OD The Inside Black Studies ... page 3 Mynah marriage ... page 9 serving. the notre dame - st. mary's community Vol. IX, No. 76 Friday, February 7,1975 Badin residents get explanation by Andy Praschak 2. l No undergraduate women will be plained. Staff Heporter forced off campus. Burtchaell responded that he has spoken :l. l A proper graduate housing complex to every hall on campus and was not afraid l<'r. James Burtchaell, University provost, will be built by fall of 1976. to speak at any. ''Dr. Gordon was sent and Sr. John Miriam Jones assistant to the Ht>len Gallagher.Badin rector, announced because he is directly involved with the provost. explained last night the decision to that a reciprocal open house will be held graduate students," he continued. convert Lt>wis Hall into an undergraduate between the two dorms from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. "What do you say to the fact that two womt>n's dorm and Badin Hall into a tem­ on Monday Feb. 10. years ago Hev. Hesburgh said that Lewis porary women's undergraduate dorm to Although Helen Gallagher, Rector of Hall will never be taken away from the Badin Hall residents. Badin Hall attempted to ask all non­ nun:?"' she asked. residents of the hall to leave the meeting, Apology to Badin one Lt>wis Hall resident went unnoticed. "That needs no comment," Burtchaell "In representing Lewis Hall I would like said. Sr. John Miriam Jones apologized to to say that we are deeply insulted with the "Is Badin a half-way house for moving Badin residents for the indirect and unof­ way we were consulted about theis whole graduate students off-campus?" she asked., ficial manner that the housing change was FR. JAMES Burtchaell, University provost, matter." explained the graduate student, "It isn't necessary to say no," he said. announced. and Sr. John Miriam Jones, assistant to the during a question and answer period. Habda questioned the use of federal funds "It was all a mistake in timing," con­ provost, spoke to the Badin Hall residents The Lewis Hall representative, Candacia to build a new graduate complex. "Isn't it tinued Burtchaell. last night. Habda. then produced a copy of the letter of ironic that you are moving out Graduate "We were being pressured to make a preferential treatment but no male dorm notification the hall received. students. moving in undergraduates and decision as soon as possible and I couldn't would be sacrificed. Habda then explained that Dr. Robert E. then using a Federal grant to build a contact Helen Gallagher (Badin Rector) "WP felt that this was an adequate way to Gordon. vice president for Advanced graduate dorm?" she asked. Studies. had spoken to them Wednesday Burtchaell explained that Federal grants in timt>." Jones stated. move towards our long-term goal of a 1,500 Burtchaell suggested that Gallagher and female enrollment." Burtchaell explained. night. ''He told us that Father Burtchaell are only one source being considered and a ft>w others meet and decide on the method Wht>n asked why the University has been would not come and talk to us," she ex- many others are also being t>xplored . of transferring halls. ''haphazardly moving people from dorm to .Jones then explained that if the lottery dorm over the past four years," Burtchaell like last vear's were held, Badin residents ('Xplained that the decision was made to use would be 'taken into other halls only if there the learning process and decide the housing Decision reactions vary is room after the present residents have ~olutions a year at a time. selected. One member of the audience questioned "Prt>sumably, Badin residents will have the eonveniences in moving graduate and by Kathy Mills "With the exception of Lewis Hall," he first choice when returning to their hall in undergraduate- students, to their new starr reporter re":l~~ked, "the present graduate housing 1976." specula ted Jones. locations. "The graduate students are faclhtles on campus are just hand-me- Lt·wis Hall residents now pay a higher further from the library, but closer to the Views of students and administrators downs; they are in poor condition. We need room fee than Badin residents. Answering a dining hall. .. he said. varied in , the wake of Monday's an- this new complex, we need it desperately." question ('Oncerning whether or not the new The present Badin Hall residents were nouncement of the conversion of Badin to a Graduate Student Union President Bill LPwis Hall residents will be paying a higher informPd that they will be allowed to con- graduate hall and the possibility of a new Smith-hinds could not be reached for in- room charge nest year. Burtchaell replied tinue eating in the South Dining Hall. graduate housing complex. formation on the proposed new facility for that he would recommt>nd that the same · '1'h e 1'd ea o f h avmg· a coed dorm was Dr. Robert Gordon, vice-president for graduate students. ratt>s Badin women are now paying be discussed by the officers but it was not a Ad d st di · th 1 f Assessing the role of the graduate vance u es, views e P an or students on the campus, Gordon stated that continued next vear. large part of the discussion." commented transformation of Lewis Hall from a "In other words. all it takes is a Burtchaell. HP explained, however, that graduate to an undergraduate women's they are an "effective force" on un­ ~ignaturt>: it's already been decided," said anything is possible in the future. dormitory as an excellent opportunity to dergraduates, expecially as teachers, .lont>s. Burtchaell announced that all R.A. ap- construct the proposed new graduate correctors, laboratory assistants, teaching plications from Badin residents would be housing complex. assistants, and resident advisers. Yet H1•asoning behind the dt>cision turned over to Lt>wis Hall. "The girl will "I see this time of change as a time of Gordon said that they "tend to have their then be able to transfer the application to opportunity," he stated. own social life." Burtchaell explained that there were two any other hall she chooses." interjected Gordon pointed out that in 1972 he worked Concerning the move to Badin, Gordon sides to the issue the Officers of the .Jones. with the Graduate Student Union to survey no ted that th e g ra d ua t e s t u d en ts require· tlniversity have been discussing for seven the housing needs for graduate students. ,·ndl'v1'dual rooms , s1·nce they ha v e a h eav1er· months. "On the one hand, there was the 1\h•t housing goals This work resulted in a plan for a living workload and more pressure than the un- belief that women should be treated as complex on campus, most probably an dergraduates · Th1's n eed IS· refl ec ted m· the equally as men." the provost said. Ac-cording to Burtchaell the Officers of the apartment complex, built especially and plan to convert Badin to all single rooms Howt•ver. he explained that many of the llniversity feel that they have made a solely for graduate students. Gordon and next fall. Gordon added that it is "very Offict>rs felt that the danger for women off- decision in the interest of women Oil r.am- the Graduate Student Union put together feasible" for cooking facilities to be in- <·.~mh pusf is greater than for men. pus. government subsidies, notably from the stalled in Badin, "since it is vital that the · ere ore. we decided that no women Tht> three goals Burtchaell feels the Of- Federal Housing Authority, to finance the graduate students have them." would be forced off," Burtchaell said. fict>rs have accomplished ar.e: project. However, Gordon said that Despite Gordon's enthusiasm for the new Rurtchat>ll t>xplained that a compromise I. 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So they cut to a much broader extent than the granted degrees by American back on faculty employment erosion of purchasing power for faculty members. The combined effects of an inflationandrecession, Observer lnsiqht: which have yet to be fully ex­ universities and colleges," he said. wherever possible," he remarked. plained by economists, have "In other words, there has been reduced the number of openings a doubling in the number of Hiring of Ph.D.'s for university teaching positions qualified Ph. D.'s over the stretch when the market is being flooded of one decade," Rathburn sum­ The surplus of qualified persons by qualified Ph.D.'s. marized. seeking teaching positions has f'.~ "During the expansive mid- afforded universities and colleges ..... SaJ0 ,.. 1960's, when all the institutions of a wider range of choice in hiring -....::.:.