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He has beautiful diamond rings from Hammond Valparaiso FEHRING JEWELRY JONES JEWELRY $150 to over $1000. Every one has a gemologist's evaluation Hammond Vincennes inscribed on the inner band. Every one is guaranteed. ARMIN LIPSIG JEWELERS EAHRE JEWELRY CO. So don't get emotional at a time like this. Getcareful. Hartford City Whiting ARONBERG JEWELERS If you don't know anything about diamonds, see your CLYDE F. SCHWANER Hobart ArtCarved jeweler. He does. ^-|f-t: (^arved® CUBBERLY JEWELERS Dec. 16, 1966 editorial Student Judiciary If there is any one element which the pi'esent and time-consuming process of combating apathy has been the immediately past administrations of Notre Dame's replaced by the considerably more positive pursuit of Student Government have in common, it is a very par chaimeling the enthusiasm and willingness of the student ticular idea of what the college student should be, both body. At least in this regard, Notre Dame is very much in relation to his university and to his community. The in touch with other American universities. The develop most basic assertion of this concept is that the student ment of these roles ranks in significance with the ac is a responsible individual. That the student is no less ceptance of the Honor Concept and the introduction of the responsible than any other individual has been amply de fotir-year stay halls. fended elsewhere. The newest, and to this point least heralded, roles As a goal, the student is not aiming to become a are the hall judicial boards and the campus-wide Student citizen, an effective member of society, a determiner of Judiciary Advisory Committee. These allow students to policy, or a decision-maker. He is, or rather should be, participate in the enforcement of their hall and Uni all of these things already. That there is any doubt at all versity regulations. The relevant portion of The Student on this last point reflects a certain disparity. The con Manual states that "the . . . University Rules come under flict seems to be between the professed goals of the stu the jurisdiction of the Dean of Students, and aU. viola dent and the means at Ms disposal to reach them, be tions thereof are at the final disposition of the Dean of tween an espoused responsibility and the absence of cor Students." Thus, the current contributions of these judi responding roles. The university produces the leaders of cial boards are limited to their advisory capacity. How a democratic society. Yet a university can itself be de ever, the fact that students, as a primary and intelligent cidedly undemocratic. A statement praising the desir segment of the University, can contribute something of ability of responsibility still does not provide a respon value to the decision-makers is logical enough. sible role. Rather, the very definite impression is the As a specific example, the Student Advisory Com subtle distinction involved in describing the student's mittee is a group of students meeting weekly with Father socicd role with reference to what he is seeking to become Simons, Dean of Students, to discuss problems of campus and without reference to what he is. Being a student justice and procedures for acting upon violations of reg can be justified for its own sake as well as its pre-role, ulations, and to offer advisory recommendations of helping us to become someone better. Too often, we median penalties for cases referred to this board. All hear the emphasis placed on the former, to the exclusion permanent delegates to the SJAC represent and are of the latter. selected by their individual hall councils or their hall The point is the necessity of providing on the one judicial boards. In all cases, these delegates are expected hand, and of seeking on the other hand, the roles which to work closely with the hall judicial boards. In its "State do correspond to our abilities and rights and responsi ment of Principles and Functions" released last week, the bilities. Pragmatically, exhortations to responsibility are SJAC committed itself to "the ultimate goal ... [of utterly worthless without these outlets. Without the having] all cases involving violations of regulations re appropriate roles, any consideration of responsibility is ferred to the SJAC for decision and disposition." Since reduced to a strict academic exercise. the SJAC views itself as an extension of the haU judicial Freedom wiU never maintain itself. To be retained, boards, "all cases, insofar as possible, will be referred it must be exercised. Now, by this final month of 1966, from the SJAC to the individual hall judicial boards." the students of Notre Dame have been charged with The' student judiciaries at Notre Dam.e must continue more responsibility and won a greater degree of freedom their initial and substantially positive response to the op than ever before in this University's long history. As a portunities offered by the University. They must secure consequence of the celebrated rules changes of the past and retain the confidence of the student body if their September, the students now have the roles. And they fundamental concepts are to be understood and respected. are being exercised. A positive response is visible within Their primary concern should not be with a student "en every hall. vironment" but with questions of law and discipline. The The apathy of the previous years has begun to yield Student Judiciary Advisory Committee must always be to the new commitments typical of the college students an instrument of justice and fairness, and never permit of the sixties. Traditions are no longer a restraint, an itself to degenerate into merely an instrument for the obstacle, or an excuse for inaction. The negative and enforcement of University regulations. — Totn Conoscenti The Scholastic Keyed'Up students unwind at Sheratongm^ save money Save with tveekend discounts! Get your free ID card from the Sheraton rep on campus. It entitles you to room dis counts at nearly all Shera ton Hotels and Motor Inns. Good over Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, summer vacation, weekends all year round. N.D. Representative: Phone: 824-7409 James H. Frye Sheraton Hotels ©'MotorInns With Old Spice Lime Precisely what things depends on what you have in mind. Whatever it is, Old Spice LiME can help. Its spicy, lime-spiked aroma is very persuasive... but so subtle, even the most wary woman is trapped before she knows it! Worth trying? You bet it is! Old Spice UME COIOKDI^ After Shav^ Gift Sets. By the makers of original Old Spice. Dec. 16, 1966 ^ FERMENT IN ALUMNI ing of the word "patriot" to select the EDITOR: only possible choice which I see avail letters The credibihty of the SCHOLASTIC able in the eleven nominees — and ONE MAN'S RESPONSE will be forever impugned if the "Last that is General Westmoreland. EDITOR: Word" continues to exercise its bale G. W. Strake, Jr. V^Tiatever his feelings on the ful influence on the truth. Case in Senior Class President, 1957 DuBay-DePauw controversy, the fair- point for this year is Editor Murray's minded Domer win applaud the Uni observations on the inactivity of A PROTOMARITAL SEX versity for scheduling Drs. Johnson Alumni Hall which he voiced in the EDITOR: and Masters. After the report on the November 18 issue. Is John Dormsjo for real? In his relative responsiveness of men and Mr. Murray observes that compari letter, "A Cloak of Secrecy," in last women, however, he may be left won sons are "more often than not un week's (November 11) SCHOLASTIC, he dering just who is Number One. fair," but in tlie great tradition of asserts that the SCHOLASTIC "female Robert Hassenger SCHOLASTIC editors, he makes them staff" exhibits "such interest (or con Department of Sociology anyway. Poor participation in his cern?) about the distribution of birth section's elections is made the corner control pills to co-eds" by reason of ROOM DIRECTORY stone for a rather scathing attack on having reported the Louisiana State EDITOR: Alumni HaU. SCHOLASTIC research University incident in "On Other Last spring, the Student Govern was at an even lower ebb than usual, Campuses." Now how does the objec ment placed a referendum before the however, for had Editor Murray tive reporting of any event imply one student body. It involved the addition taken five minutes to walk down the particular subjective position? of one dollar to the Student Govern hall to room 255, I could have given In attacking an aUeged double stan ment fee included in the semester ex him some very interesting statistics. dard in the "access to contraceptives," penses of each student This referen Michael Seng and myself are second- he obfuscates the distinction between dum was voted upon and passed, and floor prefects in Alumni, and our the contraceptives men have had ac we naturally assumed that each stu room was used for our section elec cess to "for years" and the contracep dent was to receive a Student Direc tions. In section E, 24 out of 27 at tives discussed in the LSU article. tory as part of the extension of Stu tended and voted. Section F had 24 Unless male sterility pills have been dent Government services made pos out of 25. Section G had 17 out of on the market "for years," I suggest sible by the additional dollar. 23. And those who could not attend a gross oversight on his part. The fact Considering the extension of Stu usuaUy sent an excuse—and a vote— is that i£ sexual equality exists, it has dent Government "services," we fail with their roommates. Since then been in the fact that both men and even to see the one Student Directory frequent section meetings have been women have had access to non- for each student (save for those stu held with the section representatives oral contraceptives of a parallel na dents occupying single rooms). In and disciplinary board representa ture for some time. any following referendums we ask tives. In addition, our sections have Then we are told that "premarital that the word student not be con held smokers for four of the five intercourse is a human fact of life, fused with the word rooinl Thus we away football games. This is dead, but not every participant is promiscu all may understand the exact sense Mr. Murray? ous," and further that "denying access of the matter for consideration. The problem seems to be, I think, a to pUls" will aggravate "the situation Bill Matturro misinterpretation of what haU life is by helping to precipitate unplanned 126 Pangborn supposed to be. Not everyone feels and premature marriages." It would Mke Jordan that the haU is merely a planning seem rather apparent that any prob 215 Alumni commission for parties and outside lematic "situation" exists primarily activities, nor do they choose to meas among the promiscuous. Where the ure the haU's success or failirre by participants are not promiscuous, but COCKTAILS IN THE DINING HALL these criteria. Alumni is currently EDITOR: have afiirmed their mutual commit curtaUing outside-the-haU activities in ment in love, intercourse would be In the November 11 issue under order to provide for the refurnishing "News and Notes," the writer noticed protomarital (not simply premari of Alumni Tower, which wiU serve as tal), and if such a commitment is an interesting item concerning the a hall lounge and meeting room. disappearance of soft-drink bottles sincere, marriage could not be "un from the LaFortune Student Center. In the future, please dig deep, planned and prematm'e." However, in Although the writer is not cognizant SCHOLASTIC. The facts are reaUy cases where promiscuity (a term Mr. of where the bottles are going, he there someplace. Dormsjo fails to define) prevails, the would not be surprised that the bot John D. KUer real problem is not the lack of more tles are being pilfered to be used for 255 Alumni reliable contraceptives but the paucity of trust, fidelity, mutual concern, love Molotov cocktails to burn down the „ LIBERAL OF THE YEAR South Dining HaU. Everyone wUl be and the commitment which ought to EDITOR: precede marriage and its consumma invited to bring franks and marsh- I would like to ask what in the mallows to roast over the embers and tion. Anovulent piUs may decrease name of Patrick Henry was on the ovulation, but wiU they decrease pro thus long-suffering students will be minds of the nominating committee able to get at least one decent meal miscuity? Clearly not. Hence it is ir when they chose the nominees for relevant to blame restrictions on oral at the aforementioned dining haU. "Patriots of the Year"? if the award The writer has had better meals contraceptives for "unplanned and had been entitled "Liberal of the premature marriages" when they re served much more quickly in Army Year," then the committee would have mess halls. He has seen 6,000 men sult from premarital intercourse (not done their job in superb fashion. As I protomarital intercourse) and stem served in two hours in an area smaller write this letter, the selection wUl al than the west wing of the South Din from a kind of promiscuity which no ready have been made since I notice pill can alleviate. ing HaU. the election was held on November 17, John G. Adorjan but I sincerely hope that the seniors J. 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Name Brand Diamonds Name- From $100 Address- City— Stale- _Zip_ KEEPSAKE DIAMOND RINGS, BOX 90, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK Dec. 16, 1966 news and notes • THE "COMMUNITY STANDARD" view • JOLLY! JOLLY! 