THE OBSERVER.*Vol. II, No. XXX U niversity o f N o tre Dame D ecem ber 11, 1967

Circle Kicks O ff Phillips—Xmas Fund Drive

Until last July 26 Melvin Phillips, a young South Bend Negro, had a steady job, a wife expecting their first child, and two legs. It wasn’t the best job in the world and they weren’t the best legs. But his job as a punch press operator at the Bendix plant kept the family secure, if not wealthy; and, when Melvin Phillips had two legs, he could walk by himself.

Last July 26 all o f that changed. Mel­vin Phillips and some other young Negroes met with Mayor Align and members o f

N ew s In Brief:

T utor FutureI ^ T h e Notre Dame tu to ring program wil end December 14 unless the program re ceives local or federal funds to carry on The Office o f Economic O pportunity which had funded $80,000 for the pro­ject in 1966, has cut o ff funds.

According to tutoring activist Leo Welsh, “We will probably go on some­how .” Welsh said the government, faced with a necessary cutback in expendi­tures, decided to give m oney only to programs funded in 1967.

Rack, Frosh Pres identC^>Carl Rack was elected President o f the Freshman Class in class elections last Thursday. The elections, first o f their kind in history, saw almost 75% o f the Class o f ’71 go to the polls.

Kelly ResignsSenior Norm Jeddeloh, last year’s off-

campus commissioner o f student govern­m ent, was elected Friday to the post o f Chairman o f the Notre Dame Honor Council. At the meeting, Senior Dick Kelly announced his resignation as Chair­man, listing “ personal reasons” for his quitting. Jeddeloh will hold the office until May 1.

N o A ssem blyC>T he Student Body Assembly originally scheduled for January 4 and 5 has been put o ff by more than a m onth . The move came in the wake o f plans by some student senators to move to deny funds for the assembly if it had been held at the January date. The Assembly is now set for February 7 and 8.

Student Union Hall Life Commissioner Tom Brislin hopes for attendance o f up to 3500 at the Assembly.

Free UniversityI^ A n organizational meeting for those in­terested in the Free University drew a tu rnou t o f over 100 Thursday afternoon in the Library Lounge. Out o f those in attendance came more than 90 applica­tions for courses.

Meeting organizer Suzanne Smither, board member o f the Free University, said the largest number o f applications, 27, came for a course on radicalism to be organized and taught by Notre Dame Senior Lenny Joyce.

the City Council at the LaSalle Park N eighborhood Center to discuss ways o f alleviating the city’s racial tensions. The meeting was sincere and productive. It continued after the Mayor and some Council members had to leave.

At the same time and unknow n to those at the meeting trouble broke ou t a block away. M oments before the distur­bance broke out Melvin Phillips left the meeting. The police ordered all those leaving the Center to return and Phillips received permission to return also. But as he crossed the street to enter the Center, several police officers attem pted to re­strain him. He broke away and ran, pur­sued by a police dog until he fell, wound­ed in the groin and upper right thigh by a shot gun blast. The shot almost killed him. Melvin Phillips could no longer walk alone.

S p e c ia l is ts in I n d ia n a p o l is repaired much o f the damage. Melvin Phillips would live but w ithout his right leg and w ithout his job. His wife was still expect­ing. He lacked six days o f qualifying for the Bendix employee insurance program and so had no medical resources. The bills, large ones, began to pile up, beating him down more than he already was.

Before July 26 his existence wasn’t the most pleasant bu t he could pay for it. But surgery and hospitalization, nine days o f intensive life-or-death care as well as hours o f physical therapy are more than Melvin Phillips can afford. At the same time, they are something he had to have. Still recuperating and w ithout a job , w ithout resources other than his own, Melvin Phillips has medical bills o f more than $2000.

During the past four m onths, he and his wife have lived with relatives, their only income a weekly $11.75 food allow­ance supplied by Portage Township. In a week his wife will give birth and Melvin Phillips will need an apartm ent he can’t afford.

The South Bend Rehabilitation Center is supplying him with an artificial leg and Bendix will rehire him when he is able to work. But before Melvin Phillips can walk alone, he needs help in getting to his feet. He still has a debt o f over $2000 for m ed­ical expenses alone.

A campaign is underway with the support o f the Crux, Observer and Scho­lastic, WSND and the Blue Circle to raise the money Melvin Phillips needs. The Charity Chest has contributed $500 and pledges to m atch the first $1000 raised in

the South Bend com m unity. According to Professor Phillip R athburn o f the Notre Dame faculty, the organizer o f the fund, the campaign takes no sides in the events o f July 26. It is, he says, “ an at­tem pt to help an individual family whose needs are very real.”

Tonight every student will receive a letter from Professor R athburn describing the fund. Wednesday night, December 13,

members o f the Blue Circle will conduct a door-to-door collection in every hall. A collection will also be taken on St. Mary’s campus.

Melvin Phillips used to walk by him­self, sufficient for his own needs. If the drive is successful, if N otre Dame and St. Mary’s are generous, he will walk alone once more. But at the m om ent he needs help getting to his feet.

Dashing through the hall, with a girl upon y our knee, Dodging the rec to r’s glance, for hall au tonom y.Bell on bob tails ring. Dillon hall is bright.Oh w hat fun parietal hours would be on a long, cold night.

