Jacques Maritain's 'Ieducation at the Crossroads" Abyss of Personal Freedom and of the Personal Thirst And

Keep the homefront scholastic informed Vol. 119, No.1, September 9, 1977 Notre Dame, Indiana Send them a subscription COME ALL!· thi~ year FEATURES DARBY'S PLACE 4 My Favorite Book. in Educational Theory Joseph W. Evans Ir------, ' I 8 Do Not Go Joyfully Into That Good Night Dave Myers I Scholastic I LaFortune Student Center I I 10 "Dear Lutie •••" Cole Finegan I Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 I I I 12 Prognosis 77: "Irish Eyes Are Smiling" Ray O'Brien I Please send ...... years of Scholastic I I I I at $5.00 per year to: I Sun. thru Thurs. I ' I Midnight to 4 p.m. I Name ...... I Basement of LaFortune REGULARS I I Fr. Griffin - Proprietor I Address ...... I 7 People at ND Lisa Michels, Jim Romanelli I . I I City...... I 14 The Last Word Kathleen McElroy I ' I I State...... Zip ...... I L J CREDITS Illustrations: Sherry Simon 11 / Lee Hend ricks. 12, 13. Photographs: Tom Everman 5, 7, 9, 13, 14 / Sports Information 13. Front Cover: Tom Everman. Back Cover: Tom Everman, Lee Hendricks.

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Evans knowing and seeing, grasping and expressing-I should call this the Pardon me, dear reader, for this teaching here at Notre Dame du Lac, preconscious of the spirit in man. long, cumbersome title. But my last I have dubbed it (to the students For reason does not consist only of "little essay" in Scholastic (occa- who are no dunces) a "reading for its conscious logical tools and mani sioned in. part-as is this one-by all our days." I dub it this now to the festations, nor does the will consist "My Favorite Editor") was entitled teachers - at Notre Dame du only of its deliberate conscious de "My Favorite Cookbook" and it was Lac (where else?)-who are no terminations. Far beneath theap on Robert Farrar Capon's The Sup- dunces, either (I hasten to add). parent surface of explicit concepts per of the Lamb. Now, there is-be- I think it is an especially important and judgments,. of words and ex lieve it or not-a very real affinity reading for all of us-teachers and complete fulfillment.. His spiritual those who are moved by the divine pressed resolutions or .movements between these two books and, if I stUdents-at the beginning of a new fatherland consists of the entire Spirit. In· any case it is by the activ- of the will, are the sources of knowl am not going into this affinity here, school year; if we do not read it, we order of things which have abso~ ities that the philosophers call 'im- edge and poetry, of love and truly I would at least like to retain the may become dunces (such is the na lute value, and which reflect, in some manent'-because they perfect the human desires,' hidden in the spiri affinity in the titles of my two "little ture of the beast-i.e., the Academy, manner, a divine Absolute superior very subject which exerts them, and tual darkness of the intimate vitality essays." Of course, it is presumptu- or School!). to the world and' which have a are within it the supreme activities of the soul. . Before being formed ous of me to be breaking into your You know, I think that instead of. power of attraction toward this Ab of internal achievement and super- and expressed· in concepts and judg world with "My· Favorite . .." discoursing and expounding- "situ in which the great universe in its solute." abundance-that the full freedom of ments, intellectual knowledge is at (your M & M's may be much more ating," sifting, critically elucidating entirety can be encompassed through : . Second bon mot: "The chief aspi independence is won. Thus the prime first a beginning 'of insight, still un to your taste). Hurl at me, if you -to you on Maritain's book (come knowledge. And through love he can rations of a person are aspirations goal ,of education is the conquest formulated, which proceeds from the will, the thunderbolt: "Oh, 'you pre- to my class if you want this-or at give himself freely to beings who are to freedom-I do not mean that of internal and spiritual freedom to impact of the. illuminating intellect sumptuous one, you!"; or, if you least' a "rough sketch" of this), I to him, as it were, other selves; arid freedom which is free will and which be achieved by the individual per~ on the world of images and emotions prefer, "Joe Evans-the presumptu- will just let him speak to us him for this' relationship no equivalent is a .gift of nature in each of us, I son, or, in other words, his liberation and which is but a humble and ous one!" Sticks and stones may self. If' I cannot provide you this can be found in the physical world. mean that freedom.which is sponta through knowledge and wisdom, trembling movement, yet invaluable, break my bones-but names will time with a little salad of Capon I' neity, expansion, or autonomy, and good will, and love." toward an intelligible content to be never hurt me. But they do give me capers, I can provide you with this "The notion of personality thus which we have to gain through con Third bon mot: "At this point it grasped.. Parenthetically, it is with pause. little -mix of Maritain bons mots involves that of wholeness and. in stant effort and struggle. And what is all important. to make. clear that reference to this preconscious spiri I havepaused":""-and I continue on ("good- words,,_foryou "dunces" dependence. To say that a man is a is the more profound and essential the word 'subconscious' or 'uncon- tual dynamism of human personality my merry way. But I am as serious ,who don't know 'a single word of person is to say that in the depth of form of such a desire? It is the de scious' covers two thoroughly differ- that keeping personal contact with as all "get out." I am an avid reader French) : his being he is more. a whole than sire for inner and spiritual freedom. ent. though intermingled, fields. One the pupil is of such great import, of Jacques Maritain. I have read and First bon 'mot:"Man is a person, a part and more independent than In this sense Greek philosophy, espe is that field explored with special not only as a better technique for reread him, pondered and repon- who holds himself in hand by his servile. It is this mystery of our cially Aristotle, spoke of the inde eagerness by the Freudian School, - making .study more attractive and dered him, "striven to enter ever intelligence and his will. He does not nature which religious thought des pendence which is granted. to men the field of the instincts, latent im-' stimulating,' but above all to give more deeply into him." And I con- merely exist asa physical being. ignates when it says that the person by intellect and wisdom as the per ages, affective impulses, and sensual to that mysterious identity of the sider Maritain's Education at the There is in him a richer and nobler is the image of God. A person pos fection of the human being. And the tendencies' which should be called child's soul, which is unknown to Crossroads to be a "most especial existence; he has spiritual super sesses absolute dignity because he Gospel was to lift up human perfec the unconscious of the irrational in himself,. and which no techniques book"-for anyone, and for any existence through knowledge and is in direct relationship with' the tion to a higher level-a truly di man. The other,' missed by the can reach,' the comforting assurance time. In a "Directed Readings" and love. He is thus, in some way, a realm of being, truth, goodness,and vine one-by. stating that it con Freudians, is the field of the root of being in some way recognized by seminar course on Maritain that I whole, not merely a part; he is a beatity, and with God, and it is only sists of the perfection of love and, life of -those spiritual powers, the a human personal gaze, inexpressible have the' privilege and pleasure of univers.e unto himself, a microcosm with these that he can arrive at his as St. Paul put it,' of the freedom of intellect and the will, the fathomless either in concepts or words."

