The Observer

VOL. XXV. NO. 13 The ObserverWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1992 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Senior interrupts studies to join Clinton campaign By MONICA YANT Editor-in-Chief As the fall presidential cam paign heads into home stretch, Notre Dame senior Ashanti Butler has what pundits might call an inside track to the ■ Gore in Texas/ page 5 Democrats’ strategy of attract ■ Politic roundup / page 5 ing youthful voters: Start by attracting youthful workers. ■ Lawyer bashing / page 5 “I think people our age don’t really relate to George Bush,” Little Rock office are under 25 Butler said in a telephone in years old. terview Tuesday from Clin Butler has worn many hats in ton/Gore ‘92 campaign head the campaign. She’s focused quarters in Little Rock, Ark. voter outreach efforts at college “(Bill Clinton) is a product of students and the elderly and the era of our parents, not our tracked Clinton delegates at the grandparents. A lot of the July Democratic Convention, things that he is concerned where her responsibilities at with are things that we are go the convention included every ing to be facing after gradua thing from orchestrating sign- tion.” waving to reminding the mem The Observer/Pat McHugh The government major has a bers of five state delegations of Giving the gift of flowers good reason for such polished voting sessions. Seniors Ilona Carlos and Bryan Krayer purchase flowers and balloons at Irish Gardens, located in Clintonspeak: She is a full-time Butler now works primarily the basement of LaFortune Student Center, which opened Monday. staffer at in Little Rock — a feat in surrogate scheduling. Put even Butler admits is unusual simply, if neither Bill or Hillary for a college student on a leave Clinton, A1 or Tipper Gore is of absence. available for a campaign ap Business school sponsors campaign discussion But thanks to good fortune pearance in the South, it is But Special to The Observer and contacts made during an ler’s task to find an appropriate Making of a President: 1992” at ness economics. internship with the Democratic replacement among key 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Moderated by James the Center for Continuing Edu National Committee, the Indi Democrats at the local, state or O’Rourke, associate professor Dennis Moore, director of cation (CCE), and will report of management at Notre Dame, anapolis native netted an offer national level. Past surrogates public relations, confirmed that last January she simply include party Chairman Ron edly give a broadcast from the panel will analyze the elec Democratic presidential candi South Bend for the MacNeill- couldn’t refuse. Brown, Boston Mayor Ray toral process, the economy and date Governor Bill Clinton will Lehrer Hour later in the day. “(Clinton) has a real plan for Flynn and Indiana Governor changes in the American politi speak in Stepan Center on Fri “The American Political Pro cal landscape in the 1990s. The getting America back on track,” Evan Bayh. day. Butler said of the Arkansas In mid-October, Butler will cess: Is This Any Way to Run andiscussion will be videotaped Clinton campaign officials Election?” will feature a panel for cable broadcast at a later governor’s economic and again switch gears, heading said the candidate will speak at education proposals. “I back to the states for outreach of four Notre Dame faculty date. 1 p.m. members in a round-table A 1959 graduate of Notre remember being at Notre Dame activities that will “make sure Although the presidential and hearing about people who that all the voters know that presentation at 10:15 a.m. in Dame, Shields is a Washington campaign will take center stage the CCE auditorium . Partici Post columnist and — along couldn’t come back for Nov. 3 is the day to vote for Bill Friday, the College of Business financial reasons. That’s Clinton.” pants will include: Robert with Pat Buchanan, Robert No Administration’s advisory Schmuhl, chair of American vak and A1 Hunt — a member ridiculous.” The decision to put her stud council is also sponsoring a Other young voters must ies on hold for the campaign studies; Douglas Kmiec, profesof CNN’s “Capital Gang.” speech by political commenta sor of law; Thomas Morris, He is the author of “On the share her view: According to was not an easy one, Butler tor Mark Shields and a panel Assistant Press Secretary Ethan admits. professor of philosophy; and Campaign Trail,” and has pro discussion focusing on theBarry Keating, chair and Jones vided convention and election Zindler, at least 200 of the campaign. seeINTERRUPT / page 4 professor of finance and busi- coverage for CBS and NBC. more than 350 staffers in the Shields w ill speak on “The Michelangelo virus attacks Lopez: