------------~-~~-- --- - ~--~---- --~-,------------ --~-l Monday; February 17, 1997 • Vol. XXX No. 92 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S ND announces Washington Program By HEATHER COCKS "It's really what you make of it. We're A professor from the Notre Dame Associate News Editor well connected in terms of offering campus will teach one or two courses in opportunities," he stated. Washington; in addition, Arnold con­ Notre Dame has developed an off­ Arnold further cited the wide variety firmed that several Notre Dame alumni campus study program in Washington, of agencies headquartered in living in the area have expressed an D.C., which debuts in the spring 1998 Washington, D.C., among them the interest in teaching there. semester. United States Catholic Conference and "The possibility exists that a member The program combines classroom the Federal Trade Commission. of Congress will teach one course," hint­ work with mandatory internships in "The Holocaust Museum is another ed Arnold. "Imagine, being able to study areas specific to a variety of majors. interesting option," he added. Congress under the instruction of a con­ "[The program] is tributing congressperson." directed at everyone," Housing, according to explained Peri Arnold, a Arnold, is favorably located professor in the govern­ in the northwest part of the ment department and city. Though Notre Dame's the director of the program is not affiliated Washington Program. with any other institution's, "The underlying princi­ the apartment building will ple is to adapt to and be shared with students serve a variety of stu­ from the University of dent interests, from Pennsylvania, Boston government to busi­ University, and Dartmouth ness." "Engineering and science students can and Hamilton Colleges. Program requirements include a six­ apply to various congressional commit­ "The apartments are new, very nice," credit seminar, which meets once per tees, and sociology majors might seek a Arnold confirmed. "The shared space week, and attainment of a local intern­ community-oriented position." allows Notre Dame students to mix with ship. Staff members-will participate in -To fill out their 15 credits, students people from other schools, but our pro­ the search for positions, but students will be offered the option of taking gram is independent of them." are also encouraged to create their own either two courses or one class and an Arnold feels that the Washington opportunities. independent study program culminating Program is a necessary addition to "We can definitely help place students in a research paper. Notre Dame's off-campus opportunities. with an eye toward their career goals," "If the classes seem too directed at "It's an ideal place to study govern­ Arnold said. "But they must apply and one major; students can do the research ment and public policy," Arnold said, pursue it, seriously simulating a job paper, stru~tured around their particu­ search. lar major," Arnold explained. see D.C. I page 4 Junior Parents' Weekend Golden Times he annual Junior Parents' Weekend was kicked off by a gala held in the Joyce Center. The event featured food, dancing, and live entertainment by The Jess T Richmons Band. College open houses as well as dorm luncheons were held Saturday morning and afternoon; Saturday night, a banquet featuring guest speaker University President Father Edward Malloy followed a junior class Mass (below, left). Students (left) prepared the food for the banquet behind the scenes as juniors . and their parents were served. Sunday morning, President Emeritus Father Theodore Hesburgh (below, right) spoke at the class brunch, highlighting the histo­ ries of both JPW as well as Notre Dame. page2 The Observer • INSIDE Monday, February 17, 1997 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE JPW Was Clinton orders striking pilots back to work NEW YORK Pilot strike looms removing the one potent ·The word "strike" doesn't American Airlines and Its pilots union continued nonstop con!ract ~v negotiating weapon in the as good for conjure up such scary talks In an attempt to end the countdOwn toward the Friday American pilot union's arse­ it midnight strike deadline. The airline canceled about a dozen images to the flying public domestic flights Friday. Where American files: nal. There was little obvious anymore. sympathy for the pilots in you? That is the precedent set their quest for more compen­ by President Clinton in sation, largely because at JPW started out a lot ------ ordering American Airlines $120,000 a year they already like show and tell-just Jamie Heisler Associate News Editor pilots back to work within are among the most highly like back in elementary minutes after they declared paid professionals in the school