• l ~~- ,1--...__,- ----- Shumate leaving .•. see story on back page OD The Inside Blue jay blues •.• page 6 New Orleans Superdome . pages 10-11 Vol. VIII, No. 101 serving the notre dame -st. mary's community complying with demand Hearst confident of daughter's safety Need program, who said by Richard A. Litfin Tuesday on completion of the SAN FRANCISCO <UPO food giveaway that it had been Randolph A. Hearst said today surrounded by "total violence." he is convinced that his "I think Mr. Kramer's life kidnaped daughter, Patricia, is very well may have been "well and fine" and that he will threatened," he said. "I pre­ hear from her Symbionese sume he got threats in the Liberation Army captors after mail." he puts another $4 million in He added that he wanted to escrow to meet SLA demands. thank Kramer and others who He added that if he does not conducted the food program hear from the SLA after and also the "people them­ completing the escrow arrange­ selves who had to wait hours ment in two or three days he until it got efficiently opera­ John Shumate, Notre Dame's All-American center, has decided to turn professional. will be "very fearful." ting." Appearing outside his subur­ "These people (who received ban Hillsborough home, Hearst the food) were very patient and answered reporters' questions very peaceful." about the trusteeship arrange­ Hearst said he wanted to ment being set up to handle the concentrate on the good things Food service compared additional $4 million offered for that happened during the five release of his daughter who food distributions in the San was kidnaped Feb. 4. Francisco area "and not sit by George Velcich The money was put up by the around and talk about the Staff Reporter the weekly meetings. Billyed explains, "We've Hearst Corporation to supple· tried to have more student opinions at our ripoffs and some of the bad Following up with Wednesday's food service ment $2 million previously meetings, but I guess with a school so much things." student opinion survey and the recent food provided by Hearst for the "I think under the circum­ larger the Notre Dame, enthusiasm is hard to people in need food program saving initiatives, the Observer· interviewed find." stances I was satisfied with it," directors from nine Midwestern colleges and demanded by the SLA. The he said. corporation funds were made Hearst said the additional universities. Illinois contingent on the release of Rising food costs have forced many of the This service works on a six-week cycle, and money from the Hearst Corp. schools to curtail special dinners, and seconds, Patricia, with $2 million to be again, food prices have affected meal planning. would be set up in an escrow as well as limiting the quality of food produced. paid when she is freed and $2 arrangement with a bank and Coordinator Dohrman says simply, "There used Most of the directors were reluctant to reveal to be steak nights. Though the food's no dif­ million more on Jan. 1, 1975. that three trustees would be budgets, but were more than eager to elaborate Hearst was asked about a named, who would "be accepta­ ferent, we try to change the atmosphere, and statement of A. Ludlow Kra­ innovations and exclusive treats. decorate for picnics and carnivals." Seconds ble to any liberal group in the Thus our appraisals: mer, director of the People in country." are only for beverages. Despite the nearly 30,000 Purdue Fighting Illini that attend, only 9,000 use the The students who eat in the residence halls are service, and perhaps we can understand why. granted seconds for everything by the main entree and an occasional special dessert. Miss Ohio State Ellen Townsend, the director, says the service Buckeyes eat 20 meals a week, in separate operates in eight-week cycles, with rare variation. dining halls, called commons. Steaks are In an experimental aspect tried in one dorm, a scarce. A student board plans the eight yearly group of up to 40 students may_ ~equest .a specials, when 8500 diners feast on international distinctive dinner. A section of the dmmg area IS cuisines, and "wonderful holiday delights." cordoned off, and they are served the specific Again, only a minor percentage of all students dinner of their choice. Townsend calls the use the service. system very workable, adding, "Studentsgive a great response when they have something to do St. Joseph's College at Rensselaer with the food they eat." She plans to expand the In order to meet ever-rising food prices, meal request program next fall. service director Max Morphew has cancelled higher-cost foods, and turned to cheaper Loyola, Chicago meals. Citing the 69 cent per student per meal Loyola's 2700 diners eat steak once a week, budget, the service now offers three