 1Jl•lieve the economy, after bottoming out of the recession later this year, will not make a sharp recovery but rather a slow one. In his budget message, Ford said unemployment will aver age !l per cent this year and next. This would mean some 7.5 million persons will be out of work. Opportunities exist at Baltimore Aircoil for l<'ord also said the nation's engineers interested in design, research and Gross National Product, the development, manufacturing, and marketing. A constant government's measurement of Pconom ic growth, would drop search for new and innovative ideas and the application 3.3 per cent this year, making of Baltimore Aircoil products across a broad range of two straight years of decline market areas creates a need for many types of and creating the longest and engineering knowledge and experience. most severe economic slump since the Great Depression. The A personnel representative GNP fell 2.2 per cent in 1974. Ford said consumer prices from Baltimore Aircoil are expected to climb 11.3 per will be here for interviewing cent this year and 7.8 per cent ill 1976. Previously, administra on Thursday, Feb. 20th tion spokesmen said the infla Don't miss this opportunity! .. tion rate would slow to 7 or 8 Contact your employment counselor per cent this year. for exact time. A sharp plunge in the value of the U.S. dollar on European money markets followed the report that Ford's proposed ... Tuesday, February 4, 1975 the observer 5 . . Clemency . fr. bill taaheY . One can be pleased that President Ford's clemency program has . been extended for one month, and deeply appreciative of the efforts of people like Fr. Hesburgh to help those wh~ have ap~lied.' an.d still feel conscience-bound to point out the ser1ous defiCiencies m the policy. It should not be seen as takinll: anything away from the good that has been done to cite the plain fact that Ford's earned re~ntry program is inadequate. He could continue to extend the deadline every month for a year and his plan would still not accomplish what he said he wanteci- "to bind up the nation's wounds." The very nature of the President's program rules out general reconciliation, and results in continued estrangement among many in American society, most especially the young. First of all, most of those covered by the policy consider it punitive. It is difficult for a young man who acted in conscience. to return to a society which sees him as an outcast who must establish his allegiance by taking an oath or performing up to two years of alternative service. As one exile put it: "I'm supposed to prove my ,//d~· 'VERY WELL, BARRY ••• I'LL COME BACK! BUT THIS TIME WE DO IT MY WAY-NO MORE allegiance to the United States, as if ref~sing to fight in an. un constitutional war is unpatriotic!" One Ch1cago mother explamed . MR. NICE GUY! I I why her son refused to crawl back under Ford's punitive plan: "My ·••·•••····••····•··················•··••••·••··•····•••••·•··••••·•····•••••••••••····••·••••·•••• son never rejected his allegiance to this country -just the war. I don't understand why the government says that the people are not montezuma !Is behind a complete amnesty. I think they're just counting the VFW reventae votes. I've talked with mothers who lost sons, and they have no desire to penalize living sons because theirs died." Secondly, and most importantly, Ford's program operates under rules that limit severely the number of eligible participants. For Mardi Gras example, of the more than 500,000 Americans who received less • than honorable discharges during the Vietnam War era, only 100,000 were declared eligible to apply to the President's Clemency ray ram1rez Review Board. Remember from freshman days the inch, And what of the rnad-ice-dasn, wherein What are we supposed to do'? Mr. Ford will have to pardon us if things about Notre Dame that seemed very the heaviest football player on the varsity we refrain from raising a big cheer for his program and fail to gush mysterious? What did the inside of a girl's would take off from one shore of frozen St. a lot over his magnanimous one-month extension. We may find it dorm look like'? 