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

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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.

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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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The development of the student body will shape the future of Notre Dame. Jerry Murphy