University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Tlie University and the studen body each must clearly define its individual goals and its position in relation to one another. The time has come, the walrus said, To talk of many things : Of ships and shoes and sealing wax Of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings. Through the Looking Glass LEWIS CARROLL Like Carroll ' s walrus, the time has come for the uni versity and the student body to talk of many things Specifically, each must decide what path it will pur sue during the last third of the twentieth centurj To maintain the growth of the past fifteen years each must clearly define its individual goals and it position in relation to one another. For the university, definition is easy; its goal and its relation to the students have evolved ove its 125-year life span. Essentially, the universit: will continue as an all-male, residence universit: with a resident student body. Its masculinity wil be tempered by closer association with St. Mary ' and possibly other girls ' schools, but a coed Notri Dame is not immediately forseeable. Notre Dami will attempt to introduce an ethnic and economii mix into the student body with the more than foui million dollars in financial aid available next year Graduate enrollment will level at 2,000 and the grad uate school will expand to almost all Ph.D. programs but the undergraduate education of students will re main as Notre Dame ' s primary academic focus. Am the University, after a long history of paternalism now recognizes students as individuals who deserv( a voice in determining how they are to be educatec and how they will live in the college community. For the student body, definition is not so easy

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request (constructed like a contract) prompted stu- dents to reflect about their obligation or duty to return the favor, to serve their country . . . and how. Another way the Selective Service seemed to fall down in giving students the whole story in regards to accepting this new student deferment : by ask- ing for a II-S after June 30, 1967 a student was thereby forfeiting forever his right to a mandatory (if the wife, mistress, etc. is with child) Father- hood (III-A) deferment. The counseling service was pleased to announce this neglect-to-relate-the-whole- story by Selective Service, and was happy to obtain deferment for newlyweds. As time grew close for seniors to try to decide how they were to go to grad school, to decide wheth- er they could or should stay out of the military, and at the same time as the Viet Nam war grew, the need for a bigger and better counseling service emerged. The Notre Dame Psychological Counseling Service, staffed by psychiatrists, educators and psy- chologists, provided group counseling sessions to explore the many difficulties of becoming a conscien- tious objector. Fr. David Burrell circulated a letter signed by many resident priests who stated their readiness, willingness, and deep obligation toward anyone who needed personal, individual counseling regarding the morality of war, of this war, of serv- ing in any and all capacities for God, country and Notre Dame. The statement which pointed out the gap between national policy and personal decision, offered to assist fellow Christians in forming a conscience . . . through not advice by counsel was printed in the Scholastic. As the Spring arrived, it became necessary to hold bi-weekly Information Afternoons especially to help seniors question their responsibilities and provide concrete plans. Far from peace began to settle about those under- graduates who had been expecting a mandatory graduate school deferment. The February 16 Selec- tive Service announcement limiting graduate defer- ments to those in medical fields, those already in grad school for two years, or ROTC members put many who had planned on grad school in anxiety. Counselors slightly quelled the turmoil by reminding those who wanted to know that anyone who loses a II-S by graduating and who thus gains a I-A is entitled to appealing for their rightful prerogative to a personal appearance, a state appeal, and a Presidential appeal, this appeal procedure lasting a minimum of three months. In that period, seniors who were reluctant to serve immediately as soldiers, who were no longer guaranteed either a Peace Corps, teaching, or graduate school deferment could give themselves time to either think more about Conscien- tious Objection, to obtain a teaching position in an inner city area which would give them a year-long deferment, to continue appealing for other defer- ments, to join the Services, to resist altogether, or to take off to Canada. ned alien buchbinder Above, Dr. Benjamin Spock is led by police from New York ' s White- hall induction center after being arrested in connection with a mass anti-draft demonstration last December. Spock, a pacifist and leader of antiwar demonstrators, was arrested along with more than 200 during the day.

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it has only a lackluster tradition to draw upon. Up until the last few years, the administration has ruled in loco parentis, allowing students little freedom in determining their lives at the university and even less freedom in running them. But this has changed with the administration ' s recognition of their basic rights. The students now realize that they can be a determining force in the governance of the univer- sity and fully intend to take advantage of this power. Already student power and student self-govern- ment have become the watchwords of next year ' s student government. Undoubtedly, the student will have a rrfuch stronger voice in university affairs in the immediate future. But the student body lacks one thing: a definite idea of how they must shape this power and in what direction they can most profitably channel it. This lack of direction is not entirely their fault; never before have they had such power at Notre Dame. The university ' s development and progress through the years has been due to the administration ' s initia- tive, not to the students ' prodding. But if students are to grasp the opportunity which now exists, they must formulate a workable plan. The future of the university, then, rests in the students. The administration has chosen and clearly defined its path. It is a safe path but possibly a not very exciting one. The students on the other hand must still choose theirs, and only two exist: they can work with the administration to develop Notre Dame into Father Hesburgh ' s great Catholic uni- versity or they can selfishly oppose the administra- tion in display of their own power and possibly undo the progress of 125 years. In either event, it seems that the time has come to decide.