'Tis the season to be. LASTIC: ticket $5.00; lunch, $1.00; on pornography needs reassessing, But before the Business majors return Hate State button; $.50; busses (3 argues the English Department's home in search of holiday spirit they brought from Chicago) $7.00; inci Peter Michelson in the lead article of can start the fun tomorrow morning dentals, the rest (e.g. publicity, sta the December 10 New Republic, "An in the lobby of the Business building. tionery, phone calls). 500 students Apology for Pornography." Michelson There Jack Abbott, ubiquitous Presi making the trip, at $15.00 a head, samples pornography in print from dent of the Business College (among would gross $7,500. Polk says Student Fanny Hill to Faulkner, and differen other things) and various other mem^ Government made a little over $200 tiates two kinds. So-called "hard bers of the Business Administration on the venture although they may core" material as Fanny Hill "exploits Student Council have planned a still have to shell out $50-$100 for (sex) by providing easy fantasy grat Christmas gathering of unheard of the hall in Kalamazoo which was ifications." But, he argues, "there is proportions. Two-thousand cookies, never used. Seems it was Western's another kind of pornography which one-thousand glasses of pimch, version of homecoming or something might be called literary; it is an ex Christmas carols, a visit from Santa and that's what happened to the nice ploration of human sexuality." This and a message from the Dean should girls you were supposed to meet. kind (found, for example, in Faulk make everyone happy. The lobby ner's works) "eocplores this rhythm, itself is highlighted with a twenty- • THOSE WITH A YEN for folk music its moral and psychic implications, foot Christmas tree and stockings for will be glad to know that the "Skiffle" and to the degree that it does this it all Assistant Deans and Department has returned once more to Frankie's is poetic." The problem won't be Heads. As a grand finale the world basement. Back at its familiar Friday solved by ignoring it, says Michelson. globe, a well-decorated tree atop it, night eight o'clock time, there has "Not to explore the impulse to por will rise fifteen feet into the air. been one important change. An ad nography is a form of denying human You'll have to see it to believe it. mission charge of fifty cents per head sexuality." All 1200 Business majors and faculty is being charged this year, with the members are invited beginning tomor hope that eventually outside groups • THE THANKLESS JOB of Social Com row morning at 9:00. can be brought in. Meanwhile, the missioner that has been vacant for best of last year's local talent is back, two months was filled over vacation. collecting a small piece of that charge (Jim Polk is the Social Coordinator. for their efforts. Don't try to understand the differ ence. Just believe there is one). Wil • DR. SAMUEL SHAPIRO, ND associate liam J. Betz, a junior accounting professor of history, was recently major who had previously been Exec- awarded a grant for a summer insti ,utive Secretary of the Commission, is tute in American history by the U.S. the new fall guy. One of his first offi Office of Education. The institute, ap cial pronouncements was the result proved this month, will involve Dr. of the student poll held recently to de Shapiro and three other teachers in termine what the students want in the Notre Dame's history department. way of entertainment on campus. In They include: Dr. Vincent De Santis, descending order, the students indi who specializes in Americem political cated that they craved: The Mamas history; Dr. James W. Silver, who and the Papas; the Beach Boys; Peter, will cover the Negro in American Paul and Mary; the Supremes: Bill history; and Dr. Philip Gleason, Cosby; the Tijuana Brass; the Four whose studies include the fields of Tops; the Smothers' Brothers; the immigration and ethnic groups. Dr. Rolling Stones; and Bob Dylan (last, Shapiro and his colleagues will con hardly least). Others that proved to centrate mainly on the 20th century. be generally popular were the King The institute will be held at Notre ston Trio, Mitch Ryder and the De Dame for high school teachers in troit Wheels and Henry Mancini. Those American history. who are being vigorously sought after are The Mamas and the Papas; • SOME OF you who went on the • ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of Architec Peter, Paul and Mary; the Supremes, Michigan State trip are perhaps ture Kenneth Featherstone has re and the Kingston Trio. Bill Cosby wondering where your $15.00 went. cently returned from Washington and the Smothers' Brothers are not Remember? You were supposed to where he moderated the annual meet accepting college dates. Bob Dylan is eat a nice dinner in Kalamazoo and ing of the American Institute of Ar still racked up by his summer motor go to a nice dance and meet a lot of chitects. Each of the flfty-five-or-so- cycle accident Finally, the Tijuana nice Western Michigan girls. And you member schools of architecture sent Brass and the Stones are beyond the didn't. Social Coordinator Jim Polk, four representatives to the. three-day price range of the Social Commission, although not in possession of exact meeting. Featherstone, as moderator, which has to cope with the alleged figures, gave a rough breakdown of presided over all the official panels 3,800 capacity of the Stepan Center. the disappearing dough to the SCHO and discussions held. 10 The Scholastic 1. Um... uh... now that we know 2.1 have an exciting pipe each otlier a little, I was won collection. dering if, uh, you think I'm the type of guy you could go for? I want to be where the action is. I could go for a real swinger. 3.1 know some daring chess 4.1 read all about it in The openings. New York Times. I want a man who's I want to do 'in' things making it happen. with 'in' people in 'in' places. 5.1 spend a lot of time in 6. Then I guess you wouldn't be the library. interested in someone like me who has landed a good-paying My motto is fun today ^^ ^h^t wiU let his family and fun tomorrow. u^g ^gU ^^d who, in addition, has taken out a substantial Living Insurance policy from Equitable that will provide handsomely for his family if, heaven forbid, anything should happen to him. How's about sho\ving me that pipe collection, s\vinger? For information about Living Insurance, see The Man from Equitable. For career opportunities at Equitable, see your Placement Officer, or write: Patrick ScoUard, Manpower Development Division. The EQUITABIE Life Assurance Society of the United States Home Office: 1285 Ave. of the Americas, New York, N. Y. 10019 © Equitable 1966 An Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F Dec. 16, 1966 11 HE FIFTH NOTRE DAME Conference no stake in the matter of family part of the Danish students. Also in T on Population drew nearly fifty control." In fact, in Puerto Rico and the Denmark sample, more students experts from the fields of sociology, other Latin countries, the wife's approved premarital sex than had theology, law, medicine, and biology. mother is second only to the husband actually experienced it. But in the They gathered at the Center for Con in the decision making. Pastors and Mormon and Midwest samples, more tinuing Education between December peers also enter into much of the students had experienced it than had 1-3 to discuss this year's theme: the decision making, and these "levels" approved it. The result is a feeling family and population change. The warrant, in Hill's terms, "more am of guilt for those who feel that they pui'pose of the conference was to bitious programs to deal with more are "stealing" sex, while satisfaction brief the experts on what progress decision makers and the elevation of dominates among those who experi had been made in the study of popu the importance of sex education." ence sex as a mutual desire. To qualify lation rather than to reach any sig Morality is another important ques his remarks, Christensen pointed out nificant conclusion. The conference tion which falls under the population that these findings represent only the itself, which is supported by the Ford category. Harold Christensen of Pur tendencies of these areas and not, of Foundation, was run very efficiently due stated that morality must be seen course, the undeniable rule. by Dr. WiUiam T. Liu, the director of as good or right conduct in terms of Oral contraception has a definite the Notre Dame Institute for the absolutes and must be based on em role in controlhng the world's popu Study of Population and Social pirical observations which he speaks lation. In America alone, the birth Change. of as normative. A sociological basis rate has decreased by one-fifth since The population problem is evident for moral behavior is possible only if 1957, while the use of the pill has in almost every part of the world. Dr. viewed in the sense of group norms. grown tremendously. Norman Ryder Thomas Carney, a Notre Dame alxmi- From the scientific angle, empirical of the University of Wisconsin feels nus and head of research at G.D. data can be utilized to clarify the that these two tendencies parallel Searle Company in Chicago, indicated alternatives to moral behavior, but each other in a very precise sense. He that from a purely statistical stand value judgements from scientists are found that after World War II fertility point the problem may be greatly vaUd only in their citizenship role. inflated for women, who were bearing magnified within our generation. An attempt at reaching any normative more children at younger ages. This During that time the population of moral behavior is feasible to the seemingly came to a halt in the early the world could conceivably climb to scientist only through cross-culture sixties when there was a definite four times its present total. To bring progi-ams. Christensen was involved change in the time pattern. Ryder's his point closer to the present, Dr. with such a program dealing with statements brought up some interest Carney stated that this meant a world groups of college students in the ing points for the ensuing discussants. increase of over 300,000 vidthin the Mormon country of Utah, students in Father Thomas Cochran of Catholic two days the conference was held. For the Midwest, and students in Den U., believes that the piU and fertil those involved with the population mark. The Denmark sample proved ity control merely postpone having problem, this is, in Carne3^s words, to be the most permissive of the three. children and therefore the motiva "a. sobering thought, indeed." They were freer in their ideas of love- making and considered it as a sort of tion of the individual couples is of the Reuben Hill of the University of utmost importance. Father Cochran IVIinnesota pointed out that while a package, not emphasizing the main tenance of chastity. However, there also pointed to the dilemma of the male methods of birth control were Catholic parents who are using the most common in the past, many was also a greater commitment and intention of eventual marriage on the pill, which is not traditionally ap husbands today are seen as "having proved by the Church. Michael Val- 12 The Scholastic JOHNSON AND MASTERS JOHN NOONAN A Lecture Well Attended A "Campus" Interview ente of Columbia University ex possible. This would allow one woman duced the distingm"shed lecturers and tended the idea by observing the to carry the child of another. Dr. remained as moderator throughout number of Catholics who have alien Carney stated that Stanford Universi the question-and-answer period. ated themselves spiritually from the ty has f oimd a way to keep premature Dr. Masters, who initiated the proj Church as a result of their apparent embryos alive in an artificial uterus ect in 1954 in Seattle, Washington, physical separation because of their and that the University of Chicago which culminated in the best seller, use of the pill. According to Valente, is on the verge of synthesizing human gave a twenty-minute lecture on gen the pill can raise ethical problems organisms. eral concepts and the particular diflB- with the involvement of more of the Lyle Saunders of the Ford Founda culties in doing research for the one-sided decisions as described by tion concluded the conference by work. At the time of the project's Reuben Hill. bringing out the lack of communica initiation, any work on sex met a Oral contraception is not, of course, tion throughout the world in the area certain amount of resistance. To be the only workable method of birth of population control. In a final sum gin with, there were difiiculties in ob control. Scientific research companies mation, Ronald Freedman of the taining the only book written on the are presently in heated competition University of Michigan reflected on subject up to that time. The study to find even more acceptable methods. what had been a rather poor year for led to interviews with prostitutes, Dr. Gordon Perkins of the Ford population control. Many problems studies of relevant psychiatric cases, Foundation reported on a daily pill have arisen and much work remains and finally to laboratory work with a which would be more solidified and to be done. Both Freedman and number of carefully screened and whose cost is insignificant. He spoke Saunders expressed mild pessimism dedicated men and women. of a rubber device which can be with the present situation. But the real work of the future will be the Masters and Johnson concentrated slipped under the skin where it se in three fields: problems of