Minton Rushes For Senior CarsSenior Class President Mike Minton

has announced that he plans to speak to

the S tudent Senate Wednesday in support

o f a m otion which would allow for second

semester, on-campus Seniors to have au­

tomobiles. The m otion, introduced by

Walsh Senator Pat Dowd, asks for unani­

mous approval for cars and coincides with

a statem ent presented to Fr. Hesburgh by

Minton calling for a change in the rule.

Minton plans to outline to the Senate

at least four reasons for change in the

rule. The first is improvement o f social

conditions for Seniors, expecially for those

seriously thinking o f marriage and need­

ing a car to visit fiances. A second reason

is the need for Seniors to travel in order

to secure jobs for when they graduate.

Dowd, sponsor ot the Senate motion,

points to a third reason as well. He main­

tains that with construction o f the Athle­tic and Convocation Center parking space

for several thousand cars will be available.

According to Dowd, the Adm inistration

objection o f lack of parking space will be underm ined with com pletion o f the Cen­

ter.

Minton has already subm itted a memo­randum to Hesburgh and expects to use passage o f the Dowd motion as leverage in future negotiations over the issue.

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Faculty Members Support W arAmericans, peace and freedom are inseparable.”

The Eisenhower-Douglas com­m ittee claims to be non-partisan. At Notre Dame, a faculty poll recently showed N otre Dame professors p re tty evenly divided on a num ber o f the war’s aspects. While a num ber o f faculty mem­

bers have participated in dem on­strations in South Bend and the picketing o f the ROTC Presiden­tial Review last spring, the en­dorsement o f the statem ent o f the Com m ittee Seeking Peace with Freedom in Vietnam is the first major faculty response in support o f the war.

CILA Card Sales Reach RecordsThis year, the Christmas card

sales o f the Council o f the Inter­national Lay A postolate (CILA) has reached a new high, 10,000 orders beyond last year’s record o f 21,000 cards.

Bill Phippard, director o f the Card Com m ittee, attribu tes the success primarily to the new creative designs, the result o f an

art contest held in October. “ Of course,” he adds, “ we tried some new selling techniques, and we had plenty o f enthusiastic people working for us.”

The profit realized by card sales makes up only a fraction o f the organization’s to ta l budget. Last year $13,000 was needed, it may be higher for 1968.

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(.B y the author of “R ally Round the Flag, B oys!’’, “Dobie G illis ,’’ etc.)

’TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLYY uletide is a lm ost upon us. L e t’s stop w a s tin g tim e in

classes and g e t on w ith o u r C h ris tm as shopping . Follow ­in g a re a nu m b er o f g i f t suggestions, all easily ob ta inab le a t y o u r n e a re s t w a r su rp lu s boutique.

F ir s t , a m ost unusual g i f t idea, b ran d new th is y ea r and ce rta in to p lease everyone on you r l is t—a g i f t ce r­tifica te from th e A m erican V ete rin ary M edicine A ssocia­tio n ! E ach ce rtifica te is accom panied by th is ch a rm in g poem :

M erry Christmas, north and south,Does your cow have hoof and mouth ?And your dog, fidele semper,Here’s a cure for his distemper.L ittle kitten, cute and squirmy,Bring her in. I think she’s wormy.To bunnies, turtles, parrots green,Joyeux Noel! Heureux Vaccine!

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Tell me, Lester, what is all this going to get you?

5. It’s already gotten me a great job with Equitable. Challenging work. Good pay. Responsibility. And thechance to move up to an important management position.

Can they use a top-notch dart thrower?

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A re you w ondering w h a t to g ive th a t ex tra -specia l m an on y o u r lis t? S top w ondering . Give h im th a t ex tra-specia l s h a v in g c o m b in a tio n , P e rs o n n a S u p e r S ta in le s s S tee l B lades and B u rm a Shave. E ach g i f t is accom panied by th is ch a rm in g p o em :

Christmas m erry, New Year bonny,From your friendly blade Personny.You will have the ladies fawning,I f you’re shaving w ith Persawning.Injector sty le or double edges,Both are made by good Persedges.And Burma-Shave in plain or menthol,Leaves your face as smooth as renthol.(N O T E : As everyone knows, ren tho l is th e sm oothest

substance ever discovered. You m ay no t know, how ever, th a t ren th o l is nam ed a f te r its inven to r, R alph W aldo Renthol, who developed it by cro ssin g a sw an w ith a ball b ea rin g .)

( In te re s tin g ly enough, M r. R enthol d id n o t s ta r t ou t to be an inven to r. U n til age 50 he w as a W estern U nion boy. T hen f a te took a hand . One day w hile de livering a s in g in g te leg ram to a g ir l nam ed C laud ia S igafoos, Ralph n o te d to h is s u r p r i s e t h a t th e te le g r a m w a s s ig n e d “C laud ia S ig a fo o s!” She had se n t h e rse lf a b ir th d a y g r e e t in g !