4 SCHOLASTIC SEPTEMBER 9, 1977 5 My Favorite ~ook in Educational Theory: Jacques Maritain's 'IEducation at the Crossroads" abyss of personal freedom and of the personal thirst and. striving for by Joseph W. Evans knowing and seeing, grasping and expressing-I should call this the Pardon me, dear reader, for this teaching here at Notre Dame du Lac, preconscious of the spirit in man. long, cumbersome title. But my last I have dubbed it (to the students For reason does not consist only of "little essay" in Scholastic (occa- who are no dunces) a "reading for its conscious logical tools and mani sioned in. part-as is this one-by all our days." I dub it this now to the festations, nor does the will consist "My Favorite Editor") was entitled teachers - at Notre Dame du only of its deliberate conscious de "My Favorite Cookbook" and it was Lac (where else?)-who are no terminations. Far beneath theap on Robert Farrar Capon's The Sup- dunces, either (I hasten to add). parent surface of explicit concepts per of the Lamb. Now, there is-be- I think it is an especially important and judgments,. of words and ex lieve it or not-a very real affinity reading for all of us-teachers and complete fulfillment.. His spiritual those who are moved by the divine pressed resolutions or .movements between these two books and, if I stUdents-at the beginning of a new fatherland consists of the entire Spirit. In· any case it is by the activ- of the will, are the sources of knowl am not going into this affinity here, school year; if we do not read it, we order of things which have abso~ ities that the philosophers call 'im- edge and poetry, of love and truly I would at least like to retain the may become dunces (such is the na lute value, and which reflect, in some manent'-because they perfect the human desires,' hidden in the spiri affinity in the titles of my two "little ture of the beast-i.e., the Academy, manner, a divine Absolute superior very subject which exerts them, and tual darkness of the intimate vitality essays." Of course, it is presumptu- or School!). to the world and' which have a are within it the supreme activities of the soul. . Before being formed ous of me to be breaking into your You know, I think that instead of. power of attraction toward this Ab of internal achievement and super- and expressed· in concepts and judg world with "My· Favorite . .." discoursing and expounding- "situ in which the great universe in its solute." abundance-that the full freedom of ments, intellectual knowledge is at (your M & M's may be much more ating," sifting, critically elucidating entirety can be encompassed through : . Second bon mot: "The chief aspi independence is won. Thus the prime first a beginning 'of insight, still un to your taste). Hurl at me, if you -to you on Maritain's book (come knowledge. And through love he can rations of a person are aspirations goal ,of education is the conquest formulated, which proceeds from the will, the thunderbolt: "Oh, 'you pre- to my class if you want this-or at give himself freely to beings who are to freedom-I do not mean that of internal and spiritual freedom to impact of the. illuminating intellect sumptuous one, you!"; or, if you least' a "rough sketch" of this), I to him, as it were, other selves; arid freedom which is free will and which be achieved by the individual per~ on the world of images and emotions prefer, "Joe Evans-the presumptu- will just let him speak to us him for this' relationship no equivalent is a .gift of nature in each of us, I son, or, in other words, his liberation and which is but a humble and ous one!" Sticks and stones may self. If' I cannot provide you this can be found in the physical world. mean that freedom.which is sponta through knowledge and wisdom, trembling movement, yet invaluable, break my bones-but names will time with a little salad of Capon I' neity, expansion, or autonomy, and good will, and love." toward an intelligible content to be never hurt me. But they do give me capers, I can provide you with this "The notion of personality thus which we have to gain through con Third bon mot: "At this point it grasped.. Parenthetically, it is with pause. little -mix of Maritain bons mots involves that of wholeness and. in stant effort and struggle. And what is all important. to make. clear that reference to this preconscious spiri I havepaused":""-and I continue on ("good- words,,_foryou "dunces" dependence. To say that a man is a is the more profound and essential the word 'subconscious' or 'uncon- tual dynamism of human personality my merry way. But I am as serious ,who don't know 'a single word of person is to say that in the depth of form of such a desire? It is the de scious' covers two thoroughly differ- that keeping personal contact with as all "get out." I am an avid reader French) : his being he is more. a whole than sire for inner and spiritual freedom. ent. though intermingled, fields. One the pupil is of such great import, of Jacques Maritain. I have read and First bon 'mot:"Man is a person, a part and more independent than In this sense Greek philosophy, espe is that field explored with special not only as a better technique for reread him, pondered and repon- who holds himself in hand by his servile. It is this mystery of our cially Aristotle, spoke of the inde eagerness by the Freudian School, - making .study more attractive and dered him, "striven to enter ever intelligence and his will. He does not nature which religious thought des pendence which is granted. to men the field of the instincts, latent im-' stimulating,' but above all to give more deeply into him." And I con- merely exist asa physical being. ignates when it says that the person by intellect and wisdom as the per ages, affective impulses, and sensual to that mysterious identity of the sider Maritain's Education at the There is in him a richer and nobler is the image of God. A person pos fection of the human being. And the tendencies' which should be called child's soul, which is unknown to Crossroads to be a "most especial existence; he has spiritual super sesses absolute dignity because he Gospel was to lift up human perfec the unconscious of the irrational in himself,. and which no techniques book"-for anyone, and for any existence through knowledge and is in direct relationship with' the tion to a higher level-a truly di man. The other,' missed by the can reach,' the comforting assurance time. In a "Directed Readings" and love. He is thus, in some way, a realm of being, truth, goodness,and vine one-by. stating that it con Freudians, is the field of the root of being in some way recognized by seminar course on Maritain that I whole, not merely a part; he is a beatity, and with God, and it is only sists of the perfection of love and, life of -those spiritual powers, the a human personal gaze, inexpressible have the' privilege and pleasure of univers.e unto himself, a microcosm with these that he can arrive at his as St. Paul put it,' of the freedom of intellect and the will, the fathomless either in concepts or words."

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Fourth bon 'nwt: "With regard to be performed, and of the essential the youth a truly wise man, but to the development of the human mind, need and aspiration of the mind to equip' his mind with an ordered neither the richest material facilities be freed in unity. If a man does not knowledge which wiiI enable him to nor the richest equipment in meth overcome the inner multiplicity of advance toward wisdom in his man ods, information, and erudition are his drives and especially of the di hood. Its specific aim is to provide the main point. The great thing is verse currents of knowledge and him with the foundations of real the awakening of the inner re belief and the diverse vital energies wisdom, and with a universal and sources and creativity. The cult of at play in his mind, he will always articulate comprehension of human technical means considered as im remain more a slave than a free achievements in science and culture, proving the mind and producing man. Tears, sweat, and blood are before he enters upon the- definite science by their own virtue must needed for this all too difficult task and limited tasks of adult life in the give way to respect for the spirit of unifying our internal world.. The civil community, and even while he and dawning intellect of man! Edu school should help us in this effort, is preparing himself for these tasks Not many students recognize the learning the location of buildings. reappointment is unjustly disparate cation thus calls for an intellectual and not impair it and make it hope through a specialized scientific, name Jack Skelly, but nearly all Nan Bufalino and Carey Swing, co among departments. "It should sympathy and intuition on the part less. The dispersion and atomization technical, or vocatfonal training. know exactly who the "friendly, chairpersons of freshman orienta hardly be that there would be of of the teacher, concern for the ques of human life are in our day the "Such a universal and articulate white-haired man in the cashier's tion, . describe the' efforts of their ficial approval of a strong policy tions and difficulties with which great distress of the adult world. comprehension of human achieve office" is. For thirteen years Jack committee as an attempt to provide of rejection in one department and the mind of youth may be entangled Instead of opening itself more and ments in science and culture, such has been with Notre Dame, not only a balanced initial exposure to life at complete freedom of reappoint without being able to give expres more to this devastating dispersion, a 'music' of the wit, as Plato put it, cashing checks and counting money Notre Dame. ment in another department. But sion to them, a readiness to be at the school system at least should takes shape in profoundly different back in· his cashier's box, but also Orientation for' freshmen and that, in effect, is what we have." hand with the lessons of logic and prepare us to surmount it, and pro ways on the several levels of educa telliqg stories of his trips across transfer students began this summer Danehy believes that the Depart reasoning that invite to action the vide our youth with a more for tion. In each of the great education the country and discussing the re when each student received a gen ment of Chemistry has an unofficial unexercised reason of the youth. tunate world of its own, fitted to al divisions which correspond to the cent South Bend weather or. pros eral information booklet. It will policy "that the older people leave No tricks can do that, no set of our spiritual demand and centered main periods of the youth's life, pects