The Observer

VOL. XXV. NO. 9 The ObserverTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1992 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S ND program orients minority students By SARAH DORAN Alex Montoya, a freshman News Writer from Colombia, was one of the students who participated in Notre Dame has instituted an the program this July. Montoya academic enhancement pro said he saw the program as “an gram with the gift of funds amazing asset” which is mak from the Aetna Foundation that ing the transition to Notre offers academic and social ori Dame “very smooth.” entation to first year minority According to Montoya, “The students intending to enter the program taught us what to ex Colleges of Arts and Letters or pect as far as bookload, profes Business Administration. sors and notes, and also helped The Aetna Program was ini us develop good time-man- tiated after the University real agement skills. Overall, it put ized that the attrition rate of • us in good shape for what to first year minority students is expect.” unequal to that of their peers. In addition to all of the aca It is a month-long program demic skills that Montoya which just completed its second learned from the Aetna pro The Observer/Adriana Rodriguez year. gram, he also gained quite a bit Dinner discussion The Aetna Program takes from it socially. “There are so Eileen Deane and Diane Glennon (left to right), both seniors from Pangborn Hall, enjoy the atmosphere at place the summer before the many friends that I have re the South Dining Hall after their move from Lewis Hall to Pangborn this fall. participants’ first year and is tained from the program. We overseen by the Freshman Year all help each other. The pro of Studies, said Program gram was not so much of a Freshmen attend computer workshop Director and Freshman Advisor comfort as a necessity,” he said. Angie Chamblee. “Its purpose is The Aetna program is similar By ALEX MONTOYA Knowing how to use the tal,” he said. “When I write both to help students in greater to a program that took place six News Writer Macintosh allows students to papers it allows me to revise as need adjust to the campus in years ago as the result of write more and constantly I go along, plus skip entire sec general and to help them get a funding from the GTE Notre Dame freshmen stu make revisions, according to tions if I get stuck. (The head start,” said Chamblee. Foundation. The GTE program dents taking English Kline. Macintosh) makes papers and “The program focuses on concentrated on minority Composition and Literature will “We are not teaching word resumes amazingly profes math and science because groups intending to focus on now be required to attend a processing, we are teaching sional.” these two subjects are seen as the study of science and engi computer workshop to enhance students how to draft papers, The program has received the biggest challenges incoming neering. their Macintosh skills for word make improvements, and create good reviews by students and liberal arts and business In 1989, the Balfour processing, according to better w ork,” he said. faculty alike, Kline said. students face scholastically,” Foundation donated funds to Edward Kline, Freshman Freshman Charlie McMahon “I know this will work said Chamblee. The students set up a similar science and Writing Program director. said that computers help pro because in the summer we held take non-credit courses in engineering program, which The program aims to help duce better work, so the work these workshops for teachers, communication, math, study can accomodate 15 students freshmen become more familiar shops are a tremendous help. “ I some who were scared to even skills and problem solving also. Currently, the Aetna pro with Macintosh computers. need to have a basic under touch the Macintosh, but they while living on campus, she gram takes place in conjunction “I’m very enthusiastic about standing of Macintosh,so these learned and succeeded and I said. with the Balfour program. the program, “ said Kline. “ We workshops w ill definitely be know students w ill too,” he Minority students are invited Funding for the Aetna pro have critical literature stating helpful to me.” said. “In the long run, this will to enter the program upon their gram was designed for three that the quality of writing has Freshman Ryan Braun uses be a super asset for everyone.” acceptance. Fortunately, all years of use. The program, been dramatically better when an IBM in his room at St. The workshops which run those interested this year were which just finished its second students learn to use com put Edward’s but said he is also through September and again accepted into