when you knew a strike early Saturday, country. that there would be a chance to get up in front averting chaotic disruptions But Clinton also sent a sig­ of your classmates and explain about your to hundreds of thousands of nal to all airline workers, favorite Transformer or stuffed animal. It was passengers. particularly pilots, that could something you got excited about ahead of time If pilot negotiations at four severely restrict their bar­ and took special pride in introducing. other of the nation's biggest gaining power. Encouraged Everyone in class would make their presenta­ airlines get to the brink of a by the stronger possibility of tion, and even in the third grade you could tell a walkout, airline chiefs and passengers almost certainly presidential interventions to prevent strikes, airline boss­ little about the kid by what they chose to pre­ will be looking to the White House to keep the planes in es now have little incentive to accept union demands. sent (once you got by the initial "Oohs and the air. "I think it has some implications for the industry that ahhs" of course). Clinton made a hugely popular decision by effectively aren't all good," said American pilot Ron Keever. Just imagine show and tell on a massive scale of almost 1,500 juniors, milling through both domes of the Joyce Center, introducing their Liz Taylor celebrates 65th birthday Six journalist unions return to work parents not only to their friends but to their friends' parents as well. It was show and tell LOS ANGELES DETROIT all over again as two worlds collided, and your Elizabeth Taylor was honored Sunday night at a star­ A striking union that covers reporters and editors at school life suddenly met with your family life. studded bash celebrating her 65th birthday and benefit­ Detroit's daily newspapers approved an unconditional Looking around, you saw where Random Dining ing an AIDS foundation days before she was scheduled to offer to return to work on Sunday. About 60 percent of Hall boy got his looks or where your roommates undergo brain surgery. Actor Hugh 200 members of Newspaper Guild Local 22 approved the get their sarcasm. Grant opened the show, introducing a offer, union president Lou Mleczko said. Leaders of Local There were so many names, occupations and retrospective of Miss Taylor's career 22 and five other unions announced the offer on Friday. hometowns flying by my parents that I could and life. "What a body of work - let's So far, four unions told the newspaper company they only hope the principle of osmosis had some face it. What a body," the star of accepted the offer. The guild and the sixth union were application. After about an hour I got the hint "Four Weddings and a Funeral" said, expected to notify the company soon, possibly Monday. that my parents were slightly overwhelmed as introducing the actress. Miss Taylor, The guild was the only union whose members had to my dad's eyes began to glaze over. I had the dressed in a green gown and coat, vote on the offer. Once the six unions submit their offers feeling that other parents felt the same as I walked on stage and sat down beside to Detroit Newspapers Inc., the papers have five days to approached one of my friends and heard a par­ her longtime pal, Michael Jackson. Jackson, who escort­ accept or reject the offer. Detroit Newspapers, which ent mumble, "Oh God, here comes another ed Miss Taylor along a violet carpet into the theater, had runs business and production operations for The Detroit one ... " written a song for her, "Elizabeth." Miss Taylor clapped, News and the Detroit Free Press, says the 19-month-old My friends and I had a blast, of course, as we smiled and blew kisses from her place at the side of the strike will be over if the newspapers accept offers from worked our way past the Wizard of Oz, Sesame stage. She said the event was not really a birthday cele­ the six unions. If the newspapers reject the offer, the Street , and the New Orleans French Quarter bration. ''I'm here to celebrate all of the people in the unions say they will ask the National Labor Relations (complete with a cage/jail for every parent's world with AIDS," Miss Taylor said. "This function has Board to seek a federal injunction to immediately return favorite posed picture). Where else can you go enabled (her AIDS foundation) to go all over the world." them ... to their jobs. Rejecting the offer also could begin to an almost-an-SYR where all your friends are The audience was treated with never-before-seen the accrual of back pay for striking workers - if the there, you don't have to entertain a date, and footage of the actress's life and a career that began at newspapers later are found to have committed unfair your parents buy the drinks? Of course when I age 9.