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.--------------------- ----------- -~--- VOL. XXV. NO. 14 The ObserverTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1992 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Clinton campaign Clinton visits NO tomorrow targets young vote By PAUL PEARSON By MONICA YANT has counterreacted by staying Associate News Editor Editor-in-Chief faithful to his faithful-if older-supporters, according to Robert Schmuhl, acting chair of Democratic presidential For political strategists like American Studies. candidate Governor Bill Clinton Kate Fucher, campaign stops "Clearly, the 1992 race has a will address the Notre like Gov. Bill Clinton's tomorrow strong generational aspect/ Dame/Saint Mary's community at Notre Dame represent Schmuhl said. "You see George at 1 p.m. this Friday in Stepan opportunities to reach an Bush invoking the name of Center. Doors will open at noon. important, historically Harry Truman at every stop-in Due to seating limitations, "alienated" youth vote. the hope that older Americans attendance at the event will be "It's time to give American will see some of Truman in limited to ND/SMC students, young people the opportunity to Bush." faculty and staff. Admission will get involved in the political "Bill Clinton, on the other be on a first-come, first-served process. Their energies, their hand, is working as hard as he basis to those presenting valid ideas, and their experiences can to stress his youth - and ND/SMC I.D. cards. need to be addressed," said the youthful presidency of John Notre Dame received word of Fucher, coordinator of campus Kennedy," he added. Clinton's plan to visit about a visits in the Clinton/Gore But targetting the youth vote week ago, according to Rex headquarters in Little Rock, could be a gamble for Clinton, Rakow, director of Notre Dame Ark. Schmuhl concedes: "Bush Security. "It's fairly normal to Fucher's role is typical of knows older Americans vote. get seven to ten days notice for Clinton staffers working to get Clinton can't be sure about a campaign visit like this," the saxophone-playing, MTV younger ones." Rakow said. watching governor elected in Historically, voter turnout Notre Dame Security is November. At college campuses among 18 to 24 year-olds is "helping coordinate" security across the country, workers are among the lowest. Since 1972, for the event with South Bend, trying to galvanize support for the number of young voters has St Joseph County and Indiana the generation Fucher believes decreased by more than one State Police, as well as Secret has been "overlooked" and fourth- to the point where only The Observer/ Adriana Rodriguez Service members, according to made "cynical" by the Bush 36 percent turned out for the Listen to the music Rakow. administration. 1988 election. The security for Clinton's Junior Brian Muller of "Brian, Colin, and Vince" performs on a live But if Clinton has aimed at see VISIT I page 4 attracting younger voters, Bush see CLINTON I page 4 acoustic show for the campus alternative radio station WVFI. Study: 30 million Americans suffer hunger ND graduate teaching BOSTON (AP) - About 30 workers, he said. is in America's breadbasket." million Americans who are poor In 1985, Brown led a national Dr. Stephen Berman, a or struggle to get by fail to eat task force that warned that 20 pediatrics professor and program awarded grant enough food as hunger spreads million Americans suffered director of health policy at the By THERESA ALEMAN teaching experience, he said. beyond inner cities to the from hunger, defined as a University of Colorado, said News Writer heartland, a report says. condition where health is families at high risk for hunger All grant recipients will teach The research, prepared at the threatened because a person might have never experienced sections of Freshman Seminar, request of the Democratic repeatedly doesn't consume economic trouble before. The Notre Dame graduate Hatch said. chairman of the House Select enough nutrients. "We have a situation where teaching program has been Committee on Hunger, Brown said he has confidence you have people who are awarded an $80,000 grant by Though gr-aduate students are estimates hunger has grown by in the updated figures because unemployed or who go from a Burlington Resourses currently teaching sections of 50 percent since the rnid-1980s. three different methods were well-paying job to a minimum Foundation, according to freshman seminar, Hatch "When we see increasing used to calculate them, and paying job," said Berman, who Nathan Hatch, dean of the believes that "the freshman poverty and decreasing each resulted in a total around also served on the 1985 hunger Notre Dame graduate school. program stands