'What is on the fourteenth Mary's lake and run like the dickens by Kathy Mills educated, Hofman stated. average "pretty darn good," a "At many universities, a student slight improvement over last year. Staff Ht"porter has a definite major in a certain Only three freshmen were on the college. If he decides to change dismissal list from last semester, "The freshmen are more that major, he must transfer to and only about 60 were on the career ·conscious now than in another college or department. academic probation list. Hofman recent years due to the present This often involves administrative listed the reasons for this "fan t>conomic situation," Dr. Emil difficulties. Transfers here are tastic performance" as being the Hofman, dean of the Freshman made more easity, although not selectivity by the Admissions YPar of Studies, stated yesterday. casually," he con tined. Office in choosing Notre Dame "This is not a matter of our According to Hofman, ap students, the effort on the part of freshmen being peculiar, proximately 50 per cent of the the students, the fine teaching however." Hofman offered students at Notre Dame change situation at Notre Dame, and the statistics from articles in the Jan. their intent from the day of their Freshman Tutoring Program. 27 issue of Thf' Chronicle of Higher acceptance to the end of the "I have no objection to being HOFMAN: FRESHMEN are more career-conscious in recent Education and the October issue of sophomore year. Change of intents grade-conscious," Hofman said, "I years due to the economic conditions. ('hangf' which indicated that among the freshmen last semester am, however, disappointed when disappointed that some and with such spirit. it is very college students are more career fell into the same pattern. the student looks to the grade as organizations do not accept or inspiring." He commended the orientated now than in the past. Many students changed from his end object. A grade is only welcome freshmen." University chaplain, campus Hofman cited pre-law, pre-med, Arts and Letters intent into good as a reflection of a student's Hofman also pointed that most ministry, the hall rectors, and the and business as being most at Engineering, Business, and pre experience." freshmen voluntarily attend Mass Theology Department for "having tractive to the freshmen. He noted med, the career-oriented fields. Hofman stressed the necessity and are very devoted. "It is very brought about one of the most a sharp increase in the number of "This was a change from last for freshmen to learn how to heartening to see how the students important characteristics of the freshmen enrolled in engineering, year," Hofman pointed out. balance their time between studies participate with great numbers campus-the role of liturgy." as opposed to the past few years. Hofman acknowledged that the and extra-curricular activities, A university's curriculum should freshmen are "very grade saying that they should take . ATTENTION ALL GRAD. STUDENTS enable a student who has a clear conscious, as are most students at "effective breaks from studying. cut. attainable goal to pursue that Notre Dame." The average grade Last semester, the freshmen were EMERGENCY MEETING end. but that it should not prevent a point for freshman last semester better than average in extra student from being generally was 2.837. Hofman termed that curricular activities. I am MEM. LIB. AUD. THURS. FEB. 6 :::::::::::::::::::;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::~: 12:15 P.M. (continued from page 1) Campus reactions Lewis rf'sidents not consulted "and I really appreciate having a McLaughlin predicted that community of women to return to everyone who wishes to live on The immediate reaction in Lewis at the end of the day." campus next year will be able to do Hall was less intense due to ; so under the new plan. warning provided a week ago by Doubts about new apartments He said that his discussions with rumors leaking from the office of University officials had concerned student c.ffairs. However some Several women expressed great only undergraduate housing. "We students were angry that they doubt that the promised new felt that itwas the Graduate were not consul.ted about the graduate housing complex would Student Union that had to rr.atter. ever materialize even after Badin represent the graduates." One graduate woman said she returns to undergraduate oc Jones explained that the lack of had heard rumors since the middle cupancy in 1976. Badin was seen as warning to both halls had been due of last week. "When I asked the a sort of "half-way house" to off to the fact that "we had to get the rector about it she told me that it campus living. agreement of all the Lewis family was at least a strong possibility but One student opposed to the move who funded the hall to switch it to that there was nothing we could do predicted that many Lewis women undergraduate housing. We did about it at that point," she said. would move off-campus rather not hear from the last one until half "It is a great example of how little than accept Badin housing. "Then a hour bef(lre the press conference student opinions count around the administration will say, 'See, began," she said. here." graduates don't want on-campus She said that she