WRC Abortion Pamphlets Spark Investigation a Call for Reconciliation
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Have a safe and happy summer. p.36 Wednesday, April29, 1998 • Vol. XXXI No. 135 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S WRC abortion pamphlets spark investigation By BRAD PRENDERGAST Catholic Church, Cassidy said he has the WRC, Cassidy said his reason Senior StafTWriter begun to examine the center and its rela for holding separate meetings with 'IFE:a IT IS IMPOR tionship to the Church's teachings. each officer was that, if only a TANT FOR ME TO The Office of Student Activities is inves "I feel that it is necessary for me to group meeting were held, it would tigating a recent allegation that the gather information about the [WRC] - in result in only one person talking, GATHER INFORMATION Women's Resource Center is providing particular about reports that WRC may and Cassidy would not be able to ABOliT THE ( WRC] ••• information about abortion to its patrons. be providing information about abortion hear from the other officers. ! IN ORDER TO MAKE A ,' In a letter dated April 24 and sent to services - in order to make a determina Mohrman and co-chair Kelly ) this year's and next year's officers of the tion regardin·g whether the [WRC] can McMahon said Cassidy's plan does DETERMINATION 1 center, director of Student Activities Joe retain its status as a recognized group," not fit with the purpose of the REGARDING WHETIIER Cassidy indicated that the allegations his letter said. investigation. raise questions of whether the center As part of the investigation, Cassidy "What's being questioned isn't THE (WRC] CAN RETAIN ITS STATIJS AS A should have its status as a recognized indicated two steps that he would take. our personal opinions. We're RECOGNIZED GROUP.' group renewed for next year. According to the letter, Cassidy has asked being investigated as a group," "We have received information ffrom Ann Firth, assistant to the vice president Mohrman said. "We have one mis- JOE CASSIDY students and staffl alleging that the of Student Affairs, and Sylvia Dillon, sion, one goal, one statement, and DIRECTOR OF STUDENT ACTMT/ES Women's Hesource Center is providing assistant director of Campus Ministry, to [Cassidy] can review that by information about the availability of abor assist him. speaking to us as a group." group with Cassidy, Firth, and Dillon, and tion services," Cassidy's letter said. Cassidy also asked the current officers Cassidy could not be reached for com that Cassidy yesterday denied the Noting that du Lac prohibits student of the WRC to meet with him individually ment late last night. request. organizations and their members from Thursday afternoon, a request that the Mohrman said that the officers of the Mohrman also said that requests to encouraging or participating in activities officers say "doesn't seem right." WRC went•to the Student Activities office contrary to the moral teachings of the According to Ray Mohrman, co-chair of Monday to request that they meet as a see WRC I page 4 • f~OTHE DAME HOLOCAUST PROJECT Policy leaves A call for reconciliation smokers out Hoeckman advocates 'effective love' between in the cold Christians and Jews regarding the Holocaust Editor's note: This is the second in a two part series examining the extent of tobacco By ERICA THESING use on campus and its effect on student life . News Writer By MATTHEW LOUGHRAN Haising his voice passionately for his work News Editor and the topic at hand, Father Remi Hoeckman, secretary of the Holy See's Committee for Notre Dame does not allow smoking in the Heligious Relations with the Jews, delivered the hallways and public areas of its resid~nce final formal address of the Holocaust confer halls. ence last night. "Long-standing, irrefutable proof demon Boeckman, who was the primary auihor of strates smoking the recent Vatican document on the Church's is harmful to role in the Holocaust, emphasized the need for the health of "reconciliation and effective love" between smokers. In Christians and Jews. addition, recent "This is the time to let memory, healed of its reports from wounds, become our teacher and the teacher of the Surgeon our children so that evil may never triumph General indi over good as it did for millions of children of cate that expo Judaism," lloeckman said. sure to second Father Theodore Hesburgh, president emeri hand smoke tus of the University, introduced Hoeckman and can be a serious health hazard for non his credentials. Hesburgh and Hoeckman have smokers," according to page 105 of du