to be greatly incomes, it's not at all 30 million. task force sponsored by enhanced through this surprising that hunger has Brown said the profile of Harvard University. "It takes a Over the next four years, five program" by attracting the best increased," said J. Larry hunger has changed as the while for them to understand students will receive $4,000 graduate students with the Brown, director of Tufts problem has grown. the system to get food stamps each year. Recipients of the most teaching experience. University's Center on Hunger, "The stereotype is that this is or other supports." grant money are senior Poverty and Nutrition Policy. largely an inner city and Betty Khanoyan, 33, a mother graduate students currently Hatch, who was on the board The increase in hunger also minority problem," he said. of four from Clinton in central working on their dissertations, to select grant recipients last creates potential for more "Those stereotypes no longer Massachusetts, said she has according to Hatch. spring, added that the grant learning deficiencies among hold. "It's very dramatic to go been helped by the federal food money was awarded to ND young children, more illness into the Midwest and hold a supplement program for Grant recipients were graduate students so that highly among the elderly and malnourished child in your women, infants and children, selected for their academic motivated students could "learn diminished productivity for arms at a family farm. Hunger known as WIC. excellence as well as past to teach well." Hurricane's toll: A boy named Andrew MIAMI (AP) - Andrew cemetery itself were toppled. the coldness of his body and Guanche was laid to rest Both Andrews had lived short stared into a face that had Wednesday in the calm after lives that touched all around turned blue. the hurricane for which he was them. "I can't overcome that named. Baby Andrew was 9 days old memory," he said. He was born into poverty and when he died. He slipped away, The funeral drew scant took with him little: a pacifier not in a horne surrounded by attention, a dozen relatives and and a hairbrush, placed toys and pets, but in the friends. alongside him in a tiny casket, coldness and loneliness of a Red But to his father and mother 10 inches wide and 24 inches Cross shelter, in a donated crib and six brothers, baby Andrew long. They were the first gifts that suffocated him. was an omen of good fortune. he received in his short life. He was the 39th death and, so He enriched their lives at a time "Andrew! Andrew! Andrew!" far, last death in Florida blamed when they had lost everything his mother, Natalia, cried on Hurricane Andrew. The they had to Hurricane Andrew. hysterically as she bent over his hurricane had hastened his Even in the finality of their grave, running her hand across birth, and then betrayed him. son's death, they did not have the casket, the last connection Buried with him was a piece any money to pay for his to her son. In Spanish, she of the American dream of his funeral or cemetery plot. The screamed: "Why, God, why? parents, who came to the funeral horne donated both. You gave me this child only a United States 12 years ago from "My dream was to come to few days. Why did you take Cuba aboard the "Freedom the States," said Felipe, him?" Flotilla" boatlift. speaking through a translator. Natalia and Andrew's father, "I lost part of my life," said "And even if we were living Felipe, each placed a his father, a 48-year-old among the poor people, we The Observer/Kyle Kusek chrysanthemum on the casket. unemployed handyman. "It's a were happy." Feed the hungry And then Andrew was buried, hard strike for us. We have lost He said he saw his purpose in Walsh hall junior Terri Castellucci works at the Wednesday lunchfast in a cemetery surrounded by all our happiness and strength. life as being more of a father booth in the South Dining Hall Wednesday. The program encourages Hurricane Andrew's fury: piles I am emotionally destroyed." than a husband, and Natalia, students to give up their Wednesday lunch ticket with the proceeds of tree limbs, dirt, the debris of He was the one who picked 41, was more of a mother than going to feed the poor. houses. Some of the trees in the up the child from his crib, felt a wife. page 2 The Observer Thursday, September 10, 1992 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST Cloudy and stormy continuing today. The grumpy Lows will be in the SO's, highs in the old man really 70's. Rain continued through Friday. likes Bush TEMPERATURES I had this interesting H l 55 39 conversation with this 86 69 grumpy old man at the 63 43 70 65 local watering hole the 88 70 other day. 84 59 "Can ya believe what the 84 69 94 76 University has done now?" 78 65 he asked me.