Molly Mcguire's

■ A rt exhibits and college courses w ill H A former member of the Fugees has a new solo explore the connection of women, nature and album out and Scene reviews it. Find out i f it is Wednesday landscapre this year. worth your money to buy it. SEPTEMBER Women’s News • 3 Scene-10-11 9,1998 O BSERVER x» \ 1(1 The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s - -------11------------J L icensed to latte By CHRISTINE KRALY News Writer Bridget McGuire’s Filling Station was once a place synonymous with teenage rebellion and intoxicated underclassmen. There was a time when anxious freshmen lined up outside the famous establishment to exuberantly (not to mention, illegally) chris ten their first year at school. That time is no M o lly is more. Soon the flowing alcohol, taps and lingering B rid g e t’s "Bridget's sludge” w ill be replaced with the little sister strong aroma of yet another addictive bever age — coffee. and she’s not 21 yet.’ What was once a place where eager stu dents gathered to dance and let loose, often under the influence of illegally-purchased alcohol, w ill soon take on a very different face. The bar, which has been shut down Karen Bauer since its raid this past January, is currently Proprietor being renovated into a coffee house, now named Molly McGuire's. "Molly is Bridget’s little sister, and she’s not 21 yet," said Karen Bauer, who shares a sole proprietorship of the establishment with her husband, Indiana state representative Patrick Bauer. “[The establishment) is no longer going to involve the sale of alcohol,” said Susan Sebertson, prosecutor to the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission. The building (left) that The bar, Sebertson says, was sbut down in used to house Bridget January due to “a series of complaints [most ly anonymous]” dealing with the bar’s pres M cG uire’s, a p opu la r bar ence of underage drinkers. which was shut down in Sebertson also said that she has “ no official verification that Notre Dame was one | that January, will now be home complained].” to M olly M cG uire’s, a coffeehouse. see MOLLY / page 4 The Observer/Dan Feighrey Feminist Collective aims high National magazine By M. SHANNON RYAN Marilou Eldred denied sexual orientation and gender features Woo speech Sairn M ary's E ditor _____________________ approval for The Alliance, identity.” will aim toward the same Unlike The Alliance, the By MOLLY NIKOLAS to be published until I got my The issue of sexuality goals set last spring. Feminist Collective more News Writer copy [of the Aug. 15 issue].” became a main topic of con With “a more formal struc explicitly encourages hetero The positive messages con versation last spring among ture after recognition, ... a sexual students as well as When she gave her com tained in the speech and the Saint Mary’s students, as they good solid backing” and homosexuals to partake in mencement address at Holy cooperative building ideas encountered a campus-wide strong interest expressed at discussions. The Feminist Cross College in the spring, make it vital advice for anyone confrontation over the activities night, according to Collective also states more Carolyn Woo, Dean of the who wishes to live to their full approval of an organization Curtis, the organization will explicitly its dedication to College of capabilities, said Woo. supporting homosexuals. be well under way after their women’s issues. B u s in e s s She indicated that the main This year, the Feminist “We want everyone to feel Admin-istra- message of her speech was to Collective is hoping to end the comfortable enough to come tion, had no encourage everyone to "live up controversy which surround together to discuss any idea th a t to their fullest potential, and to ed The Alliance, but to keep issue,” said Feminist her w ords attend to the capacity of those the discussion flowing. Collective correspondent would wind around them.” She also "We’re still really new,” 5 G F e a t u Claudia Velasco. up in the emphasized that people shoul said coordinator Kelly Curtis Still, group members know n a t i o n a l not “use the word ‘can’t’ as regarding the group which that because sexuality is a spotlight. Carolyn Woo often.” gained club recognition last sensitive and sometimes Woo’s In the speech, Woo also March. “We’re just trying to first meeting Wednesday in ignored subject, they will speech was relayed her personal method get things off the ground. the Women’s Resource Center face challenges as they try to published in the latest issue of for achieving one’s full poten [Club] recognition [from at 9 p.m. in Le Mans