(W hen p ressed to explain, C laudia told R alph a h e a r t­ren d in g ta le . I t seem s th a t w hen she w as only six w eeks old, h e r p a re n ts w ere killed in an avalanche. T he in fa n t C laudia w as found by a p a ir o f k indly caribou who ra ised h e r as th e ir own. T hey ta u g h t h e r all th ey knew —like how to ru b b a rk off a tre e and w hich lichens a re b e t te r than o th e r lichens—b u t in tim e th e y saw th a t th is w as not enough. W hen C laud ia reached age 18, th e y en te red h e r in B enn ing ton .

(U nused to people, C laudia lived a lonely life —so lonely, in fac t, th a t she w as reduced to send ing h e rse lf b ir th d a y g ree tin g s , as w e have seen.

(R alph , deeply touched, m a rrie d C laudia and tr ie d h is best to m ake h e r m ingle w ith people. I t d id n ’t w ork. They w en t now here, saw no one, except fo r an an n u a l C h ris tm as v is i t to C laud ia’s fo s te r p a ren ts , B uck and Doe. To w hile aw ay h is long, lonely hours, R alph finally b u ilt a w ork bench and s ta r te d to fu tz a round w ith inven tions, as we have seen.

( I t is p leasan t to re p o rt th a t th e s to ry of R alph and C laud ia ends happily . A fte r th e b ir th o f th e ir tw o ch il­d ren , B onder and B litzen, C laudia jo ined th e P T A and soon overcam e h e r fe a r o f people. R alph jo ined th e E lks.)

B u t I d ig ress . M erry C h ris tm as to all an d to all a good n ig h t! H o-ho-ho!

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48 Notre Dame Faculty mem­bers recently signed a statem ent o f support for the U.S. presence in Vietnam. In a statem ent pre­pared by Dr. Richard Lamanna o f the D epartm ent o f Sociology, they contended “ We feel it is im portan t to make our views know n and to correct the erro­neous impression created by the strident voices o f some dissident groups that all academicians are opposed to our governm ent’s ef­forts to achieve peace with free-

-dom in V ietnam .”The faculty m em bers endors­

ed a policy statem ent put out by the newly form ed Com m ittee Seeking Peace with Freedom In V ietnam , a group headed by form er Illinois Senator Paul Dou­glas and form er President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The statem ent reads in part “ We are in the con­viction that our own vital na­tional interests are at stake in that troubled land (V ietnam ).”

It goes on to say “ We are not ashamed to adm it that our pri­mary m otivation is self-interest — the self-interest o f our own coun­try in this shrinking world. Amer­ica cannot afford to let naked aggression or the suppression of freedom go unchallenged. To

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Dear Purveyors o f the Purse Strings,I am interested in pursuing a course o f study in American Litera­

ture at your em inent school o f graduate studies. My in tent is serious and my pursuit o f the godly Ph.D. shall indeed be furious. I truly love academia and all its glory. Yet one thing bothers me deeply.

Strangely enough it is not my lack of existential m eaningfulness.. Neither is it the fact that as an academic I shall be cut o ff from the com mon m an. Or again it is not the problem o f my spatial existence with the infinity o f eternity . The crucial point is that I shall be amongst you. I t ’s not that I do not appreciate your pedan­tic journals but i t ’s the fact that I don ’t think the length o f the dashes in Emily D ickinson’s poetry is too im portant.

G etting back to my qualifications I m ust adm it that my grade point is not outstanding. However in order to supplem ent this de­fect, I have enclosed a recom m endation from my golf team coach because he is the only one who really understands me. His analysis o f my stance should be disregarded.

At any rate you are my hope. Next September I hope to be with you, sitting around a seminar table w ith a beard and a pipe, discus­sing the new school o f criticism under the tutorship o f the em inent professor em eritus, I.M.A. Pedant. I would like to talk about things like values and beliefs and all tha t passe stuff, but I am indeed aware of the importance o f groveling in the material, o f reeling about the world o f commas, and o f spurting fo rth the necessary trivia.

O h, another reason tha t I want to attend your university is that I hear you give a lo t o f money and also because you sponsor a daily coffee hour. Also I understand that you are in the vanguard of those schools who hope to actualize the essential freedom o f man unchained and challenged in our crass world. And I like your ideas on no curfew and your student parking priviledges.

A few last words before I leave you. These words I heard half an hour after sign o ff on our local TV station. Bzzz-Bzzz. These are indeed brilliant. For as Hobbes said, “ the crucible of existence de­pends on the manifold implications of the humming silence.” or as Thomas Aquinas said,“ there is no such thing as regional ontology” or as Melville said,“ this is the indescribable glory o f man in defini­tion” or just to remember Geoffrey o f Loviane who said w ith a brilliant poignance “ Bzzz-Bzzz” .

Again one last word. I realize tha t my program shall be in ter­disciplinary but I don’t mind because I like discipline and because I’m not a com m unist or anything. Also excuse my im pertinence for making an ink mark on the paper. Also I didn’t make this con­sciously so please don’t subject it to one o f those long name psychological tests, fellas.

We’ll see you later. Remember I’m pretty smart and with little help I’m sure I ’ll know w hat all the great men said. Y et still sometimes I wonder w hat I’ll say. Give my best to the wife(if you have one) and to anyone else in the Treasurer’s office.

