Wasserstein Reflects on Theater, Life ND, D'arcy by LAURA FERGUSON of View, So You Must Speak Up

Thursday, April 7, 1994 • Vol. XXVI No. 118 THE IN l')EPEN DENT N [WSPAPI R \IRVING NOTRE DAM!: AND SAl NT MARY'S Wasserstein reflects on theater, life ND, D'Arcy By LAURA FERGUSON of view, so you must speak up. Saint Mary's News Editor "If you write a comedy you relationship won't know how it works unless The stories of women are you see it. If you are the only equally as important as those of one laughing, you know that it examined men and every playwright, in doesn't work." cluding women playwrights, In one of the first perfor By KATIE MURPHY have a story to tell and a voice mances of "The Sisters Associate News Editor to be heard, according to Rosenweig," Wasserstein expe rienced this humor first hand. Last night the Faculty Senate "The audience was laughing voted down a resolution ad • see WASSERSTEIN, page 4 but I thought that I had written dressed to University President something very serious. Thank Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award goodness that they liked it, but FACULTY SENATE winning playwright Wendy is was very upsetting to me," Wasserstein in last night's Wasserstein said. Father Edward Malloy and Sesquicentennial lecture. Critics also are an important Provost Timothy O'Meara con A writer is not limited to writ role in putting on a play. cerning allegations in the ing about certain typical things Among other things they are January 21 issue of the such as dysfunctional families, a way for readers to simply National Catholic Reporter she said. know what the play is about. (NCR) that Fort Wayne-South "I didn't know that I could But, according to Wasserstein, Bend Bishop John D'Arcy may write about my own family or plays are ultimately about the have pressured the administra my own world, but my first play audience. tion six years ago not to hire was actually about my mother," Wasserstein also reflected on controversial theologian Father Wasserstein said. - her career as a playwright. Charles Curran. Wasserstein gave several "My mother never said to According to Richard words of advice and insight please be a not-for-profit writer Sheehan, chair of the Faculty about the world of theater dur and to please date actors," Senate, Curran was formerly a ing the lecture. Wasserstein said. professor at Catholic University "Plays are private property, She did, however, grow up in Washington D.C. Some of no word may be changed with taking dance classes in hopes of Curran's teachings were con out the permission of the play becoming a well-rounded per sidered contrary to traditional wright," she said. "Unlike in son. Catholic doctrine, and eventu film, they also have rights over At an all girl's high school in ally Catholic University dis casting. In film, the power lies New York she began her play missed Curran from his posi with the director and producer. wright career. To avoid taking tion. This is why an audience will a gym class, Wasserstein wrote Since it is under a pontificate often know the name of the a play for the school charter, Catholic University is playwright." mother/daughter fashion show, more closely related to the According to Wasserstein, but she still never thought that Vatican than most other one of the most important deci she would be a playwright. American Catholic universities. sions a playwright can make is Wasserstein then moved on to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who directs the play. It is very Mount Holyoke College in Mass. Pulitzer Prize winning author Wendy Wasserstein presented "A Life in Vatican head of the hard to turn around if the the Theater'' as part of the continuing Sesquicentennial Lecture Series directors have a different point see LECTURE I page 4 yesterday in the O'Laughlin Auditorium. see SENATE I page 6 Tuition Blakey: Society at fault for MLK's death • By DAVE TYLER Increase Assistant News Editor The responsibility for Martin Luther King's death does not scheduled just lie with James Earl Ray, By JENNIFER GIOVA Notre Dame Law School News Writer Professor Robert Blakey told an audience at the Law School In a recent letter to the courtroom yesterday afternoon. Undergraduate patents. Blakey, who served as coun University President Father sel to the United States House Edward Malloy announced a of Representatives Select tuition increase for the 1994.; Committee on Assassinations 95 school year. during the 1960s, believes The overall increase in fees King's death should be exam amounts to 6.4 percent, the ined in a broader context than Board of Trustees budget plan just the narrow legal view of calls for a 6.5 percent increase culpability. in overall tuition and a 6.per~ "In the strictest sense of the cent rise in room and board law, James Earl Ray killed fees. Martin Luther King," Blakey These increases brin:g the said. "But we. cannot ignore combined costs for tuition and the broader, moral sense of the room and board for .the 1994- killing." 