Student Reportsexamined by the Board of Trustees

Totally cool IACCENT: New album sings success Partly sunny and very cool today with a high in the upper 30s. Mostly clear and cold tonight with a low in the mid IVIEWPOINT: A Thanksgiving message 20s. VOL. XXII, NO. 58 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1988 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Student reportsexamined by the Board of Trustees By MICHELLE DALL Here, there aren't many activ ..:omplex on the University Senior Staff Reporter ities that take place on a regu property surrounding campus. lar basis." This complex would include Student government repre To combat such social prob several social alternatives, sentatives presented a series of lems, the committee recom such as restaurants, shops, reports concerning campus life mended "sponsoring more ac movie theaters and night clubs. to the Notre Dame Board of tivities conducive to healthy The Board's response to the Trustees at a meeting last interaction among students," coresidentiality report was Thursday. such as mixers, campus-wide "especially positive," accor The reports addressed four competitions, theme weeks, ding to Student Body Vice Pres issues, including coresiden concerts and date nights. ident Mike Paese. Paese said, tiality, social life, transporta The committee also planned "This was the first time tion and parking. to promote faculty-student in coresidentiality was a discus According to a survey con teraction by expanding support sable option, and we were able ducted by the social life com for the College Fellow Pro to talk about the issue as a com mittee, only 54 percent of the gram and "encouraging atten munity." freshmen, 21 percent of the sop dance at intellectual and cul Student Body President Tom homores and 29 percent of the tural events as part of course Doyle agreed, "The Trustees juniors surveyed find the social requirements." were very receptive to the life at Notre Dame "ade Budget allocations were a coresidentiality report. .. .I quate." primary area of concern as think the committee really took Social committee member well. The committee suggested a responsible approach to the Kerry Sieger said she blames the "multi-sponsorship of issue." the lack of student involvement campus activites," which Trustee member and Notre at campus activities on three would encourage several Dame Associate history profes factors, including publicity, campus organizations to "pool sor Fr. Thomas Blantz said he consistency and "rut behav their financial resources." felt the report "raised several ior." The committee also proposed important points," although "Basically, there's not converting the LaFortune Stu many issues remain un enough emphasis on publicity, dent Center into a 24-hour cen resolved. and there's not enough consis ter and making Theodore's a According to Blantz, one tency in the activities that are "coffeehouse," which would be major issue that must be con planned," Sieger said. "At open to students both day and sidered is the effect coresiden some schools they set aside night during the week and on tiality would have on the pres The Observer I Paul Compton every Wednesday night for a weekends. ent stay-hall system. While Father figure comedy show or something, As a long-run objective, the Blantz said coresidentiality and students can plan that committee broached the idea of Bishop D'Arcy presides over mass at Sacred Heart Sunday during his event into their schedules. establishing a commercial see BOARD, page 3 annual visit to Notre Dame. 3 youths are apprehended for car thefts on campus By CHRISTINE WALSH Items stolen included car In another unrelated inci Staff Reporter stereos and other dashboard dent, two adult males were components, as well as some stopped by Notre Dame Secur Notre Dame Security, with .auto parts, according to ity on Old Juniper Road near help from the South Bend police Johnson. Edison at approximately 6 a.m. department, has apprehended Security has recovered some Saturday, Nov. 12, on suspicion three youths, and implicated a of the property stolen from stu of bicycle theft. fourth in connection with a dents' vehicles, and is in the The suspects allegedly took recent wave of car break-ins on process of identifying the a ten-speed bike, a calculator, campus. owners. two wall signs, and a name According to Phil Johnson, Johnson said, "Not all of the plate from O'Shaughnessy assistant director of Security, recovered property has been Hall. a total of 26 break-ins occurred, identified because many of the Later the same morning, se eight on the weekend of Oct. 22 owners did not keep records of curity officers recovered an and 23, and another 18 on the serial numbers." It also ap other bike near the sight where