for the Notre Dame football continue until Monday, September as soon as possible to make room techniques, but only. personal atten on unity.... from the years of childhood to the team. 12, when campus clubs and organi for the younger people .... as if·this tion to the inner blossoming of the "In. order to establish an organic years of university and graduate Jack's association with Notre zations will attempt to attract new is somehow going to improve the rational nature and then confront and architectonic ordering of teach study, we have to face a mental Dame goes back long before his Acting as a source of information department automatically." These ing that budding reason with a sys ing, the prerequisite background is world of comprehensive universality thirteen-year service as cashier. He and encouragement, the orientation contentions of inequitable treatment tem of rational knowledge. a sound philosophy of knowledge which has only a proportional simi attended the university as a stu committee offered distractions from are central -points of his legal "What matters most in the life of and of the degrees of knowledge, but larity' with the mental worlds dent and would have graduated in the typical fears and concerns char argument. reason is intellectual insight or in the inspiring motive force is the of other levels. The universality the Class of '29 had not illness and acteristic of freshman year. Along The spirit of his case, however, tuition. There is no training or vision embracing the whole practical adapted to the -yourig readers of the- Depression intervened. Jack with the activities planned by the is that of "Grey Liberation." "It is learning for that. Yet if the teacher dynamism of teaching. And toward fairy tales and Alice in Wonderland says, "I have always liked Notre committee, halls cooperated' to pro in my opinion a true civil rights keeps in' view above all the inner what can such a vision be directed, is of quite another nature than that Dame. Since 1925 I have been a fan vide entertainment and services for case because in effect I'm being center of vitality at work in the pre except the very goal of this dyna fitted to the students' reading Kant and have followed the Notre Dame their new residents. treated at 65 as they would not conscious depths of the life of the mism? And what is this very goal or Spinoza. Yet each educational teams all over the country. Today I "Working with the freshmen is have possibly treated me at 64." intelligence, he may center the ac but wisdom? That knowledge we call stage deals with a comprehensive can't travel as far because there exciting," says Bufalino, "because Danehy feels certain that legislation quisition of knowledge and solid wisdom, which penetrates and em universality of its own,.' approach aren't as many trains, but a large it's helped me remember the little which would raise the legally al formation of the mind on the free braces things with the deepest, ing little by little that of maturity, group of' us still get together and things thaf impressed me about lowable mandatory retirement age ing of the child's and the youth's most universal, and most united in and at each stage education should go to see a lot of the games. I really Notre Dame, its traditions and from 65 to 70, or which might intuitive power. By what means? By sights. Such a knowledge, which be guided by the vision of the ap enjoy all sports except boxing. I campus life, when I was a freshman. abolish all age-related. retirement moving forward along the paths of lives not only by supreme science, propriate mental world of compre guess you could say that athletics I can't remember what it was like policies, will be passed within a spontaneous interest and natural but also by human and spiritual ex hensive or 'symphonic' universality. is my hobby." not to feel at home here." year or two. That legislation, how curiosity, by grounding the exercise perience, is over and above any And this vision should be commu For the thirty-six years between ever, would not be retroactive. of memory in intelligence, and pri field of specialization,for it has to nicated in some way to the. ones who the time that Jack served at Notre Professor Emeritus James P. Danehy is saddened by the Univer marily by giving courage, by listen do with realities which permeate are taught, in order to ~ake them Dame as a student and as a cashier, Danehy, teacher of pre-medical Or sity's stand. "That's why I wrote ing a great deal, and by causing each' and every being, and with as realize the vital interest of their task he worked for' the Studebaker auto ganic Chemistry until this fall was in my letter of November 24 to the youth to trust and give expres pirations which call to the very and to give them inspiration and mobile industry as a supervisor. This retired forcibly in July at age 65. Father Burtchaell: 'Every advance sion to those spontaneous poetic or nature and freedom of man. It is in energy." job allowed him to remain in South He is suing the University for in legislation is preceded by a moral noetic impulses of his own which itself the highest value for the Stir well. Let us all feed on these Bend, a town which he really enjoys. reappointment. consensus. One would confidently seem to him fragile and bizarre; be human mind. Education and teach bons mots; I prefer them to bonbons. It was also during this time that he . Danehy contends that the pro expect that Notre Dame, under the cause they. are not assured by any ing can only achieve their internal married his wife of thirty years, cedures for reappointment to teach leadership of a president who was a social sanction-and in fact any unity if the manifold parts of their Marion. Following ·the true Notre ing positions of emeritus professors charter member of the United awkward gesture or rebuff or un whole work are organized and quick When it comes to a course in phi Dame tradition, they were married at Notre Dame have been loosely States Civil Rights Commission and timely advice on the part of, the ened by a vision of wisdom as the losophy any professor, any professor in the Log Chapel on campus. followed. "I think that examination its chairman for three years,' would teacher can crush such timid sprout supreme goal, so as progressively. to at all will do, but some professors -By Lisa Michels of the records would reveal a wide set an example which would contrib ings and push them back into the make youth capable of sharing to do do better than others, such as Joe variation in procedures which have ute to attaining that moral consen shell of the unconscious." . some degree in the intellectual and Evans, director of the Jacques Mari Although the first sign of be been followed in determining sus which would lead to theestab Fifth· bon. 'mot: ". " education moral fruits of wisdom. tain Center and popular instructor longing at Notre Dame may be the whether or not reappointment lishment of guarantees for the and teaching should never lose sight "The purpose of elementary and of Basic Concepts of Political Phi abandonment of campus. maps, should be granted." rights of older persons.' " of the organic unity of the task to highel' education is not to make of losophy. orientation involves more than He feels that the frequency of By· Jim Romanelli

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6 SCHOLASTIC SEPTEMBER 9, 1977' 7. change the fact that when the bier In other words, is it possible to want of a better term) the fact of .perspecti\1e is lowered into the earth and cov somehow believe that nothing has death, we cannot do so adequately ered by the dirt to which the de really changed, that the deceased without confronting the reality of ceased now· returns, there is no way has simply moved somewhere else? dying. Death is not just a stopping to alter or hide the truth. Or is The "afterlife" becomes a great and place or a cosmic rest area; it is there? Has anyone ever considered final escape from the truth. pain, trauma, suffering and loss. Our the meaning of our popular version This may seem to be a pessimistic natural tendency is, of course, to of the afterlife? The post-funeral and cynical survey, and in many fly from this, but as long as we run Do Not Go Joyfully questions asked in conjunction. with ways it is. But there's a point to it. and are allowed to escape, the more the idea of heaven usually sound I don't really want to do away. with difficult and excruciating is the true, something like these: "Is she con funeral homes, Rosaries, and the inevitable realization. The real rule 1 scious of what is happening here?" Eucharist. And,believe it or not, of' thumb for handling death· should Into That Good Night "Does she see what we are doing?" I do believe in an afterlife (I think). be this: rituals and institutions 1 "Is she still able to affect our lives?" But if we intend to "celebrate" (for should provide a context in which human mortality can be confronted and resolved. Thus, none of the pain by Dave Myers would be sidestepped or ignored; it would instead be seen, faced, and The strangest thing about death is and power. But in any case, the The most important religious ser finally reconciled. This is the proper not the loss ·it causes or the dismay underlying theme is the same: the vice, of course, is the burial itself. direction of any liturgy, which by and grief it fosters,' but our very dead are not going to decay and And it is here that the ultimate un nature is not a way of escaping life avoidance of it altogether. We will return to dust; they. are simply reality Is perpetuated. For in this but rather a means of giving it the do anything rather than admit the going away to a new home. The ritual, we are asked· to forget the true meaning it acquires in the King- awful truth: someone close to us is notices that serve to advertise these fact that in a box ten feet from us dom of God. ._ irretrievably gone. Instead, we in burial boxes all emphasize the same are the remains of a human being Instead of creating empty illu dulge in the most inane and morose point: guaranteed waterproofing now gone from us; perhaps to new sions ofliIe, perhaps it would be fictions. The corpse is taken to a and special safeguards to preserve life, but gone nonetheless, and then better to view corpses as they really funeral home, where it is embalmed, the . corpses for twenty· years or we are called upon to rejoice! ·.The look at' least once; and maybe scented and made up before the more, and even comparative sta entire rite pointedly ignores the re fun~rat" caskets could be reduced to burial; a body devoid of. its hu tistics demonstrating why this cas ality of death and treats the affair what they really are: boxes in