Mr. Scheidler told Defend Life in a November 16 phone interview that before launching the campaign, he first had to ascertain whether Bradley was still militantly pro-abortion.

During a question period after Bradley's first on-campus lecture, before 400 students on September 3, Scheidler said, 'I told him, 'For 18 years you voted pro-abortion. You've been out of office for two years. Have you changed your position since then?' 'He replied, 'No, I voted my conscience, and I stand by my votes.''

Two days later, at Notre Dame's opening game against Michigan, two planes hired by Scheidler and his anti-abortion allies flew over the 60,000 football fans, for a total of eight fly-overs.

One plane trailed a banner reading 'Notre Dame: Dump Sen. Bradley'; the other plane's banner proclaimed 'Sen. Bradley Backs Abortion.'

The league had sponsored at least four more fly-overs at succeeding Notre Dame games, said Scheidler. In addition they have leafletted the campus and inspired hundreds of letters of protest to Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Edward Malloy.

Bradley's appointment called for him to teach a 1-credit course entitled Problems, Policy and Leadership, consisting of six lectures, from September to November, as well as to deliver several public lectures on campus. His final lecture was scheduled for November 30.

According to a leaflet distributed by Alumni Concerned for Notre Dame, a group supporting Scheidler, Bradley voted: to uphold Clinton's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban; to punish medical schools that refuse to train students to do abortions; for unrestricted funding of abortion in Washington, D.C.; for medicaid funds to pay for abortions; for U.S. tax dollars to support coercive abortions in China and abortions in other countries; for the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) law; to prohibit pro-lifers from suing abortionists who assault them; and to fund research on aborted fetal tissue.

President Malloy introduced Bradley at his September 3 lecture, stating, '[I]f, as a university, we are committed to truth-seeking and persuasion, then we must always provide an open intellectual forum. If we are to be effectively counter-cultural, then we must engage the spectrum of opinion in our prevailing culture.'

Both the Notre Dame Student Senate and the university's pro-life club opposed the Action League's protest campaign.

In a letter to the student newspaper the Notre Dame/Saint Mary's Right to Life Club, while calling Bradley's voting record on abortion 'shameful,' disclaimed any association with the Pro-Life Action League's protest, saying, 'We do not believe that a negative campaign against former Sen. Bill Bradley's presence on campus furthers our efforts to change hearts and minds and save lives on our campus and in the greater NotreDame/South Bend community.'

The Student Senate wrote a letter of welcome to Bradley.

According to an October 12 letter by a student senator in the campus newspaper, the welcome letter came in response to 'the alumni group who insisted on embarrassing themselves and Notre Dame by flying those 'Dump Bill Bradley' banners around the stadium at our first two home games. 'Raising awareness and allowing people to make informed opinions is more than legitimate; showing nothing but hostility and an unwillingness to hear someone's opinion is childish and moronic,' wrote the young senator.

However, Charles Rice, a Law School professor at the university, supported Scheidler's actions in an October 2 campus newspaper column harshly critical of the school administration for appointing Bradley. 'Senator Bradley . . . is what he is,' wrote Rice: 'a pro-legalized abortion politician and prospective presidential candidate. Notre Dame ought not to provide a potential launching pad for any politician, especially one whose voting record persistently favors legalization of the murder of the unborn. .

'The apppointment tells the students that it is acceptable for a 'foremost national leader' to support the legalized execution of the innocent.'

Rice concluded, 'John Paul II has reminded us all of our responsibility to be 'unconditionally pro-life.' Unfortunately, the de facto official religion of this university is the pursuit of politically correct prestige.'