On ~ 'lhe Inside :· Hous(•ng shortage studie\1 · · · page 2 coup ·financial report ... page 3 serving the notre dame - st. mary's community Vol. VIII·: No. 68 Wednesday, January 30, 1974 l7ivJ:ulcahy, HPC discuss lottery by Jim Eder cannot be certain that all the beds in a new hall would Staff Reporter always be filled. Having to stretch our funds the way it is, we simply cannot afford to take such a chance." Director of Housing, Fr. Mulcahy, announced last Fianigan pointed out that such a problem of empty nig,ht during a question-answer session at the HPC beds ~ad been encountered during the first few years r.weting that hall lottery results should be ready by after the construction of the Flanner and Grace towers. Friday. Flanigan was also asked if the process of selecting A group of five administration officers were present: resident assistants could not be speeded up so that Mulcahy, Director of Admissions John T. Goldrick, those applying would not face· the dilemma of having to Vice President of Students Fr. James F. Flanigan, find off-campus housing late in April if they were not Director of Off-Campus Residence Fr. James L. Shilts, accepted and had bad lottery numbers. Flanigan said and Assistant to the Provost Sr. John Miriam Jones. that he unde1·stood the problem but that "with over 300 The details of the computerized lottery to be held this applicants it is simply a too difficult and time con­ Thursday to determine which students will be forced suming undertaking to finish before April." off campus next year were explained by Fr. Mulcahy. Fr. Shilts assured the presidents that although a Approximately 60 per cent of the students forced to large number of Notre Dame students will have to live leave will be seniors and 40 per cent juniors. No off campus, "there is no shortage of off-campus sophomores or incoming freshmen will have to leave. housing. There are plenty of homes and apartments to Ali juniors and seniors will be included in the lottery, so handle our needs." that adjustments for schoarship holders,· hall HPC Chairman Pat McLaughlin, however, argued presidents and resident assistants will have to made that "although there may be no shortage of housing later. qruantity-wise, there certainly is one quality-wise. I "I hope to have the results ready to publish by HPC questions Fr. Mulcahy on the lottery and have personally spent the last two weeks looking for Friday," Mulcahy asserted. No cut off points, adequacy of OC housing. (Staff photo by by Bill housing, and on the whole what I found was terrible. however, will be announced until much later. "As of Rahnerl. Landlords are charging ridiculously high prices for now. 883 students will have to more off campus," he students who are overcrowded in other places. shacks." explained. Goldrick, questioned as to the cause of the great McLaughlin charged that the university has a "However, we won't know until April how many of shortage of beds on campus, explained that there was responsibility to "help students find decent housing by these will be forced off, because the number is affected an unexpected four per cent increase in the freshmen putting pressure upon those landlords who are taking by several factors, including how many students move confirmation ration last year. He stated that all over advantage of Notre Dame students." voluntarily, how many present freshmen (who are not the country applications to universities were Shilts answered that the university is helpless in effected by the lottery) decide to move off, and how decreasing, in part due to federal spending cutbacks in acting against unfair landlords, because "property r.,any transfer and overseas students we have," stated higher education assistance programs. The university owners have always been the most protected by Mulcahy. admissions office took this national trend into account Ar.1erican law. It is the students' responsbility not to When questioned about his decision not to allow when sending out letters of acceptance, expecting that be taken advantage of when signing leases. Landlords students to overcrowd their rooms next year in order to the confirmation ratio would also decline. will continue to give students bad deals as long as it is accomodate those people not wishing to move off "We were anticipating only a 54 per cent con­ believed that they are desparate enough to accept campus, Mulcahy explained that "as a temporary firmation ratio," explained Goldrick, "but 58 per cent them. The students must realize that there is no soiution overcrowding worked all right, but as a per­ of those we accepted confirmed their desire to attend shortage forcing them to act at once when looking for Panent solution it is no good. It tends to hurt the Notre Dame. We defied the