Profs Claim Thomas N·Ot Qualified

VOL. XXIV NO. 18 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1991 ! THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MAR'I'S . HPC plans for return of Weekend Wheels program By PAUL PEARSON highway patrol, which forbids expenses only. Furthermore, Lyphout, associate vice presi that stop. & STEVEN KRAUSS school buses to be used on state they decided to set aside $4,500 dent for business affairs. Flanner Hall co-president News Writers highways as anything other in profits from The Shirt sales Lyphout, in turn, contacted the Rich Delevan commented, "If than school buses. in order to keep the service Office of Student Affairs in the administration wants to The Hall Presidents Council Since learning that the school running next semester. search of extra funding. How keep people out of the Five (IIPC) voted unanimously Tues buses can no longer be used, James said he was "very ever, according to James, Stu Corners area by killing off this day night to restart the The HPC co-chairman Charlie James pleased" with the decision, but dent Affairs said that it would program, then taking money Weekend Wheels bus program, has looked into other options he hopes the extra money won't not make up the difference. away from hall allocations in which transports students from for continuing the program. He have to be used. "Next semester James believes that this is be order to keep It going is worth off-campus bars back to cam contacted United Limo, which I hope we can find funding from cause the office does riot want it." pus and to Campus View told him that they would charge some alternate source other to encourage people going to The buses ran every Friday Apartments, by September $158/day for the service. This, than HPC because that money is the "Five Corners" area of and Saturday between 12 and 3 28th. James said, would be "about supposed to be for hall South Bend, where Bridget a.m. between the Main Circle, The program, which has been twice as much" as they paid the allocations." McGuire's Filling Station and Club 23, Bridget's, Commons sponsored by HPC since Its in school buses (which cost James said the decision con the Commons are located, for and Campus View. The pro ception in 1988, used to use lo $150/weekend), and would not stituted a "big sacriflce" by the fear of off-campus crime. gram also ran in only one di cal school buses and drivers to be covered by the $4,200 in the dorms, and is, "a message to According to James, to take rection-from the bars to the transport students. These buses HPC budget set aside for the the administration that this is a the "Five Corners" area off campus. "People couldn't use It can no longer be used due to an program. very important student need." Weekend Wheels' route would to go from campus to the bars," Indiana law, passed In 1986 and Tuesday night HPC passed a Before the meeting, James make the service "ineffective," now being enforced by the state proposal to use the entire and HPC co-chairman Kevin since "more than 50 percent" of see WHEELS/ page 4 $4,200 budget for flrst semester Roxas talked with James its passengers are picked up at O'Meara recognized for contributions in field of mathematics: elected fellow By ANN MARIE HARTMAN department of mathematics in News Writer 1962 and has written three books on mathematics at the In recognition of his mathe graduate research level. He matical research and contribu and fellow NO professor of tions to the enhancement of mathematics Alex Hahn re Notre Dame's education for cently published a new book nearly 30 years, University of which is considered the refer Notre Dame provost, Timothy ence standard of its fleld. 0' Meara, has been elected a As chairman of a special Uni fellow of the American versity committee on Priorities Academy of Arts and Sciences. and Commitments for Excel Upon his induction Into the lence (PACE), O'Meara led a Academy In October, O'Meara two-year evaluation of Notre will join the select company of nmothy O'Meara Dame's educational mission 3,400 leading figures from that designed a plan of aca academia, government, busi nounced in May," he added. demic strides that the Univer ness, and the creative arts in A native of South Africa edu sity has taken in the past eight cluding 152 Nobel laureates cated at the University of Cape years. and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners. Town, O'Meara received his O'Meara, who holds the "Nominations for the Ph.D from Princeton University Howard J. Kenna, chair in Academy come from local in 1953 and 1957-1962 served mathematics