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Changes unlikely for calendar by Maureen Flynn Calendar Office records show impossible" unless the Shepherds Dean of Administraton Leo T. Burtchaell, Uniersity provost, St>nior Staff Reporter Sept. 3-6 reserved for Freshman Conference can be rescheduled. Corbaci said that calendars for has cited 72 as tht' desired number Orientation, with registration on "If we started before Labor 1976-77 and 1977-78 were drawn up of class days, with 75 as the op Prospects of changing next the 7th and the start of classes on Day," Gassman speculated, "it last spring in accordance with the timum. The late Labor Day date, yf:'ar's academic calendar from a Wed., Sept. 8. would probably be on Sept. 1. We guidelines established by the Gassman observes shortens the post-Labor Day to a Pre-Labor day According to Administrative just can't get the freshmen Academic Council at its February number to 70 days. start appear unlikely in light of the sources, the calendar for 1976-77 registered in that time." meeting. "You can start after Labor Day schedule of university events for features a post-Labor Day start, a A Sept. 1 date for the start of "The guidelines were settled last and get two semester breaks," next August. Saturday class and final exams classes would call for Freshmen to year for a three-year period," stat past Dec. 20. The lateness of Labor arrive for orientation the same day Gassman said, "If Labor Day falls According to records in the ACC ed Corbaci. "In the absence of on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, but it's and the Calendar Office, the Day next year, said the sources, that the conference members are other guidelines, we presume those requires these measures to insure scheduled to leave the residence impossible if itfalls on the 4th, 5th, National Men's Shepherds Con of the previous year are still in or 6th." ference (Charismatic Renew a)) is the desired number of class days. halls. Freshmen taking entrance effect." scheduled for Aug. 24-28, 1976. The examinations would have to arrive On February 11, 1975 the Gassman said he intended to conferences expected to draw Early start "nearly impossible" several days earlier. According to Academic Council approved the make some calls to see if anything between 10,000 and 13,000 members maintenance officials, at least a following principles for calendar could be done about the calendar and to require most of the univer Academic Commissioner Mike week is required to prepare the making: for 1976-77. "The big question," he sity facilities including the Gassman edmitted that a pre dormitories for student oc ---a post-Labor Day start stated, "is what is the story on the residence halls. Labor Day start in 1976 is "nearly cupation. ---only one break in the semester conference?" ---the autumn break be made Gassman also stated that the around the Thanksgiving holiday. Academic Commission will be To change the guidelines, at conducting Its poll on the calendar least ten members of the issue at the end of this week or the Academic Council must agree to beginning of next. Among other review them. However, even things, the survey will attempt to action by the Council may not determine when students want prove effective in view of the their breaks and how long they scheduling conflict. want their breaks and how long In 1972, the Academic Council they want them, Gassman said. approved a pre-Labor Day start for the 1973-74 academic year. A On the basis of these results and post-Labor Day start was the replies from other colleges to a scheduled when University ad questionnaire concerning their ministrators discovered that the calendars, Gassman said, "We will proposed calendar conflicted with draw up two or three possible un1vers1ty of noire dome sl mory"s colle9e a previously-scheduled Mobile calendars, listing the starting Home Show in the ACC. Vol. X, No. 49 Monday, November 10, 1975 dates, endin£ dates, dates of Gassman noted that Fr. James vacation, etc." South Bend history recounted by local journalist at SMC talk by Christie Herlihy Three hundred years ago, La Salle, the Staff Reporter famous french adventurer and trader picked up his canoes and transversed What do you think of when someone what is now U.S. 31 and Michigan St. on mentions South Bend'? A bus depot on the his way from the St. Joseph river to a way to the Scottsdale Mall, a place to nearby stream which flows into the Illinois correct bank statements or buy sports River and eventually the Mississippi. equipment or splurge on pizza? The area will be celebrating La Salle's If you can't mentally hurdle Corby's or landing next year. It will be a big gala Nickies then you should have leaned back