the program, year, is hoping to find money to ers.” willing to adapt to the in January, and are held in which accomodates 15 continue its existence, said Macintosh. “I think they’re vi room 101 DeBartolo. students. Chamblee. Damage to outdoor exhibit Bosnian Serbs sign artillery agreement SARAJEVO, Bosnia- Nations and the European of Croatia’s refugee agency. forces SMC to remove work Herzegovina (AP) — The leader Community in Geneva. Apart Their war-damaged republic of Bosnian Serbs agreed from ending the war, a major cannot afford to feed and house By AMY GREENWOOD was so blatantly sexual that the Wednesday to put his heavy aim of the talks is to ensure aid the Bosnians, Croatian officials lawn was not the appropriate Saint Mary's News Editor weapons around Sarajevo un gets to the estimated 2 million say, and they do not want to aid place to display it,” stated der U.N. supervision, and North people from Bosnia who are at the Serbs’ “ethnic cleansing” Damage to an outdoor exhibit Jennifer Rasmussen of Holy American Treaty Organization risk from cold or lack of food at Saint Mary’s forced the Cross Hall. through wholesale acceptance Moreau Gallery staff to remove Monica Lanigan, Le Mans, (NATO) announced it would this winter. of refugees evicted from their the work fronVthe Le Mans Hall does not object to the exhibit it send 6,000 troops to help guard U.N. officials said a U.S. C- homes. lawn, according to Richard self, but she said she has some relief columns. 130 transport that flew to The fighting in Bosnia broke Chlebek, director of security. reservations. “I do not feel it Serb militiamen also ended a Sarajevo on Wednesday was the out after the republic’s Muslims Saint Mary’s staff members has a place on the lawn be 3 1/2-month siege of Gorazde, 1,000th flight in a 2-month-old and Croats voted Feb. 29 for discovered the damage to the cause it invades my right to according to soldiers loyal to U.N. airlift for the city’s es independence from Serbia- smallest part of the work chose whether or not to see it,” the Muslim-dominated gov timated 450,000 residents. dominated Yugoslavia. Ethnic around 7:30 a.m. last Friday said Lanigan. ernment. But a Bosnian military Planes have flown in 12,000 Serbs rebelled and have cap According to Tyler, only one and “although no witnesses leader said: “The war here is tons of food, medicine and tured about two-thirds of the person, a staff member, directly have been found, it appears not over.” other supplies, but U.N. officials republic’s territory. that someone sat on the work contacted the art department Despite the agreement by said that the onset of winter Numerous cease-fire agree or picked it up and dropped it,” about the exhibit. Serb leader Radovan Karadzic could slow the operation and ments have quickly collapsed, said Chlebek. Damage has been Artists that exhibit works for to allow U.N. monitoring of estimated at $5,000. the gallery season must partic that an extensive trucking link and earlier promises by the The four piece work, de ipate in a selection process. Serb artillery, mortar shells fell was needed. Serbs to have U.N. troops mon scribed as “large boulder-like The steps are as follows: again on Sarajevo, and loyalist An estimated 35,000 people itor heavy weapons have not formations,” was created by •In the fall prior to the exhibi troops pressed on with their have died in the war in Bosnia, slowed the fighting. Chicago sculptor Maria Kaplan. tion season, artists submit a desperate attempt to break and as many as 2 million have Fred Eckhard, the U.N. The exhibit is part of this year’s “proposal for exhibit” to the Art through Serb forces that have fled their homes spokesman in Sarajevo, said season at the Moreau Galleries. Gallery Board that consists of encircled the capital for five In Zagreb, the capital of Karadzic signed the supervision Doug Tyler, chairman of the faculty members, students, and months. neighboring Croatia, officials agreement Wednesday after Saint Mary’s art department, members of the community; In Brussels, Belgium, the announced a tightening of re talks with U.N. military officers •the Board initially sorts all said they removed Kaplan’s secretary general, Manfred strictions on Bosnian refugees on the details of how Serb work “Untitled” because of con the submissions to remove any Woerner, said the 16-member who are flooding the country. weapons would be monitored. cern about further damage, but that are not high caliber; alliance would send troops to More than 1,000 entered U.N. soldiers began surveying also due to the reactions of •the Board then meets to help guard relief for Bosnia.

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