concep cretes a medication which prevents education of the world in view of the fantastic scientific findings. Dr. Car tion, contraceptives and their effects, conception. It is now reaching the and human sexual responses. point that wafers and biscuits may ney stated that science and all of be adequate replacements for the pill. the other fields are going through Study in the field of sexual response Growing scientific attention is being a period of "mental masturbation" in is just beginning. Dr. Masters pointed given to compounds which would which mere discussion sometimes re out that until 1960 there had never intervene between implantation and places the real challenge of popula been a college course concerned with ovulation. Dr. Carney also had in tion study: education. the human sexual response. When teresting observations on the existing ever a doctor was confronted with and future methods of birth control. problems of sex, contraceptives, or The idea of a sperm bank is fascinat conception, he had to rely on his own THE PHYSIOLOGy OF SEX experience because courses in sexual ing. The husband, in this process, On December 2, Doctors William would deposit amounts of sperm at psychiatry had not been available in Masters and Virginia Johnson, the co the medical schools. Thus the field is his doctor's oflSce and perform arti authors of the current best seller. in its pioneering stages. ficial insemination to beget children. Human Sexual Response^ gave a lec The husband could then become ture on an innocuous-sounding but Following the lecture was a 50- sterilized and not worry about the very connotative topic, or so thought minute question-and-answer period. time to have intercourse with his many, as evidenced by their attend Some conclusions: A man can never wife. For the women who cannot ance at the lecture—"The Physiology teU. how a woman will subjectively accept their husbands' sperm there is of Sex." Fifteen minutes before the respond to intercourse and ice versa. the bank from which they could lecture began, KD and SMC students IJnpotency in 95 to 97 cases out of receive artificial injections of sperm had flooded Washington Hall, flUing 100 is a psychological rather than and thereby conceive. Artificial in the seats and aisles. Dr. Arthur Rubel physiological defect. jections of fertilized eggs are also of the Sociology Department intro- Women are generally more physio- Dec. 16, 1966 13 :- ..,-v --:;;<-;v-;: .5-:..j>. ^.li YOUR FATHER'S MUSTACHE OLD POST OFFICE Beer, Banjos, and the Roaring '20s Possibilities logically responsive sexually than First: That freedom in the choice life. He claims that in marriage to men. Dr. Masters did note that an of a marriage partner is a right of day there is a need for love, a need exception to this rule occurs during every man and woman in the world. for fidelity, coupled with the insolu adolescence where both sexes are In the earlier days of the Christian bility of the marriage union. Hope multiorgasmic. culture, this choice was nonexistent: fully love is implicit in this relation The use of the pUl does not cut marriages were arranged by parents. ship between husband and wife. down on sexual intensity. But it does Professor Noonan also pointed out Finally, Dr. Noonan reflected on the leave some women with a sense of that in the early and even medieval lack of treatment in the preconciliar psychological loss to their potential days of Christendom, serfs, peasants Church of tlie physical aspect of love reproductive ability. Another effect and other "lower classes" were hardly in theology. Only in the past thirty of the pill is beginning to be seen in a even allowed to marry, but rather years has it even been discussed, and number of very scattered cases where were forced by their owners to live in only since Vatican H has it been sub some women have become disinter simple cohabitation, for the sole pur stantially treated. According to ested in the sexual act altogether. pose of procreation of mankind. Grad Noonan: "Vatican IE was the first Only further research will tell how ually the Chm'ch began to teach that council in the Church that ever dealt widespread this disinterest is—^if at everyone is free in the eyes of God in the meaning and purposes of all; at the moment, there have been to choose a specific partner and to marital intercomrse." few cases of the defect. The lecture- marry that person regardless of his Immediately following the meeting discussion was characterized by a parents' wishes. This eventually came at Catholic University, Dr. Noonan high level of interest and serious to be considered a right of the indi traveled to Manila, the Phihppines, to questioning and was most certainly vidual, and is accepted as such speak at the World Medical Congress the best-attended lecture in over two throughout the Christian world to on the "Catholic Church's Position in years. day. According to the Church, there Regard to Contraception." Here can be no physical or authoritative Noonan stressed the point that the coercion by parents or superiors to norm of the Church with regard to marry or not. CHANGING ROME'S OPINION contraception is open to change, and "The History of the Development Second: The Church for centuries in fact could change. He stressed the of Christian Marriage" was the topic taught that the purpose of marriage concept could^ not will. As yet it has for an address by a Notre Dame Pro was "procreation and education of not, but Professor Noonan sees areas fessor at a recent conference in Wash children." Professor Noonan brought and circumstances which cotdd ington, D.C. Professor John T. out the point that education in the change the opinion of Rome. He Noonan of the Notre Dame Law days of medieval thought meant edu states that we must make a distinc School delivered the opening talk at cation to the f idlest university degree, tion between personal values and the the Conference on Christian Marriage the "highest development of the in norm which protects them. On the in the Age of Vatican H, held at Cath tellectual and spiritual powers of subject of "the pill" Professor olic University on November 8-10. man." Today, however, this idea of Noonan claims that it is merely one Sponsored by many national or education has taken on a new context aspect of contraception, and one ganizations, among them the Catholic within the old. It is not the purpose which the press blew up out of all Theological Association, the Canon of the parents merely to send a son proportion. Law Society of America, and the or daughter to college, but rather to John T. Noonan is an alumnus of Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists, the take an integral part in the early Harvard Law School, and is the Washington Conference attempted to education of their children, to actually author of Contraception: A History answer the questions posed by Vatican teach them, from the first moments of of Its Treatment hy the Catlwlic n's approach to marriage. In his ad communication. Theologians and Canonists, published dress Professor Noonan noted the Third: Professor Noonan discussed in 1965- Early next year he will following major points. the place of conjugal love in marital travel to Puerto Rico to speak to the 14 The Scholastic SAMUEL E. KARFF NEW YORK CAMERATA Rabbi in the Theology Department The Concerts Are Free South Americans on contraception, mentioned fire truck ("You won't A new incentive plan is being of much as he did in the Philippines. believe this thing. It should take us fered which Rick Dunn, Raffle Chair Last April and June he was in Rome a day just to get it down to South man, hopes will spur the students to working on the Papal Commission on Bend," the 30-year-old head of the new mercenary heights. Besides the Population Control, and spoke at the enterprise was quoted as saying) fully equipped $3500 Triumph T-R 4, University of Louvain under the and a barbershop quartet from the two TWA 21-day excursion flight patronage of Cardinal Suenens, and to Glee Club wiU. be making the rounds tickets to Paris, a $650 Honda 160 and the Irish Theological Union. of the Notre Dame and St. Mary's a $425 Honda 90 which four peo campuses for at least a week before ple that have sold at least one that. book of tickets will win, a 20-per MARDI GRAS GOAL: $37,900 The February 3 Mardi Gras BaU, cent kickback wiU be given to all A fire truck, circa 1920, with although those that are running it those who sell under ten books, and leather belt drive. Sawdust on the don't like to call it a "ball" because a 30-percent kickback to those who floors in Christ the King Hall, to one of the innovations planned for seU over that amount. Those halls which peanut shells are to be mixed. this year's event is a social event that that achieve their quota in sales will Vests. Banjos. Beer at positively an is rousingly lively, as opposed to be treated to a $100 beer orgy. cient prices. And mustaches. Thou other such dances, will be held in the (This comes to slightly less than sands upon thousands of mustaches. North Dining Hall. The decorations the cost of a glass of ale for every These are some of the ingredients for will, once again, be complements of inhabitant of some place like DiUon.) the Mardi Gras' 1967 edition, the YFM. The two wings of the building Even Saint Mary's is being can theme of which is, improbably wiU be piano (non-alcoholic) beurs, vassed. An organizational structure enough, "Your Father's Mustache." while the center section will be a re across the road that has been termed And Mardi Gras this year stands production of a Your Father's Mus variously as "aggressive" and "better to be just as much of an improbable tache club. Meanwhile, to accommo organized than Notre Dame's" is lur reality as its theme suggests. A date the number of organizations that ing the femmes with two round-trip string of eleven clubs in major cities want to construct booths for the Car tickets to New York, a $400 gift cer throughout the country are supplying nival, the Mardi Gras committee tificate from Bonwit-Teller, and $50 the name. They are also supplying needs slightly over two Stepan Cen for the girls from the hall that sells vast quantities of atmosphere: as ters. the most tickets. Jim Barry, executive secretary, ex What tends to be lost in the midst plains it, the casually frantic "Dixie of aU these social manipulations is land, old-time. Roaring Twenties, the fact that the reason, ostensibly, THE 40 SUGGESTIONS speakeasy-type" style which has for Mardi Gras is a charitable one. Any and every authorized campus proved very attractive to collegians And this year the goal is Lyndon- organization was entitled to present in places like Boston, where the whole sized. Anticipated profits from the for consideration a suggestion for the thing started. New York, St. Louis, raffle of the 1967 Baroque Gold Cad use of the old Post Office which will New Orleans, Ocean City and else illac Calais plus the Mardi Gras week be evacuated in the spring. That was where. The newest place "elsewhere" end activities are in the vicinity of their first mistake, the Local Council is Chicago's "Old Town," where a $37,900. Last year's goal was only of the University, which controls the YFM club has been in existence for $24,000. One of the reasons for this use of campus buildings, found out two months. jump is that one of the Mardi Gras- recently. Over 40 suggestions have That club's facilities will be im financed student projects designed to poured in for consideration. ported in total—banjo bands, waiters, "ease the burden of abject poverty Some of them have been predict bartenders, garters and straw hats— and wretchedness," as General Chair able. The bookstore wants the build to Christ the King HaU for the Kick- man Don Potter puts it, is the paint ing, presumably to extend the selfless Off Dance on January 14. The earlier ing of the Student Center. (Continued on -page 33) Dec. 16, 1966 15 on other campuses « THE UNn^RSiTY of ]\'Iichigan's stu lifted the five-ton bird off its blocks thing at MU that shouldn't be de dent government reacted in a rathei' and moved it over a mile around the stroyed." unique way to a university ban on sit- campus to the front parking lot. The in demonstrations. They voted to plane was found the next morning, © SEX THOUSAND MALES at Wayne break off relations with the univer completely gift-wrapped in red and State University got slightly upset sity. The drastic move was in response blue paper. last month when they were all classi to action taken bj?