is entering his members," said O'Meara. "The on the Princeton faculty and twentieth year as the Univer nominations are then compiled the Institute for Advanced sity's provost. from all over the country and Study. see O'MEARA! page4 the final selections are an- O'Meara joined Notre Dame's Profs claim Thomas n·ot qualified WASHINGTON (AP) - Four Harvard, Yale, Stanford and he has a framework of ap black Jaw professors argued Georgetown, said that despite proaching constitutional issues. Tuesday that Clarence Thomas' Thomas' rise from poverty, the I saw artful ways of evading the conservative views disqualified views he espoused as a "foot questions." him for the Supreme Court but soldier" in the Heagan adminis Charles Lawrence of Stanford other witnesses defended him, tration raise questions about said Thomas was nominated including his eighth-grade what kind of justice he would because "he has demonstrated teacher, who said Thomas had make. his loyalty as an administration "not forgotten his roots." "This has been a very difficult foot soldier. He has been an situation for African-Ameri eager spokesperson for the Thomas' character and back cans, said Yale professor Drew agenda of the radical right." ground were highlighted at the Days of Yale, who headed the ~·In always striving to please Senate Judiciary Committee Justice Department's civil rights those who have been his bene hearings by friends and sup division in the Carter factors, has he lost himself?" porters, notably a Roman administration .. Lawrence said. Catholic nun who was his "It would give me great pride "Thomas has been able to eighth-grade teacher in Savan to see another African-Ameri dream and to reach for his nah, Ga. can on the Supreme Court," dreams; yet he has ignored the Sister Mary Virgilius Reidy but, Days said, "I want to see need for or worked to deny that said, "lie lived day by day. the something below the skin, be choit;e to others," said Patricia cruel story of discrimination. He neath the skin, that convinces King of Georgetown. knows the results of being on me that person will be a voice John Gibbons, former chief the wrong side of the law not and a vote for the people who judge of the 3rd U.S. Circuit because of what one has done, are voiceless and voteless on Court of Appeals in Philadel or not done, but because of the the Supreme Court." phia, called Thomas ';: color of one's skin." "intellectually gifted, open .I The argument that Thomas' minded and not doctrinaire." The panel is expected to vote rise from poverty would make within two weeks on Thomas' him more sensitive to human Gibbons and Sister Virgilius nomination to be the nation's rights "is just simply too ro both disagreed with suggestions second black Supreme Court mantic," said Christopher Edley that Thomas was less than justice. Both sides say that of Harvard. ''I'd like to believe candid when he said the views Thomas Is heading toward Se in the power of redemption but he had expressed as a Reagan nate confirmation to succeed I'd like to see some evidence." administration official would The Otleerlwl Jllke Peters the flrst black, Thurgood Mar "Background and character not shape his judicial thinking. Club spirit shall. are not a substitute for a con "I do not in one instant Members of the Notre Dame management club participate in a vol The panel could vote as early stitutional vision," Edley said. mistrust his honesty, knowing leyball match yesterday by Stepan Center. The campus was alive as Sept. 26. During Thomas' five days of Thomas from a child," the nun with athletes yesterday, enjoying one of the final warm fall days. The four professors, from testimony, "I saw no indication told lawmakers. page 2 Wednesday, September 18, 1991 INSIDE COLUMN Rumors spread like wild fire at ND/SMC H L 84 64 First there was the------ 94 76 slasher, a razor blade 68 46 90 75 wielding maniac with n 51 designs on females at 91 74 Saint Mary's. 68 42 74 59 Then . it was gang 99 71 initiation week. The story 93 76 92 56 line said that to be 70 59 inducted into one of South Monica Yant 85 60 97 66 Bend's finest gangs, local News Editor 93 76 thugs were required to 68 57 slash a Notre Dame male ------ 92 70 93 71 and rape a Saint Mary's female. 75 61 Now the talk is of a different nature, of an 94 73 attempted administrative thwarting of 86 64 77 63 security issues at Saint Mary's. 77 54 Though the stories have changed, one thing 85 53 74 53 remains the same: they are all rumors that 75 66 are spreading like wildfire across both D.C 96 73 campuses.

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