.---~~-----~-------:-~----------------- Gatewood speaks on black athlete by Phil Cacldey of the black in athletics. senior years. He is presently a out that NFL football teams make Senior Staff Reporter Gatewood's talk, given to a small vice-president of- Black Mutual $5 million a season just through crowd in the Library Auditorium, Network, a radio network based in television contracts. Former football star Torn Gate­ highlighted a section of the week­ Arlington, VA. Gatewood used tape recordings wood returned to Notre Dame last long Black Cultural Arts Festival The talk began with some short of radio sports shows he had made Friday night and spoke on the role devoted to sports. film clips of Gatewood in action in on the subject to present interviews A 1972 graduate of ND, Gate­ the Northwestern and Purdue with a former newspaper editor wood was captain of the football games during the 1970 football from Orlando who claimed that team in his senior year, and an season. The main part of the talk Loudd was the object of a conspir­ All-American end in his junior and was a series of stories about acy by the Orlando Sheriff's Office little-known black athletes and and Orlando's major newspaper. sports personalities. Loudd, who is presently serving "For years the stigma has been time in prison on drug charges. was that blacks can't use the grey convicted on testimony from a matter. We can sweat and work sheriff's assistant who posed as an and play, but we can't think," investor offering to split the WFL Gatewood observed. He said evi­ Orlando franchise with Loudd, dence of this comes from recent Gatewood stated. He said the undercover agent demanded that Loudd obtain drugs for him if Loudd want~d financial support. In spite of the notoriety of the clr. • incident, national news services .• '"d. have never ptcked up the story . Gatewood said, "Nothing has come to the fore on this," he stated. lbee ~~... ,~.... ~ Gatewood also spoke on black A ......,.~~~~~~~~.......... - SIJ<tp~,. [Continued on page 2] opens SLF The Sophomore Literary Festival opened last night with playwright Edward Albee reading excerpts from his works. Albee spoke before a capacity crowd at Wash­ ington Hall. small, explains he is incomplete; he ....... 11111111..... ....._ Being a playwright is "not a has no capacity for feeling, and that normal thing," the author began, he would do anything for money and he then explained how he because he has no talents. became one. "I decided at the age The play ends, Albee explained, and that "sometimes words have of six that I was a writer, not that I just before the man discovers that to be listened to and not watched." would become one," and began to his twin had been adopted by a In Box, no characters appear on write poetry. This he did until the family who did not care for him, stage; only a dim outline of a cube age of 26, when he realized that, by and had dismembered him. appears on stage while the audi­ writing poetry, he "wasn't his own The author then read a scene ence listens to a voice. man.'' from A Delicate Balance, where an In a question and answer period Albee ha.s also tried writing two old man named Tobias tells his wife following the readings, Albee novels, 1200 and 800 pages long, Agnes about a cat he once had as a explained that when he thinks of an which he labeled "the two worst boy. ., idea for a play, he "lets it slowly novels ever written by an American "She was an old alley cat," he evolve" in his subconscience. "I teenager.'' tells her. And one day he realized always have two or three plays in He began writing plays when he the cat no longer liked him. After my head in varying degrees of was 29, he said and has completed unsuccessfully trying to force the completeness that I am always 18 plays in the past 18 years. The cat to regain her old feelings for thinking about," he said. Only Zoo Story, his first play, was also him, he had her put to sleep. when the play develops completely the first work from which he read. Tobias recalls that he resented does he write it down, he explain­ The playwright related the story being judged and betrayed by his ed, and ''I rely on the tempo I have of Jerry and the dog, a scene where pet, and tries to justify his having set for myself - to write one play a EDWARD ALBEE Jerry "forced to make contact" her killed. What else could he have year." with another person, tells a man in done, he reasons. When asked which playwrights Central Park about a dog, "a black After reading a scene from All he admires the most, Albee con-. monster of a beast," that he tried Over, a play in which a man's wife eluded