^ Michigan Vice- fied 1-A by the Detroit draft boards. President for Student Affaii's Richard • "Is LEHIGH (Beth., Pa.) pricing it One of the students, Vartan Kupelian, Cutler who banned such demonstra self out of the education field, be also editor of the Wayne State Col tions if they interfered with the or coming a 'rich boys' school'?" opens legian^ investigated the upset and derly processes of the university. Two an editorial in a recent issue of that found the university had neglected to such protests were staged in the of university's school paper, the Brown send in the academic standing reports fices of vice-presidents recently to pro and White. The editorial goes on to the draft boards had requested. It test the release of organizational say that tuition will be raised an seems, once again, a broken computer membership lists to the House Com- other $200 in 1968 for a total of was at fault. m.ittee on Un-American Activities. $2,000 a year. Is Notre Dame be coming a rich boys' school? • SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, saw the first • FROM THE CLASSIFIED section of the "Blessing of the Cars" Mass in the Tulane Hullabaloo: "LOST: one black • " 'DEMOLITION-WATCHING' Becomes campus parking lot of Santa Clara m3ma bird with yeUow beak. Last New Campus Sport for Students" University. According to the cele seen flying due north from Freret and headlined the Marquette Tnbune re brant, a Father Wright, "People have Broadwa5^ Call Larry Rosenblum. cently. The article which followed always had things blessed that were Reward offered." Keep an eye out. described the wrecking of an ancient important to them. During the time of orphanage in Milwaukee. Students in Our Lord, fishermen wanted their terviewed at the site were ecstatic • AN AIR FORCE TF-191 Talon (that's fishing vessels blessed, and war sol a jet) was stationed on the main over the spectacle. "Rubble. That's quadrangle at St. Mary's College what we need around here, more rub diers wanted their guns and tanks (Concord, Calif.) for recruitment pur ble," commented one co-ed while am- blessed. Today, what means more to poses. During the night a group of other exclaimed, "The more destruc the college student than his or her students hijacked the plane. They tion, the better. I can't think of any own car?" feiffer 100 i^ocH ifjeoFmmoi- T00H(^CH6fgMPme OK) m - seem focR,tdor memoes, AMPRlCAfJ eKO06H peopLs on uei meooH issvm A ftJR OOPS! Chii FOP RETiRgMCH- 100 HO PRO- PAR[7<5M Wf fO^ OFTHf iJ5U-A5 |(jmRgUPnW6, LOW A9 we siAo HIT. 5ll5,aOTlaK)'T mrs w Hap " em cm m " wi\o vo. me , THyHB sucic- AV^RA6f^ THUHB- wmsetess imjc HAU OM THE ma M ^!^ ii.-(i 16 The Scholastic ANY YEAES AGO, when I was testing a transistor radio M I had just bviilt from a Christmas present, my wanderings across the frequency band brought me in con tact with an apparent lunatic who had a radio show on 1'^ (•i". : '^*'y- <>f- which he did nothing but tell stories about himself and 9iii try to shout down the commercials. Clearly this was no ,'' '^'^ mean individual, and I soon joined the ranks of those who every night tune to WOR, the favorite station of New York housewives, to listen to its sole contribution to the culture scene, the Jean ShepJiei^d Show. Shepherd's high jinks were legendary. He had been fired from radio stations numerous times for such of fenses as doing commercials for products that were not sponsors and causing riots in New York bookstores by incessantly recommending a book that did not exist. There was not an executive at WOR whom he had not insulted on the air, and he found it difhcult to keep any sponsor for more than a year. Nevertheless-, Shepherd's rabid fans refused to let him be dumped, and he has been rolling merrily along for more than a decade now, dispensing wisdom on one of the most curious shows in radio. He is a difiicult phenomenon to describe: his forte is telling funny stories, but he is certainly not a comedian (as he learned to his dismay during a recent television appearance); his work has a deeper significance than that. Shepherd depicts what the very essence of the <.v? ^larW American character is, by dredging up and analyzing mw-'- the major experiences of his life as a typical JVIid- western mill-town brat during the Depression. But at the same time that he brilliantly perceives and exposes many of the follies and fallacies of the American way of -o^,^.t%ty^ . life, curiously enough he wholeheartedly and un ashamedly embraces them. One admirer has aptly called him a modern-day "noble savage." Recently a generous selection from his radio broad casts — somewhat altered in form because of recent ap pearances in a popular magazine v/hose readership and editorial policies are frequently the butt of Shepherd's contemptuous jokes, but which pays excellent rates — MKW has appeared in book form under the title In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, and, Victor Borge notwith standing, it is one of the most important books of the year. In God We Trust is nominally a novel, but old n nouBl by Shepherd fans wiU realize that all its episodes are the pure, unvarnished truth. "Ralph Parker,"- the book's protagonist, is of course Shepherd himself, and all the JEnn SHEPHERD other familiar characters of the Shepherd corpus — Flick, Schwartz, Mr. Pulaski, Ludlow Kissel and of course the Old Man — appear under their correct names. This book is a collection of stories, apparently not Jean interconnected, dealing with a variety of subjects that at first blush would seem of no conceivable interest to any nonsenile person over the age of fourteen: subjects like !$hepherd secret decoder rings, buj^ng penny candy, firecrackers, and writing book reports in grammar school. But Shep herd knows that it is trivia like this that shapes the and the character of the man the boy will become, and he never fails to point out their significance. Shepherd's best efforts have a Joycean ring to them: Great each is capped by that sudden "epiphany" that makes the story comprehensible in retrospect. But the message is always basically the same: the shattering of the boy's rosy delusions, liie traumatic process of entering the American adiilt world that is so characteristic of our culture, the abrupt realization of the chasm between the American Dream and life's harsh exigencies. Shepherd edways Dream chooses his subject so that the reader cannot escape a constant sense of deja vu, the certain knowledge that Shepherd's experiences have been shared in one way or by Robert Sheehau another by everyone, inescapably. Witness this passage (Continued on -page 32) Dec. 16, 1966 17 THAT LITTLE EASTNA/ING IN THE BACK OF O'SHAUGHNESSY HALL BY ROBERT THOMAS TJie objects of art on these follow ing 'pages are all the products of stu dents in tlie undergraduate Fine Arts ScJwol. As explained in the iiinning copy, tJie work is all the result of long Iwurs of effort. Some of tlie drawbacks these students encounter are also nnentioned—in the Iwpes tJiat tlie best conditions might prevail in the East Wing of O'Sliaughnessy Hall. HEY WERE THERE_, all of them, in T the Architecture Auditorium to hear a lecture and view a retrospec tive slide show of the works of New York artist Will Bamet. They were students in the fine arts, painters mostly. They had an easygoing, in formal way about them. There was a relaxed, lemguorous elegance about the way they sat through Fr. Lauck's introduction of Bamet. They were waiting, not anxiously, but in terestedly. They wanted to see if Bamet had anything to tell them. He had survived as a painter for a good number of years, decades. They re spected that. And he had always been something of a maverick, branching out in his own style, going, his own way, in his very personal work. They respected that more. 18 The Scholastic They looked like an audience for Cinema 67 or any other cultural event at Notre Dame. Some of them looked like Republicans; wheat jeans, Wee- juns and button-down blue Gants, short hair parted on the side. And there were some turtleneck sweaters. Some had long straight hair that just hung. All their girls did. One of the grad students was in a dark suit and paisley tie. Black leather boots made an occasional appearance. The occa sion this time was the rain. They were a representative group of lib eral arts students. But they are different. They ap proach their work differently from the average student. It means more to them in itself. They are little con cerned with where it wiH get them. They are, or are in the process of be coming, artists. It takes work, hard work, hours of self-criticism and re working. Grating, depressing frus tration is something that they live with more often than they care to admit. A painting must satisfy them, solve the problem posed by the can vas in a way that gives them peace. A true artist does not leave a work vmtil he achieves that peace or despairs of ever attaining it from that work. Persistence is a necessary quality. Fat, lazy painters are never good. The surface of the canvas poses a problem to the artist. He must flU the area in an artistic fashion. That is, he must create within the framework of certain rules. To allow oneself to stray outside the confines of those rules is to lose the quality of art and degenerate into mere paint-pushing. To remain inside the confines of the rules requires a creative intelligence. The problems posed by the planes made by marks on the two-dimen sional canvas require intellectual so lutions, a great deal of thought. The planes must interwork somehow, into an organic unity. There is no hit-or- miss slopping of paint. They think about every stroke. Every mark is deliberate. They occupy that little east wing that leads past the dean's oflBce to the back of O'Shaughnessy Hall. The studios are cramped and each student has his own small, allotted place in which to work. The studios are in an amazing state of disarray. Tubes and cans of paint are scattered about chaotically. Brushes, knives and tape are all over the place. Scores of paintings—completed or still in prog ress—attack the eye with color. The small size of the studio area forces them to work close to each other. It promotes a personal close ness among them. They know each Dec. 16, 1966 19 other well and stick together discuss ing their art, its techniques, its prob lems and their various individual at tempts at solving them. They are aware of artistic developments out side the Univei'sity and their conver sation is laced with talk of op and pop and kinetic sculpture and gal leries, Chicago and New York. They are quite conscious of the fact that they are different from their fellow students here and though they are not cliquish and do not consciously keep nonart students away, they have heard the disparaging and hor ribly unjust "And they do this for credit!" aU too often. They would be the first to say that their primary responsibility is to sat isfy themselves in creating good art, but they are not unaware that art has become "more a mass movement in recent years," and that "art is big business." Most of them don't expect 20 The Scholastic P.',-j?>r„i'-^-•?',: r^.-t >; -A- ^ f/ii/k^i to get rich through art and would plimentary about a student's work eliminate that as a good reason for rather than offering the constructive becoming an artist. The reason that criticism that is desired. They feel they take up art is that they would that they have talent that should be not be happy doing anything else. taken seriously and not humored. There are far easier and surer ways When the subject of money is of making money. They are con brought up, strong feelings rise to scious, though, of people like Andy the surface. Art does not bring in Warhol, who have made their art very government research contracts. profitable. Therefore, there is no reason to build When asked about the art depart up the department. Where does the ment, many of them are reluctant to money go? To the engineers. Art speak. Many feel that the depart does not produce. It is the common ment leaves a lot to be desired. They reaction of many laymen, to whom say that money is pathetically short, the artist is a parasite, a nonpro so short that facilities are limited. ductive, living off the fruitful labors They are expected to buy their own of others in order to fill a canvas paints and materials, a bill that can with color. Why don't they DO run to $200 a semester, on top of pay something! is the oft-heard cry. Their ing tuition for their credits. There paintings aren't even pictures! is some dissatisfaction with the fac There are others in the Art De ulty of the department also. Often partment, sculptors and automotive heard is the comment that professors designers and there are interesting try too hard to say something com- things, exciting things being done in Dec. 16, 1966 21 those areas, too, but the main thrust what they are doing is worthwhile. of art at Notre Dame lies with the Will Bamet spent quite a bit of time painters. looking at student paintings while he They feel they have talent. Each was here. He was impressed. He left one feels so. They have to. Each here with the feeling that there were painting is a part of them that they indeed, interesting, exciting, worth hang for public display and criticism. while things being done in art at They have to feel that it is good, that Notre Dame. • 22 The Scholastic the outcome of the evening (any of six, with one pro style Sunday afternoon) would be when the Irish "pre vent" defense smothered the Bard's gambling tactics, based on his well-known soliloquies. Hoping for the big moment and a climactic strike, Shakespeare tossed some finely planned rhetoric during the play, only to have the Irish repeatedly bat it down to the stage and audience, dead and out of play. Crowds of Irish well-wishers filed out of the auditorium in a festive mood, very content with the performance of the home team and confident in their recognizable superiority. llout It is hard to say whether the production was disgrace ful; that depends, of course, upon what you are willing to accept. The most disheartening facet of this debacle was that this was Mr. Syburg's production of the year, t and after Firebugs of last year, I was greatly disap pointed. It was unlike the production earlier this year. The Potting Shed, which can be disparaged aU the way from the play's selection do^vn to its goriest details. Why by D. M. Burns, Jr. did Director Syburg choose to do a slough-off job on a classic play? Is this one of the many benefits of the newly combined Notre Dame-St. Mary's