!II . Vol. LV., No.4 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. Thursday, September 23, 1971 Future Plans In Question Class of '75 625' Deferments Abolished by Andy Lang • The right to present witnesses and Steve Kurdziel before a local board; • The right to a quorum of local Amendments to the Military or appeal board personnel "during Selective Service Act approved by the registrant's personal appear­ , the Senate Tuesday afternoon, will ancesj" eliminate student deferments for • The right to a written ex­ Georgetown's freshman class. planation of a local or appeal Although the revised Military board's decisions, if the board Selective Service Act will abolish rejects a registrant's claim. the" 2S" deferment for the class of The House-Senate conference 1975, students who are inducted that negotiated the final verson of the draft bill deleted the Senate's J. DONALD FREEZE, S.J. may postpone service "until the end of the semester or term." If, original proposal to guarantee "the for example, a student receives an right to be accompanied and l Fr. Freeze induction notice in October, he will advised by private counsel at a not become eligible for service until personal appearance before a local next January. or appeal board." Named ColI. GU's upperclassmen, however, The conference observed that are not affected by the new bill. such a provision would "prevent The amendments specify that Selective Service boards from carry­ Assistant Dean students who obtained a student ing out their functions in an expeditious manner" and might by Pam Tighe deferment prior to or during the 1970-71 academic school year also "encourage harassing and The Rev. J. Donald Freeze, S.J. delaying tactics by those desiring to is the newly-appointed Assistant "shall be deferred from induction / for training and service in the disrupt the effective functioning of Dean of the College of Arts and the Selective Service System." Sciences. Appointed to the post in Armed Forces" under the same August, he assumed his duties this terms of the original Selective Despite the two-year draft ex­ September after completing his Service Act. tension voted by the Senate, Senator doctoral studies in philosophy at Aliens are subject to registration Robert A. Taft, Jr. (R.-Ohio), a lead­ Georgetown. and possible induction if they have ing advocate of the volunteer army Fr. Freeze will be advising resided in the United States for concept, told The HOYA Friday upperclassmen in the A.B. program more than one year. Citizens of that the military services may "get An awe-struck Darnall refugee hastily flees the dorm armed with pillow and is impressed with the academic other countries who are employed enough volunteers to phase out the and knapsack as she prepares to spend the night at a yet undertermined ability of Georgetown students. either by their governments in compulsory system and go into a place. (Photo by Pat Early) "foreign-affairs-oriented occupa­ Accepting the position in the voluntary system in a two-year tions" or by public international period." The Senator revealed that College because of his desire to organizations will not be called on work with Dean Royden B. Davis, President Nixon and Congressional to serve in the armed forces. Aliens leaders had assured him that "they S.J., Fr. Freeze believes there is a who have "served at least 12 Hoyettes Turn Nomadic, commitment to personal concern will support a $2.7 million pay months active duty in the Armed increase in the military procure­ for the students and that this Forces of a nation with which the commitment is very important at ment bill." If the increase is United States is associated in approved, the Senator continued, Flood, Fire Assail Dorm Georgetown. mutual defense activities" will also His teaching experience includes the volunteer army may become a be exempt from military service. reality before the present draft bill by Tom Sutula doorways as firemen entered the five years as a faculty member at cafeteria. Wheeling College in Wheeling, West Conscientious objectors will be expires July 1, 1973. A tranquil Sunday morning was Virginia, the newest Jesuit school in subject to two years of alternate "I do think it's necessary," Taft turned into a day of confusion and By 2:30 p.m. the fire squelched the country. He has also taught civilian service, the amended bill added, "to continue the' draft at discomfort for about 600 Darnall and water drained, Georgetown's courses in philosophy at George­ states. The two-year service provi­ this point so that we do not run and St. Mary's residents last week­ better half was allowed to return to town. sion is the result of a House-Senate into an immediate manpower short­ end. their rooms to prepare