VOL. IV, No. 23 Serving the Notre Dame and Sa{nt Mary's College ('ommuni~l' THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16,1969 Mike Murphy On the inside ... O'Meilia sees hope • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • see p. 4 The pressure on Gatewood • •• • • • • • • • • • • see p. J 2 Faces in the crowd ••••••••••••• •••••• Seep. 5 Main quad rally, peace walk • • • •• • • • •• • • Sec p. 8 Vigil opens moratorium •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • See p. 9 Darst, Cullen address rally • • • • • • • • • • • • • • See p. 9 Hundreds attend resistance mass ••••••••• Seep. 2 Jim Hunt -- PAGE 2 THE OBSERVER. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16,1969 Christian peace, love at Resistance Mass The members of the Resist­ by Mark Walbran ance are: Chuck Darst, Junior in "They shall beat their swords Communication Arts; James into plowshares, and their spears Douglass, Assistant Professor of into sickles; one nation shall not Non-Violence; Tom Henekan, raise the sword against another, Senior in the General Program; 0 nor shall they train for war Tim MacCarry, Senior in Psycho­ .0 agafn." logy and Anthropology; Peter ....: So directed Yahweh from Smith, Assistant Professor of -; Sion in the Book of Micah. Read Mathematics at Saint Mary's Col­ aJ _ by Tim MacCarry of the Notre lege; and Karen Weller, Senior in, ~ t· Dame Resistance, these words Philosophy at Saint Mary's. c..C: were from the first reading of Acting as spokesman for the ::s : the Resistance Mass celebrated group, James Douglass said at ~ :E yesterday afternoon on the tree­ the Mass: o bl) lined mall of the Memorial Li­ "We believe that conscience in ~ '0 brary. obedience to (;od and to the .- The mass was com:elebrated dignity of man must resist a law c0 by Archbishop H.D. Roberts, Fr. which enforces murder. .. We >. David Burrell, Fr. Earnest Bar- can no longer cooperate with a 1':1 tell, Fr. John Gerger, Fr. Mau- ·system which makes objects of E rice Amen, Fr. William Lewers, men and which deepens the ex­ John Kisser Fr. John Cocran, and Fr. Ray ploitation of the yoor and the help return America to the path Rumde. William Storey, Asso­ blacks in America by sending prayers at the Consecration. of life ..." ciate Professor of Theology, act­ them first to fight a war against Afterwards the whole body re­ After destroying their draft ed as lector. the Vietnamese poor ... cited the Lord's Prayer and cards the six put their arms over The celebrants used a simple "We therefore refuse all coop­ everyone shook hands with the each others shoulders and stood altar draped with a brown altar eration with the institution of greeting, "Peace." at the Epistle side of the altar. cover bearing the sign of the killing, and in this Mass of Peace Communion followed. The Greek letter omega. The priests we signify our non-cooperation They were smiling. priests went down into the were all in white vestments. with evil by tearing up our draft 0 range banners with the crowd and distributed commun­ At the offertory of the Mass cards, the woman completing peace symbol and blue banners ion. The seminarians sang: two professors and four'students this act of civil disobedience ... with the outline of a dove waved "Peace I leave with you, my including a woman tore apart "By our actions here today, in above the large crowd which friends, I give to you, so you can their draft cards, signifying their forming the Notre Dame Resist­ filled in the mall. Mr. Hesburgh, give to others too." resistance to the Vietnam War. ance, and by our continuing to President of the university, Archbishop Roberts gave the Their action marked the found­ spread this truth of resistance stood somberly in the crowd to final blessing and said: ing of the Notre Dame Resist- and civil disobedience to a law the left, behind the altar. Five "The mass is ended. Go in of death, we e that we can musicians from Moreau Semi­ Peace." nary played during the Mass The six members of the Re­ from the back of an old grey sistance were then surrounded PIZZA HUT SIT-IN truck. Their songs included by supporters and well wish­ "Turn, Turn, Turn," and "Let's ers. A student approached Fr. Every Mon. • Tues. 5 • 9 Get Together." Bartell and said, "Now I know what it means to go to a Christ­ Archbishop Roberts led the ian University.,. $1.00 any small - $1.50 any large PIZZA Little violence marks Moratorium The largest crowd in Boston's $!