his presentation by answer­ Ryan views new aid unsuccessfully to befriend. and mistress, while waiting for the ing, ''my favorite living playwright From his comedy The American man to die, discuss their future of course, is me." Dream, Albee read a scene in plans, Albee asked the audience to Albee's works depict the ills of as far from a reality which a "dislocated young man" close their eyes while he read a contemporary society. His themes tells his sad history to a lonely old one-act play entitled Box. include the condemnation of com­ by Bob Varettoni public or private schools, are woman. The man, an identical twin He explained that he was placency, cruelty ,emasculation, as Senior Staff Reporter entitled to these things on their separated from his brother when "extremely interested in words" [Continued on page 2] own," McCauslin said. ',',The law is President Carter's proposal to the same for everyone. provide $1.46 billion in new aid to "This , or any plan that raises college students is still a long way the level of income eligible for aid, from a reality, according to Bro. would definitely be of some value, Kieran Ryan, Notre Dame's assis­ especially at Notre Dame," she tant vice-president for Business added. Affairs. Stanford-Lewis captur­ "You have to consider that it's According to the proposal, $1 ed the Best Booth only a proposal. Even if it's passed, billion of the $1.46 billion increase award at Mardi Gras it still has to be funded by would go to the $2.2 billion Basic Sat. night. Other win­ Congress," Rvan said. Education Opportunity Grant pro­ ners were: gram (BEOG). Also, $327 million Special Effects: Holy "In the past, many proposals would be added to the $540 million Cross-Morrissey that have been passed have not Guaranteed Student Loan Committee Award: TIE been funded," June McCauslin, Program. Alumni-Regina, director of the ND Financial Aid Ryan said he felt the increase to Fisher-Augusta Office, noted. ''The proposed legis­ Most Original Booth: lation would go into effect in the the BEOG program "would not have any large impact at Notre Badin-Howard 1979-80 school year, and that's a Best Design: LeMans­ long way off," she added. Dame." "This would effect much fewer students than the Guaran­ Grace Carter said Wednesday that teed Loan aspect," he said. Best Structure: Zahm­ more than five million college McCindless McCauslin noted that about 25 students could get federal aid in Best Use of Theme: percent of the ND students now the fall of 1979, an increase of at Farley-Holy Cross receive government loans. "I just least two million students. His Best Art Work: Breen­ hope that Congress will be able to Phillips-St. Ed's proposal includes a plan to provi_de fund the president's proposal," subsidized loans to students wtth she said. "-Every little bit helps." [Photo by Beth Cutter] family incomes as high as $45,000. ' Regardless of whether Carter's Although a private school such proposal will eventually go into as ND or SMC does not receive effect, the proposal will have no direct federal aid, the proposed aid effect on tuition costs, Ryan said. would go to the students not to the schools. In this way, McCauslin "Tuition is fixed by our opera­ said, ND and SMC students would ting costs," he said. "For example, be as eligible for these loans as any our wage increases this year have student from a non-private school. been unprecedented and this is the "Students, whether they go to kind of thing that affects tuition." 2 the observer Mondav, Februarv 13, 1978 News Briefs ____....,.. Gatewood speaks on sports bias t::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=::::::=:::::::::: W o rid South African participation in Ashe has to be given the title of [Continued from page 1] American sports tournaments, par­ 'honorary white' to compete," women in sports. He played a tape ticularly tennis tournaments. Gatewood explained. Trudeau's popularity down of an interview with Rachel Robin­ "Why should South African ath­ Gatewood said he was not speak­ son, the wife of Jackie Robinson, letes be allowed to compete in ing bitterly, but rather was simply OTTAWA - Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, his popularity who was the first black baseball America today, take home Ameri­ trying to expose the situation in waning because of Canada's economic and political woes, may call player to enter the major leagues. can money and then shackle black South Africa. "Education is not an election by summer before his government loses more popular He additionally outlined the people in South Africa?" Gatewood books--it's exposure to the world," support.