#The Observer an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and si. mary's Wednesday, Febru Vol. X I, No. 81 '______ Burtchaell discusses communication gaps by Maureen Flynn conciliation” and said that the Campus Editor Senate and the administration should informally inform each other at an early stage of projects University Provost Fr. James T. the other is investigating. In the Burtchaell told the Faculty Senate administration’s case, the projects last night that “ in a University we would be those affecting the faculty sometimes feel that our voices are welfare or its interactions with not heard. That is not particular to students. this group. We tend to think that if Each of the two bodies should we are not consulted then no give serious consideration to pro­ consultation took place.” jects referred to it by the other, the Burtchaell was invited to address statement continued. Finally, the the Senate after a series of com­ Faculty Senate reaffirmed “ its munications were exchanged be­ preeminent responsibility to form­ tween him and the Senate on the issue of consultation in administra­ ulate faculty opinion to represent tive decisions. the faculty as a whole.” In introducing the provost, Sen­ ate Chairman James P. Danehy ‘Senate has open mandate’ explained, “ in the last few months there have been a number mis­ Burtchaell prefaced his remarks understanding between the Faculty by noting that he spoke only for Senate on the one hand and the himself from his experience as a Administration on the other hand.” member of the Senate and later Danehy said a Jan. 20 meeting experiences. between the officers of each group The Provost noted that the 1967 “ reached no definite conclusion,” Academic Manual, which produced but that Burtchaell had been the Faculty Senate, also “ codified a invited “ to say anything he has to number of bodies which were University Provost James T. Burtchaell C S C. chats informally with Faculty Senate members say, to represent his and the entirely composed of faculty, dom­ administration's standpoint on the after he addressed the group last night. inated by faculty, or had a signifi­ role of the Faculty Senate in the cant number of faculty representa­ members and it is not a legislative decided by other bodies,” he fives to serve many functions,” governance of the University.” body. “ The mandate of the Senate Burtchaell said, but there is “ no It was agreed that the Senate tives.” The roles and interests of added. present a statement as well, Dan­ these groups, Burtchaell said, did is open rather than restricted,” The Provost noted that issues guarantee" that those consulted in ehy added, as he read a statement not cover the entire University but Burtchaell said. It is difficult for which seem clear to the Faculty a specific instance will decide the agreed upon by the Executive were often overlapping. the Senate “ To address an issue Senate, may not seem clear to the same way a meeting of the entire Committee of the Senate. The Faculty Senate, he contin­ that is not somehow under the Academic Council or another faculty would have. The statement called for a policy ued, is unique because it is purvey of another body, and they “ mixed group.” The health of the “ Even when others engage in of "continous consultation and composed exclusively of faculty are usually matters that have to be University benefits from having lengthy deliberation, and we’re differing perspectives represen­ glad we don’t have to do it, we still ted and in different ways,” he want our right of assent, ” the Black Festival fe added. Provost said. “ We hedge on our “ The faculty elects representa- [Continued on page 6] by Joan Fremeau graphical interview with myself.” making up stories, and was fascin­ She then told of her childhood in ated by books. 1 have always felt at The Black Cultural Arts Festival Detroit, her studies in theater arts home with words." SLF continues with continued last night with Carlene in New York and later her work as In 1964 her “ break” came, Hatcher Polite, an internationally an actress and dancer there. rather curiously. She planned a acclaimed novelist, as guest speak­ In 1963 Polite worked for the trip to France, and a friend in Paris William Stafford er at Washington Hall. Democratic party in Detroit and asked her to write him about what “ This is my first venture (as a co-ordinated the preparations for she liked to do. “ So 1 wrote two Canadian Border" described a field lecturer) outside Buffalo since I Martin Luther King’s “ Walk for columns on two pages of I Likes.’ by Marian Ulicny “ where no battle was fought, returned from Paris in 1971,” Freedom ” campaign that June. He read my letter as a poem, and Senior Staff Reporter where an unknown soldier did not Polite told the small audience. However, she told the audience, showed it to a publisher in Paris. die. .No people kill or work here “ My speech w ill hopefully be an “ I have always wanted to write. Nine months later, in Paris, 1 had on this ground, hallowed by ne­ imagined or real kind of autobio­ Even as a little girl I enjoyed my first novel published.” “ By listening, 1 know I’m born. glect. Titled The Flagellants, it is a .listen together, be ready, you may “ first-novel romance about two be born.” was W illiam Stafford's “ Freedom" drew applause from black people, love, and love gone - opening to last night's segment of Stafford's listeners with the lines, wrong, ” Polite explained. She read the Sophomore Literary Festival. "If you're feeling opressed, wake a few passages from the book, “ Students get the idea we're up at four in the morning. Most which takes place in the “ pre-beat living life without adventure, but I places, you can be free most of the generation” days of Greenwich think not,” Stafford told a capacity time if you wake up before other Village. crowd in the Library Auditorium. people.” The main characters, JimpsOn “ We're all caught up in a cliff - “ I want to drawl this one,” and Ideal, “ fall in love, and then hanger of a novel we’re living Stafford said before reading “ With out of love, as they flagellate each called inhale-exhale'. The best Kit, Age 7, At the Beach", a poem other half to death,” the author way to attract attention is to fail to about his daughter. “ 1 want to explained. do either of those things." approximate the feeling of dis­ In 1968, Polite wrote and article Stafford amused the audience placement as I go along. I want to discussing Black Power for Made­ with short anecdotes after reading induce a trance so that the first moiselle. which the magazine edi­ each poem. He discussed a thing that occurs to you brings the tors titled “ Shades of Gray” . sequence of poems with an Indian second thing,” he added. After reading the opening para­ theme. He emphasized “ In the Stafford discussed his writing graphs from this article, Polite read Night Desert "and its opening line, experience throughout his read­ passages from her latest novel, “ The Apache word for love stings ings. "When 1 start to write, I entitled Sister X and the Victims of and numbs the tongue.” don’t have anything say, so I Foul Play, which was published in “ When I was at Dennison Uni­ start with anything, a syllable." he 1975. A short novel, which is part versity for a literary meeting, a explained. “ Then momentum of a yet-unfinished manuscript, it is man from the philosophy depart­ starts, and activity makes things about a black man, W illis B. Black, ment asked me, ‘What is the happen.” and two black women, Abyssinia Apache word for love?'"Stafford “ When I read, I look at my own and Sister X, the latter of whom is remarked. “ 1 replied, 1 have no poem, and I do whatever I can for dead. idea. Of course. I'd be scared to it." he continued, jokingly adding. Sister X’s real name was Arista say it anyway since it stings and “ All of us can say these things so Prolo, short for Aristocrat Prole­ numbs the tongue.'” easily, but when I read. 1 don't know tariat, a name which symbolizes “ After I looked at it, I decided how to punctuate it." “ the two walks of life in the USA.” that it’s not a poem, it's only a According to Stafford, he keeps a In this book, Abyssinia and W illis, beginning." he continued. "So 1 "survival k it" of political poems who she calls Black W ill, remem­ recently wrote The Apache Word on hand in his travels. "One old ber their experiences with Sister X. For Love.' I imagined myself relic saw me through the Viet Nam and how they were victims of foul embarking on The Aeneid if I van war. at least, it put me on the right play. only keep going.” side," he stated. Polite is now an associate pro­ Stafford's poems reflected his The poem. "Aunt Mabel, des­ fessor in the Department of English travels across the United States. cribed a woman who "gives bright at the State University of Ncxv York “ Another Old G uitar" traced the (lowers away quick as a striking at Buffalo, where she teaches adventures of the instrument Ivom snake " concluding "there are Charlene Hatcher Politic spoke in Washington Hall last night creative writing and Afro-American beach parties to Alaska. "A t the Aunt Mabels all over the world or as the Black Cultural Arts Festival continued.