S tudent Governm ent has un­dertaken the publishing o f a S tudent Course and Teacher Eva­lu a t io n (S C A T E ) b o o k . T he book, according to S tudent Go­vernm ent officials, is no t intend­ed to be an indictm ent o f any professor, but an attem pt to im­prove the standard o f education at Notre Dame. The evaluation will have no reference to the aca­demic qualifications o f accom­plishments o f any professor. It will refer exclusively to the pro­fessor’s interaction w ith his stu­dents, the way he conducts the

learning process.

According to those editing the book, the college senators, student opinions are significant because they reflect the degree to which the university achieves its major function: educating students. S tudents are viewed as the most qualified individuals to judge how well a professor con­tacts a class, or how much he stimulates their thoughts, or how well he im parts his knowledge to them. It is in this restricted yet very im portant sense that the

editors maintain that students can evaluate their teachers.

The success or failure o f this endeavor will depend upon the cooperation o f the student body. Since a 90% return is needed to insure statistical accuracy, stu­dents are asked to return the questionnaires. In addition, stu­d e n t c o o p e r a t io n is u rg e n t ly needed for the distribution and collection o f questionnaires. If s tu d e n ts a re in te r e s te d th e y should contact any o f the mem­bers o f the SCATE staff.

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THE OBSERVERA Student N ew spaper

EDITOR - IN - CHIEF

PATRICK COLLINS

FOUNDED NOVEMBER 3, 1966 NOTRE DAME, INDIANA

Giving TogetherThere are few opportun it ies th roughout to the Melvin Phillips Drive. To the best

the year in which all Notre Dame s tudents of ou r knowledge Melvin Phillips is neithercan partake w ithout social bliss, w ithou t a C om m unist nor a John Bircher. There-personal bias and w ithout a promise ret- fore conceivably the Lenny Joyces canribution. In fact, we can’t rem em ber such link hands with Chris Manions and give aa cause or such an op p o r tu n ity w ithou t small sum so that N otre Dame can givegoing back to 1965 when Palm Sunday collectively on Christmas day.to rnado s truck the area around here and ^ ^ e best o f our knowledge, Melvina volunteer group o f Notre Dame s tudents ^ ^ concerned with campuswent o u t and jo ined the rescue parties politics. So we hope that the Rich Rossies

Phis year h o w ^ ^ ' " ^ ra ism g d n v e ^ (1 the Pat Dowds can link arms thatlo r Melvm Phillips does present itsell as ^ o t r e Dame m ay give on Christmas Day.a drive whereby all o f the students cancollectively assist a m an, a wife and a child To the best o f ou r knowledge Melvinin a distressing m om ent in their lives by Phillips has no readership voice either formerely giving up a Huddle hamburger, a the Scolastic, Crux or Observer. So thepack o f cigarettes, o r an Up With People three o f us along with WSND do plan toConcert. give Wednesday on Melvin Phillips day. . .

There are no political motives attached After all it is Christmas.

Up With People ?F or those o f you who might have been solidly patriotic and eminently clean-cut.

th row n o f f by the p icture o f Bill Cosby on The Up With People singers representthe cover, Pace magazine is n o t one o f the this high school cheerleader enthusiasmpoore r com petito rs o f Ebony and Jet. It and F o u r th o f July patrio tism quite well,is in fact the organ o f the Moral Re-Arma- Two o f our friends who have seen them ent m ovem ent, which is also the motiva- group agree that they have considerableting force behind the Up With People sing- musical talent but that their songs try toers who will give a concert here Wednes- sell a kind o f simplistic propaganda. Forday. example, one o f their songs is entitled

Since Pace referred to us as an “ as- “ You Can’t Live Crooked and Thinktonishingly poorly produced new spaper,” S traight.”we perhaps should ju s t roll up in to a big , , . , ,, . . . , .ball o r hurt p ro toplasm and let the “ Sing- ' u " d " s ta" d th = Sro u P P“ b " shes b=,rOut Explosion" play through. But The OW" book/ " d =” =°uraSej ^

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. , , - . great transcendent day when everyone cansimply do no t care m uch for these people. . , , . , _

J,, . . . n . . * • sing along and use precisely the same ges-The Moral Re-Arm am ent m ovem ent is . , ... ... ,, .. .. ... tures. With a little luck, they may evennot specifically religious. Despite its mill- , .. , . , , , . ,

.. . . . . e , ... have the same hair length and dress lden-tanstic name, it is no t to be confused with .. , , ,, , ,., c . .. . x, . .. il tically. It s only a dollar-and-a-half, so youthe Salvation Army. Nor is it an overtlypolitical group, a lthough its m em bers are can get your morals retreaded fairly cheap-usually conservatives. It am o u n ts finally ly, as well as apolitically and non-denomin-to a kind o f displaced enthusiasm for kind- ationally. It may not even be poorly pro-ness and clean living. They d o n ’t care duced. It may even be fairly expertlyw hether you believe in pre-destination or packaged. The only problem is that whenthe divinity o f Christ, or vote for Gold- y ° u 8e* right down to the heart o f thewater or Johnson , so long as v o u ’re m ovem ent, it is soft, sentimental schmuck.