theater group? Perhaps, fans, you are hungering for the details of Due to the immediacy of the football wrap-wp we the recent contest, but alas! my respect for the dead is weren't able to re These are Jack Walker's sixth and seventh lettei's. His first five, excerpts of which ivere priiited earlier i7i the SCHOLASTIC (October 7, 1966), described his deployment to Viet Na77i from the United States, the duties of a Marine lieutenant in charge of a reconnaissance platoon, and the people of the Viet Nam villages. He iviites now "Then the rounds of combat and its men. Accompanying Walkei-'s letter's were South Vietnamese jjropaganda leaflets. fly and.... 23 October '66 HE REALITY OF IT, the reality of a lot of things T doesn't hit until the rounds start hying. I can sit on a ship or I can sit back here out of the fight and it he stands there really doesn't mean much, my musing about politics and war. But it's hard to keep aware of big-picture politics when I see my troops in the hospitals with heads, hands, or freezes legs, and stomachs mutilated. It's hard when human be ings are shooting to kill human beings and I can smell the fish odor of a dead Vietnamese falling into my lap. It's hard when I'm shocked out of sleep, probably dream and just disbelieves ing of the spring sun at Notre Dame or quiet nights at home, by the clatter of automatic weapons in an ambush. Probably dreaming . . . that's aU we think of in the for a moment." field. ITiat's all the troops talk about, over and above their personal sea stories. I react in ways totally foreign to me. There are stages of nervousness and everyone is subject to each stage in one sense or another — the first is general anticipation. ^gi.statxq:;,ccr guan^Quansi • NQ;gi4274 DR 24 The Scholastic One knows he is in it, that weapons may open up any You wouldn't believe the monsoon season. Imagine minute, but really there's nothing specific going on. Then rain as hard as you've known for 24 hours a day, nearly the rounds fly and the first reaction is disbelief. He seven days a week; mud up to ankles and knees, fog, stands there or freezes and just disbelieves for a moment clouds, mist, and so forth, all the time. Still the Viets run — the length of this moment is the critical period. Then around in their coolie hats and water oilcloths loving it. active, intense, bone-shaking fear sets in. Some shake Bare feet, rolled up P.J.'s and betel nuts. We slog around as if in a fit; some continue to freeze; most act from in the mud, cursing, sulking. One wonders at how low a training and instinct, shaking, incoherent, but acting, level an East-West dialog must start. We think they're doing something. Lastly, the period of reality, of a reality crazy for the way they live and they think we're crazy never so vivid, is characterized by a touch of insanity for being over here as well as the way we live. Some in some, by recklessness in others, by clean efficiency in times I think they might have the straight scoop. most. I have never been so proud of people as of my Marines in two or three firefights. Eighteen and nineteen years old, but ready to act in any way I decide under 8 November '66 fire, and act efficiently, completely. Election day at home. It's not as remote as one would It's so difficult to describe these things without sound think — we have access to all the newsmagazines albeit ing salty and theatrical. It's just another thing, so alien a week or two late, and we have (would you believe) to any other set of experiences, that I can't communicate. television every night v/ith the Armed Forces version Yet it's not as far out as I thought, if that can ring be of the evening news. We also have a good newspaper dis lievable. tributed every day on a limited basis. Every Sunday when The big action seems to be up north near the DMZ. I'm not in the field I listen to the ND-whoever game on Operation Prairie is only a continuation of Hastings and the radio. Notre Dame football is as big here as anywhere, the Third Marine Division is moving up, lock, stock, and and I've profited as much on side bets here as anywhere, confusion. The First Marine Division is moving from although payment is effected not in greenbacks but in Chu Lai to Danang, and the ROK Marines and the Army Tvlilitary Payment Currency or Piasters. wiU take over the Chu Lai area. If LBJ doesn't hustle up For some unknown reason the VC have been markedly with peace-making the US Forces might very well have quiet in the last two weeks. The monsoon season has a very decisive battle won this winter. been unusually dry — I came in this morning from patrol, and if we didn't have three rivers to cross, I'd have been able to write it off as my first completely dry patrol. Or^-: A «, Rain means misery in the bush — if you can imagine being completely wet for five days, hot during the day. cold at night, sleeping with the rain in your face, and fmm€ BiET 101 to CON :; humping hiUs with extra pounds of wetness in your gear, you can imagine the misery. When it's dry, it's not unlike camping out, except for the added tension of being in Charlie's hills. I ran into a problem during this patrol that I've not r'sSU moke 3dm-mmTHm had before — leeches. Only once before did Larry the leech get me — this time I picked 48 off my poor corpus and I counted 21 leech bites in the shower this morning. dT THIT My trouser legs were a mess of blood, and the poor Ger man shepherd scout dogs we had along left a bloody print wherever they stepped. This is a problem the in fantry contends with all the time. I've not worked the low ground before so this was my first encoimter. We were in elephant valley, which was an old French hunting reservation before 1946, now a favorite harbor site for the VC. It's a beautiful piece of land about twelve miles east of Danang full of waterfalls, cobblestone roads in need of repair, wild animals and leeches. How many college graduates have had the problem of stepping in wild elephant dung? There must be a better way of making a living. Morale is no problem. Americans are just plain funny no matter where they are. There are numerous signs and posters around, in addition to the little tidbits of humor sprinkled in all corners that attest to the presence of Americans. There's a sign at ASPI (Ammunition Supply Point) that reads, "Nine out of ten grunts prefer our ammo!" ("Grunt" is the common term applied to in fantrymen.) There's an aircraft fuel tank by the Danang airstrip on which is painted, "We don't give Green Stamps. Sorry." Each camp has a barber of Vietnamese extrac tion — oxirs is the local village chief. The troops have named him "Ho Chi Minh" and this is the only name he answers to. His wife does a lot of our laundry and answers to "Mrs. Ho Clii." Neither speaks a word of English. I could go on all day about the signs and ban mots that indicate "Joe" has arrived. And Joe has al •• • • --, V.-- '-,-,-1,;'%:/.-k-.:^' ways "got gum" as the little villagers know so well. S Dec. 16, 1966 25 feKOTbeR cbRisrMAS l3y TOM SULLlVAN "DROTHER CHRISTMAS was old now. sion, hke all good and lasting con years he had never left his doorless •^ In his time, in the days before versions had been sudden. Sitting in cell. Meals and baskets were slipped his conversion, he had been succes front of Pandora's one smoggy after through a grate. And every evening sively digger of ditches and circus noon, watching the parade of screw he received his tape for the next day, roustabout, ship's cook on a Great balls, he was handed a leaflet by a a carefully programmed reel of mag Lakes ore barge and manager of a barefoot man wearing a burlap bag. netic tape, prepared by the abbot, Cincinnati burlesque theater. Weary His lips formed lovingly around an specially designed to meet his particu at last of spangled fan dancers, he obscenity; and he moved to chuck the lar spiritual needs. had laced on his highway shoes and thing, thought better and read it. In Christmas Eve, then. Brother followed the sun west, and the cities block letters, cheaply printed: Christmas asleep on a thin pad in a along Route 66 were beads in a trav corner of the whitewashed cell. eller's rosary, joyful mysteries of ser- Repent! Around him, on twenty floors, faceless \dce stations and all-night diners. Be Give your loneliness to Christ. hermits, never seen by Brother Christ side the road at night, in his uneasy Learn and Live the Way of mas, groaned and twisted in their sleep, Brother Christmas dreamed of Ahenation! sleep. In the center of the cell, on the circuses and of black sequins, of fog Abandon your hope and discover floor, stood the tape recorder, the only gy lakes and of lonely watches. True Christianity. furniture. On the waU was a fold-out He came at last to Los Angeles, Apply: Hermitage of Our Lady of picture of a very purely naked young found a place playing tambourine and Angstj Los Angeles, Calif. lady, around whose head Brother rhythm guitar in a rock band, blovidng Christmas had pencilled a simple halo. his mind nightly among the hot lights With tears in his eyes he thought, "I Above it, the hands of a large electric and howling speakers, giving the se am a poor screwed-up twentieth-cen clock approached twelve. Beneath crets of his soul to the trembling steel tury S.O.B. I wiU leave my guitar and the clock a neatly lettered sign, strings of his Fender guitar, to have tambourine and follow Christ." And "Bethlehem." At two minutes before them digested by the glowing power he did. And he made his way out of midnight a relay chcked, and the tape tubes, amphfied and distorted and fi LA to the f oothiUs where the hermit recorder began to whir. The magnetic nally fed back, larger than life, to the age stood on a bluff overlooking the tape slipped through the pick-ups. souls of the screaming dancers. He valley. It was bigger than he had ex Two fifteen-inch speakers on the north lasted three months. Then, sick unto pected, a high-rise structure of gleam and south walls began to sputter. At death of "tonal electronic body explo ing white. It rose twenty stories, and precisely twelve a toneless voice in sions and electric thrUl jabs," no lon at the fifteenth floor two cantilevered toned, "Arise and bless the Lord!" ger believing the lyrics he sang, the transepts projected to make the entire Brother Christmas rolled automatical frenzied paeans to Skin Flowers and hermitage cruciform. There were ly from his pad, put on his combat Mushrooms, hating songs called three himdred windows and in each an boots, levis and burlap habit, his lips "Death Chant" and "Grass and Gods air-conditioning imit. Atop the cross, moving in the ritual prayers for vest in the Treetrunks," he left the group in neon lights, he read "Jesus Saves!" ing. "This day is born to you a Sa to become a street singer, settling at To be a monk then, a hermit. After vior" . . . invoked the recorder. "Who last in a small square of warm con his petition to the Abbot, Brother is Christ the Lord" responded Brother crete before a night club called Pan Christmas was accepted as a postu Christmas. dora's Box. There, along Sunset Strip, lant; and, after due time, he became Up now, he began to take his exer day and night he sang his songs, and a novice, playing the siUy games, cise, moving along the walls in the the songs became sadder with the planting the cabbages upside-down, path worn deep by years of wear. days. StiU, the life was endurable. The living the routine, learning the Rule Martial music poured from the speak beautiful young people, with their of the community and proving his ers. In ten minutes the music and brown skin and fine gold hair, carried worthiness. At length, his doubts re Brother Christmas stopped. He moved nothing but folding money; and the solved and his vocation firm, Brother to the window and looked out over boys, in boots of soft Spanish leather, Christmas took his perpetual vows of LA. The gleaming surfaces of the dis made great display of slipping him SUence, Isolation and Despair. On a tant Civic Center shimmered with fivers. Obligingly, he made great dis day in August he entered the hermit heat. Inversion obscured the horizon. play of accepting them, wiUing age forever. Brother Christmas closed his eyes and enough to be used, thinking of all That had been years ago. Now thought of Bethlehem where it was the eggs he would buy. For Brother Brother Christmas occupied a cell in 12:15 and cool night. Today was his Christmas (although that was not his the right transept of the soaring name day. He felt a twinge of hap name in those days) ate nothing but structure, in a wing reserved for those piness. three-minute eggs, preparing them in hermits who had grown old in Christ's Then the air-conditioned unit rat his small room, timing them by a service. For forty years he had spent tled menacingly and Handel's multi- record called "Satisfaction" which ran his days weaving baskets which would decibel Alleluias shook dust from the three minutes and twenty-four sec be collected in the evening and ceiling, then faded to provide back onds and yielded eggs of optimum burned. For forty years he had stood ground for Richard Burton reading consistency. by his window each night and the Roman Martyrology for Christ Those days were past. His conver- watched the smoke rise. For forty mas day: 26 The Scholastic In the year, from the ci'eation of the is a single man wearing a tragic louder. The psalms of Lauds began, world, when in the beginning God mask, circling the stage, strutting his but Brother Christmas missed his re created heaven and earth, five