On The Inside S B P candidates an- nounce ... page 3 Soph literary festival plans ... page 7 serving the notre dame -st. mary's community Thursday, February 22, 1973 Vol. VII No. 86 Election committee sets 'special' by Mike Kulczycki the election rules as decided by the Election Staff Reporter Committee. Twelve of the thirteen SBP - SBVP teams were present at the meeting, Notre D.,me's Election Committee only the ticket of Ray Carlson and Tom finalized plans last night for an Election Kastelic was missing. The Election Com­ Special to be released February 26 in con­ mittee requested that the copy and junction with the Observer .. photographs for the Election Special be in the Observer office by 2:30 pm Friday. Election Committee Chairman Paul Dziedzic described the sixteen page Election special as similar in size to the Irish sports In answering questions Dziedzic pointed out Weekly and said., "Each candidate will have the page order in the Election Special will be one page to do whatever he wants in terms of _juggled, and the front and back pages will be text. photographs, and artwor,." This used by the Election Committee to prevent its Election Special will be available at dinner, strategic use by any candidate. Dziedzic also Monday. Feburary 26. said there will be "no censorship outside of profanity," and no editing of the texts or Compromise statements. cmnpaign problems The Election Committee reached a com­ promise with the Observer at their meeting Members of the Election Committee will be on the question of financing the Election available in the Student Government offices Special and its editorial control. from 7 to 8 pm until the election, to handle any complaints or questions arinsing from the The Election Committee and the Observer Members of the election committee announce a special election campaigns. Dziedzic stressed that violations are each providing $100 to finance the the publication. of the election restrictions will be taken seriously. publication of the Election Special, as a candidate's decision. However, "the Election "valuabvle supplement." Committee has decided that any reason will In explaining the Election Special to a later be accepted," and each cnadidate will receive Each SBP candidate is provided with $15.4u meeting of SBP and SBVP candidates, a page in the Election Special. credit at the Campus Press, where the poster Dziedzic said, "In order to have your page in size for campaingn printing has been limited the Election Special, you will be asked to fill deadlines to 11 x 14 inches. out a separate questionaire -- put out by the Dziedzic stressed the starting time for the The primary election will be held Tuesday, Observer." campaingns- Thursday at 6 pm -to the SBP February 27, and if a general election runoff Dziedzic added that reasons for not filling in and SBVP candidates and distibuted copies of is required on March 1, only the top two the questionaire must be included if that is the primary candidates will be considered. Black faculty form to protect black im.age by David Rust Che-Mponda said he hoped the group would meet at sity, Professor Che-Mponda was first signed on to the Staff Reporter least once again febore Wednesday to "elect some University faculty for the 1973 spring semester. He is a more officers, perhaps draw up a constitution,". and native of Tanzania and teaches primarily ·black Notre Dame's black faculty and staff have taken the more clearly define what direction the new studies, including a course on the Swahili language first steps toward establishing an organization which organization will take. which he believes is the first Swahili course ever of­ they hpe will, among other things, combat the "bad Recently awarded his Ph.D from Howard Univer- fered at Notre Dame. publicity the black community has received," ac­ cording to newly-elected chairman D. Alech Che­ Mponda. Che-Mponda, assistant professor of government and international relations, emphasized last night that Ne"W St. Mary's calendar set; "bad publicity" about blacks was not the only reason behind formation, nor has the faculty-staff group been formally developed. different from ND calendar But the new chairman was concerned with what he by Maria Gallagher differences will make it difficult for Notre Dame called the "image" the black community on campus St. Mary's Editor and Saint Mary's students who plan rides has been getting, especially through the campus together, especially brothers and sisters. They media. The new academic calendar released by Saint pointed out the inconvenience of waiting around "We are rather concered with the type of publicity Mary's for the 1973-74 fall semester is two class for other students, and believe that the calendar the black community has recieved in The Observer," days shorter than its Notre Dame counterpart will encourage "cutting" around vacation