peaceresearch faces three perils By MICHELLE CROUCH He quoted Thucydides who States that does not teach an ND Law school computer News Writer said, “Those who are truly undergraduate or graduate courageous are those who multidiscipline course on the By JOHN CONNORTON was that the Law School had know what is terrible in life and environment. “Teaching seriously and News Writer been depending on a virus what is beautiful and recogniz Along with explaining the package developed in 1988," frankly that which is terrible ing these can march out and “te rrib le ,” Lopez also talked said Tom MacLennan. and that which is beautiful ” meet what is to come.” about the “beautiful" in the The highly destructive “Since Michaeiangelo was ought to be the emphasis in Lopez then specified some of realm of peace studies. Michelangelo computer only developed in 1990, it international peace studies, ac the “terrible” facts in peace “If beauty is in the eye of the virus was discovered in at couldn’t be detected by the cording to George Lopez, direc studies. beholder,” he said, “this be least one Notre Dame Law law School’s package." tor of Notre Dame’s Joan B. “More people on a per capita holder believes that the most School computer center last Kroc Institute for International basis died within their own serious and significant thing Friday night by a law Viruses work by Peace Studies. boundaries at the hands of that a peace research program student. destroying the file allocation In Tuesday’s lecture, “Pericles their own country people than can do is to study principled Krista MacLennan, a law tables on hard disks, leaving and the Perils of Peace in wars,” Lopez pointed out, and practical nonviolent ap student at Notre Dame, dis the computer intact but Studies,” Lopez set the agenda “Internal violence has wreaked proaches to social change.” covered the virus when she unable to locate or for the institute for the coming more havoc on peace than the “I think our own niche in this tried a disk she had been understand any files. year. institute of war.” may very well be placed in the using at the Law School on a The problem of a virus is He explained that peace re He emphasized the need to ability to look in the 1990s at computer at her father’s law magnified by its potential to search today faces three perils: find out more about the causes where the concerns about office where it was detected. spread rapidly from com •First, many peace re and conditions of internal social peace and war may be going,” MacLennan and her hus puter to computer by searchers focus too heavily on violence. according to Lopez. band Tom, Personal Com unwary users. conflict management, or war. Lopez said that we need to Lopez discussed the large in puter coordinator of the "Basically what you’ve got •The second peril is “brought develop “new concepts and volvement of Notre Dame stu aerospace manufacturer on your hands is a sexually about by the way that money models for economic security dents in social concerns. How corrupts.” According to Lopez, HOWMET Corporation and transmitted disease For com for states who walk the line of ever, he expressed disap “our research and teaching Notre Dame graduate, im puters,” noted Tom MacLen economic peril.” pointment that it is isolated to mediately notified Jeff Mor nan. gravitates to where the money Lopez also brought up the the Center for Social Concerns, gan, the computer Last year, the United is as opposed to where some plight of the environment. the dorms, and other organiza consultant at the Law States and most of the believe the priorities ought to “What constitutes ecological se tions. School. industrialized world were be.” curity and what are acceptable He emphasized “the need to terrorized by Michaeiangelo •The third peril is “the dy standards thereof?” Lopez make it connect to what they’re Although Michelangelo when computer experts namic state of change in the asked, “The same way we have learning in class.” was eliminated from the determined that the virus world that we witness daily.” the Geneva Convention to pro “I think we can come together Law School, any disk that would activate on Mar. 6, Lopez proposed overcoming tect prisoners, where are the as faculty and students," Lopez was used on the infected the anniversary of the these perils by teaching stuprotocols to protect the inter concluded, “examine the te rm in al is lik e ly to be artist’s birthday, wreaking dents of peace studies both the national environment?” terrible and study the beautiful, carrying the virus, havoc on the world’s terrible and the beautiful in the According to Lopez, Notre raise hard questions about how tension between violence and “Basically the problem computer systems.

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