··VOL. 1v, No. a7 Serving the NotreDame and Sa{nt Mary·.~ ColleKC ('ommuni~J' MARCH 3, 1970 Candidates launch SBPcampaigns Halls to be emphasized Six teams enter Thrasher opens drive, by Krashna - Winings SBP, SBVP race seeks academic reform The campaign for Student as captain for the north quad entity unto itself," and of at­ by Bill Carter Body President officially be­ by Steve Hoffman and Hall Presidents Council taching excessive emphasis to The Farley Hall basement gan last night at 6:00 as Tom Chairman Tom Suddes as cap­ Strongly emphasizing the nec­ greater issues, Murray called for headquarters of the Dave Krash­ Thrasher, Dave Krashna, Pete tain for Holy Cross and Carroll essity of specific improvement na-Mark Winings campaign is al­ Peterson, John Dowdle, Joe the next Student Government to halls. and progress in the area of aca­ ready swimming with activity. Lord, and John M Guire all offer a coherent, articulate voice They will supervise the activi­ demic reform, Tom Thrasher With the campaign having offi­ returned petitions in time to on student needs. ties of the individual hall cap­ and Greg Murray initiated their cially opened yesterday the for­ have their names ori the bal­ "The Student Government tains who are made up of a campaign for Student Body ces behind Krashna-Winings ef­ lot. must impart a feeling of action number of hall presidents and President and Vice-President last fort have put together an organi­ Stay Senator Tom to the student, forging a sense of other hall government leaders. evening before a large crowd in zation which they stated would ·Thrasher of Grace Hall and student solidarity by picking up Jerry O'Connor will be off-cam­ Stanford Hall. be based on the closest possible his running mate, Associate and channeling student energy," pus captain. Pohl said the cap­ Stay Senator Thrasher deliver­ contact with the individual stu­ Academic Commissioner Greg he stated. tains' would be in daily contact ed the candidates' opening state­ dent. Murray of Alumni Hall, were Murray was questioned exten­ with Krashna and Winings re­ ment, outlining the ticket's basic Since much of the emphasis :first to announce their sively concerning specific pro­ porting all the feedback they policy priorities, and describing of the ideas Krashna and Winings candidacy The second team grams related to academic re­ receive from the members of the two fundamental short­ wish to get across is on the to announce was made up of form. He cited as an integral part their halls. comings of the present Student importance of hall activity over lluman Affairs Commissioner of reform the enviromnental ap­ depersonalized, overcentralized "The importance of the halls Government. proach to reform with students D a v e K r a s h n<a f r o m Thrasher identified the prob­ student government, a large part can't be underestimated in this learning in their own dorms off-campus and his running lems as the "tendency for the of the organization of the cam­ campaign," Pohl said. "We don't mate, Mark Witlings, through such means as the ex­ paign will be focused they've want to point up any big organi­ Student Government to freeze perimental college, increased president of St. Ed's Hall. out those students who failed to said on translating the desires of zation as a means to get our work-t~tudy programs, the hall the hall residents into action in people elected. There is no poli­ (continued on page 2) support the in-group during the fellows program, faculty offices next year's government. tical machine here. David has campaign, and to ignore students within the halls and the broad­ just those who happen to be Campaign manager Bob Pohl said that all the big organization in general after the election." ening of foreign study programs. involved in student government outlined some of the planning surrounding Student Govern­ Thrasher stressed the need to He also noted the necessity behind the organizational struc­ ment elections in the past has or some other organizations." open up Student Government on for students to have a say in Pohl indicated that Krashna ture in the Krashna camp. caused people to keep looking to the basis of interests, ability, and their education through student and Winings would begin -a full "The people in the halls are the government for answers to ideas to all who want to get representation on the College time schedule of visiting halls certainly the key to our drive in problems that should have come involved. He observed that it is Council, Academic Council, and and talking to students today. essential for politicians to get this campaign. We have a repre­ from themselves. That is where especially the Departmental He pointed out