On The Inside Elton tickets ..page 2 Women's Athletics ...page 9 serving the notre dame - st. mary's community THE OBSERVERMonday, October 21, 1974 Vol. IX , No. 38 Request undergrad priorities committee Trustees hear student proposal by Pat Hanifin mittee to subcommittees of student to the students point of view.” Several discussed by the boaard for several Staff Reporter affairs. other board members concurred in hours but no formal decisions were Also in the student delegation were these reactions. reached on any part of it. According to The entire Board of Trustees listened Robert Howl, chairman of the Hall SBP McLaughlin stated'that he was Stephan, the various sections of the to seven student leaders last Friday President’s Council, Patrick Burke, very pleased with the way the meeting report were referred to the committees including Student Body President Pat Student Union Director, Ann McCarry, went. “The Board could not have been of the board which dealt with their McLaugglin, SBVP Frank Flanagan, Observer contributing editor, and more rekcccceptive and we are looking subject matter. The committees will and Observer Editor-in-Chief Tom Darlene Palma, Student Life Council forward to working with the student request student, faculty and ad­ Drape explain student proposal to representative. After presenting their affairs committee in a couple of ministration comment and will report create a committee to investigate five proposal to the student affairs com­ mweeks.” He expressed the hope that to hte boards executive committee in undergrad priorities. This proposal mittee of the trustees Thursday they some definite plans on undergrad January. The full board will take ac­ was based on a 70 page report to the met with the full board at the Center for priorities could be worked out within a tion on the report at their May meeting. board which examined undergraduate Continuing Edication for a question and few months. Dr. O.C. Carmichael, who recently academics, coeducation, finances, answer discussion on Friday. John D. Rockefeller IV, the newest rejoined the board, called the COUP residentiality, and student life. Trustee Paul C. Helmuth explained member of the student affairs com­ report “a key document, one that we After extended discussion, the that the student affairs committee mittee suggested that the problems of will be referring to for years to come to trustees agreed to keep their student would probably divide into sub­ going co-ed might especially need check our progress.” He pointed to affairs committee in charge of handling committees to cover each of the five thorough investigation. economic problems as underlying the proposal. Student Affairs Com­ topics in the student proposal. “This seemed to be the jist of much of many of the difficulties the COUP mittee Chairman Thomas Carney Students, faculty, and administrators what both students and administrators discussed in its report. “The trustees reiterated his statement made last would be brought into each sub­ were saying,” he commented. “There are grappling with finances and the Thursday that the committee would committee as the student proposal is a natural tendency to quit pushing for problems are not insurmountable,” he give the matter serious consideration suggested. “The idea of tripartite all the needed changes after a few stated. and reply to the students in about two representation from campusis ex­ years and there are some areas, such Trustee John Caron pointed to the weeks. “We need a little time to con­ cellent and the problem is really one of as the lack of housing and the lack of need for constant follow-up on the sider the problem,” Carney said. working it into the mechanics of the women role-models—women in contact proposals the COUP made. “I think Mr. Edmund A. Stephan, chairman of board structure,” he said. with undergrads—that should be there will be some changes in financial the i Board of Trustees . commented The trustees’ reaction to the actual p u sh ed .” priority needed after the board meets in after Friday’s meeting that “there presentation by the students was Rockefeller pointed out that all those May,” he commented. seems to be a general sentiment among favorable. “I was impressed by the who spoke agreed that there are too few Helmuth explained that the board the trustees in favor of the proposal or earnestness of the young prople who women in the faculty and ad­ committees had not fully examined the something like it which would function represented that the proposal was ministration. He also pointed to the report or had received feedback from in conjuction with the student affairs “excellent.” problem of residentiality as one that other groups in the university and committee of the board.” Helmuth commented that the needed particular examination. therefore could not make any official Stephen said that he was “impressed “students took a well-balanced position The Board discussed the LaFortune reports. “We are going to have tom with the desirability of the general and realized the positions of others renovation and on