Monday Touchdown This Weekend

Efil Autry Denson goes over the top for a l'm "Pleasanrvill~" and Steven King's "Apt Pupil" won Monday touchdown this weekend. The Irish beat good reviews as did video pick "Psycho." Baylor 27-3. NOVEMBER Irish Insider Seem.~ o 10-11 2, 1998 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's The Observer/Jeff Hsu A student whirls an octopus during halftime of Saturday's game. Fish and frogs also sailed through the air as the halftime tradition of throwing marshmellows has grown, causing security concerns for the University. · I LY Unusual flying objects cause halftime injuries in student section By MICHELLE KRUPA very serious safety .hazard." there was an appare.nt lack of con News Editor While more first-aid reports will be cern for that among these students," filed today, an unknown number of said Phil Johnson, assistant director It's a bird ... it's a plane ... it's ... an students were escorted out of the sta of Security/Police. · octopus and its hurdling through the dium for throwing objects in the Some students think that the half air above the senior sections of Notre stands. Two public announcements time tradition has gotten out of hand. Dame Stadium. The giant squid flew warned against the practice. "I think the first time it basically among marshmallows weighted with "There was an announcement started with a fish. It's starting to get pennies and golf tees, peanuts, a fish before the game and before half-time a little out of control," said Notre and a frog during half-time of that objects could not be thrown," Dame senior Kevin Kaufman, who Saturday's game causing injuries and Hurley said. "The ushers also stepped sits in section 29. "Marshmallows are security problems. up their searches at the gates, and a fine, but people need to be a little "A 10-year-old girl had a laceration number of bags of marshmallows intelligent not to put things in them to on her face from the frog, and anoth were confiscated." make them fly faster or go further." er non-student had a contusion on Any student ejected from the game Saint Mary's junior Colleen Killian her Jace," said Chuck Hruley, assis faces the possibility of losing his or said that her section 30 seat serves as tant director of Notre Dame her football ticket privileges. a safe vantage point at half-time. Security/Police. "With the squid and "It's nothing about decorum and "It's very entertaining. I feel sorry the frog, people were just jumping off everything about safety. Throwing the stands out of the way, which is a things did in fact injure people, and see SQUID I page 4 SMC changes marketing plan to focus on women By COLLEEN McCARTHY encouraging the public and tion," Briggs said. promoting women's colleges such Saint Maiy's News Editor prospective students to think of But she knows that the rela as the Women's College Coalition Saint Mary's as a women's col tionship with Notre Dame, which (WCC). Imagine a world where the lege, and particularly as the has existed for over 150 years, The admissions office at the University of Notre Dame doesn't College is choosing to identify will continue to exist and the College has integrated. brochures exist. itself, "the nation's premier admissions office still talks about provided by the wee into its For Joyce Briggs, associate Catholic women's college," said the academic co-exchange pro offering of materials to prospec director of admissions at Saint Briggs, "In the past, we haven't gram with Notre Dame as well as tive students. Mary's College, it isn't a challenge emphasized the fact we are a Briggs said. "Now, we are chang the social interactions provided Brochures include statistics for her to imagine this world women's college. It just wasn't ing ow· emphasis and trying to hit by clubs and organizations run about graduates of women's col where Notre Dame does not sell something we broadcasted." on those benefits more strongly." jointly by the schools. leges that many prospective stu Saint Mary's. The way the College markets Many times in the past, Saint "We do still talk about the acad dents could find persuasive. A "Saint Mary's has many, many itself is taking on a new shape Mary's used its relationship with emic co-exchange program with recent study conducted by the reasons to be proud of what it is," after hiring a Boston firm, Notre Dame as a selling point, she Notre Dame," Briggs said. wee showed that although Briggs said. "I believe that even if Maguire and As'sociates, to con said. That is changing after see These benefits include making women's college graduates the College was isolated - on a duct market research. The results ing results of the research. prospective students aware or the account for only four percent of hill by itself - it could still offer of the research showed that being "Instead of talking about Notre environment a women's college the female college-educated pop students what they need without a women's college is what makes Dame being across the street and provides such as the non-compet ulation, tliese women make up 24 Notre Dame." Saint Mary's marketable through telling prospective student<> about itive classroom nature, the feeling percent of the women in Congress This kind of thinking is evident out the U.S. the opportunity to have a coed of community and opportunities and 33 percent of the female of a new direction the College is "When I came on board last environment or the best of both for leadership, said Briggs. board members of 1992 Fortune taking in marketing itself. More year, the entire staff knew the worlds, we are emphasizing the Saint Mary's is also making use 1000 companies. emphasis is being placed on benefits of women's colleges," benefits of single gender educa- or its affiliation with organizations see SMC I page 4 page 2 The Observer. INSIDE Monday, November 2, 1998 Push-ups D ome Compiled from U-Wire reports Prohibited - Chinese missilie expert arrested in Bejing From the smell of the infamous steak sand STANFORD, Calif. Lewis, head of the center's Project on wiches that pervades the campus on game On Jan. 6, Hua Di, a Chinese mis Peace and Cooperation in the Asian day to the somber atmosphere of a candle sile expert and senior research asso Pacific Region, on a history of China's light dinner in the South Dining Hall, attend ciate at the Center for International missile program, which was pub ing a Notre Dame foot- Security and Cooperation at Stanford, lished in1992. ball game in person Scott Hardy was arrested in Beijing for allegedly Many of Hua's colleagues have always provides a Graphics Designer revealing state secrets. written the Chinese government unique experience that Information on the arrest was not requesting his immediate release and simply cannot be duplicated by watching at made public until this week. arguing Hua's innocence. home. A permanent resident of the United According to a statement released I was especially entreated this weekend, States, Hua went to Beijing to attend said in a statement that Hua "went to by Provost Condoleezza Rice, having attended the Notre Dame versus memorial services for his mother, China with full assurances from the "Professor Lewis has provided evi Baylor game. From my vantage point, I was father, and brother-in-law, all of Ministry of State Security that he dence of the fact that the source in for a show. I refer to the curious behavior whom died during Hua's nine-year would be OK. He was well aware of materials for publications written by of students and ushers, as they battled for stay in the United States. the possibility of charges being lev him and Mr. Hua all either were pro expression and order, respectively. Hua had been at Stanford working eled against him while he was in the vided by approved Chinese authori I was not sitting in the student section. I with the center since 1989. The cen United States, so he went to Hong ties or already were available was in the first row of section 108 (upper sec ter is a consortium of scholars and Kong in September last year and was through the Stanford University tion, 35-yard-line), and, as always, those former policy makers from the United given a thorough clearance by the library." around me were engaging in push-ups to cel States and many foreign countries Ministry of State Security." Scott Sagan, the co-director of the ebrate each of Notre Dame's points whenever who conduct unclassified research on Hua has authored several articles center, expressed his view that Hua's the Irish added to their total. Apparently, an current global security problems. on Chinese security policy regarding research has, in fact, increased usher had asked us to stop, but only a couple Emeritus Professor John Lewis of such topics as- China's ballistic mis international security and coopera of us heard her, and we "forgot" to tell the the Institute for International Studies sile program. He also worked with tion. others. - During the second half, when Notre Dame totaled its score to 27, the urge to have one of Ill HARVARD UN!VERST!Y ti MICHIGAN STATE UN!VERS!TY us undertake this many push-ups was too much to resist.

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