which manity is decorated so the mourners ket is the best one in which to turn as merely a passage from-life to humanity returns to dust. After all, can believe that the loved one is still into absolutely nothing. life. .This passage' may well take funeral homes don't force their gro here, that nothing has changed. The Another important facet of this place, but if it does, it is not a two tesqueries on us; we accept them children can pretend that Mommy facade is the religious ritual that stage process, but rather one, that and ask for them. In addition, it is just. sleeping while the others supposedly serves to interpret death takes place in three distinct phases; might be desi~able to include an old suspend their. judgment and lapse in a comprehensible manner, to place one goes from life, to. death, . to life. fashio'ned' wake in the. proceedings, into a strange state of-not believing .it in its proper context as part of . Humanity must pass through death; with plenty of booze and tears. As the corpse is alive, but not being the human journey to God. Yet one it must- confront it, grasp it by the for the "Rite of Christian Burial," capable of accepting its demise well, it should reflect the same pro must ask himself if this is actually throat, c and finally shove it aside. either. I'm writing this way because the -role religion plays. After this But this is not what the "Mass of the cess: first, alienation. and pain, and I've seen a lot of people in that summer, I have begun to wonder Resurrectiori'~ seeks to. achieve. In then a -focus on the mystery of the stage recently; My sister died this whether these rituals do not have a stead, it. attempts to avoid the issue Resurrection. It is better to pray, summer of a brain tumor, and it somewhat different effect. It is not altogether, as if -afraid' of itse own "Out- of the depths I cry for you, 0 seems to me that none of my fam possible that all too often, faith and ultimate emptiness. To me this re Lord," simply because that is a real ily recognizes the fact even now. liturgy provide just. one more way flects an almost inhuman belief that stage in our experience, and not a Such an illusion is heightened by of denying' the real truth? The denies the significance' and trauma pathetic imitation of joy. The im some. of the macabre scenes to be Rosary service that is the predomi of dying and tries to convince people portant thing is to' not hide from the encountered in any funeral home. nant pre-burial rite in American that the whole event is actually a pain, great as it is, because in the For example, the relatively simple Catholicism is' a fine and beautiful good thing. As a friend of mine said end that" only serves to make us less (one would think!). task of choosing prayer, but it almost always takes sarcastically, "Aren't. we all glad l' human .. For death is a true ending a casket. is pervaded by a' sense of place in a context of unreality, with she's gone?" Well, my sister had two of human life and, whatever lies be complete unreality. Row upon row the body decorated and treated in small children who_, now, are· left J yond us, that ending is something of different coffins are placed on order to appear as if it were only without· the love and core of their that needs to be confronted and even display, ranging from small wooden "sleeping." When one looks at such mother, and I don't see any good in mourned over,at least for a moment. boxes all the way up to lavish biers a sight, one is not reminded of or that whatsoever; of almost incalculable price. One comforted by death, but rather must In reflecting .on the whole process, can only speculate on. the reasons gaze upon a poor imitation of life; it· seems to me' that the one honest Dave Myers is a senior t~ologiJ for such costly. items; perhaps they with the. lips shut in an unnatural and worthwhile element of our fu majorO/rom El Paso, Texas. are a sincere reflection of a family's fashion and the eyes elongated .dia neral customs is the burial itself. desire to. "do the best". by the de bolically.The question is how a per When one leaves the gravesite and ceased, or, possibly, they are merely son is able. to pray for the deceased looks back, it is impossible to deny one more in a long line of status when the death itself is not a reality any longer the unshakeable truths symbols, designed to demonstrate in the mind, but only a remote pos of loss and .bewilderment.- No chem to all concerned the buyer's wealth sibility barely- hinted at." ical treatments or funeral home can 8 /, SCHOLASTIC SEPTEMBER 9, 1977 9 change the fact that when the bier In other words, is it possible to want of a better term) the fact of .perspecti\1e is lowered into the earth and cov somehow believe that nothing has death, we cannot do so adequately ered by the dirt to which the de really changed, that the deceased without confronting the reality of ceased now· returns, there is no way has simply moved somewhere else? dying. Death is not just a stopping to alter or hide the truth. Or is The "afterlife" becomes a great and place or a cosmic rest area; it is there? Has anyone ever considered final escape from the truth. pain, trauma, suffering and loss. Our the meaning of our popular version This may seem to be a pessimistic natural tendency is, of course, to of the afterlife? The post-funeral and cynical survey, and in many fly from this, but as long as we run Do Not Go Joyfully questions asked in conjunction. with ways it is. But there's a point to it. and are allowed to escape, the more the idea of heaven usually sound I don't really want to do away. with difficult and excruciating is the true, something like these: "Is she con funeral homes, Rosaries, and the inevitable realization. The real rule 1 scious of what is happening here?" Eucharist. And,believe it or not, of' thumb for handling death· should Into That Good Night "Does she see what we are doing?" I do believe in an afterlife (I think). be this: rituals and institutions 1 "Is she still able to affect our lives?" But if we intend to "celebrate" (for should provide a context in which human mortality can be confronted and resolved. Thus, none of the pain by Dave Myers would be sidestepped or ignored; it would instead be seen, faced, and The strangest thing about death is and power. But in any case, the The most important religious ser finally reconciled. This is the proper not the loss ·it causes or the dismay underlying theme is the same: the vice, of course, is the burial itself. direction of any liturgy, which by and grief it fosters,' but our very dead are not going to decay and And it is here that the ultimate un nature is not a way of escaping life avoidance of it altogether. We will return to dust; they. are simply reality Is perpetuated. For in this but rather a means of giving it the do anything rather than admit the going away to a new home. The ritual, we are asked· to forget the true meaning it acquires in the King- awful truth: someone close to us is notices that serve to advertise these fact that in a box ten feet from us dom of God. ._ irretrievably gone. Instead, we in burial boxes all emphasize the same are the remains of a human being Instead of creating empty illu dulge in the most inane and morose point: guaranteed waterproofing now gone from us; perhaps to new sions ofliIe, perhaps it would be fictions. The corpse is taken to a and special safeguards to preserve life, but gone nonetheless, and then better to view corpses as they really funeral home, where it is embalmed, the . corpses for twenty· years or we are called upon to rejoice! ·.The look at' least once; and maybe scented and made up before the more, and even comparative sta entire rite pointedly ignores the re fun~rat" caskets could be reduced to burial; a body devoid of. its hu tistics demonstrating why this cas ality of death and treats the affair what they really are: boxes in which manity is decorated so the mourners ket is the best one in which to turn as merely a passage from-life to humanity returns to dust. After all, can believe that the loved one is still into absolutely nothing. life. .This passage' may well take funeral homes don't force their gro here, that nothing has changed. The Another important facet of this place, but if it does, it is not a two tesqueries on us; we accept them children can pretend that Mommy facade is the religious ritual that stage process, but rather one, that and ask for them. In addition, it is just. sleeping while the others supposedly serves to interpret death takes place in three distinct phases; might be desi~able to include an old suspend their. judgment and lapse in a comprehensible manner, to place one goes from life, to. death, . to life. fashio'ned' wake in the. proceedings, into a strange state of-not believing .it in its proper context as part of . Humanity must pass through death; with plenty of booze and tears. As the corpse is alive, but not being the human journey to God. Yet one it must- confront it, grasp it by the for the "Rite of Christian Burial," capable of accepting its demise well, it should reflect the same pro must ask himself if this is actually throat, c and finally shove it aside. either. I'm writing this way because the -role religion plays. After this But this is not what the "Mass of the cess: first, alienation. and pain, and I've seen a lot of people in that summer, I have begun to wonder Resurrectiori'~ seeks to. achieve. In then a -focus on the mystery of the stage recently; My sister died this whether these rituals do not have a stead, it. attempts to avoid the issue Resurrection. It is better to pray, summer of a brain tumor, and it somewhat different effect. It is not altogether, as if -afraid' of itse own "Out- of the depths I cry for you, 0 seems to me that none of my fam possible that all too often, faith and ultimate emptiness. To me this re Lord," simply because that is a real ily recognizes the fact even now. liturgy provide just. one more way flects an almost inhuman belief that stage in our experience, and not a Such an illusion is heightened by of denying' the real truth? The denies the significance' and trauma pathetic imitation of joy. The im some. of the macabre scenes to be Rosary service that is the predomi of dying and tries to convince people portant thing is to' not hide from the encountered in any funeral home. nant pre-burial rite in American that the whole event is actually a pain, great as it is, because in the For example, the relatively simple Catholicism is' a fine and beautiful good thing. As a friend of mine said end that" only serves to make us less (one would think!). task of choosing prayer, but it almost always takes sarcastically, "Aren't. we