affair. No one will even mention how La in one of the comfortable chairs in SMC's Salle got lost wandering around Stapleton Lounge Sunday evening and Mishawaka," Ault quipped. listened to Philip Ault sketch South Bend Leeper Park near Michigan Ave. is the history. site of Pierre Navarre's cabin, the first Construction is now under way on the new the Music Department, are proceeding on The city rose from the roaming grounds settler of South Bend in 1820. The city housing for graduate women. This project, In schedule (Photo by Chris Smith). of buffalo which La Salle passed through. naturally grew as the result of the addition to the renovaton of Haynes Hall for It flourished because of a farm equipment passageway to the Illinois River. It was aristocracy and now the present center of also a stop on the Michigan Road which insurance companies and banks is multi connected the heavily populated areas of Building continues on time ethnic community concerned about "the Southern Indiana with the north. quality of life of its people." by Maggif:' Waltman the space in Hoynes Hall than in its present Philip Ault, assist. editor of the South Indus tria I Start Staff Ht>porter location on the second floor of Bend tribune and eight-year resident of the O'Shaughnessy. According to Isele, there will city has done in-depth research of the area The St. Joseph River provided water Notre Oame will have a renovated music be twenty practice rooms <there are twelve in for the paper. He is secretary of the North power needed to run the saw mills which building and a new housing complex for O'Shaughnessy>, and each full- time faculty Indiana Historical Society. A graduate of flourished on Michigan St., the neucleus of graduate women by next fall if construction member will have his own office. De Pauw University, he is currently the growing South Bend. Industries, at continues according to plan. "The architects have been very agreeable writing his eleventh historical book. tracted by the plentiful timber located Ac-cording to Fr. Jerome Wilson, director of to what the Music Department needs," Isele "If you were sitting here 10 to 12 here, established a farm equipment arist business affairs, both building projects are on said. Precautions have been taken for sound thousl\nd years ago you would be frozen ocracy: the Studebaker wagon factory, schedule in terms of budget and time-table. insulation. Wall-to-wall carpeting and floor inside a mile thick sheet of glacieral ice," the Birdsell Clover Huller Company, and Wilson said that although the target date for length draperies will be installed to absorb Ault said which didn't seem incredible the Oliver Plow Company. <'ompletion of the Hoynes Hall renovation was the sound. The building will be centrally air given South Bend weather. South Bend John Studebaker started his business set for ~'eb. 1, "March 1 is a more realistic conditioned for the preservation of in gets its name from the large bend in the with capital raised during the 1850 elate." After that date, the Music Department struments and the comfort of people par St. Joseph River which the glacier carved California Gold Rush. He didn't strike should be moved into Hoynes, said Wilson. ticipating in summer music workshops. at the same time as the Great Lakes. gold but sold wheel barrows to the miners David lsele of the Music Department Isele said the Department has kept as close Miami and Potawatami Indians hunted from which he made "a potful of money" faculty said that the renovation is going as possible to the budget. "Every inch of the dense forests for bear, deer and buf according to Ault. The Wagon business "fantastically." "The entire department is space is used, and all new furniture is func falo. Buffalo were especially plentiful. flourished because of Civil War contracts ready to move into Hoynes Hall tomorrow if tional and guaranteed for life," he said. Parkovash Street derives its name from a and soon Studebaker became the we could," he added. A small kitchen, Isele said, may be inst bad English pronunciation of the French "dominant force in the town." {t later According to lsele, "everything is overused alled which might overshoot the budget word for "field of " (continued on page 6) in our present location." O'Shaughnessy is somewhat. He added that costs can probably not adequate for any of the music depart be cut in other areas. Isele cited reductions in ,.'irry"\~i ment's activities." carpeting and drapery costs as possible ways > ~~'"J lsele criticized the bad acoustics in to l'olve the problem if a kitchen is built. Jii·~ i 0 'Shaughnessy. He cited the low ceilings as "The ~enovation is happening just in time," ,,'( the main acoustical problem in the Isele s~1d.