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It is only a week until vacation, just one more com plete cycle in what has seemed an endless merry-go-round ride. You go tc Mass for the last time this year at the University. Next week, old Father Murphy will say the Mass you attend in your old parish church. And there w on’t be any talk about the love relationship between God and man. For the third Sunday in December, you fondly remember, is the Sunday that Father Murphy talks about St. Philomene’s (the church, that is) financial condition. So much for the new theology.

Now is the w inter o f your discontent banished by the light that moves inexorably towards Bethlehem. It has rained (here, not in Bethlehem, although perhaps there too) or snowed for the last six days in a row. And no doubt it will continue to do so for the rest o f the pre-vacation period. But despite the sniffles and head­ache you have contracted via the mythical flu epidemic, your spirits rise to the thought o f home and Mother and hot apple pie at Christmas dinner.

You consider yourself a serious student, and in a sense you are. But somehow the world o f Oswego, New York or Titusville, Penn.- (or wherever you ’re from ) seems somehow almost more real than the gray fog o f South Bend and the mental com plexity o f the

academic routine. In a few days, you will be hom e, perhaps playing mailman or shoe clerk in order to make a little Christmas money. And does existential angst seem real in that secure and mercantile little world? Perhaps no t, a t least this year.

At least this year, you can accept this little world, which exports its fears to ghettoes and tiny , out of the way countries. This year, coming home for Christmas means all sorts o f wonderful things. It means reassuring your parents, and perhaps yourself, that you have not really become one o f those hippies that the newpapers write about. It is really and truly an affirm ation o f all that America stands for. For you do love your country and your parents too. And sitting in your family living room , in an atm os­phere suffused with a familial love that is not constant but is very real all the same, it would be hard not to say yes to it.

The moral questions are obscured as you become identified with the society which formed you. The anathem ata, the vast collection of objects as sacred as the Bethlehem stable and as profane as Santa Claus’ beard, become objects to be reverenced and protected . All sentim entality has a good ring to it, every note means something. The spirit o f Christmas, the ritual good feelings towards your cous­ins, your family, even all the townspeople, somehow hardens your determ ination that this beautiful culture should not pass away. W ithout hate, but with a fierce determ ination, we will protect ourselves from all threats, real or imagined.

Father Hesburgh’s annual Christmas message usually stresses the family side of Christmas. He asks that the students rem em ber to spend some time with their families in the course o f the holiday activities. But it might be easier to do this, and to really feel close to our parents and the lives they lead, than to remember that Christmas, unlike Thanksgiving, is not purely an American holiday. If we mist be sentim ental, we might at least try for a grand, trans­cendent sentim entality, for the sake o f a visionary God who came to save all men.

BY DENNIS GALLAGHER

“A f t e r you m odernize , beautify , and w in terize , w h a t else is there le ft to do?"

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Seasons Greetings

December 11, 1967 7 HE OBSERVER page 5

When Justice Comes, It Will Be BetterBY RICHARD ROSSIE

In Light in August Faulkner states “The curse o f the black race is G od’s curse. But the curse o f the white race is the black man who will be forever G od’s chosen own because He once cursed h im .” (p .222) David Cohn in his book Where I Was Born and Raised has portrayed that curse which resides not only on a people but also on the black earth o f the Delta. Cohn’s book has recently been issued by the Notre Dame Press and includes an introduc­tion by Notre Dame history professor Jam es W. Silver, author o f Mississippi: The Closed Society.

Where I Was Born and Raised is a simple, lucid book about a com plex place and the peoples that inhabit that place. Divided into tw o parts, the first section w ritten in 1935 and the second section in 1948, Cohn’s book is in need o f a third section to bring it up to date. U nfortun­ately Mr. Cohn died in 1960. This task remains for another to attem pt. But Where I Was Born and Raised re­mains a classic and a must to anyone who would contem ­plate and attem pt to know and to understand the Delta and the people there.

But what is the Delta? Cohn states in his “ imperisable sentence” that “The Delta begins in the lobby o f the Pea­body Hotel in Memphis and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg.” The world is full o f deltas, but to Mississi- ppians like David Cohn there is only one. Geographers call it the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. It is a fertile wedge of land 200 miles long, sometimes as much as 85 miles wide, reaching down through 35 feet o f alluvial soil de­posits. It is the product o f the mingling o f the waters o f great Mississippi River and the samller Yazoo River and its many tributaries. But more im portantly as Cohn shows it is the product o f two races o f hum an beings upon which, as Faulkner has said, a curse has been placed—a curse that only the people possessed by it can redeem themselves, can ultim ately find salvation as creatures o f God.

Mr. Cohn tells “o f the kindness and hospitality o f the country, o f the courtesy tha t m anifests itself not only outwardly in form but also inwardly in the willingness o f men to do you a favor w ithout hope or thought of reward.” He observes “ the provincialism o f a people geo­graphically rem ote from the great centers o f the United States but free from the acrid arrogance o f city provin­cials, cotton and unending talk talk o f co tton , the great river, and Negroes, Negroes everywhere.” But the Delta remains a contradiction; it is full o f paradoxes and irre­concilable contradictions.