Lac, worked closely together in the past 30 years at the guide to student life. · an institute for interfaith dialogue opened by Outside of the statement of University pol the Vatican in Jerusalem. Ilesburgh empha icy that prohibits tobacco use "in all build sized that although the audience may disagree ings, stadiums and vehicles owned, leased t with aspects of the recent Vatican document, or operated by the University of Notre i they must remember that Boeckman's editors Dame," some rectors offer a variety of dif l had the final say. ferent reasons for requiring that students r "There is nothing at all wrong or questionable who wish to smoke go out into the cold. about his approach to this problem. I think he But the most common reason is the smell is totally on the side of angels," said Hesburgh. of burning tobacco. "Even in its edited form, his document reads "It stinks," said Brother Bonaventure like something you never would have seen 15 or Scully, rector of Keenan Hall. Scully has 20 years ago. With Hemi, his heart is with this instituted a policy in his dorm that is more cause fully, deeply and with great wisdom." severe than that in most dorms. After taking the microphone, Boeckman "People can smoke in only one place addressed the importance of an interfaith dia around [Keenan] and that is out in front," logue that emphasizes the religious aspects, he said. "The smoke used to drift in [the which he fears are often overlooked. back rooms] and students would complain ''I'm a man of faith who does believe in inter about the smell. So we moved it to the front. • faith encounter, but I have a problem with Smokers are filthy though. They don't use ambiguous use of these words," Boeckman the ashtrays and the smoke has started t said. "I may have it all wrong, but to me inter blowing into front rooms too." faith encounter means to meet with another Morrissey Manor rector Father Bill Seetch who is not like me in the place where souls offered another reason for disallowing f meet. It means to meet with another who is not smoking in his dorm. ! like me but who is nonetheless in the image of "There is really no ventilation in The Observer/Meg Kroener ' Father Remi Hoeckman delivered the final lecture in the Notre Dame God." [Morrissey]," he said. "Smoking is a definite Holocaust conference last night. He spoke of the importance of inter fire hazard, so I am always keeping an eye faith dialogue and to "let memory ... become our teacher." see H 0 ECKMAN I page 4 see TOBACCO/ page 4 page 2 The Observer· INSIDE Wednesday, April29, 1998 • INSIDE COlUMN Campus Briefs The photo of HHPA will head up Mathematics conference Mela receives awards for my friend University's construction will honor O'Meara advertising research Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, The department of mathematics will Carl Mela, assistant professor of one of the nation's foremost architec host a conference honoring Timothy marketing at Notre Dame,•has received I still carry the picture of her every day in tural firms, has been selected to O'Meara, the University's provost two international awards for his my wallet. design the Marie DeBartolo emeritus and research on the effects· of promotions It's not a flattering Performing Arts Complex at Notre Kenna professor of and advertising on consumers. A paper image at all; the hair that Dame. Housing a 1,200-seat auditori mathematics, by Mela, titled "The Long Term Impact falls several inches past um and separate centers for the Saturday through of Promotions and Advertising on her shoulders is curly and musical and dramatic arts, the Monday in the Consumer Brand Choice" and co uncombed, and her 130,000-square-foot complex will be Center for authored with Sunil Gupta and Donald Grateful Dead t-shirt is built on the south side of the Notre Continuing Lehmann of Columbia University, soaked with sweat. She Dame campus at a cost of about $35 Education. The received the Marketing Science isn't wearing makeup, million. Ground is expected to be conference will Institute's best paper award. The insti but then again, she broken next year. The Marie cover the primary Timothy tute confers the award annually to the rarely ever did. Allison Koenig DeBartolo Performing Arts Complex areas of O'Meara's O'Meara publication in its paper series that "has I have not talked to Associate News Editor is named in memory of the wife of research and writ the most enduring value to corporate her in almost four the late Edward DeBartolo, a 1932 ing in tnathematics. Principal speakers executives" and the greatest "potentjal years.