Tuesday, October 1, 1996 • Vol. XXX No. 27 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Racial slur leads to hearing behind them. window and said, "Ignore Confrontation "Our car was not even dead those guys baek there, they're for five minutes when the first drunk," indieating the second moves to car pulled up beside us," said ear. Hannah. "It had four people in She says that this tipped her it, they pulled on by and left us off that the people in the ears Student Affairs behind. Then the second car were students. She and her By MATTHEW LOUGHRAN pulled up next to us and [one roommate say that on Friday, of them] stuck his head out the Assistant News Editor Sept. 13 they identified the stu­ window and shouted the racial dent who hurled the epithet at A racial slur hurled at minor­ slur at us." them. The girls met with the ity students three weeks ago Hannah wrote a letter that Office of Student Affairs on has led to an investigation and The Observer published on Monday, Sept. 16 and submit­ administrative hearing by Friday, Sept. 20. In her letter, ted a written report on Student Affairs, according to Hannah quoted the person in Tuesday, Sept. 17. Nikole Hannah, one of the stu­ the second car as saying, "Get Jeff Shoup, director of resi­ dents involved. out of the way you g-damn dence life, when reached for Hannah, a junior from niggers!" comment said, "We can neither The Observer/Shannon Dunne Siegfried Hall, said that she Hannah and her roommate confirm nor deny any investi­ In his lecture last night, Charles VanDoren stressed the responsibilities identified one of the people in gation of a student. That is businesses have for safeguarding the environment. and her roommate were push­ ing their car toward D-2 after the first car as a student that our policy." it broke down on Sept. 8 at her roommate knows. He did speak generally about 12:30 a.m. on Bulla Road, According to Hannah, the iden­ VanDoren highlights when two cars pulled up tified student leaned out the see HANNAH/ page 6 environmental duties • ELECTION '96 BY MICHAEL LEWIS understands her predicament Panel criticizes Clinton welfare News Writrr and has the physical ability to save her. By TARA CHURIK It is tlw responsibility of lie said the advances that News Writer husinnssPs, not politicians, humanity has made sometimes churehes. or schools to pre­ become problematic. Ideas Yesterday afternoon, a panel snrvn and restore the natural about living standards and of Notre Dame educators gath­ lwauty of tho world, aeeording established conventions tend ered to discuss the role of to Chadns VanDoren. to restrict the scope of acade­ "Poverty and Welfare Issues" in Vanl>omn spoke as part of a mic thought. the 1996 Presidential election. sories on the effects of litera­ "Time, our greatest inven­ Expressing her outrage at tun! and rilms on business tion, imprisons us," he said. Prcsdient Clinton's new welfare ethies put on by the Notre Centuries ago, cavemen spent system, Associate Professor DamP Ct~nttlr for Ethies and twenty hours a week gathering Jennifer Warlick of the Heligious Values in Business. food and providing shelter, Department of Economics lin eentnrnd his loeture amund while they devoted the rest of shared personal insight while the necessity of ethical con­ their time to recreation and reflecting the consensus of the duct in businoss. leisure. He said the complexi­ panel. Warlick criticized "Why should businessmen ty of our modern society Clinton's own words in stating, and women be required to be inhibits our pursuit of our nat­ "We really have no confidence - The ObseiVer/Shannon Dunne more virtuous than anybody ural call. even though it apparently 'ends Notre Dame faculty members John Robinson, Joanne Albous and dse'!" he said. The answer is VanDoren said there are two welfare as we know it' - that it Jennifer Warlick examine both the history and current status of pover­ that it is up to businesses to main schools of thought by will be successful." ty and welfare in the U.S. deal with social, political, eco­ which people try to explain Warlick criticized the media's ed that seventy-five percent of bill's negligence concerning the nomic, and especially environ­ nature: science, which interpretation of the welfare recipients of public assistance distinction between welfare and mental problems. attempts to define nature, and system by stating that they fre­ exited the system within two poverty. According to Warlick, VanDoren likened the situa­ art, which tries to depict quently over-cover long-term years. But with current plans families with incomes just tion of business people to the nature. However, the domi­ recipients and potential reducing the eligibility of every above the minimum poverty moral dilemma of a group of nant notions of science (that abusers of benefits. The spot­ citizen to twenty-four