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Proposals for coed housing at Notre Dame and for a lower drinking age in Indiana have a good chance of passing this year, Student Body President Ed Byrne said Thursday. “ I ’m op tim is tic ," said Byrne. “ The whole point of the COUL (C om m ittee on U ndergraduate L ife) report was that we should begin discussion this year so that we’l l have a coed dorm for the incoming freshmen in 1976.” But Byrne added that many unknowns, including the position of University President F r. Theodore Hesburgh on the issue, may yet prevent the creation of a coed dorm. The outlook for passage of a lower drinking age is brighter, Byrne believes. In the last legislative session, a series of dinking bills glutted the state legislature, and a ll were killed. This year, only one b ill w ill be in troduced , a s itua tion w hich B yrne m a in ta ins considerab ly improves the chances of passage. "One never knows what w ill happen in Indianapolis,” Byrne cautions. “ But no one has come up to us and said, ‘You don’t have a chance.’ I f we do our homework well, and present our case ac­ curately, then we have a chance of passing a reasonable approach to the prob lem of underage d r in k in g .” Concerning other issues, the SBP believes he has the support of the Student A ffa irs Committee on nearly a ll proposals contained in the COUL report. Byrne forsees “ a ve ry s trong m ovem ent” , toward fu lfillin g most of the shortrange goals of COUL which|include a greater role for women in the faculty and student body, im ­ proved a ttitu d e s tow ard coeducation and a careful study of h a ll ru les reg a rd in g a lcohol, parietals and prem arita l sex. Byrne says that the defeat of extended parietals hours by the Student L ife Council late last semester is his greatest disap­ pointment since assuming office April 1. The SBP president was especially disappointed (hat the parietals issue degenerated into “ a s illy discussion of a rb itra ry hours, of m idnight or I a .m .” “ We need a parietals policy COUL studies ND financing