all glad l' human .. For death is a true ending a casket. is pervaded by a' sense of place in a context of unreality, with she's gone?" Well, my sister had two of human life and, whatever lies be complete unreality. Row upon row the body decorated and treated in small children who_, now, are· left J yond us, that ending is something of different coffins are placed on order to appear as if it were only without· the love and core of their that needs to be confronted and even display, ranging from small wooden "sleeping." When one looks at such mother, and I don't see any good in mourned over,at least for a moment. boxes all the way up to lavish biers a sight, one is not reminded of or that whatsoever; of almost incalculable price. One comforted by death, but rather must In reflecting .on the whole process, can only speculate on. the reasons gaze upon a poor imitation of life; it· seems to me' that the one honest Dave Myers is a senior t~ologiJ for such costly. items; perhaps they with the. lips shut in an unnatural and worthwhile element of our fu majorO/rom El Paso, Texas. are a sincere reflection of a family's fashion and the eyes elongated .dia neral customs is the burial itself. desire to. "do the best". by the de bolically.The question is how a per When one leaves the gravesite and ceased, or, possibly, they are merely son is able. to pray for the deceased looks back, it is impossible to deny one more in a long line of status when the death itself is not a reality any longer the unshakeable truths symbols, designed to demonstrate in the mind, but only a remote pos of loss and .bewilderment.- No chem to all concerned the buyer's wealth sibility barely- hinted at." ical treatments or funeral home can 8 /, SCHOLASTIC SEPTEMBER 9, 1977 9 Fictio11 "Well, Lutie, to make a long story .short, I'm an overnight sensation and "DEAR LUTIE " /I vvon't becoming home • • • for a vvhile." know who they wanted to take her. Judy was moaning and snappin' her James Southwick said I could use fingers and shaking as people began the Porsche for a month if I'd just to imitate my moves. The place was do it. I said maybe, but first I going wild and we started goose by Cole Finegan wanted a look so he got me a fresh stepping to "Rollercoaster." Well, man yearbook. They call 'em Lutie, to make a long story short, 9-9-77 Rogers, Arkansas, was home. All he "disco"-yeah, they got that shit up Dogbooks, Lutie. That tell you I'm an overnight sensation and Dear Lutie, could say was Quaint, very 'chere. Remember when Shirley anything? Well, Judy wasn't all won't be coming home for a while. quaint. Somebody must be having Johnson tried that at the Home that bad-looking. I mean, you After the dance, everybody wanted Well, how you been? I know I a good laugh.... I told Father to coming Dance? Billy Wayne sure wouldn't have to put a pork chop on to learn my steps and find out where promised to write earlier but so give them the goddamned new beat the shit outta her. She didn't her to get the, dog to play with her. I learned it. Of course, I told them many things have happened since uniforms." Well, anyway, we get even look good, trying to dance that Her favorite hobbies are house Chief Legionnaire Buford Scruggs I came up here! This place, Notre along fine now, Lutie. We even shit to J.T. and the Mud Flops. The keeping and marriage and her at American Legion-John Birch' Dame, sure is one fine "place of double-dated last night, but I'll get beer here is shitty too--no Coors friends call her "Wifey." Real Camp taught me all I know. They higher learnin'" as they, say up to that later. He's a rich turkey and but lemme tell you, there will be. I career-minded. said something about calling it the 'chere. It's hard, Lutie, lemme tell talks about an "Uncle Nelson" all got turkeys begging for the Rocky We went to the dance and even "Buford," but I don't know ... you. There's a lotta sharp turkeys the time. He wouldn't believe that Mountain Trout Piss at $15 a case' with. Judy I was kind of excited. I anyway, I pretty famous now. I'll running around up here.. These guys I'm here on scholarship since my and they'll get it! I don't like the put on my royal blue leisure suit, be on Soul Train next week, Lutie take physics, calculus, all them scores were pretty low and I don't bars much. There's another one white shoes and belt and prepared (Channel 7 in Rogers, 3 a.m. on weird things and they understand it. play football and I'm not a minority. called "Corby's" but I don't go near to boogie, as they say in these parts. Sundays) so get all the boys to I don't know, they have this math I guess they don't have ROTC up there. I walked by one night and Judy looked somewhat fetching in watch. I still don't like disco but course called "Fun With Numbers" there in New York; don't know saw a toilet bowl fly out the window. her yellow pullover and jeans; I the money is green. that blows my mind. It ain't that where I'd be without it. Maybe at .I don't even want to see anyone overheard someone ask about preg After that, it's back to school and easy and I get nervous in there. I Arkansas A&I with you Lutie ... . who could do that. Mostly me and nant coeds but she looked okay. We opening my new disco. James mean,how'd you like to be the only no offense; How is A&I these days? some ROTC buddies sit in the room, walked into this huge hall and Southwick will manage it and we're guy under 6'3", 220 lbs. in the room Still have those good frat parties drink beer, and discuss nuclear Lutie, it was strange; these was all going to call it "The Foxhole." Good -and without a letter jacket? Ah, like when they rushed us? holocaust. We all argue that we these colored lights flashing and peo military sound to it, don't you lemme tell you, Lutie, I yearn for . Jesus, I never seen a go-go dancer ought to kick the Arabs' ass for ple running and dancing everywhere. think? If it goes over we may try old Central High and Algebra II that could fight like that. I heard the oil but those pussies in power I even saw some guys run by stark and expand into a massage parlor remember that shit? Four. quarters that Joe Bob had.to have an opera won't let us. I got to practice some. naked. One of 'em lives down the and McDonald's-I think the Notre of B work and Sue McCarthy next tion after she kicked him. Served death holds last week but basically, hall from me, and is on the rugby Dame students are ready for it. to me-whatta bod, hey? I ain't him right, offering to show her his ROTC ain't big here at all.' The team but is still fairly sane. I asked Well, old buddy, take care of seen nothing like that up here, hernia scar. Well, back to the N.D. world's a ghetto, Lutie. (I picked Judy if she knew any of them but yourself and write if you can. I am Lutie. Course, I don't know if the scene, Lutie. that up from James Southwick.) ,. she said she forgot to look at their still very homesick but will Lord ever created. another bod like The social life' ain't good, Lutie, The football games have been faces. :'. "and wasn't it gross?" survive until Christmas. Will you that. That's why it pains me so not at all. The girls here are real real good and Homecoming was Southwick and Rothie disappeared be home to pick me up at the much to hear she became a smart and some are nice, but, well, last week. We beat Army 84-0, and so Judy and I proceeded to the dance Greyhound station? cloistered nun but as they say here, there's no Sue McCarthy running while I realize it lacks the tradition floor and started to get down. Your pal, He works in mysterious' ways. around. Of course, there's also six and drama of an A&I-Jonesboro' There was some people doing Galen It hardly seems like I been gone . guys to every girl so you battle State battle, it was big. this crazy dance next to me and they a month, does it? You shoulda seen for a date and since I·don't have a James Southwick was going to the called it "The Hustle." Me and Judy Cole Finegan, a senior English it when I got here-my roommate girl. . . . They got a coupla bars Homecoming Dance that night but COUldn't handle it so we tried the major from Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a is from New York and he just here called "Nickie's" and "The had problems. He h~d a sweet lIttle "Bus Stop," but botched it up. It frequent contributOr to Scholastic. looked at me real funny whim I Library" that I go to every now and date, Victoria Rothschild O'Leary, was weird, Lutie, but all of a sudden walked in the room and said "Hi." "then. They're nothing like "Filthy's" who. is semi-cute. and almost as rich I broke into some ROTC drill steps. He introduced himself as James back home-these are pretty clean as James Southwick hisself. They I did a little "left, right, left" and Southwick Morgan and asked where and they. serve beef burgers that get along fine and will merge some then snapped off a couple of salutes. I was from. He didn't believe me aren't bad. They sit nice and heavy. day I'm sure. Only' trouble was People started to stare as I began at first, but after an hour and some Anyway, everybody goes to these Rothie has a roommate,Judy. Judy cookin': knee bends, about faces, smelling salts I convinced him bars and drinks beer and dances hadto go to the dance. Well, you running in place-double time.