weekend of October 29 and 30. pears that some of the items the men were initially con The youths targeted cars in D-2 recovered "may have been fronted. and other campus lots, Johnson stolen from other people" in the The case will go to the pros said. South Bend area, said Johnson. ecutor. European nations start scaling back military operations in Persian Gulf Associated P!ess three Belgian warships brought stability to the gulf. deployed to the gulf a year ago, The European actions could MANAMA, Bahrain-- sailed for home. The last five add pressure on President Gambling that peace will Italian warships and one from elect George Bush to step up prevail despite a deadlock in the Netherlands are preparing an American pullout, accor Iraq-Iran peace talks, the to leave by Dec. 31. ding to U.S. diplomats and mil The Observer I Paul Compton United States' European allies Officials said those moves, itary officials, speaking on con Fiesta Bowl bound are stepping up the postwar like an earlier cutback in dition of anonymity. After defeating Penn State Saturday, Kurt Zackrison, center, and Bryan dismantling of their military France's regional fleet from 11 The United States has Flannery face the student section of the stadium to celebrate the victory. forces in the Persian Gulf. to seven ships, came because withdrawn one ship and scaled The undefeated Fightin' Irish now focus on the pending game against In recent days the mine the iraq-Iran cease-fire, three back convoys and other opera undefeated USC. ~weeper Crocus, the last of months old Sunday, had tions. page2 The Observer Monday, November 21, 1988 INSIDE COLUMN IN BRIEF Christina Onassis died Saturday of an apparent heart Chauvinism is no longer attack. Several dozens of friends attended a private Greek Orthodox Mass for her Sunday in Buenos Aires. There was no word on whether results of an autopsy performed on a problem at NO the 37-year-old daughter of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis would be released. In Piraeus, Greece, a spokes "Homecoming '66: Who, What, When," read man for the family's Springfield Shipping company said the page 4 headline of the first Observer ever Mark ·~ Miss Onassis will be buried on her family's island, Skor published. That was in 1966, before most of the pios, off northwest Greece by the end of the week. The women presently attending Notre Dame and Mclaughlin spokesman said the Onassis fortune had been left to the Saint Mary's were born. daughter born in 1985 to Miss Onassis and her fourth hus Underneath the head is a picture of Barbara News Editor band, Thierry Roussel. --Associated Press Cunneen, with a graphic explaining that she is "133 pounds, 5 foot 8, brown eyes, brown haired queen." She was nominated by her steady, Bill OF INTEREST Follete. Or maybe it was Foilette-- the article seems to be unsure on the name. Said Barbara, Get a measles vaccination if you've never had one "I liked him from the start ... I didn't believe and you plan on attending the USC football game, accor it. Neither did my friends because we had al ding to University Health Services. Measles vaccination ways heard that Notre Dame boys had a line a shots will be given at the University Health Center today, mile long." Tuesday and Wednesday. A vaccination is unnecessary if Barbara felt that she would receive a "a bet you have: already received a measles vaccination, had a ter education and very important finishing" at documented case of measles or you are allergic to eggs. Saint-Mary's-of-the-Woods in Terre Haute. "I If you are unsure of your vaccination status, the vaccina almost died when I found out I had won. It's a tion will not harm you. If you received a flu shot during dream come true." the week of Oct. 31, wait one month before taking a measles Another interesting tidbit from 1966 was a vaccination. -The Observer column in this paper called "Observed. ". Ap parently a random girl (they were never called Adult Children of Alcoholics will meet today at 7 women) from Saint Mary's was chosen every p.m. upstairs in the Center for Social Concerns. All are week to be written about and photographed for welcome. -The Observer the newspaper. "Peggy, a junior at S.M.C., is a girl out to have fun," read the first column. Mai&Female Models Wanted for SMC Fashion " 'If I had my way there would be poetry all 500 Saint Mary's students for the game Show. There will be an important information meeting over the place.' She's also wild about sports "complete with dinner and party after the game Monday, Nov. 28, at 8 p.m. in the Regina North basement. cars ('Corvettes and X.K.E.'s are gorgeous') somewhere." But as the game took on cham Call Libby at 284-4039 for more information.

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