had tried to Law student Chaya Abrams said housing,' and shove us off en contact Gallagher before the that "we had heard about the move tirely." conference but was unable to reach and assumed that it would happen Other students were willing to her by phone. because of the financial gain to the admit that the plan was the best University from converting singles solution to a bad situation although into doubles." they too did not want to move and Badin option decided after TuPsday Lewis women opposed the move resented the lack of consultation. on several grounds. Some are Chaya Abrams argued that "if the .. worried about moving into older University expects to get good ·'The decision to include Badin in and smaller rooms, although all graduate students from around the the plan was not made within the Badin rooms will be converted to country they will have to provide group working on it until after last singles. "Graduate women are some on-campus ho•tshg." Tuesday,'' Jones contended. "We had let the rector of Lewis know here primarily to study and we Two of the residents interviewed need decent living and studying that the hall was under con commented that the women were sideration but even she was not facilities," one Lewis resident considering some sort of protest said. told of the final decision until the action in the wake of the an afternoon of the conference." Several women complained nouncement. Letters of protest to :~hn11t the cooking facilities in administrators were discussed, Commenting on the leak that Badin Each floor of Lewis has a but nothing had been decided. Lewis might be given to un kitchen and most students do their The rector of Lewis, Sr. Maria dergraduates Jones admitted that own cooking to save money. Badin Garlock was unavailable for it probably blunted the initial has only one small kitchen in the comment. shock of the announcement. basement. Sr. John Miriam commented on McLaughlin approves decision "There are some times when leaks this saying that there were plans to can serve a valuable purpose and convert some of the unused rooms Student Body President Pat perhaps it would have helped if the in Badin into kitchenettes so that McLaughlin was generally pleased girls in Badin had gotten some sort graduate women would not be with the plan. "In our discussions of previous warning." forced to purchase meal tit>lra•~ with the administration we always Some residents of Lewis also maintained that the key factors in Bro. Just Paczesny commented feared a loss of community spirit a solution must be that no more on the reactions of two groups to in the more cramped surround men's dorms be taken and that no the idea of moving, saying "We sings of Badin. "I am the only undergrad women beforced off have such loyalty to the halls that woman in a department that has 45 campus. Today's decision meets if we had to house people in tents men," one resident commented, these standards." they would fight leaving the tents." ... who? me? what does that mean? it's 1975 ... McGEORGE SCHOOL CF LAW i'm a student here, wondering what i'm going to do with UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC my life ... SACRAMENTO CAMPUS April 15, 1975 is application deadline for first-year students seeking juris doctor degree in 3-year Day or 4-year Evening 1 program beginning in September 1975. PRE-lAW DISCUSSION FOR PROSPECTIVE lAW STUDENTS FRI. THROUGH SUN. SPORTS Dillon 3 0 () Flanner 3 () () Pangborn 0 0 St. Ed's 2 () Holy Cross 0 Stanford () Wrestlers finish fourth in Fisher () Zahm 0 Howard () Off-Campus () 2 Minnesota tournam~nt Sorin 2 0 Cavanaugh 0 2 Alumni 2 0 Grace () 2 Freshman Pat Landfried hadn't St. John's ( 105). In addition to ht-t-n able to earn a starting role on Landfried, other Irish wrestlers Morrissey 2 () KPenan () 2 the Notre Dame wrestling team placing in the meet were 167 and wasn't even scheduled to make pounder Mike Kemp, (who had a the trip to the National Catholic tourney high three pins), 150 Tournament at St. John's of pounder Dave Boyer and Bob 1\1 innesota. He wasn't scheduled to Dreger at 177 who all finished third Fencers sweep weekend foes go until another freshman Pat while 118 pounder Skip Mondragon McKillen was injured in a meet and heavyweight Ken Dike placed by Tom Kruczek tained convincing victories by at Paul 'angelo made the difference, earlier in the week. Landfried was fourth. !Past one of the weapons, and in winning his bout 5-1 to push the put on the traveling roster and The Irish face their busiest week In their first home meet of the somP cases two. weapon to a 5-4 victory. proceeded to make the most of his of the season starting this evening season, Notre Dame's fencers In the days