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. , Fictio11 "Well, Lutie, to make a long story .short, I'm an overnight sensation and "DEAR LUTIE " /I vvon't becoming home • • • for a vvhile." know who they wanted to take her. Judy was moaning and snappin' her James Southwick said I could use fingers and shaking as people began the Porsche for a month if I'd just to imitate my moves. The place was do it. I said maybe, but first I going wild and we started goose by Cole Finegan wanted a look so he got me a fresh stepping to "Rollercoaster." Well, man yearbook. They call 'em Lutie, to make a long story short, 9-9-77 Rogers, Arkansas, was home. All he "disco"-yeah, they got that shit up Dogbooks, Lutie. That tell you I'm an overnight sensation and Dear Lutie, could say was Quaint, very 'chere. Remember when Shirley anything? Well, Judy wasn't all won't be coming home for a while. quaint. Somebody must be having Johnson tried that at the Home that bad-looking. I mean, you After the dance, everybody wanted Well, how you been? I know I a good laugh.... I told Father to coming Dance? Billy Wayne sure wouldn't have to put a pork chop on to learn my steps and find out where promised to write earlier but so give them the goddamned new beat the shit outta her. She didn't her to get the, dog to play with her. I learned it. Of course, I told them many things have happened since uniforms." Well, anyway, we get even look good, trying to dance that Her favorite hobbies are house Chief Legionnaire Buford Scruggs I came up here! This place, Notre along fine now, Lutie. We even shit to J.T. and the Mud Flops. The keeping and marriage and her at American Legion-John Birch' Dame, sure is one fine "place of double-dated last night, but I'll get beer here is shitty too--no Coors friends call her "Wifey." Real Camp taught me all I know. They higher learnin'" as they, say up to that later. He's a rich turkey and but lemme tell you, there will be. I career-minded. said something about calling it the 'chere. It's hard, Lutie, lemme tell talks about an "Uncle Nelson" all got turkeys begging for the Rocky We went to the dance and even "Buford," but I don't know ... you. There's a lotta sharp turkeys the time. He wouldn't believe that Mountain Trout Piss at $15 a case' with. Judy I was kind of excited. I anyway, I pretty famous now. I'll running around up here.. These guys I'm here on scholarship since my and they'll get it! I don't like the put on my royal blue leisure suit, be on Soul Train next week, Lutie take physics, calculus, all them scores were pretty low and I don't bars much. There's another one white shoes and belt and prepared (Channel 7 in Rogers, 3 a.m. on weird things and they understand it. play football and I'm not a minority. called "Corby's" but I don't go near to boogie, as they say in these parts. Sundays) so get all the boys to I don't know, they have this math I guess they don't have ROTC up there. I walked by one night and Judy looked somewhat fetching in watch. I still don't like disco but course called "Fun With Numbers" there in New York; don't know saw a toilet bowl fly out the window. her yellow pullover and jeans; I the money is green. that blows my mind. It ain't that where I'd be without it. Maybe at .I don't even want to see anyone overheard someone ask about preg After that, it's back to school and easy and I get nervous in there. I Arkansas A&I with you Lutie ... . who could do that. Mostly me and nant coeds but she looked okay. We opening my new disco. James mean,how'd you like to be the only no offense; How is A&I these days? some ROTC buddies sit in the room, walked into this huge hall and Southwick will manage it and we're guy under 6'3", 220 lbs. in the room Still have those good frat parties drink beer, and discuss nuclear Lutie, it was strange; these was all going to call it "The Foxhole." Good -and without a letter jacket? Ah, like when they rushed us? holocaust. We all argue that we these colored lights flashing and peo military sound to it, don't you lemme tell you, Lutie, I yearn for . Jesus, I never seen a go-go dancer ought to kick the Arabs' ass for ple running and dancing everywhere. think? If it goes over we may try old Central High and Algebra II that could fight like that. I heard the oil but those pussies in power I even saw some guys run by stark and expand into a massage parlor remember that shit? Four. quarters that Joe Bob had.to have an opera won't let us. I got to practice some. naked. One of 'em lives down the and McDonald's-I think the Notre of B work and Sue McCarthy next tion after she kicked him. Served death holds last week but basically, hall from me, and is on the rugby Dame students are ready for it. to me-whatta bod, hey? I ain't him right, offering to show her his ROTC ain't big here at all.' The team but is still fairly sane. I asked Well, old buddy, take care of seen nothing like that up here, hernia scar. Well, back to the N.D. world's a ghetto, Lutie. (I picked Judy if she knew any of them but yourself and write if you can. I am Lutie. Course, I don't know if the scene, Lutie. that up from James Southwick.) ,. she said she forgot to look at their still very homesick but will Lord ever created. another bod like The social life' ain't good, Lutie, The football games have been faces. :'. "and wasn't it gross?" survive until Christmas. Will you that. That's why it pains me so not at all. The girls here are real real good and Homecoming was Southwick and Rothie disappeared be home to pick me up at the much to hear she became a smart and some are nice, but, well, last week. We beat Army 84-0, and so Judy and I proceeded to the dance Greyhound station? cloistered nun but as they say here, there's no Sue McCarthy running while I realize it lacks the tradition floor and started to get down. Your pal, He works in mysterious' ways. around. Of course, there's also six and drama of an A&I-Jonesboro' There was some people doing Galen It hardly seems like I been gone . guys to every girl so you battle State battle, it was big. this crazy dance next to me and they a month, does it? You shoulda seen for a date and since I·don't have a James Southwick was going to the called it "The Hustle." Me and Judy Cole Finegan, a senior English it when I got here-my roommate girl. . . . They got a coupla bars Homecoming Dance that night but COUldn't handle it so we tried the major from Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a is from New York and he just here called "Nickie's" and "The had problems. He h~d a sweet lIttle "Bus Stop," but botched it up. It frequent contributOr to Scholastic. looked at me real funny whim I Library" that I go to every now and date, Victoria Rothschild O'Leary, was weird, Lutie, but all of a sudden walked in the room and said "Hi." "then. They're nothing like "Filthy's" who. is semi-cute. and almost as rich I broke into some ROTC drill steps. He introduced himself as James back home-these are pretty clean as James Southwick hisself. They I did a little "left, right, left" and Southwick Morgan and asked where and they. serve beef burgers that get along fine and will merge some then snapped off a couple of salutes. I was from. He didn't believe me aren't bad. They sit nice and heavy. day I'm sure. Only' trouble was People started to stare as I began at first, but after an hour and some Anyway, everybody goes to these Rothie has a roommate,Judy. Judy cookin': knee bends, about faces, smelling salts I convinced him bars and drinks beer and dances hadto go to the dance. Well, you running in place-double time.

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. , defense. If there are question marks is sure to see a lot of playing time in the offense, they are more than besides handling the punting duties compensated by the exclamation which hopefully will not be too points in the defense. With all 11 " burdensome this year. Dave Reeve, veterans returning, coaches Joe who already holds every Irish kick Yonto, George Kelly, and Jim John ing record, will return in his fourth son should be walking around with year of kicking duties. smiles on their faces this fall. In Other reserves figuring to see 1973 the Irish defense allowed only some action are Ty Dickerson at 66 points during the regular season wide receiver, Howard Meyer at and were. ranked number one in the guard, Hardy Rayam at defensive country. This same goal is certainly end and Tom Flynn at cornerback. within reach for this year's de All signs are that 1977 is a per fensive squad. fect year for the Irish. Nine of the Tile defense which was ranked 11 teams Dan Devine's players will seventh during last year's campaign face had losing records last year. is led by one of the most awesome Heimkreiter was the most pleasant That leaves a depleted Pittsburgh linemen college. football has ever surprise in the defense last year as squad with a new coach and a for seen in Ross Browner. With the Out he led the team with, 113 tackles. midable Southern California team land Award already to his credit, Three-year letterman Pete Johnson that must play in the confines of Browner will be a strong contender rounds out a stable linebacking Notre Dame stadium. Come Jan for the Heisman Trophy, a very rare crew. uary, those dusty "We're No. I" honor, for· a lineman. Tri-captain All-American Luther Bradley is banners may be hanging proudly , Willie Fry makes an excellent match the mainstay of the Irish secondary. once again. --'0 '1 ing bookend. Ken Dike and Mike Bradley needs three more intercep by Ray O'Brien Calhoun. will man the tackle posi tions to tie Tom MacDonald for the tions with Jay Case and Jeff Weston career record of 15 snags. In the For the second time in the history side the top five,' arid when you're from the schedule, Notre Dame does waiting in the wings should anyone other corner is versatile three-year Scholastic Sports Editor Ray of the Fighting Irish football team that close you might as well be num have all three service academies to need a breather.. letter winner Ted Burgmeier. Jim O'Brien is a junior finance major three. seniors will serve as tri-cap ber one if you're thinking as every kick around again. . Doug, Becker, Steve Heimkreiter Browner will roam once again from tVith an added interest in communi Irish fan. tains. This season Terry Eurick, , . Kris Haines will be called upon to and Bob Golic will be there to greet his strong safety position while a cations. The south Jersey native has Willie Fry, and Ross Browner will The man that has to answer to the fill the spot vacated by Kelleher. any unfortunate ball carriers that healthy Randy Harrison returns to been writing sports since his fresh share this honor. The only other fans is a little more guarded' in his And no quarterback can complain stray, beyond the line of scrimmage. his free safety position. Joe Restic man year. time three players served in this outlook. "If we are to accomplish when he has a target .. the size of position was in 1973 when Dave anything of note this season," Ken MacAfee (6'4", 250lbs.), Casper, Frank Pomarico and Mike cautions Devine, "we are" going .to who has been all'. All-American Townsend guided the Irish. to a per have to come up with some key per for three years arid will be looking to fect 11-0 season and the National formers in several crucial positions ,improve on his 1976 statistics of 34 Championship. where we lost outstanding players." receptions for, 483 yards. The Irish . This is not a bad start in compari The loss of Mike Carney, - Harry have three more strong bids for All son to the last undefeated team. It Woebkenberg, Dan Kelleher, Rick America lineman in Dave Huffman, is inevitable that there will be many. Slager, and Al Hunter will be felt Steve McDaniels and Ernie Hughes. more as Notre Dame fans look for the mostin the early going. The loss Tim Foley and Ted' Horansky fill that coveted national crown. It is of the latter two players will be 'the out an offensive line that averages with good reason that they, do so. hardest to overcome and will surely over, 250 lbs. per man. uan Devine's team boasts eight re tell the difference between a' good