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Nixon's letter was to Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh, and it went out of its way to "applaud" the priest for recently decreeing automatic expulsion after two warnings for any campus demonstrator using force (TIME, Feb. 28). The President denounced all demonstrators for "grossly" abusing the rights of the majority of students, and accused them of "intolerance of legitimately constituted authority." Many activists, of course, have stressed their belief that university rule without student participation is, in fact, illegitimate...
...Theodore M. Hesburgh, LL.D., president of the University of Notre Dame...
Students at Notre Dame, for example, went back to school in September spoiling for a fight: they had decided that the behavioral restrictions traditionally imposed on them were too demeaning to tolerate any longer. But over the summer, President Theodore Hesburgh blandly did away with the bulk of the rules. The resulting mood of Notre Dame-new responsibility, dampening of protest, search for a more influential and meaningful student role in college affairs-is typical of most schools, barring Harvard's aberrations...
...much of why Notre Dame is No. 1 in the nation today. If you want good football-so the truism goes-you have to get the players, regardless of their academic inadequacies. As the Fighting Irish return to football dominance, I wonder what is happening to the Rev. Hesburgh's drive for academic excellence...
Though Mayor Locher (rhymes with poker) announced last year that he saw "no impending furor" in his city, a U.S. Civil Rights Commission investigation there last April convinced at least one commissioner, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, that conditions in Hough were "the worst I have seen." After the commission urged city officials to show "a more positive attitude" toward Cleveland's Negroes, Mayor Locher's response was to appoint a committee to report on the commission's report...