time. said Che-Mponda, "especially in its emphasis on the and includes differences in the midsemester and The question of shuttle service between the two Black House. From reading about it (in The Observer) Thanksgiving breaks. The calendars are iden­ campuses was also raised, since the buses do not it appears as if black students are not interesed in tical in all other respects, and the spring ordinarily run during holidays. This would studies as much as social matters." semester schedules for the two schools are also possibly affect Notre Dame students with classes He was referring to the present debate pver a black the same. at Saint Mary's on October 19, and Saint Mary's student panel proposal, first heard by the Student Life Notre Dame's midsemester holiday extends students with Notre Dame classes from Council last Feb. 5, to create a "Black House" off­ from the last class on October 18 through the 22, November 19-21. campus which would be used by both University and while the break at Saint Mary's begins a day "You can't convince me that students will stay South Bend blacks for a host of activities, academic later and classes resume on October 23, as at around if they've got a ride offer and the and social, and which would serve as a meetingplace Notre Dame. prospect of no shuttle service to their classes," for all blacks in the area. Thanksgiving holidays are scheduled to begin one Saint Mary's professor commented. The panel that presented the idea to the SLC felt that at Saint Mary's after the last class on Friday, Hickey revealed he had incurred some op­ such a house was "the University's responibility to November 16, but do not begin at Notre Dame position from students and parents about the black students." Hollowing the proposal the need for a until Wednesday, November 21. Both schools scheduling of two vacations each semester, Black House and the details behind establishing one return on November 26. rather than extending the Thanksgiving and have been actively debated within the University. Saint Mary's Vice President for Academic spring breaks. Che-Mponda said his group feels there has been a Affairs Dr. William Hickey noted that the "I've met quite regularly with Dr. Burke from misrepresentation of the blacks' position on the calendar received "almost unanimous support" Notre Dame," said Hickey, "and the present matter. from the department chairmen, the Student schedule seems the most feasible." "We thought the black voice had not been well­ Assembly, and the Academic Affairs Council, He defended the fall midsemester holiday represented in that way,'; he said. where it received final approval. Hickey said saying that a break of some sort was needed in Che-Mponda was elected chairman at the group's that he saw "nor real conflict" between the addition to Thanksgiving, and said that the first meeting, held last Monday, and Dr. Williamponda schedules for students enrolled in coexchange spring break could not be combined with Easter was elected chairman at the group's first meeting, held courses. because the holyday falls too late in the last Monday, and Dr. William Richardson, assistant "Any problems will be easily worked out with semester. professor of mosern and classical languages, was faculty cooperation," Hickey stated. He h~s Hickey feels that the 1974-75 academic elected co-chairman. asked department chairmen to recommend to calendar will pose "far more significant im­ It was also at this meeting that the decision was faculty members that no exams be given on plications" for the two campuses. He cited Notre made to set up a formal organization, explained its those days when the schedules do not coincide. chairman. Many students are concerned that the holi<iay (continued on page 6) 2 the observer Thursday, February 22, 1973 Vientiane- Shortly after completion of an agreemnt to end the war in Laos. U.S. Officials here rushed to make contact with the Com­ an campu• taday munist Pathet Lao, apparently to get a list of American Prisoners of War in Laos, where several hundred Americans are missing. The warld agreement establishes an interim coalition government and an ex­ 1:00 4:00 isis gallery open. change of prisoners within 60 days. 7:30 lecture. economic problems in modern india, ken jameson, india '73 series, carroll hall, smc. Washington- The government plans to approve a "morning after" 8:00 lecture, the watched society, nat hentoff, contraceptive drug for women- but only in emergencies such as rape. library auditorium. The drug, which has been used for other purposes for more than 30 8:30 play, after the rain, nd-smc theatre, briefs washington hall. tickets $1.50, advance call 4176. years (and has sometimes been prescribed as a contraceptive) has 9:00 concert, jazz at nine, nd jazz band, Iafortune recently been linked to cancer in daughters whose mothers used it main lounge .