months, line do not qualify for welfare, people watching a girl being nature is rational) and of art lighted individuals do not con­ Clinton's system has "removed therefore they are ignored by swept away by a rushing river (that people can imitate stitute a fair representation of the safety net" which the old big government. and debating whether they nature) are corruptive. those who are assisted by wel­ system provided. To further clarify the possible should act. Her death immi­ The world's oldest war is the fare. Warlick's anger is rooted in ramifications of Clinton's plan, nent, a few individuals in the one between man and nature, Warlick approved, however, her belief that the new system John Robinson, assistant pro­ group (figuratively represent­ and according to VanDoren, of the previous system which will place approximately 1 mil­ fessor in the law school. ing business people) constitute nature is losing. The world did produce favorable results lion children in poverty. She is thtl only element that both for American society. She stat- similarly concerned with the see WELFARE/ page 6 see VANDOREN/ page 6 Students dissatisfied with recurring homogeny Hdilor's note: In light of Ilollingsworth. ipation in a national conference like that," said McDonald. Multicultural Week at Saint Hollingsworth's sentiments on race and ethnicity. Glowingrainbow admitted that Mary's College, this is the first arc not unique among minority "When I first heard about the she had very little knowledge of in a series exploring diversity students on campus, some of conference and I went to see if the Office at all and mostly in the .<.,'aint Mary's and Notre whom have perceived both a they could help fund it, they "heard about activities through !Jame Community. laek of interest in the actual sit­ were funding five faculty mem­ friends." uation of students and too bers to go but no students. While activities abound this ByBERNADETTEPAMPUCH much emphasis on the needs of lum to classes, the planning of They told me that faculty had week, controversy resulted last News Writer faculty and administrators. multicultural activities, and a first priority," she said. She year over what some students In the past few years, the multicultural award to recog­ went on to express disappoint­ saw as an over-abundance of While the Saint Mary's Office Multicultural Office has taken nize faculty or administrators ment in an office supposedly activities centered around a of Multicultural Affairs is busy great strides to help faculty who have made a significant committed to the college com­ Latino theme. As a result, this celebrating Multicultural Week increase their knowledge of a commitment t'o diversity on munity in general. year's Multicultural Week Sept. 30 - Oct. 4, many Saint more diversified student body, campus. Freshmen Glowingrainbow reflects· Native American, Asian Mary's students are concerned reflecting an increase from 59 As Hollingsworth and others and Leticia McDonald acknowl­ and international programs as about the shorteomings of the total minority and international point out, the College's commit­ edged that they have had very a result of the dissension voiced oflit:e itself. students enrolled in 1987 ment to faculty and increasing little contact with the Office of by Saint Mary's students in "In my dealings with the (when the Minority, enrollment has not necessarily Multicultural Affairs aside from meetings with the office's Multieultural Offiee in the last International and Non- been mirrored with help for an invitation to a introductory director, Maricela Hamirez. four years, I haven't felt like Traditional office was first students already at the college. dinner and a phone survey on Olga Robles, a junior who last the door is open to students for established) to today's 125 stu­ Hollingsworth, a social work prospective majors. year attempted to ensure the me to just talk; about racial dents. Recent programs have major, points to a personal "They've never called me to addition of monl elements of issues that have been bothering included travel grants for facul­ experience from last year when check up on me personally or Asian culture, said that "last me or even just for informa­ ty and administrators, funding she approached the Office to invite me to help out (in about helping fund her partie- tion," said senior Tracy to help introduce new curricu- planning activities) or anything see HOMOGENY/ page 6 -----------~--- ~-- --- - page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, October 1, 1996 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE Smell AHA sets new dietary guidelines stressing compensation DALLAS 1961. So you didn't eat your vegetables In the past, the association recom­ yesterday and you really overdid it More '\> mended daily levels for such things as the with the double-chocolate cake.