for, what The assistant dean has no agreement that rejected a Senate age which would embarrass us in According to Secretary of the would prove to be, an even more specific area in mind in which he version calling for three year our international relations." University Daniel Altobello, water eventful evening. wishes to concentrate, but rather civilian service for CO's. The new draft legislation, how­ backed up in sewer drains, flooding Meanwhile, the maintenance wishes first to learn more about Any draft registrant is guarante­ ever, specifies that "the Selective a basement room containing the crew worked double-time to repair over-all operations. He is very ed new "procedural rights" in local Service System shall be maintained generator which supplies electrical the damage caused by the flooding interested, however, in the general and appeal draft board litigation, as a stand-by organization" if "the power to Darnall Hall. The damage and to set up temporary emergency educational requirements, and will including the following: Armed Forces are placed on an was discovered by a University electrical service to the stricken soon be involved in an evaluation of • The right to appear in person all-volunteer basis." Section 10(h) maintenance man on a routine Darnall Hall. the pass-fail system. before any local or appeal boardj (Continued on Page 8) check of facilities around 11 :00 At 7 :00 p.m., Maintenance a.m. and by 11 :45 all electrical Manager Liberatore informed Dean power in Darnall was cut off as of Women Valerie Berghoff that May Day Sit-In workmen proceeded to pump the partial service would be restored to 18 inch-deep water from the Darnall around 9:00 p.m. Residents basement floor. were told to collect their night Students Waive Right to Appeal According to Edward Libera­ clothes, blanket, pillow and other tore, maintenance manager, had the necessaries and find a place to Last May a group of dissident gust in the form of a sit-in in the ment outlining his position on May water been allowed to rise six to spend the night. students, confused and annoyed by office of University President R. J. Day. Among the items they wanted eight inches more, it would have Many bewildered coeds contem­ the University's position or non­ Henle, S.J. explained were whether or not he dampened very sensitive electrical plated spending the night in Girl position with regard to May Day The students demanded that Fr. ordered police to come onto the circuits which could have caused Scout fashion on the lower field. demonstrations, exhibited their dis- Henle prepare some form of state- campus to dispel demonstratol"s and the generator to explode, enflaming Others were whisked away by what became of demonstrators' Darnall. glassy-eyed boyfriends anxious for personal goods that disappeared On the advice of the main­ the apparently University­ mysteriously. tenance crew, the resident staff sanctioned relaxation of parietals. At the time of the students' evacuated Darnall and St. Mary's (Continued on Page 9) gratuitously proposed meeting, Fr. dormitories at 11:30 a.m. This Henle was conducting another brought many rude awakenings for r-----------------, conference with the University those who were planning to spend a Board of Regents. Other admin­ lazy Sabbath. Yet the lady residents INSIDE istrators spoke with the students and many gentlemen left the urging them to leave, but they exclusively women's dorm in remained immobile. courtly fashion. Burger-Kunstler speak at Law An ultimatum calling for the Diners and cafeteria workers Center dedication . p. 10 dispersal of the student group or evacuated the dining hall, abandon­ SFS Constitution subjection to disciplinary action ing the strawberry waffles, scramb­ under fire p. 3 was finally issued. Unmoved by the led eggs and french fried prunes. HOYA sportswriter Jim proclamation, several students con­ Unfortunately, in their haste to exit Keane interviews '72 tinued their protest soon to find from the imperiled edifice, workers Olympic hopeful Steve that sanctions of disciplinary proba­ left food on burning stoves and at Stageberg ....... p. 11 tion were imposed on them for 1 :30 p.m. it was necessary to obstruction and failure to comply summon the DC Fire Department Bookstore Bonanza .. p. 3 Some five months after students staged a sit-in at the Office of University with an authorized University to extinguish a fire caused by President R. J. Henle, S.J., they have waived their right to appear before official in the process of completing spattering grease in the kitchen a University appeals board. (Photo by Pat Early) (Continued on Page 9) area. Smoke belched from the THE HOYA Page Two Free U. 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