or four and at least three different entrees at everyother different dishes nightly. A weekly monotony meal. Seconds for all but steak. A student break is usually a "make-your-Qwn-sundae." advisory committee meets every week to help And once a month, the three week regular cycle plan meals and suggest specials. Assistant is broken with a complete "Adventure in Director Miles Jacobsen adds, "We've save a Dining." For 900 St. Joe's students, April means large part of the budget for 'International Week,' Greek. held in April with 6 nights of foreign cuisines. And once a week, surprise desserts and malts." Dayton No seconds, but unlimited beverages and salad Indiana offered. The service runs a five-week program, No seconds are served on breakfast or dinner and the 1500 students enjoy a monthly holiday meat, but Miss Jane Billyed says the students special. Thomas Madigan cleverly planned are more than satisfied with the unlimited a German Oktoberfest, and an Irish March. And vegetable, desserts and beverages available. somehow, April at Dayton is Polynesian. Steak nights arerare,but specials center around the holidays and infrequent foreign dinners. Marquette and Northwestern Menu meetings are held every week and no Both are catered by SAGA, the same folks that cycles are utilized. She claims the students' feed St. .Mary's. The students enjoy weekly pace The film presentation RFK Remembered will be presented Saturday, requests usually meet with great success_, owi~g changes, and monthly holiday dinner treats. But March 30, at 7 and a p.m.ln the Engineering Auditorium. to the very flexible menu plan. Desp1te this steak nights, which come about once a month, success few of the ten thousand dinners attend are less common than at St. Mary's. .t l. the observer Friday, March 29, 1974 .. 4,067 signatures collected warld InPIRG petitions tabulated by Drew Wallach any student who doesn't wish to issue in which InPIRG was in­ briefs Staff Reporter participate should be entitled to a volved was the proposed telephone full refund "by a convenient increase," he said. CARACAS tuPI>-Hcavy weight boxing champion George Foreman InPIRG, Indiana Public Interst mechanism." InPIRG Action, the group's was barred from leaving Venezuela Thursday until he pays $105,000 in Research Group, has completed its official new paper, stated that they taxes on his purse from Tuesday's match with Ken Norton. Notre Dame petition drive, ac­ The IriPIRG proposal is now had saved Indiana telephone users Foreman, 16 members of his entourage, and six members of Nor­ cumulating 4,067 student under consideration by the $8.5 million in possible rate in­ ton's group were stopped by immigration authorities at the Caracas signatures. University's administration. Ken creases, as well as approximately airport when they tried to leave for the United States. Venezuelan Hughes, chief organizer of InPIRG $10 million saved during the officials said Foreman would have to pay $105,000 in taxes from his The proposal would permit on campus, reported that the months of hearings when the phone $700,000 purse and Morton $30,000. InPIRG, a student controlled administration is now trying to company was forced to delay the organization whose purpose is to decide upon a method for refun­ r:~te. MOSCOW <UPil-The wife and family of Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn articulate and pursue the concerns ding the fee to students who do not support InPIRG. Hughes commented that lnPIRG leave Russia Friday to join the Nobel prize-winning author in exile. of students and the community at is also launching a grocery store Mrs. Natalya Solzhenitsyn, her mother and four children will fly to large on issues· of general public survey which will directly benefit Zurich on a Swissair jetliner. interest , to be financed by a Two methods being considered, he said, are a semi-mandatory fee, students. He explained that 20 special fee of $3.00 per student per stores in the area will be checked year. A clause also stipulated that by which student would be given an an campus taday opportunity after tuition was paid acomparing the prices of 5 basic to pick up a refund, or a "negative foods over a 3 to 4 week period. friday Mime premieres check-()ff" system, in which the "Results of this comparison," he 12:15 p.m.-seminar, "autochthonot·s microorganisms, student would be able to indicate said, "will be released after gastrointestinal ecosystems, and animal physiology," by dr. that he did not support InPIRG and Easter." dwayne c. savage , dept. of microbiology, u. of ill. at urbana­ at Meet your withhold his money. Other projects currently slated champaign - sponsored by the microbiology dept. In room 102, include: On-campus recycling; a lobund lab.