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.--------------:-.-;-;- ......... ' . SNOW Ramone stays 'fast and furious' to the very end Tuesday One year after his death, Joey Ramone's solo album "Don't Worry About Me" HIGH 30° is on shelves and provides listeners with humorous and sentimental lyrics. FEBRUARY 25, LOW18° Scene + page 10 2002 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO. 97 HTTP:/ /OBSERVER.N D.EDU Walker speaks of search for self Students react to Saint Mary's By NOREEN GILLESPIE .News Writer "Monologues" When author Rebecca Walker began to think about writing her performance most recent book, she wanted to compose a piece of writing that would talk about race emotional- · By EMILY FORD ly. News Writer She also wanted to write a book that would let readers see A mass of people crowded through the masks people wear into the Regina North Lounge and think about identity in terms on the Saint Mary's campus of something other than racial, Monday evening to watch the economic and regional cate highly anticipated perfor gories. mance of "The Vagina The result was her book Monologues." "Black, White and Jewish: An Students attended the per Autobiography of a Shifting Self," formance for a wide variety which she talked about Monday of reasons. And while most at Saint Mary's. felt "The Vagina Walker, the mulatta Jewish Monologues" did a solid job daughter of feminist author Alice presenting various women's Walker, said the book was a issues, others were offended journey for her to begin thinking by the content. about her own identity. Sophomore Kate Hartman "I was facing aduithood in a w·anted to witness first-hand very real way," Walker told a the source of such great near-capacity audience in Carroll debate. Auditorium. "In order to become ''I'm here to be a part of a real adult, I really needed to NELLIE WILLIAMS!The Observer Author Rebecca Walker reads from her book "Black, White and Jewish: An Autobiography and the controversy because make peace with my past." there's been so much hype a Shifting of Self," at Saint Mary's Carroll Auditorium on Monday. For Walker, that meant ana over the past two weeks," lyzing her childhood experiences. Hartman said. "If they want The daughter of an aspiring changed, her parents' marriage me make sense no longer Walker began to realize that ed to advise us against seeing author and a civil rights began to disintegrate. That sent exists?" people wear masks and follow a it, they've had the adverse reformer in the deep south, Walker into a nomadic childhood Walker attended different "social script" that predeter affect by promoting it even Walker said she was born into a of shuffiing around the country schools across the country after mines how their race or class further and sparking my community that knew her as a to different schools and homes. her parents' divorce. From a lib should act. interest." "movement child." "What I have had to reconcile eral school in San Francisco, a "Fundamentally, race, class Interest in the informal But when the black power is, who am I if I am not a move racially mixed school in the and culture are performative," publicity surrounding the movement began shifting focus ment child?" Walker said. "Who Bronx and an upper-class subur Walker said. "It was for me performance was a motive and her father's idealism am I when the context that made ban school in Larchmont, N.Y., see WALKER/page 4 see VAGINNpage 4 SOLIDARITY IN THE SNOW SMC trustees act on center, tuition • Groundbreaking • Tuition increased The tuition increase will go in part towards increasing for student center 6percentforthe funding for financial aid and set for this spring second straight year for increasing salary for fac ulty and staff. By SARAH NESTOR By SARAH NESTOR· Melanie Engler, director of News Writer News Writer public relations, said the increase would not go The Saint Mary's Board of The Saint Mary's Board of towards funding the new stu Trustees voted to approve the Trustees approved a 6 per dent center, which the Board groundbreaking of a new stu cent tuition increase for the also approved at its meeting dent center this spring at their second straight year at its last week. February meeting. February meeting last week. The Board approved a 5 The new student center will "The primary factor in rais percent increase in the house all the current Hagger ing the student fees is posi amount of money available facilities and will include stu tioning and looking at similar for staff and faculty salaries. dent lounges, a small theater, a institutions. Saint Mary's is Three percent of the cyber cafe, Campus Ministry, a lagging behind when looking increase will be divided even copy shop and the new dining at costs of similar budget-size ly between