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roles in contemporary societ y, and to develop in- dividual sets of values with which to assess their growth as human beings. The Free University can open new areas for study which have been avoided by university curric- ulum. By retaining the small and informal seminar format used thus far, the Free University can be an excellent complement to the regular curriculum. Rivaling the creation of the Free University in importance to the academic community of the uni- versity in 1968 was the birth of the Faculty Senate. The Senate is divided into three standing com- mittees, Faculty Affairs, the Administration of the University, and Student Affairs, with each Senate member being assigned to one of these committees by the Chairman of the Senate, Professor Edward J. Murphy of the Law School. The Executive Com- mittee, composed of the chairman, vice-chairman, secretary, and treasurer of the Senate and the chairmen of the three standing committees, is re- sponsible for the administration of its activities. Designed primarily as a means of expressing faculty opinion on the important academic m atters of the university, the function of the Faculty Senate is primarily evaluation and recommendation. At the first meeting Father Hesburgh outlined some of the areas that might be examined by the Senate. These included such areas as faculty-student relations, the grading system, the academic calen- dar, the freshman year program, the foreign study programs, and the co-ex program. Professor Mur- phy emphasized that, the Faculty Senate is fully autonomous from the administration, and we are free to consider those areas that we feel are most important. The administration does hope that they will not become bogged down in money matters. Two areas are already under Senate considera- tion. The first of these is the academic calendar, with the feasibility of adapting a trimester calendar being examined. The other is the cut system, long under fire from both students and faculty. In the past the students have acted without any unity or planning whenever they approached the administration with a proposal, observed Professor Murphy. The recent General Assembly of Students is a vast improvement, and it will cause the ad- ministration to stop and listen to what the stu- dents have to say. The Senate has acted similarly for the faculty. With a year of work behind it, the Faculty Senate will get stronger and more efficient. Already many of the areas suggested have been closely examined, the co-ex program and the grading system in par- ticular. Added to the greater student respon- sibility, concluded Professor Murphy, the Faculty Senate can lead to academic excellence. To reinforce his prophecy one need only have attended the Sen- ate ' s third meeting it was picketed by Lenny Joyce. That indicates a vast potential for the Senate. The General Assembly of Students caused the Administration to stop and listen to the students; the Senate has acted similarly for the faculty. 25
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Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, President of the University, gave what he considers the most im- portant speech of my life on December 8 at the formal observation of the 125th anniversary of Notre Dame. In that speech, Fr. Hesburgh described his vision of the great Catholic University. The speech unified the many aspects of development at Notre Dame both in the 125 years of its existence, and in the 16 years of Fr. Hesburgh ' s presidency. There has not been in recent centuries, Hes- burgh begins, a truly great Catholic university. He goes on to parallel the period of the Middle Ages universities and conditions today, noting the changes in the world and the university itself. Hes- ADMINISTRATION: A great Catholic university must begin by being a great university that is also Catholic. burgh ' s rationale for the existence of the Church at the university is based upon his argument that the university is not the Church teaching, but a place the only place in which Catholics and others on the highest level of intellectual inquiry, seek out the relevance of the Christian message to all of the problems and opportunities that face modern man and his complex world. A great Catholic university must begin by being a great university that is also Catholic, Hesburgh continues, where all the relevant questions are asked and where answers are elaborated in an atmosphere of freedom . . . where both faculty and students together are seized by a deep compassion for the anguishes of mankind in our day. He views the role of theology and philosophy as central, both as themselves and as an aid in movement from the limitations of specialization to a field of vision in the total landscape of God and man and the universe. Fr. Hesburgh sees that the Notre Dame of the future must be all that a university requires and something more in the years ahead. It must be, he notes, based on a kind of faith, both as that which sets the mind of man soaring beyond intelligence and that which is expression of belief that will be relevant to the uneasy mind of modern man. Fr. Hesburgh ends his speech with a realization that in the achievement of the great Catholic university, we must be ourselves at Notre Dame, and, hope- fully, being ourselves will mean that we may add something to the total strength of the great endeavor of the higher learning in our total world. But 1968 marks more than the formal end of 125 years of growth for Notre Dame. It marks the begin- ning of the end of the long physical development of the University under Fr. Hesburgh. The comple- tion of SUMMA, the $52 million development pro- gram, will mark the end of the physical needs of the university for a projected ten years. The realiza- tion of the physical greatness of Notre Dame is a very real dream underlying Fr. Hesburgh ' s dream of the great Catholic university. He has been a builder, expanding the physical plant of the uni- versity by nearly $65 million since he became presi- dent in 1952. Currently, he would like to see the completion of the four new high-rise dormitories, a new engineering building, and the remaining three-fourths of the Life Sciences Center. But most of these projects have been paid by SUMMA. Fr. Hesburgh is looking beyond buildings. He points to an important new statistic that reveals much about the new emphasis: next year, 51 percent of all students will be on scholarship as- sistance of many kinds, averaging $1000. He wants current enrollment to stabilize at 6000, and notes an important jump in the quality of applicants, signify- ing the topping off of each class with 1500 stu- dents of high quality. The graduate school will reach a total of 1500 students in a few years when all stu- dents will be in doctoral programs. Fr. Hesburgh ' s vision of the Notre Dame of the future is a very residential one. Notre Dame is the only residential Catholic university of any stature in the country, he feels. The advantages involved 26
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