95 school year to $21,000. The current legal system, ac The increase can· be attrib;.. cording to Blakey, focuses uted to a raise in the cost ofliv heavily on the responsibility of ing, according to Comiie the individuaL With the excep tion of charges like conspiracy Koloszar of the Student The Observer/Catherine Marciano Accounts Office. ·· Vir< and aiding and abetting a Robert Blakey, L;:1w School professor and former counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives Select "The faculty and staff wages felony, sentences revolve Committee on Assassinations, discussed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. yesterday in the increase. The utility costs in around one penalty for one per Notre Dame Law School courtroom. the buildings increase. Any son who committed one crime. concerns such as these are the Constitution, when it was helped ingrain black inferiority costs that··· relate to the The American legal concept paramount to understanding decided that a black was only into the white American psy University increase. The of the super-intervening actor, the case. "A historical case, equal to three fifths of a vote," che," said Blakey. tuition increases· balance these an event or person that inter based on social and political he continued. As Reconstruction ended after costs." Koloszar .said. · venes between parties in a history, can be made that im Slavery was allowed to pros the Civil War, nothing changed. Since these costs rise each crime or action, helps to re plicates more than just Ray, per under .this system, and be Blakey cited several records of year, tuition can be expected t6 move citizens from accepting "Blakey asserted. came economically profitable massacres of Blacks in the increase yearly; However; the responsibility for a crime that Social ramifications weigh as inventions like the cotton gin South as they tried to exercise University Board of Truste~s is does not directly involve them. heavily on the killing. revolutionized cotton cash crop their newly granted constitu committed to lessening the tatt:~ Concerns like social and politi "Immoral treatment of blacks is farming. While slavery died out tional rights. Even life in the of increases in tuition, Malloy cal climate are completely over a tradition in this country," in the North, it flourished in the supposedly free North demon- looked. Blakey said. South, as it was tolerated by In the King assassination, see TUITION/ page6 "Racism was entrenched in the rest of the country. "This see MLK I page 6 -------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------~-. page2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, April 7, 1994 INSIDE COLUMN WORLD AT AGLANCE Do ethics Earthquake hits Southern California, few reports of damage LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. A strong earthquake centered near an area hit by a destructive earthquake in 1992 jolted Southern California mean anything on Wednesday, but caused no serious damage. The quake struck at 12:01 p.m. and measured 4.8 on the Richter scale. It was felt in downtown Los Angeles, to Do01ers inland desert areas to the east and south to northern San CALIF. c Diego County. NEV ~ The California Institute of Technology's seismology de- ' :I: partment initially said the quake was an aftershock of the today? Landers quake two years ago. but later determined it wasn't. "Life's Little Instruction Book" rule # 106: Never Cheat. Wednesday's quake was centered six miles southeast of Lake Arrowhead, said Heather Lovasz, a Caltech spokes This seems like such a woman. Ann Blum "It was pretty strong," said Jeanne Bradford of the basic suggestion and yet, Assistant Advertising sometimes it is ignored. Lake Arrowhead Communities Chamber of Commerce. Manager "It was like the building got pounded. Two big jerks and Unfortunately, a prime little bit of rumbling." example occurred recently in one of my classes. The only report of damage to San Bernardino County fire authorities was a 20-inch crack in a wall at the In this particular class, it is the professor's Morongo Valley fire station, said Mary Stock at fire com policy that as long as a student passes a test, he mand headquarters in San Bernardino. or she may take it again and try for a better There have been more than 60,000 aftershocks to the grade. magnitude-7.6 Landers quake. The quake on June 28, 1992, was followed a few hours later by a magnitude-6. 7 Knowing this re-take policy, a substantial quake in the Big Bear mountain area, about 75 miles east portion of the class got together and devised of Los Angeles. the following plan: each involved student was Those two quakes left one person dead, injured more to memorize three assigned questions and they than 400 and caused nearly $100 million in damage.

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