Here is a place which possesses racial custom s and taboos as elaborate as any customs found in a primitive society and racial practices which are religously observed. The Delta is overwhelmingly Negro; even today the Negro constitutes over sixty per cent o f the population. It is this huge presence o f Negroes which evolved these codes and practices. The D elta’s insistence on the dogma o f

Negro segregation, economically, politically, and spiritu­ally, is based—as Myrdal has pointed o il—on a refusal to accept racial amalgamation.

In a chapter entitled “ The White Man’s Point o f View,” Mr. Cohn concerns him self at length with social equality and inter-racial marriages. His statem ents reveal the com plexity o f the whole situation. “ There cannot be a mingling o f peoples on term s o f com plete social equality free from condecension and studied tolerance, unless the persons concerned are willing to grant even theoretically the logical consequences which flow or may flow from the free m eeting o f social equals o f bo th sexes — marriage.

“ That is a consequence which the upper class New Yorker is not willing to grant even theoretically. The men will not contem plate the possibilities o f marrying Negro women, nor will the women consider marrying Negro men, save in the m ost extraordinary rare instances. This in turn precludes all those associations which occur between equals: dining and dancing in com m on in public places; attending theater together; going on journey’s to ­gether; or indulging in sports.”

The Delta has com pletely lagged behind the economic

progress and industrial supremacy o f o ther sections; this is the source o f its tragedy and charm. As Mr. Cohn has pointed ou t, self-reliance or individualistic th rif t—neither o f which can be actually made to apply to the conditions o f the Deep S outh—are not to be found as an integral part o f this region. Nor is ii a region that one can attri­bute a consciousness o f sin, original or acquired. It is rather “a region o f pragmatic attem pts at adjustm ent, o f inertia and tolerance, o f an attem pt to encompass the good life under fantastically impossible conditions.”

Mr. Cohn discusses in a very literary and interesting manner the Negro—his life, his m anners, his churches, his sexual life. Mr. Cohn notes tha t the poor Negroes insist on having an extraordinarily high number o f churches, which certainly drains them economically. The church, it must be rem em bered, is the center o f the Negro’s life.

This large num ber o f churches among the Negros perplexes Cohn a great deal; he fails, I believe, to recog­nize the overbearing influence o f a fundam entalist reli­gion, which is as much a cause for the large num ber of churches as the Negro’s lack o f education and sophisti­cation causes his attraction for the fundamentalism in his religious attitudes. This same pattern is seen to a lesser extent among poor whites o f the Delta.

Cohn also notes the lack of Negro leadership and is highly disparaging o f Negro ministers in general. Negro leadership is not as lacking today as it was in 1935 and in 1948, bu t com m unication between the two races is not much better. C ohn’s observation o f Negroes is somewhat the same as Dollard’s in Caste and Class in a Southern Town but is certainly not as com plete as Dollard’s. Cohn takes, as well, an entirely different approach from Dol- lard, who is a social psychologist; Cohn uses stories and anecdotes which attem pt to present the Negro’s situa­tion in a hum an contex t.

Cohn argues that co tton , which has brought a living to most in the Delta and an enslaving tradition, is the cause of the unanswered race problem there. In 1935 and in 1948 co tton was king; today, it is only prince but still the dom inating factor. Mechanization has changed the situation m uch, driving the Negroes into the few towns and then to the N orth where many have migrated and more hope to migrate. Neither race is fully responsible for the situation as it exists—there are so many factors Cohn contends and I m ust agree.

The explosive issue o f segregation has been called into question and theoretically has been resolved by the na­tional m andate tha t says it is to be destroyed. Integration has come to the Delta in a token fashion, bu t has come nevertheless with little violence and with m uch resistance.

More subtle resistance is to follow, and whites will “fight” to preserve their idcial purity . People, places, th in g s-th ey change. The Delta will to o - i t will have to. What it will be like I do not know -certa in ly when justice comes, it will be better.

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Editor:In regard to your recent ed­

itorial entitled “ Filling the G ap” , I agree that the conservatives o f N otre Dame are too quiet and certainly they do have things to say. So I decided I’d say a few things.

First o f all, you stated in this editorial that in regard to V ietnam , “Where before the question was the war itself, now the question is how to remove ourselves from a place we had no right to en ter.” It d idn’t seem tha t way at General John­son’s recent speech when about

M ail80% o f the sutdents present gave the general four standing ova­tions for his defense o f our right and obligation in Vietnam.

Concerning w hat you wrote about the members o f the New Left becoming arrogant, Mr. Gal­lagher certainly verified your sta­tem ent by his com m ent that the students who gave the standing ovations were “eager to prove that their pro-war sentim ents had nothing to do w ith any intellec­tual com m itm ent.” Do I detect a note o f arrogance here? However, w hat can you expect from Mr.

Gallagher?It is true

that we aren’t out carrying pla­cards and don’t have any organ to express our ideas and opi­nions, but there are plenty o f guys (m ost o f my section in Keer nan) who are poles aoart from ithe “tru th s” o f the New Left and they d o n ’t hesitate to say so.

There was an attem pt in the S tudent Senate recently to w ith­hold your paper’s subsidy until it (your paper) shows more res­

ponsibility. This movem ent was defeated, bu t it is interesting to note that four o f the five fresh­man senators who voted, voted to w ithhold your funds.