A sign of a great team is when a turning starters on offense while the season and a championship season. starting running', back~ho gains full 11-man defensive crew will be "Rusty" seems an excellent de over 1,000 yards in the' previous sea returning. scription of Russeli Lisch's early fall son is. lost for good' and the most Of course there are a few question performance but the junior quarter~ fanatical fans in the world do not marks that Devine·. will . have to back has shown that he has the tools get '. overly, concerned. The loss of erase, but that does not .bother the to become an able replacement for Al Hunter' will be very severe if diehard Domers' who are already Slager. If Lisch's past performances Jerome Heavens' or Vagas Fergusori rushing to their attics in search of run true to form this year, the Irish gets hurt. With Willard Browner the "We're No. I" banner. should. be able to overcome their op~ no longer around, Steve Orsini and These' few dark "spots haven't ponents in, tough spots. Terry Eurick will be called upon for deterred the press in ·its evaluation However, there' should not be reserve duty. Tom Domin and Dave of the Irish squad. Sports Illustrated, many tough spots in this hopeful Waymer will most likely share the UPI, and' Street and Srriith are three year as Devine's boys face only two other halfback duties in Devine's .: e~pertsihat have seen ,'the colors. nationally ranked teams in Pitts wirig-T attack. " , biue.and 'gold in .their crystal balls. burgh and Southern California. And The easiest part of Devine's job No one dares to place the Irish out- while Northwestern was, dropped this' year will be in organizing the

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-II, -Ih ~------~~~~------~.----~------~----~----~~------~------~,~--~--~-- defense. If there are question marks is sure to see a lot of playing time in the offense, they are more than besides handling the punting duties compensated by the exclamation which hopefully will not be too points in the defense. With all 11 " burdensome this year. Dave Reeve, veterans returning, coaches Joe who already holds every Irish kick Yonto, George Kelly, and Jim John ing record, will return in his fourth son should be walking around with year of kicking duties. smiles on their faces this fall. In Other reserves figuring to see 1973 the Irish defense allowed only some action are Ty Dickerson at 66 points during the regular season wide receiver, Howard Meyer at and were. ranked number one in the guard, Hardy Rayam at defensive country. This same goal is certainly end and Tom Flynn at cornerback. within reach for this year's de All signs are that 1977 is a per fensive squad. fect year for the Irish. Nine of the Tile defense which was ranked 11 teams Dan Devine's players will seventh during last year's campaign face had losing records last year. is led by one of the most awesome Heimkreiter was the most pleasant That leaves a depleted Pittsburgh linemen college. football has ever surprise in the defense last year as squad with a new coach and a for seen in Ross Browner. With the Out he led the team with, 113 tackles. midable Southern California team land Award already to his credit, Three-year letterman Pete Johnson that must play in the confines of Browner will be a strong contender rounds out a stable linebacking Notre Dame stadium. Come Jan for the Heisman Trophy, a very rare crew. uary, those dusty "We're No. I" honor, for· a lineman. Tri-captain All-American Luther Bradley is banners may be hanging proudly , Willie Fry makes an excellent match the mainstay of the Irish secondary. once again. --'0 '1 ing bookend. Ken Dike and Mike Bradley needs three more intercep by Ray O'Brien Calhoun. will man the tackle posi tions to tie Tom MacDonald for the tions with Jay Case and Jeff Weston career record of 15 snags. In the For the second time in the history side the top five,' arid when you're from the schedule, Notre Dame does waiting in the wings should anyone other corner is versatile three-year Scholastic Sports Editor Ray of the Fighting Irish football team that close you might as well be num have all three service academies to need a breather.. letter winner Ted Burgmeier. Jim O'Brien is a junior finance major three. seniors will serve as tri-cap ber one if you're thinking as every kick around again. . Doug, Becker, Steve Heimkreiter Browner will roam once again from tVith an added interest in communi Irish fan. tains. This season Terry Eurick, , . Kris Haines will be called upon to and Bob Golic will be there to greet his strong safety position while a cations. The south Jersey native has Willie Fry, and Ross Browner will The man that has to answer to the fill the spot vacated by Kelleher. any unfortunate ball carriers that healthy Randy Harrison returns to been writing sports since his fresh share this honor. The only other fans is a little more guarded' in his And no quarterback can complain stray, beyond the line of scrimmage. his free safety position. Joe Restic man year. time three players served in this outlook. "If we are to accomplish when he has a target .. the size of position was in 1973 when Dave anything of note this season," Ken MacAfee (6'4", 250lbs.), Casper, Frank Pomarico and Mike cautions Devine, "we are" going .to who has been all'. All-American Townsend guided the Irish. to a per have to come up with some key per for three years arid will be looking to fect 11-0 season and the National formers in several crucial positions ,improve on his 1976 statistics of 34 Championship. where we lost outstanding players." receptions for, 483 yards. The Irish . This is not a bad start in compari The loss of Mike Carney, - Harry have three more strong bids for All son to the last undefeated team. It Woebkenberg, Dan Kelleher, Rick America lineman in Dave Huffman, is inevitable that there will be many. Slager, and Al Hunter will be felt Steve McDaniels and Ernie Hughes. more as Notre Dame fans look for the mostin the early going. The loss Tim Foley and Ted' Horansky fill that coveted national crown. It is of the latter two players will be 'the out an offensive line that averages with good reason that they, do so. hardest to overcome and will surely over, 250 lbs. per man. uan Devine's team boasts eight re tell the difference between a' good A sign of a great team is when a turning starters on offense while the season and a championship season. starting running', back~ho gains full 11-man defensive crew will be "Rusty" seems an excellent de over 1,000 yards in the' previous sea returning. scription of Russeli Lisch's early fall son is. lost for good' and the most Of course there are a few question performance but the junior quarter~ fanatical fans in the world do not marks that Devine·. will . have to back has shown that he has the tools get '. overly, concerned. The loss of erase, but that does not .bother the to become an able replacement for Al Hunter' will be very severe if diehard Domers' who are already Slager. If Lisch's past performances Jerome Heavens' or Vagas Fergusori rushing to their attics in search of run true to form this year, the Irish gets hurt. With Willard Browner the "We're No. I" banner. should. be able to overcome their op~ no longer around, Steve Orsini and These' few dark "spots haven't ponents in, tough spots. Terry Eurick will be called upon for deterred the press in ·its evaluation However, there' should not be reserve duty. Tom Domin and Dave of the Irish squad. Sports Illustrated, many tough spots in this hopeful Waymer will most likely share the UPI, and' Street and Srriith are three year as Devine's boys face only two other halfback duties in Devine's .: e~pertsihat have seen ,'the colors. nationally ranked teams in Pitts wirig-T attack. " , biue.and 'gold in .their crystal balls. burgh and Southern California. And The easiest part of Devine's job No one dares to place the Irish out- while Northwestern was, dropped this' year will be in organizing the

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-II, -Ih ~------~~~~------~.----~------~----~----~~------~------~,~--~--~-- ''',"'' ,--"",''-'" :' ,_ ...... 'c' '''-".,'' - -"'--""':'~' :'! challenges unknown to nine-month The St. Joseph's beach was another 'j residents. For instance, eluding the sight of unusual circumstance. Ap treacherous lawn sprinklers is im parently the lake had, been so well . l, possible in the summertime. And so cleaned of algae that the fish re- ' ,lone develops a strategy to avoid the sorted to nibbling on' mortal toes. watered glances of the undiscrim Rumor has it that this will soon be inating devices. Only the grass does the site of anew, nautical adven not complain. The mystery of du ture film. Other aspects or nature lac is compounded as one awakens continued as usual.:..-the ducks got to a thunderstorm and hears the fat and the sunsets added a sense of /: I' persistent, rhythmic spraying of the tranquility to the beauty of the I "~ ! sprinklers, determined not to be campus. I usurped by nature's ways. By the time the last weekend of i: Those who visit the campus in the July came around, it was obvious I summertime make up a motley crew. that if one had somehow avoided Each brings his own expectations sprinklers, little beasties and hungry and invades the place with plans of red fish, there was still a 'major exploitation. The bookstore enjoys obstacle with which to contend. one long football weekend through American Youth on Parade visited out the summer as visitors seek our humble campus; Alarm clocks relics to verify their stay. The sports became optional since each morning camp crew is perhaps the first truly one would awaken to the sound of prominent group to make an ap drums beating in' the distance. Mobs pearance. As the campus' turns to of assorted baton twirlers venlured playground, visions of Lord of the down the unsuspecting sidewalks Flies run through one's mind. ' with such classical choruses as "We While serving as assistant man wear short shorts ...,'" and "We're ager of Farley'Hall, I attempted, number one, we won't be number with the hall manager, to point out two, and if you don't believe us, the fine distinctions between a dorm pew on you." Little girls accompa and a hotel, i.e., absence of room nied by nagging mothers wore their The service. The 80 graduate women who hair in tight curls piled on top of occupied Farley survived a humid their heads which they covered with summer and the noise from assorted plastic baggies when it rained~ Up undergraduates in Zahm Hall. In the ranks from the youngest tots to Last mid-July a new group joined us for the confident teens they carried You don'f'likefhe shape America's in? the Pastoral Ministry' Conference. batons like extra ,appendages All 30 women" who checked into acquired at birth. After a week's O.K. change if. Farley one summer afternoon had stay they departed, some with Word expected to be housed in 'Flanner medals and others with tears; led Hall and the majority were a bit dis by unsympathetic parents appar gruntled by the surprise change. ently trained in the bleachers of Since my pride, was at stake I' at- little league. America's got too many poor O.K. now's the time for action ... home about either. But there's one . tempted to defend the ivy-covered Although this was a difficult act people, right? And there's plenty of join VISTA: Volunteers in Service thing we can promise you, there walls of Farley by pointing out the to follow, the Mobile Home show other problems too. 