/pitcher history - between 75,000 and I 00,000 persons by police EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT estimate - gathered on the historic Common and heard Sen. George F. McGovern, D, S.D., say Nixon must listen to the demands for peace. A hushed crowd estimated by U.S. park police at 50,000 huddled on the Washington PUAK Monument grounds in * fHONt: AHEAD * fOil fAI111 IERYICI Washington and heard a plea by Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. that the President "bring the boys home . bring them home now." Several thousand protesters - marching I 5 abrease and chanting "peace now" marched in the candlelight parade in New York from Bryand Park to the United Nations and on to Rockfeller Center. As estimated 30,000 persons demonstrated at New Haven, Conn.' I 5,000 persons gathered at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., 12,000 jammed Kennedy Square iil Detroit, 12,000 rallied in Pittsburgh 18 PIECES OF SOUL ATTENTION RACE FANS will be In Stepan Center The position of Friday night Grand Prix Chairman is still open THE FIRST FRIDAY at 8:30 to entertain you for further information please write: Dance Concert and 500 girls SOCIAl. COMMISSIONER 2nd Floor LaFortune from Midwest 9:00 I I: 30 this Friday BOX 427 after the pep rally colleges NOTRE DAME, INDIANA $1.00 per person or call 7489 between 3 and 5 pm THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1969 THE OBSERVER. PAGE 3 Record crowds protest at Big Ten schools by Glen Corso tween 25 and 30,000 partici­ and husbands have died in vain is ,, . Upwards of 75,000 people pated in the various moratorium not easy, but it is the truth." participated in Viet Nam War activities. The program included Northwestern University had Moratorium activities in the Big teach-ins, panel discussions and a teach-ins, some leafletting, a I. I 0 schools yesterday. With the speech by former Secretary of concert including the Chicago exception of Indiana University Labor Willard Wirtz. cast of HAIR and Cotton Mat­ ' and Purdue, all the demonstra­ Wirtz told the audience, "Pre­ her, and a speech by Representa­ tions included more than 3,000 sident Johnson never held a dis­ tive Abner Mikva. Mikva told an people, those two had more than cussion with the members of the audience of about 3,000 people I ,000. In many cases the protest domestic cabinet on the Viet­ that "the United States should was the largest in the history of nam war." immediately withdraw all troops the school. All of the campuses Later in the day a sit-in was from Vietnam." had successful teach-ins and held at the Ann Arbor draft Almost I 0,000 University of speeches. board by 50 University of Michi­ Minnesota students marched to At the University of Illinois, gan students. the Federal building in down­ there was an official class break Michigan State University Pre­ town Minneapolis led by several for one-half hour. During that sident Walter Adams told a Vietnam veterans carrying a time a rally was held at the crowd of 8.000 students "We are casket. As the marchers converg­ union building with the speakers no longer alone. In fact, some of ed on the Federal building, the including William Clark, former us may have to quit this move­ police, led by Mayor Charles Stenvig appeared. Stenvig order­ Illinois attorney general, and ment soon, it is getting too ed the police to disperse the singer Eartha Kitt. damn respectable." Senator crowd, saying "If they don't get Miss Kit said, "If President Philip Hart of Michigan also ad­ out of here I want them arrest­ Nixon doesn't hear today, I dressed the crowd. He said ed." think we are going to have to do "Being personally against Presi­ The University of Wisconsin it over and over again until he dents Johnson and Nixon does had 15,000 of its students parti­ does." not contribute to the debate on cipating in over 70 Vietnam War John Kissel Clark also scored Nixon's the war." He suggested that "tel­ statement that he would not be ling Americans that their sons continued on p. 11 affected by the moratorium say­ ing, "The time has come for us to criticize our government. I cannot believe that our President will not listen to the people here today and all over the nation." 5,000 people attended the ral­ ly which included folk singing. Later in the day a march was held from the campus into downtown Champagne through a business district and into the park for a rally. A croY. d esti­ mated between 9 and I 0,000 people were strung out for blocks, carying signs and ban­ ners. Most of the marchers wore arm-bands which said "44,798 dead." Meg <;unkcl, a staff reporter for the Daily lllini, said of the march, "It was fantastic, the greatest thing we ever had." The key speakers at the rally were Linda Quit!, one of the Chicago 15 who burned draft records last May and who is now on trial facing possibly 24 years in jail, and Mike Presser a former draft counselor for the Univer­ sity.