national trend." housing." quality of hall life. The increase noise factor alone is a When questioned as to what his office p;lans to do In other business before the HPC, executive coor­ r.1atter to consider, not to mention the problems of this year to avoid a similar experience, Goldrick said dinator Wally Gasior announced that there will be a living close quarters. Overcrowding also requires that they would operate on the assumption that a r.1eeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Dillon Hall increased hall staffs." r.,inimum of 58 per cent of those ose students accepted chapel for anyone interested in working for An Tostal. Mulcahy also noted that he was currently facing the will confirm. Next Tuesday's HPC meeting will be held at 6:15 ironic problem of having empty beds in some rooms Fr. Flanigan explained the reasoning behind the p.m. in the Fiesta Lounge of the LaFortune Student due to students ieaving between semesters, at the university's decision not to build another residence hall Center, which will serve as the new site for all future same time he was grandint room cost reductions to to alleviate the on-campus housing shortage. "We r.1eetings. On constitutional grounds ... Nixon declines subpoena By HELEN THOMAS order, handed down Tuesday by p1·esidential adviser John D. President into court as a of White House "plumbers" at WASHINGTON <UPI) - The Los Angeles Superior Court Ehrlichman, one of those facing witness. the time Ellsberg was under unprecedented subpoena of Judge Gordon Ringer. charges in the Ellsberg bur­ Ringer said he would sign a investigation for allegedly steal­ President Nixon to testify at But White House officials who glary proceedings, the White certificate ordering Nixon to ing the Pentagon Papers on the the Ellsberg burglary trial will declined to be identified indicat­ House · had confirmed that testify Feb. 25 at a pre-trial Vietnam War. be "respectfully declined" on ed the order would be Nixon's lawyers refused Ehr­ hearing and also to appear at Ehrlichman is trying to prove constitutional grounds, White "respectfully declined" on con­ lichman's request for the the scheduled April 15 trial of he was acting as an official of House officials indicated Tues­ stitutional grounds -presuma­ President to testify voluntarily. Ehrlichman, G. Gordon Liddy the federal government, and he day. bly presidential privilege under Ringer's court order and David Young. All have wants Nixon to testify in his The official White House the separation of powers tantamount to a subpoena of been indicted in connection with support. l reaction was to withhold concept. the President -followed. In the the burglary of Ellsberg's "This will be the first time in response until it had received a Before Ringer ruled favora­ past, the White House has flatly psychiatrist's office by a team the of a state court" copy of the California court bly on a motion by former opposed efforts to get the l I 1 Officer injured at game Marquette fans from going on to A South Bend Police officer was the playing area with a sign. treated and released from St. The officials claimed that the Joseph's Hospital last night for a officer was slammed into a railing injury received during a fracas at by the students as they attempted o the Notre Dame-Marquette push past him. basketball game. As of presstime, no arrests were The officer, who suffered a deep made in connection with the in­ bruise of his right side, was carried cident. from the stands on a stretcher and The fracas was one of at least taken by ambulance to the three that occurred during the hospital. game which matched the 3rd and Officials of the ACC reported 5th ranked teams in the country. that the officer had walked up the All three of the incidents invoved steps on the east corner of the ACC Marquette fans who were carrying basketball arena to prevent some signs near the playing area. t -i the observer Wednesday, January 30, 1974 \ 1. t WASHINGTON <UPn-Comptroller General Elmer ... B. Staate--in a letter to Rep. John Moss, D-Calif., that was released Tuesday said that President Nixon lacks _. campu• btday ~'i_,, legal power to provide former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew with secret service protection. He wrote: { "There is no justification for such continued taxpayer 11:30 a.m.--film, instructional film, ace auditoriL1m expense and this is only arbitrary action on behalf of a • warld convicted felon." 3:00 p.m.--clinic, handball clinic and exhibition, ; take forest college, auxiliary gym, ace ·• CINCINNATI <UPI-A special hearing was ordered .. Tuesday by a federal appeals court which could lead to 4:30 p.m.--lecture, "fatty acid synthetase from yea~!t" a new trial for James Earl Ray, convicted killer of by dr.