opening match In addition to the overwhelming opportunity winning the National when Wayne State is the visitor to defeated Wisconsin-Parkside, against Wisconsin-Parkside, both victories by the men, the Notre Catholic title at 142 pounds. the ACC's Auxiliary Gym at 7 Bowling Green, Tri-State, and the the sabre and foil won 7-2. In epee, Dame-St. Mary's team did equally The rest of the Notre Dame team p.m. Tomorrow night Spring University of Minnesota Saturday the Irish wound up on top 5-4, well, defeating Tri-State 7-2 and wasn't as fortunate as the Irish Arbor College is the opponent in the auxiliary gym at the ACC. through the effort of junior Drew Bowling Green 5-4 before losing to placed a somewhat disannointing starting at 6 p.m. The Irish will be Coach De Cicco was especially Brehm. Brehm won his bout 5-2 to Wisconsin-Parkside 6-3. fourth in the eight-team meet in action for the third time in as pleased with the teams per capture the victory for the weapon. Kathy Valdiserri finished par behind champion John Carroll ( 170 many nights when they visit formance. "Now we are able to In the Bowling Green match, the ticularly well, chalking up an 11-0 points l, Marquette ( 117) and host Western Michigan on Thursday. tell who our fencers are and epee was the predominant weapon, mark for the day. exactly where we are in terms of accounting for a 9-0 victory, bihind Coach DeCicco related "the fine team depth," he said. "Now we the efforts of nine different fen showing by the women in addition have quality fencers at each cers. Foil and sabre also won to the men shows that at Notre Manager meeting slated weapon in addition to reasonable easily 7-2 and 6-3, respectively. Dame we have a strong fencing depth: Yes, I'm very pleased with In the day's third round, all three program and will only improve in the results of the day's fencing." weapons won without trouble the the future." The Notre Dame Student such as keeping the records and DeCicco has good reason to be closest being the 7-2 triumph by the The fencers, now 11-2 on the Managers Organization is files of all athletes and preparing pleased. The closest that any team sabre. In both foil and epee, it was season, resume play this Saturday currently holding a recruiting all of the paperwork and ac came to the Irish was Minnesota, 8-1 in favor of the Irish. in a five team tourney that will drive for freshmen managers. counting for every game. who fell 18-9. In the other three Concluding the day's fencing include Detroit, University of Managers are needed for all Any freshman interested in rounds, Notre Dame downed against Minnesota, foil was the top Chicago, Indiana and Marquette. varsity sports including basket becoming a student manager is Wisconsin-Parkside 19-8, defeated weapon, sailing to a 7-2 victory. In The first bout will begin at 10 a.m. ball, hockey, wrestling, fencing, asked to attend an informative Bowling Green 22-5 and rolled over epee the Irish won easily with a 6-3 in the gymnasium on either side of tennis, swimming, track, cross meeting tonight at 7 o'clock in the Tri-State 23-4. Each match con- margin of difference. In sabre, the hockey rink. country. baseball and football. ACC Auditorium. Anyone at The work of the managers does not tending the session is asked to mt•rely consist of carrying dum bring his class schedule and a pen. mies and water buckets at football practice, according to manager Burt Bruner. Managers also ND Sailing Club 1•ngagp in administrative activity continues lessons Women fencers This Wednesday, the Notre Dame Sailing Club will continue its classroom sailing lessons, in tie for first place preparation for the thawing of St. .Joseph Lake later this month. The Tht• Notre Dame Women's lessons are run by Bruce Marek, Ft·ncing Team tied for first place the club's Commodore, after the in a 5 school round robin com regular meetings, which are on pPtition held at the ACC this past Wednesdays at 6:30 in room 204 of weekend. the College of Engineering. .. The women's squad defeated Anyone interested in sailing on any Tri-State College 7-2, Bowling level is invited to attend this Green University 5-4, and Min Wednesday. nesota University 5-4 to move into a 2 way tie for first place with Sailing Club members are Wisconsin Parkside University. reminded that final arrangements Kathy Valdiserri led the Notre for the Mid-Winter Scheduling Dame fencers with an 11-0 record. Meeting at Indiana University will Other team members who par ticipated were Captain Cindy be made at this week's meeting. Hebholz, Sally Fisher, Sue Also, yearbook pictures will be Krakora, and Trish O'Donnell. taken at this meeting. THE IRISH fencing team downed 4 other squads at the ACC this weekend.