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The love of the theater Continued outcry Notre Dame's theater department performs the The Notre Dame community continues to Wednesday Greek drama "For the Love of the Nightingale" respond to recent attacks against women. this weekend at Washington Hall. APRIL 12, Scene+ page 13 ViewPoint + page 11 2000 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving~otre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 120 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Nuns struggle with challenges of age ND grad • • As the median age for receives Holy Cross sisters rises, so do their responsibilities Pulitzer By NELLIE WILLIAMS News Writer By KIFLIN TURNER Tr.chnology has increased longevity, News Writer but not age awareness. according to a rr.cent study by JoAnn Meyer Burke, 1994 Notre Dame alumnus assistant professor of social work and George Dohrmann was honored anthropology at Saint Mary's College. Monday with the Pulitzer Prize Burkr. n~cently conducted a study on for his beat reporting and how tlw rolr. of Catholic nuns is expand investiga ing to ineludr. family caregivers. She tion of aca researd11~d some of tlw difficulties sis demic fraud ters facr. and how they deal with them within the while living in a community of other University rapidly aging nuns. The rising number of Minne of aging sisters with oldr.r families is an sota's bas issue across the nation. ketball Burkn said that the new generation of team. young adults today can learn a great D o h r - dPal about caregiving from the older sis mann broke Dohrmann ters. the story in "We have a large number of retired the St. Paul PionPer Press sisters," she said. "It poses, at least as I before the team was to partic think about it. an interesting position ipate in the 1999 nwn 's NCAA for both oldnr sisters and young women basketball tournament on l'ampus to IParn about how wn're As a result of his reporting, going to livn longer." many university officials lost Thi~ mndian agP for sisters is more their jobs. than h5 - much oldnr than it was 30 "I have a hard time feeling years ago. VPry few sisters are younger sympathy for a player who than 50 and thn avnrage agf~ of care cheats. or feeling sympathy for givers is 41 to 77. Burke interviewed 46 a coach who cheats. or an Catholic sisters from 11 non-cloistered administrator who covers up, ndigious institutes for lwr research. or condones, or facilitatns this," Burk!' i·amP up with three major con Dohrmann said. !'lusi•lllS of why sisters might struggle NELLIE WILLIAMS/The Observer Dohrmann began reporting with l'arngiving. lkr first was "the dom- Sister Margie Jones holds a picture of her late mother, who came to live with her on the case in March 1999, in a South Bend apartment. Jones was able to continue her ministry as a cata loguer in the Saint Mary's College library despite her mother's move-in. see PULITZER/page 4 see NUNS/page 6 BOARD OF GOVERNANCE Faculty Assembly to review study days proposal next fall [Mary Ann] Merryman, who is on academic affairs, chaired by By COLLEEN McCARTHY leading the Faculty Assembly this [College president] Dr. Eldred Associate News Editor year, said they are debating an and Dr. Ristau, [vice president issue that will dominate their dis and dean of faculty]. A proposal to implement study cussion and so they will not be "Now the proposal is in your days at Saint Mary's will not be able to discuss the study day pro hands and I encourage you to reviewed by the Famlty Assembly posal. continue to push for it." until the fall, when the 2000- Merryman In other BOG 2001 ·school year begins, said said the pro "Now the proposal is in Angie Little, former Saint Mary's posal will be news: student body vice president. placed on the your hands and I + Hesidnnce Little updated the Saint Mary's Faculty encourage you to contin Hall Association Board of Governance on the Assembly's elections will be progress of the proposal at docket for its ue to push for it. " held Thursday Tuesday's meeting. It was first first meeting in the Noble suggested in 1998, during Nancy in the fall, Angie Little Family Dining Hall from Midden's vice-presidential term. according to former student body Since then, Midden and Little 7:30-9:30 a.m., Little. Little vice president worked with the rough draft to also encour 11 a.m.