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No. 87THE OBSERVERMARCH 3. 1970 _______________________________Serving the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College Community ., Candidates launch SBPcampaigns Halls to be emphasized Six teams enter Thrasher open by Krashna - Winings SBP, SB VP 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 Stev e Hoffman The Farley Hall basement and Hall Presidents Council taching excessive emphasis to gan last night at 6:00 as Tom Strongly emphasizing the nec­ headquarters of the Dave Krash- Chairman Tom Suddes as cap­ greater issues, Murray called for Thrasher, Dave Krashna, Pete essity of specific improvement na-Mark Winings campaign is al­ tain for Holy Cross and Carroll the next Student Government to Peterson, John Dowdle, Joe and progress in the area of aca­ ready swimming with activity. halls. offer a coherent, articulate voice Lord, and John M Guire all demic reform, Tom Thrasher With the campaign having offi­ They will supervise the activi­ on student needs. returned petitions in time to and Greg Murray initiated their cially opened yesterday the for­ ties of the individual hall cap­ “The Student Government have their names on the bal­ campaign for Student Body ces behind Krashna-Winings ef­ tains who are made up of a must impart a feeling of action lot. President and Vice-President last fort have put together an organi­ number of hall presidents and to the student, forging a sense of Stay Senator T o m evening before a large crowd in zation which they stated would other hall government leaders. student solidarity by picking up Thrasher of Grace Hall and Stanford Hall. be based on the closest possible Jerry O’Connor will be off-cam­ and channeling student energy,” his running mate, Associate Stay Senator Thrasher deliver­ contact with the individual stu­ pus captain. Pohl said the cap­ he stated . Academic Commissioner Greg ed the candidates’ opening state­ dent. tains’ would be in daily contact Murray was questioned exten­ Murray of Alumni Hall, were ment, outlining the ticket’s basic Since much of the emphasis with Krashna and Winings re­ sively concerning specific pro­ first to announce their policy priorities, and describing of the ideas Krashna and Winings porting all the feedback they grams related to academic re­ I candidacy The second team the two fundamental short­ wish to get across is on the receive from the members of form. He cited as an integral part to announce was made up of comings of the present Student importance of hall activity over their halls. of reform the environmental ap­ Human Affairs Commissioner Government. depersonalized, overcentralized “The importance of the halls proach to reform with students D ave K ra s h n ^ a from 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 through such means as the ex­ mate, Mark W tilings, Student Government to freeze paign will be focused they’ve want to point up any big organi­ 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-study programs, the hall support the in-group during the the hall residents into action in people elected. There is no poli­ (continued on page 2) fellows program, faculty offices campaign, and to ignore students next year’s government. tical machine here. David has within the halls and the broad­ just those who happen to be in general after the election.” Campaign manager Bob Pohl said that all the big organization ening of foreign study programs. involved in student government Thrasher stressed the need to outlined some of the planning surrounding Student Govern­ He also noted the necessity or some other organizations.” open up Student Government on behind the organizational struc­ ment elections in the past has for students to have a say in Pohl indicated that Krashna the basis of interests, ability, and ture in the Krashna camp. caused people to keep looking to their education through student and Winings would begin a full ideas to all who want to get “The people in the halls are the government for answers to representation on the College time schedule of visiting halls involved. He observed that it is certainly the key to our drive in problems that should have come 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 ules have been drawn up only as Fortune and get back into the and they are the foundation of failed. are formulated. far as Thursday when the entire halls. Calling for continuing the our organization. The hall cap­ “David believes the students “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 ate the progress of the campaign paign, Thrasher stated that the things that David and Mark selves and decide how they want sion but a positive step,” Murtay that far. After that all the speak­ Student Government must alert stand for to the people in their to act upon them, then go to the remarked. Murray observed the ing schedules will be on a more itself to student needs. halls. We have some great people student government to get things importance of academic flexi­ or less day-to-day basis. The Noting one such student working for us and they are all done. That’s why the halls are so bility by doing away with curri­ whole organization was made to priority, Thrasher stated that: willing to do the work because much a part of his emphasis. He culum strictness and rigidity. be flexible, Pohl said. “ Student Government must they believe in what David and is supporting things like giving a “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 constantly, and respectfully for students in this university,” he the halls, and having some of 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 meant to tio n .” Pohl said the organization in­ come to the university get into In addition, Murray expressed serve as a general introduction to V i c e- Presidential candidate cluded Dave Schmidt as captain the halls and dining halls for 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 group of students and a coop­ (continued on page 6) “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, Wolfe have a chance to do something. 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 SMC frosh to vote University in 1957, and from acclaimed books of the last de­ taroff, who was also an associate Thursday is the deadline for sight,” remarked Pat Haffey, reporting for the Springfield cade, and Tom Wolfe, who gave editor of the Commentory Maga­ 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.” pondent for the Washington 1970 Sophomore Literary Fes­ sity of Michigan. He will speak constitution. At the meeting, senators also tival April 12-16 on the Notre at 4 p.m. April 12 in the 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 Y ork Herald T ribune in with procedure for constitu­ April 18. Suggested by of Harlem who attended Howard 1962 as a reporter and magazine by the sophomore class and tional amendments, resignations, Ann Carlson, the them e,“Love Is directed by chairman Bob Hall, University and was a playwright w riter. 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 Stank us, of Regina Hall’s four lounges.