that the sched- away from their desks in La sentative in every residence hall the students government have Council, where the course plans Fortune and get back into the and they are the foundation of failed. ules have been drawn up only as are formulated. halls. Calling for continuing the our organization. The hall cap­ "David believes the students far as Thursday when the entire "Putting students on the personal approach of his cam­ tains will try to convey the can analyze situations for them­ organization will meet and evalu­ Councils should not be a conces­ things that David and Mark selves and decide how they want ate the progress of the campaign paign, Thrasher stated that the sion but a positive step," MuKay stand for to the people in their to act upon them, then go to the that far. After that all the speak­ Student Government must alert remarked. Murray observed the halls. We have some great people student government to get things ing schedules will be on a more itself to student needs. importance of academic flexi­ working for us and they are all done. That's why the halls are so or less day-to-day basis. The Noting one such student bility by doing away with curri­ willing to do the work because much a part of his emphasis. He whole organization was made to priority, Thrasher stated that: culum strictness and rigidity. they believe in what David and is supporting things like giving a be flexible, Pohl said. "Student Government must "The academic structure Krashna and Winings have push the Administration firmly, Mark are trying to do for the large part of the activity fee to ought to be one in which stu­ written a letter to all the stu­ students in this university," he the halls, and having some of constantly, and respectfully for dents may thrive rather than be dents and will distribute it to­ the implementation of coeduca­ said. those big-name speakers who stifled or frustrated," he said. night. The letter is incant to tion." l'ohl said the organization in­ come to the university get in to In addition, Murray expressed Vice-Presidential candidate cluded Dave Schmidt as captain the halls and dining halls for serve as a general introduction to the desirability of a course-by­ the aims of the campaign. Pohl Greg Murray commented that at for the south quad, Steve Flavin contact with all the students not request program, wherein a times he has held something of a (continued on page 6) group of students and a coop­ "why bother" attitude toward erative faculty member would Student Government, but felt prepare a course bibliography that as Vice-President he would for submission to the appro­ SLF features Brown, have a chance to do something. Wolfe priate Council for accreditation. by Pat Dermody Solotaroff, New York, N.Y., writing style, is a native of Accusing the present Student (continued on page 6) Claude Brown, whose searing editor of the "New American Richmond, Va. Government of evolving into "an account of growing up in Harlem Review," a collection of postwar He received a Ph. D. in was one of the most widely fiction and short stories. Solo­ American studies from Yale University in l 957, and from S MC frosh to vote acclaimed books of the last de­ taroff, who was also an associate Thursday is the deadline for sight," remarked Pat Haffey, editor of the Commentary Maga­ reporting for the Springfield cade, and Tom Wolfe, who gave SMC freshmen to vote in their Freshman Class senator. "They zine, holds a bachelor and (Mass.) Union he went to South "pop-journalism" to the literary districts on a number of amend­ provide for every sort of emer­ master degrees from the Univer­ America in 1959 as a corres­ world, are the headliners for the ments to their newly ratified gency." sity of Michigan. He will speak pondent for the Washington 1970. Sophomore Literary Fes­ constitution. At the meeting, senators also at 4 p.m. April l 2 in the tival April 12-16 on the Notre Post. His by line became nation­ Proposed at Sunday's Senate discussed the Freshman Class Dame campus. Memorial Library Auditorium. ally known when he joined the meeting, the amendments deal prom, tentatively scheduled for The annual festival, organized Claude Brown 33, is a native New York Herald Tribune in with procedure for constitu­ April 18. Suggested by hy the sophomore class and of Harlem who attended Howard 1962 as a reporter and magazine tional amendments, resignations, Ann Carlson, the theme, "Love Is directed by chairman Bob Hall, University and was a playwright writer. ·and impeachments. Blue," will predominate in each' will be keynoted by Theodore for the American Afro-Negro Since 1967, Wolfe, 38, has Initiated by Lolo Stankus, of Regina Hall's four lounges.