university of notre dame st. mary's college Thursday July 31, 1975 Vol 10 No. 8 The drumbeats you hear coming Searching for a different across the campus are signaling lifestyle, for a look at how people the annual invasion of America's live in another culture, Sister Jane Youth on Parade. Over 4,000 Pitz, Assistant Director of Campus participants are here to choose, Ministry, went to Pippa Passes in among other things, "Miss Appalachia. There, she found a Majorette of America," "The people who, though poor, were Boy's National Twirling Cham­ extremely proud and dignified. pion," "The Drum Major Championship" and "The Porn Pon girls of the year." .... _..,..-- ~ -............ -­ The A YOP people have made Visiting their homes, she witnessed Notre Dame their home, and bring the strength of the family bonds, more than one million dollars In the quiet loyalty of the elders, and business to the South Bend area. the values held by people who have They'll be here till Saturday night, had to go on without material when they have their "big show," goods. which will attract more than six The heritage of the people is as thousand people, Including par­ old as the countryside and as ticipants and observers. Story on revealing as the face of a miner. page three. Story on pages four and five. This week saw two an­ nouncements of staff changes in the Administration. Dr. James A. Roemer, University counsel since 1972, has been appointed dean of students. He will replace current dean, John Macheca, who will serve as special assistant to Roemer while pursuing graduate studies at the University this fall. If a group sets itself up to reflect Brian C. Regan, director of ind reinforce the feelings and ideas development at Notre Dame, has of its listeners, then what can be been named to the position of expected of them in concert? Most executive assistant to Dr. James likely, they will put on a fairly W. Frick, vice president of public normal, fairly uneventful per­ relations and development at the formance. That's just what the University. The appointment Is Eagles did at the A.C.C. last effective Friday, August 1. Thursday :night. Read how the group "who very well may write the quintessential cruising song some day," put on a highly forgettable show. Page ten. ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ . v :· 11 r 2 the observer Thursday July 31, 1975 t t Dance this weekend to s PATCHWORK ~ Insights .•••••. t Michiana's top Rock Night Club! Latest police reports from Dr. Arnold Mandell, chairman of the I Darwini, Australia, are alerting the populace Department of Psychiatry at U.C. San I to be on the lookout for five killer toads still Diego, has come to the astonishing con­ I at large after 19 escaped from a local clusion that it may soon be possible to I •4, BILL NAGY'S biology teacher. develop "exquisite" new drugs without side 1 The eight-inch toads squirt a poison effects which will allow normal users to I I deadly to cats, dogs and pigs. Ordinarily, select the lifestyle they desire. ill ill they eat blow flies. These "sugar cane One <"pill A") will permit the user to be 12~EST FIR,.~•!!! , toads" will also eat anything from cigarette dynamic, active ~nd creative for three butts to ping-pong balls, and have been months. Another ("pill 8") will permit - referred to as "walking vacuum cleaners." him to summon every available molecule of The real danger that the five toads aggression. Dr. Mandell calls the new drugs possess is their ability to reproduce at a rate chemical coping agents. of 20,000 anually. The problem is so extreme Other coping agents will permit takers to that the local radio stations have been separate more easily from loved ones. Still playing the mating call of the sugar cane another will make it possible for them to toad in the hopes of drawing them out into work twenty hours a day. the open. Even local school children, carrying pictures of the species, have been * sent out to comb the fields for the renegade To further fill your science-fiction fan­ toads. tasies: A full-scale, two-and-a-half hour battle was won by Chicago Municipal workers this summer when thousands of * red ants attacked a motorist this summer on _. As reported in a recent issue of Rolling the . Edens Expressway in Chicago. _________ _ Stone, a letter from a constituent to Rep. The motorist had stopped to change a flat ______ Ron Dellums (D.-Cal.) contains perhaps the tire. most cogent argument against gun control Highway maintenance crews used a I THIS SUNDAY AUG. 3 ·! ever presented. mixture of weed killer, fuel oil and gasoline Writes the constituent: "I don't think we to quash the ant rebellion, after fending I NO COVER CHARGE should have stricter gun control laws .. them off with water so the driver could because we need guns for hunting and escape with his vehicle. The majority of the protection. For instance, say we needed a ant army was felled by the fumes. A nearby 1 WITH THIS AD 1 shotgun to go duck hunting but you couldn't ant hill was "being kept under ob­ NOW APPEARING get a shotgun because of the gun laws. servation." I Right now you can buy a shotgun, but after I we take away handguns, robbers , mur­ * NOWHERE MEN derers, etc. will buy rifles. Then we will As we've reported before, you can now I take away rifles, so robbers, murderers, write the FBI and the CIA to find out if etc. will buy shotguns. Then we will take they've been keeping a personal file on away shotguns and pretty soon we won't be you and, if so, what's in it. Since the able to get guns to go duck hunting. Then amendment took effect, an average of 111 I there will be an overpoJ:mlation of ducks." people per day have been asking for the SBULMS i files. I ITITB CLUB I When Sen. George* McGovern was in Now, however, Congress has intervened and inadvertantly put an end to the fun. The I On U.S. 31 between Niles and South Bend- Free Parking- Ph. 683·4350 I Cuba, he asked Fidel Castro if he would • CONTINUOUS ENTERTAINMENT FROM 9 P.M:, TILL 2 A.M. I release the nine Americans who were being latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine held there on narcotics, espionage, reports that the House has passed the hijacking and various other charges. Castro Privacy Act, which was supposed to expand demurred, though, and said "If I release the the scope of freedom of information. But ------------------- prisoners to you, what will I have left when Justice Department spokesmen say that Sen. Kennedy comes?" just the opposite will happen. As they see it . when the new law takes effect in September, . when you write to the CIA and ask for your . Anthony Renteria,*" 20, of Union City, N.J., file under the Freedom of Information Act, has been charged with passing a marijuana you will receive a polite reply informing you cigarette to a two-year-old child in a school that the Freedom of Information Act no yard. He was also charged with posession of longer covers personal files, and that you 25 grams of marijuana and contributing to should submit your request under the new the deliquency of a minor. Privacy Act. And here's the catch: The CIA and the FBI are exempt from releasing files under the new Privacy Act. • These latest governmental machinatioqj Charles Roberts, 62, of Eastbourne, have caused Nader lawyers to threaten England, received the world's record for court suits and at least one Deputy Assistant tomato growing for his tomato weighing 14.5 Attorney General to threaten suicide. "I'm pounds. The great gardener attributed his planning to die," says Mary Lawton, who success to stereo headphones he put on the handles the Privacy Act. "This bill will growing tomato, playing music to it con­ close the whole government. It's made me tinuously. an anarchist." ····································· ·-·· "*** BOOGIE RECORDS r------IOOGIE RECORDS ..-----BOOGIE RECORDS---· .---~~~~~--------~·----------- I ! SECOND CONCERT ~ !,_ CELEBRATION SALE!! ~ Q ,.... 1"'\ 2 ~All FOGHATLP's c:J U\ ~~' (TH URS.-thru-TUES.) I 0 I 0 I Why pay more when you don't have to! I I I -I I I • • • • I Rock soul Jazz Blues Bluegrass 0 I 0 -G') I I • Special orders filled promptly! 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It's easy to see she loves participants number somewhere around Boy's Championship." recorded, "Billy Don't Be A Hero," along what she's doing," she boasted.