Hall. incorporate their mission into Vital Speeches of the Day, a bi tial. Board of Governance I came According to the Feminist students’ lives. monthly magazine that regular "Go to the grotto, say a really late in the year, but Collective’s mission state “We’re fighting a stereo ly features 8 leaders and their prayer, and then just do it!” she really our main goal N for ment, the group is a “student type,” said Curtis. “It’s not a orations. The publication pro said. me, as a senior and knowing organization which provides group [strictly] of or for les vides readers with the “best Woo described two important it's my last year N is to see active, visible and consistent bian women. It’s not just a thoughts of the best minds on necessities for success: living this organization get a good support to students con group for homosexuals. It’s current national problems.” up to your fullest potential and solid grounding." fronting issues around sexu not to provide a space for les “I was actually very sur helping your team or communi The Feminist Collective, ality in their lives, this bian women, but a space for prised,” Woo said regarding the ty live up to their fullest poten- which evolved after president includes, but is not limited to, publication of her speech. “I see SMC / page' didn't even know it was going see W O O / page 6 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, September 9, 1998 ■ I n side C o lu m n Getting Out the Dome Compiled from U-Wire reports Sometimes I can almost remember the way my sophomore year smelled — a mix of olive oil, red wine and the dust of Castilla- Nelson Mandela to receive honorary degree La Mancha. I close my eyes and 1 see myself CAMBRIDGE, Mass. p.m. ceremony by directors of the walking down cool ------ — --------- Fifty-five years after 6,000 Harvard recently formed Harvard Center of cobblestone streets Sarah D ylag students watched British Prime International Development [HOD] — a beneath a sky so blue Scene Editor Minister Winston Churchill receive an joint venture of the Kennedy School of and high that it hurts honorary degree in a special ceremony Government [KSG] and the Harvard my eyes. I can feel the w arm th of the sun in Sanders Theatre, more than 10,000 Institute for International Development burning my back, hear the rush of the river, Harvard students w ill watch as Nelson [HIID] — which also worked to bring taste salty tortilla sandwiches, smell the Mandela is awarded the same honor in him to Cambridge. sting of smoky and crowded bars and feel Tercentenary Theatre Sept. 18. Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of both the music of the Spanish language rolling The 80-year-old South African presi HIID and IICID, said Mandela’s o ff of my tongue. dent and co-recipient of the 1993 appearance at Harvard will give him Two years later, I can still imagine myself Nobel Peace Prize w ill be the third The Board of Overseers had previ and his colleagues the opportunity to in Toledo, Spain, and I would return in a person in the university's history to ously invited Mandela to deliver the launch HCID’s work on African eco minute if someone magically put a free receive an honorary degree outside of Commencement Day address and nomic development. plane ticket in my hand. I would, without Commencement or a celebration of a receive an honorary degree each year Both Sachs, who is also the Stone question, sacrifice another glorious year university anniversary. since he became president of South Professor of International Trade at the beneath the golden glow of the dome for a “We’ve given hundreds of honorary Africa in 1994, but he was never able KSG, and Kwesi Botchwey, the director year of lazy cafes, noisy discotecas, animat degrees, but this is a rare event,” said to attend. of the program on African ed conversation, bullfights, siestas and Don university spokesperson Alex Huppe. “When we learned he was coming to Development at the HCID, w ill speak at Quixote. I would suffer the culture shock, Harvard first awarded such an hon America for what w ill probably be his the event. the homesickness and miss out on another orary degree A pril 3, 1776 to George last time as president, we hoped he “We are extremely grateful that football season if it meant I could once Washington, who was then general of would be able to come,” said universi President Mandela accepted the invita again study abroad. the American forces in the ty Marshal Richard M. Hunt. tion from Harvard, ” Sachs wrote in an Being a senior, however, makes that Revolutionary War.

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