thou stuff. With magnificent gestures he de sponses. Lying on his back, staring at sand one hundred and ninety-nine; livers his speech, his voice ringing, the ceiling, he examined his conscience. from the flood, two thousand nine words of great pitch and moment. He He found that he had no hope, that hundred and fifty-seven; from the is all the tragic players, Oedipus and he had purified himself of that terrible birth of Abraham, tioo thousand Agamemnon, Hamlet and Lear. Then plague, emptied his soul of love and, and fifteen; from Moses and the he changes his mask and he is all the in the very narcissism of his despair, coming of the Israelites out of great clowns, a fool, a jester in found salvation. Brother Christmas Egypt, one thousand five hundred motley, Charlie Chaplin walk, Emmet was ready to die. He had passed his and ten; from the anointing of King KeUy fall, around the stage circling days in painless monotony, weaving David, one thousand and thirty- and countercircling, the wind taking his baskets and watching his hours two; in the sixty-fifth week accord his jibes. Finally, stage center, he pass by. Now he was aware of the ing to the prophecy of Daniel; in stops and removes his last mask. And last of his minutes and seconds mov the one hundred and ninety-fourth he faces around and he faces aroxmd ing like a breeze past his face. He re Olympiad; in the year seven hun and he faces around. It is only then solved to lie very still and never move dred and fifty-two from the found that he realizes that his performance again. His breathing was quiet and ing of the dty of Rome; in the has been for no one, that his words after a while it was inaudible. forty-second year of the empire of and gestures have been for a desert A few days later Brother Christmas Octavian Augustus when the whole and that above him the sky is empty." did die. Next to his name in the ar world was at peace; in the sixth The meditation ended. In the si chives of the community appeared the age of the world, Jesus Christ, eter lence the whir of the recorder and the legend: Moi-tuus est in odore aliena- nal God and Son of the eternal rattle of the air conditioner grew tionis. I Father, desirous to sanctify the world by His most merciful coining, having been conceived of the Holy Ghost, and nine montlis having elapsed since His conception^ is born in Bethlehem of Juda, having be come Man of the Virgin Mary. For a moment Brother Christmas felt a surge of affection for the white buildings and beautiful bodies of the world. He dismissed this emotion quickly as a temptation to weakness. His will moved swiftly to crush it. For a second he thought he saw the walls moving. He shut his eyes tightly. A musical tone from the recorder sig nalled the beginning of the meditation period. Brother Christmas swallowed a small blue capsule and sat down be side the skull which he kept by his bed. The tone continued steadily. The capsvde dissolved, and the drug en tered his system. It worked quickly. In fifteen minutes the tone ceased and the meditation began. Brother Christ mas lay on the floor now, his eyes di lated and unblinking. The words came to him from far away, from the end of a long tunnel. . . . "There is desert, burning, burning desert" Brother Christmas saw the desert. ". . . Desert to the edge of the horizon, a universe of desert. And in the center of the desert, a theater in the round, a sim ple structure of polished board with out set or scenery. And on this stage Dec. 16, 1966 27 ... And Frolicked in the Autumn Mist... Whither Goest Thou, Folk Music by Joel Garreau Last summer^ the autlwr yoorlced as caught the imagination of the record- the truly folk music, i.e., that of the a reporter for the PawtucTcet (R. I.) buying populace and swept an obscure ethnicisms of the Appalachians or Times. In tJiat capacity^ he spent four group of collegians, the Kingston the Texas State Prison (they really days at the Newport Folk Festival, m- Trio, to stardom. At the same time, do have a record out recording the terviewing performers. This article is electric cattle prods were being used soul stirrings of the inmates—strictly the paHial result of tJwse four days. to herd civil rights activists, and for the connoisseur), is less than that songs like "Birmingham JaU" began in the commercial types such as the HE VILLAGE Voice last week claimed to take on new and more immediate now defunct Chad Mitchell Trio, or Tthat folk rock had gone out the other meanings. And then came Peter, Paul Peter, Paul and Mary. end of its popularity. It's amusing and Mary, their imitators and succes However, high on the list of rec to think that people are already shov- sors. By 1962, what was termed the ords bought and climbing, are those eUng dirt over the casket of the "folk boom" was in fuH swing. of the rather esoteric, avant-garde movement that shocked the folk pur A reaction soon set in, but before "urban folk singers," one of whom is, ists completely only a year and a half it did, the basic instruments of the or was, Bob Dylan. Tending to turn ago. That was when Bob Dylan idiom, the six-string flat-top guitar, their attention to electric instruments showed up at the 1965 Newport Folk soared in sales. Right behind it were played in a more or less folk style, Festival with six-string electrical bat banjos and instruments that had been their songs are characteristically so tle axes and was consequently booed marked for extinction such as auto- phisticated analyses of the problems off the stage. harps, doboros and dulcimers. Big of a city-oriented society. Such is an Could it be less than a year ago record companies such as Columbia example of their type. Wrote the late since the sixth Peter, Paul and Mary and RCA Victor began to battle the Dick Farina (who was a noted folk album appeared with this remark on old standbys such as Folkways and musician in his own right), of Mark its jacket? the Library of Congress for recording Spoelstra, one of the avant-garde: "The Beatles have gone folk. Bob contracts. "Spoelstra came to the Hot Springs Dylan has gone pop, the yoimg Interest in folk music became a (in CaUfomia) at Big Sur from Fres bearded set in long hair and levis are fad. Who can forget, no matter how no. He was bearded, bundled in a digging the Rolling Stones, and even hard they try, the endless numbers of parka, and his crash helmet clattered Bob Shelton no longer considers him girls with long, veiy straight, (pref from the motorcycle ride along the self the folk music critic of the New erably blond) hair and soulful looks? treacherous south coast. Hot Springs York Times. He's now the pop music Nevertheless, Judy CoUins, the is one metaphysical focus of that critic." pretty, 27-year-old folk singer who elliptical, legendary country. . . ." Now, the Beatles have; disbanded, was one of the directors of the 1966 And so on. Such performers tend to Dylan is stiU in traction from his edition of the Newport Folk Festival, sing songs that smack of this same, simimer cycle confrontation with a admits that "there was a lot of junk somewhat less than journalistic style. tree, and the above-typed set is riot on the mai'ket during the - folk Some have called it surrealistic, ing on the Sunset Strip over the ques .'boom'." others worse. But this is where it's tion of their freedom to create a After two years of it, the Beatles' at, folk music aficionados will tell ghetto in their own image and like suddenly broke onto the record scene. you. ness. And only incidentally—^what Redefining rock and roll, they aban This seems to be the key to the ever happened to Bob Shelton, any doned tj^ically simplistic three-chord whole folk music situation. Any loss way? progressions in their music. Then, ol in mass popularity is being offset by The album whose jacket was quoted course, Dylan started to wrap the Big the new directions in which folk above was titled "See What Tomor Beat aroimd meaningful words. And music is going. row Brings," and fittingly so, for the fads started to congeal around Liam Clancy (a member of the folk many are waiting to do just that in his type. That was when the ugly singing group of the Clancy Brothers regard to folk music. What are the rumors about folk music's premature and Tommy Makem who. were at trends now in folk music? Is the demise started. Notre Dame recently) was inter style on the way out? Is the music It's true that amateurs that would viewed at the 1966 Newport Folk form that fostered a multimillion- be professional folk singers are hav Festival. The decline in the "boom" doUar industry dying? ing a harder time than ever finding came, he says, "when the old songs Not really. The thing is that the jobs. On the other hand, national that had always been around became whole complexion of the idiom is sales of folk instruments continue to familiar to the masses." It was at changing, and many have trouble rec rise, although rock and roll sales have this time, he continues, that "new ognizing the booming phenomenon a definite edge. styles had to be developed . . . there that is now folk music. Disc sales are also holding steady, came a polishing of the music . . . In the late '50's, a reconstructed but they point up some interesting the process of change began." Civil War baUad, "Tom Dooley," trends. Not surprisingly, interest in (Continued on page 31) 28 The Scholastic sidelines and Notre Dame won the bowl until FENCING (1-0) A FAMILY AFFAIR Notre Dame 21, Illinois (Chicago Cir It had been over a decade since June. State should have known their luck cle) 6. Notre Dame had placed an unusual HOCKEY (2-0) number of players on the nation's ran out early in the second quarter back on November 19. The week Notre Dame 4, Beloit (Wise.) 0. All-American teams, until UPI and Notre Dame 9, Lewis 1. the rest came out with their 1966 after the tie, they went to battle the Irish again in the open forum of selections. It was almost a family THIS WEEK affair. Nine were named to the first opinion and debate. The University two teams in the UPI polling, six to of Detroit, which has been aching to DECEMBER 14 the first team Football News^ four get back into big-time football, in Basketball: St. Norbert College at to the first team American Coaches vited the MSU and ND orators to Notre Dame (8:00). Association, and four to Time maga debate the statement: "Our team is Sioimming: Ball State at Muncie, Ind. zine's team. Individually, Tom Reg- the number-one football team in the DECEMBER 17 ner, Nick Eddy, Alan Page, Pete nation." On Wednesday, November Basketball: St. John's at Jamaica, Duranko and Jim Lynch were listed 30, ND Sophomores Pat Raher and N.Y. on almost everyone's super squad, but Jim Rice faced two Spartans over DECEIVIBER 19 Captain Lynch received the most radio and television and walked off Hockey: Christmas Tourney in Chi with a bowl of roses, a trophy, and esoteric of honors from the National cago Stadium. Football Foundation and HaU of the national championship in the U. of D. Debate Judges Poll. Basing DECEMBER 20 Fame, in the form of a $500 grant, Basketball: Indiana University at Fort one of nine issued yearly to prospec their arguments on Notre Dame's su perior statistics, greater number of Wayne. tive graduate students who spend Hockey: Second round, Christmas their spare time on the football field. Ail-Americans, and the injury-ridden Irish comeback, they scored a 2-1 Tourney. victory by the vote of the Detroit DECEMBER 23 THE SUPER SOPHS debate coach and two Wayne State Basketball: U.CX.A. at Los Angeles. The National Championship uproar oflficials. DECEMBER 25-30 at Michigan State and Alabama was Basketball: Rainbow Qassic at Hono hardly quenched when Notre Dame FOR THE RECORD lulu, Hawaii. blasted USC, 51-0, and received the DECEMBER 28 number-one ranking in both the AP BASKETBALL (1-3) Svnmming: Ohio University at Ath and UPI poUs. Notre Dame 100, Lewis 76. But if the Spartans have any re ens, Ohio. Toledo 98, Notre Dame 80. DECEMBER 31 spect for omens, they'll accept second Detroit 75, Notre Dame 74. place without an argument. Not only Evansville 105, Notre Dame 99. Basketball: Kentucky at Louisville. JANUARY 6 has State, gone winless in the polls, SWniMING (2-0) they've also lost the McArthur Bowl Notre Dame 70, Eastern Mich. 68 Fencing: Western Reserve at Cleve and the Debate of the Decade., The (preseason). land. bowl - for years has been the most Notre Dame 74, Buffalo 21. JANUARY 7 sensible elector of the National Cham Basketball: Air Force Academy at pions, and in 1966 it was split be - Notre Dame 67, St. Bonaventure 28. WRESTLING (1-0) Notre Dame. tween Notre Dame and the Spartans. Fencing: Cleveland State and Oberlin Since gold-plated trophies were made Indiana State Tournament, Roger Fox, second place; heavyweight. at Cleveland. to be kept in one piece, Coaches Par- JANUARY 11 seghian and Daugherty tossed a coin, Notre Danie 25, Valparaiso 8. Basketball: King's College at Notre Dec. 16, 1966 Dame. 29 A FAULTY FLOOR SHOW by Larry Bright "W'ou KNOW how it is the morning after the "night fact, Notre Dame was shut out completely for almost ^ before." You are almost, but not quite, awake. You're two minutes. Despite the desperation efforts of Monahan, thinking to yourself that your condition isn't really all the visitors took the lead 72-71 on Brisker's jumper off that serious. But one look in the mirror and the truth the tan end of a costly and ridiculous floor error. "It is out. This was John Dee, as he sat in his ofiice, talking makes you feel embarrassed as a coach when you see about his "all-nighter," the