-1 p.m. transform it into a more solid aged BOG to and 4:30-6:30 proposal. continue p.m. After cobbling together the pro working on its implementation. + Student Activities Board is posal, the pair sent it to the "There has been a lot of hard sponsoring "Who Wants to Win Committee on Student Affairs. work put into this proposal," she $100" in the LeMans llall lobby which sent it to the Faculty said. "The ball is rolling and the today at 7 p.m. Assembly. administration is excited about it. + The "Take Back the Night" CHRISTINE KAAI/The Observer "We've taken the proposal to After the Faculty A<>sembly looks march will be today beginning at Former Saint Mary's student body vice president Angie 6:45 p.m. outside LeMans Hall. little discussed the Faculty Assembly's response to a study the Faculty Assembly and they at the proposal, it would go on to SMC Tostal will be held on days proposal introduced in 1998. have a meeting on April 19," the committee on academic stan + Little said. "However. professor dards and finally the committee April27. r--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Wednesday, April 12, 2000 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK IN MICHIANA Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Little lessons lead + Art: Exhibit of pastels by + Art: "Stamps of + Theater: The Wiz: 8 + Art: "Out of the Woods: Gerrie Govert 10 a.m.- Recognition," Carnegie p.m., Mendel Center Turned Wood by American to luck o' Irish 5 p.m., 18 Artists Gallery, Center Council for the Arts Mainstage, Lake Michigan Craftsmen" and 'Tim Chesterton. and W.H. Monroe College, Benton Harbor. Barrons: Computer + Art: "Amish Quilts," Museum, Three Hivers. + Event: "A Life in Art," Graphics," 10 a.m.-4 p.m., · As Luck Would Have It. I have realized over time that a certain law applies to me; some 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Northern by Margaret Iannelli, Krasl Art Center, St. call it Murphy's law and some call it fate. Indiana Center for History, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., New Moon .Joseph. Whatever it is, it has tripped me up on count less occasions. South Bend. Gallery, Benton Harbor. Being Irish and a Notre Dame student, I must Lila Haughey admit that I have many things to be grateful for, OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U-Wire reports and I have been on the Viewpoint t receiving end of "the luck Editor of the Irish" many times. However, there are some Gorbachev debates Cold War at Northeastern occasions when I haven't had much good luck. These are the times I BOSTON [domestic] problems," he said. "But learned some crucial lessons. Disintegrating relations between the with [assistance from] the West ... The Always accept the first date to the prom or United States and Hussia are the most important thing is for the coUI1- a dance because as luck would have it, the results of lingering effects from the tries to work together. Harmony is prospects may only get worse. Just believe Cold War and U.S. response to the needed." me on this one. I didn't have a prom date war.s in Chechnya, former Soviet Conference participants said the until three days before. I got picky, but it did President Mikhail Gorbachev said wars in Chechnya were likely contrib end up working out okay, it just caused me a Friday at Northeastern University. utors to existing tensions between the lot of unneeded stress. Gorbachev spoke with members of two countries. The one time you decide to pull the wool the academic, business and foreign According to Gorbachev, the United States was silent during the first war over your parent's eyes and sneak out late at policy communities on finding ways to tions and because America is in the ease the shaky relationship between with Chechnya, but has since done an night, always make sure the dog is outside. swing of elections." Otherwise, the dog will think you are an the United States and Hussia. about-face regarding Hussia's involve Gorbachev suggested that the ment in the war. intruder and bark loudly. There is nothing "My impression is there is a sense of a need to rethink the relationship with United States and Russia - two "[Former President Boris] Yeltsin worse than having your mom appear on the Russia," Gorbachev told the forum, nations he described as "asymmetri wanted prestige, and promised a glo front lawn in her nightgown and slippers which included former U.S. Deputy cal" - need to prioritize in order to rious war," Gorbachev said. "Of peering into the dark at you as you are about Secretary of Defense John Deutch. repair their tattered relationship. coursn, we all know how it ended ... to make your getaway. It is also a little "It's a serious topic," Gorbachev Although he offered suggestions, What about the West? The West was embarassing to call your friends and tell said. "It's not propaganda. It's some Gorbachev said he could not be sure quiet because Boris was friend.