I don ’t think you have to worry about the conservative at ND. The school is still basically conservative,and w ith YAF com­ing back and the Mock Conven­tion coming up, you will be hearing from us.

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Hesburgh Says Catholic Univ. “ Special”Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.,

President o f Notre Dame, outlined his concepts o f the role o f the Catholic Uni­versity in an address to a convocation at Stepan Center Saturday afternoon. Hes­burgh, after conferring three honorary degrees, said the Catholic university has “ som ething special” to offer.

According to Hesburgh, any great uni­versity must be a “ com m unity o f scho­lars.” Hesburgh stated that such a com ­m unity must search for answers “ in an atm osphere o f freedom and responsible inquiry.” He said, though, th a t a Catholic university must add to the teachings o f a

great secular school “ in a double sense.” The Notre Dame President said that

first there m ust be a centrality o f philo­sophy and theology at a great Catholic university. He called the study o f philoso­phy and theology “ the highest level o f university inquiry” and said that the great Catholic university must “ continue and deepen” this area o f study.

“ The presence o f philosophy and theo­logy simply com plete the whole field o f university inquiry,” he said. “ In addition to technical training, the university must develop intellectual and m oral values.”

Hesburgh defended at some length the

very concept o f a Catholic University, using Notre Dame as a counterexam ple to detractors. He quoted attacks on the Catholic university made by Harvard The­ologian Harvey Cox and Webster College President Jacqueline Grennan. In reply, Hesburgh m aintained tha t w ith its Board o f Trustees Notre Dame has a system “ com pletely com parable to any other university in the nation.”

Hesburgh outlined the system at Notre Dame in respect to academic freedom. He said “ Our official statem ent in the Faculty Manual is com parable to any

other university in the country .” Hes­burgh m aintained, too , that “ I cannot recall a single breach o f academic freedom in my 22 years o f teaching and Adminis­tration here at Notre Dame.” Hesburgh gave a magazine quote from a Jewish professor at N otre Dame, the professor saying “ The freedom here is frightening.”

Hesburgh adm itted that “ The reality o f the university world will make the Church uneasy at tim es.” However, as he was about to conclude, he stated “ In the C a th o l ic u n iv e r s i ty every s in c e re an d thoughtful man is welcomed and listened to .”

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A crowd o f more than 200 gave form er M innesota Governor Harold Stassen a standing ovation following his Library A uditor­ium speech Thursday night. Stas­sen, the first candidate to an­nounce for the 1968 GOP Pres­idential nom ination, called for a de-escalation fo the Vietnam war and admission o f bo th N orth and South Vietnam to the U- nited Nations.

Stassen stated “ I respect the sincerity o f President Johnson, but he has made a tragic mistake in turning the Vietnam war into an American w ar.” Aside from criticizing the President’s war policies, Stassen said his fellow R e p u b lic a n R ic h a rd Nixon is making a “ sad error” in calling for a military solution o f the war. The former M innesota Gov­ernor m aintained “You cannot achieve a m ilitary solution to problems in the nuclear age.”

At the same tim e, Stassen remarked that “W ithdrawal from Vietnam would be as tragic a mistake as trying to get an A- merican answer to the w ar.” Stas­sen called for the United States to “ stop the killer drives in the far north and near the Cam­bodian border.” He said the U- nited States should “ Reserve its positions before Saigon and in the rice bow l.”

Stassen was optim istic con­cerning the feasibility o f his proposed solution. Pointing to the Philippines and Malaya, he said “Guerilla movements tu rn into harmless movements when young men see th a t they can make progress in society.” Stas­sen m aintained tha t in the cur­rent struggle “We can appeal to the young men o f Vietnam to calm this war dow n.”

In addition to proposing a solution to the V ietnam war,

Stassen called for a revision and amending for the United Nations Charter, saying “ It is overdue in my judgem ent that we re­vise and am end the United Na­tions. We m ust see a new U. N. emerge from the old.” He said it is “imperative in your lifetime tha t such a ‘new United N ations’ be established.” At the same tim e, Stassen said tha t both

Germanys, both Koreas, and both Chinas, in addition to both Viet- nams, m ust be U N. members.

Stassen called on free enter­prise as a force o f solution for America’s urban problems. He sa id th e fe d e ra l g o v e rn m e n t should “make a major contract with a major corporate en tity , 100 major contracts in 100 ma­jor cities.” In this way, Stassen forsees a solution coming out o f the crisis o f the cities. Also, he called for establishm ent of interreligious and interracial co­operatives in major cities to pro­m ote educational opportunities and hum anitarian efforts.

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ND 3-0: ’Whit* More Can You Ask For?BY MIKE HELMER

Those basketball schedules tha t can be had for free at the barbershop said there was supposed to be a ball game at 2 :30 Saturday in the Field- house. But it seems that everyone had something better to do. The Rams and Packers were playing on the telly. There were those who w anted to see the impossible happen — the marriage o f Lynda Johnson. There were even some poor slobs suf­fering through the Grad Records Exams.

So the whole thing was put o ff until 8 o’clock. The Lewis College Flyers came to tow n for their annual thrashing and left on the short end o f a 97-59 score. Bob W hitmore and Bob Arnzen led the Irish with 31 and 25 points respectively.