Detroit game. "It makes you things like that," Dee moaned. sick to your stomach when you lose like that but you try Evansville, notorious for their perennial seven-man not to let it show. "V^^en a sophomore leads you in scoring press, seemed a replay. Off to an early lead, the Irish, and rebounding every night, you know it's got to get hampered by sloppy floor play, feU. behind by 11. Their better." dramatic comeback to tie the score at the end of regulation Young teams normally experience a period of adjust play was ag£un second-line news to the final score. ment in their early games and then gradually blend into What is to come? "With the schedule we play, where a cohesive unit with the confidence that only competition the big teams we meet are away from home, we must can bring. This was the thesis of the red-eyed Irish coach, be at least twenty points better than whoever we face," talking about the one his team had given away. "Given" Dee evaluated. because they had seen a nine-point lead compiled in One factor contributing to this point spread is the thirty-one minutes of respectable basketball dissolve in foul line, where road games, not to mention close games, nine minutes of what appeared to be Dr. Naismith's first are many times decided. From the foul line against De class at the Y. troit, the Irish shot nine of twenty-three, a .391 percent Dominated by sophomores, the Irish had opened with age. At EvansviUe, they improved on that somewhat, an easy win over easy Lewis, a game which saw the hitting 64%, still far from what a good college team flashes of good basketball but also the holes, notably 24 should shoot. On the other hand, the Irish have outshot errors. Against Toledo, the Irish shortcomings were most of their opponents from the field. Detroit hit only glaringly exposed as any young team's handicaps would 39% of their field goals but 80% from the charity line, be on their first road trip. But Detroit was the big test. and won. An even match in personnel and experience, the game Dee had planned to build his offense around Whitmore, was viewed as the first accurate measuring of the poten who has proved himself at the center post, and Arnzen, tial of Notre Dame. Could the holes be filled? Could the whose 22-point average attests to his scoring potential. But sophomores settle into a.steady style of play? the lack of a solid backcourt has diminished their effective If the first half proved anything, it was that Notre ness. Against Detroit's man-to-man backcourt press, the Dame had the capacity to jell. The Irish opened to a Irish were able to break half court but seemed to relax commanding ten-point lead through the first ten minutes afterwards. "We get the ball over the line and then we of play. But soon the holes everyone thought plugged, look for a medal," Dee said, "if we can only capitalize on at least for this evening, were opened and the nightmare the advantage of beating one guy, we'll start to improve." was on. Detroit's pressing defense forced the Irish into But through four contests, an average of 25 floor recurring miscues, cutting down on Notre Dame's scoring errors per game stands as frustrating evidence that the opportunities while adding fuel to Detroit's comeback. In rough edges have yet to be smoothed. • 30 The Scholastic Whither Goest. Thou (Continued from -page 28J Although easily to be considered Voice in the Crowd not only a singer of ethnic songs, but an ethnic folk singer, Liam sees this By the time December rolled around in years prior to this one, the change as hardly unexpectable, and coUegiate football graduates, the nation's seniors, were gathering what's more, not at aU detracting around the bargaining tables to talk contract with representatives from from interest in music such as his. both the N.F.L. and their younger but just as willing rival, the A.F.L. That is, "we're making more money Stars like Namath and Huarte could practically name their prices and than ever," says he, at the same time Jack Snow could even demand that the Vikings trade him to a team that folk-rock, blues, blue-grass, and that operated in a warmer climate. folk-jazz are carving their own niches. Earl Scruggs, a bluegrass, country Now Steve Spurrier is asking half a million and Nick Eddy has music star of Grand Ole Opry fame already agreed to a reported two hundred thousand. But today, this who £dso appeared at Newport, year. Spurrier won't be granted his wish because he has lost the one agrees. "Folk music is not necessarily ingredient his predecessors at the contract table had — bargaining any bigger than it ever was, but it power. Despite his Heisman Trophy credentials and the fact that the definitely is expanding outwards as New York Giants cire in dire need of his arm. Spurrier will either take the peak of its fad popularity is what the Giants deem a suitable sum or look elsewhere for offers, but knocked off." buyers will be scarce at his list price. At any rate, the likes of Pete Seegar, the grand old man of the On the surface, this year's draft will undergo a vast revision due music, cautioned, as he was walking to the future merging of the two leagues, but there is a strong and to a traditional song workshop, "A recurring rumor that both leagues will resort to the secret draft in lot of people think that just because late December, making the scheduled draft in mid-January a formality. a song is not in the .hit parade, a Regardless, the college seniors and their personal lawyers will sit back style of music is dead, or out. TeU and await the formal results. This year's college senior is in much the 'em . . . you tell 'em . . . this is a pile same position as a holdout in baseball or any other professional sport. of (vulgarity). You teU 'em that." He C£ui either balk for more money and hope that his future employer And he has a point. Folk seems can't afford not to sign him., or take the chance of being released as to be doing what jazz did six or seven a free agent. The only other possibility is an offer from Canada. years ago. Those "enthusiasts" are This year, except in the case of "futures" like Nick Eddy and Pete being lost who thought they were in Duranko, the six-digit figures wiU be few. terested in the music just because the crowd pleasers appealed to them. As the winter sports unfold, the presence of sophomores wiU Judy Collins muses, "The real in effect unexpected achievements and excitement in much the same way terest in traditional folk music is just that Hanratty, Seymour and O'Brien captured the headlines for ten beginning to take hold. Just look at weeks during the football season. Not only were they good print, they the Festival (which broke attendance became a necessity late in the season. Bob Gladieux filled in brilliantly records, while featuring few 'name' for Nick Eddy at Lansing and for three quarters of the Southern Cali performers). In the long run, a wider fornia game the offense was composed of five sophomores, regulars and more stable interest will develop. Seymour and Kuchenberg, and substitutes Tim Monty, Tom McKinley One thing evolves from another. and Coley O'Brien. People eventually work back to the origins of the music they go for. . . . The success of the basketball team is in the hands of two more If they like rock and roU, for ex sophomores. Bob Whitmore and Bob Amzen, who lead the Irish in botli ample, they'll get back to Nashville the scoring and rebounding departments. Arnzen has twice hit for and the blues, and so on. It comes in thirty points and Whitmore has been in double figures in the rebounding phases. The Kingston Trio led people column in three of his team's four contests. to enjoy Pete Seegar, who made people become able to appreciate Ed When the indoor track season gets under way three additions to Young and the Southern Fife and Alex Wilson's squad, all sophomores, should enable the Irish to field Drum Corps. From one thing, you their strongest team in years. Perennially weak in the sprints and field learn to appreciate the other." events, Notre Dame now has the dash men and a high jumper to blend "The hootenanny thing was artifi with the always reliable distance and middle distance men. BiU Hurd cial: trumped up by records, tele has recovered from a serious thigh injury and is running his cus vision and the like," said Tom Pax- tomary 6.2 sixty-yarders in practice. Right on his heels is another ton, one of folk music's most pro sophomore from Norway, Ole Skarstine, who has also been clocked at lific songwriters. "If anything has 6.2 this year. Hurd and Skarstine wiU double in the 220-yard event changed for me as a professional and Bill will triple as a broad jumper. For added field strength Ed since the slackening of the folk Broderick wiU collect valuable points in the high jump where he already 'boom,' it's that I don't have to put holds the Notre Dame indoor record. up with (things like) small coffee houses, especially in the IVIidwest, Notre Dame will lose nine proven athletes to the pro football ranks that had little or no musical value." this January, but outstanding performances by sophomores will ensure He, like others, had got to the point continued success in the seasons to come. that if he had been asked to sing "Puff, the Magic Dragon" just one — MIKE BRADLEY more time, he was going to breathe fire. I Dec. 16, 1966 31 J eaii Shepherd Irish Rout Shakespeare (ContiJiued from "page It) (Continued from page 28) from "The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the physical, dramatic vehicle for its expression. Mr. Franke, Message": on the other hand, who is by far the most gifted of the "Hurry up! Randy's gotta go!" Now what! locals, seemed disinterested,.as though he walked through "I'll be right out, ma! Gee whiz!" I shouted his part, being very cavalier as to how much of the hoarsely, sweat dripping off my nose. depth of his role he would study and present in his per S ... u ... 15 ... R ... E. BE SURE! A message was formance. It seemed as though he only bothered to pick coming through! Excitement gripped my gut. I was up the easy highlights of his role, though these weren't getting The Word: be sure. distinguishably Prospero. In particular, he made very 14 . 8 ... T ... 0 ... BE SURE TO what? What good gestures and deliveries upon entrances and exits was Little Orphan Annie trying to say? 17 ... 9 where a certain suddenness and vitality seem called for. BR ... 16 ... 12 ... I ... 9 ... N ... K ... 32 Perhaps he was bored and couldn't interest himself in . . . OVA . . . 19 . . .LT . . . 12 . . . I . . . working with the circumstances presented. I sat for a long moment in that steaming room, The stage setting was dull and unimaginative. It re staring down at my Indian Chief notebook. A crummy sembled a sepulcher and I don't think that is a valid commercial! interpretation of Shakespeare's intentions. Or this; one of the most evocative passages in English The casting was atrocious. Whether there was any literature: unified concept behind it I find a seriously doubtful mat On it went, my mother systematically degrading ter. Ariel (Amanda Crabtree) was like Mickey Rooney's our hves by simply telling the truth. She invented giggling Puck of long ago. ActuaUy she was more like nothing. Before the Assessor came, we always pre a Las Vegas floor show girl and the crowd loved her tended that the holes in the rug didn't exist and the "spriting." picture wasn't an original Woolworth; the refriger ator not a crummy piece of tin that soured milk and The humorous parts, Trinculo (Bill Noe) and curdled cream. Here she was, laying it down — the Stephano (Warren Bowles), were translated into terms truth. And I am hearing it; a kid. Who loved his of Jonathan Winters and Bill Cosby, both of whom are home and the things in it. fine, on television. "No, Ma! Ma, it's our refrigerator! It has great These examples are aU symptoms of what seem to be ice cubes! And our great rug! I lay on it and follow greater problems. It is true that Shakespeare wrote his the pattern with my eyes! It's a beautiful rug! With plays for the Globe Theater and their popular success gold fringe! Ma, it's not a terrible rug!!" was immediate. Does this justify such things as the style Who can deny that just such things as these have hap of delivery of Trinculo and Stephano? Would Shake pened to him, and that it is just such minor events that speare have presented such imitations in a straightfor adumbrate the future courses of our lives. As Shepherd ward manner? By so doing, one is in effect avoiding the says, we become aware quite early in our hves whether play. The scenes stand out as funny, but like "Ed SuUivan we are destined to be winners or losers: "One crowd Show" routines, they are outside of, the workings of the goes on to become the Official people, peering out at us play. It is very similar to punching someone who is un from television screens, magazine covers. They are for conscious, in that Shakespeare doesn't get the last word ever appearing in newsreels, carrying attache cases, sur in his play though he probably would have loved the rounded by banks of microphones while the world waits irony of the situation. for their decisions and statements. And the rest of us go All of the above raises the question as to the necessity, on to become ... just us." first of aU, of scheduhng Shakespeare, and secondly, of Shepherd is a master at digging up minor aspects of keeping to that schedule. Potting Shed was a stiff; noth American culture that tell more about our society than ing could be done about