the advice of Fr. look at community reactions between idea” and that the major difficulty for concerned with the m atters involved.” Jerome Wilson, University vice- now and the next meeting of Ithe the trustees was a fear of “excessive Trustee John Powers praised the president for business affairs, and on board,” he said. , proliferation of committees.” “frank and open discussion” and the the recommendations forwarded from The trustees also spent a t con­ Stressing that the student affairs objectivity of the student delegation. students authorized the administration siderable amount of time discussing the committee would decide the matter, he Mr. Harold S. Foley, another trustee to consider changes in the architectural faculty salary issue during the closed expected it would be resolved by called the request “extremely useful plans in light of these recom­ meeting. However, while the trustees linking the proposed priority com­ and not at all narrow or directed solely m endations. A sum of $250,000 w as heard from both faculty and ad­ appropriated by the trustees for the ministrators they di d not come to any renovation laszt May.” formal decision on the topic. Trustee John Schneider, a member of Father Hesburgh’s address to the the student affairs committee, stated Board followed the lines of his recent that the renovation was proceeding in speech to the faculty. He summarized orderly steps. “There will be oc­ the North Central accredidation report casional fits and starts of course, but it on the university and discussed the seems to be going well on the whole.” creation of sixteen endowed chairs and He particularly praised Fr. Robert special endowments for the university Griffin’s Chez Darby as a “good and library, the law library and for hopefully viable way of serving a minority aid. student need in the student center.”It The meeting was marked by much was an excellent example, he thought, discussion but by few formal votes. of the student’s ability to “come up with The Board did however vote to a solution to a problem andto im­ authorize publication of the North plement it.” Central report in the Notre Dame The report of the Committee on Reoport and to officially create the University Priorities (COUP) was endowed chairs. Haggar Hall dedicated Joseph M. Haggar, Jr. (president). By John DeCoursey The former Wenninger Kirsch Staff Reporter Biology Building has been tran­ sformed into a modern facility for Haggar Hall, newly remodeled research and instruction in for use by the Dapartment of psychology. Psychology, was officially Among Haggar Hall’s special dedicated Saturday by Fr. features are several research Theodore Hesburgh who rooms with one-way mirrors for celebrated the dedication Mass in observation; seven research suites the hall’s auditorium and blessed consisting of a control room with the building. adjacent subject rooms, a sound­ Tours of the building were proof chamber and a lightproof conducted after the Mass and a room; a special room housing the private luncheon was held in the department’s computer; and a Center for Continuing Education. germ-barrier animal laboratory. Renovation o f the building was These facilities enable the * m ade possible through a $750,000 department to study a wide range gift from the Haggar Foundation of of topics with infants, children, Dallas Texas, in honor of J.M. college students and the aged. Haggar Sr., founder and honorary J. M. Haggar Sr. is a senior chairman of the board of Haggar member of Notre Dame’s Advisory Company, manufacturer of men’s Council for the College of Business dress slacks. Administration. Both of his sons i The gift was presented to the are Notre Dame alumni. Edmund, University in 1972 by Haggar’s of the class of ’38, is now an active * daughter Rosemary Haggar member of the Business Ad­ Dedicated fans camped out overnight awaiting the sale of Elton ministration Advisory Council. Vaughan and his two sons, Ed­ John tickets. Over two hundred students slept in front of mund R. Haggar (chairman of the Joseph Jr. earned his degree in LaFortune and the ACC Sunday night. board of the family firm) and 1945. the observer Monday, October 21, 1974 Ford sees GOP world briefs By MIKE FEINSILBER Ground rules for the interview than portrayed. He said he got CHICAGO (UPI) - Police Sunday seized more than 20 pounds of WASHINGTON (UPI) — prohibited publication of his the feeling from his overnight pure Mexican heroin, worth an estimated $20 million, in what President Ford says criss­ remarks until Sunday night. trip to the farm states of the authorities called thelargest narcotics seizure in Chicago history. crossing America and talking to The chief executive was en Midwest that things are “not as Four persons were arrested and police confiscated the heroin hard-nosed Republican profes­ route home from a 16-hour day pessimistic as some of the polls hidden in a false gas tank after a three-mile car chase on the West sionals has convinced him that of campaigning for Republicans would lead you to believe.” Side that capped a month-long investigation.