all staff employ hall. institutions," said Keith ees. According to vice president of Dennis, vice president of The remaining 2 percent finance and administration finance and administration. will be distributed to bring Keith Dennis, the funds for the Tuition will jump to employees up to or above student center are coming from $20,550 in 2002-2003, a their target salary. If an various sources. They will issue $1,310 increase from the employee is already at their bonds to pay for construction 2001-2002 amount of target salary, they will NELLIE WILLIAMS!The Observer and pay back the bonds as the $19,240. receive a 3 percent salary Fourth-year architecture student Jeff Schwaiger was one of funds come in. Including tuition, fees, increase. more than 10 students in the Notre Dame Peace Coalition A meeting is set with the con room and board, the average who spent the night in the snow·on South Quad Monday to tractors on Wednesday and total cost next year will be demonstrate solidarity with the refugees in Afghanistan. $27,642. The average 2001- Contact Sarah Nestor at see CENTER/page 4 2002 total was $25,939. [email protected]. ' ~ .-. -.. ··;-;-,,-;-, ,;-:-.-------- ....... page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, February 26, 2002 INSIDE COLUMN QUOTES OF THE WEEK 'Tve always been a "The big battle is what's "You can see there's mixed Sterilized tragedy dreamer ... I never think happening in places five, six, emotions with the fights about the obstacles because I seven through twelve. You starting. There's some know who your stars are, but tension building in practice, I didn't feel like I had a right to be there. It keep my dreams in mind and wasn't my disaster, it wasn't my tragedy. This make them come true.'' it's your unsung stars that you can see it in the Pit." massive loss of life, this memorial, belonged to set things up. " the souls who lost their lives and the people who Chris Burke David Cannon loved them. It's been six months since the World Trade actor Greg Petcoff freshman fighter Center fell in a firey heap of on disability awareness Saint Mary's swimming head coach on the Bengal Bouts metal. smoke and dust. Six on MIAA championship outlook months since thousands of people were crushed beneath the collapse. Six months since two terrorist-navigated planes created craters in the center of lower Manhattan. BEYOND CAMPUS Compiled from U-Wire reports The World Trade Center site is sterilized now. Behind police tape and orange work vehicles, it looks like a con Noreen Penn State track athlete dies in pole vault accident struction zone rather than Gillespie the site of a major national UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Junior Championship in pole v.iftilt. tragedy. Only the blown-out Managing Penn State men's track and field and in October he finished fifth in the windows of surrounding Editor athlete Kevin Dare, whom friends Pan American Junior Championships buildings and the American described as fun and outgoing. died in Argentina. His personal best was 16 flag hanging above the Saturday afternoon in a pole vaulting feet, 4 and three-quarter inches. cleanup effort give evidence that it's not a renova accident at the Big Ten "He was one of the few guys that tion project. Championships at University of could have had a shot at track beyond Since New York City opened the observation Minnesota's Fieldhouse. college," said Matt Moyer, a javelin deck on Fulton Street in lower Manhattan, thou Dare, a sophomore from State thrower and one of Dare's room sands from around the world have flocked to see College, Pa., fell backward while mates. the disaster site. They've left their marks every attempting a 15-foot, seven-inch vault While he was an accomplished ath where on the observation deck- signatures on and struck his head on the eight-inch Out of respect the Penn State team lete, Dare was better known as a reg the walkways and railings, posters and pictures metal box used to plant the pole. He withdrew from the four remaining ular guy who included everyone in of lost loved ones and flowers still brought daily to was taken to the Hennepin County events Saturday, and Sunday's meet whatever he was doing and pulled the the deck's gates. Medical Center and pronounced dead was canceled after a meeting among team together. Teammate Brian I imagine they come to see this tragedy to try shortly after his arrival. He was 19. Big Ten coaches. Stumpf said Dare always went out of and understand in real life the scenes that played Dare is the eighth University Park "We lost a friend, we lost a team his way to make others feel comfort themselves out on the network news like a horror student to die since May and the sec mate, an athlete and a young life," able and a part of the team.