Tom M urphy and Ferry Williams kep t the Flyers in the contest for a while with some fancy shooting. The Irish went ahead for keeps, howev­

er, on a basket by Arnzen from the right side. Notre Dame went on to roll up 10 straight points from there and victory num ber 3 was in the bag.

The second half was strictly for show but it featured a 15-point ou tpu t by W hitmore in only 11 m inutes and some very enthusiastic fouling.

The Irish got a welcome addition to their thin blue backcourt as sophom ore Mike O’Connell suited up for the first time. Guard Mike Franger also showed why he was E lkhart’s top man as he piloted the reserves to a 25-point effort in the final nine minutes.

Southern M ethodist provides the opposition tonight as the Irish shoot for victory num ber 4. The Mustangs were run right out o f Madison last Saturday by Wisconsin, an Irish victim o f a week ago. I f the Irish have anything like a ho t night it should be a sadist’s delight.

NOTRE DAME (97)

N otre D am e’s m uch heralded freshmen basketball team , led by high school All-America Aus­tin Carr, traveled to Milwaukee

Friday to play the M arquetteUniversity freshmen.

Down 39-33 at the half, the Irish perform ed like the wonders they are supposed to be and exploded to a 6 1 4 5 lead with 11 m inutes to play. Unfortun­

ately, M arquette also possesses a m uch heralded team , also led by a high school All-America, Dean Meminger. And the Mil­waukee Warriors prom ptly ran Notre Dame right o u t o f Wis­consin, winning 80-77.

Plagued with an overdose of personal fouls, the Irish lost Col- lis Jones, JohnPleick, Jack Mee­han, and Tom S innott late in the crucial second half. An eight-

point spurt brought M arquette close, 67-65 w ith 4:35 left to play. Finally, Meminger com ­pleted a three-point play to win the game with twenty-six seconds showing on the clock.

Meminger and Terry McQuade led the Warriors’ attack with 26 and 18 points respectively. Carr led all scorers with 29 points, while Jones chipped in 18 for the Irish.

George Restovich fg-fga ft-fta reb p f ptsBob Arnzen 6-12 11-11 13 1 23Dwight Murphy 3-8 0-1 6 1 6Bob Whitmore 13-22 5-5 14 3 31Jim Derrig 3-9 2-2 3 0 8George Restovich 4-6 0-0 0 4 8Jim McKirchy 1-3 1-1 1 3 3Dan Quinn 0-3 2-2 5 2 2Mike Franger 3-5 0-0 0 0 6Tony Vignall 0 4 0-0 2 2 0John Gallagher 2-3 4-5 4 0 8Brian Keller 1 4 0-0 4 0 2Totals 36-79 25-27 52 15 97

LEWIS (59)fg-fga ft-fta reb Pf pts

Don Geist 3-8 04) 4 1 6Chuck G randt 2-7 3 4 1 4 7Tom Murphy 10-21 7-9 10 5 27Ferry Williams 4-15 2-5 3 2 10Bill McM’man 1-12 04) 5 0 2John Lucas 0 4 2-3 3 3 2Joe Breault 0-7 0-0 7 0 0Don Mica 1-5 1-1 2 1 3Art Janke 1-1 04) 2 2 2Mike Slavick 04) 0-0 1 1 0Totals 22-80 15-22 38 19 59

George Restovich (left), Bob Arnzen (center) and Bob Whitmore display their lay­up styles during Saturday night’s 97-59 trouncing of Lewis College.

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No, N o Dunk

BY AL BERRYMANWhat do you think about the no-dunk rule this year, anyway?

I think it’s lousy, too. There are about 100 college players this year that measure seven feet, and the other day I heard about a fresh­man at Houston who scales 7’6". The reasoning o f the Rules Com­m ittee seems to follow the line that because there are so many “ big m en’’, they should try to give the game back to the little guys. As if they ever had it in the first place.

Why discriminate against an individual on the basis o f his height? The ironic thing is tha t the rule takes the shot away from the short­er man who might not be able to shoot a jum p or hook shot against a defender, but has enough spring to get up over him and dunk the ball.

One o f the attractions o f college basketball is the “ dunk line’’ during warmups. Anyone who was here two years ago saw St. John’s hold up the start o f the game by bending the rim down, and last year it looked like Elvin Hayes and Com pany weren’t even going to leave the backboard up before the Houston game.

The new rule includes a warning that prohibits the dunk during preliminaries. It is worth noting that the officials take charge o f the game ten m inutes before the tipoff. Legally, if a referee sees a player stuffing the ball less than ten m inutes before a game, he could slap the team with a technical foul. This would lead to the ridiculous conclusion o f a game starting by having a player shoot a tachnical.

As usual, there are ways of beating the rule. M arquette Coach A1 McGuire has his players stand about three feet from the basket, jum p high enough to get the ball about a foot higher than the rim, and jam it from there. Al is perfectly legal; the rule only specifies that the player’s hand cannot penetrate the imaginary cylinder over the hoop. And most teams have the leapers to perform the feat.

Personally, I hope the rule goes out after this year. The dunk is part o f the game, perhaps the most exciting part. Seeing a layup this year that would have been stuffed last year takes just that little something out o f it. I t’s kind o f like watching a flat-chested go-go dancer.