that. But why rush through many more prominent facts. For example, there is this the few great plays the world has, stumbling over your piece from an essay on the Fourth of July: own shoelaces? Do the local directors look ahead selecting I remember guys sitting on their front porches, plays to see that they can meet cast requirements? Also, tossing d3mamite — I mean masting djoiamite! — out why keep something on the schedule when you see the on the streets, just for kicks. Northern Indiana is full opportunity for a change or the necessity for one? That of primeval types who've drifted up from the restless the locals never do this fits in with the general impres hills of Kentucky and the gulches of Tennessee, sion one gets of a "tired" group. bringing with them suitcases filled with d3niamite There is no need to go any further with this. I find saved over from the time Grampaw blew up the it particularly embarrassing to review this sort of per stumps in the Back Forty. And they brought it to the formance and, more generally, this attitude in the public. city with them, because you never can tell, and since No responsibility seems shared by either theater direc they never had any money for fireworks there was tors or public — they accept each other gladly. There only one thing to. . . . Dynamite was the milk of life will be a musical once a year, the annual hit, and the to the average hillbilly of the day. He celebrated crowds wiU find it "boffo!" Perhaps that is because it with it, feuded with it, and fished with it. will be as cream puff as rooting for your football team. Shepherd would be the first to admit that he is just Actually, one shouldn't complain on that score, since as much of a slob as the people about whom he writes, interest in anything for which Time or the newspapers but he would insist that basically almost everyone is. don't give stars will be lessened here. "Culture" does have Perhaps that is the stem of his pecuhar genius: rarely friends here — you might have gotten a ride to the play has America had such a discerning and, at tlie same in a Cushmann golf cart, dreadnought class, if you had time, fuUy-experienced poet to sing her folkways. It's the right friend. It gets tiring to sigh about the second- unfortimate that the latest time capsule has already been rate expressions of a naked, ineffective intellectuality. sealed, for I feel sure that Shepherd's work will long Certainly such will perdure for several plays and state remain one of the finest portraits of the twentieth-cen ments and so on. I, for one, am leaving for vacation, tury American social character ever made. • and hope to see more significant theatrical attempts. • 32 The Scholastic Campus (Holy Trinity) in Fort Wayne, Ind. stimulate academic and personal in Rabbi Karff's recommendation to terest in the study of religion and (Continued from 'page 15) Notre Dame comes from an organiza its relation to the problems of man. service they have provided the stu tion known as the Jewish Chautauqua Coming up next semester—a Prince dent body. The laundry people would Society, one of whose aims is to place ton professor to lecture on the history like to see it turned into something Jewish scholars in teaching positions of Protestant worship. like a Chinese "no-tickee, no shirtee" in non-Jewish educational environ establishment, too. The Guidance and ments. Rabbi Karff, an authority on Testing Department would like a Semitic writing, teaches a graduate CHAMBER MUSIC place to guide and test people in, course in Hebrew literature. A flute, a ceUo, a piano—an vn- as would the Psychology Department. Father Stephanou teaches an un usual combination of instruments. The security police want a place to dergraduate theology course, "God But on Wednesday night, December 7, make strategic retreats to. Even the and Man," plus a graduate study of the three were played together as the Peace Corps, perpetuating the dust Greek Orthodox doctrine. He was en New York Camerata presented a pro vmto dust thing, wants to keep the old listed for Notre Dame thanks to the gram in the Saint Mary's Little The mail center in the hands of the gov efforts of Rev. Albert L. Schlitzer, ater. The concert was chamber music, ernment. C.S.C, head of the Theology Depart an old form of composition for smaU Coming closer to reality, one sug ment. groups of instruments. The perform gestion that received close considera "Catholics do not have a corner ance—the fifth in the 1966-67 Saint tion was for the establishment of a on theological insights," admits Fr. Mary's Music Department series — vending service center, not unlike Schlitzer in explaining the appoint was unique. that in the basement of the library. ments. In the past Catholics have Formed three years ago, the Cam This was turned down because many rejected different religious faiths with erata was organized by three young feared that it would turn the center out any investigation, asserting that musicians who enjoyed playing cham of campus into a garbage dump and Roman Catholicism is the only faith ber music together. Today it includes furthermore, would conflict with the acceptable to God, man's sole path to William Wittig, flutist and teacher at business of the pay Caf and the salvation. Now, in the post-Vatican H Ball State University; Charles Huddle. period, "there is a new spirit, even Forbes, cellist and student of Pablo Another idea was to turn it into a for common worship and sharing of Casals; and Glenn Jacobsen, pianist "student discussion center." How the faith." and teacher in New York. AH have ever, since its role is basically passive done graduate work on national fel —that is, not offering services, just a Dialogue among persons holding lowships and have made individual place to congregate—many feel that different ideas and points of view is concert tours. the Student Center is adequate. a vital ingredient in the process of The program presented here was continuing education. While there has varied. It included works by com The Senate last, Tuesday passed long been a creative tension in the unanimously a motion that would posers from the early eighteenth cen political field, only recently has the tury to the twentieth (Telemann, make the place into an on-campus category of religion opened itself to edition of Frankie's, sans brew. Be Haydn, von Weber, Villa Lobos, and discussion, exploration, and construc Martinu). The response of the more fore the new library was built, the tive criticism. The Roman Catholic proprietor of what is now Louie's than two hundred people attending Church, through the resolutions of the concert was warm, so much so owned a restaurant in the east part the Council, has made its flock aware of the campus where students gath that the Camerata has been asked to that everything worthwhile has not return for next year's season. ered for pizza and the like. A re been said by Catholics. incarnation of this type of restaurant- This season, the Music Department coffeehouse is the gleam in Student The centuries-old separation of the has been aided by an increased Government's eye. The only hurdle Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and budget, mciking more concerts pos left now, according to Tom Holstein, Jewish faiths has just now begun to sible. So far they have presented pro co-sponsor with Tom McKenna of the mend, according to Father Schlitzer. grams by Terence and Patricia Senate motion, is to convince the Ad More basic than the results of the Shook, artists - in - residence; Mad ministration that the idea of a place Council is the realization that Catho eleine Carabo-Cone, innovator in pri where you can take a date after a lics don't know it all. Other people mary music education; Rev. Patrick dance or where you can go to find can provide some of the answers, a Maloney, C.S.C, tenor; and the Michi- nourishment halfway through an all- justification for the appointments of ana String Quartet. The concerts are nighter, is a good more common than Rabbi Ksirff and Father Stephanou. usually free and attendance is higher any other suggestion. Father Schlitzer sees no danger of a than last year's. loss of faith among students because Later this year the Department will they have been instructed by non- present a combined Notre Dame- OPENING UP THEOLOGY Catiiolics. He feels that rehgion is Saint Mary's Spring Glee Club Con Commuting to campus is a head now becoming less of an institution cert and student recitals in addition ache for profs who live in a metro and more of an individual, personal to the regular concerts. The Depart politan area. Two who feel this prob affair. Today's Catholic is a more ment at Saint Mary's has approxi lem most acutely are new members mature person, anxious to know more mately 25 music majors, most con of Notre Dame's Theology Dept. about his faith. One method of study centrating in music education. Plans Rabbi Samuel E. Karff and Rev. is exchange of information with are being made now by Sister M. Eusebius A. Stephanou log a total of people of diverse opinions. Dolorosa, C.S.C, and Rev. G. Carl about seven hundred miles a week In the future the Theology Depart Hager, C.S.C, heads of the Saint in their twice-a-week trips to Notre ment hopes to introduce more teachers Mary's and Notre Dame departments, Dame for classes. Rabbi Karff comes of other faiths to the Notre Dame for a number of coex "music classes to us from the Sinai Congregation of intellectual community. Men of the next fall and for greater coordination Chicago, while Father Stephanou is vitality and energy of Father Steph between the ND and SMC depart pastor of a Greek Orthodox Church anou and Rabbi Karff can do much to ments on concerts. • Dec. 16, 1966 33 ACK WALKER, a friend, and now four with the problem through one and Jmonths in Viet Nam, writes again one-half-inch headlines in the South this week of his experience and his Bend Tribune is unlikely. There are Dan thoughts there. The year before I perpetually Navy and Marine re came to Notre Dame he corre cruiters in the lobby of the dining sponded, telling of the campus, of halls who too much resemble agents Murray the football spirit, of studies, of for a Mardi Gras raffle, a concert, or activities. The air of quiet sophistica a computer dance. And when one can tion typical of senior year marked glory in the delight of a National The what he wrote. Championship year, why should one In Viet Nam he seems a little less suffer over such a problem? certain. Not that he has become half Viet Nam may make the occasion Last hearted in his effort, but as he says, for a good debate, it's fashionable to "it's hard" to watch troops and pray for peace at Mass these days, civilians die, on both sides. even prowar students will participate in peace vigils in chapels. But we Word For us it is not given to be un are far away from Viet Nam, and it certain. The self-righteousness that seems no matter how much we want marks especially the hawks and the to understand, we cannot. doves somehow subtly testifies to our removal from the battlefield. We Eire If the battlefield is alien to us and too far away to understand. even if "the reality of a lot of things won't hit until the rounds start fly Pictures pour forth endlessly from ing," there are ways in which we ex Viet Nam. A chUd in the arms of perience the very heart of what is in his deceased mother, a mutilated volved in the war. It is perhaps best American soldier, a decapitated VC seen in marriage. The husband and —^pictures of these captui-e a part wife love each other profoundly, but of the war but capture it so inad they are always imcertain as to equately that scenes now common whether their love is selfish or self place inure one to the suffering rather less. There is a certain way in which than cause sympathy and compassion. we as persons are always concerned Art Buchwald writes of the possibility about what others think of us — and of TV instant-replay with stop action we question whether this is simply now that a Comstat satellite bridges vanity or a desire to please others. the Pacific. Perhaps the exact The nation experiences the same am moment of death can be captured. biguity: is its concern for Viet Nam The thought is revolting, and we selfishness or a real desire to help? would prefer to forget. If we seek to Does it act in arrogance or in a de withdraw from Viet Nam, there will sire to help others? And to those who doubtless be assassinations and re would propose a simple answer to criminations as there are now. If we this dilemma, we would recall our stay, the bombs wiU continue to drop, own feeling at times of being pro £ind many will be sacrificed to secure foundly two-faced. a ragged remnant of self-determina The dilemma of Viet Nam we ex tion and freedom for the South perience concretely in our own lives. Vietnamese. Either way blood will But that we should worry about our be spilled, and we wiU be responsible. duplicity as persons and as nations Carrying a protest placard, waving is already a sign of our remorse. In the flag of freedom wiU not wash our this awareness of a need for forgive hands of that blood. ness, in the seeds of humility that we In important respects the Notre already see in our nation and others Dame student has hidden himself from as we become more profoimdly con the realities of the battlefield. It's cerned with the war, lies the hope of only natural. To become involved Christ's rebirth in 1966. 34 Eyes right for the new Noreico Tripleheader Speedshaver 35T. 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