'lake our cities. to America. If you're eighteen or will be plenty to write home about. by Kathleen McElroy fine tradition and spirit which char came prepared with astroturf, fake The shape of some of the!11 is eighty-great, we want you. We About the things you've acterize the dorm. They continued shrubberies, revolving neon lights, enough to make you cry. And waste want you to organize in your com learned while working with others. to mutter something about bunk mini-blimps, and balloons. They were and ignorance; the cycle of poverty munity, or someone else's. Helping And the progress you've made. And , When attempting to write my first beds, no air conditioning, and a determined to make the ACC park . that traps one generation after ' miners in Appalachia learn a new that feeling deep inside you, know paper freshman year, I considered creaky elevator. ing lot their home, and to rival any another because they're too busy skill. Or migrant faim workers' ing that you've returned the favor reverting to the traditiomil "How This account would be incomplete football weekend tailgater' parties just holding on to get ahead. The children to read. We want you to America gave you. O. K. you know I spent my summer vacation.'" At ravages of hunger and disease. organize a clinic in Watts. Or fight what's wrong, right? Now go ahead, without mention of the strange this campus has ever witnessed. Education that's either too little or poverty around the comer. We don't the time the idea seemed a bit trite, natural phenomena which marked I wanted to write "wish you were change it. In VISTA. Call VISTA toll but now the temptation has over none. Skills that are lacking, and the care how much you make now, free: 800-424-8580. Or write the summer. It was with sadness. here" postcards to all my friends an means to get them also. It could go only how much you can give now. VISTA: Box A, Washington, D.C. ridden my reservations. Having that we watched several diseased nouncing my plans to rechristen the spent my first summer in South on and on, and it will unless you do We're greedy in VISTA; we want all 20525. VISTA is alive and well. elm trees being felled on campus. University - Notre Dame ad hoc. something. And not the you stand you've got. Come alive with us. Bend, it seems appropriate to docu It was impossible to count all the Hopefully the Blessed Lady will for ing behind you either, but you. You You'll be working long and ment the missing link in the' ma .rings of the trunk that remained give the summer's' distractions and believe something can be done. hard. And the pay is nothing to write jority of Notre Dame sttiderits'edu when the elm which had faithfully theriew addition of. plastic candles cation. shaded the bookstore was taken ,to the Grotto. All in all, it was a VISTA There is something about, watch down. Soon the trunk too disap beautiful summer. On behalf of my ing all four seasons at Notre Dame peared and there was not so much self and the members of the SchO which adds a sense of completeness as a stump to remind us of the un lastic editorial board - welcome .:wi ' to the time spent here. There are fortunate demise of the great elm. back. ,~;n'c~ A Public Service of This Newspaper & The Advertising Council 14 SCHOLASTIC ''',"'' ,--"",''-'" :' ,_ ...... 'c' '''-".,'' - -"'--""':'~' :'! challenges unknown to nine-month The St. Joseph's beach was another 'j residents. For instance, eluding the sight of unusual circumstance. Ap treacherous lawn sprinklers is im parently the lake had, been so well . l, possible in the summertime. And so cleaned of algae that the fish re- ' ,lone develops a strategy to avoid the sorted to nibbling on' mortal toes. watered glances of the undiscrim Rumor has it that this will soon be inating devices. Only the grass does the site of anew, nautical adven not complain. The mystery of du ture film. Other aspects or nature lac is compounded as one awakens continued as usual.:..-the ducks got to a thunderstorm and hears the fat and the sunsets added a sense of /: I' persistent, rhythmic spraying of the tranquility to the beauty of the I "~ ! sprinklers, determined not to be campus. I usurped by nature's ways. By the time the last weekend of i: Those who visit the campus in the July came around, it was obvious I summertime make up a motley crew. that if one had somehow avoided Each brings his own expectations sprinklers, little beasties and hungry and invades the place with plans of red fish, there was still a 'major exploitation. The bookstore enjoys obstacle with which to contend. one long football weekend through American Youth on Parade visited out the summer as visitors seek our humble campus; Alarm clocks relics to verify their stay. The sports became optional since each morning camp crew is perhaps the first truly one would awaken to the sound of prominent group to make an ap drums beating in' the distance. Mobs pearance. As the campus' turns to of assorted baton twirlers venlured playground, visions of Lord of the down the unsuspecting sidewalks Flies run through one's mind. ' with such classical choruses as "We While serving as assistant man wear short shorts ...,'" and "We're ager of Farley'Hall, I attempted, number one, we won't be number with the hall manager, to point out two, and if you don't believe us, the fine distinctions between a dorm pew on you." Little girls accompa and a hotel, i.e., absence of room nied by nagging mothers wore their The service. The 80 graduate women who hair in tight curls piled on top of occupied Farley survived a humid their heads which they covered with summer and the noise from assorted plastic baggies when it rained~ Up undergraduates in Zahm Hall. In the ranks from the youngest tots to Last mid-July a new group joined us for the confident teens they carried You don'f'likefhe shape America's in? the Pastoral Ministry' Conference. batons like extra ,appendages All 30 women" who checked into acquired at birth. After a week's O.K. change if. Farley one summer afternoon had stay they departed, some with Word expected to be housed in 'Flanner medals and others with tears; led Hall and the majority were a bit dis by unsympathetic parents appar gruntled by the surprise change. ently trained in the bleachers of Since my pride, was at stake I' at- little league. America's got too many poor O.K. now's the time for action ... home about either. But there's one . tempted to defend the ivy-covered Although this was a difficult act people, right? And there's plenty of join VISTA: Volunteers in Service thing we can promise you, there walls of Farley by pointing out the to follow, the Mobile Home show other problems too. 'lake our cities. to America. If you're eighteen or will be plenty to write home about. by Kathleen McElroy fine tradition and spirit which char came prepared with astroturf, fake The shape of some of the!11 is eighty-great, we want you. We About the things you've acterize the dorm. They continued shrubberies, revolving neon lights, enough to make you cry. And waste want you to organize in your com learned while working with others. to mutter something about bunk mini-blimps, and balloons. They were and ignorance; the cycle of poverty munity, or someone else's. Helping And the progress you've made. And , When attempting to write my first beds, no air conditioning, and a determined to make the ACC park . that traps one generation after ' miners in Appalachia learn a new that feeling deep inside you, know paper freshman year, I considered creaky elevator. ing lot their home, and to rival any another because they're too busy skill. Or migrant faim workers' ing that you've returned the favor reverting to the traditiomil "How This account would be incomplete football weekend tailgater' parties just holding on to get ahead. The children to read. We want you to America gave you. O. K. you know I spent my summer vacation.'" At ravages of hunger and disease. organize a clinic in Watts. Or fight what's wrong, right? Now go ahead, without mention of the strange this campus has ever witnessed. Education that's either too little or poverty around the comer. We don't the time the idea seemed a bit trite, natural phenomena which marked I wanted to write "wish you were change it. In VISTA. Call VISTA toll but now the temptation has over none. Skills that are lacking, and the care how much you make now, free: 800-424-8580. Or write the summer. It was with sadness. here" postcards to all my friends an means to get them also. It could go only how much you can give now. VISTA: Box A, Washington, D.C. ridden my reservations. Having that we watched several diseased nouncing my plans to rechristen the spent my first summer in South on and on, and it will unless you do We're greedy in VISTA; we want all 20525. VISTA is alive and well. elm trees being felled on campus. University - Notre Dame ad hoc. something. And not the you stand you've got. Come alive with us. Bend, it seems appropriate to docu It was impossible to count all the Hopefully the Blessed Lady will for ing behind you either, but you. You You'll be working long and ment the missing link in the' ma .rings of the trunk that remained give the summer's' distractions and believe something can be done. hard. And the pay is nothing to write jority of Notre Dame sttiderits'edu when the elm which had faithfully theriew addition of. plastic candles cation. shaded the bookstore was taken ,to the Grotto. All in all, it was a VISTA There is something about, watch down. Soon the trunk too disap beautiful summer. On behalf of my ing all four seasons at Notre Dame peared and there was not so much self and the members of the SchO which adds a sense of completeness as a stump to remind us of the un lastic editorial board - welcome .:wi ' to the time spent here. There are fortunate demise of the great elm. back. ,~;n'c~ A Public Service of This Newspaper & The Advertising Council 14 SCHOLASTIC